Re: [OSM-talk] HTTPS all the Things (Automated Edit)

On Tue, 26 Feb 2019 at 14:30, Rory McCann wrote: > On 26/02/2019 14:45, Joseph Reeves wrote: > > As an aside, HSTS is interesting here because the website operator is > > saying "only use this domain over https", but at that point, we don't > > need to make

Re: [OSM-talk] HTTPS all the Things (Automated Edit)

This certificate question from Andy is a good one, and is the final reason I'm emailing to say I would vote against this proposed edit: 1. I can't see the security risk you're trying to protect against. We are looking at applications that use OSM data and will refer users to third party

Re: [OSM-talk] weeklyOSM #417 2018-07-10-2018-07-16

It was showing, for a very brief period, a generic domain holding page. Cheers, Joseph On Fri, 27 Jul 2018 at 07:03, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: > it looks normal for me, but it is unclear what you mean by > "Looks like it's been hacked or something" > > > > 21. Lipiec 2018 11:12 od

Re: [OSM-talk] finding settlements where the highways do connect across the settlement

Hi John, This sounds like a fun problem. Thinking as I type, you could... 1. Generate a list of all place names in the area you are interested in, plus a lat/lon location 2. Use the GraphHopper API to route from a known good location to each location in step 1 3. For every

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping rivers that flow into/through lakes?

Hi all, Slightly off topic, but I was recently wondering if there was a waterway routing tool available? As in, I'd like to click a point in a waterway and have the downstream route plotted, presumably to the sea. It appears to me that a tool like that could be useful in this discussion? Despite

Re: [OSM-talk] New OSM Quick-Fix service

"Andy, as I stated before, JOSM doesn't force you to edit in your area - it shows you whatever data you download." This isn't quite true, or rather, you're not understanding how people map. JOSM will let you edit any data in the world, but you have to be interested in that area first: I can be

Re: [OSM-talk] Topology rules

A problem i find is with landuse=forest. Formally, those are zones that are used for growing trees. But practically in OSM, that tag is used for any land that is covered with trees. So formally, landuse=forest shouldn't overlap with other zones, but practically, until a new tag (landcover=trees)

Re: [OSM-talk] Misrepresentation of OSM by HOT?

Hi all, The previous thread, IIRC: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/osmf-talk/2015-November/003556.html Version 2 of the Task Manager had "a perfectly fine choice of name for this kind of tool" [0], but I can't really see how V3 [1] is much different. Cheers, Joseph [0]

Re: [OSM-talk] Beach routing

I have seen IRL a roundabout in the USA in which this approach was taken: The latest discussion I heard was whether to put larger concrete blocks on it, to further discourage people routing across it, or increase levels of driver training. If you're confident a fix can be coded up, pick your

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetView name change

How about just StreetScape? I think the open- prefix is unnecessary unless OpenStreetView is officially part of the OSM project? We should be expecting all good projects to be open by default, so branding as Open may be unnecessary. In addition, projects should be aiming to compete on features

Re: [OSM-talk] Openstreetmap in Formula 1

Hi, it's been appearing for a while around the world: https://twitter.com/shtosm/status/445142383420665856 https://twitter.com/EdLoach/status/445209296394268672 https://twitter.com/osmcbba/status/617709297858969600 Cheers, Joseph On 23 July 2016 at 13:54, Maarten Deen wrote:

Re: [OSM-talk] Craigslist

>People can do what they want with the OSM data. I don't set it as a poor reflection on OSM. The problem is that the CL rendering style is just looking at oneway=* without looking at the value. CL is rendering oneway=no as a >oneway. I'd report the issue as a rendering bug to CL and leave out

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenRandomMap

My favourite remains http://openwhatevermap.org/ :) Joseph On 23 Jan 2016 15:43, "PanierAvide" wrote: > Hello everyone, > > The OSM project is associated to many tools and online maps, most of the > time useful, about various themes. For example, we have OpenSeaMap, >

