Re: [OSM-talk] HOT ready? Concepción, Chile eart hquake

2010-02-27 Thread Peter Childs
On the subject of Earth Quakes, Do we have the plate / fault boundaries tagged, and can we get them rendered, It might help see exactly what's going on geographically speaking Peter. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstre

Re: [OSM-talk] Should roads be connected to all types of crossing ways?

2010-02-15 Thread Peter Childs
On 15 February 2010 12:11, MP wrote: > On 15/02/2010, Pieren wrote: >> On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 9:54 PM, Richard Weait wrote: >> > Your router example still works.  Even if you and I aren't going to >> > turn left at "highway=railway; railway=narrow_gauge" we had best give >> > way to traffic the

Re: [OSM-talk] Why doesn't OSM implement a simple measure to protectit's users and passwords?

2009-12-22 Thread Peter Childs
2009/12/22 John F. Eldredge : > There also does not appear to be any provision on the OSM web site for > changing to a new password, which is something that one should do > occasionally.  At least, if there is a way to do so, I haven't found it. > Select your name at the top, (Its a link) Then

Re: [OSM-talk] Ditches

2009-12-15 Thread Peter Childs
2009/12/15 Anthony : > On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Chris Hill wrote: >> >> Steve Bennett wrote: >> > Alight, I've had enough of this. >> You've had enough of it!!!  After nearly fifty emails about how to tag a >> ditch with a bridge over it in a few hours I think everyone in OSM has >> had e

Re: [OSM-talk] Ditches

2009-12-15 Thread Peter Childs
2009/12/15 John Smith : > 2009/12/15 Steve Bennett : >> IMHO, tagging "layer=1 bridge=yes" for a road going over water is an >> example of a hack, and "tagging for the renderer". The information >> "bridge=1" is more than enough to render with, so "layer=1" can *only* >> be interpreted as giving a

Re: [OSM-talk] Dual/Multiple licencing

2009-12-14 Thread Peter Childs
2009/12/14 Brendan Morley : > Maybe I missed something in the discussion but... > > Why must there be migration to the new licence?  Why can't we run both > indefinitely? > > Because there are things you can do with one that you can't do with the other, and there are things you must do with one a

Re: [OSM-talk] [talk-au] Fwd: Re: Why PD is not better for business

2009-12-11 Thread Peter Childs
2009/12/11 Emilie Laffray : > > > 2009/12/11 Peter Childs >> >> Hmm Maybe these have not all died but the split did cause serious damage. >> >> X (You now have a choice of X.org and XFree86), The split caused a >> long halt in development and the original

Re: [OSM-talk] [talk-au] Fwd: Re: Why PD is not better for business

2009-12-11 Thread Peter Childs
2009/12/11 paul youlten : > Peter, > > That sounds bad. Can you give us some examples? > > PY > > On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Peter Childs wrote: >> 2009/12/11 paul youlten : >>> Dave, >>> >>> Clearly all those things, and much more, can

Re: [OSM-talk] [talk-au] Fwd: Re: Why PD is not better for business

2009-12-11 Thread Peter Childs
2009/12/11 paul youlten : > Dave, > > Clearly all those things, and much more, can and should be mapped. > They can all be seen on the street and they all have public access. I > agree: "If it's a physical entity then it can be mapped." ++ > > What is less clear is what happens if changing the lice

Re: [OSM-talk] Divided roads proposal

2009-12-04 Thread Peter Childs
2009/12/4 Martin Koppenhoefer : > 2009/12/4 Morten Kjeldgaard >> >> There's nothing you can do with drawing that can't be done with >> tagging, and there's in principle nothing being done with tagging that >> can't be rendered beautifully on the final map. It only depends on the >> richness of the

Re: [OSM-talk] Path vs footway vs cycleway vs...

2009-11-30 Thread Peter Childs
2009/11/30 Roy Wallace : > On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 9:25 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer > wrote: >>> >>> An area of grass is - to me - not a path. A path, IMHO, is something >>> that exists independently of people walking or not walking on it (i.e. >>> usually you can *see* that it resembles a path). >> >

Re: [OSM-talk] Isn't it time for a higher zoom level?

