Re: [OSM-talk] GPS Future Was Re: Satellite for OSM

2009-05-21 Thread D Tucny
2009/5/21 Peter Childs pchi...@bcs.org 2009/5/21 Joe Richards joefis...@yahoo.com: Where did this idea go in the end? It seems the talk about it petered-out, or was some action agreed (along with who was going to undertake it)? Given the US have forgotten to keep the GPS system

Re: [OSM-talk] [tactile_paving=yes/(no)/irritating] Feature Proposal - RFC - (tactile paving)

2009-04-24 Thread D Tucny
2009/4/24 Someoneelse li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk Anybody to translate it in English as it's on talk@ ? One of the values specified in addition to yes and no was irritating - the question was to clarify what that actually meant. I guess a picture of irritating tactile paving would help.

Re: [OSM-talk] Delay before the data is visible?

2009-04-23 Thread D Tucny
2009/4/22 Ed Loach e...@loach.me.uk How large is the current delay before uploaded data became visible? My question is slightly different. I uploaded two changesets successfully earlier from JOSM (the third took over an hour so I clicked Abort and ended up losing my edits, so lucky there

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging dangerous areas

2009-04-19 Thread D Tucny
2009/4/20 Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Matt Amos zerebub...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 5:31 PM, MP singular...@gmail.com wrote: after the wembley mapping party last year i heard suggestions of a locals=angry tag. maybe we should expand

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging dangerous areas

2009-04-19 Thread D Tucny
2009/4/20 D Tucny d...@tucny.com 2009/4/20 Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Matt Amos zerebub...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 5:31 PM, MP singular...@gmail.com wrote: after the wembley mapping party last year i heard suggestions of a locals

Re: [talk-ph] Yahoo!'s satellite imagery in Makati CBD is not good enough

2009-04-09 Thread D Tucny
2009/4/9 Mike Collinson m...@ayeltd.biz At 11:26 AM 9/04/2009, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: Hi all, I was doing some cleaning up and some building mapping in the Makati CBD area and I noticed that the satellite imagery in Yahoo! (provided by GeoEye) has some really bad stitching (multiple

Re: [OSM-talk] People's Map

2009-04-09 Thread D Tucny
2009/4/10 Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com Pieren pieren3 at gmail.com writes: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Aerial_photography_funding_appeals The wiki says about this supplier: About $17 per sq km for basic 2 meter resolution photography. Does that mean that each pixel covers an area

Re: [OSM-talk] People's Map

2009-04-09 Thread D Tucny
and resolution? Would you mind explaining that? Thank you very much. On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:30 AM, D Tucny d...@tucny.com wrote: 2009/4/10 Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com Pieren pieren3 at gmail.com writes: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Aerial_photography_funding_appeals The wiki

Re: [OSM-talk] just feels like time for a poem

2009-03-26 Thread D Tucny
2009/3/27 Łukasz Jernaś deej...@srem.org 2009/3/26 Simon Ward si...@bleah.co.uk: On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 03:31:51PM +, John McKerrell wrote: edible map? nom nom nom Cake! \o/ The cake is a lie! Pie? ___ talk mailing list

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

2009-03-24 Thread D Tucny
2009/3/24 James Stewart j.k.stew...@ed.ac.uk 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.

Re: [OSM-talk] my etrex died?

2009-03-22 Thread D Tucny
2009/3/22 Robert Vollmert rvollmert-li...@gmx.net On Mar 22, 2009, at 03:01, Maning Sambale wrote: For some reasons I can't explain, my etrex couldn't start anymore. At first I thought it's the battery but plugging it to my usb doesn't work either. I see no physical damage in the

Re: [OSM-talk] 3rd world croud-sourcing

2009-03-19 Thread D Tucny
2009/3/19 Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com Douglas Furlong douglas.furlong at gmail.com writes: I would not preclude payed for work to be honest. If a company was using OSM for the basis of their product, and their was a certain area of the world that for some reason just wasn't being mapped,

Re: [OSM-talk] Misquote of the day

2009-03-14 Thread D Tucny
2009/3/15 Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) ajrli...@googlemail.com 80n wrote: Sent: 13 March 2009 11:03 PM To: Talk Openstreetmap Subject: [OSM-talk] Misquote of the day Even Computer Weekly has managed to get it wrong this week:

