Relevant links

• MyTaH Mozilla addon page
• MyTaH 0.2 Firefox extension download (8.1 Kb)
• MyTaH Wiki page (also for bug reporting and improvement suggestions)
  
• MyTaH SVN

If you like my little MyTaH Firefox extension, and if you want to keep it updated from Mozilla Addon site like any other Firefox extension, please take some time to write a little review. It’s needed by Mozilla policies before publishing it in their repository.

You can help in two ways:

• Write a review in MyTaH Mozilla addon page. As it’s classified as “experimental” you need to subscribe Mozilla addon page
• Write a review in your blog and let me know about it commenting this post, or add a link in the Reviews section in MyTaH wiki page.

Why should you be concerned? Have a look at planned improvements.. and obviously add your opinion if you feel like!

Relevant links

• MyTaH 0.2 Firefox extension download (8.1 Kb)
• MyTaH Wiki page (also for bug reporting and improvement suggestions)
  
• MyTaH SVN

Fast post just to let you know I’ve updated MyTaH Firefox extension.

Release notes

• Now monitoring also:
  • Number of tiles uploaded
  • Number of KB uploaded
  • Idle Time
  • Tiles remaining to gain a better rank
• All the monitors are shown as a tooltip when the mouse is over the MyTaH extension
• In the Preferences dialog you can select which monitor you want to see in the status bar

• New option in the menu to update the data immediately

• Now my account is no longer the default one. If no user account is requested in the preferences dialog a “No name” warning will appear in the status bar

Furthermore, I’ve taken an account at Mozilla Addon and submitted my extension. Now it’s in the sandbox waiting for review… I hope (after any eventual fix they’ll ask me) to have it published before or then

Relevant links

• Update: Version 0.2 blog post
• MyTaH 0.1 Firefox extension download (6.8 Kb)
• MyTaH Wiki page (also for bug reporting and improvement suggestions)
  
• MyTaH SVN

As I’ve told some weeks ago, I was starting to develop a little Firefox extension to monitor my own Tiles@Home ranking from this page. I was totally new on Firefox extension developing, but I’ve managed to do something working and useful in a few time anyway

As you can see in this post’s image, MyTaH will sit in your Firefox’s status bar, displaying your current ranking (by number of tiles). Clicking with the right mouse button, you can view “Preferences” or “About” dialog (which you can see in the post’s image as well). In the Preferences dialog window you can write your username or your user id, and how often (in minutes) you want your ranking be fetched and updated. Please be aware that, by default, you’ll see my actual ranking. Not perfect, but… release early release often

Enjoy!

It’s been a long time since the last post. After successfully passed my exam I took a little holiday trip camping around Europe with my girlfriend Claudia (thanks to Frederik Ramm who took us around for a morning in Karlsruhe ) and then I was a little buried in everyday stuff and everyday work. Now I’ve managed to have more spare time to return back working on Osmarender Frontend!

I was not totally outside OSM however, when I had a little time I’ve managed to remain in touch with the community and doing some little works:

• I’ve given a talk @ Linux Day 2008 in Rome about OpenStreetMap on October 25th (thanks to LS-Lug for hosting, Simone Cortesi for slides and Martin Koppenhoefer, his girlfriend and their friend for coming there! )
• I’ve started to get in touch a little bit with OSMTracker devs because of lack of compatibility with my Samsung Omnia i900. I spent an evening with Rubke and Ldp in chat talking about Marco Polci’s cool work (Pollicino), which already had some compatibility with WM internal GPSes. Now, however, an Intermediate driver for internal GPSes has been developed independently and OSMTracker is fully compatible with my cell phone. Furthermore, I’ve subscribed OSMTracker mailing list.
• Learnt to use a really great software to use in sync with OSMTracker for mapping, called JTileDownloader
• Thanks to Virtual Tiles@Home, I’ve managed to get Tiles@Home working on my old Windows box and begun helping actively. However now it’s not working anymore, hope to find a solution when I’ll have more time As I’ve seen one mail talking about Osmarender Frontend, I’ve subscribed TaH mailing list to not miss possible future mails.
• In the meantime I was starting to study for developing a little Firefox extension to monitor user’s Tiles@Home activity. I’ve already written some lines of code, but stay tuned for updates
• I’ve changed Osmarender wiki to link to my Osmarender Frontend wiki page
• I’ve subscribed the Openstreetmap Italy Facebook group
• Replied to Jiri Klement (hope to reply again soon) about his new Osmarender rules file format proposal
• Last but not least… managed to read thousands of emails coming from OSM mailing lists

Yesterday I’ve done some commits to keep Osmarender Frontend in sync with bobkare’s work on Osmarender’s SVN reorganization. I need however to work to get Osmarender Frontend fully compatible with the new SVN layout, and that means:

• Using always the latest Osmarender XSLT and latest rule files.
• Keep dojotoolkit outside the svn (no more svn:externals, so I need other solutions to link to the library) and write some shell scripts to download it (and jsdoctoolkit, and jsunit for developing).
• Let Osmarender Frontend be fully compatible again with symbols, that are now again outside the rule file.

Before starting to code Osmarender Frontend again, however, today I’m working on a little, very beautiful (to me) surprise for all devs that I’m planning to release tomorrow… Stay tuned!

A sunny Saturday here in Rome. But I’ve started it in my home, idling on the #osm irc channel and trying to get Tiles@home working in my Windows box (a mid-tower computer which I’m not using so much). So I’ve started getting a T@h account (thank you crschmidt!) and trying using the all-in-one installer found in the Windows@home wiki page, just trying to keep the easy way. Unfortunately, I’ve got it to work (at least it seems it renders) but couldn’t upload any tile image till now. Probably there’s something broken but I think the manual way would be easier than the easy way

After a little bit of T@h playing, I went out from home and, during my little travel, I’ve got some new GPS traces, which I’ve edited in JOSM and uploaded, with some corrections of my previous editing sessions.

Probably in the next two days I’ll be less productive, however I’ll continue my Osmarender studies in spare time.