Re: [OSM-talk] Simplifying shapes

2010-04-15 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Andrew Errington wrote: > I have some .osm files containing the outlines of areas. Where did these come from? > I want to > simplify the outline to make the files smaller and to make drawing quicker > (I have many of these shapes to use in an OpenLayers vector layer), I didn't know that

Re: [OSM-talk] Simplifying shapes

2010-04-15 Thread Sebastian Klein
Andrew Errington wrote: > On Fri, April 16, 2010 11:30, John Smith wrote: >> On 16 April 2010 12:05, Andrew Errington >> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> >>> I have some .osm files containing the outlines of areas. I want to >>> simplify the outline to make the files smaller and to make drawing >>>

Re: [OSM-talk] Simplifying shapes

2010-04-15 Thread Andrew Errington
On Fri, April 16, 2010 11:30, John Smith wrote: > On 16 April 2010 12:05, Andrew Errington > wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> >> I have some .osm files containing the outlines of areas. I want to >> simplify the outline to make the files smaller and to make drawing >> quicker (I have many of these shape

Re: [OSM-talk] Simplifying shapes

2010-04-15 Thread John Smith
On 16 April 2010 12:05, Andrew Errington wrote: > Hi all, > > I have some .osm files containing the outlines of areas. I want to > simplify the outline to make the files smaller and to make drawing quicker > (I have many of these shapes to use in an OpenLayers vector layer), but I > want to keep

Re: [OSM-talk] Simplifying shapes

2010-04-15 Thread Robin Paulson
On 16 April 2010 14:05, Andrew Errington wrote: > I have some .osm files containing the outlines of areas.  I want to > simplify the outline to make the files smaller and to make drawing quicker > (I have many of these shapes to use in an OpenLayers vector layer), but I > want to keep the same gen

Re: [OSM-talk] cannot process keep right dump in osmosis

2010-04-15 Thread maning sambale
Thanks! On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 5:45 AM, Harald Kleiner wrote: > You can try two things: > 1: give more RAM to osmosis (add the line > JAVACMD_OPTIONS=" -Xmx2500m " > in your file ~/.osmosis (create it if it doesn't already exist) This one works! -- cheers, maning --

[OSM-talk] Simplifying shapes

2010-04-15 Thread Andrew Errington
Hi all, I have some .osm files containing the outlines of areas. I want to simplify the outline to make the files smaller and to make drawing quicker (I have many of these shapes to use in an OpenLayers vector layer), but I want to keep the same general shape. Is there a tool to do this? One op

[OSM-talk] any advantage when using Quantum GIS (qgis) ?

2010-04-15 Thread diego lesmes
Use example steps 1 Georeference with Falcon View Free using Georect, a free image and mapsource this generate a geotiff + twf 2 download a shape from geofabrik.de for use in QGIS 3 draw lines in qgis as GPX file 4 upload gpx or osm with viking or JOSM results http://www.ope

Re: [OSM-talk] LINZ import

2010-04-15 Thread Sam Vekemans
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 4:25 PM, John Smith wrote: > On 16 April 2010 09:18, Sam Vekemans wrote: > > Create a WMS layer for the complete dataset & trace from it. > > The problem with WMS layers is you loose the meta information that > already exists, or you need to do a lot of work to add it afte

Re: [OSM-talk] LINZ import

2010-04-15 Thread John Smith
On 16 April 2010 09:39, Robin Paulson wrote: > do oyu have any suggestions how to keep the metadata when importing? i > presume it is a non-manual method, i.e. uploading a .osm file - how do > you merge the two data sets? You open the area as normal and open the osm file as a different layer and

Re: [OSM-talk] LINZ import

2010-04-15 Thread Robin Paulson
On 16 April 2010 11:25, John Smith wrote: > The problem with WMS layers is you loose the meta information that > already exists, or you need to do a lot of work to add it after > tracing. do oyu have any suggestions how to keep the metadata when importing? i presume it is a non-manual method, i.e

Re: [OSM-talk] LINZ import

2010-04-15 Thread John Smith
On 16 April 2010 09:04, Robin Paulson wrote: > does anyone who has experience (or not) of other imports have any > suggestions on how best to do this? While it might seem a lot of work, the best option is to break the data up into manageable chunks and ask people to help import the information by

Re: [OSM-talk] LINZ import

2010-04-15 Thread John Smith
On 16 April 2010 09:18, Sam Vekemans wrote: > Create a WMS layer for the complete dataset & trace from it. The problem with WMS layers is you loose the meta information that already exists, or you need to do a lot of work to add it after tracing. > More community can help that way. :-) WMS laye

Re: [OSM-talk] LINZ import

2010-04-15 Thread Sam Vekemans
Hi, Create a WMS layer for the complete dataset & trace from it. More community can help that way. :-) Cheers, Sam On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Robin Paulson wrote: > a number of OSM mappers in new zealand are currently working on the > import of Land Information New Zealand data into OSM >

