Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Getting historic information about usage of a node

2009-09-16 Thread Tom Hughes
. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Abstract on getting historic information about usage of a node

2009-09-16 Thread Tom Hughes
have to go and find every way which uses that node and update it to use the new version of the node. So it costs CPU time every time a node is changed. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Which OSMF Member Do I Talk To...

2009-09-11 Thread Tom Hughes
and has just bought it back up. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Street View copyright question

2009-09-09 Thread Tom Hughes
(in the EU) Database Right kicks in and prohibits substantial extraction. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Street View copyright question

2009-09-09 Thread Tom Hughes
On 09/09/09 11:55, Tom Hughes wrote: On 09/09/09 11:46, Roy Wallace wrote: On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 8:33 PM, Jonathan Bennettopenstreet...@jonno.cix.co.uk wrote: There's a difference between using one fact from a newspaper article, and systematically extracting data from a database to reuse

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Street View copyright question

2009-09-09 Thread Tom Hughes
a street sign on a picture, not copying the picture. Which has exactly what to do with the question I answered, which concerned copying facts from databases? As it happens there is a problem with my answer which I'm about to correct, but it isn't anything to do with photos. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Wiki OpenLayer live examples get 404 not found

2009-09-07 Thread Tom Hughes
your home directory to the new machine but I'll see if I can patch things up... Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] lists and # of subscribers

2009-09-04 Thread Tom Hughes
to that - it graphs things that change in real time but for something like this you want to look at daily or weekly numbers over a long period. Monthly stats for some lists are sent to Andy which I think he includes in his graphs which are on the wiki somewhere? Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Mailing List Reply To Header

2009-09-03 Thread Tom Hughes
On 03/09/09 11:53, Christoph Boehme wrote: Sylpheed Claws can reply to list as well and Thunderbird has an add-on which adds the command [1]. Thunderbird 3 has it built in. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Mailing List Reply To Header

2009-09-03 Thread Tom Hughes
change it, but then in six months we'll have a flood of complaints from the other side of the argument so I really don't see the point. Just learn to live with both setups. I did long ago. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Mailing List Reply To Header

2009-09-03 Thread Tom Hughes
being talked about here but I do have the master password so can in theory change any list. I don't plan to however - I plan to let list owners decide. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Mailing List Reply To Header

2009-09-03 Thread Tom Hughes
and forums so people can choose which to use. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Brainstorming: Simple Revert-Tools

2009-09-03 Thread Tom Hughes
but that has now stopped). Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] RR8 - Possible International Vandal (assistance required in various countries)

2009-09-02 Thread Tom Hughes
On 02/09/09 18:51, Peter Körner wrote: Tom Hughes schrieb: On 01/09/09 23:02, Pieren wrote: I'm just questionning myself if I will continue to contribute to OSM if the admins are not able to react faster to something which looks like the worst form of vandalism. As an admin

Re: [OSM-talk] RR8 - Possible International Vandal (assistance required in various countries)

2009-09-02 Thread Tom Hughes
for such a system however. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] RR8 - Possible International Vandal (assistance required in various countries)

2009-09-01 Thread Tom Hughes
signs). Certainly four segments of the A816 are listed in the data Morwen got from the DfT describing the primary route network. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [OSM-talk] RR8 - Possible International Vandal (assistance required in various countries)

2009-09-01 Thread Tom Hughes
On 01/09/09 10:13, Lester Caine wrote: Tom Hughes wrote: On 01/09/09 09:16, Lester Caine wrote: 2326103 declassifies the A816 from a trunk route to a primary route which CURRENTLY is probably correct ... except - I think that it would be useful to designate http://www.sabre-roads.org.uk

Re: [OSM-talk] RR8 - Possible International Vandal (assistance required in various countries)

2009-09-01 Thread Tom Hughes
On 01/09/09 16:23, Lester Caine wrote: Richard Fairhurst wrote: Tom Hughes wrote: Unless something has changed in the last few years them at least some parts of the A816 are trunk (in the OSM sense of being primary A roads with green signs). Indeed: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/916074

Re: [OSM-talk] RR8 - Possible International Vandal (assistance required in various countries)

2009-09-01 Thread Tom Hughes
can't possibly personally determine who is right in any particular case, nor can I set any sort of quorum as to how big the lynch mob on the mailing lists needs to be to trigger action because I can't know if they are people with a legitimate grievance or are indeed just a lynch mob. Tom -- Tom

Re: [OSM-talk] http://gazetteer.openstreetmap.org/namefinder/ broken?

