[OSM-talk] Cycle lanes cycle tracks - my findings and a proposal

2012-05-21 Thread Rob Nickerson
As part of improving the wiki pages on UK tagging guidelines, I wanted to add details about cycle lanes and cycle tracks. As seen in this mailing list, I quickly got confused. I want to take this opportunity to share my findings. 1. cycleway key. I found the current cycleway key to be confusing.

Re: [OSM-talk] Cycle lanes cycle tracks - my findings and a proposal

2012-05-26 Thread Rob Nickerson
Thanks Martin, Yes, exactly right; I spent the time to do my research and also wrote up a brief introduction to cycle tracks vs lanes. As suggested this has now been moved to the 'tagging' mailing list so feel free to follow the topic there. I'm a little concerned at how much the scope has

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

2012-07-23 Thread Rob Nickerson
*Sören Gasch said:* * * Improve ease of editing (like wheelmap, a simple editor that lets** you amend JUST the tags - name, opening hoursm, url etc..).*There will be the Amenity Editor which kind of does what you propose. See - http://ae.osmsurround.org/ -

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMF Board auto industry / What's the story?

2012-08-09 Thread Rob Nickerson
For mappers which are not OSMF members but interested in the response...http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/osmf-talk/2012-August/001618.html http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/osmf-talk/2012-August/001618.html The response includes a clear action for OSM/OSMF. That is they would

[OSM-talk] Extended tagging schema - my thoughts

2012-08-09 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi all, One of the issues raised with the extended conditions tag schema was the use of variable values in the key part of the tag. For example maxspeed:wet = 80 is in the form constant:variable=variable. This has been deemed to break the basic tagging rules. Can I therefore give alternative

Re: [OSM-talk] Extended tagging schema - my thoughts

2012-08-09 Thread Rob Nickerson
. Regards, Rob On 9 August 2012 17:14, Pieren pier...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 5:51 PM, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: * maxspeed=120; 80?wet; 60?wet+hgv Here '?' can be interpreted as 'if' and '+' as 'and'. It's maybe more readable if you write 120; wet ? 80

[OSM-talk] Announcement: Voting ongoing for proposed access tagging Conditional restrictions

2012-09-18 Thread Rob Nickerson
Dear List, {This is a cross post - please reply to the tagging mailing list or the proposals [2] talk page. Please forward to local mailing lists as appropriate } - - - Announcement - - - Several attempts have in the past been made to develop a tagging scheme that is capable of handling the more

[OSM-talk] Door to door routing to buildings with multiple occupants

2012-11-29 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi, A mapper who is new to my area is interested in mapping disabled access at a micro level. Specifically he would like to achieve door-to-door mapping for key shops and amenities, and has made a good start by adding entrance doors to several buildings. My Question: Where should amenity=* and

Re: [OSM-talk] Door to door routing to buildings with multiple occupants

2012-11-30 Thread Rob Nickerson
? Regards, Rob On 30 November 2012 02:23, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.comwrote: 2012/11/29 Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com: Where should amenity=* and addr:*=* be tagged? One suggestion was to add all the detail to the entrance node, but this seems odd to me. For single

Re: [OSM-talk] State of the Map 2013 - Call for Venues

2012-12-18 Thread Rob Nickerson
Thanks Richard and Richard, I've passed this on to our local user group and we will be updating the wiki page with a bid for Birmingham, UK shortly. Regards, Rob p.s. Feel free to drop by the talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list if you would like to get involved in this bid.

Re: [OSM-talk] Community for wiki maintenance

2012-12-27 Thread Rob Nickerson
I would be happy to help out with improving the wiki (and do this already). If anyone has any pages that they think could do with improving then please add them to the wiki cleanup page. Rob ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Community for wiki maintenance

2012-12-27 Thread Rob Nickerson
, classes, etc.? There are a variety of areas where adding some structure to wiki-contained information would be very helpful. Thanks, Jeff On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.comwrote: I would be happy to help out with improving the wiki (and do

[OSM-talk] Rendering of Farmland not 'Light' enough?

