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Re: Switch to OpenStreetMap

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Post by gumby »

ajsnigrutin wrote: post #55

Ok.. i want to serve tiles... ok, I go here: https://switch2osm.org/serving-tiles/ First option (Build a tile server using packages) ... i click on it.. ubuntu packages... i don't have ubuntu here, let's go back. Second option (Build a tile server from source), takes me here: https://switch2osm.org/?page_id=76 ... where is the documentation? How do i build it from source? Ok fsck it, let's try the "all in one solutio…

> First option (Build a tile server using packages) ... i click on it.. ubuntu packages... i don't have ubuntu here, let's go back.

I threw in the towel and switched my server builds to ubuntu this year for this reason.

Re: Switch to OpenStreetMap

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Post by Youden »

ajsnigrutin wrote: post #55

Ok.. i want to serve tiles... ok, I go here: https://switch2osm.org/serving-tiles/ First option (Build a tile server using packages) ... i click on it.. ubuntu packages... i don't have ubuntu here, let's go back. Second option (Build a tile server from source), takes me here: https://switch2osm.org/?page_id=76 ... where is the documentation? How do i build it from source? Ok fsck it, let's try the "all in one solutio…

Ubuntu is the Internet Explorer of Linux distributions unfortunately.

Re: Switch to OpenStreetMap

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Post by rv-de »

Youden wrote: post #172
ajsnigrutin wrote: post #55

Ok.. i want to serve tiles... ok, I go here: https://switch2osm.org/serving-tiles/ First option (Build a tile server using packages) ... i click on it.. ubuntu packages... i don't have ubuntu here, let's go back. Second option (Build a tile server from source), takes me here: https://switch2osm.org/?page_id=76 ... where is the documentation? How do i build it from source? Ok fsck it, let's try the "all in one solutio…

Ubuntu is the Internet Explorer of Linux distributions unfortunately.

Ubuntu is the Mozilla of Linux distributions and MacOS the Explorer.

Re: Switch to OpenStreetMap

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Post by dastx »

svacko wrote: post #7
dastx wrote: post #4

I've tried over and over again to switch to OSM but everytime I've reverted back to Google Maps and Citymapper. I've even contributed to OSM to fix bits I'm around but it's hard. I don't drive so I rely heavily on public transport, and so for me that's the biggest selling point for any such tool. Unfortunately I've yet to find an OSM app that can do this in a useful manner as Citmapper and Google do. Unfortunately th…

have you tried OsmAnd https://osmand.net/ ? I'm using it for years, travelling around the world when i need to have offline maps with me and it works good most of the time. I'm not saying it's the best and the fastest map, but it helped me tons of time to find an A-> B route - being a pedestrian, a cyclist or travelling by a public transport

I have, although I seem to have mistyped it as AndOSM.

Re: Switch to OpenStreetMap

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Post by jonp888 »

franga2000 wrote: post #142
ComodoHacker wrote: post #37

With all due respect to OSM, isn't "the world’s best map data" an exaggeration? Especially if we count satellite images as map data.

To me, map data means just the data required to know what is where. I wouldn't count "satellite" images, geocoding, street view or anything like that as map data, but their own, distinct things. As it stands, OSM is one of the big 3 in that field, together with Google and Microsoft. Both of the latter might be as good when it comes to streets and buildings, but OSM destroys them when you also include hiking/bike trai…

It's not quite like that. The three main commercial providers which have their own data are Google, TomTom and HERE(which Microsoft uses). TomTom and HERE would be more than happy to sell it to you for a fee - it's their main source of revenue.

The data TomTom and HERE have is focused on navigation use cases - it doesn't have so much 'visual' stuff as OSM but has has large quantities of information that is only relevant for car navigation, e.g. historical traffic patterns and lane assignments.

Re: Switch to OpenStreetMap

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Post by samcrawford »

asdf21 wrote: post #150
samcrawford wrote: post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Funnily enough, that is one of the features it already supports (avoiding unlit streets). Another one is avoiding especially hilly routes.

Is "hilly" a simple binary indicator on each street (or section of road) or is there an entire layer of elevation data included in the world data?

In my app, yes, it's a binary flag. But in the underlying data you can get detailed elevation data for every section of road worldwide that is readily usable in open source routing engines. GraphHopper supports STRM and CGIAR (two different data elevation data sources, available globally and free to use).

Re: Switch to OpenStreetMap

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Post by matkoniecz »

oehpr wrote: post #147
pastage wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good feedback, but FWIW I do believe that a docker container with Ubuntu is a no brainer. Sure policies might forbid it.

Hey I remember explicitly trying this option and the osm2pg instance died consistently after running for 4 hours. I could never figure out why. I worked on it for 4 days with no success. I have no earthly idea how to get this to work.

Have you tried with a small extract or full planet? Processing entire dataset takes quite significant hardware, it is likely that you run into performance issues.

Re: Switch to OpenStreetMap

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Post by matkoniecz »

puPoh wrote: post #129
machello13 wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He's complaining that the website seems to be either broken or missing necessary information. He's allowed to complain about that.

Allowed by who? I'm not talking about being prohibited to do so.

Such complaints are very useful! I am one of people involved in OSM and added this thread to my TODO to look for easy-to-fix problems.

Re: Switch to OpenStreetMap

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Post by matkoniecz »

ajsnigrutin wrote: post #55

Ok.. i want to serve tiles... ok, I go here: https://switch2osm.org/serving-tiles/ First option (Build a tile server using packages) ... i click on it.. ubuntu packages... i don't have ubuntu here, let's go back. Second option (Build a tile server from source), takes me here: https://switch2osm.org/?page_id=76 ... where is the documentation? How do i build it from source? Ok fsck it, let's try the "all in one solutio…

> i don't have ubuntu here

What you have?

Re: Switch to OpenStreetMap

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Post by matkoniecz »

moksly wrote: post #34

Has bug-correcting editing improved over the years? We use OSM quite a bit in the public sector because they aren’t snooping. Three years ago one of our internal routing systems broke because someone had reported the street leading up to our administration center as a one-way street in the wrong direction. This meant our 7000 employees couldn’t get compensation for any work related driving, and we couldn’t submit the…

> banned because my account was new and I had submitted a evidence from our internal street planning system, where we mapped the direction of the street, which is proprietary to us

This sounds like a copyright issue. OSM is not accepting copyrighted data on incompatible licenses.

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