On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 7:00 PM, Richard Weait wrote:
> Have you been able to share experiences with Parveen and his GSoC
> project to make a similar simplified tile server installation method?
Thanks Richard for your concern to my project.
@Kal Hi
I have done the same work as my GSoC project and
Anyone aware of a set of mapnik alternative stylesheets,
or just a wiki page ?
Gert Gremmen
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On Oct 9, 2011, at 7:06 PM, Paul Norman wrote:
>> I've been slowly adding cities, but I'm being somewhat U.S.-centric in
>> my choices. If you have something you'd like to see in the list don't
>> hesitate to contact me. It's just a simple matter of appending a line of
>> text to a file! (and wait
> From: Michal Migurski [mailto:m...@stamen.com]
> Subject: [OSM-talk] Coastline extracts now added to metropolitan area
> extracts
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I've updated my metro extracts with some new cities and individual
> extracts of the coastline shapefiles for each area:
> http://metro.te
On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Nick Whitelegg
wrote:
> Richard Weait said, earlier"
>>Having the OSMF provide commercial tiles is a bad idea. It would:
>>- reduce services available to the community
>>- hurt the community by competing against it
>
> Hi Richard, yes I can see there are some issues
Hi everyone,
I've updated my metro extracts with some new cities and individual extracts of
the coastline shapefiles for each area:
http://metro.teczno.com/
I've been slowly adding cities, but I'm being somewhat U.S.-centric in my
choices. If you have something you'd like to see in the
On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 6:13 PM, Kai Krueger wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
[ ... ] there has been a lot of talk
> trying to convince people to set up their own tileserver.
[ ... ]
> In the hope to make this process even simpler, I have created a bunch of
> packages for Ubuntu containing all the necess
Kai Krueger wrote:
A simple standard tileserver can now be setup in 5 commands in a terminal:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kakrueger/openstreetmap
sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-tile
wget http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/north-america/us/colorado.osm.pbf
osm2pgsql -C 1500 colorado.osm.pbf
su
On 10/09/2011 05:10 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote:
> Hi Kai,
>
> This is pretty interesting. Thanks for setting this up.
>
> How does this whole thing handle the coastlines?
The package libapach2-mod-tile pulls in (recomends rather than depends)
a package called "openstreetmap-mapnik-stylesheet-
Hi Kai,
This is pretty interesting. Thanks for setting this up.
How does this whole thing handle the coastlines?
Thanks,
Eugene
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 6:13 AM, Kai Krueger wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> with the recent need to crack down on tile scrapers and apps to not over
> tax the main OS
Hello everyone,
with the recent need to crack down on tile scrapers and apps to not over
tax the main OSM tileservers and hosting, there has been a lot of talk
trying to convince people to set up their own tileserver.
Although that is of cause by far not the only hurdle to set up your own
tileser
Hi,
On 10/09/2011 09:59 PM, Kai Krueger wrote:
One could set up an entirely separate not-for-profit organisation e.g.
"Openstreetmap-Applications" that is geared towards providing OSM based user
oriented services, such as tileservers, user friendly map interfaces,... It
could charge commercial c
Nick Whitelegg wrote:
> Absolutely. This may be a rather controversial opinion, but
> would it maybe be a good idea to offer "Qt like licencing" for
> use of the OSM tile server?
For the record, we simply can't do this with the existing tile servers. AIUI
(though I'm no expert), our agreement wi
One could set up an entirely separate not-for-profit organisation e.g.
"Openstreetmap-Applications" that is geared towards providing OSM based user
oriented services, such as tileservers, user friendly map interfaces,... It
could charge commercial customers a fee proportionally to operating costs
a
Richard Weait wrote:
> [ ... ]
> > Absolutely. This may be a rather controversial opinion, but would it maybe
> > be a good idea to offer "Qt like licencing" for use of the OSM tile server?
>
> Having the OSMF provide commercial tiles is a bad idea. It would:
> - reduce services available to the
>Having the OSMF provide commercial tiles is a bad idea. It would:
>- reduce services available to the community
>- hurt the community by competing against it
>Why do I think that having the OSMF provide commercial tiles is such a
>bad idea?
Hi Richard, yes I can see there are some issues
Hi,
On 10/09/2011 05:51 PM, Stefan de Konink wrote:
OSMF could be the primary shareholder of a private entity that
commercially exploits hosting tiles (..and what not more).
I'm surprised to hear that from someone who usually doesn't trust OSMF
one bit!
RichardWeait is right in saying that
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Op 09-10-11 16:39, Richard Weait schreef:
> Providing commercial tiles is not a problem that the OSMF should
> try to solve.
OSMF could be the primary shareholder of a private entity that
commercially exploits hosting tiles (..and what not more).
S
On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Nick Whitelegg
wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Richard Fairhurst
> wrote:
>>Please bear in mind that, even if we wanted to offer free tiles to every
>>commercial app in the world, our hosts would not permit us to do so.
[ ... ]
> Absolutely. This may be
>Please bear in mind that, even if we wanted to offer free tiles to every
>commercial app in the world, our hosts would not permit us to do so. Nor is
>it OSM's role to give OpenMaps a competitive advantage by providing it with
>a free server when (for example) the OffMaps developers offer similar
Zsombor Szabó wrote:
> About OpenMaps:
> OpenMaps is a powerful iOS app based on maps and web services around
> OpenStreetMap. To date it was downloaded more than 250.000 times and
> as of 2011.09.07 it is the 7th most popular OSM editor.
I'm also a happy user of openmaps on iPad.
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