Re: [Talk-GB] Stratford Imagery

2010-05-27 Thread John McKerrell
On 27 May 2010, at 10:55, Ed Avis wrote: John McKerrell j...@... writes: Since sometime last summer I've been hosting the imagery that was photographed from a plane over Stratford. Perhaps I could upload them to my Flickr account? How big is the data in total? Yes I should have

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Maps on TomTom

2010-04-08 Thread John McKerrell
On 8 Apr 2010, at 15:18, John Smith wrote: On 8 April 2010 23:09, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: maybe I don't get the meaning of this thread, but just in case, are you aware of this: http://www.opentom.org/OpenTomSDL more Info here:

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Maps on TomTom

2010-04-07 Thread John McKerrell
On 5 Apr 2010, at 23:21, John Smith wrote: On 6 April 2010 05:25, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: I get a question at about one in three of the events I attend regarding TomTom or other oddball GPS devices. My fall back is to just recommend what I'm using, even with the drawbacks of

Re: [OSM-talk] Africa Coverage

2010-02-16 Thread John McKerrell
Thanks to those who answered off list, think I've got enough names now. John On 15 Feb 2010, at 12:21, John McKerrell wrote: Hi An ex-colleague of mine in London is looking to discuss OSM coverage in Africa. Is there anyone I can put him in touch with to discuss this, anyone claim

[OSM-talk] Africa Coverage

2010-02-15 Thread John McKerrell
Hi An ex-colleague of mine in London is looking to discuss OSM coverage in Africa. Is there anyone I can put him in touch with to discuss this, anyone claim to be particularly knowledgeable in this field and want to chat about it? Let me know on or off-list and I'll pass your details on.

Re: [OSM-talk] DIY-streetview.org

2010-02-09 Thread John McKerrell
These guys are also building camera rigs: http://openviewproject.org/ On 9 Feb 2010, at 00:32, Erik Lundin wrote: Hi, I just found this very interesting site, with guys working on an open source streetview photographing system: http://www.diy-streetview.org/ Yes, I know of

[OSM-talk] WhereCamp EU

2010-01-28 Thread John McKerrell
Hi Apologies for sending this to the global talk mailing list but, well, everyone's invited! Thought you'd be interested to know about a free unconference that's happening in London in March. WhereCamp EU follows on from successful events that have run around the time of the O'Reilly Where

Re: [OSM-talk] how to map flowing water the easy way?

2009-12-24 Thread John McKerrell
On 24 Dec 2009, at 02:01, Anthony wrote: How about a dog tracker?: https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?cID=209pID=8576 https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?cID=209pID=8576 $599 (USD)? Err... that's for the whole lot. As I clearly stated only the collar transmitter

Re: [OSM-talk] Replacing Google with OSM

2009-12-12 Thread John McKerrell
On 12 Dec 2009, at 09:08, Shaun McDonald wrote: On 11 Dec 2009, at 11:42, Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote: El Viernes, 11 de Diciembre de 2009, Steve Chilton escribió: A little while ago I saw a note somewhere about some neat code to replace Google maps with OSM in a web application. I

Re: [OSM-talk] Turn Restrictions Editor

2009-11-03 Thread John McKerrell
I think CloudMade's Mapzen flash editor is intending to do just this, and other specific purpose mapping scenarios: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mapzen On 3 Nov 2009, at 00:10, Ian Dees wrote: Has anyone attempted to write a turn restriction editor? I suppose it would be best suited

Re: [Talk-GB] Virgin Train Traces (Richard Mann)

2009-09-29 Thread John McKerrell
On 29 Sep 2009, at 13:14, Phil James wrote: richard.mann.westoxf...@googlemail.com wrote: A quick look at oepnvkarte indicates we have all of Virgin's operating routes already. Maybe some of the traces aren't great, but I think some tracing off NPE ought to fix that, surely? While

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetView

2009-09-25 Thread John McKerrell
On 25 Sep 2009, at 13:58, malenki wrote: You are right (except that I have uploaded ~2k pictures. Meanwhile 376 seem to exist for the counter :) ) I wonder how I cam to Moderating loggin in before, since there is no hint how to get there now. After all, I took the URL from the history of th

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetView

2009-09-24 Thread John McKerrell
On 24 Sep 2009, at 15:51, malenki wrote: Richard Bullock wrote: Also, I've mistakenly uploaded an image without geolocation in the exif (I haven't pushed it towards moderation yet). Any chance we could have the option to remove an image? My suggestion: be able to delete the picture if

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetView - documentation?

