Re: [OSM-talk-be] URBis, Open!

2013-04-26 Thread Chris Browet
Merkaartor can open shape files. I tried it but there seems to be an issue with the the shp projection (the .prj file). The Lambert72 PROJ4 string extracted from the prj is: +proj=lcc +lat_1=49.839 +lat_2=51.172333 +lat_0=90 +lon_0=4.3674866 +x_0=15.01256

Re: [OSM-talk-be] Cancellation of FreeMeeting Belgium

2011-11-08 Thread Chris Browet
I'd be delighted to be part of it... On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 17:44, Jo winfi...@gmail.com wrote: It would certainly be interesting to have such a meeting in Brussels. I know of a place in Schaarbeek (near the station) where it could take place, depending on how big you want it to become.

Re: [OSM-talk-be] OSM stats and URBIS

2011-06-01 Thread Chris Browet
/show_pdf.pl?id=64(dutch) I think it was not necessary because things seemed to be ok until now... http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-be/2009-August/000876.htmland follow the threads Julien 2011/6/1 Chris Browet c...@semperpax.com Why was it deemed not necessary? Is it because

Re: [OSM-talk-be] Importing csv, good practices and tips : Multipharma Case Study

2011-05-19 Thread Chris Browet
Just for info, note that there is a CSV import module in Merkaartor. If features are missing, don't hesitate to request them on the merkaartor mailing list, or via ticket on http://merkaartor.be - Chris - On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 11:06, Pol d.paol...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, 3 weeks after my

Re: [OSM-talk-be] OSM stats

2011-05-14 Thread Chris Browet
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 17:50, eMerzh merz...@gmail.com wrote: if we count that the belgian higways are 118414km long osm miss 29440 km. Those are highways in the OSM sense, i.e. any roads, right? Out of curiosity, where did you get that number? - Chris -

Re: [OSM-talk-be] OSM stats

2011-05-14 Thread Chris Browet
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 10:20, eMerzh merz...@gmail.com wrote: and the assumed total length is taken from here : http://economie.fgov.be/fr/modules/publications/statistiques/circulation_et_transport/longueur_du_reseau_routier_revetu_en_km.jsp This is the one I meant... Cool. Thanks.

Re: [OSM-talk] magical road detector to play with

2011-02-14 Thread Chris Browet
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 03:25, John-Michael Wiley jmwi...@microsoft.comwrote: Not sure that was helpful. Anyway, I updated the staging servers with a new build that hopefully addresses the issues. Give it a try and let me know if you any issue. - modified osmchange to osmChange

Re: [OSM-talk] magical road detector to play with

2011-02-14 Thread Chris Browet
of a degree. We could keep more digits if needed. In my editor prototype I simply do a small delta comparison. We can modify the code to keep more significant digits if need be. J.M. *From:* christian.bro...@gmail.com [mailto:christian.bro...@gmail.com] *On Behalf Of *Chris Browet *Sent:* Monday

Re: [OSM-talk] magical road detector to play with

2011-02-14 Thread Chris Browet
BTW and FYI, I just committed to Merkaartor trunk the initial implementation of the tool... On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 16:13, Chris Browet c...@semperpax.com wrote: Wouldn't it be easier for clients to just return the querying values as start and end node? - Chris - On Mon, Feb 14, 2011

Re: [OSM-talk] magical road detector to play with

2011-02-13 Thread Chris Browet
is supposed to be, is it for the version of OSM that output is written for or the version of the creator? I can do either, without much trouble. J.M. *From:* SteveC [mailto:st...@asklater.com] *Sent:* Thursday, February 03, 2011 9:16 PM *To:* John-Michael Wiley *Cc:* Chris Browet; talk

Re: [OSM-talk] magical road detector to play with

2011-02-13 Thread Chris Browet
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 19:25, Chris Browet c...@semperpax.com wrote: Busy implementing in Merkaartor A bug: you output osmchange while it is osmChange, with a capital C. see http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OsmChange - Chris - And, AFAIK, bounds below create is not valid

Re: [OSM-talk] It's fun while it lasts

2011-02-11 Thread Chris Browet
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:40, Andrew Ayre a...@britishideas.com wrote: What is the point of spreading unfounded FUD? OSM doesn't need Microsoft to exist anyway. I think he meant that now that MS will have access to Navteq, there is more than reasonable doubts regarding their future

Re: [OSM-talk] It's fun while it lasts

2011-02-11 Thread Chris Browet
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:53, Jean-Marc Liotier j...@liotier.org wrote: Chris Browet wrote: I think he meant that now that MS will have access to Navteq, there is more than reasonable doubts regarding their future involvment in OSM... Don't discount the likelihood of Microsoft hedging

