Re: [OSM-talk] [HOT] Floods in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina

2014-05-21 Thread Pierre Béland
Hrvoje, On the dev server I created a job that focus on priority areas.   I did this looking at the the NASA flood impact map. To progress more rapidly with mapping and focus on priority zones, I would like to replace job 534 with this new job. See http://tasks.dev.hotosm.org/job/480 What do y

Re: [OSM-talk] [HOT] Floods in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina

2014-05-21 Thread Pierre Béland
Hrvoje With OSM Nominatim to geolocate properly for streets, we need to have town boundaries including into OSM. I was looking at this today and it seems that those limits are not imported yet. If we could have such limits to import (license compatible with ODbL), it would greatly enhance the

[OSM-talk] undiscussed (?) mechanical edit on diet:vegan and diet:vegetarian

2014-05-21 Thread John Packer
Andy wrote: > John Packer wrote: > >> The tags cuisine=vegetarian and cuisine=vegan are already explicitly >> deprecated. >> > > Says who? People who edit the wiki or people who edit the map? > > Any change to previously-used keys needs to be talked about in public so > that someone who's got a m

Re: [OSM-talk] Visualizing mapping history of an area

2014-05-21 Thread Arun Ganesh
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Ben Abelshausen wrote: > What about this tool: > > https://github.com/MaZderMind/osm-history-renderer/ > > A nice writeup here: > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/joost%20schouppe/diary/21826 > Excellent, this looks like exactly what I was looking for. Thank yo

Re: [OSM-talk] Question about Osmosis, Geofabrik and HTTP 504 Error

2014-05-21 Thread Juan Lucas Domínguez Rubio
Hello, Thanks for the explanation. I have set up the cron so that it gets the *.osc.gz files from Geofabrik every night. I thought it would be a good idea to run osmosis three times, so in case the first does not work, the second perhaps will, and if one of them works, then the rest will do noth

Re: [OSM-talk] Question about Osmosis, Geofabrik and HTTP 504 Error

2014-05-21 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 05/21/2014 04:36 PM, Juan Lucas Domínguez Rubio wrote: > I am getting the HTTP 504 error message *sometimes* when trying to get a > state.txt file from Geofabrik with osmosis, but it happens sometimes and > with some files. For example, the state.txt file for the Berlin updates > fails to d

[OSM-talk] Question about Osmosis, Geofabrik and HTTP 504 Error

2014-05-21 Thread Juan Lucas Domínguez Rubio
Dear list, I am getting the HTTP 504 error message *sometimes* when trying to get a state.txt file from Geofabrik with osmosis, but it happens sometimes and with some files. For example, the state.txt file for the Berlin updates fails to download and the state.txt file for the Bretagne update

Re: [OSM-talk] undiscussed (?) mechanical edit on diet:vegan and diet:vegetarian

2014-05-21 Thread SomeoneElse
John Packer wrote: The tags cuisine=vegetarian and cuisine=vegan are already explicitly deprecated. Says who? People who edit the wiki or people who edit the map? Any change to previously-used keys needs to be talked about in public so that someone who's got a map that depends on the "ol

Re: [OSM-talk] undiscussed (?) mechanical edit on diet:vegan and diet:vegetarian

2014-05-21 Thread John Packer
> > I would question whether vegan or vegetarian are types of cuisine. You > can have vegetarian restaurants serving very different cuisines, tagging > such as cuisine=indian diet=vegetarian, cuisine=british diet=vegetarian. > If you use cuisine=vegetarian then you loose that important information.

Re: [OSM-talk] Visualizing mapping history of an area

2014-05-21 Thread SomeoneElse
Arun Ganesh wrote: Thanks for the lead. Its a bit disappointing that this isn't possible. Any idea if there is an outdated (>6months) mapnik render somewhere that I could use to go back in osm time? Perhaps you could create one from old data using an old dataset from: http://download.geofab

Re: [OSM-talk] Visualizing mapping history of an area

2014-05-21 Thread Ben Abelshausen
What about this tool: https://github.com/MaZderMind/osm-history-renderer/ A nice writeup here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/joost%20schouppe/diary/21826 Met vriendelijke groeten, Best regards, Ben Abelshausen ___ talk mailing list talk@openstree

Re: [OSM-talk] Visualizing mapping history of an area

2014-05-21 Thread Arun Ganesh
On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 4:37 PM, Clifford Snow wrote: > > On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 4:28 AM, Arun Ganesh wrote: > >> The area of interest is a small town called Talasari, north of Mumbai >> [2]. The students had very low experience with computers and most had to >> start from creating email ids. The

Re: [OSM-talk] This has to stop: User Diaries Spam

2014-05-21 Thread Andreas Goss
Am 5/19/14 18:23 , schrieb Arlindo Pereira: Would it be too hard to implement a simple captcha on this page? Cheers, Arlindo "Nighto" I don't think it is done by bots, at least most of the posts. So that would not do much. __ openstreetmap.org/user/AndiG88 wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki