Re: [OSM-talk] RFC: Import of OpenGeoDB to OSM

2008-01-14 Thread SteveC
On 12 Jan 2008, at 19:23, Frederik Ramm wrote: responds to a question by Joerg Ostertag (who would have thought of that!) ?? have fun, SteveC | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.asklater.com/steve/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [OSM-talk] Wales Mapping Weekend, 12-15th September

2008-01-15 Thread SteveC
sorry, 12th to 15th that is On 15 Jan 2008, at 17:25, SteveC wrote: Following discussion on talk-gb and the IoW party in 2006, help get Wales mapped and meet other mad mappers http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Welsh_Mapping_Party_Weekend *Grade II listed cottage, beds for 14 people

Re: [OSM-talk] TIGER has only a week to go

2008-01-15 Thread SteveC
a press release? (Maybe give it another week so that Mapnik has all the new data) You obviously don't watch enough action movies. It'll get to 1 second remaining, and SteveC will cut the blue wire... Cheers, Andy As usual when watching action movies, I fell asleep midway. Could you

[OSM-talk] OSM Logo

2008-01-15 Thread SteveC
, SteveC | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.asklater.com/steve/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Logo

2008-01-16 Thread SteveC
On 16 Jan 2008, at 08:21, Andy Robinson (blackadder) wrote: SteveC wrote: Sent: 16 January 2008 12:16 AM To: Talk Openstreetmap Cc: Simon Pascal Klein; Matt Amos Subject: [OSM-talk] OSM Logo All Simon sent me this nice logo http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Logo which I think

Re: [OSM-talk] www based IRC

2008-01-18 Thread SteveC
On 18 Jan 2008, at 15:27, Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 SteveC wrote: | TomH kindly set up | | http://irc.openstreetmap.org/ | | So that people can use #osm IRC from the web. This is useful for new | users to immediately get help and so

[OSM-talk] www based IRC

2008-01-18 Thread SteveC
TomH kindly set up http://irc.openstreetmap.org/ So that people can use #osm IRC from the web. This is useful for new users to immediately get help and so on. Please help by linking to it from the right places in the wiki. have fun, SteveC | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.asklater.com/steve

Re: [OSM-talk] map rectifier

2008-01-22 Thread SteveC
On 22 Jan 2008, at 16:43, Christopher Schmidt wrote: On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 04:26:06PM +, Steve Chilton wrote: Is the map rectifier working: http://labs.metacarta.com/rectifier/ Nope. To save even more typing, next time just use 1 for yes and 0 for no... have fun, SteveC | [EMAIL

[OSM-talk] Potlatch on talk-de

2008-01-25 Thread SteveC
://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-de/2008-January/006758.html Reminds me of the good old days of flame wars on this list. have fun, SteveC | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.asklater.com/steve/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http

[OSM-talk] SOTM08 - Ireland

2008-01-31 Thread SteveC
All Having considered many great proposals, Ireland has been chosen for SOTM08 More here: http://www.opengeodata.org/?p=273 Book yer flights now. have fun, SteveC | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.asklater.com/steve/ ___ talk mailing list talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Closed Ways all Opened in Luxembourg

2008-02-03 Thread SteveC
I'm very much of the school... that someone should say what was 4 times slower and why? :-) On 3 Feb 2008, at 16:52, Richard Fairhurst wrote: Patrick Weber wrote: Hi Noticed something very strange just now. Looked at Luxembourg-City in Potlatch, and all closed ways (roundabouts, parking

[OSM-legal-talk] Progressing OSM to a new data Licence regime

2008-02-04 Thread SteveC
Dear all The OSMF has been actively investigating the license situation, in that there are many problems with CCBYSAs application to data. We think we have found a solution in the form of the Open Database Licence [http://www.opencontentlawyer.com/open-data/open-database-licence/ ]. This

