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OpenStreetMap developer discusssion
November 2006 - page 1
dev server... cannot contact via HTTP (5 Replies)
Nick Whitelegg — 116237848301 Nov 2006*
Hello Steve and Nick, Probably a bit late in the evening now, but... Something seems to be up with the dev server. You can ssh in, but you cannot conn...
Nick Whitelegg — 116238497001 Nov 2006
(cc to David Sheldon) Sorry I meant npemap.org.uk. It suddenly stopped working at approximately 2355 UK time last night. What I did, as a matter of in...
Ralf Zimmermann — 116241296601 Nov 2006*
I want to write some Perl scripts in order to filter OSM data. As a first attempt, I wrote the file osm_stats.pl, which only counts the amount of node...
Robert Hart — 116260384804 Nov 2006
Imi, Just wanted to drop you a note to say I've made some progress on a grid plugin for josm. It currently has most of the math and coordinate sys...
Two scripts to make excerpts of planet.osm (8 Replies)
Nick Burch — 116264786504 Nov 2006*
Hi All Having found myself wanting to have just bits of planet.osm, without the faff of going via a database, I've written two more handy perl scr...
deprecation planet.openstreetmap.org (13 Replies)
SteveC — 116277184306 Nov 2006*
I've set up a tracker at torrent.openstreetmap.org. With one or two volunteer seeders and a longer gap between planets I think we can guarentee fa...
UTF8 fixed? (3 Replies)
SteveC — 116288535407 Nov 2006*
I've set the db server encoding to UTF-8 and looked through the hex for some tags from this: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/... And ...
central elemstyles/MapFeatures.xml (8 Replies)
Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany — 116288991707 Nov 2006*
Hi, Is there a chance, that we combine the functionality of the elemstyles and mapfeatures files? I think this would be very important to save very mu...
Dubravko Penezic — 116290552907 Nov 2006*
Hi 80n, I just download last distribution (1551) of osmarender, to have clear not spoiled (with my add ons, and changing) distribution. I suggest foll...
Ralf Zimmermann — 116298569308 Nov 2006*
Over the last weeks, several people have found out that the character encoding in the planet.osm files is not fully valid UTF-8. I would like to clean...
[JOSM] new feature request - second osm layer (3 Replies)
Dubravko Penezic — 116308273209 Nov 2006*
Hi, is it possible to add second osm layer in JOSM ? It will be nice to have ability to use points from one (basic) layer in other layer with osm form...
Nick Hill — 116309441909 Nov 2006
Whilst we are installing the cpan modules and other packages for new renderers, I am taking the opportunity to perform a distribution upgrade on dev. ...
[OT] installing CPAN modules (21 Replies)
Nick Whitelegg — 116314311110 Nov 2006*
In trying to get Nick Burch's planet extracting scripts to work, I'm trying to install additional modules such as Bit::Vector with cpan on the...
Escaping special characters when writing tags in OSM files with osm-subset.pl & write.pm (9 Replies)
Jon Burgess — 116315612410 Nov 2006*
I've found that both osm-subset.pl and Geo::OSM::Write fail to escape characters like " & ' in tags leading to problem when trying to...
planetosm-to-db.pl (13 Replies)
Richard Fairhurst — 116315872010 Nov 2006*
Just trying to install a local copy of the OSM db on a new machine. Unfortunately planetosm-to-db.pl now requires "two bazillion f--king Perl mod...
Nick Hill — 116319185610 Nov 2006
I visited the servers for a spot of maintenance today. Apologies to Mikel who was logged into dev when I rebooted. The notification didn't turn ou...
Nick Whitelegg — 116321049311 Nov 2006
I have tweaked the current (1.4) version of JOSM slightly to make certain things easier for plugin developers. This tweaked version is available at ht...
Nick Whitelegg — 116334395312 Nov 2006
Using Nick Burch's excerpt script, I have prepared a UK-only planet.osm available for download from the dev server at: http://nick.dev.openstreetm...
Nick Whitelegg — 116342363413 Nov 2006
Hello Nick, I've had problems with Freemap-NPE (the app which superimposes OSM data on the NPE maps) since the dev upgrade. The error is 'too ...
Nick Whitelegg — 116344396713 Nov 2006
Hello Nick, To follow up my previous message: Looks like this is a misconfiguration as I can't even clear out my database using planetosm-to-db.pl...
Robert Hart — 116344490413 Nov 2006
I think this could be really big for OSM and free mapping in general. I know my Dad spent a long time just trying to get SRTM derived contours onto hi...
[OT] Robustness of MySQL (3 Replies)
Nick Whitelegg — 116360292915 Nov 2006*
Since I put a slippy map on free-map.org.uk I've been having a lot of problems with MySQL crashing. For example, it crashed today after transferri...
Mikel Maron — 116361611515 Nov 2006
Afaik, this is in the works. There's a new tile machine being set up, on which the mapnik system will be installed. That will be fielding live req...
Mapnik and OSM - the way forward (2 Replies)
Nick Whitelegg — 116361672415 Nov 2006*
Hello Artem, I think it's fair to say that the new Mapnik-based renderer is very impressive. It would be good to take it forward now and integrate...
Dubravko Penezic — 116366386316 Nov 2006
Hi, If I start my own OSM server (it will be nice for many reason, from speed to testing prpouses) what is suggested path to upload data to central OS...
Markers for OSM slippy maps (4 Replies)
Nick Whitelegg — 116388025118 Nov 2006*
Over the last couple of nights I've been working on Freemap so that it offers the user a choice of either the new Mapnik maps or the New Popular E...
mapnik style stuff (5 Replies)
SteveC — 116394955519 Nov 2006*
http://trac.openstreetmap.org/browser/utils/m... for people who want to hack on getting railways in black and stuff artem is on this list if you have ...
Nick Whitelegg — 116406608520 Nov 2006
Have made a number of changes to the osm.xml mapnik config file. They include: - place=town | hamlet | suburb shown as well as city ...
Wiki bug (2 Replies)
Nick Black — 116419725422 Nov 2006*
Getting this error message from the Wiki when I try to save a page: A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the softwar...
Jon Burgess — 116431497623 Nov 2006*
While experimenting with the new tile renderer I noticed that the "convert -color 255" step of the tile generation was taking more CPU than ...
Immanuel Scholz — 116437474724 Nov 2006
Hi, [from talk mailing list by NickW] > I'm wondering if now is the time to add JOSM to the main OSM SVN archive so more people can work on it ...
CSS gurus required (2 Replies)
SteveC — 116437843124 Nov 2006*
Can anyone figure out how to make this resizing work properly? http://www.openstreetmap.org/index-new.html Eg make it consitantly hug the border of th...
Mikel Maron — 116447146025 Nov 2006
Just for reference, here's the working space at the OGC of WFS Simple, part of their Lightweight Standards Initiative. http://www.ogcnetwork.net/w...
Data format for OSM annotation layers (8 Replies)
Nick Whitelegg — 116447437225 Nov 2006*
Those of you following the Freemap project will know that it includes an annotation markers layer. It would seem to be a good idea to try and develop ...
() — 116447624325 Nov 2006
This week's is now available at http://labs.metacarta.com/osm/planet/planet-0... Regards,...
Barnett, Phillip — 116448876525 Nov 2006*
Oops, sorry, back on the right group now. Er, how do I get Boost FS? Can't find an installation candidate. Any particular repository? Phillip -Ori...
Barnett, Phillip — 116449276425 Nov 2006
Hmm. I did a search for boost, and found nothing returned but lots of libboost-blah files. I've just done apt-get install libboost* but no change ...
VMAP0 import/export stuff (2 Replies)
Nick Black — 116449928026 Nov 2006*
I've been extracting shapefiles from vmap0 data to use in the slippy map. Details are here: http://www.blacksworld.net/blog/?p=72 Nickb...
mapnik compile, debian sarge (1 Reply)
Christopher Schmidt — 116451830626 Nov 2006*
Has anyone successfully compiled mapnik on debian sarge? First, I'm getting errors during configure because scons doesn't seem to include a -p...
New servers (1 Reply)
Nick Hill — 116453355326 Nov 2006*
Following some hiccups with what was to be the tile rendering server (IRQ problems with the SATA controller) we have another server for tile rendering...
VMap0 files (3 Replies)
Christopher Schmidt — 116455414426 Nov 2006*
Apparently rendering tiles needs files only available if you have a dev account. How do I go about getting one of those? Regards,...
request for commenting (1 Reply)
raphael Jacquot — 116466081027 Nov 2006*
could PLEASE the original author of osm2pgsql.py document HOW the ways are constructed ?...
GeoRSS markers for OSM - update (2 Replies)
Nick Whitelegg — 116466749327 Nov 2006*
Quick update on my message yesterday... I've managed to implement a custom GeoRSS layer based on the OpenLayers GeoRSS layer which will fetch all ...
Nick Whitelegg — 116467553828 Nov 2006
As a follow up to posts made in the OSM dev list, I've developed a prototype of a possible OpenLayers "GeoRSS2" layer at http://www.free...
Christopher Schmidt — 116468524528 Nov 2006*
Nick -- In order to do editing via a browser, I need one of a few different choices. They each require different amounts of work on my part, but befor...
Idea about ways / meta-ways (5 Replies)
matthew-osm at newtoncomputing.co.uk — 116471706428 Nov 2006*
Hi, I've been thinking this through for a few days now with nothing else to do being ill, and it seems sensible to me, so I'll hand it over fo...
Mikel Maron — 116472863928 Nov 2006
Very nice.This just about implements WFS Basic, which is more or less GeoRSS retrieved with a bbox argument. I could see this being a useful update to...
Adding an mapnik SQL dump of planet.OSM? (2 Replies)
Jon Burgess — 116476586029 Nov 2006*
There seems to be a fair amount of interest in rendering tiles with mapnik. I wonder whether there should be a planet.sql file added to planet.openstr...
Duplicate data from Tiger import (5 Replies)
Jon Burgess — 116480416529 Nov 2006*
I noticed that Mapnik was taking much longer than normal to process some areas of the US and have found that there are instances where the same data i...
italian mailinglist (2 Replies)
Simone Cortesi — 116480487529 Nov 2006*
Hi, can you tell me which is the right channel to ask for the creation of a mailing list on openstreetmap.org devoted to the discussion of OSM matters...