Re: [OSM-talk] Why am I getting spam via OSM website messages?

2014-07-31 Thread Tom Hughes
the fact that the message arrived via the OSM messaging system! My suspicion would be that they are sending them to people in particular areas and/or who are frequent editors. They show some signs of being tailored to the user's home location for example. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu

Re: [OSM-talk] Why am I getting spam via OSM website messages?

2014-07-31 Thread Tom Hughes
that others about this) the research relates to the OSM community. It's hardly impossible imagine research in the area of human behaviour that relates to an open data community and why people would involve themselves with one... Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu

Re: [OSM-talk] Incorrect speed limit anonymous notes - who is behind that?

2014-07-29 Thread Tom Hughes
reporter wanted to say. I think some of them do say other things, yes. Still waiting for a reply from the people I emailed last night. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https

Re: [OSM-talk] Incorrect speed limit anonymous notes - who is behind that?

2014-07-28 Thread Tom Hughes
with somebody so we can discuss how they can improve things. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Upcoming openstreetmap-carto changes

2014-07-25 Thread Tom Hughes
in advance what the impact of any given change will be on every possible combination of tags that may have been used somewhere on earth. Sure, it would be lovely to have a test server where changes could be tried before putting them live. We don't have infinite resources though. Tom -- Tom Hughes

Re: [OSM-talk] Upcoming openstreetmap-carto changes

2014-07-25 Thread Tom Hughes
On 25/07/14 15:20, SomeoneElse wrote: On 25/07/2014 15:03, Tom Hughes wrote: How about assuming good intent ... No-one's suggesting anything other than people wanting to make the standard layer better. It's better for what that's the issue. I think that we ought to be making a map style

Re: [OSM-talk] Upcoming openstreetmap-carto changes

2014-07-25 Thread Tom Hughes
On 25/07/14 15:33, SomeoneElse wrote: On 25/07/2014 15:26, Tom Hughes wrote: For the record I personally was perfectly happy to see things like long obliterated railways removed from the standard rendering. We never (well not for 5 years or so?) rendered dismantled railways - it's

Re: [OSM-talk] Upcoming openstreetmap-carto changes

2014-07-25 Thread Tom Hughes
On 25/07/14 15:42, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: 2014-07-25 16:38 GMT+02:00 Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu mailto:t...@compton.nu: I would dispute the claim that the Hertford East-North link is in any way a significant feature in the landscape. Looking at this http://www.hertford.net

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

2014-06-17 Thread Tom Hughes
twenty years now and to date nobody has managed to come up with an answer that makes everybody happy so I suggest we don't try and do so here and now. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB

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

2014-06-08 Thread Tom Hughes
, it could then be replicated for more topics; and in other territories. What would you consider a demonstration of success exactly? Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https

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

2014-06-08 Thread Tom Hughes
was taking the question of accuracy as a given. My point was not whether we can accurately add the right tags, but rather whether doing so is actually useful. There's an almost infinite number of things we could add, but if nobody ever uses them, is the time take do so wasted? Tom -- Tom

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

2014-06-08 Thread Tom Hughes
On 08/06/14 23:11, Andy Mabbett wrote: On 8 June 2014 22:49, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: There's an almost infinite number of things we could add, but if nobody ever uses them, is the time take do so wasted? Why do you (apparently) suppose they will not be used? I don't suppose one

Re: [Talk-GB] UK postcodes on each side of the road

2014-05-18 Thread Tom Hughes
postcodes. One covers both sides for about one third of the length and the other two each cover one side for the other two thirds. Postcodes are part of an address and belong to a building, not a street, so that is where they should be tagged. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http

Re: [Talk-GB] newbie questions about building outlines

2014-04-29 Thread Tom Hughes
://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Automated_Edits_code_of_conduct http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mechanical_Edit_Policy Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB

Re: [Talk-GB] Town v City (again, sorry!)

2014-04-22 Thread Tom Hughes
places and what places people would expect to show up first on the map so while it may be mapping for the renderer it's also in agreement with the documented meaning of the tag. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing

Re: [Talk-GB] Town v City (again, sorry!)

2014-04-22 Thread Tom Hughes
, the Should normally have a population of at least 100,000 people and be larger than nearby place=towns rule. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo

Re: [OSM-talk] Aerial imagery servers unresponsive

2014-03-30 Thread Tom Hughes
the environmental issues. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Hate captchas!!!!

2014-03-14 Thread Tom Hughes
On 14/03/14 15:06, Richard Z. wrote: How about an OSM quiz instead of captchas? You're offering to write one I take it? Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https

Re: [OSM-talk] Hate captchas!!!!

2014-03-14 Thread Tom Hughes
On 14/03/14 15:50, Richard Z. wrote: On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 03:43:38PM +, Tom Hughes wrote: On 14/03/14 15:06, Richard Z. wrote: How about an OSM quiz instead of captchas? You're offering to write one I take it? will think about one. In the short term, there are open tickets which

Re: [Talk-br] [OpenStreetMap] #4902: Warnings for deleting/merging relation members

2014-03-09 Thread Tom Hughes
as the only person that will see it is me. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Talk-br mailing list Talk-br@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-br

Re: [OSM-talk] No Changeset Comments from iD

2014-03-06 Thread Tom Hughes
are too lazy to enter one. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] No Changeset Comments from iD

2014-03-06 Thread Tom Hughes
a more generic additional comment. For the love of god, no. See Merkator commits for the reason why not... Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo

Re: [OSM-talk] Tile refresh on openstreetmap.org

2014-03-02 Thread Tom Hughes
tile requests triggering re-rendering of high zoom tiles. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Tile refresh on openstreetmap.org

2014-03-02 Thread Tom Hughes
On 02/03/14 10:03, Christoph Hormann wrote: On Sunday 02 March 2014, Tom Hughes wrote: The load from the re-rendering job is adjustable. Of course, if you go for a low load, then the re-rendering job will take a lot longer. Not really - the load we are talking about is not the pre-rendering

Re: [OSM-talk] Tile refresh on openstreetmap.org

2014-03-02 Thread Tom Hughes
On 02/03/14 12:12, Christoph Hormann wrote: On Sunday 02 March 2014, Tom Hughes wrote: http://a.tile.openstreetmap.org/11/1577/243.png/status yevaud: Dirty. Last rendered at Sat Feb 22 03:13:25 2014 orm: Clean. Last rendered at Sun Mar 02 11:43:19 2014. http://b.tile.openstreetmap.org/12

Re: [OSM-talk] Tile refresh on openstreetmap.org

2014-02-28 Thread Tom Hughes
a change in configuration recently that caused this? There have been several stylesheet updates in the last week so the servers are very busy and are likely to serve old tiles if they are too busy to rerender them. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu

Re: [Talk-GB] Town v City

2014-02-25 Thread Tom Hughes
tags literally against local legalites. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Town v City

2014-02-25 Thread Tom Hughes
the globe so we need to find a local way in each area to define what a tag means so that meaning does not deviate too much across the globe. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap enhances user privacy

2014-02-13 Thread Tom Hughes
https. So unless JOSM were to accept https connections to the remote control there isn't much we can do. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap enhances user privacy

2014-02-11 Thread Tom Hughes
On 11/02/14 21:04, Peter Barth wrote: And another question: Could you consider to favor cacert certificates over RapidSSL/GeoTrust? Why would we want to do that? It would cause virtually all our users to get certificate warnings when visiting the site. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap enhances user privacy

2014-02-11 Thread Tom Hughes
browser that includes the cacert root certificate. Look I use cacert and I do have it installed, but the reality is that most people won't. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap enhances user privacy

2014-02-11 Thread Tom Hughes
On 11/02/14 22:41, Peter Barth wrote: Tom Hughes schrieb: Other operating systems doesn't really come into it - as far as I know there is no major browser that includes the cacert root certificate. At least chrom{e,ium} and konqueror use the system certificates. This works for me, but you're

Re: [Talk-GB] Glasgow Open OS Data for Open Street Map

2014-02-09 Thread Tom Hughes
/DrBobBarr/status/431830942144299008 Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [OSM-talk] Contacting wiki admins?

2014-01-18 Thread Tom Hughes
are aware of it, but it's not something we can easily fix until taginfo is moved in house on to one of our servers, which is something that is scheduled to happen in the near future. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing

Re: [OSM-talk] An empty changeset with an unknow OSM contributor

2014-01-12 Thread Tom Hughes
://www.openstreetmap.org/user/1871553 http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/user_1871553 That is a user who asked for his account to be deleted. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https

Re: [Talk-GB] Changes to OpenStreetMap.org website

2013-12-03 Thread Tom Hughes
are you using? How exactly are you performing the search when it errors - do you enter return after typing? or click the search button with them mouse? Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB

Re: [Talk-GB] Changes to OpenStreetMap.org website

2013-12-03 Thread Tom Hughes
On 03/12/13 16:44, david wrote: On 03/12/13 14:22, Tom Hughes wrote: On 03/12/13 14:08, Roger Calvert wrote: On the new front page, the search button seems to have a broken link - if you type in a place name (I tried 'Kendal' and 'Barrow') it goes to http://www.openstreetmap.org/search

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

2013-12-02 Thread Tom Hughes
of new translations came back this morning and are deploying now. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [Talk-GB] Upcoming changes to OpenStreetMap.org website

2013-12-01 Thread Tom Hughes
yesterday what things would you have done differently as a result? Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

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

2013-11-30 Thread Tom Hughes
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Re: [OSM-talk] Watchlist?

