Re: [OSM-talk] Hard Mapping / Roller coaster Log
Nice! I just wonder what did you tag this as. dizzyness = high ? Michel On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Kinya Inoue ikiya.m...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/ikiya/traces/346271 http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9tw89LwNH4A/SdNnRbRmGxI/BAw/oPlF9yrKNE4/s1600-h/jc0904.jpg Enjoy, Ikiya ___ 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] 3rd world croud-sourcing
I'm particularly interested in the USSD functions, I've not really heard about them before, I may wander over to the OpenMoko mailing lists, and see if they know any thing about it :) Afaik, USSD channels are controlled by the mobile operator. I believe all devices support USSD but you'll need the operator's approval/agreement to deploy any application over these channels. I would not preclude payed for work to be honest. There's actually already been an ongoing attempt to citizen mapping, paying citizens to add missing POIs on a map. See http://www.gisdevelopment.net/news/viewn.asp?id=GIS:N_zqjpnrxcah Full disclosure: I am exploring the gaming aspect of such an application. In this case, the reward would not be a payment but climbing up the high score board instead. We might be able to get a lot of information out of ordinary users, who are not necessarily GIS experts, through having them play a game on their mobile phones. These include for example the location of new POIs, filling in missing street names or simply verifying the correctness of the current database content. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Reverse look-up gazetteer
Take a look at the GeoNames.org web service: http://www.geonames.org/export/ws-overview.html I didn't play with it yet, but I believe it can achieve what you're asking for. On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 1:01 PM, paul youlten p...@yellowikis.org wrote: Does anyone know if there is there a web service that lets me take the latitude and longitude of a node and establish which country, state/county/province, city and Zip/post code the node is in? PaulY -- Tel: +44(0) 7814 517 807 ___ 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] 3rd world croud-sourcing
Looks very promising. Something similar could be implemented for OpenStreetMap but instead of paying the users, we would need to find an alternative mean of rewarding their work. 2009/3/19 Douglas Furlong douglas.furl...@gmail.com: Some thing that may be of interest regarding the possible use of mobile phones in the third world. http://blip.tv/file/1868958 Doug ___ 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] new 'A year of edits' images available and some new 'santa's routes'!
Thanks for sharing the imagery. Particularly enjoyed exploring the changes for the eastern Mediterranean basin. On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com wrote: I have updated our 'A year of edits images' for various parts of the world in this Flickr set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterito/sets/72157610770048763/ The USA image shows huge progress in comparison to the same image for October: http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterito/3087316306/in/set-72157610770048763/ South America has been very active as well: http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterito/2808008345/in/set-72157610770048763/ When doing this I noticed some new 'santa's routes' (big scribble lines across whole countries) which could do with being tracked down. This image of Africa shows one and there is also one on the South America image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterito/2808006399/in/set-72157610770048763/ Regards, Peter ___ 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] [OSM-newbies] avoid repeating the name tag twice
We're facing a similar issue for mapping in neighboring Lebanon. In addition to English, we use Arabic and French so we end up having four name tags: 'name', 'name:en', 'name:fr', 'name:ar' The name tag is a duplicate of one of the three languages depending on the road or POI in question, we have some POIs with English names, French or Arabic, not accounting for some two of three other languages used in certain areas. Similarly to the example of Belgium, canceling the 'name' tag all together, and defaulting to the country language is not suitable. Language should be set per element. But I prefer not to enter the same name twice, but to point the name tag to the name:lang. I support the idea of not having to repeat twice the same name. It is an extra cost that might incur additional unnecessary risk of error when creating or modifying the tags. A possibility would be to never use name=, but only name:XX= and have a tag name:local=XX in order to indicate which is the local one. For rendering, a default rule could be that if there is only one name:XX=xxx without name:local=... then it will use the name:XX whatever XX is. Good idea but we should make sure that name:local=XX is correct, that is 'name:xx' exists among the possible name choices. Otherwise you will end up with inconsistency. In terms of deployment, I don't think the community will approve canceling the 'name' tag completely. So an alternative plausible solution could be to have a mechanism which refers to one of the name:xx, such as Tal has suggested. We could agree on some escape character that is used inside the tag content ($ or \ or whatever is not commonly used). We would have something like that: name=$(name:fr) name:fr=French Here name:en=English Here name:ar=Arabic Here Another possibility, which looks more like a hack, is to simply describe the language of the 'name' tag. So we could have a tag 'name:local=xx' describing the language of the 'name' tag. For the same example above, it would look like that: name=French Here name:local=fr name:en=English Here name:ar=Arabic Here In that case, we would not need the 'name:fr' tag to be explicitly expressed. The rendered though would need to be modified to realize its existence. Cheers Michel On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 11:40 PM, Tal tal@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Pierre-André Jacquod pjacq...@alumni.ethz.ch wrote: I would, however, like to set a default language to the renderer using name=$(name:he) or something equivalent, for the default international map on the osm site. I am not aware of such a feature for the current tools. I fear a problem could be that $(name:he) is also a valid name somewhere else in the world (with an other font than Latin...) I believe otherwise. I think that in the age of unicode $(name:he) will always be the same, regardless of the font you use, as long as you stick to unicode. I believe that this site uses utf-8 which is a unicode encoding. Therefore, $(name:he) will always be a dollar sign and parenthesis around some Latin letters. I like this idea! ___ newbies mailing list newb...@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] whereami not working on nokia 5800 express music
Hey Vivek, Before you install the signable build, you need to manually sign it on https://www.symbiansigned.com/app/page. I think I've tried that approach but it didn't work for me. I suggest you try the signed version instead. I am currently using the following version on an N95, and it's working well: http://www.symbianos.org/files/sis/whereami_0.13_s60_v3.sis Cheers Michel On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Vivek Khurana hiddenharm...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.org wrote: I am no expert, but unsigned did not work for me on E 71 - signed worked out of the box When I tried to install signable build - It throws an error Certificate error please contact application provider. When I install the other SV3 build, it crashes after launch. 5800 uses symbian S60 fifth edition instead of third, can that be a problem ? regards Vivek -- The hidden harmony is better than the obvious!! ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
