Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik Lowzoom TIles - proof of concept

On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 08:56, Frederik Ramm wrote: > There's nothing keeping one from applying the Tiles@Home lowzoom process to > a slight variation of our standard Mapnik style however, and out comes this > (for zoom levels 0-8; from z9 on, the standard Mapnik style looks fine): > > http://fred

Re: [OSM-talk] No attribution on osm.org?

On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 11:23, Tom Hughes wrote: > On 09/03/12 10:17, Floris Looijesteijn wrote: > >> I just noticed that there no longer is proper attribution on a small >> website you might have heard of: >> >> http://www.openstreetmap.org/ >> >> Isn't this sending out the wrong message? > > > Th

Re: [OSM-talk] Editing help.openstreetmap.org / Question from Gnonthgol

On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 12:02, Frederik Ramm wrote: >> I [..] remove comments[..] if someone writes: "Why does >> happen? I think that those who allow this to happen are really >> stupid!" >> This medium is less >> helpful if the reader has to browse 25 answers to get the whole >> picture!

Re: [OSM-talk] Contact And Remap Campaign

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 00:00, wrote: > Hypothetically, if some years in the future, OSMF proposed a switch to > public domain, > can they assume my acceptance from that? Yes, most certainly. The Contributors Terms, says: "You hereby grant to OSMF a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpe

Re: [OSM-talk] Wrong weblink/page on wiki home page: Gemeinschafts-Portal (DE:Mapping_projects?)

On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 12:55, Stefan Keller wrote: > Who is caring for the german translation of the current OSM wiki? > > In the german GUI translation of the wiki homepage (Mediawiki) there > seems to be a void weblink: In the navigation panel, the weblink > "Gemeinschafts-Portal" points to > [[

Re: [OSM-talk] Looking Forward

On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 00:23, Kate Chapman wrote: > More support to provide GPS units can definitely help as well and > perhaps strategic purchase of imagery.  It is so frustrating to > introduce someone to OSM and then they actually have no way to > contribute locally because there is no high re

Re: [OSM-talk] H.O.T OSM manual and learning OSM in Uganda

On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 10:24, Douglas Musaazi wrote: > Hi all, > > We have started training some people about how to go about OSM, using the > H.O.T training manual. JOSM is a good editor, but  was wondering why it's > the only one that was included in the manual. > Otherwise the manual is concis

Re: [OSM-talk] OSmosa.net run now.., contribution model

On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 16:39, Frans Thamura wrote: > right now 55 students what in my bootcamp are working on OSM, using > LearnOSM material :) > > i will collect their username, and will learn how to monitor their > contribution, stay tune ... > > any procedure to monitor? No there are no good

Re: [OSM-talk] OSmosa.net run now.., contribution model

On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 23:02, Frans Thamura wrote: > last month, all our server move to the heart of the IIX, so all people > will access faster because only 1 hop from ISPs . I understand that it will be faster to reach the server, that makes it perfect for local tile server and planet extracts

Re: [OSM-talk] OSmosa.net run now.., contribution model

On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 22:44, Frans Thamura wrote: > my osmosa.net server is dedicated > > 8 core with 16GB data, 100MBPs bandwidth international, 1GB bandwidth > inside indonesia > > my idea right now, want to make all indonesian, which we are inside > our private internet exchange called IIX. >

Re: [OSM-talk] Web API to contribute POI to OSM

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 08:42, Rong Shen wrote: > Is there a way or process that could let me submit POI (that are user > generated from mobile application built by me) to OSM via web API? > Yes you can make the users create an account on OSM and then use OAuth to write these POIS to the DB. Se

Re: [OSM-talk] Vector maps for Android

On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 09:24, Parveen Arora wrote: > Hi all, > > Please let me know some good application to use vector data of osm on > android phone becase tiles needs a lot of bandwidth to access the maps Just a question how does Kothic-JS work on Android. It takes about 500MB of memory to r

Re: [OSM-talk] #Occupy camps in OSM?

On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 14:34, Frederik Ramm wrote: > I think the #occupy camps should be mapped in all detail, with special tags, > and someone should take it upon them to make specialist maps where these > tags are rendered. (Our best zoom level, 18, is not very suitable for camps > anyway, you w

Re: [OSM-talk] #Occupy camps in OSM?

