Re: [OSM-talk] [talk-ph] Cagayan Topomaps Typhoon Megi/Juan

2010-10-19 Thread maning sambale
Thank bunny! Note that these maps are not rectified. You can use mapwarper to rectify the maps. http://warper.geothings.net/ Please update the wiki if you georectified the maps along with the link so that we can access the wms. On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Leonard Soriano wrote: > Para sa

Re: [OSM-talk] about a story in the sunday mid day, a newspaper in mumbai, india

2010-10-19 Thread Jochen Topf
Hi! More information about OSM in India is here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/India There is also a mailing list here: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in . I am forwarding this email to Mikel Maron who has actually done some OSM activities in India and might be more able to h

Re: [OSM-talk] about a story in the sunday mid day, a newspaper in mumbai, india

2010-10-19 Thread Mikel Maron
Yes, the India talk list is the forum to communicate with the core active members of OSM India. I'm forwarded this email to them, and hope that somewhere there can step up to help. -Mikel == Mikel Maron == +254(0)724899738 @mikel s:mikelmaron http://mapkibera.org/ http://wiki.openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Planet database size?

2010-10-19 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 1:51 AM, Toby Murray wrote: > On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 11:32 PM, Simon Biber wrote: >> Hope you have enough space to continue resizing! > > Yeah I guess that's at least an upper bound. Doesn't each change > create another copy of a given object? So I'm guessing there may b

[OSM-talk] Software which can read in .osm on Windows CE

2010-10-19 Thread Tanveer Singh
There are quite a few softwares which involve mgmaps or nonigpsview software to download JPG tiles and view them. for example Oziexplorer. I am wondering is there a free software out there for windows CE which 1. Reads .osm directly 2. Can write gpx trails with timestamp and altitude(any format wil

Re: [OSM-talk] Planet database size?

2010-10-19 Thread Toby Murray
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 7:11 AM, Richard Weait wrote: > > My planet mirror is still well under 200GB and I haven't vacuum-ed in > a while.  Are you using planet, or the full-history planet? > > What options are you using in osm2pgsql ? I'm importing to an apidb schema using osmosis, not a postgis

[OSM-talk] anonymous updates

2010-10-19 Thread IgnacioZ
Hi, I wanted to ask you concerning anonymous updates: I have near 20,000 active users in the city of Mexico (through a free app) and many of them complaint about the state of the map there. I have added links for them to openstreetmap but it doesn't seem to make any difference. Therefore I would

Re: [OSM-talk] anonymous updates

2010-10-19 Thread Peter Körner
Am 19.10.2010 16:25, schrieb IgnacioZ: Therefore I would like to add editing capabilities to the app, but I'm quite sure that the whole registration process will most probably make several users not want to do it. Is there a possibility to provide anonymous updates through my app? Of course this

Re: [OSM-talk] anonymous updates

2010-10-19 Thread Mike N.
Am 19.10.2010 16:25, schrieb IgnacioZ: Therefore I would like to add editing capabilities to the app, but I'm quite sure that the whole registration process will most probably make several users not want to do it. Is there a possibility to provide anonymous updates through my app? Of course this

[OSM-legal-talk] License Question

2010-10-19 Thread Kevin Sharpe
I posted these questions to the Forum and it was suggested that I try here; We wish to add to OSM data relating to electric vehicle charge point locations and capabilities. However, it is not clear to me whether a third party could extract and use the charge point data without restriction. I have

Re: [OSM-talk] anonymous updates

2010-10-19 Thread Peter Körner
Am 19.10.2010 16:47, schrieb Mike N.: Thread "Revert requests in general" Exactly that one, thank you. Peter ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Question

2010-10-19 Thread Nic Roets
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Kevin Sharpe wrote: > I posted these questions to the Forum and it was suggested that I try > here; > > We wish to add to OSM data relating to electric vehicle charge point > locations and capabilities. However, it is not clear to me whether a third > party could

Re: [OSM-talk] anonymous updates

2010-10-19 Thread IgnacioZ
Ok thank you both, I took a look and there seem to be several issues for it to happen. For the first version I will make users sign in to OSM, until this is changed (if that ever happens) Cheers, Ignacio. On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Peter Körner wrote: > Am 19.10.2010 16:47, schrieb Mike

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal for additional Mapnik power=tower icons

2010-10-19 Thread John Goodman
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: I think it looks much better. Please file a ticked, and a patch against the current style would be great. I don't know how to make a patch, but I will submit a ticket. John ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreet

Re: [OSM-talk] Garmin maps for India? Contours?

2010-10-19 Thread Apollinaris Schoell
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 5:17 AM, Charlie Ferrero wrote: > > > Contours are a pain. If you've really left this to the last minute then > you're not going to want to get up the learning curve for creating your own > for Garmin devices. > > I have a little script which can do it from download to mkgm

[OSM-talk] some notes, ostensibly from MapQuest (sorry if this is spam)

2010-10-19 Thread Antony Pegg
Hi all, bear with me, not used to be an official spokesperson type for anything. fortunately I dont think our corporate communications have discovered the OSM lists yet. Anyway: Update! Today MapQuest rolled out three more international OSM sites (oooh h woooh!) open.mapquest.in for India

Re: [OSM-talk] some notes, ostensibly from MapQuest (sorry if this is spam)

2010-10-19 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
how often do you update? To me it seems that there are no streets in low zoomlevels? Cheers, Martin ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] some notes, ostensibly from MapQuest (sorry if this is spam)

2010-10-19 Thread Antony Pegg
To clarify, before someone reads too much into it, when I say I don't care , its just this particular application - of course generally I think the sooner the odbl happens the better as it clears everything up for us ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetm

Re: [OSM-talk] some notes, ostensibly from MapQuest (sorry if this is spam)

2010-10-19 Thread Antony Pegg
the tiles update every 15 minutes, Nominatim data 2-24 hours, routing data overnight. can you give me a couple of example links from the Link box please? (on the MQ interface, above the search box, next to the Send To box) It wont be an update issue, but it might be either data in the area, or th

Re: [OSM-talk] some notes, ostensibly from MapQuest (sorry if this is spam)

2010-10-19 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/10/20 Antony Pegg : > can you give me a couple of example links from the Link box please? (on the > MQ interface, above the search box, next to the Send To box) the linking function doesn't seem to work, I'm in India at Zoom 4 according to the tooltip in the zoom controller. http://open.ma

Re: [OSM-talk] some notes, ostensibly from MapQuest (sorry if this is spam)

2010-10-19 Thread Antony Pegg
yeah - thats something on the bug list to work on - its a hangover from the main consumer code, where its expected that you actually search for something instead of just navigating to the area of map you want to see. Trust me, its on the list, sorry - single code base, different audiences On Tue

Re: [OSM-talk] some notes, ostensibly from MapQuest (sorry if this is spam)

2010-10-19 Thread Antony Pegg
Very simply... the more people that use our Open stuff (tiles, services, sites, etc) the more we demonstrate value / presence / brand recognition to our larger organization. The more we demonstrate value, the more we'll be allowed to do that benefits the community, like sponsoring Wherecamp 5280

Re: [OSM-talk] some notes, ostensibly from MapQuest (sorry if this is spam)

2010-10-19 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 10:40 PM, Antony Pegg wrote: > Or, to put it another, even simpler way, Anthony - I hope that in some small > way, when you have a choice of commercial map/directions vendors to use for > some / any reason (if you ever do, not to offend your refined cartographic > abilities

Re: [OSM-talk] some notes, ostensibly from MapQuest (sorry if this is spam)

2010-10-19 Thread Antony Pegg
Thanks for your good wishes :) your active support provides a lift beneath my wings. On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:01 AM, Anthony wrote: > On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 10:40 PM, Antony Pegg > wrote: > > Or, to put it another, even simpler way, Anthony - I hope that in some > small > > way, when you hav

Re: [OSM-talk] some notes, ostensibly from MapQuest (sorry if this is spam)

2010-10-19 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 8:40 PM, Antony Pegg wrote: > open.mapquest.in for India - rather big deal for mapQuest actually.  First > site out of EU & NA we've done in...a looong time. All thanks to the power > of OSM.  Comments from co-workers in our Banglaor office were very > enthusiastic. Hoping