Re: [Talk-us] 25or6to4 NHD imports

2012-04-25 Thread Toby Murray
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: On 4/25/2012 7:25 PM, Paul Norman wrote: The users 25or6to4 and 25or6to4_upload have been importing NHD data in Louisiana without the required consultation and with a few other problems with the import guidelines.

Re: [OSM-talk] New editors

2012-04-22 Thread Toby Murray
Relevant to this thread: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/11379535 First edit by a user deleted a good chunk of the Brazilian territorial waters boundary. I have sent a message to the user and will likely revert this changeset. Toby ___

Re: [OSM-talk] New editors

2012-04-21 Thread Toby Murray
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Philip Barnes p...@trigpoint.me.uk wrote: On Sat, 2012-04-21 at 17:28 +, Jaakko Helleranta.com wrote: It would be _super_ good if we had some tool that would flag and notify some advanced active mapper in a given area of any changesets that delete more

Re: [OSM-talk] New editors

2012-04-19 Thread Toby Murray
This seems to be a recurring thing. I have personally caught, contacted and reverted 3 people who just wanted a simplified map of an area. I just happened to spot their edits in LiveEditMapViewer. I haven't really been paying as much attention to it lately so I'm sure a number of such edits have

Re: [Talk-us] Excellent progress, u.s.

2012-04-17 Thread Toby Murray
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 2:22 AM, Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net wrote: At 2012-04-16 20:41, Toby Murray wrote: On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: On 4/16/2012 9:18 PM, Alan Mintz wrote: At 2012-04-16 14:06, Nathan Edgars II wrote: Or you

Re: [Talk-us] Excellent progress, u.s.

2012-04-16 Thread Toby Murray
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: On 4/16/2012 9:18 PM, Alan Mintz wrote: At 2012-04-16 14:06, Nathan Edgars II wrote: Or you can simply add odbl=clean if there's nothing ungood about the object (e.g. it was split from a TIGER way and the splitting

Re: [Talk-us] Excellent progress, u.s.

2012-04-15 Thread Toby Murray
On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 7:26 PM, John F. Eldredge j...@jfeldredge.com wrote: andrzej zaborowski balr...@gmail.com wrote: On 14 April 2012 03:30, John F. Eldredge j...@jfeldredge.com wrote: One drawback to this new-coordinate technique is that, in some cases, the tainted nodes will have been

[OSM-talk] Islands that will vanish in the license change

2012-04-13 Thread Toby Murray
Thanks to Paul Norman's efforts and visualizations based on it[1], there has been a lot of activity in remapping coastlines lately and a lot of improvement. However one loophole that Paul's method does not detect is islands that will have their coastlines vanish completely. I decided to take a

Re: [Talk-us] Excellent progress, u.s.

2012-04-13 Thread Toby Murray
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 10:27 AM, stevea stevea...@softworkers.com wrote: I don't know who's doing that work in Columbia on the Interstates, but they are doing it wrong unfortunately.  While the ways aren't tainted anymore, all of the nodes are still.  Meaning that once the bot gets unleashed,

Re: [Talk-us] Excellent progress, u.s.

2012-04-13 Thread Toby Murray
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us wrote: I've been working in Seattle.  An undecided (and probably long gone) mapper touched a large segment of the area.  Looking at CLEANMAP, Seattle looks much better after hours of work by many people.  However if every

Re: [Talk-us] Excellent progress, u.s.

2012-04-12 Thread Toby Murray
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 7:36 PM, stevea stevea...@softworkers.com wrote: Hey, us, vaguely northamerican OSMers:  nice work so far! I see excellent progress in California during the recent eight days of re-mapping.  If you are an editing maniac (like me in the last few days) you have

Re: [Talk-us] NHD import

2012-04-09 Thread Toby Murray
On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 1:25 AM, Gregory Arenius greg...@arenius.com wrote: Yes, I see a lot of water features that are just not corroborated by the aerial imagery, which could mean one of at least three things: 1) The aerial imagery is out of date 2) The NHD data is out of date 3) The NHD