2013-01-05 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi All, (full text and images at https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B6J5ZA1hu93bYm9IWXdlVHM1N1U ) Recently landuse=farmland (or simply landuse=farm) has been added to fields near me. This has led to a discussion about how the rendering 'looks' with some arguing that it doesn't look that good. I

Re: [OSM-talk] Rendering of Farmland not 'Light' enough?

2013-01-05 Thread Rob Nickerson
I should add that if you want to play with Hue, Saturation and Lightness (HSL) and Luminance then the following is a good place to start: http://www.workwithcolor.com/hsl-color-picker-01.htm Rob ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Rendering of Farmland not 'Light' enough?

2013-01-06 Thread Rob Nickerson
it is now and/or use a different hue than brown, but don't make it as light as the default background color. On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 6:18 AM, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, (full text and images at https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B6J5ZA1hu93bYm9IWXdlVHM1N1U

Re: [OSM-talk] Rendering of Farmland not 'Light' enough? Updated Proposals

2013-01-06 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi all, Thanks for the feedback. I have tested some other shades: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B6J5ZA1hu93bMzVMQ1Z1SHFqcmM Any additional comments are very welcome. Rob On 5 January 2013 22:18, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, (full text and images at https

[OSM-talk] Thank you

2013-01-08 Thread Rob Nickerson
Richard, (All,) I read your email below and it saddened me that you feel this way. I therefore want to write a quick thank-you on behalf of the silent layer of contributors. We are grateful for the work that all developers put into OSM and please do not feel disheartened by a few negative

[OSM-talk] Overlapping ways

2013-01-09 Thread Rob Nickerson
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 found that the way is being deleted by another mapper who sees this as a duplicated way (possibly in keep right). Do I simply need to draw

Re: [OSM-talk] Overlapping ways

2013-01-09 Thread Rob Nickerson
/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 found that the way is being deleted by another mapper who sees this as a duplicated way

Re: [OSM-talk] Overlapping ways

2013-01-09 Thread Rob Nickerson
Can I ask for some clarification on what is meant by sharing nodes. For example, if I draw the layer 0 way, then draw the layer 1 way on top, using the same nodes as a guide, BUT THEN unglue all the nodes by pressing G in JOSM, does this still count as a shared node? Thanks, Rob

Re: [OSM-talk] piwik.openstreetmap.org - what is it?

2013-01-09 Thread Rob Nickerson
Is there any way to pull out the reports that are fine into a document that can be periodically released? Rob ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] piwik.openstreetmap.org - let's make it happen!

2013-01-10 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi, I've just had a look at the French publicly available piwik page and it looks fantastic - lots of great information on here. It seems like some of the French OSM community are more than willing to help with opening up the same functionality on the main OSM piwik page so lets get than one live

Re: [OSM-talk] Taginfo updates

2013-01-10 Thread Rob Nickerson
Nice one! Looks like you have been busy with the improvements to TagInfo. Thanks for spending the time to make these improvements, I imagine they weren't particularly quick or easy, but I expect them to benefit many users. The new API documentation will be a big plus and looks great :-) RobJN

Re: [OSM-talk] Overlapping ways

2013-01-10 Thread Rob Nickerson
It sounds like some programmer forgot to allow for the fact that we live in a three-dimensional world. No, no. The nodes hadn't been properly unglued and hence the fixing tool flagged the ways as duplicate. I'm going to restore the way but make sure the nodes are not shared (connected) this time.

Re: [OSM-talk] RFC - OSM contributor mark

2013-01-16 Thread Rob Nickerson
Why not keep the © Openstreetmap contributors bit and add a Report an issue / Add to the map type button or text? This would then link to a very simple page as proposed (but themed to better match OSMs brand) which also explains how to add a bug/notice using [1] and how to get more involved with

Re: [OSM-talk] Wiki documentation on GPS devices - please help answer some questions

2013-01-20 Thread Rob Nickerson
GPS Tracks vs GPS Traces doesn't bother me either way, as long as we are consistent. Once I'm done writing up the Recording ... wiki page I'll see if I can organise a move. Any more feedback to my questions (especially about using smartphones in built GPS) would be very welcome. RobJN

Re: [OSM-talk] piwik.openstreetmap.org - what is it?

2013-01-24 Thread Rob Nickerson
I actually brought this up again on the dev mailing list just the other day: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2013-January/026467.html I very much think it would be a big benefit to see some more stats - it'll enable me to better focus my time. Regards, Rob

Re: [OSM-talk] Display names of crossroads

2013-02-13 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi All, We also have many cross-road or T-junctions junctions in the United Kingdom that have names. Particularly in rural areas where early fingerpost signs still exist: Devon: I believe I am right in saying that the name on the column is the junction name. I seem to remember that I've been

[OSM-talk] Branding?

2013-02-22 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi All, Do we have any guidelines for use of the OSM brand? I'm aware that the OSM-GB issue gets raised every now and then but hadn't realised until today how easy it is to get confused between OSM.org and OSM-GB - see for example the OSM-GB wiki:

Re: [OSM-talk] License Review

2013-02-22 Thread Rob Nickerson
** My Opinion ** It looks fine to me as it: 1. Allows the right to use, incorporate, sublicense (with further right of sublicensing), modify, improve, further develop, and distribute the Data; and to manufacture and / or distribute Derivative Products 2. Does not make a claim on any derivative

[OSM-talk] Build your own GPS receiver

2013-03-17 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi all, Going back a few years before GPS was widely available in pretty much everything bar the kitchen sink (please do post a link if you find a gps enabled sink :-) ) there was some discussion about making your own GPS receiver. If anyone is interested in taking this on as a nice weekend

[OSM-talk] Jump in to SotM 2013

2013-03-21 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hello, === Welcome to SotM 2013 === It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to State of the Map 2013. This year's annual conference for all OpenStreetMap contributors and users will be held in Birmingham, United Kingdom, on the weekend of 6th-8th September. The organising team is working to

Re: [OSM-talk] [Design] Banners on the Front Page

2013-03-23 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi All, I saw the request for a banner [1] and replied via email as I am not on the design mailing list. For transparency here is my reply: === start === There is a wider issue (and don't mean to be a spoil sport) that local events using the SotM brand could lead to a weakening of the main

Re: [OSM-talk] [Design] Banners on the Front Page

2013-03-27 Thread Rob Nickerson
organising team intend to bid for main SotM next year - if not then surely you agreeing that SotM is less relevant? On 27 March 2013 21:44, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: Hi, On 03/23/2013 11:21 AM, Rob Nickerson wrote: Hi All, I saw the request for a banner [1] and replied via

Re: [OSM-talk] Extracting data from traffic sign recognition aboard modern cars ?

2013-04-21 Thread Rob Nickerson
Phil, From what I can see the technology is used to detect a limited set of signs only (e.g. Speed limits), rather than reading town names/road reference numbers/etc. There are a few different ways to do this which you can find by searching online, but generally the steps are: 1. Detect presence

Re: [OSM-talk] Embedding videos on wiki

2013-04-21 Thread Rob Nickerson
It looks like you know the answer. And to confirm, this is the list of installed extensions [1] and the list of admins [2]. I'm not sure if Grant will have picked up you message on here, so try messaging him through his Firefishy username. Don't expect anything to occur instantly - we all have our

Re: [OSM-talk] RFC updated: OSM Attribution Mark (was: contributor mark)

2013-04-22 Thread Rob Nickerson
It seems that the desire to use a huge image as the background comes at the expense of the page content. To me a copyright page is about getting the *details* over. By placing too much emphasis on the image the copyright page appears like a *brand* or some fancy press release. We have other pages

[OSM-talk] Call for Presentations - SotM 2013 (annual conference)

2013-04-23 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi All, - please forward this on to your local communities - It's that time of year again when we look to you, the mind-bogglingly creative OpenStreetMap community, to tell us what you've been up to. That's right - it time to submit your presentation ideas for the annual State of the Map

Re: [OSM-talk] Call for Presentations - SotM 2013 (annual conference)

