Re: [Talk-us] openstreetmap.us

2010-01-24 Thread Ian Dees
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 8:36 AM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: Hi I own openstreetmap.us There are other community sites like openstreetmap.nl and openstreetmap.de If anyone wants to set up something similar, just tell me the IP address of your box and I will point the domain at it.

Re: [Talk-us] openstreetmap.us

2010-01-24 Thread Ian Dees
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.comwrote: Just so the rest of the community knows, I'm working on lining up hosting for openstreetmap.us based on donated servers (from WIkimedia) and donated rack space. It's slow going, so I haven't really been

Re: [OSM-talk] [Fwd: Re: [CrisisMappers] Re: New Imagery in Google Earth file]

2010-01-20 Thread Ian Dees
Last I checked, the imagery had a non-commercial distribution limit on it (i.e. they don't want you to take their images and sell them to anyone at any point). All other uses were allowed (including derivative works and tracing) and in addition, we have explicit permission in writing from both

[OSM-talk] Computing Service Required for Haiti Response?

2010-01-18 Thread Ian Dees
I got in touch with someone at Amazon who is interested in giving a temporary AWS credit grant for OSM/Haiti-related activity. I had originally contacted them the first days after the earthquake so we could handle incoming satellite imagery. Now that that issue is resolved (or is it?), are there

Re: [OSM-talk] Extended GeoEye imagery now available for use on OSM

2010-01-16 Thread Ian Dees
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 8:23 PM, Schuyler Erle schuy...@nocat.net wrote: * On 15-Jan-2010 at 6:32PM EST, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason said: I just meant to mirror them to something faster than the Google server (the OSM cluster should get ~30MB/s from cassini). It would be better if

Re: [OSM-talk] Extended GeoEye imagery now available for use on OSM

2010-01-15 Thread Ian Dees
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ava...@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 22:39, Jeffrey Ollie j...@ocjtech.us wrote: On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ava...@gmail.com wrote: These are orthorectified 8-bit compresed GeoTiffs, who can

Re: [OSM-talk] GeoEye Haiti imagery Ok'd

2010-01-14 Thread Ian Dees
Mikel, I will start downloading/tiling this now. Andy, if you finish before I post anything let me know. On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Mikel Maron mikel_ma...@yahoo.com wrote: OSM has permission to use the imagery, as long as we give credit. I suggest using the source tag for this. Tiles

Re: [OSM-talk] Host free ortophotos to be used on OSM

2010-01-06 Thread Ian Dees
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 7:56 PM, enqd e...@ymail.com wrote: Hi, I'm newbie on OSM and as I can see we have only Yahoo imagery as base to map some cities on Brasil (only some bigger ones) Recently I read on wiki that a service called nearmaps host maps to be used on OSM. I know a service on

Re: [OSM-talk] Host free ortophotos to be used on OSM

2010-01-06 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 4:06 PM, enqd e...@ymail.com wrote: Hi Anthony, I follow Openaerialmap, but as you said I don't know when the service will be up. I'll wait an answer from Ian Dees to see if he will host it, so maybe when OAM be running we can transfer the data to them. Can you let me

Re: [OSM-talk] Host free ortophotos to be used on OSM

2010-01-05 Thread Ian Dees
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 7:56 PM, enqd e...@ymail.com wrote: Hi, I'm newbie on OSM and as I can see we have only Yahoo imagery as base to map some cities on Brasil (only some bigger ones) Recently I read on wiki that a service called nearmaps host maps to be used on OSM. I know a service on

Re: [OSM-talk] Why doesn't OSM implement a simple measure to protect it's users and passwords?

2009-12-22 Thread Ian Dees
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Florian Lohoff f...@rfc822.org wrote: Its not about the data you are uploading - but probably the fact that you participate in an open project at all. Um, if you are nervous about others knowing that you participate in this project, then why do you do it? Is

Re: [OSM-talk] openmaps.eu

2009-12-17 Thread Ian Dees
As much as it is disappointing to see others work on a similar/the same project, I don't think it makes sense for a group of people that have open in their title to block others from doing something through trademark law. On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 6:40 AM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [OSM-talk] import or convert .sch file to osm ?

