Re: [OSM-talk] Overhaul of voting process (was: Road crossings proposal - status?)

2008-05-07 Per discussione Robin Paulson
2008/5/8 Christoph Eckert [EMAIL PROTECTED]: For those who think the RFC/vote process represents the consensus on how things should be done, what needs to happen to change that process? IMO map features should be built on top of tagwatch. This way tagging recommendations would be

Re: [OSM-talk] golf course marking

2008-05-07 Per discussione Robin Paulson
2008/5/8 Richard Fairhurst [EMAIL PROTECTED]: yes, it is a strange choice. it leads to irrationalities like highway=footway and highway=cycleway why we're not using right_of_way=motorway|primary|cycleway|footway| and so on, i don't know Generally right of way is a legal term. It

Re: [OSM-talk] Overhaul of voting process (was: Road crossings proposal - status?)

2008-05-07 Per discussione Robin Paulson
2008/5/8 DavidD [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/5/7 Robin Paulson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: using tagwatch is a good idea as a basis for proposals, but problems arise when we have two ways of tagging the same type of item. how does anyone decide which should be used? one must be more optimal than

[OSM-talk] contours on main map

2008-05-07 Per discussione Robin Paulson
is there any intention to include contours on the main map at any point? would it be possible to have them as a static layer (i.e. they not be re-rendered every week like the mapnik images, to save processing time), with a transparent background? alternatively, are there any world wide maps out

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] spur railways?

2008-05-06 Per discussione Robin Paulson
2008/5/6 Peter Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I notice that 'railway=spur' is used a lot in the tiger data. Here is an example (where the railway continues north out of Davis as a 'spur'). http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=38.57568lon=-121.74505zoom=16 However it doesn't render in Mapnik or

Re: [OSM-talk] zoom yahoo data in potlatch?

2008-05-02 Per discussione Robin Paulson
2008/5/3 micha ruh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: in options, choose 'Aerial - OpenAerialMap' as background and you'll be fine hmm, i'm slightly baffled by that. the oam coverage for nz is appalling at best and as an aside, i'd be very surprised if it was better resolution than the yahoo imagery anywhere on

[OSM-talk] railways/roads/canals/rivers/etc. inside buildings

2008-04-30 Per discussione Robin Paulson
a situation has come up, where i've been mapping some railway lines that go through a maintenance shed. the problem is, the railway is drawn on top of the shed, rather than shown dotted too imply it's underneath/inside. is there a tag i could use, to show that it's inside? something like the

[OSM-talk] new potlatch issues

2008-04-30 Per discussione Robin Paulson
richard, i see you've rolled out some changes as part of potlatch 0.8c, including huge thick ways...could you roll them back please? they're very obtrusive and obscure a lot of the yahoo imagery underneath. i'm finding it very difficult to accurately place ways on the centre of roads, amongst

Re: [OSM-talk] Using OSM data for GoogleEarth

2008-04-17 Per discussione Robin Paulson
2008/4/18 maning sambale [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The KML is not a problem, only if someone makes a screenshot or whatever from the whole thing with the Google Earth layer visible, that would have to be CC-BY-SA licensed meaning that he can't distribute such a screenshot unless Google also

Re: [OSM-talk] Voting

2008-04-09 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 09/04/2008, Andy Robinson (blackadder) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't expressed my view too much on this aspect of late. I think most know that I'm an advocate of the let it evolve approach. me too. it should evolve - but settling on agreed ways of doing things does not prevent

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] linz dataset for nz - attribution methods summary

2008-04-07 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 08/04/2008, 80n [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if we are going to have an 'attribution' page on the wiki[1], with the fine print regarding sources of various chunks of data, would a link to it be possible, on the main map page? titled say 'data attribution' or 'data sources'? Have

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Fwd: OSM (Open Street Map) Creative Commons Licence 2.5 (CCL) versus GeoBase Unrestricted Use Licence Agreement (GeoBase licence)

2008-04-07 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 08/04/2008, Nick Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've been involved in some ongoing dialogue with Natural Resources, Government of Canada, who are keen for their National Road Network to be used by OSM. There are a few particularities of the license that need clarifying on

