[OSM-dev] Request - a query run if someone has a moment?

2010-03-22 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
If someone has a few mins and wishes to have a go at the following little task I'd be very grateful. I need to establish the closest libraries in proximity (via any transport method) to the Sustrans national cycle network (NCN RCN) within the City of Birmingham boundary (details below). The

Re: [OSM-dev] Logo vote

2010-03-17 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Well, you wouldn't be saying that if you had to sift through those 300 emails yourself! Cheers Andy -Original Message- From: dev-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:dev-boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Graham Jones Sent: 17 March 2010 6:14 PM To: SteveC Cc: dev list; Talk

Re: [OSM-dev] Complete history of OSM data - questions and discussion

2009-11-11 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Lars Francke [mailto:lars.fran...@gmail.com] Sent: 11 November 2009 1:16 PM To: Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) Cc: OpenStreetMap Dev Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] Complete history of OSM data - questions and discussion Andy, Ultimately the formation of a mini project is probably needed. Input from

Re: [OSM-dev] Out of copyright WMS offering - looking for assistance

2009-10-19 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Steve Hosgood wrote: Sent: 19 October 2009 9:39 AM To: dev@openstreetmap.org Cc: 'josm-dev' Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] Out of copyright WMS offering - looking for assistance Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote: Oh, and I forgot the most important issue. The plug-in is looking for png's when

Re: [OSM-dev] Out of copyright WMS offering - looking for assistance

2009-10-18 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
continue to retry this tile over and over again without aborting. Since we only have tiles for some areas this stops the thing working. Cheers Andy -Original Message- From: Frederik Ramm [mailto:frede...@remote.org] Sent: 17 October 2009 5:14 PM To: Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) Cc: dev

Re: [OSM-dev] Out of copyright WMS offering - looking for assistance

2009-10-18 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Oh, and I forgot the most important issue. The plug-in is looking for png's when the ooc map tiles are all jpgs. Cheers Andy -Original Message- From: Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) [mailto:ajrli...@googlemail.com] Sent: 18 October 2009 11:57 AM To: 'Frederik Ramm' Cc: 'dev

Re: [OSM-dev] [josm-dev] Out of copyright WMS offering - looking for assistance

2009-10-18 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Dave Hansen [mailto:d...@sr71.net] wrote: Sent: 18 October 2009 8:41 PM To: Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) Cc: dev@openstreetmap.org; 'josm-dev' Subject: Re: [josm-dev] [OSM-dev] Out of copyright WMS offering - looking for assistance On Sun, 2009-10-18 at 12:04 -0700, Dave Hansen wrote: On Sun

Re: [josm-dev] [OSM-dev] Out of copyright WMS offering - looking for assistance

2009-10-18 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
continue to retry this tile over and over again without aborting. Since we only have tiles for some areas this stops the thing working. Cheers Andy -Original Message- From: Frederik Ramm [mailto:frede...@remote.org] Sent: 17 October 2009 5:14 PM To: Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) Cc: d

Re: [josm-dev] [OSM-dev] Out of copyright WMS offering - looking for assistance

2009-10-18 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Oh, and I forgot the most important issue. The plug-in is looking for png's when the ooc map tiles are all jpgs. Cheers Andy -Original Message- From: Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) [mailto:ajrli...@googlemail.com] Sent: 18 October 2009 11:57 AM To: 'Frederik Ramm' Cc: 'd

Re: [josm-dev] [OSM-dev] Out of copyright WMS offering - looking for assistance

2009-10-18 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Dave Hansen [mailto:d...@sr71.net] wrote: Sent: 18 October 2009 8:41 PM To: Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) Cc: d...@openstreetmap.org; 'josm-dev' Subject: Re: [josm-dev] [OSM-dev] Out of copyright WMS offering - looking for assistance On Sun, 2009-10-18 at 12:04 -0700, Dave Hansen wrote

[OSM-dev] Out of copyright WMS offering - looking for assistance

2009-10-17 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Hi folks, You are perhaps aware that we have some more out of copyright mapping available (for the UK) and that the set-up on the new dev box will permit other out of copyright map series (extensive areas rather than individual maps) to be tiled and uploaded similarly. There is one small fly in

Re: [OSM-dev] potlach has wrong preset

2009-10-01 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: Sent: 01 October 2009 2:11 PM To: Richard Fairhurst Cc: dev@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] potlach has wrong preset 2009/10/1 Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net: valentt wrote: Hi, I have noticed that Potlach assigns wrong tags for dirt dirt track.