[OSM-talk] It has begun

2012-04-01 Thread Toby Murray
OSM is in read-only mode as of 8:02 UTC. Looking at the minutely replication files, this was the last changeset to upload: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/11173886 Let's all wish the hard working admins good luck. Toby ___ talk mailing

Re: [OSM-talk] It has begun

2012-04-01 Thread Toby Murray
On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: Hey, Toby, thank you for your hands-on approach to contacting lost mappers.    Do you know haw many you reached and how many responded? I attempted contact with 168 users. 105 of them accepted the new terms. I got two

Re: [OSM-talk] No Data overlay on OpenStreetmap.org

2012-04-01 Thread Toby Murray
It moved to the Edit tab. Hover over the edit tab with your mouse (don't click) and a menu will pop up with the data layer option. IMO it should be moved back to the layer selection. Hovering over the edit tab is about as unintuitive as it gets. Toby On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Carsten

Re: [Talk-us] Update on remapping

2012-04-01 Thread Toby Murray
On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 3:42 AM, James Mast rickmastfa...@hotmail.com wrote: So, who else here was at least somewhat successful in their objective in data cleanup (I still think this whole thing was kinda stupid, as I'd rather been fixing/adding new stuff instead of redoing stuff that others

Re: [OSM-talk] Coastline Update

2012-03-30 Thread Toby Murray
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 10:26 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: The data is from 7 AM PST and the ODbL status is slightly more recent. Assuming you used the data I supplied this morning, it is actually from 12:30 AM CST last night when I started the jxapi query before going to bed. Also,

Re: [Talk-us] City boundaries on the Canada/US border

2012-03-30 Thread Toby Murray
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 7:18 AM, Alexander Roalter alexan...@roalter.it wrote: Am 30.03.2012 11:17, schrieb Paul Norman: There are a significant number of cities in BC and Washington which have borders that in practice[1] coincide with the Canada/US border. Currently in OSM these are

[Talk-us] Update on remapping

2012-03-28 Thread Toby Murray
If you haven't seen it yet, good news! OSMF has indeed pushed the database rebuild back a couple of days to begin on April 1st, instead of the slightly insane (IMO) attempt to finish by April 1st. http://blog.osmfoundation.org/2012/03/27/service-schedule-march-april-2012/ After the last thread I

Re: [Talk-us] Update on remapping

2012-03-28 Thread Toby Murray
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 5:15 AM, Mike N nice...@att.net wrote: On 3/28/2012 2:55 AM, Toby Murray wrote:  I've seen a little work being done on interstates but so far it's been a drop in the bucket. My logic is that data consumers will shut off their feed, so we won't have instant chaos

Re: [Talk-us] Remapping - help needed

2012-03-27 Thread Toby Murray
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 10:04 PM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us wrote: I am working on remapping parts of Seattle.  Road data is available, but there are a number of parks that will be lost with the license change. I'm not sure where to get the data for the park boundaries.  I have

Re: [Talk-us] Remapping coastlines

2012-03-25 Thread Toby Murray
So I got some NHD shapefiles from Phil. Unfortunately coastlines are hard. The nodes tend to get incorporated into all kinds of other things like beaches, piers, etc so I can't just do an xapi query and replace things wholesale like I did with the state boundaries. So far I have only done a few

Re: [Talk-us] Proposed import: GeoBase Coastlines into Northwest Washington state

2012-03-25 Thread Toby Murray
On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 7:50 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: I propose replacing the PGS coastlines (largely imported by blars) in Northwest Washington state with GeoBase coastlines. GeoBase data covers part of NW Washington state (e.g. Canadian NHD area 08HAD00 covers the Washington

[Talk-us] Remapping coastlines

2012-03-24 Thread Toby Murray
Paul Norman has been looking at coastlines as it relates to the license change. Turns out we have a big problem along the west coast. Does anyone know what the best usable source for coastline data in the US is? Surely there is something better than PGS? I poked around looking at some NHD data but

Re: [Talk-us] Problem user

2012-03-24 Thread Toby Murray
On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Mike N nice...@att.net wrote: On 3/24/2012 9:06 AM, Alexander Jones wrote: What do we do about user balrog-kun? He apparently declined the new terms, but he is using an alternate account that has accepted the new terms. He is a prolific editor in the areas I

