Re: [OSM-talk] Add 'Keep right!' to the list of map links in the 'place' template

2009-03-03 Thread Harald Kleiner
Shaun wrote: This crossing of a highway and a railway needs to be tagged as railway=level_crossing Is not quite right as it should also allow railway=crossing. a crossing is a crossing just for pedestrians, while level_crossing is a crossing where larger vehicles can cross too.

[OSM-talk] Add 'Keep right!' to the list of map links in the 'place' template

2009-03-02 Thread Ed Avis
[I sent a message about this to the list last week, but it got lost somewhere] Most of the individual country pages on the OSM wiki have a box on the right generated using the 'place' template. This gives a link to view the country on the main slippy map and also to view it in various external

Re: [OSM-talk] Add 'Keep right!' to the list of map links in the 'place' template

2009-03-02 Thread Andrew Chadwick (email lists)
Ed Avis wrote: [Add Keep Right! to Template:places] Done (anyone can do this, it's a wiki). I think it's a potentially useful tool, even if it does use the deprecated phrase deprecated for perfectly reasonable tags like abutters=retail (how else do you tag shopfronts in an otherwise

Re: [OSM-talk] Add 'Keep right!' to the list of map links in the 'place' template

2009-03-02 Thread Peter Miller
On 2 Mar 2009, at 15:48, Ed Avis wrote: [I sent a message about this to the list last week, but it got lost somewhere] Most of the individual country pages on the OSM wiki have a box on the right generated using the 'place' template. This gives a link to view the country on the

Re: [OSM-talk] Add 'Keep right!' to the list of map links in the 'place' template

2009-03-02 Thread Ed Avis
Andrew Chadwick (email lists andrewc-email-lists at piffle.org writes: [Add Keep Right! to Template:places] Done (anyone can do this, it's a wiki). Thanks - I didn't want to risk breaking every single country page without discussing it on the list first :-p. -- Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com

Re: [OSM-talk] Add 'Keep right!' to the list of map links in the 'place' template

2009-03-02 Thread Ed Avis
However I don't see a link to 'Keep right!' in http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_Kingdom... did adding it take effect? -- Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Add 'Keep right!' to the list of map links in the 'place' template

2009-03-02 Thread Andrew Chadwick (email lists)
Ed Avis wrote: However I don't see a link to 'Keep right!' in http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_Kingdom... did adding it take effect? It seems to take rather variable effect, which is odd. From where I'm sitting: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bradford - works

Re: [OSM-talk] Add 'Keep right!' to the list of map links in the 'place' template

2009-03-02 Thread Renaud MICHEL
Le lundi 02 mars 2009 à 16:48, Ed Avis a écrit : I'd like to request that 'Keep right!' http://keepright.ipax.at/ be added to this list.  It checks various map errors, not all of which are covered by maplint or the other tools. Hey, I just discovered this site, it's great! I've quickly

Re: [OSM-talk] Add 'Keep right!' to the list of map links in the 'place' template

2009-03-02 Thread Milenko
Such a cool tool. I wish it worked for the rest of the world. :( Is the source available that it could be run on another site? I have a server sitting doing nothing that might be good for something like this. -Jeremy -Original Message- From: talk-boun...@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Add 'Keep right!' to the list of map links in the 'place' template

2009-03-02 Thread Harald Kleiner
Hi! Done (anyone can do this, it's a wiki). I think it's a potentially useful tool, even if it does use the deprecated phrase deprecated for perfectly reasonable tags like abutters=retail (how else do you tag shopfronts in an otherwise predominantly residential area?) Just don't take every

Re: [OSM-talk] Add 'Keep right!' to the list of map links in the 'place' template

2009-03-02 Thread Harald Kleiner
Hi Peter, Thank you very much for the hint to that great feature! Just added that to keepright Have fun with it! Harald In Potlatch you can enter edit mode with a particular feature already selected. We do this with OSM Mapper and it works very well and Geofabrik do it as well. You

Re: [OSM-talk] Add 'Keep right!' to the list of map links in the 'place' template

2009-03-02 Thread Harald Kleiner
Hi Milenko! Watch out, I could take you at your word! I am surprised that there is so much response and demand to run checks by many people. Up to now I've tried to run the checks on the whole planet but that just crashed the server. You need at least 4GB RAM and 400GB hard disk, built up

Re: [OSM-talk] Add 'Keep right!' to the list of map links in the 'place' template

2009-03-02 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 2 Mar 2009, at 20:51, Harald Kleiner wrote: Hi! Done (anyone can do this, it's a wiki). I think it's a potentially useful tool, even if it does use the deprecated phrase deprecated for perfectly reasonable tags like abutters=retail (how else do you tag shopfronts in an otherwise

Re: [OSM-talk] Add 'Keep right!' to the list of map links in the 'place' template

2009-03-02 Thread Ed Loach
Shaun wrote: This crossing of a highway and a railway needs to be tagged as railway=level_crossing Is not quite right as it should also allow railway=crossing. a crossing is a crossing just for pedestrians, while level_crossing is a crossing where larger vehicles can cross too. Hi