Re: [OSM-talk] Fw: [ppgis] Invitation for expressions of interestfor Ordnance Survey Think Tank Session on "Crowd source datacapture, geospatial mashups and its impact on NMAs" - 13th July 2009 (Tuesd

On 7 May 2009, at 08:42, Mikel Maron wrote: > Selection of invited experts will be made by the Ordnance > Survey. Guess they won't be having people from OSM then :-)

Re: [OSM-talk] "scale" a ShapeFile in Y-direction?

= New Zealand It additionally tells me on stderr: ERROR 4: Unable to open world_boundaries_m.shp or world_boundaries_m.SHP. Thanks for any hints,

Re: [OSM-talk] "scale" a ShapeFile in Y-direction?

Hi: I'm curious about that shapefile that needs some stretching. Assuming its name is filename.shp, try to type this: ogrinfo -geom=NO filename.shp filename what is the output? Regards, Juan Lucas Hello Frederik,

Re: [OSM-talk] shoreline_300, world borders _without_ rectangles

Hello, if you want to see the border of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern matching exactly the Baltic coast, I think you'll have to edit one of the two datasets yourself (cut, remove, copy, union, etc.) Anyway, how much precision do you need? In other words, which scale will the final map have? Or are yo

Re: [OSM-talk] Society of Cartographers

wow, thanks. Absolutely beautiful: http://geo.nls.uk/maps/glasgow1857/openlayers.html?zoom=19&lat=55.85379&lon=-4.26118&layers=B00T Regards, Juan Lucas De: talk-boun...@openstreetmap.org en nombre de S

Re: [OSM-talk] gdalwarp question

Please do not mislead people. gdalwarp works fine: http://tinyurl.com/germany-blue-marble Regards Juan Lucas Hello Jukka, thanks for your hint, but to my understanding

Re: [OSM-talk] gdalwarp question

On May 2, 2009, at 8:53 AM, Torsten Mohr wrote: > > But cstr_4.tif is "distorted", Africa is at 20% from the top, 40% > from the top > begins Antarctica and goes down to the bottom (100%).

Re: [OSM-talk] gdalwarp question

> Hello, i have an image that can be wrapped around > a sphere, its x / y coordinates directly map to latitude / longitude. What do you mean by that? Do you mean that when you open it with some GIS app, the status bar tells the correct (lat, lon) of the place where the mouse is? Some GIS apps rep

Re: [OSM-talk] osm2pgsql and proper/legacy mercator

Hi, according to the source code, the legacy option -M is using this projection: [PROJ_MERC]= { descr: "WGS84 Mercator", proj4text: "+proj=merc +datum=WGS84 +k=1.0 +units=m +over +no_defs", srs:3395, option: "" } Unlike EPSG:900913, that projection is not assuming

Re: [OSM-talk] German Shapefile, federal states?

Sorry, I meant: The EPSG code for Spherical Mercator is EPSG:900913 or EPSG:3785 (synonyms) regards Juan Lucas ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] German Shapefile, federal states?

to show the federal states in different colors. Best regards, Torsten. Am Donnerstag, 30. April 2009 21:04:01 schrieb Juan Lucas Dominguez Rubio: > Hello, Torsten. I think the 16 german federal states (lander) are available > as a shapefile in lots of different places. Here is one example

Re: [OSM-talk] German Shapefile, federal states?

Hello, Torsten. I think the 16 german federal states (lander) are available as a shapefile in lots of different places. Here is one example: http://wetnet.net/~we7u/xastir/maps/shapefile/Germany/ That is a shapefile (compressed) with 16 polygons, and you also have the population and extension

Re: [OSM-talk] Wrong scale in slippy map

El Viernes, 24 de Abril de 2009, Juan Lucas Dominguez Rubio escribió: > I think we ought to be able to do a projection where we turn the globe > into a symmetrical regular polyhedra. In effect at zoom level zoom > level 1 the world is a tetrahedron, as you go up you add more >

