Re: [OSM-talk] Downloading data via the Export tab

2012-10-23 Thread Dave F.
Overpass was (eventually) the way to go. Downloaded a couple of areas & looking good on the GPSr. Thanks to all for your help Dave F. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] What are the technical functions you miss the most as an OSM contributor ?

2012-10-23 Thread sly (sylvain letuffe)
Hi to OSM contributors , You are a rather long standing OSM contributor and adding data on regular basis in OSM ? You are aware of dozens of editors, tools, tricks to improve your day to day mapping efficiency ? But your are still missing things ? Then I'd like to hear your voice in a test atte

Re: [OSM-talk] Standard way across edits to tag changesets

2012-10-23 Thread Toby Murray
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 7:40 AM, Dave F. wrote: > On 21/10/2012 21:59, Paul Norman wrote: >> >> >> The following are the changeset tags used at least 100 times as of a >> couple >> weeks ago > > > Which editor is using create_by instead of created_by? MapStalt Mini by Microsoft. http://wiki.open

Re: [OSM-talk] Knight funded work and OSM dev blog

2012-10-23 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 23 Oct 2012, at 16:01, Matt Williams wrote: > On 23 October 2012 15:45, Alex Barth wrote: >> >> Hello everyone - >> >> We just kicked off our MapBox OSM Development blog [1] as a place to keep >> people in the loop of our Knight funded OpenStreetMap work [2]. >> >> We'll be updating ther

Re: [OSM-talk] Knight funded work and OSM dev blog

2012-10-23 Thread Matt Williams
On 23 October 2012 15:45, Alex Barth wrote: > > Hello everyone - > > We just kicked off our MapBox OSM Development blog [1] as a place to keep > people in the loop of our Knight funded OpenStreetMap work [2]. > > We'll be updating there regularly on where work stands and use it as a casual > spa

[OSM-talk] Knight funded work and OSM dev blog

2012-10-23 Thread Alex Barth
Hello everyone - We just kicked off our MapBox OSM Development blog [1] as a place to keep people in the loop of our Knight funded OpenStreetMap work [2]. We'll be updating there regularly on where work stands and use it as a casual space for bigger picture posts. We'll be keeping the [talk] l

Re: [OSM-talk] Downloading data via the Export tab

2012-10-23 Thread SomeoneElse
Dave F. wrote: Downloading XML from the website's Export Tab appears to put a Limit of 50,000 nodes. Given that what you're after isn't time-critical, wouldn't Overpass or even a split from an england.osm.pbf be a better option? Cheers, Andy ___

Re: [OSM-talk] Downloading data via the Export tab

2012-10-23 Thread Tom Hughes
On 23/10/12 14:36, Dave F. wrote: Downloading XML from the website's Export Tab appears to put a Limit of 50,000 nodes. With the detail users are mapping that won't allow me to get the area of a 80,000 people city. i.e. not very much. Has the limit ever been upgraded? With the increased server s

[OSM-talk] Downloading data via the Export tab

2012-10-23 Thread Dave F.
Hi Downloading XML from the website's Export Tab appears to put a Limit of 50,000 nodes. With the detail users are mapping that won't allow me to get the area of a 80,000 people city. i.e. not very much. Has the limit ever been upgraded? With the increased server speeds could this not be expa

Re: [OSM-talk] Standard way across edits to tag changesets

2012-10-23 Thread Dave F.
On 21/10/2012 21:59, Paul Norman wrote: The following are the changeset tags used at least 100 times as of a couple weeks ago Which editor is using create_by instead of created_by? Dave F. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.

Re: [OSM-talk] Standard way across edits to tag changesets

2012-10-23 Thread Gregory
On 21 October 2012 21:59, Paul Norman wrote: > comment | 9882933 > survey_date | 1097 I'm glad I'm not the only one using those tags. I'd like to(or see someone else) do some sort of visualisation with the time gaps between me surveying and editing. Yesterday I was

Re: [OSM-talk] Scientific/Species Data in OSM Database - Collaborators

2012-10-23 Thread Gilles Bassière
Different things can be mapped in the natural science field... For fauna, you may want to map either a particular observation ("I've seen this bird, there, at this date") or some traces (a nest, footprints, ...). This will not fit well in the OSM database because it is not stable in time. The case