Re: [OSM-talk] Think before you bot

2010-09-24 Thread Martin Simon
2010/9/24 M∡rtin Koppenhoefer : > I second this, and like to put emphasis on the "discuss with the > community first" aspect. I'd also like to add "admit your defeat" and "don't leave the discussion to unleash your bot if you realise you can't win it". ;-) -Martin __

Re: [OSM-talk] Think before you bot

2010-09-24 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/9/23 davespod : > Before you make bold assumptions about what > mappers meant by using an unusual tag, try checking with some of them first. > (Even if you believe it is wrong to use tags without putting them in the > wiki, you will be creating incorrect data if you change them to "approved" >

Re: [OSM-talk] Hurricane hits MapQuest

2010-09-24 Thread Coast, Hurricane
> Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 17:43:36 -0400 > From: Richard Weait > To: talk@openstreetmap.org > Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Hurricane hits MapQuest > Message-ID: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Hurricane > wrote: >> Howdy! >

Re: [OSM-talk] Exceeded API bandwidth limit, now what?

2010-09-24 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2010-09-13 23:20, Tom Hughes wrote: On 14/09/10 03:01, Michal Migurski wrote: Can anyone tell me what the limit is so I know not to exceed it, and how long I have to wait until I'm allowed back in? The limit is not some sort of game where you try and download at exactly the maximum rate al

Re: [OSM-talk] [syj]: website to share routes

2010-09-24 Thread Dave F.
On 19/09/2010 17:25, arno wrote: In the short term, I only plan to fix bugs, not add new features, but if you have some suggestions, please tell them so I can work on them in the middle-long term. Looks very useful. Is there a 'permalink' function so I can bookmark the page local to my city?

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] OS Opendata & the new license

2010-09-24 Thread 80n
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Rob Myers wrote: > On 09/24/2010 01:04 PM, 80n wrote: > >> >> I cannot grant you rights that I do not have. I do not have the right >> to "do any act restricted by copyright" so I can't give it to you even >> if I wanted to. >> > > Then it's unlikely that you can

Re: [OSM-talk] Changeset ignoring API limits?

2010-09-24 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
> Does anybody know how it is possible for that changeset to bypass > these API limits? Or is it some bug in the element-counting code? Yes it is, I filed a bug for it a while back and got a snide reply in return http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/2640 __

Re: [OSM-talk] Error on boundaries + issues with Abkhazia/South Ossetia/disputed territories

2010-09-24 Thread Lennard
On 24-9-2010 11:38, Tiziano D'Angelo wrote: - Azerbaijan border with Georgia, but it is not marked as country but region boundary [2] with tag: *admin_level:* 2 *border_type:* nation *boundary:* administrative *left: country:* GE *name:* International Border - Georgia - Azerbaijan *right: countr

Re: [OSM-talk] Error on boundaries + issues with Abkhazia/South Ossetia/disputed territories

2010-09-24 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 13:56:24 +0400 Kirill Bestoujev wrote: > The question was discussed on the Russian osm-forum, we decided to > leave the borders as they are now, not to start a war of edits with > Georgian osmers, as Georgia does not recognize Abkhazia or South > Osetia as independet countries

Re: [OSM-talk] Error on boundaries + issues with Abkhazia/South Ossetia/disputed territories

2010-09-24 Thread Kirill Bestoujev
The question was discussed on the Russian osm-forum, we decided to leave the borders as they are now, not to start a war of edits with Georgian osmers, as Georgia does not recognize Abkhazia or South Osetia as independet countries. I think it would be wise to leave it as it is now not to create con

[OSM-talk] Error on boundaries + issues with Abkhazia/South Ossetia/disputed territories

2010-09-24 Thread Tiziano D'Angelo
Hello everyone, I am new on this list, but active on talk-it since some time, so forgive me if this has been already discussed here... I've been looking at the Caucasus region in where I was recently and [1] I noticed some anomalies: - Azerbaijan border with Georgia, but it is not marked as countr