Re: [OSM-newbies] Apartment Complex

2009-11-23 Thread Randy
Alan Mintz wrote: >At 2009-11-18 03:26, you wrote: I have a number of apartment complexes to map... >>> >>>When I started mapping, I asked a similar question. Based on the >>>responses >>>I got and other features, I use a site relation. Example: >>>http://osm.org/go/TaBoJz7Oq- >> >> Great e

Re: [OSM-newbies] Opinions on my Work

2009-11-23 Thread Karl Latham
That area is another community centre, I thought I'd tagged it but maybe not. Accuracy wise, the google map is outdated in my area, the school has had old wasteground cleared to make up more grass area for them. Mapping has been done for the buildings, purely from waypoints, and images take

[OSM-newbies] Two Questions

2009-11-23 Thread Al Haraka
Hello All, I am very new to OSM. I attended my first mapping party in my area, and now I am trying to finish uploading some of the data from my traces. I only have a couple of waypoints, because I am slow like that. Now I am tagging my points on Potlatch and trying to learn for myself. Unfortu

Re: [OSM-newbies] tertiary dirt roads?

2009-11-23 Thread James Ewen
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: > If it's a private road, I'm less inclined to call it a tertiary. > "unclassified" doesn't sound bad in this case. > > Given that the primary, secondary and tertiary designations belong to > the national, state and county/city/forest service/B

Re: [OSM-newbies] Opinions on my Work

2009-11-23 Thread James Ewen
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Karl wrote: > Could someone take a look at it all, specifically the church and give me > some comments. Looking better from afar! It's difficult to know how well you are doing at mapping what is on the ground as we aren't familiar with the area. However, compari

Re: [OSM-newbies] tertiary dirt roads?

2009-11-23 Thread Paul Johnson
James Ewen wrote: > On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: >> James Ewen wrote: >> >>> I prefer the main roads in the bush being tagged as tertiary, because >>> they then become a useful addition to the map database. >> >> I tend to agree with that opinion if they're a referenced hi

Re: [OSM-newbies] tertiary dirt roads?

2009-11-23 Thread Alex Mauer
On 11/23/2009 10:55 AM, Richard Weait wrote: > Charlotte's original question about marking western, major, unpaved > roads as tertiary seems reasonable given that description. With a > planet as diverse and project as large as ours, it would be madness to > expect precisely uniform tagging from p

Re: [OSM-newbies] tertiary dirt roads?

2009-11-23 Thread Zeke Farwell
Sounds to me like the best solution is: highway=tertiary surface=dirt (or gravel or whatever) unfortunately, the current renderers don't do anything with the surface tag. Hopefully in the future they will though. In my opinion, the relative importance of a road should factor more heavily into

Re: [OSM-newbies] Waypoints in Potlatch (or using gpsbabel)

2009-11-23 Thread Serge Wroclawski
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > Potlatch can handle waypoints, they show up as special POIs you have > to unlock to turn into actual nodes in the database. > > What it doesn't handle, or more specifically the GPX import script, is > GPX tracks that only have a wa

Re: [OSM-newbies] Translations ala web

2009-11-23 Thread Xan
En/na Xan ha escrit: > Hi, > > Is there any web gui for translating like launchpad for openstreetmap. > Perhaps a web gui could be useful for translating a bulk of names at > once. Instead of localezing first the object, check if there are > translated or not and translate. > I'm refering to

[OSM-newbies] Translations ala web

2009-11-23 Thread Xan
Hi, Is there any web gui for translating like launchpad for openstreetmap. Perhaps a web gui could be useful for translating a bulk of names at once. Instead of localezing first the object, check if there are translated or not and translate. If you look it right, can I upload the names to laun

Re: [OSM-newbies] Opinions on my Work

2009-11-23 Thread Karl
Thanks for all the constructive criticism their. Following the advice I've redrawn most of the areas to share nodes, and completely re done some tags. The church has also been completely re done, as I wasn't happy with it. Could someone take a look at it all, specifically the church and give m

Re: [OSM-newbies] Potlatch 1.3

2009-11-23 Thread James Ewen
Richard, Thanks once again for creating and supporting such a great tool for OSM work! I look forward to seeing the new toys in v2.0. James On 11/23/09, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm pleased to announce Potlatch 1.3 - a new version with one major > improvement. > > Potlatch now le

Re: [OSM-newbies] tertiary dirt roads?

2009-11-23 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Alex Mauer wrote: > On 11/21/2009 12:11 AM, James Ewen wrote: >> I guess you missed the rest of my post where I described these >> roads. [ ... ] > Is there something wrong with using highway=unclassified for these? For the purposes of the newbies list, it is wo

Re: [OSM-newbies] tertiary dirt roads?

2009-11-23 Thread Alex Mauer
On 11/21/2009 12:11 AM, James Ewen wrote: > I guess you missed the rest of my post where I described these > roads... many are privately owned, and therefore NOT a referenced > highway belonging to the government, but rather a private road owned > by a privately held company. They are however avail

Re: [OSM-newbies] Opinions on my Work

2009-11-23 Thread Russ Phillips
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 5:57 AM, James Ewen wrote: > On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Cartinus wrote: > > >> The layer tag is not for painting in the renderer. The layer tag is to tell >> us >> things are physically above/below each other. > > > Seriously, you have got to be joking. There is n

[OSM-newbies] Potlatch 1.3

2009-11-23 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Hi all, I'm pleased to announce Potlatch 1.3 - a new version with one major improvement. Potlatch now lets you zoom in as far as zoom level 23. Previous versions only went up to z19, and even then with some loss of positional accuracy. This makes Potlatch much more suitable for tracing bui

Re: [OSM-newbies] right angles and similar fine detail in Potlatch

2009-11-23 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > It's also really useful to be able to > zoom into your imagery past z18 which Potlatch can't do. I wrote a long post explaining why this was, then figured I might have a go at seeing if it was fixable instead. So just wait for 1.3 which should be along real soon