Re: [OSM-talk] WIWOSM is now activated at all Wikipedia languages

2012-07-17 Thread Jacek Konieczny
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 07:04:35PM +0200, Kolossos wrote: I activate now WIWOSM[1] on all language versions of Wikipedia that support the OSM-Gadget[2]. Great News! So, it should now work on the Polish Wikipedia? It doesn't fully work now, there is no city outline on the map at

Re: [OSM-talk] License change/redaction affecting objects geometry

2012-04-12 Thread Jacek Konieczny
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 11:01:46AM +0200, Pieren wrote: The question is to insert in the rebuild script some kind of reports or logs about such affected objects or not. Log with id-s and/or location of the detected/expected problems may be helpful and probably easiest to generate without

Re: [OSM-talk] poland to open publically-funded data

2011-05-30 Thread Jacek Konieczny
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 04:19:42PM +1200, Robin Paulson wrote: from slashdot: the polish prime minister announced a bill to ensure all government data will be released as public domain.

Re: [OSM-talk] Underground / hovering buildings

2011-02-15 Thread Jacek Konieczny
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 12:12:34AM +0100, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: 2011/2/14 Andrew Guertin andrew.guer...@uvm.edu: Second, an underground building. Connects to other buildings that are at ground level and have basements. layer=-1 for the underground building. You could maybe also try

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

2011-01-31 Thread Jacek Konieczny
On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 12:13:54PM +1100, Steve Bennett wrote: I think a few of our tags aren't sufficiently well defined to be clear about which is correct. For example, say a steel manufacturer owns a large piece of land, at one end of which is a steel smelter. The rest is grass. Is the

Re: [OSM-talk] address parsing by nominatim

2011-01-10 Thread Jacek Konieczny
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 04:04:51PM +0530, ヴィカス ヤダヴァ (vikas yadav) wrote: Neither block or sector are OSM places. I have used halmet/locality and suburb. by these, rendering is proper if using the existing system could i propose addr:hamlet or addr:suburb support? And why not

Re: [OSM-talk] Massive import of airports

2010-12-17 Thread Jacek Konieczny
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 09:43:29AM +0100, David Paleino wrote: I suspect this kind of different quality is present elsewhere too. Yes, I have removed a duplicate in my area this morning. The node added was giving no new information (it had wrong name, was only a node and missed other data

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-08 Thread Jacek Konieczny
On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 11:32:39AM +1100, Steve Bennett wrote: On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 4:51 AM, Jo winfi...@gmail.com wrote: 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. But how do you know

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-08 Thread Jacek Konieczny
On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 10:01:45PM +1100, Steve Bennett wrote: You should not map from the Bing imagery area you know nothing more about. Why do people such make bold, absolutist statements like this with no policy to back them up? Absolutist? 'Should not' is not 'must not'. And have you

Re: [OSM-talk] A warning about gates and other barriers

2010-09-20 Thread Jacek Konieczny
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 01:21:49PM +0200, Claudius wrote: Am 20.09.2010 12:33, Elizabeth Dodd: The point is that tags should only accommodate one piece of information. A gate is a gate, access is something else. Completely true. If a way has restricted access (and that may be physically

Re: [OSM-talk] [Tagging] emergency=*

2010-07-30 Thread Jacek Konieczny
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 11:42:50AM +1000, Ross Scanlon wrote: The renderer does not require any change, the only changes required are moving the amenity=police icon to be the emergency=police_station icon (which is a 30 second job) and creating an appropriate emergency parent icon (and there's

Re: [OSM-talk] Tag name vs operator

2010-07-13 Thread Jacek Konieczny
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 08:41:21AM +0100, Lester Caine wrote: When one starts to look at 'McDonalds', 'KFC' and 'Burger King' then while they are franchises, the name is the 'brand', but a group of 'McDonalds' may well be operated by a single local business ... certainly overseas. This

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

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

Re: [OSM-talk] Rendering: nature_reserve and national_park

2010-07-05 Thread Jacek Konieczny
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 08:32:05PM +0200, yvecai wrote: Today, the polygons tagged with leisure=nature_reserve are rendered on the slippy map in the leisure layer, thus overlapping and hiding other landuse (like 'wood' for instance: http://osm.org/go/0CAfHX7). These polygons should be

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM is back after maintenance

2010-07-04 Thread Jacek Konieczny
On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 12:06:32PM +0200, Tirkon wrote: OpenStreetMap is now back after the planned maintenance. When I uploaded changes before, they were shown in Mapnik within minutes. This seems to be not the case now. Is that caused by the maintenance? Maybe, just a lot of people had

Re: [OSM-talk] Osm.org Routing Demo

2010-07-02 Thread Jacek Konieczny
On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 11:09:57AM -0400, Hillsman, Edward wrote: Second, I asked for a bicycle route in my city (Tampa, Florida) and received one that uses a motorway (high-speed limited access highway) Same here (Gliwice, Poland). and none of the available streets that have cycleway=lane.

