It does, but it has the 'Powered by Google' on the map, it has a Google terms
of use on it and it will not zoom out. This is not good: use OSM's lovely map,
but credit Google with it!
cheers, Chris
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The server, including the render request response from info freeway,
seems pretty dead - any news?
Cheers, Chris (chillly)
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I want to represent the data such that a user can pan and zoom a map
around smoothly (25+ fps) without pre-rendering tile images.
Especially on devices like the iphone, that would be really nice.
The only data structure I can think of to do something like this would
be a quad tree with
Patrick Weber wrote:
Hi
Just noticed that the Wednesday Mapnik update has introduced a
considerable change in cartography style. Seems like lots of changes
have been applied, which has considerably changed the look of the
Mapnik Layer. I wondered if there is a summary of changes explained
Dermot McNally wrote:
2008/10/10 Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Conversions to 0dp is inaccurate, accurate conversions are a mess,
namespacing allows for conflicting values so only an optional suffix really
makes sense, so this why I use.
Well, maxspeed:mph would also work for your
Dermot McNally wrote:
It makes more
sense to have maxspeed=numberoptional units; assume km/h if none
specified to avoid the chance of that happening.
Doing so prevents simple numerical analysis of the field contents.
Nothing can be analysed without pre-processing, and you are very
Frederik Ramm wrote:
Hi,
Chris Hill wrote:
[listens for the sound of the voting request email to arrive - hears
nothing]
Voting is optional. We could do with a lot less if you ask me. If more
people would just go ahead and tag something... I have the impression
that many newcomers seem
Have you tried joining your local Freecycle http://www.freecycle.org/
group and asking if anyone has a camera? If you mention OSM that
spreads the word to a wider audience too.
Cheers, Chris
Ed Loach wrote:
I'd like a cheap digital camera to use when I'm out noting things for mapping
leblatt wrote:
I Consider recycling should be encouraged, and I map a recycling point
when I come across one. But I find it abnormally tedious to tag the
type of goods that can be recycled. This information should have been
made easier to tag. For instance, instead of :
amenity=recycling
Chris Hill wrote:
leblatt wrote:
I Consider recycling should be encouraged, and I map a recycling
point when I come across one. But I find it abnormally tedious to tag
the type of goods that can be recycled. This information should have
been made easier to tag. For instance, instead
Peter Miller wrote:
[...]
we should be really careful
about voting for new features in the core tagging list unless they are
strictly necessary [...]
especially when they overlap with or attempt to supersede existing tags
+1
cheers, Chris
Send instant messages to your online friends
I've managed to map county boundaries from signs like Welcome to ... and
other features like it runs along a river. Some boundaries can be taken from
out-of-copyright maps because they haven't changed. I too would like to draw
parish boundaries but I have no luck with any non-copyright source
I don't mind being someone who disagrees :-;
Adding phone numbers seems like a good thing to do to me. It's not like a
closed system where changes are very difficult - if the number's wrong change
it. Having the phone number of a hotel, restaurant, theatre, sport centre or
any other business
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Veterinary
voting is now open.
cheers, Chris
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apart from landuse=residential, there is are no tags for
differentiating residential buildings. Given that the largest number
of buildings are residential there is a case for tags for types of
buildings:
Try http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Building
these are
Steve Hill wrote:
Following the approval of the highway=road tag, I've set about
aggressively changing a lot of the highway=unclassified roads around
Swansea, that I believe are misclassified, to highway=road, with the
intention that they can then be surveyed and reclassified correctly.
John McKerrell wrote:
On 27 Jun 2008, at 22:44, John McKerrell wrote:
version without the background for tomorrow. I'm going on a trial
flight and am hoping to get the flying school interested in the
project.
In case anyone's interested in how the trial flight went, it was
Robin Paulson wrote:
i'm mapping a stadium, that is multi-use - depending on the time of
year, it gets used for cricket or rugby. is there any way to tag this
once, and have the rendering change at the appropriate time of year,
from one to the other?
will using the date_on and date_off tags
Andrew Chadwick (email lists) wrote:
What are peoples' thoughts on medical facilities that can't really be
represented as either hospitals or pharmacies? For example small clinics
for minor surgery, doctors (UK: General Practitioners' surgeries) and
dentists? There are a few proposals out
Dermot McNally wrote:
2008/5/31 Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I've already changed the wiki to match this situation. This is the way it
was, so we are just back to the same position before it was changed (in my
view) erroneously.
