Re: [OSM-talk] Is tile rendering on openstreetmap.org working fine?

On 2013-12-11 13:46, Tom Hughes wrote: On 11/12/13 12:38, Maarten Deen wrote: I had quite some lag in seeing an area that I worked on being rendered on the map. It is rendered now, but while investigating I saw that the renderd queue lenght on yevaud [1] has shot to 1000 sometime last night

[OSM-talk] Why Openstreetmap? (Slashdot and Guardian)

Two nice articles on /. and in the Guardian from/with Serge Wroclawski about OSM and why you would want to use it. Regards, Maarten (just preaching to the choir) ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tal

Re: [OSM-talk] Why Openstreetmap? (Slashdot and Guardian)

Shai. On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 8:43 AM, Maarten Deen wrote: Two nice articles on /. and in the Guardian from/with Serge Wroclawski about OSM and why you would want to use it. Regards, Maarten (just preaching to the choir) ___ talk mailing list talk

[OSM-talk] Sending a message to a user from the website

I'm sure I'm missing something, but how can I start a message to a user from the OSM website? I'm in my profile, Im in my messages, but I don't see an option anywhere to start a new message. I have done it in the past, but that must have been from the old site. What button am I missing? Regards

Re: [OSM-talk] Sending a message to a user from the website

On 2014-02-08 10:23, Peter Barth wrote: Hi Maarten, Maarten Deen schrieb: I have done it in the past, but that must have been from the old site. What button am I missing? just go to the user's site you want to chat with. There's a button "Send message" ;) Tha

Re: [OSM-talk] Sending a message to a user from the website

On 2014-02-08 10:34, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, On 08.02.2014 10:30, Maarten Deen wrote: That's a rather counter-intuitive way of doing it isn't it? Why isn't there just a button "compose message" like in any normal messaging or e-mail client? Yes, we could do it like

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

On 2014-02-26 11:42, Dave F. wrote: On 26/02/2014 01:02, Mike Thompson wrote: Wouldn't it be nice if the editors wouldn't allow polygon to connect to highways. The edges of some polygons are truly coincident with road centerlines. For example, many municipal boundaries. I'm not convinced

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

On 2014-02-26 12:31, Dave F. wrote: On 26/02/2014 11:16, Maarten Deen wrote: On 2014-02-26 11:42, Dave F. wrote: I'm not convinced this is usually true. It maybe UK specific, but municipal boundaries were more likely to originally be placed on physical boundaries to farms & estate

Re: [OSM-talk] UK, Cardiff and Edinburgh, change capital=yes to capital=4

On Fri, 04 Feb 2011 10:54:17 +, David Earl wrote: On 04/02/2011 10:46, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: Sorry for writing in the international list, this is actually concerning the UK. I noticed that Cardiff and Edinburgh are tagged as capital=yes, which according to the wiki stands for national

Re: [OSM-talk] UK, Cardiff and Edinburgh, change capital=yes to capital=4

On Fri, 4 Feb 2011 11:13:58 +, Richard Mann wrote: And Brussels should be capital=1 So Washington D.C. can get capital=0? ;-) Maarten On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Maarten Deen wrote: On Fri, 04 Feb 2011 10:54:17 +, David Earl wrote: On 04/02/2011 10:46, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer

Re: [OSM-talk] collateral damage (was: What the license change is going to do to the map)

Am I the only one who is wondering what this whole thread is about? Has Anthony's edits been removed? If so, why? I haven't heard of the license change actually being implemented ATM, and certainly not that edits are being removed. So, what is this all about? Regards, Maarten ___

[OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: collateral damage (was: What the license change is going to do to the map)

On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 14:45:47 +0100, Matt Williams wrote: On 10 February 2011 14:33, Maarten Deen wrote: Am I the only one who is wondering what this whole thread is about? Has Anthony's edits been removed? If so, why? I haven't heard of the license change actually being implemented

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage - more levels

On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 23:49:58 +, Dave F. wrote: On 09/02/2011 11:53, ant wrote: What you do mean by "inaccurate readings"? I think the map is quite accurate. http://ant.dev.openstreetmap.org/bingimageanalyzer/?lat=51.06122731915702&lon=-2.3915486787965934&zoom=9 The blank areas have hi

Re: [OSM-talk] It's fun while it lasts

On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 11:29:39 +0200, pec...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12427680 I think we can call it a day. I really doubt Microsoft will be that interested in OSM anymore when they got Nokia on their hook. Why would you think that? Why would Microsoft be interested i

Re: [OSM-talk] It's fun while it lasts

On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 11:35:32 +0100, Jo wrote: 2011/2/11 Jean-Marc Liotier : Chris Browet wrote: "Les carottes poussent la nuit"... Can you believe that http://www.google.com/#q="Les+carottes+poussent+la+nuit"; does not return a single hit ? Did you just coin that French proverb on the spot

Re: [OSM-talk] Why isn't any XAPI server available ?

Patrick Kilian wrote: Hi, For simple map calls there is TRAPI[1]. As far as I know, TRAPI performs much better on map (bbox) queries than either the main-API, XAPI or ROMA (on equivalent hardware). Rather than using a database, I think it used a pre-tiled file structure, so that it simple need

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM is dying (was Re: We Need to Stop Google's Exploitation of Open Communities)

On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 16:56:58 +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 12:10 +0100, Steve Doerr wrote: On 12/04/2011 11:47, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > As to where I am: > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=11.414703&lon=76.692275&zoom=18&layers=M > > I see you have a place near you

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM is dying (was Re: We Need to Stop Google's Exploitation of Open Communities)

On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 13:10:28 +0100, Steve Doerr wrote: On 12/04/2011 12:37, Maarten Deen wrote: 15 jears ago ! Keeping in style ;-) Maarten ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Stats for GPX traces: identifiable / trackable / public / private

On Mon, 02 May 2011 07:17:24 -0400, Mike N wrote: On 5/2/2011 6:05 AM, Martijn van Exel wrote: I uploaded a couple pie charts based on this data to the wiki: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Gpx_trkpts_privacy.svg http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Gpx_files_privacy.svg SSSH! Do

Re: [OSM-talk] Stats for GPX traces: identifiable / trackable / public / private

On Mon, 2 May 2011 13:51:56 +0200, Martijn van Exel wrote: I was somewhat surprised to see that such a big chunk of the trackpoints can be traced back to a user. I don't consider myself to be overly concerned about my digital footprint, but even I upload my GPX traces as 'trackable' and not 'ide

Re: [OSM-talk] Skip geographical (redundant) address tags

Jaak Laineste gmail.com> writes: Is there good reason to add addr:country, addr:county, addr:city and other regional tags to all the address tags, if OSM database already has administrative regions for given area? I think addr:country can be identified by existing borders, but I don't know h

Re: [OSM-talk] Skip geographical (redundant) address tags

On Wed, 4 May 2011 08:07:07 +0200, pdora...@mac.com (Pierre-Alain Dorange) wrote: Felix Hartmann wrote: Nope, it makes sense all the time. Cause boundaries really are not ment for deducting information onto what's inside. This really slows down any kind of processing (much much more than hav

[OSM-talk] Re: Skip geographical (redundant) address tags

Brian Quinion openstreetmap at brian.quinion.co.uk Thu May 5 15:12:59 BST 2011 The lookup may be efficient, it is frequently wrong and again dependent of correct and complete admin_levels. Currently it places every street where I live (in the Netherlands) in Belgium and does not specify a tow

Re: [OSM-talk] GPS Point to Country and District

On Fri, 6 May 2011 12:51:14 +0100, Peter Martischka wrote: Hello, what's the easiest way to get the country and district of a GPS point via OSM? Nominatim does lat/lon searches and returns location info. Regards, Maarten ___ talk mailing list talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Skip geographical (redundant) address tags

Lennard wrote: > On 6-5-2011 20:44, Pierre-Alain Dorange wrote: > >> I could not really help you (i don't know your region, but as i can see >> (using JOSM) there is no admin relation in this area, so few clues to >> help nomatim to find location. > > The entire Netherlands is covered by admin re

[OSM-talk] Better Bing imagery in Potlatch?

Does Potlatch have access to better BING imagery? I'm looking at Walbeck in Germany and in Potlatch 2 the imagery is a lot better than in JOSM. In the imagery settings I have bing:bing for Bing Sat. Regards, Maarten __

Re: [OSM-talk] Better Bing imagery in Potlatch?

Paul Hartmann wrote: Maarten Deen wrote: Does Potlatch have access to better BING imagery? I'm looking at Walbeck in Germany <http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.495886&lon=6.243827&zoom=18> and in Potlatch 2 the imagery is a lot better than in JOSM. In the imagery settin

Re: [OSM-talk] Better Bing imagery in Potlatch?

; 2011-05-28 16:07, Tom Hughes skrev: >> On 28/05/11 13:08, Maarten Deen wrote: >> >>> Does Potlatch have access to better BING imagery? I'm looking at Walbeck >>> in Germany >>> <http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.495886&lon=6.243827&zoom=18&

Re: [OSM-talk] Airspace & Co.

On Tue, 7 Jun 2011 10:15:59 + (UTC), Ed Avis wrote: I think the important question is whether mapping airspace causes any harm to people who don't care about airspace. If not, best to let the people who are interested get on with it, however misguided they may be. IMHO this is already th

Re: [OSM-talk] New Garmin AOI maps of European cross-boarder regions

On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 00:27:27 +0200, colliar wrote: There are some maps of European cross-boarder regions available under: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/All_in_one_Garmin_Map/Regions It is possible to request more regions, aswell. This can be only small extracts upto several countries.

Re: [OSM-talk] Commenting and thumbs up/down feature for changesets

On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 09:18:48 +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, On 07/13/11 09:01, Steve Bennett wrote: Did this changeset actually break any guidelines or policies? Is there anything wrong with it other than the fact that you don't personally approve? Let's approach the problem in a spirit of lo

Re: [OSM-talk] Commenting and thumbs up/down feature for changesets

On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 09:43:26 +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, On 07/13/11 09:37, Maarten Deen wrote: But you're still only voting for the comment in the changeset, right? No, I was thinking that people should vote up/down what was *done* in the changeset. The comment might be a fact

Re: [OSM-talk] Id stability

On Mon, 01 Aug 2011 09:21:44 +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote: (Two or three people have also started tagging OSM objects with UUID tags but I don't think that that's anything more than database bloat. I think that about 99.9% of UUID tags in the database come from a building import where somebody aut

Re: [OSM-talk] Id stability

On Mon, 1 Aug 2011 09:29:41 +0100, Ed Loach wrote: I've got a wiki that links certain localities to the OSM map. I use the addr: fields for that. They are unique (at least for my purpose), but this also does not guarantee 100% continuity. I did a map once with links to local pubs. I found s

Re: [OSM-talk] Combined bicycle & footway

On Tue, 23 Aug 2011 10:42:27 +0100, Richard Mann wrote: On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 1:10 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: Can we get some feedback from different countries whether walking is permitted on cycleways? At least in Germany and Italy it is (officially) forbidden. There are extremely few

Re: [OSM-talk] featured image

On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 14:54:11 +0300, Oleg wrote: Mmm, it shows something wrong to me. My osm username is 'j8 ' . YES with the space at the end! [1] does show an edit, [2] kan not find the username, probably because the space is removed before searching. IMHO it is not very wise to use a space as

Re: [OSM-talk] The thread "Roundabouts and routing"

On Fri, 9 Sep 2011 07:47:37 -0400, Anthony wrote: On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 7:39 AM, Pieren wrote: On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Anthony wrote: Is it just me or does the thread "Roundabouts and routing" (http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2011-September/060082.html) reflect a dysfu

Re: [OSM-talk] Name rendering on osm.org (was Naming dispute over Jerusalem - OSM failure)

On Wed, 5 Oct 2011 12:33:25 +0300, pec...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/10/5 Ed Loach : Lambert wrote: Personally I would say:  '.. OFFICIALLY used locally.' Which is where it becomes political... Do you mean officially according to Israel? Or official according to international resolutions such as

Re: [OSM-talk] GPS Logger

On Mon, 7 Nov 2011 10:51:01 +0530, Sajjad Anwar wrote: Hi, I've been trying to find out a basic GPS data logger. A friend used the Holux m-241 http://www.holux.com/JCore/en/products/products_content.jsp?pno=341 Are there any other similar best buy devices that someone here has come across? I'v

Re: [OSM-talk] Naming issues in kosovo

Mike Dupont wrote: In the area of mitrovia which we have been discussing : http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/448562189 here he changed the main name to Cyrillic . Administrative circumstances around the railways in northern Kosovo are a bit difficult. The northern part up to Zvecan is

Re: [OSM-talk] Who mapped it first with ref to forth coming deletions - implication

On 14-12-2011 19:32, Richard Weait wrote: On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 1:15 PM, john whelan wrote: So essentially all data that existed on this date will need to be deleted since we can't be sure who entered or edited it or if they have agreed to the new license if the .odbl database is to be "clean

Re: [OSM-talk] Who mapped it first with ref to forth coming deletions - implication

On 14-12-2011 20:32, Richard Fairhurst wrote: Maarten Deen wrote: Well, since all history of that data before API v0.5 is lost Hey hey hey. Slow down. Data before API 0.5 is _not_ lost. It is archived. That is something different than what 80n said earlier, quoting a message from Frederik

Re: [OSM-talk] Permission for my work

On 2011-12-16 11:08, Janko Mihelić wrote: It seems odbl.de [11] isn't very accurate at dividing data. It says here you contributed a lot: http://odbl.de/croatia.html [12] One would need to know what boundaries are used to define Croatia in that list. Is it the exact border as it exists in OSM

Re: [OSM-talk] tile rendereing total space

On 2012-01-06 11:28, Frans Thamura wrote: hi all anyone have try to make all tiles render, without we have to click the mapnik/map we have full total planet for global, and wanna to make the tile render, so everyone that come to new map, (never clicked before), can see the map, without have t

Re: [OSM-talk] tile rendereing total space

On 2012-01-06 11:49, Maarten Deen wrote: The same pages says that on z18 only 0.9% of all tiles have ever been viewed. You may want to decided to generate z17 and z18 only in specific places, that will reduce diskspace by 75% also. 95% that is! Maarten

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM and shipping disasters

Aun Johnsen wrote: I noticed tonight, through the shipping site gcaptain.com, on one of their articles following the cruise disaster of Costa Concordia off the coast of Italy, that some news sources use OSM maps to illustrate the area of the grounding. OSM usually has a lot more detail. Also be

[OSM-talk] Mapping guidelines (was: Re: what is happening here - potlatch oddness with orange highlights?)

On 2012-01-16 23:27, Robin Paulson wrote: http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?lat=-36.878407&lon=174.741523&zoom=19 the landuse polygon has an orange highlight on it, why does it do that? Just a hint on mapping (not to Robin in particular): I think it is unnecessary to cut up landuse=resident

Re: [OSM-talk] Wind turbines no longer rendered on mapnik layer

On 2012-02-15 09:26, Morten Kjeldgaard wrote: It is true that the power_source tag is deprecated, but being deprecated does IMHO not mean that a tag should be removed in a massive clean-up operation, especially if you do not follow up on the consequences of such a change. Adding the new generati

Re: [OSM-talk] Finding untagged dead-ends

On 2012-02-15 11:27, Chris Hill wrote: /me is waiting for someone to make the obvious and completely useless suggestion of some bonkers noexit hierarchy. noexit=bus, noexit=mouse, noexit=elephant, noexit=blue_whale No, please! Completely the wrong tagging style! I would suggest for you: no_e

[OSM-talk] 'Foursquare Says Farewell to Google Maps, Joins OpenStreetMap Movement'

From : Foursquare is parting ways with Google Maps in favor of crowdsourced maps created by the OpenStreetMap project. I think this is a huge pat on the back for the OSM community. Maarten

Re: [OSM-talk] iPhoto for iOS Not Using Google Maps

Oh yes, it's OSM. I've been mapping a lot of forest tracks in my neighborhood [1] and indicated some tracks that I didn't walk with only a short stub. Apple has all these stubs. It also has all the local names that Google does not have and that are a combination of dutch AND data, BAG data and

Re: [OSM-talk] Nice problem to have

On 2012-03-09 08:50, Frederik Ramm wrote: On 03/09/12 01:10, Martijn van Exel wrote: http://www.macrumors.com/2012/03/08/apple-using-openstreetmap-data-in-iphoto-for-ios/ - interesting to see the irrational Apple fanboy commentary.. It's a recurring motive. Company switches to OSM - users com

Re: [OSM-talk] No attribution on osm.org?

