On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 12:58 AM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote:
On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:06:52 -0400, Phil! Gold wrote:
* Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org
[2010-07-21 00:19 -0700]:
On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 07:15:18 -0400, Phil! Gold wrote:
I what way does OpenCycleMap get this right? As
* Richard Weait rich...@weait.com [2010-08-08 07:45 -0400]:
Let's do a shields BoF at Atlanta next weekend. I have some ideas
that make shields much easier and even solve shield concurrency.
I'm not going to SotM-US, so let me just mention what I've experimented
with (unsuccessfully).
What
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 7:45 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote:
Let's do a shields BoF at Atlanta next weekend. I have some ideas
that make shields much easier and even solve shield concurrency.
Hopefully your idea recognizes the silliness of rendering the
individual state route shield
* Phil! Gold phi...@pobox.com [2010-08-08 09:41 -0400]:
SELECT road.highway, route.network, route.ref
FROM planet_osm_line road
JOIN route_members ON road.osm_id = route_members.road_id
JOIN planet_osm_line route ON route_members.postgis_id = route.osm_id
I was doing this
From: Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org
Perhaps Richard could shed some more light on this, but relations are
pretty much going to be necessary to properly render route shields given
the huge variety in highway networks in North America and the world.
My company has a beta version of a
On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:06:52 -0400, Phil! Gold wrote:
* Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org
[2010-07-21 00:19 -0700]:
On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 07:15:18 -0400, Phil! Gold wrote:
I what way does OpenCycleMap get this right? As far as I can tell,
it doesn't render road shields at all.
No, but it
From: Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com
There's been no standard way of tagging state highways since before I
joined at the beginning of this year.
Nor has there been in my four years here. Hell, I was the one who wrote
the wiki suggestion to use the USPS state abbreviations. I am completely
On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 07:15:18 -0400, Phil! Gold wrote:
* Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org
[2010-07-20 00:51 -0700]:
On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:09:35 -0400, Phil! Gold wrote:
In short, I'm okay seeing ref=K-10 on a road, because that's how
people refer to them, and because I'd prefer to be
* Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org [2010-07-21 00:19 -0700]:
On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 07:15:18 -0400, Phil! Gold wrote:
I what way does OpenCycleMap get this right? As far as I can tell, it
doesn't render road shields at all.
No, but it does render route relations.
It's the shields I want,
On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:18:43 -0500, Toby Murray wrote:
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 2:50 AM, Paul Johnson
ba...@ursamundi.org wrote:
Curious why they use a starburst symbol that looks
like an explosion for the trailblazer shield, though.
It's a sunflower :)
I like my version better, the mental
On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:23:28 -0500, Alex Mauer wrote:
On 07/19/2010 01:13 PM, Phil! Gold wrote:
The problem with using refs to render state shields is that it can be
difficult to get the right shield. Some states use the state
abbreviation in the road reference (so Maryland route 26 is
On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:41:10 -0500, Toby Murray wrote:
I see at least one highway in Kansas has been tagged with K-10 - I'm
guessing most people would consider that flat out wrong? :)
Yes, even though Kansas does refer to state highways as K roads, even
on official signage. Curious why they
* Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org [2010-07-20 00:51 -0700]:
On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:09:35 -0400, Phil! Gold wrote:
In short, I'm okay seeing ref=K-10 on a road, because that's how
people refer to them, and because I'd prefer to be pulling information
out of a relation tagged route=road,
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 2:50 AM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote:
Curious why they use a starburst symbol that looks
like an explosion for the trailblazer shield, though.
It's a sunflower :)
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On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Phil! Gold phi...@pobox.com wrote:
* Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com [2010-07-09 16:19 -0500]:
Also, I see they are rendering highway shields. Didn't I see a big
discussion about that here recently? :)
Wonder if they are using the route relations to render
On 07/19/2010 02:52 PM, Phil! Gold wrote:
The wiki also explicitly says that you should use the two-character postal
abbreviation for the state the road is in, but that seems to have been
disregarded in states where a different prefix (like SR) is normally
used. (To be fair, there's a lot of
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Nakor nakor@gmail.com wrote:
FYI just in case it did not come to this list. Are they going to the US
SOTM?
Yes, as of right now they're on the schedule to speak.