2009-09-24 Thread John McKerrell
On 24 Sep 2009, at 18:25, malenki wrote: Jeremy Adams wrote: You'll find most of the documentation on the wiki at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org. This mailing list you've posted to is the primary source of discussion. There are other lists as well for more specific topics (newbies,

Re: [OSM-talk] Train station names: Place Station ou just Place ?

2009-09-24 Thread John McKerrell
On the subject of railway stations. I think it would be good if tagged them with their reference codes (no idea what the correct term is), all the stations in the UK have codes and if you know them it's quicker to use them while searching. I'm not such a geek I know all of them but the

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetView

2009-09-24 Thread John McKerrell
On 23 Sep 2009, at 20:16, malenki wrote: John McKerrell wrote: On 22 Sep 2009, at 17:44, malenki wrote: | There was an error saving your changes Odd, I'll take a look, can you paste the URL to the thumbnail to help me identify it? Impossible at the moment, OSV looks like this both

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetView

2009-09-24 Thread John McKerrell
On 23 Sep 2009, at 21:27, Richard Bullock wrote: [still not enough :)] For moderating: right now I moderated several photos until I cam onto a visible license plate. This I masked and added the tag licenceplate, left the masking area, clicked mark as safe and save - and then an

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetView

2009-09-23 Thread John McKerrell
On 22 Sep 2009, at 17:44, malenki wrote: | There was an error saving your changes Odd, I'll take a look, can you paste the URL to the thumbnail to help me identify it? Besides there seems to be no way (atm) to edit several pictures in a row. MArking some and clicking mask sections showed

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetView

2009-09-22 Thread John McKerrell
magnetic north, Y degrees inclination, Z degrees field of view) of the photo at a given position (if known) so that we can later build a StreetView-type interface for these images. Such information could be stored with Flickr's API as machine tags. On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 4:45 PM, John McKerrell

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetView

2009-09-22 Thread John McKerrell
On 22 Sep 2009, at 08:55, Claudius wrote: Am 21.09.2009 23:45, John McKerrell: To try it out, head over to http://openstreetview.org/ You'll need to sign up for an account, verify your email address and then log in. The most important question for me: Why don't you use OSM's own OAuth

[OSM-talk] OpenStreetView

2009-09-21 Thread John McKerrell
take a look at the email below for more instructions, it's definitely not perfect but it's functional for some specific uses. Begin forwarded message: From: John McKerrell j...@mckerrell.net Date: 20 September 2009 13:15:32 GMT+01:00 To: pho...@openstreetmap.org Subject: [OSM-Photos

Re: [Talk-GB] OpenStreetMap's first flight!

2009-09-18 Thread John McKerrell
is raw files for completness. I'll be making the GPS trace available to anyone that want's it too, I forgot to include them in the data I gave to John. JR 2009/9/17 John McKerrell j...@mckerrell.net Ok, just to let you all know, I have the images on my laptop so should be fine for taking them

Re: [Talk-GB] OpenStreetMap's first flight!

2009-09-18 Thread John McKerrell
On 18 Sep 2009, at 19:27, Matt Williams wrote: A random selection of vertical(ish) photos: 113-124 (all of one single area) 127 149 628,632,633,636,637,638 (all of the centre near the bridges) I agree a systematic approach to tagging all the photos would be better (anyone want to code up

Re: [Talk-GB] OpenStreetMap's first flight!

2009-09-18 Thread John McKerrell
On 18 Sep 2009, at 19:44, John McKerrell wrote: On 18 Sep 2009, at 19:27, Matt Williams wrote: A random selection of vertical(ish) photos: 113-124 (all of one single area) 127 149 628,632,633,636,637,638 (all of the centre near the bridges) I agree a systematic approach to tagging all

Re: [Talk-GB] OpenStreetMap's first flight!

2009-09-17 Thread John McKerrell
On 14 Sep 2009, at 08:51, John McKerrell wrote: JR lives just around the corner from me so I should be able to get a copy of the photos onto my laptop. I'm going to the AGI conference next week so if anyone wanted they could then take a copy from me. I might even be able to host them though

Re: [Talk-GB] OpenStreetMap's first flight!

