Re: [OSM-talk] Front page design and SEO

2009-03-03 Thread Tom Hughes
D Tucny wrote: 2009/3/3 Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu mailto:t...@compton.nu Screen size is of course irrelevant to browser window size, unless you're one of those weird web designers that seems to think everybody runs their browser full screen all the time... I guess that makes

Re: [OSM-talk] Front page design and SEO

2009-03-03 Thread Tom Hughes
Richard Fairhurst wrote: Tom Hughes wrote: Screen size is of course irrelevant to browser window size, unless you're one of those weird web designers that seems to think everybody runs their browser full screen all the time... IMX it's a platform thing. Windows people genuinely do run

Re: [OSM-talk] Front page design and SEO

2009-03-03 Thread Tom Hughes
Richard Fairhurst wrote: Tom Hughes wrote: Richard Fairhurst wrote: IMX it's a platform thing. Windows people genuinely do run their web browser, and most things, full screen. Hence the aberration that is MDI. Us Mac people, by contrast, usually have about 57 different non-full screen

Re: [OSM-talk] Front page design and SEO

2009-03-03 Thread Tom Hughes
the name of part of the technology used. Osmarender is the name of the rendering software, ti...@home is the name of the distributed rendering system. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Front page design and SEO

2009-03-03 Thread Tom Hughes
Andy Allan wrote: On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: Osmarender is the name of the rendering software, ti...@home is the name of the distributed rendering system. I see it as the name of the project - the t...@h project produces the map, but the osmarender

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=secondary_link

2009-03-02 Thread Tom Hughes
and primary_link ways in my area completely unaffected by this edit. But that doesn't excuse bad bot behaviour. This is bad bot behaviour. Indeed, just because a tag is not mentioned on the wiki does not mean people should go round removing it! Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Factual Information License and Produced Works?

2009-03-02 Thread Tom Hughes
on that. I have the technology implemented to support the procedure described in the transition plan but we will need the words to plugin to the various screens. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-t

Re: [OSM-talk] GPX trace vandalism?

2009-02-23 Thread Tom Hughes
able to do so even if they wanted to. That said, my understanding is that Potlatch puts a break in the track whenever there is a jump in the timestamp. Richard can probably explain in more detail what it does. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu

Re: [OSM-talk] GPX trace vandalism?

2009-02-23 Thread Tom Hughes
application you are using is using the order of the points in the trace as the order in which to draw them but we don't import that information so we only have the timestamp to go on. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Openstreetbugs source code

2009-02-19 Thread Tom Hughes
answer is that it's a bad plan - bugs are not map data. I'm all for having the geo-bugs in the main database, in fact I would much prefer that, but they should be in a separate table. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu

Re: [OSM-talk] News blog link - to blogs.openstreetmap.org?

2009-02-17 Thread Tom Hughes
OJ W wrote: p.s. how come the OSM front page doesn't contain a link to the foundation website? Hysterical Raisins. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [OSM-talk] News blog link - to blogs.openstreetmap.org?

2009-02-17 Thread Tom Hughes
OJ W wrote: and how come sidebars on the map can be opened by: * clicking on one of the external links (map key) * selecting a map layer (data viewer) * selecting a tab (export) * submitting a form (search) Because those are the things which need them? Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu

Re: [OSM-talk] News blog link - to blogs.openstreetmap.org?

2009-02-17 Thread Tom Hughes
Tom Chance wrote: On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:50:04 +, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: OJ W wrote: and how come sidebars on the map can be opened by: * clicking on one of the external links (map key) * selecting a map layer (data viewer) * selecting a tab (export) * submitting a form

Re: [OSM-talk] Is it me?

2009-02-13 Thread Tom Hughes
(though I can amend the entries). Are you saying you literally can't type into the boxes? I can't begin to imagine what would cause that... I also don't think that page has changed for a long time, so it all sounds very odd to me. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu

Re: [OSM-talk] Is it me?

2009-02-13 Thread Tom Hughes
a reload with ctrl+shift reload and see if that fixes it. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Is it me?

2009-02-13 Thread Tom Hughes
of there is unclear... Especially if it is only happening on that page when all the pages have basically the same stucture. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] SVN rails_port questions: browse, relicensing

2009-02-11 Thread Tom Hughes
? or can we happily wait few months? You need to address those questions to the Foundation - I don't know anything more than you do as I haven't seen any drafts of the license that you haven't. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik updating more frequently?

