On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 7:31 AM, Gavin Scott gavincsc...@gmail.com wrote:
In my area all the buildings have been drawn.
How do I tag the facilities located in those buildings?
Here are the options
Create a point inside the polygon and tag that with the attributes of the
Both can be the case, but here it seems it's the streets that are correct,
the photograph that is shifted - When I look at nearby
http://cycleland.blogspot.nl/2014/05/different-modes-different-priorities.html
and then load the GPS traces (in Potlatch), there are several traces, and
all of them
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Tac Tacelosky tac...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm about to add a few shops in a shopping center. Is it better to add
them as ways so that the renderer has some idea about the footprint and
relative size? Or as nodes, which seems to be the more common approach?
The
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 10:43 PM, Xan dxpubl...@telefonica.net wrote:
Recently I see in OSM Changes that there are changes marked as
Un-zorro-tron. There is a web page: http://lima.schaaltreinen.nl/remap/ but
it does not explain what is this?
It is about roads with very sharp corners in them.
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Alexandros Papadopoulos
alexandros.papadopou...@gmail.com wrote:
After having uploaded a GPS trace and used it for mapping (converted
to a way, tagged etc), is there any reason to keep the original in
http://www.openstreetmap.org/traces/mine ? Would deleting old
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Pieren pier...@gmail.com wrote:
+1
Map the real trails, map the forest, map the physical obstacles (fences,
cliffs) if you like but don't map shortcuts in the forest or in the
grassland.
Hmmm... Yes, I now see I didn't read the message well enough. If they
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Alexandros Papadopoulos
alexandros.papadopou...@gmail.com wrote:
Should I:
1. Leave the half-mapped official trail as it is
2. Delete the whole trail
3. Enter inaccurate data in OSM by estimating how the path would go,
just to complete the cycle?
Unless I
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 12:50 AM, Alexandros Papadopoulos
alexandros.papadopou...@gmail.com wrote:
Our recent mountain meanderings created an interesting mapping
situation. At one point we knew very well, from the paper map we had
with us and the GPS unit's breadcrumbs, that the designated
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Matt Williams li...@milliams.com wrote:
It's from the perspective of the direction of the 'way'. That is the
order in which the nodes are connected. In JOSM for example you see
arrows pointing along this direction. I'm not sure about Potlatch.
In Potlatch
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Jeremy Stocks jeremyl...@yahoo.com wrote:
I am trying to get some armchair data entry done in Potlatch as my area is
rather snowbound at the moment. So I thought I'd capture some missing
buildings in my area.
The problem is when I click on the outline of a
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 6:34 PM, Kenneth Pardue kenn...@pardue.me wrote:
Now that the Bing imagery is available, it's much easier to see and draw the
outlines of buildings. I think it looks really nice in my home town to have
the building shapes available on the map. But with regards to
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Samat K Jain li...@samat.org wrote:
You've heard the line don't tag for the renderer, but it follows: don't tag
for the router or any other software.
I've heard the line often, and most of the time it is being misused.
As it is here. Don't tag for a specific
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 5:02 PM, John-Michael Wiley
jmwi...@microsoft.com wrote:
One of the things I am confused about is how to tell if a way is a polyline
with the last node simply equal to the first (track) vs a polygon. Should
all areas be tagged with areas=yes or does it depend on the
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Richard Moss rich...@richardmoss.co.uk wrote:
Is there a way to do a search of the archives of an email list? I have a
question which I'm guessing will have been discussed before, probably in the
Tagging list, but opening each month separately and
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 12:28 AM, Donald Campbell II
donaciano2...@gmail.com wrote:
Often you'll see squares on the map, areas imported by bulk, perhaps done
one chunk at a time... but for some reason they stopped after the first
chunk.
Sometimes you'll see cut off edges that perhaps signify
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 3:28 AM, Stewart C. Russell scr...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm spending a few days next week in a town in Northern Ontario. It has
all the roads in, thanks to the import of Canada's map data by dedicated
OSMers. What it doesn't have is the trails, museum(s), hotels,
Just as I had written this, I realized that there is a better way. Get
the number of the way or POI (can be gotten through Potlatch, but also
other methods. Then go to
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way//history
or
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node//history
with the
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Ishtiaque Ahmed ishtia...@csebuet.org wrote:
Thank you all. I am really feeling good after getting this much help. I am
getting more fun in mapping.
Yes, I tried with the data view and I got all of my POIs. So, I am happy
that they are not lost at least:-).
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 12:07 AM, Matthew Baxa matthew.b...@gmail.com wrote:
Yeah I would like to get the street back. I tried the Potlatch
followed your instructions, but the street change that I made does not
show up.
Ah, I now checked and I see that you had not, as I expected first,
removed
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 9:27 PM, Matthew Baxa matthew.b...@gmail.com wrote:
When adding a turn restriction I realized (after uploading of course)
that I deleted part of a street. Is there a way to completely revert
my changes? (The changeset in question is 5153220)
Why would you want to
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Maitham albakr...@yahoo.com wrote:
I am interested in a cases study called (Clara_Vale). Its a rural area west
of Newcastle upon Tyne/UK. This is just one way that I am interested in way
id=5947181 user=LeedsTracker uid=2330 visible=true version=6
When I try to add a way to a relation in Potlatch, I get a pop-up with
relations in the environment to select from. Unfortunately, in many
cases this list is longer than the edit screen, and it doesn't scroll.
