Re: [josm-dev] License change plugin

2011-05-06 Thread Dermot McNally
On 6 May 2011 22:55, Frederik Ramm wrote: >   I have just committed a first alpha of a license change plugin > (svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/editors/josm/plugins/licensechange). Great! This is a tool I've wanted for quite a while. It seems to be doing what it's supposed to, but with an int

Re: [josm-dev] Microsoft gains access to aerial imagery

2010-11-25 Thread Dermot McNally
OK - I said I'd post again with my intentions. Here is a wiki page that I hope will outline the automatic imagery adjustment mechanism I've worked out with another mapper: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/True_Offset_Process Comments are welcome. By now we're happy that we've described somethin

Re: [josm-dev] Microsoft gains access to aerial imagery

2010-11-25 Thread Dermot McNally
On Thursday, November 25, 2010, Viesturs Zariņš wrote: > +1 from me. > > I would say we need to set up such a system as fast as possible and integrate > with JOSM and Portlatch. > Otherwise we will end up with lots of data traced with incorrect offsets. > > I would opt for submitting bug reports

Re: [josm-dev] Walking Papers Plugin

2009-07-16 Thread Dermot McNally
Three cheers for Fred! I haven't have a chance to try it out yet, but about 50% of SOTM delegates seemed to be asking for this. Dermot 2009/7/16 Frederik Ramm : > Hi, > >    I have committed a new and rather experimental "walking papers" plugin. -- -- Iren s

Re: [josm-dev] Commit message not empty

2009-04-23 Thread Dermot McNally
2009/4/23 Frederik Ramm : > Almost worthless, I'm sorry to say. Any automatic message can just as well > be filled in later by some automatism on some server that compiles and > anlyses changesets. What we're after is the "human" bit that no machine can > replace! A little harsh :( Lest I've bee

Re: [josm-dev] webkit-image on Mac OS X

2009-04-20 Thread Dermot McNally
2009/4/19 Stefan Bethke : >> I'm currently trying to get webkit-image to work on 10.5.6. Just so you know - I've done this and it works. I can't go into details now (I'd have to remember first what I did), but if you can't make it work I can either send you a binary or try to help make the build

Re: [josm-dev] Trouble translating JOSM: Same strings used in different places

2009-02-21 Thread Dermot McNally
The issue of localisation frameworks is one that I've been considering a lot in the last few weeks in my day job. Our application is built in perl, and perl provides a more powerful, code-allowed tool called maketext which does more or less what gettext does but with some extra bells and whistles.

Re: [josm-dev] webkit-image successfully built on MacOS

2009-01-16 Thread Dermot McNally
2009/1/16 Alex Pleiner : >> * It dynamically links to qt. I _believe_ that my successful build >> links against the Trolltech binary MacOS qt package, though it might >> be the Macports build instead, as I have both installed. > > You would be my personal super hero if you could compile a statical

[josm-dev] webkit-image successfully built on MacOS

2009-01-15 Thread Dermot McNally
Folks, After many false starts, I have managed to build webkit-image (qt) on MacOS. I've attached my binary (I hope it gets through), and in theory it could be made available along with the Windows equivalent, but here are some caveats: * It dynamically links to qt. I _believe_ that my successful

Re: [josm-dev] zoom support in new wms plugin

2008-12-21 Thread Dermot McNally
2008/12/21 Dirk Stöcker : > a) I fixed the WMS displacement so it now again displaces the whole map and > not a single image, but I did not get the display right. The > visible/unvisible decision is still done based on the unmoved pics. (I can > live with the fact that loading is done based on ori

Re: [josm-dev] Automatic tiles downloading in WMSPlugin

2008-09-01 Thread Dermot McNally
2008/9/1 Petr Dlouhý <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > To render the pages I am using "gnome-web-photo" application, which simply > saves the png image of the website to file. The problem is, that this > application is only for Linux. I need to find similar application for > Windows, so if somebody knows abo

Re: [josm-dev] Validator

2008-08-20 Thread Dermot McNally
2008/8/20 David Earl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 20/08/2008 10:24, Dermot McNally wrote: >> >> Layers exist to >> determine the drawing order of overlapping elements, nothing more. > > ... which rather violates the "don't tag for the renderer" maxim,

Re: [josm-dev] Validator

2008-08-20 Thread Dermot McNally
2008/8/20 Gervase Markham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I think that both waterways and roads are layer 0, "the ground", and > when one crosses another, the upper one should have layer=1 - because > there's air between it and the actual surface of the earth. I would > apply this to any ground-based physi

Re: [josm-dev] Validator

2008-08-20 Thread Dermot McNally
2008/8/20 Dirk Stöcker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Is this different in your area? In a word, "yes" :) Map Features doesn't suggest this tagging scheme, and, while I can see why people might do it, it makes little sense based on my local mapping practice (caveat: I'm the first person to have mapped r

Re: [josm-dev] Validator

2008-08-19 Thread Dermot McNally
Is there a reason why the following rule in in place?: way : I : waterway == * && layer != * # waterway without layer tag I have only ever set layer on a waterway where a canal crosses an aqueduct, but that's a rare case indeed. Dermot -- --

