Re: [OSM-dev] extracting house-number from string

2009-03-14 Thread G H S
Karl covers it pretty well. When the E., W., N. or S. appears before the street, it can be considered part of the street name and usually identifies part of the street on one side of a boundary. For example, all street numbers in Chicago start with 0 at State and Madison. If you go east,

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

2009-02-20 Thread G H S
Is there something we're overlooking about the current scheme? You're perfectly right, the current scheme can't possibly work. Ever! Did you get the impression that someone said that? _ Windows Liveā„¢: E-mail. Chat. Share. Get

[OSM-dev] Ponderings about an improved tagging scheme

2009-02-20 Thread G H S
Hi Jochen. Objekts in the real world can't neatly be categorized into types. The world is much more complicated than this. So OSM has a different approach: We just have attributes of objects called tags. Tags tell you *something about* an object, but they don't tell you what it *is*. Or, if

[OSM-dev] Ponderings about an improved tagging scheme

2009-02-19 Thread G H S
I'm just getting started here, so I don't want to offend any founding members or dredge up a well beaten horse... BUT Just looking through the data and some example tags, I was baffled as to how the tags could be used effectively and consistently as they stand today. They seem to have

[OSM-dev] MySQL database format: latitutude/longitude are ints?

2009-02-18 Thread G H S
Thanks guys. I was able to whittle down the node queries by using some cross-refs and saw the ints padded to 9 digits. _ Stay up to date on your PC, the Web, and your mobile phone with Windows Live.

[OSM-dev] OGC standards / Sql Server 2008 / OSM... help?

2009-02-18 Thread G H S
Unfortunately I don't have any solution to offer here, but I'm curious as to where you found this data-browsing functionality: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/13858554 I don't see any link to this from the OSM main page or any other obvious place. Thanks! Gavin

[OSM-dev] Can't import data using Osmosis

2009-02-15 Thread G H S
I think you mean validateSchemaVersion=false Thanks guys. That did it. I don't have Rails installed, so hopefully in the future I can find some other way to keep the schema up to date. Is there an archive of past mailing-list messages, by the way? Gavin

[OSM-dev] Can't import data using Osmosis

2009-02-14 Thread G H S
Thanks for the info, guys. The escaped spaces were generated by the Mac's filename-completion logic at the command line, so they most likely were correct. I don't know what the problem was, but I tried it on my other system without spaces and the only syntax problem was that it didn't like

[OSM-dev] Can't import data using Osmosis

2009-02-13 Thread G H S
Hi all. I have a MySQL database set up and I'm trying to use Osmosis to get an OSM extract XML file into it. I followed the command-line pattern as shown at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osmosis, but I'm getting an error: om.bretth.osmosis.core.OsmosisRuntimeException: Only one default