[OSM-dev] What's the attitude on embedding [EMAIL PROTECTED] or informationfreeway slippy maps on own site?

2008-11-21 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, I have to admit I haven't done much work on Freemap lately - other commitments being a big factor but an equally important factor being that my server cannot cope well with an OSM database covering most of England. So I was considering an alternative approach, in which Freemap

Re: [OSM-dev] What's the attitude on embedding [EMAIL PROTECTED] or informationfreeway slippy maps on own site?

2008-11-21 Thread Nick Whitelegg
>Perfectly fine, providing the standard OSM attribution. >In fact, the OpenLayers definition[0] was produced so people could do >this easily! Was thinking more of server load than licencing issues (not that freemap has a huge user base!) - sorry if that was unclear. Nick _

Re: [OSM-dev] libosm does not compile on debian lenny amd64

2009-01-05 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello Joerg, I think this is because you need to use -fPIC when compiling the individual .cpp files when making the shared library. e.g. the Mapnik OSM plugin makefile is similar in that it makes a shared library: CXXFLAGS = `xml2-config --cflags` -I/usr/local/include/mapnik -I/usr/include/b

[OSM-dev] OT: Qt series 60 support for Mac OS X or Linux?

2009-02-06 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, Slightly off topic but it relates to an idea I have for a 3D navigation tool for walkers using OSM and SRTM data, for both desktop and mobile devices. I like the sound of Qt for series 60 phones (e.g. the N95) but unfortunately the preview release is for Windows only, which I ha

[OSM-dev] Cycle map Mapnik XML file?

2009-02-11 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, Is the cycle map Mapnik XML file available? Would like to know wht the projection string is to produce a Mercator projection from WGS84 lat/lon input. I think Artem might have told me at one point but unfortunately have lost the email :-( Thanks, Nick _

[OSM-dev] OpenStreetView: Digital Photos: Getting the field of view angle

2009-08-16 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, Have been thinking a bit more about my own interests within the "OpenStreetView" project introduced by John McKerrell at SOTM. My particular interest is an in the field navigation tools for countryside users, particularly walkers/hikers/mountaineers etc, which I'm giving the co

Re: [OSM-dev] OpenStreetView: Digital Photos: Getting the field of view angle

2009-08-18 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Vincent MEURISSE Sent by: dev-boun...@openstreetmap.org 16/08/2009 14:47 Please respond to t...@openstreetmap.org To dev@openstreetmap.org cc Subject Re: [OSM-dev] OpenStreetView: Digital Photos: Getting the field of view angle On Sunday 16 August 2009 14:42:26 Nick Whitelegg wrote

[OSM-dev] Thoughts for "footnav" - a 3D navigation tool for off road users

2009-08-19 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Further to my post the other day about photographic countryside views, I've got some initial ideas about the features of "footnav", a 3D navigation tool using OSM and SRTM data aimed primarily at countryside users. The eventual aim (one day, and it may depend on phones being powerful enough whi

[OSM-dev] Footnav - new 3D project aimed at countryside users

2009-09-17 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, A quick update on the Footnav project, which I've hinted at once or twice on here. Footnav aims to be a 3D mobile navigation application for countryside users e.g. hikers, off road cyclists, showing OSM data (paths, 3D models of stiles, gates etc, and hills using SRTM data). I'

Re: [OSM-dev] [OSM-talk] Footnav - new 3D project aimed at countryside users

2009-09-17 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello Matt, >> Hello everyone, >> >> A quick update on the Footnav project, which I've hinted at once or twice >> on here. Footnav aims to be a 3D mobile navigation application for >> countryside users e.g. hikers, off road cyclists, showing OSM data (paths, >> 3D models of stiles, gates etc, an

Re: [OSM-dev] Footnav - new 3D project aimed at countryside users

2009-09-18 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello Stefan, >Your project is interesting. You seem to have done a lot of work. >Can you provide some screenshots, so we can really see what you have done? Can do, though it's not that impressive at the moment: just wireframe 3D representations of landscape features from SRTM. OSM data is the

Re: [OSM-dev] 3d Import into OpenArena working

2009-10-13 Thread Nick Whitelegg
>I think, the future for openstreetmap will not be Blender or any gaming engine like openarena. >I think, the most used platform for openstreetmap will be WebGL, a 3D-rendering API integrated in the browsers, >usable with JavaScript. It is already integrated in developer versions of WebKit (Safa

Re: [OSM-dev] 3d Import into OpenArena working

2009-10-14 Thread Nick Whitelegg
>> WebGL looks interesting, and am thinking of having a play with it. The >> main issue I see is it introduces a web dependency; if you're in the field >> and you don't have web access (or don't want to pay for data download) a >> standalone mobile application would be useful too. But I agree, it

Re: [OSM-dev] 3d Import into OpenArena working

2009-10-14 Thread Nick Whitelegg
>I don't think, it have to introduce a web dependency. It is just a java script application running inside a >browser. The script don't have to be on a website. It can also be a local file. The map data can also be local >files - maybe. That's the issue, that JS cannot normally read local file

[OSM-dev] Quick OSM read-only API optimised for rendering

2009-10-26 Thread Nick Whitelegg
As part of an experiment with WebGL (3D in browser rendering of OSM data) I'm planning on doing, I've developed a quick read-only OSM API and data format optimised for rendering. The rationale was, that if the front end is doing only rendering of OSM data (no editing), the standard OSM XML form

Re: [OSM-dev] Quick OSM read-only API optimised for rendering

2009-10-26 Thread Nick Whitelegg
>>> A better data format for >>> rendering would contain only point of interest nodes, with ways >>> represented as polylines of points, with no need for the client to look >>> up >>> the coordinates of the way's constituent nodes by ID. > >> What you're talking for is a xml/json frontend for a

[OSM-dev] WebGL 3D OSM viewer project

2009-11-27 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, After spending a bit of time getting familiar with WebGL (in-browser hardware accelerated 3D graphics) I have now managed to develop an application which will download and render OSM data with WebGL. Not very impressive yet (all ways are rendered as white lines!) but I thought I

Re: [OSM-dev] WebGL 3D OSM viewer project

2009-11-27 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hi Peter, >It always fails with: >Error: this.wgl is null >Source File: http://www.free-map.org.uk/3d/main.js >Line: 164 Puzzled by this, unless it's something that's changed on the latest nightly build - it worked for me this morning, using the nightly build from yesterday (Thursday). What OS

[OSM-dev] Anyone had problems with latest planet and osm2pgsql?

2007-12-20 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, Something very strange has happened when importing the UK extract of the latest planet (071219) into the postgis database on Freemap with osm2pgsql. osm2pgsql seemed to run without any errors (nothing in the logfile) and reported it was adding nodes and ways, but when osm2pgsql

Re: [OSM-dev] SRTM relief

2008-01-02 Thread Nick Whitelegg
On Wednesday 02 Jan 2008 22:31, Andy Allan wrote: > On Jan 2, 2008 9:55 PM, Artem Pavlenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello lists, > > > > Sometime last year I was inspired by http://www.srtm.com and I even > > contacted developer to see if we can use SRTM derived relief maps in > > OSM. > > I

Re: [OSM-dev] SRTM relief

2008-01-03 Thread Nick Whitelegg
On Thursday 03 Jan 2008 08:53, you wrote: > On Jan 2, 2008 11:50 PM, Nick Whitelegg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Andy, > > > > There is the srtm2shp utility available in SVN which outputs a shapefile > > of contours, it outputs in Mercator - is that any go

Re: [OSM-dev] SRTM relief

2008-01-03 Thread Nick Whitelegg
On Thursday 03 Jan 2008 09:31, Martin Spott wrote: > "Andy Allan" wrote: > > One of the things I haven't worked out yet is how to render > > planet-wide contours in an efficient manner, since the shapefiles > > mulitply either in size or number to rather large amounts (for 10m > > contours especial

[OSM-dev] SRTM void fill

2008-01-03 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, Does anyone know if an open source, cross platform SRTM void filling application already exists? There seem to be some corrected data sets but some of those use copyrighted source data. Nick Black pointed out a couple of articles on algorithms to me a while back, so if necessa

[OSM-dev] Mercator coordinates mismatch (informationfreeway.org and Freemap)

2008-01-05 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, Freemap has been Mercator for a while now, but has used its own zoom levels rather than the standard Google zoom levels. By using code from informationfreeway.org, I have now converted Freemap to use the Google zoom levels and tiling scheme, but I'm now getting a mismatch in th

Re: [OSM-dev] Mercator coordinates mismatch (informationfreeway.org and Freemap)

2008-01-05 Thread Nick Whitelegg
> > That code looks like it is assuming a non-sperical earth (which is > correct but not what the Google-like tiling scheme assumes). The > values for a and b look like the diameter of the earth along each > axis and are different. > > You will need to use a spherical mercator calculation I suspec

