Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Boundary data

2008-10-30 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 12:20 AM, Skywave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IMO, relations are the way to go. It can handle every situation including > holes (exclaves/enclaves), multiple names, multiple administrative levels on > same border. The only question remaining if you should add the coastline

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Boundary data

2008-10-30 Thread Skywave
IMO, relations are the way to go. It can handle every situation including holes (exclaves/enclaves), multiple names, multiple administrative levels on same border. The only question remaining if you should add the coastlines to it. Also since the import of the Italian data and the reimport of AND b

Re: [OSM-talk] New Debugging-Tool: OSM-Inspector

2008-10-30 Thread Matt Amos
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Jochen Topf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have added a new layer to the OSM inspector showing ways tagged with > postal_code. If you zoom in far enough they are labelled. Nothing as > cool as your rendering, though. :-) Using the Voronoi stuff to get the > postcode

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-dev] OpenStreeetMap and X-Plane for collecting GIS data

2008-10-30 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Ben Supnik wrote: > X-Plane would benefit from the existing shared data collection > infrastructure of OSM. OSM would benefit from a group of user's data > collection efforts increasing the fidelity of the map. I'm all for adding aviation related stuff to our database. But keep in mind th

Re: [OSM-talk] osmcut.c Some problems with my solution :-)

2008-10-30 Thread Michael Hufer
On Thursday 30 October 2008 08:57:53 Erik Johansson wrote: > On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 8:28 PM, Michael Hufer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> BTW in your osmcut it still says that ways are only written to the 4 > >> first tiles that the way touches, is this still true? Doesn't seem > >> like what you

Re: [OSM-talk] SEO

2008-10-30 Thread Richard Fairhurst
SteveC wrote: > 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

Re: [OSM-talk] New Debugging-Tool: OSM-Inspector

2008-10-30 Thread Jochen Topf
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 02:59:44PM +, Dave Stubbs wrote: > >>> finally, a request: could you please add postal_code > >>> (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Key:postal_code) as a synonym > >>> for addr:postcode, so i can debug these areas in the UK? it'd be a > >>> pain to go back and cha

Re: [OSM-talk] New Debugging-Tool: OSM-Inspector

2008-10-30 Thread Matt Amos
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Shaun McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What about plain old postcode=? how much has that been used? post_code: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/288031607 :-) cheers, matt ___ talk mailing list talk@openst

Re: [OSM-talk] New Debugging-Tool: OSM-Inspector

2008-10-30 Thread Dave Stubbs
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Shaun McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 30 Oct 2008, at 15:32, Dave Stubbs wrote: > >> On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Dave Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>> >>> I haven't tried applying the same script with addr:postcode yet, so I >>> don't know ho

Re: [OSM-talk] New Debugging-Tool: OSM-Inspector

2008-10-30 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 30 Oct 2008, at 15:32, Dave Stubbs wrote: On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Dave Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: I haven't tried applying the same script with addr:postcode yet, so I don't know how it' use compares in the UK, but I doubt it's as extensive as it hasn't been around as long.

Re: [OSM-talk] New Debugging-Tool: OSM-Inspector

2008-10-30 Thread Dave Stubbs
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Dave Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I haven't tried applying the same script with addr:postcode yet, so I > don't know how it' use compares in the UK, but I doubt it's as > extensive as it hasn't been around as long. > I just tried this and there are only 400

Re: [OSM-talk] New Debugging-Tool: OSM-Inspector

2008-10-30 Thread Dave Stubbs
>>> finally, a request: could you please add postal_code >>> (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Key:postal_code) as a synonym >>> for addr:postcode, so i can debug these areas in the UK? it'd be a >>> pain to go back and change them all :-) >> >> I hesitate to support two tags for the same th

Re: [OSM-talk] New Debugging-Tool: OSM-Inspector

2008-10-30 Thread Matt Amos
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 11:48 PM, Matt Amos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > as far as i can tell, the postal_code tag has been used for about a > year and a half longer than addr:postcode, although i can't find much > mention of it on the mailing list / wiki besides these: d'oh! i am informed (thanks

Re: [OSM-talk] GIS data

2008-10-30 Thread Ian Dees
There has been quite a bit of talk about importing GIS data on the Talk-US mailing list. I suggest posting this there. On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 2:40 AM, Nathan Mixter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone had any experience with importing state GIS data? Looks like > there is some good informat

Re: [OSM-talk] Recent changes to slippymap Mapnik rendering

2008-10-30 Thread Matthew
Apologies if someone's mentioned it already, but I'd like to express my appreciation for the new symbol for a barrier across the road.  A simple line is exactly what it should be; a letter G in the middle of the road was rather confusing! ___

Re: [OSM-talk] osmcut.c Some problems with my solution :-)

2008-10-30 Thread Erik Johansson
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 8:28 PM, Michael Hufer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> BTW in your osmcut it still says that ways are only written to the 4 >> first tiles that the way touches, is this still true? Doesn't seem >> like what you want, or? > > I had only about 10 ways spanning more than 4 tiles

[OSM-talk] GIS data

2008-10-30 Thread Nathan Mixter
Has anyone had any experience with importing state GIS data? Looks like there is some good information the California state gis site at http://gis.ca.gov/BrowseCatalog.epl and also at the Santa Cruz County gis site at http://gis.co.santa-cruz.ca.us/. It looks like the state data formats are in

[OSM-talk] nodes and land use

2008-10-30 Thread Nathan Mixter
When do you use nodes and when do you landuse? Can you have a node overlapping landuse such as a golf course node overlapping the area of the golf course? If so, do you include the name and ref of the course in the node or the landuse or both? I've been ov