Re: [OSM-dev] OSM Project Idea for GSoC 17: Vandalism Detection in Map Edits

As someone whose written this kind of anomaly detection system, can you elaborate a bit on what mechanisms you'd be using and how they'd be different or distinct from efforts in the past? - Serge On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 6:38 PM, Animesh Sinha wrote: > Hi, > > I am a

Re: [OSM-dev] OSM in a Box

Mick, I think that the goals of OSM in a Box have been largely supplanted by projects which do things like support OSM as a set of Docker images (though I've yet to try them myself) If there's some functionality that you feel is missing, you may want to start there, which I think would also be

Re: [OSM-dev] Questions about expected output of the OSM Anomaly Detection Project

Hi Xeubin, I apologize for the long delay in getting back to you. I've been out most of this week and haven't been checking my mail as I should. Things are back to normal and I'd love to answer your questions about the anomaly detection project, Please have a look at the longer descriptions of

Re: [OSM-dev] Introduction as a prospective GSoC'15 student

Shrey, My apologies in not getting back to you sooner about your inquy, I've been offline part of this week and have not had the time to get to your information. I have put information on both projects up on the wiki:

Re: [OSM-dev] Greetings Openstreet Community : GSOC queries

then don't respond at all. On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 8:54 AM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: Ankit, I'm not the potential mentor on that project, but I am potentially a mentor on other OSM projects. This is directed partially at you, but also to any other potential GSoC candidates

Re: [OSM-dev] GSoc 2015 Queries

On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 9:39 AM, Nikhil Ramesh rnikhil.2...@gmail.com wrote: OSM Anomaly Detection I've been asked about this serveral times. I have to figure out how to add a more full description about this project to GSoC, but here's the description I've written about this one: As OSM grows

Re: [OSM-dev] GSoC 2015 Applicant Introduction and Queries

Divyanshu, I'm the potential mentor for the Anomaly detection project. I've posted a longer description on the wiki, here: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Emacsen#GSoC_OSM_Anomaly_Detection_Project_Description If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me directly. - Serge

Re: [OSM-dev] Greetings Openstreet Community : GSOC queries

Ankit, I'm not the potential mentor on that project, but I am potentially a mentor on other OSM projects. This is directed partially at you, but also to any other potential GSoC candidates: While OSM mentors would not expect candidates to necessarily be long standing members of the OSM

Re: [OSM-dev] Contribute Moderation Queue

Pawel, He means the GSoC project I've proposed. Aryaman, what specific questions do you have? - Serge On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 7:59 AM, Paweł Paprota ppa...@fastmail.fm wrote: Hi Aryaman, Always nice to see new contributors :-) What do you have in mind regarding moderation queue? Do you

Re: [OSM-dev] Application for Google Summer of Code 2015

Thanks Peter, Answers in-line. Unfortunately, despite repeated attempts at asking Ian Dees about the GSoC process this year, he is not replying to any of my emails, which makes the process of finding out the situation very frustrating. On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 4:34 PM, Peter Barth

Re: [OSM-dev] Application for Google Summer of Code 2015

On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 2:43 PM, Peter Barth osm-p...@won2.de wrote: Hi, there seems nobody eager to apply to GSoC this year. That's not true at all. I was discussing this with Kate Chapam just yesterday, and was discussing how successful our last two years have been. I was the mentor for our

Re: [OSM-dev] Chinese spam diaries, an analysis

I think the solution to this is actually pretty simple and straightforward. First, right now there's only a single person who can remove spam from diary entries or profiles. Allowing other people (such as existing site moderators) to address this would go a long way. Second of all, we need a

Re: [josm-dev] license of data produced by JOSM

As other have pointed out, Josm itself has no restrictions, but for example, Bing imagery does. You can't use it for non-OSM projects AFAIK, as an example. And of course there are data license issues with various data sources. - Serge On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 6:51 AM, Tobias Wendorff

Re: [OSM-dev] places of business listings

onosm.org run by Ian Dees is a good one. It creates notes, which isn't perfect, but it's the best thing we have at the moment IMHO. - Serge On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 2:12 PM, Sachin Dole sd...@genvega.com wrote: Hello, Is there any ongoing project or effort to add places of business to OSM? I

