Re: [OSM-talk] GPS Accuracy under Forest Canopy

2009-08-10 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Apollinaris Schoell ascho...@gmail.comwrote: Garmin calls it high sensitivity but thats marketing Maybe better than very old Garmin devices but much worse compared to a SiRF III I have a new Hcx and compared multiple times. Only 60, Oregon, Colorado use

Re: [OSM-talk] Something Might be Broken

2009-07-30 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Andrew Ayre a...@britishideas.com wrote: Take a look at this boundary where a forest and national park meet: http://osm.org/go/TwUljNo-- Notice that the boundaries don't line up. This is because the national park is in slightly the wrong place. The

Re: [OSM-talk] park barrier

2009-07-26 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 8:16 AM, John Smith delta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Sun, 26/7/09, ヴィカス ヤダワ (vikas yadav) mevi...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a park barrier like this: Like its made of metal, circular in shape, two perpendicular diagonals separator, rotates and prevents any

Re: [Talk-ca] [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Bicycle boulevards

2009-06-11 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: Karl Newman wrote: *Avoid duplicate copies of messages?* When you are listed explicitly in the To: or Cc: headers of a list message, you can opt to not receive another copy from the mailing list. Select /Yes

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Bicycle boulevards

2009-06-10 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: Karl Newman wrote: *Avoid duplicate copies of messages?* When you are listed explicitly in the To: or Cc: headers of a list message, you can opt to not receive another copy from the mailing list. Select /Yes

Re: [OSM-talk] Bicycle boulevards

2009-06-09 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: (Please don't CC me when replying; I get the list, and I don't need two copies (plus this defeats unsubscribing if someone later wants to leave the conversation). Please use your mailer's reply-to-list feature or check

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Bicycle boulevards

2009-06-09 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: (Please don't CC me when replying; I get the list, and I don't need two copies (plus this defeats unsubscribing if someone later wants to leave the conversation). Please use your mailer's reply-to-list feature or check

Re: [OSM-talk] How big of an SD card should I get for Openstreetmap work

2009-05-31 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 2:45 AM, Peter Herison pheri...@web.de wrote: Karl Newman wrote: Peter Herison wrote: Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote: AFAIK, the biggest microSD card that you can put into an eTrex is a 2 GB card (the bigger microSD-HC cards won't work). This is for firmware 2.80

Re: [OSM-talk] How big of an SD card should I get for Openstreetmap work

2009-05-30 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Peter Herison pheri...@web.de wrote: Iván Sánchez Ortega schrieb: AFAIK, the biggest microSD card that you can put into an eTrex is a 2 GB card (the bigger microSD-HC cards won't work). This is for firmware 2.80. With 3.00 you can use SD-Cards up to 4GB.

Re: [OSM-talk] Re verting Changes....

2009-05-18 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Russ Nelson r...@cloudmade.com wrote: Richard, I know that you don't have infinite resources to devote to Potlatch. But if you can't fix usability problems, then maybe the EDIT tab should go to a Webstart JOSM page? I'm not suggesting that we ban potlatch;

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM maps of Denmark for download to Garmin devices

2009-04-29 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 5:31 AM, Lambertus o...@na1400.info wrote: Maarten Deen wrote: Lambertus wrote: Maarten Deen wrote: Not to diminish your work on that front, but I find the tilelayout on your site very strange. Of course it is a work of the splitter, but I would opt for a manual

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] osmosis 0.30 problem...

2009-04-27 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 7:07 AM, Gary68 g...@gary68.de wrote: hi, i want to use the clipIncompleteEntities option for 0.6 data files. osmosis version is 0.30 i get: com.bretth.osmosis.core.OsmosisRuntimeException: Argument clipIncompleteEntities for task 2-bounding-box was not recognised.

Re: [OSM-talk] newbies Digest, Vol 26, Issue 15 - can't upload

2009-04-25 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 6:49 AM, Mike Harris mik...@googlemail.com wrote: I have raised a ticket for this but would appreciate any help so that I can make some progress ... I tackled API6 with JOSM for the first time today. My first attempt - a small edit - worked like a dream and the update

Re: [OSM-talk] osmosis Problem with bounding-polygon and v0.6?

2009-04-23 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Marco Lechner - FOSSGIS e.V. marco.lech...@fossgis.de wrote: hi karl, ./bin/osmosis --read-xml-0.6 file=path/planet-090421.osm.bz2 compressionMethod=bzip2 --bounding-polygon-0.6 file=path/aoi.pff --write-xml-0.6 file=path/aoi_2009-04-21_v06.osm gives

Re: [OSM-talk] best GPS for trekking

2009-04-19 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com wrote: One data point: my Garmin eTrex unit has recently broken the 'zoom in' button on the side - it broke off underneath the rubber bumper and started rattling around inside, so now the map display can be zoomed out but not in. I

Re: [OSM-talk] Removing home point cloud(s) from multiple GPX files

2009-04-17 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 12:21 PM, David Ebling dave_ebl...@yahoo.co.ukwrote: During the downtime I figured I should really catch up with cleaning up my huge backlog of GPX files and prepare them for upload. I have many many hours of tracks on my HDD that I have not uploaded because many of

Re: [OSM-talk] Removing home point cloud(s) from multiple GPX files

2009-04-17 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Hi, Karl Newman wrote: I want the same thing, and I looked into doing this with GPSBabel, too, and while it has the capability to filter points inside or outside a radius (or polygon, etc.), that function does

Re: [OSM-talk] best GPS for trekking

2009-04-16 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Lambertus o...@na1400.info wrote: Joe Richards wrote: I will be trekking in Nepal later this year, and would like to keep some nice GPX trails and waypoints (both on the trekking trails and in the towns/roads), since it looks relatively unmapped... I usually

Re: [OSM-talk] best GPS for trekking

2009-04-16 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Joe Richards joefis...@yahoo.com wrote: Well I'd like to collect lots of data, even if it involves me taking a pack of those 2GB SD cards that I keep switching every day or two... Obviously taking normal AA batteries is a plus, and I am thinking of getting one

Re: [OSM-talk] best GPS for trekking

2009-04-16 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Igor Brejc igor.br...@gmail.com wrote: Lambertus wrote: Igor Brejc wrote: I think 5 sec interval when walking is quite enough - realistically that's less than 7 m of distance between two points. The problem with Garmins (at least eTrex) is that they only

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=cyclefootway

2009-03-27 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 7:53 AM, Ed Loach e...@loach.me.uk wrote: So you're saying that highway=cycleway is not intended for ways which are for bicycles? What an ... interesting interpretation! I think mainly/exclusively may overstress the exclusively bit. I think generally if a bicycle

Re: [Talk-us] Bridges, nodes, and routing engines (Navit, Gosmore, etc)

2009-03-24 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 6:46 PM, Chris Lawrence lordsu...@gmail.com wrote: Now the question is: should I remove the shared nodes (or detach them in JOSM) Yes. The roads are not topologically connected at the shared node, so nuke it. Karl ___

Re: [OSM-talk] Run tilesAtHome client and only accept requests for a small bbox. Possible?

2009-03-19 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 7:44 AM, LeedsTracker leedstrac...@gmail.comwrote: 2009/3/19 Tal tal@gmail.com: Every time I change something in my local neighborhood, I have to wait an unknown period of time before it appears in the Osmarender layer. This is quite annoying. Just a reminder

Re: [Talk-us] GNIS Import Done

2009-03-13 Per discussione Karl Newman
While GNIS might not be perfectly accurate in geoposition, it is the authoritative set of geographic names for the US. It contains features that are on no other map or spatial database. Until now, anyway. ;-) Karl ___ Talk-us mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] Conflating Tracks?

2009-03-10 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 6:44 AM, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com wrote: Daniel A Carleton daniel.carleton at exaptic.com writes: Are any of you aware of a conflation algorithm that snaps GPS tracks to the street grid? This could be a useful way to verify existing road networks and fill in any

Re: [OSM-talk] Conflating Tracks - getting error margin from Garmin devices

2009-03-10 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com wrote: Karl Newman siliconfiend at gmail.com writes: Are any of you aware of a conflation algorithm that snaps GPS tracks to the street grid? This could be a useful way to verify existing road networks and fill in any gaps. To do

Re: [OSM-talk] Activity Level in My Area?

2009-03-10 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Daniel A Carleton daniel.carle...@exaptic.com wrote: Hello All, I'm trying to evaluate what street map dataset to go with for a web application. I appreciate the features in the OSM data that would otherwise go overlooked by big commercial products. e.g.

Re: [OSM-talk] amenity=doctor or amenity=doctors ? [tagging]

2009-02-23 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Mike Harris mik...@googlemail.com wrote: Ed I guessed it was a little t-i-c (:) but as it raised an issue I was interested in, I took the opportunity to post! You have returned the compliment! As what might be described as a footpath worker (and getting

Re: [Talk-us] National Forest Boundaries

2009-02-19 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Theodore Book tb...@libero.it wrote: I have put the various proposals on the wiki at: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/US_Forest_Service_Data It seems like the landuse=forest tag has a fair amount of consensus, but that we are not yet sure how to tag the

Re: [OSM-talk] usercases for josm outside osm

2009-02-02 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Kim Hawtin kim.haw...@adelaide.edu.auwrote: hi maning, maning sambale wrote: JOSM is an excellent data editing tool (hey I also love potlatch!). Many of of its features I would love integrated in some FOSS GIS editing toolbox. That being said, are there

Re: [OSM-talk] Osmosis running forever with completeWays=yes?

2009-02-01 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Hi, (f'up set to osmosis-dev) Karl Newman wrote: Anyway, the tee can choke things up with all the temporary files. It would be nice to be able to share the stored node and ways files between tee tasks, but I

Re: [OSM-talk] How do I take a screenshot on the Garmin 60CSx?

2009-01-15 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 7:13 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ava...@gmail.comwrote: 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

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM on Garmin - raster tiles?

2009-01-06 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Gervase Markham gerv-gm...@gerv.net wrote: When I heard about the possibility of OSM on Garmin, I imagined something like the Mapnik Slippy Map on my GPS screen. Now I have a Legend HCx, it turns out that I get the Garmin vector rendering with OSM data behind

Re: [OSM-talk] US borders, watch out!

2009-01-05 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Juan Lucas Dominguez Rubio jldoming...@prodevelop.es wrote: Hi list, If someone is mapping the US national borders... forget it! Within a few weeks, the US will look like this: http://s.wsj.net/public/resources/images/P1-AO116_RUSPRO_NS_20081228191715.gif

Re: [Talk-us] US Route Tagging With Relations

2008-12-24 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 1:44 PM, Zeke Farwell ezeki...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah we're getting a little ahead of ourselves with the shields. The first step is tagging the highways in a standard scheme which would give a renderer sufficient data to draw shields. Then someone has to actually

Re: [OSM-talk] Rendering of Place Names in Mapnik

2008-12-18 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 12:57 AM, Pieren pier...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 1:37 AM, Karl Newman siliconfi...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe we need a tag for cultural value :-P Or use the admin_level tag. Pieren That wouldn't work in this case, because as the OP mentioned, San

Re: [OSM-talk] Rendering of Place Names in Mapnik

2008-12-18 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 6:37 AM, Adam Killian vi...@bonius.com wrote: Karl Newman wrote: That wouldn't work in this case, because as the OP mentioned, San Jose and San Francisco have equal admin_level rankings (county seat) and San Jose is larger in both area and population. As an aside

Re: [OSM-talk] Rendering of Place Names in Mapnik

2008-12-18 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 7:29 AM, Iván Sánchez Ortega i...@sanchezortega.eswrote: El Jueves, 18 de Diciembre de 2008, Karl Newman escribió: Maybe we need a tag for cultural value :-P Or use the admin_level tag. That wouldn't work in this case, because as the OP mentioned, San Jose

Re: [OSM-talk] Rendering of Place Names in Mapnik

2008-12-18 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 7:59 AM, Pieren pier...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Iván Sánchez Ortega i...@sanchezortega.es wrote: El Jueves, 18 de Diciembre de 2008, Karl Newman escribió: Maybe we need a tag for cultural value :-P Or use the admin_level tag. So

