There are signs for the destinations, and distances. I honestly
can't recall if there were bike symbols on them - there may well
have been.
I clearly remember that the sign had a picture of a walker, a cyclist and a
horse rider on it when I was at the Swavesey station. However when I went
Or better still, train dogs to walk only under hedges and fit them with a
GPS :-)
I can't help thinking that this would open up a whole new genre of
geographical-based games, ranging from geocaching (where did I hide that bone?)
and orienteering to canine endurance records (my dog walked 100
From: maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com
To: osm-talk talk@openstreetmap.org
Sent: Wednesday, 23 September, 2009 13:44:52
Subject: [OSM-talk] deleted copyrighted material technically still in the
database?
Whenever we see copyrighted material in OSM, we try to remove it
immediately.
From: Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com
To: maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com
Cc: osm-talk talk@openstreetmap.org
Sent: Wednesday, 23 September, 2009 14:57:38
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] deleted copyrighted material technically still in the
database?
If there are 10 traces by GPS for a way I think it's out of alignment from
the average of them, then I would move it.
Irrelevant of what the source tag for the way.
Please don't do this unless you have clear evidence it's wrong, you could well
be messing up perfectly accurate data.
What if
Wow, such a crazyness...
I tried to log a flight with my GPS-enabled cellphone (a Nokia N95), but it
didn't worked after a minute.
http://sportstracker.nokia.com/nts/workoutdetail/index.do?id=569496 (forgive
the google maps background, as this GPX is useless for mapping I didn't
uploaded it
The area figures are obviously including the wet bits. Bristol is half
water: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/7019663.stm
This article mentions Denny Island - which was absent from OSM. I've now added
it from the NPE map, although I don't know whether its location has changed
with
But until we do, the existing mechanism does no harm, and as I said, you
don't always know the boundary while you do know where the place is.
Determining the inclusion of every place in the database, even if we had
complete information, is massively more complex than simply being told
the
I'm just trying to think what makes a roundabout a roundabout instead of
just a one-way system. So far I've come up with:
1. It is one way in the appropriate direction (clockwise in the UK)
2. All the roads leave/join the outside of the loop (*)
3. It generally isn't very built-up in the
How about this one:
http://osm.org/go/0EFYMXaIH--
which fulfills all of the above 5 criteria, but just has a 'short-cut'
across one side. In this case, each 'junction' on the roundabout is
controlled by traffic lights and has between 2 and 5 lanes. I have to
navigate it frequently and
if a bot can do it then there's no reason the data consumers can't do
it too without the bot.
If you don't have a good reason to change something just leave it be.
Or alternatively, why not just run the bot on the copy of the data at the input
to the renderer*, rather than on the database
Imagine that you plan a business trip to Tel-Aviv and want to print yourself a
map of the city. Or maybe you'll be spending a week in Cairo. Can you not see
the benefit in having a map with the street names in a different language than
the one on the sign?
In that case I'd want something
From: Pieren pier...@gmail.com
To: Russ Nelson r...@cloudmade.com
Cc: Talk Openstreetmap talk@openstreetmap.org
Sent: Wednesday, 6 May, 2009 16:17:51
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Wikipedia POI import?
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Russ Nelson r...@cloudmade.com wrote:
So, if I understand this
This is what's in it for me - compare:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=dsource=s_dsaddr=52.190651,0.077049daddr=Grantchester+Rdhl=engeocode=%3BFdRiHAMdNSwBAAmra=dmemrcr=0mrsp=0sz=18sll=52.191479,0.07692sspn=0.002529,0.006974ie=UTF8t=hll=52.191279,0.07713spn=0.004874,0.013947z=17
with
If you want it done right, then your scale bar has detatchable end
points. You drag one end of the scale bar to one end of the feature,
the other to the other, and then the scale bar warps itself into a
great-circle curve and tells you how long it is.
