Re: [OSM-dev] Renderer issue: highway=service and service=driveway?

2014-01-06 Thread Ed Loach
Zoom in. Footpaths are perhaps visible too soon. Ed From: Nick Whitelegg [mailto:nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk] Sent: 06 January 2014 11:17 To: dev@openstreetmap.org Subject: [OSM-dev] Renderer issue: highway=service and service=driveway? Hi, Have noticed an issue with the main mapnik

Re: [OSM-dev] have the table of contents vanished in the osm wiki?

2013-10-20 Thread Ed Loach
I might be wrong but looks like Key pages contents disappeared in 2008 https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Template:KeyDescriptiondiff=87767oldid=80400 ___ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev

[OSM-dev] FW: Screenshots from OpenStreetMap-Carto spot checking

2012-12-21 Thread Ed Loach
(Let's see if my bounce issues are resolved) -Original Message- From: Ed Loach [mailto:e...@loach.me.uk] Sent: 20 December 2012 08:46 To: 'Toby Murray'; 'dev List' Subject: RE: [OSM-dev] Screenshots from OpenStreetMap-Carto spot checking Toby wrote: I was doing some poking around

Re: [Potlatch-dev] Opera 12

2012-06-22 Thread Ed Loach
I was using P2 and Opera 12 fine on Windows 7 yesterday. I think C to close the changeset is the one I use most, and that was working. I'm not sure whether I used any others in yesterday's session, but I've just tried clicking Edit, selecting a way and pressing T and learned a new shortcut key (it

Re: [Potlatch-dev] [OpenStreetMap] #4422: Shift-R adds duplicate relations

2012-05-25 Thread Ed Loach
A way CAN be a member of a(n ordered) relation more than once, so is this a defect, or by design? -Original Message- From: OpenStreetMap [mailto:t...@openstreetmap.org] Sent: 25 May 2012 14:34 To: potlatch-...@openstreetmap.org Subject: [Potlatch-dev] [OpenStreetMap] #4422: Shift-R

Re: [Potlatch-dev] external mapcss stylesheets and potlatch2

2012-01-06 Thread Ed Loach
Cobra wrote: Is there any other way than this one? - click the map style button, select edit - click add, name=Power, URL=http://dl.dropbox.com/u/31535737/Power.mapcss - close the style popup After that, I click the map style button again and select Power. This is how potlatch looks after

Re: [Potlatch-dev] potlatch creates invalid ways having only one node or multiple consecutive identical nodes

2011-05-31 Thread Ed Loach
Steve wrote: See http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/2501. This was reported 18 months ago and still appears to be 'new'. Presumably the first step is normally that a developer would 'accept' it? This appears never to have happened. Is anyone still trying to fix Potlatch 1 bug reports?

Re: [Potlatch-dev] potlatch creates invalid ways having only one node or multiple consecutive identical nodes

2011-05-31 Thread Ed Loach
PS: I was wrong, creating single node ways in P2 did still work as per the trac ticket steps. ___ Potlatch-dev mailing list Potlatch-dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/potlatch-dev

Re: [Potlatch-dev] [Talk-GB] OS 1:25k Layer in Potlatch 2

2011-04-12 Thread Ed Loach
Steve wrote: Is this working? I just noticed that, for Meopham in Kent, I can view the 1:25k OS map as a background in Potlatch 1, but nothing displays in Potlatch 2. It looks like Potlatch 1 is loading .jpg and Potlatch 2 is failing to load .png, if that helps. Ed

[Potlatch-dev] Ooops

2011-03-11 Thread Ed Loach
I created this way yesterday by mistake: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/103531496/history Is this a known issue, or should I report it in trac? I can't exactly remember how I did it - I had intended to select a way to add a maxspeed tag, but selected a node by mistake. Or maybe double

Re: [Potlatch-dev] [OpenStreetMap] #3360: Switching backgrounds doesn't respect Dim setting

2011-03-05 Thread Ed Loach
- From: Ed Loach [mailto:e...@loach.me.uk] Sent: 05 March 2011 16:44 To: t...@openstreetmap.org; potlatch-dev@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Potlatch-dev] [OpenStreetMap] #3360: Switching backgrounds doesn't respect Dim setting I don't use Yahoo imagery. Will see if I can find steps to reproduce

Re: [Potlatch-dev] Source key and map_features.xml

2010-12-04 Thread Ed Loach
In my view, the source key is crucial to every object. I don't add the source key to anything which I've done based on GPS traces/waypoints. I try and add it on objects I add from other sources though (NPE, OS Opendata, Bing for example), but as someone else has says, this won't always go in

Re: [OSM-dev] 090916 Missing Nodes

2009-09-18 Thread Ed Loach
Mark wrote: Looking at the first missing node 24490963:   http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/24490963   referenced by way 4187296:   http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/4187296   The node is clearly in the database. That first link suggests the node was deleted in July 2008.

