on Windows. If you're able to make it run on Linux, please
let me know!
Best regards,
Igor Brejc
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Milenko wrote:
Just as an edit - this only happens with the sample project. I loaded
my own .osm and it's rendering at level 17 right now.
-Jeremy
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Alex Mauer wrote:
It starts and runs using mono.
On startup, the following is printed at the console:
log4net:ERROR XmlHierarchyConfigurator: Could not create Appender
[RollingFile] of type [log4net.Appender.RollingFileAppender]. Reported
error follows.
System.IO.DirectoryNotFoundException:
Could you perhaps send me your version of the Kosmos project file that
caused this error?
The Sample/SampleProject.xml dosn't have an version number, but the
Kosmos.Gui.exe's version is 1.1.4.1.
Heh, I wasn't quite clear: what I meant was if you could send me the
project file you
Karl Newman wrote:
On Jan 6, 2008 11:31 AM, Igor Brejc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, my perspective was as a data consumer. I was looking for data
which could be converted to routable Garmin GPS maps... I've done a
little bit of mapping, mostly along my commute route, and I try
,
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Rob Reid wrote:
Surely
what would be best is to find a dataset that contains the actual
international borders based on the UN convention. I'm still looking for
a source but surely they must be public other wise it would be a bit
tricky to enforce your territorial waters if no one else
Andy Allan wrote:
Yeah, it used to look quite good, but now it sucks. I'll look at
trying to fix it, but there's little mapnik documentation so it's a
bit trial-and-error. We're pushing the limits of what mapnik can
handle though in a number of areas with the cycle map - I've got quite
a few
Sven Grüner wrote:
Knut Arne Bjørndal schrieb:
Why not go for the automated approach? If a shape proves to be hard to
handle for the renderer we can tune the algorithm and make it better
for all areas at once, instead of individual contributors having to
manually insert nodes which are
Andy Allan wrote:
It says on the wiki that it
doesn't support rendering from a db, and since I'm rendering more than
500,000 tiles each update the performance of mapnik is crucial (I
wouldn't be able to do what I do using osmarender, for example, or
without the spatial indexing of postGIS)
Andy Allan wrote:
About 10 hours, give or take. Gets through z12 tiles at about 10 per
second on a 4 year old machine if you want something to aim at.
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2007-November/007782.html
Cheers,
Andy
Thanks for the info. I can't quite compare the data,
And of he waits for a day or two, he will also be able to print this map
within Kosmos using whatever scale he needs.
Regards,
Igor
Gregory wrote:
If he adds the old names (old_name=) to the OSM then he can render
them how he wants with this program:
Hello everyone,
As I promised a while back, Kosmos can now print OSM maps on multiple
pages. For those interested more info is here:
http://igorbrejc.net/openstreetmap/kosmos/kosmos-v19-printing-maps-inspecting-elements-and-more
Cheers,
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Hello Ulf,
On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 11:27 PM, Ulf Lamping [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Igor!
I just wanted to have a short look at the Kosmos source code, just out
of interest. But I couldn't find it in the OSM svn or on your own pages.
I haven't (yet) made Kosmos an open source project. I
by Mono.
That '\\' is needed when running in Windows - log4net library expects double
back slashes. I'll try to replace it with a single slash, I have to check
if this works in log4net on Windows.
Kosmos Console v1.9.27.2 by Igor Brejc
OpenStreetMap rendering application
USAGE:
Kosmos command
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 1:40 AM, nyem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Igor,
I get the following error with v1.9.27.2 when opening project files that
are fine with previous versions.
Kosmos Version: 1.9.27.2
OS Version: Microsoft Windows NT 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2
CLR Version: 2.0.50727.832
Thanks, I was planning to ask you if you could send me those files :)
I think its probably the case that you have some OSM elements which repeat
in two or more OSM files. I haven't thought about it before, but this is
clearly an issue to be fixed in Kosmos, since if you want to show two
adjacent
Gervase Markham wrote:
Chaps,
As always, forgive me if this is an old issue, but: I noticed that an
organisation I have contact with has a map in their how to get here
leaflet, which they may well have just copied from somewhere. I'd like
to recommend they use an OSM map instead, but
Ulf Lamping wrote:
Your way with using URLs has a drawback, as it adds a dependency to
the OSM Wiki. When the Wiki is down (or the URL moves or so) the
rendering will missing the icons. However, might be a hypothetical
issue ;-)
Well that's true to a point, but since Kosmos downloads the
Hi everybody,
I'm pleased to announce a new version of Kosmos, which has now become an
open source project (BSD license).
