Re: [OSM-talk] FAQs from help.osm.org

2011-05-06 Thread Tom Hughes
On 06/05/11 21:47, Nic Roets wrote: On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 9:15 PM, Tom Hughes wrote: On 06/05/11 19:31, Nic Roets wrote: I really want to avoid the delays that another round of discussion and eventual hardware purchases will bring. So I'm willing to pay for hosting on Amazon during a trial p

Re: [OSM-talk] FAQs from help.osm.org

2011-05-06 Thread Kai Krueger
Nic Roets wrote: > > I'm not sure when you last tried it. I now have a server that keeps > the complete planet in RAM, making it considerably faster. > I think it is fair to say that the KIT routing engine, which powers routingdemo.geofabrik.de, scales considerably better with respect to route

Re: [OSM-talk] Skip geographical (redundant) address tags

2011-05-06 Thread Pierre-Alain Dorange
Lennard wrote: > > OK, that's the admin relation Nominatim used to "link" the request > > street to "Peel en Maas". > > Correct. It's correct, given the data. The real question is why it was > also categorised as being in Belgium. Following MapQuest Nominatim link (for Belgium response) : http:

Re: [OSM-talk] Skip geographical (redundant) address tags

2011-05-06 Thread Lennard
On 6-5-2011 22:46, Pierre-Alain Dorange wrote: OK, that's the admin relation Nominatim used to "link" the request street to "Peel en Maas". Correct. It's correct, given the data. The real question is why it was also categorised as being in Belgium. I hope you could get them soon. We'd ha

Re: [OSM-talk] FAQs from help.osm.org

2011-05-06 Thread Nic Roets
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 9:15 PM, Tom Hughes wrote: > On 06/05/11 19:31, Nic Roets wrote: > >> I really want to avoid the delays that another round of discussion and >> eventual hardware purchases will bring. So I'm willing to pay for >> hosting on Amazon during a trial period. That will give us the

Re: [OSM-talk] Skip geographical (redundant) address tags

2011-05-06 Thread Pierre-Alain Dorange
Lennard wrote: > > I could not really help you (i don't know your region, but as i can see > > (using JOSM) there is no admin relation in this area, so few clues to > > help nomatim to find location. > > The entire Netherlands is covered by admin relations. Of course, > occasionally, these get

Re: [OSM-talk] FAQs from help.osm.org

2011-05-06 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Nic Roets wrote: > On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Richard Weait wrote: >> On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 2:43 AM, Lambertus wrote: >>> On 06-05-11 02:09, Grant Slater wrote: And routing on osm.org? / Grant >>> Would be awesome and is already

Re: [OSM-talk] FAQs from help.osm.org

2011-05-06 Thread Lambertus
On 06-05-11 21:15, Tom Hughes wrote: On 06/05/11 19:31, Nic Roets wrote: Have you asked the sysadmins if they would consider such a solution acceptable? I would certainly be against it. What part of the solution are you talking about and why, if I may ask? To the best of my knowledge the sys

Re: [OSM-talk] Skip geographical (redundant) address tags

2011-05-06 Thread Lennard
On 6-5-2011 20:44, Pierre-Alain Dorange wrote: I could not really help you (i don't know your region, but as i can see (using JOSM) there is no admin relation in this area, so few clues to help nomatim to find location. The entire Netherlands is covered by admin relations. Of course, occasio

Re: [OSM-talk] FAQs from help.osm.org

2011-05-06 Thread Tom Hughes
On 06/05/11 19:31, Nic Roets wrote: I really want to avoid the delays that another round of discussion and eventual hardware purchases will bring. So I'm willing to pay for hosting on Amazon during a trial period. That will give us the ability to scale infinitely. It will also give us time to fi

Re: [OSM-talk] Skip geographical (redundant) address tags

2011-05-06 Thread Pierre-Alain Dorange
Maarten Deen wrote: > > I was unaware I still had the country wrong for some places, I > > thought I'd > > found and fixed all these. Recalculating the street now produces the > > right > > result (as you can see if you re-do your search) so I'll do another > > forced > > update and try and get

Re: [OSM-talk] FAQs from help.osm.org

2011-05-06 Thread Nic Roets
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Richard Weait wrote: > On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 2:43 AM, Lambertus wrote: >> On 06-05-11 02:09, Grant Slater wrote: >>> >>> And routing on osm.org? >>> >>> / Grant >>> >>> >> Would be awesome and is already possible for a while. See: >> http://nroets.dev.openstreetma

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-legal-talk] Breaking up is hard to do (was New Logo in the Wiki)

2011-05-06 Thread Russ Nelson
Russ Nelson writes: > I just want to map; And as RichardF pointed out on IRC, if that's REALLY what I want, then I ought to STFU, and leave the worrying to other people since I have enough things to worry about, like whether my local 6" to the pixel imagery is good enough (eat my dust!), I'm goin

Re: [OSM-talk] Comprehensiveness or level of detail rating

2011-05-06 Thread Josh Doe
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Tobias Knerr wrote: > Some physical keys could be added to the list, such as width and lanes. > However, I wonder whether a total ordering is the best approach. > > Look at the physical descriptions from your example (bridges, tunnels, > surface). They are quite in

Re: [OSM-talk] Comprehensiveness or level of detail rating

2011-05-06 Thread Tobias Knerr
Josh Doe wrote: > Here's a shot at a few levels, with a slight orientation towards > routing, probably the most common use of road data: > > Level 0: > Road way present and connected to other ways, and tagged at least with > highway=road if classification is unknown > > Level 1: > Name and classi

Re: [OSM-talk] Comprehensiveness or level of detail rating

2011-05-06 Thread Josh Doe
I think it makes sense to have several rating systems, this is specific for an individual road, but we can also have one for trails, another for POIs, etc, and yet another for country-level details. For example, the Philippines wiki project created a level of detail rating for the whole country, wh

Re: [OSM-talk] Comprehensiveness or level of detail rating

2011-05-06 Thread pec...@gmail.com
2011/5/6 Josh Doe : > Has anyone discussed the creation of a comprehensiveness or level of > detail rating? What I mean by this is different from a quality rating > or metric, as that is a very difficult task which entails comparison > against "authoritative" sources or some other process, and diff

[OSM-talk] Comprehensiveness or level of detail rating

2011-05-06 Thread Josh Doe
Has anyone discussed the creation of a comprehensiveness or level of detail rating? What I mean by this is different from a quality rating or metric, as that is a very difficult task which entails comparison against "authoritative" sources or some other process, and different from the general defin

Re: [OSM-talk] GPS Point to Country and District

2011-05-06 Thread Maarten Deen
On Fri, 6 May 2011 12:51:14 +0100, Peter Martischka wrote: Hello, what's the easiest way to get the country and district of a GPS point via OSM? Nominatim does lat/lon searches and returns location info. Regards, Maarten ___ talk mailing list talk

[OSM-talk] GPS Point to Country and District

2011-05-06 Thread Peter Martischka
Hello, what's the easiest way to get the country and district of a GPS point via OSM? Peter ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] FAQs from help.osm.org

2011-05-06 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 2:43 AM, Lambertus wrote: > On 06-05-11 02:09, Grant Slater wrote: >> >> And routing on osm.org? >> >> / Grant >> >> > Would be awesome and is already possible for a while. See: > http://nroets.dev.openstreetmap.org/demo/ (select the 'routing' layer). This one seems much fa

[OSM-talk] Re: Skip geographical (redundant) address tags

2011-05-06 Thread Maarten Deen
Brian Quinion openstreetmap at brian.quinion.co.uk Thu May 5 15:12:59 BST 2011 The lookup may be efficient, it is frequently wrong and again dependent of correct and complete admin_levels. Currently it places every street where I live (in the Netherlands) in Belgium and does not specify a tow