Re: [Talk-us] A Friendly Guide to 'Bots and Imports

2010-08-05 Thread Ian Dees
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: One thing I'm wondering about: how useful is a small piece of a future larger import? For example, there's the National Hydrography Dataset, import of which is apparently being coordinated on the wiki. I've imported

Re: [Talk-us] A Friendly Guide to 'Bots and Imports

2010-08-05 Thread Ian Dees
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: I think the NHD import is a good example of a well-intentioned importer (me) gone wrong. I had initially planned to import the whole darn thing

Re: [Talk-us] A Friendly Guide to 'Bots and Imports

2010-08-05 Thread Ian Dees
On Sat, Jan 8, 2000 at 3:20 PM, Katie Filbert filbe...@gmail.com wrote: The difference with NHD is that we are leaving conversion to osm format for the local mapper / importer. Since OSM US has server space, maybe that's good use of it to host converted data ready for import. I like this...

Re: [Talk-us] A Friendly Guide to 'Bots and Imports

2010-08-05 Thread Ian Dees
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.netalan_mintz%2b...@earthlink.net wrote: At 2010-08-05 11:52, Ian Dees wrote: ... It isn't any different. I had made the (bad) decision at the time to import over any existing data because in the several hundred places I

Re: [OSM-talk] Death by a thousand nitpicks

2010-08-04 Thread Ian Dees
2010/8/4 Stefan de Konink ste...@konink.de On Wed, 4 Aug 2010, Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote: On 04/08/2010 19:01, ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen wrote: Let's create a fund to pay for license related legal action ;)) After all it is so sad having a license and not be able

Re: [OSM-talk] Death by a thousand nitpicks

2010-08-04 Thread Ian Dees
2010/8/4 Stefan de Konink ste...@konink.de On Wed, 4 Aug 2010, Ian Dees wrote: Wait, how did the thread about NOT nitpicking over licensing issues turn into a donate so we can hire lawyers to nitpick thread? Probably because some people instead of doing something with our data (like big

Re: [OSM-talk] Revert requests in general

2010-08-04 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 4:53 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.comwrote: I'm slightly confused by all this talk about needing contractual agreements with all the end users and the OSM-F, or needing to identify Nearmap users to OSM-F. OSM already has data in the database from other

Re: [OSM-talk] Revert requests in general

2010-08-04 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 10:20 PM, Ben Last ben.l...@nearmap.com wrote: It's somewhat frustrating to find this being immediately classified in the same box as anonymous editing and/or vandalism. I wanted to make it clear that I'm ecstatic to finally see a simple map editor coming out. I look

Re: [OSM-talk] Revert requests in general

2010-08-03 Thread Ian Dees
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 7:11 PM, Ben Last ben.l...@nearmap.com wrote: On 3 August 2010 18:13, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote: Can somebody revert this edit ASAP? Which reminds me... we at NearMap are preparing to begin rollout of OSM editing on our site; simple operations like adding

Re: [OSM-talk] Revert requests in general

2010-08-03 Thread Ian Dees
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 7:37 PM, Ben Last ben.l...@nearmap.com wrote: I think I remember something like that; however, the edits that we're submitting all come from one user (that represents NearMap) since we don't (and can't) require users of our site to all be registered with OSM. So we

Re: [Talk-us] Would Like To Clean Salt Lake City Street Names

2010-08-03 Thread Ian Dees
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Kevin Atkinson ke...@atkinson.dhs.org wrote: I'm almost done with this script. It's not a full bot, but instead modifies an osm file which I will read back into JOSM and upload the

Re: [OSM-talk] [Tagging] emergency=*

2010-07-30 Thread Ian Dees
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Emilie Laffray emilie.laff...@gmail.comwrote: While I follow this mailing list, I am pretty sure that many people working in the OSM ecosystem is not following the change that fast. It means that every one doing an app needs to do some significant work to

Re: [OSM-talk] [Tagging] emergency=*

2010-07-30 Thread Ian Dees
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 12:30 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.comwrote: How is the OpenStreetMap community to distinguish these edits from vandalism, and you from a vandal? Considering I didn't make any of the changes you are accusing me of I fail to see the problem. You did...

