Re: [OSM-talk] FW: [EXTERNAL] Re: ODbl concerns

2023-08-24 Thread James
You can check out these compatible licenses https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Licence/Licence_Compatibility You can use CC BY if you grant a waiver to OSM to be able to import/use the data stating that it's okay that we attribute you here: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors

Re: [OSM-talk] mapilio? (street-level imagery)

2023-05-30 Thread James
Mapillary(facebook) KartaView(was OpenStreetCam aquired by a taxi company) On Tue, May 30, 2023, 4:43 PM Andrew Hain wrote: > Is there an imagery host that offers an OSM-friendly way to support > mapping and is suitable for contributions using a smartphone or tablet? > > -- > Andrew >

Re: [talk-au] Brisbane City Bike Racks

2023-02-01 Thread James via Talk-au
10:53 pm AEST, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > >On 31/1/23 14:38, James via Talk-au wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I'm relatively new at OSM and wanted to map the bike racks in Brisbane, of >> which I am a resident. A few members on the osm discord graci

[talk-au] Brisbane City Bike Racks

2023-01-30 Thread James via Talk-au
Hi All, I'm relatively new at OSM and wanted to map the bike racks in Brisbane, of which I am a resident. A few members on the osm discord graciously pointed out the data is available at https://www.data.brisbane.qld.gov.au/data/dataset/bicycle-racks, is under CC BY 4.0, and there is a

Re: [OSM-talk] Rent-a-crowd needed JOSM Microsoft store

2022-11-27 Thread James
IANAL but GPL v2 does allow to charge for distribution. Is it ethical, lol no, would lawyers care? Probably not On Sun, Nov 27, 2022, 11:30 PM stevea wrote: > Yes, thanks much, James! (For linking "Reporting Infringement to > Microsoft"). I do wonder if simply forking an

Re: [OSM-talk] Rent-a-crowd needed JOSM Microsoft store

2022-11-27 Thread James
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/intellectualproperty/infringement On Sun, Nov 27, 2022, 11:15 PM john whelan wrote: > You can only leave a review if you download the software. > > Both are JOSM, one is a fork which costs money which goes to the person > who created the fork the other is

Re: [OSM-talk] Rent-a-crowd needed JOSM Microsoft store

2022-11-27 Thread James
https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/openstreet-map-editor/9MVMVXFPM5SV https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/josm/XPFCG1GV0WWGZX On Sun, Nov 27, 2022, 11:01 PM stevea wrote: > If choosing which version is "legitimate" (or preferred) is important, and > "leaving a review" is a (one)

Re: [OSM-talk] Rent-a-crowd needed JOSM Microsoft store

2022-11-27 Thread James
not everyone runs winblows On Sun, Nov 27, 2022, 8:19 PM John Whelan wrote: > On a windows machine do a search for Microsoft store. Then search for > JOSM. Download it then you can leave a review. The more reviews it has > the more it looks as if it is the legitimate version. > > The other

Re: [talk-au] power=edge_server

2022-11-02 Thread Michael James
This dataset is not any sort of computing system, they have copied the ACMA mobile network tower information and called it research. This is of course going to be a licensing issue. https://www.acma.gov.au/radiocomms-licence-data Michael From: Nev Sent: Thursday, 3 November 2022 12:38 AM

Re: [talk-au] Tagging "boundary" roads with addr:*

2022-01-07 Thread Michael James
There is some conceptual misunderstandings with how the spatial data is stored by Government and how it is different to the way we store it in OSM Government data does not define a road as a line like we do rather it is the space between property allotments, that space is not always even and

Re: [talk-au] Fwd: Use of Council data in OpenStreetMap

2021-12-09 Thread Michael James
As a local I can provide some more info Toowoomba RC does not own all the data used in the online mapping system this is shown in the disclaimer when you open the maps. Most of the data belongs to the State of Queensland (DERM) and as such the Council can’t provide the permission required.

Re: [talk-au] Trouble with routing through an intersection

2021-09-03 Thread Michael James
-Original Message- From: Simon Slater Sent: Friday, 3 September 2021 10:00 AM To: talk-au@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [talk-au] Trouble with routing through an intersection On Thursday, 2 September 2021 4:03:16 PM AEST Michael James wrote: > It's possible your change just has

Re: [talk-au] Trouble with routing through an intersection

2021-09-02 Thread Michael James
It's possible your change just hasn't made it's way to the routing engines yet. The only issue with the intersection is I would not have that single segment between the highway and the 2 slip lanes, just connect the slip lanes directly to the highway. This shouldn't stop a routing engine

Re: [Talk-GB] UK street addressing

2020-12-21 Thread James Derrick
B, 2, etc for shops) but `addr:block` seems to be for a very different use case (grid iron city blocks - Fifteenth and...). The simple `name` or `addr:housename` tag kind of fits the hierarchy, so KISS? Happy Mapping, James -- James Derrick li...@jamesderrick.org, Cramlington, England I wou

Re: [OSM-talk] Making GPS tracks in Android

2020-12-20 Thread James
OSMAnd With GPS status (to force redownloading gps hints) On Sun., Dec. 20, 2020, 7:41 a.m. Andy Mabbett, wrote: > Father Christmas came early this year, and has delivered to me a smart > new Android phone, whose GPS is much better than on my old one. > > I want to use it to trace some tracks

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM and Google

2020-12-14 Thread James
are you using 8.8.8.8 or 4.4.4.4 as a dns? could explain it. On Mon., Dec. 14, 2020, 1:58 p.m. Niels Elgaard Larsen, wrote: > Google services was down for an hour today. I noticed that at the same > time I could > not push my edits with JOSM due to "internal server error" > > Was that a

Re: [OSM-talk] Call to Take Action and Confront Systemic Offensive Behavior in the OSM Community

2020-12-10 Thread James
> The lack of discussion by non-men is an undeniable fact. >Right, this is true. Sadly true. Something I also know from Linux Communities and other Open Source/Open Data Communities. Same in programming and IT fields, firefighters, mechanics, carpenters, construction workers, taxi drivers, etc

Re: [Talk-GB] Recycling Points

2020-11-26 Thread James Derrick
lass bottles (skip with holes, but as you say can be more specialised for clothes, shoes, etc.): https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/6538028486 * amenity=recycling * recycling_type=container Happy Mapping, James -- James Derrick li...@jamesderrick.org, Cramlington, England

Re: [Talk-ca] mapping Ottawa light rail stations.

2020-11-24 Thread James
I don't think osmand handles elevators, there's a issue open on github to support indoor mapping, but it's been flagged as a "nice to have" On Tue., Nov. 24, 2020, 7:22 p.m. John Whelan, wrote: > Today I wanted to use OSMAND+ to work out the by foot from Lyon station to > 60 Cambridge street.

Re: [Talk-GB] UPRN wiki page

2020-11-18 Thread James Derrick
d the missing building I'm about to add...) Happy Mapping, James -- James Derrick li...@jamesderrick.org, Cramlington, England I wouldn't be a volunteer if you paid me... https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/James%20Derrick ___ Talk-GB maili

Re: [Talk-GB] UPRN wiki page

2020-11-18 Thread James Derrick
to quick to add USRN tags as they first became available? As several of you appear to have additional sources to validate USRN, could you offer any suggestions to alter these specific highway=residential please? James -- James Derrick li...@jamesderrick.org, Cramlington, England

Re: [Talk-GB] Lorries can't limbo

2020-11-13 Thread James Derrick
way lane tagging is used to model the A1 further north (turn:lanes=through|through|right), as it's not human readable on most renders (#include ). James -- James Derrick li...@jamesderrick.org, Cramlington, England I wouldn't be a volunteer if you paid me... https

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM UK's first tile layer

2020-10-27 Thread James Derrick
...) - you can only average all data. Thanks for your interesting work - I remember tales from Registers of Scotland of an OS baseline survey error that 'moved' the East coast by many meters proving 'You Are Here' is hard to quantify! James -- James Derrick li...@jamesderrick.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Find actively browsed undermapped regions and other gaps in OSM

2020-10-20 Thread James
Just a little feedback, the "mobile" version looks like eye cancer: https://imgur.com/a/lA44Qmn On Tue., Oct. 20, 2020, 9:38 a.m. Darafei Praliaskouski via talk, < talk@openstreetmap.org> wrote: > Hi, > > Fixed links: > > Kontur OpenStreetMap Antiquity: > >

Re: [Talk-GB] Turn Restrictions at roundabouts

2020-10-04 Thread James Derrick
er, not every roundabout on the map). Save your effort for more complex junctions where software understandably needs a helping hand with real-world oddities. Happy Mapping, James -- James Derrick li...@jamesderrick.org, Cramlington, England I wouldn't be a volunteer if you paid me

Re: [Talk-GB] Turn Restrictions at roundabouts

2020-10-03 Thread James Derrick
Happy Mapping, James -- James Derrick li...@jamesderrick.org, Cramlington, England I wouldn't be a volunteer if you paid me... https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/James%20Derrick ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-GB] Turn Restrictions at roundabouts

2020-10-03 Thread James Derrick
rather than two plus the road. James -- James Derrick li...@jamesderrick.org, Cramlington, England I wouldn't be a volunteer if you paid me... https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/James%20Derrick ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstr

Re: [Talk-us] [Tagging] Large fire perimeter tagging?

