[OSM-talk] Islands that will vanish in the license change

2012-04-12 Thread Toby Murray
Thanks to Paul Norman's efforts and visualizations based on it[1], there has been a lot of activity in remapping coastlines lately and a lot of improvement. However one loophole that Paul's method does not detect is islands that will have their coastlines vanish completely. I decided to take a look

Re: [OSM-talk] POI for Hotel

2012-04-12 Thread Andrew Errington
On Fri, April 13, 2012 12:33, Frans Thamura wrote: > I just thinking > > > Create a web, fill there and save in poi of osm. > > > But, what happen if someone has put there. > > > Still dunno how to communcate if we have data also in my server that > 'must' > share poi Well, it's a classic problem.

Re: [OSM-talk] POI for Hotel

2012-04-12 Thread Frans Thamura
I just thinking Create a web, fill there and save in poi of osm. But, what happen if someone has put there. Still dunno how to communcate if we have data also in my server that 'must' share poi On Apr 13, 2012 10:28 AM, "Andrew Errington" wrote: > On Fri, April 13, 2012 11:58, Frans Thamura wr

Re: [OSM-talk] POI for Hotel

2012-04-12 Thread Andrew Errington
On Fri, April 13, 2012 11:58, Frans Thamura wrote: > hi all > > we just develop team to collect all the hotel information in Indonesia > > choice > > 1. create a hotel database outside openstreetmap > 2. save in openstreet as POI > > > what do u think? > > and we will create "rating" also for the h

[OSM-talk] POI for Hotel

2012-04-12 Thread Frans Thamura
hi all we just develop team to collect all the hotel information in Indonesia choice 1. create a hotel database outside openstreetmap 2. save in openstreet as POI what do u think? and we will create "rating" also for the hotel... F ___ talk mailing

Re: [OSM-talk] A rendering issue with the maps on OSM homepage?

2012-04-12 Thread Robert Tromp
Op 10-4-2012 17:39, Frank Steggink schreef: On 10-4-2012 15:23, Robert Tromp wrote: Have a look at this area on the west coast of Hokkaido, Japan: http://osm.org/go/7U~IT~Jz Notice the greyed-out ocean and the mis-aligned areas, coastline Looking at the OSM-data itself using JOSM, there seems n

Re: [OSM-talk] License change/redaction affecting objects geometry

2012-04-12 Thread Robert Norris
My 2p: Leave it to [2]. A. since it is no effort B. any problems created by the redaction should be noticeable by [2] whether it was caused by the bot or *any other normal edit* Apart from deletions, but then the gives mappers (including new mappers!) something to (re)map via local knowledge

Re: [OSM-talk] Geofabrik downloads post-licence-change

2012-04-12 Thread Stefan Keller
Thank you for the answers. And many thanks too for all the unique webservices and the exceptional work you all are doing in the machinery halls. Yours, S. 2012/4/12 Richard Fairhurst : > Stefan Keller wrote: >> Am I right that there are currently no updates available since >> April 9th at /osm/ a

Re: [OSM-talk] An example photo/video mapping trip

2012-04-12 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
Am 11. April 2012 14:11 schrieb Nikhil Upadhye : > My aim is to make the photo/video mapping process faster and reduce > mapper's effort in going through all the photos/videos for > information. It becomes very tedious job for mapper to go through > several hundreds of photos or hours of long video

Re: [OSM-talk] License change/redaction affecting objects geometry

2012-04-12 Thread Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr)
Any help in identifying areas that should be eye-balled and possibly cleaned up would be welcome help indeed. It seems a small bit to attach a tag to any affected ways or relations from which members have been redacted. This will be especially helpful when the editing tools catch up to show t

Re: [OSM-talk] License change/redaction affecting objects geometry

2012-04-12 Thread Pieren
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Jacek Konieczny > The tag sounds like a good idea, but it has one problem: untouched tags > would stay forever even if there is no real problem there. It will be > only unneeded data in the database. Of course, the tags could be removed > by some bot later… but we

Re: [OSM-talk] License change/redaction affecting objects geometry

2012-04-12 Thread Peter Wendorff
Am 12.04.2012 13:15, schrieb Jacek Konieczny: Then, I think that the best option would be to add a specific tag which could facilitate the remapping process for the "crowd". The tag sounds like a good idea, but it has one problem: untouched tags would stay forever even if there is no real proble

Re: [OSM-talk] License change/redaction affecting objects geometry

2012-04-12 Thread Jacek Konieczny
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 11:01:46AM +0200, Pieren wrote: > The question is to insert in the rebuild script some kind of reports > or logs about such affected objects or not. Log with id-s and/or location of the detected/expected problems may be helpful and probably easiest to generate without compl

Re: [OSM-talk] License change/redaction affecting objects geometry

2012-04-12 Thread Martin Simon
2012/4/12 Simon Poole : > > > Am 12.04.2012 11:01, schrieb Pieren: >> .. >> Last option is to do nothing since we already have many quality >> assurance tools ([2]) monitoring the contributions. >> > This is IMHO by far the best way of handling any post redaction issues > (not necessarily t

Re: [OSM-talk] License change/redaction affecting objects geometry

2012-04-12 Thread Simon Poole
Am 12.04.2012 11:01, schrieb Pieren: > .. > Last option is to do nothing since we already have many quality > assurance tools ([2]) monitoring the contributions. > This is IMHO by far the best way of handling any post redaction issues (not necessarily the easiest one). Simon _

Re: [OSM-talk] An example photo/video mapping trip

2012-04-12 Thread Matthias Meißer
Am 11.04.2012 10:57, schrieb hbogner: I was thinking of doing something similar, but I was thinking of buying a car camera (something like this http://is.gd/D3WNYL ) but don't know is it any good for mapping. Anyone used video recordings for mapping. I tried video mapping plugin for josm, but it

Re: [OSM-talk] Geofabrik downloads post-licence-change

2012-04-12 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Stefan Keller wrote: > Am I right that there are currently no updates available since > April 9th at /osm/ and there doesn't exist the new > /openstreetmap/ directory neither because we are waiting for > the OSM board's approval of the new license? No, it's nothing to do with OSM(F) board appro

[OSM-talk] License change/redaction affecting objects geometry

2012-04-12 Thread Pieren
Hi, The rebuild team is warning that the relicensing ("redaction" script) will unsurprisingly affect many objects geometry like ways loosing nodes, intersections with unconnected ways, self-intersecting polygons, roundabouts not round, buildings not square anymore, etc.. ([1]). The question is to

Re: [OSM-talk] Geofabrik downloads post-licence-change

2012-04-12 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 04/12/12 10:02, Stefan Keller wrote: Am I right that there are currently no updates available since April 9th at /osm/ A hiccup in the rsync process that I fixed this morning; new files will be available shortly. and there doesn't exist the new /openstreetmap/ directory neither Th

Re: [OSM-talk] Geofabrik downloads post-licence-change

2012-04-12 Thread Stefan Keller
Hi Frederik 2012/3/23 Frederik Ramm : > Hi, > >   this is a small heads-up to users of the Geofabrik downloads from > download.geofabrik.de. > > After the OSM license change is complete and the first ODbL planet is > published, it will take another day or so to generate the first round of > extrac