Re: [OSM-talk] Rendering street names across several ways

2010-06-30 Thread Jacek Konieczny
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 01:16:41AM -0700, Simon Biber wrote: zve...@textual.ru zve...@textual.ru wrote: Those names are not rendered, obviously, because most streets consist of several ways, due to routing and public transport reasons. Hmm, what routing reasons? Different parts of the

Re: [OSM-talk] Rendering: nature_reserve and national_park

2010-06-29 Thread Jacek Konieczny
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:02:45AM +0100, Richard Mann wrote: There probably needs to be two separate tags: one for little fenced off areas that aren't anything else, and another for large areas that are an overlay on other landuses. The existing tag is for small single-purpose areas: you need

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging for street danger levels

2010-06-21 Thread Jacek Konieczny
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 02:36:46PM -0400, john whelan wrote: I'm also interested in this as Ottawa has recommended cycling routes mainly between cycle lanes and cycle paths how should they be tagged? Easy: as 'route' relations (with 'network=lcn' probably).

Re: [OSM-talk] Polish Potlatch doesn't work anymore.

2009-10-02 Thread Jacek Konieczny
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:58:12AM +0200, stl...@poczta.fm wrote: It apparently stopped working because Polish translation[1] contains double quotes which make their way to html unescaped which produces a JS string like this: Blah blah foo bar blah in which foo bar becomes JS *code*.

Re: [OSM-talk] Proliferation of path vs. footway

2009-08-11 Thread Jacek Konieczny
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 09:12:10AM +1000, Roy Wallace wrote: - Do we tag generic trails as highway=path or does this tag have a more complex meaning? I don't think there is any such thing as a generic trail. I think highway=path should simply imply that the way is a physical route used

Re: [OSM-talk] Species names

2009-07-09 Thread Jacek Konieczny
On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 05:42:25PM +0100, Jack Stringer wrote: My rule of thumb would of be label it in english rather that local name. But that's because I am english. Using latin would put some people off from tagging Zoos. But precise latin specie name is a universal identifier (rather than

Re: [OSM-talk] Species names

2009-07-09 Thread Jacek Konieczny
On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 09:27:29AM +, John Smith wrote: --- On Thu, 9/7/09, Marc Schütz schue...@gmx.net wrote: please do _not_ use name:la for that purpose, because this would be how the ancient romans (or the speakers of Modern Latin) call the animals. What about

Re: [OSM-talk] Species names

2009-07-09 Thread Jacek Konieczny
On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 11:03:05AM +, Ed Avis wrote: species:Clements:2008=Larus canus That also allows for other taxonomies to be added at the same time, and for more general 'species:Clements' and just plain 'species' in cases where the taxonomy is well-established, or the person

Re: [OSM-talk] tagging unofficial cycle routes

2009-06-02 Thread Jacek Konieczny
On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 04:19:56PM +0800, maning sambale wrote: In the Philippines there are very few (close to nothing I know of) officially designated cycleways and routes. However, local cycling/mtb clubs have created/established routes for their own purpose. Any advice on how to tag

Re: [OSM-talk] tagging unofficial cycle routes

2009-06-02 Thread Jacek Konieczny
On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 12:43:06PM +0100, Jonathan Bennett wrote: That doesn't necessarily work -- if the routes aren't waymarked on the ground, the only source of the route is the organisations' own publications, to which they have automatic copyright. Unless we have their permission in

Re: [OSM-talk] zones for motorway/in town/outof town?

2009-05-23 Thread Jacek Konieczny
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:08:53AM +0100, Radomir Cernoch wrote: Guenther Meyer píše v Čt 21. 05. 2009 v 00:51 +0200: Am Wednesday 20 May 2009 schrieb Jacek Konieczny: That would not work very well in Poland. Town/city/village administrative border usually differ from the built up zone

Re: [OSM-talk] zones for motorway/in town/outof town?

2009-05-20 Thread Jacek Konieczny
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 11:59:05AM +0100, Radomir Cernoch wrote: In the Czech list we ended up with the following solution, which tries to copy the legislation (which is a good starting point, I guess): 1) Every road is by default 'rural' road (speed limit 90 km/h). 2) Every highway has

Re: [OSM-talk] zones for motorway/in town/outof town?

2009-05-20 Thread Jacek Konieczny
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 01:07:46PM +0100, Radomir Cernoch wrote: Ok, I see the problem. Just to make sure there is no misunderstanding: In Poland the speed is restricted in the built up zone or in place? There is a set of general restrictions for built up zones and there are no general

Re: [OSM-talk] zones for motorway/in town/outof town?

