Thank you Jean-Guilhem, Guys, Check out the unpaved streetmap mike On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 6:40 PM, Jean-Guilhem Cailton <j...@arkemie.com>wrote:
> Hi, > > The area covered by OpenUnpavedStreetMap now includes all of Asia, and > some European countries: those in Former Yugoslavia, Slovakia, Belarus, > the Baltic countries and Albania. This is in addition to Africa, Latin > America and Oceania that were already covered. > > A new domain name, ousm.fr, can now be used as a shorter replacement for > "osm.arkemie.org/ousm" in the previous URLs, such as in the message > quoted below. > > Thus the global map is available at: > http://ousm.fr > > Views pre-centered for some countries are available, with GeoRSS feeds > overlay: > http://ousm.fr/philippines/ > http://ousm.fr/colombia/ > > or without: > http://ousm.fr/haiti/ > http://ousm.fr/indonesia/ > > More pre-centered views could easily be added on request. > Zoom level can go up to 21. > The database is updated minutely. You can force re-rendering of a tile > with /dirty at the end of its url. > Please be patient if you are the first to visit an area that has not > been cached yet. > > Best wishes, > > Jean-Guilhem > > > > Le 20/12/2011 16:11, Jean-Guilhem Cailton a écrit : > > Hi, > > > > Knowing whether a road is paved or not is an important information for a > > driver, especially in countries where many roads are unpaved. This > > information can be entered in the OSM database with the surface tag [1], > > but it is not currently rendered in the main maps available on osm.org > > [2]. Seeing it rendered on a map would likely be an incentive for > > mappers to use it, especially beginners. > > > > A map with a rendering for this, OpenUnpavedStreetMap, is now available > > for Africa, Central and South America, Australia-Oceania (according to > > Geofabrik's definition, which includes Indonesia and Malaysia), and soon > > several Asian countries, including the Philippines (actually the > > countries available as extracts from GeoFabrik, China, India, Pakistan, > > Vietnam, etc.except Japan - considering dataset size). Surfaces tagged > > as "compacted", "gravel", "sand", "dirt", "earth", "ground", "grass", > > "mud"... are also considered as "unpaved", following the wiki page. > > > > Examples from areas that may be of interest on this list: > > > > - Port-au-Prince, Haiti: > > > http://osm.arkemie.org/haiti/?zoom=17&lat=18.60871&lon=-72.28598&layers=B0 > > > > - Kigali, Rwanda: > > > http://osm.arkemie.org/ousm/?zoom=16&lat=-1.95416&lon=30.08243&layers=B000F > > > > - one of the examples given by Douglas, in Kampala, Uganda: > > > http://osm.arkemie.org/ousm/?lat=0.38093&lon=32.55812&zoom=18&layers=00B0T > > > > - A page for Colombia, with markers for the GeoRSS feed from la Sala de > > Situación Humanitaria Colombia: > > http://osm.arkemie.org/ousm/colombia/ > > > > > > Following Humberto's suggestion, flood_prone areas are also rendered > > ("flood_prone=yes" or "flood_prone=label"): > > > http://osm.arkemie.org/ousm/colombia/?zoom=16&lat=10.39717&lon=-75.15048&layers=B000FT > > > > Following a suggestion from Federico, and a need that had also appeared > > for Haiti, next step should be rendering of POIs relevant for > > emergencies, such as health facilities, at lower zoom levels. > > > > > > The global URL is: > > http://osm.arkemie.org/ousm/ > > > > OSM.org Mapnik layer is in the menu for easy comparison on the current > > area. A "hybrid map for mappers" - and for soon-to-be mappers who can > > see what might be missing on the map ;) - is available by overlaying a > > transparent version of OpenUnpavedStreetMap with Bing aerial imagery. > > Google satellite imagery is also available as a reminder, by comparing > > imageries location, that it is often advised to adjust Bing offset > > before tracing. > > > > The database is updated at least daily, and minutely for the next days, > > after the new coverage will have been imported. > > Tiles are available from > > http://osm.arkemie.org/ousm_tiles/${z}/${x}/${y}.png > > http://osm.arkemie.org/ousm_transparent_tiles/${z}/${x}/${y}.png > > The current bandwidth is limited, but if you are interested, let me know. > > > > > > Let me know what you think, and if there are features that would be > > interesting for a custom rendering. > > > > Best wishes, > > > > Jean-Guilhem > > > > > > [1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:surface > > [2] http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/1447 > > > > > -- > gpg 0x5939EAE2 > > -- James Michael DuPont Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova http://flossk.org
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