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: [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] 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] 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] About attribution to authors

2012-09-29 Thread Lester Caine
and produce a static DB of contributors from than (see Pascal Neis hdyc service) it would be a bit more tricky to keep it up date automatically but completely doable if you want to undertake the effort, more power to you. And half an hour latter the basis for that is on line - Thanks Ilya -- Lester Caine

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

2012-09-30 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] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-30 Thread Lester Caine
as intended, but on the whole I don't think the data does anything to improve 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

Re: [OSM-talk] Data copied from Google Maps

2012-11-05 Thread Lester Caine
not their property as they have copied it from other peoples sites 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

Re: [OSM-talk] Data copied from Google Maps

2012-11-05 Thread Lester Caine
that information in another website might well make us liable for prosecution, where Google just ignore the problem? I'll carry on looking at Streetview and filling in bits on OSM that Streetview misses anyway :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page

Re: [OSM-talk] Data copied from Google Maps

2012-11-05 Thread Lester Caine
Floris Looijesteijn wrote: On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk mailto:les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: Sorry, but in this case how the would they know if someone had cross checked something against Streetview? There is NO need to make any mention

Re: [OSM-talk] Data copied from Google Maps

2012-11-05 Thread Lester Caine
Floris Looijesteijn wrote: On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk mailto:les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: Only if they can prove that anonymous activity on one is directly related to some identified activity on the other at an unrelated time ... I am sure a court

Re: [OSM-talk] Data copied from Google Maps

2012-11-05 Thread Lester Caine
at the moment ... There is an 'Easter Egg' list somewhere isn't there? The important point here is I do NOT use information viewed on Streetview if it is my ONLY source! I DO use it to establish any discrepancies ... I am looking for the Easter Eggs :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] Data copied from Google Maps

2012-11-06 Thread Lester Caine
images anyway but Google still returns those years after they ceased to exist. We can then provide up to date data but we are not allowed to say 'Wrong on Streetview'? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic

Re: [OSM-talk] Data copied from Google Maps

2012-11-06 Thread Lester Caine
we are talking about comes under the same banner ... end of story. If we can't freely use public domain information why are we bothering recording it? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http

Re: [OSM-talk] Data copied from Google Maps

2012-11-06 Thread Lester Caine
back into 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] fences, trees and houses

2012-11-22 Thread Lester Caine
, but the available tags are currently providing that quite well. My own fine detail work is looking similar to yours ... http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.04891lon=-1.85708zoom=17layers=M -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine

Re: [OSM-talk] What to call OSM data?

2012-11-26 Thread Lester Caine
Richard Fairhurst wrote: Kate Chapman wrote: Does anyone have suggestions or a preference? OpenStreetMap says it all. As in Hi. We're OpenStreetMap. You may have heard of us. I'd second that ... does not need any more -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: Recent edits in the wiki / Trademark issue

2013-02-01 Thread Lester Caine
in any other discussion? Certainly there is nothing that needs money spending on 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

[OSM-talk] Takedown notices

2013-02-04 Thread Lester Caine
that the OSMF does ;) -- 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] Takedown notices

2013-02-04 Thread Lester Caine
Simon Poole wrote: Am 04.02.2013 10:21, schrieb Lester Caine: OK - there is an 'official procedure' for dealing with copyright infringement documented on http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/Takedown_procedure through which even 'Cease and Desist' should be handled? It is normal practice

Re: [OSM-talk] Takedown notices

2013-02-05 Thread Lester Caine
? I suppose in reality that the raw data is something that is difficult to check, but I'm a little surprised there has not been more activity relating to the wiki. Perhaps it's a sign that all users are being responsible. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http

Re: [OSM-talk] iD Editor live on OpenStreetMap

2013-05-12 Thread Lester Caine
way around a new editor when one is used to the idiosyncrasies of the existing one is just going to mean I don't bother pushing quick fixes at all ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http

Re: [OSM-talk] iD Editor live on OpenStreetMap

2013-05-14 Thread Lester Caine
the pressure to change for spurious reasons without having OPEN projects like OSM making the same demands :( -- 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] iD Editor live on OpenStreetMap

2013-05-14 Thread Lester Caine
Kevin Peat wrote: On 14 May 2013 13:36, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk mailto:les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: And some of us find the conditions G$ put on chrome is a reason NOT to have anything to do with it. It's bad enough the pressure to change for spurious reasons without having

Re: [OSM-talk] iD Editor live on OpenStreetMap

2013-05-16 Thread Lester Caine
to identify IF 'X' should be adopted as a default? That discussion should take place here? -- 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] Using OpenStreetMap on a daily basis

