Re: [OSM-talk] Very Happy - Looking forward

2012-07-24 Thread Richard Fairhurst
OAuth library in ActionScript 1. cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Very-Happy-Looking-forward-tp5717753p5718196.html Sent from the General Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ talk mailing

Re: [OSM-talk] ODbL Attribution

2012-07-23 Thread Richard Fairhurst
back I wrote http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Legal_FAQ/ODbL and threw it out for review by people. cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/ODbL-Attribution-tp5717937p5717949.html Sent from the General Discussion mailing list arch

[OSM-talk] Further redaction update

2012-07-19 Thread Richard Fairhurst
The global pass has now started. The redaction bot is at 180° longitude and working east. The North Pole, South Pole and Poland have been exempted from this pass and won't be redacted until Tuesday at the earliest. cheers Richard ___ talk ma

[OSM-talk] Redaction progress

2012-07-19 Thread Richard Fairhurst
follow-ups go to the relevant local mailing list only. :) cheers Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Update on redaction bot and minutely diffs

2012-07-16 Thread Richard Fairhurst
tory but not at another. This has been fixed so will should succeed on a future pass. As Robert has mentioned, London (east) has succeeded. cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Update-on-redaction-bot-and-minutely-diffs-tp5716307p5716818.html Sent from th

Re: [OSM-talk] Update on redaction bot and minutely diffs

2012-07-16 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 7:41 AM, NopMap wrote: > What exactly does the status "failed" mean? Sometimes it means a timeout of some sort. Other times it means data was found that was unexpected in some way. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Redaction_bot_progress_map

Re: [OSM-talk] Redaction progress

2012-07-15 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 9:16 AM, kenneth gonsalves wrote: > On Sun, 2012-07-15 at 11:46 +0100, Richard Fairhurst wrote: >> The redaction bot has started on the 'Western Europe' area. Because >> continents are annoyingly not shaped like rectangles, > > this is not go

[OSM-talk] Redaction progress

2012-07-15 Thread Richard Fairhurst
hen the bot is rerun for that area. cheers Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] Building a friendly new editor in JavaScript

2012-07-13 Thread Richard Fairhurst
https://github.com/systemed/iD Throw questions at me (on dev@) or just get started and hack away. Between us we can build something really good. cheers Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Redaction process is hogging up the tile rendering

2012-07-12 Thread Richard Fairhurst
On 12/07/2012 14:24, Roland Olbricht wrote: Thank you very much. Now it works fine, great work. Thank Andy, Tom and Frederik. I'm just the messenger! cheers Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetma

Re: [OSM-talk] Redaction process is hogging up the tile rendering

2012-07-12 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Roland Olbricht wrote: > This is not a problem of the rendering server backlog. > It is a problem of the minute diff generation. ...which has now been fixed. :) cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Redaction-process-is-hogging-up-the-tile-ren

[OSM-talk] Redaction underway

2012-07-11 Thread Richard Fairhurst
@ when Australia ends and the rest of the world begins - to talk@ when the rest of the world ends ...and, of course, if anything interrupts the progress of the redaction more than briefly. All updates will be cc:ed to announce@. cheers Richard ___ talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Licence redaction ready to begin

2012-07-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
We are expecting to begin on _Wednesday_ (9th July) 11th July. You knew what I meant really. :) Yours in a state of temporary temporal confusion Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] Licence redaction ready to begin

2012-07-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
were expecting this to start just after 1st April and the complexity of the task incurred the delay. Thank you all very much for your patience in waiting for it to get underway. Thank you especially to those who have contributed to the code, whether by patches, suggestions or just helping to

Re: [OSM-talk] How to move Potlatch map to specific coordinates whilst editing (without zooming out)?

2012-06-29 Thread Richard Fairhurst
ling (I guess we could add that if desired) but just hands your search string off to Nominatim. cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/How-to-move-Potlatch-map-to-specific-coordinates-whilst-editing-without-zooming-out-tp5714535p5714536.html Sent

Re: [OSM-talk] Icons

2012-06-28 Thread Richard Fairhurst
john whelan wrote: > Could someone or a group come up with a more standard set of icons please? http://sjjb.co.uk/mapicons/ Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Icons-tp5714357p5714433.html Sent from the General Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.

