Re: [OSM-talk] Cycle lanes

2008-03-23 Thread Karl Eichwalder
> It's common in Sweden to have wide sidewalks divided into half > footway, half cycleway. This can happen on either or both sides > of the street. Should this be tagged as highway=*;cycleway=lane? > Technically speaking it isn't a lane because it's above the curb. Theoretically, you could use "t

[OSM-talk] Cycle lanes

2008-03-23 Thread Lars Aronsson
It's common in Sweden to have wide sidewalks divided into half footway, half cycleway. This can happen on either or both sides of the street. Should this be tagged as highway=*;cycleway=lane? Technically speaking it isn't a lane because it's above the curb. How can I indicate which (or both)

Re: [OSM-talk] How to perfect the map

2008-03-23 Thread Lars Aronsson
Frederik Ramm wrote: > And there's of course the low-tech solution that involves a > compass, taking coordinates of one corner of the building and > then writing down "150 metres in direction 235°" or so (either > guessing the 150 metres or counting steps while walking). With > proper editor s

Re: [OSM-talk] Recent (last few weeks) [EMAIL PROTECTED] render changes

2008-03-23 Thread Lars Aronsson
80n wrote: > I've made the following changes: > 1) State borders are thicker > 2) Secondary roads are narrower and the colour saturation has been reduced > 3) Railway lines are a little blacker. I have no opinion, but will add an observation that inconsistent tagging makes for a similar or large

Re: [OSM-talk] Recent (last few weeks) [EMAIL PROTECTED] render changes

2008-03-23 Thread Alex Mauer
80n wrote: > I'm not sure about the secondary roads. At zoom 8, the previous render > looks good, but it gets overwhelming once zoomed out a bit. (starting > around zoom 6 I guess?) Maybe just the narrowing, without touching the > color would be better? Or maybe less reduction of th

Re: [OSM-talk] How to perfect the map

2008-03-23 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, > I have only found it possible to measure a building outline based on > aerial imagery - I've not managed to get a good enough image from a GPS. > I'm hoping that one day, video mapping (using match-moving as well as > GPS) may help. I've also heard people say that you might be able to deriv

Re: [OSM-talk] How to perfect the map

2008-03-23 Thread Robert (Jamie) Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lars Aronsson wrote: | All the wiki pages on "map features" describe how to add | denomination to an amenity=place_of_worship, but don't say when | a church should be drawn as a dot amenity or when the outlines of | the building (and surrounding park)

Re: [OSM-talk] Recent (last few weeks) [EMAIL PROTECTED] render changes

2008-03-23 Thread 80n
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 11:30 PM, Alex Mauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 80n wrote: > > Alex > > I've made some changes to the lowzoom stylesheet and done some test > > rendering. > > > > A small vertical strip in the middle of this tile has been re-rendered > > with the new stylesheet: > > http:

Re: [OSM-talk] Recent (last few weeks) [EMAIL PROTECTED] render changes

2008-03-23 Thread Alex Mauer
80n wrote: > Alex > I've made some changes to the lowzoom stylesheet and done some test > rendering. > > A small vertical strip in the middle of this tile has been re-rendered > with the new stylesheet: > http://b.tah.openstreetmap.org/Tiles/tile/8/67/98.png (south-west of > Cincinnati if you want

Re: [OSM-talk] Garmin maps with SRTM countours and OSM data?

2008-03-23 Thread Stephen Wing
I've tried this, and had all sorts of problems doing this myself, on my Windows machine. First of all, all the maps have to be in a single gmapsupp.img file, but can still be separate maps within that file, as long as you have combined them before converting to the Garmin format. Combining the SM

Re: [OSM-talk] Recent (last few weeks) [EMAIL PROTECTED] render changes

2008-03-23 Thread 80n
Alex I've made some changes to the lowzoom stylesheet and done some test rendering. A small vertical strip in the middle of this tile has been re-rendered with the new stylesheet: http://b.tah.openstreetmap.org/Tiles/tile/8/67/98.png (south-west of Cincinnati if you want to look at closer on a sli

Re: [OSM-talk] Garmin maps with SRTM countours and OSM data?

2008-03-23 Thread Igor Brejc
Hi David, David Ebling wrote: > Hi all, just wondering if anyone can help me - I want > to make a Garmin .IMG file of the whole of cumbria > that includes NASA SRTM data, as the IMG files from > here do: http://www.smc.org.uk/ContourMaps.htm but i'd > also like to have OSM road, footpath, cycle pa

Re: [OSM-talk] How to perfect the map

2008-03-23 Thread OJ W
I started doing a "checklist" of common features you might find around towns. It's not much of a techniques page yet, more hints on what to look out for when mapping a town. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Town_mapping pages like that might be useful as a cheat-sheet for common tags in v

[OSM-talk] highway = living_street does not render on Osmarender

2008-03-23 Thread Klaus-Guenter Leiss
Hello, as the subject says, highway = living_street does not render on Osmarender. Mapnik is OK. Klaus Leiss ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] How to perfect the map

2008-03-23 Thread Chris Hill
I have tried to draw large buildings by walking around them. This has problems due to access and problems due to losing the GPS signal in the signal shadow (canyoning). If you repeat this on different days the average sometimes helps but the building has to be large to not be swamped by the GPS

Re: [OSM-talk] Garmin maps with SRTM countours and OSM data?

2008-03-23 Thread Ludwig
On 23/03/2008, David Ebling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, just wondering if anyone can help me - I want > to make a Garmin .IMG file of the whole of cumbria > that includes NASA SRTM data, as the IMG files from > here do: http://www.smc.org.uk/ContourMaps.htm but i'd > also like to have OS

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping with a data logger

2008-03-23 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
El Domingo, 23 de Marzo de 2008, Mike Collinson escribió: > 2) I have a PDA with a GPS device built-in. Expensive but very > inconspicuous. Hhhmmm. What about a Nokia N95 with built-in GPS? -- -- Iván Sánchez Ortega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Proudly running Debian Lin

[OSM-talk] Garmin maps with SRTM countours and OSM data?

2008-03-23 Thread David Ebling
Hi all, just wondering if anyone can help me - I want to make a Garmin .IMG file of the whole of cumbria that includes NASA SRTM data, as the IMG files from here do: http://www.smc.org.uk/ContourMaps.htm but i'd also like to have OSM road, footpath, cycle path etc data on there too. The Garmin unit

Re: [OSM-talk] How to perfect the map

2008-03-23 Thread Andy Allan
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Lars Aronsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I went to > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Mapping_techniques Hmm. See below. > I > think we should make wiki pages that start with real world objects > instead of tags. This is something I've been campaig

[OSM-talk] How to perfect the map

2008-03-23 Thread Lars Aronsson
Until now I have mostly been mapping blank areas, traveling a road, uploading a track log and drawing the road for the first time. But I'm now coming back to my own town and the map looks very rough, not at all like those German cities. I tried now to sort out the footways of the cemetery nex

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping with a data logger

2008-03-23 Thread Mike Collinson
At 03:24 AM 23/03/2008, S Knox wrote: >Dear All, > >I'm going to Cuba in early April, and would like to map some of the roads >there. Unfortunately, I have discovered that GPS equiptment is not permitted >and anything found during searches will be confiscated, or at the very least >impounded un