Re: [OSM-dev] Default scale / meters per unit ?

2009-09-30 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Tom Hughes wrote: Sent: 30 September 2009 12:55 PM To: Jonas Donovan Hansen Cc: dev@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] Default scale / meters per unit ? On 30/09/09 12:14, Jonas Donovan Hansen wrote: When importing openstreetmap with osm2pgsql and default settings (900913) - how many

Re: [OSM-dev] api06 down

2009-09-25 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Working for me Cheers Andy -Original Message- From: dev-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:dev-boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Karl Guggisberg Sent: 25 September 2009 9:19 AM To: 'dev' Subject: [OSM-dev] api06 down Hi everybody api06 seems to be broken (Internal Server Error).

[OSM-dev] REMINDER: Server Down Time - 22nd to 23rd August 2009

2009-08-21 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
A reminder that our main project servers will be offline this weekend (see details below). Wiki is currently creaking under strain but should be available along with the mailing lists over the weekend. Enjoy you edit free weekend. Go out and map lots instead :-) Please pass the message around

Re: [OSM-dev] [OSM-newbies] why don't street names show up at zoom leveles

2009-07-08 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Chris, Have copied this to the dev list as well as Steve Chilton, the maintainer of the Mapnik stylesheet, as there are likely to be some technical reasons for which someone else can respond on. I can think of a couple of possibilities, there may be others: 1. The way is very long [1] and Mapnik

Re: [OSM-dev] [OSM-talk] AAAA openstreetmap still doesn't use ipv6

2009-07-03 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Firstly, I've moved this discussion to dev. Please continue it there where it belongs. Secondly, nothing is done within OSM on a whim. As others have said, a plan is produced and if there is widespread agreement it gets implemented when those that give their time can schedule it to do what's

Re: [OSM-dev] [OSM-talk] Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) data importtechnical steps

2009-06-17 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Pushed to dev -Original Message- From: talk-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk- boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Joe Richards Sent: 17 June 2009 9:13 AM To: t...@openstreetmap.org Subject: [OSM-talk] Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) data importtechnical steps I'm working

Re: [OSM-dev] API 0.6 returns 403 forbidden

2009-05-14 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
available in the same way. Others I'm sure will suggest other ideas and options. Cheers Andy -Original Message- From: jywar...@gmail.com [mailto:jywar...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Jeffrey Warren Sent: 14 May 2009 4:07 PM To: Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) Cc: Tom Hughes; dev

Re: [josm-dev] [OSM-newbies] Upload error

2009-05-13 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
JOSM dev folks, Should perhaps JOSM be able to detect ways with too many nodes and offer to split them on download? It's very easy to shift a whole way and then end up needing to upload a huge changeset that bombs on the 2k limit. I'm seeing quite a few mails and comments on this line from users

Re: [OSM-dev] Cloudmade routing for OSM rails_port site.

2009-04-30 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Nick Black wrote: Sent: 30 April 2009 9:04 AM To: Frederik Ramm Cc: dev@openstreetmap.org; Chris-Hein Lunkhusen; Tom Hughes Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] Cloudmade routing for OSM rails_port site. On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Hi, Dermot

Re: [OSM-dev] Cloudmade routing for OSM rails_port site.

2009-04-30 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Nick Black [mailto:nickbla...@gmail.com] wrote: Sent: 30 April 2009 1:48 PM To: Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) Cc: Frederik Ramm; dev@openstreetmap.org; Chris-Hein Lunkhusen; Tom Hughes Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] Cloudmade routing for OSM rails_port site. On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Andy

Re: [OSM-dev] Cloudmade routing for OSM rails_port site.

2009-04-29 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Tom Hughes wrote: Sent: 29 April 2009 8:41 AM To: Nick Black Cc: dev@openstreetmap.org; Chris-Hein Lunkhusen Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] Cloudmade routing for OSM rails_port site. Nick Black wrote: On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu mailto:t...@compton.nu wrote:

Re: [OSM-dev] Vandalism?

