Re: [Talk-GB] When is a hedge a wood?

[Chris Jones]

Hi Martin,

1) The boundary is is clearly a fence. Thats what stops you just walking across.

You can map the trees as several natural : tree or a tree_row depending on how 
long the row is I guess. Certainly not a hedge or wood.

2) The road is a highway, the grass is a verge.. the wiki suggests you can 
either tag the verge as a property of the highway or as a separate 
landuse=grass. Your call, but to me in this case its part of the highway.

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> On 27 Aug 2018, at 05:35, Martin Wynne  wrote:
> 
> Rural boundaries can be extraordinarily difficult to map. For example, is 
> this:
> 
> https://goo.gl/maps/FtjMZiwNj542
> 
> a) a fence,
> 
> b) a hedge,
> 
> c) a very narrow wood,
> 
> d) all three at the same time?
> 
> Is the area in front of it
> 
> a) grass,
> 
> b) highway,
> 
> c) both?
> 
> (Not mapping from Google, I walked along there recently.)
> 
> Often a wood adjoins an open area such as a water meadow. If there is a fence 
> between them, the boundary is clear, even if the wood canopy overlaps into 
> the meadow. If there isn't a fence, where do you put the boundary? The edge 
> of the canopy? The line of tree trunks? Some imaginary line between the two?
> 
> Some trees are very large and their branches can extend a significant 
> distance - across a river for example.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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Re: [Talk-GB] Edits in Wales

[Chris Jones]

On 26 Mar 2018, at 13:04, Gregory  wrote:
> 
> The OpenStreetMap rule for all time has been "what's on the ground is what we 
> use", in the case of names that would be what's on the road signs.
> 
> I was in Wales last week and saw a mix of road names (I didn't focus on place 
> names, but it should still stand):
> 1) Welsh on top line, English below.
> 2) English on top line, Welsh below.
> 3) Welsh only.
> It seemed consistent for areas, maybe relating to how old the streets were or 
> politics - I think this is interesting enough.
> 
> I would tag it the streets always with 2-3 name tags...
> A) name:cy and name:en used whenever they are present on a sign. Do not 
> transliterate. When we have a complete map, this then provides insight into 
> the areas (where and % of roads) actually have Bilingual names.
> B) You should additionally add a "name" value. My preference is for the name 
> on the top line. I can see the argument for putting both/all names in, but I 
> think this gets messy as OpenStreetMap doesn't have the concept of a 
> separator.

Using the top line for name is a good idea historically, however the new(ish) 
Welsh Language Standards legislation is likely to mean that new signage 
throughout Wales have Welsh on top regardless of local usage.

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Re: [Talk-GB] OS OpenData and ODbL OK

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On 04/07/11 13:53, Michael Collinson wrote:
 Good news.

 I hope that helps a number of UK contributors who have been uncertain
 as to whether they can accept the new contributor terms because their
 contributions are derived in part from OS OpenData. Unless you have
 used Code-Point Open data, unequivocally, yes you can.

Good news indeed!

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Re: [OSM-talk] Announce: Beginning of Phase 4 of license change process

[Chris Jones]

On 15/06/11 11:44, Andy Street wrote:
 On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 22:33 +0200, Michael Collinson wrote:
 As per the implementation plan [1], we intend to move to phase 4 this 
 Sunday 19th June or as soon after as is technically practical. This will 
 mean that anyone who has explicitly declined the new contributor terms 
 will no longer be able to edit, (unless they  decide to accept).
 Can someone please point me to the outcome of the OSMF legal review into
 the compatibility of the CTs with the OS Opendata licence? I've been
 waiting patiently for it to be announced but must have missed it seeing
 as phase 4 is about to begin.

I'm also waiting for this... I've no real issues with the new terms, but
cant accept them until this issue is resolved.

It seems a bit backward to block my new contributions just because
nobody got around to talking to the OS folks yet...

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Re: [Talk-GB] [OSM-talk] Announce: Beginning of Phase 4 of license change process

[Chris Jones]

On 15/06/11 11:44, Andy Street wrote:
 On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 22:33 +0200, Michael Collinson wrote:
 As per the implementation plan [1], we intend to move to phase 4 this 
 Sunday 19th June or as soon after as is technically practical. This will 
 mean that anyone who has explicitly declined the new contributor terms 
 will no longer be able to edit, (unless they  decide to accept).
 Can someone please point me to the outcome of the OSMF legal review into
 the compatibility of the CTs with the OS Opendata licence? I've been
 waiting patiently for it to be announced but must have missed it seeing
 as phase 4 is about to begin.

