Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Then and Now revived

2015-08-01 Thread Vincent Pottier
Le 01/08/2015 02:08, Martijn van Exel a écrit : Hi all, The '2007 vs today' OSM visualization I did for our 10th anniversary is back online. This is where I lived back then: http://mvexel.github.io/thenandnow/#15/52.3816/4.8834 I will keep it around for a while, so go ahead and explore, and shar

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

2014-05-15 Thread Vincent Pottier
Le 15/05/2014 18:57, Martin Koppenhoefer a écrit : Share alike licensed data should IMHO not be imported into osm because it makes another license change practically impossible (at least not without data loss, and unfortunately not only the originally imported data but also everything built o

Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls

2013-07-20 Thread Vincent Pottier
Le 20/07/2013 01:07, Dave F. a écrit : Hi Does anybody use the +/- zoom controls? I thought it was all mouse wheels/pad gestures & finger gestures to zoom in & out. Are they needed any more? Dave F. Oh, yes, they are. I use them to see the wide region around a spot, e.g. find the big city

[OSM-talk] Rencontre SIG Grand Besançon - OSM

2013-05-22 Thread Vincent Pottier
Bonsoir, Belle rencontre hier en fin d'après midi entre trois personnes du Service cartographique du Grand Besançon et quatre OSMeurs, suivi pour les 4 d'un débriefing autours d'une bière. Il semble que la volonté d'ouvrir les données du SIG du Grand Besançon à OSM soit bien présente chez les t

Re: [OSM-talk] Impossible changeset

2013-04-12 Thread Vincent Pottier
m aka Vincent Toby On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 3:46 AM, Clay Smalley <mailto:claysmal...@gmail.com>> wrote: Could this be related to the current OS upgrade on the OSM US server? Can we get some input from Ian? On Apr 11, 2013 2:43 AM, "Vincent Pottier" mailto:vp

Re: [OSM-talk] Impossible changeset

2013-04-11 Thread Vincent Pottier
Le 11/04/2013 09:40, Vincent Pottier a écrit : [...] Sorry for the noise : I didn't saw it was already a ticket https://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/4540 I have reopend it. -- FrViPofm ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

[OSM-talk] Impossible changeset

2013-04-11 Thread Vincent Pottier
Hi all, I've made few changes near [1] I have made changes with JOSM yesterday. I was unable to upload them. So I have saved the file. I have tried also yesterday to make some changes with Potlatch2 in the same hamlet. Potlatch could not create a changeset. Today, I have tried to upload my c

Re: [OSM-talk] Revert ?

2013-02-04 Thread Vincent Pottier
Le 05/02/2013 00:43, nicholas ingalls a écrit : On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 7:38 PM, Vincent Pottier <mailto:vpott...@gmail.com>> wrote: t it be reverted ? Does somebody can do it ? Can you provide a link or a changeset id? Cheers, ingalls Oups ! Sorry ! http://www.openstre

[OSM-talk] Revert ?

2013-02-04 Thread Vincent Pottier
Hi, It seems there is a problem in this changeset. Must it be reverted ? Does somebody can do it ? -- FrViPofm ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-28 Thread Vincent Pottier
Le 28/09/2012 10:00, Lester Caine a écrit : There are some excellent examples of how mapping should be done all over the world. But I do hope we have shown that a large percentage of the data STILL needs a lot of work? At the end of the day this is more about education of mappers and how to g

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-27 Thread Vincent Pottier
Le 27/09/2012 09:49, Lester Caine a écrit : Claims are being made that the French data is more up to date, but if it is not being properly geo-referenced and is producing poor quality data should it be allowed in? returning to the example, in the absence of evidence that the building IS split i

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-27 Thread Vincent Pottier
Le 27/09/2012 16:28, SomeoneElse a écrit : Maybe it's a work in progress: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=43.99103&lon=0.33956&zoom=15&layers=M Cheers, Andy OSM is a work in progress. -- FrViPofm ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http:/

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-27 Thread Vincent Pottier
Le 27/09/2012 02:22, Martin Koppenhoefer a écrit : 2012/9/26 Pieren : To Frederik, In your example, I agree with you that the diagonal line is a glitch, most probably coming from a parcel line just underneath. actually it is not only the diagonal line (which is an obvious error), but it is als

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-26 Thread Vincent Pottier
Le 27/09/2012 00:35, Christian Quest a écrit : I agree that a tool in JOSM (or whatever is your editor of choice) to split a polygon into 2 smaller polygons could be really helpful, not only for buildings. In JOSM ? I add 2 nodes (with the middle cross in the segments) I select them and the pol

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-26 Thread Vincent Pottier
Le 26/09/2012 23:00, Christian Quest a écrit : In France, cadastre is the most official source about buildings and land ownership. When you buy/sell a building all the documents refers to the cadastre. It provides sometime too many details compared to what could be seen by survey. Does this mean

Re: [OSM-talk] Bad (wrong?) OSM publicity?

2012-09-25 Thread Vincent Pottier
Le 25/09/2012 17:59, Jeffrey Warren a écrit : "OpenStreetMap Japan, a Wikipedia-like service that contains a lot of incorrect and outdated information." that is really awful. We can't let that kind of statement stand! It affects the credibility of all OSM efforts, and is like the kind

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines & OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-19 Thread Vincent Pottier
Le 19/09/2012 16:23, Martin Koppenhoefer a écrit : 2012/9/19 Pieren : The size of the whole French cadastre dataset is huge. We could upload it in a single mass import with a bot using a seperate user account as we did for the Corine Land Cover. We could follow 100% of the import guidelines. Tru

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines & OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Vincent Pottier
Le 19/09/2012 00:14, Vincent Pottier a écrit : Modified nodes De : ... Fr: ... @Frederic, I was not to play a match againts Germany... but I found a way to tell that French contributors don't do only "importing buildings". And I hope we would have a wide community, but we

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines & OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Vincent Pottier
Le 18/09/2012 23:31, Frederik Ramm a écrit : Today, France has 50% more data in OSM than Germany. I am not jealous of that. I would be jealous if France had 50% more mappers and I sincerely hope that the French community can find ways to engage more people to help. But for all its data glory

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines & OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Vincent Pottier
Le 18/09/2012 21:13, Simon Poole a écrit : Am 18.09.2012 18:54, schrieb Béland Pierre: Is it possible to discuss about governance wich is the subject of this thread? The reason I even touched on this subject is that each time the cadastre imports turn up it is somehow claimed that they are

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines & OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Vincent Pottier
Le 18/09/2012 13:51, Martin Koppenhoefer a écrit : I'd put it like this: someone who didn't respect the import guidelines valid for almost one year was temporarily blocked. What's the problem? That's what the DWG is for. how many have spoken up against it? I'd expect from every mapper who w

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMapWidget

2012-08-12 Thread Vincent Pottier
Le 11/08/2012 19:25, Aleksandra Milanovic a écrit : Hi guys, can you give me an opinion on the latest changes I've made on my GSoC project (http://sandra-milanovic.github.com/OpenStreetMapWidget/) ? Additional options are in the right click (longpress for mobile) menu. If you have some difficult

Re: [OSM-talk] Edit review: "building"="levels=N"

2012-05-20 Thread Vincent Pottier
Le 20/05/2012 18:46, Worst Fixer a écrit : Hello. I ask you to review my planned mechanical edit. There are 400+ ways tagged "building"="levels=N" in database. I propose changing tags to building=yes; building:levels=N for these ways. Also I propose removal of "addr:housenumber=?" on these ob

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixme: A proposal

2011-10-04 Thread Vincent Pottier
Le 04/10/2011 18:06, Pieren a écrit : This tag is only really acceptable as a temporary personal reminder. Pieren RFC:fixyou ;-) -- FrViPofm ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Extract a polygon into a polygon filter file format

2011-08-26 Thread Vincent Pottier
Le 26/08/2011 17:07, Frederik Ramm a écrit : Hi, Phil! Gold wrote: Why is this so logical? The exact same data can be derived from the intersection of the sets of elements in the two countries' (single-level) border relations. Put yourself in the position of having to create or maintain th

Re: [OSM-talk] Extract a polygon into a polygon filter file format

2011-08-26 Thread Vincent Pottier
Le 26/08/2011 14:23, Kirill Bestoujev a écrit : Hi, I have the same problem, there are two countries with relation-relation borders - France and Guadelupa, I think it is better to try to persuade mappers from those countries to create the border in way everyone does. Or not... Kirill ...An

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-talk-fr] Sud-soudan

2011-07-09 Thread Vincent Pottier
For information and avoiding colision. Pour information et éviter les collisions. -- FrViPofm Le 09/07/2011 11:09, Marc Sibert a écrit : Le 09/07/2011 09:33, RatZilla$ a écrit : Bonjour à tou[te]s Les limites administratives sont disponibles librement chez Maplibrary. Ce sont ces fichiers qu

Re: [OSM-talk] anonymous edits

2011-05-28 Thread Vincent Pottier
Le 28/05/2011 09:17, Martijn van Exel a écrit : Yes, it would deliberately be constrained to nodes. Checking existing nodes would definitely have to be part of it, using (fuzzy) name matching within a radius of the new object. Fact remains that the location may be less accurate than desirable, du

Re: [OSM-talk] relations within relations - walking trails

2011-05-24 Thread Vincent Pottier
Le 24/05/2011 03:18, Robin Paulson a écrit : i am mapping walking tracks in new zealand, and have recently added 'te araroa' - the walking track from the top of the north island to the bottom of the south. it is made up at parts of the way of other walking tracks, such as the 'coast to coast' wa

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-talk-fr] Nouvelles du Salon Solutions Linux 2011 & Asso OSM France

2011-05-12 Thread Vincent Pottier
Le 12/05/2011 02:40, RatZilla$ a écrit : Bonjour à tous[te]s, Je tiens, avant toutes choses, à remercier : Sébastien et René Luc pour leur aide précieuse, l'April pour le scotch, et tout les amateurs de Ti-Punch pour leur enthousiasme ;-) Depuis Mardi comme vous le devinez certainement, nous ne

Re: [OSM-talk] Skip geographical (redundant) address tags

2011-05-03 Thread Vincent Pottier
Le 03/05/2011 16:54, Pieren a écrit : On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Felix Hartmann mailto:extremecar...@gmail.com>> wrote: Cause boundaries really are not ment for deducting information onto what's inside. I don't know what to say against that Pieren Maybe boundaries are in t

Re: [OSM-talk] Edit war, Mitrovica

2011-04-15 Thread Vincent Pottier
Le 15/04/2011 13:24, Frederik Ramm a écrit : Hi, On 04/15/2011 01:14 PM, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: I don't like 'duplicate node removing' scripts or bots. Duplicate nodes may well have a function, or may not be duplicate at all. +1. Anyone who plans to indiscriminately "fix" duplicate nodes witho

Re: [OSM-talk] Tag for true OSM data?

2011-03-31 Thread Vincent Pottier
Le 31/03/2011 13:08, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer a écrit : 2011/3/31 Martijn van Exel: Having said that, there's the important issue of human contributors adding value to the imports: adding metadata, removing stale data, improving geometry. Those are real human contributions that would not have occurre

Re: [OSM-talk] operator addon for firefox

2011-02-26 Thread Vincent Pottier
Le 26/02/2011 05:10, Samat K Jain a écrit : Vincent — please get this into the upstream version! How can I do this ? -- FrViPofm ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] operator addon for firefox

2011-02-25 Thread Vincent Pottier
Hi all, The excelent addon operator for firefox (using the microformats) ignored OpenStreetMap. https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/operator/ I have written a little hack for that. See : http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:FrViPofm/Operator Making some changes, the new version of t

Re: [OSM-talk] Non-map-based OSM editor

2011-01-23 Thread Vincent Pottier
Le 24/01/2011 00:25, Anthony a écrit : I'm not quite sure why, but I really don't like JOSM. Of the four main editors (others being PL1, PL2, and Merkaartor), it's my least favorite. I realy don't understand why. I use quite only JOSM with several layers (wms, gpx, pictures). It's easy for me

Re: [OSM-talk] Non-map-based OSM editor

2011-01-23 Thread Vincent Pottier
Le 23/01/2011 23:45, Steve Bennett a écrit : Hi all, I wonder if anyone has ever made an OSM editor which is not map-based, for just editing tags on objects. For example, I want to update the "network" tag on 4 long-distance walking track relations in New Zealand. Using Potlatch 2, that's pre

Re: [OSM-talk] Landsat WMS is dead

2011-01-09 Thread Vincent Pottier
Le 09/01/2011 23:13, Stephan Knauss a écrit : Hi, The landsat WMS service is dead. Server returns this: This server no longer provides full WMS services! They suggest to use tiled WMS. Is this working with JOSM? http://onearth.jpl.nasa.gov/ Unfortunately for many areas Landsat is still the

Re: [OSM-talk] Postmortem analysys

2011-01-08 Thread Vincent Pottier
Le 08/01/2011 02:34, Mike N. a écrit : I'm not familiar with how survey marks are used - are there multiple marks at the same lat/lon but different ele? Not always but very often, the French IGN made several geodesic points on the same object to alow multiple mesurement.[1] The typical case

Re: [OSM-talk] Postmortem analysys

2011-01-07 Thread Vincent Pottier
Le 07/01/2011 22:49, Mike N. a écrit : Consider me firmly in the "it's a bug" camp. Routers in general work with data from different sources; but it's a bug in OSM to have an intended connection only be close but not connected.There's no minimum node distance for disconnected nodes -

Re: [OSM-talk] Massive import of airports

2010-12-17 Thread Vincent Pottier
Le 17/12/2010 13:08, ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen a écrit : OSM is an open system. Anyone can contribute as he likes. Not only... Anyone can contribute for making data beter. We don't always agree on what is beter. But we discuss it. And we generaly agree that dupes are worse.

Re: [OSM-talk] Massive import of airports

2010-12-17 Thread Vincent Pottier
Le 17/12/2010 11:34, Stefan de Konink a écrit : On Fri, 17 Dec 2010, Andrew Harvey wrote: On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Stefan de Konink wrote: Come on, this is non-sense. If someone accepted the CT and imports the data, it should be enough. I disagree, if there is reasonable evidence o

Re: [OSM-talk] Massive import of airports

2010-12-17 Thread Vincent Pottier
Le 17/12/2010 09:43, David Paleino a écrit : What do you think about reverting these changesets? +1 Imports must have been object of previous discussions, on legacy (but it seems right) and on methods and it apears the import is creating a lot of dupes. I have seen a lot of town imported i

Re: [OSM-talk] Massive import of airports

2010-12-17 Thread Vincent Pottier
Le 17/12/2010 09:43, David Paleino a écrit : What do you think about reverting these changesets? +1 Imports must have been object of previous discussions, on legacy (but it seems right) and on methods and it apears the import is creating a lot of dupes. I have seen a lot of town imported i

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

2010-12-14 Thread Vincent Pottier
Le 14/12/2010 16:42, Martijn van Exel a écrit : The BBOX is available through the Bing API, could be added easily. Martijn I've added it on the mapJumper. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/MapJumper But there is a bug. The zoom parameter key is 'z' not 'zoom' as on openLayers compatibles site

Re: [OSM-talk] Explicit tagging of name language

2010-12-06 Thread Vincent Pottier
Le 06/12/2010 12:52, Steve Bennett a écrit : On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 9:48 PM, Ed Avis wrote: We could add per-country or per-geographical-area rules about what the 'default' language is. But that seems like the wrong answer, and would give the wrong result in many cases. Seems like t

Re: [OSM-talk] Explicit tagging of name language

2010-12-06 Thread Vincent Pottier
Le 06/12/2010 11:22, MD a écrit : Hi, Ed Avis wrote: [...] I believe the answer, as so often, is to improve the tagging used so that software has the information it needs. In this case an explicit English- language name should be added, so we have name=Scotland name:en=Scotland

Re: [OSM-talk] length of of a way

2010-10-20 Thread Vincent Pottier
On 20/10/2010 13:37, Floris Looijesteijn wrote: Hey, I've been tracing rivers in the Philippines for HOT and was wondering if there's an easy way to see how many kilometers I've traced. Anyone know of a tool? Otherwise I will try to develop something. Greets, Floris Looijesteijn Have a lo

Re: [OSM-talk] spot imagery for osm tracing

2010-10-05 Thread Vincent Pottier
On 05/10/2010 16:06, Jean-Francois (Jeff) Faudi wrote: And I just want to correct the spelling for the source tag : source=Cnes / Spot Image Sorry A old family story with the CNET (telecommunication)... -- FrViPofm ___ talk mailing list talk@openst

Re: [OSM-talk] spot imagery for osm tracing

2010-10-05 Thread Vincent Pottier
On 05/10/2010 15:11, Pieren wrote: On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason mailto:ava...@gmail.com>> wrote: but it seems that SPOT is an aggregate of differently licensed data. So what applies to France doesn't for the rest of the world. But maybe someone else c

Re: [OSM-talk] Are there any other projects in a similar fork situation? (Slightly OT)

2010-10-02 Thread Vincent Pottier
On 02/10/2010 05:51, Brendan Morley wrote: I actually investigated the use of public domain principles - however Australian copyright law does not allow it. The best we can do is a CC BY with zero attribution. If there's anyone out there who can let me know why zero attribution is not a goo

Re: [OSM-talk] Legal discussion on talk@

2010-08-13 Thread Vincent Pottier
On 13/08/2010 22:41, Liz wrote: I think that is censorship. Not every person on talk belongs to legal-talk. If a poster wishes to spread a message more widely to the community, they should be quite free to do so. If a poster says on this ML : "there is an important debate on legal-talk about

