Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] TIGER Map Updates

2007-12-30 Thread Paul Fox
dave wrote: > Yeah, that's the trouble with the TIGER data. Its coverage is > excellent, but the quality can be worse than what's there. So, do you wow. i'm beginning to realize that we in new england must be very lucky. sure, tiger shows a lot of non-existent roads, but those that are there

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-newbies] How to convert NAD83 to latitude/longitude?

2007-12-30 Thread Kelly Jones
Thanks, Andy. I found that using cURL did exactly what I wanted, without my having to use Flash, download Java 1.5, etc. At the risk of offending TPTB (which I believe includes yourself?), I documented the process: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Using_curl_to_upload_data and linked the

Re: [OSM-talk] Recent Potlatch changes

2007-12-30 Thread Richard Fairhurst
David Dean wrote: > I'm glad we can ignore it, but how do I turn it off. Every time I use > Ctrl+T to open another firefox tab, the debug info comes up and I > cannot use Potlatch properly without reloading the whole page. I'll commit a new version with the debug thingy disabled when I'm back a

Re: [OSM-talk] Using Edit Tab on Main Site

2007-12-30 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany) wrote: > i just tried to use the edit Tab on the main Site. I selected an area and the > first thing I say was a Copyright for Yahoo, NavTeq and Teleatlas but no > Copyright to Openstreetmap ... wow Like Steve says, the OSM copyright is on the left of the

Re: [OSM-talk] Fast tracking map feature proposals.

2007-12-30 Thread Mike Collinson
I've added the list to http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Key:shop Mike Stockholm At 05:01 PM 30/12/2007, Andy Allan wrote: >On Dec 30, 2007 3:31 PM, Gregory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> We don't need to propose every single shop value, > >ACK > >> render admins just need to know what's b

Re: [OSM-talk] Fast tracking map feature proposals.

2007-12-30 Thread Mike Collinson
At 04:31 PM 30/12/2007, Gregory wrote: >I was actually thinking about the shop tag today... >It should be more like the building= and amenity=place_of_worship tags. > >Building >Renderers show anything that has a value for the 'building' key without caring >what exactly is the value (unless they'r

Re: [OSM-talk] Fast tracking map feature proposals.

2007-12-30 Thread Andy Allan
On Dec 30, 2007 3:31 PM, Gregory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We don't need to propose every single shop value, ACK > render admins just need to know what's been used ACK. And I say that as one of the few people who are rendering shops (shop=bicycle) >and mappers need to know what would be mos

Re: [OSM-talk] route pub_crawl

2007-12-30 Thread Andy Allan
On Dec 30, 2007 12:13 AM, Michael Kugelmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > looking at the map features page I foundroute = pub_crawl . I didn't > find anything in the wiki about the tag. > Can any native Englisch speaker explain what is intended with this tag > please? I want to know i

Re: [OSM-talk] Fast tracking map feature proposals.

2007-12-30 Thread Gregory
I was actually thinking about the shop tag today... It should be more like the building= and amenity=place_of_worship tags. Building Renderers show anything that has a value for the 'building' key without caring what exactly is the value (unless they're a specialist renderer or it's one the render

Re: [OSM-talk] Part-municipalities and more place issues

2007-12-30 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Dec 30, 2007 2:21 PM, Ben Laenen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Please not another tag. "population" already exists as does > > place=town/city/foo. Let's use those. > > Sure, but if it exists, why not use it then to render it on maps? And if > we can have that, why do we still need all the

Re: [OSM-talk] route pub_crawl

2007-12-30 Thread Gregory
On 30/12/2007, Tony Bowden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > A favourite of many a freshers' week is the Three-legged golf pub crawl, > where teams of two have one leg each tied together and and they have to > down a shot apiece at each of 18 pubs. (Less versions allow them to > alternate the shots.

Re: [OSM-talk] Yahoo's imagery VS Google's imagery?

