Re: [OSM-talk] GML to OSM (Re: convert mapinfo POI to osm for uploading)

2008-03-14 Thread Alex S.
Lambertus wrote: > Interesting, can I somewhere have a look at your converter? I also have > a pile of gpx waypoints lying around waiting for mapping (but JOSM > doesn't let me edit it easilly enough i.e. I'm missing entered comments). If you upload the GPX file, Potlatch will show you the waypo

[OSM-talk] highway=living_street not rendered?

2008-03-14 Thread Inge Wallin
Hi people, I am a very new user that has started to map up the village in Sweden where I live. However, I have found something strange. Look at the slippy map, and search for Ljungsbro. Notice the to streets Kohagsvägen and Ugglebovägen southeast of the center. Then press the 'edit'. What y

Re: [OSM-talk] Osmxapi returns old data

2008-03-14 Thread 80n
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 12:46 AM, Jon Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 2008-03-15 at 00:30 +, 80n wrote: > > Lars > > Thanks for this info, its been very useful. > > > > Some edits, that were made during the period when the incremental > > feeds were down, have not been resynchro

[OSM-talk] User stats desperately wanted

2008-03-14 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, whenever I make a presentation about OSM, I tell them about our exponential growth. I used to show them this http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/images/c/c7/Osmdbstats4A.png but that's stopped in July last year, so I have no current picture about the growth of our user base. The page http://w

Re: [OSM-talk] Osmxapi returns old data

2008-03-14 Thread Jon Burgess
On Sat, 2008-03-15 at 00:30 +, 80n wrote: > Lars > Thanks for this info, its been very useful. > > Some edits, that were made during the period when the incremental > feeds were down, have not been resynchronized correctly. > > The problem is due to a difference in the timestamp format betwe

Re: [OSM-talk] Osmxapi returns old data

2008-03-14 Thread 80n
Lars Thanks for this info, its been very useful. Some edits, that were made during the period when the incremental feeds were down, have not been resynchronized correctly. The problem is due to a difference in the timestamp format between the planet dump and the incremental feeds. I'll fix the r

Re: [OSM-talk] Osmxapi returns old data

2008-03-14 Thread Lars Aronsson
80n wrote: > Lars > Can you point to a couple of specific instances please so that I can > investigate further? If you try this very narrow region, wget 'http://www.informationfreeway.org/api/0.5/way[bbox=14.4,58.05,14.6,58.1][note=FIXME previously unwayed segment]' -O mymap.osm You will get

Re: [OSM-talk] London Emissions Zone

2008-03-14 Thread graham
Thomas Wood wrote: > On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 12:15 PM, Ray Booysen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Has anyone started this zone? Or have the information around it? >> >> Cheers >> Ray >> > > No, and to my knowledge, the Congestion Charging Zone is also unmapped. > I was pondering a tagging method a

Re: [OSM-talk] Contacting new users

2008-03-14 Thread Jo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: > Hi all, > I've been working on getting the base map in place in my rural community, > now I'd like to get new contributors filling in the details with tag > amenities etc. > > I started working on a 'Put your community on The Map' poster, but my > artistic skill are tha

Re: [OSM-talk] Osmxapi returns old data

2008-03-14 Thread 80n
Lars Can you point to a couple of specific instances please so that I can investigate further? Osmxapi was resynchronized against this week's planet file ( planet-080312.osm) plus the diff files from then onwards. So if there are still discrepancies all the evidence is still be available at the m

Re: [OSM-talk] How do we tag passing/slow lanes?

2008-03-14 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder)
Lars Aronsson wrote: >Sent: 14 March 2008 6:03 PM >To: talk@openstreetmap.org >Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] How do we tag passing/slow lanes? > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> The only suggestion I had was to set lanes to '1+2', which would mean 1 >> lane in the forward direction (of the way) and 2 in th

Re: [OSM-talk] How do we tag passing/slow lanes?