Re: [OSM-talk] immutable=yes Fwd: DEC Lands

2009-03-10 Thread D Tucny
2009/3/10 Russ Nelson r...@cloudmade.com On Mar 9, 2009, at 4:11 PM, Ulf Lamping wrote: OSM is about to have a *free* database. Saying your not allowed to change the data is *not* a free database as I understand it. For this particular case, it's not that you're not allowed to change

Re: [OSM-talk] Front page design and SEO

2009-03-09 Thread D Tucny
2009/3/6 Robert (Jamie) Munro rjmu...@arjam.net I hate it when I go on holiday and I can't understand the colours of the maps. A choice of UK Style, German Style, USA Style rendering for the whole world would be nice, particularly if it defaulted to whichever country you were in by IP address

Re: [OSM-talk] Front page design and SEO

2009-03-09 Thread D Tucny
2009/3/6 Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org Hi, Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote: Yuk! No! Don't do this! Why produce half-transparent tiles when you could just carry on producing tiles of the neighbouring countries (or even the whole world) in your national style. As I said, that's the easy

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-newbies] avoid repeating the name tag twice

2009-03-09 Thread D Tucny
2009/3/9 marcus.wolsc...@googlemail.com On Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:51:28 +0100, Pierre-André Jacquod pjacq...@alumni.ethz.ch wrote: A possibility would be to never use name=, but only name:XX= and have a tag name:local=XX in order to indicate which is the local one. For rendering, a

Re: [OSM-talk] Problem with osm2pgsql

2009-03-09 Thread D Tucny
2009/3/9 Peter Childs pchi...@bcs.org I've been trying to import the Planet file into postgres using osm2pgsql, Using the current SVN version, it seams to be segmenting when processing the first Way (Under Ubuntu Hardy). Does any one have any ideas, or shall I try and import a subset (The UK

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping the sea

2009-03-09 Thread D Tucny
2009/3/9 Andy Deakin andy.dea...@pcmend.net Hi all, I know this is hardly street data, but is there any undersea data in osm at the moment? e.g. * Ferry routes for routing between islands * POI's for locations of wrecks for diving * Navigation whilst at sea (naval charts) * Fishing

[OSM-talk] Multilingual map

2009-03-09 Thread 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... I put this thinking into practice and

[OSM-talk] Fwd: Multilingual map

2009-03-09 Thread D Tucny
Forward to list... -- Forwarded message -- From: D Tucny d...@tucny.com Date: 2009/3/9 Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Multilingual map To: Robert (Jamie) Munro rjmu...@arjam.net 2009/3/9 Robert (Jamie) Munro rjmu...@arjam.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 D Tucny

Re: [OSM-talk] Multilingual map

2009-03-09 Thread D Tucny
2009/3/9 Claudius Henrichs claudiu...@gmx.de 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

Re: [OSM-talk] Multilingual map

2009-03-09 Thread D Tucny
2009/3/9 Celso González ce...@mitago.net On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 08:01:42PM +0800, D Tucny wrote: 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

Re: [OSM-talk] Multilingual map

2009-03-09 Thread D Tucny
, by any chance, to add Catalan names, tag name:ca. A lot of streetnames are mapped in two languages, both in Spain as in France. Skywave On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 1:01 PM, D Tucny d...@tucny.com wrote: Hi folks, I've been thinking about how it would be good to have the map available

Re: [OSM-talk] Front page design and SEO

2009-03-03 Thread D Tucny
2009/3/3 Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu D Tucny wrote: I must say, I like that one too... but... So many sites and applications these days seem to be going with all the options at the top/bottom and a full width content section, while at the same time most 4:3 screens are being replaced

Re: [OSM-talk] Front page design and SEO

2009-03-02 Thread D Tucny
2009/3/3 Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 9:51 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: I asked the CM designers for some quick hacks on what different front pages could look like which you can see on the wiki page below. There are some very quick ideas there but it's not a

[OSM-talk] Mapnik coastline shapefile update - Philippine coast still somewhat square when exported

2009-03-02 Thread D Tucny
2009/3/3 Jon Burgess jburgess...@googlemail.com On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 10:51 +, Kevin Peat wrote: I made some changes a couple of weeks ago to the banks of the River Dart through Totnes http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=50.42863lon=-3.67974zoom=15layers=B000FFF Obviously those

