On May 22, 2009, at 12:06, Ingo Lantschner wrote:
Beside of the tag-name: I still have no idea, how new developed tags,
rules and symbols can be fed back into the project.
Some possibilities -- different people have different opinions on
what's useful or required:
* discuss it (mailing list,
On Mar 22, 2009, at 03:01, Maning Sambale wrote:
For some reasons I can't explain, my etrex couldn't start anymore. At
first I thought it's the battery but plugging it to my usb doesn't
work
either.
I see no physical damage in the unit and it's still working yesterday.
Any idea why? Or
On Feb 26, 2009, at 11:57, Mike Harris wrote:
I support Richard's logic 100% but am unsure whether I want to put the
effort in to go back and add the tags to all those ways I have done!
(;) -
at least until there had been enough discussion that this was well
established as a new standard.
On Feb 26, 2009, at 12:53, Ed Loach wrote:
Robert wrote:
values there; also, should there be a :uk or uk: in the tag
or
value?
I wouldn't have thought the uk: was needed, as you can presumably
tell that from where the path is. Also, I think the various statuses
may vary in the different
On Feb 22, 2009, at 16:04, Thomas Wagner wrote:
I experienced the same problem with some of my roads before.
Unfortunately I did not get a helpful response on the list. But I
found,
that editing the road again (also it is ok in edit mode), especially
splitting and moving one node of each
On Feb 20, 2009, at 11:14, Ed Loach wrote:
In the wiki, Relation:route[1] suggests network of uk_ldp for the UK
long distance path network, but Walking_Routes[2] suggests
iwn/nwn/rwn/lwn for network types. It looks like the uk_ldp goes
back over a year to October 2007, so there are probably a
On Feb 21, 2009, at 07:44, Matt White wrote:
I was just pottering around checking some of the mapping I had done,
and
noticed some strangeness in the rendering of a road I mapped about two
months ago:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-37.5138lon=144.4427zoom=14layers=B000FTF
The road
Hello,
there's some strange coastline data near longitude 180. See eg
http://openstreetmap.org/browse/way/24020654
I thought I'd ask before trying to fix this, in case I'd flood the
world otherwise.
I haven't found an editor that works well in this area -- they all
seem to think the world
On Feb 19, 2009, at 15:38, andrzej zaborowski wrote:
2009/2/19 Robert (Jamie) Munro rjmu...@arjam.net:
The right solution here is to map 0-360 degrees to the unsigned
integers
0-2^32. When you get an overflow, the right thing happens. It also
makes
the most efficient use of the
On Feb 18, 2009, at 02:02, Andrew Chadwick (mailing lists) wrote:
The OSM2go mobile map editor has been updated, please update your
copies
if you're following what we do :)
This version adds full editability of relations, and we'd really love
your feedback. So it's available as binaries
On Feb 12, 2009, at 12:06, Stephen Gower wrote:
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 10:47:10AM +, Andrew Chadwick (email
lists) wrote:
Stephen Gower wrote:
What's the most efficient route for visiting all Oxford's
colleges?
So, since the data for Oxford is pretty much there, is this a
Hi Richard,
please don't mistake me for one of the German Potlatch haters. I
rather like it, and acknowledge the great work you've done. But:
On Dec 16, 2008, at 10:24, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
management. Conflict management isn't really an issue when you're
redownloading from the server
On Dec 12, 2008, at 16:43, Andy Allan wrote:
On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Robert Vollmert rvollmert-li...@gmx.net
wrote:
Hi all,
there seem to be a few Garmin users around here. If you'd like to
give
routable OSM-derived maps a try, there's some instructions on the
wiki
at http
On Dec 9, 2008, at 21:58, Ed Loach wrote:
I think the way heading north from Finland may actually pass
straight through Finland and start somewhere near Riga. But I can’t
find it using Mapnik or Potlatch.
http://openstreetmap.org/browse/way/27611977
Cheers
Robert
(to the list also)
On Dec 9, 2008, at 22:29, Scott Atwood wrote:
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Robert Vollmert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Dec 9, 2008, at 21:58, Ed Loach wrote:
I think the way heading north from Finland may actually pass
straight through Finland and start somewhere
On Dec 7, 2008, at 17:39, Andy Street wrote:
I had a go at producing a routable map for my local area but
whenever I
transfer it to my eTrex Vista HCX it always routes on the in-built
basemap no matter what I try.
