[OSM-talk] best practice examples in the wiki

2008-10-20 Thread Joe Richards
It would be useful if there were some common mapping scenarios in the wiki, as a library of examples of common problems encountered and their efficient solution, almost like a story rather than a tag dictionary. This could include information like: * the way the data was captured (type of GPS

[OSM-talk] missing tiles at osmarender

2008-10-20 Thread maning sambale
There are some missing tiles at osmarender http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=14.6365&lon=121.1&zoom=14&layers=0B00FTF Checking the data layer, that data is there. cheers, maning -- |-|--| | __.-._ |"Ohhh. Great warrior. Wars not m

Re: [OSM-talk] barrier=gate, run a script?

2008-10-20 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Matthias Julius wrote: > IMHO, if someone has the authority to put something on Map Features > someone also has the authority to change or remove something or mark > it as deprecated. Map Features is a documentation of what is used, not of what someone thinks should be used. There is a rath

Re: [OSM-talk] barrier=gate, run a script?

2008-10-20 Thread Matthias Julius
Frederik Ramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There is no authority in OSM that has the power to mark anything as > deprecated. IMHO, if someone has the authority to put something on Map Features someone also has the authority to change or remove something or mark it as deprecated. > > I have mod

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] TIGER 2007, first OSM data

2008-10-20 Thread Ian Dees
I created a first stab at the wiki page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/TIGER_2007 ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] TIGER 2007, first OSM data

2008-10-20 Thread Dave Hansen
I'm trying to share early and often. :) Here's the first output from my new TIGER 2007 script. I used shp2osm.pl from SVN and added a perl port of a chunk of the ruby code from the original TIGER import. http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~daveh/tiger/2007/OR-Sherman.osm.bz2 This doesn't have any of

Re: [OSM-talk] barrier=gate, run a script?

2008-10-20 Thread 80n
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 9:38 PM, Frederik Ramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Matthias Julius wrote: > > Anyway, after a tag has been removed from Map Features > > Of course nobody would remove a tag from Map Features as long as it is > still widely used! It seems that User:Sergionaranja was

[OSM-talk] Manchester mapping party - any spare GPSs?

2008-10-20 Thread Farzaneh Sarafraz
Hi, I would like to attend the Manchester mapping party, but do not have a GPS at the moment. Anyone has a spare for this w/e? Farzaneh. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Starting Repository For Public Domain OSM Data

2008-10-20 Thread Sunburned Surveyor
"Perhaps PD is not as simple as it seems at first sight." True. But its got to be simpler than viral share-alike. :] The Sunburned Surveyor On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 2:12 PM, 80n <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Jordan S Hatcher > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On p

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Starting Repository For Public Domain OSM Data

2008-10-20 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, 80n wrote: > Perhaps PD is not as simple as it seems at first sight. The thing that is simple about PD is what contributors want - they simply want to make the data available to anyone, forever, without restrictions of any kind, full stop. You will not find a single use case where one PD a

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Starting Repository For Public Domain OSM Data

2008-10-20 Thread 80n
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Jordan S Hatcher < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On picking a PD dedication/licence: > > On 16 Oct 2008, at 20:08, Kari Pihkala wrote: > > I created a wiki page for the public domain map, have a look at > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Public_Domain_Map .

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Starting Repository For Public Domain OSM Data

2008-10-20 Thread 80n
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Peter Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >What does OSM Foundation think about the PD repository? Would it make > sense > >to host both licences under the name OpenStreetMap or would it be > >confusing? How much OSMF wants to be part of the PD version? After all >

Re: [OSM-talk] GPS routing using OpenStreetMap data?

2008-10-20 Thread Alex S.
Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote: > On Mon, October 20, 2008 10:52, Valent Turkovic wrote: >> Are there any applications (on linux preferably) that use >> OpenStreetMap maps and give standard GPS routing functions like >> commercial car GPS units? > > Navit, GPSdrive, gosmore. You can also put OSM data i

Re: [OSM-talk] Tiger 2007 Data

2008-10-20 Thread vegard
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 12:27:27PM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote: > On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 09:43 +0200, vegard wrote: > > > > I see it like this: What could be very useful to have, is a mapping > > between tiger data (old set) and OSM data. It could be to late for this > > round, but an external_id:tige

Re: [OSM-talk] barrier=gate, run a script?

