Re: [Talk-GB] Southwest Coast Path (relation) has mostly disappeared.

2012-04-05 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Someoneelse wrote: * For those keeping scores, I'm aware of 6 OMG a relation has disappeareds since late last year. I believe that it's now 3-all (JOSM v Potlatch). This one was JOSM/1.5 (4878 en_GB). A few weeks ago I committed a change to beef up the delete relation confirmation dialogue

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

2012-04-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Pieren wrote: we have a media hype (or media excitement ?) about Microsoft investing big dollars in OSM. [...] Where is the truth here ? I'm sure we'd all like to know! I'm not aware of any announcement being made or (say) any formal contact this year between Microsoft and OSMF. cheers

[Talk-GB] Onward Travel Information posters

2012-03-29 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Just spotted, for the first time, one with correct attribution! Brand new poster at Burton-on-Trent station. Will post a pic when I'm, um, not on the train. :) cheers Richard ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-GB] Remapping update

2012-03-26 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Delighted to report that Andy Street has agreed to the CTs. Thank you Andy. cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Remapping-update-tp5573600p5596324.html Sent from the Great Britain mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] What licences (other than ODbL) are compatible with OSM after 1st April

2012-03-21 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Mayeul Kauffmann wrote: I think data licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0 cannot be put under ODbL without written authorisation by the copyright owner. Can you confirm this? Yes, that's correct. cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

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

2012-03-21 Thread Richard Fairhurst
[copied to potlatch-dev, followups probably better there] Steve Bennett wrote: One thing we could add (in addition to trying to fix bugs in the various places 1-length ways could be created) would be a general filter at save time that prevents any 1-length ways being sent back to the

[OSM-talk] Calm down, dear

2012-03-21 Thread Richard Fairhurst
In the UK there's a really annoying TV advert in which Michael Winner (past-it film director and restaurant critic) urges Calm down, dear. It's only a commercial. You can find it on YouTube if you want. Our beloved (ahem) Prime Minister used the phrase to slap down a critic in the House of Commons

[Talk-GB] Un-relicensable roads - now with secondary roads included

2012-03-21 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Thanks again to Simon for this: http://odbl.poole.ch/uk_major_and_secondary_roads.txt cheers Richard ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

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

2012-03-20 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Stephan Knauss wrote: Some editors create these ways. The most prominent one is Potlatch. The Ticket is open since two years. xybot trys to correct some of the problems until a bugfix is made in potlatch. xybot does not help its cause by having the same ticket for Potlatch 1 and Potlatch 2

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] Google Map Maker arrive en France !

2012-03-20 Thread Richard Fairhurst
overflorian a écrit: Google Map Maker est sacrément bien fait : c'est simple, efficace, sans flash ... c'est un peu l'interface qu'on attendait depuis toujours pour potlatch ! En Anglais, on dit patches welcome. Vous allez nous aider? amitiés Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] Re : Google Map Maker arrive en France ! (Richard Fairhurst)

2012-03-20 Thread Richard Fairhurst
can't get better if no-one writes code for it. amitiés Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Re-Google-Map-Maker-arrive-en-France-Richard-Fairhurst-tp5580844p5581296.html Sent from the France mailing list archive at Nabble.com

Re: [Talk-GB] Remapping update

2012-03-19 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Michael Collinson wrote: On 19/03/2012 13:40, John Sturdy wrote: I think the time's getting close enough that I'll resume that work anyway. This is almost certainly a person I had an amicable phone conversation with a week last Monday who is still concerned that OS open data somehow is

Re: [Talk-GB] Remapping update

2012-03-18 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Richard Bullock wrote: I've just had an e-mail from Martin Green, who was one of the larger undecided mappers. He has just in the last few minutes accepted the new license terms That's terrific news. Thank you Martin, if you're reading! cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

[Talk-GB] Remapping update

2012-03-17 Thread Richard Fairhurst
We're now down to 900 problematic trunk/primary/motorway: http://odbl.poole.ch/uk_major_roads.txt Also greatly impressed with Coventry progress - very little red left now! I've started intermittent work on Manchester; any help there would be appreciated. cheers Richard

