Re: [OSM-talk] Parking symbols: YUCK!

2008-02-23 Thread Tom Hughes
t; automatically. I believe it is fundamentally wrong to add nodes which duplicate areas, although I know it is quite common. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Raw GPS layer

2008-02-22 Thread Tom Hughes
still be associated with their original owners and they can be restored to public status if that is what the owner wants. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] josm 'move sensitivity'

2008-02-22 Thread Tom Hughes
ightly too far away and hence moved the way instead. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Never run out of batteries again!

2008-02-21 Thread Tom Hughes
wheel. Can't feel the resistance and it won't clog up by snow. > See for example > <http://webhotel.uni2.dk/dcf/cyklist/cyk20005/20005-07.htm> (in Danish). Usually called a "hub dynamo" in english I think. Obviously much harder to retrofit than a

Re: [OSM-talk] Way doesn't appear

2008-02-21 Thread Tom Hughes
esults on www.informationfreeway.org. You'll see them on openstreetmap.org if you use the [EMAIL PROTECTED] layer. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] "Potlatch really hacks me off because..."

2008-02-20 Thread Tom Hughes
ow the possibilities somewhere when one is activating some > command? Like in the edit way mode: > - Press [Enter] to cancel > - Click somewhere on the map to extend the way Enter doesn't cancel. Escape does. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/ _

Re: [OSM-talk] download.geofabrik.de planet extracts out of sync

2008-02-19 Thread Tom Hughes
gt; I have a fallback for cases like that.) I don't think it would have helped much as they were also broken ;-) Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] User umehlig and some really nasty edits

2008-02-18 Thread Tom Hughes
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Lukasz Stelmach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tom Hughes wrote: > > > Indeed. I think the problem is that he is reading a page that > > documents the HTTP API and expecting it to tell him the format > > of a JOSM cha

Re: [OSM-talk] displayed width of roads

2008-02-18 Thread Tom Hughes
ordering of the roads on the ground. If something isn't rendering right the solution is to fix the rendering not to deliberately misdescribe the data to try and make the rendering look prettier. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/ _

Re: [OSM-talk] administrative boundaries that run along roads - in the Mapnik layer

2008-02-12 Thread Tom Hughes
f AND =true, =yes and > =1 in order to filter for instance on bridges, tunnels etc. Converting those flag keys to boolean columns in the postgres database would be the obvious answer, but I don't know if mapnik supports boolean columns? Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROT

Re: [OSM-talk] Japanese place names not rendered in Mapnik

2008-02-11 Thread Tom Hughes
ap.org/?lat=35.711&lon=139.869&zoom=11&layers=B0FT > > Anyone know what to do about this? Yes - Talk to Artem about adding support to mapnik for fallback fonts, or find us a font we can use instead of DejaVu which is known to support every possible glyph for every charact

Re: [OSM-talk] User umehlig and some really nasty edits

2008-02-11 Thread Tom Hughes
ipulation > > To create you use PUT and it returns an ID. Indeed. I think the problem is that he is reading a page that documents the HTTP API and expecting it to tell him the format of a JOSM change file. I don't know if there is a page anywhere that documents the fo

Re: [OSM-talk] User umehlig and some really nasty edits

2008-02-07 Thread Tom Hughes
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Brett Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Would a version number be a cleaner solution? I'm always uneasy about > using dates for this purpose. If our objects all had version numbers then maybe. They don't (yet). Tom --

Re: [OSM-talk] Keyboard navigation defunct

2008-02-06 Thread Tom Hughes
search box, the diary entry page has the diary entry (and that was a major problem) and the user settings page has fields for all the user settings. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.or

Re: [OSM-talk] Keyboard navigation defunct

2008-02-06 Thread Tom Hughes
. > ATM I'm running Firefox on MacOS X. It was turned off because it causes too many problems as it doesn't only capture keypresses aimed at the map. See: http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/659 Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/ __

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Yahoo satellite imagery in Merkaartor

2008-02-06 Thread Tom Hughes
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tom Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > bvh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> As some may know : merkaartor is an offline editor for OSM, similar >> in purpose and intent as

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Progressing OSM to a new data Licence regime

2008-02-05 Thread Tom Hughes
t with them before they give it to you, and that contract will almost certainly restrict your rights beyond the default restrictions that they get from database right. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ legal-talk mailing lis

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Progressing OSM to a new data Licence regime

2008-02-04 Thread Tom Hughes
the default position is that anybody can do what they want. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ legal-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Closed Ways all Opened in Luxembourg

2008-02-03 Thread Tom Hughes
> Go into Potlatch, and the roundabout, the parking lot, the graveyard are > all not closed anymore (they obviously were before, as Mapnik render shows). Good grief - it was only broken for about 10 minutes... Try it again now. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/ ___

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-talk-nl] Recent Edits

2008-02-03 Thread Tom Hughes
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tom Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > "Robert (Jamie) Munro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What does the separate object type gain us exactly, apart from m

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-talk-nl] Recent Edits

2008-02-03 Thread Tom Hughes
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Robert (Jamie) Munro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tom Hughes wrote: > > | No, the plan is to have a separate note object and then to make the > | map api call return those objects so the editors can display them. >

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-talk-nl] Recent Edits

2008-02-02 Thread Tom Hughes
ext of the note] No, the plan is to have a separate note object and then to make the map api call return those objects so the editors can display them. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] "Crudely-drawn pint glasses"

