[Talk-us] Burbank, LA and beyond

2012-07-20 Thread Richard Weait
Hi all, I've done some random cleanup in parts of LA. Or Burbank of whatever. I'm not expert enough to recognize the sub-regional details of the greater LA area. :-) When a community member calls for help, there are many of us who like to help. In this case, I'd like some more help to let me

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: Re: Post bot cleanup

2012-07-20 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Kai Krueger kakrue...@gmail.com wrote: [ ... ] OK, I have had a first stab at it. http://apmon.dev.openstreetmap.org/us_routing_grid.html It is only 25 cities so far, but if it turns out to be useful it can easily be extended to more cities. The big

Re: [Talk-us] [Rebuild] Moving/Deleting Roads

2012-07-20 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 8:39 PM, jeremy jozwik jerjoz.for...@gmail.com wrote: yes, most of the OC is a cluster %^$#. i gave up because it was too overwhelming. Take smaller bites. :-) Rome (New York) wasn't mapped in a day. :-) ___ Talk-us mailing

Re: [Talk-us] Starting OSM Trail Map Initiative In US

2012-07-20 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 7:02 PM, Greg Troxel g...@ir.bbn.com wrote: Fred Gifford fred.giff...@gmail.com writes: [ ... ] - Building trail mapping communities in the US. Indeed, that is the key point. I think this is the best way to success. You could even leave out the trail and it will have

Re: [Talk-ca] redaction bot coming soon!

2012-07-19 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 8:42 AM, Harald Kliems kli...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, I'm also not sure if I interpret the data correctly, but it looks like nothing was deleted on the Montreal Island?? That would seem rather suspicious to me -- or did I just miss a giant remapping effort happening in

Re: [Talk-us] Missing streets

2012-07-19 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Charlotte Wolter techl...@techlady.com wrote: This is how a section of burbank looks today. Where are4 the supposed TIGER streets?? How did you get the impression that the redaction bot was going to import? Also, some mappers chose to wait until the

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: Re: Post bot cleanup

2012-07-19 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Charlotte Wolter techl...@techlady.com wrote: Hello all, The damage in LA is much more severe: missing segments of freeways, roads gone. Rancho Cucamonga is still in progress. Ridgecrest will follow shortly after and those should be the final two

Re: [Talk-ca] [Talk-us] Redaction bot is heading our way!

2012-07-18 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 7:34 AM, James Mast rickmastfa...@hotmail.com wrote: I just happened to load up the progress page for the bot, and it's entered Mexico overnight. Just thought I would give all of you fellow North America mappers a heads up. ;)

[Talk-ca] redaction bot coming soon!

2012-07-18 Thread Richard Weait
Dear All, The redaction bot is now in North America. You can watch the progress here: http://harrywood.dev.openstreetmap.org/license-change/botprocessing.php Each area starts from the southern end, so it may take a little time to reach the Niagara peninsula. :-)

Re: [Talk-ca] redaction bot coming soon!

2012-07-18 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 10:42 PM, Bruno Remy bremy.qc...@gmail.com wrote: oops. some errors in Port Simpson area (BC) http://harrywood.dev.openstreetmap.org/license-change/botprocessing.php?zoom=10lat=54.58503lon=-130.28543layers=B00FTTFF is there a way to check some logs to see

Re: [Talk-us] Redaction bot is heading our way!

2012-07-18 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 10:40 PM, Phil! Gold phi...@pobox.com wrote: * Kai Krueger kakrue...@gmail.com [2012-07-18 18:26 -0700]: So another question is, what is the best way to coordinate the general fixing of the interstate system to try and minimize editing conflicts? I'm not sure. Maybe

Re: [OSM-talk] Update on redaction bot and minutely diffs

2012-07-16 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 7:41 AM, NopMap ekkeh...@gmx.de wrote: What exactly does the status failed mean? Sometimes it means a timeout of some sort. Other times it means data was found that was unexpected in some way. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Redaction_bot_progress_map

Re: [OSM-talk] Redaction progress

2012-07-15 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 9:16 AM, kenneth gonsalves law...@thenilgiris.com wrote: On Sun, 2012-07-15 at 11:46 +0100, Richard Fairhurst wrote: The redaction bot has started on the 'Western Europe' area. Because continents are annoyingly not shaped like rectangles, this is not good - I think the

Re: [Talk-us] More things that are no longer there: schools.