Re: [OSM-talk] Rendering of Place Names in Mapnik

2008-12-18 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 8:12 AM, Gustav Foseid gust...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 1:37 AM, Karl Newman siliconfi...@gmail.comwrote: That's the sort of thing automated renderers have difficulty sorting out. Maybe we need a tag for cultural value :-P (I would hazard a guess

Re: [OSM-talk] Rendering of Place Names in Mapnik

2008-12-18 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 8:43 AM, Gustav Foseid gust...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 5:24 PM, Karl Newman siliconfi...@gmail.comwrote: You're still missing the point about San Jose--it's larger in both area and population (and probably in economic activity as well), and is located

Re: [OSM-talk] Rendering of Place Names in Mapnik

2008-12-18 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 9:05 AM, Gustav Foseid gust...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 5:58 PM, Karl Newman siliconfi...@gmail.comwrote: Sure it is. If a lot of people want to live in a place, in general that should make it more notable. Besides, I was only suggesting using

Re: [OSM-talk] New mass imports over existing data

2008-12-18 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 6:16 PM, Beej Jorgensen b...@beej.us wrote: Hey all, This is sort of a general question with a specific example, namely, Marin County. Marin County (just north of the Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco, California) already exists in OSM. It's made of bad TIGER

Re: [OSM-talk] Rendering of Place Names in Mapnik

2008-12-17 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Scott Atwood scott.roy.atw...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Karl Newman siliconfi...@gmail.comwrote: I looked a bit at the osm.xml file for Mapnik. It currently orders them by the place tag hierarchy (city, town, suburb, village, hamlet

Re: [OSM-talk] Viking vs. GMaps

2008-12-13 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Iván Sánchez Ortega i...@sanchezortega.eswrote: Hi all, It has come to my attention that Viking (that piece of software some of us use to see and manage our GPX tracks) has been banned from using Google Maps as a map background:

Re: [OSM-talk] Unification of OpenStreetBugs an Trac

2008-11-26 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 9:38 AM, John07 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marc Schütz schrieb: Am Mittwoch 26 November 2008 17:56:15 schrieb Steffen Vogel: As a user and mapper of OpenStreetMap, I often use OpenStreetBugs. Unfortunatly this project is quity poor in features like: - email

Re: [OSM-talk] Recommendations for a new GPS Device?

2008-11-12 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Johann H. Addicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Someone is bound to say eTrex Legend HCx so let me be the first. Don't do that. I own one and can definitly say: The receiver is VERY crappy in terms of accuracy. As i use this device (Vista HCx) for geocaching,

Re: [OSM-talk] barrier=gate

2008-11-09 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Nic Roets [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 8:12 PM, Karl Newman [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: This is one of the major problems with the OSM community. Someone proposes or just starts using a particular tagging scheme which has some flaws. When

Re: [OSM-talk] barrier=gate

2008-11-09 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 11:14 AM, Dave Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 6:12 PM, Karl Newman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 2:24 AM, Dave Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Nic Roets [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According

Re: [OSM-talk] barrier=gate

2008-11-09 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 2:24 AM, Dave Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Nic Roets [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to the wiki redirects, barrier=gate is replacing highway=gate. According to tagwatch, the latter is 10 times more popular than the former. Yes,

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=track and motorcar=yes/no

2008-11-08 Per discussione Karl Newman
/Maxspeed Exactly ! Great job. My point is that: - such tables should be grouped in a way that software applications could easily parse the data into their configuration; On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 5:43 PM, Karl Newman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Because using borders to locate entities within

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=track and motorcar=yes/no

2008-11-07 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 8:00 AM, Pieren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 4:30 PM, sylvain letuffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: highway=pedestrian ; bicycle=yes/no = see [[Country specific default values]] Well, the wiki page didn't exist - it was just an idea/suggestion ...