2009-08-31 Thread Tom Hughes
. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] We need a report spam button for diary entries... and to ban accounts repeatedly spamming...

2009-08-28 Thread Tom Hughes
On 28/08/09 09:24, John Smith wrote: 2009/8/28 Thomas Woodgrand.edgemas...@gmail.com: Accounts spamming are banned. They're usually caught in good time by our master admin. Why not make use of crowd sourcing? What do you mean exactly? Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http

Re: [OSM-talk] We need a report spam button for diary entries... and to ban accounts repeatedly spamming...

2009-08-28 Thread Tom Hughes
they'd like to scratch then all well and good. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] State of the NameFinder

2009-08-27 Thread Tom Hughes
geographic restrictions (using postgis) with text searches in the same query. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [Talk-GB] Uk Missing Major Roads.

2009-08-27 Thread Tom Hughes
shown as the A102 for the whole length from the junction with the A12/A13 to the north to the junction with the A2 to the south. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [Talk-GB] Uk Missing Major Roads.

2009-08-27 Thread Tom Hughes
On 27/08/09 11:05, Tom Hughes wrote: In fact I can't find any map which shows either the tunnel or the approach roads as the A102(M) - they all shown as the A102 for the whole length from the junction with the A12/A13 to the north to the junction with the A2 to the south. I have now found

Re: [Talk-GB] Uk Missing Major Roads.

2009-08-27 Thread Tom Hughes
definition of trunk (ie the roads to be tagged as highway=trunk) is wider and includes everything which is part of the Primary Route Network, ie all green signed A roads. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] State of the NameFinder

2009-08-26 Thread Tom Hughes
running. Umm... Like the geocoding mailing list you mean? The one that was created after discussion with the interested parties at SOTM... Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Fwd: [OSM-talk] copyright problem with datacopiedfrom a map

2009-08-18 Thread Tom Hughes
somebody official (ie the foundation) that ordinary users are not able to do. Hopefully people will be more likely to respond to such communication to explain what they are doing which can help determine whether there is in fact a problem with the data. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Fwd: [OSM-talk] copyright problemwith datacopiedfrom a map

2009-08-18 Thread Tom Hughes
On 18/08/09 11:18, Peter Miller wrote: On 18 Aug 2009, at 10:30, Tom Hughes wrote: On 18/08/09 09:27, Peter Miller wrote: Andy mentions that copyright violation needs to go to the Data Working Group. Why? Sure the foundation needs a log of action of copyright violations, but I don't see

Re: [OSM-talk] Link for editing via JOSM-remote-control-plugin

2009-08-17 Thread Tom Hughes
On 17/08/09 10:52, Alexander Menk wrote: can somebody add a link to open JOSM (localhost:8111) to http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/ ? We've been over this many times - it is not appropriate to unconditionally add a a link that will not work for most people. Tom -- Tom

Re: [OSM-talk] Announcemen: Multilingual Country-List

2009-08-13 Thread Tom Hughes
On 13/08/09 16:50, Lauris Bukšis-Haberkorns wrote: Also unicode CLDR is good source. http://cldr.unicode.org/ My reading of the terms of use says we probably can't use it as it requires that the copyright notice remains attached to any copies of the data. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t

Re: [OSM-talk] Proliferation of path vs. footway

2009-08-11 Thread Tom Hughes
that they've been doing it wrong for the last five years and should start retagging everything according to some new scheme then the process is broken. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Proliferation of path vs. footway

2009-08-11 Thread Tom Hughes
tagged before. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] openstreetmap.org completely down

2009-08-11 Thread Tom Hughes
/fragmentation-needed ... What part of out of our control did you not understand? Yes indeed those should not be blocked, and as the firewall in question is run by professionals I would imagine they have it right. None the less, it is not something we have any control over. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t

Re: [OSM-talk] Database/Model updates or suggestions

2009-08-06 Thread Tom Hughes
/rails_port/db/migrate Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [Talk-GB] Liam123 alert!

