[OSM-talk] Street guide built from OSM data, looking for feedback
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 what is worth riding to and what is nearby. Maybe put a URL along each route on the paper map to link to it, and links to it from the club's online version of the map (which we will be extracting from OSM) Ed Edward L. Hillsman, Ph.D. Senior Research Associate Center for Urban Transportation Research University of South Florida 4202 Fowler Ave., CUT100 Tampa, FL 33620-5375 813-974-2977 (tel) 813-974-5168 (fax) hills...@cutr.usf.edu http://www.cutr.usf.edu 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. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Street guide built from OSM data, looking for feedback
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 about Maperitive and custom rules is you decide exactly what is shown, so just put cycleways, pubs, 24 hr supermarkets and book shops in the rules and you end up with a customised student map. Cheerio John On 22 July 2010 08:42, Hillsman, Edward hills...@cutr.usf.edu wrote: 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 what is worth riding to and what is nearby. Maybe put a URL along each route on the paper map to link to it, and links to it from the club's online version of the map (which we will be extracting from OSM) Ed Edward L. Hillsman, Ph.D. Senior Research Associate Center for Urban Transportation Research University of South Florida 4202 Fowler Ave., CUT100 Tampa, FL 33620-5375 813-974-2977 (tel) 813-974-5168 (fax) hills...@cutr.usf.edu http://www.cutr.usf.edu 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. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
[OSM-talk] Street guide built from OSM data, looking for feedback
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, Covent Garden and Brick Lane. It works in Firefox and Google Chrome, but not yet in Internet Explorer. The 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. I show extra tags on the node or way. Nodes link to their page in the openstreetmap browse interface, I will add the same for ways. Does this look useful, has anybody else done something similar? I plan to filter out some more of the more borrowing nodes and ways. I'm mostly interested in shops, restaurants, amenities and stations. Things I should add: - Use Nominatim to search for street names and let people generate new guides. - Find nearest station for subway entrances. - Don't include house number if street name is not included. - Improve the HTML and CSS. If you want me to see some more samples send me the bounding box you want, no need to send it to the mailing list. Like this: -0.10849,51.53161,-0.10047,51.54661 I'm interested in ideas about how to better organize the data, or for any other suggestions. -- Edward. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Street guide built from OSM data, looking for feedback
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 On 21 July 2010 02:43, Edward Betts o...@edwardbetts.com wrote: 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, Covent Garden and Brick Lane. It works in Firefox and Google Chrome, but not yet in Internet Explorer. The 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. I show extra tags on the node or way. Nodes link to their page in the openstreetmap browse interface, I will add the same for ways. Does this look useful, has anybody else done something similar? I plan to filter out some more of the more borrowing nodes and ways. I'm mostly interested in shops, restaurants, amenities and stations. Things I should add: - Use Nominatim to search for street names and let people generate new guides. - Find nearest station for subway entrances. - Don't include house number if street name is not included. - Improve the HTML and CSS. If you want me to see some more samples send me the bounding box you want, no need to send it to the mailing list. Like this: -0.10849,51.53161,-0.10047,51.54661 I'm interested in ideas about how to better organize the data, or for any other suggestions. -- Edward. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Street guide built from OSM data, looking for feedback
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 location on the map on the left side. I plan to filter out some more of the more borrowing nodes and ways. I'm mostly interested in shops, restaurants, amenities and stations. I have started using OSM data and have a general request for EVERYONE writing filters and queries for restaurants: although OSM has a handy classification amenity=fast_food, provide an option to group this category with amenity=restaurant , cuisine=all.I've seen this separated in almost all OSM POI browsers, and it's very awkward and unintuitive to have the fast_food filter separate, or worse, buried under a completely different filter tree than restaurants. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Street guide built from OSM data, looking for feedback
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 openstreetmap.org. Perhaps that was already your intention. Looks like it has potential, anyway. Steve ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