[OSM-talk] LINZ import

2010-04-15 Thread Robin Paulson
a number of OSM mappers in new zealand are currently working on the import of Land Information New Zealand data into OSM one of the issues that has come up is the question of what to do when there is existing data. we've got a few ideas, but none of them are optimal does anyone who has experience

Re: [OSM-talk] cannot process keep right dump in osmosis

2010-04-15 Thread Harald Kleiner
Hi! > So the problem is that keepright does not escape the # character. I don't think so! # characters are valid characters everywhere in xml. Even though the part looks like a unicode entitiy, it isn't one. Unicode entities look like this: #&1234; I can reproduce your .osm file but I cannot

[OSM-talk] khtmlib map library news

2010-04-15 Thread bernhard
hi all There are many new features for open source (LGPL) khtmlib map library. It's a javascript lib for mobile (iPhone only at the moment) and desktop browsers. 1.) Internet Explorer support IE 6 - 8 should work now It does not work very well on linux with wine, but it should work on real wind

[OSM-talk] MapSetToolKit on Command line

2010-04-15 Thread Sam Vekemans
Hi, Does anyone know how to make a Garmin MapSource map - Directly from the DOS command line & avoid using MapSetToolKit? Sam -- Twitter: @Acrosscanada Blogs: http://acrosscanadatrails.posterous.com/ http://Acrosscanadatrails.blogspot.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sam.vekemans Skype: sa

Re: [OSM-talk] highway name render bug on map

2010-04-15 Thread Lennard
On 15-4-2010 13:19, colliar wrote: > for example: (Meisenweg) > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=47.9899308085442&lon=7.82894164323807&zoom=18 I see that one on all the zoom levels you mentioned. > on openstreetmap.de we also have a similar/same bug: (Schwarzwaldstraße in > the > center livi

Re: [OSM-talk] Military objects in RU: warning about status of voting

2010-04-15 Thread Lester Caine
Kirill Bestoujev wrote: > > > 2010/4/15 Lester Caine mailto:les...@lsces.co.uk>> > > > Of cause what is missing here is that since this 'vote' was only in > Russian then > the vast majority of us would not even be able to vote anyway. There > should > perhaps be a rule about nee

Re: [OSM-talk] highway name render bug on map

2010-04-15 Thread Dirk-Lüder Kreie
colliar schrieb: > Hi > > There is a bug on openstreetmap.org. > Highway names are rendered in a lower zoom-level but not in high one. > This is distracting because the names just disapear scrolling/zooming in. This is a Mapnik (rendering rules?) bug. Can you try with the osmarender layer (little

Re: [OSM-talk] cannot process keep right dump in osmosis

2010-04-15 Thread Nic Roets
So the problem is that keepright does not escape the # character. It's easy to remove those lines with grep, e.g. egrep -v '#[0-9]{4}' keepright_world.osm | ./osmosis --read-xml file=/dev/stdin --bounding-polygon file="mmla_south.poly" --write-xml file=keepright_mmla_south.osm or fix them wit

[OSM-talk] highway name render bug on map

2010-04-15 Thread colliar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi There is a bug on openstreetmap.org. Highway names are rendered in a lower zoom-level but not in high one. This is distracting because the names just disapear scrolling/zooming in. for example:(Meisenweg) http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=4

[OSM-talk] cannot process keep right dump in osmosis

2010-04-15 Thread maning sambale
Hi, I'm creating an osm file out of keepright text dump and the cut only my area. ./osmosis --read-xml file="keepright_world.osm" --bounding-polygon file="mmla_south.poly" --write-xml file=keepright_mmla_south.osm osmosis reports an error: 04 15, 10 6:20:47 PM org.openstreetmap.osmosis.core.Osmo

Re: [OSM-talk] SOTM Registration Page. Facebook

2010-04-15 Thread Henk Hoff
Hi Martin, Thanks for registering for State of the Map! To promote our conference we use several social networking sites (like Facebook and LinkedIn). Hence the links in the top banner of the website. People who have an account on these websites can share this event with their personal network.

Re: [OSM-talk] Navigation and Location conference in Berlin - 400 euro discount

2010-04-15 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Op 15-04-10 10:15, Henk Hoff schreef: > For those of you who love conferences had haven't signed up for the > Navigation and Location Summit in Berlin (June 15-16) yet: since I'm > speaking about OpenStreetMap at this conference I can give you an ext

[OSM-talk] Navigation and Location conference in Berlin - 400 euro discount

2010-04-15 Thread Henk Hoff
For those of you who love conferences had haven't signed up for the Navigation and Location Summit in Berlin (June 15-16) yet: since I'm speaking about OpenStreetMap at this conference I can give you an extra EUR 400 discount of the registration fee. More about this conference at: http://www.thewh