Re: [OSM-talk] How can I create a oshdb?

2019-07-13 Thread Milo van der Linden
Thank you so much! That is exactly what I needed. Op za 13 jul. 2019 om 02:13 schreef Andrew Davidson : > https://github.com/GIScience/oshdb/blob/master/oshdb-tool/etl/README.md > > On Sat., 13 Jul. 2019, 09:30 Milo van der Linden, > wrote: > >> Thanks! The download serv

Re: [OSM-talk] How can I create a oshdb?

2019-07-12 Thread Milo van der Linden
Thanks! The download server has no oshdb files for Curacao, the Caribbean Island I am interested in. Is there a converter available? Thanks again! On Fri, Jul 12, 2019, 23:18 Mateusz Konieczny wrote: > > https://github.com/GIScience/oshdb/blob/master/documentation/first-steps/README.md > has so

[OSM-talk] How can I create a oshdb?

2019-07-12 Thread Milo van der Linden
Can anyone point me in the direction of how to create the ohsome oshdb from planet files? Thanks in advance! Milo ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenTrailView 360 - StreetView-like application for hikers

2019-05-31 Thread Milo van der Linden
so fine with the license change. > > > Nick > > -- > *From:* Kathleen Lu > *Sent:* 31 May 2019 19:31:52 > *To:* Milo van der Linden > *Cc:* Nick Whitelegg; OSM Talk > *Subject:* Re: [OSM-talk] OpenTrailView 360 - StreetView-like application > for h

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenTrailView 360 - StreetView-like application for hikers

2019-05-31 Thread Milo van der Linden
ems to be the most common > practice. > > > Do remember once again that this is an unfinished product but it is now in > a state where I believe it is of interest to contributors. > > > Gitlab: https://gitlab.com/nickw1/opentrailview/ > > > > Thanks, > > Nick

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenTrailView 360 - StreetView-like application for hikers

2019-05-31 Thread Milo van der Linden
t this seems to be the most common > practice. > > > Do remember once again that this is an unfinished product but it is now in > a state where I believe it is of interest to contributors. > > > Gitlab: https://gitlab.com/nickw1/opentrailview/ > > > > Thanks, > >

Re: [OSM-talk] Looking for phot of mapping mappers

2019-01-23 Thread Milo van der Linden
l be useful to have more >> variety. >> >> >> ___ >> talk mailing list >> talk@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >> > ___ &

Re: [OSM-talk] [Osmf-talk] Candidate's views? Re: Board decision on Crimea complaint

2018-12-11 Thread Milo van der Linden
t; >> > >> Best regards, > >> Martijn van Exel > >> Secretary, OpenStreetMap Foundation > >> > > > > ___ > > osmf-talk mailing list > > osmf-t...@openstreetmap.org > > https://l

Re: [OSM-talk] Can somebody give me a hint please?

2018-06-20 Thread Milo van der Linden
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/FAQ#Why_don.27t_you_just_use_Google_Maps.2Fwhoever_for_your_data.3F 2018-06-20 15:21 GMT+02:00 Milo van der Linden : > Still. I strongly advice you not to use it. > > 2018-06-20 15:13 GMT+02:00 Jeroen Baten : >> >> I did not make it. Som

Re: [OSM-talk] Can somebody give me a hint please?

2018-06-20 Thread Milo van der Linden
Still. I strongly advice you not to use it. 2018-06-20 15:13 GMT+02:00 Jeroen Baten : > > I did not make it. Some French estate agent did :-). > > > Op 20-06-18 om 15:00 schreef Milo van der Linden: >> Screenshots from google maps infringe copyright. I advice oyu not to use

Re: [OSM-talk] Can somebody give me a hint please?

