Re: [OSM-dev] OGR driver for OSM data

2012-03-08 Thread Josh Doe
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Jochen Topf wrote: > The problem is not so much the geometries. Its the open tagging scheme which > doesn't fit the fixed attribute names/types of the traditional GIS world. > As a simple example, you might want to map "oneway=yes" and "oneway=true" and > other vers

Re: [OSM-dev] OGR driver for OSM data

2012-03-08 Thread Martijn van Exel
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Jochen Topf wrote: > you can use the osmjs program supplied > with Osmium and write the mapping in Javascript > Which works like a charm, I've been using it recently. Great to have. -- martijn van exel geospatial omnivore 1109 1st ave #2 salt lake city, ut 84103

Re: [OSM-dev] OGR driver for OSM data

2012-03-08 Thread Jochen Topf
On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 03:40:53PM -0500, Josh Doe wrote: > On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Jochen Topf wrote: > > This idea comes up again and again. Writing a generic OGR driver for OSM > > data > > would be very difficult, because the data models just don't match. You'd > > have > > to have s

Re: [OSM-dev] openstreetmap on github

2012-03-08 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2012/2/27 "Petr Morávek [Xificurk]" : > Hello, > regarding the openstreetmap repos on github - would it be possible to > clean up the duplicate mirror/.../mirror branches (they just get in the > way :)). Fortunately, it seems the bug that periodically created new > ones was fixed some time ago. I

Re: [OSM-dev] OGR driver for OSM data

2012-03-08 Thread Josh Doe
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Jochen Topf wrote: > This idea comes up again and again. Writing a generic OGR driver for OSM data > would be very difficult, because the data models just don't match. You'd have > to have some kind of complex mapping between the two worlds. Thats why nobody > has d

Re: [OSM-dev] OGR driver for OSM data

2012-03-08 Thread Jukka Rahkonen
Jochen Topf kirjoitti: > On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 12:43:02PM -0500, Josh Doe wrote: >> I can only find a handful of mentions about creating an OGR driver for >> OSM files [0][1][2], and those are several years old. Has anyone else >> considered writing one? I don't think this group is terribly >> in

Re: [Potlatch-dev] [OpenStreetMap] #4077: tileurl with tiles from wien.gv.at don't show

2012-03-08 Thread OpenStreetMap
#4077: tileurl with tiles from wien.gv.at don't show +--- Reporter: _al| Owner: potlatch-dev@… Type: defect | Status: closed Priority: minor |

Re: [OSM-dev] OGR driver for OSM data

2012-03-08 Thread Jochen Topf
On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 12:43:02PM -0500, Josh Doe wrote: > I can only find a handful of mentions about creating an OGR driver for > OSM files [0][1][2], and those are several years old. Has anyone else > considered writing one? I don't think this group is terribly > interested in it because we hav

[OSM-dev] OGR driver for OSM data

2012-03-08 Thread Josh Doe
I can only find a handful of mentions about creating an OGR driver for OSM files [0][1][2], and those are several years old. Has anyone else considered writing one? I don't think this group is terribly interested in it because we have many other robust tools for converting OSM data from and to othe

Re: [OSM-dev] Possible GSoC project: tag/area monitoring service

2012-03-08 Thread Michael Daines
> I was thinking about very long routes, and country borders. If I want > to monitor changes to my state and interstate routes within the state, > I don't have any good options at the moment to do that. I don't think > it should be terribly difficult to implement, I'm just not sure how > well it wi

Re: [OSM-dev] OSMCoastline

2012-03-08 Thread Peter Körner
Am 08.03.2012 00:00, schrieb Frederik Ramm: Hi, On 03/07/2012 04:05 PM, Tom MacWright wrote: Whoah! Nice work. All of these osmium-related projects are really exciting, can't wait to have more performant and efficient parts of the OSM stack. Plus, they're well-written and hosted on GitHub :)