2009-12-17 Thread Ian Dees
If you are more familiar with Java, you could use shp-to-osm. Since I wrote it, I would be happy to help you out with it. Download: http://redmine.yellowbkpk.com/projects/list_files/geo Info: http://redmine.yellowbkpk.com/projects/show/geo http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Shp-to-osm.jar

Re: [OSM-talk] Ditches

2009-12-15 Thread Ian Dees
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 6:52 AM, Richard Mann richard.mann.westoxf...@googlemail.com wrote: bridge=yes is so that people can render nice parapets I'd agree that layer tags should not be required for water/highway crossings. Keepright should keepquiet! Although nothing is required in OSM,

Re: [Talk-us] Issues in New Mexico

2009-12-14 Thread Ian Dees
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 11:07 AM, James Umbanhowar jumba...@gmail.comwrote: Does anyone know why the area around around Raton, NM looks like it is melting? I don't think it even renders in Osmarender. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=36.93134lon=-104.46384zoom=16layers=B000FTF There will

Re: [Talk-us] US Chapter and SOTM calls tomorrow

2009-12-14 Thread Ian Dees
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 9:12 PM, Katie Filbert filbe...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.comwrote: Just a quick reminder to US folks, the US Chapter call is tomorrow and afterwards is the US SOTM call.

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Import of Lakes from water.usgs.gov

2009-12-12 Thread Ian Dees
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 9:29 AM, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 4:22 PM, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: The current NHD

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Import of Lakes from water.usgs.gov

2009-12-12 Thread Ian Dees
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 12:15 PM, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: For the US, I found also a national name register, like the GNS database. This has been imported already. ___ Talk-us mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] And the prize for the largest closed way goes to...

2009-12-09 Thread Ian Dees
Depends which way you go around. On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 11:10 PM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: That does it, I'm making a way with name=Northern Hemisphere. Or would that be name=equator. Doesn't work, does it? ___ talk mailing list

[Talk-us] Revert 2 changesets?

2009-12-09 Thread Ian Dees
Hi list, It appears that the bulk_upload_sax.py script doesn't correctly detect successfully closed changesets, so it retried a few times before I could stop it and duplicated a bunch of data. Could someone please delete/rollback the following two changesets?

Re: [Talk-us] NHD Data in CO

2009-12-07 Thread Ian Dees
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 10:59 AM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: Are the NHD import people on this list? Yes. I am one of them, but it appears that we're distributing the work load of uploading, so I'm not sure who is taking that section. If no one else is doing it, I would be happy to start

Re: [Talk-us] NHD Data in CO

2009-12-07 Thread Ian Dees
Are we talking about all of Colorado or just a certain high-priority section? On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 11:08 AM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: Yeah if you could that would be super level 5 awesome. Yours c. Steve On Dec 7, 2009, at 10:03 AM, Ian Dees wrote: On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 10

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

2009-12-05 Thread Ian Dees
On Dec 5, 2009, at 2:48 PM, Mike Collinson m...@ayeltd.biz wrote: If you are an OSMF member then you should have received an email about this vote, which contains a URL with which you can access this site. If you have not received an email, first please check your spam folder then, if

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

2009-12-05 Thread Ian Dees
On Dec 5, 2009, at 4:09 PM, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: On 05/12/09 21:47, Liz wrote: quote An email has been sent to 265 members with membership in good standing (paid) as of October 13th 2009. It has instructions and a unique personal link for voting. /quote 265 persons out

[Talk-us] Admin Level for Neighborhoods?

2009-12-01 Thread Ian Dees
Has anyone decided on a admin_level to tag for neighborhoods in a city? I'd like to import some neighborhood boundary data that my local municipalities have given out. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] Shp2OSM : various questions

2009-11-23 Thread Ian Dees
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Pieren pier...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Emilie Laffray emilie.laff...@gmail.com wrote: Ian Dees wrote: Who wrote the Java program? I'd love to integrate that in to shp-to-osm. Pieren did. I'm sure it can be coded in a better

Re: [OSM-talk] Wikimapia

2009-11-18 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.netwrote: Matthew Luehrmann wrote: Wikimapia at: http://wikimapia.org/wiki/Main_Page seems to have the same mission as OSM. OSM gives you, and everyone, rights to your contributions. Wikimapia gives Wikimapia, and

[OSM-talk] OSM Mentioned in NYTimes

2009-11-17 Thread Ian Dees
OSM was mentioned in this (relatively confusing) article on crowd-sourced maps: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/17/technology/internet/17maps.html?_r=1scp=1sq=openstreetmapst=cse ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Mentioned in NYTimes

