Re: [OSM-talk] Polish Potlatch doesn't work anymore.

2009-09-29 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 8:58 AM, stl...@poczta.fm wrote: Greetings. It apparently stopped working because Polish translation[1] contains double quotes which make their way to html unescaped which produces a JS string like this: Blah blah foo bar blah in which foo bar becomes JS *code*.

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-09-29 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Frankie Roberto fran...@frankieroberto.com wrote: 2009/9/29 Gregory Williams gregory.willi...@purplegeodesoftware.co.uk I also think this Flickr-linking might be a good prompt for us to re-look at the /browse/* pages. If these pages are going to be more visible,

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-09-29 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: On 29/09/09 11:24, Frankie Roberto wrote:    A more direct way to do it *now* is to suggest specific improvements    by filing bugs on http://trac.openstreetmap.org under the website    component. Okay, will do. I'm always

[OSM-talk] Statistics on changesets by created_by=*

2009-09-29 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
TomH provided me with statistics on created_by=* in all changeset tags[1][2][3]. Here are with more than 1000 total changesets ordered by the number of changesets: 813222 = JOSM, 730972 = Potlatch, 96066 = Merkaartor, 40213 = bulk_upload.py, 34625 = upload.py, 17443 = KMLManager,

Re: [OSM-talk] The OpenStreetMap website is now translatable at Translatewiki

2009-09-28 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 11:13 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ava...@gmail.com wrote: These translations aren't automatically being synced back to the OpenStreetMap SVN repository yet. Me and Nikerabbit have been fixing bugs in the import/export process required to make this happen. Those bugs

Re: [OSM-talk] Brainstorming: Simple Revert-Tools

2009-09-27 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 3:04 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/9/4 Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net: That's lovely, but it would be less selfish if you could refrain from filling up the rest of our mailboxes' with it, given that you've been responsible for over 10% of

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] The OpenStreetMap website is now translatable at Translatewiki

2009-09-23 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 2:02 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: But which OSM components does this cover? I'm assuming this only covers the main OSM website (and the wiki indirectly since MediaWiki is already in TranslateWiki) but not Potlatch, and the other editors. It's only the

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] The OpenStreetMap website is now translatable at Translatewiki

2009-09-23 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ava...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 2:02 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: But which OSM components does this cover? I'm assuming this only covers the main OSM website (and the wiki indirectly since MediaWiki

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] The OpenStreetMap website is now translatable at Translatewiki

2009-09-23 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ava...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 2:02 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: But which OSM components does this cover? I'm assuming this only covers the main OSM website (and the wiki indirectly since MediaWiki

[OSM-talk] The OpenStreetMap website is now translatable at Translatewiki

2009-09-22 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
The main OpenStreetMap website (http://openstreetmap.org) can now be translated on the web using Translatewiki. I originally floated the idea in July[1] and after meeting up with the maintainers of Translatewiki at Wikimania 2009[2] we made it happen. Nikerabbit and Siebrand (Translatewiki guys)

Re: [OSM-talk] sports=billiard and sports=snooker ?

2009-09-21 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Valent Turkovic valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Guenther Meyer d@sordidmusic.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 07:16:45AM +, Valent Turkovic wrote: Hi, I haven't seen billiard and snooker tags. Have you tagged any

Re: [Talk-is] 4x4 jeppaklúbburinn

2009-09-21 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2009/9/21 bald...@baldvin.com: Það er verið að fara fram á það við okkur að athuga með að hafa erindi á fundi hjá 4x4. Ég velti fyrir mér, af því að beiðnin er að koma frá einhverjum félögum (einstaklingum), frekar en félaginu sjálfu (eða stjórn þess), hvort þetta hafi verið vel kynnt nú

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM on German TV

2009-09-20 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 11:59 AM, wer-ist-roger juwelier-onl...@web.de wrote: Am Samstag 19 September 2009 schrieb Maarten Deen: I just saw an item on OSM in (a rerun) of Quarks Co on the German TV  station WDR. It was about mapping the inner city of Bonn for wheelchairs.  Nice example of

