[Talk-ca] Toronto Hack Weekend needs you

2012-03-10 Per discussione Richard Weait
Dear all, The Toronto Hack Weekend starts on Friday 16 March 2012 and it keeps getting better. All we need now is you. If you are coming, add yourself to the wiki. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Toronto_Hack_Weekend_March_2012 We have added a Friday afternoon presentation and QA for those

[Talk-us] Toronto Hack Weekend is closer than you think

2012-03-10 Per discussione Richard Weait
Dear all, Toronto?!? I hear you exclaim. Toronto is far away! It's, like, America's hat or something! Not so fast. Toronto is closer that any other OSM event you have attended, unless you live in Denver. From Buffalo, NY you can be in Toronto in under 2 hours. Every regional US airport can

Re: [OSM-talk] No attribution on osm.org?

2012-03-09 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 8:59 AM, Floris Looijesteijn o...@floris.nu wrote: [ ... ] I fiddled around with the code and it's no problem to just add it, but I'm hesitant to submit a patch if the majority doesn't agree. Should I set up a poll? No. You should join the License Working Group. :-)

Re: [Talk-us] MapQuest Open Maps

2012-03-08 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: On 3/8/2012 3:03 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Nathan Edgars IInerou...@gmail.com  wrote: Yes, but when a local insists on tagging it one way, what's one to do? Let 'em know about

Re: [Talk-ca] Cleanup

2012-03-06 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: From: Richard Weait [mailto:rich...@weait.com] Sent: Friday, March 02, 2012 5:42 AM Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Cleanup On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 4:10 AM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Richard

Re: [Talk-ca] Cleanup

2012-03-02 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 4:10 AM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: I suggest that we can have more tainted data removed automatically, It appears that the bot is deleting ways more extensive than those proposed. Ah

Re: [Talk-ca] Intro and a question

2012-03-01 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Steve Roy st...@ssni.ca wrote: Hi I thought I’d introduce myself and also ask a couple of questions. The others have already given you good advice. So, Welcome! :-) ___ Talk-ca mailing list

[Talk-ca] Toronto Hack Weekend - Countdown

2012-03-01 Per discussione Richard Weait
The Toronto Hack Weekend is coming up in two weeks. It's going to be pretty darn good. We've got a super venue, with tons of space and rock solid wifi; The Ryerson University Geography department is hosting us. Should you join us in Toronto? Absolutely. Sign up on the wiki now.

Re: [Talk-ca] Cleanup

2012-02-29 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: The first pass on the clean up started a few hours ago. It's complete now. The summary of the bulk removal is as follows: About 66% of the nodes, 70

[Talk-ca] Quebec (City) mapper Fred Fortin

2012-02-28 Per discussione Richard Weait
Does anybody know the Québec mapper http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Fred_Fortin ? It would be great to get their account upgraded to the latest terms. Can anybody help find Fred? Best regards, Richard ___ Talk-ca mailing list

Re: [Talk-ca] Duplicated ways

2012-02-26 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Daniel Begin jfd...@hotmail.com wrote: Bonjour, I'm cleaning up my area for relicensing problems Merci! and I have found duplicated ways that raise some questions - not related to relicensing problems. One is a bicycle track/route I created few years ago,

Re: [OSM-talk] Creating a subset of OSM and storing it in Postgis tables

2012-02-25 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 11:19 PM, mick bare...@tpg.com.au wrote: I need to build a database of a subset of features from a specific area, storing them in a series of tables according to feature type (eg. natural, historic, waterway, ...) from predefined subsets of the planet file. In doing

[Talk-us] Athens Georgia mapper?

2012-02-24 Per discussione Richard Weait
Anybody mapping on the ground in / around Athens Georgia? I have a request. :-) ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

[Talk-de] Fwd: Do you know who killed Ulf?

