[Talk-in] osm workshop in Trivandrum - help needed

2012-07-23 Thread kenneth gonsalves
today - I will follow up tomorrow. Opportunities like this do not come up very often - it would be good for the community if we can make best use of it. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [Talk-in] Data loss due to license change

2012-07-22 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Sun, 2012-07-22 at 10:49 +0530, Arun Ganesh wrote: I think the osm redaction bot has finished cleaning up India and removed all non-odbl data. and thankfully all my stuff remains. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Redaction progress

2012-07-15 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Sun, 2012-07-15 at 11:46 +0100, Richard Fairhurst wrote: The redaction bot has started on the 'Western Europe' area. Because continents are annoyingly not shaped like rectangles, this is not good - I think the OSMF should do something about this. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves

Re: [OSM-talk] Icons

2012-06-27 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Wed, 2012-06-27 at 18:06 -0400, john whelan wrote: Could someone or a group come up with a more standard set of icons please? lets appoint a committee ;-) -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http

[Talk-in] osm workshop in trivandrum

2012-06-27 Thread kenneth gonsalves
locally. intended audience: The audience will be largely mapping enthusiasts, students and some government officials They will fund it, but would prefer the resource persons to be local - anyone from Kerala can take this up? -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves

Re: [OSM-talk] TomTom is thumping us

2012-05-29 Thread kenneth gonsalves
, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. Sounds like we're well and truly at stage 2. looks more like stage 3 to me -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] handheld gps unit

2012-04-23 Thread kenneth gonsalves
Kenneth Gonsalves What about a camera with built-in GPS? That way you can make photo documentation of the progress at each site with a timestamp and geostamp[1]. Many cameras also record audio, so you could have timestamped, geostamped audio too although I'm not sure how independent

Re: [OSM-talk] handheld gps unit

2012-04-22 Thread kenneth gonsalves
. They will need several devices as 50,000 toilets are being done - so around 200 USD. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] handheld gps unit

2012-04-19 Thread kenneth gonsalves
hi, what are recommendations for a handheld reasonably priced gps unit? -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Survey about Incentives to contribute to OSM

2012-03-15 Thread kenneth gonsalves
). quality sucks bigtime - which means it is obviously framed by a legitimate university type ;-) -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM software

2012-03-11 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Fri, 2012-03-09 at 16:37 +0100, Stephane Goldstein wrote: Is there a way to do the same with the OSM software ? yes - set up your own tile server and download the extract for the country you want. Hundreds of people do it. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves

Re: [OSM-talk] Map Co-ordinates for towns, etc in UK

2012-02-24 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Fri, 2012-02-24 at 09:20 +, Lester Caine wrote: kenneth gonsalves wrote: Can some one advise me of the official policy for locating the centre of towns in the UK, i.e. the spot on the map for a point representing the town and used as the Zero Point for measuring distances

Re: [OSM-talk] Map Co-ordinates for towns, etc in UK

2012-02-23 Thread kenneth gonsalves
the head post office. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Contact And Remap Campaign

2012-02-06 Thread kenneth gonsalves
they are. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

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

2012-01-16 Thread kenneth gonsalves
respect that these people exist (numerously), and discuss license issues in legal talk. I can confirm that at least one of us exists. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Harming the community

2011-12-16 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Thu, 2011-12-15 at 12:00 +0700, Jeffrey Johnson wrote: How do I +1 a mailing list post?? you just did -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Vector maps for Android

2011-11-29 Thread kenneth gonsalves
of the members. Remember OSM has a very low threshold for membership - and the lower the threshold, the looser the community. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Vector maps for Android

2011-11-29 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 17:26 +0530, Parveen Arora wrote: On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 5:08 PM, kenneth gonsalves law...@thenilgiris.com wrote: not possible given the size of the community and the wildly varying viewpoints of the members. Remember OSM has a very low threshold for membership

Re: [OSM-talk] Vector maps for Android

2011-11-27 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Sun, 2011-11-27 at 16:21 +0530, Parveen Arora wrote: Hi Parveen, no there is no offical App as OSM is just a loose community, Is it really? I think there are number of developers so I wonder how it is a loose application. loose community -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves

Re: [OSM-talk] Naming dispute over Jerusalem - OSM failure

2011-10-06 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Thu, 2011-10-06 at 08:38 +0200, ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen wrote: What a childish approach of both sides… what exactly is childish in the approach of this side? -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ talk mailing list talk

Re: [OSM-talk] satellite Imagery missing

2011-09-21 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Wed, 2011-09-21 at 02:15 -0700, Richard Fairhurst wrote: Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: 90% of my mapping is in such areas - gps, josm and repeated visits to the area are needed. Camera and laser range finder are a plus. JOSM is absolutely not needed for GPS surveying - you can use

Re: [OSM-talk] satellite Imagery missing

2011-09-21 Thread kenneth gonsalves
;-) ? this is country specific. Most people tend to think a range finder is a camera or binoculars. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] satellite Imagery missing

2011-09-21 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Wed, 2011-09-21 at 15:35 +0200, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: 2011/9/21 kenneth gonsalves law...@thenilgiris.com: it is dead easy - just point it at the target and click - it gives the distance. At over 150 metres, a tripod helps, unless you have very steady hands. It is useful for getting

Re: [OSM-talk] satellite Imagery missing

2011-09-20 Thread kenneth gonsalves
. These can then be plotted in josm using the measurement tool. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] satellite Imagery missing

2011-09-18 Thread kenneth gonsalves
and repeated visits to the area are needed. Camera and laser range finder are a plus. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] The thread Roundabouts and routing

2011-09-09 Thread kenneth gonsalves
-September/060082.html) reflect a dysfunctional community? Is it just me or is this message not a typical troll ? I think it's just you. But do you care to explain? you are wrong - it is also me. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] The thread Roundabouts and routing

2011-09-09 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Fri, 2011-09-09 at 08:01 -0400, Anthony wrote: Kenneth, can you elaborate on your post? What in my post is typical of a troll? everything -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org

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

2011-08-15 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Mon, 2011-08-15 at 13:57 +0800, maning sambale wrote: In our patch in OSM, we have very few mappers. Sometimes, we do some initial road stubbing and then organize a trip to verify what was initially traced. During those trips we try as much as we can to talk to locals on how they can

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

2011-08-15 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Mon, 2011-08-15 at 18:34 +0800, maning sambale wrote: better to have no data than to have wrong data. Incomplete data is not necessarily wrong data. That's why we have tags for that (i.e. highway=road) AFAIK, we only have a few rules here: 1. Don't copy from other (possibly

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

2011-08-15 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Mon, 2011-08-15 at 08:55 -0500, David Fawcett wrote: Come on, almost all of us have been to Haiti! Good thing that we were able to leverage that following the earthquake... every rule has exceptions. ___ talk mailing list

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

2011-08-14 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Sun, 2011-08-14 at 16:14 +0100, SomeoneElse wrote: If it is good to have such remote mapping or bad depends on how the people on the ground react. Adding a whole street including geometry is imho a lot more rewarding then just entering street names. Agreed. I seem to remember

Re: [OSM-talk] libprotobuf version = 2.3.0 needed

2011-08-11 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 12:00 +0530, bharath vissapragada wrote: The version you get in synaptic is 2.2 by default for 10.04 . Download it from http://code.google.com/p/protobuf/downloads/list and install the latest version. I did that - now scons crashes with this error (works perfectly in

[OSM-talk] osm2pgsql - some tables missing

2011-08-11 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
| planet_osm_line| table | gisuser public | planet_osm_point | table | gisuser public | planet_osm_polygon | table | gisuser public | planet_osm_roads | table | gisuser public | spatial_ref_sys| table | gisuser (6 rows) any idea as to what step I have missed? -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves

[OSM-talk] osm2pgsql - some tables missing

2011-08-10 Thread kenneth gonsalves
| planet_osm_line| table | gisuser public | planet_osm_point | table | gisuser public | planet_osm_polygon | table | gisuser public | planet_osm_roads | table | gisuser public | spatial_ref_sys| table | gisuser (6 rows) any idea as to what step I have missed? -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves

Re: [OSM-talk] osm2pgsql - some tables missing

2011-08-10 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Wed, 2011-08-10 at 10:00 +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote: On 08/10/2011 09:54 AM, kenneth gonsalves wrote: on importing data with osm2pgsql, there is no error, but some tables are missing: This is the normal set of tables that you get when importing without --slim. It is fully sufficient

[OSM-talk] libprotobuf version = 2.3.0 needed

2011-08-10 Thread kenneth gonsalves
hi, am trying to install osrm on Ubuntu 10.04, but it barfs: libprotobuf version = 2.3.0 needed I have installed libprotobuf5 and libprotobuf-dev. Has anyone come across this problem? ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] all POIs within a specific radius

