Re: [OSM-talk] Finding a particular street on the GPS

2007-12-20 Thread Karl Newman
On Dec 20, 2007 12:50 AM, Karl Newman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 19, 2007 12:43 AM, Lambertus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: demuire wrote: I've been using OSM on my Garmin eTrex Legend more or less since I bought it, it's great :) Would love it more if it was auto routing, but I

Re: [OSM-talk] Finding a particular street on the GPS

2007-12-21 Thread Karl Newman
On Dec 21, 2007 12:41 AM, Lambertus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Karl Newman wrote: Actually, for the full-featured version that does everything with no restrictions, it's USD2800... However, you can get free access to that version online if you're willing to share your maps with the world

Re: [OSM-talk] Geolocation photos - what software/hardware do I need?

2007-12-28 Thread Karl Newman
On Dec 28, 2007 5:24 AM, Gregory [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm buying/getting a digital camera for my birthday/christmas. What would be really cool if I can start doing stuff with photos tagged with their lat/lon, but I'm unsure what exactly I need to do this easily. Are there any

Re: [OSM-talk] Ideas for OSM enhancements

2007-12-28 Thread Karl Newman
On Dec 28, 2007 11:51 AM, Andy Allan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 28, 2007 3:29 PM, Nick Whitelegg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone, A couple of ideas for enhancements on the OSM site - what do people think? If people think they're good ideas I'll try and find time to hack on

[OSM-talk] Fwd: [OSM-dev] Ideas for OSM enhancements

2007-12-31 Thread Karl Newman
Forgot to reply-all to the list. -- Forwarded message -- From: Karl Newman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Dec 31, 2007 9:48 AM Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] [OSM-talk] Ideas for OSM enhancements To: Igor Brejc [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Dec 30, 2007 11:05 PM, Igor Brejc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: [OSM-talk] LZMA planets

2008-01-01 Thread Karl Newman
On Jan 1, 2008 7:19 AM, Martijn van Oosterhout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 1, 2008 3:47 PM, Bruce Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I remember 7-Zip planets being provided in the past, what was the reason for removing them? Nobody used them. (With a handful rounded down to nobody) One

Re: [OSM-talk] GpsWeather: When conditions for mapping are good

2008-01-02 Thread Karl Newman
On Jan 2, 2008 1:11 PM, ivom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Folks! From time to time, I am suffering from the limited reception capabilities of my Garmin Etrex Venture Cx. I guess this is a recognizable state of being, during a mapping session in urban canyons, walking around with an accuracy of

Re: [OSM-talk] re-using segments

2008-01-05 Thread Karl Newman
On Jan 5, 2008 2:24 AM, Karl Eichwalder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am I btw correct in thinking that with the new three-layered way of tagging things (nodes-ways-relations) that it's best to have split ways on every node where another way meets it? So, instead of one big way long as I used

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding vmap0 road data to OSM

2008-01-06 Thread Karl Newman
On Jan 6, 2008 10:31 AM, Igor Brejc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Karl Newman wrote: I'll wholeheartedly concur here. I looked at openstreetmap early in 2007 and concluded it wasn't quite ready for primetime, because there was almost no mapping done in the US. I came back a few months later

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding vmap0 road data to OSM

2008-01-06 Thread Karl Newman
On Jan 6, 2008 11:31 AM, Igor Brejc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, my perspective was as a data consumer. I was looking for data which could be converted to routable Garmin GPS maps... I've done a little bit of mapping, mostly along my commute route, and I try to remember to take my GPS

Re: [OSM-talk] user comment to improve mkgmap [Fwd: OSM on Gramin for Metro Manila, Philippines}

2008-01-06 Thread Karl Newman
On Jan 6, 2008 1:49 PM, Steve Ratcliffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Thanks for sending these comments on. - no poi nor city index That's right, and I am working on on adding cities at the moment. I'm not sure how long it will take or what it takes to make them searchable, but it seems

Re: [OSM-talk] Osmosis and large bounding polygons

2008-01-07 Thread Karl Newman
On Jan 7, 2008 3:33 PM, Jeremy Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have any experience with osmosis and extracting large polygons? I'm trying to get the united states exported using the files from the maproom. I can extract a single state in about an hour and a half, but getting the

Re: [OSM-talk] administrative boundaries and is_in

2008-01-09 Thread Karl Newman
On Jan 9, 2008 12:44 PM, Robin Paulson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can someone explain a few things about the way boundaries work, and their relation to the is_in key? as far as i can tell, when a location (say the suburb of balham, in london) is added to the map, the is_in tag needs to be set,

Re: [OSM-talk] administrative boundaries and is_in

2008-01-09 Thread Karl Newman
On Jan 9, 2008 3:34 PM, Thomas Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 9, 2008 10:58 PM, Karl Newman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could query it for admin_level=4 to get the state or province name, to take an example from the boundary key page on the Wiki. (Does anyone know why

Re: [OSM-talk] administrative boundaries and is_in

2008-01-10 Thread Karl Newman
On Jan 10, 2008 12:53 AM, Abigail Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 9, 2008 11:50 PM, Karl Newman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I understand why numbers are used instead of names. My question is why are there no odd numbers listed? It just looked strange. Future-proofing. It leaves gaps

Re: [OSM-talk] administrative boundaries and is_in

2008-01-10 Thread Karl Newman
On Jan 10, 2008 8:55 AM, Abigail Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 10, 2008 4:37 PM, Karl Newman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Really? Trying to future-proof against hierarchies that have been around for (in some cases) millenia? Ooh, I know, we could have negative numbers to indicate

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging hierarchies

2008-01-13 Thread Karl Newman
On Jan 13, 2008 4:07 PM, Alex L. Mauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Karl Newman wrote: On Jan 13, 2008 2:13 PM, Alex Mauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robin Paulson wrote: the point i'm trying to get across, is that all water features, be they linear

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging hierarchies

2008-01-13 Thread Karl Newman
On Jan 13, 2008 5:01 PM, Robin Paulson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 14/01/2008, Karl Newman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let's not confuse rendering issues with data issues. The point was that the single high-level water tag could be used to designate water. Adding area=yes will indicate

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging hierarchies

2008-01-14 Thread Karl Newman
On Jan 14, 2008 5:00 AM, Andy Allan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 14, 2008 4:29 AM, Karl Newman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For that matter, I wish all closed ways which designate an area were marked as such. I'm working on writing a tiling task for Osmosis which will carve up data

Re: [OSM-talk] Missing structure

2008-01-18 Thread Karl Newman
On Jan 17, 2008 11:00 PM, Lester Caine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Karl Newman wrote: On Jan 17, 2008 12:52 PM, Lukasz Stelmach [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lester Caine wrote: After my missive in the postal addresses thread I had yet another scout

Re: [OSM-talk] Missing structure

2008-01-18 Thread Karl Newman
On Jan 18, 2008 9:01 AM, Lester Caine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: On Jan 18, 2008 3:42 PM, Karl Newman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't have any particular objections against your proposal (although it is somewhat complex), but I still think geographic

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=stop

2008-01-23 Thread Karl Newman
On Jan 23, 2008 5:15 PM, David James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, January 24, 2008 12:46 am, Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote: Pieren Pieren wrote: | Could someone explain the tag highway=stop provided by the 'Map | Features' page ? | I would expect that all tags approved and moved to

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=stop

2008-01-27 Thread Karl Newman
On Jan 27, 2008 7:30 PM, Alex S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jo wrote: A stop sign is internationally a red octagonal sign with STOP written on it in white letters. It means that officially a full stop has to be made. In the US it's best to actually also do that, cause they are very strict

[OSM-talk] Mapnik rendering artifacts

2008-01-30 Thread Karl Newman
I'm seeing faint gray lines on the main site slippy map Mapnik base layer, and I'm at a loss to explain their source. At first I thought they were state borders, but I'm seeing the lines running through the middle of states, too (here

Re: [OSM-talk] Garmin icon for a bicycle

2008-02-07 Thread Karl Newman
Appallingly, that icon seems to be omitted from the Garmin POI types. You'll have to substitute a different type, or maybe create your own icon. Karl On Feb 7, 2008 11:47 AM, Frédéric Bonifas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am building custom stylesheets for mkgmap to get a cycle map of

Re: [OSM-talk] correctly mapping avenues

2008-02-09 Thread Karl Newman
On Feb 9, 2008 7:45 AM, bvh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 08:32:01AM -0800, Karl Newman wrote: On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 01:30:07PM +1300, Robin Paulson wrote: i think landuse = row_of_trees or whatever was suggested, is a hideous abuse of the landuse tag. landuse

Re: [OSM-talk] correctly mapping avenues

2008-02-10 Thread Karl Newman
On Feb 10, 2008 4:21 AM, Frederik Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Since trees lining a way/street are such a common occurence, why not have a simple additional tag to the main road. lined_by_trees=yes/no/left/right I'm a bit unhappy about needlessly inflating the importance of the

Re: [OSM-talk] Garmin icon for a bicycle

2008-02-10 Thread Karl Newman
On Feb 10, 2008 3:16 PM, Frédéric Bonifas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the ideas (also to Karl and Ulf). Unfortunately, these ids don't give the right result. It seems like Gpsbabel knows this icon : http://www.gpsbabel.org/htmldoc-development/GarminIcons.html Is there an easy way to

Re: [OSM-talk] relations in order not to fragment roads (was: correctly mapping avenues)

2008-02-11 Thread Karl Newman
On Feb 11, 2008 10:36 AM, Martin Trautmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Karl Newman wrote: To me, the nodes and ways should follow the physical world as much as possible--the road didn't change just because the speed limit changed, so why chop it up? I changed the subject now - and I agree

Re: [OSM-talk] correctly mapping avenues

2008-02-11 Thread Karl Newman
On Feb 11, 2008 8:58 AM, Gervase Markham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Karl Newman wrote: Big +1 on this proposal. That's exactly what I've been thinking about lately. It's stupid to chop up nice long ways just because the speed limit changes or the way happens to cross a bridge. Isn't

Re: [OSM-talk] correctly mapping avenues

2008-02-11 Thread Karl Newman
On Feb 11, 2008 7:20 AM, Bernd Raichle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, on Sunday, 10 February 2008 08:34:31 -0800, Karl Newman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Feb 10, 2008 4:21 AM, Frederik Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since trees lining a way/street are such a common occurence, why

Re: [OSM-talk] Straw Poll - Disk space used by OSM photos/audio

2008-02-13 Thread Karl Newman
Yeah, I've been collecting traces, too, but not yet uploading them because I don't really want the cluster of points around my house. I found a graphical editor that can edit traces (GPSTrackMaker) but I haven't had time to edit them for uploading yet. Karl On Feb 13, 2008 9:41 AM, Gregory

Re: [OSM-talk] correctly mapping avenues

2008-02-14 Thread Karl Newman
| I am against east/west/north/south because there are a lot of | ways/areas/things which do not go straight ahead. But they nearly all run nearer to one of those directions than they do to any of the others. If you want to say that a North East road is one way, you can call it North or

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] updated RFC: Highway administrative and physical descriptions

2008-02-19 Thread Karl Newman
On Feb 19, 2008 3:16 PM, Alex S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lester Caine wrote: I don't think it applies so much elsewhere - but UK motorways have no pedestrian access - does the same apply on any American routes? US freeways (interstate, etc) do not allow foot traffic, in general. Outside

Re: [OSM-talk] Osmosis error while trying to import planet file into Mysql

2008-03-06 Thread Karl Newman
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Lambertus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As the title says, I'm trying to import a planet file into a mysql database on my debian machine. I've done the following steps to accomplish this: - Install mysql-server-5.0 (using no password for root) - Create a database

Re: [OSM-talk] generating maps from shapefiles?

