[Talk-us] Fwd: Re: [OSM-talk] Mapquest launches site based on OSM!
FYI just in case it did not come to this list. Are they going to the US SOTM? Mapquest is also planning to spent $1mill to improve OSM data in the US: http://vector1media.com/spatialsustain/openstreetmap-gains-great-traction-this-week.html ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: Re: [OSM-talk] Mapquest launches site based on OSM!
From mapquest's blog post [1]: AOL also announced today, a $1 million open-source mapping investment fund. This fund will support the growth of open-source mapping in the United States in the local communities that Patch.com covers. More information about the AOL grant application process is available by emailing o...@mapquest.com. Looks like Patch.com only currently operates in parts of 5 NE states and California, but the Mapquest post also put in a plug for mapping parties, so who knows. There's a slightly more techy post from mapquest too, if anyone's interested [2] [1] http://blog.mapquest.com/2010/07/09/mapquest-opens-up/ [2] http://devblog.mapquest.com/2010/07/09/mapquest-opens-up-uk/ On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 4:05 PM, jeremy jozwik jerjoz.for...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Nakor nakor@gmail.com wrote: FYI just in case it did not come to this list. Are they going to the US SOTM? Mapquest is also planning to spent $1mill to improve OSM data in the US: any info on how they plan on spending the 1 mil? ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: Re: [OSM-talk] Mapquest launches site based on OSM!
It doesn't seem too far behind. Maybe a couple of weeks. New features I added in early June are there but a few I did more recently aren't. Also, I see they are rendering highway shields. Didn't I see a big discussion about that here recently? :) Wonder if they are using the route relations to render them... Toby On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Jeffrey Ollie j...@ocjtech.us wrote: On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Nakor nakor@gmail.com wrote: FYI just in case it did not come to this list. Are they going to the US SOTM? Mapquest is also planning to spent $1mill to improve OSM data in the US: http://vector1media.com/spatialsustain/openstreetmap-gains-great-traction-this-week.html Neat. Their tile rendering seems pretty decent, except their database seems to be out of date. Hopefully they'll get a process in place to keep up-to-date soon. -- Jeff Ollie ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: Re: [OSM-talk] Mapquest launches site based on OSM!
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote: Also, I see they are rendering highway shields. Didn't I see a big discussion about that here recently? :) Wonder if they are using the route relations to render them... Not sure what they are doing, because I-80 near Des Moines has shields, but I-35 doesn't. I was going to take a look later to see if I could figure out what was different between the two cases. -- Jeff Ollie ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: Re: [OSM-talk] Mapquest launches site based on OSM!
On 7/9/10 5:57 PM, Jeffrey Ollie wrote: On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Toby Murraytoby.mur...@gmail.com wrote: Also, I see they are rendering highway shields. Didn't I see a big discussion about that here recently? :) Wonder if they are using the route relations to render them... Not sure what they are doing, because I-80 near Des Moines has shields, but I-35 doesn't. I was going to take a look later to see if I could figure out what was different between the two cases. here's a sample in my neighborhood; some NY 43 shields have the NY, some don't: http://open.mapquest.co.uk/mq/4-Vc4rtBI4PAQu ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: Re: [OSM-talk] Mapquest launches site based on OSM!
Well I took a look at the blog post with the technical details. They are using a vanilla osm2pgsql/mapnik setup, just custom styles from Cartifact. They mention enhancing mapnik. Have these changes already made it back upstream or will that happen in the future? In particular I'm guessing the multistyle rendering based on polygonal regions is of interest for the highway/interstate rendering. I see they don't (yet?) have state highway shields, just interstates and US highways. Overall I think it looks pretty nice though. On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote: On 7/9/10 5:57 PM, Jeffrey Ollie wrote: On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Toby Murraytoby.mur...@gmail.com wrote: Also, I see they are rendering highway shields. Didn't I see a big discussion about that here recently? :) Wonder if they are using the route relations to render them... Not sure what they are doing, because I-80 near Des Moines has shields, but I-35 doesn't. I was going to take a look later to see if I could figure out what was different between the two cases. here's a sample in my neighborhood; some NY 43 shields have the NY, some don't: http://open.mapquest.co.uk/mq/4-Vc4rtBI4PAQu ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
