>> I've been thinking about the 12nm territorial borders on sea that
>> we have in many places, notably in Europe. Many of them seem to have
>> been auto-generated by simply placing a buffer around the coastline.
>>
>> My first question is, do they really have legal significance? They
>
> Just tha
> On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 19:30 +, Steve Doerr wrote:
>> > Nothing official, but it would be very unusual for anybody to call
>> > something that wasn't surfaced a road.
>>
>> Unless they were expatriates in a third-world country?
>
> please refrain from such remarks - I suppose you think we map
> Hi,
> I was just wondering is there a GPS track somewhere which actually marks
> the
> tropic of cancer. While downloading maps for oziexplorer, I have the
> option
> of overlaying a gpx track. With tropic of cancer track, my map would have
> a
> nice red line crossing it marking the tropic of c
>
>
> Am 07.09.2010 18:01, schrieb Mâ¡rtin Koppenhoefer:
>> craft=fashion should be fashion_designer to correpond to the
>> translation, but still this is not a craft. I would put it in office.
> I don't think so, but I'd be happy to discuss the pros and cons.
>
> I see a fashion_designer as someb
> 2) The "worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable
> license to do any act that is restricted by copyright over anything
> within the Contents, whether in the original medium or any other"
> gives them that.
>
I got far enough through the Australian Copyright Act at the week
> On 28/08/10 14:47, Joe Richards wrote:
>> For those of us who perhaps haven't watched all of the threads too
>> carefully, is there such a thing as a list of the issues the new ODbL
>> was intended to address (its pros) and the problems that those who
>> wish to stick to the CC-by-SA license perc
> On 27/08/2010 14:17, ed...@billiau.net wrote:
>> In a town which does not have underground storm water management, the
>> gutters at the side of the roads have to cross one of the roads at an
>> intersection so you have a half-elliptical shaped culvert which traffic
>> crosses, making a little
>
> ford=culvert is even more insane. There is either a ford or a culvert.
> It's
> physically impossible to be both at the same time.
>
I said "like a ford" in the first place. To me the ford crosses a natural
waterway, and the culvert is not a natural waterway.
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>>
>> Sorry, I should have photographed one I passed this morning, complete
>> with
>> water.
>>
>
> I am sure there will be other opportunities to take that photo.
>
> Emilie Laffray
rain has been pretty rare in the last 10 years, so only twice since then
have I seen the water in the little culv
> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 8:55 AM, wrote:
>>> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 6:50 AM, Pieren wrote:
is that okay if I modify the wiki page and suggest to use
"tunnel=culvert" (and "ford=culvert" / "bridge=culvert") instead of
the
ambivalent "culvert=yes" ?
>>>
>>> I'd like to know
> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 6:50 AM, Pieren wrote:
>> is that okay if I modify the wiki page and suggest to use
>> "tunnel=culvert" (and "ford=culvert" / "bridge=culvert") instead of the
>> ambivalent "culvert=yes" ?
>
> I'd like to know what ford=culvert means first.
>
> __
> On Friday 27 August 2010 05:34:00 John F. Eldredge wrote:
>> That is, indeed, a highly detailed map, but since it doesn't show
>> elevation
>> contours (or at least not any visible at maximum zoom from my phone's
>> browser), it would not be classified as a topographical map. By
>> definition, a
> On 27 August 2010 10:04, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
>>
>> The way I understand it, a culvert is just a tiny pseudo-bridge,
>> physically
>> equivalent to a tunnel under an embankment. Culverts don't show up in
>> the US
>> National Bridge Inventory, which is a database of bridges on public
>> roads
> Absolutely, and we will... in fact, I'm working on it right now. I just
> thought it was worth making the point that housenumbers are (in my humble
> opinion) key to enabling many wider applications of map data.
> Cheers
> b
>
i've been putting in some odd numbers
if i am tagging or shop or off
> There are several suggestions for the front page here. Some of them
> have already been implemented.
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Main_Page
>
> Since you are advocating a substantial redesign perhaps you could
> draft something? I'm certain that the current designers weren't
> aim
> 2010/4/13 andrzej zaborowski
>
>> For the record I'm much more likely to trust Komzpa who's a long time
>> contributor to the community than someone who thinks citizenship has
>> any meaning at all in an argument.
