[OSM-talk] Haïti : [URGENT] Aide requise pour localiser les hôpitaux d'Haïti sur OpenStreetM ap

2010-01-22 Thread Jean-Guilhem Cailton
Please, find bellow a text that you could forward to your contacts in the press, to increase the odds of finding Haitians able to help on this. And more generally to raise awareness on the need for remote help. Feel free to correct, improve, translate, etc. (I could help with translations

Re: [OSM-talk] Has the Nile River dried up?

2010-01-22 Thread Ed Loach
In case it helps anyone, the outline of the multipolygons are rendering, but they aren’t filled: http://osm.org/go/xmxPYL7sa-- If you look here: http://osm.org/go/xmxcghfaC-- Two adjacent polygons meet, and one is filled but one isn’t. I can see no difference in the tagging when comparing

Re: [OSM-talk] [Fwd: Re: [CrisisMappers] FW: I NEED SUPPLIES NOW/ Location of Functioning Hospital : OSM PIPELINE SUGGESTED !]

2010-01-22 Thread Pieren
2010/1/22 Jean-Guilhem Cailton j...@arkemie.com So I'd say : if everybody is needing a central billboard where they can pin their localized notes themselves, why not let it be known that OSM can do it ? Especially if they already have it with them on their GPS or iPhones... And let people

[OSM-talk] Mapping South East Haiti

2010-01-22 Thread Vincent Auvigne
I'm collaborating with a NGO which is working in the South-East of Haiti : Jacmel City and the surrounding country-side (South-East department). We need urgently to evaluate the situation in rural areas because they are difficult to access by land and it seems that there huge damages in those

Re: [OSM-talk] [Fwd: Re: [CrisisMappers] FW: I NEED SUPPLIES NOW/ Location of Functioning Hospital : OSM PIPELINE SUGGESTED !]

2010-01-22 Thread Jean-Guilhem Cailton
Pieren a écrit : 2010/1/22 Jean-Guilhem Cailton j...@arkemie.com mailto:j...@arkemie.com So I'd say : if everybody is needing a central billboard where they can pin their localized notes themselves, why not let it be known that OSM can do it ? Especially if they already have it with

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping South East Haiti

2010-01-22 Thread Karl Guggisberg
Hi Vincent We have been mapping Jacmel city in the past three days. The city itself an east up to Catadat, north up to Bassin Caiman, and west up to Desmarattes is mapped as good as possible. The area is covered by DigitalGlobe imagery whose quality is, unfortunatelly, not homogeneous. Jacmel

Re: [OSM-talk] Haïti : [URGENT] Aide requise p our localiser les hôpitaux d'Haïti sur OpenStreetMap

2010-01-22 Thread Mikel Maron
Thanks Jean-Guilhem ... can you post to the wiki and link from the appropriate place(s)? == Mikel Maron == http://mapkibera.org/ +254 (0) 724899738 mi...@osmfoundation.org From: Jean-Guilhem Cailton j...@arkemie.com To: OSM-talk talk@openstreetmap.org Sent:

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping South East Haiti

2010-01-22 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
El Viernes, 22 de Enero de 2010, Vincent Auvigne escribió: At the moment I have not found recent high definition imagery of this zone and the information in OSM is quite poor. Could anyone tell me if I can find it somewhere or if it will be available soon ? Any kind of help is welcomed. All

Re: [OSM-talk] Haïti : [URGENT] Aide requise pour localiser les hôpitaux d'Haïti sur OpenStreetM ap

2010-01-22 Thread Jean-Guilhem Cailton
Mikel, I did it right after sending. In http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti/Tasks_and_Ideas#Currently_for_Haiti_-_.22Now.22 Starting to learn how to wiki :) Jean-Guilhem PS : the map on your mapkibera site is not showing. Unless my Iceweasel (Debian Firefox) is overloaded ?

Re: [OSM-talk] [Fwd: Re: [CrisisMappers] FW: I NEED SUPPLIES NOW/ Location of Functioning Hospital : OSM PIPELINE SUGGESTED !]

2010-01-22 Thread Jean-Guilhem Cailton
Erik Johansson a écrit : 2010/1/22 Iván Sánchez Ortega i...@sanchezortega.es: El Viernes, 22 de Enero de 2010, Jean-Guilhem Cailton escribió: What do you think of this suggestion folks ? I haven't taken the time to see whether this use of the database to forward help requests is

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping South East Haiti

2010-01-22 Thread Jean-Guilhem Cailton
Karl, I don't know either. Just translating word for word. And not wanting to bug them with this. Maybe Disaster Charter ? (http://www.disasterscharter.org) Phonetically reasonable, at least. For those who don't know SERTIT :

[OSM-talk] Fw: [CrisisMappers] Haiti PCodes

2010-01-22 Thread Adrian Brain
See below for the details about P-codes for Haiti. First, I've just downloaded the xls file (22nd Jan at 12:57hrs (UK)). If anyone thinks this is out of date please let me know asap. Second, I understand the pcode1 and pcode2 columns but not pcode3. Can anyone explain the pcode3 column?