Re: [OSM-talk] [Tagging] emergency=*

2010-07-30 Thread Ian Dees
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 12:25 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.comwrote: On 31 July 2010 02:05, Emilie Laffray emilie.laff...@gmail.com wrote: While I follow this mailing list, I am pretty sure that many people working in the OSM ecosystem is not following the change that fast. It means

Re: [OSM-talk] [Tagging] emergency=*

2010-07-29 Thread Ian Dees
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Brian Quinion openstreet...@brian.quinion.co.uk wrote: Discussing this for a day on the Tagging list is not enough for you to make this change. How much time should it take? I didn't really set a dead line but was trying to get comments on the idea...

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenTrailView

2010-07-28 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 7:59 AM, Nick Whitelegg nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk wrote: I'll be working a lot on the viewing interface next, so this may not always be functional. However I'm aiming to keep the upload side of things up and running throughout. I just noticed that Google's Map API

Re: [OSM-talk] Image Of The Week proposal

2010-07-28 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 7:43 AM, andrzej zaborowski balr...@gmail.comwrote: On 28 July 2010 13:15, Floris Looijesteijn o...@floris.nu wrote: Bu to be the first: Where's the Openstreetmap attribution? Since all data was collected by one mapper, their consent would be enough to allow

Re: [OSM-talk] Image Of The Week proposal

2010-07-28 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 8:51 AM, andrzej zaborowski balr...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, On 28 July 2010 15:28, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 7:43 AM, andrzej zaborowski balr...@gmail.com wrote: On 28 July 2010 13:15, Floris Looijesteijn o...@floris.nu wrote: Bu

Re: [Talk-us] United States Roadway Classification Guidelines

2010-07-27 Thread Ian Dees
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 11:54 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Kevin Atkinson ke...@atkinson.dhs.org wrote: Roadway classification in the United States is subjective

Re: [Talk-us] United States Roadway Classification Guidelines

2010-07-27 Thread Ian Dees
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 6:35 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: The problem is that the European community has decided

Re: [Talk-us] United States Roadway Classification Guidelines

2010-07-26 Thread Ian Dees
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Kevin Atkinson ke...@atkinson.dhs.orgwrote: Roadway classification in the United States is subjective, there is no getting around that fact. No amount of discussion is going to fix that. Guidelines which only focus on each road separably without considering

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-19 Thread Ian Dees
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 8:53 AM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 10:35 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.comwrote: It seems to me that Steve's post is not just a harmless rant, but contains an implication, whether purposeful or not, that some mappers, namely

Re: [OSM-talk] [SOTM] For those who don't know how awesome Ivan Sanchez can be

2010-07-14 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 7:04 AM, Emilie Laffray emilie.laff...@gmail.comwrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjO1S0AYMs4 Does anyone have the lyrics and/or video from what was presented on the screen behind him? ___ talk mailing list

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-dev] North America gone in geofabrik and tagwatch

2010-07-13 Thread Ian Dees
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 2:49 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Alan, Alan Mintz wrote: I just tried to look at tagwatch for North-america and got a 404, possibly because there is no north-america directory at http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/ either. What's up? We haven't

Re: [Talk-us] FW: [osm-professional] Regional Street Centerline Solution - Minneapolis- St. Paul metro area - RFP

2010-07-13 Thread Ian Dees
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 7:39 AM, McGuire, Matthew matt.mcgu...@metc.state.mn.us wrote: To who may concern in the OSM community (*please excuse any double postings*). The OSM community is encouraged to consider offering a proposal in response to the RFP proposed at

Re: [OSM-talk] Helmet cameras for mapping?

2010-07-12 Thread Ian Dees
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 8:48 AM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Wondering if anyone has tried a helmet camera like the GoPro Helmet Hero HD or ContourHD for mapping? The former even has a mode where it takes a 5MP photo every two seconds. Plus you could probably narrate to

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch 2 Public Alpha

2010-07-12 Thread Ian Dees
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.netwrote: Julio Costa Zambelli wrote: I agree. Actually I was thinking on how to integrate P2 with a new design for our Chilean website. The idea of integrating Potlatch with our own website graphics/color scheme, instead

Re: [OSM-talk] multipolygon inners that aren't inside.

2010-07-12 Thread Ian Dees
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 2:27 PM, John Harvey j...@johnharveyphoto.comwrote: It sure would be nice if users couldn't submit bad data. Incorrect data (wrong street name) takes a human to spot, but bad topology (doesn't conform to the rules and a computer can verify conformance) shouldn't be

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] simple osm-merge.sh updated for multiple files

2010-07-12 Thread Ian Dees
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Alan Millar a...@bolis.com wrote: andrzej zaborowski wrote: There's a dummy script at http://repo.or.cz/w/ump2osm.git/blob/HEAD:/osm-merge to do that (would need to be modified for 2 layers). Here is my updated version of osm-merge.sh If there's a

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapquest launches site based on OSM!

2010-07-09 Thread Ian Dees
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Alex Mauer ha...@hawkesnest.net wrote: On 07/09/2010 03:50 AM, David Ellams wrote: The company, a subsidiary of AOL, plans to announce Friday morning that it is launching a site in the U.K. based on a project called OpenStreetMap, which is dedicated to

Re: [OSM-talk] Osm.org Routing Demo

2010-07-02 Thread Ian Dees
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Nic Roets nro...@gmail.com wrote: I made a demonstration of how the yournavigation.org website can be embedded inside osm.org. Check it out:

Re: [Talk-us] Percentage of data imported vs mapped

2010-06-23 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Dave Hansen d...@sr71.net wrote: On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 12:05 -0400, Richard Weait wrote: On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 11:42 AM, McGuire, Matthew matt.mcgu...@metc.state.mn.us wrote: Does anyone know the percentage of OSM data that is imported vs mapped in

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] NHD data skipped by nhd2osm

2010-06-22 Thread Ian Dees
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Dylan Semler dylan.sem...@gmail.comwrote: I've patched the nhd2osm scripts to print details about the NHD tag conversions[1]. I'm attaching the output of the scripts with my patch applied if anyone is interested in what it does. The shp-to-osm Java app I

Re: [OSM-talk] WolframAlpha uses OpenStreetMap data

2010-06-17 Thread Ian Dees
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:16 AM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: There is a slight contradiction here though because the other thing I hear a lot is they'd like to try something with us but keep it quiet - i.e. try something small, but that's extremely hard with an open community. I find

Re: [OSM-talk] Big sponsors (was: WolframAlpha uses OpenStreetMap data)

2010-06-17 Thread Ian Dees
Do we really have the mapping capacity (in person-hours and server hardware) to handle 300M people a day providing feedback? I mean we could point people to openstreetbugs, but it's already full up because people are more interested in mapping the areas they are interested in, not necessarily

Re: [OSM-talk] Big sponsors (was: WolframAlpha uses OpenStreetMap data)

2010-06-17 Thread Ian Dees
OTRS = http://otrs.org/ (Open Source Ticket Request System) On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 8:50 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: On Jun 17, 2010, at 7:45 PM, Anthony wrote: OTRS? huh? On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 9:30 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: Well let me take that back a bit -

Re: [OSM-talk] Big sponsors (was: WolframAlpha uses OpenStreetMap data)

2010-06-17 Thread Ian Dees
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 9:31 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: I think we can do better http://customer.otrs.org/otrs/customer.pl is a horrible interface. I'd like something that works like uservoice.combut is integrated in to the rails port (because tom says so). I actually

Re: [OSM-talk] WolframAlpha uses OpenStreetMap data

2010-06-16 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Frank Sautter openstreet...@sautter.comwrote: WolframAlpha uses OpenStreetMap data http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Berlin Is the license attribution they are using OK? Down at the bottom of every W|A page they have a Source Information link. In there,

Re: [Talk-us] Route Relation Nitpicking

2010-06-15 Thread Ian Dees
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 8:02 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 8:51 PM, David ``Smith'' vidthe...@gmail.com wrote: In Ohio: * Route relation tagging consistently is as described by the wiki (with the exception of no clear agreement between network=US

Re: [OSM-talk] openstreetmap.org down

2010-06-14 Thread Ian Dees
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 9:53 PM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: Presumably someone knows about this and is fixing it, but just in case: The OpenStreetMap server encountered an unexpected condition that prevented it from fulfilling the request (HTTP 500) Feel free to contact

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping the spill

2010-06-11 Thread Ian Dees
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 10:16 PM, Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com wrote: Negative thinking aside, just listing WHERE it is, is important to know. Zooming out, its easy to keep 'close' as that is all thats needed, using whatever imagery is available. We have unlimited crowd

Re: [OSM-talk] POI Collection as a Competition

2010-06-10 Thread Ian Dees
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Ken Guest k...@linux.ie wrote: On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:28 PM, Shaun McDonald sh...@shaunmcdonald.me.uk wrote: I fear that it would just be gamed and bad data would be entered instead. That too would be my main worry - unless there was a procedure in

Re: [OSM-talk] How do you tag a traffic signal that's also a motorway junction?

2010-06-10 Thread Ian Dees
On Jun 10, 2010, at 5:45 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: highway=motorway_junction with ref=[number] is used whenever there's an exit/junction number, whether or not it's actually on a motorway. But

[OSM-talk] POI Collection as a Competition

2010-06-10 Thread Ian Dees
I posted this idea as an off-topic message in a thread about the post office in talk-us, but I thought it might get more interest over here on t...@... What if we came up with a way to make POI collection a competition or game? Think foursquare/gowalla's checkins mixed in with something like

Re: [Talk-us] Uploading all Post Office Drop Box locations in the US

2010-06-10 Thread Ian Dees
I would say that at least 1/3 of the post office drop boxes nationwide have been removed or pulled out of service since this data has been released, making an import of the data both inaccurate (due to geocoding) and old. On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Kirk Ireson palmerstat...@gmail.comwrote:

Re: [Talk-us] Uploading all Post Office Drop Box locations in the US

2010-06-10 Thread Ian Dees
These sites might also be interesting: http://www.payphone-project.com/mailboxes/ and http://www.mailboxmap.com/ On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: I would say that at least 1/3 of the post office drop boxes nationwide have been removed or pulled out of service

Re: [OSM-talk] Custom rendering of a small map

2010-06-05 Thread Ian Dees
n Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 4:09 AM, Gervase Markham gerv-gm...@gerv.net wrote: Hi, I'd like to render a map of about a square mile or so of the town of Bromley, in Kent, for the information sheet for my wedding in August (yay!). http://osm.org/go/0EEBWURG I want to make the map, then remove a

Re: [OSM-talk] Revert of changeset

2010-06-04 Thread Ian Dees
It appears that User:grossing ( http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/grossing/edits) sporadically removes TIGER node duplicates throughout the US. I thought we had decided *not* to do this without careful inspection? Can someone with better German than I try to explain to him why what he's doing is

Re: [OSM-talk] Yet another map-sharing site

2010-06-01 Thread Ian Dees
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 8:24 AM, SomeoneElse li...@mail.atownsend.org.ukwrote: I stumbled across this today: http://www.ikimap.com/ikimapa/310 The terms of use link points at Google's Map terms of use, but the map layer underneath looks unlike Google's, yet strangely familiar... It appears

Re: [OSM-talk] On the ground rule on the wiki

2010-05-31 Thread Ian Dees
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Gustav Foseid gust...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 7:57 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.orgwrote: Something that is available from an official online source but not verifiable on the ground should not - in my personal opinion - be included in

