Re: [OSM-talk] Who Did It?

2012-09-29 Thread Lester Caine
or JOSM :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http

Re: [OSM-talk] Who Did It?

2012-09-29 Thread Lester Caine
start! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-28 Thread Lester Caine
on the imagery ... that is what is irritating ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow

Re: [OSM-talk] Réf.: Re: All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-28 Thread Lester Caine
crib sheet only to find it needs updating, but I need to spend a few more hours using it. It *IS* important to identify the sourse of an object and what work has already been done on it, but I'm not sure what facilities are provided to do that? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-28 Thread Lester Caine
Data Editor' ... yes we have to trust people, but are the safeguards in place to cope with making that freely available? I work with XML data and I would still be nervous editing it without the right tools! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki

[OSM-talk] Tagging the source

2012-09-28 Thread Lester Caine
are pulled up from that! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging the source

2012-09-28 Thread Lester Caine
Pieren wrote: - attribution lost in data extracts, planet (separate file for changesets) ACTUALLY that is probably the killer? Local working with truncated extracts SHOULD still report this type of data? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging the source

2012-09-28 Thread Lester Caine
of configuration would that be accurate. Perhaps all I am asking for is a 'default' set of tags that get added which I have to change manually, but the DATA certainly is important, and tags like 'start_date' should be populated by default! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging the source

2012-09-28 Thread Lester Caine
to the information when one is looking at something and saying That is wrong! you may know straight away that it is a candidate to update. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging the source

2012-09-28 Thread Lester Caine
the editors don't present it! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-27 Thread Lester Caine
in 'layers' that can be ignored when creating some data feeds. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-27 Thread Lester Caine
unsubstantiated detail would at least be a start. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-27 Thread Lester Caine
commercial buildings and if they are listed, local house sales help add more detail. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-27 Thread Lester Caine
affect the ground plan, but if anything, the buildings are offset OVER the missing roads. The church looks nice, but google streetview only seems to cover the outer ring road :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-27 Thread Lester Caine
a little practice, and needs clean images, but France would benefit from a few 'cadastre' importers filling other details in the areas they are importing :( Personally I would not be happy if *I* had uploaded some of the areas I'm looking at ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-27 Thread Lester Caine
- but similarly JUST uploading buildings is pointless? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-27 Thread Lester Caine
be used to add a little more detail when appropriate? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-27 Thread Lester Caine
that in my workflow :) In this case it would need a local survey to ascertain access rights. We do not assume that where there is no data available. Further west you will find that the firing ranges on Salisbury plains have some gaps as well :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-27 Thread Lester Caine
diagonal lines are removed. I get the impression that this is a process that should be happening but not everybody is 'complying', so something needs to be done to re-educate those mappers to the 'assistance' element over the 'just copy raw' activity? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-27 Thread Lester Caine
of details like that which I've not recorded properly, and certainly that level of detail is missing on streetview ) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal for import guidelines

2012-09-26 Thread Lester Caine
is important, not just a 'current view' of what people think matter for them? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal for import guidelines

2012-09-26 Thread Lester Caine
is your 'raw data' layer, in which case there should be a 'version select' or your staging layer? We are missing tools to make all this work, but they are the same tools world wide, and we just need to identify some fine detail on the processes? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal for import guidelines

2012-09-26 Thread Lester Caine
of the original source data when a warning is created would also be helpful. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal for import guidelines

2012-09-26 Thread Lester Caine
Richard Fairhurst wrote: It doesn't actually make any difference to me personally - I only_use_ OSM data for the UK, where we don't have imports Yet ;) I want to get the border layer stuff working directly from the import rather than 'importing' it piecemeal into the base data ... -- Lester

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal for import guidelines

2012-09-26 Thread Lester Caine
large blocks of raw data to be copied over once they have been identified as building or what ever? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal for import guidelines

2012-09-26 Thread Lester Caine
files are the 'staging layer' and I'm sure that since you are providing each building as a shape then in the future it should be possible to maintain a 'building_id' that can be used with the sort of merge tools I am looking for to handle this type of data? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-26 Thread Lester Caine
to manually select objects to import would provide that check? So I'd block any area select function, so that hundreds of objects can't simply be picked and pushed? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-26 Thread Lester Caine
THEVENON Julien wrote: * De :* Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk * *Now that I understand what is going on, I can see where some off the 'extra' lines come from, and the diagonal is probably due to a boundary detail from changing sheets. This is more often due to split of landuse ownership

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-26 Thread Lester Caine
still need to split and add address data ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow

Re: [OSM-talk] Réf.: Re: All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-26 Thread Lester Caine
to be imported? With a decent editor, one should be able to select the outline of a block and simply import that ... where did you see open building objects ? I was referring to the extra line segments within the box ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki

Re: [OSM-talk] Multiple Layers for OSM

2012-09-25 Thread Lester Caine
- past or future - for the rendering we want? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal for import guidelines

2012-09-25 Thread Lester Caine
. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk

Re: [OSM-talk] Multiple Layers for OSM

2012-09-25 Thread Lester Caine
as I'm sure it can be managed if essential, but the 'difference' may also be legitimate and pulling that apart at the moment is an even more interesting problem. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http

Re: [OSM-talk] Réf.: Re: Proposal for import guidelines

2012-09-25 Thread Lester Caine
maintains a source tag of the relevant layer, then we can see what has come from that source, and can hopefully over time develop a 'history' of the imports objects into the base 'layer' and archive deleted data into an historic layer. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact

Re: [Talk-GB] First steps with JOSM

2012-09-25 Thread Lester Caine
:) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk

Re: [OSM-talk] Multiple Layers for OSM

2012-09-24 Thread Lester Caine
spot the areas to go down through the levels. This may be easier in the short term as simple snapshot views as images, but to be able to retain live OSM as a background? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic

Re: [OSM-talk] Multiple Layers for OSM

2012-09-24 Thread Lester Caine
complex import data or keep the simplified view? Manual intervention on the merge process. BUT it does make more sense to me to keep the bulk of this imagery ON a separate database since displaying it or not should be optional at the viewer? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

[Talk-GB] Geo-referencing

2012-09-23 Thread Lester Caine
? If I just replace all the .prj files with the 'new' one all the layers will line up? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines proposal update

2012-09-22 Thread Lester Caine
Paul Norman wrote: From: Lester Caine [mailto:les...@lsces.co.uk] Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines proposal update who last edited an object! ). Where the import HAS nice unique object identifiers things are a lot easier, but raw vector data like the French import, and I think

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines proposal update

2012-09-22 Thread Lester Caine
Paul Norman wrote: From: Lester Caine [mailto:les...@lsces.co.uk] Sent: Friday, September 21, 2012 11:47 PM To: 'OSM' Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines proposal update Paul Norman wrote: From: Lester Caine [mailto:les...@lsces.co.uk] Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines proposal

Re: [OSM-talk] [possibly OT] Apples IOS 6 Maps and the response

2012-09-22 Thread Lester Caine
' but are happy to just take other peoples? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMI Boundaries Views

2012-09-22 Thread Lester Caine
. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk

Re: [OSM-talk] [possibly OT] Apples IOS 6 Maps and the response

2012-09-21 Thread Lester Caine
-headache Begs the question - are any of the OSM routing options iPhone friendly? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines proposal update

2012-09-21 Thread Lester Caine
been lost, so there is no way to identify them from new buildings that only appear in the latest import ... With all the historic mapping now available we have the option to add historic dates to objects as well ... without interfering with anybody else? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines proposal update

2012-09-21 Thread Lester Caine
that identifies conflicts that need a human eye. Isn't it better to spend time working out a GOOD way of using the data going forward rather than having to manually merge the whole lot again in a couple of years time ... and every couple of years. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [Talk-GB] Highlighting an area ...

2012-09-21 Thread Lester Caine
of where I am heading :) Of cause being able to click on a 'ward' and show the councillors will have to come later ... Currently the site just has a list of streets for each, so it will be nice to know if they are ALL on OSM ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http

Re: [OSM-talk] [Imports] Import guidelines proposal update

2012-09-20 Thread Lester Caine
practical experience of handing this type of import, how about contributing to the overhaul? Actually where is THAT being debated? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines proposal update

2012-09-20 Thread Lester Caine
, and currently is still the best way to identify things until a more rugged solution is provided - centrally! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model

Re: [OSM-talk] [Imports] Import guidelines proposal update

2012-09-20 Thread Lester Caine
side! - it is just a matter of miss-understanding what people are saying? On both sides? Lets move all this energy into fixing the process and getting a robust mechanism moving forward! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines proposal update

2012-09-20 Thread Lester Caine
don't have the information to suggest anything else :( In the case of the UK data we know how, we are just not allowed to yet double :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-20 Thread Lester Caine
sly (sylvain letuffe) wrote: We can get back to the topic of governance and discussion about those laws and who decide them, and how. Or just get back to fixing the process in the first place? SO we have less chance of misinterpreting the 'guidelines'? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines proposal update

2012-09-20 Thread Lester Caine
Jean-Marc Liotier wrote: On 20/09/2012 13:18, Lester Caine wrote: Go on wiping and reloading every time the source data is updated and manually merging everything. Sounds ugly doesn't it ? Because it is. Wouldn't it be much better if each building from the cadastre had a UUID that could

