Re: [OSM-talk] mechanical edit on fire hydrants worldwide ?

2014-03-24 Thread Richard Welty
dit startled me, it stepped on a bunch of stuff i'm doing with hydrants right now. richard -- rwe...@averillpark.net Averill Park Networking - GIS & IT Consulting OpenStreetMap - PostgreSQL - Linux Java - Web Applications - Search signature.asc De

Re: [OSM-talk] Cratia - Slovenia disputed border change

2014-03-23 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 1:36 PM, hbogner wrote: > Our member noticed that 17 days ago user > http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/fredi_alf/ > changed Cratian - Slovenian disputed border. > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=11/45.4686/13.6100 > > Should we do a revert and contact user who changed i

Re: [OSM-talk] Maximum recommended length of ways tagged with layer

2014-03-22 Thread Richard Z.
On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 03:33:03PM +0100, colliar wrote: > On 22.03.2014 11:01, Richard Z. wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 05:05:21PM -0500, Paul Johnson wrote: > >> On Mar 21, 2014 4:59 PM, "Richard Z." wrote: > >> > >>> Example of a problem t

Re: [OSM-talk] Maximum recommended length of ways tagged with layer

2014-03-22 Thread Richard Z.
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 05:05:21PM -0500, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Mar 21, 2014 4:59 PM, "Richard Z." wrote: > > > Example of a problem this should catch: I have seen cases where someone > > wanted to tag a simple bridge with layer and added the layer to the wrong >

Re: [OSM-talk] Maximum recommended length of ways tagged with layer

2014-03-21 Thread Richard Z.
will not detect it and in most cases the renderer will work around this bug very well so it is only discovered by accident in most cases. This is not limited to layer, I have seen the same problem with culverts and bridges. What kind of underground areas are that in Kansas, do you have a pointer?

Re: [OSM-talk] Hate captchas!!!!

2014-03-21 Thread Richard Z.
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 07:17:26AM +0100, Stefan Keller wrote: > Hi Richard, hi Simon > > At 2014-03-14 16:19 GMT+01:00 Simon Poole wrote > > > At 14.03.2014 16:06, schrieb Richard Z.: > > > is there really no way to avoid those horrible captchas whenever I add > &

Re: [OSM-talk] Maximum recommended length of ways tagged with layer

2014-03-16 Thread Richard Z.
On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 05:12:08PM +0100, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > On 15.03.2014 14:44, Richard Z. wrote: > > I think it would be good to agree on something... > > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Key:layer#Maximum_recommended_segment_length_of_ways_tagged_wi

Re: [OSM-talk] Maximum recommended length of ways tagged with layer

2014-03-16 Thread Richard Z.
On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 06:12:10PM +, moltonel 3x Combo wrote: > On 15/03/2014, Fernando Trebien wrote: > > I now agree that the "layer" tag should be used as locally as > > possible, so I think Richard had good intentions when proposing this. > > At the same t

[OSM-talk] Maximum recommended length of ways tagged with layer

2014-03-15 Thread Richard Z.
Hi, I think it would be good to agree on something... https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Key:layer#Maximum_recommended_segment_length_of_ways_tagged_with_layer Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Hate captchas!!!!

2014-03-14 Thread Richard Z.
iki/MediaWiki:Captcha-addurl-whitelist great, hope that will work. Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Hate captchas!!!!

2014-03-14 Thread Richard Z.
On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 03:43:38PM +, Tom Hughes wrote: > On 14/03/14 15:06, Richard Z. wrote: > > >How about an OSM quiz instead of captchas? > > You're offering to write one I take it? will think about one. In the short term, there are open tickets which shou

[OSM-talk] Hate captchas!!!!

2014-03-14 Thread Richard Z.
need on average 4 captcha-reloads before I get a captcha picture which I can recognise with good enough confidence to even try it. How about an OSM quiz instead of captchas? Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-13 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Alex Barth wrote: > Hello everyone - > > I've been sitting on writing about the detrimental effects of > OpenStreetMap's share-alike license (ODbL) for a while and finally decided > to, um, share. I've been listening long to many OpenStreetMappers I respect > a to

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:layer update

2014-03-13 Thread Richard Z.
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 09:06:41PM -0400, Russ Nelson wrote: > Pieren writes: > > On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 3:22 PM, Frank Little wrote: > > > Richard Z wrote > > > > > As mapped, the waterway=stream (Way #138911739) runs underground > (layer=-1), > &

Re: [OSM-talk] isolated odbl=clean nodes with no other tags?

2014-03-11 Thread Richard Z.
am not worried about this one case but how it slipped through all checks and how many other there might be. Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:layer update

2014-03-11 Thread Richard Z.
s needed to display a lake in a park then you have some other problem. Show us an example. natural=water + layer has no meaning unless in combination with tunnel, bridge or similar. Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] isolated odbl=clean nodes with no other tags?

2014-03-11 Thread Richard Z.
. Has anyone looked at this before? Are those odbl=clean tags supposed to stay there forever? Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:layer update

2014-03-11 Thread Richard Z.
On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 10:26:59PM +, Matthijs Melissen wrote: > On 9 March 2014 10:30, Richard Z. wrote: > > for some time now I have been working on the wiki page to state the rules > > as clearly as possible.. hope that most of the improvements are fairly > > uncont

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:layer update

2014-03-11 Thread Richard Z.
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 02:51:23PM +, Dave F. wrote: > On 09/03/2014 12:21, Richard Z. wrote: > >In practice this rule is broken more often than you would think: Hamburg is > >full > >of waterways connected with roads on bridges through a tag obstacle. France >

[OSM-talk] layer and pylons

2014-03-10 Thread Richard Z.
ove ground and thus a vertical ordering is defined. Similar situation with dams. For more general cases like 2 bridges at different levels connected through a pylon either "level" could be used or something more sophisticated like a relation. Richard

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:layer update

2014-03-09 Thread Richard Z.
On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 10:26:59PM +, Matthijs Melissen wrote: > On 9 March 2014 10:30, Richard Z. wrote: > > for some time now I have been working on the wiki page to state the rules > > as clearly as possible.. hope that most of the improvements are fairly > > uncont

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:layer update

2014-03-09 Thread Richard Z.
On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 04:55:51PM +0100, Tobias Knerr wrote: > On 09.03.2014 14:18, Richard Z. wrote: > > Pylons must share a node with the waterway bellow > > in my opinion. They are a pretty relevant part of it. > > Pylons will often be somewhere within the riverbank ar

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:layer update

2014-03-09 Thread Richard Z.
On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 02:00:36PM +0100, Tobias Knerr wrote: > On 09.03.2014 13:21, Richard Z. wrote: > > the same conceptual problem exists with pylons where they are shared by two > > bridges > > or aerial tramways. Actualy every pylon breaks the rule by defin

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:layer update

2014-03-09 Thread Richard Z.
On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 12:34:31PM +, Dave F. wrote: > On 09/03/2014 12:24, Richard Z. wrote: > > > >it says "point", not "node" the difference probably needs to be emphasized > >very strongly. There is a difference between mathematicaly precise

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:layer update

2014-03-09 Thread Richard Z.
On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 12:34:31PM +, Dave F. wrote: > On 09/03/2014 12:24, Richard Z. wrote: > > > >it says "point", not "node" the difference probably needs to be emphasized > >very strongly. There is a difference between mathematicaly precise

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:layer update

2014-03-09 Thread Richard Z.
On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 11:35:20AM +, Dave F. wrote: > On 09/03/2014 10:30, Richard Z. wrote: > >Hi, > > > >for some time now I have been working on the wiki page to state the rules > >as clearly as possible.. hope that most of the improvements are fairly >

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:layer update

2014-03-09 Thread Richard Z.
On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 11:35:20AM +, Dave F. wrote: > On 09/03/2014 10:30, Richard Z. wrote: > >Hi, > > > >for some time now I have been working on the wiki page to state the rules > >as clearly as possible.. hope that most of the improvements are fairly >

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:layer update

2014-03-09 Thread Richard Z.
On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 01:05:18PM +0100, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > > > Am 09/mar/2014 um 12:43 schrieb "Richard Z." : > > > > It is broken by definition in at least one case: waterways ar supposed to > > share a node with the dam they are crossi

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:layer update

2014-03-09 Thread Richard Z.
On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 11:47:32AM +0100, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > > > Am 09/mar/2014 um 11:30 schrieb "Richard Z." : > > > > * the vertical ordering established by the layer values is valid exactly > > only > > in the point where the way

Re: [OSM-talk] Use of Key:* as wiki web page titles

2014-03-09 Thread Richard Z.
to have a page like waterway with an overview of related pages.. but may be still confusing at the same time. Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:layer update

2014-03-09 Thread Richard Z.
es, I am very much in favor of avoiding as much of the duplication as possible. Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:layer update

2014-03-09 Thread Richard Z.
ly" so we can add some text that it may be appropriate in very complex situations. I think this is somewhat different from oneway=no and similar.. which are a bit of a problem on its own. Not long ago I found a 3 mile long desert track somewhere on the Arab Peninsula w

[OSM-talk] Key:layer update

2014-03-09 Thread Richard Z.
there are exceptions which currently I do not know hot to tag better but those are rare. * in some cases "level" may be more appropriate than "layer" https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Key%3Alayer&diff=999107&oldid=935491 Richard ___

Re: [OSM-talk] new mailing list request - OSM outdoor/natural phenomena mapping

2014-03-07 Thread Richard Z.
language is English, all languages are welcome. ### Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] No Changeset Comments from iD

2014-03-07 Thread Richard Z.
s should be encouraged as well. Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] No Changeset Comments from iD

2014-03-06 Thread Richard Z.
ch the user could provide a more generic additional comment. Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] new mailing list request - OSM outdoor/natural phenomena mapping

2014-03-06 Thread Richard Z.
l to have? - *YES* Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] new mailing list request - OSM outdoor/natural phenomena mapping

2014-03-05 Thread Richard Z.
finding myself fighting with multipoligons and relations. Not long ago I spent half an hour figuring out why some particular islands in a river weren't rendered. Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] new mailing list request - OSM outdoor/natural phenomena mapping

2014-03-05 Thread Richard Z.
On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 08:41:06PM +, Jonathan Bennett wrote: > On 05/03/2014 20:30, Richard Z. wrote: > >despite beeing sometimes tricky I still consider it pretty important to know > >that a certain area is eg part of the tundra climate, permafrost or monsoon. > > .

Re: [OSM-talk] new mailing list request - OSM outdoor/natural phenomena mapping

2014-03-05 Thread Richard Z.
On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 08:44:54PM +0100, Christoph Hormann wrote: > On Wednesday 05 March 2014, Richard Z. wrote: > > > > oh yes. You can say the same about a forrest and almost anything in > > the real world. > > No, continuously changing properties exist for man

Re: [OSM-talk] new mailing list request - OSM outdoor/natural phenomena mapping

2014-03-05 Thread Richard Z.
his better? I have no idea, it is something that should be discussed but is not a tagging discussion. Simple things like mapping corral reefs are still not available. Would it be possible to map the Gulf stream or other currents? Richard ___ talk mailing l

Re: [OSM-talk] new mailing list request - OSM outdoor/natural phenomena mapping

2014-03-05 Thread Richard Z.
On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 04:04:10PM +0100, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > 2014-03-05 14:42 GMT+01:00 Richard Z. : > > > As an example, we are having repeated discussions how to tag forrest but > > did not even start thinking about a generic concept how to map vegetation > > s

Re: [OSM-talk] new mailing list request - OSM outdoor/natural phenomena mapping

2014-03-05 Thread Richard Z.
On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 04:59:17PM +0100, Christoph Hormann wrote: > On Wednesday 05 March 2014, Richard Z. wrote: > > > >climatic zones > > > >vegetation zones > > > >soil biology > > > >vegetation layers > > > > > > Are any of

Re: [OSM-talk] new mailing list request - OSM outdoor/natural phenomena mapping

2014-03-05 Thread Richard Z.
s just too complicated for one list and for someone mapping the antarctic geology bus route mapping is not so interesting. Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] new mailing list request - OSM outdoor/natural phenomena mapping

2014-03-05 Thread Richard Z.
On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 01:59:33PM +, Jonathan Bennett wrote: > On 05/03/2014 13:42, Richard Z. wrote: > >climatic zones > >vegetation zones > >soil biology > >vegetation layers > > Are any of these things verifiable? of course. Tons of literature about it.

