Re: [Talk-es] oneway false

2009-11-22 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/11/22 Miguel Montesinos mmontesi...@prodevelop.es: Consultando el historial veo que los cambios consisten fundamentalmente en eliminar el created_by ¿? y eliminar la propiedad oneway=false, en todas aquellas vías de doble sentido. ¿Es más correcto dejar el oneway indefinido que poner

Re: [Talk-es] Ediciones bestiales con JOSM

2009-11-19 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/11/19 David González ket...@gmail.com: Utilizo la versión de JOSM 2417 y con esta versión cuando voy a subir los cambios me tarda bastantante me va poniendo los porcentajes de subida y tarda algún minuto cuando tan sólo he modificado unos pocos puntos, como dato curioso en la ventanita

Re: [Talk-es] Tartas y EGRN

2009-11-19 Thread andrzej zaborowski
Holas, 2009/11/18 Oscar Fonts oscar.fonts.li...@gmail.com: Esta tarde intentaremos 'fundir' en un shp de líneas las 3 capas de polígonos del BDLL25, eliminando duplicados/triplicados. A ver si esto facilita la importación. Ya os contaré. Como ha ido esto? Vi que un tal Anthony tiene unos

Re: [Talk-es] Tartas y EGRN

2009-11-15 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/11/15 David Marín Carreño dav...@gmail.com: El 14 de noviembre de 2009 17:05, andrzej zaborowski balr...@gmail.com escribió: * Para los limites que coinciden con la frontera del pais (marina o no) habria que borrar las de idee.es y usar las que ya estan en OSM, pero se puede hacer a mano

Re: [OSM-talk] Karlruhe Scheme addressing ways from 2009 TIGER data

2009-11-14 Thread andrzej zaborowski
Hi, 2009/11/14 SteveC st...@asklater.com: In Denver the houses are all set back a lot further, so some way to say 'on north-south roads, set back X feet' might help a lot. Or, in JOSM just search for all the ways that make up the addressing on one side of the street and move them manually.

Re: [OSM-talk] Karlruhe Scheme addressing ways from 2009 TIGER data

2009-11-14 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/11/14 andrzej zaborowski balr...@gmail.com: I've done a similar import of address data in my area and when writing the converter I forgot to do the projection the first time, this resulted in a similar effect to what you describe.  I've not seen Dave's data but looking at the code he's

Re: [OSM-talk] Karlruhe Scheme addressing ways from 2009 TIGER data

2009-11-14 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/11/15 Apollinaris Schoell ascho...@gmail.com: matching Tiger id's is a very bad idea. you need to compare geometries. during edits ways are split, merged copied moved, deleted nodes added node, Most of these operations are not a problem (except copying a whole way to somewhere else), the

Re: [OSM-talk] Karlruhe Scheme addressing ways from 2009 TIGER data

2009-11-14 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/11/15 andrzej zaborowski balr...@gmail.com: I agree with Anthony that these tags are useless *except* this one tag, the Id *is* useful, please don't remove it. To clarify what I mean, a good measure is probably whether you're changing the name on the road. If you're changing the geometry

Re: [OSM-talk] Karlruhe Scheme addressing ways from 2009 TIGER data

2009-11-14 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/11/15 Apollinaris Schoell ascho...@gmail.com: copying is very common for all motorways and other ways with separated lanes. And this is ok too, it means that both these ways in TIGER are one way with the given Id, this is just the information any automated process will be looking for.

Re: [OSM-talk] Karlruhe Scheme addressing ways from 2009 TIGER data

2009-11-14 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/11/15 Anthony o...@inbox.org: On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 9:05 PM, andrzej zaborowski balr...@gmail.com wrote: I agree with Anthony that these tags are useless *except* this one tag, the Id *is* useful, please don't remove it. What's useful about it?  Or to ask the question a different way

Re: [OSM-talk] Addressing Question

2009-11-12 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/11/12 Anthony o...@inbox.org: On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com wrote: It's a fairly well established convention that in OSM it's the houses/plots, not the road centrelines, that are addressed. But that doesn't always reflect reality.  The reality, at

