[Xastir] Open Street Map support (read this)

[David]

Hi James......tnx for the thoughts.....as im on my way to Auckland N.Z 
tomorrow morning for my Fathers funeral it will be a project for when i 
return early next week

wont be hard to do have a hand held Garmin etrex H which i think will be 
a help

the roads are on the local maps which are of course commercial but i do 
have those set up for xastir and was what i have been using....

the new OSM maps look great on Ubuntu 10.4 and nVidia gforce 4 mx440 8x 
video card....the monitor is a Samtron 76e CRT...would love to afford a 
good LCD screen

73 David VK4BDJ




James Ewen wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 3:20 PM, David <djmunn at bigpond.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Hi All.....have just done an upgrade on my Xastir system and when i
>> restarted the program up came the OSM maps.....looks real great for
>> Australia.....the only thing i have found is that  the map of Townsville
>> does not ha ve the street i live ing...we are in a rural residential area in
>> the Northern Beaches of Townsville....however i can live with that
>>     
>
> You don't have to live with that... go to www.openstreetmap.org, and
> add your street to the map.
>
> When I got into OSM, my locality of 80,000 people was only a few
> roads... I added in all of the local roads over the course of about a
> month.
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canada:Alberta:Strathcona_County
>
> Your area (if I'm in the right area) has some pretty good satellite
> imagery (except for a bit of cloud cover), but needs a bit of work on
> some roads, and needs a few more added. It doesn't take much to add
> the roads in yourself.
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-19.2461009323597&lon=146.80734962225&zoom=17
>
> Create a user account, and you can start editing right away in the
> browser with the Potlatch online editor!
>
> James
> VE6SRV
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