Re: [Talk-transit] East Lothian Bus Stops lack any details on the ground

2009-09-24 Per discussione Frankie Roberto
2009/9/23 Shaun McDonald sh...@shaunmcdonald.me.uk Yesterday I was out checking a few bus stops in East Lothian (cycling from Musselburgh out along the coast to North Berwick). Pretty much all of them had no information other than a flag which said that buses stop here and that you are in

Re: [Talk-transit] East Lothian Bus Stops lack any details on the ground

2009-09-24 Per discussione Shaun McDonald
On 23 Sep 2009, at 23:50, Peter Miller wrote: On 23 Sep 2009, at 19:32, Shaun McDonald wrote: Hi, Yesterday I was out checking a few bus stops in East Lothian (cycling from Musselburgh out along the coast to North Berwick). Pretty much all of them had no information other than a flag which

[Talk-transit] NaPTAN in Nottingham Notts: early use of the data

2009-09-24 Per discussione Jerry Clough - OSM
I've now had a few days to contemplate the Nottingham Notts NaPTAN data, so I thought I'd write quick summary of what I've been doing. Feedback and suggestions all most welcome. * Use the data to name noname roads. I managed to resolve quite a number of unnamed road issues thanks to

Re: [Talk-transit] NaPTAN in Nottingham Notts: early use of the data

2009-09-24 Per discussione Thomas Wood
2009/9/24 Jerry Clough - OSM sk53_...@yahoo.co.uk: I've now had a few days to contemplate the Nottingham Notts NaPTAN data, so I thought I'd write quick summary of what I've been doing. Feedback and suggestions all most welcome. Use the data to name noname roads. I managed to resolve quite

[Talk-transit] Railway. Source= GPS

2009-09-24 Per discussione d f
Hi I've seen a few railway ways where it says the source is GPS. I've tried a couple of times but got absolutely no signal. I guess the roof of the carriages are shielded. Short of sticking an aerial on the roof or walking the tracks, what tips could you give me to get a recording of my

Re: [Talk-us-bayarea] [Talk-us] U.S. Local Chapters

2009-09-24 Per discussione Sarah Manley
Agreed. Steve-- can you set up a conference call? Also, would be good if more folks sign up on committees. I think going forward calls may work best on a committee level, with notes sent out here. I am now volunteering at the wikimedia foundation, so I can probably ask for a help from one of

Re: [Talk-hr] Novi renderer - http://www.mapsurfer.net/

2009-09-24 Per discussione Darko Boto
2009/9/24 Valent Turkovic valent.turko...@gmail.com: On Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:08:38 +0200, Darko Boto wrote:  Jedino sto jos nisam probao mapnikov BuildingSymbolizer koji isto renda pseudo 3d objekte pa ne mogu reci koji to bolje radi. Znam da mapnik u BuildingSymbolizer ima fill-opacity

[Talk-hr] Dopisi firmama za slobodno koristenje njihovih podataka

2009-09-24 Per discussione hbogner
OK, jel netko pisao kakav dopis u tom smislu? Treba mi mala pomoc oko toga jer kolege rade u nekim firmama i spremni su pomoci oko toga ali treba nam nesto na pismeno. ___ Talk-hr mailing list Talk-hr@openstreetmap.org

Re: [talk-ph] MAJOR PROBLEM in San Fernando, Pampanga portion

2009-09-24 Per discussione Ronny Ager-Wick - Develo Ltd.
Something that strikes me as odd here is that it seems impossible to go north on MacArthur through this intersection. I am pretty sure I've gone north there myself on several occasions, but it's a while ago aand I'm back in London now so I can't verify. Can someone local verify this? Also, I'm

Re: [talk-ph] MAJOR PROBLEM in San Fernando, Pampanga portion

2009-09-24 Per discussione maning sambale
Yeah, it's messy. I didn't touch because I don't know what's actually on the ground. Only local mappers can edit that intersection On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Ronny Ager-Wick - Develo Ltd. r...@develo.ltd.uk wrote: Something that strikes me as odd here is that it seems impossible to go

Re: [talk-ph] MAJOR PROBLEM in San Fernando, Pampanga portion

2009-09-24 Per discussione maning sambale
Can ingguana be specific with his misalignment with the maps? What map is mentioned here? On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 7:32 PM, Jun Martin jun.mar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Maning and others, ingguana wrote back: Jun, Looks like I had a misalignment with the maps I used. I will try to do a

Re: [OSM-talk-be] zoominopuwdak

2009-09-24 Per discussione Johan Van de Wauw
Die huisnummers per perceel zitten in de CRAB databank: http://www.agiv.be/gis/projecten/?artid=94 Van de overheid dus. 2009/9/24 Luc Van den Troost luc.a...@gmail.com: Voor zover ik kon zien zijn de 'foto's' een samenvoeging van 5 verschillende data. 1. een 'traditionele' luchtfoto. Deze

Re: [OSM-talk] Should Bridges be independent of their ways?

2009-09-24 Per discussione Anthony
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 8:57 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/9/22 Anthony o...@inbox.org: It is possible to represent different surfaces and different maxspeeds without using more than one way. maxspeed:lane=130;110; surface:lane=asphalt;concrete. That's not

[OSM-talk] Potlatch doing source=GPS in error?

2009-09-24 Per discussione John Smith
As best as we can tell the wiki only covers source=survey which is on the map features page so why does potlatch use source=GPS? ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] trunk_link ref=*

2009-09-24 Per discussione Konrad Skeri
I'd say the one it's going to. Though I have no special arguments to why. Konrad torsdagen den 24 september 2009 02.28.00 skrev talk- requ...@openstreetmap.org: Hi I've trunk_link going form one trunk to another. They have different references. Do I add a ref=*. If so which one? The one

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] The OpenStreetMap website is now translatable at Translatewiki

2009-09-24 Per discussione Erik Johansson
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 1:52 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ava...@gmail.com wrote: To add Potlatch some internal changes need to be done in Potlatch itself. I've filed a bug detailing what these are:    http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/2304 I've now fixed Potlatch up so that it can be

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch doing source=GPS in error?

2009-09-24 Per discussione Ed Loach
John wrote: As best as we can tell the wiki only covers source=survey which is on the map features page so why does potlatch use source=GPS? We? Anyway, you all seem to have missed source=User Defined on map features and the whole of the Key:source page. While GPS isn't specifically

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch doing source=GPS in error?

2009-09-24 Per discussione John Smith
2009/9/24 Ed Loach e...@loach.me.uk: We? The talk-au list Anyway, you all seem to have missed source=User Defined on map It also says on the map features page: You can use any tags you like as long as the values are verifiable. However, there is a benefit in agreeing to a recommended set of

Re: [OSM-talk] Field boundaries

2009-09-24 Per discussione Nick Whitelegg
Hi Mike, OS one-inch (or 1:50k) mapping does not show field boundaries. But is anyone working on out-of-copyright 1:25k (or larger scale) mapping? Mike Harris I believe Andy R is. Field boundaries would also be a great help in the 3D navigation stuff I'm working on. I think most people who

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch doing source=GPS in error?

2009-09-24 Per discussione Shaun McDonald
On 24 Sep 2009, at 09:04, John Smith wrote: 2009/9/24 Ed Loach e...@loach.me.uk: We? The talk-au list Anyway, you all seem to have missed source=User Defined on map It also says on the map features page: You can use any tags you like as long as the values are verifiable. However, there

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch doing source=GPS in error?

2009-09-24 Per discussione John Smith
2009/9/24 Shaun McDonald sh...@shaunmcdonald.me.uk: It does not matter if it is documented. When you read source=GPS you can be pretty sure that you understand what it means. In this case survey and gps are synomonous, also I can't verify a GPS was in fact used if people move the way due to

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch doing source=GPS in error?

2009-09-24 Per discussione Someoneelse
John Smith wrote: Unless you want to go to significant effort thaere is no point stating gps over survey. In fact stating GPS could be slightly misleading, you have no idea what type of gps was used, any additional techniques to improve from the talk-au list:

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch doing source=GPS in error?

2009-09-24 Per discussione John Smith
2009/9/24 Someoneelse li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk: I think that it's easy to get too prescriptive... I'm not suggesting anyone do any of that, I'm pointing out how silly it is to say gps is more precise than saying survey. ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch doing source=GPS in error?

2009-09-24 Per discussione John Smith
2009/9/24 Shaun McDonald sh...@shaunmcdonald.me.uk: The source tag has been in use for the past 3+ years and no one has made such a fuss over it as you. You missed all the fun and excitment on the talk-au list today. The hdop and pdop will vary widely across the track, thus it would be

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch doing source=GPS in error?

