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Creative Commons makes it possible
See what's possible with 28 slippy maps on a webpage and a copyright that lets people do what they want:
Posted by robotnic at Sat, 11 Jul 2009 20:57:37 +0000 in English (English)Comment on this entry | Reply to this entry | 1 comment
Firefox 3.5 Geolocation
Hi all
Firefox is now able to calculate the users geolocation. This is done with WIFI signals.
People are a bit scared about that ;-)
If you wanna see that with openstreetmap, go to
If you click at "Follow geolocation" the map center follows you if you walk around with your computer.
Have fun
Bernhard
Posted by robotnic at Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:49:14 +0000 in English (English)Comment on this entry | Reply to this entry | 4 comments
Is openstreetmap a virus?
I have seen a map with all the swine flu cases.
They are mostly in Mexico and USA.
Some cases are in other countries.
After watching http://datenkueche.com/osmlive/ for hours I think Open Street Map is a virus that is very common in Europe with some cases in other Regions.
Posted by robotnic at Sat, 16 May 2009 18:25:12 +0000 in English (English)Comment on this entry | Reply to this entry | 1 comment
OSM Live - see where the map is growing at the moment
It's now possible to see in "realtime" where people are editing the map.
http://datenkueche.com/osmlive/
Posted by robotnic at Thu, 14 May 2009 09:47:25 +0000 in English (English)Comment on this entry | Reply to this entry | 0 comments
3 month cycling, mapping, programming in SE Asia
On tuesday I will start a 3 month jourey to South East Asia.
I will travel by bicycle from Bangkok to Laos and than to Burma.
There are many white areas on the map in these countrys.
My netbook will come with me and I will also improve my slippy map and my online dictionary.
My "zoom zoom zoom map" is now available at
Bernhard
Posted by robotnic at Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:20:03 +0000 in English (English)Comment on this entry | Reply to this entry | 2 comments
New Slippy Map
Hi all
I made a new Slippy Map.
The new thing is, that it's possible to zoom in an out very fast.
At least at my computer it works excellent.
Turn your mouse wheel at:
http://lamp2.fhstp.ac.at/~lbz/beispiele/ws2008/oomap4/index.php
On my 1 GHz Celeron Laptop it zooms with about 15 frames/second.
I tested it with Firefox 2.0, Internet Explorer 6.0 (Linus/Wine - strange error with missing tiles), Opera, Konqueror (no wheel mouse support) Ubuntu Linux.
Keycodes, mouse scrollspeed, ... are maybe different on different system - it's a beta version.
Feedback is welcome.
Bernhard
Posted by robotnic at Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:06:44 +0000 in English (English)Comment on this entry | Reply to this entry | 9 comments
Student Project Slippy Map- Homework result
Simple Slippy Map
http://lamp2.fhstp.ac.at/~mt071019/meta1/b6/
The Students learn DOM. It's a very simple example for firefox only.
Known Bugs:
Event handling does not work in IE
Opera has Problems with absolute positioning and large numbers
...
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My Students work on a slippy map.
Tomorrow is deadline. I hope they will not kill the servers with too much requests.
Posted by robotnic at Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:16:33 +0000 in English (English)Comment on this entry | Reply to this entry | 1 comment
Unicode (UTF-8 or Font) Problems and Coastline
Since last tiles@home update there are Problems with Unicode rendering.
See:
Beijing:
http://informationfreeway.org/?lat=39.75820846018085&lon=116.57961649164565&zoom=9&layers=B000F000
Or in Laos:
http://informationfreeway.org/?lat=14.804513021757694&lon=106.78805367103163&zoom=9&layers=B000F000
I also tried to load the coastline data for South East Asia with JOSM - but no success.
Posted by robotnic at Mon, 03 Dec 2007 07:49:32 +0000 in English (English)Comment on this entry | Reply to this entry | 0 comments
Tile not rendered
What is wrong with that one:
http://b.tah.openstreetmap.org/Tiles/tile.php/11/1596/929.png
The next one in the south is ok.
http://b.tah.openstreetmap.org/Tiles/tile.php/11/1596/930.png
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My Edits get lost
I named some streets in vienne. In mapnic my changes are still visible. With osmarenderer my changes aren't visible anymore.
What happens there?
Coordinates:Posted by robotnic at Tue, 09 Oct 2007 12:35:15 +0000 in English (English)
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