Re: [OSM-talk] routing across open spaces

2010-11-30 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 1 December 2010 11:22, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: Thats great, what happens if someone traces the park from aerial imagery, and doesnt know/care about any of those?  Or for that matter, if someone tags it on-the-ground, but doesnt add all the details? What defautls should

Re: [OSM-talk] routing across open spaces

2010-11-30 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 1 December 2010 11:55, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: A park. Open, green area for recreation, usually municipal. These are outdoor areas, typically grassy/green areas, set aside of leisure and recreation. Typically (or pretty much always) open to the public, but may be fenced off, and may

Re: [OSM-talk] routing across open spaces

2010-11-30 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 1 December 2010 13:14, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: I'd love it.  It's a feature I'm quite looking forward to.  One day OSM will be able to route me from Linkwood Avenue to Pine Bay Drive through the park (http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=28.07187lon=-82.550402zoom=18layers=M), saving me

[OSM-legal-talk] use of auckland city council aerial photos for tracing

2010-11-29 Per discussione Robin Paulson
hi, auckland city council provides very high resolution photos, which some nz users would like to use for tracing. this is the license under which we can use the data. i'm not sure how to proceed. some advice, please? [quote] You are permitted to use this website and any data, maps, plans,

[OSM-talk] routing across open spaces

2010-11-29 Per discussione Robin Paulson
hi, i walk a lot, and would like a routing engine which understands i can take a direct route across an open public space, such as a park, without needing a footpath to be explicitly drawn in. the existing routing engines don't seem to understand this. or am i missing a tag? do i need to tag

[OSM-legal-talk] auckland city council copyright notice

2010-10-31 Per discussione Robin Paulson
the auckland city council has this as its copyright notice. how compatible would this be with cc-by-sa, or odbl? http://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/en/pages/Copyrightstatement.aspx if it isn't, which items are incompatible? cheers -- robin http://creativespace.org.nz/

Re: [OSM-talk] maori/english search oddities for nz towns

2010-07-07 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 8 July 2010 00:29, Brian Quinion openstreet...@brian.quinion.co.uk wrote: 2 Part answer: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/556706 Aotearoa is used because it is the default name if it can't find a language match. ah, interesting. that should probably be name:mi well spotted,

Re: [OSM-talk] maori/english search oddities for nz towns

2010-07-07 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 8 July 2010 14:36, Tim McNamara paperl...@timmcnamara.co.nz wrote: Aotearoa New Zealand would be a better name, at least in en-NZ [1]. It's a much more politically correct term than New Zealand; we're not Dutch. New i was never keen on basing my decisions upon manipulative empty-headed,

[OSM-talk] maori/english search oddities for nz towns

2010-07-06 Per discussione Robin Paulson
well, here's an odd thing: if i search for pahia from firefox 3.6, it returns 'Pahia, New Zealand' if i search from IE7, it returns 'Pahia, Aotearoa' . Aotearoa is the Maori name for New Zealand. or rather, new Zealand is the English name for Aotearoa any suggestions why? can someone else try

[OSM-talk] correcting/helping inexperienced mappers

2010-07-01 Per discussione Robin Paulson
there's a mapper near me, who's very active adding data. the problem is, he's making a lot of mistakes, such as roads not joining correctly at junctions, bridges drawn as a separate parallel line to the highway they should relate to, and other fairly unambiguous errors. up till now, i've

Re: [OSM-talk] POI Collection as a Competition

2010-06-10 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 11 June 2010 08:34, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: I posted this idea as an off-topic message in a thread about the post office in talk-us, but I thought it might get more interest over here on t...@... What if we came up with a way to make POI collection a competition or game? Think

Re: [OSM-talk] POI Collection as a Competition

2010-06-10 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 11 June 2010 11:04, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: Let's forget the prizes for now, even if they could some how be turned into a positive.  What about the mechanism? How do we create a super easy way for folks with focused interests to participate in OSM?  Say a super postbox

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging wide steps (tribune / terrace)

2010-06-07 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 6 June 2010 12:21, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote: highway=steps area=yes? A very good question posed by Alex. I have a few wide steps (~50m) in my city. It's a good start for a solution from Nathan, but it would need a direction tag in order for the renderers to know which way

Re: [OSM-talk] On the ground rule on the wiki

2010-06-01 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 1 June 2010 23:30, Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com wrote: The on the ground rule is only appropriate for disputes, and shouldn't be used as an instruction of what should or should not be mapped (for that, see the guidelines on verifiability). The on the ground rule is that when two

Re: [OSM-talk] [Geowanking] closedstreetmap.org

2010-05-21 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 21 May 2010 00:34, Peter Batty peter.ba...@gmail.com wrote: And perhaps also private organizations that will take your data but not let you have it back :) ? Sent from my iPhone ^^^ oh, the irony ___ talk mailing list

[OSM-talk] volcano craters in auckland - possibly out of copyright map

2010-05-19 Per discussione Robin Paulson
i found a map on wikipedia from 1859, which i would assume makes it out of copyright and thus far game for copying data into osm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:AucklandMapHochstetter1859.JPG if so, what would be the best way to view it as an underlay, for adding volcanoes to the map database?

[OSM-talk] mass mailing osm mappers

2010-05-12 Per discussione Robin Paulson
i'm interested in the following from a technical and social perspective: as part of the LINZ import, some members of osm in NZ are about to add a lot of data to NZ. we've already had a number of mappers contact us concerned we are about to write over their data (which incidentally, won't happen)

Re: [OSM-talk] mass mailing osm mappers

2010-05-12 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 13 May 2010 09:38, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: we would like to make as many NZ mappers aware of the import as possible, firstly to reduce these concerns, and to stop the potential outfux of NZ mappers who see themselves being replaced by bots and scripts. also, it would of

Re: [OSM-talk] offer of 20m contour data

2010-05-01 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 19 March 2010 22:32, Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com wrote: i don't know what a DEM is unfortunately this?: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_elevation_model Sorry, my bad. Yes, that's what I was meaning. It's basically the raw data behind contours, hillshading and so on.

Re: [OSM-talk] bulk merge of duplicate points

2010-04-29 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 29 April 2010 21:29, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: It would help if you thought a little more about duplicate things on the one position. E.g. Service Station could have 5 or 6 types of fuel, an address, a phone number, notes about ancillary services - car wash, groceries, telephone, atm

Re: [OSM-talk] bulk merge of duplicate points

2010-04-28 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 28 April 2010 18:33, Vincent Pottier vpott...@gmail.com wrote: we have a situation as part of the LINZ import where some nodes need to be merged - specifically cattle stops, gates, etc. with roads. there are lots of these, so we would like to do it programmatically. is there a tool to do

[OSM-talk] bulk merge of duplicate points

2010-04-27 Per discussione Robin Paulson
we have a situation as part of the LINZ import where some nodes need to be merged - specifically cattle stops, gates, etc. with roads. there are lots of these, so we would like to do it programmatically. is there a tool to do this en masse? either a josm plugin, or some command-line tool? cheers

[OSM-talk] LINZ import - crowd-sourcing of tag-matching

2010-04-21 Per discussione Robin Paulson
we LINZ importers in NZ are looking for some help with tag matching. we have a heap of data, and need to correlate it to tags in OSM, but most of the importers have little experience of OSM and don't know the tags could i ask for some help? we've set up a page with all the LINZ categories in, and

Re: [OSM-talk] LINZ import

2010-04-16 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 16 April 2010 19:22, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com wrote: Where an existing road in OSM has a GPS trace, keep it or manually reconcile some gps traces are pretty poor. urban canyoning, poor-resolution gps units, and other variables make it hard to judge if the traces are correct or not the

[OSM-talk] LINZ import

2010-04-15 Per discussione Robin Paulson
a number of OSM mappers in new zealand are currently working on the import of Land Information New Zealand data into OSM one of the issues that has come up is the question of what to do when there is existing data. we've got a few ideas, but none of them are optimal does anyone who has

