Re: [OSM-talk] Finding a particular street on the GPS

2007-12-23 Thread Karl Newman
On Dec 23, 2007 11:42 AM, Christoph Eckert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > > Actually, for the full-featured version that does everything with no > > restrictions, it's USD2800... However, you can get free access to that > > version online if you're willing to share your maps with the world. >

[OSM-talk] New Zealand coastline and mapnik

2007-12-23 Thread Rob Reid
The NZ coastline gets a clean bill of health from the Coastline error checker except for two small islands which appear to obey the rules in terms of number of nodes and direction of way. It has also been tidied up in places where high res Yahoo imagery is available. What needs to happen now so

Re: [OSM-talk] bbox download problems

2007-12-23 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, > wget -O auckland.osm > http://www.informationfreeway.org/api/0.5/*[bbox=174.4,-37.2,174.9,-36.7] Your shell tries to expand the * into a valid filename and fails. Enclose the whole URL in quotes and the shell will let it through - but even then it'll fail, as you have seen when using "node"

Re: [OSM-talk] bbox download problems

2007-12-23 Thread Rob Reid
Robin Paulson wrote the following on 24/12/2007 13:25: > i've been trying to download a subset of the osm data, for auckland, > as detailed at: > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Osmxapi#All_Elements > > wget -O auckland.osm > http://www.informationfreeway.org/api/0.5/*[bbox=174.4,-37.2,17

[OSM-talk] bbox download problems

2007-12-23 Thread Robin Paulson
i've been trying to download a subset of the osm data, for auckland, as detailed at: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Osmxapi#All_Elements wget -O auckland.osm http://www.informationfreeway.org/api/0.5/*[bbox=174.4,-37.2,174.9,-36.7] is the command i used, but i get first an error about w

Re: [OSM-talk] Finding a particular street on the GPS

2007-12-23 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Christoph Eckert wrote: > me too, absolutely. But the cgpsmapper license is rather expensive. > I wonder > if it was possible to get the information about the file format > anywhere > else. The routing stuff doesn't appear to have been openly reverse- engineered yet. The IMG file description

Re: [OSM-talk] Finding a particular street on the GPS

2007-12-23 Thread Christoph Eckert
Hi, > Definitely would be interested in getting routing to work with OSM Data > on my Garmin GPSMap60Csx. me too, absolutely. But the cgpsmapper license is rather expensive. I wonder if it was possible to get the information about the file format anywhere else. > I recently tried to generate a

Re: [OSM-talk] Finding a particular street on the GPS

2007-12-23 Thread Christoph Eckert
Hi, > Actually, for the full-featured version that does everything with no > restrictions, it's USD2800... However, you can get free access to that > version online if you're willing to share your maps with the world. > It's at mapcenter.cgpsmapper.com this service has somewhat limited routing ca

Re: [OSM-talk] Finding a particular street on the GPS

2007-12-23 Thread Christoph Eckert
Hi, > I wonder how much the > Shareware (USD25) does, it sounds like it only indexes the cities and POI's > (I would assume by POI it would mean like tourist attractions, parking > etc?).  If it at least does suburbs then it could be almost what I'm > looking for... I can generate locations as Ga

Re: [OSM-talk] Finding a particular street on the GPS

2007-12-23 Thread Christoph Eckert
Hi, > Anyway, one thing that I'd really really like though, is to be able to find > a street. agreed. I once was asked for a street by a passenger. Even I had my GpsMap right at my fingertips, I couldn't help him. It's really ridiculous: You are equipped with an expensive GPS toy but you can't

Re: [OSM-talk] Finding a particular street on the GPS

2007-12-23 Thread Christoph Eckert
Hi, > The is_in > could help, but I don't think it's the answer. Probably what's going > to be required is a lookup of the bounding box of the way against a > city, region, etc. name database at the time when the GPS maps are > generated. IMO this will be answered by our own database sooner or la

Re: [OSM-talk] TomTom logging with v7 software?

2007-12-23 Thread Magne Mæhre
Jon Bright wrote: > Hi, > > I have a TomTom One. I've successfully been using TripMaster to create > logs. > > TomTom Home recently offered me an upgrade of the TomTom's software to > v7, which I installed. Since then, TripMaster's display is garbled. > I've looked at the TripMaster site and