[Talk-us] Tutorials and Project of the Week.

2010-09-14 Thread Richard Weait
Hi all, I'd like feedback on some recent tutorials for OSM Beginners and on some potential refinements for the Project of the Week. Please consider reading the new article, then replying to the three new poll questions. Comments welcome. http://weait.com/ Best regards, Richard

[Talk-us] a more compressed OSM?

2010-09-14 Thread jeremy jozwik
hello fellow mappers! for years i have been using my openmoko for my gps tracking mapping general screwing around. recently the device has lost its ability to read from the SD card so i have been viciously limited in the storage i have available for cached map tiles. right now i am limited to

Re: [Talk-us] a more compressed OSM?

2010-09-14 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 11:24 AM, jeremy jozwik jerjoz.for...@gmail.com wrote: hello fellow mappers! for years i have been using my openmoko for my gps tracking mapping general screwing around. recently the device has lost its ability to read from the SD card so i have been viciously limited

Re: [Talk-us] a more compressed OSM?

2010-09-14 Thread jeremy jozwik
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 8:38 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: Bummer about the SD card failure.  :( i wish it was just the card failing, it the card reader... You asked about tiles; I think CloudMade has mobile tiles that are smaller dimensions and fewer colours.  Check with them.

Re: [Talk-us] a more compressed OSM?

2010-09-14 Thread Paul Fox
richard wrote: On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 11:24 AM, jeremy jozwik jerjoz.for...@gmail.com wrote: hello fellow mappers! for years i have been using my openmoko for my gps tracking mapping general screwing around. recently the device has lost its ability to read from the SD card so i

Re: [Talk-us] a more compressed OSM?

2010-09-14 Thread jeremy jozwik
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Paul Fox p...@foxharp.boston.ma.us wrote: not mentioned in that list is RoadMap (http://roadmap.sourceforge.net) which was designed for on-the-fly rendering on small devices.  (a fork... seems like that would require a live connection to the net while out and

Re: [Talk-us] a more compressed OSM?

2010-09-14 Thread Paul Fox
jeremy wrote: On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Paul Fox p...@foxharp.boston.ma.us wrote: not mentioned in that list is RoadMap (http://roadmap.sourceforge.net) which was designed for on-the-fly rendering on small devices.  (a fork... seems like that would require a live connection to

Re: [Talk-us] a more compressed OSM?

2010-09-14 Thread Nick Black
Hi Guys, We are in the process of converting our mobile tiles to 8-bit. Many are 8 bit already - it makes things quite a bit faster. -- Nick n...@cloudmade.com On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Paul Fox p...@foxharp.boston.ma.us wrote: jeremy wrote:   On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Paul