2009-11-17 Thread Ian Dees
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Simone Cortesi sim...@cortesi.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 15:58, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: OSM was mentioned in this (relatively confusing) article on crowd-sourced maps: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/17/technology/internet/17maps.html

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Mentioned in NYTimes

2009-11-17 Thread Ian Dees
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/11/17 Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com OSM was mentioned in this (relatively confusing) article on crowd-sourced maps: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/17/technology/internet/17maps.html?_r=1scp=1sq

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Mentioned in NYTimes

2009-11-17 Thread Ian Dees
by name. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all. -- Hypatia of Alexandria -Original Message- From: Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:37:20 To: m...@koppenhoefer.com Cc: OSM

[OSM-talk] PublicEarth

2009-11-17 Thread Ian Dees
Another crowd-sourcing geo-data site is going up: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/17/publicearth/ PublicEarth describes itself as a wiki of places, specializing in collecting all those “long tail” places that most other databases tend to overlook.

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] Shp2OSM : various questions

2009-11-17 Thread Ian Dees
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Emilie Laffray emilie.laff...@gmail.comwrote: Lennard wrote: Emilie Laffray wrote: [polyshp2osm.py] Yup hence the reason why I modified it to be more current (not in SVN) for the Corine import. Did you get it to use shared nodes for touching

Re: [Talk-us] Non-Integer addresses

2009-11-16 Thread Ian Dees
As an example, we have WxyzNabc addressing in the western suburbs of Milwaukee: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8ll=43.208108,-88.161442spn=0.003003,0.003428z=18iwloc=lyrftr:m,15548394324319276506,43.208382,-88.162156 The W203N10466 value is the actual numerical address (and appears on post boxes

Re: [Talk-us] Super Wal-Mart Tag

2009-11-13 Thread Ian Dees
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Kate maps2w...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Shaun McDonald sh...@shaunmcdonald.me.uk wrote: Going back to the original question, each shop should be it's own node or area, thus the problem of multiple names isn't an issue any more. You

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Addressing Question

2009-11-12 Thread Ian Dees
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Apollinaris Schoell ascho...@gmail.comwrote: On 12 Nov 2009, at 6:14 , Andy Allan wrote: I disagree there. It's much better to put the effort in during the initial import, than to import things badly and try to fix it up later. We've been working on lots

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Addressing Question

2009-11-12 Thread Ian Dees
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Apollinaris Schoell ascho...@gmail.comwrote: On 12 Nov 2009, at 6:14 , Andy Allan wrote: I disagree there. It's much better to put the effort in during the initial import, than to import things badly and try to fix it up later. We've been working on lots

Re: [OSM-talk] Addressing Question

2009-11-11 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 7:55 PM, andrzej zaborowski balr...@gmail.comwrote: Hiya, 2009/11/12 Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com: I'm looking at some donated street centerline data that has addressing data in the form of Right/Left From Addr and Right/Left To Addr on each street centerline

Re: [OSM-talk] Addressing Question

2009-11-11 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 9:47 PM, andrzej zaborowski balr...@gmail.comwrote: That's a pretty pessimistic view. Sorry, I am pretty grumpy today. The area I'm looking at actually has quite a few mappers already, so I imagine this data would probably get updated quickly. For the record an

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Addressing Question

2009-11-11 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 10:17 PM, Apollinaris Schoell ascho...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 7:19 PM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: On the other hand, putting the information directly on the way would be problematic for many reasons. Ranges might span multiple ways, and

Re: [Talk-us] hillshade

2009-11-11 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Don Lambert dlamb...@frontiersurveying.net wrote: Hello group Lars, I notice when zooming into some of the mountainous regions in Colorado that the hillshade is not there. Why is that and how could we fix it? Also, is there any interest or possibility of

Re: [Talk-us] hillshade

2009-11-11 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Don Lambert dlamb...@frontiersurveying.net wrote: The problem seems to be with the color relief tiles between 106.6 long and 107.3 long at the approx 1:34,285 and 1:17,142 scale levels. Ian, how soon do you think these servers might become available? As I

[Talk-us] Addressing Question

2009-11-11 Thread Ian Dees
Hi everyone, I'm looking at some donated street centerline data that has addressing data in the form of Right/Left From Addr and Right/Left To Addr on each street centerline. Is there an accepted way of applying these tags to the road ways? It doesn't really make very much sense to create and

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Addressing Question

2009-11-11 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 7:55 PM, andrzej zaborowski balr...@gmail.comwrote: Hiya, 2009/11/12 Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com: I'm looking at some donated street centerline data that has addressing data in the form of Right/Left From Addr and Right/Left To Addr on each street centerline

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Addressing Question

2009-11-11 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 9:47 PM, andrzej zaborowski balr...@gmail.comwrote: That's a pretty pessimistic view. Sorry, I am pretty grumpy today. The area I'm looking at actually has quite a few mappers already, so I imagine this data would probably get updated quickly. For the record an

Re: [OSM-talk] shp-to-osm 0.7

2009-11-08 Thread Ian Dees
A new version of shp-to-osm 0.7 has been released to fix a memory problem when using huge shapefiles. If you're using shp-to-osm to read shapefiles greater than a few megabytes, you will want to use this new version. Get it at the URL below. On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 10:38 PM, Ian Dees ian.d

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] canvec-to-osm 0.9.6 now available

2009-11-07 Thread Ian Dees
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Frank Steggink stegg...@steggink.orgwrote: I do have a relationificator plugin started for shp-to-osm that will attempt to solve this problem by converting exactly-overlapping edges into relations and delete duplicate primitives. If there's a strong need for it

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] canvec-to-osm 0.9.6 now available

2009-11-07 Thread Ian Dees
On Nov 6, 2009, at 9:28 PM, Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com wrote: This python script is yet to be made 'canvec2osm.py' its open to anyone to make, and i recommend that who ever does, its ONLY 1 person who is in charge of maintaining the script. Why are you creating another shp

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] canvec-to-osm 0.9.6 now available

2009-11-07 Thread Ian Dees
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 9:48 AM, James A. Treacy tre...@debian.org wrote: There are cases where the same way exists in different data sets but with different uses. A good example is that islands in the waterbody data are often repeated in the wooded data (if the island happens to be wooded,

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] canvec-to-osm 0.9.6 now available

2009-11-07 Thread Ian Dees
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Frank Steggink stegg...@steggink.orgwrote: Sam, can you give some additional clarification what your intentions are? I'm afraid I'm not following them well. When you mentioning removing duplicate nodes and relations, it looks as if you intend to create a script

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] canvec-to-osm 0.9.6 now available

2009-11-07 Thread Ian Dees
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 9:59 AM, James A. Treacy tre...@debian.org wrote: On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 09:14:58AM -0600, Ian Dees wrote: Tags appears on the inner ways because you have an inner rule in the rules.txt file. If you remove those lines from the rules.txt, you should end up

Re: [OSM-talk] Will Google ever use OSM data?

2009-11-05 Thread Ian Dees
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.netwrote: I'd seen a vague allusion to this but not actually heard the full response. Really interesting - Michael Jones of Google explaining why they don't use OSM data. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQXDAFJTH6w#t=1m47s

Re: [OSM-talk] shp-to-osm 0.7

2009-11-04 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 2:04 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Hi, Ian Dees wrote: - tags for multipolygon relations have been moved from the relation to the outer ways (fixing a bug with the -t option) Why that? I think that having tags on the outer way is a legacy thing; when

Re: [OSM-talk] shp-to-osm 0.7

2009-11-04 Thread Ian Dees
I cut a new version (0.7.1) that fixed a few bugs I introduced when adding features and reverted to putting tags on the relation. Pick it up in the same spot. On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 10:38 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: I just uploaded shp-to-osm 0.7, a Java tool to convert shapefiles

[OSM-talk] shp-to-osm 0.7

2009-11-03 Thread Ian Dees
I just uploaded shp-to-osm 0.7, a Java tool to convert shapefiles to OSM format. This version adds two important features: - glomming: the ability to connect ways based on a key/value pair - tags for multipolygon relations have been moved from the relation to the outer ways (fixing a bug with the

[OSM-talk] Turn Restrictions Editor

2009-11-02 Thread Ian Dees
Has anyone attempted to write a turn restriction editor? I suppose it would be best suited as a JOSM plugin, but I suppose it would also work as a web app or something via OAuth. It would be nice to show a GUI where intersecting ways are shown up close with an editor to describe the lanes, where

Re: [OSM-talk] Will Google ever use OSM data?

