Re: [OSM-dev] Reading OSM History dumps

2010-08-23 Thread Lars Francke
Creating a true history is impossible. The information about the concurrent updates across different non-atomic changesets is presumably lost. You can easily recreate that by sorting everything by timestamp. Which I think is the easiest/most obvious ordering there is. Cheers, Lars

Re: [OSM-dev] Reading OSM History dumps

2010-08-23 Thread Lars Francke
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 5:40 PM, Scott Crosby scro...@cs.rice.edu wrote: On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Lars Francke lars.fran...@gmail.com wrote: Creating a true history is impossible. The information about the concurrent updates across different non-atomic changesets is presumably lost

Re: [OSM-dev] oauth code

2010-08-21 Thread Lars Francke
Anyone have or know of any example code for doing oauth with OSM in PHP or perl? http://oauth.net/code/ Just remember that OSM uses OAuth 1.0 and not 1.0a. osm-f...@googlegroups.com? Got anything done yet? Cheers, Lars ___ dev mailing list

Re: [OSM-dev] oauth code

2010-08-21 Thread Lars Francke
So no? Well...OSM does nothing special in regards to OAuth so any tutorial will do. This gets the access token no problem.  But then what do you do with the access token? The access token is called token credentials now. And this explains how an authenticated request is made:

[osmosis-dev] Osmosis + Hadoop (was: Re: Changes to Osmosis Pgsql Schema)

2010-08-07 Thread Lars Francke
Hi, 2: I am beginning a project to parallelize OSM data processing with Hadoop, and the postgreSQL copy-format output is perfect for loading into HDFS. (If this goes well, I'd want to discuss ideas for adapting Osmosis to talk to Hadoop, eventually.) that is very interesting. I'm doing the

Re: [OSM-dev] Period In Key Names: Will It Cause A Problem?

2010-08-03 Thread Lars Francke
Will a period in the key name for a tag cause a problem? Generally: No. You were asking about database problems: No problems at all in regards to PostgreSQL. MongoDB is the only database I know that has problems with dots in keys but you'd have to escape everything anyway, so no problem there

Re: [OSM-dev] Period In Key Names: Will It Cause A Problem?

2010-08-03 Thread Lars Francke
I'd use name:full, name:prefix etc. for it. As far as I can tell it's pretty much established practice and you'd make _at least_ my life easier :) How? I've just rewritten parts of OSMdoc.com to support : in keys[1] because they were the only delimiter in widespread use. So I naturally hope

[OSM-dev] New full history dump available

2010-08-02 Thread Lars Francke
Hi guys, Matt Amos was so nice to run the history export again. The result is available here: http://planet.openstreetmap.org/full-experimental/full-planet-100801.osm.bz2 and it's grown from 13 GB in February to 17 GB. The regular planet has grown from 8 to 10 GB in the same time. Have fun and

Re: [OSM-dev] OSM History Retriever

2010-07-21 Thread Lars Francke
At SOTM I talked to Lars Francke about his history dump script that was run once or twice a few months ago. He said it would definitely be feasible to implement an extent parameter but that would require some significant rewriting effort. I am willing to look into this but it's in Java

Re: [OSM-dev] OSM History Retriever

2010-07-21 Thread Lars Francke
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 15:42, Brett Henderson br...@bretth.com wrote: I haven't looked at the full history dump to be honest so I'm not in a great position to comment, but I'll comment anyway ;-) I'm curious what the format of the full history dump is.  I'd like to understand how nodes, ways

Re: [OSM-dev] Tagstat History/Change over time

2010-07-21 Thread Lars Francke
I'm wondering if anyone out there could talk about how resource-intensive it would be to set up a system to show the usage of any arbitrary tag/value pair (or maybe just the top 5000?) over the course of time. Presumably it would be something like what tagstat does, but the results would be

Re: [OSM-dev] OSM and CouchDB/GeoCouch

2010-07-05 Thread Lars Francke
The code is here: http://github.com/iandees/mongosm I just had a quick look at it because I've never used MongoDB before and was interested. This line[1] makes me want to cry (not your fault). There's always this one catch with a solution that looks perfect otherwise. Now you've got to escape

Re: [OSM-dev] OSM and CouchDB/GeoCouch

2010-07-04 Thread Lars Francke
It looks like our schemas are mostly identical, but in my experience, MongoDB used more and more time importing the index as the import continued. An import of the dataset for TX took several hours, but import speeds dropped off markably as the import continued and, presumably, as the

