Re: [OSM-talk] How to tag small city alley ?

2009-05-27 Thread Paul Johnson
andrzej zaborowski wrote: > 2009/5/26 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason : >> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 7:56 AM, Ivan Garcia wrote: >>> Hi Peter, which your approach, I believe that the render by osm will be the >>> same than a normal residential street, what highway tag can I use to >>> differentiate this al

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap mention on slashdot

2009-05-27 Thread Gervase Markham
On 27/05/09 20:51, Yann Coupin wrote: > Just saw this, thought you might be interested... > > OpenStreetMap Sends UK Volunteer Mapper To Antigua > Yes, we've been submitting the press release to various places. Feel free to

Re: [OSM-talk] script to cut a big OSM map into letter or A4 size papers

2009-05-27 Thread Peter Childs
2009/5/27 Richard Fairhurst : > > Matt Amos wrote: >> i've found that printers often prefer high resolution images >> over PDFs, but these are also pretty easy to generate. for the >> mappa mercia A0 print [1] it looks like 9934 x 14046 (300dpi) >> was a good resolution. > > > > We send the magazi

[OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap mention on slashdot

2009-05-27 Thread Yann Coupin
Just saw this, thought you might be interested... OpenStreetMap Sends UK Volunteer Mapper To Antigua Yann___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] Liverpool Mapping Party

2009-05-27 Thread John McKerrell
Hi all I mentioned on the GB list a little while back but I thought I should confirm that we're good to go with the Liverpool Mapping party in a week and a half - 6th June. I've created a page on the wiki for it here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/LiverpoolMappingParty_June09 We're actu

Re: [OSM-talk] script to cut a big OSM map into letter or A4 size papers

2009-05-27 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Matt Amos wrote: > i've found that printers often prefer high resolution images > over PDFs, but these are also pretty easy to generate. for the > mappa mercia A0 print [1] it looks like 9934 x 14046 (300dpi) > was a good resolution. We send the magazine to the printers as PDFs, _but_ we al

Re: [OSM-talk] script to cut a big OSM map into letter or A4 size papers

2009-05-27 Thread Matt Amos
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Peter Childs wrote: > I'm thinking web based script that produced pdf files of OSM would be > really really good, Possibly rendering direct to PDF (which is > actually a vector based format) > > Possibly done so the scale was correct on each page rather than trying

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap software for vehicles fleet management system

2009-05-27 Thread Jan Torben Heuer
Ivan Garcia wrote: > Otherwise, we are looking forward to start it from zero with the help of > the community, and contribute to OSM all the data gathered by the fleet in > south east Asia. Personally, i'd use the great NASA-WorldWind Software plus the OSM Layer plus your GPS-Flett-Position-Lay

Re: [OSM-talk] How to tag small city alley ?

2009-05-27 Thread Ben Laenen
On Tuesday 26 May 2009, Paul Johnson wrote: > Ben Laenen wrote: > > It's clearly a public road so you shouldn't use highway=service > > here. > > Alleyways are clearly public roads, and those are highway=service > service=alley... But I think there's a big difference in alleys that should be tagg

Re: [OSM-talk] script to cut a big OSM map into letter or A4 size papers

2009-05-27 Thread Peter Childs
2009/5/27 Arlindo Pereira : > Wow, I second that question, that would be very nice. I'm no scripter > myself, but I suppose that it won't be needed to render the tiles on > the device, just tome way to download the png tiles from the server > and print them side to side. > > [] > > On Mon, May 25,