Re: [josm-dev] Fwd: Filter Google from Imagery?

2011-01-29 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote: On 1/28/11 12:03 PM, Anthony wrote: Although, frankly, I've always thought the OSMF ban was more of a don't-ask-don't-tell one.  And I guess now that my contributions are going to be deleted anyway I can come clean

Re: [josm-dev] Fwd: Filter Google from Imagery?

2011-01-27 Thread Anthony
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 6:53 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: I understand that there will be a tiny fraction of users negatively affected by this, but I think it is necessary. We've witnessed a growing number of Google violations in the past year and I would not want JOSM's

Re: [josm-dev] Fwd: Filter Google from Imagery?

2011-01-27 Thread Anthony
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: At the very least allow people to use whatever imagery that they want when they're using non-openstreetmap servers. Better yet, just send the user-agent JOSM with every request. Let Google decide whether or not to block access

Re: [josm-dev] [OSM-talk] Why I don't use JOSM (was Re: Non-map-based OSM editor)

2011-01-24 Thread Anthony
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: If I take notes of which parts I find least intuitive (the parts I have to RTFM about, like how to reopen those right-side toolbarish windows), would anyone be interested in them? Ah ha! That's what the buttons on the left side

Re: [josm-dev] Change to changeset comment handling, RfD

2010-08-04 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 1:01 AM, Marko Mäkelä marko.mak...@iki.fi wrote: On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 08:08:56PM -0400, Anthony wrote: The quality of my own changeset comments is absolutely irrelevant in this discussion; let's assume, if it gives you pleasure, that they are all just That might

Re: [josm-dev] Change to changeset comment handling, RfD

2010-08-04 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 4:26 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Arguably, the changeset comment could be split up in a number of individual tags. Currently, people use it for different things - they say something about the source, about their method, about where they worked, about why

Re: [josm-dev] Change to changeset comment handling, RfD

2010-08-04 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: It is also unrealistic to expect good OSM data edits every time. Still it's good if people try, and good if the software helps them with it. Agreed. IMO the job of the software should be to make sure the person knows

Re: [josm-dev] Change to changeset comment handling, RfD

2010-08-03 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Ulf Lamping ulf.lamp...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 03.08.2010 18:12, schrieb Anthony: On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 4:51 AM, Ulf Lampingulf.lamp...@googlemail.com  wrote: I don't think that the change to 10 chars is a good idea. E.g. if I only add a tag to a node

Re: [josm-dev] Change to changeset comment handling, RfD

2010-08-03 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Hi, Anthony wrote: I asked you for your username, because I wanted to see what you consider to be a good changeset comment.  It never struck me that you might not actually consider your own changeset comments

Re: [josm-dev] self-intersecting ways

2010-03-26 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 6:57 AM, Klaus Dietrich kl...@gmx.de wrote: am 26.03.2010 01:41, schrieb Anthony: On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 01:50:23 -0400, Anthony wrote: In OSM, the way which is tagged highway represents

Re: [josm-dev] self-intersecting ways

2010-03-21 Thread Anthony
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 12:35 AM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 20:09:43 -0400, Anthony wrote: When I lived in New Jersey it was the same way, and I'd imagine it's the same way in most of the United States. I'd say more research is needed before we call

Re: [josm-dev] self-intersecting ways

2010-03-20 Thread Anthony
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 7:43 AM, Pieren pier...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: If you go the absurdist route, maybe. If you want to map the landuse of the right-of-way, how about landuse=highway? This has already been

Re: [josm-dev] Geometric calculations and projections

2009-12-19 Thread Anthony
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 9:14 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/12/18 Anthony o...@inbox.org On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 7:32 PM, Matthias Julius li...@julius-net.net wrote: My point was that Wyoming *is* a rectangle in a Mercator projection. Well, it would have

Re: [josm-dev] Geometric calculations and projections

2009-12-17 Thread Anthony
Spherical geometry allows you to calculate _directly_ on the sphere without using a projection ... you simple use LatLon in radian degrees. True, but it's not really trivial. A rectangle with 89.55°, 90.1°, 89.89°, 90,01° is no rectangle. What's the definition of rectangle in

Re: [josm-dev] Geometric calculations and projections

2009-12-17 Thread Anthony
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: Spherical geometry allows you to calculate _directly_ on the sphere without using a projection ... you simple use LatLon in radian degrees. True, but it's not really trivial. A rectangle with 89.55°, 90.1°, 89.89

Re: [josm-dev] Geometric calculations and projections

2009-12-17 Thread Anthony
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 7:32 PM, Matthias Julius li...@julius-net.netwrote: My point was that Wyoming *is* a rectangle in a Mercator projection. Well, it would have been if they had surveyed it correctly: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=44.996lon=-110.625zoom=11layers=B000FTF