Re: [OSM-talk] How to tag small city alley ?

2009-05-29 Thread Paul Johnson
> - Zitierten Text ausblenden - >> Greg Troxel wrote: >>> I'd agree that service isn't quite right, if that's the front of th= e >>> buildings. But similarly residential isn't right either (I guess we= all >>> think of that as something with pavements/sidewalks). >> highway=3Dunclassified fo

[OSM-talk] SOTM Scholarship Recipients Announced

2009-05-29 Thread Khanh Le
Thank you very much, It's my honor to be selected, I will try my best to promote OSM in Vietnam. See you at Amsterdam, --- Khanh Le Ngoc Quoc ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] LV region border import

2009-05-29 Thread Russ Nelson
On May 29, 2009, at 3:54 PM, Lauris Bukšis-Haberkorns wrote: > Should I merge > neighbour region nodes and import seperate border lines or again > should I leave data as is? I may be wrong, and happy to be corrected if I am, but if the nodes are the same physical points, you should only import

Re: [OSM-talk] different results returned via various APIs

2009-05-29 Thread Simon Hewison
I think I worked out what was going on. Somehow, I managed to accidentally delete most of the nodes in the way specified. The main API, and the planet dumps will not include those nodes, so the railway line looked all clunky and angular - but Potlatch will let you work with the deleted nodes. I

[OSM-talk] different results returned via various APIs

2009-05-29 Thread Simon Hewison
I know that Potlatch uses a different API than the main XML based API.. but I've noticed something really quite weird. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.85278&lon=-4.89509&zoom=15&layers=B000FTF If you look at the railway line heading to the southwest from Clarbeston Road, in Potlatch it's a

Re: [OSM-talk] How to tag small city alley ?

2009-05-29 Thread Richard Mann
I'd have said a pedestrian street was one which (often through conversion) is now primarily for access on foot, and pretty much unsegregated (ie no kerbs, and not much paving differentiation). Access varies (can be bicycles, motorcycles or even some cars - eg Lucca in Italy). It doesn't only apply

[OSM-talk] LV region border import

2009-05-29 Thread Lauris Bukšis-Haberkorns
Hi, I wanted to ask how I should better import city and region borders. I contacted Latvia geospatial information agency and they sent me newest data and allowed to import them into OSM. Only thing they asked for was that there is reference to them and they agreed that specially created user (ht

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Planetfile with ChangeSet

2009-05-29 Thread Nic Roets
Isn't it so that people can grep the commit comments ? I'm finding commit comments very handy : http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Nic%20Roets/edits On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Gary68 wrote: > i'm interested in this topic too. so i cross post this here. no answer > on dev so far... > > gar

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Planetfile with ChangeSet

2009-05-29 Thread Gary68
i'm interested in this topic too. so i cross post this here. no answer on dev so far... gary68 On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 10:35 +0200, m2hu...@hsr.ch wrote: > Hi Everyone > > With the danger of asking a stupid question: As I wanted to import the newest > planet.osm file, I saw that there are changeS

Re: [OSM-talk] How to tag small city alley ?

2009-05-29 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2009/5/29 Greg Troxel : > >  Isn't that highway=pedestrian exactly?  As for cars I think it might >  be a physical impossibility rather than permitted / not permitted. >  (But for routing purposes it's just the same.) well, IMHO it's not, as "pedestrian" are streets not generally allowed to cars,

Re: [OSM-talk] How to tag small city alley ?

2009-05-29 Thread Greg Troxel
Isn't that highway=pedestrian exactly? As for cars I think it might be a physical impossibility rather than permitted / not permitted. (But for routing purposes it's just the same.) I suppose it is, except that really it's highway=motorcycle. My real point was that the whole 'highway' con

Re: [OSM-talk] How to tag small city alley ?

2009-05-29 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/5/29 Greg Troxel : > >  I'd agree that service isn't quite right, if that's the front of the >  buildings. But similarly residential isn't right either (I guess we all >  think of that as something with pavements/sidewalks). > > residential doesn't imply sidewalks in my area > >  So is there a

Re: [OSM-talk] How to tag small city alley ?

2009-05-29 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2009/5/29 Paul Johnson : - Zitierten Text ausblenden - > Greg Troxel wrote: >> I'd agree that service isn't quite right, if that's the front of the >> buildings. But similarly residential isn't right either (I guess we all >> think of that as something with pavements/sidewalks). > > highway=u

Re: [OSM-talk] Corine Land Cover becomes a potential OSM data source...

2009-05-29 Thread Jaak Laineste
My French is no good, so I just tried to open part of discussion here also http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:WikiProject_Corine_Land_Cover/Taggin g_scheme. Anyway, I see from French page that the simplification ideas are actually quite similar (e.g. forest is just one forest). We have 55% o