2012-02-22 Per discussione Richard Weait
-- Forwarded message -- From: Richard Weait rich...@weait.com Date: Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 1:20 PM Subject: Do you know who killed Ulf? To: t...@openstreetmap.org Ulf's family have asked if we can help find the killer(s).  Some bank machine photos of those stealing Ulf's money

Re: [Talk-ca] Named railway locations

2012-02-21 Per discussione Richard Weait
2012/2/21 Pierre Béland infosbelas-...@yahoo.fr: Sam Place=locality tag is reserved for populated areas. It is misleading to use it for a milestone. I suggest to adapt the highway=milestone tag for railways. This type of tag is showed at lower zoom levels.= Continue this discussion on the

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Contact And Remap Campaign

2012-02-13 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Simon Poole si...@poole.ch wrote: Well essentially CC-by only imposes attribution so it is doable. But in any case: is the import listed in the import catalogue? If not, I would respectfully ask the DWG to summarily delete the data (the enforce bit of my

Re: [Talk-ca] Aboriginal Lands

2012-02-13 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 9:48 AM, James A. Treacy tre...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 08:37:17AM -0600, Tyler Gunn wrote: With wooded areas and lakes I've noticed we tend to just leave them un-merged.  I can imagine for boundaries we'd like to have them merged, especially

Re: [Talk-ca] Effets_de_bords_indésirables

2012-02-13 Per discussione Richard Weait
2012/2/12 Richard Weait rich...@weait.com: [ ... ] I've sent a note to the user en anglais, and invited them to join us here. The user has replied and apologized. He may have used the potlatch 'r' carelessly. ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca

[Talk-ca] Toronto Hack Weekend

2012-02-12 Per discussione Richard Weait
Dear All, The Toronto Hack Weekend[1] is shaping up nicely for mid-March. You can see that some have registered already on the wiki page. I have verbal confirmation from three others who are each flying in for the event. There will certainly be more. It is critically important to the event

[Talk-ca] Canadian Municipal Open Data Licenses

2012-02-12 Per discussione Richard Weait
Dear all, I've sent a note to a couple of Canadian municipalities about getting permission to use the open data they publish in OpenStreetMap. I'll let you know the responses. If I haven't said anything about this in a few weeks, please remind me. The history of ad-hoc licenses and terms of

Re: [Talk-ca] Effets de bords indésirables

2012-02-12 Per discussione Richard Weait
2012/2/12 alouette...@gmail.com: Bonjour, Ma modeste contribution à OpenStreetMap est d'ajouter et corriger les attributs des pistes cyclables du Québec. Rien de très complexe. Perhaps not complex, but still welcome! Il y a quelques jours j'ai vu soudainement apparaître des kilomètres de

Re: [Talk-ca] Effets_de_bords_indésirables

2012-02-12 Per discussione Richard Weait
2012/2/12 Pierre Béland infosbelas-...@yahoo.fr: Claude, Nous devons d'abord nous assurer de faire tous les efforts nécessaires pour contacter cette personne. Son profil n'indique pas son lieu de résidence. Nous ne savons pas non plus quelles langues il maitrise. Fais-suivre à la liste

Re: [Talk-ca] Canadian Municipal Open Data Licenses

2012-02-12 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: I make extensive use of the data from Surrey and Langley and consider them to be models of the best practice for open data licensing, with all their data licensed under PDDL. Hear, hear. Surrey and Langley township have

[OSM-talk] Fwd: OSM tracker beta

2012-02-09 Per discussione Richard Weait
New OSM data-collection software for Android: Collects GPX track tiles Collects voice notes Collects text notes Collects photos Have a look. -- Forwarded message -- From: Ian Darwin My osm tracker for Android is (finally!) ready for people to play with before I put it into the

Re: [Talk-us] Contacting high-impact undecided users in the US

2012-02-09 Per discussione Richard Weait
Well done, finding lost mappers. :-) ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-ca] Potential copyright infringement

2012-02-03 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Harald Kliems harald.kli...@mail.mcgill.ca wrote: Hi everyone, I need help with a potential copyright infringement. I stumbled across this user's edits today http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Gicl . S/he has primarily added street names in St. Amable, but

Re: [OSM-talk] odbl non-agreement and humanitarian exceptions.

2012-02-02 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Michael Collinson m...@ayeltd.biz wrote: [ ... ] Meanwhile, you can use the OSMI License View tool to get started. Here is an incomplete list I just grabbed using it: Exponent, Brent Miller, cetest, osmapb1, Tinono, rendle, Tinono, EvaStern, robbert,

Re: [Talk-ca] Cleanup

2012-02-01 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: The first pass on the clean up started a few hours ago. It's complete now. ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-us] LA and other license changeover challenged areas.

