I am writing mobile application with apache cordova engine.
I need tile and geocoder(reverse geocoder) server, for this reason I want to use here-api.
I need something as OSM, with buildings, street names... etc.
How I need request to get this type of tiles?
Or, Is it possible to get OSM tiles by here's servers?
Basically I need tiles of Armenian.
Thanks and Regards.
You cannot get OSM tiles via HERE servers. I believe you are looking for this:
https://developer.here.com/rest-apis/documentation/enterprise-map-tile/topics/quick-start.html
And then this:
https://developer.here.com/rest-apis/documentation/geocoder/topics/quick-start.html
You'll have to sign up for a plan before you can use it though:
https://developer.here.com/plans/api/consumer-mapping
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I am new in OSM but now I need create application which will use GIS (Geoserver) and will be provide service to get road from point A to point B.
I found some informations about this but I still have any questions.
My is download open street maps and extract to database (PostgreSQL), and for routing use plugin pgRouting. Next connect db to map server and provide api for clients.
Questions:
1. Is that correct way?
2. How osm format could I use for postgre? (osm.pbf? shp.zip?, or something else?)
Thanks for answers
Let me elaborate, what things needed to start till end:
First you need to download, OSM data, for which you can simply use Overpass API.
OSM2PO JAVA based CLI tool to convert OSM data into routable data, here is the good guidline how to use this tool.
Postgresql with postgis and pgRouting extensions, you will use dijkstra algorithm to get shortest route, or any other algorithm that best suits you.
Finally you will need Geoserver, that will provide OGC standards e.g. WMS and WFS, through which you can get your route in raster or vector format, you can store your table as layers and you may need a SQL View.
Further, for front end you can use OpenLayers, which is a JavaScript Web Mapping Library or you can use Leaflet,
You can easily do WMS and WFS requests from these libraries to Geoserver and Geoserver will send you a response, with your requested data, if request is correct.
NOTE: You can use QGIS v2 with pgRouting plugin for testing.
Does OpenStreetMap just provide GIS data? To render maps and have a browser based UI to show maps with data, would a developer need to use something like Mapnik?
OpenStreetMap provides data yes, and you'll need specific tools to make map with them. You first need to put the data in a true GIS format, which OSM is not. Think about PostGIS, an osm2pgsql tool is designed for that. Then, you'll need a rendering tool, i.e. a cartographic engine. You can use Mapnik or MapServer. Tilemill or Kosmtik can help you designing your map styles.
Take a look here.
yo can export data form OpenStreetMap and render your own map.
Take a look at
http://www.slideshare.net/jones139/rendering-openstreetmap-data-using-mapnik
http://www.slideshare.net/artemp/mapnik-sotm-2007
There's a fuller list of rendering libraries for OpenStreetMap data here, both free and commercial.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Renderer
Disclosure: I am the developer of one of them.
OpenStreetMap provides map data out to a wide sprawling ecosystem of different downloads and tools offering developers different map-making and map using possibilities. Here is a diagram I drew which captures some of this:
So the data comes out of the core of OpenStreetMap, in the form of 'planet downloads', one big unwieldy blob of XML (and diffs), but from there it fans out into a range of other offerings to developers, many of which are provided by 3rd parties. Taken together "OpenStreetMap & Friends" provide lots of possibilities.
If you are inclined to run your own rendering system, then yes, Mapnik is a good choice. Powerful and scaleable (most successful OSM tile servers run Mapnik), but takes a bit of setting up. You normally load OSM XML data into PostGIS, and run mapnik from that (tutorials on switch2osm.org)
If you are not inclined to run your own rendering system (for more lightweight web development tasks this seams reasonable!) you don't have to! You can configure LeafletJS or OpenLayers or others to fetch map tiles from a tile server run by somebody else. There are many providers. See the providers list on switch2osm.org and the Tile Servers list.
I would like to write a navigation software for windows phone 7 that is available without being on the internet. Therefore, I would like to download the map information from Bing maps. Not the entire world or country, just a small city - because this software is just for me and I only need navigation within my home town.
What I basically need is something similar to the map export that OpenStreetMap offers. I could not find anything equivalent on bing maps, so I wrote a program that queries bing maps (through the API) for routes. It then saves intersections and thus builds a graph. This technically works and I get a lot of streets, but sometimes bing leaves out a single intersection. In that case, my data will become invalid.
So I was wondering if there is any way of asking the API directly for a map export, returning something like an array of streets that is within a certain boundary rectangle. (Or something similar)
Thanks for your help
No, there is no standard API call in Bing Maps API that will let you do this.
Downloading all the street data within "a small city" would violate the terms of service. See 8.2(r) at http://www.microsoft.com/maps/product/terms.html.
If you want that data, you can try OpenStreetMap or else you would probably have to license the data from a commercial provider of such things which is no doubt very expensive.
I was looking at the Bing Heat Map Creator here.
It looks pretty cool, but I wanted to build something a little more dynamic with it. Unfortunately it appears as if the only way to use it is by uploading a CSV file manually. Does anyone know of another way to get the data loaded into this?
Thanks.
We developed the Bing Heat Map Creator, which is a Map App running on the Bing Maps platform. It is certainly possible to build similar heat mapping features in a more automated mapping application but likely would not be done as a map app due to limitations with map apps APIs. Ping me if you want to discuss further.
Regards
Steve
can i use bing map platform with an external mapping source ?
for example, i want to use bing map siverlight client with my own map files instead of the provided maps. (some areas coverage is insufficiant with bings provided mapping)
Thanks.
Another useful tool you may want to utilize if you don't have ArcGIS Server is MapCruncher, which will take a raster image, allow you to georeference it and produce Virtual Earth compatible tiles.
If you need to display vector data, you can either convert it to a format like KML or use a product called SharpMap to render tiled images.
I am assuming that since this was tagged ESRI, that you want a method to use ESRI products for your data sources... There are a lot of ways you can create your own tiles and use them in Bing Maps. If you have ESRI ArcGIS Server, you can use the ESRI JS API to add your own services to Bing Maps.
you can rewrite TileSource class and override GetUri method