[OSM-talk] Ideas for OSM enhancements

Karl Newman siliconfiend at gmail.com
Fri Dec 28 20:14:29 GMT 2007


On Dec 28, 2007 11:51 AM, Andy Allan <gravitystorm at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 28, 2007 3:29 PM, Nick Whitelegg <nick150971 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > A couple of ideas for enhancements on the OSM site - what do people think?
> > If people think they're good ideas I'll try and find time to hack on them,
> > though the next month might be a bit difficult.
> >
> > One would be to do something similar to what I already do on Freemap, namely
> > clickable POIs: The user could click on a POI then get a window containing a
> > link to its Wikipedia article (if applicable) and its description tag (if it
> > has one).
> >
> > The second (and I think this is already on the "todo" page) would be to make
> > a web interface for creating Garmin maps, where a user could select an area
> > and then a Garmin .img map of that area would be generated. I can see two
> > ways of doing this - implement in JSP, grab OSM data through the API and
> > link to existing mkgmap code, or (and much more work) reimplement mkgmap in
> > Ruby to link with the rest of the site.
>
> Garmin maps are so ridiculously efficient at compression that the work
> should first be put into overcoming the (current) tiling issues and
> provide country- or planet-sized maps. These used to be available (and
> easy to make myself each week) but haven't been for a few months now.
>
> Doing small-area maps may be useful too, but I would think a large
> number of people like me have high-capacity garmin devices that can
> take huge maps, and unless the tiling issue is overcome then the
> small-areas that we can produce sans-tiling will get smaller and
> smaller as the map's information density increases.
>

Can you enlighten me--what is the tiling problem?

Karl




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