Re: [OSM-talk] Turn restrictions again

2008-06-29 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, I've create an proposal for turn restrictions. It's at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Relation:xrestriction I see no problem in splitting a way at an intersection where it is part of a turn restriction, thus nicely solving all ambiguity. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm

Re: [OSM-talk] remove friends

2008-07-04 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, How can I remove friends fom http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/xyz ? I accidently clicked me one friend who is't. Simply move him to enemies ;-) Jokes aside, just click on his name in your friends list, and then there will be a link remove as friend just where there was the add as

Re: [OSM-talk] who moved Mumbai?

2008-07-04 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, everything is AND and everything is consistently out of place to the southeast with the same offset - is there any way to programmatically change this? I have a script that I could use for this task if people want. Obviously I'd need to know exactly what to move and by what amount...

Re: [OSM-talk] who moved Mumbai?

2008-07-06 Thread Frederik Ramm
server in EPS:32643 and re-project it on the fly. Something like this has been done by Sven Geggus [EMAIL PROTECTED] to access WMS servers that only had the German national projection. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33

[OSM-talk] SOTM: ride share Dublin-Limerick, spaces available

2008-07-06 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, if anyone else wants to go from Dublin airport to Limerick on Friday afternoon (departure c. 17:30), I have 1-2 more spaces available in my car. The return journey (early Monday morning) is also still available. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00'09

Re: [OSM-talk] suggestion for SOTM09

2008-07-15 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Gran Canaria. The GNOME and KDE free desktop conferences are jointly being held there Friday, July, 3rd until Saturday, July 11th 2009. So I think it would be great if SOTM could be there, say, Sat 11th-Sun 12th. Nothing against Gran Canaria at all but I don't see a lot of value in

Re: [OSM-talk] Italy Video

2008-07-15 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, John McKerrell wrote: Does anyone have the link for that great video shown during the State of Italy talk? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZOQSn5tyqQ Bye Frederik ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

[OSM-talk] Dear Fake SteveC

2008-07-15 Thread Frederik Ramm
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Re: [OSM-talk] Adding a KOSMOS rule

2008-07-16 Thread Frederik Ramm
an edit link to create it. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM maps in 3D

2008-07-18 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, You're talking free as in beer. Simon was talking free as in freedom. I hope he'll at least be happy once he has a free as in freedom software implementation. If he chose to go on to say you cannot really use Java because there's no reasonably performing free as in freedom processor

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM - MS Access

2008-07-18 Thread Frederik Ramm
then depending on what uses you're after, you might want to look at osm2csv (in SVN) as an initial step but I'd avoid that if possible. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ talk mailing list talk

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM maps in 3D

2008-07-18 Thread Frederik Ramm
would call that free ;-) Anyone sharing Simon's disposition though is encouraged to use Merkaartor which, as far as I know, just needs a C compiler and an open source Qt library. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33

Re: [OSM-talk] suggestion for SOTM09

2008-07-18 Thread Frederik Ramm
reasons for not coming, and I don't see why RichardF's absence in particular should be something to discuss on the mailing list? Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ talk mailing list talk

Re: [OSM-talk] path or byway ?

2008-07-18 Thread Frederik Ramm
. The question has been asked and answered a number of times on the lists, e.g. here: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2007-December/021047.html Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33

Re: [OSM-talk] multiple bounding-polygons in one file?

2008-07-20 Thread Frederik Ramm
, and you will have to specify the --m option one time less often than the number of files, e.g. osmosis --rx input.osm --tee 4 --bp ... --bp ... --bp ... --bp ... --m --m --m --wx output.osm But check with BrettH if unsure. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49

Re: [OSM-talk] path or byway ?

