Re: [Talk-ca] Winnipeg Transit Stop Sync

2011-02-22 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Hiebert, Douglas dhieb...@winnipeg.ca wrote: Hello, I’m an employee at Winnipeg Transit, and we’re trying to get our data out to as many open databases as possible, including OSM. I realize that OSM doesn’t have the ability to handle timetable-level transit

Re: [Talk-us] Importing Virginia road centerlines

2011-02-21 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Peter Budny pet...@gatech.edu wrote: Josh, this sounds great!  Unfortunately, you're headed in to really new territory.  As far as I can tell, OSM doesn't have any methods in place for merging data in any meaningful sense, which sounds like what you need to

Re: [OSM-talk] Zero tolerance on imports

2011-02-20 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 7:27 PM, Mike N nice...@att.net wrote: On 2/20/2011 6:47 PM, Daniel Sabo wrote: If the TIGER import hadn't happened I would have had zero interest in OSM, a vast empty map is not very inspiring. Not only that, but I've never seen someone pop up to add their own

Re: [OSM-talk] History flow visualizations of contributions over time

2011-02-19 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 6:59 AM, Eric Marsden eric.mars...@free.fr wrote: Hi, I have been experimenting with rendering history flow visualizations of Openstreetmap contributors for a region. These charts show the most prolific contributors in the region and how their contribution volume

Re: [OSM-talk] Why isn't any XAPI server available ?

2011-02-18 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Sami Dalouche sko...@free.fr wrote: Something I wonder about : does osmosis/xapi import the planet dump as-is, or does it do some pre-processing to get rid of the history ? If osmosis is lossless, would it make sense to make a lossy version that gets rid of

Re: [Talk-us] NHD Hydro Connectors

2011-02-18 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 7:37 PM, Dale Puch dale.p...@gmail.com wrote: The default render should be with connectors below the water bodies.  AKA render issue.  Possibly there should be some way to force it to render on top, and that would probably need a new tag.  The main reason would be to

Re: [Talk-us] NHD Hydro Connectors

2011-02-18 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 7:58 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: On 2/18/2011 7:45 PM, Richard Weait wrote: On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 7:37 PM, Dale Puchdale.p...@gmail.com  wrote: That said, for now using oneway is better than not tagging flow direction. I disagree.  Water flow

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM user groups

2011-02-11 Thread Richard Weait
2011/2/11 Matthias Meißer dig...@arcor.de: Hi, as some might know, the German division has a nice map of all local groups at www.openstreetmap.de. Inspired by this one, I created an international version and a simple bot collecting all together. So if you put this on the page of your local

Re: [OSM-talk] Path with Pit Stops

2011-02-11 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Esben Stien b...@esben-stien.name wrote: Is there some kind of application that can help me with plotting the smartest route in a set of points, if you're supposed to visit all the points? Imagine a salesman, who has to visit 10 locations. Is there some

[Talk-ca] local OSM groups

2011-02-11 Thread Richard Weait
Hi all, Matthias Meißer has made it easier to find a local OSM group. The German OSM community has had a map of local groups for quite a while. Matthias has extended that tool to work on a global scale. Here is how it works. 1) Local groups add a local group template to their wiki page. This

[Talk-us] local OSM groups, now easier to find!

2011-02-11 Thread Richard Weait
Hi all, Matthias Meißer has made it easier to find a local OSM group. The German OSM community has had a map of local groups for quite a while. Matthias has extended that tool to work on a global scale. Here is how it works. 1) Local groups add a local group template to their wiki page. This

Re: [Talk-us] TriMet will begin OSM improvements in the Portland area

2011-02-10 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 9:28 PM, PJ Houser stephanie.jean.hou...@gmail.com wrote: TriMet will begin OSM improvements in the Portland area beginning Monday [ ... ] Input? I've replied to PJ with some suggestions off-list. ___ Talk-us mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] New Community Updates newsletter

2011-02-09 Thread Richard Weait
2011/2/9 eMerzh merz...@gmail.com: Thanks Matthias for all your help! I'm the editor of these updates on the community of OpenStreetmap. with the help of some great people like Matthias ( who give me links every weeks to write my update  :) ) and some other occasional editors. I've saw

