Re: [OSM-talk] Key:Destination Abbreviations

2016-12-19 Thread Aun Johnsen
> On Dec 19, 2016, at 10:00, talk-requ...@openstreetmap.org wrote: > > Well, it still can, the software just needs to know > how to abbreviate words, which is easy to do. The other way round, > automatically expanding an abbreviation (i.e. reading aloud) may be > ambiguous. Let me expand a little

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetView name change

2016-11-08 Thread Aun Johnsen
Since all-evil-you-know-who have lawyers that can sue the ass off everything, let us look at what strictly mean the same but sounds completely different, my idea is FSLI, the Free Street Level Images. Aun Johnsen ___ talk mailing list talk

[OSM-talk] Which type of highways are used by routing software?

2016-11-03 Thread Aun Johnsen
problems, best is to open a ticket or issue with the routing provider. Aun Johnsen > On Nov 3, 2016, at 10:00, talk-requ...@openstreetmap.org wrote: > > Another issue with routing software might be the kind of OSM object on > which a highway tag is put. Highway=pedestrian areas (and o

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM New Logo Proposal

2016-10-15 Thread Aun Johnsen
logo, than we should use the current logo colour pallet so that the existing logo can be continued to be used as a detailed logo where that is desired. Aun Johnsen > On Oct 15, 2016, at 10:34, talk-requ...@openstreetmap.org wrote: > > Im not a designer, but standard wisdom on

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM New Logo Proposal

2016-10-14 Thread Aun Johnsen
I think it is too early to redesign the logo itself, but I like the idea of the wordmark. Incorporating the wordmark with the existing logo is much more preferred. Aun Johnsen > On Oct 14, 2016, at 19:35, talk-requ...@openstreetmap.org wrote: > > What do you th

Re: [OSM-talk] [Tagging] non-temporary usage of highway=road

2016-09-27 Thread Aun Johnsen
> On Sep 27, 2016, at 15:18, tagging-requ...@openstreetmap.org wrote: > > > I'd suggest talking to the users concerned - the easiest way is via a > changeset discussion comment. If they're unsure what road category to > use, you can point at other nearby examples in the imagery and say "I'd

Re: [OSM-talk] non-temporary usage of highway=road

2016-09-27 Thread Aun Johnsen
> On Sep 27, 2016, at 14:24, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 8:42 PM, Aun Johnsen <mailto:li...@gimnechiske.org>> wrote: > i.e., highway=road means anything between a small footway to motorway, so a > routing engine might wrongfully send ca

Re: [OSM-talk] [Tagging] non-temporary usage of highway=road

2016-09-27 Thread Aun Johnsen
list as I do a fair amount of validation and > highway=road is one of the most common warnings I see from new mappers > mapping in maperthons. > > Can we improve the training or validation? > > Thanks John > >> On 27 September 2016 at 09:21, Aun Johnsen wrote: &g

Re: [OSM-talk] [Tagging] non-temporary usage of highway=road

2016-09-27 Thread Aun Johnsen
ttle or no results, that is why I have resolved taking this to the list. Seems like asking the developers of the different tools are somewhat futile, and we need broader attention on this issue. Aun Johnsen ___ talk mailing list t

[OSM-talk] non-temporary usage of highway=road

2016-09-26 Thread Aun Johnsen
tools should highlight them as items needing attention. Aun Johnsen ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Go Map!: Mobile mapping on iOS

2016-07-27 Thread Aun Johnsen
approach for an app that doesn’t do editing of said relations. Aun Johnsen > On Jul 27, 2016, at 06:01, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > > 2016-07-27 10:16 GMT+02:00 moltonel <mailto:molto...@gmail.com>>: > When I first heard of GoMap, it was along with some criticism

Re: [OSM-talk] Go Map!: Mobile mapping on iOS

2016-07-26 Thread Aun Johnsen
wholeheartedly that it is good for adding data on the move, but for larger edits JOSM is still preferred editor. Aun Johnsen ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Routing over areas

2015-04-22 Thread Aun Johnsen
around you can create paths cutting the area to connect the common entry and exit points, this eay you get a reliable sane route independent of routing implementation Aun Johnsen Sent from my iPhone > On 22. apr. 2015, at 09.00, talk-requ...@openstreetmap.org wrote: > > Subject: Re:

Re: [OSM-talk] Worst of OSM

2012-05-19 Thread Aun Johnsen
Hi Just to imform you, the Brazilian community are looking at reducing the number of un-named roads, unfortienately the dataset which are used mostly covers rural areas. Urban areas will also be addressed. Hopefully the community can reduce the number of unnamed roads significantly during the next

[OSM-talk] OSM and shipping disasters

2012-01-14 Thread Aun Johnsen
I noticed tonight, through the shipping site gcaptain.com, on one of their articles following the cruise disaster of Costa Concordia off the coast of Italy, that some news sources use OSM maps to illustrate the area of the grounding. On the following page you can compare the look (and maybe a litt

Re: [OSM-talk] OSmosa.net run now.., contribution model

2011-12-06 Thread Aun Johnsen
It is not entirely correct that it is not possible to have a distributed editing API, for example on osmosa.net, but that would require a heavy redesign of the database, server and API parts of OSM. Firstly to have this setup work properly one would need a clustered database, where the database on

Re: [OSM-talk] Flight "paths" in OSM

2010-10-10 Thread Aun Johnsen
If there is any interest of mapping airline routes, than do it with a relation between the airport nodes, as great circles can easily be calculated between two known positions. Making lines on the map is easy enough when you have the end positions, and nodes in between is not necessary at all. On

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging Seamarks

2010-08-17 Thread Aun Johnsen
I have tagged 4 buoys in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) according to the two tagging schemes, if you take a look at this changeset you can see that all the necessary information is repeated several times, just a consequence of two similar-but-different tagging schemes for the same thing. Actually for me (

Re: [OSM-talk] BDFL & Moderation

2010-08-16 Thread Aun Johnsen
Ok, so in the sense of "Conspiration Theory" I use the word "theory" in the way scientists use the word "thesis", maybe I should start to call "conspiration theories" for "conspiration thesis", but than nobody would understand that I mean "conspiration theory". It is not my fault the word theory ha

Re: [OSM-talk] RFC: what are empty nodes and how should we use them?

2010-08-16 Thread Aun Johnsen
(1) It's not exactly more reliable with dedicated bulk upload scripts > either. If the API takes too long to check the uploaded osmChange for > validity, the TCP session appears to timeout. The script/JOSM never receives > the OK from the API, including the new object IDs. The next time you hit > u

Re: [OSM-talk] RFC: what are empty nodes and how should we use them?

2010-08-16 Thread Aun Johnsen
In many cases I have seen empty (as in truely empty) nodes left around as a result of failed imports, or failed uploads of changesets. Most of these nodes should be removed, and the validator plugin in JOSM allows this in an easy way. On the other hands, nodes with only user information tags, such

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging Seamarks

2010-08-16 Thread Aun Johnsen
://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/marine-tagging fathoms broader for open water features as well. Aun Johnsen On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 10:21 PM, Bernhard R. Fischer wrote: > Hi! > > For a long time now I am interested in tagging seamarks.(short version) > > Now I found out tha

Re: [OSM-talk] Marine taggine/OpenSeamap

2010-08-09 Thread Aun Johnsen
I see I got a snowball running here, great guys. Continue on that. I can help out with some language makeup and corrections on the English language pages (Nautical Professional) but have little time to offer at the moment. I will also look into translating the important bits of it into Portuguese t

Re: [OSM-talk] Frederik declares war on data imports...

2010-08-09 Thread Aun Johnsen
Ok, the chilean and the brazilian imports differ in the base license, giving the brazilian imports a head start ahead of chilean in the race for the new license. AFAICT all the brazilian imports are PD, and conditions have been very simple, as giving a way of pointing to sorce data (i.e. source= t

Re: [OSM-talk] Marine taggine/OpenSeamap

2010-08-09 Thread Aun Johnsen
PS These tags are documented in german only, what about those OSMers that doesn't understand german, are we forced to use google translate to ready tag descriptions? If it was documented in english at least more of us could understand it and maybe even contribute with translations into some of our

Re: [OSM-talk] Frederik declares war on data imports...

