On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Patrick Weber p.we...@ucl.ac.uk wrote:
I have a dataset of official spelling luxembourgish village names, as well
as what council each village belongs too. Because I couldnt filter the API
down to only nodes with place tags, I downloaded using the XAPI all place
Have new editor statistics been compiled from the created_by tag in
changesets now that 0.6 is live?
It would be interested to compare it to the previous ones, which were
biased as different editors added/modified create_by tags in different
situations in pre-0.6.
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Ed Loach e...@loach.me.uk wrote:
How large is the current delay before uploaded data became
visible?
My question is slightly different. I uploaded two changesets
successfully earlier from JOSM (the third took over an hour so I
clicked Abort and ended up
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Russ Nelson r...@cloudmade.com wrote:
I should have all the .osm files that I need for my mapping party (not
cancelled because I was giving a talk that couldn't be rescheduled for
later). But hopefully in case I've forgotten anything I'll still have
read-only
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Lambertus o...@na1400.info wrote:
I notice that my NiMH batteries (Ansmann 2700mAh) perform worse when
it's cold, so maybe normal Alkaline batteries might be better in cold
environments.
FWIW I use 2500-2900 mAh NiMH batteries with my 60CSx while hiking in
On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote:
Hi,
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
Evidently yes, I went there after all and this is a blog posting about
some of the progress we've been making:
http://openstreetmap.org/user/%C3%86var%20Arnfj%C3%B6r%C3%B0
There has been rapid progress on the subject of adding OpenStreetMap
maps to Wikimedia projects (e.g. Wikipedia) during the MediaWiki
Developer Meet-Up[1] taking place right now in Berlin.
We now have a clear plan of action for getting OpenStreetMap maps
embedded in Wikimedia wiki (e.g.
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 1:51 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote:
Hi,
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
Anyway, there's a MediaWiki developer meetup in Berlin next month
[...]
But it would be very cool if someone that *did* know something about
the OSM platform were to go and talk
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 12:43 AM, Sam Vekemans
acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com wrote:
I think it's worth creating a tag for a man_made=fish_passage
[...]
I know that not all features that are available MUST get imported
but i do think that each feature deserves some discussions before
being
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
ava...@gmail.com wrote:
* It would have to work with the static dumps (http://static.wikipedia.org/)
Presumably this can work just as timelines do:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_timeline_of_the_Big_Bang
http://upload.wikimedia.org
2009/3/17 Tim 'avatar' Bartel openstreet...@computerkultur.org:
Hi,
2009/3/11 Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org:
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
Anyway, there's a MediaWiki developer meetup in Berlin next month
[...]
But it would be very cool if someone that *did* know something about
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 11:45 PM, Lars Aronsson l...@aronsson.se wrote:
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
Just installing an extension on Wikimedia and pulling tiles from
OSM would not be acceptable:
* Wikimedia would need its own updated Planet dump
* Its own tile rendering infrastructure
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Donald Allwright
donald_allwri...@yahoo.com wrote:
I would be very keen to take a leaf out of the GPL world here, and license
the data under
ODBL 1.0 or later. That means if and when 2.0 comes out (which it surely
will) the data are automatically
covered by
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Lars Aronsson l...@aronsson.se wrote:
Should we try to introduce the map tag in Wikipedia? Has it
already been tried, and what was the reaction? Do we have any bad
experience from its use in the OSM, to learn and improve from?
It's not easy to convince the
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com wrote:
For the benefit of countries where a database right exists, and 'for the
avoidance of doubt' as the ODbL says, add a short remark that the OSM
foundation
(which is the entity which has collated together all of the individual
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Ivan Garcia capisc...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
I recently discovered the site available by the US Army with millions of
world geonames (towns, etc) here
[1] http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/namefiles.htm
The OSM wiki says that there is no legal problem
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote:
And here is how to do it (needs Linux):
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Frederik_Ramm/Creating_Very_Large_Marble_Images
This would be simpler if you could install the t...@h layer through
marble's add-on
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 1:14 AM, Kyle Gordon k...@lodge.glasgownet.com wrote:
I hope I'm not alone in saying Thank You! :-D
OSB is a wonderful resource that many of us couldn't live without. I
know a few people were sceptical due to the licensing, but hopefully now
they will be quiet.
Yes
Property boundaries are definitely something that belongs in OSM, it's
just boundary=administrative at a different level.
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On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Tim Waters (chippy)
chippy2...@gmail.com wrote:
I'd like to announce the release of the latest Map Warper image
rectifier application, designed with OSM in mind.
http://warper.geothings.net/
Firstly thanks for working on this, it's a very useful application
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Ivan Garcia capisc...@gmail.com wrote:
we would like to implement for disabled persons that will help them to find
the route by avoiding obstacles or undesired areas in the map.
An example of this is http://seamster.cs.umd.edu:8090/map/index.html , where
you
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:24 PM, Simon Ward si...@bleah.co.uk wrote:
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 04:36:08PM -0500, Matthias Julius wrote:
This doesn't account for multiple names in the same language, though. I
can also imagine a place having several old names over time, while
old_name=*
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 12:38 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote:
Wikimedia Commons has a PD map of the Kergueles with could perhaps (through
the Metacarta rectifier or similar) be used to aid the process:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kerguelen_Map.png
Yes, but one must be
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Rodolphe Quiedeville
rodol...@quiedeville.org wrote:
Hi,
I discover today that the Kergulen Islands are totally missing. Do a
contributor as I can do something to repair ?
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerguelen_Islands
*
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Thomas Wood grand.edgemas...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/1/20 Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com:
I take no credit for this, but the world's coastline is now completely
clear (well very very nearly clear anyway). This is a huge result for
the project and one for
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Hugh Barnes list@hughbris.com wrote:
Further, maybe Tristan da Cunha could use a unit if they're not all
spoken for:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/%C3%86var%20Arnfj%C3%B6r%C3%B0%20Bjarmason/diary/4525
That might be helpful, I've sent an E-Mail to the
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Ed Loach e...@loach.me.uk wrote:
Where do I post to ask whether Mapnik could render man_made=pier?
If you want the mapnik stylesheets changed it's best to file a bug at
trac.openstreetmap.org
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I've read that on some Garmin units you can press a given button for a
set period of time to have it dump a screenshot to its SD card. But I
haven't found out how to do this for my Garmin GPSMAP 60CSx.
Garmin has a utility called ximage which can do this, but I don't use
win32, it doesn't run
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Steve Ratcliffe s...@parabola.me.uk wrote:
Hi
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 03:13:27PM +, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
The device's manual doesn't specify any key combo. So is there any way
to retrieve a screenshot of its screen under *nix?
QLandkarte can
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Gervase Markham gerv-gm...@gerv.net wrote:
Thomas Wood wrote:
I believe the old WMSplugin used to send coordinates in OSGB36 rather
than WGS84?
This seems to be what the server side code expects, at least.
Who is responsible for the WMSplugin? Is this a
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 7:37 AM, maning sambale
emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Any tips for properly tagging this feature:
http://mayniladailyphoto.blogspot.com/2008/01/philippine-relief-map.html
I added the map coastline using the actual coastline of the
Philippines in OSM, with a
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Grant Slater
openstreet...@firefishy.com wrote:
Tim Berners-Lee wrote:
What sort of help do you think OSM will need? Money to run servers if
the load increases? An existing standards org with facilities and
process for the API and the XML format? What was it
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Tim Berners-Lee ti...@w3.org wrote:
I'd like to propose a tag for conservation land - land protected from
development.
There was no alternative for tis tag in the thousands of areas which
CRSchmidt
imported recently from the Mass GIS database of open space in
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Florian Lohoff f...@rfc822.org wrote:
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 11:12:53AM +, Christoph Böhme wrote:
Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org schrieb:
An API would be cool of course but as OSM itself
proves, if you offer dumps then others can do the API ;-)
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Jonathan Bennett
openstreet...@jonno.cix.co.uk wrote:
Is this our first bit of large-scale vandalism?
