On Monday 09 August 2010, Tim François wrote:
> ...which is why I suggested letting users have the *option* to turn them off
> as I recognise that some find the information useful (including the
> developer, as mentioned last week). It just bogs down my little netbook quite
> a bit, the poor thi
>>Dave F. said
>>And, as Tim F., points outs - there's no need to display correct info
>>(green) at all.
>I disagree and find these useful. It is often the case that part of a road
>has been named >correctly and parts incorrectly. The green boxes are very
>useful for finding the full extent o
On Monday 09 August 2010, Tim François wrote:
> A big start would be to explain the two major features of the UI:
The way I feel about UIs is if you have to "explain" anything then you've
already failed, so...
> what the colours mean (actually writing "a green area means: blah, blah")
I thought
On 09/08/2010 16:31, ke...@cordina.org.uk wrote:
Also, Robert, an unqualified thank you for your work on this - it's a great
tool and is just fine as is.
Wholeheartedly agreed - it's extremely useful just as it is.
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Dave F. said
>And, as Tim F., points outs - there's no need to display correct info
>(green) at all.
I disagree and find these useful. It is often the case that part of a road has
been named correctly and parts incorrectly. The green boxes are very useful
for finding the full extent of a give
On 08/08/2010 23:59, Robert Scott wrote:
Oh!
... This is necessary to keep showing the user a relevant amount of detail.
I'm failing to understand why it's necessary. As I've tried to explain,
at the lower zoom levels the info is unnecessary as it's unusable.
Your circles/rectangles refer to
The alternative way of looking at the comparison Musical Chairs displays
is to look at the ITO layer over a standard Mapnik or OSMARender layer.
ITO only show the OSL comparisons that do not match OSM, so all of
things Musical Chairs shows as green boxes are not shown. If this is
what you want
correct' green squares/circles - surely
that's just wasting resources for the average user?
Obviously, if you're just aiming to reach programmers and power users, then
leave as-is!
Thanks
Tim
--- On Sun, 8/8/10, Robert Scott wrote:
From: Robert Scott
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB]
On Sunday 08 August 2010, Dave F. wrote:
> It redraws all the different colour circles on the map (supposedly
> searching the database each time) & list specific data on the right for
> the circle that was under the double click - pointless if you just want
> to zoom in.
Oh!
Yes - this is inte
On 08/08/2010 19:48, Robert Scott wrote:
On Sunday 08 August 2010, Dave F. wrote:
It's an improvement, but it tries to refresh on every click
By "refresh" do you mean it tries to load the selected match details?
It redraws all the different colour circles on the map (supposedly
searching th
On Sunday 08 August 2010, Dave F. wrote:
> It's an improvement, but it tries to refresh on every click
By "refresh" do you mean it tries to load the selected match details?
> You can't accurately check data until about zoom 16 anyway.
On the contrary. I often look at the "recent changes" view fu
On 05/08/2010 23:05, Robert Scott wrote:
On Wednesday 04 August 2010, Dave F. wrote:
Would it be possible to turn these circles off at lower zoom levels?
Personally I like to double click on the map to zoom in at these levels
as it centres the city I'm interested in& so I can then use the bar
On Wednesday 04 August 2010, Dave F. wrote:
> Would it be possible to turn these circles off at lower zoom levels?
> Personally I like to double click on the map to zoom in at these levels
> as it centres the city I'm interested in & so I can then use the bar to
> zoom accurately to the specifi
On Wednesday 04 August 2010, Graham Jones wrote:
> I have the same problem using Google Chrome on Ubuntu Linux. Works ok with
> Firefox though.
>
> Graham.
>
> On 4 August 2010 20:08, Ian Caldwell
>
> > wrote:
>
> > Is just me or does musical chairs not work with the Chrome Browser. I
> > can
I have the same problem using Google Chrome on Ubuntu Linux. Works ok with
Firefox though.
Graham.
On 4 August 2010 20:08, Ian Caldwell
> wrote:
> Is just me or does musical chairs not work with the Chrome Browser. I
> cannot select the boxes. I can interestingly select the circles?
>
> Ian
>
Is just me or does musical chairs not work with the Chrome Browser. I
cannot select the boxes. I can interestingly select the circles?
Ian
.
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On Wednesday 04 August 2010, a_snail wrote:
> Also, with regards to the green boxes that show near matches, any chance you
> could say why it's a near match i.e. is it the spelling of the road name,
> classification, or possibly the location of the road.
The nearness metric of the match is purely
On Wednesday 04 August 2010, you wrote:
> Out of curiosity, why is it "important to show _all_ OSL entries"? Is there
> a way to not show the ones where OSL==OSM?
Well, it's certainly important for me to be able to see potential matching
problems. An OSL street's match is influenced by its neighb
boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Robert Scott
> Sent: 04 August 2010 16:17
> To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
> Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Yet more musical chairs updates.
>
> On Wednesday 04 August 2010, Tim Francois wrote:
> > My question still stands about the fact that there
> Also, with regards to the green boxes that show near matches,
> any chance you
> could say why it's a near match i.e. is it the spelling of the
> road name,
> classification, or possibly the location of the road.
If you click on the triangle top right it shows both the OSL and OSM
names somewher
04 August 2010 16:17
To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Yet more musical chairs updates.
On Wednesday 04 August 2010, Tim Francois wrote:
> My question still stands about the fact that there are LOADS of roads with
> the same name in OSL and OSM but are being flagged by a bri
Out of curiosity, why is it "important to show _all_ OSL entries"? Is there
a way to not show the ones where OSL==OSM?
The reason I was confused was that it was showing as a bright green
rectangle (which I correctly assumed meant that OSL matched OSM, as you've
just confirmed), but when clicking o
On Wednesday 04 August 2010, Tim Francois wrote:
> My question still stands about the fact that there are LOADS of roads with
> the same name in OSL and OSM but are being flagged by a bright green
> rectangle. Why is this?
In many cultures, green is considered a sign of "good", "OK", or "everythin
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> *Cc:* talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Talk-GB] Yet more musical chairs updates.
>
>
>
> Robert,
>
>
>
> Am I missing something here? Go to:
> http://ris.dev.openstreetmap.org/oslmusicalchairs/map?zoom=16&lat=51.46829&lon=-2.60556&a
Robert,
Am I missing something here? Go to:
http://ris.dev.openstreetmap.org/oslmusicalchairs/map?zoom=16&lat=51.46829&lon=-2.60556&layers=B0TF
A lot of these have the same name in OSL and OSM, yet are flagged with a
green circle. What does this mean? (Actually, I've just gone back to it and
the
On Wednesday 04 August 2010, Dave F. wrote:
> What's the different between the circles & rectangles? Is it just to do
> with the zoom factor?
When there are more than n (currently 1024) results in an area, it shows only
the first n results. You can choose which n these are (random sample, most
Cheers Robert
A couple of Q's:
What's the different between the circles & rectangles? Is it just to do
with the zoom factor?
Would it be possible to turn these circles off at lower zoom levels?
Personally I like to double click on the map to zoom in at these levels
as it centres the city I
On 30 July 2010 13:29, Robert Scott wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I'm sure you all feel you've heard enough about my recent activities by now
I'm just catching up after a year or so away from OSM, so no, I'm not
fed up thanks!
That's a really useful resource thank you. There are quite a few
roa
Hello everybody,
I'm sure you all feel you've heard enough about my recent activities by now,
but I do quite like the latest things I've added to musical chairs. There are
now multiple view modes for high zoom levels - determining which entries the db
will prioritize when there are too many ent
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