I'm also waiting for this... I've no real issues with the new terms, but
cant accept them until this issue is resolved.

It seems a bit backward to block my new contributions just because
nobody got around to talking to the OS folks yet...

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Re: [Talk-GB] OSM Analysis updated with new OS Locator data and a review of progress to date

[Chris Jones]

On 10/06/11 11:28, Peter Miller wrote:
 On 10 June 2011 11:20, Chris Jones roller...@sucs.org wrote:
 On 08/06/11 07:58, Peter Miller wrote:
 Warwickshire is the biggest gainer/looser with 33 new names; over half
 of the districts have got at least one new road and there are now only
 8 places still at 100%. We do  have 51 at over 99% and only 32 at
 under 50%. There is serious work in Wales, parts of Scotland, the West
 Midlands and Norfolk at present and in other places as well.
 Hi

 I've taken a look at a few towns in mid/south Wales using musical chairs.

 It seems that many of the listed 'no matches' are because the OS Locator
 data lists the Welsh Name for the street and when mapped the English
 name was used in the name tag. Often the welsh name is there too but in
 the 'name:cy' tag.

 Would it be possible to include 'name:cy' (and also 'name:gd' for
 Scotland) in your algorithm?
 Sorry. I don't understand exactly what you mean. Is this OSM Analysis
 or 'ITO Map source:name' that you are referring to? If it is OSM
 Analysis then could you spell out what exactly you want us to be doing
 that we are not doing?

 I also realise now that ITO Map source names should probably recognise
  'name:cy' and 'name:gd' and also 'source:name:cy' and
 'source:name:gd'. Will take a look at that soon.

Apologies, I miss read the inital message.. the feedback was intended
for musical chairs rather than the ITO OSM Analysis.

It would of course be massively helpful if the OS Locator data provided
bilingual names but that's another issue all together... ;)

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Re: [Talk-GB] OSM Analysis updated with new OS Locator data and a review of progress to date

[Chris Jones]

On 08/06/11 07:58, Peter Miller wrote:
 Warwickshire is the biggest gainer/looser with 33 new names; over half
 of the districts have got at least one new road and there are now only
 8 places still at 100%. We do  have 51 at over 99% and only 32 at
 under 50%. There is serious work in Wales, parts of Scotland, the West
 Midlands and Norfolk at present and in other places as well.

Hi

I've taken a look at a few towns in mid/south Wales using musical chairs.

It seems that many of the listed 'no matches' are because the OS Locator
data lists the Welsh Name for the street and when mapped the English
name was used in the name tag. Often the welsh name is there too but in
the 'name:cy' tag.

Would it be possible to include 'name:cy' (and also 'name:gd' for
Scotland) in your algorithm?

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[OSM-talk] BBC News Coverage of Map Kibera

[Chris Jones]

BBC News Coverage of Map Kibera - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12164081

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Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Postgres table sizes

[Chris Jones]

On 24/06/10 19:44, John Smith wrote:
 On 25 June 2010 04:37, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote:
   
 I'm not sure I understand your question.
 
 Over time, the overhead increases, not just the amount of data.
   
 lose some large tables.  But then you lose the ability to update
 unless you do a re-import.
 
 That's my question, how to eliminate overhead in the database without
 re-importing.
   

Any overhead is typically a percentage of the stored data for indexes
and such, you cant just magically get rid of it!

What you can do is vacuum the database to reorganise the on disk storage
at intervals, but I would suspect that's already happening.

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Re: [OSM-talk] Use of OSM data by the military and/or intelligence services

[Chris Jones]

On 04/02/10 15:02, Serge Wroclawski wrote:
 2) Most governments have far better data than what's in OSM.

 When you're a military, things like centimeter accuracy really matter.
 OSM isn't anywhere close to that accurate in most places.
   

You'd hope... but various militaries track records of getting bombs to
the intended targets says otherwise...

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Re: [OSM-talk] SteveC should decide

[Chris Jones]

Russ Nelson wrote:
 I'm tired of this silly true/false 1/0 yes/no up/down left/right
 in/out fore/aft port/starboard debate/debacle.  It's trivial, it's
 stupid, we could just as easily toss a coin as engage in any rational
 debate about how binary values should be expressed.

 This is just wrong.  If SteveC says that mountain=green means that
 first there is a mountain, and that mountain=blue means there is no
 mountain, then damnit, we should do it that way.
   
Don't debate then!

Accept there's more than one true path to tagging enlightenment and get 
on with it!

Just build yourself a list of equivalent k=v pairs and use that when you 
pre-process to normalise data for your application.

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[OSM-talk] New (better?) source of contours

[Chris Jones]

Just spotted this - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8126197.stm

More -  http://asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/  - this seems to be dead at the 
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Re: [Talk-GB] maxspeed field - what units should we use. etc

[Chris Jones]

Peter Miller wrote:
 Any suggestion on what we should recommend for the UK? I guess the USA 
 should also be party to this discussion but they have far less 
 population of the maxspeed field (only 70 uses in the Bay area) so 
 possibly we should come to a view first.  Our options seem to be:-
 maxspeed=30mph (the user should strip a trailing mph to find the value)
 maxspeed=30   (leaving it for the user to realise that it is in the UK 
 and therefore imperial)
 maxspeed=30 mph (the user should strip the last word if it is mph 
 including the space)
 maxspeed:mph=30 (Easy for the user)

Given your going to have to pre-process the data before you can do stuff 
with it anyway All of the above are fine, with a preference for 
specifying the units, but figuring out if a road is in a region that 
uses km/h or miles/h is hardly rocket science!

Using km/h in the UK make no sense what so ever.

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Re: [OSM-talk] Garmin eTrex Vista HCx - maps from openstreetmap

[Chris Jones]

Niklas Cholmkvist wrote:
 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
 Hash: SHA1

 Hi,

 what formats can I put on the micro sd card for this device to read?
 So far I've managed to put a gpx file (which I converted from osm data
 using JOSM), in it.

 I thought it would use the gpx file as a map. Can that be done?

See http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Map_On_Garmin

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Re: [Talk-GB] Sat Navs to stop working?

[Chris Jones]

Glenn Proctor wrote:
 Media hype, as a result of political maneuvering by one of the several
 agencies involved with keeping GPS going[1]. The US is behind on one
 of the programs that launches new/replacement satellites, but the
 reality is that there are, IIRC, over 30 satellites currently in orbit
 plus 2 spares. 24 are needed for full global coverage so there's
 plenty of leeway yet.
   

And with any luck Galileo should be up and running in a few years...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_positioning_system

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Re: [Talk-GB] Lundy Island Completed

[Chris Jones]

On 19 May 2009, at 22:06, Guy Collins wrote:

 As the first, and only?, UK marine nature reserve exists around the  
 island this may appear later

There are also marine nature reserves around Skomer and according to  
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Re: [OSM-talk] authorization to import Lombardy data in OSM

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Elena of Valhalla wrote:
 On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Jukka Rahkonen
 jukka.rahko...@mmmtike.fi wrote:
   
 What happens if the Regional Administration of Lombardy would some day offer 
  a
 major update to the data to be imported now?  Can the imported features be
 identified later so that they could be updated or deleted+inserted again?
 Update should naturally happen automatically only if no OSM user has touched 
 the
 feature after initial import.
 

 will the initial import be done automatically? if so, it may be useful
 to let a new ad-hoc user do it, and later assume that whatever has
 that user as the last author hasn't been changed

 this would also help with copyright issue
Why not just use the changeset ID... that's what its there for after all.

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Re: [OSM-talk] Persistent troubles downloading Planet

[Chris Jones]

On 2 Apr 2009, at 07:19, Michal Migurski wrote:

 Hi,

 Is anyone else having trouble with http://planet.openstreetmap.org?
 I've been trying and re-trying to download the latest planet file for
 two days, and my HTTP connections have been repeatedly cut off. I'm
 stitching it together using the Range header, but still.

Try rsync, it does at least resume more reliably than http

  rsync://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/openstreetmap.org/

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Re: [OSM-talk] How to set up a localized mapnik + slippy map web server

[Chris Jones]

On 31 Mar 2009, at 16:07, Tal wrote:

 Hi,

 A few clueless people were toying with the Idea of creating a  
 webserver + slippy map in 2 (later 3) languages for Israel  
 (Including the ... ahmm... territories...).

 We need help understanding what exactly should be done.

 First and most important: does it cost any money and a rough  
 estimate of the cost if it's not zero. Maybe it's possible to add  
 what we need to an existing osm server?

Its all free software...

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Re: [OSM-talk] extracting an area from country osm and saving as a separate osm

[Chris Jones]

Tanveer Singh wrote:
 Hi,
 Cloudmade offers country maps in osm format.
 Is there a way to load the osm in some software, then select an area,
 and save only that area as a separate city.osm or somethiing?
 Tanvee
Osmosis does what you want.

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Re: [OSM-talk] mapnik and openlayers?

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Lukasz Szybalski wrote:
 On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 7:56 PM, Grant Slater
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
   
 Lukasz Szybalski wrote:
 
 Hello,
 I am trying to use the turbogears widget for openlayers and I'm having
 hard time figuring out how to point to openstreetmaps.org tiles.

 One of the examples they have:
  ol = WMS(name=OpenLayers WMS,
url=[http://labs.metacarta.com/wms/vmap0;],
options = {'layers':'basic'})

 what would be a corresponding one for http://tile.openstreetmap.org/ ?

 Do I use WMS? I can't seem to find the settings to use with
 mapnik...tiles.

   
 See:
 http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/OpenLayers_Simple_Example
 

 The example you pointed to uses TMS. Can I use WMS and mapnik?
   

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Re: [OSM-talk] service roads as driveways

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On 24 Aug 2008, at 10:20, Inge Wallin wrote:

 So I would myself instead use highway=unclassified, possibly with  
 surface=unpaved if that is the case.

To me unclassified highways implie some sort of public right of way  
but a  service highway could be a right of way, permissive or private.

I would have thought the vast majority of driveways were private and  
would thus use highway=service or highway=drive

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Re: [OSM-talk] JOSM users will love this feature

[Chris Jones]

On 23 Aug 2008, at 02:47, Frederik Ramm wrote:

 Hi,

 I've just for the first time used a new feature that Dirk Stoecker
 has added to JOSM and it's really great: Select a way and between each
 pair of nodes you get a little cross symbol which, as soon as you grab
 and move it with the mouse, becomes a new node. This makes refining
 existing ways so much easier. Just get josm-latest to use it. (It  
 can be
 deactivated in preferences.)

That's fantastic! It makes the whole process massively less painful.

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Re: [OSM-talk] tagging and rendering

[Chris Jones]

 I don't think we want another server. I can already demonstrate it:
 I am currently experimenting with binary data downloads for my mobile 
 OSM viewer, mom http://mom.poco.org.uk/. I need data for scales from 
 3 (just coastlines and country boundaries for enormous areas) to scale 
 15 (almost everything in a limited area) and until there is a binary 
 API the data has to be sourced as XML then parsed to binary. The 
 standard OSM API does not have any level-of-detail filtering so I am 
 using XAPI. To get data for a particular scale I have to make several 
 calls to the XAPI for each feature group (natural, highway, waterway, 
 ...) in turn, and each call takes quite a bit of setting up in the 
 code. If, for example, the feature types were structured using a 
 numerical system such that  so that all natural features began with 0, 
 all highways with 1, etc, but everything needed at scales smaller than 
 5 ended with numbers smaller than 3 (eg. coastlines: 01; trunk roads: 
 12) I could make a simple call for features less than *3.
At some point there is still going to have to be a map between the 
freeform tags and your numbering scheme.. your example makes me think 
you simply want someone else to implement and maintain it so your 
application becomes easier to code.

Have you considered processing the Mapnik or Osmarender style rules to 
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Re: [OSM-talk] tagging and rendering

[Chris Jones]

On 9 May 2008, at 19:55, Jonathan Bennett wrote:

 elvin ibbotson wrote:
 Things humans read need to be human readable. The database should be
 read by software and if it can be faster and more efficient using
 numbers, numbers are what should be used.


 The best way of proving this would be to come up with your own version
 of the OSM server stack that used ID numbers internally, while still
 outputting human-readable tag names. How long do you think it would  
 take
 you?


Some database engines can automatically compress data by replacing  
common values with look-up value for a dictionary containing the true  
value.

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/db2/library/techarticle/ 
dm-0605ahuja/index.html explains the idea better than i do.

