Apologies for noob question, but I am no coder and total noob with MapTiles. I have a software that uses .mbtiles for a TileServer. I want to get a map of Algeria, but the price for the whole Continent is not much more than the country itself, so figured I'd buy whole Africa tiles, in case I need more countries in future.
If I purchase the Africa's OpenMapTiles (.mbtiles) would I be able to extract a specific country of it? If so, how can I go about it?
Thanks a lot for your help!
I know you can specify specific countries when hosting tiles and like you saw when purchasing. I would believe this is also possible.
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I understand that most of the data in OSM for USA is coming from TIGER. It seems that this doesn't have complete road key attributes such as speed limit, maximum weight, allowed / restricted turns, lane change etc.
I found that some state level DOT do have public datasets available for the roads within their jurisdiction, however some states don't have that. I wonder if the OSM community knows if the data already available at these state DOT's was loaded in the OSM?
Please also let me know if there was a netter place to ask this question?
Many thanks,
It is stated in the OSM webpage as well as in other GIS blogs that OSM doesn't have much data on key attributes of roads ie truck restrictions, however some DOT do have data on that.
In OSM pages it wasn't clear if that data was loaded.
There's been an awful lot of discussion about data imports, especially within the USA, over the years. I suspect that if data is available and hasn't been imported into OSM it's for one of two reasons:
the quality isn't very good
the licence isn't compatible
The relevant OSM wiki page that explains what would someone suggesting a new import need to do is here. With regard to the "community buy-in" step, I'd suggest contacting the OSM USA community in the first instance via the forum, mailing list or OSM US' slack workspace.
Currently I am trying to develop a multi-layered Leaflet map using GeoJSON (for country, states/provinces) and CSV (for city data). I want it to go down all the way to city level and that requires layers of Country, State/Province, and City data. I have all the Country data I need in the format I require (GeoJSON) and I have a decent source for City data in a CSV format.
However, I only have USA, Canada, Brazil, and Australian states/provinces and I have been looking around but haven't been able to find a reliable source such as NaturalEarth (which is where I initially got my states/province data from).
Does anyone have a resource they could point me towards? Even if it is multiple, hopefully I can merge them together in mapshaper/other open source applications. I've been looking for the past month but I am new to geographic visualization so I don't know the good spots to look yet.
Thank you so much for any help
You can try BBBike exports of OpenStreetMap data. Probably you will have to export bit by bit as there is a size limit to what you can export.
I recommend you also OpenStreet map. Osm also uses NaturalEarth for higher layers.
But I would download their database (for test, just download a small country, then you can download continents at a time).
Then I would select the features I'm interested. In your case the boundaries (region, districts, cities/municipalities), and city/hamlets names. Then you should look at the tools they have (and what you need). My simple and stupid way would be just to import such features in a GIS database, and then use it to get data. But you may find shortcuts and use directly the data without importing in a database.
Check OSM wiki, Downloading data and Planet.osm page, and other linked pages about tools. You may need to look the Feature page to known what features you want (just to discard most of the data).
If you want to use the tiles (pre-rendered images), you may need to read the term of services. It may be easier to download all data and render in your server, or to buy a service which offer you tiles. (all in the wiki).
I'm writing an iPhone App these days, that would need to know the current amount of money available on a bank account, the user has to enter his/her details of course. I've read about HBCI (just need to cover german banks by now), but I can't find something pointing me in the right direction (as I don't know what to search for, I'm not surprised..)
As I said, I just need to cover german banks right now, and I just want the current amount of money. How would I do that? Is there something like openHBCI, that is still maintained and available for iOS? Any hint in the right direction will be much appreciated!
Thanks!
That is a really heavy task .. you also need a database of the german banks with the access points and the hbci versions they accept.
a start point would probably be: http://openhbci.sourceforge.net/, or the successor of the library: http://www.aquamaniac.de/sites/aqbanking/index.php (german).
since it's c++ it should also work on the iphone/ipad
I am new iphone developer,please help to me.how can i find particular shops list in particular Zip Code.. that means i need to place pins in Some shops by searching Zipcode
Thanks in advance
I'm not sure there's a definitive "Right Way" to do what you're asking, but if it were me...
I would probably use Google's Places API to get a list of so-called Places (I gather this includes a fairly comprehensive list of businesses, as well as other points of interest) near the user. The API requires lat/long coordinates to resolve the list, you could either get that data from the user's iOS device (I don't develop for this platform so I can't give specifics) using Apple's location API, or if you really want to do a lookup by zipcode you might want to look at Google's Geocoding API. Keep in mind that Google's services are by no means the only game in town, and there are certainly other ways to do what you ask. But if it was me, this seems like the simplest solution
Just to clarify, by hacker community group I mean people who just like to get together once a month or once a week to have a beer (or tea or juice) and share with others what they've been working on and maybe even help each other out.
I know this already exists in the general hacking world, but I'm wondering if an iPhone specific one is running.
It would be also good to know if there is one in London, England (where I live). If not, I might consider starting one up! Any interest?
Feel free to comment on any of the above, especially if you are interested in forming one.
Thanks
This should be exactly what you are looking for
London iOS developer group
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1798655
http://iphonedevelopergroup.blogspot.com/
It will also be worth checking out NSCoderNights and CocoaHeads