2008-03-09 Thread Karl Newman
www.cgpsmapper.com The program has support for shapefiles, but I'm not sure if the free version does. Otherwise, you could use GPSMapEdit ( www.geopainting.com) and import your shapefiles, then save it as MP format and then use cGPSMapper to compile it to an IMG format. (There are some links set

Re: [OSM-talk] JOSM and data set size

2008-03-12 Thread Karl Newman
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 7:41 AM, Frederik Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Now the data set size for the area has grown to 20MB and I cannot load it into JOSM anymore without it saying that I am out of memory. On a laptop with 2GB memory that should not really be the case. Is there a

Re: [OSM-talk] Osmxapi returns old data

2008-03-12 Thread Karl Newman
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 9:30 PM, Lars Aronsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Today I learned about [[Osmxapi]] and found it really useful for digging out ways tagged with FIXME. However, on the wiki page it says the data is never more than about 2 hours old and this clearly doesn't hold, as I

Re: [OSM-talk] Price of GPS units in Europe or US

2008-03-18 Thread Karl Newman
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 5:00 AM, Frederik Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I want to ask the community how much a regular GPS cost in your country. In the Philippines a local supplier charges approximately 530 U.S. dollars for a GARMIN Etrex Legend CX. Cheapest mail-order price in

Re: [OSM-talk] Cycle lanes

2008-03-26 Thread Karl Newman
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Jo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sebastian Spaeth wrote: Lars Aronsson wrote: J.D. Schmidt wrote: It doesn't matter if the busstop is on the right or left side of the road... Neither OSM wise, nor in the real world. In the real world you use your eyes

Re: [OSM-talk] Name finder and home page search working again

2008-03-27 Thread Karl Newman
I have in mind a piece of work I'm loosely calling finding the urban envelope which would analyse areas based on highway=residential and abutters, where present, and other relevant clues, to heuristically determine contiguous settlements. Hee. That's a nice idea, but I fear it would call

Re: [OSM-talk] Tag proposal/approval system is too heavyweight

2008-03-28 Thread Karl Newman
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 5:52 AM, Steve Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Gervase Markham wrote: On the other hand, feedback of the form I don't like this proposal because it doesn't cover situation X, but I can neither provide a real-life example of X in the map, nor can

Re: [OSM-talk] JOSM update / why does API return GPS points in descending order?

2008-03-28 Thread Karl Newman
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Andy Robinson (blackadder) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frederik Ramm wrote: Sent: 28 March 2008 5:10 PM To: Raphael Mack Cc: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] JOSM update / why does API return GPS points in descending order? Hi, mh, I

Re: [OSM-talk] Cycle lanes

2008-03-31 Thread Karl Newman
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 6:41 AM, David Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin Vidner martin.osm at vidner.net writes: Make the prefixes left:, right: special in the sense that when a way is reversed, they get swapped. So left:highway=bus_stop would become right:highway=bus_stop. (Uh,

Re: [OSM-talk] Cycle lanes

2008-04-02 Thread Karl Newman
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Bjørn Bürger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Karl Newman wrote: I don't know why everyone's opposed to left/right. It's unambiguous, and properly structured it would not be difficult for editors to accommodate it. Hmm, IMO neither north/south, nor left/right

Re: [OSM-talk] Osmosis/Mkgmap: Missing ways at tile borders

2008-04-03 Thread Karl Newman
, Karl Newman [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 6:24 AM, Christian Linder [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody, I am trying to split osm data into 1x1 degree tiles with OSMOSIS, then I

Re: [OSM-talk] Local map making - truncating ways on boundary?

2008-04-03 Thread Karl Newman
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Brett Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By default, osmosis will truncate at the last node inside the boundary which isn't always ideal. The completeWays argument will include all way nodes outside the boundary which again isn't perfect. The new PostGIS

Re: [OSM-talk] Local map making - truncating ways on boundary?

