[OSM-talk] adding multiple relations (bus routes) to one road

2011-07-05 Thread Robin Paulson
hi, I'm currently adding a lot of bus routes to roads in central Auckland. problem is, it's getting hard to manage. some road segments have 40+ routes on them, which gets complicated. here is an example of one which I've added 12 routes to; there will be lots more http://www.openbusmap.org/?zoom=

Re: [OSM-talk] Sister Projects

2011-07-05 Thread David Murn
On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 23:35 +0200, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: > 2011/7/5 Matthias Meisser : > > Am Dienstag, den 05.07.2011, 19:48 +0200 schrieb M∡rtin Koppenhoefer: > >> Maybe we can also open a discussion about this "related projects" > >> list. IMHO googlemapmaker - although having a similar app

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] license change effect on un-tagged nodes

2011-07-05 Thread John Smith
On 6 July 2011 07:37, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Now if the mapper comes along and sees the river flagged for deletion, and > remembers that he traveled the river in a boat, and maybe even has the GPX > track, there's nothing to keep him from simply overriding the standard > assumption of "we will hav

Re: [OSM-talk] Sister Projects

2011-07-05 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, M?rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: Sure, maybe we find a better topic than 'related' or sister projects. Maybe 'other VGI' or something more strict? Why on earth should we give references to proprietary data projects like mapmaker in our wiki? To point out the difference? Maybe we should rename

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] license change effect on un-tagged nodes

2011-07-05 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Stephan Knauss wrote: The mapper who agreed did not only move part of the nodes replacing their information with new one and confirming the existence. I think that's the key point here. We cannot know whether the new mapper actually had a valid source that would have let him place these

Re: [OSM-talk] Sister Projects

2011-07-05 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2011/7/5 Matthias Meisser : > Am Dienstag, den 05.07.2011, 19:48 +0200 schrieb M∡rtin Koppenhoefer: >> Maybe we can also open a discussion about this "related projects" >> list. IMHO googlemapmaker - although having a similar approach - is >> not "related to OSM". I'd delete all of the projects the

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Emitter

2011-07-05 Thread Martijn van Exel
Hi Oleg, Well you beat me to it :) This is in fact almost exactly what I had in mind and what I discussed at WhereCampEU. Apart from the comments Martin made, we also discussed using a mention instead of a hashtag. This helps to keep the user's followers twitter streams free of the osmitter tweets

Re: [OSM-talk] Sister Projects

2011-07-05 Thread Matthias Meisser
Am Dienstag, den 05.07.2011, 19:48 +0200 schrieb M∡rtin Koppenhoefer: > > Maybe we can also open a discussion about this "related projects" > list. IMHO googlemapmaker - although having a similar approach - is > not "related to OSM". I'd delete all of the projects there that have a > "no" in the l

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Emitter

2011-07-05 Thread Oleg
Hi Martin, Yes, I've talk to Shaun McDonald - he told me about this discussion. The sad thing - I was planning to visit wherecamp this summer as well, but no luck there ;) Think, correcting posted data is a useful tool, we can do that - as we can keep all the data, we'v parsed. First we want to ad

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Emitter

2011-07-05 Thread Oleg
Hello Chris, Good point - we'll remove that permission - but we still need your twitter ID - to keep you associated with OSM, so, authorized once you will be able to tweet without boring auth procedure. -- RO 2011/7/5 Chris Hill > On 05/07/11 17:03, Oleg wrote: > >> Hi All >> >> Seems like thi

Re: [OSM-talk] Sister Projects

2011-07-05 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2011/7/5 Frederik Ramm : > Maybe we should simply have a link "Related Projects" pointing to > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Related_Project in this location? Maybe we can also open a discussion about this "related projects" list. IMHO googlemapmaker - although having a similar approach - is

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Emitter

2011-07-05 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
While I think that this is generally not a bad idea, I'd still expect that the data has not the average positional quality OSM usually has. Martijn van Exel gave a talk at Wherecamp-EU in Berlin about the same topic (twitter to osm) and in the following discussion the consensus was towards a interm