The new version comes with an enhanced rendering rule engine and new
printing options. Also, some bugs were fixed in this release.
More on the new version:
Rodrigo Moya wrote:
On Sun, 2008-02-10 at 22:00 +0100, Igor Brejc wrote:
Hi everybody,
I'm pleased to announce a new version of Kosmos, which has now become an
open source project (BSD license).
The new version comes with an enhanced rendering rule engine and new
printing options
David Groom wrote:
I'll edit the wiki.
Could you put some visual examples, please?
Artem, what i had in mind is now shown on
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Relations/Proposed/Rivers
David G
I'm a bit late in entering this discussion,
Hello everybody,
I installed openSUSE on VMWare Player and did a quick test of Kosmos.Gui
on it. It actually runs without any additional code changes. It does
sometimes break down on the Open file dialog however, but this looks
like a bug in Mono.
Kosmos.Gui runs quite slowly on my VM,
Bone Killian wrote:
I'm running Ubuntu Hardy, and I was able to get the gui to load and
render the sample map, but I was not able to get any of the three
shading methods to work. All three gave me CodePage 437 not supported
errors. (I'm not sure what that means.)
It didn't render on my
Today I managed to make Kosmos.Gui run in mono on my Win machine. I had to
use conditional (non-)compilation for certain small parts of code, but
otherwise it behaved quite good. The next step for me is to try it on a
Linux virtual machine and fix any linux-related issues. So far it looks
Gregory wrote:
Anyone got good/interesting/usefull Kosmos(wiki-table) style sheets?
It would be good to have a few shared.
I think the best way would be to put them in the OSM wiki, that's why
they are in the form of a wiki table after all (unless they use
copyrighted icons).
There is a
Daniel Schmidt wrote:
Great job, Igor!
It even works on my Macintosh (Mac OS X 10.5.2) using mono.
Only issue I see right now is a constant fickering in the open file
dialog (but only in the Kosmos root directory and srtm).
Great to know, thanks!
Unfortunately, I cannot do much about
I think this sort of discussion is more appropriate for the developer's
list ;)
SteveC wrote:
clearly needs to be half full not half empty
On 15 Feb 2008, at 16:54, Artem Pavlenko wrote:
On 15 Feb 2008, at 16:51, Igor Brejc wrote:
Artem Pavlenko wrote:
Since it's friday and it has been
The slippymap does not show any Osmarender tiles, only Mapnik ones...
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Karl Eichwalder wrote:
I think the mapnik rendering of forests could be improved. ATM,
landuse=forest is not distinguishable from recreation_ground. Even
if forest are often used as places for recreation in Germany,
rendering both areas the same way is not optimal.
For outside activities
Lauri Hahne wrote:
IMHO The symbol is ugly. Even the old one looked better than the current one.
In humble opinion we shouldn't judge other people's effort so harshly
unless we are prepared to draw the pint icon by ourselves ;)
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, but as a polygon with layer=1 and that would be ignored
(/included) in the area calculation.
Igor
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Martijn van Oosterhout [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 7:37 AM, Igor Brejc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's fine if you look at OSM data from the presentation
Frederik Ramm wrote:
Hi,
Let's go with type=area_with_holes then, roles outer and inner as
before. All members are closed ways, the inner ways are contained
in the interior of the single outer way. The area_with_holes is the
interior of the outer way minus the interiors of the
that it is implemented consistently in all of OSM software.
