Re: [OSM-talk] Google Maps v.s. OSM routing in Berlin

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 12:43 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > Why doesn't OSM ever tell me to take a 270 degree turn into oncoming > traffic on a 6-lane highway and get onto the motorway_link on the > other side? > > http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=B2%2FB5%2FHeerstra%C3%9Fe&d

Re: [OSM-talk] US Chapter Organization

Hi, I'm just forwarding this to the local-chapt...@openstreetmap.org mailing list as well. As the ideas from the talk-us list are also relevant internationally :) Sam Twitter: @Acrosscanada Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sam.vekemans On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Kate Chapman wrote: > H

[OSM-talk] US Chapter Organization

Hi All, We've been discussing on talk-us potentially forming a U.S. local chapter. A wiki page has been started to organize. In case you aren't on the talk-us list and would be interested the wiki page is here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/Local_Chapters/United_States If you wou

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Maps v.s. OSM routing in Berlin

2009/9/18 Dan Karran : > > and 'turn right' to stay on the same road, even though it just > continues past the junction with a curve to the right. > Well yes, but there is a road going straight ahead as well. I've seen plenty of situations where it is not obvious that the road you are on is not th

Re: [OSM-talk] Train station names: "Place Station" ou just "Place" ?

2009/9/17 Stephen Hope : > And the difference between them is pretty easily explained.  If you're > on a train, you know you've just pulled into a station, the only > question is which one, so the word station is redundant.  If you are > outside the station, you may not know what the building in fr

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Maps v.s. OSM routing in Berlin

2009/9/17 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason : > Why doesn't OSM ever tell me to take a 270 degree turn into oncoming > traffic on a 6-lane highway and get onto the motorway_link on the > other side? It's actually quite disturbing to think that GPS units are going to be using the same data and presumably giv

Re: [OSM-talk] Train station names: "Place Station" ou just "Place" ?

And the difference between them is pretty easily explained. If you're on a train, you know you've just pulled into a station, the only question is which one, so the word station is redundant. If you are outside the station, you may not know what the building in front of you is, and you are normal

[OSM-talk] Google Maps v.s. OSM routing in Berlin

Why doesn't OSM ever tell me to take a 270 degree turn into oncoming traffic on a 6-lane highway and get onto the motorway_link on the other side? http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=B2%2FB5%2FHeerstra%C3%9Fe&daddr=A115&geocode=FQQ6IQMdPXrKAA%3BFX38IAMdsmvKAA&hl=en&mra=ls&sll=52.49373

Re: [OSM-talk] Train station names: "Place Station" ou just "Place"?

I concur, railway stations most often don't have "Station" after their name so they should be recorded as-is on the primary signage / on-platform signage (if people can be bothered to doublecheck the platforms). Using the National Rail site should be doable to acquire the definitive station names,

Re: [OSM-talk] Garmin Streetpilot 2720

Well, I don't know what kind of interface is used by your device but viewing and uploading maps to my GPSMap60 works very well with QLandkarte. On Wednesday 16 September 2009 21:21:45 Stuckey wrote: > Hello, > > I have a Garmin Streetpilot 2720 that I'd like to use with OSM. In > trying to copy

Re: [OSM-talk] Train station names: "Place Station" ou just "Place" ?

2009/9/17 Pieren > On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Frankie Roberto > wrote: > > I've been doing some work on the representation of railway stations in > OSM > > (along with others on the talk-transit mailing list). > > Thank you for your long reply. I didn't subscribe to this particular > list.

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Footnav - new 3D project aimed at countryside users

2009/9/17 MP : >> I'm glad to see that this project is moving on and especially that >>  it's using Qt :) However, I get a compile error with revision 2: > > Me too. > > In SRTM.h there is: > > #include > > But in maths.h I see this instead: > > #ifdef __APPLE__ > #include > #else > #include > #

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Footnav - new 3D project aimed at countryside users

> I'm glad to see that this project is moving on and especially that > it's using Qt :) However, I get a compile error with revision 2: Me too. In SRTM.h there is: #include But in maths.h I see this instead: #ifdef __APPLE__ #include #else #include #endif Quite inconsistent, considering i

Re: [OSM-talk] Train station names: "Place Station" ou just "Place" ?

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Frankie Roberto wrote: > I've been doing some work on the representation of railway stations in OSM > (along with others on the talk-transit mailing list). Thank you for your long reply. I didn't subscribe to this particular list. I think this is something interre

Re: [OSM-talk] how to map this? cycleway or footpath?