Re: [OSM-talk] new mailing list request - OSM outdoor/natural phenomena mapping

2014-03-05 Thread Richard Z.
I do not have enough knowledge in balneology or hydrogeology to be confident about defining water characteristics. Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] new mailing list request - OSM outdoor/natural phenomena mapping

2014-03-05 Thread Richard Z.
propose just one ml to cover those topics and maybe split it up later when there is demand to do so. I have emailed mich...@osmfoundation.org (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mailing_list#Requests_for_New_Lists) but so far not got any response. Richard

Re: [OSM-talk] SRTM Elevation Data

2014-02-28 Thread Richard Weait
Hi Joel, As Michael says, the elevation model data does not belong in the OpenStreetMap data base. The wiki has some examples for use of elevation data bases which are combin-able with OpenStreetMap data. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contour_lines _

Re: [OSM-talk] Not attaching polygons to roads

2014-02-26 Thread Richard Z.
daries. it is the same problem as state boundaries and waterways. As soon as you need to add a tunnel=culvert to a stream that is a state boundary at the same time it is a royal pain. It is not ideal but in most cases better to draw the river some centimeters asid

[OSM-talk] british firefighter terminology

2014-02-24 Thread Richard Welty
anyone in the UK who can help me on this? i am working on some tagging for firefighting and i need to compare US terminology with UK terminology. if i could get pointed at an active UK firefighter of whom i can ask questions, it would be most helpful. richard -- rwe...@averillpark.net Averill

Re: [OSM-talk] Tenth Birthday of OpenStreetMap

2014-02-24 Thread Richard Weait
Well, that went out a bit before it was fully baked. I'll try again. On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Richard Weait wrote: > OpenStreetMap tradition has been to host local events around the World to > gather with other local mappers and celebrate. I've created the 10 birthday

[OSM-talk] Tenth Birthday of OpenStreetMap

2014-02-24 Thread Richard Weait
OpenStreetMap tradition has been to host local events around the W ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Not attaching polygons to roads

2014-02-22 Thread Richard Z.
ed to highways that have a grade separated crossing many times people accidentaly make a node connecting the highways right into the middle of the bridge where the four areas join. Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap enhances user privacy

2014-02-11 Thread Richard Weait
http://blog.openstreetmap.org/2014/02/11/osm-enhances-user-privacy/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] New Mapfeatures (Views) on openstreetmap.org: Proposal for additional

2014-01-23 Thread Richard Weait
Indeed, Alexander,as nebulon says, adding or changing the features is complicated. Some layers shown on OSM.org are from third party providers.  The cartographer responsible for each rendering will have very strong opinions on what they have selected and why.  Your opinions may differ.  In fact

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap.org Notes to help collect, OpenData

2014-01-18 Thread Richard Welty
smAnd and one for OSM Tracker. it's much easier to enter notes into OSM Tracker. richard -- rwe...@averillpark.net Averill Park Networking - GIS & IT Consulting OpenStreetMap - PostgreSQL - Linux Java - Web Applications - Search signature.asc Description:

[OSM-talk] Fwd: State of the Map 2014 - Buenos Aires - 07-09 November 2014

2014-01-12 Thread Richard Weait
Announced today, State of the Map 2014 will be in Buenos Aires. Be there or be square. :-) http://blog.openstreetmap.org/2014/01/12/buenos-aires-hosts-sotm14/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] An empty changeset with an unknow OSM contributor

2014-01-12 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Pierre Béland wrote: > > Richard, > > you are right, verifying the API changeset link, I did not realized this was > not the download instruction > http://api.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/changeset/19860227/download > > But it is reported th

Re: [OSM-talk] An empty changeset with an unknow OSM contributor

2014-01-12 Thread Richard Weait
2014/1/12 Pierre Béland : > This french contributor reports an empty changeset with an unknown > contributor. > > Would this be a bug in the ID editor + API creating an empty changeset ? [ ... ] > Si je fais http://api.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/changeset/19860227 j'observe > que le changeset 198602

[OSM-talk] Mappy New Year

2014-01-05 Thread Richard Weait
guest events to celebrate august mappers visiting from other places. (and a little bit of a flood, but we soldiered on anyway.) What about this thread? Tell me, what your plans are for 2014? and have a Mappy New Year, Richard ___ talk mailing list tal

Re: [OSM-talk] Cyprous - postal codes

2013-12-26 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 7:18 AM, TDTwister Gmail wrote: > Hi Everybody, > > I manage to get a list of Cyprus postal codes from Cyprus Postal Service > both in Greek and in English (as separate files). > I wrote some python scripts to match the Greek and the English name of > the streets and mapped

Re: [OSM-talk] Horse trails. Good examples?

2013-12-22 Thread Richard Weait
Thank you, Jóhannes, very helpful. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] Horse trails. Good examples?

2013-12-22 Thread Richard Weait
? Saloons (it's like a pub so it's probably already mapped) with hitching post, watering trough and poop and scoop bags? Are there renderings that include many or most items of interest to horse riders? Best regards, Richard ___ ta

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] use of maptiles

2013-12-10 Thread Richard Weait
a commercial source for tiles. If you want to go viral and / or have many users, self host or find a commercial source for tiles. Best regards and happy mapping, Richard [1] the hard working volunteer admin team do the best they can to schedule and announce service issues.

Re: [OSM-talk] Bitcoin Spam

2013-12-06 Thread Richard Welty
mer may need a little education, the latter may need a lot of education and based on Serge's comments, they may not be interested in being educated. we should not be permitting the latter to blow off the rules and requirements of our community if that

Re: [OSM-talk] Element on OSM which don't exist in real life

2013-12-02 Thread Richard Welty
ropdown, you will see a tiger 2012 underlayment. you can use this to compare what's in OSM to the 2012 data set. so don't be afraid to fix it. there is bad data in TIGER. mistakes happen. richard signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [OSM-talk] proprietary and unrelated images on the about page

2013-12-02 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Kathleen Danielson wrote: > Hi Martin, > > Can you provide some compelling examples of images that you'd like to see us > using instead? It isn't easy is it? No rendering will satisfy everyone, and even a collection of renderings will miss out on representing Ope

Re: [OSM-talk] Nearby Users

2013-12-02 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 10:01 AM, Mikel Maron wrote: > Thanks Frederik for kicking this off, good discussion of a *potentially* v > useful feature. ... > What's the best way to set up this kind of async stats processing, and > integrate into the rails app? I've done a quantity of this async mapp

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] NOTICE: Upcoming Maintenance / Downtime

2013-11-25 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 6:34 AM, Grant Slater wrote: > On Wednesday 27th of November 2013 between 17:30 and 22:00 (GMT / UTC) > the primary database server will be unavailable due to maintenance. > > I apologise for the short notice. Grant, thanks always to you and to the full admin team, for mak

[OSM-talk] Admin borders/separate database

2013-11-05 Thread Richard Welty
min borders. but perhaps we should start with admin borders only for proof of concept and to control the amount of work that needs to be done. richard signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https:

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping of multiple-lane toll areas

2013-10-24 Thread Richard Welty
he center group of lanes changes direction twice a day and the number of EZPass only lanes goes up during the rush. richard signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] In the works: iD 1.1

2013-08-08 Thread Richard Fairhurst
o hook test instances up to the main (unimproved) database even if it were desirable. [This is implicit in Tom's message but I thought I'd point it out!] cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/In-the-works-iD-1-1-tp5772153p5772960.html Sent from t

