Re: [OSM-talk] [HOT] Fw: Disaster Preparedness Project

2011-06-06 Thread Samuel Mandell
Essentially what I'm looking for is the ability to produce a Thomas-Guide style maps book where a city is broken into printable pages (e.g. A6) and at the back would be an index of streets with corresponding page and x/y axis information. As mentioned before it would be ideal if this could be auto

Re: [OSM-talk] Bandwidth limit/IP blocking - Error 303 on the OSM API?

2011-06-06 Thread Kate Chapman
I'd also like to add that people get more excited about OpenStreetMap when they see their changes instantly added. I've trained people in both Potlatch, Potlatch2 and JOSM. I pick the tool depending on specific class. Areas with bad/no internet access we use JOSM and changes are immediately s

Re: [OSM-talk] Bandwidth limit/IP blocking - Error 303 on the OSM API?

2011-06-06 Thread Russ Nelson
Stephen Hope writes: > I keep hearing this, but I must be weird, because I had the opposite > reaction both when I first started and when I show somebody how to use > it. I took one look at Potlatch and thought "I want something that > works offline to test with, with a save button when I'm ha

Re: [OSM-talk] Bandwidth limit/IP blocking - Error 303 on the OSM API?

2011-06-06 Thread Stephen Hope
On 6 June 2011 17:55, Jaak Laineste wrote: >  Also we have always started with P2, JOSM is too scary for the first > introduction. So offline OSM files is not an option. I keep hearing this, but I must be weird, because I had the opposite reaction both when I first started and when I show somebod

Re: [OSM-talk] Fw: Disaster Preparedness Project

2011-06-06 Thread Mike N
On 6/6/2011 6:03 PM, Mikel Maron wrote: Folks, what did we have in place to produce map books? Hikingbook.pl has an 'Atlas mode'. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Hikingbook.pl Parameters seem fully customizable; I don't know how much work it would take to adapt to your application.

Re: [OSM-talk] [HOT] Fw: Disaster Preparedness Project

2011-06-06 Thread Dane Springmeyer
On Jun 6, 2011, at 3:58 PM, Samuel Mandell wrote: > Tim, > > I'd appreciate any additional information regarding the maps generated for > Christchurch. I'll also check out www.safety-maps.org. > > -Samuel First pass was dumping out maps just based on custom size and bounding boxes at: http:

Re: [OSM-talk] [HOT] Fw: Disaster Preparedness Project

2011-06-06 Thread Dane Springmeyer
Samuel, It seems to me like rendering the actual pages would be easier (than actually rendering a large image, then chopping). This should also give better results because the scales of things like text and lines would look better. So, the way I would approach this would be to determine the siz

Re: [OSM-talk] [HOT] Fw: Disaster Preparedness Project

2011-06-06 Thread Samuel Mandell
Tim, I'd appreciate any additional information regarding the maps generated for Christchurch. I'll also check out www.safety-maps.org. -Samuel On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Tim McNamara wrote: > Hi all, > > Lots of time was spent in late Feburary & early March in NZ to produce > printable map

Re: [OSM-talk] Disaster Preparedness Project

2011-06-06 Thread Samuel Mandell
Thanks for the response Richard. I found the following site that does generate maps for cities: http://www.maposmatic.org/new/. The issue here is that we'd need to change the style sheet to format for printed pages instead of a 4' x 8' map. Creating our own style sheet is definitely also a possibi

[OSM-talk] Fw: Disaster Preparedness Project

2011-06-06 Thread Mikel Maron
Folks, what did we have in place to produce map books? Can Mapsomatic easily be modified for different formats/scales? http://www.safety-maps.org/ was a recent project to do something similar. I know the developers would be interested to hear more ideas how to make it useful. == Mikel Maron =

Re: [OSM-talk] Disaster Preparedness Project

2011-06-06 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 8:12 PM, Samuel Mandell wrote: > I'm designing a project whose goal is to prepare folks in my community for > disasters. An essential part of any disaster kit are maps of the local area > so that when electricity has gone out people can still navigate to specific > areas of

[OSM-talk] search functionmainpage

2011-06-06 Thread hinsehen
hey guys i am more just a user and jumped fromgooglemaps to ops. please put the search funktion under the logo in the upper left, i don't like to search realy and it's difficult just to write it to "somebody",so please forward this message to somebody who close or from the team of webmasters.

[OSM-talk] MySQL Spatial Import Tool?

2011-06-06 Thread Leonid Khaylov
Hello! After days of surfing in the internet I couldn't find for MySQL any tool similar to osm2pgsql. All I want to do is to visualize the OSM data for Germany on GeoServer with MySQL DB. The tools I found like Osmosis and osm2sql save the data in a non-spatial schema, that's why GeoServer can't v

[OSM-talk] Disaster Preparedness Project

2011-06-06 Thread Samuel Mandell
I'm designing a project whose goal is to prepare folks in my community for disasters. An essential part of any disaster kit are maps of the local area so that when electricity has gone out people can still navigate to specific areas of the city (for instance to get supplies or medical help). OpenS

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping party au Gua (sud de Grenoble,38)

2011-06-06 Thread Alexandre Nabais
fabuleux ! merci Eric si tu peux par contre au niveau support (posters, ...) aurais-tu des idées ? a+ Alex Le 19 mai 2011 10:24, Eric Sibert a écrit : >> Y aurait-il des volontaires qui voudraient tenir le stand et présenter OSM >> au moins quelques heures ? > > Je prends note mais pour le momen

Re: [OSM-talk] Positioning issue with Open Mapquest

2011-06-06 Thread deb t
Hello, We're working on correcting this bug and hope to have it in production soon. Thanks, Deb MapQuest Open Data Team --- Hello, I searching points by coordinates in various online map providers and notices that OpenMapquest is off. For example if I look for 42.7326,-84.556991 Bing, Goo

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM-Import to MySQL Spatial tool?

2011-06-06 Thread Jaak Laineste
MySQL spatial support lacks of many critical features, including projections and other basic functions. I have tried to use it in couple of projects with similar requirement, but found that changing requirement to use PostGIS turned out to be easier solution. If you still really want it, I would

Re: [OSM-talk] Bandwidth limit/IP blocking - Error 303 on the OSM API?

2011-06-06 Thread Jaak Laineste
2011/6/5 Serge Wroclawski : > On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 6:34 PM, Stephan Knauss > wrote: >> On 05.06.2011 22:18, Serge Wroclawski wrote: For doing test edits: Why not use the dev api? Then you won't have to worry about uploads breaking something. >>> >>> When I've done this kind