[OSM-talk] Beaches at lower zoom levels

2010-08-18 Thread Gaz Davidson
Beaches are missing at zoom=12 in Mapnik and zoom=13 in Osmarender, either that or the sea is rendered over them. Is this by design or a bug? For example, here's my hometown: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=53.6457&lon=-2.999&zoom=13 Moving the coastline seems excessive, is there a way around

Re: [OSM-talk] Flattr donation button

2010-08-13 Thread Gaz Davidson
On 14 August 2010 00:08, Dave F. wrote: > > " When you're registered to flattr, you pay a small monthly fee. You set > the amount yourself. In the end of the month, that fee is divided between > all the things you flattered." > > So, what if I haven't seen anyone worth 'flattering' or just one? Wo

[OSM-talk] Flattr donation button

2010-08-13 Thread Gaz Davidson
Hi I just signed up for this new Flattr micropayments thing for donating small amounts to projects you love (flattr.com), and noticed there had been no discussion about it here. It would be a nice experiment to add a Flattr button to the main site and see how much is made in microdonations. OSM w

Re: [OSM-talk] www.openaddresses.org BETA launched

2010-03-30 Thread Gaz Davidson
2010/3/30 Cédric MOULLET : > Don't hesitate to add your own address, the address of your friends and of > the friends of your friends ;-) I'm sure that everyone on this list has already done this in OSM... I hope you'll be using that data, my fingers are sore from typing so many postcodes into OSM

Re: [OSM-talk] Automatically adding open wireless access points

2010-03-29 Thread Gaz Davidson
On 26 March 2010 13:51, Emilie Laffray wrote: > have you looked at a project called openbmap? Essentially a few months ago, > I suggested to those people to merge their data in OSM. However, it became > clear they didn't want it to be done, as there was plenty of problem to do > so, and I accepted

Re: [OSM-talk] Automatically adding open wireless access points

2010-03-29 Thread Gaz Davidson
On 26 March 2010 20:15, Gregory wrote: > I seem to remember certain BT home packages you can use their network for > free when your out and about. But then it lets other BT customers connect to > your wifi. Hopefully they explained this in large enough print. Just put > this here for interest. I

Re: [OSM-talk] Automatically adding open wireless access points

2010-03-26 Thread Gaz Davidson
n't seem to apply to home users anymore. I guess it could just stop updating the node once a user has deleted it from OSM's database, but I wouldn't remove it from my source list. Gaz > > On 26 March 2010 03:34, Gaz Davidson wrote: >> >> On 25 March 2010 19:

Re: [OSM-talk] Automatically adding open wireless access points

2010-03-26 Thread Gaz Davidson
On 25 March 2010 19:13, Claudius wrote: > Am 25.03.2010 15:09, Gaz Davidson: >> (...) at some later time the positions of all >> known access points can be estimated and imported into OSM's database. > > I think WiFi are too temporary a feature to be added to the ma

[OSM-talk] Automatically adding open wireless access points

2010-03-25 Thread Gaz Davidson
Hi I've just got a Google Nexus One and was thinking about making an application for it. The first thing that came to mind was a minimalist app to add open WiFi networks as points of interest. I imagine it working something like this: The app continuously scans nearby WiFi access points. When one

Re: [OSM-talk] Still interest in an Android POI collector?

2010-03-08 Thread Gaz Davidson
I agree, great summary :-) I'm getting a Google Nexus One soon and will be looking to do some POI mapping and uploading of geo-tagged photos. I'd also like to see if it's feasible to use the GPS, accelerometer, camera and touch-screen to calculate and store the heights of buildings, which sounds l

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenGeoData

2010-03-08 Thread Gaz Davidson
Have all the old posts on OpenGeoData been lost forever? I was looking for the old announcement about Yahoo! giving permission to use the satellite imagery, I just get the front page with no 404 error, redirect or warning that the content has moved :-( http://opengeodata.org/?p=120 _

Re: [OSM-talk] wikipedia: towns/cities pages include a osm-direct-link

2010-03-08 Thread Gaz Davidson
On 7 March 2010 00:59, Tirkon wrote: > The developers also think about integrating the georeferenced Commons > photos into an OSM map as it is known from Google Maps together with > http://www.panoramio.com/. That's a really cool idea. It would also be nice if there was a way to add locations to

Re: [OSM-talk] Google StreetMap embedding Flickr photos

2010-03-03 Thread Gaz Davidson
On 1 March 2010 22:44, wrote: > In my case (the street sign picture) they are purely displaying it as a > whole so I guess that they are a collective work, however in the new fancy > stuff they are actively blending photos into a mosasic which surely is a > derriative work. I guess that the new

Re: [OSM-talk] Serious consideration of "Newbie Editor"

2010-02-25 Thread Gaz Davidson
If there are plans for a new web editor, can avoiding Flash be part of the considerations? ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] XFN links from user pages

2010-02-14 Thread Gaz Davidson
Hi New user here, apologies if I'm posting this in the wrong place, I asked about this on IRC and was redirected here. I've been playing with this new Google Buzz thing and realised that privacy issues aside, it's a great step forward in encouraging the growth of the semantic web. Social networks