Re: [OSM-talk] article in Geo Informatics Magazine - good coverage of OSM

2008-03-17 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, > See pages 28-31 in flash version > http://fluidbook.microdesign.nl/geoinformatics/02-2008/ Can somebody add this to http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/OpenStreetMap_in_the_press that'd be great so we keep track of all these. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [OSM-talk] News about OSM in Italy

2008-03-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, this is Andrea, aka pibinko . I just wanted to add a couple of notes on the interesting news presented by EdoM - which is indeed exciting for us. > Hi, > i'm writing to let you know about 2 milestones in italy: > 1. Yesterday (sunday 16th) one of the major italian newspapers, La > Stampa b

[OSM-talk] article in Geo Informatics Magazine - good coverage of OSM

2008-03-17 Thread martin dodge
See pages 28-31 in flash version http://fluidbook.microdesign.nl/geoinformatics/02-2008/ or (big) pdf of whole magazine for downlown http://fluidbook.microdesign.nl/geoinformatics/02-2008/data/document.pdf cheers martin ___ talk mailing list talk@op

Re: [OSM-talk] Contours server

2008-03-17 Thread Jon Burgess
On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 20:28 +, Dave Stubbs wrote: > On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 8:00 PM, Steve Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dave Stubbs wrote: > > > > > it's faster to just let it use swap, > > > > I I/O load hits my server pretty hard. Trying to do anything else while > > that's happen

Re: [OSM-talk] Contours server (was: Re: ski pistes)

2008-03-17 Thread Jon Burgess
On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 17:43 +, Steve Hill wrote: > My main performance issues revolve around importing the planet OSM > file > (osm2pgsql uses up crazy amounts of RAM (or rather, swap, in my case) One way to reduce the RAM usage is via a bounding box filter (--bbox in the latest osm2pgsql co

[OSM-talk] we are a google summer of code project

2008-03-17 Thread Mikel Maron
http://www.opengeodata.org/?p=284 wooo ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Statistics and lists of common errors per region

2008-03-17 Thread Roland Ramthun
Andy Robinson schrieb: > I'll point out that it has been common practice almost since the > project began for some of us to use two or more nodes at the end of a > stub way to denote unfinished work. For instance I use this method a > lot to denote a footpath going off a road that I haven't walked

Re: [OSM-talk] Statistics and lists of common errors per region

2008-03-17 Thread Roland Ramthun
Dirk-Lüder Kreie schrieb: > Jon Burgess schrieb: >> On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 00:33 +0100, Roland Ramthun wrote: >>> Bug reports (i.e. wrong output) are welcome. >> The following line looks like it has some bad characters: >> >> Total Ways: 586521 (â��~7,34 nodes/way) >> >> From: >> >> http://roland-r

Re: [OSM-talk] News about OSM in Italy

2008-03-17 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, > i'm writing to let you know about 2 milestones in italy: > 1. Yesterday (sunday 16th) one of the major italian newspapers, La > Stampa based in Turin, Good job! Be sure to update http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/OSM_in_the_press Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PR

Re: [OSM-talk] Contours server

2008-03-17 Thread Dave Stubbs
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 8:00 PM, Steve Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave Stubbs wrote: > > > it's faster to just let it use swap, > > I I/O load hits my server pretty hard. Trying to do anything else while > that's happening is quite painful. :-/ > > Doing it without the heavy I/O load is

Re: [OSM-talk] Contours server

2008-03-17 Thread Steve Hill
Dave Stubbs wrote: > it's faster to just let it use swap, I I/O load hits my server pretty hard. Trying to do anything else while that's happening is quite painful. :-/ Doing it without the heavy I/O load is preferable, even if it takes a couple of days - it can just trundle away in the backg

Re: [OSM-talk] Tourist/Leisure Trails

2008-03-17 Thread Robert Vollmert
Hello, On Mar 17, 2008, at 19:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there any way of marking a 'trail', where a marked route which may > exist on other ways in part or as a whole? This should probably be done using a route relation: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Relations/Routes Cheers Ro

Re: [OSM-talk] Tourist/Leisure Trails

2008-03-17 Thread Thomas Wood
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 6:28 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > There is already a page in the wiki for trails > (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Mapping/Features/Trail), but this > is really just tagging a way with permitted usage (such as footpath, > cyclepath, etc.). > > Is

Re: [OSM-talk] Tourist/Leisure Trails

2008-03-17 Thread Blake Crosby
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > There is already a page in the wiki for trails > (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Mapping/Features/Trail), but this > is really just tagging a way with permitted usage (such as footpath, > cyclepath, etc.). > > Is there any way of marking a 'trail', whe

[OSM-talk] Tourist/Leisure Trails

2008-03-17 Thread simon
Hi all, There is already a page in the wiki for trails (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Mapping/Features/Trail), but this is really just tagging a way with permitted usage (such as footpath, cyclepath, etc.). Is there any way of marking a 'trail', where a marked route which may exist on ot

[OSM-talk] Grants

2008-03-17 Thread SteveC
Dear All Cloud Made would like to sponsor mapping and coding in OSM. We'd like to pick up where others have left off and we want to offer grants to anyone with good ideas, and we want it to be as simple as possible: http://blog.cloudmade.com/2008/03/17/openstreetmap-grants/ * £100-1000 * Map

Re: [OSM-talk] Contours server (was: Re: ski pistes)

2008-03-17 Thread Dave Stubbs
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 5:43 PM, Steve Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, Dave Stubbs wrote: > > > There's also the amount of time it would take to render the tiles. It > > takes over 15 hours to render the contours used on the cycle map, and > > all things considered that co

[OSM-talk] [tagging] Votes requested

2008-03-17 Thread Gervase Markham
The following canal-related proposals have unanimity, but not enough votes yet: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Waste_Disposal http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Mooring http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Narrows Please can

Re: [OSM-talk] Contours server (was: Re: ski pistes)

2008-03-17 Thread Steve Hill
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, Dave Stubbs wrote: > There's also the amount of time it would take to render the tiles. It > takes over 15 hours to render the contours used on the cycle map, and > all things considered that covers a very small % of the planet surface > at any kind of decent zoom level. It's

[OSM-talk] [tagging] Bridge proposal

2008-03-17 Thread Gervase Markham
I've formally written up my Bridge proposal, as mentioned here a week or two ago: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Bridge In summary, I propose replacing the various bridge and bridge-related tags: bridge=yes waterway=aqueduct highway=viaduct railway=viaduct with a sing

Re: [OSM-talk] Contours server (was: Re: ski pistes)

2008-03-17 Thread Dave Stubbs
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Steve Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Contours layer presented by openpistemap is simply great. Does it > > exist a server publishing only this layer? > > I'm not sure how that would work - you really need the contours data set > to be the bottom layer, wi

[OSM-talk] Contours server (was: Re: ski pistes)

2008-03-17 Thread Steve Hill
> Contours layer presented by openpistemap is simply great. Does it > exist a server publishing only this layer? I'm not sure how that would work - you really need the contours data set to be the bottom layer, with the normal layers on top of that (is it possible to ask OpenLayers to render the

Re: [OSM-talk] JOSM connection timing out

2008-03-17 Thread Jukka Rahkonen
Gregory googlemail.com> writes: > > > Yes I am behind a proxy on the university network, but:a) It has worked > fine in the past (sometime between the 5th and the 13th March) and I > haven't left the proxy.b) where do I even tell JOSM to use the proxy?Thanks, Start it like javaw -DproxySet

Re: [OSM-talk] mapping with nokia 9500

2008-03-17 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
mariner wrote: > As a result of the OpenExpo in Bern I started to contribute to the > project. Thank you guys, for attending at the fair. Hey, cool to see that our stall actually helped. > In the wiki I saw, that there are people wich are using a Nokia 9500 > (Communicator) while doing some work

[OSM-talk] News about OSM in Italy

2008-03-17 Thread Edoardo Marascalchi
Hi, i'm writing to let you know about 2 milestones in italy: 1. Yesterday (sunday 16th) one of the major italian newspapers, La Stampa based in Turin, published a 1 page article about OpenStreetMap. http://www.lastampa.it/_web/cmstp/tmplrubriche/tecnologia/grubrica.asp?ID_blog=30&ID_articolo=419

[OSM-talk] OSMXAPI returning points outside bounding box

2008-03-17 Thread David Dean
Hi, I seem to be having some problems with a OSMXAPI request that has worked perfectly in the past. In particular, a bunch of extra nodes seem to be collected that are not within the bounding box I specified in the url. I'm using the following command to download the xml file: wget -O greater-br

