Re: [Talk-de] OSM-Wiki Server

2009-07-22 Thread Grant Slater
Thank you for enableing this feature! 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. Regards Grant

Re: [OSM-talk] Tests in the Antarctica?

2009-07-21 Thread Grant Slater
2009/7/20 John Smith delta_foxt...@yahoo.com: Not many polar bears in Antarctica either :) And not many penguins in the North Pole / Arctic. / Grant ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] RU namespace in the wiki

2009-07-21 Thread Grant Slater
2009/6/7 USHAKOV, Sergey usha...@int.com.ru: Hi, I have recently mentioned this issue in another topic, but then got an idea that the problem may be in manpower and/or knowledge of the language. Can anybody's assistance help to get RU namespace fully implemented? I personally have reasonable

Re: [Talk-de] OSM-Wiki Server

2009-07-20 Thread Grant Slater
2009/7/20 Johann H. Addicks addi...@gmx.net: Da gab es doch mal Bestrebungen, bzw. bereits konkrete Ankündigungen, dass das Wiki auf einen neuen Server in DE umzieht... Mir würde es reichen, wenn im Wiki die Mail-Notification angeschaltet würde, also Mailbenachrichtigung bei Seitenänderung.

[OSM-Talk-ZA] Local Mapping Parties

2009-07-17 Thread Grant Slater
Talk-ZA, OpenStreetMap South Africa is starting to hot up... There are 2 magazine articles discussing OSM South Africa coming out in the next couple of months. New Tracks4Africa converts... Time is ripe to introduce new comers to mapping, tools and getting involved. Can anyone suggest any venues

Re: [Talk-de] Planetfile 15.07.09

2009-07-16 Thread Grant Slater
2009/7/15 Steffen Neubauer neuba...@geographie.uni-bonn.de: Hallo, was ist mit dem Planetfile vom 15.07.09 los. (http://planet.openstreetmap.org/planet-latest.osm.bz2) Auf der Download-Seite steht zwar, dass es die Datei gibt und diese 6,3GB groß ist. Aber will man die Datei speichern hat

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Is CC-BY-SA really so ineffective?

2009-07-06 Thread Grant Slater
2009/7/6 Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org: I just checked out the BBC web site and while they say please get a parent's permission before taking part in any bbc.co.uk community if you're under 16, there is nothing remotely referencing COPPA there. Nor does it say if you're under 13 you may

Re: [Talk-de] Hello from England

2009-07-05 Thread Grant Slater
2009/7/5 northc...@gmx.de: dann könnte man auch mit einfließen lassen wieviel ein Mapper am Datenbestand wirklich beigetragen hat. Also eine entsprechende Stimmgewichtung mit einfließen lassen z.B. anhand der Gesamtanzahl ways+nodes oder edits über das letzte halbe Jahr etc. oder wie

Re: [Talk-de] Hello from England

2009-07-02 Thread Grant Slater
2009/7/2 Tobias Wendorff tobias.wendo...@uni-dortmund.de: Dabei fällt mir noch ein: Ich wollte noch nach einem Dump des Wikis fragen. Schließlich steht dies auch unter CC-BY-SA. A wiki dump is on my todo list. / Grant ___ Talk-de mailing list

[OSM-legal-talk] ODbL 1.0 Final Released

2009-07-01 Thread Grant Slater
Legal-talk, Not yet announced here... ODbL 1.0 was officially released on Monday by Open Data Commons... http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/ Our potential implementation plan: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/Implementation_Plan#Current Regards Grant

Re: [OSM-talk] SVG rendering on wiki

2009-06-30 Thread Grant Slater
I changed the wiki ages ago away from rsvg to imagemagick, I can't remember the reasoning, there was likely some issue with rsvg rendering or resources usage. I have now changed it back to rsvg... let me know if there is a problem. / Grant 2009/6/30 Ben Laenen benlae...@gmail.com Hi, can

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] Anyone got GPS location for these?

2009-06-16 Thread Grant Slater
brendan barrett wrote: Ok, I couldn't wait and emailed Mr Oelsner for the coordinates. That is the spirit! / Grant ___ Talk-ZA mailing list Talk-ZA@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-za

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] Anyone got GPS location for these?

2009-06-16 Thread Grant Slater
brendan barrett wrote: Darling Wind Farm on top of Moedmag Kopi 33 18' 81 S 18 15'79 E 246 above sea level Added! -33.3135, 18.263167 Should appear here soon: www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=-33.3135mlon=18.263167zoom=13 OpenCycleMap with Hill shading looks impressive:

[OSM-Talk-ZA] Anyone got GPS location for these?

2009-06-15 Thread Grant Slater
Wind Turbines - WC http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/8097882.stm / Grant ___ Talk-ZA mailing list Talk-ZA@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-za

[OSM-Talk-ZA] State Copyright on Spatial Information Products

2009-06-12 Thread Grant Slater
OSM ZA, A few of us have been trying to get government data to include in OSM... While the Public Access to Information Act allows us to get the data relatively easily it does not answer the question of copyright and usage terms... I recently found the following draft(?) policy which might be

[OSM-Talk-ZA] OSM Website now supports translations

2009-06-01 Thread Grant Slater
Talk-ZA, OpenStreetMap.org now supports translations... anyone feeling brave? http://svn.openstreetmap.org/sites/rails_port/config/locales/ en.yml is master / Grant PS: www.osm.org now redirects to www.openstreetmap.org ___ Talk-ZA mailing list

[OSM-Talk-ZA] Congrads SoTM Scholarship Winners

2009-05-28 Thread Grant Slater
OSM ZA, State of the Map Conference Scholarship Winners have been announced! http://www.opengeodata.org/?p=496 Congrads to Nic Roets! / Grant ___ Talk-ZA mailing list Talk-ZA@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-za

[OSM-Talk-ZA] Interesting Diary Post about OSM Namibia

2009-05-26 Thread Grant Slater
Hi Guys, Interesting post about level of mapping in Namibia: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/wallclimber21/diary/6433 / Grant ___ Talk-ZA mailing list Talk-ZA@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-za

[OSM-Talk-ZA] South Africa Local Contact(s)

2009-05-14 Thread Grant Slater
OSM ZA, Could someone put themselves forward for the Local contacts mailing list? Quote SteveC: In order to more efficiently and clearly trickle down announcements like server downtime to the local lists, we've created a 'list of lists' for people to help take announcements and translate

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Substantial defined article updated

2009-05-07 Thread Grant Slater
Peter Miller wrote: Possibly we should change its name to 'Substantial - Community Norm' or 'Substantial - Guidance'? +1: Substantial - Community Norm / Grant ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Substantial defined article updated

2009-05-07 Thread Grant Slater
Lauri Hahne wrote: -1 Substantial - Community norm +1 Substantial - Guidance +1 Substantial - Guideline Page renamed: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/Substantial_-_Guideline Old page has redirect to new page. / Grant

[OSM-Talk-ZA] State of the Map Conference Travel Scholarships

2009-05-07 Thread Grant Slater
OSM ZA (and Southern Africa), OpenStreetMap Foundation has just announced the availability of a limited number of travel scholarships to the State of the Map 2009 Conference in Amsterdam, July 10th, 11th and 12th. Full announcement here:

[OSM-legal-talk] ODbL: Defining Substantial in OSM's Context

2009-05-05 Thread Grant Slater
Legal, The ODbL (potential future OpenStreetMap license) relies on the meaning of Substantial. The ODbL 1.0rc defines it as: Substantial - Means substantial in terms of quantity or quality or a combination of both. The repeated and systematic Extraction or Re-utilisation of insubstantial

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL: Defining Substantial in OSM's Context

2009-05-05 Thread Grant Slater
Lauri Hahne wrote: I think the problem here is that our own definition of substantial is by no means binding. The definition of substantial in ODbL comes pretty straight from EU's database directive and the definition is ultimately up to courts to decide. I should have been clearer. This

[OSM-talk] ODbL: Defining Substantial in OSM's Context

2009-05-05 Thread Grant Slater
Legal, The ODbL (potential future OpenStreetMap license) relies on the meaning of Substantial. The ODbL 1.0rc defines it as: Substantial - Means substantial in terms of quantity or quality or a combination of both. The repeated and systematic Extraction or Re-utilisation of insubstantial

