Re: [OSM-talk] Drones

Hi Absolutely Awsome!! Regards, Peter Am 25.07.2014 10:58, schrieb Pieren: > Some humaniterian team is using a drone for OSM in Haiti since 2 years: > http://cartong.org/project/communautary-mappinguav-project-haiti > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UAV-HAITI > > Pieren > >

Re: [OSM-talk] SOTM-EU videos

Hi Am 15.06.2014 00:29, schrieb Frederik Ramm: all videos from the first and the first half from the second day at SOTM-EU are already available online thanks to our fantastic video team, at youtube.com/sotmeu. Everything is published now. For high-quality versions, go to http://www.sotm-eu

Re: [OSM-talk] Less than two weeks until SOTM-EU

Hi Am 31.05.2014 10:02, schrieb Frederik Ramm: and we're still looking for a couple people to lend us a hand during the conference, details here: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_Of_The_Map_Europe_2014/Helpers In particular are we still in need of Speaker Supports. As a Speaker Supp

Re: [OSM-talk] full history planet file updated?

Hi it wood be pretty cool to have an known updatecycle for full history planets. It does not need to be often but it would help to know how long we need to wait for a new one. Regards, Peter Am 02.11.2013 14:09, schrieb Maurizio Napolitano: i need the full history planet more recent. Here t

Re: [OSM-talk] Overpass or XAPI API servers for 60, 000 node queries?

Hi Am 07.10.2013 18:32, schrieb Roland Olbricht: > Dear Bryce, > > I've cross-checked the Rambler instance. I'm sorry it indeed doesn't work on > that instance. It looks like an element on the network, most likely Nginx, > disconnects any connection if no data is sent for ten minutes. > > A si

Re: [OSM-talk] Changing language in OSM tile server

Hi Am 11.08.2013 06:20, schrieb Hans Schmidt: > I wonder if there is another way than the unifont font? Currently, it > creates an extremely bad average between everything and is not > sufficient for anything. It would be better if there were individual > fonts for every language. As far as I know

Re: [OSM-talk] Irish placenames anomaly

Hi Am 14.07.2013 21:52, schrieb Steve Chilton: > The distribution of Irish placenames from OSM presents a couple of > geographical anomalies. (See > http://steve8.dev.openstreetmap.org/OSM_Placenames_Ireland.jpg). First, the > west-east central belt has suspiciously far fewer names than immedia

Re: [OSM-talk] High Cartographic Quality Label Placement on OSM-based Map

Hi Am 12.07.2013 20:30, schrieb Maxim Rylov: Is the algorithm available as open source? Unfortunately, the algorithm currently is not open-source, but the model that we elaborated and used will be published as a journal paper within the next few months. That's really a pitty. How can someone

Re: [OSM-talk] Edit Local/Server Copy of OSM Data

Hi It is completely possible to set up your own copy of the Rails-API with a local copy of the API-DB. All Editors (Potlatch2, Merkaartoe, JOSM) will be able to talk through your local API with your local Database. In order to render your Data you'll also have to copy the dump/diff creation

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM DB down for maintenance

Hi it seems that the Server "Ramoth" http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Servers/ramoth is unresponsive and couldn't be rebooted remotely. Some admins are on-site (or on their way) to give it a kick. In the meantime it seems everything's up again, but it could be that another restart is require

Re: [OSM-talk] Crossroad names

Am 24.03.2013 15:10, schrieb Martin Koppenhoefer: But there were times when it was easier for the Europeans to "help themselves", i.e propose a patch for one of the 2 main open map styles (osmarender and mapnik) and have hope that it would be integrated (actually in Osmarender you could simply ch

Re: [OSM-talk] osm.org POI display: next beta

Am 17.03.2013 15:34, schrieb Jason Remillard: Hi Paul, There was some discussion at the EWG about POI display being targeted at mappers vs. end users. Which is this aiming at? It is very disappointing to me that this is even being asked. Örm, IMO there are no questions that are not worth bee

Re: [OSM-talk] Revival: Multilingual Country-List

Am 21.02.2013 11:43, schrieb moltonel 3x Combo: Consider this usecase : * I prefer to read French but can also read English, so I set may language priority to name:fr -> name:en -> name. * I now take a look at a country like "Central African Republic" whose local name is a French one. * If the na

