Re: [OSM-talk] moderation going forward

2010-08-24 Thread Steve Bennett
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Chris Browet wrote: > You realize "tightly moderate" and "issues of all nature" are somewhat > contradictory, do you? Not at all. Personal attacks, repetition, off-topic remarks, spamminess, me-tooism - none of this comes under "issues of all natures". Picture the

Re: [OSM-talk] Super-relations for roads

2010-08-24 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/8/24 Konrad Skeri : > Is there any current usage of super-relations for roads? > This could be resolved by making a relation of E 45 Sorsele > municipality, E 45 Storuman municipality, E 45 Vilhelmina > municipality, etc. and then join all of them in the super-relation E > 45 Sweden, and fin

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch for Newbies

2010-08-24 Thread Steve Bennett
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > Personally I use 'save mode' in P1 with the approach "save early, save > (very) often". Once you've made your first save (with changeset comment) > it's only a matter of pressing 'S' now and then, which'll bring up a > progress dialogue f

Re: [OSM-talk] Super-relations for roads

2010-08-24 Thread Mike N.
Is there any current usage of super-relations for roads? Super-relations have come into wider use in the US on national road networks. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Interstate_Highway_relations Minimizing conflicts across huge geographic areas was one of the tipping points in favor

[OSM-talk] SotM.us videos

2010-08-24 Thread David Carmean
I'm beginning to edit/encode/upload the session videos from SotM.us 2010 http://vimeo.com/channels/128913 I'm tweeting each upload to #sotmus. Takes a few hours to edit/upload each session so expect two or three per day. ___ talk mailing list talk

[OSM-talk] Super-relations for roads

2010-08-24 Thread Konrad Skeri
Is there any current usage of super-relations for roads? A few months ago I edited the E 45 (and hence its relation) in northern Sweden and when uploading the changes got a conflict since someone else had changed the E 45 after I started editing. (Somewhere in Italy.) So I resolved the conflict an

Re: [OSM-talk] User contrib stat

2010-08-24 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Martin Fossdal Guttesen wrote: > Am i wrong or wasin't there a plug-in for josom to get user statistics > for selected nodes ? > i can't seem to find it now ??? > > if i am wrong i would like a plug-in that tells me the precentage a user has > contributed for the s

[OSM-talk] User contrib stat

2010-08-24 Thread Martin Fossdal Guttesen
Am i wrong or wasin't there a plug-in for josom to get user statistics for selected nodes ? i can't seem to find it now ??? if i am wrong i would like a plug-in that tells me the precentage a user has contributed for the selected bbox in josom just so i can finde out how mutch contribution i ha

Re: [OSM-talk] Useful changeset comments are useful.

2010-08-24 Thread Nic Roets
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Richard Weait wrote: > > There are a lot of things that could be added to a changeset. For > instance, a useful changeset comment is a simple and obvious way to > cooperate with other mappers. > > http://ow.ly/2u0IQ > > This this ? http://www.openstreetmap.org/br

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [Osmf-talk] The license/fork discussion: A solution proposal

2010-08-24 Thread davespod
Apologies to legal-talk, it would have helped if I had quoted the original proposal that started the thread On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 3:17 AM, ce-test wrote: > A fork as stipulated should not be necessarily about a group of people > leaving OSM , but about we (OSM) deciding to continue in two or m

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [Osmf-talk] The license/fork discussion: A solution proposal

2010-08-24 Thread David Ellams
On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:12 +0200, "ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen" wrote: > The history problem happens also when all contributors that are not happy > with the new ODBL license will withdraw their data. Yes, but the hideousness of the history problem will only happen once, and be d

[OSM-talk] Useful changeset comments are useful.

2010-08-24 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 2:33 AM, John Smith wrote: > On 24 August 2010 15:58, ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen > wrote: >> This would require the OSM database to include a extra field for each and >> every item indicating the license > > You could just add the license information as

Re: [OSM-talk] [NUUG kart] NVDB igjen...

2010-08-24 Thread vegard
> veg...@engen.priv.no wrote on 24.08.2010 11:19:02: > > > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 10:41:32AM +0200, Sverre Didriksen wrote: > > > > > > Det kan godt være du har rett. Ville bare nevne det siden de sa de > fikk en > > > del data fra traffikanten. Jeg ser på nettsiden at de bare dekker det >

Re: [OSM-talk] Revert requests in general

2010-08-24 Thread Antony Pegg
I wanted to revive the discussion inspired by NearMap, regarding making an easier way to on-ramp new users, since it seemed to have died. Nick wrote: So let's bring this back to people who want to create tools to make it easier for everyone to participate in OSM. How can we get past the problems

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch for Newbies

2010-08-24 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Steve Bennett wrote: > I note someone below saying Potlatch 2 will only have the offline > mode. Ugh. That's a real pity. Live mode is more complex to code (and, hence, a potential source of bugs) by an order of magnitude. Stuff like merging ways and undo is incredibly convoluted in P1 because of

Re: [OSM-talk] Fork OSM to a CCBYSA 2.0 continuation : Asolution proposal

2010-08-24 Thread John Smith
On 24 August 2010 17:11, ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen wrote: >>You could just add the license information as part of the changeset tags, >>that way there is no changes to OSMs DB needed. > > But then, during an extract, the changeset database will have to be used... I > don't kno

Re: [OSM-talk] Fork OSM to a CCBYSA 2.0 continuation : Asolution proposal

2010-08-24 Thread ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen
vegard wrote: >Well. Then I come along, add an amenity=cafe, under a CCBYSA2.0-license. But >at the wrong spot. And you, having chosen an OdBL-license, decides to move it >to the correct position. Under what license is that node? >This isn't going to be easy, hardly possible? :) I did not say i