Re: [OSM-talk] Rendering of Farmland not 'Light' enough?

2013-01-05 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
I prefer landuse areas to be darker than the default light gray background color in the Standard rendering. This makes it obvious (especially on LCD screens where lightness/luminance of colors vary depending on the viewing angle) that there is a tagged area there. You could make the case that the

Re: [OSM-talk] Rendering of Farmland not 'Light' enough?

2013-01-05 Thread Rob Nickerson
I should add that if you want to play with Hue, Saturation and Lightness (HSL) and Luminance then the following is a good place to start: http://www.workwithcolor.com/hsl-color-picker-01.htm Rob ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.

[OSM-talk] Rendering of Farmland not 'Light' enough?

2013-01-05 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi All, (full text and images at https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B6J5ZA1hu93bYm9IWXdlVHM1N1U ) Recently landuse=farmland (or simply landuse=farm) has been added to fields near me. This has led to a discussion about how the rendering 'looks' with some arguing that it doesn't look that good. I bel

Re: [OSM-talk] Can Google use our data?

2013-01-05 Thread Toby Murray
Both of these are definitely not copies of OSM data. The trail has more detail in OSM and they are offset from each other by several meters. And theirs doesn't go across the river. It is ridiculous to think that google is going to take our data and make that many changes to it before putting it up

Re: [OSM-talk] Changeset Comments

2013-01-05 Thread Mike N
On 1/5/2013 1:37 PM, Russ Nelson wrote: I try not to bother putting in the placename or the thing I modified. Both of those things they can figure out from using the changeset browser. Instead, I try to say why I made the change. Conversely, I do try to include the place name if it is new or a

Re: [OSM-talk] Changeset Comments

2013-01-05 Thread Russ Nelson
colliar writes: > I always wonder if the area/region is really important as it is already > included in the changeset data. E.g. I would not add the street, if it is > obvious where I did edit. This does not count for big areas. I try not to bother putting in the placename or the thing I modifi

Re: [OSM-talk] Can Google use our data?

2013-01-05 Thread Fredy Rivera
In Colombia abused google, copy your data and makes them small changes, notice the "Camino viejo" I did it with my own GPS. http://tools.geofabrik.de/mc/?mt0=mapnik&mt1=googlemap&lon=-75.18985&lat=4.82902&zoom=15 salu2 Humano On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Greg Troxel wrote: > > Christian Q

Re: [OSM-talk] Featured image descriptions

2013-01-05 Thread Pierre Béland
Thanks Andrew, I now see the text in french at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/FR:Main_Page   Pierre > > De : Andrew >À : talk@openstreetmap.org >Envoyé le : Samedi 5 janvier 2013 6h16 >Objet : Re: [OSM-talk] Featured image descriptions > >Pierre Béland

Re: [OSM-talk] Changeset Comments

2013-01-05 Thread colliar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 03/01/13 12:11, 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

Re: [OSM-talk] House Numbers

2013-01-05 Thread Martin Trautmann
On 12-12-30 22:53, Frederik Ramm wrote: > It would be great if you could find your name on the list and do a quick > sanity check in your head whether this looks right or not. Maybe you should explain the meaning? No, the numbers don't look right when I see "-7" for me - I moved some house numbe

Re: [OSM-talk] Can Google use our data?

2013-01-05 Thread Greg Troxel
Christian Quest writes: > 2013/1/5 Simon Poole : >> I suppose the obvious question is: what was -your- source for the building >> outlines? It is a fair assumption that google is simply using the same. >> > > It is even more obvious that it is not a plain copy of OSM data as the > roads and buil

Re: [OSM-talk] House Numbers

2013-01-05 Thread colliar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 30/12/12 22:53, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hey girls and guys. The number seem to be OK for me. > I've made a program that counts how many house numbers someone has added. > It uses object history, so it should be able to correctly "award" the count

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

2013-01-05 Thread Jan Kučera
This is a great tool! Hope it will lauch into final osm.org homepage implementation soon! 2013/1/4 Peter Körner > Am 04.01.2013 00:01, schrieb Paweł Paprota: > > For some time now I've been working on the OpenStreetMap Watch List >> project[1] and on integrating OWL into the main OSM website.

Re: [OSM-talk] Can Google use our data?

2013-01-05 Thread Christian Quest
2013/1/5 Simon Poole : > I suppose the obvious question is: what was -your- source for the building > outlines? It is a fair assumption that google is simply using the same. > It is even more obvious that it is not a plain copy of OSM data as the roads and building shapes are not the same (buildin

Re: [OSM-talk] Featured image descriptions

2013-01-05 Thread Andrew
Pierre Béland yahoo.fr> writes: > > Andrew, In the Main_Page wiki, there is a link to Image of the week.http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Main_Page--­> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Iotw > There you will see the translation that I added for Français. >   > > Pierre > De : Andrew h

Re: [OSM-talk] Can Google use our data?

2013-01-05 Thread Simon Poole
I suppose the obvious question is: what was -your- source for the building outlines? It is a fair assumption that google is simply using the same. "José Juan Sánchez del Arco" schrieb: >Browsing the web I just realized that Google Maps is including some >data to their maps which didn't exist