2009-04-16 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Is this an example of early node ID's being affected by someone messing with a JOSM upload file? -Original Message- From: dev-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:dev-boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Stefan de Konink Sent: 16 April 2009 4:50 PM To: dev@openstreetmap.org Subject:

Re: [OSM-dev] Vandalism?

2009-04-16 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Frederik, I note that for node 9 you have left it as visible=true when the original data was false? http://openstreetmap.org/api/0.5/node/09/history Cheers Andy -Original Message- From: dev-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:dev-boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Stefan de Konink

Re: [OSM-dev] using osm as base to superset

2009-04-15 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
MilesTogoe wrote: Sent: 13 April 2009 8:30 PM To: osmdev Subject: [OSM-dev] using osm as base to superset We would like to better integrate our road network data with OSM - perhaps as using OSM as a base dataset with an extra superset of data specific to our needs (very detailed road information

Re: [OSM-dev] [bug] direction of GPS traces

2009-04-14 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Frederik Ramm [mailto:frede...@remote.org] wrote: Sent: 14 April 2009 6:12 PM To: Karl Newman Cc: Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists); osm-dev List Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] [bug] direction of GPS traces Wikipedia still allows anonymous editing, i.e. you can contribute and only your IP number

Re: [OSM-dev] [bug] direction of GPS traces

2009-04-14 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
A Morris wrote: Sent: 14 April 2009 5:28 PM To: osm-dev List Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] [bug] direction of GPS traces On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) ajrli...@googlemail.com wrote: Well it's been like it is for the last 4+ years! If you uploaded your GPS data

Re: [OSM-dev] Duplicate nodes

2009-04-14 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Sam Vekemans wrote: Sent: 14 April 2009 10:54 PM To: ste...@konink.de Cc: dev@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] Duplicate nodes forgot to cc dev list :) On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com wrote: Just jumping in here :) When i have

Re: [OSM-dev] JOSM: Several tags with same key

2009-04-06 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
If you look at other keys you will find wider use of the semi colon. At the moment for instance the OSMers in the west midlands are hitting bus stops hard and we are using the route_ref=45;56;78;905;907;998A;998C format. I started out many moons ago using a pipe to separate values but realised

Re: [OSM-dev] JOSM: Several tags with same key

2009-04-06 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
-Original Message- From: Stefan de Konink [mailto:ste...@konink.de] Sent: 06 April 2009 9:52 AM To: Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) Cc: 'Pierre-André Jacquod'; 'Matt Amos'; dev@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] JOSM: Several tags with same key Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists

[josm-dev] FW: [OSM-newbies] JOSM problems - is it just me?

2009-04-06 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Forwarded from newbies list -Original Message- From: newbies-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:newbies-boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Mike Harris Sent: 06 April 2009 12:19 PM To: newb...@openstreetmap.org Subject: [OSM-newbies] JOSM problems - is it just me? Hi Since approx.

Re: [OSM-dev] JOSM: Several tags with same key

2009-04-02 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
The convention is to separate multiple values for the same key with a semicolon. Cheers Andy -Original Message- From: dev-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:dev-boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Andreas Kalsch Sent: 02 April 2009 8:03 PM To: dev@openstreetmap.org Subject: [OSM-dev]

Re: [OSM-dev] barrier-free/ handicapped-accessible website

2009-03-20 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Have copied the OSM dev mailing list in on this. Cheers Andy -Original Message- From: Martin Noeske [mailto:mar...@noeske.org] Sent: 20 March 2009 10:56 AM To: t...@osmfoundation.org Subject: barrier-free/ handicapped-accessible website -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1

Re: [josm-dev] Add nodes functionality changed?

2009-03-12 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
I was unaware of any proposed change on this too. I was sitting quiet as the problem and responses were provided in the list here. Basically I had the same view as David did but can see that function is provided now differently, which is fine, but if you need to count numbers complaining you can

Re: [OSM-dev] Ponderings about an improved tagging scheme

2009-02-20 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Frederik Ramm wrote: Sent: 20 February 2009 1:48 AM To: Steve Hill Cc: dev@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] Ponderings about an improved tagging scheme Hi, Steve Hill wrote: Your concept is utterly unworkable of course with the current software landscape, Would you like to explain

Re: [OSM-dev] Ponderings about an improved tagging scheme

2009-02-20 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Jochen Topf wrote: Sent: 20 February 2009 8:41 AM To: G H S Cc: dev@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] Ponderings about an improved tagging scheme On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 02:18:04AM +, G H S wrote: What Steve has proposed is what I would have expected. I can already see adding a

