Re: [OSM-talk] Approved: Unsubscribe

2015-12-27 Thread Tom Taylor
This is Lisa Taylor on behalf of Tom Taylor, who died 24/12/15. Please unsubscribe this address from your list. Thank you. On Dec 24, 2015 05:41, "Felix Delattre" <felix-li...@delattre.de> wrote: > Sorry, for the misleading "spam" in the subject line. This is

Re: [OSM-talk] From osmf-talk: "Balancing the presence of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT US Inc) in the OpenStreetMap Foundation"

2015-11-27 Thread Tom Taylor
as representative of HOT. She is no longer executive director there. Is she not up for re-election? Tom Taylor TomT5454 On 27/11/2015 6:27 PM, augustindo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Dave, Your question is not adressed to me but I'd like to participate here. My name is Augustin Doury, I've been

Re: [OSM-talk] What3words

2015-11-24 Thread Tom Taylor
Isn't it simply the equivalent of TinyURL for coordinates? Tom Taylor TomT5454 On 24/11/2015 9:00 AM, Andres Ortiz Haro wrote: When I first knew about w3w I thought it was some kind of a "solution in search of a problem", searching for other views on the matter I actually found a

Re: [OSM-talk] A message to our friends at HOT, Peace Corps etc. about Changeset Comments

2015-11-19 Thread Tom Taylor
aining WGF has been tasked with updating LerarnOSM, for the general OSM community as well as HOT. The work is going a bit slowly -- a matter of personal circumstances of the people involved, but it is proceeding. Tom Taylor Chair, HOT Training WG ___

[OSM-talk] Suppression of spam

2015-11-06 Thread Tom Taylor
To OSM-Talk administrators: All those "New Message" E-mails are coming through one account: br...@desrocher.org. We've blocked them from the HOT list by putting that account into moderation. Tom Taylor ___ talk mailing list talk@openstr

Re: [Talk-ca] Business incubator

2015-03-26 Thread Tom Taylor
building=commercial on the building outline for a start. My own practice is to add point mappings for shops. Forr a rendered view you can see my local shopping centre at http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/45.37936/-75.64383 Tom Taylor tomt5454 On 26/03/2015 12:53 PM, Yves Moisan wrote: Hi

Re: [Talk-ca] Target Canada

2015-03-25 Thread Tom Taylor
Added Target, Billings Bridge, Ottawa, the most active Target store in the city, to the Wiki. One of these days I'll add a complete survey of the shopping centre. I walk through it most days for exercise. The store is due (according to the signs) to close April 3. Tom Taylor tomt5454 On 25

Re: [OSM-talk] What is OS OpenMap (UK)?

2015-02-22 Thread Tom Taylor
The feedback should go both ways, if OSM members detect errors and know where they came from they should report back. Tom Taylor On 22/02/2015 9:27 AM, Stefan Keller wrote: Hi Jonathan Thanks for the clarification. My fist intention is to take this announcement to put pressure on other

[OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: [dispatch] Forming and chartering a GeoJSON WG

2015-02-05 Thread Tom Taylor
Thought this proposed new Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) activity might be of interest. Tom Taylor Forwarded Message Subject: Re: [dispatch] Forming and chartering a GeoJSON WG Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2015 09:59:04 -0800 From: Erik Wilde d...@berkeley.edu To: dispa

Re: [OSM-talk] MEP - pipelines

2015-01-07 Thread Tom Taylor
. Then we can add to it. Do you think I should subscribe to the tag list and warn them? Tom Taylor TomT5454 ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] MEP - pipelines

2015-01-06 Thread Tom Taylor
to cross-reference advice on the Features page. Tom Taylor TomT5454 ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [Talk-ca] Adding Buildings + Leisure + Corrections To Ottawa Map Over Holiday Season

2014-12-23 Thread Tom Taylor
Fine with me. I've been mapping apartment and commercial/institutional buildings but not ordinary residences in my area. Does that seem like a reasonable priority, with the rest to be added later? Tom Taylor On 23/12/2014 10:37 AM, Richard Burcher wrote: Hi Folks, I've created a new mapping

Re: [Talk-ca] Large polygons in JOSM

2014-09-15 Thread Tom Taylor
Might be dull, but I generally split multipolygons into reasonably-sized adjacent chunks rather than giant monsters. In my case, it's usually when I'm outlining a river. Tom Taylor On 14/09/2014 10:29 PM, Sam Dyck wrote: HI Currently I'm working on importing the Canvec tiles that make up

Re: [Talk-ca] Coastline or not coastline

2014-07-30 Thread Tom Taylor
fleuve St. Laurent. La solution est assez simple: définir une relation multipolygone pour juste la partie de la fleuve on peut couvrir en temps raisonable -- un ou deux heures à plus grand. Des autres peuvent aider avec un minimum de la coordination. Tom Taylor I am responding to a proposal

Re: [OSM-talk] This has to stop: User Diaries Spam

2014-05-14 Thread Tom Taylor
On 14/05/2014 5:53 AM, Jóhannes Birgir Jensson wrote: Having just had over 20 such entries popping up not only on the RSS-feed but also on Twitter this indeed has become very irksome. I suggest first posting of a user with less than 10 edits to be held for moderation. Red tape which I generally

[OSM-talk] JOSM should delete image caches on exit

2014-01-11 Thread Tom Taylor
really does not. How do I put a request in to the JOSM developers to ensure that images caches are deleted upon exit from JOSM? Tom Taylor TomT5454 ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] JOSM should delete image caches on exit

2014-01-11 Thread Tom Taylor
On 11/01/2014 11:02 PM, Joseph R. Justice wrote: On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 10:04 PM, Tom Taylor tom.taylor.s...@gmail.com mailto:tom.taylor.s...@gmail.com wrote: I started a virus scan a couple of days ago and wondered why scanning seemed to hang up on a particular file. Investigating

Re: [OSM-talk] JOSM should delete image caches on exit

2014-01-11 Thread Tom Taylor
On 12/01/2014 2:43 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: Caching images for a given session makes lots of sense, but leaving them forever really does not. How do I put a request in to the JOSM developers to ensure that images caches are deleted upon exit from JOSM? As someone in a low-bandwidth

Re: [Talk-ca] Problem with overpasses in NB??

2013-12-03 Thread Tom Taylor
I think I saw an instance of the same problem when adding road names in Quebec Province recently. Tom Taylor On 03/12/2013 9:21 AM, berniejconnors wrote: Here is another sample of the problem since Richard corrected my other example ;-) http://osm.org/go/cgOZhazjT?m= As I see

[Talk-ca] Geobase error

2013-11-06 Thread Tom Taylor
strongly suspect this is an error in Geobase. Where should I send a note for them to check it out? Tom Taylor ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] Where the streets have no name...

2013-10-31 Thread Tom Taylor
and showing less information than we already have in OSM. Can you point me to what I really need? Tom Taylor TomT5454 On 30/10/2013 10:45 PM, Bruno Remy wrote: Bonjour, J'ai le plaisir de vous annoncer la création des 2 cartes MapCraft pour les principales villes du Québec qui souffrent d'un

Re: [Talk-ca] Where the streets have no name...

2013-10-31 Thread Tom Taylor
/TMS list of available layers under the CA section. Pierre *De :* Tom Taylor tom.taylor.s...@gmail.com *À :* Bruno Remy bremy.qc...@gmail.com; Harald Kliems kli...@gmail.com *Cc :* talk-ca@openstreetmap.org talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] Where the streets have no name...

2013-10-31 Thread Tom Taylor
the Canvec and Geobase layers. I have added these to the WMS/TMS list of available layers under the CA section. Pierre *De :* Tom Taylor tom.taylor.s...@gmail.com *À :* Bruno Remy bremy.qc...@gmail.com; Harald Kliems kli

Re: [OSM-talk] Timezones

2013-10-21 Thread Tom Taylor
requirements? Then on which list would we architect a solution? And finally, on which list would we coordinate solution development? Tom Taylor TomT5454 ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] Another New Scientist article mentioning OSM

2013-07-10 Thread Tom Taylor
Cars that look around to work out where they are -- match observed intersections and bends in the road against OSM to locate where they are. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21929255.900-cars-that-look-around-to-work-out-where-they-are.html ___

[OSM-talk] New Scientist article on OpenStreetMap and HOT

2013-07-04 Thread Tom Taylor
Article at http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23808-citizen-cartographers-fill-the-gaps-in-maps.html TomT5454 ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [Talk-ca] Importations Canvec

2013-06-24 Thread Tom Taylor
One point occurs to me. I seem to recall reading in the Canvec documentation that if we find Canvec in error we should report back to them. TomT5454 Tom Taylor On 24/06/2013 10:57 AM, Daniel Begin wrote: Bonjour dega, Comme l'écrivait Pierre... Les imports Canvec, tout comme les traces GPS

Re: [OSM-talk] Revival: Multilingual Country-List

2013-02-22 Thread Tom Taylor
In fact, here in Ottawa, Canada, we do name= for the English and then name:fr= for the French version, for all streets. Across the river in Gatineau, Quebec, the practice is to do name=a name in French and not bother with the English. I have no idea if software trying to process our region is

Re: [OSM-talk] Paweł's q: what can be done?

2013-02-05 Thread Tom Taylor
the details of participants' interests if any coherence is to be given to the project as a whole. Tom Taylor ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] STFU

2013-02-02 Thread Tom Taylor
I'm interested in OSM. I do mapping. I subscribed to Talk after a few weeks on Newbies, but all these political outcries strongly tempt me to unsubscribe. They don't contribute to the mapping that is presumably our primary interest. On 02/02/2013 5:07 PM, Paweł Paprota wrote: On 02/02/2013

[Talk-ca] Traduire Upper Lorne Place

2013-01-06 Thread Tom Taylor
Comment traduire le nom de rue Upper Lorne Place? Il s'agit d'une rue normal, pas une place comme la place des Vosges. Merci, Tom Taylor ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

[Talk-ca] CanVec misalignment? Ottawa end of Portage Bridge

2012-12-18 Thread Tom Taylor
) are way out of line (up to 7 m) with the Bing imagery, but lots of GPS traces show that Bing has put the Portage Bridge in the right place. Do we take CanVec as gospel in this case and shift the river boundary, or should I just tiptoe away and leave it alone? Tom Taylor

Re: [Talk-ca] Validating existing data in Ottawa area

2012-12-03 Thread Tom Taylor
of Gatineau. Lots to do. Tom Taylor ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] Validating existing data in Ottawa area

2012-12-03 Thread Tom Taylor
OK, the particular spot I was concerned about for misalignment was above Alexandria Bay. It's a little neighbourhood off Ch. Lattion, including R. de la Spartan, R. de la Lobo, and R. de la Cortland. CanVec shows R. de la Sparta running further north and another street or two coming off it.

[Talk-ca] Validating existing data in Ottawa area

2012-12-02 Thread Tom Taylor
because the same objects were downloaded from CanVec 6.0 and CanVec 7.0. I'll be working my way east and south from this starting point. I suppose I should write this up in the Ottawa Wiki so others can coordinate. Tom Taylor ___ Talk-ca mailing

[Talk-ca] Tags for foot paths and bicycle paths

2012-11-22 Thread Tom Taylor
there is a local convention. Tom Taylor ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] GPS inaccuracy

2012-11-20 Thread Tom Taylor
be monitoring this list. Tom taylor ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] GPS inaccuracy

2012-11-19 Thread Tom Taylor
trouvé toujours environ 10 metres à l'ouest des entités déja presents sur la carte et les images Bing. Je vais faire un autre sondage pour mieux comprendre la situation. Tom Taylor On 19/11/2012 8:37 AM, Connors, Bernie (SNB) wrote: Tom, The transmission lines would not affect your GPS accuracy

[Talk-ca] GPS inaccuracy

2012-11-18 Thread Tom Taylor
. It doesn't seem worth uploading my track, though maybe I should investigate some more. Tom Taylor ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] GPS inaccuracy

2012-11-18 Thread Tom Taylor
Mostly the buildings were two stories only. A high-voltage transmission line runs behind them, the width of the buildings and more away, but maybe it had some effect. On 18/11/2012 11:23 AM, Pierre Béland wrote: Tom You can try to repeat the experience with this same GPS and compare your

Re: [Talk-ca] Internal CanVec conflicts

2012-11-15 Thread Tom Taylor
and dragged the other to match the Bing image. Was that the right thing to do? Tom Taylor ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

[Talk-ca] Primacy of GPS Traces (was Re: Internal CanVec conflicts)

2012-11-15 Thread Tom Taylor
As a geocacher, I'm unhappily aware that different brands of GPS give different results, with differences in the order of 10 meters for an individual point. I suppose a track should be better, since there is an internal consistency check, though not if the difference is due to systemic causes.

