OJW's Comments
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OpenStreetMap at the 2009 Wikimedia developer meet-up | The version which supports lots of different map layers is at: http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~ojw/GetMap/ minor changes would be needed to have lat/lon/zoom as a parameter instead of slippy-map URL |
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New houses | Well... apparently the commercial satnav devices don't include this estate yet, and people who live there are already having problems describing their location |
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OSM application for the open-source OpenMoko cellphone | There is also Pyroute being developed for use on Freerunner: |
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Bletchley to Bedford, national cycle route | Part of the route though Milton Keynes appears to be unavailable (no signs, and marked as grey on sustrans' map), so there will still be more for someone to map when they finish building it. |
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Questions: bulk uploading of lighthouses / maritime navigation | Hi. Have you uploaded this file yet? |
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Wind turbines | potlatch? I meant mapnik of course. zoom in one level to see them. |
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Californian ditches | Looks like I'll subscribe to talk-us list then. Is there a sample OSM file for NHD of California? that would be good to compare with the manual tracing... |
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The beginning | I started something similar (as python program) it can only handle small areas, but it will guide you down cycle routes and quiet roads, and not try to use large roads or motorways This shows a sample route, which is very similar to the route I'd have chosen myself: osm.wiki/index.php/Image:Pyroute_backstreets.png (only difference being, it doesn't know that crossing an A-road is difficult...) |
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Questions: bulk uploading of lighthouses / maritime navigation | Regarding that list of icelandic lights, I did an OSM file of the lat/long extracted from the PDF: http://almien.co.uk/Misc/IcelandLights/ I'll need some more help from a translator to actually use that file for real though. Any chance someone could find out about licensing for it? |
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Questions: bulk uploading of lighthouses / maritime navigation | I think Dolphin means that Alex Trabas's data is missing lat/long, not the OSM file we're importing at the moment.. |
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Questions: bulk uploading of lighthouses / maritime navigation | Hi. I've done some changes to the tagging based on those comments (e.g. marking helicopter landing bases, tagging unlit buoys, etc.) and produced another OSM file: http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~ojw/files/Lighthouses/lighthouses.osm That should be nearly ready to upload now? Are you going to upload? |
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Questions: bulk uploading of lighthouses / maritime navigation | I assume "VQ" means very quick. Any idea what "Iso" and "Dir" mean in the description of a character? e.g. "Dir Iso WRG 5s" or "Iso WR 5s" Also, "LFl", as in "LFl 10s" (long flash?) |
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Questions: bulk uploading of lighthouses / maritime navigation | Thanks for those answers. I have some more questions though :( Are the daymarks abbreviations for something, or just text? What are the different numbers in 'Nominal_Range(s)'? And what units are they in? When it says "Granite tower, green lantern" in the description, does that mean that it emits green light, or that the outside of the lantern-room is painted green? When there's something with a "helicopter landing port" in its name (in the lighthouses section of data), is it a lighthouse too, or just a heliport? Do you happen to know any way of converting "max sea level (spring)" heights to regular (e.g. "above mean sea level") heights? |
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Questions: bulk uploading of lighthouses / maritime navigation | I have a few questions about the meaning of some descriptions - any chance we could get answers from someone who knows more about lighthouses/CIL than me? |
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Questions: bulk uploading of lighthouses / maritime navigation | you should be able to "save page as" in your browser and save as an OSM file, rather than copy/pasting it into a text editor? (can some windows-user confirm the details for IE?). Or right-click on the link and "save link as" to store it on disk without any copy/pasting. p.s. I didn't fix the degrees symbol - you'll need to do that manually after downloading it (search for RL355 to find one of the places it's used) |
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Questions: bulk uploading of lighthouses / maritime navigation | Tagging discussion: osm.wiki/index.php/Talk:Tag:man_made%3Dlighthouse |
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Questions: bulk uploading of lighthouses / maritime navigation | smsm1: http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~ojw/files/Lighthouses/parse.pl.txt |
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Questions: bulk uploading of lighthouses / maritime navigation | I just updated that OSM file so it links to the the lighthouse history pages on CIL's website (e.g. http://www.cil.ie/flat_areaEQLlighthousesAMPLighthouseIDEQL33_entry.html ) rather than just to the spreadsheet URL. |
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Questions: bulk uploading of lighthouses / maritime navigation | Hi Dolphin. I converted your KML file to an OSM file. You should be able to view this in JOSM (and perhaps upload it, after you've checked that all the data is correct) http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~ojw/files/Lighthouses/lighthouses.osm if you need any changes, just ask... |
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University of Nottingham main campus | looks a bit messy when there are 10 buildings all with the hall name -- that's how it is at the moment... |