Re: [talk-ph] Luzon Coastline

2009-02-23 Thread D Tucny
=-1 either, but as it was already there I left it in. Feel free to change this if it doesn't look right to you. Thanks for the tip about keeping coastlines down to ~ 250 node sections. Didn't see any mention of this in the literature, so its worth publicising this ... Jim D Tucny wrote

[OSM-talk] OSM on The Reg

2009-02-11 Thread D Tucny
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/10/brum_map/ Couple of nice links there, both to the map and the home page... Comments in the comments section are largely at the same level of positiveness and understanding as is largely normal on the reg these days (read mostly negative)... d

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik updating more frequently?

2009-02-09 Thread D Tucny
2009/2/10 David Lynch djly...@gmail.com Is the mapnik render now updating more frequently than once a week? I'm seeing buildings that I added a couple hours ago appearing on there before even ti...@home/osmarender gets to them. I don't recall seeing anything about it, but, I can see things

Re: [OSM-talk] Long Ways and API 0.6

2009-02-08 Thread D Tucny
2009/2/9 Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org Hi, MP wrote: The advanced usage of the multipolygon relation allows you to have as many outer members as you want (see wiki page), so you can just split up your outer way and that's it. It probably isn't perfect in the renderers yet but

Re: [OSM-talk] Hit my server

2009-02-07 Thread D Tucny
2009/2/7 Chris Hill chillly...@yahoo.co.uk Jonas Svensson wrote: I have set up a temporary openlayers/mapnik-server at http://www.mozoft.com:9980/tms.html. It can't take much load initially when rendering tiles, but I am curious about what happens later when the cache is covering most.

Re: [OSM-talk] [Tilesathome] setting up a server for a country

2009-02-04 Thread D Tucny
2009/2/4 Dirk-Lüder Kreie osm-l...@deelkar.net ti...@home, while very up-to-date is a very inefficient rendering process and work has been put into enabling mapnik to be as up-to date as t...@h can be. (see up-to-date bookmarklet by crschmidt) Or... http://matt.sandbox.cloudmade.com/ d

Re: [OSM-talk] [Tilesathome] setting up a server for a country

2009-02-04 Thread D Tucny
2009/2/5 Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.org On Wednesday 04 Feb 2009 10:15:13 pm 80n wrote: Except, AIUI, the motivation is entirely because Mapnik can't handle the wide variety of Indian scripts: Hindi, Bengali, Tamil etc. actually mapnik relies on DejaVu - we plan to add the Indian

Re: [OSM-talk] Karlsruhe schema and buildings with several house numbers

2009-02-03 Thread D Tucny
2009/2/4 Frédéric Bonifas fredericboni...@gmail.com Hi, As we are now allowed to use the French cadastre to add data to OSM, I am mapping buildings in Grenoble ( http://informationfreeway.org/?lat=45.18877199061041lon=5.723019237090732zoom=17layers=BF000F ) But I have a problem :

Re: [OSM-talk] Error in Google-Maps

2009-01-28 Thread D Tucny
2009/1/28 andrzej zaborowski balr...@gmail.com 2009/1/28 Jürgen Reimann juergen.reim...@gmx.de: Hello, please don't shoot me if I'm absolutely wrong at this place. I want to ask what is to be done if a strange error in Google-Maps appears. This might be a wrong list to ask about Google

Re: [OSM-talk] Error in Google-Maps

2009-01-28 Thread D Tucny
2009/1/29 D Tucny d...@tucny.com 2009/1/28 andrzej zaborowski balr...@gmail.com 2009/1/28 Jürgen Reimann juergen.reim...@gmx.de: Hello, please don't shoot me if I'm absolutely wrong at this place. I want to ask what is to be done if a strange error in Google-Maps appears. This might

Re: [OSM-talk] 26 languages

2009-01-24 Thread D Tucny
2009/1/25 Colin McGregor colin.mc...@gmail.com On 1/24/09, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Hi, Lars Aronsson wrote: After Portuguese and Afrikaans have been added, there are now 28 languages. But of the largest Wikipedia languages, we're still missing Japanese (5th biggest)

