On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 1:31 AM, Maarten Deen wrote:
> On 2012-10-10 22:22, Richard Weait wrote:
>>
>> What are the results?
>> I've taken a go at graphing comment quality. This is not science of
>> course. Try it yourself; how would you measure comment qua
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 4:20 AM, Kevin Peat wrote:
> On 10 October 2012 21:22, Richard Weait wrote:
>> What are the results?
>> ...
>> The most common comment quality is 18.
>> Half of all accounts have comment quality from 13 to 36.
>> Bots usual
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote:
> Oh darn, I missed it. I had the wrong time in my head and have been
> trying to do too many things at once this week. :-((
> I hope it was a productive meeting. Logs? I am still committed to this
> group - any plans for a f'up?
Minutes a
What are the results?
Some respondents mentioned that close-but-not-touching ways made for a
"bad mapper" but were generally very understanding on this point. It
was seen more as an indication of inexperience.
The Big Pet Peeve that identified bad mappers was "poor or missing comments."
I've ta
Date and time have now been set, via poll.
Wednesday, 10 October 2012 at 1800H UTC. with a duration of 90 minutes
Meeting on irc.oftc.net #osm-strategic
Find your local time,
http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Initial+WWG+meeting&iso=20121010T18&ah=1&am=30
So far I've seen no
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:50 AM, Richard Weait wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I recently discussed an idea for a new OSMF working Group on the OSMF
> talk list[1]. The reaction seemed favourable, so now I'm looking for
> key volunteers to "staff" the working group and
On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Dave Sutter wrote:
> I like the idea of an automated quality checker for map edits. That can be
> seen as an advancement to the simple rules based checking done when a commit
> is done in JOSM.
>
> It might be easier to train the classifier if it concentrates on
On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 11:42 PM, mick wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Oct 2012 23:04:27 -0400
> Richard Weait wrote:
>> What on Earth are you doing, Richard?
>
> Make sure you are wearing your fireproof jocks,
Thanks, Mick. Cup and burn suit in place. :-)
Awesome. Only a few hours
Ever wanted to 'dish' on another mapper? Like to gossip?
Or do you just want to help improve the OSM data and community?
Here is your opportunity. :-)
I've created a survey. You can tell me who you consider to be a good
mapper and who you consider to be a bad mapper. And you can do this
anon
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Richard Weait wrote:
Also, a data point. I sent some welcome emails last week. Of the
replies (3), one was "thanks" and the other two were "thank you"s with
some conversation. Of 38 contact emails 5 have mapped since.
We might find tha
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 4:12 PM, SomeoneElse wrote:
> Richard Weait wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> I recently discussed an idea for a new OSMF working Group on the OSMF
> talk list.
>
>
> Like many other people, I've contacted new local mappers over the last
> couple o
Dear All,
I recently discussed an idea for a new OSMF working Group on the OSMF
talk list[1]. The reaction seemed favourable, so now I'm looking for
key volunteers to "staff" the working group and for broader support
from the community to encourage the official approval of this working
group prop
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Olivier Croquette wrote:
> If no, it doesn't make any sense to me that a vector based process for the
> cadaster is an import, and a raster based is not. Everything is the same :
> kind of data, license, provider…
>
> There seems to be a contradiction there.
Y
On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Alex Rollin wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am rather new to OSM data. I've enjoyed doing edits on the map and now
> I'd like to start learning how to arrange it on a printed page.
>
> I know there are lots and lots of tools out there.
>
> Could I receive a few recommendati
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Jochen Topf wrote:
> I have just added a change to the OSM Inspector which now shows even more
> potential coastline errors in the new "Questionable" category.
Very nice. Thank you for this. The questionable category is pointing
out some reversed coastline ways
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 11:03 AM, pavithran wrote:
> That raises some interesting questions because ODBL planet was
> available only recently , Did apple wait till last minute to get them
> ? Or are they mixing the old planet(CC by SA) with new datasets(ODBL)
They'll never say. They're a closed
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 7:46 AM, Lucas Nussbaum
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Following the discussion on the infamous french Cadastre '"imports"',
> I've tried to find the country of living of the DWG members
You might also have a look at other working groups and opportunities
to volunteer for OSMF, in addit
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote:
> Before we go further with policy edits, perhaps we should make sure that
> everyone understands the goals and that there is a consensus about
> them... That will make the resulting rules or guidelines more acceptable.
