Russ Nelson wrote:
How do people feel about me importing this data (with all of their
metadata), adding an immutable=yes tag, with the intent of tracking
their dataset, and deleting --outright-- any changes made by OSM
editors.
Let me get this straight - this would be the same sort of
Further to Tobias's raising of :mode, :wet, :direction etc. for
pseudovoting, I'd like to raise a general method for tagging properties
of the two sides of the road:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/right_left
The proposal suggests an interpretation of suffixes like
I'm uploading (to http://wrp.geothings.net/ ) a bunch of large-scale
maps found in a drawer by University Estates Directorate staff who very
kindly let me use their scanner to make digital copies after checking
their copyright status to a first approximation. I'll probably need some
helpers
Tim Waters (chippy) wrote:
2009/2/14 Andrew Chadwick (mailing lists) andrewc-email-li...@piffle.org:
I really wish warper allowed you to stitch multiple uploads from the
same source together into a scrollable, WMSable whole by tag or somesuch.
Great idea, and it's in the pipeline :-)
Cool
Matthias Julius wrote:
Maybe it is better to use a namespace like
removed:railway=rail; removed=date. This also preserves the type of
railway.
+1 for namespace prefixes, +0 for removed: though.
Some of the usual suspects on #osm have been discussing past: and
future: namespaces, the latter
Jochen Topf wrote:
On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 11:01:48PM +, Andrew Chadwick (mailing lists)
wrote:
(Actually, I like the colon syntax a lot. Wonder if it's worth
formalising that a bit more, saying that either order matters, or order
doesn't matter?)
Of course the order matters
Sebastian Hohmann wrote:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Properties_for_Tags
Possibly a little overcomplex; it sounds like you're trying to introduce
some form of metatagging - tags about other tags - when limited
metatagging already exists, of a sort (source:name=*,
Chris Hill wrote:
I notice that abandoned railways are now being rendered on Mapnik.
I've been tagging local disused pubs with disused=yes and hoping that
the renderer will catch up with what was agreed in the wiki for some
time now :) Unfortunately there's an increasing number of boarded-up
People often ask what the various colons, underscores, semicolons and
whatnot mean within a tag. The answer is that there are no guidelines,
silly; just do what you want! But doesn't mean that de-facto conventions
haven't evolved over time anyway, so I've had a go at documenting them.
Could
Shaun McDonald wrote:
Use something like amenity=old_pub or similar.
Icon of an upturned/broken pint glass and dried spillage, maybe?
Actually, in some areas the broken glass might be too poignant a choice.
Arguably it's no longer an amenity if it's always shut, but I still
think that
Joerg Ostertag (OSM Tettnang/Germany) wrote:
as most of you probably know I'm providing debian packages for the most
common
tools needed to work with OpenStreetMap.
What I'd like to know is:
- which additional tools from the osm-svn would you like to see added to
the debian
FYI for those watching this project: it's recently sprouted a mailing
list at https://garage.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/osm2go-users .
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Till Harbaum / Lists wrote:
I do have a small problem with it: I i try to zoom out and hit the zoom limit,
the canvas slowly scrolls a tiny step top and left with every trial to zoom
further out.
Okay, give this a spin. The attached patch applies cleanly against
vanilla osm2go-0.5-5 from the
Till Harbaum wrote:
If you're zoomed out beyond the extent of the current project, it's
impossible to pan the map so that part of it is hidden beyond the canvas
edge. This might hinder new users [...]
??? I don't understand that. There's the area you downloaded. You can
see only that and work
Till Harbaum / Lists wrote:
Am Montag 17 November 2008 schrieb Andrew Chadwick (email lists):
It'd be really cool if the dependency on Hildon,
osso, and various other Maemo-specific parts could be relaxed for users
of devices like Eee PCs, but I guess that's less of an immediate
requirement
[[Cc:ed to OSM talk]]
I've started to organise a Micro Mapping Party for the town of Abingdon,
near Oxford. It's a medium-ish town which a handful of people can
probably get polished off in a day, hopefully.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Abingdon
Full details will be appended to
[[Cc:ed to OSM talk]]
I've started to organise a Micro Mapping Party for the town of Abingdon,
near Oxford. It's a medium-ish town which a handful of people can
probably get polished off in a day, hopefully.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Abingdon
Full details will be appended to
Stephen Gower wrote:
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 02:45:27PM +0100, Andrew Chadwick (email lists) wrote:
Out of the blue, I've been asked to advise Cyclox, a local cyclists'
advocacy group about improving [upon] the Oxfordshire County Council's
cycle map for the city of Oxford[1], and I've said
LeedsTracker wrote:
I have some stretches of road near me that have cycle lanes only one
one side of the road (i.e. in one direction)
How should I tag this? This page doesn't describe anything that quite fits:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Key:cycleway
It seems over the top to
Ed Loach wrote:
What is it we are trying to address here exactly? I'm assuming it is
cyclelanes that are part of the road/way as
This is with reference to
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Key:cycleway
It is currently *impossible* to represent a way which has a cycleway
down just
Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 01:33:11PM +0100, Andrew Chadwick (email lists) wrote:
Abingdon in Oxfordshire is heavily infested with dragons. Would any
heroic .uk/.ie/.elsewhere OSMers out there be willing to help drive them
off, in principle?
[...]
Yup, sounds good. My
Mark Williams wrote:
Actually, having gone back re-read the actual proposal, the O.P.
wanted this tag to _distinguish_ other clinics from the specific ones...
so it's the bit about merging them, above, that I didn't like, not the
actual proposed feature, in case that last mail was unclear :)
Thomas Wood wrote:
The operator= tag already is used for similar puposes, and would fit
well (Mostly bus routes I believe)
It might clash slightly with the suggestion for public to be used in the
operator tag to differentiate it from private medical establishments.
+1. I'd be happy with
Chris Hill wrote:
Clinic can apply to other medical folks, such as chiropodists and
physiotherapists too.
And physical rehabilitation, dementia care, psychiatric counseling...
the list might be quite a long one.
I'm coming round to the opinion that the different kinds of surgeries
are all
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