2009-11-02 Thread Ian Dees
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Kai Krueger kakrue...@gmail.com wrote: Sam Vekemans wrote: Once the Open Database Licence is sorted out at our end. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Database_License I think that they will :) Unfortunately I am not so sure and I would interpret

Re: [OSM-talk] importing shapefile data to OSM

2009-10-28 Thread Ian Dees
For now, there are two options. One us a python script written by chris schmidt. The other is a java app written by me. The python one is called shp2osm. It requires a bit of programming knowhow and some dependency magic, but it allows you to convert a little more programmatically. The

Re: [OSM-talk] importing shapefile data to OSM

2009-10-28 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 3:38 PM, John Callahan john.calla...@udel.eduwrote: Ian/Serge, Thanks for the pointers. It didn't hit until I read the wiki pages you referred to that editing is inherently different than importing, and that what I am doing is really bulk importing. And the idea is

Re: [OSM-talk] Illegal activity

2009-10-28 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Russ Nelson nel...@crynwr.com wrote: Valent Turkovic writes: http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?showtopic=40148 what to do with OSM mappers like these guys in this post? They say that they are using Google Earth images :( A couple of points:

Re: [Talk-us] Lot boundaries

2009-10-14 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Dave Hansen d...@sr71.net wrote: I noticed that when Google rev'd their maps, they also magically got lot lines when you zoom in. http://maps.google.com/?ll=44.952442,-123.027169spn=0.001619,0.002044z=19 Would using those kind of data be better than using

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetBugs: shared database and translations

2009-10-13 Thread Ian Dees
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 5:52 PM, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote: Mitja Kleider wrote: I am happy to announce that error reports are now stored in one single database, no matter whether you are using the interface at http://openstreetbugs.org/ or at the Google hosted

[OSM-talk] Google Updates its Data

2009-10-07 Thread Ian Dees
http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2009/10/your-world-your-map.html Looks like they've imported the NHD and USGS data sets (I thought they already had), making their tiles look a lot fuller. Interesting! ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Updates its Data

2009-10-07 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2009/10/your-world-your-map.html Looks like they've imported the NHD and USGS data sets (I thought they already had), making their tiles look a lot fuller. Interesting! Yipes, sent too

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Updates its Data

2009-10-07 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Marcus Wolschon mar...@wolschon.biz wrote: On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: If I could figure out a way to report it, I would tell them that there might not be a state park running through the middle of Minneapolis: http

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Updates its Data

2009-10-07 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Marcus Wolschon mar...@wolschon.bizwrote: On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: If I could figure out a way to report it, I would tell them that there might

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging schema

2009-10-05 Thread Ian Dees
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Mike N. nice...@att.net wrote: The delay in rendering is irritating but understandable. A sandbox with a limit of a view ways/areas to allow immediate render would be extremely useful. I read somewhere today that someone is working on this - a web site

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging schema

2009-10-05 Thread Ian Dees
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 8:21 PM, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote: Ian Dees wrote: I don't see much of a rendering delay with Mapnik... the last few changesets I've uploaded have shown up on the Mapnik layer within 5 minutes. I think it depends greatly on the time of day maybe

Re: [OSM-talk] Please

2009-10-01 Thread Ian Dees
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 8:38 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.comwrote: There is one small problem with this suggestion, if most new users are invited to join this and other lists and the number of users are increasing at an exponential rate the number of messages will go up at an equal or

Re: [Talk-us] Procedures for Bulk Uploading Road Centerline Data

2009-09-30 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Spencer Riddile riddile_spen...@yahoo.comwrote: If someone wanted to upload public domain, state road centerline data to OSM, what procedures could they take? It seems like what we would like to do is overwrite Tiger data but preserve user contributed data. I

[OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-09-28 Thread Ian Dees
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/flickr_now_supports_openstreetmap_tags.php Good to see someone else talking about OSM... ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-09-28 Thread Ian Dees
2009, Ian Dees escribió: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/flickr_now_supports_openstreetmap_tags .php Good to see someone else talking about OSM... Oh my, this is all kinds of awesome. I know several paleo-geographers that are into the semantic web thingie... and they are gonna

