[OSM-talk] Yahoo Sat Imagery

2009-09-18 Thread John Smith
Does anyone know a contact to talk with at yahoo about their sat imagery? I know commercial sat imagery goes for about $14/sq km, but that probably isn't the cost of enabling online mapping sites with sat imagery so I'm just wondering if Yahoo would be interested in a 50/50 cost split to purchase

Re: [OSM-talk] Evolution of a map

2009-09-18 Thread H
I'm resending this: Thank you all for your answers. David, how did you display a historical map manually, and more generally, how can someone check the state of a region at a certain point in time (much like Wikipedia's History page)?. Eddy I would be great of you could post your code, I'd like to

Re: [OSM-talk] UserActivity / Vandalism etc.

2009-09-18 Thread Gary68
hi, i have to think about "new users" first. how long to monitor, what will be showed etc. it also might imply some storage of local data - as well as a whitelist would. i am not sure about a whitelist. good can turn into evel at least. but of course that's the worst case. since the tool is calle

Re: [OSM-talk] RR8 - Possible International Vandal (assistance required in various countries)

2009-09-18 Thread Someoneelse
Rob wrote: > Was just looking at the stats report and happened to notice this account > is editing again after a 15 day quite period. > Not checked the regions or validity at all yet but given the past > history I though I would give a heads up. Thanks for that - it's been mentioned on Talk-GB (

Re: [OSM-talk] RR8 - Possible International Vandal (assistance required in various countries)

2009-09-18 Thread Rob
Thomas Wood wrote: > Hi list, > Attention was drawn to the OSM user RR8 last night on IRC. It appears > that they have been producing /apparently/ deconstructive edits at a > high frequency since late Saturday evening (server time). > Edits primarily are the reclassification of highways to a differ

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Maps v.s. OSM routing in Berlin

2009-09-18 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Lester Caine wrote: > Me thinks it is time for a hall of shame on the OSM site, with > links like this and hopefully the correct solution on OSM? http://googlemapsfail.tumblr.com/ cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Google-Maps-v.s.-OSM-routing-in-Berlin-tp2

Re: [OSM-talk] Requirement for GPS Device at Kerala, India

2009-09-18 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
El Viernes, 18 de Septiembre de 2009, Sajjad Anwar escribió: > We are mapping the entire campus of National Institute of Technology, > Calicut, Kerala, India. [...] > We would need GPS devices. Can anyone help? You should read: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/GPStogo Best, -- -

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Maps v.s. OSM routing in Berlin

2009-09-18 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 5:17 AM, Maarten Deen wrote: > Haha. Nice one. Maybe you can? There is no line in the middle of the road > preventing crossing the road (see also the car turning a little south). I > do > assume there is a "no left turn" sign at the side of the road, but from > this > angl

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Maps v.s. OSM routing in Berlin

2009-09-18 Thread Anthony
That onramp isn't even connected: http://cloudmade.com/maps?lat=52.502802&lng=13.277653&zoom=18&directions=52.502259876407635,13.276575207710266,52.49494458610386,13.267847299575806&travel=car&styleId=1 And there's no restriction against this similar move: http://cloudmade.com/maps?lat=52.503171&l

Re: [OSM-talk] Evolution of a map

2009-09-18 Thread Valent Turkovic
On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:00:29 +0800, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: > And more generally (with the option to use Mapnik-style rendering): > http://www.geofabrik.de/gallery/history/index.html How to get Croatia and two of best mapped cities (Zagreb and Osijek) in Croatia in selection box? Can you ple

Re: [OSM-talk] UserActivity / Vandalism etc.

2009-09-18 Thread gary
Funny i used which first. Doesn t work -- Urspr. Mitt. -- Betreff: Re: [OSM-talk] UserActivity / Vandalism etc. Von: Andrew Ayre Datum: 18.09.2009 21:52 #! is called a shebang and allows you to run a script without having to specify which program runs it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shebang_(

Re: [OSM-talk] UserActivity / Vandalism etc.

