Re: [OSM-talk] Code of conduct for automated (mass-) edits

2008-09-30 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Ulf Lamping skrev:

 P.S: If you would only know how many of such obvious mistakes like 
 aerialway=cinema I've seen while I was having a detailed look at the 
 tagwatch output - and not even mentioning the common typos ...

/reminder to self : Stop tagging inflight movies, while passing over 
inhabited areas...

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Re: [OSM-talk] German Supreme Court uses OpenStreetMap

2008-09-25 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Jochen Topf skrev:
 The German Supreme Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht) uses OpenStreetMap
 maps on its web site:
 
 http://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/organisation/anfahrt.html
 
 Jochen

Nice... Maybe we can get one of their judges to look over the licenses 
pro bono, in gratitude for their use of OSM. Frederik, can't you give 
them a call ;)

/Just for the record, the above was a joke - In case we have Germans and 
Swedes without humour reading the list :P

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Re: [OSM-talk] German Supreme Court uses OpenStreetMap

2008-09-25 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Richard Fairhurst skrev:
 J.D. Schmidt wrote:
 
 /Just for the record, the above was a joke - In case we have Germans and
 Swedes without humour reading the list :P
 
 It's been pointed out on IRC that the reason the German Supreme Court  
 was looking into OSM in the first place is that, under pressure from  
 talk-de, they actually want to enshrine BAN  
 POTLATCH!!!??!!lolwtfbbq into German law.
 
 cheers
 Richard

And rightly so ! First Germany, then the rest of EU.  There can be only 
one ! JOSM forever!! :P

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Re: [OSM-talk] osm in flickr

2008-08-13 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Iván Sánchez Ortega skrev:
 El Miércoles, 13 de Agosto de 2008, SteveC escribió:
 Guys I've been in contact with them throughout to help this happen, I
 guess that wasn't clear. I had planned a blog post but have been on a
 plane from when they posted up until now.
 
 Steve,
 
 You have to switch to faster airlines.
 
 
 ;-)
Warning : Tongue in cheek post in progress:

After the A380 has entered regular service with SQuidAir (Singapore 
Airlines) Steve has planned to relocate his permanent residence to one 
of the flats on first class aboard their A380's - The funds that 
CloudMade has gotten must not go to waste you know. The problem is that 
Connexion By Boing has shut down, so no internet connection anymore 
while airborne.

He is working on that though, using USB thumbdrives to store blogposts 
and other data to be dissiminated online - OUFDO AKA 
OpenUSBFlashdriveDropOff.org is coming online, as soon as he has gotten 
enough people interested in waiting at the airports served by Singapore 
Airlines. The link with OSM is appearent on the OUFDO signup page, since 
any USBCouriers must map the routes taken to and from the airports and 
upload the corresponding tracklogs to OSM. Amazing what a little 
ingeniuity and some seed funds from investors can lead to :P

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Re: [OSM-talk] osm in flickr

2008-08-12 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Iván Sánchez Ortega skrev:
 El Lunes, 11 de Agosto de 2008, SteveC escribió:
 http://www.flickr.com/map?fLat=39.912fLon=116.3783zl=4order_by=interest
 ingness
 
 A friend of mine (thanks, rinzewind!) points me to this entry in the flickr's 
 developers blog:
 
 http://blog.flickr.net/en/2008/08/12/around-the-world-and-back-again/
 
 
 Cheers,

Good find ! Now someone just needs to get in touch with them, and 
suggest that they use OSM data for IoM and Cyprus among other places. 
And then get that pressrelease out about it, in cooperation with the 
Flickr dudes, to the oldstyle media. The more innovative ways OSM data 
is used, and the more that is is publized and evangilized through both 
oldstyle and newstyle (read Web based non-deadtree) media, the 
better.

Just my 0.01 sqkm worth...

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Re: [OSM-talk] osm in flickr

2008-08-11 Thread J.D. Schmidt
D Tucny skrev:
 2008/8/12 Tim Waters (chippy) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
 Very cool! Been panning around, is it just Beijing? No Isle of Man? ;)

 
 Looks like it's just Beijing... I'd guess due to the lack of Yahoo map
 coverage and the current large interest in Beijing... for some reason ;)
 
 d
 

Someone from the OSMF presscontact division ( Hi SteveC :P) should 
really make a pressrelease about the symbiotic relationship between 
Yahoo and OSM coming full circle - OSM was allowed to use the sat 
imagery Yahoo maps displayed, and now Yahoo benefits from being able to 
display OSM maps on their Flickr photosite worldmap.
This time, don't /. it, but send the pressrelease to CNN and similar 
Old Media companies. Remember to tell in the pressrelease, that 
Beijing isn't the only area where OSM has more and better data, than 
commercial geoproviders... Cyprus, IoM etc are good examples to mention.

If others can capitalize on the Olympic Games mediainterest, why 
shouldn't we also ?


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Re: [OSM-talk] Google Map Maker

2008-06-24 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Who are we, Apple or IBM ?
(And if the former, are you contemplating a surname-change in the near 
future ? ;)

Me personally, I'm just waiting for the iOSM device - With matching 
white gpsantenna and rechargeable batteries that can't be exchanged 
without voiding the warranty. Not that the warranty will be any use, 
since the battery will stop recharging the day after the warranty 
expired. But thats a completely different story.

;)

Dutch

SteveC skrev:
 Hum:
 
 http://blogs.s60.com/browser/images/seriouslyIBM_l.jpg
 
 
 On 24 Jun 2008, at 09:54, X wrote:
 
 http://www.google.com/mapmaker/mapfiles/s/support.html

 Ready ... Fight !

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Re: [OSM-talk] OSM in Europe Statistics

2008-05-01 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Frederik Ramm skrev:
 Hi,
 
a very crude statistic:
 
 Country   osm.bz2 sizepopulationratio (bytes per capita)
 
 UK73M60M1.2
 Germany  110M82M1.3
 Netherlands   51M16M3.2
 France29M60M0.5
 Finland   20M 5M4.0
 Italy 14M58M0.2
 Norway21M 5M4.2
 Sweden24M 9M2.6
 Spain 17M40M0.4
 

Could you do a stats on Denmark as well, since we still are considered 
part of Scandinavia ;)

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Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik does not render light_rail bridges

2008-04-13 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Stephan Schildberg skrev:
 


 Mapnik does not render light_rail bridges, or does it?



