[OSM-dev] Call to mobile developers: OSM binary file format

2008-08-07 Thread Chris Browet
Dear mobile developers, We all have the same problem: the XML OSM format is not efficient for mobile devices. For the time being, we all develop our own solution to transform the XML in whatever binary format suitable for a mobile application, often forcing the user to use a specific desktop

Re: [OSM-dev] Call to mobile developers: OSM binary file format

2008-08-07 Thread Marcus Wolschon
Hello Chris, not only for mobile devices but for Laptops too I'd really apreciate a binary-format. Do you intend to save all the data OSM has or only support a subset required for routing and map-rendering? Do you think about floating-point or fixed-point coordinates? We could start by

Re: [OSM-dev] Call to mobile developers: OSM binary file format

2008-08-07 Thread Rob
indeed, every application has other requirements - editors, wants all data, read/write - rendering, wants (very) limited datasets, readonly - routing, remote or local ? i like the discussion Rob 2008/8/7 Chris Browet [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Dear mobile developers, We all have the same

Re: [OSM-dev] Call to mobile developers: OSM binary file format

2008-08-07 Thread Chris Browet
Do you intend to save all the data OSM has or only support a subset required for routing and map-rendering? The idea is to have a binary format specification. The actual organization of the files will be up to the application. Do you think about floating-point or fixed-point

Re: [OSM-dev] Call to mobile developers: OSM binary file format

2008-08-07 Thread Marcus Wolschon
On Thu, 7 Aug 2008 11:03:05 +0200, Chris Browet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you intend to save all the data OSM has or only support a subset required for routing and map-rendering? The idea is to have a binary format specification. The actual organization of the files will be up to

Re: [OSM-dev] Call to mobile developers: OSM binary file format

2008-08-07 Thread Chris Browet
2008/8/7 Shaun McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chris Browet wrote: Do you think about floating-point or fixed-point coordinates? This is one of the things to discuss. For mobile applications, fixed-point is the most efficient but we have to balance this with the loss of precision.

Re: [OSM-dev] Call to mobile developers: OSM binary file format

2008-08-07 Thread Milo van der Linden
Chris Browet wrote: 2008/8/7 Shaun McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chris Browet wrote: Do you think about floating-point or fixed-point coordinates? This is one of the things to discuss. For mobile applications, fixed-point is the most efficient but we have to balance this with the

Re: [OSM-dev] Call to mobile developers: OSM binary file format

2008-08-07 Thread Pol Robeys
I currently use my own implementation for my java mobile routing and navigation implementation (see we-travel.co.cc), though I would be very happy to switch to a common implementation or help develop such an implementation if this fits my needs. Some rough high level requirements: - data needs

Re: [OSM-dev] Call to mobile developers: OSM binary file format - defining the purpose

2008-08-07 Thread Marcus Wolschon
Thank you Pol. It sounds great, can someone start organizing what we have on a wiki-page? I guess we should get a concensus on the purpose of the applications what are to be offered usage of this file-format first. Porposal: I propose it to be ment for routing and navigation. Motivation:

Re: [OSM-dev] Call to mobile developers: OSM binary file format

2008-08-07 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 8:32 AM, Chris Browet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We all have the same problem: the XML OSM format is not efficient for mobile devices. For the time being, we all develop our own solution to transform the XML in whatever binary format suitable for a mobile application,

[OSM-dev] Daily bzip changesets about to be discontinued

2008-08-07 Thread Brett Henderson
Hi All, I'd like to disable the daily bz2 changeset files once and for all. I intend to do this over the next day or two. Yell if you want me to keep them going for a bit longer. http://planet.openstreetmap.org/daily/ Note that when you switch to the gz files, you should apply the same day

Re: [OSM-dev] Call to mobile developers: OSM binary file format

2008-08-07 Thread Marcus Wolschon
On Thu, 7 Aug 2008 13:07:11 +, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's a reason people use XML, it's an interchange format but binary formats aren't, they're meant for specific architectures or purposes. Which is not to say a discussion like this one isn't useful,

[OSM-dev] Info about the setup osm server dev on my server

2008-08-07 Thread Roberto Navoni
Hi Everyone, I'm try to install the OSM server dev on my linux server (Ubuntu 8.04) . I have some problem with the Ruby lib installation .Where I can found more information ? Are someone yet produce an WMware Virtual applainces with linux + osm server . My idea is to develop an a Virtual

[OSM-dev] Fst tile browser.

2008-08-07 Thread Rogier Wolff
Hi, I built a fast tile browser that, because of all the flash and javascript is faster than the normal map browser at openstreetmap.org. It simply shows 4 tiles, zooms to that tile if you click on it, goes left, right, up or down if you click on those words (which are conveniently placed left,

Re: [OSM-dev] Call to mobile developers: OSM binary file format

2008-08-07 Thread Roberto Navoni
Hi Everyone, my company developed a navigation software , We're actualy using a professional vendor map , in this 4 years of develop we change our binary format every 3/4 month , because the problem is that the embedded device , normaly ARM 10 based have a small resurce , small ram memory ,

Re: [OSM-dev] Call to mobile developers: OSM binary file format

2008-08-07 Thread Roberto Navoni
Hi Marcus, normaly the company as Teleatlas or Navtech sell their data in some public format as shape or GDF , then the data is organized in different way , but is not binary data. Is not possible to share this kind of technical information because We sign a NDA. But if you have some question

