Re: [OSM-talk-fr] Imports du cadastre et compte dédié

2012-09-25 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Christian Quest a écrit: Ce n'est effectivement pas très diplomatique de la part de Pieren, mais ce n'est pas plus diplomatique de la part du DWG d'auto-proclamer des règles sans discussion préalable et de bloquer des comptes pour la seule raison qu'on ne prend pas en compte leurs

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] Imports du cadastre et compte dédié

2012-09-25 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Christian Quest a écrit: Il faut prendre en compte l'aspect très peu pratique et l'utilité très très limitée de ce compte dédié pour les imports faits de façon parcellaire comme c'est le cas pour le cadastre, mais aussi pour beaucoup d'import de données opendata comme nous le faisons

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] Imports du cadastre et compte dédié

2012-09-25 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Jean-Marc Liotier a écrit: Ok - alors peut-être qu'une limite explicite pour la dimension d'un changeset serait intéressante pour apporter une discrimination objective entre import mineur et import massif. Un peu comme http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2012-September/064482.html

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] Imports du cadastre et compte dédié

2012-09-25 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Christian Quest a écrit: Si je comprends bien, cette proposition permettra le blocage si l'on n'utilise pas de compte dédié, et permettra aussi le blocage si on ne met pas les bons tags dans le changeset... de mieux en mieux ! Oh for goodness' sake, Christian. There are two opposing

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] Imports du cadastre et compte dédié

2012-09-25 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Christian Quest a écrit: J'ai proposé sur talk@ d'utiliser les tags, mais sans le compte dédié qui n'a plus d'intérêt avec les tags. Rendre les deux obligatoires ce n'est vraiment pas aller vers un compromis mais rajouter une couche dobligation supplémentaire. Ah, non, tu n'as pas

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] Imports du cadastre et compte dédié

2012-09-25 Thread Richard Fairhurst
RÉAU Simon a écrit: S'il te plaît Richard pourrait tu écrire en français sur la liste française. J'essaie, oui, mais mon français n'est pas très bon. Ma première petite amie était française et en ce temps-là je pouvais parler français assez bien... mais c'était 1992, et maintenant, 2012, je

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] Imports du cadastre et compte dédié

2012-09-25 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Christian Quest a écrit: Un import de bâti de plus de 2 nodes est-il concerné ? Quand je lis ta proposition, c'est oui, ou alors il faut que je retourne en cours d'anglais. Alors, si tu penses pas 20,000 mais 200,000, dites ça sur la liste talk@! Richard -- View this message in

[OSM-talk] Can you translate the Legal FAQ?

2012-09-24 Thread Richard Fairhurst
All the translations of http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Legal_FAQ are currently out-of-date and refer to the CC-BY-SA, with the exception of the Japanese one (at least I think so... :) ). This is a page that people often refer to for their can I do this...? answers. So if you have the

Re: [OSM-talk] [possibly OT] Apples IOS 6 Maps and the response

2012-09-22 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: Didn't find a hint for osm data in it so far. It certainly isn't OSM in US, UK etc. But I've seen a screenshot of iOS Maps in Islamabad that looks very very much like OSM data. cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

[OSM-talk] If you're on Twitter

2012-09-20 Thread Richard Fairhurst
...you might like to retweet this: http://twitter.com/openstreetmap/status/248759285801185281 :) cheers Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] La fondation knight attribue 575 000 $ pour l'amélioration de l'infrastructure OpenStreetMap

2012-09-20 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Nicolas Dumoulin a écrit: 1. un éditeur facile et performant. Il parle de partir de potlach, dommage j'aurai préféré la solution javascript en développement. Tu as vu iD (http://www.geowiki.com/) ? Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-19 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Pieren wrote: The one who never made a mistake in JOSM can be the first to throw a stone. *waves* cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Import-guidelines-OSMF-DWG-governance-tp5725810p5726047.html Sent from the General Discussion mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-19 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Christian Quest wrote: As you're joining this topic, can you explain why you changed the guidelines in the wiki to make the dedicated account a requirement and not a recommendation anymore ? As a few people have already said (Michael, Frederik, Simon etc.) this was basically codifying

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines proposal update

2012-09-19 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: I believe that dedicated accounts are generally better for imports than using mixed ones which are also used for original data. This really helps a lot in sorting data according to its intellectual properties holders. Yes, absolutely. The really obvious example

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines proposal update

2012-09-19 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Pieren wrote: I thought that such issue is not possible anymore with ODbl. No, the Contributor Terms simply say You are indicating that, as far as You know, You have the right to authorize OSMF to use and distribute those Contents under our current licence terms (1a). If the licence changes to

Re: [Talk-GB] SotM 2013

2012-09-13 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Nick Whitelegg wrote: Thirded because it's close to me. All the suggestions so far sound great, but having a keen volunteer team is absolutely crucial to the success of an event like this. So if there are three people raring to go with a Guildford event (and maybe some of the London people might

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Mapnik attribution

2012-09-12 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Shu Higashi wrote: Map data (c) ODbL 1.0 OpenStreetMap contributors and Map tile (c) CC BY-SA 2.0 OpenStreetMap That would be fine, but you could also do: (c) OpenStreetMap contributors: license where license is hyperlinked to http://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright cheers Richard --

[OSM-talk] Licence change

2012-09-12 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Hello all, If you go to: http://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright you might notice a slight difference. :) OSM data downloaded after 9am today is now licensed under the Open Database Licence. The first ODbL-licensed planet.osm file is currently being generated. These pages summarise

[Talk-GB] SotM 2013

2012-09-12 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Hello all, This is just a little heads-up, nothing more. Before too long it'll be time for OSMF to start soliciting bids to host the State of the Map conference next year. This year was of course Tokyo, and last year Denver. So it might seem sensible that it returns to Europe for 2013 - and

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] Modération de la liste talk-fr [Etait : Potlatch, utilisable avec le cadastre ?]

2012-09-11 Thread Richard Fairhurst
verdy_p a écrit: Pour revenir au sujet, si Potlatch était développé sans Flash, en HTML5+Javascript, il serait plus viable à long terme. Si Flash est en fin de vie, Potlatch 2 aussi est condamné à disparaître dans sa version actuelle. Il est peut-être temps d'envisager Potlatch 3...

Re: [OSM-talk] Shoud OSM Help move to Stackexchange community?

2012-09-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Mike wrote: One thing that always bothered me on OSM is that for every new section of the OSM I had to open new account. That is ridiculous. You don't. Honest. We just have two logins: the main login, and the wiki. trac.osm.org, help.osm.org, and forum.osm.org all use the main login. cheers

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] Potlatch, utilisable avec le cadastre ? [Etait : Potlatch, mauvais outil ?]

2012-09-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Pieren a écrit: You can find more details about the special WMS protocol on the wiki (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/ WikiProject_Cadastre_Fran%C3%A7ais/Aspects_techniques_du_cadastre_en_ligne). I could expand it with the details about how to retrieve CODE field (the municipality ID

Re: [Talk-us] how to select overlapping objects in Potlatch 2?

2012-09-07 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Peter Dobratz wrote: Looking at the area in Potlatch 2, I can't figure out a way to select just one of the overlapping objects Select the shared node, press / . It'll select the other way. (If there are several sharing the node, keep pressing / until you get to the one you want.) cheers

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] Potlatch, utilisable avec le cadastre ? [Etait : Potlatch, mauvais outil ?]

2012-09-06 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Pieren a écrit: Ces deux points nécessitent du développement assez conséquent Je serai heureux d'ajouter réprojection Lambert-spherical Mercator à Potlatch 2. L'accès aux images avec cookie sera moins facile, mais on peut créer un proxy cadastre_tools (sur dev.osm.org peut-être).

