Looks like that one has died, but there are OSM questions in the
(active beta) GIS one:
http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/openstreetmap
Steve
(I'm reviving this old thread rather than start a new one to post the url...)
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Stephen Hope slh...@gmail.com
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Vaidila Kungys
vaid...@ridethecity.com wrote:
Brisbane OSM bicyclists,
We're working on bringing Ride the City (www.ridethecity.com) to Brisbane.
We're doing this completely through OSM for Brisbane (for other cities in
we've used non-OSM data for routing).
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 7:34 AM, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote:
I have removed all my gps traces from the OSM database.
How come?
Steve
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On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 8:02 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote:
cc-by-sa (and almost? every viral license) allows for forking as long as
said fork is under the same license. Note the number of Wikipedia forks and
mirrors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks
On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 2:40 AM, Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com wrote:
Then mark the reasons it's not suitable. We have this same discussion
with cycling (in fact, Peter Miller had an entire presentation on this
issue at SOTM09 - he just suggested the wrong solution :-) ). One
persons
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 8:06 PM, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote:
Have you not noticed how your posts are becoming repetitious?
If by that you mean, Thanks Steve for your insights on moderation, I
think you have now clearly communicated your point of view, then,
good, I'll stop.
If it was
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Chris Browet c...@semperpax.com wrote:
You realize tightly moderate and issues of all nature are somewhat
contradictory, do you?
Not at all. Personal attacks, repetition, off-topic remarks,
spamminess, me-tooism - none of this comes under issues of all
natures.
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote:
Personally I use 'save mode' in P1 with the approach save early, save
(very) often. Once you've made your first save (with changeset comment)
it's only a matter of pressing 'S' now and then, which'll bring up a
I had thought the latter was the standard? I also ask because
technically there's a conflict with the power:* proposals, one of
which was power:source=*.
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On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 11:31 PM, Ross Scanlon i...@4x4falcon.com wrote:
Don't know for sure but I've been changing them to source:maxspeed as per
here:
Cool, surely they could be changed en masse though.
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On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 6:09 PM, Ben Last ben.l...@nearmap.com wrote:
Finally, as ever, I want to make it clear that it's not our place as a
company to try and direct or influence the direction of OSM. That's for the
community and OSMF to debate and decide.
I disagree. NearMap is part of the
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Chris Browet c...@semperpax.com wrote:
But every opinions should have a place to voice themselves, shouldn't they?
No. Not all opinions are helpful. And certainly, sheer volume of
opinions is unhelpful.
If Talk becomes moderated/censured, where would that be?
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 8:55 PM, NopMap ekkeh...@gmx.de wrote:
- Why don't we disable that Live edit feature for good? I vaguely remember
the question has been raised before, but I just can't think of any use case
where I' need to mess up the data directly with no undo.
I only ever use the
Out of curiosity, where do you get this low- and high-tide data from
anyway? On aerial photos it's pretty hard to see anything except where
the water happened to be at the time of the photo.
Steve
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Alan Mintz
alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net wrote:
At 2010-08-18
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 7:28 AM, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com wrote:
We haven't had any problems before the controversy over licences, and I expect
that once these troubles are resolved one way or another, there won't be
further
eruptions. So I'd suggest not setting up any elaborate moderation
Hi all,
For my own education, could someone attempt to guess what's going on here:
http://goo.gl/maps/lBqP
Specifically, Ward Rd. I see no trace of it on NearMap
(http://www.nearmap.com/?ll=-37.897085,145.391838z=18t=hnmd=20100711),
and I couldn't find it when I rode through there the other
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 2:34 AM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote:
The list has become sane again, and I've not had to use any Evil Powers.
But, is this what you want going forward?
