Re: [Talk-us] Prima Facie Speed Limits

2014-09-10 Thread Richard Welty
they weren't before. richard -- rwe...@averillpark.net Averill Park Networking - GIS IT Consulting OpenStreetMap - PostgreSQL - Linux Java - Web Applications - Search signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Talk-us mailing list

Re: [Talk-us] Prima Facie Speed Limits

2014-09-10 Thread Richard Welty
different things. richard -- rwe...@averillpark.net Averill Park Networking - GIS IT Consulting OpenStreetMap - PostgreSQL - Linux Java - Web Applications - Search signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us

[OSM-talk] initializing an apidb database

2014-09-08 Thread Richard Welty
an invalid changeset number of 0. what am i overlooking? obviously the db isn't quite right. thanks, richard -- rwe...@averillpark.net Averill Park Networking - GIS IT Consulting OpenStreetMap - PostgreSQL - Linux Java - Web Applications - Search signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

[Talk-ca] Toronto event reminder

2014-09-08 Thread Richard Weait
and self-study around web maps. As with Mappy Hour, newcomers are welcome. We keep our schedules here, http://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Toronto so you can have a look at any time. Best regards and happy mapping, Richard ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk

Re: [Talk-GB] NCN279 Exeter to Okehampton: Secret Cycle Route?

2014-09-08 Thread Richard Fairhurst
sections to the route relation. With that in mind it does seem odd that there are apparently two separate NCN routes running due east of Okehampton (28 and 279), briefly rejoining at Sticklepath. But stranger things have happened... cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327

Re: [Talk-us] Prima Facie Speed Limits

2014-09-08 Thread Richard Welty
it. 30 mph residential is as common as 25 mph, and in my experience it's a statute of the local municipality that imposes the limit. the default speed limit in NYS for unposted roads is 55mph, irrespective of surface type. other states vary; there's a page in the OSM wiki about it. richard -- rwe

Re: [Talk-GB] NCN 279 Exeter to Okehampton (and other destructions)

2014-09-07 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/NCN-279-Exeter-to-Okehampton-and-other-destructions-tp5816800p5816823.html Sent from the Great Britain mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB

Re: [OSM-talk] Own wikipage for every single speed limit??

2014-09-06 Thread Richard Z.
description - which is then nicely displayed by taginfo in the listing of values. However that only works for tag descriptions that were valid at some point in time and can't be used for typo or other kinds of redirects. Richard ___ talk mailing list talk

Re: [Talk-us] Dirt Roads (formerly: Abandoned railway)

2014-09-06 Thread Richard Fairhurst
map, whether for rendering or routing, for truck drivers or car drivers or cyclists, makes it easier for people to get to Cleator, Arizona, and a thousand other places. Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Re-Dirt-Roads-formerly-Abandoned-railway

[Talk-ca] Fwd: [OSM-talk] SOTM in Buenos Aires: Call for Papers

2014-09-04 Thread Richard Weait
Oops. Don't know how this got missed. CfP Buenos Aires closes soon. Get your talk proposals in. -- Forwarded message -- From: Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org Date: Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 5:15 PM Subject: [OSM-talk] SOTM in Buenos Aires: Call for Papers To: Talk Openstreetmap

[Talk-us] Fwd: [OSM-talk] SOTM in Buenos Aires: Call for Papers

2014-09-04 Thread Richard Weait
Oops. Don't know how this got missed. CfP Buenos Aires closes soon. Get your talk proposals in. -- Forwarded message -- From: Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org Date: Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 5:15 PM Subject: [OSM-talk] SOTM in Buenos Aires: Call for Papers To: Talk Openstreetmap

[Talk-ca] Ottawa Openstreetmap Meetup This Month

2014-09-02 Thread Richard Burcher
Hi Folks, If you're in Ottawa or don't mind driving a bit, we're having our next meetup September 26th at 7pm. Details here [1]. Look forward to catching up with everyone:) Cheers, Richard [1] http://www.meetup.com/openstreetmap-ottawa/events/204478052/ -- Please note: I only check email

[Talk-ca] Updating the Wiki Page for Ottawa and Ontario

2014-09-02 Thread Richard Burcher
forward to hearing back from you:) Cheers, Richard [1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canada:Ontario:Ottawa [2] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canada:Ontario -- Please note: I only check email a few times during business hours. Richard Burcher 613-799-4240 Twitter: @richardburcher

