Re: [OSM-talk] Countries that have NOT had any imports?

2010-10-04 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 21:41, Kai Krueger kakrue...@gmail.com wrote: I am wondering which countries have actually _not_ seen any imports so far? Aside from Ásbrú (http://osm.org/go/e...@ty5m-) and buildings around the University of Iceland (http://osm.org/go/e0UtNVRI--) Iceland has had no

Re: [OSM-talk] Countries that have NOT had any imports?

2010-10-03 Thread Patrick Weber
Luxembourg hasnt had any imports to my knowledge and I have been active in mapping (mostly from Yahoo imagery) there since 2005. Coverage is good for the areas with detailed imagery ... On 1 October 2010 18:37, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com wrote: Have there been any data imports in Northern

Re: [OSM-talk] Countries that have NOT had any imports?

2010-10-03 Thread Patrick Weber
On 3 October 2010 19:43, Patrick Weber petzimil...@googlemail.com wrote: Luxembourg hasnt had any imports to my knowledge and I have been active in mapping (mostly from Yahoo imagery) there since 2005. Coverage is good for the areas with detailed imagery ... -- Cheers Patrick

Re: [OSM-talk] Countries that have NOT had any imports?

2010-10-01 Thread Ed Avis
Have there been any data imports in Northern Ireland? It's not included in the Ordnance Survey OpenData release (there is a separate Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland), nor in the NaPTAN public transport database. -- Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com

Re: [OSM-talk] Countries that have NOT had any imports?

2010-09-30 Thread Elena ``of Valhalla''
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 02:41:12PM -0700, Kai Krueger wrote: with all the talk about imports recently, I am wondering which countries have actually _not_ seen any imports so far? I.e. which communities have chosen to build all their data from traditional surveying and ignored any other

Re: [OSM-talk] Countries that have NOT had any imports?

2010-09-30 Thread David Groom
- Original Message - From: Elena ``of Valhalla'' elena.valha...@gmail.com To: talk@openstreetmap.org Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2010 10:34 AM Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Countries that have NOT had any imports? On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 02:41:12PM -0700, Kai Krueger wrote: with all

Re: [OSM-talk] Countries that have NOT had any imports?

2010-09-30 Thread hbogner
On 09/29/2010 11:41 PM, Kai Krueger wrote: with all the talk about imports recently, I am wondering which countries have actually_not_ seen any imports so far? I.e. which communities have chosen to build all their data from traditional surveying and ignored any other available data sources?

Re: [OSM-talk] Countries that have NOT had any imports?

2010-09-30 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:47:02 +0200 Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Why not do it the other way round Could you answer the question? You cannot deduce the answer to the original question from the answer to the corollary. ___ talk mailing

Re: [OSM-talk] Countries that have NOT had any imports?

2010-09-30 Thread Julio Costa Zambelli
Here in Chile we have used and will use Government data in some import processes, and it would have been a complete waste not to use it, since they only asked us for an attribution tag. One of the reasons to use government data here is that we have a problem quite similar to the one in Australia,

Re: [OSM-talk] Countries that have NOT had any imports?

2010-09-29 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Kai Krueger wrote: With imports I thereby mean both full imports and tracing imports, i.e. any data that has been copied one way or another over from a third party source. Including aerial imagery? Including stuff traced from Landsat? Currently all of the active countries I can think of

Re: [OSM-talk] Countries that have NOT had any imports?

2010-09-29 Thread Kai Krueger
On 29/09/10 22:58, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, Kai Krueger wrote: With imports I thereby mean both full imports and tracing imports, i.e. any data that has been copied one way or another over from a third party source. Including aerial imagery? Including stuff traced from Landsat? Let's leave

Re: [OSM-talk] Countries that have NOT had any imports?

2010-09-29 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Kai Krueger wrote: Yes, more or less. Given that some people seem to be strongly arguing that the use of third party data is crap, mindless and harmful, ... among them myself, as you probably have noticed ... I would like to get a feel for how bad the situation is and where there are

Re: [OSM-talk] Countries that have NOT had any imports?

2010-09-29 Thread Toby Murray
Well if you are willing to wait a week or two, I might be able to shed some light on the issue. I decided to take a cartography course this semester. One of our projects is to create a thematic map of our choosing and I was hoping to make one related to OSM. I just started playing with osmosis

Re: [OSM-talk] Countries that have NOT had any imports?

2010-09-29 Thread Katie Filbert
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Hi, Kai Krueger wrote: Yes, more or less. Given that some people seem to be strongly arguing that the use of third party data is crap, mindless and harmful, ... among them myself, as you probably have noticed ...

Re: [OSM-talk] Countries that have NOT had any imports?

2010-09-29 Thread Ben Laenen
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 11:41 PM, Kai Krueger kakrue...@gmail.com wrote: with all the talk about imports recently, I am wondering which countries have actually _not_ seen any imports so far? I.e. which communities have chosen to build all their data from traditional surveying and ignored any

Re: [OSM-talk] Countries that have NOT had any imports?

2010-09-29 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: PS: I don't think the US is going to be a wasteland in terms of OSM community forever. I just think that without the TIGER import they'd have less data but much more community today. I think the relative lack of OSM

Re: [OSM-talk] Countries that have NOT had any imports?

2010-09-29 Thread Toby Murray
Yeah the physical spread of people out here in the middle part of the country is pretty sparse and I think a lot of people don't quite get that. There is a good chunk of Kansas where the population density is 5 people per square mile or less. And those 5 people have absolutely no use for maps

Re: [OSM-talk] Countries that have NOT had any imports?

2010-09-29 Thread John Smith
On 30 September 2010 10:16, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: I also think treating the US as though it's a single state (e.g. comparing it to say Germany), is not all that useful. Australia is worst, similar size, but much much much less people, and Frederick seemed to think you could map out most