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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OpenStreetMap tiles not loaded despite being received
While using OpenLayers to load OpenStreetMap, I observe that part of the map would sometimes be covered with blank pink tiles. I searched and found similar complaints with solutions suggesting the ...
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Getting polygons of all countries and ISO-3166-2 subdivisons
In order to do reverse geocoding lookups to find a country (as ISO-3166-1) and the subdivision (as ISO-3166-2) for given coordinates I am looking for a way to get all polygons of all countries and ...
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How to route between lat/lon pairs in pgRouting?
I have set up Postgresql, PostGIS and pgrouting on Ubuntu.
I have imported an osm for wales using the following command:
./osm2pgrouting -file wales.osm \
-conf ...
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How do I fire a function after all features have been selected by a box in OpenLayers?
I have a map rendering with Polygons on a Vector layer set up as features. I set up the features so they fire off a function when the feature is selected and this works fine. The issue I'm having is ...
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How to filter layer of osm data?
I have a table osm_roads that has a column named geometry geometry geometry(LineString,900913).
If I want to filter a city to draw districts, I cannot do it by geographic coordinates?
What if in ...
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let user add his location on interactive map
I would like to know if it is possible to create an interactive map where the user will be allowed to add their own location to the map (I would use OSM as the basemap) and then calculate the distance ...
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Where can I find High Quality Road Network Information
I am carrying out a research on how complex city road networks get and I need to get accurate map information.
I started with openstreetmaps however I ran into a couple of issues: some of the dumps ...
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Creating a fully custom map using OSM infrastructure
I would like to make a fully custom map (fictional, have to start from scratch basically) and use the OSM tools to make following things possible:
crowd editing - the source data which is used to ...
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Generating tiles for osm/esri shapefiles
I've generated tiles for OpenStreetMap .OSM files using Maperitive and quickly consumed them with leaflet (with no tile cache yet).
I'm now looking for the right and simple way to to that also with ...
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Do any maps exist that allow me to get lat/lng from a point with no derivative-licensing issues?
I need a map I can display that lets the user click on a point then returns the Lat and Lng.
EDIT TO CLARIFY @Igor: Yes, the user is clicking a specific feature on the map so I guess it would ...
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How to display places names when using Quantum GIS and shapefiles?
I am new to the world of geo systems. What I would like to do is displaying some information on a map for given regions.
I downloaded shape files from cloud made web site and load layers using ...
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How do i get country boundary and names to show up in postgis backed mapnik rendered map?
I followed this to setup postgis server with planet-latest.osm. I used generate_xml.py to generate stylesheets. Using this style sheet with mapnik produces a world map with no country boundaries or ...
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Is there an open source tool for both road network analysis and geocoding?
Is there any one open source software package that can perform both road network analysis and geocoding?
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Using OSM data, pgRouting, and dummy data to develop an origin/destination travel matrix
Further to my previous question I was wondering if it is possible to add dummy node data without to do routing analysis.
ISSUE
I have a polygon layer that represents zonal attributes
I created a ...
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How can ArcGIS Editor for OpenStreetMap preserve Unicode data?
Currently i am using ArcGIS Editor for open Street map for conversion of OSM file to file Geodatabase. But after conversion geometry is perfect but there is no Unicode data available in the attribute ...
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Is there a way to locally add links to an OSM data set
Here's what I'm trying to do:
I'm modeling some transportation logistics data
I want to test the effects of a "new highway" on existing travel demand
The new road will be created from an arbitrary ...
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Convert OpenStreetMap schemas to ArcSDE in PostgreSQL database
I am trying to find a way to store OSM Extracts (or possibly the planetfile) in a PostgreSQL database, keep it up to date with diff files and then process the data further with ArcGIS (e.g. Geocoding, ...
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Print Map as Tiles in QGIS or using any software.?
i need to print a detailed map, on a street level zoom of Metro Manila. i figured to do this i need to download map tiles, but that will be a breach on map usage in OSM. then i found this website, ...
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Where can I find map icons for famous Paris landmarks?
Title says it all: looking for icons for famous landmarks in Paris, such as the Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triomphe, Louvre, Notre Dame. These should do. For other poi's I have general category-icons, but ...
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OpenLayers OSM tile boundary
I have a local tile source of OSM tiles. I'd like to show the tile zoom, x, y on the tile so that I can optimize and create small offline groups of tile for specific areas(polygons).
I can get the ...
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Limit Zooming Geometry Features in OpenLayers
I draw flag feature on my map as follows:
myVectorLayer = new OpenLayers.Layer.Vector("Flag Geometry", {
renderers: renderer,
isBaseLayer: true,
projection: new OpenLayers.Projection("EPSG:900913"),
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Is there a location where one can download all of the gpx files for OSM?
Where can I download all the gpx file in OSM.org website? Is there a package include all the gpx file? I don't want to download these gpx files one by one...
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Is there a recipe for large shape files to be used in an Android App?
I am very new to GIS and I am diving into cartography and mapping because of an Android App that I am currently developing. I want to display environmental data, more precisely noise pollution data on ...
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How to draw parallel or curved labels for OSM data in QGIS?
I'm trying to recreate a Google style map using OpenStreetMap data and QGIS. I've been following underdarks many wonderful guides but am getting stuck at the labels. The OSM data was taken from ...
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Can I use Google Maps API and substitute Openstreet map as base layer?
This Question is based on below requirements.
1 - our application will need to use functionalities of Google Maps API like custom marker/Info pop up/Routing etc.
2 - our application wants to use ...
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How to put a roads layer (OpenStreetMap) on top of KML polygons?
I need to develop a map where KMLs are overlayed with road layers. So, KMLs are polygons, and I would need to use a map tiles like OpenStreetMaps. But the problem is how to put roads on top of KML ...
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How can I extract data from OSM which includes the street names?
I am exporting OSM data (in .osm) files to use in qGIS. I am interested in having the street names displayed. I know they are in the OSM data set because they are displayed when I browse the data ...
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Method to compute and visualize the closest set of facilities from OSM data
I want to use OSM to extract a set of facilities e.g. school, park, hospital inside a given region.
from that, transform the area in grid and for each cell in a grid compute its score mixing the ...
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Calculating distance and/or time taken to travel from population centre to nearest hospital in QGIS
I'm trying to find out how long it would take to travel by car from each of the Lower Layer Super Output Areas (LSOA) in Norfolk, England to the nearest Hospital (or just what the distance is and I ...
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OpenStreetMap Tiles Not Loading in Firefox 17.0.1 - Pink Background [closed]
I recently ran into an issue where only a pink background is displayed in the openstreetmap on my webpage (tiles are not displaying). I found this topic OpenStreetMap tiles not loaded despite being ...
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How to get bounding box from coordinates (latitude, longitude), zoom level and size (screen)?
Is possible to get bounding box from coordinates (latitude, longitude), zoom level and size (screen)? I found only calculating bounding box from tile. I need it, because OpenStreetMap accept only bbox ...
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How to serve OpenStreetMap Tiles locally using ArcGIS Server 10?
We want to serve OpenStreetMap Tiles locally using ArcGis Server 10 to use as base maps in our ESRI Silverlight and Flex GIS clients.
We've downloaded our regions OSM file and created PNGs using ...
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Why are selected features not highlighted in OSM layers?
I am experienced with GIS, but new to QGIS and Opensource data.
I recently opened an Open Street Map (osm) file in QGIS 1.8 (on Kubuntu 12.04). I found that when I selected a feature, there was no ...
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How can I get a road network to run a simulation on?
I'm new to GIS and I'm asking this a bit out of desperation, but I'm trying my best not to get overwhelmed. :)
I want to download a file that contains data of a road network (of what road network is ...
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How to use OSM xml extracts? Can I make an offline app in Android using OSM?
I'm new to OpenStreetMaps. I have followed their wiki/main page and tried to understand it.
Can anyone briefly explain how exactly OSM xml data works and how it is rendered? ...Any links /pointers ...
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Render vectors from OSM data in POSTGIS database
I'm a newbie when it comes to mapping application. I had successfully loaded my OpenstreetMap data in a Postgresql/PostGIS database. Now my problem is how to render the vector data (the POI's, ways, ...
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Detect city from coordinates
I need to know how to detect which city belong certain coordinates.
Wich is the best way to do this?
Thanks in advance.
Pd: excuse my english
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Extract human-relevant data in an OpenStreetMap dump?
I downloaded a full XML dump. While there are lots of nodes and ways, I want to filter out only the human-relevant data.
By human-relevant, I mean neighborhoods, restaurants and landmarks are ...
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How to visualize the vertices of a graph in QGIS?
I tried to visualize the graph generated by osm2po and rendered that graph in qgis. Now what I am trying to do is plot the vertices in the graph. So that I can visually see where the nodes/vertices ...
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How to add a background map to a java project?
I'm new at GIS. I am trying to make a java application that can display a map with certain points. I have achieved this using the geotools library. However, I want to put the map from OpenStreetMap or ...
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How to reconcile UTF encoding for OpenStreetMap
I frankly am a bit confused when I am working outside the United States so please excuse my ignorance.
I downloaded some shapefiles for Moldova
(MoldovaData)
and had a question regarding the encoding ...
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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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OpenStreetMap data at different scales
Could anyone just clear up a question regarding openstreetmap data. Are there different OSM data sets for the various set scales, or do the data get generalized on-the-fly when the map is zoomed out ...
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Unencoding JSON output from OSRM
I set up Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM). The documentation does a pretty good job of laying everything out and I was able to get a server set up and running on my machine. My question is about ...
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What can go wrong in UTM to WGS1984 conversion (shifted data)
I try to convert .shp files to OSM data with shp2osm and ogr2osm but the output data is shifted.
Semi-Cross-Posting Warning: I have already asked a questions on the OSM help site, but this questions ...
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Can OpenStreetMap be used as a WMS service in MapServer?
I want to produce a png image that uses OpenStreetMap data and has a vector overlaid on the base data. I am able to produce the vector overlay from within Mapserver, but I have difficulty ...
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Optimizing OSM tiles download
Disclaimer: I don't know anything about maps, please excuse me.
In our mobile app, we use Cloudmade as our map tiles provider.
For certain places, we download multiple tiles for each zoom level ...
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How to render a multi-layered (raster + vector) map to a file (PDF, SVG or JPEG, PNG)?
When using OpenLayers I can compose a map with several layers which is displayed nicely by my browser, but I need to do the same server side (no browser composing the layers), and I'm waiting a image ...
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Openlayers: How to highlight a point on mouse over a line
Any suggestions on how to highlight a point on mouse over a line, I've read points from a javascript array, lines are drawn by using them and I want to highlight some points in that array by moving ...
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Simple GIS to Provide Urban Boundaries
I have an app built on top of Google Maps right now and everything works great.
I want to add one feature that seems exceedingly difficult. On my site, I want users to be able to type "Boston, MA" or ...
