[Talk-us] Mappy Hour HOWTO

2011-06-02 Per discussione Richard Weait
1) Book a time and place. 2) Promote the event. 3) Attend. 4) Have fun. That's really it. Everything else is just a matter of balancing your compromises. Pick a location and time that suits you and suits the audience you wish to attract. If you want the high-school crowd, don't pick a venue

Re: [OSM-talk] Bandwidth limit/IP blocking - Error 303 on the OSM API?

2011-06-01 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Peter Mooney petermoone...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Quick question regarding the OSM API. [ ... ] Have I found myself on a banned list? It would not be my intention to hog resources on anyone else - but I didn't think the requests were excessive. Perhaps you

Re: [OSM-talk] naming an item in multiple languages

2011-05-30 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 8:30 PM, Robin Paulson robin.paul...@gmail.com wrote: i live in nz, a country with two (three if you count sign langauge) government-approved languages: english and maori. lots of items are named in both, for example the highest volcano in auckland is called Mount

Re: [Talk-ca] Railways duplicated in CanVec data

2011-05-30 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 8:08 AM, Bégin, Daniel daniel.be...@rncan-nrcan.gc.ca wrote: Bonjour Frank, Thank for the comments. I'll see what can be done. I have been assigned to some other projects. I'll try to keep in touch with the community (as NRCan contact) but I'm not in charge of the

Re: [Talk-ca] [HOT] Flooding in Richelieu River, Quebec, Canada :Follow-up(Complement of information)

2011-05-27 Per discussione Richard Weait
2011/5/27 Daniel Begin jfd...@hotmail.com: Bonjour tous le monde, I have generated a 30m and 31m contour lines for Richelieu river and lake Champlain (using SRTM data). It fits the 30m contour provided by Jean-Guilhem but doesn't seem to fit pretty well the flooded wetland area provided by

Re: [Talk-ca] height data

2011-05-27 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 2:22 PM, john whelan jwhelan0...@gmail.com wrote: There seems to be considerable interest in flooding recently.  The UK has a government site http://maps.environment-agency.gov.uk/wiyby/wiybyController?ep=maptopicslang=_e that shows the risk of flooding for a particular

[Talk-ca] fwd: Downtown Calgary deletions

2011-05-27 Per discussione Richard Weait
Hi AC, You message was held for moderation, perhaps you have subscribed with a different email account? At any rate, I've taken the unusual decision to edit your email because of the content of the reply. Hope you don't mind. -- Forwarded message -- From: A C osm...@hotmail.ca

Re: [Talk-us] Ideas for OSMF US Swag

2011-05-27 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Kai Krueger kakrue...@gmail.com wrote: Thea Aldrich wrote: Our question to the community is: If you like this idea, what types of branded materials would you like? I think it is a great idea and is the sort of thing a local chapter can be useful for to

[OSM-talk] level_crossing, leveled

2011-05-25 Per discussione Richard Weait
HI all, What should be done with a level_crossing, when trains may cross no longer? The junction was a level_crossing, but has been repaved and re-sculpted. The rails are now covered by 0.3 - 0.4 m of asphalt which appears to have been laid directly over the tracks. So the railway hardware

[Talk-ca] CDN OSM meetup dates.

2011-05-25 Per discussione Richard Weait
Two new dates for Canadian OSM meetups. Toronto - Mon 6 Jun 2011 http://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Toronto/events/19702391/ Waterloo - Tue 14 June 2011 http://www.meetup.com/Waterloo-OSM/events/19703081/ ___ Talk-ca mailing list

Re: [Talk-us] New York: Albany Mappy Hour (6/11/2011)

2011-05-17 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote: I'm putting together a Mappy hour for Capital District mappers on Tuesday June 11th, probably around 7pm, venue TBD (I'm aiming for a place that's kind of central.) if you're in the area, please mark your calendars

Re: [OSM-talk] Building Equals Yes

2011-05-16 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 1:29 AM, Michal Migurski m...@stamen.com wrote: By my colleague Aaron Cope: A web page for every building in OpenStreetMap! That's pretty neat. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] What happened to the bounding boxes in the history?