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On 7/19/10 4:48 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
There's been no standard way of tagging state highways since before I
joined at the beginning of this year.
the US routes page has always called for US:ST or ST since i joined
last summer.
it's all a matter of which wiki pages you find.
same problem
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote:
On 7/19/10 4:48 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
There's been no standard way of tagging state highways since before I
joined at the beginning of this year.
the US routes page has always called for US:ST or ST since i
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote:
The trunk issue is just a matter of selecting one level in the
road-priority hierarchy. Being off by one is not the end of the
world. Get the verifiable parameters right, name, surface, one way,
single or dual
On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 18:51 -0400, Richard Welty wrote:
On 7/19/10 4:48 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
There's been no standard way of tagging state highways since before I
joined at the beginning of this year.
the US routes page has always called for US:ST or ST since i joined
last summer.
* Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com [2010-07-09 16:19 -0500]:
Also, I see they are rendering highway shields. Didn't I see a big
discussion about that here recently? :)
Wonder if they are using the route relations to render them...
As I've been (kind of) working on US highway shields, I was
On Saturday 10 July 2010 00:15:31 John Smith wrote:
On 10 July 2010 07:56, Alex Mauer ha...@hawkesnest.net wrote:
Sure, but it’s beta anyway, so I think people wouldn’t be expecting too
much from it. Still nice that they render it at least.
I wonder how often they'll update their
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 6:50 PM, David Ellams
osmli...@dellams.fastmail.fm wrote:
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/07/09/aols-mapquest-looks-to-wikipedia-model-for-mapping/
Excerpts:
MapQuest, the No. 2 Internet-mapping service after Google’s, is
taking the first steps toward a Wikipedia-like
2010/7/10 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com:
MapQuest, the No. 2 Internet-mapping service after Google’s, is
taking the first steps toward a Wikipedia-like model — in which
users would generate the maps themselves and combine the results
for everyone to use.
This is excellent news.
I
2010/7/9 David Ellams osmli...@dellams.fastmail.fm:
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/07/09/aols-mapquest-looks-to-wikipedia-model-for-mapping/
What I'm impressed by is that they use the well known OSM tools like
Mapnik, TileCache, Nominatim for creating the site. See
Thanks for the feedback -- we'll take a look next week and reply to the list.
-Randy
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Maarten Deen md...@xs4all.nl wrote:
On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 11:57:49 +0100, Richard Mann
richard.mann.westoxf...@googlemail.com wrote:
The scale bar doesn't change, just the numbers
Updates did not make it in for the 7/9 launch, but will be a top
priority when we get back to the states, we'll keep you updated. Again
feel free to use these tiles with the usual beta warnings, and send
feedback to o...@mapquest.com.
At Patch we run minutely updates (http://patch-maps.com/) and
Am 10.07.2010 18:29, schrieb Randy Meech:
Thanks for the feedback -- we'll take a look next week and reply to the list.
Even better: open source the style-file, so we can do the changes for
you. I'd be happy to host a version on the wikimedia toolservers.
Peter
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 5:23 AM, Maarten Deen md...@xs4all.nl wrote:
Yeah, they'll remove it shortly when they notice the bugs
If at first you don't succeed, give up.
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On Jul 10, 2010, at 2:21 AM, Toby Murray wrote:
Well I took a look at the blog post with the technical details. They
are using a vanilla osm2pgsql/mapnik setup, just custom styles from
Cartifact. They mention enhancing mapnik. Have these changes already
made it back upstream or will that
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/07/09/aols-mapquest-looks-to-wikipedia-model-for-mapping/
Excerpts:
MapQuest, the No. 2 Internet-mapping service after Google’s, is
taking the first steps toward a Wikipedia-like model — in which
users would generate the maps themselves and combine the results
On 09/07/2010 09:50, David Ellams wrote:
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/07/09/aols-mapquest-looks-to-wikipedia-model-for-mapping/
http://open.mapquest.co.uk/
Woohoo! An OSM map with a scale on it!
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On Fri, 09 Jul 2010 10:11:02 +0100, SomeoneElse
li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk wrote:
On 09/07/2010 09:50, David Ellams wrote:
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/07/09/aols-mapquest-looks-to-wikipedia-model-for-mapping/
http://open.mapquest.co.uk/
Woohoo! An OSM map with a scale on it!
2010/7/9 Maarten Deen md...@xs4all.nl:
On Fri, 09 Jul 2010 10:11:02 +0100, SomeoneElse
li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk wrote:
On 09/07/2010 09:50, David Ellams wrote:
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/07/09/aols-mapquest-looks-to-wikipedia-model-for-mapping/
http://open.mapquest.co.uk/
On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 12:30:10 +0300, Peteris Krisjanis pec...@gmail.com
wrote:
2010/7/9 Maarten Deen md...@xs4all.nl:
On Fri, 09 Jul 2010 10:11:02 +0100, SomeoneElse
li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk wrote:
On 09/07/2010 09:50, David Ellams wrote:
The scale bar doesn't change, just the numbers next to it. Looks fine to me.
Richard
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Maarten Deen md...@xs4all.nl wrote:
On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 12:30:10 +0300, Peteris Krisjanis pec...@gmail.com
wrote:
2010/7/9 Maarten Deen md...@xs4all.nl:
On Fri, 09 Jul 2010
On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 11:57:49 +0100, Richard Mann
richard.mann.westoxf...@googlemail.com wrote:
The scale bar doesn't change, just the numbers next to it. Looks fine to me.
No, the numbers do not change, they only change when you change the
zoom level.
If you click the link
Mapquest is also planning to spent $1mill to improve OSM data in the US:
http://vector1media.com/spatialsustain/openstreetmap-gains-great-traction-this-week.html
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Mapquest is also planning to spent $1mill to improve OSM data in the US:
This sort of thing is needed in the US to supplement or kick start the
spontaneous contributions in order to end up with a nationally useful map.
It will be interesting to see if they can apply it for maximum
On 07/09/2010 03:50 AM, David Ellams wrote:
The company, a subsidiary of AOL, plans to announce Friday
morning that it is launching a site in the U.K. based on a
project called OpenStreetMap, which is dedicated to
user-created mapping.
I wonder why they seem to suggest that it’s UK-only?
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Alex Mauer ha...@hawkesnest.net wrote:
On 07/09/2010 03:50 AM, David Ellams wrote:
The company, a subsidiary of AOL, plans to announce Friday
morning that it is launching a site in the U.K. based on a
project called OpenStreetMap, which is dedicated to
On 07/09/2010 04:42 PM, Ian Dees wrote:
Presumably because the data's not good enough in the US to market it to the
whole world.
Sure, but it’s beta anyway, so I think people wouldn’t be expecting too
much from it. Still nice that they render it at least.
—Alex Mauer “hawke”
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I hope AOL will put people (paid by them, obviously) to improve all
the maps and merge the changes into the OSM db... it would be
wonderful :)
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 11:56 PM, Alex Mauer ha...@hawkesnest.net wrote:
On 07/09/2010 04:42 PM, Ian Dees wrote:
Presumably because the data's not good
On 10 July 2010 07:56, Alex Mauer ha...@hawkesnest.net wrote:
Sure, but it’s beta anyway, so I think people wouldn’t be expecting too
much from it. Still nice that they render it at least.
I wonder how often they'll update their DB/tiles...
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On 10 July 2010 03:39, Fabio Alessandro Locati fabioloc...@gmail.com wrote:
I hope AOL will put people (paid by them, obviously) to improve all
the maps and merge the changes into the OSM db... it would be
wonderful :)
+1
Upstream contributions are very much welcome and promotes a healthy
Cool,
Thanks for the summery, i saw this on my news feed.
Its great to be noticed. Will be interesting to see what the editor is like.
Cheers,
Sam
On 7/9/10, David Ellams osmli...@dellams.fastmail.fm wrote:
FYI just in case it did not come to this list. Are they going to the
US SOTM?
Mapquest is also planning to spent $1mill to improve OSM data in the US:
http://vector1media.com/spatialsustain/openstreetmap-gains-great-traction-this-week.html
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AOL also announced today, a $1 million open-source mapping investment
fund. This fund will support the growth of open-source mapping in the
United States in the local communities that Patch.com covers. More
information about the AOL grant application process is
It doesn't seem too far behind. Maybe a couple of weeks. New features
I added in early June are there but a few I did more recently aren't.
Also, I see they are rendering highway shields. Didn't I see a big
discussion about that here recently? :)
Wonder if they are using the route relations to
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote:
Also, I see they are rendering highway shields. Didn't I see a big
discussion about that here recently? :)
Wonder if they are using the route relations to render them...
Not sure what they are doing, because I-80 near
On 7/9/10 5:57 PM, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Toby Murraytoby.mur...@gmail.com wrote:
Also, I see they are rendering highway shields. Didn't I see a big
discussion about that here recently? :)
Wonder if they are using the route relations to render them...
Well I took a look at the blog post with the technical details. They
are using a vanilla osm2pgsql/mapnik setup, just custom styles from
Cartifact. They mention enhancing mapnik. Have these changes already
made it back upstream or will that happen in the future? In particular
I'm guessing the
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