Re: [Talk-ca] data replacement north east mississauga

2011-12-11 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 11:03 PM, Steve Singer ssinger...@sympatico.ca wrote: On Sun, 11 Dec 2011, Richard Weait wrote: On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 9:34 PM, Steve Singer ssinger...@sympatico.ca wrote: The wiki will give some guidance on how to clean tainted objects. http

[OSM-talk] Guess the top 20 languages in OSM?

2011-12-08 Per discussione Richard Weait
Dear All, Can you guess the top 20 languages used by OSM contributors? If you can help the Communication Working Group to communicate with readers of those languages by translating, let us know. We seek translators for ongoing work on the OSMF blog, and a short term translation task for the

Re: [Talk-ca] Copyright violation?

2011-12-06 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 8:07 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Andrew MacKinnon andrew...@gmail.com wrote: Just noticed that user:postmaster added some data from source city of hamilton property map [ ... ] Thank you, Andrew.  I've sent a note to the new

[Talk-ca] Milton, Ontario Canvec 8

2011-12-05 Per discussione Richard Weait
Hi all, I'm having a look at Milton, where a decliner imported a single canvec tile 30M12.0.1. It appears to be just the non-road features; mostly water and woods, so far. I'm planning to replace the canvec6 tile with canvec8 later tonight or tomorrow. This means removing canvec6, which appears

Re: [Talk-ca] Copyright violation?

2011-12-05 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Andrew MacKinnon andrew...@gmail.com wrote: Just noticed that user:postmaster added some data from source city of hamilton property map http://map.hamilton.ca/InteractiveMaps/framesetup.asp;, obviously a newbie.

Re: [Talk-us] One click quality printed maps (as an OSM advantage)

2011-12-05 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 1:16 AM, Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com wrote: There's something OSM could do well, that Google Maps can't, due to licensing restrictions: create good printable maps.  Google and Mapquest both are pretty bad. The high volume use cases: * Printing a map for take

Re: [Talk-ca] Server Slow?

2011-12-03 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Adam Dunn dunna...@gmail.com wrote: I've been trying to work on Great Slave Lake over the past couple months, but it's becoming quite frustrating trying to work with the OSM server. I'm currently trying to upload a changeset that has 19 objects to modify. It's

Re: [talk-au] Thoughts on co-ordinating re-mapping

2011-12-02 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 1:17 PM, SomeoneElse li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk wrote: On 02/12/2011 04:47, El Segundo Can't win wrote: There are two types of re-mapping - on the ground re-mapping, and desktop re-mapping. There's also arguably a third - re-adding edits lost as a result of removal

[Talk-ca] import complaints

2011-12-02 Per discussione Richard Weait
dear all, I've heard some LOUD complaints about imports in Canada. Please be sure to follow the import guidelines, including special import accounts, and please be sure to check your work and fix errors. Latest issue appears to be a large broken water polygon. Best regards, Richard

Re: [Talk-ca] import complaints

2011-12-02 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Connors, Bernie (SNB) bernie.conn...@snb.ca wrote: Richard,        Do you have a link to Import Guidelines that are specific to Canvec data? Sure. All imports should comply with the OSM import guidelines. My preference is that we do not import at all. We

Re: [Talk-ca] Toronto area OSM Mappy Hour / Open house

2011-12-02 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 4:25 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: Hi All, OSM contributors are welcome to join us for an Open house / Mappy Hour on Saturday 10 December 2011. [ ... ] http://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Toronto/events/42176392/ I want to make this really clear. If you

Re: [talk-au] Where did the town go?

2011-12-01 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 8:48 AM, John Henderson snow...@gmx.com wrote: I saw the same relationship with Firefishy (from South Africa) and went to bed puzzling about the coincidence.  Firefishy was adding in a little data within minutes of cc-cleaner's massive deletes. I woke up a couple of

Re: [talk-au] A way to go and missing towns

2011-12-01 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 9:09 PM, El Segundo Can't win el_segundo_cant_...@yahoo.com.au wrote: Late to the conversation but.. First up, from people have said, what cc-cleaner is doing is shocking vandalism, whether they intend it or not. I'm disappointed by deletions without remapping. One

Re: [talk-au] Maxspeed bots

2011-12-01 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 9:29 PM, Nick Hocking nick.hock...@gmail.com wrote: Richard, I don't believe that it is possible to start remapping in Australia until the maxspeed bots are removed (from the database and also all histories) without affecting any other edits to those ways. Or

Re: [OSM-talk] Map bug reports received from Navmii / Navfree app

2011-11-30 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Graham Stewart (GrahamS) gra...@dalmuti.net wrote: Navfree is a free sat-nav app for iPhone and Android, which uses maps based on OSM data (with suitable attribution). The app features a tool for reporting mapping errors, similar to the one in skobbler. The

Re: [talk-au] [OpenStreetMap] intersections

2011-11-29 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 12:47 AM, Ben Johnson tangarar...@gmail.com wrote: [ ... ] Recently I read a suggestion for zoom hinting tags to assist / override renderers in deciding whether certain elements should be visible at certain zoom levels.  Adopting an assisted rendering approach to hide

Re: [OSM-talk] USGS Topo maps

2011-11-28 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Ian ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: FYI: Most of the information present on USGS Topo Maps should already be present on the map due to an import of the GNIS dataset a couple years ago. And fixing that import so that the GNIS points are better aligned by your local

Re: [Talk-ca] Coastline problem in Montreal

2011-11-28 Per discussione Richard Weait
2011/11/28 Gordon Dewis gor...@pinetree.org: Alain512 changed it from natural=land to natural=coastline in changeset #9896847 on November 21st. 2011/11/28 Pierre Béland infosbelas-...@yahoo.fr Harald Kliems wrote on 2011-11-28  11:48:14  possibly related to the recent discussions about 

Re: [Talk-us] Question on connectivity

2011-11-27 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Randal Hale rjh...@northrivergeographic.com wrote: Sorry - this might be a bit more of a convoluted problem than I think. [ ... ] Is there a way in JOSM or in something to figure out where ways are broken. We're using http://keepright.ipax.at/ to check around

[Talk-ca] new goodies on OSM

2011-11-25 Per discussione Richard Weait
Dear All, The London hack weekend starts in a few hours in London (yay!), England (oh.) One of these days I'll organize a hack weekend in London, Ontario, just for laughs. Interesting things come out of these hack weekends and sometimes we see the results right away, like squashed bugs or new

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] simpler reconciliation of data

2011-11-23 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Jo winfi...@gmail.com wrote: [ ... ] I do have a suggestion to help identify which tags/properties are the ones contributed by somebody who declined or who can't be reached. Now I have to go an dig in the history to check who added names and other properties,

[Talk-ca] Fwd: [OSM-talk] Argh, Canvec imports

2011-11-17 Per discussione Richard Weait
see the conversation around changing coastal tags on talk@ -- Forwarded message -- From: Michal Migurski m...@stamen.com Date: Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 2:40 AM Subject: [OSM-talk] Argh, Canvec imports To: Talk Openstreetmap t...@openstreetmap.org A cry of frustration: I do

Re: [Talk-us] Any mappers local to NYC/LI?

2011-11-16 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Skye Book skye.b...@gmail.com wrote: I'm doing a ton of work with the data made available from the city as of late and a gripe from some people employed by the local government about OSM is that it isn't making full use of the data that the city is putting

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] OSM Database Re-Build

2011-11-15 Per discussione Richard Weait
This one is interesting as well. http://odbl.poole.ch/ ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-t...@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [talk-au] ODbL data.gov.au permission granted

2011-11-15 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Andrew Laughton laughton.and...@gmail.com wrote: This is different to what I thought is was. Could someone please remind me why Nearmap and Google maps do not want us to trace their aerial views ? That they don't want us to trace from their images is enough.

Re: [talk-au] ODbL data.gov.au permission granted

2011-11-15 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Andrew Laughton laughton.and...@gmail.com wrote: Also if I agree to the new license, is there an easy way to delete all my Yahoo aerial tracing, or is this now allowed ? Why would you want to remove that data? I do not want to, but this is the reason I

Re: [talk-au] Map projections

2011-11-14 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Ben Kelley ben.kel...@gmail.com wrote: And for something a bit more light hearted: What your favourite map projection says about you : http://xkcd.com/977 I think there is a video where each social network is a guest at a party. Perhaps we could do that with

Re: [OSM-talk] SOTM 2011 presentation help

2011-11-13 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 7:29 PM, Mike N nice...@att.net wrote: From memory: out of the tweets going by in SOTM 2011, I remember one that was something like Is navigation the best usage we hope to achieve for OSM?  I'm curious to see the slides or video for this - who was the author and/or

Re: [OSM-talk] Portugal proposal for the SOTM 2012

2011-11-13 Per discussione Richard Weait
It is so nice to see proposals starting so soon. Thank you, Jorge. Those of you who have not yet attended a SotM should start by deciding that you will go to SotM12. Prepare now. Budget it. Book your holidays. Clear the decks. If you enjoy participating in OSM you will enjoy SotM12.

