Re: [OSM-talk] facts cannot be copyrighted in australia: discuss

2010-02-14 Thread John Smith
On 15 February 2010 07:22, Robin Paulson wrote: > http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/02/14/0857256/Australian-Judge-Rules-Facts-Cannot-Be-Copyrighted Already has been on the talk-au list: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-au/2010-February/005461.html __

[OSM-talk] XFN links from user pages

2010-02-14 Thread Gaz Davidson
Hi New user here, apologies if I'm posting this in the wrong place, I asked about this on IRC and was redirected here. I've been playing with this new Google Buzz thing and realised that privacy issues aside, it's a great step forward in encouraging the growth of the semantic web. Social networks

Re: [OSM-talk] Should roads be connected to all types of crossing ways?

2010-02-14 Thread Pieren
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 9:54 PM, Richard Weait wrote: > Your router example still works. Even if you and I aren't going to > turn left at "highway=railway; railway=narrow_gauge" we had best give > way to traffic there. > > No, routing is a bad example. We have seen recently on this list someone

Re: [OSM-talk] Open PDFs in JOSM and manually resize

2010-02-14 Thread Sam Vekemans
Hi, Actually, i just used Adobe Reader to open the PDF file. and under Tools> Select & Zoom > Snapshot Tool Im able to select the area. and it promts me that the area was copied to the ClipBoard Then with that plugin PicLayer i just select PicLayer>New Picture Layer from clipBoard I use Garmin Ma

[OSM-talk] facts cannot be copyrighted in australia: discuss

2010-02-14 Thread Robin Paulson
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/02/14/0857256/Australian-Judge-Rules-Facts-Cannot-Be-Copyrighted ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Should roads be connected to all types of crossing ways?

2010-02-14 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Liz wrote: > On Mon, 15 Feb 2010, Nathan Edgars II wrote: >> I was told at http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/2708 to take this >> here. Basically, the TIGER import has put a lot of duplicate nodes >> where highways cross railways, power and pipe lines, and >> ad

Re: [OSM-talk] Should roads be connected to all types of crossing ways?

2010-02-14 Thread Liz
On Mon, 15 Feb 2010, Nathan Edgars II wrote: > I was told at http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/2708 to take this > here. Basically, the TIGER import has put a lot of duplicate nodes > where highways cross railways, power and pipe lines, and > administrative boundaries. The former should definite

Re: [OSM-talk] Should roads be connected to all types of crossing ways?

2010-02-14 Thread Tom Hughes
On 14/02/10 16:38, Tom Hughes wrote: > Boundaries, being virtual things rather than real physical entities are > normally connected to physical things which cross them. That should say "not normally connected" of course... Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___

Re: [OSM-talk] Should roads be connected to all types of crossing ways?

2010-02-14 Thread Tom Hughes
On 14/02/10 16:26, Nathan Edgars II wrote: > I was told at http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/2708 to take this > here. Basically, the TIGER import has put a lot of duplicate nodes > where highways cross railways, power and pipe lines, and > administrative boundaries. The former should definitely

[OSM-talk] Should roads be connected to all types of crossing ways?

2010-02-14 Thread Nathan Edgars II
I was told at http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/2708 to take this here. Basically, the TIGER import has put a lot of duplicate nodes where highways cross railways, power and pipe lines, and administrative boundaries. The former should definitely be connected, but it seems that power lines, (mayb

Re: [OSM-talk] Open PDFs in JOSM and manually resize

2010-02-14 Thread Sam Vekemans
Awesome, Thanks. Im sure it'll work. Cheers, Sam On 2/14/10, Michael Buege wrote: > Zitat Sam Vekemans: > >> Hi, >> im wondering if anyone knows how to open a PDF in JOSM, and manually >> resize? Thanks, > > Open the PDF with Gimp, save it as JPG and load it in Josm with the PicLayer > plugin. Ma

Re: [OSM-talk] Open PDFs in JOSM and manually resize

2010-02-14 Thread Michael Buege
Zitat Sam Vekemans: > Hi, > im wondering if anyone knows how to open a PDF in JOSM, and manually > resize? Thanks, Open the PDF with Gimp, save it as JPG and load it in Josm with the PicLayer plugin. Maybe there some Problems with the resolution, so you have to play around until you find the ri

[OSM-talk] Open PDFs in JOSM and manually resize

2010-02-14 Thread Sam Vekemans
Hi, im wondering if anyone knows how to open a PDF in JOSM, and manually resize? Thanks, Sam -- Twitter: @Acrosscanada Blog: http://Acrosscanadatrails.blogspot.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sam.vekemans Skype: samvekemans OpenStreetMap IRC: http://irc.openstreetmap.org @Acrosscanadatrai