Re: [OSM-talk] SVG / PNG map icons

2008-09-06 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
These all look very consistent and will come in very useful for someone making renderings, a problem with some of the current iconsets that has been mentioned is their inconsistency. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap

Re: [OSM-talk] SVG / PNG map icons

2008-09-06 Thread Frank Sautter
Brian Quinion schrieb: > These are released as Public Domain as of now but are still a work in > progress - there are still many icons to draw - but I felt we now had > enough that we should let people know what we are doing. could you please add a license file to the root directory of your icon fi

Re: [OSM-talk] SVG / PNG map icons

2008-09-06 Thread Brian Quinion
> could you please add a license file to the root directory of your icon files Doh! Now done. >> A lot of them are based on existing map icons, US Park icons or other >> PD sources (we are not interested in reinventing the wheel) many >> others are brand new. Some we are happy with, others sti

[OSM-talk] How to revert ?

2008-09-06 Thread Nic Roets
This roundabout used to be perfect, with layers and everything. Now it's rubbish. Even some of the nodes are gone. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-25.77304&lon=28.19906&zoom=17&layers=B00FTF We badly need a 'wayback machine'. I still have the original data but it's in 0.4 format. http://wiki.o

Re: [OSM-talk] How to revert ?

2008-09-06 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Nic Roets wrote: > This roundabout used to be perfect, with layers and everything. Now it's > rubbish. Even some of the nodes are gone. Hm, I have reverted the changes made by "thebigfatgeek" in the 10 minutes that were spent editing that area, but I think this has made matters worse - it

Re: [OSM-talk] Opencyclemap commended in BCS Awards

2008-09-06 Thread Nick Black
Steve - are there any more details / photos etc about this? Nick On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Andy Allan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'll give my public thanks to Steve here, not only for collecting the > award but also for the original mapnik layer on which the cycle map > was originally bas

Re: [OSM-talk] Opencyclemap commended in BCS Awards

2008-09-06 Thread Steve Chilton
Nick I have asked organisers to send me the photo of the presentation and the citation text as soon as possible. It will also eventually appear here: http://www.cartography.org.uk/default.asp?contentID=579 Cheers STEVE -Original Message- From: Nick Black [mailto:[EMAI

[OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap routing service

2008-09-06 Thread Lambertus
A few hours ago a new version of the OpenStreetMap Routing Service has come online. I think is has evolved enough to go public 'officially'... The (yet another, I know) OpenStreetMap Routing Service is linking together off-the-shelf software such as Gosmore routing engine, Gazetteer namefinder ser

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap routing service

2008-09-06 Thread Ulf Lamping
Lambertus schrieb: > I hope this effort in collecting readily available software will be useful > in validating/improving the data, inspire further software developement and > attract new contributors. Please give it a try and tell me what you think: > > http://tile.openstreetmap.nl/~lambertus/rou

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap routing service

2008-09-06 Thread leblatt
I just tried it in my (newly mapped) area. Kudos, first routing service that works for me, and the interface is nice. Only critic I see, is that more emphasis could be but on choosing larger ways when several are available. Like, choose a secondary instead of an unclassified if it makes the trip ju

Re: [OSM-talk] How to revert ?

2008-09-06 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Nic Roets wrote: This roundabout used to be perfect, with layers and everything. Now it's rubbish. Even some of the nodes are gone. http://www.openstreetmap.org/? lat=-25.77304&lon=28.19906&zoom=17&layers=B00FTF We badly need a 'wayback machine'. We already have one for small-scale local

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap routing service

2008-09-06 Thread Lester Caine
Lambertus wrote: > A few hours ago a new version of the OpenStreetMap Routing Service has come > online. I think is has evolved enough to go public 'officially'... Interesting choice of routes when going north up the M6 but I'm sure at times that taking the back roads would be quicker ;) -- Les

Re: [OSM-talk] Coastline?

2008-09-06 Thread Michal Migurski
Thanks, Is this the main site? http://hypercube.telascience.org/~kleptog/ It's not immediately obvious from the wiki. Could those shapefiles be available via the planet directory? -mike. On Sep 5, 2008, at 3:55 AM, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > The coastline checker as a side effe

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap routing service

2008-09-06 Thread osm
> Some nitpicking (using FF3 on WinXP) > > One thing annoyed me while playing around: disabling the edit text > fields while waiting for namefinder and routing results is confusing - > more than once I wasn't sure what's going on! > The site supports only one simultaneous AJAX call at the moment

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap routing service

2008-09-06 Thread osm
On Sat, 6 Sep 2008 18:31:38 +0200, "leblatt" <> wrote: > Only critic I see, is that more emphasis could be but on choosing larger > ways when several are available. Like, choose a secondary instead of an > unclassified if it makes the trip just a bit longer, but much easier and > safer. I've notic

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap routing service

2008-09-06 Thread osm
On Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:47:00 +0100, Lester Caine <> wrote: > Interesting choice of routes when going north up the M6 but I'm sure at > times > that taking the back roads would be quicker ;) > Do you have an example (using the Permalink) that gives a 'faulty' route? There are several possibilitie

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap routing service

2008-09-06 Thread Nic Roets
Gosmore doesn't yet support maxspeed. Nor does it prefer straight roads over twisting roads. It would be helpful if there is a standardized format on the wiki for specifying default access restrictions, default speeds etc. (Routing cheat sheet) Then I will know what to implement and mappers will k

[OSM-talk] amenity=recycling

2008-09-06 Thread leblatt
I Consider recycling should be encouraged, and I map a recycling point when I come across one. But I find it abnormally tedious to tag the type of goods that can be recycled. This information should have been made easier to tag. For instance, instead of : amenity=recycling recycling:cans=yes

Re: [OSM-talk] amenity=recycling

2008-09-06 Thread Douglas Furlong
2008/9/6 leblatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I Consider recycling should be encouraged, and I map a recycling point > when I come across one. But I find it abnormally tedious to tag the type of > goods that can be recycled. This information should have been made easier to > tag. For instance, instead o

Re: [OSM-talk] amenity=recycling

2008-09-06 Thread Chris Hill
leblatt wrote: > > I Consider recycling should be encouraged, and I map a recycling point > when I come across one. But I find it abnormally tedious to tag the > type of goods that can be recycled. This information should have been > made easier to tag. For instance, instead of : > > amenity=rec

[OSM-talk] Can't find a road (that does exist)

2008-09-06 Thread Douglas Furlong
High When using the name finder, and I search for "Hay Lane", it finds one entry for the US, but is unable to find the road in the UK. However, if I use the post code, (NW9 0NA), it finds the road "Hay Lane" in the UK with out any problems. What is the reason for this disparity?

Re: [OSM-talk] amenity=recycling

2008-09-06 Thread Chris Hill
Chris Hill wrote: > leblatt wrote: >> >> I Consider recycling should be encouraged, and I map a recycling >> point when I come across one. But I find it abnormally tedious to tag >> the type of goods that can be recycled. This information should have >> been made easier to tag. For instance, ins

[OSM-talk] Access restrictions: hazardous material & other details

2008-09-06 Thread Norbert Wenzel
Hi, I just mapped a street and did not find a proper access tag. The sign can be found in Wikimedia Commons [0]. It says it is forbidden to drive with hazardous material. I don't think I'm the first one to map such streets, since those signs are relatively common, so Is there any solution how

Re: [OSM-talk] Opencyclemap commended in BCS Awards

2008-09-06 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, 2008-09-06 at 14:28 +0100, Nick Black wrote: > Steve - are there any more details / photos etc about this? Hear, hear! I've added the news of this award to my presentation on Monday (Kitchener-Waterloo Linux User Group) and would love to have a photo of Steve accepting, or Andy holding th

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap routing service

2008-09-06 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, 2008-09-06 at 17:06 +0200, Lambertus wrote: > A few hours ago a new version of the OpenStreetMap Routing Service has come > online. I think is has evolved enough to go public 'officially'... Bravo, Lambertus! This also seems much faster than when I was looking at it yesterday. _

[OSM-talk] Four cheers for OSM

2008-09-06 Thread Richard Weait
Bravo! OSMers. In the last few days I've been brushing up my presentation slides for an Introduction to OpenStreetMap talk that I'm giving on Monday. I also gave the talk about two weeks ago and these are things that I just have to bring to the attention of these new potential OSM enthusiasts.