[OSM-talk] Up-to-Date, Minutely Mapnik Bookmarklet

Christopher Schmidt crschmidt at metacarta.com
Thu Jan 22 14:08:51 GMT 2009


On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 09:28:16PM +0800, maning sambale wrote:
> Nice and quick on firefox.  But on safari:
> 
> Safari can't use JavaScript for this action.
> Safari can't run the script "(function() { var s =
> document.createElement("script");
> s.src="http://labs.metacarta.com/osm/up-to-date/bookmarklet.js";
> document.body.appendChild(s)})()" because Safari doesn't allow
> JavaScript to be used in this way.
> 
> Still a nice piece of javascript.

What version of Safari? I'm using Version 3.1.2 (5525.20.1) on OS X
without problems.

> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 9:18 PM, Steve Chilton <S.L.Chilton at mdx.ac.uk> wrote:
> > Very neat.
> > Works well and very quick.
> > I tested on something I did last night which shows fine, but it was a
> > coastal area and no land/sea (ie no coast showing) which is a little
> > disorientating (I was editing a river/coastline combination) so presume
> > it doesn't pick/use the relevant shapefiles.
> > Thanks for the work
> >
> > STEVE
> >
> > Steve Chilton, Learning Support Fellow
> > Manager of e-Learning Academic Development
> > Centre for Educational Technology
> > Middlesex University
> > phone/fax: 020 8411 5355
> > email: steve8 at mdx.ac.uk
> > http://www.mdx.ac.uk/schools/hssc/staff/profiles/technical/chiltons.asp
> >
> > Chair of the Society of Cartographers: http://www.soc.org.uk/
> >
> > SoC conference 2008:
> > http://www.abdn.ac.uk/cartographers08/
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org
> > [mailto:talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Christopher Schmidt
> > Sent: 22 January 2009 12:09
> > To: talk at openstreetmap.org
> > Subject: [OSM-talk] Up-to-Date, Minutely Mapnik Bookmarklet
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > After a recent spate of OSM activity, especially with regards to
> > rendering and so on, I've put together a bookmarklet designed to help
> > visualize changes to OSM data in Mapnik more rapidly.
> >
> > http://labs.metacarta.com/osm/up-to-date/
> >
> > "Using osmosis, osm2pgsql, and Mapnik, a bookmarklet which will draw the
> > 'current' state of the database, delayed by less than 10 minutes. Simply
> > press this button, and an image will be drawn over the map showing the
> > current state of the database."
> >
> > You simply drag the bookmarklet to your browser bookmarks toolbar, and
> > click it on any OSM map: InformationFreeway, main map, /browse/ pages,
> > etc.
> >
> > I believe that all the kinks of this particular service have been
> > worked out at this point, though I'm happy to take any feedback or
> > criticism you have. (Please CC me on any important feedback.)
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > --
> > Christopher Schmidt
> > MetaCarta
> >
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> 
> 
> -- 
> cheers,
> maning
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