On 3/9/2012 10:42 AM, Tom Hughes wrote:
We have always taken the position that the attribution is implicit when
you're visiting the web site - it's blatantly obvious that you're
looking at the OpenStreetMap data.
I think the OSM site should set a clear example for correct usage,
rather than
On 3/9/2012 1:59 PM, Floris Looijesteijn wrote:
I fiddled around with the code and it's no problem to just add it, but I'm
hesitant to submit a patch if the majority doesn't agree.
I can't imagine why the majority wouldn't agree on improving
attribution. Tom Hughes asked for a patch so just
On 1/16/2012 12:11 PM, kenneth gonsalves wrote:
On Mon, 2012-01-16 at 13:03 +0100, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
In my perception legal-talk is not meant to be a ghetto but it is an
attempt to sort things thematically to keep talk readable (i.e. reduce
traffic) also for those that don't want to
Anthony wrote:
(*) Incidentally, if you'd like to buy a copy of the database and give
it to me, I'd be willing to be the guinea pig who redistributes it, or
Buying the database and giving it to you is probably against the terms
of the license, possibly leaving that person open to being a
Toby Murray wrote:
Does anyone think more discussion is going to yield anything useful?
It is obvious that Anthony is unwilling to accept a nearly universally
held community consensus. I initially thought that the wholesale
nuking of all his contributions was a little drastic. But his
continued
What is the point of spreading unfounded FUD? OSM doesn't need Microsoft
to exist anyway.
Andy
pec...@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12427680
I think we can call it a day. I really doubt Microsoft will be that
interested in OSM anymore when they got Nokia on their hook.
Sorry, the village of Summerhaven, which I totally reworked in Sep 2009
is still shown in red:
http://open.mapquestapi.com/tigerviewer/index.html?zoom=12lat=32.438lon=-110.75635layers=B
Andy
Antony Pegg wrote:
All,
sorry I didnt write this sooner
Last week we updated the TIGER edited map
Alan Mintz wrote:
At 2010-12-15 10:04, Ian Dees wrote:
Look at the TIGER edited map. There is *lots* of untouched TIGER data
in OSM:
http://open.mapquestapi.com/tigerviewer/index.html?zoom=9lat=40.07546lon=-76.32layers=B
Andrew Ayre wrote:
Alan Mintz wrote:
At 2010-12-15 10:04, Ian Dees wrote:
Look at the TIGER edited map. There is *lots* of untouched TIGER data
in OSM:
http://open.mapquestapi.com/tigerviewer/index.html?zoom=9lat=40.07546lon=-76.32layers=B
http://open.mapquestapi.com/tigerviewer
Eugene Alvin Villar wrote:
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Felix Hartmann
extremecar...@googlemail.com mailto:extremecar...@googlemail.com wrote:
This means we have to find a new domain, new servers, and get the
usernames/passwords copied so people can login to the CCBYSA 2.0
fork
Sadly flash won't work on the iPad. So it would likely to have to be an
iPad specific app in Objective-C (shudder). And then a Flash version for
all the other platforms.
Andy
Graham Jones wrote:
Maybe a neater alternative would be to make Potlatch respond to touch
screen events and access the
Alan Mintz wrote:
At 2010-08-13 14:09, Frederik Ramm wrote:
Liz wrote:
If a poster wishes to spread a message more widely to the community,
they should be quite free to do so.
That's the thinking that killed any worthwhile Usenet groups once the
internet became available to everyone, sadly
Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote:
On Thursday 01 July 2010 20:20:55 Lulu-Ann wrote:
You are inhibiting our blind contributors to stay with us!!!
We're also inhibiting the spammers, who are a nuisance just right now.
User block didn't work, and IP block didn't work, so the wiki admins were
forced
John Smith wrote:
On 2 April 2010 03:59, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote:
Do we really want to import these kinds of administrative boundaries? If a
regular old mapper can't go out with a GPS and verify that a border
actually exists, does this sort of data belong in OSM?
How many admin
How about converting to UTM then using a zoom level specified as meters
per pixel?
Here is what I did when printing from Mapnik:
http://www.britishideas.com/2009/09/22/map-scales-and-printing-with-mapnik/
Andy
Bernhard zwischenbrugger wrote:
Hi all
Maybe that one is easy for someone out
I believe that California will charge $800 per year income tax for
for-profit corporations even if you make a loss or no profit...
A large number of Corporations in the US are incorporated in Delaware
because my understanding is that they are very friendly towards
businesses and easy to deal
can find lots of these via Google.
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Andrew Ayre a...@britishideas.com
mailto:a...@britishideas.com wrote:
I believe that California will charge $800 per year income tax for
for-profit corporations even if you make a loss or no profit
#! is called a shebang and allows you to run a script without having to
specify which program runs it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shebang_(Unix)
Your wiki page shows that you specify perl on the command line, so the
shebang isn't needed if the shell can find perl, but it's typical to add
it
Paul Johnson wrote:
On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 14:49 +0100, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
Google has a really enlightened guy called the Data Liberation
Front. His role is to make it easy for people to get their data out
of Google - rather than it being locked in.
