Re: [OSM-talk] How do we specify relative importance of features across all types of features?

2009-06-03 Thread Stephan Plepelits
Hi Folks! I'm the one who originally created the proposal. On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 10:52:33PM +0800, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: > Hmmm... I guess the main problem that people have is that a tag like > "importance" (or its synonyms) is inherently subjective and a subjective > tag is Yeah, I see th

Re: [OSM-talk] Getting Good Tracks With eTrex

2009-06-03 Thread Aun Johnsen (via Webmail)
On Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:52:37 -0400, Paul Houle wrote: > I was annoyed to discover that saved tracks on my eTrex Vista HCx > don't have timestamps. I did some experimenting and discovered that I > need to use the "ACTIVE LOG" if I want timestamps and control over the > tracks. Funny enough, I

Re: [OSM-talk] Getting Good Tracks With eTrex

2009-06-03 Thread Ed Loach
> Is there anything else I need to know about getting good > tracks? Lambertus posted some tips on logging to this list in April: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2009-April/036015.html Ed ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Getting Good Tracks With eTrex

2009-06-03 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2009/6/3 Paul Houle : >    I was annoyed to discover that saved tracks on my eTrex Vista HCx > don't have timestamps.  I did some experimenting and discovered that I > need to use the "ACTIVE LOG" if I want timestamps and control over the > tracks.  Funny enough,  I didn't find this in the manual o

[OSM-talk] Getting Good Tracks With eTrex

2009-06-03 Thread Paul Houle
I was annoyed to discover that saved tracks on my eTrex Vista HCx don't have timestamps. I did some experimenting and discovered that I need to use the "ACTIVE LOG" if I want timestamps and control over the tracks. Funny enough, I didn't find this in the manual or online, so I wrote som

[OSM-talk] 3D Map Print

2009-06-03 Thread Peter Dörrie
Hi, I just saw the blog entry on http://freegeographytools.com/2009/solid-3d-landscape-models-from-landprintabout buying a 3D Map-Print. Does anybody know if there is a service out there that does this with OSM Data? Greetings, Peter ___ talk mailing l

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM based printed directory, possible?

2009-06-03 Thread Gervase Markham
On 03/06/09 09:10, Gervase Markham wrote: > In > practice, that means putting an small attribution credit on the map. And, as a private emailer pointed out, to allow anyone to copy it without paying a fee. Which might be thought to be a big deal, but you can hardly reproduce an atlas with a phot

[OSM-talk] OSM at where2.0

2009-06-03 Thread Sarah Manley
All, Here are two bits of media from our OSM booth at Where2.0. Enjoy! OSMers interviewed on Yahoo! developer TV (we are about 5 min. in): http://tinyurl.com/q9spaa OSM chatter on Canadian Broadcasting Channel Radio (we are in the second segment, a little less than half way through): http:

Re: [OSM-talk] How do we specify relative importance of features across all types of features?

2009-06-03 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hmmm... I guess the main problem that people have is that a tag like "importance" (or its synonyms) is inherently subjective and a subjective tag is hard to determine "on the ground". Given the recent discussions about unofficial cycle routes and the secondary roads in Ipswich, people seem to be ju

Re: [OSM-talk] pub vs bar vs club

2009-06-03 Thread Peter Childs
2009/6/3 Joe Richards : > > How do you tag a drinking establishment that is not a pub?  I'm thinking of > places where >  * they typically don't serve food food=yes/no (I think the default is No) >  * the name doesn't start with "The" or have Olde Worlde signs out the front name=whatever >  *

Re: [OSM-talk] pub vs bar vs club

2009-06-03 Thread Matt Amos
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Ed Loach wrote: >> How do you tag a drinking establishment that is not a pub? > > Does amenity=nightclub fit the bill? > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dnightclub > Otherwise stick with amenity=pub and use the osmarender layer for a > cocktail glass

Re: [OSM-talk] pub vs bar vs club

2009-06-03 Thread Ed Loach
> How do you tag a drinking establishment that is not a pub? Does amenity=nightclub fit the bill? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dnightclub Otherwise stick with amenity=pub and use the osmarender layer for a cocktail glass icon... Ed

[OSM-talk] pub vs bar vs club

2009-06-03 Thread Joe Richards
How do you tag a drinking establishment that is not a pub? I'm thinking of places where * they typically don't serve food * the name doesn't start with "The" or have Olde Worlde signs out the front * the main drinks are often wine or cocktails, rather than pints of beer * there may (or may n

Re: [OSM-talk] When is a road a secondary road and when is it not?

2009-06-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Peter Miller wrote: > Personally I want a structure for the town which tells a story > about today's road use, rather than a dusty document in a > council. I should inform routing engines to keep cars on > major roads and cyclists off them. I don't dispute that this information would be valuab

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM based printed directory, possible?

2009-06-03 Thread Gervase Markham
On 02/06/09 21:16, Matías Iturburu wrote: > Lately we have been interested in osm and, after noting that our town > isn't in osm, we would like to upload all our catography to osm (it's > quite a chunk of data). As a matter of taste we would like for the tiles > on our (printed) maps, to be the sam

Re: [OSM-talk] R: newbie question related to "ele" (elevation)

2009-06-03 Thread Madhav Vodnala
FabrizioThanks. I think thats the right approach. Am going to look into it in detail. From the outside it looks the data format is somewhat complicated. --Madhav 2009/6/1 Fabrizio Carrai > Not an expert, but wouldn't be a better approach to use the DEM data ? > Maybe the accuracy wouldn't be g

Re: [OSM-talk] newbie question related to "ele" (elevation)

2009-06-03 Thread Madhav Vodnala
Thanks Tom. That explains it. On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 12:42 AM, Tom Hughes wrote: > Madhav Vodnala wrote: > > There use to be "ele" tag for nodes. I exported a small area into an OSM >> file today and I do not see "ele" tag anymore. Is that removed?. >> > > Presumably because nobody felt like ta