Re: [OSM-talk] is OSM a fake map.

2019-12-30 Thread vegard
, this also happens with commercial maps. They are often made from photos nowadays, and both humans and software might interpret them wrong. I believe OSM is pretty decent, but 100% correct? Of course not. - Vegard On Mon, Dec 30, 2019 at 03:41:47PM +0300, 80hnhtv4agou--- via talk wrote:

Re: [OSM-talk] Data copied from Google Maps

2012-11-06 Thread vegard
d is rarely sued in court in comparison to copyright infringements. > The legality around copyright on "collections of facts" are different throughout the world. We have to assume that collections of facts are, indeed, copyrightable, and that a lawsuit (or even just bad publicity) base

Re: [OSM-talk] Data copied from Google Maps

2012-11-06 Thread vegard
ved, but at the culprit that added it to OSM in the first place. So anyone who considers adding stuff that is not 100% OK to copy is destroying the project from within, not helping it. Period. -- - Vegard Engen, member of the first RFC1149 implementation team. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Very Happy - Looking forward

2012-07-23 Thread vegard
What about editor facebook support for editors? :) No, I'm actually serious - "Vegard Engen mapped , near ." ? Of course with a few links in the post that appears on facebook. - Vegard On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 08:25:45PM -0700, Mikel Maron wrote: > Great spirit! Now th

Re: [OSM-talk] [NUUG kart] NVDB igjen...

2010-08-24 Thread vegard
Statens Vegvesen/NVDB-mennesker tidligere? Om jeg ikke får høylytte > > protester, komponerer og sender jeg en mail ikveld. > Se over. -- - Vegard Engen, member of the first RFC1149 implementation team. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Fork OSM to a CCBYSA 2.0 continuation : A solution proposal

2010-08-23 Thread vegard
Well. Then I come along, add an amenity=cafe, under a CCBYSA2.0-license. But at the wrong spot. And you, having chosen an OdBL-license, decides to move it to the correct position. Under what license is that node? This isn't going to be easy, hardly possible? :) - Vegard On Tue, Aug 24, 20

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: Why PD is not better for business

2009-12-11 Thread vegard
-norwegian border river with a GPS :) Unfortunately, we got the data through other means :) - Vegard On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 09:02:09PM +1100, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: > so we don't need imported data? > > -- Forwarded Message -- > > Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Why

Re: [OSM-talk] Seeing only my traces in JOSM ?

2009-11-23 Thread vegard
s. 3) Change the color for my own GXS tracks, so that I see what is my own and what is downloaded. 4) If things get too cluttered from GPS points, it's easy to hide the downloaded GPX points and just see your own. 5) After you're done with a GPX, upload it to OSM. It's g

Re: [OSM-talk] coastline accuracy?

2009-04-29 Thread vegard
f I map so close to the sea that this accuracy becomes important. -- - Vegard Engen, member of the first RFC1149 implementation team. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-02-28 Thread vegard
n within the last month) > That would be a good metric. Also, - how many users have not logged in for a year ? - how many users with significant/long-term contributions have not logged in for a month/year ? -- - Vegard Engen, member of the first RFC1149 impl

Re: [OSM-talk] name tags on place=country and how they're rendered on lowzoom

2009-01-19 Thread vegard
ng in the DB at all, a question I haven't thought all that much about :) -- - Vegard Engen, member of the first RFC1149 implementation team. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Edit war on the wiki "map features"

2008-11-25 Thread vegard
he end. Certainly not the task of creading a free map of the world. This is why we need Map_features-page. And without it, it would be pretty much impossible to join the project at all, it would just be too hard to gain an understanding on how to tag. -- - Vegard Engen, member of the first RFC

Re: [OSM-talk] non-operational/closed amenities

2008-11-19 Thread vegard
But: old_amenity=fuel is better than amenity=old_fuel :) Both renderer-wise and logically. It's no longer an amenity, is it? :) - Vegard On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 12:11:58PM +0100, vegard wrote: > Uh... > so you want amenity=old_pub, amenity=old_restaurant etc. too? > &