Re: [OSM-talk] LINZ import

2010-04-15 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 16 April 2010 11:25, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: The problem with WMS layers is you loose the meta information that already exists, or you need to do a lot of work to add it after tracing. do oyu have any suggestions how to keep the metadata when importing? i presume it is a

Re: [OSM-talk] Simplifying shapes

2010-04-15 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 16 April 2010 14:05, Andrew Errington a.erring...@lancaster.ac.uk wrote: I have some .osm files containing the outlines of areas.  I want to simplify the outline to make the files smaller and to make drawing quicker (I have many of these shapes to use in an OpenLayers vector layer), but I

Re: [OSM-talk] offer of 20m contour data

2010-03-18 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 18 March 2010 11:28, Tim McNamara paperl...@timmcnamara.co.nz wrote: I would love to get my hands on this to support emergency management response. I'm part of the Sahana project, which provides open source disaster planning response tools.. you can read more about the NZ efforts here: 

Re: [OSM-talk] offer of 20m contour data

2010-03-18 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 18 March 2010 10:47, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: i've been offered contours for new zealand under a cc license. the precision is 20m, which i believe is higher than that of the srtm data. how would i go about getting these into osm? from what i can tell, contours are generally

Re: [OSM-talk] offer of 20m contour data

2010-03-18 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 19 March 2010 01:35, Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com wrote: Are you being offered a 20m DEM, or just the contours generated from a DEM? The DEM is more useful (it's a grid of spot-heights) since it can be used to generate hillshading etc too. i don't know what a DEM is unfortunately

[OSM-talk] offer of 20m contour data

2010-03-17 Per discussione Robin Paulson
i've been offered contours for new zealand under a cc license. the precision is 20m, which i believe is higher than that of the srtm data. how would i go about getting these into osm? from what i can tell, contours are generally handled differently to other data

Re: [OSM-talk] coastline within a park

2010-03-06 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 6 March 2010 16:01, Apollinaris Schoell ascho...@gmail.com wrote: landuse? no, i didn't use that. i used leisure=park sure. ahh…  our messy key,tag combinations for areas natural, landuse, leisure … and it's not a national park, only local council we still use it for parks if it's

Re: [OSM-talk] coastline within a park

2010-03-06 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 7 March 2010 13:55, Erik Johansson e...@kth.se wrote: Whoa, had a bad day? When things doesn't doesn't work like you want them to, it's not because the world is a horrible mess. no, not a bad day. previous bad experiences on osm around tagging: everyone's so concentrated on their own small

Re: [OSM-talk] coastline within a park

2010-03-05 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 5 March 2010 20:35, simon msr...@gmail.com wrote: In this case your park have to follow the coastline with the tham node (I have correct it to show you) unfortunately the water is part of the park If it was a park with water in the midle you have to use multipolygone relation

Re: [OSM-talk] coastline within a park

2010-03-05 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 5 March 2010 20:40, Apollinaris Schoell ascho...@gmail.com wrote: Don't use coastline but tag the basin with natural water or any other water type tags like riverbank … hmm, well if we can ignore for a moment the abomination of inconsistency that is water tagging in general and

Re: [OSM-talk] coastline within a park

2010-03-05 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 5 March 2010 20:39, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 5 March 2010 17:17, Robin Paulson robin.paul...@gmail.com wrote: i've recently mapped a park which contains a basin. when the tiles render, the whole area, including the water, renders green. how would i tag this so

Re: [OSM-talk] coastline within a park

2010-03-05 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 6 March 2010 01:41, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: haven't you stated above that the water is part of the park? The multipolygon-relation will exclude the inner from the outer, so IMHO this is not your desired solution... ah, yes. good point. i hadn't understood it

Re: [OSM-talk] coastline within a park

2010-03-05 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 6 March 2010 06:23, Apollinaris Schoell ascho...@gmail.com wrote: Didn't see when zoomed in to your view. clear now from low zoom. you can hack it but that is dirty tagging for the renderer. it is indeed. i'll leave it as is, and come up with some bullshit for when a casual map user asks why

[OSM-talk] coastline within a park

2010-03-04 Per discussione Robin Paulson
i'm after some advice. i know this is potentially tagging for the renderer, but still i've recently mapped a park which contains a basin. when the tiles render, the whole area, including the water, renders green. how would i tag this so the renderer understands the water bit should be treated as

[OSM-talk] facts cannot be copyrighted in australia: discuss

2010-02-14 Per discussione Robin Paulson
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/02/14/0857256/Australian-Judge-Rules-Facts-Cannot-Be-Copyrighted ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] Florist apologises: A florist says changing competitors' details on Google Maps 'became an addiction'.

2010-01-15 Per discussione Robin Paulson
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/3234636/Florist-apologises-to-online-victims a case of the streisand effect? free publicity for google map maker? a salient warning vandals will get caught? ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

[OSM-talk] augmenting contour data with gps track logs

2009-12-28 Per discussione Robin Paulson
the srtm contour data used in some osm renders is great, partic for cyclists and walkers. i've realised that it's not as high accuracy/precision as it might be though. i notice that most GPS devices also record the elevation within their tracklogs, and that it might be useful to extract this data,

Re: [OSM-talk] augmenting contour data with gps track logs

2009-12-28 Per discussione Robin Paulson
2009/12/28 Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org: Pure GPS elevation is worthless due to bad precision (for technical reasons, Z measurement is much worse than X/Y measurement in GPSes). Some GPSes have ok, i didn't realise that. what levels of bad precision are we talking about; i assume it varies

[OSM-talk] how to map flowing water the easy way?

2009-12-22 Per discussione Robin Paulson
i had an idea recently, that it might be possible to map a stream or small river (in an area with poor aerial photo coverage) by using a gps in a waterproof container attached to a flotation device i created a wiki page to collect ideas and criticisms, unfortunately my local streams are all too

Re: [OSM-talk] Is OpenAerialMap service dead?

2009-06-30 Per discussione Robin Paulson
2009/6/13 Stefan de Konink ste...@konink.de: Also - Is OpenStreetPhoto going to be usable for storage of ground level photos of junctions, bridges etc which can be useful for photo route planning or not. The name you have used would lead me to expect that it would, however the project

Re: [Talk-ca] [nzopengis] LINZ - OSM data import scripts, Garmin codes

2009-06-20 Per discussione Robin Paulson
2009/6/19 Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com: You all seem to be having the same (IDENTICAL) issues that im (talk-ca list) are having with the CanVec data, geobase please join in on the talk-ca list as your ideas are valuable, and of mutual benifit :-) right, i'm sure we can learn off

Re: [OSM-talk] Path rendering in the cycleway

2008-09-02 Per discussione Robin Paulson
2008/9/1 Frederik Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ... which can be fixed at a later time, if desired. Trying to create rules why fix it later, that creates extra work? and what do you mean 'fixed'? i thought having them mapped with one of 3 different tagging schemes was a good thing? upfront runs a

[OSM-talk] arbitrary markers on main map

2008-09-01 Per discussione robin paulson
now that auckland's got pretty good coverage, i've been using it for map links to send to people, rather than relying on other services. the problem is, it can be difficult to indicate where exactly i am showing them to go e.g. i sent someone directions to my house, and along with the link to

Re: [OSM-talk] arbitrary markers on main map

2008-09-01 Per discussione robin paulson
John McKerrell wrote: Funnily enough, that link you sent through should actually work and do exactly what you want, I'm not sure why it didn't. This one does: http://openstreetmap.org/?mlat=-36.7mlon=174.75006zoom=15layers=0B0FTFlat=-36.88822lon=174.7553 I don't think there's a

Re: [OSM-talk] arbitrary markers on main map

2008-09-01 Per discussione Robin Paulson
2008/9/1 David Groom [EMAIL PROTECTED]: i'm sure there must be way to do this without mangling urls? Go to the Export tab on www.openstreetmap.org, choose embeddable HTML click add marker to map copy the Iframe output and see the URL it contains David yes, that does the trick -

