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Hiking book

Posted by Gary68 on 10 March 2011 in English.

I just created a program to automatically create hiking books. Just provide an osm file and a relation number and you will get a PDF book with:

- title
- basic relation data
- overview map
- tour description with routing directions and POIs
- elevation profile (if data present)
- detail maps with route highlighted, steps from description included
- POI directory with grids in maps

- optional you can provide long text description
- optional you can provide additional information per step in description

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Hikingbook.pl

Ciao

Gerhard

mapgen 1.02 released

Posted by Gary68 on 23 April 2010 in English.

* Mercator projection implemented. Footer shows projection and ellipsoid. Can be changed in source code if needed.
* scale size parameters according to dpi (prevent enlargement or reduction of elements when changing dpi value)
* formatted directory of streets and POIs in PDF format
* rule/base DPI can be set for sizes used in rule file
* rule file sizes changed to fit 300dpi base resolution

mapgen version 1.00 released

Posted by Gary68 on 11 April 2010 in English.

hi,

today i thought it was time for version 1.00 - i am sure there are some bugs left and still things to improve but...

here is what happened in the last releases:

====v1.00 (rel. Apr. 11th, 2010)====
* steps are now drawn with linecap=butt; better look
* legend can now be drawn in lower right corner as well
* route icon size recognition reimplemented

====v0.16 (Apr. 2nd, 2010)====
* halo for point feature labels
* better label placement in roads, consider bends and distance to middle of way
* consider bends in ways when placing labels
* collision detection for way labels
* use of quad trees for speed improvement

====v0.15 (March 25th, 2010)====
* output format correction - size and resolution
* more intelligent way labeling: merging by name and type, splitting by direction on map
* faster area icon processing
* [-place] also accepts node id now

cheers

gary68
gerhard

new mapgen version 0.14

Posted by Gary68 on 21 March 2010 in English.

v0.14 (rel Mar 20th, 2010)

* ocean rendering
* lots of new icons and rules
* new module for rules
* [-pad] option to allow for borders in map, especially useful for islands
* [-allowiconmove] allows icons to be moved (with their lables) so they can avoid already occupied areas

[edit] v0.13 (rel. Mar 13, 2010)

* tagstat considers sub k/vs
* borders for ways
* remarks possible in style file
* scale for rules can be set separately
* tagstat now separately for nodes and ways
* more intelligent declutter - integrated solution for icons and labels, still excluding street/way labels

new mapgen version 0.12 released

Posted by Gary68 on 6 March 2010 in English.

v0.12 (rel. March 6th, 2010)

* wild cards for values in rules
* legend only for used elements according to map scale
* more intelligent icon and label placing
* key/value and sub-key/sub-value for rule definition (i.e. amenity=hospital AND hospital=field)
* try to avoid overlapping labels (better)
* optimize area feature labels
* line wrap for point feature and area feature labels

neue mapgen.pl version 0.09

Posted by Gary68 on 18 February 2010 in English.

hi,

habe eben die neue version hochgeladen. neues:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mapgen.pl

v0.09 (rel. Feb 18th, 2010)
* lat and lon für beschriftungen (z.b. gipfel)
* lon/lat gitternetz mit beschriftungen
* routen werden unterstützt
* automatische größenerkennung der wege für beschriftung. zu
kleine wege werden bei zu großem label text nicht beschriftet
* routen stops werden unterstützt
v0.08 (rel. Feb 15, 2010)
* icons für knoten werden unterstützt
* multipolygon problem gelöst (DANKE FREDERIK und ANDRE)
* declutter für symbole
* alle SVG farben werden unterstützt
* informationen über papiergröße etc wird ausgegeben
* § zu ! gewechselt im style file
* anleitung in PDF jetzt

Action!

Posted by Gary68 on 19 August 2009 in English.

Hi,

I provide some error reports for OSM and wanted the errors to be corrected. Of course I could handle some of them on my own. But since there were 10s of thouands I surely wouldn't be able to inspect and correct them all.

So I thought why not set up a joint action of some sort? And so I did - not knowing whether I would get help or not. But amazingly we had so many volunteers who picked working packages that in a few days hundreds of erros could be corrected. And since the edits were supposedly made with JOSM using the validator plugin many other errors (beside the initially listed ones) were corrected as well.

In the first action 1000 errors were closed in 5 days. The third action (1000 dupe ways) I suppose will make it in under 24h! That's crazy!!!

So far we handled unconnected residentials in Bayern/Germany and dupe ways also in Germany. For details please have a look at

- http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/DE:Aktionen
- http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Aktion_01
- http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/DE:Aktionen/Aktion_03

Of course the pages are in German but look at the work tables and maybe the error lists.

Maybe others could set up actions like these for other countries? I assure you to provide reports if needed and I am quite confident that a lot of our helpers would support these actions from here - if we get to know about the actions...

Cheers

Gerhard
gary68
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Gary68

Doppelte Wege...

Posted by Gary68 on 9 August 2009 in German (Deutsch).

Hi,

mir ist in letzter Zeit aufgefallen, dass Wege (residentials, aber
sicher auch andere) doppelt übereinander liegen. Teilweise ganze
Straßenzüge...

Daher ein kleines Check Programm, das (für residentials) dies prüft:
http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/utils/gary68/waydupes.pl

Wiki Seite kommt noch... http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Waydupes.pl

Berichte (rechnen gerade), aber einige sind schon online:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Way_dupe_check_reports

Viel Spaß

Gerhard
gary68

Errors

Posted by Gary68 on 7 August 2009 in German (Deutsch).

Hi diary!

My own error checkers deliver about 20.000 errors for Germany and some other areas. Together with the export from the new OSB service that accumulates to 37.000 errors for that area. Keepright adds another chunk :-)

More details can be found via my wiki page - User:Gary68

A lot to do...

Right now I am experiencing a problem when running relationcheck.pl for Germany. Not sure what the problem is yet. But I think it might be a relation that contains one and the same way twice. The Program doesn't like that... We will see this weekend...

Cheers

Gary68
Gerhard