Re: [OSM-talk] Front page design and SEO

2009-03-05 Thread Robert (Jamie) Munro
whichever country you were in by IP address geolocation. I'm sure it will be easier to impliment than a single map with inconsistent syle, and I'm fairly confident that the resources required are not huge - particulary as introducing new layer servers reduces the load on the existing single tile s

Re: [OSM-talk] Front page design and SEO

2009-03-04 Thread Robert (Jamie) Munro
to say it isn't worth having some ROMA and/or XAPI servers around for Sat-Nav and GIS applications to use. It would be nice to have a lowzoom map to look at that is just Mapnik z12 without captions repeatedly stitched and scaled, though - I just love the Osmarender lowzoom layers (when/where the

Re: [OSM-talk] Front page design and SEO

2009-03-04 Thread Robert (Jamie) Munro
ng maximum use of screen real estate. When you moved the bottom of one window, for example, you were dragging the top of the window beneath it. While I usually overlap my windows, and don't mind, sometimes the ability to force them into a grid layout would be really useful. Perhaps we can use JS to

[OSM-legal-talk] Sample Memorandum of Understanding for Data Release

2009-02-27 Thread Robert Soden
s or advice would be much appreciated. Cheers, Robert Soden http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Rsoden http://www.developmentseed.org/team/robert-soden ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-t...@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-talk] rights of way and designation=*

2009-02-26 Thread Robert Vollmert
On Feb 26, 2009, at 12:53, Ed Loach wrote: > Robert wrote: >> values there; also, should there be a ":uk" or "uk:" in the tag >> or >> value? > > I wouldn't have thought the uk: was needed, as you can presumably > tell that from where the pa

Re: [OSM-talk] rights of way and designation=*

2009-02-26 Thread Robert Vollmert
had a look at tagwatch (unfortunately not terribly up-to-date) and documented this suggestion and current use at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:designation . Please flesh the page out! It'd be nice to have a list of sensible values there; also, shou

Re: [OSM-talk] Render strangeness

2009-02-22 Thread Robert Vollmert
ing one node of each segment, had the road rendered > correctly next times. How was Dirk's reply at http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2009-January/033002.html not helpful? Cheers Robert ___ talk mailing list talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Render strangeness

2009-02-20 Thread Robert Vollmert
more smarts than me have a look at it and see > if there is anything obviously wrong here. http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/29308957 It's got lots of nodes, but shows as a straight line since the intermediate nodes have been deleted (follow some of the node links). Probably, a

Re: [OSM-talk] Walking Routes - wiki needs some work?

2009-02-20 Thread Robert Vollmert
rwn 4 354 nwn 0 22 iwn 0 0 Cheers Robert ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] near longitude 180

2009-02-19 Thread Robert Vollmert
On Feb 19, 2009, at 15:38, andrzej zaborowski wrote: > 2009/2/19 Robert (Jamie) Munro : >> The right solution here is to map 0-360 degrees to the unsigned >> integers >> 0-2^32. When you get an overflow, the right thing happens. It also >> makes >> the mos

Re: [OSM-talk] near longitude 180

2009-02-19 Thread Robert (Jamie) Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Vollmert wrote: > Hello, > > there's some strange coastline data near longitude 180. See eg > http://openstreetmap.org/browse/way/24020654 > > I thought I'd ask before trying to fix this, in case I'd floo

[OSM-talk] near longitude 180

2009-02-19 Thread Robert Vollmert
//openstreetmap.org/browse/way/31254026 . That's good data as far as I understand the data model. It'd be nice to have a reasonably well-mapped area across this meridian as a testing ground for tools. Cheers Robert ___ talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Announce: OSM2Go map editor 0.6.13 released for Maemo, Debian, and Ubuntu

2009-02-18 Thread Robert Vollmert
n was very good! Very smooth interface, congratulations! I'll try using it for a bit at least. The very first impression was slightly less good: it's quite difficult to set up a new "project" -- did I miss some way to paste a slippy

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding architect names to buildings

2009-02-18 Thread Robert (Jamie) Munro
s > not particularly ambiguous having artist=* or architect=*. Why should it match old_name? Your not describing a name of the object, you are referencing the designer of the object. Unless you want architect_name, architect_address, architect_date_of_birth, architect_..., it seems pointless. Rob