Re: [Talk-us] Dirt Roads (formerly: Abandoned railway)

2014-09-01 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Richard Welty wrote: agreed. i have spent quite a lot of time in Iowa farming territory where the road grid consists mostly of high quality, well maintained gravel roads that are in regular, heavy use by farm equipment. i generally give these highway=unclassified, surface=gravel. Great

Re: [OSM-talk] need advice for clever query or script

2014-08-31 Thread Richard Z.
, it might be that they would hide the nodes? Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [Talk-de] Anforderungen des API verletzt - Fehler

2014-08-31 Thread Richard Z.
Weg mit P splittten - sofern Du weißt welcher Weg der Verursacher ist. Nochwas.. Deutsche Fehlermeldungen sind zwar schön aber Englische sind sehr viel praktischer weil man sie viel besser googeln kann. Richard ___ Talk-de mailing list Talk-de

Re: [Talk-GB] UK use of highway=living_street

2014-08-31 Thread Richard Mann
Block paving is very common for residential streets in the Netherlands, so that's not really enough to distinguish a living_street. I'd keep highway=living_street for (at minimum) single surface, no clear distinction between where cars and pedestrians go, and no clear straight route for cars.

Re: [Talk-us] Dirt Roads (formerly: Abandoned railway)

2014-08-31 Thread Richard Welty
. richard -- rwe...@averillpark.net Averill Park Networking - GIS IT Consulting OpenStreetMap - PostgreSQL - Linux Java - Web Applications - Search signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Abandoned railway

2014-08-30 Thread Richard Fairhurst
thousands, millions, of fictional or entirely mistagged roads and tracks? I know it's a long-standing OSM joke, but at this rate we _are_ going to have to import some Germans to the US, because it looks like the only way the map will ever get fixed. cheers Richard -- View this message in context

Re: [Talk-us] Abandoned railway

2014-08-30 Thread Richard Fairhurst
to make it sooner instead. cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Abandoned-railway-tp5815752p5815918.html Sent from the USA mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us

Re: [OSM-talk] need advice for clever query or script

2014-08-29 Thread Richard Z.
On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 02:22:10PM +0200, Imre Samu wrote: Hi Imre, thousands thanks - everything seems to work perfectly as described. one question - if I would want to compile osmium myself the README says that no files need to be build and doesn't say where osmium comes from? Richard

[OSM-talk] JOSM connection problems downloading/uploading data?

2014-08-29 Thread Richard Z.
: Could not generate DH keypair The network connection seems fine, background imagery is laoded fine - is anyone else seeing this?? Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] JOSM connection problems downloading/uploading data?

2014-08-29 Thread Richard Z.
On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 03:08:31PM +0100, Tom Hughes wrote: On 29/08/14 15:01, Richard Z. wrote: having frequent problems today, sometimes everything works and sometimes when downloading/uploading data JOSM says Failed to upload data to or download data from 'https

Re: [OSM-talk] JOSM connection problems downloading/uploading data?

2014-08-29 Thread Richard Z.
On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 03:25:02PM +0100, Tom Hughes wrote: On 29/08/14 15:20, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote: On 29/08/2014 16:14, Tom Hughes wrote: On 29/08/14 15:08, Tom Hughes wrote: On 29/08/14 15:01, Richard Z. wrote: Failed to upload data to or download data from 'https

Re: [OSM-talk] need advice for clever query or script

2014-08-29 Thread Richard Z.
not necessary.. I do not need it quickly and if I will do it will try to create all the RPM specfiles. Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] JOSM connection problems downloading/uploading data?

2014-08-29 Thread Richard Z.
On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 04:39:27PM +0200, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote: On 29/08/2014 16:32, Richard Z. wrote: On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 03:25:02PM +0100, Tom Hughes wrote: On 29/08/14 15:20, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote: On 29/08/2014 16:14, Tom Hughes wrote: On 29/08/14 15:08, Tom Hughes wrote: On 29

Re: [OSM-talk] need advice for clever query or script

2014-08-29 Thread Richard Z.
-ClsuCltMS44KWwcsy3zbRhZHRpbGXgpbXQheClt82N4KW64KW8dM2RzZNhzZXfktClzKnMq8ytzK90Pgc=BL1hpmzFNG; Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] Own wikipage for every single speed limit??

2014-08-28 Thread Richard Z.
Hi, noticed that there is https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Tag:maxspeed%3D20redirect=no and a few more speeds - does it make any sense to have such pages around? Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https

[OSM-talk] need advice for clever query or script

2014-08-28 Thread Richard Z.
to the way * get the results into JOSM for examination and editing Tia for any hints, Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [Talk-at] Brücken

2014-08-27 Thread Richard Z.
Bündelung von mehreren Wegen/Objekten, die auf/an einer Brücke sind). es gibt das bridge:name proposal, wird soweit ich sehe häufig verwendet. Auch man_made=bridge ist dafür geeignet. Richard ___ Talk-at mailing list Talk-at@openstreetmap.org https

Re: [OSM-talk] New mapping satellite

2014-08-24 Thread Richard Z.
in the tube here? Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] online survey about the OSM community

2014-08-23 Thread Richard Weait
clickhole.com has reported that a Local Mapper has responded to misguided surveys by deleting the campus data of the offending institution and replacing it with amenity=kindergarten. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-transit] Information board details in bus stops

2014-08-21 Thread Richard Mann
They get called a bus cage (because of the marking design) or more officially Bus Stop Clearway (ie somewhere where you can't load/park) in the UK. road_markings=yes might be more appropriate On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 4:11 PM, Jo winfi...@gmail.com wrote: In Belgium the letters B U S are

[OSM-talk] Rails port configuration question

2014-08-19 Thread Richard Welty
is there any documentation for config/application.yml beyond the internal comments? i can guess what i need to change in order to get it to point at a local tile service, but it'd be nice to have a few more details to reduce the guessing. thanks, richard -- rwe...@averillpark.net Averill

Re: [OSM-talk] Rails port configuration question

2014-08-19 Thread Richard Welty
On 8/19/14 5:30 PM, Tom Hughes wrote: On 19/08/14 22:10, Richard Welty wrote: is there any documentation for config/application.yml beyond the internal comments? i can guess what i need to change in order to get it to point at a local tile service, but it'd be nice to have a few more details

Re: [OSM-talk] extracts for historical views at a specific point in time

2014-08-16 Thread Richard Welty
thanks for the replies everyone, that all pretty much covered what i needed to know. richard -- rwe...@averillpark.net Averill Park Networking - GIS IT Consulting OpenStreetMap - PostgreSQL - Linux Java - Web Applications - Search signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[OSM-talk] extracts for historical views at a specific point in time

2014-08-14 Thread Richard Welty
i have a need to be able to generate mapnik tiles for part of NY State to show what the OSM view of it looked like maybe 2 years ago. is there a documented process for pulling an extract like that? thanks, richard -- rwe...@averillpark.net Averill Park Networking - GIS IT Consulting

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging of British canals.

2014-08-12 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Hi Richard, I am working my way around the canals of Britain, tracing the canal banks and tidying up locks etc. Your work is really welcome and as someone with a particular interest in the British canals I'm glad to see it taking place. In terms of playing nice with the OSM community, rather

Re: [Talk-us] Quest for foolish consistency

2014-08-09 Thread Richard Welty
or an east and west segment, leaving the prefix on the name even though it does not match the actual signs. Does this seem reasonable? yes. you might want to put the version on the sign in short_name richard -- rwe...@averillpark.net Averill Park Networking - GIS IT Consulting OpenStreetMap

[Talk-ca] Ottawa Mapping Party Friday August 22 @ 1900hr

2014-08-06 Thread Richard Burcher
turbo stuff. We had 10 mappers at the last one (absolute blast), lets break that number! Look forward to seeing you all there. Cheers, Richard [1] www.osmottawa.ca -- Please note: I only check email a few times during business hours. Richard Burcher Twitter: @richardburcher Blog

[Talk-GB] Tagging of British canals.

