Re: [OSM-talk] Automatically generated changeset discussion comments by OSMCha

2018-01-17 Thread Lester Caine
agged in a way that you KNOW just how it was generated, and can filter the 'social media' contributions from the 'constructive' ones. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://

Re: [OSM-talk] iD news - v2.6.0 lots of new features...

2018-01-23 Thread Lester Caine
ered ) and 'property' would be the expanded for. For 'unit' ... 'X' and 'Unit X' ... for office 'blocks' this may be something like 'B4A' for 'Block B, Floor 4, Office A' or something similar. Units on a storage site may well

Re: [OSM-talk] iD news - v2.6.0 lots of new features...

2018-01-23 Thread Lester Caine
On 23/01/18 09:37, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: 2018-01-23 10:06 GMT+01:00 Lester Caine <mailto:les...@lsces.co.uk>>:  Actually it's more likely to be the estate name so for my near by estate it is messy since I've ended up using 'housenumber' so that it

Re: [OSM-talk] Highway=trunk : harmonization between countries ?

2018-02-24 Thread Lester Caine
s from the distinction? Do any countries not have motorways at all? Certainly the current default rendering is useless for many of us anyway so we have to ue an alternate anyway ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Ca

Re: [OSM-talk] Highway=trunk : harmonization between countries ?

2018-02-24 Thread Lester Caine
tting email replies properly handled on different lists :( ) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop -

Re: [OSM-talk] Please do not re-use old node IDs

2018-03-06 Thread Lester Caine
ible. I think I know the answer, but should the API be able to accept these ID's anyway? In an ideal world, the previous now hidden data should perhaps be flagged when the ID is used? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine

Re: [OSM-talk] About OSM social implications and what can/should be displayed on the map (or not)

2018-06-30 Thread Lester Caine
continual churn of 'views of what is important' on a single static map and I know the technology is there, just not the resources to generate it? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - htt

Re: [OSM-talk] proposed mechanical edit - moving FIXME=* to fixme=*

2018-07-03 Thread Lester Caine
rcing lowercase only tags? The fact that 'FIXME' and 'fixme' can exist on the same node just seems wrong in ANY case? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk Enqui

Re: [OSM-talk] proposed mechanical edit - moving FIXME=* to fixme=*

2018-07-03 Thread Lester Caine
one thing, but 'FIXME' is clean and changing them just because you can adds nothing to the data. Get on an deal with them to remove them all together is the right tack ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine

Re: [OSM-talk] building=grandstand vs leisure=bleachers

2018-07-14 Thread Lester Caine
y structures for a particular event but present for some time perhaps every year. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digita

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=* + area=yes vs area:highway=*

2018-08-08 Thread Lester Caine
wever no current method of converting all of these area elements into 'ways', so one needs additional highway=xxx ways to provide the routing information that provides the macro level view. So you do not want an 'area:highway=footpath' if there is a hi

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=* + area=yes vs area:highway=*

2018-08-11 Thread Lester Caine
' tags to the areas. IN THAT CASE area=yes could be used to identify that there are associated area objects that can be used on higher resolution mapping. I don't think 'area:highway=' has place especially where the 'centerline' way is used to combine several highway=xx

Re: [OSM-talk] Representing places with no housenumber

2018-08-23 Thread Lester Caine
USPS had a similar postal address listing? I find the practice of adding ANY tag that does not enhance the data as pointless. There is no need to TAG that there is no number ... you just don't add the tag ... just as the example here ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL -

Re: [OSM-talk] Really heavy browser load with Overpass-turbo map display

2018-10-04 Thread Lester Caine
truggling with the lack of Firebug as the replacement has problems with font sizes at least on linux and does not provide some of the nice features Firebug STILL provides on my development machine. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/

Re: [OSM-talk] Plus code grid service

2018-11-19 Thread Lester Caine
actually gained traction on the ground? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - https://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - https://medw.co.uk Rain

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMF makes a political decision where should be a technical solution?