Which would actually be an incredibly cool
edible map? nom nom nom
It's hard to see how an inedible map could be deliciously open. :-)
On 26 Mar 2009, at 15:11, Mikel Maron wrote:
ooo-dee-bee-ell
sure does feel like hell!
lightning rods, lengthy flames
where we going to assign the blame?
hey! forget the naming names
finger
Also, I suspect that selling maps is a nice little earner for people such as
the land registry, so licensing them all as CC-BY-SA isn't in their interest
(as much as it may be in the tax payer's interest).
And that, I believe, is the crux of the problem. The people who get to decide
have a
Of course the editor should show everything available, but that doesn't mean
it couldn't be stored in separate databases or displayed in separate layers.
It just needs smarter software.
Maybe we could get round this by keeping it all in one database, but adding a
separate tag to denote where
May be the FAQ should point out what could be the trouble to
switch from ODBL 1.0 to ODBl 2.0, just in case some oversight
become evident in the future.
I would be very keen to take a leaf out of the GPL world here, and license the
data under
ODBL 1.0 or later. That means if and when 2.0 comes
I would be very keen to take a leaf out of the GPL world here, and
license
the data under
ODBL 1.0 or later. That means if and when 2.0 comes out (which it
surely
will) the data are automatically
covered by the new version. When 2.0 does come out, that changes to ODBL
2.0 or later for all
Tracks known to be private (something the Ordnance
Survey do not show, and therefore something that could be a big advantage
over OS maps) could be overlaid by a transparent red line to indicate do
not go here.
I personally would be very wary of this approach, as known to be private can
be a
From: David Earl da...@frankieandshadow.com
The 'significant' bit is not the point: it only needs people to have
made *insignificant* changes to other people's *significant* changes
(including original mapping) to be invalidated.
Linking this chain of thought with the one that myself and
If someone has put one church on the map, or removed an 'n' from 'Avennue',
or even just done the uncreative monkey-work of tracing over Yahoo imagery,
I take exception to this. I have spent many a long winter night (over two
winters!) adding almost all the lakes and rivers of Peru to OSM (for
Even in the UK, which follows the sweat of the brow principle (i.e. copyright
can be gained through effort even without creativity), such effort needs to
be significant.
Sorry I meant to add at the end of my previous email - what I was saying is
that tracing of satellite
imagery can be
Please don't use Google Maps when doing OSM. It's just not worth the risk.
I understand that this is a safe and wise rule, but as Wikimedia
Commons' site suggests (and Nic's reply, commenting on talk-legal
discussions), there may be a fair use (or fair dealing) for rectifying
the location of an
From: Sven Rautenberg s...@rtbg.de
To: talk@openstreetmap.org
Sent: Thursday, 29 January, 2009 10:34:03
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] [Tag-Proposal] Freifunk/Mesh nodes + links
Linus Lüssing schrieb:
In my opinion Freifunk and OpenStreetMap are both very good and
From: David Earl da...@frankieandshadow.com
To: osm talk@openstreetmap.org
Sent: Thursday, 22 January, 2009 13:51:16
Subject: [OSM-talk] When is a bridge not a bridge?
In view of some changes that I've seen going through in my area
recently, I'd be interested
Just thought I'd mention a very useful UK based website.
FixMyStreet.com is a project run by the MySociety people.
I mention it because we are the one riding around all the time, and we
will be bound to notice mistakes like incorrect street names etc, or
even the less mundane pot holes.
To
Software can only gues the language of the default name from an
identical name value with a specified language.
eg:
name=Venezia
name:en=Venice
name:sl=Benetke
name:de=Venedig
...
can additonally be tagged with
name:it=Venezia
This could be used to make nice maps of default languages, if only it
His argument was that there may be places where you face legal trouble
for mapping and we need to allow these people to remain
unidentifiable.
I think this is a valid argument, but can be resolved with a series of
disposable account names. The advantage of this over simple anonymous edits
I like the comment for Where’s the Path:
“Let down by OS's absurd OpenSpace restrictions.”
and if you try clicking on that site, you'll discover it's let down by what
appears to be a restriction on the number of page hits imposed by OS.