Re: [OSM-talk] On the ground rule on the wiki

2010-05-31 Thread Ian Dees
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Gustav Foseid gust...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 9:01 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: No borders? No national parks? No nature reserves? No voltage on power lines? No named farms (unless the owner puts up a sign)? No names for peaks

Re: [OSM-talk] On the ground rule on the wiki

2010-05-31 Thread Ian Dees
On May 31, 2010, at 2:23 PM, Gustav Foseid gust...@gmail.com wrote: How do, on the ground, you verify the name of a peak? You look at the sign. Talk to the hikers you passed on the way up with your GPS. Just out of curiosity, where do you live and who is putting signs on the peaks

Re: [OSM-talk] On the ground rule on the wiki

2010-05-31 Thread Ian Dees
On May 31, 2010, at 2:31 PM, Knut Arne Bjørndal bob+...@cakebox.net wrote: On 31. mai 2010, at 21.13, Ian Dees wrote: On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Gustav Foseid gust...@gmail.com wrote: How do, on the ground, you verify the name of a peak? You look at the sign. Talk to the hikers

Re: [Talk-us] On-the-fly Rendering Library? (Was: Re: Whole world files)

2010-05-31 Thread Ian Dees
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Dane Springmeyer bl...@hailmail.netwrote: On May 28, 2010, at 12:13 PM, Ian Dees wrote: It seems that for situations like this it would be nice to have a simple on-the-fly rendering system that consumed the OSM data and then rendered your viewbox

[Talk-us] On-the-fly Rendering Library? (Was: Re: Whole world files)

2010-05-28 Thread Ian Dees
It seems that for situations like this it would be nice to have a simple on-the-fly rendering system that consumed the OSM data and then rendered your viewbox on the fly rather than creating raster tiles. If the iPhone can do a passable realtime rendering job for Skobbler, then a heftier machine

Re: [OSM-talk] [talk-au] US to spend $8bn upgrading GPS constellation

2010-05-26 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 6:21 PM, nicholas.g.lawre...@tmr.qld.gov.au wrote: The United States is about to give the now nearly ubiquitous Global Positioning System an $8 billion overhaul. The improvements, which involve replacing each of the 24 aging GPS satellites, are estimated to take

Re: [OSM-talk] [talk-au] US to spend $8bn upgrading GPS constellation

2010-05-26 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 6:37 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.comwrote: On 27 May 2010 09:21, nicholas.g.lawre...@tmr.qld.gov.au wrote: Why would a parking meter need a GPS? It doesn't move around. Same reason banking, the timing source, although surely NTP would be good enough, NTP

Re: [OSM-talk] Yahoo Maps to be provided by Nokia

2010-05-25 Thread Ian Dees
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Paulius Zaleckas paulius.zalec...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/25/2010 02:59 AM, Aun Johnsen wrote: Hi, Pointing out specific names on roads around guarapari that have been rendered after I have put them into OSM is about point out all the road names they

[Talk-us] Skobbler Navigation Released For United States

2010-05-25 Thread Ian Dees
Hi talk-us, It appears that Skobbler released their iPhone navigation app using OSM data several days ago. I didn't see an announcement on the mailing list here, so I thought I'd pass it along. I'm downloading it now, but it appears that user-entered bugs are already showing up in their

Re: [OSM-talk] Yahoo Maps to be provided by Nokia

2010-05-24 Thread Ian Dees
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 6:49 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.comwrote: On 25 May 2010 06:17, Gregory nomoregra...@googlemail.com wrote: Can you point out some specific road names that Yahoo have copied from OSM? Wasn't it Flickr doing the copying? There have been several cases where

[OSM-talk] Google Hiring 300 Temps to Fix Map Errors

2010-05-21 Thread Ian Dees
http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2010/05/google_hiring_300_temp_workers_in_kirkland_to_pinpoint_bugs_in_google_maps.html Anyone care to come up with a press release that says something like OpenStreetMap volunteers, numbering in the 10s of thousands, fixing a free map for free.

