Re: [OSM-talk] How to handle Maps.Me garbage?

2016-06-22 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Wednesday, June 22, 2016, Michael Reichert wrote: > by browsing the map, I have discovered the edits of user 이진영 > (Google Translator says that this is a Korean name). He added some > POIs in serveral European countries and entered the Korean name into > name=*. > > https://www.openstreetmap.o

Re: [OSM-talk] Released MapContrib 0.8.0

2016-06-18 Thread Simone Cortesi
I really like it. It would really be nice to be able to do thematic mapping with this tool. i.e. being able to add OSM nodes for missing items of that theme. On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 1:03 PM, Frédéric Rodrigo wrote: > Hello, > > I am pleased to announce the release of version 0.8.0 of MapContrib

Re: [OSM-talk] iD news: v1.9.6 released

2016-06-08 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 11:13 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote: >> Naturally (see previous wikidata discussions) it is questionable why it is >> necessary to add a tag that can automatically be determined from the other >> attributes of the object (as this feature proves without doubt). > > As answered in th

Re: [OSM-talk] osm maps on wikipedia - discussion

2016-04-29 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Apr 29, 2016 3:59 PM, "Martin Koppenhoefer" wrote: > > > > sent from a phone > > > Il giorno 29 apr 2016, alle ore 14:46, Richard Fairhurst < rich...@systemed.net> ha scritto: > > > > I've just created a quick, friendly wiki page to explain that and other > > differences: > > > > http://wiki.op

Re: [OSM-talk] osm maps on wikipedia - discussion

2016-04-29 Thread Simone Cortesi
o arguments might be "If the map data is wrong, you can fix > it." > > > On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 4:19 AM, Simone Cortesi wrote: >> >> Hello, >> currently being discussed on mediawiki is the future of maps soon to >> be added to wikipedia. >&

[OSM-talk] osm maps on wikipedia - discussion

2016-04-28 Thread Simone Cortesi
Hello, currently being discussed on mediawiki is the future of maps soon to be added to wikipedia. page: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps/Conversation_about_interactive_map_use talk page: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Maps/Conversation_about_interactive_map_use I would ask you to have

Re: [OSM-talk] [Osmf-talk] [Talk-us] license changes

2016-02-22 Thread Simone Cortesi
Hi, Looking at previous discussions about "yet another licence change" I wonder if the real client of the exercise really isn't OpenStreetMap US but some company whose name starts with Map* This should be disclosed. The Foundation doesn't need a new licence for our data. 1+ for Mr. Henk. On Su

Re: [OSM-talk] Community Conference

2015-12-02 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 10:57 PM, Michael Reichert wrote: > A conference can become a real community conference if it is located at > the center of the community, i.e. in Europe. Having a conference at a > remote location, i.e. Buenos Aires, might be good to boost the local > communities but it is

Re: [OSM-talk] Activity statistics per city (or region)

2015-10-21 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 5:00 PM, César Martínez Izquierdo wrote: > As we only need rough estimates, we could also use region statistics > if they are easier to compute or already available. Our area of study > is cities having >= 5 inhabitants in Europe. > > Do you know if someone has already

Re: [OSM-talk] New road style for the Default map style - the second version. And thanks for rural test locations!

2015-07-24 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 10:58 AM, André Riedel wrote: > > Do you mean like this > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/52.17024/-2.18493&layers=Q or > > something else? > > Yes, of course. But the german style is closer to the colors of Mateusz. As well it is close to the Italian one too. I l

Re: [OSM-talk] Looking for well mapped rural area and well mapped town/city

2015-07-22 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 12:04 PM, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: > I am looking for well mapped rural area. I located some places but all > are either missing major features (like part of landuse) or quality of > mapping (especially landuses) is poor. > > I am interested in places mapped better than my

Re: [OSM-talk] talk Digest, Vol 131, Issue 15

2015-07-17 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 8:48 AM, Keyvan Karimi wrote: > hi > I mean globe map/ map Iraq > please help for download Iraq map please > thanks > you can find an updated map for Iraq here: http://download.geofabrik.de/asia/iraq.html several different formats are available. -- -S _

Re: [OSM-talk] Another research project spam?

2015-06-11 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 5:12 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: >who else has received an email about a "VGI in land administration" > research project? I'd like to find out if it was an accident that I've > got three of them... > I've got just one invitation from them. -- -S __

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM-carto development environment

2015-04-16 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 8:26 PM, Daniel Koć wrote: > > I'd like to know how many people might be interested in using it and what > guidance would they expect? What host OS should we consider - do they want > to use it on 32-bit Linux, 64-bit Linux, Windows (32? 64?) or anything > else? Any other

Re: [OSM-talk] Omaha World-Herald using OSM without attribution

2014-12-17 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 7:59 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: > Just noticed this and took a quick glance, didn't see any obvious signs that > there was any attribution on the map at > http://www.omaha.com/news/crime/dui-case-omaha-police-arrest-man-who-was-driving-on/article_e660b1c6-8534-11e4-b4b3-1fa341

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] Server maintenance – 26th October

2014-10-21 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 7:38 PM, Harry Wood wrote: > The OpenStreetMap Foundation, Operations Working Group have scheduled a short > maintenance period which will occur from approximately 11:00 to 12:30 UTC, > during which time the database will be offline. > > http://www.timeanddate.com/worldcl

Re: [OSM-talk] Why am I getting spam via OSM website messages?

2014-07-31 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 1:20 PM, Dave F. wrote: > Thank you in advance for your potential participation. > > Did they obtain the email database or are the messages being sent out one at > a time to individual users? using the email osm user functionality which can be found here https://www.openst

Re: [OSM-talk] The biggest violation of OpenStreetMap, ever.

2014-07-07 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 12:11 PM, Christoph Hormann wrote: > It seems this 'Geopoi' is being created by a company called SOGEI - see > > http://www.sogei.it/flex/cm/pages/ServeBLOB.php/L/EN/IDPagina/424 > > Your approach of making this public is not a bad idea but you probably > need to expect they

Re: [OSM-talk] NOTICE: Upcoming Maintenance - Some services will be down

2014-07-01 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Grant Slater wrote: > On Saturday 5th of July 2014 between 09:00 and 19:00 (GMT / UTC) we > are moving our servers hosted by University College London to another > data center. Thanks for keeping services up and running so smoothly over the years! -- -S

Re: [OSM-talk] New Maproulette challenges from Osmose QA

2014-06-27 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 1:50 PM, Frédéric Rodrigo wrote: > We setup new Maproulette challenges based on some Osmose QA report. nice to see new challenges appearing on MR. congrats to the great french community both for the long standing osmose and for this new, nice, addition. Thanks, Simone.

Re: [OSM-talk] Overpass API v0.7.50 almost done

2014-06-08 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 10:03 AM, Roland Olbricht wrote: > Dear all, > > first of all a big thank you to all who have contributed to the SSD funding > or to the general FOSSGIS funding for Overpass API. > > I will publish before SotM-EU 2014 a new stable Overpass API release, the > first since abou

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM France "BANO" project... openaddresses in France

2014-05-14 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Christian Quest wrote: > OSM-FR has initiated a project to create an open database of addresses in > France. > > Data sources will be OSM + available opendata + address data collected from > the cadastre. > > The resulting dataset will be under ODbL (because of OS

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-13 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 3:26 PM, Alex Barth wrote: > http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/lxbarth/diary/21221 > > Looking forward to your comments, No, thanks, the licence is good as it is. -- -S ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://list

Re: [OSM-talk] Why Openstreetmap? (Slashdot and Guardian)

2014-01-30 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 4:44 PM, Jaakko Helleranta.com wrote: > Someone has made a Spanish translation of this (can't remember who). The > Spanish version is republished at the OSM Nicaragua blog > http://blog.mapanica.net (thanks to Felix Delattre). > > Have other translations surfaced? Do we hav

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License review request: Sardinia ad-hoc authorization

2013-11-23 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Paul Norman wrote: > - contributors to upload some or all of these datasets to the OSM API > - the portions or complete datasets uploaded to then be redistributed > under the ODbL any copyright holder has the right to re-license on an ad-hoc basis if they wish

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Upcoming changes to OpenStreetMap.org website

2013-11-13 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 9:52 AM, André Riedel wrote: > If we want to promote this, we need a description page with links to > the planet file, country excerpts, small exports (from the osm-server) > and to larger exports via the overpass API or overpass turbo page. good idea. instead of the expor

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Upcoming changes to OpenStreetMap.org website

2013-11-13 Thread Simone Cortesi
Exporting capabilities is that makes OSM stand out. this is what we do: we provide data for anyone for every use. It is important to keep the export tab prominent. Me too, I dont like the fact documentation links did disappear from the home page. cant we have a drop down menu with links to the wik

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Tilesets on DVD/CDROM?

2013-10-24 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Arnie Shore wrote: > All, I've googled unsuccessfully; Can someone point me to any source/vendor > of subject tile sets, by say, USA county or state. I think geofabrik does provide this kind of service. http://www.geofabrik.de/maps/tiles.html -- -S __

Re: [OSM-talk] Administrative boundaries export

2013-10-02 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 6:23 PM, César Martínez Izquierdo wrote: > I plan to create and make easily available a world-wide administrative layer > based on OSM data, ideally including existing administrative codes (ISO, > NUTS in Europe, etc) for each level and producing regular updates (for > insta

Re: [OSM-talk] Outperforming TomTom

2013-09-12 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 3:37 PM, Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr) wrote: > I don't know how open their data is, but have you heard of waze? I just > stumbled onto it yesterday. > > http://www.waze.com/ waze has been acquired by google. and even before that, they were not collaborative at all. -- -S

Re: [OSM-talk] Waze navigation

2013-05-07 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Maarten Deen wrote: > Isn't this exactly what OSM is, only now as navigation as a startingpoint? > Looking at the map in my area (the Netherlands), I see OSM some 6 years ago. > > It seems all so superfluous to me, I don't see the point. Why not make a > navigation

Re: [OSM-talk] Bulk Uploading GPX files on the OSM website

2012-08-21 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 6:22 PM, Ben Robbins wrote: > A few of my issues with uploading gpx Files to OSM which I'd like to > discuss, and put forward some suggestions. This may have a specific place > to be discussed? I'm really not on top of mailing lists. What I usually do is uploading them u

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMF Board & auto industry / What's the story?

2012-08-09 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Maarten Deen wrote: > And I'm forgetting the biggest issue: > > >>> additional effort to convert the map data into their proprietary >>> format due to the lack of structural information. > > If "convert the map into their proprietary format" is only something that >

Re: [OSM-talk] Huge Berlin map - OSM?

2012-08-05 Thread Simone Cortesi
Maybe the second map, but in the first one I can clearly see Tempelhof Airport Park, which is post 1850. On Sunday, August 5, 2012, Mike Dupont wrote: > "A map of Berlin from an atlas published in 1851. Image via pio3 > /Shutterstock" > Looks like out of copyright > mike > > On Sun, Aug 5, 2012

Re: [OSM-talk] Coastline generation resumed

2012-08-04 Thread Simone Cortesi
AM UTC. > >> -Original Message- >> From: Simone Cortesi [mailto:sim...@cortesi.com] >> Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 2:34 PM >> To: Paul Norman >> Cc: osm-talk >> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Coastline generation resumed >> >> Paul, >> are you s

Re: [OSM-talk] Coastline generation resumed

2012-08-03 Thread Simone Cortesi
Paul, are you still running it 3 times a day? It seems to be in a frozen state since at least 4 days. Fixed errors still show up. Any idea? Thanks, Simone On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 7:42 AM, Paul Norman wrote: > Minor update: I am now running three times a day. Exact upload times depend > on runt

Re: [OSM-talk] Coastline generation resumed

2012-07-23 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Paul Norman wrote: > There is a visualization of errors at http://www.wightpaths.co.uk/coast/ > > Many of the errors appear to be short errors between ways that became > disconnected. More complicated errors are often best fixed by deleting the > bad coastline and