On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 00:58, Frederik Ramm wrote: > However it is not acceptable to map a camp site or a pub or anything else > where there is none just for the sake of having it show up on the default > www.openstreetmap.org rendering. But there is a camp there, and a book shop, and a toilet. I

Re: [OSM-talk] Will OSM tiles be CC-0 soon?

On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 15:32, Robert Scott wrote: > On Wednesday 26 October 2011, Erik Johansson wrote: >> the tiles produced by OSMF servers can have any >> license with attribution > > Hold on, I'm a bit confused here - CC-0 does not require attribution AFAICT. G

[OSM-talk] Will OSM tiles be CC-0 soon?

Hi I want to talk about the tiles, since they have always been a very important part of these project, ever since we got white-lines-on-landsat[1]. When we are ODBL pure, the tiles produced by OSMF servers can have any license with attribution. Will they continue to be CC-by-SA or do people think

Re: [OSM-talk] Mechanism for reporting vandalism

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 5:24 AM, Arun Ganesh wrote: > With more novice users coming in and the simplicity of > potlatch 2, i have started seeing more map graffiti and mass deletions in > India and can only expect things to get worse. [..] > Because there are not enough > active users to monitor t

Re: [OSM-talk] Naming dispute over Jerusalem - OSM failure‏

2011/10/7 dimka israeli : > < br>2. The people we met clearly did not regard themselves as being > Israeli, and referred to East Jerusalem as "their capital". Therefore I > assume that tagging "Al-Quds" as "capital=yes" and "is_in=Israel" (or > equivalently part of the relation "Israel") will not b

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixme: A proposal

On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 2:29 AM, John Harvey wrote: > from time to time I find "bugs" with planet.osm that I would like to see > fixed. If you can detect them automatically and visualize so that other can fix them then it's a wonderful idea. You example categories seem to be perfectly suitable f

Re: [OSM-talk] There are new coastline shapefiles

On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Lennard wrote: > But seeing as there are often multiple places where a single fact is > documented in the wiki, it doesn't surprise me that older references linger. > :) > > The de facto source of relative current coastline shapefiles for the past > year or two is

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] OSM XML declaration, JOSM, Osmosis et al.

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Roland Olbricht wrote: > JOSM and Osmosis both > complain about the absence of version attributes on the individual OSM > elements for data without meta data. > > Having OSM data with or without meta data is really a useful feature. The same > data with meta data i

[OSM-talk] Using Openstreetmap in books

I'm going to attend a book fair in Gothenburg were I'll walk around telling people publishers about Openstreetmap, I wonder if someone has some information material catered for this kind of audience? Or examples of OSM used in books. -- /emj ___ talk

[OSM-talk] Investigating Changesets. (repost from help)

Does anyone have any scripts, manual methods or just tips that will help in investigating a changeset? I find it very hard to understand what it happening in a changset, it's easy to get an suspicion that something is amiss but it's very hard to dig deeper. The only two things I've find was:    *

Re: [OSM-talk] Commenting and thumbs up/down feature for changesets

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 11:42 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > 1. a facility where I can comment on the perceived usefulness of a > changeset; > > 2. a facility where I can click a "thumbs down" or "thumbs up" in case I > particularly like or dislike the change; > > 3. a league table showing the most li

Re: [OSM-talk] Poll on Governance, what constitutes news, wiki front page

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > I can't see any precedent for an > unofficial poll being placed there. If you want a box to encourage > discussion (because, after all, maybe people have just not noticed the > 976234 channels we already have for it ;) ), maybe you could

Re: [OSM-talk] Join the OSMF !

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Dermot McNally wrote: > On 14 June 2011 05:18, Russ Nelson wrote: > >> Nathan was being gracious. You ARE trolling. Stop it. > > I like to assume good faith on the lists. I have never for a moment > doubted the sincerity of your position on the licence change, and

Re: [OSM-talk] Airspace & Co.

