This might be of minor interest to some guys, and, FWIW, if I run the openStreetMap/pointShare generator from the tools page on the loadStone tools page, with like a 10km square radius around my home address, it currently returns like 1600+ points in the resulting loadstone database - haven't tried it out yet, in terms of real-world accuracy, but still...
Stay well Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'----- Original Message ----- Hello list.
I wanted to let you all know about updates that have been made to the Loadstone point share database. The point share was recently moved to a new server and with this move came a few upgrades. The two major upgrades are: the get points by civic location function should now work propperly. Previously there were problems with this in some browsers but hopefully these have now been fixed. This function will also now work in browsers that do not support javascript or have javascript disabled. The other major upgrade is we now can include openstreetmap data in the point share database. We have a local mirror of the entire openstreetmap database so this data can be selected as a source when exporting. When exporting data there's now an option to select the data source. This can be point share and openstreetmap (the default), point share only, or openstreetmap only. This means that you do not need to download data from openstreetmap and use any tools to convert to loadstone format. At the moment the openstreetmap data only includes points of interest (pois) street intersections are not included. Intersections will be included when I figure out how to make the database calculate these. If anybody has any information on how to do this let me know. There have also been minor tweaks to the user interface to hopefully make things a bit more user-friendly. The point share system is still being worked on so feal free to report any problems you may experience or any suggestions about how things can be improved. ---------- To send a message to the list, send any message to blindza@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ---------- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to blindza-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the subject line --- The 'homepage' for this list is at http://www.blindza.co.za