Re: [OSM-talk] Navit Map Conversion Warnings for Italy

2012-07-22 Thread Simone Cortesi
Thanks, I've forwarded it to the italian list. On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 8:10 PM, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > Hello, > > I post here a number of warning I saw for Italy, when converting the map for > navit: > > OSM Warning:http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/73035 turn > restriction: from membe

Re: [OSM-talk] City routing grid for Australia and the US

2012-07-22 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 11:21 PM, Kai Krueger wrote: > On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 8:56 PM, Svavar Kjarrval wrote: > > I want to make a similar routing table file for my country. Any chance > of giving us instructions on how to generate such routing grids of our own? > > - Svavar Kjarrval > > > I ha

Re: [OSM-talk] City routing grid for Australia and the US

2012-07-21 Thread Simone Cortesi
Yes please, I would like to do the same too... -S On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 8:56 PM, Svavar Kjarrval wrote: > I want to make a similar routing table file for my country. Any chance > of giving us instructions on how to generate such routing grids of our own? > > - Svavar Kjarrval > > On 21/07/12 1

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM data density - top regions

2012-05-28 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 11:30 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > I'd be interested to know how many of these are actually the work of human > mappers. Most of the French ones are probably imported buildings, but the > others? Re the italian tiles, all of them are dense building areas, with a local commun

Re: [OSM-talk] Worst of OSM

2012-05-15 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 3:43 PM, SomeoneElse wrote: > Kate Chapman wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> Personally I think it is discouraging. I think positive encouragement >> is much better than this negative method. > Maybe there's a place for both, but one "worst" example appears to be > someone who's b

Re: [OSM-talk] New Google Maps style caters for RPG gamers

2012-03-31 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 00:25, Claudius wrote: > Don't miss the new map style on http://maps.google.com > Should be doable with Mapnik based on OSM data as well before we are loosing > more Zelda fans to the big G map. Are you aware that this has been done 3 years ago with OSM data: http://8bitcit

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

2012-03-14 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 16:10, Richard Weait wrote: > 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 pro

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

2012-03-07 Thread Simone Cortesi
As far as I can see, they are using OSM in Italy too: http://ivan.sanchezortega.es/leaflet-apple.php?lat=45.18082685754924&lon=9.217529296875&z=13 On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 05:10, maning sambale wrote: > I confirm that Apple is using OSM in the Philippines. > > On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 8:06 AM, Richa

Re: [OSM-talk] Osmarender layer gone... why?

2012-03-03 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 10:44, Morten Kjeldgaard wrote: > I discovered this morning that the osmarender layer is gone from osm's map > site. Why? I must have missed mention of it going away. Is there some other > server where osmarender tiles are shown? Have a look at this thread: http://lists.ope

Re: [OSM-talk] Contact And Remap Campaign

2012-02-06 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 03:56, Russ Nelson wrote: > David Earl writes: >  > It would help to know that email is bouncing. > > We should put out a press release stating that if anyone values their > copyright so little that they have not maintained a working email > address, their copyright interest

Re: [OSM-talk] Arducopter

2011-12-01 Thread Simone Cortesi
2011/11/30 Maurizio Napolitano : > Qualcuno ha esperienza in merito? > http://code.google.com/p/arducopter/ > Ho visto si trovano anche già montati > http://store.diydrones.com/category_s/28.htm > > non sarebbe male per avere foto aggiornate Maurizio, another good option would be doing kite or bal

Re: [OSM-talk] Argh, Canvec imports

2011-11-17 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 08:40, Michal Migurski wrote: > A cry of frustration: > > I do bimonthly runs of the worldwide coastlines > (http://metro.teczno.com/#coastline), and Canada seems to be a recurring > source of problems. What the heck is going on up there? I consistently see > new imports

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Foundation membership question

2011-01-22 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 20:53, Andreas Perstinger wrote: > > I've tried the last weeks to get in contact with the foundation about a > membership question and used members...@osmfoundation.org and > offic...@osmfoundation.org. But I've never got a reply. > > Does anybody of you know who is respons

Re: [OSM-talk] Objects versions ready for ODbL

2010-12-20 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 10:00, Stephen Hope wrote: > I must admit, however, that basically handing the keys to the OSMF, > which is what the new CT's amount to, is not filling me with joy > considering their track record to date. I'm willing to do a certain > amount of work to make sure the data I

Re: [OSM-talk] Released: OpenMaps for iOS v4.0. An idea how to increase OSM awareness.

2010-12-19 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 18:01, Zsombor Szabó wrote: > Simone: > > If you see a clickable openmaps:// link somewhere in an iOS app (e.g. > in Twitter for iPhone) and click on it then OpenMaps will launch and > show you that OSM place where (pasted text from above coming) you can > comment on it via

Re: [OSM-talk] Released: OpenMaps for iOS v4.0. An idea how to increase OSM awareness.

2010-12-19 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 21:46, Zsombor Szabó wrote: > the app installed on their device). They can even follow the recent Twitter > conversation about an OSM element within the app. So if they want to share > with the public that they serve amazing coffee at openmaps://n/957085286 > then they can

Re: [OSM-talk] new version of Bing aerial imagery analyzer tool

2010-12-16 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 12:31, Martijn van Exel wrote: > Hi all, > The thing lives on github now, > > https://github.com/mvexel/bingimageanalyzer AFAIK if you are using josm, and find yourself editing in an area where there is mixed imagery, like areas near cities where you have 20 zoom levels do

Re: [OSM-talk] Working for Mapquest as of today

2010-12-07 Thread Simone Cortesi
Congratulations, and good luck in your new journey... On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 00:28, Randy Meech wrote: > Welcome! And not a moment too soon! > > -Randy > > On Dec 6, 2010 5:59 PM, "Emilie Laffray" wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I am pleased to announce that I started working at MapQuest today. I want >

Re: [OSM-talk] New Community Updates

2010-11-12 Thread Simone Cortesi
2010/11/12 Matthias Meißer : > a new week, a new Community updates Newsletter by EMerzh is out: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Community_Updates/2010-11-01 > > By the way, he needs further helpers to monitor all the channels :) thanks! It is a long desired "feature" of OSM... :) -- -S ___

[OSM-talk] Weekly Board Meetings

2010-10-29 Thread Simone Cortesi
Hi everybody, I would like to inform you all that, during our last board meeting, we decided to go in to a weekly schedule in order to maximize throughput and overall have shorter meetings. Board meetings will be held at 2100 CET every Wednesday. Thank You, Simone Cortesi -- OSMF Secretary

[OSM-talk] changeset 6M

2010-10-14 Thread Simone Cortesi
hey, in less than a year we went from changeset 3.000.000 to its double 6.000.000 a user did the upload this sunday morning: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/600 -- -S ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openst

[OSM-talk] OSMF Officers

2010-08-20 Thread Simone Cortesi
Dear Members of OSM Foundation and interested parties, As the newly chosen secretary of the OpenStreetMap Foundation I'm here to shortly announce that: Emilie Laffray is the new treasurer of OSMF Simone Cortesi is the new secretary of OSMF Mr. Steve Coast is the chairman of OSMF In add

Re: [OSM-talk] Spatiallite

2010-07-18 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 05:27, Serge Wroclawski wrote: > No, I'm not talking about Andril's talk. There was someone who had > created a small app using Spatialite and a GTK frontend during the > conference. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_Of_The_Map_2010/Lightning_Talks it was Enrico Zin

Re: [OSM-talk] Italian Government approved the use of official data for OpenStreetMap updates

2010-05-27 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 04:56, Russ Nelson wrote: >  > I did contact the ministry deputy in october and worked thru the >  > various steps in order to get approval for this. > Nicely done, Simone! We are still dealing out on how to use this thru editors which do not make use of WMS access to imag

Re: [OSM-talk] Italian Government approved the use of official data for OpenStreetMap updates

2010-05-26 Thread Simone Cortesi
2010/5/26 Jimena Martínez : > Good news! > > http://www.mundogeo.com.br/noticias-diarias.php?id_noticia=17177&lang_id=2 My fault not to have informed you any time sooner. I did contact the ministry deputy in october and worked thru the various steps in order to get approval for this. Somewhere

