Graham, Nice power map! Does it take account of the new, more powerful tagging schema? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:power%3Dgenerator
Also, you might like this: http://tomchance.dev.openstreetmap.org/kml/power_uk.kml You can pop it into Google Maps or Harry's KML viewer, though the dev server is often totally overloaded so you might not be able to access it: http://funmap.co.uk/cloudmade-examples/kml-displayer.php Best wishes, Tom On 17 January 2011 23:21, Graham Jones <grahamjones...@gmail.com> wrote: > Chris, > I don't know one about waterways, but for walking routes it is worth > looking at Lonvia's hiking map (http://osm.lonvia.de/world_hiking.html) - > I use this one. > > I have had a bit of a go at learning how to create overlays for other > things - I started with supermarkets (http://maps.webhop.net/supermarkets), > and power stations (http://maps.webhop.net/power). There is another one > (http://maps.webhop.net/topo/) that combines a few overlays and some > contours. It would be very easy to convert these to generate waterways > overlays if you want to - I think they have an 'about' page. > > Note that these are served off my computer at home, so they load rather > slowly - the upload speed on my broadband connection is not very good! > > For point data rather than images, it might be worth doing it a different > way and using javascript to plot the points, but these simple images seem to > work - they just take up a lot of disk space if you render them to high zoom > levels. > > Let me know if you need any help. > > Graham. > > On 17 January 2011 23:05, Chris Moss <mosch...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> I'm interested in the GB waterways and it seems there's quite a bit of >> work done but it's totally invisible. Is anyone working on a layer like the >> cycle map, which leaps out from the overlays as the only minority interest >> yet developed? >> >> It's not the only layer I'd like to see. What about walking paths, >> railways, contours, points of interest, postcode areas, administrative >> boundaries, constituencies, bus routes, etc., etc. >> >> Shouldn't maps allow you to concentrate on whatever you're interested in? >> Can someone please explain to me how or if this can be done with >> openstreetmap? >> >> Chris >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-GB mailing list >> Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >> > > > > -- > Graham Jones > Hartlepool, UK. > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > > -- http://tom.acrewoods.net http://twitter.com/tom_chance
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