Re: [OSM-talk] closedstreetmap.org

2010-05-20 Thread Ian Dees
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Pieren pier...@gmail.com wrote: It could be used for a special OSM slippy map of closed streets, e.g.: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mennonot/2602625089/ ;-) Pieren You may be only kidding, but I just spent an hour dodging construction traffic here in

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Months-old vandalism needs to be taken care of

2010-05-05 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Just to be safe - this user has been active on 10 days between 13 September 09 and 22 April 10, uploading over 100 changesets altogether. All these edits are to be removed, regardless of whether someone else touched the

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Months-old vandalism needs to be taken care of

2010-05-05 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Just to be safe - this user has been active on 10 days between 13 September 09 and 22 April 10, uploading over 100 changesets altogether. All these edits are to be removed, regardless of whether someone else touched the

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] plea for bot quality control

2010-05-03 Thread Ian Dees
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 8:26 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: I think it would be a good idea to create a repository of such tagging standards where everyone can create new standards to his heart's content, and the user of an editor can then select one of the existing standards (or

Re: [Talk-us] Civil Defense Sirens?

2010-05-03 Thread Ian Dees
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Jeffrey Ollie j...@ocjtech.us wrote: On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Jeffrey Ollie j...@ocjtech.us wrote: With the start of Tornado season in the Midwest upon us, I thought it would

Re: [Talk-us] US meetups?

2010-04-30 Thread Ian Dees
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Thea Clay t...@cloudmade.com wrote: If I remember correctly we have donated servers re Ian and SteveC has the domain openstreetmap.us ( http://www.mail-archive.com/talk-us@openstreetmap.org/msg02623.html). That way we can serve the needs of current members

Re: [Talk-us] US meetups?

2010-04-30 Thread Ian Dees
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Thea Clay t...@cloudmade.com wrote: If I remember correctly we have donated servers re Ian and SteveC has

Re: [Talk-us] US meetups?

2010-04-30 Thread Ian Dees
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Jim McAndrew j...@loc8.us wrote: What are the goals for the openstreetmap.us web page? That's a good question that we should probably all discuss. My opinion is that it should be a one-stop-shop for growing the US OSM community. Not entirely sure what that

Re: [Talk-us] US meetups?

2010-04-29 Thread Ian Dees
Keep in mind that we have openstreetmap.us and a couple servers sitting around waiting for a use. Perhaps we could set up a similar thing for the US-based meetups and events? Or maybe we just need a shared Google Calendar... upcoming and meetup both already have communities around them, though...

[Talk-us] Community Mapping in Minnesota Sponsored by NAVTEQ

2010-04-28 Thread Ian Dees
This is pretty interesting. NAVTEQ is sponsoring a community mapping project in Minnesota communities. It sounds like they're working with the University extension folks to get people to wander around with GPSes and record data for NAVTEQ. Sounds suspiciously familiar...

Re: [Talk-us] US meetups?

2010-04-28 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: Any US OSM meetups other than these three? Any other fixed addresses for local US OSM meetings? http://www.meetup.com/Atlanta-OpenStreetMap/ http://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Columbus/

Re: [Talk-us] OpenStreetMap U.S. Inc

2010-04-19 Thread Ian Dees
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Kate Chapman k...@maploser.com wrote: Hey All, Just wanted to let you know OpenStreetMap U.S. Inc exists now. This is so we can eventually become a chapter of OpenStreetMap. We'll be moving forward with getting an EIN (tax number) from the IRS, working

Re: [Talk-us] Admin boundaries tied to roads

2010-04-19 Thread Ian Dees
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Mike N. nice...@att.net wrote: From an old message: I take the point that 'road realignment' may require the boundary also to move, but the word is MAY and so what ever happens to the road, the location of the boundary needs to be checked separately!

Re: [OSM-talk] konqueror does not display openstreetmap anymore

2010-04-18 Thread Ian Dees
I'm noticing the same problem across all sites that hit OpenLayers.org's javascript on Chrome 5.0.365.0 (42915) Ubuntu. I don't see any errors coming out of the Developer Tools. Firefox 3.5 works fine. On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Rainer Dorsch rdor...@web.de wrote: Am Sonntag, 18. April

Re: [OSM-talk] Render E-Roads

2010-04-08 Thread Ian Dees
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 5:13 PM, Fips Schneider o...@fips-schneider.dewrote: Might it be possible to render it like the sign on Wikipedia [1]? The idea is to render it with a small distance to the ref-sign in a way you can see both references. Google maps does it in a proper way. The

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Wave si great for organizing OSM mapping parties

2010-04-06 Thread Ian Dees
The source code behind Etherpad has been released. Perhaps someone could set up an OSM-specific Etherpad install and use it for organizing mapping parties? On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 3:55 AM, Valent Turkovic valent.turko...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, we have found out that Google Wave has an excellent

Re: [OSM-talk] Post code areas

2010-04-01 Thread Ian Dees
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Hi, we're thinking about importing post code areas in Germany. Are post code areas being mapped in other countries already, and if so, using what tagging schema? I was thinking of creating multipolygon boundary

Re: [OSM-talk] Google WMS: is this legal?

2010-03-30 Thread Ian Dees
On Mar 30, 2010, at 6:08 AM, andrzej zaborowski balr...@gmail.com wrote: On 30 March 2010 10:53, Gregory nomoregra...@googlemail.com wrote: He could keep the page and program up there but should put warnings I don't think it's even legal for him to have this service? Doesn't google TOS

Re: [OSM-talk] Administrative boundaries along roads

2010-03-21 Thread Ian Dees
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Jeff Spirko spi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, all, Many of the administrative boundaries in my area follow roads (or vice versa). (E.g. http://osm.org/go/Zcll6ubE?layers=B000TTF ) It seems like the TIGER import has a separate list of nodes for the two ways (one

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Logo vote

2010-03-17 Thread Ian Dees
I'd be happy to write something ... where's the subset? (Sorry, I don't have much time to look for it right now). On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 2:16 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: yes there's a subset On Mar 17, 2010, at 1:08 PM, Ian Dees wrote: On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 2:04 PM, SteveC st

Re: [Talk-us] [US] NHD04090004

2010-03-17 Thread Ian Dees
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Nakor nakor@gmail.com wrote:   Hello, I was importing NHD data in my area and found some issues in the data I downloaded: The Rouge River in Detroit area (http://maps.google.com/?ll=42.450077,-83.303661z=16) is visible on the NHD map (see attached

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] GSoC'10

2010-03-16 Thread Ian Dees
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Emilie Laffray emilie.laff...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I don't want to break enthusiasm from anyone but the deadline was the 12th of March, meaning that we are 4 days behind the deadline. Has anyone contacted Google for an extension? I don't mind seeing great

Re: [Talk-ca] [Talk-us] Fwd: [gvcc-members] Google Goes Bike with Directions

2010-03-14 Thread Ian Dees
Has anyone set up a routing engine that prefers biking paths? On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 2:30 AM, Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.comwrote: G... But you cant print Google Maps in Books, nor can you create custom Garmin Maps Iphone apps with the data ... or print mugs. Or create

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Student Project Ideas?

2010-03-10 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ava...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 08:52, Graham Jones grahamjones...@googlemail.com wrote: Please give this a bit of thought, and add any ideas to the Wiki page! If you don't have chance to do that, an email to me will

Re: [OSM-talk] Student Project Ideas?

2010-03-10 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: On 10/03/10 16:31, Ian Dees wrote: For example, one of the requirements in the simple editor that I've been sketching in my doodle-notebook is to have an extremely fast nearest way lookup. I imagine something like

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Student Project Ideas?

2010-03-10 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ava...@gmail.comwrote: Once you have those ideas how are you gong to pick one? I for one think: * You should try to make students work on existing /active/ projects instead of sending them off on their own for 3 months Yes, that's

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Student Project Ideas?