Re: [OSM-talk] mailing list behavior

2008-08-31 Per discussione robin paulson
Lance Dyas wrote: leblatt wrote: No big deal, but when I hit « reply » on a talk@openstreetmap.org mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org message, it replies to the message originator, not the list. I have to hit “reply all”, and remove the originator. On the French ML, I just have to hit

Re: [OSM-talk] Left and Right - a proposal

2008-08-30 Per discussione robin paulson
Frederik Ramm wrote: My major problem with attaching significance to the direction of ways is the ease with which that direction can and will be changed. We will never have API support for juggling around all sorts of left/right tags (plus oneway, incline and what-have-you), so this is the

Re: [OSM-talk] Correct tagging of church grounds

2008-08-29 Per discussione robin paulson
Gregory wrote: My only thought would be tag as much as you can (carpark, graveyard, buildings, paths, are all quite big) which will give an idea of what's the space been used as. Perhaps the remaining space could be tagged as some green landuse(I assume it has grass trees), although you

[OSM-talk] how not to showcase osm

2008-08-29 Per discussione Robin Paulson
so, there i was with a captive audience (my local lug mailing list), who were expecting to be e-mailed a google maps link for the location of a meetup next week. no, i thought, i'll send them an osm link - auckland's looking pretty good now, i should encourage people to use that so, i fired up

Re: [OSM-talk] Any cyclists interested in a Grand European Sweden-to-Marathon Mapping Relay?

2008-08-28 Per discussione robin paulson
Mike Collinson wrote: This is just for fun but might also raise some useful publicity as quirky stunt. snip - Does not have to be bicycle. Foot, roller-blade, kayak ... could be added if there is interest. what an awesome idea. great way to map, to publicise, to meet other mappers. can

Re: [OSM-talk] Recommended GPS for logs for OSM *and* for vehicle - is there such a beast?

2008-08-28 Per discussione robin paulson
Chris G wrote: I'm after a GPS system which I can use to provide data for OSM maps and as a 'normal' GPS system to tell me where to go when I'm on my motorbike. Is there anything which can provide both facilities or should I give up and buy two separate devices? It's doubtful (to me) if

[OSM-talk] error in osm

2008-08-28 Per discussione robin paulson
i've been getting an error in osm all day, whenever i hit reload, or try to do something in the messages section: --- Application error Change this error message for exceptions thrown outside of an action (like in Dispatcher setups or broken Ruby code) in public/500.html

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik handling of highways that are also landuse...

2008-08-28 Per discussione robin paulson
Steve Chilton wrote: Dermot There are two reasons why your tag combination ought to be able to render correctly as is statement is not valid. Firstly - as Thomas pointed out - mapnik likes one feature per way. Secondly - landuse=grass is not rendered at the moment (because of the vast

Re: [OSM-talk] error in osm

2008-08-28 Per discussione robin paulson
Tom Hughes wrote: robin paulson wrote: i've been getting an error in osm all day, whenever i hit reload, or try to do something in the messages section: --- Application error Change this error message for exceptions thrown outside of an action (like in Dispatcher

Re: [OSM-talk] Left and Right?

2008-08-26 Per discussione Robin Paulson
2008/8/26 Mark Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I disagree with this view. Do you tag post boxes as way nodes? Shops? Telephones? No... So why bus stops? They aren't in the road. They are sites on the side, like all of the above. It makes no sense to tag them as way objects. a good point, and as

Re: [OSM-talk] Left and Right?

2008-08-26 Per discussione Robin Paulson
2008/8/26 Mark Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is 'mapping for renderers' any worse than 'mapping for routers'? both are bad i think Step back from the we're going to use it for routing busses approach a moment; a fair few users may wish to print a map, so the renderers need to do this right. I

Re: [OSM-talk] Left and Right?

2008-08-26 Per discussione Robin Paulson
2008/8/27 Karl Newman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What? Of course it has relevance. The number means nothing without the street. Houses don't have GUIDs. It has to be associated with it's street if you ever want to look it up by address. i'm not sure what a guid is, i assume it's 'globally unique

Re: [OSM-talk] Left and Right?