Re: [OSM-talk] Wrong scale in slippy map

2009/4/24 Juan Lucas Dominguez Rubio : > At the deep zoom levels (zoom=6 and higher numbers), Sweden and > Finland don't look "large", because you don't see other countries > on the same screen. At these deep zoom levels, the difference in > scale between the

Re: [OSM-talk] Wrong scale in slippy map

Jukka Rahkonen wrote: > I believe also that the scale bar is not right. Distorsion is > one thing, it makes Sweden (and Finland) to look visually > ridiculous on the map, At the deep zoom levels (zoom=6 and higher numbers), Sweden and Finland don't look "large", because you don't see other coun

Re: [OSM-talk] Wrong scale in slippy map

> Looking at the area where I live, > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=58.407&lon=15.600&zoom=18&layers=B000FTF > > these buildings are 11 metres wide and not 22 metres as the scale > indicates. The difference is explained by the latitude 58.4 > degrees and cosine(60°) = 0.5. > > Maybe one year

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announcement] talk-ps Palestine mailing list

wow, Costa Rica? Palestine? both? none? I wonder what your map looks like cheers Lucas There is now a talk-cr - Costa Rica-specific topics and discussion mailing list available. Thank you to Mikel Maron for initiating and hosting this forum. For detail

Re: [OSM-talk] California bill to limit detail on online mappingtools

That's ridiculous. The solution is obvious: if a way or point is tagged as amenity=school, etc, then the database will automatically add noise to the coordinates: lat = lat + 0.001 * random(1000) Regards, Juan Lucas > On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 10:27 AM, OJ

Re: [OSM-talk] Cloudmade: "We are the Wikipedia of maps"

According to the style rules of the Italian press, interviewers have a certain margin to summarize in a striking short sentence the words of the person who is interviewed, and put that sentence in the headline between double quotes. So if Steve Coast is one day interviewed by an Italian journali

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

Grant Slater wrote: > David Lynch wrote: > >> 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

Re: [OSM-talk] 26 languages

> Next in Wikipedia size without an OpenStreetMap article are Catalan... And here it is!! http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap Regards, Lucas ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] US borders, watch out!

Hi list, If someone is mapping the US national borders... forget it! Within a few weeks, the US will look like this: http://s.wsj.net/public/resources/images/P1-AO116_RUSPRO_NS_20081228191715.gif Regards, Lucas ___ talk

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

Yes, there are lots of people in the first world mapping even the most irrelevant buildings in their villages, while in the third world there are large cities with good Yahoo imagery and nobody mapping them. Sad, isn't it? South Africa does not seem to need much help, by the way. Lucas __

Re: [OSM-talk] JOSM: Import audio with version newer than 1150

Hello, I suspect some plugins have recently been compiled and published for a JOSM version which exists only in the SVN. In other words, someone should refresh the current 'josm-latest.jar'. The alternative is getting the source code from the svn and compiling it yourself. This happened with

Re: [OSM-talk] JOSM, wmsplugin issue

Ok, It works fine by compiling the source code from the svn. Thanks --- On Thu, 12/25/08, Simon Ward wrote: From: Simon Ward Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] JOSM, wmsplugin issue To: talk@openstreetmap.org Date: Thursday, December 25, 2008, 6:00 PM On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 02:30:29PM -0800, Juan Lucas

[OSM-talk] JOSM, wmsplugin issue

Hello I have installed the latest JOSM (v 1178) and I cannot install the wmsplugin (v 12588). When I restart JOSM I get the message : 'plugin requires JOSM update: wmsplugin'.   This happens both on Windows Vista and Ubuntu 8.04   Any ideas?   regards, Lucas __

Re: [OSM-talk] Rendering of Place Names in Mapnik

As a datapoint, Google renders SF and SJ the same way until you zoom out far enough, and then SJ disappears. FWIW, -Beej Strange. In the catholic hierarchy, San Jose (Jesus' father) is clearly above San Francisco

Re: [OSM-talk] Disable Potlatch finally.

Hi, Potlatch is as old as OSM, no? If it was that bad, the Google-OSM comparison presented some days ago would not be possible :-) Lucas De: talk-boun...@openstreetmap.org en nombre de Gert Gremmen Enviado el: mar 16/12/2008 17:08 Para: Dave Stubbs; Steven Le

Re: [OSM-talk] Wanted: Osm2pgsql.exe developer

Sorry, I had not read the help. It works fine now. Lucas De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] en nombre de Juan Lucas Dominguez Rubio Enviado el: jue 13/11/2008 17:08 Para: Martijn van Oosterhout; Rahkonen Jukka CC: talk@openstreetmap.org Asunto: Re: [OSM-talk] Wanted

Re: [OSM-talk] Wanted: Osm2pgsql.exe developer

Hello, I'm trying it on Windows XP with access to a Postgis database and I get this output: === C:\downloads\osm2pgsql\osm2pgsql>osm2pgsql --database geo --latlong --username postgres --password postgres --host noruega --port 5432 --verbose ./planet.osm osm2pgsql SV

Re: [OSM-talk] FW: [OpenStreetMap] #1327: Rendering non-existentdata

"In Borges' story, the Aleph is a point in space that contains all other points. Anyone who gazes into it can see everything in the universe from every angle simultaneously, without distortion, overlapping or confusion. The story continues the theme of infinity found in several of Borges's other

Re: [OSM-talk] Tenerife flooded?

Iván Sánchez Ortega schrieb: > El Thursday 06 November 2008 09:59:13 Karl Guggisberg escribió: >> Hi, >> >> I today realized that Tenerife >> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=28.291&lon=-16.557&zoo

Re: [OSM-talk] data plucked from who-knows-where?

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 4:12 PM, elvin ibbotson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So, Richard thinks we should take him (just a guess, I suspect there are more mappers of this gender) outside and shoot him, while Etienne thinks we should give hi

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

De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] en nombre de elvin ibbotson Having said that, I tend to go along with the school of thought that we would be as well of without any apostrophes so amenity=doctors seems fine. elvin ibbotson "school of tho

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

Very interesting. Thank you, Richard. "Doctor's" sounds a bit common to me. "Surgery" is far better... Cheers, Lucas De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] en nombre de Richard Fairhurst Enviado el: vie 31/10/2008 10:20 Para: OSM-Talk Asunto: Re: [OSM-talk] I've added some am

Re: [OSM-talk] Many roads missing

I didn't mention it before because it happened only once and for a very short time, but I saw a similar problem in the city where I live (Valencia, Spain) a few weeks ago. It seems to be a problem with Osmarender's renderer :-D If Nicholas has seen a second case (at least to my knowledge), I pre

Re: [OSM-talk] Unable to delete way in Potlatch

Hi. I can't see it from JOSM (08:00 pm London time). I don't think it's in the database. cheers, Lucas De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] en nombre de Barnett, Phillip Enviado el: dom 26/10/2008 19:55 Para: talk@openstreetmap.org Asunto: [OSM-talk] Unable to delete way in

Re: [OSM-talk] Map Features, maxspeed and maplint

"yay, you're a real mapper." Those five seconds of happiness create an emotional link between the newcomer and OSM, which I think is a great triumph for the latter. cheers, Lucas = Hi, Chris Hill wrote: > [listens for the sound of the voting request email to arrive - hears >

Re: [OSM-talk] map display www.openstreetmap.org

Hi, I think the word 'usable' is being used in a strange way. When someone says 'adding the coordinates makes the map less usable' they mean 'Many people don't know what that funny number means and when people see something they don't understand, they feel unconfortable, so they are unlikely t

[OSM-talk] Menorca under the water

Menorca was once part of the British empire. In fact, some Menorcan old peasants still say 'vindou' (from the English 'window') instead of the Latin 'finestra'. So I think they deserve something better than this: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=39.964&lon=4.046&zoom=11&layers=B00FTF Cheer

Re: [OSM-talk] osm in flickr

Seeing other websites use OSM's data or tiles is not noticeable any more. Steve, please drop that irritating inferiority complex. OSM is a great thing. Really. Regards, Lucas De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] en nombre de SteveC Enviado el: lun 11/08/2008 23:39 Para: OS

Re: [OSM-talk] Australia has Google Street View!

And what happens if a civil servant uses Google Maps to place the street name signs? Then the real world becomes a google-maps-derived work, doesnt it? Lucas De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] en nombre de Anselm Hook Enviado el: mar 05/08/2008 18:31 Para: talk@openstreetma

Re: [OSM-talk] A Swedish national server for OSM

lol, he does have a reputation to uphold ;) cheers, Lucas De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] en nombre de Inge Wallin Enviado el: mié 30/07/2008 23:43 Para: talk@openstreetmap.org Asunto: Re: [OSM-talk] A Swedish national server for OSM On Wednesday 30 July 2008 23:39:4

Re: [OSM-talk] Actually using OpenStreetMap and the usabilityof the current maps

Hello, Inge. The maps shown at http://www.openstreetmap.org cannot be taken seriously. They have mistakes (religious symbols out of place), absurd rendering criteria (large pint glasses) and traces of mathematical mediocrity (watch the scale bar in any Scandinav

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM -> MS Access

You're right, you can connect directly to a text (csv) database too. Lucas De: Robert (Jamie) Munro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: vie 18/07/2008 16:34 Para: Juan Lucas Dominguez Rubio; Talk Openstreetmap Asunto: Re: [OSM-talk] OSM -> M

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM -> MS Access

Perhaps OSM --> CSV, then open it with Ms Excel as a spreadsheet then import from Ms Access ? http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/utils/export/osm2csv/ Lucas De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] en nombre de GS Enviado el: vie 18/07/2008 14:40 Para: talk@openstreetm

Re: [OSM-talk] poster things

Thank you copetersen for that nice gallery with captions ;) Lucas De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] en nombre de Nick Black Enviado el: jue 17/07/2008 8:20 Para: SteveC CC: OSM Talk Asunto: Re: [OSM-talk] poster things http://www.flickr.com/photos/copetersen/2661105419/

Re: [OSM-talk] Dear Fake SteveC

I always felt sympathy for him. he didn't find a better thing to get obsessed with? Lucas De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] en nombre de Nic Roets Enviado el: mié 16/07/2008 19:58 Para: Frederik Ramm; Talk Openstreetmap Asunto: Re: [OSM-talk] Dear Fake SteveC I must

Re: [OSM-talk] Great SOTM08 so thinking ahead ...

Looks even better from here: http://www.grancanariainfo.co.uk/images/gran_canaria.jpg Lucas De: 80n [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: mar 15/07/2008 8:42 Para: Juan Lucas Dominguez Rubio CC: talk@openstreetmap.org Asunto: Re: [OSM-talk] Great SOTM08 so

[OSM-talk] Great SOTM08 so thinking ahead ...

Gran Canaria!! Sure. Hopefully its coastline will be fixed by then. It would be a bit ironic that the SOTM conference took place in a beautiful island which according to OSM's main website is... under the water ;) cheers, Lucas Great SOTM08 so thinking ahead ... http://www.op

Re: [OSM-talk] Pubs on mapnik layer - can we remove them?

ombre de Richard Fairhurst Enviado el: vie 11/07/2008 14:25 Para: OSM Openstreetmap Asunto: Re: [OSM-talk] Pubs on mapnik layer - can we remove them? Juan Lucas Dominguez Rubio wrote: > lol, I agree with your colleagues: those pint glasses are > unacceptably bad taste Someone shou

Re: [OSM-talk] Pubs on mapnik layer - can we remove them?

lol, I agree with your colleagues: those pint glasses are unacceptably bad taste (btw, mosques and synagogues are still rendered with a Christian cross in Mapnik.) Regards, Lucas De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] en nombre de Tom Chance Enviado el: vie 11/07/2008 13:47 P

Re: [OSM-talk] remove "friends"

Or else, you can make the reality match the wiki: be his friend, send him your phone number, invite him to the cinema, etc. Lucas De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] en nombre de Frederik Ramm Enviado el: vie 04/07/2008 23:49 Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: OSM Asunto: Re: [OSM-

Re: [OSM-talk] Front page

I confirm that openstreetmap.org is losing hits in favor of informationfreeway.org due to that left banner ;-) Cheers, Lucas De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] en nombre de [EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: vie 13/06/2008 17:12 Para: OSM Openstreetmap Asunto: Re: [OSM-talk] F

Re: [OSM-talk] National borders in the British Islands

openstreetmap.org CC: Juan Lucas Dominguez Rubio; Steve Chilton Asunto: Re: [OSM-talk] National borders in the British Islands France and Germany share the same currency, Iceland has no army, Australia and England share the same head of state, Scotland has its own Parliament with certain devo

Re: [OSM-talk] National borders in the British Islands

: jue 29/05/2008 11:20 Para: Juan Lucas Dominguez Rubio; talk@openstreetmap.org Asunto: RE: [OSM-talk] National borders in the British Islands Scotland and Wales are countries. Don't think the border between N Ireland and Rep of Ireland has been digitised yet. Cheers STEVE Steve Ch

[OSM-talk] National borders in the British Islands

According to Mapnik, Scotland and Wales have declared independence, and Northern Ireland is part of the Republic of Ireland. Did I miss something? Lucas ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listi

Re: [OSM-talk] GPS as artist's tool

We have wonderful pilots in Spain, but it has to be a joke, because there cannot be so many different destinations available to the north of Scandinavia. Lucas De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] en nombre de Jochen Topf Enviado el: vie 23/05/

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenPlantMap

There's something suspicious about that bbc video. Those people look like bad actors. I have the impression that they are simply trying to call some attention, just to remind us (or remind you) that the "National Trust" exists. In my case, it has worked. I had never heard about such institution

[OSM-talk] [tagging] tagging and rendering

> Places of worship could be mapped as cathedrals, > churches, chapels, etc in Britain or as mosques, temples, shrines, > whatever in the east. Currently, Mapnik renders all places of worship (synagogues, mosques, and whatever) with a christian cross, so maybe we should not dismiss Elvin's bout

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Online/offline slippy map finished.

lol, thank you Sebastian for that code. I have tested it on Windows XP and the only problem is that images are not shown, everything else seems to be in place. I don't think it's because of using / instead of \. Apparently the HttpServer only delivers the first bytes of the PNG files, and then c

Re: [OSM-talk] tagging and rendering

Hi, the last line of your messge looks like a triple parallelism. Just to be precise: we are tagging 'autopistas' and 'autovias' as motorways, 'carreteras nacionales' as trunks and main regional roads as primary (for example, the roads linking Catalan cities to the Pyrenees)... just in case you

[OSM-talk] [tagging] Against source=survey

The tag source=survey hides the fact that those coordinates were derived from the signal provided by a particular infrastructure: the US satellites. Maybe those ways derived from GPS tracks should be tagged source=NASA or source=Pentagon, instead of source=survey, which does not cite the true so

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Road crossings proposal - status?

I totally agree. A map is basically a drawing, so the most important thing is the shape of the ways themselves. I would sooner say that the trivial part is adding the place-names. Lucas De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] en nombre de Steve Hill Enviado el: mar 06/05/2008 1

Re: [OSM-talk] Users whose contributions are in the public domain

lol... He doesn't need to understand, but he would like to understand... which is an admirable thing...;-) Lucas De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] en nombre de Frederik Ramm Enviado el: lun 05/05/2008 1:00 Para: Vincent MEURISSE CC: talk@openstreetmap.org Asunto: Re: [OSM-

Re: [OSM-talk] Bulk Data Import how-to and tips

Hi, Patrick Maybe there is a better way, but this is what I would do: - get a shapefile of Luxembourg (or a simple polygon shapefile that contains all of Luxembourg). Let's call it lux.shp. - download the roads for Luxembourg currently in OSM from http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/europe/ No

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM in Europe Statistics

Hi, One funny alternative would be to compute not the size of the data (nodes and tags) but the size of the tiles in a compressed format (PNG or JPG or compressed BMP). An empty tile can be compressed to a few bytes, but a dense tile with a lot of ways and place-names cannot be compressed so m

Re: [OSM-talk] namespaces and copyright

Elvin: let's see if you have b to copy this place-name: http://www.teara.govt.nz/NewZealanders/MaoriNewZealanders/CanoeTraditions/6/ENZ-Resources/Standard/7/en Lucas De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] en nombre de elvin ibbotson Enviado el: lun 28/04/2008 18:10 Para:

[OSM-talk] Cuba under the water

Hi, In Mapnik zooms 7, 8 and 9, most of the isle of Cuba is under the water. Is there anything I can do to fix this? Should I provide a hand-made shapefile or something? Thanks. Lucas ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.ope

Re: [OSM-talk] Signs

Don't worry. If the children are slow, you will be able to skip them easily ;) Lucas De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] en nombre de Karl Newman Enviado el: mié 23/04/2008 18:22 Para: Richard Fairhurst CC: talk@openstreetmap.org Asunto: Re: [OSM-talk] Signs On Wed, Apr

Re: [OSM-talk] New Export Tab

Hello, Axel : The scale bar provided currently (April 21, 2008) by the main browser at www.openstreetmap.org is wrong. The image you get with the Export tab has no scale bar, so I recommend to use the Export tab and compute the scale bar yourself. More details: http://lists.openstreetmap.o

Re: [OSM-talk] Wrong scale bar :(

Lucas Dominguez Rubio Enviado el: jue 17/04/2008 1:37 Para: talk@openstreetmap.org Asunto: Wrong scale bar :( Reusing Lars Aronsson's message, we can see that the new scale bar is wrong. The buildings in this screenshot should be 32 x 11 m (attached example.jpg) Cheers,

[OSM-talk] Wrong scale bar :(

Reusing Lars Aronsson's message, we can see that the new scale bar is wrong. The buildings in this screenshot should be 32 x 11 m (attached example.jpg) Cheers, Lucas - [...] I've never cared too much about that scale, but now I know that these apartment buildings along Syrengatan

[OSM-talk] OSM flyer now in LaTeX, easy to translate

Hi, As a LaTeX and OSM lover, I had to make this OSM flyer in LaTeX, derived from Andy Robinson's English version of Frederik Ramm's original in German (thank you). Here it is in Spanish: http://www.prodevelop.es/descarga/osm/flyer/osm_flyer_spanish.pdf This is all you need to generate it

Re: [OSM-talk] English version of OSM foldout flyer

Exactly the same here (Windows XP): Acrobat Reader 7 :( GhostView :) Lucas De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] en nombre de Lester Caine Enviado el: sáb 05/04/2008 8:42 Para: OSM Talk Asunto: Re: [OSM-talk] English version of OSM foldout flyer Mark Williams wrote: > ma

Re: [OSM-talk] Map Features

I agree. They are encouraging you to get a local copy f it. Regarding the 'trap streets', here is another example on OSM: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l_AmHyzpTw Cheers, Lucas De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] en nombre de Chris Hill Enviado el: mar 01/04/2008 14:15

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMF announcement: Copyright Easter Eggs

LOL (sorry, could not resist it) Lucas De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] en nombre de Dave Stubbs Enviado el: mar 01/04/2008 10:34 Para: SteveC CC: Talk Openstreetmap Asunto: Re: [OSM-talk] OSMF announcement: Copyright Easter Eggs On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 8:53 AM, SteveC

[OSM-talk] Also about Freiburg

Hello, a co-worker of mine is visiting Freiburg next week for the "German speaking Open Source GIS community meeting" and we would like to have a nice map of Freiburg to use it in our demo. The map you have just posted is ok, and we might use it, but an orthophoto would be even better. The o

Re: [OSM-talk] JOSM and scale

Also, returning to the scale bar issue: I was wrong, if you draw a circle in Mercator it 's more or less a circle in the real world, as long as you are in a low scale, so the scale bar in Mercator will be correct both horizontally and vertically when it s fixed- Lucas _

