OpenStreetMap is a collaborative project to create a free editable map of the world. The data is free, and free of legal and technical restrictions. OpenStreetMap is often shorted to OSM.
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Qgis 1.8 Access the road graph plugin in python
I am developing a few scripts in Python to automate some geo-tasks and one of them would be to calculate the shortest distance from a hospital to each building in a town.
I would like to take ...
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OpenLayers popup control doesn't work after selecting another control
I have created an application using OpenLayers which by default includes the navigation control and the draw feature control. These controls are selected using a control bar similar to the one shown ...
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What are the standards to implement scale bar?
I am working on .osm data files, and now i want to implement scale bar for available data.
logically i have created the scale pixel is to geo location. I want to know whether there is any standard to ...
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How to find the country in which a point is located?
I have a PostGis database created with osm2pgsql. I am looking for a way to add the country name in which a point is located to the point row. It must work also for countries with enclaves, such as ...
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How to create a suitable filtered .osm for osm2po using OpenStreetMap Overpass API?
I successfully created a (.osm) set suitable for routing in a desktop GIS over a large custom area thus keeping only primary network (way object) using the Overpass API (see below).
I'm trying this ...
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Kartograph Open Street Maps
Firstly, congratulations to Gregor Aisch for creating such a wonderful library, thank you!
I am having a little trouble rendering an svg from some osm data. I downloaded the Sweden transportation ...
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openlayers python proxy.cgi script is not taking parameters
I have setup the python proxy.cgi in cgi-bin folder in my server.
[myserver]/cgi-bin/proxy.cgi returns the openlayers website
[myserver]/cgi-bin/proxy.cgi?url=www.openlayers.org returns list index ...
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Slippy map format
When do you decide which to use? I've started using Geoserver and it seems like map files are downloaded to the browser (using Leaflet) in the WFS format.
When I look at OSM, Mapbox etc, they use ...
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Why is osm road data showing up with lines radiating from a point?
My openstreetmap data has artifacts that I can't seem to get rid of. It is showing the roads underneath the artifacts so I know that the query is working at least partially.
The data is from ...
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Importing openstreetmaps exported OSM to opengeo using osm2pgsql problems [duplicate]
i'm having some issues when i go to import osm using osm2pgsql. My layers are showing all the roads coming from a single point. See photo link.
I have loaded the same OSM file into Qgis and ...
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How to create a printable map of labelled markers with OSM background?
I want to create an image of an OpenStreetMap map suitable for printing on A4 at 300dpi.
The map needs to have half a dozen markers/points, and each should be labeled with the name of the point.
I ...
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Is PostGIS doing a full table scan?
I am trying to retrieve all points p that are within polygons c. While building the query, I came across this strange behavior.
Question: Why does query 2 takes so long compared to query 1? Is it ...
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How to convert osm way xml to openlayers feature?
I am displaying the osm data through a popup with openlayers. For now i am using the overpass api to get data.
But my app needs to reflect the rapidly changing data i.e. one changes the data then ...
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Problems printing OpenLayers Pluggin Maps To Scale
It the print composer I can print all maps to scale and satisfactory.
However, when I add the OpenLayer, usually Bing Aerial, to the project I cannot print it out to scale.
I click the scale box, ...
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Load surface to SQL using osm2po
Does anyone know, if it is possible to make osm2po able to load extra road data into SQL file, such as the surface tag? [1] I know it is not much used, but when it is, it would be nice to know if the ...