2009-11-21 Thread Peter Childs
2009/11/21 John Smith : > 2009/11/21 Peter Childs : >> If we had an application, that could read osm and render on the fly we >> could have any zoom level we like, including zoom levels between zoom >> levels, (ie vector graphics) >> >> In theory Potlatch already d

Re: [OSM-talk] Isn't it time for a higher zoom level?

2009-11-20 Thread Peter Childs
2009/11/20 Kenneth Gonsalves : > On Saturday 21 Nov 2009 4:59:47 am Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: >> On Saturday 21 Nov 2009 2:14:35 am Arlindo Pereira wrote: >> > Probably this should be targeted for a more specific list like mapnik-, >> > but I'd like to hear (er, read) what do you think about this ma

Re: [OSM-talk] What Streets are in what Places

2009-11-18 Thread Peter Childs
2009/11/18 John Smith : > 2009/11/18 Emilie Laffray : >> >> >> 2009/11/18 Liz >>> >>> On Fri, 13 Nov 2009, Peter Childs wrote: >>> > What I would like to do is write a script that takes the planet and >>> > gives a list of the place

Re: [OSM-talk] What Streets are in what Places

2009-11-18 Thread Peter Childs
2009/11/18 Peter Körner : > Liz schrieb: >> On Fri, 13 Nov 2009, Peter Childs wrote: >>> What I would like to do is write a script that takes the planet and >>> gives a list of the places (towns, villages etc) and a polygon/area >>> for each place. >> Plea

Re: [OSM-talk] What Streets are in what Places

2009-11-15 Thread Peter Childs
2009/11/14 Brian Quinion : > On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 7:51 PM, Peter Childs wrote: >> Looking at this the new Nominatim service seams to do 85% of what I >> need, and might do more at a pinch. (Only found the service when I >> logged into IRC tonight) > > My hope

Re: [OSM-talk] What Streets are in what Places

2009-11-14 Thread Peter Childs
Looking at this the new Nominatim service seams to do 85% of what I need, and might do more at a pinch. (Only found the service when I logged into IRC tonight) I'll have to have a look before I start reinventing the wheel. Peter. ___ talk mailing l

Re: [OSM-talk] What Streets are in what Places

2009-11-13 Thread Peter Childs
2009/11/13 Florian Lohoff : > On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 07:43:20AM +0000, Peter Childs wrote: >> However in OSM places are points not area's and the areas we do have >> are either to do with admin (ie Counties, Borough's etc) and hence are >> rather less than helpfu

Re: [OSM-talk] What Streets are in what Places

2009-11-13 Thread Peter Childs
2009/11/13 John Smith : > 2009/11/13 Peter Childs : >> My first though was for an generated list rather than entered >> boarders, however thinking again this might need some human >> intervention to work properly. > > Boundaries are just as much arbitary as they a

Re: [OSM-talk] What Streets are in what Places

2009-11-13 Thread Peter Childs
2009/11/13 Andrew Errington : > On Fri, November 13, 2009 16:43, Peter Childs wrote: >> >> Any ideas. > > You could calculate node density (nodes/km2) and assume that node density > will decay from the centre of a town to the edge.  This would work for the > nodes in

Re: [OSM-talk] What Streets are in what Places

2009-11-13 Thread Peter Childs
2009/11/13 John Smith : > 2009/11/13 Peter Childs : >> The is_in tag is not a lot of use either due to it being inconsistent. > > I thought is_in is depreciated and replaced by polygons? > >> While I don't think this list would be worth piping back in to the >&g

[OSM-talk] What Streets are in what Places

2009-11-12 Thread Peter Childs
I'm trying to find away to place streets in to places, so I can automatcally know the xxx street is in xxx town. However in OSM places are points not area's and the areas we do have are either to do with admin (ie Counties, Borough's etc) and hence are rather less than helpful. The is_in tag is n

Re: [OSM-talk] Why do you use Google Maps instead of OSM? Because of buildings...