Re: [OSM-talk] Oxbridges of Konigsberg

2009-02-12 Thread Robert Vollmert
orways=&instructions=true' http://data.giub.uni-bonn.de/openrouteservice/php/OpenLSRS_DetermineRoute.php | grep TotalTime yields the time that ORS calculates for the bicycle route from Start to End. Do this for each pair of college locations, and you've got yourself a complete graph you can solve traveling salesman for. Cheers Robert ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] NZ LINZ data import and attribution

2009-02-04 Thread Robert (Jamie) Munro
rom every data source we have. If we have to credit them all, there may end up no space on the screen for the map. Also, what about mapping software for blind people, like loadstone http://www.loadstone-gps.com/. How often should it read out the attribution? Robert (Jamie) Munro -BEGIN PG

Re: [OSM-talk] name tags on place=country and how they're rendered on lowzoom

2009-01-19 Thread Robert (Jamie) Munro
g of OSM. There is a Welsh one, for example here: http://sucs.org/~rollercow/cyosm/ and probably other languages around the place. Robert (Jamie) Munro -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkl0i

Re: [OSM-talk] live editing and conflict management

2008-12-16 Thread Robert Vollmert
two people try to fix OpenStreetBugs as soon as they appear. With API 0.6, we'll notice when this happens, right? By the way, has anyone successfully disabled the Potlatch welcome dialog? Cheers Robert ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] mkgmap makes routable garmin maps

2008-12-12 Thread Robert Vollmert
On Dec 12, 2008, at 16:43, Andy Allan wrote: > On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Robert Vollmert > wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> there seem to be a few Garmin users around here. If you'd like to >> give >> routable OSM-derived maps a try, there's

Re: [OSM-talk] Updated view of 'A year of edits on OSM' and also Santa's Routes!

2008-12-09 Thread Robert Vollmert
(to the list also) On Dec 9, 2008, at 22:29, Scott Atwood wrote: > On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Robert Vollmert <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > On Dec 9, 2008, at 21:58, Ed Loach wrote: > > I think the way heading north from Finland may actually pass > > stra

Re: [OSM-talk] Updated view of 'A year of edits on OSM' and also Santa's Routes!

2008-12-09 Thread Robert Vollmert
On Dec 9, 2008, at 21:58, Ed Loach wrote: > I think the way heading north from Finland may actually pass > straight through Finland and start somewhere near Riga. But I can’t > find it using Mapnik or Potlatch. http://openstreetmap.org/browse/way/27611977 Chee

Re: [OSM-talk] mkgmap makes routable garmin maps

2008-12-07 Thread Robert Vollmert
ar is what I use, but it's possible you need to be in the dist directory for java to find the logging.properties file. Thanks for your feedback! Cheers Robert ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] mkgmap makes routable garmin maps

2008-12-06 Thread Robert Vollmert
27;t completely understood and because of bugs. More the latter, probably. Help on either topic would be appreciated. Cheers Robert ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Name tag for amenity=bank and amenity=atm

2008-12-05 Thread Robert (Jamie) Munro
sistent. If your stuck, add both tags with the same value. But don't leave operator out. Robert (Jamie) Munro -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkk5K5MACgkQz+aYVHdncI0R

Re: [OSM-talk] can your yournavigation support inter-island routing

2008-12-05 Thread Robert (Jamie) Munro
t; psv="3"/> It won't take the Channel Tunnel, or any UK - Mainland Europe ferries yet: http://www.yournavigation.org/?flat=50.938668&flon=1.903311&tlat=51.176453&tlon=0.82&v=motorcar&fast=1&layer=mapnik Is this because the database is partitioned

Re: [OSM-talk] Edit war on the wiki "map features"

2008-12-01 Thread Robert Vollmert
lity in others (surface=*, smoothness=*, steepness=*, slippery=yes/no). And we don't mix them all in one key. Smoothness is completely independent of access rights. What gave you the idea it wasn't? Cheers Robert ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Edit war on the wiki "map features"

2008-12-01 Thread Robert Vollmert
ously, 'slippery=yes' is implied on ice rinks. I do wonder why people are always jumping on the corner cases to discredit smoothness=*. Would one of you that think smoothness is worse than nothing care to comment on the "definition by example" I proposed in http://li

Re: [OSM-talk] Edit war on the wiki "map features"

