Re: [OSM-talk] Almost one way streets

2008-01-04 Thread Lester Caine
to during morning or evening rush hour only, to stop a queue building up when the on-coming traffic is heavy. So the joining road is not one-way, only access is restricted. Was that the problem Mattias? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://home.lsces.co.uk/lsces

Re: [OSM-talk] administrative boundaries and is_in

2008-01-10 Thread Lester Caine
in the UK. AND it is changed each year or so by the Boundary Commission :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://home.lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://home.lsces.co.uk MEDW - http://home.lsces.co.uk

Re: [OSM-talk] Highway and Ralyway - tram_stops and the like

2008-01-10 Thread Lester Caine
Robin Paulson wrote: On 11/01/2008, Lester Caine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Tram_station it will be moved to the approved features and map features pages Should it be used for the stops on the track of a bus_guideway ;) I do think

Re: [OSM-talk] RFC - model aerodrome

2008-01-11 Thread Lester Caine
of Map_Features had a column for the translated tag names! ) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://home.lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://home.lsces.co.uk MEDW - http://home.lsces.co.uk/ModelEngineersDigitalWorkshop/ Firebird - http

Re: [OSM-talk] How to photo fold-out maps

2008-01-11 Thread Lester Caine
:( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://home.lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://home.lsces.co.uk MEDW - http://home.lsces.co.uk/ModelEngineersDigitalWorkshop/ Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php

Re: [OSM-talk] RFC - postal addresses (relations)

2008-01-13 Thread Lester Caine
Andy Robinson (blackadder) wrote: Lester Caine wrote: Sent: 13 January 2008 8:07 AM To: OSM Talk Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] RFC - postal addresses (relations) Claus Färber wrote: I've written a proposal for postal addresses: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Relations/Proposed

Re: [OSM-talk] Missing structure

2008-01-17 Thread Lester Caine
Karl Newman wrote: On Jan 17, 2008 12:52 PM, Lukasz Stelmach [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lester Caine wrote: After my missive in the postal addresses thread I had yet another scout around on what is already available and how it is not being

Re: [OSM-talk] Missing structure

2008-01-18 Thread Lester Caine
the automatic population would not be able to easily stablish that a particular boundary is within a larger on, at which point the is_in flag for the higher levels become even more important? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://home.lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact

Re: [OSM-talk] First OpenGeoDB Import is done

2008-01-20 Thread Lester Caine
breaking something? I have added a FAQ to the wiki Page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/User:OpenGeoDB#FAQ Hope all questions will be answered there. Very silly question - This covers Germany? I only ask because it's not obvious and there are other countries that use German. -- Lester

Re: [OSM-talk] boundaries vs. is_in vs. relations

2008-01-29 Thread Lester Caine
long term. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://home.lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://home.lsces.co.uk MEDW - http://home.lsces.co.uk/ModelEngineersDigitalWorkshop/ Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php

Re: [OSM-talk] boundaries vs. is_in vs. relations

2008-01-29 Thread Lester Caine
Karl Newman wrote: On Jan 29, 2008 10:56 AM, Lester Caine [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robin Paulson wrote: one of the tag proposals i've been working on recently has got me thinking about tagging composite items, and the best way to do

Re: [OSM-talk] Lighthouses? Should they be rendering?

2008-02-09 Thread Lester Caine
to the lighthouses? Dermot PS: I'd still love to see those lighthouses we do map appearing on the rendered output. I'm sure that will happen eventually. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://home.lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services

Re: [OSM-talk] place=country/nation/state

2008-02-18 Thread Lester Caine
Island - is_in New Zealand and Auckland and Wellington is_in North Island ( And perhaps New Zealand is_in South Pacific ? ) I've been glancing at a few of the recent links on the list and then having no idea where I am looking :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] updated RFC: Highway administrative and physical descriptions

2008-02-19 Thread Lester Caine
Alex Mauer wrote: Lester Caine wrote: Alex Mauer wrote: I've added a decision tree to the physical section of the page, as well as removed the boulevard designation (since it didn't really add much) I'd like to have some more comments from the UK and german end, as to whether

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] updated RFC: Highway administrative and physical descriptions

2008-02-20 Thread Lester Caine
Alex Mauer wrote: Lester Caine wrote: Hmm, that's not what I was going for. I was going for the administrative designation of the road (that is, M, A, B [I gather] in the UK, I-, US, [state abbrev] in the US) . In the US this is closely tied to who maintains it. In Europe it seems

Re: [OSM-talk] Parking symbols: YUCK!

2008-02-24 Thread Lester Caine
either to add the rule consistently, or remove it. A SWITCH for 'consistent' rendering which can be disabled on local versions were people are not bothered about consistency? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://home.lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine

Re: [OSM-talk] Parking symbols: YUCK!

2008-02-24 Thread Lester Caine
, or duplicate information. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://home.lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://home.lsces.co.uk MEDW - http://home.lsces.co.uk/ModelEngineersDigitalWorkshop/ Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Parking symbols: YUCK!

2008-02-24 Thread Lester Caine
the renderers play silly tricks to make things look right. Lets just be consistent in how things are handled. What ever the inconsistency! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://home.lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http

Re: [OSM-talk] Parking symbols: YUCK!

2008-02-24 Thread Lester Caine
J.D. Schmidt wrote: Lester Caine skrev: Again - the fact that people are giving time to enter data is precisely why we need to be producing a guide to how to do things that is consistent. If people are going to tidy up these 'couple of problems' then we don't want one person deleting

Re: [OSM-talk] Parking symbols: YUCK!

2008-02-24 Thread Lester Caine
to jump directly to related data will always speed up data mapping? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://home.lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://home.lsces.co.uk MEDW - http://home.lsces.co.uk/ModelEngineersDigitalWorkshop

Re: [OSM-talk] Parking symbols: YUCK!

2008-02-24 Thread Lester Caine
Richard Fairhurst wrote: Lester Caine wrote: We need ONE set of rendering rules that will produce consistent results No we don't - that's half the point of OSM. If we had ONE set of rendering RULES then we wouldn't have a CYCLE map. I'm not talking about STYLE - I'm talking base data

Re: [OSM-talk] Parking symbols: YUCK!

2008-02-24 Thread Lester Caine
J.D. Schmidt wrote: Lester Caine skrev: Do you have to re-write the renderer every time someone comes up with a new conflict? Short answer : Yes. Long answer : The renderer operates on a subset of the data contained in the DB. It is up to the operator of the renderer to extract

Re: [OSM-talk] Parking symbols: YUCK!

2008-02-24 Thread Lester Caine
for reams of processing and new bodge code for every node/area tag conflict? We then don't have to worry about duplicates - they don't exist. If they do, then one or other needs to be merged to leave a single distinct entry? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http

Re: [OSM-talk] Parking symbols: YUCK!

2008-02-26 Thread Lester Caine
/area conflict debate? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://home.lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://home.lsces.co.uk MEDW - http://home.lsces.co.uk/ModelEngineersDigitalWorkshop/ Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Parking symbols: YUCK!

2008-02-26 Thread Lester Caine
? Or perhaps we just have to live with some duplicate results in a search telling us different things about the same place? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://home.lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://home.lsces.co.uk MEDW

Re: [OSM-talk] Parking symbols: YUCK!

2008-02-26 Thread Lester Caine
David Earl wrote: On 26/02/2008 15:43, David Earl wrote: On 26/02/2008 14:45, Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote: Lester Caine wrote: | ANY POI that is changed from node to area will potentially have the same | problem, and we should be fixing the general rule not starting to build | another set

Re: [OSM-talk] Parking symbols: YUCK!

2008-02-26 Thread Lester Caine
Mark Williams wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lester Caine wrote: J.D. Schmidt wrote: Lester Caine skrev: [big snip] LOGICALLY - there should never have been a problem created. A POI element should consist of a single entity which may have additional area

Re: [OSM-talk] Parking symbols: YUCK!