[OSM-talk] NOTICE: tile (mapnik) downtime today 7pm UTC ~30mins

2009-05-05 Thread Grant Slater
OSM, Apologies for the short notice... tile.openstreetmap.org (Mapnik layer) will be unavailable for up to 30mins from 7pm UTC today. An external disk array (+controller) is being re-allocated to the tile server. Compulsory picture:

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] OSM data

2009-04-26 Thread Grant Slater
Tomas Straupis wrote: One more question. Is there a place to download frequently updated OSM data for South Africa? (Other than main OSM server). Cloudmade only updates data every week or so with a data which is a number of days old at the date of update. This gives me an average of

Re: [OSM-talk] Big changeset upload and '500 Internal Server Error'

2009-04-25 Thread Grant Slater
Jacek Konieczny wrote: Hello, I am just doing big meta-data import for Polish cities. I have split the changes in 16 files, one for each voivodeship (province). Most of these changesets were uploaded without a problem, but a few failed with '500 Internal Server Error'. Those were the

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] Using Openstreetmaps on a website.

2009-04-25 Thread Grant Slater
Dave Coventry wrote: Hi, I'm interested in getting a functioning representation of the South African Openstreetmaps on my web page. Brilliant! Yes there are a number of ways of doing it... in increasing complexity Option 1) www.openstreetmap.org, zoom to correct area, click export tab,

Re: [OSM-talk] We're back

2009-04-21 Thread Grant Slater
check again and report. / Grant Nop wrote: Hi! I noted that in the OSM inbox, all old messages are truncated to about the same length. I guess this is a result of transferring them. Are there any plans to restore them? bye Nop

Re: [OSM-talk] best GPS for trekking

2009-04-16 Thread Grant Slater
Lambertus wrote: I notice that my NiMH batteries (Ansmann 2700mAh) perform worse when it's cold, so maybe normal Alkaline batteries might be better in cold environments. Yes, rechargeable batteries die very quickly in the cold. Alkaline batteries are OK, but Lithium AA batteries are

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] West Coast data slippy map

2009-04-09 Thread Grant Slater
Looks good, great work guys. / Grant Adrian Frith wrote: OK folks, first rendering of the West Coast data is at http://htonl.dev.openstreetmap.org/west-coast/ Currently only up to z12, increased zoom levels coming as soon as I can render them. cheers, Adrian

[OSM-Talk-ZA] municipality contact tracking via wiki

2009-04-06 Thread Grant Slater
Hi, Started a page to track the data release by the municipalities: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_South_Africa/municipalities If someone has a chance, could you please wiki-fy the rest of sections? Regards Grant ___ Talk-ZA mailing

[OSM-legal-talk] API + Licensing Update

2009-04-01 Thread Grant Slater
SteveC has posted 2 import updates rolled into 1. http://www.opengeodata.org/?p=459 Shaun McDonald has also just announced the launch of Crap-O-Surface Detector with OSM smoothness tag support. http://blog.shaunmcdonald.me.uk/2009/04/the-crap-o-surface-detector/ Any other important April 1st

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] National Routes - when are they freeways?

2009-03-20 Thread Grant Slater
Mark Williams wrote: As I undestand it, a freeway is a highway that has a centre island divide BUT does not have stop streets and robots at intersections, rather it has on-off ramps and bridges. There are also other restrictions. eg: 80cc motorbikes and slow vehicles as far as I know.

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] City of Cape Town Selling Out

2009-03-19 Thread Grant Slater
Brendan, I've half attempted contacting a few municipalities, without much success... Knysna, Stellenbosch, Hermanus seems to have outsourced their GIS departments to a private company... Emailed Joburg municipality and within minutes received an almost threatening email from a private company

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] City of Cape Town Selling Out (was: Mapping Informal Areas, Khayelitsha, Cape Town)

2009-03-18 Thread Grant Slater
brendan barrett wrote: There's no need to chat to them about feeding data back as they are not going to maintain their data moving forward. They told me that they are going to switch to using data from the local mapping company (the same one Google Earth is getting its data from). Truly

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Telephone Debate

2009-03-12 Thread Grant Slater
Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, SteveC wrote: In the past couple of license working group meetings we've been trying to figure out how to get more input from the community on everything without descending in to a free-for-all. Does that mean that what we've so far collected on the

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [Spam] Re: License Telephone Debate

2009-03-12 Thread Grant Slater
Richard Fairhurst wrote: As long as the phone conference is _additional_ to the existing processes, not replacing them, I don't really see a problem. Existing avenues for feedback are of course: - this list and talk@ - international mailing lists - co-ment - the wiki - odc-discuss -

[OSM-talk] 0.6 move and downtime (re-scheduled)

2009-03-12 Thread Grant Slater
Dear all The API downtime scheduled for the 0.6 API transition has been postponed due to delays acquiring the new database server. The re-scheduled API downtime for the 0.6 API upgrade is now the weekend of the 17-20th April 2009. Original announcement...

Re: [OSM-talk] Is it just me, or is the wiki logging other people out all the time as well?

2009-03-10 Thread Grant Slater
Peter Miller wrote: The OSM Wiki seems to be kicking me out. Last night when I log in I could see my watchlist, but when I tried to edit a page it told me I was not logged in and gave me a 'view source' page rather than an edit page. To keeping the wiki up and running until we get a

[OSM-talk] Google Summer of Code 2009

2009-03-10 Thread Grant Slater
Google Summer of Code 2009 has been confirmed. Mentoring organisation applications accepted until March 18, 2009. Who took the lead last year? We applying again this year? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code / Grant ___ talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Summer of Code 2009

2009-03-10 Thread Grant Slater
Jonas Krückel (John07) wrote: Hi, it seems to me that the Pool of Potential Projects on the wikipage is outdated. For example routable garmin maps are already working now. Should i correct/delete this ideas? Yes. Be bold. Last years text for the application:

[OSM-Talk-ZA] Anyone Available in Durban?

2009-03-10 Thread Grant Slater
OSM in Durban, eThekwini has given us permission to upload the municipal data but someone is needed to collect the data. Is anyone available in Durban willing to go with a with a blank CD or memory stick or USB HDD to a municipal building on Victoria Embankment in central Durban? Everything

Re: [OSM-talk] License to kill

2009-03-05 Thread Grant Slater
SteveC wrote: A 'pure' OSM perspective should of course come from the OSMF lawyer and I hope you/the 'licensing group' will be able to explain some of the outstanding Use Cases to him so he can give an opinion. Is that going to be possible within the consultation phase? I don't see why

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License working group meeting minutes - 2/2/2009

2009-03-04 Thread Grant Slater
://foundation.openstreetmap.org/officers-board/working-group-minutes/licensing-working-group-minutes-2009-02-02/ Agenda going forward... Yes I agree. Regards Grant On 4 Mar 2009, at 15:09, Grant Slater wrote: http://foundation.openstreetmap.org/officers-board/working-group-minutes/ I believe the first agenda

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

2009-03-04 Thread Grant Slater
Milenko wrote: I’m bring my mirror (planet.king-nerd.com) of planet.openstreetmap.org back up to date. I currently use a script with several wget commands due to the redirects to ftp.heanet.ie ftp://ftp.heanet.ie when downloading from the planet. This works fine, except that the

[OSM-legal-talk] License working group meeting minutes - 2/2/2009

2009-03-04 Thread Grant Slater
License working group meeting minutes from 2 Feb 2009 are now available here: http://foundation.openstreetmap.org/officers-board/working-group-minutes/ More to follow... I believe the first agenda item is what pushed towards the suggestion of using the Factual Information License for individual

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: It's all too fast...

2009-03-03 Thread Grant Slater
Peter Miller wrote: Even now we are getting no explanations from the foundation to our questions. Either this is because they dont know or it is because they dont think they need to contribute. I understand that most directors have not been in the loop so cant contribute. The only person we

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Factual Information License and Produced Works?

2009-03-02 Thread Grant Slater
Ulf Möller wrote: It doesn't look like it has been reviewed thoroughly (and the co-ment page seem to be password protected.) Passport protection was a mistake and has now been removed. / Grant ___ legal-talk mailing list

[OSM-Talk-ZA] OSM Garmin Routable Map Available

2009-03-02 Thread Grant Slater
Hi Guys, Using mkgmap I've created an OSM routable map... Seems to work for me. http://www.firefishy.com/za-gmapsupp-18022009.img.bz2 Install instructions available here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Map_On_Garmin/Mass_Storage_Mode Map can be viewed without a Garmin GPS using:

[OSM-talk] Bad Bot Activity: Maarten Deen

2009-03-01 Thread Grant Slater
Annoying... Stop stripping highway = xxx_link Just because you are smart enough to write a bot doesn't mean you should. I love my data, don't go f*** it up. Tiny Snapshot of stupid bot activity...

