On 12/06/2015 10:16, Arne Jakobsson wrote:
Hi all,
I draw buildings, and was taught somewhere that we should align the
building outline with its roof. Doing this, I ran into some trouble.
http://i.imgur.com/vaOFIb5.gif
The road intersect the building. This would not happen if we instead
just
On 27/05/2015 19:33, uno dos wrote:
Hi guys. I'm newbie with OSM. I want to download the .shp, .osm or
.pbf from my Country (Chile) to import in PostgreSQL/PostGIS. When I
download the map from any source I get only the information shapes. I
want download also the base map (the borders). Can
On 08/05/2015 16:01, Jim Mays wrote:
They're great short-ish walks I would like to add them to OSM.
Personally for something like this I'd suggest ground survey, as you'll
pick up far more detail than seems to be available on the linked PDFs.
Cheers,
Andy
(apologies for a reply fairly off-topic for the newbies list - I'm just
replying to where it was posted)
On 29/04/2015 11:19, Giovanni Quattrone wrote:
My name is Giovanni and I'm a researcher at University College London,
UK.
I'm specialised in crowdsourcing research and in the past have
cornelis.broed...@web.de wrote:
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svn: E22:
/home/opt/osm_svn/misc/pr_material/slideshow/2012-02-09_194844_scrot_Screenshot_Freiberg_Zentrum_wei?\195?\159er_Hintergrund_bearb.png
Hi Cornelis, and welcome!
The newbies
Gys de Jongh wrote:
... Especially so when infact the error report is the only thing
that's wrong :(
Here is one of many examples :
network=rcn
note=23-62
route=bicycle
type=route
Relation ID=1263377
JOSM 7000 Validation :
Role forward unknown
Role backward unknown
JOSM does seem to have
Philipp Kraus wrote:
Can anybody help me please to choose the correct framework?
You might be better off asking on the dev list - newbies is more
designed for new OSM mappers than people looking for OSM data
representations and visualisations. Or perhaps ask on #osm-dev on IRC.
Off the
Xan wrote:
Hi,
Recently I see that in web page of OSM there is a layer of notes. Is there any
similar for FIXME tags? Is there anyway to show FIXME tags as layers?
ITO World have one here:
http://www.itoworld.com/map/12
They have lots of others too that you might find useful.
There's
Tac Tacelosky wrote:
Is there a list anywhere that we could use that has most of the common
tags, with at most one level of depth, along with an icon and how the
tags map?
An excellent place to start looking at what tags are used and in what
combination with other tags is taginfo:
Xan wrote:
Hi,
Can anyone confirm that these
[http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/15602833],
[http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/15602674] are non sense
edits, with no tags. Can I revert these changes? I don't check *all*
the points, because it's a huge changeset.
Yes
Mike Thompson wrote:
Can nodes with no tags (e.g. node54182420
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/54182420
) be deleted?
That particular example is one left behind by the licence change
redaction process (see
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Database_License in the
Bill Ricker wrote:
all barometric altimeters must be calibrated to known altitude or
known sealevel pressure frequently for any absolute accuracy.
... and (at least with my eTrex Vista) the compass needs recalibrating
by turning it around twice after a battery change.
Cheers,
Andy
Bráulio wrote:
I too have a problem with a new user. I say new because he is not
new, but he is doing the same mistakes newbies do again and again
(with the confidence of a veteran). And now he is destroying a lot of
relations on my city/state and substituting them with lots of
polygons.
Sebastian Arcus wrote:
I've used JOSM about a week ago to add some buildings to OSM. Or at
least I think I did - as looking at the same place again now they seem
to have disappeared. How can I find out if I really did add them
there, and if they were deleted?
Potlatch 1 should be able to
Xan wrote:
Thanks, Andy. So the correct police is to put the real name in name
(not the relation name)?
Yes - that's what the name tag is for!
Cheers,
Andy
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On 12/01/2013 14:26, Xan wrote:
Hi,
Is there any way of OSM display the names or the relations in paths?
That is, a path has name X and it belongs to one relation that has
name Y. Is there possible to display name=X (Y)?
Something like Lonvia's excellent hiking map, perhaps?:
Sewa Agbodjan wrote:
Does anybody have a link where I could download those files?
A quick Google finds this page
http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/10m-cultural-vectors/
and clicking on the links there (or using wget) works for me on the
first one that I tried.
