[OSM-talk] Tag touristic street roads

2011-05-01 Thread Gregor Horvath
Hello, I could not find a wiki page nor relevant data on how to tag a touristic relevant road. There is the scenic=yes tag, but maybe only a part of the touristic road is scenic but the whole road (relation) may be of touristic interest (for example a mountain pass road in the alps) Is there a co

Re: [OSM-talk] New Logo in the Wiki

2011-05-01 Thread Andrew Gregory
On 2 May 2011 09:03, Dave F. wrote: > On 01/05/2011 20:50, Nic Roets wrote: > >> Note that open IRC is the Internet equivalent to the town hall >> meetings. >> > > No, it's not. Those occur in the time zone of the those involved. > > IRC meetings, on the other hand, occur outside of many OSM user

Re: [OSM-talk] New Logo in the Wiki

2011-05-01 Thread Dave F.
On 01/05/2011 20:50, Nic Roets wrote: Note that open IRC is the Internet equivalent to the town hall meetings. No, it's not. Those occur in the time zone of the those involved. IRC meetings, on the other hand, occur outside of many OSM users waking/working day. This is another reason for th

Re: [OSM-talk] Polls, community, communication

2011-05-01 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Nic Roets wrote: > Now let me give it a try: I think the OSMF should make (more) use of > polling. Not for everything. But once or twice a year would be a nice > way to involve the community. Dear Nic, Do it. Really. If you see a topic that needs a poll, add one

Re: [OSM-talk] New Logo in the Wiki

2011-05-01 Thread Nic Roets
Elizabeth, I don't see David's comments as constructive. Terms like "consulting the community" is quite vague and Steve has said that many of his prior efforts to consult the community end in flame wars. Now let me give it a try: I think the OSMF should make (more) use of polling. Not for everyth

Re: [OSM-talk] New Logo in the Wiki

2011-05-01 Thread Ed Avis
Frederick, I think you are right, and we need to find a sane way of doing things as you put it. In this case, it would have worked well to put a message on this mailing list saying that the strategic working group exists, they are charged with looking after the OSM logo among other things, and the

Re: [OSM-talk] New Logo in the Wiki

2011-05-01 Thread Mikel Maron
thank you Frederik == Mikel Maron == +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron From: Frederik Ramm To: David Murn Cc: talk@openstreetmap.org Sent: Sun, May 1, 2011 5:21:53 AM Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] New Logo in the Wiki Hi, David Murn wrote: > Unfortunately, being

Re: [OSM-talk] New Logo in the Wiki

2011-05-01 Thread ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen
+1 Regards, Gert Gremmen -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Elizabeth Dodd [mailto:ed...@billiau.net] Verzonden: Sunday, May 01, 2011 4:51 AM Aan: talk@openstreetmap.org Onderwerp: Re: [OSM-talk] New Logo in the Wiki On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 19:31:13 -0700 (PDT) Mikel Maron wrote: > David,

Re: [OSM-talk] New Logo in the Wiki

2011-05-01 Thread Russ Nelson
Elizabeth Dodd writes: > ... you make major decisions behind closed doors ... Have you knocked on the door and asked to be let in? Nobody who is whinging has answered that question. Obviously, because they haven't. Easier to whinge than actually do work. -- --my blog is athttp://blog.russn

Re: [OSM-talk] New Logo in the Wiki

2011-05-01 Thread pec...@gmail.com
If you wanna critize SWG/OSMF *again*, please, create new thread but don't spam this one. I know there is lot of desire to express pain how communication doesn't work between some very loud minority and OSMF, but please, do it properly. About logo - new version looks excellent in high resolution,

Re: [OSM-talk] New Logo in the Wiki

2011-05-01 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2011/5/1 Ilya Zverev : > I guess, the old logo should remain for low zooms (favicons, for example). I agree and would go even further: the new "logo" is actually a clip art, nicer to have it on the website, but not really suitable as a "logo". The old one instead is more logo-like (even if it too

Re: [OSM-talk] New Logo in the Wiki

2011-05-01 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: > It would be great if we could somehow reboot and arrive at > something sane again. Superb posting. +1 to all of that. cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/New-Logo-in-the-Wiki-tp6319413p6321156.html Sent from the General Discuss

Re: [OSM-talk] New Logo in the Wiki

2011-05-01 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, David Murn wrote: Unfortunately, being involved in an OSMF (or SWG, LWG, DWG, etc) meeting isnt as easy as 'just showing up'. Infact, its not even really possible to be invovled by reading the minutes or the meeting notes. Those of us who wish to be involved, join public discussions and fo

Re: [OSM-talk] New Logo in the Wiki

2011-05-01 Thread Simon Ward
On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 09:40:39PM +, j...@jfeldredge.com wrote: > I assume that the "twice a year change" and the "funny, alliterative > animal names" are references to Ubuntu Linux. Note that, while each > release of Ubuntu has its own name, the Ubuntu logo has remained > unchanged for year

Re: [OSM-talk] New Logo in the Wiki

2011-05-01 Thread Jochen Topf
On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 02:32:34PM -0700, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > Jochen Topf wrote: > > Don't be so hard on the Strategic Working Group. After months of talks > > they have actually done something! I think we should celebrate that! > > After dipping their toes into many important subjects fo

Re: [OSM-talk] New Logo in the Wiki

2011-05-01 Thread Lester Caine
Andreas Perstinger wrote: Is the current logo change a major decision for you? See also Robert's comparison: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Oldtonew_logo.gif). Actually it just highlights all of the problems nicely. Having been required to comply with the needs of the visually impair