[OSM-Talk-ZA] East London now in Yahoo Imagery

2009-03-01 Thread Grant Slater
East London is now available in Yahoo Imagery! / Grant ___ Talk-ZA mailing list Talk-ZA@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-za

[OSM-legal-talk] ODbL License + Outline Procedure

2009-02-27 Thread Grant Slater
The OSMF License Working Group is excited and pleased to announce the completion of legal drafting and review by our legal counsel of the new proposed license, the Open Database License Agreement (ODbL). The working group have put much effort in to inputting OSMs needs and supporting the

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-02-27 Thread Grant Slater
To be clear, personal views, not the licensing work group... Ben Laenen wrote: It looks like we finally got some kind of License plan for the step towards the new license, so everyone check http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/Implementation_Plan Read the full

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-02-27 Thread Grant Slater
David Lynch wrote: On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 08:08, Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com wrote: Would it be appropriate to continue this conversation on legal-talk? Talk is very busy at the moment and we have a lovely list of our own :) Why do the non-lawyers need to go to the

[OSM-talk] ODbL License + Outline Procedure

2009-02-27 Thread Grant Slater
Please translate and pass on to the country-specific lists... Follow-up discussion best suited on http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk or the avenues discussed in this announcement. - The OSMF License Working Group is excited and pleased to announce the

Re: [OSM-talk] Mailing lists

2009-02-25 Thread Grant Slater
Chris Hill wrote: I've just received about 30 emails from the lists with dates scattered over the last few days. Some of the threads suddenly make sense! Are there problems with the mailing lists? Cheers, Chris Mail server sending mail to yahoo was affected by this:

Re: [OSM-talk] suspected copyrighted material in OSM

2009-02-20 Thread Grant Slater
This case is now being investigated. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/FAQ#I_think_someone.27s_been_entering_copyrighted_data_-_how_do_we_deal_with_that.3F Regards Grant maning sambale wrote: Hi, We are seeing suspected copyrighted data added in the Philippines. In OSM:

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik updating more frequently?

2009-02-10 Thread Grant Slater
Lambertus wrote: ... You've obviously not been paying attention to twitter, .. BTW, Where can we find that channel? The wiki does not have a clue... http://twitter.com/openstreetmap ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik updating more frequently?

2009-02-09 Thread Grant Slater
David Lynch wrote: Is the mapnik render now updating more frequently than once a week? I'm seeing buildings that I added a couple hours ago appearing on there before even ti...@home/osmarender gets to them Ssh don't tell anyone :-) Congrads to Jon Burgess and team. Consider it beta

[OSM-talk-nl] OSMF fondsen hardware

2009-02-08 Thread Grant Slater
Sorry I cannot write Dutch; I am only able to write in Afrikaans and English. Stefan: Wat een non-sense; Kennisnet heeft al een jaar geleden aangeboden OSM hardware te sponsoren. De OSMF heeft genoeg geld over van de laatste SOTM, dus er is geen enkele cent van gebruikers nodig om dit te

Re: [OSM-talk-nl] OSMF fondsen hardware

2009-02-08 Thread Grant Slater
Stefan de Konink wrote: No problem, I wonder who pointed you on this thread anyway. Please take this text as constructive, it is not intended to be written as troll, flame or whatever. It is written between 2:45 and 3:30am so... not the time these mails should be written anyway. A few

[OSM-talk] Alternative Map Renderings

2009-02-07 Thread Grant Slater
Talk-ZA, Many new renderings of the OSM data are now popping up... and South Africa not being left behind. :-) Tiffendale Ski Slope Map: http://openpistemap.org/?lat=-30.65lon=27.927zoom=16 Hermanus Cycle Map and Hike Map: http://opencyclemap.org/?zoom=14lat=-34.4lon=19.285 Tourist maps of

Re: [OSM-talk] Alternative Map Renderings

2009-02-07 Thread Grant Slater
We'll just pretend that I didn't just send this to the wrong list... :-) Grant Slater wrote: Talk-ZA, Many new renderings of the OSM data are now popping up... and South Africa not being left behind. :-) Tiffendale Ski Slope Map: http://openpistemap.org/?lat=-30.65lon=27.927zoom=16

[OSM-Talk-ZA] Alternative Map Renderings

2009-02-07 Thread Grant Slater
Talk-ZA, Many new renderings of the OSM data are now popping up... and South Africa is not being left behind. :-) Tiffendale Ski Slope Map: http://openpistemap.org/?lat=-30.65lon=27.927zoom=16 Hermanus Cycle Map and Hike Map: http://opencyclemap.org/?zoom=14lat=-34.4lon=19.285 Tourist map of

Re: [OSM-talk] Donate today for OSM's £10,000 serv er fundraiser

2009-02-05 Thread Grant Slater
Łukasz Jernaś wrote: Well, you have some problems with international names on the donors list - mine is displayed with weird characters ;) Fixed and name corrected. Code expected UTF-8 encoded string, Paypal provided windows-1252. Regards Grant

Re: [OSM-talk] Donate today for OSM's £10 ,000 s erver fundraiser

2009-02-05 Thread Grant Slater
Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote: Out of curiosity: will the new DB server be standalone, or will you setup a MySQL cluster with the old and the new servers somehow? Plan is for it to initially be standalone. But the 0.6 API starts the possibility of a slave or cluster database configuration.

Re: [OSM-talk] Donations and bank accounts

2009-02-05 Thread Grant Slater
Gary68 wrote: I for sure won't sign on to PayPal. And I won't give my bank xxEUR for shipping a few bucks across the channel. Having or signing up for a paypal account is not required. When you reach the paypal site there is a link (or form) on the left hand side to use your debit/credit

Re: [OSM-talk] Donations and bank accounts

2009-02-05 Thread Grant Slater
Frederik Ramm wrote: Sometimes I think the foundation is hurting its own goals by being so damn secretive. Why did you have to make this a surprise? What was gained by that? 80n is not to blame nor is the foundation. There was a push from the OSM Sysadmins (yes, I'm to blame here) to

Re: [OSM-talk] Donate today for OSM's £10,000 serv er fundraiser

2009-02-05 Thread Grant Slater
Frederik Ramm wrote: Can we have a Munin graph for the amount of donations received ;-) Best I can offer without sleep: http://donate.openstreetmap.org/raised.inc.html and http://donate.openstreetmap.org/comments/ (pretty formatting after sleep) Regards Grant

[OSM-Talk-ZA] Rise of the towns

2009-01-31 Thread Grant Slater
Hi Guys, Over the last few weeks and months a number of towns have been popping up in OSM. Random sampling... Any I missed? Kimberley http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=-28.749lon=24.764zoom=14 Worcester http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=-33.638lon=19.447zoom=15 Polokwane

[OSM-Talk-ZA] Tagging: Minibus Taxi Rank

2009-01-31 Thread Grant Slater
Suggestions on how best to tag a Minibus Taxi Rank? amenity=taxi doesn't seem right. How about? amenity=minibus_taxi_rank Other tags: name=Jack Mincer taxi rank destination=Fourways; Booysens Regards Grant ___ Talk-ZA mailing list

[OSM-legal-talk] Licensing Work Group update, 2009/01/30

2009-01-30 Thread Grant Slater
Legal-Talk, Apologies but do due to a scheduling conflict, today's meeting is being rescheduled for early next week. We'll report back then. Regards Grant / Licensing Work Group. ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] 23rd Dec board meeting

2009-01-24 Thread Grant Slater
Liz wrote: On Sun, 25 Jan 2009, Dair Grant wrote: You argue that anyone with a commercial interest in OSM (e.g., me) who's listed on the {{PD-user}} page (me again) has a potential conflict of interest. That's the way Australian law works. If I am on a Board (which I am) and some

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] Cape Town Data

2009-01-16 Thread Grant Slater
brendan barrett wrote: Hi everyone I have received the street level maps for the Cape Town Metro from the City. They have been quite helpful about it and don't mind us putting the data into the Open Street Map project. I have already given this data to a few people who requested it. If there

