Re: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage relations, in particular 1298962
Am 27.04.2012 03:28, SomeoneElse: I noticed this while looking at the map here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=32.001059&lon=34.825519&zoom=18&layers=M The "Hires coverage of Bing imagery in the Near East" label is from the name on this relation: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/1298962 Regardless of the "perhaps the map shouldn't render unknown things just because of name=blah" issue, I'd argue that metadata such as this really doesn't belong in OSM. I've messaged the three previous editors of this relation and two haven't objected to it's removal (the other one hasn't replied). Can anyone put forward a good reason why it should be kept? I can't see a good reason given there is a website such as http://ant.dev.openstreetmap.org/bingimageanalyzer/ that shows you Bing worldwide highres coverage. Claudius ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
[OSM-talk] Help! Widescale mass problems introduced by user exMajor
User exMajor (http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/eXmajor) has been causing a lot of trouble in the UAE. For months (s)he has been blindly mapping using Bing, not account for offsets, drawing buildings around stationary airplanes [1], mapping tracks as highway=construction[2], mapping mangroves as scrub [3] and so on. I've repeatedly asked him/her to stop but to no avail. If I revert the edits he just reverts them back. Now in a series of changesets starting roughly around the 14th April this same user has caused wholesale vandalism in Abu Dhabi city, deleting roads, adding hundreds of parking nodes [4], deleting entire districts, changing minor roads to tertiary etc. Here (http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=24.43726&lon=54.41217&zoom=17&layers=M) is a typical example, with a block's worth of roads removed, leaving three orphan segments. Just pan around and see the mess. It appears that I can not stop this user, so I'm appealing to the community to help stop this before he screws up the entire UAE. [1] http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=25.580147&lon=55.653601&zoom=18&layers=M [2] http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=25.580147&lon=55.653601&zoom=18&layers=M [3] http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=25.77614&lon=55.95995&zoom=15&layers=M [4] http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=24.43389&lon=54.4482&zoom=16&layers=M -- Charlie ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] near by
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Ramiro Cosentino wrote: > Yes, sure. What I mean is I have different pre-loaded locations > (restaurants, hotels, etc. ) already stored with their lon/lat > on the phone's database, and I'd like to show all of them which are in the > range of, let's say, 20 blocks > near the user's current location. As Richard points out, the easiest thing for you to do is decide what a block is in some measurement system (ala meters). From there you can determine the radius you'll need to work out. You shouldn't use the OSM servers directly from your phone's app, but you may be able to get permission from, say the MapQuest one (I can't speak for them, but they have fairly generous terms). Now, an XAPI call requires a bounding box, so you'll need to calculate your radius to a degrees, and your circle to a square. Once you do that, you're ready to make your XAPI call. http://open.mapquestapi.com/xapi/ That page uses an improved version of a little cutsey frontend I wrote a long time ago (theirs is nicer!). if you're unfamiliar with OSM's tagging system, you should spend some time on the wiki, or watch the videos I put out about a year ago that cover OSM basics: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCE6296A33CF47955&feature=mh_lolz - Serge ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Help! Widescale mass problems introduced by user exMajor
On 28.04.2012 14:00, Charlie Ferrero wrote: User exMajor (http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/eXmajor) has been causing a lot of trouble in the UAE. [...] if necessary please contact the "Data Working Group" ( http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Data_working_group ) via d...@osmfoundation.org. Best regards, Michael. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik Lowzoom TIles - proof of concept
* Frederik Ramm (frede...@remote.org) wrote: > There's nothing keeping one from applying the Tiles@Home lowzoom process > to a slight variation of our standard Mapnik style however, and out > comes this (for zoom levels 0-8; from z9 on, the standard Mapnik style > looks fine): > > http://fred.dev.openstreetmap.org/lowzoom/ It so happened that I was experimenting with the same thing in Feb, and this week I've finished the utility which can combine highzoom tiles into lowzoom ones and apply overlays in a fast and easy way, and I though you (and others) may be interested in it. Wiki: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tiletool Source & docs: https://github.com/AMDmi3/tiletool Example rendering from z9 mapnik tiles (plain, no captionless tiles and overlays): http://lowzoom.osm.rambler.ru/ -- Dmitry Marakasov . 55B5 0596 FF1E 8D84 5F56 9510 D35A 80DD F9D2 F77D amd...@amdmi3.ru ..: jabber: amd...@jabber.ruhttp://www.amdmi3.ru ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
