Re: [OSM-dev] Is YOUR code 64 bit proof?

2012-12-30 Thread David Earl
On Thu Dec 27 13:55:31 GMT 2012 Frederik Ramm wrote another 62 million nodes and we'll have IDs of more than 2^31-1 which means than software using a simple, 32-bit, signed integer will not be able to process the data any longer. If you're using PHP, you have to use 64-bit hardware to get

Re: [OSM-dev] Server-side data validation

2012-07-16 Thread David Earl
Yes, it was just an idea. Without buy in for this or something similar, it won't make progress. It would be easy to implement at the server side. I had intended to do a prototype, but I ended up with a large contract to do something else after SOTM 2010 so I wasn't in a position to. But it

Re: [OSM-dev] Server-side data validation

2012-07-16 Thread David Earl
On 16/07/2012 12:50, kabum wrote: Hi, 2012/7/16 Paweł Paprota ppa...@fastmail.fm mailto:ppa...@fastmail.fm Hi, On Mon, Jul 16, 2012, at 11:07, David Earl wrote: Yes, it was just an idea. Without buy in for this or something similar, it won't make progress. It would

Re: [OSM-dev] Server-side data validation

2012-07-14 Thread David Earl
On 13/07/2012 22:55, Paweł Paprota wrote: If you have any suggestions or similar ideas, let me know. http://www.frankieandshadow.com/sotm10/tagcentral.pdf http://vimeo.com/14776099 David ___ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org

Re: [josm-dev] Please do not change long established shortcuts

2012-05-02 Thread David Earl
On 02/05/2012 17:23, Russ Nelson wrote: Alan Mintz writes: I don't use it every day, but those who draw buildings do (or should). Draw the roof of a tall building. Drag (usually somewhat diagonally) the whole (closed) way to move it to the correct ground position, based on whichever

Re: [josm-dev] Please do not change long established shortcuts

2012-05-02 Thread David Earl
On 02/05/2012 03:01, Russ Nelson wrote: About once a month I need to move an entire way. I don't understand the use case for this feature. Can somebody (preferably somebody who uses it every day) explain it to me? I use it all the time (though I too get hit by accidental moves a lot as well -

Re: [josm-dev] Please do not change long established shortcuts

2012-04-30 Thread David Earl
On 30/04/2012 18:00, Dirk Stöcker wrote: The D key removal was actually requested, as too many people accidentially deleted stuff. Absolutely - hugely better, thank you! The problem was it was right next to the S key so you ended up deleting stuff instead of selecting it. I was used to

Re: [OSM-dev] Exhaustion of 32bit signed integer range expected this year

2012-04-13 Thread David Earl
On 13/04/2012 15:15, Frederik Ramm wrote: This means that it is likely that by the end of 2012, we will have reached (or be very close to reaching) the end of the 32bit signed integer range (2.15 billion, or 2^31-1). Thanks for the reminder. I was a bit worried about this having coded a lot

[josm-dev] area too big

2012-01-11 Thread David Earl
I got an area too big message doing Update data in JOSM on the eighth of eight areas in the file (or at least, it was at the end - maybe the message applied to one of the intermediate ones, but if so it didn't say so until the end). Presumably the density of nodes in that area has gone over

Re: [josm-dev] Use of mixed map datum in my GPSr and JOSM

2011-09-29 Thread David Earl
On Thursday, 29 September 2011, Bob Hawkins bobhawk...@waitrose.com wrote: I live in Great Britain and use Ordnance Survey British National Grid and map datum in my GPSr for compatibility with my printed map when walking. I use Mercator projection in JOSM because of its portrayal of rectangular

Re: [OSM-dev] openid

2011-06-19 Thread David Earl
On 19/06/2011 16:05, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: 2011/6/19 Tom Hughest...@compton.nu: On 19/06/11 15:36, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: All the logos actually have the same width, but their heights differ somewhat because they have different aspect ratios. The main problem is that the descender on

[OSM-dev] Export tab

2010-10-28 Thread David Earl
I often find myself wanting an OSM map url to a map with a marker to send in an email. I can do this with the Export Embeddable HTML, add marker, and then editing the HTML to extract the link (which also means changing the amps), or it can be done manually by tediously copying a lat/lon and

Re: [OSM-dev] Export tab

2010-10-28 Thread David Earl
On 28/10/2010 15:24, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: The easiest way is to get the shortlink URL and append ?m to the end. That only marks the centre of the map, which requires some careful judgement, rather than being able to point at the desired feature. David

Re: [josm-dev] Question about audio file mapping/synchronization

2010-10-24 Thread David Earl
Hi, I'm the original author of the audio code. I've had a look at what's there now, and the GPX reading code has changed quite a lot since I looked at it, but it seems to me like it is not associating links with trackpoints any more. But also trackpoints and waypoints are handled by the same

Re: [josm-dev] Question about audio file mapping/synchronization

2010-10-24 Thread David Earl
On Sunday, October 24, 2010, activityworkshop m...@activityworkshop.net wrote: @David Earl: Providing the Modified times of audio files preference is on, when you Import Audio by right clicking on a GPX layer you can select multiple files and it will put audio buttons at the times for each

[OSM-dev] Server timeouts

2010-10-08 Thread David Earl
Sometimes downloading from the API in JOSM I get a message along the lines of malformed XML, which I think is just caused by the XML being truncated, which in turn I am speculating is caused by the server exceeding a limit for the time allowed. If I immediately redo the query it almost always

Re: [josm-dev] Register for keys/shortcuts

2010-09-15 Thread David Earl
On 15/09/2010 11:53, Matthias Meißer wrote: Hi Folks, I'm still working on the Videomapping Plugin and it seems to work. But there is still a problem with the shortcuts: I register them by passing it to my JosmAction for the menu entry: VStart = new JosmAction(tr(play/pause), audio-playpause,

Re: [OSM-dev] [Marble-devel] NOTICE: gazetteer.osm.org being retired

2010-08-31 Thread David Earl
On 31/08/2010 11:44, Andy Allan wrote: Secondly, remember that we're an open-source, volunteer project kind of thing, so have appropriate expectations! If the server had stopped working and nobody was interested in fixing it, then you'd have had zero notice. On the other hand, if you have

Re: [OSM-dev] Opening hours

2010-05-06 Thread David Earl
On 06/05/2010 14:55, Roland Olbricht wrote: The syntax for opening hours still has its difficulties: try to express that a service is open from October to March only at the weekend and all days during the summer. Or a service that is open on the evenings _before_ public holidays. It's just not

Re: [josm-dev] Please invest some time into documentation - especially confilict resolution

2009-10-04 Thread David Earl
On 04/10/2009 10:18, Dirk Stöcker wrote: Till now I was not able to convince one single person to really update JOSM online docs (with more than typos), so it seems doing that work is not worth the effort. I documented the whole of Audio mapping in detail for the JOSM help (and in passing

Re: [josm-dev] Please invest some time into documentation - especially confilict resolution

2009-10-04 Thread David Earl
On 04/10/2009 18:39, Apollinaris Schoell wrote: Josm Docu isn't really important. most functions are self explaining. Absolute nonsense. Just look at the comments new people make - they are overwhelmed and confused by JOSM. It's only self explaining if either you already know what you're doing

Re: [OSM-dev] likenesses

2009-10-01 Thread David Earl
On 01/10/2009 12:54, John Smith wrote: 2009/10/1 David Earl da...@frankieandshadow.com: On 01/10/2009 03:25, SteveC wrote: I want to revive a very old idea - tag equivalences. I would like to go further than Steve proposes, but I understand it is a hard sell to the anarchist wing of OSM

Re: [OSM-dev] Map Features sub:sub:sub types

2009-08-13 Thread David Earl
On 13/08/2009 11:52, Sam Vekemans wrote: Hi all, (dev list) Is there a technical reason why on the main map features page only the sub values of each main type, and not the sub sub values, so then each can be found with a hyper-link? It isn't easily searchable if you're looking for

Re: [OSM-dev] Rendering of long street names for short streets

2009-07-18 Thread David Earl
Michael Ritzert wrote: For a more thorough solution, having a somewhat reliable way to find at least the country a road is in would be required. I think a lot of applications would find this extremely useful, from rendering different shapes for road number symbols and colours to recognizing

Re: [josm-dev] Audio markers based on modified times (time stamps) of audio files

2009-06-29 Thread David Earl
Roy Wallace wrote: Hi, I have a question about the current state of audio mapping in JOSM. I want to create several separate wav file recordings, and use the *modified times *of the wav files to associate them with the correct places in the gpx track - in the same way as photo mapping is

[josm-dev] missing resource building JOSM

2009-06-29 Thread David Earl
I'm trying to build JOSM (with Eclipse) for the first time in a while. I'm getting the following error (after I'd fixed gettext-commons version in the project definition, which was out of date). Is there some external dependency I'm not aware of? Or what gives? I don't have a tools directory

Re: [josm-dev] Missing ways and additional conflicts

2009-06-24 Thread David Earl
On 24/06/2009 19:43, Lennard wrote: Peter Herison wrote: Confirmed. I only saw a difference in the last digit of one coordinate in the conflict-list. JOSM V1609 1609 is five weeks old. A lot of bugfixes have gone in relating to API 0.6, conflict detection and resolution. I was using

Re: [OSM-dev] Old data in the namefinder

2009-06-11 Thread David Earl
On 11/06/2009 14:53, Ioan Indreias wrote: Hello, Could somebody on this list explain why the namefinder service (http://gazetteer.openstreetmap.org/namefinder/) is running with a quite old snapshot of OSM data (Index from OpenStreetMap data up to 9 Jan 2009)? For me (a normal OSM user)

Re: [josm-dev] Commit message not empty

2009-04-22 Thread David Earl
On 22/04/2009 14:44, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: I am surprised that it requires explanation. Can you imagine the usefulness of http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changesets without descriptions? Nobody is arguing

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

2009-04-03 Thread David Earl
On 03/04/2009 14:05, Ed Loach wrote: Currently we seem to have nodes, ways and relations. A way or node can be part of any number of relations (I believe), and there are people using relations for more and more things. Group all the ways that make a given road into a road relation; all the

Re: [OSM-dev] Fwd: Mobile Phone Audio Mapping Tool?

2009-03-28 Thread David Earl
of a JOSM plugin. I'll not try to do that on the phone just yet. I'll try to get the storage bit working, then should be able to publish something for people to try Graham. 2009/3/27 David Earl da...@frankieandshadow.com mailto:da...@frankieandshadow.com On 27/03/2009 21:21

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

2009-03-12 Thread David Earl
On 12/03/2009 17:58, Dirk Stöcker wrote: Press ESCAPE the whole time like you did for shift. Using ESCAPE as a modifier is very unconventional. Pressing it and releasing it first has a very different feel to using a key as a modifier. I think the use to which the shift has been usurped is

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

2009-03-09 Thread David Earl
On 09/03/2009 11:24, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, Stefan Breunig wrote: Try double clicking. Would we lose anything by simply reinstating the old shift behaviour? Indeed. AFAICS shift is unused now. Remember Habit gets built into the fingers, changing it arbitrarily is not a good thing to

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

2009-03-09 Thread David Earl
On 09/03/2009 11:34, David Earl wrote: On 09/03/2009 11:24, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, Stefan Breunig wrote: Try double clicking. Would we lose anything by simply reinstating the old shift behaviour? Indeed. AFAICS shift is unused now. Remember Oops, half finished paragraph. I was going

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

2009-03-09 Thread David Earl
On 09/03/2009 11:40, Stefan Breunig wrote: Would we lose anything by simply reinstating the old shift behaviour? Shift now prevents JOSM from re-using nodes, but still inserts nodes into existing ways. Old way to deal with this was to zoom in so the snap distance would be too large, then

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

2009-03-09 Thread David Earl
On 09/03/2009 11:42, Stefan Breunig wrote: create a node ready for extension when in open space, and select a node ready for extension when shift+click near a node. A normal click does just that. Pressing Shift was superfluous even before the change got checked in. There was a time when it

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

2009-03-09 Thread David Earl
On 09/03/2009 11:54, David Earl wrote: I don't really get what you're taking about with how you've switched SHIFT to something else. Can you illustrate it some how. My feeling from your description is that if you're nowt zoomed in far enough to distinguish things, you probably don't know

Re: [OSM-dev] Anyone with a speedy gazetteer

2009-01-12 Thread David Earl
While what Tom says may help performance, I don't think it is why things are running disparately slowly at the moment. It is mainly extremely slow at present because it has got into a state where daily updates are interfering with each other and I haven't had a chance to look at why this is

Re: [OSM-dev] Anyone with a speedy gazetteer

2009-01-12 Thread David Earl
On 12/01/2009 12:48, Grant Slater wrote: David Earl wrote: I am happy to try InnoDB, and will do this when I reload the database, which I had hoped to do over Christmas, but didn't get to. But from the I doubt it will make any significant difference. It would if there were locking going

Re: [OSM-dev] Anyone with a speedy gazetteer

2009-01-12 Thread David Earl
On 12/01/2009 13:32, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, Nicolas Guillaumin wrote: Excuse me if it's a silly question (I'm a newbie here), but what about using a search engine component instead of SQL queries ? I think about Apache Lucene (Java search engine) for example ( http://lucene.apache.org/)

Re: [OSM-dev] Anyone with a speedy gazetteer

2009-01-12 Thread David Earl
On 12/01/2009 14:21, Milo van der Linden wrote: I strongly suggest that you read the postgresql text search[1] chapter in depth. You will find that a lot of textual and multilingual confusions can be solved with that function set. the name text search is by far too simple for what it

Re: [OSM-dev] Anyone with a speedy gazetteer

2009-01-12 Thread David Earl
On 12/01/2009 15:54, Tom Hughes wrote: David Earl wrote: (b) do updates on different tables to queries and switch them over on completion. ... The main problem with b is that you need to make a complete copy of the tables before you start the update - the logic presumably goes like

Re: [OSM-dev] User authentication/Single sign on

2008-11-29 Thread David Earl
On 29/11/2008 14:22, Rob wrote: maybe openid is something usefull to support ? I did an openID implementation recently, partly as an experiment and partly because the login module was going to be replaceable, so I thought it might be quicker (I was wrong). I did both ends in fact because one

Re: [OSM-dev] Internal server error on relation member without role

2008-11-17 Thread David Earl
On 17/11/2008 19:42, Shaun McDonald wrote: It could just be a problem of the rails daemon dying with your request going with it. JOSM does have an automatic retry system. On anything more than trivial amounts of data, I always but always get retries in JOSM (and before that was implemented,

Re: [OSM-dev] Duplicated nodes in Potlatch

2008-10-05 Thread David Earl
On 05/10/2008 17:00, Matt Amos wrote: On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Richard Fairhurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rogier Wolff wrote: Number one has the disadvantage of allowing the database to grow bigger than it needs to be. Heh. Of course, we have an elephant in the room there - one which,

Re: [OSM-dev] Garmin GPX madness

2008-09-22 Thread David Earl
On 22/09/2008 11:51, Stefan de Konink wrote: Stefan and Oliver - if you really believe that the community have been brainwashed by Garmin, what's your plan of action to reverse the brainwashing and liberate our minds? I see many mappers in NL being 'so happy' with Garmin because OSM maps run

Re: [OSM-dev] Garmin GPX madness

2008-09-21 Thread David Earl
On 20/09/2008 22:08, Stefan de Konink wrote: I sincerely wonder why anyone in the community would buy a Garmin as tracking device after (s)he is aware that the device doesn't report h-/v-/p-dop. This is even more basic functionality... I have no idea what h-/v-/p-dop means so it would hardly

Re: [josm-dev] Bug #973 Problem with AudioMarker

2008-09-09 Thread David Earl
On 09/09/2008 10:18, Dirk Stöcker wrote: On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, Christoph Seitz wrote: but I'm not sure, whether this solution is good solution. And I think, the hole thing with the audio markers should be a bit more clear. Well, that's a true word :-) E.g. I had a short wav file which

Re: [josm-dev] New OSM download plugin

2008-09-02 Thread David Earl
On 02/09/2008 18:19, Henrik Niehaus wrote: To make this process easier, I wrote a plugin, which downloads the data of the current visible bounding box. You can scroll to the desired place and then start the plugin. But isn't that what happens anyway if you just press OK without putting

Re: [OSM-dev] UTF8 problem with last night's daily .osc

2008-08-29 Thread David Earl
On 29/08/2008 09:03, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, seems like we're having UTF8 trouble (again): % zcat 20080828-20080829.osc.gz | xmlstarlet val - -:1330038: parser error : Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding ! Bytes: 0xC3 0x22 0x2F 0x3E d ein spezielles Kinderland. Besonderer

Re: [josm-dev] Strange compilation errors in Eclipse

2008-08-24 Thread David Earl
On 24/08/2008 02:28, Brent Easton wrote: Hi Rainer, It is a strange Eclipse bug that has been reported several times in this forum before. Comment out the offending lines containing the marktr lines and save the file. Don't worry if this causes other compile errors. Uncomment the

Re: [josm-dev] Thoughts for further step to modeless operation in JOSM

2008-08-20 Thread David Earl
On 19/08/2008 19:34, Gervase Markham wrote: David Earl wrote: The two threads of recent days, in particular about the cross to add a new node, are expressing an underlying frustration about the remaining modes in JOSM. The cross is a bit of a hack to work round this. Can we do more to get

Re: [josm-dev] Validator

2008-08-20 Thread David Earl
On 20/08/2008 10:24, Dermot McNally wrote: Layers exist to determine the drawing order of overlapping elements, nothing more. ... which rather violates the don't tag for the renderer maxim, yes? There's a few cases where it can't be avoided, like where a bridge goes over another bridge in a

Re: [josm-dev] Paste onto mouse pointer position

2008-08-20 Thread David Earl
On 19/08/2008 10:15, Petr Dlouhý wrote: On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:04:44 +0200, David Earl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 19/08/2008 09:54, Petr Dlouhý wrote: On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:45:34 +0200, David Earl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, I didn't, but maybe it didn't go through the mailing list

Re: [josm-dev] Paste onto mouse pointer position

2008-08-19 Thread David Earl
On 19/08/2008 09:54, Petr Dlouhý wrote: On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:45:34 +0200, David Earl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 19/08/2008 09:18, Petr Dlouhý wrote: Hello, I made improvement to paste (and by consequence also to duplicate) function in JOSM. Now, it is pasting the object

Re: [josm-dev] Bug 595 - Virtual nodes - Comments requested

2008-08-18 Thread David Earl
On 18/08/2008 14:13, Maarten Deen wrote: On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 02:01:09PM +0100, David Earl wrote: On 18/08/2008 13:18, Maarten Deen wrote: This also circumvents the half broken option of placing nodes with SHIFT-CLICK (half broken because it always adds a segment to the node you placed

Re: [josm-dev] Bug 595 - Virtual nodes - Comments requested

2008-08-18 Thread David Earl
On 18/08/2008 18:31, Maarten Deen wrote: Matthias Julius wrote: There is the catch. Shift-Click and a node without a segment is created. Release the shift and the segment is created. The only way to create a node without a segment is to created two nodes. Then the first is created without

Re: [josm-dev] Bug 595 - Virtual nodes - Comments requested

2008-08-18 Thread David Earl
On 18/08/2008 23:14, Maarten Deen wrote: David Earl wrote: On 18/08/2008 18:31, Maarten Deen wrote: Matthias Julius wrote: There is the catch. Shift-Click and a node without a segment is created. Release the shift and the segment is created. The only way to create a node without

Re: [josm-dev] add node to split up way?

2008-08-12 Thread David Earl
On 12/08/2008 12:31, Maarten Deen wrote: On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 01:26:50PM +0200, Tobias Wendorff wrote: I'm missing one important function in JOSM: Add Node! In CAD-software and other GIS-editors, you can add nodes to existing ways in order to split them up. Is this really a missing

Re: [OSM-dev] Question about Calculating Radius from GPS cord

2008-08-08 Thread David Earl
On 08/08/2008 14:30, Fire Girl wrote: I am working with OSM data, and would like to be able to spec out 5 mile bounding boxes from certain GPS points. After research into this problem, I am to understand that each degree of latitude is approximately 69 miles (111 kilometers) apart with a

