[OSM-talk] Wrong scale bar :(

2008-04-16 Thread Juan Lucas Dominguez Rubio
Reusing Lars Aronsson's message, we can see that the new scale bar is wrong. The buildings in this screenshot should be 32 x 11 m (attached example.jpg) Cheers, Lucas - [...] I've never cared too much about that scale, but now I know that these apartment buildings along Syrengatan

[OSM-talk] Lakes and relations, what did I break?

2008-04-16 Thread Dermot McNally
To anyone who can show me what I broke: http://geo.topf.org/comparison/index.html?mt0=mapnik&mt1=tah&x=971&y=657&z=11 I worked on this pair of lakes in NW Ireland a few days ago. The Osmarender output is broken, but I decided to wait for Mapnik to re-render before panicking. Let the panic begin..

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Polygons in OSM don't necess arily comply to simple feature specification

2008-04-16 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
El Jueves, 17 de Abril de 2008, Frederik Ramm escribió: > Hi, > > > The only exceptions apparently > > being that self-intersecting polygons are allowed in OSM. > > The wiki page you cited says "In general, a 2D geometry is simple if > it contains no self-intersection." - what do they mean by "2D >

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Polygons in OSM don't necessarily comply to simple feature specification

2008-04-16 Thread Jon Burgess
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 00:07 +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote: > So much for OGC stuff in general. About Simple Features specifically, > I guess there simply was nobody who wanted to do the extra work. I > remember Artem complaining about self-intersecting stuff once and I > think the offending items are

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Polygons in OSM don't necessarily comply to simple feature specification

2008-04-16 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 12:15:16AM +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > > The only exceptions apparently > > being that self-intersecting polygons are allowed in OSM. > > The wiki page you cited says "In general, a 2D geometry is simple if > it contains no self-intersection." - what do they m

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Polygons in OSM don't necessarily comply to simple feature specification

2008-04-16 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 12:19:19AM +0200, Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote: > El Miércoles, 16 de Abril de 2008, Christopher Schmidt escribió: > > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:28:32PM +0200, Martijn van Exel wrote: > > > yesterday a colleague approached me asking why OSM data doesn't comply to > > > the Si

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Polygons in OSM don't necessarily comply to simple feature specification

2008-04-16 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:58:21PM +0200, Martijn van Exel wrote: > Op 16 apr 2008, om 23:41 heeft Christopher Schmidt het volgende > geschreven: > >On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:28:32PM +0200, Martijn van Exel wrote: > >It seems likely that the netherlands 'self intersecting polygons' are > >simply

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Polygons in OSM don't necessarily comply to simple feature specification

2008-04-16 Thread Martijn van Exel
Op 17 apr 2008, om 00:07 heeft Frederik Ramm het volgende geschreven: > Hi, > >> yesterday a colleague approached me asking why OSM data >> doesn't comply to the Simple Feature specification[1] > > I guess the honest answer is very likely that most people invovled in > designing anything at OSM hav

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Polygons in OSM don't necessarily comply to simple feature specification

2008-04-16 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
El Miércoles, 16 de Abril de 2008, Christopher Schmidt escribió: > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:28:32PM +0200, Martijn van Exel wrote: > > yesterday a colleague approached me asking why OSM data doesn't comply to > > the Simple Feature specification[...] > > Is this something that is being consider

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Polygons in OSM don't necessarily comply to simple feature specification

2008-04-16 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, > The only exceptions apparently > being that self-intersecting polygons are allowed in OSM. The wiki page you cited says "In general, a 2D geometry is simple if it contains no self-intersection." - what do they mean by "2D geometry"? Specifically, would a self-intersecting *line* be allow

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Polygons in OSM don't necessarily comply to simple feature specification

2008-04-16 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, > yesterday a colleague approached me asking why OSM data > doesn't comply to the Simple Feature specification[1] I guess the honest answer is very likely that most people invovled in designing anything at OSM have no prior GIS experience. Most of us are amateurs. We design stuff that we thin

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Polygons in OSM don't necessarily comply to simple feature specification

2008-04-16 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:28:32PM +0200, Martijn van Exel wrote: > Hi all, > > The only exceptions apparently being that self-intersecting polygons > are allowed in OSM. He found a couple hundred in the Netherlands' OSM > data. > > Is this something that is being considered? I guess it would b

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Polygons in OSM don't necessarily comply to simple feature specification

2008-04-16 Thread Karl Newman
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Martijn van Exel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been warming up as many of my colleagues to OSM as possible, and > sometimes this comes back to me. Being GIS people, they have GIS > requirements, and OSM was not devised specifically with GIS > requir

[OSM-talk] Polygons in OSM don't necessarily comply to simple feature specification

2008-04-16 Thread Martijn van Exel
Hi all, I've been warming up as many of my colleagues to OSM as possible, and sometimes this comes back to me. Being GIS people, they have GIS requirements, and OSM was not devised specifically with GIS requirements in mind. That said, yesterday a colleague approached me asking why OSM dat

Re: [OSM-talk] Spanish GeoData for OSM?