2008-03-14 Thread Lars Aronsson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The only suggestion I had was to set lanes to '1+2', which would mean 1 > lane in the forward direction (of the way) and 2 in the reverse direction. In Sweden, those are known as "2+1 roads". They are becoming increasingly popular especially when combined with a cable

Re: [OSM-talk] Osmxapi returns old data

2008-03-14 Thread Lars Aronsson
Karl Newman wrote: > This is probably due to the recently broken (and now fixed) > daily/hourly diffs. After this week's planet dump is imported > (probably today), the hourly diffs should be able to properly > keep it up to date as the wiki page states. Yes, it's much better now. But it's no

Re: [OSM-talk] How do we tag passing/slow lanes?

2008-03-14 Thread Pieren Pieren
> > Break the way at the start and end of each passing section and tag with > lanes=2 for the normal sections (assuming its normally a two lane > undivided > highway) and... lanes=2 is not supposed to be the "default value" ? I mean, it's obvious for me that lanes=2 is the default for highway=mot

Re: [OSM-talk] London Emissions Zone

2008-03-14 Thread Thomas Wood
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 12:15 PM, Ray Booysen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone started this zone? Or have the information around it? > > Cheers > Ray > No, and to my knowledge, the Congestion Charging Zone is also unmapped. I was pondering a tagging method a couple of months ago, but came

Re: [OSM-talk] Contacting new users

2008-03-14 Thread simon
Hi all, I've been working on getting the base map in place in my rural community, now I'd like to get new contributors filling in the details with tag amenities etc. I started working on a 'Put your community on The Map' poster, but my artistic skill are that artistic, which I think would be an ef

Re: [OSM-talk] GML to OSM (Re: convert mapinfo POI to osm for uploading)

2008-03-14 Thread Rob
i will put it into svn someday, it's however c# code and uses an "find existing osm node in neighborhood of gpx way point" to reuse it. but the gpx parsing and osm file generation is reusable. 2008/3/14, Lambertus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Rob wrote: > > if you don't find anything else, i can help y

Re: [OSM-talk] GML to OSM (Re: convert mapinfo POI to osm for uploading)

2008-03-14 Thread Maning Sambale
> > Any other way? POIs are around 7,000 points. > > Sure. Write some XSL transforms... They are both XML formats, after all. Ok. Will try this one. > sidenote: perhaps Excel can be used to convert the data... I might try this one. If I ran out of patience to study xsl :) cheers, maning _

Re: [OSM-talk] GML to OSM (Re: convert mapinfo POI to osm for uploading)

2008-03-14 Thread Lambertus
Rob wrote: > if you don't find anything else, i can help you > i can modify my dutch cycle node converter (gpx waypoints -> osm) to > process your file > just send me the files and i'll have a look at it. > Interesting, can I somewhere have a look at your converter? I also have a pile of gpx wayp

Re: [OSM-talk] GML to OSM (Re: convert mapinfo POI to osm for uploading)

2008-03-14 Thread Ludwig
There is a converter in the OSM SVN system called osmtrackfilter somewhere, which converts GPX into OSM, which can then be loaded into JOSM, where you can edit the tracks and then upload them. The location in the OSM SVN tree is applications/utils/import/osmtrackfilter. It is written in Perl. Lud

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Data donations by municipalities?

2008-03-14 Thread Edoardo Marascalchi
Sebastian Spaeth ha scritto: > Hi all, > Freiburg in Germany is sympathetic to releasing local geoinformation, > but a precendent case might help to convince officials (told me another > official). So, are there any cases where towns or municipalities have > been releasing information (especially i

Re: [OSM-talk] GML to OSM (Re: convert mapinfo POI to osm for uploading)

2008-03-14 Thread Rob
if you don't find anything else, i can help you i can modify my dutch cycle node converter (gpx waypoints -> osm) to process your file just send me the files and i'll have a look at it. 2008/3/14, Lambertus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > maning sambale wrote: > > Thanks for pointing this one out. > > Ca

Re: [OSM-talk] Cycle Map around Nuremberg

2008-03-14 Thread Lambertus
Ah ok, thanks for the correction. I see now I've read over the word 'relaties' (relations) where the tagging is explained in the wiki and tagged only the way instead of the relation. My bad. Dave Stubbs wrote: > On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 12:28 PM, Lambertus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Just a que

Re: [OSM-talk] Cycle Map around Nuremberg

2008-03-14 Thread Dave Stubbs
> As far as update times go, data that is in before Wednesday (and so is > in the planet) should start appearing sometime on a Friday, although > it can be later ... sorry, meant Thursday... it doesn't normally take /that/ long, although it has done

Re: [OSM-talk] Cycle Map around Nuremberg

2008-03-14 Thread Dave Stubbs
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 12:28 PM, Lambertus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just a question about the update times: I've made a start in mapping the > cycle node routes in the NL.Apeldoorn area [1] last week but I don't see > them on the map now. Is that probably a tagging error on my part or is >

Re: [OSM-talk] Cycle Map around Nuremberg

2008-03-14 Thread Lambertus
Just a question about the update times: I've made a start in mapping the cycle node routes in the NL.Apeldoorn area [1] last week but I don't see them on the map now. Is that probably a tagging error on my part or is the map not updated this week for that area? [1] http://www.gravitystorm.co.u

[OSM-talk] London Emissions Zone

2008-03-14 Thread Ray Booysen
Has anyone started this zone? Or have the information around it? Cheers Ray ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] area_with_holes as alternative to multipolygon relation

2008-03-14 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, >> True, but since there can only be one circumference of a polygon, >> could we not specify that if more than one "outer" ways exist in a >> multipoly relation, these will be merged to make the circumference? > > That would be very confusing. I'd expect "outer" and "inner" ways to be > the

Re: [OSM-talk] Cycle Map around Nuremberg

2008-03-14 Thread Andy Allan
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 8:05 AM, Jo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Karl Eichwalder wrote: > > Around Nuremberg (Nürnberg) the Cycle Map is now available with > > much better zoom levels: > > > > > http://www.gravitystorm.co.uk/osm/?zoom=12&lat=6358702.54257&lon=1238040.08506&layers=B00 > > > >

Re: [OSM-talk] GML to OSM (Re: convert mapinfo POI to osm for uploading)

2008-03-14 Thread Lambertus
maning sambale wrote: > Thanks for pointing this one out. > Can gpsbabel convert GML to OSM? Last time I checked. it can't: > http://www.gpsbabel.org/htmldoc-1.3.5/The_Formats.html > I may have to dig dipper. > > Any other way? POIs are around 7,000 points. > No, it can't convert to OSM but e.g

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenExpo, Bern and OpenStreetMap

2008-03-14 Thread Andy Allan
Brilliant work Sebastian, that looks really excellent. Cheers, Andy On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 7:56 AM, Sebastian Spaeth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OpenExpo, Bern, Switzerland is over (>1000 visitors) and I wrote an post > on my experiences there: > > > http://sspaeth.de/index.php?/archives/507

Re: [OSM-talk] GML to OSM (Re: convert mapinfo POI to osm for uploading)

2008-03-14 Thread Alex S.
maning sambale wrote: > Thanks for pointing this one out. > Can gpsbabel convert GML to OSM? Last time I checked. it can't: > http://www.gpsbabel.org/htmldoc-1.3.5/The_Formats.html > I may have to dig dipper. > > Any other way? POIs are around 7,000 points. Sure. Write some XSL transforms...

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-talk-nl] potlatch satellietfoto's

2008-03-14 Thread Martijn van Exel
Floris, hoe heb je die gebouwen getagd dat ze zo gerenderd worden, en verschijnen ze straks ook zo in mapnik? -- martijn van exel -+- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -+- http://www.schaaltreinen.nl/ Op 14 mrt 2008, om 07:44 heeft Floris Looijesteijn het volgende geschreven: > kijk nou wat een mooie dingen

Re: [OSM-talk] GML to OSM (Re: convert mapinfo POI to osm for uploading)

2008-03-14 Thread maning sambale
Thanks for pointing this one out. Can gpsbabel convert GML to OSM? Last time I checked. it can't: http://www.gpsbabel.org/htmldoc-1.3.5/The_Formats.html I may have to dig dipper. Any other way? POIs are around 7,000 points. On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 5:01 PM, Lambertus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: [OSM-talk] GML to OSM (Re: convert mapinfo POI to osm for uploading)

2008-03-14 Thread Lambertus
Well in every programming language you would be able to do such a thing. But maybe you'd be fine by using Gpsbabel [1] which is a free tool to convert between different gis/gps formats. [1] www.gpsbabel.org maning sambale wrote: > Hi, > > I need help in converting a POI GML file to OSM for upl

[OSM-talk] GML to OSM (Re: convert mapinfo POI to osm for uploading)

2008-03-14 Thread maning sambale
Hi, I need help in converting a POI GML file to OSM for upload. The GML file is from a Mapinfo file of POIs. Sample is below: 121.1017599,14.6289909 MARIKINA 2304 0x900 0 MARIKINA NCR Philippines 0001

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenExpo, Bern and OpenStreetMap

2008-03-14 Thread Martijn van Exel
Great post, it sounds like you had a good and very productive time @ openexpo. A big welcome to all new mailing list subscribers resulting from that :) -- martijn van exel -+- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -+- http://www.schaaltreinen.nl/ Op 14 mrt 2008, om 08:56 heeft Sebastian Spaeth het volgende gesch

Re: [OSM-talk] Cycle Map around Nuremberg

2008-03-14 Thread Jo
Karl Eichwalder wrote: > Around Nuremberg (Nürnberg) the Cycle Map is now available with > much better zoom levels: > > http://www.gravitystorm.co.uk/osm/?zoom=12&lat=6358702.54257&lon=1238040.08506&layers=B00 > > Thanks a million! The cycle routes are often still fragmented and many > of them are

[OSM-talk] OpenExpo, Bern and OpenStreetMap

2008-03-14 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
OpenExpo, Bern, Switzerland is over (>1000 visitors) and I wrote an post on my experiences there: http://sspaeth.de/index.php?/archives/507-OpenExpo-and-OpenStreetMap-2008.html Thanks to all involved and helping, I enjoyed it a lot. Sebastian Spaeth _

Re: [OSM-talk] Cannot correct ring self intersection --> josm enhancement needed?

2008-03-14 Thread D Tucny
On 13/03/2008, Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany) < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Alternatively you could split the way into 2: select the way & the > node > > > with the 4 segments, then tools->Split Way. I'm not certain whether > this > > > will end up with 2 closed ways but I think it shoul

[OSM-talk] Cycle Map around Nuremberg

2008-03-14 Thread Karl Eichwalder
Around Nuremberg (Nürnberg) the Cycle Map is now available with much better zoom levels: http://www.gravitystorm.co.uk/osm/?zoom=12&lat=6358702.54257&lon=1238040.08506&layers=B00 Thanks a million! The cycle routes are often still fragmented and many of them are still missing completely, but the

Re: [OSM-talk] area_with_holes as alternative to multipolygon relation

2008-03-14 Thread Robert Vollmert
On Mar 13, 2008, at 23:27, Frederik Ramm wrote: > True, but since there can only be one circumference of a polygon, > could we not specify that if more than one "outer" ways exist in a > multipoly relation, these will be merged to make the circumference? That would be very confusing. I'd expect "o

Re: [OSM-talk] Contacting new users

2008-03-14 Thread Jo
mariner wrote: > hy guys, I signed up yesterday and I haven't got any mail. > > At the moment I understand the basics of the system. But not more. > > It's hard I think to learn it in a efficent way. I think the wiki is to > messy. A clear structure in there would help while doing the first > step