Re: [OSM-talk] It's fun while it lasts

2011-02-11 Thread Chris Browet
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 11:35, Jo winfi...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/2/11 Jean-Marc Liotier j...@liotier.org: Chris Browet wrote: Les carottes poussent la nuit... Can you believe that http://www.google.com/#q=Les+carottes+poussent+la+nuit; does not return a single hit ? Did you just

Re: [OSM-talk] It's fun while it lasts

2011-02-11 Thread Chris Browet
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 11:41, Maarten Deen md...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 11:35:32 +0100, Jo wrote: 2011/2/11 Jean-Marc Liotier j...@liotier.org: Chris Browet wrote: Les carottes poussent la nuit... Can you believe that http://www.google.com/#q=Les+carottes+poussent+la

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] Compte Rendu FOSDEM

2011-02-08 Thread Chris Browet
Après il suffit de porter Marble sur les autres OS. Sur Windows Mobileça devrait pas être trop compliqué (Qt y est dispo), sur iOs et sur Android c'est plus délicat... Ah ben ce serait amusant d'essayer de le porter sur Symbian (pour les 3 autres gusses qui ne sont pas encore passés à

Re: [OSM-talk] magical road detector to play with

2011-02-04 Thread Chris Browet
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 06:12, John-Michael Wiley jmwi...@microsoft.comwrote: I made the changes, checked in the code and published them to the staging servers. If someone else wants to take a look at the output and let me know if you think. Unless I hear complaints I will update the

Re: [OSM-talk] magical road detector to play with

2011-02-03 Thread Chris Browet
Small details: in way id=-29 user= uid=1950453003 visible=flase version=5(just clicking Go on http://magicshop.cloudapp.net/Default.aspx) 1) false is misspelled to flase 2) Why false in the first place? 3) What/who/why is the uid mentioned? 4) same about version (hardcoded to 5?) It will be

Re: [OSM-talk] magical road detector to play with

2011-02-03 Thread Chris Browet
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 03:25, Chris Browet c...@semperpax.com wrote: Small details: in way id=-29 user= uid=1950453003 visible=flase version=5(just clicking Go on http://magicshop.cloudapp.net/Default.aspx) 1) false is misspelled to flase 2) Why false in the first place? 3) What/who/why

Re: [OSM-talk] magical road detector to play with

2011-02-03 Thread Chris Browet
I am also wondering if we should switch to osm change as the enclosing tag although the idea is not to give someone something they submit right to OSM. In our prototypes we have been adding the detected ways onto the map for the user to edit and approve. I generate new id’s for the ones passed

[OSM-talk-be] Urbis, i.e. GIS in Brussels

2011-01-14 Thread Chris Browet
Hi, Looking in the archives, it seems some have already tried to contact Urbis regarding the utilization of Brussels geodata for openstreetmap. Does anyone knows if that led to something? - Chris - ___ Talk-be mailing list Talk-be@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Landsat WMS is dead

2011-01-09 Thread Chris Browet
On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 23:13, Stephan Knauss o...@stephans-server.de wrote: They suggest to use tiled WMS. Unfortunately, they decided to create their own extension for a tiled WMS (i.e. not WMS-C nor TMS) which, AFAIK, they are alone to use. It makes it a bit pointless for developers to

Re: [Talk-ca] mygeodata.eu - canvec gml 2 shp

2010-12-29 Thread Chris Browet
So it would be cool if someone who knows how, to convert it to .shp format, or explain how (using python) .and just share the files. Just for info, Merkaartor 0.17 should be able to open your gml directly (as far as GDAL can...) If you have problems, send me an example and I'll fix it for

Re: [Talk-ca] mygeodata.eu - canvec gml 2 shp

2010-12-29 Thread Chris Browet
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 11:40, Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.comwrote: cool, does it have the ability to saveAs .shp? :) Not yet. GDAL export (i.e. SHP, GML, KML, you name it, is coming...) What is the maximum file size that it can handle? The size of your RAM. I don't know what

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] Documentation pour le cadastre

2010-12-16 Thread Chris Browet
Salut, Il n'y pas de doc pour le plugin Merkaartor mais je la ponderai pour l'occasion ;-) - Chris - ___ Talk-fr mailing list Talk-fr@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-fr

Re: [OSM-talk] Microstation import

2010-12-09 Thread Chris Browet
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 18:07, Ed Loach e...@loach.me.uk wrote: If ogr2osm doesn't recognise it, perhaps you can use ogr2ogr to convert it into something that ogr2osm will recognise: http://www.gdal.org/ogr/ogr_formats.html And this is DGN-specific: http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_dgn.html So,

Re: [OSM-talk] walking-paper is down?

