How do I Progress?

Ben · 2006-06-18T18:11:36.000Z

Anyone have any idea how to get from this:

to this:

(On the first image my lines aint white either)…there just all green…
P.S Im not asking for road directions by the way!

bruce89 · 2006-06-18T18:47:55.000Z

Well, there is a lot of steps really, the first being making ways, and then tagging them with reference to the Map Features list.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Editing helps a lot. The map you provided was made with Osmarender.

Ben · 2006-06-18T19:34:24.000Z

Thanks. I’m having great difficulty still though. If I wish to apply way properties to many segments at a time, i seem to not be able to get the options bar pop up.

On the list of road types, im not shore what the difference between a minor road and an unclassified road are…

Also what would gated roads count as?..minor?

I read those pages a while ago, but i was really wondering if this could be done in the offline editors, cuase the online editor drives me nuts.

bruce89 · 2006-06-18T19:41:04.000Z

Thanks. I’m having great difficulty still though. If I wish to apply way properties to many segments at a time, i seem to not be able to get the options bar pop up.

You are supposed to select the segments, create a way out of them, then tag the way with properties.

I read those pages a while ago, but i was really wondering if this could be done in the offline editors, cuase the online editor drives me nuts.

JOSM is definetly the best way to contribute, and it does ways. There are some tutorial videos here - http://www.eigenheimstrasse.de/josm/tutorials/

Ben · 2006-06-18T20:31:39.000Z

hmm, slowely getting it… Cant get those videos working, aint got/don’t know what codecs are needed, and i aint got a clue what a .ogg is.

OSM editor confuses me greatly. I open it, and if i open files it has a strange ply effect. What is the address to try downloading data from?

bruce89 · 2006-06-18T20:41:18.000Z

hmm, slowely getting it… Cant get those videos working, aint got/don’t know what codecs are needed, and i aint got a clue what a .ogg is.

OGG is a free container format, WMP can play them if you install these Directshow Filters for Ogg Vorbis, Speex, Theora and FLAC

OSM editor confuses me greatly. I open it, and if i open files it has a strange ply effect. What is the address to try downloading data from?

Is this with JOSM?

Ben · 2006-06-19T01:22:19.000Z

cheers for the codec link, those videos are really really helpful, there were some cool little things i didnt know of

I relise my problem with the new ‘way properties box’… it just vanished behind pages, so i lost it…!

Im left thinking that that high quality rendered map above, looks that quality because of the softwear that displays it, rather than than additional data being attached to it…?.. I have got roads with names and colours now anyway.

Im still not quiite shore how attaching an area wich is a woodland for example is posible. i.e. creating properties to something between vectors rather than to the vectors themselves. Signs such as churchs/Post offices etc, also leave me a bit puzzled.

I was talking about OSM editor, not JOSM in the above post.

emj · 2006-06-19T06:15:05.000Z

Im still not quiite shore how attaching an area wich is a woodland for example is posible. i.e. creating properties to something between vectors rather than to the vectors themselves. Signs such as churchs/Post offices etc, also leave me a bit puzzled.

I was talking about OSM editor, not JOSM in the above post.

You don’t just yet, there is no support for areas, Etienne has been working on a beta version of Osmarenderer to do this for you in a hacky way. But I think you might rather want to wait a while.

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.openstreetmap/4211/match=chertsey

Ben · 2006-06-19T11:49:13.000Z

cheers for that.

Leaves me confused why Osmarender and JOSM are two seperate programs. Are they written by the same person?, and do they not both just allow you to edit the data.

bruce89 · 2006-06-19T15:55:26.000Z

cheers for that.

Leaves me confused why Osmarender and JOSM are two seperate programs. Are they written by the same person?, and do they not both just allow you to edit the data.

I think the plan is to have an online interface to Osmarender. Osmarender is written by 80n, and JOSM is Imi.

imi · 2006-06-22T08:32:05.000Z

cheers for that.

Leaves me confused why Osmarender and JOSM are two seperate programs. Are they written by the same person?, and do they not both just allow you to edit the data.

JOSM is made by me. Osmarender is done by Etienne. While JOSM is for editing of data, Osmarender is to translate osm-xml files to a nice svg-map. You can’t edit data with Osmarender.

Ciao, Imi.

Ben · 2006-06-22T15:28:22.000Z

ooo, That makes sence, thanks. Really Good video tutorials by the way imi

DaveL · 2006-06-23T14:17:27.000Z

hmm, slowely getting it… Cant get those videos working, aint got/don’t know what codecs are needed, and i aint got a clue what a .ogg is.

OGG is a free container format, WMP can play them if you install these Directshow Filters for Ogg Vorbis, Speex, Theora and FLAC

Alternatively, the VLC media player (open source (GPL), cross-platform (Windows, Linux, Mac and others)) seems to handle everything I’ve thrown at it.

bruce89 · 2006-06-23T16:43:53.000Z

Alternatively, the VLC media player (open source (GPL), cross-platform (Windows, Linux, Mac and others)) seems to handle everything I’ve thrown at it.

Yes, I was going to suggest that.
On a slightly offtopic note, the Ubuntu Forums has a mailing list section, did the extention not work here?