[OSM-dev] Customizing map for wikivoyage.org

2009-07-04 Thread Hans Musil
I'm one of the technical admins on wikivoyage.org. Wikivoyage is a non-profit open-content project with the goal to produce a world wide travel guide. So far, only in German and Italian. We still have a lack of suitable maps. Let me describe my ideas in short: * We plan to keep a copy of OSM's

Re: [OSM-dev] Customizing map for wikivoyage.org

2009-07-04 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 12:58:50PM +0200, Hans Musil wrote: Here are my first questions, also posted to http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Osmosis#What_Java_distributions_will_work.3F Is there any benefit from using PostGIS instead of PostgreSQL without PostGIS? I do ask this because

Re: [OSM-dev] Customizing map for wikivoyage.org

2009-07-04 Thread Lennard
Florian Lohoff wrote: The problem with the different projection will be that you'll need to modify the sql queries made in the mapnik xml to reproject to a different projection. IIRC the default osm2pgsql imports with is ESRI:900913 aka google/mercator. You don't need to update the queries

[OSM-dev] OSM APIs?

2009-07-04 Thread Graham Jones
I am trying to find a way of obtaining OSM data (read only) for use in an application for providing additional information on top of a pre-rendered map (e.g. display of locations of pubs, shops etc. as selected by the user). There seem to be quite a few ways to do this: 1. The main OSM API

[OSM-dev] Data out of the earth

2009-07-04 Thread Mikel Maron
Moving this to osm-dev From: Nic Roets nro...@gmail.com 2009/7/3 Iván Sánchez Ortega i...@sanchezortega.es http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/1707270 I have to ask: Mikel, how did you manage to edit points outside the (-180,180) longitude range?? created_by =