Yay! \o/
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 3:44 PM, Peter Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am delighted to announce that we have now increased 'OSM Mapper' coverage > to include Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australasia, South America and > Canada. More details available on our blog: > > http://itoworld.blogspot.com/2008/08/expanded-coverage-for-osm-mapper.html > > > > If you don't know what 'OSM Mapper' is then a good place to start is to > check out our original announcement: > > http://itoworld.blogspot.com/2008/07/new-osm-mapper-for-openstreetmap.html > > > > Btw, we are only leaving the USA out for now because it is a very large > dataset and we need a bit of time to allow this new expanded area to settle > down and then the USA is next on our list. Do subscribe to our blog to learn > about future enhancements to the product and coverage. > > > > For those of you who noticed the problem with our daily update for a few > days last week, you might be interested to know that this was caused by a > big increase in the size of the European dataset when a new large bulk > import arrived which exploded our import process and prompted us to do this > work a little earlier than we intended! We should now be back with regular > daily updates and sorry about the inconvenience in the mean time. > > > > We have also made some minor improvement to the product's functionality: we > added a link to the OSM feature browser so you can see more details about a > feature and its history, we have fixed some problems with accessing pages > without first having signed in our site which caused problems for RSS users > in particular, we have improved the map quality by drawing selected features > on top and we have improved our bounding box algorithm to stop large > features such as long ferry routes from appearing incorrectly in area > reports. More details on our blog soon. > > > > If you have any suggestions for the product then do please add them on the > OSM wiki here: > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/OSM_Mapper > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > Peter Miller > > Ito World Ltd > > www.itoworld.com > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > -- |---------|----------------------------------------------------------| | __.-._ |"Ohhh. Great warrior. Wars not make one great." -Yoda | | '-._"7' |"Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden| | /'.-c |Linux registered user #402901, http://counter.li.org/ | | | /T |http://esambale.wikispaces.com| | _)_/LI |---------|----------------------------------------------------------| _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk