Re: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage - more levels

2011-02-08 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Don't forget that because of the Mercator projection we use, a level 20 tile at the equator (like Singapore) shows the same spatial resolution as a level 19 tile at latitudes near 60 (N or S, like Helsinki). Helsinki at level 19:

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage - more levels

2011-02-08 Thread ant
On 09.02.2011 00:53, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: Don't forget that because of the Mercator projection we use, a level 20 tile at the equator (like Singapore) shows the same spatial resolution as a level 19 tile at latitudes near 60 (N or S, like Helsinki). ...so someone make a Bing resolution

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage - more levels

2011-02-08 Thread Jo
For me the tipping point is between 18 and 19. Over Leuven (Belgium) it goes up to 19. 5 kilometers East of Leuven it's only 18 and the difference is enormous. Then again, only a few months ago there was nothing to work from. Cheers, Jo ___ talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage - more levels

2011-02-08 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 7:59 AM, ant antof...@gmail.com wrote: On 09.02.2011 00:53, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: Don't forget that because of the Mercator projection we use, a level 20 tile at the equator (like Singapore) shows the same spatial resolution as a level 19 tile at latitudes near 60

[OSM-talk] Bing coverage

2011-02-07 Thread ant
Hi, I have noticed mappers make various attempts to map coverage of Bing high resolution imagery. Some drawed areas around the imagery and stuffed them into relations, others created xml files etc. etc. (see the wiki page [1]) I thought that a world coverage map wasn't feasible with those

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage

2011-02-07 Thread Toby Murray
What is your definition of hires? Zooming in on my city shows green where I would consider the imagery to be decent but nothing spectacular. (I think it is mostly just USGS ~1m imagery reused by Bing) Nice bit of code though. Toby On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 8:41 AM, ant antof...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage

2011-02-07 Thread ant
Hi Toby, On 07.02.2011 16:21, Toby Murray wrote: What is your definition of hires? Zooming in on my city shows green where I would consider the imagery to be decent but nothing spectacular. (I think it is mostly just USGS ~1m imagery reused by Bing) the definition of hires used in this

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage

2011-02-07 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2011/2/7 ant antof...@gmail.com: What is your definition of hires? the definition of hires used in this application is imagery is available at zoom level 14 or more. If you compare coverage areas linked to on the wiki page, you'll see that almost all of them correspond to that definition.

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage

2011-02-07 Thread Toby Murray
Well the jump from 13 to 14 is a pretty big milestone for aerial imagery. You go from rough blobs to distinguishable features. So that does make sense. But yeah, all of the US is just going to be solid green with this definition. Maybe a red/yellow/green scheme? Red means z14, yellow indicates

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage

2011-02-07 Thread ant
On 07.02.2011 16:48, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: Yes, I agree that more colours could clarify this. Currently, all areas in Italy seem to be green, where some of the ones I checked offer resolutions up to zoom 17 (not quite the very best imagery imaginable) and others up to 20 (absolutely

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage

2011-02-07 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2011/2/7 Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com: Well the jump from 13 to 14 is a pretty big milestone for aerial imagery. You go from rough blobs to distinguishable features. So that does make sense. But yeah, all of the US is just going to be solid green with this definition. Maybe a

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage

2011-02-07 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2011/2/7 ant antof...@gmail.com: Can you give an example of a zoom 20 region? I'd like to have a look. http://ant.dev.openstreetmap.org/bingimageanalyzer/?lat=41.8901512469295lon=12.492339797131855zoom=20 cheers, Martin ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage

2011-02-07 Thread Toby Murray
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 10:02 AM, ant antof...@gmail.com wrote: Can you give an example of a zoom 20 region? I'd like to have a look. http://ant.dev.openstreetmap.org/bingimageanalyzer/?lat=39.294169460227224lon=-94.71799114942492zoom=20 ___ talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage

2011-02-07 Thread Peter Wendorff
Hi ant. The tool is great, but it would be even greater to have the specific zoom level availlable instead of 14 or more. 14 may be a threshold of useability in many areas, but for other purposes even 17, 18 or 19 may be the treshold (e.g. mapping of sidewalks, mapping of street lanterns ;)

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage

2011-02-07 Thread ant
On 07.02.2011 17:36, Peter Wendorff wrote: Hi ant. The tool is great, but it would be even greater to have the specific zoom level availlable instead of 14 or more. That seems to be what most people wish to see. I'll work on that. cheers ant ___

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage

2011-02-07 Thread Jo
2011/2/7 Peter Wendorff wendo...@uni-paderborn.de: Hi ant. The tool is great, but it would be even greater to have the specific zoom level availlable instead of 14 or more. 14 may be a threshold of useability in many areas, but for other purposes even 17, 18 or 19 may be the treshold (e.g.

[OSM-ja] Fwd: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage

2011-02-07 Thread Tomomichi Hayakawa
Date: 2011/2/7 Subject: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage To: t...@openstreetmap.org Hi, I have noticed mappers make various attempts to map coverage of Bing high resolution imagery. Some drawed areas around the imagery and stuffed them into relations, others created xml files etc. etc. (see the wiki page

[OSM-ja] Bing上に、カバーエリアを表示するツール(Was: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage)

2011-02-07 Thread S.Higashi
。 http://ant.dev.openstreetmap.org/bingimageanalyzer/?lat=38.38333768390208lon=138.2929893374731zoom=6 みんなで、見て行くと、一気にカバーエリアが色分けされていくんだと思われます。 -- Forwarded message -- From: ant antof...@gmail.com Date: 2011/2/7 Subject: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage To: t...@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing as Potlach layer in view mode?

2011-01-19 Thread valent.turko...@gmail.com
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Floris Looijesteijn o...@floris.nu wrote: Don't have the time to check right now but I think this was not permitted with the license provided. Greets, Floris Oh, too bad. That would be nice addition to OSM home page.

[OSM-talk] Bing as Potlach layer in view mode?

2011-01-18 Thread valent.turko...@gmail.com
Hi, are there any plans to add Bing satellite imagery as additional Potlach layer in view (not edit) mode? This could be nice for quick review and checking if there are any errors by switching between OSM and Bing layer. Cheers, Valent. -- pratite me na twitteru - www.twitter.com/valentt blog:

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing as Potlach layer in view mode?

2011-01-18 Thread valent.turko...@gmail.com
Replace potlach with mapnik in previous email ;) Lapsus calami. On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:44 AM, valent.turko...@gmail.com valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, are there any plans to add Bing satellite imagery as additional Potlach layer in view (not edit) mode? This could be nice for quick

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing as Potlach layer in view mode?

2011-01-18 Thread Claudius
I just contacted the admin of http://sautter.com/map/ to add Bing as Base layer there. I think this would be your service. Claudius Am 18.01.2011 11:53, valent.turko...@gmail.com: Replace potlach with mapnik in previous email ;) Lapsus calami. On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:44 AM,

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing as Potlach layer in view mode?

2011-01-18 Thread Floris Looijesteijn
Don't have the time to check right now but I think this was not permitted with the license provided. Greets, Floris On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Claudius claudiu...@gmx.de wrote: I just contacted the admin of http://sautter.com/map/ to add Bing as Base layer there. I think this would be

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-27 Thread Dermot McNally
On 24 December 2010 02:10, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: That service looks very useful if it were ever implemented. I'd note that it probably needs to know about the date of the imagery too. Can't say I'm thrilled about the idea of storing the offset data in the main OSM db

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-23 Thread dies38061
) Message: 3 Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 15:26:33 +0200 From: Jaak Laineste jaak.laine...@gmail.com To: OSM talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced Message-ID: aanlktinna9hyvfdh0jzeuuxen10qjmyhsutkyzwye...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 It is good

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-23 Thread Steve Bennett
On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 1:23 AM, dies38...@mypacks.net wrote: Would application of notions described in http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/True_Offset_Process (i.e. recording of offsets in a formal manner) be practical and useful here?  I have not reviewed all messages in this thread, so I

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-22 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 20:27:08 +0100 M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: A very good map can't be done just from orthophotos. it is quite a legitimate way of producing maps for remote areas, and a quick web search for orthocadastral map will lead you to scholarly articles on the

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-22 Thread Craig Wallace
On 22/12/2010 09:02, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: I would also point out that in the time of the Cold War the USSR completely mapped the UK from orthophotos, with a little ground work by the spy network.

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-22 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 15:46:36 + Craig Wallace craig...@fastmail.fm wrote: On 22/12/2010 09:02, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: I would also point out that in the time of the Cold War the USSR completely mapped the UK from orthophotos, with a little ground work by the spy network.

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-22 Thread Steve Bennett
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 12:19 PM, John F. Eldredge j...@jfeldredge.com wrote: If you can map a street in just five seconds, using just three clicks and a keypress, this implies that you are mapping just the end points, with just a calculated line between them.  Very few streets in the world

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-22 Thread John F. Eldredge
I took your description of what you were doing at face value. Being a borderline-Asperger's type, I am sometimes a bit too literal-minded. ---Original Email--- Subject :Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced From :mailto:stevag...@gmail.com Date :Wed Dec 22 20:02:12 America/Chicago

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-22 Thread Steve Bennett
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 1:18 PM, John F. Eldredge j...@jfeldredge.com wrote: I took your description of what you were doing at face value.  Being a borderline-Asperger's type, I am sometimes a bit too literal-minded. Oh I see. That makes sense - will bear in mind for the future. Steve

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-21 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/12/19 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 11:04 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: This discussion is simply about the quality level: are you satisfied with probable information derived from an aerial photo depicting the situation some years ago,

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-21 Thread Steve Bennett
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 6:27 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: yes, in you example you would have 100 wrong streets. I'm not believing your numbers btw.: I doubt that you can only visit and map 10 streets with the effort you have to put 1000 streets from orthofotos (1%).

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-21 Thread John F. Eldredge
bothering to join streets at intersections, so none of the streets you map will be routable. Plus, from what you say, you aren't creating any tags on the roads you map. Most of the rest of us try to do a better job of mapping than that. ---Original Email--- Subject :Re: [OSM-talk] Bing

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-20 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 8:36 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: Of course. You can see details on signs and on walls on aerial imagery. *Doh!* that was supposed to have been You *can't* see details... ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-19 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/12/15 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: I'm sorry, but no. This is not common practice, nor is it desirable. Could we please not give advice which only reflects personal preferences? Fwiw, highway=road is for when you know *nothing* about a road. Can you tell me, hand on heart, that

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-19 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 8:04 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/12/15 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: I'm sorry, but no. This is not common practice, nor is it desirable. Could we please not give advice which only reflects personal preferences? Fwiw, highway=road

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-19 Thread John F. Eldredge
So, you are saying that you feel OpenStreetMap should reflect the status of the road when the aerial photo was made, rather than the current status? ---Original Email--- Subject :Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced From :mailto:sea...@gmail.com Date :Sun Dec 19 10:17:51 America

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-19 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 19:19:03 + John F. Eldredge j...@jfeldredge.com wrote: So, you are saying that you feel OpenStreetMap should reflect the status of the road when the aerial photo was made, rather than the current status? The road in question in the original post was on nearmap imagery

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-19 Thread John F. Eldredge
Yes, but seav80 was saying that he or she prefers data made from the aerial view (up to 3 months old, and without some details observable only from the ground) to data recorded by someone going now to the location on the ground. ---Original Email--- Subject :Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-19 Thread Steve Bennett
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 11:04 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: This discussion is simply about the quality level: are you satisfied with probable information derived from an aerial photo depicting the situation some years ago, or do you want to insert only information you

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-19 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
wrote: So, you are saying that you feel OpenStreetMap should reflect the status of the road when the aerial photo was made, rather than the current status? ---Original Email--- Subject :Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced From  :mailto:sea...@gmail.com Date  :Sun Dec 19 10:17:51

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-19 Thread john
--- Subject :Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced From  :mailto:sea...@gmail.com Date  :Sun Dec 19 10:17:51 America/Chicago 2010 On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 8:04 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/12/15 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: I'm sorry, but no. This is not common

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-19 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
. ---Original Email--- Subject :Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced From  :mailto:sea...@gmail.com Date  :Sun Dec 19 18:00:21 America/Chicago 2010 For *that* particular imagery, yes. My point is that blindly saying that you shouldn't trace from imagery if you haven't visited

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-19 Thread john whelan
available from visiting the site in person that you wouldn't be able to detect from an aerial view, plus you would be able to tell if the road had been modified since the aerial photo had been taken. ---Original Email--- Subject :Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced From :mailto:sea

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-16 Thread Dave F.
On 15/12/2010 11:16, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: Please tag roads derived from aerial imagery as highway=road No real need. From Bing you can deduce whether it's residential or service etc. Dave F. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing aerial imagery analyzer - date range (Dec/2000-Jun/2006)

2010-12-15 Thread Peter Körner
Am 15.12.2010 02:29, schrieb dies38...@mypacks.net: I'm looking at imagery over Cali, Colombia and see a date displayed as Dec/2000-Jun/2006. This seems quite a large range; could you explain how we should interpret this date information? Thanks. This information is sent from Bing as-is,

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-15 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/12/9 Ulf Lamping ulf.lamp...@googlemail.com: What the whole discussion here seems to be missing: You can't read street names from bing (or Yahoo) imagery. +1, and you can't see restrictions, surface quality and material, oneways, etc. on them. That's why there is highway=road. You should

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-15 Thread Kev js1982
Quite a lot of car parks and other roads have one way arrows visible on the bing imagry, often the position of speedlimits are available too, although this might just be a uk only tendancy. Certainly helps in completing places I have visited without a gps and pen/paper. Then again I have only

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-15 Thread Steve Bennett
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 10:16 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: +1, and you can't see restrictions, surface quality and material, oneways, etc. on them. That's why there is highway=road. You should avoid to tag highway=specific-highway-class if you don't know the location

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-15 Thread Maarten Deen
On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 22:45:56 +1100, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: Fwiw, highway=road is for when you know *nothing* about a road. Can you tell me, hand on heart, that you would not tag this road: http://www.nearmap.com/?ll=-38.107325,145.15275z=20t=knmd=20101020 as

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing aerial imagery analyzer - date range (Dec/2000-Jun/2006)

2010-12-15 Thread dies38061
No, the range does not appear to get smaller when you zoom in. --ceyockey -Original Message- From: Peter Körner osm-li...@mazdermind.de Sent: Dec 15, 2010 5:43 AM This information is sent from Bing as-is, it's only displayed by the analyzer, not interpreted. Does the range get smaller

[OSM-talk] Bing aerial imagery analyzer - date range (Dec/2000-Jun/2006)

2010-12-14 Thread dies38061
Martijn, I'm looking at imagery over Cali, Colombia and see a date displayed as Dec/2000-Jun/2006. This seems quite a large range; could you explain how we should interpret this date information? Thanks. ceyockey http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Ceyockey 7. Re: new version of Bing

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-09 Thread Jonathan Bennett
On 08/12/2010 14:35, Maarten Deen wrote: I have never heard of this before and have never seen it documented anywhere or seen discussed before. The only mention of do not trace from aerial maps is when it is off Google's maps because we cannot legaly use them. Never before have I seen a

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-09 Thread Steve Bennett
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: But _intensive_ tracing can and does kill people's motivation. Doesn't matter whether you think the people are misguided or pompous, it happens. I've seen it in Worcester, in the East Midlands, in Northern Ireland.

