[OSM-talk] World wide coverage?

[Andrew Findlay]

On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 06:15:38PM -0500, Andrew Turner wrote:

> I'm curious what the problem is with incorporating other areas? It
> seems like it would be difficult to attract interest/excitement if
> someone's country isn't even visible. I'm traveling to New Zealand and
> wanted to use the OSMGarminMap to load some maps - and also contribute
> waypoints back. However, it's discouraging that NZ isn't even on the
> map at all.

There is certainly OSM data for NZ because I put some there! In
particular there is coverage around the Tongariro National Park and
on Great Barrier Island. Someone else has been at work too, a bit
further west.

Unfortunately the slippy map does not seem to have coast outlines for
that part of the world so it can be rather hard to find. Here is a
URL that JOSM should understand:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/index.html?lat=-39.140497673380764&lon=175.573797226&zoom=8

I am currently updating some of the ways to the current map-features
standard so that they will render properly.

Andrew

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