2008-04-04 Thread Karl Newman
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 7:38 PM, Brett Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hope the job loss isn't too much of a downer, best of luck finding something better. As for tiling, I hadn't considered polygons. They sound nasty. I'd been thinking of something far simpler. For ways I was

[OSM-talk] Fwd: Local map making - truncating ways on boundary?

2008-04-04 Thread Karl Newman
Forgot to reply-all. -- Forwarded message -- From: Karl Newman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 5:33 PM Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Local map making - truncating ways on boundary? To: Dirk-Lüder Kreie [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Dirk-Lüder Kreie

Re: [OSM-talk] Areas (was: Local map making - truncating ways on boundary?)

2008-04-04 Thread Karl Newman
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 7:02 PM, Frederik Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Yes, I meant to say if every *polygon* which is represented as a closed way was guaranteed to have an area=yes tag or some other distinguishing feature. You are right in saying that not having an explicit

Re: [OSM-talk] Relations not always brilliant

2008-04-06 Thread Karl Newman
On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Richard Fairhurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Relations are a super-powerful tool and permit all kinds of whizziness (cycle routes, bus routes, areas with holes, dual carriageways, etc.). This much we know. On looking through the latest UK planet excerpt,

Re: [OSM-talk] List of tags in use/database

2008-04-10 Thread Karl Newman
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 8:14 AM, Brian Quinion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is there anywhere I can get a list of the tags / values that are actually in use in the system (i.e. an empirical list as opposed to the wiki) without downloading the whole planet file and searching it? Something

Re: [OSM-talk] osmxapi/bbox question

2008-04-11 Thread Karl Newman
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 5:47 AM, 80n [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can have any shaped bbox you like as long as it is a rectangle ;) Can anyone point me to a good algorithm for selecting points within an arbitrary polygon? 80n I don't have it in pseudocode, but one I've heard of casts a

Re: [OSM-talk] virtual san francisco mapping party?

2008-04-14 Thread Karl Newman
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 4:03 AM, Peter Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I have a few specific questions/observations based on the work I have done so far. 1) The rail network data in the area seems very fragmentary. It may be valuable for someone with good local knowledge to

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Polygons in OSM don't necessarily comply to simple feature specification

2008-04-16 Thread Karl Newman
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Martijn van Exel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I've been warming up as many of my colleagues to OSM as possible, and sometimes this comes back to me. Being GIS people, they have GIS requirements, and OSM was not devised specifically with GIS requirements

Re: [OSM-talk] GPS accuracy

2008-04-18 Thread Karl Newman
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 9:05 AM, Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Hill wrote: Over last week I've noticed that the accuracy reading on my ETrex has briefly gone down to 10ft a few times. Before last Saturday the best was 16ft. Today I saw 9ft briefly. Anyone else seen this or

Re: [OSM-talk] tagging and rendering highways in the USA and elsewhere

2008-04-18 Thread Karl Newman
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 11:14 AM, Tom Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Adam Schreiber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Tom Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is that we do not have the technology to render different

Re: [OSM-talk] house numbers revisited

2008-04-18 Thread Karl Newman
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 3:14 AM, Frederik Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, * what if way direction is reversed? * what if way is extended, merged, split? That will be a problem indeed. Could theoretically be solved with strong editor support, but that does not fix the intrinsic

Re: [OSM-talk] Too many nodes?

2008-04-19 Thread Karl Newman
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Brian Quinion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interesting, Artem sent a mail in January that he was working on it and I foolishly assumed that meant he was working on it in SVN. However looking through the source it seems you are right, there's nothing

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging climbing routes and scrambles

2008-04-23 Thread Karl Newman
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 6:10 AM, Cartinus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 23 April 2008 14:45:17 Steve Hill wrote: The problem is that the context isn't clear since there is no designated context tag - i.e. if you have a way tagged with highway=climbing and rock=limestone, is the

Re: [OSM-talk] Signs

2008-04-23 Thread Karl Newman
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 9:04 AM, Richard Fairhurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Hill wrote: I enjoy some of the signs I see while I'm out gathering tracks. While cycling the Pennine Cycleway last week, I saw RED SQUIRRELS DRIVE SLOWLY which is clearly a lie. cheers Richard One

Re: [OSM-talk] GPS recommendations

2008-04-23 Thread Karl Newman
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Karl Newman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Gervase Markham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/GPS says: Thinking of getting a GPS Receiver to add data to OSM? These reviews are here to help

Re: [OSM-talk] GPS recommendations

2008-04-24 Thread Karl Newman
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Andy Robinson (blackadder) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeffrey Martin wrote: Sent: 24 April 2008 10:50 PM To: David Earl Cc: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] GPS recommendations I bought a Garmin HCx Vista. Does the high sensitivity mean

Re: [OSM-talk] mapping while hiking

2008-04-25 Thread Karl Newman
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 7:13 PM, Charles Basenga Kiyanda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is slightly off-topic, but does anyone have a trick to deal with the gps when tagging while hiking trails? I carry a garmin etrex legend Cx (unfortunately not the H version) and I find that it has to be

Re: [OSM-talk] WTF ! (about gps traces)

2008-05-02 Thread Karl Newman
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:12 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, hey dude, what's that http://openstreetmap.org/user/wwwFrank/traces/104165?? -- Steven Le Roux Jabber-ID : [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think that this is a load of waypoints turned into a track. This type track makes

Re: [OSM-talk] zoom yahoo data in potlatch?

2008-05-02 Thread Karl Newman
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 8:19 PM, David Muir Sharnoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're right: that OAM imagery is very detailed. Unfortunately, it's not that good where I'm mapping. In Oakland, California, Yahoo! has two zoom levels beyond what Potlatch will display. It would be very

Re: [OSM-talk] zoom yahoo data in potlatch?

2008-05-03 Thread Karl Newman
On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 7:38 AM, bvh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 08:03:16AM -0400, Christopher Schmidt wrote: I am not local, but the openstreetmap.org data at the north side of the canal does not seem to match what is on the imagery? More specifically the raster of

Re: [OSM-talk] WTF ! (about gps traces)

2008-05-03 Thread Karl Newman
On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Jeffrey Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have few track where on part is good and another part is bad. I should probably edit those tracks and cut out the bad part, but I haven't found an easy way to do that. You might check out Viking

Re: [OSM-talk] Converting Polish/.MP to OSM?

2008-05-05 Thread Karl Newman
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 9:20 PM, Simon Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Is anyone working on any tools to facilitate the conversion of '.mp' to '.osm'? I have permission to import some footpaths/trails from this site: http://www.calgarycachers.net/trailmaps/maps.htm I found this, but

Re: [OSM-talk] Converting Polish/.MP to OSM?

2008-05-05 Thread Karl Newman
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 9:32 PM, Erik Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 6:20 AM, Simon Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Is anyone working on any tools to facilitate the conversion of '.mp' to '.osm'? Type=0x16 Label=Yamnuska West Ascent RoadID=1176

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Against source=survey

2008-05-06 Thread Karl Newman
Why not go all the way and say source=cesium? In all seriousness, though, what's wrong with source=GPS as an alternative? Survey, to me, implies a crew out with tripods and such. Karl On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Juan Lucas Dominguez Rubio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The tag source=survey

Re: [OSM-talk] Converting Polish/.MP to OSM?

2008-05-13 Thread Karl Newman
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 12:08 AM, Simon Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 9 May 2008 00:24:11 -0600 Simon Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well I've had a stab at this, probably the worlds worst python script but it does work Cleaned up version added to SVN, browsable here:

Re: [OSM-talk] Converting Polish/.MP to OSM?

2008-05-13 Thread Karl Newman
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 5:36 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, I haven't had a chance to look at this yet, but I just opened up the input file in a text editor and saw: Copyright=THIS MAP CANNOT BE SOLD I think this is incompatible with our license (commercial use is okay). Is the

Re: [OSM-talk] difference between waterway=canal and waterway=drain

2008-05-14 Thread Karl Newman
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 8:03 AM, Rory McCann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Karl Newman wrote: Wow, that's not obvious to the casual (non-UK) observer. In the US, the usage of canal is different. They're almost never navigable, and even small drainage ditches are commonly called canals. Almost

Re: [OSM-talk] difference between waterway=canal and waterway=drain

2008-05-14 Thread Karl Newman
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 8:56 AM, Lester Caine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Karl Newman wrote: Both are created by man. A canal is normally navigable and a drain is not. A canal is for carrying goods and people, a drain is for transporting water much like a river

Re: [OSM-talk] difference between waterway=canal and waterway=drain

2008-05-16 Thread Karl Newman
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 8:50 AM, Alex Mauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Karl Newman wrote: Wow, that's not obvious to the casual (non-UK) observer. In the US, the usage of canal is different. They're almost never navigable, and even small drainage ditches are commonly called canals. Almost

Re: [OSM-talk] Notability (was openstreetmap)

2008-05-16 Thread Karl Newman
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Andrew MacKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 8:00 AM, Richard Fairhurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nic Roets wrote: If someone made the effort to physically survey it and properly tag it, I think it's OK. Maintainability is

Re: [OSM-talk] Zero point tag?

2008-05-16 Thread Karl Newman
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 8:27 PM, Francois De Ryckel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes Stefan! This is what I meant: how would you tag the Kilometre_Zero? (nothing to do with the geographic centre of countries) Cheers Francois Isn't that the same thing as a datum in modern cartography? If so,

Re: [OSM-talk] Converting Polish/.MP to OSM?

2008-05-17 Thread Karl Newman
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 12:08 AM, Simon Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 9 May 2008 00:24:11 -0600 Simon Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well I've had a stab at this, probably the worlds worst python script but it does work Cleaned up version added to SVN, browsable here:

Re: [OSM-talk] HOWTO: edit GPX tracks using JOSM

2008-05-18 Thread Karl Newman
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 4:18 AM, Rory McCann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, Can JOSM really do the GPX - OSM - GPX round trip without losing lots of information though? Depends on what's there in the first place ;-) if you have a GPS that stores only lat/lon/time

Re: [OSM-talk] coastline within park

2008-05-29 Thread Karl Newman
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 3:42 AM, Dave Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 3:57 AM, Robin Paulson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: [OSM-talk] National borders in the British Islands

2008-06-01 Thread Karl Newman
On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 3:49 AM, Lester Caine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: Do you have an example if such a jurisdictional anomoly? It would seem to me that such a servant with two masters would have some rather interesting problems. The examples that keep being

Re: [OSM-talk] Turn restriction

2008-06-02 Thread Karl Newman
On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 11:46 PM, Erik Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I was trying to add a turn restriction today, but failed because I got stuck reading the extremly outdated routing page, so is there anything important on that page? [1] Otherwise I'll delete it, pronto, so people

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Approved: path, designated. Rejected: *way deprecation

2008-06-02 Thread Karl Newman
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 2:30 PM, Frederik Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I would also like to see the value bicycle=dismount, for short sections where cyclists have to dismount as part of the cycle network. I should expect any good bike routing algorithm to consider footways as well,

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik Tilecache Memory Error (Myanmar Cyclone Relief)

2008-06-09 Thread Karl Newman
On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 11:08 PM, Brett Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Just to give some background on what I'm trying to do here. I'm helping a team in Myanmar setup a software package called Sahana which is an open source disaster response package. It will be used to help in

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] noname streets

2008-06-09 Thread Karl Newman
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 3:44 AM, Dave Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Nick Whitelegg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SteveC wrote: I'd like to define some roads that really don't have a name so that they drop off the noname map. [..] Maybe name:__none__. Or

