[OSM-talk] weeklyOSM

2015-01-02 Thread Manfred A. Reiter
The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue # 232, is now available online in English, giving as always a summary of all things happening in the openstreetmap world: http://www.weeklyosm.eu Enjoy! ## Manfred Reiter - mobile - please excuse typos and brevity

Re: [OSM-talk] Tile CDN

2015-01-02 Thread Tom Hughes
On 02/01/15 17:40, Andreas Labres wrote: Serving tiles for Austria via Pula doesn't make that much sense. It should be something "near" to DE-CIX (or VIX). Hetzner for instance is ok. The machine at Hetzner (tabaluga) is already very heavily loaded serving Germany (and not much else). More

Re: [OSM-talk] Request for feedback: new building colours in openstreetmap-carto

2015-01-02 Thread Mateusz Konieczny
See also https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/1176 that proposes adding buildings with historic=castle to major buildings. Currently only buildings with place_of_worship are recognized as major and are rendered with special style (=darker). 2015-01-02 18:17 GMT+01:00 Matthij

[OSM-talk] Tile CDN

2015-01-02 Thread Andreas Labres
Hi! Serving tiles for Austria via Pula doesn't make that much sense. It should be something "near" to DE-CIX (or VIX). Hetzner for instance is ok. Sample traceroutes for the two biggest Austrian ISPs (A1/Telekom Austria and UPC): traceroute to c.tile.openstreetmap.org (193.198.233.211), 30 hops

[OSM-talk] Release openstreetmap-carto v2.26.0

2015-01-02 Thread Matthijs Melissen
Dear all, Today, v2.26.0 of the openstreetmap-carto stylesheet has been released. It will be rolled out to the openstreetmap.org servers soon. Changes include: * Buildings are now rendered in a much lighter colour * Airport labels are rendered in a different colour * The tag natural=mud is rende

Re: [OSM-talk] Request for feedback: new building colours in openstreetmap-carto

2015-01-02 Thread Matthijs Melissen
On 27 November 2014 at 01:16, Matthijs Melissen wrote: > We are considering to change the colour of buildings in > openstreetmap-carto, the default rendering on openstreetmap.org. > Because this change has a significant effect on the looks of the map, > we would like to consult the community befor

Re: [OSM-talk] Hemnet.se using OSM data without attribution

2015-01-02 Thread Simon Poole
I had a quick look at it. Given that the OSM data is clearly separate from the google map background I don't see any problem with that aspect. They naturally should add attribution to OSM as soon as they display the buildings, IMHO on the map. Naturally if the agreement they have entered in to wi

Re: [OSM-talk] Hemnet.se using OSM data without attribution

2015-01-02 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
By the way, I wrote last week a free plugin /"OpenStreetMap Maps"/ [1] for//the Open Source Classified software project [2]/. // /You can see how the OSM map looks on an ad page [3] of the Open Source Classified installation. And compare it with the Google map on a similar ad's page [4]//of