Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] presentation on introduction to osm technicals

2010-06-06 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
Hi, I have a presentation on the same topic due for the 20th, maybe we could work together. what about a shared google doc for a presentation? http://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AYQovvVR7xyxZGc2NnAzc3dfMTk3Z3doMmJkYzk&hl=en here i started something very simple. mike On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 8:1

[OSM-talk] presentation on introduction to osm technicals

2010-06-06 Thread Mikel Maron
Hi I'm giving a workshop on Friday at the Africa Agricultural GIS Week in Nairobi. The first half of the day will be a short mapping party. The second half of the day will survey topics in how to use OSM data ... in OpenLayers, Shapefiles, using osmosis, API, etc. The audience will be GIS profe

Re: [OSM-talk] Planet file now at 10 GB

2010-06-06 Thread Steve Bennett
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 7:29 AM, Milo van der Linden wrote: > I always use the ITO OpenStreetMap environment for specific bbox and > time/date edit queries: > > http://www.itoworld.com/static/openstreetmap.html Wow, that's really cool - didn't know that existed. Perhaps we should publicise it more

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging "wide" steps (tribune / terrace)

2010-06-06 Thread Steve Bennett
Interesting problem. Seems related to the general "how to map a street as an area without sacrificing the properties of streets" problem. Use an area, and a relation, with the relation specifying which way(s) are the top and bottom? Steve On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 7:16 AM, Richard Weait wrote: > On

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging "wide" steps (tribune / terrace)

2010-06-06 Thread Roy Wallace
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Dave F. wrote: > > Off the top of my head I'm thinking of a line within the area that > defines the direction. it would have to be linked to the boundary by > using relations(?) Yup that is how I think also. Still no complete solution, but probably worth refining

Re: [OSM-talk] Custom rendering of a small map

2010-06-06 Thread Igor Brejc
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Gervase Markham wrote: > But, not wanting to knock the hard work of you or others, even before I > looked at making style changes, it seemed fairly clear that the text > rendering wasn't nearly as nice as Mapnik's. > I know about text rendering problems on Linux.

Re: [OSM-talk] Custom rendering of a small map

2010-06-06 Thread Sam Vekemans
Hi everyone, FYI WikiTravel offers instructions on how to create a 'WikiTravel Style' Map (using OSM data) http://wikitravel.org/en/Wikitravel:How_to_create_a_map (the instructions require super-human powers, that i dont have yet, but others might be able to translate it to "WikiMap for Dumm

Re: [OSM-talk] Custom rendering of a small map

2010-06-06 Thread Seventy 7
> I got as far as getting it running and managed, through typing "zoom-out" and > "zoom-in" about 50 times each, to get to the right area of the map, and > downloaded the OSM data. I wouldn't know about Linux, but on Windows you just click on the map, drag it around and zoom in and out using th

Re: [OSM-talk] Custom rendering of a small map

2010-06-06 Thread Gary68
dear ian, could you please be a little bit more precise what you don't like at osmarender and especially mapgen.pl? of course a lot of appearance is defined in the style file and the symbols being used - i didn't spend much time there! (i was challenged by the render engine). it (mapgen) is not

Re: [OSM-talk] Custom rendering of a small map

2010-06-06 Thread john whelan
You actually get a lot of control but it isn't user friendly out of the box. I've done a write up here on how to run it from a .bat file and you can edit the rules off line with this method. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Maperitive#How_to Cheerio John On 6 June 2010 10:44, Gervase Markham

Re: [OSM-talk] Extra zoom level needed?

2010-06-06 Thread pavithran
On 6 June 2010 18:33, Fabio Alessandro Locati wrote: > After close to a month... no news.. so... will this happens or not? I wish it happens . So that I could see( see as in get_rendered_officially) bazaars on the map! http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dbazaar Regards, Pavithran

Re: [OSM-talk] Custom rendering of a small map

2010-06-06 Thread Gervase Markham
On 06/06/10 13:52, Seventy 7 wrote: > Yes, Maperitive would be ideal. Although the SVG export is not yet done, > quality (ie large) bitmaps can be done with a "scale" command to smooth > out pixellation. I got as far as getting it running (it needs System.Window.Forms; on Ubuntu, run sudo apt-get

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging "wide" steps (tribune / terrace)

2010-06-06 Thread Michael Buege
Zitat Dave F.: > Nathan Edgars II wrote: >> Alexander Menk wrote: >> >>> is there any better way for mapping "very wide steps" (100 m, half >>> circle) instead of putting lots of steps next to each other. >>> >> >> highway=steps area=yes? >> >> > A very good question posed by Alex. I ha

Re: [OSM-talk] Extra zoom level needed?

2010-06-06 Thread Fabio Alessandro Locati
After close to a month... no news.. so... will this happens or not? On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Igor Brejc wrote: > Hi, > Let me just add one note to John's comments about Maperitive: it already > "out of the box" supports 19 zoom levels, but you can modify the > configuration and set the ma

[OSM-talk] Custom rendering of a small map

2010-06-06 Thread Seventy 7
Yes, Maperitive would be ideal. Although the SVG export is not yet done, quality (ie large) bitmaps can be done with a "scale" command to smooth out pixellation. http://maperitive.net/ Join the Google group and we'll help you out! :-) You might also like to have a look at Maposmatic http://www.map

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging "Aid Organization"

2010-06-06 Thread John Smith
On 6 June 2010 19:03, Alexander Menk wrote: > how would you tag the offices of aid organizations such as "Menschen für > Menschen", UNICEF etc. > > Also there are somehow different classes of organizations and it might > be interesting to consider the type. > > There are private aid organizations

[OSM-talk] Tagging "Aid Organization"

2010-06-06 Thread Alexander Menk
Hi! how would you tag the offices of aid organizations such as "Menschen für Menschen", UNICEF etc. Also there are somehow different classes of organizations and it might be interesting to consider the type. There are private aid organizations (NGOs?), and also the aid organizations that are