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

2009-10-26 Thread Peter Körner
Looks interesting but only for high zoom-levels. What queries can be supported to e.g. render a map of the world? That would at least require all coastlines but not in full resolution. This is only true for the coastlines, as mapnik is doing the same (coastlines from shapefile, everything

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

2009-10-17 Thread Peter Körner
Hi have you tried using PovRAY [1]? It reads an ASCII-Script and produces wonderful Images from it. PovRAY relates to Blender co. like LaTeX relates to Word. It is very well suited for automated generation of 3D models, as you can see with eagle3D [2] Peter [1] http://www.povray.org/ [2]

Re: [OSM-dev] Mapnik rendering: Zoom-Level to Width/Height

2009-10-15 Thread Peter Körner
Hi Frederik Are you aware of the nik2img tool which does pretty much everything you write here - including specifying the zoom level? No I wasn't aware of that, but it wasn't so much hassle to write my own (just learned how cool python is - it took only about 2 hours). I'll have a look at

Re: [OSM-dev] Distributing a VirtualBox HD-File

2009-10-15 Thread Peter Körner
If needed, I can also put a copy on my planet mirror. Just ping the list once you've got something ready for release. Yey! You're so cool, altogether! Peter ___ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org

[OSM-dev] Mapnik rendering: Zoom-Level to Width/Height

2009-10-14 Thread Peter Körner
Hello I'm writing on a simple Frontend for the mapnik-toolchain. Currently you can call it like this: osm-render --bbox 8.2011,49.9649,8.3278,50.0327 --size 8192x4096 I'd like to add another option like this: osm-render --bbox 8.2011,49.9649,8.3278,50.0327 --zoom 14 The combination of

[OSM-dev] Distributing a VirtualBox HD-File

2009-10-14 Thread Peter Körner
Hi I'm nearly done putting together my Rendering Stack. It makes the complete chain from the osm (x)api to the final map accessible via very easy commands: osm-load --bbox 8.2011,49.9649,8.3278,50.0327 osm-render --bbox 8.2011,49.9649,8.3278,50.0327 without loosing too much possibilities:

Re: [OSM-dev] Mapnik rendering: Zoom-Level to Width/Height

2009-10-14 Thread Peter Körner
Hi Andrew http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/rendering/mapnik/zoom-to-scale.txt http://www.britishideas.com/2009/09/22/map-scales-and-printing-with-mapnik/ Thank you very much! Peter ___ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-dev] Distributing a VirtualBox HD-File

2009-10-14 Thread Peter Körner
Hi Ian Peter, I can mirror/host it on my shared server account. I've got unlimited bandwidth and they seem to be pretty good about allowing large file downloads. Of course I'm interested! Next steps will be: 1. complete last tasks 2. make a torrent of it and publish it on osm-talk

Re: [OSM-dev] OpenstreetMap Trace Analysys

2009-10-12 Thread Peter Körner
I've converted it from nmea to gpx, the conditions are they don't want people knowing their camping spots, but not all stops are camping spots it could be just a place they pulled over to have lunch or visit tourist info centres, it's not going to be very easy to anonymise the data. But this

Re: [OSM-dev] Black Roads

2009-09-29 Thread Peter Körner
I appear to have a problem with the M4 motorway in London. Almost all of the road is correctly styled, however one part is completely black. I've attached an example. Does anyone know why this has happened and how to resolve it? http://maps.m4.net/osm_tiles2/14/8178/5449.png The

Re: [OSM-dev] shp2osm.pl

2009-09-29 Thread Peter Körner
And I believe it has been suggested to use boundary relations rather than polygons in cases where there are a lot of overlapping boundaries. Yes, I'ts not good to have overlapping ways - they are a mess to edit and they can be constructed by relations, as well. Peter

[OSM-dev] Template-Bug on OSM-Homepage

2009-09-27 Thread Peter Körner
When removing so. as a friend the homepage states {{name} wurde als Freund entfernt. I'd guess there's a } missing? Peter ___ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev

Re: [OSM-dev] How do I do make shaded area overlays with openlayers or something similar?

2009-09-22 Thread Peter Körner
John Smith schrieb: This site shows aussie postcodes over the top of a base layer: http://www.aus-emaps.com/postcode_finder.php How would I do something similar for postcodes in the OSM DB already, and showing them as a shaded area, and 2 different colours if they've been reviewed or not.

