Re: [OSM-dev] Xapi alternative

2011-01-28 Thread Mitja Kleider
Hi Antoine, On Fri, 28 Jan 2011 16:11:11 +0100, Antoine Pichon wrote: > I am building an application that needs to access osm poi database. Ex > : Extract all the banks (or any orther amenity) of a given area. I > didn't find this possibility (amenity filtering) in basic API but only > in xapi >

[OSM-dev] Freemap and OpenTrailView moved to own SVN repository

2011-01-28 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hi, As from today Freemap (UK OSM walkers' maps), OpenTrailView (StreetView-like connected panoramas for hiking trails), and the demo WebGL OSM viewer have been moved from the main OSM subversion repository to Freemap's own repository. You can check out the source code at svn://free-map.org.uk/

Re: [OSM-dev] Tirex freezes when adding many tiles with tirex-batch

2011-01-28 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, NopMap wrote: I am using r24508, so that change should be included. It is well possible it is the same problem, there are multiple calls to tirex-batch in a script file. Do you think putting a small sleep between them might work around the problem? If the problem is still what it was bac

Re: [OSM-dev] Xapi alternative

2011-01-28 Thread Serge Wroclawski
Antoine, There's work being done on Ian's server side, and I'm working on making a simple web frontend to XAPI so people can have a little easier time working with it. My code (just some HTML, CSS and JS) is at: https://github.com/emacsen/xapi-ui I could use some help. I'd like to get a search

Re: [OSM-dev] Tirex freezes when adding many tiles with tirex-batch

2011-01-28 Thread NopMap
Hi! Frederik Ramm wrote: > > I had that once and found it was a problem where somehow the master > could not message back to tirex-batch that it had completed a tile. I > thought I had fixed the problem in r23241. > > I believe it mostly happened in a scenario where you would input one > b

Re: [OSM-dev] Tirex freezes when adding many tiles with tirex-batch

2011-01-28 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 01/28/11 18:58, NopMap wrote: I am using tirex-batch to add large numbers of tiles (>15000) to the rendering queue for pre-rendering of tiles. Usually this works nicely, but occasionally tirex freezes completely. There's no rendering being done and tirex-status shows unchanging numbers. T

Re: [josm-dev] Filter Google from Imagery?

2011-01-28 Thread Dirk Stöcker
On Fri, 28 Jan 2011, Frederik Ramm wrote: Right. And by disallowing Google tiles, we make sure that the wrong users - those who want to trace from Google - don't use JOSM ;) Well, I have been following this discussion now for some time and I think I also should show the opinion of the current

[OSM-dev] Tirex freezes when adding many tiles with tirex-batch

2011-01-28 Thread NopMap
Hi! I am using tirex-batch to add large numbers of tiles (>15000) to the rendering queue for pre-rendering of tiles. Usually this works nicely, but occasionally tirex freezes completely. There's no rendering being done and tirex-status shows unchanging numbers. The freeze always happens while ti

Re: [josm-dev] Fwd: Filter Google from Imagery?

2011-01-28 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2011/1/28 Anthony : >> this is not so clear cut as you want to make it out to be. > > Actually my intention was to point out precisely that it is not clear > cut.  And that's why categorical blocking is wrong. According to the policy the project members were following until now, in unclear cases

[OSM-dev] Map rendering and SSDs

2011-01-28 Thread NopMap
Hi! We recently added a 128GB SSD drive to a render server and maybe some of you might find the results useful for their own hardware considerations. The server is a quadcore, debian linux with a tirex - mapnik - PostGIS rendering chain. Before the upgrade, tiles and database were located on a

Re: [josm-dev] Fwd: Filter Google from Imagery?

2011-01-28 Thread Richard Welty
On 1/28/11 10:08 AM, Anthony wrote: On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Anthony wrote: I don't see any legal argument on that page. Perhaps you got the link wrong and you meant http://www.systemed.net/blog/?p=100 ? In case it was TLDR: "Case law firmly establishes that tracing from aerial phot

Re: [OSM-dev] Xapi alternative

2011-01-28 Thread Andy Allan
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Antoine Pichon wrote: > Hi everybody > > First post here and a few questions to ask :-) Welcome. > 1/ is there any other possibility instead of xapi to do that ? You can download the planet file, filter it and get your own results. You probably don't want t

Re: [OSM-dev] [OSM-talk] Nominatim updates

2011-01-28 Thread Brian Quinion
On 28 January 2011 14:47, Nic Roets wrote: > For me, reverse lookups are completely wrong right now. (I haven't > tried forward lookups). And the status indication on > nominatim.openstreetmap.org is blank. So I figure he's doing a DB > rebuild or something. > http://osm.org/?lat=-25.797306&lon=28

[OSM-dev] Xapi alternative

2011-01-28 Thread Antoine Pichon
Hi everybody First post here and a few questions to ask :-) As I did not find clear replies to those questions, I ask them here. Sorry if they have already been replied earlier and I missed it ... So I am building an application that needs to access osm poi database. Ex : Extract all t

Re: [OSM-dev] [OSM-talk] Nominatim updates

2011-01-28 Thread Brian Quinion
Hi, > http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?q=fuel&nearlat=43.5&nearlon=7&format=xml > Is there any plan to bring this kind of (very useful !) search back ? I've fixed this - a column had changed name - thanks for the bug report. BTW - you may find that using the new bounded=1 option provide

Re: [josm-dev] Fwd: Filter Google from Imagery?

2011-01-28 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Anthony wrote: > I don't see any legal argument on that page.  Perhaps you got the link > wrong and you meant http://www.systemed.net/blog/?p=100 ? In case it was TLDR: "Case law firmly establishes that tracing from aerial photography is not an infringement of a

Re: [josm-dev] Fwd: Filter Google from Imagery?

2011-01-28 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 9:31 AM, Ian Dees wrote: > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 8:10 AM, Anthony wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 2:59 AM, Frederik Ramm >> wrote: >> > Yes. It is certainly a problematic case but I am absolutely sure that >> > the >> > overwhelming use of Google in JOSM is to trac

Re: [josm-dev] Fwd: Filter Google from Imagery?

2011-01-28 Thread Pieren
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Anthony wrote: > What argument do you have that tracing Google images is copyright > infringement? > > Perhaps the link below will help you: http://www.edparsons.com/2008/06/what-map-maker-is-is-not/ especially the last comment from Ed regards Pieren ___

Re: [josm-dev] Fwd: Filter Google from Imagery?

2011-01-28 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Jo wrote: > OSM has permission to use imagery from Yahoo and Bing for tracing. Not from the owners of the images. As I said, many of the Google images are *the exact same images* as the ones being traced from through Yahoo and/or Bing. It makes no sense that one

Re: [OSM-dev] [OSM-talk] Nominatim updates

2011-01-28 Thread Nic Roets
For me, reverse lookups are completely wrong right now. (I haven't tried forward lookups). And the status indication on nominatim.openstreetmap.org is blank. So I figure he's doing a DB rebuild or something. http://osm.org/?lat=-25.797306&lon=28.289618&zoom=18