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Hello everyone. I'm new to this mailing list but have
been reading the archives. I've some Saturday afternoon
thoughts to share.
Firstly, I've noticed questions about OSM come up several
times over the past few months. I recently posted to the
xasti
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, Curt, WE7U wrote:
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, Jon Kåre Hellan wrote:
Here's the URL to download a region from openstreetmap as a png image:
http://tile.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/export?bbox=10.249,63.253,10.642,63.51&scale=22&format=png
Bounding box in decimal degrees, imag
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, Jon Kåre Hellan wrote:
Here's the URL to download a region from openstreetmap as a png image:
http://tile.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/export?bbox=10.249,63.253,10.642,63.51&scale=22&format=png
Bounding box in decimal degrees, image format, and scale. Not sure what scale
Hi
Here's the URL to download a region from openstreetmap as a png image:
http://tile.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/export?bbox=10.249,63.253,10.642,63.51&scale=22&format=png
Bounding box in decimal degrees, image format, and scale. Not sure what
scale means, but at my latitude, scale 50 y
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008, Rick Green wrote:
> I just discovered via an article on newsforge, the OpenStreetMap project.
>
> Since they're already incorporating all of the TIGER data, as well as some
> other mass sources and massive amounts of individual contributions, it
> would seem to me a worthy goal
I just discovered via an article on newsforge, the OpenStreetMap project.
Since they're already incorporating all of the TIGER data, as well as some
other mass sources and massive amounts of individual contributions, it
would seem to me a worthy goal to find a way to support their use with
xas
Brad Douglas wrote:
IMO, OSM is a useless kludge.
There are no specs for coordinate systems, datum, etc. That means each
data collector uploads data in the system they deem useful to them,
which makes accuracy, by any stretch of the imagination, impossible.
OSM is all WGS-84 lat/lon, or at le
"Indecision is the key to flexibility?" Forgot who said it, but it's
perfect. The lack of standards isn't a strength, it's a failing.
gerry
Brad Douglas wrote:
Forgot to mention this earlier:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/FAQ#Why_is_the_data_so_inconsistent.3F
/Strength/?!?
On Su
Forgot to mention this earlier:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/FAQ#Why_is_the_data_so_inconsistent.3F
/Strength/?!?
On Sun, 2007-10-07 at 23:40 -0500, Gerry Creager wrote:
> That was pretty much my take on it, after looking yesterday and before I
> scurried off to kids' activities.
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A couple of points...
Brad Douglas wrote:
On Sun, 2007-10-07 at 23:08 +0100, Dave H wrote:
O.k thanks for that - I'm no geo-whatever expert - in fact most of the
acronyms
floated in here mean very little - i suspect to many this side of the
Ocean.
I am a geo-whatever expert. ;-) Most of ac
That was pretty much my take on it, after looking yesterday and before I
scurried off to kids' activities.
gerry
Brad Douglas wrote:
On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 21:53 +0100, Dave H wrote:
I've had a quick look at the archive but haven't seen any reference to
OpenStreetMap - I wonder
if this could b
On Sun, 2007-10-07 at 23:08 +0100, Dave H wrote:
> O.k thanks for that - I'm no geo-whatever expert - in fact most of the
> acronyms
> floated in here mean very little - i suspect to many this side of the
> Ocean.
I am a geo-whatever expert. ;-) Most of acronyms used here are used in
the Geogra
On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 21:53 +0100, Dave H wrote:
> I've had a quick look at the archive but haven't seen any reference to
> OpenStreetMap - I wonder
> if this could be incorporated into Xastir? - sorry if its a dumb question
> but it seems something
> that would benefit both Xastir and that project
Google is not _not_ playing ball but I think we need to wait 'til we see
how KML goes before we jump on it. In fact, they're interested in
Xastir, now that they've seen it, and they've told me that the
disclaimers are mostly lawyer-speak to tell you they're not responsible
if you are browsing
I've had a quick look at the archive but haven't seen any reference to
OpenStreetMap - I wonder
if this could be incorporated into Xastir? - sorry if its a dumb question
but it seems something
that would benefit both Xastir and that project ..esp if Google maps isn't
playing ball.
--
Dave
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