Re: [OSM-talk] voting ended? - population

2008-01-16 Thread Tom Evans
Martin Trautmann wrote: I do not see any description about the syntax within the proposal - and I feel that a population has to be accompanied whenever possible by a valid date. Thus I feel it is not possible to add a pouplation tag directly to a place. Apart from node, way and area this

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping canals

2008-01-24 Thread Tom Evans
Andy Robinson (blackadder) wrote: (Actually, on checking with a calculator, 7*12*2.54=213.36. So I'm doing a bit of unconscious rounding already.) Indeed, the exact conversion is to multiply/divide by 0.3058 Er, you mean 0.3048, right? (one inch is _defined as_ 25.4mm, and has been for many

Re: [OSM-talk] Progressing OSM to a new data Licence regime

2008-02-04 Thread Tom Evans
Stage 3 - Email all OSM users who have contributed data with the option of re-licensing their data If we're going to do this anyway, can we not allow users to mark their preference as public domain too? It seems a significant number of OSM participants may be

Re: [OSM-talk] Caption competition

2008-02-15 Thread Tom Evans
would anyone like to write a caption ... JOSM vs Potlatch; the race begins... ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] import of dataset for new zealand

2008-03-19 Thread Tom Evans
Ultimately I'm not sure we have a lot of wiggle room here because of the share-alike license. We could offer that the main website does nice attributions at the bottom of the window, but we can't put any such _demands_ on the use of the data. The reason being that I (speaking as one of many

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

2008-03-20 Thread Tom Evans
Things not too important, we are rendering highly visible with the nice black color. They are also obfuscating tracks: http://www.informationfreeway.org/?lat=49.455373790593406lon=11.175777321956557zoom=14layers=F0B0F Er, I think you must have pasted the wrong link? I followed that one

Re: [Talk-GB] Ordnance Survey

2010-04-07 Thread Tom Evans
While I understand what you're saying I think it's also important to recognize that we all have different ways to contribute. Some potential OSM contributors may not be interested in on-the-ground surveying, and some aren't interested in chair mapping. Agreed from my point of view. I only

Re: [Talk-GB] Map layer with OS Locator comparison from ITO - handling already-tagged fixmes

2010-07-14 Thread Tom Evans
Often when OS and OSM disagree I will tag this in the OSM database with a note such as FIXME=Check name - OSM has Marefield Gardens, OS has Maresfield Gardens Usually I will also delete the name= tag, so that the street shows up in noname checks to be resurveyed (and because the correct

Re: [Talk-GB] Map layer with OS Locator comparison from ITO - handling already-tagged fixmes

2010-07-14 Thread Tom Evans
I will only tag names for resurveying round my local area where I know that I'll be able to go out and check them before too long. Fair enough. If you're always fixing it soon afterwards it doesn't really matter much. But in that case why not just go do it - why change the database first?