2020-09-25 Thread James Umbanhowar
canopy burns. The effects of these will also depend on the specific species that burn. So to convert and entire area inside a fire perimeter to one land cover without extensive surveying would likely be in error. It seems as though the perimeter tag is the most verifiable at this point. James

Re: [OSM-talk] Examples of good paid mapping?

2020-09-11 Thread James
I've been paid in the past to do mapping for someone, but I was already an active experienced osm mapper beforehand. How to be successful: Listen to osm experts/community and not fight against them Use existing tags on the wiki, don't invent your own Verify data accuracy as much as you can,

Re: [talk-au] Are Health Centres, hospitals

2020-09-03 Thread Michael James
That list is for Queensland Health operated facilities not just hospitals so yes your right in that particular site would not be a hospital per se. Not sure where you find a list of accredited hospitals but it is a thing as I live in a street with 2 facilities that are accredited as hospitals

[OSM-talk] Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 using OSM data with hilarious results

2020-08-20 Thread James
Seems the snapshot was about a year ago: https://twitter.com/liamosaur/status/1296305264870662144 https://twitter.com/alexandermuscat/status/1296010700746194945 and people trying to land on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhrGEdO88kE Not sure if osm is being credited in game

Re: [Talk-us] changeset: 89516909

2020-08-18 Thread James Umbanhowar
will probably not be the most understanding anymore. James On Tue, 2020-08-18 at 20:23 -0400, Kevin Kenny wrote: > You still aren't giving us very much to go on. There's obviously > some boundary that you consider to be inarguably correct. You need > either to enter the data yourself o

Re: [Talk-us] changeset: 89516909

2020-08-18 Thread James Umbanhowar
: > i am looking at the TIRGER web, show’s the real map online and > nothing you did matches. > > i live here and a block away from the edens spur just saying. > > > Tuesday, August 18, 2020 10:38 AM -05:00 from James Umbanhowar < > > jumba...@gmail.com>: &g

Re: [Talk-us] changeset: 89516909

2020-08-18 Thread James Umbanhowar
It would probably be best if these suggestions were added in the changeset comments, as they don't need to be discussed on the mailing list. On Tue, 2020-08-18 at 11:36 -0400, James Umbanhowar wrote: > I'm the person who made the changes and am happy to adjust the map to > better authori

Re: [Talk-us] changeset: 89516909

2020-08-18 Thread James Umbanhowar
to them. The second came after a changeset comment that noted that the fixed relation didn't match and earlier unbroken relation, in particular around the Edens Spur. I then changed the border in this area to match the 2019 Tiger data in that area only. James On Tue, 2020-08-18 at 02:37 +0300

Re: [OSM-talk] Roadmap for deprecation of name tags in OSM

2020-08-09 Thread James
est route forward, given that wikidata is > so big and contains a lot of osm unrelated data. > > James skrev: (9 augusti 2020 14:31:57 CEST) >> >> and if the solution is to download the data then download wikidata, it's >> even more clunky than the name tag itself >>

Re: [OSM-talk] Roadmap for deprecation of name tags in OSM

2020-08-09 Thread James
ming > language. All our data consumers are already doing this. > > I made a simple map in a few hours that query both overpass and wikidata > based on the osmid to find links to images of shelters. See > https://github.com/pangoSE/sheltermap > > James skrev: (9 augusti 2020

Re: [OSM-talk] Roadmap for deprecation of name tags in OSM

2020-08-09 Thread James
and if the solution is to download the data then download wikidata, it's even more clunky than the name tag itself On Sun., Aug. 9, 2020, 8:29 a.m. Jeremy Harris, wrote: > On 09/08/2020 09:25, pangoSE wrote: > > I suggest we create a roadmap for deprecating of storing and updating > names in

Re: [OSM-talk] Roadmap for deprecation of name tags in OSM

2020-08-09 Thread James
n independant database before uploading survey > results seems like a lot of extra effort for a volunteer driven project. > > On Sun, 9 Aug 2020 at 12:11, pangoSE wrote: > >> These are valid concerns. See my response to James. >> If Wikimedia should become uncooperative we could