2011-05-15 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Mikel Maron mikel_ma...@yahoo.com wrote: There are three things I'd like to indicate for every changeset on this page, and need some elegant and simple design thinking to get there. - Is this changeset made by a bot? Technically, can check bot=yes on the

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

2011-05-14 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com wrote: I saw this news story about how three-dimensional aerial photos, viewed with special glasses, make it easier to pick out structures on the ground. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-13359064 I wonder if any such 3-d imagery

[Talk-ca] Mapping in Toronto: Bicycle rental

2011-05-10 Per discussione Richard Weait
Bixi bike rental launched in Toronto last week. if you see these bike stations in your travels downtown, be sure to add them to OSM. Typical tagging for these amenity=bicycle_rental capacity=15 network=bixi ___ Talk-ca mailing list

Re: [Talk-ca] Winnipeg Transit data published PDDL

2011-05-09 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Tyler Gunn ty...@egunn.com wrote: On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: Winnipeg Transit has published their gtfs data as PDDLv1.0.  The zip file includes a LICENSE file with the PDDL dedication. http://gtfs.winnipegtransit.com

Re: [OSM-talk] FAQs from help.osm.org

2011-05-06 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 2:43 AM, Lambertus o...@na1400.info wrote: On 06-05-11 02:09, Grant Slater wrote: And routing on osm.org? / Grant Would be awesome and is already possible for a while. See: http://nroets.dev.openstreetmap.org/demo/ (select the 'routing' layer). This one seems much

Re: [OSM-talk] FAQs from help.osm.org

2011-05-06 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Nic Roets nro...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 2:43 AM, Lambertus o...@na1400.info wrote: On 06-05-11 02:09, Grant Slater wrote: And routing on osm.org? / Grant Would

[Talk-ca] Winnipeg Transit data published PDDL

2011-05-06 Per discussione Richard Weait
Winnipeg Transit has published their gtfs data as PDDLv1.0. The zip file includes a LICENSE file with the PDDL dedication. http://gtfs.winnipegtransit.com/google_transit.zip ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org

[Talk-ca] more Canadian OSM extracts coming

2011-05-06 Per discussione Richard Weait
Dear All, Frederik announced that he will be providing more Canadian extracts of OSM data in future. They have already started here: http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/north-america/canada/ with Ontario and Quebec. Others will be added as well. The geofabrik extracts are in the new pbf format.

Re: [Talk-ca] OSM slower than usual?

2011-05-06 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Connors, Bernie (SNB) bernie.conn...@snb.ca wrote: The OSM maps and website seem to be loading slower today and updates to the map appear to be taking longer to be rendered into tiles.  Anybody else notice this? Tile updates have been slowed by abusive

Re: [Talk-ca] OSM slower than usual?

2011-05-06 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 2:48 PM, James Ewen ve6...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a way to know how much load is being exerted by each type of application out there? The sysadmins know, but I expect that the logs can't be exposed due to privacy law. We have a newer application that uses OSM maps.

Re: [Talk-ca] Topographic map app using OSM data

2011-05-06 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Dan Charrois d...@syz.com wrote: Hi everybody.  I don't want to make this a commercial plug, so I'll keep this short and relevant.  The only reason I'd even want to mention this here is that I value the feedback of other OpenStreetMap people - especially that

Re: [Talk-ca] more Canadian OSM extracts coming

2011-05-06 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Daniel Begin jfd...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi Richard, I'm a bit confuse about the announcement.  What is that for? What purpose does it deserved?  I should have miss something! Cheers, Daniel Dear Daniel, Extract and planet files are for people who wish to

Re: [OSM-talk] Geofabrik Download Server Update

2011-05-03 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 7:19 AM, Richard Mann richard.mann.westoxf...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: Richard: You can consider using osmembrane[1] which is a GUI on top of osmosis. I haven't tested it on Windows but I guess there's no

Re: [OSM-talk] Polls, community, communication

2011-05-01 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Nic Roets nro...@gmail.com wrote: Now let me give it a try: I think the OSMF should make (more) use of polling. Not for everything. But once or twice a year would be a nice way to involve the community. Dear Nic, Do it. Really. If you see a topic that needs a

Re: [Talk-us] Whole-US Garmin Map update - 13-04-2011

2011-05-01 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Dave Hansen d...@sr71.net wrote:         http://daveh.dev.openstreetmap.org/garmin/Lambertus/13-04-2011 I had to go update my script a bit since Lambertus's site got moved around.  Please let me know if anyone has trouble with these. Empty directory here.