Re: [OSM-talk] Revival: Multilingual Country-List

st need to be marked as "OK" again. Sorry for the inconvenience. Peter Am 20.02.2013 10:47, schrieb Peter Körner: Hi I revived the Multilingual Country-List tool. Now with Overpass-API as source, it's a useful tool again. If you find the time, head over to <http://toolserver

Re: [OSM-talk] Revival: Multilingual Country-List

marked as "OK" again. Sorry for the inconvenience. Peter Am 20.02.2013 10:47, schrieb Peter Körner: Hi I revived the Multilingual Country-List tool. Now with Overpass-API as source, it's a useful tool again. If you find the time, head over to <http://toolserver.org/~mazder/mul

[OSM-talk] Revival: Multilingual Country-List

Hi I revived the Multilingual Country-List tool. Now with Overpass-API as source, it's a useful tool again. If you find the time, head over to and look for your favorite language. If you find a low completeness (<100%), check out the

Re: [OSM-talk] Not add extra attributes when import .pbf file to database

Hi Ruben Lopez Mendoza, where did you get those files from? Peter Am 07.02.2013 14:31, schrieb Ruben Lopez Mendoza: I'm using osm2pgsql I'm importing a file called maryland.osm.pbf with extra atributes (--extra-attributes ) but * osm_uid * osm_user fields * osm_version * osm_ti

Re: [OSM-talk] Changeset Comments

Am 03.01.2013 12:11, schrieb Frederik Ramm: once in a while I encounter mappers who don't understand what changeset comments are good for and why they should use them. I was kind of tired of repeating the same things over and over so I wrote up a wiki page here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] New History tab for openstreetmap.org (beta)

Am 04.01.2013 00:01, schrieb Paweł Paprota: For some time now I've been working on the OpenStreetMap Watch List project[1] and on integrating OWL into the main OSM website. Really nice implementation! Congrats for getting this to the beta level! Peter _

Re: [OSM-talk] Massive import of airports

Am 17.12.2010 15:28, schrieb Blake Crosby: I'm responsible for the massive import of airports yesterday. First of all, I would like to apologize for its outcome. Hi Blake thank you for talking to us although we ranted so bad about the import. My intention was to map some of the missing airpo

Re: [OSM-talk] Massive import of airports

Am 17.12.2010 13:30, schrieb ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen: Read my mail ! Instead of debiting the obvious! I'm sorry I've to jump into this discussion. It's not only about data quality but about how we interact with each other. It's best practice at OSM to announce data import

Re: [OSM-talk] Viewing English street names in israel.

Hi I'm one of the admins of this map. I'm not sure how many languages we're able to render without breaking the server down but I added gcf. It'll take some time until the server restarted and the tiles get rendered. Try to access it tomorrow or so:

Re: [OSM-talk] Viewing English street names in israel.

Am 15.12.2010 14:27, schrieb ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen: This works nicely, but this site generates script errors (hangs) in IE and Firefox. (Windows XP) If you stop the script a correct page is loading, but I am not sure if any functionality is lost. OpenLayers does not work

Re: [OSM-talk] Viewing English street names in israel.

Am 12.12.2010 13:42, schrieb Andrew Errington: Take a look at this: > > http://toolserver.org/~osm/locale/ > The deep link would be: >http://toolserver.org/~osm/locale/?lat=32.52074&lon=34.95048&zoom=16&locale=en> Peter ___ talk mailing list talk@op

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing aerial imagery analyzer - date range (Dec/2000-Jun/2006)

Am 15.12.2010 02:29, schrieb dies38...@mypacks.net: I'm looking at imagery over Cali, Colombia and see a date displayed as "Dec/2000-Jun/2006". This seems quite a large range; could you explain how we should interpret this date information? Thanks. This information is sent from Bing as-is,

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM data and Google Maps

Am 02.11.2010 22:58, schrieb Toby Murray: Hmm this isn't the first time that OSM data has found its way into some 3rd party platform via some unnamed "provider." Do google, etc not ask any questions about the data source from these providers? Or are the provider(s) lying about it? There's a d

Re: [OSM-talk] New: A black&white base layer

Am 02.11.2010 21:34, schrieb Richard Weait: I thought the style was very nice before everybody hammered your server. ;-) One more thing: yources to all styles rendered on the toolserver are here: http://svn.toolserver.org/svnroot/p_osm/styles/ Peter __

Re: [OSM-talk] New: A black&white base layer

Am 02.11.2010 21:34, schrieb Richard Weait: On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Peter Körner wrote: Please be patient with the toolserver, most tiles in the bw-mapnik and bw-noicons style are not yet rendered, so there're still a lot 404 error, but this will solve itsself as soon as the map

Re: [OSM-talk] New: A black&white base layer

Please be patient with the toolserver, most tiles in the bw-mapnik and bw-noicons style are not yet rendered, so there're still a lot 404 error, but this will solve itsself as soon as the maps are in a wider use. Peter Am 02.11.2010 20:32, schrieb Kay Drangmeister: Hi After lots of discussio

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM data and Google Maps

Am 02.11.2010 09:41, schrieb Ed Parsons: once we learned this we removed the data as quickly as possible. I think this is the essence of not being evil :) Although we feel unable to license OSM data at present Would this change with a switch ODbL? Peter _

Re: [OSM-talk] XML to OSM Binary Format

Am 29.10.2010 14:55, schrieb Kent II, Allen [USA]: I’m now to Open Street Maps and I was wondering if I could take maps layers stored in XML and view them in OSM Binary Format or Open Street Maps. Any thoughts on this subject would be greatly appreciated. What do you mean with "view"? You ca

Re: [OSM-talk] Amenity key

Am 21.10.2010 23:29, schrieb Sean Horgan: The definition of such a tag/key that is so common the database (3+% according to taginfo: http://taginfo.openstreetmap.de/keys/amenity), needs more than a single line definition. Do you have a suggestion? Peter ___

Re: [OSM-talk] JOSM shp file plugin

Am 20.10.2010 11:45, schrieb Frederik Ramm: Any editor offering a simple "shp import" functionality would soon be regarded as "the software that causes more harm than good". Calls for banning that editor would ensue. I think it would be okay to have shp files as background layer just like a WM

Re: [OSM-talk] anonymous updates

Am 19.10.2010 16:47, schrieb Mike N.: Thread "Revert requests in general" Exactly that one, thank you. Peter ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] anonymous updates

Am 19.10.2010 16:25, schrieb IgnacioZ: Therefore I would like to add editing capabilities to the app, but I'm quite sure that the whole registration process will most probably make several users not want to do it. Is there a possibility to provide anonymous updates through my app? Of course this

Re: [OSM-talk] Planet database size?

Am 18.10.2010 07:37, schrieb Toby Murray: Using the whole planet for my project is probably not practical at this point regardless so I will focus on Kansas only to begin with (takes maybe 2 hours to import) and then maybe expand to more of the US if time permits. But I still haven't killed osmos

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

Am 15.10.2010 12:11, schrieb Valent Turkovic: On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 20:41:30 -0400, Anthony wrote: Once OSM goes ODbL, I'd expect that Mapquest will stop licensing their tiles under a free license. They distribute it now for free? Why? They are forced to by the CC-BY-SA License. Peter _

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

Am 15.10.2010 12:06, schrieb Valent Turkovic: Can I contribute somehow and get this done? The OSM Style is at [1], patches to the dev list [2]. [1] [2] _

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

Am 14.10.2010 16:58, schrieb Paul Houle: However, I'll say that the claim that "we don't have the resources to do it right" is a "bad smell" that I often perceive around organizations that are in a death spiral. I'd read it like: I'ts not in our interest to do it right. The purpose of the mail

Re: [OSM-talk] Ongoing bulk uploads of GPS traces?

Am 13.10.2010 10:53, schrieb Sam Wilson: On 13/10/10 4:39 PM, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: Would you consider uploading the traces to an independent point, specifying the licence of the traces and giving permission for them to be traced into OSM / other maps (you specify what) and perhaps this could th

Re: [OSM-talk] Introducing Taginfo

Am 07.10.2010 13:42, schrieb Sebastian Klein: He talks about the *vertical* scrollbar which is really quite annoying. Take this page for example: No, in my world the vertical scrollbar scrolls up and down... I'm sorry it seems I have misunderstood you. Could you make a screenshot and post it

Re: [OSM-talk] Introducing Taginfo

Am 05.10.2010 19:13, schrieb Jochen Topf: On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 06:54:04PM +0200, Sebastian Klein wrote: I'd prefer if it would not show a vertical scrollbar. This way you could use the full height of your monitor to read the results. Would it be too much to ask for, like, a maximum of 500 ent

Re: [OSM-talk] Multiple OSM instances

Am 05.10.2010 17:37, schrieb 80n: How would a user know which platforms they are able to send contributions to? Is there some kind of contribution hierarchy with PD at the top and proprietary at the bottom? Should there be a registry somewhere? Where is the average contributor to OSM is comi

