Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping party suggestion for SOTM

Hi Aevar, Most coffeshops do offer more than just beverages. In general you are welcome to order: Uitsmijter : 2 bread , ham and 2-3 eggs Tostie: 2 bread ham and cheese , grilled together Broodje : white or brown bread with any sliced meat or cheese (10's of choices) Broodje gezond: Folde

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping party suggestion for SOTM

2009/7/9 Cartinus : > On Thursday 09 July 2009 02:52:04 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: >> Only to find to my disappointment that not only did the map >> of Amsterdam not have an area (or even a POI!) for the Red Light >> district > Main Problem I can see with mapping Red Light Districts is that th

[OSM-talk] A possible way to promote OSM

Tracing rivers and such on OSM gave me an idea for a possible way to promote OSM, geography students. I mean what better way to teach kids about geography than doing a little cartography :) ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http:/

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping party suggestion for SOTM

On Thursday 09 July 2009 02:52:04 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > Only to find to my disappointment that not only did the map > of Amsterdam not have an area (or even a POI!) for the Red Light > district I was looking for the shortest walking route from Amsterdam Central Station to the SOTM venu

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping party suggestion for SOTM

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > So here's hoping that SOTM visitors to Amsterdam will be able to > rectify this situation. Sadly(?) the city of Amsterdam is about to close virtually the entire redlight district... so I guess it would be a historic

[OSM-talk] Mapping party suggestion for SOTM

A few months ago in some local news media a talking head claimed that Amsterdam's Red Light District wasn't in central Amsterdam and moreover that it didn't contain any Coffee shops, i.e. ones of the type that'll sell you more than just beverages. So of course I headed over to OSM to prove both of

Re: [OSM-talk] Launching bestofosm.org

Martijn van Exel wrote: >Great! Very useful for presentations and workshops as well. Love it. >How about zoos? >* Antwerp http://osm.org/go/0EpZNzMEN- >* Berlin http://osm.org/go/0MZu8WGXg- >* Amsterdam http://osm.org/go/0...@61hts- >There's bound to be more micromapped zoos! At the two dutch zoo

[OSM-talk] Workshop "Crowd Sourcing for Updating National Databases"

Right now I was pointed to this event English invitation (from the same site): http://tinyurl.com/n7em9m Among others Google participates, OSM not. Didn't "OSM" know about this event or is participation undesirable? If

Re: [OSM-talk] upload error using bulk_upload.py

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 17:36, maning sambale wrote: > I get this error using bulk_upload.py: > > $ python bulk_upload.py --input=pas_osm.osm --user= > --password= --comment="*" > bulk_upload.py:42: DeprecationWarning: the sets module is deprecated >  import sets > Uploading change set:

Re: [OSM-talk] Species names

My rule of thumb would of be label it in english rather that local name. But that's because I am english. Using latin would put some people off from tagging Zoos. Jack On Jul 8, 2009 5:17 PM, "Ed Avis" wrote: Dave Stubbs randomjunk.co.uk> writes: >>>Rather than plant_type=orange_tree or simil

Re: [OSM-talk] Species names

Dave Stubbs randomjunk.co.uk> writes: >>>Rather than plant_type=orange_tree or similar, I think it would make more >>>sense to tag plants and trees with the scientific (Latin) name of their >>>species or hybrid. [zoos] >>I think this would be better tagged with scientific names for the animals

Re: [OSM-talk] Species names (was: Potted plants vs. garden beds)

2009/7/7 Ed Avis : > Ed Avis waniasset.com> writes: > >>Rather than plant_type=orange_tree or similar, I think it would make more >>sense >>to tag plants and trees with the scientific (Latin) name of their species or >>hybrid.  These are already standardized and the local language translations >>

Re: [OSM-talk] Making an offline OpenStreetMap CD/DVD ?

On Friday 03 July 2009 12:47:42 maning sambale wrote: > Is it possible for Marble to cache the data for offline viewing? Yes and no. Yes, in the sense that if you browse a certain area, the tiles that are downloaded are cached in the disk cache. No, in the sense that only the tiles that are act

[OSM-talk] planet.o.o - no hourly diffs since 20090708 0:00

Hi, planet.openstreetmap.org does not have any hourly diffs since 0:00 this morning. Known bug? Havent seen any mention so far ... Flo PS: Minute diffs stop at 200907080153.osc.gz ... -- Florian Lohoff f...@rfc822.org +49-171-2280134 Those who would give up

Re: [OSM-talk] SteveC; C = Cool

On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Stefan de Konink wrote: > On Wed, 8 Jul 2009, Matt Amos wrote: > >> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:26 PM, Stefan de Konink wrote: >> > SteveC wrote: >> >> inventing nodes, ways, segments (remember them?) >> > >> > You *did not* invent the spaghetti model, please give cre

Re: [OSM-talk] SteveC; C = Cool

On Wed, 8 Jul 2009, Matt Amos wrote: > On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:26 PM, Stefan de Konink wrote: > > SteveC wrote: > >> inventing nodes, ways, segments (remember them?) > > > > You *did not* invent the spaghetti model, please give credit to the > > original inventor Stan Aronoff, in Geographic info

Re: [OSM-talk] SteveC; C = Cool

Hi, Matt Amos wrote: > really we should be crediting Leonhard Euler. Darn! Couldn't you have found someone born a few miles further North, then I'd have put an extra slide in my State of Germany talk about OSM being based on the work of German masterminds. Now it's going to be the Swiss... By

Re: [OSM-talk] SteveC; C = Cool

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:26 PM, Stefan de Konink wrote: > SteveC wrote: >> inventing nodes, ways, segments (remember them?) > > You *did not* invent the spaghetti model, please give credit to the > original inventor Stan Aronoff, in Geographic information systems: A > management perspective (1989)

[OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Tag:shop=massage

Hi folks, I've proposed a tag shop=massage along with a massage=* specification of the massage that can be received. The proposal can be found at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Massage Cheers, -- Sybren Stüvel http://stuvel.eu/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/sybrenstuvel si

[OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Tag:leisure=petting_zoo

Hi folks, I've moved the Tag:leisure=petting_zoo proposal page[1] from Draft to Proposed status. In short, it's a proposal for a petting zoo tag value, such that those can be tagged differently from regular zoos. A more extensive description, motivation and more can be found on the wiki page. [1

Re: [OSM-talk] SteveC; C = Cool

Ken Guest wrote: >Sent: 08 July 2009 8:50 AM >To: Mike Collinson >Cc: Talk Openstreetmap >Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] SteveC; C = Cool > >and it's far too noisy... > Following a storm there is always too much flotsam. Cheers Andy ___ talk mailing list ta

Re: [OSM-talk] SteveC; C = Cool

and it's far too noisy... On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 7:45 AM, Mike Collinson wrote: > At 00:06 08/07/2009, Russ Nelson wrote: > > On Jul 7, 2009, at 5:53 PM, SteveC wrote: > > > > > On 7 Jul 2009, at 23:26, Stefan de Konink wrote: > > > >> After the years of iterations don't you think it sucks that