Re: [Talk-us] Whole-US Garmin Map Update

2009-11-19 Thread Apollinaris Schoell
To make a gmapsupp.img for all of the US, I was going to get a US extract of the planet, use splitter, and then use mkgmap with routing enabled. I would then use gmapibuilder to put into RoadTrip so I can load the parts I want together with the proprietary map (for when I actually have

Re: [Talk-us] Whole-US Garmin Map Update

2009-11-19 Thread Greg Troxel
Dave Hansen d...@sr71.net writes: On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 18:50 -0500, Greg Troxel wrote: Dave Hansen d...@sr71.net writes: roads are disconnected at state boundaries due to being cut with a non-splitter tool. (splitter has special logic to insert nodes on ways at tile boundaries.)

Re: [Talk-us] Whole-US Garmin Map Update

2009-11-19 Thread Dave Hansen
On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 12:54 -0500, Greg Troxel wrote: This method the routing-broken-at-state-borders problem, but not the overlapping tiles problem. It should work with a united_states.osm.bz2; apparently that's a high enough fraction of the size of the planet that it isn't produced.

Re: [Talk-us] Whole-US Garmin Map Update

2009-11-19 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 18 Nov 2009, at 23:50, Greg Troxel wrote: --route is AFAIK not turned on in cloudmade, so those maps wouldn't be routable. If cloudmade has enabled routing, that would be good to know. (Plus there's the noname roads being big and red.) If you want them to be routable, then send a

Re: [Talk-us] Whole-US Garmin Map Update

2009-11-19 Thread Apollinaris Schoell
will check the setup on the dev server and see how difficult it is to run things there. having the planet via nfs will save a couple hours for download. Will need a couple of days because I am moving and my time and internet access is limited. On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Dave Hansen

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER considered harmful

2009-11-19 Thread Dave Hansen
On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 13:29 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: Used state data instead, if I were to do a mass import. Oregon GEO knows what they're doing, the US Census (along with the rest of the federal government) barely acknowledges we exist. Which would you rather trust? 1) Known good data

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER considered harmful

2009-11-19 Thread Paul Johnson
Christopher Covington wrote: On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 10:59 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: Dave Hansen wrote: 2) The TIGER import violates one of the most basic principals of OSM: Abbreviations: DO NOT DO IT. I really don't understand this. If the United States Postal Service and the Census

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Karlruhe Scheme addressing ways from 2009 TIGER data

2009-11-19 Thread Paul Johnson
Dave Hansen wrote: On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 15:05 +, Andy Allan wrote: So please, turn away from imports and work on getting mappers in charge, especially out pounding the streets. The outcome will be much, much better in the end, and that end will come much, much quicker. I think TIGER

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Karlruhe Scheme addressing ways from 2009 TIGER data

2009-11-19 Thread Chris Hunter
Oh, and $5/disk to burn it to DVD On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 1:07 AM, Chris Hunter chunter...@gmail.com wrote: Sensible government policy? When did that happen? My local county wants $10,680.00 for the political GIS data, and it's got a non-redistributable, non-commercial license on top of