Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - miniature railway

2009-08-16 Thread Lester Caine
narrow gauge which tend to be 'full size' -- 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

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-24 Thread Lester Caine
one physically stops short of the actual intersection anyway. -- 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] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-25 Thread Lester Caine
has extra data, or perhaps that some other relation is involved? -- 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] RR8 - Possible International Vandal (assistance required in various countries)

2009-09-01 Thread Lester Caine
levels on OSM. -- 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

Re: [OSM-talk] RR8 - Possible International Vandal (assistance required in various countries)

2009-09-01 Thread Lester Caine
Tom Hughes wrote: On 01/09/09 09:16, Lester Caine wrote: 2326103 declassifies the A816 from a trunk route to a primary route which CURRENTLY is probably correct ... except - I think that it would be useful to designate http://www.sabre-roads.org.uk as a cross reference for the trunk

Re: [OSM-talk] RR8 - Possible International Vandal (assistance required in various countries)

2009-09-01 Thread Lester Caine
/144953 Which would suggest that the changeset for this needs reversing, although http://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/wiki/index.php?title=A816 does hint at the fact that it has been 'de-truncked' and that only some green signs remain? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http

Re: [OSM-talk] RR8 - Possible International Vandal (assistance required in various countries)

2009-09-01 Thread Lester Caine
Tom Hughes wrote: On 01/09/09 16:23, Lester Caine wrote: Richard Fairhurst wrote: Tom Hughes wrote: Unless something has changed in the last few years them at least some parts of the A816 are trunk (in the OSM sense of being primary A roads with green signs). Indeed: http

Re: [OSM-talk] RR8 - Possible International Vandal

2009-09-02 Thread Lester Caine
it is time simply to revert them all? Especially if he is unwilling to defend his actions? -- 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] RR8 - Possible International Vandal (assistance required in various countries)

2009-09-02 Thread Lester Caine
Jennifer Campbell wrote: Tom Hughes wrote: On 01/09/09 16:23, Lester Caine wrote: Richard Fairhurst wrote: Which would suggest that the changeset for this needs reversing, although http://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/wiki/index.php?title=A816 does hint at the fact that it has been 'de

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Mailing List Reply To Header

2009-09-03 Thread Lester Caine
view of things - but then the programmers there are in one camp or the other ... -- 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] [Talk-de] Google Maps v.s. OSM routing in Berlin

2009-09-18 Thread Lester Caine
be appreciated by other drivers? -- 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

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Maps v.s. OSM routing in Berlin

2009-09-18 Thread Lester Caine
=0.007636,0.014505t=hz=16 Me thinks it is time for a hall of shame on the OSM site, with links like this and hopefully the correct solution on OSM? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http

Re: [OSM-talk] Should Bridges be independent of their ways?

2009-09-21 Thread Lester Caine
route and flaging it as a single element :( -- 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

Re: [OSM-talk] Should Bridges be independent of their ways?

2009-09-21 Thread Lester Caine
ones ;) Anyway Top down view - single way with lots of tags such as 'bridge'. Bottom up view - every detail mapped and 'linked' in some way but each with it's own structural element. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine

Re: [OSM-talk] Should Bridges be independent of their ways?

2009-09-22 Thread Lester Caine
Roy Wallace wrote: On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 11:15 PM, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: Can I check? Are there people here who are suggesting that, in my case, they want to draw all four ways (yes, I know the footpath hasn't been mapped yet) as a single way specify the differences

Re: [OSM-talk] Should Bridges be independent of their ways?

2009-09-22 Thread Lester Caine
. The point is to make things transparently scalable. At the 'county' level you don't need the shape of the car park, just a tag to it's presence so you can indicate where they are. Same with any object? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page

Re: [OSM-talk] Should Bridges be independent of their ways?

2009-09-22 Thread Lester Caine
information, although the layer model would at least keep cars off the train level ;) -- 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] Bot removing attribution tags

2009-09-27 Thread Lester Caine
additions require all of that 'tidying' to be undone manually to put the correct data back :( And this seems to be the case here? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve

Re: [OSM-talk] Bot removing attribution tags

2009-09-27 Thread Lester Caine
John Smith wrote: 2009/9/28 Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk: And this seems to be the case here? The problem is the ways are the best place to tag the ABS information, and the ABS data just happens to follow rivers, islands, railways and roads and so on which is very useful where people

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - boolean values

2009-10-03 Thread Lester Caine
Konrad Skeri wrote: Time to end this debate http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/boolean_values http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Proposed_features/boolean_values -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging schema

2009-10-05 Thread Lester Caine
an element of 'NULL' - that is in addition to setting a boolean tag, one still needs to decide if it should or should not be present ) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging schema

2009-10-05 Thread Lester Caine
Andrew Errington wrote: On Mon, October 5, 2009 15:36, Lester Caine wrote: snip ( Egil - a little aside, while a check box for boolean would be nice, there is still an element of 'NULL' - that is in addition to setting a boolean tag, one still needs to decide if it should or should

Re: [OSM-talk] Landuse areas etc. abutting highways

2009-10-05 Thread Lester Caine
that they follow instead of the roadway need to be consistently tagged? -- 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] Tagging schema

2009-10-05 Thread Lester Caine
with 'landuse' but I don't have time ... need to be on the road by 1 ... -- 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] Landuse areas etc. abutting highways

2009-10-07 Thread Lester Caine
things as a simple 'way based' view. Of course, nothing is ever final ... With ever more people adding data, the 'macro' view is straining to contain the micro details, so this IS going to carry on evolving. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki

Re: [OSM-talk] Landuse areas etc. abutting highways

2009-10-07 Thread Lester Caine
John Smith wrote: 2009/10/7 Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk: Mike Harris wrote: Chris Despite the well-argued views of a minority, I am persuaded by the equally well-argued views of the (considerable) majority who favour option (b). That is not to say that there isn't room for using a bit

Re: [OSM-talk] Instead of voting

2009-10-09 Thread Lester Caine
not come to any consensus on the general points of mapping and who is in charge so a dictate from above TELLING us to move to a new list seems somewhat out of place? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] proposal for deletion: talk-us-ga and

2009-10-21 Thread Lester Caine
no reason why a good email based list can't simply add a web based interactive archive as well? -- 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] Turn Restrictions Editor

2009-11-03 Thread Lester Caine
on how this level of micro-mapping is handled anyway ;) -- 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] Why do you use Google Maps instead of OSM? Because of buildings...

2009-11-08 Thread Lester Caine
. And how many of their competitors would also be linked to that site via google's linked advertising? OSM simply has no 'baggage' to worry about! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk

Re: [OSM-talk] Offline Dump of the Wiki

2009-11-17 Thread Lester Caine
cope with serving real users without also having to handle that. What database is the wiki running on? My own sites I simply have a backup of that running and rsync the backup along with the images directory to the backup machine. Very little load on either machine -- Lester Caine

Re: [OSM-talk] Offline Dump of the Wiki

2009-11-17 Thread Lester Caine
provide mirror sites. The problem of cause is that editing needs to be restricted to the main site, but even that can be catered for with care -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http

[OSM-talk] ADDING THE ABILITY TO Mapping everything as areas

2009-11-26 Thread Lester Caine
as a golf course is a no brainer? Higher level views can then pull out nodes for hospital, golf course and road grid while higher zoom levels can how acurate fine detail? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine

Re: [OSM-talk] ADDING THE ABILITY TO Mapping everything as areas

2009-11-27 Thread Lester Caine
Roy Wallace wrote: On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: The bottom line is that while adding 'width' tags all the way along a road may be a practical half way house, other area features are not handled the same way so why should roads be any different

Re: [OSM-talk] ADDING THE ABILITY TO Mapping everything as areas

2009-11-27 Thread Lester Caine
is the route passable by a pushchair or wheelchair? -- 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

Re: [OSM-talk] Path vs footway vs cycleway vs...

