[OSM-talk] Navit format downloads

[Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)]

Nick Black wrote:
>Sent: 23 September 2008 9:37 AM
>To: Steve Chilton
>Cc: OSM Talk
>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Navit format downloads
>
>On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Steve Chilton <S.L.Chilton at mdx.ac.uk>
>wrote:
>> Direct to llustrator (AI) format - with information layered.
>> This would hugely advance the potential for takeup of the data by
>> "traditional cartographers".
>
>Steve - do you have any sample AI files that show the kind of layering
>you're talking about?

Chatting with Richard on IRC it seems logical to aim high and have the
facility to select which layers you want where a single layer equates to a
single key/value pair in the database. Obviously that's not something that
could run off the API but could be a direct extract from a planet derived db
or a script run against a planet file as a stand alone job. The option to
combine more than one key/value pair into the same layer would be a very
nice extra functionality. I'm guessing some of this is not a million miles
from what osmxapi does, it just currently outputs XML rather than one of the
AI file formats. 

I don't think this process has to be that quick. I'd have no problem waiting
few hours for the data to be ready for download.

Cheers

Andy


>
>Nick
>>
>> Cheers
>> STEVE
>>
>> Steve Chilton, Learning Support Fellow
>> Manager of e-Learning Academic Development
>> Centre for Learning and Quality Enhancement
>> Middlesex University
>> phone/fax: 020 8411 5355
>> email: steve8 at mdx.ac.uk
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>>
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>>
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>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org
>> [mailto:talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Nick Black
>> Sent: 22 September 2008 13:07
>> To: OSM Talk
>> Subject: [OSM-talk] Navit format downloads
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Over at downloads.cloudmade.com, we've just added Navit format files
>> for most countries of the world derived from OSM data.  The Navit
>> files will be updated each week, shortly after planet is released.  We
>> had a quick look at Navit on Frday afternoon - the files load and
>> allow routing, but there are a few rough edges, like flight paths in
>> Germany.
>>
>> Navit's been around for a while now and it seems like a cool project.
>> Are many people in OSM using it regularly?  If so, what platforms are
>> you using it on?  It would be awesome to get it running on Open Tom -
>> its Linux / GTK based, so this should be feasible.
>>
>> You can grab the Europe Navit file from :
>>
>> http://downloads.cloudmade.com/europe
>>
>> The format was requested by Wolfgang Silbermayr from the Navit
>> project.  I'd love to host more formats, so please shout out if
>> there's something else that would be useful.
>>
>>
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