Re: [OSM-talk] YOURS now supports route using only cycleroutes -Update

2008-09-30 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ed Loach wrote: Or perhaps someone should write a OneWayBot to change all oneway=true tags to oneway=yes? And perhaps all the -1s could be yes as well -1 isn't the same as yes. -1 means one way in the opposite direction from the way. It's largely a hangover from the days of segments when

Re: [OSM-talk] YOURS now supports route using only cycleroutes -Update

2008-09-30 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Dave Stubbs wrote: with 1 hit each for 0, south, ?, west, +1, Yes, and BAN POTLATCH!!1!3: -1; 1, true; yes Apparently these days people actually cause tag conflicts just to see the cute little floating alert and hear the beep sound. cheers Richard

Re: [OSM-talk] Code of conduct for automated (mass-) edits

2008-09-30 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Hendrik T. Voelker wrote: Granted, that might limit the development to Java programmers but hey, if you know one iterative language, you can easily learn another. I can't be the only person on this list spluttering in disbelief at this. Absolutely no way. At all. Hey, I don't even know what

Re: [OSM-talk] map display www.openstreetmap.org

2008-10-01 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: You can also use www.informationfreeway.org which gives you the mouse pointer lat/lon in the bottom right corner. Or (magic keypress alert) you can click 'Edit' to open Potlatch, move your pointer to the right place, and press L. cheers Richard

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Cloudmade

2008-10-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Adrian wrote: Hopefully someone here can explain this for me. I'll try! The legal FAQ says that derived data products (that are distributed) must be made available under the terms of the licence - I interpret that to mean for free, am I badly wrong? You are. The licence, like all open

[OSM-talk] Zoom level 12 on Potlatch

2008-10-07 Thread Richard Fairhurst
I'm thinking of disabling zoom level 12 in Potlatch, to reduce load on the server. It's probably too far zoomed out to be able to do any useful editing anyway. Low-res (Landsat) Yahoo kicks in at level 13 so you'd still be able to access this. Would anyone's editing be inconvenienced by

[OSM-legal-talk] Derived work fun

2008-10-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
http://www.edparsons.com/2008/10/who-map-is-it-anyway/ cheers Richard ___ legal-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-talk] ping OpenAerialMap

2008-10-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Martijn van Exel wrote: Christiano -- Thanks for that. My guess would be that using the WMS in an OAM-external environment would actually violate the recommendation to use the i-cubed dataset only within OAM. My take on it would be that, as long as there's still uncertainty as to licensing,

Re: [OSM-talk] map display www.openstreetmap.org

2008-10-11 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Matthias Julius wrote: I could imagine that a significant sub-set of users are interested in this, especially of those users that care about OSM right now. Why not do something different that OS, Google and Co.? Absolutely - do something different. But make the most of the freedom - do it

Re: [OSM-talk] When does Potlatch upload?

2008-10-11 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ben Laenen wrote: just a little question about recent Potlatch versions: I've noticed that from time to time changes are uploaded while objects are still selected. I remember that it used to be that it only uploaded changes on deselecting. If it's changed, that's a bug, steps to reproduce

Re: [OSM-talk] When does Potlatch upload?

2008-10-12 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ben Laenen wrote: Well, it only starts happening when I've done quite a lot of mapping, so pinpointing the exact trigger for it is difficult... I can only tell that it happens regularly after mapping for a while. Got it, I think; will be fixed in 0.11e (trac #1256). cheers Richard

Re: [OSM-talk] More vandalism

2008-10-13 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Nic Roets wrote: Or change potlatch so that it will not delete or modify objects last edited by other users. Then it would at least be easy to delete anything they did. Tell you what, let's completely ban all editors - that'll eliminate the risk of vandalism. Richard

Re: [OSM-talk] More vandalism

2008-10-13 Thread Richard Fairhurst
vegard wrote: Like it or not, potlach *is* the source of quite a bit of accidental vandalism. It's easy to use for beginners, but they will *not* understand the implications of what they are doing. The sanbox helped a lot, but obviously not enough. I believe you need some sort of online

