Re: [OSM-talk] Picnic Shelters?

2009-04-03 Thread Guenther Meyer
Am Samstag 04 April 2009 schrieb Jeffrey Ollie: > Hello, > > I'm just getting started with mapping, and have started with the > trails and other objects in my local city parks. One thing that I > haven't quite figured out is how one would tag a picnic shelter > (http://images.google.com/images?q=P

[OSM-talk] Picnic Shelters?

2009-04-03 Thread Jeffrey Ollie
Hello, I'm just getting started with mapping, and have started with the trails and other objects in my local city parks. One thing that I haven't quite figured out is how one would tag a picnic shelter (http://images.google.com/images?q=Picnic+Shelter)? From reading the wiki, the closest I've be

[OSM-talk] Reminder: Baltimore mapping party

2009-04-03 Thread Russ Nelson
Are you in Baltimore? Or Washington, D.C.? Looking for something new and interesting to do? Come to my Baltimore mapping party! Kelly came to my Boston mapping party just to keep her partner Jason company. He showed her how to edit and she said "Why did you never TELL me how much fun t

Re: [OSM-talk] Hard Mapping / Roller coaster Log

2009-04-03 Thread Paul Johnson
Kinya Inoue wrote: > http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/ikiya/traces/346271 You need more than one sample to have something reliable enough to map... go back another 10 or 12 laps! :o) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ talk mail

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM April Fools

2009-04-03 Thread Paul Johnson
Richard Fairhurst wrote: > http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Igor%20Shubovych/diary/5772 This one could almost be viewed as a parody of one of my earlier posts, which I admit was almost a stream of consciousness because I was attempting to write the idea down before it left me. http://www.openstr

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging dangerous areas

2009-04-03 Thread Paul Johnson
Matt Amos wrote: > On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Brian Quinion > wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) >> wrote: >>> This should be tagged in a different way that uses fact instead of >>> opinion/fiction. Perhaps by referring to crime statistics for a give

Re: [OSM-talk] GSoC09 - Who wants to mentor?

2009-04-03 Thread Ian Dees
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 6:41 PM, Ian Dees wrote: > Hi everyone, > > The deadline for student applications to GSoC 2009 was today. We received > 27 applications, so I'd love to start hearing from those that would like to > mentor and which project (from the project ideas page [1]) they are most > i

[OSM-talk] GSoC09 - Who wants to mentor?

2009-04-03 Thread Ian Dees
Hi everyone, The deadline for student applications to GSoC 2009 was today. We received 27 applications, so I'd love to start hearing from those that would like to mentor and which project (from the project ideas page [1]) they are most interested in mentoring. Also, I'd love to get in contact with

Re: [OSM-talk] Map tag in Wikipedia

2009-04-03 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 1:51 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: >> >> Anyway, there's a MediaWiki developer meetup in Berlin next month > > [...] > >> But it would be very cool if someone that *did* know something about >> the OSM platform were to go and talk to the

Re: [OSM-talk] Hard Mapping / Roller coaster Log

2009-04-03 Thread Marcus Wolschon
2009/4/1 Kinya Inoue : > http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/ikiya/traces/346271 > > http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9tw89LwNH4A/SdNnRbRmGxI/BAw/oPlF9yrKNE4/s1600-h/jc0904.jpg I still have GPS-logs of the rollercoasters in Europapakt (near Freiburg, Germany). However my old -159dBm gps-device was

[OSM-talk] Filtering by name

2009-04-03 Thread Steve Chilton
When I was messing about with a tube map - over a year ago now: http://www.stevechilton.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/osm/tube/index.html I filtered for each line to give it the correct colour by selecting on its name. Now I have come to update the map it doesn't work. Can anyone tell me what might have cha

[OSM-talk] state of preparing the TMC-import

2009-04-03 Thread Marcus Wolschon
I have made quite some progress in preparing the import of the German TMC Location-Codes that was allowed to us by the BASt. Now I would like to present what we may get into the map in a few month. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/TMC/TMC_Import_Germany We are talking about: 28.520 points 1.

[OSM-talk] OSM Birmingham & Solihull limited edition map now on sale

2009-04-03 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
To celebrate the completion of base mapping for the city of Birmingham, UK we, being the local OSMers here, have had a map printed to show of our endeavours. The print run for Edition 1 was limited to just 50 and 10 have already gone to those who helped make it all happen. The rest we would like t

Re: [OSM-talk] Hard Mapping / Roller coaster Log

2009-04-03 Thread Michel Barakat
Nice! I just wonder what did you tag this as. dizzyness = high ? Michel On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Kinya Inoue wrote: > http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/ikiya/traces/346271 > > http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9tw89LwNH4A/SdNnRbRmGxI/BAw/oPlF9yrKNE4/s1600-h/jc0904.jpg > > Enjoy, > > Ikiya