Re: [OSM-talk] Import populated places from vmap0

2009-01-21 Thread D Tucny
2009/1/22 Upliner Mikhalych upli...@gmail.com 2009/1/21 20:48 Hakan Tandogan wrote: Maybe you could do a comparision to geonames.org, and add only places that have a similiar spelling in their russian name? Geonames is rejected datasource for OSM according to wiki. So I'm not sure that it

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

2009-01-20 Thread D Tucny
2009/1/19 Robert (Jamie) Munro rjmu...@arjam.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ビカス ヤダワ (vikas yadav) wrote: where is a local language being set for a country or a region? By the country or regions government, usually. I think there is a misunderstanding going on here. If

Re: [talk-ph] Hi Guys and Gals, Open Street Map.

2009-01-18 Thread D Tucny
2009/1/19 Michael Cole colemic...@gmail.com Hi I am going to be setting up a server using the Philippine map mainly, Later we will be using the whole planet files, But i have notice some errors in the files i have downloaded so far,Towns are categorized in the wrong province, Or if they are

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging for general household shop

2009-01-18 Thread D Tucny
Agreed, convenience would cover 7-Eleven in the US, HK, PH (and other places it's spread to), Spar in the UK, C-Store/Kedi/Quik etc in CN etc... While the shop that seems to being described would be more similar to Woolworths in the UK (at least as it was in the decade preceeding it's death iirc),

Re: [OSM-talk] extracts of OSM

2009-01-18 Thread D Tucny
2009/1/19 David Bannon d.ban...@vpac.org Hi Folks, some advice please ? I am interested in getting some OSM data covering the north of the North Island of NZ, some where I am visiting shortly. However, there is not extract available and its too big to pull down from the OSM website. Seems

Re: [OSM-talk] Language rendering query

2009-01-16 Thread D Tucny
2009/1/16 Ted Mielczarek ted.mielcza...@gmail.com On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 3:31 AM, D Tucny d...@tucny.com wrote: Not now it doesn't... jth did the last render and is obviously missing fonts needed... however, it seems some people do have OK fonts... Does t...@h require the correct fonts

Re: [OSM-talk] Language rendering query

2009-01-15 Thread D Tucny
2009/1/15 Kenneth Gonsalves 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 devanagiri or gurmukhi to me Not now it doesn't... jth did the last

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

2009-01-14 Thread D Tucny
2009/1/15 Sascha Silbe sascha-ml-gis-osm-t...@silbe.org 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=*

Re: [OSM-talk] Language rendering query

2009-01-14 Thread D Tucny
2009/1/15 Vikas Yadav vikas.ya...@threebrix.com Hi, I had two queries: 1) New Delhi text is not visible on low zooms (like 8) and is only seem even after other smaller cities are shown. Please suggest how to fix it. (I had put the same question on other thread a while back with no response.

Re: [OSM-talk] Are osm ids unique?

2009-01-13 Thread D Tucny
2009/1/14 Nop ekkeh...@gmx.de Hello! Are the ids of osm objects unique? A) globally unique B) unique only within the type of object, so the same id may occur with a way, a node and a relation. C) unique only within the type of object, but with non-intersecting numbering schemes

Re: [talk-ph] Ensuring data integrity (was: Re: excellent work in subic and ormoc)

2009-01-12 Thread D Tucny
, 2009 at 12:59 PM, D Tucny d...@tucny.com wrote: 2009/1/12 D Tucny d...@tucny.com 2009/1/12 maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com Just found excellent updates in two areas: Subic/Olongapo: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=14.8266lon=120.2912zoom=14layers=0B00FTF It looks

Re: [talk-ph] [PH-Cyberview] Fwd: Presenters needed for APRICOT 2009

2009-01-08 Thread D Tucny
I think they are looking from presentations on a different type of routing than OSM can provide :) Technology developments is an area that OSM could potentially fit into, but, as of right now, OSM in the Philippines in still working heavily on data gathering, in the next couple of years as

Re: [OSM-talk] [Tilesathome] Large Maplint files in USA

2009-01-06 Thread D Tucny
2009/1/7 David Lynch djly...@gmail.com There's a bulk import happening of data in Massachusetts, USA, and Maplint is flagging every single node with not-in-map-features because of the attribution tag applied to these nodes (see

Re: [OSM-talk] Which entry level budget garmin

2009-01-05 Thread D Tucny
2009/1/6 Joseph Scanlan n7...@arrl.net On Mon, 5 Jan 2009, D Tucny wrote: What sort of control do you have over the tracklogging with the 760? None. I got mine before I got interested in OSM. I'm tempted to get an eTrex or something for mapping. I have the 60CSx, there are some things

Re: [OSM-talk] Which entry level budget garmin

2009-01-05 Thread D Tucny
2009/1/5 Erik Johansson e...@kth.se On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 2:22 PM, D Tucny d...@tucny.com wrote: the 200 series models that are available are expensive enough (the 205 being equivalent to 215 British pounds, amazon US price of $136 equivalent to 93 pounds), Wonder if that has to do

Re: [OSM-talk] Which entry level budget garmin

2009-01-05 Thread D Tucny
2009/1/5 Tanveer Singh tanveer1...@gmail.com I am getting a garmin in car unit($200) Needless to day the following two functionalities are needed 1. Read OSM maps(all nuvi can read from SD card) 2. Write gpx data with altitude and timestamp info The second point has gotten me stumped a bit,

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMA rendering incorrectly

2009-01-05 Thread D Tucny
Hi, In what way did it look not correct? I've just looked now, and it looked fine, but, I probably looked just after you'd fixed it... d 2009/1/5 Thomas Wagner wag...@ze.tum.de After doing some experimentation, I found, that after splitting the feature or editing some of its nodes they are

Re: [OSM-talk] Which entry level budget garmin

2009-01-05 Thread D Tucny
2009/1/5 Joseph Scanlan n7...@arrl.net On Mon, 5 Jan 2009, D Tucny wrote: The response I received from Garmin was: Thank you for contacting Garmin International. There are several units that may fit your purpose: nuvi 500 (you get to see 1:100,000 scale Topo Maps) nuvi 775T nuvi 765T

Re: [OSM-talk] Which entry level budget garmin

2009-01-05 Thread D Tucny
2009/1/6 Tanveer Singh tanveer1...@gmail.com On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 12:05 AM, Ulf Lamping ulf.lamp...@googlemail.com wrote: In the end it might be easier (and not even a lot more expensive) to buy a cheap car navi (Garmin 200W ~100EUR) for navigation and a cheap GPS logger (Wintec WBT

Re: [OSM-talk] Invisible coastline errors in Potlatch

2008-12-31 Thread D Tucny
2009/1/1 Cartinus carti...@xs4all.nl On Wednesday 31 December 2008 18:40:18 Peter Miller wrote: Dodgy circular ways --- There are a number of islands off the Swedish coast that are showing up as errors:

Re: [OSM-talk] Invisible coastline errors in Potlatch

2008-12-31 Thread D Tucny
2009/1/1 Cartinus carti...@xs4all.nl On Wednesday 31 December 2008 20:29:50 D Tucny wrote: 2009/1/1 Cartinus carti...@xs4all.nl On Wednesday 31 December 2008 18:40:18 Peter Miller wrote: Here is the history of one of them: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/25610508/history

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-ca] Northern lights

2008-12-30 Thread D Tucny
2008/12/31 michc...@gmail.com On Dec 29, 2008 10:41am, Jochen Topf joc...@remote.org wrote: On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 03:08:36PM +, michc...@gmail.com wrote: There just was a discussion on dev about a single way with 40.000 nodes. That is far too long to be able to handle it

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-ca] Northern lights

2008-12-30 Thread D Tucny
2008/12/31 Jochen Topf joc...@remote.org On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 03:26:26AM +, michc...@gmail.com wrote: Ok. I found the IDs of the ways I would like to delete. What do I do next to retrieve them and remove them. Thanks. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Protocol_Version_0.5 In

Re: [OSM-talk] Map Update

2008-12-30 Thread D Tucny
2008/12/31 Andre Schoonbee andre...@iway.na Hi All First, seasonal greetings! I have a few questions: 1) I have uploaded roads data using JOSM. This now is appearing as normal lines and not as per the classified roads. I like Mekaartor also, and can want to upload the rest of the roads.

