OSM in the news:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/microsofts-purchase-of-aol-patents-may-be-about-a-google-map-war/73489?tag=nl.e539
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Noam,
I am curious to know why you don't simply give OSM attribution and
carry on using the maps?
PY
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 4:04 AM, Julio Costa Zambelli
julio.co...@openstreetmap.cl wrote:
Noam,
Thank you for taking this as seriously as it needs, and solving the
whole issue this fast.
How about we buy one of these as a Christmas present?
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/07/8000_diy_satellite_kit.html
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/23/wave-threat-himalayan-lake-pakistan
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=36.3166809082031lon=74.7999000549316zoom=12
Is there anything we could do now - just in case?
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it looks like clipart for a golf course.
Is there an OSM identity design brief or a decision making process for
designers to look at?
PY
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Gregory nomoregra...@googlemail.com wrote:
On 13 May 2010 16:46, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote:
this could be a good
Just stumbled upon this:
http://www.dailyroads.com/voyager.php
DailyRoads Voyager is a free application for Android-powered mobile
phones, allowing for continuous video recording from vehicles.
Essentially, the application acts as a video black box, recording
everything, but only keeping what
I've started a list of Disaster-specific tags:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Disaster-specific_tags
My experience of natural disasters is quite limited - please add/remove/improve
PY
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 1:04 AM, Mikel Maron mikel_ma...@yahoo.com wrote:
The Haiti wiki page was getting
Saying This would be a disaster is a bit hyperbolic. Sure, people
who hate OSMapping and just want to use bulk imports will be very,
very disappointed, and possibly even a bit upset that they actually
have to go out into the real world and make maps. ;-)
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 8:54 AM, John
James,
I am sure there are other examples of things that can't be easily
mapped by humans walking, cycling and kayaking around (drains,
underground tunnels and long lines of electricity pylons spring to
mind). Luckily street maps don't usually depend on these things to be
useful.
PY
On Fri,
AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/12/11 Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net:
so we don't need imported data?
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Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Why PD is not better for business
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009
From: paul youlten paul.youl...@gmail.com
at 12:55 PM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 9:39 PM, paul youlten paul.youl...@gmail.com wrote:
James,
I am sure there are other examples of things that can't be easily
mapped by humans walking, cycling and kayaking around (drains,
underground tunnels and long
that
threatens the future of the project if these things are removed
because of a change in the licence.
PY
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote:
paul youlten wrote:
But it is still a street map that we are making - administrative
boundaries, top secret government
Peter,
That sounds bad. Can you give us some examples?
PY
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Peter Childs pchi...@bcs.org wrote:
2009/12/11 paul youlten paul.youl...@gmail.com:
Dave,
Clearly all those things, and much more, can and should be mapped.
They can all be seen on the street
:25 PM, Peter Childs pchi...@bcs.org wrote:
2009/12/11 paul youlten paul.youl...@gmail.com:
Peter,
That sounds bad. Can you give us some examples?
PY
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Peter Childs pchi...@bcs.org wrote:
2009/12/11 paul youlten paul.youl...@gmail.com:
Dave,
Clearly all
Where does this Business Bad:OSM good binary come from? (I suspect
the Germans ;-))
I don't understand how a business using OSM data for free and without
thinking of the children (AKA giving back to the community) is
bad for the project - every time we get ripped off we get a bigger
audience,
Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote:
Hi,
paul youlten wrote:
I don't understand how a business using OSM data for free and without
thinking of the children (AKA giving back to the community) is
bad for the project - every time we get ripped off we get a bigger
audience, the more people that use
Just stumbled on this page:
http://nsf.free.fr/index.htm
which uses the new lightweight gRaphael Javascript graphing library
(http://g.raphaeljs.com) to render 5.5Mb of polygon data into a SVG
map of France in less than a second (at least on FF3.0, Ubuntu 9.04).
Alpo Hassinen's site also links to http://www.smartplanes.se/
http://www.smartplanes.se/applications_e.html (in English)
It isn't exactly clear how they make their mosaics - the white paper says
The image data of a flight mission can be further processed using the
PAMS Internet service to derive
If you are in the UK it might be a good idea to contact these people
for help/advice:
http://ukhas.org.uk/
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Just noticed this on the front page of Wikipedia:
Did you know...