2009-09-24 Per discussione Jonas Häggqvist
John Smith wrote: 2009/9/24 Someoneelse li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk: I think that it's easy to get too prescriptive... I'm not suggesting anyone do any of that, I'm pointing out how silly it is to say gps is more precise than saying survey. source=GPS is a more precise description of the

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch doing source=GPS in error?

2009-09-24 Per discussione Shaun McDonald
On 24 Sep 2009, at 12:54, John Smith wrote: 2009/9/24 Someoneelse li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk: I think that it's easy to get too prescriptive... I'm not suggesting anyone do any of that, I'm pointing out how silly it is to say gps is more precise than saying survey. A survey could mean

Re: [OSM-talk] Field boundaries

2009-09-24 Per discussione Dave F.
I believe Andy R is. Field boundaries would also be a great help in the 3D navigation stuff I'm working on. I think most people who map the countryside do map gates and stiles btw. Nick We do, but sometimes that's not quite enough. I had a path that ran parallel to a hedge but there was

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch doing source=GPS in error?

2009-09-24 Per discussione John Smith
2009/9/24 Shaun McDonald sh...@shaunmcdonald.me.uk: A survey could mean a walking papers style survey without a gps. Wouldn't that be an observation, a survey is physically surveying something... ? ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch doing source=GPS in error?

2009-09-24 Per discussione John Smith
2009/9/24 Jonas Häggqvist ras...@rasher.dk: John Smith wrote: 2009/9/24 Someoneelse li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk: I think that it's easy to get too prescriptive... I'm not suggesting anyone do any of that, I'm pointing out how silly it is to say gps is more precise than saying survey.

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch doing source=GPS in error?

2009-09-24 Per discussione Dave F.
John Smith wrote: Wouldn't that be an observation, a survey is physically surveying something... ? What is a survey but observing your surroundings? (And recording them, which is what a walking paper entails). Even with high-tec recoding equipment, most surveyors (in UK) still have

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch doing source=GPS in error?

2009-09-24 Per discussione Liz
On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Jonas Häggqvist wrote: source=GPS is a more precise description of the source than source=survey. it isn't precise at all gps is a subset of survey but it leaves a lot to be desired in terms of precision if you think that precision will help you will need far more

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch doing source=GPS in error?

2009-09-24 Per discussione John Smith
2009/9/24 Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com: What is a survey but observing your surroundings? (And recording them, which is what a walking paper entails). Lets face it, most surveyed paths are made by consumer grade GPS receivers, and street names surveyed are by observation, so source=survey

Re: [OSM-talk] Field boundaries

2009-09-24 Per discussione Mike Harris
Nick Sounds great and as if I should be very grateful to Andy R! As a sort-of 'countryside mapper' I do try to include stiles, kissing gates (would be nice to have them rendered some time), gates, footbridges, steps, tracktype - and where relevant to a special path difficulty short sections of

Re: [OSM-talk] Satellite for OSM

2009-09-24 Per discussione John Smith
I wonder what one of these retail for: http://www.snotr.com/video/619 Apparently can autonomously hover at 20,000ft for 3 weeks with a 1 ton payload of surveliance equipment http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/09/24/0521225/250-Foot-Hybrid-Airship-To-Spy-Over-Afghanistan

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetView

2009-09-24 Per discussione malenki
Richard Bullock wrote: Also, I've mistakenly uploaded an image without geolocation in the exif (I haven't pushed it towards moderation yet). Any chance we could have the option to remove an image? My suggestion: be able to delete the picture if it is you own or if 2 or three have marked it as

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch doing source=GPS in error?

2009-09-24 Per discussione Apollinaris Schoell
you might be shocked. I rarely add this info. many edits are a mix of gps, yahoo tracing, best guess, averaging and interpolation with other existing data, topo maps if free version available, free shape files. why would I add all this info? just a lot of work with no benefit. we are not

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch doing source=GPS in error?

2009-09-24 Per discussione John Smith
2009/9/25 Apollinaris Schoell ascho...@gmail.com: you might be shocked. I rarely add this info. many edits are a mix of gps, yahoo tracing, best guess, averaging and interpolation  with other existing data, topo maps if free version available, free shape files. why would I add all this info?

Re: [OSM-talk] Satellite for OSM

2009-09-24 Per discussione Rob
The OpenGeo Foundation in the Netherlands are also doing tests with quadcopters and fixed wing (3m) rc planes for aerial photography Best regards Rob, OpenGeo.nl 2009/9/24 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com: I wonder what one of these retail for: http://www.snotr.com/video/619 Apparently

Re: [OSM-talk] Field boundaries

2009-09-24 Per discussione Mike Harris
Dave makes a good point - the most important thing for walkers in farmed rural areas is often to know on which side of the hedge / fence they ought to be. OS 1:25k is fairly useless for this as the difference between one side of the hedge and the other is usually less than the registration error

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch doing source=GPS in error?

2009-09-24 Per discussione Emilie Laffray
2009/9/24 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com if someone likes to add it so let them do it. osm means open What does street map mean? I don't think that sticking to the name will get us anywhere. OSM has reached a stage where we are not just mapping streets any more. I mean we have

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetView - documentation?

2009-09-24 Per discussione malenki
Jeremy Adams wrote: You'll find most of the documentation on the wiki at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org. This mailing list you've posted to is the primary source of discussion. There are other lists as well for more specific topics (newbies, legal, etc) as well as for specific countries. The OP

Re: [OSM-talk] Field boundaries

2009-09-24 Per discussione Dave F.
Mike Harris wrote: Dave makes a good point - the most important thing for walkers in farmed rural areas is often to know on which side of the hedge / fence they ought to be. OS 1:25k is fairly useless for this as the difference between one side of the hedge and the other is usually less than

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetView

2009-09-24 Per discussione malenki
John McKerrell wrote: On 22 Sep 2009, at 17:44, malenki wrote: It would be nice to have p...@openstreetmap.org on gmane. I'm not actually sure what you mean by this, is it something I need to set up for the pho...@openstreetmap.org mailing list? This is the place where you can subscribe the ML

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetView

2009-09-24 Per discussione John McKerrell
On 24 Sep 2009, at 15:51, malenki wrote: Richard Bullock wrote: Also, I've mistakenly uploaded an image without geolocation in the exif (I haven't pushed it towards moderation yet). Any chance we could have the option to remove an image? My suggestion: be able to delete the picture if

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetView - documentation?

2009-09-24 Per discussione John McKerrell
On 24 Sep 2009, at 18:25, malenki wrote: Jeremy Adams wrote: You'll find most of the documentation on the wiki at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org. This mailing list you've posted to is the primary source of discussion. There are other lists as well for more specific topics (newbies,

Re: [OSM-talk] Train station names: Place Station ou just Place ?

2009-09-24 Per discussione John McKerrell
On the subject of railway stations. I think it would be good if tagged them with their reference codes (no idea what the correct term is), all the stations in the UK have codes and if you know them it's quicker to use them while searching. I'm not such a geek I know all of them but the

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch doing source=GPS in error?

2009-09-24 Per discussione Dave F.
Emilie Laffray wrote: 2009/9/24 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com mailto:deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com if someone likes to add it so let them do it. osm means open What does street map mean? I don't think that sticking to the name will get us anywhere. OSM has reached a

[OSM-talk] Distance to opacity (OT)

2009-09-24 Per discussione Laurence Penney
Was Re: [OSM-talk] Should Bridges be independent of their ways? Well, let's take this intersection: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=qie=UTF8layer=ccbll=-26.124795,152.574151panoid=H08s6qv1gLXcd8hGtNhvwgcbp=12,333.55,,0,2.6ll=-26.124704,152.574123spn=0,359.996175z=18 OT... ... but I couldn't help

Re: [OSM-talk] Distance to opacity (OT)

2009-09-24 Per discussione Ian Dees
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Laurence Penney l...@lorp.org wrote: Was Re: [OSM-talk] Should Bridges be independent of their ways? Well, let's take this intersection:

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch doing source=GPS in error?

2009-09-24 Per discussione Emilie Laffray
Dave F. wrote: Emilie Laffray wrote: 2009/9/24 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com mailto:deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com if someone likes to add it so let them do it. osm means open What does street map mean? I don't think that sticking to the name will get us anywhere.

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch doing source=GPS in error?

2009-09-24 Per discussione Liz
On Fri, 25 Sep 2009, Apollinaris Schoell wrote: you might be shocked. I rarely add this info. many edits are a mix of gps, yahoo tracing, best guess, averaging and interpolation with other existing data, topo maps if free version available, free shape files. why would I add all this

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetView

2009-09-24 Per discussione John McKerrell
On 23 Sep 2009, at 20:16, malenki wrote: John McKerrell wrote: On 22 Sep 2009, at 17:44, malenki wrote: | There was an error saving your changes Odd, I'll take a look, can you paste the URL to the thumbnail to help me identify it? Impossible at the moment, OSV looks like this both in

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetView

2009-09-24 Per discussione John McKerrell
On 23 Sep 2009, at 21:27, Richard Bullock wrote: [still not enough :)] For moderating: right now I moderated several photos until I cam onto a visible license plate. This I masked and added the tag licenceplate, left the masking area, clicked mark as safe and save - and then an

Re: [OSM-talk] Distance to opacity (OT)

2009-09-24 Per discussione Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Ian Dees wrote: Sent: 24 September 2009 9:35 PM To: Laurence Penney Cc: Talk OSM Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Distance to opacity (OT) On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Laurence Penney l...@lorp.org wrote: Was Re: [OSM-talk] Should Bridges be independent of their ways? Well, let's

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch doing source=GPS in error?

2009-09-24 Per discussione Pieren
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 10:57 PM, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: It is really important for us aussie mappers to know whether a road has been genuiinely surveyed - that is someone went there as opposed to traced from Landsat images. Then ask people to use highway=road if they don't survey from

Re: [OSM-talk] Evolution of a map

2009-09-24 Per discussione Eddy Petrișor
Eddy Petrișor a scris: Habib Habib a scris: Hi guys, Is there a tool which shows the evolution of a region in time (i.e. show how the number of ways, points changed and increased in a period of time), as an animated slide, or as a series of map tiles each taken at a different point in time?

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch doing source=GPS in error?

2009-09-24 Per discussione John Smith
2009/9/25 Pieren pier...@gmail.com: On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 10:57 PM, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: It is really important for us aussie mappers to know whether a road has been genuiinely surveyed - that is someone went there as opposed to traced from Landsat images. Then ask people to use

Re: [OSM-talk] Distance to opacity (OT)

2009-09-24 Per discussione Laurence Penney
On 24 Sep 2009, at 22:35, Ian Dees wrote: Their streetview cars also use LIDAR to get a depthmap as they drive. They're surely not transmitting LIDAR 3D data to the Street View Flash viewer. I wonder what the minimum would be for this effect. I doubt that steps (a return to a horizontal

Re: [OSM-talk] trunk_link ref=*

2009-09-24 Per discussione Cartinus
On Thursday 24 September 2009 00:16:14 Dave F. wrote: I've trunk_link going form one trunk to another. They have different references. Do I add a ref=*. If so which one? The one it's leaving or the one it's going to? The others responded to the second question. But I think the first question

Re: [OSM-talk-nl] hier.nl mobiel

2009-09-24 Per discussione Henk Hoff
Berichtje van Nulaz binnen: Naamsvermelding wordt aangepast. Gr, Henk Op 23 september 2009 13:50 heeft Henk Hoff toffeh...@gmail.com het volgende geschreven: Ik kom er net achter dat de mobiele toepassing een samenwerking is van Ilse Media met Nulaz. Henk Op 23 september 2009 13:05 heeft

Re: [OSM-talk-nl] OSM op Garmin vragen

2009-09-24 Per discussione Lambertus
Fijn dat je de Garmin kaart weet te waarderen! :-) 1. STRM (of ASTER) zou ik graag willen gebruiken maar ik heb simpelweg niet de ruimte om dat te verwerken (Als ik het doe is het meteen wereldwijd). Als er toch een moment komt waarop ik denk dat het kan zal het waarschijnlijk een

Re: [OSM-talk-nl] OSM op Garmin vragen

2009-09-24 Per discussione Martijn Coenen
Lambertus schreef: 5. Voor het renderen van de kaarten wordt de standaard stylesheet van Mkgmap gebruikt. Die laat kennelijk de gemeente grenzen zien en er zijn meer mensen die er 'last' van hebben. Ik ben er aan gewend geraakt op mijn Garmin ;) Maar zoals is geschreven heeft het voor de

