Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] GSoC'10

2010-03-10 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
My GSOC suggestion : Get the potlatch running without any Adobe software, use gnash. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/GSoC_Project_Ideas_2010#Porting_of_Potlatch_to_use_FLOSS_tools_and_viewer Also why does google list OSM as being apache licensed? http://code.google.com/soc/2008/streetmap/abo

Re: [OSM-talk] Contributing to PL2 (was: Re: Thoughts on OSM design, and looking forward and back)

2010-03-10 Thread Steve Bennett
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 8:55 PM, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > If you can code ActionScript 3 (or would like to learn), the world's your > oyster. If not, there are oodles of exciting things you can do with presets > and icons and stuff. Either drop me a line off-list or (better still) ask on > the p

Re: [OSM-talk] Cyclone batters Cook Islands - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

2010-03-10 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
The data from Aiutaki (Cook Islands) are online, they look great. http://www.disasterscharter.org/web/charter/activation_details?p_r_p_1415474252_assetId=ACT-294 Lets get some people working on it? On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 9:58 AM, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com < jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com>

[OSM-talk] GeoEye TMS for Chile

2010-03-10 Thread Julio Costa Zambelli
Hello Everyone, I wanted to know if someone is working in a TMS for Chiles GeoEye imagery ( http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2010_Chile_earthquake/Imagery_and_data_sources#GeoEye_and_DigitalGlobe). If the answer is no, I would also like to know if someone is technically capable and interested in

Re: [OSM-talk] will walkingpapers printed on black and white work?

2010-03-10 Thread Erik Johansson
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Tom Hughes wrote: > On 27/02/10 05:21, Michal Migurski wrote: > >> Interesting, I've been treating PDF uploads as errors, essentially. =) >> I wasn't aware of printers that spoke PDF instead of JPEG/TIFF. If >> this is a common problem I can look into ways of hand

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Student Project Ideas?

2010-03-10 Thread Tom Hughes
On 10/03/10 21:53, Graham Jones wrote: > Thanks for the pointer - I had naively thought it would be linked from > the 'API' page and didn't think to search! Maybe if anybody involved with coding the API was taking it seriously then it would be... > Would anyone have an issue with me adding the

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Student Project Ideas?

2010-03-10 Thread Graham Jones
Ian, Tom, Thanks for the pointer - I had naively thought it would be linked from the 'API' page and didn't think to search! Would anyone have an issue with me adding the link so I can find it again? It is an interesting list of possibilities isn't it - would anyone that knows more about it than me

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Student Project Ideas?

2010-03-10 Thread Graham Jones
Aevar, The process is that we (OpenStreetMap) produce a list of ideas that students may wish to work on. If the students like the sound of us they will make an application describing a project proposal. Google will (assuming we are successful) allocate us a number of student places - we had 6 last

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Student Project Ideas?

2010-03-10 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Tom Hughes wrote: > On 10/03/10 21:14, Graham Jones wrote: > > > On this I did just try to look for the API 0.7 feature list, but can't > > find it - is anyone thinking about what the next version of the API will > > do, or do we think we are about there, and we a

Re: [OSM-talk] Student Project Ideas?

2010-03-10 Thread Tom Hughes
On 10/03/10 21:14, Graham Jones wrote: >5. An interesting suggestion to improve the 'History' list, which > would also help the rendering process - I liked the sound of this > as this is one of the few suggestions for projects involving the > 'core' of OSM. The reply suggest

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Student Project Ideas?

2010-03-10 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > > Once you have those ideas how are you gong to pick one? I for one think: > > * You should try to make students work on existing /active/ projects > instead of sending them off on their own for 3 months > Yes, that's why we are s

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Student Project Ideas?

2010-03-10 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 16:31, Ian Dees wrote: > On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason > wrote: >> >> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 08:52, Graham Jones >> wrote: >> > Please give this a bit of thought, and add any ideas to the Wiki page! >> > If >> > you don't have chance to do tha

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Student Project Ideas?

2010-03-10 Thread Graham Jones
Thank you all for your replies - It is good to see people giving this issue some thought. I also see that the project ideas page has been updated which is excellent! There are some interesting suggestions in the above emails. I'll try to summarise where we are - please correct me if I am wrong

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - (amenity=ice_cream)

2010-03-10 Thread Roy Wallace
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 7:31 PM, Giacomo Boschi wrote: > > ... I find that the simplest way of tagging an > ice-cream shop is the cuisine tag associated with an amenity like fast > food or cafe, according to circumstances. Seems reasonable to me. I generally prefer this approach of adding more de

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Student Project Ideas?

2010-03-10 Thread Peter Körner
> What you need is to generate a "dirty-tiles" list for every edit-session > in the database and only display the edit-sessions whose "dirty-tiles" > list includes tiles that you're looking at with slippy-map at that time. Such a dirty-tiles list could be used in tile-expiring on the render se

Re: [OSM-talk] Student Project Ideas?

2010-03-10 Thread Bernhard zwischenbrugger
Hi I have a project: If you have nothing else just copy/paste from snip to snap and correct my bad english. ---snip--- title: It's about zooming the browser maps... The javascript map library khtmlib is a free library to display maps in browsers. It has a simple API to display map tiles at the

Re: [OSM-talk] Student Project Ideas?