2014-08-06 Thread richard
page is not good enough then why bother having a wiki? Do we have to resort to the mailing list every time we want to tag something? If there is an accepted way to map canals can someone point me to it? -- Richard. ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB

Re: [Talk-GB] City names translation

2014-08-05 Thread Richard Mann
This thread is already too long (though Fred's contribution was a classic). If people want to add transliterations (or genuinely different names) by hand, then let them. As long as no-one starts doing mass automated transliterations, then it doesn't matter very much. Richard (M) On Tue, Aug 5

Re: [Talk-GB] A431 toll road

2014-08-04 Thread Richard Symonds
who use the private toll road. Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT

Re: [Talk-GB] A431 toll road

2014-08-04 Thread Richard Symonds
Temporary roads need planning permission - and although I'm not sure about this, I imagine it would need public liability insurance etc too. Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827

Re: [Talk-GB] City names translation

2014-08-04 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Andrew Hain wrote: It was only put in recently and I personally find it unhelpful. Would anyone object to removing it? Yes. Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/City-names-translation-tp5813645p5813705.html Sent from the Great Britain mailing list

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Updated geocoding community guideline proposal

2014-08-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Fawlty: Anything else, dear? I mean, would you like the hotel moved a bit to the left? cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/OSM-legal-talk-Updated-geocoding-community-guideline-proposal-tp5813533p5813560.html Sent from the Legal Talk mailing list

Re: [Talk-GB] NaPTAN (stop) import

2014-08-01 Thread Richard Mann
put journeys on stops (as a flag for not rendering them). The frequencies can be summed/combined for particular ways, if required. I had to bodge that a bit for my map, but I'll probably do it properly when (if) I update it, since Maperitive now has a python capability. Richard On Fri, Aug 1

[Talk-us] strange dead link in wiki.openstreetmap.org

2014-07-31 Thread Richard Welty
://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brillant_com_la_purpurina_city#United_States. i'm not getting anything meaningful out of google to explain this, and am reluctant to mess with it because i don't know what it's about. hopefully someone here is knowledgable enough to fix this properly. thanks, richard -- rwe

Re: [Talk-ca] Coastline or not coastline

2014-07-29 Thread Richard Weait
talk-ca@. Let the remote mappers know that local mappers are maintaining those river areas, and their repeated changes are unexpected, add no merit, and may be considered an edit war. Best regards and happy mapping, Richard ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk

Re: [Talk-GB] New mapper has imported all Nottingham street lights

2014-07-29 Thread Richard Symonds
I know this may be a silly question, but why revert if it adds to the map? It runs the risk of alienating a new contributor... I'm not au fait with community rules and would appreciate someone teaching me why we do this :-) Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 Wikimedia UK is a Company

[Talk-us] Lafayette LA mappers? address import?

2014-07-28 Thread Richard Weait
if you have local knowledge), please follow and participate on imports@ and imports-us@. Best regards and happy mapping, Richard [1] I'll ping those that I see in the user map as well. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https

[Talk-ca] Friday night mapping party to help map Lesotho

2014-07-21 Thread Richard Burcher
all there! Cheers, Richard [1] osmottawa.ca [2] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Lesotho_Mapathon -- Please note: I only check email a few times during business hours. Richard Burcher Twitter: @richardburcher Blog: www.richardburcher.com LinkedIn: http://linkd.in/richardburcher

[OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Foundation Corporate Members

2014-07-20 Thread Richard Weait
Since February 2014 your company can support OpenStreetMap Foundation with a corporate membership. The first corporate members were announced today. https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2014/07/20/welcome-corporate-members/ ___ talk mailing list

[Talk-ca] OpenStreetMap Foundation Corporate Members

2014-07-20 Thread Richard Weait
Since February 2014 your company can support OpenStreetMap Foundation with a corporate membership. The first corporate members were announced today. https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2014/07/20/welcome-corporate-members/ ___ Talk-ca mailing list

[Talk-us] OpenStreetMap Foundation Corporate Membership

2014-07-20 Thread Richard Weait
Since February 2014 your company can support OpenStreetMap Foundation with a corporate membership. The first corporate members were announced today. https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2014/07/20/welcome-corporate-members/ ___ Talk-us mailing list

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

2014-07-18 Thread Richard Fairhurst
I'm pleased to report that http://cycle.travel/map now defaults to kilometres for European routes. :) cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/cycle-travel-bike-routing-for-Western-Europe-tp5811759p5811927.html Sent from the General Discussion mailing

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

2014-07-17 Thread Richard Fairhurst
you like it - and, as ever, thanks to all the mappers who have contributed all the lovely data. You can post comments/bugs/suggestions at http://cycle.travel/forum/2 . cheers Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https

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

2014-07-17 Thread Richard Fairhurst
europe or set a cookie? Oh absolutely, I just haven't had time to do that yet. cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/cycle-travel-bike-routing-for-Western-Europe-tp5811759p5811765.html Sent from the General Discussion mailing list archive

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

2014-07-17 Thread Richard Fairhurst
and won't do that I'm afraid. If you want the shortest, quickest route, which presupposes that you're happy cycling along busy main roads, this isn't the router for you. cycle.travel is designed for people who want a more leisurely and enjoyable ride. cheers Richard -- View this message in context

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

2014-07-17 Thread Richard Fairhurst
lights. Not sure what you mean by shape turns - can you explain? 3. I would like to show you some examples but I did not find any link/shortlink feature. Are gpx tracks any help ? You can log into the site and save routes that way - that's probably the best way! cheers Richard -- View

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

2014-07-17 Thread Richard Fairhurst
sabas88 wrote: it looks really nice! Thanks! :) One quick note, it's possible to have routes (also) in metric units? Yep, definitely. I'm working on making it the default for Europe but, for now, you can log in and set your user profile to prefer kilometres. cheers Richard -- View

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Updated geocoding community guideline proposal

2014-07-16 Thread Richard Fairhurst
something that should stand up against the letter and intent of the licence we all signed up to. Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/OSM-legal-talk-Updated-geocoding-community-guideline-proposal-tp5811077p5811521.html Sent from the Legal Talk mailing list

[Talk-ca] OpenStreetMap 10th Birthday Party: Toronto

2014-07-16 Thread Richard Weait
-start your local community. There could be a dozen quiet local mappers waiting for somebody else to organize the event. That's you. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap_10th_Anniversary_Birthday_party Best Regards and Happy Mapping, Richard [1] The monthly Toronto Mappy Hour

Re: [Talk-us] Beach routing

2014-07-11 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 12:50 PM, Elliott Plack elliott.pl...@gmail.com wrote: OSM US: I've been using some routing engines to map fitness routes (e.g. Strava) that use OSM data. Along our US coasts, there are beaches. The beaches I'm familiar with are popular with walkers and joggers to go up

Re: [Talk-ca] Updating Street Centerlines in County of Grey, Ontario, Canada

2014-07-08 Thread Richard Weait
right answer. Again, long answer and fascinating discussion available at our events. And thanks again for your interest in OpenStreetMap. use Best regards, Richard [1] http://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Toronto/ [2] http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/pddl

[Talk-ca] This months Ottawa mapping party

2014-07-06 Thread Richard Burcher
Find the details here [1] and [2]. Let me know if these dates work. I just put them out there to start the discussion. Look forward to seeing you all! Cheers, Richard [1] http://www.meetup.com/openstreetmap-ottawa/events/192567982/ [2] www.osmottawa.ca -- Please note: I only check email

[Talk-ca] Ottawa Community Mapping Website Is Up

2014-07-06 Thread Richard Burcher
Hi folks, Just wanted to let local mappers know we've got a new local webpage [1] setup. My intention with this is to make easier for folks to find the mapping parties being run here as well as an easy tool for folks to get involved etc. Let me know what you think:) Cheers, Richard [1] http

[Talk-ca] Celebrating OSM's Birthday in the Captial

2014-07-06 Thread Richard Burcher
Who's up for helping me organize the Ottawa bday party? Let me know what you think! Cheers, Richard -- Please note: I only check email a few times during business hours. Richard Burcher Twitter: @richardburcher Blog: www.richardburcher.com LinkedIn: http://linkd.in/richardburcher

Re: [Talk-GB] Newbie hello

2014-07-03 Thread Richard Symonds
Marvellous Stuart! Glad to have you aboard. Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street

Re: [Talk-us] routing tags used by actual routing applications

2014-07-03 Thread Richard Welty
they are little used except by local traffic, but they're public. richard -- rwe...@averillpark.net Averill Park Networking - GIS IT Consulting OpenStreetMap - PostgreSQL - Linux Java - Web Applications - Search signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[OSM-talk] OGCServer help

2014-07-01 Thread Richard Welty
://switch2osm.org/serving-tiles/building-a-tile-server-from-packages/ the mod_tile installation is working fine, but i need to get to serving tiles via wms and that part of the process isn't nearly as clear as the earlier stages of the process. thanks, richard -- rwe...@averillpark.net Averill

[talk-au] Fwd: [OSM-talk] NOTICE: Upcoming Maintenance - Some services will be down

2014-07-01 Thread Richard Weait
see attached notice of scheduled maintenance. Thank you, sysadmins, for your endless efforts on our behalf. -- Forwarded message -- From: Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com Date: Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 12:22 PM Subject: [OSM-talk] NOTICE: Upcoming Maintenance - Some services