2018-06-20 Thread Milo van der Linden
ooking forward to your answers. >> >> Kind regards, >> Jeroen Baten >> >> > > -- > Jeroen Baten | EMAIL : jba...@i2rs.nl > _ __ | web : www.i2rs.nl > | )|_)(_ | tel : +31 (0)345 - 75 26 28 > _|_/_| \__) |

Re: [OSM-talk] Open sourcing of POI pictures for OSM App/STAPPZ - Feedback and ideas wanted

2018-05-18 Thread Milo van der Linden
Maps >> comparison.) >> >> The former use case is already partially covered by >> Mapillary/OpenStreetCam, so the question is if there's enough of a niche >> left for another app. >> >> The latter seems more ambitious. As I mentioned before,

Re: [OSM-talk] Open sourcing of POI pictures for OSM App/STAPPZ - Feedback and ideas wanted

2018-05-13 Thread Milo van der Linden
ads that – and even more thanks > to the ones who are going to reply with feedback and thoughts. > > Even if you just think the idea is good or bad – please tell us that we > get a picture how the whole community sees it. > > Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind regards > > Tim Fre

Re: [OSM-talk] today's tragic helicopter accident in Bavaria

2018-04-10 Thread Milo van der Linden
Dear Armstrong, please be aware that Oleksiy is no native english speaker. In his culture and language that is probably not what he is saying. Kind regards, Milo van der Linden On April 11, 2018 3:21:17 AM GMT+02:00, "Jack Armstrong dan...@sprynet.com" wrote: >Are you saying

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM SPAM detector

2018-03-06 Thread Milo van der Linden
Awesome! Great work! On Mar 6, 2018 00:47, "Frederik Ramm" wrote: > Hi, > > On 03/05/2018 07:03 PM, Jason Remillard wrote: > > getting a diverse set of changeset from many people will insure that the > > algorithm is not biased relative to where the consensus is in the > > project > > Well stric

Re: [OSM-talk] Nominatim on the main page

2018-02-18 Thread Milo van der Linden
I've opened a Nominatim bug for it. > https://github.com/openstreetmap/Nominatim/issues/930 > > > Maarten > > ___ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk -- Milo van der Linden web: dogodigi tel: +31-6-16598808 ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] "The Future of Free and Open-Source Maps" Slashdot.org , Saturday February 17, 2018

2018-02-17 Thread Milo van der Linden
"but where Google starts to go haywire is in the properly mapped areas." As someone who lives remote in the Netherlands, I can agree to that. DHL, UPS, even ambulances; they are still unable to find my house although I am living here 7 years now. But, I think OSM is also going haywire in the Neth

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM data, how can we contribute to keep it to a reasonable size?

2018-01-22 Thread Milo van der Linden
> [1] https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/PRIME-Z270-A/ (Energy efficient > design) > > Best regards, > > Oleksiy > > > ___________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > --

Re: [OSM-talk] New web of Slovak OSM community

2018-01-09 Thread Milo van der Linden
Z Freemap Slovakia > mailto:martin.zd...@freemap.sk > http://www.freemap.sk/ > > ___ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > -- Milo van der Linden web: dogodigi tel: +31-6-

Re: [OSM-talk] All the subway systems in the world

2017-09-30 Thread Milo van der Linden
page there. Next week I'll open a > voting, so that tagging schema could be made official. The validator of > course expects that kind of tagging, though it allows for some omissions. > > Ilya > ___ > talk mailing list > talk@opens

[OSM-talk] StreetSound

2017-01-06 Thread Milo van der Linden
In Eindhoven a new initiative is launched to capture streetsound: https://translate.google.nl/translate?sl=nl&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=nl&ie=UTF-8&u=https%3A%2F%2Fe52.nl%2Fvan-google-streetview-naar-sorama-streetsound%2F&edit-text= ___ talk mailing list tal

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetView name change

2016-11-08 Thread Milo van der Linden
'Photos for openstreetmap" abbreviated as photosm like with hotosm? Op 8 nov. 2016 6:08 p.m. schreef "Andy Mabbett" : > On 8 November 2016 at 15:34, Martijn van Exel wrote:# > > > a friendly (for now) request by a well-known company with a > similarly-named > > product :) to not use the OpenStre