[OSM-talk-nl] huisnummers controle

2009-09-24 Per discussione Floris Looijesteijn
beste mede huisnummer invoerders, deze tool is recent op het forum gepost, erg handig: http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/?view=addresseslon=4.88371lat=52.37944zoom=17 (ja er zit inderdaad incomplete data in :) groet, floris ___ Talk-nl mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk-nl] huisnummers controle

2009-09-24 Per discussione Sybren A . Stüvel
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 10:02:24PM +0200, Rejo Zenger wrote: - Ligt het aan mij of is het vastleggen van de interpolatie op een een way met op de ene node een 2 en op de andere node een 4 als huisnummer inderdaad gewoon handig? Bovenstaande tool zegt dat interpolatie overbodig is. Lijkt

Re: [talk-au] More on the survey tag

2009-09-24 Per discussione Dan O#39;Hara
Hi all I'm still a relative newcomer to OSM (and am still in wonder at the complexity and enormity of the task!) and have found this discussion quite interesting. I only use Potlatch as I was advised it was simple, and for beginners, and it loaded by default in the edit screen. I use an

Re: [talk-au] The source tag [Was] More on the survey tag

2009-09-24 Per discussione Ross Scanlon
On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:35:56 +1000 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/9/24 Ross Scanlon i...@4x4falcon.com: so who's aerial_photography is it? Those may need an attributation=* tag, should be easy enough to work out where they came from. A quick look shows

Re: [talk-au] More on the survey tag

2009-09-24 Per discussione John Smith
2009/9/24 Dan O#39;Hara detect...@yahoo.com.au: GPS.  I started only using the tag source=survey until Potltach added the GPS tag.  I thought that the Wiki had simply not been updated but that some I've mailed the main talk list over this, no doubt it'll end up in a pointless debate, either

Re: [talk-au] More on the survey tag

2009-09-24 Per discussione Ross Scanlon
I'm still a relative newcomer to OSM (and am still in wonder at the complexity and enormity of the task!) and have found this discussion quite interesting. I only use Potlatch as I was advised it was simple, and for beginners, and it loaded by default in the edit screen. I use an

Re: [talk-au] More on the survey tag

2009-09-24 Per discussione John Smith
2009/9/24 Dan O#39;Hara detect...@yahoo.com.au: From what I've read I now will go back to source=survey and add the tag survey=gps.  I will consider further the advantages of further definition to GPS type (I think that could well end up in a Commodore/Falcon and Landcruiser/Patrol debate).

Re: [talk-au] More on the survey tag

2009-09-24 Per discussione Liz
On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, John Smith wrote: You're blowing smoke, it's obvious source=gps is the same thing as source=survey, however source=survey is a core set of features and already in wide spread and common usage. If you think in the Venn diagram source=survey is a big box source=gps is a

Re: [talk-au] More on the survey tag

2009-09-24 Per discussione John Smith
2009/9/24 Liz ed...@billiau.net: If you think in the Venn diagram source=survey is a big box source=gps is a subset of that box and then some other subsets of gps would be needed GPS on it's own isn't more meaningful either, not without knowing the hardware used, since most surveys will be

[talk-au] http://maposmatic.org/

2009-09-24 Per discussione Liz
http://maposmatic.org/ John ! I want! It says it needs translation from French and some organisation of admin boundaries... OK Please John, how can we have this for Australia? How can we help make this happen for us? ___ Talk-au mailing list

Re: [talk-au] TidyMyStreet

2009-09-24 Per discussione Liz
On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, cam_...@fastmail.fm wrote: Another thing I'd like to do is to generate a street map (with a grid reference of all the roads) of a council boundary, there's a few utilities that can do that already, but they're not terribly well supported / user friendly just yet, but in

Re: [talk-au] More on the survey tag

2009-09-24 Per discussione Mark Pulley
On 24/09/2009, at 2:07 PM, Ross Scanlon wrote: I'd prefer to stick to the guidelines, rather than making up tags - as long as I know what the guidelines actually are! Then RTFW There's no need to be rude. The obvious place to look at the wiki is

[talk-au] What's the best way to edit on holidays?

2009-09-24 Per discussione Mark Pulley
In the past when I have gone on holidays, I have uploaded the GPS tracks at the end, then (usually over a couple of weeks) added the roads via Potlatch using audio annotations made during the trip. I have been thinking about whether there is a better way. I might be going to Flinders

[talk-au] Great Western Highway relation question

2009-09-24 Per discussione Mark Pulley
I recently added a relation for the Great Western Highway (Bathurst to Lapstone), and extended the existing NR32 relation to Lapstone (stopping where NR32/Great Western Highway becomes M4/Western Motorway). The Great Western Highway does continue further, although there is a break between

Re: [talk-au] More on the survey tag

2009-09-24 Per discussione John Smith
2009/9/24 Mark Pulley mrpul...@lizzy.com.au: on http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features but it's not exactly the most obvious place to look. That should be the first place to look, not the last. ___ Talk-au mailing list

Re: [talk-au] What's the best way to edit on holidays?

2009-09-24 Per discussione John Smith
2009/9/24 Mark Pulley mrpul...@lizzy.com.au: There is one major snag that I can see - prior to uploading I will need to download any changes made since I initially downloaded the data. (For the overseas trip this would be several weeks worth of changes, although I'm sure not much would change

Re: [talk-au] Great Western Highway relation question

2009-09-24 Per discussione John Smith
2009/9/24 Mark Pulley mrpul...@lizzy.com.au: I recently added a relation for the Great Western Highway (Bathurst to Lapstone), and extended the existing NR32 relation to Lapstone (stopping where NR32/Great Western Highway becomes M4/Western Motorway). The Great Western Highway does continue

Re: [talk-au] More on the survey tag

2009-09-24 Per discussione Ross Scanlon
On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:11:30 +1000 Mark Pulley mrpul...@lizzy.com.au wrote: On 24/09/2009, at 2:07 PM, Ross Scanlon wrote: I'd prefer to stick to the guidelines, rather than making up tags - as long as I know what the guidelines actually are! Then RTFW There's no need to be rude.

[talk-au] source=lansat

2009-09-24 Per discussione Ross Scanlon
I noticed in tagwatch that there are some source tags that have values lansat. Is this an incorrect entry for landsat? It seems to be about 3 or 4 users that have entered these. Google references the nasa landsat page or a definition of a type of berry. -- Cheers Ross

Re: [talk-au] source=lansat

2009-09-24 Per discussione John Smith
2009/9/24 Ross Scanlon i...@4x4falcon.com: I noticed in tagwatch that there are some source tags that have values lansat. Is this an incorrect entry for landsat? I'm guessing so, and it's easy with JOSM at least to replicate these errors with it's auto complete based on what tags are already

Re: [talk-au] source=lansat

2009-09-24 Per discussione Ross Scanlon
On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:25:52 +1000 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/9/24 Ross Scanlon i...@4x4falcon.com: I noticed in tagwatch that there are some source tags that have values lansat. Is this an incorrect entry for landsat? I'm guessing so, and it's easy with JOSM at

[talk-au] Great Western Highway relation question

2009-09-24 Per discussione Mark Pulley
I recently added a relation for the Great Western Highway (Bathurst to Lapstone), and extended the existing NR32 relation to Lapstone (stopping where NR32/Great Western Highway becomes M4/Western Motorway). The Great Western Highway does continue further, although there is a break between

Re: [talk-au] http://maposmatic.org/

2009-09-24 Per discussione James Andrewartha
On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, John Smith wrote: 2009/9/24 Liz ed...@billiau.net: http://maposmatic.org/ John ! I want! It says it needs translation from French and some organisation of admin boundaries... OK Please John, how can we have this for Australia? How can we help make this

Re: [talk-au] More on the survey tag

2009-09-24 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 10:11 PM, Mark Pulley mrpul...@lizzy.com.au wrote: The obvious place to look at the wiki is http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:source - however on this page even source=survey is missing. I'm with Mark - this should be cleaned up, preferably by someone who has a

Re: [talk-au] What's the best way to edit on holidays?

2009-09-24 Per discussione Liz
On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Mark Pulley wrote: (I should be able to complete the Antarctica highway system on the trip :-P ) Now to be able to say that I have completed the entire highway for a continent singlehanded surely is better than North Star for completing a town

Re: [talk-au] More on the survey tag

2009-09-24 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net wrote: ideas for subsets gps_chip=antaris/sirfstar3/mediatek/trimble/ gps_model= hdop= pdop= (precision would be some rough figure for the track, i wouldn't want to see them on each single node) May I suggest adding

Re: [talk-au] More on the survey tag

2009-09-24 Per discussione Elizabeth Dodd
On Fri, 25 Sep 2009, Roy Wallace wrote: On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net wrote: ideas for subsets gps_chip=antaris/sirfstar3/mediatek/trimble/ gps_model= hdop= pdop= (precision would be some rough figure for the track, i wouldn't want to see them on

Re: [talk-au] Bugs - TidyMyStreet

2009-09-24 Per discussione Lindley Bowers
Awesome, bugs.bigtincan.com (TidyMyStreet) is working again, thanks :). I'll continue popping up council errors, most notably street sign problems there. So far the reception by the two councils I've rung up to submit the problems with the street signs has been very well received. Thanks again

Re: [talk-au] More on the survey tag

2009-09-24 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 8:02 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: just for fun I've printed out a walking-papers page and am going to see if it is any use for tagging shops in a suburban strip shopping strip and then how will I define the survey= source=survey survey=observation

[talk-au] comments on being argumentative

2009-09-24 Per discussione Liz
there have been a few comments made on John Smith being persistent in argument. http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Richard/diary/8032 Comment: should have fixed the date of birth ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org

Re: [talk-au] More on the survey tag

2009-09-24 Per discussione Elizabeth Dodd
On Fri, 25 Sep 2009, Roy Wallace wrote: On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 6:53 AM, Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net wrote: Roy i'm not really suggesting tag forms but a logical set of the tags so if we made up a wiki page on how to be obsessional with tagging the source of data we would need to set

Re: [talk-au] More on the survey tag

2009-09-24 Per discussione Roy Wallace
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 6:58 AM, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 8:02 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: just for fun I've printed out a walking-papers page and am going to see if it is any use for tagging shops in a suburban strip shopping strip

Re: [talk-au] http://maposmatic.org/

2009-09-24 Per discussione John Smith
2009/9/25 James Andrewartha tr...@tartarus.uwa.edu.au: It's Python using Django and PostGIS (a PostgreSQL addon). http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/maposmatic/ocitysmap.git/tree/ http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/maposmatic.git/tree/ as linked off http://maposmatic.org/about/ PostGIS is just

Re: [talk-au] comments on being argumentative

2009-09-24 Per discussione John Smith
2009/9/25 Liz ed...@billiau.net: there have been a few comments made on John Smith being persistent in argument. http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Richard/diary/8032 Comment: should have fixed the date of birth You mean I beat out Roy for the prize, I feel so honoured! ;)

Re: [talk-au] More on the survey tag

2009-09-24 Per discussione John Smith
Something else worth noting, as I've been doing postcode boundaries I've noticed some people have wiped some of the ABS tags so they could do their roads or what not. I've added them back in as it's only fair to attribute the ABS for their data but has anyone else noticed this at all, or even

[Talk-br] Estação de metrô mapeada ao extrem o

2009-09-24 Per discussione Arlindo Pereira
Durante uma aula chata na faculdade... http://osm.org/go/OVcx2IIU3-- ;) -- Arlindo Saraiva Pereira Jr. Bacharelando em Sistemas de Informação - UNIRIO - uniriotec.br Consultor de Software Livre da Uniriotec Consultoria - uniriotec.com Acadêmico: arlindo.pere...@uniriotec.br Profissional:

Re: [Talk-de] Server

2009-09-24 Per discussione Frederik Ramm
Hallo, Matthias Versen wrote: Der macht derzeit so grob 1 Million Edits am Tag, und das wird noch bis schaetzungsweise Ende November so weitergehen. Allerdings stehen diesem Datenbank-Stress dann auch handfeste Vorteile bei der Verarbeitung von Planetfiles gegenueber, ich zitiere aus einem

Re: [Talk-de] Fwd: Mapper bei Ludwigshafen gesucht

2009-09-24 Per discussione Frederik Ramm
Hallo, Carsten Niehaus wrote: Ich wurde von Contargo GmbH Co. KG in Ludwigshafen angesprochen. Frau Petermann (siehe CC) sucht Personen, die auf dem Gelände der Contargo GmbH alles kartieren. Im Idealfall wäre das zum Beispiel eine Schule mit einem engagierten Informatik- oder

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