[OSM-talk] reusing OSM POI information

Hi, I've developed an iPhone app / web app for annotating/rating/tagging locations. I haven't formalised this yet but the intention is for the data the app is collecting to be open data - I'm currently intending to use the opendatacommons database license for the data collection and cc-by-sa for

Re: [OSM-talk] Proliferation of path vs. footway

>>> Whitelegg wrote: In the UK I would tag such a path as foot=designated;bicycle=permissive; and pragmatically highway=footway for the moment, using the generally-accepted definition of "footway" as "urban surfaced path" (though would prefer highway=path; surface=paved) >>> >>

[OSM-talk] Selecting cycleways

I would like to render a map that highlights all the cycleways. Could the tagging specialists on the list check if this query would give me what I want and correct if there is something wrong or missing? WHERE highway=cycleway OR highway=footway AND (bicycle=yes OR bicycle=designated OR bicy

Re: [OSM-talk] Proliferation of path vs. footway

Roy Wallace wrote: > On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 9:49 PM, Richard > Mann wrote: >> >> The deprecation of footway/cycleway was >> voted on (by not many people, but nevertheless), and the deprecation was >> rejected, but some people don't seem to be able to take no for an answer. > > It was? Maybe that

Re: [OSM-talk] Proliferation of path vs. footway

Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > 2009/8/13 Nop : >> Proposal #2: Introduce offical dedication >> Leave old tags as they are and accept that foot/cycleway and designated >> are as fuzzy as described above. Clarify that these tags only give >> information on possible use, but not about the legal situati

[OSM-talk] Link for editing via JOSM-remote-control-plugin

Hi! can somebody add a link to open JOSM (localhost:8111) to http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/ ? Regards, Alexander ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Proliferation of path vs. footway

Hatto von Hatzfeld wrote: > On http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Approved_features/Path you may count > how many people approved the proposal but explicitly opposed the > deprecation of existing tags. Yes, many participants opposed the deprecation, as did I. However, I wanted to keep those tags a

Re: [OSM-talk] Link for editing via JOSM-remote-control-plugin

On 17/08/09 10:52, Alexander Menk wrote: > can somebody add a link to open JOSM (localhost:8111) to > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/ ? We've been over this many times - it is not appropriate to unconditionally add a a link that will not work for most people. Tom -- Tom Hu

[OSM-talk] Why I love Tagwatch

I wouldn't have found these two ways otherwise: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/35039425 http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/35107068 I particularly like the airplane tag on the second way, though it was the boat tags ("yes, if you can :D") that helped me locate these two ways. Ed

Re: [OSM-talk] Link for editing via JOSM-remote-control-plugin

Maybe it is possible to show JOSM links for logged in users? And add possibility turn on/off this links in user settings? I agree with Alexander, JOSM links will be very useful. Aleksejs On 2009.08.17, at 12:56, Tom Hughes wrote: > On 17/08/09 10:52, Alexander Menk wrote: > >> can somebody

Re: [OSM-talk] Link for editing via JOSM-remote-control-plugin

Hi! I think that is what Tom hat in mind as well. Looks like there are some small modifications needed in: http://svn.openstreetmap.org/sites/rails_port/app/views/user/account.html.erb http://svn.openstreetmap.org/sites/rails_port/app/views/browse/node.html.erb and may be in http://svn.openstre

Re: [OSM-talk] Using OSM on a handheld GPS

> All Garmin etrex, gpsmap, colorado, oregon, etc which are able to > display normal garmin maps. > See http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Garmin ... but get a model with a colour display. -- Morten ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://

Re: [OSM-talk] Video inputs to OpenStreetView

On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 8:35 PM, OJ W wrote: > I'm just looking at ways of getting video-camera data into openstreetview > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Georeference_video > > http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~ojw/StreetPhotos/test3/output.kml > > is anyone else working with georeferenced videos

Re: [OSM-talk] Video inputs to OpenStreetView

--- On Mon, 17/8/09, Erik Johansson wrote: > Anyways I was pointed to a camera that records your > journey. > http://technabob.com/blog/2009/08/12/selfic-cube-7100-car-black-box-recorder/ Is 640x480 good enough? ___ talk mailing list talk@open