Re: [OSM-talk] Comprehensive set of GPS track logs

2010-07-12 Thread Vincent Pottier
On 12/07/2010 08:32, Lukas Kabrt wrote: I need data that give overal view of traffic in some area. So basicly I mean "lots of". I have writen a little python script that scrap track pages on osm with a keyword. It gives you the list of GPX sharing this keyword. It does not download the trac

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM is back after maintenance

2010-07-03 Thread Vincent Pottier
Le 03/07/2010 13:32, Grant Slater a écrit sur talk : Talk, OpenStreetMap is now back after the planned maintenance. Happy mapping. / Grant Part of OpenStreetMap sysadmin team. OSM est de retour après maintenance. Thanks to you. -- FrFiPovm ___

Re: [OSM-talk] [proposal] Default values in a relation "definition"

2010-05-28 Thread Vincent Pottier
Le 28/05/2010 16:00, Vincent Pottier wrote : > ... > I beg your pardon. The link : http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relations/Proposed/Definition -- FrViPofm ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] [proposal] Default values in a relation "definition"

2010-05-28 Thread Vincent Pottier
After several discussion on different mailing-lists (talk & talk-fr), I have created a proposal for experimenting a way to include the default values into the data. The aim is to get available those default values per countries or other areas. You are invited to comment it in the talk page, es

Re: [OSM-talk] Navigation Debug Map Style Available

2010-05-24 Thread Vincent Pottier
Le 24/05/2010 11:20, Frederik Ramm a écrit : > Hi, > > Vincent Pottier wrote: >> I have started to implement it as a test : >> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/11980 (relation France) >> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/934933 (relation >>

Re: [OSM-talk] Navigation Debug Map Style Available

2010-05-24 Thread Vincent Pottier
Le 24/05/2010 09:54, Vincent Pottier a écrit : > I suggested somewhere that we could enter the defintion of default > values, maxsped and other stuff in the relation boundary where they > would apply, like the timezone. > > Usualy those values should be entered in the c

Re: [OSM-talk] Navigation Debug Map Style Available

2010-05-24 Thread Vincent Pottier
Le 24/05/2010 06:52, Steve Bennett a écrit : > On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 1:35 AM, Richard Welty wrote: > >> yes. there's little hope for useful defaults, the defaults vary too much >> from place to place. >> > > From country to country perhaps, and maybe state to state - but not > within s

Re: [OSM-talk] Post code areas

2010-04-01 Thread Vincent Pottier
Le 01/04/2010 22:45, Someoneelse a écrit : > Frederik Ramm wrote: > >> ... Surely you would create a boundary relation that >> *uses* the way representing the river to construct the boundary - rather >> than tracing the boundary line over the river line and having two >> separate ways? >>

Re: [OSM-talk] Automatically adding open wireless access points

2010-03-26 Thread Vincent Pottier
Le 26/03/2010 12:39, Gregory a écrit : > I think you would need a separate database for the collection. I a first time, it would be nice to have access to the Fon database. http://maps.fon.com/ And to tell them to use OSM rather than google map ! Who is a Fon member in the OSM community ? -- FrVi

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-talk-fr] duplicated nodes en France

2010-03-25 Thread Vincent Pottier
Et voila ! Le 25/03/2010 08:26, Fred Jelk a écrit : > depuis une semaine, il y a des milles des duplicated nodes en France. > Il y a des milliers de points proches en x, y ou z. Nous avons importé le système géodésique français. Les points proches sont en général dans une relation:site. Certai

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Logo vote

2010-03-17 Thread Vincent Pottier
Le 17/03/2010 19:33, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) a écrit : > Well, you wouldn't be saying that if you had to sift through those 300 > emails yourself! > > Cheers > It's not very hard if you send an email (better in html) with some links like * vote for logo 1: mailto:socal...@example.or

[OSM-talk] short links

2010-03-13 Thread Vincent Pottier
Hi, One question : What is the algorithm used to convert the short OSM link from/to lat/lon One sugestion : It sshould be nice to increase the potientiality of the osm.org. I explain : http://osm.org/go/0CUlOS6B- redirects to http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=47.2553&lon=6.0121&zoom=14&layers=B000

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM for walkers / hikers - getting it going!

2010-03-12 Thread Vincent Pottier
Le 11/03/2010 11:58, Nick Whitelegg a écrit : > Hello everyone, > > Thanks for the responses on this. What I would like to do this year is > really try to bring together everyone on the list who is interested in > developing OSM software (both web and mobile) for walkers (hikers) so that > we can m