Couchsurfer Posted November 25, 2008 Share Posted November 25, 2008 I need tracks I can lay on my zurich map so I can get around... any ideas? Also would love such tracks for San Francisco, and I always have this question for new cites - any sources? Quote Link to comment
Couchsurfer Posted November 25, 2008 Author Share Posted November 25, 2008 no really I want to learn about this for personal navigation! Anyone? Quote Link to comment
SiliconFiend Posted November 26, 2008 Share Posted November 26, 2008 no really I want to learn about this for personal navigation! Anyone? Check OpenStreetMap. Quote Link to comment
Couchsurfer Posted November 27, 2008 Author Share Posted November 27, 2008 THANK YOU! I forgot about that site... any other ideas, people? no really I want to learn about this for personal navigation! Anyone? Check OpenStreetMap. Quote Link to comment
Couchsurfer Posted November 27, 2008 Author Share Posted November 27, 2008 I guess one thing is that there are so many maps for 'zurich' for example, on openstreetmap, yet none that filter out when I say 'zurich train', etc hmmmm anyway... I need tracks I can lay on my zurich map so I can get around... any ideas? Also would love such tracks for San Francisco, and I always have this question for new cites - any sources? Quote Link to comment
SiliconFiend Posted November 29, 2008 Share Posted November 29, 2008 I guess one thing is that there are so many maps for 'zurich' for example, on openstreetmap, yet none that filter out when I say 'zurich train', etc hmmmm anyway... I need tracks I can lay on my zurich map so I can get around... any ideas? Also would love such tracks for San Francisco, and I always have this question for new cites - any sources? You need to download the raw data and search for tags such as railway=tram. Or search for bus routes, etc. It's not super easy, but it should be all there if you want to dig for it a bit. Quote Link to comment
Couchsurfer Posted November 30, 2008 Author Share Posted November 30, 2008 Yea thank you! I am looking, sadly at their forum an 'experienced' used states: ( http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=1965 ) "The search system in OSM for gps tracklogs is very bad and you are going to have a hard time to get anything out of it." They got THAT right! Any other methods out there, dear users? Couchsurfer Quote Link to comment
Couchsurfer Posted November 30, 2008 Author Share Posted November 30, 2008 BTW, there are 157,000 PAGES, not just tracers, to 'sort through'. Quote Link to comment
Couchsurfer Posted November 30, 2008 Author Share Posted November 30, 2008 BTW, there are 157,000 tracers, to sort of 'sort through'. It's unbelievable that this data isn't readily available. Quote Link to comment
+cameltrekor Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 (edited) BTW, there are 157,000 tracers, to sort of 'sort through'. It's unbelievable that this data isn't readily available. not what you want but I found this. and you could try contacting each city, they may have something or at least start working on it. cool request, I'll have to check with my local service and see what they have. ADD: another link of some POI for public transportation at poi-factory.com Edited December 2, 2008 by cameltrekor Quote Link to comment
SiliconFiend Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 Yea thank you! I am looking, sadly at their forum an 'experienced' used states: ( http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=1965 ) "The search system in OSM for gps tracklogs is very bad and you are going to have a hard time to get anything out of it." They got THAT right! Any other methods out there, dear users? Couchsurfer I wasn't talking about GPS traces, I was talking about the OpenStreetMap data, refined and derived (usually) from those source GPS traces. Still going to take some work, but not nearly as much as sorting through 157,000 traces. Quote Link to comment
Couchsurfer Posted December 3, 2008 Author Share Posted December 3, 2008 http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=1965 is the other conversation over at OSM. Frankly, SiliconFiend, I'm thankful for the help, but I don't know what you mean (or how to go about 'it') when you state: "refined and derived (usually) from those source GPS traces". Happy to learn of course! Perhaps other thread is interesting, though, for people following it, especially with regards to my clarification of the problem. Quote Link to comment
SiliconFiend Posted December 3, 2008 Share Posted December 3, 2008 http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=1965 is the other conversation over at OSM. Frankly, SiliconFiend, I'm thankful for the help, but I don't know what you mean (or how to go about 'it') when you state: "refined and derived (usually) from those source GPS traces". Happy to learn of course! Perhaps other thread is interesting, though, for people following it, especially with regards to my clarification of the problem. My point is that the data in OpenStreetMap is not just GPS traces (that's just a small part of it). People have taken those traces as source data and drawn in the streets and given them attributes (tags). For what you're looking for, download the raw OSM data for the city and then look for things that are tagged like railway=tram, railway=light_rail, railway=subway or download the relations of type route=bus and plot out the listed streets. It would be nice if someone did this automatically for big cities and made that data available in various formats. Quote Link to comment
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