Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-GB] Southwest Surrey Mapping Party - signup on wiki

2008-01-06 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Nick Whitelegg wrote: No venues as yet. Jonathan (Bennett) - since you live in the area, do you know anywhere suitable in Guildford (e.g. wi-fi access?) The pub we ended up in at the last Guildford meet-up, the Guildford Tup (http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.23744lon=-0.56999zoom

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Logo

2008-01-17 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Ian Haylock wrote: And of course everyone should be using lynx to browse the web. After all who needs fancy graphics anyway ? It's just a pure waste of the internets bandwidth :-) I think Tom was making a more general point that a spinning (or flaming) logo is a poor substitute for a

Re: [OSM-talk] SOTM08 - Ireland

2008-01-31 Thread Jonathan Bennett
SteveC wrote: Having considered many great proposals, Ireland has been chosen for SOTM08 We should get DERI (http://www.deri.ie/) at UGC involved. I'm assuming the venue is Limerick, as proposed on the Wiki (although I wouldn't object to SOTM being in Galway).

Re: [OSM-talk] GIS hooligans at Perugia (GRASS - GFOSS Italian Meeting)

2008-02-25 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Niccolo Rigacci wrote: we tag unpaved traks as highway (sound very confusing for Italian people!). It could have been worse -- we could have used 'thoroughfare' as the key, and then waited for non-Brits to pronounce it. Jonathan (Jonobennett) ___

Re: [OSM-talk] create a rendering test zone somewhere on the planet ?

2008-03-05 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Frederik Ramm wrote: In the long(er) run we'll have to think about multiple data layers anyway. For example, someone might want to map the ancient city of Rome, or someone might want to map aviation routes and airspace, and the like. I have exactly such a project in mind. So we will, sooner

Re: [OSM-talk] Yahoo updates aerial imagery

2008-04-16 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote: I note that near where I live, someone has traced the edge of the high resolution imagery and tagged it: Do people agree with this example? If so I'll add it to Oxford and any others I come across. I'd disagree, and even go so far as to say tagging things like

Re: [OSM-talk] tagging and rendering

2008-05-09 Thread Jonathan Bennett
elvin ibbotson wrote: Things humans read need to be human readable. The database should be read by software and if it can be faster and more efficient using numbers, numbers are what should be used. The best way of proving this would be to come up with your own version of the OSM server

Re: [OSM-talk] Freemap Mobile - Open source mobile OSM map viewer

2008-06-10 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Nick Whitelegg wrote: Hello everyone, Would like to announce the initial release of Freemap Mobile, a Java ME mapping application for mobile devices. Freemap Mobile displays Freemap maps (i.e. UK countryside-orientated OSM maps) on a GPS enabled mobile phone (e.g. Nokia N95) and the

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=turning_circle

2008-06-17 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Inge Wallin wrote: I'd like to be able to show these three different turning facilities (the first one isn't a circle) on the map. One way would be to add a size tag: highway=turning_circle size=small | medium | large with small or medium being the default. What do you think? I

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=turning_circle

2008-06-17 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Florian Lohoff wrote: There are even turning circles around a house or with parking lots in the middle. Those aren't turning circles -- a turning circle is just a wider, usually rounded piece of road to allow vehicles to turn where there wouldn't otherwise be space. Here's what I was mapping

Re: [OSM-talk] Actually using OpenStreetMap and the usability of the current maps

2008-07-28 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Jochen Topf wrote: I find 207 000 places in Europe and only 57 000 population tags. I've just done my bit by adding a population tag to Guildford. Only 149,999 places to go -- Jonathan (Jonobennett) ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

[OSM-talk] Map routing quality

2008-08-08 Thread Jonathan Bennett
While we're on the subject of dataset quality, you may want to consider this journey from Glasgow Airport to Glasgow Central station:

Re: [OSM-talk] Map routing quality

2008-08-11 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Nic Roets wrote: The same route with osm data. http://tile.openstreetmap.nl/~lambertus/routing-world/?flat=55.863481flon=-4.427433tlat=55.859127tlon=-4.259269v=carfast=1 At first glance it look better... Not from here. OSM + Gosmore sends you the correct (and possible) route. Google Maps

[OSM-talk] You know you have OCOSMD when...

2008-08-26 Thread Jonathan Bennett
...you go on holiday to a Scottish island, and one of the words your two-year old son learns while he's there is GPS. -- Jonathan (Jonobennett) ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Live Data - all new Data in OSM

2009-05-13 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Frederik Ramm wrote: But saying: We don't intend to support this because we cannot think of an application that absolutely requires it, is quite un-OSM, is it not? Qualify application as application which actually uses the geodata, and it's not so far off the mark. We don't need a million

Re: [OSM-talk] Live Data - all new Data in OSM

2009-05-13 Thread Jonathan Bennett
andrzej zaborowski wrote: You might be missing out on a cool visualisation tool though (maybe what Bernhard is trying doing is similar), but that's the only use case I can think of right now. How does that help anyone a) use the data, or b) improve the data? See ITO's OSM Mapper if you want a

Re: [OSM-talk] Live Data - all new Data in OSM

2009-05-13 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Ian Dees wrote: Woah! Since when can OSM tell me what sort of applications I can and can't write with the open source data that OSM is providing**? You're not being told what to do with the data, but it's being suggested to you that you can't have it in a particular, resource-intensive format

Re: [OSM-talk] Live Data - all new Data in OSM

2009-05-13 Thread Jonathan Bennett
andrzej zaborowski wrote: Cool visualisation tools don't have to comply with a) or b), they just need to be cool :) So cool you're prepared to pay for the infrastructure to support it? -- Jonathan (Jonobennett) ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] Reverting Changes....

2009-05-18 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Shaun McDonald wrote: I've taken another look at the wording. I think that the wording could be changed from Start mapping with OpenStreetMap to Start LIVE editing the OpenStreetMap data. I don't think that will be enough -- as David pointed out, the idea that an application has a Save

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - architect=*

2009-06-02 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Tobias Knerr wrote: Relations are not Categories uses the argument that you can query for all objects that carry a tag. This isn't enough, however, if the combined information from tags and coordinates doesn't qualify as an unique identifier. The situation for architects, imo, resembles the

Re: [OSM-talk] tagging unofficial cycle routes

2009-06-02 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Jacek Konieczny wrote: If the clubs have documented and are maintaining the routes, then they are official enough. Just use the operator tag to mark which club is responsible for which route. network tag could be also used for that, but it is currently used rather for describing network scope

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - architect=*

2009-06-02 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: Albert Speer. Father and son, quite notorious case by the way... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Speer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Speer,_Jr. the grand father http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Friedrich_Speer also was an architect, but there is no

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - architect=*

2009-06-02 Thread Jonathan Bennett
...and how many buildings designed by either have you tagged so far? -- Jonathan (Jonobennett) ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - architect=*

2009-06-02 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: if you didn't destroy them... ;-) Ah, they were clients of AT Harris Urban Remodelling Services? Unfortunate as that is, it just reinforces my second point: Don't try to solve a problem that you haven't actually encountered yet. -- Jonathan (Jonobennett)

Re: [OSM-talk] How do we specify relative importance of features across all types of features?

2009-06-02 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: Any comments? Important to who? -- Jonathan (Jonobennett) ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] (no subject)

2009-06-02 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Ed Loach wrote: Important to who? A good question. Perhaps prominence rather than important? Using synonyms for Importance doesn't answer the basic question. Anything not based on observable fact is inherently subjective. There are many ways to arrive at your own score for importance based

Re: [OSM-talk] AAAA openstreetmap still doesn't use ipv6

2009-07-01 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Thomas Schäfer wrote: Therefore my appeal: Ask your next admin/provider for ipv6 , make a plan and make the network working, add the to dns an be happy. Solve the little problems . Asked and answered. http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2007-October/018603.html -- Jonathan

Re: [OSM-talk] AAAA openstreetmap still doesn't use ipv6

2009-07-01 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Thomas Schäfer wrote: No, the answer was not satisfying. What part of it's not under our control didn't you understand? -- Jonathan (Jonobennett) ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] AAAA openstreetmap still doesn't use ipv6

2009-07-01 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Stefan de Konink wrote: Set up a SixXS tunnel and have fun :) Great idea! How long do you think it will take you? ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] AAAA openstreetmap still doesn't use ipv6

2009-07-01 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Thomas Schäfer wrote: Lets solving the Chicken-and-egg problem in ipv6 by simply doing it. OK -- when are you available to set it up? ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] AAAA openstreetmap still doesn't use ipv6

2009-07-03 Thread Jonathan Bennett
John Smith wrote: I'm still scratching my head as to why this isn't possible to be honest. It's possible, but it appears the people who think it's so important just want to sit on their arses and have someone else do the work. By comparison, when Relations were proposed, they happened because

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - 4wd_only

2009-08-05 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Roy Wallace wrote: On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Lester Caineles...@lsces.co.uk wrote: High ground clearance required? ...So 4WD_Only is not really the correct terminology and does not clearly identify the problem? IS it ground clearance, deep fords, mud or poor traction conditions ...

Re: [OSM-talk] residential and unclassified in Australia WAS definition of the main highway-tag

2009-08-05 Thread Jonathan Bennett
John Smith wrote: I feel there is a very real need to describe something that is between residential and track and up until this point in time unclassified has been used. If there are types of roads in Australia that you feel the existing tags don't adequately describe, feel free to start

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing Imagery

2009-08-05 Thread Jonathan Bennett
John Smith wrote: Is it forbidden, explicitly or otherwise? Yes. Unless it's explicitly permitted, it's forbidden. -- Jonathan (Jonobennett) ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - 4wd_only

2009-08-05 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Morten Kjeldgaard wrote: Remember that data is no good if it's not rendered, Remember that rendering a map isn't the only use for geodata. -- Jonathan (Jonobennett) ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Comment on the Opengeodata website

2009-08-07 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Mike Ryan wrote: Hi Not really sure if this is the right place to ask, but I wanted to leave a comment on the Opengeodata.org website and you need to login first. However, there's nowhere listed to register. Does anyone know how to do this on there? I appears to be disabled at the moment.

Re: [OSM-talk] radioactivity

2009-08-11 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: no, we shouldn't. But what's so strange about the desire to tag nuclear installations? Why not tag all chemical plants? There is a lot of benefit in mapping not just industrial but also the type of industry, be it chemical, automotive, steel, clothing or whatever.

Re: [OSM-talk] wikipedia - english

2009-08-20 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Liz wrote: I'm looking to implant some OSM maps into Wikipedia, but I need some examples of their wiki editing style so I don't get my edits rubbed out by the style police. Could people please advise me of wikipedia pages with OSM maps so I can view the style of the pages? Liz, See:

Re: [OSM-talk] Software Freedom Day

2009-09-05 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Tobias Knerr wrote: How about offer reliable service with good uptimes? After the recent maintenance weekend it was stated that our services are not really intended for the public (at least if they need them and don't just experiment with them) and we are only about data. If that's still the

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Street View copyright question

2009-09-09 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Anthony wrote: Eh, I'd take on Google pro se (or with the help of free EFF lawyers or the like) over the issue of the ToS, and based on US law I'm pretty sure I'd win. However, I'm aware that other users of OSM don't have the benefit US-jurisdictional copyright law with respect to factual

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Street View copyright question

2009-09-09 Thread Jonathan Bennett
David Muir Sharnoff wrote: Perhaps the OSM database should be moved out of the EU to a location that doesn't suffer from a Database Rights law.Extracting from no-EU data source by people not in the EU would then be okay for sure. Great! Let us know when you've secured the funding for this

Re: [OSM-talk] How to map quarters?

2009-09-11 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Valent Turkovic wrote: Currently on wiki I only found place=suburb tag and I see that it is used also for mapping city's quarters. Only issue is that when you map quarter of some town or village currently the quarter has bigger font than name of village or town. You should use the suburb

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Maps v.s. OSM routing in Berlin

2009-09-18 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: Why doesn't OSM ever tell me to take a 270 degree turn into oncoming traffic on a 6-lane highway and get onto the motorway_link on the other side? OSM also never tells you to turn 180 degrees across a motorway central reservation, then drive off the side of a

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-09-29 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: I wish OSM has a redirect feature for deleted nodes, ways, and relations sort of like what Wikipedia has for its articles and pages. Maybe a redirect=* tag? :-) You mean something like this?: http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/2194 -- Jonathan (Jonobennett)

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-09-29 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Frankie Roberto wrote: Ha, well there's a contentious statement! If that were the case, then why do we even bother with the Mapnik/Osmarender tiles? Surely they're the ultimate form of doing clever stuff with the data. Primarily so mappers can see what they've been doing, as a form of

Re: [OSM-talk] Terms of use for OSM tiles and API?