Re: [OSM-talk] GML to OSM (Re: convert mapinfo POI to o sm for uploading )

2008-03-17 Thread Jukka Rahkonen
> > > You can upload a GPX with a tracklog and waypoints, but not (AIUI) > > > with waypoints alone. > > > > Understood. Thus not usable for me because I have collected just waypoints > > along already well mapped roads :( > > The GPX format isn't that complex. So it shouldn't be too difficult to

[OSM-talk] Society of Cartographers

2008-03-17 Thread Steve Chilton
Volume 41 of the Society of Cartographers Bulletin arrived by post on Friday, and mighty fine it looks too, with it's enhanced colour section. OSM is particularly well represented in this issue too. Main articles include: Geodata collection in the 21stC Nick Black and Steve Coast D

Re: [OSM-talk] JOSM connection timing out

2008-03-17 Thread Gregory
Yes I am behind a proxy on the university network, but: a) It has worked fine in the past (sometime between the 5th and the 13th March) and I haven't left the proxy. b) where do I even tell JOSM to use the proxy? Thanks, On 17/03/2008, Ulf Lamping <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Gregory schrieb: >

[OSM-talk] mapping with nokia 9500

2008-03-17 Thread mariner
Hi everyone, As a result of the OpenExpo in Bern I started to contribute to the project. Thank you guys, for attending at the fair. In the wiki I saw, that there are people wich are using a Nokia 9500 (Communicator) while doing some work for the project. Those I'd like to ask: How do you use the

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=living_street not rendered?

2008-03-17 Thread Steve Chilton
Living_street will render with additional style added last night for the mapnik layer. [Thanks to Jon Burgess for deploying so swiftly.] May take a while to filter through with re-rendering process. Cheers STEVE Steve Chilton, Learning Support Fellow Learning and Technical Support Unit Manager S

Re: [OSM-talk] GML to OSM (Re: convert mapinfo POI to osm for uploading )

2008-03-17 Thread Cartinus
On Monday 17 March 2008 09:28:11 Jukka Rahkonen wrote: > Richard Fairhurst systemeD.net> writes: > > Jukka Rahkonen wrote: > > > Should it really be possible to upload waypoints through gpx? > > > > You can upload a GPX with a tracklog and waypoints, but not (AIUI) > > with waypoints alone. > > Un

[OSM-talk] Contours server (was: Re: ski pistes)

2008-03-17 Thread Guilhem Bonnefille
Contours layer presented by openpistemap is simply great. Does it exist a server publishing only this layer? I'm working on Viking, a desktop GPS data editor capable of rendering data on top of image downloaded on line. Having a contours layer would be usefull to prepare hicking. Thanks in advanc

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-newbies] Potlatch/JOSM workshop Wed 19th March

2008-03-17 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder)
Here's a challenge for those with some time?? Checking and simplifying (to the extent possible) the instructions for JOSM and Potlatch. The videos that have been done previously are great but probably now somewhat out of date? Steve did some great ones recently too, but again perhaps they didn't co

Re: [OSM-talk] JOSM connection timing out

2008-03-17 Thread Ulf Lamping
Gregory schrieb: > Hi Guys, > I'm trying to download data in JOSM and the connection attempt just > times out on me. I can get the xml from the api using my webbrowser(FF). Are you behind a proxy? If yes, you have to tell JAVA to use it. Regards, ULFL ___

Re: [OSM-talk] GML to OSM (Re: convert mapinfo POI to o sm for uploading)

2008-03-17 Thread Jukka Rahkonen
Richard Fairhurst systemeD.net> writes: > > Jukka Rahkonen wrote: > > Should it really be possible to upload waypoints through gpx? > > You can upload a GPX with a tracklog and waypoints, but not (AIUI) > with waypoints alone. Understood. Thus not usable for me because I have collected just

Re: [OSM-talk] Archicad to OSM (again!)

2008-03-17 Thread Jukka Rahkonen
Andrew Harris woowoowoo.com> writes: > > When I first asked this question a week back, I got some advice about > using GRASS to convert .dwg/.dxf files to shape files, but in the end, > I ran into problem after problem and nothing seemed to work. Also, > from my reading, shape files aren't