Re: [OSM-talk] Dear Fake SteveC

Frederik Ramm wrote: >Sent: 15 July 2008 11:07 PM >To: talk@openstreetmap.org >Subject: [OSM-talk] Dear Fake SteveC > >Dear Fake SteveC, > > liked your work a lot. Not surprised that you're throwing in the >towel, happened to every blog I started until now as well. But if you >really must go, the

Re: [OSM-talk] Josm: bug in Simplify Way?

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 11:26:39PM +0200, Niccolo Rigacci wrote: > > Don't rely on automated simplifiers for conversion of GPS data, do it by > > hand. > > Why not? > > I suppose the algorithm is well known and definited: nodes should > be removed only if the semplified way does not diverge by

[OSM-talk] Dear Fake SteveC

Dear Fake SteveC, liked your work a lot. Not surprised that you're throwing in the towel, happened to every blog I started until now as well. But if you really must go, then do post your blog password on the Wiki for someone else to take up the mantle. Come on, you're an *institution*! Bye

Re: [OSM-talk] suggestion for SOTM09

2008/7/15 Iván Sánchez Ortega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'll start working on my 12 MB worth of traces... That "Saint Stephen's Green" > in Dublin needs some work. It sure does. The paths in there as mapped date back to the first mapping party and were sampled from IIRC an armband-mounted SIRFIII lo

Re: [OSM-talk] suggestion for SOTM09

El Martes, 15 de Julio de 2008, Dermot McNally escribió: > 2008/7/15 Nick Whitelegg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Yes, and somewhere with good walking / nice scenery (=mapping party?) > > would be good. Black Forest or Alps maybe? Or southern France or a > > mountainous area of Spain or Italy? I'll be

Re: [OSM-talk] Fieldwork in Grenada

Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote: > I don't know if this source is of any additional help: > > http://unosat.web.cern.ch/unosat/asp/prod_free.asp?id=53 These are all lower-res than the Yahoo imagery, so I don't think so. :-( But thanks for looking :-) Gerv _

Re: [OSM-talk] Fieldwork in Grenada

Rob wrote: > Is the map [1] on the Grenada wiki [2] free of copyrights ? i think > not but maybe someone knows > > 1. http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/americas/grenada.gif That's from the UTexas map collection, which is OK to use unless labelled clearly otherwise (according to their copyright state

[OSM-talk] R: Re: Italy Video and cats

Andy: they're not orange, but we do have some cats at the end of another video. In case you missed this from the end of January: http://www.youtube. com/watch?v=WHNwCBqQHtY ...however they were kind of shy and declined our request for an interview, as you will see. Regards! Andrea Giacomel

Re: [OSM-talk] tagging peat bogs in ireland

On 7/15/08, Dermot McNally <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That looks perfect. In practice, you'll probably find it difficult to > map a bog as a whole, rather it's the big empty brown bit that you'll > generally end up mapping. Agreed. > It certainly is. In traditional use, cuboid sections of pea

Re: [OSM-talk] suggestion for SOTM09

I'd just like to point out before someone mentions more exotic places like the moon or mars that its not the place that really dictates where you host the event, it's the people that will put in the hours and hours to make it happen. Getting the right team together with a strong local presence pl

Re: [OSM-talk] Italy Video

Simone Cortesi wrote: >Sent: 15 July 2008 3:46 PM >To: Frederik Ramm >Cc: osm Talk >Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Italy Video > >On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 9:32 AM, Frederik Ramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> John McKerrell wrote: >>> Does anyone have the link for that great video shown during the "State

Re: [OSM-talk] tagging peat bogs in ireland

2008/7/15 Tim Waters (chippy) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > There is this: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Surface_Mining > > But I don't think it covers the "bog" as a whole. Perhaps a big > polygon natural=lowland_bog and within that, areas of > landuse=surface_mining with

Re: [OSM-talk] tagging peat bogs in ireland

On 7/15/08, Dermot McNally <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To expand on this - because it's something I've wondered about myself > - when tagging as seen on-the-ground, there's a big difference between > a bog being used commercially and a normal, untouched bog. The > commercially-worked ones have

Re: [OSM-talk] Italy Video

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 9:32 AM, Frederik Ramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John McKerrell wrote: >> Does anyone have the link for that great video shown during the "State >> of Italy" talk? > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZOQSn5tyqQ If there is any need I'd like to provide a better resolutio

Re: [OSM-talk] suggestion for SOTM09

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Nick Whitelegg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, and somewhere with good walking / nice scenery (=mapping party?) > would be good. Black Forest or Alps maybe? Or southern France or a > mountainous area of Spain or Italy? I was going to submit Trento to held next y

Re: [OSM-talk] suggestion for SOTM09

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 03:12:19PM +0100, Grant Slater wrote: > > Nowadays, there are plenty of airlines that allow you to offset > > the carbon output of your trip. I am not yet aware of train companies > > offering the same, so the treehugger in you might still prefer to fly? > http://www.eurosta

Re: [OSM-talk] tagging peat bogs in ireland

2008/7/15 Tim Waters (chippy) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > as some of us have been out mapping the Irish countryside, we've come > across peat bogs. Lowland peat bogs mainly, often being used for turf > extraction (for fuel, or peat for garden centres etc). > > Anyone mapped these already? What t

Re: [OSM-talk] suggestion for SOTM09

2008/7/15 Nick Whitelegg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Yes, and somewhere with good walking / nice scenery (=mapping party?) > would be good. Black Forest or Alps maybe? Or southern France or a > mountainous area of Spain or Italy? Austria sounds like a possibility here - it could also do with some extr

Re: [OSM-talk] suggestion for SOTM09

bvh wrote: > Nowadays, there are plenty of airlines that allow you to offset > the carbon output of your trip. I am not yet aware of train companies > offering the same, so the treehugger in you might still prefer to fly? > > http://www.eurostar.com/UK/uk/leisure/about_eurostar/environment/off_

Re: [OSM-talk] suggestion for SOTM09

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 02:08:55PM +0100, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > > fwiw location-wise I would prefer somewhere more easily and cheaply > > accessible by most people that would like to come than I expect GC > > would be. > Being a bit of a tree-hugger at heart, I'd prefer somewhere in > mainla

[OSM-talk] tagging peat bogs in ireland

Hi, as some of us have been out mapping the Irish countryside, we've come across peat bogs. Lowland peat bogs mainly, often being used for turf extraction (for fuel, or peat for garden centres etc). Anyone mapped these already? What tags do you use? It's certainly natural, sometimes protected, an

Re: [OSM-talk] suggestion for SOTM09

>Daniel Glassey wrote: >> fwiw location-wise I would prefer somewhere more easily and cheaply >> accessible by most people that would like to come than I expect GC >> would be. >Being a bit of a tree-hugger at heart, I'd prefer somewhere in >mainland Europe easily accessible by train. >cheers >

Re: [OSM-talk] suggestion for SOTM09

And a veritable tra(i)norak! Steve Chilton, Learning Support Fellow Manager of e-Learning Academic Development Centre for Learning and Quality Enhancement Middlesex University phone/fax: 020 8411 5355 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mdx.ac.uk/schools/hssc/staff/profiles/technical/chiltons.asp

Re: [OSM-talk] suggestion for SOTM09

Daniel Glassey wrote: > fwiw location-wise I would prefer somewhere more easily and cheaply > accessible by most people that would like to come than I expect GC > would be. Being a bit of a tree-hugger at heart, I'd prefer somewhere in mainland Europe easily accessible by train. cheers Richard

Re: [OSM-talk] Metro Manila Philippines needs some OSM love

Philip Shipley wrote: > > > > >>I have started this section on this page: > > >>http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Yahoo!_Aerial_Imagery#Problems_with_tracing_Yahoo > > > >>Many of

Re: [OSM-talk] suggestion for SOTM09

On 2008-07-15, Daniel Glassey wrote: > 2008/7/15 Frederik Ramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi, > > > >> Gran Canaria. The GNOME and KDE free desktop conferences are jointly > >> being held there Friday, July, 3rd until Saturday, July 11th 2009. > >> > >> So I think it would be great if SOTM could be t

Re: [OSM-talk] Metro Manila Philippines needs some OSM love

> > >>I have started this section on this page: > >> > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Yahoo!_Aerial_Imagery#Problems_with_tracing_Yahoo > >>Many of the suggestions require ground knowledge. Reading the section pointed to above, it states "Roads are unnamed, so the highway=road tag shoul

[OSM-talk] landuse=market, proposed tag

hi, I have added some comments and suggestions in this page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Marketplace could we have comments - this is a very important tag for mapping Indian towns. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nrcfo

Re: [OSM-talk] suggestion for SOTM09

2008/7/15 Frederik Ramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > >> Gran Canaria. The GNOME and KDE free desktop conferences are jointly >> being held there Friday, July, 3rd until Saturday, July 11th 2009. > >> So I think it would be great if SOTM could be there, say, Sat 11th-Sun >> 12th. > > Nothing against

Re: [OSM-talk] Metro Manila Philippines needs some OSM love

maning sambale wrote: Isn't that what the highway=road tag is for? > Yes or this tag. > > I'll warn that sometimes the usage of Yahoo imagery can slow down later editing. > It can be but Yahoo is currently our best option for now. > Any specific instan

Re: [OSM-talk] Italy Video

Hi, John McKerrell wrote: > Does anyone have the link for that great video shown during the "State > of Italy" talk? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZOQSn5tyqQ Bye Frederik ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org

[OSM-talk] Italy Video

Hi Does anyone have the link for that great video shown during the "State of Italy" talk? The one about "Everybody's talking about GIS, GIS talks about everybody" (I think that was it). I saw Mikel's slides had a link to youtube in the references at the end but I haven't found his slides y

Re: [OSM-talk] suggestion for SOTM09

Hi, > Gran Canaria. The GNOME and KDE free desktop conferences are jointly > being held there Friday, July, 3rd until Saturday, July 11th 2009. > So I think it would be great if SOTM could be there, say, Sat 11th-Sun 12th. Nothing against Gran Canaria at all but I don't see a lot of value in do

Re: [OSM-talk] Great SOTM08 so thinking ahead ...

80n wrote: > The coastline looks ok from here: > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=27.987&lon=-15.521&zoom=10&layers=0B0FTF > Toggle to mapnik But keep your feet up ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL