[OSM-talk] serving tiles with mapnik and generate_tiles.py

2009-03-20 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
hi The wiki page for this says: Download the planet file from planet.openstreetmap.org Import into a PostGIS database using osm2pgsql Set up mapnik and test using osm.xml and the generate_image.py When everything works, use generate_tiles.py to create 1000s of tiles in a special hierarchy o

[OSM-talk] Add fonts to your tile server

2009-03-20 Thread Richard Weait
I've written up my experiences with adding a custom font to a tile server. Your comments and feedback are welcome. http://weait.com/content/add-fonts-your-openstreetmap-server ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.

[OSM-talk] GroundTruth 1.2

2009-03-20 Thread Igor Brejc
Hello, Just to let you know that a new version of GroundTruth is here. It contains some bugfixes and minor improvements. You can read more on http://igorbrejc.net/openstreetmap/groundtruth-12 Cheers, Igor -- http://igorbrejc.net ___ talk mailing l

[OSM-talk] Openstreetbrowser

2009-03-20 Thread SB79
Hello everybody, I don't know whether openstreetbrowser has already been mentioned on the mailing list. If so, I apologize for posting this information again. (And I apologize for my limited english skills...) I discovered openstreetbrowser 3 days ago. It integrates many features which were pr

Re: [OSM-talk] GPS track precision (was "GPS track upload working?")

2009-03-20 Thread Yann Coupin
Mine, at least, doesn't produce directly gpx, but just logs nmea sentences. GPSbabel correctly outputs the hdop, vdop and pdop in GPX files during the conversion. I have no idea of how "exceptional" compared to already uploaded tracks that is though... Yann Le 20 mars 09 à 16:25, Ed Avis a

Re: [OSM-talk] GPS track precision (was "GPS track upload working?")

2009-03-20 Thread Ed Avis
>From my experience with my Garmin unit (which, ironically enough, does not save error values with the track logs, but does show an error circle on screen), the GPS error does give a reasonable indication of when the current position is likely to be inaccurate (for example when inside a building).

Re: [OSM-talk] Wikipedia definition in tag page template

2009-03-20 Thread Sam Vekemans
Right, i agree to that (not including a definition link in the box) as for example, the key=snowshed page would naturally have a definition as part of the description (1st paragraph) of the wiki page. Perhaps what we CAN do is ensure that there is some kind of standard? In what case should a dic

Re: [OSM-talk] Wikipedia definition in tag page template

2009-03-20 Thread Tobias Knerr
Sam Vekemans schrieb: > Why is it that all of the templates for the detail box on the right > have "Google definition" and a link to a search for that tag on google > search? I'd even ask: Why do we have such a link at all? What matters is how a term is defined in OSM context, not how it is define

Re: [OSM-talk] Run tilesAtHome client and only accept requests for a small bbox. Possible?

2009-03-20 Thread Yann Coupin
I mean z=1, highest, minimum is just a matter of view. Anyway, yeah it is the zoom level that contains the less data per tile, *but* it contains the most tiles, that's probably why it's too slow... Le 20 mars 09 à 11:27, Robert (Jamie) Munro a écrit : > Don't you mean minimum zoom level? AFAI

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] How does Google map maker handle copyright

2009-03-20 Thread Erik Johansson
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 2:43 PM, LeedsTracker wrote: > 2009/3/19 Erik Johansson : >> After reading about the Lithuanian problems I really wonder how Google >> map maker handles copyright >> >> Everytime I tell new OSM users "You can't copy street names from the >> map" something feels really broke

[OSM-talk] Wikipedia definition in tag page template

2009-03-20 Thread Sam Vekemans
Hi, i'm just *thinking out loud* here. Why is it that all of the templates for the detail box on the right have "Google definition" and a link to a search for that tag on google search? If i was an active "wikipediapractioner" who was interested in colaboration with maps. I would actually be offe

Re: [OSM-talk] Run tilesAtHome client and only accept requests for a small bbox. Possible?

2009-03-20 Thread Robert (Jamie) Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yann Coupin wrote: > Le 19 mars 09 à 21:00, Karl Newman a écrit : > >> The main Mapnik layer on OSM.org is updated minutely now, I believe >> (maybe it's hourly). > > Last I heard it was hourly, and it didn't include the maximum zoom > level which

Re: [OSM-talk] GPS track precision (was "GPS track upload working?")

2009-03-20 Thread Tom Hughes
Andy Deakin wrote: > If the hdop values run between 0-50, in mysql you would only need a > tinyint (1 Byte) so to store this for all 727425591 trackpoints would > take up less than a GB. I don't think it is worth reparsing all the > files, but just because something is not done in the past does

Re: [OSM-talk] GPS track precision (was "GPS track upload working?")

2009-03-20 Thread Andy Deakin
Tom Hughes wrote: > Yann Coupin wrote: > > >> You know what to do in version 2 of the track download API, right ? ;) >> > > Well only if we want to reparse several hundred thousand tracks, and > provide storage space for hundreds of millions of hdop values in the > database and we believe

Re: [OSM-talk] Reverse look-up gazetteer

2009-03-20 Thread Roland Olbricht
> Does anyone know if there is there a web service that lets me take the > latitude and longitude of a node and establish which country, > state/county/province, city and Zip/post code the node is in? The most canonical way is to use the boundary data inside OSM. This is usually stored in a relat

Re: [OSM-talk] what happened to the slippy map page?

2009-03-20 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Thursday 19 March 2009 20:54:45 you wrote: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Peter289 > and then perhaps revert or at least add a link to the new page to > make it easy to find. Thinking about it, he must speak English if > he's editing English language wiki pages. why do you think engl

Re: [OSM-talk] GPS track precision (was "GPS track upload working?")

2009-03-20 Thread Tom Hughes
Yann Coupin wrote: > You know what to do in version 2 of the track download API, right ? ;) Well only if we want to reparse several hundred thousand tracks, and provide storage space for hundreds of millions of hdop values in the database and we believe that the benefit from doing do (which is

Re: [OSM-talk] 3rd world croud-sourcing

2009-03-20 Thread Michel Barakat
> I'm particularly interested in the USSD functions, I've not really heard > about them before, I may wander over to the OpenMoko mailing lists, and see > if they know any thing about it :) Afaik, USSD channels are controlled by the mobile operator. I believe all devices support USSD but you'll n

Re: [OSM-talk] GPS track precision (was "GPS track upload working?")

2009-03-20 Thread Yann Coupin
You know what to do in version 2 of the track download API, right ? ;) Yann Le 19 mars 09 à 11:20, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) a écrit : > That’s correct; the database only holds the location for each > trackpoint and > not any other data. You need to download the original tracklogs for