[OSM-talk] Height and Elevation

2008-08-15 Thread Richard Weait
Hi All, Have a look at my draft for Elevation and Height tools for OSM. Please help me improve it. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Elevation_and_height ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

[OSM-talk] Canadian Mapping Fiesta!

2008-08-29 Thread Richard Weait
The Canadian Mapping Fiesta plans are moving along nicely. We're hosting as many mapping parties as we can on Software Freedom Day, Saturday the 20th of September. So far Montreal, Sherbrooke, Hamilton, Cambridge, Kitchener-Waterloo are set to go. We need to hear from more of you. This is a

Re: [OSM-talk] CanVec entity value definition tags to use

2009-05-12 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 01:02 -0700, Sam Vekemans wrote: Hi all, a quick question. (kind of) I think that having the tags that clearly define what the entity is; and how the entity is used in the source data, is something that needs to be kept. Here's why, it tells the user exactly what

Re: [OSM-talk] How to present OSM to an audience of potential newbies?

2009-06-07 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, 2009-06-06 at 23:17 +0100, Tim Morley wrote: In a few weeks, I'll have the chance to present OSM to an audience of youngish (18-30), intelligent, open-minded people, who more than likely haven't yet come across the project. There may well be people who are familiar with free and

Re: [OSM-talk] CanVec:CODE vs. CanVec:UUID -relevancy

2009-06-27 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 15:40 -0700, Sam Vekemans wrote: [ ... a lot of stuff ... ] The 5th, which is currently being debated canvec:CODE=1200020 - This is the [CanVec] feature identifier, [analogy removed]. So does anyone have objections to the logic and usefulness of canvec:CODE? Or any

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenGolfMap? - was OpenPisteMap

2009-07-02 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 19:02 +0100, Peter Miller wrote: Any chance of opengolfmap? I am needing a map to show the interaction between an existing golf course and a proposed cycle route. I can add the data to the map but I am not aware of anything that will render it.

Re: [OSM-talk] License for OSM logo

2009-07-07 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 03:01 -0400, Russ Nelson wrote: On Jul 7, 2009, at 2:53 AM, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote: The logo is also now trademarked. I'll raise this (and have also copied to Matt) as currently we don't have a policy on reuse of the logo. You'll need permission

Re: [OSM-talk] Launching bestofosm.org

2009-07-07 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 12:35 +0200, Jochen Topf wrote: We've set up a new web site highlighting prime examples of OSM mapping, basically just as an aid for demonstrating OSM to others (we always end up showing them the same cool spots anyway). Check out bestofosm.org, and tell us if you have

[OSM-talk] canhaz OpenAerialMap restart

2009-07-20 Thread Richard Weait
Hi All, You should know that my .bashrc includes alias canhaz='sudo /etc/init.d/' A group met at State of the Map, the OpenStreetMap annual conference on Sunday 12 July 2009 to discuss the history, status and future of OpenAerialMap.org. Cristiano G. led the discussion and provided some

[OSM-talk] OSM Foundation and CloudMade layoffs

2009-07-26 Thread Richard Weait
Hi all, I've been thinking about the CloudMade layoffs and the Foundation articles of association.  Have a look and let me know what you think. http://weait.com/cloudmade-layoffs Best regards, Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

[OSM-legal-talk] Foundation trademark

2009-08-07 Thread Richard Weait
I am pleased to note that the assignment of the OSM logo to the Foundation is published as of 31 July 2009 on the IPO/UK site. http://www.ipo.gov.uk/types/tm/t-os/t-find/t-find-number?detailsrequested=Ctrademark=2500155 Congratulations! I see that the European trademark # 7366859, OpenStreetMap

Re: [OSM-talk] radioactivity

2009-08-08 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 4:59 AM, Lized...@billiau.net wrote: anyone got any ideas on tagging potential radioactive sites? a search of the wiki produced nothing so far How would we confirm potential radioactive sites? Is a decommissioned power plant or quarry potentially more radioactive than

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM-Postal an idea to extend Walking-Papers to not connected people

2009-08-11 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 6:04 PM, PBp...@osgeo.org wrote: Hi, I'm PB from Cuba, and I would like to share an idea to extend the use of Walking-Papers. The intention is to reach all those people whom do not have an e-mail or Internet access, and in many cases not even a computer. We are

Re: [OSM-talk] [Osmf-talk] OPENSTREETMAP FOUNDATION - NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

2009-08-15 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 5:43 AM, Frederik Rammfrede...@remote.org wrote: Nick, Nick Black wrote: I'm going to be standing for election to the OSM Foundation Board again this year. Do you and Steve have any comment on Richard Weait's suggestion that from every commercial organisation, at

Re: [OSM-talk] [Osmf-talk] OPENSTREETMAP FOUNDATION - NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

2009-08-16 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 6:24 AM, James Brownjbr...@jwbsystems.com wrote: I agree.  I think that the best course is to let the electorate decide in each election. I'd add that I do not see any real alternative. Sure you see an alternative. You go on to describe it below. ;-) If we set a

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] OpenStreetView: Digital Photos: Getting the field of view angle

2009-08-16 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Vincent MEURISSEosm-...@meurisse.org wrote: In fact you don't really need the size of film (captor size). Most of the camera store the focal in both real and equivalent distance. If I take a random picture from a nikon D300 the exif information contain this:

Re: [OSM-talk] How to tag this barrier?

2009-08-17 Thread Richard Weait
2009/8/17 Iván Sánchez Ortega i...@sanchezortega.es: Hi, In this chapter of How the f*** do I tag this piece of s***?, I ask everyone to have a look at these images: http://ivan.sanchezortega.es/30072009_006.jpg http://ivan.sanchezortega.es/30072009_007.jpg At the right of the image,

[OSM-talk] Golf course rendering for OpenStreetMap (mapnik)

2009-08-17 Thread Richard Weait
Dear all, I've started a mapnik style sheet that renders golf holes with fairways, greens and other goodies. Have a look and help out if you are inclined. http://weait.com/content/golf-course-style-openstreetmap Best regards, Richard ___ talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Golf course rendering for OpenStreetMap (mapnik)

2009-08-17 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Colin McGregorcolin.mc...@gmail.com wrote: Time for me to play devils advocate here for a moment. I have on rare occasions played golf on a par 3 course (I'm not very good...). But one of the things I do know is that some course maintainers shift the holes from

Re: [OSM-talk] Golf course rendering for OpenStreetMap (mapnik)

2009-08-17 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Kenneth Gonsalveslaw...@au-kbc.org wrote: On Monday 17 Aug 2009 11:46:20 pm Richard Weait wrote: I've started a mapnik style sheet that renders golf holes with fairways, greens and other goodies.  Have a look and help out if you are inclined. http://weait.com

[OSM-talk] Encourage foundation candidates to self-govern

2009-08-19 Thread Richard Weait
The Foundation board should have no more than one candidate from each company in my opinion. http://weait.com/content/osmf-candidate-recall ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging continuous flow intersections

2009-08-24 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 12:06 PM, David Paleinod.pale...@gmail.com wrote: There's no physical barrier, and the lanes are divided by continuous lines -- that would be a no-changing-lanes restriction, but I'd still be uncomfortable with drawing two separate ways -- that doesn't reflect real

Re: [OSM-talk] Beach volleyball

2009-08-28 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 5:16 AM, John Smithdeltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/8/28 Valent Turkovic valent.turko...@gmail.com: Hi, I would like to know how to tag beach (sand) volleyball courts? People have been using natural=sand to tag golf bunkers. But that is tagging for the renderer

[OSM-talk] revert request

2009-08-30 Thread Richard Weait
Would somebody run two reverts for me please? My import failed in changesets 2311851 and 2308610 Nodes were imported for woods polygons but not the ways. fail. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] revert request

2009-08-30 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Ian Deesian.d...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: Would somebody run two reverts for me please? My import failed in changesets 2311851 and 2308610 Nodes were imported for woods polygons but not the ways

Re: [OSM-talk] Brainstorming: Simple Revert-Tools - work for copywriters!

2009-09-03 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 3:05 AM, Peter Körnerosm-li...@mazdermind.de wrote: Making 10 changesets of more than 10 features each over a period of at least 2 weeks without attracting reverts or complaints should be sufficient I would have thought. That would mean that a newbie who gets on with it

[OSM-talk] revert.pl

2009-09-03 Thread Richard Weait
At the risk of trifling with things that I do not fully understand[1], I've been using revert.pl to revert a changeset of my own. I blew it and imported a file with bad things[2] and want to undo the mess. I have revert.pl fresh from svn today, and it runs, but eventually stops with node