2010-11-25 Thread Chris Browet
Looks fine to me: http://walking-papers.org/ - Chris - 2010/11/25 ouɐɯnH fredyriv...@gmail.com hello we are using walking-paper to map the flood crisis in Colombia, we have generated some wp but never displayed so that they can print. Anyone know anything? is urgent for us tnk

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] Fwd: [josm-dev] Microsoft gains access to aerial imagery

2010-11-24 Thread Chris Browet
2010/11/24 Philippe Pary phili...@cleo-carto.com Le mercredi 24 novembre 2010 à 15:11 +1100, Hendrik Oesterlin a écrit : Le 24/11/2010 à 12:46:44 +1100 hamster hams...@suna.fdn.fr a écrit Objet: [OSM-talk-fr] Fwd: [josm-dev] Microsoft gains access to aerial imagery : Sur le serveur il

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] Fwd: [josm-dev] Microsoft gains access to aerial imagery

2010-11-24 Thread Chris Browet
2010/11/24 eMerzh merz...@gmail.com Quelle bonne nouvelle :) mais bing à intérret à faire gaffe à sa com' si il veulent ajouter des conditions ...parce que pour moi l'annonce http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/maps/archive/2010/11/23/bing-engages-open-maps-community.aspx semble

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] Nouvel outil de Skobbler

2010-11-24 Thread Chris Browet
2010/11/24 Pieren pier...@gmail.com 2010/11/24 s1057...@gmail.com Merci pour l'information. Je l'ai testé sur le seul bug ouvert sur Paris est ma foi le service reprend toutes les fonction d'OSB en mieux. Le problème est plus qu'il est indispensable d'avoir un seul service de ce type pour

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] Nouvel outil de Skobbler

2010-11-24 Thread Chris Browet
2010/11/24 Pieren pier...@gmail.com 2010/11/24 Chris Browet c...@semperpax.com Pour me faire l'avocat du Diable, moi je lis qu'on accorde une licence non-exclusive et révocable à Skobbler d'utiliser les données mises sur MapDust. A mon sens, c'est moins restrictif que L'ODbL ;-) - Chris

Re: [OSM-talk] Steve Coast Joins Microsoft as Principle Architect of Bing Mobile

2010-11-23 Thread Chris Browet
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 18:06, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: http://opengeodata.org/openstreetmap-founder-steve-coast-joins-bing http://blog.stevecoast.com/im-working-at-microsoft-and-were-donating-ima Do we take bets on the time before the first article/blog comes out saying that

Re: [OSM-talk-be] Simpele vragen van simpele mapper

2010-11-22 Thread Chris Browet
2010/11/22 Luc Van den Troost luc.a...@gmail.com Eigenlijk leert volgens mij deze discussie een belangrijk ding, namelijk dat er aan duidelijke documentatie nood is. Karel Adams is toch al een tijdje met OSM bezig. 'basic dingen' zoals het knippen van een way zou dan iets moeten zijn dat

Re: [OSM-talk-be] Simpele vragen van simpele mapper

2010-11-22 Thread Chris Browet
Voor Potlatch is er al zoiets: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Potlatch/Keyboard_shortcuts. Ook in het Nederlands en het Frans beschikbaar. The point is that *Double-click* on a blank area to insert a new point of interest is not useful for a newcomer. What is a point of interest vs.

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] Faire son plan statique

2010-11-22 Thread Chris Browet
://dl.dropbox.com/u/7264433/Merkaartor_Bxl2.svg Maintenant, si tu veux du Mapnik pur et dur, hein... - Chris - 2010/11/22 Eric Sibert courr...@eric.sibert.fr Chris Browet c...@semperpax.com a �crit : Non, mais, serieux... Je te vois parti avec mapnik, postgres, etc... Bientôt, tu va passer 1

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] Faire son plan statique

2010-11-22 Thread Chris Browet
Une remarque par contre, qui explique pourquoi Mapnik plaît : dans ton 2ème exemple de rendu, certains noms de rues se chevauchent, ce qui est gênant si on veut faire une impression papier de la carte. Mapnik, comme Mapserver, n'affiche les étiquettes que si il n'y a pas collision avec une