Re: [OSM-talk] footway vs. path [Was: highway=track and motorcar=yes/no]

2008-11-06 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Thomas Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: 2008/11/6 Rainer Dorsch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Am Mittwoch, 5. November 2008 schrieb Alex Mauer: Rainer Dorsch wrote: I am wondering what is the difference between footway and path? sac_scale on

Re: [Talk-us] Weird Osmosis/ROMA/pgsql issue

2008-11-06 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Milenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, I've been trying to get a local ROMA server working and I've run into an issue with getting osmosis working. I've patched osmosis as per the instructions on the wiki

Re: [Talk-us] Weird Osmosis/ROMA/pgsql issue

2008-11-06 Per discussione Karl Newman
in. -Jeremy *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Karl Newman *Sent:* Thursday, November 06, 2008 1:16 PM *To:* Milenko *Cc:* talk-us@openstreetmap.org *Subject:* Re: [Talk-us] Weird Osmosis/ROMA/pgsql issue On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Milenko

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposed Relations

2008-11-05 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 3:38 PM, Frederik Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. Make sure the big three editors support ordering. Nobody will notice, nobody has to change what he does. Also, try and get Osmosis and the various mirror services (ROMA, XAPI) to support ordered relations. I can

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposed Relations

2008-11-03 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Frederik Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Shaun McDonald wrote: Relations are unordered. You could load the relation and all the ways referenced by it, then check to see if each way has another way that has the same start and end nodes, through a process

Re: [Talk-us] labels for roads with or without sidewalks

2008-11-02 Per discussione Karl Newman
If you try sidewalk:left=true, it might work. I know someone put some work into automatically switching tags on way reversal, but I'm not sure if it went into a plugin or the core. Karl On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 5:33 PM, Dale Puch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quick test of JOSM = nope I tried

Re: [OSM-talk] hospital with emergency=yes/no

2008-10-28 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Frederik Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, there was a proposal on the Wiki about two years ago about a possible extra tag emergency for hospitals, to signal whether they have an AE (or ER, U.S.) facility. The proposal was voted through at the time but

Re: [Talk-us] Tiger 2007 Data

2008-10-28 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 7:12 AM, Nick Hocking [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Well, #2 would be nice but it would be tricky to detect a collision with an existing way. Frankly, because the first TIGER import was done, the number of completely new ways that would be added in a new import would be

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Tiger 2007 Data

2008-10-19 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Dave Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone looked at importing the TIGER 2007 data yet? I was going to start coding up the conversion utilities to get started. It appears that this shapefile format may have existing OSM converters out there. Anyone

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Tiger 2007 Data

2008-10-19 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 11:14 AM, Dave Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 11:10 -0700, Karl Newman wrote: On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Dave Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone looked at importing the TIGER 2007 data yet? I was going

Re: [Talk-us] Tiger 2007 Data

2008-10-19 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 11:14 AM, Dave Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 11:10 -0700, Karl Newman wrote: On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Dave Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone looked at importing the TIGER 2007 data yet? I was going

Re: [OSM-talk] Yet another street number scheme

2008-10-16 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Andy Allan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 6:28 AM, Karl Newman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just to reiterate my perspective, the Karlsruhe schema is fine for what it is, but it's not sufficient for all uses. Perhaps not natively, but I

Re: [OSM-talk] Yet another street number scheme

2008-10-15 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:36 PM, Frederik Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Karl Newman wrote: No, that would be tagging for actually being able to use the data. Without the odd/even/both information, it's actually a loss of data. Sounds quite strange to me. Any interpolation rule

Re: [OSM-talk] Yet another street number scheme

2008-10-14 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 5:41 PM, Frederik Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip As for the efficiency in storage, I suggest you take the long-term view: I am 100% sure that at some point in the future, OSM will have at least one node for every house, more likely a building outline for every

Re: [OSM-talk] Yet another street number scheme

2008-10-14 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 9:17 AM, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Karl Newman wrote: Sent: 14 October 2008 4:59 PM To: Frederik Ramm Cc: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Yet another street number scheme On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 5:41 PM, Frederik Ramm

Re: [OSM-talk] Map Features, maxspeed and maplint

2008-10-14 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Tristan Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If this catches on not only do we have a well-defined and easily-processed value for speed to use in all manner of things, we also have a template for defining other data types (bridge height? maxweight?) which might (or

Re: [OSM-talk] lanes

2008-10-12 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 9:13 AM, Gervase Markham [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: graham wrote: - Say I have a bus lane (or cycle lane) running along one side of a two-way road (the most common situation where I am). Just attaching a 'left' tag to it makes it dependent on nobody ever reversing

Re: [Talk-us] NHD status?

2008-10-02 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 7:57 AM, Ian Dees [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Doug Morrison-Cleary [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Nooo. I live in northern MN and all we have around here are lakes! I really want them in yesterday grin. Please :-) Ok I suppose I should have

Re: [OSM-talk] clean gpx tracks

2008-09-25 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 5:35 AM, Lambert Carsten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I tried to upload a couple of gpx tracks that I had cleaned up with Josm. They were refused with a message that seems to suggest thy are missing time stamps (possibly missing altitude). Why does openstreetmap

Re: [OSM-talk] clean gpx tracks

2008-09-25 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 8:45 AM, Lambert Carsten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 25 September 2008 17:21:59 Richard Fairhurst wrote: Lambert Carsten wrote: This decision needs more thought. Although I personally don't have a privacy issue here there are clearly those that do

Re: [Talk-us] US GPS Set for Mapping Parties

2008-09-25 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Adam Schreiber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Ian Dees [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Adam Schreiber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Ian Dees [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On

Re: [OSM-talk] Using CDN for Tiles

2008-09-22 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 10:43 AM, Kyle Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Dirk-Lüder Kreie wrote: Ian Dees schrieb: Hi list, Just saw this pop up in my RSS reader: http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2008/09/were-never-cont.html Maybe we could throw the Mapnik tiles up on Amazon's content

Re: [OSM-talk] Using CDN for Tiles

2008-09-22 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Ian Dees [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Karl Newman [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Cons: It's never, ever worked for me, across different computers and networks... I have no idea why. It does some DNS magic that seems to be unstable

Re: [OSM-talk] Large Hadron Collider at CERN now in OppenStreetMap

2008-09-10 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 1:57 AM, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Its not perfectly positioned and I think the circumference is a tad short but I made a reasonably good insert of the CERN LHC (and SPS) into the database last night in time for the first full circle

Re: [OSM-talk] amenity=vending_machine AND amenity=post_box: what about?

2008-09-08 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 10:53 PM, Norbert Wenzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shaun McDonald wrote: The problem with this is that none of the editors support having duplicate key values, even so the 0.5 API supports it. The 0.6 API will not support duplicate key values. I think the support

Re: [OSM-talk] amenity=vending_machine AND amenity=post_box: what about?

2008-09-08 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Norbert Wenzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Karl Newman wrote: Just make two different nodes, each located closest to the amenity concerned. There's nothing that makes it non-routable. It's just a point--the routers will get you as close to the point on the road

Re: [OSM-talk] [tech/API] Accessing tags set by a user for traces

2008-08-29 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 5:48 PM, robin paulson [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote: Scale wise we have about 250,000 tag records currently, and even if you remove the duplicates there are about 40,000 or so. I don't think people are going to want to download 40,000 tags even

Re: [OSM-talk] [tech/API] Accessing tags set by a user for traces

2008-08-28 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Tom Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guilhem Bonnefille wrote: I'm working on Viking[1], a GPS desktop application with OSM related features. In order to assist user when uploading its traces to OSM, I wish to contact OSM, retrieve the previously used

Re: [OSM-talk] mkgmap questions

2008-08-27 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 10:02 PM, Simon Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I made some really good progress last week and got a map together for the Crowsnest Pass. Unfortunately for the area I chose with a fair number of contours the map redraw was quite slow. I have worked out how to

Re: [OSM-talk] mkgmap questions

2008-08-27 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 3:48 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What version of Osmosis are you using, because I added that feature (writing of the bound element) a while ago, so it should work if your input file has a bound element. Hi Karl, I am use 'osmosis-latest'/version 0.29

Re: [OSM-talk] Left and Right?

2008-08-26 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 1:30 AM, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Morley wrote: Sent: 24 August 2008 8:51 PM Cc: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Left and Right? Karl Newman wrote: On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Rory McCann [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [OSM-talk] Left and Right?