2009-08-05 Thread Tom Hughes
On 05/08/09 14:47, Ciarán Mooney wrote: Is it possible to publish the IP addresses he is making the edits from? No. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [OSM-talk] -3 messages in the inbox

2009-08-03 Thread Tom Hughes
have not been read) and subtracting the number of new messages from the total gives you -3 old messages ;-) I'll commit a fix to make it ignore deleted messages when working out the new messages. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu

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

2009-08-02 Thread Tom Hughes
are actually studying the title bar of the browser while they pan around the map? and the potential to impose a significant load on the server is high. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Something Might be Broken

2009-08-01 Thread Tom Hughes
better recently though. That number must be plucked out of thin air though - there is no reasonable way that JOSM can know how long it will take. I've never seen a changeset take anywhere near that long to apply though. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu

Re: [OSM-talk] Something Might be Broken

2009-07-31 Thread Tom Hughes
technology that the current API doesn't use? Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Search field on www.openstreetmap.org

2009-07-30 Thread Tom Hughes
the bottom of people's windows. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Thoughts on an enhanced GPX api

2009-07-28 Thread Tom Hughes
issues will mainly come into play if you want to do anything that requires cross-checking the point cloud against the trace list to determine what user owns it and/or whether it is public or not. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Thoughts on an enhanced GPX api

2009-07-28 Thread Tom Hughes
On 28/07/09 12:36, Shaun McDonald wrote: On 28 Jul 2009, at 12:15, Tom Hughes wrote: The start point in the trace table, which isn't very useful, could be replaced by a bounding box to allow bbox queries - that's something that I have been thinking about doing for a while. I thought

Re: [OSM-talk] A possible way to promote OSM

2009-07-27 Thread Tom Hughes
the mailing list did not exist and the impo...@osmfoundation.org alias was the address for the working group. That is still the address for the WG but following a request at SOTM there is now a mailing lists for general public discussion of imports as well. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http

Re: [OSM-talk] Duplicate place=city capital=yes and other place nodes

2009-07-25 Thread Tom Hughes
it doesn't validate the input properly) it treated everything as a create. Basically it supports osmChange and you gave it osm or vice versa - the details escape me right now. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing

Re: [OSM-talk] Custom OpenStreetMaps ?

2009-07-21 Thread Tom Hughes
site then generates an OpenLayers page instead of Flash... Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Undo request button for changesets

2009-07-15 Thread Tom Hughes
then that is obviously fine; but if somebody on the other side of the world emails him saying X keeps making bad edits, can you revert them then he will decline as he has no way of knowing the background to the situation or who is right. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu

Re: [OSM-talk] Undo request button for changesets

2009-07-14 Thread Tom Hughes
the easy part - the hard thing is establishing the authority to do the revert. In other words the question of who gets to decide that an edit is bad and should be reverted. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list

Re: [Talk-GB] printing from website

2009-07-14 Thread Tom Hughes
paper it has in it. The way to influence that is to use the page/printer setup options in your browser and/or operating system. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [Talk-GB] printing from website

2009-07-14 Thread Tom Hughes
to a new page. That's entirely a browser thing though, so different browsers may not do exactly the same thing. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [Talk-GB] printing from website

2009-07-14 Thread Tom Hughes
it produce better output then please do so... Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [OSM-talk] A possible way to promote OSM

2009-07-11 Thread Tom Hughes
for uploading files, and I don’t remember seeing what came of that. impo...@openstreetmap.org I don't think that address will go anywhere... Did you mean impo...@osmfoundation.org perhaps? Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu

Re: [OSM-talk] JOSM lat/lon bug; ban on versions 1722-1727

2009-07-05 Thread Tom Hughes
are blocked from downloading and uploading any data. If you use one of those versions affected, please update as soon as possible. How is the block achieved? Nobody has asked me to block anything on the server... Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu

Re: [OSM-talk] The future of bugs in OSM

2009-07-02 Thread Tom Hughes
the job of the person or application that reports the bug is just to document the problem. It's up to the person that decides to deal with it to decide what to do about it and what application they want to use to fix it. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenPisteMap Down?

