[Talk-es] Natural= scree

2012-02-06 Thread James Stewart
Hola, Cuidado con natural=scree ''. Esto no significa 'rocoso' pero algo mucho mas especifica : http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Wastwater_screes_ex_gregwillis.jpg (una pedrera, o desprendimiento de rocas?) A lo mejor utiliza natural=scrub, pero realmente 'improductivo' es un descriptiva

Re: [Talk-es] ¿Discoteca?

2011-04-02 Thread James Stewart
El icono es un tocadiscos -- Message: 5 Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 12:18:21 +0200 From: José Manuel Díaz Soriano cbu...@gmail.com To: Discusión en Español de OpenStreetMap talk-es@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-es] ¿Discoteca? Message-ID:

[OSM-talk] transhumance routes

2010-06-03 Thread James Stewart
In Spain there is a large network of historic transhumance routes (cañadas or Viás Pecuarias http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%ADa_pecuaria) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transhumance) that we have started a discussion about how to tag. So far we are creating relations that link the various

Re: [Talk-es] Vías Pecuarias

2010-06-03 Thread James Stewart
; charset=iso-8859-1 El 02/06/10 13:42, James Stewart escribió: No tenemos una norma para estos 'relations'. Veo que hay route=cattle y route=Vía Pecuaria Ahora hay una pagina en el wiki http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Vias_Pecuarias_de_España http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki

Re: [Talk-es] Vías Pecuarias

2010-06-03 Thread James Stewart
: Emilie Laffray emilie.laff...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Talk-es] Vías Pecuarias To: Discusión en Español de OpenStreetMap talk-es@openstreetmap.org Message-ID: aanlktinsu1xnayoemaxksbuikpokgh2zb2zr7ruis...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 2010/6/3 James Stewart

Re: [Talk-GB] Opportunity for OSM to give a talk at University of Edinburgh

2010-04-07 Thread James Stewart
I see someone has put there name down at this event for giving a talk - I am prepared to contribute something too, if you would like soe support, James Stewart Dr James Stewart Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation University of Edinburgh http://www.issti.ed.ac.uk http

[Talk-es] vía de alta capacidad

2010-03-03 Thread James Stewart
Hay carreteras llamado vía de alta capacidad, si no son doblados, a veces se llamas 'corredor e.g. los Corredors de Galicia (http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/CG-2.2), y cuando son doblados se cambian en Autovías. Para las autovías, utilizamos motorway, pero, para corredors, o vías de alta

[Talk-es] Re: Increíble

2010-02-23 Thread James Stewart
Muchas carreteras están hecho con los imágenes de Yahoo, o de ITCyL y son muy aproximadas. También muchos con GPS no son muy exacto tampoco (yo siempre intento utilizar al menos 2 trazos de GPS) . Sí encuentras algo que esta mal puesto, corregirlo. Hay siempre la posibilidad de hacerlos

[OSM-talk] fwd: Two thirds of mobile users want driving AND walking navigation

2010-02-15 Thread James Stewart
http://www.mobile-ent.biz/news/36033/MWC-2010-Two-thirds-of-mobile-users-want-driving-AND-walking-navigation MWC 2010: Two thirds of mobile users want driving AND walking navigation by Stuart Dredge | Email a friend | PrintAdd a comment Two legs good, four tyres not necessarily better A

[OSM-talk] Greenways

2009-12-04 Thread James Stewart
A greenway may be some sort of permissive path for bike and walkers in London and Canda but in Edinburgh it is a bus lane (painted green) http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/CEC/CityDevelopment/TransportandTravel/Parking/GreenwaysandBusLanes/Greenways_And_Bus_Lanes.html A quick websearch in London only

Re: [Talk-es] Duda sobre uso de ciertos datos para desarrollar el mapa

2009-09-27 Thread James Stewart
Aunque el uso de los mapas es problematico, se puede utilizar las listas de las carreteras - por ejemplo http://www.lasalina.es/fomento/carreteras/AnejosMemoria/A1-CatálogoRedProvincial.pdf Como tenemos todos los pueblos de Salamanca en nuestro mapa, este lista (como en muchas otros

Re: [OSM-talk] definition of the main highway-tag

2009-08-01 Thread James Stewart
Classifying roads in central asia, it is easier, and makes more sense in my opinion to use the highway ref in the administrative sense. Some countries or regions have 5 or 6 main roads with are the national trunk system. In places they are almost reduced to tracks through the mountains,

[OSM-talk] Canals, drains etc

2009-06-19 Thread James Stewart
We seem to have some gaps, and variety of practice in mapping Canals, irrigation canals, drains etc. Maybe this is a good topic for Amsterdam with some on the ground observation. The small water channels in the Netherlands are mapped as drains, which seems OK. Canals however are mapped as

Re: [OSM-talk] RFC - 'living_street' (USHAKOV, Sergey)

2009-06-09 Thread James Stewart
There is a certain degree of cultural bias in the classifications used in OSM - but the freedom to change things. Although 'living_street' has particular usage in western europe, are types of street found in other countries that hardly exist in western europe that I think living street is

Re: [OSM-talk] intermittent streams

2009-05-08 Thread James Stewart
Thanks. I thought of using seasonal, but a short bit of research revealed 3 classifications of waterway. In countries with seasons it makes sense to have seasonal=yes, which can be used for a range of other map features too, but maybe we need something for water features such as Wadis, and