Cheers,
Igor
Jon Burgess wrote:
On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 22:51 +0100, Igor Brejc wrote:
I too am a little bit confused: now the whole issue basically comes
down
to renaming the relation from multipolygon to area_with_holes. But
the inital
Gregory wrote:
In my last blog post
(http://www.livingwithdragons.com/2008/03/mapping-meets-geocaching) I
ommited that someone was waiting in their car for ages with the engine
on while I mapped passed them. I was waiting for them to leave and
eventually when I had gone out of their sight
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 02:44:21PM +, OJ W wrote:
Where an area of natural=wood is inside an area of amenity=university, the
woodland doesn't appear unless you put it at layer0
Hi David,
David Ebling wrote:
Hi all, just wondering if anyone can help me - I want
to make a Garmin .IMG file of the whole of cumbria
that includes NASA SRTM data, as the IMG files from
here do: http://www.smc.org.uk/ContourMaps.htm but i'd
also like to have OSM road, footpath, cycle path
Karl Newman wrote:
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 5:47 AM, 80n [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You can have any shaped bbox you like as long as it is a rectangle ;)
Can anyone point me to a good algorithm for selecting points
within an arbitrary polygon?
80n
Mmm - I like Srtm2osm plan to add the contours to a Garmin map later.
The Isle of Wight comes to almost 8Mb for 10m contours - so it's going
to be BIG for a decent size area!
Mark
Yes, OSM XML is probably not an ideal format to put contours in. One of
the reasons is the way
David Earl wrote:
On 12/05/2008 16:30, Steve Chilton wrote:
I have been following with interest the thread on tagging and rendering,
and would like to make a slight jump to comment on the inherent
limitations for rendering the results.
You're quite right of course, but
SteveC wrote:
One of the badly pronounced streets in San Francisco is Divisadero.
So, I propose that we do something like
pronounce=deevisadeero
or something similar readable by humans and flying computers that talk.
A bit English-centric, don't you think? ;)
Best regards,
Igor
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Karl Newman wrote:
The other problem is that shortening rules which work for one street
(or region) won't necessarily work in another. As wer-ist-roger
mentioned, Straße could be shortened to Str., which might be okay in
some areas (or for certain streets) but not for others. Without a
Ben Laenen wrote:
What about routes that don't follow roads? I've been on walking routes
that send you straight through a grass field, or through a lot of trees
with no visible path, just marks on the trees.
Greetings
Ben
highway = footway?
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Very cool, thanks for the link
Igor
Stephan Schildberg wrote:
You might watch it... Don't infringe copyrights.
http://sautter.com/map/?zoom=3lat=43.45292lon=-6.5918layers=B000TFFF
The slider in the upper right corner allows you to switch the intensity
of the GoogleMaps- or OSM-layer.
Hi everyone,
Sorry for the advertising - just wanted to let you know that Kosmos
2.0 has been released. What's new:
- TDI interface
- osmxapi support
- GPX downloading from a GPS unit + displaying on the map
- downloading of Landsat openaerialmap.org satellite imagery
- generating relief
Stefan Zeller wrote:
Hi Igor,
that looks really nice :-).
From what do you get the relief information? From contour lines? I just ask
because on Image4 there is a closed contour line directly above the word
Kamnica, which lays on a slope.
greetings,
Stefku
Thanks. All the
elvin ibbotson wrote:
Very nice but it needs
DirectX. I cut my map programming teeth on a viewer for British OS maps
which uses Java 3D (http://britain.poco.org.uk/desktop.html).
I can’t share it because of copyright restrictions on the maps, but the
principle would apply to any map
Ian Dees wrote:
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Igor Brejc [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hi,
I've started playing around using DirectX in combination with SRTM data
to draw 3D relief OSM maps. The plan is to add this feature to Kosmos.
Please visit http://igorbrejc.net/openstreetmap
Alex S. wrote:
Igor Brejc wrote:
I've started playing around using DirectX in combination with SRTM data
to draw 3D relief OSM maps. The plan is to add this feature to Kosmos.
I'd suggest writing it with OpenGL instead of DirectX, as it's
cross-platform.
If I
hen I gave
up because I didn't have anything more than the relief and a bitmap to
show - this was before I got involved with the OSM project. Having a
freely available vector map data changes everything...