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

2012-03-15 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Serge Wroclawski wrote: This may appear on its surface to be an odd question, especially to someone in academia, but our community is predicated on the premise of communal sharing. *ahem* Speak for yourself. I engage with OSM because I believe that open geographic data should exist, and the

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

2012-03-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Andrew Ayre wrote: I can't imagine why the majority wouldn't agree on improving attribution. I think the attribution is great as it is. There's a whacking great big OSM logo and a big Copyright licence link that leads to a more cogent and helpful explanation of the licence than anything found

Re: [Talk-GB] Licence change - one month to go

2012-03-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
MarkS wrote: The page has the latest counts (down to 1889 currently expected to be deleted). And now 1733 by Simon's latest tally. :) cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Licence-change-one-month-to-go-tp5531132p5549953.html Sent from the Great

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] What happens on April 1?

2012-03-08 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ian Sergeant wrote: However, if the transition happened today in Sydney, we would lose every freeway, every trunk road, every primary road, the harbour crossings, the foreshore. All the rivers. Without wishing to play down your loss at all - I wouldn't want to be an Australian OSM user at

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

[OSM-talk] Nice problem to have

2012-03-08 Thread Richard Fairhurst
* 3500 tiles per second. Seriously. In Grant's words on Twitter: Massive jump in #OpenStreetMap traffic due 2 Apple news: t.co/nB4ffgYy Fighting fires 2 keep systems up * switch2osm.org fell over. Yep, so many people wanting to find out about switching to OpenStreetMap that WordPress crapped

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Questions from a Journalist

2012-03-07 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Freimut - I'm happy to talk to your journalist. As you might know, my day job is as a magazine editor (our magazine celebrates its 40th anniversary this year) and therefore, you could say, I'm quite accustomed to this kind of work. Maybe you might be kind enough to forward my details to this

Re: [OSM-talk] FourSquare and OSM

2012-03-07 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Steve Bennett wrote: I can't speak for other countries, but in my city (Melbourne, population 4 million, second biggest in Australia), parts of the largest freeway, right near the centre of town, are currently on the chopping board. That's a lot worse than any other everyday missing roads,

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:

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
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

Re: [Talk-us] Mapnik slower than usual?

2012-03-07 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Nathan Edgars II wrote: Is it just me, or are there more timeout magnifying glasses than usual? Is this due to the Osmarender server going down? AIUI there's some work going on to get local tile mirrors to serve requests. The London tile mirror (which currently serves the US) has had some

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: Re: Mapnik slower than usual?

2012-03-07 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Charlotte Wolter wrote: I'm having that problem and still having several others in Potlatch 2. I can't add points. If I try to add a point, I can no longer highlight any ways. I have to save my work, go back to View and then return to Edit, which reloads Potlatch 2. Charlotte, we are

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: Re: Mapnik slower than usual?

2012-03-07 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Have you not checked back at the tickets to see followup comments? On 7 Mar 2012, at 16:58, Charlotte Wolter techl...@techlady.com wrote: Richard, I have posted tickets twice to TRAC in the last two days, and have no communication about my issues. What requests are you referring

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Feedback requested ... OSM Poland data

2012-03-06 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Michael Collinson wrote: - as an OSM community member, are you happy for the OSMF to make such a statement? - is it true? - can you see any negative consequences? I'm with Ed and Frederik on this one, I'm afraid - I don't see any way in which we can afford additional permissions on a one-off

Re: [Talk-GB] Licence change - one month to go

2012-03-06 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Robert Whittaker (OSM) wrote: Excellent -- thanks to both of you for getting this done. The credit belongs to Simon, not me! I believe that he is willing to regenerate the list on occasion, but will wait to be contradicted if that's not the case. I think the trunk roads are doable too if

Re: [Talk-GB] Licence change - one month to go

2012-03-04 Thread Richard Fairhurst
MarkS wrote: As Robert says getting a list of problem highway nodes/ways would be a good step. Simon has very kindly provided this: http://odbl.poole.ch/uk_major_roads.txt cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [Talk-GB] Licence change - one month to go