Re: [Talk-ca] [OSM-talk] Northern lights

2008-12-30 Thread D Tucny
2008/12/31 michc...@gmail.com On Dec 29, 2008 10:41am, Jochen Topf joc...@remote.org wrote: On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 03:08:36PM +, michc...@gmail.com wrote: There just was a discussion on dev about a single way with 40.000 nodes. That is far too long to be able to handle it

Re: [Talk-ca] [OSM-talk] Northern lights

2008-12-30 Thread D Tucny
2008/12/31 Jochen Topf joc...@remote.org On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 03:26:26AM +, michc...@gmail.com wrote: Ok. I found the IDs of the ways I would like to delete. What do I do next to retrieve them and remove them. Thanks. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Protocol_Version_0.5 In

Re: [OSM-talk] I've added some amenity values to Map Features based on tag usage

2008-12-21 Thread D Tucny
2008/12/21 Ed Loach e...@loach.me.uk I wrote: From that I've so far used amenity=dog_bin d replied: I don't like the sound of that one... Is it for dogs to use or where you put your used dogs? :/ I'm not sure whether this is tongue in cheek, or where you are, but in the UK (or at

Re: [OSM-talk] Indiscrimate layering

2008-12-21 Thread D Tucny
2008/12/21 OJ W ojwli...@googlemail.com Doesn't layer=-1 mean that something should be 'below' the landuse polygons when rendering? So if you have a river at level=-1 on a landuse=farm, then you will never see the river because it's under the (default layer=0) ground. In fact, I'm

Re: [talk-ph] Trying out Merkaartor

2008-12-20 Thread D Tucny
2008/12/20 Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com Hi guys, After seeing someone using Merkaartor (http://www.merkaartor.org/) to edit in OSM, I decided to give it a try last night. Before this, I've been exclusively using Potlatch. Potlatch is a pretty good application and is definitely the

Re: [OSM-talk] Indiscrimate layering

2008-12-20 Thread D Tucny
2008/12/21 Sven Rautenberg s...@rtbg.de Elena of Valhalla schrieb: On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 1:17 AM, Sven Rautenberg s...@rtbg.de wrote: Please reconsider. I hate it when I see rivers, streams etc. illogically marked as layer=-1. There is no reason to do so, because a river usually is

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

2008-12-20 Thread D Tucny
2008/12/21 Ulf Lamping ulf.lamp...@googlemail.com Hi! Again, I've added some more shop and amenity values to the map features page (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Map_Features), derived from the tagwatch usage statistics (http://tagwatch.stoecker.eu/Europe/En/index.html). I've

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

2008-12-20 Thread D Tucny
2008/12/21 Nic Roets nro...@gmail.com I'm just a little bit disappointed that tag watch does not yet cover the rest of the world. For example, in South Africa we already mapped 40 shop=shoes. But no doctor(s) yet ! http://tagwatch.stoecker.eu/world.html ? The name non-US suggests to me it

Re: [OSM-talk] I've added some amenity values to Map Features based on tag usage

2008-12-20 Thread D Tucny
2008/12/21 Ed Loach e...@loach.me.uk From that I've so far used amenity=dog_bin I don't like the sound of that one... Is it for dogs to use or where you put your used dogs? :/ d ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Is OSM Mapper ready for 0.6? (was Re: DisablePotlatch finally)

2008-12-18 Thread D Tucny
2008/12/18 Shaun McDonald sh...@shaunmcdonald.me.uk On 18 Dec 2008, at 08:56, maning sambale wrote: In short: Mappers need not worry about changing mapping habits. Editing is the way it is (unlike the transition from API 0.4 to 0.5!), you're just encourage to explain your edit

Re: [OSM-talk] GeoBase nodes import

2008-12-18 Thread D Tucny
2008/12/18 Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu So far, it looks like the majority of the country would be able to accept a full import of everything... except the roads. .. it's only 10 or so tiles that nothing would be imported (just nodes), and less than 100 where only roads would be omitted.

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - (Publisher)

2008-12-18 Thread D Tucny
I can see why someone might want to record company offices/businesses in OSM... But... as I mentioned on the proposal talk page, I'm not convinced that a publisher is an amenity... publisher could be a value for a business/business_type/etc key which could then be used to record many other types

Re: [OSM-talk] Errors or not errors?