Re: [OSM-talk] More vandalism

2008-10-13 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Nic Roets wrote: Ban the talk-list, so that we stop tagging the bikeshed and start contributing. Superb idea. I was actually doing some stuff on Potlatch 1.0 before this bloody thread distracted me. :( Richard ___ talk mailing list

[OSM-talk] Gnash works with Potlatch

2008-10-14 Thread Richard Fairhurst
If you use a Linux system and would prefer not to use the Adobe Flash Player, you can now use Gnash - the GPL-licensed SWF player - to run Potlatch. http://freshmeat.net/projects/gnash/?branch_id=64471release_id=286570 Full credit to the Gnash devs who have done an outstanding job here.

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-newbies] GPS Trace ownership

2008-10-15 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Moved from newbies@ to talk@, followups to [EMAIL PROTECTED] James Ewen wrote: In this part of the world, the best way I have found to collect road data is to drive the road, convert the track to locked ways, cut the track into small segments that Potlatch will convert, tie them all back

Re: [OSM-talk] Gnash works with Potlatch

2008-10-15 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: I just tried to compile 0.8.4 and found it to be completely unusable for potlatch, the cursor seemed to update once every few seconds making it hard to select anything, I was unable to edit keys and the potlatch user interface had all the wrong dimensions or was

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Starting Repository For Public Domain OSM Data

2008-10-15 Thread Richard Fairhurst
spaetz wrote: check the wiki, there are a few people that have the I release my data as PD template on their user pages. I would expect the biggest problem is that existing data is likely to be tainted by the OSM license if anybody not on that list ever modified it significantly

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licence brief/Use Case - final call forcomments

2008-10-15 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Peter Miller wrote: I am basing my response of the Brief, not the current draft of ODBL (they are not that different except in the definition of a Derivative DB), however it would be my understanding that if you combined the OSM DB (unaltered) with another data-source (the PD one you refer

Re: [OSM-talk] Recommendations for a new GPS Device?

2008-10-16 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Andrew Williams wrote: I've been using my old N95 for a while now to get my GPS traces, but unfortunatly it's decided to finally give up. So, i'm in the market for a new GPS device. I'd preferebly like a standalone device Someone is bound to say eTrex Legend HCx so let me be the first.

Re: [OSM-talk] POI by coordinates

2008-10-16 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Gustav Foseid wrote: Is really placing a POI based on knowledge gained from other maps, anywhere near copying? Entering knowledge gained from other maps is copying, yes. Of course, one can, and ideally one should, take a liberal view and say that expansionist views of copyright are insane

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licence brief/Use Case - final call forcomments

2008-10-16 Thread Richard Fairhurst
MJ Ray wrote: I won't because I don't want yet another bloody website password. I'm already scared of the amount of stuff I'll lose if my browser password store goes titsup. Isn't there an OpenID MediaWiki plugin? cf http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/OSM_AuthPlugin , in progress

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Paid services from OSM

2008-10-16 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Jonathan Harley wrote: Frederik Ramm wrote: Richard Fairhurst wrote: It only says you must also _offer_ to recipients (my emphasis), not you must provide in case anyone wants it - it's like the GPL in that regard. So you don't have to upload a new dump of the whole derivative db (or a diff

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] POI by coordinates

2008-10-16 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Gustav Foseid wrote: One should certainly not add information to OSM that is copyrighted, protected by database rights or otherwise protected. There is a difference between being careful and paranoid, however. Yes. We're paranoid. Always have been, it's one of the things that defines OSM.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Contact Info For Tom Hughes Regarding Public Domain Mailing List

2008-10-22 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Liz wrote: I don't want PD for my data because then I can see the company like Garmin freely using it to update their maps and still charging me for my data. But this is what I never get when people wheel out the old canard of the tragedy of the commons. These days, the commons is

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] PD vs SA: The eternal battle

2008-10-22 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Rob Myers wrote: I had assumed it was a kind of stew. ;-) Many a true word... cheers Richard ___ legal-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Contact Info For Tom Hughes Regarding Public Domain Mailing List

2008-10-22 Thread Richard Fairhurst
bvh wrote: If garmin closes their devices for non-garmin signed datasets (ala TomTom) then you could very well end up paying for the privilege to use your own data. Sure, but that's an utterly different issue - that's an issue about whether or not Garmin allows third-party maps to be

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] PD vs SA: The eternal battle

2008-10-22 Thread Richard Fairhurst
bvh wrote: My ideal license would force them to divulge their private GIS data on signal strength Oh right. I just want to make a map. cheers Richard ___ legal-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OSM-talk] Contraflow bus lane

2008-10-23 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote: I also have one in the centre of Sutton Coldfield. Think when I mapped it (ages and ages ago) I made it two separate ways which obviously isn't right. So interested to hear what people think. +1. There's one in Worcester. Except it's labelled (in

Re: [OSM-talk] SEO

2008-10-30 Thread Richard Fairhurst
SteveC wrote: CloudMade have some people experienced in Search Engine Optimisation and we'd like to offer their time to look at making OSM push higher up search results. Basically we think it would be nice that if you search for 'free maps' and things like that then OSM comes up to the top.

Re: [OSM-talk] I've added some amenity values to Map Features based on tag usage

2008-10-31 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Mark Williams wrote: The apostrophe is not correct anyway. It denotes a missed letter, in this word-position it would be 'doctor is', as opposed to the non-apostrophe version meaning 'belong to the the doctor' or plural doctors. Heehee, don't get me started. doctor's is the appropriate

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Understanding the new license - room for negotiation?

2008-10-31 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Sunburned Surveyor wrote: Does the new license ever require my company to release the land use polygon data in the above scenario? No. In essence my company would be dual licensing the road centerline data. Indeed. Lots of us already dual-license our contributions to OSM:

[OSM-talk] Spam spam spam spam

2008-11-02 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Our lovely little mapping hobby is now so uber-successful that the spammers have noticed it. A few more keep creeping through the net. What should a spam-spotter do on noticing some spam? I've pasted a few I've spotted here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Spam but am unsure what to

Re: [OSM-talk] Spam spam spam spam

2008-11-02 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Tom Hughes wrote: A wiki admin can delete it properly, and block the account. Hokay. I guess what I'm trying to ask is whether there's a procedure (e.g. flagging spam on a wiki page, or category, which several people can follow) which might reduce the inevitably OSM tendency for the way

Re: [OSM-talk] A super quick poll

2008-11-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Phooee, all these lists to choose from. Probably most sensible on legal-talk, I think (so followups to there). Erik Johansson wrote: On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 10:35 AM, maning sambale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You didn't read the whole sentence: ways that are contributed PD only, Of course

Re: [OSM-talk] data plucked from who-knows-where?

2008-11-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
80n wrote: Since street names are one of the harder bits of information to collect, what this user has done here looks like a very worthwhile contribution to the project. Perhaps we should even be encouraging users without GPS units to create this kind of topological map. It looks

Re: [OSM-talk] Map of last resort

2008-11-05 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Steve Chilton wrote: Amongst all the US Election mapping frenzy there was a good callout for OSM on Ogle Earth yesterday entitled:- OSM: your map of last resort http://www.ogleearth.com/index.html via which I notice this:

Re: [OSM-talk] UK Industrial Estate Roads

2008-11-07 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Tom Chance wrote: This is what I always do, with one distinction: if it is a signposted road going into the estate, then I use highway=unclassified; if it is a service road running through the estate I use highway=service. I like that as a general principle - the concept of routeyness, if you

Re: [OSM-talk] barrier=gate

2008-11-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Nic Roets wrote: Can we agree that a barrier=gate node implies that no traffic is allowed through unless it's enabled with tags like access=yes and foot=yes ? Isn't the point of a gate that you can open it? i.e. traffic is allowed through, but for routing purposes there's a time

Re: [OSM-talk] barrier=gate

2008-11-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ed Loach wrote: I wouldn't have said so. The point of tagging is a gate is to show there is a gate across a way. Examples I've seen so far include a gate beyond which is a service road for a supermarket (so permissions for the service road are down to who the keyholder is, gates across

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM is ....

2008-11-11 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Steve Chilton wrote: OSM is a multifunctional cytokine produced by activated T lymphocytes and monocytes and shares properties with all the members of this family of proteins. OSM is structurally and functionally very similar to LIF. We read the Observer on Sundays. Every month it comes

Re: [OSM-talk] Unification of OpenStreetBugs an Trac

2008-11-27 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Mikel wrote: I'd suggest bypassing Trac and looking into RedMine http://www.redmine.org/ I'm not sure why the need to reuse existing software at all. Bugtracking is the sort of thing you expect to find in 'Rails For Dummies' as My First Rails App - if you’ve got a decent framework it’s pretty

Re: [OSM-talk] Edit war on the wiki map features

2008-12-01 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Per-15 wrote: If you don't like smoothness invent a better scheme! Smoothness is better than nothing. That's debatable (as well as, er, very_horrible). Personally I believe the easiest and most flexible thing is just to extend the access tags: bicycle=no|yes|difficult|unsuitable so you'd

Re: [OSM-talk] Edit war on the wiki map features

2008-12-01 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Bernhard Zwischenbrugger wrote: In Vienna we have an event called Friday Night Skating. Every week about 1000 Inline Skater meet at 10pm and skate on normal roads. The police blocks all the roads an it is possible to skate on roads that are for normal for cars only. You can't design/evolve

Re: [OSM-talk] Edit war on the wiki map features

2008-12-01 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Robert Vollmert wrote: The obvious problem with this is the massive redundancy. You need to tag for every possible form of transport, or infer suitability for something exotic from the provided suitabilities. Yes, infer, like we do with every other tag. People realised they didn't need to tag

Re: [OSM-talk] Map Features

2008-12-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Richard Bullock wrote: Perhaps Map Features should be for the main core tags only (for newbies mainly - the basics of how to get their road/feature displayed). Perhaps we should limit it to the things we consider important enough to render on the main renderers - and we can have other

Re: [OSM-talk] Unification of OpenStreetBugs an Trac

2008-12-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Gervase Markham wrote: Inventing your own stuff makes perfect sense in the area of your core competency. Agreed absolutely. [...] I agree that where the bug tracker starts being used for mapping- related things, then the boundaries start to blur. But I'd still suggest that the only

Re: [OSM-talk] Edit war on the wiki map features

2008-12-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Gervase Markham wrote: Richard Fairhurst wrote: bicycle=no|yes|difficult|unsuitable The trouble with that sort of thing, as compared to (ignore the actual tag names, they are just to give an idea): bicycle=yes bicycle:surface=poor (i.e. splitting out access from quality) is that the former

Re: [OSM-talk] Edit war on the wiki map features

2008-12-05 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Gervase Markham wrote: Richard Fairhurst wrote: if access==no or access==false then allowed=no else allowed=yes So basically, you have to decide that all unknown values default to either one or the other. If I'm a renderer, and I come across bicycle=difficult, and I only know about

Re: [OSM-talk] addressing

2008-12-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Dave Stubbs wrote: I like the clean relation data model, but find the addr:street thing much easier at the moment. Maybe I'll add an addressing button (sorry, I meant obscure keypress :-P) to Potlatch sometime then there'll be no excuses left. When this accursed API 0.6 is out of the way,

Re: [OSM-talk] My slippy map - call for testing

2008-12-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Bernhard Zwischenbrugger wrote: Just an other slippy map: http://lamp2.fhstp.ac.at/~lbz/beispiele/ws2008/oomap4/index.php Maybe you like the zoom. The thing I _really_ like is that it doesn't aggressively preload five thousand miles round the edge every time, unlike OpenLayers (or, more

Re: [OSM-talk] addressing

2008-12-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
SteveC wrote: needs a simple how to do addressing in potlatch video a-la the old ones I did, as if you ignore relations it is essentially trivial I'll be committing some new presets next week with all the fields ready and waiting. cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-talk] Deleted way belonging to relations

2008-12-11 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Shaun McDonald wrote:  It is a limitation of the 0.5 API. This problem is highly less likely to happen with 0.6 API, with the introduction of node/way/relation versioning and transactions. Though it doesn't really need 0.6 to work, it just needs this bug fixing (Dave, I think this is your

Re: [OSM-talk] osm2go as yet another desktop tool?

2008-12-16 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Till Harbaum wrote: The big show stopper with potlatch was that everything is stored in the database immediately, so you are always afraid to damage things. Of course, patches are always welcome. :) The sole reason Potlatch doesn't have such an (optional) feature right now is that I haven't

Re: [OSM-talk] Disable Potlatch finally.

2008-12-16 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Andy, Frederik and Maning have really said all I could ever say. Except that: If you really wanted to help - even if you can't or won't code - you would have submitted some trac tickets with suggestions, as many other people have done. You would have attempted to understand before condemning.

Re: [OSM-talk] Disable Potlatch finally.

2008-12-16 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Steven Le Roux wrote: Why not prefering to consider other solutions ? Why not downloading josm as a java web start app and give in the link the bbox from the browser ? http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-au/2008-December/001204.html is why. Magically giving JOSM to newbies

Re: [OSM-talk] osm2go as yet another desktop tool?

2008-12-16 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ed Loach wrote: It is IE7 fully patched, and I'm guessing (as it doesn't always do it) that it is user error (me). It is probably that when I switch from one tab to the wiki tab and back that the way looks like it is still selected but in reality the flash bit doesn't have focus. Right,

Re: [OSM-talk] live editing and conflict management

2008-12-16 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Robert Vollmert wrote: With API 0.6, we'll notice when this happens, right? Yeah, kind of - there'll be some form of conflict dialogue though with no way to resolve it as yet, short of reloading the area. I don't really think the API 0.6 people were thinking of Potlatch when they decided on

Re: [OSM-talk] Disable Potlatch finally.

2008-12-16 Thread Richard Fairhurst
D Tucny wrote: I think this would be an improvement, especially if you could view a list of changes that would be uploaded prior to upload... Yep, see previous message about the only reason that not being an option is that I haven't worked out a UI for it. :) One thing though that I don't

Re: [OSM-talk] Is OSM Mapper ready for 0.6? (was Re: Disable Potlatch finally)

2008-12-17 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote: Basically, you'll have to enter a brief description for every bunch of edits (just as you have to do when you update a wikipedia page) that you upload. Strictly have the option of entering, not have to enter. Comments are optional. cheers Richard -- View this

Re: [OSM-talk] Is anyone making public transport routing maps basedon OpenStreetMap data?

2008-12-17 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Peter Miller wrote: I think that would be an excellent idea, however don't assume transit authorities will always give you the data because they often won't for various reasons. One of the wonderful things about ODbL is the concept of a collective work as applied to separate databases.