2010-08-09 Thread Aun Johnsen
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 12:58 AM, Erik Johansson wrote: > 2010/8/8 Dirk-Lüder Kreie : > > Am 08.08.2010 16:59, schrieb John Smith: > >> On 9 August 2010 00:58, Erik Johansson wrote: > >>> Australia 2 people per km^2 > >>> Sweden 21 people per km^2 > >> > >> Canada is ~3 people per km^2... > > > >

Re: [OSM-talk] Yahoo Maps to be provided by Nokia

2010-05-25 Thread Aun Johnsen
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Ian Dees wrote: > On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Paulius Zaleckas < > paulius.zalec...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 05/25/2010 02:59 AM, Aun Johnsen wrote: >> > Hi, >> > Pointing out specific names on roads around guarapa

Re: [OSM-talk] Yahoo Maps to be provided by Nokia

2010-05-24 Thread Aun Johnsen
CC-BY since they trade with us using their satellite images, but I am no law expert, so my thoughts there might be wrong. On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > > Aun Johnsen wrote: > >> But if Yahoo is to withdraw the right to trace their satelite i

[OSM-talk] Yahoo Maps to be provided by Nokia

2010-05-24 Thread Aun Johnsen
But if Yahoo is to withdraw the right to trace their satelite images, than their usage of OSM map data can be a breach of the CC-BY-SA copyright on OSM. Yes, Yahoo maps uses OSM data to correct/extend their caverage, at least in certain areas: http://maps.yahoo.com/#mvt=m&lat=-20.688081&lon=-40.53

Re: [OSM-talk] place=isolated_dwelling approved - adding to mapfeatures

2010-05-23 Thread Aun Johnsen
> Or at least a voicetress minority making enough noise to push it > through, if this tag is so popular why is there only 42 instances of > it in use? > And what is the actuall difference against the slightly more popular "residence" with 43 usages? ___

Re: [OSM-talk] place=isolated_dwelling approved - adding to mapfeatures

2010-05-22 Thread Aun Johnsen
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 7:56 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: > 2010/5/22 Aun Johnsen : >> population in general cannot combine farming and fishing. Many of >> these are so isolated that there exists no cars there. > > > IMHO the "isolated" in isolated dwelling

Re: [OSM-talk] place=isolated_dwelling approved - adding to mapfeatures

2010-05-21 Thread Aun Johnsen
An old definition of places in Norway (do not know if it actually legal definition anymore) was as follow Land (nation) -> herred (region) -> amt (state) -> fogd (church area) -> len (munincipality) -> by (city or town) / grend (hamlet) -> gard (farm) Some of these have been weakened with time, s

Re: [OSM-talk] place=isolated_dwelling approved - adding to mapfeatures

2010-05-20 Thread Aun Johnsen
ppenhoefer wrote: > 2010/5/21 Aun Johnsen : >> Implying a distance of isolation for isolated dwelling would imply >> that there should be a tagged for unisolated_dwelling? > > > unisolated dwellings is the rest of the inhabited places (village, town..). > > >> A gre

Re: [OSM-talk] place=isolated_dwelling approved - adding to mapfeatures

2010-05-20 Thread Aun Johnsen
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 5:51 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: > 2010/5/19 Aun Johnsen : >> How to tag Norwegian named farms making part of a "grend" which I >> would have tagged as hamlet? They are not isolated dwellings as they >> are not isolated, just parts of

Re: [OSM-talk] [Geowanking] ?

2010-05-20 Thread Aun Johnsen
Wanking does not always refere to the lonely sexual activity. I have often seen it in context of informally playing around with ideas, pieces of code, etc. It is a sort of think tank, but not so serious just to lower the barrier for who can participate, and without any expectations of results. I d

Re: [OSM-talk] place=isolated_dwelling approved - adding to mapfeatures

2010-05-19 Thread Aun Johnsen
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 9:11 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: > 2010/5/19 Elizabeth Dodd : >> On Wed, 19 May 2010, you wrote: >>> >> But all isolated farms are isolated_dwellings, no ? >>> > >>> > No. >>> > Some isolated farms (called stations) are as large as a hamlet. They are >>> > isolated in te

Re: [OSM-talk] Help to import Rio de Janeiro city data to OSM - misaligned shapefiles

2010-05-14 Thread Aun Johnsen
And if you really going to do this complicated, than add that the earth really is a liquid ball with hard shell pieces, some seismic events can make the earth wobble which might result in these drifts to accelerate or delay a few years each, sometimes in different directions, making these predictab

Re: [OSM-talk] Wikimapa what is it?

2010-03-27 Thread Aun Johnsen
It seems like there are many similar initiatives in Brazil. For some reason the words of OSM havn't been spread enough, and many similar-but-not-the-same projects have popped up. Often when entering contact with such "competing" projects, they either havn't heard about OSM, or thought OSM as "just

Re: [OSM-talk] Moving to Java 1.6 not so easy to swallow

2010-03-26 Thread Aun Johnsen
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Claudius wrote: > Besides I think there's a lot of fuzz about this move: If you check the > editor tags in the latest changelog you can see that roughly 50% are > using JOSM 2055. That's a 7 month old version and was issued stable back > then. Even without the upda

Re: [OSM-talk] Moving to Java 1.6 not so easy to swallow

2010-03-25 Thread Aun Johnsen
I am one of those unfortunate Mac users. When I got my Mac (it was a present, I didn't buy it) Java6 vs Java5 wasn't an issue. Most Java applets available for me to use at this time was Java5 or even older, and those few that ran optimally on Java6 was still executable in Java5. Two years later and

[OSM-talk] How to clean tainted sources?

2010-03-17 Thread Aun Johnsen
Hi, I have through my work received a document with the positions and references of all of Petrobras fixed installations, FPSO's, mono-buoys, and movable rigs. The source itself is with all certainty not open, though I have not contacted Petrobras E & P to ask for the data to be freed for OSM. I d

Re: [OSM-talk] Inquiry about Egnos / Indoor mapping

2010-02-21 Thread Aun Johnsen
Yes, EGNOS is live, free, reliable, and all of that. Coverage are limited to Europe (similarly WAAS is available in the US, and I think also Canada and Northern Mexico) and a similar system in Japan (don't remember name). EGNOS require clear view of the sky in the same way that the GPS needs, mean

Re: [OSM-talk] Edit war on Key:religion - Pastafarians

2010-01-11 Thread Aun Johnsen
If I am not entirely mistaken, somebody tagged a pastafarian place in Germany, if somebody from that city can verify if that is really a pastafarian meetingplace or not, than that should end all discussions. On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 3:10 AM, John Smith wrote: > 2010/1/11 John F. Eldredge : >> The

Re: [OSM-talk] Edit war on Key:religion - Pastafarians

2010-01-10 Thread Aun Johnsen
The best political statement we can make is inclusionism. Include whatever in the database, so that everybody can do whatever they want with the map. On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Greg Troxel wrote: > > Gervase Markham writes: > >> On 06/01/10 19:40, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: >>> 2010/1/6 Gre

Re: [OSM-talk] Unions seem to be complaining about potential joblosses if OS data is given away for free..

2010-01-10 Thread Aun Johnsen
LONDON > WC1X 8XZ > UNITED KINGDOM > T +44 (0)20 7430 4474 > F > E phillip.barn...@itn.co.uk > http://WWW.ITN.CO.UK > P  Please consider the environment. Do you really need to print this email? > -Original Message- > > From: talk-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailt

Re: [OSM-talk] Unions seem to be complaining about potential job losses if OS data is given away for free..

2010-01-10 Thread Aun Johnsen
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 7:08 AM, Nic Roets wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 6:41 AM, Stefan de Konink wrote: >> >> Op 10-01-10 05:30, John Smith schreef: >> > >> > http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/4826436.New_threat_to_jobs_at_Southampton_s_Ordnance_Survey/ >> >> Sounds like the OS didn't have

[OSM-talk] Request for translations

2010-01-07 Thread Aun Johnsen
Hi everybody I will just send a request for translations, on the wiki there are a few tags with no descriptions in English, but pages in other languages. For people who put an effort in translating tags to their native language (or for me translating to my third language to reduce the language bar

Re: [OSM-talk] Sourcing street names - what's the policy, and why?

2010-01-06 Thread Aun Johnsen
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 11:15 PM, John Smith wrote: > 2010/1/6 Aun Johnsen : >> We must find a procedure to avoid such lawsuits. i.e. "show us where >> some community members have copied you and we remove the information >> from your sources" kind of response to any

[OSM-talk] Fwd: Host free ortophotos to be used on OSM

2010-01-06 Thread Aun Johnsen
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 10:48 PM, Ian Dees wrote: > On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 4:06 PM, enqd wrote: >> >> Hi Anthony, I follow Openaerialmap, but as you said I don't know when >> the service will be up. >> I'll wait an answer from Ian Dees to see if he will host it, so maybe >> when OAM be running we

Re: [OSM-talk] Host free ortophotos to be used on OSM

2010-01-06 Thread Aun Johnsen
It should be a good carrot for OAM to know that we are talking about 5 Brazillian states complete, if I remember right, the states of Santa Catarina, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais and Goias. Too bad my state of Espírito Santo isn't covered. On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 10:06 PM, enqd wrot

