User:Coomba

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• Kaltental on OSM
• Kaltental on Informationfreeway
• Kaltental on Openrouteservice
• OpenStreetBugs Stuttgart
• Stuttgart Wiki
• Map_Features
• Deutsche Presse
• Tagwatch Stuttgart
• Map blending

21.6.2008 OSM at "Tag der Wissenschaft"

I noticed, that the computing center of the University of Stuttgart offer free poster printing service during the "Tag der Wissenschaft". So I quickly compiled a nice image with the Stuttgart city map (osmarender, zoom level 15, about 36 MPixels). Unfortunately, they didn't manage to print it during the event, but two days later, I got a nice printout with 1.5m x 1.5m in size! :)

And now, my office is a little bit greener :)

26.5.2008 Mapping Verbania

I've had the opportunity to spend 5 hours in surveying a small Italian city called Verbania.

Here is the result:

Only two roads before mapping:

After 5 hours of surveying:

The survey was done in 4 sessions:

• During a walk. However, I verified all of these roads later by bike.
• During a bike tour to the Monterosso. Mapped only the traveled roads and the small medieval village called Cavadone.
• 2.5 hours survey by bike
• 2 hours survey by foot

About 240 ways were uploaded. That is roughly 70 seconds of surveying time per way.

GPS reception is very poor in small Italian alleys. I didn't bring paper and pencil - some some alleys might be wrong

The southern part is almost completed. Only some small alleys are missing in Pallanza.

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Bike Mapping

With the current state of the maps in my region, I'm currently thinking of a convenient setup to check and fix maps rather than doing massive data collection.

• I use now JOSM/Plugins/AgPifoJ which is very nice. Won't develop my own plugin.
• Still looking for a nice helmet camera, handling digicams on a bike is cumbersome.
  • http://www.camerahacker.com/directory/Hacks.shtml
  • http://martybugs.net/photography/remote.cgi
  • http://digitalcameras.hackaday.com/category/digital-cameras-hacks/
• User:LA2 built some bike mapping equipment
• http://twiki.ljudmila.org/bin/view/Luka/FridaV
• Hardware

Verifying the map with a Garmin mapping handheld

I wrote a ruby script for encoding some of the most important tags into the street names. After annotation of the streetnames, you can make a garmin map with mkgmap and start checking these tags with you garmin handheld.

Currently the annotations are encoded as follows:

annotated_name = [prefix] [streetname without suffix "strasse"] [postfix]
prefix = [highway_type][tracktype][bridge_tunnel_layer] [oneway] [cycleway_info] [access_rights]
postfix = [maxspeed][maxweight]...
highway_type = "R" for residential, "U" for unclassified, there are also "S", "P", "F", "C", "T" and many more
tracktype = grade "1" to "5"
bridge_tunnel_layer = for example: B1, T-2, etc.
oneway = "O" for oneway
cycleway_info = "track":CT, "opposite_track":COT and so on
access_rights = ([access_mode][right])*
access_mode = (C)ar, (M)otorcycle, (B)icycle, "F" for foot and so on
right = (P)ermissive, pri(V)ate, (N)o, ..
max* = (S)peed, (W)eight, (H)eight followed by the number

Examples:

S O Boeblinger S50 : highway=secondary, name=Boeblinger Strasse, oneway=yes, maxspeed=50
U T-1 BNFN Fooweg : unclassified, tunnel, layer=-1, no bike, no foot
L AD Bargasse : living_street, access=destination

Here is an annotated garmin map for Baden Wuerttemberg

Thoughts

• The ultimate OSM application
  • Must be platform independent and easy to install (Java/Eclipse RCP best candidate?)
  • Seamless, accelerated zooming and passing of the map (OpenGL?)
    • Lower levels: Rendered pixel data
    • Higher zoom levels: Vector data
  • Instantly show edits in OSM data base
  • Low zoom pixel data may be shared over a server (T@H idea)
  • Higher zoom levels are always rendered on client side (may be uploaded for web-users)
  • Supporting tiles@home with background rendereing, if idle
  • Direct editing on higher zoom levels
    • basic editing: Tamplates / Tagging for the pro's
  • Offline use possible
  • Mapping/Routing applications
    • Managing routes and tours
    • GPS-interaction
    • Dynamic map content (Public transport animation?)

• 3D
  • OpenGL 3D, SRTM terrain and landsat data
  • Just like Google Earth would be ideal ;)