[OSM-talk] intermittent streams

2009-05-07 Thread James Stewart
streams in winter) James Dr James Stewart Research centre for Social Sciences Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation University of Edinburgh t: +44 131 650 6392 skype:jameskstew2 http://homepages.ed.ac.uk/jkstew/ LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesks http

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

2009-04-30 Thread James Stewart
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. For example in our local park bikes can go on all the paths, but there are some specific divided cycle paths too. (We

[Talk-es] Madrid - M45

2009-04-30 Thread James Stewart
Un pequeño detalle para los de Madrid - El M-45 es un autopista, fondo Naraja... pero tenemos como motorway. Supongo que tenemos que cambiarlo a primary, motorroad James ___ Talk-es mailing list Talk-es@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-es] Propuesta para vías verdes

2009-04-06 Thread James Stewart
Buena idea formalisar como poner las Viás Verdes. Puse mi primero la semanda pasada (via verde de Tajuña http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=40.2596lon=-3.4213zoom=13layers=B000FTF) , como highway=cycleway. Si pongas highway=path, no sale en OpenCycleMap (por el momento). Ante habia pusto

Re: [OSM-talk] tag for suburb of village

2009-03-24 Thread James Stewart
: 2009/3/24 James Stewart j.k.stew...@ed.ac.uk How are we to mark the 'suburb' of a village... or at least the name of a district or neighbourhood in a village or small town. I tend to have to use hamlet to make sure that it does not appear at several zoom levels higher than the main village. Should we

Re: [Talk-es] señalética - ref marron, ejemplo ?

2009-03-06 Thread James Stewart
Después de algunos conversaciones sobre las categorias de las carreteas dentro y fuera de la ciudad, y la llegada de 'motorroad=yes' he revisado muchos de las carreteras de Madrid, y hizo algunos cambios. Un cambio es La Carretera de Colmenar ( M-607) - un autovía. que ahora se llama El

[Talk-es] Toros Osbourne

2009-01-26 Thread James Stewart
Alguien ya ha puesto un de estos toros en la mapa - no se como marcar lo? http://www.flickr.com/photos/merceblanco/206712949 Ayuda la navegación, es de interes culturo-historico (aun que es un anuncio)... James -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with

Re: [OSM-talk] Import populated places from vmap0

2009-01-22 Thread James Stewart
(road network is better to trace using satellite imagery). Dr James Stewart Research centre for Social Sciences Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation University of Edinburgh http://www.issti.ed.ac.uk http://homepages.ed.ac.uk/jkstew

Re: [Talk-es] Traducción de JOSM en Launchpad

2008-12-31 Thread James Stewart
residential = urbana ? living_street = calle residencial ? Hay algo que falta en OSM - 'unclassified' es teoréticamente para calles y carreteras urbanos sin conexión directa a casas, y 'residential' para pequeños calles. Tambien 'service' son calles pequeños para acceder a edificios etc,

Re: [Talk-GB] Visit to academics in london

2008-12-14 Thread James Stewart
Thanks for the replies, I had an interesting conversation with Muki at UCL on our interests in the technology studies aspects of OSM. Sorry for including the whole digest, i wrote the mail from my small phone, hard to tell what was going on! James On 14 Dec 2008, at 6:40, Peter Miller wrote:

[Talk-GB] Visit to academics in london

2008-12-12 Thread James Stewart
I am down from Edinburgh university and wondered if any academics at ucl working on osm might have time to meet about work on project. I do mapping, but am interested in doing research on osm. Regards James stewart - Message from talk-gb-requ...@openstreetmap.org - Send Talk-GB

[Talk-GB] Visit to academics in london

2008-12-12 Thread James Stewart
I am down from Edinburgh university and wondered if any academics at ucl working on osm might have time to meet about work on project. I do mapping, but am interested in doing research on osm. Regards James stewart - Message from talk-gb-requ...@openstreetmap.org - Send Talk-GB

[Talk-es] Madrid

2008-12-08 Thread James Stewart
, James Dr James Stewart Research centre for Social Sciences Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation University of Edinburgh t: +44 131 650 6392 skype:jameskstew2 http://homepages.ed.ac.uk/jkstew/ LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesks http://www.issti.ed.ac.uk

Re: [OSM-talk] UK Industrial Estate Roads

2008-11-07 Thread James Stewart
', and are not really 'service' roads, which might apply to the roads within a private industrial complex. James Dr James Stewart Research centre for Social Sciences Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation University of Edinburgh http://www.issti.ed.ac.uk http://homepages.ed.ac.uk

Re: [OSM-talk] Ideas for student project on OSM

2008-10-28 Thread James Stewart
Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote: James Stewart wrote: Sent: 28 October 2008 2:38 PM To: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: [OSM-talk] Ideas for student project on OSM Hi, I am a contributor to the map,but also work in the University in Edinburgh. I have been talking to the people who run the MSc

Re: [Talk-GB] [OSM-talk] Corporate Cartographers accused of demolishing history. (make press release?)

2008-08-29 Thread James Stewart
I guess one way to break up UK mapping data monoploy is for other owners of important GI to release it, such as local authorities, http://www.gisdevelopment.net/magazine/global/2008/august/52.htm James Stewart On 29 Aug 2008, at 12:31, Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED