Re: [Talk-ca] Mapping turn restrictions in Canada

On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 1:49 PM, Manohar Erikipati wrote: > Hey there, > Today we mapped 76 turn restrictions in Canada. You can follow the project > tracker here(https://github.com/mapbox/mapping/issues/213) and get involved. > We have across signage with text we are not so

Re: [Talk-ca] restriction=no_right_turn_on_red causing routing problems in Toronto

On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 2:11 PM, Nathan Wessel wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm hoping to get some advice on what to do with a relatively uncommon turn > restriction tag currently in use in Toronto and Ottawa. No right turn on red signs are pretty common. You definitely

Re: [Talk-ca] Red Cross and Fort McMurray Fires

On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 5:09 PM, Denis Carriere wrote: > If anyone is interested in using this custom imagery in JOSM or iD, here is > the URL: > >

[Talk-ca] Fort McMurray forest fires

As you are probably aware by now, a large portion of Fort McMurray, Alberta has been destroyed by forest fires. Is any freely licensed aerial imagery of the affected area available yet? Will the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap team be creating a project for Fort McMurray?

Re: [Talk-ca] Bus stops in Ottawa

On Feb 28, 2016 3:05 PM, "john whelan" wrote: > > It appears in august 2013 user andrewpmk imported the OC transpo bus stops, which is fine I don't have a problem with imports but I understand OC transpo issue a new updated GTFS file every year. Are there plans to reimport

Re: [Talk-ca] Talk-ca Digest, Vol 95, Issue 2

On Jan 12, 2016 2:39 PM, "Mojgan Jadidi" wrote: > > Hi all, > > Thanks Stewart for initiating this discussion, I am one of the folks working on OSM data at Metrolinx. We are currently working on OSM data of our service area to improve the address range information for

Re: [Talk-ca] Urgent care centre

On Nov 30, 2015 4:38 PM, "Tristan Anderson" wrote: > > amenity=clinic sounds great. I hope they're not officially called "urgent care centres" and they certainly shouldn't be tagged as such in OSM. If I got shot and saw an urgent care centre, I'd probably make the

Re: [Talk-ca] Unusual activity?

On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 1:58 PM, Adam Martin wrote: > There does appear to be a new gap in that area. Perhaps someone is working > on it in JOSM and is going to be re-making the landuse polygons in the area. The area around Carleton Place has looked like that for a long

Re: [Talk-ca] Open Data Imports

For example Hamilton's open data license (http://www2.hamilton.ca/NR/rdonlyres/C58984A4-FE11-40B9-A231-8572EB922AAA/0/OpenDataTermsAndConditions_Final.html) at first glance seems OK: Your Use of Data: The City of Hamilton grants you a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive licence to

Re: [Talk-ca] Open Data Imports

It might be helpful to look at http://openaddresses.io/ which is an project to aggregate address data from various open data portals. More and more cities have open data now. In Ontario openaddresses.io lists: - Burlington - Guelph - Hamilton - Kitchener - Oakville - Toronto - Waterloo - Welland

[Talk-ca] Open Data Imports

I am starting to work on importing Open Data datasets. I am using pnorman's ogr2osm script with modified translation files (see https://github.com/andrewpmk/ogr2osm-translations). It will be some time before I actually import anything. I would like to assemble a list of government open data

[Talk-ca] Highway 400A

The south end of Highway 11 at the Highway 11/400 junction between Highway 400 and Penetanguishene Road, just north of Barrie is currently tagged as Highway 400A in OSM. Is this still Highway 400A? I thought that this became Highway 11 after the Mike Harris downloading downloaded the section of

Re: [Talk-ca] Low quality unresolvable notes

On Jul 6, 2015 9:30 PM, James james2...@gmail.com wrote: I'd say close them with a comment. Some of them are actually precise, saying like : no rtor eb. Which is more than enough data. General things like: add POIs at this location. Could be closed as the entirety of osm could be summed in a

[OSM-talk] Mechanical edits

Recently we have been having a problem with several users doing mechanical edits to add the prefix ON to the ref of every highway in Ontario. The Canadian OSM community is unhappy with this. I admit that I have been guilty of doing inappropriate mechanical edits in the past, but I am wondering:

