On Oct 16, 2012, at 8:39 AM, Eric Marsden wrote:
fr == Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org writes:
- Should SVG export be replaced with something else, or improved in
Mapnik enough to be worthwhile?
fr Definitely a question that I am often asked - keep in mind that there
fr are two
On Oct 18, 2012, at 5:05 PM, Kai Krueger wrote:
Dane Springmeyer wrote
I believe I'm right in saying that he doesn't have a working test setup
at the moment since we moved to mapnik 2 and we need to sort that out but
equally moving to git may be an issue because I believe Windows support
in
On 10/21/2012 04:15 PM, Dane Springmeyer wrote:
On Oct 18, 2012, at 5:05 PM, Kai Krueger wrote:
[...]
I am not sure if this is essential for getting the rendering stack back up
and running on windows, but afaik the most recent version of osm2pgsql on
windows is from early 2010. It would be
On 10/17/2012 11:33 PM, Tom Hughes wrote:
Even if we had the technology you propose, how long do you think we
should wait in the hope that translations arrived before pushing
something like? Without paid translators we have no way of ensuring
timely translations even if we do all the things
Dane Springmeyer wrote
I believe I'm right in saying that he doesn't have a working test setup
at the moment since we moved to mapnik 2 and we need to sort that out but
equally moving to git may be an issue because I believe Windows support
in git is a bit patchy.
Yes, this is my
On 17 October 2012 05:26, Roland Olbricht roland.olbri...@gmx.de wrote:
It has roughly the same importance than the main API
The OSMF Operations Working Group classify the planet.osm.org feeds at
the same (highest) level of importance to the project already. It's
absolutely core.
On the other
On 16 October 2012 11:02, Jochen Topf joc...@remote.org wrote:
I don't think we can bring all of this into a single export tab. In fact, if
we reduce all of this into a single export tab we risk alienating people who
try out whats offered, find it lacking and then go away not understanding
On 16 October 2012 00:17, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote:
On 15/10/12 23:40, Alex Barth wrote:
- Translations are a frequent bottleneck for copy changes, unclear how to
solve this.
I'm not sure why you think this, but I can only think it is because you are
overthinking the issue and
On 17/10/12 22:17, Andy Allan wrote:
On 16 October 2012 00:17, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote:
The way it works is this - you don't worry about translations as such at
all. You just make sure strings are translatable and we commit that and then
the translators get to work. Yes, when
Tom Hughes-3 wrote
On 17/10/12 22:17, Andy Allan wrote:
On 16 October 2012 00:17, Tom Hughes lt;
tom@
gt; wrote:
The way it works is this - you don't worry about translations as such at
all. You just make sure strings are translatable and we commit that and
then
the translators get to
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 07:48:24PM -0700, John Firebaugh wrote:
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote:
Exporting raw data was never the primary purpose of the export tab - it was
really added to address the constant request for the ability to export
images of an
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012, at 11:09, Frederik Ramm wrote:
- How could the Mapnik style be more open to improvements? We
definitely need to get it on GitHub.
I don't think the version control system used makes a difference - I
doubt the 400+ issues filed against the current style would be
On 16/10/12 05:42, Serge Wroclawski wrote:
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 7:17 PM, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote:
Exporting raw data was never the primary purpose of the export tab - it was
really added to address the constant request for the ability to export
images of an area.
Do we have
fr == Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org writes:
fr In Wikipedia, all user-to-user messages are automatically public
fr (unless both parties agree to take it to email). Maybe food for
fr thought - do we need private messages at all? There seem to be
fr quite a number of bullies in OSM who
fr == Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org writes:
- Should SVG export be replaced with something else, or improved in
Mapnik enough to be worthwhile?
fr Definitely a question that I am often asked - keep in mind that there
fr are two kinds of SVG, that which conforms to the standard and
The problem I see is, other than pointing to planet.openstreetmap.org I'm
not sure where else we would send them?
While there are lots of other places to get things like regional extracts
they are unofficial third party sites so I don't think that we should be
referring people to them from the
On 16/10/12 16:40, Tom MacWright wrote:
The problem I see is, other than pointing to planet.openstreetmap.org
http://planet.openstreetmap.org/ I'm not sure where else we would send
them?
While there are lots of other places to get things like regional extracts they
are unofficial third party
Tom Hughes wrote:
As to other sites, the problems are several fold - how do we decide to
bless one particular site over another? not to mention the fact that
we might end up driving more traffic to such sites than they could
handle.
From a purely end-user perspective, having lots of
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote:
On 16/10/12 16:40, Tom MacWright wrote:
The problem I see is, other than pointing to planet.openstreetmap.org
http://planet.openstreetmap.**org/ http://planet.openstreetmap.org/
I'm not sure where else we would send
them?
Hi,
On 16.10.2012 17:32, Eric Marsden wrote:
fr thought - do we need private messages at all? There seem to be
fr quite a number of bullies in OSM who send self-important messages
fr to lesser experienced mappers explaining their rules... that
fr could be stopped if all messages were public.
As to other sites, the problems are several fold - how do we decide to
bless one particular site over another?
Please be honest. You, I, and everbody else also set preferences on at best
educated guesses, often more trust in what or whom we know or don't know. We
use OpenLayers and not
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 8:48 PM, John Firebaugh
john.fireba...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote:
Exporting raw data was never the primary purpose of the export tab - it was
really added to address the constant request for the ability to export
On Oct 16, 2012, at 2:48 PM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote:
I agree with John that there is a need for a clear path for folks to
the various data consumption options. I believe the Export tab should
really be the Data tab, with options for
* immediately downloading the current map
2012/10/16 Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu:
The problem I see is, other than pointing to planet.openstreetmap.org I'm
not sure where else we would send them?
You could point them here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Downloading_data
I think what is really missing are some short explanations,
Wow, that page does look a lot like what I concocted this morning -
see earlier in the thread or here is the link again:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dASGp5U0jRNZ3Kzb-LtzeOtUACqlLVh9GZdiKTftTOQ/edit
My major concern with that page, now that I know it's there, is that
there is no
This would mean folding http://planet.osm.org/ into a future data tab, no?
How do the planet osm maintainers see this?
http://planet.openstreetmap.org is the interface from the main DB to all kind
of data consuming services, including the renderers, Nominatim, Overpass API
and several others.
Hello everyone -
Here are my (slightly edited) notes from the Birds of a Feather session on the
Knight grant and OSM improvements we had at PDX. Much of what's been mentioned
meshes closely with the OSM Wishlist thread [1]. Please fill in / expand /
contest where you see fit.
Just like the
On 15/10/12 23:40, Alex Barth wrote:
- Translations are a frequent bottleneck for copy changes, unclear how to solve
this.
I'm not sure why you think this, but I can only think it is because you
are overthinking the issue and aiming for a level of perfection that we
are never likely to
On 10/16/2012 02:32 AM, Dane Springmeyer wrote:
On Oct 15, 2012, at 4:17 PM, Tom Hughes wrote:
One of the problems here is that the person that leads this effort is
primarily a cartographer rather than a developer, and is also on Windows
which tends to lead to various technology issues.
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote:
Exporting raw data was never the primary purpose of the export tab - it was
really added to address the constant request for the ability to export
images of an area.
The data export things was something I threw in because I
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 7:17 PM, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote:
## Getting data out of osm.org
- Starting from osm.org it could be more straightforward to find proper
download options
- Export tab on osm.org is one of the most popular locations, but needs a
lot of improvement. E.g. it
Hello everyone -
## Getting data out of osm.org
- Export tab on osm.org is one of the most popular
locations, but needs a lot of improvement. E.g. it does not explain how the
downloaded data can be used. How can export be more actionable?
- if an export fails due to its size, it's not
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