Re: [OSM-talk] non-operational/closed amenities

2008-11-19 Thread vegard
Uh... so you want amenity=old_pub, amenity=old_restaurant etc. too? better with a specialized tag that applies to all... Rendering proposal: The same as the real one but with a black cross-over? - Vegard On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 11:02:41AM +, Shaun McDonald wrote: > amenity=old_fuel,

Re: [OSM-talk] POI layer for [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2008-11-19 Thread vegard
evel of detail we get. So I say it's good to have a layer with as much detail as possible. -- - Vegard Engen, member of the first RFC1149 implementation team. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] gpx tool advice needed

2008-11-12 Thread vegard
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 03:36:00PM +, Rory McCann wrote: > gpsbabel -i mybiggpxfile.gpx -f gpx -x track,name=mytrack -o mytrack.gpx > -F gpx > You have reversed some options. -i gpx -f mybiggpxfile.gpx -o gpx -F mytrack.gpx - Vegard -- - Vegard Engen, member of the firs

Re: [OSM-talk] data plucked from who-knows-where?

2008-11-03 Thread vegard
nd clearly label things that needs fixing. -- - Vegard Engen, member of the first RFC1149 implementation team. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] barrier=gate, run a script?

2008-10-21 Thread vegard
- I didn't vote either, but I would have, had the voting process been more available :) (I know of it, I just don't filter it out from rest and participate...) -- - Vegard Engen, member of the first RFC1149 implementation team. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] barrier=gate, run a script?

2008-10-21 Thread vegard
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 10:11:14PM +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > vegard wrote: > >I agree. this democracy and meritocracy thing is good for something, but > >for the map to be really useful as a *world* map and not separated > >islands, > > Is it really

Re: [OSM-talk] barrier=gate, run a script?

2008-10-21 Thread vegard
t either, and if someone has already thought of something better, we're all better off in the long run. This "do as you like, we're not deciding anything here" is really too much touted :) Let's call them recommendations, and let us call the deprecated tags deprecated,

Re: [OSM-talk] Tiger 2007 Data

2008-10-20 Thread vegard
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 12:27:27PM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote: > On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 09:43 +0200, vegard wrote: > > > > I see it like this: What could be very useful to have, is a mapping > > between tiger data (old set) and OSM data. It could be to late for t

Re: [OSM-talk] Tiger 2007 Data

2008-10-20 Thread vegard
e to do more or less manually, but I'm sure you could automatize bits of it - like road classification changes, name changes etc. This is my rough proposal for how to handle large chunks of external data. -- - Vegard Engen, member of the first RFC1149 implementation team.

Re: [OSM-talk] Yet another street number scheme

2008-10-14 Thread vegard
e houses (or the object > representing them). > But house-numbers are *related* to a way => relations ? -- - Vegard Engen, member of the first RFC1149 implementation team. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] More vandalism

2008-10-13 Thread vegard
ng to merge things with different properties (unless one of them was non-tagged). 2) Not allowing to drag non-nodes so easily? Could be annoying, granted, but it's actually very seldom you need to? 3) Make it harder to delete things? Not allowing to delete something you didn&#x

Re: [OSM-talk] More vandalism

2008-10-13 Thread vegard
eferences box to turn it off. Yes, it's gonna be a bit annoying to new users. But not nearly as annoying as having to clean up hard-worked map data. -- - Vegard Engen, member of the first RFC1149 implementation team. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Pedestrians on cycleways

2008-10-13 Thread vegard
a cycleway anymore, because pedestrian are > allowed. > > Luckyly, the higwhay=path is made for that > > > Except that it doesn't seem like that. You might believe so, but *noone* renders a plain highway=path - which means noone is gonna use it. -- - Vegard Enge

Re: [OSM-talk] Loading img file onto Garmin 60 CSx

2008-10-03 Thread vegard
gt; Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? > For people to debug, you need to: 1) Provide the OSM data you worked from. 2) Provide the resulting .IMG-file. 3) Provide the exact commands and steps to make/install it. I have a 60Csx and regularly make Garmin maps from OSM-data

Re: [OSM-talk] vandolism on OSM

2008-10-03 Thread vegard
ction" set of data, noone is gonna dare use our data to anything except small things that can be manually verified. -- - Vegard Engen, member of the first RFC1149 implementation team. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM basemap on bikemap.net (runmap.net and inlinemap.net)

2008-09-30 Thread vegard
routes on for the > Bike2Benefits.org program allows you to view the > OSM map as a base layer. Here's an example: > > http://www.bikemap.net/#lt=44.9759&ln=-93.2166&z=14&t=4 > Fair enough. But the copyright info is sort of strange? Powered by google, OpenStreetmap. Map

Re: [OSM-talk] amenity=vending_machine AND amenity=post_box: what about?

2008-09-08 Thread vegard
th oter dual-use amenities... While I for now use the dual-node mechanism, I don't like it because of the above reason. -- - Vegard Engen, member of the first RFC1149 implementation team. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] amenity=vending_machine AND amenity=post_box: what about?

2008-09-02 Thread vegard
enity=pharmacy amenity=bank with amenity=atm (this is already made a special case for) and I'm sure the list is endless. I feel we need a generalized solution, and then come up with rendering as needed for the most used combinations? -- - Vegard Engen, member of the first RFC1149 implementat

Re: [OSM-talk] mailing list behavior

2008-09-02 Thread vegard
ail. And I rather make the from-header be the adress I want replys to, if I want to do it permanently. So I say: Let's be pragmatic and do what most people feel is the most logical thing. And most people will *not* have sensible mailers. -- - Vegard Engen, member of

Re: [OSM-talk] mailing list behavior

2008-09-01 Thread vegard
n that reply-to to the list is a good thing just because that's the most intuitive to a beginner, and the most experienced learn to cope with whatever is standard behavior. -- - Vegard Engen, member of the first RFC1149 implementation team. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] sac_scale calibration?

2008-09-01 Thread vegard
n. I guess that a lot of this *is* actually up to me, but I'm a strong supporter of actually agreeing on this as long as we are actually editing the same map, sort of :) All input and opinions (and the rest in the series: http://www.flickr.com/photos/vegard_engen/tags/osm/) is welcome :) --

[OSM-talk] Combined amenities?

2008-08-30 Thread vegard
additional_services/additional_amenities=bank;post_office;pharmacy? Or: amenity:additional=bank;post_office;pharmacy ? This is sort of a generalization of atm=yes on amenity=bank, although I'm not sure we should touch that one. -- - Vegard Engen, member of the first RFC1149 implementation

[OSM-talk] amenity=cabin

2008-08-30 Thread vegard
:) But those with only serving of food/drinks, we could just as well tag as amenity=restaurant, amenity=cafe etc. Well. Back to tagging yesterdays mountain-trip. -- - Vegard Engen, member of the first RFC1149 implementation team. ___ talk maili

Re: [OSM-talk] superways as relations ?

2008-08-06 Thread vegard
ere are a lot of cases where it's not necessarily true. Someone who knows the implementation will have to tell how it's handled today, though. -- - Vegard Engen, member of the first RFC1149 implementation team. ___ talk ma

Re: [OSM-talk] superways as relations ?

2008-08-04 Thread vegard
On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 11:07:24AM -, m*sh wrote: > On Mon, August 4, 2008 10:14, vegard wrote: > > For naming of streets in cities, where properties change very often and > > you have to make many small ways, it sometimes gets annoying that the > > name is duplicated. &g

[OSM-talk] superways as relations ?

2008-08-04 Thread vegard
? I'm no expert on the inner workings in either of the renderers, but to me it sounds like a quick fix to a small annoyance. If someone that knows the renderers could either agree or disagree, I'd be happy anyways (well, obviously happier if they agree :) -- - Vegard Engen, member of the fir

Re: [OSM-talk] osm talk at local LUG

2008-06-10 Thread vegard
ng able to do that together with more experienced mappers the first time is so much easier than trying to find out how to do it yourself. The "why not just use google" will of course be asked, but in a LUG, you should at least get a few people who