Re: [OSM-dev] Release openstreetmap-carto v2.25.0

2014-12-12 Thread SomeoneElse
On 12/12/2014 16:32, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: No matter how you put it the style still has a strong European and even British focus which is an issue with OSM being an international project IMO. And also focus toward major cities. There is an obvious fix - people outside UK/Europe/major

Re: [OSM-dev] Munitely updated regional osm2pgsql database

2014-10-14 Thread SomeoneElse
On 02/07/2014 15:14, Ilya Zverev wrote: So, https://github.com/zverik/regional ... I hope it will be useful to somebody Thanks! Just installed that this morning, and it makes a significant difference, both to speed of diff import and to database growth. On Ubuntu 14.04 it also needed:

Re: [OSM-dev] Documentation Improvement

2014-10-14 Thread SomeoneElse
On 03/10/2014 11:31, Vanya Jauhal wrote: I'm Vanya, from India. I'm interested in contributing to the OSM documentation as a part of the OPW project. I have been in touch with Kate, and with her help, been able to understand the OSM documentation better. There's certainly plently of

Re: [OSM-dev] Changesets

2014-07-04 Thread SomeoneElse
On 04/07/2014 12:09, Michael Maier wrote: Should I contact the user what the hell he is doing? Well I wouldn't phrase it _quite_ like that :) But a message would certainly make sense. Interestingly, not all of the changesets are empty - see for example:

Re: [OSM-dev] Moving to stricter multipolygon parsing

2014-06-13 Thread SomeoneElse
Holger Jeromin wrote: To support this change it would be nice to setup a list on the web with the buggy relations. (apologies for asking what might be the bleeding obvious but) Do any of the existing QA tools flag multipolygon outers with conflicting tags? Alternatively, could (or does it

Re: [OSM-dev] new on osm

2014-03-21 Thread SomeoneElse
Sachin Dole wrote: @Simone, would you suggest Overpass or XAPI for the second question asked by the OP? (apologies for interrupting but) both is an option: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Overpass_API/XAPI_Compatibility_Layer Cheers, Andy

Re: [OSM-dev] Displaying snapshots of BING imagery with current OSM data and an overlaying grid

2014-03-15 Thread SomeoneElse
On 15/03/2014 19:18, Jóhannes Birgir Jensson wrote: Why, you ask, don't you just point them to the very easy to use iD-editor! Because, I answer, it is an extra step most people are unwilling to do simply to just say yeah that is the clinic and that is the supermarket. Hopefully some users

Re: [OSM-dev] Am I alone here?

2014-03-05 Thread SomeoneElse
Sandor Seres wrote: ... and maybe therefore there is very little effort dedicated to errors, especially to systematic errors. Er what? There's a lot of effort going into all of the following: 1) developing tools that enable new mappers to not make errors in the first place 2)

Re: [OSM-dev] osmosis in windows and cygwin

2014-02-11 Thread SomeoneElse
amrit karmacharya wrote: i downloaded osmosis from * http://bretth.dev.openstreetmap.org/osmosis-build/osmosis-latest.zip on running it from windows 7 command prompt osmosis.bat runs successfully but osmosis -h(--help) gives internal server error. You're running in on Windows 7 below

Re: [OSM-dev] Unusual large Changesets - Could OSM server API split uploaded data in more then one changeset?

2014-02-09 Thread SomeoneElse
Pierre Béland wrote: Then a warning could be given in editors such as JOSM highlighting such edits that cover large zones. Well it could - but surely the mapper concerned knows that their edits cover a wide area because they've edited something in place (a) and also in place (b) which is a

Re: [OSM-dev] User Testing OSM.org

2013-12-08 Thread SomeoneElse
On 08/12/2013 16:46, Andy Allan wrote: You could be thinking of one of these: http://blog.gravitystorm.co.uk/2012/03/01/make-the-hard-things-simple-and-the-simple-things-occasionally-surprisingly-hard/ Yes - that was it - thanks. Cheers, Andy

