[Openstreetmap] Hello people, the NavSys developer here

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Amaury Jacquot]
> I am the (currently sole) developer of NavSys.

Welcome. :)

> It seems we are sharing a common goal, thus I suppose we should share
> the efforts.

Yes.  We are still researching standards, tools and methods, so we are
very much interested in your input.

Did you btw, get my email about my problems with mapeditor?  It
crashes for me.

> Do you have a street map description format already (that's one of
> the things I'm looking for)

There are several.  I am aware of these formats, and do not know which
one of them are best for us.

We need at least two formats.  One to submit collected GPX tracks, and
one to export finished map files.

  GPX - GPS Exchange Format
    <URL:http://www.topografix.com/gpx.asp>

  IGC data file format
    <URL:http://www.fai.org/gliding/gnss/tech_spec_gnss.pdf>

  ESRI Shapefile format
    <URL:http://www.esri.com/library/whitepapers/pdfs/shapefile.pdf>

  SOSI - map format
    <URL:http://www.statkart.no/IPS/?template=standard>.
    <URL:http://www.statkart.no/standard/sosi/html/sosi.htm>
    <URL:http://www.statkart.no/standard/sosi/html/div/intr_eng.htm>

  International geographic information standards - ISO 19100 series
  ISO/TC 211 - Geographic Information/Geomatics
    <URL:http://www.isotc211.org/>

  Geographic Markup Language
    <URL:http://www.gmlcentral.com/>

  US Census Bureau TIGER/LINE format
    <URL:http://www.topodepot.com/Docs/Doc_Tiger.htm>

When it comes to storage/processing format, I suspect OpenGis/PostGIS
is our best option.

  OpenGIS
    <URL:http://www.opengis.org/docs/99-049.pdf>

  PostGIS
    <URL:http://www.postgis.org/>