Re: [OSM-dev] finding OSM users by their home locations

2009-05-31 Thread Jochen Topf
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 01:41:39AM -0400, Russ Nelson wrote: The OSM webserver will tell you the ten people with home locations closest to your home location. It would be useful to be able to get more than that, for the purpose of inviting people to attend mapping parties so they can

Re: [OSM-dev] finding OSM users by their home locations

2009-05-31 Thread Emilie Laffray
Hello, I guess it all depends on whether the users have accepted to make public their location. I am not sure whether the site allows to decide whether to make public or not your location. Personally, while I understand your enthusiasm, I would find annoying to receive a pre-formatted message

Re: [OSM-dev] finding OSM users by their home locations

2009-05-31 Thread Tom Hughes
Russ Nelson wrote: So, being intolerant of boring, repetitive activities, I've written a program to find OSM users by their home location. You give it a lat,lon, and the radius in degrees of the circle in which you want to find people, and it repeatedly changes your home location until

Re: [OSM-dev] finding OSM users by their home locations

2009-05-31 Thread Tom Hughes
Emilie Laffray wrote: I guess it all depends on whether the users have accepted to make public their location. I am not sure whether the site allows to decide whether to make public or not your location. Well first of all we don't require anybody to give their location at all, though some

Re: [OSM-dev] finding OSM users by their home locations

2009-05-31 Thread Joe Richards
How about a set of contact preferences? It would be easy to say allow other OSMers to contact me for mapping parties etc. Perhaps for old users this could be set to on by default, but we send them a little message so that they can change it straight away if they want to. Something like the

Re: [OSM-dev] finding OSM users by their home locations

2009-05-31 Thread Tom Hughes
Joe Richards wrote: How about a set of contact preferences? It would be easy to say allow other OSMers to contact me for mapping parties etc. Perhaps for old users this could be set to on by default, but we send them a little message so that they can change it straight away if they want

Re: [OSM-dev] finding OSM users by their home locations

2009-05-31 Thread Lennard
Russ Nelson wrote: The OSM webserver will tell you the ten people with home locations closest to your home location. It would be useful to be able to get Ticket #1425 requested to return more than 10 nearby mappers too. http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/1425 -- Lennard

Re: [OSM-dev] finding OSM users by their home locations

2009-05-31 Thread Matt Amos
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: Joe Richards wrote: How about a set of contact preferences?  It would be easy to say allow other OSMers to contact me for mapping parties etc.  Perhaps for old users this could be set to on by default, but we send them a

Re: [OSM-dev] finding OSM users by their home locations

2009-05-31 Thread Russ Nelson
On May 31, 2009, at 7:00 AM, Matt Amos wrote: if we want to keep the map on the users' pages showing the nearest other users to them, we might as well offer this data publicly. as russ said, it's one script and a bunch of server load away from being public anyway. Right. If we want to

[OSM-dev] Coastline Rendering

2009-05-31 Thread brendan barrett
Hey all. I'm trying to render coastlines in an app that I am building using OSM data (The rendering engine just draws shapes and I have to determine what shapes to draw). I've been able to learn a lot from the wiki about how coastlines are created (anti-clockwise and joined end on end), but still

Re: [OSM-dev] finding OSM users by their home locations

2009-05-31 Thread Matt Amos
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Russ Nelson r...@cloudmade.com wrote: On May 31, 2009, at 7:00 AM, Matt Amos wrote: if we want to keep the map on the users' pages showing the nearest other users to them, we might as well offer this data publicly. as russ said, it's one script and a bunch of

[OSM-dev] Max size of changeset with josm (in kb)

2009-05-31 Thread Sam Vekemans
Hi, I already got part of the answer - 50,000 (things; nodes, lines, areas -total) so now i want to know, what approx size (in mb, kb) is safe? I loaded a changeset of 358 kb and it seemed happy. Would 1 meg be too much? I know that there is a max geographical download area built in, (it's say's

Re: [OSM-dev] finding OSM users by their home locations

2009-05-31 Thread Chris Jones
On 31 May 2009, at 06:41, Russ Nelson wrote: The OSM webserver will tell you the ten people with home locations closest to your home location. It would be useful to be able to get more than that, for the purpose of inviting people to attend mapping parties so they can become more effective

[OSM-dev] osm2pgsql problems

2009-05-31 Thread Mikel Maron
Hi Running osm2pgsql and running into problems. Trying to load all of planet.osm. From the osm2pgsql log, it appears that after it has finished loading all nodes, the process errors without notice. Looking in the postgresql log, at the time the log ends, there are these messages...

