Re: [OSM-talk] potlatch broken?

2007-12-24 Thread Richard Fairhurst
John McKerrell wrote: I just tried that and the imagery came up but it was in the wrong position (going by some tracing I did earlier today). If I drag the map the offset jumps about. Ah, cr*p. Bet I know why, too. Hang on... cheers Richard ___

Re: [OSM-talk] Ideas for OSM enhancements

2007-12-29 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Nick Whitelegg wrote: One would be to do something similar to what I already do on Freemap, namely clickable POIs: The user could click on a POI then get a window containing a link to its Wikipedia article (if applicable) and its description tag (if it has one). Generally a great

Re: [OSM-talk] Using Edit Tab on Main Site

2007-12-30 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany) wrote: i just tried to use the edit Tab on the main Site. I selected an area and the first thing I say was a Copyright for Yahoo, NavTeq and Teleatlas but no Copyright to Openstreetmap ... wow Like Steve says, the OSM copyright is on the left of the

Re: [OSM-talk] Recent Potlatch changes

2007-12-30 Thread Richard Fairhurst
David Dean wrote: I'm glad we can ignore it, but how do I turn it off. Every time I use Ctrl+T to open another firefox tab, the debug info comes up and I cannot use Potlatch properly without reloading the whole page. I'll commit a new version with the debug thingy disabled when I'm back at

Re: [OSM-talk] relations

2008-01-02 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Jo wrote: I'm adding relations for bus routes and now I'm going to start using them for cycle routes and signed walking paths. I have a few questions about them and their implementation in the editors though. I find that I'm splitting up roads a lot to indicate that a specific part of it is

Re: [OSM-talk] My Openstreetmap talk at 24C3

2008-01-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: It i s going to be a real book, German Language, about 300 pages, and aims to have everything the would-be mapper needs to get going, as well as an overview about the technical background of the project (i.e. data model, XML, and stuff). We assume it is going to hit the

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] curves

2008-01-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
(suggest follow-ups to dev only) Artem Pavlenko wrote: Perhaps, not well know fact but Mapnik can render bezier curves. The reason it is not being used is the lack of support for curves in common GEO formats. Now that really _does_ have promise for slimming down SRTM filesizes. My workflow

Re: [OSM-talk] POIs from wikipedia

2008-01-07 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Robin Paulson wrote: while i was looking up some info on wikipedia [1], i noticed that a lot of pages have a lat/lon value to describe their location; this strikes me as something we could use to increase the amount of data in OSM These are almost certainly derived from Google Maps et al,

Re: [OSM-talk] POIs from wikipedia

2008-01-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Robin Paulson wrote: [co-ordinates on Wikipedia] On 08/01/2008, Richard Fairhurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: These are almost certainly derived from Google Maps et al, therefore unsuitable for OSM. really, that sounds like it would contravene wikipedia's rules and google's terms of use

Re: [OSM-talk] The OSM licence: where we are, where we're going

2008-01-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Gregory wrote: I don't know much legally but... Oh, I don't know, you seem to have summed it up pretty nicely there. :) [...] If I'm right then compatibility isn't quite as much as an issue as the discussion has made me think. Yes, absolutely. As Abi says, Wikipedia's current policy

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

2008-01-11 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Lester Caine wrote: For this map http://home.lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/index.php?page=British+Isles I ended up scanning each section and then tidying things up with paintshoppro. Yes, I'm taking that approach with the NPE scans at the moment - scan as is, then manually straighten. I've

Re: [OSM-talk] Deleted Place names in the Philippines

2008-01-16 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ian Haylock wrote: How can I ruin openstreetmap ? I know I'll go to their website and just delete whatever I feel like using potlatch. Fortunately, Potlatch has undelete. :) cheers Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

[OSM-talk] You know it's going to be good

2008-01-16 Thread Richard Fairhurst
and it's got a week to go, so let's see what they come up with. http://www.b3ta.com/challenge/maps/popular/ cheers Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Deleted Place names in the Philippines

2008-01-16 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ian Haylock wrote: All edits are logged against the user id of the uploader anyway, so that doesn't gain you anything Is this true with potatch as well ? Yes, Potlatch treats the database in just the same way that JOSM and other tools do, even though the code and user interface are very

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping canals

2008-01-17 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Gregory wrote: I think there is someone on OSM who lives on a canal boat, or does quite a bit of canal boating. I seem to remember them providing some input into discussions, but can't remember who they are. That'd be me. :) I live on a boat half the week, my day-job is editor of

Re: [OSM-talk] walking routes?

