Re: [Talk-transit] NaPTAN bus stops

2009-08-21 Thread Chris Hill
From: Roger Slevin ro...@slevin.plus.com To: Public transport/transit/shared taxi related topics talk-transit@openstreetmap.org Sent: Friday, 21 August, 2009 16:38:52 Subject: Re: [Talk-transit] NaPTAN bus stops Peter I can confirm that the Department for Transport would be

Re: [Talk-transit] NaPTAN bus stops

2009-08-21 Thread Chris Hill
Roger Slevin wrote: Peter I can confirm that the Department for Transport would be supportive of any way in which we (and the local editors who maintain NaPTAN data as best they can) can get the feedback from OSM contributions to improve data accuracy. I will be happy to

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Software using open street map data an d Licensing model / restrictions

2009-08-21 Thread Jukka Rahkonen
Alex azli...@... writes: Hi, I am developing a Location based application that will both be available on mobile devices and on the internet. I plan to use OSM data, convert it and import it into my custom designed database. I also plan to generate my own tiles based on OSM data,

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Mapmaker Data for Africa Released

2009-08-21 Thread Mikel Maron
My thoughts on Google MapMaker and OpenStreetMap, from their test release of Kenya in April http://brainoff.com/weblog/2009/04/01/1391 Basically, my reading of this very restrictive license is that it's not only useless for OSM, but for most non-profit uses. -Mikel

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Software using open street map data and Licensing model / restrictions

2009-08-21 Thread Alex
Ok! Many thanks to all for your clarifications. I guess the actual OSM license will not fit both with my application's licensing model and with the fact that I will be aggregating data from many different sources. So I will just avoid them for now. Maybe in the future if you guys think of

Re: [OSM-talk] Selecting cycleways

2009-08-21 Thread Richard Mann
You could also assume byway and track (tracktype=grade1/grade2, at least) are available for cyclists (neither would be likely to have bicycle access specified). Richard On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Tobias Knerr o...@tobias-knerr.de wrote: Rahkonen Jukka wrote: Cartinus wrote: You'd

[OSM-talk] FW: [OpenStreetMap] Deine E-Mail- Adresse bestätigen

2009-08-21 Thread Mike Harris
Can someone out there help Andreas with his issue re confirmation of his user account (see messages in German below)? He has sent this directly to me and I don't know how best to help him. Mike Harris -Original Message- From: Andreas Tille [mailto:andr...@an3as.eu] Sent: 21 August

Re: [OSM-talk] FW: [OpenStreetMap] Deine E-Mail-Adres se bestätigen

2009-08-21 Thread Jonas Krückel
I translated the german part below so you're able to help him: Personally I have no idea why this failed. We (TomH and I on dev) have seen such a problem some time ago and thought we've fixed it. I'm pretty sure that this fail has nothing to do with the localized email in this case. Jonas

Re: [OSM-talk] Business Building Conventions

2009-08-21 Thread David Earl
On 20/08/2009 22:12, Roy Wallace wrote: On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 12:30 AM, David Earlda...@frankieandshadow.com wrote: On 20/08/2009 15:27, Peter Körner wrote: IN such circumstances I use building=... or landuse=retail to outline the combined structure or area, and then use landuse=retail

Re: [OSM-talk] wikipedia - english

2009-08-21 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, you wrote: I'm looking to implant some OSM maps into Wikipedia, but I need some examples of their wiki editing style so I don't get my edits rubbed out by the style police. Could people please advise me of wikipedia pages with OSM maps so I can view the style of

Re: [OSM-talk] SOTM videos

2009-08-21 Thread Erik Johansson
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 9:48 PM, David Earlda...@frankieandshadow.com wrote: On 20/08/2009 19:22, Martijn van Exel wrote: I've forwarded the request for this video to my colleague who is taking care of the conversion and uploading. Matt Williams pointed out to me that it actually *is* there,

Re: [OSM-talk] wikipedia - english

2009-08-21 Thread John Smith
--- On Fri, 21/8/09, Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net wrote: Nothing automated should happen with Australia yet. We need to check that any map is suitable for public display. A bad or unfinished map is dreadful advertising. All publicity is good publicity, it may encourage others to fix the

Re: [OSM-talk] FW: [OpenStreetMap] Deine E-Mail-Adres se bestätigen

2009-08-21 Thread Mike Harris
Hi Kein Sprachproblem! Nur dass ich wüsste nicht, wie ich könnte sein Problem erlösen! Mit freundlichen Grüßen -Original Message- From: Jonas Krückel [mailto:o...@jonas-krueckel.de] Sent: 21 August 2009 09:06 To: Mike Harris Cc: newb...@openstreetmap.org; talk@openstreetmap.org;