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM-Postal an idea to extend Walking-Papers to "not connected" people

El Domingo, 16 de Agosto de 2009, Shaun McDonald escribió: > I'd like the option to be able to use the nonames style, as there is > often people looking for unnamed streets and POIs. +1 Some of us have only black-and-white printers. Is there any possibility of developing a new B/W map style?? (L

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM-Postal an idea to extend Walking-Papers to "not connected" people

2009/8/17 Iván Sánchez Ortega > Some of us have only black-and-white printers. Is there any possibility of > developing a new B/W map style?? (Less use of colors, more use of dashed > lines, pattern fills and such) > +1 Emilie Laffray ___ talk mailing

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM-Postal an idea to extend Walking-Papers to "not connected" people

On 17/08/2009 13:30, Emilie Laffray wrote: > > > 2009/8/17 Iván Sánchez Ortega > > > Some of us have only black-and-white printers. Is there any > possibility of > developing a new B/W map style?? (Less use of colors, more use of dashed > lines, pat

Re: [OSM-talk] Video inputs to OpenStreetView

On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, John Smith wrote: > --- On Mon, 17/8/09, Erik Johansson wrote: > > Anyways I was pointed to a camera that records your > > journey. > > http://technabob.com/blog/2009/08/12/selfic-cube-7100-car-black-box-recorder/ > > Is 640x480 good enough? ;) ofcourse we want 1080p ;) Bu

Re: [OSM-talk] Video inputs to OpenStreetView

On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Erik Johansson wrote: > On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 8:35 PM, OJ W wrote: > > I'm just looking at ways of getting video-camera data into openstreetview > > > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Georeference_video > > > > http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~ojw/StreetPhotos/test3/output.

Re: [OSM-talk] Video inputs to OpenStreetView

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Stefan de Konink wrote: > On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, John Smith wrote: >> Is 640x480 good enough? > ;) ofcourse we want 1080p ;) is 640x480 good enough e.g to read street names and other signs? -- Elena ``of Valhalla'' homepage: http://www.trueelena.org email: elena.v

Re: [OSM-talk] Video inputs to OpenStreetView

On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Elena of Valhalla wrote: > On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Stefan de Konink wrote: > > On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, John Smith wrote: > >> Is 640x480 good enough? > > ;) ofcourse we want 1080p ;) > > is 640x480 good enough e.g to read street names and other signs? Signs yes, names..

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM status POIs?

Apollinaris Schoell wrote: > there is something better already > http://openstreetbugs.schokokeks.org/ Is there a way of getting data out of that easily? If there is it would make sense to be able to convert bugs within an area to e.g. Garmin waypoints. I tend to use those for "stuff I need to

Re: [OSM-talk] Selecting cycleways

2009/8/17 Rahkonen Jukka : > I would like to render a map that highlights all the cycleways. Could > the tagging > specialists on the list check if this query would give me what I want > and correct if there is something wrong or missing? > > WHERE highway=cycleway > OR highway=footway AND >   (bic

Re: [OSM-talk] Video inputs to OpenStreetView

From: "Elena of Valhalla" >> On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, John Smith wrote: >>> Is 640x480 good enough? >> ;) ofcourse we want 1080p ;) > > is 640x480 good enough e.g to read street names and other signs? http://home.att.net/~niceman/VidCap1.jpg I took that yesterday from a helmet cam 1280 X 720.

Re: [OSM-talk] Selecting cycleways

Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > 2009/8/17 Rahkonen Jukka : >> OR highway=briddleway AND "bridleway", but I guess that's just a typo. >> (bicycle=yes OR bicycle=designated OR bicycle=permissive) >> OR highway is not null AND cycleway is not null You might want check for cycleway=no here, there are

Re: [OSM-talk] Selecting cycleways

Tobias Knerr wrote: > > Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > Rahkonen Jukka wrote: > >> OR highway=briddleway AND > > "bridleway", but I guess that's just a typo. > > >> (bicycle=yes OR bicycle=designated OR bicycle=permissive) OR > >> highway is not null AND cycleway is not null > > You might wan

Re: [OSM-talk] Selecting cycleways

2009/8/17 Tobias Knerr : > Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: >> I'd also have a look at tagwatch searching for "cycle" to see all the >> possible variations. > > I wouldn't do this. Just correct those "variations" (aka errors) in the > data if you care about them. I wasn't referring to typos but to some

Re: [OSM-talk] Proliferation of path vs. footway

... but, rightly or wrongly, I do not think I am alone in using highway=footway for all paths intended primarily for pedestrians whether urban or rural, designated or not, designation=anything - the only real exception I make is (mostly) in rural areas where the path is clearly informal and of unde

Re: [OSM-talk] Link for editing via JOSM-remote-control-plugin

> Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:56:43 +0100 > From: Tom Hughes > Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Link for editing via >        JOSM-remote-control-plugin > To: talk@openstreetmap.org > Message-ID: <4a89295b.9040...@compton.nu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > On 17/08/09 10:52

Re: [OSM-talk] Link for editing via JOSM-remote-control-plugin

Martin Norbäck wrote: >> Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:56:43 +0100 >> From: Tom Hughes >> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Link for editing via >>JOSM-remote-control-plugin >> To: talk@openstreetmap.org >> Message-ID: <4a89295b.9040...@compton.nu> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format

Re: [OSM-talk] Proliferation of path vs. footway

>... but, rightly or wrongly, I do not think I am alone in using >highway=footway for all paths intended primarily for pedestrians whether >urban or rural, designated or not, designation=anything - the only real >exception I make is (mostly) in rural areas where the path is clearly >informal and of

[OSM-talk] How to tag this barrier?

Hi, In this chapter of "How the f*** do I tag this piece of s***?", I ask everyone to have a look at these images: http://ivan.sanchezortega.es/30072009_006.jpg http://ivan.sanchezortega.es/30072009_007.jpg At the right of the image, you'll see some retractable bollards. You know, a bollard th

Re: [OSM-talk] How to tag this barrier?

2009/8/17 Iván Sánchez Ortega : > Hi, > > In this chapter of "How the f*** do I tag this piece of s***?", I ask everyone > to have a look at these images: > > http://ivan.sanchezortega.es/30072009_006.jpg > http://ivan.sanchezortega.es/30072009_007.jpg > > At the right of the image, you'll see some

Re: [OSM-talk] How to tag this barrier?

2009/8/17 Iván Sánchez Ortega : > So, how to tag the barrier=retractable_bollard and the > barrier=foldable_thingamajig? I'd tag barrier=bollard, bollard=foldable or barrier:type=foldable cheers, Martin ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org htt

Re: [OSM-talk] How to tag this barrier?

On 17 Aug 2009, at 16:42, Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote: To the left of those, you'll see a couple of yellow foldable thingamajig. They are supposed to stay folded at ground level to allow traffic, and they can be "deployed" up and locked up (with a key) in order to prevent any vehicles from

Re: [OSM-talk] Link for editing via JOSM-remote-control-plugin

This is true if you use Greasemonkey to *remove* existing josm-links, but (in my eyes) not if you're proposing a Greasemonkey-script to add them. Peter >> These kinds of things can easily be fixed using a tool like >> Greasemonkey. I've made a few scripts myself, but none that is >> suitable for

[OSM-talk] Multipolygon issue

Hello, I have just noticed that some inner polygons disappeared recently since the last import by osm2pgsql. The forest/wood had inner polygons but it seems the forest decided to take over the city that was within its borders. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=47.9598&lon=1.9778&zoom=14&layers=B00

Re: [OSM-talk] Proliferation of path vs. footway

2009/8/17 Mike Harris : > ... but, rightly or wrongly, I do not think I am alone in using > highway=footway for all paths intended primarily for pedestrians whether > urban or rural, designated or not, designation=anything +1 > - the only real > exception I make is (mostly) in rural areas where

Re: [OSM-talk] Proliferation of path vs. footway

Hi! Hatto von Hatzfeld schrieb: > > I appreciate Nop's proposal - but why replace "designated" by "official"? I > do not see that "designated" has been used in the past with a meaning > differing from what "official" would be used for in future. > > Or did I miss anything in this discussion? Y

[OSM-talk] Local Chapters Meeting Minutes WAS Re: Status of the Local Chapter working group

Hello, We just held the first of a new program of Local Chapters meetings. You can find minutes here [1] along with information about the next meeting. The next meeting is proposed for the 24th August at 18.00 - 19:30 BST. I know this is not great for a lot of people who are in non-BST friendly

[OSM-talk] Golf course rendering for OpenStreetMap (mapnik)

Dear all, I've started a mapnik style sheet that renders golf holes with fairways, greens and other goodies. Have a look and help out if you are inclined. http://weait.com/content/golf-course-style-openstreetmap Best regards, Richard ___ talk mailing

Re: [OSM-talk] copyright problem with data copied from a map

On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Renaud MICHEL wrote: > Any advice? Hi Renaud, I think the best thing for you to do in this case is to contact the Foundation, as explained in the FAQ. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Faq#I_think_someone.27s_been_entering_copyrighted_data_-_how_do_we_deal_with

Re: [OSM-talk] Golf course rendering for OpenStreetMap (mapnik)

On 8/17/09, Richard Weait wrote: > Dear all, > > I've started a mapnik style sheet that renders golf holes with > fairways, greens and other goodies. Have a look and help out if you > are inclined. > > http://weait.com/content/golf-course-style-openstreetmap > > Best regards, > Richard Time for

Re: [OSM-talk] Link for editing via JOSM-remote-control-plugin

Alexander Menk wrote: > can somebody add a link to open JOSM (localhost:8111) to > http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/ ? Just use the JOSM remote bookmarklet, it works fine. __

Re: [OSM-talk] copyright problem with data copied from a map

Le lundi 17 août 2009 à 20:37, Andy Allan a écrit : > Hi Renaud, Hello, thank you for your answer. > I think the best thing for you to do in this case is to contact the > Foundation, as explained in the FAQ. > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Faq#I_think_someone.27s_been_entering_ >copyrighte

Re: [OSM-talk] Proliferation of path vs. footway

Nop wrote: > Hatto von Hatzfeld schrieb: >> >> I appreciate Nop's proposal - but why replace "designated" by "official"? >> I do not see that "designated" has been used in the past with a meaning >> differing from what "official" would be used for in future. > Designated is linked to footway/cy

Re: [OSM-talk] Golf course rendering for OpenStreetMap (mapnik)

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Colin McGregor wrote: > Time for me to play devils advocate here for a moment. I have on rare > occasions played golf on a par 3 course (I'm not very good...). But > one of the things I do know is that some course maintainers shift the > holes from time to time. So

[OSM-talk] Historic Mapping needs help Now!

Hi I'm again working this year on mapping for the Burning Man arts festival, coming up in two weeks. This makes urgent a growing theme in OSM, with several presentations at this year's SOTM .. how to handle historic data. Here's the current map of Burning Man for 2009. I haven't added Camp loca

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM status POIs?

http://openstreetbugs.schokokeks.org/dumps/ offers downloads of the raw data. shouldn't be difficult to grep the info and format it into a csv files. Garmin utilities can convert csv files to POI I think only Garmin with memory cards support loading these POI files. This way you don't need to recom

Re: [OSM-talk] [Osmf-talk] OPENSTREETMAP FOUNDATION - NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

On 15 Aug 2009, at 18:20, Richard Weait wrote: > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 5:43 AM, Frederik Ramm > wrote: >> Nick, >> >> Nick Black wrote: >>> I'm going to be standing for election to the OSM Foundation Board >>> again >>> this year. >> >> Do you and Steve have any comment on Richard Weait's s

Re: [OSM-talk] Announcemen: Multilingual Country-List

Hi I think there was a bug introduced during resorting of the list or during the transition from zh-classic -> zh-classical. The list behaves strange. Once I noticed that when i changed a country name in one language, the status of the same country name in another language changed also. I cannot v

Re: [OSM-talk] Announcemen: Multilingual Country-List

Thank you for the bug-report, i'll check both bugs soon. Peter > I think there was a bug introduced during resorting of the list or > during the transition from > zh-classic -> zh-classical. The list behaves strange. Once I noticed > that when i changed a > country name in one language, the sta

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM-Postal an idea to extend Walking-Papers to "not connected" people

> I made the mistake of ignoring my OSM-talk mail for a few days, I'm > really happy to see that people are thinking of ways to work with > Walking Papers. I've been building up some steam to work on another > set of change requests, now's the time to ask if you have a pet > feature you'd like to s

Re: [OSM-talk] Historic Mapping needs help Now!

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 11:00 PM, Mikel Maron wrote: > > Look forward to some good ideas. > Here is my plan : * Create a separate server that starts with a very old planet file and then processes the diffs. * Use Mercator projection, divide the map into tiles of fixed size of approximately 2km x

Re: [OSM-talk] Announcemen: Multilingual Country-List

Peter Körner wrote: >> It reaches 100% when /Tromelin Island /is set to not-ok. I got Bahasa Indonesia at 229/230 with 2 countries (Tromelin, Turkey) as not ok. -- Lennard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/

Re: [OSM-talk] Golf course rendering for OpenStreetMap (mapnik)

On Monday 17 Aug 2009 11:46:20 pm Richard Weait wrote: > I've started a mapnik style sheet that renders golf holes with > fairways, greens and other goodies. Have a look and help out if you > are inclined. > > http://weait.com/content/golf-course-style-openstreetmap some of us have done considera

Re: [OSM-talk] Golf course rendering for OpenStreetMap (mapnik)

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Monday 17 Aug 2009 11:46:20 pm Richard Weait wrote: >> I've started a mapnik style sheet that renders golf holes with >> fairways, greens and other goodies.  Have a look and help out if you >> are inclined. >> >> http://weait.com/conten

Re: [OSM-talk] Golf course rendering for OpenStreetMap (mapnik)

On Tuesday 18 Aug 2009 6:27:10 am you wrote: > On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > > On Monday 17 Aug 2009 11:46:20 pm Richard Weait wrote: > >> I've started a mapnik style sheet that renders golf holes with > >> fairways, greens and other goodies. Have a look and help out

Re: [OSM-talk] Proliferation of path vs. footway

Hi! Hatto von Hatzfeld schrieb: > >> Official is new and has only one meaning. > >>From Map features: "official is used for ways dedicated to a certain mode of > travel by law. Usually indicated by a traffic sign." > > I really do not see where the use of "designated" has differed from this >

Re: [OSM-talk] Selecting cycleways

On Monday 17 August 2009 16:17:36 Tobias Knerr wrote: > >> OR highway is not null AND cycleway is not null > > You might want check for cycleway=no here, there are a few hundreds of > them. You'd want to exclude cycleway=opposite as well, because that is just removing the oneway restriction for b

Re: [OSM-talk] Local Chapters Meeting Minutes WAS Re: Status of the Local Chapter working group

--- On Tue, 18/8/09, Nick Black wrote: > Chapters meetings.  You can find minutes here [1] along > with information about the next meeting.   There seems to be more questions posed than answers in the minutes... > The next meeting is proposed for the 24th August > at 18.00 - 19:30 BST.  I know

Re: [OSM-talk] Selecting cycleways

Cartinus wrote: >On Monday 17 August 2009 16:17:36 Tobias Knerr wrote: >> >> OR highway is not null AND cycleway is not null >> >> You might want check for cycleway=no here, there are a few hundreds of >> them. > You'd want to exclude cycleway=opposite as well, because that is just removing > th

[OSM-talk] server not rendering fully

hi, I am setting up an India specific server with mod_tile and mapnik. I finally got the beast to work, but at higher zoom levels it is not rendering completely. Apparently it is giving up instead of generating the tiles fully. Obviously there is some setting I have to make in apache config to

Re: [OSM-talk] Local Chapters Meeting Minutes WAS Re: Status of the Local Chapter working group

On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, John Smith wrote: > > One of the goals of the meeting next week will > > be to set a timetable for getting local chapters set up, > > which will be largely dependent on how much we all agree / > > disagree in the call. Until then, please read over the > > Local Chapters wiki p

Re: [OSM-talk] [Osmf-talk] OPENSTREETMAP FOUNDATION - NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

It can easily happen that there are several very active OSM contributors employed by the same (larger) company. Company's primary business might not be OSM (or even GIS) related, it might just be large enough to gather enough geo geeks. Those people might work in various branches, possibly not even