Re: [OSM-dev] User Testing OSM.org

2013-12-07 Thread SomeoneElse
Ian Dees wrote: Hi everybody, I'm working with a Chicago organization called CUTGroup [0] to set up a user testing event for the OpenStreetMap website and the iD editor. The goal of this testing is to get feedback on the experience of navigating, signing up, and editing data from users that are

Re: [OSM-dev] Change in osm interface and api

2013-12-01 Thread SomeoneElse
amrit karmacharya wrote: Since the change in osm interface today, i am not able to see the history of deleted objects like http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/234627007. No idea what the problem is with that way, but it's not a generic problem with deleted objects. I deleted this

Re: [josm-dev] Relation editor support for north/south and east/west similar to forward/backward

2013-11-27 Thread SomeoneElse
Richard Welty wrote: what Martjin is after is improving the situation for routing engines that use OSM data. in the US at least, highways, regardless of their actual direction, are assigned cardinal directions and signage frequently uses those directions. the premise is that if the cardinal

Re: [josm-dev] Relation editor support for north/south and east/west similar to forward/backward

2013-11-26 Thread SomeoneElse
Paul Norman wrote: No, these aren't compass directions. They're the directionality of the road. For example, this way is part of the I-94 interstate going west, ... in the sense that if you carried on for long enough you'd eventually end of west of where you started ... but a compass in a

Re: [OSM-dev] Fwd: Name suggestions for iD

2013-11-02 Thread SomeoneElse
Serge Wroclawski wrote: Right now, I see people choosing the wrong category for features. restaurant=yes, name=McDonalds. Or (quite often) no main tag at all. Of course, once a name has been added to the map it often provides enough information for other local mappers to figure out what the

Re: [josm-dev] JOSM MOTD

2013-09-22 Thread SomeoneElse
On 22/09/2013 13:57, Vincent Privat wrote: As far as I know the MOTD never tell to upgrade to a particular version. You're getting this message if you're not using at least the current tested version, which is the case (current tested is 6238) Normally there's an entry for the new version,

Re: [josm-dev] The Golden Rules

2013-08-25 Thread SomeoneElse
Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: knowledge is having been to a place and know what was there at that time, survey is going there right now and see what is currently there. That's an excellent summary - I'll have to remember that. Sometimes new mappers think that they need to back up their

Re: [josm-dev] The Golden Rules

2013-08-24 Thread SomeoneElse
Frederik Ramm wrote: (Our rule is, in a nutshell: If you personally look at every object you change then it's fine; if however you select all objects that have a certain property and then change that globally without even noticing which countries you're editing in then that's a mechanical edit

Re: [josm-dev] update tested version

2013-05-08 Thread SomeoneElse
colliar wrote: Please update tested version as r5935 did fix a critical bug. Thanks. Are there any more details (stable is 5932; is that affected?) Cheers, Andy ___ josm-dev mailing list josm-dev@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-dev] Add an iD link to the Potlatch no-Flash screen

2013-04-22 Thread SomeoneElse
Frederik Ramm wrote: I think the situation was not exactly comparable when Potlatch started but I would like to add a caveat; Potlatch did have quite a number of limitations plus a couple of bugs when it started and while these weren't considered catastrophically breaking stuff they had

Re: [OSM-dev] osm2pgsql and mod_tile have moved to git

2013-04-03 Thread SomeoneElse
Kai Krueger wrote: Therefore, from now on the svn is no longer the upstream repository. Instead these will be https://github.com/openstreetmap/osm2pgsql https://github.com/openstreetmap/mod_tile/ Is it planned to keep SVN around (if not up to date) for a while until guides such as e.g.