Re: [josm-dev] Download area from slippy map

2009-02-19 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Andreas Fritsche Sent: 19 February 2009 9:49 AM To: josm-dev@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [josm-dev] Download area from slippy map Hallo! On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: [..] the slippymap-chooser used the same scroll and zoom shortcuts as the

Re: [OSM-dev] Rantings about API 0.6

2009-02-10 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote: Sent: 10 February 2009 12:58 PM To: dev Openstreetmap Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] Rantings about API 0.6 El Martes, 10 de Febrero de 2009, Matt Amos escribió: i agree. there is scope for optimisation within rails with varying degrees of ugliness ;-) Geez, this

Re: [OSM-dev] Crowd Sourced Testing of OSM 0.6 API

2008-12-12 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Is there a daemon available for gpx import? I note a few have been uploaded but are queued. Cheers Andy -Original Message- From: dev-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:dev-boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Shaun McDonald Sent: 11 December 2008 11:23 AM To: OSM-Dev Openstreetmap;

Re: [OSM-dev] Crowd Sourced Testing of OSM 0.6 API

2008-12-12 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
GPX import to 0.6 clearly worked, I even got an email ;-) Thanks to whomever for enabling this. Cheers Andy -Original Message- From: Shaun McDonald [mailto:sh...@shaunmcdonald.me.uk] Sent: 12 December 2008 10:42 AM To: Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) Cc: 'OSM-Dev Openstreetmap

[OSM-dev] FW: Maps on birminghamitsnotshit.co.uk

2008-10-30 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
See below. Has anyone worked on an OSM wordpress plugin at all? Cheers Andy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jon Bounds Sent: 30 October 2008 10:10 AM To: Andy Robinson (OSMF) Subject: Re: Maps on birminghamitsnotshit.co.uk Hi Andy,

Re: [OSM-dev] collection of gps tracks

2008-10-23 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Patrick Kilian wrote: Sent: 23 October 2008 12:30 PM To: Shaun McDonald; OSM dev list Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] collection of gps tracks Hi, In more detail: I'm looking for an area with a high density of gps traces (collected only by car). Where a single road can be assign to several Tracks (10

Re: [OSM-dev] way 7062297, is this new?

2008-10-09 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Points noted Hugh but in reality it's probably easy enough to find alternative solutions to these tagging questions. Since duplicate keys in the current data have essentially been legacy data or input errors of some sort I suspect the number that exist right now is quite low. That's why I say it's

Re: [OSM-dev] way 7062297, is this new?

2008-10-09 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Way way back in the long distant past of the project SteveC arranged for key/value pairs to be used for adding information about objects (Nodes, Segments and the unused Areas at the time) but in doing so did not set any restrictions on their use whatsoever. In fact all tags were concatenated

Re: [OSM-dev] way 7062297, is this new?

2008-10-09 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Hugh Barnes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sent: 09 October 2008 1:08 PM To: dev@openstreetmap.org Cc: Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] way 7062297, is this new? On Thursday 09 October 2008 18:56:42 Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote: Duplicate keys were perfectly

Re: [OSM-dev] Garmin GPX madness

2008-09-22 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Oliver Eichler wrote: Sent: 21 September 2008 6:26 PM To: dev@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] Garmin GPX madness OK, I understand now. But I still don't know what I'd do with the information if I had it. The satellites are where they are when I'm out surveying, there's nothing I can

[OSM-dev] FW: [OSGeo-Discuss] PDF of Map Projections: A Working Manual by Snyder, John P.

2008-08-02 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
A handy ref to download Cheers Andy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Austin Sent: 02 August 2008 5:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] PDF of Map Projections: A Working Manual by Snyder, John P. I found a PDF copy

Re: [OSM-dev] Should I limit size of GPX files?

2008-07-29 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
No limit whatsoever. You might have fun getting a many megabyte file to upload and import but 700 point file is nothing. I'm regularly creating files with 20,000 points in them from a days work. Cheers Andy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

Re: [OSM-dev] OSM 4th anniversary hackathon - is it still on?