2008-10-20 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Matthias Julius wrote: > Anyway, after a tag has been removed from Map Features Of course nobody would remove a tag from Map Features as long as it is still widely used! It seems that User:Sergionaranja was unclear about this and has accidentally removed highway=gate and others from Map Fe

Re: [OSM-talk] Tiger 2007 Data

2008-10-20 Thread Dave Hansen
On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 09:43 +0200, vegard wrote: > On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 10:54:55AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote: > > Has anyone looked at importing the TIGER 2007 data yet? I was going to > > start coding up the conversion utilities to get started. It appears > > that this shapefile format may hav

Re: [OSM-talk] Tiger 2007 Data

2008-10-20 Thread Dave Hansen
On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 09:21 +0200, Lambertus wrote: > Any idea about the differences between the Tiger data in the OSM db and > this new set? By that I mean: is it just road network updates or is the > data also better defined? The current tiger data in the db may look > alright on a map, but ro

Re: [OSM-talk] barrier=gate, run a script?

2008-10-20 Thread Matthias Julius
David Earl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If I were a tool author (which I am, of course, but namefinder is not > interested in gates; however the same principle applies to any > "deprecated" tag), for a widely used tag I would feel I needed leave the > old one in indefinitely for backward compa

Re: [OSM-talk] Tiger 2007 Data

2008-10-20 Thread Lukasz Szybalski
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 2:43 AM, vegard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 10:54:55AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote: >> Has anyone looked at importing the TIGER 2007 data yet? I was going to >> start coding up the conversion utilities to get started. It appears >> that this shapefile

Re: [OSM-talk] barrier=gate, run a script?

2008-10-20 Thread David Earl
On 20/10/2008 18:27, Matthias Julius wrote: > "Dave Stubbs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> The real question to ask here is what the "clean-up" is meant to >> achieve? Especially when the new tag does not really interfere with >> the old tag, what does forcibly removing the old tag actually get

Re: [OSM-talk] barrier=gate, run a script?

2008-10-20 Thread Matthias Julius
"Dave Stubbs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The real question to ask here is what the "clean-up" is meant to > achieve? Especially when the new tag does not really interfere with > the old tag, what does forcibly removing the old tag actually get you? > Perhaps a cleaner data model, or a smaller p

[OSM-talk] What happend to the tube line overlay map?

2008-10-20 Thread Robert (Jamie) Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 About 18 months ago, Artem demonstrated a map of London with coloured tube lines in an overlay: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2007-May/014185.html The map mentioned in the post doesn't seem to be working any more: http://media.mapnik.o

Re: [OSM-talk] APIs down?

2008-10-20 Thread Simone Cortesi
No, I mean: relation structure, information inside tag\value pair, not talking about accuracy of them. -S On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Skywave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you mean with " taking in to account borders data already deployed in > Openstreetmap", that you will keep the existin

Re: [OSM-talk] APIs down?

2008-10-20 Thread Skywave
Do you mean with " taking in to account borders data already deployed in Openstreetmap", that you will keep the existing ones based on VMAP?. That data is crap (i imported it a long time ago), at least in Southern-France and anywhere else i looked. So i think the Italian data will be better. Thoma

Re: [OSM-talk] OsmXapi and semicolons

2008-10-20 Thread 80n
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 10:43 AM, Kai Krueger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I was using OsmXapi today to try and get a set of bus_stops however > there seem to be inconsistencies with the encoding of some of the > semicolons. > > for example calling wget > > http://xapi.openstreetmap.org/ap

Re: [OSM-talk] APIs down?

2008-10-20 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 3:28 PM, 80n <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Milenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> All of my clients are currently failing to download data from any of the >> APIs. Are they really down, or do I have some other problem? Main API >> reports

Re: [OSM-talk] barrier=gate, run a script?

2008-10-20 Thread Ed Loach
Raphael suggested: > Whats about a clean-up-day? > At a given day, every year/quarter/month, all "deprecating" > tags will > be converted. > With a list about which tags this will would be for the next > clean-up-day. So there is a chance for doing this by hand in > your > region. I'm still not c

Re: [OSM-talk] barrier=gate, run a script?

2008-10-20 Thread Dave Stubbs
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Raphael Studer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > >>> sergio sevillano wrote: the key:barrier has been approved and thus the highway=gate now belongs to barrier *barrier=gate * shall we run a script to do this? >>> >>> No, because this would

Re: [OSM-talk] APIs down?

2008-10-20 Thread 80n
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Milenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All of my clients are currently failing to download data from any of the > APIs. Are they really down, or do I have some other problem? Main API > reports a 500 Internal Server Error, ROMA gives a 503 Service Temporarily > Un

Re: [OSM-talk] barrier=gate, run a script?

