[OSM-talk] Map of the world as we know it

Anyone wanting a little light relief after the recent flames might like (particularly if you are an REM fan) to head over to: http://apb.directionsmag.com/archives/5084-Music-Video-Map-of-the-World- as-We-Know-it.html#extended Cheers STEVE Steve Chilton, Learning Support Fellow Manager of e

Re: [OSM-talk] Where have all the contributors gone?

Several suggestions have already been made in response to Andy's comment. Last night I jotted down just a few, before reading all my inbox, so may duplicate. I have listed some "northern winter" thinks you can be doing - IN and OUT of the warm If you think your local area is pretty well covered

[OSM-talk] Google/OSM comparison - visualised

I have taken Bernard's original visual comparison (location data) and Alex's scoring (numerical comparison) and produced a map to visualise the results of the comparison. The result can be seen at: http://maker.geocommons.com/maps/1784 I have tried to remove any capitals that were mis-placed or i

Re: [OSM-talk] Google/OSM comparison - visualised

2/6/2008 2:38 PM To: Steve Chilton Cc: Edward Johnson; talk@openstreetmap.org; Alex Mauer Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Google/OSM comparison - visualised 2008/12/6 Steve Chilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I have taken Bernard&#

Re: [OSM-talk] GPS banned in Egypt

And now post-Mumbai paranoia: http://geocartablog.com/?p=900 Steve Chilton, Learning Support Fellow Manager of e-Learning Academic Development Centre for Educational Technology Middlesex University phone/fax: 020 8411 5355 email: ste...@mdx.ac.uk http://www.mdx.ac.uk/schools/hssc/staff/profiles

Re: [OSM-talk] Is anyone making public transport routing maps based onOpenStreetMap data?

Andrew Turner blogged on "The State of Transit Routing" the other day. See: http://radar.oreilly.com/2008/12/the-state-of-transit-routing.html Cheers STEVE -Original Message- From: talk-boun...@openstreetmap.org on behalf of Peter Miller Sent: Wed 12/17/2008 2:2

[OSM-talk] OSM in top 100 websites

Yay. OSM appears in the "100 top sites for the year ahead" list in UK's Guardian newspaper today: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/dec/18/internet-websites Cheers STEVE Steve Chilton, Learning Support Fellow Manager of e-Learning Academic Development Centre for Educati

Re: [OSM-talk] buildings and roads

Equally roads don't usually run over buildings - which could be case if reversed. Basically auto-rendering of these two can not be correct for all cases/zooms. Needs intelligence to say "nudge that building away from the road in this instance" - later? Cheers STEVE

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

Can you give an example please? The change I instigated in mapnik was to pick up the place=country tag combination from the database and map that. Cheers STEVE -Original Message- From: talk-boun...@openstreetmap.org on behalf of andrzej zaborowski Sent: Mon 1

[OSM-talk] OSM in use

Nice example of use of OSM tiles as default, in preference to Google, on a property website - noted on Google blog googlemapsmania.blogspot.com: http://www.where-can-i-live.com/londonproperty Cheers STEVE Steve Chilton, Learning Support Fellow Manager of e-Learning Academic Development Centre

Re: [OSM-talk] Up-to-Date, Minutely Mapnik Bookmarklet

files. Thanks for the work STEVE Steve Chilton, Learning Support Fellow Manager of e-Learning Academic Development Centre for Educational Technology Middlesex University phone/fax: 020 8411 5355 email: ste...@mdx.ac.uk http://www.mdx.ac.uk/schools/hssc/staff/profiles/technical/chiltons.asp Chair o

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM in use

/2009 6:53 PM To: Steve Chilton Cc: openstreetmap Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] OSM in use I wonder where they got their tube map from, interesting spur off of Morden... 2009/1/22 Steve Chilton : > Nice example of use of

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM on The Reg

I am just waiting for David Earl or someone else to comment on the "firstness" statement! Cheers STEVE Steve Chilton, Learning Support Fellow Manager of e-Learning Academic Development Centre for Educational Technology Middlesex University phone/fax: 020 8411 5355 email: ste...

Re: [OSM-talk] odd rendering + county boundaries

was not designed for, but is an artefact of the same process. Cheers STEVE(8) -Original Message- From: Jon Burgess [mailto:jburgess...@googlemail.com] Sent: Mon 3/2/2009 7:00 PM To: ke...@kevinpeat.com Cc: Thomas Wood; OSM Talk; Steve Chilton

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=tertiary[_link?] (was: Re: highway=secondary_link)

One particular use of the foo_link info is that all down to secondary have a seperate position in the mapnik rendering order (painter model) - BEFORE all non_link instances. This means that the ugly "junctions" between say a motorway_link and a less importantly ranked road are now avoided, and t

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

s superb data source by both traditional and neo-cartographers. Cheers STEVE Steve Chilton, Learning Support Fellow Manager of e-Learning Academic Development Centre for Educational Technology Middlesex University phone/fax: 020 8411 5355 email: ste...@mdx.ac.uk http://www.mdx.ac.uk/schools/hssc

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik: strange prioritisation/appearance of place names

Just to add to Andy's comment, the logic heirarchy for the mapnik slippy map goes like this: place=country comes in at z2 place=city AND capital=yes comes in at z4 place=city (not capital) comes in at z6 place=town comes in at z9 place=suburb comes in at z12 place=village comes in at z12 place=ham

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging dangerous areas

Indeed no harm done. But both Andy and I (independently) decided not to even go into the road, as others had apparently decided earlier! Discretion being definately the better part of valour in this case. Incident noted at: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Steve%20Chilton/diary/3669 Cheers STE

[OSM-talk] Filtering by name

When I was messing about with a tube map - over a year ago now: http://www.stevechilton.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/osm/tube/index.html I filtered for each line to give it the correct colour by selecting on its name. Now I have come to update the map it doesn't work. Can anyone tell me what might have cha

Re: [OSM-talk] German Shapefile, federal states?

If you are on a Mac - there is a piece of free software called GISLook that allows you to preview the content of vector and raster GIS files. http://jenny.cartography.ch/gislook/ Cheers STEVE -Original Message- From: talk-boun...@o

[OSM-talk] Society of Cartographers

If your appetite for cartography has been whetted by your involvement with OSM you might like to find out what else is happening in the mapping world. Three possible things you could do: 1 - have a read of the latest Society of Cartographers Newsletter. It contains contributions from two promin

Re: [OSM-talk] Fw: [ppgis] Invitation for expressions of interest for Ordnance Survey Think Tank Session on "Crowd source data capture, geospatial mashups and its impact on NMAs" - 13th July 2009 (Tue

Steve I wouldn't bank on it! The invites are on basis of submitted "position papers". I am in process of trying to put one together on crowd sourcing. I know of at least on other OSMer who has an interest who may submit something. Cherers STEVE -Original Message- From: talk-boun...@opens

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch 1.0

Richard, Sustrans online continues to disappoint this user. Potlatch continues to satisfy requirements of this user. Thanks for all time you have put in to develop these new features. Cheers STEVE -Original Message- From: talk-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-boun...@openstreetma

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-GB] Isle of Wight 2

Steve I would be very interested. Would you consider pitching at somewhere "less mapped". Parts of Devon/Cornwall spring to mind. Cheers STEVEs -Original Message- From: talk-gb-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-gb-boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of SteveC Sent: 30 May 2009 15:5

[OSM-talk] Wanted

suggestions or contacts welcomed, thanks. Cheers Steve Chilton (@steev8) ste...@mdx.ac.uk

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[OSM-talk] What's new in cartography

Andy Allan, Harry Wood, Ollie O'Brien and Steve Chilton. Details and booking at: http://www.soc2012.soc.org.uk/ Cheers Steve Steve Chilton FSEDA, Learning Support Fellow Educational Development Manager Centre for Learning and Teaching Enhancement Middlesex University phone: 020 8411

[OSM-talk] Neocartography

have sessions of interest (eg Tilemill workshop). Cheers Steve Steve Chilton FSEDA, Learning Support Fellow Educational Development Manager Centre for Learning and Teaching Enhancement Middlesex University phone: 020 8411 5355 email: ste...@mdx.ac.uk Profile: http://www.middlesex.wikispaces.net

[OSM-talk] Slides and vids from ICA and SoC confs

the presentations at SoC conf and two of the workshops, by Andy Alan and Harry Wood Cheers Steve Steve Chilton FSEDA, Learning Support Fellow Educational Development Manager Centre for Learning and Teaching Enhancement Middlesex University phone: 020 8411 5355 email: ste..

[OSM-talk] Join us at the Mapping Showcase

Would any keen OSMers like to join us at the Mapping Showcase? The Society of Cartographers have taken a stand at the event. It is at Lords cricket ground in London on Dec 6th. The event is very similar to that at the Emirates last year were we also shared a stand. http://www.londonmappingfestival

Re: [OSM-talk] House Numbers

Number seems in right sort of range for me. You could get some guinea pigs to do sanity checks by checking numbers before and after an extensive house number mapping effort by themselves Cheers Steve From: Frederik Ramm [frede...@remote.org] Sent: Sunday,

[OSM-talk] Irish placenames anomaly

The distribution of Irish placenames from OSM presents a couple of geographical anomalies. (See http://steve8.dev.openstreetmap.org/OSM_Placenames_Ireland.jpg). First, the west-east central belt has suspiciously far fewer names than immediately to the north and south. And secondly, bang in the

[OSM-talk] good intro slidesets about OSM

editor). Do you know of any such freely available slides that I could use for lecturing one or two hours?" Any links or offers gratefully received. Can obviously point to these as well: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Beginners%27_guide http://learnosm.org/en/ Cheers Steve Steve Chi

[OSM-talk] Mapping in Ghana

im http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/oooc but suspect many of the Ghana entries are armchair mappers. Cheers Steve Steve Chilton FSEDA, Learning Support Fellow Educational Development Manager Educational Development Unit Middlesex University phone: 020 8411 5355 email: ste..

[OSM-talk] Celebrating Cartography

The Society of Cartographers is hosting a public lecture (and debate) entitled 'Celebrating cartography'. It is on Friday 25 July at UCL in central London. The speaker is Ed Parsons, of Google and good friend of the Openstreetmap project. There was a profile of Ed in yesterday's Independent: http

[OSM-talk] Data filter

y received. Cheers Steve Steve Chilton FSEDA, Teaching Fellow Lead Academic Developer Centre for Academic Practice Enhancement (CAPE) Middlesex University phone: 020 8411 5355 email: ste...@mdx.ac.uk<mailto:ste...@mdx.ac.uk> Profile: http://www.middlesex.wikispaces.net/user/view/st

[OSM-talk] Drones piece in Guardian

. Cheers Steve Steve Chilton FSEDA, Teaching Fellow Lead Academic Developer Centre for Academic Practice Enhancement (CAPE) Middlesex University phone: 020 8411 5355 email: ste...@mdx.ac.uk<mailto:ste...@mdx.ac.uk> Profile: http://www.middlesex.wikispaces.net/user/view/steve8 Blog

[OSM-talk] Landcover for Brazil

Does anyone know of landcover data that is available for Brazil (like Corine for Europe), Bela Horizonte in particular? Cheers Steve Steve Chilton FSEDA, Teaching Fellow Lead Academic Developer Centre for Academic Practice Enhancement (CAPE) Middlesex University [normal working days Mon-Wed

[OSM-talk] OSM registrations by County

Has anyone a way of finding how many people in county of Kent (UK) are registered with OSM, please? A friend is writing piece for a local magazine to encourage take up in the county and wanted to be able to quote the number of existing mappers (yeh I know they don't all map who register). Che

[OSM-talk] Way out west

Could someone who knows the area have a look at this problem in Mass, USA (Just N of Worcester). http://tools.geofabrik.de/mc/?mt0=mapnik&mt1=googlehybrid&lon=-71.90686&lat=42.34427&zoom=14 The wet and dry bits seem to be "inverted". Kendall and Pine Hill reservoirs are dry (white), whilst the wat

Re: [OSM-talk] Thoughts on OSM design, and looking forward and back

I have been very busy (and very put off) recently, so have not read EVERY posting on this topic but I would like to respond on the specific issue of an entry level editor. I can understand where people are coming from (Steve C included), can understand where they might be going, but really don't

Re: [OSM-talk] People in charge of the tiles used in haiti.openstreetmap.nl

Julio Not 100% certain, but think it is Lennard - l...@xs4all.nl Email him - he will know who if it is not him. Cheers STEVE From: talk-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Julio Costa Zambelli Sent: 03 March 2010 14:42 To: h...@openstreetm

Re: [OSM-talk] Fw: Software goes on, brain goes off...

talking of annoying . has this thread not been to death?! -Original Message- From: talk-boun...@openstreetmap.org on behalf of John Smith Sent: Wed 02/06/2010 15:16 To: Anthony Cc: talk@openstreetmap.org; Nick Whitelegg Subject: Re:

[OSM-talk] Society of Cartographers conference

, with several speakers and topics of direct relevance. Check it out - day passes are available. Cheers STEVE Steve Chilton, Learning Support Fellow Manager of e-Learning Academic Development Centre for Educational Technology Middlesex University phone/fax: 020 8411 5355 email: ste...@mdx.ac.uk

[OSM-talk] Bursaries available to Society of Cartographers conference

If you are a student or non-UK OSMer you might be interested in chance to gain a bursary to attend the Society of Cartographers conference next month (in the UK). Join the society (v small joining fee - get conf fees part paid). See message below:

[OSM-talk] Garmin etrex Vista HCx issue

My new week old Garmin etrex Vista HCx is causing me grief. The power on/off button has decided to not function at all. Am thinking I will have to go to Garmin to resolve it (it was purchased from Amazon). Anyone had this issue with theirs? Anyone with good (or bad) experiences of going to Garmin

Re: [OSM-talk] Garmin etrex Vista HCx issue

...@openstreetmap.org [talk-boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Dave F. [dave...@madasafish.com] Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 10:03 PM Cc: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Garmin etrex Vista HCx issue On 22/08/2010 21:42, Steve Chilton wrote: > My new week old Garmin etrex Vi

[OSM-talk] OSM book in English published

"OpenStreetMap: Using, and Contributing to, the Free World Map" (Paperback, in English) by Ramm/Topf/Chilton will be available in 5 days. Pre-order at discount http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/book/9781906860110/ OpenGeoData post about it: http://opengeodata.org/osm-book-available-in-english Als

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM book in English published

-Original Message- From: Ed Loach [mailto:e...@loach.me.uk] Sent: 15 September 2010 21:55 To: Steve Chilton; talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: RE: [OSM-talk] OSM book in English published Steve wrote: > "OpenStreetMap: Using, and Contributing to, the Free World Map" > (Paperback

[OSM-talk] OSM book

"OpenStreetMap: Using and Enhancing the Free Map of the World" by Ramm, Topf and Chilton is now widely available and selling well. Purchase from: http://www.amazon.co.uk/OpenStreetMap/dp/1906860114/ - where it is currently #32 in Books > Reference > Consumer Guides > Computer & Internet http:/

[OSM-talk] Blog: thoughts on OSM

Thoughts on OSM in interview with Ed Freyfogle on Nestoria blog Cheers STEVE ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] How do I go about doing this?

You will also score good brownie points if you include a URL (or two) pointing to an instance of the particular feature you are referring too. Cheers STEVE -Original Message- From: talk-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Richard Weait Sent: 08

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

Thanks for that. I will try to live up to your image! The other SteveC From: talk-boun...@openstreetmap.org [talk-boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Kenneth Gonsalves [law...@au-kbc.org] Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 7:21 AM To: Frederik Ramm Cc:

Re: [OSM-talk] Beginners guide to mapping technique?

Not quite sure what you are looking for, but there is a downloadable chapter from the OpenStrretMap book called "Mapping practice" at: http://www.openstreetmap.info/content/index.html There is also much useful data on the wiki, starting at: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Beginners%27_guide If

[OSM-talk] Use of Bing imagery visualised

Have done a quick render to show the effect of using Bing imagery to get building outlines. The two illustrations are for the Borough of Enfield (using today's geofabrik data file). The larger shapes are predominantly those done earlier from OS OpenData. The smaller shapes are a bunch of building

[OSM-talk] Use of Bing imagery visualised - update

Updated and colour differentiated: http://www.stevechilton.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/osm/buildingsBing.png Cheers STEVE -Original Message- From: talk-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Steve Chilton Sent: 23 December 2010 00:23 To: talk

[OSM-talk] FW: Workshop on Public Transport Geoinformation - Call for papers

Interested in mapping and transport? See details below of a conference this July - 'User Issues in Geospatial Public Transport Information' www.univie.ac.at/icacomuse Cheers STEVE -Original Message- From: David Forrest [mailto:david.forr...@glasgow.ac.uk] Sent: 20 December 2010 12:35 T

Re: [OSM-talk] Rendering of construction sites by Mapnik

green/brownfield/construction lightened slightly allotments lightened and hatched at higher zooms Will display on next stylesheet deploy Cheers STEVE From: talk-boun...@openstreetmap.org [talk-boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Floris Looijesteijn [

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=unsurfaced

Serious about changing highway=unsurfaced? In response to Richard's suggestion I have rendered where they occur in England: http://steve8.dev.openstreetmap.org/unsurfacedENG.png I am currently rendering a tile set (down to about z10) to help identify exact locations. These will be uploaded to a se

[OSM-talk] How deep into mapping are you?

I am on a bit of mission to get traditional cartographers and associations to encompass all the fantastic new mapping that is being produced by so-called neocartographers, which includes many folk working in the osm project and/or with the osm and other open data. To this end I am submitting a

Re: [OSM-talk] It's fun while it lasts

"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea." From: Jean-Marc Liotier [j...@liotier.org] Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 10:33 AM To: Chris Browet Cc: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] It'

[OSM-talk] early OSM webmap request

For my SOTMEU presentation I need an image of the OSM webmap prior to mapnik, the old landsat +white lines version. I have looked on 'history' and 'featured images' on wiki but no luck. There are a couple of examples in blackadder and coast lecture presentations in SVN but not really clear enoug

Re: [OSM-talk] early OSM webmap request

available (and no i am not the right person for that task!). Cheers STEVE From: Floris Looijesteijn [o...@floris.nu] Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2011 8:14 PM To: Steve Chilton Cc: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] early OSM webmap request There&#

Re: [OSM-talk] Heute Abend OSM Stammtisch Wien

Can recommend the venue if you are around!! Steve Chilton, Learning Support Fellow Educational Development Manager Centre for Learning and Teaching Enhancement Middlesex University phone: 020 8411 5355 email: ste...@mdx.ac.uk Profile: http://www.middlesex.wikispaces.net/user/view/steve8 Chair of

Re: [OSM-talk] Map key on osm.org

I produced the images (ages ago). If there are anomalies in the colours or symbols please let me know as I can change them. They are deliberately a subset of all the possible entities that could be included. Cheers Steve Steve Chilton, Learning Support Fellow Educational Development Manager

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