Re: [OSM-talk] revert.pl

2009-09-03 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 8:02 PM, andrzej zaborowskibalr...@gmail.com wrote: It'll probably fail with error 500 because there are so many elements and the server seems unstable, so you can split the changeset using http://www.openstreetmap.pl/balrog/bulkupload/split.py and upload in reverse

Re: [OSM-talk] Yathusan vandalism

2009-09-03 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 9:54 PM, Andrew MacKinnonandrew...@gmail.com wrote: Found some more: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/2365004 http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/2364986 http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/2364907

Re: [OSM-talk] revert.pl

2009-09-03 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 9:04 PM, Richard Weaitrich...@weait.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 8:02 PM, andrzej zaborowskibalr...@gmail.com wrote: It'll probably fail with error 500 because there are so many elements and the server seems unstable, so you can split the changeset using

[OSM-talk] lists and # of subscribers

2009-09-04 Thread Richard Weait
Dear All, I often find myself wondering how many are subscribed to the various osm lists. I think that it would be good to have the number of subscribers for each list published somewhere. Even cooler would be to have this graphed somewhere as well. I think this information would be helpful

[OSM-talk] several vandals, one strategy?: RR8, Yasuthan, liam123

2009-09-07 Thread Richard Weait
Hi all, An addition to previous reports here regarding RR8 and liam123. User Yasuthan has exhibited similar behaviour: - multiple edits small and large - edits in geographically diverse areas - edits that range from plausible to unusual to odd to wrong to graffiti Yasuthan has shown interest in

Re: [OSM-talk] How to map cemetery ?

2009-09-09 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Valent Turkovicvalent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/graveyard This page is old/unfinished and very ambiguous. Can somebody make clear how to tag cemeteries, and how to name them correctly? If I have polygon do

[OSM-talk] new proposals for k:shop

2009-09-10 Thread Richard Weait
Hi All, I've added proposals for five types of shops I'm finding that are not categorized. Your comments and improvements are welcome. shop=vacant; empty stores should be marked vacant, not removed from map. shop=supplements; specialty food and dietary supplements. shop=cash; non-bank cheque

Re: [OSM-talk] mapnik rendering

2009-09-10 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Steve Chiltons.l.chil...@mdx.ac.uk wrote: I don't know whether I have missed something, or else am just lucky, but mapnik is rendering the things I am editing super-fast. Two new and different renders of an area in about 30 minutes. Now the renderer is

Re: [OSM-talk] map requirement for a large pubishing/media group

2009-09-12 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Joe Richards joefis...@yahoo.com wrote: I am helping a media company to add geo-location to its articles, and thought it might help speed the process of matching the requirements to a technology provider (or set of technologies) by presenting it to the OSM

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Additional parking types for amenity=parking

2009-09-15 Thread Richard Weait
Don't all buildings store something? Homes store families. Gas stations store gas station attendants. Coffee shops store beans. ;-) building=yes amenity=self_storage This degrades nicely to just amenity=self_storage if no building outline is available. Locally these vary in size from small

Re: [OSM-talk] Newbie - questions I didn't find definate answers in the wiki or list archives

2009-09-20 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Timothy C Litwiller t...@litwiller.net wrote: I didn't find a newbie list so I've been reading the wiki and this list for the last week. Welcome, Tim. http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies ;-) I don't know how busy that list is, so I signed up too.

Re: [OSM-talk] Patch to render names from routes and custom highway shields on a per country basis

2009-09-20 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:04 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: While my patch works, I don't know if this is the best solution to the problem or not: http://trac.openstreetmap.org/attachment/ticket/1666/osm.xml-patch I have a similar local hack and decided not to pursue it. In

Re: [OSM-talk] Patch to render names from routes and custom highway shields on a per country basis

2009-09-20 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 9:38 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/9/21 Richard Weait rich...@weait.com: [ ... ] So I suggest we pattern on network=us_i for Interstates, us_us for US Routes, us_ny_ny for New York State Routes, us_ny_ny_co for New York county roads, etc

Re: [OSM-talk] Patch to render names from routes and custom highway shields on a per country basis

2009-09-21 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 5:54 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/9/21 Liz ed...@billiau.net: On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, Apollinaris Schoell wrote: US is meant for US highway http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Highways They uses signs with US printed on it. So the symbol needs the same

Re: [OSM-talk] Newbie - questions I didn't find definate answers in the wiki or list archives

