Re: [OSM-talk] How to obtain a small coastline polygon for TileMill?

2013-02-25 Thread Steve Bennett
Thanks - that's perfect. I hadn't noticed the SRS box. Works great now. Steve On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 4:03 PM, AJ Ashton wrote: > > On Feb 25, 2013 11:22 PM, "Steve Bennett" wrote: > >> 5) openstreetmapdata.com's land/sea polygons >> (http://openstreetmapdata.com/data/land-polygons) >> - very s

Re: [OSM-talk] How to obtain a small coastline polygon for TileMill?

2013-02-25 Thread Jochen Topf
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 03:20:22PM +1100, Steve Bennett wrote: > 5) openstreetmapdata.com's land/sea polygons > (http://openstreetmapdata.com/data/land-polygons) > - very slow to render (because it's the whole world?) There are two versions, one has huge unsplit polygons, one has them split into s

[OSM-talk] How to obtain a small coastline polygon for TileMill?

2013-02-25 Thread Steve Bennett
Hi all, I'm learning TileMill with a project to render my home town of Melbourne, which is on the southeastern coast of Australia. The only problem I'm having is the coastline. I've tried a few things, and nothing has really worked: 1) The default 'countries' shape that comes with TileMill - not

[OSM-talk] Sezione ari, vigili e protezione civile

2013-02-25 Thread Michele
Ciao a tutti. Vorrei mappare un edificio con diverse stanze che ospita la sezione ari (i radioamatori) , i vigili urbani e la protezione civile. Quali sono i tag più adatti per mapparlo? Grazie. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://

[OSM-talk] [Talk-it] Sezione ari, vigili e protezione civile

2013-02-25 Thread Michele
Ciao a tutti. Vorrei mappare un edificio con diverse stanze che ospita la sezione ari (i radioamatori) , i vigili urbani e la protezione civile. Quali sono i tag più adatti per mapparlo? Grazie. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://

[OSM-talk] Sezione ari, vigili e protezione civile

2013-02-25 Thread Michele
Ciao a tutti. Vorrei mappare un edificio con diverse stanze che ospita la sezione ari (i radioamatori) , i vigili urbani e la protezione civile. Quali sono i tag più adatti per mapparlo? Grazie. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://l

[OSM-talk] Proposition for a classification of path

2013-02-25 Thread Balaitous
Hi, I have wrote a proposition of classification for path. You can see it at : http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/pathtype Balaitous ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Tagging Live indoor music venues

2013-02-25 Thread Cartinus
Hello everybody, Please use the appropriate list, tagging@ is that way -> -- --- m.v.g., Cartinus ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Tagging Live indoor music venues

2013-02-25 Thread Markus Lindholm
On 25 February 2013 16:58, Janko Mihelić wrote: > Ok, I can agree that having a concert_hall tag is valuable because it's > easier for mappers to remember it. But then how should we call other music > venues? If you look for "music venue" on wikipedia, the first picture is a > concert hall: > > ht

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Tagging Live indoor music venues

2013-02-25 Thread Philip Barnes
On Mon, 2013-02-25 at 14:37 +, Jaakko Helleranta.com wrote: > amenity=music_venue > + music_venue=concert_hall/music_club/opera_house/? > > Now, how should restaurants that e.g. have live music every night (and host > touring artists, too) be tagged? > The tag live_music has been used 9 time

Re: [OSM-talk] Geocode trademark

2013-02-25 Thread Kate Chapman
Hi Don, So you are volunteering as an expert witness? =D And yes sadly the situation is silly, but difficult to deal with as with the OSMF being a small organization with little in the way of a legal fund. Best, -Kate On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 1:30 AM, Donald Cooke wrote: > If anyone gets aroun

Re: [OSM-talk] No Jerusalem on OSM maps?

2013-02-25 Thread SomeoneElse
Toby Murray wrote: Also, see the note=* tag on this node: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/29090735 And see this previous list thread: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2011-October/060323.html ___ talk mailing list talk@openst

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Tagging Live indoor music venues

2013-02-25 Thread Janko Mihelić
2013/2/25 Peter Wendorff > I like the idea of tags for concert hall, music venue and the like, but it > should be possible to mix them, e.g. by using a very generic term (like > amenity=event_location) and several sub tags (like: concert_events=yes, > sport_events=regularly, theatre=yes, opera=no

Re: [OSM-talk] No Jerusalem on OSM maps?

2013-02-25 Thread Toby Murray
Try nominatim: http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search.php?q=Jerusalem%2C+Israel Also, see the note=* tag on this node: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/29090735 Toby 2013/2/22 Henkel, Paul : > Dear OSM, > > > > Want to travel to Israel and use a OSM map but I can’t find Jerusalem on

Re: [OSM-talk] Cool uses of OSM

2013-02-25 Thread Brunn, Ronnie
Hello Everyone, Hi Maarten, Guilty as charged - we are responsible for the Passenger Information Application for the Erzgebirgsbahn - onboard, for mobile phones and on the VMS webpage. The data shown is based on GPS-position fixes of all the Erzgebirgsbahn-vehicles and calculations of estimated

[OSM-talk] No Jerusalem on OSM maps?