2008-07-23 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
The Foundation AGM will be on August 30th in London (proper announcement when we have the venue confirmed). You could tie the timing in with that. Cheers Andy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martijn van Exel Sent: 23 July 2008 7:42 PM

Re: [OSM-dev] Map Features in XML?

2008-07-22 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Chris Browet wrote: Sent: 22 July 2008 11:39 AM To: Knut Arne Bjørndal Cc: Openstreetmap Dev list Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] Map Features in XML? I hardly think migrating Map Features to have the master copy as an XML file will help getting people to maintain it. Well, if your

Re: [OSM-dev] Map Features in XML?

2008-07-22 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
David Earl wrote: Sent: 22 July 2008 11:59 AM To: Richard Fairhurst Cc: dev@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] Map Features in XML? On 22/07/2008 11:48, Richard Fairhurst wrote: Chris Browet wrote: If you also believe that WIKI-XML is easier /more maintainable than XML-WIKI... I

Re: [OSM-dev] Another Wiki Request/Question

2008-07-16 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Tom Hughes wrote: Sent: 16 July 2008 9:22 AM To: dev@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] Another Wiki Request/Question In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Frederik Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would prefer the latter, as it would not require me to create 100+ mini images in the Wiki

Re: [OSM-dev] Installing the Rails port.

2008-07-11 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
If you are planning to serve up a custom map then you need to render your own tiles, and for that you will probably want a database backend unless you plan to deliver only a very small area of the world. The three rendered versions on the OSM website all use a different process, although both the

Re: [OSM-dev] [OSM-talk] When mental models go wrong: OpenStreetMap

2008-07-04 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Dave Stubbs wrote: Sent: 04 July 2008 9:14 AM To: m*sh Cc: dev@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] [OSM-talk] When mental models go wrong: OpenStreetMap On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 7:20 AM, m*sh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lauri Hahne wrote: [...]

Re: [OSM-dev] [OSM-talk] When mental models go wrong: OpenStreetMap

2008-07-04 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
m*sh wrote: Sent: 04 July 2008 3:05 PM To: dev@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] [OSM-talk] When mental models go wrong: OpenStreetMap Am Fr, 4.07.2008, 12:39, schrieb Erik Johansson: This has come up before, in different ways each time. I know started thinking that any editor would

Re: [OSM-dev] Google Map Maker

2008-06-24 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Sjors Provoost wrote: Sent: 24 June 2008 8:32 AM To: Openstreetmap Dev list Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] Google Map Maker On 23 Jun 2008, at 23:33, SteveC wrote: http://www.opengeodata.org/?p=307 Google Want to be TeleAtlas Google have launched MapMaker, a kind of faux OpenStreetMap where they

Re: [OSM-dev] Tiled download of larger areas from the api

2008-06-14 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
bvh wrote: Sent: 13 June 2008 4:26 PM To: dev@openstreetmap.org Subject: [OSM-dev] Tiled download of larger areas from the api Timo Schlussler proposed a patch to merkaartor to work around the API limit on the download area. It basically divides the area in chunks acceptable for the api and

[OSM-dev] FW: [OSM-newbies] HTML character entities in osmarender

2008-06-09 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Forwarded from Newbies -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Funnell Sent: 07 June 2008 11:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [OSM-newbies] HTML character entities in osmarender I just noticed that a street name with an apostrophe in

Re: [OSM-dev] Osmarender Frontend (GSoC weekly report)

2008-06-02 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Looking good :-) Cheers Andy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mario Ferraro Sent: 02 June 2008 1:51 AM To: Openstreetmap Dev list Subject: [OSM-dev] Osmarender Frontend (GSoC weekly report) Hi! For those who weren't in #osm today, I've

Re: [OSM-dev] Datamodel tag/key constraint

2008-05-30 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Stefan de Konink wrote: Sent: 30 May 2008 9:04 PM To: Openstreetmap Dev list Subject: [OSM-dev] Datamodel tag/key constraint Hi, Reading the DTD it seems to be unbound to have multiple tagn having the same key. Is this allowed? (JOSM doesn't allow it, but is it a constraint?) As far as I

Re: [OSM-dev] [OSM-newbies] upload data from non-gps source

2008-05-25 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Forwarded to dev. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbies- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tal Benavidor Sent: 24 May 2008 3:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [OSM-newbies] upload data from non-gps source Hello, I have a small-to-moderate ammount of public domain

[OSM-dev] JOSM bug on tagging presets

2008-05-13 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Frederik et al, I didn't do a trac ticket for this as I'm not entirely sure where the bug lies. It's regarding tagging presets. Since the last major changes that affected the presets (month or two back) I've noted that if I want to enter an item that I have entered in the last use of the preset

[OSM-dev] Developers requested to help provide completeness tools

2008-05-12 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Posted to talk and dev This post really follows on from my consideration of Completeness metrics. A number of experienced OSMers who have mapped out there areas have either contacted me directly or posted through the lists about areas of OSM that are essentially complete, at least as complete as

[OSM-dev] FW: [OSM-newbies] Calculating bounding box of a clipped rectangle

2008-05-09 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Forwarded to the Dev list. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vishwa Sent: 09 May 2008 1:46 PM To: newbies Subject: [OSM-newbies] Calculating bounding box of a clipped rectangle Hi, I am developing an application using C#.Net. I have to

Re: [OSM-dev] 0.6

2008-05-06 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder)
One or two thoughts off the top of my head. Is there anything possible on the community side. At the moment our tools for intercommunication within the community are pretty limited and we could do better there. Anything that could be done in 0.6 to improve those prospects? Perhaps also some

Re: [OSM-dev] The future of Potlatch

2008-05-02 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder)
Tom Hughes wrote: Sent: 02 May 2008 9:51 AM To: dev@openstreetmap.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] The future of Potlatch In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Richard Fairhurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For most purposes AS3 probably is a better language - except for the fairly

Re: [OSM-dev] dev server /home diskusage

2008-04-24 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder)
Sebastian Spaeth wrote: Sent: 23 April 2008 10:06 AM To: Dev Openstreetmap Subject: [OSM-dev] dev server /home diskusage On a side note, I have retired some accounts on dev whose owners haven't logged in for a year or more. Let me know if you don't need your account anymore, I'll do the removing

Re: [OSM-dev] OSM Notes API, Issue Tracking

2008-04-24 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder)
The format of Waypoints downloaded to GPX using gpsbabel from my Garmin Legend (old BW version) is: wpt lat=52.39928 lon=-1.81256 ele107.792725/ele name045/name cmt045/cmt desc045/desc symWaypoint/sym /wpt ie there are no timestamps on the waypoints. Cheers Andy

Re: [OSM-dev] OSM Notes API, Issue Tracking (was: See Data, a UI for browsing OSM data in the main map)

2008-04-23 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder)
Tom Hughes wrote: Sent: 23 April 2008 11:00 PM To: Frederik Ramm Cc: OSM-Dev Openstreetmap Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] OSM Notes API, Issue Tracking (was: See Data, a UI for browsing OSM data in the main map) 2008/4/23 Frederik Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You do realise that there are people already

[josm-dev] JOSM periodic bug

2008-04-21 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder)
Keep getting the occasional bug screen. Doesn't appear to be always doing the same thing. Here is the latest. Cheers Andy Path: josm URL: http://www.openstreetmap.de/svn/josm Repository Root: http://www.openstreetmap.de/svn/josm Repository UUID: 0c6e7542-c601-0410-84e7-c038aed88b3b Revision:

Re: [OSM-dev] [OSM-talk] New Export Tab

2008-04-21 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder)
Mikel Maron wrote: Sent: 21 April 2008 7:49 PM To: Tom Hughes; dev@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] [OSM-talk] New Export Tab From: Tom Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'd like to see GPS export. Anyone want to work together on a mkgmap service? Or does one exist already? I don't

Re: [OSM-dev] Altitude data (cycle) route profiles

2008-03-31 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder)
From: MilesTogoe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sent: 31 March 2008 3:40 PM To: Andy Robinson (blackadder) Cc: 'Sjors Provoost'; dev@openstreetmap.org; 'Karl Newman' Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] Altitude data (cycle) route profiles what is the accuracy on regular GPS elevation ? +- ? Here

Re: [OSM-dev] Batch upload dilemma

2008-03-18 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder)
Robert (Jamie) Munro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sent: 18 March 2008 4:15 PM To: Andy Robinson (blackadder); dev Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] Batch upload dilemma -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andy Robinson (blackadder) wrote: | Ciprian Talaba wrote: | | Hi all, | | One fleet

Re: [OSM-dev] Advice sought on polygon-with-hole drawing

2008-03-17 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder)
Andy Allan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 March 2008 4:20 PM To: Andy Robinson (blackadder) Cc: Robert (Jamie) Munro; dev Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] Advice sought on polygon-with-hole drawing On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Andy Robinson (blackadder) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Direction

Re: [OSM-dev] Background

2008-03-17 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder)
William, We cannot (and must not) trace from any background images that we do not have permission for since they are covered by copyright and other restricted licences. We only have permission from Yahoo! to use their imagery via their API. We must NOT add any data derived from Google, Microsoft

Re: [OSM-dev] Background

2008-03-17 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder)
Williams Farias wrote: Sent: 17 March 2008 6:33 PM To: dev@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] Background Hi Stefan , Humm... undestand, but i can make them in Google Earth , export the paths and import into OpenStreet, right? i have some cities traced in my Google Earth, ;) No you must

Re: [OSM-dev] Advice sought on polygon-with-hole drawing

2008-03-14 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder)
I'll admit and apologise that I haven't been following this thread too closely, but from skimming over the surface wanted to make a couple of observations. The way we currently draw coastlines, as a boundary between the landmass and a body of water sitting within the landmass is no different from

Re: [OSM-dev] Rendering Rules

2008-03-14 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder)
Brian Peschel wrote: Sent: 14 March 2008 1:19 PM To: dev@openstreetmap.org Subject: [OSM-dev] Rendering Rules First, let me say I think the maps that Open Street Map are producing look great! So, here is my question(s). Based on what I can gather from the wiki, it looks like the US data all

[OSM-dev] DXF to OSM - was [OSM-newbies] uploading prepared data

2008-02-29 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder)
Jason Reid wrote: Sent: 29 February 2008 4:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [OSM-newbies] uploading prepared data Andrew Harris wrote: I am wondering how to upload substantial chunks of prepared data. I work for a university and hope to get access to the building outlines and data

Re: [OSM-dev] [OSM-talk] Trouble in Rangoon

2008-02-28 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder)
Richard Fairhurst wrote: Sent: 28 February 2008 9:37 AM To: OSM Talk Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Trouble in Rangoon David Ebling wrote: I too am not going to spend much more time contributing to OSM unless someone comes up with a solution to this. As I said, I simply don't have the skills to do

Re: [OSM-dev] OSM Data Question from FireGirl

2008-02-13 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder)
Fire Girl wrote: Sent: 12 February 2008 10:40 PM To: dev@openstreetmap.org Subject: [OSM-dev] OSM Data Question from FireGirl Hello, I am new to this group and hoping someone can help me. I like the open street mapping concept and want to work with this data desperately in my own pool. :) I

Re: [OSM-dev] [OSM-newbies] Should osm2pgsql create the planet_osm tables?

2008-01-22 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder)
John, This is probably better spotted and hopefully responded to by the folks on the dev list. Copied there. Cheers Andy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbies- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Wheeler Sent: 22 January 2008 7:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Re: [OSM-dev] utf8 rendering bug

2008-01-22 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder)
And its no better on Osmarender either: http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=39.9lon=116.394zoom=10layers=0BFT Cheers Andy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Xin Zheng Sent: 22 January 2008 3:12 PM To: dev@openstreetmap.org Subject: [OSM-dev]

Re: [OSM-dev] relief madness

2008-01-10 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder)
Artem Pavlenko wrote: Sent: 09 January 2008 6:48 PM To: dev Openstreetmap Subject: [OSM-dev] relief madness OK, SWBD masking does the trick : http://artem.dev.openstreetmap.org/ files/reliefs/srtm_masked.jpg I even managed to drain the fens :http://artem.dev.openstreetmap.org/

Re: [OSM-dev] curves

2008-01-03 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder)
Frederik Ramm wrote: Sent: 03 January 2008 4:53 PM To: Robert (Jamie) Munro Cc: dev Openstreetmap Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] curves Hi, What people think about explicitly supporting curves as a part of geometry model? This way we can model the world better. When I suggested this before, someone

[OSM-dev] Messing with planet

2007-12-22 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder)
I tried to uncompress the latest planet last night (first time in quite a while) which failed when the disk on my hand-me-down dev box was full :-( Would be helpful if those with planet experience could share your current method of processing and analysing planet and the amount of disk and memory