2008-08-25 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Mark Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 robin paulson wrote: Rory McCann wrote: Gervase Markham wrote: What's current tagging best practice with things which are to the left or the right of a way (e.g. bus

Re: [Talk-us] Importing campsite in Oregon

2008-08-25 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 8:07 AM, Tom Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm going to be camping in Oregon in a week. OSM didn't seem to include any campsites in that area so I downloaded positions from the USFS and a private operator and imported them using ogr2ogr, gpsbabel and josm. The USFS

Re: [Talk-us] Importing campsite in Oregon

2008-08-25 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Tom Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 8:51 AM, Richard Weait [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 08:07 -0700, Tom Brown wrote: I'm going to be camping in Oregon in a week. OSM didn't seem to include any campsites in that

Re: [OSM-talk] Left and Right?

2008-08-24 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Rory McCann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gervase Markham wrote: What's current tagging best practice with things which are to the left or the right of a way (e.g. bus stops)? A nearly-approved proposal for a canal-side object has been objected to by someone

Re: [OSM-talk] superways as relations ?

2008-08-18 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 9:00 AM, Robert (Jamie) Munro [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Earl wrote: On 04/08/2008 11:14, vegard wrote: For naming of streets in cities, where properties change very often and you have to make many small ways, it

Re: [OSM-talk] superways as relations ?

2008-08-13 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 1:58 PM, Matthias Julius [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Karl Newman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 2:11 PM, Matthias Julius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Karl Newman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sounds like you're looking for this: http

Re: [Talk-us] Bicycle facility tags (Class III bike route)

2008-08-12 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 4:11 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: How do we mark and tag Class II and Class III bike facilities? (I'm not sure if Class I, II, and III is a California specific designation, or if this is the standard terminology throughout the US) Class I is the

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM on Ubuntu UK podcast

2008-08-08 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 11:14 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 05 August 2008 13:30:24 you wrote: On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 2:15 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's a page on the wiki devoted to this[1], someone me produces a map for the UK[2]

Re: [OSM-talk] superways as relations ?

2008-08-07 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 2:11 PM, Matthias Julius [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Karl Newman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sounds like you're looking for this: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Relations/Proposed/Segmented_Tag This can not cross way boundaries. If someone splits that way

Re: [OSM-talk] House numbers... One more suggestion

2008-07-29 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 4:06 AM, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip The reason I don't like ideas like this is that the data you are adding to the way (or as Frederik pointed out possibly also the intersections) is not actually anything to do with the physical

Re: [OSM-talk] House numbers... One more suggestion

2008-07-29 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Jochen Topf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 10:16:33AM -0700, Karl Newman wrote: To be clear, I don't have a problem with tagging the actual location of the house or building. I think it's unnecessary, but the problem I have

Re: [OSM-talk] A Swedish national server for OSM

2008-07-29 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Dave Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 7:57 PM, Inge Wallin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the rather large thread Actually using OpenStreetMap and the usability of the current maps I got to understand a few things that I didn't grasp

Re: [OSM-talk] Names, split streets and relations

2008-07-28 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 2:32 AM, Dave Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 6:23 AM, Karl Newman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 12:55 AM, Gervase Markham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Karl Newman wrote: I think the obvious thing is to quit splitting ways

Re: [OSM-talk] House numbers... One more suggestion

2008-07-28 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Charlie Echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: If things are clear, and if there is a consensus about using this Karlsruhe schema, let's have a vote on it. This will make things easier: we would then have a clean situation. This would enable people to enter the data.

Re: [OSM-talk] Names, split streets and relations

2008-07-27 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Gervase Markham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a situation (which I suspect is very common) where a street is split into e.g. 3 ways, because the middle one is part of a bus route or other relation. If you label all three ways with name=Foo Street, you get

Re: [OSM-talk] Names, split streets and relations

2008-07-27 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 12:55 AM, Gervase Markham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Karl Newman wrote: I think the obvious thing is to quit splitting ways just because there's a bridge or the speed limit changed... IMHO, the only reason to split ways is if the name changes or if the major type

Re: [Talk-us] Clark County, Nevada Street Center Line data

2008-07-25 Per discussione Karl Newman
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Joseph Scanlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Ian Dees wrote: make sure that the data is better than the data that was already imported from TIGER. The data is quite good and gets updated weekly. So... I don't want to treat this as a one

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