[OSM-talk] Potlatch and Gnash (was: JOSM will move to Java6)

2010-03-12 Thread Stefan Monnier
And use the gnash runtime. I think it is a good idea to generate gnash-compatible Flash apps, for example to support whatever embedded system/ smartphone with a powerful OS. Agreed. I use gnash on all my machines nowadays, and while I can't say that it works for everything, it does work well

Re: [Talk-ca] PR stuff Ottawa Opendata Sat 24th April

2010-03-12 Thread Stefan Monnier
http://opendataottawa.ca/  It's at City Hall and it looks like the press will be present. It's local so I could pop down.  However having just me without a laptop, or banner probably wouldn't do much good.  Any suggestions?  and no I don't have access to a colour printer to print a banner

Re: [OSM-talk] Why the BSD vs GPL debate is irrelevant to OSM

2009-12-10 Thread Stefan Monnier
If you look at the software stack on a modern computer, you see the kernel, above it libraries and then the application programs. The most popular free kernel is the Linux kernel which is under the GPL, but libraries and applications used on top of a Linux kernel don't fall under the GPL

Re: [OSM-talk] remote editing with handheld

2009-11-10 Thread Stefan Monnier
Of course, you could get one of these: http://www.ikegps.com/prodLine1000.aspx Why bother: it doesn't even have a microphone to record notes. Stefan ;-) ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Will Google ever use OSM data?

2009-11-09 Thread Stefan Monnier
That's what I believe what Google their ilk will not be prepared to sort out. I'd highly doubt it. Google engineers are very good at taking poorly structured data and automatically extracting useful info out of it. Care to give examples context? I see no evidence of it in GM at the

Re: [Talk-ca] Can-Amera border, states and provinces.

2009-08-18 Thread Stefan Monnier
I think the provincial / state borders will continue to be yucky on the main map until mapnik supports rendering different style sheets per region / country. We, in North America, get to see what is A better approach would be for mapnik to look at the area covered and try to adjust the level

Re: [OSM-talk] Is anyone making public transport routing maps basedon OpenStreetMap data?

2008-12-17 Thread Stefan Monnier
Not that I'm planning to screenscrape the PDF timetable or anything. Though I imagine that, if I were, I'd use CAM::PDF to read the file, write my own PDF renderer, then parse the columns and put the result in a MySQL database. Purely hypothetically. Would you happen to have a hypothetically

Re: [OSM-talk] Collecting public transportation time tables

2008-12-17 Thread Stefan Monnier
I don't see why this needs to be a separate project. We already have Key:opening_hours for amenities, why not Tag:highway:bus_stop with additional tags that describe when each bus line stops there and a relation to map the greater bus route. That should be sufficient information to map the

Re: [OSM-talk] vandalism on OSM

2008-10-14 Thread Stefan Monnier
Subtle vandalism will always be the hardest to spot. If it is imagined that it might become a problem, then perhaps uploading a change to anything which already existed could notify the last 1 or 2 people that amended that feature, as they are the most likely to know what is correct or be in

Re: [OSM-talk] map display www.openstreetmap.org (Roman Neumüller)

2008-10-14 Thread Stefan Monnier
...and maybe a small crosshair just in the middle of the map-window to indicate the exact lat/long... ;-) For me: right click at a spot in the map should pop up some info about that location (e.g. tags and values, lat/long, cafés nearby, copy location as a GPS coord, copy it as a URL, you name

Re: [OSM-talk] Pedestrians on cycleways

2008-10-14 Thread Stefan Monnier
Tagging a road as something implies certain rules, surely, and only when those rules are different from the standard (for that country) should you need to say so. Same as the oneway=no discussion that went on previously. All those discussions about cycleways, motorway_link, maxspeed,

[OSM-talk] mapnik rendering or tagging issue?

2008-10-06 Thread Stefan Monnier
If you look at http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=45.52lon=-73.59zoom=8layers=B000FTFT you should see an urban island labelled Laval and Longueil. If you zoom out, only Laval is left, while if you zoom in you'll discover that this is really the island of Montreal. Is this a problem in mapnik or is it

Re: [OSM-talk] Garmin USB on Windows

2008-09-29 Thread Stefan Monnier
They use a Windows PC and, unfortunately, it's an employer's managed laptop so they can't install stuff on it - like the Garmin drivers. Why not boot a GNU/Linux live distribution (e.g. from a USB key)? Stefan ___ talk mailing list