Re: [Talk-ca] New OpenSkiMaps service, and OpenStreetMap API bandwidth limits

2011-02-09 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 2:00 AM, Russell skiinf...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, I just launched a new service on my website Skimap.org, which allows people to get OpenStreetMap data rendered in KML format (and other formats coming soon of course for skiing), and already (after a day!) using

Re: [OSM-talk] osm new zealand website and community launch

2011-02-06 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 10:43 PM, Robin Paulson robin.paul...@gmail.com wrote: How do i get meetings included in the wiki front page? 1) Log in to the wiki. The wiki account is separate from your api account. 2) Add your event to the wiki calendar. [1] [1]

Re: [Talk-us] Relations, cycle routes, shapefiles

2011-02-06 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Scott Rollins organ...@gmail.com wrote: Having read a few days worth of this thread, THIS THREAD exemplifies why I am not an active contributor to this project. It is way too difficult to figure out the right way to enter information. Then, having entered the

Re: [talk-au] Relicensing per changeset?

2011-02-05 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 12:34 PM, David Groom revi...@pacific-rim.net wrote: [ ... ] I presume that some time in the next 7 weeks (ie before 31 March 2011) it might be made more apparent what will happen, since in order for an ODbL complaint database to be available on 1 April I trust that

Re: [OSM-talk] magical road detector to play with

2011-02-03 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Steve Coast st...@asklater.com wrote: http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/maps/archive/2011/02/03/automatically-detect-roads-with-bing-aerial-imagery.aspx That's really neat. ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] magical road detector to play with

2011-02-03 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Nic Roets nro...@gmail.com wrote: A little bit of care will be needed to suppress databases that may be legally protected. But I can't see any problem if you extract 1 address per website. I can see a problem with that idea. I only infringed a little bit is

Re: [OSM-talk] magical road detector to play with

2011-02-03 Thread Richard Weait
Ah, we can continue our discussion elsewhere, preferably over a beverage. If I could drag myself back to the topic, I might wonder aloud if this technology could be used to add buildings for Project of the Month. ;-) ___ talk mailing list

Re: [talk-au] Railway Station Naming Dispute

2011-02-03 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 8:29 AM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 12:09 AM, Alex Lum sierra.os...@gmail.com wrote: In any case, we should be mapping what's on-the-ground anyway, i.e. the station signage (unless this signage is contradictory in which case it may

Re: [talk-au] Railway Station Naming Dispute

2011-02-03 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 4:39 PM, John Berkers be...@ozemail.com.au wrote: I'm relatively new to OSM, but thought that I would weigh into the debate. Hi John, Welcome! And great local background. Thank you. Lastly, the original request was for advice on how to handle the situation with the

Re: [Talk-ca] A present to us

2011-02-03 Thread Richard Weait
Zoomed in example. http://open.mapquest.ca/link/6-cO9mOA4Z I think they've made an improvement in interchange rendering. ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] A present to us

2011-02-03 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Frank Steggink stegg...@steggink.org wrote: On 11-02-03 09:14 PM, Richard Weait wrote: Zoomed in example. http://open.mapquest.ca/link/6-cO9mOA4Z I think they've made an improvement in interchange rendering. Looks good :) However, I wonder what the (C

Re: [Talk-ca] A present to us

2011-02-03 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Yves Moisan yves.moi...@boreal-is.com wrote: I wonder what kind of style they use ? They render with Mapnik, and have published their style under an open license. https://github.com/MapQuest/MapQuest-Mapnik-Style ___

[OSM-legal-talk] per changeset relicensing

2011-02-01 Thread Richard Weait
There have been previous discussions regarding per changeset relicensing. I'd like to know if developing the tools to allow per changeset relicensing is worthwhile. There will be some effort involved in the coding, so it would be good to know in advance if this option will be used by many or few

[OSM-talk] PotM: Now with more graph-y goodness

2011-02-01 Thread Richard Weait
I've been looking at different ways to show how people are participating in Project of the Week / Month for a while but without really finding a great solution. For mapping in specific areas, a before / after rendering is nice, but there is no instant gratification from that. And we prefer

[talk-au] Relicensing per changeset?

