Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-07 Per discussione Rob Myers
On 08/07/2010 03:35 PM, Anthony wrote: I don't really see how there's an argument. If photoshop offers a plugin that lets you draw a line with a certain thickness, a certain color, and a label on it, and you use that photoshop plugin to make a map, you've got a copyrighted work, and that

Re: [OSM-talk] Languages, OSM, scripts and all that.

2010-08-07 Per discussione Mitja Kleider
Am Freitag, den 06.08.2010, 22:48 +0200 schrieb Celso González: On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 04:29:22PM -0400, Paul Houle wrote: I just recently pointed my nooscope at places outside the U.S. and was quite amused to see arabic letters in the tile maps around Tunis... Looking around a

Re: [OSM-talk] facebook geotagging photos on openstreetmap

2010-08-07 Per discussione David Murn
On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 22:45 -0700, Sam Vekemans wrote: it seems that fb cant use googlemaps as they are arch-rivals . google tries to be its own facebook.. This is news to me, and obviously news to some fb developers who Ive seen using googlemaps in their apps. 'Cities Ive visited' comes

Re: [OSM-talk] facebook geotagging photos on openstreetmap

2010-08-07 Per discussione Sam Vekemans
oops, i answered my own question. i did a search and found out who the fb photo developer is, so i can ask them directly. cheers, sam On 8/7/10, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 22:45 -0700, Sam Vekemans wrote: it seems that fb cant use googlemaps as they are

[talk-au] NSW Parish Maps

2010-08-07 Per discussione Andrew Harvey
I took a quick look at some of the maps available at http://parishmaps.lands.nsw.gov.au/ and there is some information there that is not mapped (like school names, park names... etc.). I was going to use them as a mapping source. Has anyone else used them for this? Legality wise, I would only use

Re: [talk-au] NSW Parish Maps

2010-08-07 Per discussione Liz
On Sun, 8 Aug 2010, Andrew Harvey wrote: I've collated a list of URLs of all the mrsid files (and an index) they offer if anyone wanted to mass download them. that would be handy as the site opens into a popup so if you have popup windows blocked (like me) you get a blank page

Re: [talk-au] NSW Parish Maps

2010-08-07 Per discussione Andrew Harvey
...and some of the ones of the form PMapMN* in the parish list are also useful, Parish Index: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=DukQYBmV SID files: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=CAQiN7bt (but I don't thing these two are complete lists) ___ Talk-au mailing

Re: [Talk-de] Fahrradstraße (neue Wikiseite)

2010-08-07 Per discussione Martin Simon
Am 5. August 2010 19:35 schrieb Sebastian Klein basti...@googlemail.com: Hi, Da sich die Diskussion um das Tagging von Fahrradstraßen schon recht lange hinzieht, habe ich mir mal die Freiheit genommen, den (aus meiner Sicht) aktuellen Stand in einer neuen Wiki Seite zu dokumentieren:  

[Talk-de] Antiker Waschkeller. Wie taggen?

2010-08-07 Per discussione Manuel Reimer
Hallo, für die Vereinskarte benötige ich einen Node um einen historischen Waschkeller anzeigen zu können. Es handelt sich dabei um einen öffentlich zugänglichen Keller in dem Quellwasser durchfließt (laut Anschrift im Keller aber kein Trinkwasser). Früher haben die Leute dort ihre Wäsche

[Talk-de] Flurnamen eintragen?

2010-08-07 Per discussione Manuel Reimer
Hallo, im Wald sieht man bei uns regelmäßig Schilder, die die Waldgebiete benennen. Echte Grenzen gibt es wohl nicht oder sind mir wenigstens nicht bekannt, aber als Node könnte man das Gebiet schon grob mit Namen versehen. Wie wird so ein Node eingetragen. Im Idealfall so, dass es auch

Re: [Talk-de] Flurnamen eintragen?