2008-10-20 Thread Raphael Studer
Hi, >> sergio sevillano wrote: >>> the key:barrier has been approved and thus the highway=gate now belongs >>> to barrier >>> *barrier=gate * >>> >>> shall we run a script to do this? >> >> No, because this would break existing rendering. First make sure the new >> tag is supported by the majority

[OSM-talk] APIs down?

2008-10-20 Thread Milenko
All of my clients are currently failing to download data from any of the APIs. Are they really down, or do I have some other problem? Main API reports a 500 Internal Server Error, ROMA gives a 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable, and XAPI gives 501 Internal Server Error. -Jeremy __

Re: [OSM-talk] barrier=gate, run a script?

2008-10-20 Thread Andy Allan
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 9:49 PM, Frederik Ramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > sergio sevillano wrote: >> the key:barrier has been approved and thus the highway=gate now belongs >> to barrier >> *barrier=gate * >> >> shall we run a script to do this? > > No, because this would break existing r

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenCycleMap questions

2008-10-20 Thread Andy Allan
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 9:52 PM, Ryszard Mikke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Should I ask them here or is there some other list/forum? There's no list or forum devoted to OpenCycleMap - but feel free to ask your questions here. Cheers, Andy ___ talk mai

Re: [OSM-talk] How to reset JOSM password?

2008-10-20 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 19 Oct 2008, at 14:56, Simone Cortesi wrote: On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Moshe Sayag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: After not using josm for a month or two I am no longer able to upload new data. The authentication fails and I can't figure why. Where can I reset the password? I found wh

Re: [OSM-talk] GPS routing using OpenStreetMap data?

2008-10-20 Thread Valent Turkovic
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:02 AM, Iván Sánchez Ortega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, October 20, 2008 10:52, Valent Turkovic wrote: >> Are there any applications (on linux preferably) that use >> OpenStreetMap maps and give standard GPS routing functions like >> commercial car GPS units? >

Re: [OSM-talk] GPS routing using OpenStreetMap data?

2008-10-20 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
On Mon, October 20, 2008 10:52, Valent Turkovic wrote: > Are there any applications (on linux preferably) that use > OpenStreetMap maps and give standard GPS routing functions like > commercial car GPS units? Navit, GPSdrive, gosmore. You can also put OSM data into just any commercial Garmin-bran

[OSM-talk] GPS routing using OpenStreetMap data?

2008-10-20 Thread Valent Turkovic
Are there any applications (on linux preferably) that use OpenStreetMap maps and give standard GPS routing functions like commercial car GPS units? Cheers, Valent. -- http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/ linux, blog, anime, spirituality, windsurf, wireless registered as user #367004 with the Linux

Re: [OSM-talk] roundabout vs miniround about

2008-10-20 Thread Pieren
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 6:56 PM, Joe Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think you have to add oneway=yes too > highway tag with junction=roundabout is probably the single highway case where "oneway" is true by default. Pieren ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] Asus eee and OpenStreetMap

2008-10-20 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
On Mon, October 20, 2008 09:48, elvin ibbotson wrote: > Agreed, the eee is great (almost as nice as the Acer Aspire One which > I use) but who wants all that hassle with Linux configurations and > lugging around even a tiny laptop (especially on your bike!) when you > can just use your phone to lo

Re: [OSM-talk] Asus eee and OpenStreetMap

2008-10-20 Thread elvin ibbotson
Valent Turkovic wrote: ... Asus eee 701 is cheap and great little and very portable laptop - just perfect for mapping! I hope you find this howto helpful. ... If you have bluetooth GPS dongle that you have laying around, or can borrow one from somebody, and like driving a bike or a car around

Re: [OSM-talk] Tiger 2007 Data

2008-10-20 Thread vegard
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 10:54:55AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote: > Has anyone looked at importing the TIGER 2007 data yet? I was going to > start coding up the conversion utilities to get started. It appears > that this shapefile format may have existing OSM converters out there. > Anyone want to adm

Re: [OSM-talk] Georeferencing images WAS ping OpenAerialMap

2008-10-20 Thread Jukka Rahkonen
David Groom pacific-rim.net> writes: > > From: "andrew" sylva.icuklive.co.uk> > > I've some aerial photos that I need to find how to georeference, 4MB > > jpegs and 17 overlapping tiles, is there a program you can > > recommend? > > > > Andrew Heggie > > > > How about Quantum GIS with the g

Re: [OSM-talk] Tiger 2007 Data

2008-10-20 Thread Lambertus
Any idea about the differences between the Tiger data in the OSM db and this new set? By that I mean: is it just road network updates or is the data also better defined? The current tiger data in the db may look alright on a map, but routing wise it is a real mess. Dave Hansen wrote: > Has anyo