[OSM-talk] KML tiles

2008-06-11 Thread Robert Vollmert
Hello, the attached KML file links to a very rough proof-of-concept set of KML tiles of OSM road data. There's several issues remaining (more on that below). What do people think? Is this worth doing on a larger scale? Is it evil? Obviously, this shouldn't be used for mapping. The aim

Re: [OSM-talk] KML tiles

2008-06-11 Thread Dirk-Lüder Kreie
Robert Vollmert schrieb: How it works: For each standard z/x/y-tile, cut out the relevant OSM-data and convert to KML using osmexport from osmlib, then massage the result to contain region information and links to the four subtiles. How does this compare to osmgoogleearth in svn? --

Re: [OSM-talk] KML tiles

2008-06-11 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
El Miércoles, 11 de Junio de 2008, Robert Vollmert escribió: Hello, the attached KML file links to a very rough proof-of-concept set of KML tiles of OSM road data. There's several issues remaining (more on that below). What do people think? Is this worth doing on a larger scale? Is it evil?

Re: [OSM-talk] KML tiles

2008-06-11 Thread Nic Roets
The current Google Earth maps for South Africa are supplied by Tracks4Africa and AND. Both of them only show major roads and are useless for routing. In contrast, OSM has all the roads and many footways for Pretoria (Cape Town and Johannesburg nearly done). If I post a KML to a 4x4 newsgroup,

Re: [OSM-talk] KML tiles

2008-06-11 Thread Robert Vollmert
On Jun 11, 2008, at 17:30, Nic Roets wrote: The current Google Earth maps for South Africa are supplied by Tracks4Africa and AND. Both of them only show major roads and are useless for routing. In contrast, OSM has all the roads and many footways for Pretoria (Cape Town and Johannesburg