Re: [OSM-talk] SOTM videos

2009-08-21 Thread David Earl
On 21/08/2009 10:11, Erik Johansson wrote: On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 9:48 PM, David Earlda...@frankieandshadow.com wrote: On 20/08/2009 19:22, Martijn van Exel wrote: I've forwarded the request for this video to my colleague who is taking care of the conversion and uploading. Matt Williams

Re: [OSM-talk] wikipedia - english

2009-08-21 Thread Liz
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Lars Aronsson wrote: In that category, you will already find over 500 map images. If you click on, for example, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cape_Town_City_Bowl_OSM_map.svg then there should be a check usage tab at the top of the page, that will list Wikipedia

Re: [OSM-talk] Weather overlay

2009-08-21 Thread John Smith
--- On Fri, 21/8/09, Peter Körner osm-li...@mazdermind.de wrote: If you have some kind of database anyway (e.g. postgis for mapnik-rendering on cassini, it shouldn't be the problem. I have a suitable query, I just don't know how to turn the query into kml data, such as lines. select way from

Re: [OSM-talk] Selecting cycleways

2009-08-21 Thread Mike Harris
In England and Wales, byways that are either Restricted Byways (RBs) or Byways Open to all Traffic (BOATs) may be used by cyclists as of right - i.e. not merely 'available'. Mike Harris _ From: Richard Mann [mailto:richard.mann.westoxf...@googlemail.com] Sent: 21 August 2009 08:16

Re: [OSM-talk] Weather overlay

2009-08-21 Thread OJ W
xplanet can download cloud images and overlay them onto a map/globe http://xplanet.sourceforge.net/ it just needs an OSM world-map image in plate-carre format to use as the ground image, and you'd have a cloud map. On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Peter Körnerosm-li...@mazdermind.de wrote:

Re: [OSM-talk] Business Building Conventions

2009-08-21 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2009/8/21 David Earl da...@frankieandshadow.com: And in any case, I think there's something to be said for these large retail warehouses being marked differently from a shop. I think it is a perfectly valid way to do it, and as a side effect it gets these large landmarks on named on the map

[OSM-talk] Awards

2009-08-21 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, I just stumpled across this list of awards that Wikipedia seem to have for their contributors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Service_awards One part of me finds them funny, and interesting, almost as if they come from some sort of role playing game. Another part of me abhors

Re: [OSM-talk] How to tag giant acorn?

2009-08-21 Thread Kate
Thank you for all the replies. For the acorn, I think tourism=attraction is appropriate, and in this case, it's apparently also a historic landmark (historic=yes). The acorn has been around since the 1850s, which is around the time that the town was established. The description tag is also very

Re: [OSM-talk] Business Building Conventions

2009-08-21 Thread David Earl
On 21/08/2009 15:04, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: 2009/8/21 David Earl da...@frankieandshadow.com: And in any case, I think there's something to be said for these large retail warehouses being marked differently from a shop. I think it is a perfectly valid way to do it, and as a side effect it

Re: [OSM-talk] Awards

2009-08-21 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2009/8/21 Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org:    I just stumpled across this list of awards that Wikipedia seem to have for their contributors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Service_awards One part of me finds them funny, and interesting, almost as if they come from some sort of role

Re: [OSM-talk] Awards

2009-08-21 Thread Kate
Barnstars are the main type of award. They are a way for one editor to give recognition to another editor for good work or a good deed. There are different types of barnstars, such as for photograph contributions, tireless contributor, defender of the wiki, etc. Though the number of types has

Re: [OSM-talk] Awards

2009-08-21 Thread Stefan Baebler
You mean a mechanism much like trust points, but instead of aggregating all activitiy in a single number giving people various colorful awards in different areas for recognizing their work and some motivation? One of the awards being OSMF membership (or a significant discount on membership fee)?

[OSM-talk] Fwd: Awards

2009-08-21 Thread Emilie Laffray
Oups, sorry 2009/8/21 Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org Hi, I just stumpled across this list of awards that Wikipedia seem to have for their contributors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Service_awards One part of me finds them funny, and interesting, almost as if they come

Re: [OSM-talk] Weather overlay

2009-08-21 Thread Jon Burgess
On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 10:50 +, John Smith wrote: --- On Fri, 21/8/09, Peter Körner osm-li...@mazdermind.de wrote: If you have some kind of database anyway (e.g. postgis for mapnik-rendering on cassini, it shouldn't be the problem. I have a suitable query, I just don't know how to

Re: [OSM-talk] Awards

2009-08-21 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
El Viernes, 21 de Agosto de 2009, Frederik Ramm escribió: [...] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Service_awards One part of me finds them funny, and interesting, almost as if they come from some sort of role playing game. Another part of me abhors the implicit hierarchy conferred by

Re: [OSM-talk] Awards

2009-08-21 Thread Mike Collinson
At 16:33 21/08/2009, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: 2009/8/21 Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org: Â Â I just stumpled across this list of awards that Wikipedia seem to have for their contributors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Service_awards One part of me finds them funny, and

Re: [OSM-talk] FW: [OpenStreetMap] Deine E-Mail- Adresse bestätigen

2009-08-21 Thread Shaun McDonald
Have you tried logging in? Could you please try using the Lost Password form: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/forgot-password Shaun On 21 Aug 2009, at 10:36, Mike Harris wrote: Hi Kein Sprachproblem! Nur dass ich wüsste nicht, wie ich könnte sein Problem erlösen! Mit freundlichen

Re: [OSM-talk] Weather overlay

2009-08-21 Thread Peter Körner
I'm currently playing with the PostGIS Queries, too. I tried sth. like SELECT osm_id, name FROM planet_osm_polygon WHERE boundary='administrative' AND ST_Within(way, (SELECT way FROM planet_osm_polygon WHERE boundary='administrative' AND admin_level='2' AND name='Deutschland' LIMIT

Re: [OSM-talk] Weather overlay

2009-08-21 Thread Peter Körner
admin_level=2 is country level, 4 and lower for state and regional boundaries. I'm aware of that and the admin_level=2 is only used in the subquery to determine the boundary of germany. The main query runs without a admin_level-condition, only with boundary='administrative', does it? Peter

Re: [OSM-talk] Weather overlay

2009-08-21 Thread John Smith
--- On Sat, 22/8/09, John Smith delta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote: ERROR 1: ERROR:  AddToPROJ4SRSCache: Cannot find SRID (4326) in spatial_ref_sys nm, found this: psql gis /usr/share/postgresql-8.3-postgis/spatial_ref_sys.sql Then run this SQL query: INSERT into spatial_ref_sys (srid,

Re: [OSM-talk] Weather overlay

2009-08-21 Thread John Smith
--- On Sat, 22/8/09, Peter Körner osm-li...@mazdermind.de wrote: I'm aware of that and the admin_level=2 is only used in the subquery to determine the boundary of germany. The main query runs without a admin_level-condition, only with boundary='administrative', does it? What boundaries are

Re: [OSM-talk] Weather overlay

2009-08-21 Thread Peter Körner
John Smith schrieb: --- On Sat, 22/8/09, Peter Körner osm-li...@mazdermind.de wrote: I'm aware of that and the admin_level=2 is only used in the subquery to determine the boundary of germany. The main query runs without a admin_level-condition, only with boundary='administrative', does it?

Re: [OSM-talk] Weather overlay

2009-08-21 Thread Peter Körner
John Smith schrieb: --- On Sat, 22/8/09, Peter Körner osm-li...@mazdermind.de wrote: Any :) I'm just getting started. I tried to find any boundaries in a given Area, in this case in Germany. Leave admin_level= out of the query Thank you for the hint :) Please take a look at my query,

Re: [OSM-talk] Weather overlay

2009-08-21 Thread John Smith
--- On Sat, 22/8/09, Peter Körner osm-li...@mazdermind.de wrote:     boundary='administrative' AND admin_level='2' AND name='Deutschland'     LIMIT 1) ) to get all boundaries in germany but i only get Aachen [1] and Deutschland [2] back. Any idea? admin_level=2 is country level, 4 and

Re: [OSM-talk] Weather overlay

2009-08-21 Thread John Smith
--- On Sat, 22/8/09, Jon Burgess jburgess...@googlemail.com wrote: One possibility is: ogr2ogr -f KML admin.kml PG:dbname=gis -sql select name,transform(ST_ExteriorRing(way),4326) from planet_osm_polygon where boundary='administrative' and admin_level='10' I get the following error and

Re: [OSM-talk] How to tag giant acorn?