2013-04-23 Thread Rob Nickerson
Just to add a little more to the Call for Presentations: This year I personally want to try and get as many people involved as possible. We are therefore hoping to have a Poster Exhibition for people who may not be able to attend in person (we can print them locally). If this sounds interesting

[OSM-talk] State of the Map 2013 - Tickets now available

2013-05-11 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi All, Tickets for OpenStreetMap's State of the Map 2013 conference in Birmingham, England, are now available. They can be purchased at a discounted Early Bird rate but only until the end of May. Get yours at http://www.stateofthemap.org/ Looking forward to seeing everyone there, Rob Nickerson

Re: [OSM-talk] Early Bird sign-up for State of the Map 2013 closing soon

2013-05-30 Thread Rob Nickerson
Less than 24hrs to sign up for an Early Bird 25% discounted State of the Map 2013 ticket. Get yours now and join over 80 people who have already signed up: http://2013.stateofthemap.org/info/booking/ See you there, Rob Organising committee volunteer, State of the Map 2013, stateofthemap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] SOTM accommodation options?

2013-05-31 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi All, Apologies for the delay in replying - I wanted to chase up the facts before getting back to you. The Classic, Standard and Superior options are all for the Aston Conferences hotel. Details about the rooms can be found at http://www.conferenceaston.co.uk/Content.aspx?PageId=1705 As for

Re: [OSM-talk] Who interprets semicolon in tag values?

2013-05-31 Thread Rob Nickerson
I would imagine that the semicolons in the opening_hours tag are interpreted by numerous data consumers. Rob ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] SOTM 2013 - An update

2013-05-31 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi Everyone, So the Early-bird tickets for OSM's State of the Map conference are now all gone :-( Did you get one? If not don't worry, normal tickets remain on sale* and you can still get a GBP10 discount if you join the OSM Foundation. It's worthwhile joining the foundation and attending the

Re: [OSM-talk] SOTM 2013 - An update

2013-05-31 Thread Rob Nickerson
On 1 June 2013 00:30, Paul Norman wrote: Does this include poster exhibitions? No, the posters option will stay open after the call for presentations closes, but we do encourage people to have a go at presenting if they can attend in person. We're a great community and it's always nice to

[OSM-talk] Last chance to submit a presentation for SotM 2013

2013-06-08 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi All, The Call for Presentations for State of the Map 2013 closes Monday*. If you've not yet submitted your presentation proposal please act quickly. http://2013.stateofthemap.org/info/call-presentations/ I posted some ideas in recent SotM blog posts to get you thinking. These were: -

Re: [OSM-talk] Please test this Native wikipedia link - feature

2013-06-26 Thread Rob Nickerson
Working on: Firefox 21 on ubuntu 12.10 Chromium 25.0.1364.160 (Developer Build 25.0.1364.160-0ubuntu0.12.10.1) Ubuntu 12.10 Chrome 28.0.1500.52 (Official Build 207119) Not working on: IE (V7 I think - can check tomorrow) on XP Best, Rob ___ talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Please test this Native wikipedia link - feature

2013-06-27 Thread Rob Nickerson
It was IE8 on XP Sp3 that it did not work on. Rob ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] State of the Map 2013 - July Update

2013-07-01 Thread Rob Nickerson
Just a quick update to my previous email. There is now a blog post which includes a photo showing how we went about placing all your great presentation proposals in to the State of the Map schedule. Enjoy! http://2013.stateofthemap.org/blog/busy-june/ Reminder to our presenters: Please could you

[OSM-talk] Bringing new life to the OSM.org front page

2013-07-20 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi All, As noted the map controls have recently changed on the main osm.org page. On the talk@ mailing list there was a few comments stating that it would have been nice to have been asked/consulted first. The changes were in fact announced and stem from Saman's SOTM US talk (slides [1], video

Re: [OSM-talk] Bringing new life to the OSM.org front page

2013-07-20 Thread Rob Nickerson
I should add that this change lays the foundations for making new feature available. For example a URL link including marker (the mlat and mlon stuff). This can be seen here: https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/328#issuecomment-21197529 Best, Rob

