Re: [Talk-GB] an estimate of data loss under relicensing

2010-07-22 Thread Grant Slater
On 23 July 2010 00:05, 80n 80n...@gmail.com wrote: Is this the real CloudMade? How can we tell?  And that really is the point. How can anyone tell whether they can add someone else's work to OSM unless there's some way of knowing that they've signed the contributor terms. How's this all

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] help.openstreetmap.org and routing demo

2010-07-19 Thread Grant Slater
2010/7/19 David Richfield davidrichfi...@gmail.com: 4) Cairo to Germiston Fails.  Cape to Cairo is still our goal!!! I've been working on these long distance routes in the past. The problem is Egypt closed the road borders with Sudan many years ago. The route taken by the 4x4 crowd is via an

Re: [OSM-talk] Changeset 5057715

2010-07-18 Thread Grant Slater
On 18 July 2010 19:56, Andrew wynnd...@lavabit.com wrote: Changeset http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/5057715 added an apostrophe to every name St Johns Street in the northern hemisphere. It seems to me that this was a very unselective edit and conversation with the editor

Re: [talk-au] ODBL yet again, but from a pragmatic approach...

2010-07-18 Thread Grant Slater
On 18 July 2010 12:53, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: It just got pointed out to me, but anyone that has ever derived data from Nearmap can't agree to the new Contributor Terms, not to mention new users that already agreed to the new CTs shouldn't be deriving data from Nearmap.

Re: [OSM-talk] planet-100714 issue?

2010-07-16 Thread Grant Slater
On 16 July 2010 14:33, Nakor nakor@gmail.com wrote: It looks like there is no planet file for this week. Was there an export issue? Yes no planet file this week yet. The usual planet dump was stopped when we added additional storage yesterday. I've restarted the dump. ETA Sunday.

Re: [OSM-talk] Error loading Yahoo-Images in Potlatch

2010-07-13 Thread Grant Slater
On 13 July 2010 20:08, Peter Herison pheri...@web.de wrote: Maybe it's something with my provider (Alice/HanseNet)?! Alice.de does something very weird to DNS. I very occasionally get random reports of users reaching my personal website instead of OpenStreetMap.org (osm has never been pointed

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] using OSM on TV

2010-07-10 Thread Grant Slater
On 10 July 2010 16:33, visio...@petml.com wrote: So, what's required? As I stated in my original post, there is confusion (at least on my part) as to my obligation. Some examples state attributing OSM in the acknowledgments section of my application is sufficient. Other examples on the

Re: [OSM-talk] That license change link

2010-07-08 Thread Grant Slater
There is an outstanding task on me to setup links from the osmf site (and wiki banner) to the osm wiki to allow translations of those documents. Feel free to jump ahead and translate, I will link things up as soon as I get a chance. / Grant On 7/7/10, Tobias Knerr o...@tobias-knerr.de wrote:

[OSM-talk] OSM is back after maintenance

2010-07-03 Thread Grant Slater
Talk, OpenStreetMap is now back after the planned maintenance. Happy mapping. / Grant Part of OpenStreetMap sysadmin team. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Upcoming OSM Server Maintenance

2010-07-03 Thread Grant Slater
On 3 July 2010 12:32, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com wrote: Is it back now?  I was able to edit a few minutes ago. Yes we are back. There are a few minor issues we are working on resolving. Replication diffs are not yet working. This effects things like tile.openstreetmap.org and

Re: [OSM-talk] wiki down ?

2010-06-28 Thread Grant Slater
Hi Guys, All fixed now. Squid fell over during a backup when disk space became tight. It acts as cache for wiki and some of the mapnik tiles. / Grant On 29 June 2010 05:50, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: colliar wrote: I can not get onto any wiki page. Any problems ? It's down,

Re: [OSM-talk] Upcoming OSM Server Maintenance

2010-06-26 Thread Grant Slater
On 26 June 2010 07:12, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: Having just bought a new hard-drive, I found 400gb almost unavailable, most disks these days seem to start at 1tb and go up. These are 'Server' SCSI (Serial Attached SCSI) disks. They are still available. The highest available

[OSM-talk] Upcoming OSM Server Maintenance

2010-06-25 Thread Grant Slater
OpenStreetMap, Please translate and copy to local lists. On the 2nd (Friday) and 3rd (Saturday) of July 2010 the sysadmin team will be upgrading the database server's storage. Editing will not be available during this period. Initial plan, subject to revision: 1st July 21:00 (GMT) - API and

Re: [OSM-talk] Upcoming OSM Server Maintenance

2010-06-25 Thread Grant Slater
upgrade, but this is still to be finalised. Regards Grant On 26 June 2010 02:40, Martin Fossdal Guttesen mgutte...@hotmail.com wrote: hey for us tech/map junkies, can you give some info about what the upgrade is about from hardware to hardware -Original Message- From: Grant Slater

Re: [OSM-talk] Failed to download 9.5 GB planet

2010-06-22 Thread Grant Slater
2010/6/22 Dirk-Lüder Kreie osm-l...@deelkar.net: Am 21.06.2010 18:12, schrieb Juan Lucas Domínguez Rubio: 16:23:53 (1.02 MB/s) - Connection closed at byte 1621101924. Retrying. --16:23:53--   http://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/openstreetmap.org/planet-100618.osm.bz2   (try: 2) =

Re: [OSM-talk] Planet.osm

2010-06-18 Thread Grant Slater
On 18 June 2010 08:54, Peter Körner osm-li...@mazdermind.de wrote: does anybody know why there is no planet.osm from this week, .i.e. there is no file planet-20100616.osm.bz2 at http://planet.openstreetmap.org/ It may be because the database downtime around Wednesday. Yes there was a brief

Re: [OSM-talk] WolframAlpha uses OpenStreetMap data

2010-06-16 Thread Grant Slater
On 16 June 2010 23:09, Tim McNamara paperl...@timmcnamara.co.nz wrote: Sorry if I've neglected to look into this issue in more detail. May I ask, which community consensus are you referring to? OSM or CC? My understanding was the intention behind a share-alike clause is to compel people using

Re: [OSM-talk] openstreetmap.org down

2010-06-15 Thread Grant Slater
On 15 June 2010 08:56, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: The tweet says couple of hours and that was 5 hours ago. Anyone knows how much longer will it take? We had to wait for Adaptec to start work - Grant is holding on the phone to their support people right now. Adaptec support are to be

Re: [OSM-talk] openstreetmap.org down

2010-06-15 Thread Grant Slater
On 15 June 2010 12:52, Shalabh shalab...@gmail.com wrote: Wont need that, its back up. :) Not yet. We are currently looking at 10pm GMT tonight. Regards Grant ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

[OSM-talk] openstreetmap.org up

2010-06-15 Thread Grant Slater
OSM Talk, Website and API is now up and running again after earlier issues. Happy mapping. Thanks Grant OSM Sysadmin Team ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Potential huge License violation - anyone know anything about this?

2010-06-02 Thread Grant Slater
On 2 June 2010 21:03, Phil Monger phil...@gmail.com wrote: So I was looking through some cycle books, as you do, when I came across this one (i've hosted the images 3rd party and avoided HTML, if they don't work let me know. I had to snap them on the iPhone - so sorry for the lack of a close

Re: [talk-au] ESRI online tool has OSM basemap

2010-05-26 Thread Grant Slater
On 26 May 2010 12:05, Chris Barham cbar...@pobox.com wrote: This seems interesting, ESRI have launched ArcGIS.com http://www.arcgis.com/home/ which has an online mapping toolset (Microsoft Silverlight plugin required) that allows you to use OpenStreetMap basemaps - I thought this was

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] Chris Hani Baragwanath

2010-05-23 Thread Grant Slater
Which mega hospital should we do next? - Grant On 5/21/10, David Richfield davidrichfi...@gmail.com wrote: And the history shows that the heroes are mbuege and FK270673 , both from Germany. Strange. I've complimented them by private message. 2010/5/21 David Richfield

Re: [OSM-talk] closedstreetmap.org

2010-05-20 Thread Grant Slater
On 20 May 2010 15:08, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: It'd be perfect for the closed source fork of OSM which comes into place after the content is moved from CC-BY-SA to DbCL. I'll take it. Good to see you agreeing that ODbL will keep OpenStreetMap open ;-) May I suggest starting your

Re: [OSM-talk] Wiki contributions

2010-05-17 Thread Grant Slater
On 17 May 2010 11:18, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: Frederik Ramm wrote: I don't think that an a patch for the rails port which lets people add feedback would be difficult to do http://www.skobbler.co.uk/osmbugs Skobbler rocks. How about something like this?

Re: [OSM-talk] New users have to sign up to the ODbL

2010-05-12 Thread Grant Slater
On 12 May 2010 17:18, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 13 May 2010 01:56, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ava...@gmail.com wrote: You can override it by adjusting the Accept-Language settings in your browser. But how we do language *detection* is a separate from how we should do content

Re: [Talk-GB] OS OpenData StreetView

2010-05-05 Thread Grant Slater
On 5 May 2010 11:31, Tim Francois sk1pp...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Is that layer 17 I see before me?! zoom 17 is now available for about 70% of the UK. The rest is still generating. Process was started on Saturday morning. / Grant ___ Talk-GB mailing

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] FW: x

2010-05-04 Thread Grant Slater
2010/5/4 Stef Steiner stef_stei...@hotmail.com: I ordered one Nokia N900 from this website www.like188.com one weeks ago, today I've got it . haha sorry what? 1 week for international shipping. Beware guys, spam as John Grant said. Keep away from like188.com Stef, time to choose a better

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] Southern Africa ut-of copyright raster maps available

2010-04-22 Thread Grant Slater
If I get a chance, I'll have a go at re-projecting and turning into a slippymap. Also happy to help someone else do this. Basic steps: 1) Crop images to borders 2) Add control points via gdal_translate (jpg - geotiff) 3) gdal_warp to EPSG:900913 (reproject) 4) tile... using patched gdal2tiles

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] Keeping an eye on changes

2010-04-22 Thread Grant Slater
On 22 April 2010 12:36, Nic Roets nro...@gmail.com wrote: If you are on a slow connection and you want to quickly zoom in with a slippy map, there is a trick : Double click on the location (the more accurate, the better). This will center the map on that location. Then select a high zoom level

Re: [OSM-talk] Military objects in RU: warning about status of voting

2010-04-19 Thread Grant Slater
On 16 April 2010 19:55, Cartinus carti...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Friday 16 April 2010 20:29:41 Upliner wrote: Current situation is real edit war. I consider some interference is needed. Sorry, experience has learned that edit wars on the wiki only end when one side gets bored with it. I've

Re: [OSM-talk] private mail on wiki??

2010-04-08 Thread Grant Slater
Visit their wiki user page, select email this user from the menu on the lower left? I think you have to log in to see this option. This user hasn't a user page - I did look there. Thanks anyway Regardless of the user having created a user page, if they have added their email address there

Re: [Talk-GB] OS OpenData StreetView Tiles now available

2010-04-07 Thread Grant Slater
On 7 April 2010 12:53, TimSC mapp...@sheerman-chase.org.uk wrote: In both the edgemaster's and Richard's tiles there are periodic kinks (about 1 pixel in size) in what should be straight lines. It is more obvious in Richard's tiles because they are less noisy. Any idea what is causing that?

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: planet-100331.osm-broken

2010-04-01 Thread Grant Slater
On 1 April 2010 15:07, Nakor Osm nakor@gmail.com wrote: Was there an issue with the planet extract this week? If yes what was it? Planet file was truncated. Currently re-generating. ETA is early tomorrow UTC. / Grant ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] Some guidelines on Africover data?

2010-03-30 Thread Grant Slater
Hi Joseph, I've been cleaning up some of the Africover, mostly bound within the DRC borders. The import seems to have been fairly messy. snip There is no source tag on the data that exists, only an AUTO_ID tag; an example way can be seen in 37424303 [3], although many more exist. I'm

Re: [OSM-talk] Project of the Week 2010Mar28 - Swimming in data

2010-03-30 Thread Grant Slater
2010/3/30 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com: anything tagged natural=coastline only updates intermitently, I'm not sure if there is a regular schedule or not, however shape files are produced from the coastline segments and so on and so forth. Coastlines updating is currently a manual

Re: [Talk-de] osm2pgsql Fehler planet-import

2010-03-17 Thread Grant Slater
See: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2010-March/018814.html / Grant 2010/3/17 Jens Poenisch j...@ruessel.in-chemnitz.de: Hallo, beim Import des Planet-Files planet-100310.osm.bz2 mit osm2pgsql (Version 0.69-20522) bekomme ich die Fehlermeldung: )Entity: line 529642199: parser

Re: [OSM-talk] Getting 403-Forbidden from my app that WAS on sale on the appstore

2010-03-16 Thread Grant Slater
On 16 March 2010 08:29, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: It's (and yes this is really what it sends) True%20Maps and I blocked it yesterday because I believed it was responsible for the massive spike in map api calls over the last few days. IgnacioZ, speak to the Trapi guys:

Re: [OSM-talk] Getting 403-Forbidden from my app that WAS on sale on the appstore

2010-03-15 Thread Grant Slater
what is your app's user-agent? / Grant On 16 March 2010 01:40, IgnacioZ zigna...@gmail.com wrote: Hello I´m getting 403-forbidden from my application True Offline Maps that WAS on sale on the IPhone appstore. I had to remove my app from the appstore because of this. Could someone please

Re: [OSM-talk] Getting 403-Forbidden from my app that WAS on sale on the appstore

2010-03-15 Thread Grant Slater
and which api call? / Grant On 16 March 2010 01:45, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com wrote: what is your app's user-agent? / Grant On 16 March 2010 01:40, IgnacioZ zigna...@gmail.com wrote: Hello I´m getting 403-forbidden from my application True Offline Maps that WAS on sale

Re: [OSM-talk] Getting 403-Forbidden from my app that WAS on sale on the appstore

2010-03-15 Thread Grant Slater
from me to make the app be able to use the API again ? On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:10 AM, IgnacioZ zigna...@gmail.com wrote: Just found my user Agent: True2aps/1.2.1 CFNetwork/459 Darwin/10.0.0 I'm using the api v0.6 Thanks, Ignacio. On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 11:47 PM, Grant Slater

[OSM-Talk-ZA] OSM Project of the Week

2010-03-14 Thread Grant Slater
OSM-ZA, Just noticed the OSM project of the week... It is adding sports facilities to the map, with a particular focus on 2010 World Cup facilities. http://opengeodata.org/project-of-the-week-of-march-14-2010-sport-fa The actual project page:

[OSM-Talk-ZA] And quickest growing in SA

2010-03-13 Thread Grant Slater
Talk-ZA, And the quickest place growing in mapping in quantity and quality is Vryheid. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-27.7786lon=30.8084zoom=14 Awesome stuff. / Grant ___ Talk-ZA mailing list Talk-ZA@openstreetmap.org

[OSM-Talk-ZA] Amazing Jump in OSM Contributors in ZA

2010-03-13 Thread Grant Slater
Talk-ZA, After the recent MyBroadband article... There has been an amazing jump in the number of people contributing to OpenStreetMap in South Africa. We have had at least 60 new people contributing data all over South Africa. PE, Cape Town, JHB, Durban, Pretoria, Stellenbosch, Paarl,

Re: [OSM-talk] First drop in planet size ?

2010-03-11 Thread Grant Slater
On 11 March 2010 15:50, Nic Roets nro...@gmail.com wrote: (since we got rid of the segments) From 8.2 GB to 8.1 GB: http://planet.openstreetmap.org/ Interesting... There has been a change to the dumping script since the previous week: http://trac.openstreetmap.org/changeset/20396 But more

Re: [OSM-talk] First drop in planet size ?

2010-03-11 Thread Grant Slater
On 11 March 2010 16:03, Lars Francke lars.fran...@gmail.com wrote: planet-091007.osm.bz2                     09-Oct-2009 03:37  7.4G planet-091014.osm.bz2                     14-Oct-2009 20:35  7.2G I tweaked the bz2 compression block size around then, which would account for that size

Re: [OSM-talk] Wiki - Croatian and Bosnian languages - mass-namespace editing notice

2010-03-01 Thread Grant Slater
On 1 March 2010 18:37, Valent Turkovic valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:43:06 +0100, Matija Nalis wrote: As he had not replied to his user talk page I don't know yet if it was done out of ignorance, or malice. Is there a way to completely undo work of some malicious

Re: [Talk-de] Problem mit dem Ausdrucken aus dem Wiki

2010-03-01 Thread Grant Slater
On 1 March 2010 16:47, Thomas Ineichen osm.mailingl...@t-i.ch wrote: Hat einer von Euch eine Lösung dafür ein custom css erstellen  oder wo ist der BUG zu posten ?? Evtl.bei trac.openstreetmap.org , component website? oder hier:

Re: [Talk-de] Umzug des Wiki-Server

2010-02-19 Thread Grant Slater
On 19 February 2010 22:33, Tirkon tirko...@yahoo.de wrote: Kai Krueger kakrue...@gmail.com wrote: wiki messaging system Wo findet man das? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Special:EmailUser/Firefishy?uselang=de / Grant ___ Talk-de mailing list

Re: [Talk-de] Umzug des Wiki-Server

2010-02-19 Thread Grant Slater
2010/2/19 Tirkon tirko...@yahoo.de: Kai Krueger kakrue...@gmail.com wrote: heute Nacht ist das OpenStreetMap-Wiki auf einen neuen server umgezogen. Da der neue Server deutlich schneller ist als der alte wird es hoffentlich nicht mehr so oft zu Ueberlastungsproblemen kommen. 23:15 Uhr:

Re: [talk-au] Duplicate node finder

2010-02-11 Thread Grant Slater
But zoom levels six and lower are still showing marks that have been removed for at least a day. They must be updated at some lower frequency, which is understandable - I'm guessing there is some clumping of many marks into one, or it would take forever to display at these zooms. The lower

Re: [OSM-talk] New OSM GeoData License Status

2010-02-10 Thread Grant Slater
On 10 February 2010 14:09, Stefan de Konink ste...@konink.de wrote: a contributor (whether using a single or multiple accounts) who has edited the Project in any 3 calendar months from the last 6 months (i.e. there is a demonstrated interest over time); and has maintained a valid email

Re: [OSM-talk] Project of the week

2010-02-09 Thread Grant Slater
On 10 February 2010 00:43, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote: Steve, I've got something for you to do. Why don't you design a logo for the OSM foundation instead of arrogantly lazily expecting others, outside of the foundation, to do it for you. Dave chill out, that is over the top. Even

Re: [OSM-talk] can't print from wiki

2010-02-02 Thread Grant Slater
will get it updated in a few days. Just catching up on work. / Grant On 2 February 2010 23:16, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: On 02/02/10 22:42, Margie Roswell wrote: In any case, who has access to the backend of the wiki.openstreetmap.org site, so that the style sheet issue can be

Re: [Talk-GB] Vanessa at RICS

2010-01-29 Thread Grant Slater
On 29 January 2010 12:19, Christopher Osborne chris.gai...@gmail.com wrote: So what didn't I miss from Vanessa's RICS talk? Being turned away at the door because the venue was too full. / Grant ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] OSM Cape Town meetup - Jan 18th

2010-01-05 Thread Grant Slater
2010/1/5 Brendan Barrett brendanbarr...@live.co.za: Can you confirm if you mean the 18th or 28th? (subject line says 18th). woops. 18th Jan 2010 @ 6pm. All welcome, the more the merrier. Please come along even if you are completely new to OpenStreetMap. Can anyone in Cape Town confirm if

[OSM-Talk-ZA] OSM Cape Town meetup - Jan 18th

2010-01-04 Thread Grant Slater
Capetonians, I'm in Cape Town on the 28th Jan, how about a mappers meet in Cape Town? The Joburg meet was a great success. Can anyone recommend a simple venue? Open in the evening, quietish and near beer. Southern Suburbs or City Bowl prefered. What is Relish in Tamboerskloof like?

Re: [OSM-talk] planet.openstreetmap.org

2009-12-25 Thread Grant Slater
2009/12/26 Jeremy Adams mile...@king-nerd.com: Seems like the planet.openstreetmap.org is dead to the world. Seems fine to me. Internet Explorer (and likely some others) are unable to download files over 4GB. What error are you getting? / Grant ___

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] Joburg Meet

2009-12-22 Thread Grant Slater
Its on! Live in JHB or surrounds come join us... Where: Jolly Roger in Parkhurst, Jozi. http://www.osm.org/?node=195088752 When: 28th December 2009 from 6pm. Who: YOU. (I'll be the guy with the GPS) Regards Grant 2009/12/8 Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com: Hi Guys, Anyone up

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] OBbL and forks

2009-12-08 Thread Grant Slater
2009/12/8 mapp...@sheerman-chase.org.uk: A quick question for the legal people: does ODbL allow the project to be forked? Yes it does. The LWG sought specific legal advise on this. We wouldn't be an open project if this was not allowed. / Grant ___

[OSM-legal-talk] ODbL / Licensing Working Group - Discussion Podcast

2009-12-08 Thread Grant Slater
Matt Amos [1] and Mike Collinson [2], members of the LWG [3] together with Peter Batty [4], Richard Fairhurst [5] and Steve Coast [6] got together earlier today to discuss OpenStreetMap Licensing, ODbL and some of the licensing debate.

[OSM-talk] ODbL / Licensing Working Group - Discussion Podcast

2009-12-08 Thread Grant Slater
Matt Amos [1] and Mike Collinson [2], members of the LWG [3] together with Peter Batty [4], Richard Fairhurst [5] and Steve Coast [6] got together earlier today to discuss OpenStreetMap Licensing, ODbL and some of the licensing debate.

Re: [OSM-talk] Thank you, LWG

2009-12-07 Thread Grant Slater
2009/12/7 Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com: Jonas Krückel osm at jonas-krueckel.de writes: I'm not sure if the CC-BY-SA license is really simpler than ODbL. Just look at this website here http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/summary/ and you'll see that the ODbL is as simple as CC-BY-SA.

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMF: The people you are going to hand over your OSM data ...

2009-12-05 Thread Grant Slater
2009/12/5 Ulf Lamping ulf.lamp...@googlemail.com: Remember: Steve is the head of the OSMF, so this is the OSMF Chairman's position about other peoples opinions when they don't share his own opinion. Is this the organization you want to hand over the license of your OSM data? Are we an

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMF: The people you are going to hand over your OSM data ...

2009-12-05 Thread Grant Slater
2009/12/5 Liz ed...@billiau.net: I find the graffiti on the NO page very disturbing. It is intended as a statement page by those who differ, and those who want to put positive comments on the new licence should use their own page. So the REPLY: 's are graffiti? If a statement is untrue or

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-05 Thread Grant Slater
2009/12/6 Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org: There have been some independent reviews of ODbL. snip There is also Andrea Rossato who the Italian OSM community hired independently to review the license. I believe he said something like ODbL is CC BY-SA without the problems. Could someone from

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMF: The people you are going to hand over your OSM data ...

2009-12-05 Thread Grant Slater
2009/12/6 Matthew Luehrmann matthew.luehrm...@gmail.com: Who controls OSM?  I really am not sure.  My current understanding is that OSMF controls OSM, but calls it supporting: The OpenStreetMap Foundation is an international non-profit organisation supporting but not controlling the

Re: [talk-au] Database licence

2009-12-05 Thread Grant Slater
2009/12/5 80n 80n...@gmail.com: The OSM Foundation can't force anyone to relicense their existing data For clarity... the OSM Foundation is not some evil group... The OSMF is open, anyone from the community can join. The OSMF Board is democratically elected from the OSMF membership. OSMF Board:

Re: [talk-au] Database licence

2009-12-05 Thread Grant Slater
2009/12/5 Liz ed...@billiau.net: Sadly, I'd like to say that I will not be supporting the proposed new licence. It is designed around European law, and gives database protection which is not a legal concept which is likely to apply here, after the recent High Court case Nine vs IceTv, when the

Re: [OSM-talk] New OpenStreetMap iPhone Editor - Mapzen POI Collector

2009-12-03 Thread Grant Slater
2009/12/4 Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org: Nick, I assume that the POI collector not only lets you collect new POIs but also modify existing ones. For this, the existing ones must be shown as active elements on the map that the device displays. Given that the OSM server proper is too slow

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] CD:SM Topographic map of ZA

2009-12-02 Thread Grant Slater
2009/11/30 Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com: http://grant.dev.openstreetmap.org/cdsm-tiles-test-DO-NOT-USE/ Most of the Western Cape is now done. (zoom levels 5-8 and 15 are still generating) Next up Northern Cape and then the full Eastern Cape. Western Cape, Northern Cape, North

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] CD:SM Topographic map of ZA

2009-11-30 Thread Grant Slater
2009/11/29 Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com: As a short term experiment, I've turned [1] a selection of them into a slippy. (My bit of the Eastern Cape) http://grant.dev.openstreetmap.org/cdsm-tiles-test-DO-NOT-USE/ Most of the Western Cape is now done. (zoom levels 5-8 and 15

Re: [OSM-talk] Revert of two changesets

2009-11-26 Thread Grant Slater
2009/11/26 Dan Karran d...@karran.net: Please could somebody revert changesets 3204838 and 3204901? They both relate to the centre of London and add/edit data incorrectly. Done. Please contact the user and explain why his changesets were reverted. / Grant

[talk-au] NearMap article on Wikipedia

2009-11-24 Thread Grant Slater
OSM Team AU, Lets show some love... New Wikipedia NearMap article... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NearMap Article needs some expanding. / Grant ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [OSM-talk] Planet.openstreetmap.org

2009-11-02 Thread Grant Slater
2009/11/2 Jeremy Adams mile...@king-nerd.com: The site http://planet.openstreetmap.org seems to be down.  It's returning 403: Forbidden for about the last hour. Can someone have a look? Fixed. Thx for the report. We having hardware problems with that machine today so it might be up and

Re: [Talk-de] UNSUBSCRIBE

2009-10-30 Thread Grant Slater
2009/10/31 Tobias Wendorff tobias.wendo...@uni-dortmund.de: es wurde bereits alles mit TomH (Administrator) diskutiert: http://trac.openstreetmap.org/changeset/18383 Commit Message: Limit the rate at which messages can be sent. :-) / Grant ___

Re: [OSM-talk] updates for mapnik coastline-source?

