¡Excelente Marco! ¿Como llegaste al proyecto?
Yo no he hecho nada en Limache desde hace un buen tiempo (la mayor parte del trabajo lo hice el Invierno pasado cuando andaba en auto). Creo que lo ultimo que agregue fueron las bombas de bencina en Palmira Romano con José Tomas Urmeneta.

Puedes empezar por aquí:

http://download.cloudmade.com/

Depende de que GPS uses, otra alternativa es usar GPSBabel para convertir los datos de OSM a un formato compatible con tu GPS (si es un Tomtom las cosas se ponen difíciles porque no se le pueden cargar mapas que no sean de esa compañía).

El tema Yodeima, es que incluso usar las imágenes aéreas de Google es una violación de su Copyright.

El sitio lo construí sobre el del YOURS (http://www.yournavigation.org/), literalmente copie el código del sitio, y trabajé a partir de esa base. El único cambio en el mecanismo original fue crear un archivo php que actuara como proxy para pasar las variables de ruta al motor en el servidor de YOURS (gosmore.php). No tengo muy claro por que, pero ahora el sistema de generación de rutas no esta funcionando.

Te recomiendo hacer algo basado en la API de CloudMade (http://developers.cloudmade.com/projects/show/web-maps-lite). Yo ya estoy trabajando en los cambios para que el sitio de OSM Chile funcione sobre esta, solo me falta el mecanismo para la generación de rutas (algo que pienso esta fuera de mis capacidades técnicas) y un permalink a Potlatch (una caracteristicas que tengo que solicitar a CloudMade).

En Potlatch:

Cuando es una Vía(Way) o Área = Shift+Supr(Del)
Cuando es un Nodo(Node) = Supr(Del)

En ambos casos debes tener seleccionada la Vía o Nodo.
También puedes borrar nodos específicos dentro de una Vía o Área seleccionándolos y usando la tecla Supr(Del).

I was checking your area and found the Arlington tag.

osm.org/?lat=38.8909&lon=-77.08365&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF

It is classified as a Hamlet and that is probably the reason why you did not see it before. Just change the place tag of that node to the variable that you want (city or town).

You should use a place and a name tag both in the same node (located in the middle of the place). I am not sure if Arlington is a city or a town, but the wiki will give you an idea of how to use the tags.

osm.wiki/Map_Features#Places

If you want to use the Potlacht online editor (in the Edit tab over the map). Once you are in the editor, you just have to make a double click in the place to create the node, and after that you press the plus key so a new tag is created, write place as the key and town or city as the variable. Another press in the plus key to create the name tag, write name as the key and Arlington as the variable. That's it.

I hope this helps you.

Cheers,

Julio Costa

Jaime,

Es absolutamente factible el mapear una ciudad mediana en un año.

Puedes ver lo que he logrado en toda el área del Gran Valparaíso en Chile, desde Marzo pasado en: osm.org/?lat=-33.0037&lon=-71.4979&zoom=12&layers=B000FTF

Al empezar no había absolutamente nada excepto la linea costera y los nombres de los poblados cercanos.

Suerte con el trabajo.

Saludos,

Julio Costa
OpenStreetMap Chile

Dear Jaime,

It is absolutely possible to map a medium city in a year.

You can see what I have achieved in the whole Gran Valparaíso area since last march in: osm.org/?lat=-33.0037&lon=-71.4979&zoom=12&layers=B000FTF

At the begging the only thing mapped was the coastline and the names from the near by towns.

Good luck with the work.

Cheers,

Julio Costa
OpenStreetMap Chile

Bienvenido y saludos desde Viña del Mar, Chile.

I do not want to start one of those back to the old facebook campaigns, but I want to know if there is any chance that this mapnik render will go back to the old way. Since I am not sure of how to display the CloudMade tiles in openlayers, and since I do not like completely (probably more than an 80%) the way they render mapnik either, I guess I will have to find the way to make my own render with the "old" specs (I do not know how to use the CM tiles in OpenLayers and want to render my own mapnik, that is quite funny.

I am not convinced at all with the colors and the borders, and even though I am not a big fan of the CloudMade Mapnik render I am thinking of changing to it.

Dear Katpatuka,

Right now I am merging all the coastline traces that you created and changing the natural:coastline tag for a natural:water tag. I hope you don't mind that change and that it renders OK on Wednesday. We can see how it works in a short while in Osmarender (I will request a render for the area as soon as I finish merging the traces and changing the tag).

Excellent work by the way. Congratulations.

Cheers

As you sure notice, many things are not rendered in the Mapnik render displayed at the homepage of OpenStreetMap.org (Supermarkets, Pharmacies, Fuel Stations, etc.). I do not think that is a problem, since so many things will make the map not useful or at least visually unatractive (and yes, that is an important thing).

The house numbering will be an excellent example of something that may visually overload the Mapnik render. I have not found any map that shows the numbering in a visual way. All the maps that have this kind of information respond to address queries, Georeferencing them.

Finally, the advantage with this project, is that you can always take the data and make a render the way you like it.

Cheers

I am not sure if I am getting your idea the right way, but if the problem is the way the numbers are rendered in Osmarender (in those small circles), do not worry. The data of the numbers location is still there, so when an address georeference feature is developed (supposing it is not already done) all of us will be able to use it (In my opinion over a Mapnik render).

Cheers

It is really strange, but both Eastern Island and Cayman Island look fine in that coastline viewer, but both didn't render well during this weeks Mapnik render.

I really can't figure out what's wrong with them. A theory that I am considering right now, based on the observation of how often the renders include some changes that I have made in the past to the coastline around my area, is that coastline are not rendered (at least not completely) in every weeks Mapniks render.

I guess we will be able to see in next weeks mapnik render.

Cheers

Joe,

You have my "vote" for anything like that. A kind of Information Freeway/Tiles@Home but for the Mapnik render. That would be great.
Is there a technical reason not to do this?

I merged all the Coastline traces together. I think that could help.
Anyway Osmarender looks alright so I guess someone already fixed this.

I am not sure if the changes will be rendered today or next week, then we will know if everything is alright.

Cheers

Dear Stefan,

I don't know if the rest of the people can say the same, but talking at least for myself. I have get use to Potlach, It is so simple. On the other side, I have tried JOSM and Merkaartor, and neither of them is that simple to use.

Dear ammer4,

Patience. I have been using OSM for 5 months and haver have seen a problem like this. I guess is the price to pay for the exponential growth.

Dear BPfei,

The problem with Flash is that Adobe hasn't put enough effort in the Linux version of the software. I guess the only certain way to avoid this is to use JOSM, Merkaartor, or other "non-flash" software.

Lets wait till Monday, probably everything will be alright by then.

Best Regards,

Julio Costa

I recommend you to download any track from other user and check the differences between the sintaxis of that gpx file and the one that you are trying to upload. That is the way I figured out what was wrong with my gpx files when I started uploading tracks from the Navit log files (I edited them with some OpenOffice spreadsheets adding what was not there by default. Not efficient at all but it worked for me).

Now I am tracking with my BlackBerry (using bbTracker) and a Bluetooth external GPS. Much more efficient than taking my laptop with me :)

Cheers

Congratulation for that work!

Other people and I have been working a lot lately to improve the amount of OSM mapped roads available in our country (Chile). Santiago and the Gran Valparaiso (the Urban Area in which I live) are growing at a very decent speed. Specially Santiago which has aerial images from Yahoo!(That makes a world of difference in terms of time spend on the road, fuel expenses, the speed of the drawing, etc.)

Well again I thank you very much for your work.

Cheers,

Julio Costa