Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch 1.0

2009-05-22 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
I like how it shows junction nodes. It makes debugging easier. Kudos for this wonderful update! On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > Hi all, > > It's been an important 24 hours for the webmapping world. At last - > and after many months of expectation - UK cycle charity Sus

Re: [OSM-talk] Which software for SonyEricsson phones?

2009-05-22 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Valent Turkovic wrote: > On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 1:58 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar > wrote: > > I have a W760 (has an internal GPS) and TrekBuddy works for me for > logging > > purposes. > > How do you start logging and how do you save tracks with TrekBuddy? > Does it

Re: [OSM-talk] New Proposed Feature: Tagging the age and duration of existence of features

2009-05-22 Thread Nop
Hi! > start_date=, end_date= > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features#Properties > http://osmdoc.com/en/tag/start_date/ > http://osmdoc.com/en/tag/end_date/ > maybe someone could create the tag pages for those on wiki? > Actually, I think these tags as well as the proposal are a very ba

Re: [OSM-talk] New Proposed Feature: Tagging the age and duration of existence of features

2009-05-22 Thread Paul Johnson
Lester Caine wrote: > OJ W wrote: >> start_date=, end_date= >> >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features#Properties >> >> http://osmdoc.com/en/tag/start_date/ >> >> http://osmdoc.com/en/tag/end_date/ >> >> maybe someone could create the tag pages for those on wiki? >> >> 2009/5/22 Peter Dö

Re: [OSM-talk] extracting (simplified) boundary polygon files out of osm files for osmosis

2009-05-22 Thread Gary68
simone, i added the wish to the wiki page and added the following comment: I will think about it although I think that this is not an easy task in general. There of course are some geometries where it is easy, but... A while ago I had a similar problem and I got some hints. I have to evaluate the

Re: [OSM-talk] extracting (simplified) boundary polygon files out of osm files for osmosis

2009-05-22 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Gary68 wrote: > if you are interested in the topic have a look here: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Boundaries.pl Gary, I'd like to submit a feature request: a switch to have a circumscribed way around the given boundary: i.e. I would like to be able to fe

Re: [OSM-talk] How to contribute new tag and symbol?

2009-05-22 Thread Knut Arne Bjørndal
Ingo Lantschner writes: > Beside of the tag-name: I still have no idea, how new developed tags, > rules and symbols can be fed back into the project. For osmarender/ti...@home the best is to file a bug at trac.openstreetmap.org, with the component set to osmarender. Clearly marking it as havin

[OSM-talk] zones for motorway/in town/outof town?

2009-05-22 Thread Richard Mann
The rulesets for speeds are already complicated, and getting more complicated as streets are slowly converted from 50kph to 30kph (we're about to have a mass-conversion here in Oxford). Relations are complicated to the casual user, and probably best used for sequences of Ways where someone might

Re: [OSM-talk] zones for motorway/in town/outof town?

2009-05-22 Thread Ben Laenen
On Friday 22 May 2009, you wrote: > For years and years of my professional career I had to listen to the > stuff people (my customers) spouted about gathering data yet then had > absolutely no real idea of how it would be used.  That was some magic > computers worked.  Processing the data (of whic

Re: [OSM-talk] zones for motorway/in town/outof town?

2009-05-22 Thread Chris Hill
Ben Laenen wrote: On Friday 22 May 2009, Andy Allan wrote: On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Ben Laenen wrote: A typical city here would look like all roads inside the built-up area inside one relation, and when there are roads inside it with another spe

Re: [OSM-talk] Garmin eTrex Vista HCx - maps from openstreetmap

2009-05-22 Thread Roman Neumüller
> Hi, > what formats can I put on the micro sd card for this device to read? > So far I've managed to put a gpx file (which I converted from osm data > using JOSM), in it. > I thought it would use the gpx file as a map. Can that be done? See also http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/GroundTruth - g

[OSM-talk] Fwd: New Proposed Feature: Tagging the age and duration of existence of features

2009-05-22 Thread Peter Dörrie
-- Forwarded message -- From: Peter Dörrie Date: 2009/5/22 Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] New Proposed Feature: Tagging the age and duration of existence of features To: Lester Caine The problem comes with 'end_date', and since in some areas roads ARE > being destroyed, are they remov

[OSM-talk] extracting (simplified) boundary polygon files out of osm files for osmosis

2009-05-22 Thread Gary68
hi, if you are interested in the topic have a look here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Boundaries.pl cheers gary68 ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Highways tagging vs Polygon

2009-05-22 Thread Matt Amos
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Andy Allan wrote: > On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Tobias Knerr wrote: > >> As stated above, I'd certainly expect that it would be easier for >> #989431 to tag "DE:rural" info > > I missed the bit where "DE:rural" was proposed. How many roads outside > of Germ

Re: [OSM-talk] Highways tagging vs Polygon

2009-05-22 Thread Matt Amos
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Nic Roets wrote: > On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 3:37 AM, Matt Amos wrote: >> so... frequently running bots over entire countries to change the >> speed limit, or adding (by my count) about 20 million new tags to the >> DB, or dealing with inconsistencies between differ

Re: [OSM-talk] zones for motorway/in town/outof town?

2009-05-22 Thread Ben Laenen
On Friday 22 May 2009, you wrote: > See if you think that my stuff was about rendering, then you are > missing the point. It's all about data processing. Even the bit about > translucent colouring is not about rendering (that's easy - > opacity=0.7) it's about *processing* (unwinding relations into

Re: [OSM-talk] How to contribute new tag and symbol?

