Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik rendering of Marinas changed
Patrick Kilian wrote: Hi all, IIRC there was a discussion in #osm which basically went like this: Hi Which forum do you mean by #osm? IRC channel I'd guess. -- David James ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] What's the policy on unsurveyed roads from imagery?
2009/12/27 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com: In Australia there is this legacy speed limit sign for people with racing licenses that they can drive any speed they wish, everyone else is limited to 100, how exactly do you map that? (and I saw one such sign only the day before yesterday). Umm, actually that one's a bit of an urban myth. The sign (and it's a UN standard sign, not just Australian) means end of local speed limits, back to State/Country default speed limit. The racing licence thing comes from very old rule in NSW where they didn't enforce the limit (for anybody) as long as you were not driving at excessive or dangerous speeds, and no longer applies. Somebody once used the I'm a racing driver, it's not excessive for me excuse and got off. As long as you know the state default speed limit, this is easy to tag. It is exactly the same as a sign with that limit. Except that there is the possibility that the default limit might change in the future. In that case if default limit signs had been tagged with the limit as it was when they were tagged, they'd now all need to be changed. In the UK that sign means national speed limit applies; the national speed limit is different for single carriageways, dual carriageways, and motorways (though I think all motorways are explicitly signed with the relevant speed limit). The national speed limit has changed in the past. -- David James ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [Talk-GB] Grauniad top 100 websites
At 12:29 PM 10/12/2009, Bob Kerr wrote: Openstreetmap made the Guardians top 100 again this year. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/dec/09/best-websites-internet Cheers Bob A rights-free map created by people like you. Remarkably detailed and precise. I wonder if we can, er, borrow that tag-line? Wouldn't that require a long discussion on licensing conditions with the Grauniad? (insert smiley of choice ...) -- David James ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [OSM-talk] UK post box data
- Original Message - From: Mike Collinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tom Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED]; talk@openstreetmap.org Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2008 3:11 PM Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] UK post box data Can you point to an on-line copy of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 itself, I wonder if that has any passages relating to the usage of information provided? Freedom of Information Act 2000 c.36 Web version (HTML) - http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2000/ukpga_2036_en_1 Proint version (PDF) - http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2000/pdf/ukpga_2036_en.pdf Explanatory Note (HTML) - http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2000/en/ukpgaen_2036_en_1 Explanatory Note (PDF) - http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2000/en/ukpgaen_2036_en.pdf David James ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
[OSM-talk] Forest appearing and disapearing at different zoom levels in mapnik
I'm sure this will be a stupid question, but ... Some time ago (13th January) I added an approximate outline for Cropton forest which is due north of Pickering, UK (http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=54.327lon=-0.69zoom=10layers=B0FT). Noting that work has been going on in the Mapnik layer, I've been waiting patiently for it to appear. Yesterday (I think) it appeared at zoom levels 9 upwards. Today it shows at zoom levels 9 and 10, is completely missing at zoom level 11 and 12, and then some tiles show the forest and some don't at zoom levels 13 and upwards. I'm puzzled - I thought postings here indicated that all tiles had been rebuilt, so why do I see differences at different zoom levels? What am I still not understanding? -- David James ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] highway=stop
On Thu, January 24, 2008 12:46 am, Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote: Pieren Pieren wrote: | Could someone explain the tag highway=stop provided by the 'Map | Features' page ? | I would expect that all tags approved and moved to this reference page | are clearly described. [snip] | Well, fine, the foot note on the wiki page explains that the main | description is a non-sens... | Shall we put the node on the way where the sign is, a little bit before | the intersection (and how much) ? or is it planned to use a relation ? | or does it really help to tag such signs (I mean, it does not influence | routing) ? [snip] | or should we remove this tag from the approved Map features and create a | proposal wiki page where a clear definition could be done ? We need a way to know where stop signs and give way (yield) signs are and which direction they face. It probably requires a relation between the node and the way they are on. Does it require a relation, or just that the highway=stop be on a node a short distance back from the shared node at the intersection (except on a 4-way stop where the node at the intersection could be highway=stop)? I could make an argument that this scheme matches the physical world: the ways are aligned on the centreline of the roads (maybe?) and the stop sign is actually some distance back from the centreline of the road protected by the stop sign (at least in the UK) - do any countries have stop signs hanging above the centre of the intersection? -- David James ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] shop = chemist
On Wed, January 9, 2008 7:30 am, Ulf Lamping wrote: Hi! There's an RFC about shop=chemist, please have a look at: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Chemist On the wikipedia page about superdrug, I've found the term health and beauty retailer which might be a better term than chemist. It's not a term that I've ever heard before. It sounds like something that sector of the industry have made up to describe themselves. I'm still pretty unclear about the meaning of the dispensing tag of the already existing amenity=pharmacy. In the UK context, a dispensing chemist is one that is allowed to sell drugs which can only be issued on a prescription. (I hope I phrase that correctly.) A prescription is issued by a doctor. Mike Collinson has added wording to the Wiki page that may go some way to clarifying the terms. In the UK context, as he says For most people a pharmacy and a chemist meant (past tense) the same thing, though I might argue with the past tense - I'd still expect both a pharmacy and a chemist to be dispensing chemists. As I'm not a native speaker, I could need some help here :-) I am a native speaker. -- David James ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Almost one way streets
On Mon, January 7, 2008 12:57 pm, Mattias Dalkvist wrote: 2008/1/7, Lambertus [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Mattias Dalkvist wrote: I have come across several streets that are normal streets from one side and are no motor vehicles from the other side. How do one tag this types of streets? On the map features page [1] a tag is given that allows cyclists to access a oneway street from the restricted end (cycleway=opposite). Below is an example of a such a oneway street: highway=unclassified oneway=yes cycleway=opposite [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Map_features#Cycleway I hade some how manages to miss that one, it sounds close enuff to what I need. One reservation thow, there are no signs informing that the street is one way, it is only one way becouse of the accress restrictions at the other end. If the only restriction is an access restriction at one end, is the street one-way? What's to prevent someone turing round in the street and travelling in the wrong way? or exiting premises on the street and travelling in the wrong way? If such a street were in the UK, then I'd not expect it to be one-way just on the basis of an access restriction at one end. -- David James ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