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: >   we have this recurring topic in various parts of OSM - airspace mapping. > > I'm strictly against it. I'm not 100% for it, and my feeling when reading this mail was that you are too categorically against this type of mapping. I will first c

Re: [OSM-talk] early OSM webmap request

On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 1:31 AM, Steve Chilton wrote: > For my SOTMEU presentation I need an image of the OSM webmap prior to mapnik, > the old landsat +white lines version. > I have looked on 'history' and 'featured images' on wiki but no luck. > There are a couple of examples in blackadder and c

Re: [OSM-talk] We Need to Stop Google's Exploitation of Open Communities

On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 1:06 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > Bernhard Zwischenbrugger wrote: >> >> Where can I access the OSM data? >> >> I know it is possible to download the hole planet, setup a database,... >> but that's not an easy task. > > Not easy, but possible, and done by literally hun

Re: [OSM-talk] Sports club

I've heard leisure=sports_centre being recommended for this, the definition is a bit wonky on the Wiki and if everyone tags like it is documented I find it hard to beileve that there are 30k of them.. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:leisure%3Dsports_centre On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 11:10 PM,

Re: [OSM-talk] The Future of Areas

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Jochen Topf wrote: > Hi! > > Some people (including me) are not happy with the way we represent areas in > OSM. On those pages you mention: "This could lead to objects with 10.000 points and more" isn't this a separate problem that exist today, and will be contin

Re: [OSM-talk] military vs consumer GPS and the equator

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:19 PM, wrote: > >> Didn't Clinton turn the encryption off some >> of the accuracy bits of the GPS signal at some stage (making military vs >> consumer less important)? > > Yes SA was turned off. This is where 'they' deliberately added a random > offset to the position,

Re: [OSM-talk] Explicit tagging of name language

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Ed Avis wrote: > Frederik Ramm remote.org> writes: > >>>Given that, and the user's preferred languages [en, fr], what name should be >>>picked?  The program cannot know that the name 'Scotland' is in English >> >>Why? Are there places in Scotland that have a Gaeli

Re: [OSM-talk] Explicit tagging of name language

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > On 12/06/2010 11:00 AM, Ed Avis wrote: >> >> Given that, and the user's preferred languages [en, fr], what name should >> be >> picked?  The program cannot know that the name 'Scotland' is in English > > Why? Are there places in Scotl

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Announce search box with result suggestions

On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: > Hi all, > The lack of "auto-complete" or search suggestions like you see in for > example Google (maps) and the OSM wiki search box has been bugging me for a Works ok for simple city names, but try typing Llanfairpwllgwyngyll. Since Nomina

Re: [OSM-talk] Frederik declares war on data imports...

2010/8/8 Dirk-Lüder Kreie : > Am 08.08.2010 16:59, schrieb John Smith: >> On 9 August 2010 00:58, Erik Johansson wrote: >>> Australia 2 people per km^2 >>> Sweden 21 people per km^2 >> >> Canada is ~3 people per km^2... > > You seem to forget that

Re: [OSM-talk] Frederik declares war on data imports...

On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > There are many places in the world where we have the "second-best" data in > OSM because the best available data is not under a suitable license. Might those places follow patterns like this: Germany 230 people per km^2 UK 250 people per km^2

Re: [OSM-talk] Revert requests in general

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Ben Last wrote: > Actually... I'm not sure you would :)  My reasoning is thus; OSM members are > interested in mapping, and relish the power of JOSM or Potlatch (I do > myself).  You don't want a simpler editor, you want one that helps you do > OSM mapping.  The mot

Re: [OSM-talk] Revert requests in general

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 3:45 AM, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > > Ben Last wrote: >> the edits that we're submitting all come from one user >> (that represents NearMap) since we don't (and can't) require >> users of our site to all be registered with OSM. > > Whenever it has been raised in the past, t

Re: [OSM-talk] My Vote for "most point dense" part of OSM

On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 8:11 PM, John Harvey wrote: > Total trivia.  Ever wonder where the most dense mapping in the OSM is? Dense with what, POIs or just nodes? One suggestion from State of the Map was Kibera: http://osm.org/go/l9wMiWbX3-- You need to use the data layer to see everything, it's

Re: [OSM-talk] Spatiallite

On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 1:23 AM, Serge Wroclawski wrote: > Someone gave a lightening talk at sotm about using Spatiallite with osm. > He wrote a blog post about Spatiallite: http://www.enricozini.org/2010/tips/osm-search-nodes/ ___ talk mailing list ta

