Kevin Steinhardt's Comments
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| OS OpenData Street View in JOSM | Gregory: it's just giving me blankness; just not loading anything. No red tiles; just blackness. It's all rather upsetting. |
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| OS OpenData Street View in JOSM | The SlippyMap plugin doesn't appear to work at my end; I've added the URLs through the Advanced Prefs, but it just doesn't want to download any StreetView tiles. I've tried, using the wiki instructions, getting it working with WMS but it doesn't seem to like that either. I'll use Potlatch for now; cheers for your help, Ed. |
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| Need help | Sure thing; would I trace them and then you go back and tag the new ways? Did you only travel on roads?---if you did, I'm thinking I'll just tag them as highway=road. |
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| Mapnik rendering of this one forest is light grey instead of green | That is odd. The wood=mixed tag might be playing with Mapnik; I think certain wood=* values will render little tree pictograms on a green woodland colour: like on OS maps, where pine forests have little pine symbols, and deciduous woodland has a tiled round-esque tree symbol. Not too sure; I would consult the Mapnik team on this problem. |
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| Where's my Bridge? Where's my trails? | Attribution?; isn't it a situation of 'no-one owns the data; everyone owns the data'? |
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| London Cycle Superhighways | xD Yeah, but from a route perspective… they are signed (and being marketed incorrectly) as proper routes. |
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| London Cycle Superhighways | xD Yeah, but from a route perspective… they are signed (and being marketed incorrectly) as proper routes. |
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| Undue prominence to cycleways ? | I use highway=path in a similar fashion to highway=road; a yet-to-be determined class of path. I would tag shared-use 'farce'ilities as highway=cycleway, cycleway=shared_use …but if they're seriously narrow, bad or just plainly not cycleways to cycle on, use highway=footway, bicycle=yes. |
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| iPhone GPS users? | 'Amazed' is the wrong word. My iPhone (3GS) barely gets anything more accurate than about 15 m. |
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| First couple of bus routes | You have to be careful when using that plugin. I never automatically add stops; I hardly think that the 26 calls at *all* bus stops at the central bus station, nor all three of the stops at the hospital. |
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| Roads that have been removed... but are still on the old satellite images | Leave the ways in place, but removed all tags; then apply "note=Some kind of note re: the fact that the way no longer exists". |
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| distance_marker=yes | In the UK, we call them milestones (and they would happen to be, here, in miles and not kms). I've been using highway=milestone and added them all (as they're in a series) to a relation—with the order and mileage of each 'stone set. I suppose until the whole World uses on language, even if we all decided on one tag for the UK let's say, there's got to be either the same tag worldwide or a tag set in primary for each of the hundreds of nations. I'm glad tools like Tagwatch exist; the folks behind it are doing a very good job and providing a very good service. |
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| Google Maps as a WMS source? | I really wouldn't suggest doing anything like WMSificating Google tiles, even if you're not using them to trace for OSM map-map purposes. |
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| The OpenStreetMap website now links to Key:* and Tag:* pages on the wiki | Ah; awesome idea. :) |
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| Changeset: 4241989 | You could find the tile PNGs in question and add /dirty to the end of the URL. This should return the text "Tile submitted for rendering" -- this will flag the tile as in need of a re-render. |
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| gh | Huh-h gh. |
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| JOSM can't do relations | Most probably; I should really start reading tooltips. |
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| Cambridge and the fact that I'm away from my Mac | @skippern Unpaved roads? I'm proud to say that we have none of those in the UK. |
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| Snowshoeing / Schneeschuhwandern | Just one question: what's a snowshoe? :P |
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| Cycle parking: stand types and varieties | I really do hope charging points are rendered on Mapnik; a node with what type of car/plug will work would help so much. I've heard some Westminster sockets only work with certain cars. Maybe one could build a simple OSM-based charger finder unit into new electrics. Maybe that would help with the sale of such things. Truth be told, tag as much as you think would be used; only the standard use of tags (all of one thing has the same name, otherwise using such information would be painful as you'd have to parse all varients) is what is needed. |