Re: [talk-au] Contribution review??
On 6 September 2011 13:26, Ian Sergeant inas66+...@gmail.com wrote: Nearmap is no longer an acceptable source for OSM, since they do not allow traces from their imagery to be re-licensed. I notice at least one of your edits sourced nearmap, and that isn't allowed any more. If you were using Potlatch, perhaps you were using bing and didn't notice it? If you think Nearmap is a valuable resource for mapping from, you are still welcome to use it when contributing to fosm.org, as Nearmap didn't change the license, OSM did. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
[talk-au] Contribution review??
Hi - I am a new contributor to OSM and in the spirit of people shouldn't map areas when they don't have any knowledge of the topology and layout because I think fixing errors takes several orders of magnitude longer I would appreciate a 'contribution review'. I know the area but I little knowledge of OSM JOSM baffles me so I have been using Potlatch. http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Ariconte/edits Cheers, Richard. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
Re: [talk-au] Contribution review??
Hi Richard, Welcome to OSM. A few observations. Nearmap is no longer an acceptable source for OSM, since they do not allow traces from their imagery to be re-licensed. I notice at least one of your edits sourced nearmap, and that isn't allowed any more. If you were using Potlatch, perhaps you were using bing and didn't notice it? Using the name tag to describe the way or the amenity probably isn't best practice, it really should be the name of the way if it has one, and just left blank if not. Putting path connecting two streets, isn't the name, but you can put it in a note tag if you think the information is important. Same with the playground, etc. The name is what displays on the map as the label. You also don't need to put (dirt) in the name, instead you can use the surface tags, or tracktype tags. You don't need to put steps in the name, you can use highway=steps, or steps=yes. Apart from that, it looks good, and I look forward to grabbing my GPS and walking the Bungaroo Track soon. Ian. On 6 September 2011 07:49, Richard Ames rich...@ames.id.au wrote: Hi - I am a new contributor to OSM and in the spirit of people shouldn't map areas when they don't have any knowledge of the topology and layout because I think fixing errors takes several orders of magnitude longer I would appreciate a 'contribution review'. I know the area but I little knowledge of OSM JOSM baffles me so I have been using Potlatch. http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Ariconte/edits Cheers, Richard. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
Re: [talk-au] Contribution review??
On 06/09/11 11:26, Ian Sergeant wrote: Hi Richard, Welcome to OSM. A few observations. Nearmap is no longer an acceptable source for OSM, since they do not allow traces from their imagery to be re-licensed. I notice at least one of your edits sourced nearmap, and that isn't allowed any more. If you were using Potlatch, perhaps you were using bing and didn't notice it? If you look in the history you will see that it's prior to 17 July 2011 and not added by Richard as a source he has just added more detail. As Richard is using Potlatch he will be unable to access Nearmap imagery any way. Using the name tag to describe the way or the amenity probably isn't best practice, it really should be the name of the way if it has one, and just left blank if not. Putting path connecting two streets, isn't the name, but you can put it in a note tag if you think the information is important. Same with the playground, etc. The name is what displays on the map as the label. You also don't need to put (dirt) in the name, instead you can use the surface tags, or tracktype tags. You don't need to put steps in the name, you can use highway=steps, or steps=yes. Ditto to all from me. If your using highway=track then you should also include tracktype. Cheers Ross ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
Re: [talk-au] Contribution review??
On 6 September 2011 13:44, Ross Scanlon i...@4x4falcon.com wrote: If you look in the history you will see that it's prior to 17 July 2011 and not added by Richard as a source he has just added more detail. Oops, sorry, I should have checked the history. Thanks for picking that up. Ian. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
