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

2008-06-05 Thread Dave Stubbs
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 9:26 PM, Jon Burgess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 11:09 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At present they can achieve the same effect using off line file and merging layers before rendering. To make the process more smooth maybe some (or all) of the

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

2008-06-04 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Lat night I attended a steering group meeting for my local Connect2 [1] project in north east Birmingham [2]. One of the things that the group could benefit from is rapid response on mapping so that it can discuss route options for the new cycle/walk routes to be built under the project. OSM is

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

2008-06-04 Thread maning sambale
This too is my dream, by agregating physical features done by volunteers, we will eventually gather a very rich geospatial info than any other mapping agency. For fairly complete areas, I believe it can now be used for planning. But as I understand (correct me if I am wrong), OSM is for mapping

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

2008-06-04 Thread Donald Allwright
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 3:54 PM, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lat night I attended a steering group meeting for my local Connect2 [1] project in north east Birmingham [2]. One of the things that the group could benefit from is rapid response on mapping so that it can

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

2008-06-04 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
maning sambale: Sent: 04 June 2008 9:47 AM To: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Enabling communities to use OSM as a planning tool This too is my dream, by agregating physical features done by volunteers, we will eventually gather a very rich geospatial info than any other mapping

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

2008-06-04 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Donald Allwright Sent: 04 June 2008 9:56 AM To: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Enabling communities to use OSM as a planning tool One thought that occurs to me is that there will be many, disparate groups wishing to use OSM to plan stuff, only a very small proportion of which

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

2008-06-04 Thread Tom Chance
Hi Andy, On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 08:54:53 +0100, Andy Robinson \(blackadder-lists\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This brings me to the point though. Currently we map physical features as they exist and in some cases the alignment of known construction, what we do not do is use OSM as a planning tool.

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

2008-06-04 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Tom Chance [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sent: 04 June 2008 11:02 AM To: Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) Cc: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Enabling communities to use OSM as a planning tool I've had similar thoughts for our project in Sutton (London): http

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

2008-06-04 Thread elvin ibbotson
but would need to use vector data from the database for past/future features. elvin From: Andy Robinson \(blackadder-lists\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 4 June 2008 08:54:53 BDT To: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: [OSM-talk] Enabling communities to use OSM as a planning tool Lat night I attended

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

2008-06-04 Thread simon
One thought that occurs to me is that there will be many, disparate groups wishing to use OSM to plan stuff, only a very small proportion of which would eventually become reality. I'm not sure if it would be appropriate to add these features to the main OSM database. I would also agree that

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

2008-06-04 Thread Mikel Maron
Hi From: elvin ibbotson [EMAIL PROTECTED] This topic reminded me of some thoughts I had about time-based tagging but did not pursue. I have a professional interest in planned features but a leisure interest in historic features such as ancient roads. The OSM database could include both

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

2008-06-04 Thread Mikel Maron
Hi From: elvin ibbotson [EMAIL PROTECTED] This topic reminded me of some thoughts I had about time-based tagging but did not pursue. I have a professional interest in planned features but a leisure interest in historic features such as ancient roads. The OSM database could include both

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

2008-06-04 Thread Mikel Maron
Hi From: elvin ibbotson [EMAIL PROTECTED] This topic reminded me of some thoughts I had about time-based tagging but did not pursue. I have a professional interest in planned features but a leisure interest in historic features such as ancient roads. The OSM database could include both

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

2008-06-04 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Stephen Gower wrote: You can, of course, do what you like, but I'd urge you not to do this without an improvement in the editors. If I come to edit near a junction and find 15 people have sketched out how they see the junction could be improved, that's a lot of ways that don't

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

2008-06-04 Thread spaetz
On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 11:09:33AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One thought that occurs to me is that there will be many, disparate groups wishing to use OSM to plan stuff, only a very small proportion of which would eventually become reality. I'm not sure if it would be appropriate

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

2008-06-04 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
On Jun 4, 2008, at 20:39 , spaetz wrote: On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 11:09:33AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One thought that occurs to me is that there will be many, disparate groups wishing to use OSM to plan stuff, only a very small proportion of which would eventually become

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

2008-06-04 Thread Jon Burgess
On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 11:09 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At present they can achieve the same effect using off line file and merging layers before rendering. To make the process more smooth maybe some (or all) of the following can be implemented: 1) Enable the render to use multiple