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] Faire son plan statique

2010-11-21 Thread Chris Browet
Non, mais, serieux... Je te vois parti avec mapnik, postgres, etc... Bientôt, tu va passer 1 semaine à charger le planet :-( Jette un coup d'oeil à Merkaartor. Tu charge ce que tu veux, le style par défault est proche de Mapnik, print-export to SVG et voilà... - Chris - 2010/11/20 Eric SIBERT

Re: [OSM-talk-be] Simpele vragen van simpele mapper

2010-11-20 Thread Chris Browet
. Select the node, and hit 'p' to split the way in 2. In Merkaartor: I have no clue, but maybe Chris Browet can comment? In Merkaartor, ctrl-N + click to create a new node in the road, then Road-Split with the node selected. - Chris - ___ Talk-be mailing

Re: [OSM-talk-be] Taalgebruik

2010-11-20 Thread Chris Browet
2010/11/20 Karel Adams ade...@skynet.be Mannen, sorry, ik ben vanavond nogal krikkel, en er is ergens een drempel overschreden waardoor ik nu plots een pak frustratie begin te ventileren. Met dit proviso: Ik erger me stevig aan de pogingen, en de verzoeken, om op deze Belgische lijst enkel

Re: [OSM-talk-be] Taalgebruik

2010-11-20 Thread Chris Browet
2010/11/20 Karel Adams ade...@skynet.be Op 20/11/2010 17:37, Chris Browet schreef: But whatever, let's not import those nauseous discussions here, Nederlands kan ik ook lezen alhoewel 't is echt moeilijker voor mij alle subtiliteiten te begijpen.. Chris, Bedankt voor de

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] Help : Utilisation d'une OrthoPhoto

2010-11-20 Thread Chris Browet
Une mine d'or pour les cas particuliers, ton fichier ;-) 2 problèmes: 1) Le GeoTIFF semble avoir une projection invalide, pas bien gérée par Merkaartor 2) GDAL ne tient pas compte du TFW si le GeoTIFF possède déjà ces informations. J'ai donc modifié Merkaartor pour qu'il demande la projection si

Re: [OSM-talk-be] osm project - huisnummers

2010-11-19 Thread Chris Browet
Hi All, I certainly don't want to mirror the gesticulations of our dearest politicians, but couldn't we agree on some rules regarding language usage on the mailing list? After all, this is the BE list. I'd propose to use English as much as possible, and reserve our mother tongue for topics very

Re: [OSM-talk] Print Cartographer with OSM Data Needed

2010-11-18 Thread Chris Browet
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 15:21, Kate Chapman k...@maploser.com wrote: Hey All, So HOT is working on a project in Haiti to put maps in information kiosks. One of the other aspects of the project involves suggestion boxes which people have been writing letters to and submitted. For the

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] Faire son plan statique

2010-11-18 Thread Chris Browet
2010/11/18 f.dos.san...@free.fr Juste pour être exhaustif : Merkaartor permet aussi d'exporter des cartes bitmap, plusieurs style sont dispo mais j'ai jamais regardé comment les parametrer. Un éditeur de style est inclu. Merkaartor supporte l'export en bitmap, SVG et PDF dans la version dev

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] Faire son plan statique

2010-11-18 Thread Chris Browet
2010/11/18 Chris Browet c...@semperpax.com 2010/11/18 f.dos.san...@free.fr Juste pour être exhaustif : Merkaartor permet aussi d'exporter des cartes bitmap, plusieurs style sont dispo mais j'ai jamais regardé comment les parametrer. Un éditeur de style est inclu. Merkaartor supporte

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] Help : Utilisation d'une OrthoPhoto

2010-11-16 Thread Chris Browet
2010/11/16 François Van Der Biest francois.vanderbi...@camptocamp.com 2010/11/16 Chris Browet c...@semperpax.com: qui a une idée de la valeur a passer en parametre -Xmx pour un image 10200x10200 pixels? Normalement, en mémoire, 10200x10200x8 devrait nécéssiter environ 850Mb de RAM

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] Redimensionner la selection

2010-11-03 Thread Chris Browet
OK, merci ! Faut juste que je trouve maintenant comment importer ma feuille de cadastre (en PNG) dans Merkaartor et comment la géoréférencer à la main :-/ Bizarre que JOSM ne permette pas ça ! Sorry, par contre, Merkaartor ne permet pas de géo-référencement manuel :-( Si tu parvient à

[OSM-talk-fr] ANN: Plugin Cadastre Français di sponible pour Merkaartor

2010-10-23 Thread Chris Browet
Aux cartographes de France, Ceci pour vous annoncer que l'éditeur Merkaartor (http://merkaartor.be) supporte désormais le WMS Cadastre Français depuis un commit d'aujourd'hui. Pour ceux qui connaissent Merkaartor, le cadastre fonctionne plus au moins comme une couche WMS-C standard, avec

Re: [OSM-talk] JOSM shp file plugin

2010-10-20 Thread Chris Browet
Perhaps Merkaarator can/will be able to handle this? Merkaartor can open SHP file natively. Regards - Chris - ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] JOSM shp file plugin

2010-10-20 Thread Chris Browet
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:50, Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.comwrote: Thanks Chris, I'll choose your answer :-) To somewhat ease Frederik's worries, while you can upload SHP features, you have to specifically select and Force Dirty them. OTOH, by making the SHP layer readonly, it

Re: [OSM-talk] [josm-dev] JOSM shp file plugin

2010-10-20 Thread Chris Browet
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 15:44, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Hi, On 10/20/10 15:42, Tobias Wendorff wrote: Any editor offering a simple shp import functionality would soon be regarded as the software that causes more harm than good. Calls for banning that editor would ensue.

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] Merkaartor - Cadastre: Eclairsissement

2010-10-18 Thread Chris Browet
2010/10/17 Pierre pina...@pinaraf.info On Sunday 17 October 2010 16:39:40 Chris Browet wrote: Bonjour, Je voudrais supporter le Cadastre Français dans Merkaartor. Pour ce faire, j'aurai probablement plusieurs questions. Quel est la meilleure personne à qui m'adresser (probablement le

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] Merkaartor - Cadastre: Eclairsissement

2010-10-18 Thread Chris Browet
2010/10/17 Francisco DOS SANTOS f.dos.san...@free.fr Le dimanche 17 octobre 2010 à 19:26 +0200, Pierre-Alain Dorange a écrit : C'est dans des cas comme ça que python est très fort, car il intègre d'origine plusieurs modules pour parser du code HTML (ou du XML dont OSM bien sur), du coup

[OSM-talk-fr] Merkaartor - Cadastre: Eclairsissement

2010-10-17 Thread Chris Browet
Bonjour, Je voudrais supporter le Cadastre Français dans Merkaartor. Pour ce faire, j'aurai probablement plusieurs questions. Quel est la meilleure personne à qui m'adresser (probablement le développeur du plugin JOSM, qui est?) Première question conceptuelle: D'après

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] Merkaartor jdll

2010-10-16 Thread Chris Browet
- On nous a demandé un éditeur qui n'utilise ni le flash ni java. Donc merkaartor. On s'est donc questionnés si ce dernier pouvait tenir en compte le cadastre et la réponse est oui (apparemment oui, il y a un bug d'il y a 2 jours sur ce sujet qui a été résolu) http://merkaartor.be/issues/3139

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] Corriger traces avant de les uploader

2010-10-13 Thread Chris Browet
- quoi d'autre ? Mon problème est pourtant simple, et je suis loin d'être le seul à vouloir faire ça. J'ai du mal à comprendre qu'il n'existe pas un logiciel dans lequel on puisse simplement tracer un rectangle avec la souris pour sélectionner tous les points d'une zone, puis appuyer sur «

Re: [OSM-talk-be] Volunteer needed regarding an academic project in relation to the OSM Foundation

2010-09-19 Thread Chris Browet
Hi Emilie, There are actually 2 independant universities of Leuven/Louvain: - The KUL (Leuven, flemish part) - The UCL (Louvain-la-neuve, french part) You might specify which one this is about. Welcome to belgian complexity ;-) - Chris - On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 13:05, Emilie Laffray

Re: [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

2010-08-30 Thread Chris Browet
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 11:13, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: To me, the primary benefit of a free license is that the project has a 'life of its own' beyond the host: if the host decides to stop hosting it, or letting people edit, someone else can continue it as it had been. I

Re: [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

2010-08-30 Thread Chris Browet
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 12:02, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: Chris Browet wrote: As far as I understand the licenses, nobody is permitted to fork the OSM data without permissions, and it is thus not truly open: cc-by-sa (and almost? every viral license) allows for forking

Re: [OSM-talk] moderation going forward

2010-08-23 Thread Chris Browet
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 05:21, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Chris Browet c...@semperpax.com wrote: But every opinions should have a place to voice themselves, shouldn't they? No. Not all opinions are helpful. And certainly, sheer volume