2012-07-13 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Kevin Kenny kken...@nycap.rr.com wrote: On 07/13/2012 03:00 PM, James Umbanhowar wrote: Check out the historic tag (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Historic). You could add historic=school and maybe historic:name=School Name. Is that accepted practice?

[Talk-ca] Immediate HOLD for all imports / bulk edits

2012-07-11 Thread Richard Weait
Dear All, The long-awaited license redaction bot is running now and is expected to run for approximately one month. Please discontinue any imports / bulk-edits / bots that you may have running until after the redaction process has completed. With the redaction process running there is a greater

[Talk-us] TIGER fixup and mapping more

2012-07-11 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Kevin Kenny kken...@nycap.rr.com wrote: I'd be fine with trying to clean up unedited TIGER - or even a horrible mess of half-deleted TIGER - if the expectations of the results weren't quite so daunting. [ ... ] Larger cleanups can be imposing at first glance.

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: [OSM-dev] Licence redaction ready to begin

2012-07-09 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote: Forwarding from talk/dev Note that the date given (9th) should be 11th So we may see things starting to happen here in the US within the next week or two. Awesome! Thank you, devs, for your work on the tools for this.

Re: [Talk-ca] Edmonton OSM gathering

2012-07-06 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 8:03 PM, James Ewen ve6...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 7:16 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: May I suggest that you just do it, and go ahead and set it up and that you reach out through other channels for attendees? [ ... ] The drawback

[Talk-ca] How did you start in OSM?

2012-07-06 Thread Richard Weait
Do you remember how you first heard of OSM, or first got mapping? I think the first sign I saw of OSM was in a post on slashdot in June 2006. Share your story. How'd you get started? ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org

Re: [talk-au] History (Was: Re: [OpenStreetMap] Re: Hume and Hovell route)

2012-07-05 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 8:17 PM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: [re: mapping historic objects that are no longer present] No question about it, the fourth dimension introduces a lot of complexities. Sadly, I don't have a lot of faith in the OSM community to come up with a sensible

Re: [Talk-ca] Edmonton OSM gathering

2012-07-05 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 11:15 PM, James Ewen ve6...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone in the Edmonton area interested in getting together to share ideas? Dear James, I wish you all the best for your Edmonton OSM gathering. I think that it is wonderful that you are doing this. I've had a great time at

Re: [Talk-ca] Toronto event, date corrected

2012-07-05 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: Oops. Had the date wrong earlier. It is correct below. By the way, the next Toronto event is Monday 09 July 2012. http://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Toronto/events/64341292/ I encourage mappers in other places

Re: [Talk-us] New Meetup for OSM in NYC

2012-07-05 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 9:42 AM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: There's a new Meetup for OpenStreetMap folks in New York City! http://www.meetup.com/osm-nyc Huzzah!!! Local OSM events are great fun. Be sure to attend if you are at-all-local. Bravo and Thank you to Serge (NYC) and

Re: [Talk-us] New Meetup for OSM in NYC

2012-07-05 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: By the way what do you find to be the best weekdays for meetups? Weekday or weekend? Everybody is so busy that no date is perfect. :-( I try not to get hung up on that; any date I select will be exactly the wrong date for

Re: [Talk-ca] geocodong canada

2012-06-26 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 8:26 AM, Marc-André Goderre magode...@cgq.qc.ca wrote: Hi all, I need to setup an embedded offline geocoder with OSM data for canada. Your helps is welcome. Either the dev@ mailing list, or #osm-dev IRC will have folks with experience in nominatim.