Re: [josm-dev] add-node idioticy

2008-08-18 Thread Dermot McNally
2008/8/18 Henry Loenwind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > PS: pissed, because I just found a couple of added nodes in my command > stack and have to redo my last 20 minutes of work because I don't know > where they are and don't want to upload bogus nodes... And that excuses rudeness on this scale directed

Re: [josm-dev] Bug 595 - Virtual nodes - Comments requested

2008-08-18 Thread Dermot McNally
2008/8/18 Petr Nejedly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I just don't like the appearance of the "virtual nodes". Could you turn them > into > small (nonzoomed), thin red plus signs instead of rendering them the same > style > as the way they sit on? I love this new functionality, which as you say, is per

Re: [josm-dev] Validator

2008-08-16 Thread Dermot McNally
2008/8/16 Dirk Stöcker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Ah yes, so it is... It does force me to mouseover each violation, >> though. For a large or detailed area, this is going to be very >> impractical. > > Suggestions welcome. I'd still favour my original suggestion - rather than group all of these new

Re: [josm-dev] Validator

2008-08-16 Thread Dermot McNally
2008/8/16 Dirk Stöcker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > This information is shown in the ToolTip. You get this when waiting a > short time over the error message. Ah yes, so it is... It does force me to mouseover each violation, though. For a large or detailed area, this is going to be very impractical. >

Re: [josm-dev] Validator

2008-08-16 Thread Dermot McNally
2008/8/15 Dirk Stöcker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The default configuration file for this is here: > http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/editors/josm/plugins/validator/tagchecker.cfg I was excited by the prospect of a smarter validator, so I tried it out. My first impression was "oh, it looks l

[josm-dev] Slippy Map Chooser broken?

2008-08-16 Thread Dermot McNally
Hi folks, Is anybody else having trouble with the slippy map chooser plugin? I've just updated to josm-latest for the first time in about 2 weeks, and have updated my plugins too. I have traced the problem to the slippy map chooser plugin as per #1422. Dermot --

[josm-dev] Filled roundabouts

2008-07-14 Thread Dermot McNally
Hi folks, While at SOTM I updated to the latest JOSM, to discover a new "feature". Roundabouts are now displayed with a dark green fill, but (the important bit) _without_ the outline colour correctly reflecting the classification given in the highway tag. Is this intentional/considered useful or i

Re: [josm-dev] Translation into german

2008-07-04 Thread Dermot McNally
2008/7/3 Till Amma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > "Freizeiteinrichtungen" To me, that translates back to English as "Leisure Amenities", making it overspecific. Think of courthouses, fire stations, fuel stations, none of which are strictly related to leisure. Dermot --

Re: [josm-dev] Presets

2008-07-03 Thread Dermot McNally
2008/7/3 Dirk Stöcker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> access=destination and > Wow. Hard to translate this with one word. Anyway managed to do translation > nevertheless. Isn't this the same as "Anlieger Frei"? In fact, it's a concept I've only ever seen applied in Germany. Dermot -- ---

Re: [josm-dev] Translation into german

2008-07-03 Thread Dermot McNally
2008/7/3 Dirk Stöcker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Are there any other English words, which would describe the same? > Has any of the German speakers an idea? Einrichtung? A bit general, I know, but so is "Amenity". Dermot -- -- Iren sind menschlich

Re: [josm-dev] New plug-in to display geotag images

2008-05-05 Thread Dermot McNally
2008/1/16 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I have created a new plugin that displays geotagged images in a toggle > dialog (and some little new features). It handles either exif data or GPX > track correlation. This works brilliantly - but with one niggle. I've found that photographs with rotation info

Re: [josm-dev] josm-ng progress

2008-02-15 Thread Dermot McNally
Cases where uploading fails midway through and can't (easily) be completed - due to precondition failure, for instance - suffer from the fact that data self-consistency is lost because of the nodes-first policy. In such cases, and I've often been victim to it, you end up with a stack of nodes and n

Re: [josm-dev] Changes to fix accidental moving

2008-01-24 Thread Dermot McNally
On 24/01/2008, Frederik Ramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Because such a threshold makes it more difficult to move things for > distances *below* the threshold (it is possible by first breaking free > and then moving back, but that's cumbersome), I have also added a > "nudge" function that lets yo

Re: [josm-dev] JOSM mini-roadmap anyone?

2008-01-23 Thread Dermot McNally
On 23/01/2008, Gervase Markham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The normal fix for this sort of problem is a "drag threshold", whereby > you have to drag an item a certain distance before it will "break free" > and start moving. Was this solution considered? It was one of the suggestions at the time.

Re: [josm-dev] Newbie question

2008-01-09 Thread Dermot McNally
On 09/01/2008, Frederik Ramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You're saying you got a dialogue box with an error message that > contained coordinates? Totally news to me - next time this happens, > can yo somehow make a screenshot or so? It sounds to me like the validator plugin doing its precheck -