I would expect its only a matter of time before such features appear  
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Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging climbing routes and scrambles

[Chris Jones]

On 23 Apr 2008, at 16:07, Andy Allan wrote:

 I can say from my experience of teaching IT concepts to very smart
 people (i.e. until recently I was an IT support manager at a large
 uni) that this namespacing stuff is a step too far for most people. My
 experience introducing other people to OSM would back that up.

 We know that simple tagging makes sense to many people. We know that
 namespacing makes sense to everyone in this discussion, and that many
 people who understand it *still* disagree with its blanket use in OSM.

The issue is complexity?

So what's wrong with using name spacing and just don't tell people...  
as far as they know its tagging with a : in. The folks that care  
about such things will know and everyone else is blissfully unaware.  
Sure your tags get a little longer, but the two main editors can auto- 
complete such things

I doubt it makes much difference to average Jo Mapper if you suggest  
he tags stuff as

foo=bar
bar=value

or

foo:bar=value

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Re: [OSM-talk] OSM on factory Macs

[Chris Jones]

On 21 Apr 2008, at 21:46, Frederik Ramm wrote:

 My question to the Mac users out there: Will those Macs be suitable
 for demonstrating all important aspects of OSM, i.e.

 * Slippy Map (heard rumours that it runs sub-optimal on Safari,
   always loading tiles for all layers instead of current only?)

The slippy map works fine here...

 * JOSM (especially concerned about usability with 1 button mouse)

I've used JOSM with a single button mouse for quite a while, for  
anything you need right click for ctrl+click is the equivalent to  
right click.

 * Potlatch

Potlatch is as useable as on any other platform.

There is very little that wont work, just remember ctrl+click = right  
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Re: [OSM-talk] Recruitment/Community Poster.

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Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote:
 I'd like a really trivial to use road naming interface for people who
 live on roads that other people have traced from aerial imagery. So easy
 my Dad could do it - click on the road and a text box with the name and
 a drop down of road types appears. Type the name and press enter. Make
 it only usable on roads with no name - for other roads / features, you
 can add an edit note (which should be a FIXME tagged node). It should
 update the Mapnik DB as well as the real DB so that changes show up
 immediately.
   
I'm building just such an interface for cyOSM to enable people to easily 
add welsh language names to existing objects.

http://brasskipper.org.uk/cyosm/test - lookups only at the moment, works 
upto z13, UK only. It will slowly improve as I find time.

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Re: [OSM-talk] rendering with mapnik, what do I need?

[Chris Jones]

On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Jo wrote:

 Say I would like to set up a server myself. I want to:

 * show highways more with the colours used on Michelin maps
 * show a bicycle map as three overlays (transparent, with a possibility
 to switch them on and off)
 * show bus routes for each bus separately as overlays (transparent layers)

 1. Is this possible?

Yes

 2. What do I need? PostgreSQL? Python? What else?

See http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Mapnik

 3. What kind of server would be good for this? Would an AMD64 with one
 core be able to do this? Do I need more cores? Does 64 bit processing
 help? Or would I be just as well off with a Core2Duo or even a Pentium 4?

Any recent processor is fine, obviously the faster the core(s) the more 
tiles you can render in a given time.

 4. For the disks I was considering to set up a RAID1 mirror with 2 disks
 of 750 GB. I guess that would be sufficient?

How much storage you need depends on how much of the world you would like 
to render and to what zoom level.

I render the whole UK to level 5 and just Wales to zoom 16, this uses a 
mere 450MB

In my experience each zoom level is roughly 2.5x bigger (in terms of disk 
space) than the previous.

Unless your planning to serve the whole world, to hundreds of clients at 
a time (which your connection info below suggests your not) RAID1 is 
massive overkill! The regularly requested tiles will get cached in memory 
anyway further reducing the disk speed requirements.

I serve (pre-rendered) tiles from a NSLU2* running Debian with a USB stick 
for storage. This setup quite happily serves ~150 tiles per second.

*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSLU2

 I would like to do this from 'home' with a connection that has a fixed
 IP address and 1 or 2 Mbps upload. I'll probably be shaping the traffic
 to limit it and make my own internet connection still usable.

With a 2 Mbps upload you should be able to serve about 40 tiles per second

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Re: [OSM-talk] rendering with mapnik, what do I need?