2008-04-16 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
El Miércoles, 16 de Abril de 2008, Skywave escribió: > Any news? Nope, meeting was cancelled in the last minute. :-( -- -- Iván Sánchez Ortega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Now listening to: St. Vincent - Marry Me (2007) - [9] Landmines (5:07) (0.00%) signature.asc

[OSM-talk] Spanish GeoData for OSM?

2008-04-16 Thread Skywave
Any news? On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Iván Sánchez Ortega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Just read the following blog post: > > > http://spanring.eu/blog/2008/04/13/difusion-publica-de-la-informacion-geografica/ > > > > Basically, following on from the INSPIRE initiative > > , and

Re: [OSM-talk] osm2pgsql - invalid input syntax for in teger: "Breërivier"

2008-04-16 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Ricardo Peironcely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've a problem with osm2pgsql and the last version of planet file. > > When I try to execute the process, always receive the same error: invalid > input syntax for integer: "Breërivier" > > Any one knows something ab

Re: [OSM-talk] Oh look, a scale bar. But...

2008-04-16 Thread Norbert Hoffmann
Dermot McNally wrote: >I became aware of the new scale bar on the slippy map through another >thread over on dev. It's certainly nice to have one, and it was an >obvious absence that google maps (and others) had but OSM didn't. Shouldn't a scale bar change its length, when scrolling the map "vert

Re: [OSM-talk] Oh look, a scale bar. But...

2008-04-16 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 08:32:13PM +0200, Norbert Hoffmann wrote: > Dermot McNally wrote: > > >I became aware of the new scale bar on the slippy map through another > >thread over on dev. It's certainly nice to have one, and it was an > >obvious absence that google maps (and others) had but OSM di

Re: [OSM-talk] Oh look, a scale bar. But...

2008-04-16 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 07:01:01PM +0100, Dermot McNally wrote: > I did say it was a quick look. FWIW, this is the reference i found: > > http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/Addins/ScaleBar > > And as I say, it's great to have one. The ScaleBar control is not the same as the control currently in use

Re: [OSM-talk] Oh look, a scale bar. But...

2008-04-16 Thread Dermot McNally
On 16/04/2008, Tom Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > "Dermot McNally" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > From what I can tell based on a quick look at the Openlayers > > documentation, not only does it support single unit scale bars, that's > > actual

Re: [OSM-talk] Oh look, a scale bar. But...

2008-04-16 Thread Tom Hughes
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Dermot McNally" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From what I can tell based on a quick look at the Openlayers > documentation, not only does it support single unit scale bars, that's > actually the default. It's certainly not the default. I have done nothing

[OSM-talk] Oh look, a scale bar. But...

2008-04-16 Thread Dermot McNally
Hi, I became aware of the new scale bar on the slippy map through another thread over on dev. It's certainly nice to have one, and it was an obvious absence that google maps (and others) had but OSM didn't. However, we have copied an aspect of Google Maps that always annoyed me. Paper maps freque

[OSM-talk] osm2pgsql - invalid input syntax for integer : "Breërivier"

2008-04-16 Thread Ricardo Peironcely
I've a problem with osm2pgsql and the last version of planet file. When I try to execute the process, always receive the same error: invalid input syntax for integer: "Breërivier" Any one knows something about this? Thanks in advance. Rpr ./osm2pgsql -u -U postgres -d map planet-080409.osm.bz2

Re: [OSM-talk] Yahoo updates aerial imagery

2008-04-16 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote: > I note that near where I live, someone has traced the edge of the high > resolution imagery and tagged it: > Do people agree with this example? If so I'll add it to Oxford and any > others I come across. I'd disagree, and even go so far as to say tagging things like

Re: [OSM-talk] Yahoo updates aerial imagery

2008-04-16 Thread simon
If you're tagging it can I also suggest a resolution tag. There are many areas in Canada with have images available, but there are so low res they are next to useless for street mapping. Mungewell. > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Martijn van Exel wrote: > | Hi all, > | > |

Re: [OSM-talk] Yahoo updates aerial imagery

2008-04-16 Thread Robert (Jamie) Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martijn van Exel wrote: | Hi all, | | Yahoo announced the 'single biggest imagery update' update for Yahoo! | Maps yesterday. See the post here --> http://ylocalblog.com/blog/2008/04/11/see-more-on-yahoo-maps/ | It doesn't say anywhere specifically whi

[OSM-talk] openlayers zoom transitions in OSM

2008-04-16 Thread maning sambale
hi, Are we using the latest Openlayers in OSM? There's a pan and zooming "transition effects thingie". Nice! maning -- |-|--| | __.-._ |"Ohhh. Great warrior. Wars not make one great." -Yoda | | '-._"7' |"Freedom is still the most

[OSM-talk] Country boundaries (was: Naga City in OSM)

2008-04-16 Thread OJ W
If we did do boundary polygons, where would we put them for coastal boundaries? e.g. along the coast? or along EEZ limits? Do we also need country codes to say whose claim each border polygon is representing? On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Hakan Tandogan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On