2013-02-25 Thread Henkel, Paul
Dear OSM, Want to travel to Israel and use a OSM map but I can't find Jerusalem on it. Is this typical for OSM maps or just a bug of some kind? Best regards. Paul # De inhoud van dit bericht is alleen bestemd

[OSM-talk] Geocode trademark

2013-02-25 Thread Donald Cooke
If anyone gets around to challenging GEOCODE, Inc's trademark claim, a couple of quick searches will find that the term has been in use in GIS literature for ~45 years. For example, I organized a working session on Geocoding in 1971. I put together a collection of papers called "GEOCODING-71" whi

[OSM-talk] help generating tiles according to specifications

2013-02-25 Thread Ben Jacobson
I'm working on a Jerusalem-themed app for mobile devices, and my developer is using the route-me API as our maps solution. The tricky part is that OpenStreetMaps defaults to Hebrew when viewing Jerusalem. I see here that OpenStreetMaps does have English-language data (street labels, etc) available

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Tagging Live indoor music venues

2013-02-25 Thread Peter Wendorff
Am 25.02.2013 16:17, schrieb Markus Lindholm: On 25 February 2013 12:13, Janko Mihelić wrote: I don't think separating rock music venues and concert halls is a good idea. They are basically the same thing, a big room where music is played. I don't agree. For the same reason we have both amenit

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Tagging Live indoor music venues

2013-02-25 Thread John Sturdy
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Janko Mihelić wrote: > I suggest we use amenity=music_venue for each place where music is played, > and we use amenity=concert_hall as a specialized type of a music venue. That > means that if a concert hall is tagged with amenity=music_venue, that's not > false.

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Tagging Live indoor music venues

2013-02-25 Thread Janko Mihelić
Ok, I can agree that having a concert_hall tag is valuable because it's easier for mappers to remember it. But then how should we call other music venues? If you look for "music venue" on wikipedia, the first picture is a concert hall: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_venue I suggest we use ame

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Tagging Live indoor music venues

2013-02-25 Thread Markus Lindholm
On 25 February 2013 12:13, Janko Mihelić wrote: > I don't think separating rock music venues and concert halls is a good idea. > They are basically the same thing, a big room where music is played. I don't agree. For the same reason we have both amenity=cafe and amenity=restaurant I think it's a

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Tagging Live indoor music venues

2013-02-25 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2013/2/25 Jaakko Helleranta.com : > amenity=music_venue > + music_venue=concert_hall/music_club/opera_house/? operas are tagged as theatres amenity=theatre http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3Aamenity%3Dtheatre which lists also the idea to add theatre:genre=opera (but the theatre:genre-tag i

Re: [OSM-talk] Revival: Multilingual Country-List

2013-02-25 Thread Simon Poole
In Switzerland we tried for a substantial amount of time to avoid using the name tag on the Swiss country node (since any single value would be wrong). Unluckily we could not stop our colleagues from a larger country in the north wanting to fiddle around with it and last year we decided to give in

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Tagging Live indoor music venues

2013-02-25 Thread Jaakko Helleranta.com
amenity=music_venue + music_venue=concert_hall/music_club/opera_house/? Now, how should restaurants that e.g. have live music every night (and host touring artists, too) be tagged? Should tags such as bar=yes or/and restaurant=yes be added where appropriate? Cheers, -Jaakko .. Who hasn't forme

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Tagging Live indoor music venues

2013-02-25 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2013/2/25 Floris Looijesteijn : > On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 6:59 PM, Philip Barnes wrote: > I looked at my local music_venue and it was tagged as leisure=music_venue > Leisure seems to have slightly more (62) than amenity (56) at the moment. which is both not really established ;-) > I don't rea

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Tagging Live indoor music venues

2013-02-25 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2013/2/25 Janko Mihelić : > I don't think separating rock music venues and concert halls is a good idea. > They are basically the same thing, a big room where music is played. I don't agree at all with this. They are very different features with the only thing in common that there is someone play

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Tagging Live indoor music venues

2013-02-25 Thread Steve Bennett
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 10:13 PM, Janko Mihelić wrote: > I don't think separating rock music venues and concert halls is a good idea. > They are basically the same thing, a big room where music is played. Agreed. There are too many tags as it is. Excessive distinctions causes a lot of pointless h

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Tagging Live indoor music venues

2013-02-25 Thread Janko Mihelić
I don't think separating rock music venues and concert halls is a good idea. They are basically the same thing, a big room where music is played. Well, when you think of it there is a difference, concert halls usually have chairs. Is that a good separator of the two? Maybe we could invent a tag l

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Tagging Live indoor music venues

2013-02-25 Thread Philip Barnes
I would prefer amenity as it fits in better with other entertainment venues such as cinemas, theatres, concert halls and pubs. Leisure is more for sports places and swimming pools in my mind. Phil (trigpoint) -- Sent from my Nokia N9 On 25/02/2013 9:58 Floris Looijesteijn wrote: On Sun, Feb

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Tagging Live indoor music venues

2013-02-25 Thread Floris Looijesteijn
On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 6:59 PM, Philip Barnes wrote: > > I would support amenity=music_venue, it describes this type of place. > I looked at my local music_venue and it was tagged as leisure=music_venue Leisure seems to have slightly more (62) than amenity (56) at the moment. I don't really ca