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-09 Thread davespod
Joseph Reeves wrote: Sorry, but I find this to be a really negative attitude; there's loads of people that want to draw a line on the map for the first time, but less who want to tidy existing streets, or just add POIs. What would be wrong, for example, with collecting the first GPS trace of

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-09 Thread Frederik Ramm
Steve, On 12/09/10 13:34, Steve Bennett wrote: Excellent. Finally a rational argument against tracing in certain situations. We could even begin to formulate policy: You say policy which, for me, is acceptable only for very few fields in OSM and certainly not for how and what someone maps;

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-09 Thread Ulf Lamping
Am 09.12.2010 12:42, schrieb Richard Fairhurst: Ulf Lamping wrote: Am 09.12.2010 02:49, schrieb Kenneth Gonsalves: what I object to is mapping a place one has no intention of visiting Fine, seems you don't like the wiki principle ... I think you're getting confused with the Wikipedia

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-09 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 23:34 +1100, Steve Bennett wrote: Excellent. Finally a rational argument against tracing in certain situations. We could even begin to formulate policy: Tracing imagery in areas where there are active local mappers using ground survey methods can kill enthusiasm and

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-08 Thread 4x4falcon
On 08/12/10 08:32, Steve Bennett wrote: On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 4:51 AM, Jowinfi...@gmail.com wrote: Jaak, do you know that you can change the offset in most editors? Potlatch2 and JOSM. I suppose in Merkaartor too, but I don't know for sure. But how do you know which direction to offset and

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-08 Thread Jacek Konieczny
On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 11:32:39AM +1100, Steve Bennett wrote: On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 4:51 AM, Jo winfi...@gmail.com wrote: Jaak, do you know that you can change the offset in most editors? Potlatch2 and JOSM. I suppose in Merkaartor too, but I don't know for sure. But how do you know

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-08 Thread Steve Bennett
You should not map from the Bing imagery area you know nothing more about. Why do people such make bold, absolutist statements like this with no policy to back them up? There is no policy that says anything of the sort. The above sentence is one author's opinion. It would be a very good thing

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-08 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 22:01 +1100, Steve Bennett wrote: You should not map from the Bing imagery area you know nothing more about. Why do people such make bold, absolutist statements like this with no policy to back them up? There is no policy that says anything of the sort. The above

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-08 Thread Raphaël Pinson
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.orgwrote: On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 22:01 +1100, Steve Bennett wrote: You should not map from the Bing imagery area you know nothing more about. Why do people such make bold, absolutist statements like this with no policy

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-08 Thread Dermot McNally
On 8 December 2010 11:05, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.org wrote: you should not map from any imagery area you know nothing more about. Period. People should be nicer to their parents. Period Dermot -- -- Igaühel on siin oma laul ja ma oma ei leiagi

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-08 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 12:10 +0100, Raphaël Pinson wrote: you should not map from any imagery area you know nothing more about. Period. So, just to make that clear: when aerial imagery of, say, Pakistan, is made available to help mapping, I should not trace anything unless I've

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-08 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Wed, 08 Dec 2010 16:35:31 +0530 Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.org wrote: you should not map from any imagery area you know nothing more about. Period. So how about Haiti? Colombia? ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-08 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 22:37 +1100, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: On Wed, 08 Dec 2010 16:35:31 +0530 Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.org wrote: you should not map from any imagery area you know nothing more about. Period. So how about Haiti? Colombia? exceptional circumstances sometimes need

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-08 Thread Steve Bennett
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.org wrote: you should not map from any imagery area you know nothing more about. If there's consensus for this view, get it documented on the wiki, and call it policy. Otherwise, it's just yet another round of pointless You must

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-08 Thread Matt Williams
On 8 December 2010 13:18, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.org wrote: you should not map from any imagery area you know nothing more about. If there's consensus for this view, get it documented on the wiki, and call it

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-08 Thread Steve Bennett
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 11:18 PM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: I mean, am I the only one that thinks inventing commandments and yelling them at each other is pointless? I should apologise here for picking on two innocent individuals. I was trying to offer a criticism of the culture

