Re: [OSM-talk] proprietary and unrelated images on the about page

2013-12-03 Thread Robert Scott
On Monday 02 December 2013, Christoph Hormann wrote: > TopOSM: > > http://toposm.ahlzen.com/ > (various examples on http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/TopOSM) > > OpenSeaMap: > > http://map.openseamap.org/?zoom=14&lat=56.04136&lon=12.63945&layers=BFTFFFTFFFT0 > > OSM2World: > > http://

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap font

2013-07-09 Thread Robert Scott
On Tuesday 09 July 2013, sabas88 wrote: > Hello list, > are there some style/brand guidelines for the creation of OSM materials? > Particularly I was asked about which font could be used to write > OpenStreetMap, and the only text I found was the one in the old banner ( > http://wiki.openstreetmap.

Re: [OSM-talk] iD Editor live on OpenStreetMap

2013-05-14 Thread Robert Scott
On Tuesday 14 May 2013, Tom Hughes wrote: > On 14/05/13 13:14, Kevin Peat wrote: > > > I would imagine that most OSMers would have (at least) Firefox and > > Chrome/Chromium installed. If iD doesn't work so well on Firefox yet > > then why not put up a dialog at the start of a session on Firefox >

Re: [OSM-talk] iD Editor live on OpenStreetMap

2013-05-14 Thread Robert Scott
On Tuesday 14 May 2013, Dave F. wrote: > Using the end user's inconvenience to strong arm/embarrass the likes of > Mozilla into making changes is not the way to design software. This > should have been sorted out in Beta, or, as it appears to be a well > known problem - Alpha. We would be alpha

Re: [OSM-talk] additional layers on osm.org

2013-02-21 Thread Robert Scott
On Thursday 21 February 2013, Joseph Reeves wrote: > MapBox? http://mapbox.com/blog/open-aerial/ > > If you look at the phases table at the bottom of http://mapbox.com/blog/mapbox-satellite/ >From what I can tell, only Phase 1 is going to be "open". So I don't know if that will be "good enoug

Re: [OSM-talk] additional layers on osm.org

2013-02-21 Thread Robert Scott
On Thursday 21 February 2013, Jason Remillard wrote: > - an overhead image layer + mapnik style. We could reproduce the work > that MapBox did collecting existing images. I don't think you will have much success with the licensing here. Aerial imagery rights go for muchos $$$. I think you're for

Re: [OSM-talk] Shoud OSM Help move to Stackexchange community?

2012-09-10 Thread Robert Scott
On Monday 10 September 2012, Graham Stewart (GrahamS) wrote: > This move makes some sense to me. Yes, let's take our existing, fully-working and independent system - and more importantly its valuable archive - and put it in the hands of (and at the whim of) a commercial entity desperately trying

Re: [OSM-talk] horrible job in gjilan,kosovo

2012-08-22 Thread Robert Scott
On Wednesday 22 August 2012, Mike Dupont wrote: > Richard, > your insults, personal attacks and negative comments that I have had to > endure in the past are now continuing now. I wonder why people tolerate it. I think Richard has been very restrained in the face of the nonsense certain people li

Re: [OSM-talk] Neocartography

2012-08-13 Thread Robert Scott
On Monday 13 August 2012, Robert Scott wrote: > On Monday 13 August 2012, Steve Chilton wrote: > > Full (and fascinating) programme for ICA Neocartography session at UCL 5 > > Sept now available: > > http://neocartography.icaci.org/ > > It would be good to see some mor

Re: [OSM-talk] Neocartography

2012-08-13 Thread Robert Scott
On Monday 13 August 2012, Steve Chilton wrote: > Full (and fascinating) programme for ICA Neocartography session at UCL 5 Sept > now available: > http://neocartography.icaci.org/ > It would be good to see some more OSMers there. > Sign up (for free) with Eventbrite. > See also the Society of Carto

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM : It's a shame !!!

2012-05-29 Thread Robert Scott
On Tuesday 29 May 2012, ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen wrote: > I did not give you permission to share > a private conversation on the list. > > That is also about copyrights, Davie. Public interest defence trumps this. Next! robert. _

Re: [OSM-talk] Associated Press article: "Crowds create Wikipedia-style maps of the world"

2012-03-22 Thread Robert Scott
On Thursday 22 March 2012, Spod OSM wrote: > http://www.japantoday.com/category/lifestyle/view/crowds-create-wikipedia-style-maps-of-the-world?utm_campaign=jt_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=jt_newsletter_2012-03-22_AM Wow - Waze - there's a blast from the past. robert. _

Re: [OSM-talk] Group relation proposal

2012-03-22 Thread Robert Scott
On Thursday 22 March 2012, LM_1 wrote: > I have created a new proposal for group relation (type). It is > intended to reduce tagging duplication and make it easier to map dense > public transport areas by grouping ways that are used by multiple > transport lines (not having to add the same group to

Re: [OSM-talk] 23 ideas for osm and its forks

2012-01-13 Thread Robert Scott
On Friday 13 January 2012, mick wrote: > On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 02:00:17 +0100 > Mike Dupont wrote: > > > Hello world, > > > > I have written down all my ideas so far on an ideascale i setup > > > >http://fosm.ideascale.com/ > > > > here you have 23 new ideas for #osm, > > independent of

Re: [OSM-talk] Friends

2011-12-02 Thread Robert Scott
On Friday 02 December 2011, Janko Mihelić wrote: > I would like the system to suggest friends, based on a number of > indicators. Something like "edits on the same place" or "edits power lines > (bus routes, forests) like you" or "edits ways you drawn earlier" or "just > started with openstreetmap

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixed: Major problem with the map

2011-11-25 Thread Robert Scott
On Friday 25 November 2011, dies38...@mypacks.net wrote: > Thanks. Clearing the cache 'back to the beginning of time' fixed it for me. > --OSM user ceyockey Yes - there's been a major update to the OpenStreetMap site in the last few days and it may require a shift-reload for up to date resourc

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

2011-10-26 Thread Robert Scott
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. robert. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstree

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

2011-10-26 Thread Robert Scott
On Wednesday 26 October 2011, Erik Johansson wrote: > 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 at

Re: [OSM-talk] The thread "Roundabouts and routing"

2011-09-09 Thread Robert Scott
On Friday 09 September 2011, Anthony wrote: > Is it just me Yes. > or does the thread "Roundabouts and routing" > (http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2011-September/060082.html) > reflect a dysfunctional community? No. robert. ___ talk m

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread Robert Scott
On Thursday 23 June 2011, John Smith wrote: > > More importantly, if "f"osm is so much more legitimate and important than > > OpenStreetMap, why are you still over here taking a dump on "our" list? > > You're the one making a big song and dance about things. > I wouldn't say I'm making a song a

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread Robert Scott
On Thursday 23 June 2011, ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen wrote: > @Eugene > > Please do not extend the discussion with incompatible examples. > My example fits exactly the description of what is called > forking: > Try > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_%28software_development%29

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread Robert Scott
On Thursday 23 June 2011, John Smith wrote: > On 24 June 2011 01:02, Robert Scott wrote: > > Nearly all of the data was generated by OpenStreetMap contributors under > > the OpenStreetMap flag, so I think the attribution should be mostly to > > OpenStreetMap. > > For

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread Robert Scott
On Thursday 23 June 2011, John Smith wrote: > On 23 June 2011 21:53, Robert Scott wrote: > > On Thursday 23 June 2011, John Smith wrote: > >> The data is rendered from FOSM data. > > > > Which is 100% sourced from OpenStreetMap data. > > I find this ironic, i

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread Robert Scott
On Thursday 23 June 2011, John Smith wrote: > On 23 June 2011 21:53, Robert Scott wrote: > > On Thursday 23 June 2011, John Smith wrote: > >> The data is rendered from FOSM data. > > > > Which is 100% sourced from OpenStreetMap data. > > I'm told ther

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread Robert Scott
On Thursday 23 June 2011, John Smith wrote: > The data is rendered from FOSM data. Which is 100% sourced from OpenStreetMap data. robert. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Extracting a BBOX from an osm change file

2011-03-12 Thread Robert Scott
On Friday 11 March 2011, Rodolphe Quiedeville wrote: > Hi, > > With osmosis-0.38 it's possible to extract data contains in a bbox from > ans osm data file. But it appears that it's not work for an osm change > file. > I want to know if changes files from > planet.openstreetmap.org/hourly-replicate

Re: [OSM-talk] Massive import of airports

2010-12-17 Thread Robert Scott
On Friday 17 December 2010, Stefan de Konink wrote: > On Fri, 17 Dec 2010, Andrew Harvey wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Stefan de Konink wrote: > >> Come on, this is non-sense. If someone accepted the CT and imports the > >> data, > >> it should be enough. > > > > I disagree, if t

Re: [OSM-talk] Let's prepare to Fork OSM to a CC BYSA 2.0 continuation

2010-08-22 Thread Robert Scott
On Sunday 22 August 2010, Jenny Campbell wrote: > everyone else's concerns You are trying to make it sound like there are a huge number of people that agree with you. Perhaps you genuinely believe that. If so I think you are tremendously mistaken. It is a very vocal minority. There have been th

Re: [OSM-talk] Let's prepare to Fork OSM to a CCBYSA 2.0 continuation

2010-08-22 Thread Robert Scott
On Sunday 22 August 2010, Felix Hartmann wrote: > This means we have to find a new domain, new servers, and get the > usernames/passwords copied so people can login to the CCBYSA 2.0 fork > without new registration. How about you start with your own mailing lists? robert.