2009-09-29 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Nick Whitelegg wrote: It seems rather contra to the spirit of free software and open source it has to be said. Not at all. You're free to do whatever you want with the data, and most of the software used to create, store, process and display it. What you can't do is expect someone else to

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-09-30 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: As Kyle Gordon brought up in this thread the issue is that the OSM data has both building=yes/no and building=true/false and flickr only supports the former. Dave F. suggested that the OSM database be normalized to just use the former because that's simpler.

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-10-01 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Russ Nelson wrote: On the other side you have mappers who want to create useful data, not a pile of random rubbish. No-one wants to create random rubbish. What people do want is to be able to describe what they've just mapped without needing prior approval from the OpenStreetMap Tagging

Re: [OSM-talk] SteveC should decide

2009-10-06 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Gervase Markham wrote: So why did you make the noname map in the first place, if it's not important? Have you changed your mind about its usefulness? It's useful *as a guide*, or a tool. What some people seem to be unable to grasp is that *it's OK for a road to appear in red on NoNames*. You

[OSM-talk] New mailing list - annou...@openstreetmap.org

2009-10-06 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Another new mailing list has been created: annou...@openstreetmap.org You can subscribe here: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/announce Announce is a moderated list limited to announcements about OSM services, new software versions and any other really, really important news that affects

Re: [OSM-talk] differences in how OpenCycleMap renders bicycle parking

2009-10-23 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Dave F. wrote: Could it be possible to change the render a the highest detail level or two, to display the C+number. In the example you give it they would certainly fit. Dave, This isn't aimed at you specifically, but you've raised a common point which needs clarifying. OpenCycleMap is a

Re: [OSM-talk] Will Google ever use OSM data?

2009-11-02 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Bráulio Bezerra da Silva wrote: Will it ever happen? Yes. -- Jonathan (Jonobennett) ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Direct upload GPX to osm from iPhone

2009-11-10 Thread Jonathan Bennett
bernhard wrote: Does OSM provide something like openid for mobile devices. OSM supports OAuth. See http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OAuth -- Jonathan (Jonobennett) ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] positioning of barrier = stile

2009-11-15 Thread Jonathan Bennett
David Groom wrote: I have been doing the former, but it appears this might stop routing applications allowing a car to travel from c - d as the barrier = stile blocks the road to vehicle transport, and so the second tagging option might be better. Indeed it is. If it helps, think of a way

Re: [OSM-talk] Seeing only my traces in JOSM ?

2009-11-23 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Jean-Marc Liotier wrote: In Potlatch, 'Shift+g' shows only your traces and 'g' show all the traces (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Potlatch/Keyboard_shortcuts). But the same shortcuts don't work in JOSM and nothing similar is listed in http://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Shortcuts. Is

Re: [OSM-talk] Seeing only my traces in JOSM ?

2009-11-23 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Jean-Marc Liotier wrote: The only drawback is that it depends on always working on the same host. I often move and I would have preferred a solution that does not depend on local data but only on what is on the server. USB key? That has the advantage of working now, rather than waiting for

Re: [OSM-talk] Bridge on Hiking Trails

2009-11-25 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Shalabh wrote: JOSM does not give me that option of a bridge under hiking trail, atleast not while using the presets. If I use the highway tag with a bridge, consider this. I have a hiking trail marked as an 'demanding alpine hiking' 50 km from any humanity and then I have a bridge tagged as

Re: [OSM-talk] Path vs footway vs cycleway vs...

2009-11-30 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Steve Bennett wrote: [...] I tend to believe I can ride my bike wherever the hell I want unless there's a sign saying otherwise. That's fine for your personal decision making. However, for OSM we need to provide people with as much information as possible so they can make their own, possibly

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal RFC leisure=dog_park

2009-11-30 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: Please see the proposal here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Dog_off-leash_area This tag already seems to be well in use: http://osmdoc.com/en/tag/leisure/dog_park and there are no violent objections on the talk page, so it seems like it's fine

Re: [OSM-talk] Campus map - Who's got a good one?

2008-10-01 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Ian Dees wrote: It might be interesting to start a draw your campus competition similar to the one that Google did for its Sketchup application, but on OSM. What d'ya think? I think we should actually ask the marketing departments of the Universities in question to arrange a donation of their

Re: [OSM-talk] vandalism on OSM

2008-10-08 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Stanislav Brabec wrote: A completely different community project Discogs has following policy: - You can subscribe to news in area of your interest. - Voting on new data: Tell, how correct and accurate are these changes are. - Vote is a privilege, new users don't have vote privilege.

Re: [OSM-talk] map display www.openstreetmap.org

2008-10-08 Thread Jonathan Bennett
80n wrote: I knew about latitude and longitude about 25 years before hyperlinks were even invented, let alone permalinks. I didn't think you were *that* old... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_hypertext_technology -- Jonathan (Jonobennett)

Re: [OSM-talk] map display www.openstreetmap.org

2008-10-10 Thread Jonathan Bennett
elvin ibbotson wrote: Steve, It looks like fakeSteveC or someone is pretending to be you and posting elitist, patronising, condescending rubbish in an apparent attempt to make you look foolish. I look forward to it being demonstrated that 'most people don't know what coordinates are'.

Re: [OSM-talk] Map Features, maxspeed and maplint

2008-10-10 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Shaun McDonald wrote: (I'm wondering if there is a station out there that has all the railway=platforms mapped, rather than just placing a footpath to the railway=station node.) Guildford station is pretty close, thanks to TimSC. -- Jonathan (Jonobennett)

Re: [OSM-talk] Xybot

2008-10-24 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Peter Miller wrote: Btw, I have had xybot turning natural=wood into landuse=forest. Where I come from a wood and forest are not the same thing at all. Indeed not. I'd say a natural=wood refers to where trees have self-seeded and spread naturally, while landuse=forest is a man-made, artificially

Re: [OSM-talk] Xybot

2008-10-24 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Frank Sautter wrote: can you please provide some information about that (way id). as far as i can say this should not happen. xybot changed natural=forest to landuse=forest and yes, wood and forest are not the same. No, they aren't. And neither are natural and landuse -- natural describes what

Re: [OSM-talk] SEO

2008-10-31 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Richard Fairhurst wrote: One quick win. When you search for OpenStreetMap on your favourite search engine, it returns something like this: OpenStreetMap Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 license by the OpenStreetMap project and its contributors. ...

[OSM-talk] Err, what?

2009-01-07 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Is this our first bit of large-scale vandalism? http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=40.78377lon=-119.20424zoom=16layers=00B0FTF ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] Abandon voting (was Wiki: chriscf vandalism)

2009-01-31 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Nop wrote: So a good vote needs a better system and considerably more attention. But just because people have not been paying attention when asked to contribute does not give them the right to overrule those who did. A good system for reaching consensus is based on discussion, not mere

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding architect names to buildings

2009-02-19 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Matthias Julius wrote: What is the definition of a category here? I would call a category something like buildings that are 29 strories tall. An architect I would call an (abstract) object that can have other attributes as well like a birthdate, an email address and so on. (Whether all

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding architect names to buildings

2009-02-19 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Matthias Julius wrote: I just prefer to explicitly link objects together over duplication of data. As long as the buildings are tagged consistently, having the tag is probably enough -- you can then use XAPI to query the DB for all buildings by a particular architect.

Re: [OSM-talk] amenity=doctor or amenity=doctors ? [tagging]

2009-03-09 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Nick Whitelegg wrote: But one of my plans for Freemap (shortly to be re-launched as OpenFootMap, all being well) is to add a nationwide Fix My Paths feature where users can use OSM-derived maps to report a problem with a path. In other words, they could click on the map, then the

Re: [OSM-talk] Delay before the data is visible?

2009-04-21 Thread Jonathan Bennett
MP wrote: How large is the current delay before uploaded data became visible? I've uploaded some changes in JOSM, provided a comment ... and when I re-downloaded the area again, my changes were not there. The servers are *very, very* busy right now, and it's possible that your changes didn't

Re: [OSM-talk] Delay before the data is visible?