2010-03-10 Thread Tom Hughes
On 10/03/10 17:30, Steve Hosgood wrote: > What you need is to generate a "dirty-tiles" list for every edit-session > in the database and only display the edit-sessions whose "dirty-tiles" > list includes tiles that you're looking at with slippy-map at that time. > Obviously, this is a crude descri

Re: [OSM-talk] Student Project Ideas?

2010-03-10 Thread Stefan de Konink
Op 10-03-10 17:50, Tom Hughes schreef: > Um... It's the Summer of CODE not the Summer of Writing Reports? Interestingly there were projects in the past such as the kornshell project mentored by Sun that actually was not about coding, but about management task to facilitate the placement of some

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Student Project Ideas?

2010-03-10 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Tom Hughes wrote: > I'm not quite sure what you're actually suggesting here - if you're > talking about a new API call for the rails port to return the nearest > way to a point then that is certainly not a big enough project to be > GSOC worthy - it's little more than a few hours work. One

Re: [OSM-talk] Student Project Ideas?

2010-03-10 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Tom Hughes wrote: > On 10/03/10 16:31, Ian Dees wrote: > > For example, one of the requirements in the "simple editor" that I've >> been sketching in my doodle-notebook is to have an extremely fast >> "nearest way" lookup. I imagine something like that could be

Re: [OSM-talk] Student Project Ideas?

2010-03-10 Thread Tom Hughes
On 10/03/10 16:31, Ian Dees wrote: > For example, one of the requirements in the "simple editor" that I've > been sketching in my doodle-notebook is to have an extremely fast > "nearest way" lookup. I imagine something like that could be written, > documented, and demonstrated in one Summer. We'v

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Student Project Ideas?

2010-03-10 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 08:52, Graham Jones > wrote: > > Please give this a bit of thought, and add any ideas to the Wiki page! > If > > you don't have chance to do that, an email to me will do and I will add > it. > > Here's my i

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Student Project Ideas?

2010-03-10 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 08:52, Graham Jones wrote: > Please give this a bit of thought, and add any ideas to the Wiki page!   If > you don't have chance to do that, an email to me will do and I will add it. Here's my idea: Can we please not make things like "Develop a Simple, Stand-Alone Editor

Re: [OSM-talk] Freemap - OpenStreetMap for walkers (hikers) - feature ideas?

2010-03-10 Thread Milo van der Linden
Hello Nick, Having an OpenStreetMap initiative specific targeted at (long distance) walking is great! But one question comes to mind: - Right now it feels although the source is available like you are the only developer. Wouldn't you benefit from moving freemap development to the openstreetmap

[OSM-talk] Freemap - OpenStreetMap for walkers (hikers) - feature ideas?

2010-03-10 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, After a year or so of server memory issues causing problems with Freemap (www.free-map.org.uk; currently maps are temporarily unavailable as I'm testing one or two things; will be available from later this evening) I'm aiming to re-vamp the site this year to use tiles generated

Re: [OSM-talk] [Warning: Potential Flamewar] Clarifying Interstate Relations

2010-03-10 Thread charlie
Brad Neuhauser (brad.neuhau...@gmail.com) wrote: > Paul, I believe this is what you said on another thread. Have you > tried it yet? > > "You can contact the person through the website (change your name in the > URL when you look at your profile with the person you're trying to > contact)." >

Re: [OSM-talk] Contributing to PL2 (was: Re: Thoughts on OSM design, and looking forward and back)

2010-03-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Steve Bennett wrote: > An observation of a deficiency isn't really a complaint. I actually > do want to help with PL2 (if there are things I can do), but it > won't be for the next 6 weeks. \o/ If you can code ActionScript 3 (or would like to learn), the world's your oyster. If not, there are

Re: [OSM-talk] Contributing to PL2 (was: Re: Thoughts on OSM design, and looking forward and back)

2010-03-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Steve Bennett wrote: > An observation of a deficiency isn't really a complaint. I actually > do want to help with PL2 (if there are things I can do), but it > won't be for the next 6 weeks. \o/ If you can code ActionScript 3 (or would like to learn), the world's your oyster. If not, there are

Re: [OSM-talk] Student Project Ideas?

2010-03-10 Thread Karl Guggisberg
Hi, regarding JOSM the following would be interesting: * graphical visualization of object history JOSM currently provides a very simple and crude view on an objects history. A graphical visualization would provide a more intuitive view on an objects history and the evolution of its key a

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - (amenity=ice_cream)

2010-03-10 Thread Giacomo Boschi
Greg Troxel ha scritto: > amenity=fast_food has a lot of baggage. In the US, that means > factory-produced not-really-food of mediocre quality that is fast and > consistent. A family ice cream shop is definitely not fast food even if > they can serve ice cream rapidly. It seems one of those

[OSM-talk] Student Project Ideas?

2010-03-10 Thread Graham Jones
Hi Folks, We have submitted an application for OSM to participate in this year's Google Summer of Code, so next week the people from Google will be reviewing the application and our project ideas list to chose which organisations to include in the programme. Looking at the project ideas list ( ht

Re: [OSM-talk] Map Making

2010-03-10 Thread Bruce Foster
HI Andy and Ivan Thanks for the pointers; thats good enough to understand the rendering process. So, its mostly Mapnik thats in work. Cheers Bruce On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) < ajrli...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Bruce, > > here is your starting point: >