[OSM-talk] cebit

2010-03-05 Thread Simone Cortesi
I have not seen this news here on the lists: http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/CeBIT-2010-Linux-New-Media-Awards-presented-946907.html The jury chose OpenStreetMap as the most innovative open source project. Second place in this category with an equal number of votes was awarded to KDE and C

Re: [OSM-talk] Conference in Budapest later this month

2010-03-02 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 12:29, Valent Turkovic wrote: > Aa, I missed this post! :( Any links about this conference? http://hunagi8.blogspot.com/ -- -S ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] we've got to be around 4 million now

2010-03-01 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 22:46, Richard Weait wrote: > So we have to be around four million change sets now.  What's that you say? > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/400 http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/300 - 31 oct 2009 http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/chan

Re: [OSM-talk] Still interest in an Android POI collector?

2010-02-24 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 09:58, John Smith wrote: >> Any plan to make it compatible with the HTC TATTOO? I've tried to >> download it from the android market, but with no success. > Is this due a problem with smaller screen sizes? I bet so. But actually there is no way to tell (no errors, just a

Re: [OSM-talk] Still interest in an Android POI collector?

2010-02-24 Thread Simone Cortesi
2010/2/23 John Smith : > 2010/2/24 Tomáš Tichý : >> I have tried BTC mapper and it is almost unusable (doesn´t work >> without GPS signal, can´t place POI to another place than my location, >> weird and uneditable presets). > > It's being worked on at present, the current preset system didn't work

Re: [OSM-talk] Creating custom OSM sites using the Mapnik OSM plugin?

2010-02-22 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 13:43, Nick Whitelegg wrote: > Do people think this is a good idea? It's one of several possibilities > that I'd like to work on, though I'd probably only do so if there's > sufficient interest and/or I can't resolve the memory issues on my own > site in other ways. I do!

Re: [OSM-talk] Planet, osm2pgsql interruptus, and reclaiming disk space

2010-02-21 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 22:45, Michal Migurski wrote: > I'm hesitant to drop the DB because of some other data stored there, > but it's good to know that osm2pgsql doesn't have any other storage > squireled away elsewhere. What about something like this: http://phppgadmin.sourceforge.net/ -- -S

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] OSM front page design concept

2010-02-21 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 00:09, SteveC wrote: > The problem with your analysis is pretty simple - > maybe those people left because the site was > crap, not because they inherently don't like adding > more than 10 things. Maybe if we make it better, they will add a lot more. OSM, the website, the

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licence clarification

2010-02-09 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 11:43, Per-Olof Norén wrote: > As far as I can tell, this is to be considered derived work, no? > What we planned to do was to : > 1. Supply the printed work a proper cc-by-sa attribution. > 2. Donate / revise information in the currently available POI:s. > > The client has

Re: [OSM-talk] Where can we purchase sat photography for usage in openstreetmap?

2010-02-07 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 10:52, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: > Thanks, > that looks good. > If they have some type of compatible license, we can be in business. > I think it is a good proposition to raise some money in kosovo, the > benefits for the people of having maps are great. We just

Re: [OSM-talk] Where can we purchase sat photography for usage in openstreetmap?

2010-02-07 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 21:24, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: > Hi all, > I just found out that we cannot use any of the data from eurimage.com in osm. > We want to raise funds to buy high res photos of Kosovo for tracing. > Does anyone have any experience with this? Are there any sources we

Re: [OSM-talk] SotM10 - What do you want to hear?

2010-01-29 Thread Simone Cortesi
2010/1/28 Lambertus : > So nothing there to see, now move along to Girona Spain. Wasn't Girona in Italy too last week...? :) -- -S ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Linking Flickr to OSM, and back again, using machine tags

2010-01-27 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 16:55, Adrian Brain wrote: > > There are lots of other potential uses for machine tags which I haven't > explored yet. > > One day I can see POIs of amenity=slideshow, amenity=video, audio, gigapan or > whatever. > ( I used this idea for CoolIris too and it worked a treat

Re: [OSM-talk] haiti: use osm-matrix

2010-01-25 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 11:05, Jan Tappenbeck wrote: > so use http://projekte.eiops.de/osm-matrix/ ! > > regards Jan :-) is the source code for this now available somewhere? -- -S ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetma

Re: [OSM-talk] HAITI - simple map upgrade

2010-01-22 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 00:04, sergio sevillano wrote: > as far as i know KOSMOS wont work on macOSX as it depends on microsoft.net > library > and osmarender and mapnik do need to mount a database... (the headache), > right? AFAIK mapnik does read osm files: http://trac.mapnik.org/wiki/OsmPlugi

Re: [OSM-talk] [Haïti earthquake crisis response ] Please refresh tagwat ch for North Amercia

2010-01-20 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 13:12, Frederik Ramm wrote: >> I guess that the rendering of emergency and humanitarian tags will be >> discussed later, once this crisis will have settled down. Maybe a >> patch to an existing renderer will be developped and kept ready for >> such use. > > Another alternat

Re: [OSM-talk] [Fwd: Re: [CrisisMappers] Re: New Imagery in Google Earth file]

2010-01-20 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 13:49, Ian Dees wrote: > Last I checked, the imagery had a non-commercial distribution limit on it > (i.e. they don't want you to take their images and sell them to anyone at > any point). All other uses were allowed (including derivative works and > tracing) and in additio

Re: [OSM-talk] MXD for OSM data?

2010-01-18 Thread Simone Cortesi
2010/1/18 Iván Sánchez Ortega : >> Does the question even make sense? I'm not very good at ESRI lingo, >> but apparently it's some kind of stylesheet. > > Long answer: a .mxd file is a "project" file. It's nothing but a bunch of > links to data files (or database connections, or WMS/WFS links), and

Re: [OSM-talk] Arbeitsmatrix für Haiti

2010-01-16 Thread Simone Cortesi
2010/1/15 Jean-Marc Liotier : > Hi, since yesterday evening I'm trying to contact the author of > http://osm.m0nty.de/ which would be perfect to coordinate work in Haiti. > Does anybody know if that tool is open source and where we can get the > source code ? Does anyone have the author's e-mail a

Re: [OSM-talk] GeoEye Haiti imagery Ok'd

2010-01-15 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 17:27, Andy Allan wrote: > The imagery isn't rectified using ground control points obtained via > GPS units, if that's what you're asking, so no, it's not going to be > 100% accurate. I'm not certain what was used to rectify it, but I > suspect either Yahoo imagery or OSM

Re: [OSM-talk] GeoEye Haiti imagery Ok'd

2010-01-15 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 17:07, John F. Eldredge wrote: > You may be seeing the earthquake damage, since it damaged or collapsed > thousands of buildings, and may well have caused some coastal changes via > landslides, the raising or lowering of land, etc. so, the image is correctly placed and I

Re: [OSM-talk] GeoEye Haiti imagery Ok'd

2010-01-15 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 02:21, Schuyler Erle wrote: >  http://maps.nypl.org/tilecache/1/haiti/$z/$x/$y.jpg > > You can also use this custom imagery URL in Potlatch: > >  http://maps.nypl.org/tilecache/1/haiti/!/!/!.png > > Finally, there's WMS for use in JOSM: > >  http://maps.nypl.org/relief/map

[OSM-talk] Fwd: ?

2010-01-14 Thread Simone Cortesi
sending to italian mailinglist. Sara, please subscribe to it here: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-it -- Forwarded message -- From: sara susini Date: 2010/1/14 Subject: [OSM-talk] ? To: talk@openstreetmap.org Scusate ma come funziona? Ho bisogno di info per la geo

Re: [OSM-talk] Public notary (Map feature POI proposal)

2010-01-12 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 20:47, David Paleino wrote: > In Italy JPs are "something like a judge", and notary has the same > meaning as the one Serge pointed out for France (i.e. part of the > Judiciary, not an attorney, but needed for legally binding things) Being this OSM all about geodata, and be

Re: [OSM-talk] MobileMapperOffice (For Magellan Triton 200)

2009-12-20 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 20:27, Fabri wrote: > I still have osm shapes from CloudMade. I use MobileMapperOffice to make > vettorial map for a Magellan Triton 200. Any users use MMO and can give > suggestions to make good maps? I probably dont get the point, but why dont you use the instructions gi