Re: [OSM-dev] OSM and CouchDB/GeoCouch

2010-07-03 Thread Lars Francke
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 20:52, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: Similarly, Ian Dees and I have written a server using MongoDB, which also provides functionality such as auto-sharding and built in map/reduce. Ah I remember that we've talked about this. Great! Will any of you be at the

Re: [OSM-dev] OSM and CouchDB/GeoCouch

2010-07-01 Thread Lars Francke
were there any successful attempts to read OSM data into CouchDB and Geocouch? Does somebody know of a backend? I have done something like that and can provide some code at the end of July (I won't be back home before then). It really is just a different kind of schema. But the exact schema

Re: [OSM-dev] Spam in Users' Diaries and Users' Pages

2010-03-16 Thread Lars Francke
Mostly likely we will wind up adding a moderation queue and moderating new users first few diary entries. I don't have any developer experience with it but Akismet[1] seems to work quite well on Wordpress and we seem to get the same kind of spam I regularly see in my Wordpress spam queue. They

Re: [OSM-dev] TRAPI status

2010-03-12 Thread Lars Francke
I currently use AMQP (RabbitMQ) for message processing and it works very well. It is very flexible and it'd be easy to extend it with a PubSubHubBub or XMPP output. Mitja (of OpenStreetBugs) proposed just yesterday a filter that filters changes by the tags/changes involved so it would be

Re: [OSM-dev] TRAPI status

2010-03-11 Thread Lars Francke
I started working on a streaming XML output plugin for Osmosis. I was intending to take advantage of PuSH/PubSubHub messaging and maybe even XMPP (so that you get a 1-min delayed IM when someone changes something in your bbox). Anyway, TRAPI could use this same plugin to apply updates to

Re: [OSM-dev] Importing Planet Into Hadoop/HBase

2010-03-05 Thread Lars Francke
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 20:59, Jeffrey Ollie j...@ocjtech.us wrote: Has anyone looked at importing the planet into a Hadoop/HBase cluster?  I'm just learning about the whole clustering/cloud computing stuff so it might not be a good fit but I might give it a try, if only as a learning project.

Re: [OSM-dev] I converted the rails port to Git

2010-02-22 Thread Lars Francke
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 23:30, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ava...@gmail.com wrote: We were discussing maybe moving over to Git in #osm and I thought I'd do a quick conversion just to show how easy it is: Was there any discussion about alternatives to git? I favour Mercurial myself. I know that

Re: [OSM-dev] JOSM links in tagstat

2010-02-09 Thread Lars Francke
Disclaimer: This is untested as I didn't feel like setting up tagwatch to be able to test it myself.  I hope there is no escaping necessary. Escaping is necessary[1]! Not escaping can cause problems for example with the | character as you might receive a lot more data than you expected[2].

[OSM-dev] Update on the OSM History/Full planet export

2010-01-27 Thread Lars Francke
Hi, as you might know there is an experimental database dump of the full history of the OSM data[1]. Good thing that Matt labeled it as experimental as several small bugs were discovered (most by Anthony, thanks). These are the changes: * Timestamps were off during GMT summer time. This should

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

2010-01-14 Thread Lars Francke
I'd love to do something like this but have so far been unable to find a suggest / phonetic algorithm that scales to 5.4 million words/phrases across more than a hundered languages.  The geocoder you mention doesn't seem to do street level - which simplifies the problem by at least a couple

Re: [OSM-dev] Export of GPX data (planet.gpx)

2010-01-13 Thread Lars Francke
A quick status update. I've done some more work and pushed a first incomplete version to my bitbucket repository[1]. I've never tested this so there are bound to be bugs. Tom pointed out a mistake I made with the private traces. So there'll be one public.gpx with all the trackpoints from all

Re: [OSM-dev] full history planet (experimental)

2010-01-02 Thread Lars Francke
On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 19:17, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Lars Francke lars.fran...@gmail.com wrote: Are there any other bugs/strange things you've encountered? I haven't had the time to look at the final file myself. The num_changes data is weird. http

Re: [OSM-dev] full history planet (experimental)

2009-12-22 Thread Lars Francke
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 04:28, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: Hmm, the full-planet dump seems to be doing something weird around daylight saving time.  See, for example changeset id=2975 created_at=2006-03-26T00:51:16Z closed_at=2006-03-26T02:51:23Z open=false num_changes=7 min_lat=52.5450951