[OSM-dev] Rails port - problem installing latest version

2008-01-06 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Am running into problems getting the current (checked out just now) version of the Rails port. The version checked out a couple of weeks ago worked. The latest version requires rubygems 0.9.4, which I updated to (actually 1.0.1) without problems. However it also requires Rails 2.0.1: Missing

Re: [OSM-dev] Rails port - problem installing latest version

2008-01-06 Thread Nick Whitelegg
On Sunday 06 Jan 2008 12:36, Nick Whitelegg wrote: > Am running into problems getting the current (checked out just now) version > of the Rails port. The version checked out a couple of weeks ago worked. > > The latest version requires rubygems 0.9.4, which I updated to (actually >

[OSM-dev] OSM clickable POIs - implementation?

2008-01-06 Thread Nick Whitelegg
I would like to try and add clickable POIs to OSM (as already exists on Freemap) so that when you click a village, for example, some info and its Wikipedia link comes up. The best way to do this would seem to be to implement code which takes a lat/lon (or Mercator coord pair) and returns the

Re: [OSM-dev] Calculate Latitude coordinate in map

2008-01-07 Thread Nick Whitelegg
On Sunday 06 Jan 2008 15:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello guys, > > > > I just started to work a little with your map and wanted to write a small > test application to see it in action (I wanted to used it later for easier > map editing on OSM). > In OpenLayers you can convert pixel coordinate

Re: [OSM-dev] OSM clickable POIs - implementation?

2008-01-07 Thread Nick Whitelegg
On Sunday 06 Jan 2008 14:17, you wrote: > On Jan 6, 2008 2:19 PM, Nick Whitelegg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would like to try and add clickable POIs to OSM (as already exists on > > Freemap) so that when you click a village, for example, some info and its > &

[OSM-dev] Clickable POIs - use marker/pushpin layer?

2008-01-08 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hopefully (day job permitting!) I will get the time to implement clickable POIs on the OSM site in the coming weeks, along with integrating a simple editing facility like Chris's. Before I get too far with this do people think it would be better to generate a layer of markers/pushpins for the P

[OSM-dev] UK Planet Extract Failure

2008-01-16 Thread Nick Whitelegg
>UK planet failed 09/01/08 and 16/01/08 Hello Chris, Not sure why. I'll try and look into it the next couple of days (unable to SSH into anything right now). Everyone - are there any issues on dev at the moment (e.g. disc space) which means that the script to extract the UK planet won't have w

[OSM-dev] "Opentrail" - What development environments would be best for mobile compatibility?

2008-01-25 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, Regarding the "OpenTrail" OSM walking/hiking software idea that I'd like to develop given enough time (see earlier in the week), I'd like to ensure it's compatible with phones and other mobile devices. This will probably influence what language it's written in - my initial ideas

Re: [OSM-dev] "Opentrail" - What development environments would be best for mobile compatibility?

2008-01-25 Thread Nick Whitelegg
>Wait for the iPhone SDK. What I'd really want to do though is make it work as both a desktop and mobile app with minimal code changes, presumably an iPhone SDK wouldn't be terribly portable to a non-Mac desktop environment? Nick ___ dev mailing list

Re: [OSM-dev] "Opentrail" - What development environments would be best for mobile compatibility?

2008-01-25 Thread Nick Whitelegg
>The other thing is that depending on what OpenTrail is going to do, you >might be better off adding features to an existing product, such as >WhereAmI which works on most Symbian based phones (not just Nokia S60). Thanks for the replies. I'm intending it to be primarily a standard desktop app in

[OSM-dev] Another mobile mapping question...

2008-01-28 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, A related question to the "Opentrail" project - it might be good for walkers to be able to automatically convert their GPS trail to a path "in the field" so to speak, using some sort of track simplification algorithm, then upload it to OSM "on the move", specifying the path type

[OSM-dev] Problem making database on current rails_port

2008-02-01 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, Having difficulty making the database with the rails port (checked out about an hour ago). When I do rake db:migrate I get: Uninitialized constant CGI::Session::SessionStore Any ideas on this? This is with : gem 1.0.1, rails 2.0.1, MySQL 5.0.45. Thanks, Nick __

Re: [OSM-dev] Problem making database on current rails_port

2008-02-02 Thread Nick Whitelegg
> "If you get an error message about SQLSessionStore, the external > dependencies (in /sites/rails_port/vendor/plugins) haven't been > installed. Update your Subversion working copy and check that > everything from other sites is being pulled in." > > cheers > Richard When checking out it fails t

[OSM-dev] PostGIS installation problem

2008-02-03 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, Having difficulty installing postgis on a machine with OpenSuSE 10.3. I installed from source (no rpm available) and followed the build instructions, then issued the createdb/createlang commands as detailed on the OSM wiki (Mapnik page). Firstly there was a slight problem with

Re: [OSM-dev] Problem making database on current rails_port

2008-02-03 Thread Nick Whitelegg
>> kylemaxwell.com > > You don't actually need that one - try an update of vendor/plugins to > make sure you get the other plugins. > > Tom OK did that, also changed version to 10. However now I get: no such file to load -- spec/rake/spectask /path/Rakefile:10 Everything in svn is up to date.

Re: [OSM-dev] Straw man design for OSM postcode database creator

2008-02-05 Thread Nick Whitelegg
>For the curious, there are 18 distinct Station Roads in the London postal >districts (from an example I gave someone years ago). Surprised it's as few as that TBH! Round here most places with a station also seem to have a Station Road. Nick ___ dev

[OSM-dev] libxml2 segfault parsing OSM data with C++, but not C

2008-02-14 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, Have written a test program to attempt to parse OSM data with libxml2 using its SAX parser, as an initial step in bringing direct OSM support to Mapnik. For some reason, it runs successfully if it's a C program (saved as .c and compiled with gcc) but segfaults if C++ (saved as

Re: [OSM-dev] hello! need expert to hand hold me with DB setup

2008-02-16 Thread Nick Whitelegg
On Friday 15 Feb 2008 10:45, Fire Girl wrote: > Hello out there tonight -- I was posting on here before and received some > good advice, which led me to lots of research and i think i finally > decided on wanting to get the Planet.OSM file inserted into a MYSQL > database, and go onwards from there

Re: [OSM-dev] {To Nick} hello! need expert to hand hold me with DB setup

2008-02-18 Thread Nick Whitelegg
>Ah Very good! Yes, I am primarily on Windows, however certainly can setup something in a Linux environment, though I am going to need pretty good >instructions. How does this PostGIS DB best run., I mean, in terms of a Linux distribution? What do you have? :-) You should be able to get Post

Re: [OSM-dev] Slippy map - clickable POI

2008-02-19 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello Gregory, I do a similar thing for Freemap, actually querying the underlying PostGIS database. Go to http://www.free-map.org.uk/index.php?lat=51.05&lon=-0.72 then keep zooming in until you can see pub symbols. Click on any of them. I use OpenLayers code to convert the zoom to a Mercator

Re: [OSM-dev] Internet explorer 8 mess..

2008-03-06 Thread Nick Whitelegg
On Thursday 06 Mar 2008 19:06, David Earl wrote: > On 06/03/2008 18:31, Shaun McDonald wrote: > > And we just tell them to install a real browser that works. > > And guarantee that 99% of people never look at OSM. > > "I make these wonderful TV sets, much better than the competition, which > I plan

[OSM-dev] Is this week's planet corrupted?

2008-03-07 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, Have tried three times unsuccessfully to extract UK and southern England data from this week's planet. The resulting file ends prematurely. Is the whole planet corrupt this week? Thanks, Nick ___ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.or

Re: [OSM-dev] Is this week's planet corrupted?

2008-03-08 Thread Nick Whitelegg
On Friday 07 Mar 2008 21:22, you wrote: > On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 18:46 +0000, Nick Whitelegg wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > Have tried three times unsuccessfully to extract UK and southern England > > data from this week's planet. The resulting file ends prem

Re: [OSM-dev] Is this week's planet corrupted?

2008-03-08 Thread Nick Whitelegg
On Saturday 08 Mar 2008 07:58, Nick Whitelegg wrote: > On Friday 07 Mar 2008 21:22, you wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 18:46 +0000, Nick Whitelegg wrote: > > > Hello everyone, > > > > > > Have tried three times unsuccessfully to extract UK and southern > &

Re: [OSM-dev] Is this week's planet corrupted?

2008-03-08 Thread Nick Whitelegg
> OK I've found the root cause - planetosm-to-db.pl imposes a maximum node > limit of 25000. I've changed this. > > Nick Oops meant planetosm-excerpt-area. Anyway I've doubled the limit for nodes and committed to svn. Nick ___ dev mailing list d

[OSM-dev] Feasibility of an 'in the field' mobile editing app?

2008-03-08 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, Have managed to got hold of a N95 for research purposes through work. One thing that maybe would be useful is an "in the field" editing application for the outdoors, where you walk, the inbuilt GPS on the phone records your track, then you choose a route type (footway, bridleway

Re: [OSM-dev] Feasibility of an 'in the field' mobile editing app?

2008-03-08 Thread Nick Whitelegg
> > > > Actually I had sent a mail to the guys that developed Sportstracker > > if they wanted to open source their code, but got no answer. If someone > > is more lucky than me, that might provide a good basis. It already has > > all the functionality to record the track correctly. All it nee

Re: [OSM-dev] Feasibility of an 'in the field' mobile editing app?

2008-03-09 Thread Nick Whitelegg
>Sounds nice, but there's one problem: creating OSM ways automatically >from GPS data (without user editing) is not a good idea, for several >reasons: >- GPS (in)precission: it is a good practice to cover certain path >several times before actually creating a way Do many of us actually do that

[OSM-dev] Clickable POIs and simple POI 'wiki'

2008-03-15 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, As part of some Freemap enhancements I've been working on the last two days or so, I've implemented (in PHP) a simple point-of-interest 'wiki' together with a simple API for performing operations on a PostGIS OSM database. This is operational on Freemap currently (www.free-map.o

Re: [OSM-dev] Clickable POIs and simple POI 'wiki'

2008-03-16 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello Stefan, >Hi Nick, >Cool webapp! >Two questions and two cents: >* How does it scale? Do you mean could it be used anywhere in the world? The answer is yes, the only reason it only covers southern England is server resource issues. >* Why is it named "countryside" (is there a technical

Re: [OSM-dev] Clickable POIs and simple POI 'wiki'

2008-03-16 Thread Nick Whitelegg
>Hello everyone, >As part of some Freemap enhancements I've been working on the last two days or >so, I've implemented (in PHP) a simple point-of-interest 'wiki' together with >a simple API for performing operations on a PostGIS OSM database. Before anyone mentions it I've discovered a bug w

Re: [OSM-dev] Clickable POIs and simple POI 'wiki'

2008-03-16 Thread Nick Whitelegg
On Sunday 16 Mar 2008 11:49, Nick Whitelegg wrote: > >Hello everyone, > > > >As part of some Freemap enhancements I've been working on the last two > > days or > > >so, I've implemented (in PHP) a simple point-of-interest 'wiki' together >

[OSM-dev] osmwiki - Annotatable points of interest

2008-03-26 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, Have hacked my Freemap code slightly to use [EMAIL PROTECTED] maps and produced a simple, demo "osmwiki" application to allow people to annotate points of interest and view previous annotations. It's at http://www.free-map.org.uk/freemap/osmwiki/ You can click on a POI (e..g

[OSM-dev] OSMWidget - OpenLayers based map widget for clickable and editable POIs

2008-03-26 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, As part of the "osmwiki" demo app (see talk list on OSM) I have developed an OSMWidget JavaScript class which can be installed on any OSM-based site with a planet-based PostGIS database plus a few PHP scripts (see below) to add a slippy map with annotatable POIs and search func

Re: [OSM-dev] osmwiki - Annotatable points of interest

2008-03-26 Thread Nick Whitelegg
On Wednesday 26 Mar 2008 10:20, Nick Whitelegg wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Have hacked my Freemap code slightly to use [EMAIL PROTECTED] maps and > produced a > simple, demo "osmwiki" application to allow people to annotate points of > interest and view previous

Re: [OSM-dev] osmwiki - Annotatable points of interest

2008-03-26 Thread Nick Whitelegg
>And I'm probably missing something, but where is that on >http://www.free-map.org.uk/freemap/osmwiki/ ? >My english geography isn't really up to speed >Kind Regards, >Martijn Pannevis. Enter "Fernhurst" in the search box, then zoom in if necessary. Nick ___

[OSM-dev] Unable to access /home/planet on dev server

2008-03-26 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, I normally produce a uk planet on the dev server by extracting from /home/planet/planet-{date}.osm.bz2; I know I could access it via wget but want to avoid copying the planet file to my home space on dev. However at the moment I can't access the /home/planet directory... is eve

[OSM-dev] dev server down?

2008-05-02 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, Not sure if anyone's aware but the dev server appears to have been down (can't access via http or ssh) all day Friday. Nick ___ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev

Re: [OSM-dev] [OSM-talk] Developers requested to help provide "completeness" tools

2008-05-14 Thread Nick Whitelegg
>I get this same view. All too often I look at a place and think wow, that >looks complete, but when I drum down into the data a bit it its clear that >there are general gaps and the density of streets is not what you would >expect. That's why I was testing out a completeness metrics method. But I

[OSM-dev] Good explanation of latitude-to-pixel conversion?

2008-05-17 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Am in the process of developing a mobile client for Freemap, and potentially (in conjunction with one of my students) a tool for OSM as a whole. Part of this involves converting lat/lon to "Google" Mercator pixel coordinates. I have the code to do this, but I guess I'm one of these people that

Re: [OSM-dev] Good explanation of latitude-to-pixel conversion?

2008-05-17 Thread Nick Whitelegg
>Am happy with the lon->y conversion but would like some clarification on the lat->x conversion Oops, lon->x and lat->y of course!!! ;-) Nick ___ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev

[OSM-dev] Freemap Mobile - Open source mobile OSM map viewer

2008-06-08 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, Would like to announce the initial release of Freemap Mobile, a Java ME mapping application for mobile devices. Freemap Mobile displays Freemap maps (i.e. UK countryside-orientated OSM maps) on a GPS enabled mobile phone (e.g. Nokia N95) and the source code is now available in O

[OSM-dev] OSMXAPI - down?

2008-06-20 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, Is OSMXAPI down? I'm trying the example: http://osmxapi.hypercube.telascience.org/api/0.5/node%5bamenity=hospital%5d%5bbbox=-6,50,2,61%5d and get nothing back. I also tried a smaller bbox (-2,50,0,51) and no luck there either. Thanks, Nick

Re: [OSM-dev] OSMXAPI - down?

2008-06-20 Thread Nick Whitelegg
>It's up now. Working fine now, thanks. Nick ___ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev

[OSM-dev] J2ME and PUT requests to the API

2008-06-25 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, Has anyone working on J2ME OSM client apps managed to communicate with the API using the PUT method? It seems J2ME doesn't support PUT with its HttpConnection. Would like to allow people to survey OSM POIs "in the field" with Freemap Mobile so any workarounds would be useful. I

Re: [OSM-dev] J2ME and PUT requests to the API

2008-06-25 Thread Nick Whitelegg
>Nick Whitelegg schreef: >> Hello everyone, >> >> Has anyone working on J2ME OSM client apps managed to communicate with the >> API using the PUT method? It seems J2ME doesn't support PUT with its >> HttpConnection. Would like to allow people to survey OS

Re: [OSM-dev] Bugged GPX parser?

2008-07-24 Thread Nick Whitelegg
>Your GPX doesn't have timestamps. It should. Potlatch needs timestamps >to draw the track. OSM needs timestamps to give at least some >reassurance that you've actually been there. > >DO NOT EDIT YOUR GPX TRACKS BEFORE UPLOADING. EVER. > Not sure about "EVER"! :-) e.g. what if you got lost whe

[OSM-dev] PostGIS: algorithm to find the nearest way segment to a mouse click?

2008-08-01 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, As part of a walking routes feature I want to add to Freemap, I want the user to be able to select the closest way segment to a mouse click. By "segment" I don't mean the old-style pre-0.5 OSM segment, but rather a series of nodes within a way (call it way A) which lie between tw

[OSM-dev] [OT] any Internet Explorer script debugging experts here?

2008-08-28 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, Since I made changes to Freemap a couple of weeks back, it's stopped fully working on IE. Unfortunately as I do not have access to a place where I have both IE and a connection to the server it's a bit difficult to debug. Worse, the error message it gives is singularly unhelpful

Re: [OSM-dev] [OT] any Internet Explorer script debugging experts here?

2008-08-28 Thread Nick Whitelegg
>Hello everyone, >Since I made changes to Freemap a couple of weeks back, it's stopped fully >working on IE. Unfortunately as I do not have access to a place where I >have both IE and a connection to the server it's a bit difficult to debug. Think someone's found the error but will update if

[OSM-dev] OAuth difficulties from node.js client

2020-07-16 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, Realise this might be a difficult one, but posting it here in case anyone's encountered similar problems or if anyone can obviously see what's wrong with the request (see below). I'm trying to connect to the OSM OAuth API request_token endpoint from a node.js based client. If

Re: [OSM-dev] OAuth difficulties from node.js client

2020-07-16 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Don't think it is that, as other OAuth clients were working fine and also the wiki example works; in fact I have got a complete OAuth flow now working, using the documented method on the wiki using the 'request' package, but just thought I'd try something else as that was deprecated. Will try o

Re: [OSM-dev] (reverse) GeoCoding on. Android

2012-04-11 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello Graham, You should be able to use, or at least adapt, any Java OSM parsing code (e.g. that used in JOSM, Osmosis etc)Android uses the same SAX parser as standard Java. See https://github.com/nickw1/Freemap/tree/master/java/freemaplib/src/freemap/ for a Java parsing library which I have

[OSM-dev] Non-ASCII characters in XML generated from PostGIS

2012-05-17 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hi, I'm having some problems with generating XML from a postgis database from PHP on the Freemap server: http://www.free-map.org.uk/0.6/ws//bsvr.php?bbox=44.0,11.0,445000.0,115000.0&poi=place,amenity,natural&annotation=1&inProj=27700&outProj=epsg:4326 It's basically falling over on the

Re: [OSM-dev] Non-ASCII characters in XML generated from PostGIS

2012-05-18 Thread Nick Whitelegg
>There's a few issues here that are colliding. >First of all, you're returning HTML entities in an XML document. >That's going to throw an error. In your example, you have à , >which isn't defined for XML, only for HTML. >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_XML_and_HTML_character_entity_referenc

[OSM-dev] Directly reprojecting OSM/PBF files?

2012-11-18 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hi, I'd like to reproject the whole of the England OSM file into BNG (EPSG:27700). It appears there is an experimental GDAL driver for OSM, or alternatively I could code a simple utility to do it using Osmium and proj.4, but, to save time, is there a pre-existing tool to do this very job? I can

Re: [OSM-dev] Is there any API to get data from OSM as geoJson?

2013-02-07 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello Ander, I have an API for generating OSM data as geojson from a PostGIS database. The live api is part of the UK-orientated Freemap site and currently works with selected areas of the UK only, see http://www.free-map.org.uk/0.6/about.html However the code is open source and should in the

[OSM-dev] osm2pgsql: avoid addition to planet_osm_point when importing ways?

2013-09-14 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hi, I want to import some highways into a PostGIS database but encounter a problem when any constituent nodes with tags are added to planet_osm_point. Is there a way to tell osm2pgsql to *only* import the ways into planet_osm_line and not put anything into planet_osm_point at all? None of the

Re: [OSM-dev] osm2pgsql: avoid addition to planet_osm_point when importing ways?

2013-09-14 Thread Nick Whitelegg
btw the version of osm2pgsql is: osm2pgsql SVN version 0.81.0 (64bit id space) -Nick Whitelegg/FT/Solent wrote: - To: dev@openstreetmap.org From: Nick Whitelegg/FT/Solent Date: 14/09/2013 01:35PM Subject: osm2pgsql: avoid addition to planet_osm_point when importing ways? Hi, I want

Re: [OSM-dev] osm2pgsql: avoid addition to planet_osm_point when importing ways?

2013-09-15 Thread Nick Whitelegg
OK thanks for that, will have a play. I think I thought the style file was just for selecting which attributes were added as database columns rather than selecting which objects were added. Nick -Paul Norman wrote: - To: 'Nick Whitelegg' From: Paul Norman Date: 14/09/20

[OSM-dev] Hikar (augmented reality) points from SOTM

2013-09-15 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hi, As some of you who attended SOTM may know, I'm working on "hikar", an augmented reality app for walkers which aims to overlay OSM ways on a phone's camera feed. There were one or two points made by people at the conference (by Robert - that's why I'm emailing you direct - and others) which

[OSM-dev] Accessing postgis on the dev server

2013-12-09 Thread Nick Whitelegg
- >> So I'm wondering whether we could, if enough people raise contributions, >> have an OSM "read only, hobbyist" server which could be used to host >> not-for-profit, open source (only) projects. it could be either global >> or just for the UK (or any other individual country). It could cont

[OSM-dev] Accessing postgis on the dev server

2013-12-09 Thread Nick Whitelegg
>Also, is it ok if I import processed_p.shp coastlines (as SQL) and Ordnance >Survey LandForm PANORAMA contours to the DB - or would that overload the >server? To clarify - this would be a *separate* set of tables, the aim is *not* to pollute the OSM data itself !!! Thanks, Nick __

Re: [OSM-dev] Accessing postgis on the dev server

2013-12-09 Thread Nick Whitelegg
>I can give you access to postgres, and you will then be able to create >databases for yourself (though if you need postgis in them you'll have >to ask me to add that). >Obviously if you use too much resource then we may ask you to cut back. >Keep in mind though that the dev server is intended

[OSM-dev] Renderer issue: highway=service and service=driveway?