2008-02-27 Thread Lester Caine
Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lester Caine wrote: | Mark Williams wrote: | -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- | Hash: SHA1 | | Lester Caine wrote: | J.D. Schmidt wrote: | Lester Caine skrev: | [big snip] | | LOGICALLY - there should never

Re: [OSM-talk] High Visibility Vests - Printed OSM

2008-02-28 Thread Lester Caine
://www.sz-wholesale.com/P/Bulletproof-Vests/bulletproof-vest-57888.html Are they any protection while answering messages on the list? :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://home.lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http

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

2008-03-19 Thread Lester Caine
down already because of the quantity of traffic :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://home.lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://home.lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http

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

2008-03-19 Thread Lester Caine
Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, On 19.03.2008, at 09:14, Lester Caine wrote: Which is why FOR LEGAL REASONS most decent wiki type frameworks don't have delete as an option for basic users! [...] HOPEFULLY more countries will follow AND and New Zealand in providing accurate data but only

Re: [OSM-talk] English version of OSM foldout flyer

2008-04-05 Thread Lester Caine
on Acrobat 7.0.9 But it is fine on kGhostView ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://home.lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://home.lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop

Re: [OSM-talk] Relations not always brilliant

2008-04-08 Thread Lester Caine
transforms on 100s of thousands of elements when the boundary surrounding them is not even complete yet :( Please can we at least start with a set of objects that define the countries of the world and consistently uses them to define those elements that are within each country? -- Lester Caine

Re: [OSM-talk] Relations not always brilliant

2008-04-08 Thread Lester Caine
that 'Pass into Suffolk or Norfolk' could be identified. The hierarchy is never going to be simple, but some means of adding sensible data IS required? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://home.lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services

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

2008-04-09 Thread Lester Caine
you should be in would probably cover EVERY possible option. How do people cope around there? Took me 2 hours to get from Croydon around to the M4 yesterday :( I'll use the M25 next time ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://home.lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page

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

2008-04-09 Thread Lester Caine
them :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://home.lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://home.lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// Firebird - http

Re: [OSM-talk] Naga City in OSM Re: GML to OSM

2008-04-09 Thread Lester Caine
Chris Hill wrote: Lester Caine wrote: Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote: quote who=Lester Caine The map looks nice. But once again it took some detective work to establish WHERE in the world we were looking :( By detective work you mean, like, zooming out? :-P No - where

Re: [OSM-talk] Naga City in OSM Re: GML to OSM

2008-04-10 Thread Lester Caine
perfectly rounded data as shown perfectly by the very page we are talking about - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naga_City%2C_Camarines_Sur - but in the absence of any alternative free source ... ) On 4/9/08, Richard Fairhurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lester Caine wrote: I repeat - WHERE are you

Re: [OSM-talk] Unexpected :)

2008-04-10 Thread Lester Caine
Steve Hill wrote: That's rather unexpected: http://geo.topf.org/comparison/index.html?mt0=googlemapmt1=mapniklon=-122.084187lat=37.42216z=17 Satellite? Those buildings are clearly visible. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://home.lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki

Re: [OSM-talk] Naga City in OSM Re: GML to OSM

2008-04-10 Thread Lester Caine
Andy Allan wrote: On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 9:24 AM, Lester Caine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looking at the growing mess of wiki pages relating to place/is_in/boundary/relations and the rest I think that I would not be wasting my time now putting together a 'proposal' for good practice

Re: [OSM-talk] Naga City in OSM Re: GML to OSM

2008-04-10 Thread Lester Caine
Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote: quote who=Lester Caine Something that has already been discussed is an information box for the corner of a map with reference data, but without information accessible quickly from the data how do you populate that box? Cached data on a tile by tile basis may

Re: [OSM-talk] Naga City in OSM Re: GML to OSM

2008-04-10 Thread Lester Caine
it returns is still not particularly complete as it does not return WHICH Naga we are looking at in the Philippines on the fact that we are in the Philippines. SO how does Maning tidy things up so that the missing data is available? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact

Re: [OSM-talk] Naga City in OSM Re: GML to OSM

2008-04-10 Thread Lester Caine
Andy Allan wrote: On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Lester Caine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But that only addresses one small 'problem' and misses the bigger one of finding 'all the golf courses in England' or 'all the Islands in the Philippines'. A single lookup to find ALL the boundaries

Re: [OSM-talk] psv definition

2008-04-19 Thread Lester Caine
licence, so coaches are not exempt, and I understand that the luxury 9 seater coaches have now been included where the limit used to be 12 seater. But James is not sure on that change to the rules. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://home.lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki

Re: [OSM-talk] Bus Stops

2008-04-24 Thread Lester Caine
the necessary structure yet to be useful here? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://home.lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://home.lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http

Re: [OSM-talk] Bus Stops

2008-04-24 Thread Lester Caine
make senses especially with discussions on including details like 'platform' and access to those from footpaths on the railway information. Trams are just less protected railway lines, and a complete map of their tracks with the correct related platforms and stops makes sense? -- Lester Caine

Re: [OSM-talk] Bus Stops

2008-04-24 Thread Lester Caine
movements. All we need is a list of 'stops' be they bus,tram,train or boat, and then you have the route. We could manually create a full timetable from the 'schedule' in a couple of hours - given the right basic tools ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http

Re: [OSM-talk] Bus Stops

2008-04-24 Thread Lester Caine
Ben Laenen wrote: On Thursday 24 April 2008, Lester Caine wrote: It is the same problem where the tram way and the road share the same way, but isn't it more normal to find that there is a way for the tram track in the same way as the separate carriage ways of a two carriage way road? I've

Re: [OSM-talk] Bus Stops

2008-04-24 Thread Lester Caine
that Relations should be used, and how a 'bus route' for example could be created from relationships between the way and possible nodes that relate to it. The current discussion is addressing small parts of the whole and not providing a blanket plan to go forward with? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] The future of Potlatch

2008-05-03 Thread Lester Caine
of C++ applications and now increasingly PHP. So any extensions I come up with ( such as NLPG data interface ) will be in PHP :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://home.lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://home.lsces.co.uk

Re: [OSM-talk] Users whose contributions are in the public domain

2008-05-05 Thread Lester Caine
where a lot of the users do not have English as a first language! It often produces unnecessary discussions EXPLAINING the 'nuances' so many internationally spread lists do tend to clamp down on it ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://home.lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki

Re: [OSM-talk] tagging and rendering

2008-05-13 Thread Lester Caine
- if required? But a compact - language agnostic - format would improve performance in a number of areas? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://home.lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://home.lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Developers requested to help providecompleteness tools

2008-05-13 Thread Lester Caine
to fix a problem themselves ) to report problems? While a 'This looks OK' sounds a good idea - it only looks OK for what the user is looking for. But a 'So and so is missing' would at least provide prompts to help fill in the gaps. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Bridge proposal

2008-05-14 Thread Lester Caine
;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://home.lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://home.lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// Firebird - http

Re: [OSM-talk] difference between waterway=canal and waterway=drain

2008-05-14 Thread Lester Caine
. Almost no-one here would call any kind of waterway a drain. Definitely clarify that on the Wiki. In the US am I right in thinking that storm water drains may only have actual water in them under flood conditions. From what I remember of car chases in films ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] Local councils

2008-05-14 Thread Lester Caine
councils ... A hint on where you are based would help us identify which councils have already been covered ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://home.lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://home.lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Bridge proposal

2008-05-15 Thread Lester Caine
from routes, but also do not replace the basic elements such as 'railway and footway' that form part of the bridge. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenPlantMap

2008-05-17 Thread Lester Caine
only if approved. This is in essence how the nlpg database works, each council has it's own local copy, and agreed data is replicated to the national copy. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services

Re: [OSM-talk] Overlapping Ways - Embrace or Avoid?

2008-05-18 Thread Lester Caine
and areas is the cause of an unnecessary problem and that the node data for them should be integral to each object. However I can see the arguments either way. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services

Re: [OSM-talk] National borders in the British Islands

2008-05-29 Thread Lester Caine
etc for the boundaries, rather than a numeric value. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Key:boundary Is basically wrong - UK boundary should be admin_level=2 admin_level=3 should be used for the separate England/ Scotland/ Wales boundaries :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] National borders in the British Islands

2008-05-30 Thread Lester Caine
THAT should be level 2 for Europe with countries at level 3. I don't think that the level structure was eve actually agreed - and now it's biting back? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services

Re: [OSM-talk] National borders in the British Islands

2008-05-30 Thread Lester Caine
Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote: El Viernes, 30 de Mayo de 2008, Lester Caine escribió: Personally I've been viewing admin_level=0 as the world. Yeah, say that again when extraterrestrials invade us :-P we can always have -ve number ;) admin_level=1 should equal the continents I'm against

Re: [OSM-talk] National borders in the British Islands

2008-05-30 Thread Lester Caine
Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 10:17 PM, Lester Caine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not bothered that these levels are numbers, it is just that the CURRENT numbers do not allow for ALL of the levels as THIS list suggests. I still think there is a place for continents

Re: [OSM-talk] National borders in the British Islands

2008-06-02 Thread Lester Caine
boundaries ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// Firebird - http

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Graves?

