Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-10-23 Thread andrzej zaborowski
Hi folks, 2009/9/28 Jack Stringer jack.ix...@googlemail.com: http://code.flickr.com/blog/2009/09/28/thats-maybe-a-bit-too-dorky-even-for-us/ Just a note that http://www.openstreetmap.pl/wp now shows those osm: machine tagged pictures from flickr at z = 15 in addition to wikipedia and other

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-10-23 Thread Mike N.
The page does not use flickr geolocation apis, only the tags. Very nice presentation - this is better than just Flickr's Geo location map because the actual feature is highlighted. And it's more correct to use the OSM tag rather than the Flickr geolocation tag because of the offset

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-10-23 Thread Randy Thomson
andrzej zaborowski wrote: Hi folks, 2009/9/28 Jack Stringer jack.ix...@googlemail.com: http://code.flickr.com/blog/2009/09/28/thats-maybe-a-bit-too-dorky-e ven-for-us/ Just a note that http://www.openstreetmap.pl/wp now shows those osm: machine tagged pictures from flickr at z = 15 in

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-10-05 Thread Dave Stubbs
On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote: Dave Stubbs wrote: On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 12:58 AM, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote: Richard Fairhurst wrote: Elizabeth Dodd wrote: For starters if the maintainers of JOSM Potlatch and Merkaartor encouraged the

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-10-03 Thread Dave F.
Dave Stubbs wrote: On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 12:58 AM, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote: Richard Fairhurst wrote: Elizabeth Dodd wrote: For starters if the maintainers of JOSM Potlatch and Merkaartor encouraged the use of yes/no it would be a way forward.

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-10-01 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: What's so hard about standardizing on the boolean values given appropriate changes to editor presets, good wiki documentation, and a deprecation period for other boolean values? It's a kind of slippery slope situation. There is fear that once it has been

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-10-01 Thread Frankie Roberto
When I say 'should', I mean 'should' in the sense of 'should if they want to make the widest use of data possible'. Obviously, there's a trade off between the amount of time/effort it takes to support more tags, and the extra data this gives you. In the case of yes/no vs true/false vs 1/0, I'm not

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-10-01 Thread John Smith
2009/10/1 Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org: It's a kind of slippery slope situation. There is fear that once it has been proven that standardisation works for true/false values, there will be demands to standardise everything else as well. I think you are exagurating things a little, however

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-10-01 Thread Dave Stubbs
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 12:58 AM, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote: Richard Fairhurst wrote: Elizabeth Dodd wrote: For starters if the maintainers of JOSM Potlatch and Merkaartor encouraged the use of yes/no it would be a way forward. Potlatch does indeed have 'yes' (rather than 'true'

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-10-01 Thread Dave Stubbs
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 6:28 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Apollinaris Schoell ascho...@gmail.com wrote: On 30 Sep 2009, at 20:46 , Russ Nelson wrote: No, he is a leader because we respect him.  THAT is how leaders in an anarchic state

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-10-01 Thread Dave F.
Apollinaris Schoell wrote: On 30 Sep 2009, at 20:46 , Russ Nelson wrote: Dave F. writes: Russ Nelson wrote: -1. Don't confuse anarchy with chaos. SteveC is our leader (and should behave as such by Giving Advice), but he's only our leader so far as he gives Good Advice. A leader in an

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-10-01 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Dave F. wrote: If the consumers had to do less work then OSM would get *more* consumers. Which is half the point of the exercise, isn't it? Stop thinking in these terms, they don't work for OSM. The data OSM has to offer has a reasonable value; depending on who the customer is, using

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-10-01 Thread Dave F.
SteveC wrote: On 30 Sep 2009, at 17:54, Dave F. wrote: SteveC wrote: On 30 Sep 2009, at 16:14, Russ Nelson wrote: SteveC writes: Yeah, OK Dave, we've got the message, you don't free-format tags. Unfortunately you're going to have to get used to it, because it is the basis of the

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-10-01 Thread Dave F.
Dave Stubbs wrote: On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 6:28 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Apollinaris Schoell ascho...@gmail.com wrote: On 30 Sep 2009, at 20:46 , Russ Nelson wrote: No, he is a leader because we respect him. THAT is how

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-10-01 Thread Liz
On Thu, 1 Oct 2009, Apollinaris Schoell wrote: a consumer of the data has to do a bit more work but this is a small fee for free access to an amazing database. but what does it say about us to the outside world? are we portraying a forward looking group? are we portraying an indecisive group?

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-10-01 Thread Dave F.
Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: What's so hard about standardizing on the boolean values given appropriate changes to editor presets, good wiki documentation, and a deprecation period for other boolean values? It's a kind of slippery slope situation. There

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-10-01 Thread Dave Stubbs
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote: Dave Stubbs wrote: On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 6:28 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Apollinaris Schoell ascho...@gmail.com wrote: On 30 Sep 2009, at 20:46 , Russ Nelson

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-10-01 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Dave F. wrote: I find it very disappointing you feel there is a them us situation. Yes, very disappointing but not every human being on earth happens to have an OSM account. We're working on it. Isn't that just putting an artificial middle man into the equation? The cool thing about

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-10-01 Thread Dave F.
Dave Stubbs wrote: On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote: Dave Stubbs wrote: On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 6:28 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Apollinaris Schoell ascho...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-10-01 Thread Russ Nelson
Frederik Ramm writes: In the long term, standardisation would kill the project, and thus not be desirable even for our users. - Coming from the outside and not having the knowledge about OSM that we have, users can be forgiven to demand things that would ultimately destroy OSM, That's

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-10-01 Thread Dave F.
Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, Dave F. wrote: I find it very disappointing you feel there is a them us situation. Yes, very disappointing but not every human being on earth happens to have an OSM account. We're working on it. Sorry Fredrik, but you /were/ talking about people already within

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-10-01 Thread Russ Nelson
Frederik Ramm writes: On the other side we have the mappers who do not save, or earn, any money from OSM, and the programmers and server admins and everyone who uses their spare time to create and run OSM. On the other side you have mappers who want to create useful data, not a pile of

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-10-01 Thread Russ Nelson
SteveC wrote: C'mon... freeform tags set the community free, if you have a better alternative please outline it? How about you stepping in where there is an unresolvable controvery, editing the wiki, and saying I recommend this choice -- SteveC. No Nazi goose-stepping required, no dictating,

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-10-01 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2009/10/1 Russ Nelson nel...@crynwr.com:   But things are just the other way round in OSM. The mapper is always   right, So there is no purpose to the JOSM validator?  No purpose to keepright?  No purpose to having presets?  I think you're exxagerating too make a point, Fredrick. they are

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-10-01 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Russ Nelson wrote: On the other side you have mappers who want to create useful data, not a pile of random rubbish. No-one wants to create random rubbish. What people do want is to be able to describe what they've just mapped without needing prior approval from the OpenStreetMap Tagging

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-10-01 Thread Apollinaris Schoell
yes he is a leader and as such deserves respect. he should lead some useful and intelligent projects and don't loose a word about this childish 1/0/yes/no/true/false discussions. a consumer of the data has to do a bit more work but this is a small fee for free access to an amazing database.

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-10-01 Thread Ulf Lamping
Jonathan Bennett schrieb: Russ Nelson wrote: On the other side you have mappers who want to create useful data, not a pile of random rubbish. No-one wants to create random rubbish. What people do want is to be able to describe what they've just mapped without needing prior approval from

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-10-01 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 2:15 AM, Ulf Lamping ulf.lamp...@googlemail.comwrote: All of the people I've talked to here in my area would love to see a tagging scheme to be able to map the stuff they see on the ground. They wouldn't care less where this standard was coming from - even if it would

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-10-01 Thread Ulf Lamping
Roy Wallace schrieb: On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Ulf Lamping ulf.lamp...@googlemail.com wrote: What you and others simply fail to explain is why the success story from three years ago with a fraction of mappers and data must be the best solution for the situation we have today ...

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-10-01 Thread Russ Nelson
Apollinaris Schoell writes: don't think so. the ones doing the hard work in the background rarely contribute to these childish discussions because they DO something useful instead wasting their time. First, you're contributing to these childish discussions as well; why criticize

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-09-30 Thread Dave Stubbs
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:42 PM, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote: Frankie Roberto wrote: 2009/9/29 Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com mailto:dieterdre...@gmail.com     It works for building=yes, but not building=true. Well, Flickr says     This is a feature in OpenStreetMap

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-09-30 Thread Dave F.
Dave Stubbs wrote: I wouldn't read too much into it, especially as they said, we’ve almost certainly got at least some of it wrong but hopefully we got part of it right and can correct the rest as we go Dave You see, this is the problem. I don't think, in this instance, they've done

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-09-30 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Dave F. wrote: Who, within OSM in their right sense of mind, would object to being forced to use just Yes/No. I mean it's just an on/off switch! Says who? Bye Frederik ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-09-30 Thread Dave F.
Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, Dave F. wrote: Who, within OSM in their right sense of mind, would object to being forced to use just Yes/No. I mean it's just an on/off switch! Says who? Err... I do. Could you expand on why you might think otherwise? Cheers Dave F.

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-09-30 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2009/9/30 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ava...@gmail.com: Which tag were you talking about that you thought was simply a yes/no option? As Kyle Gordon brought up in this thread the issue is that the OSM data has both building=yes/no and building=true/false and flickr only supports the former. but

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-09-30 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: As Kyle Gordon brought up in this thread the issue is that the OSM data has both building=yes/no and building=true/false and flickr only supports the former. Dave F. suggested that the OSM database be normalized to just use the former because that's simpler.

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-09-30 Thread Dave F.
Jonathan Bennett wrote: He seemed to be suggesting that the values be *constrained* to only those two values, which creates as many problems as it solves, since it precludes using a precise value for building=*, such as building=house. Martin/Jonathan - Please see my reply at 15:44

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-09-30 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: As Kyle Gordon brought up in this thread the issue is that the OSM data has both building=yes/no and building=true/false and flickr only supports the former. Yes but OSM data also has 200,000 building=hut, 25,000 building=residential, 20,000

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-09-30 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Dave F. wrote: I don't understand why others should have to spend time sorting out OSM's vagaries purely because we can't decide. The yes/no question may be the most trivial of cases but generally we are reluctant to force a structure onto our mappers. When choosing between something

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-09-30 Thread Chris Hill
Dave F. wrote: Dave Stubbs wrote: I wouldn't read too much into it, especially as they said, we’ve almost certainly got at least some of it wrong but hopefully we got part of it right and can correct the rest as we go Dave You see, this is the problem. I don't think, in this

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-09-30 Thread Dave Stubbs
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote: Dave Stubbs wrote: I wouldn't read too much into it, especially as they said, we’ve almost certainly got at least some of it wrong but hopefully we got part of it right and can correct the rest as we go Dave You see,

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-09-30 Thread SteveC
On 30 Sep 2009, at 08:15, Chris Hill wrote: Dave F. wrote: Dave Stubbs wrote: I wouldn't read too much into it, especially as they said, we’ve almost certainly got at least some of it wrong but hopefully we got part of it right and can correct the rest as we go Dave You see, this

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-09-30 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Dave Stubbs wrote: PS. anyone notice the Potlatch 2 plug?! Any AS3/Flex developers around who want to help out? Code is in svn at: http://trac.openstreetmap.org/browser/applications/editors/potlatch2 It is really, really awesome, do come and play. So far we have a beautifully extensible yet

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-09-30 Thread Dave F.
Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, Dave F. wrote: I don't understand why others should have to spend time sorting out OSM's vagaries purely because we can't decide. The yes/no question may be the most trivial of cases but generally we are reluctant to force a structure onto our mappers. But

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-09-30 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: Dave Stubbs wrote: PS. anyone notice the Potlatch 2 plug?! Any AS3/Flex developers around who want to help out? Code is in svn at: http://trac.openstreetmap.org/browser/applications/editors/potlatch2 It is really,

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-09-30 Thread Dave F.
Dave Stubbs wrote: On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote: Dave Stubbs wrote: I wouldn't read too much into it, especially as they said, we’ve almost certainly got at least some of it wrong but hopefully we got part of it right and can correct the rest