Re: [OSM-dev] Google Street View vs Laser Sfera

2008-08-07 Thread Roberto Navoni
Hi Looijesteijz, yes I'm yet contact they. Yesterday I meet Edoardo (OSM Italian President ?!? :) ) and Andrea (GFOSS Vice President) , and spoke about this opportunity , I think that in september We doing the first experiment to use Laser Sfera Car in a map party :) Best Regards Roberto

Re: [OSM-dev] Call to mobile developers: OSM binary file format

2008-08-07 Thread Oliver Eichler
Good idea :) I am always tempted to do my own binary vector map format after suffering the madness by Garmin. However the wonderfull world of raster maps keeps me from doing it. Anyway, I would suggest you have a deep look into the Garmin binary sepcification. Some things are good, some are

Re: [OSM-dev] JOSM NAVTEQ

2008-08-07 Thread Rob
Making Navteq maps: Onboard with the survey team. http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/modules.php?name=Forumsfile=viewtopict=67661 ___ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev

[OSM-dev] Please publish the current db schema

2008-08-07 Thread Joachim Zobel
Hi. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Database_schema#MySQL does not have relations. Sincerely, Joachim ___ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev

Re: [OSM-dev] Please publish the current db schema

2008-08-07 Thread Stefan de Konink
On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, Joachim Zobel wrote: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Database_schema#MySQL does not have relations. Does MySQL these days support it :+ Stefan ___ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-dev] coastline

2008-08-07 Thread Adrian Vogt
Same problem here http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-13.2933lon=166.636zoom=12layers=B00FTF but slighly simpler environment. If you have a clue, what is wrong with those, please post, not just fix. We like to learn something :-) Regards Adrian On 07.Aug.2008, at 20:10, SteveC wrote:

Re: [OSM-dev] Please publish the current db schema

2008-08-07 Thread Tom Hughes
Joachim Zobel wrote: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Database_schema#MySQL The schema is fully defined by the rails migrations which are publically available in subversion. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/ ___

Re: [OSM-dev] Please publish the current db schema

2008-08-07 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Tom Hughes wrote: The schema is fully defined by the rails migrations which are publically available in subversion. Or use Brett Henderson's ready made schema dump: http://gweb.bretth.com/osm_schema_latest.sql Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00'09

Re: [OSM-dev] Please publish the current db schema

2008-08-07 Thread Milo van der Linden
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Database/Model Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, Tom Hughes wrote: The schema is fully defined by the rails migrations which are publically available in subversion. Or use Brett Henderson's ready made schema dump:

Re: [OSM-dev] coastline

2008-08-07 Thread Neil Penman
There may not be a problem anymore. The coastline in Mapnik hasn't been updated for some time. I noticed a problem with the Auckland coastline some time ago and obviously made some changes since I am down as the owner of some of the coastline ways. Unfortunately I can't remember what I did

Re: [OSM-dev] Call to mobile developers: OSM binary file format

2008-08-07 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Chris Browet wrote: Well, no, this is not different. This is exactly the ballpark we want to play in. Are you saying that you want to remove the distinction between the transport format and the format actually used on the device? This would mean that you would, for example, expect the

Re: [OSM-dev] Call to mobile developers: OSM binary file format

2008-08-07 Thread Laurence Penney
Graham Asher, developer of CartoType (presented at SOTM 2008) www.cartotype.com , has asked me to forward this to the list. === The format used by CartoType is publicly available under an open license. See http://www.cartotype.com/cartotype_map_data_format_type_1.html . The format

Re: [OSM-dev] Call to mobile developers: OSM binary file format

2008-08-07 Thread Chris Browet
2008/8/8 Frederik Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] Are you saying that you want to remove the distinction between the transport format and the format actually used on the device? This would mean that you would, for example, expect the API to provide index lookup tables and other stuff that is derived

Re: [josm-dev] Alpha: Browser-Plugin for JOSM

2008-08-07 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Tobias Wendorff schrieb: Download: http://raumplanung.tobwen.de/OSM/browser_josm_alpha.zip Is working now :-) ___ josm-dev mailing list josm-dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/josm-dev

Re: [josm-dev] Alpha: Browser-Plugin for JOSM

2008-08-07 Thread Francisco R. Santos
Hi Tobias, 2008/8/7 Tobias Wendorff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Francisco, Francisco R. Santos schrieb: Did you look at the OpenLayers plugin that I commited to SVN[1] some time ago?. That plugin is just a proof of concept that uses a swing browser inside JOSM. The problem is that IE and Mozilla

Re: [josm-dev] [GSoC] GPSBabelPlugin and adding up gpxlayer

2008-08-07 Thread Karl Newman
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Subhodip Biswas [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: hi ! I am trying to add a gpxlayer as soon as gpsbabel finish extracting a gpx file . I took help of openaction.java file However what i see is that on executing the plugin , i get a blank gpxlayer in my josm screen .

Re: [josm-dev] Bug-fixing

2008-08-07 Thread Pieren
I can verify some of them. But you should explain how to proceed. Shall we add a comment in the tracker entry saying e.g. Yes, I checked this and it is still an issue ? Pieren On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 5:58 PM, Dirk Stöcker [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Hello, probably some of you have seen, that in