Re: [OSM-talk] JOSM and scale

> In Mercator distance is constant independent of orientation, isn't it? I don't know what you mean exactly. If you use JOSM with the Mercator projection and draw a perfect circle in the North of Sweden, you are actually drawing a horizontal ellipse (east-west oriented) in the real world. L

Re: [OSM-talk] JOSM and scale

Yes, they are probably using the same scale bar for WGS84 and Mercator. As far as I know, in WGS84, the scale bar is correct vertically (lat), but in Mercator, that scale bar is wrong both vertically and horizontally if you are far away from the Equator. As you say, one easy way would be to c

[OSM-talk] Osmarender, misplaced place-names

Hello. I know layers 0-11 in Osmarender are some kind of battlefield. Just wanted to let you know in case you didn't know that the place-name offset problem is happening again: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=39.462&lon=-0.346&zoom=10&layers=0BFT

Re: [OSM-talk] Coastline checker

onal park comprises the whole isle... It's just that I have a strange prejudice against sharing nodes among very different features (coast-park). Juan Lucas Dominguez Rubio schrieb: > Seems like I caused a coastline inaccuracy when I uploaded a very small >

Re: [OSM-talk] Coastline checker

Seems like I caused a coastline inaccuracy when I uploaded a very small island off the Spanish shore: http://tile.openstreetmap.nl/coastlines.html?zoom=15&lat=39.89559&lon=0.69008&layers=B00T but I don't understand the reason, since the water-to-the-right rule is ok (see attached colum.png)

Re: [OSM-talk] Cannot correct ring self intersection --> josmenhancement needed?

I agree, that's a strange restriction in JOSM. (I grab the opportunity to say that I love JOSM and I thank Immanuel Scholz and Frederik Ramm for it.) Lucas De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] en nombre de Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany) Enviado el: jue 13/03/2008 9:22

Re: [OSM-talk] The Venice Lagoon dried...

You didnt know this? http://www.smh.com.au/news/news/venice-runs-dry-with-rare-low-tide/2008/02/20/1203190871832.html Lucas De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] en nombre de Edoardo Marascalchi Enviado el: vie 29/02/2008 11:05 Para: talk@openstreetmap.org Asunto: [OSM-talk]

Re: [OSM-talk] Raw GPS layer

When you say "track log" you mean a GPX file? It's very easy to convert a SHP file into a GPX file. I have done it myself many times, so the existence of such GPX file proves nothing. Am I misunderstanding the whole thing? :-/ Cheers, Lucas De: [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] disputed areas

We could use a little icon showing a dead dog to render borders in dispute. Something like this, but without the "Zzzz": http://pics.homere.jmsp.net/t_3/20030409_dog.gif JLu De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] en nombre de bvh Enviado el: sáb 09/02/2008 16:40 Para: talk

[OSM-talk] Osmarender levels 1-11

Hello, Unlike other parts of Spain, Osmarender levels 1-11 are not properly refreshed in my area: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=40.124&lon=-0.001&zoom=11&layers=0BFT

[OSM-talk] Osmarender levels 1-11

Hello, Unlike other parts of Spain and the rest of Europe, Osmarender levels 1-11 are not properly refreshed in my area: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=40.124&lon=-0.001&zoom=11&layers=0BFT The CTRL + click requests seem to have no effect at those levels.Can I do something to force a ref

Re: [OSM-talk] Error while uploading with JOSM

Hi, list: Regarding the timeout: JOSM often stops working properly when I hit the cancel button (while uploading coordinates or downloading WMS images), which is clearly a bug. As long as that bug is not fixed, having a higher timeout limit is not a very good idea IMHO. You are forced to wa

Re: [OSM-talk] Copyright and old maps

Hello, Maning. Just install the wms plugin for JOSM and add two items from: Edit - Preferences - Albert Einstein Add these items at the bottom of the key-value table: wmsplugin.url.3.name=My local WMS wmsplugin.url.3.url=http://localhost/... (point at your local server) Regards, Juan Luca