2009-11-29 Thread Lester Caine
is specifically banned. -- 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

Re: [OSM-talk] Path vs footway vs cycleway vs...

2009-11-30 Thread Lester Caine
is drawing an imaginary additional set of ways except where they are specifically marked. -- 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] Divided roads proposal

2009-12-03 Thread Lester Caine
the areas of all of the parts that make up the roadway? At what point to you switch from 'dual carriageway' to 'divided road' ? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve

Re: [OSM-talk] Divided roads proposal

2009-12-04 Thread Lester Caine
for example would seem to be best described as a 'roundabout' as it certainly looks like it is for turning around. 3 as actually just a wide road marking. Such cross hatch areas do need to be covered but this a single road with 'advisory' road marking rather than a divider? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap routing service

2008-09-06 Thread Lester Caine
;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/lsces/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://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposed feature for noname

2008-09-22 Thread Lester Caine
a name=xx tag. No name tag = no name. I doubt that every trackway has a name so why ADD thousands of noname=yes when simply not providing a name tag does the same thing. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposed feature for noname

2008-09-22 Thread Lester Caine
Frederik Ramm wrote: Lester Caine wrote: Am I missing something here, or is the editing interface now CREATING a new problem? If something does not have a name why would you ADD a name=xx tag. No name tag = no name. I doubt that every trackway has a name so why ADD thousands of noname=yes

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposed feature for noname

2008-09-22 Thread Lester Caine
Elena of Valhalla wrote: On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Lester Caine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] There was a suggestion for name=__NONAME__ but that is also wrong - what is needed is a SIMPLE name=__TODO__ where there is an item that we know HAS a name but we do not know what

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposed feature for noname

2008-09-22 Thread Lester Caine
and therefore require an additional tag to flag them as really having no name. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers

Re: [OSM-talk] [Tagging] - RFC - Motorway_link implies oneway=??

2008-10-02 Thread Lester Caine
way would not be flagged as 'motorway' but no doubt parallels in other countries are not quite so clear cut? Perhaps the OSM definition of motorway should include the restriction of a single direction carriageway and move anything else to 'trunk'? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] [Tagging] - RFC - Motorway_link implies oneway=??

2008-10-02 Thread Lester Caine
: most motorway_links around here a bidirectional, except the small parts where they enter and exit the motorway. Then only the small parts that are the actual link should be tagged as motorway_links ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki

Re: [OSM-talk] [Tagging] - RFC - Motorway_link implies oneway=??

2008-10-02 Thread Lester Caine
- if the motorway rules apply to the L2 section as well then it has to be flagged as a motorway_link :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http

Re: [OSM-talk] Motorways and Motorway_link

2008-10-02 Thread Lester Caine
not be actually at the end of the link - I've seen traffic cops with speed guns on a couple of roads that merge into the motorway ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk

Re: [OSM-talk] Motorways and Motorway_link

2008-10-03 Thread Lester Caine
roads that is simply not at the 'start' of the road. At some point, if correct speed indication is to be provided for route planning, then the position of the actual start point is as important as placing a change of speed limit at the correct point? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] Motorways and Motorway_link

2008-10-04 Thread Lester Caine
problems in the past which is one reason - as I indicated earlier - most of the approaches around here now have central divides in place, so form two carriageways even if it is one road surface? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page

Re: [OSM-talk] pub vs café

2008-10-19 Thread Lester Caine
if joining another resident of the hotel ( or they have money burning holes in their pockets ;) ). This is another 'rule' that has been eroded over time, but is probably one that would be subconsciously used if looking on a map for somewhere to eat? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] Asus eee and OpenStreetMap

2008-10-19 Thread Lester Caine
the same for debian/ubuntu? Do I need to change something for debian/ubuntu howto? Probably worth adding that to the osm wiki as well. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk

Re: [OSM-talk] UK Industrial Estate Roads

2008-11-07 Thread Lester Caine
where the purpose of the road is known, but perhaps THAT is what needs to be defined as a tagging guideline? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http

Re: [OSM-talk] UK Industrial Estate Roads

2008-11-07 Thread Lester Caine
Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote: Lester Caine wrote: Sent: 07 November 2008 11:47 AM To: OSM Talk Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] UK Industrial Estate Roads David Earl wrote: On 07/11/2008 11:31, Christoph Boehme wrote: Joshua Scotton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I added some streets recently

Re: [OSM-talk] UK Industrial Estate Roads

2008-11-08 Thread Lester Caine
Andy Allan wrote: On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 11:00 PM, Lester Caine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The purpose of the service road is to service an industrial area - therefore it is not simply unclassified. Unclassified is only appropriate - in my opinion - when the road has no identified other use

Re: [OSM-talk] [Legal-general] Ordnance Survey tries to reinforce its stranglehold over derived geographic data in the UK

2008-11-21 Thread Lester Caine
licence has been removed but it certainly stops me from even downloading it ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers

Re: [OSM-talk] Rendering barangays for the Philippines

2008-11-26 Thread Lester Caine
not one of them, but why should snow maps be any different to cycling or 'in-line skating' ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model

Re: [OSM-talk] Edit war on the wiki map features

2008-12-01 Thread Lester Caine
of extra tags that are only used for those mapping excercises? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging for general household shop

2009-01-19 Thread Lester Caine
Mike Harris wrote: Thanks - now I get the difference - my mistake. What we sometimes call an Aladdin's Cave - but I guess 'household' is a more generally understood tag (:) ... Aunt Wainwrights .. perhaps ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http

Re: [OSM-talk] How to integrate a roundabout into a relation

2009-01-31 Thread Lester Caine
? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/lsces/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://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php

Re: [OSM-talk] News blog link - to blogs.openstreetmap.org?

2009-02-16 Thread Lester Caine
nature of OSM and creating an international 'feel' to replace the 'UK project' comments such as we saw recently in the Canadian press is a must? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http

[OSM-talk] Alternatives to wikipedia?

2009-03-18 Thread Lester Caine
returning to a nice hierarchic front end for osm, which nowadays is probably just a different view on the place search? -- 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] [Spam] Re: Alternatives to wikipedia?

2009-03-18 Thread Lester Caine
Peter Miller wrote: 2009/3/18 Russ Nelson r...@cloudmade.com mailto:r...@cloudmade.com On Mar 18, 2009, at 4:53 AM, Lester Caine wrote: While the effort being put into links WITH wikipedia are to be applauded, many of us are no longer contributing to wikipedia

Re: [OSM-talk] Alternatives to wikipedia?

2009-03-18 Thread Lester Caine
:( But the world Fact Book should be the only reference needed for that nowadays. Shaun On 18 Mar 2009, at 08:53, Lester Caine wrote: While the effort being put into links WITH wikipedia are to be applauded, many of us are no longer contributing to wikipedia because of their propensity to kill

Re: [OSM-talk] Alternatives to wikipedia?

2009-03-18 Thread Lester Caine
pages I've been tracking have have any of the censorship crap on them ;) I'd had to drop links to wikipedia because of their treatment of model railway attractions ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic

Re: [OSM-talk] Alternatives to wikipedia?

2009-03-18 Thread Lester Caine
Tim 'avatar' Bartel wrote: Hi, 2009/3/18 Russ Nelson r...@cloudmade.com: On Mar 18, 2009, at 4:53 AM, Lester Caine wrote: On a number of occasions in the past I have linked to articles only later to find the 'censors' message at the end of a link :( and I know we have had this discussion

Re: [OSM-talk] tag landuse=industrial further defining

2009-03-25 Thread Lester Caine
tagging industrial=auto_wrecker would be better? landuse should be a primary key - so people who do not need the fine detail can still render properly. In the UK, a 'breakers yard' or 'scrap yard' would be an amenity - amenity=recycling:cars may be more politically correct ;) -- Lester Caine

Re: [OSM-talk] xybot

2009-04-10 Thread Lester Caine
that for unmanaged areas. So perhaps we just need to CORRECT the land use page to include unmanaged woodland in some way? Having a mixture of 'natural' AND 'landuse' seems to be the basic problem so none of the proposed fixes is correct! These areas ARE landuse=wood -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] xybot

2009-04-10 Thread Lester Caine
Florian Lohoff wrote: On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:31:46AM +0100, Lester Caine wrote: It is correct to discuss. There SHOULD be a landuse tag for every area as far as I am concerned, and since landuse=forest is for managed wooded areas, it is incorrect to use that for unmanaged areas. So

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-06 Thread Lester Caine
to fall back on? SO we need something which can then become acceptable case law? -- 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] Divided roads proposal

2009-12-06 Thread Lester Caine
roads do need a 'divider' tag, but only to add 'white line' and other 'micro' data that can't be included by areas or other means. The crosshatch area is just another edge case that needs to be handled in bother levels. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http

Re: [OSM-talk] Divided roads proposal

2009-12-06 Thread Lester Caine
of the other examples need the same end cases. So at what level does a simple 'divided' tag actually work in practice? However 'double white lines' on a single carriage way road IS a divider that needs tagging? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page

Re: [OSM-talk] Divided roads proposal

2009-12-06 Thread Lester Caine
Steve Bennett wrote: On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk mailto:les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: I think my only problem with 'divided' is At what point do you apply it? The samples being shown are quite clearly - on the whole - dual carriageway

Re: [OSM-talk] Divided roads proposal

2009-12-06 Thread Lester Caine
. Simply adding yet more tags for something which is not part of the actual roadway is another 'macro' bodge which in reality requires at least a separate way ... ) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http

Re: [OSM-talk] Why PD is not better for business

2009-12-11 Thread Lester Caine
that in essence what licenses are for? That is the entire crux of this problem ... CAN we trust commercial organizations with big bank balances to play fair. I think the answer has to be 'NO' so we need the DATA protected a little better . -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: Why PD is not better for business

2009-12-11 Thread Lester Caine
Elizabeth Dodd wrote: so we don't need imported data? Only where it is actually adding information. When it is overwriting data that may well be more accurate - then no we don't ? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine

Re: [OSM-talk] Cycleways wiki doc enhanced

2010-01-01 Thread Lester Caine
on the ground ESPECIALLY where the cycleway ( or sidewalk/footpath ) is not physically part of the 'accompanying' road. NOTHING should dictate that removing physical data is the 'correct' way of mapping! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page

Re: [OSM-talk] Cycleways wiki doc enhanced

2010-01-02 Thread Lester Caine
or more abreast. Complex tags can be added to 'B' to provide the width, distance for some other way and the like, but that is no substitute for actually mapping the information on the ground. So really all that is required a relation between the A and B views of the world? -- Lester Caine

Re: [OSM-talk] Cycleways wiki doc enhanced

2010-01-02 Thread Lester Caine
actually adding the full detail, there is not a problem. I was just concerned when it was being suggested that these REPLACE the lower level detail! They must not prevent the mapping of the actual fine detail. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki

Re: [OSM-talk] Cycleways wiki doc enhanced

2010-01-03 Thread Lester Caine
Steve Bennett wrote: On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 4:46 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com mailto:dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/1/2 Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk mailto:les...@lsces.co.uk Provided that this does not result in REMOVING ways that are mapped

Re: [OSM-talk] Cycleways wiki doc enhanced

2010-01-03 Thread Lester Caine
Claus Hindsgaul wrote: 2010/1/3 Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk mailto:les...@lsces.co.uk It is however a very good example of where people have taken the trouble to ACTUALLY map reality and their efforts have been destroyed! At the end of the day everything needs

Re: [OSM-talk] Cycleways wiki doc enhanced

2010-01-04 Thread Lester Caine
is how do we get both to co exist? If someone is going to DICTATE that we will never map some details then I think we have a problem? But that is where we are stuck at the moment anyway? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine

Re: [OSM-talk] Cycleways wiki doc enhanced

2010-01-04 Thread Lester Caine
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// Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Vertical ways (staircase)

2010-01-05 Thread Lester Caine
by the steps gets around the editor limitations? -- 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

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Nav4All navigation shut down by Navteq

2010-02-03 Thread Lester Caine
pedestrian and cycle crossing points, and linking them to foot and bike only routes is something of a mess currently? I can see why this sort of nonsense would put a commercial router off - it may not affect their current service, but it doesn't exactly inspire confidence, does it? -- Lester

Re: [OSM-talk] Fun with duplicate nodes

2010-02-10 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// Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping streets as areas - can I do it now?

2010-02-22 Thread Lester Caine
lane road' should become 4 individual ways before coming an area with fine detail of lane markings, hard shoulder, and central reservation. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk

Re: [OSM-talk] Name tags on sidewalks and on cycleways next to a road

2010-03-15 Thread Lester Caine
, and just needs a high level tag, and the lower level detail should just reference 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

Re: [OSM-talk] Administrative boundaries along roads

2010-03-22 Thread Lester Caine
that the simplify everything camp don't thing we should have? -- 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

Re: [OSM-talk] Ordnance Survey

2010-04-01 Thread Lester Caine
Data available tomorrow (Thursday) at http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/opendata . Looks like the demand is too great ;) Anybody actually managed to register yet? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services

Re: [OSM-talk] Post code areas

2010-04-02 Thread Lester Caine
that we need hierarchic lists overlying the physical data so that one can search for locations in that tree, and postcode is just another fairly consistently defined tree? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic

Re: [OSM-talk] Post code areas

2010-04-02 Thread Lester Caine
Vincent Pottier wrote: Le 02/04/2010 09:01, Lester Caine a écrit : Looking at the post code data that has just been 'open sourced' by the UK government I am beginning to realise part of the problem here. We are trying to create a generic solution when in reality there are distinct

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-GB] Ordnance Survey

2010-04-05 Thread Lester Caine
with lower case names. A bit of a pain when using Linux - obviosuly OS is still windows based :( -- 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] Abnormal votings on military objects in RU wiki part; PocketGIS madness

2010-04-12 Thread Lester Caine
slop' that the rest of the world does not want to start down? If RUSSIA's secret data is sanitised, then how many other counties are going to expect the same treatment? Can you see the problem Eugene? We simply can't say yes to any incorrect mapping! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] Abnormal votings on military objects in RU wiki part; PocketGIS madness

2010-04-12 Thread Lester Caine
that they have a problem with, then THAT needs a little more tactful handling! However the history of these changes will still be maintained. So an alternative method of 'correcting the mistake' will be required ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki

Re: [OSM-talk] Military objects in RU: warning about status of voting

2010-04-14 Thread Lester Caine
definition of landuse should follow the international standards, and that includes 'military' as a basic definition anyway. -- 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] Military objects in RU: warning about status of voting

2010-04-15 Thread Lester Caine
Kirill Bestoujev wrote: 2010/4/15 Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk mailto:les...@lsces.co.uk Of cause what is missing here is that since this 'vote' was only in Russian then the vast majority of us would not even be able to vote anyway. There should perhaps be a rule

Re: [OSM-talk] Little religious man made objects : crosses and shrines

2010-05-21 Thread Lester Caine
, and was to do with the differences between these, memorial and monument -- 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] US to spend $8bn upgrading GPS constellation

2010-05-26 Thread Lester Caine
the 'loot' over, the thefts I've seen around here would not have had any problem 'radioing home' ;) -- 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] [talk-au] Software goes on, brain goes off...

2010-06-01 Thread Lester Caine
the road is really relevant? -- 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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