Re: [OSM-talk] Crazy ways after editing

2008-02-06 Thread SteveC
___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk have fun, SteveC | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.asklater.com/steve/ ___ talk mailing list talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Progressing OSM to a new dataLicence regime

2008-02-06 Thread SteveC
that images created from OSM data (mashups etc) are not databases in the sense of the license. This is one of, I'm sure, many points that will never be solved clearly and properly. That's what we have case law for though? have fun, SteveC | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.asklater.com/steve

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Hack day 23rd Feb

2008-02-13 Thread SteveC
Details now done: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/London_Hack_Day On 12 Feb 2008, at 20:51, SteveC wrote: Hi The cycle maps guys and Nick and I think we should have a hack day again. Bearing in mind it conflicts with Richards Worcester party, we've set it for the 23rd

[OSM-talk] Screencasts

2008-02-19 Thread SteveC
I've done two screencast intros to OSM, one general and one potlatch. http://showmedo.com/videos/series?name=mS2P1ZqS6 I'll add some more if there is a positive response. I'm guessing they'll be useful to newbies. have fun, SteveC | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.asklater.com/steve

[OSM-legal-talk] License

2008-02-20 Thread SteveC
Dear all It's been a fun discussion and I, Richard, Andy and OSMF appreciate all the input. If you have anything further to add then please raise it on this list before midnight on Friday 22nd. We will then update the FAQ and so on, and make a decision where to go from there. Best Steve

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Attempt to clarify

2008-02-21 Thread SteveC
is not supporting terrorism. have fun, SteveC | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.asklater.com/steve/ ___ legal-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-talk] New Mapping Effort: Aurora, Ontario, Canada

2008-02-27 Thread SteveC
://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk have fun, SteveC | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.asklater.com/steve/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Ideas for Potlatch

2008-02-27 Thread SteveC
have fun, SteveC | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.asklater.com/steve/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] New Mapping Effort: Aurora, Ontario, Canada

2008-02-27 Thread SteveC
Anyone want to volunteer to maintain it? Tom would you mind doing the honours when someone volunteers? On 27 Feb 2008, at 23:01, Blake Crosby wrote: Steve, I think so. --Original Message-- From: SteveC To: Blake Crosby Cc: talk@openstreetmap.org Sent: Feb 27, 2008 5:53 PM

[OSM-talk] Stares

2008-03-09 Thread SteveC
Has anyone else noticed the number of stares going up? I had about 5 in my hour or so of mapping. I waved at 3 of them and got one wave back. have fun, SteveC | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.asklater.com/steve/ ___ talk mailing list talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Stares

2008-03-09 Thread SteveC
.htm 80n On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 7:52 PM, graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SteveC wrote: Has anyone else noticed the number of stares going up? I had about 5 in my hour or so of mapping. I waved at 3 of them and got one wave back. No, but I'm definitely noticing an increase

Re: [OSM-talk] Stares

2008-03-10 Thread SteveC
was just curious about OSM. did you judge her dancing ability? ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk have fun, SteveC | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.asklater.com/steve

[OSM-talk] SOTM 08 Call for papers now open!

2008-03-10 Thread SteveC
[Message to multi-lingual list members - please translate and repost to local lists!] All Call for papers, blog, venue info etc all now live: http://www.stateofthemap.org/ Limerick, Ireland 12-13 July 2008 Best Steve ___ talk mailing list

[OSM-talk] Grants

2008-03-17 Thread SteveC
Dear All Cloud Made would like to sponsor mapping and coding in OSM. We'd like to pick up where others have left off and we want to offer grants to anyone with good ideas, and we want it to be as simple as possible: http://blog.cloudmade.com/2008/03/17/openstreetmap-grants/ * £100-1000 *

[OSM-talk] OSM Article

2008-03-18 Thread SteveC
Dear Florian Fischer Thank you for the article on OpenStreetMap - it's great to see us mentioned in geoinformatics. Unfortunately there is one small error: The infrastructure of OpenStreetMap is based on Geoserver (based on GeoTools) and many pieces of free software that have been developed