2007-12-30 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 02:55:01AM +, Yann wrote: > Hello, > > There was a guy from google at SOTM so I assume we did, but just to make > sure: did we actually asked google if we could use their imagery? It's just > so much better than the one yahoo provides... I've personally sent emails to

Re: [OSM-talk] Using Edit Tab on Main Site

2007-12-30 Thread Stephen Coast
joerg! On 30 Dec 2007, at 13:53, Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany) wrote: > Hi, > > i just tried to use the edit Tab on the main Site. I selected an > area and the > first thing I say was a Copyright for Yahoo, NavTeq and Teleatlas > but no > Copyright to Openstreetmap ... wow On the

[OSM-talk] Using Edit Tab on Main Site

2007-12-30 Thread Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany)
Hi, i just tried to use the edit Tab on the main Site. I selected an area and the first thing I say was a Copyright for Yahoo, NavTeq and Teleatlas but no Copyright to Openstreetmap ... wow Then I selected a point which represents a city. It showed some tags name=..., city=... and a highwa

Re: [OSM-talk] Recent Potlatch changes

2007-12-30 Thread Tony Bowden
David Dean wrote: > Also, whilst I am in mood for constructive criticism :) is it possible > to make it so the autocomplete works more like excel in that if there > is only one autocomplete option valid it actually fills out the > remainder of the text box but is highlighted so it can be typed over

Re: [OSM-talk] Part-municipalities and more place issues

2007-12-30 Thread Ben Laenen
On Sunday 30 December 2007, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > TBH I think the word suburb fits perfectly. Suburbs in AU can have > any number of residents. It's mostly a division made for the purpose > of streetnames and postcode boundaries. To what level is streetname > uniqueness: to the "deelgemee

[OSM-talk] Fwd: [EMAIL PROTECTED] memory issues ?

2007-12-30 Thread Lauri Hahne
-- Forwarded message -- From: Franc Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 28 Dec 2007 23:41 Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] [EMAIL PROTECTED] memory issues ? To: Lauri Hahne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Oops, didn't reply to the list 64bit fedora-7 on an dual core amd64 cheers On Dec 28, 2007 8:20

Re: [OSM-talk] Recent Potlatch changes

2007-12-30 Thread David Dean
I'm glad we can ignore it, but how do I turn it off. Every time I use Ctrl+T to open another firefox tab, the debug info comes up and I cannot use Potlatch properly without reloading the whole page. Also, whilst I am in mood for constructive criticism :) is it possible to make it so the autocomple

Re: [OSM-talk] Recent Potlatch changes

2007-12-30 Thread Richard Fairhurst
John Wolter wrote: > The shortcuts page on the wiki ( > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Potlatch/Keyboard_shortcuts) don't > appear to be up-to-date. I notice that there are a few things I trigger > when I type when I think I'm in a text box. For example, if I type a "t", a > box appears

Re: [OSM-talk] route pub_crawl

2007-12-30 Thread Alex S.
Stephen Coast wrote: > On 30 Dec 2007, at 00:55, Alex S. wrote: >> Some pubs offer one free drink on your birthday. > > Were can I find one of them!?!? Surely they are a myth from ancient > times? In the US. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.

Re: [OSM-talk] route pub_crawl

2007-12-30 Thread Stephen Coast
On 30 Dec 2007, at 00:55, Alex S. wrote: > Michael Kugelmann wrote: >> looking at the map features page I foundroute = pub_crawl . I >> didn't >> find anything in the wiki about the tag. >> Can any native Englisch speaker explain what is intended with this >> tag >> please? I want to know

Re: [OSM-talk] Part-municipalities and more place issues

2007-12-30 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Dec 29, 2007 11:39 PM, Ben Laenen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * We have no way to properly tag part-municipalities or districts, yet > we all use the name of those part-municipalities when we need to go > there. Reserving a tag like "suburb" is quite undoable: the population > of these part-mun

Re: [OSM-talk] Part-municipalities and more place issues

2007-12-30 Thread Mario Salvini
"boundary=administrative" with a well chosen "admin_level=..." should be the answer. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Talk:Key:boundary maybe you need a admin_level=12 for the part-municipals regards mario Ben Laenen schrieb: > Hi all, > > We're trying to find some way to tag some odditi

Re: [OSM-talk] Part-municipalities and more place issues

2007-12-30 Thread Abigail Brady
On Dec 29, 2007 10:39 PM, Ben Laenen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, any ideas? > > My recommendation would be to tag only actual settlements with 'place', with the value depending upon population, and not municipalities. Municipalities could have their borders tagged with boundary=administrativ