2009-09-14 Thread John McKerrell
JR lives just around the corner from me so I should be able to get a copy of the photos onto my laptop. I'm going to the AGI conference next week so if anyone wanted they could then take a copy from me. I might even be able to host them though as he says, it's liable to be just a difficult

Re: [OSM-talk] Twitter bots

2009-08-24 Thread John McKerrell
On 24 Aug 2009, at 17:03, Andrew Ayre wrote: Alexander - I think if you urlencode a URL before passing it to twitter, twitter will automatically shorten it using the bit.ly service. Might be something to look into. Then neither openstreetmap.org or osm.org will be used for the URLs.

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

Re: [OSM-talk] Local Chapters Meeting Minutes WAS Re: Status of the Local Chapter working group

2009-08-19 Thread John McKerrell
On 18 Aug 2009, at 22:25, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, Peter Miller wrote: I suggest that conference calls and IRC are only used for those issues where email is not working or getting to an resolution on a difficult subject. +1 Telephone calls are too intrusive. Someone might have to

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM-Postal an idea to extend Walking-Papers to not connected people

2009-08-12 Thread John McKerrell
On 12 Aug 2009, at 10:13, Emilie Laffray wrote: It is really an excellent idea. I was planning to organize a walking paper mail out in my home town in a few months to see how it could work out. I was planning in my case to contact the mayor office to see if I could coordinate with

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM-Postal an idea to extend Walking-Papers to not connected people

2009-08-12 Thread John McKerrell
On 12 Aug 2009, at 14:02, Emilie Laffray wrote: Thank you for the PDF. I was thinking of something along those lines. It is nice to see that someone already has written some explanation on why it matters. I don't have time right now to start this project as I want as many streets as

Re: [OSM-talk] landuse for hotels

2009-08-06 Thread John McKerrell
On 6 Aug 2009, at 07:47, Mark Williams wrote: Stephan Plepelits wrote: On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 12:54:01PM -0700, Joseph Scanlan wrote: What landuse are we using for hotels? I'm pretty sure it should be commercial or retail. For the area of the hotel: amenity=hotel And for the hotel

Re: [OSM-talk] landuse for hotels

2009-08-05 Thread John McKerrell
On 5 Aug 2009, at 21:31, OJ W wrote: On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Ciarán Mooneygeneral.moo...@googlemail.com wrote: What landuse are we using for hotels? I'm pretty sure it should be commercial or retail. I'm going to go with commercial, they as retail suggests that they sell a

Re: [OSM-talk] Photos

2009-08-03 Thread John McKerrell
On 1 Aug 2009, at 01:04, Stefan de Konink wrote: On Sat, 1 Aug 2009, Tristan Thomas wrote: Is there any method of adding photos etc. to OSM like there is for Google Maps. For instance, if you navigate to somewhere on Google Maps, it comes up with user submitted geo-tagged photos. Is

Re: [Talk-GB] Adding unofficial cycle routes

2009-07-27 Thread John McKerrell
On 27 Jul 2009, at 15:02, Jonathan Bennett wrote: Furthermore, unless the group has based its maps on OSM in the first place, the chances are there will be a derived data problem -- who owns the original mapping the routes were plotted against? If there are signposts on the route, fair

Re: [Talk-GB] Adding unofficial cycle routes

2009-07-27 Thread John McKerrell
On 27 Jul 2009, at 15:52, Jonathan Bennett wrote: Peter Childs wrote: What I think we're saying is; we don't want things on the map that are not actually there on the ground. either via Signs or Real Things. So a Route route round a country park marked with Purple Arrows can be

[Talk-GB] SOTM 2007 - Liberating GIS from the OS

2009-07-24 Thread John McKerrell
Hi At SOTM 2007 Michael Calder talked about a project he was working on to scan in all of the old out of copyright OS maps and then to digitise them to get georeferenced raw data out. Since then I haven't heard anything about the project so I was wondering if anyone knows what he's up to

Re: [OSM-talk] License for OSM logo

2009-07-07 Thread John McKerrell
On 7 Jul 2009, at 13:44, Matt Amos wrote: On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Elena of Valhallaelena.valha...@gmail.com wrote: is your app closed-source? I believe that the iPhone/iTunes store terms aren't really compatible with opensource licenses, expecially copyleft ones apple's store