Notice that signing online
Shaun McDonald wrote:
On 24 Aug 2009, at 09:35, Tim Waters (chippy) wrote:
Hi Alexander,
Nice to see it popular, however...
a few of us like to use a twitter search for openstreetmap to see
what humans are saying but recently pretty much all of the tweets we
receive for this search are
This way:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/39456905
is marked as layer = -1, tunnel = yes, waterway = stream. I was
expecting it to be rendered by Mapnik as a dashed line and paler to
indicate it was underground, but I don't see that.
Any ideas why?
Andy
--
Andy
PGP Key ID:
Alexander Klink wrote:
Hi everyone,
This weekend, I hacked together a quick twitter bot,
which now tweets all changesets in a certain are (in
my case, Darmstadt, Germany) - see http://twitter.com/osm_darmstadt
I've found it quite useful thus far, on the one hand I write
better changeset
If I draw an outline for a freestanding building which is some kind of
business, then I give the outline a name. Mapnik renders the name.
If I draw the outline of a strip mall (a connected string of shops) this
represents several businesses together. If I then put nodes on them and
give the
Roy Wallace wrote:
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Andrew Ayrea...@britishideas.com wrote:
If I draw an outline for a freestanding building which is some kind of
business, then I give the outline a name. Mapnik renders the name.
If I draw the outline of a strip mall (a connected string of
Jon Burgess wrote:
On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 15:58 -0700, Andrew Ayre wrote:
As Shaun mentioned in another email, this seems to be another
instance
of nodes missing from the minutely diffs. This is a known issue but
I'm
not sure if we have a trac ticket for it. I have put more details
Jon Burgess wrote:
2009/7/31 Marc Schütz schue...@gmx.net:
Wrong, osm2pgsql does process relations properly. If they aren't then
Jon Burgess is happy to take a look to see if he can fix the problem
with osm2pgsql. Second there has been no planet reload for a few weeks
now.
There's definitely
Jon Burgess wrote:
On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 09:36 -0700, Andrew Ayre wrote:
Done. See:
http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/2118
I add add tickets for the other two issues I referred to later today.
Thanks!
As Shaun mentioned in another email, this seems to be another instance
of nodes
Jon Burgess wrote:
On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 09:36 -0700, Andrew Ayre wrote:
Done. See:
http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/2118
I add add tickets for the other two issues I referred to later today.
Thanks!
As Shaun mentioned in another email, this seems to be another instance
of nodes
Tom Hughes wrote:
On 31/07/09 23:55, Andrew Ayre wrote:
I think if the OSM API was improved so it could accept large changesets
faster then that would greatly help out the people who are trying to add
large amounts of data. So far I haven't see a fast and reliable method.
Excuse me
Hi,
I select a way with approx 2,000 nodes and move it in JOSM. I then
commit the change.
This creates v2 of the nodes but the way is still v1.
How do I revert this changeset? It seems Potlatch can only revert ways?
thanks, Andy
--
Andy
PGP Key ID: 0xDC1B5864
Take a look at this boundary where a forest and national park meet:
http://osm.org/go/TwUljNo--
Notice that the boundaries don't line up. This is because the national
park is in slightly the wrong place. The national park is this changeset
uploaded yesterday:
I would like to compile a To Do list for the wiki to encourage people in
my city to help. I've created a template page so far for the city.
I've seen the wiki page on fixing the Tiger data, but there is much more
to do than just that. Has anyone created a complete list of everything
needed to
Christiaan Welvaart wrote:
On Sat, 25 Jul 2009, Karl Guggisberg wrote:
Is this the expected behaviour? Is there a problem perhaps with that
particular way?
I think it isn't. I today applied the patch from the provider of the sort
feature, but sorting of relations is still
under
Hi, I have a problem with many of the recent relations I've created in
JOSM. In the past I didn't have a problem. Here is an example:
http://osm.org/go/TwDfQSF?layers=0B00FTF
This shows a single way in a relation that is supposed to be a closed
loop of several ways. Only the first way has
well for me to
get all members sorted
On Jul 25, 2009, at 10:09 AM, Andrew Ayre wrote:
Hi, I have a problem with many of the recent relations I've created in
JOSM. In the past I didn't have a problem. Here is an example:
http://osm.org/go/TwDfQSF?layers=0B00FTF
This shows a single way
).
Is this the expected behaviour? Is there a problem perhaps with that
particular way? It is this one:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/37858230
Andy
Frederik Ramm wrote:
Hi,
Andrew Ayre wrote:
I just downloaded the latest version and the sort button is always
disabled. How do I
Andy Allan wrote:
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 6:11 AM, Andrew Ayrea...@britishideas.com wrote:
I have uploaded two sets of trails on two different days. The first set
have rendered, but the second set hasn't. I'm stumped as to why.