Re: [OSM-talk] search field not vivisble when not logged in

2010/7/5 Roman Neumüller : > On Mon, 05 Jul 2010 02:45:17 +0300, Erik Johansson wrote: > >> On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 6:29 AM, Roman Neumüller >> wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> The main page (map) doesn't show the search field when not b

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

On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > people who [...] > go away and join the RIAA. But that is my personal opinion There is this copyright researcher, Mathias Klang[1], working on CC in Sweden who gave some categories of people who argue about copyright. I'm not sure this is co

[OSM-talk] Make a printable Map of Girona for SotM

Hi everyone State of the Map needs a small printable map for the conference in Girona[1]. We are therefore asking for submissions to our Map creating competition. What we need is a easy to read map to be included in our conference guide, with some basic POI:s. The winner will get a nice goodie fro

Re: [OSM-talk] Philosophy about Autorouting for Cyclists and new key class:bicycle

On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 10:48 PM, Jens Müller wrote: > Am 03.05.2010 19:29, schrieb Richard Mann: >> I think routers would be better served if we identify good through >> routes (ie the equivalent of highway=primary for motorists), and >> record them as relations, > > I thought a router is there to

Re: [OSM-talk] Simplifying shapes

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 8:36 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: >> I want to >> simplify the outline to make the files smaller and to make drawing quicker >> (I have many of these shapes to use in an OpenLayers vector layer), > > I didn't know that OpenLayers supported OSM files natively? It's fast and ext

Re: [OSM-talk] Military objects in RU: warning about status of voting

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Alexandr Zeinalov wrote: > Good day. > > You should know about flame war about military objects and government > secrets in Russian OSM community. And you should know that any voting > results may be considered as and only as recommendation, but not as > invariable

Re: [OSM-talk] Abnormal votings on military objects in RU wiki part; PocketGIS madness

On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Dmitry Granovsky > Another issue which surprises me immensely is that in Russia a lot of > open (=not secret) data gathered together and structured may allegedly > result in secret data. Could anyone from, say, Germany or UK comment > on this? In Sweden you have to

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] International Labels for Tags

On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 12:10 AM, Gregory wrote: > On 6 April 2010 12:12, Claus Stadler wrote: >> I'd like to know if there are structured mapping files for languages >> from tags to labels - such as a mapping >> for >>    spanish >> from >>    highway=traffic_signals >> to >>    Semáforo Having

Re: [OSM-talk] JOSM will move to Java6

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > On 12/03/2010 07:54, John Smith wrote: >> On 12 March 2010 17:50, Frederik Ramm  wrote: >>> jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: If all the code and all the tools we used were to be licensed costly software, who would pay for O

Re: [OSM-talk] will walkingpapers printed on black and white work?

On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Tom Hughes wrote: > On 27/02/10 05:21, Michal Migurski wrote: > >> Interesting, I've been treating PDF uploads as errors, essentially. =) >> I wasn't aware of printers that spoke PDF instead of JPEG/TIFF. If >> this is a common problem I can look into ways of hand

Re: [OSM-talk] [Fwd: Re: [CrisisMappers] FW: I NEED SUPPLIES NOW/ Location of Functioning Hospital : OSM PIPELINE SUGGESTED !]

2010/1/22 Iván Sánchez Ortega : > El Viernes, 22 de Enero de 2010, Jean-Guilhem Cailton escribió: >> What do you think of this suggestion folks ? >> >> I haven't taken the time to see whether this use of the database to >> forward help requests is mentioned anywhere on OSM wiki. > > Well, OSM was n

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

> Use this link in Potlatch: > http://gravitystorm.dev.openstreetmap.org/imagery/haiti/!/!/!.png > > Note that the rectification is bleeding miles off on that geotiff. Is it possible to link to a Potlatch with these tiles loaded by default? Would be wonderful to be able to post a link saying "Help

Re: [OSM-talk] no rendering of amenity=veterinary

On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 11:42 PM, Steve Bennett wrote: > On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 9:11 AM, Patrick Kilian wrote: >> >> If enough flying rhinoceros' are mapped I'll add it to osmarender. The >> interesting part here is the "enough". > > If this is the standard process, could it be documented? It's

[OSM-talk] Rendering subway entrances

How would one write a mapnik/osm2pgsql ruleset to render subway entrances at a certain zoom level? Example data with relations: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/359558 -- /emj ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.opens

Re: [OSM-talk] How to manage GPX files?