Re: [OSM-talk] linz dataset for nz - attribution methods summary

2008-04-07 Per discussione Robin Paulson
2008/4/3 Robert Vollmert [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I may be missing something, but why would we need to introduce a read- only attribution tag if we already have it? It's the source tag of the first version of an object, in http://api.openstreetmap.org/api/0.5/objtype/id/history fantastic. like

Re: [OSM-talk] Voting

2008-04-07 Per discussione Robin Paulson
2008/4/7 Frederik Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED]: stumbled across a quote by David D Clark (of Internet architecture fame) today. He said: We reject: kings, presidents and voting. We believe in: rough consensus and running code. maybe someone should tell the government? apparently we're all

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-legal-talk] linz dataset for nz - attribution methods summary

2008-04-07 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 08/04/2008, 80n [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if we are going to have an 'attribution' page on the wiki[1], with the fine print regarding sources of various chunks of data, would a link to it be possible, on the main map page? titled say 'data attribution' or 'data sources'? Have

Re: [OSM-talk] talk Digest, Vol 44, Issue 6

2008-04-07 Per discussione Robin Paulson
2008/4/3 David Ebling [EMAIL PROTECTED]: True, I acknowledge that, but requiring two seperate attributions for OSM data is going to be confusing to people who use the data. So far we have managed to get by on just one attribution. .. It changes the attribution which all

Re: [OSM-talk] linz dataset

2008-04-02 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 02/04/2008, David Ebling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am I the only person observing this conversation on the mailing list who is deeply, deeply concerned by the notion of importing data that requires attribution other than the standard OSM CC-by-SA? The fact that well, the attribution they

[OSM-talk] linz dataset for nz - attribution methods summary

2008-04-01 Per discussione Robin Paulson
many thanks to all that participated in the recent discussions on attributing data provided by land information new zealand. i've read through all that was discussed and written down a brief summary of what osm will do and won't do, on the wiki: i don't recall if there was ever a definite 'yes'

Re: [OSM-talk] linz dataset for nz - attribution methods summary

2008-04-01 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 02/04/2008, Cartinus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 01 April 2008 22:46:39 Robin Paulson wrote: *osm will carry out: 4. ??? creating an 'attribution' tag, which can only be edited by select members of the community. this tag will be applied only to items requiring

Re: [OSM-talk] linz dataset for nz - attribution methods summary

2008-04-01 Per discussione Robin Paulson
From: Robin Paulson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: talk@openstreetmap.org; Licensing and other legal discussions. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 1 April, 2008 9:46:39 PM Subject: [OSM-talk] linz dataset for nz - attribution methods summary many thanks to all that participated

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMXAPI returning points outside bounding box

2008-03-29 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 18/03/2008, David Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But, there are a bunch of nodes in the XML file outside that bounding box: After a bit of that, the reset of the xml file seems ok, but something weird is clearly happening here. Any ideas? seeing as no-one more

Re: [OSM-talk] import of dataset for new zealand

2008-03-20 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 20/03/2008, Richard Fairhurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: bear with me here, i'm not sure what you mean: what is the serious cartographic issue, and why is it a problem? It looks pug ugly! fair point, i'll agree with that Not a lot more that I can say than that, but I'll try. It

Re: [OSM-talk] import of dataset for new zealand

2008-03-19 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 20/03/2008, Stephen Gower [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I absolutely agree with this (aka +1). OSM's baseline is user-collected data, freely given to project. Imports of large datasets are nice, but if they can't be given under the same terms as my GPS tracks, OSM should have to use

Re: [OSM-talk] import of dataset for new zealand

2008-03-19 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 19/03/2008, Cartinus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Twice no. Objects in the database are more than just shapes. To concentrate on the second one: The shape from the Yahoo image is better, but there are no names visible in the aerial photographs. If I don't know the name (and whatever other

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] import of dataset for new zealand

2008-03-18 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 18/03/2008, Richard Fairhurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robin Paulson wrote: (c) Crown Copyright w00t, Robin found his Shift key! ;) thanks, incredibly constructive. haven't you got something better to do? ___ legal-talk mailing list legal

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] import of dataset for new zealand

2008-03-18 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 19/03/2008, Richard Fairhurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What, something better than having a sense of humour? No, probably not. Alternatively, you could respond to the seven lines of constructive, substantive suggestion I made below that. But - oh look - you appear to have snipped that.

