Re: [OSM-talk] Image of the Week: Olympic stadium athens ccbysa2

2012-08-07 Thread OJ W
Hello all, thanks for interest in wiki featured images and for fixing the athens stadium. Few notes on why that pic was shown to the community... The original mapping of that stadium seems to qualify as best examples of openstreetmap mapping for the same reasons that the London stadium did, even

Re: [OSM-talk] Printed map books

2012-02-25 Thread OJ W
Howdy all. Good to see the PdfAtlas idea being revived (especially now that rendering libraries have improved!) -- if any of its ideas are still relevant then the original author might still be around to thank you for your efforts to get this ideal working! ;) [yes the software itself will be

Re: [Talk-GB] For motorway travellers...

2012-01-03 Thread OJ W
On 4 January 2012 00:24, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote: There was a couple who, tired of extortionate service station prices, compiled a list of all good eateries one mile in all directions from each motorway junction. Here's the OpenStreetMap results if you include cafes, restaurants,

[OSM-talk] Image of the (week?) (year?) (5 years?)

2011-12-18 Thread OJ W
Hi. Just wondering what was the most-loved image of the week over the last few years? http://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/9572/osm-image-of-the-half-decade what do you think really represents the spirit of the OSM project, what would you illustrate an OSM newspaper article with, what just

[OSM-talk] Image of the (week?) (year?) (5 years?)

2011-12-18 Thread OJ W
Hi. Just wondering what was the most-loved image of the week over the last few years? http://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/9572/osm-image-of-the-half-decade what do you think really represents the spirit of the OSM project,what would you illustrate an OSM newspaper article with, what just

[OSM-legal-talk] PGS coastline

2011-06-05 Thread OJ W
My account used for importing PGS coastlines just got an email asking that it agree to new contributor terms - has anyone already declared this is OK during the import-checking phase of license change? Asking on mailing list, since there should be about 32 other accounts used for the import and

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] PGS coastline

2011-06-05 Thread OJ W
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalog That's exactly what I was looking for, thanks. ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Cost of tolls

2011-03-11 Thread OJ W
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 3:34 PM, Diego Woitasen di...@woitasen.com.ar wrote: Hi,  Mapping the tolls of a highway a found that there is no tag to assign the cost of the toll. I haven't found examples in taginfo or tagwatch. Are you using something for this?  I know this is a little complex

Re: [OSM-talk] 12nm territorial borders - useful or rubbish?

2011-02-14 Thread OJ W
Im sure I remember reading a linked news story posted on this mailing list about a soldier crossing into enemy country because of incorrect mapping on his GPS. this one? http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article3761058.ece or this one?

[OSM-talk] OSM mirror on i2p

2011-01-30 Thread OJ W
http://map.i2p/ should now be available for [read-only] private access to OSM maps ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Anonymous edits on OpenStreetMap through Tor

2010-10-10 Thread OJ W
If we wanted to explicitly support this kind of thing then putting OSM-related servers on i2p might be useful. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] RFC: what are empty nodes and how should we use them?

2010-08-16 Thread OJ W
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Dave Stubbs osm.l...@randomjunk.co.uk wrote: In the IRC channel i was told, that there are users who paint empty nodes in the map to mark things like road is not mapped, but continues here I do this occasionally, and I'm sure I haven't made this up but got

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging gates on cycle path

2010-07-20 Thread OJ W
and http://www.flickr.com/photos/dgeezer/4805209155/ ? ;) ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [OSM-talk] Navigation Debug Map Style Available

2010-05-24 Thread OJ W
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: Richard Welty wrote: which is a perfectly good theory, and very fussy in practice. i am unfamiliar with any jurisdiction which enforces speed limits to fractions of km/h or mph. There are signs on the UK canals

[Talk-GB] UK counties

2010-04-18 Thread OJ W
I was just looking at the UK county and local boundaries we have in OSM: http://ojw.dev.openstreetmap.org/counties/ - does that indicate that a little push for completeness might in in order? or that the other counties already exist but that I chose the wrong rules to make them render? (data

[OSM-talk] GSoC project idea

2010-04-12 Thread OJ W
just an idea... say you have a location, like a business or an event. You want to publish a printable map which tells people how to get there. Sure you could print an entire map of the area. But most of those roads would never be used by people visiting you - they don't go in right direction

Re: [OSM-talk] will walkingpapers printed on black and white work?

