Openstreetmap Geodata Coming...

[Nieko]

As for my progress, I've got everything figured out, and it's now just a matter of time .

I now have a CSV file with all the streets with their coordinates in it, and another CSV file with all the zipcodes with city and coordinates in it.

Today I'll run the script that will merge these two files, so then I'll have one CSV file containing coordinates, street, city, zip code and province. (Turns out Perl has a nice module that figures out the closest zip code for a street.)

After that, I need to split and sort the streets by zip code, compress them and write them to a geodata.dat.

The scripts for this entire process I will put on my server.

(Btw., I'm not using GMDL's CSV import cause I couldn't find out (and didn't want to spend too much time on finding out) how to include zip code and province in the geodata.)

So for all the Dutch users, be patient, in a couple of days I'll be done .

[Codaz]

Nice Nieko keep it coming

[Natanael]

When i pointed a street on and want to get lead there, is that able without geodata?

[Nieko]

Natanael: I don't understand your question, please rephrase.

[Natanael]

I have a mark set on the map.
Map!This shows me the distance to the mark.
I`m going to get to this target.
Will Map!This lead me to my target, or do i need geodata for this?

[Nieko]

If you have a GPS dongle, MapThis will show you where you are on the map. If you have geodata, you can look up where a specific street is on the map. If you want to have street-to-street directions on how to drive, then you can use either GMDL (click the tab 'Directions') or my script, which can be found at http://getroute.nieko.net/. This will generate a POI file, which you can load in MapThis.

[Nieko]

And I'm done! For those who can't wait, Dutch geodata can be found here:
http://stuff.nieko.net/psp/mapthis/geodata/geodata.dat

Put it in the same folder where MapThis' EBOOT.PBP is, or in a map folder.

On http://stuff.nieko.net/psp/mapthis/geodata/ you can also find the scripts I've made to convert the OSM data to MapThis compatible geodata (process.zip). Try it out if you want

There, you can also find a _ZIPCODE POI file, which you can use to lookup where a specific zipcode is (POI Lookup => circle button), or just to show the zipcodes around the current location on the map.

Be sure to also check out the readme.txt!

in7ane: with these scripts, do you think you could take a look at geodata for entire Europe? My version heavily relies on Dutch zip codes, so it won't work directly.

[Codaz]

HURRAY for Nieko

England is also available on openstreetmap geodata so anyone can import that too on Mapthis.

Get Nieko's perl scripts, rebuild them for England and convert the planet.osm to geodata.dat

Easier said that done but ok

[Codaz]

Nieko needs to check the poi file hahaha

[Nieko]

There are indeed some anomalies in the data... If anybody has better data for zip codes, cities, provinces and their coordinates, feel free to contact me .