Re: [Talk-GB] Anyone interested in participating in a distributed Freemap?
On 24 November 2011 14:00, Nick Whitelegg nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk wrote: The requirements of the other servers would be: * standard OSM postgis DB installed * osmosis and osm2pgsql installed * shell access for cron job updates * postgres DB to store height data, as per the relevant OSM wiki page: consequently gdal needs to be present. In addition to that, how much disk space, processor grunt, memory and bandwidth would one need to be useful? -- Philip Stubbs ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [OSM-talk] Will OSM tiles be CC-0 soon?
On 26 October 2011 11:19, Erik Johansson erjo...@gmail.com wrote: [1] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stockholm-Openstreetmap.png Sorry to be off topic, but I just went to have a look to see how far Stockholm has progressed. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=59.3165lon=18.0662zoom=14layers=M Wow! -- Philip Stubbs ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] What phones do OSMers have?
2011/1/6 Raphaël Pinson raph...@gmail.com: And on top of that, the survey is hosted on a Google Document survey... I noticed that too, and smiled. :-) -- Philip Stubbs ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [Talk-GB] Reporting Errors to OS - Feedback
On 12 August 2010 14:23, Tim Francois sk1pp...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: In that case, it sounds to me like a maintenance nightmare, especially if everyone adds all the errors they find in the OS data to the Catalog. I will certainly think before adding too many more errors to the Catalog, because there is every chance that in six months time (or whenever the next release cycle is for the particular product) the editor that added the data might be gone. It's tricky, because we obviously don't want to bombard OS with multiple emails with the same error (two or three won't hurt, and may actually be beneficial) - however, 'bombard' might be too strong-a word, depending on how many people actually pass on errors to OS... Tough call... Tim Would it better to collect all errors in the catalogue, and then periodically send them to OS? I know that I would rather receive one email with 100 actions than 100 emails with 1 action. Or worse, multiple emails for the same action. It may also help improve the image of OSM by acting in a coordinated manner. -- Philip Stubbs ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch 2 Public Alpha
On 10 July 2010 02:57, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: Hi all, (Deep breath) I'm delighted to unveil a test version of Potlatch 2, the all-new, completely rewritten version of OpenStreetMap's online editor. You can play with it at http://www.geowiki.com/ . It talks to the main OSM server and you can make real edits with it. Wow! This is great. Well done all involved. -- Philip Stubbs ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [Talk-GB] OS Tile Ref look up by place name Re: Building with mapseg
On 3 June 2010 08:05, Micah li...@j12.org wrote: If you want to find a place by name including quite samll localities use http://www.gazetteer.co.uk/ This will give you a tile ref. You may need to chop off 2nd 4th numerical digit (1m x 1m) or get four tile set add NE, NW, SE, SW (500m x 500m) depending on what size tiles you are working with. Thanks. That is just what I was after. -- Philip Stubbs ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] Building with mapseg
On 29 May 2010 20:31, TimSC mapp...@sheerman-chase.org.uk wrote: Hi all, I have updated the code and put out a new version of mapseg (now v0.2). As Roy Jamison discovered, the previous version was broken by upper case filenames. The program is now case insensitive to that. Available here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mapseg Is there an easy way to find the tile reference for a given area. I have found what I need so far by trial and error, but with 400 tiles it can be a bit of a pain. -- Philip Stubbs ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] Building with mapseg
On 1 June 2010 15:43, TimSC mapp...@sheerman-chase.org.uk wrote: Is there an easy way to find the tile reference for a given area. I have found what I need so far by trial and error, but with 400 tiles it can be a bit of a pain. -- Philip Stubbs Philip, A quick sketch on the method to go from tile filename to coordinates. Say we use the filename su85se.tiff. The su part, the 85 part and the se part each give a different northing and easting offset. The must be summed to get the final bottom left corner position. The first offset is basically coarse grid letter offset and is found in a look up table. The codes are arranged like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:National_Grid_for_Great_Britain_with_central_meridian.gif The 85 is an intermediate offset, I think it is 8x1 metres east and 5x1 metres north. The final code can be se, sw, ne, nw for a fine tile offset. The n sheets are offset north by 5000m. The e sheets are offset east by 5000m. Each tile is 5000m by 5000m, as far as I remember so you can get the coordinates of the other corners. Re-reading your question, I guess you really want the inverse of what I just described? I hope that helps a little anyway. TimSC Thanks Tim. I had worked out that there was some logic to the tile numbers. Having downloaded the tiles for SU, I wanted to find the tile that contained Warsash. Each tile only covers a small area, so I opened tiles until I recognised an area. Then I tried others near that one to see which way they went. Now I have found Warsash, I can work my may through that tile and the ones beside it with ease. I really asked the question for when or if others start to use the tiles also. Regards, -- Philip Stubbs ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] Map layer with OS Locator comparison from ITO
On 31 May 2010 11:02, Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com wrote: We have created a map layer for Potlatch showing OS Locator names which are not in the nearby OSM data in a nice visual way. This is a great tool. I thought all the roads in my area had been mapped, but this highlights some new closes etc that have been build since the Yahoo imagery. It also helps prove that I can't type for toffee. :-) -- Philip Stubbs ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch 2
2009/11/30 Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net: Hi all, I’d like to tell you about Potlatch 2, the all-new version of the OpenStreetMap online editor. Potlatch 1 is fantastic. You have set yourself up a tough target to better it. I am looking forward to the initial release to find out :-) Well done. Congratulations on all that you have achieved. And most importantly, thank you very much for making it so easy to contribute to openstreetmap. -- Philip Stubbs ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [Talk-GB] Underground Pipelines
2009/11/9 Thomas Wood grand.edgemas...@gmail.com: Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote: Brian Prangle wrote: Sent: 09 November 2009 11:14 AM To: Talk GB Subject: [Talk-GB] Underground Pipelines We have several oil terminals just to the E of Birmingham and wandering around the countryside I come across loads of pipeline markers. In places there are enough to join them up with man-made=pipeline ways. My problem is how to tag the direction of flow. The oil pipeline markers have the direction of flow indicated on them ( gas ones don't). I've tagged the pipelines as oneway=yes which results in mapnik rendering little blue arrows in the countryside. Whilst this is to me ( who's mapped them) a good indicator of the presence of a buried pipeline it will probably be meaningless to any one else. Any opinions out there? That exactly how I'd tag them. The rendering engine needs to be a little cleverer and not just blindly render all oneway=yes tags. Cheers Andy Pipelines explicitly work in only one direction, why not just require a pipeline way's direction to be that of flow and not bother with the redundant oneway=yes tagging? I bet that is not true. I can think of at least one case where a pipeline will flow in both directions. Not at the same time, obviously. :-) -- Philip Stubbs ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
[Talk-GB] In the news, BBC
Thought you may be interested in this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8305924.stm -- Philip Stubbs ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