2010-02-26 Thread OJ W
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Simon Hewison si...@zymurgy.org wrote: Also, It doesn't warp the images - it shouldn't have to (unless your printer and scanner have serious problems) That might be a useful feature, since it lets you take photos of the paper instead of having to get a 'real'

Re: [OSM-talk] Burning Man (was: revert changesets??)

2009-12-18 Thread OJ W
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Aun Johnsen li...@gimnechiske.org wrote: It is not only rendering software, but all software that use the spatial data in some way or another. A few years ago, you could pretty much assume that any untagged segment in the OSM database was a road. Renderers

Re: [OSM-talk] How is there not any creative-type (US) copyright in OSM data?

2009-12-13 Thread OJ W
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: We could, however, introduce a arc tag...  To represent an arc, you only need three points (start, end, and any third point on the arc uniquely defines a triangle which is circumscribed by exactly one circle). Of course, I can't

Re: [OSM-talk] How is there not any creative-type (US) copyright in OSM data?

2009-12-13 Thread OJ W
The location, size, shape of each building is a fact. No inaccuracy was intended. So does this image have copyright protection? http://www.limitemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/steph02.jpg ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

[OSM-talk] Borders in the Persian Gulf

2009-12-02 Thread OJ W
so... do any of us know enough to mark this border on the OSM map? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/6712250/Wrong-maps-landed-British-sailors-in-Iranian-captivity.html http://osm.org/go/zDsi62-- ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] connection between 2 islands

2009-12-01 Thread OJ W
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 12:25 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/12/1 OJ W ojwli...@googlemail.com Edit the coastline so that it joins the islands instead of separating them but won't this operation make one island instead of 2 that they are? cheers, Martin

Re: [OSM-talk] connection between 2 islands

2009-12-01 Thread OJ W
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 5:36 AM, Cartinus carti...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Tuesday 01 December 2009 00:20:20 Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: there is a proposal for it since March 2007, you can simply find it by typing causeway in search. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Causeway

Re: [OSM-talk] connection between 2 islands

2009-11-30 Thread OJ W
Edit the coastline so that it joins the islands instead of separating them. Make sure the new coastline along both sides of this causeway is all in the same direction as the existing coastline (anticlockwise around islands with water on right of the coastline, and land on left?), and without gaps

Re: [Talk-GB] Proper Rights of Way coverage map

2009-10-23 Thread OJ W
just wondering: are any of the highway=footpath tags still in OSM database? I always used to use those for legal rights-of-way footpaths with a footpath sign until it became OSM-standard that highway=footway should be used for all paths regardless of legal status.

Re: [OSM-talk] Google has dual carriage way where it's not built yet

2009-10-08 Thread OJ W
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 11:11 PM, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote: It might be worth contacting the developer. They might have plans that they can let you copy. How much permission do we need for stuff like that? I have this map: http://warper.geothings.net/maps/preview/1474 ... where

Re: [OSM-talk] Google has dual carriage way where it's not built yet

2009-10-07 Thread OJ W
seems G don't have the tag for under construction then? In Bedford they've left the map as it was before development was started: http://sautter.com/map/?zoom=15lat=52.11093lon=-0.51451layers=B0TF ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

[Talk-GB] 'High speed one' rail

2009-10-01 Thread OJ W
Is this break in it intentional? http://osm.org/go/0EDRRyA6 ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [OSM-talk] sports=billiard and sports=snooker ?

2009-09-21 Thread OJ W
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Valent Turkovic valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: There are currently no such tags in OSM Wiki sure there are... http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/all_sports ___ talk mailing list

[OSM-talk] ti...@home (was: mapnik rendering)

2009-09-14 Thread OJ W
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:24 PM, Shaun McDonald sh...@shaunmcdonald.me.uk wrote: It's really old news, that tile.openstreetmap.org is using the minutely diffs. So now ti...@home can be stopped? ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Proposed feature: Directional node

2009-08-27 Thread OJ W
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Andrew MacKinnonandrew...@gmail.com wrote: This is a proposal for a generic way of tagging a node which represents an object which faces a certain way like a lighthouse with directional light? how does openseamap store those?