2014-01-06 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hi, Have noticed an issue with the main mapnik renderer regarding service roads. It seems that a way tagged with "highway=service" and "service=driveway" is not rendered (I'm guessing that's the problem). Two examples can be found at http://www.openstreetmap.org/note/96876 In both cases the

Re: [OSM-dev] Renderer issue: highway=service and service=driveway?

2014-01-06 Thread Nick Whitelegg
sappearing footpaths" like this if a footpath follows a service road. Nick -"Ed Loach" wrote: - To: "'Nick Whitelegg'" , From: "Ed Loach" Date: 06/01/2014 11:33AM Subject: RE: [OSM-dev] Renderer issue: highway=service and service=driveway? Zoom i

[OSM-dev] Using osmdroid for an Android university course

2014-07-07 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hi, (not sure if this belongs in talk or dev) Next year I am running a university course on Android development. I am planning to include a section on location-aware apps and mapping, and naturally I want to use OSM. ;-) Mapsforge is one option, however IMV the new 0.4 API has a little too muc

[OSM-dev] Acceptable use of Overpass API?

2015-04-16 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hi, As a few of you might know I am developing an augmented reality hikers' app for Android. As part of this I would like to develop route finding (including AR signposts) facilities, using GraphHopper. However I don't want users to have to download a huge OSM or GraphHopper file covering th

Re: [OSM-dev] Unsigned 32 bit node numbers in applications

2016-02-09 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Does the latest osm2pgsql and osmosis deal with this? Sorry I've been a bit out of the loop of late regarding developments. Thanks, Nick From: Andrew Hain Sent: 09 February 2016 07:05 To: dev@openstreetmap.org Subject: [OSM-dev] Unsigned 32 bit node num

Re: [OSM-dev] Unsigned 32 bit node numbers in applications

2016-02-09 Thread Nick Whitelegg
On Di, Feb 09, 2016 at 09:40:42 +, Nick Whitelegg wrote: >> Does the latest osm2pgsql and osmosis deal with this? >Yes, they have been fixed years ago. >Jochen OK thanks. Now you mention it, I do seem to remember a change to using 64-bit types two or three years ago - obvio

Re: [OSM-dev] Planet file with preprocessed lines/polygons

2017-05-16 Thread Nick Whitelegg
nstall it on your server. Nick Nick Whitelegg Senior Lecturer in Computing (Internet) | School of Media Arts and Technology Southampton Solent University | RM424 | East Park Terrace | Southampton SO14 0YN T: 023 8201 3075 | E: nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk<mailto:nick.whitel...@solent.ac

Re: [OSM-dev] Planet file with preprocessed lines/polygons

2017-05-16 Thread Nick Whitelegg
.. one caveat though is that it doesn't do relations: only nodes and ways (linear and polygon). It was really written for the Freemap site so doesn't cover all use cases, but may be interesting. Nick ____ From: Nick Whitelegg Sent: 16 May 2017 09:07:

[OSM-dev] Problems trying to get mod_tile/renderd working

2017-10-19 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hi, Having difficulty trying to get mod_tile working. The Apache error log is giving a segmentation fault when mod_tile is loaded in; no other information is available in the syslog. This is a mod_tile error, not renderd, as it started happening as soon as I enabled mod_tile and restarted a

Re: [OSM-dev] Problems trying to get mod_tile/renderd working

2017-10-20 Thread Nick Whitelegg
mer/disclaimer.aspx> From: Yves Sent: 20 October 2017 07:37:37 To: dev@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] Problems trying to get mod_tile/renderd working Have you tried apache2ctl configtest? Le 20 octobre 2017 08:18:28 GMT+02:00, Nick Whitelegg a écrit

[OSM-dev] Difficulty fetching data from API in own app, but not browser

2018-07-23 Thread Nick Whitelegg
ng to another server? Thanks, Nick Nick Whitelegg Senior Lecturer in Computing (Internet) | School of Media Arts and Technology Southampton Solent University | RM424 | East Park Terrace | Southampton SO14 0YN T: 023 8201 3075 | E: nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk<mailto:nick.whitel...@sole

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