Re: [OSM-dev] Status of the Mapnik stylesheets

2012-11-15 Thread SomeoneElse
Paweł Paprota wrote: On 11/15/2012 09:46 AM, Richard Fairhurst wrote: Whether or not we use git or svn for the Mapnik stylesheet is a question, but not one which I think will have much bearing on the willingness of people with cartography nous to contribute. More important are: - moving

Re: [OSM-dev] Notes - OSM improvements BoF at SOTM PDX

2012-10-16 Thread SomeoneElse
Tom Hughes wrote: As to other sites, the problems are several fold - how do we decide to bless one particular site over another? not to mention the fact that we might end up driving more traffic to such sites than they could handle. From a purely end-user perspective, having lots of

Re: [OSM-dev] Multipolygons as members of a multipolygon

2012-10-08 Thread SomeoneElse
On 07/10/2012 18:28, Igor Brejc wrote: While working on some multipolygon processing code, I noticed some cases where multipolygons contained members which were themselves multipolygons (with an inner role): http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/1450360 This particular example is

[josm-dev] Revert Plugin

2012-09-12 Thread SomeoneElse
Just a quick thank-you to anyone involved in the latest iteration of the JOSM revert plugin. The way that it handles collisions is vastly improved - makes things much easier. Cheers, Andy ___ josm-dev mailing list josm-dev@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-dev] Reserve node 2147483647

2012-07-20 Thread SomeoneElse
Andrew wrote: Would it be a good idea if the next node allocated after 2147483646 is node 2147483648? It would mean that applications expecting 32-bit node numbers fail cleanly and stops buggy editing software from modifying the wrong node. Not that far away now, I guess (I added 1831586714

Re: [OSM-dev] how to start developing java(blacberry) applications with openstreetmap?

2012-05-16 Thread SomeoneElse
İhsan Koçak wrote: hi all.i searched the internet but i could not find anything.i just want to develop an appliction in blackberry that just shows a map plus able to put pins on the map.for this,what should i do(download jar etc.)?is there any example usage link? I suspect that it depends a

Re: [OSM-dev] Ayuda

2012-04-26 Thread SomeoneElse
RAUL BARRANTES wrote: Quiero instalar un servidor que contenga los mapas, bases de datos de OPENSTREETMAP y necesito ayuda para realizarlo, si tiene algún tutorial paso a paso, alguna guia de las herramientas y aplicaciones que se deben instalar para tenerlo en excelente estado.

Re: [OSM-dev] Planet Updates

2012-04-18 Thread SomeoneElse
Frederik Ramm wrote: I would expect the result to be a database that is identical, content-wise, to the ODbL dump eventually issued Presumably a situation could occur where someone imported data for part of the planet only, and a redaction script caused a revert of something just outside

Re: [OSM-dev] Restart apache2 (mod_tile)

2012-01-30 Thread SomeoneElse
Dewi Robiatul mubararah wrote: Hi, After I did start the render, then I restart apache2. but the result : dewirobiatul@dewi:~/src/mod_tile$ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart Syntax error on line 1 of /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default: line 1 sounds a bit odd. I'd expect the first 3

Re: [OSM-dev] helping #switch2osm

2012-01-16 Thread SomeoneElse
On 12/01/2012 22:10, Ian Dees wrote: During the book sprint last year I put together Richard's blog post and some stuff related to renderd/tirex to create this chapter in the book: http://en.flossmanuals.net/openstreetmap/setting-up-your-own-tile-server/ It should be fairly complete and

Re: [OSM-dev] helping #switch2osm

2012-01-16 Thread SomeoneElse
On 16/01/2012 19:16, Roger Weeks wrote: Mapnik not being in git is just one of the many issues with this doc. For example, mapnik, if you get the current build from git, won't compile under Ubuntu 10.04. You've got to go back and get an earlier 2.0 version or add a PPA and get packages that

Re: [OSM-dev] Harmless edits

2011-12-16 Thread SomeoneElse
Frederik Ramm wrote: You can try out my script here, by adding a way/node/relation id to the URL like so: http://wtfe.gryph.de/harmless/way/40103577 Here's an oddity... http://wtfe.gryph.de/harmless/way/9178258 suggests This object remains problematic even after looking at harmless

Re: [Potlatch-dev] Git starter?

2011-08-31 Thread SomeoneElse
On 31/08/2011 10:46, Steve Bennett wrote: On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 5:01 AM, Andy Allangravityst...@gmail.com wrote: If there's any gotchas let me know. Ok, since you asked: First you need to get a copy of the potlatch2 repository from somewhere. It doesn't really matter where it comes from...