[OSM-talk] New Community Updates newsletter

2011-03-02 Thread Matthias Meißer
Hi, we proudly presents the next issue of the Community Updates newsletter: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Community_Updates/2011-02-21 kind regards Matthias ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] Project of the week: Stationery

2011-03-02 Thread Matthias Meißer
This week, we suggest to put your eyes on the local stationery shops http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Project_of_the_week Again, this is just a "look what we can add" and not a "add XYZ immediately!". Feel free to notify your local groups if you like the idea. regards Matthias _

Re: [OSM-talk] all our addresses are belong to you

2011-03-02 Thread Antony Pegg
*Hello David, *I'm sorry if you misunderstood where these addresses came from. These are addresses where people have directly picked up the phone and called us with their address and latlng because they weren't being found in the commercial datasets we license. Our Support team gathers these a

Re: [OSM-talk] magical road detector to play with

2011-03-02 Thread Alan Mintz
Here's another example where it fails to spider because it doesn't want to cross, or even get close to, paved dips at intersection boundaries, no doubt because it thinks they are sidewalks. That should probably be a pattern it is sensitive to (roadColor-borderColor-roadColor) and allow it to go

Re: [OSM-talk] [HOT] Nametagging: Local script versus

2011-03-02 Thread andrzej zaborowski
On 28 February 2011 21:40, Steve Doerr wrote: > On 28/02/2011 16:55, Ed Avis wrote: >> >> Jean-Marc Liotier  liotier.org>  writes: >> >>> By the way, for latin script names, should we use int_name, name:en or >>> both ? >> >> If the name is still in Arabic, but Arabic written with the Latin >> alp

Re: [OSM-talk] all our addresses are belong to you

2011-03-02 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 7:00 PM, David Murn wrote: > On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 13:54 -0700, flambe...@gmail.com wrote: > >> There are currently three (3) main files - one for the United States, >> one for Canada and one for Europe. > > This is great, but the US is 300m, Canada 34m and Europe 700m.  The

Re: [OSM-talk] all our addresses are belong to you

2011-03-02 Thread David Murn
On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 13:54 -0700, flambe...@gmail.com wrote: > There are currently three (3) main files - one for the United States, > one for Canada and one for Europe. This is great, but the US is 300m, Canada 34m and Europe 700m. The world population is just under 6.8 million. Is there any

Re: [OSM-talk] all our addresses are belong to you

2011-03-02 Thread Antony Pegg
Umm yeah quick note on that – the dupes are different spellings of an address when it has a directional as part of the road name. lets call it a feature of how the CAF is checked before our hitting our commercial geocoding solution. Mike N wrote: A quick check shows that there are some dup

Re: [OSM-talk] all our addresses are belong to you

2011-03-02 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
On Miércoles, 2 de Marzo de 2011 21:54:28 flambe...@gmail.com escribió: > 4. we've checked with our lawyers, and yes, you can have them - > UNENCUMBERED! Hey, you will at least want to keep track of how many of them are imported/uploaded into OSM. Have you thought about a source= tag, perhaps so

Re: [OSM-talk] all our addresses are belong to you

2011-03-02 Thread Matt Williams
On 2 March 2011 21:54, flambe...@gmail.com wrote: > MapQuest is providing several address files that contain user-provided > latitude and longitude locations across the world. Our users provided > these exact locations to us so that they could be mapped correctly on > our MapQuest maps. > > There

Re: [OSM-talk] all our addresses are belong to you

2011-03-02 Thread Mike N
On 3/2/2011 3:54 PM, flambe...@gmail.com wrote: MapQuest is providing several address files that contain user-provided latitude and longitude locations across the world. Our users provided these exact locations to us so that they could be mapped correctly on our MapQuest maps. This is great

[OSM-talk] all our addresses are belong to you

2011-03-02 Thread flambe...@gmail.com
MapQuest is providing several address files that contain user-provided latitude and longitude locations across the world. Our users provided these exact locations to us so that they could be mapped correctly on our MapQuest maps. There are currently three (3) main files - one for the United States

Re: [OSM-talk] infrastructure tracing in Christchurch

2011-03-02 Thread Robin Paulson
On 3 March 2011 03:22, Richard Weait wrote: > Bounding box contains ~53,000 objects and 94 users, extends roughly: > Canon Street in the north, Coleridge Street in the south, Tui Street > in the west and Bracken Street in the east. don't forget the equally incredible work in sumner (east of the c

Re: [OSM-talk] infrastructure tracing in Christchurch

2011-03-02 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Wed, 2 Mar 2011 17:01:27 +1300 Robin Paulson wrote: > hi osmers, > a few days ago NZ mappers asked if anyone was interested in mapping > christchurch infrastructure, as part of the rescue effort for the > recent earthquake there. > > well, the response has been phenomenal. very few have said