Re: [OSM-talk] tags for autorickshaw

2009-11-27 Thread Konrad Skeri
They could be put as fee=prepaid/metered/unmetered Perhaps not optimal, but not entierly wrong. Konrad 2009/11/27 Kenneth Gonsalves : > On Friday 27 Nov 2009 12:43:17 pm you wrote: >> I would suggest >> >> amenity=taxi >> taxi=autorick >> >> for consistency with highway=service, service=* and ot

Re: [OSM-talk] iPhone vs Android - OSM shootout

2009-11-27 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Frederik Ramm wrote: > The iPhone is a lifestyle device, not a measuring device. Before anyone misreads this - I don't claim that Android phones weren't lifestyle devices, it's just more difficult to say something about them in general because there's no such thing as "the Android phone".

Re: [OSM-talk] iPhone vs Android - OSM shootout

2009-11-27 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Matthias Versen wrote: > add the point that it's seems to have one of the worst GPS precision of > all modern phones. The iPhone is a lifestyle device, not a measuring device. It has a GPS receiver in order to display location based opportunities to spend money; and for that I guess it's g

Re: [OSM-talk] iPhone vs Android - OSM shootout

2009-11-27 Thread Matthias Versen
Valent Turkovic wrote: > Android negative points: > - less apps than iPhone, both for OSM and general > - not so good as multimedia player (video and audio podcasts) > - a bit bigger and heavier than iPhone The last point depends on the phone because Android is a platform not a single Phone. >

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping everything as areas

2009-11-27 Thread John Smith
Why do you insist on limiting everything to just areas, the problem is micro mapping, areas is one solution to it, but not the only solution. If you want to have a discussion that's fine but you are merely dismissing other view points because the problem has been too narrowly defined to even bothe

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping everything as areas

2009-11-27 Thread Roy Wallace
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 7:32 AM, John Smith wrote: > >> Is a lane a directed area? If it isn't an area, then it's not really >> relevant to this thread, is it? > > That depends if you are you only after opinions that agree with yours, > or if you really want a solution to a problem. Which "proble

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping everything as areas

2009-11-27 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Roy Wallace wrote: > On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 6:51 AM, Anthony wrote: Right now, what's stopping them? >>> >>> Documentation. Or, in other words, at least some suggestions as to how >>> to do it. For example, you'll notice that Map Features states that >>

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping everything as areas

2009-11-27 Thread John Smith
2009/11/28 Roy Wallace : > On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 5:47 AM, John Smith wrote: >> >> I've been seeing this thread develop, and apart from trying to use >> areas and relations in all sorts of weird and wonderful ways wouldn't >> it be simpler from a logical point of view to treat ways as a grouping

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping everything as areas

2009-11-27 Thread Roy Wallace
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 6:51 AM, Anthony wrote: >>> >>> Right now, what's stopping them? >> >> Documentation. Or, in other words, at least some suggestions as to how >> to do it. For example, you'll notice that Map Features states that >> highway's are ways, not areas. >> > Weird.  http://wiki.ope

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping everything as areas

2009-11-27 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Roy Wallace wrote: > On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 6:47 AM, Anthony wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Roy Wallace wrote: >>> But for people who want to do it [map areas], they should be able to. >>> That's what >>> this thread is about - giving them a way to

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping everything as areas

2009-11-27 Thread Roy Wallace
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 6:47 AM, Anthony wrote: > On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Roy Wallace wrote: >> But for people who want to do it [map areas], they should be able to. That's >> what >> this thread is about - giving them a way to map the world more >> accurately, if that's what they're in

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping everything as areas

2009-11-27 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Roy Wallace wrote: > But for people who want to do it [map areas], they should be able to. That's > what > this thread is about - giving them a way to map the world more > accurately, if that's what they're into. Right now, what's stopping them?

Re: [OSM-talk] ADDING THE ABILITY TO Mapping everything as areas

2009-11-27 Thread Roy Wallace
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 11:22 PM, Lester Caine wrote: > > My point here is that the WAY information provides all of the direction > details. [snip] > The area detail is simple defined areas 'grouped' with the way or ways that > make up the > route. So in that case, you seem to be suggesting tha

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping everything as areas

2009-11-27 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 2:47 PM, John Smith wrote: > Using areas seems like a lot of work for no benefit if you just need a > simple 2 lane road that has no foot paths or other interesting > features. Yeah, that would be a bad place to use an area :). Areas would be beneficial for, well, just ab

