Re: [OSM-talk] Wrong scale in slippy map

2009-04-23 Thread Juan Lucas Dominguez Rubio
Jukka Rahkonen wrote: > I believe also that the scale bar is not right. Distorsion is > one thing, it makes Sweden (and Finland) to look visually > ridiculous on the map, At the deep zoom levels (zoom=6 and higher numbers), Sweden and Finland don't look "large", because you don't see other coun

[OSM-talk] Complex turn restrictions

2009-04-23 Thread Paul Johnson
In Salem, Oregon, I have encountered a ramp that I can't quite seem to make a restriction that JOSM thinks is valid, so I'm wondering what the expected way to handle such a situation is. The area in question is visible at http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=44.929397&lon=-123.024784&zoom=18&layers=B

Re: [OSM-talk] Turn restrictions ambiguity

2009-04-23 Thread marcus.wolschon
On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 23:49:54 +0100, Matt Amos wrote: > On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 9:16 PM, David Earl > wrote: >> If one were to refer to nodes on the two ways instead of the way itself, >> it would remove the ambiguity wouldn't it? Albeit more complicated for >> the consumer to work out, in that it

Re: [OSM-talk] [talk-ph] Reviving plan(s) for Tagaytay Mapping party

2009-04-23 Thread maning sambale
OK to, we can share mapping/surveying techniques in the mapping event :) What I do is: 1. old school - gps and notebook 2. gps and geotagged photo I think ed do voicemapping. Rally, maybe you can try synchronizing your notes to the gps timestamp automatically. Something like someone encodes the

Re: [OSM-talk] Delay before the data is visible?

2009-04-23 Thread Brett Henderson
Hi Steve, some responses from an osmosis point of view below. Steve Hill wrote: > On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, Shaun McDonald wrote: > > >> The renderers are delayed until the minutely diff are working again. >> There are some bugs there that need to be resolved first. Then there >> will be a delay of

Re: [OSM-talk] Turn restrictions ambiguity

2009-04-23 Thread Matt Amos
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 9:16 PM, David Earl wrote: > If one were to refer to nodes on the two ways instead of the way itself, > it would remove the ambiguity wouldn't it? Albeit more complicated for > the consumer to work out, in that it would have to decide which way the > two nodes were on. an

Re: [OSM-talk] Turn restrictions ambiguity

2009-04-23 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 23 Apr 2009, at 22:56, andrzej zaborowski wrote: > 2009/4/23 SteveC : >> >> On 23 Apr 2009, at 12:32, Teemu Koskinen wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:25:36 +0300, SteveC >>> wrote: >>> On 23 Apr 2009, at 12:17, Teemu Koskinen wrote: > On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:34:05 +030

Re: [OSM-talk] Turn restrictions ambiguity

2009-04-23 Thread Tobias Knerr
David Earl schrieb: > If one were to refer to nodes on the two ways instead of the way itself, > it would remove the ambiguity wouldn't it? There was a proposal that suggested exactly that, "xrestriction": http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php?title=Relation:xrestriction Hasn't been used a lot.

Re: [OSM-talk] Turn restrictions ambiguity

2009-04-23 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/4/23 Aun Johnsen (via Webmail) : > On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:56:09 +0200, andrzej zaborowski > wrote: >> Or something like this is common: >> >> B  C >>  \  | >>   \ | >>    \| >>     | >>     | >>     A >> >> where the straight line is considered a turn even though it's >> straight, and the tur

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Substantial meaning

2009-04-23 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
El Jueves, 23 de Abril de 2009, SteveC escribió: > Basically, what do we feel substantial means when someone takes some > part of the data? How much is 'substantial'? [...] > We're not looking for a legal opinion [...] rather, what do we think it > means? My personal point of view is: If the e

Re: [OSM-talk] Turn restrictions ambiguity

2009-04-23 Thread Aun Johnsen (via Webmail)
On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:56:09 +0200, andrzej zaborowski wrote: > 2009/4/23 SteveC : >> >> On 23 Apr 2009, at 12:32, Teemu Koskinen wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:25:36 +0300, SteveC wrote: >>> On 23 Apr 2009, at 12:17, Teemu Koskinen wrote: > On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:34:05 +

Re: [OSM-talk] Wrong scale in slippy map

2009-04-23 Thread Yann Coupin
But this is not flawless. For instance here it's as if Canada was 200km wide and Europe & Asia combined 300 miles wide. http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=87.797228,-38.671875&spn=51.090044,360&z=1 Yann Le 23 avr. 09 à 16:23, Lars Aronsson a écrit : Google Maps shows the correct scale and i

Re: [OSM-talk] Turn restrictions ambiguity

2009-04-23 Thread David Earl
If one were to refer to nodes on the two ways instead of the way itself, it would remove the ambiguity wouldn't it? Albeit more complicated for the consumer to work out, in that it would have to decide which way the two nodes were on. |A *a | c| b -*---*---*-

Re: [OSM-talk] osmosis Problem with bounding-polygon and v0.6?

2009-04-23 Thread Karl Newman
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Marco Lechner - FOSSGIS e.V. < marco.lech...@fossgis.de> wrote: > hi karl, > > ./bin/osmosis --read-xml-0.6 file="path/planet-090421.osm.bz2" > compressionMethod=bzip2 --bounding-polygon-0.6 file=path/aoi.pff > --write-xml-0.6 file=path/aoi_2009-04-21_v06.osm > >

Re: [OSM-talk] Turn restrictions ambiguity

2009-04-23 Thread Tobias Knerr
SteveC schrieb: > Ok so in that case... why don't we make best practice to split your way > A in to two directions, rather than hundreds of little ways? You mean something like that ^A1 |A2 | | | | | | B ---*-*-- | | | | | v with

Re: [OSM-talk] Turn restrictions ambiguity

2009-04-23 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/4/23 SteveC : > > On 23 Apr 2009, at 12:32, Teemu Koskinen wrote: > >> On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:25:36 +0300, SteveC wrote: >> >>> >>> On 23 Apr 2009, at 12:17, Teemu Koskinen wrote: >>> On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:34:05 +0300, SteveC wrote: > I don't see a clear explanation as to

Re: [OSM-talk] Turn restrictions ambiguity

2009-04-23 Thread David Lynch
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 14:45, David Lynch wrote: > On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 14:25, SteveC wrote: > >> If both from and to ways continue after the via point and neither is > >> one-way, there's two possible ways to interpret it: the restriction > >> could apply when coming from either of the ends

Re: [OSM-talk] Turn restrictions ambiguity

2009-04-23 Thread Teemu Koskinen
On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:34:51 +0300, Tobias Knerr wrote: > >|A >| >| > x| B > ---*-- >| >| >| > > Imagine this situation, ways A and B with a common node x. You are > moving on A from north to south and are not allowed to turn into

Re: [OSM-talk] osmosis Problem with bounding-polygon and v0.6?

2009-04-23 Thread Marco Lechner - FOSSGIS e.V.
hi karl, ./bin/osmosis --read-xml-0.6 file="path/planet-090421.osm.bz2" compressionMethod=bzip2 --bounding-polygon-0.6 file=path/aoi.pff --write-xml-0.6 file=path/aoi_2009-04-21_v06.osm gives (almost) the same error as pure v0.5: Unable to parse xml file path/planet-090421.osm.bz2. publicId=(

Re: [OSM-talk] Turn restrictions ambiguity

2009-04-23 Thread SteveC
On 23 Apr 2009, at 12:34, Tobias Knerr wrote: > SteveC wrote: >> On 23 Apr 2009, at 12:17, Teemu Koskinen wrote: >>> If both from and to ways continue after the via point and neither is >>> one-way, there's two possible ways to interpret it: the restriction >>> could apply when coming from either

Re: [OSM-talk] Turn restrictions ambiguity

2009-04-23 Thread SteveC
On 23 Apr 2009, at 12:32, Teemu Koskinen wrote: > On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:25:36 +0300, SteveC wrote: > >> >> On 23 Apr 2009, at 12:17, Teemu Koskinen wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:34:05 +0300, SteveC >>> wrote: >>> I don't see a clear explanation as to why there is ambiguity if you

Re: [OSM-talk] Turn restrictions ambiguity

2009-04-23 Thread Tobias Knerr
SteveC wrote: > On 23 Apr 2009, at 12:17, Teemu Koskinen wrote: >> If both from and to ways continue after the via point and neither is >> one-way, there's two possible ways to interpret it: the restriction >> could apply when coming from either of the ends of the from-way. >> This of course

Re: [OSM-talk] Turn restrictions ambiguity

2009-04-23 Thread Teemu Koskinen
On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:25:36 +0300, SteveC wrote: > > On 23 Apr 2009, at 12:17, Teemu Koskinen wrote: > >> On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:34:05 +0300, SteveC wrote: >> >>> I don't see a clear explanation as to why there is ambiguity if you >>> don't do turn restrictions at the end of ways on the wiki. T

Re: [OSM-talk] Turn restrictions ambiguity

2009-04-23 Thread SteveC
On 23 Apr 2009, at 12:17, Teemu Koskinen wrote: > On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:34:05 +0300, SteveC wrote: > >> I don't see a clear explanation as to why there is ambiguity if you >> don't do turn restrictions at the end of ways on the wiki. There is >> some stuff in the talk page >> >> http://wik

Re: [OSM-talk] Turn restrictions ambiguity

2009-04-23 Thread Teemu Koskinen
On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:34:05 +0300, SteveC wrote: > I don't see a clear explanation as to why there is ambiguity if you > don't do turn restrictions at the end of ways on the wiki. There is > some stuff in the talk page > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Relation:restriction > > An

[OSM-legal-talk] Substantial meaning

2009-04-23 Thread SteveC
Has there been any discussion on what people here feel 'substantial' means in the context of the definitions of the ODbL? I've banged around the wiki looking but might might have missed it. Here's the first important bit relevant to this in the ODbL: ""Extraction" – Means the permanent or temporar

Re: [OSM-talk] osmosis Problem with bounding-polygon and v0.6?

2009-04-23 Thread Karl Newman
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 7:06 AM, Marco Lechner - FOSSGIS e.V. < marco.lech...@fossgis.de> wrote: > Hi, > > I try to cut the planetfile from 2009-04-21 using osmosis: > > ./bin/osmosis --read-xml-0.6 file=path/planet-090421.osm.bz2 > compressionMethod=bzip2 --bp file=path/aoi.pff --write-xml-0.6 >

[OSM-talk] Turn restrictions ambiguity

2009-04-23 Thread SteveC
I don't see a clear explanation as to why there is ambiguity if you don't do turn restrictions at the end of ways on the wiki. There is some stuff in the talk page http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Relation:restriction Anyone care to provide an explanation? The reason I ask is

Re: [OSM-talk] mapnik weekly rendering after API 0.6

2009-04-23 Thread Joe Richards
>> Out of interest, since Mapnik seems to process the entire world quite >> quickly, why is it not invoked when a tile is dirty, like osmarender? > > It is. Either a tile is requested in real-time (if it doesn't exist) or is > queued if the tile is old (via render_old). mod_tile is an amazing

[OSM-talk] Re : Placeopedia replacement

2009-04-23 Thread Yves Buscema
Hi, I'm currently working on a project that aim to answer those questions + other on the tourism/free time subjects. I am currently looking for a server to host the site and will describe the project on the wiki by the end of the week. So it is funny for me to see that such subject could inter

Re: [OSM-talk] Wrong scale in slippy map

2009-04-23 Thread Lars Aronsson
Jukka Rahkonen wrote: > I believe also that the scale bar is not right. Distorsion is > one thing, it makes Sweden (and Finland) to look visually > ridiculous on the map, At the deep zoom levels (zoom=6 and higher numbers), Sweden and Finland don't look "large", because you don't see other cou

Re: [OSM-talk] Placeopedia replacement

2009-04-23 Thread Mikel Maron
Placeopedia is a project by mySociety, allies to OpenStreetMap. They've used OSM in the Time Travel Maps project .. http://www.mysociety.org/2007/more-travel-maps/ So, I'd suggest approaching them on one of their mailing lists and suggesting the change. Or I believe the code is open source, so

[OSM-talk] New business strategy for Ordnance Survey announced (fwd)]

2009-04-23 Thread David Earl
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:37:16 + From: Jack Kirby Reply-To: ordnancem...@yahoogroups.co.uk To: ordnancem...@yahoogroups.co.uk Subject: [ordnancemaps] New business strategy for Ordnance Survey announced A press release containing the latest developments

[OSM-talk] osmosis Problem with bounding-polygon and v0.6?

2009-04-23 Thread Marco Lechner - FOSSGIS e.V.
Hi, I try to cut the planetfile from 2009-04-21 using osmosis: ./bin/osmosis --read-xml-0.6 file=path/planet-090421.osm.bz2 compressionMethod=bzip2 --bp file=path/aoi.pff --write-xml-0.6 file=path/aoi_2009-04-21_v06.osm and get the error message: ... Task 2-bp does not support data provided by

Re: [OSM-talk] Any chance of getting RSS/Atom feeds for those changeset/history pages?

2009-04-23 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 1:36 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: > >> Getting RSS/Atom feeds for these seems to be the logical next step. (I >> prefer Atom 1.0 + GeoRSS extension instead of RSS 2.0, by the way.) I >> assume >> that it'd be *extremely* easy to do this: ju

Re: [OSM-talk] Wrong scale in slippy map

2009-04-23 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
There's a trac ticket submitted two weeks ago for this: http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/1704 I imagine that the solution would be similar to how Google does their map scale indicator in Google Maps. The map scale should be correct for the latitude at the center of the map view. The map scale

Re: [OSM-talk] Any chance of getting RSS/Atom feeds for those changeset/history pages?

2009-04-23 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 12:38 AM, Andy Allan wrote: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar > wrote: > > Getting RSS/Atom feeds for these seems to be the logical next step. (I > > prefer Atom 1.0 + GeoRSS extension instead of RSS 2.0, by the way.) I > assume > > that it'd be *extr

Re: [OSM-talk] Africa Road data import

2009-04-23 Thread andrzej zaborowski
Oops, I wanted that off-list, sorry 2009/4/23 andrzej zaborowski : > Hi Robert, > > 2009/4/22 Robert Soden : >> We've received several emails from folks wanting to help us in this >> process.  Now that we (think) we've got our feet under us, we hope to >> work with them as we process the remaining

Re: [OSM-talk] Africa Road data import

2009-04-23 Thread andrzej zaborowski
Hi Robert, 2009/4/22 Robert Soden : > We've received several emails from folks wanting to help us in this > process.  Now that we (think) we've got our feet under us, we hope to > work with them as we process the remaining data. Wonderful job on the work with UN and the roads import so far. I'd

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-talk-be] naming tramlines

2009-04-23 Thread Martijn van Exel
-1. This would indeed be satisfying the wish for nice line labeling on tram lines in the short term. However, implementing this one-time might encourage others to just tag tram lines in this fashion and not even bother about the relations. You know how these things go, as soon as you start doing th

Re: [OSM-talk] Delay before the data is visible?

2009-04-23 Thread D Tucny
2009/4/22 Ed Loach > > How large is the current delay before uploaded data became > > visible? > > My question is slightly different. I uploaded two changesets > successfully earlier from JOSM (the third took over an hour so I > clicked Abort and ended up losing my edits, so lucky there weren't >

Re: [OSM-talk] Wrong scale in slippy map

2009-04-23 Thread Andy Deakin
> >If you want it done right, then your scale bar has detatchable end > >points. You drag one end of the scale bar to one end of the feature, > >the other to the other, and then the scale bar warps itself into a > >great-circle curve and tells you how long it is. > > Which would actually be an inc

Re: [OSM-talk] Wrong scale in slippy map

2009-04-23 Thread Donald Allwright
>If you want it done right, then your scale bar has detatchable end >points. You drag one end of the scale bar to one end of the feature, >the other to the other, and then the scale bar warps itself into a >great-circle curve and tells you how long it is. Which would actually be an incredibly cool

Re: [OSM-talk] Wrong scale in slippy map

2009-04-23 Thread Andy Allan
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Peter Childs wrote: > 2009/4/23 Jacek Konieczny : >> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 08:23:16AM +, Jukka Rahkonen wrote: >>> not mean that these countries are twice as large in the real life.  Scale >>> bar >>> values, if presented in meters/feet, should be adjusted

Re: [OSM-talk] Placeopedia replacement

2009-04-23 Thread Mike Ryan
Thanks Nic. That seems to be more for tracks. In it's simplest form, I'm just looking for a map with Points of Interest highlighted on it, ie, tourist attractions and things to see and do 2009/4/23 Nic Roets : > > http://gpsies.com/ is not opensource and it defaults to google maps, but it > has o

Re: [OSM-talk] Wrong scale in slippy map

2009-04-23 Thread Peter Childs
2009/4/23 Jacek Konieczny : > On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 08:23:16AM +, Jukka Rahkonen wrote: >> not mean that these countries are twice as large in the real life.  Scale bar >> values, if presented in meters/feet, should be adjusted according to >> latitude. >> Even then it cannot be correct for

Re: [OSM-talk] Delay before the data is visible?

2009-04-23 Thread Steve Hill
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, Shaun McDonald wrote: > The renderers are delayed until the minutely diff are working again. > There are some bugs there that need to be resolved first. Then there > will be a delay of a few hours/days once the diffs come back up. Some curiosities/observations: 1. Is OSM now

Re: [OSM-talk] mapnik weekly rendering after API 0.6

2009-04-23 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
El Jueves, 23 de Abril de 2009, Joe Richards escribió: > Out of interest, since Mapnik seems to process the entire world quite > quickly, why is it not invoked when a tile is dirty, like osmarender? It is. Either a tile is requested in real-time (if it doesn't exist) or is queued if the tile is

Re: [OSM-talk] Delay before the data is visible?

2009-04-23 Thread Steve Hill
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, Jonathan Bennett wrote: > It could be that you get no warning when the upload fails under certain > circumstances. Hasn't happened to me on the latest SVN build, though. I noticed the exact opposite to this on Tuesday - JOSM thought the upload had failed, the OSM servers tho

Re: [OSM-talk] Placeopedia replacement

2009-04-23 Thread Nic Roets
http://gpsies.com/ is not opensource and it defaults to google maps, but it has openstreetmap support, as well as many other cool features. On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Mike Ryan wrote: > All > > I used to use a site called placeopedia that showed a map with > Wikipedia articles located on

Re: [OSM-talk] Wrong scale in slippy map

2009-04-23 Thread Jacek Konieczny
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 08:23:16AM +, Jukka Rahkonen wrote: > not mean that these countries are twice as large in the real life. Scale bar > values, if presented in meters/feet, should be adjusted according to latitude. > Even then it cannot be correct for the whole map, but showing the corrre

[OSM-talk] Placeopedia replacement

2009-04-23 Thread Mike Ryan
All I used to use a site called placeopedia that showed a map with Wikipedia articles located on it. http://www.placeopedia.com/ Quite useful if you're planning a route and you want to see interesting sights slong the way Is anyone aware of a similar openstreetmap replacment? Cheers Mike _

Re: [OSM-talk] Wrong scale in slippy map

2009-04-23 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Lars Aronsson wrote: > Looking at the area where I live, > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=58.407&lon=15.600&zoom=18&layers=B000FTF > > these buildings are 11 metres wide and not 22 metres as the scale > indicates. The difference is explained by the latitude 58.4 > degrees and cosine(60°

Re: [OSM-talk] Wrong scale in slippy map

2009-04-23 Thread Dirk-Lüder Kreie
Lars Aronsson schrieb: > Looking at the area where I live, > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=58.407&lon=15.600&zoom=18&layers=B000FTF > > these buildings are 11 metres wide and not 22 metres as the scale > indicates. The difference is explained by the latitude 58.4 > degrees and cosine(60°) =

Re: [OSM-talk] Africa Road data import

2009-04-23 Thread Ivan Garcia
Hello Robert, thks for your contribution. While waiting for OSM to render your tiles, you can take a look to this one that has realtime rendering and compare it with Google Maps and Yahoo Maps layers to check ur data. http://sautter.com/map/ Best Regards. On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Rober

Re: [OSM-talk] Wrong scale in slippy map

2009-04-23 Thread Jukka Rahkonen
Juan Lucas Dominguez Rubio prodevelop.es> writes: > That is happening in Scandinavia with Spherical Mercator: > Sweden is ridiculously large, but sorry, that's the way it is > using that projection, so the scale bar is right. The problem > is that the projection is not good for that part of the

Re: [OSM-talk] mapnik weekly rendering after API 0.6

2009-04-23 Thread Joe Richards
>> Is the weekly Mapnik rendering process still running after the upgrade to >> API 0.6? If so, which day is it scheduled for? > > It will still occurs on Wednesdays. I have started off the import this > evening so it should begin rendering the latest changes tomorrow. so it's normally on a

Re: [OSM-talk] Africa Road data import

2009-04-23 Thread Neil Penman
Hi Robert, Looks good.  Where did the UN agencies get their data from?  Did all this data originate from within the UN agencies through GPS traces or did they source it from somewhere else? Regards Neil --- On Thu, 23/4/09, Robert Soden wrote: From: Robert Soden Subject: [OSM-talk] Africa

Re: [OSM-talk] Wrong scale in slippy map

2009-04-23 Thread Juan Lucas Dominguez Rubio
> Looking at the area where I live, > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=58.407&lon=15.600&zoom=18&layers=B000FTF > > these buildings are 11 metres wide and not 22 metres as the scale > indicates. The difference is explained by the latitude 58.4 > degrees and cosine(60°) = 0.5. > > Maybe one year