Re: [OSM-talk] SEO

2008-10-25 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 12:43 PM, David Earl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 25/10/2008 17:38, Xav wrote: >> What would be fantastic is urls of this kind : >> http://www.openstreetmap.org/london/ >> ...for a lot of medium and big cities. >> >> The reason is to encourage people to use these URLs for

Re: [OSM-talk] Undo just got a lot more complicated

2008-10-25 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Nic Roets wrote: > Let's say a newbie messes up a region near you. A few weeks later you > discover it and confronts the user who admits his mistake. So you fire up > your undo script (if you're lucky enough to have one). > > It will work where the newbie was the last user to edit stuff. Exce

[OSM-talk] Undo just got a lot more complicated

2008-10-25 Thread Nic Roets
Let's say a newbie messes up a region near you. A few weeks later you discover it and confronts the user who admits his mistake. So you fire up your undo script (if you're lucky enough to have one). It will work where the newbie was the last user to edit stuff. Except it's impossible for a script

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM from shape files

2008-10-25 Thread Shaun McDonald
That sounds like you are missing a library. You should be able to use cpan to install the geo library. Shaun On 25 Oct 2008, at 13:33, Andre Schoonbee wrote: I keep on getting an error on missing GEO, when executing the command both on Ubuntu, Fedora and in Windows (after installing Active

Re: [OSM-talk] Another glitch with new Mapnik - edge of reservoir not shown

2008-10-25 Thread Jon Burgess
On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 10:30 -0600, Simon Wood wrote: > Hi all, > I spoted that the Oldman River Reservoir is not rendering correctly with > Mapnick, whilst is correctly showing in Osmarender and the Cyclemap. > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=49.5799&lon=-114.0377&zoom=13&layers=B000FTF The

Re: [OSM-talk] SEO

2008-10-25 Thread David Earl
On 25/10/2008 17:38, Xav wrote: > What would be fantastic is urls of this kind : > http://www.openstreetmap.org/london/ > ...for a lot of medium and big cities. > > The reason is to encourage people to use these URLs for their own use on > their pages. With the current URLs to OSM (with lat and l

Re: [OSM-talk] SEO

2008-10-25 Thread Xav
What would be fantastic is urls of this kind : http://www.openstreetmap.org/london/ ...for a lot of medium and big cities. The reason is to encourage people to use these URLs for their own use on their pages. With the current URLs to OSM (with lat and lon), the robots can't know that a URL link

[OSM-talk] OSM Mapper now available for the USA (and everywhere else)

2008-10-25 Thread Peter Miller
I am very pleased to say that we are now offering OSM Mapper for the USA (and everywhere else on the planet). It has taken some time to get sorted because there is a lot of data for the USA and we needed to do some work behind the scenes to get the performance we wanted and to continue with a daily

[OSM-talk] Another glitch with new Mapnik - edge of reservoir not shown

2008-10-25 Thread Simon Wood
Hi all, I spoted that the Oldman River Reservoir is not rendering correctly with Mapnick, whilst is correctly showing in Osmarender and the Cyclemap. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=49.5799&lon=-114.0377&zoom=13&layers=B000FTF Cheers, Simon. ___ ta

Re: [OSM-talk] SEO

2008-10-25 Thread Hugh Barnes
On Saturday 25 October 2008, 23:35:47, David Earl did write: > On 25/10/2008 12:10, OJ W wrote: > > Static webpages for each town -- search engines are always happy to > > see those. There used to be a website http://almien.co.uk/City/ which > > generated those sort of pages > > I haven't got to i

Re: [OSM-talk] SEO

2008-10-25 Thread Hugh Barnes
On Saturday 25 October 2008, 06:37:03, SteveC did write: > 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' a

Re: [OSM-talk] SEO

2008-10-25 Thread David Earl
On 25/10/2008 12:10, OJ W wrote: > Static webpages for each town -- search engines are always happy to > see those. There used to be a website http://almien.co.uk/City/ which > generated those sort of pages I haven't got to it yet, but some of you may remember I've intended for a while to create

[OSM-legal-talk] ITO Legal advice

2008-10-25 Thread Peter Miller
Ito World Ltd has now taken its own advice on the new draft licence and also on legal issues more generally. Fyi, our brief was firstly a selfish one, ie can ITO use the data for OSM for the purposes for which ITO wants to use it (ie some of the use cases on the wiki), the second was about the

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM from shape files

2008-10-25 Thread Andre Schoonbee
I keep on getting an error on missing GEO, when executing the command both on Ubuntu, Fedora and in Windows (after installing ActivePerl) Andre _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Skywave Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 8:12 PM To: talk@openstreetma

Re: [OSM-talk] Color Problems with new Mapnik Style

2008-10-25 Thread Steve Chilton
I am away for next few days. It is on my list of things to have a look at when I come back, probably putting back in a thin casing style. STEVE -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Michael Roth Sent: Sat 10/25/2008 11:29 AM To: talk@

Re: [OSM-talk] SEO

2008-10-25 Thread OJ W
Static webpages for each town -- search engines are always happy to see those. There used to be a website http://almien.co.uk/City/ which generated those sort of pages On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 9:37 PM, SteveC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All > > CloudMade have some people experienced in Search Eng

[OSM-talk] Color Problems with new Mapnik Style

2008-10-25 Thread Michael Roth
Hello list, look at this: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=47.73083&lon=9.02887&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF What is the cause of this problem? How can it be fixed? Michael Roth ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org