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping everything as areas

2009-11-27 Thread Roy Wallace
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 5:47 AM, John Smith wrote: > > I've been seeing this thread develop, and apart from trying to use > areas and relations in all sorts of weird and wonderful ways wouldn't > it be simpler from a logical point of view to treat ways as a grouping > of lanes and those lanes can

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping everything as areas

2009-11-27 Thread John Smith
I've been seeing this thread develop, and apart from trying to use areas and relations in all sorts of weird and wonderful ways wouldn't it be simpler from a logical point of view to treat ways as a grouping of lanes and those lanes can be assigned tags that differ from the ways, such as directions

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping everything as areas

2009-11-27 Thread Gervase Markham
On 25/11/09 21:59, Roy Wallace wrote: > This raises another interesting question, that is, whether highways=* > should *necessarily* express logical "paths of travel", or whether > they are just a convenient way to represent an *area* used as a path > of travel, as a placeholder for future, more de

[OSM-talk] [Announcement] talk-ve Venezuela mailing list

2009-11-27 Thread Mike Collinson
There is now a talk-ve Venezuela-specific topics and discussion mailing list available. Thank you to Rafael for initiating and hosting this forum. For details on how to subscribe to this and other country, language, and topic-specific OSM mailing lists, see http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index

Re: [OSM-talk] ADDING THE ABILITY TO Mapping everything as areas

2009-11-27 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 14:12, Lester Caine wrote: > Richard Weait wrote: >> Looks like somebody is doing some area- / micro- mapping. >> http://bestofosm.org/?type=mapnik&lon=11.42994&lat=51.30053&zoom=18 > > Nice, but still not 'micro-mapping ;) > > Which sides of those roads have pedestrian foo

Re: [OSM-talk] ADDING THE ABILITY TO Mapping everything as areas

2009-11-27 Thread Lester Caine
Richard Weait wrote: > Looks like somebody is doing some area- / micro- mapping. > http://bestofosm.org/?type=mapnik&lon=11.42994&lat=51.30053&zoom=18 Nice, but still not 'micro-mapping ;) Which sides of those roads have pedestrian footpaths. Is there a footpath on the side of the road over the

Re: [OSM-talk] ADDING THE ABILITY TO Mapping everything as areas

2009-11-27 Thread Richard Weait
Looks like somebody is doing some area- / micro- mapping. http://bestofosm.org/?type=mapnik&lon=11.42994&lat=51.30053&zoom=18 ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] ADDING THE ABILITY TO Mapping everything as areas

2009-11-27 Thread Lester Caine
Roy Wallace wrote: > On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Lester Caine wrote: >> The bottom line is that while adding 'width' tags all the way along a road >> may >> be a practical half way house, other area features are not handled the same >> way >> so why should roads be any different. > > I thi

Re: [OSM-talk] ADDING THE ABILITY TO Mapping everything as areas

2009-11-27 Thread Roy Wallace
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Lester Caine wrote: > > The bottom line is that while adding 'width' tags all the way along a road may > be a practical half way house, other area features are not handled the same > way > so why should roads be any different. I think, because roads (ways) often

[OSM-talk] Shopping at Amazon for OSM

2009-11-27 Thread Dave F.
Hi Using this link given here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Merchandise#Amazon generates commission for OSM using the tag: tag=openstreetmap However if I do a search within Amazon this tag disappears. Does anyone know if the money still, somehow, reaches OSM? Cheers Dave F.

Re: [OSM-talk] New OpenStreetMap iPhone Editor - Mapzen POI Collector

2009-11-27 Thread Nick Black
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 10:32 PM, Peter Körner wrote: > Some more things that came in to my mind: > > 1. When Moving a POI it's not visible, because your finger is over it. > When you started moving, there's no way back and no possibility to > cancel. It would be better if moving were implemented

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-de] New OpenStreetMap iPhone Editor - Mapzen POI Collector

2009-11-27 Thread Nick Black
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 7:06 PM, Claudius wrote: > Am 26.11.2009 10:56, Nick Black: >> Hi Guys, >> >> Mapzen POI Collector was released into the App Store this morning. >> Mapzen POI Collector is a free iPhone app that makes it really easy to >> collect POIs for OpenStreetMap.  Users locate themse

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-de] New OpenStreetMap iPhone Editor - Mapzen POI Collector

2009-11-27 Thread Nick Black
2009/11/26 Tomáš Tichý : > This is great news. Are there any plan for Android version? Android is definitely a possibility for 2010. We want to reach as many existing and potentially new OpenStreetMappers as possible with the Mapzen mobile tools, so platform choices will be based on that. > > T