Re: [OSM-talk] Osm2go: mobile mapping with Nokia n800/n810

2008-11-21 Thread Andrew Chadwick (mailing lists)
Till Harbaum / Lists wrote: > Am Montag 17 November 2008 schrieb Andrew Chadwick (email lists): >> It'd be really cool if the dependency on Hildon, >> osso, and various other Maemo-specific parts could be relaxed for users >> of devices like Eee PCs, but I guess that's less of an immediate >> requi

Re: [OSM-talk] Osm2go: mobile mapping with Nokia n800/n810

2008-11-21 Thread Andrew Chadwick (mailing lists)
Till Harbaum wrote: If you're zoomed out beyond the extent of the current project, it's impossible to pan the map so that part of it is hidden beyond the canvas edge. This might hinder new users [...] ??? I don't understand that. There's the area you downloaded. You can see only that and work

Re: [OSM-talk] Ordnance Survey tries to reinforce its strangleholdover "derived" geographic data in the UK

2008-11-21 Thread Thomas Wood
2008/11/21 Stephen Gower <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 01:58:43PM -, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) > wrote: >> >> The problem here is who says it's a public right of way. If you ask your >> local authority they will bring out there plans which give the details and >> refere

Re: [OSM-talk] Validator tags

2008-11-21 Thread Matthias Julius
Pieren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Taging for validation is already a controversial subject. > But some of your tags are even more controversial: There are two levels of "tagging for the validator" (or any other application): - adding validator specific tags to give the validator a hint what t

Re: [OSM-talk] Validator tags

2008-11-21 Thread sylvain letuffe
> > validate:empty-tag-key > > validate:empty-tag-value > > A tag with an empty key or an empty value is not possible/ not > allowed. Simple delete or fix the tag if you find such. Don't say to > maplint "well it's wrong, but don't care about it". Agreed with pieren for the empty-tag-key, but are

Re: [OSM-talk] Validator tags

2008-11-21 Thread Matthias Julius
Patrick Kilian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The patch at http://www.petschge.de/osm/ignore-tags/maplint.patch > modifies the maplint checks to suppress the warning / error if a tag > with validate:$testname=ignore is present on the object. I have been wanting something like this. > A tag of k="

Re: [OSM-talk] Validator tags

2008-11-21 Thread sylvain letuffe
> I guess the patch could be expanded to not expect a name for > "internal:noname=yes" The current proposal is "internal:name=noname" so we can also have "internal:name=noname_sign" when it's unsure the object as a name, but it is known that no sign gives this information and because both shoul

Re: [OSM-talk] Ordnance Survey tries to reinforce its strangleholdover "derived" geographic data in the UK

2008-11-21 Thread Stephen Gower
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 01:58:43PM -, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote: > > The problem here is who says it's a public right of way. If you ask your > local authority they will bring out there plans which give the details and > reference numbers but these of course exist on OS mapping.

Re: [OSM-talk] Validator tags

2008-11-21 Thread Patrick Kilian
Hi all, see http://www.petschge.de/osm/ignore-tags/noname.patch for a dead simple non-extensible alternative which only supports noname=yes. Patrick "Petschge" Kilian ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/

Re: [OSM-talk] Validator tags

2008-11-21 Thread Pieren
Taging for validation is already a controversial subject. But some of your tags are even more controversial: > validate:empty-tag-key > validate:empty-tag-value A tag with an empty key or an empty value is not possible/ not allowed. Simple delete or fix the tag if you find such. Don't say to mapl

Re: [OSM-talk] Validator tags

2008-11-21 Thread Patrick Kilian
Hi, > Whoops, looks like we are working on the same thing, with same goal and > almost > the same method Looks like you want to formalize the note=* thing a bit. Which is a good think. I guess the patch could be expanded to not expect a name for "internal:noname=yes". Alternativly you could exc

Re: [OSM-talk] Ordnance Survey tries to reinforce its strangleholdover "derived" geographic data in the UK

2008-11-21 Thread Nick Whitelegg
>I was also worried about the Council's own database copyright in its >information. For a one off it probably wouldn't matter, but if we then >started doing stuff from Council info, we might be contaminating things. >I've generally tried to use only the evidence on the ground and approved >sour

Re: [OSM-talk] Validator tags

2008-11-21 Thread sylvain letuffe
On Friday 21 November 2008 15:00, Patrick Kilian wrote: > Hi all, Hi alone ! > I want to propose a technically clean way to deal with unnamed streets > and other false positives of the maplint checks. (...) > For a street which does not have a name (for whatever reason) one would > you k="validate

Re: [OSM-talk] POI layer for [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2008-11-21 Thread Patrick Kilian
Hi all, > in the last couple if days the discussion of a POI layer appeared again. > With the new server we should have enough disk space to store such a > layer and I'm willing to resurrect the old stylesheets / create new > stylesheets for that layer. But since I'm not scratching my own itch >

[OSM-talk] Validator tags

2008-11-21 Thread Patrick Kilian
Hi all, I want to propose a technically clean way to deal with unnamed streets and other false positives of the maplint checks. The patch at http://www.petschge.de/osm/ignore-tags/maplint.patch modifies the maplint checks to suppress the warning / error if a tag with validate:$testname=ignore is

[OSM-talk] Help with automated upload of gpx/shp files to map

2008-11-21 Thread S.Reena
Hi , I am interested in knowing the exact way by which the automate gpx/shp upload feature is implemented here... I too want to implement this feature in my page...If someone can share the code or something with me ...it will be great :) so that I can reuse it .. Thanks, Reena. -- View this me

Re: [OSM-talk] Anyone familiar with Pulkova 1932 coordinates?

2008-11-21 Thread Bernt M. Johnsen
Well, that article defines on how to transform from DHG (Deutches Heeres Gitter) Plukovo 1932 to UTM ED50 in zone 34, and that's a start. Question is, is that (DHG Pulkovo 1932) the same as the coordinates we have for the border which is described like this: "Koordinatene er konforme , rettvinklete

Re: [OSM-talk] UK bike map standard: Cheltenham pattern becoming more objective

2008-11-21 Thread Andy Allan
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Andrew Chadwick (email lists) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What do people think of the latest iteration of > > http://www.cyclenation.org.uk/resources/mapping.php > (formerly http://www.cyclecheltenham.org.uk/map_standard.html )? > > We should probably get our oa

[OSM-talk] UK bike map standard: Cheltenham pattern becoming more objective

2008-11-21 Thread Andrew Chadwick (email lists)
What do people think of the latest iteration of http://www.cyclenation.org.uk/resources/mapping.php (formerly http://www.cyclecheltenham.org.uk/map_standard.html )? We should probably get our oar in here and try to make the standard base-map-neutral and colour-scheme-neutral. I shall have a w

Re: [OSM-talk] Anyone familiar with Pulkova 1932 coordinates?

2008-11-21 Thread Tom Hughes
Erik Johansson wrote: > Oooh projection archeology, it's even more fun when you go down to > local county databases they all have their own projections scheme for > better fit to the grid. Reading in Proj4 projection definitions file > there seems to be many "pulkovo" zones in 1995, maybe the same

Re: [OSM-talk] Anyone familiar with Pulkova 1932 coordinates?

2008-11-21 Thread Erik Johansson
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 9:32 PM, Gustav Foseid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I got the official coordinates for all the border stones and markers along > the Norwegian-Russian border. The points are taken from the official > protocol, and are in Pulkovo 1932 coordinate system. > > Does anyone have e

Re: [OSM-talk] Ordnance Survey tries to reinforce its stranglehold over "derived" geographic data in the UK

2008-11-21 Thread Erik Johansson
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 5:46 PM, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > foot= might mean I can walk it. The word doesn't imply that it's a > right-of-way. Much better to put the administrative designation on an > access= tag The world is calling the UK, it wants its foot tag

Re: [OSM-talk] POI layer for [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2008-11-21 Thread Guenther Meyer
Am Donnerstag 20 November 2008 schrieb Mark Williams: > Simon Ward wrote: > > or a layer that allows you to select what POIs to display (although a > > long list of POIs might be a little unwieldy). > > that's one of the main reasons I developed a category based poi scheme for gpsdrive, which also

Re: [OSM-talk] [Legal-general] Ordnance Survey tries to reinforce its stranglehold over "derived" geographic data in the UK

2008-11-21 Thread Lester Caine
Sebastian Spaeth wrote: > Frederik Ramm wrote: >> All OS are doing is clarifying that a normal OS customer will probably >> *not* have the right to grant others (Google) a "perpetual, irrevocable, >> worldwide, royalty-free" license. >> >> This is true for OSM as well; my reading is that we must

Re: [OSM-talk] [Legal-general] Ordnance Survey tries to reinforce its stranglehold over "derived" geographic data in the UK

2008-11-21 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
Frederik Ramm wrote: > All OS are doing is clarifying that a normal OS customer will probably > *not* have the right to grant others (Google) a "perpetual, irrevocable, > worldwide, royalty-free" license. > > This is true for OSM as well; my reading is that we must not display OSM > data (say,