[OSM-talk] ANNOUNCE: Free Garmin MapSource installer available

2009-09-19 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
I've written a free installation program for Garmin's MapSource. It's aimed at the people who are maintaining Garmin map exports of the OpenStreetMap database. A lot of these exports[1] don't have a MapSource installer, some suggest proprietary solutions and some have a unconfigurable BAT file

Re: [OSM-talk] [mkgmap-dev] ANNOUNCE: Free Garmin MapSource installer available

2009-09-19 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 1:21 PM, dom Team OiD d...@team-oid.de wrote: Hi, I'm sure such a tool is really cool stuff. I already experimented with easy installer, whcih is creating msi packaes for windows. I didn't use your installer, so this question comes up. What is the benefit of your

[Talk-de] Google Maps v.s. OSM routing in Berlin

2009-09-17 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
Why doesn't OSM ever tell me to take a 270 degree turn into oncoming traffic on a 6-lane highway and get onto the motorway_link on the other side?

[OSM-talk] Linking to the wiki's tag description pages from the website

2009-09-16 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
I've submitted a patch which would add links from the website to the wiki's tag description pages: http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/2289 Example here, note the localized links: http://u.nix.is/~avar/6.html RichardF pointed out that the wiki pages were mostly crap. That's true, but

[OSM-talk] How big is a Planet.osm - PostgreSQL (not PostGIS) database without history?

2009-09-14 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
Does anyone have a imported (preferably up to date) replication of the OSM PostgreSQL database without history imported from Planet.osm and can tell me how big it is? The Post*GIS* one is around 60GB. I'm wondering if I can fit something that can serve the API too on 1 TB. And how fast is it

Re: [OSM-talk] upload from cvs

2009-09-12 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Peppo Herney peppo.her...@gmx.de wrote: Hello, According to tagwatch there are 133 alpine huts mapped already in Switzerland, so you certainly should verify the import manually. If you could make the converted osm file available somewhere, local mappers

Re: [OSM-talk] How to map quarters?

2009-09-11 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Valent Turkovic valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Alex Mauer ha...@hawkesnest.net wrote: On 09/11/2009 11:25 AM, Pieren wrote: No, it's not a renderer problem, it is just different things. I'm not a native english speaker but if

[Talk-de] Where we are now on getting OpenStreetMap into Wikipedia and what we need to do

2009-09-11 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
Hello there. This is a quick status update on the project to get OpenStreetMap maps into Wikipedia and on the Wikimedia/OpenStreetMap toolserver setup. For those that don't know what it's all about we're: * Setting up a testing platform (ptolemy ortelius) to serve OSM maps in Wikipedia which

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Monopoly City Streets

2009-09-09 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2009/9/9 Iván Sánchez Ortega i...@sanchezortega.es: OK, so it seems that they're using GMaps as the background, and OSM as the actual street data provider. See: http://chippy2005.googlepages.com/MonopolyCityStreets_1252505633167.png

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Monopoly City Streets

2009-09-09 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 7:47 PM, Peter Millarpeter.mil...@yahoo.com wrote: I think that OSM is entitled to ask if the Creative Commons license has been complied with. The Monopoly City Streets game is produced by Tribal DDB which is part of Hasbro Inc., one of the biggest toy manufacturers

Re: [OSM-talk] wikipedia:fr edits

2009-09-09 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Ed Avise...@waniasset.com wrote: That is, unless Wikipedia and the OSM project disagree about the legal status of the information and whether it can be distributed under CC-BY-SA, in which case you need to ask the legal-talk mailing list... Wikipedia's policy on

Re: [OSM-talk] source=(survey, yahoo, gps...)

2009-09-08 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Valent Turkovicvalent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 08 Sep 2009 12:43:22 +0200, Lennard wrote: why you'd say it doesn't support source=*. You're not always, every time, relying only on built in presets, are you? Presets speedup many things, so it would be

[OSM-talk] Feed reader stupidities with our Atom feeds

2009-09-07 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
I use Liferea as my feed reader and I discovered that when I double click on a feed link I get the osmChange XML. This is because Liferea is using one variable internally to keep track of the link href for each feed entry. When confronted with multiple link elements will overwrite this variable

Re: [OSM-talk] how to get the data for a country on a daily basis.

2009-09-06 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 7:02 AM, Kenneth Gonsalveslaw...@au-kbc.org wrote: I have a server serving India specific data from OSM. I need to update the data on a daily basis, whereas my current source for India data is cloudmade which updates on a weekly basis - even the planet.osm is on a

Re: [Talk-is] Notandi:RR8

2009-09-04 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2009/9/2 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ava...@gmail.com: 2009/9/2 Thorir Jonsson thorir...@gmail.com: Það eru fleiri að kvarta yfir RR8: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2009-September/thread.html#41363 Vonandi að þetta leysist sem fyrst. Þetta er komið í gegn núna sýnist mér: http

Re: [OSM-talk] RR8 - Possible International Vandal

2009-09-02 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Lester Caineles...@lsces.co.uk wrote: Bjarki Sigursveinsson wrote: I can confirm that the changes this user has made in Iceland are completely disruptive and illogical. The user has gone all around the country and either promoted or demoted roads in a seemingly

Re: [OSM-talk] RR8 - Possible International Vandal

2009-09-02 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Lester Caineles...@lsces.co.uk wrote: It does sound as if it has reached the point where NONE of his edits can be shown to be beneficial. So perhaps it is time simply to revert them all? Especially if he is unwilling to defend his actions? Oh yes simply. I'm

Re: [OSM-talk] RR8 - Possible International Vandal

2009-09-02 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Frederik Rammfrede...@remote.org wrote: Hi, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: So to revert them all do I just do: 1. perl changeset.pl create ( note the id changeset.pl returns) 2. for vandal_id in $(bzgrep RR8 iceland.osm.bz2 |perl -pe 's/.*changeset

[Talk-is] Villur frá mkgmap um Ísland

2009-09-02 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
Eftirfarandi eru villur sem ég fǽ frá mkgmap þegar ég bý til Íslandskortið fyrir Garmin. Þetta virðast vera aulavillur sem hægt er að sjá með t.d. JOSM validator. SEVERE (RoadNetwork): Road null (OSM id 13253299) contains zero length arc SEVERE (RoadNetwork):

Re: [Talk-is] Notandi:RR8

2009-09-02 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2009/9/2 Thorir Jonsson thorir...@gmail.com: Það eru fleiri að kvarta yfir RR8: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2009-September/thread.html#41363 Vonandi að þetta leysist sem fyrst. Þetta er komið í gegn núna sýnist mér: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/2352857

Re: [OSM-talk] Beach volleyball

2009-08-28 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Craig Wallacecraig...@fastmail.fm wrote: On 28/08/2009 10:12, Valent Turkovic wrote: Hi, I would like to know how to tag beach (sand) volleyball courts? I see nothing happening at proposed features page for this feature:

[OSM-talk] Update on using Translatewiki for translations

2009-08-28 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmasonava...@gmail.com wrote: I'm splitting this from the previous thread. On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Richard Fairhurstrich...@systemed.net wrote: Potlatch uses the OSM wiki for localisation. I have no plans to change this in favour of

Re: [OSM-talk] State of the NameFinder

2009-08-27 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:58 AM, David Earlda...@frankieandshadow.com wrote: Beyond getting the index updated using the existing technology, my next step is to try using postgres instead of mysql to (hopefully) increase the search speed (I use self-joins a lot and these should be faster in

[OSM-talk] Incorrectly tagged place=country nodes

2009-08-13 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
The multilingual-country-list[1] tool reveals a bunch of nodes that are tagged place=country but aren't so by anyone's definition. For example the uninhabited Bassas da India atoll[2]. There are also various overseas territories of the UK which should probably use some other tagging to

Re: [OSM-talk] [Maps-l] Announcemen: Multilingual Country-List

2009-08-12 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 11:53 PM, Peter Körnerosm-li...@mazdermind.de wrote: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason schrieb: On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Peter Körnerosm-li...@mazdermind.de wrote: Hello OSM folks For the integration of osm into the wikipedia there will be localized maps in all

Re: [OSM-talk] Old GPS data

2009-07-28 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 5:22 AM, Aleksejs Mjaliksli...@keeper.lv wrote: Does OSM invalidates GPS data after some time? Otherwise, roads continuously changes and after we will have a big cloud of points that don't make any sense. No, it doesn't. GPX tracks stay where they are forever and

[OSM-talk] Thoughts on an enhanced GPX api

2009-07-28 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 9:04 AM, René Affourtitraffour...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry to break the threading I can break threading too! So when a junction is reconstructed a local user can place a bounding box over that junction and all GPS points in that box are marked as outdated (or deleted,

Re: [OSM-talk] Thoughts on an enhanced GPX api

2009-07-28 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 10:49 AM, John Smithdelta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Tue, 28/7/09, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ava...@gmail.com wrote: * The data is versioned, and anyone can edit it I have a lot of GPX tracks that could be improved, e.g. by deleting I'd say deleting sections

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Thoughts on an enhanced GPX api

2009-07-28 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 11:43 AM, René Affourtitraffour...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmasonava...@gmail.com wrote: I have a lot of GPX tracks that could be improved, e.g. by deleting point clouds. I'd like to edit them using normal OSM tools, have

Re: [OSM-talk] Thoughts on an enhanced GPX api

2009-07-28 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Tom Hughest...@compton.nu wrote: On 28/07/09 11:33, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 9:04 AM, René Affourtitraffour...@gmail.com  wrote: * All the data is losslessly inserted into the database This means that we can get waypoint

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Explaining to NASA why the ASTER data should be freely licensed

2009-07-27 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
(Sending this to wikipedia-l OSM's legal-talk too) On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmasonava...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 9:15 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmasonava...@gmail.com wrote: So, what we should do is to author a document (on the wiki?) which clearly

Re: [OSM-talk] i18n-rich areas on the map

2009-07-27 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmasonava...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Ed Avise...@waniasset.com wrote: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason avarab at gmail.com writes: http://cassini.toolserver.org/browse-fr.html http://cassini.toolserver.org/browse-nl.html

[OSM-talk] Duplicate place=city capital=yes and other place nodes

2009-07-24 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
I don't know if this has been noted previously but there seem to be a lot of recent duplicate place= nodes in the database from different users: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/27564988 http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/435916947

Re: [OSM-talk] i18n-rich areas on the map

2009-07-23 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 11:34 PM, 80n80n...@gmail.com wrote: ti...@home uses this technique of a basemap with no captions and a text layer  for lowzoom tiles (z1 through z6) .  Currently they are combined on the server to create a composite image using some GD library I think.  This seems to

Re: [OSM-talk] i18n-rich areas on the map

2009-07-23 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 4:58 AM, Stefan Baeblerstefan.baeb...@gmail.com wrote: Are there any further plans to translate the maps based on wikipedia data? Would that various names be better imported into main OSM db or just into the DB for rendering? Will this translation be done based only on

Re: [Talk-de] OSM auf Deutsch

2009-07-23 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:12 PM, Claudiusclaudiu...@gmx.de wrote: (Translation) Great. Not just for the german speaking people. How often are these tiles re-rendered? According to the wiki you are running a vanilly mod_tile. We're currently running on an import of planet-090715.osm.bz2 that

Re: [OSM-talk] i18n-rich areas on the map

2009-07-22 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 1:25 AM, Aude (Kate)maps2w...@gmail.com wrote: I recommend using OSM data for Brussels, Belgium to test multilingual rendering.  The street signs there have street names in both French and Dutch.  Likewise, the OSM data contains name:fr and name:nl tags for street

Re: [OSM-talk] i18n-rich areas on the map

2009-07-22 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Ed Avise...@waniasset.com wrote: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason avarab at gmail.com writes: http://cassini.toolserver.org/browse-fr.html http://cassini.toolserver.org/browse-nl.html The rest are now up at http://cassini.toolserver.org/tile-browse/ This is very cool

Re: [OSM-talk] i18n-rich areas on the map

2009-07-22 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 7:08 PM, Mikel Maronmikel_ma...@yahoo.com wrote: The rest are now up at http://cassini.toolserver.org/tile-browse/ These are great!! (though I think we may just have crashed your renderd with loads of requests) That was part of the plan:) Let's see how it does with

[Talk-de] OSM auf Deutsch

2009-07-22 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
http://cassini.toolserver.org/tile-browse/browse-de.html und: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/%C3%86var%20Arnfj%C3%B6r%C3%B0%20Bjarmason/diary/7180 ___ Talk-de mailing list Talk-de@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-de

Re: [OSM-talk] How big should a planet.osm-osm2pgsql database be?

2009-07-21 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:50 PM, Jon Burgessjburgess...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 16:00 +, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: Should the PostGIS database imported from the Planet.osm using osm2pgsql be only 13 GB? Someone else who imported it on #osm-dev reported a size

Re: [OSM-talk] Tests in the Antarctica?

2009-07-21 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 9:06 PM, Sam Vekemansacrosscanadatra...@gmail.com wrote: BTW, has anyone noticed that the newly sovern nation of Greenland, is wrongly tagged as Nunivut (a Canadian territory of Canada)? Greenland isn't sovereign: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland#Sovereignty

[OSM-talk] i18n-rich areas on the map

2009-07-21 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
I'm doing some experiments with multilingular rendering (for deploying on Wikimedia sites, see Maps-l) but I'm lacking good test data. What areas on the OSM map are especially rich in name:$code tags for different languages? Preferably down to street level. I thought Gaza might be pretty good

[OSM-talk] How big should a planet.osm-osm2pgsql database be?

2009-07-20 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
Should the PostGIS database imported from the Planet.osm using osm2pgsql be only 13 GB? Someone else who imported it on #osm-dev reported a size of 48 GB. Here's how I imported it: $ md5sum planet-090715.osm.bz2 c89227585338c72dfcf4ff5d2aaacf53 planet-090715.osm.bz2 Imported with: $

Re: [OSM-talk] glaciers in Mapnak

2009-07-18 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Ulf Mölleruse...@ulfm.de wrote: Why does Mapnik show glaciers at zoomlevel 6? Lake Constance and Lake Geneva are not shown at that zoomlevel... That makes the map look rather odd: http://osm.org/go/0CmJK-- On the other hand in some places glaciers are so

Re: [OSM-talk] glaciers in Mapnak

2009-07-18 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Martin Koppenhoeferdieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/7/18 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ava...@gmail.com: On the other hand in some places glaciers are so large that it would be odd not to show them on zoom 6: http://osm.org/go/e1qt5-- It seems like the problem

Re: [OSM-talk] The future of bugs in OSM

2009-07-17 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)ajrli...@googlemail.com wrote: 1. A separate database is desirable. [...] Are points sufficient for marking bugs? I'd say not. I'd like to be able to set a polygon as well and possibly even a line. No different from a

Re: [Talk-is] Cleanup rivers

2009-07-17 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Davíð Jakobssonrimmugy...@gmail.com wrote: I have noticed that that many rivers have two ways, one tagged waterway=river and another tagged waterway=riverbank. My guess is that originally someone mapped the river and tagged it waterway=river and the someone

Re: [OSM-talk] 'Distance to feature' maps?

2009-07-14 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 5:42 PM, Tylertyler.ritc...@gmail.com wrote: This is generally the sort of thing done with a full blown GIS. Which is how I would approach it. Use OSM as a data file, stripping out all of the un-needed information, create a buffer around the schools of interest, maybe

[OSM-talk] Street lines aren't rendering for me in my own Planet - PostGIS - mapnik map

2009-07-12 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
Hi there, I'm trying to set up my own rendering with mapnik but the resulting images/tiles don't show streets/polygons normally, see: The OSM map: http://www.flickr.com/photos/avarab/3713947443/ My map: http://www.flickr.com/photos/avarab/3714745132/ And some tiles I generated with

Re: [OSM-talk] Street lines aren't rendering for me in my own Planet - PostGIS - mapnik map

2009-07-12 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 10:58 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmasonava...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there, I'm trying to set up my own rendering with mapnik but the resulting images/tiles don't show streets/polygons normally, see: The OSM map: http://www.flickr.com/photos/avarab/3713947443/ My map:

Re: [OSM-talk] Street lines aren't rendering for me in my own Planet - PostGIS - mapnik map

2009-07-12 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 11:31 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmasonava...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 10:58 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmasonava...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there, I'm trying to set up my own rendering with mapnik but the resulting images/tiles don't show streets/polygons normally,

[OSM-talk] Status update on the OpenStreetMap - Wikimedia project

2009-07-11 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
The fun! project of getting OpenStreetMap maps deployed on Wikimedia servers (e.g. Wikipedia) is grinding forward at a healthy pace, here's the original announcement for those who have no idea what I'm talking about:

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-de] Status update on the OpenStreetMap - Wikimedia project

2009-07-11 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 2:37 AM, Tirkontirko...@yahoo.de wrote: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ava...@gmail.com wrote: Unfortunately the project has been somewhat delayed by the Wikimedia.de servers mentioned in that posting taking a bit longer to arrive than expected (the DB server is still not up

[Talk-de] Status update on the OpenStreetMap - Wikimedia project

2009-07-11 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
The fun! project of getting OpenStreetMap maps deployed on Wikimedia servers (e.g. Wikipedia) is grinding forward at a healthy pace, here's the original announcement for those who have no idea what I'm talking about:

Re: [Talk-de] Status update on the OpenStreetMap - Wikimedia project

2009-07-11 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 2:37 AM, Tirkontirko...@yahoo.de wrote: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ava...@gmail.com wrote: Unfortunately the project has been somewhat delayed by the Wikimedia.de servers mentioned in that posting taking a bit longer to arrive than expected (the DB server is still not up

[OSM-talk] Mapping party suggestion for SOTM

2009-07-08 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
A few months ago in some local news media a talking head claimed that Amsterdam's Red Light District wasn't in central Amsterdam and moreover that it didn't contain any Coffee shops, i.e. ones of the type that'll sell you more than just beverages. So of course I headed over to OSM to prove both

Re: [OSM-talk] Explaining to NASA why the ASTER data should be freely licensed

2009-07-06 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
(This thread was accidentally off-list) On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 9:30 PM, MPsingular...@gmail.com wrote: As it turns out the first clause is (apparently) to facilitate tracking of how the data is used and so that they can announce updates, and the second is to ensure proper attribution. I've

Re: [OSM-talk] Explaining to NASA why the ASTER data should be freely licensed

2009-07-06 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Jeffrey Olliej...@ocjtech.us wrote: On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Ian Deesian.d...@gmail.com wrote: NASA = a US federal government organization. All data originated by US federal organizations (and especially when funded by tax payer dollars) is in the public

Re: [OSM-talk] New static-maps API

2009-07-06 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 9:31 PM, OJ Wojwli...@googlemail.com wrote: you hard taskmasters - these features [gpx/relations] weren't planned for ages yet! OK, I just implemented GPX traces on the static map: http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~ojw/StaticMap/?gpx=434404lat=53.669lon=-1.55665z=13show=1

Re: [OSM-talk] New static-maps API

2009-07-06 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 7:57 PM, OJ Wojwli...@googlemail.com wrote: Various people have been asking for a better version of the MapOf service that's been running on dev for a while, serving mediawiki plugins, dynamic wallpapers, images in websites, etc.  So I'm pleased to announce a static maps

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping Photos

2009-07-05 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 11:17 AM, John McKerrellj...@mckerrell.net wrote: Next week I'm giving a talk about OpenStreetView at the State of the Map conference. One of the things I want to do with the project is try to host all of the photographs that people take while they're out mapping.

Re: [OSM-talk] map with FF 3.5 geolocation und hostip

2009-07-02 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 4:46 PM, John Smithdelta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Thu, 2/7/09, Bernhard zwischenbrugger b...@datenkueche.com wrote: First I read the location from http://api.hostip.info. Then, if the user has a browser with geolocation (wifi based position finder) the user will

[OSM-talk] Explaining to NASA why the ASTER data should be freely licensed

2009-07-02 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
I contacted people at NASA asking whether they were planning on releasing their ASTER data under a license that would be suitable for projects like OSM. I quoted them the terms they present upon download which would be problematic: # I agree to redistribute the ASTER GDEM only to individuals

Re: [OSM-talk] New (better?) source of contours

2009-06-30 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Chris Jonesroller...@sucs.org wrote: Just spotted this - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8126197.stm More -  http://asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/  - this seems to be dead at the moment mind... These pages are up: Up-to-date news feed on the USGS site:

Re: [OSM-talk] Map legends: Another option

2009-06-27 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 11:17 PM, Lars Ahlzenl...@ahlzen.com wrote: Hi All, I know that there's been some talk about generating map legends/keys lately, and I don't know if there's a need for another option. It generated some interest when I mentioned it in my diary recently, however... I

[Talk-de] Where can I get Garmin (Europe) Ltd. repair services in Berlin?

2009-06-26 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
(Sorry about posting in English) I have a Garmin 60CSx under warranty that recently broke, see http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/%C3%86var%20Arnfj%C3%B6r%C3%B0%20Bjarmason/diary/6799 for how. It was bought at a subsidiary of Garmin Europe in Iceland and the Icelandic company has informed me that

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposed Amenity Reorganization

2009-06-24 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Ken Guestk...@linux.ie wrote: A better exercise, I think, would be to create an A4 sized cheatsheet of common POIs and how they should generally be tagged - something that people can print out and laminate to either use themselves or distribute at mapping

Re: [OSM-talk] JOSM wms-plugin troubles (Yahoo! imagery)

2009-06-23 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Thorir Jonssonthorir...@gmail.com wrote: I'm having some troubles with the WMS-plugin, or more precisely the Yahoo! imagery.  The troubles started after I upgraded Ubuntu from Hardy to Jaunty.  Whenever I try to download images from Yahoo! they appear distorted

[OSM-talk] The map key isn't static anymore

2009-06-23 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
The map key is now a HTML table instead of a static PNG image as can be seen on the dev server (click Map key): http://api06.dev.openstreetmap.org/ (Should be on the main site soon) There's lots of room for improvement here, and much easier to make those improvements now that it's not static:

Re: [OSM-talk] history in xml format

2009-06-23 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 7:35 PM, Bernhard zwischenbruggerb...@datenkueche.com wrote: Hi I was searching the api but couldn't find a call that gives me the data of: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changesets How can I get these data? Is it the normal api or the xapi? There's no API

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] The map key isn't static anymore

2009-06-23 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 10:45 PM, Tom Hughest...@compton.nu wrote: Actually it probably won't be live for a while as the solution looks like it is a complete mess that won't scale to handling the other map layers. I need to review it fully but right now I'm not hopeful from a quick glance.

Re: [OSM-talk] Create OSM mailing list talk-vi

2009-06-22 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Ivan Garciacapisc...@gmail.com wrote: [...]I wonder if you could get those photos or even the maps via a FOIA request? I doubt that data taken 30 years ago cannot be high quality, maybe the roads have a 10/-10 meters unaccuracy if they have been drawn from

Re: [OSM-talk] Error in OSM site when Exporting to Embedded HTML

2009-06-22 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Ivan Garciacapisc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I realized that when I click in the EXPORT tab of OSM.org and I choose the Embedded HTML radiobox, it appears a link that says: Click here to select a marker, but when I click later on in the map, no marker is placed,

Re: [OSM-talk] Lake Cowichan Now loaded (more of sample 092c area)

2009-06-19 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:45 PM, Alan Millara...@bolis.com wrote: It should be sufficient to keep the canvec:UUID, source and attribution tags, and maybe a few of the other canvec:* (CMAS?). I don't see why we would need most of the others. If someone is really interested in them, they can

Re: [OSM-talk] SOTM 08 videos

2009-06-17 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 8:46 PM, SteveCst...@asklater.com wrote: Hi Linked off of stateofthemap.org are the SOTM '08 videos:        http://blog.signal2noise.ie/~eason/sotm08/ But they're incomplete and super, super, super slow to load. So does anyone know if the rest will be put up?

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] signup notice

2009-06-16 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Ulf Mölleruse...@ulfm.de wrote: Stefan Baebler schrieb: the all data created by use of any tools which connect to openstreetmap.org  part can be problematic, as my browser connects to openstreetmap.org. Heck, my computer and router also connect there, and so

Re: [OSM-talk] Move the Map

2009-06-16 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2009/6/16 Tim Waters (chippy) chippy2...@gmail.com: (One main difference on other sites is that their search box is much more prominent) I don't even see more than 5 pixels at it at my resolution. To suggest something less radical than a complete redesign of osm.org: Could it please be moved

Re: [OSM-talk] Is 'name' tag mandatory for a 'living_street'?

2009-06-06 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2009/6/6 USHAKOV, Sergey usha...@int.com.ru: the wiki page http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dliving_street suggests that 'living_street' objects should be attributed with a 'name' tag. Meanwhile it is not uncommon for residential areas to have unnamed alleys inside, and the

Re: [OSM-talk] Any chance of getting RSS/Atom feeds for those changeset/history pages?

2009-06-06 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2009/4/22 Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com: Global recent changes: http://openstreetmap.org/browse/changesets/feed History for a given area: http://openstreetmap.org/history/feed/?bbox=parameter_values Edits for a given user: http://openstreetmap.org/user/user/edits/feed Edits for a

Re: [OSM-talk] Any chance of getting RSS/Atom feeds for those changeset/history pages?

2009-06-06 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2009/6/7 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ava...@gmail.com: 2009/4/22 Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com: Global recent changes: http://openstreetmap.org/browse/changesets/feed History for a given area: http://openstreetmap.org/history/feed/?bbox=parameter_values Edits for a given user: http

[OSM-legal-talk] Vague license agreement text when creating a new osm.org user

2009-06-01 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
The text a new user gets when signing up is hte following: (at http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/new ) By creating an account, you agree that all work uploaded to openstreetmap.org and all data created by use of any tools which connect to openstreetmap.org is to be (non-exclusively) licensed

[OSM-talk] Vague license agreement text when creating a new osm.org user

2009-06-01 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
The text a new user gets when signing up is hte following: (at http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/new ) By creating an account, you agree that all work uploaded to openstreetmap.org and all data created by use of any tools which connect to openstreetmap.org is to be (non-exclusively) licensed

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

2009-05-26 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 7:56 AM, Ivan Garcia capisc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Peter, which your approach, I believe that the render by osm will be the same than a normal residential street, what highway tag  can I use to differentiate this allewys in the rendered map? This looks like a:

Re: [OSM-talk] Data Import Support Working Group

2009-05-14 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 1:26 AM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: The foundation today discussed the perceived need for a working group to help people import data. We know there are highly talented individuals out there who are able to find data to import, have the social skills and time to

Re: [OSM-talk] Wikipedia POI import?

2009-05-06 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Jonathan Bennett openstreet...@jonno.cix.co.uk wrote: Jacek Konieczny wrote: You don't need multiple values. Other languages are linked in Wikipedia, no need to duplicate this in OSM. If a place is described in 20 national Wikipedias do we really want 20

[OSM-talk] Fwd: Gaza WMS server unavailable?

2009-05-05 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
Forwarding this to talk@ since the talk-ps@ moderator isn't allowing this through. -- Forwarded message -- From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ava...@gmail.com Date: Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 11:38 PM Subject: Gaza WMS server unavailable? To: talk...@openstreetmap.org Is the secret 2m WMS

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