Re: [OSM-talk] Wishes for GPS track upload

2009-04-13 Thread Ed Avis
Simon Ward bleah.co.uk> writes: >>Additionally, when you upload a track you should be able to specify how it was >>made, with checkboxes for 'foot', 'bike', 'car', 'boat', 'plane'. (If it has >>a >>mixture, tick several boxes.) > >You can use tags for that: I’ve tagged most of my recent upload

Re: [OSM-talk] Wishes for GPS track upload

2009-04-13 Thread Simon Ward
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 05:21:35PM +, Ed Avis wrote: > Additionally, when you upload a track you should be able to specify how it was > made, with checkboxes for 'foot', 'bike', 'car', 'boat', 'plane'. (If it has > a > mixture, tick several boxes.) You can use tags for that: I’ve tagged most

[OSM-talk] Wishes for GPS track upload

2009-04-13 Thread Ed Avis
When you make a single GPS log that covers several different 'sessions', turning the GPS receiver off between each, then the track will have jumps in it. The OSM site displays a little picture of each log, but when the log has a jumps the picture becomes just a straight line. It would be cool if,

Re: [OSM-talk] Roads/Rails Shapefile Import for Tanzania, Uganda, DRC, Rwanda

2009-04-13 Thread Matt Amos
hi robert, this is really cool! great to see that africover is willing to donate this data. one thing thats worth pointing out, just in case you hadn't seen it already; the OSM server will be down from the 17th possibly until the 20th for an upgrade to the API. hopefully this will not inconvenien

[OSM-talk] Roads/Rails Shapefile Import for Tanzania, Uganda, DRC, Rwanda

2009-04-13 Thread Robert Soden
Hello, Over the last few months, I've been in contact with FAO's Africover program: http://www.africover.org/ . Africover maintains shapefiles containing rivers, roads, towns, and admin boundaries for a number of countries that we would like add to the OSM dataset. While they normally do not re

Re: [OSM-talk] Road network length calculation

2009-04-13 Thread Lennard
Jukka Rahkonen wrote: > For example, I use to import osm data into postgis and transform it it Finnish > kkj projection. Now I can get the length (in meters) of all "highway" lines of > the Finland.osm with query > postgis=# select sum(length2d(way)) from osm_line where highway is not null; > ---