2009-07-02 Thread Tom Hughes
. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] upload error using bulk_upload.py

2009-07-01 Thread Tom Hughes
an error for those expect headers and it has been turned on for a while now. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] New (better?) source of contours

2009-06-30 Thread Tom Hughes
for ODBC Drivers error '80040e4d' [Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver] Too many client tasks. /index.asp, line 3 Then I suggest you improve your noticing skillz. That quite clearly says they went with the cheap option of Access, not SQL/Server. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http

Re: [OSM-talk] Thousands of small changesets by Tim Proegler

2009-06-25 Thread Tom Hughes
list asking people to check the fuel stations near. The question, its more about the license of the source rather than the import. ...and that it would be better to group them into a small number of changesets instead of creating one for each node. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] The map key isn't static anymore

2009-06-25 Thread Tom Hughes
before. It's live now anyway. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] The map key isn't static anymore

2009-06-23 Thread Tom Hughes
it interacts with the way you create the original key images? Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Move the Map

2009-06-16 Thread Tom Hughes
difference on other sites is that their search box is much more prominent) Because it works. Ours doesn't for practical purposes - once that is sorted we can think about moving it. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing

Re: [OSM-talk] full history of a way?

2009-06-14 Thread Tom Hughes
versions to show places where the tags of the way stayed the same but the shape changed because a node was moved. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Admin contact openstreetmap.org?

2009-06-08 Thread Tom Hughes
currently means me. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [Talk-GB] Speed Limit - Trains Was: Re: maxspeed field - what units should we use. etc

2009-06-05 Thread Tom Hughes
at that just now I see that the relation for that branch has been extended all the way down to Broxbourne station rather than terminating at Broxbourne Junction where it joins the main line and I'm wondering if that is the best thing to do? Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu

Re: [Talk-GB] Speed Limit - Trains Was: Re: maxspeed field - what units should we use. etc

2009-06-05 Thread Tom Hughes
Peter Miller wrote: On 5 Jun 2009, at 10:19, Tom Hughes wrote: Incidentally, looking at that just now I see that the relation for that branch has been extended all the way down to Broxbourne station rather than terminating at Broxbourne Junction where it joins the main line and I'm

Re: [Talk-GB] maxspeed field - what units should we use. etc

2009-06-04 Thread Tom Hughes
are close enough together that is. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [OSM-talk] newbie question related to ele (elevation)

2009-06-01 Thread Tom Hughes
tags you can add so it's entirely up to you whether you add an ele tag to something. I would only expect to see it on things like mountain peaks or other objects where the elevation is of some specific interest, so in most areas you download you probably won't see any. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t

Re: [OSM-talk] Isle of Wight 2

2009-06-01 Thread Tom Hughes
. I'm interested, depending on dates etc. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

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

2009-06-01 Thread Tom Hughes
. I'm interested, depending on dates etc. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] MK mapping party

2009-05-19 Thread Tom Hughes
be for mapnik to render loc_ref. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] MK mapping party

2009-05-18 Thread Tom Hughes
was doing 28 yesterday, unless he changed his mind about what to do? Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] MK mapping party

2009-05-18 Thread Tom Hughes
was that we should use tertiary for any grid roads that aren't primary/secondary and not use it at all within the blocks in general - just use unclassified for the more major roads in the blocks. What do other people think? Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu

Re: [Talk-GB] MK mapping party

2009-05-18 Thread Tom Hughes
as distributor roads and internal roads in each block which are only intended for getting in to/out of that block from the nearest grid road. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [OSM-talk] Live Data - all new Data in OSM

2009-05-13 Thread Tom Hughes
is uncacheable (and hence requires much higher bandwidth outgoing from the core servers) and much more fragile than the diffs, it is not obvious that we should put what would undoubtedly be a huge amount of effort into creating and maintaining such a system rather than into doing other things. Tom -- Tom

Re: [OSM-talk] Live Data - all new Data in OSM

2009-05-13 Thread Tom Hughes
Frederik Ramm wrote: Tom Hughes wrote: It's a completely insane solution though. It we want to do it we should just do it properly in the database not fart around with stupid hacks in the rails code that break as soon as any updates are not done via rails. Assuming for a moment

Re: [OSM-talk] Live Data - all new Data in OSM

2009-05-13 Thread Tom Hughes
and then as soon your client disconnects for a second you've lost a ton of edits and you have no way to resync. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo

Re: [OSM-talk] Live Data - all new Data in OSM

2009-05-13 Thread Tom Hughes
objects rather than uploading diffs? Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Live Data - all new Data in OSM

2009-05-12 Thread Tom Hughes
it) Anybody trying such a stunt will be liable to summary blocking when caught however. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Live Data - all new Data in OSM

2009-05-12 Thread Tom Hughes
that break as soon as any updates are not done via rails. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Putting as little load as possible on the main OSM server