2009-08-21 Thread Mike Collinson
Bit late but punch Big Banana into the slippy map name finder. I saw Big Banana on a map in the early '80s and just had to drive there to see what was. Well, it was just that. Awe inspiring as bananas go but no explanatory sign, nothing else. Now it is a developed tourist facility. Mike

Re: [OSM-talk] Weather overlay

2009-08-21 Thread John Smith
--- On Sat, 22/8/09, Peter Körner osm-li...@mazdermind.de wrote: Any :) I'm just getting started. I tried to find any boundaries in a given Area, in this case in Germany. Leave admin_level= out of the query ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] Weather overlay

2009-08-21 Thread Peter Körner
John Smith schrieb: --- On Sat, 22/8/09, Jon Burgess jburgess...@googlemail.com wrote: This admin.kml loads up fine in GoogleEarth and the boundaries appear as lines. Thanks for your help, just admin_level=10 information for only the Australia region is 186M uncompressed and 76M when

Re: [OSM-talk] Weather overlay

2009-08-21 Thread John Smith
--- On Sat, 22/8/09, Jon Burgess jburgess...@googlemail.com wrote: This admin.kml loads up fine in GoogleEarth and the boundaries appear as lines. Thanks for your help, just admin_level=10 information for only the Australia region is 186M uncompressed and 76M when zipped. Will have to come

Re: [OSM-talk] Weather overlay

2009-08-21 Thread John Smith
--- On Sat, 22/8/09, Peter Körner osm-li...@mazdermind.de wrote: I thought of this before and that's why I would suggest to do it with mapnik mod_tiles or so (as is said in my initial posting). I currently do, but I was hoping to avoid needing 2 tile sets just for showing the admin_level=10

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - incline up down

2009-08-21 Thread Morten Kjeldgaard
On 21/08/2009, at 03.00, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: Yeah, numeric value is better, but up/down is better than nothing. I think both should be allowed and within the scope of the proposal. if you already have good elevation data you can also tag the nodes with ele=xy (but nodes can always

Re: [OSM-talk] Awards

2009-08-21 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Mike Collinson wrote: Sent: 21 August 2009 4:11 PM To: OSM Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Awards At 16:33 21/08/2009, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: 2009/8/21 Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org: Â Â I just stumpled across this list of awards that Wikipedia seem to have for their contributors:

Re: [OSM-talk] Weather overlay

2009-08-21 Thread John Smith
--- On Sat, 22/8/09, Peter Körner osm-li...@mazdermind.de wrote: Thank you for the hint :) I really shouldn't be emailing when tired... The second should fetch the border of Germany and the first one all boundaries in that. At least that's what I want it to do :) I just ran that query on

[OSM-talk] Mysterious PostGIS Problem with Polygons

2009-08-21 Thread Peter Körner
The second should fetch the border of Germany and the first one all boundaries in that. At least that's what I want it to do :) I just ran that query on my database and used name='Australia' and it works as you thought it should. Yes, you're right. It works with Nederland, Australia,

[OSM-talk] Change of Venue for Anniversary Party

2009-08-21 Thread Nick Black
The Anniversary party is now at The Mulberry Bush, not the Porterhouse. The Mulberry bush has an outside area and is quieter on saturdays than the Porterhouse, which is usually rammed. Sorry for the late notice. Indecisiveness and the chance of nice weather are to blame :-)

Re: [OSM-talk] Mysterious PostGIS Problem with Polygons

2009-08-21 Thread Jon Burgess
On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 18:51 +0200, Peter Körner wrote: The second should fetch the border of Germany and the first one all boundaries in that. At least that's what I want it to do :) I just ran that query on my database and used name='Australia' and it works as you thought it should.

Re: [OSM-talk] Awards

2009-08-21 Thread John McKerrell
On 21 Aug 2009, at 17:16, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote: And we actually have some prior star accolades, similar to the barnstars approach I guess. I even have a couple of them at the bottom of my wiki page gratefully presented by others [1] many GPS tracks ago. It was a bit of

[OSM-talk] REMINDER: Server Down Time - 22nd to 23rd August 2009

2009-08-21 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
A reminder that our main project servers will be offline this weekend (see details below). Wiki is currently creaking under strain but should be available along with the mailing lists over the weekend. Enjoy you edit free weekend. Go out and map lots instead :-) Please pass the message around

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - incline up down

2009-08-21 Thread Roy Wallace
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 2:11 AM, Morten Kjeldgaard m...@bioxray.au.dk wrote: On 21/08/2009, at 03.00, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: Yeah, numeric value is better, but up/down is better than nothing. I think both should be allowed and within the scope of the proposal. if you already have good

Re: [OSM-talk-nl] Artikel in het Financieel Dagblad

2009-08-21 Thread Martijn van Exel
Milo, Ik vond het gewoon een leuke aankondiging van Henk en begrijp helemaal niet waar je negatieve sentiment vandaan komt. Als er iets speelt tussen Henk en jou lijkt het me beter om eens contact met elkaar op te nemen. Groet, Martijn martijn van exel http://schaaltreinen.nl/ twitter / skype:

Re: [OSM-talk-nl] Artikel in het Financieel Dagblad

2009-08-21 Thread Henk Hoff
Ik denk dat ze hiermee hun TomTom HD traffic service (of hoe dat dan ook heet) bedoelen Gr, Henk Op 21 augustus 2009 12:41 schreef Floris Looijesteijn (o...@floris.nu) het volgende: Aardig artikeltje, maar iemand enig idee wat Tom Tom hier mee bedoeld? 'Daarnaast hebben wij technische

Re: [OSM-talk-nl] Artikel in het Financieel Dagblad

2009-08-21 Thread Floris Looijesteijn
oh ja, dat zullen ze inderdaad wel bedoelen. beetje vreemd om hardware en data te vergelijken. misschien voelen ze zich toch stiekem wel een beetje bedreigd :D groet, floris Henk Hoff wrote: Ik denk dat ze hiermee hun TomTom HD traffic service (of hoe dat dan ook heet) bedoelen Gr,

[OSM-talk-nl] openstreetmap.org dit weekend beperkt beschikbaar!

2009-08-21 Thread Henk Hoff
Beste mensen, Voor het geval jullie het nog niet via een ander kanaal hebben gehoord: Dit weekend wordt er groot onderhoud uitgevoerd bij de hostingpartij waar de openstreetmap-servers staan. Er wordt onderandere een nieuwe stroomvoorziening geïnstalleerd. Dit moment wordt ook aangegrepen om onze

Re: [OSM-talk-nl] openstreetmap.org dit weekend beperkt beschikbaar!

2009-08-21 Thread Lambertus
En ondanks dat het forum bij een andere partij hier in Nederland gehost wordt zal ook deze helaas niet gebruikt kunnen worden. Bij het inloggen wordt de gebruiker geauthoriseerd door de www.osm.org gebruikers database en die is dus offline. Henk Hoff wrote: Beste mensen, Voor het geval

Re: [OSM-talk-nl] Artikel in het Financieel Dagblad

2009-08-21 Thread Matthijs Laan
IQ routes, van elk wegstukje houden ze gegevens bij hoe snel gebruikers het stukje op een bepaald tijdstip hebben afgelegd. Dit gebruiken ze dan weer om de snelste routes mee te plannen, dus niet alleen gebruik maken van Vmax en afstand van wegen. Maar die kritiek is inderdaad hoogstens van

[OSM-talk-nl] [Fwd: Stands at T-DOSE 2009]

2009-08-21 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 - Originele bericht Dear projects, T-DOSE 2009 is on 3rd till 4th of October in Eindhoven at the Fontys University of applied science. See location for more details http://www.t-dose.org/t-dose/location. I want to thank you for

Re: [OSM-talk-nl] [Fwd: Stands at T-DOSE 2009]

2009-08-21 Thread Henk Hoff
Hallo, OpenStreetMap is dit jaar daar ook weer aanwezig. Zijn er nog mensen die ook nog even wat tijd willen vrij maken om een infostand te bemensen? Zijn er trouwens nog zaken die we in het kader van OpenStreetMap daar extra onder de aandacht kunnen/moeten brengen? Gr, Henk Hoff 2009/8/21

Re: [OSM-talk-nl] [Fwd: Stands at T-DOSE 2009]

2009-08-21 Thread Floris Looijesteijn
Ja hoor, ik kan wel 1 van de twee dagen aanwezig zijn. wie maakt er een schematje? misschien wel aardig als we minstens met z'n tweeen zijn. wie was er vorig jaar bij en hoe geinteresseerd was het publiek? groet, floris Henk Hoff wrote: Hallo, OpenStreetMap is dit jaar daar ook weer

Re: [OSM-talk-nl] [Fwd: Stands at T-DOSE 2009]

2009-08-21 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Floris Looijesteijn schreef: Ja hoor, ik kan wel 1 van de twee dagen aanwezig zijn. wie maakt er een schematje? misschien wel aardig als we minstens met z'n tweeen zijn. wie was er vorig jaar bij en hoe geinteresseerd was het publiek? Ikke.

Re: [talk-au] Would anyone buy one of these?

2009-08-21 Thread Stephen Hope
I bought mine from Graham Smith in the UK (last year some time). He still uses sonicresolutions domain to host pictures and email etc, but you're not buying from the company as such. And that assumes he's even the person still selling them, which I'm not sure. It was Andy talking about them on

[talk-au] 4wd_only proposal

2009-08-21 Thread John Smith
Final tally was 12 yes v 9 no so it passed. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:4wd_only%3Dyes ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Sturt highway

2009-08-21 Thread John Smith
--- On Fri, 21/8/09, BlueMM bluemm1975-...@yahoo.com wrote: Maybe I'm a little confused, but given this discussion looking at a recent change to the Australian Tagging Guidelines on the wiki, has the network/ref tagging changed from your original proposal? I thought the network tag was for

Re: [talk-au] Would anyone buy one of these?

2009-08-21 Thread Liz
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, cam_...@fastmail.fm wrote: On the odd time I go surveying on foot / bicycle at night, I wear this: http://www.exeliteworld.com/recreational.html?product=lumisash Cars from a kilometer away down the road can see me at night time! :D and add some flashing red ankle bands and

[talk-au] Boundary names...

2009-08-21 Thread John Smith
I think I finally figured out where boundary names are coming from, can others confirm that boundary names are no longer being rendered please. I now only see one 'Curra' on the map compared to 2 or 3 :) http://maps.bigtincan.com/?zoom=14lat=-26.086308194794lon=152.57117074638 Also I can't see

Re: [talk-au] Would anyone buy one of these?

2009-08-21 Thread Greg Harper
I have a theory about hi-viz vests. Something I have noticed when geocaching. Younger people and busy office types ignore you but older people and those with too much time on their hands want to know what's going on. ___ Talk-au mailing list

Re: [talk-au] http://www.opengeodata.org/?p=662

2009-08-21 Thread Sam Couter
John Smith delta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote: I'd like to think things were that active in Australia map wise but I don't think that's an accurate picture :) I have around 800 messages in my mailbox from the past month from this list. That puts us soundly in the 549 - 2648 range (where did those

Re: [talk-au] OSMF

2009-08-21 Thread Gordon Smith
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 8:09 PM, Matt Whitemattwh...@iinet.com.au wrote: Liz wrote: Big flame war on the OSMF-talk list today and it didn't even need us Aussies to fuel it. If you are a member, please vote, it will make life easier for us all if as many potential voters as possible vote or

Re: [talk-au] Would anyone buy one of these?

2009-08-21 Thread John Smith
--- On Fri, 21/8/09, Greg Harper gehar...@gmail.com wrote: I have a theory about hi-viz vests. Something I have noticed when geocaching. Younger people and busy office types ignore you but older people and those with too much time on their hands want to know what's going on. I wondered

Re: [talk-au] Boundary names...

2009-08-21 Thread BlueMM
John Smith delta_foxt...@... writes: I think I finally figured out where boundary names are coming from, can others confirm that boundary names are no longer being rendered please. [SNIP] As you probably expected, I see the same as you... BlueMM

Re: [talk-au] Boundary names...

2009-08-21 Thread John Smith
--- On Fri, 21/8/09, BlueMM bluemm1975-...@yahoo.com wrote: As you probably expected, I see the same as you... I was hoping I excluded the right ones, but didn't know if I covered all possible cases, I've only seen postcode and suburb names, I can only assume there would be state and country

Re: [talk-au] Anyone do wikipedia edits?

2009-08-21 Thread Liz
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, Liz wrote: I wouldn't start editing by replacing the base map i've made myself an account and if anyone can point me to a wikipedia page or two which incorporates a map then i could understand the editing style attempt one

Re: [talk-au] OSMF

2009-08-21 Thread James Livingston
On 21/08/2009, at 8:16 PM, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: 1. nominations open. 2. voting opens 3. nominations close (how can anyone vote if nominations aren't closed) 4. last minute registrations to vote 5. last minute call to vote (24 hours notice) Nomination closing after the voting had opened

Re: [talk-au] Mapping on a phone

2009-08-21 Thread chris smith
I'm using a HTC Diamond; mostly use BeelineGPS,BeelineGPS, as it also is good for geocaches. OSMtracker works well also. -Original Message- From: Franc Carter franc.car...@gmail.com Sent: Thursday, 20 August 2009 10:18 PM To: OSM Australian Talk List talk-au@openstreetmap.org Subject:

Re: [talk-au] http://www.opengeodata.org/?p=662

2009-08-21 Thread James Livingston
On 21/08/2009, at 8:13 PM, Sam Couter wrote: John Smith delta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote: I'd like to think things were that active in Australia map wise but I don't think that's an accurate picture :) I have around 800 messages in my mailbox from the past month from this list. That puts us

Re: [talk-au] http://www.opengeodata.org/?p=662

2009-08-21 Thread Matt White
James Livingston wrote: On 21/08/2009, at 8:13 PM, Sam Couter wrote: John Smith delta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote: I'd like to think things were that active in Australia map wise but I don't think that's an accurate picture :) I have around 800 messages in my mailbox from the

Re: [talk-au] http://www.opengeodata.org/?p=662

2009-08-21 Thread John Smith
--- On Fri, 21/8/09, Matt White mattwh...@iinet.com.au wrote: 393 by my count (20 Jul-20 Aug)... which is actually pretty impressive - that's more than all messages to the AU list between 01 Jan and 31 May 2009 The AU list is certainly more lively as a result, though. Keeps me out

[talk-au] OSM Server downtime reminder for this weekend

2009-08-21 Thread John Smith
Don't be surprised if most OSM services aren't working this weekend or you can't do edits and what not. period from approximately 5am GMT Saturday August 22nd until 10pm GMT Sunday August 23rd. 3pm Saturday till 8am Monday AEST time. ___

Re: [talk-au] OSM Server downtime reminder for this weekend

2009-08-21 Thread Liz
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, John Smith wrote: Don't be surprised if most OSM services aren't working this weekend or you can't do edits and what not. period from approximately 5am GMT Saturday August 22nd until 10pm GMT Sunday August 23rd. 3pm Saturday till 8am Monday AEST time. Oh no, I'll

[talk-au] New contributor

2009-08-21 Thread dominoconsultant
Hello, I hope to contribute to the OSM mapping project for Australia. I'm based in Murray Bridge, SA and work in Adelaide. If you're interested in my background you can read about me at my blog ( http://domiconsultant.org ). From there is a link to my LinkedIn profile. Mike Smith -- View

Re: [talk-au] New contributor

2009-08-21 Thread edodd
Hello, I hope to contribute to the OSM mapping project for Australia. I'm based in Murray Bridge, SA and work in Adelaide. If you're interested in my background you can read about me at my blog ( http://domiconsultant.org ). From there is a link to my LinkedIn profile. Mike Smith --

Re: [talk-au] Boundary names...

2009-08-21 Thread Matt White
John Smith wrote: I think I finally figured out where boundary names are coming from, can others confirm that boundary names are no longer being rendered please. I now only see one 'Curra' on the map compared to 2 or 3 :)

Re: [talk-au] Boundary names...

2009-08-21 Thread John Smith
--- On Sat, 22/8/09, Matt White mattwh...@iinet.com.au wrote: One thing I noticed is that your coastlines seem out of date (and in return, the main OSM map doesn't handle overflow of residential areas into coastline very well). I need to look into how the coastlines are done, I don't

[Talk-br] fronteira estadual

2009-08-21 Thread Aun Johnsen (via Webmail)
Oi gente O continental shelf e dividido por estado, este indicar que presisamos marcear o fronteira estadual ate o fronteira nacional 22km no mar. Eu nao sei com os municipos, mas o fronteira precicar incluir os ilhas, acho melhor marcar fronteira municipal um pouco no mar (nao no costo) eu

[Talk-br] Atualizações na wiki - organizaç ão do esforço

2009-08-21 Thread Diogo
Pessoal, Coloquei algumas coisas na página de discussão do projeto de Sao Paulo: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:WikiProject_Brazil/SP/S%C3%A3o_Paulo Vamos organizar algumas mapping parties para colocar os nomes nas ruas ? Já está tudo desenhado, deve facilitar bastante o trabalho e

Re: [Talk-br] Atualizações na wiki - organiza ção do esforço

2009-08-21 Thread Aun Johnsen (via Webmail)
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:54:30 -0700 (PDT), Diogo diogownunes2...@yahoo.com.br wrote: Pessoal, Coloquei algumas coisas na página de discussão do projeto de Sao Paulo: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:WikiProject_Brazil/SP/S%C3%A3o_Paulo Vamos organizar algumas mapping parties para

[Talk-de] Worldfile vom 19.8.09

2009-08-21 Thread Carsten Schwede
Hallo, die neuen Daten liegen wie immer zum Download bereit unter http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Computerteddy -- Viele Gruesse Computerteddy ___ Talk-de mailing list Talk-de@openstreetmap.org

[Talk-de] OSMF

2009-08-21 Thread Christian Hartnick
Hallo, ich bin gestern der OSMF beigetreten (weil ich es eigentlich schon immer vor hatte und noch nicht dazu gekommen war), um auch wählen zu können. Frederiks Mail hat den letzten Ausschlag dafür gegeben - allerdings möchte ich mich aus so politischen Dingen eher raushalten. Ich habe mich

Re: [Talk-de] Schreibweisen/Abkürzungen von Straß ennamen

2009-08-21 Thread Mario Salvini
Guenther Meyer schrieb: Am Freitag 21 August 2009 schrieb Mario Salvini: Guenther Meyer schrieb: Am Donnerstag 20 August 2009 schrieb Florian Lohoff: On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 09:03:58AM +0200, Guenther Meyer wrote: On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 08:44:22AM +0200, Florian

Re: [Talk-de] traffic auf der Mailing List (+1)

2009-08-21 Thread Nop
Hi! Michael Bemmerl schrieb: Jedenfalls scheint auch Island eine OSM-Hochburg zu sein! ;-) Natürlich. Island hat nur eine einzige Fernstraße, da muß das Mapping muß schon sorgfältig diskutiert werden. :-) bye Nop ___ Talk-de mailing list

Re: [Talk-de] Schreibweisen/Abkürzungen von Straße nnamen

2009-08-21 Thread Matthias Versen
Guenther Meyer wrote: Abkürzungen unterscheiden sich des öfteren, s.b. bei Joh.-Seb.-Bach Straße habe ich auch schon eine J.-Seb.-Bach gesehen und ähnliches, da ist nur die Langform wirklich nutbar für mich. bei ein und derselben strasse? das kommt recht selten vor,

Re: [Talk-de] Schreibweisen/Abkürzungen von Straß ennamen

2009-08-21 Thread Matthias Versen
Adiac wrote: http://mversen.de/temp/bredaer2.png http://mversen.de/temp/bredear.png Diese Schilder könnten aber auch die Eigentümer der Wege aufgestellt haben. Sie müssen nicht von dem aufgestellt sein der da sonst für verantwortlich ist (Straßenbauamt? Stadtverwaltung? Wer eigentlich?).

Re: [Talk-de] OSMF

2009-08-21 Thread Gehling Marc
Hallo Christian, deine Mail könnte von mir sein. Meine erste empfangende Mail von osmf-talk hatte als Antwort, das man an dem harten Ton erkennen könnte, das der Schreiber aus Deutschland kommt. H. Die brauchen dringend entspanntere Leute auf der Liste. Marc ( der sich bisher eher für

Re: [Talk-de] Schreibweisen/Abkürzungen von Straße nnamen

2009-08-21 Thread Andreas Fritsche
Hi, From: Mario Salvini salv...@t-online.de [..] In Deutschland hei?t es nunmal Stra?e und nicht Strasse, egal was auf dem Schild (falsch) steht ;-) Richtig ist, dass es in Deutschland 'Staße' heißt und nicht 'Strasse'. Aber das egal ist, was auf dem Schild steht, das ist IMHO falsch. Wenn

Re: [Talk-de] Schreibweisen/Abkürzungen von Straße nnamen

2009-08-21 Thread Guenther Meyer
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 08:29:34AM +0200, Matthias Versen wrote: Nunja, wir haben ja die Wahllisten und das ist ein Auszug aus der Liste der Stadt. ja, wir haben die listen vielleicht, aber nicht der nutzer der daten auf der strasse... Ich finde es halt sinnvoler Abkürzungen aufzulösen weil

Re: [Talk-de] Schreibweisen/Abkürzungen von Straß ennamen

2009-08-21 Thread Michael Buege
Zitat Matthias Versen: [...] Suchender hin oder her, ich zeichen eine Straße so aus wie sie in wirklichkeit heißt. Wer oder was definiert diese Wirklichkeit? -- Michael ___ Talk-de mailing list Talk-de@openstreetmap.org

[Talk-de] Dienstweg

2009-08-21 Thread Adiac
Ich habe auf der letzten Mapping-Tour einen Dienstweg gemappt. Auf dem Schild stehtDienstweg - nur für Befugte (Straßen NRW). Im Wiki habe ich dazu nichts gefunden. Ich habe vorerst highway=service genommen. Was meint Ihr? MfG Adiac ___ Talk-de

[Talk-de] Aktion 03 - Ergebnis

2009-08-21 Thread Gary68
Hi, Aktion 03 ist beendet. Von 1027 Fehlern in den Listen wurden 977 in nur 2 Tagen behoben... Vielen Dank an alle Mitstreiter!!! http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/DE:Aktionen/Aktion_03 Ciao Gerhard gary68 ___ Talk-de mailing list

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