[OSM-talk] Street guide built from OSM data, looking for feedback

2010-07-22 Thread Hillsman, Edward
Our university's bicycle club is developing a map of bikeable routes from campus into nearby areas (we are located in a very car-centric setting). It would be very useful to have something like this for each of the major streets that has bike lanes, to make it easier for people to figure out

Re: [OSM-talk] Street guide built from OSM data, looking for feedback

2010-07-22 Thread john whelan
You can do this with the current renders, n the web page of the map click the plus sign and cycleways are an option to display, or something like Maperitive with a suitable set of rules, I have at least one that works nicely with Maperitive if the current default doesn't show it. The nice thing

[OSM-talk] Street guide built from OSM data, looking for feedback

2010-07-21 Thread Edward Betts
I wrote some code (in Python) to generate a very simple street guide using data from OpenStreetMap. Code here: http://github.com/EdwardBetts/streetguide/ Sample output here: http://edwardbetts.com/streetguide/ I just have five samples, all in London: Upper Street, Oxford Street, Regents Street,

Re: [OSM-talk] Street guide built from OSM data, looking for feedback

2010-07-21 Thread john whelan
I like the idea of listing the points of interest. I've been looking at Maperitive and the find-home command provided you know the value of the filed such as name its very easy to locate them. However you don't need a web site to do this you can run on a local map to the machine. Cheerio John

Re: [OSM-talk] Street guide built from OSM data, looking for feedback

2010-07-21 Thread Mike N.
output is very rough. You should see a map of the area on the left and a list of Points Of Interest on the right. The list of POIs includes nodes and ways, if you click on the name of a node it'll show you the location on the map. When clicking on a node, it would be handy to show the

Re: [OSM-talk] Street guide built from OSM data, looking for feedback

2010-07-21 Thread Steve Bennett
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Edward Betts o...@edwardbetts.com wrote: I'm interested in ideas about how to better organize the data, or for any other suggestions. IMHO this sort of thing is only useful when integrated into something else. Like making it a particular view on