Re: [OSM-talk] Naga City in OSM Re: GML to OSM

2008-04-10 Thread Lester Caine
it returns is still not particularly complete as it does not return WHICH Naga we are looking at in the Philippines on the fact that we are in the Philippines. SO how does Maning tidy things up so that the missing data is available? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact

Re: [OSM-talk] Naga City in OSM Re: GML to OSM

2008-04-10 Thread Lester Caine
Andy Allan wrote: On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Lester Caine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But that only addresses one small 'problem' and misses the bigger one of finding 'all the golf courses in England' or 'all the Islands in the Philippines'. A single lookup to find ALL the boundaries

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik: amenity=bus_station

2008-04-09 Thread Lester Caine
you should be in would probably cover EVERY possible option. How do people cope around there? Took me 2 hours to get from Croydon around to the M4 yesterday :( I'll use the M25 next time ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://home.lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik: amenity=bus_station

2008-04-09 Thread Lester Caine
them :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://home.lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://home.lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// Firebird - http

Re: [OSM-talk] Naga City in OSM Re: GML to OSM

2008-04-09 Thread Lester Caine
Chris Hill wrote: Lester Caine wrote: Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote: quote who=Lester Caine The map looks nice. But once again it took some detective work to establish WHERE in the world we were looking :( By detective work you mean, like, zooming out? :-P No - where

Re: [OSM-talk] Relations not always brilliant

2008-04-08 Thread Lester Caine
transforms on 100s of thousands of elements when the boundary surrounding them is not even complete yet :( Please can we at least start with a set of objects that define the countries of the world and consistently uses them to define those elements that are within each country? -- Lester Caine

Re: [OSM-talk] Relations not always brilliant

2008-04-08 Thread Lester Caine
that 'Pass into Suffolk or Norfolk' could be identified. The hierarchy is never going to be simple, but some means of adding sensible data IS required? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://home.lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services

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

2008-04-05 Thread Lester Caine
on Acrobat 7.0.9 But it is fine on kGhostView ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://home.lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://home.lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop

Re: [OSM-talk] import of dataset for new zealand

2008-03-19 Thread Lester Caine
down already because of the quantity of traffic :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://home.lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://home.lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http

Re: [OSM-talk] import of dataset for new zealand

2008-03-19 Thread Lester Caine
Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, On 19.03.2008, at 09:14, Lester Caine wrote: Which is why FOR LEGAL REASONS most decent wiki type frameworks don't have delete as an option for basic users! [...] HOPEFULLY more countries will follow AND and New Zealand in providing accurate data but only

Re: [OSM-talk] High Visibility Vests - Printed OSM

2008-02-28 Thread Lester Caine
://www.sz-wholesale.com/P/Bulletproof-Vests/bulletproof-vest-57888.html Are they any protection while answering messages on the list? :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://home.lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http

Re: [OSM-talk] Parking symbols: YUCK!

2008-02-27 Thread Lester Caine
Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lester Caine wrote: | Mark Williams wrote: | -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- | Hash: SHA1 | | Lester Caine wrote: | J.D. Schmidt wrote: | Lester Caine skrev: | [big snip] | | LOGICALLY - there should never

Re: [OSM-talk] Parking symbols: YUCK!

2008-02-26 Thread Lester Caine
/area conflict debate? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://home.lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://home.lsces.co.uk MEDW - http://home.lsces.co.uk/ModelEngineersDigitalWorkshop/ Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Parking symbols: YUCK!

2008-02-26 Thread Lester Caine
? Or perhaps we just have to live with some duplicate results in a search telling us different things about the same place? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://home.lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://home.lsces.co.uk MEDW

Re: [OSM-talk] Parking symbols: YUCK!

2008-02-26 Thread Lester Caine
David Earl wrote: On 26/02/2008 15:43, David Earl wrote: On 26/02/2008 14:45, Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote: Lester Caine wrote: | ANY POI that is changed from node to area will potentially have the same | problem, and we should be fixing the general rule not starting to build | another set

Re: [OSM-talk] Parking symbols: YUCK!

2008-02-26 Thread Lester Caine
Mark Williams wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lester Caine wrote: J.D. Schmidt wrote: Lester Caine skrev: [big snip] LOGICALLY - there should never have been a problem created. A POI element should consist of a single entity which may have additional area

Re: [OSM-talk] Parking symbols: YUCK!

2008-02-24 Thread Lester Caine
either to add the rule consistently, or remove it. A SWITCH for 'consistent' rendering which can be disabled on local versions were people are not bothered about consistency? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://home.lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine

Re: [OSM-talk] Parking symbols: YUCK!

2008-02-24 Thread Lester Caine
, or duplicate information. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://home.lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://home.lsces.co.uk MEDW - http://home.lsces.co.uk/ModelEngineersDigitalWorkshop/ Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Parking symbols: YUCK!

2008-02-24 Thread Lester Caine
the renderers play silly tricks to make things look right. Lets just be consistent in how things are handled. What ever the inconsistency! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://home.lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http

Re: [OSM-talk] Parking symbols: YUCK!

2008-02-24 Thread Lester Caine
J.D. Schmidt wrote: Lester Caine skrev: Again - the fact that people are giving time to enter data is precisely why we need to be producing a guide to how to do things that is consistent. If people are going to tidy up these 'couple of problems' then we don't want one person deleting

Re: [OSM-talk] Parking symbols: YUCK!