Since you[1] are tr
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Richard Fairhurst
wrote:
> Pieren wrote:
>> I thought that such issue is not possible anymore with ODbl.
>
> No, the Contributor Terms simply say "You are indicating that, as far as You
> know, You have the right to authorize OSMF to use and distribute those
> Con
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Marc Sibert wrote:
> I'm still not agree with this policy : I do not ignore "your" messages.
You don't agree? You created your import account, I think?
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On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Pierre Béland wrote:
> There are more then 500,000 contributors. How many do you think know about
> the DWG group and follow his guidelines?
Those who aren't aware, and are contacted by DWG, generally switch to
an import account when they are asked to do so. Th
Dear All,
Please pass this message to your language and country lists.
Now is an excellent time to check and update OpenStreetMap in your
language of choice. The busy wiki elves have been updating license
information where they can. Please pay special attention to this
matter as you carry out y
On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 7:18 AM, Jochen Topf wrote:
> The taginfo web site is back online with ODbl data. It will be updated daily.
Thank you for creating and operating this wonderful service.
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On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 5:32 PM, Michael Kugelmann wrote:
> On 13.09.2012 01:06, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
>
>>> announcements (in means of lessons learned): within a multinational
>>> worldwide project it is recommended to add a time zone if a time is
>>> given.
>>
>> I'd expect it to be either
please translate and propagate to your local lists, and other
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As just posted to blog.osmfoundation.org
Hello OpenStreetMap-pers,
The change to ODbL is imminent. No, Really. We mean it.
At long last we are at the end of the license change process. After
four years of consultation, debate, revision, improvement, revision,
debate, improvement, implementati
It shouldn't require a move of all of the help.osm.org users to SE to
use SE as an effective recruiting tool. Could a few informed members
field some OSM-related questions at SE, and redirect the askers to
help? or event relay questions from Se to help for a community
response?
_
On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Stephan Knauss wrote:
[ ... ]
> Still not clear what license we now have...
Because no change has been made. YET. The announcement was that the
"next" planet will be ODbL. Barring unforeseen circumstances, I
expect that will be true.
Planet publication has been
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 5:48 AM, Hendrik Oesterlin
wrote:
> Is there some person to contact in order to create the talk-nc mailing
> list?
Hi Hendrik,
I expect that Mike will get back to you as well.
May I suggest an alternative? Please consider using an existing list
that shares your languag
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 5:04 AM, Kate Chapman wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm giving a presentation in a couple weeks about OpenStreetMap and
> how governments can interact with OSM.
>
> I'm looking for examples of governments using OSM data, versus
> releasing data for OSM to use.
[ ...]
> What other ex
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Mike N wrote:
> I map in OpenStreetMap for fun, but when it comes to talking to local
> governments or the media, I don't have a good idea of how to justify open
> data.I'm thinking in terms of being able to tell local government how
> open Geodata would benef
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Gert Gremmen wrote:
> What is OSM’s policy in mapping military installations…
I'm not aware of an OSMF policy on mapping military installations.
I'm not aware of mapping guidelines that are specific to military
installations.
General mapping guidelines based on
Did you know that you can propose yourself as a candidate for the
OpenStreetMap Foundation board? the nomination process is now open,
and you don't have to wait for somebody else to nominate you. If
you've wanted to be more involved in solving problems for other
mappers, standing for the board, o
A "thank you" from a Perth mapper for the armchair mapping help from abroad.
There are many places where can help other mappers if you have a few
spare cycles.
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Date: Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:27 PM
Subject: Re: [talk-au] Our friends down und
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Jan Kučera wrote:
> Can not see anything left here:
> http://harrywood.dev.openstreetmap.org/license-change/botprocessing.php
>
> Will "officials" confirm this?
Mostly.
As announced moments ago on rebuild@ by Andy Allan:
"Hi All,
Another step along the way: The
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
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 good - I think the OSMF should do
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.
Dear All,
Twenty months in the making. The next hugely successful and awesomely
fun Mapnik Code Sprint will be held in Washington DC, in just a few
short weeks. Perhaps you should be there!
Some details.
https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/wiki/Code-sprint
Who should be there?
You should be ther
On 08 May 2011, Neskie Manuel went camping at his family camp site.
He went missing. His body was discovered on 25 June 2011 several
kilometers down river.
Neskie was an OpenStreetMap contributor, and started mapping in April
2009, mapping mostly near Chase, British Columbia, Canada.
http://yosm
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
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:
>
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
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
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
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 tiles in cache to finali
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 migr
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
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. :-)
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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
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
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
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
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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
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. :-)
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
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
New OSM data-collection software for Android:
Collects GPX track tiles
Collects voice notes
Collects text notes
Collects photos
Have a look.
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My osm tracker for Android is (finally!) ready for people to play with
before I put it into the M
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
Memorial page for Ulf. Please share your memories.
http://blog.osmfoundation.org/2012/01/18/ulf-m%C3%B6ller-1973-2012/
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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
Just announced. Tokyo, Japan will host SotM 2012, 06-09 September 2012.
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On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Dave F. wrote:
> Hi
>
> Does anyone have any completed examples of how best to map/tag a
> shopping complex/mall where it's at the level of naming individual shops?
I didn't add dividing walls, but did add walkways and shops by
dead-reckoning. This is a single lev
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
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
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 7:19 AM, Brett Henderson wrote:
> On 18 December 2011 10:12, Martijn van Exel wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Paul Norman wrote:
>> > When switching between minutely and hourly you have to change the
>> > sequenceNumber in state.txt
>> >
>> >
>>
>> Thanks --
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Frans Thamura wrote:
> hi all
>
> our osm implementation (osmosa.net), has success created tiles.. have a
> try..!!!
>
> but i can see the china map show a box.. i believe this is chinese language
>
> i believe this is double byte word.
>
> anyone can help to give
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Frans Thamura wrote:
> ok, i will as for etex 20
>
> i got also etrex vista H.. with WAAS.
>
> the price same.
>
> any recommendation?
I've used those several Vistas for some time with no complaints but for these:
- one of 8 was dead on arrival, but replaced quick
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Eric Marsden wrote:
>>>>>> "rw" == Richard Weait writes:
>
> rw> If CCv4 ends up being better than ODbL, and agreeable to the osm
> rw> community at large, we could certainly transition to it. The new CTs
> rw
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Eric Marsden wrote:
> Creative Commons recently confirmed that the next version of its
> licences will attempt to cover sui generis database rights. Version 4.0
> is planned to be available at the end of 2012. This was previously
> mentioned here as a possible alte
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Russ Nelson wrote:
> Then can we get the OSM admins to split your edits into the new user
> and old user based on their location? It would be relatively easy to
> make a bounding box, and say "All jamesmikedupont edits outside get
> renamed to $NEWUSER".
I don't
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 1:15 PM, john whelan wrote:
> So essentially all data that existed on this date will need to be deleted
> since we can't be sure who entered or edited it or if they have agreed to
> the new license if the .odbl database is to be "clean".
That's quite a conclusion that you
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Adam Hoyle
wrote:
> Is there any tool out there that can highlight the red users in a given
> area?
In JOSM, use select-all (crtl-a) then look at the list of authors in
the author panel (alt-b). This will give you a list of accounts that
were the most-recent to
Hi all,
As of moments ago, 419 accounts have declined CT/ODbL. That sounds
like a large number, but it is fewer than 1% of the over 54,000
accounts who have accepted CT/ODbL.
Of the declining accounts, 56 have never submitted data to OpenStreetMap.
An additional 167 accounts have fewer than 10
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 6:13 PM, 80n <80n...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think Frederik has managed to decimate more of London than five years of
> bombing did during WW2 ;)
Your smiley is poor compensation for that analogy. You owe Frederik
and this list an apology. Shame, George, Shame!
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On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Graham Jones wrote:
> I agree, it sounds mad, and I find it hard to believe that 'we' would do
> this. Surely we need to apply a bit of pragmatism to this and think about
> 'reasonableness'?
>
> I can see that it is reasonable to delete the contributions from s
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 1:08 PM, 80n <80n...@gmail.com> wrote:
[ ... ]
> Isn't it time to block edits to non-CT content?
And that would allow reconciling and improving that non-CT data how?
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On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 10:23 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've slightly modified the JOSM license change plugin.
Thank you, Frederik!
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Dear All,
Can you guess the top 20 languages used by OSM contributors?
If you can help the Communication Working Group to communicate with
readers of those languages by translating, let us know.
We seek translators for ongoing work on the OSMF blog, and a short
term translation task for the Lice
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Graham Stewart (GrahamS)
wrote:
> Navfree is a free sat-nav app for iPhone and Android, which uses maps based
> on OSM data (with suitable attribution).
>
> The app features a tool for reporting mapping errors, similar to the one in
> skobbler.
