[OSM-talk] OSM Planet
I noticed that the OSM Planet files are running about three weeks behind. I assume this is due to the license switchover. Any updates on the next release? Regards, Kerry www.chimani.com ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Is there a world render with country/city labels in English?
Le 7 juin 2012 à 14:24, Nick Whitelegg a écrit : > > Looking at other locales (e.g. fr, de) it's interesting how few English place > names have local names in other languages compared to the other way round (or > at least have been tagged as such in OSM) - only London seems to have local > names - whereas many towns in Germany and Italy (less so France, except for > pronunciation) have English names. > > The Welsh locale is interesting though. Many places have their names in breton, language spoken in Brittany, NW of France. Every State and a bunch of towns out of the nest of this celtic language, a close parent to Welsh and Cornish, have their breton version (Stadoù-Unanet Amerika for USA, Alamagn for Germany, Londrez for London, , Pariz for Paris…). A remarkable fact was the mechanical import of the names of every municipality and local districts using files of the official public language board (Office public de la langue bretonne). This import (around 2 000 names) was performed in January 2012. According to Tag Info, there are more than 7 500 place names in breton in OSM : http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=name%3Abr See most of them at : http://toolserver.org/~osm/locale/br.html?zoom=9&lat=48.13803&lon=-3.35306&layers=BT Christian Rogel___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Is there a world render with country/city labels in English?
I wonder how much of that is down to us seaming needing to change every cities name when in English but foreigners being happy using the English spelling (especially the Latin alphabet countries)? Just from the top of my head we have Munich - München Cologne - Köln The Hague - Den Hagg Ghent - Gent Dusseldorf - Düsseldorf (okay, understandable as English doesn't have umlauts) Hanover - Hannover Although the English spelling of one of Nottingham's twin towns is Timișoara (looks random but is one of Nottingham's twin towns...) - yet every English town I have checked on foreign Wikipedia's uses the English spelling in both Dutch and German On 7 June 2012 13:24, Nick Whitelegg wrote: > > Looking at other locales (e.g. fr, de) it's interesting how few English > place names have local names in other languages compared to the other way > round (or at least have been tagged as such in OSM) - only London seems to > have local names - whereas many towns in Germany and Italy (less so France, > except for pronunciation) have English names. > > The Welsh locale is interesting though. > > Nick > > -SomeoneElse > wrote: - > > To: talk@openstreetmap.org > From: SomeoneElse > Date: 06/06/2012 07:42PM > Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Is there a world render with country/city labels > in English? > > > Dave F. wrote: > > Hi > > As the subject line really. I've had a quick look but came up blank. > > Cheers > Dave F. > > ___ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > Is > > http://toolserver.org/~osm/locale/en.html > > what you're looking for? > > Cheers, > Andy > > ___ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > > ___ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Is there a world render with country/city labels in English?
Looking at other locales (e.g. fr, de) it's interesting how few English place names have local names in other languages compared to the other way round (or at least have been tagged as such in OSM) - only London seems to have local names - whereas many towns in Germany and Italy (less so France, except for pronunciation) have English names. The Welsh locale is interesting though. Nick -SomeoneElse wrote: - To: talk@openstreetmap.org From: SomeoneElse Date: 06/06/2012 07:42PM Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Is there a world render with country/city labels in English? Dave F. wrote: Hi As the subject line really. I've had a quick look but came up blank. Cheers Dave F. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk Is http://toolserver.org/~osm/locale/en.html what you're looking for? Cheers, Andy ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
[OSM-talk] Coastline rendering in Quebec
On the talk-ca list there have been a few discussion about problems with "flooded" areas in southern Quebec. The conclusion seems to be that the problems are due to the rendering of the coastline which only gets updated every once in a while. The two cases are: * http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=45.6101&lon=-73.4411&zoom=13&layers=M This problem is comparatively recent. Current data appears to be correct. Problem is visible on zoom>=13 * http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=45.342&lon=-74.24&zoom=9&layers=M This one has been around for at least 6 months. Current data appears to be correct. Problem is visible on zoom>=9 We haven't been able to figure out who to contact about these issues. Can anyone point us in the right direction? Thanks, Harald. -- Please use encrypted communication whenever possible! Key-ID: 0x199DC50F ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
[OSM-talk] country of Iraq contains government districts which subdivides all of its provinces
The country of Iraq contains government districts which subdivides all of its provinces. I noticed that openstreetmap does not contain these government districts does anyone have these districts in vector format like shape or KML. Thanks, John ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines review
On 6/6/2012 3:11 PM, Tirkon wrote: Worst Fixer wrote: It means that we must revert things like TIGER and CanVec. Am I right? I think fundamentally you are right with this point. My impression is that many people at OSM regret these imports - in fact the longer they are involved in the project. Most opinions I've seen are that TIGER is imperfect but better than nothing as a starting point. I imagine Wikipedia would have been imported so far and the user were damned to correct it and only add bits and bobs. I am pretty sure it never ever would have had that success it had. Pull up five articles on small-to-midsized U.S. cities in English Wikipedia. You'll probably see many similarities. This is because they were created in the early days of Wikipedia by user Rambot, using US Census Bureau data (which TIGER also happens to be). IMHO the community impact of imports should be described in extenso before any technical stuff is mentioned. And yes - it should be mentioned that TIGER and its friends were early mistakes of OSM. This view that they were mistakes is far from widespread. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Is there a world render with country/city labels in English?
On 06/06/2012 20:34, Stephan Knauss wrote: On 06.06.2012 19:48, Dave F. wrote: As the subject line really. I've had a quick look but came up blank. go to osm.org, in the top right corner of the map select "MapQuest Open". I clearly didn't look hard enough! Thanks to all. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