Re: [OSM-talk] Bringing new life to the OSM.org front page

2013-07-20 Thread Rob Nickerson
1) The map controls change was publicised on the blog on the 19th (at the time of the change): http://blog.openstreetmap.org/2013/07/19/new-map-control/ 2) The Communications Working Group is currently looking for help - why not join them:

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-GB] New tile rendering server (Experimental)

2013-07-24 Thread Rob Nickerson
Great work, and thanks to Andy for his work re-writing the rendering rules in CartoCSS. I'm forwarding this to the general talk mailing list as I expect there will be some not Brits who will be pleased to hear about the progress on this one. My understanding (from watching Andy's presentation and

[OSM-talk] SotM 2013, Posters and Monday Hackday

2013-08-08 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi All, SOTM 2013 is now only 4 weeks away!! For information on signing-up, submitting a poster and/or attending the post SOTM hackday, please see the sections below. == Register to attend == If you're planning to come and have not yet signed up, what are you waiting for? If you head over to the

Re: [OSM-talk] SotM 2013, Posters and Monday Hackday

2013-08-09 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi All, Just a quick update on the Hackday following SOTM 2013: If you need somewhere to stay on the Sunday and/or Monday night, Conference Aston Hotel have kindly extended our discount code. Please book online at [1] using the discount code in the confirmation email you received when you signed

Re: [OSM-talk] SotM 2013, Posters and Monday Hackday

2013-08-09 Thread Rob Nickerson
The hotel booking link I failed to attach is: http://kx-web-live.aston.ac.uk/ Cheers, Rob ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] Photo Competition

2013-08-19 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi All, To get you excited for State of the Map in 17 days time, we have launched a photo competition to find the most usual object / sign / situation found whilst surveying. You don't need to be attending SOTM 2013 to enter this competition so head over to the blog post [1] or wiki page [2] to

[OSM-talk] SOTM 2013 - Poster and Accommodation deadline

2013-08-25 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi All, Two deadlines for State of the Map to be aware of: == 1. Posters: == We are offering to print (free of charge thanks to ITO World) A1 sized posters for display at SOTM. This is ideal for people who want to share something with the community but are unable to attend. Our print deadline

[OSM-talk] SOTM 2013 - Final programme and end of mates rates

2013-08-28 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi All, == SOTM Final Programme == After a lot of hard work and many long hours the final programme for State of the Map 2013 is now available to view at http://2013.stateofthemap.org/info/programme/ This will also be copied over to Lanyrd in the coming days and the preceding text updated on the

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-GB] SOTM 2013 - Final programme and end of mates rates

2013-08-29 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hmm, that's odd as I seem to see it fine with and without my google account. Anyone else able to confirm this for me please? The programme will be making it's way onto Lanyrd soon so you should be able to view it there. Lanyrd has a great website designed for mobile devices (and a dedicated app)

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-GB] SOTM 2013 - Final programme and end of mates rates

2013-08-30 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi Michael, I'm sorry that you are having issues with viewing the programme with NoScript running on your computer. Unfortunately with only 7 days to go until SOTM, the whole team is bogged down with organising the finer details needed to ensure that the conference runs as smoothly as possible.

[OSM-talk] SOTM Posters - Last Chance

2013-08-31 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi All, We managed to get a batch of posters printed for SOTM last Friday, so we've got time to run another print batch next week. If you would like to display a poster at SOTM 2013 and would like us to print it for you then please get in contact as soon as possible. Best wishes, Rob

Re: [OSM-talk] SOTM 2013 videos

2013-09-22 Thread Rob Nickerson
We were hoping to get markers/chapters in the video so that you can jump to the right section. Unfortunately this is taking longer than anticipated. I'll follow up with this one and see how its going. Cheers, Rob ___ talk mailing list

[OSM-talk] QGIS 2.0 now available

2013-09-22 Thread Rob Nickerson
All, For those interested in the world of GIS beyond just OpenStreetMap you may be interested to know that version 2.0 of QGIS (a free open source alternative to ArcGIS) has now been released. My understanding is that the old OpenStreetMap plugin (which broke when we moved to 64bit nodes) has

