[OSM-talk] OpenUnpavedStreetMap coverage extended to Asia and some European countries
Jean-Guilhem Cailton
jgc at arkemie.com
Sat Jan 14 17:40:56 GMT 2012
Hi,
The area covered by OpenUnpavedStreetMap now includes all of Asia, and
some European countries: those in Former Yugoslavia, Slovakia, Belarus,
the Baltic countries and Albania. This is in addition to Africa, Latin
America and Oceania that were already covered.
A new domain name, ousm.fr, can now be used as a shorter replacement for
"osm.arkemie.org/ousm" in the previous URLs, such as in the message
quoted below.
Thus the global map is available at:
http://ousm.fr
Views pre-centered for some countries are available, with GeoRSS feeds
overlay:
http://ousm.fr/philippines/
http://ousm.fr/colombia/
or without:
http://ousm.fr/haiti/
http://ousm.fr/indonesia/
More pre-centered views could easily be added on request.
Zoom level can go up to 21.
The database is updated minutely. You can force re-rendering of a tile
with /dirty at the end of its url.
Please be patient if you are the first to visit an area that has not
been cached yet.
Best wishes,
Jean-Guilhem
Le 20/12/2011 16:11, Jean-Guilhem Cailton a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> Knowing whether a road is paved or not is an important information for a
> driver, especially in countries where many roads are unpaved. This
> information can be entered in the OSM database with the surface tag [1],
> but it is not currently rendered in the main maps available on osm.org
> [2]. Seeing it rendered on a map would likely be an incentive for
> mappers to use it, especially beginners.
>
> A map with a rendering for this, OpenUnpavedStreetMap, is now available
> for Africa, Central and South America, Australia-Oceania (according to
> Geofabrik's definition, which includes Indonesia and Malaysia), and soon
> several Asian countries, including the Philippines (actually the
> countries available as extracts from GeoFabrik, China, India, Pakistan,
> Vietnam, etc.except Japan - considering dataset size). Surfaces tagged
> as "compacted", "gravel", "sand", "dirt", "earth", "ground", "grass",
> "mud"... are also considered as "unpaved", following the wiki page.
>
> Examples from areas that may be of interest on this list:
>
> - Port-au-Prince, Haiti:
> http://osm.arkemie.org/haiti/?zoom=17&lat=18.60871&lon=-72.28598&layers=B0
>
> - Kigali, Rwanda:
> http://osm.arkemie.org/ousm/?zoom=16&lat=-1.95416&lon=30.08243&layers=B000F
>
> - one of the examples given by Douglas, in Kampala, Uganda:
> http://osm.arkemie.org/ousm/?lat=0.38093&lon=32.55812&zoom=18&layers=00B0T
>
> - A page for Colombia, with markers for the GeoRSS feed from la Sala de
> Situación Humanitaria Colombia:
> http://osm.arkemie.org/ousm/colombia/
>
>
> Following Humberto's suggestion, flood_prone areas are also rendered
> ("flood_prone=yes" or "flood_prone=label"):
> http://osm.arkemie.org/ousm/colombia/?zoom=16&lat=10.39717&lon=-75.15048&layers=B000FT
>
> Following a suggestion from Federico, and a need that had also appeared
> for Haiti, next step should be rendering of POIs relevant for
> emergencies, such as health facilities, at lower zoom levels.
>
>
> The global URL is:
> http://osm.arkemie.org/ousm/
>
> OSM.org Mapnik layer is in the menu for easy comparison on the current
> area. A "hybrid map for mappers" - and for soon-to-be mappers who can
> see what might be missing on the map ;) - is available by overlaying a
> transparent version of OpenUnpavedStreetMap with Bing aerial imagery.
> Google satellite imagery is also available as a reminder, by comparing
> imageries location, that it is often advised to adjust Bing offset
> before tracing.
>
> The database is updated at least daily, and minutely for the next days,
> after the new coverage will have been imported.
> Tiles are available from
> http://osm.arkemie.org/ousm_tiles/${z}/${x}/${y}.png
> http://osm.arkemie.org/ousm_transparent_tiles/${z}/${x}/${y}.png
> The current bandwidth is limited, but if you are interested, let me know.
>
>
> Let me know what you think, and if there are features that would be
> interesting for a custom rendering.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Jean-Guilhem
>
>
> [1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:surface
> [2] http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/1447
>
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