Re: [OSM-talk] How to extract national borders?

2010-05-28 Thread Roland Olbricht
> What's the best way to get an OSM file with the national borders? > > I tried using XAPI to look for "../*[admin_level=2]", or > ".../*[admin_level=2][boundary=administrative]" or > "relation[admin_level=2]", but all took so long that I stopped them and > were producing OSM files that were hunder

[OSM-talk] High-Tech Burglars May Get Longer Sentences In Louisiana

2010-05-28 Thread John Smith
Hugh Pickens writes "Burglars and terrorists should be careful not to use Google Maps if they plan on committing crimes in the state of Louisiana. Nola reports that a bill approved 89-0 by the Louisiana House will require that judges impose an additional minimum sentence of at least 10 years on ter

Re: [OSM-talk] [proposal] Default values in a relation "definition"

2010-05-28 Thread Roy Wallace
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 12:52 AM, Pieren wrote: > I think you should rename your proposal as 'defaults' instead of > 'definition' (type=defaults). Agreed. > And the prefix "def:" is not really necessary > in your "def:key=value" tags. Perhaps not, but it does help to make it clear that these ar

Re: [OSM-talk] We need urgently a clarification between place locality, farm and isolated_dwelling

2010-05-28 Thread Roy Wallace
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Pieren wrote: > > Good to see that nobody cares about the wiki inconsistencies of 'locality'. I didn't reply because your original email didn't ask a clear question. Are you proposing something in particular? I'll try to comment nonetheless: >> at http://wiki.ope

Re: [OSM-talk] Application error in Firefox

2010-05-28 Thread Colin Marquardt
2010/5/28 Cartinus : > On Thursday 27 May 2010 23:39:57 Dan Karran wrote: >> I've had that problem here since yesterday as well. Closing Firefox >> and re-opening seemed to kick it into gear again though. I think I had >> to log in when I re-opened it, so I suspect that starting a new >> session is

Re: [OSM-talk] [proposal] Default values in a relation "definition"

2010-05-28 Thread John Smith
I wouldn't use the '&' symbol as it might be a value, not sure what to use instead. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] [proposal] Default values in a relation "definition"

2010-05-28 Thread Pieren
I think you should rename your proposal as 'defaults' instead of 'definition' (type=defaults). And the prefix "def:" is not really necessary in your "def:key=value" tags. Pieren ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/

Re: [OSM-talk] [proposal] Default values in a relation "definition"

2010-05-28 Thread Vincent Pottier
Le 28/05/2010 16:00, Vincent Pottier wrote : > ... > I beg your pardon. The link : http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relations/Proposed/Definition -- FrViPofm ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] [proposal] Default values in a relation "definition"

2010-05-28 Thread Vincent Pottier
After several discussion on different mailing-lists (talk & talk-fr), I have created a proposal for experimenting a way to include the default values into the data. The aim is to get available those default values per countries or other areas. You are invited to comment it in the talk page, es

Re: [OSM-talk] We need urgently a clarification between place locality, farm and isolated_dwelling

2010-05-28 Thread John Smith
On 28 May 2010 19:00, Pieren wrote: > Good to see that nobody cares about the wiki inconsistencies of 'locality'. > Then I will fix it directly with the 'unpopulated place' version. Good to see you waited a couple of days to see if people would reply before assuming no one cares... As for incons

Re: [OSM-talk] We need urgently a clarification between place locality, farm and isolated_dwelling

2010-05-28 Thread Pieren
Good to see that nobody cares about the wiki inconsistencies of 'locality'. Then I will fix it directly with the 'unpopulated place' version. On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 7:39 PM, Pieren wrote: > On the wiki, we need to clarify some places definitions after some recent > (or not) changes: > > place=l

Re: [OSM-talk] Application error in Firefox

2010-05-28 Thread Cartinus
On Thursday 27 May 2010 23:39:57 Dan Karran wrote: > I've had that problem here since yesterday as well. Closing Firefox > and re-opening seemed to kick it into gear again though. I think I had > to log in when I re-opened it, so I suspect that starting a new > session is what cleared the issue for