[OSM-talk] JOSM slippy map max_zoom_level workaround

2009-06-24 Thread Beej Jorgensen
Sorry if this has been talked about to death and I didn't notice, but I did search a bit and didn't find the answer. I'm also pretty sure I'm up-to-date on all the code. I have been curious for a long time why JOSM's slippymap plugin seems to decrease the max_zoom_level by 4 every time I run it,

Re: [OSM-talk] Rendering of Place Names in Mapnik

2008-12-19 Thread Beej Jorgensen
Brandon Aguirre wrote: US census has a well-organized system of divisions that might suit the need to create hierarchy within urban agglomerations and poly-centric regions. I like this--it's naming a region, so it doesn't seem so far-fetched that it would be in the map. As a renderer, I

Re: [OSM-talk] Indiscrimate layering

2008-12-19 Thread Beej Jorgensen
Brian Quinion wrote: If it isn't possible to undo the changes (because it is anon.) then I'd +1 the ban on anon. Me too. Anon can still request fixes on openstreetbugs, after all. And if you're going through the trouble of installing and learning a map editor and/or writing your own custom

Re: [OSM-talk] Rendering of Place Names in Mapnik

2008-12-18 Thread Beej Jorgensen
Karl Newman wrote: As an aside, San Francisco is unique in the USA (as far as I know) in that the city and county have the same extents. Oh, so THAT'S why San Francisco's unique! I've always wondered. ;) -Beej, proud Bay Area citizen ___ talk

[OSM-talk] New mass imports over existing data

2008-12-18 Thread Beej Jorgensen
Hey all, This is sort of a general question with a specific example, namely, Marin County. Marin County (just north of the Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco, California) already exists in OSM. It's made of bad TIGER data that has been partially corrected (by myself and others). Streams and

Re: [OSM-talk] A top tip for winter mapping

2008-12-13 Thread Beej Jorgensen
Stefan Baebler wrote: That, my friends, is so last year's fashion! A photo to prove it: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/StefanB Ha! :) I have a nice neoprene case from Gilsson for my eTrex with a velcro loop and a carabiner on it--I'd secure it to the top of my backpack while mountain biking

[OSM-talk] Incomprehensible Intersections

2008-12-10 Thread Beej Jorgensen
A few goodies around the world that would be fun to map: http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2006/11/incomprehensible-intersections.html I got to make one of the first passes at mapping the MacArthur Maze here in Oakland CA--that was quite a learning experience. :) -Beej

Re: [OSM-talk] Edit war on the wiki map features

2008-12-05 Thread Beej Jorgensen
Gervase Markham wrote: Which should I have done? That's the question I'm saying that anyone who wants to extend a formerly binary tag with new values needs to provide an answer to before they start using the new values. IMO, one should implement the even-more-defensive option C, which is: if

[OSM-talk] Implementing Geographic Information Technologies Ethically

2008-11-11 Thread Beej Jorgensen
http://www.esri.com/news/arcnews/fall08articles/implementing-gi-technologies.html I only had time to skim this article, but it looked like it might have some relevance. (I apologize in advance if I'm mistaken!) Especially closer to the end he talks about issues with licensing and restricting

[OSM-talk] A little bit of Google goofiness

2008-11-07 Thread Beej Jorgensen
This is an area near my house. If you want to get to University Ave from Hearst Ave by car, I would recommend against Google's suggested route: http://tinyurl.com/66q4l4 This is properly tagged on OSM to prevent this. :) -Beej ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding vmap0 road data to OSM

2008-01-05 Thread Beej Jorgensen
Will Harrison wrote: Vmap0 contains road data for the entire world. This data is in shapefile format, for the record. -Beej ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk