[OSM-talk] Places website update

[SteveC]

* @ 13/11/06 11:54:41 PM steve at asklater.com wrote:
> * @ 13/11/06 10:02:08 PM streetmap at blibbleblobble.co.uk wrote:
> > Update of the "Places" website occurred last night - thanks to everyone 
> > running the rendering clients, apologies to everyone who found the site 
> > broken during the update.
> 
> awsome stuff
> 
> I'm not sure what's going on, but I've added stuff to Reigate
> 
> http://www.almien.co.uk/OSM/Places/?id=504
> 
> and it says it was rendered today. Either a) It's using an older
> osmarender that doesn't know about highway=unclassified or b) I've
> screwed up the tagging or c) it rendered before I had added some data
> today. Or is there a (d) ?

It was (c) as it just updated nice and quick!

So, are you storing all the versions so you can animate them? Coz you
should :-)

> 
> 
> Does osm at home force a osmarender version? Would it be possible to add
> the time that stuff was rendered?
> 
> In some ways the tool you've made is just a much less hassle version of
> running osmarender myself. I don't mind waiting a day for another map.
> 
> Anyway, great stuff.
> 
> > 
> > New features:
> >  * New set of cities from the most recent planet.osm (1192 places)
> >  * Unicode city names
> >  * Support for "is_in" tags and browsing by category
> >  * Geotagging in various formats (meta-info)
> >  * Wikipedia links, where the wikipedia page name is different to the city 
> > name
> > 
> > Regards
> > 
> > OJW
> > 
> > 
> > Test cases:
> > * Wikipedia link: http://almien.co.uk/OSM/Places/?id=951
> > * Tags: 
> > http://almien.co.uk/OSM/Places/?action=tagged&tag=South+Gloucestershire
> > * Character encoding: http://almien.co.uk/OSM/Places/?q=Troms%C3%B8
> > 
> > Links:
> > * http://www.almien.co.uk/OSM/Places/?action=interesting
> > * Geotagging plugin: http://www.splintered.co.uk/experiments/71/
> > * Wiki page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/OSM%40home
> > 
> > Known bugs:
> > * Node 5408062 (Ímeľ,) - any ideas what that is?
> > * Some cities which had " name" tags (since corrected in OSM)
> > * About 5 places that didn't render (usually turns out to be some filesize 
> > limit...)
> > 
> > 
> > 
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> 
> have fun,
> 
> SteveC steve at asklater.com http://www.asklater.com/steve/
> 
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have fun,

SteveC steve at asklater.com http://www.asklater.com/steve/