Re: [OSM-dev] NOTICE: Upcoming Maintenance - Read Only

2012-03-28 Thread Derick Rethans
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012, Phil! Gold wrote: * Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com [2012-03-28 09:51 +0100]: * planet.openstreetmap.org will be available but no new diffs will be generated until the license change is complete. Will the diffs express the license change? That is, will the

Re: [OSM-dev] Google Summer of Code

2012-04-03 Thread Derick Rethans
On Mon, 2 Apr 2012, kabum wrote: Result: - each changeset has a total rating - use a treshold value to divide them into suspicious and not suspicious Instead of just using static thresholds, I think that something like SVM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Support_vector_machine) might be highly

Re: [OSM-dev] Google Summer of Code

2012-04-03 Thread Derick Rethans
On Tue, 3 Apr 2012, kabum wrote: Am 3. April 2012 09:38 schrieb Derick Rethans o...@derickrethans.nl: On Mon, 2 Apr 2012, kabum wrote: Some questions came up within this preparation: - Is there a prefered language? Has this to be specified within the proposal? (language skill has

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

2012-04-13 Thread Derick Rethans
On Fri, 13 Apr 2012, David Earl wrote: 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

Re: [OSM-dev] hacking outdoor GPS devices

2012-04-16 Thread Derick Rethans
On Mon, 16 Apr 2012, Mitja Kleider wrote: Hello, I have a few questions regarding outdoor GPS devices: * Are you satisfied with the available devices? What would you change first? I have a Garmin eTrex Vista HCX now, and I like it a lot as it's fast and accurate. It's map rendering isn't

Re: [OSM-dev] Nominatim's reverse geocoding statistics

2012-05-02 Thread Derick Rethans
On Wed, 2 May 2012, Charles DESNEUF wrote: And if you have an idea about what parameters (Php, Postgres, Apache ...) can we play on to improve the results I'll be glad to ear it. On the PHP side. Make sure you have APC installed, and running the latest version of PHP (5.4.1). It uses a lot

Re: [OSM-dev] GSoC - Anomaly Detection Engine

2012-05-11 Thread Derick Rethans
Hello Adam! On Fri, 11 May 2012, Adam Velkei wrote: Hello, my name is Adam Istvan Velkei, I'm a student from Hungary and I got the chance to work on an engine to detect vandalism and other kinds of unwanted map edits. I've created a wiki page for the project, available at

Re: [OSM-dev] GSoC - Anomaly Detection Engine

2012-05-28 Thread Derick Rethans
Hello Adam, On Fri, 11 May 2012, Adam Velkei wrote: Hello, my name is Adam Istvan Velkei, I'm a student from Hungary and I got the chance to work on an engine to detect vandalism and other kinds of unwanted map edits. I've created a wiki page for the project, available at

[OSM-dev] Anomaly detection

2012-06-13 Thread Derick Rethans
Hi Adam, how is the progress going. I would sort of like to see a little bit more output from you. It's now week three and I'm not quite sure whether your Week 1/2 milestone of Bonding with the community, creating specification of desired results and methods of training. has been reached.

Re: [OSM-dev] Anomaly detection

2012-06-18 Thread Derick Rethans
Hi Adam, Could you please provide us with some updates? We've seen *very* little output from you so far. cheers, Derick On Wed, 13 Jun 2012, Derick Rethans wrote: Hi Adam, how is the progress going. I would sort of like to see a little bit more output from you. It's now week three

Re: [OSM-dev] [GSoC] Improvements to Vespucci

2012-07-25 Thread Derick Rethans
On Wed, 25 Jul 2012, Jan Schejbal wrote: Hi, I have implemented a number of significant changes, and released a new APK at the usual location, http://www.janschejbal.de/temp/vespucci.apk Changes include: - Context menu is gone from EasyEdit mode, nearest nodes will be picked

Re: [OSM-dev] [GSoC] Improvements to Vespucci

2012-08-13 Thread Derick Rethans
On Sun, 12 Aug 2012, Paul Norman wrote: Although the project is not yet completely over, I would already like to thank everyone involved for the great opportunity and the kind support I received. Participating in GSoC with OSM was a lot of fun - thanks! Speaking for myself, it's

Re: [OSM-dev] [GSoC] Improvements to Vespucci

2012-08-16 Thread Derick Rethans
On Thu, 16 Aug 2012, Marcus Wolschon wrote: I'd like to hear everyones opinion on this. What do you think? I think it's annoying to have to install two packages. cheers, Derick On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 7:24 AM, Jan Schejbal jan.mailinglis...@googlemail.com wrote: A new and maybe last

Re: [OSM-dev] New Program: Changemonger

2012-08-21 Thread Derick Rethans
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 these descriptions in the stream, certainly better than user X entered

Re: [OSM-dev] New Program: Changemonger

2012-08-21 Thread Derick Rethans
On Tue, 21 Aug 2012, Serge Wroclawski wrote: 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

Re: [OSM-dev] OSM Wishlist

2012-10-12 Thread Derick Rethans
On Fri, 12 Oct 2012, Andy Allan wrote: On 12 October 2012 00:58, Tom MacWright t...@macwright.org wrote: What do you want to see happen with OSM's software this year? What are the tasks which everyone agrees on, but nobody has had the time to tackle? snip As for all-new things, I'd like

Re: [OSM-dev] Status of the Mapnik stylesheets

2012-11-14 Thread Derick Rethans
On Wed, 14 Nov 2012, Frederik Ramm wrote: I fully agree that GitHub is popular, but it is a pet peeve of mine to point out that alternatives exist, just like other people will complain if an Open Source project runs its mailing list on Google or so. With GitHub in the hands of a commercial

Re: [OSM-dev] Best and FASTEST Spatial DB for only calculating points near to X?

2012-12-15 Thread Derick Rethans
On Fri, 14 Dec 2012, Ander Pijoan wrote: I've seen that MongoDB has a spatial 2D index and I don't know if for the operations I'm going to do it could be faster than PostGIS. The 2D spatial stuff in MongoDB is simple, but it *is* really fast. What sort of operations are you thinking of

Re: [OSM-dev] Project OSRM v0.3.3. released

2013-03-01 Thread Derick Rethans
On Fri, 1 Mar 2013, Dennis Luxen wrote: All these features are directly usable from the speed profiles written in LUA. And while we supply basic profiles for car, bike and pedestrian routing, you can change and modify everything to your needs. In addition to the new features, we fixed more

Re: [OSM-dev] How to check if a user has entered valid openstreetmap username/password pair using php?

2013-03-12 Thread Derick Rethans
On Tue, 12 Mar 2013, Sazal Sthapit wrote: I am writing an app which allows users to submit values to pre-defined keys. But in order to make these edits by the user's own name, I first need to check if s/he has entered valid username/password combination. And I want to check it against the OSM

Re: [OSM-dev] Size of tiles

2013-07-02 Thread Derick Rethans
On Mon, 1 Jul 2013, Eric Fischer wrote: At the equator, the length of a tile is the circumference of the earth (40,075 km) divided by 2^zoom, so a zoom level 19 tile is 76.4 meters on a side, for 5837m^2. That is only true for the North-South sides. For the East-West sides the size is:

Re: [OSM-dev] Moving to stricter multipolygon parsing

2014-06-16 Thread Derick Rethans
On Fri, 13 Jun 2014, Peter Wendorff wrote: IMHO, and that's what most bothers me at the old interpretation of multipolygons, any tag that belongs to a closed way should be valid for that closed way. We don't inherit names from streets to bus route relations - why should we do so for names of

Re: [OSM-dev] Automated map of contributions

2015-01-16 Thread Derick Rethans
On Thu, 15 Jan 2015, Jóhannes Birgir Jensson wrote: For a few months I've made static maps by looking at changesets and putting down a marker on PNG roughly based on the centerpoint of changeset on a map. I've done this for Iceland and Botswana, both sparsely populated countries so the