[OSM-talk] Mapping with a data logger

Dear All, I'm going to Cuba in early April, and would like to map some of the roads there. Unfortunately, I have discovered that GPS equiptment is not permitted and anything found during searches will be confiscated, or at the very least impounded until departure. I have looked into purchasing

Re: [OSM-talk] Survey: Bad Map Rendering

El Viernes, 21 de Marzo de 2008, Frederik Ramm escribió: > I'd be happy to hear from you about such "areas of bad rendering", > whether they are bugs in there renderer(s) or just things that are > ugly for some reason. I usually split dual-carriage ways into two separate ways. When these ways hav

Re: [OSM-talk] 2 divided carriage-ways meeting at traffic lights.

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 6:02 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I played a little last night thinking of how a router application might > sense junctions and worked out a solution at the way/map level. > > see: > http://www.openstreetmap.com/?lat=51.11773&lon=-114.0701&zoom=17&layers=0BFT > (osm

Re: [OSM-talk] Survey: Bad Map Rendering

Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > I've been approached by a student of Geoinformatics who wants to > write her Master's Thesis about something OSM related. > > I suggested to look into the rendering topic: Where are our current > problems in rendering, can they be solved by simply improving the

Re: [OSM-talk] Survey: Bad Map Rendering

On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 12:23:57PM +0100, Frederik Ramm wrote: > > I suggested to look into the rendering topic: Where are our current > problems in rendering For me it's the routemap problem - how to represent multiple routes sharing the same street/line/etc, for example bus routes, named or

Re: [OSM-talk] Survey: Bad Map Rendering

> I'm sure each of you must have some "pet peeve" with our map > rendering, some area you have mapped but which never looks right, Render name of peaks curved (I think on Mapnik they do not get rendered at all...). Make use of the paved/unpaved attribute. Osmarender seems to deal with this but I

Re: [OSM-talk] Survey: Bad Map Rendering

2008/3/21, Mike Collinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Close roughly parallel ways, where the rendering of one way makes the other > way disappear. Swedish cycleways (God's gift to mankind) next to roads are > my nightmare, but I see other examples such as roads and railways/canals, > big roads next to l

Re: [OSM-talk] re contours

elvin ibbotson wrote: > I think, on balance, band width proportional to altitude makes a lot of > sense. A rise of a few metres makes a lot of difference if you live in > a flood plain but is less significant when you're halfway up a mountain. That really shows that each use of the map needs

Re: [OSM-talk] Tag proposal/approval system is too heavyweight

2008/3/20, Ulf Lamping <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Dave Stubbs schrieb: > > I think the problem is the use of the language in regard to the > > feature itself. A single person approving of a tag is obviously fine, > > but once a vote happens, and about 10 people approve of it, the tag > > then becomes a

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik rendering missing off the last part of some ways

On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 12:05 +, Andy Robinson wrote: > On 22/03/2008, Jon Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 09:25 +, Andy Robinson wrote: > > > I edited an area yesterday afternoon/evening which has been rendered > > > overnight on the Mapnik layer. Great t

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMXapi

On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Robert (Jamie) Munro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > 80n wrote: > | > | On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 9:54 PM, Chris Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > | > wrote: > | > | I have extracted some data ye

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik rendering missing off the last part of some ways

On 22/03/2008, Jon Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 09:25 +, Andy Robinson wrote: > > I edited an area yesterday afternoon/evening which has been rendered > > overnight on the Mapnik layer. Great to see the quicker turnaround > > which I assume is using the daily

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMXapi

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 80n wrote: | | On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 9:54 PM, Chris Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED] | > wrote: | | I have extracted some data yesterday from OsmXapi for a range | [bbox=-1.1,53.63,0.16,54.17], roughly the area of East Yorksh

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik rendering missing off the last part of some ways

On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 09:25 +, Andy Robinson wrote: > I edited an area yesterday afternoon/evening which has been rendered > overnight on the Mapnik layer. Great to see the quicker turnaround > which I assume is using the daily diff? No, it was done with another full dump and import which was

[OSM-talk] Mapnik rendering missing off the last part of some ways

I edited an area yesterday afternoon/evening which has been rendered overnight on the Mapnik layer. Great to see the quicker turnaround which I assume is using the daily diff? Anyway, I spotted two busts with what had been rendered. Both appear to be the last segment (section to the last node) mis

Re: [OSM-talk] GPS recommendation

Richard Fairhurst wrote: > They need to be super easy to use, robust, reliable, easy to > connect to Windows PCs (ideally without drivers), cheap, and > available now or imminently. A newly recruited Swedish contributor (user:Grillo) seems to be very happy with the Globalsat DG-100. Good valu