Re: [OSM-dev] footway inside building: new tag-value 'indoor=yes'

2009-06-29 Thread Ed Loach
My 'problem' is that this looks graphically overloaded - think even about footways in several floors! Q1. What about a new tag indoor=yes in addition to highway=footway? Q2. Renderer (like Mapnik / Osmarender) then chould suppress these footways? Alternative: new tag highway=corridor,

Re: [OSM-dev] Deleting TIGER node tags

2009-06-27 Thread Ed Loach
Indeed. Leave it in the ways, remove it from the nodes. Is this a low (database) level delete? Or will we gain a new history entry for every node showing the node as it was before the delete and as it was after? If the latter then won't the database end up bigger rather than smaller? Ed

Re: [OSM-dev] Osmosis error, duplicate

2009-06-06 Thread Ed Loach
Jeff: OK, that makes sense. But then what is the error:   Detail: Key (node_id)=(395051992) is not present in table current_nodes. from? That's what crashed my import. I'm trying to find where Osmosis requests a node_id from current_nodes; or am I misreading the error? The foreign

Re: [OSM-dev] Osmosis error, duplicate

2009-06-05 Thread Ed Loach
But does current_way_nodes have a node_id column? It looks to me like the foreign key constraint is making sure that the nodes in the current_way_nodes table actually exist in current_nodes Ed From: dev-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:dev-boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Jeffrey

Re: [OSM-dev] Way 33187566

2009-06-02 Thread Ed Loach
Can somebody please explain what has happened? Picking your first example, in 0.5 API various timeouts could occur which could lead to this happening. Pick one of the nodes for example that is in the way history but not showing for the way

Re: [OSM-dev] svn again, revision number in public file?

2009-05-28 Thread Ed Loach
so again the problem. how does a user who downloaded my application know what version of the file he is using? Perhaps I'm misunderstanding the issue, but couldn't you just update # $Revision$ by $Author$, $Date$ manually each time you upload a revision? Ed

Re: [OSM-dev] JSON/GeoJSON output format for 0.6 api

2009-05-27 Thread Ed Loach
RichardF: I suspect a lot of the Potlatch load is caused by people trying to edit large areas at z13. We pretty much have to keep offering z13 because for most of the world, it's the only level at which Yahoo imagery is available. Is there anywhere though that z13 Yahoo imagery is of any

Re: [OSM-dev] Grumble, grumble

2009-05-11 Thread Ed Loach
Well, depending on how you downloaded the data in the first place. It is not said that the data came from a download in JOSM. But if it is, and JOSM can recreate the download and then only query the missing items, that's even more efficient. As it was me started this thread (and repeating

Re: [OSM-dev] Grumble, grumble

2009-05-11 Thread Ed Loach
no, Ed's edits are lost, unless JOSM saved them to a tmp file somewhere. Hopefully only those from the first time I did it... The village of Pattingham was looking so beautiful this morning after I repeated the edits I lost. I think this boils down to a bug in JOSM. If it had warned me there

Re: [OSM-dev] Grumble, grumble

2009-05-11 Thread Ed Loach
Not sure, whether this is a bug in JOSM. Currently it's classified as enhancement. What you describe (making it clear that nothing was saved) sounds like an enhancement. Letting me actually exit without warning that there were unsaved changes I feel is more serious. Ed

[OSM-dev] Grumble, grumble

2009-05-10 Thread Ed Loach
I think, and I can't be certain, that I've lost a whole evening's editing, just because one way I deleted in JOSM had already been deleted by other means before I came to upload. Surely that shouldn't be a problem that loses all the other changes which were unrelated? I say I can't be certain,

Re: [OSM-dev] status of dev and test APIs?