2009-02-10 Thread Tom Hughes
not have a clue... http://twitter.com/openstreetmap I don't see any mention on there about a more-frequently updated Mapnik layer... Because it hasn't been mentioned there ;-) Both Shaun and Steve mentioned it in their feeds though. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http

Re: [OSM-talk] Donations and bank accounts

2009-02-06 Thread Tom Hughes
the transfer wouldn't be subject to SEPA rules and there would be no restrictions on the charges that could be levied. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [OSM-talk] donating read-only api-mirrors

2009-02-06 Thread Tom Hughes
the servers, both read-only and read-write, using the same database, or a slave of the same database rather than having lots of independent databases that try and stay in sync via external dumps and diffs. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] donating read-only api-mirrors

2009-02-06 Thread Tom Hughes
. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] donating read-only api-mirrors

2009-02-06 Thread Tom Hughes
Stefan de Konink wrote: Tom Hughes wrote: Yeah, it really is that simple, which is why us simple minded idiots that run the server are still doing it all in memory. There are at least 3 known alternative implementations that run semi-realtime :) So yeah keeping it in rails while

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] donating read-only api-mirrors

2009-02-06 Thread Tom Hughes
Stefan de Konink wrote: Tom Hughes wrote: This is only partly about rails. Even if you take rails out of the equation you still need to keep substantial amount of data in memory in order to know which objects to fetch. The substantial amount of memory you are talking about

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Problem exporting maps

2009-02-05 Thread Tom Hughes
the new planet dump is happening, so that may be what is going on. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Problem exporting maps

2009-02-05 Thread Tom Hughes
, may or may not be related That's because somebody was hammering the server repeatedly downloading the UK dump until I blocked them. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [OSM-talk] Donate today for OSM's £10,000 serv er fundraiser

2009-02-05 Thread Tom Hughes
jurisdictions have, so there is no special tax status for companies limited by guarantee. Only registered charities get special tax status and registering as a charity is much more onerous than just forming a non-profit company. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu

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

2009-02-03 Thread Tom Hughes
that attribution in the future. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-t...@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Export too big

2009-01-22 Thread Tom Hughes
as far as I can see. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Export too big

2009-01-22 Thread Tom Hughes
Raymond Bruman wrote: On Jan 22, 2009, at 12:52 AM, Tom Hughes wrote: Russ Nelson wrote: Earlier today, I tried an export almost 10K x 6K pixels, and got a warning message saying that the export was too large. Perhaps that message should contain a URL like http

Re: [OSM-talk] Export too big

2009-01-22 Thread Tom Hughes
Raymond Bruman wrote: On Jan 22, 2009, at 2:05 AM, Tom Hughes wrote: All I need to know is what options you are selecting on the export tab and exactly what the error message says (though I can probably find that myself given the options). Yes, because I may be in the wrong place

Re: [OSM-talk] Export too big

2009-01-22 Thread Tom Hughes
Russ Nelson wrote: On Jan 22, 2009, at 3:52 AM, Tom Hughes wrote: Can you explain a bit more about exactly what you tried to do and what the message you got was? Only the export tab doesn't give any such errors as far as I can see. I was unable to reproduce the error, unfortunately

Re: [OSM-talk] 0.6 move and downtime

2009-01-20 Thread Tom Hughes
count on being able to upload anything during that period. There is only one mapping party listed for that weekend on the wiki, and it doesn't have any details yet, which is part of the reason why that date was chosen as it will hopefully minimise the disruption caused. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t

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

2009-01-20 Thread Tom Hughes
Steven Le Roux wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 2:26 PM, sylvain letuffe li...@letuffe.org wrote: But the quoted link points to Stevens server (le-roux.info), doesn't it? ... Im slashdotted... :) No, you're heise'd, which is far far worse... Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http

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

2009-01-13 Thread Tom Hughes
imagine that getting a few fresh eyeballs on its design would be extremely helpful for OSM in the long run. Yeah, because none of us have any idea what we're doing, we're just a bunch of clueless fuckwits that are intent on buggering up everything. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http

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

2009-01-13 Thread Tom Hughes
in the sky hand waving ideas of the sort that lots of people have provided in the past. It's not like there is any great mystery about what is needed, or that there is some magic bullet such that somebody can say change this parameter to Y and it will go ten times faster. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t

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

2009-01-13 Thread Tom Hughes
of OSM. Like tile serving. No, something like that never occurred to us. If it had, we might have done something like running an experiment in getting a related project to cache our tiles for us. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu

Re: [OSM-talk] Setting up a talk-transit list - progress update

2009-01-08 Thread Tom Hughes
would have our list within 24 hours of asking but was obviously wrong on that. Well it might help if we knew who you had been emailing... Then at least we might know if you've been trying to reach the right person... For the record, the person you want is Mike Collinson. Tom -- Tom Hughes

Re: [OSM-talk] Setting up a talk-transit list - progress update

2009-01-08 Thread Tom Hughes
- I have done everything I can and am not going to put more effort into it at this point. I can't see any reason why there should be any politics involved. I imagine there is a far more mundane explanation. I've created it now anyway. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http

Re: [OSM-talk] Setting up a talk-transit list - progress update

2009-01-08 Thread Tom Hughes
Peter Miller wrote: Thanks Tom. However, can you also add a description as follows: Public transport/transit related discussions including bus/rail/tram/ferry/paratransit/share taxis etc You're the list owner, so you can do that yourself... Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http

Re: [OSM-talk] Trunk and primary routes in the UK

2009-01-01 Thread Tom Hughes
green signs and that secondary A roads have white signs. We use trunk for the former and primary for the latter as there are very few genuine trunk roads left and this distinction makes more sense as a result. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu

Re: [OSM-talk] Trunk and primary routes in the UK

2009-01-01 Thread Tom Hughes
was trying to say was wrong. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] GeoBase nodes import

2008-12-18 Thread Tom Hughes
to me... Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] GeoBase nodes import

2008-12-18 Thread Tom Hughes
up never being used and will just be deleted again. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [Talk-ca] [OSM-talk] GeoBase nodes import

2008-12-18 Thread Tom Hughes
up never being used and will just be deleted again. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] [OSM-talk] GeoBase nodes import

2008-12-18 Thread Tom Hughes
to me... Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: [OpenStreetMap] GPX Import Failure

2008-12-12 Thread Tom Hughes
NaN as the elevation. They also claim to be based on zero satellites, which seems a little unlikely... Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] Downtime

2008-12-05 Thread Tom Hughes
will be completed. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [Talk-GB] Speed limits in built-up areas

2008-12-04 Thread Tom Hughes
it as the limit is nearly always signed as well these days but the rule about street lights has never been rescinded as far as I know. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] OSM Foundation / Domains / Trademark

2008-12-02 Thread Tom Hughes
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Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal for a map-bug tracker (Openstreetbugs)

2008-11-29 Thread Tom Hughes
be for this to be a rails based system within the current database. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

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

2008-11-26 Thread Tom Hughes
reason to favour something at all really - quite the opposite in many ways. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Make Messaging public, or other changes?

2008-11-24 Thread Tom Hughes
are the ones who carefully strip the notice off when replying without actually managing to take any notice of it. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Make Messaging public, or other changes?

2008-11-24 Thread Tom Hughes
of flak about spam and things. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Anyone familiar with Pulkova 1932 coordinates?

2008-11-21 Thread Tom Hughes
to UTM by the looks of it. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM relation to kml

2008-11-19 Thread Tom Hughes
the relation/N/full method? Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Copyright of OSM-Logo

2008-11-17 Thread Tom Hughes
Peter Miller wrote: The minutes referred to in the post below don't appear to mention the trademark application. I can't find a reference to it in other minutes either. Am I missing something? The text Grant quoted is under point 4 about local chapters. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [OSM-talk] nicer wiki URLs

2008-11-14 Thread Tom Hughes
of the middle bit then fine, but just changing it seems a bit silly. As I said last weekend I had planned on getting rid of it when we moved machines, but the mediawiki manual scared me off. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu

Re: [OSM-talk] Markers on the slippy map

2008-11-10 Thread Tom Hughes
with your original URL is probably that the layer ordering has changed since the wiki page was written and your layer configuration was therefore incorrect and was turning off the marker layer. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu

Re: [OSM-talk] Wanted: Osm2pgsql.exe developer

2008-11-10 Thread Tom Hughes
) that the current svn code supports the features he asked about. What he really wants is just somebody to compile the current code for windows. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http

[OSM-talk] API Downtime

2008-11-07 Thread Tom Hughes
The API will be offline for a few hours starting at approximately 0800 GMT on Sunday morning (9th November) to allow a corrupt table to be repaired. I will try and keep the API running in readonly mode, but it that proves to be impossible it may have to be turned off completely. Tom -- Tom

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik rendering of paths + place=locality in general

2008-11-03 Thread Tom Hughes
already supports? It's no use saying never mind the debate. By that logic I could announce that in future I'm going to tag all motorways as highway=frog and demand that people never mind the debate and just render highway=frog as a motorway. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http

Re: [OSM-talk] Spam spam spam spam

2008-11-02 Thread Tom Hughes
Hugh Barnes wrote: On Sunday 02 November 2008, 23:06:05, Richard Fairhurst did write: Tom Hughes wrote: A wiki admin can delete it properly, and block the account. I guess that would involve nasty backdoor business in the database. Probably best to start working within the Mediawiki app

Re: [OSM-talk] Recent changes to slippymap Mapnik rendering

2008-10-29 Thread Tom Hughes
too pale. This one I definitely agree with. I much preferred the old station symbols. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Recent changes to slippymap Mapnik rendering

2008-10-29 Thread Tom Hughes
a shield is positioned relative to a POI, but we're talking about the positioning of text relative to the shield symbol that surrounds it. We don't use shields for POIs anyway, only for linear objects like roads, so the issue in the ticket won't affect us at all as far as I can see. Tom -- Tom

Re: [OSM-talk] osm2pgsql planet: frustrations, cutoffs, and idempotence

2008-10-27 Thread Tom Hughes
that you're seeing things in timestamp order. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] SEO

2008-10-27 Thread Tom Hughes
on with it ;-) Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] osm2pgsql planet: frustrations, cutoffs, and idempotence

2008-10-26 Thread Tom Hughes
that lasts many hours would be sensible or workable. BTW I'm not sure why you CCed the OSMF board on this... I don't think it needs their input at all. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk

Re: [OSM-talk] 55mb upload

2008-10-23 Thread Tom Hughes
the latency of talking to the api server. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] mapnik and openlayers?

2008-10-22 Thread Tom Hughes
possible. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] mapnik and openlayers?

2008-10-22 Thread Tom Hughes
Lukasz Szybalski wrote: On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 10:22 AM, Tom Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mapnik is just a rendering engine - where you put the tiles that it generates and how your web server maps URLs to those tiles is nothing to do with mapnik. Our mapnik tile server uses mod_tile

Re: [OSM-talk] mapnik and openlayers?

2008-10-22 Thread Tom Hughes
Lukasz Szybalski wrote: On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 10:43 AM, Tom Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lukasz Szybalski wrote: On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 10:22 AM, Tom Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mapnik is just a rendering engine - where you put the tiles that it generates and how your web server

Re: [OSM-talk] mapnik and openlayers?

2008-10-22 Thread Tom Hughes
that uses OL we can probably show you how to modify it to display an OSM layer. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] mapnik and openlayers?

2008-10-22 Thread Tom Hughes
to configure mapnik to render images that openlayer can use. You've been pointed at a web page that tells you how to do that. Please go and read it. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

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

2008-10-21 Thread Tom Hughes
the project. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ legal-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Administrators (was More vandalism)

2008-10-19 Thread Tom Hughes
Nic Roets wrote: Well, isn't it time then that we then appoint administrators ? Why? No special permissions are needed to revert edits... In fact there is no concept of an administrator at the moment beyond those people who administer the actual servers. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Talk-GB] URGENT: potential stand at Linux Expo Live

2008-10-19 Thread Tom Hughes
probably manage one day as well. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [OSM-talk] POI by coordinates

2008-10-16 Thread Tom Hughes
Maps is not allowed anyway! Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Spam on Diaries

2008-10-14 Thread Tom Hughes
* wordpress akismet plugin, If we were running wordpress that might be an excellent idea. * added captcha or * if with link do it simply as in osm-wiki Give that the spam appears to be manual it's not clear that either of these would help - both are aimed at combating bot spam. Tom -- Tom Hughes

Re: [OSM-talk] Spam on Diaries

2008-10-13 Thread Tom Hughes
to create accounts so we can look for patterns but I'm not hopeful. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

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

2008-10-09 Thread Tom Hughes
then it is automatically set on the control when you add it, so if you update then your original code will work. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org

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

2008-10-08 Thread Tom Hughes
because the benefit is minimal compared to the downside of having yet more stuff obscuring the map. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Need help!

2008-09-11 Thread Tom Hughes
that wherever people have attempted to manually repair the damage, things will remain in the manually repaired state and not be reverted. Dmitry - are you happy for Frederik to do the above to revert your edits? Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu

Re: [OSM-talk] arbitrary markers on main map

2008-09-02 Thread Tom Hughes
the View and Export tabs look the same for me. Works fine for me in IE. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [Talk-GB] Very accurate GPS devices

2008-08-29 Thread Tom Hughes
on the tractor/combine which uses the difference to correct it's own calculated position. What that allows you to do is to compensate for inaccuracy caused by local atmospheric conditions as you are generating a correction based on a local base station. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http

Re: [OSM-talk] error in osm

2008-08-28 Thread Tom Hughes
Ruby code) in public/500.html --- who do i need to send it to? It's less a question of who you need to send it to, and more a question of what you need to send ;-) A good start would be to tell us the URL of the page that is giving you trouble. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL

Re: [OSM-talk] error in osm

2008-08-28 Thread Tom Hughes
that actually had the error. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] [tech/API] Accessing tags set by a user for traces

2008-08-28 Thread Tom Hughes
currently, and even if you remove the duplicates there are about 40,000 or so. I don't think people are going to want to download 40,000 tags even if we wanted to let them. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing

Re: [OSM-talk] Height and Elevation

2008-08-15 Thread Tom Hughes
... Is this something you want to add to the main database, or some auxiliary service you plan to run? Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetBugs as a layer into OSM main map

2008-08-11 Thread Tom Hughes
by integrating OpenStreetBugs into it or by making another same kind of utility. The right way to do it would have been to write OSB as an extension to the main web site, and if somebody wants to do that then that would be great. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetBugs as a layer into OSM main map

2008-08-11 Thread Tom Hughes
) and not get bogged down in trying to do lots of things at once. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Downloading compressed data from API

2008-08-10 Thread Tom Hughes
compressed transfers. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Downloading compressed data from API

2008-08-10 Thread Tom Hughes
do it, but it will also decompress it automatically so the fact that the network traffic is compressed will be transparent. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [OSM-talk] Data layer

2008-08-08 Thread Tom Hughes
- most browsers can't cope with large numbers. Firefox 3 does seem to manage rather more though I agree. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo

Re: [OSM-talk] Data layer

2008-08-08 Thread Tom Hughes
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] David Earl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 08/08/2008 17:20, Tom Hughes wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] David Earl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The history dates would be a little easier to read if the 'T' in the data/time string were replaced

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-GB] Wales weekend - will have to cancel - anyone want my place?

2008-08-07 Thread Tom Hughes
to be flying out to the US for three weeks on the Monday... So would anyone be interested in my place? I've already paid so would be ideal if I could get that back from you if possible. Snap. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu

Re: [Talk-GB] Wales weekend - will have to cancel - anyone want my place?

2008-08-07 Thread Tom Hughes
to be flying out to the US for three weeks on the Monday... So would anyone be interested in my place? I've already paid so would be ideal if I could get that back from you if possible. Snap. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu

Re: [OSM-talk] tagging trailblazes / marked paths

2008-08-05 Thread Tom Hughes
for each path. Given that most of the UK examples on the wiki were actually wrong by their own definition last time I looked I certainly plan to stick to what we've always done. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk

Re: [OSM-talk] New mailing list for Argentina

2008-08-04 Thread Tom Hughes
will certainly help. Who should I contact to get the list created? Me, and I've just created it. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] request for osm-ph mailing list

2008-07-29 Thread Tom Hughes
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] maning sambale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where do I request for a creation of OSM Philippines mailing list? I can sort it out. Are you going to be the list owner? Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagwatch and osmxapi-links

2008-07-29 Thread Tom Hughes
documented. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

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