Re: [OSM-talk] And the prize for the largest closed way goes to...

2009-12-11 Thread Dirk-Lüder Kreie
Anthony schrieb: 2009/12/10 Dirk-Lüder Kreie osm-l...@deelkar.net mailto:osm-l...@deelkar.net Anthony schrieb: That does it, I'm making a way with name=Northern Hemisphere. Or would that be name=equator. Doesn't work, does it? No, you can't put in the equator

Re: [OSM-talk] And the prize for the largest closed way goes to...

2009-12-11 Thread Anthony
2009/12/11 Dirk-Lüder Kreie osm-l...@deelkar.net Anthony schrieb: 2009/12/10 Dirk-Lüder Kreie osm-l...@deelkar.net mailto: osm-l...@deelkar.net Anthony schrieb: That does it, I'm making a way with name=Northern Hemisphere. Or would that be name=equator. Doesn't work,

Re: [OSM-talk] And the prize for the largest closed way goes to...

2009-12-11 Thread Anthony
2009/12/11 Dirk-Lüder Kreie osm-l...@deelkar.net (JFTR: -180 and +180 degrees are valid longitudes.) So a way from -180 to +180 would be the equator, but the software wouldn't realize it's closed since -180=+180. ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] And the prize for the largest closed way goes to...

2009-12-11 Thread John F. Eldredge
The resulting circle would only be the equator if it lay on the plane of the Earth's rotation, but I agree that the software probably wouldn't be happy about having the starting and ending points coincide. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to

Re: [OSM-talk] And the prize for the largest closed way goes to...

2009-12-10 Thread Dirk-Lüder Kreie
Anthony schrieb: That does it, I'm making a way with name=Northern Hemisphere. Or would that be name=equator. Doesn't work, does it? No, you can't put in the equator as a *closed* way, since the API doesn't allow the way to wrap around on lon+-180°. The largest possible closed way would

Re: [OSM-talk] And the prize for the largest closed way goes to...

2009-12-10 Thread Anthony
2009/12/10 Dirk-Lüder Kreie osm-l...@deelkar.net Anthony schrieb: That does it, I'm making a way with name=Northern Hemisphere. Or would that be name=equator. Doesn't work, does it? No, you can't put in the equator as a *closed* way, since the API doesn't allow the way to wrap around on

Re: [talk-au] [OSM-talk] And the prize for the largest closed way goes to...

2009-12-10 Thread Liz
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009, Frederik Ramm wrote: ... the excellent Philippines mapping team who managed to create one single closed way enclosing an area of roughly 300 thousand square kilometres! http://www.openstreetmap.org/?way=32126765 The runner-up is a place in Sarah Palin Land,

Re: [talk-au] [OSM-talk] And the prize for the largest closed way goes to...

2009-12-10 Thread James Livingston
On 10/12/2009, at 6:57 PM, Liz wrote: On Thu, 10 Dec 2009, Frederik Ramm wrote: ... the excellent Philippines mapping team who managed to create one single closed way enclosing an area of roughly 300 thousand square kilometres! http://www.openstreetmap.org/?way=32126765 The runner-up is

Re: [talk-au] [OSM-talk] And the prize for the largest closed way goes to...

2009-12-10 Thread John Smith
2009/12/10 Andrew Laughton laughton.and...@gmail.com: 2009/12/10 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com: 2009/12/10 Andrew Laughton laughton.and...@gmail.com: Part of the trouble is, it all needs to have the same speed limit, the same road surface, the same name, the same width etc. U huh?

Re: [talk-au] [OSM-talk] And the prize for the largest closed way goes to...

2009-12-10 Thread Steve Bennett
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 11:46 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.comwrote: Or did I miss your point/question? I think the point was, the record was for the largest single unbroken way, which can only really be achieved by crappy data - relatively few points, relatively little information. So

Re: [talk-au] [OSM-talk] And the prize for the largest closed way goes to...

2009-12-10 Thread John Smith
2009/12/11 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 11:55 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: I realise this, but what does that have to do with speed limits? If a road has different speed limits, you'd need to break it up into different ways, in order to be

[OSM-talk] And the prize for the largest closed way goes to...

2009-12-09 Thread Frederik Ramm
... the excellent Philippines mapping team who managed to create one single closed way enclosing an area of roughly 300 thousand square kilometres! http://www.openstreetmap.org/?way=32126765 The runner-up is a place in Sarah Palin Land, http://www.openstreetmap.org/?way=24312786 with 80

Re: [OSM-talk] And the prize for the largest closed way goes to...

2009-12-09 Thread maning sambale
... the excellent Philippines mapping team who managed to create one single closed way enclosing an area of roughly 300 thousand square kilometres! http://www.openstreetmap.org/?way=32126765 That is the Archipelagic Baselines of the Philippines, Republic Act No. 9522 signed into law March 10,

Re: [OSM-talk] And the prize for the largest closed way goes to...

2009-12-09 Thread Anthony
That does it, I'm making a way with name=Northern Hemisphere. Or would that be name=equator. Doesn't work, does it? On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: ... the excellent Philippines mapping team who managed to create one single closed way enclosing an

Re: [OSM-talk] And the prize for the largest closed way goes to...

2009-12-09 Thread Ian Dees
Depends which way you go around. On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 11:10 PM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: That does it, I'm making a way with name=Northern Hemisphere. Or would that be name=equator. Doesn't work, does it? ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] And the prize for the largest closed way goes to...

2009-12-09 Thread Anthony
Oh yeah. Cool. How many nodes at minimum? 3, or 4? 3 wouldn't give you a direction. I guess 4 would. I promise I won't really do it. Well, maybe on the dev server. On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 12:17 AM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: Depends which way you go around. On Wed, Dec 9, 2009