OpenStreetMap
I am in my room at Hem 18B, Nguyen Thi Minh Khai street, DAKAO ward, District 1, HCMC, Vietnam.
My house address is 18E1 NTMK street, DAKAO, Dist. 1, HCMC, VN.
I am using a Nokia E72 smartphone with Google.maps to navigate the streets and provinces of Vietnam. It works very well. I recently navigated from Phan Thiet to Saigon on my motorbike.
It took 4 hours, as there was lots of road work to upgrade the highway making it wider and safer.
I am still learning how to enter the coordinates for the mapping. I just read from my phone using google.maps.
Фекер алышыу
Cafteachтарафынан15 July 2010 cәғәт 08:32көндө ҡаралған
I have been here for 5 years. Vietnam is a beautiful country, with many places to explore, foods to try, and sights to photograph. The people are so friendly, and fun to meet.
McBlazeтарафынан15 July 2010 cәғәт 08:44көндө ҡаралған
If you want to work more efficient you should consider working with trekbuddy (freeware!). I do most of my work with it on a BlackBerry. Have a look at http://www.trekbuddy.net/releases/0.9.99/index.html. You can use it with offline maps and store your gps-track in the phone.
McBlazeтарафынан15 July 2010 cәғәт 08:44көндө ҡаралған
If you want to work more efficient you should consider working with trekbuddy (freeware!). I do most of my work with it on a BlackBerry. Have a look at http://www.trekbuddy.net/releases/0.9.99/index.html. You can use it with offline maps and store your gps-track in the phone.
McBlazeтарафынан15 July 2010 cәғәт 08:45көндө ҡаралған
If you want to work more efficient you should consider working with trekbuddy (freeware!). I do most of my work with it on a BlackBerry. Have a look at http://www.trekbuddy.net/releases/0.9.99/index.html. You can use it with offline maps and store your gps-track in the phone.
McBlazeтарафынан15 July 2010 cәғәт 08:46көндө ҡаралған
You should have a look at http://www.trekbuddy.net/releases/0.9.99/index.html. Trekbuddy is a free tool to use osm-maps offline and store your gps-tracks in the phone memory. This may bring some more efficiency to your work :)
McBlazeтарафынан15 July 2010 cәғәт 08:49көндө ҡаралған
Well ... at least you should delete one or the other entry! :-) The server didn't response, so I tried several times to comment! Sorry!
McBlazeтарафынан15 July 2010 cәғәт 08:53көндө ҡаралған
Well ... maybe you could delete one or the other comment! The server dindn't respond properly so I tried to enter my comment several times. Sorry!
Pink Duckтарафынан15 July 2010 cәғәт 12:19көндө ҡаралған
Maybe the server should use a hash of the post and prevent duplicates by looking at previous posts by the user in the same thread.
davespodтарафынан15 July 2010 cәғәт 12:31көндө ҡаралған
Welcome! Be careful how you use that Google Maps app. I assume you mean you are taking the coordinates from your phone's GPS, as displayed in the app, rather than from the Google map. Don't forget, you shouldn't take data from Google Maps to enter into OSM, as this breaches Google's copyright and licence terms (and OSM tries to be whiter than white in this regard).
More information:
osm.wiki/Copyright
Cafteachтарафынан15 July 2010 cәғәт 14:51көндө ҡаралған
Ok, so what is the format for coordinates data. Longitude and latitude?
Isn't standard coordinates in 10 deg, 9", North 106 degrees, 41' 58" East?
stephan75тарафынан15 July 2010 cәғәт 15:29көндө ҡаралған
There are some internet maps that display coordinates. One of them can be found on www.geofabrik.de --> tools --> Map
(you can quickly zoom in that map (like in any other map based on OpenLayers) by holding shift key and drag a box with left mouse button)
davespodтарафынан15 July 2010 cәғәт 20:58көндө ҡаралған
Latitude and longitude are often expressed like this:
52.63725,-2.92876
Where negative numbers mean South for latitude and West for longitude.
To my knowledge you cannot use the standard OSM editors to simply enter latitude and longitude and say "put a map feature at these coordinates". You can search for latitude,longitude pairs (or place names) on the OSM home page, and then click edit to use the Potlatch editor to edit. However, before you do any of that, I would recommend reading the Beginner's Guide on the wiki:
osm.wiki
It's worth the effort. The best place to ask further questions is:
help.openstreetmap.org
Good luck!