Re: [OSM-dev] Nominatim usage policy for autocomplete

Nominatim doesn't support autocomplete. - Serge On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 4:30 PM, Sachin Dole sd...@genvega.com wrote: Hello, On the wiki its says that using nominatim for autocomplete is not supported. What does that mean? Does the software not support auto complete type queries or that the

Re: [josm-dev] Using Java

I will preface this reply by saying that I'm not a JOSM developer, nor do I even know Java (I know a plethora of other languages, but not Java). That advice is either: 1. Being misunderstood by you 2. Incredibly stupid In the case of Josm, if you run it as a standalone application, there is no

[OSM-dev] Sending messages to users

Hey all, MapRoulette has made a choice to try to collect as little data from our users as possible. We don't require a separate login other than from osm.org, we don't collect email addresses or anything else. This is good for MapRoulette users, and I think good for OSM in general that we don't

Re: [OSM-dev] Sending messages to users

implementing it ourselves. - Serge On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Simon Poole si...@poole.ch wrote: Am 05.05.2014 15:52, schrieb Serge Wroclawski: The problem is that we are needing to send messages to users. Ideally, those messages would go through osm.org. Serge, what exactly is the use

[OSM-dev] MapRoulette requests OSM permissions

There was a recent question on why MapRoulette requests user permissions. I thought I'd address that question here. This is relatively new bahvior. MapRoulette didn't always ask you to log in before using it, but we decided that we needed some kind of user authentication for a few reasons: 1. It

Re: [OSM-dev] MapRoulette requests OSM permissions

Paul, MapRoulette is unconcerned about other instances, just as osm.org is unconcerned with other openstreetmap-website instances. - Serge On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: From: Serge Wroclawski [mailto:emac...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 05, 2014 1:10 PM

Re: [OSM-dev] Nominatim geocoding for Japanese address

My .02, Nominatim is extremely Euro (and especially British) centric in its view of the world. While it does the job, it doesn't even do an ideal job in the United States, which is a country that shares the same language. My hope for OSM geocoding long term is for there to be greater diversity

Re: [OSM-dev] GSOC 2014 - Introduction

On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 6:48 AM, Eric Marsden eric.mars...@free.fr wrote: sw == Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com writes: sw What very few of them had, to the best of my recollection, was a long sw standing history of being part of the existing OpenStreetMap community. sw Some

Re: [OSM-dev] GSOC 2014 - Introduction

Varun, The reason for the response you about spreading the word, rather than a direct answer to your solicitation to work on a project is based on the history OpenStreetMap has in the past with GSoC. Every year that OSM has had GSoC, we've had many applicants. They came with extremely good

Re: [OSM-dev] Reversion tool for new users

Andrew, Speaking as someone who does reversions, reversions are tricky. Doing them in an automated way does not always get you what you expect if there's been an interim edit, and even knowing if there's going to be a problem with an automated reversion requires a bit of deep introspection onto

Re: [OSM-dev] Reversion tool for new users

no subsequent changes affecting them. That might be just as complex, but in case it isn't I thought I'd throw the idea out there. On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: Andrew, Speaking as someone who does reversions, reversions are tricky. Doing them

Re: [OSM-dev] Fwd: Name suggestions for iD

Aaron, I think you're conflating two separate issues, which is why things seem more intimidating than they are. I'm going to leave out any discussion about changing existing data- since that's where things would get controversial quickly. Instead, I'm going to focus on tagging issues in the

Re: [OSM-dev] Fwd: Name suggestions for iD

Andy, You're right- I forgot that. I do indeed see that often. People don't know what the tags mean *even when they're using iD*. And yes, we could go and try to fix them (and we do) but giving users a helping hand here would be tremendous. The other thing I'd love to see in iD (going off topic

[OSM-dev] Fwd: Name suggestions for iD

Forgot to his reply all. - Serge -- Forwarded message -- From: Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com Date: Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 7:29 AM Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] Name suggestions for iD To: Aaron Lidman aaronlid...@gmail.com Aaron, Thank you for taking this on. I'd done a lot of work

Re: [OSM-dev] Creating new way using api calls

Amrit, 99% of the time, when someone is asking this type of question, they are planning an import. So while I want to answer your question- do you mind telling us what you're working on? - Serge On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 3:32 AM, amrit karmacharya amrit...@gmail.com wrote: I am trying to

Re: [OSM-dev] Start Contribution

Akash, It's a bit more complicated than that- and this really should be better documented (or if it- easier to find). You can think of OSM as a series of components which fit in together and then each have their own purpose. At the bottom, the lowest level, there is the Postgis database, with

Re: [OSM-dev] Import a huge amount of GPS data

On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 4:04 PM, Jingmin Chen jingmin.c...@epfl.ch wrote: Dear all, Thank you very much for the active discussion. Again, uploading the raw data is legally impossible. But contributing processed information will be very interesting as OSM data in China is really bad. I think

Re: [OSM-dev] Import a huge amount of GPS data

On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 8:48 AM, Jingmin Chen jingmin.c...@epfl.ch wrote: Dear all, I currently have access to 2 years, 20,000 taxi vehicles GPS trace (30sec interval) of a large city in China. The OSM data quality of that city is really bad. But uploading the raw GPS trace might have legal

Re: [OSM-dev] New database server

Jason, You're not at all wrong about the issues with the server design. This is something that's been well known and understood for several years: As the project grows, the cost of scaling on a single system will not scale accordingly. What I mean by that is, that it's not a linerar cost to

Re: [OSM-dev] Call for A Proper Area Datatype for OSM

I think many people in the community would be in favor of an area element. But Show us the code, in particular, how would a transition work? - Serge ___ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev

Re: [Potlatch-dev] Status of potlatch2 development?

On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 7:33 AM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: *crickets* No active devs left on this list? Did everyone move to iD? My impression (and I'm open to correction) is that Richard is focused on other projects, as well as iD, and that Andy has de-facto become the PL2

Re: [OSM-dev] Is there any API to get data from OSM as geoJson?

On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Ander Pijoan ander.pij...@deusto.es wrote: I use Overpass API for downloading data but it doesn't export in GeoJSON format. The nearest approach would be to ask for it as OSM-JSON, store all the nodes ids and locations, store all the ways ids and node refs and

Re: [OSM-dev] Designing a new OSM editor

On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Saman Bemel Benrud samanp...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, Along with Tom Macwright and John Firebaugh, I've been sprinting on iD work this week. Have a look at my early thoughts on improving the iD editor design. If anyone has feedback or additional resources

[OSM-dev] Osmosis crash (what am I doing wrong)

Hi all, I have a test instance of the API db. I cleared it out with: ./osmosis-0.41/bin/osmosis \ --truncate-apidb database=openstreetmap user=openstreetmap password=openstreetmap \ validateSchemaVersion=no And then populated it with the planet with: ./osmosis-0.41/bin/osmosis --rb

Re: [OSM-dev] Osmosis crash (what am I doing wrong)

On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 11:50 PM, Brett Henderson br...@bretth.com wrote: Caused by: java.io.IOException: No space left on device The --used-node task stores all data to temporary files during processing which consumes a considerable amount of disk space. If you have a small temp file

Re: [OSM-dev] Notes - OSM improvements BoF at SOTM PDX

On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 7:17 PM, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: ## Getting data out of osm.org - Starting from osm.org it could be more straightforward to find proper download options - Export tab on osm.org is one of the most popular locations, but needs a lot of improvement. E.g. it

Re: [OSM-dev] OSM Wishlist

On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: That's not strictly accurate - the JSON API one did not get closed. That's true, but my two bugs did get closed. More on this below. Personally I'm not a fan of using bug trackers for things that aren't either actual bugs,

Re: [OSM-dev] OSM Wishlist

On Oct 12, 2012 10:24 AM, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: On 12/10/12 15:14, Serge Wroclawski wrote: On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: That's true, but my two bugs did get closed. In case you haven't noticed they have been reopened now. Hadn't noticed

Re: [OSM-dev] Reliability (was Re: New proposed directory layout for planet.openstreetmap.org)

On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Roland Olbricht roland.olbri...@gmx.de wrote: Dear Martijn, There are much more tools around reading OSM files, in particular the XML format, than just Osmosis. And even more important: It is easy to write a piece of software that reads XML, and that is

Re: [OSM-dev] Augmented Diffs

On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Roland Olbricht roland.olbri...@gmx.de wrote: Similarly osmChange or osc files are already maybe you should call 2. The sections are a bit confusing in that the order is very important. That makes parsing a bit more difficult than it might need to be if

Re: [OSM-dev] Augmented Diffs

On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Roland Olbricht roland.olbri...@gmx.de wrote: The details are documented in the wiki http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Overpass_API/Augmented_Diffs The docs you list are a bit confusing, so I went to the XML itself, and that has some issues, mainly

Re: [OSM-dev] New Program: Changemonger

On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 5:20 AM, Derick Rethans o...@derickrethans.nl wrote: On Mon, 20 Aug 2012, Paweł Paprota wrote: We've been e-mailing about this project in private in the context of the activity stream stuff that's slowly being developed for osm.org - I think it would be perfect to have

[OSM-dev] New Program: Changemonger

Hi all, It's my birthday today and I have a tradition of giving a gifts on my birthday. So my birthday gift to the OSM community is Changemonger. Changemonger makes it easier to understand what's going on in an area. The original idea is that you can have useful notifications like this:

Re: [OSM-dev] New Program: Changemonger

Pawel, I agree, and activity streams was one of the first use cases for this. One nice thing about Changemonger's open design is that it cares more about collections of elements than changesets, so you could feed it all the changes in area across changesets, and it would be able to tell you

Re: [OSM-dev] Duplicate IDs

On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Lukas Kabrt lu...@kabrt.cz wrote: Before I start fixing this error, it would be nice to know whether this is an exceptional case or whether these kind of integrity violations happens more often. Has anyone seen other elements with duplicate IDs? What is the

Re: [OSM-dev] hacking outdoor GPS devices

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Mitja Kleider mi...@kleider.name wrote: Hello, I have a few questions regarding outdoor GPS devices: * Are you satisfied with the available devices? What would you change first? I'd add voice notes to any of the hiking Garmin devices. * If there was a

Re: [OSM-dev] Training during read only database period

H.S., It means that while the database is in transition, no additional uploads can be performed. This really isn't a dev question, so it should be going on the talk list. But I want to point out to you, like Toby has, that none of the services Mike Dupont has pointed you to will result in your

[OSM-dev] New osmlib-base (after nearly 3 years)

Hi all, As is so often the case with software in our community, we add features to scratch our own itch. Jochen has largely moved away from osmlib to work on osmium, so the software hasn't had any updates in nearly 3 years. In that spirit, I've taken osmlib-base and forked it. My version is at:

Re: [OSM-dev] New osmlib-base (after nearly 3 years)

On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Jochen Topf joc...@remote.org wrote: Hi! On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 12:11:10PM -0400, Serge Wroclawski wrote: As is so often the case with software in our community, we add features to scratch our own itch. Jochen has largely moved away from osmlib to work

Re: [OSM-dev] API changes for license change

On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Hi,   I've made a Wiki page that details the expected changes in API behaviour as a consequence of the license change. If you do anything with the API then you should probably read and understand this, to make sure

Re: [Potlatch-dev] Testing new versions

On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 3:12 PM, SomeoneElse li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk wrote: This may be a silly question - asking for something that exists already, but just in case not: How hard would it be have a version of Potlatch2 available after merging for final testing before becoming the default

Re: [OSM-dev] Possible GSoC project: tag/area monitoring service

We could take this off-list but I think this may still be of interest to the general community. On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 11:11 PM, Michael Daines mich...@mdaines.com wrote: First, a longstanding wishlist item for OSM has been data tiles, that is the API data, split into preset sized areas (eg

Re: [OSM-dev] Possible GSoC project: tag/area monitoring service

One of the larger criticisms of GSoC is that the projects are often abandoned after the summer. Therefore I'd suggest that if you're going to work on something, you work on adding a feature to an existing OSM project, rather than going off and creating a new project. As Josh points out, there

Re: [OSM-dev] Toronto Hack Weekend

On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: If you find Toronto to be too far from the US East Coast for your preference or too far in the future, remember that the DC Hack Weekend (Arlington VA) is this weekend.  Don't miss it. By this, Richard means this

[OSM-dev] OSM Hack Weekend in Washington, DC

Based on the success, and incredible fun of the OSM Hacking Weekends in London, a bunch of OSMers in the US have decided to ruthlessly steal the idea and try running one ourselves. GeoIQ has generously donated their conference room in their office in downtown Arlington, Virginia. The dates:

[OSM-dev] Fwd: Tile list

Forgot to CC the list. Ooops -- Forwarded message -- From: Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 10:42 AM Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] Tile list To: Yves CAINAUD yve...@gmail.com On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 5:29 AM, Yves CAINAUD yve...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Admins

Re: [OSM-dev] Fwd: Tile list

On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Yves CAINAUD yve...@gmail.com wrote: If you look at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tile_Disk_Usage, we can see that only 32% of z14 and 15% of z15 are viewed, and I'd like to pre-render them. That's 32% at any time, not necessarily the same 32% But here's a

Re: [OSM-dev] IP limit issue when doing mapping parties on a network with NAT

There are some technical workarounds you can use... HOT gets around issues by downloading an area ahead of time and loading it into the editor. Its suboptimal but it solves some of the problem. - Serge On Dec 12, 2011 9:56 AM, Andreas Hammershøj a...@dcf.dk wrote: Hi Dev, back in May I

[OSM-dev] Are object versions always continuous?

If I see an object node ID 1234567, and it's of version 5, can I then safely assume that there must be a version 1, 2, 3 and 4? Are there any examples of this not being the case? - Serge ___ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-dev] Are object versions always continuous?

On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 7:32 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: I recommend not relying on this though. The reason for this recommendation is that Data Working Group at one time discussed what we called an interdiction API that would allow us to mark certain versions of objects as

Re: [OSM-dev] OSM XML declaration, JOSM, Osmosis et al.

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 2:12 AM, Roland Olbricht roland.olbri...@gmx.de wrote: Hello everybody, Hi. Please don't cross post. If I deliver from Overpass API to JOSM the XML data with meta data and with a plain osm tag, JOSM crashes with a NullPointerException on the first version attribute.

Re: [OSM-dev] OSM XML declaration, JOSM, Osmosis et al.

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 7:18 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Not serving the version number on XAPI, Overpass and others would send a clear signal that these services are not to be used for editing. Doing so also precludes merging results with any existing OSM database though.

[OSM-dev] Version numbers in downstream data

I'm concerned that there's a view that we should be stripping out data from these resources in order for them to be crippled in one way or another as per another thread. I'm surprised at Frederik's view that this is a good idea. Will Geofabrik start stripping out this information from the

Re: [OSM-dev] Paging the tile server admins

*caugh* Tiny hard resource limits coupled with API keys to track heavy users and allow them if there's an agreement. *caugh* - Serge ___ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev

Re: [OSM-dev] XAPI and other solutions

On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 6:43 AM, Pierre-Alain Dorange pdora...@mac.com wrote: He is talking about France only. So if he used a country extract [1] in stead of the whole planet, then his processing times would be much shorter for both the methods mentioned bij Toby and Nakor. [1]

Re: [OSM-dev] OSM and MongoDB

I gave the project up because there wasn't enough interest. I think you'd find similar statements made by Ian. If you want to help work on it, we can talk. - Serge ___ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev

Re: [OSM-dev] [Talk-us] MapQuest release 3 new APIs / tools - XAPI (JXAPI), NPI (new!), Broken Poly tool (new!)

On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Antony Pegg anttheli...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, MapQuest has pushed out three new developer tools for OSM.  Hopefully you will find them useful. Full details are here on the developer blog: http://devblog.mapquest.com/2011/04/07/xapi-npi-broken_polygons/

[Potlatch-dev] MapCSS clarificiation

I have a question about MapCSS. This may end up being moot, because the implementation may drive the standard, but is MapCSS first match, or last match? Eg. Given a primary road named Main Street, and these to rules: way[highway=primary] color: red; ... way[name=Main Street] ... color:

Re: [Potlatch-dev] Codebase and git

On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 4:31 AM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: In the near future it looks likely that P2 will become the default editor on osm.org.Consequently we need to move from the 'rapid development' stage to the 'mature code' stage, and enforce a bit more rigour in the

Re: [OSM-dev] Google Summer of Code 2011

Philip, While I think an XAPI in node.js would be fun (and it's something I might do)- what value do you see it bringing to the project as a whole (ie justifying paying someone to write)? - Serge ___ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-dev] [Tagging] Retrieving Wikipedia Entries Automatically

On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Zhijie Shen zjshe...@gmail.com wrote: Hi developers, Zhijie, Please do not cross post messages. Doing so does not make having a reasonable conversation any easier, it makes having it nearly impossible because the conversation is fragmented over several lists.

Re: [OSM-dev] OpenID for OpenStreetMap?

I think the conversation is really two different questions. First is the original question about OpenID in the context of OSM and the other is about OpenID support generally. I think part of the feeling for a need for OpenID in OSM is about the fact that for several of our services,

Re: [OSM-dev] OpenID for OpenStreetMap?

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 2:24 PM, Matt Amos zerebub...@gmail.com wrote: i might be missing the point here, but are you suggesting that OSM would be an openID provider, consumer or both? I'm suggesting that instead of taking on a technology, we take on a set of requirements, or needs, and

Re: [OSM-dev] Xapi alternative

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] scaling

As often with such topics, the movement of the discussion is so fast and varied that it's hard to get a solid hold on any of it, but here's my .02, for what it's worth. And I apologize in advance for the length of this email, since I'm trying to respond to both the whole threat, and specific

Re: [OSM-dev] Data source for robot

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 4:36 AM, Peter Budny pet...@gatech.edu wrote: If route relations are not required, then what are http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation:route#Road_Routes for? Not required and don't exist aren't quite the same things. One major issue with relations in general is

Re: [OSM-dev] Spatialite in OSM context

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Chris Browet c...@semperpax.com wrote: Hi, I wanted to know if someone already used Spatialite in an OSM context? Spatiaite comes with an OSM XML to Spatialite converter, so I'd expect someone uses it for that. - Serge

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

Now knowing that the gazetteer index hasn't been updated in 2 years and was considered internally deprecated, it means support for it was implemented in Merkaartor (and probably Marble) while the service was already dead but still accessible. I look at this situation as some miscommunication.

Re: [OSM-dev] licensing question

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 7:32 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ava...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, I'm also pretty sure that you can just completely ignore the license since you're only using the data within your own organization. The licence only kicks in when you're doing re-distribution to third

Re: [OSM-dev] OSM and CouchDB/GeoCouch

On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 8:48 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: I'd be happy to look at the code, but XML parsing is no the slow part: writing to the format that Mongo expects (BSON) is. To be fair, we never entirely established that (did we?). The BSON encoder part of the MongoDB library

Re: [OSM-dev] OSM and CouchDB/GeoCouch

On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Lars Francke lars.fran...@gmail.com wrote: It looks like our schemas are mostly identical, but in my experience, MongoDB used more and more time importing the index as the import continued. An import of the dataset for TX took several hours, but import speeds

Re: [OSM-dev] OSM and CouchDB/GeoCouch

I'll be at SOTM and we'll both be at SOTM US. I suggest a BoF (Birds of a Feather) session. - Serge On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Lars Francke lars.fran...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 20:52, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: Similarly, Ian Dees and I have written

Re: [OSM-dev] OSM and CouchDB/GeoCouch

On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Nolan Darilek no...@thewordnerd.info wrote: Is this work available anywhere? How did you find performance to be, and to what uses did you put it? There's Ian and my github accounts, and you can download it there, but: 1) RIght now the only hardware we've tested

Re: [OSM-dev] OSM and CouchDB/GeoCouch

Similarly, Ian Dees and I have written a server using MongoDB, which also provides functionality such as auto-sharding and built in map/reduce. - Serge On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 12:58 AM, Lars Francke lars.fran...@gmail.com wrote: were there any successful attempts to read OSM data into CouchDB

Re: [OSM-dev] Open Social Routing Idea: Request for preliminary comments

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Chris Hill o...@raggedred.net wrote: If you load the routes elsewhere and use OSM as the background it might be interesting, and I can see that it might produce a powerful routing engine based on local knowledge and time-based traffic patterns, if you can get