[Talk-ca] Bus maps for Ottawa

2012-11-15 Thread Tom Taylor
policy (catalogue at http://www.ottawa.ca/en/city_hall/statisticsdata/opendata/info/index.htm). Talk about an embarrassment of riches! Now I just have to put the tools together to do bulk mapping to OSM. Or has someone already tackled this? Tom Taylor

Re: [Talk-GB] VectorMap District tomorrow (29th)

2010-04-29 Thread Tom Taylor
Seems to be live now (at the bottom): https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/opendatadownload/products.html On 28 Apr 2010, at 22:47, Jo Walsh wrote: dear all, Pls forgiveness if this is old news/missed in digest, but heard today that the new VectorMap District OS dataset is expected out

[Talk-GB] Postcode search on OSM.org

2010-04-25 Thread Tom Taylor
As part of making OSM more friendly and useful for the general public, it'd be great to have accurate postcode search on the main site. Now that OS have released Code-Point Open, what would it take to get this data into the search results? And what could I do to help? I appreciate Code-Point

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM quality in the UK - academic paper

2008-08-07 Thread Tom Taylor
On 7 Aug 2008, at 16:24, SteveC wrote: I'm still reading... http://povesham.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/osm-quality-evaluation/ That's really interesting, especially seeing the link between poverty and OSM status made explicit. As you say: no one wants to map estates.

Re: [OSM-talk] Osmxapi down?

2008-07-13 Thread Tom Taylor
On 13 Jul 2008, at 10:13, Shaun McDonald wrote: Which URL were you doing? What were you expecting, and what did you get instead? I've been getting this on and off for a while. --2008-07-13 10:26:38-- http://www.informationfreeway.org/api/0.5/ node[amenity=pub][bbox=-6,50,2,61] Resolving

[Talk-GB] NaviGPS BGT-11 for sale

2008-07-13 Thread Tom Taylor
Hi all, Does anyone want to take a NaviGPS BGT-11 off my hands? I'm pondering getting one of the Garmins to load OSM maps on to. Lots of info about it here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/NaviGPS It's well looked after, and comes with one of the compatible 2GB SD cards, and the

[OSM-talk] UK Postcode district boundaries

2008-07-08 Thread Tom Taylor
Hi all, Is there any open data available containing UK postcode district boundaries (eg. YO31, E5, HP16)? Ideally I'd like to be able to put in a longitude and latitude and find out what district it falls inside. Failing that, what about postcode area? (eg. YO, E, HP) Cheers, Tom

[OSM-talk] UK post box data

2008-07-05 Thread Tom Taylor
Hello all, I recently made a Freedom of Information Act request for the location of every UK post box. Royal Mail responded with a 1600 page PDF containing their info. http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/location_of_every_post_box_that I did some parsing of the PDF, and it seems that of

Re: [OSM-talk] UK post box data

2008-07-05 Thread Tom Taylor
On 5 Jul 2008, at 16:51, Shaun McDonald wrote: http://edwardbetts.com/osm/stations.html That's nice. I'll see if I can knock something similar together using postcode boundaries. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

[OSM-talk] Tagging pub review URLs

2008-04-11 Thread Tom Taylor
Is there a recommended way of tagging URLs for amenities, such a pubs? I'm thinking for their home pages, customer reviews, etc. Is it even recommended? Cheers, Tom ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

[OSM-talk] pubs.iamnear.net launched

2008-04-02 Thread Tom Taylor
Hello all, I wrote a really simple application to grab your location from Fire Eagle, and show you the nearest five pubs. Of course, the pub data is sourced from OSM (only those with names set). You'll need a Fire Eagle invitation for it to work. http://www.iamnear.net I'm still messing around

Re: [OSM-talk] pubs.iamnear.net launched

2008-04-02 Thread Tom Taylor
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Paul Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there a way to get those results as xml (or even better, for my purposes, as gpx waypoints)? I'm exporting from the OSM Extended API http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Osmxapi, which spits it out in XML. It's easy

Re: [OSM-talk] pubs.iamnear.net launched

2008-04-02 Thread Tom Taylor
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 3:59 PM, David Earl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Namefinder already does this: Agreed, but this is designed entirely for Fire Eagle and a mobile interface. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org