2009-11-10 Thread Peter Childs
While the map "quaility" may have some weight as to why people use Google (or Bing for that matter) I suspect the bigger problem is the User Interface. We have a good UI for map making maps but the API for rending and searching the maps is hmm well complicated. Part of the problem stems from ther

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] alley - for tree-lined roads?

2009-11-04 Thread Peter Childs
2009/11/4 Andrew Errington > On Wed, November 4, 2009 10:25, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > > On Tuesday 03 Nov 2009 8:12:55 pm Peter Childs wrote: > > > >> Participially if the trees overhang the road, and may get in the way of > >> Busses (that often have to brus

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] alley - for tree-lined roads?

2009-11-03 Thread Peter Childs
2009/11/3 Hillsman, Edward > >Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:54:32 + > >From: Robert > >Subject: [OSM-talk] [tagging] alley - for tree-lined roads? > > > >Hello, > > > >We are discussing in talk-de (German board) just streets and other ways > >with many trees nearby. > > > >I found here: > >http:

Re: [OSM-talk] differences in how OpenCycleMap renders bicycle parking

2009-10-23 Thread Peter Childs
2009/10/23 Hillsman, Edward > I have a question about how OpenCycleMap renders bicycle parking. > > > > At this location (central London) > > > > http://www.opencyclemap.org/?zoom=15&lat=51.51367&lon=-0.08747&layers=B000 > > > > bicycle parking is rendered as a white “C” on a blue background, w

Re: [OSM-talk] Roadside Distance Markers

2009-10-22 Thread Peter Childs
2009/10/23 John Smith > 2009/10/23 mle : > > Hi Folks - > > > > on a recent survey, I mapped some roads with modern km markers by the > > side of the road. How should these be mapped - As a node within the > > highway, or a separate single node to the side of the highway. And how > > to tag the

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC -(man_made=mineshaft)

2009-10-20 Thread Peter Childs
2009/10/21 Ulf Lamping > Anthony schrieb: > > Disused canal, fine. Disused railway, sure. Disused building, no > > problem. Disused quarry, yes. > > > > But disused cafe? A cafe is a building, or part of a building, which > > is *used* as a cafe. The use is part of the definition. > > Well,

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - (man_made=mineshaft)

2009-10-20 Thread Peter Childs
2009/10/20 Lesi > Hello, > > based on an old (abandoned) proposal and on a discussion in the German > board > I have created a new proposal for tagging mineshafts: > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Mineshaft > > In addition to this proposal I would like to discuss the tag r

Re: [OSM-talk] Instead of voting

2009-10-09 Thread Peter Childs
2009/10/9 Frederik Ramm : > Hi, > > Matt Amos wrote: >>> 1) Just map. >>> 2) Use existing keys if you can. >>> 3) Use existing tags if you can. >>> 4) If you used a tag that isn't in the wiki, document your use of the >>> tag, so that other people won't use your tag to mean something else. >> >> th

Re: [OSM-talk] England, Wales, Scotland borders

2009-10-07 Thread Peter Childs
2009/10/7 Ed Avis : > Peter Childs bcs.org> writes: > >>>The regional development agencies have quite big budgets, actually. But I'd >>>agree that "England" needs to have it's own level. >> >>I think admin_level=5 and an update to

Re: [OSM-talk] England, Wales, Scotland borders

2009-10-06 Thread Peter Childs
2009/10/6 Richard Mann : > The regional development agencies have quite big budgets, actually. But I'd > agree that "England" needs to have it's own level. > I think admin_level=5 and an update to the wiki might be the best move. Peter. ___ talk mailin

[OSM-talk] EGNOS

2009-10-05 Thread Peter Childs
I'm sure EGNOS is something else other than the new Euro GPS system, but I can't for the life of me remember what, something to do with food and Christmas rings a bell but I can't think what. Anyway so EGNOS is now available for use. So what new things can we do with this new available accura

Re: [OSM-talk] SteveC should decide

2009-10-01 Thread Peter Childs
2009/10/1 Pieren : > On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Peter Childs wrote: >> >> The problem with this is that things are never that black and white >> there are aways shades of Grey. Simple Parsing might be quite happy >> with Yes/No or True/False, but 2 might me

Re: [OSM-talk] SteveC should decide

2009-10-01 Thread Peter Childs
2009/10/1 Pieren : > On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Russ Nelson wrote: > > Would it be a good compromise to say: > 1. a software application should always check boolean against > "yes/true/1" and not only "yes" > 2. the wiki shoudl "recommend" the "yes" > 3. a bot is setup to replace regularly al

Re: [OSM-talk] Field boundaries

2009-09-30 Thread Peter Childs
2009/9/30 Dave F. : > Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote: >> >> Or better still, train dogs to walk only under hedges and fit them with a >> GPS :-) >> >> > > What tag should we use for territorial pissings? ;) > I think that would have to be an admin_level=11 or maybe 12. Peter. ___

Re: [OSM-talk] Field boundaries

2009-09-30 Thread Peter Childs
2009/9/29 Dave F. : > Peter Childs wrote: >> >> 2009/9/28 Mark Williams : >> >>> >>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >>> Hash: SHA1 >>> >>> courtland.yoc...@mindspring.com wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> I

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - landuse=orchard

2009-09-29 Thread Peter Childs
2009/9/29 Claudius : > Am 28.09.2009 20:40, Pieren: >> Hi all, >> >> This is not my proposal but this tag is used by the Corine Land Cover >> current import in France corresponding to the class 2.2.2 of this >> european program (Agricultural areas ->  Permanent crops ->  Fruit trees >> and berry pl

Re: [OSM-talk] Field boundaries

2009-09-28 Thread Peter Childs
2009/9/28 Mark Williams : > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > courtland.yoc...@mindspring.com wrote: >> I've been thinking a bit about this from a very different perspective - that >> of parks and other open public areas where you might not have a chance to >> walk the perimeter

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=residential for rural ways?

2009-09-16 Thread Peter Childs
2009/9/16 Valent Turkovic : > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Nick Whitelegg > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> My understanding is that rural roads ("country lanes" as they are called >> in the UK) should be highway=unclassified. However if there is a small >> housing estate or residential road in a village,

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Data Used in Upcoming Monopoly Game

2009-09-09 Thread Peter Childs
2009/9/9 Ian Dees : > On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Ed Avis wrote: >> >> Perhaps they are using OSM for data, dividing up the world into streets >> that >> players can buy and sell, but rendering the Google Maps tiles underneath. >> That seems a bit lame. > > I'm playing it right now, and this

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Mailing List Reply To Header

2009-09-03 Thread Peter Childs
I was only trying to sort out what I find to be an annoyance and a possible cause of why we get a lot of emails on this list without answers. I did not mean to start a holy war. Personally I think Email needs a complete and utter re-design from the ground up. Its not fit for the purpose it is now

[OSM-talk] OSM Mailing List Reply To Header

2009-09-03 Thread Peter Childs
Am I missing something, But it would help if the Reply-to header on all messages that go through the list(s) gets set to the list email, so that when we hit reply the message goes to the list by default. This is the way most of the other lists I'm on work, and its a bit annoying having to use "Rep

Re: [OSM-talk] How to tag lanes, not ways, was: Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-30 Thread Peter Childs
2009/8/30 John Smith : > 2009/8/30 Anthony : >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > That solution would fail to allow us to attach nodes to individual lanes. > > This is just another hack to try and accomodate the existing framework > and I think it's a bad idea to try and cram multiple values into a

Re: [OSM-talk] waterway=lock

2009-08-28 Thread Peter Childs
2009/8/28 Richard Fairhurst : > > Peter Childs wrote: >> The Canal way will need to be split at the lock gates, (or in >> some cases where a diversion starts (due to some rivers >> going over weirs) while there is a lock for boats. > > (UK-specific tagging stuff fo

Re: [OSM-talk] waterway=lock

2009-08-28 Thread Peter Childs
2009/8/28 : >> On 27/08/09 12:13, Jack Stringer wrote: >> >>> lock=yes >>> lock_name=Withrington Bottom Lock >> >> When you are tagging a way, you can't use name= because that will >> already contain the name of the canal. Hence lock_name=. >> > Why would you want to repeat the name of a canal on

Re: [OSM-talk] How to tag lanes, not ways, was: Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-28 Thread Peter Childs
Sorry for thinking out loud but here we go. A Way can have many lanes, Infact the default is lanes=2 (or is it?) oneway=yes infers lanes=1 lanes can be used for many purposes including turning, parking, walking cycling. Lanes need names I guess partially if we all going to use them to describe

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-27 Thread Peter Childs
2009/8/27 "Marc Schütz" : > > Note that by requiring a junction, you make it impossible to model stop signs > don't involve a junction. > > I don't know how frequent these occur, but I can imagine cases where there is > a sharp curve before which you're required to stop. And I believe there are

Re: [OSM-talk] waterway=lock

2009-08-27 Thread Peter Childs
2009/8/27 Jack Stringer : > Just looking at Keepright and I can see loads of waterway=lock > > What is the preferred way to record the information? > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:waterway%3Dlock_gate > Shows to tag both ends of the lock. If there is a name just to use name. > > http://w

Re: [OSM-talk] New dimension of vandalism

2009-08-27 Thread Peter Childs
2009/8/26 Richard Fairhurst : > Renaud Martinet wrote: >> I guess that the highway tag used to describe physical features >> of different types of roads back when OSM was quite UK-centric. > > Nope - UK highway tagging, which was of course the original, has always > largely been aligned to adminis

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-25 Thread Peter Childs
2009/8/25 John Smith : > How can mapping out a node not be simple? It is a lot simpler than mapping > out a relation or splitting a way etc etc etc and the only thing that > benefits from stop sign information is routing software, editors don't, > mappers don't so making it more complicated than

Re: [OSM-talk] Escalators and Travalators

2009-08-23 Thread Peter Childs
2009/8/23 Mike Harris : > Could I ask the architects whether their down-to-up convention applies to > escalators as well (cf. current discussion on 'steps') - given that they are > moving steps - or only to up-escalators (;>) ... > Also steps where a One-Way System applies (even on Steps) (Due to

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - incline up down

2009-08-22 Thread Peter Childs
2009/8/22 John Smith : > --- On Sun, 23/8/09, Morten Kjeldgaard wrote: >> I realize it wont be possible to compute elevation >> gradients tomorrow, but why not plan ahead? Who would've >> thought a few years ago that the project would be so far >> advanced? Wouldn't you rather have nodes on a way

Re: [OSM-talk] Escalators and Travalators

2009-08-22 Thread Peter Childs
2009/8/22 Tobias Knerr : > Peter Childs wrote: >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Escalator >> >> I'm trying to work out how to tag Escalators I'm not sure the current >> tagging it clear, or even partially useful. > > I wouldn&#x

[OSM-talk] Escalators and Travalators

2009-08-22 Thread Peter Childs
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Escalator I'm trying to work out how to tag Escalators I'm not sure the current tagging it clear, or even partially useful. This ties in Greatly with the long running Path discussion.. There seams to be no clear way to tag "Moving Walkways

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - miniature railway

2009-08-19 Thread Peter Childs
2009/8/19 John Smith : > --- On Wed, 19/8/09, Peter Childs wrote: >> Are Miniture Railways a British Thing, or is it that they >> appear most >> often in the Uk? (Making us Brits a load of Train >> enthusiasts) > > There seems to be a number of them around Austral

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - miniature railway

2009-08-18 Thread Peter Childs
2009/8/18 Peter Miller : > > On 18 Aug 2009, at 17:47, Peter Childs wrote: > >> 2009/8/16 John Smith : >>> >>> --- On Sun, 16/8/09, Lester Caine wrote: >>>> >>>> I'd recommend synchronising this with wikipedia >>>> http:

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - miniature railway

2009-08-18 Thread Peter Childs
2009/8/16 John Smith : > --- On Sun, 16/8/09, Lester Caine wrote: >> I'd recommend synchronising this with wikipedia >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miniature_railway >> >> A lot of work has been done there between the various types >> of model/miniature >> railway, and that page has a fairly comp