2008-01-21 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Nick Whitelegg wrote: Talking of walking routes in a more general sense , i.e. not official long distance paths but a favourite route/circuit e.g. the Old Dungeon Ghyll-Pike o'Blisco-Crinkle Crags-Band-Old Dungeon Ghyll route in the Lake District (excellent last day of last year's mapping

Re: [OSM-talk] Units convention (Was: Mapping canals)

2008-01-24 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Martin Trautmann wrote: Speaking about canals - do they use nautical speeds? Is the proper unit km/h, mph or knots, are these land or sea miles? Distances here are given in km, using km plates besides the canal. In the UK they use mph and miles.* Sometimes on river navigations there's

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Opentrail - What development environments would be best for mobile compatibility?

2008-01-26 Thread Richard Fairhurst
bvh wrote: On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 12:29:33AM +0100, Frederik Ramm wrote: Well, if your definition of better includes open, then no. Sometimes when talking about OSM I say provocatively that we're so ruthlessly pragmatic that we would even switch to Oracle if someone gave us the stuff for

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Opentrail - What development environments would be best for mobile compatibility?

2008-01-26 Thread Richard Fairhurst
bvh wrote: Moreover, I don't think your position is internally consistent. The data is nearly useless without the programs to do something interesting with it. What good would it be for the geo data to be open if the preferred way of accessing it is closed? I think preferred is the key.

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch sluggish today?

2008-01-30 Thread Richard Fairhurst
maning sambale wrote: Potlatch is a bit slow today. Any info why? Unfortunately a couple of recent changes to the API have caused problems for it. I need to modify Potlatch to take account of this but didn't manage to complete the work last night, not least because the source was in the

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

2008-02-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Patrick Weber wrote: Hi Noticed something very strange just now. Looked at Luxembourg-City in Potlatch, and all closed ways (roundabouts, parking lots ... ) had been opened . By that I mean the last node had been deleted so that that there was a gap and the line wasnt closed anymore.

Re: [OSM-talk] Flash player's own zoom tool fails with Potlatch 0.7

2008-02-04 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Rahkonen Jukka wrote: Vectors and imagery do not match any more. Only way to make them match is to close the editor and start from the beginning again and avoid using the right click zoom. This feature has worked fine until yesterday. I have found it very useful and I would like to

Re: [OSM-talk] big ways in Potlatch

2008-02-04 Thread Richard Fairhurst
maning sambale wrote: Ways and nodes in potlatch seems bigger: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2199/224183_2918024784_m.jpg I'm using ubuntu Firefox 2.0.0.10 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.10) Gecko/20060601 That's usually a sign of an old Flash Player. What version are

Re: [OSM-talk] Progressing OSM to a new data Licence regime

2008-02-05 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ian Haylock wrote: Surely if a person releases something under PD, he/she is giving up all rights to that information, be it software, data, etc. So what's to stop OSM doing what they want with the data. For instance if the whole of the OSM database was public domain. A private

Re: [OSM-talk] Cycle route improvements

2008-02-05 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Andy Allan wrote: That's a bug. Fixing it will also stop people using ncn_ref=Something-awfully-long-that-isn't-a-reference-really, which suggests the invention of an ncn_name= tag. Oh, doesn't that exist yet...? /me has been merrily adding ncn_name=Lon Las Cymru and the like for a while

Re: [OSM-talk] Crazy ways after editing - A real argument for changeset data

2008-02-07 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Andy Robinson \(blackadder\) wrote: I can't comment on the flash-zoom functionality I can. :) As of last night the 'Zoom in' and 'Zoom out' options on the Flash right-click menu are disabled in Potlatch. Better to use an OS-level magnifier, as John McK suggested... and there'll be other

[OSM-talk] Uploading non-GPX files

2008-02-08 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Hello all, In case anyone else finds it useful... I've knocked up a short webform that enables you to upload tracklogs to OSM in other formats than GPX. It does the conversion for you, then uploads the resulting GPX file. It might be useful if, say, you have a NaviGPS and have copied the

[OSM-talk] Background layers in Potlatch

2008-02-12 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Hello all, You can now choose from several background layers in Potlatch. Go to the options window (the little tick near the bottom left), and you'll see that the pop-up menu which used to offer only 'Yahoo' and 'None' now offers: - OpenAerialMap - Yahoo - Mapnik - Osmarender - Maplint

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding maps to wikipedia articles

2008-02-12 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Martin Trautmann wrote: OJ W wrote: Just looking at an idea for adding maps to wikipedia articles... I suppose this is not possible, due to license issues!? It's certainly possible. It's a Collective Work (or whatever similar term you want to use). Plenty of Wikipedia articles are

Re: [OSM-talk] Background layers in Potlatch

2008-02-12 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Andy Allan wrote: The cycle map? Will help with filling in gaps in the routes. *doh* Of course. Why didn't I think of that? No problem at all. You'll need to add a crossdomain.xml file to the root of your tile-serving domain (i.e. http://thunderflames.org/crossdomain.xml) to permit Flash

Re: [OSM-talk] Background layers in Potlatch

2008-02-12 Thread Richard Fairhurst
John McKerrell wrote: Indeed, good stuff, think I found a bug though :-( I didn't bother waiting for all of the OpenAerialMap tiles to load and switched to mapnik, that then loaded, but a few aerial tiles continued to load afterwards. Not a big deal but thought you'd like to know. Thanks -

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch Background Imagery

2008-02-14 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Patrick Weber wrote: This is confusing, and given the limited extent currently of high quality data on there, wouldnt it make much more sense to keep Yahoo as the default Imagery? Yes, that was the intention. Yahoo is still meant to be the default. It's a bug which I'm planning to fix

[OSM-talk] Potlatch really hacks me off because...

2008-02-20 Thread Richard Fairhurst
I found Steve's excellent tutorial video on Potlatch really interesting - not so much because I don't know how to use Potlatch ;) , but more from a UI feedback point of view. For example, Steve was having difficulty remembering when/how you should double-click, and when you should

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch really hacks me off because...

2008-02-20 Thread Richard Fairhurst
tim wrote: What little things like that annoy you, or took you a while to get used to? There's quite a bit of mystery meat going on, which takes time to learn. Mmmm, mystery meat... I had some of that in a curry house in Abergavenny on Sunday. Seriously, I do know, but that's kind of

[OSM-talk] Never run out of batteries again!

2008-02-21 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Looks interesting: http://www.ikonglobal.com/ http://www.treehugger.com/files/2005/03/pedal_power.php cheers Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Using an extract from OSM in an academic paper

2008-02-21 Thread Richard Fairhurst
David Cottingham wrote: - Can I, despite the fact that the images I create that utilise OSM data are classed as derived works and hence the images should be dsitributed under the CC-SA license (correct me if I'm wrong!), still publish those images in a paper whose copyright will be owned by

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

2008-02-24 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Lauri Hahne wrote: Make it less tall and darker colours. ;) Now you're being drinks-ist. I like the current one, it looks like it might contain a real drink (cider, purely for example) rather than any of this beer rubbish. cheers Richard ___

Re: [OSM-talk] Editing with potlatch: T-Crossing

2008-02-25 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Martin Trautmann wrote: I did not understand how to remove the footway, make xyz a real T crossing and add this D-shaped footpath properly. To join a way to another way in Potlatch, you simply hover over the other way - its nodes will highlight in blue - and click it. At present way

Re: [OSM-talk] Gpx: non-public traces in JOSM/Potlatch and milliseconds in timestamps with JOSM

2008-02-26 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Tom Hughes wrote: Jukka Rahkonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While Potlatch shows the uploaded track fine with a neat blue line, the Convert to data layer function in JOSM does not order trackpoints correctly by milliseconds. Is it supposed to do so or is it just better to make running

Re: [OSM-talk] Ideas for Potlatch

2008-02-27 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Lauri Hahne wrote: There are few quirks currently with Potlatch. I hope somebody could fix these :D Some good suggestions, thanks! 1. The auto complete is great but its behaviour is a bit non-standard. Currently only enter chooses the currently highlighted item and jumps to the next

Re: [OSM-talk] Ideas for Potlatch

2008-02-27 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Matt White wrote: The alternative to the above (although it would be good in its own right) would be a change to the way a t junction is made. every time I connect a way that is perpendicular to an existing stright way, it creates the joining node, but it often shifts the new node a little