Re: [Talk-us] Announcing Remap-a-tron

2012-09-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Martijn van Exel wrote: Let me know if it's useful / how it can be improved. Very very nice indeed. If someone could figure out a JavaScripty way to tell a currently-open Potlatch instance to jump to this location, rather than firing up a new instance each time, that'd be great. I'll happily do

Re: [OSM-talk] horrible job in gjilan,kosovo

2012-08-22 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Peteris Krisjanis wrote: I'm not the person who can fix this, but can you be more precise why do you think this is error from rectration bot? Do you claim that license of data were ok? Some of Mike's imports may have had compatible licences. However, as he says at

Re: [Talk-GB] Footway to Sidewalk?

2012-08-21 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Tom Chance wrote: I see Peter Ito has made some changes to tighten up this policy (surely guidance?) It's a policy of the OSMF Data Working Group. I made the clarifications, not Peter. Richard -- View this message in context:

[Talk-GB] Cycle routes - please document your relations!

2012-08-18 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Hi all, There is a very useful wiki page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_United_Kingdom_National_Cycle_Network/National_Routes which documents ids for each route relation on the NCN. Please use it! Before creating an NCN relation, check if one exists already; and after you've

Re: [Talk-GB] Cycle routes - please document your relations!

2012-08-18 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Graham Stewart wrote: - Should ALL NCN route relations be in this table Yes. I don't think we're at any risk of out-boggling Map Features quite yet. ;) - Does the 1x, 2x, 3x etc numbering system still apply? Yes. It's just that there's now also 1xx, 2xx, 3xx etc. The Sustrans numbering system

Re: [Talk-GB] Potential Vandalism - AGAIN

2012-08-18 Thread Richard Fairhurst
David Groom wrote: Can we get this reverted and block his account Dreedled. cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Potential-Vandalism-tp5720594p5721082.html Sent from the Great Britain mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: [Talk-us] Another random road reclassification

2012-08-15 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Richard Weait wrote: http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/expressway expressway=yes, seems to be a fringe tag at best. I believe our German friends use motorroad=yes for this. cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [Talk-us] Another random road reclassification

2012-08-15 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Paul Johnson wrote: Not quite. American expressways sometimes, but not always, have driveways, tracks and service roads connecting, German motorroads don't. Oh, sure. But you don't need me to tell you that slight national variations in the exact meaning of OSM highway tagging are nothing

[OSM-talk] New Potlatch feature to aid remapping

2012-07-29 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Hi all, I've added a small feature to Potlatch 2 which should be generally useful but will particularly help in remapping. When you've selected a way, you can now add intermediate points just by shift-clicking a blank area. P2 will work out where to put the node in the way, and do it.

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

2012-07-29 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Bryce Nesbitt wrote: I rather think the non-responders could have been a separate category, and their data could have been kept. Doesn't fly legally, sadly. You can't say I'm ignoring any rights on this item just because the rights-holder hasn't responded to my e-mails. That said, I did

Re: [OSM-talk] Very Happy - Looking forward

2012-07-24 Thread Richard Fairhurst
vegard wrote: What about editor facebook support for editors? :) No, I'm actually serious - Vegard Engen mapped insert changeset comment here, near . ? Potlatch 1 actually did that with Twitter. But then Twitter started requiring OAuth and I really couldn't be bothered to code an OAuth

Re: [OSM-talk] ODbL Attribution

2012-07-23 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Jochen123 wrote: In preparation for the release of an ODbL-Licensed planet I have been looking around what the official proper attribution will be, so that I can update all sites where I am using OSM data. I didn't find anything on the Wiki. A couple of months back I wrote

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] Revert de changesets pour vandalisme ?

2012-07-23 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Jo a écrit: Maetma, Je n'ai pas réussi de restaurer ce changeset: 12394958 http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/12394958 Je l'ai fait: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/12447296 J'ai trouvé Maetma trés impoli sur trac.openstreetmap.org, alors cette vandalisme ne m'étonne

Re: [Talk-us] LA part of the map essentially is unusable

2012-07-20 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Charlotte Wolter wrote: Got it. Thanks for the explanation. So, how do I load shapefiles into a separate layer? I need someone to walk me through it. How would I do that, if I wanted to get things like street names (and the other TIGER data)? I'll post a how-to at the start

[OSM-talk] Redaction progress

2012-07-19 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Current state of affairs: - North America is mostly complete. The bot is still working in Los Angeles and Victoria (Canada). There are one or two failed or incomplete areas which are marked in red on the progress map; these are being retried individually. Haiti/Dominican Republic has been

[OSM-talk] Further redaction update

2012-07-19 Thread Richard Fairhurst
The global pass has now started. The redaction bot is at 180° longitude and working east. The North Pole, South Pole and Poland have been exempted from this pass and won't be redacted until Tuesday at the earliest. cheers Richard ___ talk mailing

[Talk-us] Redaction progress

2012-07-19 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Current state of affairs: - North America is mostly complete. The bot is still working in Los Angeles and Victoria (Canada). There are one or two failed or incomplete areas which are marked in red on the progress map; these are being retried individually. Haiti/Dominican Republic has been

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

2012-07-19 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Toby Murray wrote: The good news is that TIGER data is still available to help in remapping. The TIGER 2011 tiles were recently discussed on this mailing list: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/TIGER_2011 Indeed: and Ian, Andy and I have this afternoon briefly discussed making this

Re: [Talk-us] Post bot cleanup

2012-07-19 Thread Richard Fairhurst
jerjozwik wrote:  is anyone else noticing some ways have a name, a one way direction, some other info, but no highway tag. so they dont actually render in potlatch 2. the only reason i noticed them way due to the oneway arrows being drawn on top of the satellite image. Everything's

Re: [Talk-us] LA part of the map essentially is unusable

2012-07-19 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Charlotte Wolter wrote: So, are you volunteering? Anyone else? I spent a couple of hours this morning reworking the P2 source code so that it can load the entire TIGER 2011 road files for LA County in one go without crashing. So yeah, that counts as volunteering to fix it in a way, I think. :)

Re: [Talk-us] LA part of the map essentially is unusable

2012-07-19 Thread Richard Fairhurst
On 19/07/2012 23:58, Charlotte Wolter wrote: Richard, I spent a couple of hours this morning reworking the P2 source code so that it can load the entire TIGER 2011 road files for LA County in one go without crashing. That's great, but will it overwrite work that we've already done? Also, is

Re: [OSM-talk] Update on redaction bot and minutely diffs

2012-07-16 Thread Richard Fairhurst
NopMap wrote: It's good that most of Britain has been processed, but it appears that the two areas containing London have failed repeatedly. As they probably contain the most complex data and highest density, I think they are critical and if they cannot be processed I'd expect the bot to

[OSM-talk] Redaction progress

2012-07-15 Thread Richard Fairhurst
[posted to talk-gb@, announce@ and talk@; please choose follow-ups carefully; please also translate and forward to your local mailing list if relevant] The redaction bot has started on the 'Western Europe' area. Because continents are annoyingly not shaped like rectangles, this inevitably

[Talk-GB] Redaction progress

2012-07-15 Thread Richard Fairhurst
[posted to talk-gb@, announce@ and talk@; please choose follow-ups carefully; please also translate and forward to your local mailing list if relevant] The redaction bot has started on the 'Western Europe' area. Because continents are annoyingly not shaped like rectangles, this inevitably

Re: [Talk-GB] Redaction progress

2012-07-15 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Andrew wrote: Has redaction failed in London and Surrey? I was hoping to clean up afterwards. Failed first time round but is now being re-run. Keep an eye on Harry's site and it should let you know when things are ready. cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

[OSM-talk] Building a friendly new editor in JavaScript

2012-07-13 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Hi all, Potlatch is five years old and JOSM is over six years old. Scary, isn't it? Lots has changed in those five years. Browsers now do natively things that used to require a plugin - indeed, you might not even have the plugin anymore. OSM's changed, too, from a little-known geek project to

Re: [OSM-talk] Redaction process is hogging up the tile rendering

2012-07-12 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Roland Olbricht wrote: This is not a problem of the rendering server backlog. It is a problem of the minute diff generation. ...which has now been fixed. :) cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-talk] Redaction process is hogging up the tile rendering

2012-07-12 Thread Richard Fairhurst
On 12/07/2012 14:24, Roland Olbricht wrote: Thank you very much. Now it works fine, great work. Thank Andy, Tom and Frederik. I'm just the messenger! cheers Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

[Talk-GB] Redaction progress

2012-07-12 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Hi all, After a couple of delays earlier today caused by technical issues (with the setup, not with data integrity), the redaction bot is now running smoothly, has completed its run across Ireland, and is starting on Great Britain. You can follow edits here:

Re: [Talk-us] railway=abandoned and mapping things that are not there any more?

2012-07-12 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Peter Dobratz wrote: I'm trying to get a better understanding of the railway=abandoned tag and see what the community thinks about it. FWIW there's been a similar discussion on talk-gb recently. The consensus seems to be railway=abandoned for railways where there's still some physical trace

Re: [Talk-us] railway=abandoned and mapping things that are not there any more?

2012-07-12 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Mike N. wrote: So they are present, and don't hurt anything. None of the 'standard maps' will bother to render them. A railway map could use them if it needed to. I delete them if they go through current buildings or parking lots also. Yes, that's a sensible attitude. I think it's also

[OSM-talk] Redaction underway

2012-07-11 Thread Richard Fairhurst
[posted to talk-ie@, announce@ and talk@; follow-ups to talk@ unless Ireland-specific] Hello all, The redaction process is now underway with Ireland as planned. Further updates will be posted to relevant lists as and when each phase starts and ends: - to talk-ie@ and talk-gb@ when Ireland

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: [OSM-dev] Licence redaction ready to begin

2012-07-11 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: I have been informed that I have no clue Actually the phrase I used was that Frederik clearly knows as much about Potlatch as I do about JOSM. (But I suspect more.) cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [Talk-ca] Creating a relation

2012-07-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
James Ewen wrote: What would be making it impossible to create a lake with two islands with Potlatch2? In that example, the outer way isn't closed. If you close the outer way (i.e. same node at the start and end) then it'll work fine. cheers Richard

Re: [Talk-GB] Licence redaction ready to begin

2012-07-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ed Loach wrote: Does later this week suggest that we have some idea of how long the bot will take, and there is a rough estimate of when IE and GB will be completed? We are expecting the bot to take around a month for the whole world, but there are so many variables it's impossible to say.

[OSM-talk] Licence redaction ready to begin

2012-07-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Hello all, I'm pleased to announce that the licence change bot is ready to get underway. Starting this week, we will be 'redacting' the contributions (less than 1%) from the live database that are not compatible with the new Contributor Terms and Open Database Licence (ODbL) - in other

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

2012-07-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
We are expecting to begin on _Wednesday_ (9th July) 11th July. You knew what I meant really. :) Yours in a state of temporary temporal confusion Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk-ie] Licence redaction ready to begin

2012-07-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Hello all, This is a special heads-up to the British and Irish mailing lists that the licence change bot is ready to get underway, starting in our areas. Starting this week, we will be 'redacting' the contributions (less than 1%) from the live database that are not compatible with the new

Re: [Talk-ca] [talk-ca] Merging ways

2012-07-05 Thread Richard Fairhurst
James Ewen wrote: So, do dig up an old thread again... is there a way to merge adjoining areas in Potlatch yet? I got a great answer from Adam Dunn on using the JOSM join ways feature. I'd like to be able to do this in Potlatch as it is annoying to have to switch to another editor just to be

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER 2011 Data

2012-07-05 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Evin Fairchild wrote: I click the down-arrow next to where it says background, and then click Vector file. The http://a.tile.openstreetmap.us/tiger2011_roads/$z/$x/$y.png isn't a vector background, it's a standard tiled imagery background. You add these just by clicking 'Add' at the bottom of

[Talk-ca] Canvec in Potlatch 2

2012-07-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Hello talk-ca people, I've made a little change to Potlatch 2 that will ease the process of loading Canvec data. Potlatch's approach is very much here is some data that you can use to help your mapping, rather than here is some data you can upload in bulk, and the idea is that you load the

Re: [Talk-GB] railway:historic = rail tags

2012-07-02 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Peter Miller wrote:  I started using railway:historic=xxx in place of railway=dismantled for cycletracks etc in response to a comment through OSM messaging that one editor had found it confusing to suddenly have cyclepaths being rendered as railways in Potlatch due the railway=xxx tag

Re: [OSM-talk] How to move Potlatch map to specific coordinates whilst editing (without zooming out)?

2012-06-29 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Spod wrote: Is there any way to move the map to a specific coordinates whilst editing in Potlatch and stay at the same zoom level? You can use Potlatch's own search function - the little magnifying glass below the +/- zoom icons. It doesn't have any specific co-ordinate handling (I guess we

Re: [OSM-talk] Icons

2012-06-28 Thread Richard Fairhurst
john whelan wrote: Could someone or a group come up with a more standard set of icons please? http://sjjb.co.uk/mapicons/ Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Icons-tp5714357p5714433.html Sent from the General Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM use around Nailsworth

2012-06-28 Thread Richard Fairhurst
ael-3 wrote: KMS is already using our maps in Oxfordshire. Excellent. FWIW there is a local list for Oxfordshire and the Cotswolds: talk-gb-oxoncotswolds cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/OSM-use-around-Nailsworth-tp5714442p5714456.html Sent

[OSM-talk] New Bing imagery blog post

2012-06-25 Thread Richard Fairhurst
http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/maps/archive/2012/06/25/released-our-largest-satellite-publication.aspx cheers Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [Rebuild] Progress update

2012-06-21 Thread Richard Fairhurst
[followups set to legal-talk, but you may want to adjust to talk-us if focusing on LA etc.] On 21/06/2012 17:57, Alan Mintz wrote: Richard wrote: ...Given people's constraints on time and the community's (understandable) desire for the redaction to get underway asap... I've seen no such

Re: [OSM-talk] [Rebuild] Progress update

2012-06-21 Thread Richard Fairhurst
[followups set to legal-talk, but you may want to adjust to talk-us if focusing on LA etc.] On 21/06/2012 17:57, Alan Mintz wrote: Richard wrote: ...Given people's constraints on time and the community's (understandable) desire for the redaction to get underway asap... I've seen no such

Re: [Talk-GB] England Cycling Data project: DfT cycling data now available for merging

2012-06-21 Thread Richard Fairhurst
David Earl wrote:  quite why they didn't renumber the continuation of this road to Peterborough also A45 I don't know - it remains A605 Curiously they did - and then changed their mind. For several years there was new signage saying A45 underneath but with an A605 patch on the top. But the

Re: [Talk-GB] England Cycling Data project: DfT cycling data now available for merging

2012-06-20 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Andy Robinson wrote: Basically any route to or deprecated braid should have a bracketed number, though in many locations this may not have happened yet. There's a slight tagging ambiguity when a link route connects two numbered routes, of course: often these will be signed as, say, '(5)' in

Re: [Talk-GB] PRoW Ref tagging when ROW is also a road

2012-06-19 Thread Richard Fairhurst
David Groom wrote: However at the north end there is a (newly erected) public footpath sign showing a footpath ref of B64, pointing straight down this road, and the definitive map shows this as a footpath. I use admin:ref for refs that are predominantly intended for administrative usage,

Re: [Talk-GB] PRoW Ref tagging when ROW is also a road

2012-06-19 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Gregory wrote: On 19 June 2012 14:07, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: I use admin:ref for refs that are predominantly intended for administrative usage, rather than public-facing usage. Now that sounds like tagging for the renderer. How dare you! :p In road terms

[Talk-GB] streetmap.co.uk

2012-06-18 Thread Richard Fairhurst
www.streetmap.co.uk - one of the two first UK mapping sites (along with Multimap) - has started using OSM. Their 1:5k layer is now OSM-based outside London, where they still use A-Z. Custom cartography in quite an A-Z-like style! cheers Richard

Re: [Talk-us] Special issues in LA remap

2012-06-15 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Steve All wrote: Now, when and how will this bot run? Over the entire planet.osm? In something like one-degree of latitude at a time swaths? (That's just a guess). Can you sense my frustration when I feel like I should be able to just go and find these things out (maybe in a big,

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines review

2012-06-11 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Russ Nelson wrote: I think that the people who wish that the USA had been mapped just like Europe have NO IDEA how big the USA is, nor how empty it is. True enough, but then, I often think that the people who scoff at the people who wish that the USA had been mapped just like Europe and who

Re: [Talk-GB] Hampshire Rights of Way Data released under OS OpenData licence

2012-05-31 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Nick Whitelegg wrote: Some good news! As from yesterday, Hampshire County Council have released their Rights of Way data under the OS OpenData licence. \o/ If so, I'd imagine what we need to do is: - convert this data to .osm files with OSM tagging, and - manually (not automatically!)

Re: [OSM-talk] TomTom is thumping us

2012-05-29 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Nick Whitelegg wrote: Whatever. I've certainly seen footpaths classified as roads in commercial online maps for instance. It's basically a misreading of how OSM data works. Essentially they're saying that the fact we use the highway=track tag means OMG OSM MISCLASSIFIES FOREST TRACKS AS

Re: [Talk-GB] Admin Boundaries and OS OpenData BoundaryLine

2012-05-29 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Colin Smale wrote: My questions to the community: 1) Would a bulk upload of any or all of this data be interesting? I think uploading the files somewhere for people to use would certainly be interesting, yes. You could find some webspace and upload (say) leicestershire.osm and cumbria.osm and

Re: [Talk-GB] Admin Boundaries and OS OpenData BoundaryLine

2012-05-29 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Colin Smale wrote: I realise I probably caused some confusion by using the words bulk upload when I really intended bulk import. Sorry about that... I was thinking about a way of getting all the data into OSM without having to do too much manual work. That won't really fly, I'm afraid -

Re: [OSM-talk] Import of buildings in Chicago

2012-05-28 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ian Dees wrote: Worst Fixer wrote: It is absent from following web page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalogue There are dozens of imports absent from the Import Catalog. If you'd like to add it to the catalog, be my guest. Without wanting to validate Worst Fixer (though I'm

Re: [Talk-GB] National Rail as a brand (was: Bulk railway station changes)

2012-05-23 Thread Richard Fairhurst
AJ Ashton wrote: So what I'm wondering is, could 'brand=National Rail' be an appropriate tag for stations that would be marked with the double arrow in signs, etc? That seems good in a tag what's on the ground fashion, and more appropriate than network=. Two particular cases I'm unsure

Re: [OSM-talk] Cycleways and Access tags: Left, Right, Forward, Backward?

2012-05-18 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: simply draw cycleways with separate carriageways like any other highway with its own way in OSM and you resolve lots of issues, including distinct surfaces and restrictions. Yes. Absolutely that. Things like cycleway=track were a hack back in the day when we only

Re: [Talk-GB] Bulk railway station changes

2012-05-16 Thread Richard Fairhurst
AJ Ashton wrote: We've found that the lack of familiar London Underground and National Rail icons is a particularly strong sticking point with people who would otherwise happily switch to OSM, which is partly why we chose to focus on it. Absolutely. It does look really good. :) I guess

Re: [Talk-us] U.S. inland waterways

2012-05-16 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Nathan Edgars II wrote: I'm trying to do something like the European tagging: http://www.itoworld.com/map/24 But there they have some sort of international treaty that defines configurations. (puts day-job hat on) For users of a waterway, the European (CEMT) waterway classes describe,

[Talk-GB] Bulk railway station changes

2012-05-15 Thread Richard Fairhurst
SomeoneElse on IRC noticed a big heap of debatable bulk changes to station nodes in the UK, seemingly made by people outside the UK and using Wikipedia as a source. I've reverted these (well, actually, at the time of writing the revert is running!). If the users would like to discuss the

Re: [Talk-GB] Bulk railway station changes

2012-05-15 Thread Richard Fairhurst
I wrote: SomeoneElse on IRC noticed a big heap of debatable bulk changes to station nodes in the UK Someone else (not SomeoneElse... hell this is confusing) has pointed me, off-list, to this: http://mapbox.com/blog/improved-british-rail-icons/ which obviously looks cool. I guess this is

[Talk-GB] Anyone near Bury?

2012-05-13 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Here's a new viaduct that needs mapping! http://www.bury.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=7579 http://www.sustrans.org.uk/what-we-do/connect2/schemes/north-west/bury-the-woolford-gap cheers Richard ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

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

2012-05-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Richard Mann wrote: My point is that tagging should allow both types of routes to be recorded We tag what's on the ground, whether it's route signage, cycle-specific infrastructure, or a giant woolly mammoth (http://url.ie/f9ts). Are you suggesting a deviation from that? cheers Richard --

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

2012-05-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Richard Mann wrote: You'd have to ask the City of Utrecht whether their main cycle routes are signed. Well, ok, I wasn't really asking what I'd have to ask, more what your point is. :) If the routes are signed, that's good. If there are measurements that can be tagged in OSM (vehicles per

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

2012-04-27 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Someoneelse wrote: Regardless of the perhaps the map shouldn't render unknown things just because of name=blah issue, I'd argue that metadata such as this really doesn't belong in OSM. Agreed. OSM is not the world's sole repository of co-ordinate data, and nor should it be. This would be

Re: [OSM-talk] Licence status in Potlatch2, and data deletion?

2012-04-26 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Steve Bennett wrote: The show licence status in Potlatch2 is no longer working for me. Works fine for me. You might just have hit a temporary WTFE outage. Also, could we have an update on what is happening with data deletion? Henk has just posted

Re: [OSM-talk] Licence status in Potlatch2, and data deletion?

2012-04-26 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Steve Bennett wrote: It's been like this for at least a week for me, I think. Can you definitely see licence info in, say, Melbourne? I see no red outlines, and no no/partial etc above the advanced editor. Presume that's Melbourne, Australia rather than the nice little Derbyshire town ten

Re: [OSM-talk] Geofabrik downloads post-licence-change

2012-04-12 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Stefan Keller wrote: Am I right that there are currently no updates available since April 9th at /osm/ and there doesn't exist the new /openstreetmap/ directory neither because we are waiting for the OSM board's approval of the new license? No, it's nothing to do with OSM(F) board

[Talk-GB] Trunk, primary and secondary roads...

2012-04-12 Thread Richard Fairhurst
All safe. :) Compare and contrast our German friends: http://odbl.poole.ch/de_south_major_and_secondary_roads.txt http://odbl.poole.ch/de_north_major_and_secondary_roads.txt Obviously this is only the ways themselves, not the constituent nodes, so if you have the time to browse OSMI and look

Re: [Talk-GB] Trunk, primary and secondary roads...

2012-04-12 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Andrew wrote: Time for a list of tertiary roads? My personal preference would be to move to area-based remapping in the limited time available. Choose somewhere and fix it up. Tertiary roads often really only make sense within a local context, especially given that some people are IMHO rather

Re: [Talk-GB] Southwest Coast Path (relation) has mostly disappeared.

2012-04-05 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Jason Cunningham wrote: Last nights check showed almost the entire route has gone! :( Disturbingly I've been mapping around Brixham for the last six months and I'm therefore concerned I may have done the dirty deed. No, you didn't. It appears to have been deleted by user Sailor Steve

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