Re: [OSM-talk] Contours on the Cycle Map

2008-02-19 Thread Andy Allan
On Feb 18, 2008 4:46 PM, Keith Sharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is great! Any chance of a write up on how you did this? It involves a GPS, two bits of string, a barometer and a long weekend walking in circles around every hillside in the country... In reality, it's fairly easy, and is

Re: [OSM-talk] Contours on the Cycle Map

2008-02-19 Thread Andy Allan
On Feb 18, 2008 10:09 PM, Martin Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do you think about rendering amenity:shelter on the highest zoom level(z13)? I thinnkthis could be useful on a cycle map and there are already many of these features in OSM. Sure. Give me a couple of photos of what they look

Re: [OSM-talk] Background layers in Potlatch

2008-02-12 Thread Andy Allan
On Feb 12, 2008 9:55 AM, Richard Fairhurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, You can now choose from several background layers in Potlatch. Go to the options window (the little tick near the bottom left), and you'll see that the pop-up menu which used to offer only 'Yahoo' and 'None' now

Re: [OSM-talk] administrative boundaries that run along roads - in the Mapnik layer

2008-02-11 Thread Andy Allan
Hmm. Since the layer tag is supposed to be for defining the relative vertical displacement of physical features, I think I will rustle up a patch to osm2pgsql to strip off layer tags for non-physical features like admin boundaries :-) If we (or any renderer) want the admin boundaries showing

Re: [OSM-talk] Large Rivers in general, mapnik rendering in Particular

2008-02-08 Thread Andy Allan
On Feb 8, 2008 11:09 AM, Artem Pavlenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We can make osm2pgsql or coastline tools to create polygons, but why not create them in the first place ? Can someone enlighten me, please ? If I wanted to draw the rivers as light blue* with dark blue riverbanks, wouldn't

Re: [OSM-talk] adding OSM maps to etrex legend cx

2008-02-07 Thread Andy Allan
Have you got a card in the microSD slot? If so, you can either pull it out and stick it in a card reader, or else you can set the GPS to USB mass storage mode. Either way then just drag the file over to the right place. (My Venture Cx needed a firmware upgrade to enable the mass storage mode, but

Re: [OSM-talk] adding OSM maps to etrex legend cx

2008-02-07 Thread Andy Allan
On Feb 7, 2008 11:38 AM, maning sambale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From Garmin site [http://www8.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=1385#Instruct] System requirements: IBM-compatible PC running Windows 2000 or Windows XP operating system . Shucks! Yeah, I went and found a windows

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM cycle map radio interview

2008-02-06 Thread Andy Allan
On Feb 5, 2008 7:53 PM, Lambertus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Great indept interview, you explained everything thorough and clear and with a nice accent as well. Good job. BTW, how many ppl listen to that station? Any response from listeners? Thanks. I found it hard trying to pitch it to an

Re: [OSM-talk] Cycle route improvements

2008-02-05 Thread Andy Allan
On Feb 5, 2008 2:47 PM, Ben Laenen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, and Andy in particular, Hi Ben. An excellent selection of suggestions - I'll reply to them inline. as the past weeks went by while entering cycle routes for Belgium into OSM, I've come across several issues. It's a big

Re: [OSM-talk] Cycle route improvements

2008-02-05 Thread Andy Allan
On Feb 5, 2008 4:14 PM, Richard Fairhurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andy Allan wrote: That's a bug. Fixing it will also stop people using ncn_ref=Something-awfully-long-that-isn't-a-reference-really, which suggests the invention of an ncn_name= tag. Oh, doesn't that exist yet...? /me

Re: [OSM-talk] Cycle route improvements

2008-02-05 Thread Andy Allan
On Feb 5, 2008 4:43 PM, Ben Laenen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All the better if there's an existing tag already, but how does that work with current tagging, I thought it was type=route, route=bicycle, network=ncn, and will this be another tag ncn=yes|proposed|etc? Isn't the ncn=yes redundant

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM cycle map radio interview

2008-02-05 Thread Andy Allan
of the Society of Cartographers: http://www.soc.org.uk/ SoC conference 2008: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/cartographers08/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Robinson (blackadder) Sent: 05 February 2008 12:11 To: 'Andy Allan'; 'Talk

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM cycle map radio interview

2008-02-05 Thread Andy Allan
PROTECTED] wrote: Great, Andy! BTW, if you managed to create contours for the UK, could you send me a link? I'd like to try overlaying them on top of relief. Artem On 5 Feb 2008, at 11:44, Andy Allan wrote: Last night's episode of The Bike Show, aired on London's Resonance FM, featured

Re: [OSM-talk] srtm2shp - Shapefiles from SRTM contours - new version

2008-02-04 Thread Andy Allan
On Jan 19, 2008 9:15 PM, Nick Whitelegg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here are the details on the parameters: Usage: srtm2shp -b comma_separated_bbox [-I InCoordFormat] [-O OutCoordFormat] [-i height_interval] [-S step] [-f] [-l srtmlocation] shpfile Hi Nick, Been looking at this today, but

Re: [OSM-talk] Crudely-drawn pint glasses

2008-02-02 Thread Andy Allan
On Jan 30, 2008 1:47 PM, Artem Pavlenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good p(o)int! This thread is going for quite a while and still no new pint icon :D This one I created myself a year ago : http://www.gravitystorm.co.uk/ osm/?zoom=15lat=6715066.22314lon=-7023.28957layers=B00 Is it better ? or

Re: [OSM-talk] Cyclemap not updated for 2 weeks?

2008-02-02 Thread Andy Allan
On Feb 1, 2008 9:44 AM, Dave Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 1, 2008 8:37 AM, Foppe Benedictus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Andy, I just asked in IRC if somebody knew if the cyclemap was not updated the last 2 weeks, they came up with the why don't you email him solution, so

Re: [OSM-talk] route type relations bus routes and bicycle routes

2008-01-21 Thread Andy Allan
On Jan 21, 2008 9:40 AM, Dave Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Relations can contain other relations, but the cycle map won't render them. The cycle map will only render ways. I think you meant that the cycle map will render ways, and *relations containing only ways*, but not relations

Re: [OSM-talk] walking routes?

2008-01-21 Thread Andy Allan
On Jan 21, 2008 10:19 AM, Nick Whitelegg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also walking routes? This would be good news. I started with walking (hiking) route around Nuremberg. What are the recommended relation tags for walking routes? Do you mean walking routes as in paths, or walking routes as in

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM gets mentioned in KDE4 keynote speech at Google Headquarters

2008-01-21 Thread Andy Allan
I think it's pretty impressive that for a multi-day KDE event, all about their new 4.0 release, that we get practically 5 entire minutes of their main keynote speech turned over to the promotion of OSM, instead of promotion of KDE! It's not like we got mentioned in an incidental speech, or one

Re: [OSM-talk] walking routes?

2008-01-21 Thread Andy Allan
On Jan 21, 2008 12:33 PM, Richard Fairhurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nick Whitelegg wrote: Talking of walking routes in a more general sense , i.e. not official long distance paths but a favourite route/circuit e.g. the Old Dungeon Ghyll-Pike o'Blisco-Crinkle Crags-Band-Old Dungeon Ghyll

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM gets mentioned in KDE4 keynote speech at Google Headquarters

2008-01-21 Thread Andy Allan
On Jan 21, 2008 10:56 AM, Matt Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marble already has the ability to download a set of low quality Mapnik tiles (about z=8 or something I guess). Is this just on development versions? I'm running Marble 0.4.0 here, but can't figure out if it can do what you say.

