[OSM-talk] Updating a point of interest

2009-10-04 Thread John F. Eldredge
hospital is no longer a hospital, so that no one will mistakenly go there in a medical emergency? -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all. -- Hypatia of Alexandria

Re: [OSM-talk] SteveC should decide

2009-10-07 Thread John F. Eldredge
to be named. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all. -- Hypatia of Alexandria -Original Message- From: Gervase Markham gerv-gm...@gerv.net Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:34:50 To: talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] SteveC should decide

2009-10-08 Thread John F. Eldredge
Using the URL seems reasonable, since the URL is unique and the page title likely isn't unique. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all. -- Hypatia of Alexandria -Original Message- From: Dave

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

2009-10-08 Thread John F. Eldredge
confused TomTom users in that area :-) ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal -RFC -(man_made=mineshaft)

2009-10-21 Thread John F. Eldredge
It seems like it would make more sense to have a tag called peak, with attributes natural or manmade, rather than the other way around. After all, every object in the world is either manmade or natural. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think

Re: [OSM-talk] multipolygon (lake) not rendering

2009-10-25 Thread John F. Eldredge
I think he means, Wouldn't it be better to tag the entire island with a name, rather than tagging each segment separately? -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all. -- Hypatia of Alexandria

Re: [OSM-talk] Garmin eTrex Vista Hcx

2009-10-31 Thread John F. Eldredge
starts to move, the GPS can locate the car within 3 or 4 meters. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all. -- Hypatia of Alexandria -Original Message- From: Konrad Skeri kon...@skeri.com Date

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] alley - for tree-lined roads?

2009-11-03 Thread John F. Eldredge
to the side or back of properties. It is distinguished from a driveway in that a driveway is on private land and generally gives access to just one property; an alley is on public property and generally gives access to multiple properties. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right

Re: [OSM-talk] Suggestion for JOSM

2009-11-03 Thread John F. Eldredge
Bitmapped images don't scale well. When you zoom in, the pixels get larger, rather than more pixels being added. For purposes of map-making, it seems like a vector-based system would work better. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] alley - for tree-lined roads?

2009-11-04 Thread John F. Eldredge
Unless you include a definition of how close the trees have to be to the roadway, almost every roadway in areas with enough rainfall to support trees would be classified as tree-lined. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better

Re: [OSM-talk] Seamark/Marine-Tagging-Proposal open for Voting

2009-11-11 Thread John F. Eldredge
I take it you are distinguishing between a lighthouse that stands on land, and one that is set directly in the water (not on an island)? The latter would still be a man made tower, so it would seem that the manmade=tower would still be applicable. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Mentioned in NYTimes

2009-11-17 Thread John F. Eldredge
If you read the article, as opposed to just the front page, you will find OpenStreetMaps mentioned several times by name. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all. -- Hypatia of Alexandria

[OSM-talk] How to mark a footpath that goes under a bridge

2009-11-28 Thread John F. Eldredge
is not the case. Should the ways simply cross, relying on the layer tag to mark which one is above the other? The existing highway data, probably derived from a TIGER import, does not indicate bridges as opposed to regular roadways. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right

Re: [OSM-talk] How to mark a footpath that goes under a bridge

2009-11-28 Thread John F. Eldredge
So, ground level is level 0? I had wondered about that, as the scanty documentation that I have seen didn't make that point clear. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all. -- Hypatia of Alexandria

Re: [OSM-talk] Path vs footway vs cycleway vs...

2009-11-28 Thread John F. Eldredge
country to another...) -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all. -- Hypatia of Alexandria ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [OSM-talk] connection between 2 islands

2009-11-30 Thread John F. Eldredge
I would class that as a causeway, rather than an embankment. I think wet area in the Wikipedia definition would refer to boggy ground, or an intermittently-flooded low-lying area, rather than to lake-bottom or sea-bottom that is underwater all of the time. -- John F. Eldredge -- j

Re: [OSM-talk] connection between 2 islands

2009-11-30 Thread John F. Eldredge
If you look at the photos on the web page, the feature in question is definitely man made, not natural. It is a raised walkway between two islands, made by piling up rocks. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than

Re: [OSM-talk] connection between 2 islands

2009-11-30 Thread John F. Eldredge
miles from the ocean, this isn't a matter that I am ever likely to deal with myself. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all. -- Hypatia of Alexandria -Original Message- From: Steve Bennett stevag

Re: [OSM-talk] connection between 2 islands

2009-12-01 Thread John F. Eldredge
Yes, US English would also call that a ford. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all. -- Hypatia of Alexandria -Original Message- From: Liz ed...@billiau.net Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 10:12:49

Re: [OSM-talk] Good routing vs legal routing (was: Path vsfootwayvs cycleway vs...)