Re: [OSM-talk] iPad app

2010-08-21 Thread Robert Scott
On Saturday 21 August 2010, SteveC wrote: > The problem with a remote app is that connectivity will really, really suck > while you're out wandering around with an ipad. You'll be hopping cell > towers, going on to broken wifi networks and half the time things will be > very slow or timeout. It

Re: [OSM-talk] iPad app

2010-08-20 Thread Robert Scott
On Saturday 21 August 2010, Ben Last wrote: > Or HTML5, which is a viable option on the iPad. The bigger issue > might be with some of the hardwired limits on the size of all images > used (our guys working on the iPad testing of the NearMap site have > been coming up against this). > Cheers With

Re: [OSM-talk] You have killed accessibility!

2010-07-01 Thread Robert Scott
On Thursday 01 July 2010, lulu-...@gmx.de wrote: > There is a possibility to have captchas with audio output. Yes, and strangely enough the admins, not being idiots, did consider this beforehand. Unfortunately there is an issue with our current version of mediawiki and recaptcha. In the meantime

Re: [OSM-talk] US to spend $8bn upgrading GPS constellation

2010-05-26 Thread Robert Scott
On Wednesday 26 May 2010, Maarten Deen wrote: > Can someone explain to me why an ATM would need a GPS in order to dispense > cash? Or why Wall Street needs it to trade? These things are stationary. > Ok, maybe stock traders can use it to see where shipments of the companies > the trade in are, but

Re: [OSM-talk] Google StreetMap embedding Flickr photos

2010-03-01 Thread Robert Scott
On Monday 01 March 2010, Anthony wrote: > Yeah. Anyone know how they're doing this? It's stuff like this that makes > me think that a free, non-profit project is always going to be many steps > behind the big boys when it comes to this domain. http://phototour.cs.washington.edu/bundler/ GPL. I

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

2009-12-29 Thread Robert Scott
On Tuesday 29 December 2009, 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 able to combine a couple of traces into one long > trace. I use

Re: [OSM-talk] Countering Google's propaganda

2009-12-17 Thread Robert Scott
On Thursday 17 December 2009, John Smith wrote: > What a pity the whole basis for Copenhagen is a complete and utter > sham, it's true global warming is man made, the moment some men > started fudging the figures and lying about anything that disagreed > with political agendas. > > Sure the world

Re: [OSM-talk] more accurate open-source gps hardware

2009-11-13 Thread Robert Scott
On Saturday 14 November 2009, Erik Lundin wrote: > Nice idea. Alas, it seems to be too good to be true, as the first > comment points out. The second and third comments get it right though. robert. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://

Re: [OSM-talk] Randomly disappearing streets

2009-10-22 Thread Robert Scott
On Thursday 22 October 2009, Bev M Ewen-Smith wrote: > Concordia Avenue, Wirral (CH49 6JD) was there; now isn't. LatLon > 53.3877,-3.0919 > Neighbouring streets all still present. I'm trying to find the culprit using http://www.openstreetmap.org/history?bbox=-3.09983%2C53.3851%2C-3.08397%2C53.

Re: [OSM-talk] Own aerial photos

2009-09-27 Thread Robert Scott
On Sunday 27 September 2009, Blumpsy wrote: > One of the heroes is a forestry researcher by the name of Alpo Hassinen > who works near the Finnish-Russian border. It's an inaccessible area, so > he uses an R/C plane for taking aerial photographs. The documentary > describes how all he has to do

Re: [OSM-talk] Satellite for OSM

2009-09-23 Thread Robert Scott
On Wednesday 23 September 2009, paul youlten wrote: > How be difficult would it be to adapt their low-cost approach to give > more useful images for mapping? Very. Getting steady images from a balloon would be very difficult, even with a gimbal. The payload swings like a pendulum. You also wouldn

Re: [OSM-talk] JOSM display is squashed

2009-09-15 Thread Robert Scott
On Tuesday 15 September 2009, Blaž Lorger wrote: > Use Mercator projection. But be careful. I think you have to use WGS84 for > tracing over aerial imagery. WGS84 is a datum* not a projection. A datum maps points around the earth to lat/lon. A projection maps lat/lon points to the screen/paper e

Re: [OSM-talk] GPS Accuracy under Forest Canopy

2009-08-10 Thread Robert Scott
On Monday 10 August 2009, Apollinaris Schoell wrote: > compared to a SiRF III powered the eTrex is pretty lame in accuracy. > but it uses less power and runs twice as long on a set of batteries You're thinking of an old eTrex. The new eTrexes (ones with an H in the name) have high sensitivity rec

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

2009-07-15 Thread Robert Scott
On Tuesday 14 July 2009, Florian Lohoff wrote: > On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 03:15:44PM +0200, Mitja Kleider wrote: > > There is kind of an API, it is already used by the JOSM openstreetbugs > > plugin. You can use it to create, comment, close or fetch bugs. If > > other API features are needed, they