Re: [OSM-talk] Fw: [CrisisMappers] Haiti PCodes

2010-01-22 Thread David Groom
I have attached tags for the majority of pcode level 2 already to towns and villages, using the pcode:2 tags as suggested on http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Tags#Emergency_Response_.26_Relief_Support_Infrastructure I believe that the pcode2 should probably refer to an

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping South East Haiti

2010-01-22 Thread Karl Guggisberg
Hi Jean-Guilhem Please don't bug them, I'm sure they are busy. Does this answer your question ? Not yet, but now I know where to dig deeper. Regards Karl Am 22.01.2010 14:48, schrieb Jean-Guilhem Cailton: Hi Karl, They offer kml access under their maps. And I think their vector products

Re: [OSM-talk] Fw: [CrisisMappers] Haiti PCodes

2010-01-22 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, David Groom wrote: I have attached tags for the majority of pcode level 2 already to towns and villages, using the pcode:2 tags as suggested on http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Tags#Emergency_Response_.26_Relief_Support_Infrastructure I believe that the pcode2

Re: [OSM-talk] Fw: [CrisisMappers] Haiti PCodes

2010-01-22 Thread Adrian Brain
Good stuff. It would be useful if you could update http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti/MappingCoordination to show this task has already been done. Cheers, Adrian Brain. I have attached tags for the majority of pcode level 2 already to towns and villages, using the pcode:2

Re: [OSM-talk] Fw: [CrisisMappers] Haiti PCodes

2010-01-22 Thread Ed Loach
I believe that the pcode2 should probably refer to an administrative district rather than a place, but it would have been more time consuming in the first instance to break up the current admin boundaries and create relations to make smaller boundaries at the pcode:2 level. Its

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping South East Haiti

2010-01-22 Thread Jean-Guilhem Cailton
Karl, You mean you would like to be able to access KML as if it were WMS ? Maybe there exists a converter somewhere (wildly guessing) ? But maybe you should also check the legend for license issue. Regards, Jean-Guilhem Karl Guggisberg a écrit : Hi Jean-Guilhem Please don't bug them,

Re: [OSM-talk] [Fwd: Re: [CrisisMappers] FW: I NEED SUPPLIES NOW/ Location of Functioning Hospital : OSM PIPELINE SUGGESTED !]

2010-01-22 Thread David G. Smith PE PLS
It would be helpful to post any existing or proposed data models and thoughts toward tagging of hospital operational status here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php?title=Humanitarian_OSM_Tags#Draft_On tology_for_healthcare_facilities Regards, Dave Smith David G. Smith PE PLS

Re: [OSM-talk] [Fwd: Re: [CrisisMappers] FW: I NEED SUPPLIES NOW/ Location of Functioning Hospital : OSM PIPELINE SUGGESTED !]

2010-01-22 Thread Jean-Guilhem Cailton
Pieren, I just entered two sample requests in OpenStreetBug, to try. At Milot and Diquini hospitals (real requests, just withholding contact details for now). It looks quite good to me, and really easy to use. Going to put a task for an OSMbug clone with a new name in the wiki. (I guess

[OSM-talk] [Fwd: Re: [CrisisMappers] Geo-Locate the Haiti Hospitals Challenge]

2010-01-22 Thread Jean-Guilhem Cailton
Message original Sujet : Re: [CrisisMappers] Geo-Locate the Haiti Hospitals Challenge Date : Fri, 22 Jan 2010 09:46:54 -0500 De :CJ Hendrix hendrix...@gmail.com Répondre à :crisismapp...@googlegroups.com Pour : crisismappers crisismapp...@googlegroups.com

[OSM-talk] RE: Haïti : [URGENT] Aide r equise pour localiser les hôpitaux d'Haïti sur OpenS treetMap

2010-01-22 Thread David G. Smith PE PLS
The Google Docs spreadsheet for Haiti hospitals is here: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0ArlMTYEgfvwsdERtTkxRUVVqRXdpVzlDSlF nb3F1UHc https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0ArlMTYEgfvwsdERtTkxRUVVqRXdpVzlDSl Fnb3F1UHchl=en hl=en I notice however that there are a lot of Haiti

Re: [OSM-talk] [Fwd: Re: [CrisisMappers] Geo-Locate the Haiti Hospitals Challenge]

2010-01-22 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, AN URGENT NEED in addtion to the hospitals is to clean up the road type tags to correspond with the humanitarian presets. Hold it right there! I think there is a limit to just how much OSM will stretch and bend to match the needs of users. OSM is, first and foremost, a world-wide

