Re: [OSM-talk] Freemap is dead, long live OpenFootMap (and a hosting question)

2008-12-21 Thread spaetz
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 05:45:00PM -0500, Matthias Julius wrote: Maybe we could consider to integrate other map layers into t...@h. All the render job handling could be done by the t...@h server and either the clients upload each tileset to a server as specified in the config or tah hands the

Re: [OSM-talk] Openstreetmap iPhone app

2008-11-11 Thread spaetz
, it is basically a slippy map that will cache all the downloaded tiles. It should be easy to add a downloader for a certain region for predownloading. But it has the same functionality/usability as a stock slippy map. spaetz ___ talk mailing list talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Understanding the new license - room for negotiation?

2008-11-01 Thread spaetz
you want (even most restrictive proprietary ones). This is why MySQL can release a GPL version and still sell you a proprietary licensed MySQL data base. You just need to do it based on your own data and can't use OSM data to fill your gaps. IANAL spaetz

Re: [OSM-talk] Update OSM with complete road data

2008-10-29 Thread spaetz
ETH sponsored [EMAIL PROTECTED] server and as I have repeatedly stated won't be able to do it for new reliably. spaetz ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] mapnik and openlayers?

2008-10-23 Thread spaetz
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 12:21:30PM -0500, Lukasz Szybalski wrote: I still can't find an example of openstreet layers that uses google style URL mapping (aka mapnik style)? Why don't you just go to informationfreeway.org and have a look at the source of that one page. it contains all you need.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Contact Info For Tom Hughes Regarding Public Domain Mailing List

2008-10-22 Thread spaetz
, wasn't it? With a few very outspoken proponents on both sides. spaetz ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-legal-talk] Contact Info For Tom Hughes Regarding Public Domain Mailing List

2008-10-22 Thread spaetz
, wasn't it? With a few very outspoken proponents on both sides. spaetz ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Contact Info For Tom Hughes Regarding Public Domain Mailing List

2008-10-22 Thread spaetz
stuff buy from a competitor. Heck, little eee PCs are more flexible and in the same price range as some of those devices. spaetz ___ legal-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-talk] map display www.openstreetmap.org

2008-10-14 Thread spaetz
. spaetz ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Pedestrians on cycleways

2008-10-14 Thread spaetz
=path is made for that For cycleways that allow pedestrians? Sounds quite restricted ;-) spaetz ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Pedestrians on cycleways

2008-10-14 Thread spaetz
to the reallity : open to all non-motorized vehicles And all highway=path will work with wheelchairs and skate boards? Phantastic, I look forward to seeing those skateboarders on the muddy paths I have seen already :-) spaetz ___ talk mailing list talk

Re: [OSM-talk] vandalism on OSM

2008-10-11 Thread spaetz
votes are considered as valid. Like in musicbrainz.org (a project I like a lot) where people enter loads of information, but it never gets voted on because it's a boring an ddumb task? :-) spaetz ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [OSM-talk] map display www.openstreetmap.org

2008-10-11 Thread spaetz
/Browse/slippy/) rather than using osm.org because I want just a map. People can add their own stuff with a line of code and create openlatlonmap.org without problems already now. spaetz ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [OSM-talk] Map Features, maxspeed and maplint

2008-10-11 Thread spaetz
and make both feel comfortable, why shouldn't we? spaetz ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Open Database Licence

2008-09-16 Thread spaetz
for the license switch... :-), but stalled it seems from here spaetz ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] YOURS now supports route using only cycleroutes - Update

2008-09-12 Thread spaetz
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 04:27:21PM +0200, Lambertus wrote: Gert, I see a message containing: 'just', 'should', 'would', 'just' and ending with 'then'... that made me chuckle ;) And you made me chuckle with that reply :-). spaetz ___ talk mailing

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - waterways/ditch

2008-09-02 Thread spaetz
On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 10:08:11AM +0100, Dave Stubbs wrote: I think we had this discussion before and came to the conclusion that: - 50mph was essentially mapping a sign, because the speed limit is a speed, not a unit ... And as some applications might want to show the precise sign value,

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - waterways/ditch

2008-09-01 Thread spaetz
On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 05:07:32PM +, Chris Hill wrote: I think that a ditch is something I could just about jump over (maybe in my younger days anyway), whereas a drain is wider and possibly navigable. Then use width=10inch or whatever :-O ___

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - waterways/ditch

2008-09-01 Thread spaetz
On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 07:25:12PM +0100, Tristan Scott wrote: surely width=0.254 given width is defined as being in metres? says who? I use meter as I live in continental Europe. But if I lived in the UK I would surely tag speelimits as maxspeed:mph=50 (or maxspeed=50mph) and not as some weird

Re: [OSM-talk] Left and Right - a proposal

2008-08-30 Thread spaetz
precise) to make it point into the wrong direction. spaetz ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] How do you respond to talk posts so that that they fit correctly into the thread structure in talk archive?

2008-08-29 Thread spaetz
(although they cannot know which mail in thread subject it is a reply to). This seems to not work in your mail client, but it might be that it works in other clients. To cut a long story short, it's quite difficult from a digest to reconstruct the threading structure. spaetz

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Mass import of TeleAtlas data

2008-08-21 Thread spaetz
that Albertas brought up in his mail, do look convincing and fishy to me. WHile talking to him in private would certainly not do any harm, I find it very reassuring if the case were followed up and examined. spaetz ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk

[OSM-talk] anagrams are fun

2008-08-21 Thread spaetz
my favorite Openstreetmap anagrams Penetrates Mop Teen sot mapper Notepapers Met ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Osmxapi down

2008-07-30 Thread spaetz
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 07:20:29PM +0200, Aurelien Jacobs wrote: Hi, It seems osmxapi is down: Running again, as documented in the wiki ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Actually using OpenStreetMap - how to get vector data

2008-07-29 Thread spaetz
it on. If people donate a server (requirements weren't that bad), there could be more OSMXAPI instances running. spaetz ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Actually using OpenStreetMap and the usability of the current maps

2008-07-28 Thread spaetz
. [skipped lots of good stuff] spaetz ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

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

2008-07-21 Thread spaetz
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 10:20:05PM -0500, qChristopher Schmidt wrote: Sorry for the previous mail, it was me, not being capable to use mutt properly. spaetz ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetBugs

2008-07-02 Thread spaetz
be notified of changes in your areas, I believe. using something like Yahoo Pipes, you could manipulate the RSS feeds to filter out exactly the ones you want. spaetz ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman

Re: [OSM-talk] Use of landuse-tag

2008-06-28 Thread spaetz
On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 02:25:43AM +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote: A question that is regularly and at length discussed on talk-de, I bet it is :-) ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] SOTM2008 Conference - The Almost Official Limerick limerick

2008-06-26 Thread spaetz
in pain, OSM is sometimes missing a lane. But 'dragons be here' is nothing to fear, they will soon all be slain. Thanks for starting this :-). Hug your mother next time you see her. spaetz ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [OSM-talk] Front page

2008-06-13 Thread spaetz
Would it be worth moving the introduction, links, wiki, shop, conference advert, and donation buttons from the front page to an about tab in the view/edit/export.. tab strip? The left-hand edge of the main page seems to be getting quite long, so the search box isn't visible without

Re: [OSM-talk] Rendering of tracktype

2008-06-12 Thread spaetz
be a boon. No doubt that it's handy to know how approriate a way is. However, it is still not universally accepted that the subjective tracktype is the way to go. Your rendering could equally be done with a surface=gravel, paved, cobblestone,... tag, which is less ambigious. spaetz

Re: [OSM-talk] Rendering of tracktype

2008-06-12 Thread spaetz
having a discussion and a vote first... I use highway=track for paved roads sometime. In Switzerland these agricultural roads are sometimes of very high quality. So shouldn't he adapt the description to something that is actually used? spaetz ___ talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Rendering of tracktype

2008-06-12 Thread spaetz
that changing map_features should be done carefully. But in this case it seems absurd to bnot change it. spaetz ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] [Tilesathome] Which layers for captionless?

2008-06-07 Thread spaetz
tile layer should necessarily go away. At least I need a merged layer where (standard) names and map are on one png file, as e.g. my N800 isn't capable of overlaying several layers in maemo mapper. But, this could also be done with a on the fly merge service. spaetz

Re: [OSM-talk] openstreetmap

2008-06-07 Thread spaetz
On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 08:40:57PM -, hy wrote: To make a long story short: How do I get all these into the map? Is there a forum to discuss things? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Beginners%27_Guide has all the links you need. (e.g. to

Re: [OSM-talk] Nested areas

2008-06-06 Thread spaetz
On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 08:14:02PM +0100, Jon Burgess wrote: On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 19:49 +0200, spaetz wrote: Why should it work differently? If I want a tunnel under a forest, a layer=-1 *should* draw the tunnel under the forest. Why do you think it's doing something wrongly

Re: [OSM-talk] Keyboard navigation defunct on informationfreeway

2008-06-06 Thread spaetz
between z4 an z11. Alternatively, should we try to get the captions merged onto the default tiles for these zoom levels? spaetz ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Keyboard navigation defunct on informationfreeway

2008-06-06 Thread spaetz
north: http://www.informationfreeway.org/?lat=51.93098706326705lon=1.099880441062user=80nzoom=6layers=B000F000T OK, didn't know this. Thanks. spaetz ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo

Re: [OSM-talk] Keyboard navigation defunct on informationfreeway

2008-06-06 Thread spaetz
On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 12:34:48PM +0100, 80n wrote: But wait, as Deelkar says, tile 33 22 6 appears to be correct (apart from the caption proximity settings appearing to be wrong). This was rendered by you apparently: *Single tile upload by user 214 (spaetz) with client 22 (Quickborn

Re: [OSM-talk] Nested areas

2008-06-05 Thread spaetz
is obscured by an industrial area here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.68998lon=-3.9007zoom=16layers=0B0FT Osma does it exactly right. That river has a layer=-1 while the landuse has no layer (implying 0). The data-wise, the river *is under the idustrial area*. I haven't fixed it. spaetz

Re: [OSM-talk] Nested areas

2008-06-05 Thread spaetz
to keep small areas on top though. Why should it work differently? If I want a tunnel under a forest, a layer=-1 *should* draw the tunnel under the forest. Why do you think it's doing something wrongly? tagging a river with layer=-1 seems wrong to me on the other hand. spaetz

Re: [OSM-talk] Enabling communities to use OSM as a planning tool

2008-06-04 Thread spaetz
file and merging layers before rendering. OpenLayers is capable of rendering local .osm data, so it's possible to have a local planning layer overlaid on the plain map. spaetz ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org