Re: [OSM-dev] How do I do make shaded area overlays with openlayers or something similar?

2009-09-22 Thread Peter Körner
John Smith schrieb: 2009/9/22 Peter Körner osm-li...@mazdermind.de: You may want to take a look at http://topo.geofabrik.de/ I can't read German, is there a download link or something? Oh I'm sorry I missread your mail.. I thought you wanted to have hill-shading for your map ;) As far as I

Re: [OSM-dev] shortest streets

2009-09-17 Thread Peter Körner
yummy goop schrieb: Thank you for your thoughtful suggestions. I'm a n00b, so I'm not sure if I have to setup my own instance of the database to run this query or, if not, where I should go next. Any additional suggestions or direction would be appreciated. To run such queries you'll

Re: [OSM-dev] [OSM-talk] Getting historic information about usage of a node

2009-09-16 Thread Peter Körner
Okay, so how can we go on now.. I'm not a ruby man and I don't have a possibility to test all this. Atm. my fallback-plan is to wait until the Wikimedia-Guys finished setup of their copy of the osm-db (which will contain the history tables!) so I can fetch my data directly from the db. I'm

Re: [OSM-dev] [OSM-talk] Getting historic information about usage of a node

2009-09-16 Thread Peter Körner
Atm. my fallback-plan is to wait until the Wikimedia-Guys finished setup of their copy of the osm-db (which will contain the history tables!) Okay, maybe i was too fast too loud.. It might contain the history tables, but it will not contain history data unless they have access to a dump

Re: [OSM-dev] [OSM-talk] Abstract on getting historic information about usage of a node

2009-09-16 Thread Peter Körner
Hopefully you don't kill me right off but I re-created this Testcase in the OSM db. I only used a comment tag on each element so they won't get rendered and are identifiable in the history as Testcase later. I also created them near my home where I'm the only active mapper I now of. ==

Re: [OSM-dev] [OSM-talk] Abstract on getting historic information about usage of a node

2009-09-16 Thread Peter Körner
c) this will cost disk-space and memory for the index. The CPU time will be consumed only once. This is NOT true. As I explained yesterday there is a very good reason why we do not store a node revision in current_way_nodes and way_nodes. I'm sorry I should have mentioned that all

Re: [OSM-dev] [OSM-talk] Abstract on getting historic information about usage of a node

2009-09-16 Thread Peter Körner
Ian Dees schrieb: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu mailto:t...@compton.nu wrote: This is NOT true. As I explained yesterday there is a very good reason why we do not store a node revision in current_way_nodes and way_nodes. The problem is that

Re: [OSM-dev] [OSM-talk] Abstract on getting historic information about usage of a node

2009-09-16 Thread Peter Körner
What's the problem with that? If way 10 did not ever use node 50v3, then it should not be included in the give me all ways that use node 50v3 call, right? (semi-ASCII-art ahead, arm your fixed-width photos) Here's way 10v1 (numbers are nodes): 50v151v152v2 ...and a history

Re: [OSM-dev] [OSM-talk] Brainstorm: What could they be used for [was: WMF will donate 35 servers...]

2009-09-15 Thread Peter Körner
OGC services (there is already some buzz about that in talk-cu). And customised renderings, of course. +1 for customized renderings in different languages. I think Asian languages should be pushed out faster. This is already in build-up stage on the wikimedia servers (see [0] for an

Re: [OSM-dev] [OSM-talk] Getting historic information about usage of a node

2009-09-15 Thread Peter Körner
deleted - the GET /node/#id/ways call just does not spit out any historic information. What we need would be a GET /node/#id/#version/ways But i don't think this can go into the api without a major change.. Peter Ian Dees schrieb: On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Peter Körner osm-li

Re: [OSM-dev] Deep History App

2009-09-15 Thread Peter Körner
andrzej zaborowski schrieb: 2009/9/16 andrzej zaborowski balr...@gmail.com: 2009/9/15 Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com: Next up are ways. This is pretty difficult, though, as a way's history only shows the nodes that made up the way at that time, not which revision of those nodes made up the way

Re: [OSM-dev] [OSM-talk] Getting historic information about usage of a node

2009-09-15 Thread Peter Körner
GET /node/#id/#version/ways But i don't think this can go into the api without a major change.. There is no problem adding new methods to the API at any point in time. Col thing! The problem here is that I doubt it is possible to implement such a method in an efficient way -

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