Re: [OSM-talk] Mechanical edits

A large bounding box of a changeset is not a proof that the edit is mechanical. There are also users at OSM who first edit an object in Europe and afterwards in America before they upload their changes. (This usually happens if the user uses JOSM oder Potlatch 2) On the other hand, it is

[Talk-ca] ON prefix

User:osm_validation_and_improvements made mechanical edits to add the ON prefix to Ontario highways again. I am currently in the process of reverting these edits, but this will take a long time. ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-ca] OSM data quality in Canada

On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 4:12 PM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: Hello list — My name is Martijn van Exel, I am on the OSM US board and work at Telenav. I’ve written to this list a few times before, but this time I am doing so with my Telenav hat on. Perhaps you know that we have the

Re: [Talk-ca] Ref tags in Ontario

On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 7:51 PM, James Mast rickmastfa...@hotmail.com wrote: Well Kevin, Well, it seems that the edits from 'OntarioEditor' along the entire 405 were missed and still have the 'ON' in the ref tag on the ways. As for the new user doing it, it's 'North American Highways'. I

Re: [Talk-ca] OSM data quality in Canada

See http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/CanVec. CanVec data was converted to OSM format and is stored at http://ftp2.cits.rncan.gc.ca/OSM/pub/, and is split into files based on the National Topographic System, and then data was imported in some parts of Canada by manually cutting and pasting data

Re: [Talk-ca] OSM data quality in Canada

at 7:10 PM, Andrew MacKinnon andrew...@gmail.com wrote: See http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/CanVec. CanVec data was converted to OSM format and is stored at http://ftp2.cits.rncan.gc.ca/OSM/pub/, and is split into files based on the National Topographic System, and then data was imported in some

Re: [Talk-ca] OSM data quality in Canada

A lot of the data in Canada was imported from CanVec and Geobase, some of it by me several years ago. The imported data is pretty poor quality in many places. I haven't done much work on this recently, as imports have a bad reputation in OSM and I am mostly concerned with surveying. For example:

[OSM-talk] contact: tags

I am proposing that the contact: set of tags (contact:phone, contact:website, etc.) be depreciated and replaced with the simpler set of tags (phone, website, etc.) I am not proposing that anyone do any mechanical edits. The reason is that the contact: tags are unnecessarily verbose (we should use

Re: [OSM-talk] Chain Store Cleanup

I wouldn't be so sure here. As an example, there's a bakery chain in the UK called Greggs. They're mostly tagged shop=bakery (with a few Subway-esque amenity=fast_food / cuisine=sandwich as well). Occasionally shops like this get wrongly tagged, sometimes as amenity=cafe, and there's always

Re: [OSM-talk] Chain Store Cleanup

On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 1:01 PM, Colin Smale colin.sm...@xs4all.nl wrote: A bit of a meta-discussion I wonder why this topic is not going the same way as the debate on talk-gb last November-December in which it was proposed to tidy up and normalise various spelling variants? There was a lot

Re: [OSM-talk] Chain Store Cleanup

I found a few McDonald's that are not what you think they are. In OSM there is a McDonald's confectionery shop in Mexico, a McDonald's supermarket in Missouri, and a McDonald's kitchen store in New Hampshire that are not fast food restaurants. Looks like you need to be careful when fixing these.

Re: [OSM-talk] Chain Store Cleanup

It is also an easy fallacy to think that if the marketing people of some chain decide to spell their name differently, we could or should simply replace all names to what they should be - no we don't, we only change the name when the store changes its lettering. Another issue. If a store

Re: [OSM-talk] Chain Store Cleanup

I can confirm that McDonald's in Quebec, Canada have an apostrophe from a Mapillary image of one in Gatineau, QC: http://www.mapillary.com/map/im/CYy8HTA4MeQouhZ6929gJw. Reason being that an apostrophe is English but it is allowed in Quebec (at least nowadays) under French language laws. I am

Re: [OSM-talk] Chain Store Cleanup

On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 11:07 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Andrew, That's a very computer person approach to take. In fact, the McDonald's issue has already been tried by someone in the past with an undiscussed mechanical edit, promptly falsifying a few non-chain non-fastfood

[OSM-talk] Chain Store Cleanup

I am trying to figure out a way of cleaning up incorrect chain store data in OSM. For example there are 1422 instances of McDonalds in OSM (should be McDonald's) and 203 instances of Tim Horton's (should be Tim Hortons). I have created pages on the OSM wiki called

[Talk-ca] Future Shop and Target

http://www.thestar.com/business/2015/04/06/future-shop-stores-re-open-under-best-buy-name.html The Future Shop stores that have reopened still have Future Shop signage but Best Buy signage will replace it soon and the employees have Best Buy uniforms. The map in this article is based on OSM, but

Re: [Talk-ca] Future Shop

The former Future Shops that reopened on April 4 are open again. Oddly enough they still have Future Shop signage though the employees' uniforms say Best Buy and it appears that the Future Shop signage will be replaced with Best Buy signage in the next few months. I think it makes sense to use

Re: [Talk-ca] Target Canada

It looks like all Target stores will close on April 12. I encourage everyone to help change the Target in your area to shop=vacant, add shop=vacant Targets that are missing from OSM, update the wiki, and change the shop=vacant Target in your area to something else if something else replaces it.

[Talk-ca] Future Shop

Future Shop has closed all 131 stores in Canada and will replace 65 of them with Best Buy stores while closing the remainder. I have created a wiki page https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Future_Shop to keep track of them. Please help change Future Shops to shop=vacant, add any Future Shops

Re: [Talk-ca] duplicate address data

The Geofabrik address validator (http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/), click Addresses, is useful for finding these address bugs. There are a lot of these in Canada. Also there are a lot of roads where the road name on the road does not match the road name from the address data, in this case a survey

[Talk-ca] Target Canada

Target Canada has started closing a significant number of its 133 stores now. I have started to create a list of Target stores in Canada on the wiki at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Target. Does anyone want to help (a) change any Target store that has closed to shop=vacant and (b) add Target

[Talk-ca] ON prefix on Ontario highways

I've noticed that User:Zachary77F has been adding the prefix ON to a lot of provincial highways in Ontario. I am not sure whether this makes sense (looks kind of weird on the default Mapnik renderer) though this convention seems to be used in the US for state highways. Should I keep provincial

Re: [Talk-ca] ON prefix on Ontario highways

Also this user has been adding A to Quebec autoroutes, R to Quebec provincial highways, CR to Ontario county roads, etc. On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 10:46 AM, Andrew MacKinnon andrew...@gmail.com wrote: I've noticed that User:Zachary77F has been adding the prefix ON to a lot of provincial highways

[Talk-ca] Lake Ontario disappearing

Lake Ontario seems to be disappearing whenever I zoom to zoom level 5 or less. I don't see anything wrong on the coastline validator at http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/. Anyone know how to fix this? ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-ca] RIP CanVec

I have to say that fixing existing Canvec data is a higher priority than importing new Canvec data. There is a lot of broken Canvec data that needs fixing, especially in Quebec (particularly the Montreal area). For instance: - Address interpolation lines split in half - Road name does not match

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-ca] Tag for Tim Horton's

I have been tagging all these Tim Hortons as amenity=cafe. Please note that Tim Horton's is incorrect, it is Tim Hortons. The one at Yonge/Eglinton you are referring to is a Tim Hortons/Cold Stone Creamery (only a handful of locations have a Cold Stone Creamery ice cream shop in them).

Re: [Talk-ca] POI import to OSM from POI-Factory.com

Sorry, this source is proprietary, so you can't import it. It is licensed for non-commercial use only. ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

[OSM-talk] (Off topic) Apple hiring OSM contributors in Australia?