2008-12-18 Thread D Tucny
2008/12/19 Tomas Straupis tomasstrau...@gmail.com Hello While fixing some validation errors I've found an interesting case and would like to get your opinion on how to deal with it. There is a school stadium mapped. Stadium has a usual oval and two starting tails. It is mapped as

Re: [Talk-ca] [OSM-talk] GeoBase nodes import

2008-12-18 Thread D Tucny
2008/12/18 Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu So far, it looks like the majority of the country would be able to accept a full import of everything... except the roads. .. it's only 10 or so tiles that nothing would be imported (just nodes), and less than 100 where only roads would be omitted.

Re: [OSM-talk] caching of landsat/yahoo images

2008-12-17 Thread D Tucny
2008/12/17 Roman Neumüller em...@katpatuka.org The JOSM plugin lakewalker has the IMHO very nice feature to cache the landsat tiles it uses for walking a lake into its own folders. I just wonder if that feature couldn't get extended to generally cache landsat images into a folder !? If

Re: [OSM-talk] clearing the remaining coastline issues?

2008-12-17 Thread D Tucny
2008/12/17 Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com There are really not that many coastine problems left in OSM. I know the view below makes it look really very bad but it is only the east and south coasts of the USA that have significant errors left. It really doesn't take too long,

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - (Publisher)

2008-12-17 Thread D Tucny
2008/12/18 Manuel de la Torre mdlto...@gmail.com ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk Erm... Am I missing something? d ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] Disable Potlatch finally.

2008-12-16 Thread D Tucny
2008/12/16 Gert Gremmen g.grem...@cetest.nl - upload only on request, not after each and every mouse click I think this would be an improvement, especially if you could view a list of changes that would be uploaded prior to upload... Though I'm sure others would feel the opposite... Most of

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: [OpenStreetMap] GPX Import Failure

2008-12-12 Thread D Tucny
2008/12/12 Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.org On Friday 12 Dec 2008 5:17:24 pm Shoan Motwani wrote: I use whereami on Nokia E71. I have uploaded a couple of traces in the past and they have updated successfully. But the recent traces are not being uploaded and the error is too vague to

Re: [OSM-talk] addressing

2008-12-10 Thread D Tucny
2008/12/10 Ed Loach [EMAIL PROTECTED] In your country, perhaps. In my country, that's EXACTLY what the address is. The address is the street and distance from the street's starting point, in metres. What happens if two houses are built facing each other on opposite sides of the

Re: [OSM-talk] My slippy map

2008-12-09 Thread D Tucny
2008/12/9 Bernhard Zwischenbrugger [EMAIL PROTECTED] am I right in thinking that you're not restricting it so that you can only view at specific zoom factors but you can also drag the tiles when they're part-way between zooms? That's the big problem. Google Maps always snaps to a good

Re: [OSM-talk] My slippy map - call for testing

2008-12-09 Thread D Tucny
2008/12/9 Bernhard Zwischenbrugger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Just an other slippy map: http://lamp2.fhstp.ac.at/~lbz/beispiele/ws2008/oomap4/index.php Maybe you like the zoom. I like the smooth zoom... Unfortunately mouse wheel zooming doesn't appear to be working for me in Google Chrome... In

Re: [OSM-talk] addressing - Tower blocks

2008-12-09 Thread D Tucny
2008/12/9 Douglas Furlong [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008/12/8 SteveC [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'd like to throw a quick question in here, now that this is being discussed, and people with a much better idea of tagging and related issues are reviewing the thread :) I live in an area of London that has a

Re: [OSM-talk] My slippy map

2008-12-09 Thread D Tucny
2008/12/10 Matthias Julius [EMAIL PROTECTED] D Tucny [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2008/12/9 Bernhard Zwischenbrugger [EMAIL PROTECTED] am I right in thinking that you're not restricting it so that you can only view at specific zoom factors but you can also drag the tiles when

Re: [OSM-talk] Updated view of 'A year of edits on OSM' and also Santa's Routes!