Re: [OSM-talk] route type relations bus routes and bicycle routes

2008-01-21 Thread Andy Allan
On Jan 21, 2008 6:31 PM, Igor Brejc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andy Allan wrote: Have you tried Kosmos? I know, it only works for Windows, which is probably an issue for some people. I haven't tried it, and unfortunately I don't use Windows. From what I've seen it looks quite good, but I don't

Re: [OSM-talk] zenbu data import - suggestions please

2008-01-17 Thread Andy Allan
On Jan 16, 2008 10:33 PM, Robin Paulson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is that zenbu do not have a stable set of tags - users are pretty much free to come up with whatever they want Sounds familiar Cheers, Andy ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] voting ended? - population

2008-01-16 Thread Andy Allan
On Jan 16, 2008 11:19 AM, Martin Trautmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 2008-01-16 10:47, David Earl wrote: Irrespective of this proposal, which I hadn't noticed, I've been using it for all places in my area for some time now I do not see any description

Re: [OSM-talk] Tracing coastline by hand unnecessarily

2008-01-15 Thread Andy Allan
Out of interest, how many automated imports are running at the moment, and where? I've been watching your checker and hoping that the Eastern Seaboard of the US would appear, so that we can use the improved shapefiles asap, but it doesn't look like anyone is running almein_coastlines or similar

Re: [OSM-talk] Tracing coastline by hand unnecessarily

2008-01-15 Thread Andy Allan
On Jan 15, 2008 6:11 PM, Martijn van Oosterhout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 15, 2008 6:56 PM, Robert (Jamie) Munro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why can't someone just bulk_upload the whole thing, like with Tiger / AND. Get the data in, and I'll fix it, but I'm not going to bother

Re: [OSM-talk] TIGER has only a week to go

2008-01-15 Thread Andy Allan
On Jan 15, 2008 6:01 PM, Robert (Jamie) Munro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to: http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~daveh/tiger/stats.html TIGER imports will be finished in a weeks time! Should we celebrate somehow? Perhaps a press release? (Maybe give it another week so that Mapnik has all

Re: [OSM-talk] Tracing coastline by hand unnecessarily

2008-01-15 Thread Andy Allan
On Jan 15, 2008 8:19 PM, Adam Schreiber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 15, 2008 3:09 PM, Andy Allan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone who knows what they are doing with this stuff quickly run up and down each side of the US for me please? That way, when the states turn white

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging hierarchies

2008-01-14 Thread Andy Allan
On Jan 14, 2008 4:29 AM, Karl Newman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For that matter, I wish all closed ways which designate an area were marked as such. I'm working on writing a tiling task for Osmosis which will carve up data into rectangular grids (for feeding into GPS map creators such as

Re: [OSM-talk] How to photo fold-out maps

2008-01-11 Thread Andy Allan
On Jan 11, 2008 7:33 AM, Lars Aronsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an 1909 out-of-copyright book from the library. It has a fold-out map that is bound with the book, so I can't take it out. How do I hold the map flat to get a good photo? Another thing you might want to try is getting

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Managing large XML files aka osm.xml

2008-01-02 Thread Andy Allan
Hi Artem, This is really useful. I think it'll be especially handy for me if our main osm.xml file uses this - at the moment it's quite a lengthy procedure to resync the cycle map with the base osm.xml, since I'm trying to keep all of the roads rules the same bar the colour. It's hard to see

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Managing large XML files aka osm.xml

2008-01-02 Thread Andy Allan
On Jan 2, 2008 4:37 PM, Stefan de Konink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2 Jan 2008, Artem Pavlenko wrote: David Siegel implemented support for libxml2 parser in Mapnik, check it out : I was able to load the entiere planet.osm into MonetDB4 (XML), but incompare to the SQL version it is

Re: [OSM-talk] New Zealand coastline and mapnik

2007-12-24 Thread Andy Allan
On Dec 24, 2007 2:43 PM, Jon Burgess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 24/12/2007, Ben Laenen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 24 December 2007, Rob Reid wrote: It has also been tidied up in places where high res Yahoo imagery is available. What needs to happen now so that it appears

Re: [Talk-GB] [OSM-talk] Unsurfaced road and Byway?

2007-12-17 Thread Andy Allan
On Dec 16, 2007 4:37 PM, Mike Collinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you going to re-tag every way in the database that uses this?. Nope, everyone is free to use whatever tag they want. Same goes for rendering. If its useful locally in the UK that is fine, but it should not suddenly

Re: [Talk-GB] [OSM-talk] Unsurfaced road and Byway?

2007-12-17 Thread Andy Allan
On Dec 17, 2007 10:51 AM, Frederik Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andy R., Andy A., As for the voting process, I think it has to be taken with a grain of salt. Some people are doing a lot of work in that field and we shouldn't disregard their work completely - it is ok to have a structured

Re: [Talk-GB] talk in london on thurs

2007-10-30 Thread Andy Allan
On 10/30/07, Steve Coast [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: harry wood put this on the wiki, I forgot come to london on thurs! http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/ London#MySociety_Disruptive_Tech_Talk_on_Thursday Would be great to have an OSM crowd there to answer questions, talk etc beer

Re: [Talk-GB] Fwd: [CARTO-SoC] RE: WORK OPPORTUNITY - GPS CYCLE ROUTE SURVEYING

2007-09-27 Thread Andy Allan
On 9/27/07, Richard Fairhurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Via CARTO-SoC... - Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:55:18 BST From: Richard Peace [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello I have been approached by leading cycle map cartographers Cycle City

Re: [Talk-GB] Speed limits

2007-09-20 Thread Andy Allan
kph? On 9/20/07, Andy Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard Fairhurst wrote: Sent: 20 September 2007 10:48 AM To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Speed limits Dave Stubbs wrote: I came across a speed limit in Windsor Great Park a few weeks back for 38mph which

Re: [Talk-GB] [OSM-talk] dangerous cycling lanes (was Re: A new highwaytagging scheme - thinking about)

2007-09-10 Thread Andy Allan
On 9/9/07, Richard Fairhurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29 Aug 2007, at 12:55, Andy Allan wrote: On 8/29/07, Richard Fairhurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you (or anyone else) think I should tag the National Byway? (http://www.nationalbyway.org) If it could be drawn in brown

Re: [Talk-GB] [OSM-talk] dangerous cycling lanes (was Re: A new highwaytagging scheme - thinking about)

2007-08-29 Thread Andy Allan
On 8/29/07, Shaun McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29 Aug 2007, at 12:55, Andy Allan wrote: On 8/29/07, Richard Fairhurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] The ncn and rcn are more generic, so that other countries can use the same tags. However these definitions are pretty much correct

Re: [Talk-GB] cycling routes

2007-08-16 Thread Andy Allan
On 8/16/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This has just been brough to my attention. http://maps.camdencyclists.org.uk/ Had a quick look but nothing too understand it properly. Was wondering if it may be of use to those working on the cycle routes if you werent aware of it

Re: [Talk-GB] Bridges (Edinburgh)

2007-08-08 Thread Andy Allan
On 8/8/07, Minty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've noticed many bridges around Edinburgh appear to be done using three seperate Ways See George IV Bridge, and also Castle Terrace if you pan to the left a little. http://tinyurl.com/298f7t * way_before_bridge * way_for_bridge *

Re: [Talk-GB] designated cycleway, designated bridleway, designated footway

2007-08-02 Thread Andy Allan
On 8/2/07, Rik van der Helm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My main question now is how should I tag footpathes without a 'legal way of right' ? highway=footway access=permissive Shaun McDonald replied: The difference between a track and a path is more in the surface quality, rather than the

Re: [Talk-GB] Future UK mapping parties

2007-07-17 Thread Andy Allan
On 7/16/07, Abigail Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/16/07, Andy Allan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... not in my experience! They all use GPS devices, and the last time I got a taxi he took us to the wrong part of Hammersmith (the streetname was similar to the one we wanted, and pulled out

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