Re: [Talk-GB] OpenTrail - Freemap for Android
On 11 Feb 2013 18:06, "Nick Whitelegg" wrote: > > ...I'm guessing most pois have a node even if they have an area as well. That might be the case today but I am assuming that as more buildings are added then more and more POI's will just be areas. Mkgmap has a feature to generate POI nodes from POI areas. Maybe you should do something similar to just compute nodes and add them to free-map. > - sea: this is because it would be somewhat awkward to have a blue sea and white land... > No problem. I have been using AFTrack on Android which has a bunch of other neat gpx and track related features but if it ever stops raining down here I will definitely test your app some more. Kevin ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] OpenTrail - Freemap for Android
On 11/02/2013 12:59, Nick Whitelegg wrote: Hi, Alongside Freemap (free-map.org.uk) I can't see Bath or Bristol. Is it just me or is there a specific reason? Cheers Dave F. ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] OpenTrail - Freemap for Android
Hello Kevin, Thanks for that. A few comments on your comments: - Not really sure why that "connection refused" is coming up, seems an odd error. Maybe Freemap was just overloaded with requests at that point in time? I've never had a problem downloading the map files and have tried from various wifi networks. - Street name labels: just a case of manipulating style file so should be easy to sort out. - POI search: the limiting factor here is what is stored on the Freemap database (this is where the data comes from) which I have to minimise due to server constraints. If it's just extra poi types it shouldn't be too much of a problem but adding area POIs might add a strain on the server. I'm guessing most pois have a node even if they have an area as well. - highway=pedestrian: again just a style file tweak, shoudn't be a problem. - sea: this is because it would be somewhat awkward to have a blue sea and white land. I think it could be done, by creating "land polygons" similar to what's done in processed_p.shp, but this would require regeneration of the data. I'll try and investigate this at some point but might be a while. Currently it's simply a case of rendering natural=coastline in blue. Nick -fortyfive...@gmail.com wrote: - To: Nick Whitelegg From: Kevin Peat Sent by: fortyfive...@gmail.com Date: 11/02/2013 02:46PM Cc: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] OpenTrail - Freemap for Android Hi Nick, On 11 February 2013 12:59, Nick Whitelegg wrote: > > If you're interested in trying it out... > I installed the apk on a Nexus 7. The smallish downloadable packaged maps are great and the render is nice and clear which is good for mobile devices. I did notice a couple of things from first use. Had to try the map download quite a few times (mostly getting "Connection to http://www.free-map.org.uk refused";) but managed to download the SX map in the end. A download progress bar might be a good idea for a future version as it is hard to know if anything is happening. Street name labels are extremely small and don't expand as you zoom in. The POI search (only checked pubs) seems to only find those mapped as nodes and not those mapped as areas. Search for other POI types would also be useful (toilets, convenience stores, etc.). highway=pedestrian doesn't appear to render. The sea is rendered as white with just a thick blue line for the coastline. I guess that is a feature? Hope this is useful. regards, Kevin ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] OpenTrail - Freemap for Android
Hi Nick, On 11 February 2013 12:59, Nick Whitelegg wrote: > > If you're interested in trying it out... > I installed the apk on a Nexus 7. The smallish downloadable packaged maps are great and the render is nice and clear which is good for mobile devices. I did notice a couple of things from first use. Had to try the map download quite a few times (mostly getting "Connection to http://www.free-map.org.uk refused") but managed to download the SX map in the end. A download progress bar might be a good idea for a future version as it is hard to know if anything is happening. Street name labels are extremely small and don't expand as you zoom in. The POI search (only checked pubs) seems to only find those mapped as nodes and not those mapped as areas. Search for other POI types would also be useful (toilets, convenience stores, etc.). highway=pedestrian doesn't appear to render. The sea is rendered as white with just a thick blue line for the coastline. I guess that is a feature? Hope this is useful. regards, Kevin ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
[Talk-GB] OpenTrail - Freemap for Android
Hi, Alongside Freemap (free-map.org.uk) I've been developing an Android app - OpenTrail - which basically aims to be Freemap for walkers. This is now feature complete enough for me to consider it ready for use, though note it's still in a beta state and thus there may be bugs. If you're interested in trying it out, it's available at http://www.free-map.org.uk/downloads/android/opentrail.apk It's based on the Mapsforge library (code.google.com/p/mapsforge) and includes: * Walking maps for all of England (except the awkward bits N of Hadrian's Wall) rendered in the Freemap style, with paths coloured according to designation tag and OS LandForm panorama contours (Wales, Scotland not covered yet) * Users can contribute annotations in the field, such as path problems, points of interest, and path directions at points of difficulty, which can then be viewed live in the field on your device, so the app can be used as a navigation tool. It's my aim with Freemap and OpenTrail to collect a crowd-sourced database of information for UK walkers. This functionality could be merged with the functionality available in fixmypaths (see post a couple of months ago) to allow direct reporting of problems to the relevant council. * Ability to "play" Freemap walking routes in the field. Users can find and download nearby walk routes, which are supplied from the server as GPX. The app will then "play" the routes so that the instructions for each stage in the walk route are presented to the user as they reach the start of that stage. * Can record a walk route as GPX. This has not been tested yet with walks longer than about an hour or so (damned rain!) nor has it been optimised for battery use so is not recommended yet as a tool for surveying OSM. Nonetheless walk routes can be uploaded to Freemap and shared with other users. I do want to point out that it's beta software and thus prone to bugs. Nonetheless if anyone wants to take part in testing to iron out remaining bugs, that would be great! I should point out that should a crash occur, a bug report is sent over the web to a spreadsheet on my Google drive - please only use if you are happy with this. See blog post http://www.free-map.org.uk/wordpress/?p=273 and full instructions page http://www.free-map.org.uk/common/opentrail.html I'm considering the app to be in feature freeze right now, so while suggestions for improvement/enhancement are welcome they will not be implemented until the 0.2 version unless they are reasonably trivial. Also, now I've got a more powerful phone I'm wanting to go back to the augmented-reality stuff I was working on a couple of years ago. Nick ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