It seems you're doing everything right. The gmapsupp.img you generated
Hi all,
there seem to be a few Garmin users around here. If you'd like to give
routable OSM-derived maps a try, there's some instructions on the wiki
at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mkgmap/routing . The support is
still quite incomplete both because the Garmin format isn't completely
On Dec 1, 2008, at 11:02, Bernhard Zwischenbrugger wrote:
In Vienna we have an event called Friday Night Skating.
Every week about 1000 Inline Skater meet at 10pm and skate on normal
roads.
The police blocks all the roads an it is possible to skate on roads
that are for normal for cars
2008/12/1 Richard Fairhurst [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Personally I believe the easiest and most flexible thing is just to
extend
the access tags:
bicycle=no|yes|difficult|unsuitable
so you'd get
highway=bridleway
foot=yes (permitted, no problem)
bicycle:racer=unsuitable (permitted but not
On Dec 1, 2008, at 11:15, Douglas Furlong wrote:
If this is an argument in favour of smoothness, then you would run
in to exactly the same problem (just not as fine grained).
If a user see's a road as being tagged as smooth, then they'd
think that they could roller blade on it, which
On Nov 30, 2008, at 17:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One of the ways that I saw had removed a street is here.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=28.57944lon=77.2855zoom=16layers=B000FTF
You're right, they were mapped and deleted:
http://openstreetmap.org/browse/way/25524666/history
Cheers
On Nov 30, 2008, at 06:22, ビカス ヤダワ (vikas yadav) wrote:
Here in the streets of New Delhi and Gurgaon, we have lots of speed
breakers (or bumps - These are small, raised portions on the road to
slow down a fast vehicle, eg, passing through a living street
entering a faster highway.) Some
On Nov 30, 2008, at 06:16, ビカス ヤダワ (vikas yadav) wrote:
I checked one of the sections that I had surveyed, mapped and
uploaded two months back.
Suddenly when I went through that street yesterday, I could not see
my edits anymore.
It was a plain single street without a one way property
This turned out rather long. Summary: smoothness is a useful tag,
though the wiki definition may be lacking. Thanks for reading.
On Nov 27, 2008, at 11:27, Dave Stubbs wrote:
The table is full of such subjective assessments: can I roller blade
on it. No, I can't. It doesn't help that I can't
On Nov 25, 2008, at 17:16, Andy Allan wrote:
Go ChrisCF is all I can say - I'd rather that the wiki was a
meritocracy
With those in charge that show most determination in an edit war?
than ochlocracy and I'm flabbergasted that such
ill-conceived tagging is now an acceptable norm.
On Aug 5, 2008, at 08:53, Thorsten Feles wrote:
Lennard voor den Dag schrieb:
That earlier proposal was highway=parking_aisle, not
service=parking_aisle (with highway=service) as it stands now, IIRC.
But its not getting better, the service key is already in use by the
railways guys. Even a
On Jul 29, 2008, at 00:40, Karl Newman wrote:
Don't overestimate the usage of the current data scheme, though. The
Germans are prolific mappers, but I would be surprised if there are
even a few thousand addresses entered in the current format, if that.