2011-02-01 Thread Richard Weait
There have been previous discussions regarding per changeset relicensing. I'd like to know if developing the tools to allow per changeset relicensing is worthwhile. There will be some effort involved in the coding, so it would be good to know in advance if this option will be used by many or few

Re: [Talk-ca] Digitizing over an aerial photo

2011-02-01 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Yves Moisan yves.moi...@boreal-is.com wrote: Hi All, I have a trivia for you license-interested/competent folks.  Say I have a recent aerial photo coverage of a really nice town that I'd like to use to digitize features, is there an issue if the photo is

Re: [OSM-talk] [Imports] Questions about importing data for University of Vermont campus

2011-01-31 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Benjamin Mearns mea...@udel.edu wrote: apologies for reposting ... was having some trouble replying, as I just subscribed to this list: At University of Delaware, we've just implemented OpenStreetMap as the repository for our own campus map

Re: [talk-au] JOSM filtering image/map tile URLs

2011-01-31 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 7:27 AM, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: I think what they have a problem with is that its so open-ended, like we just have to trust the OSMF because they'll do no wrong.  Hang on a second, this is sounding vaguely like some heated discussions from a few

Re: [talk-au] JOSM filtering image/map tile URLs

2011-01-31 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 7:38 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 7:27 AM, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: I think what they have a problem with is that its so open-ended, like we just have to trust the OSMF because they'll do no wrong.  Hang on a second

Re: [talk-au] JOSM filtering image/map tile URLs

2011-01-30 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 8:51 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: I was sent a link to this thread on the JOSM dev mailing list: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/josm-dev/2011-January/005185.html The jist is some people are pushing to put URL filtering into JOSM, currently

Re: [talk-au] JOSM filtering image/map tile URLs

2011-01-30 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 7:21 PM, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: On Sat, 2011-01-29 at 23:51 +1000, John Smith wrote: Thankfully the main author of the software seems to want a more general editor, not just one that works with OSM specific APIs etc. This makes me wonder.  Dirk has

Re: [talk-au] JOSM filtering image/map tile URLs

2011-01-30 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 11:45 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 31 January 2011 02:26, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: You aren't addressing the core question.  Given that the new imagery plugin has made it much simpler to accidentally infringe, is a URL blacklist

Re: [Talk-ca] Using ImportImagePlugin in JOSM

2011-01-30 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Peter Freeman petersfree...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Peter, Welcome. I am unable to get the InstallImagePlugin to work in JOSM GOAL I have an image of a map that I scanned and I want to load it into JOSM as an underlay so I can trace the ways on the map

Re: [Talk-ca] How should a noob proceed?

2011-01-30 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Samuel Longiaru longi...@shaw.ca wrote: 3) And this is a real noob question... in JOSM some nodes along a single isolated ways such as lake shores are marked with small boxes and some with +.  Can't seem to find any difference or rhyme or reason.  What is the

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding image to map features

2011-01-29 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 5:05 AM, Mahsa Ghasemi m.ghas...@student.unimelb.edu.au wrote: Hi, Does anyone know if we are able to associate an image with a map feature (as an example having an image for a hotel)in OSM? Do you mean associate an image of a specific hotel with the location of that

Re: [OSM-talk] Search by Key

2011-01-29 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 6:53 AM, Mahsa Ghasemi m.ghas...@student.unimelb.edu.au wrote: I am trying to search a specific key in an area, but I do not get any results. Does any one knows what I should do if I want to have all the map elements that are tagged with a specific key? as an example

Re: [Talk-ca] How should a noob proceed?

2011-01-29 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Samuel Longiaru longi...@shaw.ca wrote: Greetings Everyone, I'm quite new at this, having only been involved in the OSM project for the past few months.  First post to the group.  I think the project is a noble one and see that this is something that I would

Re: [OSM-talk] Questions about importing data for University of Vermont campus

2011-01-28 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Andrew Guertin andrew.guer...@uvm.edu wrote: [ ... ] We have (at least) very high quality building outline, sidewalk, and road data. Currently in the OSM db is incomplete and somewhat low quality building and sidewalk data for the campus. Low quality? Low

[Talk-ca] OSM Mappy Hour events in Ontario

2011-01-28 Thread Richard Weait
Hi all, Southern Ontario is fortunate enough to have two OpenStreetMap groups that meet (almost) every month. Everybody with an interest in OSM is welcome to attend. We generally meet for refreshments and wide-ranging conversation. If you have been thinking of attending previously, the

Re: [Talk-us] Why are you missing out on this fun?

