Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap routing service

2008-09-07 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
On 7 Sep 2008, at 19:42, Richard Fairhurst wrote: Nic Roets wrote: The wiki describes a trunk road as a road with a high maxspeed. I deduce that pedestrians and cyclists are not allowed. Certainly allowed in the UK (except for one or two roads with specific exceptions, e.g. A465 down the

[Talk-GB] Next 2 London Mapping Marathon Events

2008-09-07 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
Hi London Mappers, The next 2 London Mapping Marathon parties are now set, please take a look at their wiki page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/London/Summer_2008_Mapping_Party_Marathon/2008-09-10

Re: [OSM-talk] ferry route speed

2008-09-02 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
On 1 Sep 2008, at 23:54, Mark Williams wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Groom wrote: When tagging ferry routes is anyone tagging ferry speed, and if so do you simply add maxspeed = ?? to thr route? david There was a recent discussion on the routing list

Re: [OSM-talk] mailing list behavior

2008-09-02 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
On 2 Sep 2008, at 00:32, Sascha Silbe wrote: On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 12:58:48AM +0200, bvh wrote: Well, and it breaks my expectation of what reply means in the context of a public discussion. Should you have different expectations, see the documentation of your mail client (hint :

[Talk-GB] Euston Mapping Party tomorrow

2008-09-02 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
Hi London mappers, The next 3 London Mapping Parties have been set, with the cake drawn ready. They are in the Regent Park area, where OpenStreetMap started out in 2004. The style of mapping here will be different to the previous mapping parties, as it is more of a check the data and add pois

Re: [OSM-talk] Diaries via a GeoRSS Box Filter

2008-08-27 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
Seems you want http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-geo/ Shaun Gregory wrote: That's really cool. I should really sort out georeferencing my blog posts (might need to hack WordPress a bit or find a plugin, and then I want to add an OSM map or link to my template). Then you could put the

Re: [OSM-talk] Administrative boundaries (UK)

2008-08-25 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
Hi Bob, Use the information on the ground. You will usually find signs welcoming you to the new area. It may be a few hundred metres either side, so look for the change in tar quality. You may also find that bin mapping is an option since the council often puts their name on the bins. (In

[Talk-GB] Tulse Hill Mapping Party on Wednesday

2008-08-18 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
Hi London Mappers, The next mapping party in the London Mapping Marathon is on Wednesday in Tulse Hill, South London. The cake is now ready, so grab you piece. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/London/Summer_2008_Mapping_Party_Marathon/2008-08-20 Please also say that you are going to

Re: [OSM-talk] last person to edit?

2008-08-17 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
Hi Graham, Try using the data layer on the OpenStreetMap web site. Click the little + on the top right of the map, and then check the data layer option. You can then click on the way/node to find the information that you require, including the full history. Shaun graham wrote: Hi, Sorry,

[Talk-GB] Tulse Hill Mapping Party

2008-08-15 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
Hello London Mappers, The next mapping party in the London Mapping Marathon will be in Tulse Hill. Please sign up on the wiki at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/London/Summer_2008_Mapping_Party_Marathon/2008-08-20 and state that you are attending on the upcoming page:

Re: [OSM-talk] osm in flickr

2008-08-12 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
Hi, I see the attribution in the very bottom left hand corner in both Firefox on Ubuntu and Safari on Mac OS X. Shaun Oliver Lewis wrote: When I navigate to this link, I don't see any attribution. This could be a browser issue, so I'm just curious what the rest of you are getting.

Re: [OSM-talk] bus_stop / bus_station

2008-08-08 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
Stefan Neufeind wrote: Hi, I just discovered there is highway=bus_stop and amenity=bus_station According to map features the latter is for a larger bus_station with several bus-stops etc. Having a closer look I saw that they are shown differently e.g. in JOSM. highway=bus_stop in this

Re: [Talk-GB] QUESTION

2008-08-06 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
Do you know of an application that will store a track log of where you have been? If you find one, then it should be possible. Shaun Angela .E. wrote: Hi All, Just wandering can I use my iphone 3g for the GPS mapping? As the phone is got GPS Regards, Angela Egbunu

[OSM-talk] Planet-OSM has moved

2008-08-05 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
Hi, For those who are wondering why planet-osm.shaunmcdonald.me.uk isn't working. It's because of a blip in my web host move. It is now available from http://blogs.openstreetmap.org/ Shaun ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Using osm2pgsql to keep up with dailies?

2008-08-03 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
You will need to use the new --slim option on the initial import, and then pass a special param when loading the diff. See http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2008-July/010930.html for more information. Shaun On 3 Aug 2008, at 01:24, Michal Migurski wrote: Hi, I just did my

Re: [OSM-talk] Actually using OpenStreetMap and the usability of the current maps

2008-07-28 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
Brian Quinion wrote: One would think that getting all of the capitals tagged would be easy, however going and grabbing it from sites linked to google I'm assuming would almost certainly be a no no. Can we use information from wikipedia? For example.

Re: [OSM-talk] Names, split streets and relations

2008-07-27 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
On 27 Jul 2008, at 20:09, Gervase Markham wrote: I have a situation (which I suspect is very common) where a street is split into e.g. 3 ways, because the middle one is part of a bus route or other relation. If you label all three ways with name=Foo Street, you get Foo Street

[Talk-GB] New Cross Mapping party Tomorrow

2008-07-22 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
Hi Mappers, The next mapping party in the mapping party marathon is tomorrow in New Cross. New Cross and New Cross Gate stations have good connections within South London. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/London/Summer_2008_Mapping_Party_Marathon/2008-07-23 This week the cake has been

Re: [OSM-talk] Using highway links

2008-07-20 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
u didn't replied on the list? Accidentally hit reply instead of reply all. On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Shaun McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Use the highest classification. Trunk - primary/secondary = trunk_link Motorway - trunk/primary/secondary = motorway_link Shaun On 20

Re: [OSM-talk] New: 'OSM Mapper' for OpenStreetMap Contributors, by Ito World

2008-07-19 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
On 19 Jul 2008, at 19:44, Tim Waters (chippy) wrote: It is a very good tool! many many thanks! It's making me want to map more, to climb higher up the charts, heh. Also, I note, that for my area, over half the contributors add just one or two features, a pub here, a road there. This is

Re: [OSM-talk] Metro Manila Philippines needs some OSM love

2008-07-16 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
John McKerrell wrote: [..] I realised the fact that I missed the edit link so much is because my own map page that I normally use has one, so I've now added the no names layer to it: http://johnmckerrell.com/map/ Select Mapnik then click on the little arrow and select Highlighted.

Re: [OSM-talk] Metro Manila Philippines needs some OSM love

2008-07-15 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
Philip Shipley wrote: I have started this section on this page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Yahoo!_Aerial_Imagery#Problems_with_tracing_Yahoo http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Yahoo%21_Aerial_Imagery#Problems_with_tracing_Yahoo Many of the suggestions

Re: [Talk-GB] QUESTION

2008-07-15 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
Angela .E. wrote: Hi All, I noticed when trying to upload data on the OSM i had the option to make my data public or private - why do we have this option? I thought the whole point of the map is to make it available to all. See http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Upload If you have

[Talk-GB] London/Summer 2008 Mapping Party Marathon/2008-07-16 - OpenStreetMap

2008-07-15 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
Hi, Just a quick reminder about tomorrow's mapping party in Stratford, London. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/London/Summer_2008_Mapping_Party_Marathon/2008-07-16 Shaun___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Metro Manila Philippines needs some OSM love

2008-07-14 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
maning sambale wrote: [...] 3. add a fixme tag. Isn't that what the highway=road tag is for? I'll warn that sometimes the usage of Yahoo imagery can slow down later editing. Shaun ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Metro Manila Philippines needs some OSM love

2008-07-14 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
John McKerrell wrote: On 14 Jul 2008, at 16:32, Shaun McDonald wrote: maning sambale wrote: [...] 3. add a fixme tag. Isn't that what the highway=road tag is for? I'll warn that sometimes the usage of Yahoo imagery can slow down later editing. Shaun, do

Re: [OSM-talk] UK post box data

2008-07-05 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
On 5 Jul 2008, at 14:36, Tom Taylor wrote: Hello all, I recently made a Freedom of Information Act request for the location of every UK post box. Royal Mail responded with a 1600 page PDF containing their info. http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/location_of_every_post_box_that I did

Re: [OSM-talk] UK post box data

2008-07-05 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
On 5 Jul 2008, at 15:49, Tom Taylor wrote: On 5 Jul 2008, at 15:29, Shaun McDonald wrote: The problem is that you are geocoding using Yahoo's geocoding services. Which simply isn't compatible with the OSM licence. If you were to use OSM or free the postcode data for doing the geocoding

[Talk-GB] Peckham Mapping Party on Wednesday

2008-07-05 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
Hi, The next mapping party in the London Mapping Marathon will be in the Peckham to South Bermondsey area. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/London/Summer_2008_Mapping_Party_Marathon/2008-07-09 Hope to see some of you there. Shaun___ Talk-GB

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetBugs

2008-07-01 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
X wrote: Florian L. : Rennes is quite far away from where i typically look - I have set a permlink bookmark but sometimes its even easier as this. I know this is very frustrating. An idea would be to give a global view of the Europe as a default zoom. But with such a low zoom,

[Talk-GB] Herne Hill Mapping Party

2008-06-24 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
Hi Mappers, The Next Mapping Party as part of the London Mapping Marathon is tomorrow in Herne Hill. The cake is now available at: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/London/Summer_2008_Mapping_Party_Marathon/2008-06-25 Shaun ___ Talk-GB mailing

[Talk-GB] Isle of Dogs London Mapping Party Tomorrow

2008-06-17 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
Hi Mappers, The next mapping party in the London Mapping Marathon is tomorrow on the Isle of Dogs. Information is on the wiki page, with the cake diagram. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/London/Summer_2008_Mapping_Party_Marathon/2008-06-18 Don't be deceived by the underlying maps as

Re: [OSM-talk] Ways on bus route relations

2008-06-16 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
Ben Laenen wrote: On Monday 16 June 2008, Jo wrote: What is a bit problematic with how it is done now, is that when one splits a road that is already part of a relation. This other relation becomes broken, so one should be careful to fix it/them as well. If you split a way which is

Re: [OSM-talk] JOSM cut and paste between layers results in position change

2008-06-11 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
On 11 Jun 2008, at 08:06, David Earl wrote: On 11/06/2008 04:32, Adam Schreiber wrote: On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 10:56 PM, Simon Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Q). Is there some what to duplicate a way/node on another layer without this displacement? I've run into this bug during the US

[Talk-GB] South Bermondsey Mapping Party

2008-06-10 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
Hi everyone, The next mapping party on Wednesday will be in South Bermondsey. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/London/Summer_2008_Mapping_Party_Marathon/2008-06-11 Hopefully we'll get everything from South Bermondsey in the South to the Thames in the north, and London Bridge in the

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] noname streets

2008-06-09 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
On 9 Jun 2008, at 11:15, Nick Whitelegg wrote: SteveC wrote: I'd like to define some roads that really don't have a name so that they drop off the noname map. [..] Maybe name:__none__. Or something. Sounds good to me.. +1 What about just name=? Editors don't allow for empty tags

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] noname streets

2008-06-09 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
On 9 Jun 2008, at 18:46, Karl Newman wrote: On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Dave Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Alex Mauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave Stubbs wrote: Maybe, but you're then asking, reviewed what/how?. And you're back to specifying

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] noname streets

2008-06-09 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
On 9 Jun 2008, at 19:38, Alex Mauer wrote: Dave Stubbs wrote: We have literally thousands of miles of unnamed roads in London... and the vast, vast majority of these /should/ have names. And I'm going to go try and fix them, and would like to know when not to bother. When it's a

Re: [OSM-talk] Don't you just hate it when part 2...

2008-06-08 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
On 8 Jun 2008, at 23:35, Nick Whitelegg wrote: On Sunday 08 Jun 2008 22:35, you wrote: yes! I do hate it,. but not because I don't regret walking or being outside, Same with me too, though I might have gone somewhere else if I'd known! Guess the lesson is to make sure you know what the

Re: [Talk-GB] Stratford Mapping Party, Wednesday

2008-06-03 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
Quoting Shaun McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Mappers, The next London Mapping Marathon Meetup is going to be on Wednesday in Stratford. The pub will be King Edward VII, which is just 5 minutes walk from the Stratford train interchange. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/London

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Approved: path, designated. Rejected: *way deprecation

2008-06-02 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
On 2 Jun 2008, at 21:31, Alex Mauer wrote: Karl Eichwalder wrote: Alex Mauer schrieb: The access restrictions on the road (no bicycles if there is an accompanying cycle route) don't affect the access on the cycle route itself. Obviously legality of use by other modes of

Re: [OSM-talk] Tile data server

2008-05-31 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
On 31 May 2008, at 22:47, Nic Roets wrote: - still contains node IDs, so you can locate connections (unlike postGIS linestrings) You can locate connections without node IDs. Just index the coordinates according to the concatenation of lat and lon. Where lat1=lat2 and lon1=lon2, it most

[Talk-GB] Stratford Mapping Party, Wednesday

2008-05-31 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
Hi Mappers, The next London Mapping Marathon Meetup is going to be on Wednesday in Stratford. The pub will be King Edward VII, which is just 5 minutes walk from the Stratford train interchange.

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik Import Error

2008-05-29 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
On 28 May 2008, at 23:21, Bruce Cowan wrote: On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 14:11 -0500, Ian Dees wrote: Ahh, thanks. This version of osm2pgsql was installed via apt-get. Can we get an updated version on the multiverse servers? Due to Ubuntu's ridiculous bureaucracy levels, this wouldn't happen

Re: [OSM-talk] National borders - mapnik

2008-05-29 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
On 29 May 2008, at 10:35, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote: Steve Chilton wrote: Sent: 28 May 2008 10:01 PM To: Beau Gunderson Cc: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] National borders - mapnik See example from UK: http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~steve8/borders.jpg Border

Re: [OSM-talk] National borders in the British Islands

2008-05-29 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
On 29 May 2008, at 11:41, Dermot McNally wrote: 2008/5/29 Richard Fairhurst [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Dermot McNally wrote: 2008/5/29 Steve Chilton [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Scotland and Wales are countries. Only in the same traditional folk-consciousness way that Bavaria or Hessen are.

Re: [OSM-talk] How can wide intersections be mapped?

2008-05-23 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
Do you have some photos of this junction? On 23 May 2008, at 01:01, David Muir Sharnoff wrote: I'm trying to figure out how to represent an intersection that is very wide: a traffic circle could placed in the middle without moving the edges. I've tried adding extra ways for various ways

Re: [OSM-talk] How can wide intersections be mapped?

2008-05-23 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
, at 07:39, Shaun McDonald wrote: Do you have some photos of this junction? On 23 May 2008, at 01:01, David Muir Sharnoff wrote: I'm trying to figure out how to represent an intersection that is very wide: a traffic circle could placed in the middle without moving the edges. I've tried adding

Re: [Talk-GB] Isle of Dogs Mapping Party

2008-05-21 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
On 20 May 2008, at 08:49, Shaun McDonald wrote: Hi Mappers, [...] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/London/Summer_2008_Mapping_Party_Marathon/2008-05-21 The cake will come by lunch time. For those that haven't noticed, the cake is available to sign up to. Shaun

Re: [Talk-GB] Isle of Dogs Mapping Party

2008-05-21 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
On 21 May 2008, at 12:31, Jonathan Bennett wrote: Shaun McDonald wrote: For those that haven't noticed, the cake is available to sign up to. The cake is a lie. The cake is a lie... I'm currently planning on using the same diagram for 4 weeks time. Shaun

[Talk-GB] Isle of Dogs Mapping Party

2008-05-20 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
Hi Mappers, The next Micro Mapping party in the 2008 London Mapping Marathon will be tomorrow on the Isle of Dogs, on the north side of the River Thames. The after mapping map up will be The Watermans Inn. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.48861lon=-0.0058zoom=17layers=0BFT We will be

Re: [Talk-GB] Isle of Dogs Mapping Party

2008-05-20 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shaun McDonald Sent: 20 May 2008 08:50 To: Talk GB Subject: [Talk-GB] Isle of Dogs Mapping Party Hi Mappers, The next Micro Mapping party in the 2008 London Mapping Marathon will be tomorrow on the Isle of Dogs

[Talk-GB] StreetCar information in OSM

2008-05-20 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
Hi, I've noticed a lot of nodes, such as http://openstreetmap.org/api/0.5/node/264905226/history which have a source=WebSite. The relevant page on the streetcar site is http://www.streetcar.co.uk/location.aspx?location=521 I'm wondering whether this derivation is allowed. Shaun

Re: [OSM-talk] HOWTO: edit GPX tracks using JOSM

2008-05-18 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
On 18 May 2008, at 00:50, Rory McCann wrote: Hi, I've just got my NaviGPS BGT-31 and I made my first trace today. I got the data off it with gpsbabel 1.3.5 and got it into GPX format. However I wanted to clean it up a bit first. I couldn't find any way to edit it. I was able to

Re: [OSM-talk] HOWTO: edit GPX tracks using JOSM

2008-05-18 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
On 18 May 2008, at 08:22, Tom Hughes wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Shaun McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 18 May 2008, at 00:50, Rory McCann wrote: I've just got my NaviGPS BGT-31 and I made my first trace today. I got the data off it with gpsbabel 1.3.5 and got

Re: [OSM-talk] HOWTO: edit GPX tracks using JOSM

2008-05-18 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
On 18 May 2008, at 08:54, Tom Hughes wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Shaun McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 18 May 2008, at 08:22, Tom Hughes wrote: The timestamps should be in the original GPX file produced by gpsbabel so that should be uploadable, and it is the original

Re: [OSM-talk] HOWTO: edit GPX tracks using JOSM

2008-05-18 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
On 18 May 2008, at 10:15, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, Can JOSM really do the GPX - OSM - GPX round trip without losing lots of information though? Depends on what's there in the first place ;-) if you have a GPS that stores only lat/lon/time in the GPX then there's nothing much to lose.

Re: [OSM-talk] [Tagging] Voting open for Bridge proposal

2008-05-18 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
On 18 May 2008, at 16:07, Gervase Markham wrote: Raphael Studer wrote: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Bridge This has now been approved, with 15 votes. How, that was fast :) Now lets find a way to render viaduct and swing. Swing is usually rendered, at least

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenPlantMap

2008-05-16 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
This data is a little bit on the specialised side for osm. I would say that it would be better to setup a separate database and site specifically for this purpose based on the current osm software and tools. Then if they want to map roads they deal with that from the osm data side. When

Re: [OSM-talk] difference between waterway=canal and waterway=drain

2008-05-16 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
On 16 May 2008, at 16:50, Alex Mauer wrote: Karl Newman wrote: Wow, that's not obvious to the casual (non-UK) observer. In the US, the usage of canal is different. They're almost never navigable, and even small drainage ditches are commonly called canals. Almost no-one here would

Re: [OSM-talk] difference between waterway=canal and waterway=drain

2008-05-16 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
On 16 May 2008, at 18:12, Alex Mauer wrote: Shaun McDonald wrote: I have the only remaining part of the Croydon canal near me. It is only a few hundred metres long, and is now left to nature. A century ago the other parts of the canal were filled in and changed to railway. Presumably

Re: [OSM-talk] difference between waterway=canal and waterway=drain

2008-05-16 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
On 16 May 2008, at 21:37, OJ W wrote: I'm still interested in this definition of aquaeduct though, since the wikipedia definition of man-made water-carrying thingie differs from OSM's definition of waterway on a bridge My definition of a canal is some waterway on a bridge. Shaun