2008-12-09 Thread D Tucny
. There is still one heading north from Finland and also a dubious polygon in the same area which could do with investigation! It would be great if someone could take a look at these last ones. Regards, Peter 2008/12/7 D Tucny [EMAIL PROTECTED] One more... 25825106 ( http://www.openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Data oddness

2008-12-08 Thread D Tucny
2008/12/8 David Groom [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Andy Street [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: talk@openstreetmap.org Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 11:32 AM Subject: [OSM-talk] Data oddness Hi All, I've noticed something strange occurring with the Northbound A3

Re: [OSM-talk] Deleted nodes on the A3

2008-12-08 Thread D Tucny
2008/12/9 Richard Bullock [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.0413lon=-0.9116zoom=14layers=B000FTF [1] http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.5/way/28755575 [2] http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.5/way/28755575/history Looking at at least one of the nodes shown in

Re: [OSM-talk] Updated view of 'A year of edits on OSM' and also Santa's Routes!

2008-12-07 Thread D Tucny
One more... 25825106 ( http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/25825106/history) from Columbia, through Venezuela, Costa Rica and Nicaragua... d 2008/12/6 D Tucny [EMAIL PROTECTED] Also deleted way 26645814 ( http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/26645814/history) that ran east from

Re: [OSM-talk] Google/OSM comparison - visualised

2008-12-06 Thread D Tucny
2008/12/6 Steve Chilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have taken Bernard's original visual comparison (location data) and Alex's scoring (numerical comparison) and produced a map to visualise the results of the comparison. The result can be seen at: http://maker.geocommons.com/maps/1784 Looks

Re: [OSM-talk] Updated view of 'A year of edits on OSM' and also Santa's Routes!

2008-12-05 Thread D Tucny
Also deleted way 26645814 ( http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/26645814/history) that ran east from Australia... d 2008/12/5 D Tucny [EMAIL PROTECTED] Deleted way 27597540 ( http://api.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/27597540/history) http://api.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/27597540

Re: [OSM-talk] Updated view of 'A year of edits on OSM' and also Santa's Routes!

2008-12-04 Thread D Tucny
Deleted way 27597540 ( http://api.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/27597540/history) http://api.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/27597540/historyincluding 5 nodes, 303045069, 303045070, 303045071, 303045072, 303045073... User 'pefok'...Ran from a lake in Canada into the Atlantic, across South America, out

Re: [talk-ph] Using Non-copyright Images to Map

2008-12-03 Thread D Tucny
2008/12/3 maning sambale [EMAIL PROTECTED] The original source is http://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Image:Discovery_bay.svgvariant=zh-hk Which then points to: Source: Drawn using Inkscape mainly according to Centamap. http://www.centamap.com/gc/home.aspx that says: (c) Survey

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Inspector

2008-12-02 Thread D Tucny
2008/12/3 Richard Bullock [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message: 4 Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 10:49:05 + From: Steve Chilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Where have all the contributors gone? To: Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) [EMAIL PROTECTED], osm talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] My data got deleted

2008-11-30 Thread D Tucny
2008/11/30 Tanveer Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Tanveer Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 10:46 AM, ビカス ヤダワ (vikas yadav) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I checked one of the sections that I had surveyed, mapped and uploaded two months

[OSM-talk] Interesting 3D online map of Chinese cities

2008-11-30 Thread D Tucny
Hi Folks, Thought this might be interesting to some of you... http://www.edushi.com It's a map site that's been around for quite a while... The number of cities covered and the area covered within those cities is growing all the time... But... What makes it different to any other site is the

Re: [OSM-talk] Rendering barangays for the Philippines

2008-11-25 Thread D Tucny
2008/11/26 Erik Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 6:13 PM, Scott Atwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..] Ideally, there should be a single, consistent representation[...]in UK English [..] Then, in the UI, the canonical value could be translated into an appropriate

Re: [OSM-talk] Chinese font problem

2008-07-29 Thread D Tucny
2008/7/30 Louis Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi everybody: I saw city names in China and Japan are not little squares anymore. Nice job. But some name tags are still little squares, like http://b.tile.openstreetmap.org/18/218682/114077.png and http://a.tile.openstreetmap.org/14/14537/6464.png.

Re: [OSM-talk] Slippy map not working in Firefox

2008-07-23 Thread D Tucny
2008/7/23 Etienne [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Someone has emailed me to say that the slippy map at www.openstreetmap.orgdoes not work in Opera nor Firefox/Iceweasel on their Linux box. They say that openstreetbugs.appspot.com does not work either. However informationfreeway does.

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