Re: [Talk-us] Whole-US Garmin Map update - 13-04-2011

2011-05-01 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Dave Hansen d...@sr71.net wrote: On Sun, 2011-05-01 at 12:09 -0400, Richard Weait wrote: On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Dave Hansen d...@sr71.net wrote:         http://daveh.dev.openstreetmap.org/garmin/Lambertus/13-04-2011 I had to go update my script

Re: [Talk-us] Another day, another bad import

2011-05-01 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Alan Millar grunthos...@yahoo.com wrote: On May 1, 2011, at 10:25 AM, Toby Murray wrote: Every time I go editing in some new place, I always find another reason to hate imports. Yeah...  Every time I go editing in some new place, I always find another reason

Re: [talk-au] How many NearMap users do you think have accepted the new CTs and ODbL?

2011-04-26 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 9:24 AM, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: I was wondering this question tonight. [ ... ] This only shows where there is clear evidence of licence violations without having to look past the data's tags. [ ... ] Food for thought Junk food at best. ;-) OSM

Re: [Talk-us] NHD data extract

2011-04-26 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 7:49 AM, Ben Supnik bsup...@xsquawkbox.net wrote: Hi Y'all, The USGS was kind enough to send me the latest shapefile extract for the NHD yesterday.  So my question is: is there some way I can process

Re: [Talk-ca] Great Lakes shoreline

2011-04-20 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 12:29 PM, James A. Treacy tre...@debian.org wrote: Hello, I have been adding canvec data for the last part of the Bruce Peninsula and noticed that the existing shoreline is quite different than that given by the canvec data. The source for the existing coastline is

Re: [OSM-talk] License graph

2011-04-19 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 8:22 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@thenilgiris.com wrote: On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 22:14 +1000, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: Perhaps if you explain just how your support was bought this is not acceptable on an open mailing list - or on *any* mailing list. Relax, everybody.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Are CT contributors are in breach of the CC-BY-SA license?

2011-04-18 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 5:39 AM, 80n 80n...@gmail.com wrote: It would seem to me that anyone who has agreed to the contributor terms and who then edits content that is published by OSM is in breach of the CC-BY-SA license. It seems to me that you are confused, but I think I see where that

Re: [OSM-talk] License graph

2011-04-18 Per discussione Richard Weait
http://rweait.dev.openstreetmap.org/changeusersstacked-year.png ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap License Change Phase 3 Pre-Announcement

2011-04-18 Per discussione Richard Weait
2011/4/18 Dirk-Lüder Kreie osm-l...@deelkar.net: I should note that I find the bulk of your email to be reasonable and thoughtful, whether I agree with specific points or not. So it appears now that I'm picking on you by singling out one point from your reasonable email. Sorry. :-) [ ... ]

[Talk-ca] trouble editing? Log in on osm.org

2011-04-17 Per discussione Richard Weait
Hi all, If you are having trouble editing, you should read this. The solution is simple. Log in to your account at http://openstreetmap.org/ Then return to editing normally. Best regards, Richard. ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org

[Talk-us] Trouble editing? Log in again at osm.org

2011-04-17 Per discussione Richard Weait
Hi all, If you are having trouble editing, you should read this. The solution is simple. Log in to your account at http://openstreetmap.org/ Then return to editing normally. Best regards, Richard. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-ca] Tagging for streets on a military base

2011-04-15 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Connors, Bernie (SNB) bernie.conn...@snb.ca wrote: I am looking at the street tags for CFB Gagetown in Oromocto, New Brunswick.  Currently all of the streets are tagged residential.  Of course there are some military personnel that live on the base but the

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap License Change Phase 3 Pre-Announcement

2011-04-12 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 4:59 PM, SomeoneElse li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk wrote: Mike, https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/terms; appears unchanged.  Is that some sort of caching effect, or does has been improved actually mean is about to be improved, but has not been yet? Dear Andy, The

Re: [Talk-ca] Bridge closed for repairs

2011-04-12 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 8:56 AM, Connors, Bernie (SNB) bernie.conn...@snb.ca wrote: What is the suggested method for tagging a bridge that will be closed for several months for repairs? http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=45.9411549568176lon=-66.623797416687zoom=16

Re: [Talk-us] REF tags for State Highways on ways

2011-04-10 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 9:25 PM, James Mast rickmastfa...@hotmail.com wrote: Anyways, we really need to get MapQuest to render by relations ??? Wait for MapQuest? Why? Why aren't you rendering your own and sending them patches? You can render a couple of small states on any old laptop. Fix

Re: [Talk-us] REF tags for State Highways on ways

2011-04-09 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote: route relations. The ref=* tag on ways right now is mostly tagging for the renderer because current renderers don't use route relations. Richard Weait has done some work on this: http://weait.com/content/badges-badges

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CT, time period for reply to a new license change (active contributor)

2011-04-08 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 6:54 AM, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com wrote: Michael Collinson mike@... writes: - In the case of a major license change, there would be a run up of at least several months of publicity and discussion before the final formal vote announcement. At the moment there is

Re: [OSM-talk] Sports club

2011-04-08 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 5:53 PM, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: There is actually a proposal for project of the week for gyms. Apparently there are 66k pubs but only 400 gyms tagged in OSM. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Project_of_the_week/Proposals Scheduled for week of May 18.

Re: [talk-au] Fwd: [OSM-dev] To OSM editor authors ...

2011-04-06 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 8:50 AM, James Livingston li...@sunsetutopia.com wrote: Time to go read the CTs again... Hi James, That's one of the sections of v1 that has been clarified in v1.2.4. Have a look. http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/Contributor_Terms

Re: [talk-au] Fwd: [OSM-dev] To OSM editor authors ...

2011-04-06 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 10:52 AM, 4x4falcon i...@4x4falcon.com wrote: There are around 12,000 accounts which have prior to May 2010 contributed 95%+ of all the data. Regards  Grant Also how many of these are actual people not import accounts eg ABS2006? I don't know, I haven't tried to

[OSM-talk] SWG: Articles of Association sub-committee

2011-04-03 Per discussione Richard Weait
The Strategic Working Group has been tasked with looking at the Articles of Association for the OSMF. A sub-committee of the SWG has formed to look at this and they need your participation[1]. If you have an interest in the AoA, have stated previous concerns about them, or have an interest in

[OSM-talk] News from the London Hack Weekend

2011-04-03 Per discussione Richard Weait
@Firefishy says: Potlatch 2 is now the default editor on #OpenStreetMap #PL2FTW #OSM ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] News from the London Hack Weekend

2011-04-03 Per discussione Richard Weait
@Firefishy says: Potlatch 2 is now the default editor on #OpenStreetMap #PL2FTW #OSM Other news from the Hack Weekend (distilled from twitter and #osm-dev) Several devs were working on projects remotely, including iandees on jxapi, Komzpa on translations, apmon on api(?) smsm1 nailed an

Re: [OSM-talk] Examples of OSM used in Transport Planning?

2011-04-03 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Mikel Maron mikel_ma...@yahoo.com wrote: Thanks all for the suggestions. I posted the slides and did a quick write up: http://groundtruthinitiative.org/2011/03/31/openstreetmap-and-transport-presentation-to-the-world-bank-transport-forum/ And thanks from me

[Talk-ca] OSM meetings Toronto / KW

2011-04-03 Per discussione Richard Weait
Hi all, Toronto OSM folks will gather at C'est What? pub on Monday http://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Toronto/ Kitchener / Waterloo / Cambridge / Guelph OSM folks will gather at Williams Fresh Cafe near University of Waterloo on Tuesday http://www.meetup.com/Waterloo-OSM/ See you there!

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] Proposed import: Surrey, BC waterways

2011-04-03 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: I've rendered an area locally at http://maps.paulnorman.ca/surreywater.html?bbox=-122.88,49.08,-122.82,49.12 give renderd a little kick, perhaps? ;-) ___ Talk-ca mailing list

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] Proposed import: Surrey, BC waterways

2011-04-03 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: I've rendered an area locally at http://maps.paulnorman.ca/surreywater.html?bbox=-122.88,49.08,-122.82,49.12 give renderd a little kick, perhaps

Re: [Talk-us] Dirt Bike Area

2011-04-03 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 7:57 AM, James U jumba...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday, April 03, 2011 07:45:50 am Mike N wrote: On 4/2/2011 11:37 PM, Val Kartchner wrote: Within the past few days I discovered an area built up for public use of pedal dirt bikes.  I have searched but have not found a

Re: [OSM-talk] Okay, this is just cool (Lockport, NY)

2011-03-31 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 7:40 AM, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote: As someone from across the pond, excuse my ignorance, but what are these for:

Re: [OSM-talk] ITO Map now Global

2011-03-31 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 7:52 AM, Eric Matthews eric.matth...@itoworld.com wrote: Hi everyone Just to let everyone know that ITO's ITO Map for OpenStreetMap now has global coverage. Super! Looks wonderful, Eric and thank you for covering more of the world. I had a quick look at the buildings

Re: [OSM-talk] Okay, this is just cool (Lockport, NY)

2011-03-31 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 8:23 AM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: Out of curiosity: is it considered acceptable to use Google StreetView to assist in armchair mapping? No. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Okay, this is just cool (Lockport, NY)

2011-03-31 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote: On 31/03/2011 13:23, Martijn van Exel wrote: Out of curiosity: is it considered acceptable to use Google StreetView to assist in armchair mapping? I personally would not use it, as it seems to be a violation of their ToU:

Re: [OSM-talk] Okay, this is just cool (Lockport, NY)

2011-03-31 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Pieren pier...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote: On 31/03/2011 13:23, Martijn van Exel wrote: Out of curiosity: is it considered

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] RAND Corporation license violation

2011-03-30 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 8:56 AM, Julio Costa Zambelli julio.co...@openstreetmap.cl wrote: I was checking some papers at work today and accidentally found this license violation (both Attribution and Share-Alike) by the RAND Corporation:

Re: [OSM-talk] help

2011-03-28 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Davide Venturini d.ventur...@tpo.it wrote: hi, I'm new of this list, I've just a question: I'm a mac user (snow leopard/base camp/road trip) I have already downloaded three maps form open street map web site, every time I try to install one map, the new map

Re: [Talk-us] Civil War sites

2011-03-28 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Steven Johnson sejohns...@gmail.com wrote: I, too, have been thinking that a core+layers approach would be useful in a number of contexts, primarily conflation between different This might be something interesting to do with those servers that the US local

Re: [Talk-us] Caltrans exit numbers

2011-03-28 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net wrote: At 2011-03-23 04:22, Dale Puch wrote: A quick note, do not confuse public records as always meaning public domain. Some states may not have laws specifically preventing agencies from claiming copyright, not

Re: [Talk-us] Civil War sites

2011-03-28 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote: On 3/28/11 10:18 AM, Richard Welty wrote: i will look into where this can be hosted, and look into setting up a mailing list for those interested in the project to communicate. does anyone object to a google groups

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CT, time period for reply to a new license change (active contributor)

2011-03-27 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 6:52 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry that I come quite late with this, it might be too late, and it was bothering me occasionally already for some months: if we really decided in the future to change the license, isn't 3 weeks a little short

Re: [OSM-talk] Examples of OSM used in Transport Planning?

2011-03-27 Per discussione Richard Weait
Awesome examples in this thread. Three I haven't seen above. Fantastic stuff from Tom Carden, way back in 2007. Includes places near Edinburgh where it's faster to take transit than drive to arrive at 9am And Places near London where a bicycle is faster than public transit. Brilliant.

Re: [Talk-ca] NAD83-SCRS vs WGS84 Reference systems

2011-03-27 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 3:55 PM, Daniel Begin jfd...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi all, I need someone to confirm the following about reference system... Context: Paul and I are uploading US-Canada boundary monuments/turning points to get a stable and verifiable information. The data is available

Re: [Talk-ca] Proposed import of IBC data (was RE: NAD83-SCRS vs WGS84 Reference systems)

2011-03-27 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Daniel Begin jfd...@hotmail.com wrote: Thank Paul, a really good idea to include others as they are concerned :-) About tagging, I would agree with minor adjustments ... man_made=survey_point - agreed ref= - agreed to reference a monument id However, I

Re: [Talk-us] Proposed import of IBC data (was RE: [Talk-ca] NAD83-SCRS vs WGS84 Reference systems)

2011-03-27 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Daniel Begin jfd...@hotmail.com wrote: Thank Paul, a really good idea to include others as they are concerned :-) About tagging, I would agree with minor adjustments ... man_made=survey_point - agreed ref= - agreed to reference a monument id However, I

Re: [Talk-ca] Importing MLI park boundaries

2011-03-26 Per discussione Richard Weait
Dear Sam, Well, Sam (Vekemans) you are a man of your word. You mean what you say. Don't you? On 25 August 2010, you said, All my contributions to OpenStreetMap are released into the public domain... I grant anyone the right to use my contributions for any purpose [1] You mean that don't you?

Re: [Talk-ca] Importing MLI park boundaries

2011-03-26 Per discussione Richard Weait
Re: On 25 August 2010, Sam Vekemans said on his wiki user page, All my contributions to OpenStreetMap are released into the public domain... I grant anyone the right to use my contributions for any purpose [1] [1]

Re: [OSM-talk] Licensing Working Group

2011-03-23 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Greg Troxel g...@ir.bbn.com wrote: I agree.   I don't particularly dislike the ODBL, but I am not comfortable with CT that grants the project permission to relicense under non-share-alike terms later. [ ... ] I find that the (pushy, in my perception)

Re: [OSM-talk] the coastline

2011-03-21 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Robin Paulson robin.paul...@gmail.com wrote: i've recently been doing some mapping around auckland, adding coastal walkways. one in particular i walked on sunday has two routes: one at the foot of the cliffs, one on the road at the top of the cliffs. the lower

Re: [Talk-ca] OSM data growth in New Brunswick - Help.

2011-03-15 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Connors, Bernie (SNB) bernie.conn...@snb.ca wrote: Hello,     I have been asked on short notice to give an OSM presentation to some government employees here in New Brunswick.  I would like some data or graphics (or video) that shows the growth of

[Talk-ca] Crisis mapping

2011-03-14 Per discussione Richard Weait
The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) is on another deployment to Haiti. They have been making periodic trips to Haiti since the earthquake there last year. The goal has been to coach Haitians in mapping so that they may continue to improve the map of Haiti in OSM. OSM Haiti contributors

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL / CT and CC-BY-SA Pictures / Texts / Video

2011-03-11 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 6:45 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: Excuse me if this question has already been raised. I am currently involved in a project that has chosen OSM as cartographic base for a portal for tourists. There will be an ontology to allow for semantic

Re: [Talk-ca] culs-du-sac tag

2011-03-08 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 12:13 AM, Bryan Crosby b_cro...@hotmail.com wrote: Chances are that veteran users are probably already know that highway=turning_point creates a nifty cul-du-sac for your curvilinear suburbs, but I thought I would share it anyway as I just found it myself browsing around

Re: [OSM-talk] mapping hypotheticals with OSM, e.g., for public charrettes?

2011-03-07 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Tom Roche tom_ro...@pobox.com wrote: How best to use OSM to map non-existent features for planning purposes, e.g., for public charrettes? (Apologies if this is a FAQ, but a brief search of http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/FAQ and of the lists via

Re: [Talk-ca] Did I just find a potentially significant bug in JOSM?

2011-03-07 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 9:39 PM, Russell P skiinf...@gmail.com wrote: Thats funny, because I submitted a bug just a few hours ago because the latest (dev) build of Validator + JOSm wouldnt merge duplicate nodes on a canvec boundary.. Anyways, clearly JOSM is a work in progress, Yes, it is

Re: [Talk-ca] Boundary and updates

2011-03-06 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 3:39 PM, Daniel Begin jfd...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi all, [ ... ] I'm uploading Canvec around Canada/US boundary and I try to get a clean result both side. The area I'm working on have the US-Canadian boundary defined by a small river.  The river has changed his course

Re: [Talk-ca] Secret routing demo.

2011-03-05 Per discussione Richard Weait
I've fixed some continuity errors, etc. on Hwy 417 near Ottawa. ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] Secret routing demo.

2011-03-05 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 7:13 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: I've fixed some continuity errors, etc. on Hwy 417 near Ottawa. I'm working now on the rest of 417, then I'll tackle 416. Ottawa is a mess. A disaster. ___ Talk-ca mailing list

Re: [Talk-ca] Secret routing demo.

2011-03-05 Per discussione Richard Weait
fixed QEW at 403. overlapping nodes not connected ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] Secret routing demo.

2011-03-05 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: fixed QEW at 403. overlapping nodes not connected QEW at Hidden Valley. same. ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] Here we go again...

2011-03-05 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Adam Dunn dunna...@gmail.com wrote: Anybody got a claim on user user_5365? [http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/user_5365/] This user is doing lots of Canvec importing, and is actually self-identifying as a bot (with the tag bot=yes). Rather disconcerting,

Re: [Talk-ca] Secret routing demo.

2011-03-05 Per discussione Richard Weait
MB TCH: fix bad oneway at PTH 44 ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] Secret routing demo.

2011-03-05 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Adam Dunn dunna...@gmail.com wrote: This site is great for finding route errors. OSM will really improve thanks to this. I can't believe how many errors there were, and major ones that would prevent road trip planning for travellers. Thanks Richard, and the

Re: [Talk-ca] Secret routing demo.

2011-03-05 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 6:23 PM, James Ewen ve6...@gmail.com wrote: Oop, forgot we were supposed to indicate routing errors corrected here... Southeast of Edmonton, Alberta: Highway 14/21 interchange node not connected fixed. Canvec service road removed from highway 14/Anthony Henday

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] all our addresses are belong to you

2011-03-04 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 3:55 PM, flambe...@gmail.com flambe...@gmail.com wrote: MapQuest is providing several address files that contain user-provided latitude and longitude locations across the world. Our users provided these exact locations to us so that they could be mapped correctly on our

[Talk-ca] Secret routing demo.

2011-03-04 Per discussione Richard Weait
Dear talk-ca, There is a new secret demo of routing on OSM data for Canada. The demo server could go away without notice, and it doesn't update data regularly, but it seems to be blindingly fast. Also, it only works for part of Europe. Except it secretly works for part of Canada too! So far,

Re: [Talk-ca] Secret routing demo.

2011-03-04 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 6:54 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: Dear talk-ca, There is a new secret demo of routing on OSM data for Canada.  The demo server could go away without notice, and it doesn't update data regularly, but it seems to be blindingly fast.  Also, it only works

[Talk-ca] Canadian Mappy Hours

2011-03-02 Per discussione Richard Weait
Hey, a cool new tool to find local OSM groups. This one uses OpenStreetMap to find local OSM groups. How cool is that? Matthias, from the German OSM community, extended the tool used in Germany to track OSM meetings. It now takes group data automatically from the OSM wiki, then presents it on

Re: [OSM-talk] rendering map tiles with mapnik - hardware requirements

2011-02-28 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Robin Paulson robin.paul...@gmail.com wrote: we at OSM New Zealand are looking at rendering our own (NZ-only) tiles, and we'd like to get a rough idea of the hardware requirements we will need are there any rules of thumb for how long it would take to render a

Re: [Talk-ca] Determining The Identity Of Features

2011-02-27 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Chris Bruce ch...@mirrorcomputing.co.uk wrote: Hi there, [ ... ] I'm in Canada for a while and thought I'd map some trails while I'm here per your WikiProject Canada page. I'm hiking in Provincial Parks and National Parks in BC at the moment. I guess there will

Re: [Talk-ca] Building Mapsets for my Garmin GPSmap 76CSx

2011-02-26 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Peter Freeman petersfree...@gmail.com wrote: In my quest to become a total non-Microsoft product user, the last remaining tie to Windows is my need to create Mapsets and load them into my Garmin GPSmap 76CSx.  Currently, I am using Mapsource and MapSetToolkit

Re: [Talk-ca] Anybody want to join me for a one to 1.5 hour webinar?

2011-02-24 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com wrote: [ ... ] Next week i'll be in Mississauga with family for a week, and a fast internet connection :) ... so i can make time away from family for it :) ... which is not a bad thing :) What?!?! You're going to be

Re: [Talk-ca] Anybody want to join me for a one to 1.5 hour webinar?

2011-02-24 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 7:32 AM, Ontario Trails ontra...@gmail.com wrote: I only threw out some ideas, I think a dialougue is important, I see  huge amount of data going by and we should also talk about OSM and how you guys are doing. Thanks Dear Patrick, Any time this afternoon is great.

[talk-au] CHCH earthquake response update.

2011-02-23 Per discussione Richard Weait
From: Chad Catacchio chadcatacc...@gmail.com Date: 23 February, 2011 0:52:54 EST To: crisiscomm...@googlegroups.com Subject: [CrisisCommons] CrisisCampNZ status update and needs Reply-To: crisiscomm...@googlegroups.com All, Wanted to pass on updates from the volunteers in New Zealand

[Talk-ca] Revert in Aylmer is complete

2011-02-22 Per discussione Richard Weait
Thank you, woodpeck, for reverting a series of changesets in Aylmer at the request of talk-ca@. http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/woodpeck_repair/edits I suggest that you add as friend woodpeck_repair to show your appreciation. ;-) If you are familiar with Aylmer and surroundings, have a look

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