Re: [OSM-talk] Here's what they do in Korea

2011-11-05 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 11/6/2011 12:38 AM, John F. Eldredge wrote: John Harvey wrote: One of the problems I think we have is road widths. Mapnik currently renders all highways of the same type the same width - it ignores lanes and width: This is also the case on every commercially-published map I have ever se

Re: [OSM-talk] Here's what they do in Korea

2011-11-05 Thread John F. Eldredge
John Harvey wrote: > One of the problems I think we have is road widths. Mapnik currently > renders all highways of the same type the same width - it ignores > lanes > and width: > This is also the case on every commercially-published map I have ever seen; the road width on the map reflects

Re: [OSM-talk] Here's what they do in Korea

2011-11-05 Thread John Harvey
One of the problems I think we have is road widths. Mapnik currently renders all highways of the same type the same width - it ignores lanes and width: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Lanes (2,117,599 usage with highway) http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:width (560,000 usage with high

Re: [OSM-talk] Here's what they do in Korea

2011-11-04 Thread john beddard
On 04/11/11 03:11, Arun Ganesh wrote: > I am totally blown away by the level of detail provided by the map > providers in Korea. Even the navigation devices they use in almost any > vehicle is of a much higher level than anything I have seen outside. > As the car approaches a flyover or a junction,

Re: [OSM-talk] Here's what they do in Korea

2011-11-04 Thread john beddard
On 04/11/11 03:11, Arun Ganesh wrote: > I am totally blown away by the level of detail provided by the map > providers in Korea. Even the navigation devices they use in almost any > vehicle is of a much higher level than anything I have seen outside. > As the car approaches a flyover or a junction,

Re: [OSM-talk] Here's what they do in Korea

2011-11-04 Thread john beddard
On 04/11/11 03:11, Arun Ganesh wrote: > I am totally blown away by the level of detail provided by the map > providers in Korea. Even the navigation devices they use in almost any > vehicle is of a much higher level than anything I have seen outside. > As the car approaches a flyover or a junction,

Re: [OSM-talk] Here's what they do in Korea

2011-11-03 Thread Arun Ganesh
I am totally blown away by the level of detail provided by the map providers in Korea. Even the navigation devices they use in almost any vehicle is of a much higher level than anything I have seen outside. As the car approaches a flyover or a junction, the device actually renders a 3d view of the

[OSM-talk] Here's what they do in Korea

2011-11-03 Thread Andrew Errington
Hello everyone, In case you are interested, here's what's happening in Korea (non-OSM): It's pretty cool, and I would love for OSM to be the back-end of some of these apps, but it's going to be a while. Anyone outside Korea can