Re: [OSM-talk] Parking symbols: YUCK!

2008-02-24 Thread Jo
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Re: [OSM-talk] Parking symbols: YUCK!

2008-02-24 Thread Jo
J.D. Schmidt wrote: Again, look at the visualization of the data as a seperate entity - related to, and an important part of OSM, but not the defining measure of OSM. An example (graphic to fit my reputation ofcourse.. You have been duly warned ;) ) : If I decided to map all the trees I

Re: [OSM-talk] Ideas for Potlatch

2008-02-27 Thread Jo
Richard Fairhurst wrote: Lauri Hahne wrote: There are few quirks currently with Potlatch. I hope somebody could fix these :D Some good suggestions, thanks! 1. The auto complete is great but its behaviour is a bit non-standard. Currently only enter chooses the currently

Re: [OSM-talk] rendering with mapnik, what do I need?

2008-03-01 Thread Jo
Gervase Markham schreef: 2. What do I need? PostgreSQL? Python? What else? See http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Mapnik It's rather short. Is it really that simple...? I'm surprised by that reaction... I just read the Mapnik page and thought that's flipping

Re: [OSM-talk] Contacting new users

2008-03-14 Thread Jo
mariner wrote: hy guys, I signed up yesterday and I haven't got any mail. At the moment I understand the basics of the system. But not more. It's hard I think to learn it in a efficent way. I think the wiki is to messy. A clear structure in there would help while doing the first steps..

Re: [OSM-talk] Cycle Map around Nuremberg

2008-03-14 Thread Jo
routes and node networks over here. http://www.gravitystorm.co.uk/osm/?zoom=10lat=6629437.66077lon=506115.09069layers=B00 Jo ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Contacting new users

2008-03-14 Thread Jo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: Hi all, I've been working on getting the base map in place in my rural community, now I'd like to get new contributors filling in the details with tag amenities etc. I started working on a 'Put your community on The Map' poster, but my artistic skill are that

Re: [OSM-talk] Rendering power lines: black is beauty

2008-03-20 Thread Jo
Rob wrote: the logical solution would be to use the overlays in openlayers make a nice (basic) basemap and add some transparent overlays - amenities - powerlines - and so on.. bus line1, bus line2, etc... That's what I would like to do. It may prove a bit hard for larger areas. cycle

Re: [OSM-talk] Cycle lanes

2008-03-26 Thread Jo
J.D. Schmidt wrote: Lars Aronsson skrev: Alex Mauer wrote: It also has the problem that ways can easily get reversed, and then the left/right meanings are backwards. A bus stop is an attribute on a node (highway=bus_stop) in the middle of a way. If I want to indicate

Re: [OSM-talk] Cycle lanes

2008-03-26 Thread Jo
Sebastian Spaeth wrote: Lars Aronsson wrote: J.D. Schmidt wrote: It doesn't matter if the busstop is on the right or left side of the road... Neither OSM wise, nor in the real world. In the real world you use your eyes and see the busstop. Of course it matters which

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Political problems (Re: China cracks down on illegal online map services to protect state security)

2008-03-31 Thread Jo
Bernt M. Johnsen wrote: On 27/03/2008, Edoardo Marascalchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-03/25/content_7858467.htm [...] The campaign would also target websites that made mistakes such as labeling Taiwan a country, wrongly drawing national

Re: [OSM-talk] Dry-weather roads

2008-04-02 Thread Jo
Steve Hill schreef: On Wed, 2 Apr 2008, Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote: water=tidal and water=seasonal, then?? Sounds good to me, possibly with an optional qualifier tag such as: water:tidal:height=4(flooded by tides 4m above datum) water:seasonal:dates=09/01-03/31(flooded September 1

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik: amenity=bus_station

2008-04-09 Thread Jo
Lester Caine schreef: graham wrote: Steve Hill wrote: How are people tagging bus stops? I have been setting tagging nodes that are members of the way, which means they are part of the road they are on. Is this the right way to do it? It seems right since it unambiguously shows

Re: [OSM-talk] tagging and rendering highways in the USA and elsewhere

2008-04-18 Thread Jo
Robert (Jamie) Munro schreef: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tom Hughes wrote: | In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Peter Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | If we can agree on the rendering rules and get both Mapnik and osmarender | sorted out for the USA then people

Re: [OSM-talk] Too many nodes?

