Comments on: OSM Cycle Map Goes International

By: Ebenezer

Ebenezer — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:58:43 +0000

Any chance of getting some coverage in Australia? I would find more detailed coverage in Sydney (for example) fantastic. If you drop me an e-mail I can suggest a bounding box.

By: Gerco-Kees

Gerco-Kees — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 08:25:13 +0000

Hi Andy,
That is good news! Thanks a lot for your outstanding work. Above i see that you will be busy with rendering (at least your hardware will be busy ) many parts of the world. Good luck!

By: Living with Dragons » Cycling beyond the U.K.

Living with Dragons » Cycling beyond the U.K. — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 15:41:15 +0000

[…] week the Cycle Map has gone international and now you can see Europe, with the USA possibly coming soon. The trouble […]

By: Bone

Bone — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:06:29 +0000

Excellent. I’ve gone ahead and tagged up the first 20 miles of BikePA route J.

If you can render the following z=12 tiles, we should be able to see how it works.

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If there’s some way I can help with the rendering, I’d be willing to dedicate a PC to the effort.

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:57:47 +0000

I’d just use the ncn tags - I’d say it’s unlikely (from what little I know about the US) that there’ll be a federal cycle network any time. And if there is, it’s not that hard to go back and change things later - after all, the rcn tags was something I made up after most of them had been tagged, and Gregory went back and changed lots of his in SE England. Much more important just to dive in, get the ball rolling, and worry about these things later!

By: Bone

Bone — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:30:37 +0000

Thank you very much. I am certainly envious of your hosting arrangement. Now, a question that I’ve been mulling over a while. Do you think I should tag state-wide routes as ncn or rcn?

I am thinking ncn, because the states in the US are approximately the same size as European countries, so we would want rendering to be similar for similar zoom levels.

Alternatively, we could make bikepa_ref=”j” with rendering similar to ncn. I don’t know how much work that would be on your end, though.

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:51:12 +0000

No problem at all, quite happy to host tiles for the States too - when you start tagging, let me know where and I’ll start rendering them. I’ve got gigs of space and terabytes of bandwidth - the problem is it’s taking longer and longer to render and upload the tiles to my webhost. Still, it’s less than a day at the moment, so not a problem for now.

In answer to your question, the total tiles used now that Europe is in there is 3.7 gigabytes - although probably a gig or two consists of detailed sections of the North Atlantic!

By: Bone

Bone — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:27:10 +0000

How do you feel about adding the US to your cycle map? As soon as the TIGER import is done, I plan to start tagging the BikePA[1] (statewide) routes in Pennsylvania.

If this isn’t feasible for you, I’ll probably look into hosting it myself. How much disc space are those tiles taking up for your map of the UK?

[1] http://www.pahighways.com/other/bicyclepa.html