Re: [OSM-talk] Not attaching polygons to roads

2014-02-21 Thread Lester Caine
more difficult to see and manage? It is about time we started to look at combining ways in the same way we currently do with nodes? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk

Re: [OSM-talk] Not attaching polygons to roads

2014-02-26 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] Not attaching polygons to roads

2014-03-04 Thread Lester Caine
simply needs blocking until such time that they do accept it is vandalism? -- 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] [Talk-us] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-16 Thread Lester Caine
' from being simply harvested for commercial use? And routing programs that use the OSM data have an advantage. -- 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] [OHM] Should we map former endonyms?

2014-03-20 Thread Lester Caine
blocks. 'former endonyms' are simply a facet of history which OSM processes simply deletes. Only where those endonyms have an actual relevance today do they fit in some peoples guide lines for current OSM data? That they need to be mapped is a given, just where is the data stored? -- Lester Caine

Re: [OSM-talk] [OHM] Should we map former endonyms?

2014-03-20 Thread Lester Caine
identified the proposal here for linking to wikipedia? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:NGEO -- 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] extracts for historical views at a specific point in time

2014-08-14 Thread Lester Caine
of the planet file, but the last one in the archive is 14-Sep-2012 and then they are weekly from then. Extracting your arget area and then rendering a map from it just follows the same process as working with the current data. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http

Re: [OSM-talk] UK is turning blue?

2014-08-18 Thread Lester Caine
On 18/08/14 13:18, moltonel 3x Combo wrote: The endless rain of 2014 might though ;-) :-) Hit refresh, it seems to be fixed now. Nope. Still raining outside. Dry inside and out here ... all looking fine. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk

Re: [OSM-talk] online survey about the OSM community

2014-08-19 Thread Lester Caine
On 19/08/14 17:47, OSMR wrote: Thank you in advance for your potential participation and apologies for the lengthy message in case you are not interested. I gave up before I got half way - just seems like a load of useless crap? Anybody actually managed the whole thing? -- Lester Caine

Re: [OSM-talk] online survey about the OSM community

2014-08-19 Thread Lester Caine
like a sore thumb ... -- 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] online survey about the OSM community

2014-08-20 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] Detrimental to the OSM database

2014-08-23 Thread Lester Caine
because it does not follow the programmers arbitrarily defined rules. This is DEFINITELY not something that should be rolled out blindly across all countries as certainly ome ARE now adding very fine detail over the top of the originally crude tracing! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] Detrimental to the OSM database

2014-08-23 Thread Lester Caine
of the list on maproulette applied to the UK and I'm sure other European countries would feel the same? We have some very fine detail now being mapped and any smoothing algorithm wuold have to be very cleaver not to affect that. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http

Re: [OSM-talk] Detrimental to the OSM database

2014-08-23 Thread Lester Caine
On 23/08/14 09:47, Lester Caine wrote: On 23/08/14 09:16, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: I object to someone telling me that a road needs 'smoothing' ... it may well have very well mapped source data, and someone who does not know that will be stripping data simply because it does

Re: [OSM-talk] Detrimental to the OSM database

2014-08-24 Thread Lester Caine
On 23/08/14 16:29, Clifford Snow wrote: On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 2:20 AM, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk mailto:les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: http://openstreetmap.us/iD/release/#background=Bingmap=17.00/-83.15249/36.43657 is the one I'm currently on and leaving as it's impossible

Re: [OSM-talk] Detrimental to the OSM database

2014-08-24 Thread Lester Caine
inappropriate for other, so 'challenges' should be restricted to the areas where those rules are known to work well, rather than simply blindly applying them world wide? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services

Re: [OSM-talk] Detrimental to the OSM database

2014-08-24 Thread Lester Caine
On 24/08/14 11:45, Paul Norman wrote: On 8/24/2014 2:48 AM, Lester Caine wrote: It's not the 'brightness - it's the compressed contrast which is has always been the problem with iD. maproulette does not link to potlatch2 which I'd normally use when not on a system with JOSM running ... iD

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding Wikidata tags to 70k items automatically

2014-08-31 Thread Lester Caine
downloading yet another layer of data into the core database. That OSM does not have a reliable id for POI's may be the problem here, but adding tags for every other database in OSM is not the solution to that? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding Wikidata tags to 70k items automatically

2014-08-31 Thread Lester Caine
to the intended use. -- 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] Adding Wikidata tags to 70k items automatically

2014-09-01 Thread Lester Caine
to obtain timezone data for OSM. If wikidata is so open, then every tag added here should have the reciprocal tag added there, then I'll believe it's worth using :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services

Re: [OSM-talk] Changeset comment function

2014-11-02 Thread Lester Caine
initiate. I would probably go on to propose that grouping a large number of similar but data wise unrelated changes be flagged as bad practice so that elements of a change CAN be discussed better via this mechanism. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki

Re: [OSM-talk] Changeset comment function

2014-11-03 Thread Lester Caine
be hammered out then committed once agreed ... rather than pulling it apart in later discussions on that changeset? -- 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] Request for feedback: new building colours in openstreetmap-carto

2014-11-27 Thread Lester Caine
established that a zoom level should use the icon OMLY when the name is not displayed, and if there is no icon don't just display a dot :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk

Re: [OSM-talk] Request for feedback: new building colours in openstreetmap-carto

2014-11-27 Thread Lester Caine
On 27/11/14 09:42, Matthijs Melissen wrote: On 27 Nov 2014 09:18, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk mailto:les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: Not sure your demo is proving anything. Zooming in on the area covered by the demo on the live map I'm not seeing very much of the corruptions Have their been

[OSM-talk] Maps in Malta

2015-01-05 Thread Lester Caine
to get to the right road. Not sure there is an easy way to enhance the display to show the 'angle' of the road but had a good time helped by well detailed mapping data. Thanks to those who contributed it. ( Am looking to OSMAND as a means of creating other map displays ) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] Request for feedback: new building colours in openstreetmap-carto

2015-01-05 Thread Lester Caine
contrast - only the new one is causing difficulty - and comments from others! -- 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] MEP - pipelines

2015-01-06 Thread Lester Caine
of tags. -- 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] MEP - pipelines

2015-01-09 Thread Lester Caine
the 'subscribed' list of accepted entries, and perhaps indicate where an update to one tag also needs secondary tags. One subscribes to a tag metadata mechanism which provides updates at one of two levels ... the metadata for the tag has changed, or data related to a particular tag has changed. -- Lester

Re: [OSM-talk] New building colour

2015-01-04 Thread Lester Caine
different languages and styles can be selected. -- 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] New building colour

2015-01-04 Thread Lester Caine
the adjacent buildings are another areas that needs properly fixing! What works well for one country and style of mapping simply fails in many others. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk

Re: [OSM-talk] New building colour

2015-01-04 Thread Lester Caine
rendering ... -- 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] how do i get a mapper to engage with the community over mass imports?

2015-04-24 Thread Lester Caine
and perhaps the fact that this is missing is good enough reason not to allow the import. Particularly if the buildings removed did have addresses? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk

Re: [OSM-talk] Sidewalks

2015-04-25 Thread Lester Caine
we see the buildings, footpaths and grass areas ... -- 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] how do i get a mapper to engage with the community over mass imports?

2015-04-24 Thread Lester Caine
becomes an Ixxx.yyy and all of the generic tagging can be accessed via that. We can then more easily see what is 'managed import' over manual data. In the case of the LINZ data for instance adding address information could be directed to the relevant support list? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] Next: Relation name (WAS: Removing redundant routing instructions)

2015-04-28 Thread Lester Caine
I think one simply lives with the 'strange' messages. I don't think that things like trying to create a relation are productive. Although in the UK if the street gazetteer data becomes freely usable then there will be id's that can be used after reference and name. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] Next: Relation name (WAS: Removing redundant routing instructions)

2015-04-28 Thread Lester Caine
to be a short distance down http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/285608726 and the routing software needs to understand the whole area of the junction rather than just the the common node. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic

Re: [OSM-talk] Next: Relation name (WAS: Removing redundant routing instructions)

2015-04-28 Thread Lester Caine
are difficult even to decide when there is ALSO a road going across at 90degs :) 6 roads meet offset over two or three mini-roundabouts. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve

Re: [OSM-talk] Removing redundant routing instructions

2015-04-27 Thread Lester Caine
. In this case the road id provides the through_route information ... one remains on the same road ... and the straight on road has a different one which may just be 'minor road'. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine

Re: [OSM-talk] Removing redundant routing instructions

2015-04-27 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] Removing redundant routing instructions

2015-04-27 Thread Lester Caine
On 27/04/15 16:49, pmailkeey . wrote: On 27 April 2015 at 13:52, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk mailto:les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: On 27/04/15 13:17, pmailkeey . wrote: Is the 'through route' and 'the same road' the same thing ? and does it mean that the road number

Re: [OSM-talk] Different HOT Domains without redirect...

2015-04-28 Thread Lester Caine
. 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 Digital Media - http

Re: [OSM-talk] Removing redundant routing instructions

2015-04-28 Thread Lester Caine
that allow all routers to be able to rely on the one set of rules? -- 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] contact: tags

2015-05-07 Thread Lester Caine
to manage any of that secondary data. Once one has 'website=domain' even 'phone=xxx' becomes redundant ... as does addr: ... but that is probably going a little too far since the addr: details are needed for routing to a POI. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http

Re: [OSM-talk] Please ban Xxzme in wiki

2015-05-11 Thread Lester Caine
on what IS a social platform. There are places where hiding ones identity is necessary, but here is not one? -- 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] Junction assessment help

2015-05-11 Thread Lester Caine
is tagged showing the 'safe' driving direction. Would you drive up the right hand branch? That is ignoring the case of trying to escape from the police ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http

Re: [OSM-talk] Please ban Xxzme in wiki

2015-05-11 Thread Lester Caine
On 11/05/15 09:39, Elena ``of Valhalla'' wrote: On 2015-05-11 at 08:41:48 +0100, Lester Caine wrote: On 11/05/15 02:07, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: I expect to see Xxzme back under a different username soon. This is the real problem. While it is now common for people to hide behind anonymous

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping high tension power lines in Nepal

2015-05-15 Thread Lester Caine
ian atkinson atkin...@hotmail.com Is over there now on a 4 week secondment, but we did not have time to get him up to speed before he went ... He get told last week end and flew out on the 12th. But being a mapper he may be a useful pair of eyes on the ground ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM is a right mess (was: Craigslist OpenStreetMap Rendering Issue)

2015-06-03 Thread Lester Caine
to that list. -- 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] OSM is a right mess (was: Craigslist OpenStreetMap Rendering Issue)

2015-06-03 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] OSM is a right mess (was: Craigslist OpenStreetMap Rendering Issue)

2015-06-04 Thread Lester Caine
to discuss the overall framework of how the layers of tagging evolve? -- 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] OSM is a right mess

2015-06-03 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] OSM is a right mess (was: Craigslist OpenStreetMap Rendering Issue)

2015-06-03 Thread Lester Caine
=apartments of a residential area. -- 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] OSM is a right mess (was: Craigslist OpenStreetMap Rendering Issue)

2015-06-03 Thread Lester Caine
of 'ways'. The areas I'm trying to tidy up are small shopping malls which have shops within shops on multiple levels ... with accommodation above. A combination of objects is just what I'm looking for, but with different outlines for each object ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM is a right mess (was: Craigslist OpenStreetMap Rendering Issue)

2015-06-03 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] Fwd: [HOT] About openstreetmap Name Conflict

2015-06-23 Thread Lester Caine
it's a waste of time they don't waste more ... the company is supposedly a bunch of lawyers. -- 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] Some thoughts against remote mapping

2015-06-15 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] Some thoughts against remote mapping

2015-06-15 Thread Lester Caine
on cheap android devices. I've actually got it running on a £40 tablet for a bigger sat nav display ... All that is lacking is that other apps go to OSMAND rather than trying to get google maps running ... which only works with a network link? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] Some thoughts against remote mapping

2015-06-14 Thread Lester Caine
, and it's ONLY a freely accessible project like OSM that can provide that service? -- 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] Routing Applications

2015-06-17 Thread Lester Caine
for one user may be wildly wrong for another ... -- 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] OSM in India

2015-06-16 Thread Lester Caine
, but perhaps if they all started filling in details in India the same as we do for clients in the UK ... they obviously have time to farm email accounts to spam ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http

Re: [OSM-talk] Can wikidata links help fight name inflation?

2015-05-28 Thread Lester Caine
for those using the maps for gaming purposes. But I don't think we can rely on a third party like Wikidata to provide this dictionary ... they may however parallel it's operation? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic

Re: [OSM-talk] Craigslist OpenStreetMap Rendering Issue

2015-05-31 Thread Lester Caine
that ... or would want to do about it on the 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] Craigslist OpenStreetMap Rendering Issue

2015-05-31 Thread Lester Caine
On 31/05/15 12:24, Andrew Hain wrote: Does Craigslist also get oneway=-1 (traffic opposite to the direction of the way) wrong? And oneway:cycle=no and the like ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic

Re: [OSM-talk] Can wikidata links help fight name inflation?

2015-05-29 Thread Lester Caine
to provided filtered live data? Should that layer be provided by a third party? I think the answer there is probably no, but providing an interface where third party versions of the data can be used makes sense. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki

Re: [OSM-talk] Layers and landuse

2015-06-29 Thread Lester Caine
network be inside or outside that polygon? We had the same discussion in relation to 'landuse=university' where the campus area needs an outline, but t5ere are a lot of different 'landuse' activities within that ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki

Re: [OSM-talk] Layers and landuse

2015-06-29 Thread Lester Caine
be nice if the map warned you :) -- 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] New road style for Default Map style - pull requested is opened

2015-08-13 Thread Lester Caine
eludes me :( Lack of time is the problem, but a decent set of instructions to work with openstreetmap-carto and manage a branch off the current style would be helpful! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services

Re: [OSM-talk] New road style for Default Map style - pull requested is opened

2015-08-13 Thread Lester Caine
On 13/08/15 10:37, Daniel Koć wrote: W dniu 13.08.2015 11:22, Lester Caine napisał(a): producing tiles still eludes me :( Lack of time is the problem, but a decent set of instructions to work with openstreetmap-carto and manage a branch off the current style would be helpful! You may try

Re: [OSM-talk] stop deleting abandoned railroads

2015-08-13 Thread Lester Caine
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 Rainbow Digital Media - http

Re: [OSM-talk] Best base to build on ...

2015-08-15 Thread Lester Caine
wasting time on :( The simple answer seems to be that there is no standard when it comes to mapping applications and everybody creates their own personal special such as kosmtik rather than working with established standards :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Carto v2.33.0 release

2015-08-15 Thread Lester Caine
a stop_date ... -- 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] Best base to build on ...

2015-08-16 Thread Lester Caine
On 16/08/15 01:46, Paul Norman wrote: On 8/15/2015 2:09 PM, Lester Caine wrote: The simple answer seems to be that there is no standard when it comes to mapping applications and everybody creates their own personal special such as kosmtik rather than working with established standards

Re: [OSM-talk] Best base to build on ...

2015-08-16 Thread Lester Caine
at the moment. -- 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] The Proposed Great Colour Shift

2015-08-22 Thread Lester Caine
for those users ... I've finally got a caching setup working, but it's still not ideal. I'm still missing something on getting a clean rendering stack that can also allow additional rendering options to be developed. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http

Re: [OSM-talk] The Proposed Great Colour Shift

2015-08-22 Thread Lester Caine
by the main page. We need to be able to select style AND language defaults in much the same way that projects like php provide multiple mirrors with local translations and information. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine

Re: [OSM-talk] The Proposed Great Colour Shift

2015-08-22 Thread Lester Caine
forward But this is possibly not the best way of making a scale able system. It would be better to have a single main domain which then forwards to an appropriate service? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic

Re: [OSM-talk] The Proposed Great Colour Shift

2015-08-22 Thread Lester Caine
On 22/08/15 19:24, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 6:23 PM, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk mailto:les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: The main problem here is that OSM is used by a large part of the UK web services [...] I agree that this is a problem. But not for the reasons

Re: [OSM-talk] Abandoned Rails

2015-08-22 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] The Proposed Great Colour Shift

2015-08-23 Thread Lester Caine
structure would go to explain a few gaps in that grid ... I'm trying to get self sufficient, but that is simply not an easy job with so many different tools used in the background! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine

Re: [OSM-talk] stop deleting abandoned railroads

2015-08-20 Thread Lester Caine
On 20/08/15 14:06, moltonel 3x Combo wrote: On 19/08/2015, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: 98% of the history that we are looking to manage properly is currently existing in OSM. All that is needed is to add start dates to the bulk of the existing data. What do you do when a road

Re: [OSM-talk] stop deleting abandoned railroads

2015-08-18 Thread Lester Caine
to exist 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 Rainbow Digital Media - http

Re: [OSM-talk] stop deleting abandoned railroads

2015-08-19 Thread Lester Caine
involved is much less than some of the third party data already swamping the database so what is the problem simply properly tracking stop_date in existing rendering and leaving the evolutionary data in tact with the current material? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact

Re: [OSM-talk] Best base to build on ...

2015-08-16 Thread Lester Caine
that is broken. libstxxl.a has gone missing :( These days a 48 hour day would 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

[OSM-talk] Preserving History ...

2015-08-24 Thread Lester Caine
is what SHOULD happen, just as the underpass route should become available in June next year. -- 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] Reply-to header

2015-08-24 Thread Lester Caine
as separate thread, some not, and so the mess goes on. Sometimes I can hit 'reply to list' and just get the list address other times it's 'reply all' and find the list as a 'cc' so it's not the list which has a problem ... it's the whole process :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] The Proposed Great Colour Shift

2015-08-20 Thread Lester Caine
or China? -- 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] The Proposed Great Colour Shift

2015-08-20 Thread Lester Caine
, but not for main stream routing and where the likes of OSMAND simply gets the routing wrong ... as do other routers :( -- 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] Layers and landuse

2015-06-29 Thread Lester Caine
then needs review ... coastal erosion etc. Boundaries and landuse are another 'plane' independent of layer, although 'mixed' use land may well be augmented by different tags once the layers are better structured? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk

Re: [OSM-talk] Layers and landuse

2015-06-30 Thread Lester Caine
On 30/06/15 11:36, Richard Z. wrote: On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 04:14:07PM +0100, Lester Caine wrote: On 29/06/15 15:08, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: The step from 2D to 3D would add a lot of complexity on the mappers, narrowing down the mass of contributors potentially willing and able

Re: [OSM-talk] name:etymology:wikidata

2015-07-31 Thread Lester Caine
content. If you want the data that goes with a 'wikidata=*' entry then simply ask wikidata for it. Same with wikipedia and other data sources. If you want a sorted list get wikidata to provide it ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page

Re: [OSM-talk] name:etymology:wikidata

2015-07-31 Thread Lester Caine
tag, or you simply read the information in wikidata/wikipedia. 2015-07-31 17:21 GMT+02:00 Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk mailto:les...@lsces.co.uk: On 31/07/15 16:09, Jo wrote: That's what is proposed here though: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Wikidata

Re: [OSM-talk] name:etymology:wikidata

2015-07-31 Thread Lester Caine
pages in wikipedia, which can then be linked to OSM. Keep each project to what it is good at and sort out procedures that direct information to the right boxes. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http

Re: [OSM-talk] waterway - routable network and reservoirs/lakes

2015-07-28 Thread Lester Caine
On 28/07/15 10:11, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: but have no use as a through route? the water will undoubtedly pass through on its route Flow management from man made reservoirs may tend to modify that situation. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http

Re: [OSM-talk] stop deleting abandoned railroads

2015-08-11 Thread Lester Caine
... some abandoned lines are not open to public access, but their existence is still real even if the actual rail has been removed. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve

Re: [OSM-talk] stop deleting abandoned railroads

2015-08-14 Thread Lester Caine
' is something that should never happen on what has at some time been correct information. 'Archive' is the correct term and making that data available as required ... Delete is only appropriate when the material is proven invalid. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http

Re: [OSM-talk] stop deleting abandoned railroads

2015-08-14 Thread Lester Caine
On 14/08/15 22:03, Ian Sergeant wrote: On 15 August 2015 at 00:12, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk mailto:les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: As I have said before 'Delete' is something that should never happen on what has at some time been correct information. 'Archive' is the correct

Re: [OSM-talk] stop deleting abandoned railroads

2015-08-14 Thread Lester Caine
On 14/08/15 23:14, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: On Fri, 14 Aug 2015 22:51:13 +0100 Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: But the one thing that the current model has got the capability of handling is start and stop dates for any facet of an object from the name of a shop to the evolution

Re: [OSM-talk] Trees

2015-08-15 Thread Lester Caine
of 'brown' for farms around Birmingham when in practice the whole area is mainly farmland. I'm just trying to work out how to strip the 'farm yard' from the generic farm tagging so that specific orchard and similar farming activity shows up better. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] stop deleting abandoned railroads

2015-08-15 Thread Lester Caine
been laid around here and we could have plotted their routes as the various roads were dug up and trenches cut ... -- 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] stop deleting abandoned railroads

2015-08-15 Thread Lester Caine
the whole lot on an OHM version of the data, or one simply maintains a little more material in the main database. The tagging decides what can be seen for a current rendering rather than snipping out bits which still need to be maintained for an historic one. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

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