Not too long ago I was in Ecuador at the Mitad del Mundo and noticed a
fairly significant discrepancy between my own GPS and an official marker.
The Mitad del Mundo is a monument setup to mark the equator, after which
Ecuador is named. Obviously the equator is a line, but this is a single
So essentially even the so-called 'scientific museum' was a sham/lie and the
experiments they showed-off were made up. The real equator is nearby, but
not where they said it was.
A positive implication: all the mapping that is done to higher accuracies
(10m) is meaningful.
On 26 January 2011
In 2001 (before OSM and Google Maps), I cofounded a travel
bloghttp://www.ballofdirt.comwebsite which featured its own maps (of
your trip locations) as they unwound
as a 'ball of string' across the 'ball of dirt' that is our world.
Dedication to the project has had its bursts, there is
For those of us who perhaps haven't watched all of the threads too
carefully, is there such a thing as a list of the issues the new ODbL was
intended to address (its pros) and the problems that those who wish to stick
to the CC-by-SA license perceive with the switch (cons)?
I haven't seen such a
Bus stations (including relations to describe which routes pass over those
stops) are already in place, but are there any provisions for all the meta-data
that might allow someone to create a route planning search that operates
entirely on public transport (and/or flights, ferries etc)?
On searching, I have seen several pages and proposals in the wiki for scuba
diving sites and for dive shops. I am currently tagging up the island of
Utila, Honduras, which is well known for its diving. What can I use as a basic
tag type for these two things (a dive location and a dive shop
Sweet! Thank you! Every bit of imported data helps, because it means
that there's one more person who knows how the process works, and who
can help spread the work of getting the topology right around (IMHO the
hardest part of the whole process).
Is there a chance you could document the
I am helping a media company to add geo-location to its articles, and thought
it might help speed the process of matching the requirements to a technology
provider (or set of technologies) by presenting it to the OSM community. I'm
hoping to stick to as many open technologies here as possible
I am tagging some buildings which contain multiple addresses in them, but not
interpolated
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.49994lon=-2.61296zoom=16layers=B000FTF
Since the listing of these numbers is long and sloppy, is it possible to use
the sub-proposal for ranges (e.g. 37-45) given
there are some obvious omissions and variations as you mentioned one that
stands out to me is the omission of the Rakaia River which is more than a
small creek!
I'm not entirely sure why these are not showing up. It's not a case of the
tags being missing, they are lacking in the original
Just spotted this - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8126197.stm
More - http://asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/ - this seems to be dead at the
moment mind...
Nice find! I notice they seem to have 'invested' in MS SQL Server for their
project:
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers
I've been working on the LINZ data import, on attribution/legal as well
as the actual import. The LINZ data I have is actually via the NZ
Open GPS project and is in Polish Map (.mp) format, which seems
to use Garmin types for its features.
I've hacked around with a few other scripts and have
I'm working on the LINZ data import, which will bring New Zealand's maps
forward in a huge leap and includes all roads, streets, various features
(parks, airports, streams, riverways etc).
LINZ gave OSM permission over a year ago to import the data, provided
attribution was passed on with the
One of the main annoyances that people tell me that they have with OSM
is that whenever they visit the site, the map shows them just the UK.I checked
it (from other random computers, not my laptop) when I was in Thailand and
Australia and it always showed the UK. Is the UK the default if IP
That would be my personal recommendation. I once made a small research on the
availability of
GPRS enabled devices (out f personal interest) and came to the conclusion
that they tend to be very expensive
for what they do.
So I would suggest:
Buy some good quality gpx trackers, that
I noticed while in Thailand recently that the OSM coverage there is pretty
poor, despite the fact that there is a big population there and it's a major
tourist destination too. It would be much easier to map things there if we had
sufficient GPX trails, and I got thinking that putting a GPS
I have a fairly large set of edits in Potlatch, but when I click 'save', I get
Sorry the connection to the Openstreetmap server failed. Any recent changes
have not been saved. Would you like to try again [retry] [cancel]. Obviously
my internet connectivity is fine, and I can bring up
How do you tag a drinking establishment that is not a pub? I'm thinking of
places where
* they typically don't serve food
* the name doesn't start with The or have Olde Worlde signs out the front
* the main drinks are often wine or cocktails, rather than pints of beer
* there may (or may
I've been enjoying sketching/tracing from Yahoo aerial imagery in Potlatch (hey
some people knit or do crosswords, I find _this_ relaxing!). I recently
discovered that the default 'highway' tag for roads taken from imagery is
highway=road (_not_ highway=unclassified as would seem logical!)
