[OSM-talk] Beaches at lower zoom levels

2010-08-18 Per discussione Gaz Davidson
Beaches are missing at zoom=12 in Mapnik and zoom=13 in Osmarender, either that or the sea is rendered over them. Is this by design or a bug? For example, here's my hometown: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=53.6457lon=-2.999zoom=13 Moving the coastline seems excessive, is there a way around

[OSM-talk] Flattr donation button

2010-08-13 Per discussione Gaz Davidson
Hi I just signed up for this new Flattr micropayments thing for donating small amounts to projects you love (flattr.com), and noticed there had been no discussion about it here. It would be a nice experiment to add a Flattr button to the main site and see how much is made in microdonations. OSM

Re: [OSM-talk] Flattr donation button

2010-08-13 Per discussione Gaz Davidson
On 14 August 2010 00:08, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote: When you're registered to flattr, you pay a small monthly fee. You set the amount yourself. In the end of the month, that fee is divided between all the things you flattered. So, what if I haven't seen anyone worth 'flattering'

Re: [OSM-talk] www.openaddresses.org BETA launched

2010-03-30 Per discussione Gaz Davidson
2010/3/30 Cédric MOULLET cedric.moul...@gmail.com: Don't hesitate to add your own address, the address of your friends and of the friends of your friends ;-) I'm sure that everyone on this list has already done this in OSM... I hope you'll be using that data, my fingers are sore from typing so

Re: [OSM-talk] Automatically adding open wireless access points

2010-03-29 Per discussione Gaz Davidson
On 26 March 2010 20:15, Gregory nomoregra...@googlemail.com wrote: I seem to remember certain BT home packages you can use their network for free when your out and about. But then it lets other BT customers connect to your wifi. Hopefully they explained this in large enough print. Just put

Re: [OSM-talk] Automatically adding open wireless access points

2010-03-29 Per discussione Gaz Davidson
On 26 March 2010 13:51, Emilie Laffray emilie.laff...@gmail.com wrote: have you looked at a project called openbmap? Essentially a few months ago, I suggested to those people to merge their data in OSM. However, it became clear they didn't want it to be done, as there was plenty of problem to

Re: [OSM-talk] Automatically adding open wireless access points

2010-03-26 Per discussione Gaz Davidson
On 25 March 2010 19:13, Claudius claudiu...@gmx.de wrote: Am 25.03.2010 15:09, Gaz Davidson: (...) at some later time the positions of all known access points can be estimated and imported into OSM's database. I think WiFi are too temporary a feature to be added to the main OSM database

Re: [OSM-talk] Automatically adding open wireless access points

2010-03-26 Per discussione Gaz Davidson
deleted it from OSM's database, but I wouldn't remove it from my source list. Gaz On 26 March 2010 03:34, Gaz Davidson g...@bitplane.net wrote: On 25 March 2010 19:13, Claudius claudiu...@gmx.de wrote: Am 25.03.2010 15:09, Gaz Davidson: (...)  at some later time the positions of all known

[OSM-talk] Automatically adding open wireless access points

2010-03-25 Per discussione Gaz Davidson
Hi I've just got a Google Nexus One and was thinking about making an application for it. The first thing that came to mind was a minimalist app to add open WiFi networks as points of interest. I imagine it working something like this: The app continuously scans nearby WiFi access points. When

Re: [OSM-talk] wikipedia: towns/cities pages include a osm-direct-link

2010-03-08 Per discussione Gaz Davidson
On 7 March 2010 00:59, Tirkon tirko...@yahoo.de wrote: The developers also think about integrating the georeferenced Commons photos into an OSM map as it is known from Google Maps together with http://www.panoramio.com/. That's a really cool idea. It would also be nice if there was a way to

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenGeoData

2010-03-08 Per discussione Gaz Davidson
Have all the old posts on OpenGeoData been lost forever? I was looking for the old announcement about Yahoo! giving permission to use the satellite imagery, I just get the front page with no 404 error, redirect or warning that the content has moved :-( http://opengeodata.org/?p=120

Re: [OSM-talk] Google StreetMap embedding Flickr photos

2010-03-03 Per discussione Gaz Davidson
On 1 March 2010 22:44, si...@mungewell.org wrote: In my case (the street sign picture) they are purely displaying it as a whole so I guess that they are a collective work, however in the new fancy stuff they are actively blending photos into a mosasic which surely is a derriative work. I

Re: [OSM-talk] Serious consideration of Newbie Editor

2010-02-25 Per discussione Gaz Davidson
If there are plans for a new web editor, can avoiding Flash be part of the considerations? ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] XFN links from user pages

2010-02-14 Per discussione Gaz Davidson
Hi New user here, apologies if I'm posting this in the wrong place, I asked about this on IRC and was redirected here. I've been playing with this new Google Buzz thing and realised that privacy issues aside, it's a great step forward in encouraging the growth of the semantic web. Social