Re: [Talk-us] MapQuest release 3 new APIs / tools - XAPI (JXAPI), NPI (new!), Broken Poly tool (new!)

2011-05-04 Thread fatzopilot
Hi, many thanks for the new services! I am currenty importing a NPI-File but it already takes 3 weeks now. The DB has grown very rapidly to about 12 GB and now it is growing far more slowly and has reached 20 GB. OK, it is just a fast HDD and no SDD but otherwise a rather decend machine (8 cores,

[Talk-us] Do we want overlaps to be rendered? Or do we want to wait for relation support that may never come?

2011-05-04 Thread Nathan Edgars II
I encourage anyone with Mapnik coding experience to read through http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/2675 , especially my suggestion for multiline shields. I may be wrong, but it seems that this would be easy to implement, and would be strictly better than the current setup where very few over

Re: [Talk-us] Do we want overlaps to be rendered? Or do we want to wait for relation support that may never come?

2011-05-04 Thread Ian Dees
Nathan, Relation support is already there. osm2pgsql already builds geometries for route relations. It's just that the current Mapnik style doesn't put shields on them or render them in a visible way. If you want to solve this problem then submit a patch for the Mapnik style -- perhaps using rweai

Re: [Talk-us] Another day, another bad import

2011-05-04 Thread Toby Murray
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 12:55 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: > If you can catch the xapi when it's up, > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Xapi#Child_Element_Predicates might be > easier. Unfortunately I don't think you can do both [not(tag)] and > [not(way)], so you'll have to filter in JOSM. Thank

Re: [Talk-us] Do we want overlaps to be rendered? Or do we want to wait for relation support that may never come?

2011-05-04 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 5/4/2011 10:59 PM, Ian Dees wrote: Nathan, If you want to solve this problem then submit a patch for the Mapnik style -- perhaps using rweait's examples as a starting point. Yawn. I don't have the skills to do this. How simple, for someone with skills, would converting a semicolon into a

Re: [Talk-us] Another day, another bad import

2011-05-04 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 5/4/2011 11:32 PM, Toby Murray wrote: Even found a lonely two last touched (after 4 and 6 revisions) by some user named "NE2" :) Most likely caused by this: http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/2700 ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.o

Re: [Talk-us] Another day, another bad import

2011-05-04 Thread Toby Murray
OK well here is what is going to be nuked. Looks like the effect is pretty localized in what I'm guessing is one or two sub-basins. http://i.imgur.com/WJaad.png I haven't heard back from the user yet but I will send them another message with a link to this image as well. Chances are this means th

Re: [Talk-us] Do we want overlaps to be rendered? Or do we want to wait for relation support that may never come?

2011-05-04 Thread Brad Neuhauser
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 11:00 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: > On 5/4/2011 10:59 PM, Ian Dees wrote: > >> Nathan, >> >> >> If you want to solve >> this problem then submit a patch for the Mapnik style -- perhaps using >> rweait's examples as a starting point. >> > > Yawn. I don't have the skills to do

Re: [Talk-us] Do we want overlaps to be rendered? Or do we want to wait for relation support that may never come?

2011-05-04 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 5/5/2011 1:07 AM, Brad Neuhauser wrote: On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 11:00 PM, Nathan Edgars II mailto:nerou...@gmail.com>> wrote: On 5/4/2011 10:59 PM, Ian Dees wrote: Nathan, If you want to solve this problem then submit a patch for the Mapnik style -- perhaps

Re: [Talk-us] Do we want overlaps to be rendered? Or do we want to wait for relation support that may never come?

2011-05-04 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 5/5/2011 1:07 AM, Brad Neuhauser wrote: If it's important to you, learn the skills! But let's say, for the sake of argument, that I'm willing to learn. Who here would be able to help me set up Mapnik on Windows XP, and what would be the chances of a multiline shield patch being approved on