[OSM-talk] New Bing imagery blog post

2012-06-25 Thread Richard Fairhurst
http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/maps/archive/2012/06/25/released-our-largest-satellite-publication.aspx cheers Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] [Rebuild] Progress update

2012-06-21 Thread Richard Fairhurst
[followups set to legal-talk, but you may want to adjust to talk-us if focusing on LA etc.] On 21/06/2012 17:57, Alan Mintz wrote: Richard wrote: ...Given people's constraints on time and the community's (understandable) desire for the redaction to get underway asap... I'

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines review

2012-06-11 Thread Richard Fairhurst
urope and who have NO IDEA how empty the USA is... have never been to mid-Wales. Which is a shame, because mid-Wales is lovely. Sorry, where was I? cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Import-guidelines-review-tp5711550p5712204.html Sent from th

Re: [OSM-talk] TomTom is thumping us

2012-05-29 Thread Richard Fairhurst
g means "OMG OSM MISCLASSIFIES FOREST TRACKS AS HIGHWAYS". *facepalm* I've written a bit more about it at http://www.systemeD.net/blog/index.php?post=23 cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/TomTom-is-thumping-us-tp5710461p5710467.ht

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM : It's a shame !!!

2012-05-28 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 3:42 PM, ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen wrote: [ ... ] > However,  it was not meant that the data were simply to be copied, deleted > and re-pasted into  the map using a fake account. True. Copy / pasting is not the same as remapping from permitted sources.

Re: [OSM-talk] Import of buildings in Chicago

2012-05-28 Thread Richard Fairhurst
ng to validate Worst Fixer (though I'm pleased he's stopped the "Ich" double-bluff ;) ), we need the smart guys like you, Ian, to do things _properly_ - which includes documentation on the wiki - so that we can exert pressure on the less skilled to follow your lead. cheers Richard

[OSM-talk] Mapnik Code Sprint - Be there!

2012-05-21 Thread Richard Weait
e wiki. https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/wiki/Code-sprint Now. Talk about how much fun you are going to have when you come the the code sprint. See you in DC, Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Cycleways and Access tags: Left, Right, Forward, Backward?

2012-05-18 Thread Richard Mann
, and probably advise people not to go round deleting things if there's no immediate need. Some of this won't be resolved until there's been some tool development, and as RichardF is wont to remind us, that doesn't happen by itself. Richard On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 2:20 PM

Re: [OSM-talk] Cycleways and Access tags: Left, Right, Forward, Backward?

2012-05-18 Thread Richard Fairhurst
y when we only had a few mappers and barely usable tools, and we needed to grow our coverage as fast as possible. That's not the case now. We can spend the time to map things properly (hippy), and we should. cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Cyclew

Re: [OSM-talk] Cycleways and Access tags: Left, Right, Forward, Backward?

2012-05-18 Thread Richard Mann
Off-carriageway tracks tend to be bidirectional (they all are in the UK). So no-one would bother to use bidirectional_track. Richard On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 1:56 PM, wrote: > Arg, thats still not right is it? Firstly it leaves 2 values for > cycleway:left and also the opposite_track

Re: [OSM-talk] Cycleways and Access tags: Left, Right, Forward, Backward?

2012-05-18 Thread Richard Mann
I don't know when bicycle:backward=yes appeared - I've always used oneway:bicycle=no (and taginfo puts it as 131 to 4831 uses, so I'm not the only one) On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 11:59 AM, wrote: > It has been pointed out that some of these may be due to one-way roads > (and as there are more count

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM cycle map - ?excessive focus on long-distance routes

2012-05-10 Thread Richard Mann
We do it for motorised vehicles. On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Andy Robinson wrote: > But why does this need special treatment? We don’t do it for any other > mode of transport. > > ** ** > > Cheers > > Andy**** > > ** ** > > *From:* Richa

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM cycle map - ?excessive focus on long-distance routes

2012-05-10 Thread Richard Mann
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > But as yet I haven't understood what point you're trying to make in this > thread. Without trying to be obtuse... can you explain? > > cheers > Richard > That there are legitimate ways of classifying cycle rou

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM cycle map - ?excessive focus on long-distance routes

2012-05-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Richard Mann wrote: > You'd have to ask the City of Utrecht whether their "main cycle routes" > are signed. Well, ok, I wasn't really asking what "I'd have to ask", more what "your point is". :) If the routes are signed, that's good. If th

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM cycle map - ?excessive focus on long-distance routes

2012-05-09 Thread Richard Mann
You'd have to ask the City of Utrecht whether their "main cycle routes" are signed. If they've officially identified a particular set of routes, that would seem to be fairly clear-cut. See their city website: http://www.utrecht.nl/images/dso/infraprojecten/fiets/fietsroutes.htm

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM cycle map - ?excessive focus on long-distance routes

2012-05-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Richard Mann wrote: > My point is that tagging should allow both types of routes to be > recorded We tag what's on the ground, whether it's route signage, cycle-specific infrastructure, or a giant woolly mammoth (http://url.ie/f9ts). Are you suggesting a deviation from that?

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM cycle map - ?excessive focus on long-distance routes

2012-05-09 Thread Richard Mann
tagged and rendered accordingly); I just thought it interesting to note that that difference was also regarded as obvious in a major Dutch city. Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] OSM cycle map - ?excessive focus on long-distance routes

2012-05-09 Thread Richard Mann
missing a trick or two. Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] Celebrating Neskie

2012-05-08 Thread Richard Weait
well as having a beaming smile. I enjoyed learning more about Neskie's life and interests from his friends and colleagues in their video tribute to him. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpflF16Syvo Best regards, Richard http://www.inmemoriam.ca/view-announcement-242162-neskie-arrow-manuel.html

[OSM-talk] data "visualizations" and blind / low-viz users.

2012-05-07 Thread Richard Weait
The City of Toronto Open Data team held an event last week[1] to celebrate the second year of their Open Data program and to discuss how it might be improved. Visualizations were the hot topic, featured in two of the three main topics of discussion. - Are visualizations using City of Toronto data

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik rendering issue with *_link roads

2012-05-04 Thread Richard Mann
That's why you need to know the lower of the two classifications being linked (so you can put the link just under the lower one) On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 4:11 PM, AJ Ashton wrote: > On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 8:09 AM, Maarten Deen wrote: > > Is this behaviour of mapnik wanted? As I said: IMHO it is n

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik rendering issue with *_link roads

2012-05-04 Thread Richard Mann
ought to be fixed, so this information is offered on a tag-what-you-like basis, rather than a render-as-I-do basis. Richard On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Maarten Deen wrote: > I finally found out what the issue is with this [1] situation. My issue > with it is that IMHO it is not good

Re: [OSM-talk] near by

2012-04-27 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Ramiro Cosentino wrote: > > > 2012/4/27 Serge Wroclawski >> >> On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Ramiro Cosentino >> wrote: >> > Hello list, >> > >> > I'm new to OSM and I love it! Not sure if this is the right list to post >> > about this >> > but here it goes: >

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage relations, in particular 1298962

2012-04-27 Thread Richard Fairhurst
data, and nor should it be. This would be much better stored in an externally hosted .osm file or shapefile, which can be loaded into the editor/tool of your choice, than in the main database. cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Bing-c

Re: [OSM-talk] Licence status in Potlatch2, and data deletion?

2012-04-26 Thread Richard Fairhurst
fix it. The good news: one of the > prisoners on death row turned out to be innocent while we were fixing > it." > :) "Caedite eos - novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius..." cheers Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Licence status in Potlatch2, and data deletion?

2012-04-26 Thread Richard Fairhurst
n.org/2012/04/26/license-change-still-ongoing/ . cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Licence-status-in-Potlatch2-and-data-deletion-tp5667829p5667847.html Sent from the General Discussion mailing list archi

Re: [OSM-talk] Cycle tracks now show up on OCM

2012-04-16 Thread Richard Mann
Mapnik can't handle one-sided cycle lanes (yet). Even when it does, it may take Andy some time to implement it. Maperitive can (but only for smaller areas): http://www.transportparadise.co.uk/cyclemap/?zoom=3&lat=51.74126&lon=-1.25403&layers=B0 Richard On Mon, Apr 16, 2012

[OSM-talk] Cycle tracks now show up on OCM

2012-04-15 Thread Richard Mann
I've only just noticed that cycleway=track now renders on OCM, which means you get a more realistic picture of Copenhagen/Frederiksburg : http://www.opencyclemap.org/?zoom=17&lat=55.68659&lon=12.5642&layers=B00 ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Geofabrik downloads post-licence-change

2012-04-12 Thread Richard Fairhurst
ing to do with OSM(F) board approval. As explained at http://blog.osmfoundation.org/2012/04/05/license-change-update-getting-it-right/ , the coders working on the rebuild code are ironing out a few final issues before the process can begin. cheers Richard -- View this message in context: htt

Re: [OSM-talk] Relicensing timeline

2012-04-07 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Elena ``of Valhalla'' wrote: > Hello > > Are there any news on a date when we can expect that any data that > is going to be deleted is no longer in the database? The most-recent update is here: http://blog.osmfoundation.org/2012/04/05/license-change-update-getti

Re: [OSM-talk] server migration update / license change

2012-04-05 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 7:57 PM, Paul Norman wrote: > If you start having some tiles where the produced work is CC by-sa with the > underlying data also cc by-sa and some where the produced work is cc by-sa > with the underlying data ODbL, how do you do attribution for each tile > differently? In

Re: [OSM-talk] server migration update / license change

2012-04-05 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Paul Norman wrote: > If the tiles are not regenerated then they will contain elements that are > licensed as cc by-sa only. "Old tiles", the tiles generated at osm.org right now, are created from a CC-By-SA data base and are CC-By-SA tiles. No problem. > If you m

Re: [OSM-talk] server migration update / license change

2012-04-05 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 2:49 PM, ThomasB wrote: > Thanks a lot for the Update, Richard. It is much appreciated that the > information flow works. > > I have a question with regards to the map at osm.org. When the database is > clean, it would also need a re-rendering of all ti

[OSM-talk] server migration update / license change

2012-04-05 Thread Richard Weait
Update from Richard F Original http://blog.osmfoundation.org/2012/04/05/license-change-update-getting-it-right/ License change update: getting it right Posted on April 5, 2012 by RichardF With the new server successfully installed by our sysadmin team, we’re now onto the second part of our

Re: [OSM-talk] Truth about media hype in Microsoft lending big support and big dollars to OSM ?

2012-04-04 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Lester Caine wrote: > But it's not actually costing them anything? They would be putting the > images up anyway, so THEY are the only ones who gain by getting back free > vectorized data? No donor to OSM gets special terms or access to the data. You and I donate d

Re: [OSM-talk] "Old Server" planet is up

2012-04-03 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Greg Troxel wrote: > >  http://planet.openstreetmap.org/planet-120401.osm.bz2.md5 > > Is that going to be torrented?  I would think many people want a copy... Somebody could, I suppose. Of course, I should have linked to the file, not the md5. Oops. :-) __

Re: [OSM-talk] Truth about media hype in Microsoft lending big support and big dollars to OSM ?

2012-04-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
contact this year between Microsoft and OSMF. cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Truth-about-media-hype-in-Microsoft-lending-big-support-and-big-dollars-to-OSM-tp5615717p5615807.html Sent from the General D

[OSM-talk] "Old Server" planet is up

2012-04-03 Thread Richard Weait
The last "Old Server" planet is up now. This planet was generated after the API move to Read-Only. http://planet.openstreetmap.org/planet-120401.osm.bz2.md5 ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] No Data overlay on OpenStreetmap.org

2012-04-01 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Toby Murray wrote: > It moved to the "Edit" tab. Hover over the edit tab with your mouse > (don't click) and a menu will pop up with the data layer option. IMO > it should be moved back to the layer selection. Hovering over the edit > tab is about as unintuitive as

Re: [OSM-talk] It has begun

2012-04-01 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 4:17 AM, Toby Murray wrote: > OSM is in read-only mode as of 8:02 UTC. Looking at the minutely > replication files, this was the last changeset to upload: > http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/11173886 > > Let's all wish the hard working admins good luck. And a "t

Re: [OSM-talk] automated abbreviation changes?!

2012-03-23 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 9:04 AM, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote: > On 23/03/2012 13:47, Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr) wrote: > > On 3/23/2012 8:36 AM, Mikel Maron wrote: > > User chdr (http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/chdr) seems to be running a > script to automatically replace street name abbreviations wit

Re: [OSM-talk] Group relation proposal

2012-03-22 Thread Richard Mann
that sort of functionality yourself). Richard On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 11:53 AM, LM_1 wrote: > I have created a new proposal for group relation (type). It is > intended to reduce tagging duplication and make it easier to map dense > public transport areas by grouping ways that are use

[OSM-talk] Calm down, dear

2012-03-21 Thread Richard Fairhurst
drama queen on the lists, and in turn, I hope you'll all accept this friendly "calm down, dear" in the spirit in which it was intended. cheers Richard [cross-posted, please consider trimming follow-ups if replying] ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Way with only one single node

2012-03-21 Thread Richard Fairhurst
s internal dataset to the server". Adding a check here is a bit of a sticking plaster - it works but it doesn't fix the underlying problem. I'd rather see if, with the help of some steps to reproduce, we can fix 1 and/or 2 first before resorting to 3. cheers Richard _

Re: [OSM-talk] Way with only one single node

2012-03-20 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Potlatch 2 (which are entirely different codebases and have different components in trac). When someone identifies reliable steps to reproduce in P2, we try and fix it and indeed have done in some cases IIRC. cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Way-

[OSM-talk] Esri donation to OpenStreetMap Foundation

2012-03-19 Thread Richard Weait
http://blog.osmfoundation.org/2012/03/19/esri-donation/ http://www.esri.com/news/releases/12-1qtr/esri-donation-supports-collaboration-with-openstreetmap-community.html Thanks Esri! ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap

Re: [OSM-talk] Survey about Incentives to contribute to OSM

2012-03-15 Thread Richard Fairhurst
xist, and the best way to fix that is by creating it. That's it. I think Dominik's request is entirely reasonable and I'm a little hacked off with the negative-verging-on-paranoid response here. If you don't like it, move on to the next thread and just don't answer the f

Re: [OSM-talk] Survey about Incentives to contribute to OSM

2012-03-14 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Dominik Wilmsen wrote: > We would like to invite you to participate in a survey on motivations > and obstacles to contribute > geographic information to > OpenStreetMap. OpenStreetMap is a collaborative project to create a > free editable map of the world. Dear OS

Re: [OSM-talk] No attribution on osm.org?

2012-03-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
nation of the licence than anything found elsewhere. I'm not sure what more you might want - a looped .wav of Brian Blessed shouting "OPPPNSTRETMP" and reading out every contributor's name? cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5

Re: [OSM-talk] No attribution on osm.org?

2012-03-09 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 8:59 AM, Floris Looijesteijn wrote: [ ... ] > I fiddled around with the code and it's no problem to just add it, but I'm > hesitant to submit a patch if the majority doesn't agree. > > Should I set up a poll? No. You should join the License Working Group. :-)

[OSM-talk] Nice problem to have

2012-03-08 Thread Richard Fairhurst
ey are ‘we look forward to working with Apple to get that on there.’ A little civility goes a long way (in my book). I’m quite sick of the mudslinging in this space." Thanks to everyone who's put the hours in today, to all the coders and sysadmins who sweat blood

Re: [OSM-talk] iPhoto for iOS Not Using Google Maps

2012-03-08 Thread Richard Fairhurst
On 08/03/2012 10:41, Yves wrote: I think this is part of the fun searching for the datasource, there is no attribution, right? Indeed. A couple of us are having discussions about how to get this addressed. Stay tuned. cheers Richard ___ talk

Re: [OSM-talk] iPhoto for iOS Not Using Google Maps

2012-03-07 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote: Looks like they're using a old (pre-2011) planet dump for the data. Yep, we've now pinned it down to 1st-7th April 2010. cheers Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.or

Re: [OSM-talk] iPhoto for iOS Not Using Google Maps

2012-03-07 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Richard Fairhurst wrote: > Seems to be TIGER in the States but OSM in lots of other places... ...and the consensus is that the data is from some time late March/early April 2010. Yes, really. cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/iPhoto-for-iOS-

Re: [OSM-talk] iPhoto for iOS Not Using Google Maps

2012-03-07 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Spod wrote: > http://512pixels.net/iphoto-for-ios-not-using-google-maps/ http://www.refnum.com/tmp/apple.html (thanks Dair!) will show you the tiles they're using. Seems to be TIGER in the States but OSM in lots of other places... cheers Richard -- View this message in context: ht