2012-03-04 Thread Richard Fairhurst
The other day I wrote: But there are a few significant problem areas: - Hertfordshire (Luton, Hemel etc.) I'm delighted to report that the two major undecided mappers in Hertfordshire have both just agreed. Thank you both. cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [Talk-GB] Licence change - one month to go

2012-03-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Robert Whittaker (OSM) wrote: I wonder if another prioritisation approach might be useful too -- prioritising certain high-value types of objects, where-ever they might be. Yes, I think that's an excellent idea. Obviously, everyone has their own definition of high value (I'm quite anxious to

[Talk-GB] Licence change - one month to go

2012-03-02 Thread Richard Fairhurst
We change to the new licence in just under a month's time, so it's a good time to look at the current state of the UK. What's likely not to be carried through to the new database? The good news is that the UK is in a very healthy state overall. Just under 99% of nodes will survive (98.68%

Re: [Talk-us] Adding Tiger 2011 Data

2012-02-29 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Nathan Edgars II wrote: What do you mean by red circles with no tag? I think that's probably dupe nodes in P2. cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Adding-Tiger-2011-Data-tp5526409p5526452.html Sent from the USA mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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:

Re: [OSM-talk] Contact And Remap Campaign

2012-02-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
andrzej zaborowski wrote: I honestly found it strange that RichardF would insist on 80n selecting one of the options.. really, what's the point? It's a courtesy thing. If you're going to refuse, have the decency to say so, so that your fellow OSMeres know whether they'll be able to use your

Re: [Talk-GB] Residents invited to celebrate launch of the Wales Coast Path

2012-02-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Andy Mabbett wrote: Do we have anyone who wants to try to secure some OSM involvement in this: I've done a bit of mapping of the WCP, with each county section as a separate relation, all grouped together into a Wales Coast Path super-relation:

Re: [OSM-talk] Contact And Remap Campaign

2012-02-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Graham Jones wrote: Maybe I am naive, but I struggle to believe that people are really that vindictive - they have all put effort into contributing to the project over time. That would come into the category of taking a relaxing hobby too seriously to me! Hi, you must be new round here.

Re: [OSM-talk] Contact And Remap Campaign

2012-02-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
jaakkoh wrote: I don't remap because I lack official and final rules (and tool(s)) for what needs to be remapped. +1 Use the WTFE licence status display in Potlatch 2 or JOSM - that is as close to the community consensus as we have, and I expect the data change on 1st April to follow it very

Re: [Talk-GB] OS VectorMap District road files for Devon and Cornwall

2012-02-07 Thread Richard Fairhurst
I've posted a how-to at: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Remapping/Potlatch_2_vector_background_layers and uploaded VectorMap District roads for ST and SY, so now the whole of Devon, Cornwall and Somerset should be included. cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [Talk-us] Remapping tips

2012-02-07 Thread Richard Fairhurst
andrzej zaborowski wrote: And there are real people using OSM in many other fields. What I mean I think we all know what you _mean_, whether or not we agree with it. What puzzles me is what you're trying to _achieve_. cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [Talk-GB] OS VectorMap District road files for Devon and Cornwall

2012-02-06 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Richard Fairhurst wrote: There is lots that could be improved about this workflow: implementing TagTransform to remap tags automatically [...] I'm very very unlikely to have much time to do this before 1st April Oh, ok then. P2 now supports MapCSS-based tag transformations. Or in English

Re: [OSM-talk] Contact And Remap Campaign

2012-02-05 Thread Richard Fairhurst
David Earl wrote: While several of us in Cambridgeshire have tried this, we've had very limited success. It's hard to tell, but the problem seems to that the vast majority of the problem people aren't receiving the emails. We have no way to contact them. Worth posting the usernames on the

[Talk-GB] OS VectorMap District road files for Devon and Cornwall

2012-02-05 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Hi all, In order to assist remapping in the South-West, I've uploaded a bunch of OS-derived shapefiles each containing all the roads in a 10km x 10km area. You can use Potlatch 2 to bring these geometries into the map, saving tracing work. To load: 1. Open Potlatch 2 at the required area.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] The Copyright of Split Ways