Re: [Talk-us] Remapping coastlines

2012-03-24 Thread Toby Murray
On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 6:42 AM, Mike N nice...@att.net wrote: On 3/24/2012 4:22 AM, Toby Murray wrote:  I poked around looking at some NHD data but didn't see an explicit coastline data set. I believe feature code 44500 (Sea/Ocean) is what OSM would call Coastlines - and normally

Re: [Talk-us] South Carolina North Carolina border shifting to the South

2012-03-23 Thread Toby Murray
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 8:35 PM, James Mast rickmastfa...@hotmail.com wrote: I just saw this mentioned on MSNBC and thought I would let everybody know about this since we would have to adjust the border in the future when it becomes official.  It seems that North Carolina will gain 150 feet of

Re: [Talk-us] We have less than a week left to remap!

2012-03-22 Thread Toby Murray
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 1:00 AM, James Mast rickmastfa...@hotmail.com wrote: The 27th? Damn.  I thought it was going to go read-only on the 1st...  At least that's what I've been telling people who I've been contacting to see if they will accept the new CT (which is still being somewhat

Re: [OSM-talk] Way with only one single node

2012-03-21 Thread Toby Murray
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 4:12 PM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: Stephan Knauss wrote: Some editors create these ways. The most prominent one is Potlatch. The Ticket is open since two years. xybot trys to correct some of the problems until a bugfix is made in potlatch. xybot

[Talk-us] We have less than a week left to remap!

2012-03-21 Thread Toby Murray
I don't think this has been reposted to talk-us yet. According to the latest license change rebuild plan, the database will enter read-only mode on March 27th for the license rebuild: http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/Rebuild_Plan So that gives us a matter of days to do any more

Re: [OSM-talk] Nice problem to have

2012-03-16 Thread Toby Murray
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 2:57 AM, Peter Wendorff wendo...@uni-paderborn.de wrote: Am 16.03.2012 08:31, schrieb Kai Krueger: Kai Krueger wrote This imho shows that the publicity of Apple and Foursquare using OSM directly resulted in new mappers for OSM. Although it isn't the complete record,

Re: [OSM-talk] Nice problem to have

2012-03-16 Thread Toby Murray
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Tom MacWright t...@macwright.org wrote: Making 60 changesets, spending a lot of time editing OpenStreetMap, and going from being a public critic of the maps (versus Google Maps, of course) to a public advocate is a big deal, even if it's just one person. A 52%

[Talk-us] Remapping from TIGER 2011

2012-03-11 Thread Toby Murray
Yesterday I did a serious bit of remapping from TIGER 2011 data in the LA area. I wanted to see what the process would be like and how much I could get done in a reasonable amount of time. I just wrote up a quick blog post about it and would welcome any comments on the subject.

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM software

2012-03-09 Thread Toby Murray
A slightly better link might be: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Rails_port This is what drives the core of OSM. Don't know that you have to be overly good at rails development to set it up but it is certainly not the simplest thing in the world. Toby On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 11:31 AM,

Re: [OSM-talk] Inaccurate GPS location

2012-03-09 Thread Toby Murray
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 7:38 PM, John F. Eldredge j...@jfeldredge.com wrote: After reading a news article about the effect the current solar storm is expected to have on GPS accuracy, I decided to see where my cell phone's GPS thought I currently was.  Usually it is fairly accurate, but

Re: [OSM-talk] FourSquare and OSM

2012-03-07 Thread Toby Murray
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 10:23 PM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: If this actually happens, it will be by far the stupidest thing OSM has ever done. But maybe I'm misunderstanding the meaning of that phrase about

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

2012-03-07 Thread Toby Murray
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 7:06 PM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote: Looks like they're using a old (pre-2011) planet dump for the data. Yep, we've now pinned it down to 1st-7th April 2010. Here in the US I'm pretty sure they are using NHD data for water

Re: [Talk-us] Contacting non-responders with less than a month to go

2012-03-07 Thread Toby Murray
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Phil! Gold phi...@pobox.com wrote: * Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com [2012-03-06 23:09 -0600]: kyrbyboy with edits New Jersey I tried to find kyrbyboy elsewhere online and found likely accounts on tripadvisor.com and city-data.com.  Neither yielded a reply

[Talk-us] Contacting non-responders with less than a month to go

2012-03-06 Thread Toby Murray
Well, this has been brought up before but with less than a month left to go before the license change I thought it was worth talking about again. Since December I have been steadily contacting mappers. I started out covering Kansas and have had great success here. Since mid February, myself and

Re: [OSM-talk] FourSquare and OSM

2012-03-05 Thread Toby Murray
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 5:22 AM, Thomas Davie tom.da...@gmail.com wrote: In their blog they made some cryptic comments about helping OSM with data... No idea what they actually meant though, could just be helping direct users to OSM, could be employing people to map stuff... who knows. They

Re: [OSM-talk] FourSquare and OSM

2012-03-02 Thread Toby Murray
Frousquare is not using any OSM API. They are just using map tiles provided by MapBox with the leaflet library to display it in the browser. Toby On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Frans Thamura fr...@meruvian.org wrote: hi all we have great news that foursquare using OSM now anyone working

Re: [Talk-us] Adding Tiger 2011 Data

2012-02-29 Thread Toby Murray
I pulled up this area in JOSM: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=32.31342lon=-111.02699zoom=15layers=M Something definitely went wrong here that you need to figure out and fix. 1) A lot of the ways are not connected to each other. This means they are not usable for routing. In JOSM junction

Re: [OSM-talk] Windows OpenStreetMap Server

2012-02-21 Thread Toby Murray
Step 1: Install Virtualbox Step 2: Install Ubuntu inside of Virtualbox Step 3: Follow linux documentation to install your server I know there are some people running OSM related servers out there but they are rare and documentation will be sparse and out of date. Also, you haven't said what kind

Re: [Talk-us] Rendering not happening at lower zooms

2012-02-20 Thread Toby Murray
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 6:31 AM, Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net wrote: At 2012-02-20 01:40, Nathan Edgars II wrote: On 2/20/2012 4:11 AM, Alan Mintz wrote: I've been doing some work here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=35.7216lon=-117.3273zoom=12layers=M , which is being

Re: [Talk-us] Tracking Deleted Streets and Comparison Tools

2012-02-18 Thread Toby Murray
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 6:03 PM, Humphries, Grant humph...@trimet.org wrote: Hello, I am attempting to track deleted streets and other changes that have significant effects on routing between versions of OSM data that are approximately one and two months apart.  My region of interest for this

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER 2011 Road Tiles

2012-02-17 Thread Toby Murray
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 7:14 AM, Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net wrote: Better quality will result if we verify from additional sources, like those available from many counties. The best quality will result if we grab a GPS unit and a camera and GO there ourselves. Just sayin' :)

Re: [Talk-us] Analysis of US road network and TIGER status

2012-02-16 Thread Toby Murray
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: Hi, I did an state-by-state and county-by-county analysis of the road network in the US. I focused particularly on TIGER and user-related metrics. Results (with maps of course) are here:

Re: [OSM-talk] Contact And Remap Campaign

2012-02-07 Thread Toby Murray
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Philip Barnes p...@trigpoint.me.uk wrote: I have been considering a few well worded posts to other mailing lists such as Linux User Groups and Ramblers Lists where I know there are other OSM contributors, and could well be a few lapsed ones who have changed ISP

Re: [OSM-talk] Are OSM tags case sensitive?

2012-02-07 Thread Toby Murray
Yeah, technically, tags are case sensitive. You can have multiple tags on an object: foo=bar, Foo=bar, FOO=bar all on one object will be accepted by the API. But as Ed pointed out, by convention, most things are lower case. Toby On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Ed Loach e...@loach.me.uk wrote:

Re: [Talk-us] Contacting high-impact undecided users in the US

2012-02-07 Thread Toby Murray
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Kristian M Zoerhoff zoerh...@sdf.org wrote: Is it worth trying to get moonwashed to change his/her mind about declining? I sent moonwashed a message through OSM asking if he/she would be willing to specifically relicense their armchair mapping along interstates.