Re: [OSM-talk] Own aerial photos

2009-09-25 Thread Ian Dees
On Sep 25, 2009, at 4:02 AM, Rob r...@coolbegin.com wrote: 2009/9/24 Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com: On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Matt Williams li...@milliams.com wrote: Take a look at http://milliams.com

Re: [OSM-talk] Distance to opacity (OT)

2009-09-24 Thread Ian Dees
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Laurence Penney l...@lorp.org wrote: Was Re: [OSM-talk] Should Bridges be independent of their ways? Well, let's take this intersection:

Re: [OSM-talk] Own aerial photos

2009-09-23 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Stefan de Konink ste...@konink.de wrote: Bev M Ewen-Smith schreef: I am hoping to take my own vertical/near-vertical aerial photos. Assuming that I can georeference them, what do I need to do to get them to show up under Potlach so that I can trace from

Re: [OSM-talk] Own aerial photos

2009-09-23 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.netwrote: Bev M Ewen-Smith wrote: I am hoping to take my own vertical/near-vertical aerial photos. Assuming that I can georeference them, what do I need to do to get them to show up under Potlach so that I can trace from

Re: [OSM-talk] Own aerial photos

2009-09-23 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Matt Williams li...@milliams.comwrote: Take a look at http://milliams.com/verticalitymetre/, http://milliams.com/verticalitymetre/stats.php and http://milliams.com/verticalitymetre

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetView

2009-09-21 Thread Ian Dees
This is a great idea, but why not just use Flickr or some similar photo site that offers an API for geotagged photos? The only unique thing we'd need to add is a method of recording the orientation (X degrees from magnetic north, Y degrees inclination, Z degrees field of view) of the photo at a

[OSM-talk] shp-to-osm 0.6 released

2009-09-19 Thread Ian Dees
For those of you using the shp-to-osm app, I just uploaded the 0.6 version. If you're looking for what changed, here's the changelog: http://redmine.yellowbkpk.com/versions/show/15 Download here: http://redmine.yellowbkpk.com/projects/list_files/geo

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Getting historic information about usage of a node

2009-09-16 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 7:38 AM, Peter Körner osm-li...@mazdermind.dewrote: Okay, so how can we go on now.. I'm not a ruby man and I don't have a possibility to test all this. Atm. my fallback-plan is to wait until the Wikimedia-Guys finished setup of their copy of the osm-db (which will

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Getting historic information about usage of a node

2009-09-16 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 8:10 AM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 7:38 AM, Peter Körner osm-li...@mazdermind.dewrote: Okay, so how can we go on now.. I'm not a ruby man and I don't have a possibility to test all this. Atm. my fallback-plan is to wait until

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Abstract on getting historic information about usage of a node

2009-09-16 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: This is NOT true. As I explained yesterday there is a very good reason why we do not store a node revision in current_way_nodes and way_nodes. The problem is that if you do that then every time a node is changed you have to

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Abstract on getting historic information about usage of a node

2009-09-16 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Peter Körner osm-li...@mazdermind.dewrote: What's the problem with that? If way 10 did not ever use node 50v3, then it should not be included in the give me all ways that use node 50v3 call, right? (semi-ASCII-art ahead, arm your fixed-width photos) Here's

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] WMF will donate 35 servers...

2009-09-15 Thread Ian Dees
I've been asking around for server/hosting donations. I've been looking for places that would donate servers as well, but if servers are available I might be able to talk to places for bandwidth/power donations instead. ...back to the e-mails... On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Grant Slater

[OSM-talk] MonopolyCityStreets On the Wiki

2009-09-12 Thread Ian Dees
From http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Mythdraug/diary/7865 (user did not want to subscribe to the list to post this): MonopolyCityStreets has two forms of active communication. 1) blog.monopolycitystreets.com 2) Twitter: @monopolycitysts Many users in game are complaining that there is

Re: [OSM-talk] Vote for Google to liberate their aerial imagery - *please help*

2009-09-11 Thread Ian Dees
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.netwrote: I wrote: http://url.ie/2ero After just an hour and a half, we're already the second most popular suggestion, with 97 votes for and none against. If we can keep it up we'll be at the top before long - so keep

[OSM-talk] Which OSMF Member Do I Talk To...

