Re: [OSM-talk] Adding vmap0 road data to OSM

2008-01-05 Thread Bruce Cowan
in these areas would be better than bad roads, saying as this bad data would have to be in OSM. -- Bruce Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Missing structure

2008-01-13 Thread Bruce Cowan
) and 2 low level places (East Dunbartonshire and Fife). [0] http://www.kbs.twi.tudelft.nl/Publications/MSc/2002-Knezu-MSc.html -- Bruce Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman

Re: [OSM-talk] Welsh Map

2008-01-13 Thread Bruce Cowan
would look like, using name:gd. -- Bruce Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] JOSM Icons

2008-01-14 Thread Bruce Cowan
the source SVGs, just ask for them. -- Bruce Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] JOSM Icons

2008-01-17 Thread Bruce Cowan
. [0] http://icons.bcowan.fastmail.co.uk/svg/ -- Bruce Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping canals

2008-01-17 Thread Bruce Cowan
are a bit silly, sorry. -- Bruce Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-talk-nl] Recent Edits

2008-02-03 Thread Bruce Cowan
it. There is no way to mark that check request as done if it was done in a note=* tag without just deleting the tag. If the tag was deleted, it may as well have never existed. (I realise you could look at its history, but you'd need to know the ID) -- Bruce Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [OSM-talk] Progressing OSM to a new data Licence regime

2008-02-04 Thread Bruce Cowan
it become non-PD or does it stay PD? What if the editor doesn't want their edits to be PD? This is why we need one licence for everyone. I'm happy for my GPXs to be PD, but not my edits. -- Bruce Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ talk mailing list talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Tracking with Palm and Tomtom

2008-02-14 Thread Bruce Cowan
page. Having TomTom software on your Palm likely doesn't matter. Indeed, I used cotogps [0] when I used my Palm PDA for tracking. [0] http://core.de/~coto/projects/cotogps/ -- Bruce Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ talk mailing list talk

[OSM-talk] GPXes not public

2008-02-15 Thread Bruce Cowan
I've noticed that the GPX upload form defaults to not making the track public. This seems wrong. -- Bruce Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] GPXes not public

2008-02-15 Thread Bruce Cowan
On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 19:40 +0100, Listas wrote: Bruce Cowan escribi: I've noticed that the GPX upload form defaults to not making the track public. This seems wrong. This is a config which you can change. Where? If you mean make all my edits public, I've already done that yet

Re: [OSM-talk] Kosmos on Linux

2008-02-18 Thread Bruce Cowan
before continuing any developing (the penalty of not doing regular system drive backup, I suppose). If you manage to solve this some other way, please send me a note. Hardy with Mono 1.2.6 is fine, except that's it's pretty ugly (windows forms aren't going to look good) and very slow. -- Bruce

Re: [OSM-talk] Parking symbols: YUCK!

2008-02-24 Thread Bruce Cowan
on the matter (not that it counts). -- Bruce Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] state and province boundaries: VMAP0 or CIA

2008-03-06 Thread Bruce Cowan
border hasn't moved. -- Bruce Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Stares

2008-03-12 Thread Bruce Cowan
, in low-crime neighbourhoods of a major european town. One for the Brits: I hereby pledge allegiance to SteveC, and to the flag of the Nation of OpenStreetMap. I promise to never talk of Superways or controlled tags from this day forward. -- Bruce Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [OSM-talk] How to use lanes= for two way single track roads?

2008-03-12 Thread Bruce Cowan
/index.php/Proposed_features/Passing_places -- Bruce Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] [tagging] Passing places

2008-03-20 Thread Bruce Cowan
For a laugh, I thought I'd put my proposal passing_places = true to the vote. Have fun. -- Bruce Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Voting

2008-04-08 Thread Bruce Cowan
. -- Bruce Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM in Europe Statistics

2008-05-02 Thread Bruce Cowan
that much (but still strange that Italy should have so little - must investigate quality of border polygon). I realise I'm a bit late replying, but apparently Argyll and Bute council alone has more coastline than the all of France. Pointless facts, but that's a Scot for you. -- Bruce Cowan [EMAIL

Re: [OSM-talk] Users whose contributions are in the public domain

2008-05-02 Thread Bruce Cowan
rivers that went down the middle of a CC-BY-SA cycle-map-contours-background-in-potlatch valley? The sooner we're united behind one licence the better. Otherwise things will just be like the Tories not wanting to say what they'd do better. Politics thrown in for a laugh. -- Bruce Cowan [EMAIL

[OSM-talk] A tag tab

2008-05-21 Thread Bruce Cowan
be viewed 3 ways: * By usage * By number of votes * By time since first use (maybe not this one) There could also be a proposal area, as the wiki is a terrible way of doing this. Before anyone asks, I can't do this, it's just an idea. -- Bruce Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [OSM-talk] A tag tab

2008-05-21 Thread Bruce Cowan
On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 13:44 +0100, Dave Stubbs wrote: On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Bruce Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I propose that there should be another tab added to OSM's site, which would be a tagging one. [..] Which unfortunately moves it from the useful section, to the yes

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik Import Error

2008-05-29 Thread Bruce Cowan
On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 08:09 +0100, Shaun McDonald wrote: On 28 May 2008, at 23:21, Bruce Cowan wrote: On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 14:11 -0500, Ian Dees wrote: Ahh, thanks. This version of osm2pgsql was installed via apt-get. Can we get an updated version on the multiverse servers? Due

Re: [OSM-talk] National borders in the British Islands

2008-05-29 Thread Bruce Cowan
for borders is rather strange, surely there must be a more obvious scale. I suppose this has been mentioned before though. -- Bruce Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo

Re: [OSM-talk] National borders in the British Islands

2008-05-29 Thread Bruce Cowan
and one has further devolution. For the purposes of a map, the precise nature of the powers of each part are negligible. I suppose technically the USA is similar as each state has different powers available to them (or I think they do). -- Bruce Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [OSM-talk] path or byway ?

2008-07-21 Thread Bruce Cowan
may do, but our access laws are very liberal). -- Bruce Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [Talk-GB] mapping tunnels

2007-09-28 Thread Bruce Cowan
-hannover.de/docs/manual.html that's probably worth a try. Jamie I remember people saying Wii controllers could be used when this subject came up a few months ago. -- Bruce Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-GB] [OSM-talk] Welsh Map

2008-01-14 Thread Bruce Cowan
On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 08:28 +, Dermot McNally wrote: On 14/01/2008, Bruce Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /me wonders what a Gaelic map would look like, using name:gd. If you included a fallback to name:ga, you'd end up with quite a few locations in Ireland. I was mainly suggesting

Re: [Talk-GB] Scouts Mapping in Central Scotland

2008-02-08 Thread Bruce Cowan
, which is also why I've done very little mapping recently. -- Bruce Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Visit to academics in london

2008-12-13 Thread Bruce Cowan
- Message from talk-gb-requ...@openstreetmap.org - [snip huge amount of text] Please be careful when you reply to a digest message to not quote the whole digest. -- Bruce Cowan bco...@fastmail.co.uk ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [Talk-GB] MK mapping party

2009-05-18 Thread Bruce Cowan
on signs, but they can be usually identified by the fact that they have broken white lines down their centre unlike unclassified roads. -- Bruce Cowan bco...@fastmail.co.uk ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org