2009-05-11 Thread Tom Hughes
Niklas Cholmkvist wrote: Does anyone know if the first method I mentioned(export method) really puts less load on the main openstreetmap server? No. Exporting OSM data just redirects to the same API call that JOSM uses to download data. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http

Re: [OSM-talk] RSS Feed for GPS traces

2009-05-07 Thread Tom Hughes
RSS feed of all 22 public traces. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] 500 Internal Server Error during upload

2009-04-28 Thread Tom Hughes
about that. I shall drop what I'm doing and rush over and establish a priority upload channel for you. Look people, we have new servers and software and we are working to tune them and resolve various issues. Please be patient and stop all this moaning in the mean time... Tom -- Tom Hughes (t

Re: [OSM-talk] Delay before the data is visible?

2009-04-21 Thread Tom Hughes
are generally the problem, not uploads. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik rendering export has only coastline

2009-04-08 Thread Tom Hughes
this in the medium term (help welcome no doubt). Meanwhile I'll add it to the FAQ on the wiki. Maybe we should remove the Export tab when it is out of commision? Yes, because the users of all the other export modes that aren't dependent on the mapnik database would love that. Tom -- Tom

Re: [Talk-GB] Yahoo coverage map

2009-04-05 Thread Tom Hughes
Steve Chilton wrote: I am afraid I don't know the answer. Yahoo surely have all the imagery, but presumably have chosen to release this random coverage to OSM. Eh? We're using their standard imagery, not some special OSM released subset... Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http

Re: [OSM-talk] Sat Nav idiocy in Todmorden

2009-03-27 Thread Tom Hughes
says more about the place you were flying from than the place you were flying to. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] GPS track precision (was GPS track upload working?)

2009-03-20 Thread Tom Hughes
is marginal in my opinion) outweighs the costs. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] GPS track precision (was GPS track upload working?)

2009-03-20 Thread Tom Hughes
not mean that it shouldn't be considered for the future. Yes, but the real problem is that, in my experience at least, HDOP is pretty much meaningless. Whenever I get way out points from my GPS units they seem to have an entirely normal HDOP value. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http

Re: [OSM-talk] GPS track upload working?

2009-03-19 Thread Tom Hughes
the record to the database before we can rename the file to it's final name, but the importer deliberately ignores any recently added files to avoid triggering that. My best guess is that the delay isn't long enough under particular load conditions and that we may need to increase it. Tom -- Tom

Re: [OSM-talk] GPS track upload working?

2009-03-19 Thread Tom Hughes
rolled out a change that I hope should fix it. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [Talk-GB] Clarifying tagging for footway/cycleway etc

2009-03-19 Thread Tom Hughes
|track|road With the rest of the stuff split out: Do you think that, just possibly, having to change the tagging on every single road in the database to implement your scheme might make it just a tad impractical... Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu

Re: [OSM-talk] [Spam] Re: Alternatives to wikipedia?

2009-03-18 Thread Tom Hughes
of things and not managing to do any of them well. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] SQL to query street name within a define bbox

2009-03-06 Thread Tom Hughes
the you have the XML data? or have you loaded it into a relational database - presumably you have if you want to use SQL, but what schema are you using? I'm guessing it is either the MySQL schema used by the API or the postgis format used for mapnik rendering? Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] License to kill

2009-03-06 Thread Tom Hughes
is the equivalent for a company limited by guarantee so it quite probably does have to be divulged on request, even to non-members. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-t...@openstreetmap.org http

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

2009-03-05 Thread Tom Hughes
of (a) not having support for country specific schemes and (b) the main cartographer doing that layer being UK based. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

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

2009-03-05 Thread Tom Hughes
the style could only change on the edge of a tile. Then again, I'm not sure it works to be changing styles at a land border anyway - it will look very odd if motorways suddenly change colour because you've reached a border. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Further Concerns about ODbL

2009-03-04 Thread Tom Hughes
country, or all the motorways in the world, might be substantial while take 2.25% of nodes at random might not. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-t...@openstreetmap.org http

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

2009-03-03 Thread Tom Hughes
sites in so they really did behave like tabs. In which case I hate it ;-) Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

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

2009-03-03 Thread Tom Hughes
is of course irrelevant to browser window size, unless you're one of those weird web designers that seems to think everybody runs their browser full screen all the time... Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk

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

2009-03-03 Thread Tom Hughes
can assure you ;-) Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

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