Igor
Jannis Achstetter wrote:
Igor
Brejc schrieb:
Hi,
I've started playing ar
I gave
up because I didn't have anything more than the relief and a bitmap to
show - this was before I got involved with the OSM project. Having a
freely available vector map data changes everything...
Igor
Jannis Achstetter wrote:
Igor
Brejc schrieb:
Hi,
I've started playing ar
It reminds me of a nuclear fallout map ;)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:US_fallout_exposure.png
Igor
Jon Burgess wrote:
http://tile.openstreetmap.org/tile-downloads-week-of-2008-07-01.png
Jon
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Stephen Gower wrote:
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 09:19:02PM +0200, Igor Brejc wrote:
I've started playing around using DirectX in combination with SRTM data
to draw 3D relief OSM maps. The plan is to add this feature to Kosmos.
Please visit http://igorbrejc.net/openstreetmap
SteveC wrote:
On 18 Jul 2008, at 08:13, Igor Brejc wrote:
elvin ibbotson wrote:
Very nice but it needs DirectX. I cut my map programming teeth on a
viewer for British OS maps which uses Java 3D
(http://britain.poco.org.uk/desktop.html). I can’t share it because
of copyright
OK I tried it with Kosmos, looks like you set the maximum size limit on
downloadable areas (or is it just the max. count of elements)?
This is my request URL (roughly the area around Bodensee):
I forgot to cc: the mailing list...
Hi,
I had this question come up several times, so let me explain.
Short answer: Kosmos GUI has a feature called unused ways and nodes
which (when turned on) allows you to display ( in a visually irritant
way) nodes/ways which were not covered by the rules
David Earl wrote:
In principle it ought to be
possible to determine the country an object is in, even though it is
quite hard at present. I think a lot of things would benefit from this
ability: nationally-styled rendering rules, deciding which way
roundabouts go, name renderings,
Hello,
While we're on the subject of OSM usability: I have a different
issue/question/problem regarding the access to the OSM data.
While I find OSM web maps to be quite usable and all, I think the
biggest strength of OSM (apart from its community, of course :) ) is
having an access to the
Frederik Ramm wrote:
Just for the record: The issue is highly contended and it would be wrong
to speak of consensus. If there's any consensus then it is that when in
doubt we prefer to be careful and so we don't copy from aerial images -
even though many of us believe that it would be
Hello,
Now that the highway=path has been moved to the official features
page, is there any more or less agreed way of tagging marked paths? I
see a lot of different proposal pages on this, but no real consensus. I
myself have been tagging my local area using trailblazed=yes, but it
would be
Frederik Ramm wrote:
Hi,
Tom Hughes wrote:
It was approved on the basis of a tiny vote on the wiki and I would
say there is zero chance of most people switching from the tags that
have been in use for several years to some new scheme that, as I
understand it, requires about five tags for
Alex Mauer wrote:
Brejc wrote:
Hello,
Now that the highway=path has been moved to the official features
page, is there any more or less agreed way of tagging marked paths? I
see a lot of different proposal pages on this, but no real consensus. I
myself have been tagging my local
If you're willing to spend some extra money, maybe you should take a
look at Garmin Oregon:
http://www.gpsmagazine.com/2008/08/garmin_oregon_400t_review.php
The upside is that it's an outdoor unit with a good map display. Battery
life should be quite OK, at least from my experience with
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com
wrote:
Ie. in Montreal someone accidentally moved a bunch of stuff (a newbie) it
was reported on the talk-ca list, they messaged that user so to see if it
was a bot or a person. And it was a person, who made an
What's even more interesting is that even North Korea isn't completely
blank: http://osm.org/go/55eX1@
Regards,
Igor
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Jeffrey Martin dogs...@gmail.com wrote:
I've noticed a lot of new data on Korea.
Who is working on Korea and is there a separate email list?
Hi,
This has probably been asked before, but I couldn't find anything on google.
Is there a way to display an uploaded GPX on the OSM slippymap? Something
similar to how you can highlight an OSM way, node or relation:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?way=31904301
I took some friends on a hiking
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Igor Brejc igor.br...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
This has probably been asked before, but I couldn't find anything on
google.
