On 7 Mar 2009, at 23:56, OJ W ojwli...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 9:10 PM, Gervase Markham gerv-
gm...@gerv.net wrote:
b) If people are reverse-engineering our stuff, they need a
massive, sustained, continuous Mechanical Turk effort
unless they create SVG files that just
I don't think we want to provide a bypass for the reverse engineering
clause, so much as ensure that it can be an SA produced work plus no
reverse engineering combined.
Cheers,
Andy
Who should be out on his bike mapping Dolgellau instead of reading
legal-talk on holiday...
On 6 Mar
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote:
Hi,
Andy Allan wrote:
1) Make the plan and the draft public. Ask for feedback.
2) Wait for feedback to be taken into account and expect/hope for a
final version of the ODbL
3) See if the OSMF board approves
4) See
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com wrote:
Or if I might make a slightly different suggestion: keep the CC-BY-SA licence
because that's what we have, and it's the standard adopted by Wikipedia and
other collections of free content.
Not a helpful suggestion. It's been
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Dave Stubbs osm.l...@randomjunk.co.uk wrote:
I keep wanting to scream every time I see it say
Mapnik.. as if three of the layers there aren't actually rendered
using Mapnik anyway :-)
I can't imagine what a newbie will think a Mapnik is.
Quite. Can someone
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote:
My position is that images are Produced Works, not a derived OSM
database.
Rendered images are a creative work that requires skill and judgement.
This is an important use case and ODbL Section 1 Definitions
specifically
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote:
Andy Allan wrote:
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Dave Stubbs osm.l...@randomjunk.co.uk
wrote:
I keep wanting to scream every time I see it say
Mapnik.. as if three of the layers there aren't actually rendered
using Mapnik
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote:
Andy Allan wrote:
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote:
Osmarender is the name of the rendering software, ti...@home is the name
of
the distributed rendering system.
I see it as the name
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Gervase Markham gerv-gm...@gerv.net wrote:
The GPLv3 public revision process was 18 months in multiple phases, and
it was based on an existing licence. We are trying to analyse a
completely new and untested one and get it to a final version in 1 month.
We've
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 10:14 PM, OJ W ojwli...@googlemail.com wrote:
Do we want to see the slippy-map tileservers becoming a commercial
battleground for who can make the most money while imposing the most
restrictions, where currently it's a nice easy everything is
CC-BY-SA level
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote:
I'm surprised that nobody else seems to see a problem in this. Am I
perhaps barking up some completely imaginary tree?
Nope, not at all, I'm exceptionally concerned about the implications
on the cyclemap db. I'm
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote:
I would be interested in hearing other techniques for creating similar
images with other tools. I'm sure it must be possible with Mapnik but
you will have to import the whole planet and it will take ages to render
that
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Dave Stubbs osm.l...@randomjunk.co.uk wrote:
2009/2/17 Matt Toups matt...@cloudmade.com:
Dave Stubbs wrote:
2009/2/9 Ed Loach e...@loach.me.uk:
Where does the Cycle Map get it's coastlines from? I happened to notice
that
some of the paths I mapped along the
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Norbert Hoffmann
nhoffm...@spamfence.net wrote:
Andy Allan wrote:
And every time using :left and :right comes up, we all have a big
discussion about it and then nobody pays any attention and it comes up
again a few months later.
Perhaps this is because
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote:
Equally permalink is a fairly standard name for that concept now, even
though (originally at least) it clearly wasn't something that most
people could be expected to know.
I get complaints about the lack of permalink on
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote:
There really is not much other choice, as areas grow larger and the old
idea of simply drawing touching polygons relies on a rendering style
without a casing around the polygon.
Yep, please avoid making one polygon by
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 10:59 PM, Andrew Chadwick (mailing lists)
andrewc-email-li...@piffle.org wrote:
Further to Tobias's raising of :mode, :wet, :direction etc. for
pseudovoting, I'd like to raise a general method for tagging properties
of the two sides of the road:
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Ciprian Talaba cipriantal...@gmail.com wrote:
We have received data from a company that employs a service similar to
Google Street View, and they are asking some questions on how to use our
data as a base layer. They want to do something like this: they have
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote:
A co-worker of yours, CloudMade's very own Andy Allan, had this to say
about the topic:
Just as well that none of us are lawyers then, eh? :-)
Cheers,
Andy
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On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Richard Fairhurst
rich...@systemed.net wrote:
If future-Potlatch were
to become _an_ editor available on the main site rather than _the_ editor,
I'd be very happy.
Of course, CloudMade might already be working on this - can anyone from CM
confirm/otherwise?
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 4:03 PM, D Tucny d...@tucny.com wrote:
2009/2/4 Dirk-Lüder Kreie osm-l...@deelkar.net
ti...@home, while very up-to-date is a very inefficient rendering
process and work has been put into enabling mapnik to be as up-to date
as t...@h can be. (see up-to-date bookmarklet
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Lars Aronsson l...@aronsson.se wrote:
Among the arguments could be: This or that tag is already used in
X number of places in OSM.
That kind of crazy idea gets you nowhere against the wiki-fiddlers,
c.f. previous discussions regarding crossing=
Cheers,
Andy
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Russ Nelson r...@cloudmade.com wrote:
On Jan 27, 2009, at 2:08 PM, Manfred Podzkiewitz wrote:
Hello, i have a question about the handling of unoffical, or ethnic,
or
historic names of towns and villages.
The TIGER import in the USA uses name_1 for alternate
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Peter Miller
peter.mil...@itoworld.com wrote:
Technical - Tile serving, API restrictions Servers
I am still not clear that there is a need for API restrictions and what
reduction in bandwidth costs would result. What are the predicted costs of
continuing the
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.org wrote:
On Friday 23 Jan 2009 6:00:08 pm Sven Rautenberg wrote:
if the way is layer=0 and the bridge is layer=0 too
(the crossing way under is layer=-1, digged)
then the bridge has no ramps.
Something with negative layer
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Russ Nelson r...@cloudmade.com wrote:
Isn't that the function of openstreetbugs? Perhaps if you don't know
the size of a town, it should be marked there as Please correct the
place tag, currently set to village.
OpenStreetBugs isn't fully integrated with all
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote:
Yay for 0.6 going live in March.
Can we take this opportunity to finally disable anonymous editing?
I'd certainly like to. If the consensus is that it's nothing to do
with 0.6 we can alternatively make it part of
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Richard Fairhurst
rich...@systemed.net wrote:
Both of these are going to have to wait for the
AS3 rewrite,
Wait - who are you, and what have you done with RichardF?
Cheers,
Andy
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On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Gert Gremmen g.grem...@cetest.nl wrote:
Following the invitations of many of you to contribute in addition
to criticisms to Potlatch I decided to start with the help pages.
I have added some readme data section to the Potlatch help page, showing
some
general
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote:
(Yes, we'll describe API 0.6 in the book and not 0.5, hoping that it
won't take another year to finish.
Mwahahahaha
Cheers,
Andy
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On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote:
(There's even a case for having z20
as super-thin lines because, by definition, if you're editing at z20
you want precision.)
Or super-fat ones, to remind everyone that no matter how carefully
you're working,
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 7:19 AM, Andreas Fritsche
andreas.frits...@gmail.com wrote:
I don't get it.
Really? It's pretty straightforward.
You still know it's a railway, a highway, a
building, ... . Reading more tags will unveil the name, the operator,
the source and so on. There is no
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 7:00 PM, Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com wrote:
By the way, who maintains the coastline checker
See http://trac.openstreetmap.org/log/applications/utils/coastcheck to
see who the committers are.
and how does one talk
to the people who maintain the code?
Emails
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 8:44 PM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote:
Shaun McDonald wrote:
http://openstreetmap.org/browse/way/22359503/history looks like it is
a 2 node way. Seems that there is a bug in Potlatch, causing it to not
show the coastline here.
But the way contains the
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 5:06 PM, Pieren pier...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 5:12 PM, Elena of Valhalla
elena.valha...@gmail.com wrote:
ok, not that likely, but I wouldn't use a tag with a different meaning
when we can just add another specific one;
Is that really so different ?
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:10 PM, Peter Miller
peter.mil...@itoworld.com wrote:
I assure you public transport timetables are very complex and one most
certainly can't implement it as tags to the OSM model.
Given that we have
* Unlimited numbers of key/value pairs per object
* Recursivable
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Nick Whitelegg
nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk wrote:
I think that would be an excellent idea, however don't assume transit
authorities will always give you the data because they often won't for
various reasons. There is not however a problem as far as I know in
people
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Kærast kaer...@newscloud.com wrote:
Hi,
I received a response to a freedom of information request today with a
list of CCTV cameras owned by my local council
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/cctv_coverage_and_information_4
The exact locations aren't
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Richard Fairhurst
rich...@systemed.net wrote:
Ed Loach wrote:
I think Potlatch has the advantage that you can switch from
map view to edit mode easily for the area you are viewing,
but once you've done that I still need to have an extra tab
open for the wiki
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Gert Gremmen g.grem...@cetest.nl wrote:
Most of POTLATCH problems are clearly caused by:
- not understanding POTLATCH and how it works
- Not understanding OSM at all.
Most of the Potlatch complaints are clearly caused by:
Cheers,
Andy
On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Robert Vollmert rvollmert-li...@gmx.net wrote:
Hi all,
there seem to be a few Garmin users around here. If you'd like to give
routable OSM-derived maps a try, there's some instructions on the wiki
at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mkgmap/routing . The
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Robert Vollmert
rvollmert-li...@gmx.net wrote:
Also, when I was putting it together yesterday I saw osm2mp.pl
suggesting it was dealing with turn restrictions (although on reading
the code, it's not exactly sophisticated logic!). But when I was
playing with it
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 7:49 AM, Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com wrote:
For some time we (at ITO) have being planning to do a thematic mapping
view of these un-loved places by combining the census data and OSM
data. Each census output area covers about 100 households so there
must be
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:10 AM, Christoph Böhme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At the moment I am trying to figure out if bug reports reports can be
stored directly in the osm database using standard nodes and tags.
Please, please don't take or advocate this approach. The OSM core
tables should,
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Olav Einervoll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi
To get proper searching of roads and stuff is this the correct way to do it?
For the village:
name: John's Village
place: village
is_in: Municipality, County, Country
and then for every road example:
highway:
I've no idea where that template comes from - is it a wikipedia thing?
Very few wikipedia templates have been also copied onto the
openstreetmap wiki.
In answer to your second question, yep, most links are hardcoded
simple urls, but you might want to consider either embedding a map
(see
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Pieren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The feature smoothness has been enabled and disabled 12 times in the
past 7 days from the wiki Map Features page:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Template:Map_Features:smoothness
We should stop the game now. All the people
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Sebastian Hohmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
it has been voted on and should thus stay on
Map Features.
Therein lies the problem, in my opinion, specifically with the thus.
Things could be voted on, but not put onto the Map Features page,
perhaps - otherwise
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Andrew Chadwick (email lists)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What do people think of the latest iteration of
http://www.cyclenation.org.uk/resources/mapping.php
(formerly http://www.cyclecheltenham.org.uk/map_standard.html )?
We should probably get our oar in
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Donald Allwright
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually, the current tagging doesn't seem to have enough granularity here.
The highway=path, highway=footway, foot=yes, horse=designated etc. tags
doesn't seem to include a way of actually saying if a path is a public
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Peter Miller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The OSM wiki doesn't seem to do references, hence the crude versions I have
used. Is this possible?
Yep, it's just a case of adding the correct templates to make it work,
and that's pretty easy. I've added 'wikipedia'
I think you entirely missed the point. Redirecting a nicer url to a
nasty one is the wrong way round!
Cheers,
Andy
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Shaun McDonald
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Making_Overview redirects to the
correct page.
On 14 Nov 2008,
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 11:00 PM, Lester Caine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The purpose of the service road is to service an industrial area - therefore
it is not simply unclassified. Unclassified is only appropriate - in my
opinion - when the road has no identified other use. Why bother with
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 8:27 AM, Stanislav Brabec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hallo.
Just on the beginning of the private way is one of the common places
for barriers. Its mapping makes an apparent clash between reality and
mapping schematic - there is no way to mark this fact exactly.
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Johnny Rose Carlsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Andy Allan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Isn't there a description of highway=path on Map
Features page?
Ahahahahahahaha. So what?
Are you saying Map Features is useless?
No, it's not useless. But there's no point
Hi All,
Seeing Ivan's new icon for dev events on the wiki prompted me to send
out a quick reminder of the two upcoming development events over the
next few days:
Wednesday evening - APIzza 0.6. Come along and get familiar with the
code that powers the OSM API - and have some pizzas too! Perfect
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 12:31 PM, David Groom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The page
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Relations#Proposed_uses_of_Relations
has a large number of proposed uses of relations, but there never seems to
be any forward movement on these.
However flawed the voting
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 1:15 PM, David Groom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would suggest concentrating on documenting the ones that are in use,
such as multipolygons, cycle route relations. Even better is to
concentrate on the ones that are in the db and widely consumed
by e.g. a renderer),
Is
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 2:28 PM, David Ebling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On a complete tangent to this conversation... I was curious about the area
Richard mentioned, so looked it up:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.98283lon=-1.99189zoom=15layers=B000FTF
And was amazed that someone has
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Sven Rautenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think you cannot complete this task until Mapnik gets some software fixes.
I'd suggest tagging your lake correctly and try to get Mapnik fixed,
instead of trying to find a workaround tagging that works in Mapnik and
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Dave Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On the license note ffs guys, legal-talk-general i believe,
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-general
It's an entire mailing list set up so this un-resolvable (to a large
extent) discussion can be kept away from
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 4:49 PM, Igor Brejc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Aren't we constantly reiterating the fact that tagging is
democratic?
I think democratic is the wrong word. You can do what you like.
There's no tyranny of the masses, for a start - minorities and
majorities are both on equal
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Dave Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
grammar-fascist
The apostrophe is not correct anyway. It denotes a missed letter, in
this word-position it would be 'doctor is', as opposed to the
non-apostrophe version meaning 'belong to the the doctor' or plural doctors.
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 5:45 PM, Iván Sánchez Ortega
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
El Viernes, 31 de Octubre de 2008, Sunburned Surveyor escribió:
[...]
Does the new license ever require my company to release the land use
polygon data in the above scenario?
No.
:-)
I think however a useful
You can all blame Matt Amos for the terrible wordplay.
We're having a pizzas-and-coding event next Wednesday (5th November),
in lieu of any London pub meetup and as a warm-up to the upcoming API
0.6 Hack weekend. It gives everyone a chance to get up to speed on the
recent work on the API, get set
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 3:52 PM, David Ebling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As the appearance of this map layer has a large impact on the public face of
OSM, I think it's important to have lots of people discuss their views on
this.
It's helpful up to a point, but there's a certain amount of art
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 9:59 AM, maning sambale
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
waypoints.ph the premiere volunteer driven travel site of the Philippines
what's-a-nice-place-and-how-to-get-there
Now uses openstreetmap for some of their destinations.
Example
waypoint narrative:
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 10:29 AM, Michael Roth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello list,
look at this:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=47.73083lon=9.02887zoom=16layers=B000FTF
What is the cause of this problem?
I see that it's on a tile boundary, therefore I reckon [1] it's due to
colour
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 4:38 PM, Xav [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What would be fantastic is urls of this kind :
http://www.openstreetmap.org/london/
...for a lot of medium and big cities.
The reason is to encourage people to use these URLs for their own use on
their pages. With the current URLs
Hi All,
I was recently, umm, persuaded to join this ML - clearly I did
something wrong in a previous life :-) Forgive me if the following is
inappropriate or has been discussed already, so far I've only been
subjected to vast torrents of PD discussions so I'm not sure what goes
on at other times!
No! :-) The layer tag is for things that are vertically separated -
like bridges going over rivers and so on.
Cheers,
Andy
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 10:31 AM, maning sambale
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Should I use the tag layer?
like
natural:forest
landuse:tourism
layer:X
On Fri, Oct 24,
Hi All,
I see that someone is running a bot across the entire planet, and I
don't see any discussion of it on the mailing lists. The bot is called
xybot and the user is apparently xylome
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/xylome - I believe this is the same
person who Frederik was referring to on
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Frank Sautter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hello andy,
Andy Allan schrieb:
I see that someone is running a bot across the entire planet,
europe
I'm asking now for this person to publicly justify to all the
contributors to OpenStreetMap why he or she knows
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 12:10 PM, David Groom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's the nature of OSM, anyone can edit anything without asking for
permission. There's no black and white here. I agree that it would have
been best to have had some form of discussion about this script, but there's
The last quote is by far the best :-)
Cheers,
Andy
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 6:14 AM, SteveC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I didn't see anyone post this so
http://povesham.wordpress.com/2008/10/18/openstreetmap-user-generated-street-maps-ieee-pervasive-computing-paper/
with the usual choice
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 9:44 PM, vegard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 12:27:27PM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 09:43 +0200, vegard wrote:
I see it like this: What could be very useful to have, is a mapping
between tiger data (old set) and OSM data. It
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 7:58 AM, Mark Williams
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do you actually have that working? I use mkgmap-r659 a Garmin Vista
(HCx) and I see no routing - it insists on using the base map. I did see
a mention of this some time back, but assumed it was 'coming' - it
certainly
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 9:52 PM, Ryszard Mikke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Should I ask them here or is there some other list/forum?
There's no list or forum devoted to OpenCycleMap - but feel free to
ask your questions here.
Cheers,
Andy
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On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 9:49 PM, Frederik Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
sergio sevillano wrote:
the key:barrier has been approved and thus the highway=gate now belongs
to barrier
*barrier=gate *
shall we run a script to do this?
No, because this would break existing rendering. First
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Richard Fairhurst
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Andrew Williams wrote:
I've been using my old N95 for a while now to get my GPS traces, but
unfortunatly it's decided to finally give up. So, i'm in the market
for a new GPS device. I'd preferebly like a standalone
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 6:28 AM, Karl Newman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just to reiterate my perspective, the Karlsruhe schema is fine for what it
is, but it's not sufficient for all uses.
Perhaps not natively, but I don't see why it can't be converted into
interpolated-on-street during
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Joseph Gentle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi!
I've been taking a look at the software stack and (especially with the
intermediate XML formats) I can't help but feel that we could
represent the map data in a much more efficient format - eg a
quadtree.
OSM data
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Ed Loach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am not so shure about the rendering of roads
(primary,secondary) at
Zoom layers 10-11-12.
Looking here:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.8354lon=1.1434zoom=13
the roads to the south of the image seem to use a different
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Shaun McDonald
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It is
much simpler to parse maxspeed:mph=30 than to parse maxspeed=30mph.
It's much simpler to parse maxspeed=30mph than it is to work out which
one is correct when there's multiple maxspeed:[kph|mph]=30 tags, I'd
say.
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 10:53 AM, sylvain letuffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This seems to reflect the situation in Germany. However, in Belgium and
The
Netherlands, the default is that pedestrians are allowed on cycle tracks.
I think that what you need is not a cycleway anymore, because
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Claudius Henrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Lars Aronsson:
In the current discussion of the Russian navy base at Sevastopol,
it would be useful to have a free map showing the Black Sea and
the land border between Russia and Ukraine, from Belarus to the
Black
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 6:35 PM, Ryszard Mikke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sure, I was using Potlatch. So far I couldn't make to get some sensible
background i JOSM or Merkaator...
I thought it is defined in OSM itself, not editor dependent.
It's completely editor dependent, so in this case
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 5:28 PM, Ed Loach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Stefan asked:
Is this a problem in mapnik or is it a problem with the OSM
data?
If the latter, how can I fix it?
It looks like the data is OK. All three are cities, and each is
tagged as such. I suspect that the lowzoom
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 9:36 PM, Andrew Chadwick (mailing lists)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ed Loach wrote:
What is it we are trying to address here exactly? I'm assuming it is
cyclelanes that are part of the road/way as
This is with reference to
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Ed Loach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm guessing from a routing application point of view it is better
to add a rule to handle oneway=true, even though the Map Features
page only defines yes/no or -1 as valid values (and hence maplint
highlights =true as an
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Frederik Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Adam Schreiber wrote:
Not if you consider that roads are to be marked down their center line
and typically the parking area ends to the outside of the center line
of the road demarking their boundary.
An argument
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 12:47 PM, 80n [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is a distinction that will be lost on most casual mappers. Its
complicated enough for them already. You are arguing for a scheme where
seemingly arbitrary combinations of tags can or cannot be combined on one
osm-object.
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 12:59 PM, David Earl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...more OSM coming soon is a tile served in response to a request,
isn't it? I often get them when the server takes too long. So the
problem must be server side.
Not necessarily. The 404.png is fetched by the JS API when
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 5:01 PM, Karl Newman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The GPX tracks are intended to show the basis for the ways and other data
that is in the database, so I think one motivation for timestamps hearkens
back to a desire to show your work to defend the source of OSM data
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Lukasz Szybalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If I want to render the whole planet and I want to have a tile for
every mile of it, will ./generate_tiles.py work or I have to specify
some additional parameters?
As Dave said, you will need to edit the file, and read
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 10:17 PM, Frederik Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
But generally the question is should oneway to cars be tagged as
oneway=yes? Because it paints a big oneway arrow on the map which
will confuse everyone except car-drivers.
Even if you're a cyclist or other user
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Ed Loach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Andy wrote:
Actually they aren't - what they are doing is making one end of
the
road no access to motorised vehicles. So the road itself is no
longer
technically oneway, so it shouldn't need cycleway=opposite...
So
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Dave Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Since then the map has been expanded to cover everywhere (thanks to
CloudMade), which is useful because the tracing problem exists in many
other places. But it's also completely irrelevant in some areas. And
frankly, if
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Steve Chilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyway the OS are one the of the primary (platinum?!) sponsors of the
RGS (along with Land Rover and Rolex from memory). So the map of the
venue, and how to get to it, prominantly displayed on the back cover of
the
On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 12:07 AM, Richard Weait [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The Cycle Map with hill shading, and a shiny new award. Well done!
I've updated each of these in my slides and anticipate a wonderful
response from the attendees. Thank you, OSM developers, for these
exciting
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