Re: [OSM-talk] comments on new map widget on main page

2013-07-29 Thread Richard Fairhurst
everything that pro users might want isn't a good way of building a design that appeals to potential newcomers. But if I say "we need more than one map browser, just as we have more than one editor" again, I really will start to sound like a stuck record... cheers Richard -- Vie

Re: [OSM-talk] comments on new map widget on main page

2013-07-28 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Greg Troxel wrote: > add the shortlink link in the lower right, so you can more easily use > it to get to a URL for the current view, so you can shift-reload to > see what yfou just edited Click the View tab. cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.n

Re: [OSM-talk] Double-clicking on OSM map does not centre the map

2013-07-22 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Lester Caine wrote: > is there a change log for the code running live? https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/commits/master (though changes may take a short while to percolate to the live servers, of course) cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19

[OSM-talk] Build your own osm.org (was Re: New technology ...)

2013-07-22 Thread Richard Fairhurst
osm.org for QC/scaling reasons but which would work fine on a more niche site. And if you have good ideas, some might filter back to osm.org, just as JOSM features occasionally pop up in P2 or iD. cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/New-technol

Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls

2013-07-21 Thread Richard Fairhurst
lain that this public mailing list is a "secretive" list as he traditionally does re: legal-talk@. :) cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Upgraded-map-controls-tp5770491p5770755.html Sent from the General Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble

Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls

2013-07-20 Thread Richard Fairhurst
et 30 complaining mails saying "well I'd have done it differently, you should have asked me first". The effect is that you give up editing. Believe me: I have some pretty obvious first-hand experience of this. cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabb

Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls

2013-07-20 Thread Richard Fairhurst
sly updating as you pan around the map (which is possible with JavaScript these days). cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Upgraded-map-controls-tp5770491p5770533.html Sent from the General Discussion mail

[OSM-talk] Irish placenames anomaly

2013-07-15 Thread Richard Cantwell
I can confirm that the Irish OSM community (well, Dermot) ran an import of the GNS data for the island of Ireland in 2007. The dense blob is the County of Longford where user PaddyMatthews (http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/PaddyMatthews/edits) has been painstakingly adding townland and other boun

Re: [OSM-talk] Using OpenStreetMap on a daily basis

2013-07-11 Thread Richard Fairhurst
ces to make it happen. So far they haven't. You can have all the mailing list discussions like this in the world, but they don't make anything happen in themselves apart from, usually, sapping the energy of those who _do_ code. Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.

Re: [OSM-talk] Using OpenStreetMap on a daily basis

2013-07-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
at. And I bet you it will be made with OSM data. If even Google can't manage to be everything, openstreetmap.org certainly can't be. Instead, we're at the heart of an ecosystem that allows people to build their own "everything"s. If the OSM-based "everything" for y

Re: [OSM-talk] Survey on the OSM Wiki

2013-06-25 Thread Richard Fairhurst
tch tag presets. They are one piece of source material, yes, but only something to be informed by, and even then very minimally. taginfo and real-world mapping experience are much more useful. cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Survey-on-the-OSM-Wi

Re: [OSM-talk] Videos of State of the Map US are up!

2013-06-12 Thread Richard Fairhurst
5. Look for a big .mp4 file in the file listing (if you can't find it, click the 'Size' column header to sort by size, so it's at the bottom). 6. Double-click to open in new window. 7. Command-S (or equivalent on your platform) to save. cheers Richard -- View this message

Re: [OSM-talk] Who interprets semicolon in tag values?

