Re: [OSM-talk] Divided/Non-Divided Intersection

2010-07-11 Thread Maarten Deen
On Sun, 11 Jul 2010 22:03:02 -0700, Alan Mintz wrote: > At 2010-07-10 18:39, John Smith wrote: >>On 11 July 2010 06:43, Chris Dombroski wrote: >> > I ask because I think this is the cause of stupid GPS directions at times >> > "make a left, followed by a slight right" >> >>Isn't that a problem wi

Re: [OSM-talk] Comprehensive set of GPS track logs

2010-07-11 Thread Lukas Kabrt
On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 11:55 PM, john whelan wrote: > To clarify you are looking for GPS traces from car or vehicle traffic > ideally in one city. Exactly. > Tried a transit authority for their bus traces?  That > would give you plenty of data plus time of day traffic and consistency on > route

Re: [OSM-talk] Divided/Non-Divided Intersection

2010-07-11 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2010-07-10 18:39, John Smith wrote: On 11 July 2010 06:43, Chris Dombroski wrote: > I ask because I think this is the cause of stupid GPS directions at times > "make a left, followed by a slight right" Isn't that a problem with the routing software, not the data? That's what I would think.

Re: [OSM-talk] Comprehensive set of GPS track logs

2010-07-11 Thread Toby Murray
You might want to take a look at the "doroga tv" user on OSM. A while ago they started automatically uploading hundreds of traces. I don't know where they got the traces from but it was my impression that they were from some kind of automatic tracking system in vehicles. They ended up completely ho

Re: [OSM-talk] Announcing help.openstreetmap.org

2010-07-11 Thread Tom Hughes
On 11/07/10 18:40, Tobias Knerr wrote: However, there are already questions on help.* that ask for personal preferences or opinions, or are likely to start discussions. Imo, there needs to be some mechanism to guide people to the right place for asking their questions, or moderation to move the

Re: [OSM-talk] Comprehensive set of GPS track logs

2010-07-11 Thread Steve Bennett
What do you mean by "comprehensive"? You mean, covering all of one person's movements during some period of time? Or do you just mean "lots of"? Steve On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 7:34 AM, Lukas Kabrt wrote: > Hi, > > I am student working on the GSoC project - Travel time analysis [1], > [2]. For the

Re: [OSM-talk] Comprehensive set of GPS track logs

2010-07-11 Thread john whelan
To clarify you are looking for GPS traces from car or vehicle traffic ideally in one city. Tried a transit authority for their bus traces? That would give you plenty of data plus time of day traffic and consistency on routes and the GPS equipment used for the traces. I have plenty but I tend to

[OSM-talk] Comprehensive set of GPS track logs

2010-07-11 Thread Lukas Kabrt
Hi, I am student working on the GSoC project - Travel time analysis [1], [2]. For the final tuning and demonstration of the utility I am looking for a comprehensive set of GPS track logs. Requirements: Timestamped GPS tracks (if privacy is concern I can provide a utility that will delete unnecces

Re: [OSM-talk] Announcing help.openstreetmap.org

2010-07-11 Thread Tobias Knerr
Jacek Konieczny wrote: > The same things can be done with wiki, web forum, mailing lists and the > 'StackOverflow-like' software as now used on 'help.openstreetmap.org'. > All of them were designed for a specific uses and most of them were > abused for other tasks. And that usually doesn't work we

Re: [OSM-talk] Announcing help.openstreetmap.org

2010-07-11 Thread Sam Vekemans
+1 Great work! I can see how the top questions will become a priority for us to try and solve. Because there is TONNES of work to be done, this puts focus on making the top questions answered. This, inturn, will attract the other developers out there (ie from KDE Marble Desktop, MapServer who might

Re: [OSM-talk] Non-capital cities in low-zoom Mapnik

2010-07-11 Thread Alexander Menk
Claudius wrote: I recently noticed (change must have been done in the past 2-3 weeks) that low zoom Mapnik rendering at osm.org show more large cities per country now that are not capitals: http://osm.org/go/zhyr-- For example you see Hamburg and Frankfurt in Germany or Mashhad in Iran or Ürümq

[OSM-talk] Divided/Non-Divided Intersection

2010-07-11 Thread Nathan Edgars II
Maarten Deen wrote: >John Smith wrote: >> On 11 July 2010 06:43, Chris Dombroski >> wrote: >>> I ask because I think this is the cause of stupid GPS directions at times >>> "make a left, followed by a slight right" >> >> Isn't that a problem with the routing software, not the data? > >Not IMHO. >

Re: [OSM-talk] Announcing help.openstreetmap.org

2010-07-11 Thread Alexander Menk
Tom Hughes wrote: I'm be pleased to be able to announce a new addition to the tools available to support the OpenStreetMap project. Fantastic! http://help.openstreetmap.org/ There is an expection appearing on http://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/85/how-to-store-all-the-data-collected

Re: [OSM-talk] Announcing help.openstreetmap.org

2010-07-11 Thread Tom Hughes
On 11/07/10 15:44, Tirkon wrote: But one question remains: Is there any reason, why you did not use the OSM-Wiki for that FAQ? IMHO it is not helpful, if the OSM documentation and help is cluttered to many locations. The user has to learn different ways of usage for each platform in order to con

Re: [OSM-talk] Announcing help.openstreetmap.org

2010-07-11 Thread Jacek Konieczny
On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 03:44:05PM +0200, Tirkon wrote: > Thank you for your effort. This is really helpful stuff. > > But one question remains: Is there any reason, why you did not use the > OSM-Wiki for that FAQ? Although wiki theoretically can be used this way, it is not the best tool for thi

Re: [OSM-talk] Changed highway=*_link meaning?!

2010-07-11 Thread colliar
Dermot McNally schrieb: > On 3 July 2010 16:43, John Smith wrote: > >> Well please describe the objective criteria you use to tag highways then... > > Here they are: > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Ireland#Highway Maybe you should mention highway=road and as you mention not

Re: [OSM-talk] Announcing help.openstreetmap.org

2010-07-11 Thread Tirkon
Tom Hughes wrote: >I suggest that people start by reading the FAQ which explains how the >site should be used and what should (and shouldn't) be there. You can >find the FAQ here: > > http://help.openstreetmap.org/faq/ > >and then get started asking (and answering) questions here: > > http:

Re: [OSM-talk] Divided/Non-Divided Intersection

2010-07-11 Thread Maarten Deen
John Smith wrote: On 11 July 2010 06:43, Chris Dombroski wrote: I ask because I think this is the cause of stupid GPS directions at times "make a left, followed by a slight right" Isn't that a problem with the routing software, not the data? Not IMHO. If you have a layout like this (use a