On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Morten Kjeldgaard wrote: > > On 29/12/2009, at 22.25, Steve Bennett wrote: > >> What software do people use to manage their GPX files? Mainly I want >> to be able to upload sections of GPX – rather than the whole thing – >> to Potlatch. And it might be nice to be

Re: [OSM-talk] Burning Man (was: revert changesets??)

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 11:11 PM, OJ W wrote: > filtering-out historical data (date_end doesn't exist or is in the > past) is 1 or 2 rules.  Any application needs tens or hundreds of > rules to even begin to understand OSM (try defining 'can you cycle on > this' or 'is this wet' or 'is this visibl

Re: [OSM-talk] differences in how OpenCycleMap renders bicycle parking

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Dave F. wrote: > Shaun McDonald wrote: >> Hi Edward, >> >> You need a capacity of at least 20 before it is shown. The reason for >> needing a larger number of spaces before it was rendered with a big C >> was due to places >> like >> http://www.opencyclemap.org/?z

Re: [OSM-talk] Older planet files (from 2007)?

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote: > I think 0.2 may have had both ways (though not called that at the time) and > areas but there was no user side interface to enable them to be added to the > database. Areas was later dropped in favour of a closed way. I t

Re: [OSM-talk] Mobile countryside surveying tool

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Kai Krueger wrote: > John Smith wrote: >> 2009/9/30 Nick Whitelegg : >> >>> Target platform would be any device supporting JavaME. >> >> Why JavaME exactly? > > Well, perhaps because it is by far the most wide spread mobile > programming language?! http://www.mosy

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] The OpenStreetMap website is now translatable at Translatewiki

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 1:52 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: >> To add Potlatch some internal changes need to be done in Potlatch >> itself. I've filed a bug detailing what these are: >> >>    http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/2304 > > I've now fixed Potlatch up so that it can be Translated

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=steps ramp=yes mapping stairs.

Without ramp=yes? Yes I did the same thing, I'm not quite sure whether to use the ramp:bike=yes instead. One aspect could be the length, I've only seen bike ramps on very short steps. About: ramp:luggage=yes|automatic|manual didn't see may of those.. On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Shaun McDona

[OSM-talk] highway=steps ramp=yes mapping stairs.

I added ramp=yes|no to highway=steps, for steps where strollers and bikes can pass. It's not that well used so I thought I would ask is this is stupid. I've never had any terminology for a pram ramp before, so I might have used the wrong one. See. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:ramp http:

Re: [OSM-talk] Brainstorming: Simple Revert-Tools

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Peter Körner wrote: > Hi > > I'd like to do a Brainstorming about how a Revert-Tool could look like, Having a Big Green Button that says "this changeset is trivial to revert" would be good enough for many tasks. The most important feature of an revert tool is to vis

Re: [OSM-talk] Fw: Re: Wiki Spam

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Re: [OSM-talk] SOTM videos

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 9:48 PM, David Earl wrote: > On 20/08/2009 19:22, Martijn van Exel wrote: >> I've forwarded the request for this video to my colleague who is >> taking care of the conversion and uploading. > > Matt Williams pointed out to me that it actually *is* there, but it > wasn't obvi

Re: [OSM-talk] GSoC End: signFinder

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 8:28 PM, Tijs Zwinkels wrote: > > The project is right now trained to read dutch street-signs, but as long as > they have a distinct color, there's no reason why it couldn't read foreign > street-signs. Read this: > http://code.google.com/p/signfinder/wiki/TrainingOtherCount

Re: [OSM-talk] Video inputs to OpenStreetView

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Mike N. wrote: > From: "Elena of Valhalla" > >>> On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, John Smith wrote: Is 640x480 good enough? >>> ;) ofcourse we want 1080p ;) >> >> is 640x480 good enough e.g to read street names and other signs? > > http://home.att.net/~niceman/VidCap1.jpg

Re: [OSM-talk] Video inputs to OpenStreetView

On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 8:35 PM, OJ W wrote: > I'm just looking at ways of getting video-camera data into openstreetview > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Georeference_video > > http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~ojw/StreetPhotos/test3/output.kml > > is anyone else working with georeferenced videos

Re: [OSM-talk] can search engines index osm data?

On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Aun Johnsen (via Webmail) wrote: > There are millions of references to London on > the net, while not that many of Pitlochry. That meaning a search for London > might not give any OSM returns unless OSM becomes a featured site, while a > search for Pitlochry probabl

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] The map key isn't static anymore

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > * It doesn't correspond very well to the map. > > E.g. zoom level 2 still shows motorway/trunk roads in the map key even > though they're nowhere to be found, if someone would collate a list of > what's visible on each zoom level (th

Re: [OSM-talk] SOTM 08 videos

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Andy Allan wrote: > On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 9:46 PM, SteveC wrote: >> 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. >> >>

Re: [OSM-talk] Live Data - all new Data in OSM

This is an implementation of this for Live Journal: http://updates.sixapart.com/ Lets you connect to a TCP port and get live XML feed of all updates on Livejournal.. Has some cool features, such as discarding data from the stream when you can't keep up. /Erik ___

Re: [OSM-talk] Boats, marinas and the sea

On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Adam Schreiber wrote: > On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 3:37 AM, Wolfgang Schreiter wrote: >> >>> we are working on seamap tagging schemes this weekend and hope to bring >>> back >>> some more information during the next week. >>> >>> We have the German only page >>> http:/

[OSM-talk] Boats, marinas and the sea

I need suggestion on how you map things that I have mapped as just leisure=marinas. I'm thinking of actually giving these better tags now these are the ones I've seen: 1. Land area for winter storage (pay) 2. Both mooring in summer and storage during winter (pay) 3. Guest harbours where you can vi

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] How does Google map maker handle copyright

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 2:43 PM, LeedsTracker wrote: > 2009/3/19 Erik Johansson : >> After reading about the Lithuanian problems I really wonder how Google >> map maker handles copyright >> >> Everytime I tell new OSM users "You can't copy street names fr

[OSM-legal-talk] How does Google map maker handle copyright

e existing map". My theory is that information freedom freaks such as CC, FSF, EFF, Wikipedia and OSMF teaches us to be too paranoid about copyright, because they want people to use their free stuff. Then again better safe than sorry. -- /Erik Johansson

Re: [OSM-talk] Openstreetbugs source code

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 2:31 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 1:14 AM, Kyle Gordon > wrote: >> I hope I'm not alone in saying Thank You! :-D >> >> OSB is a wonderful resource that many of us couldn't live without. I >> know a few people were sceptical due to the licen

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] donating read-only api-mirrors

On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Tom Hughes wrote: > Russ Nelson wrote: >> It seems to work for them. I think it's a good idea for us. > while Marcus was suggesting clustering third party servers which is not > something we will be doing as far as I'm concerned. How much of the DB load comes fr

Re: [OSM-talk] setting up a server for a country

On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 10:17 AM, Lambertus wrote: > There is also a basic readme on how the Dutch tileserver was setup: > Is there a copy of the dutch tileserver setup somewhere? Like osm.xml stylesheets files etc... ___

[OSM-talk] Openstreetbug

You know what would be really cool? If people could use Openstreetbugs (OSB) on the main Openstreetmap site. It makes it very easy to help new wannabe mappers, and hopefully easier for them to ask for help. The last time this was up it got stuck because we don't have the source for OSB. Which wou

Re: [OSM-talk] Wiki: chriscf vandalism

On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Lester Caine wrote: > The problem that I STILL > see is translating some of the CORE tags between languages, so rather > than having an English base, and translation tables, why not have a > simple numeric entry against a tag for the APPROVED options on a tag? Num

Re: [OSM-talk] Wiki: chriscf vandalism

On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > > Erik Johansson wrote: >> "How should I tag this" is one of the most commonly asked >> questions. The wiki vote system works as a good system for >> commenting on proposals,you system does not help th

Re: [OSM-talk] Wiki: chriscf vandalism

On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > I'm starting to wonder about a "Tags I Use" system. "How should I tag this" is one of the most commonly asked questions. The wiki vote system works as a good system for commenting on proposals,you system does not help this. Great idea,

Re: [OSM-talk] West African mangrove forests and PGS coastlines

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 9:43 PM, Gustav Foseid wrote: > In West Africa, I have noticed that mangrove forests are often tagged as sea > by PGS. Some examples are found at: > Landsat also produces images outside of the visibile light spectrum, perhaps looking at these others could help? (How to acc