2008-04-18 Thread Jo
Ari Torhamo schreef: Hello, I have a question regarding the amount of nodes that one may use to draw a road, and whether the amount of nodes used has a considerable effect on the speed of the OpenStreetMap. I did my first edits to OSM a few days ago. I'll get a GPS device soon, but so far

Re: [OSM-talk] Vandalism in Trumpington

2008-04-27 Thread Jo
Richard Fairhurst schreef: Ulf Lamping wrote: This all sounds you're trying to cure the pain of not using buffered editing with adding another concept that will add another layer of confusion ... Fine. I'm really not going to attempt and convince anyone here - one has to be a

Re: [OSM-talk] Rendering of tracktype

2008-06-13 Thread Jo
that only allows one car to pass at a time, with an asfalt or concrete surface, I tag it as highway=minor. I tend to use highway=track for unpaved roads. Even when the surface is cobblestone I wouldn't use highway=track. Kind regards, Jo ___ talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Rendering of tracktype

2008-06-13 Thread Jo
Cartinus schreef: On Thursday 12 June 2008 16:44:04 Sven Geggus wrote: We have a whole lot of them here in germany and they are usually paved or asphaltic ways, and they are different from unclassified, because they are usually narrow and have access for tractors and bykes only. If

Re: [OSM-talk] Rendering of tracktype

2008-06-13 Thread Jo
that tracktype=grade1 is track with paved surface. I would mark them as highway=minor if only one car can pass on it at a time. Jo ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Ways on bus route relations

2008-06-16 Thread Jo
it, it doesn't matter What is a bit problematic with how it is done now, is that when one splits a road that is already part of a relation. This other relation becomes broken, so one should be careful to fix it/them as well. We'll just have to live with the limitations of our choices. Jo

Re: [OSM-talk] Ways on bus route relations

2008-06-17 Thread Jo
Ben Laenen schreef: On Monday 16 June 2008, Jo wrote: What is a bit problematic with how it is done now, is that when one splits a road that is already part of a relation. This other relation becomes broken, so one should be careful to fix it/them as well. If you split a way which

Re: [OSM-talk] Statistics on road network length?

2011-11-18 Thread Jo
. There are some oddballs who used that indicate oneway is against the vector sense. Also JOSM proposes to use it when reversing a way. Jo ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Vector maps for Android

2011-11-27 Thread Jo
for creating applications, a software library. Jo 2011/11/27 Parveen Arora m...@parveenarora.in On 27 Nov 2011 17:08, David Paleino da...@debian.org wrote: On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 16:54:43 +0530, Parveen Arora wrote: Yes i am also using this OSMand and almost all the applications mentioned

[OSM-talk] openstreetview.org

2011-11-29 Thread Jo
que de se rendre au site web openstreetview.org. Il serait tellement plus pratique si cela était intégrén en JOSM, analogique à la possibilité de télécharger des tracées GPX des autres. Jo ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [OSM-talk] Arducopter

2011-11-30 Thread Jo
My Italian is a bit rusty, but I'll volunteer a translation: Does anybody has experience with the usefulness of the following: http://www.geofreedomday.nl/ http://code.google.com/p/arducopter/ I saw some that were already mounted http://store.diydrones.com/category_s/28.htm This might be nice

Re: [OSM-talk] Arducopter

2011-11-30 Thread Jo
aerial imagery and now in September they were updated for Belgium to a version of spring 2011, instead the ones we had before which were from 3 years before. So the need for such an expensive 'toy', sort of, went away. Thank you Microsoft (never thought I'd ever say that :-) Jo 2011/12/1 Maurizio

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-legal-talk] License Change View on OSM Inspector

2011-12-13 Thread Jo
Go ahead, it's a wiki. I found a way to make screencasts. Would it be useful to create a screencast of an editing session with JOSM, while I'm resolving license issues? Jo 2011/12/13 Floris Looijesteijn o...@floris.nu That's exactly why I'm asking. Most nodes ('information type' nodes like

Re: [OSM-talk] License Change View on OSM

2011-12-13 Thread Jo
there either. Cheers, And happy mapping. Simply check the license for everything you touch and it won't end up in the /dev/null trash can. Jo ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Editing of content that will be deleted on April 1st

2011-12-13 Thread Jo
Critical mass is there, at a ratio of more than a 100/1 and that is of the people who had to speak out their opinion. As far as I'm concerned, I don't have a doubt the license change will proceed. So remapping makes a lot of sense from now on and I'm glad I'm not the only one who is doing it any

Re: [OSM-talk] Editing of content that will be deleted on April 1st

2011-12-13 Thread Jo
2011/12/14 David Earl da...@frankieandshadow.com On Tuesday, December 13, 2011, Jo winfi...@gmail.com wrote: Critical mass is there, at a ratio of more than a 100/1 and that is of the people who had to speak out their opinion. That's not the point. Since not making a decision is the same

Re: [OSM-talk] Editing of content that will be deleted on April 1st

2011-12-13 Thread Jo
The numbers come from Frederik's map and some areas really look dramatic. odbl.poole.ch and http://odbl.de come to very optimistic conclusions. Possibly because they only consider the last contributor to an object or another metric which doesn't hold water. Jo 2011/12/14 Simon Poole si

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-legal-talk] License Change View on OSM Inspector

2011-12-17 Thread Jo
I put up a video where I do some remapping. I'd like to hear whether I can add this to the wiki as a good way to go about it? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaJ3DAFTjX8 Polyglot 2011/12/13 Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org Hi, apologies if this is the 2nd or 3rd time you're reading this,

Re: [OSM-talk] Vista eTrex 10,20,30 series

2011-12-20 Thread Jo
Here I show another method: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqZj1rs3Ul0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=180InFUZiDI Polyglot 2011/12/21 Mike N nice...@att.net A common method of photo surveying in OSM is to take a picture of the GPS while it displays the GPS Satellite time. On the eTrex 30,

Re: [OSM-talk] JOSM error when trying to save a local copy

2011-12-29 Thread Jo
Hi John, I just downloaded 4738 and I was able to save to a local file. I had some trouble adding the improveWayAccuracy plugin, but I think it's due to a flaky internet connection. After 3 retries with Update Plugins, JOSM told me they're all up to date now. Polyglot 2011/12/30 john whelan

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM @ FOSDEM?

2012-01-04 Thread Jo
I missed FOSDEM last year, what was done then? I can also help out this year. Gael Musquet asked for a stand, but I don't know what the decision of the FOSDEM team has been wrt it. I'm on their mailing list and I just perused their web site, but can't find anything. Polyglot 2012/1/4 eMerzh

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-talk-fr] OSM @ FOSDEM?

2012-01-05 Thread Jo
I will be at FOSDEM as well. I can be at the stand for a couple of hours on Saturday and on Sunday. Not all the time, as I'd like to go and discover all the goodies a bit too. I just got a brand new Android Tablet on which I installed Vespucci and OsmAnd and I have some other devices which are

Re: [OSM-talk] The aim of OpenStreetView

2012-01-06 Thread Jo
I upload all the photos I took during my mapping journeys. I'm not a photographer and I'm sure a photographer would abhorr those pictures. Sometimes taken from a riding bicycle or a moving horse... They are meant to be informative, that's all. Openstreetview.org will never be a direct competitor

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Mixing OSM and FOSM data

2012-01-18 Thread Jo
If these people's contributions to those objects were 'negligeable' then reverting those objects may hardly have an effect. They show green so we don't have to waste precious time 'fixing' them. If what those people contributed is not present anymore in the current version, then why would other

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM @ FOSDEM!