2010-08-07 Per discussione Maximilian Güntner
Am Samstag 07 August 2010, 13:11:00 schrieb Manuel Reimer: Hallo, im Wald sieht man bei uns regelmäßig Schilder, die die Waldgebiete benennen. Echte Grenzen gibt es wohl nicht oder sind mir wenigstens nicht bekannt, aber als Node könnte man das Gebiet schon grob mit Namen versehen. Wie wird

Re: [Talk-de] Flurnamen eintragen?

2010-08-07 Per discussione Bernd Wurst
Hallo. Am Samstag 07 August 2010, 13:11:00 schrieb Manuel Reimer: im Wald sieht man bei uns regelmäßig Schilder, die die Waldgebiete benennen. Echte Grenzen gibt es wohl nicht oder sind mir wenigstens nicht bekannt, aber als Node könnte man das Gebiet schon grob mit Namen versehen. Wie wird

Re: [Talk-de] Ausdrucken von Karten aus der Webseite

2010-08-07 Per discussione Jacques Nietsch
Am 06.08.2010, 21:35 Uhr, schrieb Dimitri Junker o...@dimitri-junker.de: Hallo Pdf ist für den Ausdruck am besten. Bis auf die POI Icons sind alle Elemente Vektorgrafiken. ... Bist Du Dir da ganz sicher? ... Jep! Ich habe es durch ganz einfaches ausprobieren herausgefunden. Gruß

[Talk-de] Problem bei PLZ

2010-08-07 Per discussione Alexander Matheisen
Hallo, warum wird diese PLZ-Relation http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/1112144 nicht im OSM Inspector angezeigt: http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/debug.html?view=plzlon=6.67436lat=51.20625zoom=13 Laut Relation-Check ist die Relation nicht unterbrochen und beim Tagging habe ich auch

Re: [Talk-de] ÖPNV: Haltestellen-Tagging

2010-08-07 Per discussione Claudius
Am 07.08.2010 02:07, Tobias Knerr: Hallo Liste, (...) Außer einigen Gedankenspielen, Spezialthemen usw. habe ich insbesondere zwei ausführliche Proposals gefunden, die sich auch mit Haltestellen beschäftigen: - Unified Stoparea[1] - Oxomoa-ÖPNV-Schema[2] In ihrer Zielsetzung scheinen sie sehr

[Talk-de] OSM-Wochennotiz Nr.3 ( 1.8. - 7.8.2010 )

2010-08-07 Per discussione Gehling Marc
ein Versuch, wöchentlich aus dem OSM-Universum Projekte, Neuigkeiten und Diskussionen zusammenzutragen. http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/osm%20dortmund/diary/11439___ Talk-de mailing list Talk-de@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-de] Zugriffszahlen auf openstreetmap.org

2010-08-07 Per discussione Kolossos
Ja, ist jetzt in den Geohack eingebaut. Dazu hab ich heute noch eine Funktion geschrieben, welche den Buffer beim ersten verschieben der Karte auf 2 anhebt. Damit dürfte es kaum noch Nachteile für den Nutzer geben. Wäre vielleicht auch was fürs offizielle embed-Skript. Grüße Kolossos Kolossos

Re: [Talk-de] Problem bei PLZ

2010-08-07 Per discussione Norbert Kück
Hallo Alex, am 07.08.2010 21:37 schrieb Alexander Matheisen: warum wird diese PLZ-Relation http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/1112144 nicht im OSM Inspector angezeigt: http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/debug.html?view=plzlon=6.67436lat=51.20625zoom=13 Laut Relation-Check ist die

[Talk-it] ERA: [wiki] Nuove pagine in italiano!

2010-08-07 Per discussione Francesco de Virgilio
On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 10:15:18AM +0200, Elena of Valhalla wrote: On 8/3/10, Daniele Forsi dfo...@gmail.com wrote: scrollabile no di sicuro :-) lo Zingarelli dice che scrollare vuol dire scuotere con forza e siccome non è solo scorrevole perché si può cambiare l'ingrandimento, userei

[Talk-it] ERA: [wiki] Nuove pagine in italiano!

