[Accessibility] Getting know

[Peter Vágner]

Hello,
Sorry guys for going a bit off topic.
I think currently osm has the most accessible and conprehensive mapping 
data for my region, that is central slovakia.
What I am using currently is loadstone gps on a nokia E52.
I've downloaded the whole slovakia as an osm file, used loadstone tools 
http://code.google.com/p/loadstonetools/ to generate the data suitable 
for loadstone import.
Finally I've used dbshell http://sites.google.com/site/garawaa/ to 
create a loadstone database on the PC
Currently I do have proper intersections and POIs in my loadstone 
database and I am verry happy about it.

I know this doesn't talk about future improvements and sounds rather 
selfish but I feel it's good to thank you all the osm contributors 
because witch such an incredible coverage this way we might be able to 
enhance just any navigational app of choice.

Greetings

Peter


On 26.2.2012 16:29, Jan Hegr  wrote:
> Hi Peter.
>
>> I am the programmer of the Lalm project. You tried it already in the 
>> current state?
>> [...]
>> If you (and others on this list and elsewhere) tell me, that lalm is 
>> already used actively and you prefer to have worldwide coverage 
>> before having at least a little bit better descriptions, please tell 
>> me that. I didn't yet think about it being useful in the current state.
>
> Unfortunately, I haven't try it yet. I just have read so many about it 
> that I thought it's giving a reasonable output already. And ofcourse, 
> it's better to test it on a piece of world I know - to compare the 
> output to the reality. If it's gathering data via the Overpass-api, it 
> seems it shouldn't be a problem to try it on any area (rather small) I 
> can think of. Or do I miss something?
> Please, where can I see it run to make a better notion?
>
>> Adding tags to existing objects should be fairly straight forward, 
>> but adding objects could be more complicated probably, as I don't 
>> have the best idea yet how to check in a text based user interface if 
>> the relative position is accurate or not.
>
> I was rather curious about how it works (if it does) than having a 
> concrete solution, but I will think of it. As you say, adding new 
> nodes could sometimes do more harm than gain.
> I can imagine one could fix the point relative to two (or three) 
> mapped objects and known distance. I'll let you know when I think it 
> over.
>
> Thanks for your quick response.
> Jan
>
>
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