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Addressing Question

2009-11-12 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/11/12 Dave Hansen d...@sr71.net: On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 11:40 -0800, Apollinaris Schoell wrote: Don't know any place except in US where this has been done. So, should we ignore the US for addressing entirely since it is different?  Or, should US addressing use a different scheme than the

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Addressing Question

2009-11-12 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/11/12 Anthony o...@inbox.org: On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 4:43 PM, andrzej zaborowski balr...@gmail.com wrote: Every single country has different addressing rules, it's not like this particular scheme is special.  That's why someone came up with a tagging scheme that can express all or most

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Addressing Question

2009-11-12 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/11/12 Anthony o...@inbox.org: I can see keeping it in a separate db, and really I'm leaning toward that as being the best option. What are the advantages of having this in the OSM db?  When the roads change, you're going to have to either re-survey the data or throw out the address

Re: [OSM-talk] Addressing Question

2009-11-11 Thread andrzej zaborowski
Hiya, 2009/11/12 Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com: I'm looking at some donated street centerline data that has addressing data in the form of Right/Left From Addr and Right/Left To Addr on each street centerline. Is there an accepted way of applying these tags to the road ways? It doesn't really

Re: [OSM-talk] Addressing Question

2009-11-11 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/11/12 Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com: What does the math look like to handle intersections? Curvy roads? I admit that data wasn't complex, all segments were straight and all nodes were treated as intersections. Do you have parametric (e.g. bezier) curves or just lots of short segments making

Re: [OSM-talk] Addressing Question

2009-11-11 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/11/12 Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com: On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 7:55 PM, andrzej zaborowski balr...@gmail.com wrote: The hope is that local mappers there will be slowly improving imported data until there are separate points for every address I think?  Then I'd recommend just adding those

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

2009-10-23 Thread andrzej zaborowski
Hi folks, 2009/9/28 Jack Stringer jack.ix...@googlemail.com: http://code.flickr.com/blog/2009/09/28/thats-maybe-a-bit-too-dorky-even-for-us/ Just a note that http://www.openstreetmap.pl/wp now shows those osm: machine tagged pictures from flickr at z = 15 in addition to wikipedia and other

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] The great UUID debate (Was Re: 092G area)

2009-10-18 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/10/14 Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com: Will it? I keep hearing that but don't really believe it. It would be hard enough merging changes if the data was not converted, has a 1:1 correspondence in geometries and hadn't been editing in the meantime. But given that people will split ways,

Re: [OSM-talk] [Imports] TIGER Addressing Import

2009-10-13 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/10/13 SteveC st...@asklater.com: Also - the ways will be deplaced 90 degress to the road centerline to push them to the edge of the road I assume - but you also need to 'pull in' the end nodes too so they are not laying on top of the cross streets at each end, if you see what I mean?

Re: [OSM-talk] Visual map for the blind

2009-10-12 Thread andrzej zaborowski
Hi, 2009/10/12 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com: 2009/10/12 Lulu-Ann lulu-...@gmx.de: What tag would you use for bus/tram stops with a i button that reads out the information about trams soonest to arrive, aloud? I have never seen those before. Not proposed yet, but I guess many things

Re: [OSM-talk] Visual map for the blind

2009-10-11 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/10/9 Lulu-Ann lulu-...@gmx.de: starting today there is a visual slippy map displaying map features for the blind an visually impaired available in a beta testing state: http://freenet-homepage.de/rapunzely/OSM/blindmap.html Hobby cartographers without visual impairment can now check

Re: [OSM-talk] view blocks received?

2009-10-10 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/10/11 Matt Amos zerebub...@gmail.com: maybe every announce mail could be automatically copied to talk as well? although that might be a bit annoying to those subscribed to both... I''m no expert but I think when the mail clients see both lists in CC they will only show one copy because

Re: [OSM-talk] Overlay showing wikipedia links

2009-10-03 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/10/2 Dan Karran d...@karran.net: 2009/9/30 andrzej zaborowski balr...@gmail.com: It's at http://www.openstreetmap.pl/wp (see caveats below). In terms of interface, those circles can get in the way at times so it can be difficult to see what's under them, especially as they grow in size