2011-01-28 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 4:02 AM, Bill R. WASHBURN dygitulju...@gmail.com wrote: OK, I'll bite. Anyone in the Atlanta area willing to meet up (or north of the fall line in Georgia who can come in to the MARTA service area), please send me a message and we'll see if we can work out the timing

[Talk-us] Why are you missing out on this fun?

2011-01-27 Thread Richard Weait
Why aren't you getting more fun out of OpenStreetMap? Because you don't know the right people. That's right. You'll enjoy OSM even more than you do now, once you meet some additional local mappers. But to do that you have to actually meet them. Yes, email is nice, IRC is fine, but you have to

Re: [Talk-ca] Street name upload

2011-01-26 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Bégin, Daniel daniel.be...@rncan-nrcan.gc.ca wrote: Salut osmers, Is there an easy way (an application of some kind) that can be used to transfer street name from Canvec street network/Karlsruhe schema to name tag on existing road network. This release of

[Talk-ca] Quebec highway shields

2011-01-26 Thread Richard Weait
I've added Quebec highway shields to the shield renderer. A few are visible here. http://weait.com:8080/map/shield.html?zoom=11lat=45.40439lon=-71.89198layers=BTF More are ready to appear as the network tag is used more on highways in Quebec. ___

Re: [OSM-talk] Nominatim updates

2011-01-23 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 7:55 PM, Brian Quinion openstreet...@brian.quinion.co.uk wrote: Hi, On Monday morning I'm intending to switching the existing nominatim service over to an updated code base designed to allow better scaling and additional data sources (tiger, external postcode sets,

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] LWN article on license change and Creative Commons

2011-01-21 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 7:38 AM, Andrew wynnd...@lavabit.com wrote: I hope there is no turf war brewing between Creative Commons and Open Data Commons. I wouldn't know. On the other hand, Mike Linksvayer, from Creative Commons, joined the License Working Group conference call on 18 Jan 2011.

Re: [OSM-talk] Is there a key for any of the major renders?

2011-01-17 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 12:53 PM, yvecai yve...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry, I didn't advertise a lot about this, I should make a page on the Wiki. Here it is for the main map: http://dev-yves.dyndns.org/legend/page.html There's a link to a github repo with all the tools needed. Dear Yves,

Re: [talk-au] Massive flooding

2011-01-14 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 4:02 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: Not sure how useful it'd be in Australia, but the massive floods all over Australia, except for the bush fires near Perth of course, might do well to map a lot of effected areas from Bing where coverage exists. and

Re: [OSM-talk] Semantics layer for tags

2011-01-10 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: Hi all, There was a presentation about something like this at the last SOTM, but I can't remember who did it. Please chime in. You might be remembering David Earl's talk, Tag Central Slides

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec tiles in Manitoba missing? Schools becoming prisons in Canvec 7?, and more...

2011-01-10 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Bégin, Daniel daniel.be...@rncan-nrcan.gc.ca wrote: Bonjour Tyler, Samuel, Olivier, Richard and all The Canvec.osm conversion process is still running... Some .gml Canvec files (input file of the conversion process) were corrupted in Manitoba.  The .gml

Re: [Talk-us] Creating relations for abandoned railway lines

2011-01-10 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Kristian M Zoerhoff kristian.zoerh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, all. I've been working on adding some abandoned railway lines in my area, and I've been wondering how to group them together. The line I'm working on right now (the former Elgin Belvidere Electric

Re: [OSM-talk] amenity=Observatory OR amenity=astronomical_observatory

2011-01-09 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 4:06 PM, marcellobil...@gmail marcello.bil...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, just a question for all the community which one tag is better: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Observatory or

Re: [Talk-ca] Oneway=yes on NHN imported streams

2011-01-09 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 9:20 PM, Connors, Bernie (SNB) bernie.conn...@snb.ca wrote: Would it be the water flow direction?? Yes, the direction of the way would be the direction of the flow, and the 'oneway' is not required. ___ Talk-ca mailing list

Re: [Talk-ca] Amateur question about Mapnik Renderer

2011-01-08 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Connors, Bernie (SNB) bernie.conn...@snb.ca wrote: I recently added runways, taxiways, and buildings to the Fredericton International Airport: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=45.8723697066307lon=-66.5314221382141zoom=17 Why don’t the taxiways display? 

Re: [OSM-talk] We are Here --

2011-01-07 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote: Hi Does anyone have any good examples of static/slippy OSM maps that are used by companies on their websites? This is one example of how to control the display of your company location on OpenStreetMap in the form of a

Re: [Talk-us] If anyone wants to sort out some damage (Hudson valley, New York)

2011-01-07 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 11:58 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: Just noticed this: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/82696560/history Done. I think. Be good to have a local check it. ___ Talk-us mailing list

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] US Rails to Trails database

2011-01-06 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Richard Masoner rmaso...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'm a rank newbie at OSM, but getting into it because of my interest in mapping bike facilities. The US Rails to Trails Conservancy has an outstanding database of bicycling trails. This Traillink database is the

Re: [Talk-us] US highway tagging (was Re: highway shields: get your kicks, where?)

2011-01-05 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Alex Mauer ha...@hawkesnest.net wrote: Not sure if you’re looking for commentary on the shield overlay in general, but it seems like it has some problems.  Take a look at I-39/US-51 here[1].  Only one shield for I-39 until you scroll all the way south to

Re: [Talk-us] US highway tagging (was Re: highway shields: get your kicks, where?)

2011-01-04 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Phil! Gold phi...@pobox.com wrote: If I recall correctly, Richard's rendering completely abandons the old rendering style, which I don't want to do. Then let me make this point absolutely clear. Don't look at the background layer. It doesn't matter at all.

[talk-au] highway shields: AU

2011-01-03 Thread Richard Weait
Hi All, I've been working on better highway shield rendering in Canada and the US for a while. I added a few Australian shields today. My rendering of shields relies on the network tag as documented http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation:route#Road_Routes and

Re: [talk-au] highway shields: AU

2011-01-03 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 9:02 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 4 January 2011 06:15, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: To make these work well globally, the network tag should be namespaced with the country and if needed, the state / province.  I've added the AU_ prefix

Re: [Talk-us] highway shields: get your kicks, where?

2011-01-02 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 10:46 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: Eh, OK-66 and Old US-66 and USBR-66 are all in my neighborhood.  Also, does this work cleanly with relations? Seems to work fine with either relations or ways. Do you have some test cases in mind? I'm not sure what you

Re: [Talk-us] Minimum standards for motorways?

2011-01-01 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 5:47 AM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: Question: what do people think about minimum standards for tagging something highway=motorway? In other words, would it be reasonable to tag a highway as trunk rather than motorway because it has no shoulders or a low

Re: [Talk-ca] Schools becoming prisons in Canvec 7

2010-12-29 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Samuel Dyck samueld...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I've been merging the street names from Canvec 7 in areas in Manitoba with Canvec 6 imports sans street names. And I noticed that what CanVec 6 called schools have all become prisons in Canvec 7. Now I aware of

[Talk-us] Fwd: [OSM-talk] Call for Papers for SotM-EU is OPEN

2010-12-27 Thread Richard Weait
Previous OSM conferences in Europe have been wonderful and well worth attending. -- Forwarded message -- From: Andreas Labres l...@lab.at Date: Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 7:08 AM Subject: [OSM-talk] Call for Papers for SotM-EU is OPEN To: t...@openstreetmap.org Hello, As some of you

Re: [OSM-talk] Viewing English street names in israel.

2010-12-12 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 5:07 AM, ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen g.grem...@cetest.nl wrote: How can we show on OSM.org the English street names in regions that allow for local names in Arabic and Hebrew ? Dividing the problem into two parts helps. The on OSM.ORG portion of your

Re: [Talk-us] High Priority Corridors?

2010-12-12 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: It appears that User:NE2 has added a tag NHS_High_Priority_Corridor to hundred of ways around the country. Has anyone seen such an automated edit proposal anywhere on the mailing lists? Not only is this tag named

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Someone already had a look at the Bing Terms of Use?

2010-12-06 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 6:55 AM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Andrew Harvey andrew.harv...@gmail.com wrote: with and what they aren't. I don't think the Bing people have clearly stated what they consider acceptable and what they don't. It would be

Re: [OSM-talk] Unsetting CT flag

2010-12-06 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 7:09 AM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: Hi,  So, this is awkward. From a pragmatic legal perspective, it seems to me that any nearmap-sourced edits that I made while under the effects of the CT are totally invalid anyway, so should be moved to a non-CT

[Talk-us] One in a million. Are you that mapper?