...that in 2009 two MIT students made a vehicle to take pictures of
the Earth from 93,000 feet (28,000 m) for US$148?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Icarus
PaulY
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Joe Richards
(rather than 30,000m)
you wouldn't need to worry so much about low temperatures freezing the
batteries.
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:00 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/9/23 paul youlten paul.youl...@gmail.com:
Just noticed this on the front page of Wikipedia:
Did you know
...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/9/23 paul youlten paul.youl...@gmail.com:
... because you'd only sending it up to 3,500m (rather than 30,000m)
you wouldn't need to worry so much about low temperatures freezing the
batteries.
At that altitude you wouldn't have to worry about the balloon bursting
The other question to be asked is the time, effort and money put into
this be less than archived sat imagery which is about $14 per sq km.
Yeah...but it would be fun to try!
... and while $14/sq Km doesn't sound a lot it would still cost $5376
(£4900) just to get images of (for example) the Isle
This looks interesting:
http://www.slideshare.net/jpmund/aerial-photo-ballon-technique-mapasia2006
Does anyone know Jan-Peter Mund?
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I've sent Dr Mund and Mr Tean Peang Seng an email inviting them to
join the discussion.
:-)
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer
dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/9/23 paul youlten paul.youl...@gmail.com:
This looks interesting:
+1
http://www.slideshare.net/jpmund/aerial
If you want to take your own aerial photographs you might want to buy
this radio control model aircraft:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:ITitem=280319160407
... then you just need to fit it out with GPS navigation, and a medium
format film camera for high
Penn State Public Broadcasting is developing the Geospatial
Revolution Project, an integrated public service media and outreach
initiative on the brave new world of digital mapping.
The project will include a 60-minute public television broadcast
program, a structured outreach initiative
with
Does anyone know if there is there a web service that lets me take the
latitude and longitude of a node and establish which country,
state/county/province, city and Zip/post code the node is in?
PaulY
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I am not doing anything that needs great accuracy - there are a few
hundred pages on Yellowikis have geo tags in this format:
geo40 16 05 N 106 53 41 W/geo
I want to use a bot to go through the wiki and use these geo tags to
make geo categories:
like this: [[Category:USState:CO]]
geonames.org
Is there any reason that we can't use Flickr to host photographs? they
seem to be fans of OSM:
http://blog.flickr.net/en/2008/08/12/around-the-world-and-back-again/
PaulY
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 7:15 PM, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote:
Peter Miller wrote:
Finally, lets not be frightened
, 2009 at 7:52 AM, Marcus Wolschon mar...@wolschon.biz wrote:
On 3/13/09, paul youlten p...@yellowikis.org wrote:
Sarah,
you could use (or adapt) the Karlsruhe Schema:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Karlsruhe_Schema
As I understand it you make a node _next_ to the way that is the
street
:41 PM, Marcus Wolschon mar...@wolschon.biz wrote:
On 3/14/09, paul youlten paul.youl...@gmail.com wrote:
As I understand the Karlsruhe schema you are allowed to tag
addr:housenumbers with non-numeric characters (e.g: 120b) so there
is no reason you couldn't tag a node 1 to 500 or 1–500.
I
I would have thought that 1 to 500 would be easier to parse into
machine readable digits than 120b
or does 120b == 120.2?
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Marcus Wolschon mar...@wolschon.biz wrote:
On 3/14/09, paul youlten paul.youl...@gmail.com wrote:
MW: ...your tagging will not be put
All your ducts are belong to us.
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 10:27 AM, OJ W ojwli...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 8:23 AM, Mike Collinson m...@ayeltd.biz wrote:
Q U O T E D
I'm not against the technology; it's fantastic. But we're in an evolving
world and we have to change
Ed Loach = evil genius
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Ed Loach e...@loach.me.uk wrote:
Is it me, or is blurring out the bits you don’t want to be targets just
going to highlight where they are?
Ed
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but:
lat = lat + 0.001 * random(1000)
might encourage the use of cluster bombs, carpet bombing and other
weapons of mass destruction.
Better to give the exact co-ordinates of the air duct - so as to
reduce collateral damage.
