I have been wondering what the license is on the gps points? is it affected by the change? mike
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Ilya Zverev <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > As you know, almost half a year ago a GPX Planet was released ( > http://blog.osmfoundation.**org/2012/04/01/bulk-gps-point-**data/<http://blog.osmfoundation.org/2012/04/01/bulk-gps-point-data/>). > At the time I expressed a hope that someone would process that file, making > tile layer and regional extracts. Alas, in those months the file has only > been statistically analyzed (thanks to Pascal Neis and Steven Kay), but no > practical use for that array of data has been found. Well, as they say, OSM > is do-ocracy: if you want something, the only way to get it is to do it > yourself. So, after several weeks of coding and impatiently waiting for > processing to finish, I present to you: > > 1) A tile layer of GPS points for the whole world down to zoom 11: > http://zverik.osm.rambler.ru/**gps/ <http://zverik.osm.rambler.ru/gps/> > 2) Regional extracts, so you won't have to wait several hours cutting your > country out of the planet dump: http://zverik.osm.rambler.ru/** > gps/files/extracts/ <http://zverik.osm.rambler.ru/gps/files/extracts/> > 3) All tools that were used to build that map and those extracts: > http://svn.openstreetmap.org/**applications/utils/gps-tracks/** > gpxplanet_tools/<http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/utils/gps-tracks/gpxplanet_tools/> > 4) A nice poster with GPS points, some statistics and interesting facts: > http://zverik.osm.rambler.ru/**gps/files/world-gps-points-** > 120604-2048.png<http://zverik.osm.rambler.ru/gps/files/world-gps-points-120604-2048.png> > > What are uses of this? By this time I found two: > > a) Now you can adjust your trip plans to collect GPS tracks where there > are none in OpenStreetMap database. Sorry, Germany, it's almost impossible > in your country. But I was surprised to find some untrodden secondary and > even primary roads in hilly regions not far from my city. > > b) The redaction bot has removed not only whole objects, but a lot of > nodes from inside highways. Overlaying the OSM layer with GPS points map > makes it very clear where a road deviates from GPS tracks, because the bot > ate some of its nodes, or because it was straightened by road workers, and > the mapper who updated it didn't bother to upload a fresh track. > > And since the GPS tile layer is useful for restoring the road network, > I've made tiles up to zoom 15 for Poland, with green dots for using in > JOSM. Just add tms[15]:http://zverik.osm.**rambler.ru/gps/poland/{zoom}/{* > *x}/{y}.png<http://zverik.osm.rambler.ru/gps/poland/%7Bzoom%7D/%7Bx%7D/%7By%7D.png>as > a TMS layer, and you're good. > > I hope to see more uses to the GPX Planet, and to see it updated more > often. Also, I'd like to remind Ian and Grant about their unfinished tool: > https://github.com/iandees/**planet-gpx-dump/<https://github.com/iandees/planet-gpx-dump/>;) > > Thanks, > IZ > > ______________________________**_________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.**org/listinfo/talk<http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk> > -- James Michael DuPont Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova http://flossk.org <http://flossk.org>Saving wikipedia(tm) articles from deletion http://SpeedyDeletion.wikia.com Contributor FOSM, the CC-BY-SA map of the world http://fosm.org Mozilla Rep https://reps.mozilla.org/u/h4ck3rm1k3
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