Andy Allan wrote: > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 11:11 PM, Roy Wallace wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:42 AM, Valent Turkovic > > > > wrote: > >> How do you differentiate from path and footpath tag? What is the > >> difference between them? Can you show me an example? > > > > As the wiki says, b

Re: [OSM-talk] Train station names: "Place Station" ou just "Place" ?

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer > Looking at this: > http://synecdoche.liquidflare.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/img_1953s.jpg > I'd suggest to keep "name=Waterloo Station" > > cheers, > Martin Mmm, not sure that's enough because the name may differ between the public en

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Footnav - new 3D project aimed at countryside users

Hello Matt, >> Hello everyone, >> >> A quick update on the Footnav project, which I've hinted at once or twice >> on here. Footnav aims to be a 3D mobile navigation application for >> countryside users e.g. hikers, off road cyclists, showing OSM data (paths, >> 3D models of stiles, gates etc, an

Re: [OSM-talk] how to map this? cycleway or footpath?

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 11:11 PM, Roy Wallace wrote: > On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:42 AM, Valent Turkovic > wrote: >> >> How do you differentiate from path and footpath tag? What is the >> difference between them? Can you show me an example? > > As the wiki says, briefly: > > highway=path is "a ge

Re: [OSM-talk] Train station names: "Place Station" ou just "Place" ?

2009/9/17 Pieren : > Hi list, > > What is the actual convention about railway stations names ? > When I look here: > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.50291&lon=-0.11359&zoom=17&layers=B000FTF > > the map shows a "Waterloo" and a "Waterloo Station". Excepted the fact > that the name is duplicate

[OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap cheat mug now available

In response to the notion that someone could make their own rather than purchase from kc-shop... A better solution would be to enter into a re-distribution agreement. In other words, become a re-distributer of the product in a geographical area where shipping costs are not favorable. It wouldn't

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=residential for rural ways?

>How do you then tag roads that are smaller than unclassified, are >narrower or have lesser importance? If they're a residential street, residential. If they're a service road (drive, road into industrial estate), service. All other minor roads would be unclassified. These could be country lanes

Re: [OSM-talk] Train station names: "Place Station" ou just "Place" ?

2009/9/17 Pieren What is the actual convention about railway stations names ? > When I look here: > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.50291&lon=-0.11359&zoom=17&layers=B000FTF > Good question, I've been wondering this myself. > the map shows a "Waterloo" and a "Waterloo Station". Excepted

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Footnav - new 3D project aimed at countryside users

2009/9/17 Nick Whitelegg : > Hello everyone, > > A quick update on the Footnav project, which I've hinted at once or twice > on here. Footnav aims to be a 3D mobile navigation application for > countryside users e.g. hikers, off road cyclists, showing OSM data (paths, > 3D models of stiles, gates e

Re: [OSM-talk] Reconstructing 3-d buildings from photographs

2009/9/17 Ed Avis : > This is some interesting work from Microsoft Research, taking photos on > Flickr and processing them to create three-dimensional models of buildings > and cities.   I think this one is based on that as well: http://livelabs.com/photosynth

Re: [OSM-talk] Reconstructing 3-d buildings from photographs

I work at OA Digital [1] - a colleague of mine is working on very similar work and we've had some fantastic results so far from our "51 headless 'vikings'" in Weymouth [2] [3]. We should have a pdf out with all the details very soon - all Open Source Software, of course, some of it even produced by

[OSM-talk] Train station names: "Place Station" ou just "Place" ?

Hi list, What is the actual convention about railway stations names ? When I look here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.50291&lon=-0.11359&zoom=17&layers=B000FTF the map shows a "Waterloo" and a "Waterloo Station". Excepted the fact that the name is duplicated because it is once on the railw

Re: [OSM-talk] Reconstructing 3-d buildings from photographs

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Ed Avis schreef: > This is some interesting work from Microsoft Research, taking photos on > Flickr and processing them to create three-dimensional models of buildings > and cities. And again not a line of sou

Re: [OSM-talk] Reconstructing 3-d buildings from photographs

2009/9/17 Ed Avis : > This is some interesting work from Microsoft Research, taking photos on > Flickr and processing them to create three-dimensional models of buildings > and cities.   As I understand it, the http://www.openstreetphoto.org/ guys are planning