Re: [talk-au] [OpenStreetMap] Re: Hume and Hovell route

2012-06-21 Thread Richard Weait
Hi Mark, You can sign up for the tagging list via this link. http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging The historical maps aspect of your interest is held by many others for various eras. That is still an unsolved problem in OSM, so join in with others interested in finding a solution.

Re: [Talk-ca] OSM in Quebec - (was CBC English; no - françias; oui)

2012-05-30 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Fabian Rodriguez magic...@member.fsf.org wrote: On 05/30/2012 12:41 PM, Bruno Remy wrote: Hi folks! Here from Quebec city (Qc) we're starting a local OSM group of mapping users and contributors. Hope we'll have fun and a lot of mapping partys ! At first,

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM : It's a shame !!!

2012-05-28 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 3:42 PM, ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen g.grem...@cetest.nl wrote: [ ... ] However,  it was not meant that the data were simply to be copied, deleted and re-pasted into  the map using a fake account. True. Copy / pasting is not the same as remapping from

Re: [Talk-ca] Re : cleanup

2012-05-28 Thread Richard Weait
Weekly updates of the progress are archived on the rebuild list. http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/rebuild/ There are still some technical matters to resolve in the redaction software. ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org

[OSM-talk] Mapnik Code Sprint - Be there!

2012-05-21 Thread Richard Weait
Dear All, Twenty months in the making. The next hugely successful and awesomely fun Mapnik Code Sprint will be held in Washington DC, in just a few short weeks. Perhaps you should be there! Some details. https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/wiki/Code-sprint Who should be there? You should be

[OSM-talk] Celebrating Neskie

2012-05-08 Thread Richard Weait
On 08 May 2011, Neskie Manuel went camping at his family camp site. He went missing. His body was discovered on 25 June 2011 several kilometers down river. Neskie was an OpenStreetMap contributor, and started mapping in April 2009, mapping mostly near Chase, British Columbia, Canada.

[OSM-talk] data visualizations and blind / low-viz users.

2012-05-07 Thread Richard Weait
The City of Toronto Open Data team held an event last week[1] to celebrate the second year of their Open Data program and to discuss how it might be improved. Visualizations were the hot topic, featured in two of the three main topics of discussion. - Are visualizations using City of Toronto

Re: [Talk-ca] CBC English; no - françias; oui

2012-05-07 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 6:24 AM, James Mast rickmastfa...@hotmail.com wrote: It's on NOW!! http://www.cbc.ca/video/radio-popup.html#/networkKey=cbc_radio_oneprogramKey=toronto URL might only work well with Firefox. It was fun to hear Steve and John being interviewed by Louis. The overview of

Re: [Talk-ca] CBC English; no - françias; oui

2012-05-06 Thread Richard Weait
Another try. :-) I hear that Metro Morning has the OpenStreetMap spot scheduled for 0620H (again. Third time's the charm?) Monday. If you are near Toronto, you'll want to listen to the famous mappers on the radio, then meet them later that same day, at Toronto Mappy Hour. :-)

[OSM-legal-talk] OpenStreetMap attribution in iPhoto

2012-05-03 Thread Richard Weait
Looks like Apple is now crediting OpenStreetMap in version 1.0.1 of iPhoto, as reported by OSMer Beelsebob, on #osm IRC :-) http://cl.ly/421B0u2r0u0J3o0I3e3s ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-ca] CBC English; no - françias; oui

2012-05-03 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 6:26 AM, James Mast rickmastfa...@hotmail.com wrote: Nothing @ 6:20 AM this morning about OSM. :( Instead @ 6:25 AM, they are talking about Google StreetView... Yeah. :-( And Mayor Ford being involved with the police again.

Re: [Talk-ca] Gouvernement du Québec : Gouverner ensemble

2012-05-03 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Pierre Béland infosbelas-...@yahoo.fr wrote: Following a public consultation on the web, the deputy Jean-François Gautrin, parlementary leader of Government of Québec, has published, today, the report Gouverner ensemble. see

[Talk-ca] the data layer has moved

2012-05-01 Thread Richard Weait
In a note similar to the earlier one on GPS Tracks. The data layer has moved. This happened several weeks ago. When the layer switcher was improved a while back, it was changed from the mysterious white on blue plus sign to a drop down with the word Standard showing by default. The also

Re: [Talk-ca] Re : CBC English; no - françias; oui

2012-05-01 Thread Richard Weait
2012/5/1 Pierre Béland infosbelas-...@yahoo.fr: Yesterday night, the french Radio-Canada Telejournal had a OSM topo with an interview with John Robb. There is only a link to the complete bulletin

Re: [Talk-ca] Re : CBC English; no - françias; oui

2012-05-01 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 11:18 AM, Connors, Bernie (SNB) bernie.conn...@snb.ca wrote: The video of the French news item on OSM was really well done although I could not understand a word of the Radio Canada reporter or the news anchor.   It would be really great if we could get a link to an

Re: [Talk-ca] CBC English; no - françias; oui

2012-05-01 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: Dear All, Looks like the English spot on Metro Morning was bumped by some story about an imprisoned millionaire. The English spot has been rescheduled for this Thursday, tentatively I guess, for Metro Morning (Toronto

[Talk-ca] CBC English; no - françias; oui

2012-04-30 Thread Richard Weait
Dear All, Looks like the English spot on Metro Morning was bumped by some story about an imprisoned millionaire. The first French spot appears to have run on schedule at 0720 text http://www.radio-canada.ca/regions/Ontario/2012/04/30/001-openstreetmap-cartes-benevoles.shtml audio

Re: [Talk-ca] More Digital Globe content coming to Bing Maps

2012-04-30 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Connors, Bernie (SNB) bernie.conn...@snb.ca wrote: Does anybody know if there is a way to track or identify new imagery ? in JOSM with an imagery layer selected, context click (right click) on the imagery layer, then select show tile info will display the image

Re: [Talk-ca] GPS Tracks

2012-04-30 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 9:34 PM, Daniel Begin jfd...@hotmail.com wrote: Bonjour, I just find out that there is no more GPS Tracks Tabs in Openstreetmap.org site. Did I miss something, Can I upload my GPS tracks somewhere else? GPS Traces has moved to the left hand menu as part of the site

[Talk-ca] OSM on CBC - Monday (plus français)

2012-04-29 Thread Richard Weait
Hi all, I'm told that there will be an OSM story on CBC tomorrow (Monday, 30 April 2012) in several places. 6h20 metro morning. (Toronto morning radio show) [1] 7h20 french CBC radio [2] 16h10 french CBC radio show 18h15 french CBC tv news 22h20 french CBC national news Thanks, very much

Re: [OSM-talk] near by

2012-04-27 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Ramiro Cosentino ramaug...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/4/27 Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Ramiro Cosentino ramaug...@gmail.com wrote: Hello list, I'm new to OSM and I love it! Not sure if this is the right list to post

Re: [Talk-us] SOTM US in Portland, Ore - details to follow

2012-04-20 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 7:05 PM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: It's about to break. Sorry for the delay. Well hush my mouth. :-) ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-ca] nominatum search seems to add postal code info, but from where?

2012-04-19 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 12:22 PM, William Rieck bi...@thinkers.org wrote: Hello, If I do an arbitrary search for xxx, kitchener, ontario the results always include a guessed? postal code. Where is the postal code information coming from? geocoder.ca http://geocoder.ca/?sued=1

Re: [Talk-us] tiff, dwg and nad83

2012-04-18 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 4:40 PM, David Fawcett david.fawc...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Charlotte Wolter techl...@techlady.com wrote: I just separate them out, and look them up on Google or Bing, and try to move them to their correct locations. So Google is a

Re: [Talk-ca] Beginner questions

2012-04-16 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 2:26 AM, Frank Cox thea...@melvilletheatre.com wrote: Is this the right place to ask beginner questions? [ ... ] Sure! As some of you already know, I have decided to make an effort to get my town (Melville, Saskatchewan) on the map.  I have made a start, playing with

Re: [Talk-ca] Beginner questions

2012-04-16 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Frank Cox thea...@melvilletheatre.com wrote: [ ... ] It occurs to me that I may have been doing this wrong, and if so now would be the time to find out about it. The Coop grocery store, for example, is laid out as a building on a large lot, the unoccupied

[Talk-ca] Canadian imports: good or bad?

2012-04-15 Thread Richard Weait
Dear All, Let's talk about it again. How do we feel about the bulk copying of information from a permitted source into OpenStreetMap in Canada? To be clear, I'm not suggesting that we discuss whether external data sources are good or not. External data sources are good. I'm suggesting that we

Re: [Talk-us] Excellent progress, u.s.

2012-04-14 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 9:30 PM, John F. Eldredge j...@jfeldredge.com wrote: One drawback to this new-coordinate technique is that, in some cases, the tainted nodes will have been in the proper locations to match the real world. Probably not. Every source we rely upon is wrong in one way or

Re: [Talk-ca] Coastline errors

2012-04-11 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 7:49 AM, Olivier Hill olivier.h...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 7:00 AM,  talk-ca-requ...@openstreetmap.org wrote: From: Frank Steggink stegg...@steggink.org [ ... ] The triangle is probably caused by the shapefile which is used for rendering the coastline

[Talk-ca] cleanups

2012-04-09 Thread Richard Weait
The redaction process could start any minute but any data cleanups that we do beforehand will be helpful. Our friends to the south could use a little more help on the other side of the Great Lakes coastlines near Milwaukee. Small sections of coastline still need attention near Baie-Comeau, and

Re: [Talk-ca] cleanup

2012-04-09 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 10:40 AM, Andrew Allison andrew.alli...@teksavvy.com wrote: So the redaction has began. Not as far as I can tell. But it will start without notice, with the small area tests. Latest update. http://blog.osmfoundation.org/2012/04/05/license-change-update-getting-it-right/

Re: [OSM-talk] Relicensing timeline

2012-04-07 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Elena ``of Valhalla'' elena.valha...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Are there any news on a date when we can expect that any data that is going to be deleted is no longer in the database? The most-recent update is here:

[OSM-talk] server migration update / license change

2012-04-05 Thread Richard Weait
Update from Richard F Original http://blog.osmfoundation.org/2012/04/05/license-change-update-getting-it-right/ License change update: getting it right Posted on April 5, 2012 by RichardF With the new server successfully installed by our sysadmin team, we’re now onto the second part of our

Re: [OSM-talk] server migration update / license change

2012-04-05 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 2:49 PM, ThomasB toba0...@yahoo.de wrote: Thanks a lot for the Update, Richard. It is much appreciated that the information flow works. I have a question with regards to the map at osm.org. When the database is clean, it would also need a re-rendering of all tiles in

Re: [OSM-talk] server migration update / license change

2012-04-05 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: If the tiles are not regenerated then they will contain elements that are licensed as cc by-sa only. Old tiles, the tiles generated at osm.org right now, are created from a CC-By-SA data base and are CC-By-SA tiles. No

Re: [OSM-talk] server migration update / license change

2012-04-05 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 7:57 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: If you start having some tiles where the produced work is CC by-sa with the underlying data also cc by-sa and some where the produced work is cc by-sa with the underlying data ODbL, how do you do attribution for each tile

Re: [OSM-talk] Truth about media hype in Microsoft lending big support and big dollars to OSM ?

2012-04-04 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: But it's not actually costing them anything? They would be putting the images up anyway, so THEY are the only ones who gain by getting back free vectorized data? No donor to OSM gets special terms or access to the data.

Re: [Talk-us] Network tag Re: Highway Shield Rendering

2012-04-04 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: On 4/4/2012 12:14 PM, Craig Hinners wrote: Nathan Edgars IInerou...@gmail.com: It seems that many people see the network tag as not representing a network but a shield design. Does this sound accurate? No,

Re: [Talk-us] Network tag Re: Highway Shield Rendering

2012-04-04 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: And you'd specify the type of fuel using a different tag, not amenity=fuel:diesel. name= would be a separate tag, so would fuel. Don't choke on the bones. Enjoy the chicken.

