- Synced the tile generation xml with upstream (fixes a/b/trunk road colouring)
- installed apache2-mpm-prefork on tile. -worker causes problems with multiprocessor machines and mod_ruby (fixes broken tiles not downloading)
- removed the old mapnik layer and wms-c. Moved mapnik tiles to a nicer place (not /test/).
- some mapping party organising (see following post in just a sec)
- Brought the rails front page up to what the current one looks like.
- Replied to a ton of email and did some conference organising stuff – looking good
- Initial steps of importing an OSM dump in to the rails port to see what’s left to do and if it succeeds.
OSM progress animation
Tim Payne writes ‘I’ve been playing around with the latest planet.osm to see what the overall coverage is like. […] 1 frame = 1 month. Goes from Feb 05 to Jan 07.’:
Podcast: Geospatial Vision
I previously blogged about geospatial vision and the cool things they’re doing. I got the chance to go up and talk to them and this podcast with their technical director, Geoff Cross is the result. Have a look at their site to get a better idea. Enjoy!
OSMonth: Day 16
- Brought the mapnik db map layer on the front page up. It automagically renders data if it’s not there or if it’s too old.
- done some more organising of the various upcoming parties, see previous post for one bit
- deploying Nick Burch’s applet fixes… done. Also added a little ant task to sign the jars.
- edited down the geospatial vision podcast (see next post). Might be able to get some audio out of talking to people at the pub at the oxford meetup too, not sure yet.
- good IRC meet about the OSM international conference organised by andy robinson, lots of little jobs to fulfill!
London mapping party
multimap have kindly agreed to let us use their office for the upcoming mapping party in London. We should be able to get some good data, so come along!
OSM in google earth
You can now transform OSM data in to KML, the format used by google earth:
Ed Parsons interviews
Couple of Ed Parsons interviews which mention that mapping thingy: Nestoria blog and e-consultancy.com.
JOSM goes Applet
Hi,
Practically nobody knowed it, but JOSM had a possibility built in to be launched as an applet. This was implemented many month ago. Now I finally got myseld into fixing the last problems (including a bit of server hacking) and made a demonstration setup.
You can either use the standard login or create your own at http://www.openstreetmap.de. Note, that this is currently a test server and so your entered data, including your account, is thrown away after some time (unless we decide otherwise). On the good news, feel free to browse around, it will not disturb the main server in any way (hopefully).
I also setup a Testserver API of the upcoming Version 0.4 (the Ruby on Rails thingie Steve is coding on). It runs in development mode, so a) data may be resetted frequently and b) it is not a clever target for doing benchmarks.
JOSM-Applet: http://www.openstreetmap.de/josm
Testserver: http://www.openstreetmap.de:3000/api
Testserver API (0.4): http://www.openstreetmap.de:3000/api
Try it out! It won’t bite you.
Ciao, Imi.
OSM on a mobile
richard sent me this pic a while ago:
It’s from someones mobile at the xmas 2006 OSM meetup. It’s an osmarendered image put in to some magic app on a nokia mobile… If anyone remembers more info please add it to the comments. Anyway, a sign of things to come?
Map licensing, a view from the inside
An interesting post on the view from inside on licensing data.
If this data was owned collectively (that is to say, was not owned at all) and such basic factual documents were not seen as money making opportunities we would have so many advantages. Instead, we have a situation where hundreds of hours are being wasted simply because of outdated business models sadly adopted by our government. On top of this, such restrictions are stifling innovation. Google Maps may be able to afford to licence the OS data but the average bedroom developer cannot and so there is a less than optimal level of development in this area.