2012-02-13 Thread Jo
2012/2/13 Michael Kugelmann michaelk_...@gmx.de Hello all, following my short summary of the FOSDEM 2012 at the first weekend in February at Brussels. As discussed in advance we had an OSM stand at the FOSDEM. See e.g. at

Re: [OSM-talk] Disconnected streets in Lima

2012-05-03 Thread Jo
Hi, As you can see here, local people are becoming active themselves in Peru (and Lima): http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-pe/2012-April/thread.html Maybe you can write a mail in English to their list. At least some of them will be able to communicate in English. I'm sure they'll

Re: [OSM-talk] [Imports] Suspend Imports / Bulk edits / Bots

2012-07-12 Thread Jo
Globally. There is only one database for the whole world, so only one database server that load needs to be kept off. At night (in Europe), when it can't be supervised the redaction bot doesn't seem to run though... But maybe that's only in the beginning, when it needs to be carefully monitored.

Re: [OSM-talk] Redaction progress

2012-07-15 Thread Jo
2012/7/15 Richard Weait rich...@weait.com On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 9:16 AM, kenneth gonsalves law...@thenilgiris.com wrote: On Sun, 2012-07-15 at 11:46 +0100, Richard Fairhurst wrote: The redaction bot has started on the 'Western Europe' area. Because continents are annoyingly not shaped

Re: [OSM-talk] Very not happy

2012-07-20 Thread Jo
I understand your reaction, but this has been announced for a long time now. Around where I live and practically in all of Belgium hardly anything disappeared. This is due to the hard work of myself and others to remap non ODBL compliant stuff before the bot ran. I've also been contacting people,

Re: [OSM-talk] Very Happy - Looking forward

2012-07-24 Thread Jo
I wouldn't want Vespucci to draw a way based on a GPS trace. It does one better: The GPS trace is drawn as a blue line and in the background it provides Bing tiles (or map tiles, if you'd prefer those). So a way can be drawn based on a GPS trace combined with aerial imagery. OK, it's not

Re: [OSM-talk] Naming disputes in Ukraine

2012-07-25 Thread Jo
2012/7/25 Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk Petr Morávek [Xificurk] wrote: Actually 'lang' could be populated from a higher level area setting initially? Well, it could be... but I'm not really a fan of this idea, because... You would need to do a spatial query to get the setting from the

Re: [OSM-talk] Naming disputes in Ukraine

2012-07-26 Thread Jo
2012/7/26 Tirkon tirko...@yahoo.de Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: 1. The concrete question: Should all name tag in the Crimea be in Russian (with appropriate name:uk tags of course), even though the official language in Ukraine is Ukrainian? In Belgium there is a heavy language

Re: [OSM-talk] News report license switch done

2012-09-08 Thread Jo
At the very least on the talk maling list, from where others can translate it and announce it on the language/country specific lists. Who reads that blog anyway? I hadn't even heard of it until you mentioned it and I'm an old timer on this project. Polyglot 2012/9/8 Martijn van Exel

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-talk-fr] Continued aggression against French contributors (cadastre integration)

2012-10-18 Thread Jo
(Désolé d'envoyer ce mail en anglais sur la liste talk-fr, mais c'est plutôt dirigé vers talk en général) I have been following talk-fr myself and my opinion on the 'efforts' of pnorman is that he is trying very hard to chase away well meaning contributors in France. The French cadastre is just

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-talk-fr] Continued aggression against French contributors (cadastre integration)

2012-10-18 Thread Jo
2012/10/18 Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org Hi, On 10/18/12 14:41, Pieren wrote: It's more than 5 minutes if you have to create first a new email account (I know now all the tricks to duplicate our first email account but then explain why a different email address is still required)

[OSM-talk] public_transport=platform not rendered

2012-11-17 Thread Jo
Hi, In April 2011 a new schema was approved for tagging bus stops. I've been holding off for 1,5 years, but now I started to retag highway=bus_stop to public_transport=platform. The stops don't get rendered anymore though. Do I have to go back and readd highway=bus_stop to all of them, or will

Re: [OSM-talk] public_transport=platform not rendered

2012-11-17 Thread Jo
If there is an actual platform, I tend to create way for it. Until now I added both highway=platform and public_transport=platform to them. As far as I'm concerned, that's tagging for the renderer though. I could, of course, add both highway=bus_stop and public_transport=platform to the 4

Re: [OSM-talk] public_transport=platform not rendered

2012-11-17 Thread Jo
The discussion/argument needs to be had anyway, so that is not a bad thing. I also liked that public transport is in its own namespace now. To keep things simple it's probably a good thing that we don't have a separate public_transport=pole or public_transport=flag. I don't mark all the stop

Re: [OSM-talk] public_transport=platform not rendered

2012-11-18 Thread Jo
to check cycle and walking node routes for continuity, that could be easily adapted for the purpose. Cheers, Polyglot 2012/11/18 John F. Eldredge j...@jfeldredge.com Jo winfi...@gmail.com wrote: I don't mark all the stop positions. To me they are less important, than were the stop

Re: [OSM-talk] public_transport=platform not rendered

2012-11-19 Thread Jo
schrieb Jo winfi...@gmail.com: When, some distant day in the future, public_transport=platform is taken into account and rendered, I'll start converting them when I touch them to change other tags, which is what I thought I could start doing now, since it's been 1,5 years since the proposal passed

Re: [OSM-talk] public_transport=platform not rendered

2012-11-19 Thread Jo
I always read that paragraph as something transitional. But apparently transition doesn't happen over 1,5 years, maybe 15 years is more realistic. Although I'd expect another proposal would have emerged and possibly approved by then... Hopefully one that allows for route relations to be composed

Re: [OSM-talk] Recommendations for OSM mobile app?

2012-11-27 Thread Jo
I wanted to tell you a few days ago that OsmAnd does all you want. Maybe write a small manual page for it, for the subset of features your users need. I didn't do it then, hoping somebody else would have a better suggestion. Polyglot 2012/11/24 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com Hi all, I'm

Re: [OSM-talk] Recommendations for OSM mobile app?

2012-11-29 Thread Jo
'discovered'/Bing/Mapnik). I should figure out how I could add the hiking symbols from Lonvia someday... Still I think with all the other requirements you have, OsmAND is your best bet. Jo 2012/11/29 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com Hi Jo, Yeah, OsmAnd does everything - but it's pretty

Re: [OSM-talk] public_transport=platform not rendered

2012-12-06 Thread Jo
with highway=bus_stop. Grüsse, Jo ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] House Numbers

2012-12-30 Thread Jo
. Thanks for this and best wishes, Jo 2012/12/30 Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org Hi, I've made a program that counts how many house numbers someone has added. It uses object history, so it should be able to correctly award the count to the person actually adding the addr:housenumber tag

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Future Look

2013-01-06 Thread Jo
Maybe the home page should not have a map on it (it's only a sample of what is in the database anyway, which will always be lacking some feature). Instead it could have links to openlinkmap.org (which is what you seem to want), hikebikemap.de, http://demo.3liz.com/osmtransport/ and many more fine

Re: [OSM-talk] Overlapping ways

2013-01-09 Thread Jo
You can use the layer tag on one of both ways. It probably also needs bridge=yes. Jo 2013/1/9 Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com Hi List, If I have a situation (e.g. a 2 level carpark) where a road runs exactly above another road, how do I map this? Currently I used layers but I have

[OSM-talk] Is somebody eager to give a presentation about Openstreetmap at the RMLL in Brussels in July?

2013-02-12 Thread Jo
Hi people (sorry for crossposting, please remove the lists that don't apply when replying), The presentation should be in English even when the RMLL (Rencontres Mondiales du Logiciel Libre) have French roots. The local people will also organise a mapping party on the day which tries to reach the

[OSM-talk] Openstreetmap server down?

2013-02-19 Thread Jo
Hi, Is the server down? I can't up or download anymore since last night. Polyglot ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Interesting cases of vandalism?

2013-02-22 Thread Jo
Other kind of vandalism are mappers who want to correct perceived errors (they prefer different tags, or they have read in the wiki that a certain tag is deprecated and so they delete these tags or change them to other tags (that are maybe not in broader use)). This is partly also happening

Re: [OSM-talk] Re : Why do we have so many registered users with zero edits ?

2013-04-15 Thread Jo
language(s) they speak and understand. When trying to reach larger and larger crowds it's important to realise not everybody is very proficient in English. Jo 2013/4/15 Jean-Marc Liotier j...@liotier.org On 04/15/2013 04:52 PM, Mikel Maron wrote: I just would offer hint's to newbies what

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM relation ID property in Wikidata

2013-05-07 Thread Jo
Say the supermarket downsizes and the other half of the building becomes used by another company. We split the building, creating 1 new building, glued to the original building. Now there is a 50% chance the existing building outline continues as the supermarket and 50% it's the new company

[OSM-talk] Tagging of a large slab of concrete with many bus routes going over it

2010-10-04 Thread Jo
the concrete in order to get a nice picture when rendering the bus routes. It seems like a good compromise, but I'm at a loss about whether it's the right way to map the whole area. Thanks for your input. Jo ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] spot imagery for osm tracing

2010-10-05 Thread Jo
I downloaded josm-latest.jar, started it, F12, download list, update plugins, but nothing related to SPOT is available among my plugins. Do I need to add another server? Jo ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Flight paths in OSM

2010-10-10 Thread Jo
some suggestion which lines make the connection to the endpoint and what the limitations are (only until 23h, for example). Jo 2010/10/10 Fabio Alessandro Locati fabioloc...@gmail.com Why iwould it be not useful to public transport routing? On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Mike N. nice

Re: [OSM-talk] Explicit tagging of name language

2010-12-07 Thread Jo
to the name of the city itself. Jo ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-07 Thread Jo
Jaak, do you know that you can change the offset in most editors? Potlatch2 and JOSM. I suppose in Merkaartor too, but I don't know for sure. 2010/12/7 Jaak Laineste jaak.laine...@gmail.com 2010/12/7 Jean-Marc Liotier j...@liotier.org: Others have noticed it. Among them :

Re: [OSM-talk] Questions about importing data for University of Vermont campus

2011-01-28 Thread Jo
All the objects on the map carry a history. If you simply blow them away that history is lost as well. So the best way would be to modify those objects. That's a lot harder to automate though. Jo 2011/1/28 yvecai yve...@gmail.com On 28. 01. 11 21:25, Andrew Guertin wrote: First, some

Re: [OSM-talk] New tool in Potlatch 2 for areas that share a way

2011-01-31 Thread Jo
I also fail to see how I should convert the patched blanket of landuses into multipolygons. I try to use those multipolygons as sparingly as possible. Jo ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage

2011-02-07 Thread Jo
. mapping of sidewalks, mapping of street lanterns ;) (compare the AeroWest imagery we have (had?) availlable for use in Dortmund). Counting the number of white lines in pedestrian crossings :-) Jo ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage - more levels

2011-02-08 Thread Jo
For me the tipping point is between 18 and 19. Over Leuven (Belgium) it goes up to 19. 5 kilometers East of Leuven it's only 18 and the difference is enormous. Then again, only a few months ago there was nothing to work from. Cheers, Jo ___ talk

Re: [OSM-talk] It's fun while it lasts

2011-02-11 Thread Jo
2011/2/11 Jean-Marc Liotier j...@liotier.org: Chris Browet wrote: Les carottes poussent la nuit... Can you believe that http://www.google.com/#q=Les+carottes+poussent+la+nuit; does not return a single hit ? Did you just coin that French proverb on the spot ? It sounds like nonsense: best