2012-01-30 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: There's no reason for such vodoo logic. A way split or merge can be determined from looking at a changeset. A changeset in which a chain of nodes is removed from one way and added to another, new way denotes a split. I don't think that's necessarily true. If we have:

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] The Copyright of Split Ways

2012-01-30 Thread Richard Fairhurst
andrzej zaborowski wrote: (I thought it is i-i+j, at least in JOSM it was up to some point) It is. But it's very difficult to extract that with certainty from a non-trivial changeset. Add enough splits, and you may find i-i+j+k+l. Then add some merges and some deletes, and you possibly have

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

2012-01-28 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Hello all, A brief interruption from your scheduled programming. legal-talk is currently more administered than moderated because I don't have the time to moderate it and no moderator has been appointed. That notwithstanding, I would ask participants in this thread to refrain from using emotive

Re: [Talk-de] Potlach 2 - kein bing-Hintergrund-Bild mehr bei Militaerflaechen

2012-01-28 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Stephan Knauss wrote: Das ist egal. Die Bilder sind sauber. Potlach hat aus irgendwelchen Gründen beschlossen diese Bereiche zu verschleiern. You are certifiably insane. cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Severn Way finished!

2012-01-23 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Now mapped from the source to Bristol. Thanks to everyone who did part of it and especially Steve Brook and Ed Loach for filling the gap near Bewdley. cheers Richard ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org

[Talk-GB] Severn Way finished!

2012-01-23 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Now mapped from the source to Bristol. Thanks to everyone who did part of it and especially Steve Brook and Ed Loach for filling the gap near Bewdley. cheers Richard ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

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:

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

2012-01-18 Thread Richard Fairhurst
woll wrote: For way 3256123 (the anti-clockwise carriageway of the M25), Potlatch doesn't seem to highlight it when the 'Show licence status' option is enabled. There was an issue for ways that were members of relations in some circumstances. Someone else spotted it too and I've pushed a

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

2012-01-16 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Robin Paulson wrote: http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?lat=-36.878407lon=174.741523zoom=19 the landuse polygon has an orange highlight on it, why does it do that? You've turned on the Show licence status option in the options box. That'll give any object mapped by someone who's refused the new

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:

Re: [Talk-GB] Help with remapping

2012-01-16 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Andy Allan wrote: [2] Originally meaning this is a legally declared 'Public Footpath', it was ambiguously confused with a general legal right of walking (e.g. on a bridleway). Automatic inclusion on all footpaths of any type by potlatch1 for a number of years [Brief historical footnote:

Re: [Talk-us] name expansion bot (Re: Imports information on the wiki)

2012-01-15 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Mike N. wrote: Everyone will certainly enter name=Xyz Rd for their first edit. The JOSM validator will pick this up, but I don't remember if Potlatch 2 would notice that. No, it won't. P2 will get inbuilt QA one day, but only when someone has the time to do it _properly_. :) cheers

Re: [Talk-GB] Pigging potlach ...

2012-01-11 Thread Richard Fairhurst
John Sturdy wrote: The slowdown I notice is on a single-core 512Mb machine, and I haven't looked into full system statistics for it but the behaviour is consistent with thrashing virtual memory... after editing for a while, drawing ways with the mouse gets very slow (almost freezes); I

[Talk-GB] South-West England - calling Guy

2012-01-11 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Jason Cunningham wrote: Thanks Mike, I'll now start having a proper go at replacing some of Guys data. A monumental task and I think I'll just start with the important roads. A very curious situation, as Guy appears to still be mapping in OSM, just with a new account (GUY, all-caps:

Re: [Talk-GB] Pigging potlach ...

2012-01-11 Thread Richard Fairhurst
John Sturdy wrote: Another oddity I've noticed (also probably deep within Flash) is that P2 sometimes either doesn't respond to a keypress but does to the corresponding mouse click, or just responds much slower to the keypress. (I notice this with add in advanced mode, versus the + key.)

Re: [Talk-GB] License change anonymous edits

2012-01-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Peter Miller wrote: Is there no way in this case to formally 'claim' the IPR for this features on the basis that we have moved them and edited all the surrounding features? Yes, there is - tag it with odbl=clean. To replace a single node that forms a junction might involve unstitching 3

Re: [Talk-GB] License change anonymous edits

2012-01-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Michael Collinson wrote: +1 to Richard's suggestion odbl=clean Just a tiny little clarification - this isn't something I've dreamed up, it's a real live tag with 9,000 occurrences in the database already, and which is being used by status visualisations such as OSM Inspector. :) cheers Richard

Re: [Talk-GB] License change anonymous edits

2012-01-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
David Earl wrote: Why does pressing the keys make any difference whatsoever? The original contributor doesn't own the copyright in the name, only their contribution, and by marking it odbl clean I'm making an alternative contribution which asserts the source is now legitimate. I think

Re: [Talk-GB] Pigging potlach ...

2012-01-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Lester Caine wrote: OK how many of you are having trouble editing for more than 10 minutes? I've lost as much work as I've done this evening with potlach just freezing :( I had the same problem at the weekend, but put it down to finger trouble, know I know it is software. If you _know_

Re: [Talk-GB] GB License Change Readiness

2012-01-08 Thread Richard Fairhurst
this relation from scratch would be a *lot* of work, as it covers lane and paths across hundreds of miles. There is no chuffing way I am allowing our NCN coverage to go to pot on 1st April! Least of all Lon Las Cymru (NCN 8): http://vimeo.com/6623643 Anyone who can spot when Richard

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] state of the map

2012-01-04 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Philippe Pary a écrit: Cependant je crois deviner que mes compères seraient plus motivés à prendre SotM 2013 que SotM-eu cette année. Personnellement, je serais très heureux de voir SotM-EU 2012 à Lille. Tokyo, c'est trop loin pour moi et pour la plupart d'OSMeurs britanniques. amitiés

[OSM-talk] 97.2%

2011-12-24 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Our appeal for a new server is tantalisingly standing at 97.2%: http://donate.osm.org/server2011/ Will we get to 100% by Christmas Day - a Christmas present for OSM? If you can give just £5/€5/$5 or local currency of your choice, please do - it'd be lovely to get to 100% for

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.

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Map Maker gets a UI overhaul

2011-12-15 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Martijn van Exel wrote: there's bound to be people slave-mapping for GMM that would contribute to OSM instead if 1) they knew about it or 2) it were easier to get started. If we had more than five people coding on the main site then maybe we could start to fix 2. ;) We're kind of hamstrung

Re: [OSM-talk] tools for the transition (was: Editing of content that will be deleted on April 1st)

2011-12-14 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Edward Hillsman wrote: that Potlatch does not highlight everything that even the OSM Inspector designates as being at risk of removal or reversion (giving false positives and false negatives; I have identified one of each in the area I map) Potlatch 2 uses exactly the same source as OSM

Re: [OSM-talk] Who mapped it first with ref to forth coming deletions - implication

2011-12-14 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Maarten Deen wrote: Well, since all history of that data before API v0.5 is lost Hey hey hey. Slow down. Data before API 0.5 is _not_ lost. It is archived. cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-talk] Who mapped it first with ref to forth coming deletions - implication

2011-12-14 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Maarten Deen wrote: That is something different than what 80n said earlier 80n, not for the first time, is wrong. So, which is it? Cleared and no details about any previous modifications or archived and earlier details available? You have to excuse the confusion, because these are

Re: [Talk-us] Now you can see how much vandalism the OSMF will carry out on April Fools

2011-12-14 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Grant Humphries wrote: Can anyone expand on that or point me in the direction to find more information about this? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Quick_History_Service#Changeset_Overrides should be right. I'm sure Andrzej can supply more details if required. cheers Richard -- View this

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-legal-talk] License Change View on OSM Inspector

2011-12-13 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Floris Looijesteijn wrote: I think that should be made more clear on the remapping page. You mean the fact that the _very_ _first_ _sentence_ of the main page content is Remapping means 'replacing with new content'. It does not mean simply copying the old content - that might infringe the

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-legal-talk] License Change View on OSM Inspector

