Re: [OSM-talk] When will bots be removed from history?

2010-02-28 Thread Claudius Henrichs
Am 28.02.10 12:26, schrieb Valent Turkovic: > On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 10:26:00 +, Tom Hughes wrote: > >> How do you propose that we identify bots? > > They have names, on the screenshot I would see 90% less noise if only > xybot "user" is removed from the list. btw. xybot's author has reduced the

Re: [OSM-talk] tag for suburb of village

2009-03-25 Thread Claudius Henrichs
Am 24.03.2009 12:04, James Stewart: > How are we to mark the 'suburb' of a village... or at least the name > of a district or neighbourhood in a village or small town. I tend to > have to use hamlet to make sure that it does not appear at several > zoom levels higher than the main village. Should w

Re: [OSM-talk] Multilingual map

2009-03-09 Thread Claudius Henrichs
Am 09.03.2009 13:01, D Tucny: > Hi folks, > > I've been thinking about how it would be good to have the map available > in multiple languages... I think the easiest way to do this with what we > have is using a captionless base layer and transparent caption layers > for each of the languages... So.

Re: [OSM-talk] josm plugin request: addressing with Karlsruhe Schema

2009-02-12 Thread Claudius Henrichs
Am 12.02.2009 10:29, schrieb maning sambale: > Maybe a plugin that can: when I select a node/building and a street, > it fills the name for addr:street from selected street. If you are using the existing address preset the street name is auto-completed. Claudius __

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM on The Reg

2009-02-11 Thread Claudius Henrichs
Am 11.02.2009 13:18, Gert Gremmen: > Kenneth: >> does *any* mapping app have an option like 'add road'? > Do you know any mapping application accessible for everyone > having internet ??? *cough* http://www.google.com/mapmaker *cough* btw. They have expanded the list of supported countries to 160

Re: [OSM-talk] Donate today for OSM's £10,000 se rver fundraiser

2009-02-05 Thread Claudius Henrichs
Am 05.02.2009 20:00, Jonas Krückel (John07): > And maybe also adding a link on openstreetmap.org to > donate.openstreetmap.org And maybe even put a backlink to the donation-page on top of the comments page to give mre :) ___ talk mailing list talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Donations and bank accounts

2009-02-05 Thread Claudius Henrichs
Am 05.02.2009 21:01, Grant Slater: > Gary68 wrote: >> I for sure won't sign on to PayPal. And I won't give my bank xxEUR for >> shipping a few bucks across the channel. >> > > Having or signing up for a paypal account is not required. > > When you reach the paypal site there is a link (or form) on

Re: [OSM-talk] outside data sources?

2009-01-28 Thread Claudius Henrichs
Am 28.01.2009 17:00, andrzej zaborowski: > 2009/1/19 Claudius Henrichs: >> Am 19.01.2009 17:01, andrzej zaborowski: >>> Slightly off-topic, the recently added low-zoom country map display >>> (mapnik) apparently pulls data from outside OSM database. I spotted a >>

Re: [OSM-talk] Controlling Label Position

2009-01-27 Thread Claudius Henrichs
Am 26.01.2009 19:04, Kærast: > Hi, > > Is there a recognised way of controlling where the label for > leisure=park should go? At the moment it's rendering right over the > top of the bandstand and I would like to be able to shift it to > somewhere out of the way. The wiki suggests that relation r

Re: [OSM-talk] Walking Routes - wiki needs some work?

2009-01-19 Thread Claudius Henrichs
Am 19.01.2009 14:17, Mike Harris: > I have made some edits on your page as a starter for 10 - but feel that I > should have probably put comments somewhere else. Could you advise me on > protocol and procedure as I would be more than happy to contribute to this > discussion. Don't hesitate, just d

Re: [OSM-talk] outside data sources? (was: "name tags on place=country ...")

2009-01-19 Thread Claudius Henrichs
Am 19.01.2009 17:01, andrzej zaborowski: > Slightly off-topic, the recently added low-zoom country map display > (mapnik) apparently pulls data from outside OSM database. I spotted a > typo (or what I think is a typo) and wanted to correct it and found > that the name with a typo was nowhere in th

Re: [OSM-talk] New Delhi twice on the map

2009-01-15 Thread Claudius Henrichs
Am 15.01.2009 09:31, D Tucny: > 2009/1/15 Kenneth Gonsalves mailto:law...@au-kbc.org>> > > On Thursday 15 Jan 2009 1:07:57 pm Vikas Yadav wrote: > > yippeee! default name key seems working! > > http://c.tah.openstreetmap.org/Tiles/tile/12/2924/1709.png > > doesnt look like devanag

Re: [OSM-talk] Where have all the contributors gone?

2009-01-01 Thread Claudius Henrichs
Am 31.12.2008 07:49, Kenneth Gonsalves: > On Wednesday 31 Dec 2008 12:02:01 pm brendan barrett wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 7:52 AM, Tanveer Singh > wrote: what is sad about it? In India only the very big cities have yahoo imagery - and work is going on fairly well there. The rest of

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Inspector Christmas Update

2008-12-28 Thread Claudius Henrichs
Am 19.12.2008 16:20, Jochen Topf: > Since the launch of the OSM Inspector (http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/) > at the end of October many people have used it to improve OSM data. > > In time for christmas we have some presents for OSM Inspector users, > including support for IE and Safari, new views

Re: [OSM-talk] Postcode searches in Namefinder

2008-12-01 Thread Claudius Henrichs
David Earl: > I've implemented some changes to the experimental UK postcode searches > in the Namefinder. >(...) > 1. you can now search for UK postcode prefixes, e.g. CB21. These are > just OSM nodes. Which OSM-tag are you querying there? postcode=x? Do you respect addr:postcode according to

Re: [OSM-talk] merkaartor download is b0rked

2008-11-29 Thread Claudius Henrichs
Kenneth Gonsalves: > when accessing the url: > http://www.merkaartor.org/pipe/Merkaartor-0.11.tar.bz2 > I get a 'not found' error. Can someone do something about this please? Select your download for Markaartor 0.12 (!) from the official download page: http://www.merkaartor.org/Download/ __

Re: [OSM-talk] Live API 0.6 servers (was Why is JOSM upload so slow?)

2008-11-15 Thread Claudius Henrichs
Frederik Ramm: > Hi, > > Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: >> The 0.6 API wil have a bulk upload stream which can significantly >> reduce the overhead. > > BTW, current JOSM versions already exclusively use bulk uploading for > changes if the server speaks 0.6. There are a few conflict resolution/ > er

Re: [OSM-talk] Wiki-Admin: Allow "external" images

2008-11-12 Thread Claudius Henrichs
Grant Slater: > Stefan Baebler wrote: >> another example: >> >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Press >> Should be easy to use for journalists but clicking the icons takes >> them to the icon, not to the desired content >> > > I've installed the Mediawiki Imagemap extension and fixed th

Re: [OSM-talk] Wiki-Admin: Allow "external" images

2008-11-12 Thread Claudius Henrichs
Grant Slater: > Claudius Henrichs wrote: >> Can any of the OSM wiki admins please set $wgAllowExternalImagesFrom to >> allow "external" images from wiki.openstreetmap.org? I would like to add >> a OSM2Go manual with pictures and have a "1-click-install"

[OSM-talk] Wiki-Admin: Allow "external" images

2008-11-12 Thread Claudius Henrichs
Can any of the OSM wiki admins please set $wgAllowExternalImagesFrom to allow "external" images from wiki.openstreetmap.org? I would like to add a OSM2Go manual with pictures and have a "1-click-install" image that links to a download page. I and proably others would need this setting for wiki-

Re: [OSM-talk] Contraflow bus lane

2008-10-27 Thread Claudius Henrichs
Matthias Julius: > "Tristan Scott"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> In my experience (Norwich, UK) a so-called "bus lane" is often a Bus, >> taxi and cycle lane. The overlords of roads in norwich often nobble >> cars by shutting down a small portion of a short-cut ("rat run") by >> making a bottlen

Re: [OSM-talk] New Mapnik Style

2008-10-16 Thread Claudius Henrichs
Martijn van Oosterhout: > On the whole I prefer no casing, it does mean the actual road colours > need to be stronger to avoid the washed out look.. True. Do you see the trunk road passing through the woods here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=50.074&lon=8.8972&zoom=14&layers=B000FFF :D __

Re: [OSM-talk] New Mapnik Style

2008-10-16 Thread Claudius Henrichs
What I and all the 4 people I've talked to about it since yesterday didn't like was the very low visibility of tram-stops (3px blue square) with zoom levels 15 and up. Additionally I'm not quite sure if oneway arrows shouldn't be shown in z15 as well. I use z15 to get an overview over an area a

Re: [OSM-talk] [Tagging] - RFC - Motorway_link implies oneway=??

2008-10-08 Thread Claudius Henrichs
Alex Mauer: > highway=* isn't always motorcar=yes, either. There's a table at > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/OSM_tags_for_routing/Access-Restrictions > which describes the restrictions. (Note: I did not create it.) The page you linked applies only to one appliance of OSM data which is

Re: [OSM-talk] [Tagging] - RFC - Motorway_link implies oneway=??

2008-10-08 Thread Claudius Henrichs
With all that discussion about implied onewayness could anyone please elaborate the advantage of tagging just highway=motorway opposed to highway=motorway oneway=yes besides it being "one tag shorter"? I think the second alternative is much more precise.

Re: [OSM-talk] Border of Ukraine

2008-10-08 Thread Claudius Henrichs
Lars Aronsson: > In the current discussion of the Russian navy base at Sevastopol, > it would be useful to have a free map showing the Black Sea and > the land border between Russia and Ukraine, from Belarus to the > Black Sea. But this border is missing from OpenStreetMap. Can we > find it, or a

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM mobile editor

2008-08-26 Thread Claudius Henrichs
*cough* http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Mom *cough* Nick Whitelegg: > Hello everyone, > > Was thinking of a few ideas for an OSM mobile editor which could work as > follows: > > * Ability to allow user in the field to add new attributes to a way (e.g. > road name if it's missing, or on

Re: [OSM-talk] cannot enter new items in josm - bug?

2008-08-13 Thread Claudius Henrichs
Kenneth Gonsalves: > hi, > I have the latest josm on my mac osx 10.4. Am having problems > entering items. Say I want to add a name. I click add, and enter > 'name' as key. For value there is a dropdown box with suggested > values. Say I want to add 'church road'. I type 'c' and then 'h', the

Re: [OSM-talk] Misclassified roads

2008-07-14 Thread Claudius Henrichs
Steve Hill: > On Sat, 12 Jul 2008, Gervase Markham wrote: > >> Well, there was a note on Map Features saying not to do it, but until >> recently it didn't say what you _should_ do. > > Until recently there was no approved tag to do it. A lot of people > promoted the idea of just never adding ro

Re: [OSM-talk] Wide roads and traffic signals

2008-06-26 Thread Claudius Henrichs
Had a quick glance at your mapping work (impressive. Congrats!) Geha Road seems to be missing it's oneway-tags as well as the primary_link connecting it with Weizmann Avenue. And there are some untagged ways which look like they've been converted from GPS. Are these yours? Moshe Sayag: > Hi eve