2009-10-21 Thread Grant Slater
2009/10/21 StilgarBF o...@projekt2k.de: does anyone know when or how often the shoreline/coastline/shapefiles are updated that Mapnik uses to render coasts, islands ... ? the Wiki says: every few weeks (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Coastline) But what's that supposed to mean? 2 weeks? 4

Re: [OSM-talk] Older planet files (from 2007)?

2009-10-16 Thread Grant Slater
2009/10/16 Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org: Yes, it's called planet.openstreetmap.org! Also... (additional files here) http://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/openstreetmap.org/ Brief API (+data format) history... 0.3 - (remove segments?) 0.4 - (+relations) 0.5 - (+changesets) 0.6 / Grant

Re: [Talk-de] Strato sponsort 3 Server für OSM

2009-10-09 Thread Grant Slater
2009/10/9 Josias Polchau sp...@youseeus.de: ich hätte gerne einen schnellen XAPI-Server. XAPI Bedarf: - OSM-World: ~400GB - Festplatte: schnell - Coded in: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GT.M - http://xapi.openstreetmap.org/scripts/ - Admin: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:80n /

Re: [Talk-de] Problem im Wiki mit Seiten auf Deutsch?

2009-10-07 Thread Grant Slater
2009/10/8 Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com: z.B. hier: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Making_Overview ist kein Link auf eine deutsche Seite gesetzt. Wenn ich aber auf Dänisch gehe: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Da:Mapper gibts auch ne Deutsche Version:

Re: [Talk-de] Fremde Inhalte in Wiki einbinden

2009-10-03 Thread Grant Slater
English... Create a mediawiki extension, have it peer reviewed (here on @de) and I will install it on wiki.osm.org if you want? Please translate. / Grant 2009/10/2 Adiac teamad...@gmx.de: Hallo, wie kann ich fremde Inhalte ins Wiki einbinden? Es geht dabei um eine kleine PHP-Funktion, die

[OSM-Talk-ZA] OpenStreetMap.org in Afrikaans vertaal

2009-09-24 Thread Grant Slater
Hullo, Ek vertaal www.OpenStreetMap.org maar ek soek hulp. 1) registreer here: http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:CreateAccount 2) http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Project:Translator (lees en volg die 'Prerequisites') 3)

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] Gauteng mapping party - 19 September 2009

2009-09-18 Thread Grant Slater
2009/9/18 Nic Roets nro...@gmail.com: I'm building a stand for us at the DST building. I've constructed a 1.4m x 1.4m 49 megapixel colour map of Pretoria out of 49 A4 sheets and tonight I'm make a 1m x 1m map of Northern Jhb. I'll also have printouts for Cape Town, Kempton Park, Walking Papers

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] Getting .osm for SA

2009-09-16 Thread Grant Slater
2009/9/16 Brendan Barrett brendanbarr...@live.co.za: Have you tried the South African Extract that Cloudmade offers? http://downloads.cloudmade.com/ Or the daily updated Geofabrik ZA extracts: http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/africa/ / Grant ___

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] WMF will donate 35 servers...

2009-09-15 Thread Grant Slater
If we try grab a few of these machines... Do we have anyone in the USA or Canada willing to how them? Preferably a University. A home basement with cable modem / adsl does not qualify. Regards Grant 2009/9/15 Edoardo 'Yossef' Marascalchi edoa...@edoardomarascalchi.it:

Re: [Talk-GB] Chester Zoo: feedback requested

2009-09-03 Thread Grant Slater
2009/9/3 Frankie Roberto fran...@frankieroberto.com: I visited Chester Zoo a few weeks back, took my GPS, and spent an exhausting few hours walking along every path (as well as looking at a few of the animals). Look out Berlin, GB is on its way! Brilliant stuff Frankie / Grant

[OSM-talk] Server Down Time - 22nd to 23rd August 2009

2009-08-14 Thread Grant Slater
OSM, Next weekend, 22nd/23rd August OpenStreetMap's main servers will be unavailable due to electrical maintenance works at University College London. www.openstreetmap.org [1] and the API will be unavailable during this period from approximately 5am GMT Saturday August 22nd until 10pm GMT

Re: [Talk-de] OpenLayers.org ist down = Maps im Wiki sind down

2009-08-12 Thread Grant Slater
2009/8/12 Tobias Wendorff tobias.wendo...@uni-dortmund.de: Hallo Community, OpenLayers.org ist derzeit down, was zur Folge hat, dass alle Karten mit fremd-serverbasierter openlayers.js (welche ja auch auf openlayers.org liegt) nicht mehr funktionieren. Betroffen sind daher auch die Maps im

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] Anyone Available for Software Freedom Day - Pretoria?