Re: [OSM-talk] TIGER Addressing Import

2009-10-03 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/10/3 Dave Hansen d...@sr71.net: On Sun, 2009-10-04 at 02:24 +1000, John Smith wrote: 2009/10/4 Dave Hansen d...@sr71.net: Is this the most up to date way of keeping addresses?         http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/House_numbers/Karlsruhe_Schema Well, I

Re: [OSM-talk] Overlay showing wikipedia links

2009-10-02 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/10/2 Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com: andrzej zaborowski balrogg at gmail.com writes: http://www.openstreetmap.pl/wp * The first picture from every wikipedia page is displayed.  As you will notice, this is not always such a good idea. Often the first picture is itself a map, and sometimes

Re: [OSM-talk] Overlay showing wikipedia links

2009-10-01 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/9/30 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ava...@gmail.com: On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 1:49 PM, andrzej zaborowski balr...@gmail.com wrote: It's at http://www.openstreetmap.pl/wp (see caveats below). Neat.  * Blue dots are wikipedia links, grey dots are other External Links (website= and url= tags

Re: [OSM-talk] Overlay showing wikipedia links

2009-10-01 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/10/1 Pieren pier...@gmail.com: On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 2:34 PM, andrzej zaborowski I never understood these arguments and want to encourage using a single wikipedia= tag. I never understood people who wants to have wikipedia urls in OSM data. It is not OSM role to point to wikipedia

Re: [OSM-talk] Overlay showing wikipedia links

2009-10-01 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/10/1 Pieren pier...@gmail.com: On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 3:28 PM, andrzej zaborowski Uh, that's a good argument. I'm sure the group of wikipedian's setting up their own osm maps server will be happy to hear that. That effort has completely different goals and again it's to prettify the pages

[OSM-talk] Overlay showing wikipedia links

2009-09-30 Thread andrzej zaborowski
Hi, seeing that features that get visualised in some form somewhere (e.g. on a slippymap on the web) get mapped more often than other features, I've set up an overlay that shows the External Links (proposal at [1]), most importantly links to wikipedia pages [2] directly from objects in OSM. It's

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

2009-09-28 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/9/29 Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com: The big problem I see is that our node, way, and relation IDs are too brittle for this sort of thing. A POI node might eventually get replaced with a closed-way building. Or a way will get split into two (and those two ways get completely new

Re: [Talk-es] WMS

2009-09-25 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/9/25 Pablo Cascón Katchadourian pcas...@atc.ugr.es: Rodrigo Moya escribió: On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 16:19 +0200, David González wrote: Has puesto en Editar - Preferencias - WMS el editor de descargas que utilizas gnome-web-photo o webkit-image-gtk A mi me pasaba eso. pues acabo de

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM in Poland

2009-09-23 Thread andrzej zaborowski
Hi, 2009/9/23 Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org:    at the Intergeo trade fair, I spoke to a guy from the university in Wroclaw, Poland, who was interested in getting in touch with the Polish OSM community (with a view of asking his students, who have to do a lot of surveying as part of their

Re: [Talk-es] Copiar de los mapas instalados en lugares publicos

2009-09-23 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/9/22 Pablo Cascon Katchadourian pcas...@atc.ugr.es: Hola de nuevo,   ya han respondido de nuevo tras llegar a un consenso David Maeztu [1], Javier de la Cueva [2] y Andy Ramos [3] lo que es de agradecer. Menos mal que les interesa el tema y nos echan una mano. Pego su respuesta:

Re: [OSM-talk] alt_name tag

2009-09-21 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/9/21 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com: 2009/9/21 Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net: and two others I can't reproduce as I haven't got any non-Roman script on my computer making 9 names / spellings of the name Sounds like a fun thing to try and tag, most apps would only expect

Re: [OSM-talk] Parcel data

2009-09-21 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/9/21 Anthony o...@inbox.org: On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Apollinaris Schoell ascho...@gmail.com problem is how can you convert the weekly updates into osm updates? You can't delete all data and upload again the next week. I'm not volunteering to do it *weekly*, but I'd only delete

Re: [Talk-es] REGISTRAR TRACKS CON GARMIN

2009-09-19 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/9/19 David Durán Rodrigo cop...@gmail.com: Hola. Buenos Días, tengo un GPS Garmin Nuvi 200W que crea un registro de por dónde he ido navegando, ahora la pregunta es? puedo usar para registrar tracks para luego subir a OSM? la verdad que soy principiante en esto y me gustará colaborar en