On 2012-03-09 11:36, Floris Looijesteijn wrote: No. That page only talks about how you should attribute if you're using OSM yourself. I nowhere read the required "© OpenStreetMap contributors, CC BY-SA" for the map on osm.org. Maybe my remark was a bit blunt, and indeed didn't recently change

Re: [OSM-talk] Ways in old mediterranean and similar towns.

On 21-3-2012 17:35, Janko Mihelić wrote: > Mappers in these towns treat ways in old parts of their town as > something that can't be a footpath. For some reason it insults their > vision of those ways. That's why they tag them as pedestrian highways > although no cars ever went through them (well,

Re: [OSM-talk] Ways in old mediterranean and similar towns.

On 2012-03-22 09:47, Janko Mihelić wrote: 2012/3/21 John F. Eldredge Maarten Deen wrote: > So why would it be incorrect to map these as pedestrian? The fact that > > motorvehicles don't use them has nothing to do with it. > > Maarten > Yes, the definition of "high

Re: [OSM-talk] Ways in old mediterranean and similar towns.

On 2012-03-22 10:11, Janko Mihelić wrote: 2012/3/22 Maarten Deen It's difficult to make a precise definition of course. Some ideas of mine: No hard surface: footpath No houses next to it: footpath High use: pedestrian Urban area: pedestrian The wide expanse is in the sense of a (town) s

Re: [OSM-talk] Imagery parallax error in high altitude areas

On 2012-04-10 13:45, Arun Ganesh wrote: Is there an accurate source for the coordinates of mountain peaks? We can check how bad the parallax errors are on the satellite imagery. Would it even be possible to identify mountain peaks on satellite imagery? I've been looking at Mont Blanc and Ever

Re: [OSM-talk] Transcription and "internationalization" in place names

On 2012-04-16 08:32, Claudius wrote: Am 16.04.2012 06:33, Stephan Knauss: When the crisis in Libya started to heat up I was asked if I could provide bilingual rendering which is still online on http://libya.osm-tools.org/ Is this of use for anybody? If no one cares for the bilingual rendering

Re: [OSM-talk] Transcription and 'internationalization' in place names

On 2012-04-16 14:15, Joseph Reeves wrote: As for Korea: Should we add name:ko=서울특별시? >Otherwise, how do we know the Korean name for this city? It seems to me that adding name:ko is duplicating data. We should be using the local names for the name: tag, so the Korean can go in there. I would

[OSM-talk] Mapnik rendering issue with *_link roads

I finally found out what the issue is with this [1] situation. My issue with it is that IMHO it is not good to see the unclassified road rendered on top of the primary_link road. I made a test here [2] where the left primary is a primary_link and the right primary is a primary proper. Apparentl

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM cycle map - ?excessive focus on long-distance routes

On 2012-05-09 14:11, Richard Mann wrote: My point is that tagging should allow both types of routes to be recorded, so different renderings can be produced for different purposes (and indeed routers can use the information as well, if they want to). I know that different route networks apply for

Re: [OSM-talk] Worst of OSM

On 2012-05-15 12:33, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: I couldn't find a contact possibilty on the page, that's why I try it here. Worst of OSM is a nice idea IMHO: http://worstofosm.tumblr.com/ What I really miss though is a possibility to comment / discuss the examples. This could help to explain

Re: [OSM-talk] Worst of OSM

On 2012-05-15 15:37, Pieren wrote: Italian forest or the spanish place names without roads or the street The problem with the spanish place names is not that there are no roads connecting them, the problem is that they are not places. The area is unpopulated. There is not even a house to be

