[Talk-il] software from freemap.co.il

Yuri Magrisso yumariso at gmail.com
Sat Oct 18 13:02:10 BST 2008


Actually, I noticed now that Mapnik renders Hebrew just fine now, but
exporting tiles from bandnet is still a pain.

On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Yuri Magrisso <yumariso at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thats really cool :)
>
> It will be great if the freemap community becomes more involved in OSM.
>
> Otherwise what other applications are you using with OSM?
>
> I am using right now TrekBuddy - it is very good for tracking, but its
> mapping features are not so great. It uses raster tiles and so far the only
> easy way to generate them is via a Mapnik renderer, which doesn't show names
> in Hebrew.
>
> I am thinking to try in the near future GpsMid - seems like a promising
> project.
>
> Yuri
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 7:06 PM, Tal <tal.bav at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> I have it installed on my computer and it does recognize my gps. However,
>> this is quite useless. Its a big desktop computer... :)
>>
>> Anyway, i've prepared a database file for the freemap software (aka
>> roadmap_editor) from the osm data for israel of acouple of weeks ago. It is
>> not 100% complete. More like a proof of concept.
>> I'm thinking it might help increase osm's user base in Israel.
>>
>> The following screen shot is Tel Aviv in Freemap software with the osm's
>> data:
>>
>>
>> http://img377.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshotfreemapusc770dv9.png
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Yuri Magrisso <yumariso at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I managed to install it on a Nokia 6120, but as far as I remember it
>>> didn't recognize the Bluetooth GPS. I tried also to install it on Samsung
>>> Blackjack II, but it complained that the OS version was incompatible or
>>> something like that. You'll probably manage to use it on a Windows PDA
>>> device.
>>>
>>> Yuri
>>>
>>> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Tal <tal.bav at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> Anyone here has experience with the software from freemap.co.il?
>>>> Even better, anyone has a mobile device that can run this software?
>>>>
>>>> Tal
>>>>
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