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] Cape Town Data

2009-01-16 Thread Grant Slater
Jan de Jager wrote: Will see what i can organise. http://code.firefishy.com/files/capetown-restricted-usage/ Please remember that this data has been made available expressly for an OSM import and likely cannot be used for any other purpose. / Grant

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] Co-ordination in data collection

2009-01-15 Thread Grant Slater
Paul Storry wrote: 1. Is there any coordination or organisation in the way the data is being collected in South Africa? By this I mean, is the local chapter (if there is such a thing) actively involved planning data collection or monitoring it's progress? We occasionally have social

Re: [OSM-talk] NPE maps broken?

2009-01-14 Thread Grant Slater
Thomas Wood wrote: I believe the old WMSplugin used to send coordinates in OSGB36 rather than WGS84? This seems to be what the server side code expects, at least. I've hacked at Nick's code and added a dirty workaround which tries to work out if input is WGS84 and automatically convert it

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM and Linked Data, and W3C, etc ...

2009-01-13 Thread Grant Slater
Tim Berners-Lee wrote: What sort of help do you think OSM will need? Money to run servers if the load increases? An existing standards org with facilities and process for the API and the XML format? What was it you had in mind? Yes, the OSM Foundation is badly in need of extra money (or

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] IRC Channel

2009-01-08 Thread Grant Slater
brendan barrett wrote: Does anybody know why the ZA IRC channel isn't working? Or is it just me? furion.org went away... ZA channel now on Atrum: irc://irc.Atrum.org/osm-za Web based chat here: http://www.atrum.org/chat/ / Grant ___ Talk-ZA

Re: [OSM-talk] Err, what?

2009-01-07 Thread Grant Slater
Jonathan Bennett wrote: Is this our first bit of large-scale vandalism? http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=40.78377lon=-119.20424zoom=16layers=00B0FTF Read all about it here: http://brainoff.com/weblog/2008/09/18/1352 / Grant ___ talk mailing

[OSM-Talk-ZA] eThekwini Municipality (Durban) permission

2009-01-02 Thread Grant Slater
More good news... Following on from the Cape Town news, we now also have official permission to import and use eThekwini Municipality (Durban) GIS data. Shapefiles, Webmap, etc available here: http://citymaps.durban.gov.za/ I encourage others to ask the other big municipalities: -

Re: [OSM-talk] Problem adding images to Flickr OSM pool

2008-12-27 Thread Grant Slater
Peter Miller wrote: I am having problems with adding Flickr images to the OpenStreetMap pool (and also to the ItoMedia pools) from a new user we have created. ... Can other people see ItoWorld's images in OpenStreetMap pool only when they are signed in? The images appear in the

[OSM-Talk-ZA] Few tips for new mappers

2008-12-17 Thread Grant Slater
OSM ZA, Lots of new mappers. Few tips... - Use full names. Abbreviations are ambiguous. - Map what exists. Lets the renders worry about how things should be displayed. - Be bold. - You are OpenStreetMap / Grant ___ Talk-ZA mailing list

[OSM-legal-talk] Council Permission Request Accepted - Followup Questions?

2008-12-16 Thread Grant Slater
Legal, On behalf of OpenStreetMap I asked a large city council (Durban, South Africa) for permission use their online mapping website to find the official names for roads and features we are missing. I also asked for permission (expecting to be denied) to use the shapefiles on their public

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Copyright of OSM-Logo

2008-11-17 Thread Grant Slater
Both trademarks are being registered in Steve Coast's own name. Contradicting the OSMF Board meeting on 2007/09/13: - To safeguard OSM's intellectual property Steve proposed that OSMF should secure the OpenStreetMap trademark. Steve stated that the costs of doing so would be in the region of

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Trademark

2008-11-16 Thread Grant Slater
Nic Roets wrote: I don't know about coca-cola-sucks.org http://coca-cola-sucks.org but coca-cola-sucks.co.za http://coca-cola-sucks.co.za should not be too difficult. See http://hellcom.co.za/ Not quite... Hellcom/Hellkom is a play on the name of South Africa's telecom operator Telkom

Re: [OSM-talk] nicer wiki URLs

2008-11-14 Thread Grant Slater
Stefan Baebler wrote: IMO I would be good to have nicer shorter URLs in our wiki. Eg http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Map_Making_Overview could probably should be shortened to: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/Map_Making_Overview The change would also need to redirect old URLs to the

Re: [OSM-talk] nicer wiki URLs

2008-11-14 Thread Grant Slater
Tom Hughes wrote: I don't really see the point of that - if you were going to get rid of the middle bit then fine, but just changing it seems a bit silly. As I said last weekend I had planned on getting rid of it when we moved machines, but the mediawiki manual scared me off. I enabled it

Re: [OSM-talk] Wiki-Admin: Allow external images

2008-11-12 Thread Grant Slater
Stefan Baebler wrote: another example: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Press Should be easy to use for journalists but clicking the icons takes them to the icon, not to the desired content I've installed the Mediawiki Imagemap extension and fixed the Press page. Having

Re: [OSM-talk] Wiki-Admin: Allow external images

2008-11-12 Thread Grant Slater
Claudius Henrichs wrote: Can any of the OSM wiki admins please set $wgAllowExternalImagesFrom to allow external images from wiki.openstreetmap.org? I would like to add a OSM2Go manual with pictures and have a 1-click-install image that links to a download page. I and proably others would

Re: [OSM-talk] Wiki Offline Copy?

2008-11-10 Thread Grant Slater
Alexander Menk wrote: Hi! maybe a good intermediate solution would be to provide zipped wget -r copies of the wiki? Of course not everybody shall do wget -r wiki.openstreetmap.org because this would cause to much load, but I could offer some webspace and do weekly snapshots or s.th. like

Re: [OSM-talk] Wiki recent changes not working

2008-11-09 Thread Grant Slater
Pieren wrote: Since several days, it is not possible to see the last 100, 250 or 500 recent changes on the wiki. Only the 50 latest are possible which means approx. the last hour due to the big success of the wiki. Could one of the wiki administrators check this issue, please ? The wiki

Re: [OSM-talk] Recent changes to slippymap Mapnik rendering

2008-10-29 Thread Grant Slater
Gustav Foseid wrote: Is there anywhere I can find the stylesheet used for the main Mapnik layer? http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/rendering/mapnik/ osm-template-fontset.xml AFAIK. I also think you also need the latest SVN mapnik. / Grant

Re: [Talk-GB] Any West London mappers out there?

2008-10-29 Thread Grant Slater
Ed Loach wrote: Looks pretty good (checking on Osmarender, though there seems to be a bug with rendering the eastern edge of the tile that I've raised on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list). The guesstimated trunk_link in the northeast has layer=2 and the building has layer=1, whereas the access road

Re: [Talk-GB] Any West London mappers out there?

2008-10-28 Thread Grant Slater
Ed Loach wrote: I notice that the biggest urban shopping development in Europe opens this Thursday: http://uk.westfield.com/london I don't know if anyone in the area is planning on updating the map. I notice the area is currently tagged landuse=construction and there is a label Westfield

Re: [OSM-talk] Diffs + osmxapi are no longer updated

2008-10-23 Thread Grant Slater
Jon Burgess wrote: The internal network connection on dev is broken. This has effected the munin graphs too. I've tried cycling the interface and driver but that has not helped. We might need to try a reboot next. Kernel version bumped, tweaks and rebooted. Diffs are back, but we'll see

Re: [OSM-talk] mapnik and openlayers?

2008-10-22 Thread Grant Slater
Lukasz Szybalski wrote: So its safe to assume that TMS is what mapnik provides? (only) and if I want WMS I would have to create that service on my server? Your server yes. OSM's tile servers do TMS only. Mapnik WMS support. http://trac.mapnik.org/wiki/OgcServer / Grant

Re: [OSM-talk] mapnik and openlayers?

2008-10-21 Thread Grant Slater
Lukasz Szybalski wrote: Hello, I am trying to use the turbogears widget for openlayers and I'm having hard time figuring out how to point to openstreetmaps.org tiles. One of the examples they have: ol = WMS(name=OpenLayers WMS, url=[http://labs.metacarta.com/wms/vmap0;],

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