Hya,

Question Has anybody been using openstreetmap in qlandkartegt? (Debian wheezy)

I am experiencing difficulty using openstreetmap these days. (Two different systems (32 and 64 bits).

Debian bug report does not say much, nor chengelog.

Web search gives me many sites, however they are old (several years..)

I appreciate any feedback.

cheers

Hya

It works now.

cheers

Oh come on!

Don't leave us in suspence. How come it is working?

I am really interested in Open Streetmap. Have a perfect use for it locally here. Could even get some folks interested in Linux if I could get it to work.

Know nothing about it really. Installed it on Jessie just before my tower died.

I see a thread about it and get all excited. No suspence is just eating me up.

Oh, go away.

Don't leave me in suspence. How come it is NOT working?

I am really interested in OpenStreetMap. Have perfect use for it around Billing airport MT. Could even get evil Microsoft HQ also on my linux.

Know nothing about it really. Installed it on wheezy and my evolved jessie Penguin is still alive.

cheers.

P.S.
www.openstreetmap.org kept working. I have no idea what happened. If you can post what you have here, we can compare...

Unfortunately I just barely got started figuring out how to use it, editing the map and so forth, when my tower died.

That is the hardware listed in my sig.

What I am actually using now is antique Dell Latitude laptop that has, for instance, in additiong to a floppy drive, no wifi (not an issue for me as I like wires). But it does have 2 ways of connecting by wire, a DSL port AND an integrated dial up modem. Not a very powerful box. Integrated Intel graphics are not up to much. Wouldn't think of trying to run it on here.

Small embedded interactive maps really can't be used as it takes for ever to move through them.

You can watch an online video if you set swappyness at 100 and download the video, close the browser and then watch the thing. If you leave the browser open the audio works fine but the video just freezes.

I removed the DM (lightdm) the other day and cut the time to login by half using the tty login.

What I want to do is get the Powder River County (County Seat is Broadus, MT) straightened out, looks like just minor problems.

This will teach me to add things to the map and remove some. This in turn will let me offer this to local landowners as a good way to be able to map their invasive weed locations and be able to communicate those to the County Weed Coordinator if they so desire.

Would make administering things like weed control grants after major wild fires much easier and the same goes for major outbreaks of particularly noxous weeds such as Poison Hemlock.

I am the flunky for the Weed Dept. We were up spraying Hemlock north of Sonette this morning. Nasty stuff. Has taken off in the last decade. Was brought in, on purpose, several generations ago as an ornimental for a flower garden. One garden. Fairly well established in a third of the county now.

One of many very nasty invaders that take over native plant habitates and do major grazing degridation. This is primarily a livestock growing state so this has major impact financially and, no less, major impact on wildlife.

There is a state mapping program in place that is going no where. People are supposed to take their valuable time and map out the locations of these weeds so that a coordinated attack on them could be developed. Problem with that is that landowners would be taking time that they could be using in control of these weeds on their property to do this gps tagging.

If they could be offered a map program which would alow them to use those tags to map their own infestation to speed up their weed management in the future they would be more likely to actually use gps tagging and report the coordinates.

The County has one person that does mapping for the County on a proprietary map program. I forget the name. The boss is familiar with it but doesn't know how to run it very well. Costs nearly $2000 US. Not something that the average rancher can afford or use.

If I could get this so that the roads were correct, they know where their property lines are. I could give little demos at weed seminars and introduce them to this and give them support once I master the limited functions needed for simple location editing.

I think it would be a great tool that some of the landowners would really appreciate and use.

The boss recently got a new member on the Weed Board, a local commitee in existence in all counties here in the US and its territories and protectorates. She is an older rancher that is very progressive on controling weeds and a potential trouble maker for the rather behind the times Weed Board and County Commision. We need that. We have worked with her for 2 years and I think she would also be an advocate of this.

I will be building a new box this summer some time when I get the cash to do so. Then this will become a priority progect.

I think I even have a landowner that will be very happy for me to do some mapping of his corners to add to the map and then a couple of patches of Leafy Spurge to show how that is done.

One of the people involved in the Hemlock grant is also just the type to not only have a computer and know something of using it but would also be enthusiastic to try this out.

Huge landowner and this could be a tool handy for a number of other things on the ranch holdings. Just needs to be cost effective. I think free probably is even considering the time to use it. Really should make weed management a lot easier in that you can send someone out that has never been to that point to deal with them. This is also true of water leaks, broken fencing and so forth.

They need to know it exists, first, that it is usable second. A local person they can contact if they have problems should go a long way to making it attractive.

I am a little excited about working with it. You could maybe have guessed that.

Hya,

It is such a nice project!

By the way, my old laptop, which has a floppy bay and dial up modem, can easily navigate. However, current connection is WiFi via pc-card.

A while ago, I drove I-90 from Sioux falls to Billings when I made a transcontinental travel.

Have a nice Penguin.

cheers

You can get a usb wireless adapter. I have the dlink dwa-131 & it works well, been running it for 2 years.