Re: [OSM-talk] #Occupy camps in OSM?

2011-11-07 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Alan McConchie alan.mcconc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, I mooted this question on the IRC, but I also wanted to ask it here, too. Should the temporary camps of the #OccupyWallStreet movement be mapped in OSM? The underlying, permanent infrastructure should

Re: [Talk-us] OpenStreetMap use by (local) governments - examples?

2011-11-07 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: All: I am trying to engage with the local government here in SLC and I'd love to provide them with some practical examples of how the use of OpenStreetMap has benefited local government. Who knows of a US / N-American

Re: [OSM-talk] Incorrect user when opening Open StreetMap

2011-11-06 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Carsten Nielsen list_re...@toensberg.dk wrote: Hi I have uploadet a Trace and done some editing today, but at somepoint my account has been changed to user vbpohnfr I am user ablansinger but even after restarting firefox, and even after clearing the password

Re: [OSM-talk] Incorrect user when opening Open StreetMap

2011-11-06 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Craig Wallace craig...@fastmail.fm wrote: I have noticed some strange things happening with openstreetmap.org today. sys-admins are looking at it. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-ca] Calgary Area Trail Mapping Project

2011-11-06 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 5:35 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: I was looking at the new truck rendering layer at http://www.itoworld.com/product/data/ito_map/main?view=160 and ran across an import called the Calgary Area Trail Mapping Project. This is, as far as I can tell, the only

Re: [Talk-us] Address improvement through imports?

2011-11-02 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Steven Johnson sejohns...@gmail.com wrote: Up to now, we've been talking largely about addresses as point features. However, one thing I think would be good to have is block ranges on streets. That would require breaking a way at each junction, wouldn't it? Some

Re: [OSM-talk] Demo editing to OSM data

2011-11-01 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Peter Mooney petermoone...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Kate, Thanks for the reply. My idea is that the students would take the skills from the workshops and then start contributing to OSM. I suppose I have two reasons (just personal ones) for not allowing editing

Re: [OSM-talk] Demo editing to OSM data

2011-11-01 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 6:21 PM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: [ ... ] Potential problem with taking their own neighborhoods is that many students typically live in the same neighborhoods (on campus for example) which may cause conflicts when saving edits. Quite true. I don't know

Re: [talk-au] [sharedmapau] Re: ODbL data.gov.au permission granted

2011-10-31 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com wrote: 80n you are not a member of the Australian community. You are here to cause trouble and discontent within the Australian community along with your forking friends Dear Grant, Please continue to offer 80n the

[talk-au] Taking yes for an answer.

2011-10-31 Per discussione Richard Weait
Let us bring back our presumption of good faith, shall we? Several posters here have suggested that data.gov.au don't know what permissions they have and what permissions they may grant. Another has suggested that data.gov.au would be likely to pay attention to every last detail of paperwork,

[talk-au] Other imports in AU

2011-10-31 Per discussione Richard Weait
Would AU contributors please have a look at the Import Catalogue[1]. There are still some imports listed for Australia with incomplete details. It would be good to have those details completed. [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalogue

[Talk-ca] Routing with OSM data

2011-10-31 Per discussione Richard Weait
Dear talk-ca If you want to see what your local data looks like to routing engines, OSM user apmon has just the demo for you. http://apmon.dev.openstreetmap.org/routing visit his page on the dev server, and select the routing tab. Then you can place origin and destination locations and choose

Re: [Talk-ca] Talk at Victoria GeoGeeks on Nov 3rd

2011-10-31 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Corey Burger corey.bur...@gmail.com wrote: Are there any parts I am missing? That mapping is fun. :-) Knowing that the fantastic new coffee shop on the corner, isn't on any other map, and that you've just added it to OSM and people can use that information to

Re: [talk-au] ODbL data.gov.au permission granted

2011-10-30 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 9:50 PM, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 20:19:56 -0400 Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Attribution#Australian_government_public_information_datasets and responded as follows: That is terrific – thank you

Re: [talk-au] ODbL data.gov.au permission granted

2011-10-30 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 10:31 PM, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: As we are trying to tell you, AGIMO, who owns the data.gov.au domain, does not grant any copyright permissions whatsoever. They are a place which consolidates data and makes it available, but the actual government department or

Re: [OSM-talk] Will OSM tiles be CC-0 soon?

2011-10-26 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 6:54 AM, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com wrote: No absolute decision has been made, but seems most practical to remain CC-by-SA. There has been previous discussion on the lists. (ca

Re: [Talk-ca] Google Map Maker now in Canada

2011-10-24 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 10:24 AM, G. Michael Carter mi...@carterfamily.ca wrote: Any idea how to upload GPS track log? Nope. No idea. Also what's the policy of using OSM data? You may contribute to both projects if you wish. You may not contribute OpenStreetMap data to Google Map Maker.

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] The Open Source OpenStreetMap Book

2011-10-23 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 7:23 PM, Ian ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: The existing books don't serve the beginner's guide purpose. I disagree. The RTC book goes well beyond my first mapping survey, but also includes that. The Bennett book is almost entirely my first mapping survey plus many

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] The Open Source OpenStreetMap Book

2011-10-23 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 7:23 PM, Ian ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: Jochen, In regard to the other books already available: - Had we known we were going to write a book, I might have thought twice about creating a third one. How did you get surprised by the goal of the event? Who changed the

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] MA towns

2011-10-20 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 9:10 AM, Metcalf, Calvin (DOT) calvin.metc...@state.ma.us wrote:  If nobody objects I'll start uploading the towns from the admin8 file and stow file Dear Calvin, I have an objection and a suggestion. See below. I noticed that a couple of the counties are only

Re: [OSM-talk] 'wget'ing largish portion of planetOSM

2011-10-19 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 10:51 PM, Mick bare...@tpg.com.au wrote: I have been struggling to get a largish chunk of open street map covering an area from the Isles of Scilly in the south west to Bristol [ ... ] The Planet page points to a number of planet extracts. Will one of the UK-like

Re: [Talk-ca] Motorways tagging at ferry terminals/boarders

2011-10-18 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Matthew Buchanan matthew.ian.bucha...@gmail.com wrote: I prefer the Swartz Bay scheme because it is more reflective of the reality on the ground. The what? Could you provide a link please? :-) ___ Talk-ca mailing

Re: [talk-au] Keep Right

2011-10-17 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 4:59 AM, Peter Watson peter.bmwk7...@gmail.com wrote: Is anyone else having problems using Keep Right. The pop up box that has all the info for the error is not working. I have tried the Asia version and it works but the Aust version isn't. Will OSM Inspector help you

Re: [OSM-talk] Displaying videos from around the world on OSM?

2011-10-12 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Jonathan Gray jonathan.g...@okfn.org wrote: Hi all, We're thinking of having a big census of open government data initiatives from around the world next week [1], to coincide with Open Government Data Camp 2011 in Warsaw [2]. This would involve having a

[Talk-us] US local chapter board election results

2011-10-12 Per discussione Richard Weait
all of the candidates for offering to serve for the next year. Richard Welty, was re-elected. Martijn, Randy, Jim and Mike were each elected. You can find the detailed results on the wiki, http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/Local_Chapters/United_States/Elections Best regards, Richard

[Talk-us] Local groups, monthly meetings

2011-10-12 Per discussione Richard Weait
We had a great meeting last night in Waterloo. Five attended including one newcomer. We enjoyed delicious refreshments at our host venue and adequate wifi connectivity. I really enjoy these meetings with a combination of regular mapping pals and enthusiastic newcomers. It feels good to be able

Re: [Talk-us] US local chapter board election results

2011-10-12 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Michal Migurski m...@stamen.com wrote: Hey, cool! Thanks everyone. I'm excited to get started with Martijn, Randy, Jim, and Richard. According to the wiki page there is a monthly chapter meeting tomorrow, but the most recent one was six months ago. I'll

Re: [OSM-talk] Problems in Chittagong, Bangladesh

2011-10-10 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Dave Stanley da...@dbsconsult.co.uk wrote: I am working in Bangladesh for a while.  I was planning on doing some editing in Chittagong where I am at the moment.  Since I was last here, there have been lots of edits and additions which have left the area in a