Re: [OSM-talk] [Fwd: Re: [CrisisMappers] Geo-Locate the Haiti Hospitals Challenge]

2010-01-22 Thread Jean-Guilhem Cailton
Hi Frederik, Look more carefully. I was just forwarding. I have no opinion on this, except that it looked relevant to OSM-talk. Jean-Guilhem Frederik Ramm a écrit : Hi, AN URGENT NEED in addtion to the hospitals is to clean up the road type tags to correspond with the humanitarian

Re: [OSM-talk] [Fwd: Re: [CrisisMappers] Geo-Locate the Haiti Hospitals Challenge]

2010-01-22 Thread David G. Smith PE PLS
CJ, et al.: For the data models now and future, while we are looking at hospitals, I would also anticipate a need for locations/status of sensitive/captive/vulnerable populations, e.g. schools, orphanages, nursing homes and other community/group homes, prisons and so on. Please post any

Re: [OSM-talk] [Fwd: Re: [CrisisMappers] Geo-Locate the Haiti Hospitals Challenge]

2010-01-22 Thread David Groom
- Original Message - From: Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org To: Jean-Guilhem Cailton j...@arkemie.com Cc: OSM-talk talk@openstreetmap.org Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 3:14 PM Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] [Fwd: Re: [CrisisMappers] Geo-Locate the Haiti Hospitals Challenge] Hi, AN

Re: [OSM-talk] Fw: [CrisisMappers] Haiti PCodes

2010-01-22 Thread David Groom
- Original Message - From: Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org To: David Groom revi...@pacific-rim.net Cc: Adrian Brain adrianpbr...@yahoo.co.uk; talk@openstreetmap.org Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 2:02 PM Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Fw: [CrisisMappers] Haiti PCodes Hi, David Groom

[OSM-talk] HAITI - simple map upgrade

2010-01-22 Thread Gary68
hi, just to let you know there is an enhanced simple map available now in different formats: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti/Earthquake_map_resources#Printable_and_Static_Maps (last three entries) - png - svg - pdf it now covers a lot more features than before. new: -

[OSM-talk] Whereami not working on nokia 5800 MX

2010-01-22 Thread Pelle Svensson
I can't get whereami Map application make use of the internal GPS in my NOKIA 5800 XpressMusic It start fine but at page LatLon/Menu/Connect it only list Bluetooth devices. How can I start up the internal GPS and connect it to whereami? whereami version: v0.14a (26th Aug 2009) S60v3 whereami

Re: [OSM-talk] Whereami not working on nokia 5800 MX

2010-01-22 Thread John F. Eldredge
Do you have any other third-party applications on the phone, that you could use to check if the GPS works with them? I know that the default setting on my phone (a BlackBerry Storm) is to have the GPS turned off unless calling 911 (emergency services). --Original Message-- From: Pelle

Re: [OSM-talk] Haiti street names

2010-01-22 Thread David Fawcett
How often is Nominatim being updated? I am watching for an update to show up before I mark it as a 'yes' in the PaP street names table. David. On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 6:31 AM, Colin Marquardt cmarq...@googlemail.com wrote: 2010/1/19 Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net: The Port-au-Prince

Re: [OSM-talk] [Fwd: Re: [CrisisMappers] Geo-Locate the Haiti Hospitals Challenge]

2010-01-22 Thread David G. Smith PE PLS
For my part, I don't think discriminating between footway vs. path tags really has much relevance to crisis issues, and any crisis tagging shouldn't be *overriding* OSM tagging - what is relevant to crisis mapping is operational status, security and practicability of the roads, e.g. traversable by

Re: [OSM-talk] Haiti street names

2010-01-22 Thread Colin Marquardt
2010/1/22 David Fawcett david.fawc...@gmail.com: How often is Nominatim being updated? I am watching for an update to show up before I mark it as a 'yes' in the PaP street names table. http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/haiti/ should be very quick, sure you are using this one and not regular

Re: [OSM-talk] Whereami not working on nokia 5800 MX

2010-01-22 Thread Pelle Svensson
Yes, Garmin Mobile XT and it works fine. When it starts to navigate, the GPS is powered on. When the GPS is on a icon is displayed in the top right screen corner. But with whereami nothing happens. /Pelle Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Whereami not

Re: [OSM-talk] Fw: [CrisisMappers] Haiti PCodes

2010-01-22 Thread Margie Roswell
I added a quality code to: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Aoyf-OlHreuhdDBkSWJ2d1FtMkpkTzZrV1B4dDlKREEhl=en 1=precise; 2=nearby; 3=approx village centroid Is there a way to implement that in OSM? (so that people will know whether they're getting approximate location?) Margie On Fri, Jan

