There is an article in Linux Weekly News about Openstreetmap:
http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/304218/5ae21e1272da02ab/
Commentors are usually very sane over there so the comments might be
worth giving some intelligent and loving clearifications.
/Erik
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Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote:
> I also have one in the centre of Sutton Coldfield. Think when I
> mapped it
> (ages and ages ago) I made it two separate ways which obviously
> isn't right.
> So interested to hear what people think.
+1. There's one in Worcester. Except it's labelled
On 23/10/2008 09:00, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
> Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote:
>
>> I also have one in the centre of Sutton Coldfield. Think when I
>> mapped it
>> (ages and ages ago) I made it two separate ways which obviously
>> isn't right.
>> So interested to hear what people thin
Hi mappers :-)
Do you have an hour to spare before Saturday?
Would you like to be part of the Manchester Mapping Party [1] but can't get
there this weekend?
If so then it would be really cool if you could do a little tracing in
Manchester to help some new users try out this mapping thing. Hopeful
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 2:14 AM, Matthias Julius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If the two names or spellings of the name are equal in preference they
> should both be included in the "name" tag, IMHO.
>
> I don't know any example, but if you search long enough you might find
> a road with three name
"Andy Robinson \(blackadder-lists\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We would suggest you limit the tracing to simply marking the roads and
> applying an unclassified tag plus any notable buildings or points of
> interest that are obvious.
Should the traced roads not be tagged as "road" instead of
un
David Earl wrote:
>Sent: 23 October 2008 9:25 AM
>To: Richard Fairhurst
>Cc: osm
>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Contraflow bus lane
>
>On 23/10/2008 09:00, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
>> Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote:
>>
>>> I also have one in the centre of Sutton Coldfield. Think when I
>>> mapped
Christoph Boehme wrote:
>Sent: 23 October 2008 9:41 AM
>To: talk@openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Calling all Yahoo! tracers. Manchester, UK needs
>you before Saturday!
>
>"Andy Robinson \(blackadder-lists\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> We would suggest you limit the tracing to simply m
On 23/10/2008 01:14, Matthias Julius wrote:
> I don't know any example, but if you search long enough you might find
> a road with three names. What do you do then? "another_alt_name"?
You already know the conventional answer: "alt_name=name1; name2"
David
Hi List
This is my second attempt :)
I have my road data in shapefile and want to load that into OSM - any help
or direction would be appreciated.
Andre
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On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Andre Schoonbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Hi List
> This is my second attempt :)
>
> I have my road data in shapefile and want to load that into OSM - any help
> or direction would be appreciate
Hi,
waypoints.ph the premiere volunteer driven travel site of the Philippines
"what's-a-nice-place-and-how-to-get-there"
Now uses openstreetmap for some of their destinations.
Example
waypoint narrative: http://waypoints.ph/detail_gen.php?wpt=dangwa
waypoint map: http://waypoints.ph/vmap.php?wpt
Hi,
On 23.10.2008, at 11:34, Andre Schoonbee wrote:
> I have my road data in shapefile and want to load that into OSM -
> any help
> or direction would be appreciated.
What do you mean by "want to load that into OSM". Do you want to
upload your data to the OSM server?
Bye
Frederik
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Ho do I execute the file?
Have tried the following command in Fedora (after chmod 777)
./shp2osm.pl namroads.shp > namroads.osm
Regards
Andre
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into OSM". Do you want to
upload your data to the OSM server?
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I notice there is increasing use of a tag brand=... for things like
shops, fuel, banks, atms etc. This seems like a good idea to me, as the
name of something ("Murkets Corner filling station") can be different
from its branding ("Shell"). Often you'd use them interchangeable
("Starbucks" doesn'
I have been using myself the operator=tag for this kind of stuff. Any
opinion if brand= is more suitable than operator+.
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 1:05 PM, David Earl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> I notice there is increasing use of a tag brand=... for things like
> shops, fuel, banks, atms etc. This
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 12:05 PM, David Earl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I notice there is increasing use of a tag brand=... for things like
> shops, fuel, banks, atms etc. This seems like a good idea to me, as the
> name of something ("Murkets Corner filling station") can be different
> from its
hi,
I was trying to run WhereAmI with the nokia E71 - the problem is that the map
is not getting downloaded - just a plain message saying 'download failed'.
Any clues as to what reason for this could be?
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On 23 Oct 2008, at 12:18, Dave Stubbs wrote:
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 12:05 PM, David Earl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
I notice there is increasing use of a tag brand=... for things like
shops, fuel, banks, atms etc. This seems like a good idea to me, as
the
name of something ("Murkets Corne
Skywave wrote:
> I have been using myself the operator=tag for this kind of stuff. Any
> opinion if brand= is more suitable than operator+.
Even though the differentiation might be a thin line, but they are two
different things. Just consider franchise concepts
The operator of a patrol station i
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 12:45 PM, Hendrik T. Voelker
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Skywave wrote:
>> I have been using myself the operator=tag for this kind of stuff. Any
>> opinion if brand= is more suitable than operator+.
>
> Even though the differentiation might be a thin line, but they are two
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 12:21:30PM -0500, Lukasz Szybalski wrote:
> I still can't find an example of openstreet layers that uses google
> style URL mapping (aka mapnik style)?
Why don't you just go to informationfreeway.org and have a look at the source
of that one page. it contains all you need.
David Earl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Given the existing use of psv=opposite_lane I'll go with that for now.
> (I don't think it does clash with psv=other things BTW).
I didn't mean to say that it clashes with the existing use of the psv
tag, but it would be inconsistent with the way cycle la
"Stephen Hope" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Not all PSV's are buses.
What else?
Matthias
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On 23/10/08 12:16, Skywave wrote:
> I have been using myself the operator=tag for this kind of stuff. Any
> opinion if brand= is more suitable than operator+.
I've been using operator=... for things like ATMs.
Rory
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On 23/10/2008 12:18, Dave Stubbs wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 12:05 PM, David Earl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I notice there is increasing use of a tag brand=... for things like
>> shops, fuel, banks, atms etc. This seems like a good idea to me, as the
>> name of something ("Murkets Corner f
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 8:06 AM, Jochen Topf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 09:24:37PM -0700, SteveC wrote:
> > I've received back general comments from Wilson Sonsini (
> http://www.wsgr.com/WSGR/Index.aspx
> > ) on the latest draft.
> >
> > My next task is to review those c
I see the latest diff is from 23-Oct-2008 04:14. Something wrong?
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On 23 Oct 2008, at 03:51, Lukasz Szybalski wrote:
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 8:03 PM, Lukasz Szybalski
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 5:16 PM, Shaun McDonald
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 22 Oct 2008, at 21:38, Lukasz Szybalski wrote:
You've been pointed at a web page that
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Shaun McDonald
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> On 23 Oct 2008, at 03:51, Lukasz Szybalski wrote:
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>> On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 8:03 PM, Lukasz Szybalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 5:16 PM, Shaun McDonald
>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot
On 23 Oct 2008, at 07:17, 80n wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 8:06 AM, Jochen Topf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 09:24:37PM -0700, SteveC wrote:
> > I've received back general comments from Wilson Sonsini
> > (http://www.wsgr.com/WSGR/Index.aspx
> > ) on the latest dr
In my locality there is a gas station (petrol station) which has the name
"Elmira Service Centre", is it owned and operated by Norm Stanaitis, and
it has a prominent banner for "UPI" brand gasoline, recently switched from
"Pioneer" brand gasoline. The locals all refer to this station as
"Stanai
On 23 Oct 2008, at 16:12, Lukasz Szybalski wrote:
Is there an example where I could overwrite the url variable in the
OpenStreetMap.js outside of that file? . (Because the way its
delivered that file is more of a library file so I would like to keep
any changes to it outside of that file if po
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Shaun McDonald
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> On 23 Oct 2008, at 16:12, Lukasz Szybalski wrote:
>
>>
>> Is there an example where I could overwrite the url variable in the
>> OpenStreetMap.js outside of that file? . (Because the way its
>> delivered that file is mo
How do I execute the shp2osm.pl. I have Windows and also Linux (Fedora and
Ubuntu). I have tried ./shp2osm.pl namroads.shp > namroads.osm and also
./shp2osm.pl namroads.shp.
But it does not work. Continue getting an error that no use command used..
I need help PLEASE!
Andre
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On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 16:56 +0200, Skywave wrote:
> I see the latest diff is from 23-Oct-2008 04:14. Something wrong?
The internal network connection on dev is broken. This has effected the
munin graphs too. I've tried cycling the interface and driver but that
has not helped. We might need to try
Hi,
> Just to covert my data to OSM format. I then want to load my data into JOSM
> and update the relevant map sections. Then use JOSM to update OSM server.
Then another option might be running a WMS server (UMN Mapserver) that
reads your shapefiles and offers them as WMS service. The JOSM WMS
Bob Jonkman schrieb:
In my locality there is a gas station (petrol station) which has the name
"Elmira Service Centre", is it owned and operated by Norm Stanaitis, and
it has a prominent banner for "UPI" brand gasoline, recently switched from
"Pioneer" brand gasoline. The locals all refer to th
Hi,
Bob Jonkman wrote:
> In my locality there is a gas station (petrol station) which has the name
> "Elmira Service Centre", is it owned and operated by Norm Stanaitis, and
> it has a prominent banner for "UPI" brand gasoline, recently switched from
> "Pioneer" brand gasoline. The locals all r
The last quote is by far the best :-)
Cheers,
Andy
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 6:14 AM, SteveC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I didn't see anyone post this so
>
> http://povesham.wordpress.com/2008/10/18/openstreetmap-user-generated-street-maps-ieee-pervasive-computing-paper/
>
>
> with the usual c
Jon Burgess wrote:
> The internal network connection on dev is broken. This has effected the
> munin graphs too. I've tried cycling the interface and driver but that
> has not helped. We might need to try a reboot next.
>
Kernel version bumped, tweaks and rebooted.
Diffs are back, but we'll s
On Thursday 23 October 2008 04:50:10 pm Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
> I was trying to run WhereAmI with the nokia E71 - the problem is that the
> map is not getting downloaded - just a plain message saying 'download
> failed'. Any clues as to what reason for this could be?
looks like it was connectiv
On 23 Oct 2008, at 17:16, Lukasz Szybalski wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Shaun McDonald
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> On 23 Oct 2008, at 16:12, Lukasz Szybalski wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Is there an example where I could overwrite the url variable in the
>>> OpenStreetMap.js outside of
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 12:12 AM, Andy Allan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The last quote is by far the best :-)
>
That would be "Nobody want to map council estates" which isn't the
villas of the filthy rich which was my first thought.
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hi,
I'm ready to upload a 55mb file to the API. is there some faster way
than using bulk_import?
thanks
-S
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Simone Cortesi wrote:
> I'm ready to upload a 55mb file to the API. is there some faster way
> than using bulk_import?
If there was, don't you think the bulk importer would use it?
The best speed will probably be obtained by using the bulk importer
running on the dev server, to reduce the laten
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