Re: [OSM-dev] Plotting data on an equirectangular map, distorted for sphere projection

2013-07-19 Thread Christopher Stevens
Alright, Thanks to some great feedback, I've made some good progress on getting distortions to look better on a sphere. It's not perfect yet, but getting close. Perhaps I just need to do a little more research on different projections and more trial and error. Here's what I've done so far:

[OSM-dev] Plotting data on an equirectangular map, distorted for sphere projection

2013-07-17 Thread Christopher Stevens
Hello gurus, I'm thinking that I may need to find some alternative data visualization software to make this work, but I love mapnik and thought it would be good to start here first. I'm hoping to create a basic themed map of different types of data and plot it on a full-Earth image (I can figure

Re: [OSM-dev] Plotting data on an equirectangular map, distorted for sphere projection

2013-07-17 Thread Christopher Stevens
17.07.2013 15:41, schrieb Christopher Stevens: Hello gurus, I'm thinking that I may need to find some alternative data visualization software to make this work, but I love mapnik and thought it would be good to start here first. Mapnik is capable of rendering data in nearly any possible

Re: [OSM-dev] Plotting data on an equirectangular map, distorted for sphere projection

2013-07-17 Thread Christopher Stevens
://spatialreference.org/ref/epsg/3786/ The specific Mapnik Map XML syntax can be found by following the link for Mapnik XML like: http://spatialreference.org/ref/epsg/3786/mapnik/ Dane On Jul 17, 2013, at 9:41 AM, Christopher Stevens ch...@christopherstevens.cc wrote: Hello gurus, I'm thinking that I

Re: [OSM-dev] troubles importing osm data via osm2pgsql: skipping table creation, no function match, permission issue?

2010-08-09 Thread Christopher Stevens
This item has been resolved. I switched to from Mac OSX 10.6 to ubuntu for improved success, following directions with minor improv at: http://trac.mapnik.org/wiki/UbuntuInstallation ___ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org

[OSM-dev] troubles importing osm data via osm2pgsql: skipping table creation, no function match, permission issue?

2010-08-07 Thread Christopher Stevens
OS: Mac OSX 10.6 Terminal output: $ time /usr/local/bin/osm2pgsql --slim -d gis /users/chris/Desktop/coloradoOSM/colorado.osm.highway osm2pgsql SVN version 0.69-exported Using projection SRS 900913 (Spherical Mercator) Setting up table: planet_osm_point NOTICE:  table

Re: [OSM-dev] troubles importing osm data via osm2pgsql: skipping table creation, no function match, permission issue?

2010-08-07 Thread Christopher Stevens
[*] postgis.sql for PostGIS 1.4 and later I believe. I'm using postgis-1.5, installed using homebrew There's two files named lwpostgis.sql* and spatial_ref_sys.sql which are in your PostGIS package somewhere. You need to run them on your database after you have done the createdb and the

Re: [OSM-dev] troubles installing osm2pgsql on Mac OS X 10.6: make fail

2010-08-06 Thread Christopher Stevens
Installing Homebrew, uninstalling macports, deleting and reinstalling geos, proj, and osm2pgsql was a success. This item has been resolved. ___ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev

[OSM-dev] troubles installing osm2pgsql on Mac OS X 10.6: make fail

2010-08-04 Thread Christopher Stevens
Hello gurus, While getting far into the installation process, I'm hung up when running the make command for osm2pgsql on Mac OS X10.6. My initial guess is that I have a library somewhere that's not being found or is not installed. I have no idea where to start. Here are the commands I'm running in