This might not be the most intelligent response but... How cool! All sorts of
people conversing and processing our world, its senses and messages... I love
technology, I love ideas, I love possibilities, communication and maps Now
if Google would stop being so evil with their licensing
On
Where did this idea go in the end? It seems the talk about it petered-out, or
was some action agreed (along with who was going to undertake it)?
Given the US have forgotten to keep the GPS system up to date, maybe
we need a few satelites of our own to replace it... Or maybe we can
use
Where did this idea go in the end? It seems the talk about it petered-out, or
was some action agreed (along with who was going to undertake it)?
On 18 May 2009, at 13:36, MP singular...@gmail.com wrote:
In addition to actively pursuing further experiments for the MOD and BNSC,
the consortium
I like the idea of the language element. I would like to add an extra
precision in this case. I think the order of language should be by
importance.
Unfortunately, in this case namely the country, it is something highly
political to even consider an order. But, in the case of a town located
Is the weekly Mapnik rendering process still running after the upgrade to
API 0.6? If so, which day is it scheduled for?
It will still occurs on Wednesdays. I have started off the import this
evening so it should begin rendering the latest changes tomorrow.
so it's normally on a cron
Out of interest, since Mapnik seems to process the entire world quite
quickly, why is it not invoked when a tile is dirty, like osmarender?
It is. Either a tile is requested in real-time (if it doesn't exist) or is
queued if the tile is old (via render_old). mod_tile is an amazing piece
Is the weekly Mapnik rendering process still running after the upgrade to API
0.6? If so, which day is it scheduled for?
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Yes, Martin is right.
Cannot parse valid node from xml string node id=26374527
action=modify timestamp=2007-11-30T04:11:44Z user=kresp0
visible=true changeset=339 lat=51.5006728 lon=-0.1244324
tag k=tourism v=attraction/
tag k=name v=Big Ben/
tag k=clock v=big/
I will be trekking in Nepal later this year, and would like to keep some nice
GPX trails and waypoints (both on the trekking trails and in the towns/roads),
since it looks relatively unmapped... I usually use a windows mobile device
with a bluetooth GPS but this strikes me as way to flimsy
to keep track
of how far (and high) we're going and whether or not waypoints have already
been marked...
From: Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) ajrli...@googlemail.com
To: Joe Richards ten...@penski.net; talk@openstreetmap.org
Sent: Thursday, 16 April, 2009 17
I have a 2GB SD card in my Legend and have the whole OSM map of Europe plus
a year of tracklogs on it and there is still room for loads more. One micro
SD card should be more than enough for your trip.
What's the best way to load OSM or convert maps on the Garmins, and ideally
include
It appears to be hanging on a minor technicality, ie attribution of the
datasource. Since this is potentially a huge advance for New Zealand
mapping, what is exactly the sticking point, ie do LINZ really require
a notification on the map while being browsed? Or is just having the
A more serious problem with that would probably be that OSM in turn
would have to require anyone who reuses OSM data to also show the
attribution on the map. This would make OSM practically useless for
users such as GPS vendors, and also would have to be mentioned in
license terms.
So I think we
I have been doing some mapping in New Zealand recently, and came across the
page which discusses a potential import of all the roads and streets in New
Zealand in one fell swoop, thanks to Land Information New Zealand/LINZ giving
the go-ahead for this.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/LINZ
I've got an iPhone dev certificate and a mac - but to be honest, you can just
install the open toolchain, or if you really must - osx86 (aka hackintosh) -
and develop on that...
From: Ian Dees [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: OSM Talk talk@openstreetmap.org
Sent:
You can get python installed if your iphone is jailbroken via the Cydia
installer (apt-get Debian style but for the iPhone). I think you're imagining
a slippy map via the browser though right? The problem is that when you drag
on the browser, it scrolls the view (rather than activating a
Anyone who has played with an iPhone will have seen the Google maps
application, which provides much of the functionality of the Javascript web
app, while giving quite a good tactile feel It also uses wireless
triangulation - or if available, GPS - to show search results for things that
It would be useful if there were some common mapping scenarios in the wiki, as
a library of examples of common problems encountered and their efficient
solution, almost like a story rather than a tag dictionary. This could include
information like:
* the way the data was captured (type of GPS
I am putting in a tourist attraction - elephant trekking in Thailand - since
it's the kind of thing that when you visit you would want to know about, but
how do I tag it?
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