Just noticed this story on Macrumors: http://www.macrumors.com/2013/02/22/apple-hiring-maps-ground-truth-data-specialist-in-australia/ Is Apple trying to hire away OSM's top contributors to add data to their proprietary mapping service? ___ talk

Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec Imports in areas with existing data

On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Duncan Hill dun...@soncan.ca wrote: I've recently imported some CanVec 10 data into the North Bay, Ontario area. It's been hard to figure out the best way to do this because of the assorted versions of existing data in the area. After chatting with some folks in

Re: [OSM-talk] Data copied from Google Maps

In my opinion, copying from Google Street View is still a legally dubious thing to do. There is no formal licensing agreement with Google that I know of. It is perfectly fine to capture data by taking pictures yourself, but relying on Google Street View cars to take those pictures is legally

Re: [OSM-talk] Data copied from Google Maps

I strongly suggest to contact DWG and not try to do some clean-up action on your own. How certain are you that the source tag refers to the coordinate? Culd also be the phone number of a shop found by a google search, right? Each of these occurences has to be checked and the mapper

Re: [OSM-talk] Data copied from Google Maps

On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Stephan Knauss o...@stephans-server.de wrote: On 03.11.2012 19:25, Andrew MacKinnon wrote: Is copying from Google search acceptable anyway? I say yes. Even this is inferior mapping like any kind of armchair mapping. Let's assume one enters website addresses

Re: [OSM-talk] Data copied from Google Maps

On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 6:25 PM, Steve Doerr doerr.step...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/11/2012 21:31, Andrew MacKinnon wrote: I am pretty sure that in most of these cases, users are copying from Google Maps or Google Street View and the data should be deleted. In many cases, the infringing data

[OSM-talk] Data copied from Google Maps

I have discovered a lot of data in OSM that appears to have been copied from Google Maps. See http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/source#values and type google into the search box. There appear to be over 3 objects in the OSM database copied from Google. Anyone willing to help delete data

Re: [OSM-talk] Data copied from Google Maps

On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Brad Neuhauser brad.neuhau...@gmail.com wrote: From the dates, it looks like most of those are from the Haiti earthquake tracing, when Google allowed OSM to use its imagery for tracing. See

Re: [Talk-ca] Demande de vérification, question concernant name=

Par exemple, un parc devrait-til être name=Jarry Park et name:fr=Parc Jarry ou simplement name=Parc Jarry? En utilisant OSMAnd~ sur Android j'ai pensé à ça car ce logiciel offre d'afficher les tags en anglais ou autres. Peut être avec un autre niveau d'impact, est-ce qu'on doit utiliser

Re: [Talk-ca] Canada Post addresses that do not match municipality name

OK I've figured it out. In the City of Toronto, there are numerous duplicate street names caused by amalgamation. See http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/ontroads/message/9826. If there is a duplicate street name, you must use the name of the former municipality in the address e.g. York, East

Re: [Talk-ca] Canada Post addresses that do not match municipality name

On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 7:44 PM, Steve Singer st...@ssinger.info wrote: On Tue, 23 Oct 2012, Andrew MacKinnon wrote: OK I've figured it out. Is a free source available for the boundaries of Old Toronto, North York, York and East York as they existed before 1998? I have added the boundaries

[Talk-ca] Copyright violation?

Just noticed that user:postmaster added some data from source city of hamilton property map http://map.hamilton.ca/InteractiveMaps/framesetup.asp;, obviously a newbie. http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/10042572 Presumably this is a copyright violation?

[Talk-ca] Reverting non-ODBL bulk edits

I just noticed a bunch of bulk edits done a while ago by User:JohnSmith in downtown Toronto, which are not ODBL compliant (User:JohnSmith seems to refused the CT). These appear to be large bulk edits which were made worldwide. This user seems to have made bulk modifications to the tagging of

Re: [Talk-ca] Your new coastline

On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 11:15 PM, James A. Treacy tre...@debian.org wrote: On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 10:30:34PM -0400, Andrew MacKinnon wrote: Given that this sort of work is time consuming it will take a while to finish. However, 99% of the work that requires importing coastlines from CanVec

Re: [Talk-ca] Your new coastline

On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 12:49 AM, G. Michael Carter mikeycarter1...@gmail.com wrote: Any eta on when you'll be finish with the lake Ontario coastline? Oshawa to Kingston is 99% done. (The Bay of Quinte took a very long time to do, but is done now.) Oshawa to Hamilton is in progress, using Bing

Re: [Talk-ca] Your new coastline

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 9:23 AM, G. Michael Carter mi...@carterfamily.ca wrote: Andrew, In addition to the missing lakes and marshes documented on talk-ca here's another if your keeping a list: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=43.98365lon=-77.7393zoom=17layers=M Also as another FYI you may

Re: [Talk-ca] Missing harbours and marshes - L Ontario

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 10:57 PM, James A. Treacy tre...@debian.org wrote: On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 07:07:37PM -0700, Adam Dunn wrote: I've done a cursory examination of the Oshawa Harbour, and it would appear that there are two ways defining the water's edge: 1.) a PGS Coastline import, which

Re: [Talk-ca] Missing harbours and marshes - L Ontario

Will you be continuing? I've been on a roll and would be willing to continue into Lake Ontario, but as you've started it is only fair to let you continue if you wish. If you wish to continue, I'll just work on another area. There is a tricky part between Lake Huron and Lake Erie that I've

Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec Import

Sorry about this. I accidentally imported duplicate features in 031G09.1.3 (Lachute) that should be removed now unless I missed a few. Lachute seemed to have been mostly mapped by a user called JeanRob98 in 2009 (badly - there were many roads missing the street type such as Rue etc., there were

[Talk-ca] Sarah Thompson for Mayor uses OpenStreetMap data

Found an interesting use of OpenStreetMap data - Sarah Thompson's mayoral campaign is using it to display a proposed network of bike lanes in Toronto: http://sarahthomson.ca/blog/sarah-thomsons-bike-city ___ Talk-ca mailing list

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec.osm Product - Running!

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Steve Singer ssinger...@sympatico.ca wrote: On Mon, 23 Aug 2010, Bégin, Daniel wrote: Hi all, Actually, Canvec files conversion is completed! Thanks for all your work on this and keeping the community involved at each step.  Also thanks to NRCan for

Re: [Talk-ca] OSM CanVec.

On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Bégin, Daniel daniel.be...@rncan-nrcan.gc.ca wrote: Hi Mike, You did not miss anything, you are giving comments on a sample - as expected! - About missing names, Canvec features are not named. However you can find some toponyms. - About missing tags on

[Talk-ca] Google copies GeoBase

Just noticed that Google is now showing what is essentially GeoBase data on Google Maps Canada. There seem to be a lot of errors (e.g. buildings that have been demolished, missing roads such as the Highway 410 extension). Pretty terrible effort on the part of Google, let's do better with OSM.

Re: [Talk-ca] Google Streetview

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Robert Shand b...@shand.org.uk wrote: I would tend to agree with this, as I have spotted street view imagery having been doctored.  I used to live on a one-way street, and the imagery in Street View clearly showed the SV car travelling in the wrong direction on

Re: [Talk-ca] Toronto Potential Datasource

not importing it at all. Since this is such a complex job, I think that we need to arrange some sort of meetup (either in person or on IRC) to discuss how we will do this import. Andrew MacKinnon ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [Talk-ca] Toronto Potential Datasource

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:14 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: Take another look.  Parts of the road centreline data are at least years out of date.  And the centerline data freely mixes roads with geographic boundaries with rivers, some sharing junctions.  That'll be a mess to convert

Re: [Talk-ca] Toronto Potential Datasource

The City of Toronto aerial imagery WMS server URL (for JOSM) is at (remember the last ): http://map.toronto.ca/servlet/com.esri.wms.Esrimap/OrthoImagery?REQUEST=GetMapSERVICE=WMSVERSION=1.1.1LAYERS=Ortho Imagery 50cm 2005STYLES=FORMAT=image/pngBGCOLOR=0xFFTRANSPARENT=TRUESRS=EPSG:4326 It

Re: [Talk-ca] Toronto Potential Datasource

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 10:05 PM, Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Andrew MacKinnon andrew...@gmail.com wrote: The TTC data is pretty much useless to us because it is in a weird non-documented format. Would the TTC be willing to allow us to copy

Re: [Talk-ca] Users in Ottawa and Geobase

Wholesale deletion of the work of many volunteers without their consent seems even less likely to generate a positive outcome.  I would consider that wholesale deletion to be vandalism. I strongly agree. Manually edited data should never be removed and replaced automatically with a data

