Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-legal-talk] Are we strict enough with imports ?

On Fri, 12 Feb 2010, Oliver Kuehn (skobbler) wrote: > Another helpful feature could be an "expiry date". Each import can not be > valid longer than e.g. 12 months. After this period the dataset needs > update and receives a new validity data. Otherwise the data will become > inactive. > natural

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-legal-talk] Are we strict enough with imports ?

On 12.02.2010 12:01, Oliver Kuehn (skobbler) wrote: > Hi, > > Another helpful feature could be an "expiry date". Each import can not be > valid longer than e.g. 12 months. After this period the dataset needs update > and receives a new validity data. Otherwise the data will become inactive. > > R

[OSM-talk] mapgen v0.07

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mapgen.pl v0.07 (rel. 2010-Feb-12) * multiple label keys (sorted by priority or all; label fallback) * tag stats; tags without rules * declutter; eliminate double labels on motorway/trunk and prevent labels from disturbing each other

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-legal-talk] Are we strict enough with imports ?

slightly off topic, one problem we have is many imports are incomplete because of network/server interrupting the upload. Users stopping uploads but not being able to revert them. As a rule please report broken imports/uploads and someone can revert them before manual changes make it nearly im

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] GSoC'10

Thanks Graham, The page looks nice. Though, I have also created this page -> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/GSoC_Project_Ideas_2010, where students can start posting their ideas. I think Things to do and Student projects

Re: [OSM-talk] Two different ways with the same nodes?

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 3:34 AM, Shaun McDonald wrote: > Why not offset the nodes a little to make them easier to work with and be > able to see that there is two ways there? > Because that would be tagging for the renderer editor. ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-legal-talk] Are we strict enough with imports ?

Hi, I fully agree that imports should be done very selective to avoid a "giant data rubbish dump". However, currently it is very difficult for a user to decide "if the data is so important [..] for the foundation [..] that we'd rather have and outdated version of it in OSM than nothing at all".

Re: [OSM-talk] Two different ways with the same nodes?

On Fri, 12 Feb 2010, Shaun McDonald wrote: > On 12 Feb 2010, at 06:17, ed...@billiau.net wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 4:57 PM, wrote: > Hi, > > Stefan Pflumm wrote: > > this ways are all highways. > > It surely is unusual for two highways sharing the same nodes,

Re: [OSM-talk] Two different ways with the same nodes?

On 12 Feb 2010, at 06:17, ed...@billiau.net wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 4:57 PM, wrote: >> Hi, Stefan Pflumm wrote: > this ways are all highways. It surely is unusual for two highways sharing the same nodes, and I cannot think of an example where this w