Cheers,
Andy
wget
Sebastian Arcus wrote:
Thanks Phil. Unfortunately, I personally prefer to avoid tags which
don't render unless there is absolutely no other option.
You could argue that there's no such thing as a tag that doesn't render:
Sebastian Arcus wrote:
I have uploaded a bunch of gps traces as identifiable. They show up
under See your traces. However, when I click on map or edit I
can't see them on the map or in Potlatch2 editor. Am I doing something
wrong, or is there a temporary problem with the system?
An example
Tom Taylor wrote:
I'm going crazy trying to add waterways. Naturally they won't validate
where they pass under highways. If I add a culvert I can't seem to
persuade the validator that the water is running through it.
Perhaps you could share a link to the item concerned so that we can see
Tom Taylor wrote:
I just discovered something promising -- the healthcare= tags. They
definitely cover physiotherapy and optometry (another item I
encountered). The question is: are they used in practice?
There's a site called taginfo that allows you to find out the answers
to such
Tom Taylor wrote:
My concern in this case was one of process. The healthcare proposal is
listed as Post-Vote or something like that. A year (since the close
of voting) seemed like a long time to do cleanup, so I wondered if the
proposal had actually dead-ended.
I guess that you're
On 18/08/2012 10:30, Dudley Ibbett wrote:
Hi
I am currently exploring the possibility of add a tag for the
condition of dry stone walls and also stiles.
I note in the documentation there has been discussion about tags such
as highway_condition and these have not been accepted. The one use
added that has since been (legitimately)
deleted as an example. The way that was deleted was this one:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/32395636/history
The list of my changesets is
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/SomeoneElse/edits
I can scroll back through those until I get back
On 23/07/2012 15:38, m.luc...@smartasking.com wrote:
I am hoping that someone can help with a basic stack question for a
project of mine.
If you don't get a reply here you could always try over at the osm-dev
list - newbies tends to be used for people new to mapping not
people new to
On 08/07/2012 23:41, Stephen Johnson wrote:
Who takes responsibility for large database uploads to OSM? ... Can I
do this if I wish to?
I'd start here:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines
(apologies if you've already read that, but I suspect that more than a
few readers of
Dudley Ibbett wrote:
I wonder if anyone that has had experience of using
OS_OpenData_Streetview in the UK could comment on its accuracy. I
have been doing some mapping through Earl Sterndale in Derbyshire and
note that most of the buildings are drawn with the source tag:
weedget wrote:
I've data from planet file only for my country, and this data is two
months old, so now I want to update it.
I think that what you're looking for are these instructions:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Minutely_Mapnik
and it might also be worth having a look at the updating
Charlotte Wolter wrote:
Now, as I begin to work on West LA using the OSM Inspector, I have a
couple more questions.
One other thing to bear in mind is that the licence change redaction
bot is likely to run Real Soon Now, so you may find that you end up
mapping West LA rather than remapping
Steve Bennett wrote:
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 5:39 AM, Dudley Ibbettdudleyibb...@hotmail.com wrote:
Scottish Natural Heritage
(http://www.snh.org.uk/publications/on-line/accessguide/stiles_list.asp),
use squeeze step and ladder to define the types of stile.
stile=squeeze
stile=step
Steve Bennett wrote:
Oh, sorry, I was only commenting on the style (no pun intended) of
tagging (barrier=stile, stile=*), not the specific values proposed.
Ah - ok. That makes perfect sense.
Cheers,
Andy
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Dudley Ibbett wrote:
Hi
It is possible to have a public_footpath rendered on tpo of a farm
access track? I haven't found an example yet. Presumably the
rendering is base on the highway tag (footway/service) and therefore
this might not be possible. I have an example where a
Dudley Ibbett wrote:
How to people log streams/rivers and it is reasonable for me to adjust
these using the Bing images
Picking a random one near Eskdale here:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=54.412241lon=-3.250498zoom=18layers=M
the source on that stream is OS7, so it's come from
Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote:
I'd like to purge old data from my
profile for privacy reasons.
You've also got the option of chopping the ends of traces off so that
people can't easily identify where you live and what time you tend to go
out mapping (for burgling purposes) I guess?
Roger Calvert wrote:
A suggestion for a minor addition to Potlatch 2 - not sure where to
send this, so would be pleased if someone could pass it on.
