Re: [OSM-talk] Hard Mapping / Roller coaster Log

2009-04-03 Thread Michel Barakat
Nice! I just wonder what did you tag this as. dizzyness = high ? Michel On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Kinya Inoue wrote: > http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/ikiya/traces/346271 > > http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9tw89LwNH4A/SdNnRbRmGxI/BAw/oPlF9yrKNE4/s1600-h/jc0904.jpg > > Enjoy, > > Ikiya

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

2009-03-20 Thread Michel Barakat
> I'm particularly interested in the USSD functions, I've not really heard > about them before, I may wander over to the OpenMoko mailing lists, and see > if they know any thing about it :) Afaik, USSD channels are controlled by the mobile operator. I believe all devices support USSD but you'll n

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

2009-03-19 Thread Michel Barakat
Looks very promising. Something similar could be implemented for OpenStreetMap but instead of paying the users, we would need to find an alternative mean of rewarding their work. 2009/3/19 Douglas Furlong : > Some thing that may be of interest regarding the possible use of mobile > phones in the t

Re: [OSM-talk] Reverse look-up gazetteer

2009-03-19 Thread Michel Barakat
Take a look at the GeoNames.org web service: http://www.geonames.org/export/ws-overview.html I didn't play with it yet, but I believe it can achieve what you're asking for. On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 1:01 PM, paul youlten wrote: > Does anyone know if there is there a web service that lets me take th

Re: [OSM-talk] new 'A year of edits' images available and some new 'santa's routes'!

2009-03-09 Thread Michel Barakat
Thanks for sharing the imagery. Particularly enjoyed exploring the changes for the eastern Mediterranean basin. On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Peter Miller wrote: > > I have updated our 'A year of edits images' for various parts of the > world in this Flickr set: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/

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

2009-03-07 Thread Michel Barakat
We're facing a similar issue for mapping in neighboring Lebanon. In addition to English, we use Arabic and French so we end up having four name tags: 'name', 'name:en', 'name:fr', 'name:ar' The name tag is a duplicate of one of the three languages depending on the road or POI in question, we have s

Re: [OSM-talk] whereami not working on nokia 5800 express music

2009-02-20 Thread Michel Barakat
Hey Vivek, Before you install the "signable" build, you need to manually sign it on https://www.symbiansigned.com/app/page. I think I've tried that approach but it didn't work for me. I suggest you try the "signed" version instead. I am currently using the following version on an N95, and it's wo