Re: [OSM-talk] Code of conduct for automated (mass-) edits

2008-09-30 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Ulf Lamping skrev: P.S: If you would only know how many of such obvious mistakes like aerialway=cinema I've seen while I was having a detailed look at the tagwatch output - and not even mentioning the common typos ... /reminder to self : Stop tagging inflight movies, while passing over

Re: [OSM-talk] German Supreme Court uses OpenStreetMap

2008-09-25 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Jochen Topf skrev: The German Supreme Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht) uses OpenStreetMap maps on its web site: http://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/organisation/anfahrt.html Jochen Nice... Maybe we can get one of their judges to look over the licenses pro bono, in gratitude for their

Re: [OSM-talk] German Supreme Court uses OpenStreetMap

2008-09-25 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Richard Fairhurst skrev: J.D. Schmidt wrote: /Just for the record, the above was a joke - In case we have Germans and Swedes without humour reading the list :P It's been pointed out on IRC that the reason the German Supreme Court was looking into OSM in the first place is that, under

Re: [OSM-talk] osm in flickr

2008-08-13 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Iván Sánchez Ortega skrev: El Miércoles, 13 de Agosto de 2008, SteveC escribió: Guys I've been in contact with them throughout to help this happen, I guess that wasn't clear. I had planned a blog post but have been on a plane from when they posted up until now. Steve, You have to switch

Re: [OSM-talk] osm in flickr

2008-08-12 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Iván Sánchez Ortega skrev: El Lunes, 11 de Agosto de 2008, SteveC escribió: http://www.flickr.com/map?fLat=39.912fLon=116.3783zl=4order_by=interest ingness A friend of mine (thanks, rinzewind!) points me to this entry in the flickr's developers blog:

Re: [OSM-talk] osm in flickr

2008-08-11 Thread J.D. Schmidt
D Tucny skrev: 2008/8/12 Tim Waters (chippy) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Very cool! Been panning around, is it just Beijing? No Isle of Man? ;) Looks like it's just Beijing... I'd guess due to the lack of Yahoo map coverage and the current large interest in Beijing... for some reason ;) d

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Map Maker

2008-06-24 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Who are we, Apple or IBM ? (And if the former, are you contemplating a surname-change in the near future ? ;) Me personally, I'm just waiting for the iOSM device - With matching white gpsantenna and rechargeable batteries that can't be exchanged without voiding the warranty. Not that the

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM in Europe Statistics

2008-05-01 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Frederik Ramm skrev: Hi, a very crude statistic: Country osm.bz2 sizepopulationratio (bytes per capita) UK73M60M1.2 Germany 110M82M

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik does not render light_rail bridges

2008-04-13 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Stephan Schildberg skrev: Mapnik does not render light_rail bridges, or does it? Yes it does, although I prefer the Osmarender style of bridges. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=55.63272lon=12.64912zoom=16layers=B0FT It does't. I wish it would, your sample displays a subway, look

Re: [OSM-talk] Participating in TAH

2008-03-30 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Kyle Gordon skrev: I know this has already been answered, but it would be awesome if [EMAIL PROTECTED] could be accessed through the BOINC framework (especially as deployment to multiple computers would just involve an MSI and MST file). Anyone reckon if it's at all possible to get all

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMXapi error 501

2008-03-29 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Chris Hill skrev: I've been trying to extract data from OSMXapi. It seems to respond with ERROR 501 - Internal Server Error to each request. Is it broken? cheers, Chris Same server that runs [EMAIL PROTECTED] afair - and that server is down at the moment. Crschmidt posted the following

Re: [OSM-talk] Cycle lanes

2008-03-26 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Lars Aronsson skrev: Alex Mauer wrote: It also has the problem that ways can easily get reversed, and then the left/right meanings are backwards. A bus stop is an attribute on a node (highway=bus_stop) in the middle of a way. If I want to indicate that this bus stop is on one side of

[OSM-talk] OSM Bumper-Sticker

2008-03-25 Thread J.D. Schmidt
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Image:OSM-streamer.jpg Bumpersticker produced for fun, and now prominently featured on SteveC's Mac laptop, as well as on my 50 ccm scooter, which so far has been used while collecting appr. 30 % of my gps tracks used for the Copenhagen data (The

Re: [OSM-talk] Survey: Bad Map Rendering

2008-03-24 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Frederik Ramm skrev: For super bonus points, do all this in XSLT. Or while undergoing dental surgery. Bye Frederik You surely misswrote that, Frederik ? You must have meant an instead of dent ? ;) Having tried both, I can assure you the former is more painfull - and for a longer

Re: [OSM-talk] Free aerentical data

2008-03-11 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Rahkonen Jukka skrev: Andy Robinson (blackadder) wrote: I'm pretty sure someone already imported all the basic data for airport locations around the world but there may be other info that's of interest from this data set providing the licence on that data is compatible with ours. Was the