2012-01-30 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Kristian M Zoerhoff zoerh...@sdf.org wrote: I have a whopping 5% response rate thus far, contacting mappers in and around Chicago. Don't be discouraged by that 5%. Thanks for making that effort. I feel like the Big Win is when a long-out-of-contact mapper

[Talk-ca] Save the date: Toronto Hack Weekend. March 17-18

2012-01-28 Per discussione Richard Weait
Dear All, Save the date. We've got initial plans for a Toronto Hack Weekend March 17-18, 2012 (with additional meet and greet on Friday the 16th) Everything is TBD and uncofirmed, but please indicate your availability asap. We're trying to plan this around the limited availablility of a Very

Re: [Talk-ca] Clean up - natural coastline

2012-01-28 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 9:36 PM, James A. Treacy tre...@debian.org wrote: On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 10:33:09AM -0500, Andrew Allison wrote: Hello:       I'm in the process of recreating non-ct data. What areas need to be replaced? That depends where you are. Be sure to have the latest JOSM

Re: [Talk-ca] Cleanup

2012-01-26 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Gordon Dewis gor...@pinetree.org wrote: Could the impacted objects have an attributed added to them so we can easily review the impact before they're deleted? Could help us plan replacement strategies. I suppose you could whip up a viewer like that, but editing

Re: [Talk-ca] [HOT] Cleanup

2012-01-26 Per discussione Richard Weait
[cross-post removed] 2012/1/26 Pierre Béland infosbelas-...@yahoo.fr: Richard I have not followed this as closed as you and I try to understand the situation. Looking with Osm Inspector for ways created by non-agreer, I see a lot of red zones dispersed in the areas described below. I am not

Re: [Talk-ca] Cleanup

2012-01-26 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Andrew Allison andrew.alli...@teksavvy.com wrote: I'm currently removing / replacing the data in the London area. I just had a look and London looks much better than last time I looked at it. Nice job! How many mappers are there out there, that are recreating

Re: [Talk-ca] Cleanup

2012-01-26 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: Also, what do you mean by known-bad accounts? low-quality edits by accounts that aren't going to agree. ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org

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

2012-01-24 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: From: si...@mungewell.org [mailto:si...@mungewell.org] [ ... ] I did do the initial import, but am busy with other project and we're also a little out of date compared to their latest version. Simon. [ ... ] If there's any

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

2012-01-24 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 4:35 PM, si...@mungewell.org wrote: OK I've accepted the terms on behalf of CATMP. Yay! ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

[Talk-us] Fwd: IronChef for geonerds in NYC

2012-01-24 Per discussione Richard Weait
Love data and want to meet people? Have a look at this event in NYC on Sunday, 26 February 2012. You'll be in Arlington for the DC Hack Weekend on the 18-19th anyway, so extend your visit and meet more data-folks. -- Forwarded message -- I'm helping out some academics organize

Re: [Talk-ca] [Talk-us] OSM Hack Weekend in Washington, DC

2012-01-22 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 7:10 PM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: Based on the success, and incredible fun of the OSM Hacking Weekends in London, a bunch of OSMers in the US have decided to ruthlessly steal the idea and try running one ourselves. US Community? Okay, I can't resist

Re: [Talk-us] OSM Hack Weekend in Washington, DC

2012-01-22 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 7:10 PM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: Based on the success, and incredible fun of the OSM Hacking Weekends in London, a bunch of OSMers in the US have decided to ruthlessly steal the idea and try running one ourselves. US Community? Okay, I can't resist

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Ulf Möller remembered

2012-01-18 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 5:40 AM, Michael Collinson m...@ayeltd.biz wrote: I am deeply shocked this morning to learn of the murder of [our] friend Ulf. The OSMF site has a page where we can add our memories of Ulf. http://blog.osmfoundation.org/2012/01/18/ulf-m%C3%B6ller-1973-2012/

Re: [OSM-talk] Ulf Moeller (Möller) is dead

2012-01-18 Per discussione Richard Weait
Memorial page for Ulf. Please share your memories. http://blog.osmfoundation.org/2012/01/18/ulf-m%C3%B6ller-1973-2012/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec 7 and lanes=-1 / surface=unpaved

2012-01-18 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Harald Kliems harald.kli...@mail.mcgill.ca wrote: Hi everyone, can someone please tell me what's up with the lanes=-1 and surface=unpaved tags on most roads imported from Canvec 7? I didn't find any information on the Canvec wiki page. Do those tags stand

Re: [Talk-ca] OSM meetups GTA

2012-01-17 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: Dear All, There are several upcoming OSM events in the Southern Ontario area. Tomorrow Monday, 16 Jan 2012: Toronto Okay, that was awesome. :-) Thank you to each of the attendees last night. We had a great mix

Re: [OSM-talk] Request for Romano-British features

2012-01-16 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 9:28 AM, John Sturdy jcg.stu...@gmail.com wrote: As long as the tagging used is such that things that no longer exist are not normally rendered (and only show as thin outlines on standard editors) I think including historic data shouldn't be a problem. Compared with the

[Talk-ca] OSM meetups GTA

2012-01-15 Per discussione Richard Weait
Dear All, There are several upcoming OSM events in the Southern Ontario area. Tomorrow Monday, 16 Jan 2012: Toronto Tuesday 17 Jan 2012: Cambridge Tuesday 31 Jan 2012: Guelph. First meeting! I see a great group RSVP'd for Toronto. Join us. If you haven't met mappers in person; you have a

Re: [Talk-us] Getting ready for the license change

2012-01-13 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Peter Dobratz pe...@dobratz.us wrote: [ ... ] it makes more sense to clean up the map after the deletes from the license change have taken affect. I disagree. It's always better to go mapping than to not go mapping. That's the core value of OSM; improve the

Re: [Talk-us] Getting ready for the license change

2012-01-13 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: I will even pre-emptively delete stuff that I know would otherwise get deleted automatically, because that way I am in control, I see what happens,

Re: [Talk-us] Getting ready for the license change

2012-01-13 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:44:30PM -0700, Martijn van Exel wrote: I do that too. There is of course a small chance of the decliner changing his or her mind, so I only delete data that is tainted by a decliner that I have

Re: [Talk-ca] License upgrade readiness - contact and remapping

2012-01-12 Per discussione Richard Weait
I've used several different templates. The current one takes a little research. I like to add the specific location they mapped, and when and a specific object. I hope that this reminds a mapper of their previous contribution and demonstrates something that interested them enough to put it into

Re: [Talk-ca] License upgrade readiness - contact and remapping

2012-01-12 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Yannick Brosseau yannick.bross...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, There is a huge section in my area that have no user associated to it. Anonymous edits and anonymous accounts were permitted in OSM in the early days. Some of those objects still exist in the

Re: [Talk-ca] License upgrade readiness - contact and remapping

2012-01-12 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 11:37 AM, James Ewen ve6...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: 1) I look at the license status of the area in the course of my normal mapping. While mapping, I make sure to clean problematic objects rather than just

Re: [Talk-ca] Tagging Rail POIs - Help please

2012-01-11 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Andrew Allison andrew.alli...@gmail.com wrote: Hello:        I'm scratching my head as to an appropriate tag? Seems odd that there isn't a reference to something like man_made:sign_post railway:marker railway:location railway:signal etc.        Punt the

[Talk-ca] OSM meetings in other towns

2012-01-11 Per discussione Richard Weait
Dear All, I keep talking about the fun we have at OSM events, and I wonder how to help others start similar events in their towns? The conferences are super. If you can go, you should go. No question. SotM 2012 will be in Tokyo Japan this year and I'm very excited about that. Smaller events

[Talk-ca] Mapping statistics and fun

2012-01-11 Per discussione Richard Weait
Dear All, If you have been contributing to OpenStreetMap for a while, you might not have a clear memory of everything that you have done. There are some really interesting tools to show the work of individual OSM accounts. I really like the heat maps[1] and summaries [2] and there are a bunch

[Talk-ca] License upgrade readiness - contact and remapping

2012-01-11 Per discussione Richard Weait
Dear Canadian OpenStreetMap contributors, The upcoming move to the Open Database License means that a small number of users have chosen for their contributions not to continue within OSM. Since we want OSM to remain the best map in the world, we can remap the affected areas now, so that little

Re: [Talk-ca] Tagging Rail POIs - Help please

2012-01-10 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Tim FitzGerald t...@tfitzgerald.ca wrote: Hi everyone, I'm a long-time contributor to OSM in greater Montreal, but this my first post on this mailing list. I hope everyone is doing well. Mappy New year :-) I have noticed a fellow contributor add some POIs