Re: [OSM-talk] Host free ortophotos to be used on OSM

2010-01-06 Thread Aun Johnsen
I think this have been stated 3 or 4 times in this thread already, that this data is PD. On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 8:31 PM, Arlindo Pereira wrote: > On an email asking that they said: (roughly translation) > > "The content in our portal is public domain. However their utilization > in other portals

Re: [OSM-talk] Host free ortophotos to be used on OSM

2010-01-06 Thread Aun Johnsen
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Ian Dees wrote: > On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 7:56 PM, enqd wrote: >> >> Hi, I'm newbie on OSM and as I can see we have only Yahoo imagery as >> base to map some cities on Brasil (only some bigger ones) >> Recently I read on  wiki that a service called nearmaps host map

[OSM-talk] Edit war on Key:religion - Pastafarians

2010-01-06 Thread Aun Johnsen
I have seen tendences to an edit war on Key:religion [1] with a possible spread to Key:denomination [2]. No matter if Pastafarianism is a legimit religion or not, this edit war will not benefit anybody. I have added a section on Talk:Key:religion where those oposing the Pastafarians being represent

Re: [OSM-talk] Sourcing street names - what's the policy, and why?

2010-01-06 Thread Aun Johnsen
table. - I think we have to have a planned response to claimed copyright infridgements, even if we have a strict policy about no using copyrighted sources. On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 9:40 AM, John Smith wrote: > 2010/1/6 Aun Johnsen : >> But I ask if it is valid for OSM or not, I know SCO vs

Re: [OSM-talk] Sourcing street names - what's the policy, and why?

2010-01-06 Thread Aun Johnsen
Jan 6, 2010 at 1:19 AM, John Smith wrote: > Please reread what I wrote, the sco v world was an exame of how far a > frivoulus lawsuit can go > > On 06/01/2010, Aun Johnsen wrote: >> groklaw.net - I subscribed to their newletter during the hottest part >> of the lawsuit. Wasn&

Re: [OSM-talk] Sourcing street names - what's the policy, and why?

2010-01-05 Thread Aun Johnsen
groklaw.net - I subscribed to their newletter during the hottest part of the lawsuit. Wasn't just SCO vs Linux, was more SCO vs Linux vs IBM vs everybody else. And where did everything start? In a piece of source code if I remember right. Something in the Linux kernel supposedly came from a piece o

Re: [OSM-talk] Some time ago ...

2010-01-05 Thread Aun Johnsen
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Ulf Lamping wrote: > Am 04.01.2010 18:25, schrieb Aun Johnsen: >> >> On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Ulf Lamping > <mailto:ulf.lamp...@googlemail.com>> wrote: >> >>    Now ... >>    In this area we have a lot of mappers

Re: [OSM-talk] Some time ago ...

2010-01-05 Thread Aun Johnsen
With lack of Aerial images where I live and map, and with many narrow streets with tall buildings on each side (urban cannyon effect), I often need 10-15 GPS tracks of the same street to have reliable data to enter the physical road into the database. As I often don't have a chance to drive up and

Re: [OSM-talk] Some time ago ...

2010-01-04 Thread Aun Johnsen
Gah! I could kill my webmail client!!! On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Ulf Lamping wrote: > Was it intentional that you've send this as private mail? > > > Am 04.01.2010 18:25, schrieb Aun Johnsen: > > >> On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Ulf Lamping > <mailto

Re: [OSM-talk] What's the policy on unsurveyed roads from imagery?

2010-01-04 Thread Aun Johnsen
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Anthony wrote: > > Honestly, I don't know if speed bumps would come into play or not. I kind > of assume there wouldn't be a primary road which has speed bumps, but I'm > willing to be proven wrong on that. Furthermore, there might not be any > road which would

Re: [OSM-talk] Sourcing street names - what's the policy, and why?

2010-01-04 Thread Aun Johnsen
Ok, much of Europe are surveyed, and have good Y! or other Hi-res coverage, US have probably the best Hi-res coverage around, along with Japan, Australia have its Nearmap. What about the frikin rest of the world? I am desperatly trying to map Brazil, and not even half the states have Hi-res quality

[OSM-talk] Fwd: OSM rewriting history : France is now part of Germany !

2010-01-02 Thread Aun Johnsen
On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: >2010/1/2 Florian Lohoff > >> On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 10:14:41PM +1000, John Smith wrote: >> > Hmmm perhaps I should have been a little clearer, I'm thinking of >> > administrative boundaries, in particular boundary relations, and

[OSM-talk] Fwd: Fwd: Re: Not-properly-Open-but-called-Open

2010-01-02 Thread Aun Johnsen
On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Nop wrote: > > > Hi! > > Am 02.01.2010 00:23, schrieb Frederik Ramm: > > We cannot, and do not want to, trademark the words "open", "free" and > > the like, but I think we could be a little bit more assertive about whom > > we consider to be a kindred spirit and

Re: [OSM-talk] Defective GPS trace

2010-01-01 Thread Aun Johnsen
On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 11:49 PM, John Smith wrote: > 2010/1/2 Aun Johnsen : > > Even if you have access to good arial photography, remember that it might > be > > out of alignment, it can be a good advise to gather some good fixes to > check > > the alignment of your

Re: [OSM-talk] Defective GPS trace

2010-01-01 Thread Aun Johnsen
The accuracy shown on your GPS unit is not necessary the actual accuracy, but just a calculated accuracy depending on the signals your unit is receiving. You can experience athmospheric disturbance, plasma-effects, signals reflected off tall buildings, canyon or urban canyon effects, bed satellite

Re: [OSM-talk] Maxheight changes

2010-01-01 Thread Aun Johnsen
On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Ben Laenen wrote: > Steve Bennett wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 12:14 AM, Dave F. wrote: > > > I don't why he feels the need to do this, it seems a pointless task, > but > > > why do you think it reduces accuracy to remove trailing zeros? > > > > > > 2m =2.0m

Re: [OSM-talk] Countering Google's propaganda

2009-12-31 Thread Aun Johnsen
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Anthony wrote: > On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 6:24 AM, Andy Allan wrote: > >> On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Roy Wallace >> wrote: >> > On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 8:09 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> And that's just fine, GMM getting more users do

Re: [OSM-talk] Countering Google's propaganda

2009-12-30 Thread Aun Johnsen
Many here fail to see one of the weaknesses of GMM, maybe because they don't live in the areas not covered. GMM is not editable over the entire world, there are countries where all contributions will be verified (how?) before accepted on the live map, and countries that are completely closed for ed

Re: [OSM-talk] How to manage GPX files?

2009-12-30 Thread Aun Johnsen
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 4:38 AM, Dave G <9gerk...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Dave F > > I found that the later versions of EasyGPS were a bit flake on Linux > (and wine) so I stopped using it > > I have written a couple of bash scripts available here which might be > of use to Linux users > > availabl

Re: [OSM-talk] How to manage GPX files?

2009-12-29 Thread Aun Johnsen
> > > I wrote my own scripts based on bash, sed, tar and the java class GpxUpload. Basically I made it because there was something wrong with the output of my GPX tracks from the GPS (think regional settings was applied on the tags) so I had to clean the GPX files before they could be uploaded to O

[OSM-talk] Fwd: Server problem

2009-12-28 Thread Aun Johnsen
-- Forwarded message -- From: Aun Johnsen Date: Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 5:31 PM Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Server problem To: malenki On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 5:07 PM, malenki wrote: > Ciprian Talaba wrote: > > >marcus.wolsc...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >

Re: [OSM-talk] Patch to render names from routes and custom highway shields on a per country basis

2009-12-27 Thread Aun Johnsen
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > 2009/12/22 Charlie Ferrero > > Ditto showing custom station symbols (e.g. the London Underground >> symbol, or a non-copyright version of same). It's much harder to spot a >> tube stop on the OSM london map than it is on the Google m

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Why doesn't OSM ?

2009-12-27 Thread Aun Johnsen
On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > Aun Johnsen wrote: > >>John Smith wrote: >> > Lets assume for a second that they are smart enough to filter their >> > points so they aren't near their home location, we c

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Why doesn't OSM ?

2009-12-27 Thread Aun Johnsen
On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Matt Amos wrote: > On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Aun Johnsen > wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Liz wrote: > >> > >> On Sat, 26 Dec 2009, Frederik Ramm wrote: > >> > 1. What do we want to protect? >

[OSM-talk] Fwd: Why doesn't OSM ?

2009-12-27 Thread Aun Johnsen
On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Liz wrote: > On Sat, 26 Dec 2009, Frederik Ramm wrote: > > 1. What do we want to protect? > The data is fully open, but some people want to reduce their fingerprint on the data to protect themselves, for example they submit their GPX tracks privately so it will

Re: [OSM-talk] how to map flowing water the easy way?

