Re: [OSM-talk] ITO Mapper sessions to OSMHV changesets

2012-08-22 Thread Shaun McDonald
Hi, The ITO Mapper sessions don't tie up with the OSM Changesets, nor know about them. This is due to it having built prior to the the changesets in OSM being introduced, not upgraded since to take them into account. This can be seen as a useful feature as it groups together the changesets by

Re: [Talk-GB] Find My Nearest Cash Machine

2012-08-22 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 22 Aug 2012, at 08:10, Graham Jones grahamjones...@gmail.com wrote: Seem Graham beat me to publishing a map of the ATMs: http://www.itoworld.com/map/230 But yours looks nicer, and doesn't have odd references to breweries mixed in with ATMs! Excellent, great that you like it.

Re: [Talk-GB] On Countryside paths

2012-08-22 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 22 Aug 2012, at 13:21, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote: On 22/08/2012 01:06, SomeoneElse wrote: Well, there's this one that ITO have made: http://www.itoworld.com/map/87#fullscreen Is there description of the rules ITO is using? It doesn't recognise highway=bridleway as a

Re: [Talk-GB] Footway to Sidewalk?

2012-08-21 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 20 Aug 2012, at 13:30, Philip Barnes p...@trigpoint.me.uk wrote: Have just spotted this changeset, which has globally changed footway tags to sidewalk, the area covers the UK. Any thoughts, to me sidewalk is one of those American words that should not find its way into English.

Re: [Talk-GB] Find My Nearest Cash Machine

2012-08-21 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 20 Aug 2012, at 13:15, Philip Barnes p...@trigpoint.me.uk wrote: On Tue, 2012-08-21 at 12:33 +0100, Brian Prangle wrote: Hi Andy Impressive! Shame about the data. Just done a quick look around Acocks Green - ATMs missing and some are up to 30m away from their actual location. I

Re: [Talk-GB] Find My Nearest Cash Machine

2012-08-21 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 21 Aug 2012, at 18:44, Graham Jones grahamjones...@gmail.com wrote: On 21 August 2012 14:40, Sam Larsen samlars...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: I don't really see the point of this thread. UK cash machine data is fairly dense in OSM, i very rarely find any that aren't already mapped. Can't we

Re: [OSM-talk] Slippy map with Bing background

2012-07-20 Thread Shaun McDonald
You may be interested in this conversation on the Wikipedia re geocoding coordinates: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Geographical_coordinates#Legal_issues_relating_to_geocodes_derived_from_various_sources Shaun On 20 Jul 2012, at 03:05, Alan Mintz wrote: Is there a

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping Party - Manchester

2012-07-17 Thread Shaun McDonald
There will be SOTM Scotland in Edinburgh later this year on 19th and 20th October: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_Of_The_Map_Scotland_2012 Shaun On 17 Jul 2012, at 10:55, Nick Whitelegg wrote: I might be interested depending on the date - missing SOTM for the first time this

Re: [OSM-talk] Can Mapzen POI collected get some love?

2012-07-11 Thread Shaun McDonald
Hi, Myself and Harry Wood have the code with a view of open sourcing Mapzen POI Collector and allowing the community to improve it. Unfortunately with my change of jobs and house move, I've not had any time to work on it. Hopefully that'll change shortly. Shaun On 11 Jul 2012, at 04:47,

Re: [OSM-talk] Current Garmin units with unlimited tracklog?

2012-07-03 Thread Shaun McDonald
The Garmin Edge 800 stores in some .fit format rather than GPX. I've still not found some tools to batch convert from that format to .gpx. Shaun On 3 Jul 2012, at 09:03, Andy Robinson wrote: I can't be certain but I suspect any Garmin unit that takes a micro SD card can store a daily gpx

Re: [Talk-GB] railway:historic = rail tags

2012-07-02 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 2 Jul 2012, at 16:19, Richard Fairhurst wrote: Peter Miller wrote:  I started using railway:historic=xxx in place of railway=dismantled for cycletracks etc in response to a comment through OSM messaging that one editor had found it confusing to suddenly have cyclepaths being rendered

Re: [Talk-GB] OT: Is Bristol the UK's only cross-border city?

