Re: [OSM-talk] Bing Maps are amazing

2011-06-13 Thread SomeoneElse
On 13/06/2011 16:34, Stephan Knauss wrote: As long as MS wants to promote Silverlight using the OSM layer they should at least not silently fall back to another map. So either serve OSM with plain JS or tell the user it won't. If you believe the news / rumour sites, they might not be insis

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing Maps are amazing

2011-06-13 Thread Stephan Knauss
On 13.06.2011 12:40, Borbus wrote: On 13/06/11 11:29, Stephan Knauss wrote: This seams to be the reason. Bing should not silently fall back to other data but nag you to install Silverlight. I'd rather it didn't because I'm not going to install Silverlight (in fact I couldn't even if I wanted t

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing Maps are amazing

2011-06-13 Thread Borbus
On 13/06/11 11:29, Stephan Knauss wrote: > This seams to be the reason. Bing should not silently fall back to other > data but nag you to install Silverlight. I'd rather it didn't because I'm not going to install Silverlight (in fact I couldn't even if I wanted to). It would be a lot better if i

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing Maps are amazing

2011-06-13 Thread Stephan Knauss
On 13.06.2011 11:44, Jochen Topf wrote: FF 3.6.17 on Linux, no Silverlight. This seams to be the reason. Bing should not silently fall back to other data but nag you to install Silverlight. I CC'ed Steve. @Steve: Consider a nag screen or even better provide the tiles using the plain JS API a

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing Maps are amazing

2011-06-13 Thread Jochen Topf
05:07:31PM +1000, Nick Hocking wrote: > Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 17:07:31 +1000 > From: Nick Hocking > To: talk@openstreetmap.org > Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Bing Maps are amazing > > Jochen, > > I see attribution on my browser (bottom left corner). Rendering is, I think >

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing Maps are amazing.

2011-06-13 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2011/6/13 Stephan Knauss : > needs Silverlight that is really amazing... I don't have silverlight so I only get their dumb standard map... cheers, Martin ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing Maps are amazing.

2011-06-13 Thread Stephan Knauss
On 13.06.2011 08:01, Grant Slater wrote: Do you mean Bing or MapQuest? I wasn't aware that Bing was using OSM data yet. Example link? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bing#OpenStreetMap_via_the_Bing_Maps_APIs http://www.bing.com/maps/explore/#5003/s=w/5872/style=Mapnik&pid=50735 needs Silve

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing Maps are amazing

2011-06-13 Thread Andrew Errington
On Mon, June 13, 2011 17:01, Ed Loach wrote: > If I recall correctly, the Mapnik �Openstreetmap Mode� requires > Silverlight, so the link below might show you a different view if > you don�t have it installed. Or perhaps I�m thinking of the Map App, if > that is different? Hmm, well I don't have S

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing Maps are amazing

2011-06-13 Thread John Smith
On 13 June 2011 18:01, Ed Loach wrote: > If I recall correctly, the Mapnik “Openstreetmap Mode” requires Silverlight, > so the link below might show you a different view if you don’t have it > installed. Or perhaps I’m thinking of the Map App, if that is different? I'd forgotten about that and it

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing Maps are amazing

2011-06-13 Thread Ed Loach
2011 07:08 To: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: [OSM-talk] Bing Maps are amazing Hi Grant http://www.bing.com/maps/explore/#5003/s=w <http://www.bing.com/maps/explore/#5003/s=w&p=c/5872/style=Mapnik&la t=-35.206078&lon=149.103028&z=17&pid=50735> &p=c/5872/s

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing Maps are amazing

2011-06-13 Thread Nick Hocking
http://www.bing.com/maps/explore/#5003/s=w&p=c/5872/style=Mapnik&lat=37.506163&lon=127.050212&z=14&pid=50735 Works for me. But I'll go check out Yahoo and Google and see what the diffs are> On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 5:31 PM, Andrew Errington < a.erring...@lancaster.ac.uk> wrote: > On Mon, June 13

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing Maps are amazing

2011-06-13 Thread John Smith
On 13 June 2011 17:07, Nick Hocking wrote: > Jochen, > > I see attribution on my browser (bottom left corner).  Rendering is, I think > standard mapnik, looks ok to me. > > Andrew E, did you try my link and zoom over to Korea. I think you'll find > all the OSM data there looking quite good. I onl

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing Maps are amazing

2011-06-13 Thread Andrew Errington
On Mon, June 13, 2011 16:07, Nick Hocking wrote: > Jochen, > > > I see attribution on my browser (bottom left corner). Rendering is, I > think standard mapnik, looks ok to me. > > Andrew E, did you try my link and zoom over to Korea. I think you'll find > all the OSM data there looking quite good

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing Maps are amazing

2011-06-13 Thread Nick Hocking
Jochen, I see attribution on my browser (bottom left corner). Rendering is, I think standard mapnik, looks ok to me. Andrew E, did you try my link and zoom over to Korea. I think you'll find all the OSM data there looking quite good. Cheers Nick On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Jochen Topf wr

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing Maps are amazing

2011-06-13 Thread Jochen Topf
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 04:07:33PM +1000, Nick Hocking wrote: > http://www.bing.com/maps/explore/#5003/s=w&p=c/5872/style=Mapnik&lat=-35.206078&lon=149.103028&z=17&pid=50735 > > > Tose are the newly added roads. Ive been using Bing's mapnik facility for a > few months now - It's really good. Tha

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing Maps are amazing.

2011-06-12 Thread Graham Jones
I was going to say something similar about the main OSM mapnik rendering. Last night the high zoom level had rendered by the time I had closed Potlatch2. Well done to those running our rendering servers! Graham from my phone On 13 Jun 2011 07:04, "Grant Slater" wrote: On 13 June 2011 06:45, Ni

[OSM-talk] Bing Maps are amazing

2011-06-12 Thread Nick Hocking
Hi Grant http://www.bing.com/maps/explore/#5003/s=w&p=c/5872/style=Mapnik&lat=-35.206078&lon=149.103028&z=17&pid=50735 Tose are the newly added roads. Ive been using Bing's mapnik facility for a few months now - It's really good. ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing Maps are amazing.

2011-06-12 Thread Grant Slater
On 13 June 2011 06:45, Nick Hocking wrote: > I just added some more new roads to the Canberra area. They were rendered in > Bing maps within 10 seconds of uploading to OSM!!! > Do you mean Bing or MapQuest? I wasn't aware that Bing was using OSM data yet. Example link? / Grant _

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing Maps are amazing.

2011-06-12 Thread Andrew Errington
On Mon, June 13, 2011 14:45, Nick Hocking wrote: > I just added some more new roads to the Canberra area. They were rendered > in Bing maps within 10 seconds of uploading to OSM!!! > > > Now that's instant gratification. Also bing maps are the slippiest > around by a healthy margin. I can be zoome