Re: [OSM-talk] New site about the license change

2010-11-15 Thread john whelan
I've been a little selective in quoting your message but I think you have correctly identified the split. Germany and the UK with high mapper density are probably for the new license and dumping the older data other parts of the world that don't have the luxury of such a high density of mappers an

Re: [OSM-talk] New site about the license change

2010-11-15 Thread Anthony
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 8:20 PM, David Murn wrote: > If someone was to approach OSM and say they were using OSM data in their > project, but their projects licence was changing and therefore they'd > like OSM to relicence our data under some licence theyve created for > their own project, what wou

Re: [OSM-talk] New site about the license change

2010-11-15 Thread David Murn
On Sat, 2010-11-13 at 18:06 -0500, john whelan wrote: > > The decisions have been made, so it's time to accept them or if you > don't, to leave. Maybe I missed something, but when were the decisions made? Last I heard, people were still being asked for their opinion. Did I miss the announcement

Re: [OSM-talk] Announce search box with result suggestions

2010-11-15 Thread Martijn van Exel
Wyo, No specific reason. It looked like the quickest route to demonstrable results for someone not at all familiar with modern web technologies such as myself. And it did - I did this in a few hours, including the PHP script that calls Nominatim and parses the result. Martijn van Exel +++ m...@

Re: [OSM-talk] Announce search box with result suggestions

2010-11-15 Thread Wyo
Martijn van Exel wrote: Hi all, The lack of "auto-complete" or search suggestions like you see in for example Google (maps) and the OSM wiki search box has been bugging me for a while. So I created a prototype based on the Nominatim API and the Google Closure JS framework. There's a lot of thing

Re: [OSM-talk] South Pole?

2010-11-15 Thread Toby Murray
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Nakor wrote: > My next question is then: what is the correct place to > report it? Trac. But it has already been reported there: http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/1327 Toby ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap

Re: [OSM-talk] South Pole?

2010-11-15 Thread Nakor
On 11/12/2010 4:30 PM, Nakor wrote: Did the South Pole move? http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=0&lon=0&zoom=17&layers=M More seriously there is no data there and I am wondering why it displays "South Pole" Thanks, N. The goal of my original message is to point out a potential problem on

Re: [OSM-talk] South Pole?

2010-11-15 Thread Tom Hughes
On 15/11/10 16:02, Nakor wrote: > Sure but how do we get this fixed so Mapnik layer in osm.org does not > show the South Pole in the wrong place? Provide a patch for osm2pgsql to make it clip/discard geometries which go beyond 85 degrees north/south (or whatever the actual limit is). Tom -- To

Re: [OSM-talk] South Pole?

2010-11-15 Thread Peter
The Mapnik layer cannot show the South Pole at all. The projection does get cut off at 85 degrees, no mattre what. You could go and render your own maps with a different projection, but the Mapnik layer at osm.org probably will keep this way. Maybe there should be something in osm2pgsql's default.

Re: [OSM-talk] South Pole?

2010-11-15 Thread Nakor
Sure but how do we get this fixed so Mapnik layer in osm.org does not show the South Pole in the wrong place? 2010/11/13 Peter: if(lat> 85) { do_not_render(); } 2010/11/13 Nathan Edgars II Nakor Osm wrote: Did the South Pole move? http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=0&lon=0&zoom=17&la

Re: [OSM-talk] Historical Data in OSM database

2010-11-15 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/11/15 Russ Nelson : > Laurence Penney writes: >  > In principle, historic data is an orthogonal project. > > Except when it leaves traces that can be found "on the ground". I completely agree, and like to add, that those "traces" in most cases will be in some form or another there (also "und