Re: [OSM-talk] Project of the Week 2010Mar28 - Swimming in data

Richard Weait wrote: > Many of the coastlines in OSM came from an import of the PGS coastline > data. It was a fantastic benefit to be able to add this coastline > data to OSM, and we're better off having had it. And there are many > places that have aerial imagery that is now good enough to impr

Re: [OSM-talk] Post code areas

On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 14:52:47 +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > Frederik Ramm wrote: >> we're thinking about importing post code areas in Germany. Are post >> code areas being mapped in other countries already, and if so, using >> what tagging schema? > > Thank you for the replies. > >

Re: [OSM-talk] xybot edit area size

On Thu, 08 Apr 2010 12:45:44 +0200, Frank Sautter wrote: > Valent Turkovic schrieb: >> But still ideal situation is that bots also use much smaller areas >> for edits so that you see if some bot has changed something in your >> area of interest, right? > most bots (and also xybot) do not have an

Re: [OSM-talk] xybot edit area size

On Thu, 08 Apr 2010 13:24:50 +0200, Frank Sautter wrote: > Maarten Deen schrieb: >> Do correct me if I'm wrong, but don't the nodes have lat/lon with them >> and >> is the location therefore known? > just have a look: http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/way/10

Re: [OSM-talk] Russians at it again

On Fri, 7 May 2010 08:10:06 +0200 (CEST), "Patrick Petschge" Kilian"" wrote: > Hi, > >> My personal opinion: >> Let them. > I respect your opinion but I don't think that it is a good idea. But see > below for details. > >> It is a good thing they are figuring out how to enjoy OpenStreetMap >>

Re: [OSM-talk] Russians at it again

On Fri, 7 May 2010 17:18:02 +1000, John Smith wrote: > On 7 May 2010 17:01, Maarten Deen wrote: >> Granted, this is _photograhing inside a military zone_, and not looking >> from a public road to a military zone, but the legality of it all depends >> on the law of the co

Re: [OSM-talk] Russians at it again

On Fri, 7 May 2010 11:56:43 +0400, Kirill Bestoujev wrote: > There are no rules in OSM. That is not entirely true. > So my personal opinion is that we do have right to discuss anything we > want about our country in out own language and you do not have any > f*cking right to call it substandard.

Re: [OSM-talk] Russians at it again

m. Especially connected with question 3 and 4, the first paragraph suggests that it would be ok to remove data (if the first option is voted) and that there is some kind of governing body within OSM that approves this. But if you feel that I understand this incorrectly, than I accept that. Regards, M

Re: [OSM-talk] Extra zoom level needed?

On Mon, 17 May 2010 13:02:53 +0100, Gregory wrote: > Now a lot of places are full of pro-mappers, we are doing house numbers, > shops, football pitch lines... Do we need an extra zoom level? > For example I'm learning to add buildings/shops and > see http://osm.org/go/euuOoC_pJ-- [1] You can only

Re: [OSM-talk] Extra zoom level needed?

On Mon, 17 May 2010 14:32:34 +0200, Fabio Alessandro Locati wrote: >> Adding a zoomlevel adds 4 tiles for each tile in the previous zoomlevel. >> You'll go from 91 billion tiles to 366 billion. >> This meaning you need 4 times the load to generate, 4 times the storage >> to >> hold them, 4 times t

Re: [OSM-talk] [Geowanking] ?

Geowanking? Don't me wrong, but wanking does not have a very favourable connotation in my book. What is geowanking about? Regards, Maarten ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Hiring 300 Temps to Fix Map Errors

Anthony wrote: > OSM: using 10,000 people to do what Google does with 300. ;) Can we make a "Best quotes of OSM" on the wiki? :D Maarten > On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Ian Dees > wrote: > > > http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2010/05/google_hiring_300_temp

Re: [OSM-talk] US to spend $8bn upgrading GPS constellation

On Wed, 26 May 2010 20:53:38 +1000, John Smith wrote: > The United States is about to give the now nearly ubiquitous Global > Positioning System an $8 billion overhaul. The improvements, which > involve replacing each of the 24 aging GPS satellites, are estimated > to take over a decade to complet

Re: [OSM-talk] US to spend $8bn upgrading GPS constellation

On Wed, 26 May 2010 13:50:58 +0200, Frank Fesevur wrote: > 2010/5/26 Maarten Deen: >> From the article: >>> Without it, ATMs would stop spitting out cash, Wall Street could blunder >>> billions of dollars in stock trades and clueless drivers would get lost. >> &g

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM XAPI doubt

On Wed, 2 Jun 2010 00:39:14 -0700 (PDT), Juan Lucas Domínguez Rubio wrote: > Dear list, > > Anybody knows why the first query works and the second doesn't? > > wget > http://www.informationfreeway.org/api/0.6/node[bbox=-82.90108,21.82252,-82.88907,21.82971] > --output-document=a.txt > > wget >

Re: [OSM-talk] Cloudmade routing issue

Nathan Edgars II wrote: > I know this isn't the Cloudmade list, but a recent thread here got > some results. I used the feedback link but never got a response. That's strange. I've always gotten a response from Cloudmade. > If you go to > http://maps.cloudmade.com/?lat=40.257259&lng=-74.289401&z

Re: [OSM-talk] Giving everything a unique ID

On Wed, 2 Jun 2010 17:52:25 -0700 (PDT), Simon Biber wrote: > Gregory wrote: >> If I'm mapping I try and keep nodes intact and edit the tagging >> to preserve the ID and history, but there are cases where this >> can't happen. > > Another example where ID and history are lost is when we change i

[OSM-talk] Routing on OSM maps on a Garmin device

I have a Garmin Nüvi 205 which I normally load with an OSM map if I go to Germany. The standard map on the device is NL-BE-FR with bordersections of DE. Usually I get the tiles I need from Lambertus, but yesterday I took the basemap for germany from All_in_one_Garmin_Map. While I was at the far poi

Re: [OSM-talk] Routing on OSM maps on a Garmin device

M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: > 2010/6/14 Maarten Deen : >> Cloudmade calculates both routes as expected, so I would exclude data >> error (e.g. non-connected roads) from the problem. > > > Don't know how often cloudmate refreshes it's routing data, but if

Re: [OSM-talk] Routing on OSM maps on a Garmin device

On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:20:07 +0200, Lambertus wrote: > On 2010-06-15 01:53, Liz wrote: >> On Mon, 14 Jun 2010, Maarten Deen wrote: >>> Does anyone have similar experiences, and maybe an explanation why this >>> happenes? Are the OSM maps too detailed for a simple device

Re: [OSM-talk] rural highway tagging: residential or track

On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 07:08:39 -0400, Stan Berka wrote: > I have frequently a tagging dilemma. See this example: Coburn Rd on this > location: http://osm.org/go/z...@yoeg-- [1] (N of US 2). It was tagged as > residential, but I've been there two days ago and it's a decent > "compacted gravel" road,

Re: [OSM-talk] Rendering street names across several ways

On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 18:41:13 +1000, Steve Bennett wrote: > On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 5:59 PM, Igor Brejc wrote: >> This results in even more complicated situation and even more work to >> maintain such data. And even if do you follow this practice, there will >> still be huge amounts of "legacy" data

Re: [OSM-talk] correcting/helping inexperienced mappers

On Fri, 2 Jul 2010 07:30:11 -0400, Richard Weait wrote: > On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 12:07 AM, Robin Paulson > wrote: >> there's a mapper near me, who's very active adding data. >> >> the problem is, he's making a lot of mistakes, such as roads not >> joining correctly at junctions, bridges drawn as

Re: [OSM-talk] Osm.org Routing Demo

On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Nic Roets wrote: I made a demonstration of how the yournavigation.org website can be embedded inside osm.org. Check it out: http://nroets.dev.openstreetmap.org/demo/?lat=52.32796&lon=5.62046&zoom=15&layers=B000FTFT I have two issues with it: - in Firefox (3.6.3

Re: [OSM-talk] Osm.org Routing Demo

On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Nic Roets wrote: I made a demonstration of how the yournavigation.org website can be embedded inside osm.org. Check it out: http://nroets.dev.openstreetmap.org/demo/?lat=52.32796&lon=5.62046&zoom=15&layers=B000FTFT Although I have managed to get some routes, th

Re: [OSM-talk] Osm.org Routing Demo

Maarten Deen wrote: On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Nic Roets wrote: I made a demonstration of how the yournavigation.org website can be embedded inside osm.org. Check it out: http://nroets.dev.openstreetmap.org/demo/?lat=52.32796&lon=5.62046&zoom=15&layers=B000FTFT Although I

[OSM-talk] Adding a relation to a relation in Potlatch

Is it possible to add a relation to a relation in Potlatch? I've tried some things but haven't found a way yet. Regards, Maarten ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] maori/english search oddities for nz towns

On Wed, 7 Jul 2010 14:40:28 +1000, Stephen Hope wrote: > Chrome - Pahia, New Zealand > Firefox 3.6.6 - Pahia, New Zealand > IE 8.0 - Pahia, Aotearoa > > Weird. Checking my language options in IE, the only language listed > is English, Australian. Seems to be a general problem. I get the same re

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapquest launches site based on OSM!

On Fri, 09 Jul 2010 10:11:02 +0100, SomeoneElse wrote: > On 09/07/2010 09:50, David Ellams wrote: >> http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/07/09/aols-mapquest-looks-to-wikipedia-model-for-mapping/ >> >> >>http://open.mapquest.co.uk/ > > Woohoo! An OSM map with a scale on it! Yeah, they'll remove

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapquest launches site based on OSM!

On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 12:30:10 +0300, Peteris Krisjanis wrote: > 2010/7/9 Maarten Deen : >> On Fri, 09 Jul 2010 10:11:02 +0100, SomeoneElse >> wrote: >>> On 09/07/2010 09:50, David Ellams wrote: >>>> http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/07/09/aols-mapquest-

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapquest launches site based on OSM!

> > Richard > > On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Maarten Deen wrote: >> On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 12:30:10 +0300, Peteris Krisjanis >> wrote: >>> 2010/7/9 Maarten Deen : >>>> On Fri, 09 Jul 2010 10:11:02 +0100, SomeoneElse >>>> wrote: >>>

Re: [OSM-talk] Divided/Non-Divided Intersection

John Smith wrote: On 11 July 2010 06:43, Chris Dombroski wrote: I ask because I think this is the cause of stupid GPS directions at times "make a left, followed by a slight right" Isn't that a problem with the routing software, not the data? Not IMHO. If you have a layout like this (use a

Re: [OSM-talk] Divided/Non-Divided Intersection

On Sun, 11 Jul 2010 22:03:02 -0700, Alan Mintz wrote: > At 2010-07-10 18:39, John Smith wrote: >>On 11 July 2010 06:43, Chris Dombroski wrote: >> > I ask because I think this is the cause of stupid GPS directions at times >> > "make a left, followed by a slight right" >> >>Isn't that a problem wi

Re: [OSM-talk] Garmin Maps

On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 08:28:36 -0700, Sam Vekemans wrote: > Hi all, > Is there an #osm-garmin IRC chat for those who specialize in making > custom garmin maps? > > I think there is a need to combine the tallent that is collectively > known about all the tools available to make it. > With an aim to

Re: [OSM-talk] RFC: what are empty nodes and how should w e use them?

On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 08:19:42 +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > Jonas Stein wrote: >> In the IRC channel i was told, that there are users who paint >> empty nodes in the map to mark things like >> "road is not mapped, but continues here" > > I do this occasionally, and I'm sure I haven't made

Re: [OSM-talk] RFC: what are empty nodes and how should w e use them?

On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 15:00:52 +0200, pdora...@mac.com (Pierre-Alain Dorange) wrote: > Jonas Stein wrote: > >> > Yes, but JOSM has a chunked upload mode where it uses multiple >> > transactions for one upload. >> >> Can someone confirm, that josm first uploads an empty node >> and then the content?

Re: [OSM-talk] Bilingual rendering for Greece

On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 00:44:48 +0200, Stephan Knauss wrote: > while working on some special purpose map rendering I was told that > it would also be interesting for Greece. > > So here I have a bilingual map rendering for Greece: > > http://greece.osm-tools.org/ > > > Please let me know if you

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