Re: [OSM-talk] mapping while hiking

2008-04-26 Thread Igor Brejc
Charles Basenga Kiyanda wrote: > Thanks for the suggestions. I hadn't thought about clipping the receiver > to the top of my backpack. I also hadn't thought that a lot of small > movement, compared to a steady stable displacement, might lower the > accuracy. I'll keep that in mind if I try to at

[OSM-talk] RSS Feed for Image of the Week

2008-04-26 Thread Jochen Topf
Hi! If you want to always see the current "Image of the Week" in your RSS reader, point it at http://geo.topf.org/iotw.rss There is a little script behind it, that gets the current IOTW and its description from the wiki once a night and converts it to RSS. Jochen -- Jochen Topf [EMAIL PRO

[OSM-talk] [Fwd: Re: Bangladesh under the water]

2008-04-26 Thread Francois De Ryckel
We have a similar issue in Bangaldesh http://tile.openstreetmap.nl/coastlines.html?zoom=8&lat=23.43505&lon=89.95194&layers=B00T Any ways to restore the square missing? Francois On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 18:45 +0100, Jon Burgess wrote: > On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 15:01 +0300, Lauri Hahne wrote: > > > >

[OSM-talk] Vandalism in Trumpington

2008-04-26 Thread David Earl
Would it be possible to roll back changes made by user Katie after 17:40 on April 16? This user has removed or overlaid quite a few roads around Trumpington, Cambridge, and replaced several streets with cycleways, run a tertiary road along the river and across a farm track, and generally made a

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap State Of The Map 2008 conference early-bird registration

2008-04-26 Thread 80n
On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 5:03 PM, Frederik Ramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > > There's just over a week to go for early bird registration for > > OpenStreetMap's second international conference in Limerick, Ireland > > on the weekend of 12-13 July 2008. It is a great opportunity to > > mee

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap State Of The Map 2008 conference early-bird registration

2008-04-26 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, >> I can't help noticing that the registration fee has doubled from £25 >> last year to £50 this year (and that's comparing last year's normal >> price to this year's early bird). > > Err, I think you're mixing up your Euros and Pounds. Oops, maybe. So then it was £25 and now is EUR 50? That

Re: [OSM-talk] mapping while hiking

2008-04-26 Thread Charles Basenga Kiyanda
Thanks for the suggestions. I hadn't thought about clipping the receiver to the top of my backpack. I also hadn't thought that a lot of small movement, compared to a steady stable displacement, might lower the accuracy. I'll keep that in mind if I try to attach the gps to my forearm and see wha

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap State Of The Map 2008 conference early-bird registration

2008-04-26 Thread David Earl
On 26/04/2008 17:03, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > >> There's just over a week to go for early bird registration for >> OpenStreetMap's second international conference in Limerick, Ireland >> on the weekend of 12-13 July 2008. It is a great opportunity to >> meet your fellow mappers from all over

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap State Of The Map 2008 conference early-bird registration

2008-04-26 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, > There's just over a week to go for early bird registration for > OpenStreetMap's second international conference in Limerick, Ireland > on the weekend of 12-13 July 2008. It is a great opportunity to > meet your fellow mappers from all over the world. I can't help noticing that the registr

[OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap State Of The Map 2008 conference early-bird registration

2008-04-26 Thread Mike Collinson
There's just over a week to go for early bird registration for OpenStreetMap's second international conference in Limerick, Ireland on the weekend of 12-13 July 2008. It is a great opportunity to meet your fellow mappers from all over the world. http://www.stateofthemap.org/registration/ Oh

Re: [OSM-talk] Cuba under the water

2008-04-26 Thread Jon Burgess
On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 18:45 +0100, Jon Burgess wrote: > On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 15:01 +0300, Lauri Hahne wrote: > > > > > > 2008/4/24 Juan Lucas Dominguez Rubio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi, > > > > In Mapnik zooms 7, 8 and 9, most of the isle of Cuba is under > >

Re: [OSM-talk] mapping while hiking

2008-04-26 Thread Jon Stockill
Mike Collinson wrote: > I noticed that I got much better tracks on a bicycle than walking, even in > similar conditions and speeds. After some experimentation, the reason seems > to be that a GPS device likes to be kept relatively stable and not shaken or > twisted around. The best place I've

Re: [OSM-talk] mapping while hiking

2008-04-26 Thread Mike Collinson
At 04:13 AM 26/04/2008, Charles Basenga Kiyanda wrote: >This is slightly off-topic, but does anyone have a trick to deal with >the gps when tagging while hiking trails? I carry a garmin etrex legend >Cx (unfortunately not the H version) and I find that it has to be >"looking" directly up and fla

Re: [OSM-talk] ifw proxy

2008-04-26 Thread Kyle Gordon
No problem. Many thanks for the fast response. Sadly the hardware can't provide a fast response any more, hence the removal request. Regards Kyle 80n wrote: > Kyle > > Done :) > > I know some people have copied the html from the informationfreeway > site in the past, so it's possible that ther

Re: [OSM-talk] ifw proxy

2008-04-26 Thread 80n
Kyle Done :) I know some people have copied the html from the informationfreeway site in the past, so it's possible that there may be other sites out there that might have a reference to glasgownet in them. If they don't see this thread then you'll probably need to chase them yourself. Etienne

Re: [OSM-talk] mapping while hiking

2008-04-26 Thread Andy Robinson
2008/4/26 Charles Basenga Kiyanda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > This is slightly off-topic, but does anyone have a trick to deal with > the gps when tagging while hiking trails? I carry a garmin etrex legend > Cx (unfortunately not the H version) and I find that it has to be > "looking" directly up and

Re: [OSM-talk] mapping while hiking

2008-04-26 Thread Steve Hill
Charles Basenga Kiyanda wrote: > This is slightly off-topic, but does anyone have a trick to deal with > the gps when tagging while hiking trails? I carry a garmin etrex legend > Cx (unfortunately not the H version) and I find that it has to be > "looking" directly up and flat to get best recep

Re: [OSM-talk] namespaces and copyright

2008-04-26 Thread Steve Hill
elvin ibbotson wrote: > Chris Hill is worried about copyright issues with climbing routes and > this is like lots of concerns I have seen expressed such as taking > street names from actual street signs rather than from copyrighted > material. If it's the name of the street, it's the name of th

Re: [OSM-talk] Climbing routes

2008-04-26 Thread Steve Hill
Chris Hill wrote: > Leaving the namespace issue aside, how would one collect the information > about > climbing routes? The routes I climbed didn't have signs or the like to > gather > from the site. All of the climbing guides I have that describe the routes, > including their name, grade,