2008-12-01 Thread Robert Vollmert
to go by bike or inline skates on this > roads - but it isn't. Since smoothness=good/excellent handles this fine, I'd suggest to just use it. Cheers Robert ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] My data got deleted

2008-11-30 Thread Robert Vollmert
rowse/way/25524666/history Cheers Robert ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] My data got deleted

2008-11-29 Thread Robert Vollmert
in the data browser (view the street on the main map, and check the "Data" box in the layer selection thing). Or you can try hitting 'u' in Potlatch to make it show deleted ways, then look at the history of a deleted way using 'h'. Cheers Robert

Re: [OSM-talk] how to map speed breakers/bumper

2008-11-29 Thread Robert Vollmert
eetmap.org/index.php/Key%3atraffic_calming Cheers Robert ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] smoothness

2008-11-27 Thread Robert Vollmert
ote/fixme in so someone else can say how bad it really is. I think "smoothness" fits the above distinctions quite well. Together with surface=paved/unpaved, it should provide most information about a way's surface that users of wheeled (on-road) vehicles would like to have when deciding which road to choose. Cheers Robert ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Edit war on the wiki "map features"

2008-11-25 Thread Robert Vollmert
ding a bicycle on with smoothness=bad vs. smoothness=intermediate. What's your way to tag surface quality? Cheers Robert ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] building and other amenities author (architect=[name])

2008-11-06 Thread Robert (Jamie) Munro
is there already such a tag and I missed it, or do you think it's worth > a proposal on the wiki? Not only historical monuments, also modern buildings. Was it Richard Rogers or Norman Foster who designed the millennium bridge? I think it's a great idea, and have seen it before, so I&#x

Re: [OSM-talk] data plucked from who-knows-where?

2008-11-03 Thread Robert (Jamie) Munro
is moving them into the right places without crossing the roads over each other or anything and getting yourself very confused. Ideally we need editing software that lets you drag control points in the area, and morphs all the points tagged as estimated towards their real locations. Robe

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Requiring "free of charge" for db redistribution on Internet

2008-10-27 Thread Robert (Jamie) Munro
t lots of downloads. Only about 4/day would cost over $100 per month. Also, the current data is probably less than 10% of the data we aim to collect, and it is likely people will combining the data with other data, e.g. SRTM, which could be much larger. Robert (Jamie) Munro -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: [OSM-talk] barrier=gate, run a script?

2008-10-22 Thread Robert (Jamie) Munro
o's "we"? *I* have not voted. You could have. The fact that you chose not to implies that you don't mind either way. That's normally how democratic systems work. Robert (Jamie) Munro -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: Usin

Re: [OSM-talk] barrier=gate, run a script?

2008-10-22 Thread Robert (Jamie) Munro
that, but what evidence do you have to back it up? I for one don't vote very much, but do care about due process and the results. I will follow the tagging advice that has been voted for, because I know that several people have thought about the issues and more of them thought one option

Re: [OSM-talk] Video with all OSM contributors

2008-10-21 Thread Robert (Jamie) Munro
h KeepVid.com, but it would be better to get higher quality originals directly. Robert (Jamie) Munro -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkj90+0ACgkQz+aYVHdncI1sCgCfRVx4dGJUgH8tV5MCVaYSaeOx 9FAAoJWRlW

[OSM-talk] What happend to the tube line overlay map?

2008-10-20 Thread Robert (Jamie) Munro
rlays like this in different parts of the world, and they were all visible on the main map, the overlay selector would get ridiculously long. Robert (Jamie) Munro -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.

Re: [OSM-talk] BugMeNot accounts: block OSM anonymous accounts?

2008-10-04 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Francisco R. Santos wrote: > Hi, > > I've seen some modifications in my area with a "BugMeNot" user [1][2]. > As the bugmenot.com says: "BugMeNot.com was > created as a mechanism to quickly bypass the login of web sites that > require compulsory registration", so using thi

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping party (Micro / 1 day): Abingdon, Oxfordshire, UK; 25th Oct 2008

2008-10-03 Thread Robert T Wyatt
I believe a couple of my forebears were "housed" at Abingdon Castle please give my regards to the current occupants--I believe it is owned by monks now...? Wouldn't mind a copy of the family crest if there's one handy! Best wishes, Robert Thomas Wyatt Austin, Texas Andr