 Yes it does, although I prefer the Osmarender style of bridges.

 http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=55.63272lon=12.64912zoom=16layers=B0FT 

 It does't.
 I wish it would, your sample displays a subway, look at this, where I 
 have a subway beside a light_rail.
 http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=53.619335lon=10.031516zoom=18layers=B0FT 
 
 
 regards, Stephan.

Ahh I see what you mean - The Mapnik layer renders the subway bridge 
from zoomlevel 14 to 18, but the lightrail bridge is only rendered at 
zoomlevel 18. Must be an oversight on the part of the mapnik stylesheet 
maintainer.

Artem ?

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Re: [OSM-talk] Participating in TAH

2008-03-30 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Kyle Gordon skrev:

 I know this has already been answered, but it would be awesome if [EMAIL 
 PROTECTED] 
 could be accessed through the BOINC framework (especially as deployment 
 to multiple computers would just involve an MSI and MST file).
 
 Anyone reckon if it's at all possible to get all the required magic 
 working? :-p

Since [EMAIL PROTECTED] involves using other software for the rendering, I 
think we 
have wait untill Frederik has implemented the equivalent Inkscape 
functionality in perl, and Artem then converts everything to a 
multiplatform binary that conforms to the BOINC specs for in and output.
My guess is that it should be ready for rollout on 01April2008.

;)

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Re: [OSM-talk] OSMXapi error 501

2008-03-29 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Chris Hill skrev:
 I've been trying to extract data from OSMXapi.  It seems to respond with 
 ERROR 501 - Internal Server Error to each request.  Is it broken?
  
 cheers, Chris

Same server that runs [EMAIL PROTECTED] afair - and that server is down at the 
moment. 
Crschmidt posted the following on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list :

The [EMAIL PROTECTED] server is currently down for processing new tilesets. 
The disk
which hosts the MySQL database is currently unavailable. I've contacted
the owner of the machine and let him know. I will update the list when
the service is available again.

I apologize for any inconvenience.

Regards,
Christopher Schmidt MetaCarta

That might be the same reason osmxapi is u/s at the moment.

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Re: [OSM-talk] Cycle lanes

2008-03-26 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Lars Aronsson skrev:
 Alex Mauer wrote:
 
 It also has the problem that ways can easily get reversed, and 
 then the left/right meanings are backwards.
 
 A bus stop is an attribute on a node (highway=bus_stop) in the 
 middle of a way.  If I want to indicate that this bus stop is on 
 one side of the street, left and right don't matter much, since 
 there can be two ways both pointing towards the node.  It would be 
 better to use the words north, east, west or south.  If the way 
 goes from south-west to north-east, then north and west both 
 mean the left side of that way.
 
 

Shall we paint the outhouse red, green or blue ??

It doesn't matter if the busstop is on the right or left side of the 
road... Neither OSM wise, nor in the real world. In the real world you 
use your eyes and see the busstop. With regards to OSM, you apply a tag 
to the node indicating position of the busstop, relative to the road.
I.E : k=placement v=left|right|middle

It doesn't even need to be rendered on the left or right of the road on 
the map, but it could be.

We are not trying to make a virtual copy of the world with the rendered 
maps, we are trying to make a fairly accurate visual representation of 
the world with the maps, that can be used to orientate and possibly even 
navigate around in the real world.

Compromises are made everyday on the renderings of both our and any 
other maps. Thats one of the parts of cartography - Deciding what 
compromises to use in order to make a map for a specific purpose.

So just tag it with common sense, instead of having 2 months of 
discussion on the mailing list - Next people will want to set down 
subcommittees that need to deliver reports on best practices for mapping 
the wastebaskets and their type at the busstops, which then has to go 
through a hearing in the OSMF, and put to a consensus vote twice in a 
year, before being vetoed by some goat-hearder mapping trails in outer 
mongolia, since he doesn't think a wastebasket position should be mapped 
at all, if goat-dung positions isn't mapped as well...

We could call it Working the EU-OSM way...

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[OSM-talk] OSM Bumper-Sticker

2008-03-25 Thread J.D. Schmidt
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Image:OSM-streamer.jpg

Bumpersticker produced for fun, and now prominently featured on SteveC's 
Mac laptop, as well as on my 50 ccm scooter, which so far has been used 
   while collecting appr. 30 % of my gps tracks used for the Copenhagen 
data (The remainder 70 % of my gps tracks has been collected on foot, in 
public transportation, or in car).

If anybody needs something similar, or even wants a complete car 
encapsulated (like you see taxi's with commercials on), I got a good 
contact who can produce it at a fair price - Especially as he now is 
going to become OCOSMD inflicted himself, since we are going to map his 
hometown of Jyllinge ( 
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=55.7528lon=12.1064zoom=13layers=0BFT 
) together, when the winterweather clears.

If anybody wants to get in touch with him, for OSM streamers, stickers, 
posters, for your next mapping party, etc, his company homepage is 
http://www.leoskilte.dk.

Phone number at the bottom of the page - Country code for Denmark is +45.

He is willing to ship worldwide, so give him a call if you want 
something similar done.


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Re: [OSM-talk] Survey: Bad Map Rendering

2008-03-24 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Frederik Ramm skrev:

 For super bonus points, do all this in XSLT.
 
 Or while undergoing dental surgery.
 
 Bye
 Frederik
 

You surely misswrote that, Frederik ? You must have meant an instead 
of dent ? ;) Having tried both, I can assure you the former is more 
painfull - and for a longer duration... :O

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Re: [OSM-talk] Free aerentical data

2008-03-11 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Rahkonen Jukka skrev:
 Andy Robinson (blackadder) wrote:
 
 I'm pretty sure someone already imported all the basic data for airport
 locations around the world but there may be other info that's of interest
 from this data set providing the licence on that data is compatible with
 ours.
 
 Was the import done from this data? According to the web page users have done 
 this data much better:
 
 Users: X-Plane users have added many other airports, nav-aids and all the 
 taxiways.  This data is imported into the same database as the DAFIF data, 
 and in many cases enhances or corrects the DAFIF data.
 
 It is under GNU GPL
 

Please refrain from importing any danish airports - they have been 
manually inserted long time ago in OSM from official and current airport 
charts supplied by the local civil aviation authority.

