Re: [Talk-GB] Ordnance Survey

2010-04-05 Per discussione Matt Williams
yourself should always be done but quickly getting roads traced/surveyed lets us OSMers get on to mapping the stuff that gives OSM the advantage over the 'competition' -- the POIs, local knowledge, secret footpaths, traffic restrictions etc. -- Matt Williams http://milliams.com

Re: [Talk-GB] Ordnance Survey Gazetteer

2010-04-01 Per discussione Matt Williams
supplement Nominatim? -- Matt Williams http://milliams.com ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [OSM-talk] Community center

2010-03-04 Per discussione Matt Williams
add the tag with the british spelling? No need to vote. Just change it to 'centre' and add it. -- Matt Williams http://milliams.com ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] bot vandalism

2009-10-12 Per discussione Matt Williams
or an other form of agreement? I guess this is a good topic for http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/moderation/. It's worth at least notifying those on that list of this conver -- Matt Williams http://milliams.com ___ talk mailing list talk

[OSM-talk] Clarifying and representing road markings at junctions

2009-09-29 Per discussione Matt Williams
frequently get this wrong! Thoughts/comments/suggestions? Regards, Matt Williams http://milliams.com [1] http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=50.911352lon=-1.016514zoom=18 attachment: road.png___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http

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

2009-09-29 Per discussione Matt Williams
? Because we cannot 'completely ban' any tag. That's just not how we work. -- Matt Williams http://milliams.com ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [OSM-talk] Aeroplane for OSM

2009-09-23 Per discussione Matt Williams
to be used for tracing. -- Matt Williams http://milliams.com ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Own aerial photos

2009-09-23 Per discussione Matt Williams
and show the results on a map. As you will see, Stratford-upon-Avon is in the Midlands, not too far from Coventry and Birmingham. -- Matt Williams http://milliams.com ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Maps v.s. OSM routing in Berlin

2009-09-23 Per discussione Matt Williams
route (1.3 times longer). -- Matt Williams http://milliams.com ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] alt_name tag

2009-09-21 Per discussione Matt Williams
2009/9/21 Valent Turkovic valent.turko...@gmail.com: Hi, I have edited wiki page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:alt_name should this first go through some suggestion process? Isn't this what loc_name is for? -- Matt Williams http://milliams.com

Re: [OSM-talk] Patch to render names from routes and custom highway shields on a per country basis

2009-09-21 Per discussione Matt Williams
renderings. The default Mapnik map, however should remain homogeneous. I realise that differently styles road shields are different to rainbow roads but it's worth keeping in mind. -- Matt Williams http://milliams.com ___ talk mailing list talk

Re: [Talk-GB] Stitching Aerial Photographs

2009-09-21 Per discussione Matt Williams
(more) vertical photos by sticking the camera out a loading door at the side of the plane on a mounting so that the camera could always face straight down. Worth bearing in mind for the future? -- Matt Williams http://milliams.com ___ Talk-GB mailing

Re: [Talk-GB] Stitching Aerial Photographs

2009-09-20 Per discussione Matt Williams
!' This should create a nice composite image ready for rectifying. -- Matt Williams http://milliams.com ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Stitching Aerial Photographs

2009-09-20 Per discussione Matt Williams
:) -- Matt Williams http://milliams.com ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Verticality metre, was: Re: OpenStreetMap's first flight!

2009-09-19 Per discussione Matt Williams
2009/9/18 Matt Williams li...@milliams.com: It will be quite slow the first time a person views any particular as I have to fetch the image from the server but this will only be done once for each image. John, if you'd rather I'd do this a different way just tell me. Especially if it's hitting

Re: [Talk-GB] Verticality metre, was: Re: OpenStreetMap's first flight!

2009-09-19 Per discussione Matt Williams
2009/9/18 Matt Williams li...@milliams.com: If at any point someone wants the statistics, just ask me. Now that just over 95% of the images have been tagged (with about 4/5 of those rated by more than one person), I'm providing the ratings for each image in an easy format. The link for the file

Re: [Talk-GB] liam123's latest

2009-09-18 Per discussione Matt Williams
on talk: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UserActivity. It may be of use for detecting future vandals. -- Matt Williams http://milliams.com ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] OpenStreetMap's first flight!

2009-09-18 Per discussione Matt Williams
the photos would be better (anyone want to code up a tagging script?) but in the mean time these would be good ones to rectify. -- Matt Williams http://milliams.com ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-GB] OpenStreetMap's first flight!