2010-12-05 Thread Richard Weait
Are you one in a million? Just how unique are you? The US has 52 cities of over 1 million population[1] and 50 states, but only fourteen have local OSM user meetings. Find the list of US local OSM meetings here. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_United_States Know of another

Re: [Talk-us] One in a million. Are you that mapper?

2010-12-05 Thread Richard Weait
The OSM German community has a ton of local meetings. They also have a wiki template http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Template:Lokale_Gruppe that is scraped by a web site to place all of the local meetings on a map. http://openstreetmap.de/ Wouldn't it be cool to have something like that for

Re: [Talk-ca] How to tag London Drugs?

2010-12-02 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 2:41 AM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: I've been working on tagging some stores, then I came across London Drugs. For those who don't know, London Drugs is a store that sells electronics, computers, cameras, homeware, health/wellness, beauty, food/candy, and also

Re: [Talk-ca] Pharmacy vs. dispensing pharmacy

2010-12-02 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 9:03 AM, James Ewen ve6...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 5:37 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: Your suggestion of shop=department_store, plus a POI for amenity=pharmacy, sounds ideal.  Remember to add dispensing=yes, to the pharmacy POI

Re: [OSM-talk] splitting up planet file

2010-11-30 Thread Richard Weait
Are you looking for the pbf format? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/PBF_Format ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec.osm Product - Running!

2010-11-30 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Bégin, Daniel daniel.be...@rncan-nrcan.gc.ca wrote: Bonjour OSMers! Canvec.osm Product conversion is running since 16:10 - Sherbrooke time. It is based on the new Canvec release (7.0). Thank you, Daniel! ___ Talk-ca

Re: [talk-au] OSMF elections

2010-11-28 Thread Richard Weait
| N | - | George James (Etienne) Y | Y | Y | - | Michael Collinson Y | Y | Y |- | Mikel Maron Y | - | - | - | Richard Fairhurst Y | - | - | - | Corey Burger - | Y | N | - | Nick Black - | Y | Y |- | Henk Hoff - | N | - | - | Grant Slater - | N | Y |- | Simone Cortesi - | N | - | - | Richard

Re: [talk-au] JOSM Preset

2010-11-28 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 11:48 PM, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: [ ... ]  Do the various working groups publish their own minutes or decisions, or do we just find out what they decide after the changes have taken place, such as the JOSM/Nearmap issue recently? I'm unaware of any

Re: [talk-au] OSMF elections

2010-11-28 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 10:01 AM, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: On Sun, 2010-11-28 at 08:30 -0500, Richard Weait wrote: On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 11:48 PM, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: [ ... ] Thanks for the explanation, someone else provided the simple two-year

Re: [talk-au] Looks like Nearmap is gone from JOSM slippymap plugin

2010-11-27 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 3:59 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: Does this mean talks with Nearmap has failed to come to an amicable arrangement? From http://www.mail-archive.com/talk-au@openstreetmap.org/msg06524.html Where, Ben Last said: I asked Richard F to remove NearMap

[Talk-us] Project of the Month: Wheelchair accessibility

2010-11-25 Thread Richard Weait
The Project of the Month for December 2010 is to map wheelchair accessibility as part of your mapping activities. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Project_of_the_week/2010/Nov_24 ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-us] Highway shields

2010-11-25 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Val Kartchner val...@gmail.com wrote: I know that we've discussed this before, and there was no consensus to change the current rendering. Changing the rendering is something we can each do for ourselves. What we can't do is tell anybody else to change their

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] JOSM and spam

2010-11-24 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 9:22 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: How charming that you use selective quoting to fabricate a lie of omission. Viewing the original shows no lie. And that your fabrication failed to gain traction the first time you trotted it out.

Re: [OSM-talk] South Pole?