:-)
PY
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Sarah,
you could use (or adapt) the Karlsruhe Schema:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Karlsruhe_Schema
As I understand it you make a node _next_ to the way that is the
street to show which side of the street it is and tag it with:
addr:housenumber = 1939
or if there are multiple apartments
... never-the-less we should start tagging lamp-posts so we can easily
find somewhere to hang those filthy cloudmade running dogs.
;-)
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:44 AM, 80n 80n...@gmail.com wrote:
Mark Boslet, the Editor of Techpulse360 has modified the article to correct
any misimpression.
I was thinking that the conservation tag sounds like something that
might be added to Sites of Special Scientific Interest in the UK (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Site_of_special_scientific_interest ).
These are managed by Natural England...
... and according to the somewhat clunky map at
http://spatialnews.geocomm.com/dailynews/2008/nov/17/news4.html
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FYI from Slashdot:
Two mobile applications, NMobile and Trapster, are providing drivers
with up-to-date maps of speed-enforcement zones with live police
traps, speed cameras or red-light cameras. Each application pulls up a
map pinpointing the locations of speed traps within driving distance
and
Spanish version of OSM:
http://www.osm.es/
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Steve Chilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Searching for something else I came across this:
OSM is a multifunctional cytokine produced by activated T lymphocytes
and monocytes and shares properties with all the members
I´d like the OSM equivalent the watchlist function in MediaWiki.
Ideally I would be able to get an email alerting me when changes are
made to areas I am interested in.
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 11:35 PM, Matt Amos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 8:24 PM, Freek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The difference between pubs and restaurants is a getting a bit
blurred. But not so much between pubs and cafes.
In the UK pubs have to be licenced with the local council and usually
have restricted opening hours (i.e: they are not normally allowed to
sell alcohol before 11am). They also have to
] wrote:
Hi,
paul youlten wrote:
The difference between pubs and restaurants is a getting a bit
blurred. But not so much between pubs and cafes.
[interesting details]
If a cafe or
restaurant wants to sell alcohol they have to apply for a licence just
like a pub or a restaurant
Dermot said:
This situation used to be very common in Birmingham on the Balti
Mile. There, Indian restaurants offering affordable (and tasty) food
traditionally did not have licences.
I always assumed that this was because most Balti Houses/Indian
Restaurants are run by Bangladeshi Muslims
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Joseph Scanlan wrote:
On Sat, 13 Sep 2008, paul youlten wrote:
Would it be correct to tag a black hole Physical:
Highway_Parallel_Universe_link?
Don't forget to tag it oneway=yes.
You need to check the project ;)
The whole point
Would it be correct to tag a black hole Physical:
Highway_Parallel_Universe_link?
http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html
On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 2:43 AM, OJ W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Done, see http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/ for the map.
b.t.w. we were wondering about the spelling of
Yellowikis likes this kind of information.
http://yellowikis.wikia.org
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 7:06 AM, Stefan Neufeind
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Florian Lohoff wrote:
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 03:54:56PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am definitively against phone numbers in OSM. On
I was just reading my son's copy of Custom PC (August 08) and it has a
review of something called the OCZ Neural Impulse Actuator.
http://www.ocztechnology.com/products/ocz_peripherals/nia-neural_impulse_actuator
It might be interesting to test it out for hands-free tagging of
features while on
I suspect that a large part of the problem is in the delay between making an
edit and being able to see it rendered on the map.
Maybe if Katie had been able to see the effects of her edits on the map
immediately she would have stopped and reverted them herself.
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 12:37 AM,
Mapping Africa has is likely to be the most challenging - and at the same
time the most valuable - project that OSM contributes to.
Tony Bowden (User:Tmtm) and I are trying to get a pilot project going in
Uganda to help the Guardian's Katine project (
http://www.guardian.co.uk/katine) which is
Maybe I am being slow but I just spotted this on Google maps:
* Add a place to the map (new)
You can see it at the bottom of the links on the left hand side.
then:
* Provide location and details using the info window on the map.
* Once you save your place, the whole world can find your
...or as Ken Livingstone said: If voting changed anything they'd abolish it.
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 4:57 AM, SteveC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 7 Apr 2008, at 12:24, Robin Paulson wrote:
2008/4/7 Frederik Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
stumbled across a quote by David D Clark (of Internet
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Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Political problems (Re: China cracks down
onillegal online map services to protect state security)
To: Tom Chance [EMAIL PROTECTED]
While edit wars might
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