[OSM-talk] Old Server planet is up

2012-04-03 Thread Richard Weait
The last Old Server planet is up now. This planet was generated after the API move to Read-Only. http://planet.openstreetmap.org/planet-120401.osm.bz2.md5 ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Old Server planet is up

2012-04-03 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Greg Troxel g...@ir.bbn.com wrote:  http://planet.openstreetmap.org/planet-120401.osm.bz2.md5 Is that going to be torrented?  I would think many people want a copy... Somebody could, I suppose. Of course, I should have linked to the file, not the md5. Oops.

[Talk-ca] automated license cleanup

2012-04-03 Thread Richard Weait
Dear All, The API Read-Only time is continuing as expected. Normal Read-Write operation should be back midday on the 4th as scheduled. Then we can get back to editing. Things of which we should be aware. The API will come back on the new DB server. This is awesome. bigger / better, etc.

Re: [Talk-us] Highway Shield Rendering

2012-04-03 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: Also curious how some of the more interesting edge cases work out, such as Missouri Secondary State Highways, Oregon/Washington/Oklahoma State Tour Routes, Oklahoma/Kansas Turnpike, or the 7 state highway networks in

Re: [Talk-us] Highway Shield Rendering

2012-04-03 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 10:54 AM, James Umbanhowar jumba...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday, April 03, 2012 08:17:16 AM Phil! Gold wrote: * Minh Nguyen m...@1ec5.org [2012-04-03 02:19 -0700]: I'd prefer to see the shields strung out along the concurrency, with no spacing between each shield.

Re: [Talk-us] Highway Shield Rendering

2012-04-03 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 12:33 AM, Phil! Gold phi...@pobox.com wrote: * Chris Lawrence lordsu...@gmail.com [2012-04-03 10:21 -0400]: I think concurrencies might look better stacked vertically in some circumstances... you'd have to have some logic about the underlying direction of the way to make

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [Talk-cz] czech republic: data wrongly marked as ODbL compatible was Re: Hromadné importy změna licence

2012-04-02 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 7:23 AM, Pavel Machek pa...@ucw.cz wrote: Hi! So lets start by saying that I don't like ODbL and I hate CT. There are three classes of data I uploaded to osm: a) Hand created data, most important paths in the woods. CT+ODbL, is okay for those. b) ODbL compatible -

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [Talk-cz] czech republic: data wrongly marked as ODbL compatible was Re: Hromadné importy změna licence

2012-04-02 Thread Richard Weait
2012/4/2 Petr Morávek [Xificurk] xific...@gmail.com: Hi, I admit that I'm pretty confused right now... Are you saying that you've changed your mind and are willing to agree to ODbL+CT, except for the changesets containing imports of incompatible data? That would be really great! If this is

Re: [Talk-ca] Re : Administrative Boundary

2012-04-02 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Bégin, Daniel daniel.be...@rncan-nrcan.gc.ca wrote: Bonjour Pierre, I agree that Nominatim searches are limited since there is almost no Canadian municipal boundaries in osm database. Here is a GeoBase product that contains Municipal boundaries for some

Re: [Talk-us] Highway Shield Rendering

2012-04-02 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: On 4/2/2012 8:25 AM, Phil! Gold wrote: Business and similar variants are expected to be in the network tag, since that's the closest thing I've seen to a consensus on the topic.  If there's no route relation or the

Re: [Talk-us] Highway Shield Rendering

2012-04-02 Thread Richard Weait
Indianapolis has some crazy multiplexes. Look here to see properly tagged 5-, 6- and 7-plexes rendered correctly and beautifully. http://elrond.aperiodic.net/shields/?zoom=12lat=39.7007lon=-86.09646layers=B0 Phil, you were absolutely right about using the cutout style shields on the US route

Re: [Talk-us] Highway Shield Rendering

2012-04-02 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Mike N nice...@att.net wrote: On 4/2/2012 8:25 AM, Phil! Gold wrote:  please let me know what you think!  Looks great - does the US OSMF have server(s) that can host this style yet? As far as I know: Does the US Local Chapter have a server? - Yes. Can it

Re: [Talk-us] Addition of building footprints in selected U.S. and Canadian cities

2012-04-02 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 11:46 AM, William Morris wboyk...@geosprocket.com wrote: So here's something to mull over while we all wait for the license upgrade: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/23616645/Geosprocket_Share/umd_subset.osm That's an extract of the UVM-SAL building footprints I'd like to

Re: [Talk-us] Addition of building footprints in selected U.S. and Canadian cities

2012-04-02 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Nathan Mills nat...@nwacg.net wrote: On 4/2/2012 12:06 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: I offer TIGER as counterevidence. It's imperfect but a great starting point for local mappers, especially those without a GPS setup. This is definitely true for those of us in

Re: [OSM-talk] It has begun

2012-04-01 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 4:17 AM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote: OSM is in read-only mode as of 8:02 UTC. Looking at the minutely replication files, this was the last changeset to upload: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/11173886 Let's all wish the hard working admins

Re: [OSM-talk] No Data overlay on OpenStreetmap.org

2012-04-01 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote: It moved to the Edit tab. Hover over the edit tab with your mouse (don't click) and a menu will pop up with the data layer option. IMO it should be moved back to the layer selection. Hovering over the edit tab is about as

Re: [Talk-us] Update on remapping

2012-04-01 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 4:42 AM, James Mast rickmastfa...@hotmail.com wrote: Well, the database has just gone read-only at about 4:08 AM EDT. [...] I was even able to get in a last minute edit to save some of US-19 in West Virginia in a section that moonwashed tainted by deleting and retracing

Re: [Talk-us] Update on remapping

2012-04-01 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 6:22 PM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote: On 4/1/12 6:11 PM, David Litke wrote: I am a newbie, wonder why the current license change downtime is affecting data. Does the new license make some existing data illegel and hence they are removing it? Or are they

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Infringements - examples, analysis and request for removal

2012-03-31 Thread Richard Weait
2012/3/31 Darko Sokolić darko.soko...@xnet.hr: Dear colleagues, I contributed to OpenStreetMap under CC-BY-SA 2.0 license. It was great pleasure, and I enjoyed it very much. I did not accept new Contributor Terms and new license. Also, I did not authorise anyone, in any way, to relicense

Re: [talk-au] [sharedmapau] Re: Plea to Australian decliners

2012-03-31 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 6:24 AM, Richard Colless fire...@ar.com.au wrote: No!  Wrong! I've never actually declined at all. I have just never accepted the new CT's. I didn't decline because I wasn't asked. From my point of view, there wasn't any communication directly with the mappers. [ ...

Re: [talk-au] [sharedmapau] Re: Plea to Australian decliners

2012-03-31 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 11:36 PM, Richard Colless fire...@ar.com.au wrote: I'm not taking out any resentment on anybody. I'm simply choosing not to participate. So don't say that I'm hurting anybody.. I'm quite happy for any of my data to remain. If someone else chooses to delete it, blame

Re: [Talk-ca] Clean up progress and last push

2012-03-31 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 6:51 AM, Harald Kliems kli...@gmail.com wrote: Another problem in Montreal are the Metro lines: Does anybody know if there is a source we can use for the disappearing lines? One might ask about the source used originally. :(

Re: [Talk-ca] Clean up progress and last push

2012-03-31 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Daniel Begin jfd...@hotmail.com wrote: Bonjour, I'm working on coastline near Sept-Îles. Hopefully it will be repaired before tonight! Merci! I've moved a bit west and am cleaning up the Lake Michigan coastline at the moment. :-)

Re: [talk-au] Plea to Australian decliners

2012-03-30 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 1:14 AM, Jack Burton j...@saosce.com.au wrote: On Fri, 2012-03-30 at 15:54 +0100, Grant Slater wrote: Australian Decliners, As a mapper, contributor and member of the project's sysadmin team I kindly ask you to please reconsider your declined status. Time is about to

[Talk-ca] TV-spot for OSM

2012-03-30 Thread Richard Weait
Let me know if you are interested in doing some outdoor OSM mapping in front of cameras for a TV thing. Ontario residents preferred. ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

[Talk-ca] Did you map Ottawa - Cornwall in the old days?