Re: [OSM-talk] Weather overlay

2009-08-21 Thread OJ W
xplanet can download cloud images and overlay them onto a map/globe http://xplanet.sourceforge.net/ it just needs an OSM world-map image in plate-carre format to use as the ground image, and you'd have a cloud map. On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Peter Körnerosm-li...@mazdermind.de wrote:

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

2009-08-12 Thread OJ W
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 11:02 AM, John Smithdelta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote: I tried to search the list archives before posting but couldn't see anything about this. The problem is people noticing non-existant streets on other maps and wasting time to only find out that it doesn't exist, not

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

Re: [OSM-talk] Silly me

2009-08-09 Thread OJ W
they must have known - living in a place like that you soon get used to explaining no, your address lookup won't work or don't bother asking me for my postcode, you won't find it whenever someone asks for your address. I seem to remember some banks won't let you open accounts if your road isn't

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: [Talk-GB] Peer verification (was: Liam123 again)

2009-08-08 Thread OJ W
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Simon Wardsi...@bleah.co.uk wrote: It has already been said, but I think raising the barrier to contribution is the wrong way to go. Instead, I’d like to see a way of saying someone has verified the data without changing it.

[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] [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

Re: [Talk-GB] Sand Bar

2009-08-05 Thread OJ W
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Peter Childspchi...@bcs.org wrote: How to I tag a Sand Bar that extends 50meters in the sea at low tide and disappears at High Tide. Its called The Street and its in Its just I can't find anything on the wiki.

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

[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] 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

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: [Talk-GB] St Kilda

2009-07-30 Thread OJ W
combine it with a trip to the other big british island? http://osm.org/go/eyl0Tr commercial maps of the area aren't particularly detailed: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/22/rockall_map_shirt/ On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 7:31 AM, SteveCst...@asklater.com wrote: Anyone fancy a mapping

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] 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] 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

[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] 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

Re: [Talk-GB] printing from website

2009-07-14 Thread OJ W
In firefox, the 'view image' - 'print preview' commands on a static map works very well -- the map image is scaled by firefox to fit whatever paper you are using. Of course, the resolution of the image doesn't necessarily match that of your printer...

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

[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] 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

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-legal-talk] Privacy and Terms

2009-06-25 Thread OJ W
Will there be some OSM-specific privacy implications not covered in the generic policy? e.g. when people use openstreetmap.org, they are potentially revealing their home/work/holiday locations, their routes to work, the pubs they visit (assuming their first OSM edit is to add their regular

[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] 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

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: [Talk-GB] Bridge heights and speed limits

2009-06-07 Thread OJ W
On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Richard Bullockrb...@cantab.net wrote: Similarly 40mph is exactly equal to 64.37376 km/h 50mph is exactly equal to 80.4672 km/h 60mph is exactly equal to 96.56064 km/h etc. Where there is one sign only - it makes absolutely no difference whether you tag as

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

[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] 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

[Talk-GB] Milton Keynes party - area 1

2009-05-24 Thread OJ W
Having missed it during the mapping party, I went back yesterday to get area 1: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.03709lon=-0.76664zoom=16layers=B000FTF a few details are still left for the local surveyors to finish later (e.g. areas nearest Portway, the area around MK Leisure, and some

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: [Talk-GB] MK mapping party

2009-05-19 Thread OJ W
http://www.cbrd.co.uk/c-roads/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetView

2009-05-01 Thread OJ W
Would be nice if we could upload video+GPS to some site for processing into openstreetview (yeah I know it's 2GB/hour) but it saves having to stop and take photos. You could always assume that the camera is a fixed angle from the track/heading. For anyone looking at video cameras for bikes, I

Re: [OSM-talk] toposm gets my vote for image of the week

2009-04-30 Thread OJ W
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Featured_image_proposals#TopOSM On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 2:27 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com wrote: Man!  This should be a featured image: http://toposm.com/ma/?zoom=15lat=42.26621lon=-71.02104layers=B000