Re: [OSM-talk] Roadmap for deprecation of name tags in OSM

2020-08-09 Thread James
is there a contingency plan if wikipedia/wikimedia ceases to exist? On Sun., Aug. 9, 2020, 4:29 a.m. pangoSE, wrote: > I suggest we create a roadmap for deprecating of storing and updating > names in OSM for objects with a Wikidata tag. > > The rationale is explained here: >

Re: [Talk-us] Cycleway Crossings

2020-08-07 Thread James Umbanhowar
I think that iD doesn't have a preset for cycleway=crossing so that editors may think that is not a valid tag for a crossing. On Fri, 2020-08-07 at 14:04 -0400, Doug Peterson wrote: > That wiki page was helpful. In one set of cases the change was from > highway=cycleway on the way to

Re: [OSM-talk] Funding of three infrastructure projects : Nominatim, osm2pgsql, Potlatch 2

2020-08-02 Thread James
Personally I use Linux and I fail to see why funding an application that isn't multiplatform. I choose to use linux as scripting/data manipulation is easier than windows. I will not install adobe air as it's discontinued on linux since 2011(security bugs anyone?). Development and bug fixes on

Re: [OSM-talk] Heresy - pure discussion

2020-07-24 Thread James
POSTGRESQL with Gis extension has better performance than SQL Server indexing coordinates/type(node, way, polygon, relation) as columns. On Fri., Jul. 24, 2020, 7:01 p.m. John Whelan, wrote: > Thank you Hartmut, > > my expertise is not in GIS databases so this is helpful to know. My >

Re: [Talk-GB] The curious case of USRN 20602512

2020-07-10 Thread James Derrick
of 'High Street'. I still added U*RN tags to my local area - like a 21st century alt_name tag! :-) James -- James Derrick li...@jamesderrick.org, Cramlington, England I wouldn't be a volunteer if you paid me... https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/James

Re: [Talk-ca] can I submit road data?

2020-07-07 Thread James
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines Usually involves creating a wiki page like https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ottawa/Import/Plan outlining that licensing isnt an issue and what tags would be used(addr:housenumber and addr:street for address points) as well as contigency

Re: [Talk-ca] NRCan lakes

2020-07-07 Thread James
I don't think canvec is updating these things on a regular basis, OSM after corrections are usually more accurate than canvec anyways and doubt would update data from Canvec to fix outdated data On Tue., Jul. 7, 2020, 11:27 a.m. Hannes Röst, wrote: > Dear Adam and Daniel > > Thanks a lot, so

Re: [Talk-ca] (no subject)

2020-07-07 Thread James
If it becomes over 2000 nodes in a single "way" or shape, it's recommended to make it a multipolygon. The reason NRCan does this is probably because it's on the edge of what they call "NTS Tiles" which is a grid that organizes the data (see forests in Canada

Re: [OSM-talk] Facebook acquires crowdsourced mapping company Mapillary

2020-06-19 Thread James
Might want to refine your searching skills: https://github.com/openstreetcam/openstreetcam.org/issues/254 On Fri., Jun. 19, 2020, 9:21 a.m. Mateusz Konieczny via talk, < talk@openstreetmap.org> wrote: > > > > Jun 19, 2020, 08:58 by f...@zz.de: > > On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 01:21:59AM +0200, Niels

Re: [OSM-talk] Facebook acquires crowdsourced mapping company Mapillary

2020-06-18 Thread James
Openstreetcam was transferred to grab taxi, images have stopped processing and devs say they are working on back end but project seems dead On Thu., Jun. 18, 2020, 7:27 p.m. Paul Johnson, wrote: > Doesn't OpenStreetCam have similar corporate ownership problems, with the > additional problematic

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] fake, edit, fake map.

2020-06-16 Thread James
as have I, I don't live it Africa, made edits there, I certainly don't live in North Korea, made edits there, I don't live in Florida, made edits there. What's your point being 100miles away? Some of these places I have visited, some I haven't On Tue., Jun. 16, 2020, 1:54 p.m. Hauke Stieler,

Re: [Talk-ca] WikiProject Canada Post - franchise assessment

2020-06-16 Thread James
if the addresses are not geolocated via say the website/google maps, it just becomes public domain as it's the address of the business on the website but IANAL. If not you would never be able to scrape/collect phone numbers or addresses for any business via their official website. On Tue., Jun.

