All
CloudMade have some people experienced in Search Engine Optimisation
and we'd like to offer their time to look at making OSM push higher up
search results. Basically we think it would be nice that if you search
for 'free maps' and things like that then OSM comes up to the top.
What do y
Dave the positional accuracy of the 'new' TIGER stuff I hear is
substantially better across the board. Some suggestions: Build a list
of counties which have not had substantial edits to see if they can be
dropped for the new stuff? Import all the TIGER 2007 addressing stuff
in the Frederik
> -Original Message-
> From: Peter Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 24 October 2008 22:38
> To: 'Frank Sautter'; 'talk@openstreetmap.org'
> Subject: RE: [OSM-talk] Xybot
>
>
>
> > Peter Miller schrieb:
> > > The only link from this page is one back to the xybot user page and
>
Frank Sautter wrote:
> can you please provide some information about that (way id). as far as
> i can say this should not happen. xybot changed "natural=forest" to
> "landuse=forest" and yes, wood and forest are not the same.
No, they aren't. And neither are natural and landuse -- natural
describes
> Peter Miller schrieb:
> > The only link from this page is one back to the xybot user page and
> there is
> > no link to the bot's page itself (is there one?) to provide information
> > about what the bot is doing and why and what one should do if one
> disagrees
> > with the edits.
> thanks fo
On 23 Oct 2008, at 22:17, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> 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, rec
Peter Miller wrote:
> Btw, I have had xybot turning "natural=wood" into "landuse=forest".
> Where I come from a wood and forest are not the same thing at all.
Indeed not. I'd say a natural=wood refers to where trees have
self-seeded and spread naturally, while landuse=forest is a man-made,
artific
hello peter,
Peter Miller schrieb:
> The only link from this page is one back to the xybot user page and there is
> no link to the bot's page itself (is there one?) to provide information
> about what the bot is doing and why and what one should do if one disagrees
> with the edits.
thanks for you
>
> >>> Take "grade" for instance, all occurances of which have now been
> >>> changed to "tracktype". Which is a hell of an assumption about the
> >>> use of the "grade" tag, and what people potentially might want to
> >>> mark with that in the future. This isn't just typo fixing, this is
> >>> g
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 04:36:30PM +0100, Dave Stubbs wrote:
> They certainly lend themselves to it. That's not to say it's a good idea.
> The vast majority of these things could be done instead with a much
> less intrusive auto bug-notification-system. ie: a big list somewhere
> telling you of al
Ryszard Mikke wrote:
>Sent: 24 October 2008 6:17 PM
>To: talk@openstreetmap.org
>Subject: [OSM-talk] timestamps on tracks - why?
>
>Maybe it's a newbie question, but I don't understand one thing (*)
>
>Why there is a need to have timestamps on tracks uploaded to OSM?
>It's really a pain in the ass
"Dave Stubbs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> well, amenity=post_office;shop=convenience doesn't actually clash, so
> as long as they don't add the post office to banks or restaurants we
> should be OK?
Even "amenity=bank;post_office" would be OK if data consumers know how
to deal with that.
The b
Maybe it's a newbie question, but I don't understand one thing (*)
Why there is a need to have timestamps on tracks uploaded to OSM?
It's really a pain in the ass when your GPS device exports tracks
without timestamp and I really don't see the reason to require them.
rmikke
(*) For sure I don't
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Ed Loach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Andy wrote:
>
>> And even with typos, there's been a number of discussions as to
>> why
>> automatically converting e.g. hgihway isn't necessarily a good
>> idea -
>> almost all of those that I've found there's another way
>> co
Andy wrote:
> And even with typos, there's been a number of discussions as to
> why
> automatically converting e.g. hgihway isn't necessarily a good
> idea -
> almost all of those that I've found there's another way
> correctly
> tagged close beside it. So fixing the typo in these cases is
> actua
Hi,
today you can see new reports generated with the new BETA version of
osmdiff.
- new areas of coverage
- changed tags are reported and drawn
- ways with at least one moved node are drawn and listed
- a ruler is located in the upper right corner
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Osmdiff_
Hi,
Sven Anders and the other guys from the Hamburg OSM team have today
issued a press release
(http://www.openstreetmap.de/presse/2008-10-24-hamburg-stat.html) saying
that Hamburg is the first major German city to be complete. Hamburg
(pop. 1.3m) is the second-largest city in Germany.
