[Talk-us] Canada and US Imagery bounds

2012-09-13 Thread Paul Norman
I've gone and updated the imagery bounds and bboxes for both Potlatch 2 and JOSM for the North American imagery sources. JOSM should now only suggest a source if it actually covers the area. Potlatch 2 will still suggest sources even if they don't cover the area because potlatch 2 only supports

Re: [OSM-talk] Reversion request

2012-09-07 Thread Paul Norman
to revert some subsequent changesets first. Paul Norman For the DWG ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[Talk-it] Dedicated accounts for imports

2012-09-07 Thread Paul Norman
. The Data Working Group can be contacted at d...@osmfoundation.org. [1]: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines [2]: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines#Use_a_dedicated_user_ac count [3]: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalogue Paul Norman For the Data

[OSM-talk] Another live edit viewer

2012-09-03 Thread Paul Norman
I saw this mentioned on IRC but I haven't seen it here, so I figured I'd point out cquest's live edit viewer at: http://osm7.openstreetmap.fr/~cquest/live/ It zooms in and shows you various edits and where people are editing worldwide. It unfortunately doesn't show you geometry. OSMZmiany is

[OSM-talk] Post-bot redactions finished

2012-09-02 Thread Paul Norman
. This does not mean that the license has changed. I am not in a position to comment on any other tasks that need to be completed before a switch to ODbL. Paul Norman For the Data Working Group ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [OSM-talk] opendata diagram

2012-09-02 Thread Paul Norman
Non-commercial only licenses discriminate against fields of endeavor and are definitely not open. See 6 of http://opensource.org/docs/osd or 8 of http://opendefinition.org/okd/. No derivative licenses are also not open - you can't modify the data. Another explanation is

Re: [OSM-talk] DWG post-redaction bot cleanup

2012-08-26 Thread Paul Norman
From: Stephan Knauss [mailto:o...@stephans-server.de] Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] DWG post-redaction bot cleanup Hello Norman, On 26.08.2012 03:49, Paul Norman wrote: The redactions are being done from http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/pnorman%20redaction%20revert can you give a rough

Re: [OSM-talk] DWG post-redaction bot cleanup

2012-08-25 Thread Paul Norman
From: Pieren [mailto:pier...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2012 1:01 AM To: osm-talk Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] DWG post-redaction bot cleanup On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 4:29 AM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: The Data Working Group is beginning to revert some copypaste

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec import issues

2012-08-22 Thread Paul Norman
I see the problem as being the importing of everything as being the problem, not the geometric model :) From: Daniel Begin [mailto:jfd...@hotmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 1:49 PM To: 'Pierre Béland'; talk-ca@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec import issues Bonjour

[OSM-talk] DWG post-redaction bot cleanup

2012-08-21 Thread Paul Norman
uploading frequently is always a good idea. Paul Norman For the Data Working Group ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [Talk-ca] New Lower Mainland Imagery sources

2012-08-21 Thread Paul Norman
You're supposed to copy and paste the URL from the table or click on the link, not copy the link. I'll see if I can clarify that in the documentation. From: Matthew Buchanan [mailto:matthew.ian.bucha...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 8:01 PM To: Paul Norman Cc: talk-ca

Re: [Talk-us] Kern County progress

2012-08-20 Thread Paul Norman
It's good to see some progress made on cleaning these up. Just be clear, are you proposing a new import at this time? From: Nathan Mixter [mailto:srmix...@hotmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 2:45 PM To: talk-us; imports Subject: [Talk-us] Kern County progress I have begun

Re: [Talk-us] Kern County progress

2012-08-20 Thread Paul Norman
the accuracy. On Aug 20, 2012 6:36 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: It's good to see some progress made on cleaning these up. Just be clear, are you proposing a new import at this time? From: Nathan Mixter [mailto:srmix...@hotmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 2:45 PM

[Talk-ca] New Lower Mainland Imagery sources

2012-08-18 Thread Paul Norman
After some technical and legal work, I now have a number of imagery layers hosted on a rented server. These layers cover from Vancouver to Hope in 20cm or better and Lions Bay to Pemberton as 40cm or better. 10cm imagery is available for Vancouver, Richmond, Ladner, West Delta, the North Shore,

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [Talk-us] New version of US redaction map

2012-08-14 Thread Paul Norman
...@att.net wrote: On 8/13/2012 11:11 PM, Paul Norman wrote: It’s all CC BY-SA right now so you’d be okay now, but I think it’d be a problem in the future under both CC BY-SA and ODbL if you were mix the data in this way. I'd think this is not actually importing any information directly from

Re: [Talk-us] New version of US redaction map

2012-08-13 Thread Paul Norman
It’s all CC BY-SA right now so you’d be okay now, but I think it’d be a problem in the future under both CC BY-SA and ODbL if you were mix the data in this way. From: Martijn van Exel [mailto:m...@rtijn.org] Sent: Monday, August 13, 2012 7:09 PM To: Mike N Cc: talk-us@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Please, consider that more people want to mark even their future ODBl OSM contributions as CC-BY-SA compatible

2012-08-10 Thread Paul Norman
From: Mike Dupont [mailto:jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com] Subject: Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Please, consider that more people want to mark even their future ODBl OSM contributions as CC-BY-SA compatible Also since we are on the topic, I think that many people who are in the USA cannot legally

[OSM-talk] Indonesia Coastline - fixup needed

2012-08-05 Thread Paul Norman
I happened to notice the coastline for an entire island in South Sulawesi, Indonesia is missing. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-6.1219lon=120.4563zoom=14layers=M There also seem to be a lot of primary roads and few lower classifications. This actually may not be redaction related. I'm

Re: [OSM-talk] Coastline generation resumed

2012-08-03 Thread Paul Norman
Whoops - looks like I had disabled the cron job. Files should start uploading at about 2-3 AM UTC. -Original Message- From: Simone Cortesi [mailto:sim...@cortesi.com] Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 2:34 PM To: Paul Norman Cc: osm-talk Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Coastline generation

Re: [Talk-ca] [Talk-us] Discardable TIGER tags

2012-07-31 Thread Paul Norman
From: Toby Murray [mailto:toby.mur...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 6:40 PM To: talk-us Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Discardable TIGER tags I was unaware of the TLID bug and the fact that TIGER has changed their data model although I kind of wondered about this because I didn't see a

Re: [Talk-ca] Disgardable NHN and NRN tags

2012-07-31 Thread Paul Norman
From: Paul Norman [mailto:penor...@mac.com] Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2012 8:14 PM Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Disgardable NHN and NRN tags I think the ways tagged with sub_sea would need to be deleted, not just the tag itself. These tend to be hydrological topology connectors under lakes

[OSM-talk] Proposed mechanical import: Empty relations 1

2012-07-29 Thread Paul Norman
Now that the redaction bot has finished running, I want to propose what should be a simple uncontroversial mechanical edit (hah). I propose cleaning up two types of empty relations that are not members of other relations. - Those with no members and no tags - Those with no members and

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposed mechanical import: Empty relations 1

2012-07-29 Thread Paul Norman
From: Werner Hoch [mailto:werner...@gmx.de] Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2012 6:33 AM To: Paul Norman Cc: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Proposed mechanical import: Empty relations 1 Am Sonntag, den 29.07.2012, 02:06 -0700 schrieb Paul Norman: Now that the redaction bot has

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposed mechanical import: Empty relations 1

2012-07-29 Thread Paul Norman
From: Mike N [mailto:nice...@att.net] Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Proposed mechanical import: Empty relations 1 On 7/29/2012 5:06 AM, Paul Norman wrote: - Those with no members and no tags - Those with no members and type=multipolygon as the only tag Relations removed will be limited

[Talk-ca] Disgardable NHN and NRN tags

2012-07-29 Thread Paul Norman
This is based on http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2012-July/008830.html, a recent talk-us@ discussion about TIGER tags. Parts of this message are a copy/paste from there. Some people may not even be aware of this but JOSM silently discards the created_by tag if it exists on any

Re: [Talk-ca] Disgardable NHN and NRN tags

2012-07-29 Thread Paul Norman
From: Adam Dunn [mailto:dunna...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2012 5:57 PM To: Steve Singer Cc: Paul Norman; Toby Murray; talk-ca@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Disgardable NHN and NRN tags I'd keep the accuracy:meters around. I've used that for other things (mainly

[Talk-us] Kern County Import Cleanup

2012-07-29 Thread Paul Norman
I happened to be looking at Kern County and noticed two problems with the imports that seem to be systemic over the area. The first is classification of empty areas as landuse=residential (e.g. http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/540695 http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/53993995)

Re: [OSM-talk] Redaction finished already?

2012-07-26 Thread Paul Norman
From: SomeoneElse [mailto:li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk] Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Redaction finished already? Jan Kučera wrote: Ok so are imports allowed again? Back in April I made this request: http://www.mail-archive.com/talk@openstreetmap.org/msg42372.html and I'd suggest that it

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Some questions about using ODbL Produced Work

2012-07-24 Thread Paul Norman
From: Rob Myers [mailto:r...@robmyers.org] Subject: Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Some questions about using ODbL Produced Work BY-SA doesn't cover databases though (any potential changes in 4.0 notwithstanding). It's important to note that this is only true where databases (like OSM) are not

Re: [OSM-talk] Coastline generation resumed

2012-07-24 Thread Paul Norman
though I know when my runs finish. From: Paul Norman [mailto:penor...@mac.com] Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2012 11:55 PM To: 'osm-talk' Subject: [OSM-talk] Coastline generation resumed I have resumed my daily generation of coastline files. These are generated with the coastcheck program[1] from

[OSM-talk] Coastline generation resumed

2012-07-23 Thread Paul Norman
I have resumed my daily generation of coastline files. These are generated with the coastcheck program[1] from my jxapi database starting at 5 AM pacific time. They take 3-4 hours to generate and upload, depending on my internet speed at the time. The completed files are uploaded to

Re: [OSM-talk] OT - Unusual Bing imagery

2012-07-23 Thread Paul Norman
From: andrzej zaborowski [mailto:balr...@gmail.com] Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] OT - Unusual Bing imagery On 24 July 2012 03:48, Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net wrote: At 2012-07-23 16:02, andrzej zaborowski wrote: The area in the screenshot seems to have a higher resolution than

Re: [Talk-us] NHD import: what data quality is acceptable?

2012-07-23 Thread Paul Norman
From: Kevin Kenny [mailto:kken...@nycap.rr.com] Sent: Monday, July 23, 2012 5:45 AM To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-us] NHD import: what data quality is acceptable? On 07/22/2012 09:33 PM, Paul Norman wrote: The mappings on the wiki are not only incomplete

Re: [Talk-us] NHD import: what data quality is acceptable?

2012-07-22 Thread Paul Norman
From: Kevin Kenny [mailto:kken...@nycap.rr.com] Subject: [Talk-us] NHD import: what data quality is acceptable? A few months ago, I tried to get started on trying to resume the NHD import in my area - and some of the places where I hike. I'm trying to check results with both P2 and JOSM,

Re: [Talk-us] NHD import: what data quality is acceptable?

2012-07-22 Thread Paul Norman
From: James Umbanhowar [mailto:jumba...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2012 6:43 PM To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-us] NHD import: what data quality is acceptable? On Sun, 2012-07-22 at 18:33 -0700, Paul Norman wrote: The main weakness with NHD data that I find

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Some questions about using ODbL Produced Work maps in Wikipedia

2012-07-21 Thread Paul Norman
From: Frederik Ramm [mailto:frede...@remote.org] Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2012 2:30 PM To: legal-talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Some questions about using ODbL Produced Work maps in Wikipedia Hi, On 21.07.2012 21:33, Paul Norman wrote: CC 4.0 licenses explicitly

Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec imports allowed again?

2012-07-21 Thread Paul Norman
From: David E. Nelson [mailto:denelso...@yahoo.ca] Subject: [Talk-ca] CanVec imports allowed again? Now that the redaction bot has apparently finished its sweep of Canada, is it safe for CanVec imports to be resumed?  I want to try my hand at importing a few tiles around where I live. The

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: Re: Post bot cleanup

2012-07-19 Thread Paul Norman
From: Toby Murray [mailto:toby.mur...@gmail.com] Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: Re: Post bot cleanup And this time to the list... (cures you, lack of reply-to!) On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 11:16 AM, the Old Topo Depot oldto...@novacell.com wrote: Toby's post yesterday using the modified live

Re: [Talk-ca] redaction bot coming soon!

2012-07-18 Thread Paul Norman
From: Richard Weait [mailto:rich...@weait.com] Subject: [Talk-ca] redaction bot cbbboming soon! Dear All, The redaction bot is now in North America. You can watch the progress here: http://harrywood.dev.openstreetmap.org/license-change/botprocessing.php Each area starts from the

Re: [Talk-ca] redaction bot coming soon!

2012-07-18 Thread Paul Norman
The logs (linked from that square) say which way it was. It looks like the maritime boundary was large enough that two instances of the bot tried to delete it at the same time From: Bruno Remy [mailto:bremy.qc...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 7:43 PM To: Paul Norman Cc: Talk-CA

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Insurance for Mapping Party

2012-07-12 Thread Paul Norman
I actually have some experience in this area, but keep in mind that the requirements may vary significantly by country. Some form of insurance is likely to be required by some organizations. I know the group bike rides I used to go on had insurance. On the other hand, if all you're using their

Re: [OSM-talk] Licence redaction ready to begin

2012-07-10 Thread Paul Norman
From: Richard Fairhurst [mailto:rich...@systemed.net] Sent: Monday, July 09, 2012 1:47 PM Subject: [OSM-talk] Licence redaction ready to begin Test runs have shown that the bot is functioning as we want it to, but we will of course be monitoring its progress. We are currently expecting it

[Talk-us] NHD Conversion

2012-07-07 Thread Paul Norman
I have been working on a conversion for NHD data to .osm and decided it's time to post something. A few warnings - The conversion is not yet done. I estimate that the FCode conversions are about 90% done - This is designed to work on the pre-staged subregion files which are FileGDB or

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] MoU between OSM and NLSF

2012-07-03 Thread Paul Norman
From: Pekka Sarkola [mailto:pekka.sark...@gispo.fi] Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2012 9:03 AM To: OSM - talk-fi; legal-talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: [OSM-legal-talk] MoU between OSM and NLSF Dear Friends, I have prepared with National Land Survey of Finland Memorandum of Understanding

Re: [Talk-ca] Tr : [OSGeo-qc] Données ouvertes : gouvernement du Québec...

2012-06-30 Thread Paul Norman
-Original Message- From: Fabian Rodriguez [mailto:magic...@member.fsf.org] Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2012 4:16 AM To: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Tr : [OSGeo-qc] Données ouvertes : gouvernement du Québec... On 06/30/2012 03:51 AM, Frank Steggink wrote:

Re: [Talk-us] Creating PDF maps

2012-06-28 Thread Paul Norman
You're asking two separate questions, one is on creating a PDF map, the other is a style sheet that shows something other than what osm.xml (the standard style on osm.org) does. I wrote mapbook (https://github.com/pnorman/mapbook) which will create a PDF using Mapnik's default AGG renderer. It

Re: [Talk-ca] Proposed import: Service New Brunswick address data

2012-06-21 Thread Paul Norman
-Original Message- From: webmas...@the506.com [mailto:webmas...@the506.com] Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2012 10:51 AM To: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org Subject: [Talk-ca] Proposed import: Service New Brunswick address data Hello...long time reader, first time poster. You may know me as

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Triggering ShareAlike in Government

2012-06-18 Thread Paul Norman
From: Kate Chapman [mailto:k...@maploser.com] Subject: [OSM-legal-talk] Triggering ShareAlike in Government Hi All, I have a question about what would trigger the ShareAlike in the context of government. Let's say for example a National Mapping Agency takes the OpenStreetMap road data

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Triggering ShareAlike in Government

2012-06-18 Thread Paul Norman
From: Frederik Ramm [mailto:frede...@remote.org] Subject: Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Triggering ShareAlike in Government Hi, The interesting question is, and I don't know if Paul intended to hint at that with his FOI reference: What happens if the information is leaked, e.g. if the ME has to

Re: [OSM-talk] new bing hires updates not visible in JOSM?

2012-06-12 Thread Paul Norman
From: maning sambale [mailto:emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 6:38 PM To: jaa...@helleranta.com Cc: osm-talk Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] new bing hires updates not visible in JOSM? I don't think this is the case because when I am using JOSM, the old hires imagery is

Re: [Talk-us] UVM-SAL Buildings

2012-06-01 Thread Paul Norman
From: Phil! Gold [mailto:phi...@pobox.com] Subject: Re: [Talk-us] UVM-SAL Buildings * William Morris wboyk...@geosprocket.com [2012-06-01 12:53 -0400]: is orthogonalization worthwhile in this case? I'm not sure it is. I tried using JOSM's orthogonalization tool on a number of buildings

Re: [Talk-us] UVM-SAL Buildings

2012-05-31 Thread Paul Norman
I have a few specific comments, and some more general ones From: William Morris [mailto:wboyk...@geosprocket.com] Subject: [Talk-us] UVM-SAL Buildings Howdy Folks, Trying this again, after a hiatus, here is a sample of a few hundred buildings from a UVM-SAL land use classification. In

Re: [OSM-talk] Edit review: intermittent waters

2012-05-30 Thread Paul Norman
. 2012/5/30 Paul Norman penor...@mac.com: Could you post the code used to generate the changesets? Ich may not. Some parts of it are not open source. I think of clean rewrite. The logic that you have created is what I'm interested in. That would be the easiest way for some

Re: [OSM-talk] Edit review: intermittent waters

2012-05-29 Thread Paul Norman
Could you post the code used to generate the changesets? That would be the easiest way for some of us to review your proposed changes. It wouldn’t remove the need to explain it to non-programmers, but it would be much easier for some of us if we could look at the code. That being said, a

Re: [OSM-talk] Selecting validation warnings in JOSM

2012-05-26 Thread Paul Norman
Select the nodes then use search within selection - or search for selected source=something From: john whelan [mailto:jwhelan0...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2012 9:27 AM To: OpenStreetMap talk mailing list Subject: [OSM-talk] Selecting validation warnings in JOSM Is there a way to

Re: [OSM-talk] Edit review: building=levels=N

2012-05-20 Thread Paul Norman
The mechanical edit policy calls for a wiki page with the details of the proposed upload, as well as contact info (i.e. main account). Please provide documentation on all the points in http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mechanical_Edit_Policy#Document From: Worst Fixer

Re: [OSM-talk] Edit review: building=levels=N

2012-05-20 Thread Paul Norman
/Automated_Edits_code_of_conduct From: Worst Fixer [mailto:worstfi...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2012 12:31 PM To: Paul Norman Cc: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Edit review: building=levels=N Hello. 2012/5/20 Paul Norman penor...@mac.com The mechanical edit policy calls for a wiki page

Re: [Talk-us] Road Expansions and Seattle Imports (if you're the Seattle importer, please read!)

2012-05-19 Thread Paul Norman
From: Serge Wroclawski [mailto:emac...@gmail.com] Seattle importer, please read!) Getting back to the current TIGER expansion, I decided it would be a mistake to try a large scale import without having some way of ensuring that the uploads were being done correctly, and so I've been working

Re: [Talk-us] Address placement (was: Fresno castradal imports)

2012-05-05 Thread Paul Norman
-Original Message- From: Toby Murray [mailto:toby.mur...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, May 04, 2012 1:18 PM To: OpenStreetMap talk-us list Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Address placement (was: Fresno castradal imports) Moving this to a new thread because there is no address data in the

[Talk-us] NHD data changes

2012-05-05 Thread Paul Norman
I've been looking at the NHD data from the USGS site and have noticed a few recent changes from how they were described on the wiki. 1. The viewer has changed. http://viewer.nationalmap.gov/viewer/nhd.html will bring up a map you can use to download NHD data. This viewer does not work in Chrome

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] BC Open Government License

2012-05-04 Thread Paul Norman
[1] http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/ [2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Attribution On 03/05/2012 01:17, Paul Norman wrote: The BC government has released data under the Open Government License for Government of BC Information[1] which is based

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-04 Thread Paul Norman
See http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2012-April/008032.html for the full discussion around the removal In summary: - The Fresno import has a number of issues - No one is opposed to removal if there are no easier options for cleaning up the data - No one has proposed an easier