2009-05-22 Thread Robert Vollmert
On May 22, 2009, at 12:06, Ingo Lantschner wrote: > Beside of the tag-name: I still have no idea, how new developed tags, > rules and symbols can be fed back into the project. Some possibilities -- different people have different opinions on what's useful or required: * discuss it (mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] Highways tagging vs Polygon

2009-05-22 Thread Andy Allan
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Tobias Knerr wrote: > As stated above, I'd certainly expect that it would be easier for > #989431 to tag "DE:rural" info I missed the bit where "DE:rural" was proposed. How many roads outside of Germany are in Germany? How many roads in Germany are not in German

Re: [OSM-talk] Garmin eTrex Vista HCx - maps from openstreetmap

2009-05-22 Thread Chris Jones
Niklas Cholmkvist wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > what formats can I put on the micro sd card for this device to read? > So far I've managed to put a gpx file (which I converted from osm data > using JOSM), in it. > > I thought it would use the gpx file as a map

[OSM-talk] Garmin eTrex Vista HCx - maps from openstreetmap

2009-05-22 Thread Niklas Cholmkvist
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, what formats can I put on the micro sd card for this device to read? So far I've managed to put a gpx file (which I converted from osm data using JOSM), in it. I thought it would use the gpx file as a map. Can that be done? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATU

Re: [OSM-talk] zones for motorway/in town/outof town?

2009-05-22 Thread Andy Allan
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Ben Laenen wrote: > On Friday 22 May 2009, Andy Allan wrote: >> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Ben Laenen > wrote: >> > A typical city here would look like all roads inside the built-up >> > area inside one relation, and when there are roads inside it with >> >

Re: [OSM-talk] zones for motorway/in town/outof town?

2009-05-22 Thread Ben Laenen
On Friday 22 May 2009, Andy Allan wrote: > On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Ben Laenen wrote: > > A typical city here would look like all roads inside the built-up > > area inside one relation, and when there are roads inside it with > > another speed limit, tag those ways with maxspeed. > > Jesu

Re: [OSM-talk] How to contribute new tag and symbol?

2009-05-22 Thread Ingo Lantschner
Am 22.05.2009 um 03:56 schrieb Adam Schreiber: >>> I'd just call it a hotel. >>> >> >> IT don't think it qualifies as a hotel at all because you can and >> have >> to do most of the "housework" yourself there. What about >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacation_rental > > I'm not sure that fits

Re: [OSM-talk] Highways tagging vs Polygon

2009-05-22 Thread Tobias Knerr
Nic Roets schrieb: > What do you do when the DB says "Main Street" and the sign say "North Road" > ? To make that decision, I need information from the ground and maybe some intuition if I don't want to check the whole length of the street. But I don't need to dust off my book of traffic laws. I t

Re: [OSM-talk] New Proposed Feature: Tagging the age and duration of existence of features

2009-05-22 Thread Lester Caine
OJ W wrote: > start_date=, end_date= > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features#Properties > > http://osmdoc.com/en/tag/start_date/ > > http://osmdoc.com/en/tag/end_date/ > > maybe someone could create the tag pages for those on wiki? > > 2009/5/22 Peter Dörrie : >> Hi everybody, >> >

Re: [OSM-talk] Which software for SonyEricsson phones?

2009-05-22 Thread Valent Turkovic
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 9:25 AM, John McKerrell wrote: > I might as well complete the list, I've been using MobiTrack Pro for years > but I'm not sure you can get it any more (and it cost $20). I've more > recently been using Mobile Trails Explorer which seems ok, though I'm mainly > using it for

Re: [OSM-talk] Which software for SonyEricsson phones?

2009-05-22 Thread Valent Turkovic
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 1:58 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: > I have a W760 (has an internal GPS) and TrekBuddy works for me for logging > purposes. How do you start logging and how do you save tracks with TrekBuddy? Does it support external bluetooth GPS devices? -- http://kernelreloaded.blog

Re: [OSM-talk] Highways tagging vs Polygon

2009-05-22 Thread Nic Roets
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 3:37 AM, Matt Amos wrote: > > so... frequently running bots over entire countries to change the > speed limit, or adding (by my count) about 20 million new tags to the > DB, or dealing with inconsistencies between different editors, etc... > that doesn't hold any water? >

Re: [OSM-talk] New Proposed Feature: Tagging the age and duration of existence of features

2009-05-22 Thread OJ W
start_date=, end_date= http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features#Properties http://osmdoc.com/en/tag/start_date/ http://osmdoc.com/en/tag/end_date/ maybe someone could create the tag pages for those on wiki? 2009/5/22 Peter Dörrie : > Hi everybody, > > I made a proposal for tagging "the

[OSM-talk] New Proposed Feature: Tagging the age and duration of existence of features

2009-05-22 Thread Peter Dörrie
Hi everybody, I made a proposal for tagging "the 4th dimension". Hope you like it ;) http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/4th_Dimension Greetings, Peter ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listin

Re: [OSM-talk] Highways tagging vs Polygon

2009-05-22 Thread Nic Roets
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 1:19 AM, Tobias Knerr wrote > > > > But it will make it a lot simpler for mappers. If you see a "No Cycling" > > sign on a trunk road and want to compare it to the DB, then you don't > need > > to think about where the country border polygon ends. > > So when I see that the

Re: [OSM-talk] Which software for SonyEricsson phones?

2009-05-22 Thread John McKerrell
I might as well complete the list, I've been using MobiTrack Pro for years but I'm not sure you can get it any more (and it cost $20). I've more recently been using Mobile Trails Explorer which seems ok, though I'm mainly using it for logging my location on mapme.at, rather than for storing