Re: [OSM-talk] Aerial Photographs (was: People's Map)

2009-04-15 Thread Keith Ng
g a light aircraft - like the one used in this > study - is not really all that expensive. > > -Eric > > -=--=---===---=--=-=--=---==---=--=-=- > Eric B. Wolf 720-209-6818 > USGS Geographer > Center of Excellence in GIScience > PhD Stu

Re: [OSM-talk] Aerial Photographs (was: People's Map)

2009-04-15 Thread Keith Ng
Couldn't the process of obtaining aerial photographs be made much cheaper with RC planes? I am not sure if it would work but setting the RC plane on auto pilot and attaching a camera with continuous shooting mode might make the process simpler. Also refering to this link

Re: [OSM-talk] People's Map

2009-04-09 Thread Keith Ng
m worked > out previously), all the information you need :) > > d > > > 2009/4/10 Keith Ng > > How does one go about calculating the field of view from the elevation and >> resolution? Would you mind explaining that? Thank you very much. >> >> On Fri, Apr 10

Re: [OSM-talk] People's Map

2009-04-09 Thread Keith Ng
How does one go about calculating the field of view from the elevation and resolution? Would you mind explaining that? Thank you very much. On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:30 AM, D Tucny wrote: > 2009/4/10 Ed Avis > >> Pieren gmail.com> writes: >> >> >>http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Aerial_phot

Re: [OSM-talk] Price of non-free geodata

2008-11-18 Thread Keith Ng
According to the Malaysian National Mapping Department website, in order to obtain digital geodata, you need an annual license from them at RM200 (€45) for members of the public. The license is renewable yearly. Then you need to purchase the specific geodata. 1:5 scale topographic maps of Peni

Re: [OSM-talk] Why is JOSM upload so slow?

2008-11-15 Thread Keith Ng
I see. Thanks for the information. When will the 0.6 API be ready and in use then? Regards, Keith On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 8:31 PM, Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Keith Ng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am curr

[OSM-talk] Why is JOSM upload so slow?

2008-11-15 Thread Keith Ng
I am currently uploading fixed coastline from JOSM and I notice that the upload is excruciatingly slow. The maximum speech achievable is around 1.5KB/s and the average speed is around 800 byles/s. I am uploading data from Melbourne, Australia. There's nothing wrong with my Internet. My maximum upl

Re: [OSM-talk] Slippy map not working in Firefox

2008-07-23 Thread Keith Ng
Both sites is perfectly functional on Ubuntu, Firefox 3.0, at least to me. On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 9:49 PM, Etienne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Someone has emailed me to say that the slippy map at > www.openstreetmap.orgdoes not work in Opera nor Firefox/Iceweasel on their > Linux box. > > The