Re: [OSM-talk] Tile Server manual build 15.10 troubleshooting

Have you considered running 14.04 in a virtual machine under 15.10 on your laptop? Qemu / KVM is pretty straightforward to get running, probably easier for a linux newbie than getting a tileserver built on 15.10, and you'll benefit from learning about virtualization under Ubuntu. You'll also be

Re: [OSM-talk] From osmf-talk: "Balancing the presence of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT US Inc) in the OpenStreetMap Foundation"

how HOT members could subvert the OSMF, but perhaps I lack imagination. Cheers, Joseph On 28 Nov 2015 12:11, "Christoph Hormann" <chris_horm...@gmx.de> wrote: > On Saturday 28 November 2015, Joseph Reeves wrote: > >5. I have no decision making powers within HOT - I am

Re: [OSM-talk] From osmf-talk: "Balancing the presence of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT US Inc) in the OpenStreetMap Foundation"

lt/files/HOT_Membership_Code.pdf > > According to the available information Kate is a member of HOT - so are > several candidates for the OSMF board: > > Mikel Maron > Joseph Reeves > Yantisa Akhadi > > Other candidates are active in HOT to some extent (like participating

Re: [OSM-talk] A message to our friends at HOT, Peace Corps etc. about Changeset Comments

Hi Frederik, I have a more fundamental question based on the assumption that jobs in the HOT Tasking Manager occupy a small part of the real physical world: Why does it matter what the changeset comments in this area is? If everyone mapping a city in Nigeria, such as in task

Re: [OSM-talk] Geo URL not working

The Geo URI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geo_URI_scheme Obviously on the OSM share menu it's the same lat / long / zoom as you see in the browser address bar. Clicking on it would launch an application that's registered to handle Geo URIs. The error you're getting is generated by your browser

Re: [OSM-talk] Portal for end users

http://hello.mapquest.com/ ? On 14 September 2015 at 19:25, Daniel Koć wrote: > I had an idea to add UMap functionality to OSM.org website and I > discovered Mateusz Konieczny lately wanted to add a dynamic layer with > opening hours (and some more data), which I think would be

Re: [OSM-talk] Portal for end users

e, Sep 15, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Joseph Reeves <iknowjos...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> http://hello.mapquest.com/ ? >> >> On 14 September 2015 at 19:25, Daniel Koć <daniel@koć.pl> wrote: >> >>> I had an idea to add UMap functionality to OSM.org website and

Re: [OSM-talk] Innovative uses of OSM data in cities?

Hi Jo, Inasafe for an example? http://inasafe.org/en/ Disaster modelling based on OSM data, particularly buildings. I wrote up a blog post about data collection in Padang, Indonesia: http://hotosm.org/updates/2012-09-24_from_remote_tracing_to_field_mapping_in_padang I just realised that was

Re: [OSM-talk] Some thoughts against remote mapping

Agree. I dont think it should be a hardline stance of local vs remote. There should be balance. For example, remotely mapping roads is useful for us since it provides an initial framework for newbies to add POIs. Indeed, I've written up the same experience with remote building tracing:

[OSM-talk] HOT seeking Interim Executive Director

Dear OSM aficionados, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team seeks an Interim Executive Director. We need your help to seek a great successful candidate. If you are that person or know someone, please do apply or share this link widely. Details can be found here:

Re: [OSM-talk] Android Network Location Providers?

Hi Paul, Is Mozilla Location Service useful to you? https://location.services.mozilla.com/ Cheers, Joseph On 10 February 2015 at 08:36, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: As I've experienced unusually poor performance with Google's NLP in Android, I was wondering if anybody knew of a

Re: [OSM-talk] discussion: inclusion and alcohol

Oleksly, As for the inclusion, - the industry provides nowadays a large choice of alcohol-free beer, wine, sparkling wine [1]. And even alcohol-free vodka, alcohol-free whiskey, tequila, brandy, etc. [2]. I don't think we should be relying on the alcohol producers to be providing us with

Re: [OSM-talk] Early History of OSM

Hi Clifford, There's not early maps here, but Pascal neis recently worked out some great statistics concerning the age of OSM data: http://neis-one.org/2014/07/age-of-osm-objects/ These may provide a useful parallel to any early tiles; if nothing else they should show you something about the

Re: [OSM-talk] [HOT] HOT house hack - Mon-Fri next week near Worksop

Hi all, It seems that Internet connectivity is an issue for a number of people - I'm expecting to have a number of MiFis with Data SIMs delivered for us to use in the bunk house. They're being donated, so I've promised that we're not going to be pushing gigabytes around, but there should be

Re: [OSM-talk] Foursquare superusers encouraged to directly edit OSM

What am I missing here A use case may be in Syria. Aid agencies want to know, for example, the location of bakeries in Syria because these have been targeted during the ongoing violence over. Someone may have checked into a bakery on FourSquare at lat=34.716286 lon=36.727005. This would then be

Re: [OSM-talk] Using OpenStreetMap on a daily basis

I've not followed this thread too closely, but arguably OSM is meant to be made not used. Nobody should use OSM on a daily basis; that's what MapQuest Open, MapBox et al are for. Using OSM on a daily basis would be like trying to read a dictionary as your only book: all the words are there, but

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

Hi Frederik, I really liked this when I saw it last year; am pleased to see it back on the mailing list! To be honest, I prefer the last year's version, but only because of one feature: country borders. I often use the MapQuest Open tiles, for example, at low zooms because they show borders much

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

2013 17:11, Robert Scott li...@humanleg.org.uk wrote: On Thursday 21 February 2013, Joseph Reeves wrote: MapBox? http://mapbox.com/blog/open-aerial/ If you look at the phases table at the bottom of http://mapbox.com/blog/mapbox-satellite/ From what I can tell, only Phase 1 is going

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

MapBox? http://mapbox.com/blog/open-aerial/ On 21 February 2013 16:36, Robert Scott li...@humanleg.org.uk wrote: On Thursday 21 February 2013, Jason Remillard wrote: - an overhead image layer + mapnik style. We could reproduce the work that MapBox did collecting existing images. I

Re: [OSM-talk] Missing attribution : Guardian Data and OII use OSM

Hi Pavithran, Looking at the images, I can see attribution in the bottom left corners. It's a little small, but it's there: http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2013/2/14/1360836990090/Lagos-007.jpg Presumably these were scaled to fit the Guardian site and were originally

Re: [OSM-talk] Missing attribution : Guardian Data and OII use OSM

Sorry, I meant bottom *right* hand corners. South East, I guess. /ICanDoesMaps On 15 February 2013 14:05, Joseph Reeves iknowjos...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Pavithran, Looking at the images, I can see attribution in the bottom left corners. It's a little small, but it's there: http

Re: [OSM-talk] Display names of crossroads

place=locality Looks like tagging for the renderer to me, although I am not a resident of Japan or Korea. As it is the rendering that is not working as expected, a better resolution would be to change the renderer so that it displayed junction names. Joseph On 13 February 2013 13:56, Kevin

Re: [OSM-talk] Display names of crossroads

The thing with the UK is that you get places named after junctions - Church Cross, or whatever. That may well be a locality, but it's not the same as naming the junction. That seems to be the difference with these Japan / Korea examples. Joseph On 13 February 2013 14:37, Kevin Peat k...@k3v.eu

Re: [OSM-talk] New website style sheet

Hi Alex, Thanks for the link to this. If we're wanting to submit issues / enter discussion, should we be posting to github or trac? I've opened one ticket today, for example, asking that the history page be broken up more [0]. Looking at github, however, I see that this may be part of the planned

Re: [OSM-talk] Simple improvement(s) to openstreetmap.org

It's nearly impossible, in the English-speaking world, to express an intelligent thought in 140 characters or less. You got that one expressed in 115 characters #JustSayin' On 15 January 2013 14:36, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: On Wednesday, January 9, 2013, Joseph Reeves wrote

Re: [OSM-talk] Simple improvement(s) to openstreetmap.org

Ok, I'll bite... I think this would be missing our audience. If you're illiterate (a group Twitter caters specifically to), what are the odds you're going to be able to make use of a map, much less contribute constructively to OSM? How do illiterate people use Twitter? Do illiterate people have

Re: [OSM-talk] Updating www.bestofosm.org

Sarajevo is an example I was in Sarajevo talking OSM in October whilst participating in a TechCamp event there. I was surprised to check the coverage this week and to see the extent it had improved over the last 2 months. Impressive stuff! Cheers, Joseph On 12 December 2012 13:59, hbogner

Re: [OSM-talk] What to call OSM data?

...@tobias-knerr.de wrote: On 26.11.2012 14:06, Joseph Reeves wrote: Playing Devil's Advocate, crowdsourced isn't appropriate for large swathes of OSM data: Europe, for example, is dominated by imported, not crowdsourced, CORINE data. I don't believe that Europe is dominated by CORINE data

[OSM-talk] Relations on Irish islands

Hi all, Inspired by this morning's Falkland Isles question, could someone explain Irish counties / islands to me? Apologies in advance for not signing up to talk-ie... I've been tidying up some islands off the Cork coast, which are tagged as outers in the county relation [0]. Cork county itself

Re: [OSM-talk] POI Viewer in distance

Hi all, I've been sharing my location with the website (Firefox 17, old version of Ubuntu) and still got the grey box. I zoomed out / in and got a map to display, but without any POIs. I scrolled to Jakarta and the map tiles and POIs worked as advertised. Could the grey screen be a rendering

Re: [OSM-talk] Explanation for image of the week 31?

Presumably a dig at the ongoing sporting event that can only be mentioned in name by corporate sponsors. Likewise London and 2012 are only to be officially used by those that have paid for the privilege. Attendees wearing shoes that aren't Adidas branded probably won't be asked to go barefoot

Re: [OSM-talk] Explanation for image of the week 31?

http://maps.stamen.com/#watercolor/10/51.4742/-0.1427 On 30 July 2012 17:41, Pavel Melnikov positro...@gmail.com wrote: The picture doesn't look like digital image at all. More like an aquarelle painting. On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 11:33 PM, Thomas Davie tom.da...@gmail.comwrote: On 30 Jul

Re: [OSM-talk] Very Happy - Looking forward

Vegard Engen mapped insert changeset comment here, near a place in the changeset. ? According to the wiki [0] that exists already: https://apps.facebook.com/osmpinboard/ I've not tried it, however, and get an error telling me that the app doesn't support https browsing - which I think is the

Re: [OSM-talk] API not responding

Is working fine for me at the moment (albeit 6 hours after you reported this). Cheers, Joseph On 24 June 2012 23:16, Maarten Deen md...@xs4all.nl wrote: Some 5 minutes ago the API stopped responding to queries. Soup and fiddlestick show a drop in the munin stats. Anyone able to check?

Re: [OSM-talk] Transcription and 'internationalization' in place names

We should really not follow the approach of making the map at www.openstreetmap.org perfect but instead the data behind it because that's where we're better than Google and Co. Agreed, but if we improve the rendering at osm.org, we should be able to highlight the issue that some users are

Re: [OSM-talk] Transcription and 'internationalization' in place names

...@lancaster.ac.ukwrote: On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 21:40:40 Joseph Reeves wrote: We should really not follow the approach of making the map at www.openstreetmap.org perfect but instead the data behind it because that's where we're better than Google and Co. Agreed, but if we improve the rendering

Re: [OSM-talk] Transcription and 'internationalization' in place names

Deen wrote: On 2012-04-16 14:15, Joseph Reeves wrote: As for Korea: Should we add name:ko=서울특별시? Otherwise, how do we know the Korean name for this city? It seems to me that adding name:ko is duplicating data. We should be using the local names for the name: tag, so the Korean

