Re: [Talk-GB] Ways to get a big image of the world?

2015-07-09 Thread Filip Chirita Rares Cristian
the basemap, which for some reason I can't at high zooms (or should I saw low zooms). Cheers, Rares On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 3:30 PM, Filip Chirita Rares Cristian chirita.ra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Steven, thank you for the suggestion. I'm installing QGIS now but I've never used it before. Marc

[Talk-GB] Ways to get a big image of the world?

2015-07-06 Thread Filip Chirita Rares Cristian
Hi everyone, Long time no talk. I have a question: is there any easy (does not require programming) of getting an OSM render of an area of my choice to *any* size? I want to get an A0 poster of the world for my room up and OSM seems like the best choice, really. Let me know if you know of

Re: [Talk-GB] Ways to get a big image of the world?

2015-07-06 Thread Filip Chirita Rares Cristian
, 2015 at 10:48 AM, Filip Chirita Rares Cristian chirita.ra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, Long time no talk. I have a question: is there any easy (does not require programming) of getting an OSM render of an area of my choice to *any* size? I want to get an A0 poster of the world for my

[Talk-GB] How to tag a game shop

2014-06-18 Thread Filip Chirita Rares Cristian
Hi guys, How do you best tag a place where people meet to play boardgames? I know we have leisure = adult_gaming_centre and amenity = casino, but there's no tag that I could find that's for a place like Games Workshop where people meet to play non-digital games which don't involve gambling.

Re: [Talk-GB] Problems with armchair edits of major road junctions in England

2014-03-19 Thread Filip Chirita Rares Cristian
19, 2014 at 10:21 AM, SomeoneElse li...@mail.atownsend.org.ukwrote: On 18/03/2014 07:13, Filip Chirita Rares Cristian wrote: What seems to be the general purpose of his edits? His change sets have no comments, so could it be that this is just a case of an inexperienced mapper, at worst

Re: [Talk-GB] Problems with armchair edits of major road junctions in England

2014-03-19 Thread Filip Chirita Rares Cristian
(trigpoint) -- Sent from my Nokia N9 On 19/03/2014 10:21 SomeoneElse wrote: On 18/03/2014 07:13, Filip Chirita Rares Cristian wrote: What seems to be the general purpose of his edits? His change sets have no comments, so could it be that this is just a case of an inexperienced

Re: [Talk-GB] Problems with armchair edits of major road junctions in England

2014-03-18 Thread Filip Chirita Rares Cristian
What seems to be the general purpose of his edits? His change sets have no comments, so could it be that this is just a case of an inexperienced mapper, at worst a vandal? Chris On Mar 18, 2014 5:08 AM, SomeoneElse li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk wrote: There has been a large series of recent edits

Re: [Talk-GB] Bing imagery

2014-03-03 Thread Filip Chirita Rares Cristian
Has anyone tried contacting Microsoft? Chris On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Eric Grosso eric.grosso...@gmail.comwrote: Hi all, I encountered exactly the same problem at the end of last week (before the higher zoom level images of my editing zone were still in cache and hid the problem)

Re: [Talk-GB] Bing imagery

2014-03-02 Thread Filip Chirita Rares Cristian
Any comment from Microsoft on this? Chris On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 6:56 PM, SK53 sk53@gmail.com wrote: My impression is that the 2008 imagery (zoom 20 and 21 is still available in JOSM). It certainly would be a disappointment because the 2008 imagery was taken in good sunlight and is

Re: [Talk-GB] Possible vandalism? New Forth Road Bridge being changed to motorway from construction

2014-02-10 Thread Filip Chirita Rares Cristian
I agree with your points, especially since there's more and more talk about introuding OSM into school environments, and not just for the UK region but also being part of the curriculum in other parts of Europe. The only problem I see with that is that it seems to be against the open part of

Re: [Talk-GB] Possible vandalism? New Forth Road Bridge being changed to motorway from construction

2014-02-10 Thread Filip Chirita Rares Cristian
Isn't also the iD tutorial in a sandbox environment? Can't we make that publicly avalable? Chris On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 11:28 AM, SomeoneElse li...@mail.atownsend.org.ukwrote: Roger Calvert wrote: It might be worth considering a 'play' version of the data base, where beginners, schools

Re: [Talk-GB] Norfolk editors' help needed

2013-12-03 Thread Filip Chirita Rares Cristian
Why not introduce him to OSM and let him make sure the coverage is complete and accurate, as he seems to be an expert on this? On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 4:27 PM, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.ukwrote: My Twitter contact @Mistlemoon, who works for a library service in Norfolk, would like to

Re: [Talk-GB] Upcoming changes to OpenStreetMap.org website

2013-12-01 Thread Filip Chirita Rares Cristian
Just went on the mobile website from my Nexus phone and it looks much better than before, really can't see a problem with the mobile version of the new osm. At the same time, you can never, ever, please everybody... Also, I don't think it wise to talk about turning others away when not many others

Re: [Talk-GB] Upcoming changes to OpenStreetMap.org website

2013-11-18 Thread Filip Chirita Rares Cristian
On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 11:51 PM, Steve Doerr doerr.step...@gmail.comwrote: On the contrary, I use openstreetmap.org all the time. Whenever I encounter a place I'm unfamiliar with, I look it up on openstreetmap.org. I almost never look at renderings of OSM data through another web-site. In

Re: [Talk-GB] How to reference SotM?

2013-11-01 Thread Filip Chirita Rares Cristian
be. Chris On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 5:59 PM, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.ukwrote: On 1 November 2013 17:03, Filip Chirita Rares Cristian chirita.ra...@gmail.com wrote: I was at SotM and would like to reference one of the presentations there (Alyssa Wright's) but from what I see on my uni's

Re: [Talk-GB] Multiple nodes for Sheffield

2013-10-29 Thread Filip Chirita Rares Cristian
Just chipping in, I've had this problem once too, with a lot of info on the map not rendering for some reason (I was using Potlatch at the time), and it had quite a lot of roads missing. I've added the roads, only to find that about an hour or so later, everything was rendering properly again and

Re: [Talk-GB] User with long list of slow vandalism

2013-09-23 Thread Filip Chirita Rares Cristian
Can we check their IP? Didn't something similar happen with some Google employees vandalizing OSM a few years ago? Chris On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Tom Chance t...@acrewoods.net wrote: On 23 September 2013 16:01, OpenStreetmap HADW osmh...@gmail.com wrote: * changesets with the same