Re: [OSM-talk] SOTM 2013 videos

2013-09-24 Thread Rob Nickerson
We are fully aware of all these points and are aiming to do so. Feel free to organise sotm 14 :-) On 24 Sep 2013 07:26, Jochen Topf joc...@remote.org wrote: On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 11:02:05AM +0100, Rob Nickerson wrote: We were hoping to get markers/chapt... Unfortunately that isn't enough

[OSM-talk] OSM homepage redesign

2013-10-01 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi all, I note that there hasn't been a recent what developments are currently happening type email, so I'll step in with this one. At SOTM 2013 John Firebaugh (mapbox) presented an update to the SOTM US talk that explored a new vision for the openatreetmap.org website. The talk was well

[OSM-talk] SOTM 2013 Videos

2013-11-02 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi All, As promised, I am currently working to upload the videos from SOTM 2013 in Birmingham, all sliced up into the individual presentations (rather than the whole day). So far I've managed to upload the videos for Friday. Please be aware that we had quite a few sound issues on Friday so not

[OSM-talk] Admin boundaries - data consumers

2013-11-09 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi All, A few days ago there was a thread about the pros/cons of moving admin boundaries to a new database. I'm not going to give my opinion on this as the thread has now fizzled out, but I will suggest that decisions like this should involve as many of our end data users as possible (we have

Re: [OSM-talk] Admin boundaries - data consumers

2013-11-09 Thread Rob Nickerson
Jochen Topf said: I am sorry if I came across as arrogant or dismissive. This is absolutely not my intention. No offence taken. As you say, we are in agreement here, mappers and data consumers must talk and help each other. What I was arguing against is somehow feeling responsible for data

[OSM-talk] Upcoming changes to OpenStreetMap.org website

2013-11-12 Thread Rob Nickerson
(The aim of this email is to provide prior knowledge of an upcoming change to the OSM website and to give you an opportunity to provide constructive feedback) Hi All, Today the updated design for the main OpenStreetMap.org website is nearly ready to be rolled out. You can view a demo at

Re: [OSM-talk] Upcoming changes to OpenStreetMap.org website

2013-11-12 Thread Rob Nickerson
will correct me if I have got this mixed up) On 12 November 2013 23:05, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: (The aim of this email is to provide prior knowledge of an upcoming change to the OSM website and to give you an opportunity to provide constructive feedback) Hi All, Today

[OSM-talk] Fwd: Upcoming changes to OpenStreetMap.org website

2013-11-12 Thread Rob Nickerson
Forwarding to mailing list. -- Forwarded message -- From: christian.pietzsch Date: Tuesday, 12 November 2013 Subject: Upcoming changes to OpenStreetMap.org website To: RobJN Hi Thanks everyone for their great work. I like the new design. Lot of space for the map itself, clearly

[OSM-talk] Upcoming changes - a reply to your feedback

2013-11-16 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi All, Thank you for all the comments about the proposed redesign of OpenStreetMap.org website. I fed these back to the developers on the github pull request [1]. John has written a reply to the ideas, which I have copied below. In summary changes have been made to the Welcome text and urban

Re: [OSM-talk] Welcome box on the new map page

2013-11-30 Thread Rob Nickerson
How do I close the Welcome to openstreetmap box on the new map page? Regards, Maarten Hi Maarten, Firstly a big thank you to everyone who worked on the new design for OpenStreetMap.org website. I'm not going to try to name everyone as I am bound to miss someone out, but as you will see online

Re: [OSM-talk] Welcome box on the new map page

2013-11-30 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi Lester, If you are after a full screen map for your website, it is very easy to create one with a simple html page that links to Leaflet (the tool for providing pan and zoom, etc) and the tiles server at OSM. I've attached something I was able to get up and running quite quickly. My web

[OSM-talk] Meet us in Birmingham on Thursday

2013-12-03 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi all, We are fast approaching the first Thursday of the month and that means it's time for the local West Midlands group to meet up for a drink or two in the evening. All are welcome, so please join us from 7:30pm at The Bull, Price Street, Birmingham.