Re: [OSM-talk] Transcription and 'internationalization' in place names

Have you checked the data and history on the actual nodes? Often you're seeing the results of an edit war - the names keep changing but low zoom level tiles aren't updated often enough to keep up. Syria, Egypt, etc, suffer the same. Cheers, Joseph On 16 Apr 2012 20:03, Philip Barnes

Re: [OSM-talk] Transcription and internationalization in place names

Hi Claudius, list, Thanks for bringing this up as it is by far my favourite OSM issue; there can't be many examples of such widespread bad mapping practices. I've done remote mapping in the Middle East and North Africa which is the background I use to base my opinions on. I'm not aware of the

Re: [OSM-talk] Truth about media hype in Microsoft lending big support and big dollars to OSM ?

Presumably there's a cost of the bandwidth used and of maintaining the servers; running anything approaching a SLA is going to cost. Microsoft get access to the OSM data the same as anyone else, but they also get their images vectorised. I don't know if OSM data, or vector data from their

Re: [OSM-talk] iPhoto for iOS Not Using Google Maps

From the original I saw on your overlay, Les Madriles appears to be the German: http://gsp2.apple.com/tile?api=1style=slideshowlayers=defaultlang=de_DEz=7x=62y=48v=9 Swapping to en_US looks more familiar http://gsp2.apple.com/tile?api=1style=slideshowlayers=defaultlang=en_USz=7x=62y=48v=9

Re: [OSM-talk] FourSquare and OSM

... No idea what they actually meant though, could just be helping direct users to OSM, could be employing people to map stuff... who knows. Bob if (*ra4 != 0xffc78948) { return false; } On 5 Mar 2012, at 11:17, Joseph Reeves wrote: I think they're just using tiles for mapping background

Re: [OSM-talk] FourSquare and OSM

Or will the intermediary service provided by MapBox etc somehow protect them? MapQuest is updated minutely? So changes to the database are going to be felt by FourSquare, Nestoria, et al pretty immediately. This is pretty off topic, of course... Presumably the good folks behind the license

Re: [OSM-talk] [HOT] Bing high resolution coverage extended over Syria

Geofabrik are also providing hourly data extracts and Garmin files: https://twitter.com/#!/geofabrik/status/167888233416499200 I don't know how much of a ground concern mapping is, but this is a really good thing to see. Presumably Homs looks very different now compared to when those aerial

Re: [OSM-talk] Request for Romano-British features

Is this the sort of thing you had in mind (http://maps3.org.uk/tiles/historic_layers.html)? That looks great, thanks for sharing! Joseph On 15 January 2012 22:44, Graham Jones grahamjones...@gmail.com wrote: This requires a renderer / display set up that allows the use to select what

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM downtime as protest against SOPA?

Wikipedia, I imagine, has a large following of users that are unaware of SOPA; their blackout will introduce the issue to an enormous number of Internet users. I don't think an OSM blackout would have a similar effect. Many map nerds would no doubt be inconvenienced, however. Joseph

Re: [OSM-talk] Request for Romano-British features

the main thing that is missing from it is a list of 'cultures' or 'civilizations' that we can all use. In the UK at least there's a defined and well used list of periods provided by the Archaeology Data Service: http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/Imagebank/period.jsf In short, is something

Re: [OSM-talk] Major problem with the map

Hi, I was having similar issues this morning - fixed it by clearing my browser cache. Presumably the updates to the site (new layer options) included some behind the scenes changes that clash with anything you've got cached already. Anyway, a crtl + shift + r cleared it for me. Cheers, Joseph

Re: [OSM-talk] Installing your own tileserver on Ubuntu

try and find any database optimisations that might exist. Thanks again for all this, Cheers, Joseph On 18 October 2011 18:34, Kai Krueger kakrue...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/18/2011 10:48 AM, Joseph Reeves wrote: It is possible that one could catch the errors in slim mode and then only do

Re: [OSM-talk] Installing your own tileserver on Ubuntu

/2011 10:48 AM, Joseph Reeves wrote: It is possible that one could catch the errors in slim mode and then only do the expensive diff processing for those node / ways that are duplicate in the extracts. Interesting, although I think this is beyond the limits of my OSM skills. Yes, that comment

Re: [OSM-talk] Installing your own tileserver on Ubuntu

Hi Parveen, After the database import did you run sudo /etc/init.d/renderd restart ? Do that then visit the localhost location again, at which point you should be able to see the rendering begin. On my netbook I can run top to see renderd using 100%+ I've followed the instructions through and

Re: [OSM-talk] Installing your own tileserver on Ubuntu

hi Kai, Thanks a lot for this, it seems to be working well for me. I've got a question, although I accept that it might be a osm2pgsql query. I followed the instructions and imported Turkey into my db - this worked fine and I was happily rendering maps of the country. Since then I have used the

Re: [OSM-talk] Installing your own tileserver on Ubuntu

Ah, ok, so the -a flag should give me what I want. Apologies for the noise, I'll rtfm next time :) Cheers all, Joseph On 18 October 2011 15:26, Joseph Reeves iknowjos...@gmail.com wrote: hi Kai, Thanks a lot for this, it seems to be working well for me. I've got a question, although I

Re: [OSM-talk] Installing your own tileserver on Ubuntu

again, Joseph On 18 October 2011 16:06, Kai Krueger kakrue...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On 10/18/11 8:26 AM, Joseph Reeves wrote: hi Kai, Thanks a lot for this, it seems to be working well for me. I've got a question, although I accept that it might be a osm2pgsql query. I followed

Re: [OSM-talk] Installing your own tileserver on Ubuntu

nobody else is trying to get a number of European countries into a db on their netbook... Thanks again, Joseph On 18 October 2011 16:59, Kai Krueger kakrue...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/18/11 9:31 AM, Joseph Reeves wrote: Hi Kai, The pre-rendered tiles are stored in /var/lib/mod_tile/default

Re: [OSM-talk] GPX files upload to OSM problem

Hi Hameed, I've just downloaded one of your files and uploaded it without any trouble: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/IknowJoseph/traces/1082838 I then went to edit the area in Potlach: http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?lat=34.4116lon=70.488zoom=17 And clicked GPS Data - My Tracks. I

Re: [OSM-talk] Use of official names Re: shortened names

4. although the tag name is used by Mapnik and others, please don't fulfill the tag name for the renderers Likewise, my favourite annoyance tagging a place name with the English and the Arabic [1]: - *name*: Tripoli طرابلس Some might argue that this will render nicely for those of us who

Re: [OSM-talk] Use of official names Re: shortened names

for that. Cheers, Joseph On 28 July 2011 17:17, Stephan Knauss o...@stephans-server.de wrote: Joseph Reeves writes: Some might argue that this will render nicely for those of us who don't read Arabic, but it's completely wrong. The name:en tag exists for a reason - put the English in there and have

Re: [OSM-talk] shortened names

But that's just tagging for the renderer (or reader). If my sat nav can't pronounce st as saint I'd blame the software, not the data. On 27 Jul 2011 20:38, Steve Doerr doerr.step...@gmail.com wrote: On 27/07/2011 18:23, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: ...but the point is that here the name seems to

Re: [OSM-talk] shortened names

for a market (the UK, France, America, etc.) you should be able to work out these things yourself. Cheers, Joseph On 28 July 2011 00:55, Ian ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, July 27, 2011 3:04:13 PM UTC-5, Joseph Reeves wrote: But that's just tagging for the renderer (or reader). If my sat

Re: [OSM-talk] [HOT] Fw: Disaster Preparedness Project

OT, I know, but I would love to see the same thing available as Kindle friendly pdf (or native ebook format) download. I recently drove around France for a weekend wishing that my atlas was Open, offline and on my ebook reader. Cheers, Joseph On 7 June 2011 07:51, Samuel Mandell