Is there a way to display an uploaded GPX on the OSM slippymap? Something
similar to how you can highlight an OSM way, node or relation
Great, this is something I was hoping for. Although I couldn't find the
way to show GPX traces uploaded to OSM, so I guess I would have to put
them on my own web server like you did?
Regards,
Igor
Rejo Zenger wrote:
++ 10/08/09 13:02 +0200 - Igor Brejc:
Is there a way to display
Hi,
I usually tag it as:
tourism=attraction
name=...
description=
Some other annotations (
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features#Annotation) can also be
useful.
Regards,
Igor
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Kate maps2w...@gmail.com wrote:
At the last DC mapping party in
Hi,
I suppose I'm the culprit for the todo=continue and todo=junction
tags, since I've used them internally for some time and then added them
to GroundTruth hiking rules once I developed GroundTruth.
These tags are not primarily rendering-oriented, they are just pointers
(for me and anyone
(for my own mapping, and by others). Just think of counting
junctions to your next turning off, or following a track which ends
somewhere in the olive forests...
Kai
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Hi,
For days now I've been trying to figure out how I could render borders
between England, Wales and Scotland using OSM data, but I keep stumbling
into same issues. Frankly, I think the way these things are tagged in UK
is a mess (I don't know what the situation is in other places):
1.
Richard, thanks for mentioning Kosmos :)
Yes, Kosmos draws OSM data on-the-fly and it supports continuous zoom
levels (I've limited it up to zoom level 18 because of some .NET drawing
engine problems on higher zooms). There are two drawbacks however: it
runs on Windows only and the latest
Hi,
I've implemented importing of OSM data into SpatiaLite DB and integrated it
successfully with Kosmos map rendering code. SpatiaLite OSM database can be
quite fast, but I had to learn a trick or two to reach good performance. I
even managed to import the latest UK data into it and it didn't
Michal, very nice!
I was thinking about hosting the tiles on S3 too. What's your experience
on this (speed, $ cost, ...)?
Igor
Michal Migurski wrote:
Hi everyone,
I'll be writing more about this over the weekend, but I thought
there'd be interest here in some work I've been doing on
Hello mappers,
I just want to inform you that a new version of Kosmos is out. For those
interested, please read my blog post
(http://igorbrejc.net/openstreetmap/kosmos-22) for more information
about what's new in this release.
Best regards,
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Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 10:50 PM, Gustav Foseid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Can anyone provide a permalink to an example of a lake that uses the
multipolygon relation to handle islands? I remember having a link to such an
example a while ago but I seem to
Hello,
This question has come up several times (from what I could Google out),
but let me ask it again: when can we expect Mapnik OSM layer to render
highway=path? Nevermind the path or footway debate - it would be nice
to have paths rendered (they can be rendered the same as footways, as
far
Tom Hughes wrote:
Igor Brejc wrote:
This question has come up several times (from what I could Google
out), but let me ask it again: when can we expect Mapnik OSM layer to
render highway=path? Nevermind the path or footway debate - it
would be nice to have paths rendered (they can
Hi all,
A new version of Kosmos is out: What's new:
- slippymap integrated directly into the main map. It can show the three
OSM map layers.
- improvements in memory consumption and rendering speed
- areas can now have their own icons
- full map mode
- a lot of bugfixes and minor enhancements
Nic Roets wrote:
I believe srtm2osm uses void filled data that is copyrighted. So is
you do distribute the results make sure that you specify it's only for
academic research. IANAL.
No, it uses original SRTM data downloaded directly from NASA's FTP server.
Regards,
Igor
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Christoph Eckert wrote:
Hi,
I believe srtm2osm uses void filled data that is copyrighted. So is
you do distribute the results make sure that you specify it's only for
academic research. IANAL.
No, it uses original SRTM data downloaded directly from NASA's FTP server.
I've
Is it just me or the OSM Wiki isn't working whole day (I tried in the
morning and tried now again)?
Igor
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sylvain letuffe wrote:
On Wednesday 19 November 2008 17:26, Igor Brejc wrote:
Is it just me or the OSM Wiki isn't working whole day (I tried in the
morning and tried now again)?
It seams to be down since a few dozen minutes, but all day long it was
working
correctly.
