[OSM-talk] KML tiles

Robert Vollmert rvollmert-lists at gmx.net
Wed Jun 11 21:51:00 BST 2008


On Jun 11, 2008, at 17:30, Nic Roets wrote:

> The current Google Earth maps for South Africa are supplied by
> Tracks4Africa and AND. Both of them only show major roads and are
> useless for routing. In contrast, OSM has all the roads and many
> footways for Pretoria (Cape Town and Johannesburg nearly done).
>
> If I post a KML to a 4x4 newsgroup, chances are that a few T4A
> contributors will be impressed and start sharing their tracklogs with
> us.

For just one city, you should be able to create a single usable KML  
with osmexport right now. It shouldn't get larger than the  
corresponding planet extract.

Cheers
Robert






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