<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br>Export is a very significant feature development, going to change the nature of OSM significantly, for the better. Raddd!<br><br>I'd like to see GPS export. Anyone want to work together on a mkgmap service? Or does one exist already?<br><br>Tom, does the Export interface allow for offline processing of requests? It might become easier to simply add long running requests to a queue. At the least, some email address or user id would need to be passed through, for notification of a completed job.<br><br>-Mikel<br><br><br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Tom Hughes <tom@compton.nu><br>To: dev@openstreetmap.org<br>Sent:
Monday, April 21, 2008 2:31:39 AM<br>Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] [OSM-talk] New Export Tab<br><br>
In message <<a ymailto="mailto:24642.83.43.179.8.1208769530.squirrel@webmail.escomposlinux.org" href="mailto:24642.83.43.179.8.1208769530.squirrel@webmail.escomposlinux.org">24642.83.43.179.8.1208769530.squirrel@webmail.escomposlinux.org</a>><br> Iván Sánchez Ortega <<a ymailto="mailto:ivansanchez@escomposlinux.org" href="mailto:ivansanchez@escomposlinux.org">ivansanchez@escomposlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br><br>> <quote who="Axel von Matern"><br>>> - Is it possible to import the XML-file into Illustrator?<br>><br>> Related question:<br>><br>> Would it be possible/easy to export a shapefile, or GML, or KML, or any<br>> other professional-looking format?<br><br>Well, ignoring for the time being that little dig about what might or<br>might constitute "professional looking", the problem (as I understand<br>it) is that none of those formats is, in and off them themself, enough<br>for an export
format.<br><br>What I mean is that you can't just say "export to a shapefile" on it's<br>own - you have to define some sort of style that controls what attributes<br>you put on objects on the shapefile (or KML or GML file) and how those<br>are derived from the OSM data.<br><br>I do have some plans for additional formats, but none of those are<br>high on my list. If on the other hand somebody wants to provide a <br>web service that returns such data for a given bounding box, then it<br>is relatively easy to add them to the UI.<br><br>Tom<br><br>-- <br>Tom Hughes (<a ymailto="mailto:tom@compton.nu" href="mailto:tom@compton.nu">tom@compton.nu</a>)<br><a href="http://www.compton.nu/" target="_blank">http://www.compton.nu/</a><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>dev mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:dev@openstreetmap.org" href="mailto:dev@openstreetmap.org">dev@openstreetmap.org</a><br><a
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