Re: [OSM-talk] Ideas for Potlatch

2008-02-27 Thread Richard Fairhurst
SteveC wrote: On 27 Feb 2008, at 10:58, Richard Fairhurst wrote: Excel's not the same. Excel doesn't autocomplete at all (at least on the OS X 2001 version) unless you press the cursor keys to select from What, you don't use Numbers? Only just got iWork '08 and started playing. Pages

Re: [OSM-talk] Trouble in Rangoon

2008-02-28 Thread Richard Fairhurst
David Ebling wrote: I too am not going to spend much more time contributing to OSM unless someone comes up with a solution to this. As I said, I simply don't have the skills to do it myself, but the prospect of someone (a commercial map company getting worried for example) coming along and

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch Esc POI issue

2008-03-06 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Dave Stubbs wrote: RichardF: the mega-patch I sent you actually fixes this. :) Thanks! Hope to deploy the mega-patch this weekend once this dratted deadline is out of the way. cheers Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Question about Licences

2008-03-11 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Blake Crosby wrote: Duplication and/or reproduction of this map for commercial use is strictly prohibited. Does this jive with OSMs licence? Ie, can I use this map as a reference? No. The non-commercial clause isn't compatible with OSM. cheers Richard

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Shipping OSM data with a commercial application

2008-03-13 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Gary Morin wrote: Does the OSM allow me to convert and supply the data this way? I would be more than happy to make the converted MapGuide data available for pubic access. Yep. I think I should be able to pass the data on to my clients. But as soon as my clients use it for work and overly

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

2008-03-18 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: And it is ok for them that whatever clever technical attribution scheme you devise is immediately switched off when OSM maps are viewed through something else than osm.org (e.g. informationfreeway, cyclemap, ...) whom you cannot force to use your technical solution?

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Article

2008-03-18 Thread Richard Fairhurst
SteveC wrote: OL is the slippy map on the front page. The rest of it is custom ruby on rails. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Component_overview is helpful. (The main editors are JOSM [Java] and Potlatch [Flash]; the main renderers are Mapnik [C++] and Osmarender [XSLT/SVG]. There

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

2008-03-19 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Robin Paulson wrote: [adding attribution to the Mapnik layer] 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! Not a lot more that I can say than that, but I'll try. It performs an interesting social function

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

2008-03-20 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Lester Caine wrote: When you jump into some of the links provided HERE you may have no idea in the world where you are, so a banner line with 'Auckland, New Zealand' would be very useful anyway? In some circumstances. But over and above a basic attribution requirement, you should not

Re: [OSM-talk] Tag proposal/approval system is too heavyweight

2008-03-20 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ulf Lamping wrote: Frederik Ramm schrieb: Well. Before there were no vineyards on the map. And the discussion was rather dead. What do you expect me to do, start a vote or just do it in a way that works and gets vineyards on the map Well, I'd expect you to start a vote just like anyone else

Re: [OSM-talk] Rendering power lines: black is beauty

2008-03-20 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Sven Grüner wrote: That once again throws up the general question which purpose the (official) maps displayed at openstreetmap.org should serve. A) Should they be a neat, beautiful (street-) map flattering the eyes of people who are used to the map-design of Google? or B) Should they

Re: [OSM-talk] Relation 412 errors

2008-03-20 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: PS: is there any work being done into finally properly supporting route relations in the editors? It still randomly happens now and then that routes get broken because an editor lets a user split or join roads with relations on them. I have ideas how to handle this in

Re: [OSM-talk] Survey: Bad Map Rendering

2008-03-21 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: I'd be happy to hear from you about such areas of bad rendering, whether they are bugs in there renderer(s) or just things that are ugly for some reason. Label placement (as Steve's flagged) and generalisation (i.e. stretching the geographical truth to convey the

[OSM-talk] Potlatch 0.8

2008-03-25 Thread Richard Fairhurst
(cc:ed to talk-gb for NPE relevance, follow-ups as appropriate) Hi all, I'm delighted to say Potlatch v0.8 is now live (thanks Tom!). == Relations support == Thanks to Dave Stubbs, Potlatch now has really good support for relations. This means you can easily create long-distance routes,

Re: [OSM-talk] JOSM update / why does API return GPS points in descending order?

2008-03-28 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: ... and the DESC nicely explains the observation that all arrows are in the wrong direction! I wonder why it is there. Because you want the most recent ones first? cheers Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] JOSM update / why does API return GPS points in descending order?

2008-03-28 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: Does any application *not* read all pages returned? Well, in Potlatch the download points in current area is the primary method of reading tracklogs (as - mercifully - it doesn't have any access to your local file system), so yes, it does return only the most recent

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMF announcement: Copyright Easter Eggs

2008-04-01 Thread Richard Fairhurst
tim wrote: Interesting. Theres a rumour going around about there being similar villages in Scotland. The problem is, though, that the namefinder is too good at spotting them. With just a few queries I've used it to identify: Fake Minaret Road Rossie the Fake Dam Lie North Service Road Joke

Re: [OSM-talk] Need some Brentford (London) vectors!

2008-04-01 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Christian Nold wrote: What I would love is if someone could grab me about 6km diameter of OSM data as some kind of vector data format that I could work with in Illustrator. If anyone's got a OSM UK db on their machine (I don't without driving 80 miles, I'm afraid), they can generate an

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

2008-04-02 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Robert Vollmert wrote: 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 applauds cheers Richard

Re: [OSM-talk] anonymous contributions still allowed ?

2008-04-04 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Pieren Pieren wrote: Potlach history just says 'anonymous'. The way was created with JOSM. I thought that such anonymous editions are not possible since Nov. 2007. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Disabling_anonymous_edits

Re: [OSM-talk] Easy way to export to Illustrator?

2008-04-04 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Axel von Matern wrote: What I have found when searching the archives and else on Internet seem very complicated and outadet processes to do this. I found a web service that could make svg files out of gps files, but the vectors where totally segmented and therby useless. As yet there's not

[OSM-talk] Relations not always brilliant

2008-04-06 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Relations are a super-powerful tool and permit all kinds of whizziness (cycle routes, bus routes, areas with holes, dual carriageways, etc.). This much we know. On looking through the latest UK planet excerpt, though, I note a handful of cases where they're being used for simple road refs.

Re: [OSM-talk] Relations not always brilliant

2008-04-06 Thread Richard Fairhurst
David Earl wrote: In the UK, road numbers are unique (apart from about three cases where local councils have cocked up, e.g. the B4027) and no road can have more than one ref. Not true - the A11 and A14 share about 10 miles of dual carriageway around the north of Newmarket,

Re: [OSM-talk] Relations not always brilliant

2008-04-06 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: In the UK, road numbers are unique (apart from about three cases where local councils have cocked up, e.g. the B4027) and no road can have more than one ref. The relation doesn't give any info over and above that in the standard 'ref' tags - it just increases complexity

Re: [OSM-talk] Relations not always brilliant

2008-04-06 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote: If that is the case, then the relationship is essential to convey the route of the A11 information. If the road just has 2 numbers, then it isn't - just a semi-colon in the ref would do. But bearing in mind that this section _isn't_ the A11 and to tag it as such

Re: [OSM-talk] Relations not always brilliant

2008-04-06 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Alex S. wrote: In the US, there are many highways which carry more than one official ref number across long stretches. For example, US-12 shares roadway with sections of I-5, I-82 and I-182 in Washington State, but both signs are on the side of the roadway in these sections. Sure, and in

Re: [OSM-talk] Relations not always brilliant

2008-04-07 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Steve Hill wrote: Don't road numbers in brackets generally mean leads to rather than part of? [...] I'm not sure anyone is saying it is wrong, merely unnecessary and prone to causing confusion/errors. +1. Relations are for doing things that can't otherwise be done, or done well. But

Re: [OSM-talk] Relations not always brilliant

2008-04-08 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Lester Caine wrote: I harp back to *MY* original request. I thought you might. ;) That there is a mechanism created for managing hierarchical data properly. You can superimpose a structure on OSM two ways: either through forcing the data to be entered and tagged in a certain way, or

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

2008-04-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Lester Caine wrote: I repeat - WHERE are you getting that information by zooming out. Nothing says that this group of islands is the Philippines They're just right and down a bit from Hong Kong, which is where the Philippines are generally to be found. The easy way to distinguish them

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

2008-04-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote: I suggest setting up a server dedicated to grabbing a planet every week, processing it for boundaries, and automatically generating the is_in tags. Server and boundary-processing is great; don't think we should automatically add is_in tags, though. If (as you, Andy

