Re: [OSM-talk] Yahoo's imagery VS Google's imagery?

2007-12-29 Thread Tony Bowden
Yann wrote: > There was a guy from google at SOTM so I assume we did, but just to make > sure: did we actually asked google if we could use their imagery? It's > just so much better than the one yahoo provides... In lots of places, yes, Google's imagery is a LOT better than Yahoo's, particularly

[OSM-talk] Yahoo's imagery VS Google's imagery?

2007-12-29 Thread Yann
Hello, There was a guy from google at SOTM so I assume we did, but just to make sure: did we actually asked google if we could use their imagery? It's just so much better than the one yahoo provides... Yann ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Recent Potlatch changes

2007-12-29 Thread John Wolter
Let me add my kudos as well! Potlatch continues to improve by leaps and bounds. The shortcuts page on the wiki ( http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Potlatch/Keyboard_shortcuts) don't appear to be up-to-date. I notice that there are a few things I trigger when I type when I think I'm in a tex

Re: [OSM-talk] route pub_crawl

2007-12-29 Thread J.D. Schmidt
Iván Sánchez Ortega skrev: > El Domingo, 30 de Diciembre de 2007, Andy Street escribió: >>> Thanks for the feedback. So the route = pub_crawlis a help to get >>> "drunk" in the shortest possibl e time? It is mapped in OSM? >>> And how is it rendered? By a human head orbited by empty glasses?

Re: [OSM-talk] route pub_crawl

2007-12-29 Thread Tony Bowden
Rob Reid wrote: > More generically a pub crawl consists of visiting a series of pubs > according to some pre-arranged plan or theme. There are also competitive versions where the goal is complete the entire 'route' as quickly as possible, having downed a pint / shot / pint+shot / whatever in each

Re: [OSM-talk] route pub_crawl

2007-12-29 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
El Domingo, 30 de Diciembre de 2007, Andy Street escribió: > > Thanks for the feedback. So the route = pub_crawlis a help to get > > "drunk" in the shortest possible time? It is mapped in OSM? > > And how is it rendered? By a human head orbited by empty glasses? > > Suggested rendering has go

Re: [OSM-talk] route pub_crawl

2007-12-29 Thread Andy Street
On Sun, 2007-12-30 at 02:39 +0100, Michael Kugelmann wrote: > Alex S. wrote: > > Michael Kugelmann wrote: > > > >> looking at the map features page I foundroute = pub_crawl . I didn't > >> find anything in the wiki about the tag. > >> [...] > > Some pubs offer one free drink on your birthda

Re: [OSM-talk] route pub_crawl

2007-12-29 Thread Rob Reid
Alex S. wrote the following on 30/12/2007 13:55: > Michael Kugelmann wrote: > >> looking at the map features page I foundroute = pub_crawl . I didn't >> find anything in the wiki about the tag. >> Can any native Englisch speaker explain what is intended with this tag >> please? I want to k

Re: [OSM-talk] route pub_crawl

2007-12-29 Thread Michael Kugelmann
Alex S. wrote: > Michael Kugelmann wrote: > >> looking at the map features page I foundroute = pub_crawl . I didn't >> find anything in the wiki about the tag. >> [...] > Some pubs offer one free drink on your birthday. A pub crawl is an > attempt to get as many free drinks as possible in

Re: [OSM-talk] route pub_crawl

2007-12-29 Thread Guenther Meyer
Am Sonntag 30 Dezember 2007 schrieb Paul Fox: > alex wrote: > > Michael Kugelmann wrote: > > > looking at the map features page I foundroute = pub_crawl . I > > > didn't find anything in the wiki about the tag. > > > Can any native Englisch speaker explain what is intended with this tag >

Re: [OSM-talk] route pub_crawl

2007-12-29 Thread Paul Fox
alex wrote: > Michael Kugelmann wrote: > > looking at the map features page I foundroute = pub_crawl . I didn't > > find anything in the wiki about the tag. > > Can any native Englisch speaker explain what is intended with this tag > > please? I want to know it just to improove the knowl

Re: [OSM-talk] route pub_crawl

2007-12-29 Thread Alex S.
Michael Kugelmann wrote: > looking at the map features page I foundroute = pub_crawl . I didn't > find anything in the wiki about the tag. > Can any native Englisch speaker explain what is intended with this tag > please? I want to know it just to improove the knowledge. Some pubs offer one

[OSM-talk] route pub_crawl

2007-12-29 Thread Michael Kugelmann
Hello, looking at the map features page I foundroute = pub_crawl . I didn't find anything in the wiki about the tag. Can any native Englisch speaker explain what is intended with this tag please? I want to know it just to improove the knowledge. BTW: the translation on the german map feature

[OSM-talk] Part-municipalities and more place issues

2007-12-29 Thread Ben Laenen
Hi all, We're trying to find some way to tag some oddities for places in Belgium, so I hope if some of you could give some insight in how best to tag these. Some little history: In the 1960's till the 1980's a lot of municipalities merged with other municipalities. Many were subsumed into ot

Re: [OSM-talk] Garmin nüvi experiences?