Re: [OSM-talk] [http://zikes.website/] New OSM based (bicycle) journey planner

2016-11-06 Thread Milo van der Linden
ng > there for you to adopt" - too late for that now :) mine's working pretty > well. > > On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 8:27 PM, Milo van der Linden > wrote: > >> Hello Remek, on your website you mention sub-projects: >> >> >>- Bespoke routing (path f

Re: [OSM-talk] [http://zikes.website/] New OSM based (bicycle) journey planner

2016-11-05 Thread Milo van der Linden
__ > > talk mailing list > > talk@openstreetmap.org > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > > > _______ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinf

Re: [OSM-talk] Which type of highways are used by routing software?

2016-11-02 Thread Milo van der Linden
? Because then I would strongly suggest you follow the instructions at https://hub.docker.com/r/osrm/osrm-backend/ it works like a charm for me. 2016-11-02 11:43 GMT+01:00 Lester Caine : > On 02/11/16 10:07, Milo van der Linden wrote: > > In OSRM routing profiles are scripted in lua files. I su

Re: [OSM-talk] Which type of highways are used by routing software?

2016-11-02 Thread Milo van der Linden
/enquirysolve.com/ > Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk > Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk > > ___ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > -- [image: http://www.dogodigi.net] <http://www.dogodigi.net> *Milo van der Linden* web: dogodigi <http://www.dogodigi.net> tel: +31-6-16598808 ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] KG ground survey

2016-07-16 Thread Milo van der Linden
I found out they are "Kaart group" http://www.kaartgroup.com/ and will contact them. 2016-07-16 11:52 GMT+02:00 Milo van der Linden : > Hello, > > I am involved with community mapping activities in the Caribbean, on > Aruba, Curacao and Jamaica. > > We often come ac

Re: [OSM-talk] Burger King use of OSM without Attribution

2016-05-31 Thread Milo van der Linden
> > On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 11:21 AM, Mikel Maron > wrote: > >> Thanks for the report, we're looking into sorting out this attribution >> issue at Mapbox. >> >> * Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron >> >> >> On Sat

Re: [OSM-talk] Burger King use of OSM without Attribution

2016-05-28 Thread Milo van der Linden
sm_seattle.snowandsnow.us > OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch > > ___ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > -- [image: http://www.dogodigi.net] <http://www.do

Re: [OSM-talk] India wants to license maps

2016-05-12 Thread Milo van der Linden
The big ironic here is that a lot of the larger mapping companies have workforces in India creating and processing map and geodata for them. Is this dog going to bite it's own tail? Op 12 mei 2016 9:02 p.m. schreef "Michał Brzozowski" : So then we should promptly raise awareness of the issue. I th

Re: [OSM-talk] Find missing roads

2015-09-30 Thread Milo van der Linden
e, or > just if you like it! > > Martijn > > > > ___ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > -- Milo van der Linden web: dogodigi tel: +31-6-16598808 _

Re: [OSM-talk] Sharing my Speech about OSM

2015-07-17 Thread Milo van der Linden
tmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > -- [image: http://www.dogodigi.net] <http://www.dogodigi.net> *Milo van der Linden* web: dogodigi <http://www.dogodigi.net> tel: +31-6-16598808 ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Routing on osm.org

2015-02-17 Thread Milo van der Linden
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >> _ >> talk mailing list >> talk@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > ___ > talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread Milo van der Linden
This discussion makes me sad. My personal motivation in life is : everybody should live in freedom" . Derived from this: " alternatives are good, monopoly is bad" fosm; I embrace the initiative, but you have a lot of "marketing" to do if you want people to come to FOSM. A website with broken lin

Re: [OSM-talk] Names for places based on OSM - OpenStreetBlock

2011-04-05 Thread Milo van der Linden
Hi Martijn, Worthless.. worthless.. if you don't know how to program php, it may seem that way, yes. :-P I took a look at the code and personally, I don't see a problem of getting this nice easy piece of software to work for a dutch situation. I forked the project on github already. The most impo

Re: [OSM-talk] Aruba has flooded

2011-04-01 Thread Milo van der Linden
Thanks for the explaination MȺrtin! Kind regards, 2011/4/1 M∡rtin Koppenhoefer : > > > 2011/4/1 Milo van der Linden >> >> I would have no problem with simplifying Aruba by defining it as >> island instead of coastline... Would that be a problem? I am not to >&g

Re: [OSM-talk] Aruba has flooded

2011-04-01 Thread Milo van der Linden
I would have no problem with simplifying Aruba by defining it as island instead of coastline... Would that be a problem? I am not to much of a fan of the coastline rendering process and this might proof a convenient way to bypass these issues and prevent future issues with the coastline. The size o

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM.globe version of OSM-3D; new version for Europe

2011-03-23 Thread Milo van der Linden
"This 3D geo-platform demonstrates the potential of free and through crowdsouring generated geodata like OpenStreetMap. In order to maximize interoperability the whole platform technically is based on open standards and services of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)." Unfortunately, this 3D geo-

Re: [OSM-talk] Aruba has flooded

2011-03-22 Thread Milo van der Linden
urate or not but >> that's all I can see. >> >> Toby >> >> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Milo van der Linden >> wrote: >>> Help... >>> >>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=12.5315&lon=-69.9663&zo

[OSM-talk] Aruba has flooded

2011-03-21 Thread Milo van der Linden
Help... http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=12.5315&lon=-69.9663&zoom=12&layers=M ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Zero tolerance on imports

2011-02-20 Thread Milo van der Linden
tasets, we are _destroying_ value. > > From what I can tell (talk-ca postings etc.) 'sammuell' is a fairly > inexperienced OSMer who presumably thinks "this is how things are done". It > isn't. How do we stop this impression taking hold? How do we explain that &g

Re: [OSM-talk] Zero tolerance on imports

2011-02-20 Thread Milo van der Linden
tasets, we are _destroying_ value. > > From what I can tell (talk-ca postings etc.) 'sammuell' is a fairly > inexperienced OSMer who presumably thinks "this is how things are done". It > isn't. How do we stop this impression taking hold? How do we explain that &g

Re: [OSM-talk] Questions about importing data for University of Vermont campus

2011-01-29 Thread Milo van der Linden
nt to be able to manually check for errors. Maybe this is of some use to you. Kind regards, Milo van der Linden ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] military vs consumer GPS and the equator

2011-01-26 Thread Milo van der Linden
n of large meshes of triangles, with hundreds or even thousands of observations. Complex triangulation problems involving real-world observations with errors require the solution of large systems of simultaneous equations to generate solutions.[4] Hope I shed some light. Kind regards, Milo van

Re: [OSM-talk] osm new zealand website js problems

2011-01-24 Thread Milo van der Linden
You have some javascript errors. Missing ; or ) Please go to http://www.jslint.com/ and paste the content of site.js there. - The biggest problems are: Problem at line 31 character 3: Mixed spaces and tabs. $('map').style.bottom = ""; Problem at line 41 charac

Re: [OSM-talk] surface=unpaved

2011-01-11 Thread Milo van der Linden
My home address is at a highway=track going to access=private a little further on: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.633745&lon=5.301177&zoom=18&layers=M On Aruba, my other area of mapping, I also use tracktype=grade1 http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=12.48251&lon=-69.9788&zoom=16&layers=M (

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=unsurfaced

2011-01-09 Thread Milo van der Linden
"They seem to be evenly spread over the planet and was depreciated < http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Deprecated_features> almost three years ago." I am mapping Aruba, most unpaved roads there are currently set to highway=track, and there is a lot of them. I will check Aruba for "deprecated" fe

Re: [OSM-talk] Rendering of construction sites by Mapnik

2011-01-06 Thread Milo van der Linden
IAAC[1] common use in cartography is to hatch objects that do not have a clear or definite status. [1] I Am A Cartographer 2011/1/6 Floris Looijesteijn > And allotments... > > Greets, > Floris > > Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: > > +1 > > > > The same thing goes for landuse=brownfield (and also gr

Re: [OSM-talk] What phones do OSMers have?

