Re: [Talk-us] Temporarily Deleting Relations from Interstate Ways

2009-05-05 Thread Ted Mielczarek
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: I've been working on state highways and interstate relations myself lately, too. I stopped using Potlatch for exactly this reason... On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Philip Shipley p...@barby.net wrote: Any thoughts,

Re: [Talk-us] silly borders

2009-03-31 Thread Ted Mielczarek
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: Dear Can-Americans, This is silly. Four different lines for one border. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=48.99906lon=-95.15362zoom=16layers=B000FTF We're good neighbo(u)rs. We should fix our fence. Shouldn't each

Re: [OSM-talk] immutable=yes Fwd: DEC Lands

2009-03-17 Thread Ted Mielczarek
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Russ Nelson r...@cloudmade.com wrote: Okay, taking you somewhat more seriously now, the ideology that Ted is driving is that everything in OSM should be editable by everyone, and nobody has any better edits to make than anyone else, and everybody gets an equal

Re: [OSM-talk] immutable=yes Fwd: DEC Lands

2009-03-16 Thread Ted Mielczarek
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Jukka Rahkonen jukka.rahko...@mmmtike.fiwrote: Why not to store this kind of datasets as own layers in the database? DEC data could be on its own, non-editable layer, but if there's something that people would like to edit those features could be copied or

[OSM-talk] place=island rendering

2009-03-12 Thread Ted Mielczarek
I've noticed that there's a GNIS import going on in the USA recently, and one of the types of POIs being imported are islands, which are tagged place=island. Of course, the GNIS database contains some very tiny islands, but Mapnik renders place=island up to z10. For example:

Re: [OSM-talk] immutable=yes Fwd: DEC Lands

2009-03-12 Thread Ted Mielczarek
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Russ Nelson r...@cloudmade.com wrote: If it's This is what NYS DEC says it manages, then no, it doesn't make ANY sense to change it. Then this data clearly doesn't belong in OSM. If the data is These are NYS's State Forests, then there's plenty of

Re: [OSM-talk] mapping driveways

2009-03-12 Thread Ted Mielczarek
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Ulf Lamping ulf.lamp...@googlemail.comwrote: First of all, you should NEVER remove anything from the database, unless you have made certain by your own eye that the object in question is an error and not existing in reality! Even than take care not to remove

Re: [OSM-talk] place=island rendering

2009-03-12 Thread Ted Mielczarek
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com wrote: Interesting issue. The techy in me thinks that tagging the island (tag the way) rather than a point may help, since that allows data consumers (e.g. renderers) to calculate the size of the island (and even, perhaps in

Re: [Talk-us] National Park Boundaries

2009-03-12 Thread Ted Mielczarek
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Zeke Farwell ezeki...@gmail.com wrote: The thing about the several renderers we currently have is that they can't be expected to take every possible mapped feature into account. The map would just get too cluttered. I think for a general street map (the

Re: [OSM-talk] Language rendering query

2009-01-16 Thread Ted Mielczarek
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 3:31 AM, D Tucny d...@tucny.com wrote: Not now it doesn't... jth did the last render and is obviously missing fonts needed... however, it seems some people do have OK fonts... Does t...@h require the correct fonts to be installed on the user's machine? That seems

[OSM-talk] Potlatch / API inconsistency?

2009-01-12 Thread Ted Mielczarek
I went to look at an area I edited last week in the Mapnik rendering, and noticed it looked wrong. I thought maybe my edits hadn't been picked up somehow, so I looked at the data view on the slippy map. It matched the rendering. So I thought maybe Potlatch had failed me and not saved my edits. I

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch / API inconsistency?

2009-01-12 Thread Ted Mielczarek
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.netwrote: The easy fix is to edit the way with Potlatch, make some sort of change (maybe drag a point away, then back again), then deselect to force an upload. Thanks, this appears to have worked. Regards, -Ted

Re: [OSM-talk] Campus map - Who's got a good one?

2008-10-01 Thread Ted Mielczarek
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 4:03 AM, Andrew MacKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Don't forget University of Toronto - http://openstreetmap.org/edit?lat=43.66328lon=-79.39365zoom=16 (shameless self promotion... that took several hours' work, walking around campus and checking building names) That

Re: [Talk-us] Changes to TIGER data

2008-08-13 Thread Ted Mielczarek
You can split ways in Potlatch by selecting the way, then clicking the node, and then pressing 'x'. You can delete ways and their nodes by selecting the way and then pressing Shift+Delete. This wiki page is quite helpful: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Potlatch/Keyboard_shortcuts -Ted

Re: [OSM-talk] Good example of OSM coverage - Sofija, Bulgaria

2008-06-25 Thread Ted Mielczarek
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 12:31 PM, Ralf Zimmermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to share a good example of OSM coverage with you. It is the city of Sofija in Bulgaria. A friend of mine is travelling there and asked me if OSM has good maps of that area as Google does not show much. I

Re: [OSM-talk] National borders - mapnik

2008-05-28 Thread Ted Mielczarek
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Beau Gunderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The US national border with Canada is all tagged with admin_level=4, border_type=state, border=administrative... It also has the left/right countries (at least the bit I looked at in WA did). How should state borders

Re: [OSM-talk] National borders - mapnik

2008-05-28 Thread Ted Mielczarek
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Beau Gunderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please clarify one thing: any border that is both a state and national border should be tagged at the highest level (in this case national, admin_level=2) To me this sounds like there is just one way for the

Re: [OSM-talk] Users whose contributions are in the public domain

2008-05-12 Thread Ted Mielczarek
On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Ari Torhamo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: su, 2008-05-04 kello 15:40 +0200, Mike Collinson kirjoitti: At 01:33 PM 4/05/2008, Ari Torhamo wrote: la, 2008-05-03 kello 17:39 -0400, Ted Mielczarek kirjoitti: Why else are we contributing this data if not for people

Re: [OSM-talk] Users whose contributions are in the public domain

2008-05-03 Thread Ted Mielczarek
On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 6:36 AM, Vincent MEURISSE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't understand why some users want their work in PD. The goal of osm is to have a map of the world freely available for anyone. But with PD someone (eg google) can take all the work of osm, correct and complete

Re: [OSM-talk] Unexpected :)

2008-04-17 Thread Ted Mielczarek
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 5:06 AM, Steve Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, maning sambale wrote: Well, they do censor their images, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_places_blurred_out_on_Google_Maps Why not, in their streetmaps? Dunno.. I just didn't expect them

Re: [OSM-talk] Navit on the Asus EeePC with Debian Testing

2008-04-04 Thread Ted Mielczarek
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 5:40 AM, Matthew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Off topic I know, but I presume the upcoming Firefox 3, with its page scaling, will make web browsing on an 800 pixel-wide screen a lot less painful. Unfortunately the official Firefox builds won't run on Gtk 2.8, so you may be