2018-11-23 Thread Lester Caine
le to manage this area in a generic way? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - https://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - https://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital M

Re: [OSM-talk] Great SOTM08 so thinking ahead ...

2008-07-15 Thread Lester Caine
80n wrote: > The coastline looks ok from here: > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=27.987&lon=-15.521&zoom=10&layers=0B0FTF > <http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=27.987&lon=-15.521&zoom=10&layers=0B0FTF> Toggle to mapnik .... But keep yo

Re: [OSM-talk] suggestion for SOTM09

2008-07-18 Thread Lester Caine
is a good cooperative network on line - something that I think is evolving nicely with OSM :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model

Re: [OSM-talk] post by mistake

2008-07-28 Thread Lester Caine
ock editing of areas except by approved editors. I think need to 'legislate' in software has been avoided to far, but if other 'politically sensitive' areas need help - that may need reviewing again? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/lsc

Re: [OSM-talk] Isle of Man coastline issue

2008-08-07 Thread Lester Caine
0F Interestingly google seems to have a problem with the golf links as well? They just create a lot extra white space where the shore line should be. But it's nice to see that OSM actually has the railways on :) It would be nice to have some way to show the house trams on the front in Dougla

Re: [OSM-talk] service roads as driveways

2008-08-25 Thread Lester Caine
one so that those of us who are linguistically challenged can at least understand the comparison. Although I WOULD like to see the title in the language of the country since that makes perfect sense? ) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/

Re: [OSM-talk] How do you respond to talk posts so that that they fit correctly into the thread structure in talk archive?

2008-08-29 Thread Lester Caine
Digests have their own id's so can't be linked to the different one's of the original messages. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - htt

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenRouteService now supports UK and Ireland

2008-09-02 Thread Lester Caine
Pascal Neis wrote: > hi, > all services of openrouteservice.org > now also available for UK and Ireland. > > have fun! > > cheers > pascal > > http://openrouteservice.org/ What am I not doing? It keeps telling me that England is outside the area it cover

Re: [OSM-talk] ferry route speed

2008-09-03 Thread Lester Caine
ables and direct you to the operator's booking page ;) Could probably even make money from it :) Train times would also fit well into that approach, as well as other 'timetabled' events? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/lsces/wi

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap routing service

2008-09-06 Thread Lester Caine
oads would be quicker ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// Firebird - http://www.fire

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap routing service

2008-09-08 Thread Lester Caine
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:47:00 +0100, Lester Caine <> wrote: >> Interesting choice of routes when going north up the M6 but I'm sure at >> times >> that taking the back roads would be quicker ;) >> > Do you have an example (using t

Re: [OSM-talk] Large Hadron Collider at CERN now in OppenStreetMap

2008-09-15 Thread Lester Caine
that they want to send things both way :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// Firebird

Re: [OSM-talk] Large Hadron Collider at CERN now in OppenStreetMap

2008-09-15 Thread Lester Caine
Karl Newman wrote: > On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 8:12 AM, Lester Caine <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > Joseph Scanlan wrote: > > On Sat, 13 Sep 2008, paul youlten wrote: > > > >> Woul

Re: [OSM-talk] Large Hadron Collider at CERN now in OppenStreetMap

2008-09-15 Thread Lester Caine
he gaps in current proofs - even if it needs a link to another dimension. What does this have to do with OSM? Wouldn't it be nice to be ahead of the game and have the first map of the universe - complete with wormholes :) But I think we may need something a little

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposed feature for noname

2008-09-21 Thread Lester Caine
new problem? If something does not have a name why would you ADD a name=xx tag. No name tag = no name. I doubt that every trackway has a name so why ADD thousands of noname=yes when simply not providing a name tag does the same thing. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Co

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposed feature for noname

2008-09-22 Thread Lester Caine
Frederik Ramm wrote: > Lester Caine wrote: >> Am I missing something here, or is the editing interface now CREATING >> a new problem? If something does not have a name why would you ADD a >> name=xx tag. No name tag = no name. I doubt that every trackway has a >> n

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposed feature for noname

2008-09-22 Thread Lester Caine
Elena of Valhalla wrote: > On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Lester Caine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> [...] >> There was a suggestion for name=__NONAME__ but that is also wrong - what is >> needed is a SIMPLE name=__TODO__ where there is an item that we know HAS a >

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposed feature for noname

2008-09-22 Thread Lester Caine
- other bits highlighted because they have no name ... The bottom line is WHAT set of highway= tags should be flagged automatically as no-name and therefore require an additional tag to flag them as really having no name. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - htt

Re: [OSM-talk] [Tagging] - RFC - Motorway_link implies oneway=??

2008-10-02 Thread Lester Caine
orway and motorway_link ARE always one way and anything that needed to be two way would not be flagged as 'motorway' but no doubt parallels in other countries are not quite so clear cut? Perhaps the OSM definition of motorway should include the restriction of a single direction c

Re: [OSM-talk] [Tagging] - RFC - Motorway_link implies oneway=??

2008-10-02 Thread Lester Caine
tent / very rare. > > Quite the opposite: most motorway_links around here a bidirectional, except > the small parts where they enter and exit the motorway. Then only the small parts that are the actual link should be tagged as motorway_links ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL -

Re: [OSM-talk] [Tagging] - RFC - Motorway_link implies oneway=??

2008-10-02 Thread Lester Caine
hose have now been split with barriers on UK links. Too many cases of idiots driving up the wrong 'L' link ;) Seriously - if the motorway rules apply to the L2 section as well then it has to be flagged as a motorway_link :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Co

Re: [OSM-talk] Motorways and Motorway_link

2008-10-02 Thread Lester Caine
this that I frequent have now been divided with a barrier. And a word of warning the 'Maximum speed' for a single carriageway road in the UK is 60 MPH. This applies to these links up to the 'start of motorway' sign which may not be actually at the end of the link - I&#

Re: [OSM-talk] Motorways and Motorway_link

2008-10-03 Thread Lester Caine
, if correct speed indication is to be provided for route planning, then the position of the actual start point is as important as placing a change of speed limit at the correct point? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Cain

Re: [OSM-talk] Motorways and Motorway_link

2008-10-04 Thread Lester Caine
other indications have caused drivers problems in the past which is one reason - as I indicated earlier - most of the approaches around here now have central divides in place, so form two carriageways even if it is one road surface? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact

Re: [OSM-talk] [Tagging] - RFC - Motorway_link implies oneway=??

2008-10-08 Thread Lester Caine
the two way bit will probably be an extra segment - tagged motorway_link! Of cause directions of these segments is as important as the oneway data, but only a routing program may spot an error? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?pa

Re: [OSM-talk] pub vs café

2008-10-18 Thread Lester Caine
be served breakfast in the hotels restaurant but non-residents would only normally use that for breakfast if joining another resident of the hotel ( or they have money burning holes in their pockets ;) ). This is another 'rule' that has been eroded over time, but is probably one that

Re: [OSM-talk] Asus eee and OpenStreetMap

2008-10-18 Thread Lester Caine
ntu. Are the other instructions the same for debian/ubuntu? > Do I need to change something for debian/ubuntu howto? Probably worth adding that to the osm wiki as well. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Elect

Re: [OSM-talk] UK Industrial Estate Roads

2008-11-07 Thread Lester Caine
with an added access=private for roads within security areas. unclassified is certainly out of place where the purpose of the road is known, but perhaps THAT is what needs to be defined as a tagging guideline? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.