[OSM-talk] License update

2008-03-18 Thread SteveC
Richard, Andy and I just had a conference call to review where we are with the license. Progress is going well. We've engaged Jordan and sent off the changes we suggested to him, he is integrating them and will be releasing a new version. Once released he will consult with other interested

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM server down

2008-03-21 Thread SteveC
db went down for some reason, restarted On 21 Mar 2008, at 07:57, Mike Collinson wrote: Both http://www.openstreetmap.org/ and attempted JOSM download give 500 Internal Server Error ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Survey: Bad Map Rendering

2008-03-21 Thread SteveC
/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk have fun, SteveC | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.asklater.com/steve/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Teleatlas file format

2008-03-21 Thread SteveC
and didn't find any. Alilo ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk have fun, SteveC | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.asklater.com/steve

[OSM-talk] OSM poll

2008-03-27 Thread SteveC
See the poll at the bottom right hand corner, and vote OSM: http://www.directionsmag.com/ :-) have fun, SteveC | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.asklater.com/steve/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin

[OSM-talk] OSMF announcement: Copyright Easter Eggs

2008-04-01 Thread SteveC
http://www.opengeodata.org/?p=287 Steve ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Voting

2008-04-07 Thread SteveC
On 7 Apr 2008, at 12:24, Robin Paulson wrote: 2008/4/7 Frederik Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED]: stumbled across a quote by David D Clark (of Internet architecture fame) today. He said: We reject: kings, presidents and voting. We believe in: rough consensus and running code. maybe someone

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-GB] Birmingham mapping party - Radio Interview today

2008-04-09 Thread SteveC
On 9 Apr 2008, at 13:23, John McKerrell wrote: Just listened, great interview (apart from the strange tunnel discussion at the beginning ;-) Does make me think I should get another Liverpool party arranged and perhaps get on the radio to publicise it. yes! Thanks for the multimap mention

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-dev] [OSM-talk] GSoC applications are in! MENTORS wanted

2008-04-09 Thread SteveC
On 8 Apr 2008, at 17:23, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, What? Geonames allows you to move and edit data which is overlaid onto a Google Map. Go to http://www.geonames.org/maps/cities.html and click on a city. You're right, there's a move link there which I had overlooked. Nonetheless,

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap State Of The Map 2008 conference early-bird registration

2008-04-27 Thread SteveC
On 26 Apr 2008, at 17:03, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, There's just over a week to go for early bird registration for OpenStreetMap's second international conference in Limerick, Ireland on the weekend of 12-13 July 2008. It is a great opportunity to meet your fellow mappers from all over the

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] The future of Potlatch

2008-05-02 Thread SteveC
Richard I'm sorry you think informal private chats are now in the public domain, I'll keep it in mind. All This is not quite what happened. For a start, this doesn't really have anything to do with CloudMade, it started a long time before that. It's about the maintainability and quality

Re: [OSM-talk] Hi-vis vest with OpenStreetMap Logo Surveyor Text

2008-05-03 Thread SteveC
just give me a bank account and the amount to transfer and I'm in On 2 May 2008, at 17:59, Graham Smith wrote: Andy Robinson (blackadder) wrote: Graham Smith Sent: 02 May 2008 4:50 PM To: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: [OSM-talk] Hi-vis vest with OpenStreetMap Logo Surveyor Text Hi

Re: [OSM-talk] failed to build mapnik with postgres support

2008-05-04 Thread SteveC
guys the dev list is that way - as is the mapnik list? On 3 May 2008, at 23:30, Hanno Böck wrote: Hi, I'm trying to compile mapnik on gentoo with postgis support. scons always says: Checking for C library proj... yes Checking for C library iconv... no Checking for C library pq...

Re: [OSM-talk] tagging and rendering

2008-05-12 Thread SteveC
On 9 May 2008, at 03:30, elvin ibbotson wrote: On 9 May 2008, at 11:05, Dave Stubbs wrote: As far as I see it there is no difference between mapping 11=autobahn, and mapping motorway=autobahn. I think you missed the point. At present we have highway=motorway and I believe a German

Re: [OSM-talk] Missing Openaerial map from Potlatch

2008-05-22 Thread SteveC
I discovered that people are just rectifying using google aerial and stuff, which breaks our paranoid/cautious stance on accepting copyright derived work. On 21 May 2008, at 21:55, Tomáš Tichý wrote: What happened to Openaerialmap layer in Potlatch? I see only - signs on the place

Re: [OSM-talk] simplifying mapnik layout definition

2008-05-28 Thread SteveC
On 27 May 2008, at 18:29, Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andy Allan wrote: | Now, if someone is volunteering to make a concise definition format | that can be pre-processed into the mapnik XML format (or mapnik python | code, or even just read

[OSM-talk] [tagging] noname streets

2008-06-09 Thread SteveC
I didn't find much on the wiki, has anyone looked at defining streets without names? I'd like to define some roads that really don't have a name so that they drop off the noname map. http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~random/no-names/ I've been adding noname:yes but I can see that might

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] noname streets

2008-06-09 Thread SteveC
coz it makes me think of no=yes and that would just be silly On 9 Jun 2008, at 12:43, 80n wrote: noname=yes seems like a perfectly good solution. Why do you think it might not be optimal? On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 10:25 AM, SteveC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I didn't find much on the wiki

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] noname streets

2008-06-09 Thread SteveC
On 9 Jun 2008, at 19:22, Alex Mauer wrote: Richard Fairhurst wrote: That statement is just... wrong. Really, really flabbergastingly wrong. Well, it's my opinion. You're going to have to revisit the route anyway to find out the road names, so why not kill 2 birds with 1 stone? Why

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] noname streets

2008-06-09 Thread SteveC
On 9 Jun 2008, at 19:40, Alex Mauer wrote: SteveC wrote: Why do you think Richard 'has' to revisit it? He personally doesn't, but if a road has a name, and that name is to be in the database, someone has to go there and find out what it is. Yes, but that's not what you said. And, some

Re: [OSM-talk] osm talk at local LUG

2008-06-10 Thread SteveC
On 10 Jun 2008, at 10:09, Steve Hill wrote: On Tue, 10 Jun 2008, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote: From my experience you get lots of questions so best keep the presentation simple and allow enough time to answer stuff. You might also find you get questions regarding the free

[OSM-talk] pronunciation tag

2008-06-23 Thread SteveC
So it would be nice if we could tag how things sound as well as what they're called. GPS devices are starting to try (badly) at speaking out the names of things. Now there are some ways of marking this up already, but they look awful and require a degree in linguistics, viz

Re: [OSM-talk] pronunciation tag

2008-06-23 Thread SteveC
. These are used to some extend among linguistics and are all based on ASCII. These would also relieve the pain of trying to figure out what something would be in phonetic pseudo-english. can you summarise these with examples? 2008/6/24 SteveC [EMAIL PROTECTED]: So it would be nice if we could tag how

Re: [OSM-talk] SOTM weekend accommodation?

2008-06-23 Thread SteveC
On 23 Jun 2008, at 19:08, Gregory wrote: You need to get over the sea from here to there. An alternative to swimming is to go in a plane, and unless you have a private jet you may be required to show your passport to someone. I think Ryan Air's policy requires you to have a passport.

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Map Maker

2008-06-24 Thread SteveC
Hum: http://blogs.s60.com/browser/images/seriouslyIBM_l.jpg On 24 Jun 2008, at 09:54, X wrote: http://www.google.com/mapmaker/mapfiles/s/support.html Ready ... Fight ! ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] SOTM weekend accommodation?

