Re: [OSM-talk] When two bots go to war

2023-09-14 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
Maybe there should be a general good-practice recommendation / policy that bots running in this fashion to keep things in sync should only automatically add/update/remove a tag that they've previously set if the current state/value in OSM is unchanged from the last state/value that the bo

Re: [OSM-talk] I’m running for OSMF board and I’ve set up office hours for questions

2020-12-03 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
s with, or is otherwise exposed to the Produced Work aware that Content was obtained from" OpenStreetMap? I think this is a crucial point that the OSM community needs an answer to, given your candidacy for the OSMF Board. Many thanks, Robert. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] I’m running for OSMF board and I’ve set up office hours for questions

2020-12-02 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
On Wed, 2 Dec 2020 at 03:41, Michal Migurski wrote: > Facebook is in compliance with the ODbL license which requires that > attribution be “reasonably calculated to make any Person that uses, views, > accesses, interacts with, or is otherwise exposed to the Produced Work aware” > of OSM’s cont

Re: [OSM-talk] Let's talk Attribution

2020-05-04 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
On Sun, 3 May 2020 at 23:01, Kathleen Lu via talk wrote: > OSM has imported sources that are ODbL. The attribution to those sources does > not appear on the map, but rather after several clicks (usually first to the > copyright page, then the contributors page). If that's not ac

Re: [OSM-talk] Let's talk Attribution

2020-04-29 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
ication with hidden attribution becomes aware that > Content was obtained from the Database. Indeed. To put this another way -- and a lot of people seem to be mis-understanding this -- whatever attribution an OSM licensee chooses to employ, the licensee needs to be able to make a reasonable argu

Re: [OSM-talk] Is it technically and legally possible to add the Open Location Code to the OSM search?

2018-08-13 Thread Blake Girardot HOT/OSM
uantity these OLC codes will help a lot. Plus the easy to solve case of "looking up" an OLC code is already being added by folks like OSMAnd and OSM if they merge in the existing pull request. I put in issues with two tools that I would like to see support them, the HOT Tasking Mana

Re: [OSM-talk] Is it technically and legally possible to add the Open Location Code to the OSM search?

2018-08-13 Thread Blake Girardot HOT/OSM
Hi Tom, This is an example of the first way I and I think others in the humanitarian world need to use OLCs to evaluate them for what they can or can not solve for humanitarian and other use cases: https://twitter.com/BlakeGirardot/status/1028689726088388609 We need to deal with them at scale, n

Re: [OSM-talk] Is it technically and legally possible to add the Open Location Code to the OSM search?

2018-08-11 Thread Blake Girardot HOT/OSM
On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 10:39 AM, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > Blake Girardot wrote: >> Also: No one is getting paid for anything related to this at this >> point. I personally would like to see Google donate to the OSMF >> and let the OSMF grant it out to help OSM core an

Re: [OSM-talk] Is it technically and legally possible to add the Open Location Code to the OSM search?

2018-08-10 Thread Blake Girardot HOT/OSM
> > I think it will work like this - a dispatcher at an ambulance service says > during a call: "We will not go to your house unless you provide the > plus-code. Bot the Google Maps and OpenStreetMap websites allow to generate > the plus-code for a house." I mean it will not work without a leadersh

Re: [OSM-talk] Is it technically and legally possible to add the Open Location Code to the OSM search?

2018-08-10 Thread Blake Girardot HOT/OSM
ng to push them as solutions for countries without. > > As I've pointed out before, if OSM supports a specific system, it > amounts to us picking a winner , and I really don't think that is a good > idea. w3w wants to make money from royalties, google wants to avoid > paying

Re: [OSM-talk] Is it technically and legally possible to add the Open Location Code to the OSM search?

2018-08-10 Thread Blake Girardot HOT/OSM
to the objects is the fastest, OSM'ish way >> forward. > > Christoph was a bit harsh in his response but I think he is right on teh > fundamentals, and I urge you to reconsider. > > As I have explained in another post just a few minutes ago, taking the > "adding tags to O

Re: [OSM-talk] Is it technically and legally possible to add the Open Location Code to the OSM search?

2018-08-10 Thread Blake Girardot HOT/OSM
at have been voiced this should be universally rejected if > for no other reason then because it would make OSM the laughing stock > of the whole geodata world. Ok, enough of your overly polite, gentle feedback stuff, tell us how you really feel

Re: [OSM-talk] Is it technically and legally possible to add the Open Location Code to the OSM search?

