Re: [OSM-talk] Why do you use Google Maps instead of OSM? Because of buildings...

2009-11-07 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Saturday 07 Nov 2009 2:30:54 pm Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > Likewise setting up your own rendering takes half a day at best if > you're not already familiar with the rendering tools involved. > OSM reflects changes within minutes -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Senior Project Officer NRC-FO

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch, dual carriageways, and a broken changeset

2009-11-07 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Michal Migurski wrote: > For live mode, clearly an undo feature would introduce more > trouble than it's worth, for everyone involved in editing a > particular area. Spot on. Potlatch's undo does function in live mode - it predates save mode, in fact - but it's not trivial and I wouldn't want

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal -Voting- (man_made=mineshaft)

2009-11-07 Thread Lesi
> What negative result do you fear would occur if somebody used[1] an > unapproved feature? > > [1] That is, they tagged something as documented in the wiki, even if > the documentation is to be found in Proposed Features? I'm not a big > fan of chaotic mapping, where people apply tags randomly wi

Re: [OSM-talk] Why do you use Google Maps instead of OSM? Because of buildings...

2009-11-07 Thread Anthony
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Shaun McDonald wrote: > > On 7 Nov 2009, at 13:32, Anthony wrote: > >> On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 4:00 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason >> wrote: >>> >>> Yes, we know that everyone could probably use OSM maps for their >>> business website if they spent a week surveying the

Re: [OSM-talk] Why do you use Google Maps instead of OSM? Because of buildings...

2009-11-07 Thread Tom Chance
2009/11/7 Shaun McDonald > Maybe we need some method for companies/organisations to be able to > say that an area isn't surveyed to a level they want and that they > would like a particular area to be surveyed to a higher degree for a > specific purpose. OpenStreetBugs is more for point errors, r

Re: [OSM-talk] Why do you use Google Maps instead of OSM? Because of buildings...

2009-11-07 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 7 Nov 2009, at 13:32, Anthony wrote: > On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 4:00 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason > wrote: >> Yes, we know that everyone could probably use OSM maps for their >> business website if they spent a week surveying their surrounding >> area >> / creating custom renderings. But that'

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal -Voting - (man_made=mineshaft)

2009-11-07 Thread Russ Nelson
Lesi writes: > I do not know which discussion you mean? > According to the wiki voting is still neccessary to approve a new feature. What negative result do you fear would occur if somebody used[1] an unapproved feature? [1] That is, they tagged something as documented in the wiki, even if the

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch, dual carriageways, and a broken changeset

2009-11-07 Thread Michal Migurski
On Nov 6, 2009, at 6:38 PM, Russ Nelson wrote: > Michal Migurski writes: >> instead make sure that multi-level undo is completely bulletproof. > > To make life more interesting, OSM editing goes on concurrently, and > yet nearly everyone who is editing is editing a chunk locally. So OSM > is epis

Re: [OSM-talk] Why do you use Google Maps instead of OSM? Because of buildings...

2009-11-07 Thread Anthony
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 4:00 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > Yes, we know that everyone could probably use OSM maps for their > business website if they spent a week surveying their surrounding area > / creating custom renderings. But that's not very helpful when they > can just embed Google i

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Logo Competition

2009-11-07 Thread Dave F.
SteveC wrote: > > We'd love to have a logo that better reflects the foundation... For confirmation, is this a logo just for the foundation, or for the wider project? Cheers Dave F. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstree

Re: [OSM-talk] Why do you use Google Maps instead of OSM? Because of buildings...

2009-11-07 Thread Dave F.
Liz wrote: > On Sat, 7 Nov 2009, Dave F. wrote: > >>> I asked an NGO based in London why they use Google Maps instead of OSM on >>> their 'contact us' page >>> >> To all the people who posted earlier than me: >> >> Yes, you all stated how it could be done & how to correct it, but... >

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Logo Competition

2009-11-07 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 06:56, SteveC wrote: > The OSMF recently launched a new mediawiki powered site at > http://www.osmfoundationorg/ >  with a basic logo. ouch...typo: http://www.osmfoundation.org/ -- -S ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.

Re: [OSM-talk] Why do you use Google Maps instead of OSM? Because of buildings...

2009-11-07 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 11:52 PM, Andrew Errington wrote: > What the web person *should* have done is looked at OSM in their new > location and fixed the underlying data (if it was wrong or incomplete) or > made their own map based on the data, but omitting the features they > didn't like. The web