2013-07-09 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] Using OpenStreetMap on a daily basis

2013-07-09 Thread Lester Caine
to opengastromap.de to get proper restaurant information (unfortunately Germany only) It just is less userfriendly than having it all on one site. But a local 'portal' which provides all your locally enhanced feeds could get around that problem? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] Using OpenStreetMap on a daily basis

2013-07-09 Thread Lester Caine
, better integrating osm.org with third party sites) rather than building our very own corporate behemoth? The short version of what I said -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk

[OSM-talk] Todo List

2013-07-09 Thread Lester Caine
to ensure that the various routing options do have the best data to provide 'safe' information? There are a couple of other items on the todo list, but I have the material to work on them :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact

Re: [OSM-talk] Todo List

2013-07-09 Thread Lester Caine
the problem is simply one of identifying who is making the mistakes? -- 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] Using OpenStreetMap on a daily basis

2013-07-09 Thread Lester Caine
where in the world you are, especially if working from a random link. I think I am looking for a 'location' box which also lists local websites and other versions of the database? I'd include a link to an appropriate routing site as part of the box. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] Using OpenStreetMap on a daily basis

2013-07-12 Thread Lester Caine
for the map direct and keep wiki.openstreetmap.org as the documentation front page. http://switch2osm.org/ is actually a cleaner front end at the moment? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http

Re: [OSM-talk] Using OpenStreetMap on a daily basis

2013-07-13 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] Upgraded map controls

2013-07-20 Thread Lester Caine
missed that this was even being discussed so you are not alone! And there's no attribution. It would be nice since the other tile layers have attribution that the osm sourced tiles had a similar tag if only to educate users! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http

[OSM-talk] New technology ...

2013-07-21 Thread Lester Caine
say 'here is a tool - but you should never use it!' And discussion on a more open platform would also be appreciated rather than on development platforms that we do not subscribe to because we use different development tools! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact

Re: [OSM-talk] New technology ...

2013-07-21 Thread Lester Caine
that gives SAFE directions on UK motorways! This was the whole reason for my closer investigation. Tom On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk mailto:les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: With the arrival of a 'new' set of controls, and the discussion on front page, I feel

Re: [OSM-talk] New technology ... Routing instructions

2013-07-21 Thread Lester Caine
advantages and disadvantages ... as well as quite regularly different routes for the same journey. Which is why I'm looking into running my own engine which I can tailor to my preferred 'short cuts' ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page

Re: [OSM-talk] New technology ...

2013-07-21 Thread Lester Caine
things that I'm naturally used to when there is no need to FORCE me to change - just put an option to select in! -- 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] New technology ...

2013-07-22 Thread Lester Caine
is looking at the problem as a whole? -- 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] Double-clicking on OSM map does not centre the map

2013-07-22 Thread Lester Caine
is a preference nowadays, not a 'you will do it this way choice', and adding 'you can use right click' when many users don't have a mouse just compounds the problem? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services

Re: [OSM-talk] New technology ...

2013-07-22 Thread Lester Caine
, and better publication of the alternatives would seem sensible. Perhaps we ACTUALLY need a map style selector on the front page rather than a single link to a particular map tool? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine

Re: [OSM-talk] New technology ...

2013-07-22 Thread Lester Caine
for location pages and then switching to a router for directions - now the two are so different that I need to rethink! That is the problem that this latest change has brought about, and I was unaware it was about to happen :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http

Re: [OSM-talk] Build your own osm.org (was Re: New technology ...)

2013-07-22 Thread Lester Caine
, but will not even display properly on the android tablet, which is why I was back with yours ... there was a nicely functional suite of tools ... today some of the cross working is different ... and I'd missed that originally when the new style appeared! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] Build your own osm.org (was Re: New technology ...)

2013-07-22 Thread Lester Caine
an alternative which matches! Perhaps I do have to switch back to Google :( -- 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] Build your own osm.org (was Re: New technology ...)

2013-07-22 Thread Lester Caine
Yohan Boniface wrote: On 07/22/2013 04:37 PM, Lester Caine wrote: I've just had a 'complaint' from a web hosting customer who has spotted the 'new' style and was confused as he was used to simply clicking on the scale bar for a quick zoom in. Again holding 'shift' down does not work on his

Re: [OSM-talk] Double-clicking on OSM map does not centre the map

2013-07-22 Thread Lester Caine
be helpful to be able to see when changes do cause problems and if it's a change in the code or some external library? -- 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] Build your own osm.org (was Re: New technology ...)

2013-07-23 Thread Lester Caine
that takes a valuable resource to sort out ... time ... and it would be nice if those who made the changes and understand how to do so passed it on so we can change it back if we want? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine

Re: [OSM-talk] Working toward a vision for OSM

2013-07-24 Thread Lester Caine
, and that would link in with promoting data capture beyond the 'English speaking' core? -- 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] comments on new map widget on main page

2013-07-29 Thread Lester Caine
'colourstrap' to get full colour icons back on a project that has decided that 'bootstrap' is the bees knees. Those black icons do grate next to a nice full colour map :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services

Re: [OSM-talk] comments on new map widget on main page

2013-07-29 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] comments on new map widget on main page

2013-07-29 Thread Lester Caine
AJ Ashton wrote: On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk mailto:les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: The point I was trying to make is the fact that when one is supplied a link one often does not know where in the world it is, especially the encrypted ones. I asked

Re: [OSM-talk] comments on new map widget on main page

2013-07-29 Thread Lester Caine
hash will address both of these concerns. Please try it out: http://hash.apis.dev.openstreetmap.org/ That works reasonably well for me I'm used to seeing that sort of info from the hover over links on the bottom of the browser, so having it stable is probably an improvement. -- Lester

Re: [OSM-talk] Foursquare superusers encouraged to directly edit OSM

2013-08-02 Thread Lester Caine
editor at the right location, where they can join OSM and make updates They are being signed up directly to OSM ... -- 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] Foursquare superusers encouraged to directly edit OSM

2013-08-02 Thread Lester Caine
be already available data? What am I missing here :) All of the searches I've pulled up appear in the base map. Foursquare are the sort of third party use that dovetails in nicely - not that I actually use it ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki

Re: [OSM-talk] Foursquare superusers encouraged to directly edit OSM

2013-08-02 Thread Lester Caine
for the third party links. If we promote this process with the likes of foursquare, then the primary POI will be clean OSM data? It does not matter where in the world you are ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine

Re: [OSM-talk] Foursquare superusers encouraged to directly edit OSM

2013-08-02 Thread Lester Caine
data into the UK would hit a substantial number of existing locations? In other countries this may not be the case and may be worth the exercise if more detailed material is not otherwise available? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page

Re: [OSM-talk] Legal discussion on talk@

2010-08-15 Thread Lester Caine
interested groups could translate would make sense !!! There is no censorship or ulterior motives of all the crap being on legal-talk - anybody can join in - just don't let the bulk of it STILL fall over here as well ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=ford vs ford=yes

2010-11-01 Thread Lester Caine
be acceptable, but simply tagging a node is not the right way to provide ALL of the information that would be useful when it comes to micro-mapping the details? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=ford vs ford=yes

2010-11-01 Thread Lester Caine
OSM has no way of including that 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

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=ford vs ford=yes

2010-11-01 Thread Lester Caine
to highway=ford ... so that the way detail can be 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 Engineers Digital Workshop - http

Re: [OSM-talk] Historical Data in OSM database

2010-11-08 Thread Lester Caine
practice? -- 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] Historical Data in OSM database

2010-11-09 Thread Lester Caine
be taking note of the star_date and end_date 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] Historical Data in OSM database

2010-11-09 Thread Lester Caine
for probably 99% of historic mapping -- 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] Historical Data in OSM database

2010-11-09 Thread Lester Caine
to the main one ... I'd just be happy with the one I was using ... -- 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] Historical Data in OSM database

2010-11-09 Thread Lester Caine
since we have addresses from birth certificates :) -- 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] Historical Data in OSM database

2010-11-10 Thread Lester Caine
that I have in historic data IS no longer physically present is the other 5% ... ( actually probably 99.5 to 0.5 ) -- 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] Historical Data in OSM database

2010-11-10 Thread Lester Caine
unacceptable, and so it's perhaps deciding the rules moving forward that we need to agree on initially? -- 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] Historical Data in OSM database

2010-11-12 Thread Lester Caine
are really necessary, but if the information IS available, then it would be nice to be able to include it? -- 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] What phone survey results

2011-01-05 Thread Lester Caine
SteveC wrote: In response to the critique of the validity, feel free to go do a better job. I was just curious. One thing that it does not show is what OS is being used. 'nokia' covers several options, and I'm finding my N900 is actually quite a nice linux computer ... -- Lester Caine

Re: [OSM-talk] Postmortem analysys

2011-01-07 Thread Lester Caine
the same point -- 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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