[OSM-talk] Mapping Photos

2009-07-05 Thread John McKerrell
Hi Next week I'm giving a talk about OpenStreetView at the State of the Map conference. One of the things I want to do with the project is try to host all of the photographs that people take while they're out mapping. Because most people are likely to have a number of Gb of photos and not

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping Photos

2009-07-05 Thread John McKerrell
On 5 Jul 2009, at 13:53, Stefan de Konink wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 malenki wrote: John McKerrell wrote: Speaking for me: Do you really want to show hundreds (or thousands) of often wiggly and blurred criss-cross shooten pictures of housenumbers, signs

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping Photos

2009-07-05 Thread John McKerrell
On 5 Jul 2009, at 15:31, OJ W wrote: do you need georeferencing to be embedded in the image when we give them to you (if so what format), or can that be done later by uploading GPX traces to our openstreetview account? I forgot to say, if you are able to georeference your images then

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping Photos

2009-07-05 Thread John McKerrell
On 5 Jul 2009, at 17:05, Eddy Petrișor wrote: John McKerrell a scris: On 5 Jul 2009, at 15:31, OJ W wrote: do you need georeferencing to be embedded in the image when we give them to you (if so what format), or can that be done later by uploading GPX traces to our openstreetview account

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping Photos

2009-07-05 Thread John McKerrell
On 5 Jul 2009, at 17:14, Simon Wood wrote: Hi John, I shall not be a SOTM but you are welcome to use any of the mapping photos on my Flickr stream. http://www.flickr.com/photos/24244...@n03/ Many of us upload surveying photos as a matter of course and tag them 'OSM' or

[OSM-talk] Liverpool Mapping Party

2009-05-27 Thread John McKerrell
Hi all I mentioned on the GB list a little while back but I thought I should confirm that we're good to go with the Liverpool Mapping party in a week and a half - 6th June. I've created a page on the wiki for it here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/LiverpoolMappingParty_June09 We're

[Talk-GB] Liverpool Mapping Party

2009-05-27 Thread John McKerrell
Hi all I mentioned on the GB list a little while back but I thought I should confirm that we're good to go with the Liverpool Mapping party in a week and a half - 6th June. I've created a page on the wiki for it here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/LiverpoolMappingParty_June09 We're

Re: [OSM-talk] Which software for SonyEricsson phones?

2009-05-22 Thread John McKerrell
I might as well complete the list, I've been using MobiTrack Pro for years but I'm not sure you can get it any more (and it cost $20). I've more recently been using Mobile Trails Explorer which seems ok, though I'm mainly using it for logging my location on mapme.at, rather than for

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetView

2009-05-13 Thread John McKerrell
On 13 May 2009, at 15:00, Rory McCann wrote: StreetView data would be awesome to have, since it would massivly increase the amount of information we could add. Footpaths, speedlimits, number of lanes, etc etc, Theses are things you can't get from aerial imagery. I imagine that even if

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetView

2009-05-13 Thread John McKerrell
On 13 May 2009, at 16:04, Joseph Reeves wrote: How does the service provided by norc.ro compare with people's desires? http://www.norc.ro/ norc.ro looks similar to Google, which is nice, but I guess the question is what license is the imagery available under? Also could I submit my

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetView

2009-05-01 Thread John McKerrell
Quite odd, I was mulling over submitting talks on OpenStreetView to SOTM and AGI conference today. I just noticed your website and thought I'd see if you had mentioned it on the OSM mailing list, to find that you had just over an hour ago. I have the openstreetview.org and .net domains and

Re: [OSM-talk] just feels like time for a poem

2009-03-26 Thread John McKerrell
edible map? nom nom nom On 26 Mar 2009, at 15:11, Mikel Maron wrote: ooo-dee-bee-ell sure does feel like hell! lightning rods, lengthy flames where we going to assign the blame? hey! forget the naming names finger points all out of joint again eye-aaa-enn-aaa-ell doesn't that ring

Re: [OSM-talk] Openmoko freethepostcode app? (was: Openstreetmap iPhone app)

2009-01-07 Thread John McKerrell
Not that I've heard of, I know someone's knocking up a J2ME one though. John On 7 Jan 2009, at 12:56, OJ W wrote: Anyone know if there is a similar app yet for entering postcodes in openmoko? On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 3:39 PM, John McKerrell j...@mckerrell.net wrote: This is indeed quite