2009-09-11 Thread Ian Dees
Since the Foundation's website seems to be down [0] and the Foundation's wiki page isn't very clear [1], I am wondering if someone on the list could answer a quick question for me: As the admin for the Google Summer of Code project for OpenStreetMap, I need to get an invoice from the non-profit

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Data Used in Upcoming Monopoly Game

2009-09-09 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com wrote: Perhaps they are using OSM for data, dividing up the world into streets that players can buy and sell, but rendering the Google Maps tiles underneath. That seems a bit lame. I'm playing it right now, and this appears to be

[OSM-talk] OSM Data Used in Upcoming Monopoly Game

2009-09-08 Thread Ian Dees
Check this out: http://blog.monopolycitystreets.com/2009/09/almost-there.html Might be interesting to contact them and see what they're using the data for. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Street View copyright question

2009-09-08 Thread Ian Dees
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.org wrote: On Wednesday 09 Sep 2009 2:40:49 am Anthony wrote: Is it okay to use Google Street View to confirm turning restrictions, street names, etc? This seems like an obvious yes to me, but then, I would have said the same

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Street View copyright question

2009-09-08 Thread Ian Dees
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Eric Wolf ebw...@gmail.com wrote: not ok - if google has made a mistake (or an easter egg) and you incorporate that in OSM - we will all suffer. How do you make a mistake with a picture of the real world? Ever hear of Photoshop? Map makers (and other

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: Thompson Ave in Croton on Hudson, NY (10520) is not a through street!

2009-09-08 Thread Ian Dees
Fixed. Google: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=qsource=s_qhl=engeocode=q=thompson+10520sll=41.205829,-73.888593sspn=0.012527,0.015707ie=UTF8ll=41.204261,-73.882831spn=0.001566,0.001963t=hz=19 OSM: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=41.204352lon=-73.882934zoom=18layers=B000FTF On Tue, Sep 8, 2009

[Talk-us] Broken Changeset

2009-09-08 Thread Ian Dees
Could someone please revert the changeset below? I accidentally quit JOSM during an upload. Since the API defaults to accepting a changeset after timeout instead of throwing it away, all of the nodes that were uploaded as part of the changeset were added to the DB. Could we perhaps change that in

Re: [OSM-talk] Software Freedom Day

2009-09-05 Thread Ian Dees
On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 2:59 AM, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: SFD is using a well known proprietary map on their web site. Is there anything in this which OSM or one of its derivatives can't do already? http://cgi.softwarefreedomday.org/2009/map.shtml If we can duplicate these functions,

Re: [Talk-us] Garmin OSM map for whole US

2009-09-05 Thread Ian Dees
On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Dave Hansen d...@sr71.net wrote: Does anybody else have some nice USA extracts that could be used for making garmin maps? I'd like to have a lower-48 OSM planet file extract for a keepright mirror, as well. ___

[OSM-talk] shp-to-osm 0.5 released

2009-09-04 Thread Ian Dees
For those of you using the shp-to-osm app, I just uploaded the 0.5 version. If you're looking for what changed, here's the changelog: http://redmine.yellowbkpk.com/versions/show/14 Download here: http://redmine.yellowbkpk.com/projects/list_files/geo

Re: [Talk-us] Tiger Lakes

2009-09-04 Thread Ian Dees
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.netwrote: On 9/3/09 12:18 AM, Ian Dees wrote: Yes, take a look at the NHD dataset import: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/NHD as a relatively new guy, i decided to jump off into the deep end and signed up to do

Re: [Talk-us] TopOSM Colorado

2009-09-04 Thread Ian Dees
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Lars Ahlzen l...@ahlzen.com wrote: There's also the size of the data sets. The entire hi-res NHD and NED would probably be many, many TB. Unpacking, preparing and indexing that data requires plenty of additional disk space as well. One would probably have to

Re: [Talk-us] Tiger Lakes

2009-09-02 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 11:15 PM, Ben Supnik bsup...@xsquawkbox.net wrote: Hi Y'all, From my examination of the map, it appears that TIGER water is not imported into the map. Is anyone working on a wide-scale water import from a superior dataset? Yes, take a look at the NHD dataset

Re: [OSM-talk] revert request

2009-08-30 Thread Ian Dees
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: Would somebody run two reverts for me please? My import failed in changesets 2311851 and 2308610 Nodes were imported for woods polygons but not the ways. fail. Did you get an error from the server? I also saw this

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