2011-08-09 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Mon, 2011-08-08 at 07:34 +0100, Graham Jones wrote: These questions might get a better response on the Dev list as they are quite technical. but it is an end user question - I would not like to waste the time of the devs. I am not very good at postgis so I may be wrong, but you might be

Re: [OSM-talk] all POIs within a specific radius

2011-08-08 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Mon, 2011-08-08 at 10:40 +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote: select name from planet_osm_point where place = 'locality' and ST_DWithin(way,(select way from planet_osm_point where name like 'Bangalore%' limit 1),300) order by name; Is it possible that your database is not in Mercator projection

Re: [OSM-talk] all POIs within a specific radius

2011-08-07 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Tue, 2011-08-02 at 14:26 +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote: On 08/02/11 14:13, kenneth gonsalves wrote: actually I am looking for an sql query. That would typically be done using the st_dwithin function. That function internally makes a bounding box comparison, thereby taking advantage

[OSM-talk] syntax to query osrm routed

2011-08-06 Thread kenneth gonsalves
hi where can I get this? ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Moving Map on Netbook?

2011-08-05 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Fri, 2011-08-05 at 10:01 +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote: On 08/05/11 04:29, Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote: Please keep in mind that development of tangoGPS stopped a while ago, and forked into FoxtrotGPS (which works pretty nicely as I recall) It seems the tango thing does what I need but I'll

[OSM-talk] all POIs within a specific radius

2011-08-02 Thread kenneth gonsalves
hi, how would I get all POIs within a specific radius (in metres) from a specific point by querying the osm db? ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] all POIs within a specific radius

2011-08-02 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Tue, 2011-08-02 at 07:49 -0400, Nathan Edgars II wrote: On 8/2/2011 7:05 AM, kenneth gonsalves wrote: hi, how would I get all POIs within a specific radius (in metres) from a specific point by querying the osm db? If a square rather than a circle is fine, try XAPI: http

Re: [OSM-talk] all POIs within a specific radius

2011-08-02 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Tue, 2011-08-02 at 14:05 +0200, Paul Hartmann wrote: On 08/02/2011 01:05 PM, kenneth gonsalves wrote: hi, how would I get all POIs within a specific radius (in metres) from a specific point by querying the osm db? Any kind of POI or a certain list of tags? Have you tried

Re: [OSM-talk] routing and distance calculation

2011-08-01 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 01:21 +0530, bharath vissapragada wrote: If cpp is fine with you .. I would suggest osrm ( http://project-osrm.org/ ). Its an excellent tool for route computation and can return various standard formats (KML,JSON,GPX ). It also provides a web service for querying and you

[OSM-talk] querying the postgis db

2011-07-27 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
hi, I know that this sounds a bit of a dumb question: I have installed osm data in a postgis db, and would like to get a list of all localities within a particular city - can anyone give a hint on the sql required for this? -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves

[OSM-talk] lat and lon in the db

2011-07-27 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
hi, on querying the db, I get the lat and lon of a particular place as: lat 145921624 lon 864071554 but the map shows the correct figures: lat 12.9954832 lon 77.6208684 can anyone explain this? -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ talk mailing list

[OSM-talk] lat and lon in the db

2011-07-27 Thread kenneth gonsalves
hi, on querying the db, I get the lat and lon of a particular place as: lat 145921624 lon 864071554 but the map shows the correct figures: lat 12.9954832 lon 77.6208684 can anyone explain this? -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] lat and lon in the db

2011-07-27 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Wed, 2011-07-27 at 11:04 +0100, Jorge Gustavo wrote: As Tom already said, you probably used osm2pgsql and those coordinates are in the SRID EPSG:900913. You can/should confirm it by quering the geometry_columns table. osm2pgsql fills the table automatically. that's right ... In

Re: [OSM-talk] lat and lon in the db

2011-07-27 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Wed, 2011-07-27 at 13:11 +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote: On 07/27/11 13:04, kenneth gonsalves wrote: I would prefer to reload in ESPG 4326, but on doing: ./osm2pgsql -S ./default.style -E EPSG:4326 ./bang.osm I get this error: Projection code failed to initialise Use -l (ell) instead

Re: [OSM-talk] lat and lon in the db

2011-07-27 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Wed, 2011-07-27 at 16:58 +0530, kenneth gonsalves wrote: Use -l (ell) instead of -E EPSG:4326. same error - maybe I need to install something. done - yum install proj-epsg. Thanks everyone. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] shortened names

2011-07-27 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Wed, 2011-07-27 at 13:51 +0100, Steve Doerr wrote: On 27/07/2011 11:01, Richard Fairhurst wrote: Pronunciation in English only ever serves to mislead. [...] every native English speaker would pronunce St in that context as 'saint'. Actually, St and saint are pronounced rather

[OSM-talk] querying the postgis db

2011-07-26 Thread kenneth gonsalves
hi, I know that this sounds a bit of a dumb question: I have installed osm data in a postgis db, and would like to get a list of all localities within a particular city - can anyone give a hint on the sql required for this? ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] querying the postgis db

2011-07-26 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 10:20 +0400, Alexandr Zeinalov wrote: I have installed osm data in a postgis db, and would like to get a list of all localities within a particular city - can anyone give a hint on the sql required for this? Something like: SELECT

[OSM-talk] error running osm2pgsql ERROR: prepared statement get_node_list does not exist

2011-07-26 Thread kenneth gonsalves
hi, am trying to import osm data with osm2pgsql and am getting this error: ERROR: prepared statement get_node_list does not exist any pointers? ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] error running osm2pgsql ERROR: prepared statement get_node_list does not exist

2011-07-26 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 12:53 +0530, kenneth gonsalves wrote: am trying to import osm data with osm2pgsql and am getting this error: ERROR: prepared statement get_node_list does not exist any pointers? solved PostgreSQL intarray contrib module not installed

[OSM-talk] routing and distance calculation

2011-07-25 Thread kenneth gonsalves
hi, I need a command line tool to get the distance between two points by the shortest route - preferably in python. Recommendations? -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo

[OSM-talk] routing and distance calculation

2011-07-25 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
hi, I need a command line tool to get the distance between two points by the shortest route - preferably in python. Recommendations? -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo

Re: [OSM-talk] routing and distance calculation

2011-07-25 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 10:28 +0200, yve...@gmail.com wrote: Pyroute tried it - but get this error: [lawgon@xlquest pyroute]$ python gui.py [poi_base.poiGroup instance at 0x952cfcc, poi_base.poiGroup instance at 0x952cf6c] Loading POIs from /home/lawgon/pyroute/Setup/poi.txt Error while parsing

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap 7th Birthday Party

2011-07-22 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Fri, 2011-07-22 at 15:45 +0530, Parveen Arora wrote: Why birthdays of OSM are not being celebrated on same day, Can't we declare one particular day as OSM's Birthday? that will create a huge thread of hundreds of messages debating this mission critical point.

Re: [OSM-talk] Hitting reset on talk-au

2011-07-13 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Wed, 2011-07-13 at 08:33 +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote: Seriously Richard, I hope you burn in hell for the destruction youve caused and continue to cause to the OSM project. I must congratulate David on his decision. Let us all remember that this is a hobby project (for most of us at

Re: [OSM-talk] Blue color in part of MAP by MAPNIK

2011-06-09 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 02:15 -0700, Saphy Mo wrote: I produced a MAP by Mapnik in Boarder of France and Germany directly from Database FRANCE of france.osm.bz2. But part of maps are colored blue, as you see in attachment. Only new boarder but inside the country it is blue. is this at all

Re: [OSM-talk] License graph

2011-04-19 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 22:14 +1000, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: Perhaps if you explain just how your support was bought this is not acceptable on an open mailing list - or on *any* mailing list. -- regards KG http://lawgon.livejournal.com Coimbatore LUG rox http://ilugcbe.techstud.org/

Re: [OSM-talk] License graph

2011-04-19 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 12:51 -0700, SteveC wrote: You know I don't have a private jet, right? But if I did, Fred could pilot it. even if he said no? -- regards KG http://lawgon.livejournal.com Coimbatore LUG rox http://ilugcbe.techstud.org/ ___

Re: [OSM-talk] PD tick box

2011-04-18 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Mon, 2011-04-18 at 20:02 +1000, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 08:40:45 +0200 Fabio Alessandro Locati fabioloc...@gmail.com wrote: In all the countries I know of ticking a checkbox is comparable to sign a printed contract, so I thin is pointless to have a written contract