2011-01-04 Thread Milo van der Linden
A nokia 6600 running Symbian; A samsung innov8 running Symbian and a Samsung Galaxy S running Frozen Yoghurt. Yes, I have three ears ;-) 2011/1/4 Frederik Ramm : > Hi, > > On 01/04/11 14:59, Dave F. wrote: >> >> On 04/01/2011 02:52, Anthony wrote: >>> >>> On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Dave F.

Re: [OSM-talk] Is there an Android OS app for osm?

2011-01-04 Thread Milo van der Linden
+1 for osmand. They are pretty active. 2011/1/4 Frank Fesevur : > 2011/1/4  : >> Is there an Android OS app for osm? > > When you want to use your phone for mapping, you should definitily not > forget OSMTracker. > > Searching for "osm" in the Market on my phone (results may vary > because Market

Re: [OSM-talk] protocol for adding buildings using aerial imagery?

2010-12-28 Thread Milo van der Linden
note to self: take course to learn how to be funny in english. 2010/12/28 Steve Bennett : > On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Milo van der Linden > wrote: >> The first person that automates tracing buildings from yahoo images on >> Aruba will be slapped by me! >

Re: [OSM-talk] protocol for adding buildings using aerial imagery?

2010-12-28 Thread Milo van der Linden
> > It would be interesting to have editor support for estimating the building > height depending on that displacement, or depending on the extent of the > shadow - that would have to be calibrated for each imagery and location of > course but so does the displacement of the whole image, and we're

Re: [OSM-talk] protocol for adding buildings using aerial imagery?

2010-12-28 Thread Milo van der Linden
The first person that automates tracing buildings from yahoo images on Aruba will be slapped by me! Besides regulare displacement, the entire imagery is off by 10~100m , way to clouded and low res. So please, please, please do not start some global bot that will place buildings all over.. 2010/12

Re: [OSM-talk] [Merkaartor] cycle ways

2010-12-04 Thread Milo van der Linden
Hello Herman, Although dutch is not a problem for me, it would be wise to post questions in English ;-) You are asking how you can tag in merkaartor so the roads are optimized for cycling. I think that it would be best to contact ligfietser, he is the one that created openfietsmap. http://sites.

Re: [OSM-talk] license change map

2010-11-16 Thread Milo van der Linden
t; Fabian. > > [1] http://matt.dev.openstreetmap.org/treemap.png > > ___ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > -- Milo van der Linden Open Source Geospatial consul

Re: [OSM-talk] Response to A critique of OpenStreetMap

2010-10-14 Thread Milo van der Linden
rings up front > in OSM. > > 80n > > > ___ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > -- Milo van der Linden Open Source Geospatial consultant dogodigi - Geospat

[OSM-talk] Response to A critique of OpenStreetMap

2010-10-14 Thread Milo van der Linden
how to correct things, drop by on the mailing-lists and ask for review of your ideas. That is the true beauty of the structure at OSM. Kind regards, -- Milo van der Linden Open Source Geospatial consultant ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] If you've missed this ...

2010-10-08 Thread Milo van der Linden
> talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > -- Milo van der Linden Open Source Geospatial consultant dogodigi - Geospatial solutions Beukenlaan 2 5261LE Vught T. +31616598808 ___

Re: [OSM-talk] Are there any other projects in a similar fork situation? (Slightly OT)

2010-10-04 Thread Milo van der Linden
2010/10/2 Serge Wroclawski > On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 8:45 PM, Dave F. wrote: > > I think such a project would fail, and here are my reasons why: > > Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts. John Wooden

Re: [OSM-talk] Let's prepare to Fork OSM to a CCBYSA 2.0 continuation

2010-08-22 Thread Milo van der Linden
I am not against a fork, but as Frederik already mentioned, there is no to debate about a fork and spread anti-odbl propaganda. There are other good reasons to fork, for me one of them is getting a more distributed database instead of everything in a single farm on a single location. I would not

Re: [OSM-talk] Enough is enough: disinfecting OSM from poisonous people

2010-08-12 Thread Milo van der Linden
Please, if there's anything that you don't like, just ignore it, take your > GPS & go for walk/ride/journey. > > It really is that simple. > > Dave F. > > > +1 ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Licence of Soviet military topographic maps

2010-07-01 Thread Milo van der Linden
internet and most > disappointed. One gold mining area in low resolution only. > > > ___ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > -- Milo van der Linden Open Source Geospati

Re: [OSM-talk] Tsunami warning siren?

2010-06-27 Thread Milo van der Linden
No, it is a tree.. and if you mean a little more down, it is a bell... but hey, what is this strange object on the pole that is dominating the view?! Just kidding, must be sunday. I must say I never saw such a device before ;-) but since you haven't recieved any real responses I just wanted to say

Re: [OSM-talk] Planet file now at 10 GB

2010-06-03 Thread Milo van der Linden
I always use the ITO OpenStreetMap environment for specific bbox and time/date edit queries: http://www.itoworld.com/static/openstreetmap.html On 06/03/2010 09:23 PM, Julio Costa Zambelli wrote: Dear Kai, Is there a way for you to check how many people have been editing in this bbox ([Lat/L

Re: [OSM-talk] Russians at it again

2010-05-07 Thread Milo van der Linden
The Russian OpenStreetMap users have proven that they are capable to bring the issue to the international community when they need to before. This led to a long discussion on the list dominated (again in my opinion) by people having no clue of what it is like to live in Russia. I think, that if

Re: [OSM-talk] Russians at it again

2010-05-06 Thread Milo van der Linden
edia.org/wiki/Freedom_from_want> should not interfere in this particular topic. It makes me sad that having the luxury of all freedoms, seems to make some people incapable of understanding that this is NOT (yet) a common privilige in other parts of the world.. Kind regards, Milo van der Li

Re: [OSM-talk] What do you wish you'd known?

2010-03-24 Thread Milo van der Linden
I wish I'd known that you shouldn't ask the community for help to set up a team to develop something marvelous but DIY! Alone! You need to go sit in the basement, blind the windows, block IRC and e-mail, completely ignore the internet, sleep during the day (or better, don't sleep at all) and bu

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenTrailView: StreetView for footpaths and trails

2010-03-24 Thread Milo van der Linden
Nice, Will the source code be available in one of the svn repositories? - The first thing I would like to see is a function to click a location on a map to set lat/lon instead of entering it. - Another would be to read EXIF information regarding coordinates instead of entering it About the pho

Re: [OSM-talk] What do you wish you'd known?

2010-03-21 Thread Milo van der Linden
I wish I would have known that in a community not everyone is as "open". Some people get flamed for being open when telling "I want to do this and that with openstreetmap" while others keep a low profile and suddenly hit the news with half finished products. Sometimes I think when communication

Re: [OSM-talk] get latitude / longitude of points?

2010-03-16 Thread Milo van der Linden
You might also consider importing with osm2pqsql with the -l flag (use lat/lon) that way your database will be in a EPSG:4326 official projection (which 900913 is not) and you will have an easier life if you want to convert between projections. I am also a *fan* of using wgs84 in my postgis dat

Re: [OSM-talk] get latitude / longitude of points?

2010-03-16 Thread Milo van der Linden
Ah.. gridshift! Mmm, projections! http://postgis.refractions.net/pipermail/postgis-users/2009-July/024043.html The error is proj related; or your 900913 projection is missing from the databases spatial_ref_sys table. Torsten Mohr wrote: > Hello, > > thanks a lot for your hint. > > >> http:

Re: [OSM-talk] get latitude / longitude of points?

