[talk-au] Osmarender
Brent Easton
b.easton at exemail.com.au
Thu Sep 27 01:30:53 BST 2007
Hi Lachlan,
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On 27/09/2007 at 10:05 AM Lachlan Rogers wrote:
>Brent,
>
>Its actually not me doing the WA border, and I don't know who is doing
>it. If its going well then that sounds great.
Looks like user TRS-80. I'm not sure who this is, but they seem to be doing the right thing.
>I had a go at doing a lowzoom render, but the process got killed due
>to (I think) my machine running out of memory. I have 1.5 GB of RAM
>and 1G of swap - should lowzoom really use all of this up?
Shouldn't be a problem, my 1Gb windoze XP PC is happily running 6 of them concurrently as I write this.
>If I get any time I'll contribute to the Yahoo tracing of the Murray
>River. Although I live in the ACT, I haven't come across any easy way
>to get the ACT border - we'll have to work something out.
>Thanks for your rendering efforts - the Australian map is starting to
>look quite good.
>
>- Lachlan
>
>
>
>On 9/26/07, Brent Easton <b.easton at exemail.com.au> wrote:
>> Hi Lachlan,
>>
>> Is that you working on rendering the WA border? I'll leave that to you.
>>
>> I have finished everything else on the map. I;ll run a bunch of lowzooms
>tonight.
>>
>> We still need:
>>
>> - The rest of the Murray on the VIC/NSW border (Yahoo tracing, slow,
>but doable).
>> - The Eastern end of the NSW/QLD Border. (tricky)
>> - The main ACT border. (tricky)
>>
>> I am about to finish off the Jervis Bay ACT border. I have a terrific
>old 1935 world atlas that is proving very helpful for this one.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Brent.
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>>
>> On 25/09/2007 at 12:45 PM Lachlan Rogers wrote:
>>
>> >I'm running Linux, and have ImageMagick installed. I have perl v5.8.8
>> >built for i686-linux.
>> >
>> >The ctrl-click trick is very helpful for finding the tile numbers at
>> >low zoom levels. I'll try doing a low zoom render, and see how it
>> >goes.
>> >
>> >Thanks,
>> >Lachlan
>> >
>> >
>> >On 9/25/07, Brent Easton <b.easton at exemail.com.au> wrote:
>> >> Lachlan,
>> >>
>> >> >Port Phillip Bay looks great! Last week I had a play with the
>> >> >oceantiles file and tried to render water in the middle of the bay,
>> >> >but it didn't work. I'm not exactly sure why. I was only editing my
>> >> >local copy of the oceantiles file, as I don't have svn write access.
>> >> >Could this be my problem?
>> >>
>> >> The local editing should be ok as long as you run the png2tileinfo.pl
>> >script and copy the new oceantiles.dat file up to into the tilesathome
>> >directory.
>> >>
>> >> I had problems with the water also. In the end I cheated. There where
>a
>> >handful of tiles that would not generate water no matter what I tried,
>so
>> >I rendered them, then copied the emptysea.png tile over the top of the
>> >level 12 tile they generated, then uploaded them. This fixed them and
>they
>> >should not be rerendered again soon.
>> >>
>> >> >I've been doing quite a lot of zoom12 renders in the Canberra region,
>> >> >keeping it pretty much up to date. I have tried to work out how to
>do
>> >> >lowzoom renders myself, but have not been able to sort it out. Could
>> >> >you offer me a few tips?
>> >>
>> >> Zoom to level 6 on informationfreeway and ctrl click on where you want
>> >to render, this will tell you the level 6 tile co-ordinates. e.g.
>Canberra
>> >and Sydney are in the 58 38 tile.
>> >>
>> >> Change down to the tools/lowzoom directory and run
>> >>
>> >> perl lowzoom.pl 58 38 6 12
>> >>
>> >> And it 'should' just run. The lowzoom script needs image-magick
>> >installed. Are you on Windows or Linux? What version of Perl are you
>using?
>> >>
>> >> Brent.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> >- Lachlan
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >On 9/25/07, Brent Easton <b.easton at exemail.com.au> wrote:
>> >> >> Hi Lachlan,
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Funny thing, it was the sad sight of Port Phillip Bay that got me
>> >> >started on this. I have extended your coastline Eastwards to around
>> >> >Phillip island and have fixed up the oceantiles database and
>re-rendered
>> >> >the water section. Also did the Snowy river, upper murray and the
>> >> >gippsland coastline. I ran a lowzoom for the Melbourne and Gippsland
>> >tiles
>> >> >yesterday, so have a look now.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> I have also fixed up the Vic/SA border to where it should be and
>got
>> >it
>> >> >rendered, plus a little of the Murray up on the corner - am just
>doing
>> >> >another lowzoom on that now. Osmarender currently does not render
>> >segments
>> >> >that pass through, but do not have a node inside a level 12 tile, so
>> >> >border lines need a node every few kilometres for Osmarender to 'see'
>> >them.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> I am using the 'old-style' lowzoom script and doing it myself. I
>could
>> >> >not get the new-style lowzoom to work.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Regards,
>> >> >> Brent.
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
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>> >> >> On 25/09/2007 at 10:23 AM Lachlan Rogers wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> >How do we request low zoom renders (or do them ourselves)? Even
>> >> >> >though I'm in Canberra, I've added coastline around Port Phillip
>Bay
>> >> >> >in Melbourne over the last few weeks and it would be nice if this
>> >> >> >appeared in the low zoom tiles.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >- Lachlan
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >On 9/25/07, Brent Easton <b.easton at exemail.com.au> wrote:
>> >> >> >> Hi Guys,
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> Don't forget to request updates on www.informationfreeway.org to
>> >> >update
>> >> >> >the Osmarender layer with your work. I've been doing a bit of
>work on
>> >> >> >borders and coastlines and finding all this great stuff that has
>not
>> >> >been
>> >> >> >rendered yet. I have been madly rendering whatever I can find.
>Unless
>> >> >you
>> >> >> >request the updates, or process them yourself, it just doesn't
>seem
>> >to
>> >> >> >happen with Osmarender.
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> Cheers,
>> >> >> >> Brent.
>> >> >> >> ____________________________________________________________
>> >> >> >> Brent Easton
>> >> >> >> Analyst/Programmer
>> >> >> >> University of Western Sydney
>> >> >> >> Email: b.easton at uws.edu.au
>> >> >> >>
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