[Talk-kosovo] OpenUnpavedStreetMap coverage extended to Asia and some European countries

[Mike Dupont]

Thank you Jean-Guilhem,
Guys,
Check out the unpaved streetmap
mike

On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 6:40 PM, Jean-Guilhem Cailton <jgc at arkemie.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The area covered by OpenUnpavedStreetMap now includes all of Asia, and
> some European countries: those in Former Yugoslavia, Slovakia, Belarus,
> the Baltic countries and Albania. This is in addition to Africa, Latin
> America and Oceania that were already covered.
>
> A new domain name, ousm.fr, can now be used as a shorter replacement for
> "osm.arkemie.org/ousm" in the previous URLs, such as in the message
> quoted below.
>
> Thus the global map is available at:
> http://ousm.fr
>
> Views pre-centered for some countries are available, with GeoRSS feeds
> overlay:
> http://ousm.fr/philippines/
> http://ousm.fr/colombia/
>
> or without:
> http://ousm.fr/haiti/
> http://ousm.fr/indonesia/
>
> More pre-centered views could easily be added on request.
> Zoom level can go up to 21.
> The database is updated minutely. You can force re-rendering of a tile
> with /dirty at the end of its url.
> Please be patient if you are the first to visit an area that has not
> been cached yet.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Jean-Guilhem
>
>
>
> Le 20/12/2011 16:11, Jean-Guilhem Cailton a écrit :
> > Hi,
> >
> > Knowing whether a road is paved or not is an important information for a
> > driver, especially in countries where many roads are unpaved. This
> > information can be entered in the OSM database with the surface tag [1],
> > but it is not currently rendered in the main maps available on osm.org
> > [2]. Seeing it rendered on a map would likely be an incentive for
> > mappers to use it, especially beginners.
> >
> > A map with a rendering for this, OpenUnpavedStreetMap, is now available
> > for Africa, Central and South America, Australia-Oceania (according to
> > Geofabrik's definition, which includes Indonesia and Malaysia), and soon
> > several Asian countries, including the Philippines (actually the
> > countries available as extracts from GeoFabrik, China, India, Pakistan,
> > Vietnam, etc.except Japan - considering dataset size). Surfaces tagged
> > as "compacted", "gravel", "sand", "dirt", "earth", "ground", "grass",
> > "mud"... are also considered as "unpaved", following the wiki page.
> >
> > Examples from areas that may be of interest on this list:
> >
> > - Port-au-Prince, Haiti:
> >
> http://osm.arkemie.org/haiti/?zoom=17&lat=18.60871&lon=-72.28598&layers=B0
> >
> > - Kigali, Rwanda:
> >
> http://osm.arkemie.org/ousm/?zoom=16&lat=-1.95416&lon=30.08243&layers=B000F
> >
> > - one of the examples given by Douglas, in Kampala, Uganda:
> >
> http://osm.arkemie.org/ousm/?lat=0.38093&lon=32.55812&zoom=18&layers=00B0T
> >
> > - A page for Colombia, with markers for the GeoRSS feed from la Sala de
> > Situación Humanitaria Colombia:
> > http://osm.arkemie.org/ousm/colombia/
> >
> >
> > Following Humberto's suggestion, flood_prone areas are also rendered
> > ("flood_prone=yes" or "flood_prone=label"):
> >
> http://osm.arkemie.org/ousm/colombia/?zoom=16&lat=10.39717&lon=-75.15048&layers=B000FT
> >
> > Following a suggestion from Federico, and a need that had also appeared
> > for Haiti, next step should be rendering of POIs relevant for
> > emergencies, such as health facilities, at lower zoom levels.
> >
> >
> > The global URL is:
> > http://osm.arkemie.org/ousm/
> >
> > OSM.org Mapnik layer is in the menu for easy comparison on the current
> > area. A "hybrid map for mappers" - and for soon-to-be mappers who can
> > see what might be missing on the map ;) - is available by overlaying a
> > transparent version of OpenUnpavedStreetMap with Bing aerial imagery.
> > Google satellite imagery is also available as a reminder, by comparing
> > imageries location, that it is often advised to adjust Bing offset
> > before tracing.
> >
> > The database is updated at least daily, and minutely for the next days,
> > after the new coverage will have been imported.
> > Tiles are available from
> > http://osm.arkemie.org/ousm_tiles/${z}/${x}/${y}.png
> > http://osm.arkemie.org/ousm_transparent_tiles/${z}/${x}/${y}.png
> > The current bandwidth is limited, but if you are interested, let me know.
> >
> >
> > Let me know what you think, and if there are features that would be
> > interesting for a custom rendering.
> >
> > Best wishes,
> >
> > Jean-Guilhem
> >
> >
> > [1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:surface
> > [2] http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/1447
> >
>
>
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James Michael DuPont
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