Re: [OSM-talk] ./

2008-12-28 Thread John McKerrell
Yes, I've installed this on my iPhone 3G running v2.2 OS. Works fine for me. Was fun for a little while though all I can really do in my area is collect gold. The only mission near to me involves a ferry ride. I'll get around to doing that as I need to fix the ferry route in OSM anyway but

[OSM-talk] Pertinent Quote

2008-12-17 Thread John McKerrell
Hi This quote seems quite relevant to OSM, even though it's talking about tagging photos predominantly: but really, it simply doesn’t matter as long as people are actually doing the tagging. - Jeremy Keith http://adactio.com/journal/1535 John

Re: [OSM-talk] My slippy map - call for testing

2008-12-09 Thread John McKerrell
On 9 Dec 2008, at 09:18, Steven Le Roux wrote: 2008/12/8 Bernhard Zwischenbrugger [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Just an other slippy map: http://lamp2.fhstp.ac.at/~lbz/beispiele/ws2008/oomap4/index.php Maybe you like the zoom. yes it's smooth :) but you disabled the useful shift + clic for

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

2008-12-01 Thread John McKerrell
On 1 Dec 2008, at 14:56, Elena of Valhalla wrote: On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] If anyone out there who was contributing in the summer and has now stopped could share the reasons I might help shed some light. My mapping

Re: [OSM-talk] Openstreetmap iPhone app

2008-11-28 Thread John McKerrell
On 28 Nov 2008, at 17:21, graham wrote: John McKerrell wrote: I should've mentioned the other day that my iFreeThePostcode app is now live on the app store, you can see it here (opens in iTunes) http://icanhaz.com/freepost... http://icanhaz.com/freepostcodes It's had quite a few

Re: [OSM-talk] Openstreetmap iPhone app

2008-11-26 Thread John McKerrell
On 26 Nov 2008, at 15:28, John07 wrote: Hi, take a look at opentouchmap.org It is currently the best slippymap for the iphone-safari. But a real app with search... would be much cooler. This is indeed quite nice. I should've mentioned the other day that my iFreeThePostcode app is now

[OSM-talk] Let [Google] My Maps Be Your Geo Database

2008-11-20 Thread John McKerrell
Just spotted this article that was posted yesterday. No comments yet, guessing that'll change soon... http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/Let_My_Maps_Be_Your_Geo_Database ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Openstreetmap iPhone app

2008-11-10 Thread John McKerrell
On 10 Nov 2008, at 14:14, Rory McCann wrote: On 10/11/08 12:40, Joseph Gentle wrote: http://code.google.com/p/route-me/ ... Though the focus is on the map view, not on making it a fully fledged application for the store. -J Interesting... I have an iPod Touch, how do I install this?

Re: [OSM-talk] Calling all Yahoo! tracers. Manchester, UK needs you before Saturday!

2008-10-28 Thread John McKerrell
On 28 Oct 2008, at 10:58, Tim Waters (chippy) wrote: Thanks to all Yahoo tracers! It really made a huge difference, gave people, families and children without GPS units a good easy task to fill in the names, and helped us using the GPS devices loaded with no named streets, to know where to

Re: [OSM-talk] Rendering by selecting data based on created date?

2008-09-19 Thread John McKerrell
On 16 Sep 2008, at 13:45, Frederik Ramm wrote: hI, I've had a idea that i'll be able to take a current extract for my area, import into a database, then using the node history, extract the nodes/ways based on the lowest history date. Interesting idea, but since we dropped way history

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-GB] Corporate Cartographers accused of demolishing history. (make press release?)

2008-08-29 Thread John McKerrell
On 29 Aug 2008, at 09:05, Richard Fairhurst wrote: Richard Fairhurst wrote: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7586789.stm I was glad to see the BBC had actually linked to us, wonder if that'll get any good number of new mappers. We're also in the Daily Mail (eek)[1]:

Re: [OSM-talk] Recommended GPS for logs for OSM *and* for vehicle - is there such a beast?

2008-08-27 Thread John McKerrell
On 27 Aug 2008, at 11:23, Alex S. wrote: Chris G wrote: I'm after a GPS system which I can use to provide data for OSM maps and as a 'normal' GPS system to tell me where to go when I'm on my motorbike. Is there anything which can provide both facilities or should I give up and buy two

Re: [OSM-talk] Recommended GPS for logs for OSM *and* for vehicle - is there such a beast?

2008-08-27 Thread John McKerrell
On 27 Aug 2008, at 11:56, Chris G wrote: On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:29:13AM +0100, John McKerrell wrote: On 27 Aug 2008, at 11:23, Alex S. wrote: Chris G wrote: I'm after a GPS system which I can use to provide data for OSM maps and as a 'normal' GPS system to tell me where to go when I'm

Re: [OSM-talk] service roads as driveways

2008-08-24 Thread John McKerrell
On 24 Aug 2008, at 16:30, Chris Jones wrote: On 24 Aug 2008, at 10:20, Inge Wallin wrote: So I would myself instead use highway=unclassified, possibly with surface=unpaved if that is the case. To me unclassified highways implie some sort of public right of way but a service highway

Re: [OSM-talk] last person to edit?

2008-08-17 Thread John McKerrell
On 17 Aug 2008, at 22:08, graham wrote: Henry Loenwind wrote: graham wrote: and correcting them this evening, but nothing in between. Is there any kind of edit it doesn't show? Maybe someone moved the nodes? That wouldn't show up in the way's history... Yes, they'd just dragged

Re: [OSM-talk] Easy to use system for countryside surveying

2008-08-16 Thread John McKerrell
On 16 Aug 2008, at 16:52, bvh wrote: On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 04:57:17PM +0100, Nick Whitelegg wrote: A track simplification algorithm could be applied and ways generated from the GPS trace automiatically. This could then be uploaded to OSM for a more expert user (who could subscribe

Re: [Talk-GB] QUESTION

2008-08-06 Thread John McKerrell
I haven't yet found an app for storing track logs. It takes geocoded photos though so there might be a way to use the iphone together with yahoo aerials if you take a photo on the corners (but you'd still need to remember which road was which). It shouldn't be too hard to write a tracking

Re: [OSM-talk] Italy Video

2008-07-16 Thread John McKerrell
On 15 Jul 2008, at 16:30, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote: Simone Cortesi wrote: Sent: 15 July 2008 3:46 PM To: Frederik Ramm Cc: osm Talk Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Italy Video On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 9:32 AM, Frederik Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John McKerrell wrote: Does

Re: [OSM-talk] Metro Manila Philippines needs some OSM love

2008-07-16 Thread John McKerrell
On 15 Jul 2008, at 02:15, maning sambale wrote: The Cloudmade nonames tiles are available world wide now. (You need to specifically select the correct layer, if the correct layer param isn't in the url). This is cool! Might be better to integrate with openstreetbugs so non-members

Re: [OSM-talk] Metro Manila Philippines needs some OSM love

2008-07-16 Thread John McKerrell
On 16 Jul 2008, at 10:03, John McKerrell wrote: On 15 Jul 2008, at 02:15, maning sambale wrote: The Cloudmade nonames tiles are available world wide now. (You need to specifically select the correct layer, if the correct layer param isn't in the url). This is cool! Might be better

[OSM-talk] Italy Video

2008-07-15 Thread John McKerrell
Hi Does anyone have the link for that great video shown during the State of Italy talk? The one about Everybody's talking about GIS, GIS talks about everybody (I think that was it). I saw Mikel's slides had a link to youtube in the references at the end but I haven't found his slides yet.

Re: [OSM-talk] Metro Manila Philippines needs some OSM love

2008-07-14 Thread John McKerrell
On 14 Jul 2008, at 16:32, Shaun McDonald wrote: maning sambale wrote: [...] 3. add a fixme tag. Isn't that what the highway=road tag is for? I'll warn that sometimes the usage of Yahoo imagery can slow down later editing. Shaun, do the no-name tile sets highlight name=FIXME as well

Re: [Talk-GB] OpenStreetMap street types

2008-07-14 Thread John McKerrell
You may be interested in looking at the ITO site that was mentioned at State of the Map this past weekend. It allows you to retrieve similar statistics in real time (though on a weekly dataset). It also operates on a smaller area but still gives you valuable information, the url is

Re: [OSM-talk] Paying registration fee for SOTM

2008-06-30 Thread John McKerrell
On 29 Jun 2008, at 22:57, Gervase Markham wrote: Etienne wrote: There have been some reports of invoices not being received - probably due to spam filtering. I have filters, but I keep all the spam. (Several GB of it.) I've searched back through the relevant time area and can't find

Re: [OSM-talk] Black and White Flyer request

2008-06-28 Thread John McKerrell
On 27 Jun 2008, at 23:15, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, Are the source materials available for the flyer that's available here? http://ajr.hopto.org/osm/pr/ The source is actually right there, in SVG format. But here's a PNG version without background image:

Re: [OSM-talk] Black and White Flyer request

2008-06-28 Thread John McKerrell
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 cancelled :-( Weather was good

[OSM-talk] Black and White Flyer request

2008-06-27 Thread John McKerrell
Hi Are the source materials available for the flyer that's available here? http://ajr.hopto.org/osm/pr/ I can only print out on a grayscale printer so I could do with a version without the background for tomorrow. I'm going on a trial flight and am hoping to get the flying school interested

Re: [OSM-talk] [OT] OSM based photo catalogue

2008-06-11 Thread John McKerrell
On 11 Jun 2008, at 11:45, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote: Rainer Dorsch wrote: Sent: 10 June 2008 10:46 PM To: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: [OSM-talk] [OT] OSM based photo catalogue Hello, this post is somewhat offtopic but people here could know: Is there a project with

Re: [OSM-talk] [OT] OSM based photo catalogue

2008-06-11 Thread John McKerrell
On 11 Jun 2008, at 12:37, Rory McCann wrote: Rainer Dorsch wrote: Is there a project with builds a picasaweb like integration of photos with GPS location information and the OpenStreetMap data? A service like flickr can do a lot of this. It parses the GPS details in files. It only

Re: [OSM-talk] AfricaMap

2008-05-23 Thread John McKerrell
Ben spoke at one of the evening Bird's of a Feather sessions about AfricaMap. They have various goals for the project, but the first is to digitise and georeference the maps of Africa that they have available within the Harvard vaults. He seemed very open to the idea of making these maps

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-GB] Birmingham mapping party - Radio Interview today

2008-04-09 Thread John McKerrell
Just listened, great interview (apart from the strange tunnel discussion at the beginning ;-) Does make me think I should get another Liverpool party arranged and perhaps get on the radio to publicise it. Thanks for the multimap mention too :-) On 9 Apr 2008, at 06:25, Nick Black wrote:

Re: [OSM-talk] English version of OSM foldout flyer

2008-04-04 Thread John McKerrell
On 4 Apr 2008, at 14:20, Steve Hill wrote: On Fri, 4 Apr 2008, Frederik Ramm wrote: Great to see that the work is being put to other uses! (Meanwhile I had to order a second print run of the German flyer as the first 5,000 copies are already gone!) Has anyone handed these out to random

Re: [Talk-GB] Bluetooth GPS Reccomendations?

2008-03-28 Thread John McKerrell
On 28 Mar 2008, at 13:38, Keith Sharp wrote: - Bluetooth GPS, SIRF-III receiver. - Works with Linux (Fedora 8). - Rechargable battery, draws power and charges over USB. - GPS data available by USB as well as Bluetooth. - Can be purchased in the UK. Holux GPSlim 236 is the only device I've

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping with a data logger

2008-03-25 Thread John McKerrell
On 23 Mar 2008, at 13:24, Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote: El Domingo, 23 de Marzo de 2008, Mike Collinson escribió: 2) I have a PDA with a GPS device built-in. Expensive but very inconspicuous. Hhhmmm. What about a Nokia N95 with built-in GPS? There was the Holux M241 we discussed the other

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping with a data logger

2008-03-25 Thread John McKerrell
On 25 Mar 2008, at 22:18, Alex S. wrote: Frederik Ramm wrote: Google gives some results about free add-ons you can put on your Tomtom for track logging; seems you don't have to go the full Opentomtom route. I added Event_Logger to my TomTom for collecting track logs. It works great and

Re: [OSM-talk] GPS recommendation

2008-03-20 Thread John McKerrell
On 20 Mar 2008, at 12:36, Jon Stockill wrote: Richard Fairhurst wrote: Does anyone have any better suggestions? The Royaltek and i-Blue 747 units mentioned on the GPS Reviews page looks interesting. The Holux M241 looks interesting. USB, bluetooth, large memory, reasonable cost. Not sure

Re: [OSM-talk] GPS recommendation

2008-03-20 Thread John McKerrell
On 20 Mar 2008, at 14:14, Sven Anders wrote: Am Donnerstag, 20. März 2008 13:54 schrieb John McKerrell: On 20 Mar 2008, at 12:36, Jon Stockill wrote: Richard Fairhurst wrote: Does anyone have any better suggestions? The Royaltek and i-Blue 747 units mentioned on the GPS Reviews page

