Re: [OSM-dev] Set up your personal tile server for experiments - what machine / installation suitable?

2010-01-26 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Ulf Lamping wrote: For the rendering and as a first step it would be enough to do this europe wide (and e.g. use the geofabrik excerpts), but maybe it's even easier in the long run to use (and especially update) the planet once it's imported into the DB?!? If you do not need diff

Re: [OSM-dev] Killing osm2pgsql application while updating PostGIS. What happens?

2010-01-26 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Giuseppe Castagno giuseppe.casta...@acca-esse.eu wrote: Though I didn'd find anything managing the SIGKILL event. Because you can't catch SIGKILL. If you meant SIGINT or SIGHUP then I suppose the reason is it doesn't matter. exit_nicely() is primarily good at

Re: [OSM-dev] Set up your personal tile server for experiments - what machine / installation suitable?

2010-01-26 Thread Giuseppe Castagno
Hi, I set up a 'home-brew' small server to do what I think you have in mind. Rest of answer follows. Ulf Lamping wrote: Hi! I'm pretty much aware, that the responses to the following questions will be subjective. However, I'm seeking for some advice to get a feeling what could work for

Re: [OSM-dev] Killing osm2pgsql application while updating PostGIS. What happens?

2010-01-26 Thread Giuseppe Castagno
Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Giuseppe Castagno giuseppe.casta...@acca-esse.eu wrote: Though I didn'd find anything managing the SIGKILL event. Because you can't catch SIGKILL. If you meant SIGINT or SIGHUP then I suppose the reason is it doesn't matter.

Re: [OSM-dev] phonetic gazateer, would be cool feature for nominatim

2010-01-26 Thread Brian Quinion
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 2:09 AM, Brian Quinion openstreet...@brian.quinion.co.uk wrote: Lucene uses Double Metaphone[1] (amongst others) and it works really nice across multiple languages. Certainly the best I've seen so far and the one OSMdoc is using in the next version. A bit of

Re: [OSM-dev] phonetic gazateer, would be cool feature for nominatim

2010-01-26 Thread Raphaël Jacquot
On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 14:49 +, Brian Quinion wrote: On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 2:09 AM, Brian Quinion openstreet...@brian.quinion.co.uk wrote: Lucene uses Double Metaphone[1] (amongst others) and it works really nice across multiple languages. Certainly the best I've seen so far and the

[OSM-dev] South Pole at 0,0 ?

2010-01-26 Thread Matthias Julius
The Mapnik layer shows the South Pole at 0°, 0°. Unless my geography knowledge betrays me this is slightly off. There is nothing in the data in this location (after I deleted a couple of nodes there, but nothing that had anything to do with South Pole). I am wondering how Mapnik is dreaming

[OSM-dev] Obtain SLD style for osm

2010-01-26 Thread moataz Elmasry
Hallo list 1- We are developing a GIS application using osm maps and a geoserver. My problem is that there's no reliable sld style for the osm maps. Is there a way to convert the mapnik style to SLD or does any of you know such a resource? Although the assignment states that we use geoserver

Re: [OSM-dev] phonetic gazateer, would be cool feature for nominatim

2010-01-26 Thread Brian Quinion
this is usually handled by using a specific language spelling = phonemes translator. so that would need a setting for 'language of the destination' which can be found automatically if a country name can be found in the text Language of the destination is indeterminate because they could be

Re: [OSM-dev] Obtain SLD style for osm

2010-01-26 Thread Dane Springmeyer
On Jan 26, 2010, at 8:05 AM, moataz Elmasry wrote: Hallo list 1- We are developing a GIS application using osm maps and a geoserver. My problem is that there's no reliable sld style for the osm maps. Right, because it takes a serious amount of effort, care, and commitment to create and

Re: [OSM-dev] South Pole at 0,0 ?

2010-01-26 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2010/1/26 Matthias Julius li...@julius-net.net: I have the suspicion that osm2pgsql (which is doing the conversation to Mercator, right?) somehow falls back to 0,0 when it can not deal with an indefinite northing value. I also came across this issue, but AFAIK mercator is not suitable for

Re: [OSM-dev] phonetic gazateer, would be cool feature for nominatim

2010-01-26 Thread Lars Francke
Also it isn't the phonetic spelling that is really the problem - the problem is that a lot of the time mistakes are typos not miss-spellings i.e. Lonon which is phonetically completely different to London despite being obvious that someone just missed the 'd' when they were typing. In that

Re: [OSM-dev] phonetic gazateer, would be cool feature for nominatim

2010-01-26 Thread Lulu-Ann
If you set up a phonetic search, make sure to take care of http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Phonetics There are streets called John-F.-Kennedy-Chaussee (English and French pronounciation in sorbian speaking areas of Germany...! I invented this to enable screen readers for the blind to find

Re: [OSM-dev] South Pole at 0,0 ?

2010-01-26 Thread Matthias Julius
Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com writes: 2010/1/26 Matthias Julius li...@julius-net.net: I have the suspicion that osm2pgsql (which is doing the conversation to Mercator, right?) somehow falls back to 0,0 when it can not deal with an indefinite northing value. I also came across

Re: [josm-dev] location of elemstyles.xml and Eclipse

2010-01-26 Thread Pieren
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 7:11 AM, Matthias Julius li...@julius-net.netwrote: I think you have to add the /data in your eclipse project classpath (included path). Is it not already done in the commited .classpath ? Pieren ___ josm-dev mailing list

Re: [josm-dev] location of elemstyles.xml and Eclipse

2010-01-26 Thread Matthias Julius
Pieren pier...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 7:11 AM, Matthias Julius li...@julius-net.netwrote: I think you have to add the /data in your eclipse project classpath (included path). Is it not already done in the commited .classpath ? /data is in there. But, elemstyles.xml is not