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Emitter

2011-07-05 Thread Chris Hill
On 05/07/11 17:03, Oleg wrote: Hi All Seems like this is a good place to tell about a new way to add places to the map. There is a lot of people who use twitter actively with their mobile phones, which has a gps on board. Now you can use location-based tweets to add POIs to the map :) The pro

[OSM-talk] OSM Emitter

2011-07-05 Thread Oleg
Hi All Seems like this is a good place to tell about a new way to add places to the map. There is a lot of people who use twitter actively with their mobile phones, which has a gps on board. Now you can use location-based tweets to add POIs to the map :) The project just started and we plan to imp

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] license change effect on un-tagged nodes

2011-07-05 Thread David Groom
- Original Message - From: "Jaakko Helleranta.com" To: "Licensing and other legal discussions." Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2011 2:24 PM Subject: Re: [OSM-legal-talk] license change effect on un-tagged nodes David, My point was to note that being influenced by, being (somewhat) derived

Re: [OSM-talk] Sister Projects

2011-07-05 Thread Matthias Meißer
Am 05.07.2011 15:19, schrieb Frederik Ramm: Our wiki lists "Free The Postcode", "Mapstraction", and "OpenStreetPhoto" as our "Sister Projects". I propose to delete that paragraph altogether because I think that this is just a random list - I fail to see what value this adds to the OSM wiki

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] license change effect on un-tagged nodes

2011-07-05 Thread John Smith
On 5 July 2011 23:04, Andreas Perstinger wrote: > What do you consider as "same result"? How far away do I have to place a node? > If I put one additional node into the way or remove one, is that enough? The same as in an identical result, if they use the same sources then the only difference is

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] license change effect on un-tagged nodes

2011-07-05 Thread ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen
You need to consider and to apply due diligence. A deleted road/way/node is deleted, and by fiddling around with its properties, nodes or ways, you won't change its legal status. If you need to preserve a name of street (as an example) that you observed yourself withing the license CT conditions y

[OSM-talk] Sister Projects

2011-07-05 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Our wiki lists "Free The Postcode", "Mapstraction", and "OpenStreetPhoto" as our "Sister Projects". I propose to delete that paragraph altogether because I think that this is just a random list - I fail to see what value this adds to the OSM wiki start page, and I fail to see what is

Re: [OSM-talk] Right angles and aspect ratio

2011-07-05 Thread Paul Hartmann
On 07/05/2011 10:01 AM, Peter Wendorff wrote: Am 05.07.2011 03:30, schrieb Paul Hartmann: On 07/05/2011 03:09 AM, Andrew Errington wrote: Hello, I have recently noticed that JOSM does not produce pleasing right angles when I select "Orthogonalise Shape (Q)". ... Maybe you have set the wrong

Re: [OSM-talk] Right angles and aspect ratio

2011-07-05 Thread Peter Wendorff
Am 05.07.2011 03:30, schrieb Paul Hartmann: On 07/05/2011 03:09 AM, Andrew Errington wrote: Hello, I have recently noticed that JOSM does not produce pleasing right angles when I select "Orthogonalise Shape (Q)". ... Maybe you have set the wrong projection? Try Mercator. While that's true to

Re: [OSM-talk] Unkown Node Type 8 by Planet import

2011-07-05 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 07/05/11 09:21, Saphy Mo wrote: reading in File: Planet_Latest.osm.bz2 Error: ' Unknown Node Type 8' You can ignore that safely. Bye Frederik ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] Unkown Node Type 8 by Planet import

2011-07-05 Thread Saphy Mo
Good Morning. to day I tried to import Planet_Latest.osm.bz2 into database named Planet of  Potgis_template. I used osm2pgsql, as usual, to import this planet file, but there is error very fast after start the process as follows: reading in File: Planet_Latest.osm.bz2 Error: ' Unknown Node Type