Re: [OSM-talk] surface=unpaved

2011-01-11 Thread DavidD
=unpaved as a dashed line. An example http://osm.org/go/eutNf8ah-- I can't speak for the stylesheet maintainers but I also suspect this is very much a patches welcome situation. -- DavidD ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [OSM-talk] Objects versions ready for ODbL

2010-12-20 Thread DavidD
. It makes contributors uncomfortable and makes it much more difficult to share code between different projects. -- DavidD ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Using editors to indicate license preference.

2010-01-17 Thread DavidD
pretty easy to see that two groups of people trying to reach the same goal with different licenses within the same database is going to cause friction. -- DavidD ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] SteveC should decide

2009-10-06 Thread DavidD
people want to verify the data in an efficient and systematic way then they they need to organise between themselves and store information outside the database. It's a problem that needs a general solution not a single tag that works in a very specific case. -- DavidD

Re: [OSM-talk] SteveC should decide

2009-10-03 Thread DavidD
2009/10/3 Gervase Markham gerv-gm...@gerv.net: On 03/10/09 00:49, DavidD wrote: Just start making the decisions and build the thing on top of OSM. It wouldn't even be that difficult to start off. Just take planet.osm and strip unapproved tags and build up from there. So OSM is in a state

Re: [OSM-talk] SteveC should decide

2009-10-02 Thread DavidD
. It will have to be built up along side at least until it is shown to be an improvement. That's if it even needs to be part of OSM at all. If mapnic can run off the planet and diffs why couldn't this? -- DavidD ___ talk mailing list talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Proliferation of path vs. footway

2009-08-11 Thread DavidD
they realise their vote doesn't really count for much. Mapping is enough work as it is without having to frequently check proposals in the wiki. -- DavidD ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Garmin Legend HCx and Linux

2008-12-28 Thread DavidD
but got no replies. http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-usb/2008/11/16/4135424 -- DavidD ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] smoothness

2008-11-27 Thread DavidD
the problem with admitting this and coming up with a decent subjective scheme. I think you probably would get a lot of the benefit of an objective scheme with a fraction of the effort. -- DavidD ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [OSM-talk] Edit war on the wiki map features

2008-11-25 Thread DavidD
to be? IMO the effort to get it on map features means the tag now fails to solve the original problem. Is trying to get specialised tags through a majority vote ever going to work? Would it not have been better just to come up with a tag, document it on the wiki and start using it? -- DavidD

Re: [OSM-talk] Validator tags

2008-11-22 Thread DavidD
the useless tags. I suspect the same mistake is being made here. The validators will get smarter and the tags will end up pointless or harmful. Tagging for validators should IMO be viewed the same as tagging for renderers. -- DavidD ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] Databases?

2008-10-15 Thread DavidD
2008/10/15 Joseph Gentle [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Has anyone written a program like this; either with that sort of data format or solving that problem? Have you seen Gosmore? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Gosmore -- DavidD ___ talk mailing

Re: [OSM-talk] Code of conduct for automated (mass-) edits

2008-09-30 Thread DavidD
think deleting a horse=bridleway tag from a bridleway is really helping that much. Probably the tag was entered by mistake but why delete it? Is it really causing any harm? -- DavidD ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [OSM-talk] Easy to use system for countryside surveying

2008-08-16 Thread DavidD
/39116477hh7.png Either because I got lost or because it was easier to walk around the boundary of a field than straight across it. I don't think gpx traces contain anywhere near enough info on their own to produce a decent map. -- DavidD ___ talk mailing

Re: [OSM-talk] Overhaul of voting process (was: Road crossings proposal - status?)

2008-05-07 Thread DavidD
people on a wiki voted for another set of tags? When practically nobody bothers to vote and the losing side can just ignore the result what is the point of voting? -- DavidD ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi

[OSM-talk] Fast tracking map feature proposals.

2007-12-29 Thread DavidD
track list for a period of time. If no objections are made during this time period the value will be moved into the approved features list. -- DavidD ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk