PhilippeP's Comments
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The govenment is making it hard for us | Well it's about the routing software ... some 'very clever' people just do what their GPS says .... The first time I used a GPS (the purpose was to set ip up for a collegue) I was standing on the roof of a building in Brussels, after it found the satellites , I asked it to show me the way to the south train station ... It just said "go straight forward for 1km .... :)
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footway vs. track | Track is an 'unpaved dirt way' see wiki for a picture ... |
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How to change incorrect city name | ||
Mapnik renders get faster and faster | I already did some changes in Potlach that was already rendered in Mapnik when I leaved Potlach ! |
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DisneylandParis on GM/OSM | Well there is a node where there is a break in an almost straight line ... But I think I confused myself with the mapsurfer hack that replacs streetmap in GM with OSM , it seems it now also replaces the data on top of the aerial pictures seamlessly ...it tricked myself ... I'm feeling Goofy now :) Case closed : it WAS OSM data :) |
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DisneylandParis on GM/OSM | Strange , I'll check again from home ... |
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DisneylandParis on GM/OSM | Well, data in OSM is based on French cadastre ... Google might have the same source ... but both seems to have the very same nodes ... seems odd ... |
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OSM and commercial opportunities | This :
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How to change Google Maps to OSM globally | Simple , efficient , Impressive :) except that OSM is also displayed when choosing satellite or relief |
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How to mark non-existant roads.... | What just not tagging what does not exist .... |
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Vote for the Data Liberation Front to tackle aerial imagery | Done :) |
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Mapping a horizontal crevasse | Well from what I understand , the buidings were build directly inside the caves, the caves did not build around the houses ....
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Internationalization of OSM map web page, more feature requests | To search GPX's for a specifig tag , just edit the url in the adress bar !! |
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Edits by users in Iceland | I'm famous now :) |
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Tracking and problems along the way | It might just be a humidity problem .... so putting your GPS in a plastic bag ... |
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Day Two | If you mind about privacy : start and stop the GPS away from your home, or edit the traces to remove start and end ....
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Fixing incorrect level crossings | Just deleted the common node, then cut the part of the railway that is on a bridge (from one way railway to three parts railway), add the bridge tag to that part ... done |
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GPS Traces searchable? | You can 'search' based on tags .... : click on one tag in the list on the left, thn replace the tag in the url and see if it returns something |
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I would like to ask | Coordinates are not very human friendly ...
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Putting names on big rivers | For large rivers , there is a riverbank tag, used with a normal river tag associated with a name tag |