Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Speed in traffic jams/slow traffic

2009-04-17 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 12:43:46PM +0200, marcus.wolsc...@googlemail.com wrote: I don't like to simply assume 0km/h = infinite delay for a traffic jam and like 3 km/h for "slow moving traffic". How about using a fraction instead of a fixed value? E.g. 1/4 for slow moving and 1/10 (or even 1/10

Re: [OSM-talk] name tags on place=country and how they're rendered on lowzoom

2009-01-15 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:17:46AM +0530, ??? ??? (vikas yadav) wrote: where is a local language being set for a country or a region? It isn't at all. The software doesn't know which language "name" is in, only the mapper does. CU Sascha -- http://sascha.silbe.org/ http://www.infra-silbe.de/

Re: [OSM-talk] name tags on place=country and how they're rendered on lowzoom

2009-01-14 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 08:14:21PM +, ?var Arnfj?r? Bjarmason wrote: * Most have the common English name in the name= field, e.g. Germany and Andorra At least for Germany, this has already been fixed on 2008-12-04. name=* (without a language code) should be the name in the local language.

Re: [OSM-talk] Some more shops and amenities for the map features page ...

2008-12-20 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 10:12:33PM +0100, Frederik Ramm wrote: [latin names for medical doctors] There's no hope of ever introducing these as tags, as they will be misspelled about 150% of the time. Why not? :-| Just add those as (translated) presets to the editors and be done with it. If yo

[OSM-talk] Collecting public transportation time tables

2008-12-17 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 03:02:17PM +, Peter Miller wrote: There is not however a problem as far as I know in people collecting their own timetable information from printed material and entering it into a common DV. I haven't collected anything yet since I fear the data might be protected

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM not acceptable for geocaching.com

2008-11-15 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 12:42:17PM +0100, Till Harbaum / Lists wrote: Geocaching.com recently completely deleted that cache antry as they claim that it forces you to use a certain software (a web browser!!!) and a certain web service. If your geocache is inside a german-speaking country (*), yo

Re: [OSM-talk] barrier=gate

2008-11-09 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 11:34:37AM +0100, Tordanik wrote: Personally, I'd agree if my contributions were bot-changed in cases like this, but there are people who wouldn't. Maybe it is possible to set up an opt-in bot that only "updates" tagging of those users who have put themselves on a list

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=track and motorcar=yes/no

2008-11-04 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 10:52:57PM +0100, Rainer Dorsch wrote: That depends on the state (Bundesland). So there cannot be a global default, only a local one. I am just curious: which Bundesländer do typically allow motorcars on tracks? Sorry, don't know that off the top of my head, but one was

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=track and motorcar=yes/no

2008-11-04 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 09:04:06PM +0100, Rainer Dorsch wrote: In Germany (Switzerland and Austria as well?) there are probably a very low fraction of tracks on which motorcars are allowed. That depends on the state (Bundesland). So there cannot be a global default, only a local one. CU Sasch

Re: [OSM-talk] Ideas for student project on OSM

2008-10-28 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 02:38:05PM +, James Stewart wrote: Hi, I am a contributor to the map,but also work in the University in Edinburgh. I have been talking to the people who run the MSc in GIS, they have 140 students, and have to propose potential dissertation projects. Most of the s

Re: [OSM-talk] Voting: traffic_enforcement

2008-10-17 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 06:40:12PM +0100, Tristan Scott wrote: * Common mobile station on a bridge - on a way which has no relation to the direction of enforcement In that case, a relation (no pun intended) would be better. * On a crossroads/traffic signals (red light camera) where two ways

Re: [OSM-talk] Code of conduct for automated (mass-) edits

2008-09-30 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 02:58:48PM +, Hendrik T. Voelker wrote: To get something done, one has to create a Java class that described the bot. No, please, no! I have been programming in many different languages (at least one per family, i.e. iterative, functional, i+OOP, f+OOP) for about 20

Re: [OSM-talk] mailing list behavior

2008-09-02 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 09:23:13AM +0200, vegard wrote: And for the only semi-technical argument that you break something that can't be repaired: I have *never* ever placed a reply-to to something other than my from-adress, and expected it to work, without *also* stating explicitly at the end of

Re: [OSM-talk] mailing list behavior

2008-09-01 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 12:58:48AM +0200, bvh wrote: Well, and it breaks my expectation of what reply means in the context of a public discussion. Should you have different expectations, see the documentation of your mail client (hint : ignore_list_reply_to) This thread is going nowhere, so let

Re: [OSM-talk] mailing list behavior

2008-09-01 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 08:50:46PM +0100, Christopher Woods wrote: So for lists such as the BBC Backstage Majordomo list (which used to behave in the way this list currently does, but now puts in the appropriate list address when you hit Reply), are you saying that they've in fact bodged the

Re: [OSM-talk] mailing list behavior

2008-09-01 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 01:39:33PM -0500, Lance Dyas wrote: The default responder to public conversation venues needs to be to just that ... There's no way OSM could change that default, it's up to your MUA vendor. The buttons you're currently using are "reply" (with an implied "to author") a

Re: [OSM-talk] mailing list behavior

2008-09-01 Thread 'Sascha Silbe'
(Resend because of wrong sender address) On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 05:35:17PM +0100, Christopher Woods wrote: BTW - I hope you can even _read_ this mail because it's PGP/MIME signed). Quite legible ;) Outlook copes far better than I think some give it credit for! I added that sentence because s

Re: [OSM-talk] mailing list behavior

2008-09-01 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 04:56:22PM +0100, Christopher Woods wrote: It seems a little 'unnatural' to me, To me it's absolutely natural. If I want to reach (only) the author, I use "reply". When I want to reach everyone who wrote or got the mail, I use "reply to all". That's exactly what I would

Re: [OSM-talk] Left and Right - a proposal

2008-08-30 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 12:26:49PM +0100, Gervase Markham wrote: What do people think? As I've already expressed in other threads: IMO that's the way to go. CU Sascha -- http://sascha.silbe.org/ http://www.infra-silbe.de/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature