[OSM-talk] osm and mapstraction

[Frank O'Dwyer]

Hi,

A couple of questions:

1) I'm working on a rails app for opencycleroute.org which uses the ym4r 
mapstraction rails plugin. Disappointingly if I switch the provider to 
osm, all I ever get is the Isle of Wight :-)  All works OK if I use 
google maps or yahoo or the other providers. Am I doing something wrong 
or is the osm support not complete yet, or maybe not yet included 
downstream in the ym4r rails plugin ?

2) Does anyone have a (copylefted/public domain) worldmap image that can 
be used as a background for a kind of positional thumbnail to give a 
feel for which part of the world a GPX track covers? Along the lines of 
http://mapstats.blogflux.com/demo.html except with just one pin to show 
the centre of the track, and I want to use rmagick to generate a PNG.

Last but not least if anyone has any GPX tracks created with offbeat 
software or GPSes I'd appreciate it if they send them to me so I can 
test my GPX handling code. Or if they are cycle routes, then just go to 
opencycleroute.org and upload them yourself and see if they cause errors.

Thanks,
Frank.