Re: [OSM-talk] Free aerentical data

2008-03-11 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Rahkonen Jukka skrev: J.D. Schmidt wrote: Users: X-Plane users have added many other airports, nav-aids and all the taxiways. This data is imported into the same database as the DAFIF data, and in many cases enhances or corrects the DAFIF data. It is under GNU GPL Please refrain

Re: [OSM-talk] Stares

2008-03-11 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Andy Robinson (blackadder) skrev: There is no need for OSM data gathering to be a subversive activity. Make a statement about it and tell people what you are doing. Aaaww shucks - There goes 250 € down the drain. Anybody interested in a full urban camouflage battledress, complete with

Re: [OSM-talk] Free aerentical data

2008-03-11 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Martin Spott skrev: J.D. Schmidt wrote: AD plates are available for any licensed pilot via the FAA, otherwise it would be impossible to plan a flight between airports. For many countries the use of these 'official' aerodrome ground layouts is _explicitly_ restricted to performance

Re: [OSM-talk] How to correct logical errors in some effective way?

2008-03-03 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Ulf Lamping skrev: Alex S. schrieb: Ulf Lamping wrote: place_of_warship, ... Shouldn't that be naval_yard? ;) Hmm, full tagging should be: amenity=place_of_warship religion=military denomination=U.S.Navy ;-))) And please add any nodes tagged like that, in Switzerland,

Re: [OSM-talk] High Visibility Vests - Printed OSM

2008-02-28 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Richard Fairhurst skrev: Andy Robinson ((blackadder)) wrote: Now for Ireland we might want: The craic OpenStreetMap catchy, don't you think? I still want one that says I'M IN UR TOWN MAPPIN UR STREETZ I think they come complimentary with that text, when awarded a lolcat award, or

Re: [OSM-talk] Continuous audio in JOSM on tracks without waypoints

2008-02-25 Thread J.D. Schmidt
80n skrev: On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 12:28 PM, graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 80n wrote: BTW I just had a very successful experiment this morning using a modified kitchen sponge http://img.alibaba.com/photo/50923335/Kitchen_Sponge_Scourers.jpg as a windshield for my bluetooth headset :)

Re: [OSM-talk] Parking symbols: YUCK!

2008-02-24 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Lester Caine skrev: Again - the fact that people are giving time to enter data is precisely why we need to be producing a guide to how to do things that is consistent. If people are going to tidy up these 'couple of problems' then we don't want one person deleting a node and another

Re: [OSM-talk] Parking symbols: YUCK!

2008-02-24 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Lester Caine skrev: Do you have to re-write the renderer every time someone comes up with a new conflict? Short answer : Yes. Long answer : The renderer operates on a subset of the data contained in the DB. It is up to the operator of the renderer to extract and possibly massage that

Re: [OSM-talk] Parking symbols: YUCK!

2008-02-24 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Lester Caine skrev: J.D. Schmidt wrote: Lester Caine skrev: Do you have to re-write the renderer every time someone comes up with a new conflict? Short answer : Yes. Long answer : The renderer operates on a subset of the data contained in the DB. It is up to the operator

Re: [OSM-talk] Pint symbols: YUCK!

2008-02-24 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Lauri Hahne skrev: The old pint symbols look amateurish, the new ones only hideous. Just take a look at http://informationfreeway.org/?lat=61.4978902211692lon=23.764454385823434zoom=16layers=F0B0F Thats how the pint glasses look, at the end of an evening drinking with brits.. Kinda'

Re: [OSM-talk] Parking symbols: YUCK!

2008-02-24 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Sven Grüner skrev: J.D. Schmidt schrieb: TAGGING as laid out in the wiki are all rules for content but as yet they do not provide a consistent USABLE base once one moves away from the basic road stuff. And even the base road stuff people are trying to change the rules! Correction

Re: [OSM-talk] Continuous audio in JOSM on tracks without waypoints

2008-02-24 Thread J.D. Schmidt
David Earl skrev: On 24/02/2008 22:16, 80n wrote: David I gave it a try today. The results were excellent. Do you have any feeling for how accurate the timer on your audio was by the end of the session? I have some feedback: 1) I found synchronising to be a bit tricky the first time

Re: [OSM-talk] Continuous audio in JOSM on tracks without waypoints

2008-02-24 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Robin Paulson skrev: On 25/02/2008, J.D. Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could this work with video media files ? I've invested in an Oregon Scientific ACT2000 solid state helmet cam ( http://tinyurl.com/22zaep ) for use when driving my cityscooter. It has audio input too, but the cool

Re: [OSM-talk] Parking symbols: YUCK!

