Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] alley - for tree-lined roads?

2009-11-03 Thread John F. Eldredge
to the side or back of properties. It is distinguished from a driveway in that a driveway is on private land and generally gives access to just one property; an alley is on public property and generally gives access to multiple properties. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right

Re: [OSM-talk] Suggestion for JOSM

2009-11-03 Thread John F. Eldredge
Bitmapped images don't scale well. When you zoom in, the pixels get larger, rather than more pixels being added. For purposes of map-making, it seems like a vector-based system would work better. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think

Re: [OSM-talk] Garmin eTrex Vista Hcx

2009-10-31 Thread John F. Eldredge
starts to move, the GPS can locate the car within 3 or 4 meters. -- 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: Konrad Skeri kon...@skeri.com Date

Re: [OSM-talk] multipolygon (lake) not rendering

2009-10-25 Thread John F. Eldredge
I think he means, Wouldn't it be better to tag the entire island with a name, rather than tagging each segment separately? -- 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

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal -RFC -(man_made=mineshaft)

2009-10-21 Thread John F. Eldredge
It seems like it would make more sense to have a tag called peak, with attributes natural or manmade, rather than the other way around. After all, every object in the world is either manmade or natural. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think

Re: [OSM-talk] SteveC should decide

2009-10-08 Thread John F. Eldredge
Using the URL seems reasonable, since the URL is unique and the page title likely isn't unique. -- 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: Dave

Re: [OSM-talk] Google has dual carriage way where it's not built yet

2009-10-08 Thread John F. Eldredge
confused TomTom users in that area :-) ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than

Re: [OSM-talk] SteveC should decide

2009-10-07 Thread John F. Eldredge
to be named. -- 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: Gervase Markham gerv-gm...@gerv.net Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:34:50 To: talk@openstreetmap.org

[OSM-talk] Updating a point of interest

2009-10-04 Thread John F. Eldredge
hospital is no longer a hospital, so that no one will mistakenly go there in a medical emergency? -- 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

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