On 7/2/2011 9:00 AM, Jakub wrote:
According to this reation:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/7888 Czech republic (and
many more countres) is not in Europe. Or am I missing something?
I don't see Germany or France either!
I tried to build a geospatial hierarchy out of
On 6/21/2011 4:20 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote:
We have a specalist mailing list, legal-talk, to discuss these matters.
However, in this particular question you are unlikely to find a firm
answer, given that the question whether temporary files constitute a
proper manifestation of data or are
On 11/30/2010 7:16 AM, Donald Campbell II wrote:
Now there's probably several huge reasons the concept wouldn't work
with the planet.osm file, I don't know a thing about it's internal
organization so I can't say...
But perhaps there's some amount of data locality that can be exploited
to
On 11/26/2010 11:31 PM, Toby Murray wrote:
I think you are seeing the problem with java's built in bzip2 library.
It doesn't support all bzip2 features. Try unzipping the planet file
using an external program and piping it into osmosis. Like this
(assuming you are on linux):
bunzip2
On 10/20/2010 12:13 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
Maybe we could work around this by automatically changing the link for
the stored tiles? This would also harm friendly projects with small
tile-download-rates though. If it is technically possible to identify
this application they could also be
On 10/14/2010 8:07 AM, Milo van der Linden wrote:
Dear 41latitude,
I came accross your blog on critique of OpenStreetMap.
http://www.41latitude.com/post/1310985699/openstreetmap-critique and
read it with interest. Some points are true, others need better
explaination and I think you
On 10/14/2010 12:52 PM, Mike N. wrote:
And along those lines, based on the constructive criticism, the
default map shown on the main OSM page should be a pretty map, using
tiles from Mapquest, while mappers that have a need to view more
details can select one of the existing map styles.
On 10/6/2010 6:19 PM, Brendan Morley wrote:
It will be good to check for sure. Certainly in my CommonMap project
it's a different story, I'm using Apache httpd as the web server. Out
of the box httpd logs IP addresses in the access_log. I think OSM is
also using Apache httpd now as well.
I was just looking at Amsterdam's Vondelpark in OSM (one of my
favorite places anywhere),
http://ookaboo.com/o/pictures/topic/371522/Vondelpark
and noticed that OSM has very detailed differentiation between bike and
pedestrian paths in the park, something that Google doesn't have.
[Check
I just switched my site at
http://ookaboo.com/
to use the CloudMade API instead of OpenLayers... All I can say is
Wow!... It seems to me that the performance of the CloudMade API is
as good or better than Google's Map API. And the ability to choose a
large range of tilesets is really
Just for the heck of it, I've been thinking about hosting OSM
tilesets on AMZN's Cloudfront and I'd like to estimate what the cost
would be. What is the current size of the OSM tilesets and how much
bandwidth gets used by them?
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I just recently pointed my nooscope at places outside the U.S. and
was quite amused to see arabic letters in the tile maps around Tunis...
http://ookaboo.com/o/pictures/topic/82500/Tunis
Looking around a bit more I find Japanese writing w/ Romanized text
around Tokyo
M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote:
2010/6/23 Anthony o...@inbox.org:
The alternative would be to have three different ways.
Neither solution is particularly nice, though. I'm actually hoping someone
will come up with something better :).
use three ways and connect them with area
Liz wrote:
Firstly I don't agree with your assessment.
Secondly, how will this assist with tagging streets unsuitable for cycling?
The only kind of street that is unsuitable for cycling is a street
on which it is illegal to ride bicycles (regardless of safety.) A
certain individual
As a response to a proposal to add perceived safety information to
OSM (which may or may not be accurate) I was thinking last night about
what kind of safety information would be useful and correct.
The county I'm in has a GIS system in which they put red dots for
every accident that
Toby Murray wrote:
Someone in my area is starting up a new website that is focused on
cycling in the city. They have decided to use OSM as their map which
is awesome.
Streets are not dangerous to bicyclists; ~intersections~ are
dangerous to bicyclists.
When bicyclists modify their
Hi, I'm trying to construct a 'spatial control' structure for the
Earth that's entirely based on CC-BY and CC-BY-SA compatible data.
Something I'm looking at right now is creating a complete set of
country boundaries and second-level administrative divisions.
(Third-level might be
Anthony wrote:
The actual areas are basically only useful for reverse geocoding
(click a spot on the map and get the postal code). But whether or not
that's even possible is highly dependent on whether or not the post
office provides such information. For some post offices, such
Hi, I'm using the OSM slippy maps on a site of mine and I'm
starting to think about loading time and reliability.
Even though my site is graphically intensive, I find that OSM tiles
are usually the last to load. I'm thinking about using mod_cache or
something similar to cache the
Hello,
We just launched a new site at
http://ny-pictures.com/nyc/photo/
which is based on data from dbpedia and freebase and uses
openstreetmaps for mapping.
Behind it all is a 'semantic GIS' engine that combines the ability
to represent traditional GIS with the ability to make
Igor Brejc wrote:
I have to agree with Nop, up to a point. OSM is a great project and I
invest a lot of my free time in it, but I still think it has a lot of
failure points. The first time I wanted to use OSM data for a
professional job, the data simply failed me. And I'm only talking
Maybe I've missed it but is there any page that's easily accessable
to OSM outsiders about the Haiti mapping efforts? This page is full of
info but intimidating:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti#Mapping_the_earthquake_area
I'd really like to see something that
My major concern with a license change is compatibility with
CC-BY-SA sources such as dbpedia, wikipedia, etc.
So far as I'm concerned, dbpedia and freebase are the core of a
linked data space that assigns taxonomic identifiers to (most) things
that exist, and will really be
John F. Eldredge wrote:
The GPS in my car is a Garmin (I don't recall the exact model at the moment).
It appears to be much more accurate when the car is in motion than when the
car is stationary. If I power the GPS up with the car stationary, the
location given can be inaccurate by 100
Dave F. wrote:
Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote:
(Which is a pretty stupid thing, given that tourists ought to know all the
local web portals when preparing a trip, instead of going to e.g. OSM or
Wikitravel)
I dunno. That kind of site is usually a site for sore eyes. If
they've got
bernhard wrote:
Hi all
I would like to build an OSM printed paper globe.
It should be made out of 2 sheets of A3 paper - A3 (297mm × 420mm) is
the maximum size the color printer is able to handle.
The globe will be a Dodecahedron
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodecahedron
This
John Smith wrote:
The cost of a home made Geiger counter is about $100-200 in parts, and if you
combine that with a gps logger you could log points combined with the rads,
chances are you will end up with areas of the same values.
Cheap radiation measurement tools suck. A homemade
Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
no, we shouldn't. But what's so strange about the desire to tag
nuclear installations? Why not tag all chemical plants? There is a lot
of benefit in mapping not just industrial but also the type of
industry, be it chemical, automotive, steel, clothing or whatever.
Stephen Hope wrote:
I've done some rain-forest hiking, and I've noticed similar results.
If you really want to see some wandering tracks, try hiking along the
base of some cliffs, in dense forest.
I have noticed that the errors do seems to be less the faster I'm
moving. If I stand in one
Nic Roets wrote:
Many scientific labs and hospitals work with radio active materials
within an appropriate legal and enforcement framework. That may
include placing of signs at the perimeter of the premises. In those
cases we should tag it.
But people have an irrational fear of
Arlindo Pereira wrote:
I strongly disagree with you on this point. If I could use Google Maps
to find plumbers, dentists and web designers, why shouldn't I be able
to do it with OpenStreetMap? Perhaps not on Garmin, but on OSM.org or
OpenStreetBrowser or whatever application that uses OSM
The other day my family was on a road trip and we passed by an
unfamilliar city. We wanted to find a chinese restaurant, so I used
the database of business locations in City Navigator NT to find one.
OSM could replace, perhaps even surpass, the street maps in a
product like City
Phil Endecott wrote:
I'm not sure how far you can extrapolate from that, but I think it's
still fair to say that Yellow Pages covers most businesses. Certainly
the copies that arrive on my doorstep each year (and go straight into
the recycling bin) are not getting any thinner.
Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
Ævar, thanks for taking point on this... These sort of licensing
issues are an annoying, but necessary part of our work and not
everyone has the stomach for it. I myself have run into the issue
locally... There's nearby county that has very high resolution aerial
images
I was annoyed to discover that saved tracks on my eTrex Vista HCx
don't have timestamps. I did some experimenting and discovered that I
need to use the ACTIVE LOG if I want timestamps and control over the
tracks. Funny enough, I didn't find this in the manual or online, so
I wrote
I just got a Garmin Etrex Vista HCx that I'd like to use for viewing
Openstreetmaps and for creating tracks I can upload. I'm about to buy
an SD card for this: how big of a card do I need to hold Openstreetmaps?
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Marcus Wolschon wrote:
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Florian Lohoff f...@rfc822.org wrote:
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 11:28:16AM -0400, Russ Nelson wrote:
All the world is not Germany (echoing All the world's not a VAX,
but I date myself).
Reminds me of the time that I
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