Re: [OSM-talk] UK Industrial Estate Roads

2008-11-07 Thread Lester Caine
Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote: > Lester Caine wrote: >> Sent: 07 November 2008 11:47 AM >> To: OSM Talk >> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] UK Industrial Estate Roads >> >> David Earl wrote: >>> On 07/11/2008 11:31, Christoph Boehme wrote: >>>

Re: [OSM-talk] UK Industrial Estate Roads

2008-11-07 Thread Lester Caine
Cartinus wrote: > On Friday 07 November 2008 12:47:07 Lester Caine wrote: >> unclassified is certainly out of place where the purpose of the road is >> known, > > ??? > > Can you explain what you mean by this? The purpose of the service road is to service an indust

Re: [OSM-talk] UK Industrial Estate Roads

2008-11-08 Thread Lester Caine
Andy Allan wrote: > On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 11:00 PM, Lester Caine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The purpose of the service road is to service an industrial area - therefore >> it is not simply unclassified. Unclassified is only appropriate - in my >> opinion - w

Re: [OSM-talk] UK Industrial Estate Roads

2008-11-09 Thread Lester Caine
ould make sense, I suppose. That is probably overkill. I think there probably needs to be a number of properties to switch to 'residential' > In the case of industrial estates I tend to use unclassified if it > is a through route (or even tertiary if it is a major uncla

Re: [OSM-talk] [Legal-general] Ordnance Survey tries to reinforce its stranglehold over "derived" geographic data in the UK

2008-11-21 Thread Lester Caine
ve > works" displayed using the Gmaps api?! And I think at one stage - anything submitted via chrome? Not sure THAT condition on the chrome licence has been removed but it certainly stops me from even downloading it ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact -

Re: [OSM-talk] Rendering barangays for the Philippines

2008-11-26 Thread Lester Caine
eek, but with the ski season for the north with us, up to date maps showing the show conditions are probably of interest to a lot of people. I'm certainly not one of them, but why should snow maps be any different to cycling or 'in-line skating' ;) -- Lester Caine - G8H

Re: [OSM-talk] merkaartor download is b0rked

2008-11-27 Thread Lester Caine
aartor-0.11.tar.bz2 is correct, but they are on 0.12 now. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http:/

Re: [OSM-talk] Edit war on the wiki "map features"

2008-12-01 Thread Lester Caine
re is nothing proposed that *I* would consider provides useful information. Perhaps it is time for secondary data projects - like the cycle map - to have thier own set of extra tags that are only used for those mapping excercises? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Conta

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging for general household shop

2009-01-19 Thread Lester Caine
Mike Harris wrote: > Thanks - now I get the difference - my mistake. What we sometimes call an > "Aladdin's Cave" - but I guess 'household' is a more generally understood > tag (:>) ... Aunt Wainwrights .. perhaps ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ---

Re: [OSM-talk] How to integrate a roundabout into a relation

2009-01-31 Thread Lester Caine
it's segments will be skipped - but it still has to be part of the route relationship since one needs to know where you can join or exit the route? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http:

Re: [OSM-talk] Wiki: chriscf vandalism

2009-01-31 Thread Lester Caine
plementation of additional data such as 'road condition' and other areas where on the whole the local interpretation of something like that may be totally inappropriate in another country? While not wanting to propose a dictatorship, I do wonder if it isn't about time that we had a '

Re: [OSM-talk] "News blog" link - to blogs.openstreetmap.org?

2009-02-16 Thread Lester Caine
'blogs' ? History has it's place and MUST not be lost, but progress encompassing the international nature of OSM and creating an international 'feel' to replace the 'UK project' comments such as we saw recently in the Canadian press is a must? -- Lester Caine

Re: [OSM-talk] extracts for historical views at a specific point in time

2014-08-14 Thread Lester Caine
grab a 2 year old copy of the planet file, but the last one in the archive is 14-Sep-2012 and then they are weekly from then. Extracting your arget area and then rendering a map from it just follows the same process as working with the current data. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL --

Re: [OSM-talk] UK is turning blue?

2014-08-18 Thread Lester Caine
On 18/08/14 13:18, moltonel 3x Combo wrote: >>> The endless rain of 2014 might though ;-) >> > :-) >> > >> > Hit refresh, it seems to be fixed now. > Nope. Still raining outside. Dry inside and out here ... all looking fine. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL -

Re: [OSM-talk] online survey about the OSM community

2014-08-19 Thread Lester Caine
On 19/08/14 17:47, OSMR wrote: > Thank you in advance for your potential participation and apologies for > the lengthy message in case you are not interested. I gave up before I got half way - just seems like a load of useless crap? Anybody actually managed the whole thing? -- Lester

Re: [OSM-talk] online survey about the OSM community

2014-08-19 Thread Lester Caine
to see if you were reading stuck out like a sore thumb ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http:/

Re: [OSM-talk] online survey about the OSM community

2014-08-20 Thread Lester Caine
prompt any sensible answers which is why I gave up :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Worksho

Re: [OSM-talk] Detrimental to the OSM database

2014-08-23 Thread Lester Caine
does not know that will be stripping data simply because it does not follow the programmers arbitrarily defined rules. This is DEFINITELY not something that should be rolled out blindly across all countries as certainly ome ARE now adding very fine detail over the top of the originall

Re: [OSM-talk] Detrimental to the OSM database

2014-08-23 Thread Lester Caine
s line up exactly with one another. I'd rather not see some of the list on maproulette applied to the UK and I'm sure other European countries would feel the same? We have some very fine detail now being mapped and any smoothing algorithm wuold have to b

Re: [OSM-talk] Detrimental to the OSM database

2014-08-23 Thread Lester Caine
On 23/08/14 09:47, Lester Caine wrote: > On 23/08/14 09:16, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: >> I object to someone telling me that a road needs 'smoothing' ... it may >> well have very well mapped source data, and someone who does not know >> that will be stripp

Re: [OSM-talk] Detrimental to the OSM database

2014-08-24 Thread Lester Caine
On 23/08/14 16:29, Clifford Snow wrote: > On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 2:20 AM, Lester Caine <mailto:les...@lsces.co.uk>> wrote: > > > http://openstreetmap.us/iD/release/#background=Bing&map=17.00/-83.15249/36.43657 > is the one I'm currently on and leav

Re: [OSM-talk] Detrimental to the OSM database

2014-08-24 Thread Lester Caine
this is perhaps my own concern. Rules that work well for some data may be totally inappropriate for other, so 'challenges' should be restricted to the areas where those rules are known to work well, rather than simply blindly applying them world wide? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL --

Re: [OSM-talk] Detrimental to the OSM database

2014-08-24 Thread Lester Caine
On 24/08/14 11:45, Paul Norman wrote: > On 8/24/2014 2:48 AM, Lester Caine wrote: >> It's not the 'brightness - it's the compressed contrast which is has >> always been the problem with iD. maproulette does not link to potlatch2 >> which I'd normally u

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding Wikidata tags to 70k items automatically

2014-08-31 Thread Lester Caine
hat third party services simply referenced OSM rather than downloading yet another layer of data into the core database. That OSM does not have a reliable id for POI's may be the problem here, but adding tags for every other database in OSM is not the solution to that? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding Wikidata tags to 70k items automatically

2014-08-31 Thread Lester Caine
filtering relevant to the intended use. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Ra

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding Wikidata tags to 70k items automatically

2014-09-01 Thread Lester Caine
concentrate on that as a cross reference to obtain timezone data for OSM. If wikidata is so open, then every tag added here should have the reciprocal tag added there, then I'll believe it's worth using :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.u

Re: [OSM-talk] Changeset comment function

2014-11-02 Thread Lester Caine
corrections which private messaging can never initiate. I would probably go on to propose that grouping a large number of similar but data wise unrelated changes be flagged as bad practice so that elements of a change CAN be discussed better via this mechanism. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL -

Re: [OSM-talk] Changeset comment function

2014-11-03 Thread Lester Caine
#x27; request and the fine detail could be hammered out then committed once agreed ... rather than pulling it apart in later discussions on that changeset? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services -