[OSM-talk] Yathusan vandalism

Found some more: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/2365004 http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/2364986 http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/2364907 http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/2364884 Not 100% sure they are vandalism since they are in B.C., but I

[Talk-ca] More vandalism by Yathusan

http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/2365099 Can someone please revert and block this user? This is a repeat offender. Andrew MacKinnon ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

[OSM-talk] [tagging] Proposed feature: Directional node

This is a proposal for a generic way of tagging a node which represents an object which faces a certain way - e.g. a traffic sign such as a stop sign. Note this is not a specific proposal on how to tag signs of a certain type, only a generic relation which can be used for all objects of this type.

[Talk-ca] Dubious edits by User:Yathusan

I have noticed several dubious edits in the Toronto area by User:Yathusan. They are all very inaccurate and have no GPS traces supporting them, and I suspect that they are vandalism (but I am not sure, they might just be very inaccurately done legitimate edits).

[OSM-talk] [tagging] Parking garage entrances

I am wondering about how pedestrian and car entrances to parking garages should be tagged. For instance, there are two large underground parking garages in Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, one new and one relatively old. Each is located underneath an outdoor playing field and has several

Re: [OSM-talk] Campus map - Who's got a good one?

On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 12:34 AM, Jason Reid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard Weait wrote: Dear all, I had a look at campus maps on the web sites of the Big Ten Conference universities. I was surprised at the range in quality. See my notes and comparisons to how the OpenStreetMap community

[OSM-talk] Rendering name of route relations

Recently, it appears that Mapnik has started rendering the name of relations on the map, as if they were street names. For example, it renders the name of the Cosburn bus route along Haldon Avenue in this map: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=43.6978lon=-79.31117zoom=17. This is clearly

Re: [OSM-talk] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: AND International Publishers (NL) - Mapmaker AND releases new version of Map 2.0]

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 4:24 AM, Remco van Zuijlen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just got this 'press release' from AND: Mapmaker AND releases new version of Map 2.0 It's Netherlands only. Why not just redirect users to OSM, given that AND gave OSM this data last year? This is copyright AND and

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] access=license

On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 7:07 PM, Charles Basenga Kiyanda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Parking lots of this kind are common enough (in inner cities) that they have their own official traffic sign (number 9 at [1]), but there's currently no good way to tag them. We have similar (but more

[OSM-talk] Mapnik layer of slippy map broken

The Mapnik layer of the slippy map is currently broken. No map data is shown on recently rendered tiles (coastline data appears to be there). Please fix ASAP. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Notability (was openstreetmap)

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 8:00 AM, Richard Fairhurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nic Roets wrote: If someone made the effort to physically survey it and properly tag it, I think it's OK. Maintainability is probably a bigger issue than notability. Roads, railways and canals don't move much,

Re: [OSM-talk] Background-only on potlatch?

On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 1:14 PM, OJ W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to turn off map data on potlatch, for when you want to zoom-out and look at something on the satellite photos, but don't want to trouble OSM with downloading an entire town's data that you're not planning to use?

Re: [OSM-talk] zoom yahoo data in potlatch?

On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 8:51 PM, Robin Paulson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/5/3 micha ruh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: in options, choose 'Aerial - OpenAerialMap' as background and you'll be fine hmm, i'm slightly baffled by that. the oam coverage for nz is appalling at best and as an aside, i'd be

[OSM-talk] More easter eggs in Google Maps

Looking at Google Maps today, I noticed that they added the subway stations in Toronto, Canada. But most of them are in the wrong place - sometimes up to 2km away from the correct location - or missing completely.

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] disputed areas

On Feb 9, 2008 10:36 AM, Gervase Markham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mikel Maron wrote: It's still going on and we need a technical solution, now. Dialogue has not been effective and banning users is not effective. Banning users is not effective because they just sign up with new accounts?

Re: [OSM-talk] Crudely-drawn pint glasses

On Jan 29, 2008 4:43 PM, Igor Brejc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there somewhere a repository of totally free general-purpose icons such as this? I'm asking because I would like to extend Kosmos rendering rules with some nice icons. Try openclipart.org. There's lots of clip art there that might