Re: [OSM-talk] Full Database dump request - forking possible Was: [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-06 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 10:59, Florian Lohoff wrote: > I hereby request that the OSMF publishes a full (including history) > Database Dump just prior deleting non ODbL relicensed data to allow > a forking of OpenStreetmap under the old licensing terms. There already is a plan for a complete dump (

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-05 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 02:31, Grant Slater wrote: > 2009/12/6 Frederik Ramm : >> There have been some independent reviews of ODbL. >> > > > There is also Andrea Rossato who the Italian OSM community hired > independently to review the license. > > I believe he said something like "ODbL is CC BY-S

Re: [OSM-talk] Using osmosis with --bounding-polygon

2009-11-29 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 12:47, David Paleino wrote: > I'm trying to create small dumps following some administrative borders. For > example, starting from the Italy planet, I'd like to create dumps of regions > and provinces. > > Here's what I did: > > a) download the members of the proper relati

Re: [OSM-talk] Isn't it time for a higher zoom level?

2009-11-22 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 17:38, Aun Johnsen wrote: > Next step will be to make an openlayer engine that handles a small tile set > for puting Guarapari (with various zoom levels) on my homepage. this is simple :) http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenLayers_Simple_Example -- -S __

Re: [OSM-talk] Isn't it time for a higher zoom level?

2009-11-22 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 13:50, Igor Brejc wrote: > Richard, thanks for mentioning Kosmos :) > Yes, Kosmos draws OSM data on-the-fly and it supports continuous zoom > levels (I've limited it up to zoom level 18 because of some .NET drawing > engine problems on higher zooms). There are two drawbacks

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Mentioned in NYTimes

2009-11-17 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 15:58, Ian Dees wrote: > OSM was mentioned in this (relatively confusing) article on crowd-sourced > maps: > > http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/17/technology/internet/17maps.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=openstreetmap&st=cse the article really is confusing, but still is the NYT. WHOAAA

Re: [OSM-talk] Offline Dump of the Wiki

2009-11-17 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:17, Stefan de Konink wrote: > On Tue, 17 Nov 2009, Tom Hughes wrote: > >> What does our backup strategy have to do with the question of whether or >> not it's a good idea to mirror the wiki with wget? >> >> For what it's worth, the wiki is backed up nightly to a separate

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Logo Competition

2009-11-07 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 06:56, SteveC wrote: > The OSMF recently launched a new mediawiki powered site at > http://www.osmfoundationorg/ >  with a basic logo. ouch...typo: http://www.osmfoundation.org/ -- -S ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.

Re: [OSM-talk] TIGER Addressing Import

2009-10-13 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 18:20, SteveC wrote: > As I said on IRC the other week, but I'll repeat here for all - I > think dumping the addressing for all 3,000 counties and then letting > people import them one by one will be the best way to do it. dont you think we need a simple way to check-in &

Re: [OSM-talk] Nationnal websites

2009-08-03 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 23:11, Vincent MEURISSE wrote: > Italian website don't work with www. no, it does work both ways. with and without the www. the site is just a blog right now, under the "blog" third level domain name. -- -S ___ talk mailing lis

Re: [OSM-talk] Title bars (dynamic updating of)

2009-08-01 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 13:38, OJ W wrote: > Imagine if it said "OpenStreetMap Oxfordshire, United Kingdom" instead... > http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~ojw/TitlebarDemo/?zoom=11&lat=51.76&lon=-1.282 Awesome! I really like all the stuff you have been coding lately (the business listings page, the b

Re: [OSM-talk] Old GPS data

2009-07-28 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 09:58, John Smith wrote: >> consider having access to older data in separate sets if >> there is concern >> about using old gps tracks, just don't drop any because it >> is "old" (like some >> of us) > Maybe the best option is to let people stipulate how many traces they wa

Re: [OSM-talk] Old GPS data

2009-07-28 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 09:59, John Smith wrote: > > --- On Tue, 28/7/09, Simone Cortesi wrote: > >> GPS are becoming more precise. older tracks are, on a >> general basis, > > You can't make assumptions of the quality of the data based simply on how > rece

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