[Talk-alps] This list looks like a good idea...

[Simone Cortesi]

On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 00:07, sylvain letuffe<sylvain at letuffe.org> wrote:

> Do you plan to let people express themself in one of 5 different language,
> that's gone be tricky for understanding... I'll search for a real time
> translator program ;-)

the idea is to allow for different threads to have different "main"
languages. Separate.

>> And by the way, I'm running for election at the upcoming elections for
>> the OSMF Board this week.
> I'm not too much on board things, but you'll surely get my vote (if I'm
> allowed to)

It requires you to be a Foundation Member, which is a less than 20euro
/ year thing

http://foundation.openstreetmap.org/join/

>> So, if you have anything better...feel free to remove my borders and
>> put in yours.
> Perfect..., to be honest I already started and was waiting from some italian
> insults that I hopped to solve with genepy...

I'm the one who collects the genepy... :)

> The problem I'll be facing soon is that relation id 48130 (Italian border) is
> rather big (1038 members) and our admin_level=8 is represented by many small
> areas which forces me (well, it depends on the tagging method) to cut this
> boundary in even more members

it will. they will get at least as many as the level=8 areas of italy
and france combined.

> In france, we dropped rapidly the 1 relation for france concept as it didn't
> fit anymore in the api limits and/or JOSM capacity to manage.
> But we are still searching... one solution of wich this one might do
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relations/Proposed/boundary_segment

How do you deal with it in the meantime?

-S