Re: [OSM-talk] FourSquare and OSM

2012-03-07 Thread Richard Fairhurst
es for a week or two, perhaps, or continue to serve pre-changeover tiles for Australia (there's no licensing reason not to) until the datasets approach parity. AIUI, and I stand to be corrected, Foursquare's tiles are actually prerendered rather than being rendered on demand, so this is

Re: [OSM-talk] Creating a subset of OSM and storing it in Postgis tables

2012-02-25 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 11:19 PM, mick wrote: > I need to build a database of a subset of features from a specific area, > storing them in a series of tables according to feature type (eg. natural, > historic, waterway, ...) from predefined subsets of the planet file. > > In doing this I hope to

Re: [OSM-talk] Map Co-ordinates for towns, etc in UK

2012-02-24 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Philip Barnes wrote: > in an unknown village if you want to find the pub, head for the church. Or in a cathedral city...: http://www.imbibit.co.uk/ (shame it's a Google map, though) cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Map-Co-ordinates-for-t

Re: [OSM-talk] Map Co-ordinates for towns, etc in UK

2012-02-24 Thread Richard Mann
e to the centre of town, to help rendering). And you should choose your own centre of the town for measurement purposes. I suppose we could crowdsource a set of zeropoints if someone comes up with an appropriate tag. Just don't expect the place tags to be in the same location. Richard On Fr

[OSM-talk] Do you know who killed Ulf?

2012-02-21 Thread Richard Weait
Ulf's family have asked if we can help find the killer(s). Some bank machine photos of those stealing Ulf's money after the nurder are pretty clear. Police are looking for people who can identify these suspects especially in Eastern Germany, Poland and Lithuania. http://ulf-m.blogspot.com/ Let

Re: [OSM-talk] Contact And Remap Campaign

2012-02-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
r they'll be able to use your contributions under the new licence and terms. Most people don't seem to have a problem with clicking the button but there are one or two that do. cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Contact-And-Remap-Campaign-tp

Re: [OSM-talk] Contact And Remap Campaign

2012-02-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
pect the data change on 1st April to follow it very closely. > Possibility of considering undecided as accepted (if they don't respond) Completely not going to happen. Anyone suggesting that needs to read some law. You absolutely cannot do that [1]. cheers Richard [1] slight proviso: in the

[OSM-talk] Fwd: OSM tracker beta

2012-02-09 Thread Richard Weait
New OSM data-collection software for Android: Collects GPX track tiles Collects voice notes Collects text notes Collects photos Have a look. -- Forwarded message -- From: Ian Darwin My osm tracker for Android is (finally!) ready for people to play with before I put it into the M

Re: [OSM-talk] Contact And Remap Campaign

2012-02-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
e issues, has strong opinions on them, and just hasn't clicked the button either way (such as sherbourne and 80n in the UK), I won't have any compunction about replacing their edits. There's an outside possibility on 2nd April that I'll have wasted my time, but that's

Re: [OSM-talk] Contact And Remap Campaign

2012-02-05 Thread Richard Fairhurst
th posting the usernames on the national mailing list (so, talk-gb in this instance). People there might know of the "lost" mappers you're trying to contact. cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Contact-And-Remap-Campaign-tp5456674p545

Re: [OSM-talk] odbl non-agreement and humanitarian exceptions.

2012-02-02 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Michael Collinson wrote: [ ... ] > Meanwhile, you can use the OSMI License View tool to get started. Here is an > incomplete list I just grabbed using it: > > Exponent, Brent Miller, cetest, osmapb1, Tinono, rendle, Tinono, EvaStern, > robbert, Sidneyleenen, Elle_M

Re: [OSM-talk] Critical Mass for license change-over

2012-01-28 Thread Richard Fairhurst
I wrote: > A brief interruption from your scheduled programming. Haha. I'm an idiot. Sent to the wrong list. *pours coffee on in effort to wake up* cheers Richard (whispering) the point still remains, though ;) -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Criti

Re: [OSM-talk] Critical Mass for license change-over

2012-01-28 Thread Richard Fairhurst
ead to refrain from using emotive words like "ridiculous", "hypocrisy" and "vandalism". Remember too that, though you might not agree with them, there are a lot of people working hard on this, and just because your opinion differs on the implementation, it doesn't actu

