[OSM-dev] GSoC Ideas

2009-03-26 Thread Paul Wicks
Milo, thanks for the links to the info. I'll be sure to give it a look. Caching with WMS is something that, as far as I know is not common, If you can figure out a way of caching and write a proposal, please also offer it to the mentor group at www.osgeo.org, they would gladly help Well, I

Re: [OSM-dev] OSM Fixer [Sequal]

2009-03-26 Thread Dave Stubbs
2009/3/25 Stefan de Konink ste...@konink.de: Dave Stubbs wrote: Who needs SQL? http://api.openstreetmap.org/api/0.5/node/292984561/ways So yes. It is. Thanks very interesting; I didn't realise this could do the trick. The API's Way.to_xml_node method strips out invisible nodes that it

[OSM-dev] Best for routing ? [Implementing driving directions like Google Maps-with text assistance]

2009-03-26 Thread rajan vaish
Hi,For a project in my mind,which implements driving directions like Google Maps ,as in, along with route on map,we get text along the same describing the path/route from the source to destination,step by step.What do you guys think will be the best routing technique/library/API ? (language not a

Re: [OSM-dev] Best for routing ? [Implementing driving directions like Google Maps-with text assistance]

2009-03-26 Thread Igor Shubovych
You could also try CloudMade Routing API. http://developers.cloudmade.com/projects/show/routing-http-api It is based on OSM data, so when you add roads, it will give you more exact result. This routing API is very fast, simple, and has some convenient options like result type (the fastest or the

Re: [OSM-dev] GSoC Ideas

2009-03-26 Thread Milo van der Linden
Dear all, Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote: El Miércoles, 25 de Marzo de 2009, Milo van der Linden escribió: Mapnik could act as a wms server, but this would not be good for performance since all rendering would be done straight from the openstreetmap db on the fly. You're wrong - mapnik

Re: [OSM-dev] GSoC Ideas

2009-03-26 Thread OJ W
PHP code is available to stitch-together map images from existing tileservers into an PNG/JPEG image (for use by things like mediawiki plugins): http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~ojw/GetMap/ maybe could add some drawing code to that, e.g. to plot locations, add icons?

Re: [OSM-dev] GSoC Ideas

2009-03-26 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
El Jueves, 26 de Marzo de 2009, Milo van der Linden escribió: You're wrong - mapnik depends on a local PostgreSQL database, not on the OSM API. I think we are miscommunicating and maybe we just mean different things. I think we agree on the big picture, but disagree on the details :-)

Re: [OSM-dev] OSM Fixer [Sequal]

2009-03-26 Thread Stefan de Konink
Dave Stubbs wrote: Some of them are due to different bugs, but in general yes. The relations that reference node 0, 1 and other numbers below about 20 are a complete mistake (bug fixed ages and ages ago now) -- those nodes should be removed from the relations. It seems that downloading a

Re: [OSM-dev] OSM Fixer [Sequal]

2009-03-26 Thread Stefan de Konink
Stefan de Konink wrote: Dave Stubbs wrote: Some of them are due to different bugs, but in general yes. The relations that reference node 0, 1 and other numbers below about 20 are a complete mistake (bug fixed ages and ages ago now) -- those nodes should be removed from the relations. It