Re: [OSM-talk] Is OSM Mapper ready for 0.6? (was Re: Disable Potlatch finally)

2008-12-17 Thread Richard Fairhurst
John McKerrell wrote: Ah yes, you did mention that the other day. Surely it would only make the noise when you tried to unload the page though which wouldn't be so bad? Well, the way it works at the moment (in sane browsers) is that Potlatch sends a message via JS every time the dirty

Re: [OSM-talk] caching of landsat/yahoo images

2008-12-17 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Roman Neumüller wrote: And: the same idea might apply for potlatch's flash/yahoo image data! Wouldn't it be nice to have already downloaded images cached ?!? Potlatch just uses the Yahoo API, it doesn't really do any further fiddling[1] as that would be outwith the ToS and I prefer to tread

Re: [OSM-talk] Is OSM Mapper ready for 0.6? (was Re: Disable Potlatch finally)

2008-12-17 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote: IIRC, you could catch the onunload event of the browser window via javascript and tell potlach. Yes, I know this should go to the -dev mailing list (and that patches are welcome, etc). :) I posted about this the other day:

Re: [OSM-talk] Is OSM Mapper ready for 0.6? (was Re: Disable Potlatch finally)

2008-12-17 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Iván Sánchez Ortega-3 wrote: AFAIK, the 0.6 API requires a comment when opening a changeset (I might be wrong on this You are. :) The wiki doc just says advised. There is no explicit reference to comment, or any other tag, within the changeset model or controller. If you think through how an

Re: [OSM-talk] Is anyone making public transport routing maps basedon OpenStreetMap data?

2008-12-18 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: Soundy overly complex compared to just using pdftotext and then parsing the resulting ASCII text, unless of course there's OCR involved which would rule out this approach. Doesn't preserve the layout, in particular the columns, well enough. The UK rail timetable PDF is

Re: [OSM-talk] Invisible coastline errors in Potlatch

2008-12-31 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Shaun McDonald wrote: http://openstreetmap.org/browse/way/22359503/history looks like it is a 2 node way. Seems that there is a bug in Potlatch, causing it to not show the coastline here. But the way contains the same node twice, thus is meaningless. That's not a bug in Potlatch, that's

Re: [OSM-talk] Maritme borders

2009-01-04 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Thomas Wood wrote: In other news, I've converted the 12nm line around the UK and Ireland to be fully tagged, so it's now showing in its own bubble on the mapnik render. Ugh. Can we (ping steve8) get some way of tagging this differently so it _doesn't_ show? It looks really, really ugly.

Re: [OSM-talk] Invisible coastline errors in Potlatch

2009-01-05 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Roman Neumüller wrote: I occasioanlly open hires areas in JOSM when stumbling over them. Boy: what a whole bunch of errors one then starts to fix...! All potlatch-related I suppose (sorry Rich ;-) I'd prefer (mandy rice-davieswell, I would, wouldn't I/mandy rice-davies) all n00b-related.

Re: [OSM-talk] Invisible coastline errors in Potlatch

2009-01-06 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Peter Miller wrote: Potlatch does sometime create duplicate ways for me when I splits features. These duplicates are invisible using Potlatch and the quantity of them varies from occasion to occasion. This is a server issue more than anything else: it happens in times of server slowness. I

Re: [OSM-talk] Invisible coastline errors in Potlatch

2009-01-06 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Marc Schütz wrote: The solution is either to move splitting ways entirely to the server (so, although the user hits 'split', the way isn't actually split until the server returns a message), or to fix the server. I'd be interested to know _why_ the server runs so slowly at certain times.

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch again

2009-01-11 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Gert Gremmen wrote: POTLATCH NEEDS IMPROVEMENT Yeah, well spotted, genius. Where's your fucking patch? Meanwhile - oh look, what's that on my screen? Fuck me if it isn't the fucking Potlatch source. Maybe I'm improving the fucking thing. http://www.systemeD.net/osm/screenshot.png Maybe a

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch again

2009-01-12 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Gert Gremmen wrote: Thank you Thomas, The image you provided to prove your solution was a complete surprise to me and may contribute to a solution for this everlasting Potlatch Critic. You are right, and I am right. My screen looks entirely different, due to the missed option (I mean: I

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch / API inconsistency?

