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

maning sambale emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com
Tue Sep 2 09:17:32 BST 2008


Yay! \o/


On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 3:44 PM, Peter Miller <peter.miller at itoworld.com> wrote:
> 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
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> 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
>
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>
> 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.
>
>
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> 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
>
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> Regards,
>
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> Peter Miller
>
> Ito World Ltd
>
> www.itoworld.com
>
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