[OSM-dev] Simplified street-network

2009-03-18 Thread marcus.wolschon
Hello everyone, did anyone else ever work on simplifying the polylines for low zoom -rendering or similar purposes? Any algorithms, websites or books that may help me? While importing a map into Traveling Salesman I am currently generating 3 additional filtered maps. 1. These maps contain only t

Re: [OSM-dev] Simplified street-network

2009-03-18 Thread Andy Deakin
>> Hello everyone, >> >> did anyone else ever work on simplifying the polylines for >> low zoom -rendering or similar purposes? >> Any algorithms, websites or books that may help me? >> > > There's been a small amount of work on this in mapnik-rendering > circles, but mainly using postgis' si

Re: [OSM-dev] Simplified street-network

2009-03-18 Thread Andy Allan
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 9:17 AM, wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > did anyone else ever work on simplifying the polylines for > low zoom -rendering or similar purposes? > Any algorithms, websites or books that may help me? There's been a small amount of work on this in mapnik-rendering circles, but

Re: [OSM-dev] Simplified street-network

2009-03-18 Thread marcus.wolschon
On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:30:18 +, Andy Deakin wrote: >>> Hello everyone, >>> >>> did anyone else ever work on simplifying the polylines for >>> low zoom -rendering or similar purposes? >>> Any algorithms, websites or books that may help me? >>> >> >> There's been a small amount of work on t

[OSM-dev] How to get offline maps of a large area in reasonable time?

2009-03-18 Thread Ivo Brodien
Hi, for a project I need to have a a local tile map server of tiles of (at least) Germany for all zoom levels, because I need to have the tiles available immediately and reliable. I was thinking of the CloudMapMobile tiles because I want to use them on a small screen and there they look be

Re: [OSM-dev] How to get offline maps of a large area in reasonable time?

2009-03-18 Thread sly (sylvain letuffe)
> I started trying the first options but it is way to slow. Probably > because some never requested tiles also have to be rendered on the > server first? Exact. I don't think it's a good idea anyway without asking the server admin. That will put a constant load on the server and prevent othe

Re: [OSM-dev] How to get offline maps of a large area in reasonable time?

2009-03-18 Thread Ivo Brodien
Hi, I started trying the first options but it is way to slow. Probably because some never requested tiles also have to be rendered on the server first? Exact. I don't think it's a good idea anyway without asking the server admin. That will put a constant load on the server and prevent other u

Re: [OSM-dev] How to get offline maps of a large area in reasonable time?

2009-03-18 Thread Stephan Plepelits
> That all dispend on the max zoom you want. > As a rapid guess on germany at max-zoom 16 I bet it would take around > 2 days > I would want it for zoom up to zoom level 17. It's easily to calculate. With each additional zoom level the amount of tiles is multiplied by four. So if zo

[OSM-dev] planet.openstreetmap.org breakage

2009-03-18 Thread Grant Slater
Devs, Recent planet files available from: http://planet.openstreetmap.org/ will be disrupted for the next few days. Apologies for the disruption. Hopefully be fixed within the next 48 hours. Reasons? Look over here: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2009-March/035381.html / Grant

Re: [OSM-dev] planet.openstreetmap.org breakage

2009-03-18 Thread Stefan de Konink
Grant Slater wrote: > Recent planet files available from: http://planet.openstreetmap.org/ > will be disrupted for the next few days. Apologies for the disruption. > > Hopefully be fixed within the next 48 hours. > > Reasons? Look over here: > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2009-Ma

Re: [OSM-dev] planet.openstreetmap.org breakage

2009-03-18 Thread Grant Slater
Stefan de Konink wrote: >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2009-March/035381.html > > So could you elaborate the downtime? We have a 'perfect history > system' and since we are talking 'all accounts have been identified' > wouldn't that be a perfect test case for our 'users that do

Re: [OSM-dev] planet.openstreetmap.org breakage

2009-03-18 Thread Stefan de Konink
On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Grant Slater wrote: > Patched planet files will become available shortly, but they too take > time to generate. Are you saying you are going to regenerate all previous planet files? Isn't that a bit waste of resources? Stefan ___