Re: [OSM-talk] Meet us in Birmingham on Thursday

2013-12-03 Thread Rob Nickerson
(Sorry, that should have gone to talk-gb - please reply there) On 3 December 2013 22:49, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, We are fast approaching the first Thursday of the month and that means it's time for the local West Midlands group to meet up for a drink or two

Re: [OSM-talk] Summer of Code 2014

2014-02-11 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi All, I tried to send the following idea to the imports mailing list the other day, but turns out I wasn't registered to post there. I guess it fits well with Summer of Code so I will add it to the wiki, but not being a developer I can't mentor anyone. snip So my question is: How do we

Re: [OSM-talk] Summer of Code 2014

2014-02-14 Thread Rob Nickerson
Osmose QA tool do this job. Perhaps I am not aware of everything that Osmose can do, but my basic understanding is that it provides an in browser view of errors already in OSM. What I was trying to propose in (1) and (2) was a really slick, really simple tool that allows the user to load in two

[OSM-talk] Wiki Beginners' Guide

2014-02-15 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi, I have a proposal for simplifying the Beginners' Guide on the wiki. This is step 1 and is all about setting the foundations to make future improvements a lot easier. Comments on my proposal welcome. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Beginners%27_guide#2014_Updates Rob

[OSM-talk] Gaming and OSM - A users reflection

2014-03-12 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi List, I spotted this on blogs.openstreetmap.org today and though it was worth a share on this mailing list. The diary post below covers one users reflection on a recent competition [1] run by Telenav / Scout in the US. Users were encourage to edit the map to earn points, with the highest

Re: [OSM-talk] Use leaflet or openlayers to display a route relations in realtime

2014-03-19 Thread Rob Nickerson
I've looked briefly into using Leaflet or Openlayers can work out how to hard code the lat/long of each node or to load a gpx file, but see no way to retrieve the current data. What is the best/any way to do this? Cheers Dave F. Hi Dave, Take a look at Overpass API [1]. There is a XAPI

[OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap receives Document Freedom Day Award 2014

2014-03-24 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi All, Wednesday is Document Freedom Day 2014 - and this year the work of all OpenStreetMap contributors was recognised by Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) my means of the Document Freedom Day Award 2014. The award was presented on Saturday in Birmingham, England at an event attended by

Re: [OSM-talk] Best way to download data of route relations?

2014-03-26 Thread Rob Nickerson
There was a question about bus routes/route relations just the other day. See my reply* at: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2014-March/069413.html Using Overpass API you can extract a line for a bus route relation. By default you line is made up of all the roads that form part of

Re: [OSM-talk] Launching OpenAddresses

2014-03-27 Thread Rob Nickerson
I wouldn't get too excited about that EU directive. I've read it twice now and both times I came to the conclusion that (at least for the UK) address data will NOT suddenly become available to OSM. For example the directive still allows for Charging and the use of Licences. The directive [1]

Re: [OSM-talk] City templates - Links OFF

2014-03-28 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi Erick, I'm not sure what you mean - can you please tell me what you are referring to. If you mean the template for places on the OpenStreetMap wik, such as as shown on the right hand side of the London page ( http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/London ) then you can edit the template at

[OSM-talk] Resolving OSM tags to URLs

2014-04-01 Thread Rob Nickerson
-- Andy Mabbett wrote: -- I gave the requested talk yesterday. During preparatory discussions, it turned out that, while hosted by IBM, the audience was a W3C working group, Data on the web best practice. As such, the interest was no so much trees or gas pipes, but the use of URIs (particularly

[OSM-talk] State Of The Map France starting tomorrow in Paris

2014-04-03 Thread Rob Nickerson
Wow, great stuff. Is there any live videos / webcasting for those folks who couldn't attend? Regards, Rob p.s. I'll be following the tweets on behalf of the Mappa Mercia (Birmingham and surrounding area, UK) team. ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] No new information on the SOTM since January 2014