Re: [OSM-talk] NearMap Community Licence and OSM Contributor Terms

2010-08-22 Thread Chris Browet
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 17:21, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.netwrote: Chris Browet wrote[1]: The fact that many key players (SteveC, Frederik, Richard(?)) in the project also have commercial interests in the OSM data Wut? I don't have any commercial interest in OSM, at all. I'm

Re: [OSM-talk] moderation going forward

2010-08-20 Thread Chris Browet
A well-moderated list can be a valuable forum for achieving consensus, rather than just a soapbox for every opinion to be voiced. But every opinions should have a place to voice themselves, shouldn't they? If Talk becomes moderated/censured, where would that be? Wouldn't it better to create

Re: [OSM-talk] moderation going forward

2010-08-20 Thread Chris Browet
Most of the topic‐focused lists are sane. I think the point is, legal discussion is swamping the talk list, and there are already lists specifically for legal discussion and therefore better suited to the topic. Is this moderating stuff all about the license change? If so, and I know

Re: [OSM-talk] moderation going forward

2010-08-20 Thread Chris Browet
This thread should be moved to legal. I saw the words ODbL and Contributor Terms :-) ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk-be] [Merkaartor] Wallonie PPNC wms

2010-08-19 Thread Chris Browet
I don't think we can trace on those (or at least nobody asked). They are top notch quality, though. Would someone from talk-be know something about it? - Chris - On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 18:18, Rémi Letot hob...@poukram.net wrote: Hello, I'm a new contributor to OSM and new user of

Re: [OSM-talk] NearMap Community Licence and OSM Contributor Terms

2010-08-19 Thread Chris Browet
However, there are a couple of problems with the CTs. First: paragraph 2 of the CTs requires that an OSM user grants the OSMF a very wide ranging licence (a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable license to do any act that is restricted by copyright over anything

Re: [OSM-talk] NearMap Community Licence and OSM Contributor Terms

2010-08-19 Thread Chris Browet
Let's keep the Talk-List clean from Legal discussions. Anybody is welcome to join it on Legal-talk. Sorry, but I've seen those kind of invitations, too. I'm not subscribed to Legal-talk and have no interest in the obscure legal details. General discussion about the new License/CT belongs to

Re: [OSM-talk] NearMap Community Licence and OSM Contributor Terms

2010-08-19 Thread Chris Browet
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 13:01, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.comwrote: You are missing the problem that OSMF needs those rights to be able to publish the data and ensure that someone cannot come back later and take a lawsuit against OSM for publishing their contributed data or demands

Re: [OSM-talk] NearMap Community Licence and OSM Contributor Terms

2010-08-19 Thread Chris Browet
It is possible to change the legal status of something without affecting the community. For example the gold standard was removed making the dollar a Fiat currency without an economic meltdown. Might be a bad example ;-) Some argue the disappearance of the gold standard (and subsequently

Re: [OSM-talk] NearMap Community Licence and OSM Contributor Terms

2010-08-19 Thread Chris Browet
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 13:29, Pierre-Alain Dorange pdora...@mac.comwrote: Chris Browet c...@semperpax.com wrote: I, as a OSM contributor, am looking to allow free and unrestricted access to map data to everybody. Those clauses would mean that, potentially, I wouldn't be mapping

Re: [OSM-talk] NearMap Community Licence and OSM Contributor Terms

2010-08-19 Thread Chris Browet
They definitely need to define that, it would help. an OSI endorsed free and open license, maybe... - Chris - Then you'd be trusting OSI rather than OSMF. As to define what a free and open source licence is? Absolutely. ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] NearMap Community Licence and OSM Contributor Terms

2010-08-19 Thread Chris Browet
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 14:15, Nic Roets nro...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Brendan Morley morb@beagle.com.auwrote: Um, what happened in October 2008? If you look at the percentage change in US GDP and you compare it to the 1800s and the early 1900s, then you

Re: [OSM-talk] Restricting future licenses

2010-08-19 Thread Chris Browet
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 14:17, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 7:58 AM, Chris Browet c...@semperpax.com wrote: They definitely need to define that, it would help. an OSI endorsed free and open license, maybe... OSI don't endorse Open Data Licenses as far

Re: [OSM-talk] NearMap Community Licence and OSM Contributor Terms

2010-08-19 Thread Chris Browet
Then you don't want OSMF to be granted for rights on contributors contributions but you're perfectly OK if a compagny take OSM data and use it for a commercial product without sharealike or copyrights... So it seems you prefer a private compagny stole our works than a foundation (you can

