[OSM-talk] Notebook scans (was: Re: Straw Poll - Disk space used by OSM photos/audio)

2008-02-10 Thread OJ W
that notebook-scanning project was at: http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~ojw/Notebooks/Users/OJW/KewParty/ in case anyone wanted to use it... each photo is renamed to say what numbered waypoints it contains, then you correlate a bunch of photos with a GPX waypoints file so that a KML viewer (or

Re: [OSM-talk] sendmap in asus eeepc

2008-02-11 Thread OJ W
Mine was communicating with a geko using serial connection (serial-USB converter) and the garmin protocol from gpsbabel, if that helps: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Asus_EEE I haven't tried it with sendmap -- isn't that a Windows program? The Asus runs Xandros by default. On Feb

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] OpenStreetMap tile browser (2010, 1276 at zoom 12)

2008-02-13 Thread OJ W
you might also be interested in http://tah.openstreetmap.org/MapOf/?lat=55.992473long=-3.345570z=12w=1280h=1024format=jpeg from http://tah.openstreetmap.org/MapOf/paste.php 2008/2/13 Shaun McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This looks like a great way to print maps easily. Would it be possible to

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] OpenStreetMap tile browser (2010, 1276 at zoom 12)

2008-02-13 Thread OJ W
, 2008 7:57 PM, OJ W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you might also be interested in http://tah.openstreetmap.org/MapOf/?lat=55.992473long=-3.345570z=12w=1280h=1024format=jpeg from http://tah.openstreetmap.org/MapOf/paste.php 2008/2/13 Shaun McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This looks like a great way

[OSM-talk] Caption competition

2008-02-15 Thread OJ W
The OSM cartoon has apparently become CC now: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Image:Openstreetmap_cartoon.jpg - would anyone like to write a caption, for use as the easter-week featured image? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Featured_images

Re: [OSM-talk] vandalism or 'where is cuba?'

2008-03-04 Thread OJ W
Is it still possible to move an entire object in JOSM, or is it now limited to one node at a time? On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Martijn Verwijmeren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 09:50:34 + Ludwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- first all make a bulk move more difficult, so

Re: [OSM-talk] Rendering power lines: black is beauty

2008-03-20 Thread OJ W
Why not have them on a street map? They're highly visible features in real life, and you can use them as navigation features. Already they're the thinnest line on our maps (and yes, they're shown on OS maps of the area too) This is the pub on your map, showing how 'turn at the power lines' is a

Re: [OSM-talk] Tag proposal/approval system is too heavyweight

2008-03-20 Thread OJ W
On tagwatch, one idea for these would have been voting features of the form mark this usage as error/typo. Of course, that could be extended to voting for good tags too.. On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Gervase Markham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andy Robinson (blackadder) wrote: 80n and I

Re: [OSM-talk] Name finder and home page search working again

2008-03-26 Thread OJ W
Is it doing anything with the multilingual names in OSM (name:de=... and similar)? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Key:name On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 11:35 AM, David Earl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 26/03/2008 01:43, Sven Grüner wrote: What about 'short_name', just to make that *_name

Re: [OSM-talk] Cycle lanes

2008-03-28 Thread OJ W
] wrote: OJ W wrote: Sounds very similar to the cycleway tagging in Bedford; treat it as a separate way if it's not on the road, which makes it easy to show if it takes detours away from the road: But I want it to be just next to the street, with no gap and no overlap, and getting

Re: [OSM-talk] Dry-weather roads

2008-04-02 Thread OJ W
ele=4m? ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] Icelandic lights

2008-04-04 Thread OJ W
Dolphin has pointed us to this document with another list of lighthouses: http://www.lhg.is/upload/files/Vitaskra_2006.pdf Can anyone who reads icelandic give a hint as to the possible license for this data? there seems to be a similar list on:

Re: [OSM-talk] Icelandic lights

2008-04-04 Thread OJ W
p.s. if you want to see that PDF file in JOSM: http://almien.co.uk/Misc/IcelandLights/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] wiki down?

