Re: [OSM-dev] How reconstrucing a way from the history?

2009-01-14 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Thomas Wood wrote: [updating way when node moved] However, I think potlatch does work in this way.. It does in 0.5 but won't in 0.6. This does make it a bit more difficult in 0.6 for Potlatch's way revert tool ('H') to figure out what the revision dates were, which is what I'm working on at

Re: [OSM-dev] Google doesn't find new wiki urls

2009-01-14 Thread Erik Johansson
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Jochen Topf joc...@remote.org wrote: Somebody just asked on the German mailing list about Google not finding pages from our wiki any more. I just checked this and it does find some, but they are all still ../index.php/.. URLs. Looking at the robots.txt and the

Re: [OSM-dev] Google doesn't find new wiki urls

2009-01-14 Thread Tom Hughes
Erik Johansson wrote: On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Jochen Topf joc...@remote.org wrote: Somebody just asked on the German mailing list about Google not finding pages from our wiki any more. I just checked this and it does find some, but they are all still ../index.php/.. URLs. Looking at

Re: [OSM-dev] Google doesn't find new wiki urls

2009-01-14 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: Erik Johansson wrote: On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Jochen Topf joc...@remote.org wrote: Somebody just asked on the German mailing list about Google not finding pages from our wiki any more. I just checked this and it does

Re: [OSM-dev] Limit on the number of tags on a node

2009-01-14 Thread Dave Stubbs
2009/1/13 Neil Penman ianaf4...@yahoo.com: Hmm, trying my post again with a message created from scratch! I didn't realise I couldn't just reply all to another message, change the subject and delete the old text! Its a bad habit anyway so time I stopped it. I get a 400 error when I try and

Re: [OSM-dev] Google doesn't find new wiki urls

2009-01-14 Thread Tom Hughes
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: The googlebot is probably blocked as bots tend to kill the wiki due to the extreme crapness of mediawiki. Bots happily hit Wikipedia all day without killing it, is the OSM wiki set up

Re: [OSM-dev] Google doesn't find new wiki urls

2009-01-14 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Tom Hughes wrote: We have one little Atom based machine. They have a metric buttload of database servers serving pages to ten metric buttloads of web servers fronted by about a thousand metric buttloads of squid caches. Then don't be such a sissy and get use the metric buttload of

Re: [OSM-dev] Google doesn't find new wiki urls

2009-01-14 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: So yes, MediaWiki is crap, especially when used by computer geeks who tend to actually use the templating features. What options do we have? Close down the Wiki? Replace it with another Wiki software? Look for

Re: [OSM-dev] Google doesn't find new wiki urls

2009-01-14 Thread Grant Slater
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: The first thing that should be done is to ensure that MediaWiki's caching infrastructure, both internal (memcache, message cache etc) and external (squid) is correctly set up and all working optimally together. I discussed this briefly with TomH on IRC which told

Re: [OSM-dev] Google doesn't find new wiki urls

2009-01-14 Thread Karl Guggisberg
It doesn't help that we have some ridiculously complicated pages like map features which are not only hugely complicated with masses of templates but also get changed very frequently. We are currently evaluating how Semantic MediaWiki can help us to manage map feature infos on the wiki (see

[OSM-dev] Osmosis - handling of linestring column

2009-01-14 Thread Lars Francke
Hi, Osmosis used to create a bbox column for the ways table. As I didn't need this I replaced all its queries with queries to create and update a LINESTRING-column instead. This works flawlessly and as I understand this feature has since been added to Osmosis (I'm using 0.29.2). As this update

Re: [OSM-dev] Osmosis - handling of linestring column

2009-01-14 Thread Brett Henderson
Lars Francke wrote: Hi, Osmosis used to create a bbox column for the ways table. As I didn't need this I replaced all its queries with queries to create and update a LINESTRING-column instead. This works flawlessly and as I understand this feature has since been added to Osmosis (I'm using

Re: [OSM-dev] Osmosis - handling of linestring column

2009-01-14 Thread Lars Francke
Hi, I doubt if I'll be able to look at this myself soon so feel free to experiment with improvements. and thank you for your comments and clarifications. I will have a look at this but it will take me some time. I'll get back to you when I have something to report. Lars