[Chris Jones]

On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Jo wrote:

 2. What do I need? PostgreSQL? Python? What else?
 
 See http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Mapnik
 It's rather short. Is it really that simple...? How often is the planet file 
 generated? Say I would like to have daily updates instead of weekly. Is that 
 possible? I guess I should just try it...

You can complecate it more if you want to render things on demand rather 
than prerender everything, but thats basicly all thats needed produce a 
bunch of tiles.

There are daily and even hourly 'diffs', i dont know if osm2pgsql or any 
other tool can update the mapnik database useing them though.

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Re: [OSM-talk] Rendering in a non-default language

[Chris Jones]

Moshe Sayag wrote:
 Hi Everyone,

 I am interested in rendering a map with the street names and places 
 printed in Hebrew.

 So for example, if there is a place with:
 name=Jerusalem
 name:en=Jerusalem
 name:he=ירושלים

 I want ירושלים to be printed, and only if name:he is not 
 specified, default to name.

 Can this be achieved? How?
This is exactly what I do for cyosm - http://sucs.org/~rollercow/cyosm/

For that I follow the steps listed at - 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Mapnik

2 changes

1) Build osm2pgsql From source but before you make this change...

$ svn diff
Index: output-pgsql.c
===
--- output-pgsql.c  (revision 6728)
+++ output-pgsql.c  (working copy)
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@
 {military, text, 1},
 {motorcar, text, 0},
 {name, text, 0},
+{name:cy,  text, 0},
 {natural,  text, 1},
 {oneway,   text, 0},
 {place,text, 0},

2) Before  you generate any tiles use the following sql to populate the 
name field with name:cy if it exists

UPDATE planet_osm_line SET name = name:cy where name:cy is not null;
UPDATE planet_osm_point SET name = name:cy where name:cy is not null;
UPDATE planet_osm_polygon SET name = name:cy where name:cy is not null;
UPDATE planet_osm_roads SET name = name:cy where name:cy is not null;

There may be an easier way... defiantly more elegant way, making 
osm2pgsql do it all its self perhaps but I'm lazy and this works :)

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Re: [OSM-talk] Welsh Map

[Chris Jones]

Tom Higgy wrote:
 Chris Jones wrote:
 Just a quick email to announce a Welsh Language render of the UK.

 Excellent!

 I've started adding Welsh names of places I know.

 There's a lot of 'name:cym' keys. Is it possible to change these all 
 at once in the DB or shall I continue seeking them out myself?

I've just checked this weeks planet, there don't seem to be any name:cym 
tags left, also any new welsh names added before Wednesday should now be 
visible on the map!

http://sucs.org/~rollercow/cyosm/

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Re: [Talk-GB] [OSM-talk] Welsh Map

[Chris Jones]

Tom Higgy wrote:
 Chris Jones wrote:
 Just a quick email to announce a Welsh Language render of the UK.

 Excellent!

 I've started adding Welsh names of places I know.

 There's a lot of 'name:cym' keys. Is it possible to change these all 
 at once in the DB or shall I continue seeking them out myself?

I've just checked this weeks planet, there don't seem to be any name:cym 
tags left, also any new welsh names added before Wednesday should now be 
visible on the map!

http://sucs.org/~rollercow/cyosm/

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Re: [OSM-talk] z12 bounding box

[Chris Jones]

Jeremy Adams wrote:
 Is there an easy way to figure out what the equivalent bounding box of
 a particular tile would be? 
  
 For instance, I want to use osmosis to cut out a bounding box that
 contains all the info in a particular z12 tile (or any zoom).  How
 would I figure out what the lon and lat values would be for the tile?

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Slippy_map_tilenames should tell
you all you need to know.

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Re: [OSM-talk] Geolocation photos - what software/hardware do I need?

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Gregory wrote:
 Hi all,

 I'm buying/getting a digital camera for my birthday/christmas. What
 would be really cool if I can start doing stuff with photos tagged
 with their lat/lon, but I'm unsure what exactly I need to do this easily.

 Are there any cameras out there that aren't incredibly expensive and
 have something that would work with my bluetooth GPS reciever? (or
 have a built in reciever?)
 Or do I just need some software that I can point to a folder of time
 stamped jpegs and add all the lat/lons from a gps log file? Where
 would I get such software that is free or worth paying for?
I use gpscorrelate to tag my photos. It takes a gpx file and a bunch of
jpeg files on the command line and does its stuff.

I expect there are numerous other Free or free options.

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