2018-08-09 Thread Blake Girardot HOT/OSM
On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 4:48 PM, Vao Matua wrote: > The Tanzania Development trust has calculated the Plus Code addresses for 17 > million building points in Tanzania and have added a sample village (1800 > points) as a test. > https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/59213224 > > The Python code on

Re: [OSM-talk] Learning to Use Machine Learning - A learn along for folks who want to be using ML in their work.

2018-08-09 Thread Blake Girardot HOT/OSM
Hi Christoph, Thank you very much adding that notice, I was sure someone would :) There are also a tremendous about of use cases for these tools that do not involve putting data in OSM. But rest assure, myself and everyone I interact with know about the guidelines and no one suggests ever not

[OSM-talk] Learning to Use Machine Learning - A learn along for folks who want to be using ML in their work.

2018-08-09 Thread Blake Girardot HOT/OSM
Dear Friends, In case you missed it, Dale Kunce tweeted this out yesterday: The day of Machine Learning and OSM/Humanitarian mapping reckoning is getting closer. Very excited for the possibilities these new methods have for @hotosm @RedCross. Next frontier is making HOT and @TheMissingMaps more

Re: [OSM-talk] Seeking local, active mappers in Sweden

2018-07-23 Thread Blake Girardot HOT/OSM
Hi althio, I knew I must be missing something as it did not seem possible. Thank you very much, I think I am all set now. Still happy to hear from anyone as part of osm-sweden if you are interested in supporting the request we have, but I will use those resources althio provided, to reach out

[OSM-talk] Seeking local, active mappers in Sweden

2018-07-23 Thread Blake Girardot HOT/OSM
Greetings, I did not see a local Sweden talk email list, so my apologies for the email to this list. HOT was contacted about mapping to support fire fighters working in Sweden on the current wildfires there and I would like to connect with active local OSM mappers in Sweden to see if they are

Re: [OSM-talk] GeoChat

2018-01-07 Thread Blake Girardot HOT/OSM
On Sun, Jan 7, 2018 at 4:00 PM, Ilya Zverev wrote: > Nice to hear somebody uses it :) > > Ilya I love GeoChat, not so much the chat part, but the seeing other users in the JOSM viewport "on the ground" part. I love that, it is like exploring together. Cheers blake -- --

Re: [OSM-talk] Misrepresentation of OSM by HOT?

2017-10-30 Thread Blake Girardot HOT/OSM
On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 12:04 AM, Blake Girardot HOT/OSM wrote: > Thanks again and I'll reply when there is something on our staging > site for folks to look at. Hi, We have updated the text on the HOT Tasking Manager in light of the suggestions from this email thread. They will

Re: [OSM-talk] Sudden influx of bad HOTosm edits in West Bank

2017-10-29 Thread Blake Girardot HOT/OSM
Greetings, I SomeoneElse mentioned this in our HOT IRC channel. I have already asked the project creator to take a look. But, are you sure they are bad edits? did you use the 2016 imagery specified in the mapping projet? For example, change set 53330616, the first one i randomly looked at from

Re: [OSM-talk] Misrepresentation of OSM by HOT?

2017-10-23 Thread Blake Girardot HOT/OSM
, and HOT's Training Working Group has maintained and updated it and its translations for years. Half of it is still in the original google docs and we have been trying to convert it all to markdown for years as well. It is purposely not HOT branded as we consider it an OSM Community focused re

Re: [OSM-talk] Misrepresentation of OSM by HOT?

2017-10-23 Thread Blake Girardot HOT/OSM
I feel like it does not clearly describe how it it used in the OpenStreetMap community. It is just a tool for OSM mapping, it is not the whole of OSM and I think people might be confused possibly. It also seems like the OpenStreetMap project and community should be linked to a little more so people

Re: [OSM-talk] Misrepresentation of OSM by HOT?

2017-10-23 Thread Blake Girardot HOT/OSM
Hi Christoph, We can not win if we do or if we do not :) It clearly says the HOT Tasking Manager, which it is. We were asked to change it from OSM Tasking Manager because people felt that was misrepresenting, it was not the OSM Tasking manager, it was HOT's Tasking Manager, so I changed th

Re: [OSM-talk] Name challenge - what to call the new OSM+Wikidata service?

2017-09-17 Thread Blake Girardot HOT/OSM
ed > woq 2 > wdoqs > woqs > q936 > > And these proposed names have OSM in them, so likely are not good according > to Legal > wosm 2 > wikosm > wdosm > wikidosm > > (P.S. Sorry for double - hit send too fast before fixing the first list) > > On Sun, Se

Re: [OSM-talk] Name challenge - what to call the new OSM+Wikidata service?

2017-09-17 Thread Blake Girardot HOT/OSM
> How does this relate to the new draft trademark policy? >> >> I can't tell from the draft policy, but I believe that OSM at least is >> a protected mark, not sure about osm. >> >> But I do think Simone Poole asked the community to stop naming things >&

Re: [OSM-talk] JOSM help

2017-06-01 Thread Blake Girardot HOT/OSM
iling list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > -- Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, TM3 Project Manager skype: jblakegirardot HOT Core Team Contact: i...@hotosm.org Live OSM Mapper-Support channel -

Re: [OSM-talk] Export Tool Community Chat | 30th March

2017-03-29 Thread Blake Girardot HOT/OSM
.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient> > > ___ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > --

Re: [OSM-talk] This is an auto-generated note from MAPS.ME application:

2016-12-09 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
On 9 December 2016 at 11:49, Dave F wrote: > http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Peter%20Mount/notes > > They are all for the same entity. > > How can we stop this annoying repetition? Can it be blocked at OSM's end, > contact individual users or, better still, get it blocked at source? Does > anyon

[OSM-talk] Potlatch down?

2015-12-16 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
Is it just me or is the OSM's built-in potlatch editor not currently working? It loads and the editing functions all seem to work fine, but every time I press save on the "Save Changes" dialog box, I get an the message "Error creating changeset", and nothing is saved. I can't see anything on the

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding Wikidata tags to 70k items automatically

2014-08-30 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
On 27 August 2014 22:06, Andy Mabbett wrote: > There is no license issue. No copyright-protected data is being added > to OSM. No cordinates from Wikidata are being added to OSM. No text > from Wikidata is being added to OSM. While there may not be a problem in this case, and I'm

Re: [OSM-talk] cycle.travel bike routing for Western Europe

2014-07-18 Thread osm . fjf
Am 18.07.2014 19:01, schrieb Richard Fairhurst - rich...@systemed.net: > I'm pleased to report that http://cycle.travel/map now defaults to > kilometres for European routes. :) Thanks! By the way, it's great work you've done. Thank you very much for the map on cycle.travel! You can't imagine how

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-14 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
On 14 March 2014 12:01, Martin Raifer wrote: > OSM having a share-alike licence enabled us to incorporate (and otherwise > use) all kinds of open data sets, which may be licensed PD/CC0, CC-BY, > CC-BY-SA or ODbL. (A lot of open government data in the EU is released under > CC-BY o

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-14 Thread osm
if share alike is so great where are the examples of organisations contributing back to OSM because of it? Mostly I think organisations contribute because it is in their interest to do so (a better map makes their product better) not because the license says they have to. Share alike adds massive c

Re: [OSM-talk] Details about wooded belt in Saratov Oblast?

2014-01-24 Thread osm . fjf
First of all, my sincere thanks go to everyone who sent a reply to my question. :) Am 24.01.2014 07:22, schrieb Ilya Zverev - zve...@textual.ru: > Hi! Sadly there is no English version of that wiki page, but you can > read about that and other forest belts using google translation: > http://tiny

[OSM-talk] Details about wooded belt in Saratov Oblast?

2014-01-23 Thread osm . fjf
Dear Russian readers (and others of course), today, using the OSM slippy map, I came across a regular structure in the Saratov Oblast, Russia. Map data and aerial images suggest it be wood or stripes of wood. It looks like a barrier. Against what or whom? Or when was it grown? The belt starts

Re: [OSM-talk] Using OpenStreetMap on a daily basis

2013-07-13 Thread osm
On Sat, 13 Jul 2013 11:17:37 +0200, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote: > >Given the current budget, the issue of a bold foray into the web-scale >provision of consumer services would resolve itself quite easily : the >unsustainable project would soon implode and revert to its stable >sta

Re: [OSM-talk] Using OpenStreetMap on a daily basis

2013-07-11 Thread osm
On Thu, 11 Jul 2013 19:12:06 +1000, Ian Sergeant wrote: > >In my opinion, it was an unfortunate decision taken when >openstreetmap.orgmoved from being the wiki site, to the being our own >map rendering. > >Sure, we need to have a rendered map as part of OSM, but I have a >