Re: [OSM-talk] conditions as part of value/key

2009-08-11 Thread Peter Childs
2009/8/8 Roy Wallace : > > maxspeed:vehicle:weather = hgv;wet;|motorcycle;wet; > > Actually that's quite readable... > We already use the : format for translations, so why don't use it for time periods and the weather. Make sence to me. Very useful for parking restrictions as well. I'm guessing

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Clearance

2009-07-30 Thread Peter Childs
2009/7/30 Gervase Markham : > On 30/07/09 09:26, Aun Johnsen (via Webmail) wrote: >> much more. Since many countries have two different signs for max legal >> height and max physical height, and its usages can be very different, why >> not allow this in tags? > > Can you provide sample images for s

Re: [OSM-talk] Tests in the Antarctica?

2009-07-20 Thread Peter Childs
2009/7/20 Martin Koppenhoefer : > Does anyone know if these are real-world representations or just spam? > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-66.662&lon=50.799&zoom=11&layers=B000FTF > > cheers, > Martin > > ___ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.or

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Residential home

2009-07-17 Thread Peter Childs
own (at least here) as "shelters". For > homeless people and domestic violence victims etc. > > Yes and Retirement Homes/Old People Homes, Homes for the Disabled. etc etc. Maybe we need a tag for Day Care, and Drop in Centre as well. A Shelter is a type of Residential Home,

Re: [OSM-talk] access=destination valid only in one direction

2009-07-10 Thread Peter Childs
2009/7/10 Stanislav Brabec : > Hallo. > > Is there a way how to map a street with access=destination valid just > only for one direction? In the reverse direction it is a standard drive > through street. > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/30764132 > The standard way to do this is with a s

Re: [OSM-talk] A possible way to promote OSM

2009-07-09 Thread Peter Childs
2009/7/9 John Smith : > > Tracing rivers and such on OSM gave me an idea for a possible way to promote > OSM, geography students. > > I mean what better way to teach kids about geography than doing a little > cartography :) > > > Back when I was at School, If I could have done a GCSE or A-Level

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping party suggestion for SOTM

2009-07-08 Thread Peter Childs
2009/7/9 Cartinus : > On Thursday 09 July 2009 02:52:04 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: >> Only to find to my disappointment that not only did the map >> of Amsterdam not have an area (or even a POI!) for the Red Light >> district > Main Problem I can see with mapping Red Light Districts is that th

[OSM-talk] Launching bestofosm.org

2009-07-07 Thread Peter Childs
2009/7/7 Martijn van Exel : > Great! Very useful for presentations and workshops as well. Love it. > How about zoos? > * Antwerp http://osm.org/go/0EpZNzMEN- > * Berlin http://osm.org/go/0MZu8WGXg- > * Amsterdam http://osm.org/go/0...@61hts- > There's bound to be more micromapped zoos! > Question

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding OpenStreetMap map into wordpress.com post

2009-06-25 Thread Peter Childs
2009/6/25 Ivan Garcia : > Hi, thks for the answers, but wordpress.org does not allow to install 3rd > party plugins into their online hosting blogs, and the solution of an static > image is a bit limited cause then user won't be able to drag the map or zoom > out to see the roads access, etc. > > S

[OSM-talk] North Pole

2009-06-19 Thread Peter Childs
Why is the North Pole at 0,0? http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=0&lon=0&zoom=16&layers=000BFTF and why at higher zoom levels does it appear as a Car Park. I can't see any data but it seams to appear in all the different renderer s. Last Time I checked you could not park your car in the middle of

Re: [OSM-talk] Move the Map

2009-06-17 Thread Peter Childs
2009/6/17 Eric Wolf : > It's just the Brits trying to re-establish their imperial dominance over the > world. > > On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Shaun McDonald > wrote: >> >> On 17 Jun 2009, at 18:17, Joe Richards wrote: >> >> One of the main annoyances that people tell me that they have with O

Re: [OSM-talk] openmaps.org

2009-06-16 Thread Peter Childs
2009/6/16 Jonas Krückel : > Eric Pritchett schrieb: >> Hi Everyone, >> >> I recently donated openmaps.org to the Open Street Map Foundation. >> Everyone here is doing a great job with this project and I thought you >> could make better use of the domain.  Having said that, the foundation >> owns th

Re: [OSM-talk] pub vs bar vs club

2009-06-03 Thread Peter Childs
2009/6/3 Joe Richards : > > How do you tag a drinking establishment that is not a pub?  I'm thinking of > places where >  * they typically don't serve food food=yes/no (I think the default is No) >  * the name doesn't start with "The" or have Olde Worlde signs out the front name=whatever >  *

Re: [OSM-talk] When is a road a secondary road and when is it not?

2009-06-02 Thread Peter Childs
2009/6/2 Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) : > Peter Miller wrote: >>Sent: 02 June 2009 5:31 PM >>To: Talk Openstreetmap >>Subject: [OSM-talk] When is a road a secondary road and when is it not? >> >> >>I have used primary, secondary and tertiary to indicate relative >>traffic levels on roads in Ips

Re: [OSM-talk] script to cut a big OSM map into letter or A4 size papers

2009-05-27 Thread Peter Childs
2009/5/27 Richard Fairhurst : > > Matt Amos wrote: >> i've found that printers often prefer high resolution images >> over PDFs, but these are also pretty easy to generate. for the >> mappa mercia A0 print [1] it looks like 9934 x 14046 (300dpi) >> was a good resolution. > > > > We send the magazi

Re: [OSM-talk] script to cut a big OSM map into letter or A4 size papers

2009-05-27 Thread Peter Childs
2009/5/27 Arlindo Pereira : > Wow, I second that question, that would be very nice. I'm no scripter > myself, but I suppose that it won't be needed to render the tiles on > the device, just tome way to download the png tiles from the server > and print them side to side. > > [] > > On Mon, May 25,

Re: [OSM-talk] New Proposed Feature: Tagging the age and duration of existence of features

2009-05-23 Thread Peter Childs
2009/5/22 Nop : > > Hi! > >> start_date=, end_date= >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features#Properties >> http://osmdoc.com/en/tag/start_date/ >> http://osmdoc.com/en/tag/end_date/ >> maybe someone could create the tag pages for those on wiki? >> > Silly point old data can be important

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] tagging stones in the wild (erratic, balancing, boundary, stone age, artifact)

2009-05-23 Thread Peter Childs
Cairns http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairn oh and Trig Points http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trig_point Get some mapping done using one all the better I guess.... (Unless that causes copyright problems .) Peter Childs ___ talk mailing list talk@o

[OSM-talk] GPS Future Was Re: Satellite for OSM

2009-05-21 Thread Peter Childs
2009/5/21 Joe Richards : > > > Where did this idea go in the end? It seems the talk about it petered-out, or > was some action agreed (along with who was going to undertake it)? > > > > Given the US have forgotten to keep the GPS system up to date, maybe > we need a few satelites of our own to rep

Re: [OSM-talk] Satellite for OSM

2009-05-21 Thread Peter Childs
2009/5/20 Joe Richards : > > Where did this idea go in the end? It seems the talk about it petered-out, or > was some action agreed (along with who was going to undertake it)? > > Given the US have forgotten to keep the GPS system up to date, maybe we need a few satelites of our own to replace it

Re: [OSM-talk] zones for motorway/in town/outof town?

2009-05-20 Thread Peter Childs
2009/5/20 Jacek Konieczny : > On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 11:59:05AM +0100, Radomir Cernoch wrote: >> In the Czech list we ended up with the following solution, which tries >> to copy the legislation (which is a good starting point, I guess): >> >> 1) Every road is by default 'rural' road (speed limit

Re: [OSM-talk] Live Data - all new Data in OSM

2009-05-13 Thread Peter Childs
2009/5/13 Ian Dees : > Ok, this I'll agree on. My original post was just to talk about it... not > really to do it. But it sounds like we should take "baby" steps. Let's work > on the minutely diffs first and if some crazy person comes up with a good > use case for streaming, we can talk about it

Re: [OSM-talk] Nokia Mobile Phone - GPS

2009-05-11 Thread Peter Childs
2009/5/11 Nick Whitelegg : >>I've just got a new Nokia 6220 Classic Mobile Phone. Its got a built >>in GPS which means I've been able to get out and get a bit more >>mapping done (Since I did not have a GPS this has been difficult) > > I have Freemap Mobile in development, which aims to provide

Re: [OSM-talk] Nokia Mobile Phone - GPS

2009-05-10 Thread Peter Childs
2009/5/10 Chris Browet : > Hi Peter, > > I just myself got the new Nokia 5800, which is S60v5. Nokia having bought > Trolltech (and thus Qt), there is now a preview verion of Qt for S60. > > Merkaartor being built on top of Qt, a version for S60 (or at least a mapper > for S60 built upon the buildi

[OSM-talk] Nokia Mobile Phone - GPS

2009-05-10 Thread Peter Childs
I've just got a new Nokia 6220 Classic Mobile Phone. Its got a built in GPS which means I've been able to get out and get a bit more mapping done (Since I did not have a GPS this has been difficult) I've got the Sport Tracker software installed, which seams to be relatively good at getting tra

Re: [OSM-talk] Languages

2009-05-07 Thread Peter Childs
2009/5/7 Ben Laenen : > On Thursday 07 May 2009, Tal wrote: >> Imagine that you plan a business trip to Tel-Aviv and want to print >> yourself a map of the city. Or maybe you'll be spending a week in >> Cairo. Can you not see the benefit in having a map with the street >> names in a different langu

Re: [OSM-talk] Osmisis Uk Extracting

2009-05-01 Thread Peter Childs
2009/5/1 Shaun McDonald : > If this is planet-090421.osm.bz2 then it is a known problem. > Please use  planet-090429.osm.bz2 which should have that bug removed. > Hmm rsync -LP rsync://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/openstreetmap.org/planet-latest.osm.bz2 . But I might not have re-run it in a week...

[OSM-talk] Osmisis Uk Extracting

2009-05-01 Thread Peter Childs
I'm trying to use Osmosis to extract the Uk data from the planet file, and ideally put it in a PostgreSQL database (but I have a serous lack of hard driver space currently. I want to use it for geocoding I really want a list of roads the there locations in the Uk. Could take someone else extra

Re: [OSM-talk] coastline accuracy?

2009-04-29 Thread Peter Childs
2009/4/29 Alice Kaerast : > On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:25:20 +0100 > mle wrote: > >> I was staying very near the east coast, and noticed that tracks near >> the coast appeared too far inland (further west than expected) when >> the GPS tracks were plotted.  They also seemed too far inland when >> look

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

2009-04-24 Thread Peter Childs
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 top and bottom of the screen is also

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

2009-04-23 Thread Peter Childs
2009/4/23 Jacek Konieczny : > On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 08:23:16AM +, Jukka Rahkonen wrote: >> not mean that these countries are twice as large in the real life.  Scale bar >> values, if presented in meters/feet, should be adjusted according to >> latitude. >> Even then it cannot be correct for

Re: [OSM-talk] What is amenity=food_outlets in map features?

2009-03-29 Thread Peter Childs
2009/3/29 Ulf Lamping : > Hi! > > Someone added amenity=food_outlets to the map features and even after > reading the comment "An area with several food outlets" I'm quite unsure > what this could be. > > Is this a collection of several amenity=fast_food or a kind of > vending_machine or ...? > > C

Re: [OSM-talk] Problem with osm2pgsql

2009-03-09 Thread Peter Childs
2009/3/9 Martijn van Oosterhout : > On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Peter Childs wrote: >> I've been trying to import the Planet file into postgres using >> osm2pgsql, Using the current SVN version, it seams to be segmenting >> when processing the first Way (Under U

[OSM-talk] Problem with osm2pgsql

2009-03-09 Thread Peter Childs
I've been trying to import the Planet file into postgres using osm2pgsql, Using the current SVN version, it seams to be segmenting when processing the first Way (Under Ubuntu Hardy). Does any one have any ideas, or shall I try and import a subset (The UK would fit my purpose) and try and get more d