Re: [OSM-talk] Campus map - Who's got a good one?

2008-10-01 Thread Andrew MacKinnon
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 12:34 AM, Jason Reid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Richard Weait wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> I had a look at campus maps on the web sites of the Big Ten Conference >> universities. I was surprised at the range in quality. See my notes >> and comparisons to how the OpenStreetMa

Re: [OSM-talk] Campus map - Who's got a good one?

2008-10-01 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Ian Dees wrote: > It might be interesting to start a "draw your campus" competition > similar to the one that Google did for its Sketchup application, but on > OSM. What d'ya think? I think we should actually ask the marketing departments of the Universities in question to arrange a donation of th

Re: [OSM-talk] Campus map - Who's got a good one?

2008-10-01 Thread Jukka Rahkonen
Richard Weait weait.com> writes: > > Dear all, > > I had a look at campus maps on the web sites of the Big Ten Conference > universities. I was surprised at the range in quality. See my notes > and comparisons to how the OpenStreetMap community is doing on each of > the campuses as well. H

Re: [OSM-talk] Campus map - Who's got a good one?

2008-10-01 Thread Tom Chance
On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:51:23 -0400, Richard Weait <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've also cast my vote for the best OSM campus map that I've seen so > far. I'd love to hear of others. http://weait.com/bestcampus Glad to see my ancient efforts at Reading up there! If only we could get some aerial

Re: [OSM-talk] Campus map - Who's got a good one?

2008-10-01 Thread wer-ist-roger
I study on a very small Campus (at "Umwelt Campus Birkenfeld"), so it wasn't that hard to get it done. By now I would say it's even more complete than the original map given by the university: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=49.6081&lon=7.16974&zoom=17&layers=B000FTF Original map from the "UCB

Re: [OSM-talk] Campus map - Who's got a good one?

2008-10-01 Thread OJ W
Nottingham: http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.93847&lon=-1.19643&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 12:51 AM, Richard Weait <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear all, > > I had a look at campus maps on the web sites of the Big Ten Conference > universities. I was surprised at the range in

Re: [OSM-talk] Campus map - Who's got a good one?

2008-10-01 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 12:42 PM, OJ W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nottingham: > http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.93847&lon=-1.19643&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF There's an area on that campus that uses natural=wood, shouldn't that be landuse=forest or is it really a natural wooden area? _

Re: [OSM-talk] Campus map - Who's got a good one?

2008-10-01 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
El Miércoles, 1 de Octubre de 2008, Richard Weait escribió: > I'd love to hear of others. The UPM webpage doesn't have a page for its three campuses, only for independent faculties: http://www.upm.es/laupm/centros/plano_etsiag.html http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=40.44206&lon=-3.72634&zoom=16&laye

Re: [OSM-talk] Campus map - Who's got a good one?

2008-10-01 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
More Spain goodness, this time from the Somosaguas UCM campus in Madrid: http://www.ucm.es/pags.php?tp=Campus%20de%20Moncloa%20y%20Somosaguas&a=localiz&d=planosom.php http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=40.4316&lon=-3.79128&zoom=17&layers=B000FFF The Vera campus, from the UPV, in Valencia: http://

Re: [OSM-talk] Campus map - Who's got a good one?

2008-10-01 Thread LeedsTracker
2008/10/1 Jonathan Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Ian Dees wrote: >> It might be interesting to start a "draw your campus" competition >> similar to the one that Google did for its Sketchup application, but on >> OSM. What d'ya think? > > I think we should actually ask the marketing departments of

[OSM-talk] map display www.openstreetmap.org

2008-10-01 Thread Ulf Mehlig
I miss two things when I visit the OpenStreetMap website map display: * a possibility to determine the coordinates of the mouse pointer (decimal or degree-min-sec or both) or a "get-coordinates-by-click" facility * map borders with coordinates The map borders would be

Re: [OSM-talk] map display www.openstreetmap.org

2008-10-01 Thread simon
You apparently can do the borders: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Browsing --- The URL form shown above will produce a map centred on the specified latitude and longitude. It is also possible to get a map that displays everything within a given bounding box: http://www.openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] map display www.openstreetmap.org

2008-10-01 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, > * a possibility to determine the coordinates of the mouse pointer > (decimal or degree-min-sec or both) or a What you can always do is go to the export tab and select the "select a different area..." option, then draw a rectangle and read its extent from the four text boxes

Re: [OSM-talk] map display www.openstreetmap.org

2008-10-01 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: > You can also use www.informationfreeway.org which gives you the mouse > pointer lat/lon in the bottom right corner. Or (magic keypress alert) you can click 'Edit' to open Potlatch, move your pointer to the right place, and press L. cheers Richard __

Re: [OSM-talk] map display www.openstreetmap.org

2008-10-01 Thread Ulf Mehlig
Thank you, Simon. I'm not sure whether we correctly understood each other; I might have been too brief in my previous email. I am less interested in somehow finding out about the coordinates limiting the current section of the map I'm viewing but in having the coordinates *displayed* on screen whil

Re: [OSM-talk] map display www.openstreetmap.org

2008-10-01 Thread simon
> * a possibility to determine the coordinates of the mouse pointer > (decimal or degree-min-sec or both) or a > "get-coordinates-by-click" facility It appears that openlayers can do this too http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/mouse-position.html So it could be implemen

Re: [OSM-talk] map display www.openstreetmap.org

2008-10-01 Thread Ulf Mehlig
Hello Frederik, thanks for your answer. The coordinate display at www.informationfreeway.org is what I was looking for. Wouldn't it be possible to integrate this function into the main OpenStreetMap site? I think this would definitely improve the attractiveness of the map display (even more, if deg

Re: [OSM-talk] Campus map - Who's got a good one?

2008-10-01 Thread Ted Mielczarek
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 4:03 AM, Andrew MacKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Don't forget University of Toronto - > http://openstreetmap.org/edit?lat=43.66328&lon=-79.39365&zoom=16 > > (shameless self promotion... that took several hours' work, walking > around campus and checking building names)

Re: [OSM-talk] Campus map - Who's got a good one?

2008-10-01 Thread Alex S.
Richard Weait wrote: > I've also cast my vote for the best OSM campus map that I've seen so > far. I'd love to hear of others. University of Washington in Seattle is coming along - all the footpaths are in place (and even named), plus campus grounds and several of the main buildings. However,

Re: [OSM-talk] Code of conduct for automated (mass-) edits

2008-10-01 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Frederik Ramm wrote: > I am in favour of setting up a code of conduct for automated edits. I have now created http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Automated_Edits with a sub-page for a "code of conduct". Feel free to modify the text until it reflects a stable consensus ;-) Bye Frederik

Re: [OSM-talk] Campus map - Who's got a good one?

2008-10-01 Thread Tom Carden
> Richard Weait wrote: >> I've also cast my vote for the best OSM campus map that I've seen so >> far. I'd love to hear of others. Berkeley looks great, all the building names are in there too: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=37.87165&lon=-122.25932&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF Tom. ___

[OSM-talk] Taiwan coastline problem

2008-10-01 Thread Louis Liu
Hi, Costline of southern Taiwan in mapnik is broken when zoom level <= 9. But it's fine when zoom level is >=10. Compare http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=22.31&lon=121.16&zoom=9&layers=B000FTF and http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=22.24&lon=120.722&zoom=10&layers=B000FTF The situation is worse in osmare

[OSM-talk] metered parking

2008-10-01 Thread Matias D'Ambrosio
I would like to mark certain streets as having metered parking, but I found no reference to it in the wiki, maybe we could decide on something? At least according to the system used in my city (Bahia Blanca, Argentina), and I think the country, this tag would apply to ways. Also, it has a time