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-09-30 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Dave F. wrote: If, by users, you mean the likes of Flickr, I do. They have resources to bring our data into the shape they want it in. I'm not saying let's make it extra difficult for them - but I don't see that we should change anything just because someone might like our data better

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-09-30 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: Do you have a bugtracker or some list of issues you're working towards before you can release it? I couldn't find anything. I've just committed a headline list of issues - TODO.txt in the usual place. cheers Richard

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-09-30 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Elizabeth Dodd wrote: For starters if the maintainers of JOSM Potlatch and Merkaartor encouraged the use of yes/no it would be a way forward. Potlatch does indeed have 'yes' (rather than 'true' or '1') in its presets and autocomplete. cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-09-30 Thread Russ Nelson
SteveC writes: Yeah, OK Dave, we've got the message, you don't free-format tags. Unfortunately you're going to have to get used to it, because it is the basis of the OPENstreetmap and, in my opinion, one of the reasons it is as successful as it is. +1 -1. Don't confuse anarchy

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-09-30 Thread Dave F.
Richard Fairhurst wrote: Elizabeth Dodd wrote: For starters if the maintainers of JOSM Potlatch and Merkaartor encouraged the use of yes/no it would be a way forward. Potlatch does indeed have 'yes' (rather than 'true' or '1') in its presets and autocomplete. cheers Richard

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-09-30 Thread Dave F.
Russ Nelson wrote: SteveC writes: Yeah, OK Dave, we've got the message, you don't free-format tags. Unfortunately you're going to have to get used to it, because it is the basis of the OPENstreetmap and, in my opinion, one of the reasons it is as successful as it is. +1

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-09-30 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
El Jueves, 1 de Octubre de 2009, Dave F. escribió: -1. Don't confuse anarchy with chaos. SteveC is our leader (and should behave as such by Giving Advice), but he's only our leader so far as he gives Good Advice. A leader in an anarchic state? How does that work? ;-) With cake. And

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-09-30 Thread Dave F.
Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, Dave F. wrote: If, by users, you mean the likes of Flickr, I do. They have resources to bring our data into the shape they want it in. I'm not saying let's make it extra difficult for them I think that having *unnecessary* data, such as the tag values we've been

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-09-30 Thread SteveC
On 30 Sep 2009, at 16:14, Russ Nelson wrote: SteveC writes: Yeah, OK Dave, we've got the message, you don't free-format tags. Unfortunately you're going to have to get used to it, because it is the basis of the OPENstreetmap and, in my opinion, one of the reasons it is as successful as it

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-09-30 Thread Dave F.
SteveC wrote: On 30 Sep 2009, at 16:14, Russ Nelson wrote: SteveC writes: Yeah, OK Dave, we've got the message, you don't free-format tags. Unfortunately you're going to have to get used to it, because it is the basis of the OPENstreetmap and, in my opinion, one of the reasons it

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-09-30 Thread Ulf Lamping
Chris Hill schrieb: Yeah, OK Dave, we've got the message, you don't free-format tags. Unfortunately you're going to have to get used to it, because it is the basis of the OPENstreetmap and, in my opinion, one of the reasons it is as successful as it is. Successful in what way?

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-09-30 Thread Roy Wallace
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Ulf Lamping ulf.lamp...@googlemail.com wrote: What you and others simply fail to explain is why the success story from  three years ago with a fraction of mappers and data must be the best solution for the situation we have today ... This misses the point. If

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-09-30 Thread Russ Nelson
Dave F. writes: Russ Nelson wrote: -1. Don't confuse anarchy with chaos. SteveC is our leader (and should behave as such by Giving Advice), but he's only our leader so far as he gives Good Advice. A leader in an anarchic state? How does that work? ;-) Exactly as I just

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-09-30 Thread Apollinaris Schoell
On 30 Sep 2009, at 20:46 , Russ Nelson wrote: Dave F. writes: Russ Nelson wrote: -1. Don't confuse anarchy with chaos. SteveC is our leader (and should behave as such by Giving Advice), but he's only our leader so far as he gives Good Advice. A leader in an anarchic state? How does