Re: [OSM-talk] Three-dimensional aerial imagery

Basically, you put two images side by side, taken from slightly different angles. Look in the centre of the two images and defocus to a point beyond the page. Eventually you should see the image in full relief. I've not heard of this approach before, but Stereoscopes are still commonly used to

Re: [OSM-talk] Ipad and openstreetmap.org

Hi Floris, Have you tried khtml.org? There are others too, I think. Cheers, Joseph On 11 May 2011 13:06, Floris Looijesteijn o...@floris.nu wrote: Hey, I was wondering if anyone is working on Ipad support for openstreetmap.org? Otherwise I will start working on it myself... At the

Re: [OSM-talk] Some tiles not rendering?

You can, I believe, right click on a tile and do view image (in Firefox at least, it may be different in whatever browser you use). This brings up a URL such as: http://tile.openstreetmap.org/14/8149/5492.png add /dirty to the end: http://tile.openstreetmap.org/14/8149/5492.png/dirty Request

Re: [OSM-talk] We Need to Stop Google's Exploitation of Open Communities

Of course, its not about the license at all - if you appeal to fans of licenses you'll attract nobody. Google will take potential users by providing an awesome end product; the sort if thing everyone can appreciate. Make some awesome mapping products and you'll attract plenty of contributors and

Re: [OSM-talk] We Need to Stop Google's Exploitation of Open Communities

5. OSM is simply not successful enough in Africa to cover the tremendous opportunities presented in points 3 and 4. Lack of cheap Internet access on the African continent should take most of the blame. But it doesn't help that so many OSM apps are not available in Africa (Skobbler, ORS,

Re: [OSM-talk] odbl

No, just that your more likely to get an answer about the legal side of things in legal-talk. But this is the problem; the legal side of things is the central issue to OpenStreetMap at the moment. You can't simply try and sideline a difficult issue by describing it as legal. *Open*StreetMap is

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: collateral damage (was: What the license change is going to do to the map)

Regardless of what you believe, Google have said that they don't want their imagery traced into OSM and OSM have said that they don't want Google derived data in the database. You polluted the database with data nobody wants and now have been trolling the mailing lists ever since. That doesn't

Re: [OSM-talk] What the license change is going to do to the map

But that's got nothing to do with the licensing change - that's an issue of you ripping off Google Maps. Please everyone, lets not feed the troll. On 9 February 2011 17:26, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Al Haraka alhar...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 9, 2011

Re: [OSM-talk] We are Here --

We've got our example here: http://mapdata.thehumanjourney.net/office.php Cheers, Joseph On 6 January 2011 16:44, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote: Hi Does anyone have any good examples of static/slippy OSM maps that are used by companies on their websites? I've recently met a

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

OpenStreetMap is still a wiki though? So if I find a future travel destination missing from OSM, but covered by Bing, where's the harm in tracing it? In many parts of the world there is no such thing as local mappers and even if I did trace a load of crap into the database, anyone else can come

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

By the way, I don't think the intention is to suggest that it is not ok to trace an area and then visit it to correct errors and add detail. It is when you are not going to do that, it is frowned upon. I can understand why. I have cancelled a trip to survey some lonely country lanes after

Re: [OSM-talk] When satnavs go bad....

Just a guess: http://osm.org/go/0Cy6e0oD-- Joseph On 29 September 2010 15:52, Mike N. nice...@att.net wrote: You need to dial a helicopter to get you off the mountain http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1315762/White-van-man-airlifted-safety-satnav-sends-mountain.html  

Re: [OSM-talk] From the register

The app has made it to /. too: http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/09/28/235223/Almost-Satnav-For-Cycling We just need some comments now on the ease of contributing data to this fine project :-) On 28 September 2010 22:50, Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net wrote:

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM book in English published

I've not seen the book, but I have bought books before on subjects that were covered by free resources online. Books, I'm sure, are a good idea: 1: There is a lot of free stuff available out there on the Internet - a printed book, by an author or three, provides a handy reference to the most

Re: [OSM-talk] Is there an OSM on Android with hand gesture zoom?

gvSIG Mini Maps does it. On 14 September 2010 16:07, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote:  Hi I've had a look through most of the android list on the wiki http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Android for a map that uses pinch movements to zoom but most appear to use +/- to do it. Does

Re: [OSM-talk] iPad app

Any idea how to solve this problem? Put a touchpad on the back of the tablet: http://www.notionink.in/ I'm also told that Notion Ink will consider giving you a free Adam if you develop an app that needs testing on it. Android phones also outsell Apple powered handhelds at the moment; if tablets

Re: [OSM-talk] Death by a thousand nitpicks

Let's try not to subject OSM data users to death by a thousand self-appointed license nitpickers. Mapquest, Microsoft and now Nearmap; whenever anybody tries to do anything with OSM, there's always a license / attribution backlash. It's really sad, but hopefully largely ignored outside the world

Re: [OSM-talk] correcting/helping inexperienced mappers

- show them keepright.ipax.at And http://matt.dev.openstreetmap.org/dupe_nodes/ On 2 July 2010 12:41, Maarten Deen md...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Fri, 2 Jul 2010 07:30:11 -0400, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 12:07 AM, Robin Paulson robin.paul...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [OSM-talk] WolframAlpha uses OpenStreetMap data

It's somewhat discouraging, though, that *every time* anyone uses OSM, we instantly react with this: +1 It's really good to see OSM being used for something that isn't a pet project of someone in this community. It was great to go to WolframAlpha, type in my home town and see a map that I had

Re: [OSM-talk] lazyweb: what linux-based wifi gps phone would you recommend

ergonomic, and would eat the battery even quicker than normal, but it's possible. Again, without knowing what this phone is intended to be used for, we can't really say too much... Cheers, Joseph On 17 May 2010 17:56, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 17 May 2010 22:47, Joseph Reeves

Re: [OSM-talk] lazyweb: what linux-based wifi gps phone would you recommend

HTC Desire: if you want an iPhone without the ponce factor -or- Openmoko FreeRunner: if you want to run Debian on this Linux-based wifi gps phone. Cheers, Joseph On 17 May 2010 13:37, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi all, here is a question from one

Re: [OSM-talk] highway name render bug on map

Both look fine on mine. I'd guess it's a browser cache issue - if you're running firefox you should try pressing Control + F5 on any zoom levels that don't look right. That'll clear the cache and download the current tiles, like the rest of us see when we click your links. Cheers, Joseph On

Re: [OSM-talk] Cool 3D map of my home town

There's an OSM isometric view of the Czech Republic here: http://osm.kyblsoft.cz/3dmapa/?zoom=17lat=75.75078lon=14.31372layers=B Makes me feel all a bit Sim City... Cheers, Joseph On 5 April 2010 14:41, Valent Turkovic valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: This is not OpenStreetMap but it is

Re: [OSM-talk] Some guidelines on Africover data?

Great, thanks Grant, Good to see that my line of thinking was pretty much the same as yours; I just wanted to double check on consensus before inadvertently wrecking anything. Cheers, Joseph On 30 March 2010 13:25, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com wrote: Hi Joseph, I've been

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

-1 I'd rather see collaboration with www.wigle.net rather then adding Access Point information to the OSM DB. After looking at things like the Dupe Nodes map and KeepRight, I'm much more interested in cleaning up the existing dataset rather than adding new stuff to it, especially if there are

Re: [OSM-talk] Creating custom OSM sites using the Mapnik OSM plugin?

Hi Nick, I would be very interested in such an application, especially for generating custom tiles from an OSM file for use on mobile devices. Cheers, Joseph On 22 February 2010 12:43, Nick Whitelegg nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk wrote: Not sure if talk's the best place for this, rather than

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