2009-09-21 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Joseph Scanlan n7...@arrl.net wrote: On Sun, 20 Sep 2009, Richard Weait wrote: Excellent start.  Changing arterial streets to highway=secondary will help give the city some context. I prefer marking arterials as highway=tertiary.  There are exceptions

Re: [OSM-talk] feasibility - different use of openstreetmap

2009-09-22 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Tim Litwiller t...@litwiller.net wrote: Introduction: For my work we have a need for mapping fields agricultural sections of land for growing crops. We already put the legal description of the land in the our invoicing \ work order system and other information

Re: [OSM-talk] routing - US interstate type junction -Wichita, KS

2009-09-22 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Tim Litwiller t...@litwiller.net wrote: There is a junction on the north end of Wichita KS, that does not route correctly in the southbound direction. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=37.7627lon=-97.3218zoom=14layers=B000FTF I downloaded the openstreetmap

Re: [OSM-talk] How do I connect to openstreetmap via wms so my web application can use openstreetmap as my base layer?

2009-09-30 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 9:47 PM, John Mitchell mitchellj...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, How do I connect to openstreetmap via wms so my web application can use openstreetmap as my base layer. Carefully? ;-) See http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tile_usage_policy Any use of the system that causes

Re: [OSM-talk] STRATO sponsors three servers for use by OSM

2009-10-09 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 6:46 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Hi,    the Berlin-based hosting provider STRATO AG is sponsoring three servers for use by the OSM community. Wonderful news! Congratulations to both FOSSGIS e.V. and STRATO.

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] proposal for deletion: talk-us-ga and

2009-10-21 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Sarah Manley sarah.m.man...@gmail.com wrote: What is the status of the forum: http://forum.openstreetmap.org? Would building this out more maybe solve some of our problems? Preference for email vs web forum varies from community to community. In my limited

Re: [OSM-talk] Illegal activity

2009-10-29 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Valent Turkovic valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?showtopic=40148 what to do with OSM mappers like these guys in this post? They say that they are using Google Earth images :( I replied in the thread as I'm near there.

Re: [OSM-talk] Illegal activity

2009-10-30 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Valent Turkovic valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?showtopic=40148 what to do with OSM mappers like these guys in this post? They say

Re: [OSM-talk] ADDING THE ABILITY TO Mapping everything as areas

2009-11-27 Thread Richard Weait
Looks like somebody is doing some area- / micro- mapping. http://bestofosm.org/?type=mapniklon=11.42994lat=51.30053zoom=18 ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Path vs footway vs cycleway vs...

2009-11-28 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, since I'm new here, You're new here? Welcome to OSM. I'll ask the obvious question: does it matter whether this stuff is done the same across different countries? Is it not ok if cycleway has slightly different

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping everything as areas

2009-11-28 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 8:11 AM, Jean-Marc Liotier j...@liotier.org wrote: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason's diary entry last week (http://j.mp/8ESP8o) stired my interest. Using a few examples, he showed how mapping everything as an area - or as a volume - makes ultimate sense. Should we go for it now

Re: [OSM-talk] mapping libraries

2009-11-29 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 7:09 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.org wrote: On Sunday 29 Nov 2009 5:38:19 pm Graham Seaman wrote: I have a requirement to provide maps for libraries (buildings with books, not software libraries..), needing to be able to zoom in to shelf level. I wondered about

[OSM-talk] Congratulations, community. was: Cloudmade routing

2009-12-01 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 5:10 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/12/1 Gregory Williams gregory.willi...@purplegeodesoftware.co.uk B over each end of the bridge. So, my guess is that the bridge isn't in Cloudmade's underlying routing data for some reason. +1. Looking on

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Inspector now world-wide and with additional views

2009-12-01 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Hi,    the Geofabrik OSM Inspector (tools.geofabrik.de/osmi), a debugging tool, now supports worldwide daily data (previously Europe only) for the important views, as well as several other new features. If you are

Re: [OSM-talk] Opencyclemap commended in BCS Awards

2008-09-06 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, 2008-09-06 at 14:28 +0100, Nick Black wrote: Steve - are there any more details / photos etc about this? Hear, hear! I've added the news of this award to my presentation on Monday (Kitchener-Waterloo Linux User Group) and would love to have a photo of Steve accepting, or Andy holding

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap routing service

2008-09-06 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, 2008-09-06 at 17:06 +0200, Lambertus wrote: A few hours ago a new version of the OpenStreetMap Routing Service has come online. I think is has evolved enough to go public 'officially'... Bravo, Lambertus! This also seems much faster than when I was looking at it yesterday.

[OSM-talk] Four cheers for OSM

2008-09-06 Thread Richard Weait
Bravo! OSMers. In the last few days I've been brushing up my presentation slides for an Introduction to OpenStreetMap talk that I'm giving on Monday. I also gave the talk about two weeks ago and these are things that I just have to bring to the attention of these new potential OSM enthusiasts.

[OSM-talk] sponsor letter draft

2008-09-23 Thread Richard Weait
Hi All, Does anybody have a draft or boilerplate letter to introduce OSM to a company with the thought of getting moral, financial or other support for OSM? I'd like to send something to US and Canadian GPS retailers to get a discount for mappers and donation to OSM Foundation. Anybody else

[OSM-talk] Campus map - Who's got a good one?

2008-09-30 Thread Richard Weait
Dear all, I had a look at campus maps on the web sites of the Big Ten Conference universities. I was surprised at the range in quality. See my notes and comparisons to how the OpenStreetMap community is doing on each of the campuses as well. I made a note of the one I thought was far and

Re: [OSM-talk] Campus map - Who's got a good one?

2008-09-30 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 18:59 -0500, Ian Dees wrote: On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Richard Weait [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, I had a look at campus maps on the web sites of the Big Ten Conference universities. I was surprised at the range

[OSM-talk] Canadian data announcement: GeoBase Import

2008-11-18 Thread Richard Weait
regards, Richard Weait OpenStreetMap data contributor GeoBase http://geobase.ca/ OpenStreetMap http://www.openstreetmap.org/ OpenStreetMap Wiki http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/ OpenStreetMap Foundation http://foundation.openstreetmap.org/ Talk-ca http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca GeoBase

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

2008-12-17 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 12:52 -0800, Beej Jorgensen wrote: [about adding commit comments to changelogs] Finally, there might be some way to appeal to the mapper's pride. Putting the right comment on a change log is more than just for tracking--it's a way of saying, *this* is the work *I* did!

Re: [OSM-talk] HW for car

2009-01-09 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 14:11 +0100, Guenther Meyer wrote: btt: my primary car-pc is based on a via epia board in a voom case, controlled with a 8 touchscreen. works fine... Links? Pix? Details? ;-) ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

[OSM-talk] [Fwd: [Talk-us] Announcing the Fedora Geo Spin]

2009-01-19 Thread Richard Weait
Forwarded Message From: Yaakov Nemoy loupgaroubl...@gmail.com To: fedora-sp...@lists.fedoraproject.org Cc: Development discussions related to Fedora fedora-devel-l...@redhat.com, Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora. fedora-l...@redhat.com,

Re: [OSM-talk] Handling of towns with different or alternative names

2009-01-27 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 19:57 +, Andy Allan wrote: On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Russ Nelson r...@cloudmade.com wrote: On Jan 27, 2009, at 2:08 PM, Manfred Podzkiewitz wrote: Hello, i have a question about the handling of unoffical, or ethnic, or historic names of towns and

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: data release statement

2009-01-29 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 14:59 +0100, Stefan Baebler wrote: Hi! Since legal-talk@ list is busy discussing new licensing options I'd like to hear your opinion about importing a dataset into OSM. Namely I'm interested in: - what legal precausions (if any) should be taken when importing data

[OSM-talk] oops double post. Sorry

2009-02-09 Thread Richard Weait
Sorry for the double post. I'm getting 12-24 hour delays on on some of my posts. I'll be more patient. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] Londonderry NH talk. OpenStreetMap for CERT

2009-02-12 Thread Richard Weait
Hi all, I'm giving a talk at ALERT (A Londonderry Emergency Response Team) in Londonderry NH on Thursday, 19 February 2009. This one has the potential to roll out nicely to the thousands of CERTs (Community Emergency Response Team)s around the US. Who wants to step up? It's only a 30

[OSM-talk] Curling icons for OSM

2009-02-12 Thread Richard Weait
The sport of curling has been ignored by OSM for too long. I've made a set of icons for curling rinks. k:sport; v:curling can now have the dignity it deserves. http://weait.com/content/curling-icon Would somebody please commit these to svn? Best regards, Richard

[OSM-talk] Toronto [ON, CA] Intro to OSM talk

2009-02-13 Thread Richard Weait
Speakers Richard Weait Description OpenStreetMap.org creates and provides free geographic data such as street maps to anyone who wants them. The project was started because most maps you think of as free actually have legal or technical restrictions on their use, holding back people from using them

[OSM-talk] Mapping in the Spring

2009-02-26 Thread Richard Weait
Hi all, I did some mapping in Manitou Springs, Colorado recently, sans GPS. http://weait.com/content/mapping-spring The cycle map cares about drinking water and natural springs, more than mapnik, or osmarender. ___ talk mailing list

[OSM-talk] cyclemap layer z18 trouble?

2009-02-27 Thread Richard Weait
Anybody else having trouble with cyclemap at z18? For me, this link delivers only a blank white map area. The browser claims to have finished loading. Right-clicking on the map area does not offer view image. I've tried this on Firefox/Linux and Epiphany/Linux and another browser/wine.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Concerns about ODbL

2009-03-02 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 14:56 +0100, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, OJ W wrote: the ability to create an uncopiable map image from OSM data does seem to have appeared in the ODbL license? You can create an image and (provided that your image is not a data base, a distinction that has not yet

[OSM-legal-talk] images are Produced Works

2009-03-02 Thread Richard Weait
My position is that images are Produced Works, not a derived OSM database. Rendered images are a creative work that requires skill and judgement. This is an important use case and ODbL Section 1 Definitions specifically includes images in the definition of Produced Work. I further believe

[OSM-talk] (short version) When should Derived Database Share Alike be triggered?

2009-03-04 Thread Richard Weait
This is the short version for notifcation on talk. There has been some confusion on legal-talk and OKC-talk about when the Share Alike requirement for Derivative Databases becomes mandatory. There are options that are very similar to GPL and very similar to AfferoGPL. The legal team has

[OSM-legal-talk] When should Derived Database Share Alike be required?

2009-03-04 Thread Richard Weait
There has been some confusion on legal-talk and OKC-talk about when the Share Alike requirement for Derivative Databases becomes mandatory. In my first reading of ODbL draft v0.9 I incorrectly thought that Public Use of a Produced Work created with a Derivative Database triggered Share Alike of

Re: [OSM-talk] California bill to limit detail on online mapping tools

2009-03-13 Thread Richard Weait
Not to worry. I've fixed his bill for him. http://bit.ly/CwdwO ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] immutable=yes Fwd: DEC Lands

2009-03-16 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 17:35 +, Andy Deakin wrote: Would it be ok to edit the data without moving it? i.e. add extra tags to the data. Of course it is okay to add tags. It's okay to move it too, like anything else in OSM. The source = DEC is a source with good tools and a high opinion of

[OSM-talk] Add fonts to your tile server

2009-03-20 Thread Richard Weait
I've written up my experiences with adding a custom font to a tile server. Your comments and feedback are welcome. http://weait.com/content/add-fonts-your-openstreetmap-server ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

[OSM-talk] mapnik on Ubuntu howto

2009-03-30 Thread Richard Weait
Hi all, I made some notes as I got my tile server working. Let me know if the HOWTO is useful to you. In three parts so far on http://weait.com More coming soon. Help from many on #osm was instrumental. I believe that I have put each of those patches back into the wiki. Best regards,

Re: [OSM-talk] Using the data...

2009-04-07 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 19:36 +0100, Ed Loach wrote: I've just spent a while searching the wiki, but can't see an obvious answer, so thought I'd ask here. I'm using Kosmos to create a map to include in a leaflet (to show people how to get from a station to a venue). I've created an image now

[OSM-talk] ping Fake Steve

2009-04-12 Thread Richard Weait
Dear Fake, Please contact me off list. Best regards, Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-05 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 10:10 PM, John F. Eldredge j...@jfeldredge.com wrote: I have been subscribed to the OSM-talk mailing list for about two months now; this current discussion is the first that I have heard of the license-change issue.  So, if there has been ongoing discussion of the issue

[OSM-talk] Thank you, LWG

2009-12-05 Thread Richard Weait
I think the LWG has done a good job on a difficult task. A task that we, as a community, asked them to do for us because we couldn't implement a license change as a group of 20,000 (at the time) individual mappers. I'm glad that the LWG looked after our shared concerns so ably, by consulting

Re: [OSM-talk] Divided roads proposal

2009-12-07 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 7:34 AM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: Can renderers improve their render quality at lower zoom levels by not rendering (certain) link roads? Ie, given road A-B-C, with incoming road D-B, and link D-A, perhaps it could not render D-A. Cartographers (people)

Re: [OSM-talk] Implications of using aggregated/statistical data from both licenses (ODbL and CC-by-SA) for OSMdoc?

2009-12-09 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 6:47 AM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: Lars Francke wrote: At the moment I'm displaying statistical data about a snapshot of the OSM data. Hooee, this is probably the single trickiest question I've seen. I can't find any precedents for whether

Re: [OSM-talk] Sourcing street names - source example and question about who can input what

2010-01-04 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 1:31 AM, dies38...@mypacks.net wrote: I not long ago received a photocopy of a hand-drawn map of the roadway network within a company's manufacturing site, [ ... ] This raises a related interesting situation. [ ... ] Rather, such release would need to go through

Re: [OSM-talk] Sourcing street names - what's the policy, and why?

2010-01-04 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: [ ... ] Anyway, the answer to my question seems to be use your own judgment, don't tell anyone where you got the information from, and everything will be ok. Which is a weird answer, but ok. Well no. The answer is no it

Re: [OSM-talk] Monitoring and coordination tools, Haiti

2010-01-14 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Mikel Maron mikel_ma...@yahoo.com wrote: - What tools are available to see in real time which areas have been mapped recently?  Would it be possible to filter activity by type of features? (itomapper doesn't seem to have updating data) - Any ideas on another

Re: [OSM-talk] Wine Farm and Wellness Spa Tagging

2010-01-31 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Ian Mc Shane ianmcsh...@live.co.za wrote: Regarding wellness spa tagging. I am thinking of: name=XYZ amenity=* healthcare=spa building=yes This is based on what I dug up on looking at the German tagging of doctors rooms and old age homes etc. Anybody

Re: [OSM-talk] Should roads be connected to all types of crossing ways?

2010-02-14 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: On Mon, 15 Feb 2010, Nathan Edgars II wrote: I was told at http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/2708 to take this here. Basically, the TIGER import has put a lot of duplicate nodes where highways cross railways, power and pipe

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Estate_Agent

2010-02-17 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 4:29 PM, specimail-for...@yahoo.fr wrote: And though it might be a lot of work, I think tags have to be approved before being referenced in the wiki, even when existing tags obviously show one main usage. And Roy got it all right : as I like to complete the wiki...

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping streets as areas - can I do it now?

2010-02-21 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Niklas Cholmkvist towards...@gmail.com wrote: I live in a place where I feel the need to map some streets as areas. If I start a little of such mapping, will routing software get confused? Perhaps. That may vary by router? What is it about these streets that

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping streets as areas - can I do it now?

2010-02-22 Thread Richard Weait
I was initially impressed with the German example of area mapping but I have had a change of heart. While an interesting experiment, and relatively well implemented in the small test area, I just don't think area mapping of ordinary roads makes sense. To do area mapping without also doing the

Re: [OSM-talk] How inaccurate was the mapnik distance/scale marker?

2010-02-24 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Egil Hjelmeland pri...@egil-hjelmeland.no wrote: Dave F. wrote: So one of the mapnik guys could implement it quite easily then? I don't think it is related to mapnik. It is the javascript code served by the web-site that wraps up the map rendered by mapnik,

Re: [OSM-talk] Help! Changeset reverted without explanation

2010-02-27 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone? On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 12:37 AM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: It's been a day with no response from lkrevert. Can somebody please take care of this? I generally allow other mappers a week to

Re: [OSM-talk] Help! Changeset reverted without explanation

2010-02-27 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: Richard Weait wrote: On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 12:37 AM, Nathan Edgars II neroute2 at gmail.com wrote: It's been a day with no response from lkrevert. Can somebody please take care of this? I generally allow other

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap ftp server

2010-03-16 Thread Richard Weait
in a way that it can be displayed on top of existing OSM. This allows a casual user to view and evaluate the GeoBase data and mark it for inclusion or exclusion from OSM. Best regards, Richard (Weait) On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 6:09 PM, Richard Degelder rtdegel...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry about

[OSM-talk] Fwd: mod_cache for OSM tiles?

2010-03-19 Thread Richard Weait
And to the list as well. -- Forwarded message -- From: Richard Weait rich...@weait.com Date: Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 7:23 PM Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] mod_cache for OSM tiles? To: Paul Houle p...@ontology2.com On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Paul Houle p...@ontology2.com wrote

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