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-04 Thread Paul Norman
From: Paul Johnson [mailto:ba...@ursamundi.org] Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 1:37 AM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: See http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2012-April/008032.htm l for the full discussion around the removal

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-04 Thread Paul Norman
From: Nathan Mills [mailto:nat...@nwacg.net] Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports On 5/4/2012 4:21 PM, Ian Dees wrote: To the contrary, this whole conversation started because we received multiple complaints about this area from mappers who wanted to create data in this area

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-04 Thread Paul Norman
From: Paul Johnson [mailto:ba...@ursamundi.org] Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports On May 4, 2012 5:41 PM, Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net wrote: ...and we need to examine what our existing user tools and server processing and storage resources are and how they can

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-04 Thread Paul Norman
From: Alan Mintz [mailto:alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net] Sent: Friday, May 04, 2012 3:06 PM To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org; impo...@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports At 2012-05-04 01:37, Paul Norman wrote: See http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] 25or6to4 NHD imports

2012-05-04 Thread Paul Norman
Minutely diffs are currently running from http://planet.osm.org/redaction-period/ You should read the caution first before consuming. From what I saw the imports were fairly clean. Some large objects, but that's to be expected with the large lakes in the region you were working in. If you're

[OSM-legal-talk] BC Open Government License

2012-05-02 Thread Paul Norman
The BC government has released data under the Open Government License for Government of BC Information[1] which is based on the same license used for OS OpenData information[2]. OS OpenData can be used in OSM[3] The OGL BC is, broadly speaking, an attribution only license that makes allowances

Re: [Talk-us] Waterway directionality in drainage canals

2012-04-28 Thread Paul Norman
From: Nathan Edgars II [mailto:nerou...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2012 2:24 AM To: Tag discussion, strategy and related tools; OpenStreetMap talk-us list Subject: [Talk-us] Waterway directionality in drainage canals It's the standard to draw a waterway in the direction of flow.

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Fresno castradal imports

2012-04-27 Thread Paul Norman
From: Toby Murray [mailto:toby.mur...@gmail.com] Subject: Re: [Imports] [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: Hi, On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 12:54 AM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: I happened across an import

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage relations, in particular 1298962

2012-04-26 Thread Paul Norman
If I saw one of these locally I would verify that it corresponds to nothing on the ground and then delete it. -Original Message- From: SomeoneElse [mailto:li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk] Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 6:28 PM To: Open Street Map mailing list Subject: [OSM-talk] Bing

[Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-04-26 Thread Paul Norman
I happened across an import of Fresno castradal data from mid-2010 in the Fresno area. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=36.77lon=-119.81zoom=15 is the general area but I haven't fully explored the extents. For a view of the data, see http://maps.paulnorman.ca/imports/review/fresno.png Based on

Re: [Talk-ca] Canadian imports: good or bad?

2012-04-25 Thread Paul Norman
2. There is not a consensus among the community that CanVec data can be imported without verifying the data for internal consistency and where possible against imagery. If no one disagrees with the fact there is not a consensus that importing CanVec without minimal verification is acceptable

Re: [Talk-ca] Canadian imports: good or bad?

2012-04-25 Thread Paul Norman
From: Bégin, Daniel [mailto:daniel.be...@rncan-nrcan.gc.ca] Subject: RE: [Talk-ca] Canadian imports: good or bad? Steve, Paul, I was on the impression that the consensus was more about using Canvec where it is the best available source and, when it is not, the data could be imported, but

[Talk-ca] FW: [Talk-us] City boundaries on the Canada/US border

2012-04-25 Thread Paul Norman
Whoops - forgot to include talk-ca@ in this -Original Message- From: Paul Norman [mailto:penor...@mac.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 1:50 PM To: 'Toby Murray'; talk...@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-us] City boundaries on the Canada/US border I started working my way across

Re: [Talk-us] City boundaries on the Canada/US border

2012-04-25 Thread Paul Norman
, March 30, 2012 7:51 AM To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-us] City boundaries on the Canada/US border On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 7:18 AM, Alexander Roalter alexan...@roalter.it wrote: Am 30.03.2012 11:17, schrieb Paul Norman: There are a significant number of cities in BC

[Talk-us] 25or6to4 NHD imports

2012-04-25 Thread Paul Norman
imported. Since they haven't responded, I'm asking the community for them. What should be done with this data? It could be reverted or left. The data does seem an improvement on the PGS that was there before, but I'm not a local so I don't have any strong opinion. Paul Norman For the DWG

Re: [OSM-talk] handheld gps unit

2012-04-23 Thread Paul Norman
From: Andrew Errington [mailto:a.erring...@lancaster.ac.uk] Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] handheld gps unit What about a camera with built-in GPS? That way you can make photo documentation of the progress at each site with a timestamp and geostamp[1]. Many cameras also record audio, so you

Re: [Talk-ca] OSM Publicly available WMS server?

2012-04-20 Thread Paul Norman
Websites normally use TMS for backgrounds, not WMS. WMS is generally a lot slower than TMS. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WMS might help with finding a WMS server for OSM data. To make your own WMS server you could either use a program that turns tiles to WMS or renders directly to WMS.

Re: [Talk-ca] Canadian imports: good or bad?

2012-04-17 Thread Paul Norman
From: Ian Bruseker [mailto:ian.bruse...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2012 9:31 PM To: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Canadian imports: good or bad? On 2012-04-15, at 6:37 PM, Steve Singer st...@ssinger.info wrote: I also feel that not of all data sources are

Re: [Talk-us] Excellent progress, u.s.

2012-04-16 Thread Paul Norman
From: Alan Mintz [mailto:alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net] Sent: Monday, April 16, 2012 6:18 PM To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Excellent progress, u.s. At 2012-04-16 14:06, Nathan Edgars II wrote: Or you can simply add odbl=clean if there's nothing ungood about the

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposed mechanical edit: Empty Relations

2012-04-15 Thread Paul Norman
. From: Paul Norman [mailto:penor...@mac.com] Subject: [OSM-talk] Proposed mechanical edit: Empty Relations Through editor errors or other mistakes there are a number of relations in OSM which have no members. I propose a mechanical edit to delete these where they are not members of some

Re: [Talk-ca] Canadian imports: good or bad?

2012-04-15 Thread Paul Norman
From: Richard Weait [mailto:rich...@weait.com] Subject: [Talk-ca] Canadian imports: good or bad? Dear All, Let's talk about it again. How do we feel about the bulk copying of information from a permitted source into OpenStreetMap in Canada? To be clear, I'm not suggesting that we

Re: [Talk-ca] coastline or water polygon

2012-04-14 Thread Paul Norman
From: Andrew Allison [mailto:andrew.alli...@teksavvy.com] Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2012 6:55 PM To: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org Subject: [Talk-ca] coastline or water polygon Hello: I'm removing red dots on the north coast of Nova Scotia at the moment with canvec data. The canvec data

Re: [OSM-talk] Islands that will vanish in the license change

2012-04-13 Thread Paul Norman
From: Frederik Ramm [mailto:frede...@remote.org] Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Islands that will vanish in the license change Hi, On 04/13/2012 08:14 AM, Toby Murray wrote: I downloaded all natural=coastline ways from my jxapi. Then I split the world into 4 parts to make them small enough

[OSM-talk] Proposed mechanical edit: Empty Relations

2012-04-13 Thread Paul Norman
Through editor errors or other mistakes there are a number of relations in OSM which have no members. I propose a mechanical edit to delete these where they are not members of some other way. My proposed procedure, documented at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mechanical_Edits/pnorman_imports

Re: [OSM-talk] Islands that will vanish in the license change

2012-04-13 Thread Paul Norman
From: Frederik Ramm [mailto:frede...@remote.org] Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Islands that will vanish in the license change Hi, On 04/13/12 11:00, Paul Norman wrote: This technique works well for smaller areas, but when I tried running the license check plugin on a 5 GB .osm file

Re: [Talk-ca] upcoming Canadian press coverage and your local group

2012-04-13 Thread Paul Norman
From: Richard Weait [mailto:rich...@weait.com] Subject: [Talk-ca] upcoming Canadian press coverage and your local group Dear all, I expect that OSM will be getting some press coverage in the Canadian media in the near future. This is a wonderful opportunity to launch your

Re: [OSM-talk] An example photo/video mapping trip

2012-04-11 Thread Paul Norman
I'd suggest a digital camera with an intervalometer to capture images every few seconds. Canon PowerShots with CHDK work for this. The mounts look useful but you can get similar mounts separately (e.g. http://delkin.com/c-147099-mounts-mini-mount.html) From: Colin Smale

Re: [OSM-talk] An example photo/video mapping trip

2012-04-11 Thread Paul Norman
robust once the base is properly build. Any other suggestions regarding the idea are welcome! -- Nikhil On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 2:15 AM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: The road signs, max speeds and bus stops don't take long to tag. Take the bus stop in IMG_3429.JPG as an example

Re: [OSM-talk] An example photo/video mapping trip

2012-04-10 Thread Paul Norman
will be automatically added to map with respective tags after synchronizing with gps tracks. I would request if anyone has such images/videos along with gpx file to share here as these will be helpful while developing the plugin. -- Nikhil Upadhye On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 7:11 AM, Paul Norman

Re: [Talk-us] importing bus stops

2012-04-10 Thread Paul Norman
From: Martijn van Exel [mailto:mve...@gmail.com] Subject: [Talk-us] importing bus stops Hi, Anyone here with experience importing bus stops? Any particular considerations? To make it more concrete, I have permission to import all UTA stops. They come in a shapefile similar to the one

Re: [OSM-talk] Download all OSM GPS traces

2012-04-09 Thread Paul Norman
From: Ruogu Ding [mailto:ruogu.d...@kaust.edu.sa] Subject: [OSM-talk] Download all OSM GPS traces Hi, I find a planet.gpx is being offered but with only GPS points. I understand that this is helpful, and appreciate the efforts in generating this file. However, many people (like me) need

Re: [OSM-talk] Detecting unwanted edits and vandalism

2012-04-08 Thread Paul Norman
-Original Message- From: Dmitry Terentiev [mailto:djterent...@yandex.ru] Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2012 12:16 PM To: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Detecting unwanted edits and vandalism Adam, Very often newbie to OSM start their contribution with moving object

Re: [Talk-us] Link to BadMap?

2012-04-08 Thread Paul Norman
LA area on BadMap: http://cleanmap.poole.ch/?zoom=10 http://cleanmap.poole.ch/?zoom=10lat=34lon=-118layers=00B0 lat=34lon=-118layers=00B0 From: Charlotte Wolter [mailto:techl...@techlady.com] Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2012 1:34 PM To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org Subject: [Talk-us] Link to BadMap?

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Creative-Commons 4.0 (first draft)

2012-04-07 Thread Paul Norman
From: Rob Myers [mailto:r...@robmyers.org] Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2012 10:08 AM To: legal-talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Creative-Commons 4.0 (first draft) On 04/04/2012 01:33 PM, Ed Avis wrote: I guess the number 1 requirement for CC4, from an OSM point of view,

Re: [Talk-ca] Proposed mechanical edits: GeoBase/CanVec Service Surface and GeoBase/CanVec name spaces

2012-04-06 Thread Paul Norman
Since no one has objected (or commented) I'll go ahead with this if I can get it in before the rebuild starts. -Original Message- From: Paul Norman [mailto:penor...@mac.com] Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2012 12:04 AM To: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Proposed

Re: [OSM-talk] server migration update / license change

2012-04-05 Thread Paul Norman
From: Richard Weait [mailto:rich...@weait.com] Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] server migration update / license change On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 2:49 PM, ThomasB toba0...@yahoo.de wrote: Thanks a lot for the Update, Richard. It is much appreciated that the information flow works. I have a

Re: [OSM-talk] server migration update / license change

2012-04-05 Thread Paul Norman
From: Richard Weait [mailto:rich...@weait.com] Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] server migration update / license change On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: If the tiles are not regenerated then they will contain elements that are licensed as cc by-sa only. Old

Re: [OSM-talk] Coastline Update

2012-04-04 Thread Paul Norman
of their locations -Original Message- From: ThomasB [mailto:toba0...@yahoo.de] Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2012 7:01 AM To: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Coastline Update Hi Paul, do you plan another update? Regards Thomas Paul Norman wrote I have completed another

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