Re: [OSM-talk] Using OpenStreetMap on a daily basis

2013-07-09 Thread osm
dly it >would be so insanely popular that we would have to turn the project >inside out to support it (we already have some of the issues without >even trying). > I don't think that would be the case as gmaps is so ingrained in most peoples surfing habits that they aren't suddenl

Re: [OSM-talk] Using OpenStreetMap on a daily basis

2013-07-09 Thread osm
Frederik, On Tue, 09 Jul 2013 09:53:54 +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote: > >... > >The great thing about OSM is not that we might one day have a site >where you can do everything that you can do on Google too; the great >thing is that everyone can set up their *own* site where you

Re: [OSM-talk] Who interprets semicolon in tag values?

2013-05-31 Thread osm
Hi Jochen, mkgmap (the program, which generates Garmin-maps) is able to handle these ;-separated values in it's style-file. There is a function returning a specified value. You can also specify the seperator-char. Eg. you can "ask": give me the second value-part which is seperated with ; Henning

Re: [OSM-talk] List: Densely Mapped Areas

2013-05-24 Thread osm
On Fri, 24 May 2013 20:49:33 +0700 Pavel Melnikov wrote: > OMG, they have imported positions of every tree in the area! (I am > looking at this one: > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=3.84358&lon=11.48785&zoom=16&layers=M) > Looks very pretty but where are the street names, poi's, footways, cr

Re: [OSM-talk] Rendering of Farmland not 'Light' enough? Updated Proposals

2013-01-06 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
On 6 January 2013 19:13, Rob Nickerson wrote: > Thanks for the feedback. I have tested some other shades: > > https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B6J5ZA1hu93bMzVMQ1Z1SHFqcmM I think the first of the new ones under "Update 1" (lighter brown; same lightness as landuse=residential) looks fine. I don't

Re: [OSM-talk] Rendering of Farmland not 'Light' enough?

2013-01-06 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
On 6 January 2013 01:54, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: > I prefer landuse areas to be darker than the default light gray background > color in the Standard rendering. This makes it obvious (especially on LCD > screens where lightness/luminance of colors vary depending on the viewing > angle) that the

Re: [OSM-talk] License Change plans?

2012-08-16 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM)
On 16 August 2012 10:34, Simon Poole wrote: > The LWG meets once per week and, you wouldn't believe it, in general has > its minutes online shortly afterwards. > > Our take on the change over is here: > https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1j4wiDqukbRGNDh9kC-cUL6j3t4NhlcVgancqieHywK0 > > Work h

Re: [OSM-talk] License Change plans?

2012-08-16 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM)
"On 13 August 2012 17:06, Mike N wrote: > Now that the redaction bot has finished, what is remaining to bless the > database as ODBL? > > Just asking because it will be good to see some of the consumers be able > to switch to pulling their feeds from the new license rather than displaying > data f

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch2 preset "designation"

2012-08-08 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM)
On 8 August 2012 13:07, Pieren wrote: > In recent times, I've noticed more and more contributions with an > inappriopriate usage of the tag "designation" (e.g. duplicates "name" > content in amenities or buildings). Further investigations showed that > all of them came from Potlatch2 editor where

[OSM-talk] How to move Potlatch map to specific coordinates whilst editing (without zooming out)?

2012-06-29 Thread Spod OSM
Is there any way to move the map to a specific coordinates whilst editing in Potlatch and stay at the same zoom level? I know 1 way, which is to enter the coordinates into the "search" box, select the coordinates item from the search list and then say "Cancel" when it asks if you want to "m

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

2012-05-20 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM)
the "?" is worthless and should be thrown away? I think that your rational here needs to be explained further before you proceed, perhaps with some typical data to illustrate the problem you're attempting to correct. (You can't expect people to look through the .osm file to find

[OSM-talk] Associated Press article: "Crowds create Wikipedia-style maps of the world"

2012-03-22 Thread Spod OSM
http://www.japantoday.com/category/lifestyle/view/crowds-create-wikipedia-style-maps-of-the-world?utm_campaign=jt_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=jt_newsletter_2012-03-22_AM ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.

Re: [OSM-talk] How to start to remove non-CT compliant data..