According to tagwatch, around 2
On Jul 29, 2008, at 14:25, Stefan Neufeind wrote:
in tagwatch, e.g. at
http://tagwatch.stoecker.eu/Europe/En/tags.html
I see entries that link to adresses like
http://osmxapi.hypercube.telascience.org/api/0.5/*%5Bvalue=LIDL%5D
That page takes quite a while to load but then returns with an
On Jul 25, 2008, at 13:13, David Earl wrote:
I've thought about not tagging for the rendering (and name finder is a
kind of renderer), but there isn't a simple algorithmic solution.
While
it might be possible to do some analysis of connections to try to
determine when two things are part of
On Jul 22, 2008, at 09:41, mariner wrote:
The map feature aerialway=cable_car isn't rendered in mapnik. Could
someone fix this?
Here a link to the problem:
http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=46.89994lon=8.50536zoom=15layers=B00FTF
If you'd like something to be rendered, I think it's best to file
On Jul 18, 2008, at 09:27, elvin ibbotson wrote:
Very nice but it needs DirectX. I cut my map programming teeth on a
viewer for British OS maps which uses Java 3D
(http://britain.poco.org.uk/desktop.html
). I can’t share it because of copyright restrictions on the maps,
but the
On Jul 8, 2008, at 02:19, wer-ist-roger wrote:
So befor comming to the wrong conclusions I like to contact that
person but I
have no idea how to search for a user so that I can write a message
(people
search on OSM is realy bad, sorry)
Just in case it is a violating person I like to
Hello,
very cool indeed.
Very much so.
- work in progress: tracktype
As a cyclist I'd appreciate it if track with no additional info,
track with
surface=paced, track with surface=gravel, and tracks of type1, 2 and
probably
3 would be taken into account.
This may be unrealistic,
On Jun 27, 2008, at 16:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
a) Get the user to click each way in turn on the slippy map. Each
way
then
gets highlighted (possible via OpenLayers Vector layer). When
finished,
user clicks Done and can add any further comments. This should be
fairly
easy to
On Jun 24, 2008, at 09:26, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
Quick question: How do you tag individual graves
(either part of a cemetery, or not)?
Unless I'm missing obvious ideas, not many people have tagged single
graves according to tagwatch. Obvious choices:
historic=grave, historic=tomb
or if
Disclaimer: based on a little of web research; I have no particular
knowledge of linguistics or speech synthesis.
On Jun 24, 2008, at 03:54, SteveC wrote:
On 23 Jun 2008, at 18:52, Lauri Hahne wrote:
I think some standard form should be used if we ever want to do
something like this.
On Jun 24, 2008, at 11:02, Robert Vollmert wrote:
A possible alternative is the free-as-in-beer mbrola
http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/mbrola/
. It's a speech synthesis backend based on diphones (two halves of
phones). Its input format appears to be SAMPA plus additional data.
http
On Jun 13, 2008, at 18:00, Alexander Zatko wrote:
I found out that there is a tag tourism=chalet which seems to be quite
a similar concept to alpine hut. Given that the chalet tag is already
approved, I will start using it, but am not sure what to do with the
proposal I created for Alpine
Hello,
the attached KML file links to a very rough proof-of-concept set of
KML tiles of OSM road data. There's several issues remaining (more on
that below). What do people think? Is this worth doing on a larger
scale? Is it evil?
Obviously, this shouldn't be used for mapping.
The aim
On Jun 11, 2008, at 12:05, David Earl wrote:
Maybe there should be an option to move or copy to another layer in
the same
location?
That would certainly be pretty straightforward to do.
Would people prefer
1. an additional paste operation (Paste in same place / Duplicate
in same place)
On Jun 11, 2008, at 17:30, Nic Roets wrote:
The current Google Earth maps for South Africa are supplied by
Tracks4Africa and AND. Both of them only show major roads and are
useless for routing. In contrast, OSM has all the roads and many
footways for Pretoria (Cape Town and Johannesburg
On Jun 6, 2008, at 09:09, spaetz wrote:
But if you tag a river universally over quite a bit with layer=-1
just for the fun of it, as was in the original example, then this
looks weird. And osmarender is right to make it look weird, isn't it?