2008-02-23 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Tom Hughes skrev: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] David Earl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately removing the related node isn't going to work, because Mapnik won't then render parking symbols. And it is a lot of work to do that. I believe it will - as far as I know mapnik has

Re: [OSM-talk] Raw GPS layer

2008-02-21 Thread J.D. Schmidt
80n skrev: At the moment we are not signalling clearly enough that *every* track log is valuable to the project, even for places that have already been mapped. Does anyone have any stats on number of edits vs. number of tracklogs by user? It might be quite revealing about who does and who

Re: [OSM-talk] pint symbol

2008-02-15 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Artem Pavlenko skrev: Too bad it's not full ;) Well, I thought half-full would be a good compromise. But you're right, we can have three versions : full,half-full and empty. Igor Artem Full to be used for Danish, German, Belgian, Dutch, Irish, British and Czech pubs, half-full for all

Re: [OSM-talk] pint symbol

2008-02-15 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Frederik Ramm skrev: Could we introduce a beer can in paper bag symbol for off-licenses in the US? Frederik, I am shocked, almost downright appalled.. You really want to buy beer in the US ?? EVERYBODY knows that american beer is akin to having sex in a canoe... I mean, take something like

Re: [OSM-talk] Label inconsistency: right-to-left label is printed backward

2008-02-10 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Moshe Sayag skrev: When a place is labeled in Hebrew (which is written right-to-left) it appears correctly in the [EMAIL PROTECTED] browser, but backward in OSM slippy map. For example, see how the label of the city of Ashkelon is printed in each map: Correct:

Re: [OSM-talk] New Coastline in Mapnik

2008-02-07 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Artem Pavlenko skrev: New coastline in Mapnik : Copenhagen - :http://www.openstreetmap.org/? lat=55.6829lon=12.5817zoom=12layers=B0FT A big thank you to Kleptog!!! Actually the Copenhagen coastline has been fixed about a year and a half ago, and was one of the first areas in Europe

Re: [OSM-talk] New Coastline in Mapnik

2008-02-07 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Artem Pavlenko skrev: I didn't mean this was something new for the world, but that these coastlines are new in the Mapnik layer. Sorry to have lagged behind so shamefully :) A. You're forgiven - IF you promise to go out and log the location of not less than 20 pubs in your area,

Re: [OSM-talk] Crudely-drawn pint glasses

2008-01-30 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Tom Hughes skrev: So it is reasonable or optimal for us to maintain an infinite number of custom maps for third parties that want custom maps but don't want the hassle of rendering them? And especially maps without an indication of where to bring a brit, yourself, and your extra liver to

Re: [OSM-talk] Crudely-drawn pint glasses

2008-01-30 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Nick Whitelegg skrev: Anther solution would be on-demand mapping: the renderers, in whatever falvour, are online somewhere and you go through a dialogue to decide on an area, choose your features and then get a custom map back a short while later - either on screen or as a PDF or whatever.

Re: [OSM-talk] Underground lines on the london map

2008-01-21 Thread J.D. Schmidt
OJW skrev: It's a bit distracting seeing underground train lines overlaid on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] map of London (especially when taking screenshots to use as the base for other maps) -- anyone think they could be removed, and have a separate layer for train/metro connections? (like

[OSM-talk] For sale: GPS Navigation device for car/mc/scooter/bicycle - 30 € inc. shipping.

2008-01-17 Thread J.D. Schmidt
As I have purchased a new Magellan CrossOver GPS device for use on my city-scooter, I am selling my old navigation solution cheaply on a first come, first serve basis, for only 30 € including shipping. The device stands almost as new, with just a tiny bump on one side, caused by going sideways

Re: [OSM-talk] TIGER has only a week to go

2008-01-15 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Andy Allan skrev: On Jan 15, 2008 6:01 PM, Robert (Jamie) Munro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to: http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~daveh/tiger/stats.html TIGER imports will be finished in a weeks time! Should we celebrate somehow? Perhaps a press release? (Maybe give it another week so

Re: [OSM-talk] Why place matters, slides from Vanessa Lawrence talk

2008-01-11 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Nick Black skrev: We should catalogue the errors and send them back into the OS so they can do better next time. Just send them a dump of the DB, and then look for a CC-by-SA OSM copyright notice on the OS Mastermap, sometime within the next 6 month. Dutch

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding vmap0 road data to OSM

2008-01-05 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Will Harrison skrev: Hello All, I'm involved with the FlightGear Flight Simulator (http://www.flightgear.org) and I've volunteered to help the custom scenery project (http://www.custom-scenery.org/Home.223.0.html) by adding vmap0 road data to OSM. I originally tried to start this task on

Re: [OSM-talk] My Openstreetmap talk at 24C3

2008-01-04 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Frederik Ramm skrev: It i s going to be a real book, German Language, about 300 pages, and aims to have everything the would-be mapper needs to get going, as well as an overview about the technical background of the project (i.e. data model, XML, and stuff). We assume it is going to hit

Re: [OSM-talk] proposed feature, opinions requested

2007-12-21 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Frederik Ramm skrev: Hi, Including landuse=ToiletAndBathAreaAtRoskildeFestival_Bring_NoseClamp_On_Day_Two_and_Later. I'm suggesting a shitty-brownish-yellow color for that one, right away. Is it really necessary to go that finegrained down, in the definition of the landuse tag ?

Re: [OSM-talk] Render icons for parking areas

2007-12-20 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Karl Eichwalder skrev: ... more interesting features such as pubs, historical buildings,footways, etc. Rendering the yellow areas is fine, thou. I just love the priority you used in that list! ;) Dutch ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org