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

2008-07-22 Thread David Earl
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 strongly believe this is nonsense, though... Certainly more editable. More people have, and know how to use, a wiki editor (i.e. a web

Re: [josm-dev] downloading data along a gpx track

2008-07-12 Thread David Earl
On 11/07/2008 20:43, mariner wrote: Hi there, There is one feature I am really missing in JOSM. It's the ability to donwload the data of OSM near a gpx track. I would like to place a feature request here on the list. You can fill in a request in the Trac system, here:

Re: [josm-dev] Starting a new way with one selected

2008-05-20 Thread David Earl
No one screamed in agony, so I've released this change. (The only change is what happens with the shift modifier when something is already selected.) David On 19/05/2008 15:55, David Earl wrote: At present if you are in the Draw Nodes mode and you have nothing selected, you can SHIFT+CLICK

[josm-dev] Starting a new way with one selected

2008-05-19 Thread David Earl
At present if you are in the Draw Nodes mode and you have nothing selected, you can SHIFT+CLICK to (a) add a new node in a blank area, or (b) add a new node in an existing way, or (c) select an existing node in the middle of a way, or (d) select an existing node at the end of a way and then

Re: [josm-dev] Starting a new way with one selected

2008-05-19 Thread David Earl
Indeed AFAICS it is a one line change to remove the test if (selection.isEmpty()) { On 19/05/2008 15:55, David Earl wrote: At present if you are in the Draw Nodes mode and you have nothing selected, you can SHIFT+CLICK to (a) add a new node in a blank area, or (b) add a new node

Re: [josm-dev] Starting a new way with one selected

2008-05-19 Thread David Earl
On 19/05/2008 16:01, David Earl wrote: Indeed AFAICS it is a one line change to remove the test if (selection.isEmpty()) { On 19/05/2008 15:55, David Earl wrote: At present if you are in the Draw Nodes mode and you have nothing selected, you can SHIFT+CLICK to (a) add a new node

Re: [josm-dev] Starting a new way with one selected

2008-05-19 Thread David Earl
On 19/05/2008 16:33, David Earl wrote: Sorry, one more thing. I know that ALT does this, but _that_ only works when a way _is_ selected. I can't see any reason why that also shouldn't work when a way isn't selected. I was getting confused with a version I'd hacked to try it out. ALT doesn't

Re: [OSM-dev] JOSM exception

2008-05-12 Thread David Earl
Just a thought, but I wonder if it might have something to do with your computer's clock being set a month into the future (your mail is dated 12th June, not 12th May). David On 12/06/2008 08:49, David Janda wrote: Hello Dev Apologies if this is the wrong place to post, I have tried to

[josm-dev] Dynamic start up message

2008-05-08 Thread David Earl
I've released a change that I mentioned I was going to do some time ago whereby the JOSM startup screen content is dynamic rather than built in to the program. Once people get this or later versions of JOSM (and everyone will presumably get a new one when API0.6 arrives) it will be possible to

Re: [OSM-dev] map projection and scale distortion

2008-04-16 Thread David Earl
On 16/04/2008 17:44, Christopher Schmidt wrote: On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 05:26:16PM +0100, Tom Hughes wrote: I flushed my browser cache. Still i cannot see any dynamic scale bar. Its static in the sense that the scale doesn't change with the latitude in focus. Well I guess that's a bug in

[OSM-dev] Home page broken in IE7

2008-04-11 Thread David Earl
Something that's changed in the last hour or two seems to have broken the OSM home page in IE7 - it's getting a Javascript error (Object expected, line 154) and not displaying the map at all. It's OK in Firefox. David ___ dev mailing list

Re: [OSM-dev] Bad result from name finder postcode search

2008-04-09 Thread David Earl
On 09/04/2008 15:09, Chris Jones wrote: Searching for pub near Swansea sends me to Australia... http://gazetteer.openstreetmap.org/namefinder/?find=pub+near+Swansea Oddly searching for pubs near Swansea gives me what I would expect... That looks like a bug to me. I'll investigate. If a

Re: [OSM-dev] Internet explorer 8 mess..

2008-03-06 Thread David Earl
On 06/03/2008 18:31, Shaun McDonald wrote: And we just tell them to install a real browser that works. And guarantee that 99% of people never look at OSM. I make these wonderful TV sets, much better than the competition, which I plan to sell for almost nothing. The only thing is they work on

Re: [josm-dev] JOSM audio difficulty

2008-03-03 Thread David Earl
On 03/03/2008 20:00, Chris Morley wrote: The gpx file is: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Chris%20Morley/traces/80947 I extracted the fist 5 minutes of the wav file: http://www.gaseq.co.uk/OSM/20080227afivemins.wav (not a great example of an audio track) This plays in JOSM, but without

Re: [josm-dev] Audio user interface

2008-02-29 Thread David Earl
On 29/02/2008 10:02, Chris Morley wrote: Synchronization by dragging the play head could also involve moving into the regions before and after the audio and so it is necessary for the process to be an atomic one to avoid the error message. That is, you cannot easily use an additional action

Re: [OSM-dev] [OSM-talk] Error while uploading with JOSM

2008-02-08 Thread David Earl
On 08/02/2008 11:17, Tom Hughes wrote: ... BUT, there appears to be a server setting for lighttpd 'max-keep-alive-requests' (default 128 - what is it on ours?) after which the connection is dropped. The config is in the repo:

Re: [OSM-dev] [OSM-talk] Error while uploading with JOSM

2008-02-08 Thread David Earl
On 08/02/2008 00:38, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, The feature of the API REST interface is lots of rapid, small independent requests, which would be pretty unusual for most people. We might be able to do keep-alive. Isn't that done automatically anyway? BUT, there appears to be a server

Re: [OSM-dev] [OSM-talk] Error while uploading with JOSM

2008-02-08 Thread David Earl
On 08/02/2008 08:07, SteveC wrote: It would indeed, and I had wondered whether they may be applying some naive test for dubious activity. Andy used to get this on Virgin IIRC I think my last test showed that being locked for minutes couldn't be caused by Virgin, as I could see the site from

Re: [OSM-dev] Bad result from name finder postcode search

2008-02-06 Thread David Earl
On 06/02/2008 08:11, Chris Jones wrote: Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I realise that the name finder will never be totally correct, but I noticed the following error: Beats searching for RG5 3DF (Reading) it gives you Manchester!

Re: [OSM-dev] Straw man design for OSM postcode database creator

2008-02-05 Thread David Earl
On 06/02/2008 00:14, Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tom Hughes wrote: | In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Robert (Jamie) Munro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | Can we set up the home page so that if NPEMap / FreeThePostcode finds an | exact

Re: [OSM-dev] Nearby similar street names (was Straw man design for OSM postcode database creator)

2008-02-03 Thread David Earl
On 03/02/2008 09:47, John McKerrell wrote: I haven't been paying attention to this so I'm not trying to pass judgement here, the claim about most towns, at least don't have more than one street of any name piqued my interest though. I just checked, there's 15 Church Roads in Liverpool, 4

Re: [josm-dev] Changes to fix accidental moving

2008-01-25 Thread David Earl
On 25/01/2008 16:46, Gervase Markham wrote: Frederik Ramm wrote: I can't think of an application that does drag-select with shift only... it's always the mouse without modifiers that selects something (and deselects what you had before), while the shift-mouse adds to a selection. Initial

Re: [josm-dev] JOSM mini-roadmap anyone?

2008-01-23 Thread David Earl
On 23/01/2008 01:32, Frederik Ramm wrote: My personal impression is that we'll first have to address the accidental moving problem (what would be the best way you reckon?), I haven't had any problems with this at all since you put the delay parameter in and I was able to increase it from your

Re: [OSM-dev] Namefinder - what to do

2008-01-22 Thread David Earl
On 22/01/2008 18:03, Tom Hughes wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gervase Markham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will this have the effect of speeding up NameFinder? I find it takes on average 30 seconds to return results. Given that we don't have comprehensive postcode lookup, it's

Re: [OSM-dev] NameFinder - problems building index

2008-01-21 Thread David Earl
On 21/01/2008 17:28, Nick Black wrote: Ok, the problem was the namefinder.sql - I've checked in an updated version. Yes, sorry. You got to it before I did. That was a side effect of the change to API 0.5. If its taking five days to run on planet right now, its not a viable option. Have you