2007-12-29 Thread Alex S.
Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany) wrote: > does anyone of you have a "Garmin nüvi" Unit? > http://www.garmin.com/garmin/cms/us/ontheroad/nuviseries > > And if so; can you recommend it for: > Openstreetmap tracking? My aunt has one, and as far as I can tell, it doesn't save track po

Re: [OSM-talk] Fast tracking map feature proposals.

2007-12-29 Thread Tom Chance
On Saturday 29 December 2007 16:52:18 DavidD wrote: > There are currently 36 proposed values for the shop key yet 6 approved > values. In the current 07-12-26 uk planet.osm excerpt there are 159 > different shop values. > > Similarly there are 29 approved values for sport, 7 proposed yet 108 > in t

Re: [OSM-talk] Ideas for OSM enhancements

2007-12-29 Thread Stephen Coast
On 29 Dec 2007, at 17:56, Laurence Penney wrote: > Robin Paulson wrote: >> no need to create a new site, this is exactly what wikimapia.org is >> for > > Thanks Robin, I'd forgotten about WikiMapia. I got excited when > polygon editing was added (March 2007), but I think I must have > decided a

Re: [OSM-talk] Ideas for OSM enhancements

2007-12-29 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Nick Whitelegg wrote: > One would be to do something similar to what I already do on > Freemap, namely clickable POIs: The user could click on a POI then > get a window containing a link to its Wikipedia article (if > applicable) and its description tag (if it has one). Generally a great

Re: [OSM-talk] Ideas for OSM enhancements

2007-12-29 Thread Laurence Penney
Robin Paulson wrote: > no need to create a new site, this is exactly what wikimapia.org is for Thanks Robin, I'd forgotten about WikiMapia. I got excited when polygon editing was added (March 2007), but I think I must have decided against diving into it with gusto when I read the license, in p

Re: [OSM-talk] Recent Potlatch changes

2007-12-29 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Alex S. wrote: > Richard, I like the recent changes to the interface (the pop-ups > especially). Keep up the good work! :) Thanks! I can't claim the original idea for the autocomplete-like popups but glad they're of use. cheers Richard ___ talk ma

[OSM-talk] Fast tracking map feature proposals.

2007-12-29 Thread DavidD
There are currently 36 proposed values for the shop key yet 6 approved values. In the current 07-12-26 uk planet.osm excerpt there are 159 different shop values. Similarly there are 29 approved values for sport, 7 proposed yet 108 in the uk planet.osm excerpt. I think the current method of propos

[OSM-talk] Who says technology and religion cannot live together?

2007-12-29 Thread Mike Collinson
Off subject but it is the holiday season here in Europe. Miami Herald "Woman charged in theft of GPS-equipped Jesus" http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/359089.html ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/

[OSM-talk] Garmin nüvi experiences?

2007-12-29 Thread Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany)
Hi, does anyone of you have a "Garmin nüvi" Unit? http://www.garmin.com/garmin/cms/us/ontheroad/nuviseries And if so; can you recommend it for: car-navigation? Bike-navigation? Openstreetmap tracking? Displaying OpenStreetMap Maps? -- Jörg (Germany, Mun

Re: [OSM-talk] Ideas for OSM enhancements

2007-12-29 Thread Lester Caine
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I wondered about this when the topic first popped up. I've heard of many > articles being removed from Wikipedia because they were not deemed > significant enough to be part of the site. > Nick Whitelegg wrote: > > I'd very much like to allow pop-up info windows on O

[OSM-talk] Fwd: Ideas for OSM enhancements

2007-12-29 Thread stefan . baebler
mobile gmail doesn't support replying to all, nor changing recipients when replying.../stefan -- Forwarded message -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 06:40:48 +0100 Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Ideas for OSM enhancements To: Nick Whitelegg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> another ide