[OSM-talk] MapQuest release 3 new APIs / tools - XAPI (JXAPI), NPI (new!), Broken Poly tool (new!)

2011-04-08 Thread Antony Pegg
Hello all, MapQuest has pushed out three new developer tools for OSM. Hopefully you will find them useful. Full details are here on the developer blog: http://devblog.mapquest.com/2011/04/07/xapi-npi-broken_polygons/ but to summarize: http://open.mapquest.com/xapi - A running copy of Ian

Re: [OSM-talk] MapQuest release 3 new APIs / tools - XAPI, NPI (new!), Broken Poly tool (new!)

2011-04-08 Thread Antony Pegg
absolutely if you can explain it to me! please use small words :) On 4/8/2011 11:58 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: Hi Ant, On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 11:43 PM, Antony Peggap...@nexuspro.com wrote: http://open.mapquest.com/xapi - A running copy of Ian Dees' JXAPI plus a simple GUI based on

[Talk-us] MapQuest release 3 new APIs / tools - XAPI, NPI (new!), Broken Poly tool (new!)

2011-04-08 Thread Antony Pegg
Hello all, MapQuest has pushed out three new developer tools for OSM. Hopefully you will find them useful. Full details are here on the developer blog: http://devblog.mapquest.com/2011/04/07/xapi-npi-broken_polygons/ but to summarize: http://open.mapquest.com/xapi - A running copy of Ian

Re: [Talk-us] using address interpolation with building polygons

2011-03-28 Thread Antony Pegg
Hi Richard, I *think* the short answer is that you don't have to include the address point node/way into the interpolated way I dont know whether or not its the correct way of doing things, but I know what works with Nominatim Address points trump interpolation every time if you have an

[OSM-talk] Bike / Pedestrian directions on the MQ Open sites

2011-03-04 Thread Antony Pegg
HI all, just a quick note - we've added bicycle and pedestrian routing options to the MapQuest Open sites more details here: http://blog.mapquest.com/2011/03/03/open-routing-options-expanded/ couple known things: - We've already discovered highway=bridleway not included - we've updated the

[Talk-us] Bike / Pedestrian directions on the MQ Open sites

2011-03-04 Thread Antony Pegg
HI all, just a quick note - we've added bicycle and pedestrian routing options to the MapQuest Open sites more details here: http://blog.mapquest.com/2011/03/03/open-routing-options-expanded/ couple known things: - We've already discovered highway=bridleway not included - we've updated the

Re: [OSM-talk] all our addresses are belong to you

2011-03-02 Thread Antony Pegg
Umm yeah quick note on that – the dupes are different spellings of an address when it has a directional as part of the road name. lets call it a feature of how the CAF is checked before our hitting our commercial geocoding solution. Mike N wrote: A quick check shows that there are some

Re: [OSM-talk] all our addresses are belong to you

2011-03-02 Thread Antony Pegg
*Hello David, *I'm sorry if you misunderstood where these addresses came from. These are addresses where people have directly picked up the phone and called us with their address and latlng because they weren't being found in the commercial datasets we license. Our Support team gathers these

[OSM-talk] Would you like MapQuest to demo your app in our SXSW booth?

2011-02-16 Thread Antony Pegg
Hello all, MapQuest is busy planning out our booth for the SXSW conference ( http://www.sxsw.com) and we'd love to show some of the great things that people have done that leverage the open APIs tools we've stood up over the last few months as we work to support OSM. If you think you'd enjoy us

[OSM-talk] MapQuest releases Android app that includes OSM

2011-02-16 Thread Antony Pegg
Hi all (sorry for the double post) MapQuest released our Android application today in the marketplace http://blog.mapquest.com/2011/02/16/mapquest-unveils-free-android-app/ It is free, and has an OSM mode, which when switched to, uses: - MQ OSM tiles - MQ Open Aerial tiles for satellite view

[Talk-us] Would you like MapQuest to demo your app in our SXSW booth?

2011-02-16 Thread Antony Pegg
Hello all, MapQuest is busy planning out our booth for the SXSW conference ( http://www.sxsw.com) and we'd love to show some of the great things that people have done that leverage the open APIs tools we've stood up over the last few months as we work to support OSM. If you think you'd enjoy us

[Talk-us] MapQuest releases Android app that includes OSM

2011-02-16 Thread Antony Pegg
Hi all (sorry for the double post) MapQuest released our Android application today in the marketplace http://blog.mapquest.com/2011/02/16/mapquest-unveils-free-android-app/ It is free, and has an OSM mode, which when switched to, uses: - MQ OSM tiles - MQ Open Aerial tiles for satellite view

Re: [OSM-talk] Path with Pit Stops

2011-02-11 Thread Antony Pegg
Barely any restrictions Check this page for full details: http://developer.mapquest.com/web/products/open/directions-service HTH Ant (the Limey) ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[Talk-us] TIGER edited map updated with Toby's suggestion

2011-01-24 Thread Antony Pegg
All, sorry I didnt write this sooner Last week we updated the TIGER edited map to include the logic suggested by Toby for checking the number of versions. Many thanks to Gravitystorm for the changes and ArtemP for the installation Please let us know if that's helped improve what you were

[OSM-talk] open.mapquest.com launched for the US

2010-12-17 Thread Antony Pegg
Hi all, Very very proud to announce that we have launched the US http://open.MapQuest.com site Full details about it are available on our devblog at http://devblog.MapQuest.com Thank you to everyone here who has helped make this happen (you know who you are, and the beer is always on my

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER 2010 Imports

2010-12-15 Thread Antony Pegg
Yep, the TIGER unedited map is *not* perfect here's the style file up on Git https://github.com/MapQuest/TIGER-Edited-map the rules are in there. Basically, we can't afford to have the complete history of a way, so we have to go with the latest version as a guide I THINK the file you need

Re: [Talk-us] musings on TIGER tags

2010-11-23 Thread Antony Pegg
I agree with most of this. One very useful thing I've found tho is the (off the top of my head) tiger:name_type=aly seems all the alley's got imported as highway=residential - at least in my area - so the tiger tag is very useful for doing a JOSM search for all alleyways and changing them

Re: [Talk-us] musings on TIGER tags

2010-11-23 Thread Antony Pegg
On 11/23/2010 9:13 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Antony Peggap...@nexuspro.com wrote: I agree with most of this. One very useful thing I've found tho is the (off the top of my head) tiger:name_type=aly seems all the alley's got imported as highway=residential -

Re: [Talk-us] musings on TIGER tags

2010-11-23 Thread Antony Pegg
On 11/23/2010 9:36 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Antony Pegganttheli...@gmail.com wrote: hmmmhow might one perform this XAPI query of which thou dost speak?! ctrl-L, http://xapi.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/*%5bbbox=[you can copy this part from the bookmarks

[OSM-talk] Couple new MapQuest Open features you might like

2010-11-11 Thread Antony Pegg
So we pushed out an update to the open.mapquest.co.uk and other sites today blog post about it here: http://blog.mapquest.com/ but in short(ish) form: a) Right-click anywhere to see the closest feature in the map data b) Editing links: - in the pop-up window, choose Potlatch 2 or JOSM to open

[OSM-talk] MapQuest welcomes Thea Clay and Nominatim, Potlatch2, TIGER Edited Map Viewer go up on Developer Network

2010-10-21 Thread Antony Pegg
So, after my ramblings on Tuesday, I'll try to keep this one shorter I am very happy to welcome Thea Clay to the MapQuest Open team. She is a tremendous asset to the group, and has already dived in head first, as we work to move things forward. I have been completely remiss in not having said

Re: [OSM-talk] MapQuest welcomes Thea Clay and Nominatim, Potlatch2, TIGER Edited Map Viewer go up on Developer Network

2010-10-21 Thread Antony Pegg
Hi Toby, Glad you like it. Ok, tiger tiles are meant to refresh basically every 15 minutes ish (same as the websites). I got a feeling you got an old cache at the further out zoom - Andy made a style update that made it more accurate, so yes trust the red more than the green right now. Remember

Re: [OSM-talk] MapQuest welcomes Thea Clay and Nominatim, Potlatch2, TIGER Edited Map Viewer go up on Developer Network

2010-10-21 Thread Antony Pegg
) green  :) Toby On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Antony Pegg anttheli...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Toby, Glad you like it. Ok, tiger tiles are meant to refresh basically every 15 minutes ish (same as the websites). I got a feeling you got an old cache at the further out zoom - Andy made a style

[OSM-talk] some notes, ostensibly from MapQuest (sorry if this is spam)

2010-10-19 Thread Antony Pegg
Hi all, bear with me, not used to be an official spokesperson type for anything. fortunately I dont think our corporate communications have discovered the OSM lists yet. Anyway: Update! Today MapQuest rolled out three more international OSM sites (oooh h woooh!) open.mapquest.in for

Re: [OSM-talk] some notes, ostensibly from MapQuest (sorry if this is spam)

2010-10-19 Thread Antony Pegg
the tiles update every 15 minutes, Nominatim data 2-24 hours, routing data overnight. can you give me a couple of example links from the Link box please? (on the MQ interface, above the search box, next to the Send To box) It wont be an update issue, but it might be either data in the area, or

Re: [OSM-talk] some notes, ostensibly from MapQuest (sorry if this is spam)

2010-10-19 Thread Antony Pegg
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 9:22 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/10/20 Antony Pegg anttheli...@gmail.com: can you give me a couple of example links from the Link box please? (on the MQ interface, above the search box, next to the Send To box) the linking function

Re: [OSM-talk] some notes, ostensibly from MapQuest (sorry if this is spam)

2010-10-19 Thread Antony Pegg
, 2010 at 9:42 PM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 8:40 PM, Antony Pegg anttheli...@gmail.com wrote: someone (I think it was Anthony) recently said that we had to open up our tiles because of the CC-by-SA licence. On reflection, yeah I guess technically you are correct

Re: [OSM-talk] some notes, ostensibly from MapQuest (sorry if this is spam)

2010-10-19 Thread Antony Pegg
Thanks for your good wishes :) your active support provides a lift beneath my wings. On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:01 AM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 10:40 PM, Antony Pegg anttheli...@gmail.com wrote: Or, to put it another, even simpler way, Anthony - I hope

[Talk-us] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-19 Thread Antony Pegg
ok, I got a question tagging admin area / populated centers / labels in USA seems to come down to two main tags: admin_level and place http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Admin_level#10_admin_level_values_for_specific_countries plus http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Place I've ran into a

Re: [OSM-talk] Revert requests in general

2010-08-24 Thread Antony Pegg
I wanted to revive the discussion inspired by NearMap, regarding making an easier way to on-ramp new users, since it seemed to have died. Nick wrote: So let's bring this back to people who want to create tools to make it easier for everyone to participate in OSM. How can we get past the problems

[Talk-us] What would you want done with TIGER 2010?

2010-08-23 Thread Antony Pegg
Hi Everyone, First time mailing, probably overdue, but I've been reading for a while. Got a question I'm hoping will spark some discussion: What would you like to see done (or NOT see done) with TIGER 2010 as regards OSM when it is released? I'm very interested in the why behind any

[OSM-talk] MapQuest Mapnik style available on GitHub

2010-07-16 Thread Antony Pegg
Hi All, As requested last week, the MapQuest Mapnik style is available on GitHub, at: http://github.com/MapQuest/MapQuest-Mapnik-Style Its under an MIT license Please note there are some changes in there since the conference already. We've been adding on working the boke and footpaths in, and