Cross posted from geohackers.in. Leaflet.js by default supports Cloudmade’s awesome map tiles. The Open MapQuest project also provides beautiful tiles, which are now used at OpenStreetMap.org. To use these tiles all you have to do is to change the map preamble as follows. The Cloudmade maps layer looks like this. Change the preamble to.
Archive for the ‘Mapping’ Category
Geohackers in the news!
Finally, we have some attention from the media! Featured on the third page of the New Indian Express. Geohackers shows the way in Open Mapping About two years ago, in an open map party held in Hyderabad, some geeks sowed the idea of forming an open technology mapping consultancy team. Now, the idea has grown [...]
Setting up Mapnik for rendering tiles in your language.
Mapnik is the default renderer on the OpenStreetMap main site. We can setup our own OpenStreetMap server for rendering the tiles either online or offline. This note would help you to setup an offline one (online if you do on your server) with special eye on font setup for localized tiles. To render the tiles [...]
OpenStreetMap and GIS: Bridging the gap.
Many a times I have heard my GIS friends say that OpenStreetMaps are ‘just’ street maps and lack quality and ability to be used in efficient GIS applications. But this is not always true. I would like to make a comment that, GIS applications they mention still uses any kind of map data which are [...]
Cool Tool! OSM Mapper
Came a across a really cool tool to analyse the changes to OpenStreetMap. The change can be verified in terms of users updating data, or period, in a very intuitive way! Register here . And try out! You can even export the map as images or in KML format! I tried it with Calicut subset [...]
heritagewalks.in is ready!
Included few more features to the maps last night and that’s it. Waiting for Manu to get the CSS ready. HeritageWalks will definitely take you back in time!
Live: Kuttippuram Mapping!
Stressed from exams, we decided to take a break. For me, nothing other than mapping, came to mind. Four of us, grabbed two motor bikes, and had some wonderful time mapping the Kuttippuram Town, tonight. We were so excited that we could not take any pictures. I would update with the OpenStreetMap changeset link soon. [...]
Render Maps Quickly
If you want to render you OpenStreetMap data quickly into beautiful maps, Mapgen is the tool for you. A very easy to use, perl script, with less dependencies. Mapgen supports rendering to SVG, PNG and PDF. All you have to do is to get the package and then command! The rules file is easy to [...]
Introduction to OpenStreetMap
I was talking at the NIT-C Mapping Party, organized by Geohackers and FSUG-Calicut, with the Tathva team. The presentation is here.
Too Many To Blog!
I’m really lazy to blog these days. Had a wonderful time at Ahmedabad for the Maps for making change workshop. A brief review is available on my twitter time line! Pictures at flickr ! Then fossmeet.in at NIT C. Awesome time. Hacking. Glad to see HeritageWalks.in is up!