Month: June 2019

I added a new experimental “OSM Notes” overlay yesterday.

The Overlay will retrieve all active OSM notes for the displayed area, and will add numbered markers and index entries for each note.

This way it is possible to check a neighborhood for open notes without having to stare on a screen to get from one to the next, or at least that’s my personal intended purpose.

Continue reading “OSM Notes Overlay (experimental)”

Upload of Umap files exported manually via the Umap web interface has been supported by my MapOSMatic instance for quite a while, and the MapOSMatic API has also supported submitting a Umap file via an URL instead of uploading an actual file.

There’s also a (so far inofficial) export URL for exporting an Umap for exporting a map directly, without manual browser interaction.

See this Umap Github issue for a more detailed description.

The basic idea is that for a map with Id 123 the stable web access URL would be:

https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/m/123

and the inofficial map export URL

https://umap.openstreetmap.de/en/map/123/geojson

Unfortunately the export file retrieved this URL is not yet complete though, as unlike the manualy exported file unsing “Export all data” in the web interface, it only contain the maps meta data, and references to the actual data layers, but not the actual layer data itself.

So when processing a file exported this way, we first need to check the “urls” dictionary from the map properties for the datalayer_view URL path, and combine this with the protocol and host part from the maps own export URL.

For the original Umap instance the datalayer_view looks like this:

/en/datalayer/{pk}/

and so the full URL template becomes

https://umap.openstreetmap.de/en/datalayer/{pk}/

The {pk} placeholder needs to be replaced with the Ids from the datalayers list entries, which e.g. look like this:

{
"name": "Layer 1",
"id": 123456,
"displayOnLoad": true
}

So we need to download actual layers data from URLs like

https://umap.openstreetmap.de/en/datalayer/123456/

which returns JSON data we need to append to the layers list to form a complete export file.

Once we fetched and merged all data layers we can then process the resulting JSON document the same way as the JSON exported from the web frontend.

This should allow a more direct integration between Umap and MapOSMatic servers, to automate the process of creating printed representations of maps generated with Umap.

An API request to render an umap with Id 123 would then simply look like this:

{
    "umap_url": "https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/123/geojson/"
}

In actual PHP code for example launching a map rendering job for this umap would look like this:

<?php
require_once 'HTTP/Request2.php';

header("Content-type: text/plain");

define('BASE_URL', 'https://print.get-map.org/apis/v1/');

$data = ['umap_url' => 'https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/123/geojson/'];

$request = new HTTP_Request2(BASE_URL . "jobs");

$request->setMethod(HTTP_Request2::METHOD_POST)
        ->addPostParameter('job', json_encode($data));

$response = $request->send();
$status   = $response->getStatus();

if ($status < 200 || $status > 299) {
    print_r($response->getBody());
    exit;
}

$reply = json_decode($response->getBody());
echo "Result URL: ".$reply->interactive."\n";

Over the years there were requests for UTM support in my MapOSMatic instance every once in a while.

I now spent most of the first day of this years FOSSGIS Summer Camp on the topic, and I’m now happy to announce a first exeprimental implementation of an UTM grid overlay.

The screenshot shows the grid overlay only for clarity, it shows the grid for transition between two UTM zones, and the not-yet-perfect label placing:

If you are interested in further progress on this feature you may wat to subscribe to the Feature Request

So far for the single page layouts the street index could only be rendered on the side or the bottom of the same page.

Now it is possible to have the index rendered on a second page in PDF output. So it is now possible to duplex print a map with the actual map on the front side and the street index on the back side of the same sheet of paper.

As the other output formats do not support multi page output there will no extra index page be generated for these. Choosing the “index on extra page” layout these formats will have the grid added to them again though, which can be used in combination with the generated street index file in CSV format.