>>
>
> Komzpa is out of reach of Russian state authorities. Russian citizens are
>
> My advice:
>
> set the camera clock in UTC (regardless of where you live; it's the
> One True Timezone :-)
>
> Before going out geotagging, set the clock, because if it's right you
> can either skip or have an easier time with the time sync issue.
>
> take a picture of the GPS receiver
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 4:57 PM, wrote:
>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Stefan Pflumm wrote:
>> >> this ways are all highways.
>> >
>> > It surely is unusual for two highways sharing the same nodes, and I
>> > cannot think of an example where this would make sense. But that
>> doesn't
>> > mean there is no
> Hi,
>
> Stefan Pflumm wrote:
>> this ways are all highways.
>
> It surely is unusual for two highways sharing the same nodes, and I
> cannot think of an example where this would make sense. But that doesn't
> mean there is none; can you give an example?
>
> Bye
> Frederik
>
Double-decker bridge
> Hello,
>
> Is it allowed (or intended) that two different ways share the same
> edges? For example:
> there are nodes a, b, c and two ways A, B with:
> A = (a, b, c)
> B = (c, b, a)
>
> While loading some osm data in a database i realized that there are some
> ways with this "problem", so
> is th
>
>
> I'm aware of the concept that the earth is not flat.
>
> But... This is a two dimensional map. IFAIK there is no 3d data. The PoV
> of viewing the OSM data via the likes of Mapnik is always through the
> surface of the earth to the centre of the earth. Therefore a line such
> as this Oz highw
> 2010/1/2 Steve Bennett :
>> When I looked up WAAS on wikipedia a while ago, it appeared that we do
>> have
>> an equivalent system in Australia (although the term WAAS is american),
>> but
>> I'm not sure how to tell whether it's functioning in a given area. I
>> switched the WAAS capability on t
> On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 7:42 PM, John Smith
> wrote:
>> 2009/12/23 Roy Wallace :
>>> Interestingly, there is NO mention of mapping data. Amazing. How can
>>> they continue to omit this from the discussion?
>>
>> Actually thereg did a good run down on this:
>>
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009
> On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 04:28, Russ Nelson wrote:
>> Ãvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason writes:
>> Â > No it's wrong, imagery now works with JOSM out of the box if you
>> fetch
>> Â > the wmsplugin.
>>
>> it's not working for me. Â I get red Exception occurred boxes.
>
> What errors do you get in the co
s.
>
> I can't for the life of me think what sort of research would require a
> copy of the wiki though.
>
> Tom
>
someone researching social networking ?
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>
> Hi!
>
> Shalabh schrieb:
>> Would just like to figure out if any of you have had the same issue with
>> this model or any other Garmin GPS.
>
> I have a similar Issue with the Garmin Vista HCx. Occasionally I
> observe, that the GPS position is way off the known road/path I am on.
> The satelli
> Lester Caine wrote:
>> We still have not come to any consensus on the general points of mapping
>> and who is in charge so a dictate from above TELLING us to move to a new
>> list seems somewhat out of place?
>>
> I guess it's a matter of perception.
> You see a dictate from above TELLING you to
Frederik said
>
> All this is possible *within* the existing OSM framework and without any
> strong leader telling us where to go. I really do encourage you and all
> those calling for leadership to get together, form your own advisory
> board or tagging committee or whatever, create the structures
>
> Coincidentally I have just had a meeting with someone from one of the
> local councils who is interested in using OSM data for their online
> services. I brought up this issue and he explicitly said that the
> coordinates of the footpaths on the definitive map were derived from
> Ordnance Surv
> 2009/9/28 Lester Caine :
>> And this seems to be the case here?
>
> The problem is the ways are the best place to tag the ABS information,
> and the ABS data just happens to follow rivers, islands, railways and
> roads and so on which is very useful where people can't survey and
> there is no hi-
> John Smith wrote:
>> 2009/9/28 Ruben Wisniewski :
>>> Hi John,
>>>
>>> thank you for your report, but whats wrong with moving the tags to a
>>> relation, this is the common way as far as I know, only all ways
>>> together represent the border, so the relation should hold the tags.
>>> Else if the
>> are you thinking of a paved section intended for walking, or just the
>> space
>> which here could be grass, rough ground, or even gardened?
>
> a paved surface intended for walking
>
> there are places in my village where you can walk on the grass next to
> the road - I've been marking them as
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