Re: [OSM-talk] Partners sought for cycle routing project

2008-05-14 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
On 14 May 2008, at 12:53, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, The UK is also setting out on creating data for a cycle journey planner using a mixture of professionally and community collected data. So this is a government-funded project? Looks like it is the department for Transport who are setting

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging bridleways

2008-05-14 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
On 14 May 2008, at 09:35, Nick Whitelegg wrote: and maybe add motorcar=private though I don't really consider this essential. I find it interesting that you use motorcar, as I generally just use car, as that is what I think is on the wiki (unless someone has decided to change it). Shaun

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging bridleways

2008-05-14 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
On 14 May 2008, at 16:18, Steve Hill wrote: On Wed, 14 May 2008, Shaun McDonald wrote: I find it interesting that you use motorcar, as I generally just use car, as that is what I think is on the wiki (unless someone has decided to change it). The wiki uses motorcar as the access

Re: [OSM-talk] difference between waterway=canal and waterway=drain

2008-05-14 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
On 14 May 2008, at 17:18, Karl Newman wrote: [..] In certain cases, yes. It depends on the season and the location. In a drainage canal near my house (would be called a stream if it were natural), the water stops flowing in summer, but there are generally pools in certain areas that

Re: [OSM-talk] area topology

2008-05-13 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
On 13 May 2008, at 14:06, Ulf Mehlig wrote: Please excuse me if this is a FAQ, I just didn't find an answer in the wiki (possibly because it is obvious) ... In topological GISses like grass, borders are shared between adjacent (vector) areas. However, I wonder how adjacent areas should be

[Talk-GB] Next London Mapping Marathon event in Kennington tomorrow

2008-05-13 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
Hi everyone, I've now made the cake diagram, so choose your segments. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/London/Summer_2008_Mapping_Party_Marathon/2008-05-14#Cake_diagram The meetup point is The Dog House on the corner of Kennington Road and Kennington Lane, one main road west of

Re: [OSM-talk] finding user

2008-05-07 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
Do you have a map url? What user id is being reported? I have seen instances where a user has started their username with a space and it has thrown various things. Shaun On 7 May 2008, at 22:37, Florian Lohoff wrote: Hi, today i found someone deleted roundabouts i mapped (and just the

Re: [OSM-talk] tracking down the 'owner' of a track

2008-05-05 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
On 5 May 2008, at 22:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Is there a method of tracking down the 'owner' of a GPS track? There is a trac ticket for this: http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/274 Have you taken a look in your osm user account? It should tell you your 10 nearest neighbours.

Re: [Talk-GB] mapping props

2008-05-04 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
On 4 May 2008, at 14:59, Matthew Gates wrote: I don't know about anyone else, but sometimes I get some pretty odd looks while out mapping - especially in residential areas where there are a lot of elderly people. They watch me cycling up to the end of their quiet cul-de-sac's and

Re: [Talk-GB] mapping props

2008-05-04 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
You might be interested in this podcast: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ipm/2008/04/show_notes_taking_photographs.shtml It is something that is starting to get media attention. Shaun On 4 May 2008, at 15:29, SteveC wrote: Yes I;ve found high-vis vests very useful. Beyond that, I sometimes

Re: [OSM-talk] zoom yahoo data in potlatch?

2008-05-03 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
On 3 May 2008, at 03:40, Christopher Schmidt wrote: On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 12:51:43PM +1200, Robin Paulson wrote: In the majority of the world, OAM and Yahoo! imagery are the same -- both based on Landsat. The difference, in those areas, is that OAM will display tiles far above 1:1

Re: [OSM-talk] WTF ! (about gps traces)

2008-05-03 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
On 3 May 2008, at 16:58, Sven Grüner wrote: Karl Newman schrieb: Or maybe the tracks need a moderation/voting system. If the tracks are voted down below a certain threshold, they won't be downloaded? Would need some careful thought to prevent malicious voting down of good tracks,

Re: [OSM-talk] failed to build mapnik with postgres support

2008-05-03 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
On 3 May 2008, at 23:30, Hanno Böck wrote: Hi, I'm trying to compile mapnik on gentoo with postgis support. scons always says: Checking for C library proj... yes Checking for C library iconv... no nor can it find the iconv library. In general, for dependancies, you use your software

[Talk-GB] Stockwell Mapping Party tomorrow

2008-04-29 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
Hi Everyone, http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/London/Summer_2008_Mapping_Party_Marathon/2008-04-30 We now have a pub organised for the next after mapping meetup. It is the Priory Arms. It is on Lansdowne Way to the north west of stockwell tube station. The idea is to meetup between

Re: [OSM-talk] RSS Feed for Image of the Week

2008-04-27 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
Now on Planet OpenStreetMap: http://planet-osm.shaunmcdonald.me.uk/ On 27 Apr 2008, at 07:40, Jochen Topf wrote: Hi! If you want to always see the current Image of the Week in your RSS reader, point it at http://geo.topf.org/iotw.rss There is a little script behind it, that gets the

Re: [OSM-talk] Vandalism in Trumpington

2008-04-27 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
On 27 Apr 2008, at 17:52, David Earl wrote: On 26/04/2008 23:36, David Earl wrote: This user has removed or overlaid quite a few roads around Trumpington, Cambridge, and replaced several streets with cycleways, run a tertiary road along the river and across a farm track, and generally

Re: [OSM-talk] Bus Stops

2008-04-24 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
On 24 Apr 2008, at 03:40, Peter Miller wrote: Comments in line -Original Message- From: Shaun McDonald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 April 2008 00:22 To: Peter Miller Cc: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Bus Stops On 23 Apr 2008, at 17:45, Peter Miller wrote

Re: [OSM-talk] Bus Stops

2008-04-23 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
On 23 Apr 2008, at 17:45, Peter Miller wrote: The EU standard Transmodel defines a Stop Point as 'A POINT where passengers can board or alight from vehicles'. For bus stops this means a single pole, shelter etc and for a place where there are three poles for different services close

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM on factory Macs

2008-04-22 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
Hi, On 21 Apr 2008, at 22:24, Martijn van Exel wrote: Op 21 apr 2008, om 22:46 heeft Frederik Ramm het volgende geschreven: Hi, Hi Frederik, for an upcoming OSM booth we have the offer of a local Apple dealer to supply us with all the hardware we want (including 30+ displays and all).

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM on factory Macs

2008-04-22 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
On 22 Apr 2008, at 11:52, Sebastian Spaeth wrote: Frederik Ramm wrote: [...] My question to the Mac users out there: Will those Macs be suitable for demonstrating all important aspects of OSM, i.e. * Slippy Map (heard rumours that it runs sub-optimal on Safari, always loading tiles for

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM on factory Macs

2008-04-22 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
On 22 Apr 2008, at 12:43, Frederik Ramm wrote: [...] Ok I'm now convinced that I can use the Macs. Brilliant. Someone said that zooming in JOSM is a pain sometimes; I just want to point out that you can zoom in increments with Ctrl-, and Ctrl-. (comma and decimal point). Useful, though

Re: [Talk-GB] Edinburgh/Glasgow meetup

2008-02-15 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
On 14 Feb 2008, at 14:16, Keith Sharp wrote: On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 12:59 +, Shaun McDonald wrote: On 13 Feb 2008, at 12:23, Chris Fleming wrote: Shaun McDonald wrote: On 12 Feb 2008, at 23:49, Chris Fleming wrote: I was think of going for beers, in order to scheme and talk about

Re: [Talk-GB] Edinburgh/Glasgow meetup

2008-02-12 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
Week. I'm currently thinking of sometime in the next ~fortnight as it is a more local meetup, rather than a larger one. Sorry if I'm moving things forward a bit too fast. Shaun Cheers Chris On Feb 12, 2008 11:46 PM, Callum Noble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shaun McDonald wrote: On 8 Feb

Re: [Talk-GB] Summer Wales Party / Isle of Wight Redux... Was: Re: Worcester

2008-01-12 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
On 12 Jan 2008, at 01:05, Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote: [..] How about systematically covering the UK, starting at Lands End and working East and North, either by drawing a line that runs North West / South East that shows the extent of mapped area, or by mapping all the counties along the

Re: [Talk-GB] London Stay

2007-09-14 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
On 14 Sep 2007, at 12:43, Andreas Brauchli wrote: [..] since i'm an OSMapper i'm not gonna go on vacation without my gps. are there still spots in central london that need coverage (i've seen you GB-guys have been very active!)? maybe tube stations, parks, ..? You'll probably find that any

Re: [Talk-GB] [OSM-talk] dangerous cycling lanes (was Re: A new highwaytagging scheme - thinking about)

2007-08-29 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
On 29 Aug 2007, at 12:55, Andy Allan wrote: On 8/29/07, Richard Fairhurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] The ncn and rcn are more generic, so that other countries can use the same tags. However these definitions are pretty much correct for the UK. ncn - Sustrans National Cycle network (in

Re: [Talk-GB] NaviGPS for Devon?

2007-08-25 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
Do you have a 256MB card or larger, as it should be enough. You didn't mention the dates that you need the GPS. Shaun On 25 Aug 2007, at 14:05, OJW wrote: Is there a NaviGPS that I could borrow for the Devon party? I'm just looking for a backup GPS which can record all 4 days at 1/sec

Re: [Talk-GB] Getting a Load of CDs printed

2007-08-21 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
Hello Nick, I have a Canon PIXMA iP4200, which includes a CD printing facility. I have a bunch of printable DVDs. It is inkjet, so if you do touch it when it is wet, then you will get smudges. Professional CD/DVD printers use pretty much the same method, though do a whole batch, rather

Re: [Talk-GB] Bridges (Edinburgh)

2007-08-08 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
On 8 Aug 2007, at 13:38, Minty wrote: I've noticed many bridges around Edinburgh appear to be done using three seperate Ways See George IV Bridge, and also Castle Terrace if you pan to the left a little. http://tinyurl.com/298f7t * way_before_bridge * way_for_bridge * way_after_bridge

Re: [Talk-GB] Bridges (Edinburgh)

2007-08-08 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
On 8 Aug 2007, at 14:34, David A Fiddes wrote: The rendering problem is fixed by adding the appropriate osmarender tags to instruct it not to render Name or Ref for the bridge. That is not fixing the renderer. That is a workaround for the problem. I am fixing this and other similar where

Re: [Talk-GB] Bridges (Edinburgh)

2007-08-08 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
On 8 Aug 2007, at 18:03, Minty wrote: Thanks for all the advice on bridges. On 8/8/07, Shaun McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To select a specific way read http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/JOSM/Advanced_Tricks item 2. Got multiple objects on top of each other and can't see them

[Talk-GB] Edinburgh Mapping Party 25th and 26th August 2007

2007-07-30 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
Hi Everyone, The date of the Edinburgh Mapping Party has been decided to be the 25th and 26th of August 2007. (English Bank Holiday weekend). More information from http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Edinburgh/MappingParty/2007-Q3 More information will be coming soon. Shaun

[Talk-GB] Fwd: NCN refs - consistency

2007-07-11 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
forwarded message: From: Andy Allan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 11 July 2007 13:05:52 BDT To: Shaun McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] NCN refs - consistency Sounds good. Send it to the list though :-) On 7/11/07, Shaun McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11 Jul 2007, at 11:51, Andy

Re: [Talk-GB] Southampton mapping party

2007-05-26 Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
On 26 May 2007, at 23:09, Gregory/LastGrape wrote: [..] Thanks for the nudge, I looked in further as to why JOSM wasn't working for me and ended up chopping up the file several times (I'll do a smaller area at a time in future!). Finally got it all uploaded and then looked at [EMAIL

Re: [OSM-talk] NoName

-- Diskussionsfäden Shaun McDonald
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