Re: [OSM-talk] Contact And Remap Campaign

2012-02-06 Thread Toby Murray
I just want to re-stress the contact part of this thread since most people are talking about the remapping part. I have managed to get Kansas pretty much completely cleaned already. I did some remapping along interstates due to an explicit decliner (moonwashed) but otherwise I haven't had to do

Re: [OSM-talk] Contact And Remap Campaign

2012-02-06 Thread Toby Murray
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 10:34 PM, Mike N nice...@att.net wrote: On 2/6/2012 11:02 PM, Toby Murray wrote: Just yesterday I managed to track down a phone number for the biggest remaining non-decider in Kansas. I gave him a call, had a pleasant conversation and then he logged in and agreed a few

Re: [OSM-talk] [HOT] [CrisisMappers] odbl non-agreement and humanitarian exceptions.

2012-02-02 Thread Toby Murray
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Jaakko Helleranta.com jaa...@helleranta.com wrote: (Added talk-ht@osm as that might well reach some ppl involved that the other lists don't.) Having bn part of the below-mentioned #OSM IRC discussion (finally using irc after 15 years of avoiding, ayii!) Here's

Re: [OSM-talk] Night of the living maps 07.02.2012 - Avoid API congestion

2012-02-02 Thread Toby Murray
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Roland Olbricht roland.olbri...@gmx.de wrote: And here are some problems: Thank you, Toby, for reporting these issues. I've just released a new version which solves the problems: Excellent! I actually still can't close the URL dialog on this computer but I

Re: [Talk-us] Anyone want to team up to work on Austin, Texas (was LA and other license changeover challenged areas)

2012-02-02 Thread Toby Murray
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 3:34 PM, andrzej zaborowski balr...@gmail.com wrote: On 2 February 2012 19:28, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 11:02 AM, andrzej zaborowski balr...@gmail.com wrote: On 31 January 2012 18:51, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: Looks

Re: [OSM-talk] Night of the living maps 07.02.2012 - Avoid API congestion

2012-02-01 Thread Toby Murray
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Roland Olbricht roland.olbri...@gmx.de wrote: Dear JOSM users, Mapping events have in the past often triggered an API block from the admins due to too much download traffic. See e.g. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/API_usage_policy To avoid that, I've just

Re: [Talk-us] Anyone want to team up to work on Austin, Texas (was LA and other license changeover challenged areas)

2012-01-31 Thread Toby Murray
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Thea Aldrich theaglit...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Ya'll, Does anyone want to work together to fix up Austin, Texas? I know the city like the back of my hand (I grew up there, went to UT, etc) but there is too much work for one person... Thea Well I'm making my

Re: [Talk-us] Anyone want to team up to work on Austin, Texas (was LA and other license changeover challenged areas)

2012-01-31 Thread Toby Murray
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 12:20 AM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote: Well I'm making my way down I-35 from Dallas to Waco right now, processing data I collected over Christmas and license cleaning at the same time

Re: [OSM-talk] Critical Mass for license change-over

2012-01-28 Thread Toby Murray
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 7:33 AM, Michael Collinson m...@ayeltd.biz wrote: I therefore we suggest that we now explicitly adopt the WTFE algorithm as criteria for any final rebuild, provided that incremental improvement can continue and also that folks can challenge any precepts on legal-talk.  

Re: [OSM-talk] Critical Mass for license change-over

2012-01-27 Thread Toby Murray
I would definitely echo the concerns of uncertainty put forward by others. Right now all the existing tools have disclaimers that this is MY interpretation of what will be deleted. We need something without that disclaimer before we can really say what will be lost. Specific questions that need

Re: [OSM-talk] Critical Mass for license change-over

2012-01-27 Thread Toby Murray
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 2:48 PM, john whelan jwhelan0...@gmail.com wrote: My suggestion would be to tag the data that maybe deleted.  That way individuals can see what needs to be repaired and the tags can be chosen so that the data doesn't render on a normal web render, is that Mapnik rules?

