On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 1:15 AM, Peter Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Major non-interstate highways that have traffic light free multi-level
junctions etc should be tagged as 'trunk' and possibly also be rendered
orange but with less grand route numbers to differentiate them from
interstate
I've been working on other projects lately and not been following the latest
discussions. While responding to a recent discussion on the mailing list
I noticed that there is a lot of duplication between
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Highway_tag_usage
and
What you have on the highway tag (which I may move to a usage page) looks
fine to me.
I couldn't give you an opinion on how to apply them to roads in California
because
I've never been in that state.
I drove a truck for awhile in the US and there are quite a few roads that
won't fit nicely
into
How am I supposed to do bus stops?
If two bus stops are on opposite sides of the road then I think maybe they
can share a node?
I found in some email that you can make little short service links. I don't
like that. The bus
pulls over to the side of the road where I'm at.
Sometimes they aren't
I think OSM should stay away from direct recommendations.
However, I could see OSM providing a forum for users to
give their own personal recommendations.
I think the problem with user reviews is that few users
have access to many different products. If you are
writing for a car magazine then
Where there are two bus stop shelters directly across the street from each
other
can they share a node? If I do that then I need a way to indicate the
direction
of each stop for the destination information.
If I put a separate node for each one then I need to indicate the side of
the road.
--
a shelter on one side of the road, but
the bus also stops across the street where
there is no shelter
shelter=left
destination:left=Shinli
destination:right=Daehwa
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 6:17 AM, Jeffrey Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Where there are two bus stop shelters directly across
google email brings up ads related to your email
This one came up for a waterproof pda:
http://www.durateq.com/
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Stephen Hope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think it's just as important to have a list of models NOT to buy.
Of course, this may get us into trouble
with the location of over 350,000 bus stops with their
names and the name of the associated street. I know the people but it
might
be better if it came from someone else, possibly from the foundation?
Regards,
Peter
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:03:14 +0900
From: Jeffrey Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED
or make some kind of association
they can do that.
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 6:37 PM, Dave Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Andy Robinson (blackadder)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jeffrey Martin wrote:
Sent: 24 April 2008 9:06 AM
To: Peter Miller
Cc: talk
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 9:19 PM, Dave Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Lester Caine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jeffrey Martin wrote:
I've made a decision for what I am going
to do.
If I wait until there is some standard way
it will be a hassle
:
Jeffrey Martin wrote:
I've made a decision for what I am going
to do.
If I wait until there is some standard way
it will be a hassle to find all these stops
later instead of putting them in now
with all the other data, and I might loose
my little scraps of paper
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 4:48 AM, David Earl [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On 24/04/2008 19:57, Laurence Penney wrote:
I quite liked my Nokia N70 + BlueGPS (Sirf3, non-logging) +
nmea_info.py combo. So much so that I bought another BlueGPS when I
left my first one on a train in a good position
It works for me also. I usually get 8m in Korea. I just have no idea
if that is good or not. I don't think WAAS makes a difference here.
I see no difference if it's turned on or off.
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 7:47 AM, Dermot McNally [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 24/04/2008, Jeffrey Martin [EMAIL
when
someone puts one of their chips in a device. I bet that could make a lot of
difference.
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 8:23 AM, Karl Newman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Andy Robinson (blackadder)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jeffrey Martin wrote:
Sent: 24 April 2008 10
Does the project have any long term plans on how to deal
with vandalism?
Should some features be locked?
Do we need some kind of hierarchy with block captains
and country coordinators? (I don't want that.)
On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 7:36 AM, David Earl [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Would it be
Some things I have read on the
internet say that in some jurisdictions it may not be possible to place
things in the public domain.
There are two big problems I've read about. (You might want to move
this to OSM-legal.)
First is that someone can include public domain material
in their own work
When I got home some of my notes for my waypoints didn't
make sense. I realized I was trying to take note only every
third or forth waypoint and misremembering them.
Sometimes the simple solution is the answer. I grapped some big
clips from the office and a folder with a lever action clip.
I bent
When I download in JOSM I would like each track to be a separate layer. I
find it
helpful when working with my own tracks to make them different colors or
turn
individual tracks on and off.
On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 1:08 AM, Shaun McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On 3 May 2008, at 16:58, Sven
I have few track where on part is good and another part is bad. I should
probably
edit those tracks and cut out the bad part, but I haven't found an easy way
to do that.
On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 12:58 AM, Sven Grüner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Karl Newman schrieb:
Or maybe the tracks need a
Why are there so many problems with the TIGER data?
Where do the extra roads come from? Are they planned roads?
Will they be releasing new data? What happens then?
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 6:13 AM, Richard Fairhurst [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
SteveC wrote:
I and others have been doing a lot of
The rendering should be separate from the data. Marking a hiking trail
as an autobahn so it will be a different color or be visible on higher
zoom levels I think we all agree is wrong.
Provided the data is correct, I don't see a problem with altering the
way data is collected and recorded to make
Maybe what we need are some guidelines for making tags.
You can make any tag you want, but here are some general
principals about what makes a good key and what makes
good values for those keys.
At the very least we would have a framework for discussion.
Someone type something up on the wiki.
Typos in real words are easier to detect than a mistake in entering a
number.
On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 2:45 AM, elvin ibbotson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On 9 May 2008, at 12:21, Dave Stubbs wrote:
The mapping to numbers doesn't gain us anything. It doesn't let us do
anything we can't already
I was thinking about classifying roads in Korea. What criteria am I using
when I put a road in a classification?
I'm starting to think that my support of the current use of the highway tag
was misguided. Maybe we should
be more specific.
I know some people say they don't want to be stringing
, 2008 at 3:30 AM, Jeffrey Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was thinking about classifying roads in Korea. What criteria am I using
when I put a road in a classification?
I'm starting to think that my support of the current use of the highway tag
was misguided. Maybe we should
be more specific
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 7:21 PM, Steve Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When adding roads, you don't always know what classification of road it
is (e.g. primary, secondary, tertiary, unclassified, etc). Quite a lot
of people seem to add these sorts of roads as highway=unclassified, with
the
I'm very far from this in Korea, but I would guess in time some parts of the UK
will need to be rechecked at some point. How can we make a system
for rechecking an area? Maybe the completeness should be retired
after a period of time.
--
http://bowlad.com
I couldn't find the other thread on this topic.
How do you map an object, like a tower on top of a mountain, that
you don't have access to without expensive survey equipment?
My thought is to use a plumb bob to line up the unknown object
with some known objects. I would find something like a
There was some post about tree information and another one about business hours.
Maybe there should be more than one dataset?
One just for streets and the things you would find on a typical
navigation unit, and
others with other stuff?
Just a random thought.
--
http://bowlad.com
Don't have that problem in South Korea.
There are lots of English teaching jobs
here if any mappers map the unmapped.
-Jeff
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 9:02 AM, Shaun McDonald
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 8 Jun 2008, at 23:35, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
On Sunday 08 Jun 2008 22:35, you wrote:
yes! I do
I'm using gmail. The way I read my user agreement google
pretty much has the right to do anything they want with
any information I give them. For that reason I'm careful
not to put anything really important in my emails.
I'm guessing that google would have the rights to the aggregate
mapping data
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 6:33 PM, Tim Waters (chippy)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 8/25/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
Just to give a hint at what is possible, the company I work for flagship
receiver (L1/L2 dual frequency) can achieve sub-cm accuracy for static
I haven't been participating for awhile, but wasn't some committee going to
come up
with a solution?
Ideally there would be separate tagging systems for all the different
classes of information, e.g.
surface type, width, number of lanes; route numbers and codes, government
classification,
There has been some discussion on this list before about the law
against collecting geographic data in China.
2008/9/23 Hiroshi Miura [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hi,
I have a chance to go to Beining this weekend.
There will be mapping chance this Saturday morning.
One idea is that I have a chance
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 7:24 PM, Frederik Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
vegard wrote:
But we'll need a more permanent measure against vandalism.
Something that'll make it easy to reverse things.
We have some good changes in store with API 0.6.
An idea I've had, is to add
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 8:49 PM, Dave Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Barnett, Phillip
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
vegard wrote:
But we'll need a more permanent measure against vandalism.
Something that'll make it easy to reverse things.
But note that our
I just saw this upload utility for Firefox. It looks like something cool to
add to the website.
http://www.fireuploader.com/#fupHome
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I think most international organizations create a branch in each country
and then you can just donate to your local branch.
The branch in each country can then pay dues to the international organization
or in some cases the international body can provide funding for projects in the
local
I agree with the judgment. You can't make a derivative work
without permission.
OSM and other open source projects give people permission
to create derivative works provided they follow the license
rules. If they could make derivative works without permission
then there would be no way to require
I just read through http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/FCAFC/2008/71.html
In 128 the appellate court is saying that they did not copy facts, but
instead they copied
the guide created by Nine, because the aggregatators had pretty much copied the
guide created by nine.
In 123 Ice is saying
shop=wrist strap
On 8/20/07, Steve Coast [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm a convert to mapping with photos and getting JOSM to match them
to the GPS trace.
Now where can I get wrist straps for my cameras? Call me tight but
ebay is a bit excessive at 3-4 quid per strap (including postage).
In the US the old Route 66 is marked with little historical signs.
You can drive basically the same route as Route 66 by
driving on other highways, it's just not officially Route 66 anymore.
Are you talking about roads you can drive or roads which are gone?
On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 1:23 AM, Mike
Maybe we want different policies for different areas and different kinds of
data.
For example once all the roads are mapped we freeze the roads, but we allow
free changing of street names until they reach a freeze point.
Here in Korea I just want data and the more the better. In downtown London
I googled and found that the brand name is Secures. I also found this
article with a picture.
http://media.www.jhunewsletter.com/media/storage/paper932/news/2009/12/03/NewsFeatures/Gun-Detection.Sensors.Installed.Around.City-3845405.shtml
This article says they may be disguised as vents or bird
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