[OSM-dev] Alternative to lan/lon / zoomable search grid

2009-05-31 Thread Munich Orientation Convention
. Hi, I've developed a polar search grid where the index can also be an intelligent postal code, see google mapplets http://www.volksnav.com/mapplet www.volksnav.com/mapplet. During a presentation to Google Zurich they've suggested to develop such tools also for OSM. Can anybody help me

Re: [OSM-dev] finding OSM users by their home locations

2009-05-31 Thread Michael Kugelmann
Tom Hughes schrieb: I would suggest that we (a) add a new reveal my location preference and then (b) add better features for browsing a map with users who have chosen to reveal their location marked +1 A better tool would be very fine. As the 10 persons are bit very much - especially in

Re: [OSM-dev] finding OSM users by their home locations

2009-05-31 Thread Paul Johnson
Matt Amos wrote: On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Russ Nelson r...@cloudmade.com wrote: On May 31, 2009, at 7:00 AM, Matt Amos wrote: if we want to keep the map on the users' pages showing the nearest other users to them, we might as well offer this data publicly. as russ said, it's one

Re: [OSM-dev] finding OSM users by their home locations

2009-05-31 Thread Paul Johnson
Tom Hughes wrote: Emilie Laffray wrote: I guess it all depends on whether the users have accepted to make public their location. I am not sure whether the site allows to decide whether to make public or not your location. Well first of all we don't require anybody to give their location

Re: [OSM-dev] finding OSM users by their home locations

2009-05-31 Thread Paul Johnson
Matt Amos wrote: in my opinion it's evil to contact users who haven't opted in to be contacted. it's a valid point of view that they implicitly opted in, but i don't think this is what most users intended when they added a home location - it's certainly not what i intended. I'm not sure it's

Re: [OSM-dev] Osmosis error read-xml (NullPointerException)

2009-05-31 Thread Brett Henderson
marcus.wolsc...@googlemail.com wrote: On Thu, 28 May 2009 17:42:02 +1000, Brett Henderson br...@bretth.com wrote: Line 43 of RelationMemberWriter above deals with the relation member role. Your osm file above is missing all of the role attributes on relation members which would cause

Re: [OSM-dev] JSON/GeoJSON output format for 0.6 api

2009-05-31 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Tels wrote: Well, one could fetch the data at z17, see it is below some $ARBITRARY_THRESHOLD, zoom out to z16m, fetch again, and if still below $THRESHOLD, repeat it until either there is too much data (display message) or the user-requested zoomlevel was reached. I think the

Re: [OSM-dev] [Tilesathome] I'd like a list of the file size of all z12 tilesets

2009-05-31 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2009/5/21 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ava...@gmail.com: On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Sebastian Spaeth sebast...@sspaeth.de wrote: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: I want to play with producing a heat map of the globe where heat is determined by the relative size of t...@h tilesets at z12. I

Re: [OSM-dev] [Tilesathome] I'd like a list of the file size of all z12 tilesets

2009-05-31 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2009/5/31 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ava...@gmail.com: 2009/5/21 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ava...@gmail.com: On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Sebastian Spaeth sebast...@sspaeth.de wrote: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: I want to play with producing a heat map of the globe where heat is determined

Re: [josm-dev] Only method post is supported on this URI

2009-05-31 Thread Rolf Bode-Meyer
2009/5/31 Maarten Deen md...@xs4all.nl: But I did see what was wrong: the upload URL has changed from http://www.openstreetmap.com/api to http://api.openstreetmap.org/api (notice the www-api and com-org). I don't know about .com, but http://www.openstreetmap.org/api works fine here. Rolf

Re: [josm-dev] Only method post is supported on this URI

2009-05-31 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 31 May 2009, at 14:04, Maarten Deen wrote: Russ Nelson wrote: Maarten Deen writes: I spent some time adding and changing stuff in JOSM, but when uploading I get the message Only method post is supported on this URI. This happens to me with the josm-latest (and the version from

Re: [josm-dev] Only method post is supported on this URI

2009-05-31 Thread Maarten Deen
Shaun McDonald wrote: On 31 May 2009, at 14:04, Maarten Deen wrote: Russ Nelson wrote: Maarten Deen writes: I spent some time adding and changing stuff in JOSM, but when uploading I get the message Only method post is supported on this URI. This happens to me with the josm-latest (and