Re: [OSM-talk] Own maps with hill shading and routes using mapnik

2008-09-16 Thread Robert (Jamie) Munro
ally or at least labour-intensively, not > like us upstarts who just think on a fully automated, global basis ;-) > ). I thought that the point of open street map was that we have lots of labour available from volunteers. :-) Robert (Jamie) Munro -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Versio

Re: [OSM-talk] Large Hadron Collider at CERN now in OppenStreetMap

2008-09-11 Thread Robert (Jamie) Munro
r construction in this photo, but finished in real life): http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&ll=51.574509,-1.311021&spn=0.006161,0.012596&t=h&z=16 http://www.diamond.ac.uk/ So we need a tag that covers both. Robert (Jamie) Munro -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.

Re: [OSM-talk] [tech/API] Accessing tags set by a user for traces

2008-08-29 Thread Robert (Jamie) Munro
> are going to want to download 40,000 tags even if we wanted to let them. Any chance of a report of the most popular tags, or would it lock up the database for ages just to query them? Robert (Jamie) Munro -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with

Re: [OSM-talk] Corporate Cartographers accused of demolishing history. (make press release?)

2008-08-29 Thread Robert (Jamie) Munro
27;t need to be collected again. Robert (Jamie) Munro -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAki33goACgkQz+aYVHdncI0oAQCfcKlMdpCVb2vxy9Q3mg1/3gOu mtAAn2l+h6JR9ZyJN8neMI7O6fypfs

Re: [OSM-talk] superways as relations ?

2008-08-18 Thread Robert (Jamie) Munro
re than one name, or more than one of any other property go away - the relevant ways just become a member of more than one relationship. Personally, I believe that most tagging should be on relationships not ways. Only small physical things like layer, bridge and tunnel should be specified at a

Re: [OSM-talk] Easy to use system for countryside surveying

2008-08-16 Thread Robert (Jamie) Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nick Whitelegg wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Have thought of an approach to make countryside OSM mapping using phones > with inbuilt GPS (N95, etc) easy to the end user. > > A user could survey their walk using an N95 or similar, and then, using a >

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - (service=parking aisle)

2008-08-05 Thread Robert Vollmert
u're going to tag a way with both, is it? > By the way, highway:service serves it well ... And railway:service for the other use? Cheers Robert ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] http://openstreetmap.org/traces 403

2008-08-02 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Is anyone else getting a 403 (forbidden) error on the traces page? http://openstreetmap.org/traces ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagwatch and osmxapi-links

2008-07-29 Thread Robert Vollmert
ad link location" and save to whatever.osm. Would make sense to provide some kind of style information to make any browser that can handle XML display the data nicely? Cheers Robert ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists

Re: [OSM-talk] Why OpenStreetMap is not Wikipedia

2008-07-29 Thread Robert (Jamie) Munro
#x27;s worth mentioning that in all 3 aspects, MusicBrainz and possibly dmoz.org and similar projects are a lot closer to us than Wikipedia is. voxforge.org is also building something interesting which will have similar issues to us. Robert (Jamie) Munro -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: Gn

Re: [OSM-talk] House numbers... One more suggestion

2008-07-29 Thread Robert Vollmert
gwatch, around 2 in Europe, of which 7200 in Germany. http://tagwatch.stoecker.eu/Europe/En/top_undocumented_keys.html http://tagwatch.stoecker.eu/Germany/En/top_undocumented_keys.html I wonder where the other >10000 are? Cheers Robert ___ talk

Re: [OSM-talk] House numbers... One more suggestion

2008-07-28 Thread Robert (Jamie) Munro
le do not know (or don't want |> to know) how to use relations in the editors. | | Then use a relation instead. It's a free world ;-) No, it's definitely a way, because the houses are spread along the feature. If there was a node for every house, they should be related.