Th
>>> Take "grade" for instance, all occurances of which have now been
>>> changed to "tracktype". Which is a hell of an assumption about the
>>> use of the "grade" tag, and what people potentially might want to
>>> mark with that in the future. This isn't just typo fixing, this is
>>> going way beyo
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 12:10 PM, David Groom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> That's the nature of OSM, anyone can edit anything without asking for
> permission. There's no black and white here. I agree that it would have
> been best to have had some form of discussion about this script, but there'
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Frank Sautter
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hello andy,
>
> Andy Allan schrieb:
>>> I see that someone is running a bot across the entire planet,
> europe
>
>>> I'm asking now for this person to publicly justify to all the
>>> contributors to OpenStreetMap why he or
Andy has already made the point though that just changing stuff without any
notification is not appropriate at all. Anyone is permitted to tag as they
see fit so you have know way of knowing if someone is using a tag for other
purposes. At a minimum you should be announcing your plans and giving no
- Original Message -
From: "Andy Allan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Talk Openstreetmap"
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 11:38 AM
Subject: [OSM-talk] Xybot
First let me make it clear that I am not User:Xybot, and I don't not know
who he / she is.
>
> Hi All,
>
> I see that someone is runni
On Friday 24 October 2008, Andy Allan wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I see that someone is running a bot across the entire planet, and I
> don't see any discussion of it on the mailing lists. The bot is
> called "xybot" and the user is apparently "xylome"
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/xylome - I believ
hello andy,
Andy Allan schrieb:
>> I see that someone is running a bot across the entire planet,
europe
>> I'm asking now for this person to publicly justify to all the
>> contributors to OpenStreetMap why he or she knows better than they
>> do about tagging?
>> This bot has now effectively bla
Yes thank you. That's what I suspect.
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Andy Allan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> No! :-) The layer tag is for things that are vertically separated -
> like bridges going over rivers and so on.
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
>
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 10:31 AM, maning sambale
>
Hi All,
I see that someone is running a bot across the entire planet, and I
don't see any discussion of it on the mailing lists. The bot is called
"xybot" and the user is apparently "xylome"
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/xylome - I believe this is the same
person who Frederik was referring to
No! :-) The layer tag is for things that are vertically separated -
like bridges going over rivers and so on.
Cheers,
Andy
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 10:31 AM, maning sambale
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Should I use the tag layer?
> like
> natural:forest
>
> landuse:tourism
> layer:X
>
>
>
> On Fri
Should I use the tag layer?
like
natural:forest
landuse:tourism
layer:X
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 5:27 PM, maning sambale
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In the Philippines, landcover and landuse are often interchangeable.
> But they are completely different.
> Land cover is the physical mat
Hi,
In the Philippines, landcover and landuse are often interchangeable.
But they are completely different.
Land cover is the physical material at the surface of the earth,
while, land use is a description of how people utilize the land [1]
For example, I have an area mostly covered by forest so
Richard Fairhurst schrieb:
> Ulf Lamping wrote:
>
>> 204 books (in obvious contrary to amenity=library)
>
> A library lends books, a bookshop sells them.
As I said: obviously :-)
>
>> 292 florist (BTW: in future, garden_centre seems to become the
>> value for
>> "potted flower shops")
>
> Ge
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 8:51 AM, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Moved to talk
>
> Richard Fairhurst wrote:
>>Sent: 24 October 2008 8:25 AM
>>To: OSM-Dev list
>>Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] I've added some new shop values in Map Features
>>
>>Matt Amos wrote:
>>
>>> i would
Moved to talk
Richard Fairhurst wrote:
>Sent: 24 October 2008 8:25 AM
>To: OSM-Dev list
>Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] I've added some new shop values in Map Features
>
>Matt Amos wrote:
>
>> i would call that a shop=convenience. what distinction would you draw
>> between them, ronnie barker notwithstand
I'd been out with my GPS and my bicycle and was back at home mapping
the new housing development that I'd surveyed, converting my trails
and paper based notes to points and paths. It was a Tuesday night,
Australian time. I don't know why, but the mouse was sluggish,
potlatch as slow as molasses, so
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