Only
How about covering your area with land use data using yahoo/landsat?
It's something I do occasionally at the end of the work day when I'm
totally exhausted - it's a nice dumb work which helps my brain turn off.
And it comes handy for various hiking maps (example of my area:
It didn't work for me, either... Now it works OK
Igor
Peter Miller wrote:
Should the URL http://openstreetmap.org/ work?
I think I used to use it but today it just hangs and never returns
anything.
For most of the day I thought it was that the servers were still down
but I have now
Gervase Markham wrote:
When I heard about the possibility of OSM on Garmin, I imagined
something like the Mapnik Slippy Map on my GPS screen. Now I have a
Legend HCx, it turns out that I get the Garmin vector rendering with OSM
data behind it. This is clearly much better than nothing, but does
Gervase Markham wrote:
Igor Brejc wrote:
IMHO converting OSM vector data into raster images and then showing them
on a Garmin unit would mean losing a lot of quality and speed, not to
mention how much more memory card space such maps would consume.
Could be. But they'd look
BTW if you mean ugly as in ugly icons, you can create your own by defining
a TYP file. Just don't expect too much from a 24x24 bitmap
Igor
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Gervase Markham gerv-gm...@gerv.netwrote:
Igor Brejc wrote:
What kind of a problem are you having with POIs? What do you
Hello everybody,
I'm pleased to announce the first release of GroundTruth, a new tool for
creating Garmin maps using OpenStreetMap data. You can find more
information on my blog post:
http://igorbrejc.net/openstreetmap/groundtruth-released
The manual hasn't been written yet, this is the next
Hello everybody,
A new version of Kosmos is out. It's just a bugfix release, the new
features will be available in the proper version 2.5 which will be
available soon: http://igorbrejc.net/openstreetmap/kosmos-24-bugfix-release
Bye,
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MP wrote:
But it could be nice image of what can be done, so I think we should
get one nice image from them to featured images. Maybe it'll inspire
someone to produce similar tool, but an opensource one.
Martin
Hi,
I was inspired some time ago
Hello,
Just to let you know that a new version of GroundTruth is here. It
contains some bugfixes and minor improvements. You can read more on
http://igorbrejc.net/openstreetmap/groundtruth-12
Cheers,
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Hello everybody,
GroundTruth, a mapmaking software for Gamin GPS units, has a new
version. GroundTruth can now generate relief contours from SRTM data
using the Isohypse Binary File (IBF) format. The format enables much
more compact storage of contours (up to 100 times smaller than using OSM
Joe Richards wrote:
What's the best way to load OSM or convert maps on the Garmins, and ideally
include terrain heights, possibly overlay information from other sources so
that I can get some useful info in areas where OSM coverage is not (yet!)
that great?
If you need relief contours
Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote:
You could then have tracks at
1 sec interval for the whole of your trek.
I think 5 sec interval when walking is quite enough - realistically
that's less than 7 m of distance between two points. The problem with
Garmins (at least eTrex) is that they
Lambertus wrote:
Igor Brejc wrote:
I think 5 sec interval when walking is quite enough - realistically
that's less than 7 m of distance between two points. The problem with
Garmins (at least eTrex) is that they only really use unit's internal
RAM for storing tracks and they store up
You can also use Oregon's Waypoint Averaging function to make more accurate
positioning of waypoints. But you need to do this at different times (say on
you next hiking trip when you cross the same waypoint) for this to be really
effective. With couple of accurate waypoints it is easier to detect
if it is really usable
for this kind of work (compared to a mouse). I find the mouse to be too
sensitive and difficult to pinpoint on something (unless I reconfigure it
for mapping work each time, which is tedious).
Thanks in advance,
Igor Brejc
http://www.amazon.com/Wacom-Bamboo-Touch-Small-Tablet/dp
for the info. Looks like I'm going to have to borrow a tablet
and test it out with JOSM before buying.
Igor
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 12:01 PM, David Earl da...@frankieandshadow.comwrote:
On 25/01/2010 10:29, Igor Brejc wrote:
Hi everyone,
I'm thinking about buying a digital tablet and use
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