Re: [OSM-dev] Matching live bus position to route?

2013-10-22 Thread Tom MacWright
Hey Grant, Look into wmata-gtfsrealtime: https://github.com/kurtraschke/wmata-gtfsrealtime which aims to solve the same problem for DC. It's semi-impenetrable Java code but the jist is that you create a 'unit space' (fancy word for distances in a bunch of dimensions) and use it to calculate

Re: [OSM-dev] [OSM-talk] Making iD the default editor on osm.org

2013-08-19 Thread Tom MacWright
As good a time as ever to remind everyone that we'd love your help on the iD project. Head over to the GitHub repository: https://github.com/systemed/iD Choose an issue, and go for it! You will be part of making this actually happen. Thanks, Tom On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 5:27 PM, NopMap

Re: [OSM-dev] Using iD in tablet

2013-08-18 Thread Tom MacWright
Touch-related tasks are tagged 'touch' in the issue tracker: https://github.com/systemed/iD/issues?labels=touchpage=1state=open Mainly, support on mobile touch devices like iOS and Android devices will be a significant challenge because of their weak processors incomplete browser

Re: [OSM-dev] The new link on the OSM map

2013-08-08 Thread Tom MacWright
Is it really a terrible weight to update JOSM to recognize the new format? Given that JOSM is on version 6,115 and this is essentially a 'changing a regex' type situation. Can we stop calling any feature that changes the behavior of the site a major step backwards? Yes, things are different and

Re: [OSM-dev] The new link on the OSM map

2013-08-08 Thread Tom MacWright
It is not just about JOSM, the change breaks *every application, web service or browser plugin* that creates a reference to the osm main page or that could parse an OSM url. Links to the homepage are backwards-compatible. We've set up redirects. No. If you just go ahead with changes that break

Re: [OSM-dev] The new link on the OSM map

2013-08-08 Thread Tom MacWright
posted before yours. This was announced and discussed both on GitHub and on the talk@ list, before it was launched. On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Maarten Deen md...@xs4all.nl wrote: On 2013-08-08 14:49, Tom MacWright wrote: Is it really a terrible weight to update JOSM to recognize the new

Re: [OSM-dev] The new link on the OSM map

2013-08-08 Thread Tom MacWright
Tom's hyperbole that I claim you did a bad thing entirely I was referring to: I'm sorry, but IMHO this is yet another step backward. 'Yet another step backward', outside of the expression two steps forward, another step back means 'a bad thing in general' in common usage. Perhaps you were

Re: [OSM-dev] TileStache license

2013-06-02 Thread Tom MacWright
Just check the GitHub repo's LICENSE.txt - https://github.com/migurski/TileStache/blob/master/LICENSE - looks like 3-Clause BSD On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Vince Berubey scream...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm using TileStache. I cannot find anywhere if TileStache is restricted by a

Re: [OSM-dev] What about Windows 8?

2013-05-09 Thread Tom MacWright
Browsing the map should work fine. iD isn't touch-compatible yet, but will be - tracked in the following tickets: * https://github.com/systemed/iD/issues/1431 * https://github.com/systemed/iD/issues/151 * https://github.com/systemed/iD/issues/607 On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Vince Berubey

Re: [OSM-dev] Where do you find out about ID?

2013-05-03 Thread Tom MacWright
Hi Nop, By virtue of being new, iD doesn't have quite as much docs for different use cases as Potlatch 2 or similar. But there are a few resources to get started with: * http://mapbox.com/osmdev/ (dev blog w/ series of posts about architecture) *

Re: [OSM-dev] Add an iD link to the Potlatch no-Flash screen

2013-04-22 Thread Tom MacWright
This should be conversation over whether we should link to iD or embed it, not a derail into opinions and feature requests. As far as linking to iD: I think we should focus on the pull request to include iD on the site https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/225 rather than

Re: [OSM-dev] Add an iD link to the Potlatch no-Flash screen

2013-04-22 Thread Tom MacWright
if you don't want to use presets. Tom On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: On 22/apr/2013, at 16:25, Tom MacWright t...@macwright.org wrote: For super-advanced editing, there will always be JOSM. iD does handle relations, though it does

Re: [OSM-dev] Add an iD link to the Potlatch no-Flash screen

2013-04-22 Thread Tom MacWright
to learn them (yes, novice mappers should not have to, but IMHO they should be able to understand the raw tags). So this tag list should IMHO show all tags, not only those not exposed already by even more human readable UI translations. regards Peter Am 22.04.2013 16:50, schrieb Tom MacWright

[OSM-dev] The Overpass Augmented Changesets API

2013-04-20 Thread Tom MacWright
Hi all, Any Overpass API knowledge-holders who know about augmented_diffs around? So today an experiment by Ian Dees w/ some small hacks by myself got in webmonkey: http://www.webmonkey.com/2013/04/watch-openstreetmap-improve-in-real-time/ Cool! So, I've got a few questions, since the API

Re: [OSM-dev] GPX Planet Dump

2013-04-06 Thread Tom MacWright
Risking to sound way too negative I have to ask what is the point of creating gpx dumps with the same data content as API queryable data? For the same reason a planet file is published. My use case here is generating a worldwide tile layer of GPX data, and that would not be viable via querying

Re: [OSM-dev] [Talk-us] Chicago Hack Weekend

2013-03-26 Thread Tom MacWright
Alex I also just booked flights - excited to go, first time in the windy city. On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote: I booked my flight last night. You should too! Toby On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: Hi

[OSM-dev] iD editor chat transcript

2013-01-10 Thread Tom MacWright
Hey all, Just finished up a chat about iD in #ideditor to discuss post-alpha0 pre-alpha1 plans. You can check out the log here: http://bl.ocks.org/d/4503558/ For background, here are our posts on iD: http://mapbox.com/osmdev/ and the testing instance: http://geowiki.com/iD/ Thanks everyone

[OSM-dev] CORS on the Wiki

2013-01-08 Thread Tom MacWright
Hey all (and especially Grant Jochen), So, the iD editor has this nice 'reference pane' which shows tag/value summaries from TagInfo, if available. TagInfo also provides thumbnails for these combos in the form File:Foo. Unfortunately that doesn't map to a real URL (by design). There's an API to

Re: [OSM-dev] CORS on the Wiki

2013-01-08 Thread Tom MacWright
Ah, wait! It supports JSONP, I'm a fool: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/api.php?action=queryprop=imageinfotitles=Image:Residential.jpgiiprop=url%7Ccontentformat=jsoncallback=foo On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Katie Filbert filbe...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 11:17 PM, Tom

[OSM-dev] iD Meeting on Thursday

2013-01-08 Thread Tom MacWright
Hi All, This thursday at 11pm EST, we're planning on huddling in the #ideditor channel (on irc.oftc.net) as well as on Skype to talk about where we're at going with the iD editor project. We'll have John, Ansis, Saman, and Alex around and also be on Skype for doing voice. If you're new to the

Re: [OSM-dev] iD Meeting on Thursday

2013-01-08 Thread Tom MacWright
be nice to participate but I'm not a fan of attending meetings 4 o'clock in the morning (GMT+0). Will there be a chatlog available afterwards? - Svavar Kjarrval On 08/01/13 23:29, Tom MacWright wrote: Hi All, This thursday at 11pm EST, we're planning on huddling in the #ideditor channel

[OSM-dev] iD alpha0

2012-12-21 Thread Tom MacWright
Hey all, Happy to announce that early tomorrow we're tagging an alpha0 release of iD for testing development: http://mapbox.com/osmdev/2012/12/22/alpha0/ As you all know, creating an editor is a very big effort and there's still a long way to go. What this mostly means is that we're happy with

Re: [OSM-dev] Screenshots from OpenStreetMap-Carto spot checking

2012-12-20 Thread Tom MacWright
Hey, Last few days Dane I have been working on optimizing Carto for this case - try out the 'condense' branch: https://github.com/mapbox/carto/tree/condense This requires one small change: in amenity-symbols.mss, change line 82 to [power = 'generator'][[generator:source] = 'wind']::power,

Re: [OSM-dev] Carto-based Mapnik OSM Rendering

2012-12-12 Thread Tom MacWright
Hey, To make it a bit easier to compare, here's the two on a split screen: http://bl.ocks.org/d/4271706/ From a cursory scan, there are some labelling and font changes (mostly for the better, in my opinion) and a possible bug around the coloring of the botanical garden. Tom On Wed, Dec 12,

Re: [OSM-dev] Announcing openstreetmap-carto v1.0 (and v2.0!)

2012-12-06 Thread Tom MacWright
Hey Andy, This is really awesome - the Carto looks super-clean and hackable for new coders. Can't wait to see this be used to tackle a lot of the ongoing requests as well as just subtle design improvements. Nice work! On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 6:21 AM, Paweł Paprota ppa...@fastmail.fm wrote: Hi

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

2012-11-13 Thread Tom MacWright
The biggest problem with the Mapnik stylesheet right now is that it's in SVN. Not the technology, but the fact that this gives people without commit access to that repository no clear way to contribute. There is no way to 'just do it' until the style is actually maintained in GitHub, actually

Re: [OSM-dev] Notes from today's iD huddle on #osm-dev

2012-11-07 Thread Tom MacWright
Definitely. So far iD is taking a few approaches that differ from Potlatch: - Instead of storing undo data in a separate undo stack, we're creating a 'persistent datastucture' style graph that preserves every version of data while trying to keep memory usage low. This means that operations,

[OSM-dev] OSMstats lingo

2012-10-21 Thread Tom MacWright
Hey all, Reading this recent TPM article on OSM (in the wake of SOTMUS)[1], I noticed that it cites 550 german mappers making edits each week, and links to OSMstats. The number looks like it's just determined from the graph titled No. of daily active members (week). This title is pretty

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

2012-10-16 Thread Tom MacWright
The problem I see is, other than pointing to planet.openstreetmap.org I'm not sure where else we would send them? While there are lots of other places to get things like regional extracts they are unofficial third party sites so I don't think that we should be referring people to them from the

Re: [OSM-dev] OSM Wishlist

2012-10-15 Thread Tom MacWright
for improvements (top ten tasks, api 0.7, improving openstreetmap) which have shown at best mixed success of staying updated and being good for the 'actual doing things' collaboration phase. Tom On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 6:08 AM, sly (sylvain letuffe) li...@letuffe.orgwrote: On vendredi 12 octobre 2012, Tom

Re: [OSM-dev] OSM Wishlist

2012-10-15 Thread Tom MacWright
I'd love to get back to the topic of what's next. At least my at-the-moment thought for why dev@ has been more efficient than the mailing list is something pretty simple: when people post on here with some bit of knowledge - like saying that something is already implemented, or that there are

Re: [OSM-dev] OSM Wishlist

2012-10-15 Thread Tom MacWright
Hey Sly, The simple answer is that MapBox (including myself) is finding ways to improve OpenStreetMap. Some of these are pretty obvious (design!), and some of them require a very high level of knowledge (API changes). By posting here, I'm trying to get a good idea of what exists, what experts

Re: [OSM-dev] OSM Wishlist

2012-10-12 Thread Tom MacWright
Okay, so visual changeset tools, better history tools, and osmbugs. OSMBugs or something like it will definitely get some love - early on we've just been battling confusion about wtf OSMBugs is, with all of the versions. That's mostly cleared up now. Anything else? On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 6:25

Re: [OSM-dev] OSM Wishlist

2012-10-12 Thread Tom MacWright
@Pawel: totally, I think those are awesome. I was mostly prodding this thread since it was getting into the details of changeset/history improvements and don't want it to be laser-focused on the technical details of one thing :) On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 8:38 AM, Paweł Paprota ppa...@fastmail.fm

[OSM-dev] OSM API Improvements work

2012-10-11 Thread Tom MacWright
Hey dev, Just posted the first few issues of the work that I can deem 'stuff that we're doing as part of the Knight iniative'. They consist of API-related tasks, some of which have had prior art but haven't been tested/completed enough to ship. I'd like to get them done and shipped to make some

Re: [OSM-dev] OSM API Improvements work

2012-10-11 Thread Tom MacWright
/iandees/xapi-servlet). TagInfo has an API that's fairly well done. What did you have in mind to improve it? On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Tom MacWright t...@macwright.org wrote: Hey dev, Just posted the first few issues of the work that I can deem 'stuff that we're doing as part

[OSM-dev] OSM Wishlist

2012-10-11 Thread Tom MacWright
Hey all (or, well, those subscribed to dev@ - my flamewar shields are at 50% so I'm not risking an email to talk), So, along with the big 'kicking off' blog post on MapBox[1], I posted three basic issues in the openstreetmap-website tracker - JSON support, filtering on the main api, and a tag

Re: [OSM-dev] OSM Wishlist

2012-10-11 Thread Tom MacWright
, Oct 11, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com wrote: On 12 October 2012 00:58, Tom MacWright t...@macwright.org wrote: Hey all (or, well, those subscribed to dev@ - my flamewar shields are at 50% so I'm not risking an email to talk), Bear in mind that technical (generally

Re: [OSM-dev] Will the real OpenStreetBugs stand up?

2012-10-09 Thread Tom MacWright
All those are independent third party sites created by individuals and are not directly related to core site. Aren't they using the same database somehow? What we were talking about in the EWG meeting was adding a bug reporting system to the main site that records things in the main

Re: [OSM-dev] Some more notes on OSM vector-tiling

2012-05-25 Thread Tom MacWright
Hi Sandor, Is any of this work open source, or have open specifications on the web? Statements like comparisons between filesizes of raster vector data need to be cited. Tom On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Sandor Seres sandor...@gmail.com wrote: Scale/zoom levels and tiling are essential

Re: [OSM-dev] OSMCoastline

2012-03-07 Thread Tom MacWright
Hey, Whoah! Nice work. All of these osmium-related projects are really exciting, can't wait to have more performant and efficient parts of the OSM stack. Plus, they're well-written and hosted on GitHub :) Tom On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Jochen Topf joc...@remote.org wrote: Hi! I have

Re: [OSM-dev] Using custom renderer with mod_tile

2012-02-29 Thread Tom MacWright
Hi there, There's no need to swap out Mapnik - it's a general purpose renderer which can run on any kind of data. You might want to check out https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/wiki/LearningMapnik for an intro of Mapnik it's styling language(s) Tom On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Skye Book