There's a Potlatch-dev mailing list:
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/potlatch-dev
In addition, potlatch2 is a component in trac:
On 03/12/2011 00:42, Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote:
Is this a tagging issue, a rendering issue, or something else? The
desirable outcome would be to be able to take a look at the map on the
GPS and know which roads are paved and which are not.
It's a rendering issue. When creating Garmin maps
Bob Hawkins wrote:
I fear I might have been overlooking something when editing in JOSM: I
have been splitting ways in order to facilitate the addition of
particular parts to a relation. I discovered yesterday that one part
loses its history to be replaced by a new version 1 only that is my
Roger Calvert wrote:
I have been compiling OSM maps for Garmin MapSource and my GPS
successfully for some time. But I have just changed from Windows XP to
Windows 7, and I can't seem to register the maps with MapSource. The
equivalent registry changes to those in XP seem to have no effect.
Roger Calvert wrote:
Thanks, Andy. Unfortunately, this does not seem to work either. It is
a .reg file which does not give the option of running as
Administrator. I wrote a .bat file to run it, which I can run as
Administrator, but still no joy.
.reg files open with regedit, so maybe run
On 18/08/2011 20:04, Bob Hawkins wrote:
... To date, I have created a new relation containing part of one
extension. I wonder now whether this is a candidate for Parent/Child
Relations?
As far as I'm aware, no long distance footpaths in GB have been done
this way. There are pros and cons;
.
The gpx in question is
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/AlexandrosPapadopoulos/traces/1035752
Odd. For comparison, here's one that works for me:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/SomeoneElse/traces/1036624
There are a few obvious differences:
o The bounds line in mine is defining a much
On 15/06/2011 11:57, Dave F. wrote:
On 13/06/2011 19:13, Renaud MICHEL wrote:
Of course it could be used to do so.
Without it, if there is strong suspicion that a user copied unauthorized
data, then all that user contributions will be deleted.
What a great way to discourage new mappers:
We
On 15/06/2011 20:54, ael wrote:
... My assumption
when I joined was that all mapping was assumed to be from some form
of personal survey, usually gps, unless indicated otherwise. When I noticed the
source tag, I assumed that its primary use was to acknowledge some
3rd party, but legal, source.
On 11/05/2011 11:49, Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote:
Should I:
1. Leave the half-mapped official trail as it is
2. Delete the whole trail
3. Enter inaccurate data in OSM by estimating how the path would go,
just to complete the cycle?
Unless I hear strong opinions to the contrary, I'll go with
On 05/05/2011 15:10, Clifford Snow wrote:
I see bug icons with a reference number that says to look up on the
webpage. Where do I go to look these up? The bugs all seem to
reference routing problems.
That'd be Mapdust. Here's an example:
http://www.mapdust.com/detail/182949
Skobbler
On 04/04/2011 10:40, Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote:
I've had pretty much the same question for some time now. The tricks
suggested above sound good but I'm not sure how to actually implement
them: I have been marking POIs on my Garmin unit for months (mostly
during a roadtrip through Asia) and
On 04/04/2011 14:51, Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote:
Thank you, this is going in the right direction.
Using this trick I uploaded a sample GPX with a single waypoint (a
post box in London):
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/AlexandrosPapadopoulos/traces/981138
I then follow the edit link from
On 04/04/2011 22:22, Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote:
Duplicating the latitude/longitude of the waypoint in the track
section seems to have done the trick:
P2 opened, with a clearly visible circle where my waypoint was. I then
dragged and dropped a postbox icon onto it, from the left hand side
On 17/03/2011 11:47, Sam Kuper wrote:
... because some important entities seem to be missing from the maps ...
Do you mean missing from the data, or missing from a map rendering that
data somewhere? There is a map on the front page of osm.org, but that's
only one possible rendering of the
On 17/03/2011 12:55, Sam Kuper wrote:
...
Now, I see from your link that pedestrianised streets and squares are
handled by OpenStreetMap, but I don't see any examples of roads having
pavements alongside them.
As they used to say on Blue Peter, here's one I prepared earlier:
On 17/03/2011 13:29, Serge Wroclawski wrote:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:sidewalk
Actually, I probably wouldn't use that tag when mapping (at least not
locally).
Tagwatch for GB
http://tagwatch.stoecker.eu/Great_britain/En/tags.html
suggests footway=both/left/right etc. is more
One more thing...