2011-12-13 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Adam Hoyle wrote: For example (there are a lot more examples): http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/?view=wtfelon=-0.81228lat=51.72366zoom=17 shows a path with red nodes, but I added that and no-one else has edited If you look at the history of each node, you can see who's edited it. In this case,

Re: [OSM-talk] Editing of content that will be deleted on April 1st

2011-12-13 Thread Richard Fairhurst
80n wrote: Isn't it time to block edits to non-CT content? There is certainly an issue here, and what you describe as non-CT content can take two forms. There is content that will not be relicensed. This is the content input by those who have declined the Contributor Terms. I agree that it

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-legal-talk] License Change View on OSM Inspector

2011-12-13 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Adam Hoyle wrote: is there something else I need to do? It'll only work in the default, 'Potlatch' map style (not 'Network' or 'Wireframe' or others - I need to fix that!) but apart from that, yes, that should be all you need to do. cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-legal-talk] License Change View on OSM Inspector

2011-12-13 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Adam Hoyle wrote: Oh wow - I must have been on some long gone map style, it's all looking very different now I've changed the map style (and looking good too). Am I right in saying that purple outlines mean things are part of a hiking route, and green outline means foot route right?

Re: [OSM-talk] Editing of content that will be deleted on April 1st

2011-12-13 Thread Richard Fairhurst
80n wrote: The two forms you describe are quite irrelevant and just muddy the water. Can you answer the question, please? You have edited a bunch of stuff in the North Cotswolds, which is an area very near where I live and which I care about. I remember one changeset called Cotswolds, another

Re: [OSM-talk] Editing of content that will be deleted on April 1st

2011-12-13 Thread Richard Fairhurst
80n wrote: David, many people have been coerced or suckered into agreeing. I've been badgered many times (including three times today, on this very thread by an OSMF board member). No. I am badgering you to say what you will do, or explain why you will not say. Obviously, I would prefer it

[Talk-de] Potlatch and relation handling

2011-12-13 Thread Richard Fairhurst
(Sorry, tried to send this yesterday but my subscription to talk-de appeared to have died! Apologies in advance for posting in English.) Tirkon's claim about Potlatch and relation handling is complete nonsense. To edit a relation in Potlatch 2: * select a node or way which is a member of that

Re: [Talk-de] Potlatch and relation handling

2011-12-13 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: So in the end I am happy that someone recently coded the missing relation support for Potlatch2, but given your statements from previous discussions (as well as you closing relative tickets with won't fix) wasn't really encouraging to think that this has been

Re: [Talk-de] Potlatch and relation handling

2011-12-13 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: Btw: I am not aware of the concept of parasitical criticism, what do you intent? - reply offlist preferred to keep the noise low Replied offlist. Richard ___ Talk-de mailing list Talk-de@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-GB] OS VectorMap water feature import

2011-12-13 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ed Avis wrote: In some parts of the country there are waterways traced from out-of- copyright OS maps or from Street View tiles. Getting the shapes from OS VectorMap will certainly be an improvement on that. Absolutely. Some of the tracing from NPE appears to have been done either from the

Re: [Talk-GB] OS VectorMap water feature import

2011-12-13 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Pawel Stankiewicz wrote: I wonder who can know this maze of channels in such degree (s)he could improve significantly a long-term work of professionals from OS. Someone like the guy who wrote www.localboating.co.uk/The%20Walton%20Backwaters.pdf , perhaps? Richard -- View this message in

Re: [Talk-us] Now you can see how much vandalism the OSMF will carry out on April Fools

2011-12-13 Thread Richard Fairhurst
80n wrote: I think Frederik has managed to decimate more of London than five years of bombing did during WW2 ;) Well, there's quite an easy way for you and Ed A to fix that, of course. ;) cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [Talk-us] Now you can see how much vandalism the OSMF will carry out on April Fools

2011-12-13 Thread Richard Fairhurst
80n wrote: Richard, I already did fix it, just not in the way that you'd like. Sorry. Ok. If that's final, could I then ask you to have the courage of your convictions and actually click 'Decline' to the Contributor Terms, please, rather than leaving it hanging as 'Undecided'? cheers Richard

Re: [Talk-GB] OS VectorMap water feature import

2011-12-12 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Graham Jones wrote: This is one where it is certainly possible to import the data, but to do it manually is going to be a huge amount of effort, and I wonder if it is really worth the effort? I think it is, yes. If I may be so immodest to repeat myself from the IRC quotes page on the wiki:

Re: [Talk-GB] Hampshire 2012 - map the county's footpaths

2011-12-12 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Nick Whitelegg wrote: OK. I get the impression that if he PDs his edits then they can be carried through; can you confirm this is the case? Any data (whether OSM edits* or a third-party source) that are declared to be public domain, i.e. free of rights, can indeed be included in OSM post-1st

[OSM-legal-talk] Google Maps UK - some legal angles

2011-12-08 Thread Richard Fairhurst
As posted on talk-gb, Google Maps appear to have switched to using their own data rather than Tele Atlas's in the UK this morning. This raises a couple of interesting points. Firstly, it seems pretty clear to me that some of the data is OS-derived (probably from OpenData or a commercial

[Talk-GB] Retour de l'autoroute britannique

2011-12-08 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Google have finally done it: they've switched from TeleAtlas to Google map data in the UK. Set your stopwatches for the first newspaper story about man drives off cliff - '...but Google told me it was a road'!. Some of their choices are, shall we say, a little heroic. cheers Richard

Re: [Talk-GB] Hampshire 2012 - map the county's footpaths

2011-12-08 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Nick Whitelegg wrote: (I'm also keen BTW to deal with a possible licencing issue here. A long-standing contributor has mapped many footpaths in Hampshire already but has not signed up to the CTs. Naturally I'm keen not to see all his hard work lost, and TBH, while I'm licence-neutral,

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Logo, which one the right one?

2011-12-07 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Frans Thamura wrote: i just hacking the osm logo (develop using inkspace, isnt it?), now ichange and make it AI. Illustrator's SVG import is famously buggy (and I say that as someone who generally likes Illustrator very much). Your best bet is to use a tool with a better understanding of SVG,

Re: [Talk-GB] Revert my changeset please

2011-12-04 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Pawel Stankiewicz wrote: If you don't know how to revert an import, chances are you shouldn't be doing the import in the first place. Chances are something very different from a ban. No. You're misunderstanding English idiom. I've now edited the page for the benefit of other people who have

Re: [Talk-GB] Revert my changeset please

2011-12-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Pawel Stankiewicz wrote: I would like to find out which Wiki articles states: only run automated edits if you know what you're doing and how to repair any damage you might cause http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines If you don't know how to revert an import, chances are you

Re: [OSM-talk] Friends

2011-11-30 Thread Richard Fairhurst
jaakkoh wrote: Or maybe, just maybe, some of the blessed developers who know Rails well enough could help make connecting with other mappers easier/smoother/even_delightful There's lots of stuff that can be done and I suspect OWL, Matt's what edits are actually happening in a given area

Re: [Talk-GB] LCN - Local Cycle Network

2011-11-30 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Richard Mann wrote: There are also some non-approved stickers that Sustrans have put up in various places. Not sure which stickers you're referring to, but IIRC Sustrans 'Ranger' stickers are approved for use by almost all highway authorities in England, including Oxfordshire. (The two I'm

[OSM-talk] OSM(F) strategy - suggestions review

2011-11-29 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Hello all, [crossposted to various groups] As you may know the OSM Foundation has lots of terribly boring-sounding working groups and the Strategic Working Group is possibly the most boring-sounding of the lot. However... occasionally we do things that are not stultifyingly boring and this

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL and publishing source data

2011-11-28 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: I think that anything said until here will not be disputed by Richard Indeed not. :) the bit that *can* be disputed is whether or not it is permissible to label your resulting image a database and then not release the database behind it. Yep. I read the EU Database

[Talk-GB] LCN - Local Cycle Network

2011-11-28 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Hello all, We seem to be ending up with wildly conflicting use of 'lcn=yes', 'lcn_ref=*', and similar tags across Britain. In London, these tags are used as you would expect - to map the signposted London Cycle Network. It's pretty much in keeping with ncn= and rcn= tagging. In Worcester,

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