[OSM-talk] import of dataset for new zealand

2008-03-18 Per discussione Robin Paulson
land information new zealand is a government org that holds data on roads and properties for the entirety of new zealand. they have recently given permission to use their data sets in osm, with a caveat that we include an attribution statement: Contains data sourced from Land Information New

Re: [OSM-talk] import of dataset for new zealand

2008-03-18 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 19/03/2008, Ian Darwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the key is the attribution at present there is no method for attributing data in osm, so this is a call to all: I presume you've verified that putting it on the OSM web site would not be adequate? I think there needs to be a

Re: [OSM-talk] import of dataset for new zealand

2008-03-18 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 19/03/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which is as it should be. If an object originating from that import is significantly altered later, then it should be possible to reflect this in the source tag. of course, defining 'significantly altered' becomes an issue maybe

Re: [OSM-talk] How to use lanes= for two way single track roads?

2008-03-12 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 13/03/2008, Paul Hurley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to map features the value for the lanes key should be. Number of travel lanes in each (or only permitted) direction I've been tagging to this definition. Number of travel lanes on the way This makes more sense to me because

[OSM-talk] the way forward...

2008-03-11 Per discussione Robin Paulson
the entire town (*everything*) of nanaimo in canada is being mapped with help from google - it would be wonderful to get this kind of collaboration with OSM, to promote innovative uses of unusual data sets http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1720932,00.html

Re: [OSM-talk] Archicad to OSM ?

2008-03-10 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 11/03/2008, Andrew Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can I ask for suggestions on the best way to get Archicad (.dwg) files into OSM? if you can convert them to dxf (should be able to do this with archicad i think), there is a process for converting them into shapefiles, as outlined in the

Re: [OSM-talk] [Fwd: map question]

2008-03-09 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 10/03/2008, Robert (Jamie) Munro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of software that will allow you to pick and choose the towns and other features that appear in a printed outline map? Suppose, for example, that I was planning a Spurr Pilgrimage Tour: how could I print an

Re: [OSM-talk] Continuous audio in JOSM on tracks without waypoints

2008-02-24 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 25/02/2008, J.D. Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could this work with video media files ? I've invested in an Oregon Scientific ACT2000 solid state helmet cam ( http://tinyurl.com/22zaep ) for use when driving my cityscooter. It has audio input too, but the cool, will you be contributing

Re: [OSM-talk] Continuous audio in JOSM on tracks without waypoints

2008-02-21 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 22/02/2008, David Earl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Funnily enough, the first time I tried audio tracing I just assumed there was something like this available, so when I came to use my audio I realised that all my post box on the left NOW, bus stop on the right... NOW was fairly

Re: [OSM-talk] displayed width of roads

2008-02-18 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 19/02/2008, Andy Allan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gaaarrgggh! snip Deliberately tagging things incorrectly is bad practice. There are so many renderers out there that if what you do works for more than one of them that's just coincidence. And when bad practices like this

Re: [OSM-talk] Contours on the Cycle Map

2008-02-18 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 19/02/2008, Christoph Eckert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Sadly, it seems to be frozen in a proposal state forever and is therefore not rendered on the two main maps yet. so why not open it for voting? I've mapped some and would vote for it :) . for consistency, this would be better

[OSM-talk] [tagging] voting closed/proposal approved - power_plants

2008-02-16 Per discussione Robin Paulson
after two weeks of voting, and two extended weeks, this proposal has been approved, with 17 yes votes, and 1 no vote http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Power_plants it will be moved to the approved features and map features page thanks for voting

[OSM-talk] [tagging] voting closed/proposal approved - ferry terminal

2008-02-16 Per discussione Robin Paulson
after two weeks of voting, this proposal has been approved, with 13 yes votes, and 0 no vote http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Ferry_Terminal#Voting it will be moved to the approved features and map features page thanks for voting

[OSM-talk] [tagging] voting closed/proposal approved - naval base

2008-02-16 Per discussione Robin Paulson
after two weeks of voting, this has been apprvoed with 8 yes votes and 0 no votes http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/naval_base it will be moved to the approved features and map features page thanks ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] administrative boundaries that run along roads - in the Mapnik layer

2008-02-10 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 11/02/2008, Karl Eichwalder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why did I not think of that? (slaps head). In fact, I could put them in as layer=5 which will put them on top of virtually any other conceivable feature (like, a river underneath a three-layer highway intersection...) In fact, I have

Re: [OSM-talk] Large Rivers in general, mapnik rendering in Particular

2008-02-10 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 11/02/2008, Robin Paulson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 08/02/2008, David Groom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The main problem area seems to be that some people do not like the current proposal whereby a river is divided up in to separate closed areas. The reason being that the segment

Re: [OSM-talk] Large Rivers in general, mapnik rendering in Particular

2008-02-10 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 08/02/2008, David Groom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The main problem area seems to be that some people do not like the current proposal whereby a river is divided up in to separate closed areas. The reason being that the segment crossing the river to close the area marks a boundary which does

Re: [OSM-talk] unpaved residential

2008-02-10 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 11/02/2008, Alex S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lukasz Stelmach wrote: 1. why there is (i'll answer it in a moment) unsurfaced highway while in practice every highway can have surface=unpaved? Highway=unsurfaced is old. Surface=unpaved is much more recent, and should be used by

Re: [OSM-talk] correctly mapping avenues

2008-02-09 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 10/02/2008, Martin Trautmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: wiseLYNX wrote: There is even an italian expression, viale alberato which specifically describes an avenue with tree lines.. Could an avenue exist without tree lines? not in english - it explicitly means a road with trees. although

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] grouping simple tag proposals

2008-02-05 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 04/02/2008, Robin Paulson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i think it would be a good idea to group a lot of these tags together in one proposal, [...] [] I guess, lot's of the simple tags are not that simple when you look more close at it, but let's have a try at Robins idea

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] grouping simple tag proposals

2008-02-04 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 04/02/2008, Ulf Lamping [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: lot of proposed 'shop' tags on the proposals page, something which is overwhelming and time-consuming to solve using our current method of tag proposal/ratifying i think it would be a good idea to group a lot of these tags together in

[OSM-talk] [tagging] grouping simple tag proposals

2008-02-03 Per discussione Robin Paulson
taking on board one of Frederic's comments from last week: there are a lot of proposed 'shop' tags on the proposals page, something which is overwhelming and time-consuming to solve using our current method of tag proposal/ratifying i think it would be a good idea to group a lot of these tags

[OSM-talk] [tagging] voting open - peninsula

2008-02-03 Per discussione Robin Paulson
this has been open for comment for two weeks now, time to open voting http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/peninsula thanks ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] [tagging] request for more votes - pumping_rig

2008-02-03 Per discussione Robin Paulson
this has been open for over two weeks, and currently has 4 yes votes and 0 no votes http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/rig could i request some more votes please, to push it one way or the other. thanks ___ talk mailing list

[OSM-talk] [tagging] request for more votes - chalets

2008-02-03 Per discussione Robin Paulson
this has been open for two weeks, and currently has 4 yes votes and 0 no votes. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/chalets could i request some more votes please, to push it one way or the other. thanks ___ talk mailing list

[OSM-talk] [tagging] voting open - railway=service

2008-02-03 Per discussione Robin Paulson
after several weeks of RFC and a re-work of the tagging, this is open for voting http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Service thanks ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

[OSM-talk] [tagging] RFC open - rack railway

2008-02-03 Per discussione Robin Paulson
this has been around for several months now with little input, so i've done a bit of cleanup http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Rack_railway time to open for comments thanks ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Closed Ways all Opened in Luxembourg

2008-02-03 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 04/02/2008, Richard Fairhurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyway, more usefully, Potlatch now automatically resizes itself to your browser window. Still a couple of rough edges to iron out (particularly with the Yahoo imagery) but hope you like it! woooah, col thank richard, been

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] grouping simple tag proposals

2008-02-03 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 04/02/2008, Robert Vollmert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sounds good, but why not go a step further: There could be a page on the wiki for simple proposals, and anything that gets no objections for a week is automatically approved and added to Map Features. i'm not too comfortable with that -

Re: [OSM-talk] Template:Key and Template:Tag pages in OSM-Wiki

2008-02-03 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 04/02/2008, Hakan Tandogan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My problem is that the template only shows official values for the shop key, but there might be more tags that are used only locally. Could the template render those additional tags after the official list, perhaps with a divider row

Re: [OSM-talk] Template:Key and Template:Tag pages in OSM-Wiki

2008-02-03 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 04/02/2008, Hakan Tandogan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, I'm talking about creating a Map_Features page where new values for given keys (e.g. highway, shop) appear. The only part I'm complaining is that the Template only allows the approved values whereas I'd like it to show the

[OSM-talk] [tagging] new proposal - graveyard

2008-02-03 Per discussione Robin Paulson
i've noticed that there are two tags for places where people are buried - cemetery and graveyard, with an ambiguous distinction between the two this proposal is to make one obsolete http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/graveyard comments are welcome

[OSM-talk] [tagging] vote open - handball

2008-02-03 Per discussione Robin Paulson
this has bene open for commetns for several weeks now, with no major objections http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Handball voting is now open, until 2008-02-18 thanks ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] request for more votes - power_plant

2008-02-03 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 04/02/2008, Robin Paulson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, I can live with it and I think it's a good idea to move the stuff to power so I reverted my vote, I guess we can consider this to be approved and can close the voting. Are you gonna do the next steps? plus, of course, lots

[OSM-talk] landuse tagging

2008-01-30 Per discussione Robin Paulson
there have been a few discussions recently concerning proposed landuse tags, that have brought up a question: what is the definition of landuse, in the context of OSM? i ask, because a number of the tags that have been suggested in this category, seem to be badly thought out - it appears to have

[OSM-talk] [tagging] filtering of tagging e-mails (was Re: Move tagging RfCs/voting to extra list?)

2008-01-30 Per discussione Robin Paulson
from now on, until someone creates an extra tagging list, i'll include [tagging] in every tag proposals e-mail, to let those of you who aren't interested, filter out this stuff easily. every e-mail client has filter capabilities, so this shouldn't be a problem. i'll come up with some way of

[OSM-talk] tag vote open - ferry terminal

2008-01-28 Per discussione Robin Paulson
this has been open for comments for several months now, with no objections. time to open voting http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Ferry_Terminal thanks ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

[OSM-talk] vote closed/proposal rejected - mining

2008-01-28 Per discussione Robin Paulson
this has been open for vote for 6 weeks now, it has closed with 6 yes votes, 1 no vote and 3 votes which are ambiguous. in future, please either vote yes for the proposal or against it, not for part of it and against part of it, or we will never get anywhere. if you have objections, these should

[OSM-talk] vote closed/proposal approved - crane

2008-01-28 Per discussione Robin Paulson
this has been open for voting for 2 weeks, and has now closed. it has been approved, with 6 yes votes and 0 no votes http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/crane it will be moved to the map features and approved features page thanks

Re: [OSM-talk] Move tagging RfCs/voting to extra list?

2008-01-28 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 29/01/2008, Frederik Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wrote the following two weeks ago because I felt that the talk list was a bit flooded by administrative voting ends, voting opens, comments requested etc. messages: would it make sense to create a new mailing list - say [EMAIL

Re: [OSM-talk] Move tagging RfCs/voting to extra list?

2008-01-28 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 29/01/2008, Frederik Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, if nobody wants to write digests, then IMHO it's just not a good idea to move to a seperate mailing list. well, if other people keep up with the rfc open, tag vote open, etc. categories i put together last week, it should be pretty

[OSM-talk] voting closed/proposal rejected - hov access

2008-01-24 Per discussione Robin Paulson
voting has been open on this for 4 weeks. it has now closed, with 4 yes votes, and 1 no vote - the proposal was rejected http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/hov_access it will be moved to the rejected features page thanks ___

[OSM-talk] vote closed/proposal approved - turning_circle

2008-01-24 Per discussione Robin Paulson
voting on this proposal has now closed. the proposal has been approved, with 21 yes votes and 1 no vote http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Turning_circle it will be added to the map features and approved features page thanks

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Osmarender requested enhancements

2008-01-24 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 25/01/2008, Adrian Frith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: highway=ford is a node tag. According to map features. There shouldn't be any gaps. maybe it should be a way as well, some rivers are pretty wide Then shouldn't it be highway=whatever ford=yes - by analogy with bridge=yes and

