[Talk-GB] new ITO Map service in beta

Gregory Williams gregory.williams at purplegeodesoftware.co.uk
Fri Mar 18 15:15:22 GMT 2011


Peter,

 

A great service. It'll certainly help me with keeping track of where extra
details still need to be mapped.

 

I've noticed these small issues:

-       Ferry routes appear to be highlighted in red on the Water layer, but
this doesn't match anything in the key.
http://www.itoworld.com/product/data/ito_map/main?view=3
<http://www.itoworld.com/product/data/ito_map/main?view=3&bbox=100067.247138
86814,6641995.275980514,184201.48415728885,6686900.195601286&layers=&base_st
yle=&clear_map_history=true>
&bbox=100067.24713886814,6641995.275980514,184201.48415728885,6686900.195601
286&layers=&base_style=&clear_map_history=true

-       At zoom level 3 on the Water layer it appears to load overlay tiles
for that layer, but also displays the "You need to zoom in further to view
the overlay layer" warning.
http://www.itoworld.com/product/data/ito_map/main?view=3
<http://www.itoworld.com/product/data/ito_map/main?view=3&bbox=58000.1299815
7775,6619542.830379137,226268.60401842726,6709352.669620863&layers=&base_sty
le=&clear_map_history=true>
&bbox=58000.12998157775,6619542.830379137,226268.60401842726,6709352.6696208
63&layers=&base_style=&clear_map_history=true

-       Schools with names are incorrectly bordered with red (as Steve Doerr
has also just pointed out):
http://www.itoworld.com/product/data/ito_map/main?view=6
<http://www.itoworld.com/product/data/ito_map/main?view=6&bbox=119108.430780
305,6666754.055789617,124366.820593955,6669560.613265983&layers=&base_style=
&clear_map_history=true>
&bbox=119108.430780305,6666754.055789617,124366.820593955,6669560.613265983&
layers=&base_style=&clear_map_history=true

 

A layer showing lighting would also be very useful. I realise that there's a
similar layer on the Wikimedia Toolserver, but it doesn't seem to get
updated:

 

http://toolserver.org/~osm/styles/?layers=B000F0TF0000F0FFF0000
<http://toolserver.org/~osm/styles/?layers=B000F0TF0000F0FFF0000&zoom=13&lat
=51.28253&lon=1.08301> &zoom=13&lat=51.28253&lon=1.08301

 

Cheers,

 

Gregory

 

From: Peter Miller [mailto:peter.miller at itoworld.com] 
Sent: 18 March 2011 14:13
To: Talk-GB at openstreetmap.org
Subject: [Talk-GB] new ITO Map service in beta

 

ITO are pleased to announce a set of new 'overlay maps' for OpenStreetMap
which can highlights some of the data layers, such as speed limits, highway
lane widths, whether rivers are navigable and if buildings have addresses
etc.

The service is still very much in beta and may suffer if many people jump on
it at the same time but lets see what happens.

The service is available here:
http://www.itoworld.com/product/data/ito_map/main

And a wiki description is available here:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/ITO_Map

We are starting with a service for a bounding box that included the UK and
northern France, Holland, a bit of Germany and up to southern Norway and a
separate bounding box including the bay area, SF. The tiles will always be
based current daily diff planet data (with a 24 hour processing lag). We
should never serve old tiles from old data. If the service is noticeably
slow then please give it a break for a hour and then try again.

We will roll out the service to more areas as the system beds in and then
globally over the next few weeks assuming that the servers hold up.

We will gather feedback over the next week or so and then many some changes
to the service to iron out any wrinkles.



Regards,


Peter Miller
ITO World Ltd

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