2008-07-22 Thread Frederik Ramm
have a tag that is widely used in France you're welcome to put that on Map Features even if people in the UK are unlikely to use it and vice versa. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ talk mailing

Re: [OSM-talk] NPE waterways

2008-07-23 Thread Frederik Ramm
only changed something else later) ... Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Slippy map not working in Firefox

2008-07-23 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Someone has emailed me to say that the slippy map at www.openstreetmap.org does not work in Opera nor Firefox/Iceweasel on their Linux box. No problems with firefox 1.04 under Debian ;-) Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33

Re: [OSM-talk] Collapsed names

2008-07-25 Thread Frederik Ramm
in their collapsation rules for their local language. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] House numbers... One more suggestion

2008-07-25 Thread Frederik Ramm
. It's a free world ;-) Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Actually using OpenStreetMap and the usability of the current maps

2008-07-28 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, So, what are other use cases for OSM? Are the current OSM renderings good for those use cases? Do we need more different renderings for different use cases? We are not a map rendering project. We are a Geodata collection project. The fact that we have maps at all is more or less to

Re: [OSM-talk] Actually using OpenStreetMap and the usability of the current maps

2008-07-28 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, It's quite telling that if you look on the UK roadgeek site, www.sabre-roads.org.uk (dominated by motorists), they don't quite get OSM: they just whinge about lack of completeness. Same here with pocketnavigation.de... Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49

Re: [OSM-talk] Actually using OpenStreetMap and the usability of the current maps

2008-07-28 Thread Frederik Ramm
... but I'd trade them for some engineered stuff any time ;-) Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Milestone

2008-07-29 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Well, there was a discussion on IRC today among some of the [EMAIL PROTECTED] chaps along the lines of what we really need is a benevolent dictator, like the Mapnik stylesheet has. Strange [EMAIL PROTECTED] chaps they must have been, since *not* having a benevolent dictator is one

Re: [OSM-talk] House numbers... One more suggestion

2008-07-29 Thread Frederik Ramm
and connect them. If you opt for one of the coarser methods, someone else can easily refine them later. But I'm just explaining why we do what we're doing; I'm not trying to talk you into doing the same if you don't see the merit for yourself. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL

Re: [OSM-talk] A Swedish national server for OSM

2008-07-30 Thread Frederik Ramm
predating the creation of the Foundation, and I don't believe anyone has bothered to ask. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Quality assurance strategy?

2008-07-31 Thread Frederik Ramm
of those will report it, but if the numbers are high enough, you should get reliable statistical effects. OSM quality supervisors *shudder* ;-) Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ talk mailing

Re: [OSM-talk] Why OpenStreetMap is not Wikipedia

2008-08-02 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, For the last few months I've been wondering if OSM isn't more of a software project than a database. An interesting aspect. It is very likely that none of the data we collect now will still be used 20 years from now, because by then everything is so networked and fully automatic and we

Re: [OSM-talk] Cycleway VS Track

2008-08-03 Thread Frederik Ramm
tagging/relations required. Use relations only if you have a named/signed/well established route. For issues specific to Germany's system of roads and ways, also check out the talk-de list. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Using a map on a sign (esp. its POIs)

2008-08-04 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, From given event, how are pleasure institutes (Puffs) being tagged? Unless you want to go into the legal particulars of the sex trade, I'd suggest to take your question to talk not legal-talk. Bye Frederik ___ legal-talk mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [OSM-talk] superways as relations ?

2008-08-04 Thread Frederik Ramm
H, m*sh wrote: But matter of factly a similar idea crosses my mind from time to time. Proposing a tag-combination: label=yes name = Mainstreet (e.g.) displayzoom = 12 This is not a similar thought. The original poster talked about combining ways to form relations, thus informing the

Re: [OSM-talk] Australia has Google Street View!

2008-08-05 Thread Frederik Ramm
Stephen, Stephen Gower wrote: That argument surely applies to aerial images also, and yet consensus is that getting facts from them would create a derived work incompatible with our licence. Just for the record: The issue is highly contended and it would be wrong to speak of consensus. If

[OSM-legal-talk] Attribution chaining

2008-08-05 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, if I offer processed OSM data on my web site for others to use under CC-BY-SA: Whom do the others have to give attribution? I usually expect everyone to retain the OpenStreetMap contributors message and leave me (or my company) out of the picture - but if I wanted to, could I also

Re: [OSM-talk] Australia has Google Street View!