2009-04-21 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Frederik Ramm wrote: That would be a bug in JOSM then. The API has no delay. It could be that you get no warning when the upload fails under certain circumstances. Hasn't happened to me on the latest SVN build, though. -- Jonathan (Jonobennett) ___

Re: [OSM-talk] Wikipedia POI import?

2009-05-05 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Russ Nelson wrote: Any reason not to go through Wikipedia and import everything with a coordinate as a POI, with a url=http://wikipedia.org/NAME link, and name=NAME where NAME is the name of the Wikipedia entry? If I do this under a special username, then there is no problem backing out

Re: [OSM-talk] Wikipedia POI import?

2009-05-06 Thread Jonathan Bennett
andrzej zaborowski wrote: I think wikipedia=XX:NAME was choosen because the other way you can Chosen? Where? As far as I can see the only discussion is at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/External_links#Wikipedia and that says wikipedia:XX=article name in that language

Re: [OSM-talk] Wikipedia POI import?

2009-05-06 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Jacek Konieczny wrote: You don't need multiple values. Other languages are linked in Wikipedia, no need to duplicate this in OSM. If a place is described in 20 national Wikipedias do we really want 20 wikipedia=XX:name tags in OSM when only single wikipedia=XX:name links to all the pages?

Re: [OSM-talk] Languages

2009-05-07 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Peter Childs wrote: In that case what we may need is a phonetic name tag. (Oh dear) Like the one on: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/18167379 then? ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] API Down?

2009-12-16 Thread Jonathan Bennett
maning sambale wrote: Can't download and connect to the main site. WORKSFORME -- Jonathan (Jonobennett) ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Countering Google's propaganda

2009-12-17 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Frederik Ramm wrote: Oh, and someone in Ireland has just released a motor that produces more energy than it consumes. Apart from the massive D cell powering it, you mean? http://blogs.zdnet.co.uk/news-blog/#10014630 -- Jonathan (Jonobennett) ___

Re: [OSM-talk] Why doesn't OSM implement a simple measure to protectit's users and passwords?

2009-12-22 Thread Jonathan Bennett
On 22/12/2009 16:27, John F. Eldredge wrote: There also does not appear to be any provision on the OSM web site for changing to a new password See http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/your display name/account where there are two password boxes. Fill them both in to change your password. --

Re: [OSM-talk] problems with nominatim

2010-01-13 Thread Jonathan Bennett
On 13/01/2010 20:45, Stan Berka wrote: Whom do I contact to correct this? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim#Bugs_.2F_Error_reporting ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] ?

2010-01-14 Thread Jonathan Bennett
On 14/01/2010 11:01, sara susini wrote: This list generally uses English. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/IT:FAQ e talk...@openstreemap.org - http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-it -- Jonathan (Jonobennett) ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] Routing - Optimally Sorting Vias

2010-01-20 Thread Jonathan Bennett
On 19/01/2010 20:02, Shaun McDonald wrote: You may find that adding openstreetmap to your web searches helps to find openstreetmap related stuff. Or even using this custom search of the wiki, mailing lists and forum: http://bit.ly/osmsearch -- Jonathan (Jonobennett)

Re: [OSM-talk] Use of OSM data by the military and/or intelligence services

2010-02-04 Thread Jonathan Bennett
On 04/02/2010 14:49, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: AFAIK our current license offers our data for everyone who attributes correctly, but I'd like to raise the issue of malicious use of our data by governmental organisations. What do you thing about setting up a paragraph that prohibits the use of

Re: [OSM-talk] In-vehicle tracking and editing software for tablet computers?

2010-02-05 Thread Jonathan Bennett
On 05/02/2010 03:12, Sam Wilson wrote: Hullo, Does any one have any ideas about what programs I could use on tablet computers in vehicles for navigation and tracking, and possibly editing? For the navigation and tracking you could use TrackMyJourney

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenUsability

2010-02-23 Thread Jonathan Bennett
On 23/02/2010 23:07, SteveC wrote: Let me know if you want that retracted or anyone else would like to be involved in anything we can accomplish with them. You can give my name, if you like. -- Jonathan (Jonobennett) ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] Community center