2013-05-31 Thread Richard Mann
Similarly, I parse route_ref to identify which stops are served by a particular bus route. Maperitive can't pick out the nodes from the relation directly, so I was glad of the "alternative/duplicate" method. On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Jo wrote: > When standing in front of a bus stop, it's

Re: [OSM-talk] iD Editor live on OpenStreetMap

2013-05-25 Thread Richard Fairhurst
e's a Math.abs function in JS so the third issue should be fixable, at least. cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/iD-Editor-live-on-OpenStreetMap-tp5760198p5762613.html Sent from the General Discussion

Re: [OSM-talk] Permalink with marker

2013-05-23 Thread Richard Mann
Easiest of all would probably be to include the marker by default, and let people edit it out if they don't want it. Richard On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 8:16 AM, Andrew Errington wrote: > Hi, > > I think that's slightly different to what I had in mind. My suggestion > was

Re: [OSM-talk] source=Google

2013-05-21 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > But in the end I think this whole source thing is completely > overestimated. Yup. > What do you propose to do with source tags found on an object when > you modify this object based on a different source? OSM has full object history. :) ch

Re: [OSM-talk] iD Editor live on OpenStreetMap

2013-05-07 Thread Richard Fairhurst
NopMap wrote: > And putting a simple general or "how to" question into an > issue tracker is rather weird. help.openstreetmap.org is the commonly used and expected method of asking simple "general" and "how to" questions. :) cheers Richard -- View this m

Re: [OSM-talk] Bicentennial National Trail in Australia

2013-04-30 Thread Richard Weait
BNT is a nail. Best regards, Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] RFC updated: OSM Attribution Mark (was: contributor mark)

2013-04-25 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Kathleen Danielson < kathleen.daniel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Richard, can you explain a little more of why you think that the idea is > bad for OSM? > Removing "OpenStreetMap" from the attribution requirement is bad for

Re: [OSM-talk] RFC updated: OSM Attribution Mark (was: contributor mark)

2013-04-24 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 8:40 AM, Alex Barth wrote: > Hello everyone - > > I'd love to start pushing again on the OSM attribution mark. > Clearly. :-) I think that the idea is bad for OpenStreetMap. The logo is pretty. The logo is pretty and the idea is bad for OpenStreetMap. At the core, th

Re: [OSM-talk] RFC updated: OSM Attribution Mark (was: contributor mark)

2013-04-24 Thread Richard Fairhurst
he good, and all that. If you wait for 100% consensus on talk@ you'll never get anything done. And, as ever, stuff can be fine-tuned after initial deployment. cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/RFC-updated-OSM-Attribution-Mark-was

Re: [OSM-talk] RFC updated: OSM Attribution Mark (was: contributor mark)

2013-04-23 Thread Richard Fairhurst
ins to do the attribution. If I were feeling Machiavellian I'd suggest we consider hosting them on our servers (load permitting) so we get an automatic heads-up of who's using OSM... cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/RFC-updated-

Re: [OSM-talk] Native American/First Nation, etc. Reservation Boundaries

2013-04-19 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 9:24 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Richard Weait wrote: > >> On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 8:16 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: >> >>> The previous tagging was inadequate, bordering on offensive >>> >> >

Re: [OSM-talk] Native American/First Nation, etc. Reservation Boundaries

2013-04-19 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 8:16 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: > The previous tagging was inadequate, bordering on offensive > Which tagging was that? It is my understanding that First Nations boundaries just don't fit within the simple number-line model that OpenStreetMap has used for boundary=administr

Re: [OSM-talk] What to do with failed (Potlatch) save changeset?

2013-04-14 Thread Richard Fairhurst
ntered this situation, I've manually edited out the conflicting element and then used upload.py to upload it to OSM. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Upload.py cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/What-to-do-with-failed-Potlatch-save-changeset-tp57

Re: [OSM-talk] Why do we have so many registered users with zero edits ?

2013-04-12 Thread Richard Fairhurst
n this is. Our village website only requires registration to post (you can read everything without registering), and the posting UI is incredibly simple, yet the great majority of registered users have never posted. cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/

Re: [OSM-talk] Crossroad names

2013-03-25 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Please don't use unnecessarily pejorative language like "we dare not" and thereby denigrate those who _are_ working hard to do something about it. Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Crossroad-names-tp5754463p5754616.html Sent from the Genera

Re: [OSM-talk] [Design] Banners on the Front Page

2013-03-22 Thread Richard Fairhurst
polite to give a couple of weeks' notice to the local chapters. Our local presence and local knowledge is our strength. Let's make the most of it. Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

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