>
> The navmii websi
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Ian wrote:
> FYI: Most of the information present on USGS Topo Maps should already be
> present on the map due to an import of the GNIS dataset a couple years ago.
And fixing that import so that the GNIS points are better aligned by
your local knowledge is very we
This one is interesting as well.
http://odbl.poole.ch/
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It is so nice to see proposals starting so soon. Thank you, Jorge.
Those of you who have not yet attended a SotM should start by deciding
that you will go to SotM12. Prepare now. Budget it. Book your
holidays. Clear the decks.
If you enjoy participating in OSM you will enjoy SotM12.
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On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 7:29 PM, Mike N wrote:
> From memory: out of the tweets going by in SOTM 2011, I remember one that
> was something like "Is navigation the best usage we hope to achieve for
> OSM?"
>
> I'm curious to see the slides or video for this - who was the author and/or
> presentati
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Alan McConchie wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I mooted this question on the IRC, but I also wanted to ask it here, too.
> Should the temporary camps of the #OccupyWallStreet movement be mapped in OSM?
The underlying, permanent infrastructure should definitely be in
Ope
On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Craig Wallace wrote:
> I have noticed some strange things happening with openstreetmap.org today.
sys-admins are looking at it.
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On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Carsten Nielsen wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have uploadet a Trace and done some editing today, but at somepoint my
> account has been changed to user vbpohnfr
> I am user ablansinger but even after restarting firefox, and even after
> clearing the password for openstreetmap I
On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 6:21 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote:
[ ... ]
> Potential problem with taking their own neighborhoods is that many
> students typically live in the same neighborhoods (on campus for
> example) which may cause conflicts when saving edits.
Quite true. I don't know anything about
On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Peter Mooney wrote:
> Hi Kate,
>
> Thanks for the reply.
> My idea is that the students would take the skills from the workshops
> and then start contributing to OSM.
>
> I suppose I have two reasons (just personal ones) for not allowing
> editing the real map in th
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Serge Wroclawski wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 6:54 AM, Grant Slater
> wrote:
>
>> No absolute decision has been made, but seems most practical to remain
>> CC-by-SA.
>>
>> There has been previous discussion on the lists. (ca ~ 1 year ago)
>
> I realize this
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 10:51 PM, Mick wrote:
> I have been struggling to get a largish chunk of open street map
> covering an area from the Isles of Scilly in the south west to Bristol [ ... ]
The Planet page points to a number of planet extracts. Will one of
the UK-like extracts work for you?
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Jonathan Gray wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We're thinking of having a big census of open government data
> initiatives from around the world next week [1], to coincide with Open
> Government Data Camp 2011 in Warsaw [2].
>
> This would involve having a basic mechanism to a
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Dave Stanley wrote:
> I am working in Bangladesh for a while. I was planning on doing some
> editing in Chittagong where I am at the moment. Since I was last here,
> there have been lots of edits and additions which have left the area in a
> bit of a mess. I don
On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Nick Whitelegg
wrote:
> Richard Weait said, earlier"
>>Having the OSMF provide commercial tiles is a bad idea. It would:
>>- reduce services available to the community
>>- hurt the community by competing against it
>
> Hi Richa
On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 6:13 PM, Kai Krueger wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
[ ... ] there has been a lot of talk
> trying to convince people to set up their own tileserver.
[ ... ]
> In the hope to make this process even simpler, I have created a bunch of
> packages for Ubuntu containing all the necess
On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Nick Whitelegg
wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Richard Fairhurst
> wrote:
>>Please bear in mind that, even if we wanted to offer free tiles to every
>>commercial app in the world, our hosts would not permit us to do so.
[ ... ]
> Absolutely. This may be
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Michael Peter wrote:
> However, http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Beginners_Guide_1.1 states, that
> "As a rule of thumb, use no external resources except those available in the
> editors", so this is why I am writing.. What do you think of this data
> source? I
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Jukka Rahkonen
wrote:
> Have the statistics stopped? The title of the page seems to be
> OpenStreetMap stats report run at Fri Sep 09 00:00:12 +0100 2011
Yes. The sys admin team knows about this. Give them a couple of days
to sort it out.
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I'm glad that you both agree so closely.
Paraphrasing Frederik, "Not all barriers are bad."
Paraphrasing Serge, "Not all barriers are good."
[removed many analogies]
I'd like to see needless barriers to understanding and using
OpenStreetMap reduced or removed. I think that we have done that
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