2012-03-30 Thread Richard Weait
Dear All, There are some early contributions to OSM in the Ottawa / Cornwall area from anonymous accounts. Could one of these old accounts belong to you? We've tried to contact the creators of all of these but some emails bounce and some go without response. If you've been mapping since the

[Talk-ca] Clean up progress and last push

2012-03-30 Thread Richard Weait
Okay, so, u. Wow! I've been looking around with the OSM Inspector to see how the license clean up is progressing elsewhere. You've been busy. Victoria and Nanaimo looked pretty dire a few weeks ago. They're in much better shape now. Southwestern Ontario looks great. The Niagara peninsula

Re: [Talk-us] Using TIGER to find missing road segments in OSM after license change

2012-03-29 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 5:47 AM, Josh Doe j...@joshdoe.com wrote: [ ... ] I was thinking more about using TIGER 2011 to find roads that seem to be missing in the OSM database. My PostGIS skills are nil, but it seems like it

Re: [Talk-us] Strange looking tagging used in Toledo at Lake Erie

2012-03-26 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 9:38 AM, Werner Poppele popp...@hm.edu wrote: At the coordinates http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=41.7373lon=-83.4577zoom=14 I saw a strange looking area. There are piers (I guess) tagged as highway=secondary. Is that right ? There are also a lot of tracks which look

[Talk-us] New local groups

2012-03-26 Thread Richard Weait
Who has started a new[1] local OSM group? From seeing announcements once in a while it looks like Tampa might be running, Columbus is dead, Seattle is on baby-hiatus, SLC, Boston and Albany each had one meeting and failed and Denver is the only one still running. Is that about right? How many

Re: [OSM-talk] automated abbreviation changes?!

2012-03-23 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 9:04 AM, Jean-Marc Liotier j...@liotier.org wrote: On 23/03/2012 13:47, Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr) wrote: On 3/23/2012 8:36 AM, Mikel Maron wrote: User chdr (http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/chdr) seems to be running a script to automatically replace street name

[Talk-it] bad import?

2012-03-23 Thread Richard Weait
A low quality import in Mestre was reported on #osm it appears to have artificial breaks in objects and appears to have overlaid existing data. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=45.499105lon=12.249021zoom=18layers=M http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/bellazambo/edits

[OSM-talk] Esri donation to OpenStreetMap Foundation

2012-03-19 Thread Richard Weait
http://blog.osmfoundation.org/2012/03/19/esri-donation/ http://www.esri.com/news/releases/12-1qtr/esri-donation-supports-collaboration-with-openstreetmap-community.html Thanks Esri! ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-us] suburban superblocks that nobody wants to survey

2012-03-15 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 7:52 AM, Hillsman, Edward hills...@cutr.usf.edu wrote: In the interest of figuring out how to attract more people to participate in OSM, I'd like to see some more discussion of this. Is it

Re: [OSM-talk] Survey about Incentives to contribute to OSM

2012-03-14 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Dominik Wilmsen wilms...@gmail.com wrote: We would like to invite you to participate in a survey on motivations and obstacles to contribute geographic information to OpenStreetMap. OpenStreetMap is a collaborative project to create a free editable map of the

Re: [Talk-us] [Tagging] Route Relations and Special (Bannered) Routes

2012-03-13 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Phil! Gold phi...@pobox.com wrote: I'd like to solicit some thoughts on the tagging for special routes (commonly known as bannered routes)[0].  In route relations, it's customary to separate the network and the reference number.  How do or should special

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