Re: [OSM-talk] Introducing Taginfo

Am 05.10.2010 15:37, schrieb Jochen Topf: For the last months I have been working on a software called Taginfo that brings together information about OSM tags from the OSM database, the wiki and other places. Somewhat like Tagwatch, Tagstat, and OSMdoc, but more ambitious. :-) I am happy to anno

Re: [OSM-talk] Bot amended relations today

Am 04.10.2010 18:38, schrieb Dave F.: I'm in the middle of a conversation with him. I'm waiting for his reply to whether he agrees it's a problem & will revert. I thought it best to flag it here as well so that he doesn't get inundated with emails. Thank you very much. Peter _

Re: [OSM-talk] Bot amended relations today

Am 04.10.2010 18:23, schrieb Dave F.: I'm sure not all his edits are incorrect, but I think it would be worth checking locally. Could you please mail him with this specific problem and see if he's willing to take back his actions? If he needs help with that we're here to assist. Peter __

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-legal-talk] In what direction should OSM go?

Am 29.09.2010 13:47, schrieb Andrew Harvey: I feel some clarification on what is meant by "import" is needed. For example recently I've been "importing" names of bays from public domain maps. I call adding this data from the PD maps to OSM importing because the data was created somewhere else fir

Re: [OSM-talk] how to see lat lon on map

Am 29.09.2010 13:12, schrieb Frank Fesevur: Doesn't work... at least not for this coordinate: N 52° 03.595 E 004° 16.983 This is not lat/lon but Minutes of arc. It seems, Nominatim, our search engine, is not capable of this. Peter ___ talk mailing l

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-legal-talk] In what direction should OSM go?

Am 29.09.2010 12:26, schrieb Nic Roets: On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Peter Körner wrote: Imported data is dead data - there's no one that feels responsible for it. Imports can kill community and give "newcomers" the feeling that there's nothing more to be done. Import

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-legal-talk] In what direction should OSM go?

Am 29.09.2010 11:50, schrieb Elizabeth Dodd: This belongs back on talk with a new header. OSM states that it is a free map, free to edit and free to use Whether the database should contain imported stuff, traced stuff, or only personally surveyed stuff is a very big issue and any intent now to al

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding the full name of a business

Am 29.09.2010 11:21, schrieb M∡rtin Koppenhoefer: 2010/9/29 Ed Avis: is somewhere between the two. I guess if it is listed in the phone directory's business section under a particular name, then that name can go in OSM. this is legally not correct, while it might be assumable for most cases

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMDoc is awesome!

Am 16.09.2010 16:19, schrieb Lars Francke: My number 1 priority though is fresh data but unfortunately stuff keeps getting in the way and I have very little time at the moment. I hoped to get something done before October but I'm not sure yet. In which language is OSMDoc written and is the sour

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMDoc is awesome!

Am 16.09.2010 01:56, schrieb Lars Francke: My number 1 priority though is fresh data but unfortunately stuff keeps getting in the way and I have very little time at the moment. I hoped to get something done before October but I'm not sure yet. In which language is OSMDoc written and is the sour

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM book in English published

Am 16.09.2010 02:54, schrieb Dave F.: I bet there's something in the wiki I haven't discovered yet, but I'm not going to have to fork out £$ to find it. Hey, no prob - just don't buy a book. I don't read books on IT neither because I can't sit and read without playing around at the same time,

Re: [OSM-talk] Is there an OSM on Android with hand gesture zoom?

Am 14.09.2010 17:07, schrieb Dave F.: Does anybody know of one I could try? Maybe this web-map: http://www.khtml.org/ Peter ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Unnamed footways for pedestrian navigation

Hi Lulu-Ann, Am 10.09.2010 12:27, schrieb Annette Thurow: Also creating way names automatically would force me to name all crossings with loc_names - this just moves the problems from ways to crossings, I guess. it should be possible to generate names for the ways by looking at the last name

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMDoc is awesome!

Am 03.09.2010 11:09, schrieb Lars Francke: Wow! That's awesome. Thank you for your work. I'll be back home next week and will give it a go then. Did you get anywhere? Do you need something? I could run it against a planet file on the wikimedia toolserver, I think, and supply you with a compre

Re: [OSM-talk] Feature Proposal - Voting - Craft

Am 07.09.2010 21:43, schrieb M∡rtin Koppenhoefer: IMHO that's a taylor. A fashion designer is designing clothes that then get produced in the textile industry. I removed craft=fashion from the list craft=photo is too generic, there is not explanation given (just questionmarks), and it isn't a

Re: [OSM-talk] [Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - Craft

Am 07.09.2010 18:27, schrieb John Smith: I'd also consider things like hairdresser to be in shop, even though it might be seen as a craft, I'd too regard craft=hairdresser as an uncommon combination. Any votes against removing craft=hairdresser from the list of common values? > same with handi

Re: [OSM-talk] Feature Proposal - Voting - Craft

Am 07.09.2010 18:01, schrieb M∡rtin Koppenhoefer: craft=fashion should be fashion_designer to correpond to the translation, but still this is not a craft. I would put it in office. I don't think so, but I'd be happy to discuss the pros and cons. I see a fashion_designer as somebody who is cre

[OSM-talk] Feature Proposal - Voting - Craft

Hi All, after two weeks without contradictions, I'll open up voting for the Craft proposal: Thank you for your vote. Peter ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.open

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMDoc is awesome!

Am 03.09.2010 13:23, schrieb Peter Körner: Ah, I see. The Planet-Extracts I worked with had the changesets stripped out, so I haven't thought about that. I'll change the script to import the changeset count, too. I have implemented the changeset count now. There's no filter

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMDoc is awesome!

Am 03.09.2010 11:09, schrieb Lars Francke: The database schema is pretty easy though so if anyone has data laying around this is what I would need I've put together a script that creates this schema [1]. I used php& expat for the xml parsing and pl/pgsql for the counting/update/insert part.

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMDoc is awesome!

Am 01.09.2010 15:15, schrieb Lars Francke: The database schema is pretty easy though so if anyone has data laying around this is what I would need: tag_keys: id integer, total_count integer, changeset_count integer, node_count integer, relation_count integer, way_count integer, name character va

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMDoc is awesome!

Am 01.09.2010 22:32, schrieb Peter Körner: it took 6m50.329s for the germany/bremen extract [2] which is about 4MB of bz2 compressed xml (imported 65046 nodes, 125824 ways). I just ran it on a much faster server and it took 0m33.193s for the same extract. This sounds reasonable. I won'

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMDoc is awesome!

Am 01.09.2010 15:15, schrieb Lars Francke: OSMDoc is great - it's a shame it's a year out of date. I needed a more modern breakdown of tag statistics so I decided to write a report myself - very quick and dirty (no where near as cool as OSMDoc), but functional to get a breakdown of tag usage.

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMDoc is awesome!

Am 01.09.2010 15:15, schrieb Lars Francke: OSMDoc is great - it's a shame it's a year out of date. I needed a more modern breakdown of tag statistics so I decided to write a report myself - very quick and dirty (no where near as cool as OSMDoc), but functional to get a breakdown of tag usage. I

Re: [OSM-talk] moderation going forward

Am 20.08.2010 12:36, schrieb Chris Browet: Do you honestly think the Nearmap announcement should have been posted to Legal, with only a fraction of OSM'ers aware? I don't think so. Not the announcement but the discussion, I think. Peter ___ talk mai

Re: [OSM-talk] NearMap Community Licence and OSM Contributor Terms

Am 19.08.2010 12:23, schrieb Chris Browet: I, as a OSM contributor, am looking to allow free and unrestricted access to map data to everybody. Thank you, Ben, to announce this on OSM-talk. I'd like to invite everybody that wants to discuss on this topic to come over to Legal-talk at

Re: [OSM-talk] Bilingual rendering for Greece

Am 18.08.2010 10:31, schrieb Stephan Knauss: It's complicated because different languages take up different space on the map. So the placement of icons is not trivial. I did the multilingual overlays on the Toolserver. My first approach was to kick out all Symbolizers from the OSM Style that

Re: [OSM-talk] RFC: what are empty nodes and how should we use them?

Am 16.08.2010 15:13, schrieb Maarten Deen: But that automatically means that if you upload in multiple chunks and something goes wrong after nodes have been uploaded, it can occur that the nodes will be created but the ways not. And since most nodes that belong to ways have no tags, you end up wi

Re: [OSM-talk] RFC: what are empty nodes and how should we use them?

Am 16.08.2010 02:50, schrieb Lennard: On 16-8-2010 1:41, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: We've had several cases today, where people came swooping in and deleted nodes from an ongoing upload, where the ways hadn't been uploaded yet. So why are you uploading Nodes without ways? The POST /api/0.6/c

Re: [OSM-talk] Contributor Terms

Am 12.08.2010 10:18, schrieb Martin Fossdal Guttesen: i followed the link under my settings i can’t find either a “Accept” or “Decline” button, just a “Agree” button what to do ? Leave it unchecked, close the browser page or go one page back. Peter __

Re: [OSM-talk] BDFL & Moderation

Am 11.08.2010 21:45, schrieb Nathan Edgars II: So the older folks are getting annoyed with the threads. I admit that I'm starting to get annoyed too. But we have to remember that people are just joining now and don't have the same knowledge that we have. I believe the LWG is doing a great job

Re: [OSM-talk] BDFL & Moderation

Am 11.08.2010 20:56, schrieb Serge Wroclawski: Several people yesterday mentioned and requested a Code of Conduct. I have a draft of what several of us at OSM US were working on at: http://docs.google.com/View?id=dcschwqz_36cgv47g88 This is a draft that was never voted on and needs revision,

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

Am 11.08.2010 00:17, schrieb TimSC: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not#Wikipedia_is_not_a_bureaucracy But where did it lead to? Random deletions in wp/de? That's not where OSM should go... Peter ___ talk mailing list talk

Re: [OSM-talk] The License Change

Am 11.08.2010 14:43, schrieb 80n: There needs to be an immediate vote, open to the whole community Okay, then let's collect the different possible answers: - I don't mind, let the LWG do what they need to. - I want ODbL - I want ODbL without relicensing clause - I don't want ODbL but will accep

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

Am 10.08.2010 23:04, schrieb Liz: On Wed, 11 Aug 2010, Ian Dees wrote: 'Poison' is opinion. I regard these efforts as attempted censorship "take this back to legal-talk where it belongs" "don't reply to poisonous posts" censorship would it be if posts were deleted (or not filtered on the ML ser

Re: [OSM-talk] Wanted - spare CC-BY-SA account

Am 10.08.2010 19:52, schrieb John Smith: On 11 August 2010 03:50, Peter Körner wrote: To keep the door open for the futuer. Nobody knows what will come. Are your problems that you don't trust the LWG? Then go on and do a fork -- it's that easy. It has nothing to do with trust, it

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

Am 10.08.2010 18:59, schrieb Nathan Edgars II: Personally I think this idea of labeling people as poisonous is itself poisonous, and anyone who agrees with it is at least slightly poisonous. It's the dose that makes the poison, and when a very loud but small number of people are very poisono

Re: [OSM-talk] Wanted - spare CC-BY-SA account

Am 10.08.2010 16:02, schrieb John Smith: If it won't end up PD why the limitation in the CTs? To keep the door open for the futuer. Nobody knows what will come. Are your problems that you don't trust the LWG? Then go on and do a fork -- it's that easy. Peter _

Re: [OSM-talk] Wanted - spare CC-BY-SA account

Am 10.08.2010 17:55, schrieb Peteris Krisjanis: For summary, there are: I'm sorry if I mixed those two groups. I'm not in 1) but I can totally understand the problems this group of people have. Peter, too. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.

Re: [OSM-talk] Wanted - spare CC-BY-SA account

Am 10.08.2010 13:38, schrieb Ed Avis: Frederik Ramm remote.org> writes: Because for us, your plannet import along with your steadfast refusal of the new license, only causes more work and more problems. That is true. But then for those who would prefer to continue with CC-BY-SA, Didn't you

Re: [OSM-talk] Languages, OSM, scripts and all that.

Am 07.08.2010 10:09, schrieb Mitja Kleider: We actually do: http://toolserver.org/~osm/locale/ Working with overlays might lead to overlapping objects, though. That's not quite true, as the overlays respect the POIs position by rendering them "in memory" with opacity=0. It's about to discuss

Re: [OSM-talk] Problems with names with postfixes / types

Am 03.08.2010 17:24, schrieb Brian Quinion: Up till now it has been my opinion that all items entered with the the type in the name were in error That's my opinion, too. I'm nut sure if we should fix it in Japan using some automatism (eg. automatic generated osm files), because the problem has

Re: [OSM-talk] A plea for meaning ful changeset comments

Am 30.07.2010 18:51, schrieb Toby Murray: On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Peter Körner wrote: Unfortunately OWL does not show the Changeset comment in the RSS items, so I'll always have to click onto the web link, but I always read what my co-mappers are writing. Actually, it is sup

Re: [OSM-talk] A plea for meaning ful changeset comments

Am 30.07.2010 13:52, schrieb Steve Bennett: (Corollary: when another user tells me specifically that they would find my changesets easier to navigate if I commented them properly, I would re-evaluate. But afaik, no one ever looks at my work, so it seems a bit pointless.) I've subscribed to all

Re: [OSM-talk] syj: preview of a web site to store routes, need your opinions :)

Am 27.07.2010 16:18, schrieb arno: So, what do you like in the site, what can be improved ? Open it to be used without registration. If the DB gets full you may limit the life-time of routes that are created anonymous so, let's say, 1 month. Peter __

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM-to-PostGIS issues

Am 19.07.2010 12:33, schrieb Juan Lucas Domínguez Rubio: Hello, list: I've tried to export a 9.5 GB (150 GB uncomp.) planet to a PostGIS DB @ localhost on a Windows XP machine (1.5 GB RAM). That's very low memory. WinXP takes at least 523 MB so only 1 GB is avail. for the planet import. In

Re: [OSM-talk] Looking for participants to test OSM-based audio maps

Am 18.07.2010 01:23, schrieb Esther Loeliger: > For > a screenshot and further information, see the project website, > http://team.sourceforge.net. Despite a screenshot I don't see any information on this page - not what the project is about nor who's working on. So I don't know what it is re

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapquest launches site based on OSM!

Am 10.07.2010 18:29, schrieb Randy Meech: Thanks for the feedback -- we'll take a look next week and reply to the list. Even better: open source the style-file, so we can do the changes for you. I'd be happy to host a version on the wikimedia toolservers. Peter _

Re: [OSM-talk] Is it down?

Am 10.07.2010 15:08, schrieb Shalabh: Been unable to access openstreet.org and access the database for 30 minutes now. http://www.openstreetmap.org/ is available fom here (Germany) as well as the api is. I don't think that openstreet.org belongs to osm, although i can access it, too. It see

Re: [OSM-talk] scale question

Am 09.07.2010 01:19, schrieb Mostafa El-ashram: Please could you tell me how to determine the scale of a map on open streer maps As we're using the sperical mercartor projection that projects the shpere of the world onto a square, the scale is different for different locations on the planet

Re: [OSM-talk] You have killed accessibility!

Am 01.07.2010 22:35, schrieb David Murn: On a serious note, how many blind mappers do we have on OSM? A single onw is enough. And yes, there are more than this. Thank you, Lulu-Ann, for reporting this bug. Peter ___ talk mailing list talk@openstr

Re: [OSM-talk] Failed to download 9.5 GB planet

Grant Slater schrieb: > Can anyone confirm if there is a problem with the heanet mirror? > > Juan: you could try FTP or rsync too. > ftp://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/openstreetmap.org/planet-100618.osm.bz2 > or > rsync://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/openstreetmap.org/planet-100618.osm.bz2 for me the http and

Re: [OSM-talk] Planet.osm

Roland Olbricht schrieb: > Hello everybody, > > does anybody know why there is no planet.osm from this week, .i.e. > there is no file planet-20100616.osm.bz2 at > http://planet.openstreetmap.org/ It may be because the database downtime around Wednesday. Peter ___

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: XAPI returns multiple versions of objects

David C. schrieb: > I'm finding that XAPI ... > Cloudmade California extract: What now - XAPI or Cloudmade extract? For Cloudmade it's well known, for XAPI it would be new. Peter ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging OSM objects with UUIDs

John Smith schrieb: > I think you have misunderstood or at least not comprehended the > potential for being able to easily share ... I think I did. But as you already said, you're not the first one with this idea and just adding another id-tag doesn't make anything better. So please, let's firs

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging OSM objects with UUIDs

Frederik Ramm schrieb: > For every kind of object and every context in which you link to it, the > change of some properties might invalidate the link. That's why UUIDs > are not only clumsy but also not solving the problem. But location/tag combinations could: ?bbox=$SOME-STREET$&amenity=re

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging OSM objects with UUIDs

John Smith schrieb: > Currently I've been making a proposal for OSM to adopt an UUID tagging > scheme so that third parties wishing to directly refer to OSM objects > can do so without the current problems of using internal database > reference IDs vanishing in future. I don't think that your u

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