2008-08-05 Thread Frederik Ramm
will be on there from his Google map), and after a year or so knowing most of the place by hard. According to your strict reading, the sad git would probably be unable to contribute to OSM in this town, ever, because is brain is now a derived work of Google maps... Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail

Re: [OSM-talk] Australia has Google Street View!

2008-08-05 Thread Frederik Ramm
a book one evening and tell us the truth the next morning. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] tagging trailblazes / marked paths

2008-08-05 Thread Frederik Ramm
paragraph ;-) Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Isle of Man coastline issue

2008-08-07 Thread Frederik Ramm
with the output of close-areas.pl (the script used to make polygons from coastline sections). I believed I had this fixed, and it worked for a number of test cases, but it seems you have found something where it doesn't. I will have a look. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL

Re: [OSM-talk] Isle of Man coastline issue

2008-08-07 Thread Frederik Ramm
tiles but checked locally), maybe anyone else seeing a coastline problem and who has [EMAIL PROTECTED] installed could check whether it's ok now but I believe it should. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM-TileDownload - Python app to easily create maps

2008-08-09 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Jon Burgess wrote: Are you aware that the 'export' tab feature on the main site lets you do something similar but with an easier selection of the bounding box and a choice of map layers and output formats? It does have its limits though. It prevents you obtaining anything larger than

Re: [OSM-talk] Downloading compressed data from API

2008-08-10 Thread Frederik Ramm
are available can also be specified in the headers. This has nothing to do with calling an external gzip/bzip2 program. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [OSM-talk] Downloading compressed data from API

2008-08-10 Thread Frederik Ramm
test*osm b66910215e75f774e31166d4b34b9290 test1.osm b66910215e75f774e31166d4b34b9290 test2.osm [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/wget$ Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ talk mailing list talk

Re: [OSM-talk] API v7

2008-08-18 Thread Frederik Ramm
machines, and presented it to OSM users to play with. You don't have use the live system to build a proof of concept. But as I said, I believe the problem is not the data model but the user interface. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33

[OSM-talk] SOTM relations workshop: results

2008-08-20 Thread Frederik Ramm
in some way, either by forming some kind of informal relation working group or by having a proper developer meeting to supplement SOTM. Cheers Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ talk mailing list talk

Re: [OSM-talk] SOTM relations workshop: results

2008-08-21 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, one direction and back again. Turns out that the forward and backward are only meant clarify how the route goes by saying you have to turn this way around to match up with the direction of the others, and can often be ignored. Er... I have no idea what you actually mean by that last

[OSM-talk] JOSM users will love this feature

2008-08-22 Thread Frederik Ramm
ways so much easier. Just get josm-latest to use it. (It can be deactivated in preferences.) Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [OSM-talk] What Can Be Done With It?

2008-08-24 Thread Frederik Ramm
and things like that. Maybe we should have a wiki waning week where everyone is encouraged to merge similar articles and delete obsolete articles. And then we invent a shiny star that we give to whoever achieves the most decluttering during that week. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL

Re: [OSM-talk] High-Precision GPS Survey Equipment?

2008-08-25 Thread Frederik Ramm
-filled baloon, you know, the toy shop/fun fair variety, then let it slowly ascend tied to a light yarn until you're at the top of the building... ;-) Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ talk mailing

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM-TileDownload 0.0.0.6 released

2008-08-26 Thread Frederik Ramm
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Re: [OSM-talk] 'Offset path' distances

2008-08-27 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, I'm adding a feature to Potlatch whereby you can select a way, choose 'Offset way', and a new, parallel way will be created a certain distance away. Can you perhaps also find a way to encode this information - either by way of a relation grouping both ways, or a special tag or

