Hello,<br>Just a quick update and I'm gone.<br><br>There's now a "light" v0 version:<br><br>V0: one summarized placemark per user at the last known position (very low fat, should work on all machines running Google Earth)<br>
v1: the most detailed one (a placemark per node). Without feedback I've stopped pushing world daily v1 on the server (see archives or produce them yourself if you want: it takes one or two minutes to crunch for a big world day on my PC).<br>
v2: no placemarks but lines (lighter that v1)<br><br>There's also a list of "live" network links on the site (<a href="http://code.google.com/p/osmlab/">http://code.google.com/p/osmlab/</a>)<br>If you want to refresh a link manually find the network link in the GE folder, right click, "refresh"<br>
<br><a href="http://www.fxfoo.com/osm/kml/world-minute-v1-networkLink.kml">http://www.fxfoo.com/osm/kml/world-minute-v1-networkLink.kml</a><br><a href="http://www.fxfoo.com/osm/kml/world-day-v0-networkLink.kml">http://www.fxfoo.com/osm/kml/world-day-v0-networkLink.kml</a><br>
<a href="http://www.fxfoo.com/osm/kml/world-hour-v0-networkLink.kml">http://www.fxfoo.com/osm/kml/world-hour-v0-networkLink.kml</a><br><a href="http://www.fxfoo.com/osm/kml/world-hour-v2-networkLink.kml">http://www.fxfoo.com/osm/kml/world-hour-v2-networkLink.kml</a><br>
<a href="http://www.fxfoo.com/osm/kml/france-day-v0-networkLink.kml">http://www.fxfoo.com/osm/kml/france-day-v0-networkLink.kml</a><br><a href="http://www.fxfoo.com/osm/kml/france-day-v2-networkLink.kml">http://www.fxfoo.com/osm/kml/france-day-v2-networkLink.kml</a><br>
<br>For info the network-links don't have yet the stats summary when clicking on the name of the kml (that individual KMLs have).<br><br>-<br><br>I'll make a little pause here, having some OSM mapping to catch and more "responsive" projects I want to invest my energy into. Nerver-the-less I wonder how much the lack of interest in "awareness" tools in OSM will have an impact on the holes Ed Parsons predicts:<br>
<a href="http://www.edparsons.com/?p=609">http://www.edparsons.com/?p=609</a><br>(Sure the OSM growth is exponential but among which population, only/mainly alpha-geeks?)<br><br>Anyway, happy mapping ...>[] (I'm already gone)<br>
<br>francois<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 11:39 PM, François Schnell <<a href="mailto:francois.schnell@gmail.com">francois.schnell@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hello list and fellow mappers. I guess it's my first post here even if
I map and follow the list for over a year I think (I'm sometimes on
IRC).<br>
<br>
<ant rant><br>
<br>
I love OSM but I miss a quick and easy way to smell your pheromones guys (ie recent activity around me to spot active mappers,<br>
adapt/motivate myself in consequence, have local statistics, eventually monitor/spot 'obvious' 'vandalism'). <br>
<br>
I think a quick awareness is important for a project like OSM and I'd
love to see that aspect more developed/encouraged in the future.<br>
<br>
For bottom-up emergent systems like a 'simple' anthill or a beehive
it's even capital. The anthill is very efficient and well structured
(nursery, cemetery,...) not because of a savant top-down architect but
mainly because two conditions are met: critical mass (having enough
ants) and the quality of the local communications/status between
members (the pheromones). So I don't say we're ants-like and OSM is en
emergent system but I think it certainly has some bottom-up stuff and a
quick local mapping awareness could help.<br>
<br></ant rant>
<br><br>Anyway, to fulfill my junkie need for pheromones I've played with the .osc files (change sets) provided here:<br>
<a href="http://planet.openstreetmap.org/" target="_blank">http://planet.openstreetmap.org/</a><br>
<br>
The current - work in progress - result is here:<br>
<a href="http://code.google.com/p/osmlab/" target="_blank">http://code.google.com/p/osmlab/</a><br>
<a href="http://www.fxfoo.com/osm/kml/" target="_blank">http://www.fxfoo.com/osm/kml/</a><br>
<br>
So basically by charming the Python snake I extract informations from
the .osc files (minutes, hours and days ) and produce a bunch of kml (for quick and "dynamic" visualization in Google Earth for
example).<br>
<br>
Before any eventual ant get too excited be aware that:<br>
<br>
- the kml doesn't show "ways", the tool is not intended for mapping or
comparing (I think an "OSMtoKML" tool already exist anyway). I'm just
interested in seeing/smelling your current pheromones , that's all ;) <br>
- the Hour and Day kml are *big* since I render every node in the first
version (either placemarks or lines). On my desktop Core2Duo2.4Ghz/2Go,
VistaBox and MacBookLaptop, it's ok (but bellow 2Go I doubt it would be
a nice experience. I'll produced a much smaller daily/hourly KML soon
for those who don't have a "gaming" PC (by summarizing nearby nodes) <br>
- if you encounter a forbidden access on the latest daily/hourly kml
retry in a minute (hours/days are still processed on my Vista desktop
and send to the Ubuntu server through my ISP limited upload speed ,
you shouldn't encounter that with minutes which are processed directly
on the server)<br><br>- generally (yellow, blue, red) stands for (created, modified, deleted)<br>
- generally clicking on the name of the KML in GE brings a statistics
summary, you also can expand the folder to have more informations<br>
- clicking on a placemark gives information about the node and links to the associated user and the OSM map<br><br>
Minutes KMLs should be accessible to every machine. <br>
There's also a "live" world-minute network link here:<br>
<a href="http://www.fxfoo.com/osm/kml/world-minute-v1-networkLink.kml" target="_blank">http://www.fxfoo.com/osm/kml/world-minute-v1-networkLink.kml</a><br>
In Google Earth it will automatically update itself with the latest
minute available and you should see the latest mappers activity<br>
<br>
For developers or power users the command line tool is written in Python and should work on
Win/OSX/Linux. If you have some Python notions you should be able to
modify/extend the app. to create you own kml (or something else). There
are some handy parameters/variables available to change things like the
elevation, colors, transparency, line thickness, icons... You can also
directly edit a kml in a text editor and change the styles at the
beginning of the files (colors, etc).<br>
<br>
if you experience any bug thanks to let me know on the project site '"issues" or send me a mail.<br>
Thanks also for eventual feedback/ideas.<br>
<br>
francois<br>
<br>
PS:<br>
What I plan to do "soonish" is:<br>
- the slim-down daily/hourly<br>
- networks links for daily/hourly<br>
- getting the kml sexier and trying orher kml (density image overlay, use of the time slider in GE)<br>
- a web front-end
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