On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 18:53 -0700, Sam Vekemans wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Sami Dalouche <sko...@free.fr> wrote: > > <snip> > > So, if you already have all the rendering machinery in place, > I would be > happy to create the scripts to regularly go fetch the maps you > render > and publish them onto some kind of user-centric website. > That would be awesome ! > > sami > > Yup it would :) ... yes they are routable, and your talking about 2 > different countries and 3 different states, and cycling / hiking / > routing / contour (topographical) which cover a big area. > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=43.41&lon=-74.69&zoom=7&layers=B000FTFT > (zoom in to where you like and click the Permalink button at the > bottom right corner) >
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=44.1481&lon=-71.6721&zoom=13&layers=B000FTF is an example of an area that is of interest to me. However, as I prefer simplicity of use over complete control, I prefer loading a 4GB SD card with the whole area I am possibly interested in (let's say, new england + NY + quebec), and then forget about it. Are you saying that it is an unreasonable use case ? > Contour + Hiking map/cycling - non-routable on MapSource is possable > hiking + routable (no contours on MapSource) is possable. > routable + contours on MapSource is not possable (because of licence > & proprietary software) When you say "possible/impossible on MapSource", do you mean "technically possible/impossible using Garmin's .img format" ? What is the licensing problem that prevents creating routable + contour maps ? > > However, transparent contour IMG files (that i'm making) can be used > as a background map (And a contour -only MapSource Installer and/or as > available IMG tiles., for any map that you want. (is also in progress) > I'm sorry I'm not yet familiar with the GPS I just got, but please let me rephrase that so I am sure to understand : "it is impossible to create a contour + routable + hiking on garmin, but you are circomventing this limitation by generating an additional transparent background map that can be overlaid on top of any other map, including hiking+routable". Is that what you mean ? Also, I wonder : what is the difference between the "contour map" that you talk about and garmin's official "topographic" maps ? Do the topographic map contain more information than the contour ? > Yup, Slowly but surely, this is the goal todo. In order to get to > that point, there is a WHOLE LOT of technical process that needs to be > done. > No doubt about that ;) The beauty of software development ;-) > To talk@ osm: In other words, I just need to get a .nsis script file > created using ground truth, (just like makemap has). I can do that > myself with an .iss file, but it will stall & is not automatic, other > than that were set on the back-end side. For the front-end. I have > it set to edting a txt file. and following dos command prompts. But > thats as technical as i know how. (& Because it is using outside > programs, the details i'll post on a blog or something) > > Cheers, > Sam > > Regards, Sami _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk