Re: [OSM-talk] An example photo/video mapping trip

2012-04-10 Thread Paul Norman
The road signs, max speeds and bus stops don't take long to tag. Take the bus stop in IMG_3429.JPG as an example. http://pnorman.dev.openstreetmap.org/photomapping/example_bus_stop.png is what the area looks like in JOSM, with my car location indicated When quickly going through the image I can ea

[OSM-talk] late Easter Egg: beta version for new OpenRouteService GUI

2012-04-10 Thread Alexander Zipf
Dear all, still a bid hidden like a left-over Easter Egg, but here is the hint: There is a first test version of a future brush-up for the http://OpenRouteService.org website at http://koenigstuhl.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/ors/ It is still in early beta stage and does not support all of the funct

Re: [OSM-talk] Traffic simulation Modeling using OSM data

2012-04-10 Thread Matthias Meißer
Hi Sourav, sounds good and would be a nice tool :) But did you checked out this pages already? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Simulators http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Research Matthias (user:!i!) Am 03.04.2012 11:38, schrieb sourav dutta: Hi, Sorry for mailing in so late, i came to kn

Re: [OSM-talk] An example photo/video mapping trip

2012-04-10 Thread Nikhil Upadhye
Hello Peter, Thanks for your inputs. I have considered the possibility of false detection by image processing. Whatever detected by Image processing will be put on user interface of the plugin so that user can quickly access it. Interface will be designed in such a way that only after approval by

Re: [OSM-talk] A rendering issue with the maps on OSM homepage?

2012-04-10 Thread Frank Steggink
On 10-4-2012 15:23, Robert Tromp wrote: Have a look at this area on the west coast of Hokkaido, Japan: http://osm.org/go/7U~IT~Jz Notice the greyed-out ocean and the mis-aligned areas, coastline Looking at the OSM-data itself using JOSM, there seems nothing wrong (other than a few small mappin

[OSM-talk] Understanding tile and datamap

2012-04-10 Thread Frans Thamura
hi, anyone can share, how the datamap (osm2sql) become a tile. and how to know that that datamap become tile in the mod_tile F ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] An example photo/video mapping trip

2012-04-10 Thread Peter Wendorff
Hi Nikhil. Sounds great, but please be careful at the user interface design. Changes to the map IMHO should be proposed by the plugin, but not applied without dedicated decision of the user. There may (and I fear, will) be too much errors even if your image recognition is good to add street si

Re: [OSM-talk] An example photo/video mapping trip

2012-04-10 Thread Nikhil Upadhye
Thanks Paul for sharing files! I have submitted proposal for JSOM plugin development to extract information from such images and videos under GSoC this year. This plugin will use image processing to extract the key features such as road signs, max speed, bus stop etc as you have indicated in some i

[OSM-talk] A rendering issue with the maps on OSM homepage?

2012-04-10 Thread Robert Tromp
Have a look at this area on the west coast of Hokkaido, Japan: http://osm.org/go/7U~IT~Jz Notice the greyed-out ocean and the mis-aligned areas, coastline Looking at the OSM-data itself using JOSM, there seems nothing wrong (other than a few small mapping mishaps) Furthermore, MapOSMatic, for e

Re: [OSM-talk] Imagery parallax error in high altitude areas

2012-04-10 Thread Maarten Deen
On 2012-04-10 13:45, Arun Ganesh wrote: Is there an accurate source for the coordinates of mountain peaks? We can check how bad the parallax errors are on the satellite imagery. Would it even be possible to identify mountain peaks on satellite imagery? I've been looking at Mont Blanc and Ever

Re: [OSM-talk] Imagery parallax error in high altitude areas

2012-04-10 Thread Arun Ganesh
> > It's not as bad as it seems. Imagery is adjusted using an elevation dataset. Since this data doesn't (and shouldn't) include buildings and bridges, these appear distorted. You'll also see problems where recent heavy construction has caused changes in topography. Yes, but every pixel is not

Re: [OSM-talk] Hack-Wochenende in Karlsruhe 2/3 Jun 2012

2012-04-10 Thread Frederik Ramm
Oops. This should have gone to talk-de - although we do welcome international guests (wiki page is in both German and English) ;) On 04/10/2012 02:20 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hallo, da es beim letzten Mal eigentlich richtig nett war (http://blog.geofabrik.de/?p=134), dachten wir, wir machen da