Re: [OSM-talk] Namefinder priorities

2008-07-25 Thread Robert (Jamie) Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Vollmert wrote: | On Jul 25, 2008, at 13:13, David Earl wrote: |> I've thought about not tagging for the rendering (and name finder is a |> kind of renderer), but there isn't a simple algorithmic solution. I always thought t

Re: [OSM-talk] Namefinder priorities

2008-07-25 Thread Robert Vollmert
t solution in all cases. An alternative to search=yes that might be more generally useful is to group parts of a street into a relation (see http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php?title=Relation:street) . That would be an object you could point to. It would also be

Re: [OSM-talk] aerialway cable_car not available in mapnik

2008-07-22 Thread Robert Vollmert
something to be rendered, I think it's best to file a bug report on http://trac.openstreetmap.org. Your normal login/ password will work. Component "slippy_map" in this case. Cheers Robert ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM -> MS Access

2008-07-18 Thread Robert (Jamie) Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Juan Lucas Dominguez Rubio wrote: | Perhaps OSM --> CSV, then open it with Ms Excel as a spreadsheet then | import from Ms Access ? | | http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/utils/export/osm2csv/ Why use Excel? Access has perfectly good CSV import

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM maps in 3D

2008-07-18 Thread Robert Vollmert
rce available is worth a lot more than some closed Java thing. On that note, how can the license on the maps keep you from releasing the source code to your viewer? Cheers Robert ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] UK Postcode district boundaries

2008-07-08 Thread Robert (Jamie) Munro
Something like this: http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~random/postcodes/ Nice. I'd not seen that with the colours before. It really shows the errors in npemaps clearly. :-) Robert (Jamie) Munro -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG

Re: [OSM-talk] User seams to add trash

2008-07-08 Thread Robert Vollmert
a violating person I like to ask if somebody > know "MapDeliverer". http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/MapDeliverer Cheers Robert ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] www.OpenRouteService.org now supports Bicycle Routing with OSM Data

2008-07-06 Thread Robert Vollmert
route as gpx track or > (optional) > route and via-points I agree. I just used the service to create a route for me and was a little disappointed I couldn't download it as gpx. One other problem I had is that it seems to have a preference for routing against the oneway direction on

Re: [OSM-talk] Walking routes and OSM (again)

2008-06-28 Thread Robert Vollmert
pare http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Relations/Proposed/Segmented_Tag) . If the routes are to be stored in OSM as relations, this wouldn't be a such good idea, but assuming you're storing them externally and didn't want to write to the OSM database, it's an option. Cheers Robert ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] pronunciation tag

2008-06-24 Thread Robert Vollmert
On Jun 24, 2008, at 11:02, Robert Vollmert wrote: > A possible alternative is the free-as-in-beer mbrola > http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/mbrola/ > . It's a speech synthesis backend based on diphones (two halves of > phones). Its input format appears to be SAMPA plus addit

Re: [OSM-talk] pronunciation tag

2008-06-24 Thread Robert Vollmert
o. A possible alternative is the free-as-in-beer mbrola http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/mbrola/ . It's a speech synthesis backend based on diphones (two halves of phones). Its input format appears to be SAMPA plus additional data. There's still some lan

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Graves?

2008-06-24 Thread Robert Vollmert
tomb or if you want something for not-necessarily-historically-significant graves, perhaps burial=grave, burial=mass_grave, burial=mausoleum, burial=pyramid Cheers Robert ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] - Alpine Hut

2008-06-13 Thread Robert Vollmert
So I think your proposal should stand. Cheers Robert ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] KML tiles

2008-06-11 Thread Robert Vollmert
dn't get larger than the corresponding planet extract. Cheers Robert ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] JOSM cut and paste between layers results in position change

2008-06-11 Thread Robert Vollmert
of a layer (duplicate, cut, delete rest, duplicate). Please close http://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/587 if you implement this, and thanks in advance! Cheers Robert ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] KML tiles

2008-06-11 Thread Robert Vollmert
On Jun 11, 2008, at 13:45, Dirk-Lüder Kreie wrote: > Robert Vollmert schrieb: >> How it works: For each standard z/x/y-tile, cut out the relevant >> OSM-data and convert to KML using osmexport from osmlib, then >> massage the result to contain region information and l

[OSM-talk] KML tiles

2008-06-11 Thread Robert Vollmert
: For each standard z/x/y-tile, cut out the relevant OSM- data and convert to KML using osmexport from osmlib, then massage the result to contain region information and links to the four subtiles. Cheers Robert tiles.kml Description: application/vnd.google-earth.kml _

Re: [OSM-talk] Nested areas

2008-06-06 Thread Robert Vollmert
if say a river runs in a river bed that's dug into to the landscape. So the surface of the river is always say 2m below the surrounding areas. Bridges over the river are flat. Cheers Robert ___ talk mailing list talk@ope

Re: [OSM-talk] Routable Garmin maps

2008-06-05 Thread Robert Vollmert
wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/OSM_Map_On_Garmin/Format . I'm also happy to answer questions if somebody wants to look into this. Cheers Robert ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Mulltipolygons and Mapnik

2008-05-31 Thread Robert Vollmert
;t speak up in the lengthy discussions in March? (Starting at http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2008-March/023876.html and http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2008-March/009345.html , and I do remember one opposing opinion which I can't find.) Cheers Robert __

Re: [OSM-talk] osmarenderer issues

2008-05-31 Thread Robert Vollmert
gets to it first, I'll have a closer look later. Cheers Robert ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] osmarenderer issues

2008-05-31 Thread Robert Vollmert
On May 31, 2008, at 02:16, Robin Paulson wrote: > the first one shows the area containing a rugby stadium, with the > individual stands mapped and tagged as buildings. is there any reason > why some of the stands (southern and terraces in particular) appear to > be defined by two polygons (there's

Re: [OSM-talk] National borders in the British Islands

2008-05-29 Thread Robert (Jamie) Munro
them. Legal purists may want different (or extra) tags in the database on the grounds that it's a completely different situation, but they could be rendered the same. Robert (Jamie) Munro -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - h

Re: [OSM-talk] simplifying mapnik layout definition

2008-05-27 Thread Robert (Jamie) Munro
ong as you are careful with the whitespace (like python). Feed it YAML code and it returns lists and dictionaries. Robert (Jamie) Munro -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkg8nTUACgkQz+aYVHdncI29mgCgrD

Re: [OSM-talk] simplifying mapnik layout definition

2008-05-27 Thread Robert (Jamie) Munro
x27;)/isBridge/g" osm.xml And the reverse: sed "s/isBridge/([bridge] = 'yes' or [bridge]='true')/g" Robert (Jamie) Munro -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAY

Re: [OSM-talk] How can wide intersections be mapped?

2008-05-22 Thread Robert Vollmert
expanse but it doesn't look right. > > Suggestions? > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=37.845598&lon=-122.236367&zoom=18&layers=B0FT > The area=yes highway=residential that's there now looks like a good sol

Re: [OSM-talk] Naming freeway exits and onramps?

2008-05-18 Thread Robert Vollmert
//wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Tag:highway%3Dmotorway_junction http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Mapping/Features/Junction http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Junction_number http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Relations/Proposed/Junctions Cheers Robert _

Re: [OSM-talk] Rights of way (was: Vote: highway=path)

2008-05-17 Thread Robert (Jamie) Munro
those. It's better to have no data than wrong data on a way. Robert (Jamie) Munro -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkguvKQACgkQz+aYVHdncI2oCgCfaAgpf3RL4tHolDoJcdF6iVYO k

Re: [OSM-talk] street traits

2008-05-12 Thread Robert (Jamie) Munro
x27;t know this. :-) Robert (Jamie) Munro -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIKHaaz+aYVHdncI0RAmOnAKCYFIgMwGpsg26hxpLCyzw93H6figCg21Rd nTqJfFcyehIb2eqUup7zLKQ= =13AL -END PGP SIGN

Re: [OSM-talk] Unknown road classifications

2008-05-12 Thread Robert (Jamie) Munro
or complete=no, and rendering it with an arrow on the unconnected end of the way. Sometimes, e.g. if you pass under a bridge, but haven't gone back to pass over it, you may have a way with arrows on both ends. That is fine. I'd allow and render towards=[name of place], but that get's

Re: [OSM-talk] contours on main map

2008-05-10 Thread Robert (Jamie) Munro
r can be slipped between the two at the openLayers level. Robert (Jamie) Munro -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIJYuez+aYVHdncI0RAivMAKC95QGcxp7jbtwe+kMBZN+u/KNU3gCfVvKv Rf80HPgAHgwMVEpUMdMIhzY= =F

Re: [OSM-talk] Vandalism in Trumpington

2008-04-27 Thread Robert (Jamie) Munro
ave http://main.dev.openstreetmap.org/, it's arguably not necessary. We should just direct new people to have a play there. Robert (Jamie) Munro -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIFQM9z+aYVHdncI0