[OSM-talk] Damaged building density and gathering areas at Jacmel

2010-01-22 Thread Jean-Guilhem Cailton
At 22/01/2010 19:47 SERTIT produced maps, around Jacmel, of damaged building density and gathering areas : http://sertit.u-strasbg.fr/SITE_RMS/2010/01_rms_haiti_2010/01_rms_haiti_2010.html Jean-Guilhem ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

[OSM-talk] [Fwd: Re: [CrisisMappers] Is any one mapping IDP in Haiti using RS (remote sensing) tools]

2010-01-22 Thread Jean-Guilhem Cailton
Message original Sujet : Re: [CrisisMappers] Is any one mapping IDP in Haiti using RS (remote sensing) tools Date : Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:03:49 -0500 De :Walter Svekla wsve...@gmail.com Répondre à :crisismapp...@googlegroups.com Pour : crisismapp...@googlegroups.com

Re: [OSM-talk] Haiti street names

2010-01-22 Thread Brian Quinion
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 5:38 PM, David Fawcett david.fawc...@gmail.com wrote: How often is Nominatim being updated? I am watching for an update to show up before I mark it as a 'yes' in the PaP street names table. http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/haiti/ should be updated approx. once an

Re: [OSM-talk] Fw: [CrisisMappers] Haiti PCodes

2010-01-22 Thread Margie Roswell
somebody replaced my header with: NO NEW COLUMNS PLEASE: We have no use for this data I can't imagine that that's the case. I'm disappointed to have data removed. I understand if quality code data can't be used, possibly, in OSM. But somewhere, there should be a record of whether something is

Re: [OSM-talk] HAITI - simple map upgrade

2010-01-22 Thread sergio sevillano
El 22/01/2010, a las 22:16, Gary68 escribió: hi sergio, thanks for your feedback. i am fully aware that my software certainly lacks a lot of functionaliy and features. it is not intended to be a full render system! in fact i wanted simple maps in which i could draw and write some data.

Re: [OSM-talk] Whereami not working on nokia 5800 MX

2010-01-22 Thread Pelle Svensson
I got it Working! There are 2 versions of s60v3, one is signed and one is unsigned. The signed version do not access the built in GPS and the gsm cell information. I did have some problems signing the unsigned version. I could not install the app after I have signed it, but after a while (2-3h)

Re: [OSM-talk] Fw: [CrisisMappers] Haiti PCodes

2010-01-22 Thread Margie Roswell
Hi Mark, thanks for the note. Honestly, I truly believe that it's better to capture the confidence or quality code, whichever you want to call it, when the data is captured. And having the legend left there (descriptions of 1-4) helps people do to that. You call it mission creep, but I think

Re: [OSM-talk] Fw: [CrisisMappers] Haiti PCodes

2010-01-22 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Margie Roswell wrote: We have to agree to common standards for the data schema and lock out changes - such as a new column. [...] (Is crisismappers the appropriate list for this conversation? If so, happy to remove the talk from future distribution.) Well osm-talk surely is *not* the

Re: [OSM-talk] Haiti coastline, [ was] coastline error checker stalled

2010-01-22 Thread Jon Burgess
On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 00:10 +, David Groom wrote: Great, will these shapefiles be used for the coast outline on the mapnik layer of www.openstreetmap.org? The coastline shapefiles on the main Mapnik layer have been updated to the 2010-01-20 data. The main Mapnik site use worldwide

Re: [OSM-talk] HAITI - simple map upgrade

2010-01-22 Thread sergio sevillano
sorry i have answered to an incomplete message! this is the one El 22/01/2010, a las 23:18, sergio sevillano escribió: El 22/01/2010, a las 22:29, GS escribió: hi sergio, thanks for your feedback. i am fully aware that my software certainly lacks a lot of functionaliy and features. it

Re: [OSM-talk] Haiti coastline, [ was] coastline error checker stalled

2010-01-22 Thread Dane Springmeyer
On Jan 22, 2010, at 3:00 PM, Jon Burgess wrote: On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 00:10 +, David Groom wrote: Great, will these shapefiles be used for the coast outline on the mapnik layer of www.openstreetmap.org? The coastline shapefiles on the main Mapnik layer have been updated to the

Re: [OSM-talk] HAITI - simple map upgrade

2010-01-22 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 00:04, sergio sevillano sergiosevillano.m...@gmail.com wrote: as far as i know KOSMOS wont work on macOSX as it depends on microsoft.net library and osmarender and mapnik do need to mount a database... (the headache), right? AFAIK mapnik does read osm files:

Re: [OSM-talk] Haiti coastline, [ was] coastline error checker stalled

2010-01-22 Thread David Groom
- Original Message - From: Jon Burgess jburgess...@googlemail.com To: David Groom revi...@pacific-rim.net Cc: Lennard l...@xs4all.nl; OSM-talk talk@openstreetmap.org Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 11:00 PM Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Haiti coastline,[ was] coastline error checker stalled

Re: [OSM-talk] Haiti coastline, [ was] coastline error checker stalled

2010-01-22 Thread Jon Burgess
The main Mapnik site use worldwide shapefiles which take about 8 hours to generate so it is not really practical to update them every day. They are typically updated about once per month from the data released in the weekly planet dumps. That's a pity, as there were one or two errors in

Re: [OSM-talk] [Fwd: Re: [CrisisMappers] FW: I NEED SUPPLIES NOW/ Location of Functioning Hospital : OSM PIPELINE SUGGESTED !]