[OSM-talk] OSMF to provide commercial tile service? [WAS: something else]

2011-10-09 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Nick Whitelegg nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk wrote: On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: Please bear in mind that, even if we wanted to offer free tiles to every commercial app in the world, our hosts would not permit us to

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

2011-10-09 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 6:13 PM, Kai Krueger kakrue...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, [ ... ] there has been a lot of talk trying to convince people to set up their own tileserver. [ ... ] In the hope to make this process even simpler, I have created a bunch of packages for Ubuntu containing

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMF to provide commercial tile service? [WAS: something else]

2011-10-09 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Nick Whitelegg nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk wrote: Richard Weait said, earlier Having the OSMF provide commercial tiles is a bad idea. It would: - reduce services available to the community - hurt the community by competing against it Hi Richard, yes I can see

Re: [Talk-us] OSM inspector routing layer now also available in the US

2011-10-04 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: [ob on topic: It is awesome that geofabrik is making this debug layer available outside of Europe! Thank you!] Try selecting both nodes and using m

[Talk-ca] Maptoberfest!

2011-10-03 Per discussione Richard Weait
Hi all, Are you all set for Maptoberfest? :-) October OSM events are set for Waterloo Region and Toronto. Waterloo - Tuesday, 11 October 2011 http://www.meetup.com/Waterloo-OSM/ Toronto - Monday, 17 October 2011 http://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Toronto/ Hope to see all you regulars, and

Re: [Talk-us] seeking advice on running a mapping party

2011-10-03 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Hillsman, Edward hills...@cutr.usf.edu wrote: As I recall, you’ve offered advice and encouragement for mapping parties, so I’m seeking advice on running one. This is being organized by several people, none of whom has run one before. I probably will be the only

[Talk-us] What does the community want from a US local chapter?

2011-09-30 Per discussione Richard Weait
I'd like to see more discussion and guidance for the US local chapter. So, questions for the community: 1) What would you like to see the US local chapter do? 2) Why should this be done by the local chapter, and not by individual mappers? 3) Why should this be done by the local chapter and not

Re: [Talk-us] What does the community want from a US local chapter?

2011-09-30 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: [ ... ] This is an interesting thread, but I don't think we need to have a discussion about tagging consistency on this thread. Consider Advocate for tagging (especially highway) consistency added to the list of things a US

Re: [OSM-talk] Daily stats report stopped?

2011-09-27 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Jukka Rahkonen jukka.rahko...@latuviitta.fi wrote: Have the statistics stopped? The title of the page seems to be OpenStreetMap stats report run at Fri Sep 09 00:00:12 +0100 2011 Yes. The sys admin team knows about this. Give them a couple of days to sort it

Re: [talk-au] ODbL data.gov.au permission granted

2011-09-23 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Alex (Maxious) Sadleir maxi...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 12:10 AM, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com wrote: The Licensing Working Group has obtained explicit special permission to incorporate geographic datasets from data.gov.au in the

[Talk-us] Manhattan and Springfield OSM groups

2011-09-22 Per discussione Richard Weait
Manhattan. That's what we really need. An OSM group that meets regularly in Manhattan. I think it probably has a better chance of happening in Manhattan, Kansas before the other one but I'll be happy to be wrong on that. And what about Springfield? Surely we have motivated OSMers / Simpsons

Re: [Talk-us] OSM US Nominations Open

2011-09-20 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 7:48 PM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote: i'm dithering if i wish to run again, but i do agree, manifestos are a good idea. Some of the questions that came up during the Foundation election would be interesting in the context of the US local chapter as well.

[Talk-ca] Alberta? Quebec? BC? Where are you?

2011-09-18 Per discussione Richard Weait
It is wonderful to see the increasing numbers of OSM groups in Canada. Fredericton, NB is the newest group to start, earlier this year, but who will be next? Will it be Vancouver, or do Van-OSMers just pop across to Seattle to get their Mappy Hour needs filled? Perhaps it will be Alberta, with

Re: [Talk-us] What should a US map of OSM data look like

2011-09-18 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 12:51 AM, Jeffrey Ollie j...@ocjtech.us wrote: On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 18:41 -0400, Nathan Edgars II wrote: Render shields at lower resolutions, since the US is not as dense as the UK. I'm curious

Re: [Talk-ca] NHS=* in Canada and network types

2011-09-16 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: 2.   Network tagging on relations Relations have been a mix of ca_bc_primary and CA:BC. Rweait believes ca_bc_primary came from ca_on_primary but I’m not sure where that was from. It doesn’t really matter which is used,

Re: [Talk-us] Brainstorm: What should a US map of OSM data look like

2011-09-16 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Val Kartchner val...@gmail.com wrote: I think that this is also the time to add a development level to the place key.  There are so many place names that aren't hamlets but are developments (like subdivisions) that have names.  This could include the name of

Re: [Talk-us] Brainstorm: What should a US map of OSM data look like

2011-09-16 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 6:06 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: Let's keep this more brainstormy and less discuss-y and debate-y for now, okay? Trim and add your ideas to the list for your reply.  We'll come back

Re: [OSM-talk] Barriers of Entry

2011-09-15 Per discussione Richard Weait
I'm glad that you both agree so closely. Paraphrasing Frederik, Not all barriers are bad. Paraphrasing Serge, Not all barriers are good. [removed many analogies] I'd like to see needless barriers to understanding and using OpenStreetMap reduced or removed. I think that we have done that

Re: [Talk-us] OSM US Chapter elections and

2011-09-15 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Josh Doe j...@joshdoe.com wrote: I'm having trouble finding any information about the elections for the OSM US chapter, The 2010 election was held in August, by email. So it's probably a bit late this year. Minutes from meetings since March, if any, are

Re: [Talk-us] OSM US Chapter elections and

2011-09-15 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 2:00 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: if for no other reason than showing those upstairs in Canada what we can do ;-) Will you kids stop making all that racket?!?!?! ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-us] OSM US Chapter elections and

2011-09-15 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 7:05 PM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: Last year it was State of the Map US. I assumed this year that it would happen at the same time as OSMF has its elections... The US chapter was scheduled to meet Saturday at SotM at 12:30. Did anything happen there?

Re: [Talk-ca] What should a Canadian style map look like?

2011-09-14 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 12:48 PM, AJ Ashton aj.ash...@gmail.com wrote: One aspect of the map that is not a uniquely Canadian problem, but is perhaps more significant here than in other places is how temporal objects spaces should be handled. Many important aspects of mappable life change

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] How to modify data provider license (WMATA)

2011-09-13 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Josh Doe j...@joshdoe.com wrote: As I've had no response from this list, Hi Josh, I believe that standardized licenses for Open Data are a Very Good Thing. Perhaps, you can show them the benefit of selecting a license from Open Data Commons? Best regards,

Re: [Talk-ca] New Surrey, BC Data/Imagery

2011-09-13 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 9:11 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: Apparently Surrey now has data for buildings in the city, likely based on planning documents. I’m going to be trying to obtain a shapefile version to see if it might be useful in some way. They also appear to of done a flight

Re: [OSM-talk] user rankings

2011-09-12 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 6:05 AM, Guillaume Rischard openstreet...@stereo.lu wrote: On 10 Sep 2011, at 18:18, Tobias Knerr wrote: Are there building blocks available to create custom statistics? None that I know of. I have created a choropleth map that shows the completion percentage of

[Talk-ca] What should a Canadian style map look like?

2011-09-12 Per discussione Richard Weait
Dear All, Just brain-storming, so let's have suggestions without debate for now. What should the OSM data look like when styled for Canadians? Just some quick ideas that appeal to me: - highway marker shields like 401, highway of heroes, Yellowhead, etc. - fewer road colors. - render cues

[Talk-us] What should a US map of OSM data look like

2011-09-12 Per discussione Richard Weait
A few of us were just asking on irc what a US-style tile theme would look like? Naturally, I think highway shields should be included. Lars Ahlzen suggested elevation in feet rather than metres. Ian Dees liked the idea of fewer different colors for roads, blue / motorway, green / trunk, red /

Re: [Talk-us] Brainstorm: What should a US map of OSM data look like

2011-09-12 Per discussione Richard Weait
Let's keep this more brainstormy and less discuss-y and debate-y for now, okay? Trim and add your ideas to the list for your reply. We'll come back around for discussion later. ;-) A few of us were just asking on irc what a US-style tile theme would look like? - distinguish divided highways -

Re: [OSM-talk] show traces to others

2011-09-10 Per discussione Richard Weait
http://weait.com/content/easy-osm-your-gpx-tracks try the one described here. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Pre SOTM gathering

2011-09-08 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Gregory Arenius greg...@arenius.com wrote: Are there any pre-SOTM gatherings going on this evening?  Or failing that can anybody recommend a brewery to get one going at? what I've heard is: From 6pm Blake Street Tavern http://osm.org/go/T2JibxIG?m

Re: [OSM-talk] featured image

2011-09-06 Per discussione Richard Weait
Does anybody recall a heat map that shows a very local user? Perhaps some account that has been contributing within one town? ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [talk-au] Princes Highway (Relation 538443)

2011-09-06 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 12:14 AM, Ian Sergeant inas66+...@gmail.com wrote: [regarding a relation with gaps] I have surveyed, it is removed from the relation, and consequently the relation has a gap. My understanding is for this relation type - a route - gaps are not allowed.  After all, this

Re: [Talk-ca] Slow OSM tiles

2011-09-02 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Connors, Bernie (SNB) bernie.conn...@snb.ca wrote: Is it just me or is the OSM tile server running really slow? What are you doing? Just editing? ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-ca] Slow OSM tiles

2011-09-02 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Connors, Bernie (SNB) bernie.conn...@snb.ca wrote: I am not editing.  I am just browsing the map to see if my recent edits have been rendered. You might have just asked for tiles when the server was particularly busy. That happens often. There was a small

Re: [Talk-ca] Your new coastline

2011-09-02 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 4:34 PM, G. Michael Carter mi...@carterfamily.ca wrote: I wish they'd updated the Bing high resolution images  In Orangeville there's a new mall, but only one image (of three tiles) has the new mall, the other has the cleared field from when they started.  I can only

Re: [Talk-ca] Tagging Cardlock gasoline

2011-08-29 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 11:58 PM, Samuel Dyck samueld...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everybody I have been away from the internet for much of the summer and am now entering information gathered in my travels into OSM. However I encountered some problems with some fuel stations. Many stations in rural

Re: [Talk-ca] Lake Ontario Missing...

2011-08-28 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 11:36 AM, G. Michael Carter mi...@carterfamily.ca wrote: I just loaded the latest data for Ontario. I noticed my Lake ontario object is missing.  Is there a reason or was it just an oversight? Looking for this one? http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/1205143

Re: [Talk-ca] North of Regina SK

2011-08-26 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Jonathan Crowe jonathan.cr...@gmail.com wrote: Not quite sure what happened here, but I'm reasonably sure than 99 percent of this does not in fact exist: http://osm.org/go/WmKBuFO Interesting. I've sent the user a note.

Re: [Talk-us] Use of ref-tag on state highways

2011-08-22 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: On 8/22/2011 4:46 PM, Nathan Mills wrote: On Mon, 22 Aug 2011 15:08:22 -0400, Nathan Edgars II wrote: In both those (literally) edge cases, the relation will tell all. So are you volunteering to make relations for

Re: [OSM-talk] Countries borders

2011-08-21 Per discussione Richard Weait
2011/8/21 Aurélien FILEZ kinj...@gmail.com: Hi, I would like to create a table with polygons that delimit all countries borders. But I can't import the planet.osm file because I don't have the right computer to make this. The goal is to know in which country a point is by using

Re: [Talk-us] Use of ref-tag on state highways

2011-08-21 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: On 8/21/2011 9:21 AM, Alan Mintz wrote: My understanding was that there are two options for California SR-60: 1) network=US:CA + ref=60 2) ref=CA 60 SR 60 is a good example, since it overlaps I-215 in Riverside.

Re: [Talk-us] Use of ref-tag on state highways

2011-08-21 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net wrote: Shared routes use semi-colons, like any other multi-use object. ref=CA 60;I 215 or network=US:CA;US:I ref=60;215 Difficult to maintain for mappers and harder to consume for use. Use simply tagged relations

Re: [Talk-ca] Missing harbours and marshes - L Ontario

2011-08-18 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Bob Dustan bob.dus...@gmail.com wrote: I just noticed that several small bodies of water along the north shore of Lake Ontario have disappeared (partially or completely).  Some harbours affected are Oshawa, Bowmanville, Newcastle, Port Hope, and Cobourg.  Some

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