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2013-10-09 Thread Akash Ashok
Hey Guys, I just joined the list. Open Street Map initiative is awesome.I love the fact that its free and I would love to contribute to the systems. I am a distributed systems engineer by profession, from India and would love to contribute in a dev way as much as I can. Firstly I wanted to know

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2013-10-09 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi Akash, I think you are referring to the OSM website, correct? All of the development related to improving the website can be found on Github: https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/ This is where design decisions, issues, bugs, and other topics to improve the website are

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2013-10-09 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2013/10/9 Akash Ashok thehellma...@gmail.com 2. Is there a Jira page to know the list of outstanding issues that I could pickup ? there is a trac-system with a collection of bugs and feature requests: https://trac.openstreetmap.org/ I am not sure how suitable this is any more, as many

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2013-10-09 Thread Akash Ashok
Hi Martin/Eugene, Thanks a lot. Are Website and Backend services managed as different projects ? Am I correct to presume that Trac is for both website and backend systems ? Cheers, Akash A On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 8:44 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.comwrote: 2013/10/9 Akash Ashok

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2013-10-09 Thread Serge Wroclawski
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

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2013-10-09 Thread Akash Ashok
Oh Alright. Thanks a lot for the detailed breakup. I think it was my mistake i wasn't clear at all. I just wanted to know how we are designing the site are there designers involved on the website front. Secondly my interest is mainly on the backend, POSTGIS, Routing Algos on top of it etc... Now

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2013-10-09 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
Am 09/ott/2013 um 18:12 schrieb Akash Ashok thehellma...@gmail.com: Secondly my interest is mainly on the backend, POSTGIS, Routing Algos on top of it etc... Now that i see there are quite a few components. What I'll do is go thru the components and see what interests me and start

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2013-10-09 Thread Ab_fab
Visible here : http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:OSM_Components.png (found from French wiki page which still has the previous layout) 2013/10/9 Pieren pier...@gmail.com On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 6:01 PM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: It's a bit more complicated than that-

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2013-10-09 Thread Pieren
On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 6:01 PM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: It's a bit more complicated than that- and this really should be better documented (or if it- easier to find). We had in the past a diagram on this page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Develop but is gone. Probably

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2013-10-09 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2013/10/9 Pieren pier...@gmail.com We had in the past a diagram on this page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Develop but is gone. Probably needs some refresh. you can still find it in the history: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Developoldid=812753 cheers, Martin

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2013-10-09 Thread Tom Hughes
On 09/10/13 17:01, Serge Wroclawski wrote: At the bottom, the lowest level, there is the Postgis database, with the API schema. Postgres, not postgis. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ dev mailing list

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2013-10-09 Thread Akash Ashok
Oh So we dnt use POSTGIS extension ?? How do we store the geometries then like roads areas and location coordinates ? On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 9:58 PM, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: On 09/10/13 17:01, Serge Wroclawski wrote: At the bottom, the lowest level, there is the Postgis database,

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2013-10-09 Thread Tom Hughes
On 09/10/13 17:31, Akash Ashok wrote: Oh So we dnt use POSTGIS extension ?? How do we store the geometries then like roads areas and location coordinates ? We don't store them as geometries in the API database, we store them as a simple topological network. You probably want to do some

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2013-10-09 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2013/10/9 Akash Ashok thehellma...@gmail.com Oh So we dnt use POSTGIS extension ?? How do we store the geometries then like roads areas and location coordinates ? not in the main db, but in the mapnik rendering db there is the postgis extension enabled. cheers, Martin