Re: [OSM-dev] Changeset files (was Removing Minutely and Hourly Changesets)

2009-12-21 Thread Lars Francke
Ah yes.  Hmm.  That said, most of the characters actually in the database are carriage returns, which along with tabs and line feeds (also in the db) are valid in XML.  Other characters are present - for instance ASCII 3 in http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/1325382 - those will be

Re: [OSM-dev] Complete history of OSM data - questions and discussion

2009-12-16 Thread Lars Francke
Have you been considering how to handle the history of old anonymous edits? This new history data should not reveal those user names but keep them anonymous. User IDs and Usernames for those anonymous edits are left out of the dump. So the elements may not have an uid or user attribute.

Re: [OSM-dev] Importing planet file with osmosis into PostgreSQL

2009-12-13 Thread Lars Francke
Currently I need about four days for importing the whole planet file. Is that a normal computing time? The bottleneck seems to be the database (PostgreSQL). Are there any hints for the database configuration? For conversion I use  a quadcore machine with 8GB RAM. Data files are located on an

Re: [OSM-dev] full history planet (experimental)

2009-12-09 Thread Lars Francke
I assume it doesn't include the history that was deleted when segments were converted to ways? No, it doesn't. I recall that it was archived somewhere.  Would it be possible to make that available in some form? Personal data etc. needs to be stripped from that data first. Tom tried to load

Re: [OSM-dev] History API Server

2009-12-09 Thread Lars Francke
Hi Peter, as far as I can see all that you've described will be available in the new OSMdoc version (including 'minor' versions when a node for a way is updated). This is if everything goes according to plan and I don't have to delete a whole bunch of data because of the license change. But the

Re: [OSM-dev] Export of GPX data (planet.gpx)

2009-12-08 Thread Lars Francke
I'd take a look at it if no one else is working on it but if someone else is interested I'd gladly step back :) As no one has stepped forward with any ideas or offers to implement this I'll take a shot at it. This also means that I get to define the format of the metadata. Once I've worked that

Re: [OSM-dev] Export of GPX data (planet.gpx)

2009-12-05 Thread Lars Francke
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 10:55, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: On 05/12/09 01:27, Lars Francke wrote: The easiest for now would be to just throw all the GPX files that are marked as Identifiable or Public in a compressed file and add a file with (XML?) metadata about those traces. Actually

[OSM-dev] Export of GPX data (planet.gpx)

2009-12-04 Thread Lars Francke
We've (Matt Amos, Tom Hughes, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason and myself) just had a discussion on IRC about an export of the GPX/GPS-data (Matt called it planet.gpx) and I'd like to post our findings here and hope to get some more ideas/feedback in. A few notes: * All the uploaded GPX files are kept in

Re: [OSM-dev] indoor wifi geopositionning - openstreetmap precision, collaborators?

2009-11-29 Thread Lars Francke
The only thing I see potentially getting in your way is that the OSM database doesn't store enough significant digits of lat/lon coordinates to make indoor mapping viable, but perhaps it does. I couldn't find documentation on how many digits it stores and how that translates approximately

Re: [OSM-dev] Tagwatch Editor Counts

2009-11-28 Thread Lars Francke
 Both apps tag the change set [2] rather than the node or way that is created.  I'm wondering if this is why there are no stats on the editor's usage in Tagwatch?  If this is the case, how can I help update Tagwatch to look at change sets? That is almost certainly the case. Tagwatch uses a

Re: [OSM-dev] Complete history of OSM data - questions and discussion

2009-11-12 Thread Lars Francke
I am partly done with my Java version. There are a few questions/problems/remarks: Is Java really up to this job from a performance point of view? I haven't done any performance comparisons between planet.c and my program but I believe that there won't be much of a difference. I could rip out

Re: [OSM-dev] Complete history of OSM data - questions and discussion

2009-11-12 Thread Lars Francke
A quick status update and a link to the code. - I decided to dump num_changes too - One thing that startled me: planet.c converts _all_ relation member roles to lower case before dumping them. I'd consider this a bug but I'm sure there is a reason for this. Considering that neither the API nor

Re: [OSM-dev] Complete history of OSM data - questions and discussion

2009-11-12 Thread Lars Francke
There is a dump, but it's a mysql dump so not easily readable. There may be a planet around somewhere as well but I don't think it will be synchronised to the actual shutdown time or have any history. If you'd be willing to share the mysql dump (I of course wouldn't need user- or any other