Re: [Talk-GB] Data from http://www.cwgc.org/

2010-08-11 Thread Chris Browet
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 10:23, Marc Coevoet sintsix...@gmail.com wrote: Now, I've put some data in http://users.fulladsl.be/spb13810/research/cwgc-marc.tar.bz2 that is a CSV for garmin, but also a bmp+ov2 for a Tomtom. 2. I do not know how to publish POI data on OSM I can upload

Re: [Talk-GB] skobbler OSM bug backchannel

2010-05-17 Thread Chris Browet
It would be good if you were to open up your 'getbugs' API. Editors could then talk directly to this. +1 Having GPX export OpenStreetBugs-style (of the bugs, not the full tracks) would also allow any editor to use the data without even specific coding... - Chris -

Re: [Talk-GB] OS OpenData StreetView Tiles now available

2010-04-07 Thread Chris Browet
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 10:51, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: On 07/04/10 09:45, Chris Browet wrote: For clients supporting multiple projections, wouldn't it be best to have a WMS (preferably a WMS-C) allowing to choose between the 2 projections (+ EPSG:4326, maybe)? It might

Re: [Talk-GB] OS OpenData StreetView Tiles now available

2010-04-07 Thread Chris Browet
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 11:20, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: On 07/04/10 10:18, Chris Browet wrote: Well, if it has been deemed reasonable to make the tile available through WMS/TMS, I don't see the silliness of having them unaltered in the first place, then maybe reprojected

Re: [Talk-GB] OS OpenData StreetView Tiles now available

2010-04-07 Thread Chris Browet
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 12:42, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.netwrote: Chris Browet wrote: I'm not too sure the reprojection from EPSG:27700 (OSGB36) to EPSG:900913 (Google) went perfect. If you're tracing from _any_ source without first aligning it with a trustworthy ground reference

[Talk-GB] UK Ordnance Survey: VectorMap District shapefiles loadable in Merkaartor

2010-04-05 Thread Chris Browet
Hi, For UK Merkaartor users, I've fixed some projections issues in the SHP loading in Merkaartor trunk so that the sample shapefiles at http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/products/vectormap/district/ could be loaded. Regards - Chris - ___

[OSM-talk] Mapping party ready printouts from Merkaartor. Needed?

2010-02-18 Thread Chris Browet
Hi All, I plan to implement printing in Merkaartor 0.16. While thinking about it, I wondered whether there would be a need for mapping party ready printouts? By instance, the map could be printed with specific styles (e.g. for missing names) or grided for work distribution... If there is such a

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping party ready printouts from Merkaartor. Needed?

2010-02-18 Thread Chris Browet
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 16:27, Ciarán Mooney general.moo...@googlemail.comwrote: Hi, Something that would be useful would be something akin to Walking Papers, but with the ability to carve an area up, and have multiple maps of it (zoomed out and zoomed in). Even better if what you

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping party ready printouts from Merkaartor. Needed?

2010-02-18 Thread Chris Browet
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 17:10, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Chris Browet c...@semperpax.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 16:27, Ciarán Mooney general.moo...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, Something that would be useful would be something

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping party ready printouts from Merkaartor. Needed?

2010-02-18 Thread Chris Browet
Hi, The way they encode the QR code is public insofar that the source code to walking papers is FOSS. That isn't the patented technology. The algorithmn that is able to calculated the orientation of the paper that is scanned and re-orientate it (I have never scanned in a piece of paper

Re: [OSM-talk] New Video Tutorial: Presets in Potlatch

2010-02-05 Thread Chris Browet
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 20:27, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: On Fri, 5 Feb 2010, Richard Fairhurst wrote: people who want an uncomplicated editor that just works. That's why I'm drifting off to Merkaartor ;) Which, BTW, has a tagging preset system, too. Just nobody motivated enough to

Re: [OSM-talk] Using digital tablet for drawing maps

2010-01-25 Thread Chris Browet
Funny you speak about that... I recently found back my ages old Wacom Tablet and tried it with Merkaartor. Looks like Qt has some kind of builtin supoort for tablets (or was it Windows 7?) but it worked out-of-the-box (in tablet mode, not mouse emulation). That made me add a hand grabbing icon

Re: [OSM-talk-be] Brussel - Bruxelles

2009-08-04 Thread Chris Browet
2009/8/3 Ben Laenen benlae...@gmail.com wannes wrote: 2009/8/3 Ben Laenen benlae...@gmail.com btw, while checking the history of the place node (http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/17401554/history) I've seen the name has apparently been changed some days ago to include

