Re: [OSM-dev] OSM clickable POIs - implementation?

2008-01-09 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
Shaun McDonald wrote: On 6 Jan 2008, at 15:55, Christopher Schmidt wrote: Something like this? http://crschmidt.net/osm/osm.html http://crschmidt.net/osm/history.html?type=wayid=8615004 This all works directly against the API, and should work in FF1.5+, IE6+, Opera 8+, and Safari 3+.

Re: [OSM-dev] Google Summer of Code 2008, March 12 deadline

2008-02-27 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
Grant Slater wrote: Dev, Google SoC 2008 has been confirmed. http://code.google.com/soc/2008/ http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Google_Summer_of_Code This is a fantastic opportunity. I might have some spare time and just volunteered to submit OSM to Google Soc. I will use:

Re: [OSM-dev] Google Summer of Code 2008, March 12 deadline

2008-02-28 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
Gervase Markham wrote: Sebastian Spaeth wrote: I will use: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Google_Summer_of_Code as a starting point. Feel free to add ideas for projects to that page. From the Mozilla experience, I'd recommend having separate Brainstorming and official Idea List

Re: [OSM-dev] Google Summer of Code 2008, March 12 deadline

2008-03-03 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
Gervase Markham wrote: Sebastian Spaeth wrote: Sounds reasonable, but I don't mind the brainstorming happening there now. I can always put stuff away on the future ideas page, after/when submitting us. The problem with that is that, when you register your organisation, you have to give

Re: [OSM-dev] Osmosis broken

2008-03-03 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
Brett Henderson wrote: Just happened to check my email, I won't be back for another week or so. To fix the problem, do the following steps (I can't access anything from internet cafes myself). Login as bretth on dev Change to the ~/app/osmosis directory Modify

Re: [OSM-dev] Daily planet diff only 14 bytes

2008-03-05 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
David Earl wrote: Today's planet diff is only 14 bytes. Did nothing happen yesterday, or has something gone wrong? Sigh, I do hope it's got nothing to do with the changes I did to osmosis as outlined by bretth. (the only thing I did is change version scheme from 10 to 11). Because if it is,

[OSM-dev] osmosis diffs revisited

2008-03-06 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
Brett Henderson wrote: Hi Spaetz, I'm getting a bunch of errors from the minute cron job still. I may have given you bad instructions and told you to chmod u+x ... the wrong files. You can probably just run: chmod u+x ~/bin/* I just chmod +x ~/app/osmosis/build/dist/bin as bretth (they

[OSM-dev] Applied for Google Summer of Code

2008-03-11 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
OK, I have just submitted our application to Google SoC. We are in the pool. bobkare volunteered to act as backup admin in case I drop dread. Thanks for that. Let's see if this works out this year. I will probably be (nearly) non-reachable on WEdnesday and Thursday BTW, as I represent an

[OSM-dev] Next steps (was: Applied for Google Summer of Code)

2008-03-11 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
OK, here are the next steps for GSoC. - We need students who are willing to take up one of the projects listed on our wiki page (they can propose their own thing to us too, of course). Students who are interested should show their interest now. @all: If you know a promising student, let them know

Re: [OSM-dev] [OSM-talk] Next steps

2008-03-11 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
I might be able to get my uni Computer Science department to pass on an e-mail to all it's students. That would be cool. Could a couple of paragraphs or so be written for this, that we can add to a paragraph that's local specific? OK, here is my try on it, feel free to modify

Re: [OSM-dev] X-Prizes

2008-03-19 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
SteveC wrote: On 18 Mar 2008, at 17:03, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, Anyone have any thoughts on whether it would fly? It might but I fear that the coding community would be adversely affected to a point where people don't work unless paid, or free time programmers get shot down for

[OSM-dev] [Fwd: Project idea for openstreetmap in Google SOC 2008]

2008-03-20 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
Dear OpenStreetMappers, please read and provide feedback to this proposal. I find myself unable to assess the quality and newness. Please CC [EMAIL PROTECTED] in your reply. spaetz ---BeginMessage--- Dear Sir, I am an undergraduate student in computer engineering. I am currently working on my

Re: [OSM-dev] New to OSM

2008-04-04 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
Matt Ludlum wrote: Howdy all, I came across this project when applying for the Google's Summer of Code. It is a really neat project and I've been reading up ever since finding it. Cool, thanks for liking it. We welcome you to I'm very interested in the generalization problem stated in the

[OSM-dev] GSoC applications are in! MENTORS wanted

2008-04-08 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
Hi all, Google summer of code application deadline has passed. We have received 27 applications. I have stripped out sensitive information such as e-mail addresses and other contact information (and also a full CV) and put the on this wiki page:

Re: [OSM-dev] [OSM-talk] GSoC applications are in! MENTORS wanted

2008-04-08 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
Hakan Tandogan wrote: I am an self-employed Computer Scientist with lots of experience in databases and web applications. I live and work in Germany. Hi Hakan (I can probably talk in German with you :-)) thanks for volunteering, I have accepted you as a mentor. You can now click on any

Re: [OSM-dev] Lowzoom [EMAIL PROTECTED] patch - any takers?

2008-04-21 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
Andrew McCarthy wrote: My first post to the Dev list :) Congrats. Patches of this kind would even be more appropriate on the tilesathome mailing list, so no need to come here for that patch :-) Following a short discussion on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list about lowzoom, I prepared the attached

Re: [OSM-dev] See Data, a UI for browsing OSM data in the main map

2008-04-23 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
Lauri Hahne wrote: This is a great way which allows newcomers to fix up their street name if speled incorrectly or allow them to make a street one-way. It's also useful for more powerful users (which tags are on that street?) rather than having to start up JOSM and paste in

Re: [OSM-dev] Google Summer of Code

2008-04-24 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
Mikel Maron wrote: (a) Wi.l there be a publicly available repository for the code? Any ideas on this? At the least students and mentors want to share code, maybe others .. but we don't want to hit the main trunk in the initial stages, and branching probably unnecessarily

Re: [OSM-dev] Google Summer of Code

2008-04-24 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
Tom Hughes wrote: Why on earth would we want to do that - we have a perfectly good repository so why not use it. Just because some people expressed in the past that they would ahve preferred a distributed VCS and that it would have lowered their entry barrier to create a local branch for

Re: [OSM-dev] dev server down?

2008-05-03 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
Grant Slater wrote: Not sure if anyone's aware but the dev server appears to have been down (can't access via http or ssh) all day Friday. Yes are aware. I am going first thing in the morning to fix. I just logged in via ssh. Grant what was wrong with it? spaetz

Re: [OSM-dev] 0.6 api - same story

2008-05-05 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
Tom Hughes wrote: THE API WILL NOT BE CHANGING IN TEN DAYS. I know that it will not change, but that is what the wiki said :-) That is what I meant by clumsy communication, and it was not directed to you. I am more than happy about the outcomes of the hackathon and think you guys did a

Re: [OSM-dev] 0.6

2008-05-07 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
Brett Henderson wrote: Being fairly intimate with the issues involved in trying to split files into bboxes and polygons I'd love to see a polygon concept. Currently it is almost impossible to split osm files into tiles suitable for devices such as a garmin. I've created a pgsql schema

Re: [OSM-dev] [OSM-talk] Online/offline slippy map finished.

2008-05-09 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
Sebastian Spaeth wrote: Frustrated by the lack of a nice map viewing tool for my eee pc, I have written my own hack. It's a local OpenLayers installation that is served by a python script (stock python, no additional libs). If the tile does not exist yet, it will be downloaded from the OSM

Re: [OSM-dev] Online/offline slippy map finished.

2008-05-09 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
Nick Black wrote: Great idea - this could be really useful. I get lots of errors running on OS X 10.5.2 though: File ./pymap, line 47, in do_GET if e.errno == os.errno.ENOENT: AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'errno' I guess

Re: [OSM-dev] Online/offline slippy map finished.

2008-05-09 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
Andy Allan wrote: I'll need to check this out - I've found it frustrating trying to demo the map even if I'm carrying my laptop around. On the vague chance that there's wireless available, all I get is ooh, that's really slow when it's the crappy wireless that's the problem :-) Simple local

Re: [OSM-dev] Online/offline slippy map finished.

2008-05-09 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
Nick Black wrote: Cool - its all working now. Is there any cache expiry for tiles or is it a case of deleting the tile directory? No expiry so far, but it would be easy to make it so. All the pieces are ready, basically. Until then, just deleting old tiles must do. find tiles -mtime 30

Re: [OSM-dev] Online/offline slippy map finished.

2008-05-10 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
On Fri, 09 May 2008 17:22:23 +0100 Jon Burgess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you want a tool to visualize GPX files and overlay with a variety of map layers (including mapnik, osmarender or SRTM) then you could try viking. You can choose what tiles to download or ask it to download all tiles for

Re: [OSM-dev] Online/offline slippy map finished.

2008-05-10 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
On Fri, 9 May 2008 19:08:51 +0200 Raphael Studer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: self._sock.sendall(buffer) error: (32, 'Broken pipe') The following patch would suppress these error messages: 3c3 import urllib,re,os,sys,stat,errno --- import

Re: [OSM-dev] Newby question

2008-05-13 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
Alex Wilson wrote: Hi, I'm new to this mailing list but have been following the good work at OSM for a while and have been very heartened by the project's growth. I have a simple question: I'm interested in the relative runtime of the sub-components of the Osmarender-based tile

Re: [OSM-dev] [Tilesathome] Proposal for [EMAIL PROTECTED] land/sea updates

2008-06-03 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
Alan Millar wrote: Before anyone asks, yes, I am volunteering to code this. ;-) There is a problem right now that some z12 tiles are built wrong. Sometimes a land tile is colored as sea, and vice versa. (I am not talking about the unknown type tiles which will fix themselves over time).

Re: [OSM-dev] OSM sandbox server

2008-07-11 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: There was one on dev at some point. similarly there was a test server for 0.6 which could be used for the same purpose. There still is afaik ___ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-dev] Boundary data

2008-10-31 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
Roland Olbricht wrote: the boundary in OSM is maybe suboptimal structured. What is the best option? Discuss things first, others might not think of it as suboptimal as you think. 1) Leave the data as it is and use precautions in the software using it 2) Silently correct the data by running an

Re: [OSM-dev] The wiki defines the database (was: relations)

2008-11-05 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
Erik Johansson wrote: Real mappers don't document; their tags are enough. Wannabe mappers read documentation and follow templates. So how should you become a mapper if there is no documentation. There is a lack of people who are willing to write something on the wiki, not too many. there

Re: [OSM-dev] Ways with 40k nodes, was: osmosis pgsql schema

2008-11-10 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
Stefan de Konink wrote: Yup; I know. But when Gert told me it costed 2x 150 euro + a place to sleep. I was like... come on I can fly to Russia for that money. So we have now 6 hours of other development (paid) time left :) This might come as a shock, but sometimes 300€ plus 30€ for a hotel

Re: [OSM-dev] Uptime problems of xapi.openstreetmap.org?

2008-11-21 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
Stefan Keller wrote: Hi all, What are the core problems not being able to keep those Xapi services up, especially xapi.openstreetmap.org? Note, that I'm no XAPI maintainer. IMO there are at least 3 computers running xapi services: - 1 owned by OSM located in UCL is reliable but on a weak

Re: [OSM-dev] Crowd Sourced Testing of OSM 0.6 API

2008-12-12 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
Andy Allan wrote: +1 - would be useful to just get the daemon running. Little point in *not* testing it! Besides the fact that this is a 4GB box with both MySQL and Postgres running, as well as Apache/Ruby, in addition to making the minutely Java-based osmosis dumps? Ahh, and serving the planet

Re: [OSM-dev] Participation in gsoc 2009

2009-02-12 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
Frederik Ramm wrote: I did not want to create the impression that the students did something wrong; if it came across like that then I wish to apologize. I was a mentor with GSoc 2008 myself, and I think that my student - Mario who did the Osmarender front-end - did a very good job, but

Re: [OSM-dev] FW: using OpenStreetMap api

2009-04-16 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
Frederik Ramm wrote: ...or use the ti...@home tile server which has no restricted usage policy. Hehe, so far not. However, I reserve the right to temporarily or permanently ban users that I perceive as a threat to the stability of the system. I don't care whether the tiles are used

Re: [OSM-dev] Osmarender and Unknown Type

2009-06-08 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
Andrew Ayre wrote: Hi, I'm using OSM in a project and I *much* prefer the look of the Osmarender tiles over the Mapnik tiles, especially the extra detail when zoomed out. However, if I go to www.openstreetmap.org and zoom in to Arizona blue tiles with Unknown Type appear. In fact I see

Re: [OSM-dev] [Tilesathome] remove redirect from old ti...@home server?

2009-07-29 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
Dirk-Lüder Kreie wrote: OJ W schrieb: Currently http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~ojw/ is redirecting to tah.openstreetmap.org. Would it greatly inconvenience anyone if I stopped that from happening and put an actual website on dev.openstreetmap.org/~ojw/ ? I don't think any aspect of

Re: [OSM-dev] Thoughts on an enhanced GPX api

2009-07-29 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
Elizabeth Dodd wrote: On Wed, 29 Jul 2009, Sebastian Spaeth wrote: but I agree with Frederik that the GPS traces as they are now and not overly useful to me, I stopped downloading existing traces and rely on my local ones instead. Downloading a point cloud without being able to connect

Re: [OSM-dev] Thoughts on an enhanced GPX api

2009-07-30 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
Cartinus wrote: On Wednesday 29 July 2009 15:20:26 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: That's because JOSM has a feature to automatically connect points that are near each other, but that's as far as it goes since it can't get any track information from the server. So while these new ideas give

Re: [OSM-dev] Thoughts on an enhanced GPX api

2009-07-30 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
David Earl wrote: 2009/7/29 Sebastian Spaeth sebast...@sspaeth.de: And no, I don't think the solution is to dropping those traces, but eg being able to connect traces along a path rather than having a big cloud of independent points would make them much more useful to me already. Isn't

Re: [OSM-dev] Using OAuth

2009-09-01 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
Tom Hughes wrote: Yes, we could create a special OAuth permission to allow the email address to be revealed. It would have to be entirely separate however as it's a very significant step to reveal it. What are you trying to do that requires the user's email address anyway? TilesAtHome

Re: [OSM-dev] what server next?

2009-09-10 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
Grant Slater wrote: Politely, hell no. Compare total hardware usage and cost of operating and coordinating ti...@home* layer versus mapnik layer. Mapnik layer still operates from 1 server! hey, so does t...@h. It operates from 1 server. Just uses a few more clients :). * t...@h got us

[OSM-dev] t...@h Server Down

2009-09-23 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
FYI, there was a power blackout at the ETH and the t...@h server was affected too. Power is on again, but apparently some firewall network cards seem to be damaged, so t...@h is currently not reachable by anyone (including me). I was promised to get to know when they resolved the issue but ATM I

[OSM-dev] app launchers should NOT modify /proc/sys/vm

2009-11-24 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
Currently, the navit (routing app) launcher script modifies /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory without ever setting it back. This change should -if at all- should only be done with serious evaluation on the respective devices IMHO. I don't want to introduce random OOM process killings because apps

Re: [OSM-dev] app launchers should NOT modify /proc/sys/vm

2009-11-24 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
Emilie Laffray wrote: Is this email not better sent to the navit developers? I don't think Navit is maintained by anyone in the community of OSM. It may use data from OSM but it is not an OSM initiated project as far as I can see. Sorry, this mail went to OSM-dev by accident (too many email

[OSM-dev] XAPI gone?

2009-11-25 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
I just replied to a bug in our trac, complaining about an invalid caption tile. The crux is, that generating caption tiles needs the XAPI api and that seems to be very unreliable if working at all. Furthermore I was told that the hypercube might go away at some time... XAPI provides a very useful

Re: [OSM-dev] [Tilesathome] XAPI gone?

2009-11-25 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
80n wrote: There was a recent disk outage on hypercube. The server is now back up and the database is currently being recovered. The service should be back shortly. Good to know Thanks for the prompt information, much appreciated. And thanks for the hard work. XAPI is really a killer

Re: [OSM-dev] [Tilesathome] XAPI gone?

2009-11-25 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
80n wrote: Thanks for the prompt information, much appreciated. And thanks for the hard work. XAPI is really a killer service :-). (even if its programming language is a nasty sickness in Germany :-) ). You'll like they Python version then :) I prefer snakes to sicknesses, yes.

Re: [OSM-dev] [Tilesathome] ANNOUNCEMENT: T@H server will go away end of February

2012-02-12 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
On Wed, 1 Feb 2012 19:44:47 -0500, Jeremy Adams mile...@king-nerd.com wrote: Also thanks to the legions of renderers, client developers, and style tweakers, such as Bob Kare, Petschge, Dirk Lüder-Kreie, the ROMA and TRAPI developers, and the people involved in running the read-only mirror