Re: [OSM-talk] proprietary keys and values, machine readable vs. humans

2012-01-24 Thread Toby Murray
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 9:38 AM, Jochen Topf joc...@remote.org wrote: On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 03:27:00PM +, Jukka Rahkonen wrote: We will see much more proprietary keys in the future because people are importing huge amounts of spatial data from external sources. Much of that data is hard

Re: [Talk-us] Exactly what does an address correspond to?

2012-01-24 Thread Toby Murray
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: Presumably the answer is a mailbox. But we generally map buildings and properties long before we map mailboxes, and when used as a location one expects an address to be the actual location the mail is intended for, not

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Downloading all tainted objects in an area

2012-01-23 Thread Toby Murray
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any way to download all tainted objects in an area, so I can easily filter out any I don't care about (e.g. lakes)? I don't think so. It might be possible to modify the jxapi to return objects last edited by a

Re: [Talk-us] Downloading all tainted objects in an area

2012-01-23 Thread Toby Murray
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any way to download all tainted objects in an area, so I can easily filter out any I don't care about (e.g. lakes)? I don't think so. It might be possible to modify the jxapi to return objects last edited by a

Re: [OSM-talk] Use of SOTM logo / web site design

2012-01-21 Thread Toby Murray
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: Hi, Should OpenMobileMap http://www.openmobilemap.org/  be using the SOTM 09/10 logo and web site design? I don't think so. I'd contact them about it but there is no way to do that on the web site that I can find. Does

Re: [Talk-us] Minot, ND disaster remap

2012-01-19 Thread Toby Murray
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 10:50 AM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: It looks like some folks in the Minot area are using OSM and noting it's not reflecting it's post-flood state. Is anybody aware of current, post-flood WMS imagery for this area? http://www.mapdust.com/detail/1416573 It

Re: [Talk-us] Finding new roads

2012-01-16 Thread Toby Murray
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Nick Hocking nick.hock...@gmail.com wrote: I believe that OSm's most usefull attribute is to be up to date. The only real way to do this is with a local mapper but bringing the USA up to Tiger 2011 up-to-datedness would be a great start. Are there tools

Re: [OSM-talk] odbl=clean usage

2012-01-15 Thread Toby Murray
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/15/2012 11:09 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, On 01/15/2012 05:03 PM, Floris Looijesteijn wrote: in my opinion, obdl=clean is the ugliest thing in the whole license change so far... i can't believe this would

Re: [OSM-talk] planet files appear truncated to osmosis, was: old planet files with 'nolt' in the name

2012-01-15 Thread Toby Murray
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: Hi, I had the following issue with processing a planet file: On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: [..] Also, I'm running into problems with the Jan 6, 2010 planet:

Re: [Talk-us] Getting ready for the license change

2012-01-14 Thread Toby Murray
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Kristian M Zoerhoff zoerh...@sdf.org wrote: On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 12:06:37PM -0500, Richard Welty wrote: On 1/13/12 10:49 AM, Martijn van Exel wrote: If your own area is clean, please consider helping out in more heavily affected areas. The Capital

Re: [Talk-us] Getting ready for the license change

2012-01-14 Thread Toby Murray
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Hi, On 01/14/2012 08:14 PM, Toby Murray wrote: I think this is an anonymous user. This was an option early in OSM history that was done away with a while ago. They can still agree... but obviously we have no way

Re: [Talk-us] Getting ready for the license change

2012-01-13 Thread Toby Murray
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Peter Dobratz pe...@dobratz.us wrote: On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Mike N nice...@att.net wrote: On 1/13/2012 10:49 AM, Martijn van Exel wrote: * Remap data that remains at risk of being removed, following the guidelines on the wiki (see links below).

Re: [OSM-talk] API: how to request more than 100 changesets?