2009-08-12 Thread Grant Slater
Comeon guys, who is in with Nic? How often do you get to brag about how super awesome OpenStreetMap is! OSM Gauteng looks amazing. The day's events should be quite good too... / Grant 2009/8/12 Nic Roets nro...@gmail.com: On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Grant Slater openstreet

Re: [OSM-talk] openstreetmap.org completely down

2009-08-11 Thread Grant Slater
2009/8/11 Andre Hinrichs andre.hinri...@gmx.de: Seems to be up again, but ping is still not working, why? Is it blocked? $ ping -c 10 www.openstreetmap.org PING www.openstreetmap.org (128.40.168.98) 56(84) bytes of data. --- www.openstreetmap.org ping statistics --- 10 packets transmitted,

Re: [Talk-de] Wiki mal wieder down...

2009-08-11 Thread Grant Slater
2009/8/11 Michael Kugelmann michaelk_...@gmx.de: Tirkon schrieb: Haben wir das vor ein paar Monaten nicht schon? das war vermutlich die Aktion für den DB server: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Servers/smaug ja und ein Dev server.

Re: [OSM-talk] Lots of ways in Congo double

2009-08-10 Thread Grant Slater
2009/8/10 Maarten Deen md...@xs4all.nl: I'm doing some relations on borders in Congo (the Democratic Republic of) and see that a lot of ways (borders and highways) are double. Two ways exactly on top of eachother, with their own nodes. All way id's are in the 37.000.000's and appear to be

Re: [Talk-de] Wiki mal wieder down...

2009-08-10 Thread Grant Slater
2009/8/10 Tobias Wendorff tobias.wendo...@uni-dortmund.de: Wohin muss ich spenden? The problem this evening: 79.51.x.y - - [10/Aug/2009:22:05:59 +0100] GET //index.php?title=Tag%3Atunnel%3Dyesaction=raw HTTP/1.0 200 53 - TagWatch/1.0 79.51.x.y - - [10/Aug/2009:22:05:59 +0100] GET

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] Durban import

2009-08-10 Thread Grant Slater
2009/8/10 Nic Roets nro...@gmail.com: Hi Russell, Grant spoke to someone from Y! Maps at SOTM09 about it. He said Grant should email him and he would pass it on. Director of Engineering, Yahoo! Geo Technologies Which I then promptly forgot about I'll email him now... fingers crossed

Re: [Talk-GB] Liam123

2009-08-07 Thread Grant Slater
2009/8/7 Vic Morgan vic.mor...@ntlworld.com: It would appear the Liam123 has been acting illegally under section 3 of the Misuse of Computers Act 1990. This should be reported to the Police. Even if it's not worth a prosecution the Police will know how best to curtail Liam123's activities.

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] Data logger recommendations please

2009-08-03 Thread Grant Slater
2009/7/31 Heinz Meulke heinz.meu...@gmail.com: I currently have a Garmin Extrex GPS and I am always keen to log trips wherever I drive, but it only keeps points and I frequently manage to fill it up. I need something that can record lots(unlimited) points. So should I travel for 2

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Can feature names be determined from copyrighted data?

2009-07-30 Thread Grant Slater
2009/7/30 Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org: Pavel Zubkou wrote: Can I look at *copyrighted* map for a name of lake that is placed at about 10km northen from city X? It is best to be paranoid. Live in the belief that all in copyright maps are covered in Trap Streets [1] (or names) waiting

Re: [OSM-talk] Broken formatting of Wiki pages

2009-07-28 Thread Grant Slater
2009/7/28 Maarten Deen md...@xs4all.nl: I changed the Geohack for OSM part on Template:place a bit. It looks better on the template page, but it appears the template is cached so it might take a little time before the pages look better. It should say More maps on Geohack for OSM in the

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] planet hourly diff generation stopped 20090627 19:00

2009-07-28 Thread Grant Slater
2009/7/27 Ciprian Talaba cipriantal...@gmail.com: And no daily diffs since July 25th. Fixed now. 20090727-20090728.osc.gz is current. / Grant ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [Talk-de] OSM-Wiki Server

2009-07-23 Thread Grant Slater
2009/7/22 Torsten Breda torst...@gmail.com: There is a small error in the notification-mail. http://localhost/wiki; should be http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki;. I fixed this yesterday. Test again and let me know if there is still a problem. Still the same error on a notification I

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