Re: [OSM-talk] Geofabrik Download Server Update

2011-04-12 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 11:17 +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote: Before, the .pbf and .bz2 and .shp files were all created on a machine in the Geofabrik office and uploaded to the download server for distribution, and with the office only having 10 MBit upstream connectivity, there was a limit to

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM is dying (was Re: We Need to Stop Google's Exploitation of Open Communities)

2011-04-12 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 10:10 +, Ed Avis wrote: Kenneth Gonsalves lawgon at thenilgiris.com writes: well I was very active, but there is nothing left to do except when I go to a new area, Out of interest where do you live? I see you are based in India but where? I know that Germany

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM is dying (was Re: We Need to Stop Google's Exploitation of Open Communities)

2011-04-11 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Mon, 2011-04-11 at 18:51 +0200, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: 2011/4/11 Dermot McNally derm...@gmail.com: OSM is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If OSM is to survive at all it will be among bearded hippies too behind the times to have discovered Waze. OSM

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM is dying

2011-04-11 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 00:10 -0400, Peter Budny wrote: well I was very active, but there is nothing left to do Really? Nothing left to do? I ran some quick checks on a local copy of about 4 US states and found that 74% of it HAD NEVER BEEN EDITED after the initial Tiger import. there

Re: [OSM-talk] Why I don't use JOSM (was Re: Non-map-based OSM editor)

2011-01-24 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 17:25 +1100, Steve Bennett wrote: But in JOSM you have to explicitly download data, manipulate it, then explicitly upload it again. (And, if my memory serves, you get slapped on the wrist for trying to download too much.) yes - precisely why I use josm -- regards KG

Re: [OSM-talk] Why I don't use JOSM (was Re: Non-map-based OSM editor)

2011-01-23 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 18:24 +1100, Steve Bennett wrote: It looks like a fantastically powerful tool, and I wish all those who use it the very best. But I'm probably one of those few people who actually moved from JOSM *to* Potlatch. it *is* a fantastic tool - with the connectivity I usually

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=unsurfaced

2011-01-21 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 19:30 +, Steve Doerr wrote: Nothing official, but it would be very unusual for anybody to call something that wasn't surfaced a road. Unless they were expatriates in a third-world country? please refrain from such remarks - I suppose you think we map by snake

Re: [Talk-in] Bing imagery

2010-12-26 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Sat, 2010-12-25 at 18:56 +0530, Arun Ganesh wrote: To use the imagery, correct the offset by aligning it to the downloaded gps traces. In josm, right click the imagery layer in the layers panel and select the offset function. I do not see an imagery layer -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves

Re: [Talk-in] Bing imagery

2010-12-26 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Mon, 2010-12-27 at 12:32 +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On Sat, 2010-12-25 at 18:56 +0530, Arun Ganesh wrote: To use the imagery, correct the offset by aligning it to the downloaded gps traces. In josm, right click the imagery layer in the layers panel and select the offset function

Re: [Talk-in] Bing imagery

2010-12-26 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
on. different parts of coimbatore have different offsets in bing. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in

Re: [Talk-in] Bing imagery

2010-12-25 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in

Re: [Talk-in] Bing imagery

2010-12-25 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Sat, 2010-12-25 at 18:25 +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: I checked it against tracks made by my metre accurate GPS instrument. chennai seems accurate - but it is the same map as yahoo - but has one more zoom level. Mangalore is b0rked, but not as bad as Coimbatore. -- regards Kenneth

Re: [Talk-in] Bing imagery

2010-12-25 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Sat, 2010-12-25 at 18:59 +0530, Arun Ganesh wrote: On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 6:36 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.orgwrote: On Sat, 2010-12-25 at 18:25 +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: I checked it against tracks made by my metre accurate GPS instrument. Kenneth, how did you

Re: [OSM-talk] Massive import of airports

2010-12-17 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
what is his source -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[Talk-in] how much does one charge for surveying

2010-12-16 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
hi, a person wants me to survey his estate - 20 acres. He has no objection to it being put up on OSM. It will be a detailed survey with all roads, types of crops, buildings, trees etc. Any idea how much I can charge. (I would do it free, but he does not know that) -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves

Re: [Talk-in] how much does one charge for surveying

2010-12-16 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
. I think around 1000Rs. ah good idea - will check with the surveyers -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in

