[OSM-talk] Sources for Mapping Presets

2013-01-03 Thread David Serenity
Hi, I am working on developing an online collection of mapping presets to be provided free to the public for download. I found this page ( http://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Presets) during my search which provides a wide variety of mapping presets for JOSM but i think these are still quite few. Ca

Re: [OSM-talk] New History tab for openstreetmap.org (beta)

2013-01-03 Thread Pierre Béland
Pawel, That is great. The following link shows Minova that was mapped in a few days in december.  This is a good test since it provides a high volume of data and shows a variety of objects edited. We see additions, deletions, etc. This let us see the various symbols to represent objects edited.

Re: [OSM-talk] New History tab for openstreetmap.org (beta)

2013-01-03 Thread Toby Murray
Holy smokes this is great. What is the status of the data backing it? I see one changeset a coworker just made to our office building (new user today!) but a changeset I made to to highway west of town on December 31st doesn't seem to be coming up. This is the changeset that isn't showing up: http

Re: [OSM-talk] New History tab for openstreetmap.org (beta)

2013-01-03 Thread Michal Migurski
Neat! I found what I think is spam on my first try: http://owl.apis.dev.openstreetmap.org/?lat=37.8113&lon=-122.2754&zoom=14&layers=M "Look no further than Apple Blossom Florist, the premier Oakland florist, for beautifully arranged flowers and gift baskets for any occasion…" Li

[OSM-talk] New History tab for openstreetmap.org (beta)

2013-01-03 Thread Paweł Paprota
Hi all, For some time now I've been working on the OpenStreetMap Watch List project[1] and on integrating OWL into the main OSM website. At this point I've got something slowly approaching beta status and I would appreciate early feedback from the community. You can see it in action here:

Re: [OSM-talk] Marketshare

2013-01-03 Thread Paweł Paprota
Hi Johan, On 01/03/2013 10:53 PM, Johan C wrote: I´m quite surprised that so few OSM´ers are interested in discussing the approach to gain market share for OSM. After my first posting mid December now Waze is in the news, with up to 30 million users: http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/02/is-apple-p

Re: [OSM-talk] Marketshare

2013-01-03 Thread Johan C
I´m quite surprised that so few OSM´ers are interested in discussing the approach to gain market share for OSM. After my first posting mid December now Waze is in the news, with up to 30 million users: http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/02/is-apple-plotting-a-route-to-a-waze-acquisition-rumours-on-the-

[OSM-talk] uMap Project: OSM everywhere

2013-01-03 Thread Yohan Boniface
Hi, This email for introducing the "uMap project". TL;DR: http://umap.fluv.io/ (demo site). The goal of the project is to provide an app for easy creation of slippy maps for *non technical* end user, with POI, polygons, etc., and embed/share them "all over the Big Internet". This project co

Re: [OSM-talk] Changeset Comments

2013-01-03 Thread Alex Barth
This is great. Thank you! On Jan 3, 2013, at 6:11 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > once in a while I encounter mappers who don't understand what changeset > comments are good for and why they should use them. I was kind of tired of > repeating the same things over and over so I wrote up a

Re: [OSM-talk] Featured image descriptions

2013-01-03 Thread Tobias Knerr
On 03.01.2013 15:21, Andrew wrote: > I would appreciate comments and possible > changes. I've noticed that recent featured images don't have the translated descriptions on their own description page: http://wiki.osm.org/File:Christmas_Island.png http://wiki.osm.org/File:HOT-Task-Manager-before-a

Re: [OSM-talk] Featured image descriptions

2013-01-03 Thread Pierre Béland
Andrew, For this week image, I added the translation for Français. It was relatively easy to do except we have to understand that the +/- is the link to the translation page. I suggest tha you add a title to this link describing it. After the tranlation is completed, selecting http://wiki.open

[OSM-talk] interesting project using OSM

2013-01-03 Thread IgnacioZ
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/903141699/leikr-the-new-danish-designed-gps-sports-watch Cheers, Ignacio. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] Featured image descriptions

2013-01-03 Thread Andrew
I have been reworking the featured image description templates with the hope that it becomes easier to add descriptions in more languages. There are still rough ends, for instance creating a multilingual description template every week needs to be made foolproof and templates before the begi

[OSM-talk] Changeset Comments

2013-01-03 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, once in a while I encounter mappers who don't understand what changeset comments are good for and why they should use them. I was kind of tired of repeating the same things over and over so I wrote up a wiki page here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Good_Changeset_Comments Before