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-08 Thread Joseph Reeves
OpenStreetMap is still a wiki though? So if I find a future travel destination missing from OSM, but covered by Bing, where's the harm in tracing it? In many parts of the world there is no such thing as local mappers and even if I did trace a load of crap into the database, anyone else can come

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-08 Thread Maarten Deen
Matt Williams wrote: On 8 December 2010 13:18, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.org wrote: you should not map from any imagery area you know nothing more about. If there's consensus for this view, get it documented on

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-08 Thread Jacek Konieczny
On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 10:01:45PM +1100, Steve Bennett wrote: You should not map from the Bing imagery area you know nothing more about. Why do people such make bold, absolutist statements like this with no policy to back them up? Absolutist? 'Should not' is not 'must not'. And have you

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-08 Thread davespod
Steve Bennett wrote: On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.org wrote: you should not map from any imagery area you know nothing more about. If there's consensus for this view, get it documented on the wiki, and call it policy.

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-08 Thread Steve Bennett
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 8:33 AM, davespod osmli...@dellams.fastmail.fm wrote: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Beginners_Guide_1.1 See item 3.* Very interesting. That line was added by Ben in January 2009, and that sentence hasn't been touched since. So the question arises: does the

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-08 Thread Mike Dupont
I have seen a similar error in google sat for the area of brod, in kosovo. Bing is not even worth looking at for kosovo On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Jaak Laineste jaak.laine...@gmail.com wrote:  It is good news that Bing aerials are available. The bad news is that Bing has made exactly

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-08 Thread Ulf Lamping
Am 08.12.2010 22:59, schrieb Steve Bennett: On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 8:33 AM, davespodosmli...@dellams.fastmail.fm wrote: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Beginners_Guide_1.1 See item 3.* Very interesting. That line was added by Ben in January 2009, and that sentence hasn't been touched

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-08 Thread davespod
Steve Bennett wrote: On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 8:33 AM, davespod osmli...@dellams.fastmail.fm wrote: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Beginners_Guide_1.1 See item 3.* Very interesting. That line was added by Ben in January 2009, and that sentence hasn't been touched since. Bah! You're

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-08 Thread Richard Mann
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 10:46 PM, davespod osmli...@dellams.fastmail.fm wrote: I have cancelled a trip to survey some lonely country lanes after someone else remotely traced them. A flying trip is only partway up the scale of desirability. What you want is someone who really knows the area.

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-08 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Ulf Lamping wrote: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Beginners_Guide_1.1 See item 3.* So the question arises: does the community support this view? No. I've changed the wording, trying to still say that tracing is *better* if you have local knowledge, but local knowledge is not

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-08 Thread davespod
Richard Mann wrote: I wouldn't recommend remote tracing, but if you do it with due care, or maybe to supplement stuff you have surveyed (or maybe even just seen out of the window when passing), I completely agree that supplementing stuff you have surveyed or even tracing something you have

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-08 Thread Joseph Reeves
By the way, I don't think the intention is to suggest that it is not ok to trace an area and then visit it to correct errors and add detail. It is when you are not going to do that, it is frowned upon. I can understand why. I have cancelled a trip to survey some lonely country lanes after

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-08 Thread SomeoneElse
On 08/12/2010 21:59, Steve Bennett wrote: So the question arises: does the community support this view? Unlike the Life of Brian, here everyone does seem to be an individual - I suspect that you'll get as many answers as there are mappers. Speaking entirely personally, I do mostly only map

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-08 Thread john
added a few minor roads that were built too recently to be in the TIGER data, plus mapping the zoo and a couple of small cemeteries. ---Original Email--- Subject :Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced From :mailto:li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk Date :Wed Dec 08 18:15:39 America/Chicago

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-08 Thread Ulf Lamping
Am 08.12.2010 23:46, schrieb davespod: By the way, I don't think the intention is to suggest that it is not ok to trace an area and then visit it to correct errors and add detail. It is when you are not going to do that, it is frowned upon. I can understand why. I have cancelled a trip to survey

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-08 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 12:53 +, Joseph Reeves wrote: local mappers and even if I did trace a load of crap into the database, anyone else can come along and, providing they've got a better data source than I, fix it. please keep off India -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-08 Thread Ulf Lamping
Am 09.12.2010 02:49, schrieb Kenneth Gonsalves: On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 08:59 +1100, Steve Bennett wrote: (Personally, I would be arguing against it. Don't do X because the result would be less accurate than if you did Y is an unhelpful kind of perfectionism. The line makes the point that

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-08 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2010-12-08 04:53, Joseph Reeves wrote: OpenStreetMap is still a wiki though? So if I find a future travel destination missing from OSM, but covered by Bing, where's the harm in tracing it? In many parts of the world there is no such thing as local mappers and even if I did trace a load of

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-08 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2010-12-08 14:46, davespod wrote: I have cancelled a trip to survey some lonely country lanes after someone else remotely traced them. Had I gone, the map would have gained POIs instead of just a line. But it scarcely seemed worth the trip for what might have been a couple of postboxes and

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-08 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 03:16 +0100, Ulf Lamping wrote: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=13.03175lon=77.56565zoom=17layers=M before the conference I did a rough sketch from satellite imagery. On arrival at the spot I found that the ground reality was totally at variance with the

[OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-07 Thread Jaak Laineste
It is good news that Bing aerials are available. The bad news is that Bing has made exactly the same mistake as Google, who has managed to misplace aerials in some areas in the beginning of September 2009. They are shifted about 20-25 meters, which makes them quite unusable for tracing.anything

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-07 Thread Jean-Marc Liotier
Jaak Laineste wrote: It is good news that Bing aerials are available. The bad news is that Bing has made exactly the same mistake as Google, who has managed to misplace aerials in some areas in the beginning of September 2009. They are shifted about 20-25 meters, which makes them quite unusable

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-07 Thread Jaak Laineste
2010/12/7 Jean-Marc Liotier j...@liotier.org: Others have noticed it. Among them : http://blog.samat.org/p/Bing-Imagery-Misaligned-at-Lower-Zooms#comment-17501 and http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/halfd/diary/12471 In our case it is not even better in higher zooms. It seems really depend on

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-07 Thread Jo
Jaak, do you know that you can change the offset in most editors? Potlatch2 and JOSM. I suppose in Merkaartor too, but I don't know for sure. 2010/12/7 Jaak Laineste jaak.laine...@gmail.com 2010/12/7 Jean-Marc Liotier j...@liotier.org: Others have noticed it. Among them :

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-07 Thread Daniel van Gerpen
On Tue, 7 Dec 2010 18:51:13 +0100 Jo winfi...@gmail.com wrote: [..] Jaak, do you know that you can change the offset in most editors? Potlatch2 and JOSM. I suppose in Merkaartor too, but I don't know for sure. Currently Merkaartor does not support this. Regards, Daniel

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-07 Thread Steve Bennett
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 4:51 AM, Jo winfi...@gmail.com wrote: Jaak, do you know that you can change the offset in most editors? Potlatch2 and JOSM. I suppose in Merkaartor too, but I don't know for sure. But how do you know which direction to offset and by how much? Is the Bing imagery really

[OSM-talk] bing error in josm

2010-12-02 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
hi, I have downloaded the josm-tested and josm-latest. In bing wms I get this error: 'bing:bing' for this WMS layer does neither end in a '' nor with a '?'. If I choose 'fetch images' I get an exception. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ talk mailing

Re: [OSM-talk] bing error in josm

2010-12-02 Thread Hendrik Oesterlin
Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.org wrote on 02/12/2010 at 22:53:31 +1100 subject [OSM-talk] bing error in josm : I have downloaded the josm-tested and josm-latest. In bing wms I get this error: 'bing:bing' for this WMS layer does neither end in a '' nor with a '?'. If I choose 'fetch images

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