Igor Shubovych wrote:
>Sent: 17 February 2009 6:49 PM
>To: talk@openstreetmap.org
>Subject: [OSM-talk] OSM wiki local copy
>
>Hello all,
>
>My friend asked me this question:
>
>Does anybody know how to download the local copy of OSM wiki? For instance,
>Wikipedia guys do provide DB dumps
>(http://e
Hello,
there's some strange coastline data near longitude 180. See eg
http://openstreetmap.org/browse/way/24020654
I thought I'd ask before trying to fix this, in case I'd flood the
world otherwise.
I haven't found an editor that works well in this area -- they all
seem to think the world en
There is now a talk-lb Lebanon-specific topics and discussion mailing list
available in Arabic, English and French. Thank you to Michel for initiating
and hosting this forum.
For details on how to subscribe to this and other country, language, and
topic-specific OSM mailing lists, see
http:
There is special page to request export of data as XML dump
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Special:Export
And a list of all pages:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Special:AllPages
I have tool that makes complete XML dump using these two pages quite
effectively (tested on wikipedia).
It n
There is now a talk-my Malaysia-specific topics and discussion mailing list
available.. Thank you to contributor Nyem for initiating and hosting this
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Robert Vollmert wrote:
> Hello,
>
> there's some strange coastline data near longitude 180. See eg
> http://openstreetmap.org/browse/way/24020654
>
> I thought I'd ask before trying to fix this, in case I'd flood the
> world otherwise.
>
> I haven
Elena of Valhalla writes:
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 8:48 PM, Matthias Julius wrote:
>> You could create an "architect" relation and have the buildings be
>> members of that.
>
> that looks like a category, not a relation: I was under the impression
> that this use of relations was discouraged.
2009/2/19 Robert (Jamie) Munro :
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> Robert Vollmert wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> there's some strange coastline data near longitude 180. See eg
>> http://openstreetmap.org/browse/way/24020654
>>
>> I thought I'd ask before trying to fix this, in case I'd
On Feb 19, 2009, at 15:38, andrzej zaborowski wrote:
> 2009/2/19 Robert (Jamie) Munro :
>> The right solution here is to map 0-360 degrees to the unsigned
>> integers
>> 0-2^32. When you get an overflow, the right thing happens. It also
>> makes
>> the most efficient use of the resolution avai
Matthias Julius wrote:
> What is the definition of a category here?
>
> I would call a category something like "buildings that are 29 strories
> tall". An architect I would call an (abstract) object that can have
> other attributes as well like a birthdate, an email address and so
> on. (Whether
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 8:48 PM, Matthias Julius wrote:
>
> Is the architect an attribute of the building or is the building an
> attribute of the architect?
>From a mapping perspective, I would say that the architect clearly is an
attribute of the building. From an art history perspective, I wou
Jonathan Bennett writes:
> Matthias Julius wrote:
>> What is the definition of a category here?
>>
>> I would call a category something like "buildings that are 29 strories
>> tall". An architect I would call an (abstract) object that can have
>> other attributes as well like a birthdate, an ema
On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Matthias Julius wrote:
>> Yes it's useful, but I don't see how this addresses the problems of
>> OSB being closed. Is this not a third party implementation of the OSB
>> JS interface which is not running on the main OSB site, and is the OSB
>> bug DB not still closed with no d
Steve Hill wrote:
> I find OSB very useful (especially with the JOSM plugin), but I'd be
> really interested to know what the rationale is behind having a separate
> database rather than storing the bugs as nodes in OSM itself?
Haven't we discussed that about a hundred times before...
The simp
Matthias Julius wrote:
> I just prefer to explicitly link objects together over duplication of
> data.
>
As long as the buildings are tagged consistently, having the tag is
probably enough -- you can then use XAPI to query the DB for all
buildings by a particular architect.
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Tom Hughes wrote:
>Sent: 19 February 2009 8:53 PM
>To: Steve Hill
>Cc: talk@openstreetmap.org; Matthias Julius
>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Openstreetbugs source code
>
>Steve Hill wrote:
>
>> I find OSB very useful (especially with the JOSM plugin), but I'd be
>> really interested to know what the rat
Hi all,
I recently discovered the site available by the US Army with millions of
world geonames (towns, etc) here
[1] http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/namefiles.htm
The OSM wiki says that there is no legal problem using it, altought we
should put the source tag
[2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org
Jonathan Bennett writes:
> Matthias Julius wrote:
>> I just prefer to explicitly link objects together over duplication of
>> data.
>>
> As long as the buildings are tagged consistently, having the tag is
> probably enough -- you can then use XAPI to query the DB for all
> buildings by a par
Hi,
There's a csv2osm script (in svn I think) which will handle the
conversion and upload, but you'll want to stop it from uploading
automatically to check first. The only place I have looked at using
this data source is for Turkey, and it didn't seem too accurate - many
places were quite some di
On 19 Feb 2009, at 22:16, Matthias Julius wrote:
> Jonathan Bennett writes:
>
>> Matthias Julius wrote:
>>> I just prefer to explicitly link objects together over duplication
>>> of
>>> data.
>>>
>> As long as the buildings are tagged consistently, having the tag is
>> probably enough -- you c
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Ivan Garcia wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I recently discovered the site available by the US Army with millions of
> world geonames (towns, etc) here
> [1] http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/namefiles.htm
>
> The OSM wiki says that there is no legal problem using it, altou
Check out Mike Collinson's script
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Ewmjc#Miscellaneous_Offerings
In the Philippines, we are doing incremental import (first town names,
then islands, then mountain peaks, etc).
This way, we can edit the data in manageable chunks. There are a lot
of errors in
Hi,
Shaun McDonald wrote:
> And if you use a relation, people won't bother searching for the
> relation.
Agreed. Anything that logically is an attribute should also be modelled
as a tag not a relation. Otherwise the next thing is that people say "I
don't want to tag highway=residential becaus
Hi,
We are seeing suspected copyrighted data added in the Philippines.
In OSM:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=15.35855&lon=120.53538&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF
See the discussion here:
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.openstreetmap.region.ph/469
We have sent a message to the mapper but g
hi,
was trying to get WMS plugin to work in JOSM and compile webkit-image.cpp. I
am getting this error:
[r...@xlquest gpa]# g++ -I /usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.4.3/include/Qt webkit-
image.cpp -o webkit-image -lQtCore -lQtWebKit -lQtGui -s -O2
On Friday 20 February 2009 02:31:52 Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
> hi,
>
> was trying to get WMS plugin to work in JOSM and compile webkit-image.cpp.
> I am getting this error:
>
> [r...@xlquest gpa]# g++ -I /usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.4.3/include/Qt
> webkit- image.cpp -o webkit-image -lQtCore -lQtWebK
On Friday 20 February 2009 07:01:52 Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
> was trying to get WMS plugin to work in JOSM and compile webkit-image.cpp.
> I am getting this error:
>
> [r...@xlquest gpa]# g++ -I /usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.4.3/include/Qt
> webkit- image.cpp -o webkit-image -lQtCore -lQtWebKit -lQtG
On Friday 20 February 2009 09:39:03 Cartinus wrote:
> > [r...@xlquest gpa]# g++ -I /usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.4.3/include/Qt
> > webkit- image.cpp -o webkit-image -lQtCore -lQtWebKit -lQtGui -s -O2
> > webkit-image.cpp:62:142: error: webkit-image.h: No such file or directory
> >
> > where do I find
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Matthias Julius wrote:
>> Matthias Julius wrote:
>>> What is the definition of a category here?
> This is all true and after rereading
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relations/Relations_are_not_Categories
> I agree that the architect issue is a category in th
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