Re: [OSM-talk] Software goes on, brain goes off...

2010-06-02 Thread Lester Caine
way as the roads? 'Safe' for pedestrians to use is simply undefinable as we have already decided when trying to identify URBAN areas where one would not walk on one's own! MAPS can't define what is safe. But they should at least show alternatives where they are available? -- Lester Caine

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging OSM objects with UUIDs

2010-06-07 Thread Lester Caine
be 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// Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging OSM objects with UUIDs

2010-06-07 Thread Lester Caine
there is no point trying to redesign it ... lets just use 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

Re: [OSM-talk] Removing ways in Potlatch

2010-06-20 Thread Lester Caine
reasons, and it would be nice to see the state of things at a particular snapshot in time. Following the development of London for example -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk

Re: [OSM-talk] Changed highway=*_link meaning?!

2010-06-24 Thread Lester Caine
to be specifically identified, and we had this discussion some years ago when the *_link tags were added! -- 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] Changed highway=*_link meaning?!

2010-06-24 Thread Lester Caine
road to another, and not just another road? Tag it motorway when it goes to another motorway where is the division between motorway and slip road. It needs something to identify the situation on the ground! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki

Re: [OSM-talk] Changed highway=*_link meaning?!

2010-06-24 Thread Lester Caine
Anthony wrote: On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk mailto:les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: Ed Avis wrote: Isn't this tagging redundant? If a link road leads from a primary to a secondary, or whatever, this can be seen by looking at the tags

Re: [OSM-talk] Changed highway=*_link meaning?!

2010-06-25 Thread Lester Caine
with any other tags can carry on working happily with just the highway tag ... -- 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] Tag name vs operator

2010-07-13 Thread Lester Caine
of the branding jigsaw. -- 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] Tag name vs operator

2010-07-13 Thread Lester Caine
Alan Mintz wrote: At 2010-07-12 23:45, Lester Caine wrote: ... As others have pointed out, 'brand' may be a better choice of 'name' in some cases, but in reality there are THREE possible tags in many of these cases. For example name=the fancy hotel brand=best western operator=the local best

Re: [OSM-talk] The License Change

2010-08-11 Thread Lester Caine
. Perhaps we just have to give up and simply let them? And publicise the free alternative better ... -- 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] Request for Romano-British features

2012-01-02 Thread Lester Caine
mind still provides the most logical way forward. But at what point does an historic element get degraded to the secondary storage area? Or more important ... what classifies historic data as being 'main stream'? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk

Re: [OSM-talk] Request for Romano-British features

2012-01-02 Thread Lester Caine
; in other cases, you might want to show both historic data and current-day data. This is the area that we still need to get some agreement on :( Current rendering does not take any notice of start and stop dates ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http

Re: [OSM-talk] Request for Romano-British features

2012-01-03 Thread Lester Caine
data you take pleasure in destroying -- 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] Request for Romano-British features

2012-01-03 Thread Lester Caine
as an alternative to destroying data as it is superseded by changes on the ground. But one of the rules that does apply is that data that has been generated by others SHOULD NOT simply be destroyed unless it is inappropriate. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http

Re: [OSM-talk] Request for Romano-British features

2012-01-03 Thread Lester Caine
in the edit history. In my own databases nothing is deleted ... it simply gets flagged as to it's status ... in fact one has to hand edit the database to actually delete any data. In OSM terms - we just look at the edit history for the same information. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] Request for Romano-British features

2012-01-04 Thread Lester Caine
, so how does one decided what data stays in the main database and what is archived? Just retaining all where it is currently stored just seems the logical way forward to me ... although if a mechanism can be added for secondary layers ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] Request for Romano-British features

2012-01-14 Thread Lester Caine
of people working on areas which the general mapping population seems to think are not appropriate to be uploaded to the master database, but as yet there seems to be no way to create secondary databases of information which can be used in parallel but separately hosted. -- Lester Caine

Re: [OSM-talk] Request for Romano-British features

2012-01-14 Thread Lester Caine
Russ Nelson wrote: Lester Caine writes: yet there seems to be no way to create secondary databases of information which can be used in parallel but separately hosted. Yes, we need*more* OpenStreetMaps from which you can fetch different types of information. For example, any data which

Re: [OSM-talk] Request for Romano-British features

2012-01-15 Thread Lester Caine
Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: 2012/1/14 Russ Nelsonnel...@crynwr.com: Lester Caine writes: yet there seems to be no way to create secondary databases of information which can be used in parallel but separately hosted. Yes, we need *more* OpenStreetMaps from which you can fetch different

Re: [OSM-talk] Request for Romano-British features

2012-01-16 Thread Lester Caine
anyway? Does mapnik currently respect 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// Firebird

Re: [OSM-talk] [Tagging] Mapping guidelines

2012-01-17 Thread Lester Caine
these differences that impinges on this fine detailing of 'industrial area' ... we still have to improve on the micro-mapping guide lines ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk

Re: [OSM-talk] How I got here

2012-01-18 Thread Lester Caine
genealogical data companies have got on the bandwagon yet, but the 'spirit of cooperation' that OSM fosters should ensure that all of this data is freely available especially when it's based on the freely donated work of others! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http

Re: [OSM-talk] Critical Mass for license change-over

2012-01-28 Thread Lester Caine
are NOW simply classifying 'undecided' as 'declined' which does seem to be the recommendation, then what is the point of waiting for the outstanding users to accept, anyway? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic

Re: [OSM-talk] Critical Mass for license change-over

2012-01-28 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] Critical Mass for license change-over

2012-01-28 Thread Lester Caine
Richard Fairhurst wrote: A brief interruption from your scheduled programming. Haha. I'm an idiot. Sent to the wrong list. *pours coffee on in effort to wake up* I did wonder since I though we were being constructive on the thread you had posted to ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] Contact And Remap Campaign

2012-02-06 Thread Lester Caine
. The smaller patches it's much quicker to remap than try and get in contact. In MOST cases I've actually replaced the problem work with a more comprehensive rework anyway ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine

Re: [OSM-talk] Map Co-ordinates for towns, etc in UK

2012-02-24 Thread Lester Caine
. In the UK nowadays you will be lucky to find a post office at all ... ;) -- 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] Nice problem to have

2012-03-16 Thread Lester Caine
: we probably should be careful to reduce these records to the pure user count. 'contributing users' who have more than say 10 commits? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk

Re: [OSM-talk] Lightning fast car routing built on OpenStreetMap data, with draggable routes

2012-03-17 Thread Lester Caine
, it does at least pick up the faster roads rather than routes that are perhaps 0.5km shorter but using roads with many roundabouts rather than the adjacent motorways or dual carriageways with none. That and I could not drag the route to use the more practical roads on Seamonkey. -- Lester Caine

Re: [OSM-talk] Lightning fast car routing built on OpenStreetMap data, with draggable routes

2012-03-17 Thread Lester Caine
did try IE7 but that is just a mess ... the route description comes up in the wrong place and background boxes are missing. -- 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] Database Rebuild scheduled to start on the 27th of March 2012

2012-03-21 Thread Lester Caine
that this week, and the other local blocks such as at Malvern are only fine detail that would probably be better mapped clean anyway. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve

Re: [OSM-talk] OS maps circa 1900 wanted, will contribute to scanning cost

2012-03-30 Thread Lester Caine
' attaching. I have a growing collection of maps going back into the 1800's but only an A3 scanner which is not ideal as it has a lip around the scanning area :( http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/view/Mapping+Index -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page

Re: [OSM-talk] Komuna e Malishevës, Serbia ?

2012-04-01 Thread Lester Caine
on getting the coastline complete it is going to be difficult to fix some of these irritations. I've given up asking for a proper check on hierarchy place and is_in which would at least get towns in the right country ... rather than relying on the mapped boundaries ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] Komuna e Malishevës, Serbia ?

2012-04-01 Thread Lester Caine
Mike Dupont wrote: 2012/4/1 Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk mailto:les...@lsces.co.uk Altin Ukshini wrote: Does anyone care about these reports ? I said it before and I'm saying it again, we can't monitor/administer the map everyday and you know this, we

Re: [OSM-talk] Komuna e Malishevës, Serbia ?

2012-04-01 Thread Lester Caine
there was some vandalism prior to the database going to read-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 Engineers Digital Workshop - http

Re: [OSM-talk] Truth about media hype in Microsoft lending big support and big dollars to OSM ?

2012-04-04 Thread Lester Caine
not actually costing them anything? They would be putting the images up anyway, so THEY are the only ones who gain by getting back free vectorized data? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http

Re: [OSM-talk] Truth about media hype in Microsoft lending big support and big dollars to OSM ?

2012-04-04 Thread Lester Caine
it scanned in :( -- 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] Cycle lanes cycle tracks - my findings and a proposal

2012-05-22 Thread Lester Caine
. Adding tags for sidewalk, cycletrack and other details such as barriers between carriageways is something that should just happen automatically from the real mapped features? Not something that needs to be created manually ignoring the features themselves ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] Cycle lanes cycle tracks - my findings and a proposal

2012-05-22 Thread Lester Caine
colliar wrote: On 22/05/12 12:13, Lester Caine wrote: Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: 2012/5/21 Rob Nickersonrob.j.nicker...@gmail.com: p.s. Personally I feel that cycle TRACKS would be much easier to map if drawn as a separate highway=cycleway (despite any challenges the renderers

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

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] 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: [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: [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

2012-08-02 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] [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] 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] 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

[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] [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

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: [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] 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

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