[Talk-es] Copiar de los mapas instalados en lugares publicos

2009-09-14 Thread andrzej zaborowski
Buenas, recientemente en una discusion privada con Jonay, quien me sugirio que lo pregunte en la lista, le mencione que en varios paises las obras situadas permanentemente en lugares publicos como los mapas turisticos y planos situacionales en plazas y tal, son excluidas de la proteccion de

Re: [Talk-es] Copiar de los mapas instalados en lugares publicos

2009-09-14 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/9/14 Manuel García lendul...@gmail.com: El dominio público también lo define esta Ley y lo hace como (Título IV. Art. 41) La extinción de los derechos de explotación de las obras determinará su paso al dominio público. es decir, a la muerte del autor + 70 años. Conviene aclarar esto

Re: [Talk-es] Edición directa sobre XML

2009-09-13 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/9/13 Carlos Dávila cdavi...@jemila.jazztel.es: Cuando editas con josm, al hacer cambios a cualquier elemento, josm lo marca añadiendo la etiqueta action='modify' (o 'delete') y además incrementa en 1 el número de versión, por lo que  para  editar a mano Pero el incremento lo hace despues

Re: [Talk-es] Nombres completos de las calles

2009-09-13 Thread andrzej zaborowski
Buenas, 2009/9/13 Juan Toledo tol...@lazaro.es: Ya he puesto al menos cinco mensajes personales a los editores indicándoles cuál es a mi modo de ver el proceder correcto, que es incluir el calle o calle de, y sin utilizar abreviaturas. Las razones están más o menos desperdigadas por la wiki,

Re: [OSM-talk] Routing over barrier nodes

2009-09-10 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/9/10 lulu-...@gmx.de: Currently the problem with routing is, that routing applications can not check for millions of nodes, but only for thousands of ways without performace problems. That results in the problem, that for example barrier bollards in the middle of the road can not be

Re: [OSM-talk] Seoul

2009-09-08 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/9/8 Andrew Errington a.erring...@lancaster.ac.uk: Could someone check, if they are realy there? This is a side-effect of a bulk-upload.  In Korea clinics and private doctors are known as 'hospitals', as well as hospitals.  At least, I think so.  They need to be changed to something other

Re: [OSM-talk] Software Freedom Day

2009-09-05 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/9/5 Ulf Lamping ulf.lamp...@googlemail.com: Jonathan Bennett schrieb: 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

Re: [OSM-talk] Software Freedom Day

2009-09-05 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/9/5 Apollinaris Schoell ascho...@gmail.com: I agree, maybe it's worth to have a fundraiser for a separate, official mapnik server + super speedy hosting (unless the people involved with UCL think that we can have a reliable enough connection hosted free by UCL, or somebody else wants to

Re: [OSM-talk] Software Freedom Day

2009-09-05 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/9/5 Apollinaris Schoell ascho...@gmail.com: For any external use like SFD it makes sense to stay with a commercial solution where they can get paid support and customization if needed. My only issue with this is that it places OSM behind Google, because when you go to their website you get

Re: [OSM-talk] RR8 - Possible International Vandal

2009-09-03 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/9/3 Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com: 2) We need to ensure that every contributor is on-balance making the dataset better, not worse. If the contribution is in doubt we owe it to other contributors to investigate and respond. This is a situation where the contributions are in doubt,

Re: [OSM-talk] revert.pl

2009-09-03 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/9/4 Richard Weait rich...@weait.com: At the risk of trifling with things that I do not fully understand[1], I've been using revert.pl to revert a changeset of my own.  I blew it and imported a file with bad things[2] and want to undo the mess. I have revert.pl fresh from svn today, and

Re: [OSM-talk] revert.pl

2009-09-03 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/9/4 Richard Weait rich...@weait.com: On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 9:04 PM, Richard Weaitrich...@weait.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 8:02 PM, andrzej zaborowskibalr...@gmail.com wrote: It'll probably fail with error 500 because there are so many elements and the server seems unstable, so you

Re: [OSM-talk] RR8 - Possible International Vandal

2009-09-02 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/9/2 Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com: 2009/9/2 Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com: I spoke to members of the Data Working Group recently and it seems clear to me (and them) that dealing with vandalism is in general a community problem, not their problem. They are mainly