2009-12-02 Thread John F. Eldredge
The same meaning of greenways (paths on public land, allowed to pedestrians and bicycles but motorized vehicles), is in use here in Nashville, TN, USA. They are a part of the public park system, and, so far, are mostly along stream or river banks. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com

Re: [OSM-talk] Good routing vs legal routing (was: Path vsfootwayvs cycleway vs...)

2009-12-02 Thread John F. Eldredge
That was supposed to say NOT motor vehicles. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all. -- Hypatia of Alexandria -Original Message- From: John F. Eldredge j...@jfeldredge.com Date: Wed, 2 Dec

Re: [OSM-talk] Greenways

2009-12-04 Thread John F. Eldredge
As used by the city park system here in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, a greenway is a paved footpath/cycle path located in a park, and generally adjoining a stream or river. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-05 Thread John F. Eldredge
I have been subscribed to the OSM-talk mailing list for about two months now; this current discussion is the first that I have heard of the license-change issue. So, if there has been ongoing discussion of the issue in the last couple of months, it hasn't been on the general list. -- John F

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMF: The people you are going to hand over your OSMdata ...

2009-12-06 Thread John F. Eldredge
It is my (possibly mistaken) impression that, once the new contract goes into effect, any old data that had been entered, previous to the new contract, by someone who does not agree to the new contract, will be removed from the database. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your

Re: [OSM-talk] Opinion poll about the new licence Odbl 1.0

2009-12-06 Thread John F. Eldredge
America/Chicago 2009 2009/12/6 80n 80n...@gmail.com: If a way/relation needs to be deleted because its long history includes a mapper who opted out, it can be easily recreated if you have the nodes. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think

Re: [OSM-talk] Opinion poll about the new licence Odbl 1.0

2009-12-06 Thread John F. Eldredge
remain in the public domain. If all OSM data derived from TIGER data must be removed or rendered read-only, this won't leave much editable data in the USA. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all

Re: [OSM-talk] And the prize for the largest closed way goes to...

2009-12-11 Thread John F. Eldredge
The resulting circle would only be the equator if it lay on the plane of the Earth's rotation, but I agree that the software probably wouldn't be happy about having the starting and ending points coincide. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even

Re: [OSM-talk] Ditches

2009-12-15 Thread John F. Eldredge
If you are going to tag every culvert in the world, you are talking about adding millions of additional entries to the database. This seems rather unnecessary. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all

Re: [OSM-talk] SOTM 2010 Girona, Spain!!

2009-12-20 Thread John F. Eldredge
All of Spain is further north than Tennessee, the US state where I live. Tennessee is on about the same latitude as Algeria. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all. -- Hypatia of Alexandria

Re: [OSM-talk] Valuable Tracks found / French + Spanish^WPortuguese translators needed.

2009-12-21 Thread John F. Eldredge
Water sources in the desert are not just Points of Interest, they are necessary for survival should your vehicle break down in some manner. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all. -- Hypatia

Re: [OSM-talk] Why doesn't OSM implement a simple measure to protectit's users and passwords?

2009-12-22 Thread John F. Eldredge
There also does not appear to be any provision on the OSM web site for changing to a new password, which is something that one should do occasionally. At least, if there is a way to do so, I haven't found it. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even

Re: [OSM-talk] Why doesn't OSM implement a simple measure toprotectit's users and passwords?

2009-12-22 Thread John F. Eldredge
Ah. I had not realized that my name, at the top of the page, was a link, and so hadn't found that page. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all. -- Hypatia of Alexandria -Original Message

Re: [OSM-talk] What's the policy on unsurveyed roads from imagery?

2009-12-27 Thread John F. Eldredge
the shoulder is paved, gravel, or just bare earth, the amount of broken glass and other hazardous debris, etc. I don't think that simply categorizing the road as primary/secondary/tertiary is enough. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think

Re: [OSM-talk] augmenting contour data with gps track logs

2009-12-28 Thread John F. Eldredge
for US military use. Remember, the GPS satellite constellation was put up by the US military. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all. -- Hypatia of Alexandria -Original Message- From

Re: [OSM-talk] Public notary (Map feature POI proposal)

2010-01-08 Thread John F. Eldredge
In the USA, a Notary Public merely attests that the person who signed a document showed official identification to prove their identity matched the name on the document. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than

Re: [OSM-talk] Edit war on Key:religion - Pastafarians

2010-01-10 Thread John F. Eldredge
not necessarily to His Noodly Majesty). -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all. -- Hypatia of Alexandria -Original Message- From: John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11

Re: [OSM-talk] Public notary (Map feature POI proposal)

2010-01-13 Thread John F. Eldredge
I was responding to the definition of an office as somewhere a licensed professional works. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all. -- Hypatia of Alexandria -Original Message- From: John

Re: [OSM-talk] GeoEye Haiti imagery Ok'd

2010-01-15 Thread John F. Eldredge
? -- -S ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all. -- Hypatia

Re: [OSM-talk] GeoEye Haiti imagery Ok'd

2010-01-15 Thread John F. Eldredge
: OpenStreetMap talk mailing list Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] GeoEye Haiti imagery Ok'd Sent: Jan 15, 2010 10:11 AM On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 17:07, John F. Eldredge j...@jfeldredge.com wrote: You may be seeing the earthquake damage, since it damaged or collapsed thousands of buildings, and may well have

Re: [OSM-talk] Intriguing artifacts in GeoEye data

2010-01-18 Thread John F. Eldredge
If only man-made artifacts are displaced, but not the terrain, that must be a mapping error. An actual earthquake land-shift would have displaced the terrain, and moved buildings and other artifacts along with the land. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think

Re: [OSM-talk] Intriguing artifacts in GeoEye data

2010-01-18 Thread John F. Eldredge
high-res but poorly georeferences aerial photos. Looking at a sat-image you don´t know if not all of that photo is 50 or 200 meters off unless you are on the ground to compare. On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 4:51 PM, John F. Eldredge j...@jfeldredge.com wrote: If only man-made artifacts are displaced

Re: [OSM-talk] Whereami not working on nokia 5800 MX

2010-01-22 Thread John F. Eldredge
@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all. -- Hypatia of Alexandria ___ talk mailing list talk

Re: [OSM-talk] If you want to help with OSM, and dont know what to do, help out with the Kosovo and Albania project

2010-02-01 Thread John F. Eldredge
overwrite existing streets. * run the validator, merge street segments * join streets that end near each other. * don't upload points that are not connected. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think

Re: [OSM-talk] Way out west

2010-02-07 Thread John F. Eldredge
://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all. -- Hypatia of Alexandria ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [OSM-talk] Two different ways with the same nodes?

2010-02-11 Thread John F. Eldredge
of both highways for routing purposes, as well as being marked by the street name as well. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all. -- Hypatia of Alexandria -Original Message- From: ed

Re: [OSM-talk] fwd: Two thirds of mobile users want driving ANDwalking navigation

2010-02-16 Thread John F. Eldredge
Frequently you can't get a position fix at all, if the building has much metal in its structure. I can't get a position fix from inside my house unless I am near a south-facing window, probably due to a metallic-foil vapor barrier in the attic. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com

Re: [OSM-talk] fwd: Two thirds of mobile users wantdriving ANDwalking navigation

2010-02-16 Thread John F. Eldredge
In the case of metal, even a thin film or mesh can block RF signals if any openings are smaller than the wavelength of the signal. Look up Faraday cage. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] OSM front page design concept

2010-02-21 Thread John F. Eldredge
Even within your own time zone, IRC only allows you to communicate with people who are online right now, not someone who might log in an hour from now. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all

Re: [OSM-talk] Help! Changeset reverted without explanation

2010-02-27 Thread John F. Eldredge
Nathan Edgars II wrote: Lar Kiesel wrote: I was the culprit who did the user lkrevert revert to user NE2 change set of Columbia, SC, US. Thank you for finally coming forward and explaining. The reasons for the revert was because NE2 had changed many segments of SC state

Re: [OSM-talk] Help! Changeset reverted without explanation

2010-02-28 Thread John F. Eldredge
road and a state-level road, etc. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all. -- Hypatia of Alexandria -Original Message- From: John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 03:30:46

Re: [OSM-talk] coastline within a park

2010-03-05 Thread John F. Eldredge
://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all. -- Hypatia of Alexandria ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC -(amenity=ice_cream)

2010-03-06 Thread John F. Eldredge
The dine-in vs. takeaway distinction can be a bit blurred. I have seen some small ice-cream establishments that seem to be about half dine-in and half carry-out. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC -(amenity=ice_cream)

2010-03-06 Thread John F. Eldredge
-premises, the restaurant will lose its license to sell alcohol. This is intended to make it harder for adults to buy beer or liquor on behalf of under-age drinkers. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM for walkers / hikers - getting it going!

2010-03-11 Thread John F. Eldredge
So mtb:scale=5 would be a vertical cliff? -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all. -- Hypatia of Alexandria -Original Message- From: Mike N. nice...@att.net Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:51:00

Re: [OSM-talk] Post code areas

2010-04-01 Thread John F. Eldredge
boundary so that a particular street or neighborhood will be in a more-prestigious Zip code. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all. -- Hypatia of Alexandria -Original Message- From: John Smith

Re: [OSM-talk] Announcing closedstreetmap.org

2010-04-01 Thread John F. Eldredge
@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all. -- Hypatia of Alexandria ___ talk mailing list talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Post code areas

2010-04-01 Thread John F. Eldredge
buildings each. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all. -- Hypatia of Alexandria -Original Message- From: Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:31:41 To: Brian Quinionopenstreet

Re: [OSM-talk] Post code areas

2010-04-05 Thread John F. Eldredge
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all. -- Hypatia of Alexandria ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] River boundaries , not Post code areas

2010-04-06 Thread John F. Eldredge
As I mentioned in my real-life case of the Rio Grande changing channels, a larger shift in a river's course can leave dry ground, that had formerly been on one side of the river, now on the other side of the river. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think

Re: [OSM-talk] River boundaries , not Post code areas

2010-04-06 Thread John F. Eldredge
Having the river move doesn't necessarily move an boundary that had run along the river. It depends upon how the boundary is defined. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all. -- Hypatia of Alexandria

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - (Trolley)

2010-04-25 Thread John F. Eldredge
: The tag is for know if a shop has trolleys. All the details are in the wiki. Thanks in advance for comments. Why would shops have light-rail trains? ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk -- John F

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - (Trolley)

2010-04-27 Thread John F. Eldredge
as shopping carts. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all. -- Hypatia of Alexandria -Original Message- From: Ken Guest k...@linux.ie Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:57:09 To: Kev js1982o...@kevswindells.eu

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - (Trolley)

2010-04-28 Thread John F. Eldredge
Perhaps amenity=luggage_trolley for airport or train station use? In American usage, trolley is a synonym for trolley car, as in street railways. So, you are likely to see American mappers using amenity=trolley for streetcar stops. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - (Trolley)

2010-04-28 Thread John F. Eldredge
I agree that cart=yes would probably be the best solution. That way, you avoid the confusion between different regional dialects, and the context would let you know whether a shopping cart, luggage cart, or whatever was meant. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right

Re: [OSM-talk] [Tagging] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC -(Trolley)

2010-04-28 Thread John F. Eldredge
Well, we could always use handcart, rather than cart, so as to specify that we don't mean the horse-drawn variety. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all. -- Hypatia of Alexandria -Original

Re: [OSM-talk] [Tagging] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC -(Trolley)

2010-04-28 Thread John F. Eldredge
English has a proverbial expression, going to hell in a handbasket, meaning that things are going wrong at a rapid pace. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all. -- Hypatia of Alexandria -Original

Re: [OSM-talk] Voting for place=isolated_dwelling is open

2010-05-05 Thread John F. Eldredge
In English usage, a dwelling is a residence. So, a farmhouse would be an isolated dwelling; a building not used as a residence, such as a restaurant or train station, would be an isolated building, but not an isolated dwelling. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right

Re: [OSM-talk] Voting for place=isolated_dwelling is open

2010-05-05 Thread John F. Eldredge
a dwelling. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all. -- Hypatia of Alexandria -Original Message- From: M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 16:59:57 To: osmtalk

Re: [OSM-talk] Quarry or construction?

2010-05-14 Thread John F. Eldredge
names off another map. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all

Re: [OSM-talk] Extra zoom level needed?

2010-05-17 Thread John F. Eldredge
it, and see the values of more tags. A restaurant POI, for example, could tell you the hours it is open and what sort of food it serves, assuming these tags had been set. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think

Re: [OSM-talk] Questions regarding the mapping of hiking trails

2010-05-29 Thread John F. Eldredge
Also, the name Van Hoevenburg Trail doesn't necessarily mean that it passes through the Van Hoevenburg Property. That might be the name of the current land-owner, the name of a former land-owner, or simply the name of some notable person whom the trail was named after. -- John F. Eldredge

Re: [OSM-talk] On the ground rule on the wiki

2010-05-30 Thread John F. Eldredge
It is not unusual for roads to have signage for both the local name and also an official route name (sometimes multiple route names). -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all. -- Hypatia of Alexandria

Re: [OSM-talk] Highway=footway or highway=track for peds only ongravel

2010-05-31 Thread John F. Eldredge
, as well as some (in the same nature preserve) that are so narrow and steep that they are passable only on foot. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all. -- Hypatia of Alexandria -Original Message

Re: [OSM-talk] On the ground rule on the wiki

2010-05-31 Thread John F. Eldredge
as verifiable on the ground? -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all. -- Hypatia of Alexandria -Original Message- From: Anthony o...@inbox.org Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 11:59:28 To: Frederik Rammfrede

Re: [OSM-talk] On the ground rule on the wiki

2010-05-31 Thread John F. Eldredge
mailing listtalk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] On the ground rule on the wiki 2010/5/31 John F. Eldredge j...@jfeldredge.com: This brings up another question.  On the tagging list, there is currently a discussion of whether or not to tag areas that have frequent traffic jams

Re: [OSM-talk] [talk-au] Software goes on, brain goes off...

2010-05-31 Thread John F. Eldredge
to be closed for repairs, or is one-way in the wrong direction, that doesn't give you an excuse to drive through the road anyway. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all. -- Hypatia of Alexandria -Original

Re: [OSM-talk] Software goes on, brain goes off...

2010-06-02 Thread John F. Eldredge
... ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all. -- Hypatia of Alexandria

Re: [OSM-talk] Software goes on, brain goes off...

2010-06-02 Thread John F. Eldredge
Good suggestion. --Original Message-- From: John Smith To: John Eldredge Cc: OpenStreetMap talk mailing list Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Software goes on, brain goes off... Sent: Jun 2, 2010 7:19 AM On 2 June 2010 22:06, John F. Eldredge j...@jfeldredge.com wrote: I agree that foot_unsafe

Re: [OSM-talk] How do you tag a traffic signal that's also amotorway junction?

2010-06-10 Thread John F. Eldredge
names and some didn't. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all. -- Hypatia of Alexandria -Original Message- From: Richard Weait rich...@weait.com Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 18:45:25 To: Nathan

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping the spill

2010-06-11 Thread John F. Eldredge
Given that the spill is constantly expanding, mapping it would become a full-time job if you wanted the information to be anywhere close to up-to-date. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all

Re: [OSM-talk] Q: Is OSM interested in neighborhood and regional boundaries for L.A.?

2010-06-16 Thread John F. Eldredge
This sounds like a good compromise to me, as most people will have a general agreement of where a given neighborhood is located, but differ about where the boundaries are located. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than

Re: [OSM-talk] Q: Is OSM interested in neighborhood and regionalboundaries for L.A.?

2010-06-16 Thread John F. Eldredge
areas that have retained some degree of local government have formal boundaries, but there are disagreements about where one unincorporated area shades into another. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think

[OSM-talk] Removing ways in Potlatch

2010-06-17 Thread John F. Eldredge
real-estate development. Potlatch will let me reposition or lengthen the street, but won't let me remove the street. How can I remove this short and no-longer-existing street using Potlatch? -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly

Re: [OSM-talk] Removing ways in Potlatch

2010-06-21 Thread John F. Eldredge
mapper. I have also seen cases where the official map of an area shows a roadway, or even minor bridge, that had been planned but never was built. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all. -- Hypatia

Re: [OSM-talk] Licence of Soviet military topographic maps

2010-06-24 Thread John F. Eldredge
to be on the Gutenberg Australia web site, without it being legal for users in the USA to download those works. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all. -- Hypatia of Alexandria -Original Message- From

Re: [OSM-talk] Tsunami warning siren?

2010-06-27 Thread John F. Eldredge
I think the bell is more likely a street light in a bell-shaped reflector. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all. -- Hypatia of Alexandria -Original Message- From: Milo van der Linden m

Re: [OSM-talk] [Candidacy] AGM Foundation 2010 - Girona

2010-07-04 Thread John F. Eldredge
map has over a paper map. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all. -- Hypatia of Alexandria -Original Message- From: Oliver \(skobbler\) osm.oliver.ku...@gmx.de Sender: talk-boun

Re: [OSM-talk] [Candidacy] AGM Foundation 2010 - Girona

2010-07-04 Thread John F. Eldredge
True, but paper maps are usually not printed at a scale where including street numbers are practical. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all. -- Hypatia of Alexandria -Original Message- From

Re: [OSM-talk] Why quality is more important than routing speed

2010-07-04 Thread John F. Eldredge
. What can I do to force the ways to be joined? -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all. -- Hypatia of Alexandria -Original Message- From: Kai Krueger kakrue...@gmail.com Sender: talk-boun

Re: [OSM-talk] Why quality is more important than routing speed

2010-07-04 Thread John F. Eldredge
However, you can't be certain, without personally checking the street in question, whether the street really has no speed limit signs, or whether the person who added the street to the map simply failed to add the speed limit tag. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right

Re: [OSM-talk] Area-type objects and ways along its boundaries

2010-07-06 Thread John F. Eldredge
So, what happens in your region if the road planners decide to alter the position of part of a road, such as making a curve more gentle? Are the municipal borders then shifted so that they still match the roadway, or so they now differ from the road's location? -- John F. Eldredge -- j

Re: [OSM-talk] sotm2010 video stream?

2010-07-07 Thread John F. Eldredge
second by second :P Atleast we will have a live text stream ;) Regards, Pavithran -- pavithran sakamuri http://look-pavi.blogspot.com ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk -- John F. Eldredge -- j

Re: [OSM-talk] Tag name vs operator

2010-07-12 Thread John F. Eldredge
don't usually tag name, just operator, I just mentioned that to point out the name is easy to locate if people did want to tag it. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk -- John F. Eldredge -- j

Re: [OSM-talk] Tag name vs operator

2010-07-12 Thread John F. Eldredge
mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all. -- Hypatia of Alexandria ___ talk mailing

Re: [OSM-talk] Tag name vs operator

2010-07-12 Thread John F. Eldredge
of English word to start with, but we are probably stuck with it. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think

Re: [OSM-talk] fact-based vote?

2010-07-17 Thread John F. Eldredge
is answered positively. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all. -- Hypatia of Alexandria ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org

[OSM-talk] Summary of differences between old and new licenses

2010-07-18 Thread John F. Eldredge
Is there a summary available, in layman's language, of the differences between the old license and the proposed new license? I am still a bit unclear on the net effects, other than a sizable amount of the data being moved from the OSM database to a different database. -- John F. Eldredge -- j

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussionmore inclusive?

2010-07-18 Thread John F. Eldredge
talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all. -- Hypatia of Alexandria ___ talk mailing list talk

[OSM-talk] Placing a node at a known latitude/longitude

2010-07-23 Thread John F. Eldredge
If you know the latitude and longitude of where you would like to create a POI in Potlatch, but can't locate the exact position in the Yahoo aerial view (due to tree cover), how can you create a POI at that known latitude and longitude? -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your

Re: [OSM-talk] A plea for meaning ful changeset comments

2010-07-30 Thread John F. Eldredge
of the comment field... ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all. -- Hypatia

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