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=40.78377lon=-119.20424zoom=16layers=00B0FTF
No, see
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 9:08 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote:
I am thus suggesting that we drop using the special type=boundary
relation and instead use a simple type=multipolygon for administrative
areas. Everything else would stay the same (boundary=administrative,
admin_level=x,
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Steven te Brinke
s.tebri...@student.utwente.nl wrote:
The maritime borders clearly are administrative and probably are admin_level
2. However, on the wiki Iceland has defined the EEZ to be admin_level 1. I
It's not actually used though, Iceland only has
On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 2:50 AM, Thomas Wood grand.edgemas...@gmail.com wrote:
2008/12/31 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ava...@gmail.com:
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Steven te Brinke
s.tebri...@student.utwente.nl wrote:
The maritime borders clearly are administrative and probably are admin_level
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 9:32 PM, Gustav Foseid gust...@gmail.com wrote:
In Europe a number of maritime borders have been tagged recently as national
borders, with boundary=administrative and admin_level=2.
Have they been tagged as national borders or just as
boundary=administrative? If it's the
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Gervase Markham gerv-gm...@gerv.net wrote:
I asked for a Garmin Legend HCx for Christmas, on the recommendation of
various people in this group, and am now trying to connect it to my
Linux computer to do some real-time mapping. Has anyone got this device
on the tristandc.com website and I
didn't know who else to contact.
Is there someone else on-site I should be in contact with?
-Original Message-
From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [mailto:ava...@gmail.com]
Sent: 28 December 2008 03:11
To: enquiries...@gmail.com; webmana...@tristandc.com;
talk
Hello there, my name is Ævar and I'm from Iceland (the other side of
the mid-Atlantic ridge) and I'm writing to inform you that I've
improved the map of the Tristan da Cuncha archipelago in my own free
time as part of the OpenStreetMap project, see:
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 6:59 PM, Tokajac imre_to...@hotmail.com wrote:
Here is the error message:
Execution of PostgresSQL by a user with administrative permissions is not
permitted.
The server must be started under an unprivileged user ID to prevent possible
system security compromises. See
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Pieren pier...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Thomas Wood grand.edgemas...@gmail.com
wrote:
Frederik does make a good point that it could be used for good.
I'm probably stupid but what is the aim of having google maps layers
in JOSM - one
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 12:50 PM, D Tucny d...@tucny.com wrote:
I've never heard of them called dog bins before... There was a certain
amount on tongue in cheek in my reply... A waste bin is for putting waste
in, a waste paper basket is for putting waste paper in, a recycling bin is
for
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 7:55 PM, Ed Loach e...@loach.me.uk wrote:
amenity=litter_bin
I've been using
amenity=waste_disposal
waste=trash
For these public roadside litter bins.
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Use a powertool like JOSM to go over it and see how much has changed,
and coordinate with the users who've made changes in that area.
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On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 12:28 PM, Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 1:03 AM, Andrew Chadwick (mailing lists)
andrewc-email-li...@piffle.org wrote:
I feel really silly for having missed this thread earlier. It's a
corker, with a real live BAN POTLATCH!!! and
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Adam Schreiber sa...@clemson.edu wrote:
I wound be very interested to see the first time that a transport
authority took a person to court for promoting their services but
there may be a first time! I do suggest that this is a different
project from OSM though.
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 2:24 AM, Simon Ward si...@bleah.co.uk wrote:
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 12:37:31AM +, Andrew Chadwick (mailing lists)
wrote:
Anonymous read-only access exists, so have fun :) Poke Till or myself
via the osm2go-users mailing list if you have some contributions and
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 4:49 PM, Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com wrote:
Absolutely. Wikipedia haven't succumbed to the Disable TextArea
Finally campaign, despite how easy it is to make mistakes when
editing pages. I'm glad I don't have to download a java program in
order to fix typos :-P
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 6:16 PM, Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com wrote:
Please excuse the self promotion, but OSM Mapper
(http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/OSM_Mapper) does currently allow
one to monitor for changes to ways in a watched area which you can then
monitor using RSS.
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 11:05 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
ava...@gmail.com wrote:
I forgot to ask, do you have a public repository for osm2go or do you
only make release tarballs?
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On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Gustav Foseid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well... If I am not mistaken, people closely involved with CC have argued
that OSM is in the public domain and only the graphical maps are creative
and covered by copyright. You might call that a transition strategy, if not
The ODbL FAQ[1] currently has two questions[2][3] that deal with the
planned removal of the CC-BY-SA licensed data that will still be left
in the OSM database after the switchover to ODbL is made and users
will be asked to opt to relicense their contributions under the new
license.
What I'd like
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 5:30 PM, Ed Loach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can anyone work out how to find out what possible UTF8 errors there
might be? Or would you be able to tell some other way if this were
the problem?
You should try using decode(UTF-8) instead of decode(utf8) in your
checking
2008/11/28 Bernhard Zwischenbrugger [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hi all
I made a comparison Google Maps - OSM for all capitals.
http://lamp2.fhstp.ac.at/~lbz/beispiele/ws2008/capitals/index.php
Note that this does not include Google Mapmaker so Google has better
data for some of these lying around.
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 11:53 PM, Nic Roets [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* When a person signs up to OSM, ask him a few multiple choice questions to
make sure he has the mastered the basics.
I think the barrier for entry for OSM is already too high, just
signing up probably deters a lot of useful
I have several free images which show some data I'd like to have on
OSM, e.g. administrative regions like this one:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:S%C3%BDslur_%C3%A1_%C3%8Dslandi.png?uselang=is
What I'd like to do is import this image into some OSM editor and be
able to adjust its size
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 8:23 AM, Mikel Maron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
With Map Warper http://wrp.geothings.net/ you can rectify the image use
ground control points against existing OSM data, or Landsat. There's a WMS
end point for the warped image you can configure for use in JOSM.
Thanks,
On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Richard Fairhurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'd agree that tagging a gate means there is a gate here - so let's
not assume that it blocks routing.
This assumption of traffic restriction is also inherently urban, gates
are increasingly used to control animal
I just tried to compile 0.8.4 and found it to be completely unusable
for potlatch, the cursor seemed to update once every few seconds
making it hard to select anything, I was unable to edit keys and the
potlatch user interface had all the wrong dimensions or was rendered
offscreen, see screenshot:
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 12:42 PM, OJ W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nottingham:
http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.93847lon=-1.19643zoom=16layers=B000FTF
There's an area on that campus that uses natural=wood, shouldn't that
be landuse=forest or is it really a natural wooden area?
You should submit this to your OS vendor / Sun. A segfault in the JVM
is by definition a JVM bug (in a pure Java application).
You might want to try to upgrade your JVM.
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These all look very consistent and will come in very useful for
someone making renderings, a problem with some of the current iconsets
that has been mentioned is their inconsistency.
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On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 5:02 AM, Simon Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1). The '--gmapsupp' option makes compress archives. Can multiple of these be
loaded at the same time, or does the user have to have access to the
individual map files if they want to load more than just my map?
Yes, just
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 4:02 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Ian,
How much precision do you want/need? And apart from the fun of it, does it
actually benefit OSM going to these lengths?
My fairly accurate Garmin 60CSx is still wildly inaccurate when I
position myself at the corner of a
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 5:33 PM, Frederik Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What if you had a very light bluetooth GPS mouse and strapped it to a
helium-filled baloon, you know, the toy shop/fun fair variety, then let it
slowly ascend tied to a light yarn until you're at the top of the
building...
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 9:44 PM, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The way surveyors get around this problem (yes even the best GPS systems
cant see around corners) is to take 8 waypoints by sighting down the edge of
a building (2 points for each side). You can then draw
See
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Bus_stop#Usage_.28node_positioning.29
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On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Gregory [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't understand.
Is this just to skip changing to the node tool (press 'n' on the keyboard)?
Yes, and it also makes it easy to insert a new node midway between two nodes.
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On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 9:39 PM, SteveC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.flickr.com/map?fLat=39.912fLon=116.3783zl=4order_by=interestingness
What is the appropriate flickr/yahoo support address to bug them to
add the OSM layer to other areas on the flickr map? The area I'm in
only has a very
On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 11:59 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:52:27 +0100, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
wrote:
Another podcast that 80n and I did at LugRadio live, this time a really
great quality audio from Ubuntu UK podcast.
On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 1:55 AM, Robert T Wyatt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is anyone else getting a 403 (forbidden) error on the traces page?
http://openstreetmap.org/traces
Offline due to hardware problems - not expected back before Monday
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