Re: [OSM-talk] Static maps using the new export function

2008-04-25 Thread Robert (Jamie) Munro
9/256/171.png"; /> But you're a bit limited in where you can draw the edges of your maps, unless you do CSS things to hide them under other elements (which is how openlayers does it). Robert (Jamie) Munro -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (Darwin) Comment: Using G

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM on "factory" Macs

2008-04-22 Thread Robert (Jamie) Munro
the screen. The new MacBooks have multi-touch touchpads that let you zoom and rotate by spreading and twisting 2 fingers. Sometimes rotating would be really handy in JOSM. Robert (Jamie) Munro -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla -

Re: [OSM-talk] Beyond Zoom 18 - (Some scratchspacing ideas concerning siteplans)

2008-04-22 Thread Robert (Jamie) Munro
h can be tried and tested. Robert (Jamie) Munro -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIDb6Gz+aYVHdncI0RAufMAJwIf0KbjWDZzSUDfCQagHe4UadBeQCg1jTw aMORH+rq4stxiFbdzzlU914= =PO1c -END

Re: [OSM-talk] SVG tiles

2008-04-21 Thread Robert (Jamie) Munro
in the phone. Take a look at osmarender. It probably won't be easy to draw nice maps, but it would be a very useful addition to the OSM project if you can pull it off. Robert (Jamie) Munro -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Printing the slippy map

2008-04-20 Thread Robert (Jamie) Munro
them and say that on-line maps aren't as good as real paper ones just because they are first on the list. Will the postscript output work as an EPS? If so, could we call it EPS as that's a filetype graphic designer types will recognise. But again: Nice work!!! Robert (Jamie) Munro

Re: [OSM-talk] tagging and rendering highways in the USA and elsewhere

2008-04-19 Thread Robert (Jamie) Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jo wrote: | Robert (Jamie) Munro schreef: |> |> When I look at the USA, I want interstates to be blue. When an American |> looks at the UK, they want to see motorways to be a colour other than |> blue, because then they will understand i

Re: [OSM-talk] tagging and rendering highways in the USA and elsewhere

2008-04-18 Thread Robert (Jamie) Munro
someone from a USA IP address opens the map, they should see the USA style tiles by default, but have the UK tiles on the layer switcher. Robert (Jamie) Munro -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFICSf/z+a

Re: [OSM-talk] Lakes and relations, what did I break?

2008-04-17 Thread Robert Vollmert
h holes. (Though the lakes do have quite a > few nodes, so maybe I'm just putting too much load on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] > clients). Perhaps it's because the holes aren't oriented counter-clockwise? It's possible that osmarender

Re: [OSM-talk] Yahoo updates aerial imagery

2008-04-16 Thread Robert (Jamie) Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martijn van Exel wrote: | Hi all, | | Yahoo announced the 'single biggest imagery update' update for Yahoo! | Maps yesterday. See the post here --> http://ylocalblog.com/blog/2008/04/11/see-more-on-yahoo-maps/ | It doesn't say anywhere specifically whi

Re: [OSM-talk] Changes in Relations do not upload: 500 Internal Server Errror

2008-04-12 Thread Robert Vollmert
rror message in JOSM when I tried uploading a relation with duplicate members. Not sure if this has been fixed, consider updating your version of JOSM. Cheers Robert ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Cycleway byway

2008-04-11 Thread Robert Vollmert
ly, you could save http://api.openstreetmap.org/api/0.5/ relation/9327/full as byway.osm and try loading that file into JOSM. Cheers Robert ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Relations not always brilliant

2008-04-08 Thread Robert (Jamie) Munro
nnecting parts, just that it might be a nice feature. Robert (Jamie) Munro -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFH+4fiz+aYVHdncI0RAsGMAJ4z+jJovvCgMWIW5ce8hqw9jwkBvQCfUMFx 3

Re: [OSM-talk] Relations not always brilliant

2008-04-08 Thread Robert (Jamie) Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dave Stubbs wrote: | On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Robert (Jamie) Munro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- |> Hash: SHA1 |> |> |> Steve Hill wrote: |> | Putting all of the separate bits of

Re: [OSM-talk] Relations not always brilliant

2008-04-08 Thread Robert (Jamie) Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Ebling wrote: | I'm firmly with Richard so far on this discussion. | | On one of the issues, Robert, your understanding of | what "A14 (A11)" means seems very different to mine. | If I understand you correctly, you're argui

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