[OSM-talk] Cycleway VS Track
Hello, my first post here :) for a small introduction, I bought a nüvi a few weeks ago, got addicted, found out about openstreetmap, needed a device that could record traces and now own a Vista Hcx and am happy with it.. Now I am cycling around the area here and am trying to improve the cycle network as I see it as an unique application that is hard to match with other (commercial) products. So I found out about how to make relations.. just select everything you want, set the proper tags and there you go.. I also tagged a longer relation already with maybe 30km. Now comes the question :) Many of the cycle routes in the area are not running on dedicated cycle-ways. Most of them use wirtschaftswege, small roads that are usually forbidden for motor traffic, but farmers are allowed to use them. When you enter such a way the sign in front of it usually says no passing for motor vehicles, farming vehicles and bikes allowed. My understanding is that such a way should be tagged as track with a grade. I have a map from the local authorities with very short cycle routes that lead from one village to another. They mostly use those tracks. Should I tag the ways as tracks and create a relation for every route (maybe 2-5km long) or is there a better way to handle this ? ciao Florian ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] OSM on Ubuntu UK podcast
Hello, I know the answer ;) http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/OSM_Map_On_Garmin This is the description how to make your own maps for the garmins http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/OSM_Map_On_Garmin/Download Here are ready to use maps for the garmin units. Simply copy the gmapsupp.img into the garmin-folder on your GPS. Sometimes you need to rename it from some other name into gmapsupp.img. If you want an up-to-date very small area you can use the export function of the slippy map at www.openstreetmap.org. Select a (rather small) area as your view, click on export, select OpenStreetMap XML data. Save the file, process it with mkgmap. upload to your GPS be happy :) ciao Florian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:52:27 +0100, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote: Another podcast that 80n and I did at LugRadio live, this time a really great quality audio from Ubuntu UK podcast. http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2008/07/31/s01e11-blowin-in-the-wind/ One of you talks of a means of uploading a vector? map to Garmins. This is just the thing I need in order to locate areas on my travels which aren't mapped yet. Is there a numpty's how to for getting, say, the SE of England onto a Garmin 76csx? Or is this more for the newbies list? AJH ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Mantigue island swallowed by the sea
Hello Rainerr, maybe the tiles haven't been updated yet ? it takes around a week until changes that you make will make it to the slippy map. As much as I understood the changes are rendered every thursday. ciao Florian rainerr wrote: Hi, In case you don't know Mantigue, it's a small island off the coast of Camiguin, which is off the coast of Mindanao, which is part of the Philippines. Did I mention Mantigue is small? Well, it is really small, but nevertheless there are a few very nice people living there, it has a small church and a basketball place. It wasn't there in openstreetmap so I thought I put it in. I created a closed way with tags name=Mantigue and natural=coastline. The order of nodes is counter-clockwise, i.e. the sea is to the right. That doesn't stop it from swallowing the island, though. If you go to Mantigue's location (http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=9.1731lon=124.8249zoom=14) you see, well, nothing. If you click on the Potlach tab, you'll see the coastline. Yes, Mantigue is really that small. I checked the wiki. It talks about coastline-checker and closed polygons, but I still don't know what I am missing there. Any ideas? Thanks, Rainer ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Cycleway VS Track
Hello, To warm up the topic again... I made one relation for a few of the cycle routes of the town Nidderau. Those are somehow official routes with signs along the way that show a little bicycle, so you know where to turn and from time to time bigger signs that show the directions to the different towns/villages that the current track will lead to. The ways that those routes are on vary widely, from a small track that is under 1m wide up to main roads through towns. http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/26606 Here is the relation I did so far. I tagged it as Local cycle network, even though I would think that I would need another category under this one.. maybe something like ucn for micro cycle network ? ciao Florian Raphael Studer wrote: I have a map from the local authorities with very short cycle routes that lead from one village to another. They mostly use those tracks. Should I tag the ways as tracks and create a relation for every route (maybe 2-5km long) or is there a better way to handle this ? If the ways are tracks, then tag them as tracks :) Creating routes (as realtions) for cyclenetworks is verry common. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Relations/Routes http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Cycle_routes Regards, Raphael ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Recommended GPS for logs for OSM *and* for vehicle - is there such a beast?
Hello, As much as I know the Garmin navigation units can load the OpenStreetMap data that is produced by mkgmap. sadly only the top model in the Nüvi series offers tracking. However, the motorbike units (zumo) do offer tracking, are water (splash) proof and also allow navigation by voice. They may be a little heavy for use on a bicycle... and they are also rather expensive... but again.. you can load the OSM map on the devices and see where there is data already and where there isn't. ciao Florian Chris G wrote: I'm after a GPS system which I can use to provide data for OSM maps and as a 'normal' GPS system to tell me where to go when I'm on my motorbike. Is there anything which can provide both facilities or should I give up and buy two separate devices? It's doubtful (to me) if on-screen maps are much use, too distracting, so a system which can provide voice instructions via bluetooth (or whatever) would seem to be best for the 'bike. A receiver which can link up with a PDA might make sense as I need a new PDA anyway. So, rather an open-ended question but I'd appreciate any/all input. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
