Re: [OSM-talk] scale question

2010-07-08 Thread Ben Last
> > At 09.07.2010 01:19, Mostafa El-ashram wrote: > > Please could you tell me how to determine the scale of a map on open >> street maps >> > The TMS co-ordinate system (OSM, Google Maps, NearMap, Bing Maps, etc) use a Mercator projection; you'll find it referred to as "cylindrical Mercator" and

Re: [OSM-talk] scale question

2010-07-08 Thread Peter Körner
Am 09.07.2010 01:19, schrieb Mostafa El-ashram: Please could you tell me how to determine the scale of a map on open streer maps As we're using the sperical mercartor projection that projects the shpere of the world onto a square, the scale is different for different locations on the planet

[OSM-talk] scale question

2010-07-08 Thread Mostafa El-ashram
Please could you tell me how to determine the scale of a map on open streer maps

[OSM-talk] True Offline Maps 2 Released - Offline Routing and Offline POI edition

2010-07-08 Thread IgnacioZ
Hi! I'm very glad to announce that True Offline Maps 2 has been released and is available for the iPhone. This app provides offline maps with offline search and offline routing capabilities. In addition it allows to add new POI while offline and upload them to Openstreetmap when you are online. He

Re: [OSM-talk] That license change link

2010-07-08 Thread Grant Slater
There is an outstanding task on me to setup links from the osmf site (and wiki banner) to the osm wiki to allow translations of those documents. Feel free to jump ahead and translate, I will link things up as soon as I get a chance. / Grant On 7/7/10, Tobias Knerr wrote: > Mike Collinson wrote:

[OSM-legal-talk] new license use case questions

2010-07-08 Thread David Carmean
I'd like to get input on a couple of use-cases under the ODBl: An organization (US tax-exempt non-profit) operates a UMN mapserver to provide public parks information. They use a shapefile generated from a filtered snapshot of OSM data--leaving only roads--as a base layer. Obviously they will h

Re: [OSM-talk] Changed highway=*_link meaning?!

2010-07-08 Thread Konrad Skeri
2010/7/3 John Smith : > On 3 July 2010 19:50, Konrad Skeri wrote: >> One possibility is to just use highway=link and then let the renderes >> sort out the rest. A link is after all just a link no matter what it > > It may not be possible for preprocessing or renderers to figure it out. > 1. Take