2009-09-18 Thread Mikel Maron
Nice start! Agreed that filtering for users outside the "social network" of OSM is going to be incredibly useful. These are new users, who are (most unintentionally) causing issues, and folks who haven't earned trust in the community yet. Would it be possible to give a whitelist of trusted user

Re: [OSM-talk] UserActivity / Vandalism etc.

2009-09-18 Thread Andrew Ayre
#! is called a shebang and allows you to run a script without having to specify which program runs it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shebang_(Unix) Your wiki page shows that you specify perl on the command line, so the shebang isn't needed if the shell can find perl, but it's typical to add it

Re: [OSM-talk] UserActivity / Vandalism etc.

2009-09-18 Thread Gary68
hi martin, thanks for the feedback. 1.) this #! thing doesn't work for me... i added it to the script nevertheless. 2.) bzip2. you are right. i just didn't run it with a zipped file so i didn't notice. 3.) yeah, yeah. you know how it is. i expanded the usage string a bit. the wiki page told a bit

Re: [OSM-talk] UserActivity / Vandalism etc.

2009-09-18 Thread MP
I got http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/utils/gary68/useractivity.pl and I notices some bugs: You are missing #!/usr/bin/perl at first line I fixed it and then I got: Undefined subroutine &main::bzopen called at ./useractivity.pl line 1168. You have to use "use Compress::Bzip2;" al

Re: [OSM-talk] UserActivity / Vandalism etc.

2009-09-18 Thread Gary68
dear richard, yes, that's an idea. i added it to the wish list on the wiki page. now that the first real version is stable let's see what comes up. and i am sure there will be new features. although i stumbled upon the first doubts regarding the time slot analysis. One user thought that to be a b

Re: [OSM-talk] Train station names: "Place Station" ou just "Place" ?

2009-09-18 Thread d f
Hi Emilie/Elena I see your point of view. Thanks Dave F. From: Elena of Valhalla To: d f Sent: Friday, 18 September, 2009 14:51:54 Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Train station names: "Place Station" ou just "Place" ? On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 3:20 PM, d f wrote: >

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Data Liberation Front - beyond amazing

2009-09-18 Thread John Smith
At the end of the day I'm still not sure what bulk downloading means apart from tagging every single road in a country and offering a kml file for it. As best as I can gather Ed seem to think anything less seems to be ok, or am I reading his responses wrong? http://www.edparsons.com/2009/09/liber

[OSM-talk] NaviPOWM 0.2.3 released

2009-09-18 Thread Doru Julian Bugariu
Hi, NaviPOWM 0.2.3 was released. You can find it at http://sourceforge.net/projects/navipowm Here what changed since 0.2.2 fixed bugs: - 2783863: OSM validation failure - 2789178: Do not exceed min / max lon / lat for osmosis split batch. - 2793291: snap to road - 2832238: displayed speed wrong

Re: [OSM-talk] Train station names: "Place Station" ou just "Place" ?

2009-09-18 Thread Emilie Laffray
2009/9/18 d f > > I believe the usage of the building should be explicitly defined, so > station should be used. > > Most people who disagree are discussing it from the point of view of using > the map for the sole purpose of using a train. This is not the case. > > My home town station has the s

Re: [OSM-talk] Train station names: "Place Station" ou just "Place" ?

2009-09-18 Thread d f
I believe the usage of the building should be explicitly defined, so station should be used. Most people who disagree are discussing it from the point of view of using the map for the sole purpose of using a train. This is not the case. My home town station has the same name as at least two ot

[OSM-talk] UserActivity / Vandalism etc.

2009-09-18 Thread Gary68
PLEASE X-POST TO TALK-GB, i am not registered there. tnx! hi, i just finished version 2 of UserActivity, a program that monitors actions in a certain area. there are new reports and drawn maps to be seen in/via the wiki: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UserActivity new: - map mode - detaile

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Footnav - new 3D project aimed at countryside users

2009-09-18 Thread Nick Whitelegg
>> I'm glad to see that this project is moving on and especially that >> it's using Qt :) However, I get a compile error with revision 2: >Me too. >In SRTM.h there is: >#include >But in maths.h I see this instead: >#ifdef __APPLE__ >#include >#else >#include >#endif >Quite inconsistent,

[OSM-talk] Requirement for GPS Device at Kerala, India

2009-09-18 Thread Sajjad Anwar
Hello. We are planning a Mapping Party. The first one is a kind of micro. We are mapping the entire campus of National Institute of Technology, Calicut, Kerala, India. The second is mapping our city (Calicut, Kerala, India ; http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?lat=11.2535&lon=75.8357&zoom=13) and add

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Maps v.s. OSM routing in Berlin

2009-09-18 Thread Peteris Krisjanis
2009/9/18 Lester Caine : > Jonathan Bennett wrote: >> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: >>> Why doesn't OSM ever tell me to take a 270 degree turn into oncoming >>> traffic on a 6-lane highway and get onto the motorway_link on the >>> other side? >>> >> >> OSM also never tells you to turn 180 degrees

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Maps v.s. OSM routing in Berlin

2009-09-18 Thread Lester Caine
Jonathan Bennett wrote: > Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: >> Why doesn't OSM ever tell me to take a 270 degree turn into oncoming >> traffic on a 6-lane highway and get onto the motorway_link on the >> other side? >> > > OSM also never tells you to turn 180 degrees across a motorway central > reser

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Maps v.s. OSM routing in Berlin

2009-09-18 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > Why doesn't OSM ever tell me to take a 270 degree turn into oncoming > traffic on a 6-lane highway and get onto the motorway_link on the > other side? > OSM also never tells you to turn 180 degrees across a motorway central reservation, then drive off the side of a

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-de] Google Maps v.s. OSM routing in Berlin

2009-09-18 Thread Lester Caine
Peter Körner wrote: > Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason schrieb: >> Why doesn't OSM ever tell me to take a 270 degree turn into oncoming >> traffic on a 6-lane highway and get onto the motorway_link on the >> other side? >> >> http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=B2%2FB5%2FHeerstra%C3%9Fe&daddr=A

[OSM-talk] Intro video with Potlatch flash page

2009-09-18 Thread Sam Vekemans
Hi, Before i forget again... Is anyone working on getting an intro to OSM video(s) to play as an option when the user has to decide on if to use the 'edit live (and mess up :)' or edit with save (and timeout error :) )" Might be a good idea, so its like a mini mapping intro', then the user could w

[OSM-talk] proposed counter-vandalism / moderation list?

2009-09-18 Thread Peter Miller
In the UK we have had a significant number of counter-productive edits recently, including both mistakes and vandalism. There have also been recent issues in Ireland and Iceland and probably in other places that we are not yet aware of. On talk-gb we have been discussing the merits of a cr

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Maps v.s. OSM routing in Berlin

2009-09-18 Thread Maarten Deen
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > Why doesn't OSM ever tell me to take a 270 degree turn into oncoming > traffic on a 6-lane highway and get onto the motorway_link on the > other side? > > http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=B2%2FB5%2FHeerstra%C3%9Fe&daddr=A115&geocode=FQQ6IQMdPXr

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Maps v.s. OSM routing in Berlin

2009-09-18 Thread Steven Le Roux
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 12:43 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > Why doesn't OSM ever tell me to take a 270 degree turn into oncoming > traffic on a 6-lane highway and get onto the motorway_link on the > other side? > > > http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=B2%2FB5%2FHeerstra%C3%9Fe

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-de] Google Maps v.s. OSM routing in Berlin

2009-09-18 Thread Peter Körner
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason schrieb: > Why doesn't OSM ever tell me to take a 270 degree turn into oncoming > traffic on a 6-lane highway and get onto the motorway_link on the > other side? > > http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=B2%2FB5%2FHeerstra%C3%9Fe&daddr=A115&geocode=FQQ6IQMdPXrKAA

Re: [OSM-talk] Train station names: "Place Station" ou just "Place" ?

2009-09-18 Thread Ed Avis
Pieren gmail.com> writes: >What is the actual convention about railway stations names ? >do we have to >write the word "Station" in the name itself or not ? Is it not implied >by the tag railway=station or building=train_station ? Following the general rule that the name shouldn't duplicate in