[OSM-talk] Footnav - new 3D project aimed at countryside users

Hello everyone, A quick update on the Footnav project, which I've hinted at once or twice on here. Footnav aims to be a 3D mobile navigation application for countryside users e.g. hikers, off road cyclists, showing OSM data (paths, 3D models of stiles, gates etc, and hills using SRTM data). I'

[OSM-talk] Reconstructing 3-d buildings from photographs

This is some interesting work from Microsoft Research, taking photos on Flickr and processing them to create three-dimensional models of buildings and cities. -- Ed Avis ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap cheat mug now available

2009/9/17 Frederik Ramm : > Hi, > Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: >> >> Don't they have to release it in CC-BY-SA as it is content from the >> wiki? > > Don't know if it is content from the Wiki. Could just as well be content > from the OSM book ;-) > > If you are of the opinion that the design must be

Re: [OSM-talk] Evolution of a map

Habib Habib a scris: > Hi guys, > > Is there a tool which shows the evolution of a region in time (i.e. show > how the number of ways, points changed and increased in a period of > time), as an animated slide, or as a series of map tiles each taken at a > different point in time? Has it been writt

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap cheat mug now available

Hi, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > Don't they have to release it in CC-BY-SA as it is content from the > wiki? Don't know if it is content from the Wiki. Could just as well be content from the OSM book ;-) If you are of the opinion that the design must be released CC-BY-SA then write to them. U

Re: [OSM-talk] VOTING for general highway-definition

Martin Koppenhoefer escribió: 2009/9/17 Blaž Lorger : Here http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php?title=Highway_key_voting_importance&diff=16&oldid=333013 Appearance of the page was not changed, {{vote|yes}} was changed to '''Yes''' and similar change was made for "no" votes. ac

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap cheat mug now available

2009/9/17 Frederik Ramm : > Hi, > > Valent Turkovic wrote: >> Could we get this image in original vector format? >> http://shop.kernelconcepts.de/images/osm-mug-preview.png >> >> I would like to make it myself, and skip shipping charges to Croatia, >> which are probably more than the mug itself. >

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap cheat mug now available

Hi, Valent Turkovic wrote: > Could we get this image in original vector format? > http://shop.kernelconcepts.de/images/osm-mug-preview.png > > I would like to make it myself, and skip shipping charges to Croatia, > which are probably more than the mug itself. I have spoken to them and they woul

Re: [OSM-talk] VOTING for general highway-definition

2009/9/17 Blaž Lorger : > Here > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php?title=Highway_key_voting_importance&diff=16&oldid=333013 > > Appearance of the page was not changed, {{vote|yes}} was changed to  '''Yes''' > and similar change was made for "no" votes. actually I don't see the difference

Re: [OSM-talk] Evolution of a map

2009/9/17 Eugene Alvin Villar : > On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Ed Loach wrote: >> >> Is this the sort of thing you want? >> http://labs.geofabrik.de/history/ > > And more generally (with the option to use Mapnik-style rendering): > http://www.geofabrik.de/gallery/history/index.html ITO! post

Re: [OSM-talk] Evolution of a map

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Ed Loach wrote: > Is this the sort of thing you want? > http://labs.geofabrik.de/history/ > And more generally (with the option to use Mapnik-style rendering): http://www.geofabrik.de/gallery/history/index.html ___ talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Evolution of a map

Is this the sort of thing you want? http://labs.geofabrik.de/history/ Ed ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=residential for rural ways?

Agree that service roads are not usually public highways - although they may have public access (e.g. car parking aisles). Tracks may be public highways - e.g. bridleway, restricted byway etc. - but are not usually confused with streets. Mike Harris > -Original Message- > From: Marti

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=residential for rural ways?

Yes - I did! - mea maxima culpa! Mike Harris > -Original Message- > From: Iván Sánchez Ortega [mailto:i...@sanchezortega.es] > Sent: 16 September 2009 21:09 > To: talk@openstreetmap.org > Cc: Mike Harris > Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] highway=residential for rural ways? > > El Miércoles, 1

Re: [OSM-talk] Evolution of a map

On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:19:21 +0300, Habib Habib wrote: > Hi guys, > > Is there a tool which shows the evolution of a region in time (i.e. show how > the number of ways, points changed and increased in a period of time), as an > animated slide, or as a series of map tiles each taken at a different

[OSM-talk] Evolution of a map

Hi guys, Is there a tool which shows the evolution of a region in time (i.e. show how the number of ways, points changed and increased in a period of time), as an animated slide, or as a series of map tiles each taken at a different point in time? Has it been written yet? Thank you ___