http://weait.com/category/post/importing The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://weait.com/content/how-well-can-you-map <p><img src="http://weait.com/files/pirates_cove-eleanor_ryan-flickr-ccbysa.jpg" alt="A treasure map drawn on a rough bit of wall with stylish X " /></p> <p>What limits the quality of your contributions to OpenStreetMap data? The answer is surprisingly simple. </p> <p>I propose a simple Three-Star system to categorize your edits according to how much value you personally add to the data you contribute to OpenStreetMap. <span class='read-more'><a href="http://weait.com/content/how-well-can-you-map">&nbsp;read&nbsp;more&nbsp;&raquo;</a></span></p> http://weait.com/content/how-well-can-you-map#comments importing mapping OpenStreetMap osm tagging Sun, 20 Feb 2011 23:51:11 -0500 rw 158 at http://weait.com http://weait.com/content/openstreetmap-extracts <p><img src="http://weait.com/files/lux-extract.png" alt="OpenStreetMap of Luxembourg" /></p> <p>The <a href="http://openstreetmap.org">OpenStreetMap</a> database gets bigger every day. The dataset is <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/License">freely licensed</a> and available in what we call a <a href="http://planet.openstreetmap.org"><q>planet</q> file</a>. This means that if you want the OpenStreetMap dataset, you can have it. This also means that you are dealing with the entire dataset, for the whole planet, even if your interest is limited to a smaller area. If your interest is geographically limited, pushing around 6G^{<a href="planet-size">1</a>} more data than you need to push around seems wasteful. <span class='read-more'><a href="http://weait.com/content/openstreetmap-extracts">&nbsp;read&nbsp;more&nbsp;&raquo;</a></span></p> http://weait.com/content/openstreetmap-extracts#comments extracts importing maps OpenStreetMap osm osm2pgsql osmosis tile server tutorial Sat, 29 Aug 2009 12:21:12 -0400 rw 88 at http://weait.com