Presumably that limit has been reached today as a
I agree that where the bug tracker starts being used for mapping-
related things, then the boundaries start to blur. But I'd still suggest
that the only difference between an OSB ticket and a software
bug ticket is the method of submission. After that, it's triaged
and managed in the
In my case I've run out of stuff to map. Can someone build some more roads
please? ;)
I think you'll find that if you start mapping footpaths, it'll at least partly
solve the problem. Footpaths, by definition, cannot (legally) be cycled on so
you have to do them on foot. Which means your
At 9:00am on a Sunday morning, the meaning of no cycling on urban
footpaths mysteriously disappears :-)
Unfortunately the mud doesn't, which if Saturday is anything to go by would
have been a bit too much for my non-mountain bike :-)
The real challenge as has been pointed out is the white
It's very common in Bolivia at least that river have very different
water levels, is there a tag for this? Usually you have a large
riverbed and then a very small river running in the middle for most
part of the year, and then sometimes it will flood all the way up to
the riverbanks.
I have
From today's Guardian:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/nov/20/ordnance-survey-google-maps
(not reference to OpenStreetMap towards the end).
and the letter from OS which provoked it:
http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/docs/use-of-google-maps-for-display-and-promotion.pdf
David
This
I had some contact with the RoW officer at Cambridgeshire County Council
recently (he was pointing out that we had a footway down as a cycleway, though
it still is because I didn't think I could use his info based as it was on an
OS base map!)
Now that's an angle I'd not thought of before! So
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:access
foot = yes = legal right of way
foot = permissive = permissive path
Unfortunately, Potlatch has been adding lots of * = yes for a while by
default, so it's hard to tell whether the contributor understands the
implications of the =yes tags and
I've been using my old N95 for a while now to get my GPS traces, but
unfortunatly it's decided to finally give up. So, i'm in the market
for a new GPS device. I'd preferebly like a standalone device but i'm
not shunning away from any bluetooth devices, as lugging around a
EeePC in a backpack is
One should certainly not add information to OSM that is copyrighted, protected
by database rights or otherwise protected. There is a difference between being
careful and paranoid, however.
Sigh.there is nothing wrong with adding information that is copyrighted or
otherwise protected. The
Ryszard Mikke wrote:
Ummm... Why is that so? Does that mean that I can't use WikiMapia
for it as well? Cause that is what I've actually done...
It sounds like all you want is a way to place a specific point of interest in
OSM, after having already placed it in wikimapia.org. I would recommend
From: Ian Dees [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can anyone provide a permalink to an example of a lake that uses the
multipolygon relation to handle islands? I remember having a link to such an
example a while ago but I seem to have lost it.
Have a look at Lake Titicaca:
This is assuming current levels of activity - where at present, most
effort of contributors is put into mapping unmapped areas. This will
change.
I agree it will change - but probably the change will be that a good proportion
of the mappers lose interest because there's nothing to do (or at
Frederik Ramm schrieb:
Hi,
2008/8/7 Dan Karran [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Does anyone have any ideas about what might be causing this tile to
render as an all-land tile? I had tried in the past few days to
render
this as a mixed tile (through the informationfreeway.org interface
but
Areas tagged with the tag waterway = rivebank
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Tag:waterway%3Driverbank do not
seem to be rendering in Mapnik.
I've noticed that you need to add natural=water, then it renders OK in mapnik.
However, either the wiki should be updated to say this, or if
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 3:54 PM, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Lat night I attended a steering group meeting for my local Connect2 [1]
project in north east Birmingham [2]. One of the things that the group could
benefit from is rapid response on mapping so that it can
Hi All,
Can anyone explain what's gone wrong here:
http://www.informationfreeway.org/?lat=-15.756477951963221lon=-69.56994035747516zoom=12layers=B000F000F
?
Following the discussions last week about how to tag islands in lakes so that
they render properly, I've gone round and re-worked the
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