Re: [OSM-talk] Relation/Routes and Hikes in open Country

2008-06-27 Thread Simon Wood
On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:17:58 -0400 Christopher Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Add a 'projection: map.displayProjection' in the options of your GML > layer, by your format object. > Bingo! I didn't really follow what Christoper meant, but I mucked around with different projections and

Re: [OSM-talk] Use of landuse-tag

2008-06-27 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, > I am wondering to which kind of obsessiveness the landuse-tag is > meant to be used. Is the final stage something like a 'landuse'-layer > covering 100% of the earth? A question that is regularly and at length discussed on talk-de, talk, and the newbies list (google "site:lists.openstr

[OSM-talk] Use of landuse-tag

2008-06-27 Thread Andreas Fritsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! I am wondering to which kind of obsessiveness the landuse-tag is meant to be used. Is the final stage something like a 'landuse'-layer covering 100% of the earth? Do we cover entire villages with 'landuse=residential'? What is the need of th

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - (PSV_directions)

2008-06-27 Thread Jo
Ben Laenen schreef: > On my brainstorming page to improve the access restrictions scheme at > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Access_restrictions > I was more thinking about a access=twoway or similar tag, so what you > want to do becomes: oneway=yes; psv=twoway > Or

Re: [OSM-talk] Black and White Flyer request

2008-06-27 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, > Are the source materials available for the flyer that's available here? > http://ajr.hopto.org/osm/pr/ The source is actually right there, in SVG format. But here's a PNG version without background image: http://www.remote.org/frederik/tmp/english-flyer-grey.zip Bye Frederik -- Frederik

[OSM-talk] Black and White Flyer request

2008-06-27 Thread John McKerrell
Hi Are the source materials available for the flyer that's available here? http://ajr.hopto.org/osm/pr/ I can only print out on a grayscale printer so I could do with a version without the background for tomorrow. I'm going on a trial flight and am hoping to get the flying school interested

Re: [OSM-talk] How can we measure the completeness of the map statistically

2008-06-27 Thread Freek
On Friday 27 June 2008, Edward Johnson wrote: > I'm very intrigued by your work Freek. Thanks :-) > I'll get working on trying to reproduce something like this for the UK If you can wait for a few days, I can make some for the UK too (busy finishing my exams a.t.m.). > and then try to use the

[OSM-talk] Fw: Walking routes and OSM (again)

2008-06-27 Thread Nick Whitelegg
>> a) Get the user to click each way in turn on the slippy map. Each way >> then gets highlighted (possible via OpenLayers Vector layer). When >> finished, user clicks "Done" and can add any further comments. This >> should be fairly easy to implement - and some of the code (detecting >> the closes

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - (PSV_directions)

2008-06-27 Thread Ben Laenen
On my brainstorming page to improve the access restrictions scheme at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Access_restrictions I was more thinking about a access=twoway or similar tag, so what you want to do becomes: oneway=yes; psv=twoway Greetings Ben On Friday 27 June

Re: [OSM-talk] Walking routes and OSM (again)

2008-06-27 Thread Ben Laenen
On Friday 27 June 2008, Nick Whitelegg wrote: > a) Get the user to click each way in turn on the slippy map. Each way > then gets highlighted (possible via OpenLayers Vector layer). When > finished, user clicks "Done" and can add any further comments. This > should be fairly easy to implement - and

Re: [OSM-talk] Walking routes and OSM (again)

2008-06-27 Thread Michael Collinson
At 03:57 PM 6/27/2008, Nick Whitelegg wrote: >Hello everyone, > >Richard's comments the other day have got me strongly interested in >implementing tightly-bound (to OSM ways) walking routes in Freemap. There >are a couple of UI ways in which this could be implemented: > >a) Get the user to click ea

Re: [OSM-talk] description tag and opinions

2008-06-27 Thread Michael Collinson
At 03:51 PM 6/27/2008, Nick Whitelegg wrote: >What's the current thinking in general on what we should do with the >"description" tag? From what I gather the consensus is generally to avoid >anything which might be seen as an opinion, so far example "serves >Dunbridge Ales" might be seen as valid w

Re: [OSM-talk] Relation/Routes and Hikes in open Country

2008-06-27 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 10:59:49AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Yep that looks like it figures. I'll have to set up either a local 'http:' > > copy of the data or a proxy as you suggest. Shame though, because both of > > these make it harder for a 'mashup artist' to use relations and