Re: [OSM-dev] Complete history of OSM data - questions and discussion

2009-11-11 Thread Lars Francke
I understand that a lot of this data is available throughout the web using old snapshots and diffs but this comes in outdated formats and is by no way complete or easy to use. Keep in mind that while a full database dump will give you some things that are not in the old planet files, but the

Re: [OSM-dev] Complete history of OSM data - questions and discussion

2009-11-11 Thread Lars Francke
Andy, Ultimately the formation of a mini project is probably needed. Input from those like yourself willing to work on it and the will and time from others who would need to support the work, including sysadmins. I had hoped that this could be (re-)solved rather unbureaucratic and without the

Re: [OSM-dev] Complete history of OSM data - questions and discussion

2009-11-11 Thread Lars Francke
- Am I correct in assuming that there are no general objections from the OSM server folks against such a dump? (Which would render the rest of this E-Mail useless ;-) the response has always been if someone writes it, and it's good, we'll run it :-) That's all I wanted to hear :) (3) is

Re: [OSM-dev] Complete history of OSM data - questions and discussion

2009-11-11 Thread Lars Francke
I had not thought of that. When I first used OSM, segments were long gone so I tend to forget those. There are a few planet dumps from those time but none before 060403 and no diffs (which would be required to fully reconstruct the history). No, diffs only show the changes between two points

[OSM-dev] Complete history of OSM data - questions and discussion

2009-11-10 Thread Lars Francke
Hi! I and many (okay at least a few) others have shown interest in the complete history data of OSM. I understand that a lot of this data is available throughout the web using old snapshots and diffs but this comes in outdated formats and is by no way complete or easy to use. I also had a look at

Re: [OSM-dev] Osmosis, Changesets, Diffs (replicate) and general questions

2009-10-30 Thread Lars Francke
I'd like to include full changeset information in diffs but it's not trivial.  I'm not sure if I'll ever get to this personally.  I'd love to see somebody take it on though. I'll have a look at it but I don't want to get your hopes up :) I had a look and my initial enthusiasm has been

Re: [OSM-dev] Osmosis, Changesets, Diffs (replicate) and general questions

2009-10-28 Thread Lars Francke
2) It seems as if none of the diffs contain the changesets. I may have missed something here but the only way to get these seems to be the weekly dump of all changesets or by using the API? As I use the changeset tags for OSMdoc I'd be very interested why this is the case and if there are

[OSM-dev] Osmosis, Changesets, Diffs (replicate) and general questions

2009-10-22 Thread Lars Francke
Hi! I'd like to set up a new consistent database of the OSM data for OSMdoc. I've been out of the loop for a while so I've got a few questions. 1) If I understood it correctly there is a new type of diffs - the minute-replicate - which are guaranteed to contain every change but they are not

Re: [josm-dev] shocking - unsecure password sending!

2009-10-07 Thread Lars Francke
No, I meant the tokens which would be used if authentication is done with https and data transmission without. Somehow these two parts have to be connected, a token transfered with the authentication would be one solution. This token could be intercepted and used to send unauthenticated map

Re: [josm-dev] shocking - unsecure password sending!

2009-10-07 Thread Lars Francke
If HTTPS is ever offered we have two options (as we do now): A third option with a non-standard auth token being generated was discussed in this thread, and that's probably what Stefan was referring to. I must have overlooked that. In that case I'm sorry Stefan, seems as if _I_ was the one

Re: [josm-dev] shocking - unsecure password sending!

2009-10-07 Thread Lars Francke
- signing and checking a signature is essentally encrypting and decrypting (CPU?), but with less data Indeed. But as far as I know HMAC-SHA1 is reasonably quick and shouldn't be a performance hit. Even more so because it needs to be done only once for each 'consumer' (JOSM in this case). -

Re: [OSM-dev] Postgres 8.4/PostGIS 1.4 performance

2009-09-21 Thread Lars Francke
On a related note: There was a change between PostgreSQL 8.3 and 8.4 which increased the default_statistics_target from 10 to 100 and its maximum from 1.000 to 10.000 which makes ANALYZE runs take longer but at least for me it helps a lot. Have you, too, noticed the 10% performance

Re: [OSM-dev] Postgres 8.4/PostGIS 1.4 performance

2009-09-20 Thread Lars Francke
1. Doing a vacuum immediately after the import isn't useful, there is nothing to vacuum by definition. While this is true an ANALYZE should still be done to initialize the statistics. 2. Doing a vacuum after a diff is also useless, since the vacuum will probably takes much much longer than

