[OSM-talk] Lake Nasser not rendering

Hi, what is the reason, that lake nasser in upper egypt is not rendering in Mapnik? http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=23.96481&lon=32.88516&zoom=15&layers=B000FTF There is new yahoo imagery available and I would like to refiine the lake, but would prefer solving the rende problem beforehand. Gre

[OSM-talk] Planning a trekking holiday online

Hi everybody, I would like to plan my next trekking holiday with online tools. What I have in mind is the following: A map (preferably osm) to mark tours and routes and some form of note taking tool to pull together information on accommodation, supplies, flights and so forth. Does anybody know s

Re: [OSM-talk] maxheight/height

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Aun Johnsen (via Webmail) < skipp...@gimnechiske.org> wrote: > maxheight=* refers to legal maxheight, in some countries, such as brazil, > there is a difference on legal height (restriction) and physical > height/clearance (information sign). See my note on the di

Re: [OSM-talk] amenity=parking, time limit tag?

>I see a problem wiith this idea. Only because councils change the times/prices reguarly. Often without notice. You can use many >supermarket car parks for 2 hours but that could change depening on the seasons But it should be tagged nonetheless. The fact that there is a time limitation for parkin

Re: [OSM-talk] Move the Map

> I disagree because I think, the map is the best way to show our > potential Well, clearly not. The potential of OSM is not that we can produce a nice slippy map. Google did that just fine. The potential is that you can do a lot more with the osm data, than you can with any copyrighted map-API f

Re: [OSM-talk] Move the Map

> Ah yeah, those were the days when we didn't have a reliably working > map on the front page, so we were looking for alternatives (you can > just make out the map image is the old linework-on-landsat version. > But that's not an issue any more. > Well, but it is an issue that the map we show off

[OSM-talk] Move the Map

Hi all, there has been a quite lively debate on talk-de about the appearance of the openstreetmap.org page to "newcomers" to the project, speaking people who heard of it for the first time and come around to see if they (and how) they will be able to use it for their goals (note: not all of them m

Re: [OSM-talk] putting GPS units in taxis

Another option is not having the GPRS and just dump the GPX data once you > get back the device. > +1 That would be my personal recommendation. I once made a small research on the availability of GPRS enabled devices (out f personal interest) and came to the conclusion that they tend to be very e

[OSM-talk] How to get into the planet

Hi, how can I get my blog into the OSM planet ( blogs.openstreetmap.org)? Are there any requirements for a blog to be included? Thanks, Peter ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/lis

[OSM-talk] A lot of Spam on the user diaries

Hi, lately there has been a lot of spam in the user dieary entries (and therefore in the planet as well). And I found no way to "flag" those users or entries for an admin to investigate this. So please 1. block the following accounts: Accessories V

[OSM-talk] Cheat Sheet

Hi everybody, I recently came across the idea of producing a "cheat sheet" of the Map Features page for mappers to take "into the field". I hink that this is a great idea and I have set up a wiki page ( http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Cheat_sheet) to discuss and refine a concept for something l

Re: [OSM-talk] Wanted feature for API 0.7 ??

2009/6/8 Frederik Ramm > Hi, > > Peter Dörrie wrote: > >> The current renderes wouldn't be able to handle it either and forcing 50+ >> applications to change would be unappropriate. >> > > Why, we're doing that all the time ;-) Yeah I thought

Re: [OSM-talk] Wanted feature for API 0.7 ??

> > as frederik says, it doesn't need to be implemented in the API - all > of it can already be done client-side using the appropriate tags*. Well several Users made the point that this would "break" all applications that exist today, as they would be useless in their current state. The current J

Re: [OSM-talk] Wanted feature for API 0.7 ??

Greetings, Peter 2009/6/8 Frederik Ramm > Hi, > > Peter Dörrie wrote: > >> in the (albeit short) discussion concerning my proposal to introduce tags >> for feature lifecylcles ( >> >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Proposed_features/4th_Dimension/Arc

[OSM-talk] Overhauled the Garmin page

Hi everybody, I made an overhaul of the Garmin-Page [1] and moved all the different device series to their own subpages. I also introduced a proposal for an overview table for individual devices. Please feel free to comment and change everything. Peter [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Garm

[OSM-talk] 3D Map Print

Hi, I just saw the blog entry on http://freegeographytools.com/2009/solid-3d-landscape-models-from-landprintabout buying a 3D Map-Print. Does anybody know if there is a service out there that does this with OSM Data? Greetings, Peter ___ talk mailing l

[OSM-talk] Fwd: New Proposed Feature: Tagging the age and duration of existence of features

-- Forwarded message -- From: Peter Dörrie Date: 2009/5/22 Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] New Proposed Feature: Tagging the age and duration of existence of features To: Lester Caine The problem comes with 'end_date', and since in some areas roads ARE > being destro

[OSM-talk] New Proposed Feature: Tagging the age and duration of existence of features

Hi everybody, I made a proposal for tagging "the 4th dimension". Hope you like it ;) http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/4th_Dimension Greetings, Peter ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listin