2010-01-22 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
El Viernes, 22 de Enero de 2010, Jean-Guilhem Cailton escribió: So please do not reject a usage that could turn out to be useful just because you consider that OSM was not designed for it. From a technical point of view, this kind of info weighs nothing compared with the imagery and

Re: [OSM-talk] [Fwd: Re: [CrisisMappers] FW: I NEED SUPPLIES NOW/ Location of Functioning Hospital : OSM PIPELINE SUGGESTED !]

2010-01-22 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
El Viernes, 22 de Enero de 2010, Erik Johansson escribió: I always wondered if those hospitals on the OSM main map for Haiti was really up an running. Is it really an amenity=hospital of no patients can go there? Hey, you're welcome to the tagging wars over here. How to define the smoothness

Re: [OSM-talk] [Fwd: Re: [CrisisMappers] FW: I NEED SUPPLIES NOW/ Location of Functioning Hospital : OSM PIPELINE SUGGESTED !]

2010-01-22 Thread Jean-Guilhem Cailton
I agree ! (with your beginning, not your conclusion) This is exactly the reason why I advocate reusing existing, proved, known technology : OpenStreetBugs that has already been tried in crisis situation (see wiki/Task) and which just needs a new NAME over waiting for specialized solutions to

[OSM-talk] [Fwd: RE: [CrisisMappers] We are in urgent need of an updated street layer]

2010-01-22 Thread Jean-Guilhem Cailton
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Re: [OSM-talk] [Fwd: Re: [CrisisMappers] FW: I NEED SUPPLIES NOW/ Location of Functioning Hospital : OSM PIPELINE SUGGESTED !]

2010-01-22 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
El Sábado, 23 de Enero de 2010, Jean-Guilhem Cailton escribió: PS : please tell me something simpler if it is already here, I can't see it. Maybe you missed http://haiti.ushahidi.com/ ? -- -- Iván Sánchez Ortega i...@sanchezortega.es Aviso: Este e-mail es

Re: [OSM-talk] Whereami not working on nokia 5800 MX

2010-01-22 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Friday 22 Jan 2010 10:52:44 pm Pelle Svensson wrote: I can't get whereami Map application make use of the internal GPS in my NOKIA 5800 XpressMusic It start fine but at page LatLon/Menu/Connect it only list Bluetooth devices. How can I start up the internal GPS and connect it to

Re: [OSM-talk] [Fwd: Re: [CrisisMappers] FW: I NEED SUPPLIES NOW/ Location of Functioning Hospital : OSM PIPELINE SUGGESTED !]

2010-01-22 Thread Jean-Guilhem Cailton
Iván Sánchez Ortega a écrit : El Sábado, 23 de Enero de 2010, Jean-Guilhem Cailton escribió: PS : please tell me something simpler if it is already here, I can't see it. Maybe you missed http://haiti.ushahidi.com/ ? Seems great, and certainly useful. But I am not on the ground

[OSM-talk] mapping progress haiti and usage of provided maps

2010-01-22 Thread Gary68
good morning, i must say that i am impressed with the speed mapping is done in PoP and the area. it is amazing to see more and more features appearing on the maps. i am also surprised that my simple maps were downloaded (and hopefully used) over 300 times already. but: i suspect there is still

[OSM-talk] [Fwd: Re: [Fwd: Re: [CrisisMappers] FW: I NEED SUPPLIES NOW/ Location of Functioning Hospital : OSM PIPELINE SUGGESTED !]]

2010-01-22 Thread Jean-Guilhem Cailton
But what harm can it do ? For someone with an iPhone (or Google phone) with OSM with a layer including OSMBugs=OSMEmergency in it Exemple use case 1: You want to report a emergency request. As soon as you are in an area with Internet access, you click on the location, type your report, and

Re: [Talk-in] International Collaborative Project : Joint Punjab Mapping

2010-01-22 Thread H.S.Rai
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.org wrote: Do you mean contribution to above press or something else? contribute to your project Thanks. I can not thing of any OSM project without help from this members. Definitely, will keep asking you help and where needed

[Talk-in] GPS purchase

2010-01-22 Thread H.S.Rai
For Joint Punjab Mapping Project I need to purchase 10 units GPS Data Loggers. Please suggest which make and model I should buy. My foremost requirement is to get transferred data (GPS logs, WayPoints) from units to Linux loaded PC / Laptop. Till date I have used Garmin GPSmap 76CSx, Garmin eTrex

Re: [Talk-in] GPS purchase

2010-01-22 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Saturday 23 Jan 2010 7:58:08 am H.S.Rai wrote: For Joint Punjab Mapping Project I need to purchase 10 units GPS Data Loggers. Please suggest which make and model I should buy. My foremost requirement is to get transferred data (GPS logs, WayPoints) from units to Linux loaded PC / Laptop.

Re: [Talk-in] GPS purchase

2010-01-22 Thread Anush Shetty
go with JTD's devices with your total confidence - it is even open hardware. And deadly accurate. You can buy battery for it at 150 rupees. What more do you want? There is also a python script available to convert his output to gpx format for both trackpoints and waypoints. What is the cost

Re: [Talk-in] GPS purchase

2010-01-22 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Saturday 23 Jan 2010 11:09:32 am Anush Shetty wrote: go with JTD's devices with your total confidence - it is even open hardware. And deadly accurate. You can buy battery for it at 150 rupees. What more do you want? There is also a python script available to convert his output to gpx

[Talk-in] Google Mapping Party

2010-01-22 Thread Naveen Francis
http://beta.thehindu.com/news/cities/Thiruvananthapuram/article83524.ece Google mapping party gets into trouble in Kerala. Intelligence DGP Sibi Mathews to consult Govt http://www.mathrubhumi.com/php/newFrm.php?news_id=123843n_type=NEcategory_id=3Farc=

Re: [Talk-in] Google Mapping Party

2010-01-22 Thread Sajjad Anwar
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Naveen Francis navee...@gmail.com wrote: http://beta.thehindu.com/news/cities/Thiruvananthapuram/article83524.ece Google mapping party gets into trouble in Kerala. Intelligence DGP Sibi Mathews to consult Govt

Re: [Talk-in] Google Mapping Party

2010-01-22 Thread Nishant Sharma
-original message- this. Few people are trying to attend the party, they have assured that the data will come up in OpenStreetMap also. Do we need to stop this? IMHO, as long as data gets into OSM, we need not worry. We just need the mapping enthusiasts to be aware of OSM, its benefits, its

Re: [Talk-in] Google Mapping Party

2010-01-22 Thread Sajjad Anwar
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 1:17 PM, H.S.Rai hardeep@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Naveen Francis navee...@gmail.com wrote: http://beta.thehindu.com/news/cities/Thiruvananthapuram/article83524.ece Google mapping party gets into trouble in Kerala. Intelligence DGP

Re: [Talk-it] Lanes = 3

2010-01-22 Thread Alberto Nogaro
-Original Message- From: talk-it-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-it- boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Marco Certelli Sent: venerdì 22 gennaio 2010 15.22 To: openstreetmap list - italiano Subject: [Talk-it] Lanes = 3 Si potrebbe mettere: lanes=2+1 (intendendo 2 nella

Re: [Talk-it] Lanes = 3

2010-01-22 Thread Marco Certelli
Allora, sembra perfetto. lanes:forward=2 lanes:backward=1 se in JOSM si inverte la way, JOSM propone di scambiare 2 con 1 e 1 con 2. Assolutamente OK. Se piace a tutti, potremmo metterlo nel wiki... --- Ven 22/1/10, Alberto Nogaro bartosom...@yahoo.it ha scritto: Da: Alberto Nogaro

Re: [Talk-it] Lanes = 3

2010-01-22 Thread Roberto
+1 Il 22/01/2010 17.22, Marco Certelli ha scritto: Allora, sembra perfetto. lanes:forward=2 lanes:backward=1 se in JOSM si inverte la way, JOSM propone di scambiare 2 con 1 e 1 con 2. Assolutamente OK. Se piace a tutti, potremmo metterlo nel wiki... --- Ven 22/1/10, Alberto

[Talk-it] Mappa della mafia

2010-01-22 Thread Alberto Nogaro
I tedeschi hanno preparato una mappa [1] degli esercizi commerciali di Palermo che si sono impegnati a non pagare la protezione a Cosa Nostra. Se volessimo fare lo stesso su OSM, che tag proponete di usare? Alberto [1] http://www.spiegel.de/reise/aktuell/0,1518,673288,00.html

Re: [Talk-it] Mappa della mafia

2010-01-22 Thread Giacomo Boschi
Alberto Nogaro ha scritto: I tedeschi hanno preparato una mappa [1] degli esercizi commerciali di Palermo che si sono impegnati a non pagare la protezione a Cosa Nostra. Se volessimo fare lo stesso su OSM, che tag proponete di usare? Piuttosto, poi come si fa a controllare? Già la cosa mi

