[OSM-talk] VMap0

[Christopher Schmidt]

I've got this shapefile in as a grey line on the vmap0 data -- not sure
if this is something people see as being useful or not? I have no idea
of the accuracy -- it certainly 'feels' off, but I'm not sure of the
cause.

Feedback welcome, geographic or cartographic.

On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 11:43:09AM +0100, Nick Black wrote:
> Meant to send to the list incase anyone else can use it:
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Nick Black <nickblack1 at gmail.com>
> Date: Jul 8, 2006 11:41 AM
> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] VMap0
> To: Christopher Schmidt <crschmidt at crschmidt.net>
> 
> 
> Chris - I have a 50m resolution shapefile mask of the British Isles
> derived from SRTM data and I have acces to the original raster (600mb)
> mask.  Let me know you want to use it.
> 
> Nick
> 
> On 7/7/06, Christopher Schmidt <crschmidt at crschmidt.net> wrote:
> >On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 12:37:43AM +0200, Immanuel Scholz wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> > VMap0 rendering now available as a seperate layer. To see a demo of the
> >> > area in question:
> >>
> >> that's cool! :-)
> >>
> >> uhm.... but... I mapped this area at IoW contest:
> >> 
> >http://london.freemap.in/osm.html?lat=6538458.78125&lon=-158412.375&zoom=11
> >
> >> Now switch to new vmap0... I remember well, that I did NOT drove over
> >> water! ;-)
> >
> >Sure. VMap0 data is meant to be used when mapping 1:1000000 -- that map
> >is 1:40000. Mapping at 20 times the resolution of the underlying data is
> >naturally going to lead to some errors. If you have another attractive
> >public domain vector basemap that you'd like me to use, I'd gladly use
> >it ;) Otherwise, the satellite layer is always available.
> >
> >> PS: Is the vmap0 somewhere available as a WMS layer server? If I include
> >> background images in JOSM, I like to use this as default instead of the
> >> landsat pictures. I think it's much cleaner..
> >
> >Yep:
> >http://labs.metacarta.com/wms/vmap0?request=GetCapabilities&SERVICE=WMS
> >is used as the free 'baselayer' in OpenLayers, and will be maintained by
> >MetaCarta into the forseeable future.
> >
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