Re: [OSM-talk] Request for feedback: new building colours in openstreetmap-carto

2014-11-27 Thread Lester Caine
l the buildings, but I think I HAVE established that a zoom level should use the icon OMLY when the name is not displayed, and if there is no icon don't just display a dot :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine

Re: [OSM-talk] Request for feedback: new building colours in openstreetmap-carto

2014-11-27 Thread Lester Caine
On 27/11/14 09:42, Matthijs Melissen wrote: > > On 27 Nov 2014 09:18, "Lester Caine" <mailto:les...@lsces.co.uk>> wrote: >> Not sure your demo is proving anything. Zooming in on the area covered >> by the demo on the live map I'm not seeing very mu

Re: [OSM-talk] New building colour

2015-01-04 Thread Lester Caine
selectable style sheet, or perhaps simply a base layer on top of which different languages and styles can be selected. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve -

Re: [OSM-talk] New building colour

2015-01-04 Thread Lester Caine
e text onto the adjacent buildings are another areas that needs properly fixing! What works well for one country and style of mapping simply fails in many others. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - htt

Re: [OSM-talk] New building colour

2015-01-04 Thread Lester Caine
ilar contrast landuse rendering ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital

Re: [OSM-talk] Request for feedback: new building colours in openstreetmap-carto

2015-01-05 Thread Lester Caine
g but the sample page I posted I have no problem with the old contrast - only the new one is causing difficulty - and comments from others! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk En

[OSM-talk] Maps in Malta

2015-01-05 Thread Lester Caine
to use to get to the right road. Not sure there is an easy way to enhance the display to show the 'angle' of the road but had a good time helped by well detailed mapping data. Thanks to those who contributed it. ( Am looking to OSMAND as a means of creating other map displays ) --

Re: [OSM-talk] MEP - pipelines

2015-01-06 Thread Lester Caine
ng infrastructure and allowing MANAGEMENT of the evolution of tags. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital

Re: [OSM-talk] MEP - pipelines

2015-01-09 Thread Lester Caine
ata related to a particular tag has changed. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digit

Re: [OSM-talk] how do i get a mapper to engage with the community over mass imports?

2015-04-24 Thread Lester Caine
oduced a database of import attributions so that the 'source' tag just becomes an Ixxx.yyy and all of the generic tagging can be accessed via that. We can then more easily see what is 'managed import' over manual data. In the case of the LINZ data for instance adding address infor

Re: [OSM-talk] how do i get a mapper to engage with the community over mass imports?

2015-04-24 Thread Lester Caine
e'll see what happens As I indicated ... it is more a matter of what is wrong with the new data. I WOULD expect new building data to include the address and perhaps the fact that this is missing is good enough reason not to allow the import. Particularly if the buildings removed did have addre

Re: [OSM-talk] Sidewalks

2015-04-25 Thread Lester Caine
he single way. At high resolution we see the buildings, footpaths and grass areas ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers D

Re: [OSM-talk] Removing redundant routing instructions

2015-04-27 Thread Lester Caine
red by mud? The extra direction can ACTUALLY be helpful if it's a route one has not been before. It only becomes irritating when one is hearing it for the n'th time ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine El

Re: [OSM-talk] Removing redundant routing instructions

2015-04-27 Thread Lester Caine
rmation? As I said, the inclusion of road names in OSMAND while useful at times does get similarly annoying when a 'continue on Axxx' would suffice. In this case the road id provides the "through_route" information ... one remains on the same road ... and the straight on road

Re: [OSM-talk] Removing redundant routing instructions

2015-04-27 Thread Lester Caine
On 27/04/15 16:49, pmailkeey . wrote: > On 27 April 2015 at 13:52, Lester Caine <mailto:les...@lsces.co.uk>> wrote: > > On 27/04/15 13:17, pmailkeey . wrote: > > > > Is the 'through route' and 'the same road' the same thing ? and d

Re: [OSM-talk] Removing redundant routing instructions

2015-04-28 Thread Lester Caine
nk it is appropriate here to have the general guide lines that allow all routers to be able to rely on the one set of rules? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - htt

Re: [OSM-talk] Next: Relation name (WAS: Removing redundant routing instructions)

2015-04-28 Thread Lester Caine
s around this area, one needs a way of identifying the two ways which is not then also displayed. One of those places where 'object_id' could be useful, but to be honest I think one simply lives with the 'strange' messages. I don't think that things like trying to create a rela

Re: [OSM-talk] Next: Relation name (WAS: Removing redundant routing instructions)

2015-04-28 Thread Lester Caine
s does of cause create the need for a better micro-mapped junction layout since the highway=give_way tag needs to be a short distance down http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/285608726 and the routing software needs to understand the whole area of the junction rather than just the the common node. -- Lest

Re: [OSM-talk] Different HOT Domains without redirect...

2015-04-28 Thread Lester Caine
convenient. Having to dig to find what is after a www. is pointless. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Wor

Re: [OSM-talk] Next: Relation name (WAS: Removing redundant routing instructions)

2015-04-28 Thread Lester Caine
;directions'. What is needed is proper lane directions through the junctions, rather than a 'left' or 'right' which are difficult even to decide when there is ALSO a road going across at 90degs :) 6 roads meet offset over two or three mini-roundabouts. -- Lester Ca

Re: [OSM-talk] contact: tags

2015-05-07 Thread Lester Caine
p. What would make much more sense to me would be if there was a standard enquiry method for a website such as 'contact.domain' which removes the need for OSM to manage any of that secondary data. Once one has 'website=domain' even 'phone=xxx&

Re: [OSM-talk] Please ban Xxzme in wiki

2015-05-11 Thread Lester Caine
on what IS a social platform. There are places where hiding ones identity is necessary, but here is not one? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.

Re: [OSM-talk] Junction assessment help

2015-05-11 Thread Lester Caine
and and the road splits is tagged showing the 'safe' driving direction. Would you drive up the right hand branch? That is ignoring the case of trying to escape from the police ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact

Re: [OSM-talk] Please ban Xxzme in wiki

2015-05-11 Thread Lester Caine
On 11/05/15 09:39, Elena ``of Valhalla'' wrote: > On 2015-05-11 at 08:41:48 +0100, Lester Caine wrote: >> On 11/05/15 02:07, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: >>> I expect to see Xxzme back under a different username soon. >> This is the real problem. >> While it

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping high tension power lines in Nepal

2015-05-15 Thread Lester Caine
ian atkinson atkin...@hotmail.com Is over there now on a 4 week secondment, but we did not have time to get him up to speed before he went ... He get told last week end and flew out on the 12th. But being a mapper he may be a useful pair of eyes on the ground ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] Can wikidata links help fight name inflation?

2015-05-28 Thread Lester Caine
he material, they could substitute their own dictionary in place of the 'official' one, so we can have Klingon or Jedi for those using the maps for gaming purposes. But I don't think we can rely on a third party like Wikidata to provide this dictionary ... they may however parallel it&#

Re: [OSM-talk] Can wikidata links help fight name inflation?

2015-05-29 Thread Lester Caine
bases are the logical way to provided filtered live data? Should that layer be provided by a third party? I think the answer there is probably no, but providing an interface where third party versions of the data can be used makes sense. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Cont

Re: [OSM-talk] Craigslist OpenStreetMap Rendering Issue

2015-05-31 Thread Lester Caine
openstreetmap can do about that ... or would want to do about it on the data! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital W

Re: [OSM-talk] Craigslist OpenStreetMap Rendering Issue

2015-05-31 Thread Lester Caine
On 31/05/15 12:24, Andrew Hain wrote: > Does Craigslist also get oneway=-1 (traffic opposite to the direction of the > way) wrong? And oneway:cycle=no and the like ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Elec

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