Re: [OSM-talk] It's fun while it lasts

2011-02-11 Thread Jo
Chris Browet wrote: Les carottes poussent la nuit... Can you believe that http://www.google.com/#q=Les+carottes+poussent+la+nuit; does not return a single hit ? Did you just coin that French proverb on the spot ? It sounds like nonsense: best effort translation: The carrots

Re: [OSM-talk] Manual Point Entry

2011-02-11 Thread Jo
Create an xml file with an .osm extension. Open this file with JOSM and upload... The only problem with this approach is that you'd also have to check for double entries. Jo 2011/2/11 Esben Stien b...@esben-stien.name: Is there some kind of command line application that would let me enter

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=unsurfaced

2011-02-12 Thread Jo
it, wouldn't it? I do map on horseback though and that's a lot of fun too. Cheers, Jo, who'll probably won't be able to make it to Chiang Mai, unfortunately ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Addresses

2011-02-28 Thread Jo
with a regular expression. Of course, first check whether your data is OK to import into OSM, license wise. Jo 2011/3/1 John-Michael Wiley jmwi...@microsoft.com: I am working on a project which will be importing items from excel and putting them on the map. The items (shops, buildings,…) have

Re: [OSM-talk] all our addresses are belong to you

2011-03-03 Thread Jo
and copy/paste them to another (new) layer. The 2 adresses I already processed where both companies, so it's probably worth it to look them up on the internet to find out what is located at these adresses. Enjoy! Jo PS: it's trivial to adapt this code so it creates a separate file per state

Re: [OSM-talk] all our addresses are belong to you

2011-03-03 Thread Jo
When importing these, I tend to drag them onto the nearest building... 2011/3/3 M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com I have checked the 7 or so non-duplicate Addresses for Rome and found that only 1 was not on the road itself. Is is possible that these lat/lon have been obtained with

Re: [OSM-talk] all our addresses are belong to you

2011-03-03 Thread Jo
we don't want. In one case I was able to correct a street name Antoon Spinoystraat instead of Antoon Spinoylaan. Jo 2011/3/3 M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com 2011/3/3 Jo winfi...@gmail.com: When importing these, I tend to drag them onto the nearest building... On which one

Re: [OSM-talk] all our addresses are belong to you

2011-03-03 Thread Jo
I used mapquest_critical_addresses for the source tag. Jo 2011/3/3 Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com Is there any particular source or maybe source:addr tag being used when mapping things based on this data? Out of the two nodes in my city, one was spot on - maybe 5 feet from the front

Re: [OSM-talk] all our addresses are belong to you

2011-03-03 Thread Jo
numbers present yet in our data, one can never be sure that the nodes are placed correctly. It's also not clear whether these addresses are provided by the customers of these companies, or by the company owners themselves. Possibly a little bit of both? Jo 2011/3/4 Alan Mintz alan_mintz

Re: [OSM-talk] Bike / Pedestrian directions on the MQ Open sites

2011-03-11 Thread Jo
About that tag, it makes sense if there actually is a bicycle path, but when it's a street where only bicycles can go in two directions, wouldn't it make more sense to use one_way:bicycle=no? Jo 2011/3/11 ant antof...@gmail.com Hi, On 04.03.2011 15:04, Antony Pegg wrote: knowing

Re: [OSM-talk] To the author of the AddrInterpolation JOSM plugin

2011-03-20 Thread Jo
This is probably not desired behaviour in The Netherlands (since the postcode can change even within a street), but it is valid in most of the rest of the world. Jo 2011/3/20 Floris Looijesteijn o...@floris.nu I can't find who wrote this, so I hope the author reads this list. Since a while

Re: [OSM-talk] Skip geographical (redundant) address tags

2011-05-03 Thread Jo
∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com 2011/5/3 Jo winfi...@gmail.com: What I do to avoid most redundancy, is to create an associatedStreet relation. ... I add more than one street to them though, even if JOSM complains about that. it is not just JOSM complaining about

Re: [OSM-talk] Skip geographical (redundant) address tags

2011-05-03 Thread Jo
/3 M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com 2011/5/3 Jo winfi...@gmail.com: The very first I did, I did it according to 'spec': http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/7595148 The result is a ridiculous amount of 4 relations for a street of less than 1,5 km in length. Some

Re: [OSM-talk] Skip geographical (redundant) address tags

2011-05-03 Thread Jo
Select some street parts, building outlines and nodes. Press the button to create a new relation and add them. Then add the properties to the relation. That really doesn't take longer than adding those properties directly to the elements themselves. Of course, I always have the relation overview

Re: [OSM-talk] naming an item in multiple languages

2011-05-31 Thread Jo
In Brussels we map as follows: name:fr=Avenue Général Jacques name:nl=Generaal Jacqueslaan name=Avenue Général Jacques - Generaal Jacqueslaan Which keeps everybody happy. Names on the signs are bilingual. Polyglot 2011/5/31 Richard Weait rich...@weait.com On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 8:30 PM,

Re: [OSM-talk] adding multiple relations (bus routes) to one road

2011-07-06 Thread Jo
in JOSM. It would be easier to manage changes though, if the information wasn't duplicated 40 times. There is also a public transport map here now: http://opencyclemap.org/?zoom=16lat=-36.84618lon=174.77386layers=0B Jo 2011/7/6 Robin Paulson robin.paul...@gmail.com hi, I'm currently adding

Re: [OSM-talk] shortened names

2011-07-08 Thread Jo
I made this same remark and somebody changed the wiki: street one or more The associated street (more than one way possible if they are the same street, just have been split for mapping reasons) Now all that is needed is that JOSM's validation rules stop complaing about more than one street role

Re: [OSM-talk] Automatic Map Plotting in OpenStreetMap

2011-08-14 Thread Jo
The text on his user page: schreibt ruhig! Ich beiße nicht! :-) means: You can write me without worrying I won't bite! :-) Maybe he used a plugin of JOSM which makes it easy to create a 'grid' very quickly. Polyglot ___ talk mailing list

[OSM-talk] Yippee! JOSM is the best! :-)

2011-09-03 Thread Jo
I'm trying to create networks of nodes of the cycle node network. Up to now I've been flying blind. Using search over and over again. Now I found a nicer solution: A text file rcn.mapcss with one line in it: node[rcn_ref] {text-color: blue; font-size: 14; text: rcn_ref; text-halo: #aa;

Re: [OSM-talk] How to start to remove non-CT compliant data..

2011-09-05 Thread Jo
It would indeed be great if we could use an arbitrary version of an object to continue to build upon. Now, I have to start all over on each object that was touched by somebody who didn't agree (yet) to the CTs, which is annoying, as it disrupts the entire history. Jo 2011/9/5 Ian Sergeant iserg

Re: [OSM-talk] Installing your own tileserver on Ubuntu

2011-10-26 Thread Jo
, in the morning, so it can catch up? I've been running it almost continuously for the past few hours and it always seems to have a lot of work to do... Anyway, now I'll have to work on adding layers for cycling, hiking, horseback and bus routes and their stylesheets. Thanks for making this possible, Jo

Re: [OSM-talk] Installing your own tileserver on Ubuntu

2011-10-27 Thread Jo
2011/10/27 Kai Krueger kakrue...@gmail.com: On 10/26/2011 04:58 PM, Jo wrote: [...] This is setup on my portable and I was wondering: Do I have to set a cron job for the tiles-update-expire to run every hour? What happens when I switch off my portable. Will the changes of the past night all

Re: [OSM-talk] Living with 'improvements'

2013-09-02 Thread Jo
It's what we're doing here in Belgium as well, but then there are very few roads left where the default speed of 90km/h still applies... Jo 2013/9/2 Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk SomeoneElse wrote: If the fix for this is to manually apply the national speed limit to every road, then OK

Re: [OSM-talk] Bitcoin Spam

2013-12-03 Thread Jo
So these are not even the shop owners themselves which are spamming us with useless information? Jo 2013/12/4 Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com Steve, You're right, in theory, but there's a bunch that Frederik has omitted. First, the coinmap people have not merely been documenting places

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