2013-11-30 Thread Tom Hughes
talking about... This is not something we've ever offered, are you suggesting that it's something the redesign has removed in some way? Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https

Re: [OSM-talk] Nearby Users

2013-11-19 Thread Tom Hughes
and introducing themselves. Maybe it should include people who have signed up in the last N days regardless of edit count? or have it switchable between different views like all users, users with edits, new users etc? Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu

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

2013-11-16 Thread Tom Hughes
? There have been plans to do this ever since it was created. As soon as the people maintaining and running OWL have something stable for us to use it will happen. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk

Re: [Talk-GB] Upcoming changes to OpenStreetMap.org website

2013-11-16 Thread Tom Hughes
to enable it? In any case, if it isn't a regression then it's out of scope as a bug report against the redesign. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https

Re: [Talk-GB] Upcoming changes to OpenStreetMap.org website

2013-11-16 Thread Tom Hughes
and contribute. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Moderation (WAS: Primary or Trunk? PITA?)

2013-11-04 Thread Tom Hughes
, but the vast majority of my email was explainging the rationale behind the tagging. Lessons: * We should be able to explain the reasoning behind our tagging if asked. Absolutely, and I believe I did so. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu

Re: [Talk-GB] Primary or Trunk?

2013-11-03 Thread Tom Hughes
On 03/11/13 19:41, Tom Hughes wrote: On 03/11/13 19:07, Jonathan wrote: What we should be mapping is reality, so that people can use that data to build on. Whether a road is signed in Green, Pink or Purple tells a user nothing, it may have a legal definition but that is all. The tag we give

Re: [Talk-GB] Primary or Trunk?

2013-11-02 Thread Tom Hughes
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Re: [Talk-GB] Notes feature

2013-10-27 Thread Tom Hughes
business/event here and one for map improvement needed here Why? Both are calls for the map to be improved surely, even if one is phrased slightly oddly. We certainly don't want to maintain a permanent POI layer spearate from the main data if that's what you're suggesting. Tom -- Tom

Re: [Talk-GB] bing image alignment

2013-09-13 Thread Tom Hughes
[central_meridian,-2], PARAMETER[scale_factor,0.9996012717], PARAMETER[false_easting,40], PARAMETER[false_northing,-10], UNIT[metre,1, AUTHORITY[EPSG,9001]], AUTHORITY[EPSG,27700]] Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu

Re: [OSM-talk] Editor problems ...

2013-08-23 Thread Tom Hughes
to. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [Talk-GB] Phone numbers in little England

2013-08-22 Thread Tom Hughes
or in practice. On top of which 0203 is now in use as well... That said I see little benefit in a mass edit, especially in cases which just amount to inserting or moving whitespace. Then again I see little benefit in adding phone numbers to OSM in the first place. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu

Re: [OSM-talk] Making iD the default editor on osm.org

2013-08-16 Thread Tom Hughes
the previous such request being applied have been resolved and I see no mention of them on the PR at the moment. Closing the previous PR and opening a new one is not somehow going to make me forget what the issues are... Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu

Re: [OSM-talk] In the works: iD 1.1

2013-08-08 Thread Tom Hughes
or against to approve/block a change? Basically democracy, with anything beyond a fairly small electorate, is a really bad way of developing things. One minor query: As with Tom Hughes test page, these require a separate login, or use OpenID. I presume any edits done under these wont appear under my

Re: [OSM-talk] In the works: iD 1.1

2013-08-08 Thread Tom Hughes
On 08/08/13 14:06, Richard Fairhurst wrote: Tom Hughes wrote: No, because they each use their own database, which is entirely separate from the main database. ...and because site improvements often require changes to the database structure - new columns, new indexes, and so on - so

Re: [OSM-talk] How to mark notes as resolved?

2013-08-02 Thread Tom Hughes
seven days are not shown on the web interface, and are not returned (by default) from the API though that timeout can be varied using the closed parameter when using the API. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing

Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls

2013-07-22 Thread Tom Hughes
address, and if you reply to the list message then when it appears on github it is posted as a comment from openstreetmap-website and there is no way to tell who really made it. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik Lowzoom TIles - proof of concept

2013-07-04 Thread Tom Hughes
in 2 and 3. Low zooms (0 to 12) are not actually updated in real time anyway - they are only updated periodically by a batch job. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik Lowzoom TIles - proof of concept

2013-07-04 Thread Tom Hughes
On 04/07/13 10:48, Christoph Hormann wrote: On Thursday 04 July 2013, Tom Hughes wrote: Low zooms (0 to 12) are not actually updated in real time anyway - they are only updated periodically by a batch job. But you can still trigger a rerender using /dirty. At the moment you probably can

Re: [OSM-talk] SOTM accommodation options?

2013-05-30 Thread Tom Hughes
actually get for those prices? Try http://www.conferenceaston.co.uk/Content.aspx?PageID=1705 which has links to descriptions of the three room types. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] SOTM accommodation options?

2013-05-30 Thread Tom Hughes
On 30/05/13 19:26, Cristian Consonni wrote: 2013/5/30 Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu: Try http://www.conferenceaston.co.uk/Content.aspx?PageID=1705 which has links to descriptions of the three room types. I understand there is also a student dorm nearby, but I wasn't able to find its official

Re: [OSM-talk] What to do if someone has already used a tag?

2013-05-18 Thread Tom Hughes
not a general repository of per-country information... What next? Tagging countries with president=fred_bloggs? Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo

Re: [OSM-talk] iD Editor live on OpenStreetMap

2013-05-14 Thread Tom Hughes
? Because that makes for an appalling user experience? If we want to make it the default before FF seems to be up to the job then we'll just make FF fall back to PL2 as we will already be doing for IE. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu

Re: [OSM-talk] iD Editor live on OpenStreetMap

2013-05-14 Thread Tom Hughes
, but for the overall operating system. It's not a fallback to flash it's a fallback to the status quo. The point being that defaulting to a flash based editor has apparently been fine for the last six years so there is no sudden urgent need to change that. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http

Re: [OSM-talk] iD Editor live on OpenStreetMap

2013-05-12 Thread Tom Hughes
On 12/05/13 13:24, NopMap wrote: Tom Hughes-3 wrote There are ongoing discussions in the German boards about iD easily and/or inadvertently breaking data [1]. Just like they've been saying about Potlatch for the last N years you mean? Are you implying that any comments on iD

Re: [OSM-talk] Still need for spam protection and if yes, what about OSM-based CATPCHA?

2013-05-05 Thread Tom Hughes
because in most cases nobody will ever become aware of their existence. 1. Do you also think there still is a need for CAPTCHAs? I don't think there has even been a need for them. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ talk

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

2013-04-26 Thread Tom Hughes
. It's a data project. The goal is to collect data describing the world. The pretty pictures are just one useful way of visualising that data. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http

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

2013-04-22 Thread Tom Hughes
at the scrollbar is going to realise there is more to see by scrolling. * I'm not sure what the purpose of the arrow icon in the bottom right is meant to be? As far as I can tell it just reloads the background image, which seems utterly pointless... Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http

Re: [Talk-GB] Trunk vs green-sign routes in the UK

2013-04-22 Thread Tom Hughes
secondary A road. Which is why the wiki says what it does. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] 10 fascinating facts about OSM OSGB

2013-04-18 Thread Tom Hughes
of whether food is available or not... Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM DB down for maintenance

2013-03-31 Thread Tom Hughes
are going to have to remain for the next couple of days. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Crossroad names

2013-03-24 Thread Tom Hughes
maintenance. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Crossroad names

2013-03-24 Thread Tom Hughes
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Re: [OSM-talk] additional layers on osm.org

2013-02-22 Thread Tom Hughes
to implement than the other. The actual vote was done by a secret ballot, so we can't know for sure why people made the choice they did, but the discussion as I recall it largely centred on the cartography. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu

Re: [OSM-talk] additional layers on osm.org

2013-02-21 Thread Tom Hughes
where we do actually have a well defined written policy: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Strategic_working_group/New_Tile_Layer_Guidelines Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [OSM-talk] additional layers on osm.org

2013-02-21 Thread Tom Hughes
. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] additional layers on osm.org

2013-02-21 Thread Tom Hughes
preferred the one that we are currently offering. Nobody has ever asked OWG to consider hikebikemap. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [Talk-GB] New user reinstating old railways in Norfolk

2013-02-18 Thread Tom Hughes
and thinks this is the correct way to create a custom map for himself? His english doesn't seem to be brilliant which may not be helping with people's attempts to explain the problem to him. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Talk

Re: [OSM-talk] POI display on osm.org

2013-01-23 Thread Tom Hughes
is what sort of approach helps mappers and for that I suspect what things are here may be more useful? Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] POI display on osm.org

2013-01-23 Thread Tom Hughes
#POI_inspection_tool_on_the_frontpage This is more where I think we should be going, and where the Overpass based system seems to be able to deliver. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [OSM-talk] POI display on osm.org

2013-01-23 Thread Tom Hughes
On 23/01/13 13:48, Paweł Paprota wrote: On 01/23/2013 12:31 PM, Tom Hughes wrote: Well that one seems wrong to me as it is approaching the issue from one of achieving feature parity with Google Maps, but as I have always understood it that has never been our goal. It also provides better user

Re: [OSM-talk] Is osm.org broken on mobile phones for you?

2013-01-23 Thread Tom Hughes
that have always been missing from the mobile view AFAIK. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Is osm.org broken on mobile phones for you?

2013-01-23 Thread Tom Hughes
something about making the map fill the screen as I didn't look at the code at all. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Is osm.org broken on mobile phones for you?

2013-01-22 Thread Tom Hughes
in OpenLayers, or in osm? Well it won't be OpenLayers as we don't use that anymore. It would help to know exactly when it started failing - if it was last Friday then it is an issue with Leaflet 0.5 and if it was a few days before that then it is probably linked to Saman's redesign work. Tom -- Tom

Re: [OSM-talk] Is osm.org broken on mobile phones for you?

2013-01-22 Thread Tom Hughes
people to go reporting things upstream - they should report problems where they find them and if our developers think the problem is upstream they can pass it on. In this case the problem appears to stem from the redesign, not leaflet. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu

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

2013-01-16 Thread Tom Hughes
is not the problem so much as the lack of visual cues that you can scroll - as I said on IRC it was only after you started talking about a link that I couldn't see that I realised there was anything below the fold as the giant picture had made it look like a fixed page. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t

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

2013-01-10 Thread Tom Hughes
sites that are run by third parties would be a massive task I think. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

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

2013-01-10 Thread Tom Hughes
to be configured by somebody. All of which is before we even think about questions of hardware scaling for such an endeavour. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org

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

2013-01-09 Thread Tom Hughes
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Re: [OSM-talk] piwik.openstreetmap.org - what is it?

2013-01-09 Thread Tom Hughes
that literally shows you IP addresses and what URLs they are hitting. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [Talk-GB] Multiple postcodes with the same location?

2013-01-09 Thread Tom Hughes
://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/39467039 The one with all the Royal Mail trucks outside on StreetView you mean? Some large businesses which have special delivery arrangements and have their own postcodes will map to the local delivery office, which is what you are seeing here. Tom -- Tom Hughes

Re: [Talk-GB] Multiple postcodes with the same location?

2013-01-09 Thread Tom Hughes
postcode of the large Royal Mail warehouse on the outskirts of Aberdeen then I would just leave it and not add any of them. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [OSM-talk] New History tab for openstreetmap.org (beta)

2013-01-04 Thread Tom Hughes
is separate so none of the changesets shown will exist. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] I hope this problem in iOS6 maps isn't because of OSM data.

2012-12-10 Thread Tom Hughes
/12/10/apple_maps_ghost_mildura/ Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[Talk-GB] London Hack Weekend

2012-11-28 Thread Tom Hughes
in the wiki: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/London_Hack_Weekend_Dec_2012 Hope to see some of you there, Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Problem committing changes

2012-11-25 Thread Tom Hughes
user record. I've killed it now, so things should start working again. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] History of relation 20773

2012-11-16 Thread Tom Hughes
relation id=20773 visible=false, should I not? Interestingly, when I go even further back, from 973 downwards it works again. I haven't tried everything betwee 973 and 1154. I expect the missing versions were redacted as part of the license change. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http

Re: [OSM-talk] History of relation 20773

2012-11-16 Thread Tom Hughes
is malfunctioning. JOSM handles it with an error message Authorisation at the OSM server failed. The server reported the following error: ' '. Not really helpful. It's not my fault if JOSM handles it badly... Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu

Re: [Talk-GB] FW: Office of National Statistics data

2012-10-31 Thread Tom Hughes
On 31/10/12 11:39, Steve Doerr wrote: Can we get this data into Nominatim? Why? What would it give us over the CodePoint Open data? Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [Talk-GB] FW: Office of National Statistics data

2012-10-31 Thread Tom Hughes
On 31/10/12 11:51, Steve Doerr wrote: On 31/10/2012 11:44, Tom Hughes wrote: On 31/10/12 11:39, Steve Doerr wrote: Can we get this data into Nominatim? Why? What would it give us over the CodePoint Open data? Is that in there? I believe it is in Nominatim 2 yes. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t

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