Re: [Talk-it] Mappa della mafia

2010-01-22 Thread Carlo Stemberger
Il 22/01/2010 19:44, Giacomo Boschi ha scritto: Piuttosto, poi come si fa a controllare? Già la cosa mi sembra problematica di per sé, figuriamoci su OSM dove chiunque può mettere un tag. Quoto: OSM non mi sembra affatto adatto per queste cose. Piuttosto si potrebbe pensare ad un

Re: [Talk-it] Mappa della mafia

2010-01-22 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2010/1/22 Giacomo Boschi gwil...@email.it: Alberto Nogaro ha scritto: I tedeschi hanno preparato una mappa [1] degli esercizi commerciali di Palermo che si sono impegnati a non pagare la protezione a Cosa Nostra. Se volessimo fare lo stesso su OSM, che tag proponete di usare? Piuttosto, poi

Re: [Talk-it] ?

2010-01-22 Thread marcellobil...@gmail
sarebbe meglio completare quello sulla wiki :D - Original Message - From: sara susini sari...@gmail.com To: Talk-it@openstreetmap.org Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 9:37 AM Subject: [Talk-it] ? Esiste un tutorial per JOSM? il wiki e' troppo frammentato.

[Talk-it] Specialità italiani su osm?

2010-01-22 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
secondovoi ci sono delle particolarità italiane in OSM, cioè dei tag o modalità di taghare speciali sopratutti italiani? Cose come forno a legna? Vi chiedo perché ci sarà un capitolo nella nuova edizione del libro di Frederik e Jochen che tratta specialità di vari paesi. ciao, Martin

Re: [Talk-it] Mappa della mafia

2010-01-22 Thread Stefano Cavallari
On Friday 22 January 2010 19:55:49 Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: [...] Cmq. mi piace l'idea. Si potrebbe anche mappare altre cose, tipo edifici costruiti abusivamente, edifici sfitti per speculazione, inquinamento illegale del ambiente, ... Anche più utile delle mappe delle attività pizzo free.

Re: [Talk-it] Mappa della mafia

2010-01-22 Thread iiizio iiizio
2010/1/23 Stefano Cavallari stef...@cavallari.cjb.net: On Friday 22 January 2010 19:55:49 Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: [...] Cmq. mi piace l'idea. Si potrebbe anche mappare altre cose, tipo edifici costruiti abusivamente, edifici sfitti per speculazione, inquinamento illegale del ambiente, ...

[Talk-at] Eigene POIs in der OpenStreetMap

2010-01-22 Thread Patrick Steiner
Hallo, kennt jemand eine Website bei der ich mir private POIs erstellen kann, welche dann auf einer OpenStreetMap Karten im Web angezeigt werden? Wie ich es zum Beispiel bei den Google Maps (My Maps / Meine Karten)machen kann. Oder müsste ich mir das selber etwas mit OpenLayers bauen? LG

Re: [Talk-at] Kurier Reportage über Openstreetmap

2010-01-22 Thread Andreas Labres
Im heutigen Kurier, angeblich auf Seite 9... Falls den zufällig jemand hat? Servus, Andreas ___ Talk-at mailing list Talk-at@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-at

Re: [Talk-transit] OSM / OPNV-Karte to Excel/SVG

2010-01-22 Thread Tiziano D'Angelo
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 20:11, Roland Olbricht roland.olbri...@gmx.dewrote: Do you want something like these? http://78.46.81.38/api/nodes-csv?380861all http://78.46.81.38/api/nodes-csv?380861forward http://78.46.81.38/api/nodes-csv?380861backward The first parameter is the id of the

Re: [talk-ph] changes of raod types

2010-01-22 Thread maning sambale
Hi, With the advent of more sat images outside Metro Manila I would like to re-visit this discussion regarding road classes in rural areas. As Eugene discussed below, rural roads are different. I think we should use the track and tracktype tags for most rural roads.

Re: [talk-ph] changes of road types

2010-01-22 Thread ianlopez
Maybe we should describe unclassified roads in the Philippine context as roads within verified and/or urban areas that are of mixed use (commercial, retail, industrial, residential, farmland), while the residential roads can be described as a road in either urban or rural areas that are within

Re: [talk-ph] changes of road types

2010-01-22 Thread maning sambale
I feel we should simplify it (although not too much), not everything here is applicable: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:highway Another example, I don't feel like using the tag living_street. Here's the highway length stats to give us a general idea what highway tags are currently in use:

Re: [talk-ph] changes of road types

2010-01-22 Thread riber101-osm
I happy this discussion comes up and I would like to chime in on this discussion. Reviewing the map reveals that many places roads seems to have too high of a classification, misleading people to use roads that are not meant for a lot of traffic. From an overall perspective the classification

Re: [talk-ph] changes of raod types

2010-01-22 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Here's my interpretation: unclassified and residential are the lowest-importance general roads. These two form the lowest level (above the service-type roads) and residential is used for roads within residential areas like subdivisions. Then in terms of increasing importance, roads go from

Re: [talk-ph] changes of road types

2010-01-22 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:50 PM, riber101-...@yahoo.com wrote: Looking at the length of road of the different types this seem to underline the problem. Motorway, Trunk, Primary, secondary and tertiary should only be a tiny fraction of all the roads. The bulk of the roads should be of

Re: [talk-ph] changes of raod types

2010-01-22 Thread Ian Haylock
Hi, after a long break from OSM I discoverd the keep right website.

