Re: [OSM-talk] Random thoughts (Ed Loach)

2011-06-22 Thread Donald Campbell II
That's a nice little discovery you made there. And in fact I've missed credit card notices and things like that due to updated email addresses or over-zealous SPAM filters. Perhaps given the amount of work that would be and also the fact that we don't want to SPAM people that simply don't want

[OSM-talk] Time of changesets

2011-05-17 Thread Donald Campbell II
I was looking at a changeset someone did on the main OSM site and was trying to figure out exactly when it was done. What I see is for example: Closed at:Tue, 17 May 2011 14:16:44 + So I figured maybe I didn't set my time zone prefs and it's my fault, so I went into my user settings and

Re: [OSM-talk] talk Digest, Vol 77, Issue 60

2011-01-22 Thread Donald Campbell II
Well that's how *I* map out in the third world. :-) (user donaciano) Unsurfaced roads are very common and still considered streets, roads, etc... even the largest highway in the country is unsurfaced for many miles. In fact I've never even tagged a surface out here since it's normal for

Re: [OSM-talk] New user mistakenly nuking things

2011-01-09 Thread Donald Campbell II
I wonder how frequently something like this happens in some unmonitored area in the US. I'm pretty sure it happens all over the place all the time. I'm one of very few people actively mapping Guyana and just last week this new user stuck a town in the ocean. So I politely messaged him and

Re: [OSM-talk] splitting up planet file

2010-11-30 Thread Donald Campbell II
Paul Houle said--- That said, my new strategy for dealing with large dump files is to cut the file into segments (like 'split') and recompress the fragments. If your processing chain allows it, this can be a powerful way to get a concurrency speedup. If more dump files were published

Re: [OSM-talk] mapping house numbers

2010-11-30 Thread Donald Campbell II
And for Christmas I want a mobile application for large scale collection of house numbers. Something like Mapzen POI Collector on the iPhone? I checked, it has house numbers. Or you mean a web app? Perhaps this would make a nice project of the month. Have a list of known (free) mobile apps

Re: [OSM-talk] mapping house numbers

2010-11-30 Thread Donald Campbell II
at 6:27 PM, Donald Campbell II donaciano2...@gmail.com wrote: And for Christmas I want a mobile application for large scale collection of house numbers. Something like Mapzen POI Collector on the iPhone? I checked, it has house numbers. If I travel down a street it, I want to be able

Re: [OSM-talk] So how *do* you get GPS waypoints into OSM?

2010-11-22 Thread Donald Campbell II
I'd just add that depending on your GPS the waypoints may not be in the GPX files. For example with Garmin GPS devices the Waypoints are stored in the internal memory and must be extracted using GPSBabel or similar. The GPX files copied off when in USB Disk mode will only be tracks. So if

[OSM-talk] How do I go about doing this?

2010-11-08 Thread Donald Campbell II
There's a few tag adjustments I'd like to try and make in some different tools. I don't think this is really a newbie question so I'm asking here. For example there's a tag I've been using that encodes information useful in navigation but isn't being used in any renderers. (I'm not mentioning

Re: [OSM-talk] New: A blackwhite base layer

2010-11-03 Thread Donald Campbell II
Yeah that Glittermap is great stuff I gotta thank you for freeing my mind of the constraints of stuffy boring mapping. Now I'm thinking of cartoon style maps with text effect scripts run on Country/City/Town names... Old fashioned piratey maps with dragons in the water... Flippin' SpongeBob

Re: [OSM-talk] A warning about gates and other barriers

2010-09-20 Thread Donald Campbell II
Message: 9 Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 20:33:58 +1000 From: Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net To: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] A warning about gates and other barriers Message-ID: 20100920203358.743e0...@mum-quad Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 So if you visit lots of places

[OSM-talk] OSM into OOo document

2010-09-07 Thread Donald Campbell II
I've been working on getting points mapped and shown on an image in an openoffice document. I'm asking with the list to see if I can get some ideas or if this is already done somewhere, perhaps I can avoid reinventing the wheel. Basically I'm using the method described

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM into OOo document

2010-09-07 Thread Donald Campbell II
. On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 4:45 PM, andrzej zaborowski balr...@gmail.comwrote: On 7 September 2010 21:42, Donald Campbell II donaciano2...@gmail.com wrote: 2) Find some sort of online API or website that will let me give it a set of points by encoding them into a URL and then download an image

[OSM-talk] Rendering country outlines

2009-06-12 Thread Donald Campbell II
Hello all. I asked this on the newbies list and it didn't get any replies so now I try on the big-kids list. ;-) I'm trying to figure out how I can render country outlines preferably exported to SVG where I can individually color them, and add charts and figures. I've found some posts talking