2010-11-24 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Gregory nomoregra...@googlemail.com wrote: Instead of South Pole at 0,0 can we have something like You are here or You are lost. Great adventures start here, Did you mess up coding?. Hmm too many possibilities, maybe we would have to put it to a wiki vote.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] JOSM and spam

2010-11-24 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 7:36 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: At least you are being honest, which is more than Frederik seems to be capable of, Frederik is a generous and respected contributor to the OpenStreetMap community. His record speaks for itself and he doesn't need me

[OSM-talk] Steve Coast Joins Microsoft as Principle Architect of Bing Mobile

2010-11-23 Thread Richard Weait
http://opengeodata.org/openstreetmap-founder-steve-coast-joins-bing http://blog.stevecoast.com/im-working-at-microsoft-and-were-donating-ima ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[Talk-us] seek Mapper in Rochester NY (Greece)

2010-11-23 Thread Richard Weait
Hi all. I just had a look at the new OpenStreetBugs implementation at mapdust.com. It's pretty slick and integrates nicely with postlatch / josm. There are a couple of bugs reported in Rochester, including this one in Greece. Would anybody be able to zip over there and collect a trace?

Re: [Talk-us] seek Mapper in Rochester NY (Greece)

2010-11-23 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 7:50 PM, James U jumba...@gmail.com wrote: That's pretty neat.  I looked in my area and there are a bunch of bugs reported, but I can't for the life of me figure out what is wrong.  They are reported in Spanish, which I can read so-so, but I know the areas pretty well

Re: [talk-au] license change map

2010-11-22 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 11:18 PM, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: On Sun, 2010-11-21 at 15:13 +1100, Alex (Maxious) Sadleir wrote: I would think the better solution is to have the attribution simplified like Google Maps does. eg. Google Maps for canberra says Copyright PSMA, MapQuest

Re: [talk-au] Fwd: license change map

2010-11-22 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 7:34 AM, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: On Mon, 2010-11-22 at 22:50 +1100, Steve Bennett wrote: But I also haven't yet seen any reasons, other than sheer bloody mindedness, why a person who was happy to contribute under a CC-BY-SA licence would be unhappy

Re: [talk-au] CT / ODbL approval by changeset.

2010-11-22 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 11:34 AM, David Groom revi...@pacific-rim.net wrote: - Original Message - From: Richard Weait rich...@weait.com The intent is to allow those with concerns about some of their data to mark it, and accept the terms for the data they are confident in. One

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Fwd: [okfn-discuss] Law and the GeoWeb

2010-11-21 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 6:41 AM, Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org wrote: I recognise some of the names on that list. ;-) - Rob. Sure. And the typo as well. Everybody and their dog get the name wrong. Right - OpenStreetMap Wrong - Open Street Maps Sigh.

[OSM-legal-talk] Best license for future tiles?

2010-11-17 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 6:19 AM, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com wrote: As a side note, if using ODbL, why not make the tiles public domain? Indeed. But I think that you are right that this is a side note. Why not start that discussion on the wiki, or in a separate thread here? I've changed the

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [DRAFT] Contributor Terms 1.2

2010-11-17 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 6:09 AM, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com wrote: Uh... but that 'condition on which the data was accepted' isn't specified anywhere in the contributor terms.  If it really is a condition that OSMF will only distribute the data under an attribution-required licence, then the

[Talk-us] Project of the Week: Project Hotspot

2010-11-17 Thread Richard Weait
Hi Mappers! I don't usually send project of the Week announcements to talk lists. Should I? See the poll here to let me know what you think. http://weait.com/content/send-project-week-announcements-talk-us This PotW relates especially to US landmarks and is a guest project from Ant Pegg at

[OSM-legal-talk] [DRAFT] Contributor Terms 1.2

2010-11-16 Thread Richard Weait
There have been several revisions to a new draft of the Contributor Terms from the LWG over the last few meetings. https://docs.google.com/View?id=dd9g3qjp_933xs7nvfb Various draft versions have been around for a while. I think we've improved the CT with each revision. LWG have had some

Re: [talk-au] Fwd: [OSM-talk] license change map

2010-11-12 Thread Richard Weait
Those interested can find the first post and the complete thread starting here. http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2010-November/054799.html ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [Talk-ca] Rendering Island names in OSM

2010-11-12 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Pierre Beland infosbelas-...@yahoo.fr wrote: In OSM, there is a clear rule to render cities depending on there size (ie. cities, town, village, etc).  But I see nothing for Islands. It seems that it is thought for small islands only. Here is the example of a

Re: [OSM-talk] license change map

2010-11-11 Thread Richard Weait
Dear Fabian, Thank you for publishing your map. It is clearly inspiring some discussion. On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 8:37 PM, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: Im also curious, can you give an explanation of the 'treemap' you included a link to? The tree map is another way of

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