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

2008-04-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Lester Caine 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'. No, not necessarily. Because the boundary data is freely available, whether in raw planet.osm form or in

Re: [OSM-talk] Cycleway byway

2008-04-11 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Chris Hill wrote: The national Byway cycle route passes close to my home, so I'd like to add it to the map. The Wiki [1] suggests that I add to the relation 9327. How do I do this when the existing parts of the relation are far away so I cannot get the existing plus the new on either

Re: [OSM-talk] New Export Tab

2008-04-21 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: Patrick Weber wrote: Just wanted to congratulate whoever was involved in the development of the Export tab. +1. I guess it was TomH's work and there's no reason not to announce such a major development on the lists (for the benefit of those who don't use the trac RSS

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM on factory Macs

2008-04-22 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Shaun McDonald wrote: Right click in flash only brings up a system menu for Adobe Flash settings and about the flash plugin. I believe that developers cannot use the right click in flash. (Please correct me if I'm wrong). Happy to oblige. :) You can customise the right-click menu from

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM on factory Macs

2008-04-22 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: I am quite confused now about dragging the map. Many have said that using the mouse with JOSM on the Macs does not work very well. But then I am told you can use Ctrl rightclick simulation to do the dragging, and others again say that some applications would use the

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging climbing routes and scrambles

2008-04-23 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Karl Newman wrote: As someone else aptly put it earlier: OSM is about being machine-readable, otherwise it might as well be OpenAerialMap. Yes and no. It has to be machine-readable, true, but our USP is our active mapper userbase. So the design, accepting that it facilitates both, should

Re: [OSM-talk] Signs

2008-04-23 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Chris Hill wrote: I enjoy some of the signs I see while I'm out gathering tracks. While cycling the Pennine Cycleway last week, I saw RED SQUIRRELS DRIVE SLOWLY which is clearly a lie. cheers Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] GPS recommendations

2008-04-24 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Stephen Hope wrote: I think it's just as important to have a list of models NOT to buy. The one recommendation I'd give is: if you're expecting to be at all serious about OSM, grit your teeth and pay for a decent Garmin. I'm now using an eTrex Legend HCx (having started with a basic yellow

Re: [OSM-talk] GPS recommendations

2008-04-24 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Kai Krueger wrote: I would be interested to hear how you would rate that solution compared to one involving a bluetooth GPS mouse and using e.g. a cell phone to do the recording and display of OSM maps. Well, you can do anything if you connect a Bluetooth GPS mouse to a sufficiently

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging climbing routes and scrambles

2008-04-25 Thread Richard Fairhurst
On 24 Apr 2008, at 13:23, Steve Hill wrote: But in common software, do the objects have an explicit type? In OpenStreetMap they do not - the type is determined by a bunch of arbitrary tags, for which you need background knowledge of which tags define the object type and which just define

Re: [OSM-talk] namespaces

2008-04-25 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Jonathan Bennett wrote: What we also need is editing software that hides the complexity of namespaces from the user. JOSM and Potlatch both present the user with a flat list of key/value pairs, which is great for people like me who get a perverse pleasure from typing in complex strings, but

Re: [OSM-talk] namespaces and copyright

2008-04-25 Thread Richard Fairhurst
elvin ibbotson wrote: JOSM imports waypoints with GPX tracks and I would like to see Potlatch do the same It does (and has done for a while). One user seems to be having problems with GPXs created by the bundled Garmin software, but it certainly works with those created by gpsbabel.

Re: [OSM-talk] namespaces and copyright

2008-04-25 Thread Richard Fairhurst
elvin ibbotson wrote: OK, now we're completely off the original topic :-) Thanks for the tip, Richard. I hope I'm not the only user who didn't know that. Probably not! I'm occasionally posting Potlatch tips and news here: http://potlatchosm.wordpress.com/ (And it's aggregated in Planet

[OSM-talk] Holux M-241

2008-04-27 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Back in March I asked for user-friendly GPS datalogger recommendations, and a handful of people kindly posted their experiences. One unit that people were interested in was the Holux M-241. The main downside seemed to be that it would only record a trackpoint every 5s. I gather there's now

