Re: [OSM-talk] georeferencing OSM

2011-03-07 Thread Russ Nelson
Łukasz Stelmach writes: > Hello. > > This has been discussed[1] some time ago but the answer is somehow > unclear to me. I understand that EPSG:900913 is (may be?) a crappy > projection[2]. There is no such thing as a crappy projection. Every projection is a compromise, and every projection

Re: [OSM-talk] Bike / Pedestrian directions on the MQ Open sites

2011-03-07 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 3/7/2011 9:51 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: 2011/3/7 Nathan Edgars II: M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: the wiki states for the USA http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway motorway = "Limited access freeway with interchanges." In my reading every highway which is not limited access should not

[OSM-talk] Android app Open GPS Tracker and direct trace upload

2011-03-07 Thread René De Groot
Hi all, I have a GPS logger in the Android Market and a few days ago I updated it to a new version which includes uploading GPX files directly to http://api.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/gpx/create. The app is called "Open GPS Tracker" can be found at https://market.android.com/details?id=nl.sogeti.

Re: [OSM-talk] mapping hypotheticals with OSM, e.g., for public charrettes?

2011-03-07 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Tom Roche wrote: > > How best to use OSM to "map" non-existent features for planning > purposes, e.g., for public charrettes? (Apologies if this is a FAQ, but > a brief search of > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/FAQ > > and of the lists via > > http://www.goo

Re: [OSM-talk] mapping hypotheticals with OSM, e.g., for public charrettes?

2011-03-07 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Tom Roche wrote: > How best to use OSM to "map" non-existent features for planning > purposes, e.g., for public charrettes? This shouldn't be mapped in the main OpenStreetMap database. OSM is for mapping real, verifiable locations, not hypotheticals. Rather, you should set up your own OSM install

Re: [OSM-talk] georeferencing OSM

2011-03-07 Thread Łukasz Stelmach
Jukka Rahkonen writes: > Łukasz Stelmach poczta.fm> writes: > >> This has been discussed[1] some time ago but the answer is somehow >> unclear to me. I understand that EPSG:900913 is (may be?) a crappy >> projection[2]. However, I still need a map of Poland at zoom 6-8 >> warped to EPSG2180. How

[OSM-talk] mapping hypotheticals with OSM, e.g., for public charrettes?

2011-03-07 Thread Tom Roche
How best to use OSM to "map" non-existent features for planning purposes, e.g., for public charrettes? (Apologies if this is a FAQ, but a brief search of http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/FAQ and of the lists via http://www.google.com/custom?sa=Google+Search&domains=lists.openstreetmap.org&sit

Re: [OSM-talk] Bike / Pedestrian directions on the MQ Open sites

2011-03-07 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2011/3/7 Nathan Edgars II : > M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: >> >> the wiki states for the USA http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway >> motorway = "Limited access freeway with interchanges." >> In my reading every highway which is not limited access should not be >> tagged as motorway, be it in no

Re: [OSM-talk] Bike / Pedestrian directions on the MQ Open sites

2011-03-07 Thread SomeoneElse
On 07/03/2011 13:31, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: it is an error as soon as not all attributes on the road apply to the parallel cycleway ... Any map (in fact any measurement) has errors. Adding extra information to the map is useful, even if it doesn't add all the information that everyone co

Re: [OSM-talk] Bike / Pedestrian directions on the MQ Open sites

2011-03-07 Thread Nathan Edgars II
M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > Last time I read a discussion about bicycles on interstates the only > known spot where they were allowed in the US was some few miles on one > rural interstate highway (where there was if I recall right no other > alternative route for many miles). > > For trunk r

Re: [OSM-talk] georeferencing OSM

2011-03-07 Thread Jukka Rahkonen
Łukasz Stelmach poczta.fm> writes: > > Hello. > > This has been discussed[1] some time ago but the answer is somehow > unclear to me. I understand that EPSG:900913 is (may be?) a crappy > projection[2]. However, I still need a map of Poland at zoom 6-8 warped > to EPSG2180. How to use geotifcp

Re: [OSM-talk] georeferencing OSM

2011-03-07 Thread Łukasz Stelmach
M∡rtin Koppenhoefer writes: > 2011/3/7 Łukasz Stelmach : >> This has been discussed[1] some time ago but the answer is somehow >> unclear to me. I understand that EPSG:900913 is (may be?) a crappy >> projection[2]. However, I still need a map of Poland at zoom 6-8 warped >> to EPSG2180. How to u

Re: [OSM-talk] georeferencing OSM

2011-03-07 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2011/3/7 Łukasz Stelmach : > Hello. > > This has been discussed[1] some time ago but the answer is somehow > unclear to me. I understand that EPSG:900913 is (may be?) a crappy > projection[2]. However, I still need a map of Poland at zoom 6-8 warped > to EPSG2180. How to use geotifcp (how to prepar

Re: [OSM-talk] Bike / Pedestrian directions on the MQ Open sites

2011-03-07 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2011/3/7 ant : > On 07.03.2011 11:30, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: > It's not an error, it's a matter of detail (micromapping). I do map such > ways separately--but lots of mappers don't. I believe it is still much more > common to add a "cycleway=track" to the road instead, which is a > well-documen

[OSM-talk] georeferencing OSM

2011-03-07 Thread Łukasz Stelmach
Hello. This has been discussed[1] some time ago but the answer is somehow unclear to me. I understand that EPSG:900913 is (may be?) a crappy projection[2]. However, I still need a map of Poland at zoom 6-8 warped to EPSG2180. How to use geotifcp (how to prepare metadata) to embed appropriate infor

Re: [OSM-talk] Bike / Pedestrian directions on the MQ Open sites

2011-03-07 Thread ant
On 07.03.2011 11:30, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: 2011/3/7 ant: When turn restrictions are practically circumvented by separate cycle tracks that are not mapped, their application for bicycle routing is based on nothing It is a common mapping error to not map distinct cycle tracks with an own

Re: [OSM-talk] Bike / Pedestrian directions on the MQ Open sites

2011-03-07 Thread Peter Wendorff
Am 07.03.2011 11:30, schrieb M∡rtin Koppenhoefer: 2011/3/7 ant: When turn restrictions are practically circumvented by separate cycle tracks that are not mapped, their application for bicycle routing is based on nothing It is a common mapping error to not map distinct cycle tracks with an ow

Re: [OSM-talk] Bike / Pedestrian directions on the MQ Open sites

2011-03-07 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2011/3/7 ant : When turn restrictions are practically circumvented by > separate cycle tracks that are not mapped, their application for bicycle > routing is based on nothing It is a common mapping error to not map distinct cycle tracks with an own way and it is the reason, why separate tracks

Re: [OSM-talk] Timeline for phase3 and so on. (Re: odbl)

2011-03-07 Thread David Murn
On Mon, 2011-03-07 at 09:03 +, Ed Avis wrote: > I would hope that this new state of play has changed the timetable a little > bit. > Has the OSMF board discussed the new Creative Commons offer? I believe the board (or possibly lwg) has discussed it before, as Im fairly sure Ive seen it in mi

Re: [OSM-talk] Bike / Pedestrian directions on the MQ Open sites

2011-03-07 Thread ant
Hi, On 06.03.2011 17:15, Cartinus wrote: Experience teaches us that unless something consumes a not so common tag, it won't get tagged much. Once a tag is consumed by something highly visible like a renderer or a router it's use will increase. Meanwhile if the MQ bike router would know about ex

Re: [OSM-talk] Timeline for phase3 and so on. (Re: odbl)

2011-03-07 Thread Ed Avis
maning sambale gmail.com> writes: >OK then, I'm not asking for any legalese interpretation here, just the >time-line for the succeeding phases of implementation. No fixed date >was given for phase 3 in the wiki: >However, the OSMF minutes have set it already on March 31st: >https://docs.google.

Re: [OSM-talk] Bike / Pedestrian directions on the MQ Open sites

2011-03-07 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2011/3/7 M∡rtin Koppenhoefer : you might think about tagging them as > trunk roads or change the country specific definition for motorways in > the US. another option would be to tag them as bicycle=yes and highway=motorway, even if this might seem redundant to you, it doesn't to many other mapp

Re: [OSM-talk] Bike / Pedestrian directions on the MQ Open sites

2011-03-07 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2011/3/7 Paul Johnson : > On 03/06/2011 07:13 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: >> 2011/3/7 Paul Johnson : > OK, so.. this isn't a motorway? > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_5 > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_84_(west) I don't have an idea how these highways look like (besides so

[OSM-talk] State of the Map Europe - Registration OPEN

2011-03-07 Thread Andreas Labres
Hello, We opened registration for the State of the Map Europe 2011 in Vienna today. Your early bird conference pass for all three days comes at EUR 60. We suggest payment by bank transfer (no additional costs in European SEPA area). On payments by PayPal, we need to add an additional surcharge of

Re: [OSM-talk] odbl

2011-03-07 Thread Martijn van Exel
On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 8:47 PM, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: > On Sun, 6 Mar 2011 03:45:45 -0800 (PST) > Richard Fairhurst wrote: > >> Joseph Reeves wrote: >> > without explaining in layman's terms what this means. >> >> http://old.opengeodata.org/2008/01/07/the-licence-where-we-are-where-were-going/ind