An example - EKCH/CPH - Copenhagen airport/Kastrup can be seen here :
http://informationfreeway.org/?lat=55.619414169994286lon=12.652493997348078zoom=14layers=B000F000F

All runways, taxiways, and apronareas has been taken from the official 
EKCH ADC plate, similar data for airports in other countries should be 
available freely from the civil aviation authority governing the 
airspace in that country. IMHO the data gained this way is better, since 
it is current, official, and verifiable.

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Re: [OSM-talk] Free aerentical data

2008-03-11 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Rahkonen Jukka skrev:
 J.D. Schmidt wrote:
 
 
 Users: X-Plane users have added many other airports, 
 nav-aids and all the taxiways.  This data is imported into 
 the same database as the DAFIF data, and in many cases 
 enhances or corrects the DAFIF data.
 It is under GNU GPL

 Please refrain from importing any danish airports - they have 
 been manually inserted long time ago in OSM from official and 
 current airport charts supplied by the local civil aviation authority.

 An example - EKCH/CPH - Copenhagen airport/Kastrup can be seen here :
 http://informationfreeway.org/?lat=55.619414169994286lon=12.6
 52493997348078zoom=14layers=B000F000F

 All runways, taxiways, and apronareas has been taken from the 
 official EKCH ADC plate, similar data for airports in other 
 countries should be available freely from the civil aviation 
 authority governing the airspace in that country. IMHO the 
 data gained this way is better, since it is current, 
 official, and verifiable.
 
 Naturally that data are preferred and it would be bad idea to
 automatically update anything that exists already. But maybe making the
 first insert for missing places.  By the way, X-Plane web page informs
 that in the USA aerentical data are no more public for security reasons.
 
 
 -Jukka-
 

AD plates are available for any licensed pilot via the FAA, otherwise it 
would be impossible to plan a flight between airports. You might not as 
the average Joe Public download the data anonymously anymore, but have 
to log in with verifiable credentials such as a PPL license number, in 
order to get the data from the FAA site.

Same procedure for the CAA in the UK - pre 9/11 the data was browsable 
by anyone, today you must register in order to download the PDF version 
of the AD information or browse the online version.


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Re: [OSM-talk] Stares

2008-03-11 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Andy Robinson (blackadder) skrev:
 There is no need for OSM data gathering to be a subversive activity. Make a
 statement about it and tell people what you are doing. 
 

Aaaww shucks - There goes 250 € down the drain. Anybody interested in a 
full urban camouflage battledress, complete with matching ghillie-suit 
and a discreet handwoven OpenStreetMap Surveyor tag ?
Mint condition, only used at night, in low-crime neighbourhoods of a 
major european town.

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Re: [OSM-talk] Free aerentical data

2008-03-11 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Martin Spott skrev:
 J.D. Schmidt wrote:
 
 AD plates are available for any licensed pilot via the FAA, otherwise it 
 would be impossible to plan a flight between airports.
 
 For many countries the use of these 'official' aerodrome ground layouts
 is _explicitly_ restricted to performance of real-life flights, no
 matter if you get these charts for free or have to buy them from
 Jeppesen or your local authorities. Even the comparatively permissive
 Danish AIP (I've never flown outside Europe) has a copyright which
 reads:
 
 Copyright
 As certain information in this publication are the
 property of the Civil Aviation Administration and/
 or third parties, no part may be reproduced except
 as authorized by written permission from the
 Civil Aviation Administration, Denmark.
 
 
 Take care 
 
   Martin.

And they have not been reproduced, as in copied, scanned, etc.

What has been done, is taking the lat/lon for various points, such as 
start and end of runways, taxiways, designated apron areas, etc, and 
entered those points in a GPX waypoint file. This is akin to loading the 
waypoints into a GPS receiver, which is acceptable use, and no different 
from doing that as a private pilot prepping a flight, or a commercial 
pilot prepping the FMS system aboard the airliner.

Then the gpx file has been loaded into JOSM, and lines drawn betweeen 
the corresponding waypoints, which then has been tagged according to the 
OSM tagging scheme for aeronautical content.

At least for the danish data, it has been verified with SLV (Statens 
Luftfartsvæsen) that this procedure falls into the acceptable usage of 
the AIP AD charts, since widths, elevation, slope, placement of navaids, 
   vasi, papi, tower frequencies and so on, are not entered into the DB.

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Re: [OSM-talk] How to correct logical errors in some effective way?

2008-03-03 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Ulf Lamping skrev:
 Alex S. schrieb:
 Ulf Lamping wrote:
   
 place_of_warship, ...
 
 Shouldn't that be naval_yard?  ;)
   
 Hmm, full tagging should be:
 
 amenity=place_of_warship
 religion=military
 denomination=U.S.Navy
 
 ;-)))

And please add any nodes tagged like that, in Switzerland, to the 
Tagwatch list ;)

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Re: [OSM-talk] High Visibility Vests - Printed OSM

2008-02-28 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Richard Fairhurst skrev:
 Andy Robinson ((blackadder)) wrote:
 
 Now for Ireland we might want:

 The craic
 OpenStreetMap

 catchy, don't you think?
 
 I still want one that says
 
 I'M IN UR TOWN
 MAPPIN UR STREETZ

I think they come complimentary with that text, when awarded a lolcat 
award, or when throwing away GPX logs... I'm not sure, but Tom should be 
able to answer that with certainty :P

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Re: [OSM-talk] Continuous audio in JOSM on tracks without waypoints

2008-02-25 Thread J.D. Schmidt
80n skrev:
 On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 12:28 PM, graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 80n wrote:

 BTW I just had a very successful experiment this morning using a
 modified kitchen sponge
 http://img.alibaba.com/photo/50923335/Kitchen_Sponge_Scourers.jpg as a
 windshield for my bluetooth headset :)
 Ah, but we wanted the photo of you wearing it while explaining yourself
 to casual passers-by ;-)

 
 I only plan to use it after dark ;)
 
 

LOL.. One of these days I'll get someone to take a snapshot of me in 
full OSM/Wigle mapping gear on the cityscooter, and post it on the Wiki.

Magellan CrossoverGPS in automotive mode mounted with the 
windshieldsuctionmount on the handlebar instrumentpanel, videocam 
strapped on to the lefthand side of the black flip-up helmet, and 
wearing a backpack with WiFi antennas and bluelit Pharaos GPS mouse 
sticking out. No wonder cardrivers are slowing down and following the 
speedlimit when they observe me.

The things you do when suffering from OCOSMD continues to amaze me... :P

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Re: [OSM-talk] Parking symbols: YUCK!

2008-02-24 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Lester Caine skrev:
 
 Again - the fact that people are giving time to enter data is precisely why 
 we 
 need to be producing a guide to how to do things that is consistent. If 
 people 
 are going to tidy up these 'couple of problems' then we don't want one person 
 deleting a node and another adding it back because they are looking at 
 different views of the same data :(
 *ALSO* we also don't need people wasting time making the renderers play silly 
 tricks to make things look right. Lets just be consistent in how things are 
 handled. What ever the inconsistency!
 


You need to look at it differently. From the view you are putting forth 
above, you seem to equalize the rendered output in the form of Mapnik 
and Osmarender maps to Openstreetmap. And I can see why, since those two 
  items produce the currently most visible part of OSM.

BUT remember, the DB is one thing, the rendering of data from the db is 
another thing altogether. Look at the db as a big sea of data, where it 
is your (the rendering engine) task to harvest the data that you want to 
render. Not to impose rules and limitations on what form the data in the 
DB is entered in.

IMHO one of the reasons why OSM has gained such notoriety and 
following among neogeographers, established carthographers, and 
joe-public alike, is the fact that it is not a mapproducing framework 
bound by strict and defined ISO-like rules, but a framework that is more 
akin to social networking for the map-inflicted.

If the two rendering engines used currently differ in the way they 
render said data, then its the rendering rules used in those engines 
that need to be put into sync. Its not done by imposing limitations or 
strict rules on what can/should be put into the DB.

If one person observed a parking lot, but didn't have time to log the 
boundaries of the lot, and just placed a node with the corresponding 
tag, then later another person comes along and logs the boundary of the 
parking lot, and puts an area out of that data into the DB, he shouldn't 
delete the node another person made. Maybe that person is using the data 
from the DB to keep a POI record of parking lots. He might be the only 
one doing so, but thats still one of the forces of the OSM project - Log 
it, tag it, put it into the DB - even if you are the only person ever 
going to use that data.

So IMHO it's up to the rendering engines to render the data smartly. 
It's not the rendering engines that decide what should be put into the DB.

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Re: [OSM-talk] Parking symbols: YUCK!

2008-02-24 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Lester Caine skrev:

Do you have to re-write the renderer every time someone 
 comes up with a new conflict?
 

Short answer : Yes.

Long answer : The renderer operates on a subset of the data contained in 
  the DB. It is up to the operator of the renderer to extract and 
possibly massage that data into a format that the renderer can utilize.
It is not the place of the renderer to impose limitiations or rules into 
what is in the DB, since the the DB is/might/will be used for other 
tasks than just rendering maps.

This is similar to the previous discussion this month, where someone 
wanted to impose limitations on what charactersets could be used for 
tagnames.

All together now, repeat this months mantra after me : Implementing 
non-DB technical limitations and rules for content in the DB is bad, 
recommendations and smarter algorithms in renderers are good.

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Re: [OSM-talk] Parking symbols: YUCK!

2008-02-24 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Lester Caine skrev:
 J.D. Schmidt wrote:
 Lester Caine skrev:

 Do you have to re-write the renderer every time someone comes up with 
 a new conflict?
 Short answer : Yes.

 Long answer : The renderer operates on a subset of the data contained in 
  the DB. It is up to the operator of the renderer to extract and 
 possibly massage that data into a format that the renderer can utilize.
 It is not the place of the renderer to impose limitiations or rules into 
 what is in the DB, since the the DB is/might/will be used for other 
 tasks than just rendering maps.

 This is similar to the previous discussion this month, where someone 
 wanted to impose limitations on what charactersets could be used for 
 tagnames.
 
 Should never have been discussed - Unicode has to be used even if there is an 
 arbitrary limit of English tag names - the content has to be unicode and 
 mixing that with anything else is simply crass.
 
 All together now, repeat this months mantra after me : Implementing 
 non-DB technical limitations and rules for content in the DB is bad, 
 recommendations and smarter algorithms in renderers are good.
 
 Bullshit.
 TAGGING as laid out in the wiki are all rules for content but as yet they do 
 not provide a consistent USABLE base once one moves away from the basic road 
 stuff. And even the base road stuff people are trying to change the rules!

Correction: Tagging as laid out in the wiki is NOT rules for content IN 
THE DB. Let me just repeat that: Tagging as laid out on the wiki in the 
Mapfeatures page is NOT rules governing the content in the DB.


They are recommendations, to be used if you'd like to see your content 
rendered by the current default rendering engines used on the OSM site.
Nothing more, nothing less.


 
 See my other message about the area/node conflict. This problem arises 
 everywhere that node and area options exist for a tag and there needs to be 
 AGREEMENT on how the conflict is handled. Some people using different methods 
 of handling it for different tags is no use to anybody so lets decide ONE way 
 of handling the conflict and stick to it. Personally I have no particular 
 feeling anyway, but a logical means if identifying a SINGLE list of parking 
 places ( for example - but any node/area rag! ) is just common sense.
 
 This is just a simple case of how do you identify a set of tags UNLESS there 
 is agreement about how a tag is used. *IF* we are going to allow both node 
 and 
 area tags for the same item then we need to ensure that they ARE returning 
 the 
 same data but some logical method of ensuring that the node and area returns 
 a 
 CONSISTENT set of answers is essential otherwise we have anarchy.

There is NO agreement on tags used, and should NOT be any such agreement 
on tags used, since the DB is more akin to a wiki - if you can describe 
it within the framework of k=name v=value/ then it can go into the DB 
for storage.
There IS an agreement on RECOMMENDATIONS of tags to be used IN THE SCOPE 
of rendering maps with the default rendering engines currently used by OSM.

Its then up to the rendering engines to visualize those tags according 
to whatever rules they use in their visualization attempts.

 
 LOGICALLY - there should never have been a problem created. A POI element 
 should consist of a single entity which may have additional area information. 
 Even those tags that are currently only defined as 'node' in many cases WILL 
 be expanded to include area information at some point. So PLEASE can we have 
 some sensible method of identifying PAIRS of tags so we can THEN decide what 
 to do with them !!!
 

It's still not a OSM DB problem. It's a problem to be solved by the 
rendering engines. Imposing non-DB technical limitations and rules to 
the data put into the DB, in order to please the rendering mechanism is 
fundamentally wrong.

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Re: [OSM-talk] Pint symbols: YUCK!

2008-02-24 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Lauri Hahne skrev:
 The old pint symbols look amateurish, the new ones only hideous. Just
 take a look at 
 http://informationfreeway.org/?lat=61.4978902211692lon=23.764454385823434zoom=16layers=F0B0F
 
Thats how the pint glasses look, at the end of an evening drinking with 
brits.. Kinda' blurry and out of focus.

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Re: [OSM-talk] Parking symbols: YUCK!

2008-02-24 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Sven Grüner skrev:
 J.D. Schmidt schrieb:
 TAGGING as laid out in the wiki are all rules for content but as yet they 
 do 
 not provide a consistent USABLE base once one moves away from the basic 
 road 
 stuff. And even the base road stuff people are trying to change the rules!
 Correction: Tagging as laid out in the wiki is NOT rules for content IN 
 THE DB. Let me just repeat that: Tagging as laid out on the wiki in the 
 Mapfeatures page is NOT rules governing the content in the DB.


 They are recommendations, to be used if you'd like to see your content 
 rendered by the current default rendering engines used on the OSM site.
 Nothing more, nothing less.
 
 True.
 I don't understand why it's so fashionable on this list to play down the
 importance of Map features. Without that page all those 80GB of
 cryptic XML would be pretty useless.

Thats again because you look at the DB and the usage of the data 
contained therein as one entity that defines OSM.

If you on the other hand look at the DB and the data contained therein 
as one entity and the USAGE of the data in the DB as a seperate entity, 
you get a more correct view of the state of our wonderfull hutsputz of 
geodata and geodata usage.

  But that's nothing bad or something
 we should encounter, that just the nature of any map, whether it's
 stored in a DB or printed on colorful paper.

We (OSM) do not store a map in a DB. We store geodata.

 
 A map is an abstract description of the landscape, that's what makes it
 different from an aerial or plat. Someone making that description uses
 certain symbols or certain code for certain features. Someone who uses
 that description needs to know what every symbol/code resembles. On a
 paper map that's done by the map keys which tell you whether those blue
 lines are motorways, railways or maybe rivers, for OSM-data Map
 features tell you.
 
 Anybody can enter anything into the DB, we can't change that, we don't
 want to change that and we are all aware of that. But when I (and most
 other mappers as well) enter something in the DB I want other people to
 know what it stands for in reality. I could use some crude tags only I
 know, but what's then the point in making it accessible for the whole world.

Again, look at the visualization of the data as a seperate entity - 
related to, and an important part of OSM, but not the defining measure 
of OSM.

An example (graphic to fit my reputation ofcourse.. You have been duly 
warned ;) ) :
If I decided to map all the trees I have taking a leak up at on the way 
home from drinking bouts the last couple of years, I can do so. I'll 
just tag it with 
k=urinated_tree_were_the_leaves_has_become_yellow_brownish_in_colour 
v=200 ml used and processed beer/.

I could even tag the same tree multiple times, depending on whether I 
took the piss at the north, east, west, or south side of the tree. And I 
could even use a different tagname such as 
k=Urinerede_Træer_som_har_blade_med_gul_brunlig_kulør v=200 ml brugt 
øl without any problems.

This points out the wiki-like outlook on our DB. The tag and data has 
only mildly interest for anybody else, but it might have real value for 
me. I could be the type that tends to loose my keys everytime I take a 
leak in toxicated condition, and now I have the possibilty to see where 
I have been, and go look for them. Or maybe I'm making a map showing 
which trees not to sit under during summer.

Whatever the reason, it's geodata, and valid to go into the DB or the 
80GB of cryptic XML as you called it. It might be useless for anybody 
else, but it wouldn't be to me. AND it could become usefull for someone 
else later on (urologists researching maximum distance intoxicated 
people can go between leaks, city planners looking for information on 
best placement of public restrooms, etc, etc).

The other entity - visualization of the data in the OSM DB, takes a 
subset of the data in the DB, and masssages it into a format that the 
rendering mechanism can utilize. I.E. Mapnik imports the OSM data into a 
postgres DB according to the rules it needs, and then renders the 
imported data from that mapnik specific DB.
Osmarender downloads the data and post-process it into SVG compliant XML 
according to the rules it needs, then renders it via Batik/Inkscape.
Kosmos and all the other rendering mechanisms utilizing OSM data at the 
moment, does similar things with the extracted OSM data for the areas 
the user wants visualized - extract an area from the DB, massage it 
(postprocess, import to own formatted DB, etc, etc), then visualize it 
from the postprocessed data.

So as I said before, its not the rendering mechanism that should define 
what goes into the OSM DB. At the most basic level, if it is geodata, 
and can be described within the scope of k=name v=value it IS valid 
for inclusion in the OSM database, no matter how useless it would 
appear to other users.

 
 And things like the cycle map would definitely not exist without some

Re: [OSM-talk] Continuous audio in JOSM on tracks without waypoints

2008-02-24 Thread J.D. Schmidt
David Earl skrev:
 On 24/02/2008 22:16, 80n wrote:
 David
 I gave it a try today.  The results were excellent.
 
 Do you have any feeling for how accurate the timer on your audio was by 
 the end of the session?
 
 I have some feedback:
 1) I found synchronising to be a bit tricky the first time you do it.  
 This wasn't helped by the fact that I had 20 minutes of tracks before I 
 started the audio recorder.  I've updated the wiki with what I hope are 
 clearer and better instructions.
 
 That was only relevant to the non-waypoint version, so I just moved it 
 up a bit into that section. If you're using waypoints, you'd always sync 
 on a GPS-defined marker, and it is much easier.
 
 Your instructions are spot on though for the non-waypoint case.
 
 2) While audio is playing, when I clicked on an audio marker it caused 
 JOSM to hang.
 
 OK. I'll see if I can reproduce it. Can you be more specific?
 
 3) The Open dialog for audio files does not appear to remember the last 
 place that was used. Other open dialogs in JOSM do.
 
 Curious. I'm not aware of doing anything different. Maybe there is an 
 extra step I missed.
 
 4) It would be nice to have keyboard shortcuts for Forward and Backwards.
 
 OK, can be arranged I'm sure. How about '[' and ']' with '{' and '}' for 
 next and last marker? Assuming the system will let me do that - it 
 wouldn't let me have the spacebar for the play /pause for reasons I 
 don't understand.
 
 5) It would be nice to hide the audio markers without also hiding the 
 orange cursor.  I don't use waypoints and found that using the orange 
 cursor and the forward and backward buttons was all that I needed most 
 of the time.
 
 I'm surprised your audio was dense enough that you didn't have to jump 
 to new locations using the markers - I get minutes of silence when I'm 
 audio mapping. My two hour expedition on Saturday generated 140-odd 
 waypoints, roughly one a minute.
 
 But again, I imagine that wouldn't be too hard. I hadn't actually 
 realised the play head vanished with the markers. I guess the graphics 
 context I'm given to paint with is that for the layer.
 
 6) Lastly, it would be really nice if it was possible to play the audio 
 at varying speeds. For long roads if I've made occasionals marks I don't 
 really want to listen to the whole recording in real time, but there's 
 not really any way of knowing where the next one will be without 
 listening to the whole recording.  
 
 That's why creating waypoints help, but I know from experience with my 
 Garmin, the combination of key presses makes in unfeasible while moving 
 on a bike. The single tap on my adapted version  of MaemoMapper on the 
 Nokia is much, much better in this respect.
 
 If you're on a bike though you could mimic waypoints though - if you 
 adopt a procedure where you always either speak just after you turn into 
 a junction or when you do a loop loop in the road, then you can use the 
 artificial markers to speed up jumping through the sound track.
 
 Variable play speed would help with this.
 
 I imagine I could fake the sample rate, or something like that. I'll 
 investigate. This is probably a bit more complicated than the rest.
 
 Overall I really like it :)
 
 Thanks. My feeling is that it makes me safer when I'm out mapping, 
 because I don't have trailing wires and don't have to keep pressing the 
 pause on my recorder.
 
 David
 

Could this work with video media files ? I've invested in an Oregon 
Scientific ACT2000 solid state helmet cam ( http://tinyurl.com/22zaep )
for use when driving my cityscooter. It has audio input too, but the 
audio tends to be drowned out by the motor and wind sounds. I'm planning 
on using it when mapping, logging data for Wigle and OSM on the laptop 
and the Magellan CrossoverGPS, and filming the route as well as 
roadsigns with the helmet cam (sample movie in DivX format on 
http://www.stage6.com/user/DutchDK ).

Loading up the stream and seeing it in a seperate window in sync with 
the gpx log in JOSM could be great ;)

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Re: [OSM-talk] Continuous audio in JOSM on tracks without waypoints

2008-02-24 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Robin Paulson skrev:
 On 25/02/2008, J.D. Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Could this work with video media files ? I've invested in an Oregon
  Scientific ACT2000 solid state helmet cam ( http://tinyurl.com/22zaep )
  for use when driving my cityscooter. It has audio input too, but the
 
 cool, will you be contributing the videos to openstreetview.org ?
 

If you set up that site, you can just link to the files on stage6 - 
saves me from uploading the multiple MB video files to two places... ;)

Seriously though, driving the scooter or the MC, while attempting to 
take snapshots of roadsigns is detrimenttal to your health, and that is 
what prompted me to purchase the helmetcam. If the resulting video 
stream could be utilized in conjunction with a GPX tracklog in JOSM, in 
the same way as an audio stream, it would be another great way of 
documenting the names of roads.

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Re: [OSM-talk] Parking symbols: YUCK!

2008-02-23 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Tom Hughes skrev:
 In message [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   David Earl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 Unfortunately removing the related node isn't going to work, because
 Mapnik won't then render parking symbols. And it is a lot of work to do
 that.
 
 I believe it will - as far as I know mapnik has rendered those
 symbols for parking areas for some time.
 
 Since we have contradictory behaviour in the two renderers we can't
 resolve this automatically unless osmarender can look and see on the fly
 if there is a P node inside the area it is trying to do one for
 automatically.
 
 I believe it is fundamentally wrong to add nodes which duplicate
 areas, although I know it is quite common.
 
 Tom
 

Let me just remind you all, that there are no rules. There are only 
recommendations. When you all come to realize that, you will find that 
it is not a question of whether someone has put a node within an area in 
the database, but a question of whether the rendering engine in question 
can figure out not to render the node if it has the same icon as an 
renderengine-placed icon for the area containing that node.

(If this sounded like the baldheaded there is no spoon kid in The 
Matrix, SteveC will probably save Zion next year... ;))

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Re: [OSM-talk] Raw GPS layer

2008-02-21 Thread J.D. Schmidt
80n skrev:
 At the moment we are not signalling clearly enough that *every* track log is
 valuable to the project, even for places that have already been mapped.
 
 Does anyone have any stats on number of edits vs. number of tracklogs by
 user?   It might be quite revealing about who does and who doesn't upload
 their tracklogs (coastline uploaders and serial Yahoo! tracers excepted, of
 course).
 

I can only speak for myself, but 98% of the edits I've made in JOSM, has 
been made from my gps logs. The remainder 2 % has been from yahoo 
imagery, mostly while fixing the danish coastline.

My workflow generally is like this :
1) Open tracklog in JOSM.
2) Get OSM data for the area covered by the tracklog.
3) Make, tag and name new ways, correct possible bad ways along the 
tracklog.
5) Upload edits.
4) Gzip tracklog, and upload it via the website, tagging it with area, 
and give fairly detailed description of roads covered by the tracklog.
5) Drive out and cover a new area.
6) Repeat, rinse and lather...

and lately

7) Hope TomH doesn't throw my logs away... Again... :P

I used to have around 500 gpspoints in 512+ files in the stats, but 
since the last GPX Trace displacement, I'm down to 2763239. I haven't 
bothered with reviving my 300 part of the 55949581 orphaned 
gpspoints, since the perlscript supplied for that operation indicates I 
have to re-enter the detailed descriptions again, and that would 
probably mean re-entering descriptions for 200+ files. It was enough of 
an ordeal the first time around.

But I concurr, the importance of GPS tracklogs tends to be forgotten, 
after we got the possibility to trace over the Yahoo imagery. I still 
feel that gettin' out there with the GPS is necessary. Both for my own 
enjoyment (and health), as well as for observing changes and getting 
street and POI names.

So a GPS trace layer gets my vote, although technically we should look 
into some way of merging multiple tracks into a single line. I know 
that a lot of my tracks runs along the same roads a fsckin' great many 
times, with the inherent jitter of GPS tracks being different by a few 
meters due to sat constellation, H/VDOP, Receiver sensitivity and what 
not. I.E. a map layer plotting all the traces in for instance central 
Copenhagen, would end up being one black box in layers below 15.

I've just for kicks plotted 12 months worth of gps traces using a 
trackwidth of 1 pixel with Kismet's gpsmap utility, and Copenhagen 
definitely is just a blur at what is equivalent to our Layer 10.

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Re: [OSM-talk] pint symbol

2008-02-15 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Artem Pavlenko skrev:
 Too bad it's not full ;)
 Well, I thought half-full would be a good compromise. But you're  
 right, we can have three versions : full,half-full and empty.
 Igor

 Artem

Full to be used for Danish, German, Belgian, Dutch, Irish, British and 
Czech pubs, half-full for all other countries, EXCEPT the U.S. of A, 
where the empty version should be used - Voila, OpenStreetMap.org's own 
Instant Taste-o-Meter for beerquality. ;)

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Re: [OSM-talk] pint symbol

2008-02-15 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Frederik Ramm skrev:

 Could we introduce a beer can in paper bag symbol for off-licenses
 in the US?

Frederik, I am shocked, almost downright appalled.. You really want to 
buy beer in the US ?? EVERYBODY knows that american beer is akin to 
having sex in a canoe... I mean, take something like Budweiser -  It is 
so f*cking close to water.

;)

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Re: [OSM-talk] Label inconsistency: right-to-left label is printed backward

2008-02-10 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Moshe Sayag skrev:
 When a place is labeled in Hebrew (which is written right-to-left) it
 appears correctly in the [EMAIL PROTECTED] browser, but backward in OSM 
 slippy map.
 
 For example, see how the label of the city of Ashkelon is printed in each
 map:
 Correct: http://tah.openstreetmap.org/Browse/?x=4882y=3335z=13layer=tile
 Incorrect: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=32.634lon=35.2967zoom=12
 
 How can this be fixed? Is this is a problem with the SVG renderer?
 

Not unless you want the [EMAIL PROTECTED] tiles to be written backwards too.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] uses the svg rendering via Osmarender.

The OSM slippy map default layer uses Mapnik. I'm sure Artem will be 
along shortly, with an explanation and a fix.


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Re: [OSM-talk] New Coastline in Mapnik

2008-02-07 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Artem Pavlenko skrev:
 New coastline in Mapnik :
 
 
 Copenhagen - :http://www.openstreetmap.org/? 
 lat=55.6829lon=12.5817zoom=12layers=B0FT
 
 A big thank you to Kleptog!!!
 

Actually the Copenhagen coastline has been fixed about a year and a half 
ago, and was one of the first areas in Europe to have the coastline data 
imported. The rest of the Danish coastline were fixed about 8-10 months 
ago, long before Kleptog's great coastline checker was made.

The coastlines were fixed manually, downloading segments for all the 
islands and the peninsular part of Denmark into JOSM, checking them for 
breaks between segments, fixing it, and uploading.

It was only the Mapnik layer that lagged behind in displaying it, the 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Osmarender layer has been able to display it, since almost 
when 
almien began the work in importing PGS coastline data.

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Re: [OSM-talk] New Coastline in Mapnik

2008-02-07 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Artem Pavlenko skrev:
 
 I didn't mean this was something new for the world, but that these 
 coastlines are new in the Mapnik layer.
 
 Sorry to have lagged behind so shamefully :)
 
 A.
 

You're forgiven - IF you promise to go out and log the location of not 
less than 20 pubs in your area, submit the data, and get them rendered 
on both the Mapnik and Osmarender layer, before the end of February. 
Extra points for sampling a beer at each pub. Extra-extra points for 
doing it all in one day.. ;)

If you need to justify this task to a significant other, just tell the 
S.O. that it is physical liver-training in preparation for SOTM08 (held 
in the Land of Guinness, and with lots of Brits attending - Prior 
liver-training strongly recommended).


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Re: [OSM-talk] Crudely-drawn pint glasses

2008-01-30 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Tom Hughes skrev:
 So it is reasonable or optimal for us to maintain an infinite number
 of custom maps for third parties that want custom maps but don't want
 the hassle of rendering them?

And especially maps without an indication of where to bring a brit,
yourself, and your extra liver to sample the local flavours of beer.
Completely useless map IMHO.

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Re: [OSM-talk] Crudely-drawn pint glasses

2008-01-30 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Nick Whitelegg skrev:
 Anther solution would be on-demand mapping: the renderers, in whatever 
 falvour, are online somewhere and you go through a dialogue to decide on 
 an area, choose your features and then get a custom map back a short 
 while later - either on screen or as a PDF or whatever.
 
 Sounds a good idea. An OSMcustommaps.org or similar could be created, a 
 user could sign up and specify their preferences, write a Mapnik XML file 
 specific to that user and issue them with an ID, then a user could have 
 their custom rendered style simply by requesting tiles off that server. 
 Since most people probably want the standard OSM maps, it would have 
 relatively low levels of use, so  I can't see bandwidth being a major 
 issue - particularly if caching occurs.
 
 Nick

And how and from where will they be invoiced, and in what way will the 
income be put to use in OSM ?

Or do you suggest that it should be a freebie service, provided to Joe 
Public Esq. and Jim Company Ltd in the manner of free as in both speech 
AND beer ?

I mean, if they need a leaflet with a costumized map showing all their 
store location, then ofcourse they should be able to use any and all of 
OSM-ressources(*) free of charge to make that map for their leaflet, right ?

Dutch


(*) OSM-ressources in this regard means : CPU-time, making specific 
mapnik XML stylesheets for people, getting pestered with requests for 
changes in the XML stylesheet when they find out that their company logo 
really looks bad, on the colourschema they specified for the map, and 
that their customers normally navigate through town by directions to the 
various pubs anyway, so could they have the pint-glasses brought back as 
well...

Because if they are too lazy to read the instructions on getting Mapnik 
or one of the other rendering engines up and running to generate tiles 
and maps locally, you can bet they are also too lazy to write their 
stylesheets on their own, or even read the instructions on a potential 
OSMcustommaps.org site.
I might be a cynical S.O.B, but based on multiple years dealing with 
people wanting some task done, but to lazy to do it themselves, I'm 
pretty sure that the above scenario is what will happen... ;)


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Re: [OSM-talk] Underground lines on the london map

2008-01-21 Thread J.D. Schmidt
OJW skrev:
 It's a bit distracting seeing underground train lines overlaid on the [EMAIL 
 PROTECTED] map 
 of London (especially when taking screenshots to use as the base for other 
 maps) -- anyone think they could be removed, and have a separate layer for 
 train/metro connections? (like steve's map of london underground)
 

Why remove them ? Just adjust the stylesheet, so they aren't rendered as 
prominently, I.E. lighter gray than today for the underground segments 
of the line. Or in the case of specialtymaps, not rendered at all for 
the underground segments of the line.

Personally I find it beneficiary to have them on the default [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
map 
layer. They ensure that the map is more complete and usable for everyday 
navigation IMHO. At least here in Copenhagen.

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[OSM-talk] For sale: GPS Navigation device for car/mc/scooter/bicycle - 30 € inc. shipping.

2008-01-17 Thread J.D. Schmidt
As I have purchased a new Magellan CrossOver GPS device for use on my 
city-scooter, I am selling my old navigation solution cheaply on a first 
come, first serve basis, for only 30 € including shipping.

The device stands almost as new, with just a tiny bump on one side, 
caused by going sideways on a slippery road.

Some facts:
- complete worldwide mappack included.
- largest display on the market, 360 degree view
- mount fits for both car and motorcycle, and can be adapted for bicycle.
- very userfriendly and simple to use - point interface.
- colour: blue
- comes with World Wide compatible recharging interface.
- waterproof exceeding IPX7 standards.

As said, it's sold on a first come, first served basis, for only 30 € 
including shipping.


Picture of the device can be found here :
http://www.billig-scooter.dk/galleri/1702.jpg

;)
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Re: [OSM-talk] TIGER has only a week to go

2008-01-15 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Andy Allan skrev:
 On Jan 15, 2008 6:01 PM, Robert (Jamie) Munro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 According to: http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~daveh/tiger/stats.html
 TIGER imports will be finished in a weeks time! Should we celebrate
 somehow? Perhaps a press release? (Maybe give it another week so that
 Mapnik has all the new data)
 
 You obviously don't watch enough action movies. It'll get to 1 second
 remaining, and SteveC will cut the blue wire...
 
 Cheers,
 Andy

As usual when watching action movies, I fell asleep midway. Could you 
please tell me, now that I am awake, is SteveC the Good Guy or the Bad 
Guy in this movie ??

;)

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Re: [OSM-talk] Why place matters, slides from Vanessa Lawrence talk

2008-01-11 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Nick Black skrev:
 We should catalogue the errors and send them back into the OS so they
 can do better next time.

Just send them a dump of the DB, and then look for a CC-by-SA OSM 
copyright notice on the OS Mastermap, sometime within the next 6 month.

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Re: [OSM-talk] Adding vmap0 road data to OSM

2008-01-05 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Will Harrison skrev:
 Hello All,
 
 I'm involved with the FlightGear Flight Simulator (http://www.flightgear.org)
 and I've volunteered to help the custom scenery project
 (http://www.custom-scenery.org/Home.223.0.html)
 by adding vmap0 road data to OSM. I originally tried to start this task on
 my own, but I quickly realized that I probably won't be able to do this on
 my own. Basically, I'm wondering if anyone is interested in helping.
 
 Vmap0 contains road data for the entire world. The road data is available
 here:
 ftp://ftp.ihg.uni-duisburg.de/FlightGear/TGShapes/
 
 The file that contain the road data are called roads_freeway.tar.bz2 and
 roads_road.tar.bz2. Once extracted, the data can be loaded into an editor
 like QGIS. Then it's possible to view the roads and add them to OSM.
 
 This would benefit the custom scenery project, since once all the vmap0 road
 data have been added to OSM the intent is to use OSM data for the scenery.
 But I think this could also be very helpful to the OSM project, as vmap0
 contains data for the entire world and it would give OSM at least rough
 coverage of the entire globe. Is anyone interested in helping?
 

vmap0, at least for Denmark (and probably a lot of other countries in
Europe) is hopelessly outdated, and hopelessly imprecise. I've seen
discrepancies of between 400 to 1800 meters error for the location of
danish roads in vmap0 (and no, it was not due to different datums used).

So IMNSHO, thanks, but no thanks for any country where there already are
data.

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Re: [OSM-talk] My Openstreetmap talk at 24C3

2008-01-04 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Frederik Ramm skrev:
 It i s going to be a real book, German Language, about 300 pages,  
 and aims to have everything the would-be mapper needs to get going,  
 as well as an overview about the technical background of the project  
 (i.e. data model, XML, and stuff). We assume it is going to hit the  
 market some time in February.

Try to get your publisher to sign a deal with a GPSdevice supplier, such 
as Magellan, Garmin, or similar. Such a book just begs to have a GPS 
device bundled with it.

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Re: [OSM-talk] proposed feature, opinions requested

2007-12-21 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Frederik Ramm skrev:
 Hi,
 
 Including
 landuse=ToiletAndBathAreaAtRoskildeFestival_Bring_NoseClamp_On_Day_Two_and_Later.
  

 I'm suggesting a shitty-brownish-yellow color for that one, right away.

 Is it really necessary to go that finegrained down, in the definition of
 the landuse tag ?
 
 No, I think that landusue=ToiletAndBathArea would suffice, maybe amended 
 by surface=swamp and hazard=odour.
 
 Bye
 Frederik
 

Let me guess - You've also been to one of the wet Roskilde Festivals, 
'cause that certainly describes it very well according to my memories..

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Re: [OSM-talk] Render icons for parking areas

2007-12-20 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Karl Eichwalder skrev:
 ... more interesting features such as pubs, historical 
 buildings,footways, etc.  Rendering the yellow areas is fine,
 thou.

I just love the priority you used in that list! ;)

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