Re: [Talk-in] Mumbai Map Cleanup

2010-12-12 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
for positioning. I have done some bits in Juhu, Versova and Bandra. I frankly do not think there is any need for a meeting for this. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-09 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
in Australia yahoo updates it's imagery more often than once in 2-3 years. So you would see a marsh and map it as such - and maybe the said poor local sod may not even get on his bike to go there as who wants to map a marsh? -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-08 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
more about. Period. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-08 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
actually visited the region to be mapped? yes - I am from India and have enough trouble with enthusiastic people mapping aquaducts as highways (for example) -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-08 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 22:37 +1100, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: On Wed, 08 Dec 2010 16:35:31 +0530 Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.org wrote: you should not map from any imagery area you know nothing more about. Period. So how about Haiti? Colombia? exceptional circumstances sometimes need

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-08 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 12:53 +, Joseph Reeves wrote: local mappers and even if I did trace a load of crap into the database, anyone else can come along and, providing they've got a better data source than I, fix it. please keep off India -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-08 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
- if this implies that since everyone has edit writes, anyone can write rubbish - then I don't like it. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [Talk-in] bing imagery

2010-12-03 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
use M$ interface for that. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in

[OSM-talk] bing error in josm

2010-12-02 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
hi, I have downloaded the josm-tested and josm-latest. In bing wms I get this error: 'bing:bing' for this WMS layer does neither end in a '' nor with a '?'. If I choose 'fetch images' I get an exception. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ talk mailing

[Talk-in] [Fwd: Re: [OSM-talk] Bing imagery now available in JOSM]

2010-12-02 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
here is what frederik has to say. His endorsement is good enough for me Forwarded Message From: Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org To: Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.org Cc: t...@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Bing imagery now available in JOSM Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2010

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing imagery now available in JOSM

2010-12-01 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 12:26 +0100, Sebastian Klein wrote: thanks to fast development by Ian Dees, Bing imagery can now be used in JOSM. and it is legal to use it? -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing imagery now available in JOSM

2010-12-01 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 13:07 +0100, Sebastian Klein wrote: Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 12:26 +0100, Sebastian Klein wrote: thanks to fast development by Ian Dees, Bing imagery can now be used in JOSM. and it is legal to use it? Yes, see http://opengeodata.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing imagery now available in JOSM

2010-12-01 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
the statement of an employee of a company cannot bind the company - I am not taking risks unless I get an official statement with reasons from OSMF. And anyone who trusts microsoft ... -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing imagery now available in JOSM

2010-12-01 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 13:40 +0100, Frederik Ramm wrote: On 12/01/10 13:14, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: this is not an OSM site - where is the OSM viewpoint on this? Whose viewpoint would you like? your endorsement would be good enough for me -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing imagery now available in JOSM

2010-12-01 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 08:52 +0100, Frederik Ramm wrote: Kenneth, On 12/02/2010 04:22 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 13:40 +0100, Frederik Ramm wrote: On 12/01/10 13:14, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: this is not an OSM site - where is the OSM viewpoint on this? Whose

[Talk-in] bing imagery

2010-12-01 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
microsoft's record in matters like this am quite dubious about the whole thing. Comments? -- regards KG http://lawgon.livejournal.com Coimbatore LUG rox http://ilugcbe.techstud.org/ -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk

Re: [OSM-talk] BingMaps arrive

2010-11-30 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Tue, 2010-11-30 at 22:05 +0100, Pierre-Alain Dorange wrote: Ca y est c'est parti BingMap va débarquer dans OSM : http://opengeodata.org/microsoft-imagery-details பிரியவில்லை -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ talk mailing list talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Steve Coast Joins Microsoft as Principle Architect of Bing Mobile

2010-11-23 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Tue, 2010-11-23 at 12:06 -0500, Richard Weait wrote: http://opengeodata.org/openstreetmap-founder-steve-coast-joins-bing http://blog.stevecoast.com/im-working-at-microsoft-and-were-donating-ima I am a little confused - who is SteveC? or are there two of them? -- regards Kenneth

Re: [OSM-talk] Steve Coast Joins Microsoft as Principle Architect of Bing Mobile

2010-11-23 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Wed, 2010-11-24 at 13:53 +1100, David Murn wrote: On Wed, 2010-11-24 at 08:13 +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On Tue, 2010-11-23 at 12:06 -0500, Richard Weait wrote: http://opengeodata.org/openstreetmap-founder-steve-coast-joins-bing http://blog.stevecoast.com/im-working

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