2008-08-26 Per discussione Robin Paulson
2008/8/27 David Ebling [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I disagree. I might drive up to a post box to post a letter, if I was really lazy. However, unless I'm a bus driver (and let's face it, they're not going to be the main map users) you are unlikely to drive up to a bus stop to get on a bus (unless

Re: [OSM-talk] Left and Right?

2008-08-25 Per discussione Robin Paulson
2008/8/25 Rory McCann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: as for placing the node to one side of the way in order to get the icon to be placed correctly, this sounds a lot like 'tagging for the renderer' Part of it depends. In Ireland, bus stops are frequently marked with a sign on the path. This post is not

Re: [OSM-talk] Left and Right?

2008-08-25 Per discussione Robin Paulson
2008/8/25 Kevin Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: or, consider from the pedestrian's point-of-view: it is assumed for all roads except motorways and where explicitly stated, that there is foot=yes access. in which case, the footpath/sidewalk/pavement is therefore part of the way which represents the

Re: [OSM-talk] service roads as driveways

2008-08-25 Per discussione Robin Paulson
2008/8/25 Lester Caine [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I think that is the key here. The illogical use of 'unclassified' in the UK is what causes the problem. So 'service' was added as a designation for a small road that would probably be 'unclassified' in the rest of the world. We then add 'public' or

[OSM-talk] cycle/footpath

2008-08-25 Per discussione Robin Paulson
while we're on the subject of convoluted tagging schemes for highways, i've always been intrigued by the following combinations, which seem to mean the same thing, but are clearly different: highway=footway cycle=yes highway=cycleway foot=yes is there any difference between these two? is this

Re: [OSM-talk] Left and Right?

2008-08-25 Per discussione Robin Paulson
be a part of the way marking the road, not offset to one side 2008/8/25 Robin Paulson [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008/8/25 Kevin Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: or, consider from the pedestrian's point-of-view: it is assumed for all roads except motorways and where explicitly stated, that there is foot=yes

Re: [OSM-talk] service roads as driveways

2008-08-25 Per discussione Robin Paulson
2008/8/26 Charlie Echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The best way to manage this would be to create generic tags with possibly slightly different meanings in different countries (we have different speed limits in different countries...) This has been managed with primary / secondary / tertiary, which

Re: [OSM-talk] service roads as driveways

2008-08-24 Per discussione Robin Paulson
2008/8/24 Inge Wallin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: i've been using service roads for a variety of small, relatively insignificant roads, such as alleyways between buildings, driveways to stately homes, roads around school/university/hospital campuses and so on, but something else recently has made

Re: [OSM-talk] What Can Be Done With It?

2008-08-24 Per discussione robin paulson
Frederik Ramm wrote: Andy Allan wrote: There's a dozen other pages (Neat Stuff is one) that have a very similar purpose - maybe you could find them and combine them all. I think the Wikipedia guys have various kinds of cleanup drives every now and then. I remember there was a no new

Re: [OSM-talk] Left and Right?

2008-08-24 Per discussione robin paulson
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 stops)? A nearly-approved proposal for a canal-side object has been objected to by someone who thinks that the tag should be on a node which is

[OSM-talk] service roads as driveways

2008-08-23 Per discussione robin paulson
i've been using service roads for a variety of small, relatively insignificant roads, such as alleyways between buildings, driveways to stately homes, roads around school/university/hospital campuses and so on, but something else recently has made me wonder whether to use it more: in auckland,

[OSM-talk] maplint on the main map problems

2008-08-20 Per discussione Robin Paulson
is there a problem with maplint on the front page map of osm? i selected it in the popout box and nothing came up, it hasn't worked for a few days now. i know i was zoomed out far enough, it was zoom 13 ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Height and Elevation

2008-08-15 Per discussione robin paulson
Tom Hughes wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Richard Weait [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have a look at my draft for Elevation and Height tools for OSM. Please help me improve it. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Elevation_and_height I don't really understand what you're

Re: [OSM-talk] latest release of mom

2008-08-12 Per discussione Robin Paulson
2008/8/13 elvin ibbotson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Those of you with mobile phones (especially if they have built-in GPS or you also have a Bluetooth GPS) may be interested to know I have just released the latest version (1.2.5) of my mobile open maps (mom) application. More details at the website or

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetBugs as a layer into OSM main map

2008-08-11 Per discussione robin paulson
Jukka Rahkonen wrote: I would like to to see error reports from OpenStreetBugs as an overlay layer in OSM main map just like Maplint errors. Could it be possible? Even better if error reports could also be done from the main page either by integrating OpenStreetBugs into it or by making

Re: [OSM-talk] What should the OSMF be doing?

2008-08-10 Per discussione robin paulson
Mikel Maron wrote: For the last year a board member of the OSM Foundation. I'm running for re-election. My focus this year would be * Spreading OSM to new parts of the world. Developing nations have the most to benefit from near zero-cost digital mapping. * And increase

Re: [OSM-talk] superways as relations ?

2008-08-05 Per discussione Robin Paulson
2008/8/6 Ben Laenen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tuesday 05 August 2008, Karl Newman wrote: Sounds like you're looking for this: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Relations/Proposed/Segmented_ Tag Segmented tags doesn't solve data duplication for dual carriage ways, or a set of roads with

Re: [OSM-talk] mapping grass

2008-08-01 Per discussione Robin Paulson
2008/8/2 David Earl [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've been doing it as leisure=park too. Why? Because I suggested landuse=grass soon after I started mapping a couple of years ago for exactly the bits between houses where you might otherwise expect houses to be, large traffic islands etc, but I was met

Re: [OSM-talk] Use of landuse-tag

2008-06-29 Per discussione Robin Paulson
2008/6/28 Frederik Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Oh, and BTW and another question: Why can't a police-station cover an entire area, but is restricted to a single node? this is probably just the presets in potlatch - they don't reflect all the possible combinations at the moment If you want to map

Re: [OSM-talk] pronunciation tag

2008-06-24 Per discussione Robin Paulson
2008/6/24 SteveC [EMAIL PROTECTED]: So it would be nice if we could tag how things sound as well as what they're called. GPS devices are starting to try (badly) at speaking out the names of things. Now there are some ways of marking this up already, but they look awful and require a degree

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Graves?

2008-06-24 Per discussione Robin Paulson
2008/6/24 Matthias Urlichs [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Quick question: How do you tag individual graves (either part of a cemetery, or not)? Several cemeteries around here have graves of historic persons; it'd make sense to tag them, if for no other reason than the fact that that the signs leading to

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetBugs

2008-06-17 Per discussione Robin Paulson
2008/6/14 X [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello I just made a tiny tool for fun : http://gpsrevolution.blogspot.com/2008/06/openstreetbugs-eng.html That's not a big thing but I found it useful. Feel free to use it. one thing that would be very useful xav - rather than having 'del mark', an option to

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=turning_circle

2008-06-16 Per discussione Robin Paulson
2008/6/17 Iván Sánchez Ortega [EMAIL PROTECTED]: El Lunes, 16 de Junio de 2008, Inge Wallin escribió: A node that is at the end of a way can have the tag highway=turning_circle. This means that there is room for a car to turn at the end of that way. Isn't that the same as a cul-de-sac?

Re: [OSM-talk] Layer defaults for bridge and tunnel

2008-06-15 Per discussione Robin Paulson
2008/6/15 Susanna Björverud [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, AFAICT the keys bridge and tunnel do currently not assume any default value for layer apart from the normal layer=0 that holds for all objects. While it of course is necessary to be able to specify the layer for both of these keys, it also

Re: [OSM-talk] New template for Proposed features

2008-06-12 Per discussione Robin Paulson
2008/6/13 Nicholas Vetrovec [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Template:Proposal_Page http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposal_Page_test looks good - certainly saves time, and hopefully incites people to include all the information they can - some proposals are

[OSM-talk] osm talk at local LUG

2008-06-09 Per discussione Robin Paulson
i'm thinking of giving a talk at my local LUG in the near future on OSM - we could do with some extra mappers in the area, and any extra OSM publicity is always useful any advice or suggestions on things to include/exclude, focus on, etc? i've had a quick look at some of the lectures in svn which

