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Chris Browet wrote:
> It's fairly standard usage, you see a doctor at the doctors, a butcher
> runs the butchers. There should really be an apostrophe in there I
> think, ie: the butcher's shop, the doctor's surgery. But that's not
> re
A newb question:
I think I'm on safe ground with my presumption that maps are recorded and
stored in vector format. I observe that whan I try to _use_ the map (on
Firefox 3 on SuSE 10.3/Linux) it takes a long time to render and does so
in a bitmap format.
Since my browser is able to rende
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It looks like map features are now being marked as rejected if their
wiki page hasn't been updated often enough, e.g. aerodromes,
intermittant lakes, public internet terminals, websites, wikipedia
links, comedy clubs, free/paid tags, rack railways, checkpoints,
bullrings, towpaths, building attribu
Mark Williams wrote:
> The apostrophe is not correct anyway. It denotes a missed letter, in
> this word-position it would be 'doctor is', as opposed to the
> non-apostrophe version meaning 'belong to the the doctor' or plural
> doctors.
Heehee, don't get me started.
"doctor's" is the appropria
Hi,
Greg wrote:
> I think I'm on safe ground with my presumption that maps are recorded and
> stored in vector format.
True, but they are also automatically processed into bitmaps, which then
get delivered to the browser.
> I observe that whan I try to _use_ the map (on
> Firefox 3 on SuSE 1
Richard Fairhurst wrote:
> One quick win. When you search for OpenStreetMap on your favourite
> search engine, it returns something like this:
>
> OpenStreetMap
> Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0
> license by the OpenStreetMap project and its contributors. ...
>
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Dave Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> The apostrophe is not correct anyway. It denotes a missed letter, in
>> this word-position it would be 'doctor is', as opposed to the
>> non-apostrophe version meaning 'belong to the the doctor' or plural doctors.
>
> I
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 10:04 AM, OJ W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I also agree that changing the proposed features status from 'draft'
to 'abandoned' wihtout any discussion is too hard.
I would recommend to restore the previous status ('draft') or
something like 'not very active' for all the featu
Very interesting. Thank you, Richard. "Doctor's" sounds a bit common to me.
"Surgery" is far better...
Cheers,
Lucas
De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] en nombre de Richard Fairhurst
Enviado el: vie 31/10/2008 10:20
Para: OSM-Talk
Asunto: Re: [OSM-talk] I've added some am
Hi,
OJ W wrote:
> It looks like map features are now being marked as rejected if their
> wiki page hasn't been updated often enough, e.g. aerodromes,
> intermittant lakes, public internet terminals, websites, wikipedia
> links, comedy clubs, free/paid tags, rack railways, checkpoints,
> bullrings,
>
> The apostrophe is not correct anyway. It denotes a missed letter, in
> this word-position it would be 'doctor is', as opposed to the
> non-apostrophe version meaning 'belong to the the doctor' or plural doctors.
I think you're thinking of "its" as in the news group
alt.its.possessive.has.no.a
2008/10/31 Stephan Schildberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I would suggest to inform yourself about http://openlayers.org/ , which
> solve some of your demands, although not with SVG.
>
It does use SVG, and has VML support for IE, however, nice rendering
is beyond the scope of the project. Its current l
There is now a talk-bf - Burkina Faso-specific topics and discussion mailing
list available. Thank you to Helge Fahrnberger for initiating and hosting this
forum. The main goal in this African state is to produce a paper city map of
the capital city Ouagadougou by the end of 2009.
For details
I would suggest to inform yourself about http://openlayers.org/ , which
solve some of your demands, although not with SVG.
regards, Stephan.
>
>
> I think I'm on safe ground with my presumption that maps are recorded and
> stored in vector format. I observe that whan I try to _use_ the map (on
Amongst us Paleo-geographers, there's an old saying:
"Vector's better but raster's faster."
I just finished writing a paper for a conference in February where I had my
programmer look at doing some basic geoprocessing of vector data in the
browser with OpenLayers. We encountered a number of issue
From: Mark Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 31 October 2008 07:21:30 GMT
To: Chris Browet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: OSM-Talk
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] I've added some amenity values to "Map
Features" based on tag usage
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Chris Browet wrote:
It
From: "Juan Lucas Dominguez Rubio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 31 October 2008 11:44:49 GMT
To: "Richard Fairhurst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "OSM-Talk"
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] I've added some amenity values to
"MapFeatures" based on tag usage
Very interesting. Thank you, Richard. "Doctor's" sound
De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] en nombre de elvin ibbotson
Having said that, I tend to go along with the school of thought
that we would be as well of without any apostrophes so amenity=doctors seems
fine.
elvin ibbotson
"school of tho
After some requests and OSMF board discussion, I've created a new mailing list:
legal-general
We'd ask that higher level discussions such as pd etc move to that from the
existing legal-talk and that we keep legal-talk to specific practical issues
regarding OSM's actual license and, in what is t
Juan Lucas Dominguez Rubio wrote:
> Very interesting. Thank you, Richard. "Doctor's" sounds a bit common to me.
> "Surgery" is far better...
>
> Cheers,
> Lucas
>
Wait but is that a 'surgery' in a hospital?, a doctors 'surgery'? or a
veterinary 'surgery'?
doctors-surgery*, would probably be
From: "Juan Lucas Dominguez Rubio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 31 October 2008 16:31:03 GMT
To: "elvin ibbotson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Talk Openstreetmap
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] I've added some amenity values to
"MapFeatures" based on tag usage
From: "Juan Lucas Dominguez Rubio" <[EMAIL PROT
There has been a mailing list created for discussions related to the
release of OSM data into the public domain. It can also be used to
discuss other licensing/legal issues not directly related to the new
license. Hopefully this will reduce some of the chatter on this list
and will allow work on th
I've been encouraged to try and address my concerns with the new
license, as an alternative to pushing foward with the release of my
OSM data into the public domain. There is really one aspect of the new
license that is my biggest concern. I want to make sure that I
understand the issue properly, a
El Viernes, 31 de Octubre de 2008, Sunburned Surveyor escribió:
[...]
> Does the new license ever require my company to release the land use
> polygon data in the above scenario?
No.
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Sunburned Surveyor wrote:
> Does the new license ever require my company to release the land use
> polygon data in the above scenario?
No.
> In essence my company would be "dual licensing" the road centerline
> data.
Indeed. Lots of us already dual-license our contributions to OSM:
http://wiki
Hi,
Sunburned Surveyor wrote:
> Does the new license ever require my company to release the land use
> polygon data in the above scenario?
As long as you don't use anything from OSM, no OSM license in the world
can force you to do anything.
The fact that you have contributed something to OSM is
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 5:45 PM, Iván Sánchez Ortega
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> El Viernes, 31 de Octubre de 2008, Sunburned Surveyor escribió:
> [...]
>> Does the new license ever require my company to release the land use
>> polygon data in the above scenario?
>
> No.
:-)
I think however a us
when was it decided to change the proposal procces and all of its features???
I worked very hard to get this set up correctly and working properly...
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Can you please elaborate/explain what you mean?
On 1 Nov 2008, at 00:32, Nicholas Vetrovec wrote:
> when was it decided to change the proposal procces and all of its
> features??? I worked very hard to get this set up correctly and
> working properly...
>
> __
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features
Has been completly modified by
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/User:Phobie
and tha assosiated templates and catagories have also been changed
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Category:Proposals_admin
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