2009-01-12 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ted Mielczarek wrote: I went to look at an area I edited last week in the Mapnik rendering, and noticed it looked wrong. I thought maybe my edits hadn't been picked up somehow, so I looked at the data view on the slippy map. It matched the rendering. So I thought maybe Potlatch had

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Trust

2009-01-13 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Erik Johansson wrote: PS. The current tools for change monitoring are actually only for spotting edits not changes, i.e. you don't see the changes people make only the new version they upload. Having a see changes would be nice API 0.6 will enable the site to do a lot of this, if I'm

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch again

2009-01-13 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Phillip Barnett wrote: I believe Richard did the rectification for Potlatch and claims it to be better than JOSM's. True for NPE but not for Yahoo - Potlatch just uses the standard Yahoo Flash component, it doesn't do any extra fiddling around (well, other than a tiny tweak to get the

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM and Linked Data, and W3C, etc ...

2009-01-13 Thread Richard Fairhurst
brendan barrett wrote: It never hurts getting others to review things. You don't need to stop development on API 0.6 to do a review. We are IMO too far down the road with API 0.6 to review the _design_. It is, after all, mostly coded: you can check out the API 0.6 branch and use it with JOSM,

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch again

2009-01-14 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Michal Migurski wrote: I'm hesitant to blow away the existing guide, but I wonder if it can be moved behind a disambiguation page? Something that lets you understand different levels of involvement: found a mistake, need to add a street, have a spreadsheet of local amenities, live in the

Re: [OSM-talk] NPE maps broken?

2009-01-14 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Gervase Markham wrote: Who runs the NPE maps server? Nick Black? Another Nick? nick.dev.openstreetmap.org is Nick Whitelegg, I think. For NPE, however, JOSM should ideally use the 900913 tiles at npe.openstreetmap.org, which are better rectified. Thomas, you were working on a way for JOSM to

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch again

2009-01-15 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Andy Allan wrote: Wait - who are you, and what have you done with RichardF? I'm Fake SteveC. At least that's what people keep telling me. cheers Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] caveat - potlatch overrides extern changes

2009-01-18 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: this will not be the case anymore with 0.6. It's even better than that. When Potlatch asks the server for ways in the current bounding box (which it does most times you pan or zoom), it'll ask for the version, too. If there are any ways that have been recently revised,

Re: [OSM-talk] National french cadastre WMS opened to OSM

2009-01-20 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Steven Le Roux wrote: Pieren will now largely diffuse his JOSM plugin for cadastre, and the work will be easier and quicker. Is the source for this available anywhere? I'd like to see whether the cadastre rasters could work as a Potlatch background. (I suspect the projection would be the

Re: [OSM-talk] Walking Routes - wiki needs some work?

2009-01-20 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Frankie Roberto wrote: There also seems to be the Pennine Cycleway (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennine_Cycleway), which I've never seen signposted. It's Sustrans National Route 68, the whole of which (well, except for two alternative braids) is lovingly mapped on OSM, from Derby to

Re: [OSM-talk] National french cadastre WMS opened to OSM

2009-01-20 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Pieren wrote: Richard, we will contact you later if we see that Potlatch could add this as a WMS background. This would be really fantastic. Great - look forward to it. And congratulations on getting the agreement. cheers Richard ___ talk mailing

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licensing Working Group report, 2009/01/22

2009-01-25 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Peter Miller wrote: There is huge difference between the majority being ask one by one to 'relicense or leave now', and one where we are asked if we support it and then later being asked to accept the majority verdict (which is very likely to be in favour of re-licensing). On

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licensing Working Group report, 2009/01/22

2009-01-25 Thread Richard Fairhurst
andrzej zaborowski wrote: AFAIK by having the actual data under the evolving license you expose it to the sum of all the loopholes present in any version of the license as it evolved. ...is true, but rather pales into insignificance against the fact that CC-BY-SA is almost certainly not

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licensing Working Group report, 2009/01/22

2009-01-25 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Peter Miller wrote: I am however very very interested in who will be able to change the license and how much? [...] Who will be able to make changes? I don't know and I don't think the foundation knows either - they certainly haven't said. Whoever is chosen to host the licence. I don't

Re: [OSM-talk] Can not remove a way from a relation

2009-01-28 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Erik Lundin wrote: But how can the nodes be listed as members of way 29370058 when they are deleted? http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2009-January/013540.html and passim cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-talk] Error in Google-Maps

2009-01-28 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Jürgen Reimann wrote: Does anybody know, who (in person) is responsible for the information provided by Google-Maps. A bloke called Ed. You can read his blog at http://fakeedparsons.blogspot.com/ . Thanks. Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-talk] Wiki: chriscf vandalism

2009-01-30 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: the German community takes offence at user:chriscf's deletion of the smoothness voting result from approved features and moving it to rejected features in spite of of there having been a proper vote with an approved outcome. Then the German community should come

Re: [OSM-talk] Wiki: chriscf vandalism

2009-01-31 Thread Richard Fairhurst
(Nop's e-mail went to me rather than the list but I'm guessing that was a mistake - and he probably expressed the other side best) Nop wrote: I would consider it the basic principle of democracy/a community that things established by vote need to be changed by vote, even if the need for

Re: [OSM-talk] Wiki: chriscf vandalism

2009-01-31 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: This is my main complaint about the voting system too. But in the specific case of smoothness, it seems to me that there is probably nobody here who can be said to not know anything about the subject Disagree strongly - it depends entirely where you're mapping. I

Re: [OSM-talk] Wiki: chriscf vandalism

2009-01-31 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Erik Johansson wrote: How should I tag this is one of the most commonly asked questions. The wiki vote system works as a good system for commenting on proposals,you system does not help this. Sure it does - Talk: pages. Or even a tagging@ list. You don't need a system to have discussion, it

Re: [OSM-talk] Wiki: chriscf vandalism

2009-01-31 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Sven Rautenberg wrote: I take it that you oppose this tag. Why haven't you said so in the voting section until now? For the same reason that no-one on talk-de ever submits any patches to Potlatch? ( :) too) cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-talk] Wiki: chriscf vandalism

2009-01-31 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Pieren Pieren wrote: Richard Fairhurst wrote: The problem is that people vote on tags: - without knowing anything about the subject - without ever having mapped the feature in question - without any intention of ever mapping the feature in question Wow, then you are against the principle

Re: [OSM-talk] Wiki: chriscf vandalism

2009-01-31 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Nop wrote: Well, you are proposing a differnt kind of vote by usage of tags. Not solely. Lemme explain. At present, we have Tagwatch, which just lists usage per tag. I'm suggesting (just as a half-baked idea) that we have a sort of floaty cloud-Tagwatch-on-steroids. So you might have:

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch readme gone?

2009-02-01 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Gert Gremmen wrote: I have started a Potlatch readme section on the Wiki to find that it has been unlinked from the main Potlatch help page. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php?title=Potlatchaction=history (cur) (last) 20:01, 14 January 2009 Richard (Talk | contribs) (4,200 bytes)

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:smoothness

2009-02-02 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ulf Lamping wrote: I guess you want to missunderstand this tag. The tag name should be descriptive. If there's widespread misunderstanding, then the tag was misnamed. (And besides, the wheeled point still doesn't address that what's good for an MTB is bad for a tourer.) Do you know a *walker*

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:smoothness

2009-02-02 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ulf Lamping wrote: Yes, if it would use descriptive terms it might solve some problems. But if you think of a better solution it gets really difficult to find better terms thats aimed towards something. smoothness:vehicle would make sense to me. But, you know, water under the bridge and

Re: [OSM-talk] NZ LINZ data import and attribution

2009-02-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Joe Richards wrote: I have been doing some mapping in New Zealand recently, and came across the page which discusses a potential import of all the roads and streets in New Zealand in one fell swoop, thanks to Land Information New Zealand/LINZ giving the go-ahead for this. This took

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