Re: [OSM-talk] how not to showcase osm

2008-08-29 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Doru Julian Bugariu wrote: You were probably heised :-) Duh, and I though we'd been beeb'd. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [OSM-talk] Left and Right - a proposal

2008-08-30 Thread Frederik Ramm
is arbitrary. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Coastline checker / NL-tileserver / planet extracts not updated

2008-08-30 Thread Frederik Ramm
.osc.gz You will lose some of the contents of the offending note tag if you use this, otherwise it is identical to the original diff. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ talk mailing list talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Left and Right - a proposal

2008-08-30 Thread Frederik Ramm
as an area must also be rendered as one; it is obvious that in the long run renderers will need (and get) mechanisms to collapse areas into lines or points at low-detail zoom levels. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33

Re: [OSM-talk] Left and Right - a proposal

2008-08-30 Thread Frederik Ramm
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Re: [OSM-talk] Path rendering in the cycleway

2008-09-01 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, robin paulson wrote: I think we shouldn't vote on tags at all. Instead, we should monitor what gets used most by the mappers (see Tagwatch and the tool announced by Schuyler Erle). one of the problems with this, is that it's highly likely two mappers will develop two contrasting,

Re: [OSM-talk] Animations of historic OSM coverage

2008-09-02 Thread Frederik Ramm
with Mapnik. I won't make it available in an automated fashion because it eats a lot of CPU *and* requires manual tweaking of the results and parameters by someone who knows what he's doing ;-) Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33

Re: [OSM-talk] Path rendering in the cycleway

2008-09-02 Thread Frederik Ramm
for the sake of some greater good - at least not if it is easily avoidable. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] scale a ShapeFile in Y-direction?

2009-05-10 Thread Frederik Ramm
that makes Iceland and the Equator fit will still have France out of place. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo

Re: [OSM-talk] Putting as little load as possible on the main OSM server

2009-05-11 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Niklas Cholmkvist wrote: Does anyone know if the first method I mentioned(export method) really puts less load on the main openstreetmap server? It doesn't; it is the same API function called by JOSM and by you hitting the export tab. (It might be different API daemons handling your

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] SOTM legal talks

2009-05-11 Thread Frederik Ramm
side of the force?), but even if you'd just do a 15 minute presentation that goes What is ODbL and why does the OSMF think it is good for us, and take 30 minutes of questions from the audience afterwards, that would be ok for me too. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Live Data - all new Data in OSM

2009-05-12 Thread Frederik Ramm
, just on a higher level. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Live Data - all new Data in OSM

2009-05-12 Thread Frederik Ramm
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Re: [OSM-talk] Live Data - all new Data in OSM

2009-05-12 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Bernhard zwischenbrugger wrote: I don't want to synchronize a database. The thing I'm thinking about is a visualization of the current activity. Google for OSMAware for some inspiration! Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33

Re: [OSM-talk] Live Data - all new Data in OSM

2009-05-12 Thread Frederik Ramm
, of course, you're talking about twittering the updates. that would be teh moar ;-) For once, it would not be TomH who bans an IP range then ;-) Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ talk mailing

Re: [OSM-talk] Live Data - all new Data in OSM

2009-05-12 Thread Frederik Ramm
of recording, and relaying, changes. If you want to summarise each minutely diff and twitter it, be my guest, though remember you need to compress it into 140 chars. Well, I could spread the content over 60 seconds ;-) Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49

Re: [OSM-talk] Live Data - all new Data in OSM

2009-05-13 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Peter Childs wrote: The Problem is that you can't rebuild the map from a continuing stream, This is the problem with Database Replication in general. True, but maybe the stream use cases don't require that? Maybe it is more important for an application to know in an instant where

Re: [OSM-talk] Live Data - all new Data in OSM

2009-05-13 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Jonathan Bennett wrote: andrzej zaborowski wrote: You might be missing out on a cool visualisation tool though (maybe what Bernhard is trying doing is similar), but that's the only use case I can think of right now. How does that help anyone a) use the data, or b) improve the data? See

Re: [OSM-talk] Live Data - all new Data in OSM

2009-05-13 Thread Frederik Ramm
seconds? Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Corine Land Cover becomes a potential OSM data source...