Re: [OSM-talk] GPS recommendation

2008-03-20 Thread John McKerrell
On 20 Mar 2008, at 14:47, Jon Stockill wrote: John McKerrell wrote: Is that a problem? It's still cheap at £42.99. As far as I can tell the only potential problem is going to be battery life compared to a non-logging bluetooth GPS. Has anyone used one of these? I'm very tempted

[OSM-talk] Straw Poll - Disk space results

2008-03-19 Thread John McKerrell
Finally got around to adding up the numbers. In total a whole 10 people gave me a figure (including me). The final total for photos was about 42G. Not a huge figure really... On 12 Feb 2008, at 17:13, Jon Stockill wrote: If you tell me what features you need I'm can prod the programmer

Re: [OSM-talk] Straw Poll - Disk space used by OSM photos/audio

2008-03-02 Thread John McKerrell
I just noticed I never posted the followup to this poll. I'll leave it until the end of the day so that anyone who didn't reply can do so, then I'll try to post something tomorrow. John On 14 Feb 2008, at 22:54, Alex S. wrote: Jo wrote: Robert Vollmert schreef: I believe gpsbabel

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

2008-02-21 Thread John McKerrell
Yes, this sounds great. I don't tend to log explicit waypoints so this is going to be much more useful for me. Did you think about having a little arrow or some sort of marker that followed the trace as you played the audio or is there some specific reason that this would not be possible?

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

2008-02-21 Thread John McKerrell
On 21 Feb 2008, at 19:04, David Earl wrote: On 21/02/2008 09:26, John McKerrell wrote: Yes, this sounds great. I don't tend to log explicit waypoints so this is going to be much more useful for me. Did you think about having a little arrow or some sort of marker that followed

Re: [OSM-talk] Background layers in Potlatch

2008-02-12 Thread John McKerrell
On 12 Feb 2008, at 10:09, Andy Robinson ((blackadder)) wrote: Richard Fairhurst wrote: Sent: 12 February 2008 9:55 AM To: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: [OSM-talk] Background layers in Potlatch Hello all, You can now choose from several background layers in Potlatch. Cool stuff

Re: [Talk-GB] Mappers in Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Somerset

2008-02-11 Thread John McKerrell
Hi again, My contact has been in touch again and I can confirm that the first four counties he would like to use are Cornwall, Devon, Dorset Somerset while the second tranche will be Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire Norfolk. These all need to be finished by mid-April though

[OSM-talk] Straw Poll - Disk space used by OSM photos/audio

2008-02-10 Thread John McKerrell
Hi After a conversation on IRC I started wondering what the total disk space was that people had used for their OSM photos (the photos of road signs, postboxes, etc. that many people use for mapping). I thought I'd conduct a straw poll on here to see what numbers came out. I'm not looking

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] disputed areas

2008-02-10 Thread John McKerrell
On 10 Feb 2008, at 18:09, Jon Stockill wrote: John McKerrell wrote: I must say, I wondered this earlier, wouldn't this be the simplest option or would it lock out too may people? One of two things happens: 1) You've just blocked a proxy address, resulting in lots of innocent people

Re: [OSM-talk] Straw Poll - Disk space used by OSM photos/audio

2008-02-10 Thread John McKerrell
On 10 Feb 2008, at 18:53, John McKerrell wrote: check rather than guesstimating. Also if there's any other thing that you do as part of mapping that uses disk space you could give that number too (though please identify it separately), for example I'm giving the compressed audio that I often

Re: [OSM-talk] Straw Poll - Disk space used by OSM photos/audio

2008-02-10 Thread John McKerrell
On 10 Feb 2008, at 19:59, Martin Simon wrote: Am Sonntag, 10. Februar 2008 19:53:30 schrieb John McKerrell: ...I'm not particularly planning to create an OSM equivalent of flickr (though that could be pretty cool), I'm just That would indeed be cool! Well, yes, but so far we're aiming

Re: [Talk-GB] Mappers in Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Somerset

2008-02-06 Thread John McKerrell
roads, possibly with a few lower classification roads when there's an attraction nearby. Do you have a car, do you think you would be able to help with specifically mapping major roads? On 3 Feb 2008, at 22:30, Tom Hughes wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] John McKerrell [EMAIL

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