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-09-30 Thread Aaron Straup Cope
Hi all, (I'm the dork who wrote the dorky machine tag post.) Just a quick note to say: 1) We're thrilled people like OSM machine tag stuff. I would love to hear suggestions and wish lists. I won't promise anything, here, but the entire thing did start with Frankie's wacky suggestion. 2) It's

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-09-30 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Apollinaris Schoell ascho...@gmail.comwrote: On 30 Sep 2009, at 20:46 , Russ Nelson wrote: No, he is a leader because we respect him. THAT is how leaders in an anarchic state arise. yes he is a leader and as such deserves respect. he should lead some

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-09-29 Thread Gregory Williams
-Original Message- From: talk-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk- boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Dave F. Sent: 28 September 2009 20:47 Cc: OSM Talk Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags Ian Dees wrote: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-09-29 Thread Ed Avis
Eugene Alvin Villar seav80 at gmail.com writes: [Flickr now refers to OSM ids] The big problem I see is that our node, way, and relation IDs are too brittle for this sort of thing. Agreed. Or at least, you cannot expect them to be around forever. But at least they aren't reused, so if an id

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-09-29 Thread John Smith
2009/9/29 Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com: A manual redirect tag would never work - about 1% of contributors would bother to add it, and even then messing with id numbers by hand is error-prone. Rather, if an object is marked as deleted, return its last position and perhaps the changeset id that

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-09-29 Thread Frankie Roberto
2009/9/29 Gregory Williams gregory.willi...@purplegeodesoftware.co.uk Ian Dees wrote: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/flickr_now_supports_openstreetmap_ tags.php Good to see someone else talking about OSM... Excellent news Indeed this is fantastic news. Having that

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-09-29 Thread Sybren A . Stüvel
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:11:21AM +0100, Frankie Roberto wrote: I'd love it if other people started adding the tags too, if only to prove that I'm not the only one who likes this idea (and who likes taking photos of random buildings). I've started tagging too. Not much yet, but that'll

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-09-29 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Frankie Roberto fran...@frankieroberto.com wrote: 2009/9/29 Gregory Williams gregory.willi...@purplegeodesoftware.co.uk I also think this Flickr-linking might be a good prompt for us to re-look at the /browse/* pages. If these pages are going to be more visible,

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-09-29 Thread Claudius
Anyone (*blinking at Frankie*) knows how long it will takes after adding the osm machine tag untile the View in OpenStreetMap (btw. I think that link should be written without spaces) link appears straight below the picture? And how long about the feature information being extracted from OSM?

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-09-29 Thread Frankie Roberto
2009/9/29 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ava...@gmail.com I'm not sure what the state of the User Experience Working Group is, but I'd be happy to join and help with this, if people think it's a good idea. (Personally, I think the scope for OSM to be a provider of linked-data POIs is huge,

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-09-29 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 29 Sep 2009, at 11:21, Claudius wrote: Anyone (*blinking at Frankie*) knows how long it will takes after adding the osm machine tag untile the View in OpenStreetMap (btw. I think that link should be written without spaces) link appears straight below the picture? And how long about the

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-09-29 Thread Frankie Roberto
2009/9/29 Claudius claudiu...@gmx.de Anyone (*blinking at Frankie*) knows how long it will takes after adding the osm machine tag untile the View in OpenStreetMap (btw. I think that link should be written without spaces) link appears straight below the picture? And how long about the feature

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-09-29 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: I wish OSM has a redirect feature for deleted nodes, ways, and relations sort of like what Wikipedia has for its articles and pages. Maybe a redirect=* tag? :-) You mean something like this?: http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/2194 -- Jonathan (Jonobennett)

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-09-29 Thread Tom Hughes
On 29/09/09 11:24, Frankie Roberto wrote: A more direct way to do it *now* is to suggest specific improvements by filing bugs on http://trac.openstreetmap.org under the website component. Okay, will do. I'm always a bit shy about submitting improvement ideas as bugs (as it feels

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-09-29 Thread Frankie Roberto
2009/9/29 Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu Linking the tags to the wiki is going to be a great way of joining the two things together much more closely. The other thing I'd like to see is being able to browse sideways from the 'browse' pages, so that it's possible to navigate from, say, a pub,