Thus, if a relation happens to be off-page, it cannot be selected. How
do I go ahead?
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Molescott waywal...@btinternet.com wrote:
Thank you for your suggestion. -
I had already mapped the area as separate lots, I was just looking for a
way of showing anybody looking at Mapnik that it wasn't one huge car park.
To do that, I would show the main
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 3:04 PM, James Ewen ve6...@gmail.com wrote:
So you would not be able to reference the information contained on the
maps from the Highway Authority, if they are under a copyright.
The location of the path is not copyright, but you can't copy the
locations off the map.
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 4:27 PM, James Ewen ve6...@gmail.com wrote:
So if I copy a complete database of information which is protected by
copyright, and delete one piece of information, you are saying that I
have not voilated the copyright of that database.
It depends on the situation. Often
Maxspeed should be put on all roads on which it applies. Thus, 30 mph should
be put on all roads in the village, as well as on those parts of approach
roads that are within the village limits.
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Molescott waywal...@btinternet.com wrote:
Greetings all,
I have a
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:01 AM, Karl Latham k...@digitalattic.net wrote:
Question that has just come into my head. In the UK many historic
houses and gardens are controlled by the National Trust, I volunteer
at one of the properties and have access to all the areas.
Is it worth mapping out
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Jonathan Bennett
openstreet...@jonno.cix.co.uk wrote:
On 03/03/2010 07:52, Jonas Stein wrote:
On some places are clouds of gps points. (recording reciever indoors)
These clouds and very bad track data make good tracks invisible.
If want to see only your own
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Molescott waywal...@btinternet.com wrote:
Until I'm more experienced and confident with JOSM, I mostly use
Potlatch but don't know how to separate landuse - road - landuse where they
share common nodes.
I can do it in JOSM but as I'm mainly in Potlatch
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Jeff Barlow j...@wb6csv.net wrote:
Per Lindström per.lindstro...@gmail.com wrote:
söndag 20 december 2009 18.41.59 skrev Jeff Barlow:
...What is a turn restriction?
I tells you how you may continue in an intersection. In this case you are not
allowed to turn
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 6:21 AM, Isaac Wingfield i...@witzend.com wrote:
I have determined by inspection that the unnamed road here (Potlatch
in edit mode highlights it):
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=37.265624lon=-121.91252zoom=18layers=B000FTF
is an extension of Manda Drive, which is
What about literally joining it? Create a footway or steps or somesuch
(usually with layer=-1) connecting the POI of the entrance to the POI
of the station itself.
--
André Engels, andreeng...@gmail.com
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One point that hasn't been named yet: tracks are also not all the
same. If one tags the 'big' tracks as tracktype=grade1, and the
'small' ones as tracktype=grade3 (or grade2), they will also be
rendered differently in Mapnik, although I think the same is not the
case in most other renderers.
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On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 6:52 AM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote:
Karl wrote:
One example of a campus that's mapped in a fair amount of detail (albeit
a college):
http://osm.org/go/TdXV4A5_c-?layers=0B00FTF
Looking at that outtake, I am bewildered at what I see on the west
side: the
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 6:57 AM, James Ewen ve6...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Cartinus carti...@xs4all.nl wrote:
The layer tag is not for painting in the renderer. The layer tag is to tell
us
things are physically above/below each other.
Hmm, where I live, the
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Xan dxpubl...@telefonica.net wrote:
I edit some area
[http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=39.58918lon=2.62847zoom=17layers=B000FTF]
and I don't know why all the area becomes parking. I use Josm but I only
see several small areas which really are parkings.
It's
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 6:49 AM, Isaac Wingfield i...@witzend.com wrote:
I've come across a trailer park in a mixed commercial/industrial/
residential area. The park is marked as Private, and the streets
evidently have no names.
It's the ladderlike thing here:
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 3:55 AM, Isaac Wingfield i...@witzend.com wrote:
Three questions about one thing:
In my neighborhood, I came across an intersection where the two
streets don't actually join, though the map said they did. I separated
them and added a bollard tag, because that's what is
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Arlindo Pereira nig...@nighto.net wrote:
I think that it should only be building=yes + layer=1. We should not tag for
the renderer; instead, open bug requests on renderers so someone who knows
how to program fix this.
So how does one 'open bug requests on
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Stefan Monnier
monn...@iro.umontreal.ca wrote:
When I'm tagging say, a residential street, should I also be tagging the
30mph speed limit that the residential street implies (at least in the UK)
or should I only tag if the street has a non-standard speed limit
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 12:04 AM, Guillaume Mauger gmau...@comcast.net wrote:
Hello all,
I have a follow-up question to my earlier newbie question regarding getting
the shapefiles. I now have them (thanks!) and am working on interpreting the
highway (contains all roads) shapefile.
Below is
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Bill Condiewill.con...@gmail.com wrote:
The type of way I mean though is back roads which are designed for
cars but you can cycle all day and see two pick-ups a tractor and 25
motorcycles. There's thousands of miles of these roads in Thailand
that are
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Thomas Mellerthomas.mel...@gmx.net wrote:
Is anyone content with the cycle map?
I think it is the most informative map on OSM, but it lacks detail.
Especially due to be made for cyclists, who are capable of using nearly every
track, it's use for cycling is
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