[OSM-talk] Ito World offers expanded Coverage for OSM Mapper to include Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australasia, South America and Canada

Peter Miller peter.miller at itoworld.com
Tue Sep 2 08:44:39 BST 2008


I am delighted to announce that we have now increased 'OSM Mapper' coverage
to include Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australasia, South America and
Canada. More details available on our blog:

http://itoworld.blogspot.com/2008/08/expanded-coverage-for-osm-mapper.html

 

If you don't know what 'OSM Mapper' is then a good place to start is to
check out our original announcement:

http://itoworld.blogspot.com/2008/07/new-osm-mapper-for-openstreetmap.html

 

Btw, we are only leaving the USA out for now because it is a very large
dataset and we need a bit of time to allow this new expanded area to settle
down and then the USA is next on our list. Do subscribe to our blog to learn
about future enhancements to the product and coverage.

 

For those of you who noticed the problem with our daily update for a few
days last week, you might be interested to know that this was caused by a
big increase in the size of the European dataset when a new large bulk
import arrived which exploded our import process and prompted us to do this
work a little earlier than we intended! We should now be back with regular
daily updates and sorry about the inconvenience in the mean time.

 

We have also made some minor improvement to the product's functionality: we
added a link to the OSM feature browser so you can see more details about a
feature and its history, we have fixed some problems with accessing pages
without first having signed in our site which caused problems for RSS users
in particular, we have improved the map quality by drawing selected features
on top and we have improved our bounding box algorithm to stop large
features such as long ferry routes from appearing incorrectly in area
reports. More details on our blog soon.

 

If you have any suggestions for the product then do please add them on the
OSM wiki here:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/OSM_Mapper

 

 

Regards,

 

 

Peter Miller

Ito World Ltd

www.itoworld.com

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