My own inclination is that list moderators are elected per list for, say, a
one year period. But I suspect
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 9:30 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote:
shop=rental
rental:car=yes/no
rental:bike=yes/no
rental:truck=yes/no
rental:van=yes/no
rental:bus=yes/no
I don't like this because this:
shop=rental
means nothing. It's a shop where you can rent stuff! I'd
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 5:07 AM, Alan Mintz
alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net wrote:
...Any moderation will be announced to those people I just mentioned, and
not publicly. Why not publicly? On balance, it seems better to not call out
individuals publicly which might only make things worse and make
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Aun Johnsen li...@gimnechiske.org wrote:
In many cases I have seen empty (as in truely empty) nodes left around as a
result of failed imports, or failed uploads of changesets.
Or Potlatch bugs.
Seriously, guys, creating nodes with zero tags attached, and
Thanks for the update and all the hard work.
Steve
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com wrote:
Yeah, the existing server is pretty much kaput - it's completely
overloaded. Many parts of the map haven't been re-rendered since the
start of July. It's been in a
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Jonas Stein n...@jonasstein.de wrote:
there are many empty nodes in the osm database.
In the IRC channel i was told, that there are users who paint
empty nodes in the map to mark things like
road is not mapped, but continues here
Personally, I delete them. If
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Jim Croft jim.cr...@gmail.com wrote:
http://prettymaps.stamen.com
After reading the tell me more, I'm still mystified. Take a couple
of high quality datasets, a couple of low quality datasets, mix them
together, and create a super low quality blur.
Steve
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Steve Bennett-3 wrote:
- Let's not tar all Australians with the same brush. Some of us are
supportive of the license changes, and pulling our heads in and just
mapping quietly.
I love the implication here that you're 'poisonous' if you don't support the
license changes
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote:
I love the implication here that you're 'poisonous' if you don't support the
license changes (and vice versa).
That wasn't my intention. To be clearer:
* Some of us are supportive of the license changes,
* some of us
Hi,
I'll be brief:
1) License change good. Me happy with license change.
2) Check box (In addition to the above agreement, I consider my
contributions to be in the Public Domain) bad. Easy to tick without
reading. Looks like standard I have read, I agree.
Steve
Hi all,
Wondering if anyone knows the current status of OpenCycleMap tile
generation. Any idea when I could expect an update in my neck of the
woods (Melbourne, Australia)?
Steve
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Great, I'll keep an eye out.
Steve
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Adam Killian vi...@bonius.com wrote:
On Fri, 2010-08-13 at 11:47 +1000, Steve Bennett wrote:
Hi all,
Wondering if anyone knows the current status of OpenCycleMap tile
generation. Any idea when I could expect an update
Great post, and excellent honeytrap: all the poisonous people flocked
immediately to this thread and started debating it furiously.
Some points:
- verbosity/spamminess *is* disruptive. It takes a lot of time to
read, and invariably someone will respond, causing more posts. Worse,
it causes
For anyone curious, I've uploaded some sample photos from the Drift HD170.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/767553/OSM/HD1.jpg
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/767553/OSM/HD2.jpg
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/767553/OSM/HD3.jpg
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/767553/OSM/HD4.jpg
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/767553/OSM/HD5.jpg
These
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 9:24 PM, colliar colliar4e...@aol.com wrote:
I wonder why there is no ssl-support for the wiki.
It woudb be nice if I could enter my password and changes with an encrypted
connection and not just plain text.
What's the need, if I may ask? What's the worst that could
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Stephen Hope slh...@gmail.com wrote:
and if you talk about something being held
at the showgrounds, the locals all know where you mean. But most of
the year, it's used for other things. Any permanent halls are often
used for clubs to meet in, any weekly
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote:
The other group consists of well-meaning mappers who are valuable members of
our community but who perceive the need to enter a changeset comment as a
kind of nagging, nannying, and who might be tempted to enter a useless
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Craig Feuerherdt
craigfeuerhe...@gmail.com wrote:
Well it appears as though people have been tagging them as
landuse=recreation_ground (as per Melbourne Showgrounds) which seems the
closest approximation to what it is.
landuse=recreation_ground
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 6:13 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote:
What goes in to a good change set comment? Should it include the
nature of your edits, the sources used, edit theme, and location?
What else?
You might want to back up a bit and ask what purpose do changesets serve?
For
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Craig Feuerherdt
craigfeuerhe...@gmail.com wrote:
Not sure I like that option Steve as it implies that the recreation_ground
is only a showground.
I prefer the landuse=showground option and then, if there is an oval that is
used for recreation within the
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Ben Last ben.l...@nearmap.com wrote:
Indeed; the entire subject is shrouded in what I'd call complexity, and
what lawyers would call my retirement beach house fund :) I look at it
this way; imagine an eager Nearmap user buys a house in some newly developed
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Andrew Harvey andrew.harv...@gmail.com wrote:
Wouldn't it be much simpler to define source:nearmap as implying
attribution:nearmap, as opposed to using both tags.
Heh. It's simple in the sense that it's simple to wish upon a
star. To actual document and
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Niccolo Rigacci o...@rigacci.org wrote:
For bikers - at least in Italy Alps and Appennini mountains - a
mountain pass along a road is often used as a meeting point or as
a trip destination. So the use of place=locality is not so
misleading.
Yep, I was thinking
Hi Nick,
That's a cool project. I've just ordered a new helmet camera which
has the ability to take photos continuously at 3 second intervals, so
I'd be keen to upload a *lot* of photos - have you thought about an
interface for that? Obviously doing them one at a time through a web
form is not
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 6:22 AM, Ulf Lamping ulf.lamp...@googlemail.com wrote:
Wouldn't it be an idea to simply render a pass importance based on the
type of highway it is connected to?
That's a heuristic which will work well in some areas, but I doubt it
will be flexible enough to give a good
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 9:07 PM, Andrew Harvey andrew.harv...@gmail.com wrote:
If an existing way was marked as source:yahoo, but I made some minor
alterations from nearmap imagery what should I do to the source?
Unlike some of the other answers, I don't think it's at all clear what
to do here.
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Ben Last ben.l...@nearmap.com wrote:
On 28 July 2010 23:43, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote:
I would love to know whether Yahoo or Nearmap actually gives a damn.
Obviously I can's peak for Yahoo (I think I should spell that Yahoo!) but
NearMap does
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Ben Last ben.l...@nearmap.com wrote:
If that's not feasible, I hope you use some other technique to make it
very
clear to users that they must not copy street names from a non-free map.
We understand this point very well :)
Heh, I'm glad you do, because it's
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 5:35 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm not sure it's worth doing anything with these as they tend to
shift too frequently, although they could be imported without trying
to merge them into existing boundaries so they can be reimported later
when they
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 1:39 PM, John Henderson snow...@gmx.com wrote:
I note the wiki says that Direction of the way should be downstream.
Most streams I look at on OSM have been drawn uphill, and I've been
reversing the direction of ones I notice as wrong. Indeed, I find it more
natural to
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Edward Betts o...@edwardbetts.com wrote:
I'm interested in ideas about how to better organize the data, or for any
other suggestions.
IMHO this sort of thing is only useful when integrated into something
else. Like making it a particular view on
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 12:42 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote:
I just want more people to contribute maxspeed information to make
routing more useful, and if people see maxspeed tags everywhere I was
hoping they'd either fix them if wrong, or add them to non-residential
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 6:20 PM, Ken Guest k...@linux.ie wrote:
The huge hint is the text Upstairs, our working micro-brewery
produces only the finest of local hand-crafted beers. :D
Sven said it well:
If beer is available in supermarkets nationwide I would say no and
yes otherwise.
Why not use:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:noname
Steve
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Nick Hocking nick.hock...@gmail.com wrote:
I can check Yass on Friday, as the Department of Health and Ageing is
paying
me to drive that way again.
Thanks Liz, that'd be great.
I'll bet a
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 1:44 AM, Sven Geggus
li...@fuchsschwanzdomain.de wrote:
Tagging is easy. Just add microbrewery=yes to the node or building
area object of your local brewpub.
Whee. Now, please define microbrewery and brewpub.
Is this a microbrewery:
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 8:14 AM, Peter Ross pe...@emailross.com wrote:
I should be more specific, I looked at town on the hume on the way to canberra
Using http://sautter.com/map
* Yass
* Goulbourn
* Murumbateman
* Gundaroo
It's quite simple to check towns yourself.
FYI, a simpler
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 10:40 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote:
I made a noname overlay style and it should be a lot more up to date
as the server should* be expiring tiles in real time:
http://maps.bigtincan.com/?z=8ll=-35.255,149.163layer=BFTF
Nice. Perhaps you
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Ben Kelley ben.kel...@gmail.com wrote:
That said, having had a look at the new coverage in the Hunter Valley, there
is a huge amount of detail you can get from Nearmap that would be
practically impossible with surveying.
I've also been finding the opposite.
I just wish the area between Ballarat and Bendigo extended a bit
further west. It's a very interesting area of Victoria, full of little
dirt tracks through the old gold digging area. Creswick is half
covered, Clunes is off the map...
But to be honest, no matter how much coverage there was, we'd
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 5:59 PM, Ulf Lamping ulf.lamp...@googlemail.com wrote:
I had hoped that after the dust settled a bit the OSMF learned from these
discussions, but reading the above legal talk thread I still see the same
elitist behaviour from the inner circle as before - very sad to see
Thanks for that. I'll probably get the GoPro Helmet Hero HD, as I like
the look of the timelapse modes.
On a tangent, this weekend I went out to map a couple of
walking/mountain biking paths. Rode 100km, including about 50km of
trails that weren't on OSM. Got back home and discovered that my most
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 6:54 AM, Alex Mauer ha...@hawkesnest.net wrote:
Another case where I’ve found it especially useful to share nodes, even
between routable and non-routable objects, is for speed limits. In at
least one case that I’m aware of, the speed limit is defined in the law
as “on
Hi all,
Wondering if anyone has tried a helmet camera like the GoPro Helmet
Hero HD or ContourHD for mapping? The former even has a mode where it
takes a 5MP photo every two seconds. Plus you could probably narrate
to it while riding along. You might even be able to just look at
street signs and
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 12:29 AM, Mike N. nice...@att.net wrote:
Wondering if anyone has tried a helmet camera like the GoPro Helmet
Hero HD or ContourHD for mapping?
I have the ContourHD, and while it's a fantastic sports cam, it's not close
enough to usable for reading street signs from
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 10:31 AM, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote:
Wiki suggests that a pitch is any sort of playing field. Infact doesnt
even suggest football/cricket (although does have soccer). Suggestions
are tennis, skate park, basketball, etc.
I think pitch=fishing could
What do you mean by comprehensive? You mean, covering all of one
person's movements during some period of time? Or do you just mean
lots of?
Steve
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 7:34 AM, Lukas Kabrt lu...@kabrt.cz wrote:
Hi,
I am student working on the GSoC project - Travel time analysis [1],
[2].
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 6:50 PM, David Ellams
osmli...@dellams.fastmail.fm wrote:
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/07/09/aols-mapquest-looks-to-wikipedia-model-for-mapping/
Excerpts:
MapQuest, the No. 2 Internet-mapping service after Google’s, is
taking the first steps toward a Wikipedia-like
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote:
IMHO, No - I don't like the idea of using separate/duplicate features
(e.g. an extra node) to describe something at the same physical
location.
... So right now, I see four remaining options, IMHO all pretty crappy and
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 7:18 PM, John Smith
If we're tagging what's on the ground,
Which we're not. There is no on the ground rule, guideline, axiom,
suggestion or anything. Can we stop using this non-existent guiding
principle?
then it's a school hall, if you
want to do minor uses this would
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 5:59 PM, Igor Brejc igor.br...@gmail.com wrote:
This results in even more complicated situation and even more work to
maintain such data. And even if do you follow this practice, there will
still be huge amounts of legacy data which do not.
I think if two streets share
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 5:54 PM, zve...@textual.ru wrote:
As you can see, on islands there are nine labels with street names, but
plenty of space
for such labels on many streets and avenues. Those names are not rendered,
obviously,
because most streets consist of several ways, due to routing
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote:
If historical data is really desired then it seems like there need to
be some features added to support it.
That would actually be pretty easy to add in any renderer, if a
proposal was made for a tag like status=historic
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Alex S. m...@swavely.com wrote:
Some would like to see it kept and marked historical, but deleting ways
Oh? Could you elaborate?
Steve
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On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Ben Welsh ben.we...@gmail.com wrote:
Long story short: I'm curious whether our boundaries might have a home in
the OSM database. I don't know a ton about the project, but I've always
IMHO they might be useful, on the basis that they're not just any old
informal
Presumably someone knows about this and is fixing it, but just in case:
The OpenStreetMap server encountered an unexpected condition that
prevented it from fulfilling the request (HTTP 500)
Feel free to contact the OpenStreetMap community if your problem
persists. Make a note of the exact
Unscheduled maintenance, I like it. :)
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 9:53 PM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote:
Presumably someone knows about this and is fixing it, but just in case
Wondering if any experts here could elaborate a bit on the definitions
of highway=primary, secondary, tertiary at
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Australian_Tagging_Guidelines .
There were a few roads in my area (Glen Huntly) tagged as
highway=primary, even though they're pretty minor roads.
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote:
By definition, the definition will be dependent on the context. From
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway: description of the
importance of the highway for the road grid. To get any useful
feedback from us, I
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 5:56 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote:
I know this was a pet topic of Steve, the wiki page for buildings
suggests building:use=* for the use but has anyone tagging buildings
with anything other than building=yes?
http://osmdoc.com/en/tag/building/#values
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 12:35 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote:
So then what makes a trunk a trunk? dual carriage way? volume of traffic?
Just had a look at the VicRoads website - they only classify roads as
freeway, arterial, or other. Do other state bodies do similar?
At least
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 3:26 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote:
Wouldn't most councils be using Australian/New Zealand Standards for
things like this?
In which case I'd be looking for the AS/NZ documents covering road
classifications rather than going from the bottom up...
Sure,
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 6:58 PM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote:
trac called, it wants its job back.
It is really really really unhelpful to bring up every little thing on the
mailing lists rather than the proper bug-tracking system. Please don't. It
doesn't mean your alleged bug
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 8:02 PM, Gregory nomoregra...@googlemail.com wrote:
Ooo look it even tells you about it from the Potlatch wiki
page http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Potlatch/Feedback
Thanks for the reminder of that page.
Steve
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On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 8:39 PM, James Livingston li...@sunsetutopia.com wrote:
Did you select Nearmap from the background-image setting, or use Edit on the
Nearmap site?
I did use the latter method once, but the behaviour persists each time
I load openstreetmap, and in three different
Four messages in a row. Way to destroy a thread with verbal diarrhoea. *sigh*
Steve
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 5:55 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote:
On 9 June 2010 17:29, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote:
On 9 June 2010 17:28, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote:
I just noticed that Potlatch has started saving the source, when using
nearmap[1], as source=http://www.nearmap.com/kh/zxy=!,!,!; rather
than just source=nearmap.
Several issues here:
1) That format looks broken - surely those should be numbers, not !
2) Changing to such a specific source rather
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Ben Last ben.l...@nearmap.com wrote:
the NearMap site). We do have our own registration system, and we're going
to require that a user be registered with us before we allow them to make
edits.
Because of the above, edits applied to the OSM data would be
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 7:14 AM, John Henderson snow...@gmx.com wrote:
On trails which horses use, there's often a type of above-ground cattle
grid called a cavaletti. Typically, it would consist of about 4
widely-spaced logs across the track at a height of about a half a metre.
The idea is
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 6:58 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote:
Mapping a few things locally and noticed some things don't render, so
I filed bugs about them:
I'd really like golf course features to be rendered. I find it a bit
ironic that Best of OpenStreetMap includes a golf
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Ben Last ben.l...@nearmap.com wrote:
There's no convenient way. We could bounce a user off to the OSM site to
register, but this is complex because they then need to confirm an email,
and after the signup there (appears to be) no convenient way to bring them
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Neil Penman ianaf4...@yahoo.com wrote:
Only the vast majority of these were not sourced from Nearmap (except in
some of the country areas not previously covered by Yahoo). They may have
been updated by somebody using nearmap imagery, mostly trivial changes, but
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 6:41 PM, Ross Scanlon i...@4x4falcon.com wrote:
It's just that some of the edits are suspiciously like Brendan_Cherry's
For those of us not familiar with Brendan_Cherry... what's unusual
about their edits?
Steve
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On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Jim Croft jim.cr...@gmail.com wrote:
@sebchan: Absolutely amazing analysis of geotagged photos - Locals vs
Tourists #12 (GTWA #27): Sydney on Flickr - http://bit.ly/cMYTQO
Original Tweet: http://twitter.com/sebchan/status/15692611438
Um, a little bit of context
Err, and just now I notice that when you press b in Potlatch, instead of
creating source=nearmap, it creates a tag like
http://www.nearmap.com/kh/zxy=!,!,!;. Wonder when this change happened, and
is that a bug? It sure looks like it...
Stve
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On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 2:40 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote:
This was posted to blogs last week... There is an image of Merlbourne
in the collection too I believe...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/4671519459/
At a guess, he has downloaded thousands of flickr images
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Emilie Laffray emilie.laff...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
This year, the State of the Map in Girona will make use of posters (A1
vertical http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A1_paper_size ) for State of
Countries. Since last year, it has been a very interesting year for
Interesting problem. Seems related to the general how to map a street
as an area without sacrificing the properties of streets problem. Use
an area, and a relation, with the relation specifying which way(s) are
the top and bottom?
Steve
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 7:16 AM, Richard Weait
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 7:29 AM, Milo van der Linden m...@dogodigi.net wrote:
I always use the ITO OpenStreetMap environment for specific bbox and
time/date edit queries:
http://www.itoworld.com/static/openstreetmap.html
Wow, that's really cool - didn't know that existed. Perhaps we should
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 10:47 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote:
If you can run a script over data it could also be pre-processed in a
similar manner without needing explicit tags on the objects.
I had thought that the consensus was that layer tags *are* assumed, at
least in cases
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Ross Scanlon i...@4x4falcon.com wrote:
Each bridge that currently does not have a layer tag would have layer=1 added.
That will be incorrect if a bridge crosses a body of water (or other
object) that has a layer tag other than zero. Which means some
renderers may
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Ross Scanlon i...@4x4falcon.com wrote:
Anyone see any issues with running this completely and on a regular basis eg
weekly cron job.
Also, one problem with doing that is it muddies the issue: if a bot is
automatically adding layer tags, does that mean that
http://www.itoworld.com/product/osm/map?colour=tablestyle=_default_osm_tagsarea=4687:0sort=total-show=key_values:8
I only just discovered ItoWorld, heh.
Steve
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Cool, I think it makes sense to tag this kind of thing with
australian-specific tags, as you have done.
OTOH, I wonder about the sustainability of adding more tags that could
be applied to every single street in australia. Would it make more
sense to tag them as some kind of barrier (no road
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Ross Scanlon i...@4x4falcon.com wrote:
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John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote:
On 26 May 2010 10:23, Alex Lum sierra.os...@gmail.com wrote:
tag k='attributation' v='Australian Communications and Media
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