Comments for The Freemap blog, revisited

Comment on kothic-js rendering and coastlines by admin

admin — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 23:54:34 +0000

Yes I noticed that Just chose natural=land because it seemed the most accurate way of describing it…

Will try and get OpenID enabled if I have a moment.

Comment on kothic-js rendering and coastlines by Komzpa

Komzpa — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:28:52 +0000

Having OpenID allowed for comments will be nice

For coastline, in native Kothic serverside (python one, https://github.com/kothic/kothic-js/wiki/json_getter-setup) natural=coastline is used for land. The reason for selection of this tag is that coastline shapefile is generated from natural=coastline lines

http://code.google.com/p/kothic/source/browse/src/json_getter.py

Comment on kothic-js rendering and coastlines by admin

admin — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:46:02 +0000

Hi, that is the way it is done in OpenStreetMap. The land polygons are taken from the processed_p.shp shapefile generated from OSM coastline data. OSM does not have a pre-built sea polygon. AFAIK, all OSM renderers, certainly the main Mapnik renderer, take this approach.

Comment on kothic-js rendering and coastlines by moltonel

moltonel — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:01:13 +0000

Just a curious naive question : why have a sea background and land polygons instead of the opposite ? I know the Earth is more oceans than continents, but people usually look at land maps much more often than water, so the overhead of dowloading and rendering those coastline-polygons should be in the least-viewed areas, no ?

Comment on Updates to Freemap by Open Mobile Map » Weekly OSM Summary #9

Open Mobile Map » Weekly OSM Summary #9 — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 10:38:33 +0000

[...] Nick Whitelegg updated OpenTrailView and Freemap UK. [...]

Comment on OSM in WebGL: colour and varying line widths by WebGL around the net, 30 Nov 2009 | Learning WebGL

WebGL around the net, 30 Nov 2009 | Learning WebGL — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 14:44:19 +0000

[...] been looking forward to seeing this: Nick Whitelegg has posted the first steps towards his 3D OpenStreetMap viewer. This looks really [...]

Comment on Possible service interruption this weekend by admin

admin — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 12:21:31 +0000

The upgrade (Debian lenny to squeeze) has now been completed, albeit with some issues with PostGIS and mysql on the way. All seems to be working, let me know if anything’s not acting as expected.

Comment on OpenTrail: Android app for walkers, and thoughts about augmented reality by OpenTrail: Android app for walkers, and thoughts about augmented …

OpenTrail: Android app for walkers, and thoughts about augmented … — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 10:52:47 +0000

[...] OpenTrail: Android app for walkers, and thoughts about augmented … Related Posts:Stephen's Thoughts » Blog Archive » Developing applications for …Sprint [...]

Comment on Update on WebGL viewer by WebGL around the net, 27 January 2011 | Learning WebGL

WebGL around the net, 27 January 2011 | Learning WebGL — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:56:17 +0000

[...] The WebGL OSM viewer (covered here in the past) has now been updated to match the current spec. [...]

Comment on Update on WebGL viewer by admin

admin — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 21:27:52 +0000

Got the lighting sorted now (see latest post)… turns out it was a really, really silly error (a variable named wrong!!!!) God knows how that happened, given lighting originally worked!!!!