Hmm. Could you have missed a bit?
Tags on inner
Alex Mauer wrote:
Beau Gunderson wrote:
What do you all think?
I agree with everything you said. I think that losing the wings would
be a big improvement in osmarender even for more basic bridges.
-Alex Mauer hawke
+1
Cheers, Chris
elvin ibbotson wrote:
Anyone involved with the National Trust? Apparently they are mapping
every plant in their gardens all over Britain. Do they know they just
need OSM and a few new tags (plant=nettle for example).
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7395915.stm
I contacted the parish
councils around my area, explaining what OSM is and suggesting that
they might like to use OSM maps on their web sites and for local
events. I'm pleased to say there has been interest from four
councils. I've sent simple slippy map examples to the web site admins
and
Lester Caine wrote:
Chris Hill wrote:
I contacted the parish councils around my area, explaining what OSM is
and suggesting that they might like to use OSM maps on their web sites
and for local events. I'm pleased to say there has been interest from
four councils. I've sent
wiseLYNX wrote:
hi everybody,
a quick look at the main features page didn't help me, so I try here..
I'd like to map as a POI what in italian is called maneggio. The
dictionary I'm using translates it as riding school, but the term is
more general, as it will also offer a place where to
The names 'inner' and 'outer' are part of the multipolygon relation which can
be used for any area within another area. Maybe 'island' is a useful alias for
the inner polygon.
cheers, Chris
- Original Message
From: Ari Torhamo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: talk@openstreetmap.org
Sent:
I have tagged the rivers Trent and Ouse which merge into the Humber estuary to
get it to render and be consistently tagged. I tried a few schemes and got
advice from others, especially David Groom. I broke up the river into chunks.
I tagged the banks of these chunks as waterway=riverbank and
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
I would like to use osm to tag the appropriateness for use by road racing bicycles to roads. I have searched the mailing list and the wiki, but found no suitable commonly accepted tag.
Riding on a road by a racing bike is not just a matter of surface
Ari Torhamo wrote:
ke, 2008-05-07 kello 20:13 +0100, Chris Hill kirjoitti:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
I would like to use osm to tag the appropriateness for use by road racing bicycles to roads. I have searched the mailing list and the wiki, but found
from different sources. Some differences from the ground are
probably mistakes, but some are probably easter eggs, one of which I
found on Easter day - now that is irony. Diary
My original post was prompted by one about climbing route names
from Chris Hill. You guys take your surnames too
I enjoy some of the signs I see while I'm out gathering tracks. One today said:
Private Land
NO
TRESPASSERS
LOOSE HORSES
ENTER AT OWN RISK.
I'm surprised that loose horses can read. ;-)
cheers, Chris
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Over last week I've noticed that the accuracy reading on my ETrex has briefly
gone down to 10ft a few times. Before last Saturday the best was 16ft. Today
I saw 9ft briefly. Anyone else seen this or know what's going on?
cheers, Chris
But makes it less obvious to people who don't have a good knowledge of
climbing as to what the tags mean. If you have climbing:grade:french it
is obvious to *everyone* that this is some kind of grade for climbing -
a tag called french really does fall into the non-obvious category.
The
On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, Chris Hill wrote:
The only person likely to tag climbing routes is someone who
understands climbing routes ;-)
What about someone just trying to interpret the data stored in OSM's
database? It should be obvious what the data is, without having to start
Steve Hill wrote:
On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, Chris Hill wrote:
Yes, because tags are applied to a node or a way and collectively the
tags make sense for that node or way.
What if an object needs to be tagged with multiple tags? I can think
of various reasons for doing this. For example
Patrick Weber wrote:
As far as my Spanish goes, this means free access to geodata given
that it is for non commercial use and has attribution.
If this gives access to a great deal of Spanish geodata, how would
those conditions pan out with the OSM license?
As I understand it, the
High and low water marks vary every day, the height of the tides vary a lot..
Tidal ranges in the south west of England can be about 13 metres in height.