2010-03-10 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: On 10/03/10 21:14, Graham Jones wrote: On this I did just try to look for the API 0.7 feature list, but can't find it - is anyone thinking about what the next version of the API will do, or do we think we are about there,

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: [gvcc-members] Google Goes Bike with Directions

2010-03-10 Thread Ian Dees
Has anyone set up a routing engine that prefers biking paths? On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 2:30 AM, Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.comwrote: G... But you cant print Google Maps in Books, nor can you create custom Garmin Maps Iphone apps with the data ... or print mugs. Or create

Re: [Talk-us] UX Review

2010-03-09 Thread Ian Dees
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 8:02 AM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: * Once in some very small sample size (perhaps between 1 in 1,000 and 1 in 10,000 signups) a popup appears * The popup says something like Hi! We'd really like to know why you came to OSM and they say simply why. This is open

Re: [OSM-talk] Where 2.0 OSM Booth

2010-03-03 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 7:13 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.comwrote: On 4 March 2010 10:55, Kate Chapman k...@maploser.com wrote: Also we need ideas for the booth. I was thinking having a computer set-up where people could edit immediately in OSM. Essentially 'Heard of OSM and

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Where 2.0 OSM Booth

2010-03-03 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 7:13 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.comwrote: On 4 March 2010 10:55, Kate Chapman k...@maploser.com wrote: Also we need ideas for the booth. I was thinking having a computer set-up where people could edit immediately in OSM. Essentially 'Heard of OSM and

Re: [OSM-talk] Serious consideration of Newbie Editor

2010-02-25 Thread Ian Dees
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 6:23 AM, Emilie Laffray emilie.laff...@gmail.comwrote: On 25 February 2010 12:14, Gaz Davidson g...@bitplane.net wrote: If there are plans for a new web editor, can avoiding Flash be part of the considerations? I would like to know what you suggest in order to

Re: [OSM-talk] Serious consideration of Newbie Editor

2010-02-25 Thread Ian Dees
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 8:16 AM, Emilie Laffray emilie.laff...@gmail.comwrote: On 25 February 2010 13:00, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 25 February 2010 22:23, Emilie Laffray emilie.laff...@gmail.com wrote: A full Javascript implementation is certainly possible with some of

Re: [OSM-talk] Thoughts on OSM design, and looking forward and back

2010-02-24 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:44 AM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: Can't you just get over yourself and admit that a newbie coming to OSM has a crap time? It's not hard! Stop defending it all. Steve, I don't think anyone on this list has said No, I don't understand why newbies are having a

Re: [OSM-talk] Thoughts on OSM design, and looking forward and back

2010-02-23 Thread Ian Dees
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 2:17 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: I know matt takes it personally that the logo is anything other than perfect, and richard takes it personally that potlatch is crap for newbies... but that's just fact of the matter as I constantly hear from designers, newbies

Re: [OSM-talk] Thoughts on OSM design, and looking forward and back

2010-02-23 Thread Ian Dees
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: I think everything is going all right; we're very busy accommodating all those people who come aboard and their new ideas and stuff, and I am pretty sure there will be a time of consolidation when things become a bit

Re: [Talk-us] Conflicts of Interest

2010-02-12 Thread Ian Dees
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:29 AM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: Hi One of the things we found at the OSMF is that you really need to be open about any potential conflicts of interest, like where you work or if you hold shares in TeleAtlas... that kind of thing. Anything a reasonable

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] GSoC'10

2010-02-06 Thread Ian Dees
I would be happy to start setting this up, but I haven't had a lot of time in the last few months to give on following through with the GSoC 2009 year. If someone else is interested, let me know. On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 5:58 AM, Rajan Vaish vaish.ra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, With GSoC'10 not

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] GSoC'10

2010-02-06 Thread Ian Dees
- Maybe Ian Dees or someone with more experience of the GSoC application process can comment? I got the impression that Google would much rather have more organizations represented in GSoC than less. I say go ahead and apply. As long as you have some specific projects set up for possible applicants

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