Re: [Talk-us] Abbreviating names in tools

2012-10-06 Thread Werner Poppele
Toby Murray wrote: On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 1:26 PM, andrzej zaborowskibalr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, there's been a lot of talk at one point about abbreviating names in the OSM database vs. doing it when processing the data at consumers end. Since mapnik now supports alternative label placements

Re: [Talk-us] Kern County progress

2012-08-21 Thread Werner Poppele
Toby Murray wrote: On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Nathan Mixtersrmix...@hotmail.com wrote: I have begun cleaning up the area around Kern County, California. It is starting to not only look better but be less cluttered. I originally imported landuse data from both Kern County and the City of

Re: [Talk-us] Special issues in LA remap

2012-06-05 Thread Werner Poppele
Charlotte Wolter wrote: Perhaps some who know JOSM could take a look at the most recent uploads by blars to see what the effect of reverting those changes would be. At 07:36 PM 6/5/2012, you wrote: It seems we are speaking on many levels here. NE2 talks of a redaction bot: powerful

Re: [Talk-us] 25or6to4 NHD imports

2012-05-05 Thread Werner Poppele
Toby Murray wrote: From: Jason Straub [mailto:strau...@yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2012 1:44 AM To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-us] 25or6to4 NHD imports Howdy, After discussion with Toby, I am updating the list with my import efforts. First, hopefully this message

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-04-26 Thread Werner Poppele
Paul Norman wrote: I happened across an import of Fresno castradal data from mid-2010 in the Fresno area. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=36.77lon=-119.81zoom=15 is the general area but I haven't fully explored the extents. For a view of the data, see

Re: [Talk-us] tiff, dwg and nad83

2012-04-17 Thread Werner Poppele
Gregory Arenius wrote: Hi, Imported data turns down potential new mappers. I really disagree with this statement. I think the mappers would be turned off if we didn't import it when available. So you have all 250,000 address points for the city but instead of using them you'd rather us go

Re: [Talk-us] tiff, dwg and nad83

2012-04-17 Thread Werner Poppele
Nathan Edgars II wrote: On 4/17/2012 3:29 AM, Werner Poppele wrote: I totally agree with Frederik. Yes - imported data turns down new mappers. Have you ever seen those monster multipolygons ? I am sure a new mapper says: Forget that I personally tend to stop my contribution to OSM because

[Talk-us] Report about maps based on OSM

2012-04-05 Thread Werner Poppele
Hello everybody, there is a report at http://www.spiegel.de/ about OSM based maps. Report is in german. WernerP URL of report http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/0,1518,825561,00.html ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org

[Talk-us] Strange looking tagging used in Toledo at Lake Erie

2012-03-26 Thread Werner Poppele
At the coordinates http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=41.7373lon=-83.4577zoom=14 I saw a strange looking area. There are piers (I guess) tagged as highway=secondary. Is that right ? There are also a lot of tracks which look strange, too. WernerP ___