2009-05-14 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Martijn van Exel wrote: Interesting. We will be having the same kind of import versus existing data issue once more (if and) when the Nationaal Wegenbestand (National road database) is made available by the transport ministry. I did not give it much thought yet - may be some of my Dutch

Re: [OSM-talk] Satellite for OSM

2009-05-17 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Bernhard zwischenbrugger wrote: To lunch a small Satellite is not very expensive. Not if you plan to let it make photos that are of better resolution than Landsat though! Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33

Re: [OSM-talk] Satellite for OSM

2009-05-18 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Matt Amos wrote: didn't you have to restrict that to a small number of signed-up mappers though? i would have thought that, hiring topsat rather than licensing the imagery, we wouldn't have to restrict imagery use to a small group of people. With the Bavarian imagery that was loaned to

Re: [OSM-talk] reverse changeset #1268604, which moved nodes across continents

2009-05-21 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Christian Kögler wrote: Please reverse the changeset #1268604: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/1268604 Done, and emailed the user to find out what he did and if we can somehow improve JOSM so that it doesn't happen more often... Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] tagging stones in the wild (erratic, balancing, boundary, stone age, artifact)

2009-05-23 Thread Frederik Ramm
is a sensible distinction but people can only use/understand that together with your definition (use large if ...). If you would instead tag stone:circumference=20m or something, that would make it immediately clear how big the thing is, no need to look it up. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail

Re: [OSM-talk] Wanted: Web application that connects notes to an OSM slippy map

2009-05-23 Thread Frederik Ramm
not sure about the openness of OpenStreetBugs but if you can manage to grab OSB's code somewhere then you're almost there. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch and sketching from aerial imagery

2009-06-01 Thread Frederik Ramm
the existence of which would have to remain secret. Would that then be a classified unclassified road, and under what circumstances could it become declassified? Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ talk

Re: [OSM-talk] How do we specify relative importance of features across all types of features?

2009-06-04 Thread Frederik Ramm
have more map significance than one of the dozens of cities that surround Paris. -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] petition

2009-06-04 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Josh wrote: hello there is a very important petition in my signature I would appreciate if you would sign it please. You have sent the same message to this list two days ago. Bye Frederik ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Wanted feature for API 0.7 ??

2009-06-08 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen wrote: I want to suggest the following feature to the next API : The API must be kept simple. I agree that lifecycle support needs improvement but the API is not the place to implement such specific rules. The API is, and should remain, first

Re: [OSM-talk] Wanted feature for API 0.7 ??

2009-06-08 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Peter Dörrie wrote: The current renderes wouldn't be able to handle it either and forcing 50+ applications to change would be unappropriate. Why, we're doing that all the time ;-) There are many unsolved questions here. For example: What happens if parts of the ancient world transcend

Re: [OSM-talk] Wanted feature for API 0.7 ??

2009-06-09 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: I guess you are talking about the pantheon (the parthenon is in Athens) What an embarassment ;-) you're right of course. I was thinking of Rome not Greece. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33

Re: [OSM-talk] Bicycle boulevards

2009-06-10 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Mario Salvini wrote: Even in germany on these roads there are no additional rights-of-way in comparison to normal cycleways (except that bicycles get the officially allowance to drive next to each other and not just inline. buts that's piece of cake ;) ). A normal cycleway with

Re: [OSM-talk] Bicycle boulevards

2009-06-10 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, 2009/6/10 Mario Salvini salv...@t-online.de: tag both ways as: highway=cycleway motor_vehicle=yes footway=right parking:right=inline parrking:left=diagonal width=13 I won't have it. This feature is a road, not a 20 metre wide cycleway with parking facilities. Yes there are different

Re: [OSM-talk] full history of a way?

2009-06-13 Thread Frederik Ramm
these capabilities (plus a give me this area as it was last year API call). There is no pressing reason to burden the central API with that once we figure out how to publish full history dumps. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33

Re: [OSM-talk] full history of a way?

2009-06-14 Thread Frederik Ramm
knowledge, drop any data. And before 0.3 OSM was so small that whatever was there at the time can safely be ignored ;-) Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [OSM-talk] Move the Map

2009-06-15 Thread Frederik Ramm
I don't find that too bad actually. But it has no map on the first page. I vehemently stated that we're about data, not about slippy maps, in the talk-de discussion; however we also need to show off. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33

Re: [OSM-talk] Move the Map

2009-06-16 Thread Frederik Ramm
up. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] openmaps.org

2009-06-16 Thread Frederik Ramm
Frederik [*] This is different from international trademarks, where you pick the countries you want to apply in, and if it fails in half of them you've still got the trademark in the other half. -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposed Amenity Reorganization

2009-06-23 Thread Frederik Ramm
somewhere but I'm not sure where. I think it is a bit crazy but at least it can co-exist peacefully with what we already have (an object can be tagged according to both schemes at the same time). Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33

Re: [OSM-talk] The future of bugs in OSM

2009-07-01 Thread Frederik Ramm
Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] AAAA openstreetmap still doesn't use ipv6

2009-07-01 Thread Frederik Ramm
(which I understand we can't but let's assume we could), what part of OSM would work better tomorrow? Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [OSM-talk] The future of bugs in OSM

2009-07-01 Thread Frederik Ramm
have coded; instead open this up so that anybody can hook their app into the user interface to offer functionality. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixing duplicate nodes/ways

2009-07-01 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Alice Kaerast wrote: Is there any way that changesets #1420511 and #1420511 can be reverted? I'm trying my hand at it now. Both numbers given above are the same, did you mean another changeset besides 1420511? Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49

Re: [OSM-talk] AAAA openstreetmap still doesn't use ipv6

2009-07-02 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Thomas Schäfer wrote: This is a bad idea. Do it right or do it not. ... has never been OSM's attitude so far, so why change now. Honestly, I get the feeling you're on a personal crusade here for doing things right which is of no relevance to most of us. You might as well tell us that we

Re: [OSM-talk] The future of bugs in OSM

2009-07-02 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Richard Fairhurst wrote: Frederik Ramm wrote: That's the point I was trying to make - do not hog all the bugs in one central place and allow users to do only what you have coded; instead open this up so that anybody can hook their app into the user interface to offer functionality

Re: [OSM-talk] The future of bugs in OSM

2009-07-02 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Dair Grant wrote: Is the bugs database really so different in character to the map database though? Provided there was a planet-style dump of the bug database, anyone wishing to build an external system could easily do so. As I tried to point out in my other message, if there is to be a

Re: [OSM-talk] Second Grand State Of the Map Poetry Competition!!

2009-07-03 Thread Frederik Ramm
Steve, Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote: I also find insulting that you consider my work to be a cheap copy of yours, and I therefore demand prompt payment of 1 (one) beer* in concept of moral damages in order to settle the issue. Just a word of caution, I think those Spanish guys can get really

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM integrated into exhibits at museums?

2009-07-07 Thread Frederik Ramm
any detail beyond what is on the site though. It's at the ZKM (centre for art and media technology) here in Karlsruhe. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

[OSM-talk] SOTM schedules

2009-07-07 Thread Frederik Ramm
PDF somewhere? Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] reconverting google mapmakers

2009-07-07 Thread Frederik Ramm
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[OSM-talk] New editor (was: Making an offline OpenStreetMap CD/DVD?)

2009-07-09 Thread Frederik Ramm
has the capacity of editing ways then we ought to make sure it deals with all the relation stuff that goes with it and so on... Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ talk mailing list talk

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