Re: [OSM-talk] Relation/Routes and Hikes in open Country

2008-06-27 Thread simon
> > Yep that looks like it figures. I'll have to set up either a local 'http:' > copy of the data or a proxy as you suggest. Shame though, because both of > these make it harder for a 'mashup artist' to use relations and render > them on top of a slippy map. > Still doesn't work, and I don't spea

Re: [OSM-talk] Walking routes and OSM (again)

2008-06-27 Thread simon
>> a) Get the user to click each way in turn on the slippy map. Each way >> then >> gets highlighted (possible via OpenLayers Vector layer). When finished, >> user clicks "Done" and can add any further comments. This should be >> fairly >> easy to implement - and some of the code (detecting the cl

Re: [OSM-talk] Walking routes and OSM (again)

2008-06-27 Thread Rory McCann
Nick Whitelegg wrote: > Richard's comments the other day have got me strongly interested in > implementing tightly-bound (to OSM ways) walking routes in Freemap. There > are a couple of UI ways in which this could be implemented: This would be a great thing to have. However it doesn't have to be

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - (PSV_directions)

2008-06-27 Thread Charlie Echo
I fully agree that PSV is not the best term to use. I had to look for its meaning also. More generally speaking, there are many tags that should be adapted depending on countries. But that is not really my point. My point is that I need to tag a street which is one-way for cars, and 2-ways for

[OSM-talk] Walking routes and OSM (again)

2008-06-27 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, Richard's comments the other day have got me strongly interested in implementing tightly-bound (to OSM ways) walking routes in Freemap. There are a couple of UI ways in which this could be implemented: a) Get the user to click each way in turn on the slippy map. Each way then g

[OSM-talk] description tag and opinions

2008-06-27 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, What's the current thinking in general on what we should do with the "description" tag? From what I gather the consensus is generally to avoid anything which might be seen as an opinion, so far example "serves Dunbridge Ales" might be seen as valid whilst "serves Dunbridge Ales,

Re: [OSM-talk] How can we measure the completeness of the map statistically

2008-06-27 Thread wer-ist-roger
Am Donnerstag 26 Juni 2008 schrieb Frederik Ramm: > >     * Another hypothesis is that more complete areas of OSM will   > > have a higher level of edit activity. > > Then there are those who say that an area that's complete doesn't   > require any edit activity... That is right that "complete" ar

Re: [OSM-talk] Good example of OSM coverage - Sofija, Bulgaria

2008-06-27 Thread Christoph Eckert
Hi, > Here is the direct comparison: > http://geo.topf.org/comparison/index.html?mt0=googlemap&mt1=mapnik&lon=23.3 >32386&lat=42.6927823&z=12 well, unlike OSM, Google at least shows the city name bilingual. ;-) Cheers, ce ___ talk mailing list talk

Re: [OSM-talk] SOTM2008 Conference - The Almost Official Limericklimerick

2008-06-27 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Another poor attempt ;-) There was a mad mapper from Galway, Who'd run out of places to survey. packing his GPS, he sped to New Ross, where again he could forge a new Way. Cheers Andy >-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:talk- >[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Collins

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - (PSV_directions)

2008-06-27 Thread Alex S.
Alex L. Mauer wrote: > (I might not know offhand what "psv_directions=no" is, since psv is > not a common term around here.[..]) Nor, I think, would most from the US. When I first looked at the description ("public service vehicle") my first thought was "emergency vehicle" (police, fire, ambul

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - (PSV_directions)

2008-06-27 Thread Alex L. Mauer
Charlie Echo wrote: > The proposal you mention is a radical change in the way we would tag. We > would move from tag=value to tag:subtag:subtag=value. It's really not different in any significant way from the psv_directions proposal. The only differences: psv_directions uses an underscore inste

Re: [OSM-talk] The State of the Flags (in the State of the Map)

2008-06-27 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Iván Sánchez Ortega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > El Jueves, 26 de Junio de 2008, Dermot McNally escribió: >> > I'm wondering how many of the non-irish, non-british speakers for SotM08 >> > will bring a flag from their country. I can bring my own italian flag... ca

Re: [OSM-talk] How can we measure the completeness of the map statistically

2008-06-27 Thread Edward Johnson
> * Another hypothesis is that more complete areas of OSM will have a > higher level of edit activity. If no-one has ever edited an area then it > may be unlikely that the map is complete there, obviously however there may > just be nothing there, so this test could be used in conjunction with