Re: [OSM-dev] OSM front page design concept

2010-02-28 Thread Tirkon
SteveC wrote: >I've posted a design concept with description and invitation for feedback here: > >http://opengeodata.org/new-design-concept-for-openstreetmaporg > >Yours &c. > >Steve Possibly I am too much in a science fiction. But I could imagine the OSM homepage as a kind of WMS-service with a

Re: [OSM-dev] OSM front page design concept

2010-02-28 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Tirkon wrote: > Possibly I am too much in a science fiction. But I could imagine the > OSM homepage as a kind of WMS-service with a user-configurable map. A > menue will take control, which items are shown, highlighted, four > color theoremed [1] i.e. urban quarters of a town (with one quarter

Re: [OSM-dev] OSM front page design concept

2010-02-28 Thread Tirkon
Frederik Ramm wrote: >What you are describing is the "web map to end all web maps". It is a >natural tendency for many in the IT industry to always try and >generalise ("if I add this and make that configurable, then the same >backend could be used to do all these things..."). Here is an exam

Re: [OSM-dev] OSM front page design concept

2010-02-28 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Tirkon wrote: > Here is an example, sadly in German. I do not know an English one. > http://geoportal.geodaten.niedersachsen.de/navigator/? But they are far from perfect. On Google maps you can now view the map oriented towards any of the main compass directions ;-) Bye Frederik -- Freder

Re: [OSM-dev] indoor wifi geopositionning - openstreetmap precision, collaborators?

2010-02-28 Thread Jonathan-David SCHRODER
Hi Stefan, thanks for your e-mail, I hope you don't mind this : I've added your links to http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mapping_indoor_and_outdoor_human_sized_objects#Around_other_mapping_standards.2Fsolutions.2Fdatasets (you land there by typing indoor mapping in http://wiki.openstreetmap.org'

Re: [OSM-dev] indoor wifi geopositionning - openstreetmap precision, collaborators?

2010-02-28 Thread Jonathan-David SCHRODER
Hello Richard, thank you very much again for your replies ! > - Richard Atterer here : http://atterer.net/leadme ; > > I just extended that page with pictures of the hardware I built for indoor > mapping, and a screenshot of the map editor I'm developing. > Richard ! Your mapping mouse (a walkabl

Re: [OSM-dev] OPEN STREET MAP - TRAFFIC INFORMATION

2010-02-28 Thread peter
On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 18:56 -0700, MilesTogoe wrote: > SteveC wrote: > > Bouncing to newbies@, someone should be able to help you there > > > > I've been a professional traffic engineer (and engr professor) in the US > and would be happy to be a mentor if you want to make this into a Google

[OSM-dev] Announcement: new khtml javascript map library

2010-02-28 Thread Bernhard zwischenbrugger
Hi all I was mapping a white spot on OpenStreetMap with my bicycle: Myanmar Now I'm in Phnom Penh (Cambodia) and have a "Bandscheibenvorfall" (disc prolapse) because of the bad roads in Myanmar. It's painful and I can't move very much. In my guesthouse I get everything in distance of 10m and it'

Re: [OSM-dev] OPEN STREET MAP - TRAFFIC INFORMATION

2010-02-28 Thread Graham Jones
These sound like interesting ideas for a Google Summer of Code project. The application process has not started yet, but it would be good to put your ideas down on the OSM wiki page and seek views of other members on how this could be implemented - it will also help when you write your application

[OSM-dev] Fwd: PostgreSQL beta-test data

2010-02-28 Thread SteveC
trying again... Begin forwarded message: > From: SteveC > Date: February 28, 2010 12:01:33 PM MST > To: Steve Crawford , dev list > > Cc: Josh Berkus > Subject: Re: PostgreSQL beta-test data > > possible psql help if anyone is interested > > On Feb 26, 2010, at 10:38 AM, Steve Crawford wrot

[OSM-dev] Google Summer of Code Projects

2010-02-28 Thread Graham Jones
Hi There, It will soon be time for OpenStreetMap to apply to join the 2010 Google Summer of Code Programme. This gives students the opportunity to work on open source projects during the summer, for which they receive some payment by Google. It costs us nothing more than providing a Mentor to g

Re: [OSM-dev] Announcement: new khtml javascript map library

2010-02-28 Thread andrzej zaborowski
Hi Bernhard, On 28 February 2010 19:27, Bernhard zwischenbrugger wrote: > Now I started to improve my  javascript map library - I have nothing > else to do. > > All informations here: > http://www.khtml.org/iphonemap/help.html > > It provides a very fast, stepless zoom on WebKit Browsers with go

Re: [OSM-dev] OSM front page design concept

2010-02-28 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2010/2/28 Tirkon : > But this is exactly rhat, what I am asked i.e. by Wikipedia users. At > present they draw their maps for every geographical article (states, > regions, districts, towns, municipality, urban quarters) and the > sub-chapters of these (water, public transport, railway etc etc) and

Re: [OSM-dev] Mapnik Installation Problem

2010-02-28 Thread Dane Springmeyer
Martin, On Jan 29, 2010, at 8:40 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > Dane, again thank you for your reply. With your help I managed relink > to /usr/local/lib (temporary moved the libicu) and finally pass the > configure procedure. Glad you could get icu linking working with that workaround. Good

Re: [OSM-dev] OSM front page design concept

2010-02-28 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: >> But this is exactly rhat, what I am asked i.e. by Wikipedia users. At >> present they draw their maps for every geographical article (states, >> regions, districts, towns, municipality, urban quarters) and the >> sub-chapters of these (water, public transport, rai