2008-01-30 Thread Tom Hughes
g your > search term, and the word "permalink"). Remember that the primary focus of this project, as I understand it at any rate, is to produce data for other people to use. Making our own maps from our data is more of a convenience for us and a way to promote the project than our prim

Re: [OSM-talk] "Crudely-drawn pint glasses"

2008-01-30 Thread Tom Hughes
ot;) to install _any_ > rendering software seems sub-optimal. So it is reasonable or optimal for us to maintain an infinite number of custom maps for third parties that want custom maps but don't want the hassle of rendering them? Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://w

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-talk-nl] Recent Edits

2008-01-28 Thread Tom Hughes
sn't really the target for this. The target is things like reports of misspellings or missing data in otherwise well surveyed areas. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-talk-nl] Recent Edits

2008-01-28 Thread Tom Hughes
enstreetmap.org/index.php/OpenLayers_Dynamic_POI Displaying the tickets in OL in a relatively low priority thing though so I wouldn't worry too much (though I think I could do it anyway). I think the data model is the thing that really needs fixing down properly - the r

Re: [OSM-talk] Recent Edits

2008-01-28 Thread Tom Hughes
database as > specially tagged nodes. Of course, we would need some kind of > notifying system to alert the actual OSM contributors of new flags. Not as nodes no. The plan is to have a separate table for such things. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/

Re: [OSM-talk] www based IRC

2008-01-18 Thread Tom Hughes
rver then certainly. If they're not then it might be possible, but I'll have to look into it. Send me the details anyway. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.o

Re: [OSM-talk] Server down?

2008-01-18 Thread Tom Hughes
morning. Not sure if this is a standard Ubuntu feature or a choice somebody made... (b) The genius that wrote the Debian/Ubuntu mysql startup scripts and made them do a check of all the tables every time it starts so that it locks up tables for long periods while it scans them.

Re: [OSM-talk] CLC2000

2008-01-17 Thread Tom Hughes
ed on the fly to display over the slippy map as you move it? What do you propose to do when zoomed out to show the whole world and there are three hundred attribution strings to display by the way? It might be quite hard to see the map with them all displa

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Logo

2008-01-17 Thread Tom Hughes
#x27;t they - you'll be suggesting next ;-) Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Deleted Place names in the Philippines

2008-01-17 Thread Tom Hughes
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ian Haylock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tom Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > All edits are logged against the user id of the uploader anyway, so > > that doesn't gain you anything > > Is this true wi

Re: [OSM-talk] Deleted Place names in the Philippines

2008-01-16 Thread Tom Hughes
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ian Haylock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And what has / is being done about it ? We're waiting for somebody to write code to group edits into changesets and allow them to be rolled back. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) h

Re: [OSM-talk] Deleted Place names in the Philippines

2008-01-16 Thread Tom Hughes
base using ip address and time > frame. All edits are logged against the user id of the uploader anyway, so that doesn't gain you anything (wikipedia does it because it allows anonymous edits). Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/ ___

Re: [OSM-talk] Deleted Place names in the Philippines

2008-01-16 Thread Tom Hughes
case you want to look at Martijn's advice - he was basing it on using a planet dump, but if you have an osm file then you should be able to use that instead. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Osmosis UTF-8 problem (again)

2008-01-11 Thread Tom Hughes
Have a nice day, > > Any idea what the user name should be? I find it hard to believe that > user="jos逴巜¯(R)󙀀" (from the API) is correct. The name doesn't make any more sense in a mysql command line, so I don't think it's an o

Re: [OSM-talk] The OSM licence: where we are, where we're going

2008-01-09 Thread Tom Hughes
he copyleft fans were a tiny minority. The audio the debate is here: http://www.archive.org/details/Sotm07PanelDebate-LicensingOsmData Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org htt

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] The OSM licence: where we are, where we're going

2008-01-09 Thread Tom Hughes
on in the other direction from the person using the data to the person providing the data? Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ legal-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-talk] LZMA planets

2008-01-01 Thread Tom Hughes
far as I can tell). That and the the fact that it took forever to generate. The bzip one is bad enough, 7zip was worse. For a full planet the time is measured in hours, not minutes. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Wiki down

2007-12-27 Thread Tom Hughes
On 27/12/2007, David Groom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > has anyone else noticed problems accessing the wiki in the last 30 minutes > or so? Something (not sure what) was causing Apache not to return anything. I've restarted it now and it seems to be working again. Tom -- T

Re: [OSM-talk] openstreetmap.org and API down

2007-12-21 Thread Tom Hughes
for reasons that are not at all clear - it looks from the logs like a clean shutdown rather than a crash but there was nobody logged in at the time. The database was restarted at 0910 GMT and everything looks like it is running OK again now. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) h

Re: [OSM-talk] Quadtile DB function on Windows (Vista)

2007-12-20 Thread Tom Hughes
know - you don't really need a functioning one anyway as it's only used to upgrade existing data. In fact I thought I fixed the migration scripts to work without it now so long as you don't have any data in the relevant tables? Tom -- Tom Hu

Re: [OSM-talk] Map search accuracy

2007-12-20 Thread Tom Hughes
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tom Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Tom Chance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I've noticed that searching for small features exposes a slight >> inaccurac

Re: [OSM-talk] Map search accuracy

2007-12-20 Thread Tom Hughes
ith OpenLayers or with our lat/lon to mercator projection code or the tiles are not projected right. If the coordinates are wrong then it is probably an issue with the Namefinder - I'm not sure how it decides what coords to return for a polygon like that. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROT

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