Re: [OSM-talk] Patch to render names from routes and custom highway shields on a per country basis
John Smith wrote: > 2009/9/21 Richard Weait : >> >> [highway] = 'motorway' and [length] = 8 >> 100 >> 100 >> > size="10" fill="#fff" placement="line" file= >> "%SYMBOLS_DIR%/mot_shield7.png" type="png" width="59" height="17" >> min_distance="30" spacing="750"/> >> > > This thread died some time ago, has any progress been made with mapnik > or anything else that would easily allow at least custom shields for > the main routes of a country? > > There is a lot of people that would love to see something more > familiar and less bland show up on map tiles. The majority of > non-OSMers expect maps to look a certain way and even Google is > rendering custom highway shields differently for different countries. > > If we want to win the hearts and minds of non-mappers we need to fill > certain expectations of what a regular map should look like. > Ditto showing custom station symbols (e.g. the London Underground symbol, or a non-copyright version of same). It's much harder to spot a tube stop on the OSM london map than it is on the Google map for this reason. Charlie ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
[OSM-talk] Help! Widescale mass problems introduced by user exMajor
User exMajor (http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/eXmajor) has been causing a lot of trouble in the UAE. For months (s)he has been blindly mapping using Bing, not account for offsets, drawing buildings around stationary airplanes [1], mapping tracks as highway=construction[2], mapping mangroves as scrub [3] and so on. I've repeatedly asked him/her to stop but to no avail. If I revert the edits he just reverts them back. Now in a series of changesets starting roughly around the 14th April this same user has caused wholesale vandalism in Abu Dhabi city, deleting roads, adding hundreds of parking nodes [4], deleting entire districts, changing minor roads to tertiary etc. Here (http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=24.43726&lon=54.41217&zoom=17&layers=M) is a typical example, with a block's worth of roads removed, leaving three orphan segments. Just pan around and see the mess. It appears that I can not stop this user, so I'm appealing to the community to help stop this before he screws up the entire UAE. [1] http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=25.580147&lon=55.653601&zoom=18&layers=M [2] http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=25.580147&lon=55.653601&zoom=18&layers=M [3] http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=25.77614&lon=55.95995&zoom=15&layers=M [4] http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=24.43389&lon=54.4482&zoom=16&layers=M -- Charlie ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Flight "paths" in OSM
On 10/10/2010 10:29, Richard Weait wrote: On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 2:22 AM, Dmitri Lebedev wrote: Hi all, please, look at this: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/80906020 It's a flight "path" from one airport to another. It's absolutely not real (aircrafts fly along routes and navpoints more like "zig-zags", not the straight grand circle ways). Imo this data is garbage. None of these points reflect any real data. A grand circle between 2 random airports in the world can be calculated, but there's no need to store all the calculated grand circles in the OSM db. Any other opinions? Agreed. That's a new account. I'll send a note to the new mapper. I've seen other flight paths in the data too, so he's not the only one. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Garmin maps for India? Contours?
On 18/10/2010 15:55, Steve Bennett wrote: Hi all, As usual I've left this to the last minute, but wondering if anyone knows of any downloadable Garmin maps, preferably bicycle ones, for northern India (Himachal Pradesh). I'm going to try the Cloudmade ones as a backup (they're not routable or bike specific), but are there any others? Secondly, what about contours? I'm going to try this site: http://blog.bokhorst.biz/1864/computers-en-internet/how-to-create-custom-garmin-contour-maps/ but it's a worry when the author thinks that a 21 step process involving 6 downloads is "very easy". Thanks, Steve How about: http://garmin.na1400.info/routable.php or http://openmtbmap.org/download/ Contours are a pain. If you've really left this to the last minute then you're not going to want to get up the learning curve for creating your own for Garmin devices. -- Charlie ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Roundabouts and routing
On 08/09/2011 23:14, Jonathan Waller wrote: With regards to solution 1) I have never noticed a sliproad onto a roundabout tagged as junction=roundabout (UK East Midlands). Where is this common practice? If this is not too widely used then it might be worth retagging, but I don't know how easy it would be to automatically detect these. Jonathan Should you be a mkgmap user then running it with the --check-roundabout-flares option will result in identification of problems with, yes you guessed it, roundabout flare roads. Specifically, it will warn about: - Flare roads that have oneway set in the wrong direction - Flare roads that are not set to oneway - Flare roads that do not converge to a flare point In addition, the --check-roundabouts flag will result in warning about flare roads that have been given the junction=roundabout tag. -- Charlie ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