[OSM-talk] vote closed/proposal approved - museum

2008-01-23 Per discussione Robin Paulson
this tag proposal vote has been open for two weeks now, and has passed with 14 approvals and 1 disapproval http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Museum voting is now closed, the proposal will be moved to the approved features and map features page thanks

[OSM-talk] vote closed/proposal approved - battlefield

2008-01-23 Per discussione Robin Paulson
after two weeks of voting, this vote has closed, with 111 approval votes and no disapprovals http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Battlefield the proposal will be moved to the map features and approved features page thanks ___

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=stop

2008-01-23 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 24/01/2008, Robert (Jamie) Munro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Shall we put the node on the way where the sign is, a little bit before | the intersection (and how much) ? or is it planned to use a relation ? | or does it really help to tag such signs (I mean, it does not influence | routing)

[OSM-talk] vote closed/proposal approved - cave_entrance

2008-01-22 Per discussione Robin Paulson
after two weeks of voting, this proposal has been passed with 15 yes votes http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Cave_entrance it will be moved to the approved features and map features page thanks ___ talk mailing list

[OSM-talk] proposal rejected - climbing_wall

2008-01-21 Per discussione Robin Paulson
voting has ended on this proposal, with 6 yes votes and 3 no votes http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Climbing_Wall the proposal will be moved from the proposed features page to the rejected features page thanks ___ talk

[OSM-talk] more votes requested - petanque

2008-01-21 Per discussione Robin Paulson
this proposal has become very muddled http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/P%C3%A9tanque two users have now voted no on it, for not entirely explained reasons - please, if you are going to comment on a proposal/oppose a vote, provide some reasoning behind your comment, or

[OSM-talk] RFC - shooting

2008-01-21 Per discussione Robin Paulson
this has been re-proposed, with amended tags: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Shooting comments please thanks ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] proposal rejected - climbing_wall

2008-01-21 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 22/01/2008, Rob Reid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robin Paulson wrote the following on 22/01/2008 07:44: voting has ended on this proposal, with 6 yes votes and 3 no votes http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Climbing_Wall the proposal will be moved from the proposed

[OSM-talk] voting open - power_plant

2008-01-19 Per discussione Robin Paulson
this has been around for 8 months now, time to open voting http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Power_plants this proposal has two parts: to create the new power=power_plants tag and make the old man_made=nuclear_power, man_made=solar_power, etc. obsolete thanks

Re: [OSM-talk] CLC2000

2008-01-17 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 18/01/2008, Andy Robinson (blackadder) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have to agree that this might be a useful resource for establishing reasonably current land usage. However the first two bullet points of their terms immediately give me a problem: 1. not to use the

Re: [OSM-talk] Move tagging RfCs/voting to extra list?

2008-01-16 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 17/01/2008, Sebastian Spaeth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am all for it. And I am still of the opinion that more people would vote if there was an easier voting mechanism. I had already implemented a prototype of an e-mail voting system, where proposals would be send in mail (in addition to

[OSM-talk] voting closed, proposal rejected - saltmarsh

2008-01-16 Per discussione Robin Paulson
this proposal has been open for voting for two weeks now. it has been rejected, with 6 no votes and 3 yes votes http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Saltmarsh it will be moved to the rejected features page i will put together a new proposal for sub-keys to the 'marsh' tag,

[OSM-talk] voting open - railway=turntable

2008-01-16 Per discussione Robin Paulson
this has been open for comments for two weeks now, with no issues http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Turntable voting is now open, for two weeks thanks ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

[OSM-talk] zenbu data import - suggestions please

2008-01-16 Per discussione Robin Paulson
some of us on the new zealand mailing list are working on a proposal to import data from www.zenbu.co.nz, a business listing site in new zealand http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Zenbu is the page that's been put together for coordinating the work on this data as this sort of thing has

[OSM-talk] proposal guidelines

2008-01-15 Per discussione Robin Paulson
further to my e-mails last week concerning badly-documented proposals, i've put together a proposals guideline page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Creating_a_proposal could i get some impressions on it please? i would like it to be fairly comprehensive, but at the same time i don't

[OSM-talk] voting ended? - population

2008-01-15 Per discussione Robin Paulson
does anyone know what's happening with this tag? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Population it appears to have been voted on, but it isn't really clear what, the tags were only added after voting had completed. i think it's rejected (11 yes to one no), but the last

Re: [OSM-talk] voting closed - swimming_pool

2008-01-14 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 14/01/2008, Brent Easton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chill out guys, I'm merely pointing out an interesting anomaly with the current voting scheme. I don't particularly care if you change it or not. I am not having a go at you Robin, who are doing a terrific job. not at all, i didn't

[OSM-talk] RFC - railway=service

2008-01-14 Per discussione Robin Paulson
this was pretty sound already, i've done a bit of tidy up and proposed some tag values, as well as splitting it into three sub-proposals. hopefully it captures the intent of the original proposer http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Service could i get some comments please

Re: [OSM-talk] I've removed historic=icon from map features

2008-01-13 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 13/01/2008, Tony Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robin Paulson wrote: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bildstock of course, i remember seeing these in austria now. yes, they are quite prominent aren't they and maybe map-worthy after all - would you be willing to put a proposal up

Re: [OSM-talk] maritime borders (was: administrative boundaries and is_in)

2008-01-13 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 13/01/2008, Robin Paulson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i'll start a wiki page. anyone here have any experience with drawing libraries? i'm sure we can do this by re-using something that's already there ok, here we go. i've put in some rough details of the method i suggested earlier. if anyone

[OSM-talk] voting open - crane

2008-01-13 Per discussione Robin Paulson
this has been proposed for 2 weeks now, with no disagreements, time to open voting http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/crane thanks ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] voting closed - swimming_pool

2008-01-13 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 14/01/2008, Brent Easton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If there are votes both for and against, then it requires 14 Yes votes to get something through, but only 1 No vote to can it. In fact, the No voters are more likely to prevent a proposal by NOT voting against a proposal once the first

Re: [OSM-talk] maritime borders (was: administrative boundaries and is_in)

2008-01-12 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 12/01/2008, Igor Brejc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just as a curiosity: 12 NM was chosen because it it the farthest point a person can see from the shore (due to Earth's roundness). Or something like that :) according to wp, it was the range of a cannon in 14th c or something

Re: [OSM-talk] maritime borders

2008-01-12 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 13/01/2008, Lukasz Stelmach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: according to wp, it was the range of a cannon in 14th c or something XIV c. ships would draw rather then carried a cannon that could shoot as far as 22.2 km. It must be something different. i should say, i'm no expert on this, but

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging hierarchies (was: RFC - lake)

2008-01-12 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 13/01/2008, 80n [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 12, 2008 2:10 PM, Martijn van Oosterhout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let's say I'm looking at a satellite image and I see a body of water. Is it a lake/reservoir/dam/blah? I don't know. Yet the proposed scheme forces me to choose one with a

Re: [OSM-talk] maritime borders (was: administrative boundaries and is_in)

2008-01-12 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 12/01/2008, Martijn van Oosterhout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 12, 2008 11:32 AM, Igor Brejc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That would be an interesting thing to implement. It would involve creating a union of circles (with radius of 12 NM) and then determining the border of that union. If

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] attributing cc by attribution data

2008-01-10 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 10/01/2008, Sebastian Spaeth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it's been talked about regarding a couple of other issues that have cropped up (the naming dispute over cyprus for instance) - maybe we need to lock some information, and allow it only to be edited by certain privileged

Re: [OSM-talk] administrative boundaries and is_in

2008-01-10 Per discussione Robin Paulson
On 11/01/2008, Lukasz Stelmach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is more important to me, and this is question for all who know, how to cope boundaries *between* two areas, like administrative ones? How to cope with boundaries of different administrative levels? If a line is a boundary between

[OSM-talk] RFC - checkpoint

2008-01-10 Per discussione Robin Paulson
this has been on the proposals page for 8 months now, with very little attention paid to it http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Checkpoint a request for comments and opinions, please thanks ___ talk mailing list

[OSM-talk] proposal templates

2008-01-10 Per discussione Robin Paulson
further to my previous post about editing the wiki, are there any mediawiki gurus here? a set of templates (or even one!) for proposals would save a lot of time, does anyone feel like volunteering to create one? hopefully, this would give some guidelines for people when proposing tags, and save a

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