Re: [OSM-talk] If you want to help with OSM, and dont know what to do, help out with the Kosovo and Albania project

2010-02-02 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
Looks like my edits there. I will resolve the conflict. I have cut out the overlapping areas, if you look at yahoosat, you will see streets missing from the immap data. We have a team in Gjakova, will ask them to review. thanks, mike On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 8:40 AM, Rob r...@robreid.co.nz wrote:

Re: [OSM-talk] If you want to help with OSM, and dont know what to do, help out with the Kosovo and Albania project

2010-02-02 Thread Rob
jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: Looks like my edits there. I will resolve the conflict. I have cut out the overlapping areas, if you look at yahoosat, you will see streets missing from the immap data. We have a team in Gjakova, will ask them to review. thanks, mike Thanks for

Re: [OSM-talk] If you want to help with OSM, and dont know what to do, help out with the Kosovo and Albania project

2010-02-02 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
If you want to upload them, and mark them as fixmes we will review them. thanks! On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Rob r...@robreid.co.nz wrote: jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: Looks like my edits there. I will resolve the conflict. I have cut out the overlapping areas, if you look at

Re: [OSM-talk] If you want to help with OSM, and dont know what to do, help out with the Kosovo and Albania project

2010-02-01 Thread Rob
jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: looks good! I will share that with the others. mike On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Rob r...@robreid.co.nz wrote: Maarten Deen wrote: That wiki table is a good idea. Let me know if you can't make it today (your day), maybe I can continue.

Re: [OSM-talk] If you want to help with OSM, and dont know what to do, help out with the Kosovo and Albania project

2010-02-01 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
Thanks for heads up, The idea of doing smaller chunks is to avoid conflicts, but if you get the latest data from the server we should be alright. Also the big deal is to not overwrite existing streets. There is alot of data! mike On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Rob r...@robreid.co.nz wrote:

Re: [OSM-talk] If you want to help with OSM, and dont know what to do, help out with the Kosovo and Albania project

2010-02-01 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
Todos: * don't overwrite existing streets. * run the validator, merge street segments * join streets that end near each other. * don't upload points that are not connected. code: Here is the hack to shp2osm.pl that does the splitting, please use that if you want to do mass

Re: [OSM-talk] If you want to help with OSM, and dont know what to do, help out with the Kosovo and Albania project

2010-02-01 Thread Maarten Deen
jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: Todos: * don't overwrite existing streets. * run the validator, merge street segments Very important. I see that different roads have their own nodes and when two roads connect, there are two nodes in the same spot. In JOSM, use the validator

Re: [OSM-talk] If you want to help with OSM, and dont know what to do, help out with the Kosovo and Albania project

2010-02-01 Thread John F. Eldredge
Before you join streets that end near each other, I would recommend making sure that the streets actually connect to each other. Streets sometimes have barriers, or two disconnected segments, as a means of making sure that a particular street segment is used only within a particular

Re: [OSM-talk] If you want to help with OSM, and dont know what to do, help out with the Kosovo and Albania project

2010-02-01 Thread malenki
jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: There is a reason I split them up by streets and not by node count, it is to avoid lonly points with no streets like this : http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/624505841 that whole section of the map is full of points with no streets. :( Changeset

Re: [OSM-talk] If you want to help with OSM, and dont know what to do, help out with the Kosovo and Albania project

2010-02-01 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
Thanks for all your help and enthusiasm malenki, of course such things happened to me as well. On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 6:46 PM, malenki o...@malenki.ch wrote: jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: There is a reason I split them up by streets and not by node count, it is to avoid lonly points

Re: [OSM-talk] If you want to help with OSM, and dont know what to do, help out with the Kosovo and Albania project

2010-02-01 Thread Rob
jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: Todos: * don't overwrite existing streets. * run the validator, merge street segments * join streets that end near each other. * don't upload points that are not connected. In the sections I'm importing at the moment there is a couple

Re: [OSM-talk] If you want to help with OSM, and dont know what to do, help out with the Kosovo and Albania project

2010-02-01 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
I forgot one more import, We are working on importing the house data from a goverment agency, KPAonline.org that has GPS positions and old streetnames. http://groups.google.com/group/free-software-conference/browse_thread/thread/5fbea63ef8efe659 The streetnames in kosovo have changed many times,

Re: [OSM-talk] If you want to help with OSM, and dont know what to do, help out with the Kosovo and Albania project

2010-01-31 Thread Rob
jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: We have The entire streetnetwork of Kosovo that needs to be merged and imported (from iimap, the disaster relief) Is there page anywhere that coordinates who is uploading which parts of this? I downloaded a few at random and the first 4 I tried look to

Re: [OSM-talk] If you want to help with OSM, and dont know what to do, help out with the Kosovo and Albania project

2010-01-31 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
Hi there, No we dont have an overview page of the parts done, yet. I have been thinking about generating a map of those part. Am looking into mapnik. In fact, it would be great to have a machine to just load up all this data into its own osm instance and to generate some slippy maps. I am

Re: [OSM-talk] If you want to help with OSM, and dont know what to do, help out with the Kosovo and Albania project

2010-01-31 Thread Maarten Deen
Rob wrote: jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: We have The entire streetnetwork of Kosovo that needs to be merged and imported (from iimap, the disaster relief) Is there page anywhere that coordinates who is uploading which parts of this? I downloaded a few at random and the first 4 I

Re: [OSM-talk] If you want to help with OSM, and dont know what to do, help out with the Kosovo and Albania project

2010-01-31 Thread Rob
Maarten Deen wrote: Rob wrote: jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: We have The entire streetnetwork of Kosovo that needs to be merged and imported (from iimap, the disaster relief) Is there page anywhere that coordinates who is uploading which parts of this? I downloaded a few at

Re: [OSM-talk] If you want to help with OSM, and dont know what to do, help out with the Kosovo and Albania project

2010-01-31 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
I think a wiki would be fine to document that progress. On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, Maarten Deen wrote: Might it be useful to make a Kosovo mailinglist for this? we do have an irc channel but it doesn't support asynchronous discussion

Re: [OSM-talk] If you want to help with OSM, and dont know what to do, help out with the Kosovo and Albania project

2010-01-31 Thread Maarten Deen
Rob wrote: Maarten Deen wrote: Rob wrote: jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: We have The entire streetnetwork of Kosovo that needs to be merged and imported (from iimap, the disaster relief) Is there page anywhere that coordinates who is uploading which parts of this? I downloaded

Re: [OSM-talk] If you want to help with OSM, and dont know what to do, help out with the Kosovo and Albania project

2010-01-31 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
Sounds good! I want to finish up my work on mapnik and then I will use that to render tiles from each chunk, then we can compare them visually or have an overview chart. mike On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Maarten Deen md...@xs4all.nl wrote: Rob wrote: Maarten Deen wrote: Rob wrote:

Re: [OSM-talk] If you want to help with OSM, and dont know what to do, help out with the Kosovo and Albania project

2010-01-31 Thread Rob
Maarten Deen wrote: That wiki table is a good idea. Let me know if you can't make it today (your day), maybe I can continue. Quick attempt: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Kosovo_iMMAP_Import I'm not a wiki expert so feel free to improve as required or let me know what changes you want

Re: [OSM-talk] If you want to help with OSM, and dont know what to do, help out with the Kosovo and Albania project

2010-01-31 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
looks good! I will share that with the others. mike On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Rob r...@robreid.co.nz wrote: Maarten Deen wrote: That wiki table is a good idea. Let me know if you can't make it today (your day), maybe I can continue. Quick attempt:

[OSM-talk] If you want to help with OSM, and dont know what to do, help out with the Kosovo and Albania project

2010-01-29 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/h4ck3rm1k3/diary/9405 Everybody is invited to help out with Kosovo and Albania. I know that there are alot of new people working on Haiti, and if that project is saturated and you are looking for something to do to help out, please help out the people in the