Re: [OSM-talk] RR8 - Possible International Vandal

2009-09-02 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/9/2 Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com: Why not assume that the user is 10years old and just learning how to hack for the first time? Or learning how to make a batch file. Don't they teach that in basic computer programming class? That's unintentional vandalism then. Still needs

Re: [OSM-talk] RR8 - Possible International Vandal (assistance required in various countries)

2009-09-01 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/9/2 Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org: Pieren wrote: I'm just questionning myself if I will continue to contribute to OSM if the admins are not able to react faster to something which looks like the worst form of vandalism. Comments like that are not helpful at all. If that's really

Re: [Talk-es] Buenas

2009-09-01 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/9/1 Jonay Santana jonay.sant...@gmail.com:   Hola de nuevo. He estado revisando calles que ya había etiquetado completamente, y alguien ha cambiado muchas de ellas que yo tenía como highway=residential por highway=tertiary. Hasta donde yo llego, todas las calles con viviendas a los lados,

Re: [Talk-es] Buenas

2009-09-01 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/9/1 Jonay Santana jonay.sant...@gmail.com: Entonces... ¿Las calles principales las etiquetamos como tertiary? No tengo opinión ni a favor ni en contra, es sólo para saber a qué atenerme. Tambien primary, secondary etc. Creo que me exprese mal, lo que decia era de la distinccion entre

Re: [Talk-es] Buenas

2009-09-01 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/9/1 Rodrigo Moya rodr...@gnome-db.org: Lo de las calles sin conexión... Sí, es lo que pasa cuando sólo puedo mapear desde la web. Es complicado tener precisión, por eso me salen esas rotondas tan surrealistas. Una vez intenté instalarme el JOSM, pero no me aclaré, así que seguí con lo

Re: [OSM-talk] State of the NameFinder

2009-08-26 Thread andrzej zaborowski
Hi, 2009/8/26 Peteris Krisjanis pec...@gmail.com: Anyway, so far I have heard about two efforts of getting NameFinder running again. First one is just performance improvement for old one (done by David Earl) and second one is completely new effort (by Twain). I started working on a different

Re: [OSM-talk] [Maps-l] using default country name

2009-08-24 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/8/23 Peter Körner osm-li...@mazdermind.de: (1) Default tags can be changed. We should remember that default tags can be edited by somebody later and they will no longer be good for other languages. This fact speaks for both sides of the argument. If some feature's name changes (think, a

Re: [OSM-talk] Business Building Conventions

2009-08-20 Thread andrzej zaborowski
Hi, 2009/8/20 Andrew Ayre a...@britishideas.com: Thanks. It's not tagging for the renderer, it's using the renderer to give me a hint that I might be doing things wrong. However, if business names don't appear on the online maps which most people will use, I'm not sure how good an investment

Re: [OSM-talk] Announcemen: Multilingual Country-List

2009-08-19 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/8/19 Peter Körner osm-li...@mazdermind.de: andrzej zaborowski schrieb: 2009/8/18 Peter Körner osm-li...@mazdermind.de: Namely they are http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/424313867 and http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/424317578 which are both islands now. By the way i

Re: [OSM-talk] [Spam] Revert a changeset

2009-08-19 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/8/18 Teemu Koskinen teemu.koski...@mbnet.fi: There still seems to be some problem, the way http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/39175980 still goes across the Atlantic, but it looks different than before. I just removed the way and it's nodes, I'm pretty sure it did not serve any

Re: [OSM-talk] Historic Mapping needs help Now!

2009-08-18 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/8/18 Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) ajrli...@googlemail.com: here's my thoughts. If object is no longer present we need some sort of ghost tagging, and the ghost tag take precedent when rendering. This means that the data that was present is still available, its useful data after all.

Re: [OSM-talk] [Spam] Revert a changeset

2009-08-18 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/8/18 Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com: On 18 Aug 2009, at 14:57, Teemu Koskinen wrote: Could somebody please revert this changeset: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/2168210 The moving of the nodes across the Atlantic is obviously wrong. Do check out this page for

Re: [OSM-talk] Announcemen: Multilingual Country-List

2009-08-18 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/8/18 Peter Körner osm-li...@mazdermind.de: Namely they are http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/424313867 and http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/424317578 which are both islands now. By the way i added http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/25342325 (Alderney) which was

Re: [OSM-talk] Announcemen: Multilingual Country-List

2009-08-16 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/8/16 Arlindo Pereira nig...@nighto.net: I need some advice: I'm currently translating the names to Portuguese, and for some countries the portuguese name differ from the brazilian portuguese (which I speak) to the european portuguese. So, should I tag, official_/name:pt=one of the forms

Re: [OSM-talk] Announcemen: Multilingual Country-List

2009-08-16 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/8/16 Jonas Häggqvist ras...@rasher.dk: That seemed sensible to me also, but now that I think about it, there's a significant advantage gained by having the redundant name:xx tags. The fact that such a tag exists, gives you the confidence to say someone has thought about this, and this

Re: [OSM-talk] Announcemen: Multilingual Country-List

2009-08-13 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/8/13 Lauris Bukšis-Haberkorns lafr...@gmail.com: To me it seems standard MIT license. Maybe someone could contact them about country name data import into OSM and ask special permision? There are probably more complete sources like the wikipedia page titles which the toolserver page even

Re: [OSM-talk] Announcemen: Multilingual Country-List

2009-08-13 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/8/14 Erik Lundin erik.lun...@aol.se: I think there's a good point of having the redundancy of name:xx tags even when it is the same as the name tag, because that makes the translated names more safe. For the Swedish translations I saw several names that were marked as OK even though they

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM status POIs?

2009-08-13 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/8/14 Michael Kugelmann michaelk_...@gmx.de: Morten Kjeldgaard schrieb: I find I sometimes have to skip roads, tracks or paths, because I am too tired, don't have time, or that I'm going at good speed downhill and don't want to stop. I've tried to make mental notes to return and map those

Re: [Talk-es] Please revert Barcelona stations (was:Re: Barcelona - subway stations and routes.)

2009-08-13 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/8/13 Francisco R. Santos frsan...@gmail.com: Sorry again, but wikipedia is known to have data from copyrighted sources, and so it is also a bad source for OSM. Wikipedia as a source for geodata is banned to us, as it was said in the lists once and again. It's known that many of the

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Non-existant streets

2009-08-12 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/8/12 John Smith delta_foxt...@yahoo.com: --- On Wed, 12/8/09, Tobias Knerr o...@tobias-knerr.de wrote: Probably *something* is there in reality. Buildings, walls, hedges, a park ...? Map these objects (which obviously aren't copyrighted), so people know that someone has visited the area

Re: [OSM-talk] Announcemen: Multilingual Country-List

2009-08-12 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/8/13 Peter Körner osm-li...@mazdermind.de: To get an overview over the status and make translating those countries more easy, I created a tool that can be found at   http://cassini.toolserver.org/~mazder/multilingual-country-list/ I'd like to encourage everyone to spend some time making

Re: [OSM-talk] radioactivity

2009-08-11 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/8/10 Gustav Foseid gust...@gmail.com: On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 7:21 PM, OJ W ojwli...@googlemail.com wrote: 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

Re: [OSM-talk] Spam on TAH-Map

2009-08-06 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/8/6 Peter Körner osm-li...@mazdermind.de: Maarten Deen schrieb: Peter Körner wrote: Hi This looks a little like spam to me or at least like bad rendering rules for tah. Can anyone confirm one of these? http://tah.openstreetmap.org/Browse/?layer=tilez=12x=3492y=1586 It looks to me

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing Imagery

2009-08-05 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/8/5 maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com: I hope they do, they have several areas with high-res that are not covered in yahoo! in the Philippines While Ms's and Multimap's reputation is that they would not allow that if they have this option (Microsoft is a coin operated machine),

Re: [OSM-talk] French/Dutch caribbean island Saint Martin (Sint Maarten) not correctly positionned

2009-08-05 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/8/5 Pieren pier...@gmail.com: I'm currently implementing the cadastre support in JOSM for the french part of the island Saint-Martin shared with our Dutch friends (it is a special projection). The island is quite well mapped today, mostly from the hi-res Yahoo imagery I guess:

Re: [OSM-talk] revert.pl

2009-08-03 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/8/3 Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org: andrzej zaborowski wrote: Similarly deletions can be reverted easily No, because the osc file does not contain all information about the previous state of the deleted object! (It only works for untagged nodes.) Are you sure? I deleted a pharmacy

Re: [OSM-talk] Multiple nodes for one country

2009-08-02 Thread andrzej zaborowski
Hi Peter, I don't think anybody has a reason to object to merging them. At least me and User:Mala have been merging some of these nodes last week and we got no blackmail so far :) I believe we went through all the country nodes which didn't have a name:pl= or name:it= assigned yet so out of your

Re: [OSM-talk] Multiple nodes for one country

2009-08-02 Thread andrzej zaborowski
On 02/08/2009, Peter Koerner osm-li...@mazdermind.de wrote: andrzej zaborowski schrieb: Hi Peter, I don't think anybody has a reason to object to merging them. At least me and User:Mala have been merging some of these nodes last week and we got no blackmail so far :) I believe we went

Re: [OSM-talk] revert.pl

2009-08-02 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/8/2 Ulf Mehlig ulf.meh...@gmx.net: I tried to revert two large changesets of mine (double import of municipal borders in Pará/north Brazil due to a local network problem) via revert.pl (fresh from svn); in the middle of the reversal process, I got the message GET

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

2009-07-31 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/7/30 OJ W ojwli...@googlemail.com: 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

Re: [OSM-talk] Google StreetView From Bikes

2009-07-30 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/7/30 Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk: Simply filming and saying 'we will remove pictures if you want' is just arrogance that should not be condoned. What's wrong with it? Where's the exact line dividing looking with naked eye and filming? Since a camera is a set of light sensors and

Re: [OSM-talk] is_in and similar tags

2009-07-28 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/7/28 John Smith delta_foxt...@yahoo.com: Perhaps the more appropriate question would be what are appropriate tag keys that could be used in combination with the tag place=*? So far all I can come up with is name and possibly source. I'm primarily only looking at aussie data so I may

Re: [OSM-talk] is_in and similar tags

2009-07-28 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/7/28 John Smith delta_foxt...@yahoo.com: --- On Tue, 28/7/09, andrzej zaborowski balr...@gmail.com wrote: What if boundary is not defined but the hierarchy is defined, such as with post codes?  Should people invent boundary polygons based on just what nodes/ways belong to the area?  I

Re: [OSM-talk] is_in and similar tags

2009-07-28 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/7/28 John Smith delta_foxt...@yahoo.com: --- On Tue, 28/7/09, David Earl da...@frankieandshadow.com wrote: We can give ourselves a helping hand here if we keep is_in. That's assuming the information contained in it is useful to begin with, as I keep stating the information I've seen is

Re: [OSM-talk] is_in and similar tags

2009-07-28 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/7/28 Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com: Let's stop the is_in debate - yes, they are useful to data consumers, no, they shouldn't be in OSM itself, and no, nobody has yet stepped up to sort it out. One of the two ways to indicate belonging to an area should not be in OSM, agreed. Why's

Re: [OSM-talk] is_in and similar tags

2009-07-28 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/7/29 John Smith delta_foxt...@yahoo.com: Or as a less practical example take two ways that cross one another (one may be a bridge or tunnel), one officially belonging to county A or postcode A and the other to B. Exactly, you wouldn't need to split the way, by having a boundary it

Re: [OSM-talk] Duplicate place=city capital=yes and other place nodes

2009-07-25 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/7/25 Yann Coupin y...@coupin.net:  From what I understand when I patched the source to allow the Corine Land Cover huge import sometimes ago, bulk_upload does what it's told. That is if you feed it a standard OSM file, it add the features. If If you feed it a standard OSM file it will do

Re: [OSM-talk] Duplicate place=city capital=yes and other place nodes

2009-07-24 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/7/24 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ava...@gmail.com: I don't know if this has been noted previously but there seem to be a lot of recent duplicate place= nodes in the database from different users:  http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/27564988  

