Re: OSM??
On Tue, 21 May 2019 16:16:23 -0700, Dave Stevens wrote:
On Tue, 21 May 2019 17:26:03 -0000 (UTC)
Beartooth <Beartooth(a)comcast.net> wrote:
> but with a program so vast ...
don't think so. Vast data but only a browser is needed unless you want
some special functions. I'm currently on a ubuntu system and here
apt-cache search openstreetmap gives 70 hits. No doubt dnf will do
something similar.
Hmmm.... I don't know if dnf has anything like apt-cache, but I
tried plain "dnf search openstreetmap" and got only 17 hits. This is
encouraging. Many thanks!
I've been mousing around like mad, and I still find an odd thing
that I've always found before. OSM seems to be all about compiling data,
rather than making actual maps, let alone using them. Also, btw, I still
see no trace of anything like topographic data.
That's a fine thing to do, and those who do it have a right to
enthuse intensely; they're making discoveries and solving problems.
However, what I'm really trying to do is make certain personal
maps, to scale, marked with things I choose, whose spatial interrelations
I want to study. For me, that study and what I can learn from it are the
whole point.
Maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree? Ought I rather to have yet
another go at getting Wine a/o Crossover Office somehow to enable my GPSs
and some commercial or USGS software to talk to each other? I'm beginning
to doubt I'll live long enough ....
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Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User
Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is.