[OSM-talk] Potlatch localisation

2008-06-04 Thread Richard Fairhurst
I'd like to offer Potlatch in native languages - so a German-speaking user gets the prompts and tooltips in German, a French user in French, and so on. It would be a good thing to have at any point, but especially considering the current influx of German speakers. I'm very happy to do the co

Re: [OSM-talk] Islands in lakes

2008-06-04 Thread Alan Millar
I found a fix for some of the island rendering problems, where the island is split across two z12 tiles. One tile looks correct, but the other tile is inverted: it looks like a land area with half a lake when it should look like a water area with half an island. If the island is tagged with "nat

Re: [OSM-talk] Large river proposal open for voting was rendering oflarge rivers

2008-06-04 Thread David Groom
The proposed tag waterway = riverbank was approved by 13 votes to 1, with 1 abstention. David - Original Message - From: "David Groom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 1:23 PM Subject: [OSM-talk] Large river proposal open for voting was rendering oflarge rivers

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] - Alpine Hut

2008-06-04 Thread Christoph Eckert
Hi, > People suggest to merge this with amenity=shelter, but this is very > different. > > There are a lot of these Huts in Austria and Switzerland and there you > can usually buy food&drinks and get accommodation to stay overnight. > > There is however another thing we would need a Tag for. unfor

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] - Alpine Hut

2008-06-04 Thread AJH
On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 21:45:29 + (UTC), Sven Geggus wrote: >There is however another thing we would need a Tag for. unfortunately >I don't know an englisch word (bivouac?), we call this >"Biwakschachtel" in German: Bothy? AJH ___ talk mailing list t

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] - Alpine Hut

2008-06-04 Thread Sven Geggus
Alexander Zatko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Alpine_Hut People suggest to merge this with amenity=shelter, but this is very different. There are a lot of these Huts in Austria and Switzerland and there you can usually buy food&drinks and

[OSM-talk] [tagging] - Alpine Hut

2008-06-04 Thread Alexander Zatko
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Alpine_Hut___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Routable Garmin maps

2008-06-04 Thread Sven Geggus
Erik Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's now possible to get Garmin maps with routing made from OSM data. > Using a perl script that converts .osm to .mp which can be converted > to Garmin binary maps. As far as I know this will only be possible using a commercial tool called cgpsmapper

Re: [OSM-talk] Enabling communities to use OSM as a planning tool

2008-06-04 Thread Jon Burgess
On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 11:09 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > At present they can achieve the same effect using off line file and > merging layers before rendering. > > To make the process more smooth maybe some (or all) of the following > can > be implemented: > > 1) Enable the render to use mul

[OSM-talk] Routable Garmin maps

2008-06-04 Thread Skywave
I see cgpsmapper's mapcenter is already being flooded by OSM maps ;) On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Erik Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's now possible to get Garmin maps with routing made from OSM data. > Using a perl script that converts .osm to .mp which can be converted > to Garmi

[OSM-talk] Mappaint styles

2008-06-04 Thread Alan Millar
> With current JOSM versions, you can already hide or gray out certain > features by putting proper styles in the mappaint style file. I need to do that in the US to make it easier to see the status of the tiger:reviewed flag. Thanks for the reminder of that feature. - Alan __

Re: [OSM-talk] Enabling communities to use OSM as a planning tool

2008-06-04 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
On Jun 4, 2008, at 20:39 , spaetz wrote: > On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 11:09:33AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> One thought that occurs to me is that there will be many, >>> disparate groups >>> wishing to use OSM to plan stuff, only a very small proportion of >>> which >>> would eventua

Re: [OSM-talk] Enabling communities to use OSM as a planning tool

2008-06-04 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Frederik Ramm wrote: >Sent: 04 June 2008 7:39 PM >To: talk@openstreetmap.org >Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Enabling communities to use OSM as a planning tool > >As always, some things remain unsolved and around every corner lurks an >UI nightmare (create a new way and tag it with somthing that makes it

Re: [OSM-talk] Enabling communities to use OSM as a planning tool

2008-06-04 Thread spaetz
On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 11:09:33AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > One thought that occurs to me is that there will be many, disparate groups > > wishing to use OSM to plan stuff, only a very small proportion of which > > would eventually become reality. I'm not sure if it would be appropria

Re: [OSM-talk] Enabling communities to use OSM as a planning tool

2008-06-04 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Stephen Gower wrote: > You can, of course, do what you like, but I'd urge you not to do > this without an improvement in the editors. If I come to edit near > a junction and find 15 people have sketched out how they see the > junction could be improved, that's a lot of ways that don't

[OSM-talk] Routable Garmin maps

2008-06-04 Thread Erik Johansson
It's now possible to get Garmin maps with routing made from OSM data. Using a perl script that converts .osm to .mp which can be converted to Garmin binary maps. Converting openstreetmap map features to Garmin magic numbers has never been easier. Big thanks goes to liosha for this. Source: http

Re: [OSM-talk] Enabling communities to use OSM as a planning tool

2008-06-04 Thread Mikel Maron
Hi From: elvin ibbotson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > This topic reminded me of some thoughts I had about time-based tagging but > did not pursue. I have a professional interest in planned features but a > leisure interest in historic features such as > ancient roads. The OSM database could include bo

Re: [OSM-talk] Enabling communities to use OSM as a planning tool

2008-06-04 Thread Mikel Maron
Hi From: elvin ibbotson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > This topic reminded me of some thoughts I had about time-based tagging but > did not pursue. I have a professional interest in planned features but a > leisure interest in historic features such as > ancient roads. The OSM database could include bo

Re: [OSM-talk] Enabling communities to use OSM as a planning tool

2008-06-04 Thread Mikel Maron
Hi From: elvin ibbotson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > This topic reminded me of some thoughts I had about time-based tagging but > did not pursue. I have a professional interest in planned features but a > leisure interest in historic features such as > ancient roads. The OSM database could include bo

Re: [OSM-talk] Enabling communities to use OSM as a planning tool

2008-06-04 Thread Rory McCann
Donald Allwright wrote: > Perhaps what would be more useful would be the possibility for people to > have their own 'supplementary' database which they use to store their > own data - which they could then tag in whatever way they wish, without > affecting the main OSM database. How easy would i

Re: [OSM-talk] Enabling communities to use OSM as a planning tool

2008-06-04 Thread simon
> One thought that occurs to me is that there will be many, disparate groups > wishing to use OSM to plan stuff, only a very small proportion of which > would eventually become reality. I'm not sure if it would be appropriate > to add these features to the main OSM database. > I would also agree

Re: [OSM-talk] Enabling communities to use OSM as a planning tool

2008-06-04 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Stephen Gower wrote: > You can, of course, do what you like, but I'd urge you not to do > this without an improvement in the editors. If I come to edit near > a junction and find 15 people have sketched out how they see the > junction could be improved, that's a lot of ways that don't ren

Re: [OSM-talk] Enabling communities to use OSM as a planning tool

2008-06-04 Thread Stephen Gower
On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 08:54:53AM +0100, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote: > > This brings me to the point though. Currently we map physical features as > they exist and in some cases the alignment of known construction, what we do > not do is use OSM as a planning tool. What are people's

[OSM-talk] Enabling communities to use OSM as a planning tool

2008-06-04 Thread elvin ibbotson
This topic reminded me of some thoughts I had about time-based tagging but did not pursue. I have a professional interest in planned features but a leisure interest in historic features such as ancient roads. The OSM database could include both these types of feature but for general purpo

Re: [OSM-talk] Enabling communities to use OSM as a planning tool

2008-06-04 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Tom Chance [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Sent: 04 June 2008 11:02 AM >To: Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) >Cc: talk@openstreetmap.org >Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Enabling communities to use OSM as a planning tool > > >I've had similar thoughts for our project in Sutton (London): > >http://wiki.op

Re: [OSM-talk] Enabling communities to use OSM as a planning tool

2008-06-04 Thread Tom Chance
Hi Andy, On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 08:54:53 +0100, "Andy Robinson \(blackadder-lists\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This brings me to the point though. Currently we map physical features as > they exist and in some cases the alignment of known construction, what we > do not do is use OSM as a planning

Re: [OSM-talk] Non-nesting administrative borders (Was: National borders in the British Islands)

2008-06-04 Thread Alex S.
Stephen Gower wrote: > On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 11:42:22AM +0200, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: >> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 11:20 PM, Lester Caine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> The 'nesting' rule does not exist. We have already had enough examples of >>> where boundaries form different 'sets' of are

Re: [OSM-talk] Enabling communities to use OSM as a planning tool

2008-06-04 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Donald Allwright >Sent: 04 June 2008 9:56 AM >To: talk@openstreetmap.org >Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Enabling communities to use OSM as a planning tool > > >One thought that occurs to me is that there will be many, disparate groups >wishing to use OSM to plan stuff, only a very small proportion of whi

Re: [OSM-talk] Enabling communities to use OSM as a planning tool

2008-06-04 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
maning sambale: >Sent: 04 June 2008 9:47 AM >To: talk@openstreetmap.org >Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Enabling communities to use OSM as a planning tool > >This too is my dream, by agregating physical features done by >volunteers, we will eventually gather a very rich geospatial info than >any other map

Re: [OSM-talk] Enabling communities to use OSM as a planning tool

2008-06-04 Thread Donald Allwright
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 3:54 PM, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lat night I attended a steering group meeting for my local Connect2 [1] > project in north east Birmingham [2]. One of the things that the group could > benefit from is rapid response on mapping so that it

Re: [OSM-talk] Enabling communities to use OSM as a planning tool

2008-06-04 Thread maning sambale
This too is my dream, by agregating physical features done by volunteers, we will eventually gather a very rich geospatial info than any other mapping agency. For fairly complete areas, I believe it can now be used for planning. But as I understand (correct me if I am wrong), OSM is for mapping e

[OSM-talk] Enabling communities to use OSM as a planning tool

2008-06-04 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Lat night I attended a steering group meeting for my local Connect2 [1] project in north east Birmingham [2]. One of the things that the group could benefit from is rapid response on mapping so that it can discuss route options for the new cycle/walk routes to be built under the project. OSM is the