[OSM-dev] Beautiful maps for a travel blog reviews site

2010-08-29 Thread Joe Richards
In 2001 (before OSM and Google Maps), I cofounded a travel bloghttp://www.ballofdirt.comwebsite which featured its own maps (of your trip locations) as they unwound as a 'ball of string' across the 'ball of dirt' that is our world. Dedication to the project has had its bursts, there is

[OSM-dev] Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) - Openstreetmap import first pass

2009-06-30 Thread Joe Richards
I've been working on the LINZ data import, on attribution/legal as well as the actual import. The LINZ data I have is actually via the NZ Open GPS project and is in Polish Map (.mp) format, which seems to use Garmin types for its features. I've hacked around with a few other scripts and have

Re: [OSM-dev] finding OSM users by their home locations

2009-05-31 Thread Joe Richards
How about a set of contact preferences? It would be easy to say allow other OSMers to contact me for mapping parties etc. Perhaps for old users this could be set to on by default, but we send them a little message so that they can change it straight away if they want to. Something like the