2014-04-04 Thread Rob Nickerson
SOTM EU and US, combined with the OSMF focus on being more of a theoretical body have reduced the profit and motivation in doing a SOTM to approximately zero. I hope it still happens, but I'd be surprised. It might be better to run a SOTM South America, or something. Steve OSMF organised

Re: [OSM-talk] No new information on the SOTM since January 2014

2014-04-04 Thread Rob Nickerson
. The conference was in early September. Based on these dates (if you add two months to each to reflect that SOTM is two months later) we are still ahead of last years schedule. Regards, Rob On 4 April 2014 22:59, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: SOTM EU and US, combined

Re: [OSM-talk] No new information on the SOTM since January 2014

2014-04-05 Thread Rob Nickerson
The OSMF key functions are available online [1] and they're very bare bones - the OSMF is hands off*. The two biggest points that relate to SOTM are: - Provides a vehicle for fund-raising to support the project. The foundation can accept donations for the OpenStreetMap Project and allocate

[OSM-talk] Info on SOTM (WAS: No new information on the SOTM since January 2014)

2014-04-07 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi Gonzalo, Henk, Thanks for the update. Having helped organise last year I had no doubt that SOTM 2014 would be going ahead - the OSMF, Henk and the SOTM Working Group are all behind it. Let me know if you need help with anything (announcements, blogging, tweeting or something that I can do

[OSM-talk] This has to stop: User Diaries Spam

2014-05-14 Thread Rob Nickerson
Am 14.05.2014 14:46, schrieb Pieren: I would suggest to remove the diary feature completely. In my opinion that would be a big step in the wrong direction. In fact we should be expanding the community side of OSM.org as the community should be at the heart of the project. Things like mailing

Re: [OSM-talk] openstreetmap-carto updates

2014-06-10 Thread Rob Nickerson
Great work :-) It's wonderful to see all the activity on the mapnik-carto rendering rules and justifies the time spent rewriting the code to Carto. A big thank you to Andy Allan for kicking that off. His just-do-it approach was exactly what was needed at the time. I found out at SOTM just how

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-GB] Fwd: Adding links to Wikidata (and Wikipedia?)

2014-06-17 Thread Rob Nickerson
Archer wrote: I understood your further post in this manner: you want to take the Wikipedia link and add with a script or bot the associated Wikidata-ID. This would add the Wikidata ID Q3038 to both OSM objects place=island and boundary=administrative of Heligoland because both objects in OSM

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-GB] Fwd: Adding links to Wikidata (and Wikipedia?)

2014-06-17 Thread Rob Nickerson
To continue your example, there could be St Nicolas's, St Nicolas's Church Gardens, and St Nicolas's Gift Shop all near each other. Which one should the wikipedia page St Nicolas's Church match? Great to see support for the idea. I think it's been a bit of a complex one that hasn't been grasped

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-GB] Fwd: Adding links to Wikidata (and Wikipedia?)

2014-06-17 Thread Rob Nickerson
-established and supported by many applications, and support some cases that aren't supported by the wikidata tag. 2014-06-17 19:06 GMT-03:00 Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com: To continue your example, there could be St Nicolas's, St Nicolas's Church Gardens

[OSM-talk] We need a name!

2014-06-18 Thread Rob Nickerson
A few OSM members interested in historic maps are working on our own version of the New York Public Library Building Inspector. If you've not yet tried it out, go take a look - it's a great site: http://buildinginspector.nypl.org/ So, the core function they are asking contributors to do is to

Re: [OSM-talk] We need a name!

2014-06-19 Thread Rob Nickerson
I've had a couple of responses off list. These are: * Constructing the past * something with crowd in it? Thanks, for these good ideas. Any more suggestions? Rob On 18 June 2014 21:04, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: A few OSM members interested in historic maps are working

Re: [OSM-talk] We need a name!

2014-06-19 Thread Rob Nickerson
the name as things evolve. :-) Rob On 19 June 2014 23:13, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us wrote: Open Historical Map which already has a website www.openhistoricalmap.org On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 1:04 PM, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: A few OSM members interested

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