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-09-29 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Frankie Roberto wrote: Ha, well there's a contentious statement! If that were the case, then why do we even bother with the Mapnik/Osmarender tiles? Surely they're the ultimate form of doing clever stuff with the data. Primarily so mappers can see what they've been doing, as a form of

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-09-29 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: On 29/09/09 11:24, Frankie Roberto wrote:    A more direct way to do it *now* is to suggest specific improvements    by filing bugs on http://trac.openstreetmap.org under the website    component. Okay, will do. I'm always

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-09-29 Thread Tom Hughes
On 29/09/09 13:26, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: Generally bug trackers reduce work. They consolidate bugs/feature requests in one place, people can easily search for already filed bugs or see that they're filed already and not bother you again. I absolutely agree as far as bugs are

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-09-29 Thread Kyle Gordon
Ian Dees wrote: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/flickr_now_supports_openstreetmap_tags.php Good to see someone else talking about OSM... ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-09-29 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2009/9/29 Kyle Gordon k...@lodge.glasgownet.com: It works for building=yes, but not building=true. Well, Flickr says This is a feature in OpenStreetMap instead of $name is a building in OpenStreetMap. Did I miss a vital clue where yes and true are not interchangable? I thought yes was just a

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-09-29 Thread Frankie Roberto
2009/9/29 Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com It works for building=yes, but not building=true. Well, Flickr says This is a feature in OpenStreetMap instead of $name is a building in OpenStreetMap. Did I miss a vital clue where yes and true are not interchangable? I thought yes

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-09-29 Thread Dave F.
Frankie Roberto wrote: 2009/9/29 Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com mailto:dieterdre...@gmail.com It works for building=yes, but not building=true. Well, Flickr says This is a feature in OpenStreetMap instead of $name is a building in OpenStreetMap.

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-09-29 Thread Dave F.
could /not /be completely banned. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-09-28 Thread Jack Stringer
Here is the Flickr blog post http://code.flickr.com/blog/2009/09/28/thats-maybe-a-bit-too-dorky-even-for-us/ Jack Stringer ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-09-28 Thread Dave F.
Ian Dees wrote: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/flickr_now_supports_openstreetmap_tags.php Good to see someone else talking about OSM... Excellent news ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-09-28 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
El Lunes, 28 de Septiembre de 2009, Ian Dees escribió: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/flickr_now_supports_openstreetmap_tags .php Good to see someone else talking about OSM... Oh my, this is all kinds of awesome. I know several paleo-geographers that are into the semantic web thingie...

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-09-28 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
The big problem I see is that our node, way, and relation IDs are too brittle for this sort of thing. A POI node might eventually get replaced with a closed-way building. Or a way will get split into two (and those two ways get completely new IDs) or two ways will be merged (with the new way not

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-09-28 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
El Martes, 29 de Septiembre de 2009, Eugene Alvin Villar escribió: The big problem I see is that our node, way, and relation IDs are too brittle for this sort of thing. I see that as premature optimisation. And the rule of thumb for premature optimisation is don't. If there is a problem with

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-09-28 Thread Ian Dees
Perhaps we should write a WoEID [0] - OSM ID mapping. The mapping would watch the minutely changes and update the mapping if a node or way changes. [0] http://geobloggers.com/2008/05/12/yahoo-woe-where-on-earth-that-is-ids/ On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 7:53 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-09-28 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/9/29 Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com: The big problem I see is that our node, way, and relation IDs are too brittle for this sort of thing. A POI node might eventually get replaced with a closed-way building. Or a way will get split into two (and those two ways get completely new

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-09-28 Thread Dave F.
Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote: It's just way too soon to foresee what problems may arise, and even more to put preemptive measures up. Some might say that a little forward planning might alleviate future problems. ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-09-28 Thread Sam Vekemans
It's great to see that flickr 'Get's it'. Sharing is a good thing :) Now we just need to make a plug-in with JOSM so that as your photo-mapping, you can load your photos to flickr (or any other site). Or is that already done? (so all the images are available to everyone) If so, I think that