[OSM-talk] OSM and Trackmaster

[Nick Black]

Send as many as you like - I cant garantee how long it'll take to do
it - prob be a weekend job though.  This data is public domain right?

Nick

On 1/16/07, Francis Augusto Medeiros <francis at mgate.com.br> wrote:
> Dear Nick,
>
> Sure thing!
>
> However, we've got multiple layers. Which one should I send? Only the
> street tracks, or additional ones, suck as water, sidewalk, green
> areas, etc.? It's a pity that on the street tracing they didn't put
> two tracks when the street has two "tracks", that is, when it has one
> track separated of another by a garden or something... This can only
> be visible if you get the sidewalk layer...
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Francis
> On 16/01/2007, at 12:40, Nick Black wrote:
>
> > If you send me  a tab file, I have  script that reads from postGIS and
> > outputs directly to OSM Mysql.  I will modify it and test it locally
> > and then - if the sysadmins agree - load it directly into the
> > database.  Alternatively I can get it to dump SQL.
> >
> > Nick/Steve - any preference?
> >
> > Could you send/stick on ftp me a sample of the file anyway - i'd love
> > to strart working on importing it to OSM!
> >
> > Nick
> >
> >
> > On 1/16/07, Francis Augusto Medeiros <francis at mgate.com.br> wrote:
> >> Hello everyone!
> >>
> >> First of all, thank you all very much for all the messages!
> >>
> >> I wrote the wrong name of the program - it's Trackmaker
> >> (www.gpstm.com), not
> >> Trackmaster...
> >>
> >> Let me give you guys some background info and what I am willing to
> >> do.
> >>
> >> I'm from Vitória da Conquista, Bahia, Brazil, and I work for the
> >> municipality here. We do have the map of the whole city in both
> >> autoCAD
> >> format and also in Mapinfo format. The map is ready, and it's
> >> copyright free
> >> - they already gave me a CD of it.
> >>
> >> So what was I thinking? I wanted to have this map converted into
> >> GPX or
> >> something (and modify it a bit, because some streets do not have 2
> >> tracks
> >> when they are divided in two, for example) and upload it to OSM.
> >> But I also
> >> would like to contribute for the Tracksource project, which is a
> >> project
> >> aimed at creating brazilian maps compatible for Garmin (mapsource
> >> format).
> >>
> >> Tracksource do not release their source, but they do have some
> >> garmin maps
> >> available.
> >>
> >> If there's a way to convert Mapinfo map into tracks usable by OSM,
> >> or if I
> >> am allowed to trace the tracks over its image, great. If not, I'll
> >> have to
> >> collect all data myself, and I'd like to do so in both environments,
> >> Trackmaker and JOSM. But is there a way I can avoid the double work?
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Francis
> >>
> >> P.S. - I'm really newbie into this, but I'm really excited about
> >> contributing. I will use a Mac to make most of my work, though it
> >> seems I'll
> >> use some windows for Trackmaker stuff.
> >>
> >>
> >> On 1/16/07, Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany)
> >> <openstreetmap at ostertag.name> wrote:
> >> > On Tuesday 16 January 2007 12:08, Francis Augusto Medeiros wrote:
> >> > > Hello everyone!
> >> >
> >> > Hello first of all.
> >> >
> >> > ...
> >> >
> >> > > You see, some folks in Brazil have a project called Tracksource,
> >> > > aimed at developing maps for Garmin devices. I don't like its
> >> > > approach (as I think it's strange to waste time to create
> >> things for
> >> > > a proprietary device).
> >> > >
> >> > > However, one developer asked me if I'd like to use his tracks,
> >> which
> >> > > are on Trackmaster. My question is: Can I trace tracks on
> >> Trackmaster
> >> > > and have them exported as GPX, so I could still use them in JOSM?
> >> >
> >> > First of all you should normally only use gps-tracks from a gps-
> >> receiver
> >> as
> >> > source and these normally have a possibility to export to gpx.
> >> This was
> >> the
> >> > reason we choose gpx as import format for tracks.
> >> > You can try gpsbabel. If you don't find a conversion routine in
> >> gpsbabel,
> >> you
> >> > can send me a short track as an example and I'll have a look if
> >> we can
> >> write
> >> > a conversion module in osmfilter to convert these tracks.
> >> >
> >> > -
> >> >
> >> > Joerg
> >> >
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> >>
> >>
> >>
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