Re: [OSM-talk] shp2osm.pl: duplicated way nodes

2008-11-11 Thread Jukka Rahkonen
David Carmean halibut.com> writes: > I'm trying to import some shapefiles with areas into JOSM; so far I haven't > been able to get "closed" ways. > > I just tried shp2osm, and I get "Duplicated Way Nodes" errors in the validator. > > I've also tried a two-step process with a couple of tools,

[OSM-talk] deleting annotations in whereami

2008-11-11 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
hi, I am having a huge problem with annotations in whereami. How to delete them. At present the file gets bigger and bigger, I have annotations from all over India, which makes josm dead slow when I load the file. Any clues as to how to do this? -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate NRC-FOSS

Re: [OSM-talk] shp2osm.pl: duplicated way nodes

2008-11-11 Thread Ian Dees
I'll finally get around to uploading my SHP to OSM Java app tomorrow. I'll reply to this thread and let you know where to get it and how to use it. It converts shp's linestring, polygon, multipolygon, point, etc. to their OSM counterparts. On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 7:54 PM, David Carmean <[EMAIL PR

[OSM-talk] shp2osm.pl: duplicated way nodes

2008-11-11 Thread David Carmean
I'm trying to import some shapefiles with areas into JOSM; so far I haven't been able to get "closed" ways. I just tried shp2osm, and I get "Duplicated Way Nodes" errors in the validator. I've also tried a two-step process with a couple of tools, DNRGarmin and ExpertGPS. These can produce GP

[OSM-talk] Implementing Geographic Information Technologies Ethically

2008-11-11 Thread Beej Jorgensen
http://www.esri.com/news/arcnews/fall08articles/implementing-gi-technologies.html I only had time to skim this article, but it looked like it might have some relevance. (I apologize in advance if I'm mistaken!) Especially closer to the end he talks about issues with licensing and restricting dat

[OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - research_institution

2008-11-11 Thread silversurfer
The main task of research institutions is research and often they are not part of universities. Therefore they shouldn't use the same feature/icon. Please see the proposal page for the details http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/research_institution _

[OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Geographical Places

2008-11-11 Thread Polderrunner
There is a need for a better way of labeling geographical features such as seas, peninsulas, mountain ranges etc. The current options of either associating a name=* tag directly with the natural=* tag or using place=locality with a name tag do not address the problems of selecting proper zoom l

Re: [OSM-talk] barrier=gate

2008-11-11 Thread Dave Stubbs
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 5:52 PM, Gerald A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Dave Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> >> It's nice to say that the renderer should follow the community, but >> this does presume the community is moving in one direction. It's also >>

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM is ....

2008-11-11 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Steve Chilton wrote: > "OSM is a multifunctional cytokine produced by activated T lymphocytes > and monocytes and shares properties with all the members of this > family > of proteins. OSM is structurally and functionally very similar to > LIF." We read the Observer on Sundays. Every month it

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM is ....

2008-11-11 Thread paul youlten
Spanish version of OSM: http://www.osm.es/ On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Steve Chilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Searching for something else I came across this: > > "OSM is a multifunctional cytokine produced by activated T lymphocytes > and monocytes and shares properties with all the m

Re: [OSM-talk] barrier=gate

2008-11-11 Thread Gerald A
On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Dave Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > It's nice to say that the renderer should follow the community, but > this does presume the community is moving in one direction. It's also > fairly presumptuous that the renderer author has the time or > inclination to cod

[OSM-talk] OSM is ....

2008-11-11 Thread Steve Chilton
Searching for something else I came across this: "OSM is a multifunctional cytokine produced by activated T lymphocytes and monocytes and shares properties with all the members of this family of proteins. OSM is structurally and functionally very similar to LIF." Which just about sums it up reall

[OSM-talk] New verification tool for OSM errors

2008-11-11 Thread sylvain letuffe
A bit like a mix between noname, maplint and thelike : working only for europe http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Yet_another_validation_tool_for_osm_data If you feel interested, I think it would be better to talk about it on the wiki talk page instead of this list because we might seriousl

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Question about the license for the software that uses data derived from OSM's database

2008-11-11 Thread Hugh Hulme
Just a quick thank you to Jochen & Iván for the great responses to my question :) I am now enlightened. ___ legal-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Openstreetmap iPhone app

2008-11-11 Thread Joseph Gentle
You can suppress that, but the performance is pretty crappy. -J On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 9:46 PM, Joe Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can get python installed if your iphone is jailbroken via the Cydia > installer (apt-get Debian style but for the iPhone). I think you're > imagining

Re: [OSM-talk] Openstreetmap iPhone app

2008-11-11 Thread Joe Richards
You can get python installed if your iphone is jailbroken via the Cydia installer (apt-get Debian style but for the iPhone). I think you're imagining a slippy map via the browser though right? The problem is that when you drag on the browser, it scrolls the view (rather than activating a mouse

[OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - information

2008-11-11 Thread André Riedel
The tourism=information describes an information source for tourists, travellers and visitors. But it does not differ between diverse types of an information point. The goal of this proposal is to specify this tag a little bit more, so it should be easier to find the right information point on a ma

Re: [OSM-talk] Openstreetmap iPhone app

2008-11-11 Thread spaetz
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 01:41:56PM +0100, John07 wrote: > I thought of the same thing many times in the past. Such a app would be > very cool. > There are also the some webapps for a slippy map, but the usability > isn?t that good. Has the iphone python? Check pymap in the svn repository, it is

Re: [OSM-talk] Wanted: Osm2pgsql.exe developer

2008-11-11 Thread Jukka Rahkonen
Tom Hughes compton.nu> writes: > Erik Johansson wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 7:14 PM, Jukka Rahkonen > > mmmtike.fi> wrote: > > > >> I would like to find somebody who believes he/she could make a new version of > >> osm2pgsql Windows binaries. > >> - user should be able to select the tags