2010-08-07 Per discussione Francesco de Virgilio
On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 11:04:09PM +0200, Luca Delucchi wrote: Il 02 agosto 2010 22:57, Francesco de Virgilio fradev...@gmail.com ha scritto: On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 08:47:29PM +0200, Luca Delucchi wrote: Voglio fare i miei complimenti a tutti i volenterosi che stanno cimentandosi nelle

Re: [Talk-it] [wiki] Nuove pagine in italiano!

2010-08-07 Per discussione Samuele Battarra
Ho tradotto un po' di tag nuovi nelle map features, ma ce ne sono tre che non saprei cosa scrivere. Sono access:lhv, access:bdouble e access:roadtrain. Da quel che ho capito bdouble dovrebbe essere il classico autotreno (autocarro davanti e rimorchio dietro), mentre roadtrain comprendere tutta

[Talk-at] Kleinr Bach und Straße kreuzen sich

2010-08-07 Per discussione Niko Sams
Hallo, Wie sollte mit so einem Fehler umgegangen werden: http://keepright.ipax.at/report_map.php?schema=10error=12557967 (uncassified und ein kleiner bach kreuzen sich) Richte Brücke gibts da eigentlich keine. Niko ___ Talk-at mailing list

Re: [Talk-at] Kleinr Bach und Straße kreuzen sich

2010-08-07 Per discussione Marko
Am 07.08.10 schrieb Niko Sams niko.s...@gmail.com: Hallo, Wie sollte mit so einem Fehler umgegangen werden: http://keepright.ipax.at/report_map.php?schema=10error=12557967 (uncassified und ein kleiner bach kreuzen sich) Richte Brücke gibts da eigentlich keine. Niko Der Grund für die

[Talk-ca] bicycle network in Quebec: the Route Verte

2010-08-07 Per discussione Daniel Tremblay
When I look at the cyclemap, I see red lines (NCN) and light blue lines (RCN) for the Route Verte. I also see red lines tagged as RCN (I suspect that the cyclemap rendering has not been updated for a while - my changes made almost 3 weeks ago are not still there). There was a discussion 2 years

Re: [Talk-ca] bicycle network in Quebec: the Route Verte

2010-08-07 Per discussione Daniel Tremblay
I have found this: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/FR:Route_verte It doesn't specify the type of network to apply (NCN vs RCN). Maybe it should be added (once decided). This page also suggest that the following tags applied: *Type de voies* *Clef* *Valeur* Bande cyclable cycleway lane

Re: [Talk-ca] bicycle network in Quebec: the Route Verte

2010-08-07 Per discussione Sam Vekemans
sorry, i get all excited when talking about the tct and ncn. yes, the route de verte network in quebec should be ncn, and the regional network exists where a route in continious passing through towns, usually in a 'regional municapility'. my fight continues, but as far as i know, im the

Re: [Talk-ca] bicycle network in Quebec: the Route Verte

2010-08-07 Per discussione Sam Vekemans
re: tagging feel free to take a lead on it, the system looks good to me. and ya, the cyclemap usually takes a week for something to render and much longer for the ncn as its viewable from space. cheers, sam On 8/7/10, Daniel Tremblay tremb...@gmail.com wrote: I have found this:

Re: [Talk-cz] funkčnost cenia ortofotomapy

2010-08-07 Per discussione Pavel Zbytovský
Mám stejný problém, občas jim ty WMS servery holt vynechávají. Já jsem si docela vystačil s UHULem, který funguoval až nad očekávání svižně :) 2010/8/6 Zdeněk Pražák zpra...@seznam.cz při kreslení budov z katastrální mapy pomocí traceru a kontrole správnosti zakreslení vodních ploch používám

Re: [Talk-cz] highway=path vs. highway=bridleway

2010-08-07 Per discussione Pavel Zbytovský
Tak to vypadá, když dokážeme opak tvrzení, že? :-) Mohli bychom briddleway označovat opravdu stezky pro koně? Tedy tuto značku C11a http://www.koniny.ic.cz/uzitecnosti/index_Page315.htm Nevím jestli se v reálu tyto někde vyskytují, ale podobné značky existují i pro cyklisty a to implikuje

[OSM-talk-fr] [SQL] Communes sans rue

2010-08-07 Per discussione Vincent Pottier
Bonjour, Ayant réussi à réinstaller postgis en local, j'ai testé une requête pour trouver les communes sans rue. J'en trouve près de 9300, mais il y a des faux positifs. Je mets la requête pour amélioration avant que ça devienne un module genre osmose. SELECT c.osm_id,

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] [SQL] Communes sans rue

2010-08-07 Per discussione Christian Quest
Le 7 août 2010 09:25, Vincent Pottier vpott...@gmail.com a écrit : Bonjour, Ayant réussi à réinstaller postgis en local, j'ai testé une requête pour trouver les communes sans rue. J'en trouve près de 9300, mais il y a des faux positifs. Je mets la requête pour amélioration avant que ça

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] [SQL] Communes sans rue

2010-08-07 Per discussione Vincent Pottier
On 07/08/2010 12:52, Christian Quest wrote: La table roads est moins complète que la line. D'ailleurs, j'avoue ne pas avoir encore bien saisit la différence entre les 2. D'après ce que j'ai lu quelque part, la table roads est une table 'rapide' pour mapnik pour le dessin des rues. Elle

[OSM-talk-fr] Carte des caméras de surveillance

2010-08-07 Per discussione Pierre-Alain Dorange
Suite à des discussions ici même sur le rendu des caméras de surveillance nous nous sommes rendu compte que le site donné en référence sur la wiki n'est pas mis à jour du tout. Un peu frusté, j'ai donc développé ma propre version pour le rendu des caméras de surveillance, visible ici :

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] Carte des caméras de surveillance

2010-08-07 Per discussione Frédéric Rodrigo
Le 07/08/2010 21:57, Pierre-Alain Dorange a écrit : Suite à des discussions ici même sur le rendu des caméras de surveillance nous nous sommes rendu compte que le site donné en référence sur la wiki n'est pas mis à jour du tout. Un peu frusté, j'ai donc développé ma propre version pour le rendu

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] Carte des caméras de surveillance

2010-08-07 Per discussione arno
Le samedi 07 août 2010, à 21:57:26 +0200, Pierre-Alain a écrit : Suite à des discussions ici même sur le rendu des caméras de surveillance nous nous sommes rendu compte que le site donné en référence sur la wiki n'est pas mis à jour du tout. Un peu frusté, j'ai donc développé ma propre

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] Carte des caméras de surveillance

2010-08-07 Per discussione manu1400
Bonjour Il y a un gros problème de performance web avec ce site. Si les performances dépendent beaucoup du nombre de caméras connues dans la base (car elles sont affichées), alors vu le peu de caméras actuellement qu'il doit j'imagine dans la base c'est catastrophique. Attend toi à un nombre

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] Carte des caméras de surveillance

2010-08-07 Per discussione Emmanuel Gil Peyrot
On Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 10:05:55PM +0200, Frédéric Rodrigo wrote: Le 07/08/2010 21:57, Pierre-Alain Dorange a écrit : Suite à des discussions ici même sur le rendu des caméras de surveillance nous nous sommes rendu compte que le site donné en référence sur la wiki n'est pas mis à jour du tout.

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] Carte des caméras de surveillance

2010-08-07 Per discussione Pierre-Alain Dorange
manu1...@lavabit.com wrote: Il y a un gros problème de performance web avec ce site. Si les performances dépendent beaucoup du nombre de caméras connues dans la base (car elles sont affichées), alors vu le peu de caméras actuellement qu'il doit j'imagine dans la base c'est catastrophique. En

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] Carte des caméras de surveillance

2010-08-07 Per discussione Pierre-Alain Dorange
Frédéric Rodrigo fred.rodr...@gmail.com wrote: Vos commentaires sont les bienvenues. Tu fais charger bien trop de points à la fois par le client. J'ai firefox qui me propose d'arreter le script tellement c'est long à charger. En effet avec Firefox c'est très lent... Alors que Safari (mac)

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] Carte des caméras de surveillance

2010-08-07 Per discussione Pierre-Alain Dorange
arno a...@renevier.net wrote: bah comme commentaire, je dirais que ça marche pas :) j'ai une page blanche, et les messages d'erreur suivants: Erreur : missing ] after element list Fichier source : http://www.leretourdelautruche.com/map/cctv.js Ligne : 37, Colonne : 6 Code source :

[OSM-talk-fr] forum: Element onglet modifier non visible dans onglet voir

2010-08-07 Per discussione forum
Le message suivant : ## Bonjour, Je suis nouveau dans OSM et je suis en train de cartografier mon village : Le Poujol sur Orb dans lHérault à l'aide de JOSM. - Certains éléments apparaisent dans l'onglet Modifier de OSM mais pas dans l'onglet Voir : le nom Place de

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] forum: Element onglet modifier non visible dans onglet voir

2010-08-07 Per discussione Pieren
2010/8/7 fo...@letuffe.org Une ruelle étroite peut se tagguer en highway=service à condition d'y ajouter service=alley (j'aurais préféré un highway=alley mais ça s'est fait comme ça). Sans ce détail important, on peut considérer que la voie n'est qu'une voie de service qui pourrait effectivement

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] Carte des caméras de surveillance

2010-08-07 Per discussione Vincent Pottier
On 07/08/2010 22:34, Pierre-Alain Dorange wrote: manu1...@lavabit.com wrote: Il y a un gros problème de performance web avec ce site. Si les performances dépendent beaucoup du nombre de caméras connues dans la base (car elles sont affichées), alors vu le peu de caméras actuellement qu'il

Re: [Talk-us] Abbreviation Police

2010-08-07 Per discussione Paul Johnson
On Tue, 03 Aug 2010 23:32:54 -0600, Kevin Atkinson wrote: Rather than United Stated Highway 29 Frontage Road just U.S. 29 Frontage Road or maybe US 29 Frontage Road. Why. Because no will say the formal out load. Rather than Interstate 95 Frontage Road, just I-95 Frontage Road. Why? Even

Re: [Talk-us] Abbreviation Police

2010-08-07 Per discussione Kevin Atkinson
On Sat, 7 Aug 2010, Paul Johnson wrote: On Tue, 03 Aug 2010 23:32:54 -0600, Kevin Atkinson wrote: Rather than United Stated Highway 29 Frontage Road just U.S. 29 Frontage Road or maybe US 29 Frontage Road. Why. Because no will say the formal out load. Rather than Interstate 95 Frontage

Re: [Talk-us] Removing tiger:* tags

2010-08-07 Per discussione Paul Johnson
On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:52:31 -0700, Dave Hansen wrote: Please keep them. They're not hurting anything. Mapper fatigue. I don't really see how anything beyond tiger:reviewed=no and tiger:tlid= tags are useful at this point, save to make tags more difficult to sift through by human editors.

Re: [Talk-us] Abbreviation Police

2010-08-07 Per discussione Paul Johnson
On Mon, 02 Aug 2010 14:56:51 -0700, Alan Mintz wrote: Yes. Last time, a couple of us (or maybe just me - I forget) argued that it was OK to use common abbreviations for some well-known street types - at least St, Ave, Blvd, Pl, etc. - but the opposition was significant, and no change could be

Re: [Talk-us] Directional Prefix/Postfix Proposal

2010-08-07 Per discussione Paul Johnson
On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 21:05:10 -0600, Kevin Atkinson wrote: To avoid this either: 1) A clear exception needs to be made 2) The official rule need to be toned down. I vote for 3) It's there for good reason. If you want abbreviations, tell your map renderer to garble the data for you.

Re: [Talk-us] Directional Prefix/Postfix Proposal

2010-08-07 Per discussione Paul Johnson
On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 19:54:48 -0600, Kevin Atkinson wrote: I would like to formally propose two things 1) An exception to the abbreviation rule for directional indicators with the fully expanded name going into alt_name 2) New tags to record the presence of directional indicators

Re: [Talk-us] Directional Prefix/Postfix Proposal

2010-08-07 Per discussione Kevin Atkinson
On Sat, 7 Aug 2010, Paul Johnson wrote: On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 19:54:48 -0600, Kevin Atkinson wrote: I would like to formally propose two things 1) An exception to the abbreviation rule for directional indicators with the fully expanded name going into alt_name 2) New tags to record

Re: [Talk-us] Removing tiger:* tags

2010-08-07 Per discussione Alan Mintz
At the risk of being accused of letting a good argument die... At 2010-08-07 13:28, Paul Johnson wrote: On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:52:31 -0700, Dave Hansen wrote: Please keep them. They're not hurting anything. Mapper fatigue. I don't really see how anything beyond tiger:reviewed=no and

Re: [Talk-us] Abbreviation Police

2010-08-07 Per discussione Paul Johnson
On Wed, 04 Aug 2010 00:04:31 -0600, Kevin Atkinson wrote: Since when does a frontage road get a Highway shield? There's some special cases in Oregon where I 84 and US 30 are multiplexed. US 30 takes the frontage in every city except Portland, Gresham, Wood Village and Troutdale. Granted,

Re: [Talk-us] Abbreviation Police

2010-08-07 Per discussione Paul Johnson
On Wed, 04 Aug 2010 08:09:10 -0400, Richard Welty wrote: On 8/4/10 7:45 AM, Richard Weait wrote: North Service Road and South Service Road. Romantic names, I know. Are these similar to what you are calling frontage roads? http://www.openstreetmap.org/?

Re: [Talk-us] Abbreviation Police

2010-08-07 Per discussione Paul Johnson
On Mon, 02 Aug 2010 15:42:52 -0700, Apollinaris Schoell wrote: I think typically this isn't part of a name at all. Are people using it in an address for mailing? how is it written in official records? how would anyone do a search for a street? there are many corner cases so there is no simple

Re: [Talk-us] Abbreviation Police

2010-08-07 Per discussione Alan Mintz
At 2010-08-07 12:59, Paul Johnson wrote: Meanwhile, it has been observed on more than one occasion that the quality of the data imported by TIGER is nearly or entirely worse than a blank map. People can observe all they want - it doesn't make them right, and this particular observation would

Re: [Talk-us] Proposal to change ref format for county roads in Florida from (x) to CR x

2010-08-07 Per discussione Paul Johnson
On Wed, 04 Aug 2010 08:17:43 -0400, Nathan Edgars II wrote: Presently numbered county roads in Florida (and New Jersey) are tagged using parentheses, for example ref=(535) for County Road 535. The reasons for this are essentially a historical accident. I'm proposing a semi-automated change

Re: [Talk-us] Abbreviation Police

2010-08-07 Per discussione Paul Johnson
On Mon, 02 Aug 2010 15:37:33 -0600, Kevin Atkinson wrote: Or do people here really think everything should be expand to the fullest. Abbreviations are bad because they can't be easily automatically expanded. However, it's easy to abbreviate in a renderer when you know what the full word is.

Re: [Talk-us] Directional Prefix/Postfix Proposal

2010-08-07 Per discussione Alan Millar
On Sat, 2010-08-07 at 13:15 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: I vote for 3) It's there for good reason. If you want abbreviations, tell your map renderer to garble the data for you. Pre-garbling the data complicates other usage scenarios. Don't do it. +1 Call me an abbreviation police if you

Re: [Talk-us] Directional Prefix/Postfix Proposal

2010-08-07 Per discussione Richard Welty
On 8/8/10 12:22 AM, Alan Millar wrote: On Sat, 2010-08-07 at 13:15 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: I vote for 3) It's there for good reason. If you want abbreviations, tell your map renderer to garble the data for you. Pre-garbling the data complicates other usage scenarios. Don't do it. +1

Re: [Talk-us] Directional Prefix/Postfix Proposal

2010-08-07 Per discussione Kevin Atkinson
On Sun, 8 Aug 2010, Richard Welty wrote: On 8/8/10 12:22 AM, Alan Millar wrote: On Sat, 2010-08-07 at 13:15 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: I vote for 3) It's there for good reason. If you want abbreviations, tell your map renderer to garble the data for you. Pre-garbling the data complicates

Re: [Talk-us] Directional Prefix/Postfix Proposal

2010-08-07 Per discussione Alan Millar
How about this proposal for US streets: (1) Leave name unabbreviated (2) Put whatever form you want of abbreviated name in name:en Thoughts? - Alan ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Directional Prefix/Postfix Proposal

2010-08-07 Per discussione Alan Millar
On Sat, 2010-08-07 at 22:35 -0600, Kevin Atkinson wrote: For those voting +1 have you even read my original proposal on the reason I want to abbreviate? Yes. You gave a list of reasons it would be OK, and rules people would have to follow to make it work. Some of the reasons I consider

Re: [Talk-us] How to get college students involved?

2010-08-07 Per discussione Paul Johnson
On Fri, 06 Aug 2010 13:00:48 -0400, Stefan Brandle wrote: I teach computer science at a university about half way between Indianapolis and Ft. Wayne. I would love to have someone show us how to get involved mapping precise data locally and submitting it to various online data sets, or working

Re: [Talk-us] Abbreviation Police

2010-08-07 Per discussione Paul Johnson
On Sat, 07 Aug 2010 18:28:26 -0700, Alan Mintz wrote: Lastly, it matches the overwhelming majority of print usage and signage. If print usage and signage were consistent even between cities in the same state, I'd tend to agree. Given that what areas abbreviate which words and what

[Talk-us] Directional Prefix/Postfix Proposal (take 2)

2010-08-07 Per discussione Kevin Atkinson
I'm giving this another shot, this time I am completely staying out of the abbreviation debate. A full street address included more than just a Number and a Street, it also includes a directional prefix and suffix. Vid the kid, gave an excellent overview at

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: Re: [OSM-talk] Mapquest launches site based on OSM!

2010-08-07 Per discussione Paul Johnson
On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:06:52 -0400, Phil! Gold wrote: * Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org [2010-07-21 00:19 -0700]: On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 07:15:18 -0400, Phil! Gold wrote: I what way does OpenCycleMap get this right? As far as I can tell, it doesn't render road shields at all. No, but it

Re: [Talk-us] Directional Prefix/Postfix Proposal

2010-08-07 Per discussione Paul Johnson
On Sat, 07 Aug 2010 18:43:33 -0600, Kevin Atkinson wrote: I am unlikely to try too push this though any time soon, so the abbreviation police have won again, for now. Why so condescending? I can't say this attitude is likely to change consensus in your favor, especially considering that

Re: [Talk-us] Directional Prefix/Postfix Proposal

2010-08-07 Per discussione Kevin Atkinson
On Sat, 7 Aug 2010, Paul Johnson wrote: On Sat, 07 Aug 2010 18:43:33 -0600, Kevin Atkinson wrote: I am unlikely to try too push this though any time soon, so the abbreviation police have won again, for now. Why so condescending? I can't say this attitude is likely to change consensus in

Re: [Talk-us] Directional Prefix/Postfix Proposal

2010-08-07 Per discussione Kevin Atkinson
On Sat, 7 Aug 2010, Alan Millar wrote: On Sat, 2010-08-07 at 22:35 -0600, Kevin Atkinson wrote: You certainly CAN have all the abbreviations you want. I'm just saying not to put them in the name tag; put them in another tag. I personally don't care if it is loc_name, alt_name, name_2,