[OSM-talk] Keyboard navigation defunct on informationfreeway

2008-06-05 Thread Karl Eichwalder
Keyboard navigation on informationfreeway is mostly broken once again. At least on MacOSX using Firefox. After pressing '-', '+', or 'r' the focus seems to be elsewhere and you cannot press such a key a second time. I think this is a side-effect of the "State of the Map" message overlay, that was

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

2008-06-05 Thread Dylan Semler
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 6:26 PM, David Groom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The proposed tag waterway = riverbank was approved by 13 votes to 1, with 1 > abstention. > So if I understand correctly, rivers should not be tagged as both waterway = riverbank and natural = coastline--just waterway = rive

Re: [OSM-talk] Nested areas

2008-06-05 Thread Jon Burgess
On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 19:49 +0200, spaetz wrote: > > > osmarender rules pay attention to the layer tag even when dealing with > > > areas. In this case the river is on layer=-1, and the industrial area > > > has no layer tag (so defaults to 0). osmarender is rendering all -1 > > > objects first, th

Re: [OSM-talk] Nested areas

2008-06-05 Thread spaetz
> > osmarender rules pay attention to the layer tag even when dealing with > > areas. In this case the river is on layer=-1, and the industrial area > > has no layer tag (so defaults to 0). osmarender is rendering all -1 > > objects first, then moves on to the layer 0 objects. > > This seems wrong

Re: [OSM-talk] Nested areas

2008-06-05 Thread spaetz
On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 12:10:23PM +0100, Steve Hill wrote: > As a side note, I noticed that whilst Mapnik appears to be quite good at > rendering areas (e.g. industrial landuse) under the ways, Osmarender > doesn't seem smart enough and areas sometimes obscure ways. For example, > the river is

Re: [OSM-talk] Nested areas

2008-06-05 Thread Dave Stubbs
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 5:24 PM, Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Dave Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Layer tags on areas are pure evil. The layer tag is there to indicate >> vertical separation, not to give a handy z-order hint to the rendere

Re: [OSM-talk] Nested areas

2008-06-05 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Dave Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Layer tags on areas are pure evil. The layer tag is there to indicate > vertical separation, not to give a handy z-order hint to the renderer. > So unless you do genuinely have two areas which are physically > suspended one on

Re: [OSM-talk] Nested areas

2008-06-05 Thread Steve Hill
On Thu, 5 Jun 2008, Dave Stubbs wrote: > If the 2nd area is meant to replace the 1st rather than just say > something extra about the land/water then you should probably make a > hole. Hmm.. ok. Looks like I need to investigate the multipolygon relations stuff. > osmarender rules pay attention

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch localisation

2008-06-05 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Thanks all for the offers of help! Really encouraging. I'll spend a bit of time bringing the text together and will create a wiki page for it. We can then maintain the translations through svn. More soon, hopefully. cheers Richard ___ talk mailing

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch localisation

2008-06-05 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Jochen Topf wrote: > On a related note: I created the current openstreetmap.de website which > lacks edit support. Does it make sense to integrate Potlatch into that > web page? Would it be hard to do? Sounds really good. There are three potential issues, I think. One is that Potlatch calls its

Re: [OSM-talk] More European countries on download.geofabrik.de

2008-06-05 Thread Hakan Tandogan
On Thu, June 5, 2008 09:27, Frederik Ramm wrote: > include Serbia/Croatia. Hakan, if you read this then you might want to > compare my Turkey extract with the one you use and check whether it's > right. Hi, Since I'm using simple rectangular bounding boxes for both cyprus and turkey, your data i

Re: [OSM-talk] Geofabrik planet extracts

2008-06-05 Thread Hakan Tandogan
On Sun, March 30, 2008 16:23, Frederik Ramm wrote: > I was also planning to offer alternative downloads that have a country's > full bounding box instead of the exact borders. Would that be good for > you? Hi Frederik, If you still intend to provide data with full bounding boxes, would you pleas

Re: [OSM-talk] Routable Garmin maps

2008-06-05 Thread Robert Vollmert
>> 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 which is not available for a re

[OSM-talk] Brentford Biopsy Private View Thurs 12th June from 6-8pm at Watermans Gallery

2008-06-05 Thread Christian Nold
If you live in West London you might be interested in coming along. Lots of unusual social mapping + use of Open Street Map: --- Brentford Biopsy Private View Visulising the ecological, cultural and social health of Brentford Thurs 12th June from 6-8pm at Watermans Gallery For the last 12 we

Re: [OSM-talk] Nested areas

2008-06-05 Thread Dave Stubbs
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 12:28 PM, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-06-05, Steve Hill wrote: >> Can areas be nested? > > Yes, mapped one recently > >> To a human, it is fairly obvious that a small areas which is completely >> enclosed within a larger area should take pr

Re: [OSM-talk] Nested areas

2008-06-05 Thread Dave Stubbs
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Steve Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can areas be nested? i.e. if there is a large amount of farmland with a > wooded area in the middle, can you just draw a large area for the farmland > and a smaller area within it for the wooded land, or do you have to make

Re: [OSM-talk] Nested areas

2008-06-05 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
On 2008-06-05, Steve Hill wrote: > Can areas be nested? Yes, mapped one recently > To a human, it is fairly obvious that a small areas which is completely > enclosed within a larger area should take presidence, but are the > renderers expected to understand this? I had to add a layer tag to get

[OSM-talk] Nested areas

2008-06-05 Thread Steve Hill
Can areas be nested? i.e. if there is a large amount of farmland with a wooded area in the middle, can you just draw a large area for the farmland and a smaller area within it for the wooded land, or do you have to make sure the areas don't overlap (e.g. by leaving a hole in the middle of the

[OSM-talk] Using Palm Software: CotoGPS

2008-06-05 Thread Arnaud Bocquillon
Hi all, I just discovered this very fresh and interesting project. As i want to join the community and help mapping my region, I started to search for software that fit my gps config (Palm handheld+BT338). So i found out that the best choice seems to be "cotoGPS". But as it's pretty new to me, doe

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

2008-06-05 Thread Dave Stubbs
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 9:26 PM, Jon Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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) o

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

2008-06-05 Thread Sven Geggus
AJH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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? OK, this one comes close: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bothy So this could be an extension to t

[OSM-talk] More European countries on download.geofabrik.de

2008-06-05 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, I have now added most of the missing European countries to download.geofabrik.de so you can get daily planet extracts for them. Portugal, Monaco, Greece, Belarus, Slovakia and the Czech republic are among those added. Unfortunately my national border data was too old to include Serbia/

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch localisation

2008-06-05 Thread sergio sevillano
i can help with spanish sergio Richard Fairhurst escribió: > 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

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch localisation

2008-06-05 Thread Jochen Topf
Richard, On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 12:43:46AM +0100, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > 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 > espec