Any case of OSM adoptions in national mapping agencies?

Hi all,

If this topic is not proper to this mailing list, please forgive me. 

I'm just curious about whether any countries' NMA(National Mapping Agency) or NGI(National Geographic
Institute) had ever given away data to OSM or used OSM data officially.

Relating to this topic, I found very interesting case in South Africa from Gavin's post[1]. I'm currently
looking for similar case like South Africa. 

You help will be appreciated. 

With regards, 

Sanghee

[1] http://afrispatial.co.za/open-data/osm-to-become-a-distributor-of-ngis-south-african-topo-data/

Re: newbies Digest, Vol 59, Issue 13

Javier,

You might also want to look at OpenTripPlanner as it has a lot of the
functions you listed and uses OSM as its basemap and for routing.
TriMet, the transit agency in Portland, is currently using it as their
trip planner and here in Chattanooga we are standing up a version as
well. It is an open source program with a active development group and
extensive documentation. You can learn more at the links below. I hope
this helps and good luck!

http://opentripplanner.com/
https://github.com/openplans/OpenTripPlanner/wiki/

Tim Moreland
Regional Planning Agency

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Hi,

i'm very new to OSM and related stuff. I've been using OpenLayers for a

Getting started

OSM WMS

I tried to used Dynamic POI example of OpenLayers.

http://dev.openlayers.org/releases/OpenLayers-2.11/examples/dynamic-text-layer.html

I found it used following WMS server:

                var wms = new OpenLayers.Layer.WMS(
                    "OpenLayers WMS", "http://vmap0.tiles.osgeo.org/wms/vmap0",
                    {layers: 'basic'}

This does not have detail I wished. May I use openstreetmap.org's
in-place of osgeo.org as default.

I could not use information from:

http://trac.osgeo.org/openlayers/wiki/AvailableWMSServices

Any help will be highly appreciated.

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H.S.Rai

Tablets (Walking Papers)

(apologies for my mail provider not supporting threading)

Live editing would be desirable, but have you considered using Walking Papers?  Surely most tablets work
well with PDF and adding notes atop the format (maybe even consider Utopia?).  The question there is
whether there is a way to download a bunch of PDFs of sufficient high resolution to cover a significant area
in one go at the Walking Papers site.  --user ceyockey

tagging of grain elevators

(apologies for my mail provider not supporting threading)

I would suggest using a site relation for a group of man_made structures which together constitute a grain
storage facility as described
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/newbies/2012-January/006742.html .  Within the site
would be multiple structures, some of which could be tagged as man_made=silo . --user ceyockey

tagging of grain elevators

Hello,

How should grain elevators
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grain_elevator) be tagged?  I can't seem
to find anything on the wiki.

Thanks,
Mike

Tablets

Hi,

Is it possible to use an iPad, or Galaxy Tab to edit Open Street Maps 
using Potlatch and JOSM?

Regards,

Russell

Memory, graphics or cpu

Hi,

To get maps to redraw quickly and smoothly which is more important, the 
amount of memory a system has available, the power of the CPU, or a good 
graphics card. For use with Potlatch 2, and JOSM.

Regards,

Russell

Potlatch 2

'Lo

Hi,

Just started with this, got an iPhone 4S and downloaded NavFree South 
Africa, and found parts of my locality missing, so I have started adding 
in bits here and there, and fixing a few errors. Some errors I am unable 
to fix yet as I don't know how to break the nodes, that cause the 
"faults", using Potlatch 2, and JOSM. Also have MotionX GPS on the 
iPhone. Have added a few local street names.

Using the GPS features of the iPhone drains the battery horribly fast :(

Spend the better part of my working life, driving around town.

Regards,

Russell