Another aspects to pedestrian routing is is it safe to walk along
there, even though I know that there isn't a pavement at the side of the
road?
This post:
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2011-January/010625.html
(and its followups) was a discussion about
they disagree about the position of something
you'll have to use your judgement as to which is correct.
As an example, here's a track that I've uploaded but not yet edited:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/SomeoneElse/traces/909159
If you click edit against that you'll see lots of orange spots, which
On 10/11/2010 19:52, Xan wrote:
But is there any tag?
Perhaps have a look at the tags in use here to see:
http://tagstat.hypercube.telascience.org/index.php
... although not really a newbies list thing. As somebody has already
mentioned there's a whole list devoted to tagging here:
On 28/10/2010 17:28, Maitham wrote:
Could you include data source tagn you upload OSM data?
Sometimes people add source tags and sometimes they don't - it's one of
the weaknesses of the project but also one of the strengths (that people
can tag what they like, using tags that are
On 28/10/2010 13:36, Paul Johnson wrote:
I'm stumped on trying to fetch multiple layers from Oklahoma's
Geoserver.
I suspect that the dev list might be the place to go for an answer to
that one. This list is more I'm stumped on trying to map Oklahoma.
Cheers,
Andy
On 08/10/2010 15:45, Xan wrote:
So, is there any tag?
There will be if you make one up...
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On 24/09/2010 11:03, AlfonZ wrote:
I think start_date (accompanied by end_date) might be what you are
looking for.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:start_date
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:end_date
Unfortunately, as noted on the end_date page, This is ... a highly
unsupported
Mapquest's site that uses OSM data has a scale on it:
http://open.mapquest.co.uk/
People have complained that it's not 100% accurate (if you zoom out to
see everything from the equator to the Arctic circle, clearly that scale
isn't going to apply to the whole of the map). At local scales
On 10/09/2010 13:46, Donald Campbell II wrote:
I just noticed the shutdown notice in the news
http://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2010/09/10/city-council-closes-seiko-garden-restaurant/
this morning.
I currently have the restaurant showing at the place
On 20/08/2010 11:07, simon blackmore wrote:
Hi everyone.
I hope I am in the right place for this question.
I am trying to get a osm file ready to be rendered by Mapnik.
The newbies list would probably be better named a newbie mappers
list, since that's what it's usually used for. Maybe
On 23/07/2010 13:13, Ishtiaque Ahmed wrote:
In OSM, today I put some POIs in the edit mode and saved them. When I
went to view mode, I got some of my newly put points but not all. Does
it take time to show those all on the view mode? Or am I making any
mistake here ?
Hello and welcome!
Yes,
On 23/07/2010 14:44, Ishtiaque Ahmed wrote:
And, how can I get the longitude and latitude of a point on the map?
If you've got the data overlay showing, then clicking on a node in the
list and then details will show the co-ordinates.
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Bob Hawkins wrote:
I understand that the Relations list in JOSM shows all relations
pertaining to the the downloaded OSM data. I wish to add a
relation to a section of long distance path that I have plotted. If
such a relation does not exist within the bounding box of
the downloaded
for
to be able to upload it and then edit the points with Potlatch is
something like this:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/SomeoneElse/traces/451095
As I understand it there needs to be a track with at least one track
point in it. The waypoints in the GPX then get uploaded as temporary
POIs
Pieren wrote:
The discussion shouldn't come to this list.
(rest snipped)
I can understand what you're saying, but think that it might be more
constructive to say that it's not really suited to the newbies list
because there have been lots of discussions elsewhere [waves vaguely at
the
Phil Monger wrote:
As had already been pointed out the OS are *not tax funded*. They act
like any other company within the UK making and selling a product.
They have done so for 11 years.
Now if only they would sell maps to the public with a footpath overprint
that's less than 11 years old
Nicholas Shanks wrote:
After some consideration I decided that I would like Potlatch JOSM to
display, after the explicit properties that I have entered, and a break or on
a different background, all the implicit properties that the current
properties entail. If I were to then edit one of
How to map stuff that isn't there any more has been discussed in the
past (unfortunately without any consensus being achieved as far as I recall)
It might help to have a read of this on the wiki:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/4th_Dimension
(and the link from there to
If what you want to do is to just display one trace that you know the
number of, you can do it according to the instructions here:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/GPX_slippy_map
So:
http://ojw.dev.openstreetmap.org/gpx/?gpx=179393
will display one of mine, for example.