[OSM-talk] Circular relation by user mapper_07

2009-07-15 Thread Chris Browet
Hi, This user, in changeset 1728656, has added relation 20773 has a member of itself. Is this allowed, and if yes, what does it mean, or is it an error? - Chris - ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Circular relation by user mapper_07

2009-07-15 Thread Chris Browet
2009/7/16 Lennard l...@xs4all.nl Shaun McDonald wrote: This user, in changeset 1728656, has added relation 20773 has a member of itself. Is this allowed, and if yes, what does it mean, or is it an error? Yes you can do it, though I don't have a good reason for doing such a thing. I

Re: [OSM-talk] reconverting google mapmakers

2009-07-06 Thread Chris Browet
By scrolling the map you'll realize that in the bottom-right side of the screen will appear the top contributors and if you are lucky they will have a google profile where you can send them a email, or contact them trough their blog, google picassa, etc How good the intent, I'm not convinced

Re: [OSM-talk] Nokia Mobile Phone - GPS

2009-05-10 Thread Chris Browet
Hi Peter, I just myself got the new Nokia 5800, which is S60v5. Nokia having bought Trolltech (and thus Qt), there is now a preview verion of Qt for S60. Merkaartor being built on top of Qt, a version for S60 (or at least a mapper for S60 built upon the building blocks of Merkaartor) is more

Re: [OSM-talk-be] WMS serveur pour la Wallonie

2009-05-02 Thread Chris Browet
Par contre j'ai déjà fait des essais pour voir si c'était utilisable dans JOSM, mais la projection n'est pas la meme : c'est du Lambert mais une autre déclinaison que celle employée par nos voisins français ... et donc en l'état pas exploitable. Ben justement, je travaille sur Merkaartor et

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-newbies] avoid repeating the name tag twice

2009-03-08 Thread Chris Browet
As Michel pointed out, we have the same issue in Belgium, especially in Brussels which is officially bi-lingual, i.e. all street names have both a french and dutch name. To bypass the problem of having to retype both the name:nl anf name:fr in name, I've implemented in Merkaartor a feature which

Re: [OSM-talk] JOSM shortcuts/macro for Gaza editing

2009-02-24 Thread Chris Browet
Don't know about JOSM, but in Merkaartor, we have such things as templates. You could tweak the default templates (xml files) to add a constant tag source=OSM WikiProject Gaza for each (or some) features you add. - Chris - On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 1:14 PM, LeedsTracker

Re: [OSM-talk] Wiki: chriscf vandalism

2009-01-31 Thread Chris Browet
I think mapfeatures is the problem. Not only socially (this tag must be in mapfeatures) but technically (wikiload). So remove mapfeatures as first step. Very wrong. It is the only way for a newbie to have the slightest idea on how to tag anything. IMHO, the problem is too much democracy. 29

Re: [OSM-talk] Wiki: chriscf vandalism

2009-01-31 Thread Chris Browet
Features. Also, they'll only do that if they're trying to add something that doesn't seem to be in Potlatch's drop-down lists. Probably very true. That makes the editors holding at least as much power as the wiki features page. ___ talk mailing

Re: [OSM-talk] Yahoo WMS server?

2008-12-07 Thread Chris Browet
Yahoos license seem to allow this Tell me more? I've been told that the yahoo license permits derivative works which also is the reason why potlatch and josm are making use of this. Wouldn't a server distrubuting slightly converted/scales/cropped images not also provide just derivative

Re: [OSM-talk] Yahoo WMS server?

2008-12-06 Thread Chris Browet
The Yahoo guys are happy with OSM using their imagery, but we just don't know about microsoft. AFAIK, even if Yahoo! tolerates that OSM uses their satellite imagery, they still insist we use their own AJAX API to do so. As Frederik pointed out for JOSM, it is a PITA for Merkaartor to show

Re: [OSM-talk] Where have all the contributors gone?

2008-12-01 Thread Chris Browet
2008/12/1 80n [EMAIL PROTECTED] In my case I've run out of stuff to map. Can someone build some more roads please? ;) Indeed, I think that the stat doesn't say much. In crowded areas like Germany or UK, there will be a time where there won't be anything left to map. The real interesting

Re: [OSM-talk] I've added some amenity values to Map Features based on tag usage

2008-10-29 Thread Chris Browet
It's fairly standard usage, you see a doctor at the doctors, a butcher runs the butchers. There should really be an apostrophe in there I think, ie: the butcher's shop, the doctor's surgery. But that's not really how people think of it. Just stick both on and point out everyone else's bad

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