2010-03-04 Thread Jonathan Bennett
On 04/03/2010 10:57, Pieren wrote: Excepted that we should try to keep spelling consistent, no ? All other approved tags using 'center' are written 'centre'. According to OSMdoc, there are already 252 uses of amenity=community_centre and 90 uses of amenity=community_center So the more popular

Re: [OSM-talk] Contributing to PL2 (was: Re: Thoughts on OSM design, and looking forward and back)

2010-03-09 Thread Jonathan Bennett
On 28/02/2010 22:27, Randy wrote: Oops, I meant to check the groups list before sending this. There is an announce list, as of last October. However, it hasn't had much activity. That's because, try as I might, I'm not psychic and can't announce things people don't tell me about. Jonathan

Re: [OSM-talk] Reporting bugs and documentation

2010-03-22 Thread Jonathan Bennett
On 22/03/2010 22:38, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: JOSM doesn't visualize relations at all. You need to notice that the thing you're working on is part of a relation in the attributes dialog (where the key/values are listed). Almost true. It does if you work in the wireframe view, where

Re: [OSM-talk] cycle map not updating?

2010-06-24 Thread Jonathan Bennett
On 24/06/2010 16:57, Toby Murray wrote: Two days ago he tweeted that the new server was nearly ready so hopefully things will improve soon! And don't forget, if you think OpenCycleMap.org is great, you could always call in at the shop on the way out: http://shop.opencyclemap.org/

Re: [OSM-talk] Image Of The Week proposal

2010-07-28 Thread Jonathan Bennett
On 28/07/2010 14:57, Floris Looijesteijn wrote: But the girl is worth image of the week anyhow... http://xkcd.com/322/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Blocked applications at tile server

2011-11-21 Thread Jonathan Bennett
On 21/11/2011 14:10, Václav Řehák wrote: That's not true anymore. Downloading is disabled by Locus author in the recent versions and online browsing is limited to a certain number of tiles per day. Possibly, but on the Locus web site (http://www.locusmap.eu/version-1-14-0) there's a big red

Re: [OSM-talk] OSmosa.net run now.., contribution model

2011-12-05 Thread Jonathan Bennett
On 05/12/2011 21:35, Frans Thamura wrote: i think must research how to copy the data in weekly basis, Use Osmosis' replication features: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osmosis/Detailed_Usage_0.38#Replication_Tasks -- Jonathan (Jonobennett)

Re: [OSM-talk] proprietary keys and values, machine readable vs. humans

2012-01-24 Thread Jonathan Bennett
On 24/01/2012 11:22, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: I wonder if this kind of tagging should be tolerated. In the wiki I found no documentation regarding this tag, and therefore this data seems unusable for most mappers. Perhaps not, but systematically removing it won't improve anything (since most

Re: [OSM-talk] Icons

2012-06-28 Thread Jonathan Bennett
On 27/06/2012 23:06, john whelan wrote: Could someone or a group come up with a more standard set of icons please? Yes. You could. If not you, who? Seriously, having a library of icons matching common OSM features is a fantastic idea, and I'm sure would be welcomed. It does need someone to

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Jonathan Bennett
On 18/09/2012 13:42, Vincent Privat wrote: What happened on 15th september looks like an abuse of authority to me, as this largely exceeds the limits of the mandate given to the DWG. I expect a clarification from the OSMF board on this point. OK, if we're playing WikiLawyer pissing games, the

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines proposal update

2012-09-19 Thread Jonathan Bennett
On 19/09/2012 17:26, Pieren wrote: So, theoretically, we might have the same issue when tracing from Bing for instance. Should we use a different account for Bing imagery contributions as well, just in case we move later to a licence incompatible with Bing ? No, because tracing over Bing

Re: [OSM-talk] diversity amongst DWG members

2012-09-20 Thread Jonathan Bennett
On 20/09/2012 12:46, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: It would certainly be helpful if more local communities would have one of their members amongst the DWG members. It certainly would -- those local communities who feel they need better representation should decide amongst themselves who they want to

Re: [OSM-talk] Bad (wrong?) OSM publicity?

2012-10-02 Thread Jonathan Bennett
On 02/10/2012 12:29, woll wrote: The New York Times has not amended the article, so it still contains the statement that: The biggest problem with Apple’s map...is that much of its data appears to be drawn from OpenStreetMap, a Wikipedia-like service that contains a lot of incorrect and

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