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Posted by Aubanel on 16 October 2008 in English.

When exporting a mapnik map to SVG or PDF, the POI icons are bitmaps and not vectors. As a result they look blurry when printed at 300dpi. Is this because they are drawn as bitmaps or because of some mapnik limitations involving rasterization of the POI icons ?
If it's just because of the lack of a vector icon set I volonter to fix this problem. Just tell me ...

Posted by Phil W on 16 October 2008 in English.

Q1: If I upload a GPS track, that is a bike trail, and specify it as a bike trail in Potlatch, does it show up different?

Q2: Can people turn display of Bike routes on and off somehow? Will it clutter the map?

Q3: Will routing software try to route cars down it?

Q4: Which Cycleway should I choose? These are 8-10ft wide concrete paths used by people walking and bikes. I am guessing Cycle Lane is part of a road, but what are the "(NCN)" choices? Footpath? Byway? Basically created by small towns along streams and through parks. 2-5miles long, they do cross roads.

Q5: Does opensourcemap have an issue with a GPS track that occasionally doubles back to route a different branch?

Posted by Julio_Costa_Zambelli on 15 October 2008 in English.

I have notice some changes in the Mapnik render of this week.

Some of them were necessary (new icons for Restaurants, Fuel Stations, Bus Stops, Banks, ATMs, Hotels, Coffee Shops, Airports, etc.).

Some are neutral (New icons for Parking and Churches).

But other things do not look that nice (from the most annoying to the "it does not look good"):

-Everything is in a lighter color.
-Primaries, Secondaries, and Trunks without borders (at some zoom levels) or with very thin borders (at higher zoom levels) (CloudMade style).
-The train station icon is a small square instead of the regular red dot.

What do you thing of this changes? Are they permanent?

Posted by Josef Meixner on 15 October 2008 in English.

I just love it when a format which is standardized doesn't work. I needed three tries to get a working GPX file from my new Holux M-241. At least working with OPM, other programs seem to have less problems with it. The program which came with the logger didn't produce a workable GPX file, using GPSBabel to translate that failed file into a real GPX file didn't work either. Finally I succeeded by using the NMEA-file written by the Holux software and converting it to GPX in GPSBabel. Trying it at a weekend didn't help either with 16 hours delay before getting the mail that the import failed.

For the second track I uploaded I used BT-747 and it worked without a problem. I would have tried that for the first track as well, but I had deleted it from the logger before I found out, that the upload had failed. Now I only have to find some time (weekend) to turn that second track into a map. I will try JOPM this time. And I will try to get out a bit again and create another track (in the area I live there is still an unmapped village I can walk to).

Posted by Allan Ricketts on 15 October 2008 in English.

I have uploaded my first trace today, my usual cycle ride in Lancashire from Wigan to Mere Brow and back. I am planning a cycle tour in Holland next year and have found the map on this website very useful. I was wondering if I could download some of it to my Satmap and use it as the main route planner. If not I would like to know if I can get this information from anywhere else on the web. I will be uploading the other cycle routes across the North West of England as I do them over the next few months.

Location: Wigan Pier, Wallgate, Wigan, Greater Manchester, England, WN3 4EH, United Kingdom

I did create a couple of relations to define walking routes (osm.org/browse/relation/34122) and cycling routes (osm.org/browse/relation/37300/)in my area. So far I've been unable to see the effect of that on the map (even on the Cycle Map). I must be doing something wrong or missing some info about the whole process.

Moreover, I was wondering if there's any API or utility to download these routes from OSM and somehow convert the result to GPX that could be transferred to my handheld GPS ?

Posted by Rhubarb on 15 October 2008 in English.

I've added in a lot of roads around Montmorency (Victoria, Australia).
osm.org/?mlat=-37.720182&mlon=145.129112&zoom=16
I'll cycle around adding in the remaining road names in soon.

Lots of winding wriggly paths around Greensborough / Montmorency
Near the Plenty River trail.
osm.org/?mlat=-37.718182&mlon=145.111112&zoom=15

And the rest of the car parking and amenities within Westerfolds park.
osm.org/?mlat=-37.745671&mlon=145.128385&zoom=16
There are many more mountain bike / walking paths within Westerfolds park - so if there's any OSM mappers with a mountain bike it'd be great to fill these in.

I've also tried my hand at fixing the 2 remaining mapnik white boxes over the north end of Australia.