Re: [OSM-talk] RFC: Import of OpenGeoDB to OSM
On 12 Jan 2008, at 18:43, J.D. Schmidt wrote: > Sven Anders skrev: >> The OpenGeoDB Project has data about (many places of >> *Germany, >> *Belgium, >> *Liechtenstein, >> * Austria and >> *Switzerland. >> >> There are 45873 places in this database. >> >> >> You can find there data of: >> * postal codes >> * license plate codes >> * community identification numbers >> and some more. >> >> I have writen a small tool, which can import all of the data to OSM. >> I would like to start the import in one week, if there is no veto. >> >> More Informatione about the import you can find one the Wiki-Page: >> >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/User:OpenGeoDB >> >> I`m not a native English speaker, so please correct the field names >> and give >> comments to the Wiki Page >> >> >> Thank you >> >> Sven Anders >> > > You have ofcourse checked that whatever license used for the data in > the > OpenGeoDB doesn't taint the OSM license in any way ? I was going to ask the same thing... googling pops up a german wikipedia link... Frederik mind helping? > > > Dutch > > ___ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk > have fun, SteveC | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.asklater.com/steve/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Why place matters, slides from Vanessa Lawrence talk
oh and while we're pointing out mistakes, roads around the US embassy have been closed for going on 10 years (slide 19). On 11 Jan 2008, at 16:51, Stephen Coast wrote: > > On 11 Jan 2008, at 04:39, J.D. Schmidt wrote: > >> Jon Burgess skrev: >>> On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 00:09 +, martin dodge wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> Just found an interesting set of slides of a talk by Vanessa >>>> Lawrence, OS >>>> http://www.w3.org/2007/06/eGov-dc/presentations/VL_why_place_matters.pdf >>>> with some prominent mentions for OSM. I particularly liked slide 46 >>>> >>> >>> The map in his screenshot must be from quite some time ago. The same >>> area of central London now has considerably more data >>> >>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.5183&lon=-0.1387&zoom=14&layers=0BFT >>> >>> Jon >> >> Hey, what do you expect from someone who is used to a 6 month >> timeframe >> before new features in the landscape has been mapped, processed and >> included in the mastermap ? Of course she included an old rendering, >> most probably from the London Map Party. > > Interestingly no - it's missing large sections that were done that > weekend. Specifically 80n's bit between Edgware Road and Baker > Streetish as I remember. > > have fun, > > SteveC | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.asklater.com/steve/ > > > > ___ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk > have fun, SteveC | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.asklater.com/steve/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Why place matters, slides from Vanessa Lawrence talk
On 11 Jan 2008, at 04:39, J.D. Schmidt wrote: > Jon Burgess skrev: >> On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 00:09 +, martin dodge wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Just found an interesting set of slides of a talk by Vanessa >>> Lawrence, OS >>> http://www.w3.org/2007/06/eGov-dc/presentations/VL_why_place_matters.pdf >>> with some prominent mentions for OSM. I particularly liked slide 46 >>> >> >> The map in his screenshot must be from quite some time ago. The same >> area of central London now has considerably more data >> >> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.5183&lon=-0.1387&zoom=14&layers=0BFT >> >> Jon > > Hey, what do you expect from someone who is used to a 6 month > timeframe > before new features in the landscape has been mapped, processed and > included in the mastermap ? Of course she included an old rendering, > most probably from the London Map Party. Interestingly no - it's missing large sections that were done that weekend. Specifically 80n's bit between Edgware Road and Baker Streetish as I remember. have fun, SteveC | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.asklater.com/steve/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] OSM meetup during Linux.Conf.Au 2008
Maybe try and do a lightning talk or something if you can? On 2 Jan 2008, at 21:41, Kim Hawtin wrote: > Hi guys, > > I was wondering if there would be any value for folks to organise a > meet up during the Linux Conference in Melbourne starting on the 28th > of January? > > regards, > > Kim > -- > Community Wireless Miniconf Coordinator > http://miniconf.mel8ourne.org/wiki/index.php?title=Community_Wireless > Linux.Conf.Au 2008 > http://linux.conf.au/ > > ___ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk > have fun, SteveC | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.asklater.com/steve/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] My Openstreetmap talk at 24C3
On 3 Jan 2008, at 12:10, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > Frederik Ramm wrote: > >> My slides are in SVN (/misc/lectures/), in OpenOffice and PDF >> formats, and of course you're welcome to re-use them in any way. > > Haven't listened to the transcript, but the slides are great - really > convey the sense of OSM being useful, cool, and fun. > >> Buy our book (out February 2008) Frederik Ramm, Jochen Topf: >> OpenStreetMap Lehmanns Verlag, Hamburg > > So tell us more...? Maybe with an introduction by Fake SteveC? Nice slides, and one of my picture too. > > > cheers > Richard > > > > ___ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk > have fun, SteveC | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.asklater.com/steve/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Using Edit Tab on Main Site
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 left hand side is the CC notice. > Then I selected a point which represents a city. It showed some tags > name=..., > city=... and a highway=... so i decided to mark the highway tag and > pressed > delete. Ups the complete city was gone. I then asked myself if there > is a blank out the value for a keyval and it goes > undo function... So I am looking for any Button which tells me > "undo ..." I > didn't see any. So the next thing I'm looking for is a help menu ... > I seem > to be blind. The only things I can find scattered at the lower end > of the > editing window are: > - options (...fade something) > - show gps tracks > - split way > - reverse direction > - repeat attribute > - add new attribute > Can anyone enlighten me how to revert the wrong done delete? > And no I have no clue what the other tags where containing ... this > is the > reason I'd like to undo it. You can't undo points at this time afaik the edit page does link to the wiki page for potlatch right? have fun, SteveC | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.asklater.com/steve/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] route pub_crawl
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 it just to improove the knowledge. > Some pubs offer one free drink on your birthday. Were can I find one of them!?!? Surely they are a myth from ancient times? have fun, SteveC | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.asklater.com/steve/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Ideas for OSM enhancements
On 29 Dec 2007, at 17:56, Laurence Penney wrote: > Robin Paulson wrote: >> no need to create a new site, this is exactly what wikimapia.org is >> for > > Thanks Robin, I'd forgotten about WikiMapia. I got excited when > polygon editing was added (March 2007), but I think I must have > decided against diving into it with gusto when I read the license, in > particular section 1F: > > "F. All User Submissions of all users and all WikiMapia data are > available through WikiMapia Website, WikiMapia API and other current > or future WikiMapia services for non-commercial purposes only: > personal or educational. In addition, WikiMapia provides an "map on > your page" feature, which you may incorporate into your own personal > websites for use in accessing the information on the Website. > WikiMapia reserves the right to discontinue any aspect of the > WikiMapia Website at any time." > > http://wikimapia.org/terms_reference.html > > Do you know much about the team behind WikiMapia? I and I think many > OSMers would be worried about the license changing arbitrarily, like > CDDB/Gracenote. Er, they may claim a license but if you read the google terms of service it's all fubar. See specifically the bit about making derivative works, and the bit about making large dumps of lat/lng points available. have fun, SteveC | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.asklater.com/steve/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
[OSM-talk] potlatch broken?
Anyone else see it not working any more, pulling Y! in? Anything to do with last Friday's Y! maps update? have fun, SteveC | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.asklater.com/steve/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
