Re: [OSM-talk] Local map making - truncating ways on boundary?

2008-04-03 Thread Karl Newman
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 7:38 PM, Brett Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I hope the job loss isn't too much of a downer, best of luck finding > something better. > > As for tiling, I hadn't considered polygons. They sound nasty. I'd > been thinking of something far simpler. For ways I was t

Re: [OSM-talk] Navit on the Asus EeePC with Debian Testing

2008-04-03 Thread Nick Black
Niccolo, Sounds cool - I'm hanging on for the 8.9inch touchscreen version :-) On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 1:05 AM, Niccolo Rigacci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > just a note to say that Navit [1] is working well on my Asus > EeePC. I do not use the preinstalled Xandros Linux OS, but a > wonde

[OSM-talk] welcome to user 30,001!

2008-04-03 Thread Peter Miller
At this moment we have just welcomed out 30,001st registered OSM user. The user base has doubled in the past 150 days and gone up by four in the past 300 days or thereabouts. Not a bad growth rate really. Regards, Peter

Re: [OSM-talk] Local map making - truncating ways on boundary?

2008-04-03 Thread Brett Henderson
I hope the job loss isn't too much of a downer, best of luck finding something better. As for tiling, I hadn't considered polygons. They sound nasty. I'd been thinking of something far simpler. For ways I was thinking of splitting them at tile boundaries, adding synthetic nodes as required,

Re: [OSM-talk] Local map making - truncating ways on boundary?

2008-04-03 Thread Karl Newman
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Brett Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > By default, osmosis will truncate at the last node inside the boundary > which isn't always ideal. The completeWays argument will include all > way nodes outside the boundary which again isn't perfect. > > The new PostGI

Re: [OSM-talk] Local map making - truncating ways on boundary?

2008-04-03 Thread Brett Henderson
By default, osmosis will truncate at the last node inside the boundary which isn't always ideal. The completeWays argument will include all way nodes outside the boundary which again isn't perfect. The new PostGIS based bounding box functionality will never truncate ways but may leave out node

[OSM-talk] Navit on the Asus EeePC with Debian Testing

2008-04-03 Thread Niccolo Rigacci
Hi, just a note to say that Navit [1] is working well on my Asus EeePC. I do not use the preinstalled Xandros Linux OS, but a wonderful Debian GNU/Linux Testing (Lenny). First impressions and two screenshoots here: http://www.rigacci.org/wiki/doku.php/doc/appunti/hardware/eeepc_navit [1] http:

Re: [OSM-talk] Old names

2008-04-03 Thread Christoph Eckert
Hi, > >  wasn't there a db issue with semikoli in values when applied to nodes? > > There was, it's been fixed. cool. Just for my personal interest: are tags for nodes now saved in a separate table or how has it been solved? Cheers, ce ___ talk mail

Re: [OSM-talk] Old names

2008-04-03 Thread Dave Stubbs
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 10:33 PM, Christoph Eckert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > > > The recommended way of handling multiple values in a tag is usually to > > separate them with ";" > > i.e. name_old=Foo;Bar;Baz > > wasn't there a db issue with semikoli in values when applied to nodes? >

Re: [OSM-talk] Old names

2008-04-03 Thread Christoph Eckert
Hi, > The recommended way of handling multiple values in a tag is usually to > separate them with ";" > i.e. name_old=Foo;Bar;Baz wasn't there a db issue with semikoli in values when applied to nodes? Cheers, ce ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreet

Re: [OSM-talk] Local map making - truncating ways on boundary?

2008-04-03 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, > I'm trying to put to together a procedure for making an overview map of a > local area. I can use XAPI to get appropriate data, but some ways cross > the specified boundary (bbox or bpoly) and continue 'outside the box'. > > Is there a method for truncating ways at the boundary? None that

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging HAM radio repeaters.

2008-04-03 Thread simon
Hi all, I have added some specifics to: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Communications_tower Comments welcome. Mungewell. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tal

Re: [OSM-talk] Osmosis/Mkgmap: Missing ways at tile borders

2008-04-03 Thread Karl Newman
I'll try to take a look at it, too, and see if I can reproduce the problem. Karl On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 3:49 AM, Brett Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Christian, > > This does sound strange, the completeWays functionality should avoid the > problem you're seeing. Can you provide me th

Re: [OSM-talk] Lighthouses

2008-04-03 Thread Steven te Brinke
In that case we really need to tag both colour and starboard/port, because in the Netherlands we use SIGNI, that has green conical buoys at port. Steven Steve Hill schreef: On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Nick wrote: You should record colours red/green, not starboard/port. It's probably quite dange

Re: [OSM-talk] Lighthouses

2008-04-03 Thread Dirk-Lüder Kreie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nick schrieb: | You should record colours red/green, not starboard/port. It's probably | quite dangerous not to. And it's also easier for the mapper who can record such stuff even if he doesn't knoww about maritime things :) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE--

Re: [OSM-talk] Lighthouses

2008-04-03 Thread Steve Hill
On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Nick wrote: > You should record colours red/green, not starboard/port. It's probably > quite dangerous not to. Port lateral buoys have a flat top, starboard ones are conical - this is the same in both systems. But the colours do indeed change. So we probably need to record

Re: [OSM-talk] Lighthouses

2008-04-03 Thread Nick
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I think putting the lateral buoys in a relation would be a good plan - >this means that to find the channel you don't need to know whether they >are placed in the upstream or downstream direction, you just know that the >b

Re: [OSM-talk] Lighthouses

2008-04-03 Thread Steve Hill
On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Steven te Brinke wrote: > Besides that, IMO starboard and port are not a good way to specify the type > of a buoy. That is because in the Netherlands buoys are placed in the > downstream direction, with green at the port side. However, at sea they are > placed towards land,

Re: [OSM-talk] Lighthouses

2008-04-03 Thread Steven te Brinke
Hello, It's a good idea to tag buoys, but there are very many types. So you should think carefully about what you want and what you don't want to tag. I've extracted a list of types from the Dutch Notices to Mariners: http://squall.student.utwente.nl/betonning/types.xml. It shows quite some p

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMXapi error 501

2008-04-03 Thread maning sambale
Cool! Thanks! On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Brett Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Christopher Schmidt wrote: > > Minutely, so far as I can tell based on the way that the server behaves. > > > > Regards, > > > It's every minute unless recent issues have changed something. The > minu

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMXapi error 501

2008-04-03 Thread Brett Henderson
Christopher Schmidt wrote: > Minutely, so far as I can tell based on the way that the server behaves. > > Regards, > It's every minute unless recent issues have changed something. The minute diffs have been somewhat unadvertised but are now available at the top level of the planet server: htt

Re: [OSM-talk] script for bulk upload of traces (from waypoints.ph)

2008-04-03 Thread Niccolo Rigacci
> The maintainer of www.waypoints.ph asked me this: > > > Is there a way one can upload traces under other names or if there are > > automatic scripts that can accept > > waypoints/pois in bulk and assign waypoints or tracks or traces under their > > respective contributors names. This is a ref

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMXapi error 501

2008-04-03 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 11:17:31AM +0800, maning sambale wrote: > Is the osmxapi working on the hourly diffs now? Minutely, so far as I can tell based on the way that the server behaves. Regards, -- Christopher Schmidt MetaCarta ___ talk mailing list

[OSM-talk] script for bulk upload of traces (from waypoints.ph)

2008-04-03 Thread maning sambale
Hi, The maintainer of www.waypoints.ph asked me this: > Is there a way one can upload traces under other names or if there are > automatic scripts that can accept > waypoints/pois in bulk and assign waypoints or tracks or traces under their > respective contributors names. They have collected

Re: [OSM-talk] Osmosis/Mkgmap: Missing ways at tile borders

2008-04-03 Thread Brett Henderson
Hi Christian, This does sound strange, the completeWays functionality should avoid the problem you're seeing. Can you provide me the id of the way that is causing you problems? I'd like to replicate this bug if possible. If it turns out to be a limitation of the current design (ie. not easily

Re: [OSM-talk] [josm-dev] Coastline checker / fixer

2008-04-03 Thread Robert (Jamie) Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Williams wrote: | Dave Hansen wrote: |> On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 17:31 +, Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote: |>> I vaguely remember months ago when the coastline checker at |>> http://tile.openstreetmap.nl/coastlines.html was quite new, someone | [] |>

Re: [OSM-talk] Lighthouses

2008-04-03 Thread Steve Hill
On Wed, 2 Apr 2008, OJ W wrote: > Tagging notes/discussion is at: > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Talk:Tag:man_made%3Dlighthouse > > If anyone has comments on the tags etc, then please do join the discussion I've put together a bare-bones proposal for tagging buoys: http://wiki.o

Re: [OSM-talk] Old names

2008-04-03 Thread Steve Hill
On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, David Janda wrote: > It appears to me that the name_old tag is meant for one name. But what > to do if there are several? I am against the idea of name_old1 name_old2 > and so on as these names I am refering to are in many cases so old that > the order is not known. The rec

Re: [OSM-talk] Osmosis/Mkgmap: Missing ways at tile borders

2008-04-03 Thread Christian Linder
I am using a Garmin 60CSx handheld. As you suggested, I looked at the tiles in JOSM. The problem is the same: In the original osm file, the way is contiguous: --- I call osmosis with something like bzcat ~/Desktop/germany.osm.bz2 | java -Xmx512M -jar ~/osm/osmosis/osmosis.jar --rx file=/dev

[OSM-talk] Old names

2008-04-03 Thread David Janda
Hello Talk I need your input with regard to old names of places - plural. It appears to me that the name_old tag is meant for one name. But what to do if there are several? I am against the idea of name_old1 name_old2 and so on as these names I am refering to are in many cases so old that the o