Re: [OSM-talk] Automatic Map Plotting in OpenStreetMap

2011-08-15 Thread Russ Nelson
Hjart writes: > > Do not map what you have not seen. > > That's one rule I've never seen. Obviously, you had to be there. -- --my blog is athttp://blog.russnelson.com Crynwr supports open source software 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315-600-8815 Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | Sheepdog

Re: [OSM-talk] Investigating Changesets. (repost from help)

2011-08-15 Thread Gary68
osmdiff is a fairly old program. there is a better program called useractivity.pl. see wiki. however, it also needs the XML/osm files. i use it to monitor certain areas regularly and i provide these checks on my server. gerhard On Tue, 2011-08-16 at 02:11 +0200, Erik Johansson wrote: > Does an

Re: [OSM-talk] Automatic Map Plotting in OpenStreetMap

2011-08-15 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Mon, 2011-08-15 at 08:55 -0500, David Fawcett wrote: > Come on, almost all of us have been to Haiti! Good thing that we were > able to leverage that following the earthquake... > > every rule has exceptions. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetm

Re: [OSM-talk] Automatic Map Plotting in OpenStreetMap

2011-08-15 Thread Stephen Hope
Parveen, See this thread on this list from February 3 2011. http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2011-February/056310.html Steve Coast announced the following. http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/maps/archive/2011/02/03/automatically-detect-roads-with-bing-aerial-imagery.aspx I

[OSM-talk] Investigating Changesets. (repost from help)

2011-08-15 Thread Erik Johansson
Does anyone have any scripts, manual methods or just tips that will help in investigating a changeset? I find it very hard to understand what it happening in a changset, it's easy to get an suspicion that something is amiss but it's very hard to dig deeper. The only two things I've find was:    *

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMF elections

2011-08-15 Thread Henk Hoff
Just so you all know: - You can expect an announcement for the AGM this weekend (or sooner) - If you are / have been OSMF member you will get a mail with details whether you're eligible to vote. Also this weekend. - If you haven't had a mail by Sunday evening, and you think you are member of OSMF,

Re: [OSM-talk] Automatic Map Plotting in OpenStreetMap

2011-08-15 Thread Parveen Arora
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 1:38 AM, Stephan Knauss wrote: > He uploaded GPS tracks that are tagged with "Ballia Substation Darbhanga", > others with "Varanasi". > As I never heard of these before I checked wikipedia which told me this is > located in India. > > So I can only guess that this user feel

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMF elections

2011-08-15 Thread SteveC
I would encourage everyone to have a think about running for the board and look to what you can contribute. Be aware when thinking about it that we have a lot of work to do and meet frequently. That might impact your work and social life, it's not a ceremonial role, just ask Henk :-) The upsid

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMF elections

2011-08-15 Thread Cartinus
On Monday 15 August 2011 15:31:54 Tom Hughes wrote: > On 14/08/11 15:30, Richard Weait wrote: > > So if you have been thinking about standing for election to the OSMF > > board, if you have issues that you would like to see discussed by > > candidates, if you have suggestions and requests for those

Re: [OSM-talk] Automatic Map Plotting in OpenStreetMap

2011-08-15 Thread David Fawcett
Come on, almost all of us have been to Haiti! Good thing that we were able to leverage that following the earthquake... On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Hjart wrote: > Mandag den 15. august 2011 13:07:13 skrev kenneth gonsalves: >> On Mon, 2011-08-15 at 18:34 +0800, maning sambale wrote: >> > >

Re: [OSM-talk] Automatic Map Plotting in OpenStreetMap

2011-08-15 Thread Hjart
Mandag den 15. august 2011 13:07:13 skrev kenneth gonsalves: > On Mon, 2011-08-15 at 18:34 +0800, maning sambale wrote: > > > better to have no data than to have wrong data. > > > > Incomplete data is not necessarily wrong data. That's why we have > > tags for that (i.e. highway=road) > > > > AF

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMF elections

2011-08-15 Thread Tom Hughes
On 14/08/11 15:30, Richard Weait wrote: So if you have been thinking about standing for election to the OSMF board, if you have issues that you would like to see discussed by candidates, if you have suggestions and requests for those involved, now is a good time to start putting things in order.

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMF elections

2011-08-15 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 6:27 AM, Kate Chapman wrote: > Hi Richard, > > Is how many positions are open and which positions available? I've not seen any information on that yet. Based on the 1/3 per year, I expect 2 or three spots to be up for election. ___

Re: [OSM-talk] Automatic Map Plotting in OpenStreetMap

2011-08-15 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Mon, 2011-08-15 at 18:34 +0800, maning sambale wrote: > > better to have no data than to have wrong data. > Incomplete data is not necessarily wrong data. That's why we have > tags for that (i.e. highway=road) > > AFAIK, we only have a few rules here: > 1. Don't copy from other (possibly copyr

Re: [OSM-talk] Automatic Map Plotting in OpenStreetMap

2011-08-15 Thread maning sambale
> better to have no data than to have wrong data. Incomplete data is not necessarily wrong data. That's why we have tags for that (i.e. highway=road) AFAIK, we only have a few rules here: 1. Don't copy from other (possibly copyrighted) maps. 2. Respect the work of others. 3. Have fun! So please

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMF elections

2011-08-15 Thread Kate Chapman
Hi Richard, Is how many positions are open and which positions available? Thanks, Kate On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Richard Weait wrote: > In prior years the elections were held at an AGM with proxy votes by > email for those not able to attend.  Last year, the OSMF board > election was he

Re: [OSM-talk] Automatic Map Plotting in OpenStreetMap

2011-08-15 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Mon, 2011-08-15 at 13:57 +0800, maning sambale wrote: > In our patch in OSM, we have very few mappers. Sometimes, we do some > initial road stubbing and then organize a trip to verify what was > initially traced. During those trips we try as much as we can to talk > to locals on how they can i