2009-05-01 Thread Ed Loach
Karl wrote: I today tried to acces the dev and test APIs on apis.dev.openstreetmap.org but they seem to be down. Are there any dev or test API instances availabe after the API switch to 0.6? If you're trying at the moment, there are network issues that might be affecting access:

[OSM-dev] Relation 15020

2009-04-27 Thread Ed Loach
I asked the following on talk on Saturday. I thought perhaps I should mention it here as it seems to be a problem with the data in the database as both Potlatch and JOSM give errors when I try and add ways to the relation. Perhaps someone on this list can work out what that might be? I did just

Re: [OSM-dev] Please advise; I really don't get how this can corrupt so badly

2009-04-06 Thread Ed Loach
it might. i'm sure i can think up a semi-plausible situation involving scientists at CERN being so frustrated with the broken relations they don't notice that LHC is creating a massive black-hole. ;-) They won't have restarted it since the repairs within the next two weeks. From

Re: [OSM-dev] JOSM: Several tags with same key

2009-04-03 Thread Ed Loach
I've been noticing recently how things seem to be heading. Before I was involved with the project there were nodes, segments and ways. Whether there were also relations at that time I don't know. Perhaps the same key could be used more than once on a way - again I don't know. Currently we seem

Re: [OSM-dev] http://www.openstreetmap.org/export/embed.html - XHTML compliance

2009-03-23 Thread Ed Loach
Alex wrote: So (at least my) screen stays empty. If it helps, I'm using IE8RC1 and that also has a blank screen using the URL in this message's subject, but I see a map if I open the attachment Alex originally sent (with the styles containing width and height percentages for html and body as

Re: [OSM-dev] IE8 RC1

2009-03-19 Thread Ed Loach
On 5th March I wrote: I notice it includes something called Accelerators with a map category. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc289775(VS.85).aspx I don't know how complicated it would be to provide an OSM Accelerator? If I get time I'll read the above page in more detail. I've

Re: [OSM-dev] extracting house-number from string

2009-03-13 Thread Ed Loach
does anyone know a good algorithm to extract the house-number from a string containing street-name and house-number? I'm not entirely sure what you're planning. I'm guessing storing house numbers as numeric fields would save storage space, but not all addresses even have numbers (some are just

[OSM-dev] IE8 RC1

2009-03-05 Thread Ed Loach
I notice it includes something called Accelerators with a map category. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc289775(VS.85).aspx I don't know how complicated it would be to provide an OSM Accelerator? If I get time I'll read the above page in more detail. Ed

Re: [OSM-dev] One value per key? Why not one pair per object?

2009-02-03 Thread Ed Loach
Practically everything we have been doing with OSM tags until now has assumed that keys are unique. Nearly all the software I have seen (like editors, renderers, etc.) treat keys as if they are unique. I wondered the other day when I was adding the tag for the (maritime) museum to the

Re: [OSM-dev] Are there a feature rendering rules for Mapnik?

2009-01-27 Thread Ed Loach
Ivo wrote: minor-roads minor-roads-casing 5 000 1 000 ☡ ([highway] = 'secondary' or [highway] = 'secondary_link') and not ([tunnel]='yes' or [tunnel]='true') CSS: stroke: #a37b48

Re: [OSM-dev] Potlatch - really BAD bug

2009-01-13 Thread Ed Loach
Richard wrote: It has been explained many times in the past, not just by me, that database freakiness _will_ happen because we don't have transactions, our server is often under high load, and there may be memory leaks or blocking processes in some of the software we use. Do I understand

[OSM-dev] Mapnik rendering

2008-12-01 Thread Ed Loach
I've just noticed if you have a bridge going over a trunk dual carriageway the oneway arrows render above the bridge, e.g. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.872301lon=0.316664zoom=18 And if you zoom out a bit the arrow on the opposite carriageway overlays the bridge rather than the one

[OSM-dev] JOSM

2008-11-30 Thread Ed Loach
Is this the correct place for JOSM queries, or do they have their own list? Anyway - is it me or are nodes tagged with amenity=telephone invisible in the editor? I'm losing track of which I've tagged and which I haven't at the moment. Thanks Ed

Re: [OSM-dev] JOSM

2008-11-30 Thread Ed Loach
Shaun wrote: Isn't the default background colour black? Thanks to you both for your answers. I had just this moment realised the problem as I tagged the first phone box in a car park that I've ever tagged. Yes the phone symbol is black on transparent and yes the default background is black.

Re: [OSM-dev] Newbie question

2008-11-10 Thread Ed Loach
Patrick wrote: Patch looks good to me and is applied. Thanks for that. Related to this, in osmarender, the name= tag for the landuse areas currently only renders for z17. I guess this is because some landuse areas might be quite small, so labelling them at lower zoom levels would be a bit

[OSM-dev] Newbie question

2008-11-09 Thread Ed Loach
I've done a search for answers unsuccessfully, and while I'm a bit reluctant to ask while people are suggesting each other smell, I'm hoping for some non-personal advice. I recently added an area to the map tagged as landuse=construction. This doesn't render in Osmarender, so I looked into