2009-09-18 Per discussione Matt Williams
2009/9/18 John McKerrell j...@mckerrell.net: On 18 Sep 2009, at 19:44, John McKerrell wrote: On 18 Sep 2009, at 19:27, Matt Williams wrote: A random selection of vertical(ish) photos: 113-124 (all of one single area) 127 149 628,632,633,636,637,638 (all of the centre near the bridges

[Talk-GB] Verticality metre, was: Re: OpenStreetMap's first flight!

2009-09-18 Per discussione Matt Williams
2009/9/18 Matt Williams li...@milliams.com: 2009/9/18 John McKerrell j...@mckerrell.net: On 18 Sep 2009, at 19:44, John McKerrell wrote: On 18 Sep 2009, at 19:27, Matt Williams wrote: A random selection of vertical(ish) photos: 113-124 (all of one single area) 127 149

Re: [Talk-GB] Verticality metre, was: Re: OpenStreetMap's first flight!

2009-09-18 Per discussione Matt Williams
a half of those are good enough for rectifying and tracing well. The whole site is horribly inefficient at the moment and if you get any errors (particularly on the stats page) just refresh. -- Matt Williams http://milliams.com ___ Talk-GB mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] Reconstructing 3-d buildings from photographs

2009-09-17 Per discussione Matt Williams
/ guys are planning on using the underlying technology behind that demo (called Bundler) to do 3D reconstructions. I don't believe that any work has actually been done on it yet though. -- Matt Williams http://milliams.com ___ talk mailing list talk

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Footnav - new 3D project aimed at countryside users

2009-09-17 Per discussione Matt Williams
’ was not declared in this scope Camera.cpp:76: error: ‘fprintf’ was not declared in this scope make: *** [Camera.o] Error 1 I believe it just needs a '#include cstdio' at the top of Camera.cpp. -- Matt Williams http://milliams.com ___ talk mailing list talk

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Footnav - new 3D project aimed at countryside users

2009-09-17 Per discussione Matt Williams
#include GL/gl.h #endif Quite inconsistent, considering in both cases probably the same header should be included :). On my system I have only GL/gl.h but not GL.h I too needed to change it to '#include GL/gl.h' in SRTM.h. I'm on OpenSUSE 11.1. -- Matt Williams http://milliams.com

Re: [Talk-GB] liam123's latest

2009-09-17 Per discussione Matt Williams
make new edits. Possibly methods of rating contributors with white lists for users who don't get reverted and have been editing for some time etc. talk-moderation or talk-moderation_tools? Since this all falls under the umbrella of moderating the edits being made. -- Matt Williams http

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Mailing List Reply To Header

2009-09-03 Per discussione Matt Williams
...@openstreetmap.org?subject=subscribe (In fact it happened when sending this email that GMail defaulted to sending it to just John and I forgot to change it. This is my second try. This needs a bug report to GMail) Regards, Matt Williams http://milliams.com ___ talk

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Mailing List Reply To Header

2009-09-03 Per discussione Matt Williams
guess the other mailing lists I'm on 'munge' the reply-to header to make it work in GMail. I just can't wait for my internet to improve so I can go back to using IMAP in KMail. -- Matt Williams http://milliams.com ___ talk mailing list talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Beach volleyball

2009-09-01 Per discussione Matt Williams
. -- Matt Williams http://milliams.com ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Beach volleyball

2009-08-28 Per discussione Matt Williams
this comes down to 'mapping what is on the ground', i.e. a volleyball court. That's not to say, however, that if the court really is appropriate for futevôlei then it shouldn't have some sort of extra tag to denote that. -- Matt Williams http://milliams.com

Re: [Talk-GB] Tenfoot

2009-08-28 Per discussione Matt Williams
these 'serviceway alleys' from the smaller 5 foot (or so) alleyways that you can also get behind houses. I've been tagging those as highway=footway thus far. -- Matt Williams http://milliams.com ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [OSM-talk] Diary Spam, was: Wiki Spam

2009-08-27 Per discussione Matt Williams
as spam] link would be useful? -- Matt Williams http://milliams.com ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] New dimension of vandalism

2009-08-27 Per discussione Matt Williams
do you tag trunk, primary, secondary, tertiary and unclassified? They are the aim. Like http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:highway#International_equivalence, surely? -- Matt Williams http://milliams.com ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-GB] Cycle Map - without the cycleway?

2009-08-26 Per discussione Matt Williams
it doesn't have fine grained enough control. Try it out. http://maps.cloudmade.com/editor -- Matt Williams http://milliams.com ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] New Midlands OSMer

2009-08-24 Per discussione Matt Williams
already. Matt Williams West Coventry/Leamington Spa/University of Warwick most of the time http://milliams.com P.S. GMail doesn't seem to default to Reply-to-list. Does anyone know why? ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands

Re: [OSM-talk] mailing list behavior

2008-09-01 Per discussione Matt Williams
reply will send to talk@openstreetmap.org though it does also have a 'reply to mailing list' button for the lists where that doesn't work. Regards, Matt Williams signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ talk mailing

Re: [OSM-talk] mailing list behavior

2008-09-01 Per discussione Matt Williams
On Monday 01 September 2008 20:57:59 Matt Williams wrote: On Monday 01 September 2008 19:07:13 Norbert Wenzel wrote: Lance Dyas wrote: [...] The direct emails arent marked as coming through the list and are likely to end up in my spam bucketss... or just get overlooked. Well

[OSM-talk] OSM support in KDE's Marble

2008-05-21 Per discussione Matt Williams
, check out the full article at http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3475. Regards, Matt Williams signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM support in KDE's Marble

2008-05-21 Per discussione Matt Williams
On Wednesday 21 May 2008 16:18:15 Tom Hughes wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Inge Wallin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 21 May 2008 16:29:12 Matt Williams wrote: On behalf of Torsten Rahn, I'm relaying the latest news about OSM integration into Marble (http

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM support in KDE's Marble

2008-05-21 Per discussione Matt Williams
On Wednesday 21 May 2008 16:03:22 Inge Wallin wrote: On Wednesday 21 May 2008 16:29:12 Matt Williams wrote: Greetings all, On behalf of Torsten Rahn, I'm relaying the latest news about OSM integration into Marble (http://edu.kde.org/marble). I'll let him explain it since he knows

Re: [OSM-talk] Unknown road classifications

2008-05-12 Per discussione Matt Williams
to it now. The most sensible place would probably be http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Key:complete. Matt Williams signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [OSM-talk] street traits

2008-05-12 Per discussione Matt Williams
as a destination by making tertiary be a residential road you _would_ use as a through road. Matt Williams [1] http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=50.8845lon=-1.01108zoom=15layers=B0FT signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ talk

Re: [OSM-talk] golf course marking

2008-05-07 Per discussione Matt Williams
a few changes (see discussion page). So, it's not really a problem with the proposal so much as the OP misusing tags which weren't in the proposal. Matt Williams signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] tagging and rendering highways in the USA and elsewhere

2008-04-18 Per discussione Matt Williams
On Friday 18 April 2008 19:14:22 Tom Hughes wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Adam Schreiber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Tom Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is that we do not have the technology to render different countries in

Re: [OSM-talk] tagging and rendering highways in the USA and elsewhere

2008-04-18 Per discussione Matt Williams
in new countries to chose the right mapping to their own infrastructure and naming and colour conventions. It already is. See http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Key:highway#International_equivalence for the current definitions. Regards, Matt Williams Personally I hope that San Francisco

[OSM-talk] BBC: Villages 'discovered' in DR Congo

2008-04-18 Per discussione Matt Williams
/africa_enl_1208537563/html/1.stm to our's at present http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=-2.017lon=17.117zoom=9layers=B0FT. Does anyone have any more information about this? Regards, Matt Williams signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [OSM-talk] Rocky beaches

2008-04-14 Per discussione Matt Williams
, Matt Williams signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Rocky beaches

2008-04-14 Per discussione Matt Williams
On Monday 14 April 2008 15:46:14 you wrote: On Mon, 14 Apr 2008, Matt Williams wrote: From the proposal at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Water_cover it seems that natural=beach, surface=rocky (or surface=rock?) and optional water=tidal tag if you feel like

Re: [OSM-talk] List of tags in use/database

2008-04-10 Per discussione Matt Williams
/index.php/Tagwatch Regards, Matt Williams Something like the output produced by Jon Burgess in the recent discussion would be very helpful for seeing what other people are currently using: gis= select amenity,count(amenity) as number from planet_osm_point where amenity like 'bus%' group

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik: amenity=bus_station

2008-04-06 Per discussione Matt Williams
will stop by the side of the road whereas a bus station is a larger place containing many 'bus stops' and perhaps with a large covered waiting area - akin to a train station. In this case, amenity=bus_stop should be added to the Map Features page. Matt Williams signature.asc Description

[OSM-talk] Tagging schema for farms

2008-03-25 Per discussione Matt Williams
? What do people think? Regards, Matt Williams [1] http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=50.9112lon=-1.0053zoom=13layers=B0FT [2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Crop [3] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/agricultural_Field [4] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM gets mentioned in KDE4 keynote speech at Google Headquarters

2008-01-22 Per discussione Matt Williams
/KDE_on_Mac_OS_X :D Matt Williams ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] OSM gets mentioned in KDE4 keynote speech at Google Headquarters

2008-01-20 Per discussione Matt Williams
stuff, skip ahead to 1:11:00. Matt Williams ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

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