2008-04-05 Thread OJ W
Looks like wiki, SVN, opengeodata, etc. are not available at moment? ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] open archaeology

2008-04-10 Thread OJ W
Do we know anything about this project? http://openarchaeology.net/ Seems to have a big interest in mapping tools and free map data ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] open archaeology

2008-04-10 Thread OJ W
Did anyone manage to find their sample site maps? (maps of a particular site I mean, not the Live! mashup of dig locations) On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 5:30 PM, Nick Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Frederik Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Think its

Re: [OSM-talk] Rocky beaches

2008-04-14 Thread OJ W
Hi. It's nice to see the Water Cover page anticipate a tagging question :) Just looking at wikipedia, they say that beaches need to be formed by gradual deposit of solids from dissolved in waves, which means (a) rocky shorelines might not be a beach, and (b) definition of beach is confusing

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging climbing routes and scrambles

2008-04-21 Thread OJ W
That makes sense -- the top and bottom of a climbing route should be two nodes separated by a way which indicates that it's fairly difficult to travel between the two. On our 2D map they'll be nearly on top of each other, which is correct but a bit difficult to visualise. Perhaps the ele=x m tag

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging climbing routes and scrambles

2008-04-21 Thread OJ W
Not related to the namespace discussion, but the idea of cliff materials is interesting. Something I found when I attempted to tag dirt cliffs, ravines, etc... How about this one, which uses only existing tags? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Cliff_surface On Fri,

Re: [OSM-talk] GIS in the public sector

2008-05-01 Thread OJ W
do they mention prices for the nonprofit sector? On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 4:04 PM, graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone with some money to burn going to this? I imagine just walking around with an osm t-shirt would probably generate quite a bit of interest... Graham +++GIS in the Public

[OSM-talk] Background-only on potlatch?

2008-05-02 Thread OJ W
Is there a way to turn off map data on potlatch, for when you want to zoom-out and look at something on the satellite photos, but don't want to trouble OSM with downloading an entire town's data that you're not planning to use? ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] tagging suitability for use by race bikes to roads

2008-05-07 Thread OJ W
How about this discussion... http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Routing_profiles I tried some bike routing with pyroute and it seemed fairly happy choosing residential roads around town. The only real change for fragile bikes would be that it's difficult to tell whether highway=cycleway

Re: [OSM-talk] TIGER mapping party

2008-05-09 Thread OJ W
Good idea. Somewhere with PCs available so we don't have to work on laptop screens? On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 11:05 PM, Jeffrey Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why are there so many problems with the TIGER data? Where do the extra roads come from? Are they planned roads? Will they be

Re: [OSM-talk] street traits

2008-05-09 Thread OJ W
This page *tries* to explain the differences: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Highway I suppose my summary would be something like: Motorway: motor vehicles only, always dual-carriageway, always has good level of emergency features, junctions are always grade-separated with

Re: [OSM-talk] tagging suitability for use by race bikes to roads

2008-05-09 Thread OJ W
tags like this will disappear as you leave the home region of whoever proposed them... On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 7:19 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OJ W wrote: How about this discussion... http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Routing_profiles I tried some bike routing with pyroute

Re: [OSM-talk] Limitations of renderers

2008-05-12 Thread OJ W
So it might be useful to have a renderer that does everything on request instead of storing large amounts of pregenerated tile images? (i.e. so that the server requirements are no longer proportional to the number of map styles that it serves) If that could be made to work, then everyone could

Re: [OSM-talk] Hi-vis vest with OpenStreetMap Logo Surveyor Text

2008-05-14 Thread OJ W
would someone put a copy on http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Featured_image_proposals ;) On 14 May 2008, at 07:27, Graham Smith wrote: http://www.sonicresolutions.com/osm_vest/IMG_6327.jpg http://www.sonicresolutions.com/osm_vest/IMG_6328.jpg

Re: [OSM-talk] difference between waterway=canal and waterway=drain

2008-05-14 Thread OJ W
So would the california aqueduct be a 'drain' under that definition? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Tupman_California_California_Aqueduct_Mile_236.JPG http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=37.4868lon=-121.0883zoom=12layers=0BFT (currently taged as 'river') On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 12:09 PM,

Re: [OSM-talk] Zero point tag?

2008-05-15 Thread OJ W
e.g. like the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Stone ? or the courtyard in front of Charing Cross station? On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 7:52 AM, Mike Collinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 05:00 AM 15/05/2008, Francois De Ryckel wrote: Hello everyone, How would you tag the zero point of a

[OSM-talk] Rights of way (was: Vote: highway=path)

2008-05-16 Thread OJ W
Are there any use-cases for keeping the legal designations of rights-of-way (aware that this is very UK-specific..) e.g. perhaps someone wants to use our maps to check that all the rights of way in their area are properly accessible. Or someone using an OSM map is challenged by a landowner and

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenPlantMap

2008-05-17 Thread OJ W
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Lars Aronsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It could also be useful to be able to validate (check, confirm) older map features, e.g. this motorway was drawn by SteveC in 2006 and was validated (timestamped but not altered) by LA2 in 2008. It could be as simple as

[OSM-talk] Downloading map images (update to MapOf)

2008-05-17 Thread OJ W
I've updated the MapOf application, that lets you download map images for abitary areas: http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~ojw/GetMap/ So new features are: * Paste the URL of a slippy-map permalink instead of supplying lat/long/zoom in separate fields * More map layers * Fixes the blank tile bug

Re: [OSM-talk] Downloading map images (update to MapOf)

2008-05-18 Thread OJ W
of course: http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~ojw/GetMap/layers_xml.php apologies for the confusion over country names! On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 5:56 AM, Stefan Baebler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OJ W wrote: http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~ojw/GetMap/layers_source.php i.e. a list of free

Re: [OSM-talk] Rights of way (was: Vote: highway=path)

2008-05-20 Thread OJ W
A path with horse,foot,cycle=yes still isn't a bridleway though (e.g. on a bridleway, cycles are permitted but the surface doesn't have to be suitable for cycling - a situation more complex than just cycle=yes). The legal bridleway has more attributes than just who is allowed to travel along it

[OSM-talk] Description nodes on the cycle map?

2008-05-20 Thread OJ W
Is it possible to add descriptions that would be visible on the detailed zoom of the cycle map? e.g. and now there are no NCN signs until Salford, or ignore misleading sign here - that sort of thing to help people planning a route... ___ talk mailing

Re: [OSM-talk] Description nodes on the cycle map?

2008-05-21 Thread OJ W
The issue would be arranging rendering for it, not merely suggesting tag names... On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 7:51 AM, Mike Collinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For broad descriptive use there is already the description= tag, designed for future pop-up maps and for search-oriented functions such as

[OSM-talk] Transparent slippy map of a GPX

2008-05-22 Thread OJ W
As a side-effect of some routing stuff I'm looking at, we have this little tool: http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~ojw/route/?gpx=112168zoom=10lat=52.08314lon=-0.71864 which should be able to display any public GPX trace (just replace the gpx= number) ___

Re: [OSM-talk] Transparent slippy map of a GPX - benchmarks

2008-05-24 Thread OJ W
For a -point tracklog, the tileserver approach takes about 140 ms per tile to render. When it needs to download a tracklog that it's never seen before, that takes about 800ms. Tiles that don't intersect with the tracklog bounding box (completely transparent ones) take 3-4ms. Timings

[OSM-talk] Wet borders (was: some bit of National borders in the British Islands)

2008-05-31 Thread OJ W
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 10:02 PM, Martijn van Oosterhout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: whereas country borders reach a distance into the sea Is that something we should be doing already? I see the borders of (e.g.) California and San Luis Obispo County both going along the beach next to each other,

Re: [OSM-talk] Baseball fields

2008-06-02 Thread OJ W
howabout using surface=sand, so it matches beaches etc. and surface=grass? (no idea if those are rendered yet) On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Joachim Breitner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to map a baseball field in a way that looks good on the map (baseball fields have such a

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik Tilecache Memory Error (Myanmar Cyclone Relief)

2008-06-09 Thread OJ W
It's only outline code now (i.e. no rendering rules), but pyrender shares those objectives (render on demand, get small amounts of data as required) http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/rendering/pyrender/ Various versions of that can go to an OSM API for data, or use a [[Tile Data

Re: [OSM-talk] osm talk at local LUG

2008-06-10 Thread OJ W
After the Stevenage LUG organised a talk, their area seemed to get mapped quite soon after: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.9097lon=-0.2024zoom=14layers=0B0FT On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Steve Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The level of interest seemed quite high at the time, but

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik Tilecache Memory Error (Myanmar Cyclone Relief)

2008-06-12 Thread OJ W
, Jun 11, 2008 at 2:29 AM, Brett Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OJ W wrote: It's only outline code now (i.e. no rendering rules), but pyrender shares those objectives (render on demand, get small amounts of data as required) http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/rendering/pyrender

[OSM-talk] Front page

2008-06-13 Thread OJ W
Would it be worth moving the introduction, links, wiki, shop, conference advert, and donation buttons from the front page to an about tab in the view/edit/export.. tab strip? The left-hand edge of the main page seems to be getting quite long, so the search box isn't visible without scrolling on

Re: [OSM-talk] Layer defaults for bridge and tunnel

2008-06-16 Thread OJ W
Can you use a query like this to get the stats you want? http://etricceline.de/osm/united-kingdom/en_combination_bridge=yes.htm Layers usage is here: http://etricceline.de/osm/united-kingdom/en_stats_layer.htm beware layer=Garden Close... ;) On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 11:22 AM, Susanna

[OSM-talk] pyrender

2008-06-17 Thread OJ W
Hi. pyrender has a few new features recently: * Uses tile data server for downloading * Uses the same cache directory structure as pyroutelib2, so the same data can be used for drawing and routing * Layers within road junctions * Road core and casing, to give neater junctions * Multiple map

Re: [OSM-talk] pyrender

2008-06-18 Thread OJ W
Try deleting the contents of your cache directory -- the old version of pyrender used OSM XML file format, while the new version downloads tiles with the graph-location lookups already done. Instead of the OSM standard: nd ref='11616711' / in cache files, you should see something like: nd

Re: [OSM-talk] Simplify ways within a '.osm'

2008-06-20 Thread OJ W
Sample code here http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/rendering/pyrender/OsmMerge.py that expects files where the nodes in a way already contain position information though, so may need modifying to work with standard OSM files On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 5:58 AM, Karl Newman [EMAIL

Re: [OSM-talk] Simplify ways within a '.osm'

2008-06-20 Thread OJ W
uhh, spot the deliberate error in that file ;) fix the x+x+y+y to x*x+y*y before using... On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 8:20 AM, OJ W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sample code here http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/rendering/pyrender/OsmMerge.py that expects files where the nodes in a way

[OSM-talk] what road am I travelling along?

2008-06-20 Thread OJ W
one of the more pathetic tricks of those proprietary gadgets on the car dashboard, is that they tell you what road you're on, as if you didn't know from the signs... now, anyone with the pyroutelib2 or pyrender applications installed can now do the same:

Re: [OSM-talk] pronunciation tag

2008-06-24 Thread OJ W
Is there any text-to-speech which actually accepts phonetic spellings as input, rather than trying to figure them out itself? ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] Pyroute share server

2008-07-02 Thread OJ W
Hi. I did a little web application for sharing your position with a group: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Rana_share_server there's a python client for it at: http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/mobile/rana/modules/mod_shareServer.py if anyone wants to do an openlayers

Re: [OSM-talk] Pyroute share server

2008-07-03 Thread OJ W
GPX: http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~ojw/pos/?A=getfmtG=1RP=FMT=gpx anyone wants a different output format, please send a modified copy of: http://svn.openstreetmap.org/sites/other/ranaShareServer/index.php On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 12:33 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if anyone wants to do

[OSM-talk] rana docs, install guide, user guide

2008-07-06 Thread OJ W
Hi. There is now some better documentation on how to run Rana: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Rana A svn checkout should now include all the dependencies you need, which was apparently a problem when people tried it before. There is also a shell script to get everything if you don't

[OSM-talk] Rana on freerunner

2008-08-19 Thread OJ W
Finally, Rana (formerly pyroute) is running on real hardware: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Image:RanaVectorMapOnBike.jpg There's a bit about installing maps for it: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Rana/Maps File format may change drastically, but current version is just very

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM mobile editor

2008-08-27 Thread OJ W
It sounds like there are two applications here: The mobile editor itself, for which there are various applications which could be used/extended. Given that it's mobile (no/costly network available) it would presumably want to store an OSM diff file of changes made, ready for upload when back at

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM mobile editor

2008-08-27 Thread OJ W
you walk past a network connection... On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 1:01 PM, OJ W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It sounds like there are two applications here: The mobile editor itself, for which there are various applications which could be used/extended. Given that it's mobile (no/costly network

Re: [OSM-talk] Recommended GPS for logs for OSM *and* for vehicle - is there such a beast?

2008-08-28 Thread OJ W
Use that on a bike, and you'll quickly find that the screen is unreadable in sunlight (especially when displaying OSM map images which are typically white or light-coloured roads on a white background) On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 10:53 AM, robin paulson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris G wrote: have

Re: [OSM-talk] sac_scale calibration?

2008-09-03 Thread OJ W
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 10:20 AM, Alberto Riva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Demanding_mountain_hiking is when you start to use your hands only because the terrain is too steep, but you don't climb. otherwise known as... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrambling ?

Re: [OSM-talk] New Proposed Feature: Tagging the age and duration of existence of features

2009-05-22 Thread OJ W
start_date=, end_date= http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features#Properties http://osmdoc.com/en/tag/start_date/ http://osmdoc.com/en/tag/end_date/ maybe someone could create the tag pages for those on wiki? 2009/5/22 Peter Dörrie peter.doer...@googlemail.com: Hi everybody, I made a

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch 1.0

2009-05-24 Thread OJ W
On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 11:19 AM, John McKerrell j...@mckerrell.net wrote: I thought people were sometimes using similar values to the landuse tags, i.e. building=commercial building=retail ? or office, apartments, mixed_use ... currently it looks like the vast majority of buildings are just

[OSM-talk] translating image of the week captions?

2009-06-01 Thread OJ W
On the wiki, someone has asked about translations for image of the week, since they appear on other languages' wiki front-pages: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Template_talk:Image_of_the_week#translation what do people think about this -- would there be enough people willing to do the

Re: [OSM-talk] Statues and Public Art

2009-06-06 Thread OJ W
On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Russ Nelsonr...@cloudmade.com wrote: I advise people to use tourism=artwork would give you a map like http://www.belfast-murals.co.uk/ ? ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Microvolunteering - interesting opportunity for low barrier OSM contribution

2009-06-18 Thread OJ W
Perhaps openstreetbugs (or whatever issue-tracking system we end up with) could have an ask for help option that would publish a question for Extraordinaries to answer by visiting the location? On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Martijn van Exelmve...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all - I just stumbled

Re: [OSM-talk] how are runways related to an airport/aerodrome

2009-06-22 Thread OJ W
in commercial nav data, the runways contain a tag with the airport's ICAO code ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] Featured images - captions in multiple languages

2009-06-25 Thread OJ W
Thanks to some template work by Abunai, Featured Images now have captions available in French and German. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Featured_images If you know another language that should have its own translation, then add it to the template. It should then appear automatically on

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding OpenStreetMap map into wordpress.com post

2009-06-25 Thread OJ W
as a static image? http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~ojw/GetMap/ El Jueves, 25 de Junio de 2009, Ivan Garcia escribió: we are trying to replace a Google maps into a OSM map in here, [...] That is inside wordpress.com [...] Do you know any other way to do this?

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

2009-07-03 Thread OJ W
wasn't OSM's preferred link-layer discussed elsewhere? http://fakestevec.blogspot.com/2009/04/new-ceo-appointed.html On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 4:10 PM, John Smithdelta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Fri, 3/7/09, Stefan de Konink ste...@konink.de wrote: I wonder what the RTT would be from UK

Re: [OSM-talk] Flood in Vienna

2009-07-05 Thread OJ W
this is going to get to the point where a newspaper will announce flooding in ${CITY} and we will all sit back and think oh, rendering error... ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] New static-maps API

2009-07-06 Thread OJ W
Various people have been asking for a better version of the MapOf service that's been running on dev for a while, serving mediawiki plugins, dynamic wallpapers, images in websites, etc. So I'm pleased to announce a static maps website with a few extra features:

Re: [OSM-talk] New static-maps API

2009-07-06 Thread OJ W
thus showing why I shouldn't be the one running the 'stable/production' server ;) hopefully fixed now - default gpx number of -1 easily passing the naive not zero validity test... you didn't want to view gpx #0 did you? On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð

Re: [OSM-talk] New static-maps API

2009-07-06 Thread OJ W
sorry, I wasn't on the openlayers announce list when they changed the API from assumed ...z/x/y.png convention to specify it yerself with ${x} etc.. Hopefully it's working again now? On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 11:25 PM, 80n80n...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 10:31 PM, OJ W ojwli

Re: [OSM-talk] New static-maps API - relations

2009-07-07 Thread OJ W
You can now view relations using the Static Map API. e.g. here is one of the underground lines in OSM: http://tinyurl.com/mjcd7o The equivalent slippy-map view is at http://tinyurl.com/klkrkl and its main page http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~ojw/relation/ will let you enter a relation ID. To get

Re: [OSM-talk] New static-maps API

2009-07-23 Thread OJ W
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Rune M. Andersenrune.ander...@gmail.com wrote: On Resize tab, inputs are in reverse order, height x width instead of the usual width x height. fixed. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

[OSM-talk] Video inputs to OpenStreetView

2009-07-26 Thread OJ W
I'm just looking at ways of getting video-camera data into openstreetview http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Georeference_video http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~ojw/StreetPhotos/test3/output.kml is anyone else working with georeferenced videos for mapping?

Re: [OSM-talk] Business listings

2009-07-27 Thread OJ W
one way that a business-listings website could work with OSM would be to let each advertiser 'own' (not exclusively) an OSM node that they can keep updated from some business-advertising website. (1) you create an account and say I want to advertise a {business_type} at {location} (doesn't matter

Re: [OSM-talk] is_in and similar tags

2009-07-28 Thread OJ W
Could someone[1] setup a web-service where you send it a lat/lon and it returns a list of all boundaries that point is within? So just one website imports the boundary data instead of everyone having to know how to do the 'is within' search[2]. Namefinder could then query this to add its own

[OSM-talk] Airport browser

2009-07-28 Thread OJ W
just an idea for browsing 'objects' (not optimised or anything): http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~ojw/Airports/?id=london ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Question about gps coordinates 001W0547 convert to -1.0547

2009-07-29 Thread OJ W
are you sure it's not degrees minutes and seconds mashed-together? 004E4800 looks a bit like 4 degrees, 48 minutes, 00 seconds On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Thomas Woodgrand.edgemas...@gmail.com wrote: It looks like its a mashed form of the standard decimal Lat Lons. Assuming your

[OSM-talk] Business listings - a website

2009-07-29 Thread OJ W
Sorry for breaking the thread, but I did a mockup of a website that people could use to enter their own businesses into OSM: http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~ojw/SmallAds/ so any user of this website can* create up to 5 OSM nodes, label them as amenity=whatever, and enter a description, a phone

Re: [OSM-talk] Google StreetView From Bikes

2009-07-30 Thread OJ W
their kit looks quite bulky. I've got just one videocamera (and no LIDAR) fitted, and it all mounts on handlebars with room to spare for other stuff. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Georeference_video Maybe the big tricycle is needed to lift the cameras up above the traffic? other people

[OSM-talk] Finding what country something is in (new website)

2009-07-30 Thread OJ W
I put a wrapper around the rather excellent http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Server_Side_Script which can tell you which town/county/state/country something is in: http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~ojw/WhatCountry/?lat=51.51lon=-0.05 - which replies that the specified numbers are in Tower

Re: [OSM-talk] Google StreetView From Bikes

2009-07-30 Thread OJ W
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Lester Caineles...@lsces.co.uk wrote: OJ W wrote: Maybe the big tricycle is needed to lift the cameras up above the traffic? THAT I think is the big mistake that Google made. Pushing the camera head up so that it looks OVER security walls and hedges is what

Re: [OSM-talk] Finding what country something is in (new website)

2009-07-31 Thread OJ W
Smithdelta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Thu, 30/7/09, OJ W ojwli...@googlemail.com wrote: I put a wrapper around the rather excellent http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Server_Side_Script which can tell you which town/county/state/country something is in: I haven't looked

Re: [OSM-talk] Finding what country something is in (new website)

2009-07-31 Thread OJ W
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 8:16 AM, John Smithdelta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote: I also checked the Australian state borders and they are marked as admin_level=4;10 which may interfere with things if the script was only looking for a single number, however the boundary is used for local and state.

Re: [OSM-talk] Layer transitions

2009-07-31 Thread OJ W
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 7:28 AM, Harald Kleinere9625...@gmx.at wrote: Hi! to make my question more precise, please have a look at this tunnel that crosses a railway track (the railway is a subway that runs at ground level):

Re: [OSM-talk] Finding what country something is in (new website)

2009-07-31 Thread OJ W
that would be a lack of disk space on dev's /home - I'll see if it's anything of mine that I can delete On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Roland Olbrichtroland.olbri...@gmx.de wrote: After some playing around, I get some error messages with

Re: [OSM-talk] Finding what country something is in (new website)

2009-07-31 Thread OJ W
should be working again now? ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Finding what country something is in (new website) - localised

2009-07-31 Thread OJ W
http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~ojw/WhatCountry/?lat=51.8478lon=9.0282lang=es http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~ojw/WhatCountry/?lat=51.8478lon=9.0282lang=de http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~ojw/WhatCountry/?lat=51.8478lon=9.0282lang=nl ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] Finding what country something is in (new website)

2009-07-31 Thread OJ W
for some reason my javascript isn't working so well - anyone want to try and make this more reliable? http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~ojw/PlaceBrowser/?lat=51.51lon=-0.12zoom=14 ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

[OSM-talk] Title bars (dynamic updating of)

2009-08-01 Thread OJ W
Most of the slippy-maps I've seen so far have OpenStreetMap or similar as the document title. While nicely minimalist, it doesn't always describe what you're looking at on screen. Imagine if it said OpenStreetMap Oxfordshire, United Kingdom instead...

Re: [OSM-talk] Title bars (dynamic updating of)

2009-08-02 Thread OJ W
On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 7:43 PM, Ed Avise...@waniasset.com wrote: OJ W ojwlists at googlemail.com writes: Imagine if it said OpenStreetMap Oxfordshire, United Kingdom instead... http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~ojw/TitlebarDemo/?zoom=11lat=51.76lon=-1.282 You mean instead of OpenSteetMap Oxfordshire

Re: [OSM-talk] Does this mean we could launch our own OSM satellite?

2009-08-02 Thread OJ W
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 10:03 PM, Marc Coevoetsintsix...@gmail.com wrote: You can try the quadcopter too.. how would launching a quadcopter into orbit help? ___ 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 OJ W
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Lester Caineles...@lsces.co.uk wrote: High ground clearance required? More 4WD vehicles are appearing nowadays, but it's not always clear what they are actually capable off. So 4WD_Only is not really the correct terminology and does not clearly identify the

Re: [OSM-talk] landuse for hotels

2009-08-05 Thread OJ W
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Ciarán Mooneygeneral.moo...@googlemail.com wrote: What landuse are we using for hotels?  I'm pretty sure it should be commercial or retail. I'm going to go with commercial, they as retail suggests that they sell a physical product. commercial suggests office

Re: [OSM-talk] Redefine the highway-key from scratch

2009-08-05 Thread OJ W
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Konrad Skerikon...@skeri.com wrote: 1. Remove all highway=motorway, trunk, primary, etc. 2. Use highway=road. It's a road! Q) how will we classify each road? A) they will all be named Beverly ___ talk mailing list

[OSM-talk] sidewalks

2009-08-07 Thread OJ W
sidewalks in villages - what to do? http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.172898lon=-0.524788zoom=18 are they footpaths or are they road attributes? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Proposed_features/Footway (probably footpaths if it's at all complicated, since the paths can make detours

Re: [OSM-talk] sidewalks

2009-08-07 Thread OJ W
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 10:15 PM, Martin Koppenhoeferdieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: How is routing going to know that you can cross the road if you're on a sidewalk footpath and there's another one 8m away across a residential road? AFAIK that's an open question. IMHO this will have to be

Re: [OSM-talk] Introductions, and Icons?:

2009-08-08 Thread OJ W
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 12:35 AM, Austin Martinajmarti...@gmail.com wrote: Also, does OSM need a collective icon set, because by looking at this: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features. It seems like just a random mishmash of icons, but maybe I'm wrong on this.. However if I'm right, I

Re: [OSM-talk] radioactivity

2009-08-09 Thread OJ W
isn't the issue here that radioactivity is like height, i.e. a smoothly-varying value that exists everywhere and is typically represented as gridded data (which gets converted to contours for display). with height, people said that the grid data was unsuitable for going into OSM because OSM is

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