2008-06-24 Thread Lester Caine
OSM references to a list of graves sounds more practical? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Map Maker

2008-06-24 Thread Lester Caine
-- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Great SOTM08 so thinking ahead ...

2008-07-15 Thread Lester Caine
80n wrote: The coastline looks ok from here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=27.987lon=-15.521zoom=10layers=0B0FTF http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=27.987lon=-15.521zoom=10layers=0B0FTF Toggle to mapnik But keep your feet up ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] suggestion for SOTM09

2008-07-18 Thread Lester Caine
is evolving nicely with OSM :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// Firebird - http

Re: [OSM-talk] post by mistake

2008-07-28 Thread Lester Caine
' in software has been avoided to far, but if other 'politically sensitive' areas need help - that may need reviewing again? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http

Re: [OSM-talk] How do you respond to talk posts so that that they fit correctly into the thread structure in talk archive?

2008-08-29 Thread Lester Caine
. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenRouteService now supports UK and Ireland

2008-09-02 Thread Lester Caine
Pascal Neis wrote: hi, all services of openrouteservice.org now also available for UK and Ireland. have fun! cheers pascal http://openrouteservice.org/ What am I not doing? It keeps telling me that England is outside the area it covers :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] ferry route speed

2008-09-04 Thread Lester Caine
page ;) Could probably even make money from it :) Train times would also fit well into that approach, as well as other 'timetabled' events? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http

Re: [OSM-talk] zones for motorway/in town/outof town?

2009-05-21 Thread Lester Caine
we not simply apply that speed without adding another layer of complexity? A default of the speed of a previous road section should be all that is needed where a maxspeed is not defined rather than THEN having to go to check some higher level rule. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] zones for motorway/in town/outof town?

2009-05-21 Thread Lester Caine
properly? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org

Re: [OSM-talk] zones for motorway/in town/outof town?

2009-05-21 Thread Lester Caine
Guenther Meyer wrote: Am Thursday 21 May 2009 schrieb Lester Caine: Guenther Meyer wrote: So while discussing HOW the default speed for roads are calculated is important, can we not simply apply that speed without adding another layer of complexity? I wouldn't do that, because it's a derived

Re: [OSM-talk] zones for motorway/in town/outof town?

2009-05-21 Thread Lester Caine
Guenther Meyer wrote: Am Thursday 21 May 2009 schrieb Lester Caine: ALL roads have a defined maximum speed limit ... is this just a matter of 'conversion to english'? The fact that a road does not have a specific sign is not something that maxspeed is concerned with? At least in my reading

Re: [OSM-talk] Highways tagging vs Polygon

2009-05-21 Thread Lester Caine
relating to the road type, which MAY have a country related element to them as again listed on the relevent wiki page ( Links were posted earlier ) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk

Re: [OSM-talk] New Proposed Feature: Tagging the age and duration of existence of features

2009-05-22 Thread Lester Caine
data from transitory data ? ) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// Firebird - http

Re: [OSM-talk] New Proposed Feature: Tagging the age and duration of existence of features

2009-05-25 Thread Lester Caine
:( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php

Re: [OSM-talk] Lake Cowichan Now loaded (more of sample 092c area)

2009-06-17 Thread Lester Caine
in the place table would show which areas the relevent source covers? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http

Re: [OSM-talk] Google StreetView From Bikes

2009-07-30 Thread Lester Caine
a picture then it's a violation of privacy, but if Google do it is a 'public service' - usual sod the law arrogance :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http

Re: [OSM-talk] Google StreetView From Bikes

2009-07-30 Thread Lester Caine
if you want' is just arrogance that should not be condoned. Just like their copying of books without actually getting permission from the copyright owner! Le 30 juil. 09 à 12:04, Lester Caine a écrit : OJ W wrote: Maybe the big tricycle is needed to lift the cameras up above the traffic

Re: [OSM-talk] Google StreetView From Bikes

2009-07-30 Thread Lester Caine
at a problem to make it go away should not be acceptable :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk

Re: [OSM-talk] Google StreetView From Bikes

2009-07-31 Thread Lester Caine
John Smith wrote: --- On Fri, 31/7/09, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: But the point I was trying to make was more that of 'We get stopped and told we have to ask permission' while Goggle stick two fingers up and just carry on regardless. It is about time there was a level playing

Re: [OSM-talk] definition of the main highway-tag

2009-08-04 Thread Lester Caine
could well make a case for a 'way' having a 'highway', 'cycleway' and 'footway' tag if appropriate, so American motorways that have cycle access would simply add a 'cycleway' tag with separate linking ways if appropriate? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http

Re: [OSM-talk] definition of the main highway-tag

2009-08-05 Thread Lester Caine
John Smith wrote: --- On Wed, 5/8/09, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: 'Urban' areas should on the whole be covered by 'residential' or 'service' in between the 4 main vehicle route tags. Although personally I'd prefer that motorway service roads were not grouped with 'industrial

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - 4wd_only

2009-08-05 Thread Lester Caine
4WD vehicles are appearing nowadays, but it's not always clear what they are actually capable off. So 4WD_Only is not really the correct terminology and does not clearly identify the problem? IS it ground clearance, deep fords, mud or poor traction conditions ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] residential and unclassified in Australia WAS definition of the main highway-tag

2009-08-06 Thread Lester Caine
the designation of 'green belt' within an urban area probably adds a level of uncertainty :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital

Re: [OSM-talk] landuse for hotels

2009-08-06 Thread Lester Caine
has a sortable list. All land in the UK is already classified under this scheme and from what I've seen, something similar is evolving in Europe? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http

Re: [OSM-talk] residential and unclassified in Australia WAS definition of the main highway-tag

2009-08-06 Thread Lester Caine
, and these can be urban or rural :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// Firebird - http

Re: [OSM-talk] residential and unclassified in Australia WAS definition of the main highway-tag

2009-08-06 Thread Lester Caine
Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: 2009/8/6 Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk: If there are countries where the road classification system identifies tertiary roads distinctly then fair enough, but most of the residential and service roads in the UK are probably tertiary rather than unclassified, which

Re: [OSM-talk] sidewalks

2009-08-08 Thread Lester Caine
of would also benefit from 'elevation' information, in providing additional information ( the footpath routes have stairs for long distances! ) 'foot=not recommended' is the best description, and the wheelchair/pram rule certainly closes many roads to pedestrian routing. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] can search engines index osm data?

2009-08-08 Thread Lester Caine
then a search engine will provide a link to that page, it will not provide the link directly since there will probably be no text matching the search? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk

Re: [OSM-talk] can search engines index osm data?

2009-08-08 Thread Lester Caine
David Earl wrote: Lester Caine wrote: maning sambale wrote: For example, I search a POI in G and it points me to an OSM node. The simple answer has to be no. But the complicated answer is yes: in that I am working on the namefinder index to make it available through URLs (and a set

Re: [OSM-talk] can search engines index osm data?

2009-08-08 Thread Lester Caine
David Earl wrote: Lester Caine wrote: David Earl wrote: Lester Caine wrote: maning sambale wrote: For example, I search a POI in G and it points me to an OSM node. The simple answer has to be no. But the complicated answer is yes: in that I am working on the namefinder index to make

Re: [OSM-talk] sidewalks

2009-08-08 Thread Lester Caine
just seems totally out of place . ? There is only one roadway ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop

Re: [OSM-talk] Proliferation of path vs. footway

2009-08-10 Thread Lester Caine
separate waterway and indicate their tow-paths, but these really form part of the footpath grid rather than the canal network. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http

Re: [OSM-talk] Proliferation of path vs. footway

2009-08-10 Thread Lester Caine
this sort of fine detail it has to be done as a separate object. Breaking up a simply way every time the footpath detail changes, and then trying to combine that with additional ways where they fall a bit further way from the road is what needs to be avoided? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] Proliferation of path vs. footway

2009-08-11 Thread Lester Caine
' to discuss the macro/micro mapping differences required, but at the end of the day, the sub tagging relating to 'pedestrian' details should be consistent. cycleway details should then naturally layer into what ever structure is agreed? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact

Re: [OSM-talk] Proliferation of path vs. footway

2009-08-15 Thread Lester Caine
;) bicycle=secondary is probably more accurate in a number of instances. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop

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