On 10/23/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Niccolo Rigacci</b> <<a href="mailto:niccolo@rigacci.org">niccolo@rigacci.org</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi to everybody!<br><br>I uploaded some GPX tracks and played a little with the Java map<br>editor on the web.<br>The major troubles i found are:<br><br>- The applet is slow on my 2.4 GHz box (Linux, Firefox, SUN Jre)</blockquote>
<div><br>Hmm... it shouldn't be, but people keep saying it is, so I believe you :) I've had some troubles with my laptop recently too. <br><br>I'm looking into it, but aside from the issues with how it works by design* I think the only things we can do are limit the console output and optimise some of the drawing. With JOSM Imi has used a different approach which doesn't require lots of redrawing of images and I'd love to see it as an applet when it's ready...
<br><br>* I designed the applet the way it is (using Processing) because I wanted lots of flexibility with rendering, and I wanted it to look like a finished map. It was all about the interactive features - typing into street names, scrolling through multiple sets of GPS data from multiple contributors, animating the progress of an area over time, etc. But that was probably overkill for the main functions. That's why it's slow anyway, it's essentially an interactive animation, but that's probably the wrong approach for a drawing tool :(
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">- If I have some GPX that are already edited and cleaned, can I<br>upload them directly without the upload and edit steps?
</blockquote><div><br>It's not currently possible with the tools I know about, but I know it's how Nick prefers to work so I suspect we will support it in the future. The issue is what to do if roads already exist - I keep going on about this because I think it's really hard but people keep asking for it.
<br><br>You can, I think, use HTTP to POST segments to the API. Perhaps we should write up how to do this with wget or curl, with the proviso that people check what exists in the area before doing it?<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
- Is possible to display segments between dots of uploaded tracks<br>during map editing? I have several tracks recorded on roads with<br>several roundabouts, sometimes dots resemble simply sparse dots<br>instead of a track...
</blockquote><div><br>This should be possible, especially now tracks are cached as images, though personally I'd like to see it as an option - Steve?<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I'm interested on routes around Florence, Italy.</blockquote><div><br>So am I, it's a beautiful part of the world :)<br><br>Tom.<br><br></div></div>