[Talk-ca] Fwd: [OSM-talk] NOTICE: Upcoming Maintenance - Some services will be down

2014-07-01 Thread Richard Weait
see attached notice of scheduled maintenance. Thank you, sysadmins, for your endless efforts on our behalf. -- Forwarded message -- From: Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com Date: Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 12:22 PM Subject: [OSM-talk] NOTICE: Upcoming Maintenance - Some services

[Talk-us] Fwd: [OSM-talk] NOTICE: Upcoming Maintenance - Some services will be down

2014-07-01 Thread Richard Weait
see attached notice of scheduled maintenance. Thank you, sysadmins, for your endless efforts on our behalf. -- Forwarded message -- From: Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com Date: Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 12:22 PM Subject: [OSM-talk] NOTICE: Upcoming Maintenance - Some services

Re: [Talk-us] Nominatim in CDP

2014-06-26 Thread Richard Welty
mind the fact that we keep going in circles about this is evidence that we're thinking about the problem the wrong way. richard -- rwe...@averillpark.net Averill Park Networking - GIS IT Consulting OpenStreetMap - PostgreSQL - Linux Java - Web Applications - Search signature.asc Description

Re: [Talk-us] Nominatim in CDP

2014-06-26 Thread Richard Welty
On 6/26/14 3:54 PM, Elliott Plack wrote: ZIP code / government addressing data expert here :) and i don't disagree with you here, but my thinking about how to go forward may be very different. more details will be forthcoming. richard -- rwe...@averillpark.net Averill Park Networking - GIS

Re: [Talk-us] Nominatim in CDP

2014-06-25 Thread Richard Welty
values within a certain radius? i'm currently working on setting up an external source for city boundaries derived from ZCTA data. these boundaries would not be intended for import to OSM, but rather would be an external data set available to geocoders such as Nominatim. richard -- rwe

Re: [OSM-talk] SOTM-EU videos

2014-06-16 Thread Richard Weait
Wonderful! Thank you. Nice to see the videos. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [Talk-GB] Life Ring - British English

2014-06-16 Thread Richard Mann
en-gb is probably lifebuoy I've never heard it called a life ring - that's too vague a name. Most people would probably refer to it by starting to describe it - one of those red ring things that you can use to help someone who is drowning. On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 10:05 AM, Andreas Goss

Re: [Talk-GB] Life Ring - British English

2014-06-16 Thread Richard Symonds
An office poll of four people here gives the answer life belt, with a fifth person saying life ring. Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office

Re: [Talk-GB] Fwd: In mainland Britain, you are never more than 34 miles from a pub.

2014-06-12 Thread Richard Symonds
I think it depends on your definition of 'sea' - and probably the definition of lighthouse too! There's a lighthouse in Tower Hamlets - as well as some in the Scottish lochs. Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales

Re: [Talk-us] Nominatim in CDP

2014-06-11 Thread Richard Welty
at least make an effort to come up with better tagging. On 6/11/14 2:09 PM, Serge Wroclawski wrote: This is (yet another) reason why I believe so strongly in Ian's effort to move government boundary data out of OSM and into another dataset. i favor this as well. richard -- rwe...@averillpark.net

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-ca] Canadian OSM POI quality

2014-06-09 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 12:57 AM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: I was curious how complete OpenStreetMap shop data was, so decided to do an analysis for some Canadian chains. The results were mixed. [Cool analysis clipped, go read it. :-) ] Thanks for this, Paul. It will be interesting

Re: [Talk-ca] Canadian OSM POI quality

2014-06-09 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 12:57 AM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: I was curious how complete OpenStreetMap shop data was, so decided to do an analysis for some Canadian chains. The results were mixed. [Cool analysis clipped, go read it. :-) ] Thanks for this, Paul. It will be interesting

Re: [Talk-GB] Duff data on facebook

2014-06-09 Thread Richard Symonds
Hi Lester, Facebook updates the places it has using crowdsourced information from here: https://www.facebook.com/places/editor?ref=br_tf. I'm afraid that's all I know... Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Google awarded patent on automatic correction of road geometry from imagery

2014-06-05 Thread Richard Weait
Didn't Steve C publish an automated tool to create road geometry from aerial imagery when he was at Microsoft? ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM session at Wikimania 2014

2014-06-02 Thread Richard Symonds
Fantastic Andy. I'll be attending :-) Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London

Re: [Talk-us] USBRS WikiProject seeks volunteer mappers

2014-06-01 Thread Richard Fairhurst
ahead of reality... but not too far ahead. cheers Richard (making a rare break from my not-posting-on-mailing-lists rule) -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/USBRS-WikiProject-seeks-volunteer-mappers-tp5807660p5807703.html Sent from the USA mailing list archive

Re: [Talk-us] Standard (mapnik) toolchain/processes: can we teach these better?

2014-05-26 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 2:24 PM, stevea stevea...@softworkers.com wrote: I appreciate Simon's response that it seems that the really coolish (people, processes...) happen in what often seems like a bubble: that is exactly what I was referring to. It's like the Cool Kids have their insider

Re: [Talk-us] ODBL for Spatial Analysis

2014-05-26 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 11:40 AM, William Morris wboyk...@geosprocket.com wrote: Please let me know if I should direct this at a different list, but I have a basic question about the implications of the ODBL: OSM is brimming with great POIs and network features; I'd like to use some of these

Re: [Talk-transit] Mapping intercity bus routes

2014-05-25 Thread Richard Mann
distinct from the coach body, which is why they are more comfortable than buses. But I'd tend to make the distinction based on the service offered, rather than the technology}. Richard On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Jo winfi...@gmail.com wrote: In Belgium there are three operators

[Talk-ca] Ottawa Mapping Party

2014-05-21 Thread Richard Burcher
Hi Folks, We're throwing a mapping party at the end of the month (May 31 @ 9am). We'll carpool over to Quebec to map the Mackenzie King estate [1]. Visitors information [2]. Drop me a line or the meetup group to sort out carpooling. Cheers, Richard [1] http://www.meetup.com/openstreetmap

Re: [Talk-us] Battlegrid

2014-05-21 Thread Richard Welty
name as well. once a road has been verified, they contain no useful information from the OSM point of view. richard -- rwe...@averillpark.net Averill Park Networking - GIS IT Consulting OpenStreetMap - PostgreSQL - Linux Java - Web Applications - Search signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Community Guidelines - Horizontal Cuts better text

2014-05-19 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 1:18 PM, Michael Collinson m...@ayeltd.biz wrote: Thanks to all have responded specifically or generally on our community guidelines draft. I have been able to make a number of small changes which tighten and clarify without changing intent. I have made one large edit

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Highly suspicious edit

2014-05-17 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 5:59 AM, Shawn K. Quinn skqu...@rushpost.com wrote: I see no good reason to have a username Delete Mine And I Delete Yours. I think it goes against the spirit of OSM as being overly confrontational on its face. Ah, but one might say the same about posting such a

Re: [Talk-us] Hi!

2014-05-15 Thread Richard Weait
://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3Atraffic_calming%3Dchicane And that rather confirms that you have found what you are looking for. And all in the context of what other mappers are already using, so we can avoid duplicating effort by 'creating' a new tagging standard. Best regards, Richard

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM Analysis updated with May 2014 OS Locator data

2014-05-14 Thread Richard Mann
names. Use name/alt_name on the road, or name = one name / other name if both seem equally valid. Richard On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Steven Horner ste...@stevenhorner.comwrote: Hello, It's interesting and highlights a few problems local to me, some I had buried my head in the sand

[Talk-us] NY Capdist: osm meetup

2014-05-14 Thread Richard Welty
on various OSM topics. there will be pizza. RSVP if possible, it'd be good to know how much pizza to bring, and feel free to suggest agenda topics or offer to present something. richard -- rwe...@averillpark.net Averill Park Networking - GIS IT Consulting OpenStreetMap - PostgreSQL - Linux Java

Re: [Talk-us] NY Capdist: osm meetup

2014-05-14 Thread Richard Welty
On 5/14/14 2:56 PM, Richard Welty wrote: i've been working on this for a little bit, and it's finally coming together. a meetup of OSMers in New York's Capital District is scheduled for June 11th, at Enable Technologies in Troy, NY, at 6pm ET. ok, first update. it's Enable Labs, not Enable

[talk-au] proposed import maxspeed reports from fleet managers.

2014-05-07 Thread Richard Weait
on the imports list, if this topic interests you. If you are local to some of the data submissions, and are willing to do a survey to confirm it, please let me know. Best regards and happy mapping, Richard ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org

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