Re: [OSM-talk] Vandalism in Trumpington

2008-04-27 Thread Richard Fairhurst
David Earl wrote: If nothing else, Richard, can the apparent bug with the mode buttons be fixed and the text make it clearer that live data is being changed when you press start? It's not a bug as such - it's currently intentional that it defaults to edit the data - but I do agree

Re: [OSM-talk] Vandalism in Trumpington

2008-04-27 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Shaun McDonald wrote: I see this behaviour in Safari too. Also if you just go and start working on the data, it assumes start/live mode. I think this should be made modal, so that you can't accidentally choose the live mode, when play is the one that is really wanted. It would be nice to have

Re: [OSM-talk] Vandalism in Trumpington

2008-04-27 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: People use Potlatch because it is much quicker to load, learn, and use. This would not be diminished by a save button On which point we disagree, I suspect irreconcilably; and respectfully I suggest the greater cause of OSM usability would be better served by us each

Re: [OSM-talk] Vandalism in Trumpington

2008-04-27 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ulf Lamping wrote: This all sounds you're trying to cure the pain of not using buffered editing with adding another concept that will add another layer of confusion ... Fine. I'm really not going to attempt and convince anyone here - one has to be a bit of a pig-headed UI fascist to develop

Re: [OSM-talk] [Fwd: Re: Bangladesh under the water]

2008-04-28 Thread Richard Fairhurst
David Groom wrote: It would be nice if it were easier to roll back peoples changes through :) Happily: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Monitoring_and_Rollback_Hack-a-thon_London is this weekend :) cheers Richard ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] Relaunch openstreetmap.de

2008-04-29 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Sebastian Spaeth wrote: you like it just because step 4 out of the 123 is start potlatch. admit it! ;-) Damn, rumbled... 5. Send token of appreciation to Potlatch programmer cheers Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Wide tracks with cycle access

2008-05-01 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Andy Robinson \(blackadder\) wrote: Perhaps this is the better way to think about it. I generally don't like subjective tagging, but in this instance giving an opinion about how usable a section of way is might be better. If you simplified bike types into road, hybrid and mtb then I guess you

Re: [OSM-talk] new potlatch issues

2008-05-01 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Robin Paulson wrote: 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. Heh, you can't please all the people all the time - the

[OSM-talk] New Potlatch

2008-05-01 Thread Richard Fairhurst
0.8c is one of those little things that mean a lot updates: - When you add a point into a way where it crosses another way, Potlatch automatically makes an intersection. - Points and ways are now bigger at high zoom levels for those people without superhuman fine motor skills. (But you can turn

[OSM-talk] The future of Potlatch

2008-05-01 Thread Richard Fairhurst
[warning - long ponderous e-mail follows!] Hi all, A fairly weighty issue concerning the future of Potlatch has arisen, and I'm completely baffled as to what to do - so I thought I'd ask the community for thoughts and advice. CloudMade (Steve and Nick's VC-funded company set up to

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

2008-05-02 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Thanks for some really helpful and interesting responses. (Thanks especially to Tom C for a very valuable perspective.) -- API The API has come up a lot. I've said before and will happily restate now that I think it would be great to get Potlatch talking Rails on the serverside, rather

Re: [OSM-talk] Background-only on potlatch?

2008-05-02 Thread Richard Fairhurst
OJ W wrote: Is there a way to turn off map data on potlatch, for when you want to zoom-out and look at something on the satellite photos, but don't want to trouble OSM with downloading an entire town's data that you're not planning to use? There's a request I've not heard before! Not

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

2008-05-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Christopher Schmidt wrote: Richard is likely limited by the Yahoo! Flash API: I expect that there's a fair chance that Yahoo! hasn't updated their Flash API to provide the new zoom levels that the main API added 2-3 weeks ago (Yahoo added more zoom levels worldwide at that time).

Re: [OSM-talk] TIGER mapping party

2008-05-08 Thread Richard Fairhurst
SteveC wrote: I and others have been doing a lot of fixing of TIGER data all over the US. Here's a very good example with before and after shots: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Bridger/diary/1550 cheers Richard ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch 0.9: How to undo Move way action?

2008-05-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Jukka Rahkonen wrote: It seems to be (too) easy to move the whole selected way with Potlatch 0.9 by dragging from between two nodes. But what is the right way to undo the unintended move? It looks like hitting the Esc key does not cancel the move correctly, at least not for the

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