Cheers Chris,<br><br>I'll take a look. <br><br>BTW, I think using OSM data to check/validate the FTP database would not cause the FTP data to become subject to the OSM license, as the OSM license does not explicitly mention checking/referencing, only re-use of the data. Which is good news for FTP.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/5/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Christopher Schmidt</b> <<a href="mailto:crschmidt@crschmidt.net">crschmidt@crschmidt.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-left: 0.80ex; border-left-color: #cccccc; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex">
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 10:44:52AM +0100, Nick Black wrote:<br>> On 7/4/06, Petter Reinholdtsen <<a href="mailto:pere@hungry.com">pere@hungry.com</a>> wrote:<br>> ><br>> >[Nick Black]<br>> >> This isn't strictly OSM, but as FTP is a sister project I thought
<br>> >> I'd bug you guys anyway. I've made a quick density map of the<br>> >> current FTP database, which can be found here:<br>> ><br>> >What about making a density map of the GPX files uploaded into OSM?
<br>> >It would be fun to know where the most points are submitted. :)<br>><br>><br>><br>> My guess - London. I'll take a look. I've been making these maps in<br>> ArcGIS, but I'd like to start using GRASS a lot more. Has anyone imported
<br>> the OSM XML into GRASS?<br><br>Yep.<br><br>> What would also be interesting would be to interpolate the points, set a<br>> threshold, and see how the thresholded surface compares to the lines formed<br>> by segments and ways. Before I start doing this has anyone tried it before?
<br><br>Yep. Some documentation on the wiki:<br><br><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Simplifying_OSM_Shapefiles">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Simplifying_OSM_Shapefiles</a><br><br>$THRESH in this case is a threshold value for simplification.
<br><br>The 'minscales' where these threshold values were indistinguishable from<br>the underlying map were:<br><br>osm_semgent_0.01: 3,000,000<br>osm_segment_0.005: 750,000<br>osm_segment_0.001: 200,000<br>osm_segment_0.005: 50,000
<br>osm_segment_0.0001: 20,000<br><br>The approximate line counts moved in a mostly linear fashion from 20,000<br>to 90,000.<br><br><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Converting_OSM_to_GML">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Converting_OSM_to_GML
</a> should let<br>you convert to GML, and from there to something like a shapefile, which<br>I think you can then load into GRASS.<br><br>(I did this all 4 months ago, so my memory may be hazy.)<br><br>--<br>Christopher Schmidt
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