Re: [OSM-talk] GPS logger

2009-04-28 Thread OJ W
The NaviGPS isn't ideal if you're away from a source of power, since its internal battery lasts about 1 day, and you can't just put spare batteries into it. It might be possible to get somewhere with a USB power-pack to recharge it overnight (that's what I used for a 1-week trek, which meant

Re: [OSM-talk] suggested website to upload a temporary cycling route event over OSM streetdata

2009-04-11 Thread OJ W
If it's a public GPX trace on OSM, you can show it using: http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~ojw/gpx/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap in The Times - atlas of the world book

2009-04-05 Thread OJ W
Picture, if anyone's interested: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Image:Openstreetmap_image_in_times_atlas.jpg On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 2:32 AM, Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, i just wanted to let you all know that on page 57 of this big atlas book, openstreetmap

[OSM-talk] Cycle map: trunk-roads in mountains

2009-03-29 Thread OJ W
Can you spot it? http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=31.4122lon=-7.3859zoom=12layers=00B0FTF ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Cycle map: trunk-roads in mountains

2009-03-29 Thread OJ W
2009/3/29 Dave Stubbs osm.l...@randomjunk.co.uk: Here's the solution: get the local authority to add a cycle lane, tag the road as having a cycle lane. Then the road will be blindingly obvious. The roads in that area tend to have an all-purpose additional lane on both sides, comprising a

Re: [OSM-talk] California bill to limit detail on online mapping tools

2009-03-13 Thread OJ W
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 8:23 AM, Mike Collinson m...@ayeltd.biz wrote: Q  U  O  T  E  D I'm not against the technology; it's fantastic. But we're in an evolving world and we have to change our course as it changes. I'm all for online mapping, but knowing where the air ducts are in an air

Re: [Talk-transit] Trams

2009-03-09 Thread OJ W
Any areas which illustrate the variety of tags used in tram systems could be added to http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Sample_areas in a similar way to the railroads section already there? ___ Talk-transit mailing list Talk-transit@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Map tag in Wikipedia

2009-03-07 Thread OJ W
Hi. Is there anyone that knows the template changes required for http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Template:ExampleLocation so that the page http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Sample_areas will work with the new map tag? ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] License to kill

2009-03-05 Thread OJ W
The UK canals don't contribute to the licensing discussions because you mapped them as PD. So we can do whatever we want with the canal data without having to consult anyone. On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 11:11 PM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: OJ W wrote: Given that maps need

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] License to kill

2009-03-05 Thread OJ W
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Russ Nelson r...@cloudmade.com wrote: On Mar 5, 2009, at 1:10 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote:  Also, the cost of staying with buggy old CC-BY-SA for a few months longer is rather negligible, The barn down the road from me was standing on just four 9 beams.  We kept

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-03-03 Thread OJ W
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: 2. People who don't like ODbL and withdraw their data. _Assuming_ we can get the bugs sorted in ODbL, and we can't take that for granted yet, this percentage should be very small. except that the ODbL does represent

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-03-03 Thread OJ W
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: OJ W wrote: This could potentially alienate anyone who wonders why they are doing surveying for free so that cartographers can sell all-rights- reserved map images based on their data. Yeah, just like I lie in bed

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-03-03 Thread OJ W
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: It might be easy to do an automated rendering. That's not what I'm talking What concerns me is hand-drawn cartography. The program code for that, in my case, is something like Inkscape or Adobe Illustrator, which

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] regarding ODC and OKF

2009-03-03 Thread OJ W
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 12:05 AM, Ulf Möller use...@ulfm.de wrote: John Wilbanks schrieb: In terms of OKF, hosting licenses is hard, and versioning licenses is really hard, but OKF has been around for a while and is a solid group of folks. If they are going to host your license you are way

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-03-03 Thread OJ W
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 9:40 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: The cartographer goes off on a tangent; he does not help us in reaching the goal of a free world map; he is a *user* of the free world map and not a *creator*. It is nice if he makes his work available because it allows us

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