2009-05-20 Thread Jacek Konieczny
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 02:16:05PM +0200, MP wrote: I wonder, can we have at some place (wiki?) some definition file that will specify these per-country default limits in some machine-readable way? This could look like this: country(cz) { maxspeed=90 (highway=motorway|trunk) {

Re: [OSM-talk] Wikipedia POI import?

2009-05-06 Thread Jacek Konieczny
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 11:04:12AM +0100, Jonathan Bennett wrote: Besides, as present you can't have multiple values for a single tag in OSM, so wikipedia=XX:name wouldn't work. You don't need multiple values. Other languages are linked in Wikipedia, no need to duplicate this in OSM. If a

Re: [OSM-talk] Wikipedia POI import?

2009-05-06 Thread Jacek Konieczny
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 02:00:42PM -0400, Russ Nelson wrote: Any reason not to go through Wikipedia and import everything with a coordinate as a POI, with a url=http://wikipedia.org/NAME link, and name=NAME where NAME is the name of the Wikipedia entry? This would add a lot of data with

Re: [OSM-talk] Rendering of footways with bicycle=yes

2009-04-30 Thread Jacek Konieczny
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 11:36:43AM +0100, James Stewart wrote: There are lots of paths that are primarily footpaths, but bikes can go on them. I think that cycleway is best kept for paths that are designed and designated for bicycles. Sure. For example in our local park bikes can go on

Re: [OSM-talk] Rendering of footways with bicycle=yes

2009-04-30 Thread Jacek Konieczny
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 01:10:13PM +0200, Mario Salvini wrote: If such paths are designated for foot ans bicyle as well, why don't you tag them both as designated? highway=path foot=designated bicycle=designated ( or footway +bicycle=designated or cycleway+foot=desiganted) I do that, when

[OSM-talk] 500 Internal Server Error during upload

2009-04-28 Thread Jacek Konieczny
Hello, I am having problems batch-uploading some changes. I have split my change files into small pieces (~160kB, 250 nodes each, as I had problems with big uploads previously), but it doesn't help much this time. I get 500 Internal Server Error for most attempts. Only sometimes the upload will

Re: [OSM-talk] 500 Internal Server Error during upload

2009-04-28 Thread Jacek Konieczny
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 02:29:12AM -0500, Ian Dees wrote: Or! It could be all the Germans racing to get to the 100th changeset: 100th reached, then the load should drop now :) And it should be quite sane, until near 1234567th, I guess ;) Greets, Jacek

Re: [OSM-talk] 500 Internal Server Error during upload

2009-04-28 Thread Jacek Konieczny
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 02:26:50AM -0500, Ian Dees wrote: It would appear that the database server is under extremely heavy load at the moment: [2]http://munin.openstreetmap.org/openstreetmap/smaug.openstreetmap-pg_openstreetmap_locks.html (I'm not entirely sure that that is the correct

Re: [OSM-talk] 500 Internal Server Error during upload

2009-04-28 Thread Jacek Konieczny
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 12:16:41PM +0100, Tom Hughes wrote: Well I'm very sorry about that. I shall drop what I'm doing and rush over and establish a priority upload channel for you. There is some kind of problem and I am just reporting it. Is that wrong? Should I just put the upload in a loop

Re: [OSM-talk] 500 Internal Server Error during upload

2009-04-28 Thread Jacek Konieczny
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 01:41:26PM +0100, Tom Hughes wrote: Well I wouldn't recommend scripting a loop, I wouldn't to that anyway. I know the servers do not need extra unnecessary load. I will just manually retry from time to time. but at the moment I'm only really interested in 500 errors

[OSM-talk] Big changeset upload and '500 Internal Server Error'

2009-04-25 Thread Jacek Konieczny
Hello, I am just doing big meta-data import for Polish cities. I have split the changes in 16 files, one for each voivodeship (province). Most of these changesets were uploaded without a problem, but a few failed with '500 Internal Server Error'. Those were the biggest files, over 1MB (other

Re: [OSM-talk] Big changeset upload and '500 Internal Server Error'

2009-04-25 Thread Jacek Konieczny
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 03:40:40PM +0100, Grant Slater wrote: Server process likely overruns the designed memory bounds causing the 500 error. That is what I thought too. waynodes is nodes within a way. Do you have any ways made up of over 2000 nodes? No. No ways, just places. And it

Re: [OSM-talk] Wrong scale in slippy map

2009-04-23 Thread Jacek Konieczny
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 08:23:16AM +, Jukka Rahkonen wrote: not mean that these countries are twice as large in the real life. Scale bar values, if presented in meters/feet, should be adjusted according to latitude. Even then it cannot be correct for the whole map, but showing the corrrect