Holding the mouse
Works great (once I actually read the whole mail figured out I had to
press j not J)!
One question though - would it be possible, where the duplicate nodes
form part of a duplicate way (with exactly the same tags) to delete the
duplicate way as well?
These changesets show an example of
For what it's worth there aren't too many uses of it but both
amenity=market and amenity=marketplace are used:
http://osmdoc.com/en/tag/amenity/marketplace
http://osmdoc.com/en/tag/amenity/market
Also:
http://osmdoc.com/en/tag/amenity/public_market
among others.
Xan wrote:
What's the difference among that?
I'm a newbee yet ;-)
Purely from an English English language perspective, marketplace
tends to refer to the physical location where traders can gather to sell
things; market can refer to either that or the event of people
gathering together - in
Russ Phillips wrote:
On 28 January 2010 15:36, J.Slee j.s...@open.ac.uk wrote:
In Feb I am cycling across Central America and wondered how easy it would be
to get the relevant parts of North East Panama , Costa Rica and South West
Nicaragua onto a file that my Garmin Edge 705 would
Xan wrote:
What can I do?
I have to invent the times in where I get the points?
When I was uploading some waypoints from an old GPS that didn't store
tracks, I left the waypoints as wpt waypoints but stuck a dummy track
point in the file as well at the same latitude and longitude, like
James Ewen wrote:
There are however many COWs (Cellular On Wheels) around that cellular
companies use as temporary replacement cellular site antennas when
repairs or replacement of towers takes place.
There's a similar concept in the UK:
G H S wrote:
Why is everything tagged as highway, and then often combined with
types that aren't highways at all? I would have expected something like
road= followed by things like highway, alley, residential, whatever.
I think that it's purely historical - I seem to remember someone saying
Philip Striplin wrote:
I don't know how common this is, globally, but in this area we have
three sorts of stile on footpaths.
Type 1 is a simple step-over arrangements with a plank of wood
providing a step about 50cm above the ground.
Type 2 is the same as type 1 with the addition of a
ael wrote:
As far as I can see, we don't have a tag for this sort of thing. A new
tag, stepping_stones seems like an obvious choice?
It does seem like an obvious choice to me as well. Actually, it's not a
new tag, although it's not used much:
Andy Allan wrote:
Any number of things going wrong can make it go
slowly, and some of the graphs look similar under different scenarios
so if one chart showing a peak coincides with problems last time it
doesn't always follow that the same thing will happen again.
Whatever the problem was, it
Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote:
Since the move to API0.6 a week ago there have been ongoing teething issues
which make the platform periodically either slow, timing out or resulting in
internal server error responses. Obviously the sysadmins try to catch these
and fix them as they
Is there anywhere that describes status and recent outages (other than
the note on the main page that always says Up and running)?
Editing (via Potlatch) was getting slower and slower this PM - I've no
idea if this is related.
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Russ Phillips wrote:
A more detailed status is given on the following page:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Platform_Status
Thanks. Unfortunately there have been some intermittent failures
preventing updates on that page doesn't say which bit failed and
whether it's likely to fail again.
exnpo-openstreet...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
when I use the 'L' key to navigate the cursor over my reading, the
result in some cases is way off, sometimes by 25 metres or so.
it could be the latter - some roads (and other features) have been
traced from sources such as the old NPE out-of-copyright
One kludge I have used is to create a line that has a name but won't
render, like this
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=34.33732lon=-118.2698zoom=16layers=B000FTF
It just goes to show that one person's bug is another person's
feature - I logged the fact that the names of named,
Okay, guess I have to do it this way (with the waypoints). I just didn't
want to handle the GPS device at all, since it's neatly mounted on my
handlebar and I see no difference in writing a time or a waypoint number
and the time should be a valid data field for each recorded track so I
I'd say it rather depends - if there are only a couple of GPS traces (or
one GPS trace and one traced off a map) and the error's only 5-10m it's
impossible to say which is correct. If however there are lots of GPS
traces and the road is quite clearly in the wrong place (albeit perhaps
not by
What do I have to do to make the waypoints defined in a GPX file
visible in JOSM or Potlatch?
You need to have a dummy track in there - a track with one segment which
has one point will do, and if you give it a lat/long of the first
waypoint that you want to add, Potlatch will open the
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