June 14, 2018
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This is another post from my series on OpenStreetMap map design – kind of following up on what i wrote about waterbodies and fords some time ago. Water barriers The first part is about rendering of water barriers – with … Continue reading
December 10, 2017
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When i wrote about rendering of footways/cycleways in OpenStreetMap based maps recently i indicated there are other changes i made in the alternative-colors style that deserve some more detailed explanation and here i am going to introduce some of them … Continue reading
October 1, 2017
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What i am introducing here is something i originally wanted to work on during this autumn’s OSM hack weekend but i made some good progress on the matter during a first preparatory look at things so i decided to go … Continue reading
December 12, 2016
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I am happy to announce that reduced waterbody data for low zoom level rendering of OpenStreetMap based maps is now available on a regular basis on openstreetmapdata.com. This is produced using the methods i recently introduced here. You can find … Continue reading
November 22, 2016
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At the recent Hack Weekend in Karlsruhe i made some progress on a project i had been contemplating for quite some time and with further work in the last weeks first results can now be presented. The main motivation for … Continue reading
January 11, 2015
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More than a year ago i introduced an approach to process waterbody data for the purpose of generating a generalized worldwide river network. This method required quite a lot of ressources in processing so i did not reprocess it since … Continue reading
October 11, 2014
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When I wrote previously about the quality of the OpenStreetMap waterbody data one major problem – just like in case of the coastline – was that without a reference data set you cannot say much about the quality and completeness … Continue reading
August 6, 2014
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I have produced a new generalized coastline data set you can download and also put together a new update of my coastline data quality analysis. The main news is: The generalized coastlines are now – at least for the moment … Continue reading
November 19, 2013
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A new geodata section has been added to the Imagico.de Services and Products containing some of the data you can see in the demo map and in the Franz Josef Land map. If you are interested in using these data … Continue reading
September 24, 2013
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There are essentially two established and broadly used methods of mapping things in Openstreetmap: With GPS or by tracing aerial or satellite images. In the early days GPS was by far the most important method but with the availability of … Continue reading