That is a great idea, well kosovo and albania has its own share of unpaved roads as well... mike
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Jean-Guilhem Cailton <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Knowing whether a road is paved or not is an important information for a > driver, especially in countries where many roads are unpaved. This > information can be entered in the OSM database with the surface tag [1], > but it is not currently rendered in the main maps available on osm.org > [2]. Seeing it rendered on a map would likely be an incentive for > mappers to use it, especially beginners. > > A map with a rendering for this, OpenUnpavedStreetMap, is now available > for Africa, Central and South America, Australia-Oceania (according to > Geofabrik's definition, which includes Indonesia and Malaysia), and soon > several Asian countries, including the Philippines (actually the > countries available as extracts from GeoFabrik, China, India, Pakistan, > Vietnam, etc.except Japan - considering dataset size). Surfaces tagged > as "compacted", "gravel", "sand", "dirt", "earth", "ground", "grass", > "mud"... are also considered as "unpaved", following the wiki page. > > Examples from areas that may be of interest on this list: > > - Port-au-Prince, Haiti: > http://osm.arkemie.org/haiti/?zoom=17&lat=18.60871&lon=-72.28598&layers=B0 > > - Kigali, Rwanda: > http://osm.arkemie.org/ousm/?zoom=16&lat=-1.95416&lon=30.08243&layers=B000F > > - one of the examples given by Douglas, in Kampala, Uganda: > http://osm.arkemie.org/ousm/?lat=0.38093&lon=32.55812&zoom=18&layers=00B0T > > - A page for Colombia, with markers for the GeoRSS feed from la Sala de > Situación Humanitaria Colombia: > http://osm.arkemie.org/ousm/colombia/ > > > Following Humberto's suggestion, flood_prone areas are also rendered > ("flood_prone=yes" or "flood_prone=label"): > http://osm.arkemie.org/ousm/colombia/?zoom=16&lat=10.39717&lon=-75.15048&layers=B000FT > > Following a suggestion from Federico, and a need that had also appeared > for Haiti, next step should be rendering of POIs relevant for > emergencies, such as health facilities, at lower zoom levels. > > > The global URL is: > http://osm.arkemie.org/ousm/ > > OSM.org Mapnik layer is in the menu for easy comparison on the current > area. A "hybrid map for mappers" - and for soon-to-be mappers who can > see what might be missing on the map ;) - is available by overlaying a > transparent version of OpenUnpavedStreetMap with Bing aerial imagery. > Google satellite imagery is also available as a reminder, by comparing > imageries location, that it is often advised to adjust Bing offset > before tracing. > > The database is updated at least daily, and minutely for the next days, > after the new coverage will have been imported. > Tiles are available from > http://osm.arkemie.org/ousm_tiles/${z}/${x}/${y}.png > http://osm.arkemie.org/ousm_transparent_tiles/${z}/${x}/${y}.png > The current bandwidth is limited, but if you are interested, let me know. > > > Let me know what you think, and if there are features that would be > interesting for a custom rendering. > > Best wishes, > > Jean-Guilhem > > > [1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:surface > [2] http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/1447 > > -- > gpg 0x5939EAE2 > > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot -- James Michael DuPont Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova http://flossk.org _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