Re: [OSM-talk] Export too big

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Raymond Bruman wrote: > I am very surprised that the Export > I want is too big, because it would > be a very handy Export to PDF, make your print from that, if you use mapnik the scale that will give you everything is 1:5000, this will give you a width of about

Re: [OSM-talk] Anonymous editing

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Erik Johansson wrote: > Letting 3rd party web applications write to the database isn't solved, > but is there anyone using such a tool? Not that it has anything to do with this discussion, since you need to authenticate any

Re: [OSM-talk] Anonymous editing

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 9:37 PM, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > Can we take this opportunity to finally disable anonymous editing? [..] > Previous discussion: > > http://www.google.com/search?q=anonymous+editing+site:lists.openstreetmap.org bringing up an old discussion: Martyn Welch wrote: > > 2. e

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch again

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > > Michal Migurski wrote: >> I'm hesitant to blow away the existing guide, but I wonder if it >> can be moved behind a disambiguation page? Something that >> lets you understand different levels of involvement: found a >> mistake, need to

Re: [OSM-talk] Language rendering query

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 5:22 AM, ビカス ヤダワ (vikas yadav) wrote: > Hi, > > I had two queries: > 1) New Delhi text is not visible on low zooms (like 8) and is only seem even > after other smaller cities are shown. Please suggest how to fix it. (I had > put the same question on other thread a while bac

Re: [OSM-talk] Tag proposal - leisure=bird_hide

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 7:18 PM, LeedsTracker wrote: > 2009/1/12 Colin McGregor : >> On 1/12/09, LeedsTracker wrote: >>> Hello all, >>> >>> I would like to propose a new tag for a bird hide: >>> >>> leisure=bird_hide > Not sure if/how these could be merged because of this functional > distinctio

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Trust

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 4:30 AM, Mikel Maron wrote: > Thoughts on incorporating trust in change monitoring tools? Doing a list of users, as you say is the easiest, no? A global user trustiness list is a good thing though, all these web of trust are just buzz words imo. PS. The current tools for

Re: [OSM-talk] Which entry level budget garmin

On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 2:22 PM, D Tucny wrote: > the 200 > series models that are available are expensive enough (the 205 being > equivalent to 215 British pounds, amazon US price of $136 equivalent to 93 > pounds), Wonder if that has to do with cost of topomaps? They are at least infinitive numb

Re: [OSM-talk] Disable Potlatch finally.

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Nic Roets wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 6:08 PM, Gert Gremmen wrote: >> Patch #4 >> ... > > Patch #5 > If the user merges two ways which has different tagging and of which > he is not the original editor, ask him "Are you sure ?" A small little non-modal info

Re: [OSM-talk] Where have all the contributors gone?

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Donald Allwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bolivia and Brazil still have a lot of > water unmapped, so that would be something you could consider. I'm sure > there are many other parts of the world with similar needs It's very common in Bolivia at least that rive

Re: [OSM-talk] Turn restriction docs

On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 2:25 AM, Frederik Ramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want a situation where the two parts of the road are unambiguously > identified by the "from" and "to" members, meaning that if any of these do > not start/end at the junction they have to be split. What do you think of

Re: [OSM-talk] Turn restriction docs

On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Nic Roets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perhaps it will make things simpler for the user if 'via' could be left out, > but changing gosmore not to rely on the via node anymore may prove very > difficult. And rendering software may also need the via node. Ok.. so do

Re: [OSM-talk] Turn restriction docs

On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 5:58 PM, Ed Loach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Erik wrote: >> I've been looking at the 100 or so turn restrictions[1] in use, > http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.5/relations/search?type=type&value=restriction > > seems to omit at least the no_right_turn restriction I added

[OSM-talk] Turn restriction docs

I've been looking at the 100 or so turn restrictions[1] in use, and most of them don't follow the spec set up on the wiki making the description very confusing. Considering how complicated relations feels I'm asking here instead of just changing the wiki: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation

Re: [OSM-talk] Directional tagging

On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Simon Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 02:16:07PM +0100, Martin Norbäck wrote: >> b) 2+1 ways as we call them in Sweden, they are normal ways but have a >> small fence in the middle and 2 lanes on one side and 1 lane on the >> other side. T

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