[OSM-talk] switch2osm.org

2012-01-25 Thread Richard Fairhurst
've helped with this. We'll be continuing to refine the site in the forthcoming weeks, but we're happy that it's ready to launch now. So - OSM army, get to it and promote it :) cheers Richard [sent to talk@ and dev@, please trim follow-ups] __

Re: [OSM-talk] Road cores and casings on standard Mapnik rendering

2012-01-21 Thread Richard Mann
Mapnik handles layers and bridges. So instead I add links_lower and links_higher tags, and render (both order and colour) on the basis of the contents of the links_lower tag. Perhaps the rendering gods prefer Mapnik to be a bit crap, so cartographers can add value by doing something better. Who knows.

Re: [OSM-talk] Spam in user diaries

2012-01-20 Thread Richard Fairhurst
David Earl wrote: > BTW, the response to 'why don't you do this' is so often 'why don't > you do it yourself'. Oh, absolutely. I don't think that was meant as a criticism. @osmblogs is a great idea. cheers Richard -- View this message in context: htt

Re: [OSM-talk] Ulf Moeller (Möller) is dead

2012-01-18 Thread Richard Weait
Memorial page for Ulf. Please share your memories. http://blog.osmfoundation.org/2012/01/18/ulf-m%C3%B6ller-1973-2012/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch licence status highlighting wrong?

2012-01-18 Thread Richard Fairhurst
it too and I've pushed a fix, will hopefully be live soon. cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/Potlatch-licence-status-highlighting-wrong-tp7199815p7199954.html Sent from the General Discussion maili

Re: [OSM-talk] what is happening here - potlatch oddness with orange highlights?

2012-01-16 Thread Richard Fairhurst
SimonPoole wrote: > (I've been petitioning RichardF to have it turned on be default, > but that isn't the case AFAIK). It'll be on by default when I get a spare minute. cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/what-is-happening-

Re: [OSM-talk] what is happening here - potlatch oddness with orange highlights?

2012-01-16 Thread Richard Fairhurst
ct mapped by someone who's refused the new CTs a dark red outline; those who've neither refused nor accepted get an orange one. More details on the wiki I think. cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/what-is-happening-here-potlatch-oddness-with-o

Re: [OSM-talk] Request for Romano-British features

2012-01-16 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 9:28 AM, John Sturdy wrote: > As long as the tagging used is such that things that no longer exist > are not normally rendered (and only show as thin outlines on standard > editors) I think including historic data shouldn't be a problem. > Compared with the amount of modern

[OSM-talk] Tokyo - State of the Map 2012

2012-01-03 Thread Richard Weait
Just announced. Tokyo, Japan will host SotM 2012, 06-09 September 2012. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Request for Romano-British features

2012-01-03 Thread Richard Welty
American Civil War mapping projects with it. richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Things People Say

2011-12-31 Thread Richard Mann
nity had to say about a place, then go to Google if I wanted to know what the bots had found. Richard On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 6:48 AM, Michal Migurski wrote: > On Dec 30, 2011, at 7:42 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > > > In fact, many of those arguing for OSM becoming a nice map portal &

Re: [OSM-talk] The Best way to show individual shops within a shopping complex?

2011-12-30 Thread Richard Weait
ing. This is a single level shopping mall, http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/68282457 A very determined Toronto mapper has added shops in the multi-level Eaton Centre, shops and walkways are marked with level= http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/4321312

Re: [OSM-talk] Things People Say

2011-12-30 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Thomas Davie wrote: >> First of all, one would have to define the exact difference between "OSM is >> providing maps" and "another project is providing maps". Why exactly would >> OSM have to provide maps; > > Perhaps because that's the original, and stated purp

Re: [OSM-talk] Looking Forward

2011-12-26 Thread Richard Mann
hat sort of peple you get. Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Looking Forward

2011-12-24 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 6:12 PM, Michal Migurski wrote: > Thanks for the list, Frederick - a few worthwhile things to talk about here. > > On Dec 24, 2011, at 5:02 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > >> Our admins have recently published a list of "top ten tasks", >> technical things they'd like to see imp

Re: [OSM-talk] 97.2%

2011-12-24 Thread Richard Fairhurst
...100%! And the order for the new server has been placed. Have a happy Christmas everyone. cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/97-2-tp7123532p7123971.html Sent from the General Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com

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