Re: [OSM-dev] [OSM-talk] GSoC'10

2010-03-16 Thread Graham Jones
Steve, Thank you for putting together such a detailed proposal so early in the process. Please do add a summary of the proposal to the wiki, as there is only a very small section on potential mobile application development in it. For yours, and other potential students' benefit, please note

Re: [OSM-dev] osm2pgsql hstore support

2010-03-16 Thread Jukka Rahkonen
Sven Geggus lists at fuchsschwanzdomain.de writes: Hello, I just commited a patch for osm2pgsl for optional generation of a hstore column (hstore new). Hi, Sounds great. I had been thinkin about splitting geometries and tags to a pairs of tables (one with columns geometry and osm_id,

Re: [OSM-dev] request for hosting of WMS layers

2010-03-16 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: I would like to request that my WMS layers for the albanian flooding crisis get hosted on dev.openstreetmap.org http://dev.openstreetmap.org. we have setup a server for them, and I am happy to host them, but it would be better to have them on the

Re: [OSM-dev] request for hosting of WMS layers

2010-03-16 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Hi, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: I would like to request that my WMS layers for the albanian flooding crisis get hosted on dev.openstreetmap.org http://dev.openstreetmap.org . we have setup a server for

Re: [OSM-dev] request for hosting of WMS layers

2010-03-16 Thread Jochen Topf
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 09:14:37AM +0100, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: Or were they on dev also? I found this sever : *wms*.*openstreetmap*.de I can setup the server myself if needed. I have been running an mapserver now for the flooding project, all I need is an account with

Re: [OSM-dev] request for hosting of WMS layers

2010-03-16 Thread Jean-Guilhem Cailton
Frederik Ramm a écrit : Hi, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: I would like to request that my WMS layers for the albanian flooding crisis get hosted on dev.openstreetmap.org http://dev.openstreetmap.org. we have setup a server for them, and I am happy to host them, but it would be

Re: [OSM-dev] request for hosting of WMS layers

2010-03-16 Thread Jochen Topf
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 08:13:04AM +0100, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: My server is getting slower and slower... and running out of memory. How much disk space do you need? Jochen -- Jochen Topf joc...@remote.org http://www.remote.org/jochen/ +49-721-388298

Re: [OSM-dev] request for hosting of WMS layers

2010-03-16 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
Lets see: The russian toplogical maps 24Gbekim/spatial_data/raster_data/topo_maps/ussr/ But they are converted to tiffs so much bigger. I guess we could go back the ECW proprietary compressed jpeg.. but that needs special drivers.

Re: [OSM-dev] [OSM-talk] GSoC'10 (Graham Jones)

2010-03-16 Thread waldemar quevedo
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Re: [OSM-dev] TRAPI status

2010-03-16 Thread Brett Henderson
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 9:56 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.comwrote: On 14 March 2010 14:58, Brett Henderson br...@bretth.com wrote: In the meantime, if you do need something more regular than minute updates, the existing Osmosis mechanism should be able to get down to around 5

Re: [OSM-dev] TRAPI status

2010-03-16 Thread John Smith
On 16 March 2010 19:29, Brett Henderson br...@bretth.com wrote: Sorry John, I'm not sure what you mean. What tile DB are you referring to, and what does it have to do with replication? Unless you're referring to TRAPI, but if that's the case we went off topic long ago ;-) OSM runs at least 2

Re: [OSM-dev] TRAPI status

2010-03-16 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, John Smith wrote: OSM runs at least 2 DBs, one for the data and one tiles, the tile information is a subset. The tile server uses the same minutely diffs that everyone else can already use, so no special replication there. Bye Frederik ___ dev

Re: [OSM-dev] request for hosting of WMS layers

2010-03-16 Thread Sven Geggus
Jochen Topf joc...@remote.org wrote: I contacted the guy running wms.openstreetmap.de /me to see whether we have some space on that server. I think we are running out of disk space, but we'll see. There are still about 700 Gigabytes available so we will probably be able to host at least

Re: [OSM-dev] request for hosting of WMS layers

2010-03-16 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
I would like to humbly suggest that we start with the DLR images that are coming out: I have prepare Madeira already: http://xhema.flossk.org:8080/mapserver/madeira_ll.map I hope that the new ones are available because they are made due to the charter call, see the permission mail from the

Re: [OSM-dev] Spam in Users' Diaries and Users' Pages

2010-03-16 Thread Lars Francke
Mostly likely we will wind up adding a moderation queue and moderating new users first few diary entries. I don't have any developer experience with it but Akismet[1] seems to work quite well on Wordpress and we seem to get the same kind of spam I regularly see in my Wordpress spam queue. They

Re: [OSM-dev] Spam in Users' Diaries and Users' Pages

2010-03-16 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
What about a default filter for the main page that only shows people who have x number of edits. Or allow people who are established user to approve or vote on new entries from new people. I think there should be a way to report spam effectively, that would be the best solution. mike On Mon, Mar

Re: [OSM-dev] Spam in Users' Diaries and Users' Pages

2010-03-16 Thread Tom Hughes
On 16/03/10 11:33, Lars Francke wrote: I don't have any developer experience with it but Akismet[1] seems to work quite well on Wordpress and we seem to get the same kind of spam I regularly see in my Wordpress spam queue. They seem to be focused solely on blogs and especially Wordpress blogs

Re: [OSM-dev] request for hosting of WMS layers

2010-03-16 Thread Jukka Rahkonen
jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com writes: Lets see:The russian toplogical maps 24G  ...But they are converted to tiffs so much bigger. I guess we could go back the ECW proprietary compressed jpeg.. but that needs special drivers. ECW is a fine format but

Re: [OSM-dev] Spam in Users' Diaries and Users' Pages

2010-03-16 Thread Dan Karran
On 16 March 2010 11:43, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: I already looked at Akismet but as you say, we would have to pay unless we counted as a non-profit and then we would have to put links everywhere. Could Mollom[1] be an option? I'm not sure we really fit into the 'small community site'

Re: [OSM-dev] Spam in Users' Diaries and Users' Pages

2010-03-16 Thread Grant Slater
On 16 March 2010 11:58, Matt Williams li...@milliams.com wrote: Mollom is an alternative to Akismet but it suffers the same problems. Otherwise SpamAssassin should mostly do the trick. There is also http://defensio.com/ which is free during beta. Although depending on the interpretation we

Re: [OSM-dev] Spam in Users' Diaries and Users' Pages

2010-03-16 Thread Andy Deakin
Hi, On some sites I mange, there are lists of suspicious words/markup. If there are too many of these in the post (call it a spam score), then they are sent to a 'please confirm you are human', where an anti-bot code must be entered before the post is allowed. Andy

Re: [OSM-dev] project idea

2010-03-16 Thread Thomas Meller
I have retexted the project description: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User_talk:Tmeller#Student_Projects Please comment in this list. I will make corrections on that page myself to keep it clean. Thanks to Goran and Graham. I appreciate the substantial help. Thomas

Re: [OSM-dev] request for hosting of WMS layers

2010-03-16 Thread Jukka Rahkonen
Jean-Guilhem Cailton jgc at arkemie.com writes: How about free implementations of JPEG 2000 (http://www.jpeg.org/jpeg2000/), such as JasPer (http://gdal.org/frmt_jpeg2000.html, http://www.ece.uvic.ca/~mdadams/jasper/) or OpenJPEG (http://www.openjpeg.org/) ? Best regards, Jean-Guilhem

Re: [OSM-dev] Spam in Users' Diaries and Users' Pages

2010-03-16 Thread Andreas Labres
Why don't you set up your own (non-standard) challenge, some kind of: Here are 6 pictures, select those two that show a stop-sign. You could permutate the pictures, kind of signs and filenames randomly. Other than some kind of mathematical challenge (like in the wiki) this would be somehow

Re: [OSM-dev] Spam in Users' Diaries and Users' Pages

2010-03-16 Thread Ian Dees
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Andreas Labres l...@lab.at wrote: Why don't you set up your own (non-standard) challenge, some kind of:   Here are 6 pictures, select those two that show a stop-sign. I get the impression that the people posting spam are actually humans going through the

Re: [OSM-dev] Spam in Users' Diaries and Users' Pages

2010-03-16 Thread Dirk-Lüder Kreie
Andy Deakin schrieb: Hi, On some sites I mange, there are lists of suspicious words/markup. If there are too many of these in the post (call it a spam score), then they are sent to a 'please confirm you are human', where an anti-bot code must be entered before the post is allowed. I

Re: [OSM-dev] Spam in Users' Diaries and Users' Pages

2010-03-16 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Ian Dees wrote: I would rather see an interim solution of having flag as spam links on every diary page (and in the RSS) and then a bunch of moderators to take care of heavily-flagged items. I volunteer to be one of these moderators. Can't we do something that is more related to our core

Re: [OSM-dev] Spam in Users' Diaries and Users' Pages

2010-03-16 Thread Emilie Laffray
On 16 March 2010 14:18, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Hi, Ian Dees wrote: I would rather see an interim solution of having flag as spam links on every diary page (and in the RSS) and then a bunch of moderators to take care of heavily-flagged items. I volunteer to be one of

Re: [OSM-dev] Osmosis 0.34 Java Exception

2010-03-16 Thread Aaron Schaefer
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 2:39 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 6 March 2010 01:09, Aaron Schaefer aa...@elasticdog.com wrote: I'm having a similar issue as André Riedel last month: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2010-February/018500.html ...but it's not quite the

Re: [OSM-dev] Osmosis 0.34 Java Exception

2010-03-16 Thread Brett Henderson
Have you installed Osmosis to a path that includes spaces? There appears to be an issue with spaces, but I haven't looked into it yet. Brett On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 6:16 AM, Aaron Schaefer aa...@elasticdog.comwrote: On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 2:39 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [OSM-dev] Osmosis 0.34 Java Exception

2010-03-16 Thread Brett Henderson
Sorry, that wasn't a very clear email. The error you're seeing is because Osmosis can't find all required application files during startup. Having spaces in the path may cause this. It has nothing to do with the workingDirectory option. On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Brett Henderson

Re: [OSM-dev] Spam in Users' Diaries and Users' Pages

2010-03-16 Thread Robert (Jamie) Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tom Hughes wrote: On 15/03/10 13:21, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: I think one really effective way of dealing with this is to reject addition of a user description or a diary entry if the user is quite new and has no OSM edits yet. This would

Re: [OSM-dev] Spam in Users' Diaries and Users' Pages

2010-03-16 Thread John Smith
On 17 March 2010 09:45, Robert (Jamie) Munro rjmu...@arjam.net wrote: But we need not make that description or their diary entries visible to other users until they have gained some reputation on the site - presumably by making map edits. This is a dangerous path, it's too easy for these

Re: [OSM-dev] Spam in Users' Diaries and Users' Pages

2010-03-16 Thread Gregory
On 16 March 2010 17:33, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 17 March 2010 09:45, Robert (Jamie) Munro rjmu...@arjam.net wrote: But we need not make that description or their diary entries visible to other users until they have gained some reputation on the site - presumably by