[talk-au] Fwd: [OSM-dev] Major improvements to MapOSMatic

[John Smith]

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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at enix.org>
Date: 2010/1/5
Subject: [OSM-dev] Major improvements to MapOSMatic
To: dev at openstreetmap.org
Cc: dev at maposmatic.org


Hello,

As a new year's present, the MapOSMatic team is proud to announce that
a new version of the maposmatic.org website has been put online, with
major improvements over the initial version announced in September 2009.

For the record, MapOSMatic is a website that allows to generate city
maps from OpenStreetMap data. Each map is divided into squares to
easily find streets and is delivered with the corresponding street
index.

The new MapOSMatic provides the following improvements :

 * Support for the whole world. Any location in the world can now be
  rendered on maposmatic.org.

 * OpenStreetMap database updated daily. Until now, the database had
  never been updated since the service was started in September
  2009. Now, the geographic database used to render the maps is
  updated daily, providing maps with the latest contributions to
  OpenStreetMap. Each map contains the date at which it was
  generated.

 * Better city search engine. Thanks to Nominatim, we now provide a
  search engine that allows to find cities in a much more usable way:
  cities with the same name can be distinguished and the search works
  even when the city name is not completely correct.

 * Support for other languages. A few parts of the map rendering
  process is language-dependent and we now have the infrastructure to
  use language-dependent code. For the moment, we support English,
  French and Italian, but we are waiting for your contributions to
  support other languages. The website has also been translated to
  German and Italian.

 * Amenities in the index. In addition to the streets, we have added
  important amenities to the index: schools, town hall, post offices,
  places of worship, etc.

All these improvements are available now on

 http://www.maposmatic.org

You can follow the progress and improvements of MapOSMatic on our blog
at http://news.maposmatic.org. MapOSMatic is of course free software,
you can fetch its source code and contribute to the project, see
http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/maposmatic/.

Do not hesitate to send us your feedback, comments, suggestions and
contributions to contact at maposmatic.org.

Cheers,

The MapOSMatic team
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Thomas Petazzoni                         http://thomas.enix.org
Promouvoir et défendre le Logiciel Libre http://www.april.org
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