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines proposal update

2012-09-20 Thread Lester Caine
data I'm being supplied, and now the sources are using my id's to improve their end. Unfortunately not usable mapping stuff though. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines proposal update

2012-09-20 Thread Lester Caine
code that only needs some local filtering to work with a particular import? Isn't it better where we HAVE vector data to make the best use of it, and then spend our time enhancing the details ... like adding road names and house numbers? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] [Imports] Import guidelines proposal update

2012-09-20 Thread Lester Caine
database. Rather than the quite heroic efforts that are currently being used to import them? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers

Re: [OSM-talk] [Imports] Import guidelines proposal update

2012-09-20 Thread Lester Caine
Béland Pierre wrote: 2012-09-20 Lester Caine lester at lsces.co.uk Comment fields are not documented as well as they should be and the 'problem' that instigated this thread is to my view of what's on line a very good example of why there WAS a problem. Correctly flagging information

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-20 Thread Lester Caine
of OGD data in multiple formats will be merged into a coherent whole? And perhaps some of that data will only be accessible on secondary servers as overlays? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http

[OSM-talk] Importing third party data

2012-09-19 Thread Lester Caine
to the data source! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-19 Thread Lester Caine
we get the go ahead to merge it with OSM. So I should probably be offering to help assess what is needed to support the French data import. Except my French is so bad that I'd not know where to start ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-19 Thread Lester Caine
SHOULD have been having this discussion in March? And been helping you at that stage to better manage the use of this data? There is a lot of good expertise available so the one thing we do NOT want is smaller groups doing their own thing :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-19 Thread Lester Caine
not alone in feeling that this has fallen a little behind in this case? That said, the whole Catalogue *IS* due for an overhaul :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-19 Thread Lester Caine
than some vague tag on a roadway meters away from it. Provided that we all follow the same rules when adding this sort of fine detail. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines proposal update

2012-09-19 Thread Lester Caine
the local community some of their own autonomy should not allow them to rubber stamp changes that remove this simply courtesy to other mappers to identify 'importing' over 'mapping'? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Lester Caine
, and then merges from that can easily be identified to the user actually making the changes. That perhaps is not obvious these days? We need to cooperate and agree the best way of doing things, but we do still have a way to go to get systems that work world wide. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Lester Caine
overlay system so this sort of raw data can be imported and then processed where we can all review it. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Lester Caine
to be merged in some way? Certainly a large section of the OS data is only useful as reference material and any import is only going to obliterate more accurate data, so having it available as an overlay works well. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Lester Caine
are applied to the main database. Some better involvement of local groups would be useful here I think? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Lester Caine
of an area but is totally ignored as a valid reason for not 'blanked wiping' an area to allow new data to be uploaded! Merging new imports with existing data is difficult, so tends not to happen, delete and reload is the quick fix but is destroying often valuable data :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Lester Caine
is some mechanism in the editors to keep the maximum commit down to a certain size? Any 'local import' would be restricted to what is a manageable size once committed? The time warnings should restrict things, but a 'size' limit so that one has to commit once that limit is reached? -- Lester Caine

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Lester Caine
are protecting other peoples work ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Lester Caine
historic data has been lost. I'm in the second camp ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Lester Caine
or so, not after 2 days work. The CORRECT procedure would have been to take a block of buildings at a time. If you have to delete the existing data then at least it's more easily linked to the new smaller import. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Lester Caine
Marc Sibert wrote: Le 18/09/2012 23:24, Lester Caine a écrit : Marc Sibert wrote: Again, I'm not a vandal : I do not detroy any work (and nobody complains about that), I just update data (replace), that is not the point why my account was blocked ! So, what have you done in my case

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Lester Caine
... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http

Re: [Talk-GB] Places and postcodes -- nodes/areas?

2012-09-11 Thread Lester Caine
. There is no 'definition' of the gaps between postcodes until perhaps a new building is added. This is one of the reasons that the National Land and Property Gazetteer uses it's on references numbers for streets and properties and postcodes - when recorded - are buried in the fine detail. -- Lester

Re: [OSM-talk] horrible job in gjilan,kosovo

2012-08-23 Thread Lester Caine
of our content only, but I think the work involved with adding that would probably have taken another couple of years? :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-GB] Footway to Sidewalk?

2012-08-21 Thread Lester Caine
these sort of things are discussed :( ANY change to tagging should be approved on the tagging list only? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model

Re: [OSM-talk] Naming disputes in Ukraine

2012-08-02 Thread Lester Caine
that explains that one of two signs is wrong, but until what is visible on the ground is changed, the base information is well defined - even if it is totally wrong :) And that applies everywhere in the world ... EVEN if some local authority try to dictate otherwise. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] Naming disputes in Ukraine

2012-08-02 Thread Lester Caine
not to render anything since that is the case on the ground. Translated options for names can then be freely used for translated maps. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http

Re: [OSM-talk] Naming disputes in Ukraine

2012-07-27 Thread Lester Caine
... or so? That is the lang=xx tag for a higher level area, but we probably need official_lang and local_lang :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http

Re: [OSM-talk] Naming disputes in Ukraine

2012-07-27 Thread Lester Caine
... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http

Re: [OSM-talk] Naming disputes in Ukraine

2012-07-25 Thread Lester Caine
osm map following the 'map what is on the ground' rule ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http

Re: [OSM-talk] Naming disputes in Ukraine

2012-07-25 Thread Lester Caine
clear on my post ;) BUT we do still need some flag which indicate what language is used on the sign we are looking at!!! I would not be so blinkered to insist that the main map is 'English' - this should always be 'on the ground', but an 'English' layer would be nice :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] Naming disputes in Ukraine

2012-07-25 Thread Lester Caine
tag for many objects so if you go to open.mapquest.com which prefers English names you should be fine ;) But I would still need to know what was on the signs as well if I went there :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine

Re: [OSM-talk] Naming disputes in Ukraine

2012-07-25 Thread Lester Caine
. The map needs to correspond with the observed real world. If street signs in Ukraine are in Russian, then the tagged name should be in Russian. When the signs are changed to Ukrainian, then that is the time to re-tag. Nicely put ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact

Re: [OSM-talk] Naming disputes in Ukraine

2012-07-25 Thread Lester Caine
for selection, but I could make a case for two overlays on the main map, one in english? With links to tile sets in other languages? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve

Re: [OSM-talk] Naming disputes in Ukraine

2012-07-25 Thread Lester Caine
is a rendering problem, so mapping xx^yy ( or what ever ) to name:xx - name:yy would be conversion problem anyway, and may involve RTL conversion as well ... what does one do with a pair of names with reverse directions? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk

Re: [OSM-talk] Naming disputes in Ukraine

2012-07-25 Thread Lester Caine
Petr Morávek [Xificurk] wrote: Lester Caine wrote: colliar wrote: I also prefer the name that is on the sign, but we should think about always adding the name with its language tag, too, otherwise it is not clear which language is used and you have to get this information from some other

Re: [OSM-talk] Naming disputes in Ukraine

2012-07-25 Thread Lester Caine
with an appropriate list if required. I don't think you want to start messing with 'name=' itself in this case? But the tools should be able to override the 'name=' tag with a more suitable local option based on a local 'lang=' setting. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact

Re: [OSM-talk] Naming disputes in Ukraine

2012-07-25 Thread Lester Caine
in general terms? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http

Re: [OSM-talk] Naming disputes in Ukraine

2012-07-25 Thread Lester Caine
anyway if only to identify the languages that appear in 'name=' so that we can then translate them correctly? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com

Re: [OSM-talk] Naming disputes in Ukraine

2012-07-25 Thread Lester Caine
to keeping data and format separate ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital

Re: [Talk-GB] Building Numbers

2012-07-25 Thread Lester Caine
the website, but could not find any physical addresses listed ;) http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr still irritates when I'm adding addresses for business premises ... addr:unit could fit your use ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki

Re: [OSM-talk] Very not happy

2012-07-20 Thread Lester Caine
and cleaned the data, but we need local contributor to do that in their own area. The new map data is now totally compliant with the more open license and any new data will have to remain complaint. So the only reason data has gone missing is because nobody has bothered to clean it up :( -- Lester

Re: [OSM-talk] Very not happy

2012-07-20 Thread Lester Caine
:( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk

Re: [Talk-GB] Temporary road closures

2012-07-12 Thread Lester Caine
and I certainly think it's worth tagging when it happens as the alternative routes are miles! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model

Re: [OSM-talk] Cookies on OSM

2012-07-11 Thread Lester Caine
yet. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http

Re: [OSM-talk] Cookies on OSM

2012-07-11 Thread Lester Caine
' that has resulted from the exercise that is more important. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http

Re: [OSM-talk] Cookies on OSM

2012-07-11 Thread Lester Caine
the ICO has changed the advise again in June it HAS also said that it will not be taking action against anybody any time soon, so sitting on hands is probably equally safe at the moment. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine

Re: [OSM-talk] TomTom is thumping us

2012-05-30 Thread Lester Caine
back to fixing the errors! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// Firebird - http

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