Re: [OSM-talk] Project of the week: Stationery

2011-03-03 Thread David Murn
I think this could even be extended to newsagencies too? Most newsagencies in Australia are often dominated by stationary supplies. David On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 08:16 +0100, Matthias Meißer wrote: > This week, we suggest to put your eyes on the local stationery shops > http://wiki.openstreetmap.o

Re: [OSM-talk] Project of the Week and Tutorials for OSM beginners

2010-09-16 Thread Serge Wroclawski
I'd like to see some of these guides with maybe some more pictures turned into something printed that I can buy ala on lulu.com or something? - Serge ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Project of the Week

2010-08-02 Thread Shoaib Burq
You are right Toby, we are definitely lacking what to do in new areas. Esp. with places like the Pakistani NW. And you are right a lot of great stuff was put together for Haiti but it seems it needs to be generalized a bit. If people know of links to tutorials please post them here and the wiki as

Re: [OSM-talk] Project of the Week

2010-08-02 Thread Toby Murray
I'm kind of new here so I wasn't around for Haiti. Is there a general "here is how to help map disaster areas" page on the wiki? I would be willing to help out but the mapping I have done so far here in the US is a little different thanks to TIGER data that at least gives you a point to start from.

Re: [OSM-talk] Project of the Week 2010Mar28 - Swimming in data

2010-03-30 Thread John Smith
On 31 March 2010 08:34, Jon Burgess wrote: > place=island should have no effect on it. Other than being used to display the name does that tag get rendered at all? ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tal

Re: [OSM-talk] Project of the Week 2010Mar28 - Swimming in data

2010-03-30 Thread Jon Burgess
On Tue, 2010-03-30 at 16:45 +0100, Grant Slater wrote: > 2010/3/30 John Smith : > > anything tagged natural=coastline only updates intermitently, I'm not > > sure if there is a regular schedule or not, however shape files are > > produced from the coastline segments and so on and so forth. > > > >

Re: [OSM-talk] Project of the Week 2010Mar28 - Swimming in data

2010-03-30 Thread John Smith
2010/3/31 Grant Slater : > Do it properly. Not using some dirty hack. :-) The problem is everything except the coastlines update within minutes, so now people assume everything does and when it doesn't they complain on mailing lists or diary entries or Realistically it's no more of a hack th

Re: [OSM-talk] Project of the Week 2010Mar28 - Swimming in data

2010-03-30 Thread Grant Slater
2010/3/30 John Smith : > anything tagged natural=coastline only updates intermitently, I'm not > sure if there is a regular schedule or not, however shape files are > produced from the coastline segments and so on and so forth. > Coastlines updating is currently a manual process for tile.osm.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Project of the Week 2010Mar28 - Swimming in data

2010-03-30 Thread John Smith
2010/3/30 Iván Sánchez Ortega : > http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/536255 > > ... but the problem persists. anything tagged natural=coastline only updates intermitently, I'm not sure if there is a regular schedule or not, however shape files are produced from the coastline segments and

Re: [OSM-talk] Project of the Week 2010Mar28 - Swimming in data

2010-03-30 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
El 30/03/2010 15:10, andrzej zaborowski escribió: >> And while in the process: have a look at the islands of Ibiza and >> Formentera. These landmasses have vanished. > > I have argued on the talk-es list that it might be caused by the > addition of place=island to the coast line on Mar 19. I have

Re: [OSM-talk] Project of the Week 2010Mar28 - Swimming in data

2010-03-30 Thread andrzej zaborowski
On 28 March 2010 08:00, Maarten Deen wrote: > Richard Weait wrote: >> Many of the coastlines in OSM came from an import of the PGS coastline >> data.  It was a fantastic benefit to be able to add this coastline >> data to OSM, and we're better off having had it.  And there are many >> places that

Re: [OSM-talk] Project of the Week 2010Mar28 - Swimming in data

2010-03-28 Thread Roman Neumüller
On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 10:48:16 +0300, wrote: > Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 01:17:28 -0430 > From: Richard Weait > Subject: [OSM-talk] Project of the Week 2010Mar28 - Swimming in data > To: talk@openstreetmap.org, newb...@openstreetmap.org > Message-ID: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8

Re: [OSM-talk] Project of the Week 2010Mar28 - Swimming in data

2010-03-27 Thread Maarten Deen
Richard Weait wrote: > Many of the coastlines in OSM came from an import of the PGS coastline > data. It was a fantastic benefit to be able to add this coastline > data to OSM, and we're better off having had it. And there are many > places that have aerial imagery that is now good enough to impr

Re: [OSM-talk] Project of the week

2010-02-09 Thread Roy Wallace
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Dave F. wrote: > > ...Tracing just doesn't cut it. Cut "it"? Cut what? I think it's perfectly suitable for what Steve's suggesting. There's a time and a place for tracing. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org h

Re: [OSM-talk] Project of the week

2010-02-09 Thread John Smith
On 10 February 2010 10:43, Dave F. wrote: > Naa... I'll pass thanks. I'm too busy mapping my neck of the woods. > > Which is what I think is the correct way. Tracing just doesn't cut it. > You need local, on the ground knowledge. It helps but just look what was accomplished with Haiti, it isn't t

Re: [OSM-talk] Project of the week

2010-02-09 Thread Grant Slater
On 10 February 2010 00:43, Dave F. wrote: > Steve, I've got something for you to do. Why don't you design a logo for > the OSM foundation instead of arrogantly & lazily expecting others, > outside of the foundation, to do > it for you. > Dave chill out, that is over the top. Even the venerable OS

Re: [OSM-talk] Project of the week

2010-02-09 Thread SteveC
On Feb 9, 2010, at 5:43 PM, Dave F. wrote: > SteveC wrote: >> Hi >> >> Thought I'd try to put this together: >> >> -- >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Project_of_the_week >> >> Every week, OSMers everywhere are invited to help in this weeks project. >> This is inspired by the huge amount

Re: [OSM-talk] Project of the week

2010-02-09 Thread Dave F.
SteveC wrote: > Hi > > Thought I'd try to put this together: > > -- > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Project_of_the_week > > Every week, OSMers everywhere are invited to help in this weeks project. This > is inspired by the huge amount of effort that went in to mapping Haiti by > people all o

Re: [OSM-talk] Project of the week

2010-02-09 Thread SteveC
On Feb 9, 2010, at 12:44 PM, ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen wrote: > Ok , nice idea, > But Denver ...???!!?? Why Denver..of all places > And House numbers ??? Who needs a house number in Denver ? I do, I live there :-) It's just the first one to kick it off - feel free to add

Re: [OSM-talk] Project of the week

2010-02-09 Thread Ciprian Talaba
Hi, On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 9:44 PM, ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen wrote: > Ok , nice idea, > But Denver ...???!!?? Why Denver..of all places > And House numbers ??? Who needs a house number in Denver ? > > I believe a lot of people asked the same questions about Haiti BEFORE t

Re: [OSM-talk] Project of the week

2010-02-09 Thread Joseph Reeves
Why not suggest Olympic locations as next week's topic? Denver sounds like a great idea; I've never been, but I'll trace some houses if it helps someone out. If I'm lucky, someone might help me out with a part of the world I'm interested in at a later date. And lets go out there and keep making th

Re: [OSM-talk] Project of the week

2010-02-09 Thread ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen
Ok , nice idea, But Denver ...???!!?? Why Denver..of all places And House numbers ??? Who needs a house number in Denver ? I would suggest something like Vancouver and try to locate all the Olympic Locations !!! What about important touristic regions : Yogi Bear Parc Let's be inspired by th