2008-02-24 Thread Lester Caine
to jump directly to related data will always speed up data mapping? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://home.lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://home.lsces.co.uk MEDW - http://home.lsces.co.uk/ModelEngineersDigitalWorkshop

Re: [OSM-talk] Parking symbols: YUCK!

2008-02-24 Thread Lester Caine
Richard Fairhurst wrote: Lester Caine wrote: We need ONE set of rendering rules that will produce consistent results No we don't - that's half the point of OSM. If we had ONE set of rendering RULES then we wouldn't have a CYCLE map. I'm not talking about STYLE - I'm talking base data

Re: [OSM-talk] Parking symbols: YUCK!

2008-02-24 Thread Lester Caine
J.D. Schmidt wrote: Lester Caine skrev: Do you have to re-write the renderer every time someone comes up with a new conflict? Short answer : Yes. Long answer : The renderer operates on a subset of the data contained in the DB. It is up to the operator of the renderer to extract

Re: [OSM-talk] Parking symbols: YUCK!

2008-02-24 Thread Lester Caine
for reams of processing and new bodge code for every node/area tag conflict? We then don't have to worry about duplicates - they don't exist. If they do, then one or other needs to be merged to leave a single distinct entry? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] updated RFC: Highway administrative and physical descriptions

2008-02-20 Thread Lester Caine
Alex Mauer wrote: Lester Caine wrote: Hmm, that's not what I was going for. I was going for the administrative designation of the road (that is, M, A, B [I gather] in the UK, I-, US, [state abbrev] in the US) . In the US this is closely tied to who maintains it. In Europe it seems

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] updated RFC: Highway administrative and physical descriptions

2008-02-19 Thread Lester Caine
Alex Mauer wrote: Lester Caine wrote: Alex Mauer wrote: I've added a decision tree to the physical section of the page, as well as removed the boulevard designation (since it didn't really add much) I'd like to have some more comments from the UK and german end, as to whether

Re: [OSM-talk] place=country/nation/state

2008-02-18 Thread Lester Caine
Island - is_in New Zealand and Auckland and Wellington is_in North Island ( And perhaps New Zealand is_in South Pacific ? ) I've been glancing at a few of the recent links on the list and then having no idea where I am looking :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact

Re: [OSM-talk] Lighthouses? Should they be rendering?

2008-02-09 Thread Lester Caine
to the lighthouses? Dermot PS: I'd still love to see those lighthouses we do map appearing on the rendered output. I'm sure that will happen eventually. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://home.lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services

Re: [OSM-talk] boundaries vs. is_in vs. relations

2008-01-29 Thread Lester Caine
long term. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://home.lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://home.lsces.co.uk MEDW - http://home.lsces.co.uk/ModelEngineersDigitalWorkshop/ Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php

Re: [OSM-talk] boundaries vs. is_in vs. relations

2008-01-29 Thread Lester Caine
Karl Newman wrote: On Jan 29, 2008 10:56 AM, Lester Caine [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robin Paulson wrote: one of the tag proposals i've been working on recently has got me thinking about tagging composite items, and the best way to do

Re: [OSM-talk] First OpenGeoDB Import is done

2008-01-20 Thread Lester Caine
breaking something? I have added a FAQ to the wiki Page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/User:OpenGeoDB#FAQ Hope all questions will be answered there. Very silly question - This covers Germany? I only ask because it's not obvious and there are other countries that use German. -- Lester

Re: [OSM-talk] Missing structure

2008-01-18 Thread Lester Caine
the automatic population would not be able to easily stablish that a particular boundary is within a larger on, at which point the is_in flag for the higher levels become even more important? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://home.lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact

Re: [OSM-talk] Missing structure

2008-01-17 Thread Lester Caine
Karl Newman wrote: On Jan 17, 2008 12:52 PM, Lukasz Stelmach [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lester Caine wrote: After my missive in the postal addresses thread I had yet another scout around on what is already available and how it is not being

Re: [OSM-talk] RFC - postal addresses (relations)

2008-01-13 Thread Lester Caine
Andy Robinson (blackadder) wrote: Lester Caine wrote: Sent: 13 January 2008 8:07 AM To: OSM Talk Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] RFC - postal addresses (relations) Claus Färber wrote: I've written a proposal for postal addresses: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Relations/Proposed

Re: [OSM-talk] RFC - model aerodrome

2008-01-11 Thread Lester Caine
of Map_Features had a column for the translated tag names! ) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://home.lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://home.lsces.co.uk MEDW - http://home.lsces.co.uk/ModelEngineersDigitalWorkshop/ Firebird - http

Re: [OSM-talk] How to photo fold-out maps

2008-01-11 Thread Lester Caine
:( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://home.lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://home.lsces.co.uk MEDW - http://home.lsces.co.uk/ModelEngineersDigitalWorkshop/ Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php

Re: [OSM-talk] administrative boundaries and is_in

2008-01-10 Thread Lester Caine
in the UK. AND it is changed each year or so by the Boundary Commission :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://home.lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://home.lsces.co.uk MEDW - http://home.lsces.co.uk

Re: [OSM-talk] Highway and Ralyway - tram_stops and the like

2008-01-10 Thread Lester Caine
Robin Paulson wrote: On 11/01/2008, Lester Caine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Tram_station it will be moved to the approved features and map features pages Should it be used for the stops on the track of a bus_guideway ;) I do think

Re: [OSM-talk] Almost one way streets

2008-01-04 Thread Lester Caine
to during morning or evening rush hour only, to stop a queue building up when the on-coming traffic is heavy. So the joining road is not one-way, only access is restricted. Was that the problem Mattias? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://home.lsces.co.uk/lsces

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