2012-01-11 Thread Toby Murray
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Floris Looijesteijn o...@floris.nu wrote: Hello, What's the best way to request all changesets for a user? I found two ways so far, the rss feed button on a history page returns the 20 most recent changesets:

Re: [Talk-us] Semi-import of TIGER 2011 in a small area

2012-01-11 Thread Toby Murray
Thanks for sharing the details. I have done some limited mapping based on TIGER 2010 and 2011 data. But so far I've done it by hand. Drawing ways from bing and then copying the name from TIGER. This works for the few small neighborhoods I've done it with but assuming no one has any improvements to

Re: [OSM-talk] [talk-au] [sharedmapau] Re: Mass revert now??

2012-01-10 Thread Toby Murray
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 3:45 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: It surely no longer is to have the most accurate map, all the remapping is usually from lower quality data sources, and time spent remapping could have been spent making the map better, that hardly seems like a very

Re: [Talk-us] User adding many Safeway grocery stores, with ref number in name

2012-01-08 Thread Toby Murray
I actually contacted this person a while ago and kind of forgot to follow up. I suggested putting the store number in the ref tag. Part of his response: Hi, I am a Vons employe and as apart of my training we have been told to call all stores as by their proper name like in Brea (the store I work

Re: [OSM-talk] Making dealing with license problem objects easier

2012-01-04 Thread Toby Murray
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 9:50 AM, David Earl da...@frankieandshadow.com wrote: Suggestion 1 I'd like to suggest we invent a tag which says I have checked this object for changes by non-accepters and personally verified it against sources independent of the changes of those non-accepters who

Re: [OSM-talk] osmosis pbf issues

2012-01-03 Thread Toby Murray
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 10:16 PM, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.com wrote: I have been trying to process pbf files without luck in osmosis. When i run: osmosis --read-pbf india.osm.pbf --write-xml india.osm osmosis quits with: SEVERE: Execution aborted.

Re: [OSM-talk] Things People Say

2011-12-29 Thread Toby Murray
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 3:39 PM, Ben Johnson tangarar...@gmail.com wrote: You don't hear Wikipedia trumpeting we are not an encyclopedia, we are a database of information. No... they scream from the mountain tops we are the world's encyclopedia, and absolutely relish in it. Why can't OSM be

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER 2011 Release

2011-12-29 Thread Toby Murray
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 5:10 AM, Nick Hocking nick.hock...@gmail.com wrote: BTW, it is interesting (to say the least) that hte TIGER 2011 data appears to have address info in it for all roads. Once the licence change is complete and our dat is stable then this must be of considerable

[Talk-us] Anyone in Dallas?

2011-12-27 Thread Toby Murray
So it looks like I'll be spending a few days before the new year in Richardson. Anyone in the Dallas area who wants to get together for a beer or something? When I looked for a mapping event on meetup.com in the Dallas area I got back, among other things, Starting Over: Divorce Recovery soo... not

Re: [OSM-talk] New rules for OSMI license change view

2011-12-26 Thread Toby Murray
There is one more changeset that can be considered clean. I have documented it here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Quick_History_Service/Changeset_Lists I think that will fix the nearest two red nodes to me :) Toby ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] working with GPX

2011-12-26 Thread Toby Murray
On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Frans Thamura fr...@meruvian.org wrote: hi all i am working with GPX now.. using OSMTracker.. this is the pics of the screenshot after put in JOSM see this track from my home to my meruvian camp

Re: [Talk-us] Medians and reverts

2011-12-22 Thread Toby Murray
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: the difference in speed between the HOV lane and general access is frequently in excess of 60 MPH during peak traffic periods in sections where the HOV lane is isolated. Which brings up another point that the speed

Re: [OSM-talk] Splitting a way may completely hide a taint

2011-12-21 Thread Toby Murray
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 12:13 AM, Russ Nelson nel...@crynwr.com wrote: Oh, and, could we convince r_coastlines to accept the license? I've put a LOT of work into fixing the coastlines (which were utter CRAP in the first place), and I'm unenthusiastic about having them lost. OSMInspector is

Re: [OSM-talk] Splitting a way may completely hide a taint

2011-12-21 Thread Toby Murray
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 12:33 AM, Russ Nelson nel...@crynwr.com wrote: Russ Nelson writes:   Easiest fix is for r_coastlines to accept. Wait a second ... there is no such user. What's going on here? The changeset doesn't show any user name. I'm guessing this means it is an anonymous user?

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] US Golf Courses from GNIS

2011-12-21 Thread Toby Murray
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Golf Geek golfgeek2...@hotmail.com wrote: After reviewing the Import/Guidelines wiki, I realize I should have posted here first, but here's a quick after action report on a recent import. Better late than never. :) Why didn't you read this before the import?

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] US Golf Courses from GNIS

2011-12-21 Thread Toby Murray
://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/43332671 http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/42280171 http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/98180901 http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/129025203 http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/126614718 Toby On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 11:27 PM, Toby Murray toby.mur

Re: [OSM-talk] Permission for my work

2011-12-15 Thread Toby Murray
Mike  Dupont writes:   I am going to post this one last time.   You have permission to re license all my work outside of kosovo and albania.   Please stop sending me so many messages, I am getting 10 a day. I have   created a new user that accepted the license terms, but my old user I  

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Friends

2011-12-15 Thread Toby Murray
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: Cool. It gives me a 500 error when you're not logged in though. There exist people who aren't logged in to osm.org at all times?! But seriously, this is great. Thanks! Now I see how lazy some of my OSM friends have been.

Re: [OSM-talk] An example of the complications inherent in determining tainted ways

2011-12-14 Thread Toby Murray
Yeah, a healthy chunk of the interstates in Kansas are the same way. I didn't go quite as deep as Nathan but this way is a relevant example: http://osm.mapki.com/history/way.php?id=33576021 User moonwashed created this way by splitting it from a TIGER way. He made several more edits to it but the

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Map Maker gets a UI overhaul

2011-12-14 Thread Toby Murray
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 9:35 PM, Russ Nelson nel...@crynwr.com wrote: OSMAnd. Offline vector maps. Google Maps can't touch that. +1 Especially with the OsmAnd update I got from the Android market a few days ago. Offline vector rendering was functional before. Now it's downright beautiful. On

Re: [Talk-us] Now you can see how much vandalism the OSMF will carry out on April Fools

2011-12-14 Thread Toby Murray
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 8:33 AM, CrystalWalrein closed...@hotmail.com wrote:

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-legal-talk] License Change View on OSM Inspector

2011-12-13 Thread Toby Murray
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 1:30 PM, john whelan jwhelan0...@gmail.com wrote: Fascinating, I was always taught that reliability was the most important thing to end users. In Ottawa it looks like many footpaths, steps etc will be the big losers. The imported road network looks fine. So it looks

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-legal-talk] License Change View on OSM Inspector

2011-12-13 Thread Toby Murray
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: I have done many edits of this sort over the years. It has been standard practice for a long time. Any tainting has already happened. Yeah expanding nodes into buildings is pretty standard practice for me whenever I'm

Re: [OSM-talk] Smartphone app to OSM

2011-12-12 Thread Toby Murray
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: That looks like an exceedingly useful app. Interesting to see OSM editing software appear on the Win Phone platform. Does something similar exist for other platforms? I mean a simple, single purpose app to add or improve

Re: [OSM-talk] Friends

2011-12-02 Thread Toby Murray
One thing I have thought might not be too hard to code up and provide some use would be to have a Recent edits by my friends page that just accumulates recent edits by your friends onto one page and displays it with bboxes like the single user edit history page. Right now you can only see the

Re: [OSM-talk] Vector maps for Android

2011-11-28 Thread Toby Murray
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 3:02 AM, Parveen Arora m...@parveenarora.in wrote: On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 3:04 AM, Russ Nelson nel...@crynwr.com wrote: I understand your desire to have an official application. If you'll notice, though, there is no official OSM editor. Instead, there's Potlatch for

Re: [Talk-us] Address improvement through imports?

2011-11-02 Thread Toby Murray
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: Which brings me to the conclusion that there's no point in importing TIGER address information.  A geocoder can simply try to find the address in OSM, and fall back to TIGER if the address isn't in OSM. Then, once the lat/lon is

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