2008-06-25 Thread SteveC
On 25 Jun 2008, at 08:46, Barnett, Phillip wrote: Weirdly, on the way back, after disembarking at Stansted, and before customs/passport control, an officious looking woman was inspecting _boarding_ cards. She was backed up by half a dozen serious looking men, so she meant business. I have

[OSM-talk] State of the Map 2008: Mission Accomplished

2008-07-14 Thread SteveC
A very big thanks to all who attended and made it a wonderful event. Thanks to the volunteer organisers who did all the dredge work and sat around behind cameras all day, ordered t-shirts and all the rest: AndyR, Gareth, Christian, NickB, Etienne, Mike Collinson and, er, me. I think despite

[OSM-talk] Welsh residential mapping weekend

2008-07-14 Thread SteveC
A few people have mentioned that they want to go to http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Welsh_Mapping_Party_Weekend (cottage, Wales, 12-15 Sept) but that it's booked out. I did all the work for that cottage, I strongly suggest someone sets up another nearby or something and looks for

[OSM-talk] poster things

2008-07-16 Thread SteveC
anyone have any photos with those poster stand things that were at SOTM that looked like they were for conference booths? there was one to the right of the projector screen the whole time Best Steve ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] suggestion for SOTM09

2008-07-18 Thread SteveC
On 15 Jul 2008, at 08:08, Richard Fairhurst wrote: Daniel Glassey wrote: fwiw location-wise I would prefer somewhere more easily and cheaply accessible by most people that would like to come than I expect GC would be. Being a bit of a tree-hugger at heart, I'd prefer somewhere in

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM maps in 3D

2008-07-18 Thread SteveC
On 18 Jul 2008, at 08:13, Igor Brejc wrote: elvin ibbotson wrote: Very nice but it needs DirectX. I cut my map programming teeth on a viewer for British OS maps which uses Java 3D (http://britain.poco.org.uk/desktop.html ). I can’t share it because of copyright restrictions on the

Re: [OSM-talk] suggestion for SOTM09

2008-07-19 Thread SteveC
On 18 Jul 2008, at 17:14, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, (RichardF) Being a bit of a tree-hugger at heart, I'd prefer somewhere in mainland Europe easily accessible by train. (SteveC) ...so you can skip it again? :-P There were a number of people absent at this year's SOTM who are quite

[OSM-talk] Numerology

2008-07-27 Thread SteveC
We surpassed 50,000 accounts. Here's to the next 50,000. Best Steve ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenMoonMap

2008-07-28 Thread SteveC
This beacon system will use radio frequency, microwave, ultrasonic or visible light sources to transmit the relative positioning between any object and known active surface beacon reference points. Good luck using ultrasonic on the moon. On 28 Jul 2008, at 04:33, Nick Black wrote:

Re: [OSM-talk] creation of a new list for Peru

2008-07-30 Thread SteveC
Tom please do the honours... On 30 Jul 2008, at 11:25, Patrick Aljord wrote: Hi all, I would like to create a talk-pe list for Peru. I don't know who to contact so I'm asking here. Thanks in advance, Pat ___ talk mailing list

[OSM-talk] OSM quality in the UK - academic paper

2008-08-07 Thread SteveC
I'm still reading... http://povesham.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/osm-quality-evaluation/ Best Steve ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] osm in flickr

2008-08-11 Thread SteveC
http://www.flickr.com/map?fLat=39.912fLon=116.3783zl=4order_by=interestingness Best Steve ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] osm in flickr

2008-08-13 Thread SteveC
, SteveC escribió: http://www.flickr.com/map?fLat=39.912fLon=116.3783zl=4order_by=interest ingness A friend of mine (thanks, rinzewind!) points me to this entry in the flickr's developers blog: http://blog.flickr.net/en/2008/08/12/around-the-world-and-back-again/ Cheers, Good find ! Now

[OSM-talk] Local list contacts

2009-05-11 Thread SteveC
Dear all The various mailing lists have grown well organically and there are great contributions, debate and discussion on them. In order to more efficiently and clearly trickle down announcements like server downtime to the local lists, we've created a 'list of lists' for people to help

Re: [OSM-talk] Fw: [ppgis] Invitation for expressions of interest for Ordnance Survey Think Tank Session on Crowd source data capture, geospatial mashups and its impact on NMAs - 13th July 2009 (Tue

2009-05-11 Thread SteveC
On 7 May 2009, at 08:42, Mikel Maron wrote: Selection of invited experts will be made by the Ordnance Survey. Guess they won't be having people from OSM then :-) Best Steve ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Local list contacts

2009-05-12 Thread SteveC
this process. Please ping me if you can help. On 11 May 2009, at 10:54, SteveC wrote: Dear all The various mailing lists have grown well organically and there are great contributions, debate and discussion on them. In order to more efficiently and clearly trickle down announcements like server

[OSM-talk] Data Import Support Working Group

2009-05-12 Thread SteveC
All The foundation today discussed the perceived need for a working group to help people import data. We know there are highly talented individuals out there who are able to find data to import, have the social skills and time to get data holders to release it to OSM, have the legal

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-talk-ie] open street map - what's in it for you?

2009-05-13 Thread SteveC
On 2 May 2009, at 14:10, Johnny Rose Carlsen wrote: Nic Roets nro...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Dermot McNally derm...@gmail.com wrote: drove into a new housing estate ... yes but, what's in it for you? Why does a painter paint? Why play football? Why give

[OSM-talk] Isle of Wight 2

2009-05-30 Thread SteveC
Remember how awesome the wales mapping weekend was last year? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Welsh_Mapping_Party_Weekend Remember the Isle of Wight mapping weekend 3 years ago? It was super awesome, we had 30 odd people, local TV, press and stuff

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-GB] Isle of Wight 2

2009-06-01 Thread SteveC
. Parts of Devon/Cornwall spring to mind. Cheers STEVEs -Original Message- From: talk-gb-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-gb-boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of SteveC Sent: 30 May 2009 15:54 To: Talk GB; Talk Openstreetmap Subject: [Talk-GB] Isle of Wight 2 Remember how

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] OGC Geospatial Rights Management Summit

2009-06-10 Thread SteveC
On 9 Jun 2009, at 06:27, John Wilbanks wrote: Puneet Kishor, who is a Science Commons Fellow looking at geospatial data and climate change, will be attending and hoisting the facts can't be copyrighted flag. Er, sounds like a red herring to me since they can have database rights and be

[OSM-talk] Traffic lights

2009-06-12 Thread SteveC
So there are bits and pieces on traffic lights on the wiki http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relations/Proposed/Traffic_Lights http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dtraffic_signals

Re: [OSM-talk] Move the Map

2009-06-16 Thread SteveC
On 16 Jun 2009, at 05:55, Simone Cortesi wrote: On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Frederik Rammfrede...@remote.org wrote: http://www.remote.org/frederik/tmp/three.jpg I don't find that too bad actually. But it has no map on the first page. I vehemently stated that we're about data,

Re: [OSM-talk] minor stats

2009-06-16 Thread SteveC
Isn't that skewed by what the import process to 0.6 defined as a changeset? On 16 Jun 2009, at 07:24, Simone Cortesi wrote: hi, just a minor stats: it took us 4 years: from april 2005 to go from changeset 1 to 1.000.000 in april 2009. We are now, after only 2 months, already at

Re: [OSM-talk] Move the Map

2009-06-16 Thread SteveC
On 16 Jun 2009, at 11:38, Tim Waters (chippy) wrote: One of the main annoyances that people tell me that they have with OSM is that whenever they visit the site, the map shows them just the UK. I thought that the IP 2 geo stuff was in there to make it default to the country it thinks you're

Re: [OSM-talk] openmaps.org

2009-06-16 Thread SteveC
On 16 Jun 2009, at 14:15, Stefan de Konink wrote: SteveC wrote: On 16 Jun 2009, at 09:51, Stefan de Konink wrote: Eric Pritchett wrote: I'm sure there are more advantages, There is; there is no trade mark on the name :) There isn't on openstreetmap either. Ok, the first time they refused

Re: [OSM-talk] openmaps.org

2009-06-16 Thread SteveC
On 16 Jun 2009, at 14:27, Stefan de Konink wrote: SteveC wrote: Wrong again. The ™ was applied for the logo and the name So 'mark' means to me 'name' so OpenStreetMap was protected if it was granted, yes? If, yes. in the UK and Europe and the Foundation owns the whole problem

Re: [OSM-talk] full history of a way?

2009-06-17 Thread SteveC
On 14 Jun 2009, at 01:49, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, There are no full history dumps currently - having such dump would enable this type of query quite easily. I am sure we will have them at some point in time. Well, there could be slight problem with pre-0.6 data (no order in relations)

[OSM-talk] SOTM 08 videos

2009-06-17 Thread SteveC
Hi Linked off of stateofthemap.org are the SOTM '08 videos: http://blog.signal2noise.ie/~eason/sotm08/ But they're incomplete and super, super, super slow to load. So does anyone know if the rest will be put up? And, can anyone mirror them somewhere useful? Best Steve

[OSM-talk] The future of bugs in OSM

2009-07-01 Thread SteveC
I've been thinking a bit about how bugs work in OSM. I really like the way OSB works http://openstreetbugs.appspot.com/ But it's closed source afaik and doesn't have an API. It uses human input. new OSB is cool and tries to fix some of this

Re: [OSM-talk] The future of bugs in OSM

2009-07-02 Thread SteveC
On 1 Jul 2009, at 19:58, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, SteveC wrote: But, and this is key, it also has a RESTful API for mass uploading of bugs. We need to do two things - unify the various bug systems and expose more of the bugs. I believe that the types of bugs one can look

Re: [OSM-talk] The future of bugs in OSM

2009-07-02 Thread SteveC
On 1 Jul 2009, at 21:15, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, Nic Roets wrote: And if the user indicates that he just wants to add a PoI, redirect him to http://ae.osmsurround.org/ so that he can add it directly to the database. That's the point I was trying to make - do not hog all the bugs in

Re: [OSM-talk] The future of bugs in OSM

2009-07-02 Thread SteveC
On 2 Jul 2009, at 11:19, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, Richard Fairhurst wrote: Frederik Ramm wrote: That's the point I was trying to make - do not hog all the bugs in one central place and allow users to do only what you have coded; instead open this up so that anybody can hook their app into

Re: [OSM-talk] AAAA openstreetmap still doesn't use ipv6

2009-07-03 Thread SteveC
On 2 Jul 2009, at 08:57, Tom Hughes wrote: Thomas Schäfer wrote: sorry the theme is for the most of the people off topic. They use the application osm via internet. But the fundament of the internet (its protocol) is changing. We (the admins) are all well aware of this. I personally

Re: [OSM-talk] Second Grand State Of the Map Poetry Competition!!

2009-07-03 Thread SteveC
On 1 Jul 2009, at 17:48, Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote: El Miércoles, 1 de Julio de 2009, Mike Collinson escribió: Last year we had some great Limerick poems for the Limerick State Of the Map Conference. This year, the format is the Haiku. Maps maps maps maps maps maps maps! Ivan This is

Re: [OSM-talk] Second Grand State Of the Map Poetry Competition!!

2009-07-03 Thread SteveC
On 3 Jul 2009, at 11:27, Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote: El Viernes, 3 de Julio de 2009, SteveC escribió: This is a derivative work, clearly, of my efforts last year. I have openly licensed this on the OSM wiki as CC-BY-SA 2.0 however, you have not provided attribution. I would appreciate

Re: [OSM-talk] Second Grand State Of the Map Poetry Competition!!

2009-07-05 Thread SteveC
On 3 Jul 2009, at 18:14, Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote: El Viernes, 3 de Julio de 2009, SteveC escribió: As you can clearly see, Exhibit 1 Original Work Maps maps map map maps Maps maps map map maps map map map maps map map map maps Maps maps map map maps is a direct parent of Exhibit 2

Re: [OSM-talk] SOTM: Amsterdam Friday Evening

2009-07-06 Thread SteveC
for thurs see http://www.stateofthemap.org/2009/07/06/pre-conference-drinks-nieuwmarkt/ for fri I have suggested similar to the group On 6 Jul 2009, at 17:07, Nick Whitelegg wrote: Hello everyone, I'm arriving (all being well!) in Amsterdam Friday evening at either 17:03 or

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] License for OSM logo

2009-07-07 Thread SteveC
On 7 Jul 2009, at 12:56, Richard Weait wrote: On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 03:01 -0400, Russ Nelson wrote: On Jul 7, 2009, at 2:53 AM, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote: The logo is also now trademarked. I'll raise this (and have also copied to Matt) as currently we don't have a policy on

Re: [OSM-talk] SteveC; C = Cool

2009-07-07 Thread SteveC
On 7 Jul 2009, at 23:26, Stefan de Konink ste...@konink.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 SteveC wrote: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-de/2009-July/ 049514.html I'm not going to apply on talk-de to tell you this: inventing nodes, ways, segments

Re: [OSM-talk] SteveC; C = Cool

2009-07-07 Thread SteveC
On 8 Jul 2009, at 00:06, Stefan de Konink wrote: Still you live [that was an observation I made without sleeping in front of your door yesterday], and you have influence on the process :) So don't you consider it a waste it got more difficult? No Best Steve

[OSM-talk] OSM 5th Anniversary

2009-07-28 Thread SteveC
All It's been nearly five whole years since I initially set OSM up. It makes me pause for thought, it's a long time in some ways. Not so much in others. localhost:~ steve$ whois openstreetmap.org | grep 2004 Created On:09-Aug-2004 18:47:25 UTC August 9th conveniently lands

[OSM-talk] My online presence

2009-07-29 Thread SteveC
All Bar about two or three of my most ardent friends I am the strongest believer and defender of free speech and the free market I know. The former, I believe far beyond what exists in the United Kingdom and much of Europe. I came to this position after volunteering for organisations

[OSM-talk] Fwd: documents on OpenStreetMap for iso/tc211 project 19154

2009-08-11 Thread SteveC
Anyone able to help this guy? Yours c. Steve Begin forwarded message: From: Ki-Joune Li l...@pnu.edu Date: 10 August 2009 19:17:16 PDT To: 'SteveC' st...@asklater.com Subject: RE: documents on OpenStreetMap for iso/tc211 project 19154 Hi Steve, I'm very happy to get an e-mail from you

Re: [OSM-talk] [Legal-general] Attribution in static/printed maps

2009-08-11 Thread SteveC
Looks good to me, seems to follow the guidelines. On 2 Jul 2009, at 11:13, Rajiv Aggarwal wrote: Hi all, I'm implementing a service/API similar to Google Static Maps API that uses OpenStreetMap data. This is part of a larger effort (www.cellguided.com ) to create store maps that are

[OSM-talk] Anyone from Hungary here?

2009-08-11 Thread SteveC
Hi I have a contact who has a GIS mailing list in Hungary and they'd like someone to email them about OSM. Are there any locals that can help? Please mail me. Yours c. Steve ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] [Osmf-talk] OPENSTREETMAP FOUNDATION - NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

2009-08-17 Thread SteveC
the lines of what RichardF said in the comments section on that page. This would mean that *either* your *or* SteveC should be on the board but not both of you. It is of course everyone's right to stand for election and let the voters decide if they support Richard's suggestion or not - but I

[OSM-talk] The most amazing video in the entire universe

2009-08-19 Thread SteveC
http://www.opengeodata.org/?p=678 Yours c. Steve ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

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