| snail | mÅrena | 18:46 |
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| ajmitch | morning | 19:33 |
| ibeardslee | morning | 19:46 |
| ajmitch | seems like even windows in a VM isn't immune to suddenly breaking without warning, came to my desk to see it complaining & wanting to do a system restore :) | 19:52 |
| chilts | morning | 19:53 |
| chilts | yikes, I'm getting married in less than two weeks! :) | 19:57 |
| snail | chilts: being married is great, one no longer has to stress about the wedding | 19:59 |
| chilts | heh, yeah, I think that happens a lot | 19:59 |
| chilts | I'm looking forward to having more time to do other things, but looking forward to the day itself (can't do anything more then) | 19:59 |
| thumper | morning | 20:00 |
| mwhudson | morning | 20:27 |
| snail | http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10789863 | 21:14 |
| mwhudson | i want a cotton candy for $48 | 21:17 |
| ojwb | morning | 22:01 |
| lifeless | mwhudson: so back country eh? | 22:16 |
| mwhudson | lifeless: just trying to find a route i once drove to show to a friend | 22:45 |
| lifeless | mwhudson: tried osm ? | 22:47 |
| mwhudson | lifeless: no, maybe i should have though | 22:47 |
| mwhudson | (i beat google maps into submission in the end) | 22:47 |
| mwhudson | mmm, osm is better on locations but worse on roads | 22:49 |
| ojwb | patches welcome! | 22:55 |
| chilts | ojwb: do you do Open Street Map stuff? | 23:30 |
| chilts | I keep meaning to do it, but Java puts me off and as far as I remember the JavaScript editor is pretty bad | 23:30 |
| chilts | I'd love to make a good one in JS for them, but I can't afford the time | 23:30 |
| ojwb | i haven't for quite a while | 23:30 |
| ojwb | the javascript one had improved quite a lot last time I used it | 23:31 |
| chilts | oh right, so you just log in and go | 23:31 |
| chilts | that would be useful | 23:31 |
| ojwb | there's a C or C++ one too, which wasn't bad but a bit rough in places | 23:31 |
| ojwb | but that's quite likely to have evolved too | 23:31 |
| chilts | wonder if they have an API | 23:32 |
| ojwb | yeah, there is | 23:32 |
| chilts | hmm ... http://www.openstreetmap.org/ or http://www.openstreetmap.org.nz/ | 23:32 |
| chilts | wonder if the data is the same, or who has the 'master' copy | 23:32 |
| ojwb | the latter is some local OSM user(s), but I don't think they've done much with it | 23:33 |
| ojwb | it should be the same data | 23:33 |
| chilts | "You need a Flash player to use Potlatch, the OpenStreetMap Flash editor. You can download Flash Player from Adobe.com. Several other options are also available for editing OpenStreetMap." | 23:34 |
| chilts | :( | 23:34 |
| chilts | http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Editing#The_top_two <- Flash and Java | 23:34 |
| ojwb | oh, it was flash not javascript | 23:34 |
| chilts | yeah :( | 23:35 |
| chilts | nope, no mention of JavaScript on that page at all | 23:35 |
| ojwb | http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Merkaartor is the one I used mostly | 23:36 |
| chilts | ojwb: what the smallest, easiest, most miniscule thing you can do on OSM to make an edit (ie. a good test for a JS editor)? | 23:36 |
| ojwb | add a point feature, I guess | 23:36 |
| chilts | like a postbox or something? | 23:36 |
| ojwb | yeah | 23:37 |
| chilts | I see my street isn't correct since it's been extended recently | 23:37 |
| ojwb | if you mean for testing, I think there's a sandbox | 23:37 |
| chilts | righto, cool | 23:37 |
| chilts | well, I guess I'll have a play in April sometime :D | 23:37 |
| chilts | oh, and merkaartor looks like it's in Lucid and wants to install 74MB, which I'll try later on | 23:37 |
| chilts | lots of QT4 stuff | 23:39 |
| ojwb | i don't see anything about a sandbox, perhaps I'm confused | 23:40 |
| ojwb | but it's usually not hard to find a missing postbox or tree or ... | 23:41 |
| G | chilts: ojwb: (jumping in the convo blind not having read backlog) but there is a NZ Mailing list that is discussing getting LINZ data properly imported | 23:42 |
| * ojwb knows | 23:43 | |
| G | chilts: http://groups.google.com/group/nzopengis?hl=en. | 23:43 |
| chilts | yeah, but I'm more interested in being able to edit the map easily ... which I don't think is possible yet (without using Flash) | 23:49 |
| chilts | or Java | 23:49 |
| chilts | ie. rock on up to a website and start editing - nothing to install | 23:49 |
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