[OSM-talk] Earthquake in Christchurch NZ last weekend

As a recent migrant to the UK to Christchurch I can say it was a pretty scary experience and thank providence that it was at 4.35am and not 4.35pm!!! To characterise the damage as widespread is a little media spin - there is some serious damage, especially to historical, brick buildings in the

[OSM-talk] OpenRouteService for Haiti Online

Hi Alex, Is there any tagging that I can add to highways that appear blocked according to the latest GeoEye so that you automatically identify the highway as an AvoidArea? Thanks Phil Hello A first OpenRouteService Site (Routing/Geocoding) is up and running for Haiti, it supports the

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch 1.0

And that means: it's time for Potlatch 1.0. Just had a play - both offline and live editing and wow - it's lovely. Seems to be lots quicker too... Great job Regards Phil ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch 1.0

And that means: it's time for Potlatch 1.0. Just had a play - both offline and live editing and wow - it's lovely. Seems to be lots quicker too... Great job Regards Phil ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

[Talk-us] Temporarily Deleting Relations from Interstate Ways

Hi, For the last couple of months I have been working by way along each of the Interstates (starting at H1) and am currently 2/3rds up the I5, checking the one-ways, putting in/fixing all the bridges and tunnels and checking the junctions etc based upon Yahoo imagery and the TIGER data. Before

Re: [Talk-us] Temporarily Deleting Relations from Interstate Ways

to avoid duplicate work. Phil On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: I've been working on state highways and interstate relations myself lately, too. I stopped using Potlatch for exactly this reason... On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Philip Shipley p...@barby.net

Re: [Talk-us] Temporarily Deleting Relations from Interstate Ways

I was looking at this page http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Plugins/WMSPlugin dunno if it is painless as my firewall is currently blocking the webkit download. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Plugins/WMSPluginPhil Is there a wiki page on how to get the Yahoo imagery into JOSM

Re: [OSM-talk] Mantigue island swallowed by the sea

Mantigue is now rendered :-) I don't know how it happened, but when I pulled it into josm and ran the Validator it told me that the coastline was not completely joined - so I disconnected the last and first node of the way, rejoined them and voila. -- Regards Phil

Re: [OSM-talk] Metro Manila Philippines needs some OSM love

I have started this section on this page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Yahoo!_Aerial_Imagery#Problems_with_tracing_Yahoo Many of the suggestions require ground knowledge. Reading the section pointed to above, it states Roads are unnamed, so the highway=road tag should be used,