[Talk-de] unusual cluster of German accounts

2012-01-09 Per discussione Richard Weait
Hi All, I've found a cluster of accounts that mapped in Germany. This cluster seems unusual to me. There are nine accounts. They all contributed only for one day. They all mapped in places in Germany. They all contributed a large number of changesets (on their first day of mapping). Each

[Talk-ca] Fwd: [Talk-us] OSM Hack Weekend in Washington, DC

2012-01-09 Per discussione Richard Weait
Like the idea of an OSM Hack Weekend, but can't fly across the Atlantic to attend one? Problem Solved. OSM Hack Weekend DC. See below. -- Forwarded message -- From: Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com Date: Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 7:10 PM Subject: [Talk-us] OSM Hack Weekend in

[talk-au] maxspeed removal

2012-01-08 Per discussione Richard Weait
Hi all, I've removed the maxspeed tags from about 1000 roads in Redcliffe (Brisbane) with changeset http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/10338587 There were no maxspeed:source or source:maxspeed tags on these objects so it is possible that I have removed data that was carefully

Re: [talk-au] maxspeed removal

2012-01-08 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Ian Sergeant inas66+...@gmail.com wrote: On 9 January 2012 13:12, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: I've removed the maxspeed tags from about 1000 roads in Redcliffe (Brisbane) with changeset http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/10338587 Hi

Re: [Talk-us] User adding many Safeway grocery stores, with ref number in name

2012-01-08 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 9:17 AM, Mike N nice...@att.net wrote: On 1/8/2012 7:49 AM, Josh Doe wrote: Seems all recent edits have been just adding Safeway stores: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Brian@Brea The edits seem good (adding building outlines), though I'm not sure about putting the

Re: [Talk-ca] Is Mississauga Data licence compatible with OSM?

2012-01-06 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 3:28 PM, Greg Smith greg.smi...@gmail.com wrote: I was in the process of adding some data, and had a discussion with another mapper about whether the license provided by Mississauga Data (http://www.mississauga.ca/portal/residents/mississaugadata) is compatible with the

Re: [Talk-ca] Is Mississauga Data licence compatible with OSM?

2012-01-06 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 3:28 PM, Greg Smith greg.smi...@gmail.com wrote: I was in the process of adding some data, And! Where are my manners? Welcome to the OpenStreetMap community. We do, indeed, welcome you and need you mapping in Mississauga and other places that are important to you. There

Re: [Talk-ca] Construction update. Toronto-area mappers

2012-01-04 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: Dear All, A portion of the 401 construction near Highway 10 / Hurontario is now open to traffic. The now-opened section will probably change further. it has a new tunnel, here. http://osm.org/go/ZX4ifmsv?m The express

[OSM-talk] Tokyo - State of the Map 2012

2012-01-03 Per discussione Richard Weait
Just announced. Tokyo, Japan will host SotM 2012, 06-09 September 2012. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Things People Say

2011-12-30 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Thomas Davie tom.da...@gmail.com wrote: First of all, one would have to define the exact difference between OSM is providing maps and another project is providing maps. Why exactly would OSM have to provide maps; Perhaps because that's the original, and

Re: [OSM-talk] The Best way to show individual shops within a shopping complex?

2011-12-30 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote: Hi Does anyone have any completed examples of how best to map/tag a shopping complex/mall where it's at the level of naming individual shops? I didn't add dividing walls, but did add walkways and shops by dead-reckoning.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] feedback requested

2011-12-27 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Yes. I have no strong feelings either way; your argument is correct. However the question must be asked in how far you can claim copyright for facts that others have to extract from your prose. In my personal opinion, if

Re: [OSM-talk] Looking Forward

2011-12-24 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 6:12 PM, Michal Migurski m...@stamen.com wrote: Thanks for the list, Frederick - a few worthwhile things to talk about here. On Dec 24, 2011, at 5:02 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: Our admins have recently published a list of top ten tasks, technical things they'd like to

Re: [Talk-us] Medians and reverts

2011-12-23 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: So, guys...yes?  No? My mapping style is No. I don't use a separate way for turning lanes indicated only by paint either. Clearly these evil paint-separated commuter lanes are a gateway way to one-area-per-lane

[Talk-ca] Construction update. Toronto-area mappers

2011-12-22 Per discussione Richard Weait
Dear All, A portion of the 401 construction near Highway 10 / Hurontario is now open to traffic. If you will be passing through this interchange in the next little while, be sure to grab a GPS trace! :-) I was surprised to find myself on the new collector lanes westbound when starting from the

Re: [OSM-talk] [osmosis-dev] Osmosis replication fails

2011-12-21 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 7:19 AM, Brett Henderson br...@bretth.com wrote: On 18 December 2011 10:12, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: When switching between minutely and hourly you have to change the sequenceNumber in

[OSM-legal-talk] feedback requested

2011-12-20 Per discussione Richard Weait
compliance of any object. The LWG would like to adopt this as policy and would be grateful for community feedback. We look forward to your thoughtful, insightful feedback. Best regards and Happy Mapping, Richard Weait on behalf of LWG ___ legal-talk mailing

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] feedback requested

2011-12-20 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Jean-Marc Liotier j...@liotier.org wrote: On 12/20/2011 10:11 PM, Apollinaris Schoell wrote: Of particular interest are: - can node positions be cleaned by moving to a new position? While you are at it, I would love to hear about a specific subset of the

Re: [Talk-ca] User r_coastlines

2011-12-19 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 4:20 PM, john whelan jwhelan0...@gmail.com wrote: But recently I noted that the CANVEC tags are being removed.  Two people in the talk-ca list mentioned recently they had done so. Yes. All tags may be modified. That's the point of OSM data; it is a wiki, you know? :-)

Re: [Talk-us] Albuquerque import removal

2011-12-19 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 11:22 PM, Samat K Jain li...@samat.org wrote: Dealing w/ Albuquerque has long been on my list of things to fix… I can volunteer, especially since I'll probably do a _proper_ import of the same addresses (I had already cleared them and several other NM cities as public

Re: [talk-au] I deleted a few locality boundaries...

2011-12-18 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 12:43 AM, El Segundo Can't win el_segundo_cant_...@yahoo.com.au wrote: I deleted a few locality boundaries in my local area, because they were irritating me and getting in the way of re-mapping all the tainted ways and nodes. I thought I would rebuild them using actual

Re: [talk-au] [sharedmapau] Re: Re-entering data to avoid licensing failure

2011-12-18 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 10:34 PM, Andrew Laughton laughton.and...@gmail.com wrote: I must be missing something here, I thought the whole point of the licence change was to allow commercial companies to take advantage of the communities data. Specifically Microsoft Bing. [from a reply I

[Talk-us] Albuquerque import removal

2011-12-18 Per discussione Richard Weait
Dear All, Have a look at Albuquerque. It is awash with red, primarily from an undocumented import.

Re: [OSM-talk] turn on chinese language

2011-12-17 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Frans Thamura fr...@meruvian.org wrote: hi all our osm implementation (osmosa.net), has success created tiles.. have a try..!!! but i can see the china map show a box.. i believe this is chinese language i believe this is double byte word. anyone can

Re: [talk-au] Re-entering data to avoid licensing failure

2011-12-17 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 9:40 PM, Sam Wilson s...@archives.org.au wrote: Thanks Richard and Steve for your ideas.  I've started using the licence check plugin... and now getting disheartened at the extent of the non-agreeing data!  :-( Ah well.  I rather want to keep mapping, and not wait

Re: [Talk-ca] HWY 7 - Carleton Place to HWY 417

2011-12-16 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 11:56 PM, Gordon Dewis gor...@pinetree.org wrote: Oh, and the changeset is #10128549. Dear Gordon, Thank you for doing this so promptly! The concerned user has now agreed to CT/ODbL for the rest of the contributions on that account. Best regards, Richard

Re: [OSM-talk] Permission for my work

2011-12-15 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Russ Nelson nel...@crynwr.com wrote: Then can we get the OSM admins to split your edits into the new user and old user based on their location? It would be relatively easy to make a bounding box, and say All jamesmikedupont edits outside get renamed to

Re: [OSM-talk] Transition to CC-4 instead of destroying data

2011-12-15 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Eric Marsden eric.mars...@free.fr wrote: Creative Commons recently confirmed that the next version of its licences will attempt to cover sui generis database rights. Version 4.0 is planned to be available at the end of 2012. This was previously mentioned here

Re: [OSM-talk] Transition to CC-4 instead of destroying data

2011-12-15 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Eric Marsden eric.mars...@free.fr wrote: rw == Richard Weait rich...@weait.com writes:  rw If CCv4 ends up being better than ODbL, and agreeable to the osm  rw community at large, we could certainly transition to it. The new CTs  rw would make that transition

Re: [OSM-talk] Garmin ETREX 10

2011-12-15 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Frans Thamura fr...@meruvian.org wrote: ok, i will as for etex 20 i got also etrex vista H.. with WAAS. the price same. any recommendation? I've used those several Vistas for some time with no complaints but for these: - one of 8 was dead on arrival, but

Re: [Talk-ca] Surrey Imagery

2011-12-15 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 3:11 AM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: Thanks to iandees, the imagery from Surrey BC is now mirrored with an OSM US server. It can be accessed with an imagery URL of tms[10,20]:http://{switch:a,b,c}.tile.osm.osuosl.org/tiles/bc_surrey_2011/{z oom}/{x}/{y}.png in

Re: [Talk-ca] HWY 7 - Carleton Place to HWY 417

2011-12-15 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Gordon Dewis gor...@pinetree.org wrote: I may head out this evening and gather some GPS tracks so that this can be done. Super! ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-ca] Automated imports of Canvec?

2011-12-15 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Tyler Gunn ty...@egunn.com wrote: [ ... ] What I've got in mind is a plugin for JOSM where you'd add a bunch of Canvec tiles to a list, hit a button and leave it alone while it does its thing. In a complete surprise, I'm going to recommend against this. :-)

Re: [Talk-ca] Automated imports of Canvec?

2011-12-15 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 5:24 PM, James Ewen ve6...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: I think that OSM will be complete, and in maintenance mode once we have a mapper on every block. And in what dream world do you live? Yes, I know

Re: [OSM-talk] Who mapped it first with ref to forth coming deletions - implication

2011-12-14 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 1:15 PM, john whelan jwhelan0...@gmail.com wrote: So essentially all data that existed on this date will need to be deleted since we can't be sure who entered or edited it or if they have agreed to the new license if the .odbl database is to be clean. That's quite a

[Talk-ca] HWY 7 - Carleton Place to HWY 417

2011-12-14 Per discussione Richard Weait
Hi All, I've been in contact with a declining mapper who has said that he will accept CT/ODbL once he gets rid of some contributions that he made from sources that he considers incompatible. As he described it to me he used cc-license photos from flicker etc., in making these edits. But

Re: [OSM-talk] Editing of content that will be deleted on April 1st

2011-12-13 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 1:08 PM, 80n 80n...@gmail.com wrote: [ ... ] Isn't it time to block edits to non-CT content? And that would allow reconciling and improving that non-CT data how? ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-legal-talk] License Change View on OSM Inspector

2011-12-13 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Graham Jones grahamjones...@gmail.com wrote: I agree, it sounds mad, and I find it hard to believe that 'we' would do this.   Surely we need to apply a bit of pragmatism to  this and think about 'reasonableness'? I can see that it is reasonable to delete the

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Now you can see how much vandalism the OSMF will carry out on April Fools

2011-12-13 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 6:13 PM, 80n 80n...@gmail.com wrote: I think Frederik has managed to decimate more of London than five years of bombing did during WW2 ;) Your smiley is poor compensation for that analogy. You owe Frederik and this list an apology. Shame, George, Shame!

[OSM-legal-talk] Low-edit decliners

2011-12-13 Per discussione Richard Weait
Hi all, As of moments ago, 419 accounts have declined CT/ODbL. That sounds like a large number, but it is fewer than 1% of the over 54,000 accounts who have accepted CT/ODbL. Of the declining accounts, 56 have never submitted data to OpenStreetMap. An additional 167 accounts have fewer than 10

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-legal-talk] License Change View on OSM Inspector

2011-12-13 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Adam Hoyle adam.li...@dotankstudios.com wrote: Is there any tool out there that can highlight the red users in a given area? In JOSM, use select-all (crtl-a) then look at the list of authors in the author panel (alt-b). This will give you a list of accounts

Re: [OSM-talk] JOSM License Change Plugin Update

2011-12-11 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 10:23 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Hi,   I've slightly modified the JOSM license change plugin. Thank you, Frederik! ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

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

2011-12-11 Per discussione Richard Weait
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 9:34 PM, Steve Singer ssinger...@sympatico.ca wrote: I've started trying to replace some of the data in Mississauga from people who haven't accepted the contributor terms using a mixture of bing, canvec and memory. Excellent. I did some of the same last week. I've

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