Re: [OSM-dev] Deep History App

2009-09-16 Thread Lars Francke
it would be nice to have the API operate in several different formats, for reading and writing. Is that not just another form of API bloat? Could people not offer any format they want by writing either a proxy or, if they don't need write access, a mirror server? I don't know about Ruby on

Re: [OSM-dev] Wiki: Renaming the API pages

2009-09-14 Thread Lars Francke
+1 This has needed a tidyup for a long time. I'm done with this change. I have renamed every relevant page to API v0.x and API changes between v0.x and v0.y and I tried to correct every link to point to the new name. I might have missed some references but...it should work, because the old

Re: [OSM-dev] Wiki: Renaming the API pages

2009-09-14 Thread Lars Francke
Is the old page redirecting to the new page? All old pages should redirect to their new versions, yes: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Protocol_Version_0.3 http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Protocol_Version_0.4 http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Protocol_Version_0.5

[OSM-dev] Wiki: Renaming the API pages

2009-09-13 Thread Lars Francke
Hi, I already asked this on the Talk page for the API (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:API) but I don't know how many people will be reading that. * I'd like to rename (move) Protocol to API on the Wiki: OSM_Protocol_Version_0.6 - OSM_API_Version_0.6. API is the commonly used word and it

Re: [OSM-dev] OAuth

2009-08-28 Thread Lars Francke
In case anyone else missed this (at least I couldn't find any announcement): OAuth seems to be live on openstreetmap.org. Cheers, Lars ___ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev

Re: [OSM-dev] Help needed for processing the planet.osm (for osmdoc.com)

2009-08-18 Thread Lars Francke
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 09:54, Jochen Topfjoc...@remote.org wrote: I'll need output in the following form: tag-key, number of changesets, nodes, relations and ways this key is used on, number of distinct values tag-value, the tag-key this value belongs to, number of changesets, nodes,

[OSM-dev] Help needed for processing the planet.osm (for osmdoc.com)

2009-08-17 Thread Lars Francke
Hi, I'm in the process of updating osmdoc.com after several people have reminded me that the data is a bitold :) The following explanations are rather technical and Java centric but the underlying problem should be language independent. Previously I used several Map/Reduce jobs running on

Re: [OSM-dev] Help needed for processing the planet.osm (for osmdoc.com)

2009-08-17 Thread Lars Francke
http://repo.or.cz/w/handlerosm.git?a=blob;f=osmsucker-ywk.c;h=1cf6e1dee9f22d7b4e161984ce3b404923c7cf89;hb=HEAD This is rather /fast/ ;) But does it do what I need? It seems to process a .osm file and save it in its entirety in a database (or write files suitable for import/COPY), just like

Re: [OSM-dev] Help needed for processing the planet.osm (for osmdoc.com)

2009-08-17 Thread Lars Francke
I need to aggregate data about the number of tags, tag combinations, keys and values. See http://osmdoc.com for the kind of data I need. Do something smart on line 346 for on the fly counting. Though I think that I can generate the page that you provide maybe faster using just group by on an

Re: [OSM-dev] Help needed for processing the planet.osm (for osmdoc.com)

2009-08-17 Thread Lars Francke
Hi, You might want to have a look at the source code for tagstat at http://trac.openstreetmap.org/browser/applications/utils/tagstat that looks very interesting. I didn't even know that there was another Tagwatch like program. Thanks! I had a look at your PlanetReader.java and it very much

Re: [OSM-dev] Help needed for processing the planet.osm (for osmdoc.com)

2009-08-17 Thread Lars Francke
So please elaborate what combinations you need ;) Since the output is csv /anything/ you imagine is there ;) and if you don't want to code, just add what you want and run uniq -c on it. I'll need output in the following form: tag-key, number of changesets, nodes, relations and ways this key is

Re: [OSM-dev] Changeset Revert Tool

2009-04-22 Thread Lars Francke
Can we start a thread discussing what is required/wanted in a changeset tool? What should such a tool do besides revert changes from changeset x? I think it would be best to first concentrate on some kind of OpenAuth support (or something homebuilt) that would allow a third-party application

Re: [OSM-dev] Changeset Revert Tool

2009-04-22 Thread Lars Francke
Can we start a thread discussing what is required/wanted in a changeset tool? What should such a tool do besides revert changes from changeset x? After re-reading your mail I see that I too missed your point, sorry. I'd like to have a tool which can revert a single changeset by id and it

Re: [josm-dev] Commit message not empty

2009-04-22 Thread Lars Francke
But honestly, what would you say from a user interface perspective; should we try and keep changesets open? What JOSM currently does is open changeset - upload - close, for each upoad action. Some people have a habit of uploading once every five minutes and they are perhaps annoyed to have to

[OSM-dev] Question: Tags key and value maximum length

2009-04-21 Thread Lars Francke
Hi, I just found the following line in the ruby code for the tags: validates_length_of :k, :v, :maximum = 255, :allow_blank = true Does this mean that Key and Value may only be 255 characters long? And that both may be empty? I don't know Rails very well but it sure seems so Lars

Re: [OSM-dev] Question: Tags key and value maximum length

2009-04-21 Thread Lars Francke
I just answered my own question. Matt already updated the API page. 255 unicode characters it is. Thanks, Lars ___ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev

Re: [OSM-dev] Question: Tags key and value maximum length

2009-04-21 Thread Lars Francke
The 255 limit is from MySQL. For the timebeing we are are trying to be compatible with MySQL for people who are still using MySQL. Many developers will not have had time to switch their development/production databases from MySQL to Postgres yet. But MySQL must have a way to save text with

Re: [OSM-dev] API 0.6 wiki page

2009-04-20 Thread Lars Francke
I finished most of the methods now. Some may be incomplete but...well..work in progress ;-) A few comments though: - The changeset methods allow multiple changeset XML elements and the resulting changeset will be a combination of them all. The node/way/element methods allow multiple elements,

Re: [OSM-dev] API 0.6 wiki page

2009-04-20 Thread Lars Francke
 - In routes.rb there is no api/0.6/relation/:id/:version to retrieve an old version of a relation but all the neccessary methods are there (old_relation_controller#version) but there is a type (see attached diff) type - typo  - For ways for node and relations for element there is no error

Re: [OSM-dev] API 0.6 wiki page

2009-04-20 Thread Lars Francke
 - In routes.rb there is no api/0.6/relation/:id/:version to retrieve an old version of a relation but all the neccessary methods are there (old_relation_controller#version) but there is a type (see attached diff) I see that someone by the name of smsm1 has fixed a typo. Unfortunately it is

[OSM-dev] API 0.6 wiki page

2009-04-19 Thread Lars Francke
Hi, I have updated quite a lot on these two pages: - http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Protocol_Version_0.6 - http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Protocol_Changes_V0.5_to_V0.6 (changed from a redirect to its own page, not complete) My main changes are on the API 0.6 page. I tried to

[OSM-dev] Osmosis - handling of linestring column

2009-01-14 Thread Lars Francke
Hi, Osmosis used to create a bbox column for the ways table. As I didn't need this I replaced all its queries with queries to create and update a LINESTRING-column instead. This works flawlessly and as I understand this feature has since been added to Osmosis (I'm using 0.29.2). As this update

Re: [OSM-dev] Osmosis - handling of linestring column

2009-01-14 Thread Lars Francke
Hi, I doubt if I'll be able to look at this myself soon so feel free to experiment with improvements. and thank you for your comments and clarifications. I will have a look at this but it will take me some time. I'll get back to you when I have something to report. Lars

Re: [OSM-dev] Data Consistency Checks now available

2009-01-09 Thread Lars Francke
Hi! Thank you for this tool and for the recent update. I had a look in my area and saw two errors of the railway crossings without tag kind. But these nodes were indeed tagged with railway=crossing which is documented in the wiki as A point where pedestrians may cross. Could you adopt this check

Re: [josm-dev] plugins - JOSM portable

2009-01-07 Thread Lars Francke
Hi, I'm using this command line to force JOSM to use my c\OSM\JOSM\data directory instead of the one in Documents and Settings: java -Djosm.home=c:\OSM\JOSM\data -jar josm-latest.jar And so far it seems to work perfectly. Lars ___ josm-dev mailing

Re: [OSM-dev] openstreetbugs to the main-side

2008-08-29 Thread Lars Francke
With Potlatch it shouldn't be hard to add something, although this does require registering and maybe a bit of reading. I had wondered before why there wasn't a link from the main map, so I'm all for someone adding it. There's no link because I'm waiting for somebody to do a properly