I'll give examples of a single trail from each set.
This one
, is
probably a good idea.
Woo trails!
-Tyler
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:11 PM, Andrew Ayre a...@britishideas.com
mailto:a...@britishideas.com wrote:
I have uploaded two sets of trails on two different days. The first set
have rendered, but the second set hasn't. I'm stumped
I've been adding the national forests in Arizona, and the Wikipedia
definition doesn't fit too well. There are areas here that are inside an
administrative boundary called a National Forest where the trees are
very sparse - 10s of meters between them. Elsewhere in the forest the
trees are
I have uploaded two sets of trails on two different days. The first set
have rendered, but the second set hasn't. I'm stumped as to why.
I'll give examples of a single trail from each set.
This one works:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/37637417
This one doesn't:
I am converting public domain data into OSM files for bulk upload. This
is data that currently is not in OSM.
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
and it gave me Fatal error: The API
returned: and then blank. It's uploaded something, but who knows what?
I'm now trying JOSM again - it's saying 15 hours for a 5Mb upload
So, does anyone have a reliable means of uploading OSM files created in
JOSM?
Andy
Andrew Ayre wrote:
After working
wrote:
On Sat, 2009-07-18 at 20:07 -0700, Andrew Ayre wrote:
I tried bulk_upload.py and it gave me a 404 error.
I've used this in the past:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bulk_upload.pl
Evidently it hasn't been updated to 0.6 yet. But, honestly, that
shouldn't be *that* hard to do
After working on a new set of data for import, is there a faster way of
uploading it than with JOSM? For example I have an OSM file with 30k
nodes in it. JOSM says it will take four hours. Then after an hour the
connection is reset.
I understand there is some overhead with changesets, etc. but
Hi, I am nearly finished with import of region 3 of the US Forest
Service. Thanks to everyone that gave me help, especially Tyler.
Next I am importing the region 3 wilderness areas. These are part of the
US National Forests, but they are areas where there should be no
evidence of human
The other question I have is: region 2 wilderness areas consist of 72
closed ways spread over two states. Should they all be put into a single
boundary relation, should they each have their own boundary relation, or
should I not use boundary relations at all?
Andy
Andrew Ayre wrote:
Hi, I am
Update:
When I go to the live slippy map and look at the piece that was deleted
I see someone added a boundary relation. So the piece is still there,
but JOSM wants to remove it. Totally confused..
Andy
Andrew Ayre wrote:
Perhaps I am going about this the wrong way, but I am about ready
Perhaps I am going about this the wrong way, but I am about ready to
give up.
rant
I started uploading the forest boundaries for Arizona using JOSM.
Working well so far. However I saw that I made a mistake with one of the
tags. So now I started re-uploading all my data using my original OSM
and running it would be the appropriate way
to do this sort of thing.
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Andrew Ayre a...@britishideas.com
mailto:a...@britishideas.com wrote:
Update:
When I go to the live slippy map and look at the piece that was deleted
I see someone added
Does boundary=national_park have nothing to do with US National Parks?
I.e. it's just a park at the national level?
Andy
Tyler wrote:
Just tagging the underlying landtypes and uses is fine (aside from most
of them not being natural) but doesn't at all account for the difference
between
Thanks for the hints Russ!
Andy
Russ Nelson wrote:
On Jun 23, 2009, at 2:57 PM, Andrew Ayre wrote:
So I need to split the North-South way into two pieces and it
intersects
the East-West way in two places.
Select the node where both roads are joined.
Press 'g' to unglue (or Unglue Ways
I'm not sure if I can clearly explain my problem, but I'll try.
The tiger street alignments are a mess in my area and I'm trying to fix
them. I will come across a situation where there is a North-South way
that crosses an East-West way. Thet are joined with a common node.
However in reality it
Dave,
That worked. Perfect!
Thanks, Andy
Dave Hansen wrote:
On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 12:35 -0700, Andrew Ayre wrote:
They are on the same level. The north-south alignment of the street
was
changed at an intersection. Here is a screen shot:
http://files.britishideas.com/public/mapping
Hi,
I see the National Atlas has a shapefile download for Federal lands. I'm
interested in getting the National forests in Arizona into OSM, but the
data sets I've found so far are crude. This one has good detail IIRC.
I can't find licensing information for this government site. Is all US
Thanks Tyler and Eric!
Andy
Tyler wrote:
I know that for the National Park boundaries the
national atlas data is much worse than park specific data. I would
suspect that to be the case for national forest boundaries as well on
the National Atlas. As Eric said, most government data is
OK, I have the data in JOSM in the WGS84 projection as a GPX file. I
converted the GPX layer to a data layer. I then zoomed in to one small
distinct piece and selected all the nodes.
Next I went to the menu and choose Forest and entered a name for this
piece (Coronado National Forest). However
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