Re: [talk-ph] changes of road types

2010-01-22 Thread Ray
Hi, Reviewing the map reveals that many places roads seems to have too high of a classification, misleading people to use roads that are not meant for a lot of traffic. From an overall perspective the classification of roads should be used to guide people which roads to prefer. +1 I'm

Re: [talk-ph] changes of road types

2010-01-22 Thread maning sambale
Let me just remind that whatever comes up as a consensus please add them in the wiki: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Philippines/Mapping_conventions Excellent discussion btw. On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 6:41 AM, Ray rayosm1...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, Reviewing the map reveals that

Re: [talk-ph] changes of road types

2010-01-22 Thread Totor
Hi everybody, I use a similar approach to Eugene. Smallest roads = unclassified if industrial or with few houses, residential if the area is, well, residential... Biggest roads and main links crossing the city = primary The others secondary or tertiairy. Trunc roads should be reserved for

Re: [OSM-talk-nl] OSM Borrel zaterdag 23 januari

2010-01-22 Thread Maarten Deen
Op 19 januari 2010 19:18 schreef Henk Hoff toffehoff op gmail.com het volgende: Nog even een reminder dat er a.s. zaterdagavond ook een OSM borrel in Amsterdam is. Ik kom bijna zeker ook even langs. Ik heb nog een paar treinreizen te regelen en dat gaat altijd goed bij de treinreiswinkel. En

Re: [OSM-talk-nl] OSM Borrel zaterdag 23 januari

2010-01-22 Thread Martijn van Exel
Ik heb een paar tips aan Henk doorgegeven, die allemaal in de omgeving Nieuwmarkt zijn (het Loosje waar ook de NJ-borrel was, en de Waag). Makkelijk te bereiken vanaf Amsterdam CS. Als Henk een definitieve keuze heeft gemaakt dan zal hij het hier wel posten. Martijn On Jan 22, 2010, at 1:46

Re: [OSM-talk-nl] OSM Borrel zaterdag 23 januari

2010-01-22 Thread Henk Hoff
Heb ik het weer gedaan ;-) Ga er in ieder geval vanuit dat het rondom de Nieuwmarkt is. Vanaf 18.00 uur bij Nam Kee (die aan de Nieuwmarkt dus) en ergens daarna de borrel bij De Waag. Ik heb geen flauw benul van hoe druk het daar is op een zaterdag avond. Gr, Henk Op 22 januari 2010 17:02

Re: [talk-au] Question about lanes

2010-01-22 Thread Stephen Hope
This is another one of those cases where the instructions used to be in unclear. For a while the Wiki said the count was number of lanes in each direction. Some did that, some did total lane count. It has since been changed to the current (and I'm told former) total count, but there is quite

Re: [talk-au] Question about lanes

2010-01-22 Thread Craig Feuerherdt
Mark, The number refers to the total number of lanes of the way. Refer to http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:lanes for more information. They should be tagged with lanes=2 although AFAIK it is meaningless not required if it is a bi-directional road (as per the second example on the web page

Re: [talk-au] Question about lanes

2010-01-22 Thread Liz
On Fri, 22 Jan 2010, Mark Pulley wrote: What do other people do? ignore lanes in country towns and cities i've plenty of other things i find useful to map next comment is that the lanes=1 on the wiki means one lane each way and so a one lane bridge needs to be lanes=1/2 a two lane road with a

Re: [talk-au] Question about lanes

2010-01-22 Thread David Murn
My thoughts are the same as Liz. The number of lanes should be the number available for each direction. If the road has a lanes= tag and a oneway=yes tag, then it should be the total number for the way. David On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 18:07 +1000, Stephen Hope wrote: This is another one of those

Re: [talk-au] Blue?

2010-01-22 Thread Andrew Gregory
On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:49:39 +0800, Arie Paap wildmy...@gmail.com wrote: The correct coastline data seems to be in use again. Tiles that still have blue background are updated when resubmitted for rendering. Would be nice to be able to determine what date the rendered coastline comes from.

Re: [talk-au] For the mapper with too much money who wants it all...

2010-01-22 Thread Emilie Laffray
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