2009-12-22 Thread Aun Johnsen
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 4:02 PM, John Smith wrote: > 2009/12/23 Robin Paulson : > > i had an idea recently, that it might be possible to map a stream or > > small river (in an area with poor aerial photo coverage) by using a > > gps in a waterproof container attached to a flotation device > > I ha

Re: [OSM-talk] Burning Man

2009-12-18 Thread Aun Johnsen
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 12:25 PM, John Smith wrote: > 2009/12/18 David Earl : > > Of course, all photos should be geolocated in four dimensions of the > > space-time continuum not just lat,lon but lat,lon,altitude and timestamp. > > > > Silly? Perhaps a bit OTT at present, but... > > Silly until a

[OSM-talk] Burning Man (was: revert changesets??)

2009-12-18 Thread Aun Johnsen
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 12:12 PM, John Smith wrote: > 2009/12/18 Aun Johnsen : > > Just a suggestion that I think will satisfy both camps: > > When the burning man us remapped (i.e. moved), add the prefix > burning_man: > > to all tags, that will retain them in the d

[OSM-talk] Burning Man (was: revert changesets??)

2009-12-18 Thread Aun Johnsen
From: Aun Johnsen Date: Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 12:06 PM Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Burning Man (was: revert changesets??) To: Mikel Maron Just a suggestion that I think will satisfy both camps: When the burning man us remapped (i.e. moved), add the prefix burning_man: to all tags, that will retain

[OSM-talk] Fwd: Why PD is not better for business

2009-12-09 Thread Aun Johnsen
Sorry, looks like this one was sent only to Elena, I meant it for the entire list to see. If it comes double up, than I am sorry for your inconviniency -- Forwarded message -- From: Aun Johnsen Date: Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 10:45 AM Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Why PD is not better for

[OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - maxheight:legal

2009-11-29 Thread Aun Johnsen
Ok, we are on it again, the previous vote (that approved maxheight:physical) is way past, and some discussion have passed on maxheight:legal. I think it is time to put the biasing from the previous proposal and vote aside, and look on this with a clearer mind. In my opinion, the aproval of maxheig

Re: [OSM-talk] Isn't it time for a higher zoom level?

2009-11-22 Thread Aun Johnsen
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Igor Brejc wrote: > Richard, thanks for mentioning Kosmos :) > Yes, Kosmos draws OSM data on-the-fly and it supports continuous zoom > levels (I've limited it up to zoom level 18 because of some .NET drawing > engine problems on higher zooms). There are two drawba

Re: [OSM-talk] New dimension of vandalism

2009-08-27 Thread Aun Johnsen (via Webmail)
eve it is possible to get a global consensus on the use of the existing highway tag, and national definitions are necessary for getting cinsistant tagging schemas. Just my R$0,02. -- Brgds Aun Johnsen via Webmail ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] New dimension of vandalism

2009-08-26 Thread Aun Johnsen (via Webmail)
ll) and consesus have to be reached among all groups of OSM, not a couple of selective groups, even if it is the larger communities. Adding new tags, and changing widely used tags are two very different topics, and the bar of changing a tag such as highway should be much higher than to add

Re: [OSM-talk] Changes to Key:access wiki page

2009-08-25 Thread Aun Johnsen (via Webmail)
ted access conditions, such as psv only on school days, goods delivery 10-12 mon-fri + 11-12 saturdays in july, destination for taxies exept saturdays after 22, and so on. That will allow you to do all these special condition without access:vehicle:forward/backward. I havn't seen that complicated acce

Re: [OSM-talk] Changes to Key:access wiki page

2009-08-22 Thread Aun Johnsen (via Webmail)
lts of the access keys to highway=, I do not remember where it was now, but think the page is linked under 'See Also' > > Christiaan > > ___ > talk mailing list > talk@opens

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - incline up down

2009-08-20 Thread Aun Johnsen (via Webmail)
o indicate how steep it is, positive value is up, and negative is down, if steepness isn't trivial, leave it out. If you just want to render a steep road sign, why not find out (roughly) how steep the incline is, and tag it with that numeric value? -- Brgds Aun Johnsen via Webmail