[OSM-talk] tagging seasonal items

2008-06-06 Per discussione Robin Paulson
i'm mapping a stadium, that is multi-use - depending on the time of year, it gets used for cricket or rugby. is there any way to tag this once, and have the rendering change at the appropriate time of year, from one to the other? will using the date_on and date_off tags work in this way, or are

Re: [OSM-talk] osmarenderer issues

2008-06-01 Per discussione Robin Paulson
2008/6/1 Dodi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: on tah list similar problem and possible solution was shortly discussed here http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tilesathome/2008-May/002176.html Dodi looks useful, will it be implemented? since then, i've seen a few other things crop up:

[OSM-talk] osmarenderer issues

2008-05-30 Per discussione Robin Paulson
i've noticed a few changes recently to the output from osmarender, i'm guessing the the rules have been changed. there's also been a few odd things happening though, including: http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=-36.87498lon=174.74479zoom=17layers=0B0FF

[OSM-talk] online routing service with osm data

2008-05-29 Per discussione Robin Paulson
i saw this today on the openmoko list, not sure why it wasn't announced here as well: http://www.openrouteservice.org/ it's a point and click routing service, using OSM data, pretty similar to google maps. nice interface, and pretty quick to come up with an answer the kicker for me is it allows

Re: [OSM-talk] Overlapping Crossing ways

2008-05-29 Per discussione Robin Paulson
2008/5/30 Mark Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This is another Potlatch grumble - but it's not really Potlatch, it's the internet. I just found a whole lot (really, a lot) of overlapping ways with some really old data (Potlatch alpha before) buried under new versions from Potlatch v0.6a 0.8 -

[OSM-talk] coastline within park

2008-05-28 Per discussione Robin Paulson
i've got a situation come up, that i'm not sure how to map: http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=-36.9241lon=174.77611zoom=17layers=0B0FF this shows a park which is near the coast. it includes an area of water linked, by a man-made tunnel, to the ocean, wholly contained with in the park. previously, it

Re: [OSM-talk] [Tagging] Voting open for Bridge proposal

2008-05-21 Per discussione Robin Paulson
2008/5/22 Gervase Markham [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Alex Mauer wrote: As noted on the talk page, the vote is still open since it has not been open for the requisite 2 weeks. Voting is apparently now on the talk page. The rules for a vote being approved are 15 Yeses, or a unanimous vote of 6 or

Re: [OSM-talk] contours on main map

2008-05-08 Per discussione Robin Paulson
2008/5/8 maning sambale [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Please check out Andy's Cycle Map: http://www.gravitystorm.co.uk/osm/ yeah, i had a look at that first; i should have said i was after worldwide coverage or at least nz. unfortunately, i don't live in western europe

Re: [OSM-talk] golf course marking

2008-05-08 Per discussione Robin Paulson
2008/5/8 David Earl [EMAIL PROTECTED]: It really, really doesn't matter what the names of tags are for how the system works. They might as well be wibble=wobble for the difference it makes. They are useful as memory joggers, but really no more. So long as the meaning is understood (i.e.

Re: [OSM-talk] golf course marking

2008-05-07 Per discussione robin paulson
Erik Johansson wrote: On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 9:10 AM, Robin Paulson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: that golf course proposal looks a way off being complete, maybe wait till it is resolved and passes through voting? or join in the discussion and make some suggestions yourself Why wait, if you

Re: [OSM-talk] golf course marking

2008-05-07 Per discussione robin paulson
Erik Johansson wrote: On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 9:10 AM, Robin Paulson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: that golf course proposal looks a way off being complete, maybe wait till it is resolved and passes through voting? or join in the discussion and make some suggestions yourself Why wait, if you

Re: [OSM-talk] golf course marking

2008-05-07 Per discussione robin paulson
Erik Johansson wrote: On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 9:10 AM, Robin Paulson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: that golf course proposal looks a way off being complete, maybe wait till it is resolved and passes through voting? or join in the discussion and make some suggestions yourself Why wait, if you

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