Re: [talk-au] JOSM on handheld device

2010-01-20 Per discussione Andy Owen
Ive tried a few packages such as opencitymap and OSM-tracker, but they all seem to have pre-requesites that arent identified on the download sites. I figure I cant be the only person who wants to edit OSM from my GPS device, so Im hoping someone might have a few ideas for apps worth a

[talk-au] Tagging help

2009-08-15 Per discussione Andy Owen
Hi all, if anyone could give me some assistance with a few tags that would be great. I'm trying to get St Ives showground mapped ( http://osm.org/go/uYqBCJiO6- ). I can do about 45 minutes of wandering around there every few weeks, so it is slowly getting better. There are a couple of things it

Re: [talk-au] Running stats against GPX files ...

2009-06-25 Per discussione Andy Owen
On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 05:16 -0700, John Smith wrote: JSON offers most of the advantages of XML, without a lot of the drawbacks, XML is often referred to as a horse designed by a committee and they ended up with a camel :) The way I see it - XML is good for marking up text. JSON is good

Re: [talk-au] Hi all ...

2009-06-21 Per discussione Andy Owen
If one was really trying to hunt someone down with OSM, a carefull study of their edit history would most likely reveal information about their location anyway. I previously had all my traces private. Then, I realised that if someone wanted to track me down, they could just look me up in the

Re: [talk-au] Uploading traces (Was; Hi all ...)

2009-06-18 Per discussione Andy Owen
On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 15:25 +1000, Ross Scanlon wrote: * improving routing information, by working out average speed on roads (at different times). If your connected to the internet that's fine but it's no use for on the road re-routing, unless you have all the gps traces downloaded to

Re: [talk-au] How to map out streets the most efficently

2009-06-17 Per discussione Andy Owen
On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 19:27 +1000, Liz wrote: On Wed, 17 Jun 2009, James Livingston wrote: There's a nice mathematical algorithm for figuring out that. It's a problem given to all computer science students to solve: the travelling salesman. The more points to cover, the more processing

Re: [talk-au] Rivers

2009-05-21 Per discussione Andy Owen
I have a nokia n810 which I have used on foot to edit a map in the middle of the day. I used osm2go: http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/osm2go/ Which is actively developed, and lets you pick an area, download the osm data for it, make offline changes (with the gps on) and then upload it