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] noname streets

2008-06-09 Thread Karl Newman
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 9:12 AM, Dave Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Alex Mauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 SteveC wrote: I'd like to define some roads that really don't have a name so that they drop off the

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] noname streets

2008-06-09 Thread Karl Newman
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Dave Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Alex Mauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave Stubbs wrote: Maybe, but you're then asking, reviewed what/how?. And you're back to specifying that you've reviewed that the road has no name,

Re: [OSM-talk] Osmosis - error when trying to apply a change file

2008-06-09 Thread Karl Newman
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 6:21 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to get Osmosis to apply a change file to a data set, although I think I am following the instructions on the wiki it throws an error... Task 3-apply-change does not support data provided by default pipe Example is

Re: [OSM-talk] Converting Polish/.MP to OSM?

2008-06-11 Thread Karl Newman
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 12:35 AM, Simon Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have finally gotten around to uploading some of the Calgary Trails Project data... under the username 'catmp'. I made a slight mod the converter to remove attribution/RoadID on nodes within a way as this was

Re: [OSM-talk] JOSM cut and paste between layers results in position change

2008-06-11 Thread Karl Newman
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 3:05 AM, David Earl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/06/2008, Shaun McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11 Jun 2008, at 08:06, David Earl wrote: On 11/06/2008 04:32, Adam Schreiber wrote: On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 10:56 PM, Simon Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OSM-talk] Rendering of tracktype

2008-06-12 Thread Karl Newman
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 4:43 AM, Alex S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andy Allan wrote: Meh. It's on my list of things to do, but to be honest I don't see it as very important. There's lots of things that the cycle map doesn't render at all, and for one I see distinguishing onroad/offroad

Re: [OSM-talk] Rendering of tracktype

2008-06-12 Thread Karl Newman
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Frederik Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Tag:highway=track and the map features mentioned track is only for unpaved/unsealed roads. To me it looks like it was approved like that, so please don't fix approved

Re: [OSM-talk] Rendering of tracktype

2008-06-12 Thread Karl Newman
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Christoph Eckert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, So now I decide that since I drive really fast down my driveway, I should call it highway=motorway and start tagging driveways that way. Since that's how it's used, I'm going to change Map Features to reflect

Re: [OSM-talk] Rendering of tracktype

2008-06-12 Thread Karl Newman
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Dirk-Lüder Kreie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Karl Newman schrieb: So now I decide that since I drive really fast down my driveway, I should call it highway=motorway and start tagging driveways that way. Since that's how it's used, I'm going to change Map

Re: [OSM-talk] Rendering of tracktype

2008-06-12 Thread Karl Newman
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:18 PM, spaetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 11:34:06AM -0700, Karl Newman wrote: So now I decide that since I drive really fast down my driveway, I should call it highway=motorway and start tagging driveways that way. Since that's how it's

Re: [OSM-talk] recomendation for a gps device

2008-06-17 Thread Karl Newman
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 8:25 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, i am trying to rope in my brother-in-law to do mapping - he is quite keen, but the type who takes years to make up his mind as to what device to buy. Can anyone recommend a reasonably priced device that does

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetBugs

2008-06-18 Thread Karl Newman
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 7:27 PM, Lauri Hahne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Having done some human-computer-interaction courses at uni, my main gripe about your program is that bugs can't have different severity ratings and that these ratings aren't visible. The current 'x' icon is very hostile and

Re: [OSM-talk] Simplify ways within a '.osm'

2008-06-19 Thread Karl Newman
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 6:55 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Does anyone have any solutions to auto-magically simplify the ways with an '.osm' file? I am looking at simplifying both to ease rendering and also to reduce the overall size of the file, prior to converting to a downloadable

Re: [OSM-talk] tag speed restrictions

2008-06-22 Thread Karl Newman
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 5:41 AM, Florian Loitsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to the map features one should tag speed-limits using 'maxspeed'. But what, if the maxspeed depends on the direction? Oh, that's an easy one. Just drag out whatever local official decided that policy and

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