Re: [OSM-talk] Duplicate place=city capital=yes and other place nodes

2009-07-24 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/7/24 andrzej zaborowski balr...@gmail.com: I was updating wikipedia= and other tags and found each country=place node had 6 copies, usually five of them by user Baruch, differing only in name:ar= and name:he=.  I merged them into 1 usually so you'll see 5 of them deleted, all with last

Re: [OSM-talk] keep right! and landuse=wood

2009-07-20 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/7/20 David Earl da...@frankieandshadow.com: natural=wood is the widely used tag for a wood (over 65,000 of them and currently rendered widely. landuse=wood by comparison has never been widely used (only 214 occurrences currently). landuse=forest (why not natural=forest? just history)

Re: [OSM-talk] keep right! and landuse=wood

2009-07-20 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/7/20 Gustav Foseid gust...@gmail.com: On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Tom Chance t...@acrewoods.net wrote: Of course, determining whether your average bit of woodland in the UK is landuse or natural is fun, given that pretty much all of it has been carefully managed at soem stage over

Re: [OSM-talk] Bulk Uploading

2009-07-19 Thread andrzej zaborowski
Hey, (just noticed your mail on the list) 2009/7/19 Andrew Ayre a...@britishideas.com: JOSM is a nightmare for uploading large amounts of data. I have a OSM file with 30k nodes (5Mb) and JOSM tells me it will take 15 hours... I tried bulk_upload.py and it fails with error 404 - no further

Re: [Talk-es] Editando con JOSM

2009-07-17 Thread andrzej zaborowski
Hola, 2009/7/17 M.A.R.C. miguelr...@wanadoo.es: Hola: Estoy intentando editar con JOSM una carretera, que no he visto que esté en el mapa. El track está hecho con un Garmin Vista. El track está pasado al OZI y convertido a GPX. Tiene 2.232 puntos y 47,97 Km. La cuestión es que el track lo

Re: [Talk-es] ¿alguien tiene una fuente de gpsbabel me nor de 1.3.5?

2009-07-16 Thread andrzej zaborowski
Los mirrores de gentoo todavia albergan 1.3.3 y 4, p.e. http://gentoo.prz.rzeszow.pl/distfiles/gpsbabel-1.3.3.tar.gz Saludos ___ Talk-es mailing list Talk-es@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-es

Re: [Talk-es] IDEE

2009-07-10 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/7/10 Iván Sánchez Ortega i...@sanchezortega.es: El día Friday 10 July 2009 00:11:49, M.A.R.C. dijo: Pero, nosotros tenemos fines comerciales? Alguno cobramos algo por subir tracks y hacerlo por la cara? Dónde estaría la prohibición de usar eso con fines gratutitos? No, si ya sé que

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) - Openstreetmap import first pass

2009-07-01 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/6/30 Joe Richards joefis...@yahoo.com: I've been working on the LINZ data import, on attribution/legal as well as the actual import.  The LINZ data I have is actually via the NZ Open GPS project Would it make sense to get access to the original dataset from which the NZOGPS dataset is

Re: [OSM-talk] upload error using bulk_upload.py

2009-07-01 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/7/1 maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com: Hi, I get this error using bulk_upload.py: $ python bulk_upload.py --input=pas_osm.osm --user= --password= --comment=* bulk_upload.py:42: DeprecationWarning: the sets module is deprecated  import sets Uploading change

Re: [Talk-es] Duda acerca de Namefinder

2009-06-27 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/6/28 Xavier Barnada xbarn...@gmail.com: Hola, estaba probando Namefinder a ver que tal posicionava los sitios y lo he probado con mi pueblo y no lo encuentra, asi que he provado con otros,y me he encontrado con que algunos si que funciona, mi pueblo esta marcado como village ya que tiene

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

2009-06-25 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/6/25 John Smith delta_foxt...@yahoo.com: --- On Thu, 25/6/09, Vincent MEURISSE osm-t...@meurisse.org wrote: and cannot install the OSM plugin for wordpress neither http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/osm/ ?? nice answer :) (Btw I don't know the answer) Take a screen shot? Since

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

2009-06-25 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/6/25 Ivan Garcia capisc...@gmail.com: Hi, thks for the answers, but wordpress.org does not allow to install 3rd party plugins into their online hosting blogs I just submitted a definite must-have plugin request for osm in wordpress.com's support system and so far got a confirmation that

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