I think this can be correct, if say a river
On May 31, 2008, at 13:46, Sven Grüner wrote:
The curving doesn't happen in Osmarender but is applied to the final
SVG, that's why it's not possible to differentiate between streets,
rivers and buildings, they're all just lines. The responsible script
is
lines2curves.pl:
On May 31, 2008, at 19:27, Chris Hill wrote:
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.
I also thing this makes logical sense too. The outer marks the edge
of
On May 23, 2008, at 02:01, David Muir Sharnoff wrote:
I'm trying to figure out how to represent an intersection that
is very wide: a traffic circle could placed in the middle without
moving the edges.
I've tried adding extra ways for various ways across the
expanse but it doesn't look
On Apr 17, 2008, at 01:26, Dermot McNally wrote:
To anyone who can show me what I broke:
http://geo.topf.org/comparison/index.html?mt0=mapnikmt1=tahx=971y=657z=11
[...]
So I decided to fix them. Rather than follow my usual practice of
representing islands in lakes as land at layer 1 I
On Apr 12, 2008, at 18:57, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
I can upload normal changes to OSM, but I cannot upload changes in
relations. I keep getting
Error while parsing: An error occured: 500 Internal Server Error
Is that a know problem?
I've had this error message in JOSM when I tried uploading a
On Apr 11, 2008, at 13:08, Chris Hill wrote:
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
On Apr 2, 2008, at 13:08, Cartinus wrote:
On Wednesday 02 April 2008 12:02:49 Robin Paulson wrote:
true, but as i suggested in a previous mail, i'm not sure why someone
would need to do this. if a user is importing another dataset which
needs attribution, they would likely be someone
On Mar 29, 2008, at 09:39, Andy Robinson wrote:
On 28/03/2008, Peter Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1) How does one tag something that is being considered seriously
(such as
the Mottram Tintwistle bypass), but which may well never get built?
I think
I will just put the estimated build
On Mar 27, 2008, at 00:56, Alex L. Mauer wrote:
Sven Geggus wrote:
1.) adding railway=funicular and rag=yes for non funicular incline
railways
2.) adding railway=incline and an additional tags for types of
incline
railways (funicular,rag, ...)
I think it is important to be able to mark
On Mar 26, 2008, at 00:24, Alex Mauer wrote:
Sven Geggus wrote:
Alex Mauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've written up a proposal here:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Incline_railway
I don't like this! It is often impossible to differeciate between
incline railways
Hello,
On Mar 17, 2008, at 19:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there any way of marking a 'trail', where a marked route which may
exist on other ways in part or as a whole?
This should probably be done using a route relation:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Relations/Routes
Cheers
On Mar 15, 2008, at 05:04, Inge Wallin wrote:
I am a very new user that has started to map up the village in
Sweden where I
live. However, I have found something strange.
Look at the slippy map, and search for Ljungsbro. Notice the to
streets
Kohagsvägen and Ugglebovägen southeast of
On Mar 13, 2008, at 23:27, Frederik Ramm wrote:
True, but since there can only be one circumference of a polygon,
could we not specify that if more than one outer ways exist in a
multipoly relation, these will be merged to make the circumference?
That would be very confusing. I'd expect outer
On Mar 12, 2008, at 11:47, Dirk-Lüder Kreie wrote:
Robert Vollmert schrieb:
Certainly the multipolygons which are just a polygon with several
ways making up the border are broken and should be fixed. I hope to
get a handle on these.
What do we do with ways that get excessively long if we
On Mar 11, 2008, at 23:02, Jon Burgess wrote:
I've just fixed another 248 which were shown up by locating all
polygons
output by the old osm2pgsql algorithm whose outer ring had more than a
single way.