Re: [OSM-talk] Lane turn restrictions

2009-08-20 Thread Aun Johnsen (via Webmail)
iers that have a sensible tag should be tagged as such. A small curb and such barriers should not be tagged, but putting two highway=primary + oneway=yes in same direction parallel would indicate something like that. When such models becomes complicated, intersections needs to be grouped in special w

Re: [OSM-talk] Lane turn restrictions

2009-08-19 Thread Aun Johnsen (via Webmail)
n. For example when leaving Vitoria, passing the bus station the road is 8 lane for a short bit, with signs saying "lane 1, 2 to 5th bridge, lane 3, 4 to bus station and return to centro, lane 5, 6 to 1st bridge, lane 7, 8 to some suburb". Maybe lane numbering is country specific, I don&

Re: [OSM-talk] GSoC End: signFinder

2009-08-18 Thread Aun Johnsen (via Webmail)
on blurred images, so it >> won't work with sth. like a helmet or a car camera, would it? > > Camera's are not by default blury, they become blurry if the > shutterspeed is too low ;) > And for a fully automated camera, the shutterspeed is set by light conditions, i.e

Re: [OSM-talk] Tag official_name ? (was Multilingual Country-List)

2009-08-14 Thread Aun Johnsen (via Webmail)
the list, for example the city name="Fredrikstad" have nick_name="Plankebyen". In my opinion name should be what you expect printed on a map sold in that country. All other *name* tags and name:* tags should be available for multiling

Re: [OSM-talk] can search engines index osm data?

2009-08-11 Thread Aun Johnsen (via Webmail)
On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:30:30 +0200, Erik Johansson wrote: > On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Aun Johnsen (via > Webmail) wrote: >> There are millions of references to London on >> the net, while not that many of Pitlochry. That meaning a search for >> London >>

Re: [OSM-talk] PDOP, HDOP, VDOP

2009-08-10 Thread Aun Johnsen (via Webmail)
eful for this kind of filtering. > 3. Do you happen to have some suggested values of *DOP when not to include > the > trackpoint? > > regards > Konrad Skeri > > ___ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http:

Re: [OSM-talk] to all potlatch and JOSM users - automatic simplification of geometry

2009-08-08 Thread Aun Johnsen (via Webmail)
straight line or a straight Rhumb Line? (I guess they do not try Great Circle) And does it calculate to some certain predefined datum, or the active datum in your JOSM preferences? -- Brgds Aun Johnsen via Webmail ___ talk mailing list talk@openst

Re: [OSM-talk] radioactivity

2009-08-08 Thread Aun Johnsen (via Webmail)
fulness within OSM > -> 0. Just fork it into a thing like the altitude maps. ORM ;) > > > Stefan > > > ___ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk Exactly my point. -- Brgds

Re: [OSM-talk] radioactivity

2009-08-08 Thread Aun Johnsen (via Webmail)
ain map, but can be combined with map data. Besides, I live in the city with the highest natural background radiation known (according to wikipedia). -- Brgds Aun Johnsen via Webmail ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] can search engines index osm data?

2009-08-08 Thread Aun Johnsen (via Webmail)
or south of the Thames. The question then is how far have Google and other search engines come in enhancing such algoritms? -- Brgds Aun Johnsen via Webmail ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Does this mean we could launch our own OSM s atellite?

2009-08-03 Thread Aun Johnsen (via Webmail)
On Mon, 3 Aug 2009 09:36:47 + (GMT), John Smith wrote: > --- On Mon, 3/8/09, Aun Johnsen (via Webmail) > wrote: > >> OSM Zeppelin finally moored up at Empire State Building? > > What would the good of that be, it should be out mapping! Stocking up on supplies and cre

Re: [OSM-talk] Does this mean we could launch our own OSM s atellite?

2009-08-03 Thread Aun Johnsen (via Webmail)
probably be cheaper to run and > don't need to constantly use energy to stay above the ground. > > I wonder if you can get a cheap second hand blimp from somewhere... > > OSM Zeppelin finally moored up at Empire State Building? -- Brgds Aun Johnsen via Webmail _

Re: [OSM-talk] Does this mean we could launch our own OSM s atellite?

2009-08-02 Thread Aun Johnsen (via Webmail)
On Mon, 3 Aug 2009 01:47:23 + (GMT), John Smith wrote: > --- On Sun, 2/8/09, Aun Johnsen (via Webmail) > wrote: > >> But it can also result in an "OpenLunaMap" :D > > You'd also get a star map too ;) "Hubble go home, I have a compact

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