There are plenty of unnamed streets on the map - where in the real world no
name has been assigned by the local authority. We could name those streets
after top OSM contributors.
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Am Sonntag 23 August 2009 schrieb Ed Avis:
There are plenty of unnamed streets on the map - where in the real world no
name has been assigned by the local authority. We could name those streets
after top OSM contributors.
Sounds like a perfect idea to cause confusion. The whole idea of
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From: Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com
Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2009 11:13 AM
To: talk@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Awards
There are plenty of unnamed streets on the map - where in the real world
no
name has been assigned by the local authority. We could name those
streets
On Sun, 23 Aug 2009, Till Harbaum / Lists wrote:
Sounds like a perfect idea to cause confusion. The whole idea of maps is
to represent the real world a precise as possible.
I'd have to put another point of view here. Because I have spent a weekend
without OSM, I've been reading books
and it
Hi,
Am Sonntag 23 August 2009 schrieb Liz:
plane, and 'precision' is not part of a Mercator projection. Mercator's
projection was for the purpose of calculating direction of travel, in
particular for seafarers.
a) osm by itself does not have a projection. It's the maps that project
the osm
On Sun, 23 Aug 2009, Till Harbaum / Lists wrote:
But that all doesn't give us a reason to add artificial, misleading and
useless information to the osm maps.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Copyright_Easter_Eggs
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BOFH excuse #233:
TCP/IP UDP alarm threshold is set too low.
, is there not a risk of every newbie wanting their own road?
Where do we draw the line?
Regards,
Brendan Barrett
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Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2009 1:18 PM
To: talk@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Awards
--- On Sun, 23/8/09, Till Harbaum / Lists li...@harbaum.org wrote:
Am Sonntag 23 August 2009 schrieb Ed Avis:
There are plenty of unnamed streets on the map - where
in the real world no
name has been assigned by the local authority.
We could name those streets
after top OSM
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 1:40 PM, John Smithdelta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote:
If the streets aren't named, you could put name suggestions forward to the
local authority to get them named so then the map would match reality :)
If streets aren't named, use one of the noname tags :
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 6:39 AM, Lized...@billiau.net wrote:
http://odtmaps.com/
will show you a few different projections quickly, to expand your horizons.
I prefer the Peter's projection.
Cheers,
Adam
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Hi,
I just stumpled across this list of awards that Wikipedia seem to
have for their contributors:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Service_awards
One part of me finds them funny, and interesting, almost as if they come
from some sort of role playing game. Another part of me abhors
2009/8/21 Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org:
I just stumpled across this list of awards that Wikipedia seem to
have for their contributors:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Service_awards
One part of me finds them funny, and interesting, almost as if they come
from some sort of role
Barnstars are the main type of award. They are a way for one editor
to give recognition to another editor for good work or a good deed.
There are different types of barnstars, such as for photograph
contributions, tireless contributor, defender of the wiki, etc.
Though the number of types has
You mean a mechanism much like trust points, but instead of
aggregating all activitiy in a single number giving people various
colorful awards in different areas for recognizing their work and some
motivation? One of the awards being OSMF membership (or a significant
discount on membership fee)?
El Viernes, 21 de Agosto de 2009, Frederik Ramm escribió:
[...]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Service_awards
One part of me finds them funny, and interesting, almost as if they come
from some sort of role playing game. Another part of me abhors the
implicit hierarchy conferred by
At 16:33 21/08/2009, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
2009/8/21 Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org:
  I just stumpled across this list of awards that Wikipedia seem to
have for their contributors:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Service_awards
One part of me finds them funny, and
Mike Collinson wrote:
Sent: 21 August 2009 4:11 PM
To: OSM
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Awards
At 16:33 21/08/2009, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
2009/8/21 Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org:
  I just stumpled across this list of awards that Wikipedia seem to
have for their contributors:
http
On 21 Aug 2009, at 17:16, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote:
And we actually have some prior star accolades, similar to the
barnstars
approach I guess. I even have a couple of them at the bottom of my
wiki page
gratefully presented by others [1] many GPS tracks ago. It was a bit
of
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