I've gone through relations with id below 3000 now, joining up the
easy outer rings and
On Mar 10, 2008, at 22:51, Igor Brejc wrote:
I too am a little bit confused: now the whole issue basically comes
down to renaming the relation from multipolygon to
area_with_holes. But
the inital proposal had some other features, like using the inner
polygons' tags to render the inner
On Mar 11, 2008, at 15:39, David Ebling wrote:
This question has been bugging me for a while. What
access= tag should you usefor footpaths and other ways
that are within a park that you must pay to enter.
They are not really private, but neither are they free
public access.
If there's some
On Mar 10, 2008, at 22:43, Jon Burgess wrote:
The original multipolygons created by the conversion above all had the
same tags and no defined roles.
Does osm2pgsql really require the same tags on all ways? The comments
in the code seem to say it's collecting tags from all member ways, in
Hello,
I've attached an ugly python script that does some manipulations to
relations in an OSM file it reads from stdin. In particular, for
relations that aren't degenerate, it puts role=outer on the largest
polygon and role=inner on all others. It also removes tags from inner
ways that
On Mar 4, 2008, at 22:10, Jon Burgess wrote:
Thanks for the information! It's becoming clear why things are the
way they are currently.
How about we define this as a new relation type and depreciate the
multipolygon type.
Which would take us right back to the beginning of the thread :).
Hello,
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Relations/Proposed/
Area_with_holes contains a proposal for an alternative to the current
multipolygon relation. Please tell me what you think about it. Am I
missing something?
In short, the proposed changes are the following:
Hello,
On Mar 3, 2008, at 18:03, Frederik Ramm wrote:
Until now I was unaware that we currently require the outer/inner ways
of polygons to be clockwise/anticlockwise. It seems that some
renderers work better if that is the case but nowhere is it a
requirement.
That's how I read
Hello,
On Mar 3, 2008, at 21:25, Jukka Rahkonen wrote:
mapnik or osmarender. From what I remember of reading the code, both
renderers skip areas with role=inner when rendering.
I can see that both renderers do draw the inner roles as holes, see:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?
On Mar 3, 2008, at 22:29, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
Hmm, I thought you could use the inner natural=water as the boundary
of the forest? Does this not work?
I think not. I'm pretty sure for osmarender, but may not have had
enough patience to test out the various combinations with mapnik.
On Mar 3, 2008, at 22:45, Sven Grüner wrote:
Robert Vollmert schrieb:
I think not. I'm pretty sure for osmarender, but may not have had
enough patience to test out the various combinations with mapnik.
I was wrong about osmarender: What I remembered is actually code from
mapnik (or rather
Hello,
On Feb 13, 2008 9:41 AM, Gregory [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Maybe (I possibly thought this when I started) so nobody knows
where I live/start, but I could easily not worry about that.
On Feb 13, 2008, at 19:14, Karl Newman wrote:
Yeah, I've been collecting traces, too, but not yet
Hello,
On Feb 3, 2008, at 20:20, Robin Paulson wrote:
taking on board one of Frederic's comments from last week: there are a
lot of proposed 'shop' tags on the proposals page, something which is
overwhelming and time-consuming to solve using our current method of
tag proposal/ratifying
i
On Jan 23, 2008, at 11:44, David Earl wrote:
I had in mind (and it'll probably stay in mind!) a renderer which
showed
you a ground level view of the street you were moving along with
upcoming turnings and so on, like a satnav display, which showed
signposts - no right turn, this way to
On Jan 22, 2008, at 13:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nick Whitelegg wrote:
TBH I would be fairly dubious about tagging any non-waymarked
walks/cycle rides as routes, let alone ones of my own devising. This
is interpretation which should be kept out of the largely
factual OSM.
The data
On Jan 19, 2008, at 23:10, Lukasz Stelmach wrote:
Ok. Forgive me my sarcasm earlier in this thread but I really think
automatic placement of icons at the areas is not so good.
Let me then propose different approach. Let's use the new algorithm
to create nodes that would be rendered as
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