Most measurements are made using Mean Sea Level, which doesn't change (rising
sea levels aside). When you look at the Yahoo images, how
The national Byway cycle
route passes close to my home, so I'd like to add it to the map. The
Wiki [1] suggests that I add to the relation 9327. How do I do this
when the existing parts of the relation are far away so I cannot get
the existing plus the new on either JOSM or Potlatch. Once I
Thanks to all suggestions, loading the relation and a bookmarked area in JOSM
worked after fiddling with the order of selecting the relation way and layer.
cheers, Chris
- Original Message
From: Dave Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: OSM Talk talk
A really dedicated *cycle route* mapper would have mapped the route on a bike
rather than following it in my car on the way home from the barber's!
cheers, Chris
- Original Message
From: Andy Allan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Talk OSM talk
Greg wrote:
Is anyone mapping the positioning of these devices in the UK? I don't yet
have
a GPS :o|
Is there an easy guide on how to contribute?
For those outside the UK, the UK is currently the most surveiled society in
the world. ANPR is a network of automatic numberplate
I've gathered some info on national cycle routes, but since the WIKI is down I
can't be sure how to tag them. Do I just put ncn_ref=x on the road / track
etc? When the same road carries two NCR, how do I tag it? Is there anything
else?
cheers, Chris
The Map Features page is not
displaying again. The page itself hasn't altered since March 9th, but
some of the pages it is made from probably have, though the Wiki server
might have issues.
As said in previous discussions I feel this is a vital page, especially
for new starters. I would like
. If the server is busy
then I'll wait, but it might need a prod at the big red button. :)
cheers, Chris
- Original Message
From: 80n [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Talk OSM talk@openstreetmap.org
Sent: Sunday, 30 March, 2008 3:49:03 AM
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] OSMXapi error
The request still gives error 501 so something is wrong.
cheers, Chris
- Original Message
From: Christopher Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: J.D. Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Talk OSM talk@openstreetmap.org
Sent: Saturday, 29 March, 2008 7:31:56 PM
I have tried to draw large buildings by walking around them. This has problems
due to access and problems due to losing the GPS signal in the signal shadow
(canyoning). If you repeat this on different days the average sometimes helps
but the building has to be large to not be swamped by the
I have downloaded the selection again and it now looks much better at a first
glance. It is also a little over half the size of the old one. Thanks for
your work.
cheers, Chris
- Original Message
From: 80n [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Talk OSM talk
I have extracted some data yesterday from OsmXapi for a range
[bbox=-1.1,53.63,0.16,54.17], roughly the area of East Yorkshire, UK.
In the resulting data there are nodes and ways from well outside this area, for
example:
node id='46201367' lat='52.3305' lon='5.06701' user='Ed Kapitein'
There might be ways from Hull to Rotterdam and Zeebrugge as ferry routes - I'll
check the relations but when I retrieve sub-sets in JOSM of api data I don't
get chunks of Netherlands or Germany which seem to be in the download.
cheers, Chris
Hi,
I had this problem the other day extracting
+1
cheers, Chris
- Original Message
From: Andy Allan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Daniel Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: OSM-Talk Openstreetmap talk@openstreetmap.org
Sent: Monday, 10 March, 2008 4:27:03 PM
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] RFC: golf course
Hi Daniel,
I'd just like to say how much I
Much better now, thanks
cheers, Chris
- Original Message
From: Christopher Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: talk@openstreetmap.org
Sent: Saturday, 1 March, 2008 9:31:27 PM
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Server speed
On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 07:39:06PM +, Chris Hill wrote:
The OsmaRender
I've use the waterway=riverbank (as described) on the Humber estuary, the Ouse
and the Trent; it works well, including using multipolygon relations for
islands.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=53.7296lon=-0.6315zoom=12layers=0BFT
Rendering in Mapnik is good, but the low-zoom Osmarender
From: David Groom [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: talk@openstreetmap.org
Sent: Monday, 28 January, 2008 1:16:50 PM
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Large Rivers
- Original Message -
From: Chris Hill
To: David Groom ;
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 10:59 AM
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Large
Is there a reason why the waterway=riverbank has not gone through voting? With
the multipolygon relation for islands it seems to work well.
cheers,
Chris
- Original Message
From: Michael Collinson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: talk@openstreetmap.org
Sent: Friday, 4 January, 2008 8:25:19
Alex Mauer wrote:
Chris Hill wrote:
I have used the multipolygon relation to draw islands in rivers.
It
is specifically intended for drawing holes in areas and worked
very
well for me.
I've tried to use it for this, but I run into problems when the river
bank is too large
Since the original question mentioned multiple holes I thought I'd try with
more than one hole in the area. It didn't work. A single inner polygon in a
landuse=forest rendered a hole, but two inner polygons didn't render any holes.
cheers,Chris
Jon Burgess wrote:
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