2011-09-03 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM)
On 3 September 2011 05:03, Russ Nelson wrote: > The first is a contract of adhesion: "Here's my > work; I renounce any copyright claims over it." The OSMF has the > choice of accepting that contract or rejecting it, just as it does the > contract formed by agreeing to the Contributor Terms. I don'

Re: [OSM-talk] Announce: Beginning of Phase 4 of license change process

2011-06-15 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM)
On 15 June 2011 14:41, Richard Weait wrote: > There have been several attempts to engage with OS, if I remember > correctly, both by LWG and by individual mappers.  They've been > resistant. There would presumably be no need to "engage with OS" if LWG was happy that the OS OpenData License was co

[OSM-talk] Positioning issue with Open Mapquest

2011-06-02 Thread Nakor Osm
Hello, I searching points by coordinates in various online map providers and notices that OpenMapquest is off. For example if I look for 42.7326,-84.556991 Bing, Google, Mapquest and openstreetmap.org will find the intersection of W Allegan and S Walnut in Lansing, MI ( http://maps.google.com/

[OSM-talk] Mapquest URLS

2011-04-25 Thread Nakor Osm
Hi, Is there a way to get a "human readable" URL for MapQuest open maps? i.e. in a form where you have longitude, latitude and zoom? My goal is to add it to my OsmJumper settings. Thanks, N. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.ope

[OSM-talk] XAPI issues

2011-04-17 Thread Nakor Osm
Hello, I am trying to use XAPI but am facing the following problems: http://xapi.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/... returns a blank page http://open.mapquestapi.com/xapi/api/0.6/... slows down on finally crashes my browser (FF4 on WIndows, FF3.6 on Linux). Any idea how to get XAPI to work? Thanks

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CTs and the 1 April deadline

2011-01-04 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM)
ibution on a produced work, via the OSM link back to the OSM list of sources page would be sufficient for OS OpenData. But that still doesn't get round the problem of no attribution requirement on derivatives of produced works. I guess the only way round this would be to argue that the "uses,

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] OS Opendata & the new license

2010-09-16 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM)
anging emails with OS about their license and OSM for some time. I had an email from OS today in which they state that they believe that ODbL is incompatible with their attribution requirements (because there is no requirement for produced works to carry attribution to them) and also incompati

[OSM-talk] Fwd: planet-100331.osm-broken

2010-04-01 Thread Nakor Osm
Sorry I meant to send this to talk but gmail auto-completed to talk-us. -- Forwarded message -- From: Nakor Osm Date: Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:06 AM Subject: planet-100331.osm-broken To: talk...@openstreetmap.org Hello, Was there an issue with the planet extract this week? If

[OSM-talk] Aerial photographs (5cm per pixel) is now available from Dortmund

2010-03-21 Thread osm-dortmund dortmund
st to release aerial photographs of other towns for the OSM community. Special thanks goes to the German FOSSGIS as contractors. and now a lot of fun with the aerial photographs OSM-Treff Dortmund ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lis

[OSM-talk] coastline within a park

2010-03-06 Thread osm easingwold
Robin Paulson wrote: i'm after some advice. i know this is potentially tagging for the renderer, but still i've recently mapped a park which contains a basin. when the tiles render, the whole area, including the water, renders green. how would i tag this so the renderer understands the water

Re: [OSM-talk] Economist article on mapping

2009-09-10 Thread osm
Thats why a few of us added comments if you look at the full article. http://www.economist.com/sciencetechnology/tq/DisplayStory.cfm?story_id= 14299568 Cheers, Chris On Sep 10, 2009 16:06 "John Smith" wrote: > 2009/9/10 Ed Avis : > > Surprising that this mentions Google Ma

Re: [OSM-talk] how to map this? cycleway or footpath?

2009-09-10 Thread osm
Valent Turkovic wrote: > Hi, > how should I map this - > http://www.flickr.com/photos/valent_turkovic/3900795904/ > > highway=cycleway + pedestrian=yes > > OR > > highway=footway + bicycle=yes > > Are these two the same? What is the difference? > > I prefer highway=cycleway + foot=yes. Cheers,

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

2009-09-07 Thread matthew-osm
Hi, On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 06:11:27PM -0400, Richard Weait wrote: > I often find myself wondering how many are subscribed to the various > osm lists. Out of interest, as a snapshot just now: 1146 on talk 719 on dev 258 on talk-gb Cheers, -- M

[OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - scuba_diving

2009-09-04 Thread spielkind . osm
Proposal for tagging of scuba-diving relevant things like divespots, dive-centers or dive-shops. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/scuba_diving -- Jetzt kostenlos herunterladen: Internet Explorer 8 und Mozilla Firefox 3 - sicherer, schneller und einfacher! http://portal

[OSM-talk] Lithuanian revert

2009-03-18 Thread OSM Foundation Admin
--ENGLISH Further down-- Duomenų darbo grupė (anksčiau vadinta Vandalizmo darbo grupe) tyrė galimą duomenų autorinių teisių pažeidimą Lietuvoje. Šio tyrimo pasekoje buvo nuspręsta užblokuoti kai kurias paskyras, ir ištrinti jų įvestus duomenis. Pradinis įtarimas buvo iškeltas el. pašto konferenc

[OSM-talk] New debian repository Structure on www.gpsdrive.de/debian

2009-01-12 Thread Joerg Ostertag (OSM Tettnang/Germany)
Hi all users of debian based systems, I started to use the new "build-cluster" here. So all the debian packages in the repository got a fresh new build. - I also seperated etch and lenny. - And started added some more platforms. (i386/amd64) - Also started with Ubuntu builds. All this can now

Re: [OSM-talk] Your whishlist for Debian Packages?

2008-12-28 Thread Joerg Ostertag (OSM Tettnang/Germany)
stributing an API 0.4 version of gosmore. So > if you can just block that, I'd be grateful. > > Regards, > Nic > > On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 8:26 PM, Joerg Ostertag (OSM Tettnang/Germany) > > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > as most of you probably know

[OSM-talk] Your whishlist for Debian Packages?

2008-12-28 Thread Joerg Ostertag (OSM Tettnang/Germany)
Hi, as most of you probably know I'm providing debian packages for the most common tools needed to work with OpenStreetMap. What I'd like to know is: - which additional tools from the osm-svn would you like to see added to the debian repository? - which other debian based

Re: [OSM-talk] Why is JOSM upload so slow?

2008-11-15 Thread Joerg Ostertag (OSM Tettnang/Germany)
On Samstag 15 November 2008, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Keith Ng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am currently uploading fixed coastline from JOSM and I notice that the > > upload is excruciatingly slow. The maximum speech achievable is around > > 1.5KB/s and t

[OSM-talk] Compile Error in josm-ng

2008-11-04 Thread Joerg Ostertag (OSM Tettnang/Germany)
I have problems building the debian Package because of a Compile Problem in josm-ng. Please can someone fix this. Thanks Joerg - Compile Josm-ng BUILD SUCCESSFUL Total time: 0 seconds [javac] /home/tweety/svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/editors/josm-ng/src/org/openstreet

[OSM-talk] josm installer for windows is back

2008-10-26 Thread Joerg Ostertag (OSM Tettnang/Germany)
and the osm repository. josm-setup-latest.exe will always be a symlink to the newest Version. -- Jörg (Germany, Tettnang) http://www.ostertag.name/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Campus map - Who's got a good one?

2008-10-07 Thread matthew-osm
On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 10:29:26AM +0100, Jonathan Bennett wrote: > Ian Dees wrote: > > It might be interesting to start a "draw your campus" competition > > similar to the one that Google did for its Sketchup application, but on > > OSM. What d'ya think? >

Re: [OSM-talk] Need help!

2008-09-14 Thread osm
Hi, > - 743 were modified or deleted with someone else having edited them > after Dmitry (734 AkMeR, 9 Johnny Carlsen). These were not > touched by the script. Feel free to revert my edits as well, I went there to see what had happened, not knowing I actually did any changes. I reverted fro

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap routing service

2008-09-07 Thread osm
> This also seems much faster than when I was looking at it yesterday. > There have been no speed optimizations (apart from the marker placement 'lag' bug). The server is doing a lot of other things beside hosting the routing service. Also the Gazetteer (Namefinder) service has it's ups and down

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap routing service

2008-09-06 Thread osm
On Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:47:00 +0100, Lester Caine <> wrote: > Interesting choice of routes when going north up the M6 but I'm sure at > times > that taking the back roads would be quicker ;) > Do you have an example (using the Permalink) that gives a 'faulty' route? There are several possibilitie

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap routing service

2008-09-06 Thread osm
On Sat, 6 Sep 2008 18:31:38 +0200, "leblatt" <> wrote: > Only critic I see, is that more emphasis could be but on choosing larger > ways when several are available. Like, choose a secondary instead of an > unclassified if it makes the trip just a bit longer, but much easier and > safer. I've notic

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap routing service

2008-09-06 Thread osm
> Some nitpicking (using FF3 on WinXP) > > One thing annoyed me while playing around: disabling the edit text > fields while waiting for namefinder and routing results is confusing - > more than once I wasn't sure what's going on! > The site supports only one simultaneous AJAX call at the moment

Re: [OSM-talk] [GSoC] JOSM Plugins

2008-09-04 Thread Joerg Ostertag (OSM Tettnang/Germany)
On Donnerstag 04 September 2008, Subhodip Biswas wrote: > hi all ! > > JOSM has got two new plugins as a part from summer of code this year . > > 1) First one is GPSBabel Plugin . > 2) Second one is DirectUpload Plugin . > > please visit : > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/User:Subhodip/GSo

Re: [OSM-talk] Announce: Another JOSM plugin for PhotoMapping (MOM users, take note)

2008-09-04 Thread Joerg Ostertag (OSM Tettnang/Germany)
On Donnerstag 04 September 2008, Matthew Flint wrote: > Hello List, > > "ImageWayPoint", a new plugin for JOSM, is intended to help with ... > Feedback welcome :-) What about adding it to http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/editors/josm/plugins and adding it to the build This way it

Re: [OSM-talk] GPS receiver orientation

2008-07-26 Thread Joerg Ostertag (OSM Tettnang/Germany)
ck if I walk along while it's trying? > > I don't know the chipset, if that makes a difference - I think it may be > SirfStar II. The wiki would know (I'm offline as I type). The Antenna of the naviGPS can be seen here: http://www.ostertag.name/osm/NaviGPS/thumbs/TN_960x1280_i

Re: [OSM-talk] path or byway ?

2008-07-22 Thread matthew-osm
Hi, On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 06:13:39PM +0100, David Earl wrote: > They are universally rural. They are tracks, yes, but formally public > whereas a track will typically be associated with a farm ore similar. Mostly rural, but not all. There are two in Loughborough that I am aware of - one "Cros

[OSM-talk] NaviGPS problems (lockups) + reset solution

2008-06-30 Thread matthew-osm
Hi all, Just for the record, for all those that have NaviGPS devices, or their derivative. I've got two of these, and had problems with both[0]. The second one I got locked up after a while of using a bad SD card. It froze hard and would not power off. It was under warranty, and Storage Depot kin

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM in Germany

2008-06-29 Thread Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany)
On Sonntag 29 Juni 2008, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > >my girlfriend just came up with the best ever term for OSM activities > in Germany: Krautsourcing ;-) Doesn't sound nice for us Germans ... http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krauts -- Jörg (Germany, Tettnang) http://

Re: [OSM-talk] GPSBabel 1.3.5

2008-05-13 Thread Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany)
le on linux you would do something like: > > gpsbabel -w -f navilink -i /dev/ttyUSB0 -F gpx -o waypoints.gpx > > Any problems, give me a shout... > > Tom -- Jörg (Germany, Tettnang) http://www.ostertag.name/ irc://irc.oftc.net/#osm Tel.: +49 89 420950304 Skype: JoergOste

Re: [OSM-talk] Easy way to export to Illustrator?

2008-04-05 Thread matthew-osm
Hi, On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 09:30:20PM +0200, Axel von Matern wrote: > Is there a easy way to get my OSM data into Illustrator? Does Illustrator import PostScript? In which case you might be able to use osmps[1] (save from JOSM and then run osmps to create PostScript) - otherwise take the n

Re: [OSM-talk] Geofabrik planet extracts

2008-03-30 Thread Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany)
On Sonntag 30 März 2008, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > >> I'm trying to cut stuff exactly at the border, in case people want to > >> run statistics (how many miles of road in France, etc). If my border > >> polygons are wrong, I'm happy to convert the

Re: [OSM-talk] Geofabrik planet extracts

2008-03-30 Thread Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany)
On Sonntag 30 März 2008, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Him > > > A question to the person who's in charge of the extracts at > > http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/europe/ : > > > > is it possible to add an extra 10km wide strip outside the country > > borde

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM "real" paper map of Freiburg, Germany

2008-03-30 Thread Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany)
we have printed 1,000 copies for a total price of 360 Euros > plus VAT. The printing is paid for by GAV, one of the conference > sponsors. One side of the map has a detailed city plan, the other > side has a "grand picture" overview and copious OSM

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping with a data logger

2008-03-26 Thread Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany)
g (Germany, Tettnang) http://www.ostertag.name/ irc://irc.oftc.net/#osm Tel.: +49 89 420950304 Skype: JoergOstertag ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Woodland on a university campus (using layers to make areas render)

2008-03-16 Thread matthew-osm
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 02:44:21PM +, OJ W wrote: > Where an area of natural=wood is inside an area of amenity=university, the > woodland doesn't appear unless you put it at layer>0 > > http://informationfreeway.org/?lat=52.9356064080633&lon=-1.2017670228240827&zoom=17&layers=B000F000F > > ho

Re: [OSM-talk] Cannot correct ring self intersection --> josm enhancement needed?

2008-03-13 Thread Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany)
So maybe this is woth an enhancement request for josm ... -- Jörg (Germany, Munich) http://www.ostertag.name/ irc://irc.oftc.net/#osm Tel.: +49 89 420950304 Skype: JoergOstertag ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Cannot correct ring self intersection

2008-03-12 Thread Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany)
On Donnerstag 13 März 2008, Jukka Rahkonen wrote: > Hi, > > I found about 100 topology errors from polygons in Finland with the > following work flow: > > - OSM-data are in PostGIS > - I took polygons with topology errors directly into OpenJUMP map with db > query: select

[OSM-talk] NOAA Data as Datasource

2008-03-03 Thread Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany)
f license) to import these vector Data into openstreetmap. This would even increase the benefit > If the maps are license compatible that's not a problem for the NOAA data, like the USA TIGER data which just went into OSM the US Gov't data is without copyright. But that is only

Re: [OSM-talk] rendering with mapnik, what do I need?

2008-03-02 Thread Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany)
eally that simple...? > > > > I'm surprised by that reaction... I just read the Mapnik page and > > thought "that's flipping complicated". > > > > Mapnik itself, judging by http://www.mapnik.org/, seems to regard the > > whole PosgreSQL thing a

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] RFC open - new key - aqueduct=yes

2008-02-16 Thread matthew-osm
Hi Gerv, On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 09:35:42AM +, Gervase Markham wrote: > Gervase Markham wrote: > > Currently, we have "waterway=aqueduct" on nodes only. It seems to me to > > make much more sense to treat aqueducts like bridges, with which they > > are closely analogous. So we should replace

Re: [OSM-talk] Move tagging RfCs/voting to extra list?

2008-02-15 Thread matthew-osm
Hi, On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 01:08:33PM +, Nick Black wrote: > On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Frederik Ramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > You win, I did't know mailman had this feature. (Sounds to me like a > > positive selection though, i.e. you have to defined what you want, not > >

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM icons

2008-02-01 Thread Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany)
> Your way with using URLs has a drawback, as it adds a dependency to the > OSM Wiki. When the Wiki is down (or the URL moves or so) the rendering > will missing the icons. However, might be a hypothetical issue ;-) You might be able to circumvent the Problems by using the icons from on

Re: [OSM-talk] Move tagging RfCs/voting to extra list?

2008-01-30 Thread Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany)
reate an extra list for formal aspects of tagging discussions. Yes please! -- Jörg (Germany, Munich) http://www.ostertag.name/ irc://irc.oftc.net/#osm Tel.: +49 89 420950304 Skype: JoergOstertag ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] how can I print a atlas ?

2008-01-30 Thread matthew-osm
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 03:35:02PM +0100, Axel R. wrote: > I would like print the map (to ckeck IRL the streets...) > How can I do this easely ? osmps? http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/rendering/osmps Generates PostScript from a .osm file. Example code at the bottom will split t

Re: [OSM-talk] Bridges / viaducts for railways

2008-01-29 Thread matthew-osm
Hi, On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 07:16:25PM -, Andy Robinson (blackadder) wrote: > >> Why is it not a property like bridge, cutting etc. and > >> will it render correctly? Should it be changed to > >> viaduct=yes? > > > >Ewww, yuck... boolean flags. > > > >Personally I would tag as: > > > > railwa

Re: [OSM-talk] "Crudely-drawn pint glasses"

2008-01-29 Thread matthew-osm
ere. I'd like > to recommend they use an OSM map instead, but looking at the area: > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.45561&lon=-0.96828&zoom=16&layers=B0FT > I find that the area they would screenshot is covered with crudely-drawn > pint glasses.[0] > Ask

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