[OSM-talk] New Community Updates newsletter

2011-06-03 Thread Matthias Meisser
Hi, please find enclosed the next issue of the Community Updates: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Community_Updates/2011-05-23 kind regards Matthias ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Scholarship program to State of the Map 2011

2011-06-03 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2011/6/3 Richard Welty : > for countries in the visa waiver program (most (all?) of the EU, > Japan, South Korea, Australia, others, see link below) visas > are not required, but an ESTA (Electronic System for Travel > Authorization) is. +1, you need an electronic passport (RFID) with biometric d

Re: [OSM-talk] Scholarship program to State of the Map 2011

2011-06-03 Thread Richard Welty
On 6/3/11 11:54 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: Will the organizers help out in processing the US visas? 2 months is really, really short time to apply and be granted a US visa based on stories I've heard. as Hurricane said, preliminary stuff is done; SOTM is listed on the US State Department's

Re: [OSM-talk] [Tagging] steps as access to water, and waterfront

2011-06-03 Thread Martijn van Exel
Hi all, [crossposting from tagging] On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 4:12 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: > 2011/6/3 Josh Doe : >> I would use highway=steps on the steps, and highway=footway for the >> walk along the water. > > > Yes, but probably not on the ladder that gives you access to (or from) > the

[OSM-talk] Nominatim updates paused

2011-06-03 Thread Brian Quinion
Hi, The live install of nominatim has run out of integers on it's primary key and the database is being updated to use bigint. Sorry for the lack of notice - this rather caught me by surprise! Until this is completed there will be no updates. Because of the size of the database and the software