2012-06-14 Thread Shaun McDonald
On Wed, June 13, 2012 3:40 pm, Colin Smale wrote: On 13/06/2012 14:38, Philip Barnes wrote: The built up area of Chester straddles the England-Wales border and the football ground is right on the border. The pitch being in Wales and some of the car park and offices in England. I think this

Re: [Talk-GB] Cycling, the law and traffic signs

2012-05-16 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 16 May 2012, at 01:05, Jason Cunningham wrote: On 15 May 2012 23:32, rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: As I am not a regular cyclist I must admit that I don't pay much attention to these signs. So my question is do Local Authorities use the cycle and foot signs (segregated or

Re: [OSM-talk] No Data overlay on OpenStreetmap.org

2012-04-01 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 1 Apr 2012, at 22:20, Carsten Nielsen wrote: Hi There used to be a Data overlay available on OpenStreetmap.org, it seems that this has been removed or moved somwhere else. I liked the possibility of exploring data by zooming in and turning the data layer on to see tags on stuff, now

Re: [OSM-talk] Friends

2011-12-03 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 2 Dec 2011, at 18:01, Martijn van Exel wrote: Similar ideas were discussed at the London hack weekend recently. But we need, you know, people to code it. That's the thing. I started this discussion and am glad to see there's a lot of good input. I've done three things to get started

Re: [Talk-GB] Doodle: OpenStreetMap Brighton mapping party

2011-11-01 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 31 Oct 2011, at 19:25, Nick Whitelegg wrote: Anyone else got opinions on the date? We could go for a two day mapping party? might be interested depending on the type of mapping. Not so interested in addressing etc, but if it's road surveying/naming I'd be tempted. ATM can do any

Re: [Talk-GB] Doodle: OpenStreetMap Brighton mapping party

2011-10-31 Thread Shaun McDonald
Anyone else got opinions on the date? We could go for a two day mapping party? On Mon, October 31, 2011 1:45 pm, Dan Karran wrote: Good point, that works better. On 31 October 2011 13:05, Shaun McDonald sh...@shaunmcdonald.me.uk wrote: On Mon, October 31, 2011 11:52 am, Dan Karran wrote

Re: [OSM-talk] 'wget'ing largish portion of planetOSM

2011-10-19 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 19 Oct 2011, at 19:58, Richard Weait wrote: On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 10:51 PM, Mick bare...@tpg.com.au wrote: I have been struggling to get a largish chunk of open street map covering an area from the Isles of Scilly in the south west to Bristol [ ... ] The Planet page points to a

Re: [OSM-talk] Map display with orange bounding box

2011-09-16 Thread Shaun McDonald
There is no GUI/utility to generate those. They are generated automatically by the BBox of the changesets only as far as I'm aware. Shaun On 16 Sep 2011, at 11:45, Dave F. wrote: Is there a utility to allow a user to draw a boundary box like this get a permalink for it?:

Re: [OSM-talk] What is an ID?

2011-08-04 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 3 Aug 2011, at 15:45, Claudius wrote: Am 03.08.2011 02:34, Lester Caine: Tom Hughes wrote: Nobody has setup a system to reuse anything. All you are seeing there is the result of badly written programs and the like doing perfectly normal REST writes to node 1. When such mistakes are

Re: [OSM-talk] Multiple versions of same node in changeset

2011-06-26 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 26 Jun 2011, at 18:10, Serge Wroclawski wrote: On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Tobias Knerr o...@tobias-knerr.de wrote: Richard Fairhurst wrote: M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: Yes, but is there a point of doing this within the same changeset? Yes, of course there is. If you're using an

Re: [OSM-talk] Multiple versions of same node in changeset

2011-06-25 Thread Shaun McDonald
If the user is saving their changes on a regular basis, then yes I would expect the same item to be in the changeset multiple times. In this case it looks as though the user has been moving the bus stop and then hitting the save button multiple times. (Potlatch2 will not automatically save and

Re: [Talk-GB] SABRE Maps

2011-04-12 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 12 Apr 2011, at 14:14, Lester Caine wrote: Bob Kerr wrote: I just heard about this, I don't know anything about the group but I thought I'd pass it on since it's using openstreetmap http://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/maps/ They have links to a number of growing historic maps as well as

Re: [OSM-talk] Tag for true OSM data?

2011-03-31 Thread Shaun McDonald
There is already a tag for that. It's the source tag. Shaun On 31 Mar 2011, at 08:51, Jukka Rahkonen wrote: Hi, I am mostly interested in truly original OSM data created by our contributors. Now when folks are more and more importing data into OSM it is getting less usable for me. For

Re: [OSM-talk] Why no link from osm.org to osmbugs.org?

2011-02-19 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 19 Feb 2011, at 18:27, Dave F. wrote: On 19/02/2011 17:30, Richard Mann wrote: There's probably some good reason, but why isn't there a link from osm.org to report a bug? Could it be because not many people use it? I still don't understand why, in a collaborative project, that

Re: [OSM-talk] Traces, multiple tag selection

2011-02-16 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 15 Feb 2011, at 21:33, hbogner wrote: Hi, I didnt find how to do this, but is it possible to set multiple tags when selecting gxp traces http://www.openstreetmap.org/traces/tag/tag1 http://www.openstreetmap.org/traces/tag/tag2 so that I get only traces that have both tags? At this

Re: [OSM-talk] Nominatim US places

2011-01-01 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 1 Jan 2011, at 17:07, Richard Welty wrote: On 12/30/10 5:09 PM, j...@jfeldredge.com wrote: My guess (without having run a query) is that the Biitig Road entries in the database may not have any values tagged for town name and county name, and that Nominatim is using the values from the

Re: [OSM-talk] Cannot download

2010-12-13 Thread Shaun McDonald
Have you tried zooming in and downloading a smaller area? You can also try right clicking on the gps track in the layers list on the right hand side and choose 'download along track'. Shaun On 13 Dec 2010, at 09:53, Bre Bru wrote: I get this message from JOSM: Error Header=You have

Re: [OSM-talk] Explicit tagging of name language

2010-12-06 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 6 Dec 2010, at 10:10, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, On 12/06/2010 11:00 AM, Ed Avis wrote: Given that, and the user's preferred languages [en, fr], what name should be picked? The program cannot know that the name 'Scotland' is in English Why? Are there places in Scotland that have a

Re: [OSM-talk] Why bz2?

2010-11-23 Thread Shaun McDonald
On Tue, November 23, 2010 11:59 am, Fabio Alessandro Locati wrote: On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: We have introduced a new binary format that compresses far better than even xz, so if you're willing to install extra software for uncompressing data,

Re: [Talk-GB] NaPTAN station codes

2010-10-24 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 24 Oct 2010, at 21:41, Andy Mabbett wrote: On 24 October 2010 21:12, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com wrote: o...@... writes: We're importing the location of bus stops from NaPTAN, can we also load the NaPTAN codes for railway stations? National Rail seems to use a three-letter code for

Re: [OSM-talk] Response to A critique of OpenStreetMap

2010-10-16 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 16 Oct 2010, at 11:31, Valent Turkovic wrote: On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Peter Körner osm-li...@mazdermind.de wrote: Am 15.10.2010 12:11, schrieb Valent Turkovic: On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 20:41:30 -0400, Anthony wrote: Once OSM goes ODbL, I'd expect that Mapquest will stop licensing

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM and MapQuest [was Hurricane hits MapQuest]

2010-10-05 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 5 Oct 2010, at 08:26, Ed Avis wrote: Shaun McDonald shaun at shaunmcdonald.me.uk writes: For example according to Nominatim Surrey covers most of London http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/details.php?place_id=559111 Is there a reason why Nominatim doesn't use the administrative county

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM and MapQuest [was Hurricane hits MapQuest]

2010-10-04 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 5 Oct 2010, at 00:38, Nic Roets wrote: On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 12:46 AM, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com wrote: So, is it possible for Mapquest to generate aggregate information on what name searches people are doing and how often they find the result they wanted? The latter is not

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Bike Shop dataset obtained: please merge in locations in your area

2010-10-03 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 25 Sep 2010, at 15:32, Andrew wrote: Martin Lucas-Smith - CycleStreets list-osm-talk...@... writes: Andy Allan and Shaun McDonald have created a webapp for the specific purpose of merging (manually) this data into OSM. http://shaunmcdonald.dev.openstreetmap.org/bike-shop-locator

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Bike Shop dataset obtained: please merge in locations in your area

2010-09-15 Thread Shaun McDonald
://www.cyclestreets.net/blog/2010/09/10/get-all-uk-bike-shops-in-osm/ Andy Allan and Shaun McDonald have created a webapp for the specific purpose of merging (manually) this data into OSM. http://shaunmcdonald.dev.openstreetmap.org/bike-shop-locator/ Effectively it has a map of locations not yet

Re: [Talk-GB] Datastore musical allotments

2010-09-15 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 15 Sep 2010, at 23:21, Robert Scott wrote: On Wednesday 15 September 2010, Will Abson wrote: Great tool! I've checked out my local area (Ealing) and there's a few disagreements marked for several allotments which are listed as 'Private Site' in the GLA data. Effectively there is no name

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Bike Shop dataset obtained: please merge in locations in your area

2010-09-14 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 14 Sep 2010, at 18:28, Martin CycleStreets wrote: Dave F. wrote: How old is the database It was a snapshot from their database about 4-6 weeks ago, so should be pretty fresh, though it does contain errors (as would be expected given the way bikeshops come and go). are all

Re: [OSM-talk] Garmin etrex Vista HCx issue

2010-08-22 Thread Shaun McDonald
http://www.gravitystorm.co.uk/shine/archives/2008/11/21/replacement-garmin-etrex-bike-clip/ may be relevant. Shaun On 22 Aug 2010, at 21:42, Steve Chilton wrote: My new week old Garmin etrex Vista HCx is causing me grief. The power on/off button has decided to not function at all. Am

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch for Newbies

2010-08-21 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 21 Aug 2010, at 11:55, NopMap wrote: Hi! I am currently writing a How-To for people who have heard about OSM five minutes ago and whish to contribute some specific POI information. Getting to the point where they open Potlatch and need to click the Save or Live mode buttons, I have

Re: [Talk-GB] Derbyshire area unconnected

2010-08-20 Thread Shaun McDonald
Hi, I have come across a few mappers in the past who have put in a huge amount of effort to map their town, but were not aware of the connectivity or the importance of. When I have explained it to them and shown them some routing service that they hadn't come across before, they are generally

Re: [OSM-talk] Legal discussion on talk@

2010-08-14 Thread Shaun McDonald
Love your mail Frederik. You've explained it way better than I could. I'm definitely now in the meh camp and would rather a weekly or fortnightly digest of what has happened on legal talk, rather than all the discussion spilling over from legal talk. Thus getting the best of both worlds of

Re: [OSM-talk] Suggestion to add SA clause to CT section 3, describing free and open license

2010-07-20 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 20 Jul 2010, at 01:20, Liz wrote: On Tue, 20 Jul 2010, SteveC wrote: From my experience off list with all the people frustrated both in email and in person, those 20 or so people here just don't represent everyone else who'd prefer all this discussion to go to legal-talk and just move on

Re: [Talk-GB] A newbie question - 'What are you doing ?'

2010-07-17 Thread Shaun McDonald
The explanation I've found best to use since most people understand it the fastest is to ask if they know what the Wikipedia is, and then compare OSM to Wikipedia by instead of an encyclopaedia that anyone can edit, it's a map that anyone can edit. Shaun On 16 Jul 2010, at 20:31, Iain Simpson

Re: [OSM-talk] correcting/helping inexperienced mappers

2010-07-02 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 2 Jul 2010, at 05:07, Robin Paulson wrote: there's a mapper near me, who's very active adding data. the problem is, he's making a lot of mistakes, such as roads not joining correctly at junctions, bridges drawn as a separate parallel line to the highway they should relate to, and other

Re: [Talk-transit] Proposed changes to oxomoa schema [part 2: stops]

2010-06-28 Thread Shaun McDonald
In the UK as part of the Naptan import we already have decided that bus stops must be marked exactly where they are on the ground and added to the route relation of the bus route. Shaun On 28 Jun 2010, at 19:07, Michał Borsuk wrote: Hi everybody again: This time I'd like to propose a

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

2010-06-24 Thread Shaun McDonald
Hi Gregory, Your a little out of date of the way that the cycle map is run. It uses the live mapnk rendering, with no upload required. However it is still a weekly update, and can take a week to fully update assuming that the disk doesn't fill up first. Shaun On 24 Jun 2010, at 16:40,

Re: [OSM-talk] Removing ways in Potlatch

2010-06-17 Thread Shaun McDonald
shift+backspace/delete. This is to prevent you hitting delete and deleting the way accidentally. Shaun On 17 Jun 2010, at 22:34, John F. Eldredge wrote: While updating the streets in my neighborhood (mostly correcting misaligned TIGER imports to match Yahoo's aerial views), I found a short

Re: [OSM-talk] POI Collection as a Competition

2010-06-10 Thread Shaun McDonald
I fear that it would just be gamed and bad data would be entered instead. Shaun On 10 Jun 2010, at 21:34, Ian Dees wrote: I posted this idea as an off-topic message in a thread about the post office in talk-us, but I thought it might get more interest over here on t...@... What if we came

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch and Gnash

2010-05-09 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 9 May 2010, at 15:40, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: I had trouble deleting the building, need to delete the points, could now delete the entire selected no via the del key. Try shift+backspace to delete ways. Shaun ___ talk mailing

Re: [OSM-talk] visitor counter in wiki vanished

2010-05-03 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 3 May 2010, at 09:38, GS wrote: hi, today the wiki doesn't show the visitor counter on the bottom anymore... any idea why? 1. Performance. It was slowing the wiki down. 2. Due to the cache that you are hitting, it turns out that it doesn't give the correct number anyway. Shaun i

Re: [Talk-GB] Help Needed

2010-05-02 Thread Shaun McDonald
Hi Roy, Do you have a link to the map area so that someone can look at the data to see what the problem is? You should be able to have landuse and buildings without a problem. Have you looked at the tags that are used for the buildings in central london, for a comparison? Shaun On 2 May

Re: [Talk-GB] Building alignment

2010-05-02 Thread Shaun McDonald
In JOSM select the building and press q. Potlatch currently doesn't have that feature, but it is in the upcoming Potlatch 2. Don't know about Merkaartor. Shaun On 2 May 2010, at 16:00, Roy Jamison wrote: Hey guys, Is there any way in Potlatch or Merkaartor (I can't understand JOSM) to

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping Beginnings

2010-05-01 Thread Shaun McDonald
Hi Roy, As someone who has cycled out and mapped parts of Sheerness and Minster, it's great to see someone local starting to map recently. I'd recommend taking a looking at central London or Canterbury for inspiration of the amount of detail that you can enter into OpenStreetMap. Shaun On 1

Re: [Talk-GB] OS Boundaries

2010-04-25 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 25 Apr 2010, at 07:57, Lester Caine wrote: If a footpath gets moved do you think I should still show a way mark it as 'this is where it used to go'? 'closed=2007' makes perfect sense to me. People then coming back to an area that they walked 30 years ago would then see why they

Re: [OSM-talk] xybot edit area size

2010-04-11 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 10 Apr 2010, at 03:33, Martin Fossdal Guttesen wrote: Sorry i dont know Flash or ActionScript and after thinking about it. it would be better to handle it on the server and i dont know rails ruby or what it is called but i have looked at the source and i think i have found the spot

Re: [OSM-talk] Reversion of Edits

2010-04-09 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 9 Apr 2010, at 17:43, Vitor George wrote: Hi there, There is a user in Brazil that is copying street names and other things from copyrighted maps. We've already talked to him. Can you please elaborate on your contact with the user? What has been said? Is he happy for the revert? Shaun

Re: [OSM-talk] bz2-format of the planet-latest file

2010-04-06 Thread Shaun McDonald
The planet is compressed with a multi-threaded bz2 to make the generation faster. Shaun On 6 Apr 2010, at 23:09, Werner Hoch wrote: Hi there, I'm currently playing on a random access tool for compressed osm files. While my tool works fine for all files from

[Talk-transit] Bus stops missing in Cornwall

2010-04-04 Thread Shaun McDonald
Hi, A couple of weeks back I took a week end trip walking from Penzance to Lands End, on the way taking plenty of photos, some of which were of bus stops. The first problem I've found is that none of them seem to have a naptan code on them. Then there are several that I have found that have a

Re: [Talk-transit] Bus stops missing in Cornwall

2010-04-04 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 4 Apr 2010, at 16:05, Chris Hill wrote: Shaun McDonald wrote: Hi, A couple of weeks back I took a week end trip walking from Penzance to Lands End, on the way taking plenty of photos, some of which were of bus stops. The first problem I've found is that none of them seem to have

Re: [OSM-talk] my own map server

2010-04-04 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 4 Apr 2010, at 07:34, John Smith wrote: On 4 April 2010 10:55, Timothy C Litwiller t...@litwiller.net wrote: I am wanting to teach a bunch of kids about mapping and also do some experimenting with out bothering real live data on OSM's servers. I've searched and not been able to find a

Re: [OSM-talk] When will bots be removed from history?

2010-04-04 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 4 Apr 2010, at 17:57, Valent Turkovic wrote: On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:11:12 +0100, Polderrunner wrote: Why bother whether the changeset was created by a bot or not. Simply offer the user the choice not to display big changesets (say those covering more than 5 degrees in either latitude or

Re: [Talk-GB] Ordnance Survey

2010-04-01 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 1 Apr 2010, at 01:16, Phil Monger wrote: Hi Tom, Not sure I agree that Streetview is 'horrible' - as a free base map it will rival or beat any of the others I have seen. This is even more true for rural areas. I am aware most of the raster stuff got left out, but streetview *is*

Re: [OSM-talk] POI-searching application

2010-03-30 Thread Shaun McDonald
Have you tried TrackMyJourney? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Software/Mobile_phones for some others that you may want to try. Shaun On 30 Mar 2010, at 05:03, John F. Eldredge wrote: Does anyone know of an application for BlackBerry phones that allows one to search for OSM POIs of a

Re: [OSM-talk] www.openaddresses.org BETA launched

2010-03-30 Thread Shaun McDonald
Why not use OAuth to enter the data straight back into OSM? Shaun On 30 Mar 2010, at 05:05, Cédric MOULLET wrote: Dear OSM community, After www.openaddresses.ch and www.openaddresses.at, www.openaddresses.org has been launched to collect worldwide localized addresses. This initiative of

Re: [OSM-talk] Interleaving GPS traces with video?

2010-03-29 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 29 Mar 2010, at 23:16, Gregory wrote: On 29 March 2010 14:52, Laurence Penney l...@lorp.org wrote: Thanks a lot. I was hoping, I guess, that there was some standard for simply whacking a GPX file inside an MPEG4 container, and maybe even a viewer for such files... Would be doable to

Re: [OSM-talk] Documentation on Editing Relations

2010-03-27 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 27 Mar 2010, at 22:20, Graham Jones wrote: Hi, I have always tried to avoid using relations (never really accepted that is better than adding route= tags to ways, and they seem to complicate things quite a lot), but I am trying to tidy up some long distance footpaths that have

Re: [OSM-talk] What do you wish you'd known?

2010-03-20 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 19 Mar 2010, at 22:45, SteveC wrote: What are the thing or things you know know that you wish you'd known when you started with OpenStreetMap? * photo editing in JOSM, it was only after seeing a demo by Chris Fleming that I found out how to do it * Shift+drag to zoom the map * What's

Re: [Talk-transit] [Talk-GB] NaPTAN - Time for the rest?

2010-03-16 Thread Shaun McDonald
Currently openbusmap.org is a quick hack using an iframe to the original site. This means that if you click permalink the permalink will open in that frame. If you open in a new tab/window from that link, you'll get a permalink. Shaun On 16 Mar 2010, at 22:05, Richard Mann wrote: I tried to

Re: [OSM-talk] short links

2010-03-13 Thread Shaun McDonald
Hi, There is some info in a blog post I made a few months back: http://blog.shaunmcdonald.me.uk/2010/01/openstreetmap-shortlinks/ Shaun On 13 Mar 2010, at 21:35, Vincent Pottier wrote: Hi, One question : What is the algorithm used to convert the short OSM link from/to lat/lon One

Re: [OSM-talk] When will bots be removed from history?

2010-02-28 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 28 Feb 2010, at 10:12, Valent Turkovic wrote: When will bots be removed from history in Potlach? It is really hard to see what is going on in some area when all I can see are bot entries and (big) entries. Please, please remote bot entries from Potlach history. Here is how history

Re: [OSM-talk] Chile - earthquake - area definition

2010-02-28 Thread Shaun McDonald
Hi Jan, Have you taken a look at the chile.poly file on http://downloads.cloudmade.com/south_america/chile#downloads_breadcrumbs which contains the country outline? Shaun On 28 Feb 2010, at 14:02, Jan Tappenbeck wrote: HI ! is anybody define the area (geo-coord.) of chile - it is usefull

Re: [OSM-talk] Two different ways with the same nodes?

2010-02-12 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 12 Feb 2010, at 06:17, ed...@billiau.net wrote: On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 4:57 PM, ed...@billiau.net wrote: Hi, Stefan Pflumm wrote: this ways are all highways. It surely is unusual for two highways sharing the same nodes, and I cannot think of an example where this would make

Re: [OSM-talk] Query takes too long

2010-02-06 Thread Shaun McDonald
At this time you can use the XML api, which will also allow you to get a single version at a time, which will be faster. http://api.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/relation/399715/history http://api.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/relation/399715/version where version is changed to the version number.

Re: [OSM-talk] Railway Stations relations

2010-01-27 Thread Shaun McDonald
Not in all cases. Take an example where you have two over lapping or very close stations. Shaun On 27 Jan 2010, at 20:59, John Smith wrote: Doesn't proximity do grouping? On 1/28/10, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/1/27 Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com: Hi Many of

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

2010-01-19 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 19 Jan 2010, at 12:43, Steve Bennett wrote: On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 9:23 AM, si...@mungewell.org wrote: Anyone got any suggestions? Google travelling salesman problem. This sounds like an almost perfect example of that. There is even a piece of software called Travelling Salesman

[Talk-transit] Fwd: Novam viewer

2010-01-17 Thread Shaun McDonald
Hi Christoph, I hope that this helps. If not, Brett is happy to help with getting Osmosis working with the newer diffs. Shaun Begin forwarded message: From: Brett Henderson br...@bretth.com Date: 17 January 2010 21:34:42 GMT To: Shaun McDonald sh...@shaunmcdonald.me.uk Subject: Re: [Talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Sourcing street names - what's the policy, and why?

2010-01-02 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 2 Jan 2010, at 11:49, Steve Bennett wrote: Traditionally, mapping streets in OSM has relied on physically visiting the streets to get a GPS trace, and noting the names of streets while you're at it. But now with the advent of high quality aerial photography that we can trace from (I'm

Re: [OSM-talk] Defective GPS trace

2010-01-01 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 1 Jan 2010, at 13:07, Steve Bennett wrote: I've got a trace from today which is significantly out of sync with a path I traced from Nearmap: http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?lat=-37.880138lon=145.193417zoom=19gpx=594988 The trace looks like I was wandering through the grassy

Re: [Talk-GB] Yet another trunk road query - A495

2009-12-31 Thread Shaun McDonald
Do the signs on the road have a green or white background? If they are green, then it is a trunk road, otherwise it is primary. Shaun On 31 Dec 2009, at 03:11, brenda cameron wrote: The A495 runs from Oswestry to a junction with the A525 a mile or so west of Whitchurch and is tagged as

Re: [Talk-GB] last london pub meetup of the year

2009-12-22 Thread Shaun McDonald
We'll today is Tuesday, since the wiki page hasn't been updated yet, I'll assume that the meetup has not been postponed. Shaun On 18 Dec 2009, at 22:03, Matt Amos wrote: the wiki currently has the meetup set for the john snow on tuesday[1]. how do people feel about moving that to wednesday?

Re: [OSM-talk] Replacing Google with OSM

2009-12-12 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 11 Dec 2009, at 11:42, Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote: El Viernes, 11 de Diciembre de 2009, Steve Chilton escribió: A little while ago I saw a note somewhere about some neat code to replace Google maps with OSM in a web application. I think you mean either the osmify bookmarklet:

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

2009-12-05 Thread Shaun McDonald
The License Working Group has spent months, well probably nearer years, on the license change. They know one heck of a lot more about legal systems than myself. They are people that I trust. Therefore I'm going to listen to them, and let them just get on with it. I really just wan this license

Re: [Talk-us] HI: Hawaii GIS Data

2009-12-05 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 5 Dec 2009, at 00:47, Scott Atwood wrote: On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Shaun McDonald sh...@shaunmcdonald.me.uk wrote: Why oh why oh why do some people insist on wasting time trying to import loads of data? Please take a read of http://www.gravitystorm.co.uk/shine/archives/2009

Re: [OSM-talk] Key and value maximum length

2009-12-04 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 4 Dec 2009, at 18:07, Ben Laenen wrote: Quick question for which I didn't find an answer in the wiki: * is there a maximum length of tags (keys and/or values)? (I'm sure there was one, but I don't know if there's still a limit today) * if there is, what is it (and is in it number of

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - maxheight:legal

2009-11-29 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 29 Nov 2009, at 19:27, Aun Johnsen wrote: Ok, we are on it again, the previous vote (that approved maxheight:physical) is way past, and some discussion have passed on maxheight:legal. I think it is time to put the biasing from the previous proposal and vote aside, and look on this

Re: [OSM-talk] Bridge on Hiking Trails

2009-11-25 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 25 Nov 2009, at 11:45, Shalabh wrote: Was mapping a few hiking trails with foot-only bridges on the trail and could not figure out a way to mark these bridge since the only bridge waypoint needs the same parameters as a highway. Any pointers on how to do this best? on the way use

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

2009-11-23 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 23 Nov 2009, at 16:59, Jonathan Bennett wrote: 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

Re: [OSM-talk] iPhone vs Android - OSM shootout

2009-11-23 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 23 Nov 2009, at 21:45, Jozef Riha wrote: Hi Valent, as for myself I'm using Nokia E51 with gpsmid as my primary mapping software. Used to utilize TrekBuddy but now that I discovered beauty of vector maps and audio tagging I am using TB only when gpsmid has some real issues which leads

Re: [Talk-us] Whole-US Garmin Map Update

2009-11-19 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 18 Nov 2009, at 23:50, Greg Troxel wrote: --route is AFAIK not turned on in cloudmade, so those maps wouldn't be routable. If cloudmade has enabled routing, that would be good to know. (Plus there's the noname roads being big and red.) If you want them to be routable, then send a

Re: [OSM-talk] does one need to download the planet to use osmosis

2009-11-15 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 16 Nov 2009, at 00:10, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On Monday 16 Nov 2009 3:27:05 am Jon Burgess wrote: Isn't this bbox only a few times larger then what the API will download in a single call? IMO you'd be crazy to download nearly 8GB of data just to get hold of what probably amounts to a

Re: [Talk-us] Super Wal-Mart Tag

2009-11-13 Thread Shaun McDonald
The semi colon approach has been a method in use for many years now, but it's generally avoided. Unfortunately we don't have database normalisation with our tagging system. The Keys must be unique. Previous version of the API allowed keys that were not unique, however nothing used it as the

Re: [Talk-us] Super Wal-Mart Tag

2009-11-13 Thread Shaun McDonald
consensus to use name = first name, name_1 = second_name, name_2 = third name instead of name=first name;second name; third name? I've be adding names to motorway_junctions and I've see the semicolon format, so I started do the same myself. Richard Shaun McDonald wrote: The semi colon

Re: [Talk-us] Super Wal-Mart Tag

2009-11-13 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 13 Nov 2009, at 14:23, Ian Dees wrote: On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Kate maps2w...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Shaun McDonald sh...@shaunmcdonald.me.uk wrote: Going back to the original question, each shop should be it's own node or area, thus the problem

Re: [OSM-talk] Feature request: Get history of object only partly

2009-11-12 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 12 Nov 2009, at 16:29, Andre Hinrichs wrote: Hi! Sometimes histories of objects become very long and therefore history requests of such objects take long and likely stress the API too. Thus, I think it is useful to be able to get only a portion of the history (e.g. a specific range

Re: [OSM-talk] Why do you use Google Maps instead of OSM? Because of buildings...

2009-11-10 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 10 Nov 2009, at 12:20, Peter Miller wrote: On 10 Nov 2009, at 11:36, Peter Childs wrote: While the map quaility may have some weight as to why people use Google (or Bing for that matter) I suspect the bigger problem is the User Interface. We have a good UI for map making maps but the

Re: [OSM-talk] Why do you use Google Maps instead of OSM? Because of buildings...

2009-11-10 Thread Shaun McDonald
and power of free map data. regards Konrad 2009/11/10 Shaun McDonald sh...@shaunmcdonald.me.uk: [...] 1) There is only partial building coverage which is confusing - they would prefer full or none but not partial. I will do a post to talk-gb to see if someone fancies doing some tracing

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

2009-11-10 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 10 Nov 2009, at 20:15, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:51 AM, bernhard b...@datenkueche.com wrote: It provides OAuth: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Oauth Maybe this is what you're looking for. Cool. I have to register an account at

Re: [OSM-talk] Why do you use Google Maps instead of OSM? Because of buildings...

2009-11-07 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 7 Nov 2009, at 13:32, Anthony wrote: On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 4:00 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ava...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, we know that everyone could probably use OSM maps for their business website if they spent a week surveying their surrounding area / creating custom renderings.

Re: [Talk-us] NY: I-87 Junction with I-84 in Newburgh

2009-11-02 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 2 Nov 2009, at 23:54, Richard Welty wrote: in the absence of a talk-ny list, i'm going to prefix NY State local things with NY: for now. if we get obnoxious enough, we can get pushed to our own list, right? There was a recent discussion on this. The US community isn't ready for more

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