2010-03-14 Thread Milo van der Linden
your needs. In general you can find postgis documentation at: http://postgis.refractions.net/documentation/ Kind regards, Milo van der Linden Torsten Mohr wrote: > Hi, > > i'm not sure what is the best way, Mapnik or plain postgresql, maybe somebody > can give me a hint? &g

Re: [OSM-talk] Freemap - OpenStreetMap for walkers (hikers) - feature ideas?

2010-03-10 Thread Milo van der Linden
the openstreetmap svn repository so others can help you? It would thrive discussion, create new insights and make life easier for you perhaps? Kind regards, Milo van der Linden Nick Whitelegg wrote: > Hello everyone, > > After a year or so of server memory issues causing problems with Freema

Re: [OSM-talk] With apologies to RichardF/FakeSteveC

2010-02-25 Thread Milo van der Linden
Excelent! I hope one day you will have to apologise to me too! You made my day with this hilarious mail! ;-) Kind regards, Milo van der Linden SteveC wrote: > Recently I've been a bit negative about potlatch and by over-extension to > RichardF. > > I apologise, sorry! >

Re: [OSM-talk] FOSSGIS 2010, March 2-5, in Osnabrueck, Germany

2010-02-09 Thread Milo van der Linden
I would have loved to come, but unfortunately I signed up for the galileo application days http://www.application-days.eu/ that are set on exactly the same days in Bruxelles, Belgium. Kind regards, Milo van der Linden Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > the programme for the Germa

Re: [OSM-talk] Use of OSM data by the military and/or intelligence services

2010-02-04 Thread Milo van der Linden
Since all military organisations in the world can get their hands on OpenStreetMap data, it rules out the advantage and makes OpenStreetMap data as common to warfare as the soil they walk on... I am looking forward to the first edit-war that will turn out to influence the outcome of a real war.

Re: [OSM-talk] can't print from wiki

2010-02-02 Thread Milo van der Linden
n any case, the parameter doesn't work for me. > > Margie > > On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Milo van der Linden wrote: > >> Will it do if you use the simple mediawiki "printable=yes" parameter when >> using a url? >> >> >> http://wiki.

Re: [OSM-talk] Playing tagging democracy: standard building process and tag unifying towards it

2010-02-02 Thread Milo van der Linden
Claudius, You made an excellent statement I completely agree with! For a lot of us, the fun comes in when you can take this pile of beautiful and divers geodata and create your own map styles. You can even create maps of specific objects and types. Jochen; Consider looking at the beatiful map

Re: [OSM-talk] can't print from wiki

2010-02-02 Thread Milo van der Linden
More tips and tricks on getting wiki pages better fit for printing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Printable Margie Roswell wrote: > This printing issues on wiki.openstreetmap.org have not been addressed. > > Who can fix this? > > Andy did some great troubleshooting last week. > > Can we make

Re: [OSM-talk] can't print from wiki

2010-02-02 Thread Milo van der Linden
Will it do if you use the simple mediawiki "printable=yes" parameter when using a url? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/?printable=yes&title=Main_Page kind regards, Miblon Margie Roswell wrote: > This printing issues on wiki.openstreetmap.org have not been addressed. > > Who can fix this? > > A

Re: [OSM-talk] Business listings

2009-07-27 Thread Milo van der Linden
My wild guess is that this might be on the core-business-todo list for cloudmade ;-) Paul Houle schreef: > The other day my family was on a road trip and we passed by an > unfamilliar city. We wanted to find a chinese restaurant, so I used > the database of business locations in City Navi

Re: [OSM-talk] Do we care if its forest or wood? Natural world mapping ...

2009-07-21 Thread Milo van der Linden
May I suggest looking at what people at the CORINE landcover dataset have defined? http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/COR0-landcover/at_download/file they have a nomenclature describing a classification that is studied and looks usable to me. Martin Koppenhoefer schreef: > 2009/7/21 Tyler