robert's Comments
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Numbering houses | I think the simplest low-key way of doing it is just using a small clipboard. Looks like you've got a job to do. Which you have. |
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Organisation - let's make it happen! | "Could somebody please inform me, how this project is managed?" Our chief productivity booster is ignoring people like you. And that's not me being mean, I really mean it. |
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Another spammer using OSM for redirection | Don't worry too much, the links have been rel=nofollow'ed, which means most search engines will ignore them. But an admin should still delete them. |
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Spammer Suck !!! | The garmin legend hcx's have a very good reputation around here. You can load OSM data onto them and use them for navigation and see map data in real time. If you just want something that makes tracks and is a lot cheaper, you could look at one of the simple loggers like the BT747A+. No screen, no SD cards, just a logger with a bluetooth and USB interface. |
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Postcode settings | Ordnance Survey have just released "Code-Point Open", so it's shortly going to just be a matter of importing that (if people decide it's something that should live _inside_ the osm db itself). |
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Mapping soho tonight + banging on about building outlines again | "If you try to go too detailed with it, then you end up describing the use of individual buildings. It's a bit tricky in the city centre. Maybe the whole of Soho is commercial (?)" Worse than that, many buildings have multiple uses. In a lot of retail areas, the ground floor is a shop and upper floors are residential flats. The StreetView data could be used as a hint to use with the sometimes-hard-to-make-out yahoo imagery. Both sources used together should allow us to figure out most things surely? |
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Love! | Are you a spammer or have you been drinking? |
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First StreetView Tracing | I agree with OS data being in the map, but you might like to wait a couple of months for OS vectormap district to be released which could just be (manually) imported rather than traced. It might save you a lot of click-click-click-ing |
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Added lots of GPS traces for bike routes in Huntsville, AL | osm.wiki/Potlatch/Photo-mapping Gzipping the gpx doesn't _include_ the photos in it. And even if it did you wouldn't want to upload the photos to OSM. OSM is not for hosting the photos itself. Gzip is just a compression format, not a container format like .zip. |
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Hazelmoor | More detail in Tyne and Wear! Excellent! |
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Top of the stops | Dude, you rock. Though I think your metrics have gone a bit wrong with the London results. The sheer number of bus stops is pushing the number of false positives over the limit. |
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Northern Virginia | spam |
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Local civil parish boundary | Hey, good work! |
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- | Hm so an evasive spammer, eh? |
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SPAM | Dumb spammer hasn't noticed the rel=nofollow. |
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SPAM | dumb spammer hasn't noticed the rel=nofollow |
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vehicle tracking and road mapping | JohnSmith: If the same routes are traveled many times the built up data may well end up being useful. johny_: I do seem to recall a tracking company using OSM for some of their work. They were probably german but I can't remember any more details. Your data would be most welcome. Any additions made would be appreciated. This is exactly what OSM is for. |
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Where to place the gps | HannesHH: The etrex should be held _horizontal_. This is because it has a patch antenna, which has strong gain directed upwards around the edges. In this orientation, the high gain angles are pointed just above the horizon, which is the best for GPS reception. The same should go for any GPS that has a patch antenna (most bluetooth GPSs for instance). liftarn: I think 0.8m accuracy is unrealistic for GPS. Your receiver's estimate is often very optimistic. |
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More Streets in Newcastle upon Tyne | Pencils! Pencils win every time. |
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Possible improvements for the data browser pages | Any improvements to the changeset browsing are good. |