I don't think there's any technical issues with rendering the world at 10 and specific countries at 16, other than the human knowing where they can and cannot zoom
-- Nick On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Tim Moody <t...@timmoody.com> wrote: > couple of observations: > > > > As expected, the new tiles have a lot more detail. > > > > There are more levels of zoom in the new ones. > > > > Some names have changed - the old map had Lalitpur and the new one has > Patan (both are used) > > > > I don't see any boxes for unprintable characters, but there is a lot less > Devanagari. (Google maps has more) > > > > Is it possible to merge individually generated regional tiles? for > example if you rendered India and Nepal separately would you get both? > > > > What happens if you render the world at level 10 and then specific > countries at 16? > > > > *From:* xsce-de...@googlegroups.com [mailto:xsce-de...@googlegroups.com] *On > Behalf Of *Anish Mangal > *Sent:* Saturday, June 13, 2015 10:06 PM > *To:* Jérôme Gagnon-Voyer > *Cc:* xsce-devel; Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond to > help AT laptop.org; Unleash Kids!; server-devel; iaep; Internet In a Box > Working Group; Jaakko Helleranta > *Subject:* Re: [XSCE] RE: [UKids] Re: [support-gang] Taking OpenStreetMap > Offline - DESIGN Call - Thur June 11, 10AM EDT / 2PM UTC > > > > Hi, > > Following from the skype call this week, I uploaded Nepal's OSM data in > postgres and render tiles to see performance, and as expected, everything > is blazing fast. > > The pbf file went into the postgress in less than 5 minutes, and tiles are > being rendered pretty fast as well. > > You can check it yourself by going to > http://home.braddock.com:28112/osm/slippymap.html > > * Select Mapnik > > * Zoom out and center over Nepal > > * Select Local tiles > > * Zoom in > > I don't know what this "proves" as the bottleneck still is doing this for > the entire planet, which we need to figure out a way for anyway. > > Best, > > Anish > > > > > > On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 6:02 AM, Anish Mangal <anis...@umich.edu> wrote: > > Hi Jérôme, > > I incorporated one of your comments; as for the other I think Timm, Nick > would be better suited for the discussion (python backend v/s frontend js). > :-) > > Best, > > Anish > > > > On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 3:22 AM, Jérôme Gagnon-Voyer <gagno...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi Anish > > > > Great document. I've added 2 comments to the document, feel free to > incorporate into the document if that makes sense. > > > > Also added a TODO for myself to do more research about the various search > solutions. > > I've used Nominatim in the past (on the client side, not the server > infrastructure) and it was overall very good, but I'll want to know more > about the other ones. > > > > On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Tim Moody <t...@timmoody.com> wrote: > > Thanks, Anish for an excellent start at getting this down on paper (so to > speak). I think this covers things pretty well and gives us the necessary > hooks on which to hang the details as we begin fleshing out solutions to > the requirements you documented. > > > > Under issues I added one point about rendering non-Roman character sets. > > > > *From:* unleashk...@googlegroups.com [mailto:unleashk...@googlegroups.com] > *On Behalf Of *Anish Mangal > *Sent:* Saturday, June 13, 2015 12:15 PM > *To:* Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond to help AT > laptop.org > *Cc:* Unleash Kids!; server-devel; xsce-devel; iaep; Internet In a Box > Working Group; Jaakko Helleranta > *Subject:* [UKids] Re: [support-gang] Taking OpenStreetMap Offline - > DESIGN Call - Thur June 11, 10AM EDT / 2PM UTC > > > > Okay, so I tried to encapsulate whatever we discussed into a design > document, which can hopefully serve as a base for reaching out to the OSM > community and to better organize our own thoughts. > > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LWsN-cPH3lvMuXS-f0Tk8IWVh-3X808WoIt0OJ-QNt8/edit# > <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LWsN-cPH3lvMuXS-f0Tk8IWVh-3X808WoIt0OJ-QNt8/edit> > > Please feel free to edit the information there as I may have missed some > points, or interpreted them differently than as intended. > > Best, > > Anish > > > > On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 12:00 AM, Adam Holt <h...@laptop.org> wrote: > > Who's attending http://stateofthemap.us at the UN in NYC this weekend? > > Who's most serious about bringing OpenStreetMap's opportunities and rapid > progress into the hands of the world's offline poor -- kids and all, > American and Swahili? Wanna Take This Map Outside, offline and off the > grid, where we all belong/began? > > http://Internet-in-a-Box.org and similar efforts have made a gigantic 1st > step: in Ghana and Rwanda I could never have imagined better reviews to our > 2015 deployments begun there in recent months. Many are now changing the > game increasingly for the Bottom BillionS, among many who've literally > never seen a globe before, nevermind a map of their own towns. Both in > OLPC (school) contexts, in libraries, on Nepali hillsides where folks don't > have proper homes, and far beyond --- perspectives (literally) are about to > change. > > But modern phones today contain more than enough gigabytes to display ALL > OpenStreetMap map detail within most countries, and yet they do not yet, > WHY? Where are the Khan Academies and KA Lites of OSM (OpenStreetMap) > bringing new classroom/journalistic rubrics, freeing everyone's "brain > software" to explore and document our own communities in our own languages? > > *Who Will Take The Next Steps?* > *What engineering middleware, distribution vectors, community/economic > models, and final field packagings will get us all there & beyond?* > > *Will offline edit-contributions prove impossible, much like with > Wikipedia in Peru, when offline kids edit overly stale > OpenStreetMap/Wikipedia images a year before/later?* > > > > As such the wider OLPC community is hosting a DESIGN Call to bring forward > ideas across the OpenStreetMap landscape, fertilizing our immediate work > with school server projects like http://schoolserver.org, http://xsce.org, > https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Education-Li-f-e ETC. Ministries of > Education in India elsewhere are watching closely, expressly eager to help > if we can point the way. All giving our "2020 Vision" questions very > practical and immediate "customers" well before 2020, much like Garmin GPS > units fed a wonderful ecosystem of geo-specific "gmapsupp.img" offline map > files over the past decade: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Map_On_Garmin/Download > > That decade's now done: what IS our framework for the coming decade? > Please join us if you have strategic/partnership ideas towards making > Offline OSM Designs happen, *Thank You !!* > > > > 10AM New York Time / 2PM UTC > > Thursday, June 11th > > RSVP with your Skype username, if we are more than 15-20 we'll use an > industrial conference call system instead! > > > CONCLUSION: Could OpenStreetMap be the very ultimate in Constructionist > Learning Projects, replacing OLPC in coming years, on a quickly > shrinking/endangered but still green-in-parts planet? Regardless, how to > build the OLPC Movement's offline/civic learning successes, consciously > learning from its community infrastructural mistakes? Nick Doiron ( > http://mapmeld.com) and Anish Mangal ( > https://in.linkedin.com/in/anishmangal) who've spent years thinking about > this topic will lead the discussion, agenda is entirely yours! OPTIONAL: > submit agenda items in advance right here: > > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o6QtzLb6e58YKWqMf_junux2XyBRLFm31un8YLcYslg > > > > *< forward invitation to Twitter/wherever as appropriate >* > > > -- > > Unsung Heroes of OLPC, interviewed live @ http://unleashkids.org ! > > > _______________________________________________ > support-gang mailing list > support-g...@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/support-gang > > > > -- > Unsung Heroes of OLPC, interviewed live @ http://unleashkids.org ! > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Unleash Kids" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to unleashkids+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > > > -- > > Jérôme Gagnon-Voyer > > > > -- > > > > > > >
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