Re: [Talk-ca] Business data in northern Montreal

2020-06-14 Thread James
Man when you're north of the 25 in Montreal, it's either because you live there or you are on your way to Québec City. Not a lot going on in the northern tip of the island On Sun., Jun. 14, 2020, 4:43 a.m. David Nelson via Talk-ca, < talk-ca@openstreetmap.org> wrote: > As part of my efforts to

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Google earth, Google maps

2020-06-13 Thread James
also there's a ruler in JOSM On Sat., Jun. 13, 2020, 11:45 a.m. Mateusz Konieczny via talk, < talk@openstreetmap.org> wrote: > If you were not copying Google Maps then why you were using the ruler? > > Why using ruler on Google Maps would be even necessary? > > Jun 13, 2020, 17:31 by

Re: [OSM-talk] Could/should editors detect/disallow huge changeset bboxes?

2020-06-12 Thread James
No they shouldn't, mapping roads in northern Canada, your bbox can become quite large quickly as mapping logging roads/dirt roads is quick and easy, but span over multiple kms On Fri., Jun. 12, 2020, 11:10 a.m. ndrw, wrote: > On 12/06/2020 15:32, 80hnhtv4agou--- via talk wrote: > > I am

Re: [OSM-talk] CyclOSM Lite a new cycling infrastructure map layer

2020-05-26 Thread James
and if pedestrians are allowed on it: highway=path segregated=no On Tue., May 26, 2020, 9:58 a.m. Dave F via talk, wrote: > > > On 26/05/2020 09:19, Hartmut Holzgraefe wrote: > > > > sorry, my fault, it is bicycle_road=yes in addition to highway=* > > (usually residential) > > > > and it isn't

Re: [OSM-talk] mspray stealth organized mapping

2020-05-25 Thread James Nyirenda
Greetings. I am one of the coordinators for the mSpray organized mapping. We are aware of the issues that have been raised and we are working on them. James ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] mspray stealth organized mapping

2020-05-22 Thread James
>If the person doing the editing is just a geography student going through the motions for a course credit it's less likely to, I agree. Or a Comms class at a certain university 臘‍♂️ We are still trying to clean that mess up in Ottawa On Fri., May 22, 2020, 6:52 p.m. Andy Townsend, wrote: > On

Re: [OSM-talk] our Q site help.openstreetmap.org is dying

2020-05-20 Thread James
Has the code base diverged from OSQA? If we were to submit changes would we need to provide source code as the original code is GPL3? On Wed., May 20, 2020, 4:25 p.m. Tobias Wrede, wrote: > Am 20.05.2020 um 21:32 schrieb Frederik Ramm: > > > > We've taken great care to write our replies in a

Re: [Talk-ca] Ça reste ouvert

2020-04-10 Thread James
Personellement je trouve ça vraiement innutile, car dans 4 mois ou presque, ces tags seront désuets et grossira la db pour rien. Il serait plus simple de prendre les reglements tel que pharmacie ou épicerie et les combiner avec les tags OSM tel que amenity=pharmacy et faire du post processing

Re: [Talk-ca] Tagging sidewalks as separate ways and issues with bicycle routing

2020-04-03 Thread James
I mapped most the sidewalks in Ottawa with another person and we did it as part of the community, no strings attached. On Fri., Apr. 3, 2020, 4:26 p.m. Martin Chalifoux via Talk-ca, < talk-ca@openstreetmap.org> wrote: > Nate, when reading this and other comments I try to figure who puts those >

Re: [Talk-ca] Tagging sidewalks as separate ways and issues with bicycle routing

2020-04-03 Thread James
al are bicycle=yes as they come under municipal regulation >>> but a sidewalk on a highway comes under provincial legislation which bans >>> bicycles on sidewalks. Sparks street is fun I think you are not permitted >>> to ride your bicycle but I'm unsure if this i

Re: [Talk-ca] Tagging sidewalks as separate ways and issues with bicycle routing

2020-04-03 Thread James
In the UK they are banned by law but in certain cities the Chief Constable > has stated the law will not be enforced within the police force boundaries > as a letter of interpretation. It might be nice for Ottawa to do the same > sometime but there again we have City of Ottawa police, OP

Re: [Talk-ca] Tagging sidewalks as separate ways and issues with bicycle routing

2020-04-03 Thread James
I don't think it's more tagging for the renderer as much as it's being more specific(more data) to specify a abstract view: without knowledge of Canadian/Provincial/Municipal laws about biking on sidewalks. I think Montreal and Gatineau are more enforced as Ottawa it is illegal to bike on the

Re: [talk-au] Question about houses

2020-03-28 Thread James Cridland
d · ABN 30 612 913 514 On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 at 08:55, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 29/3/20 9:13 am, David Wales wrote: > > Realised that I replied directly, rather than to the list... > Reply below: > > Hi James, > > If there is only one bui

[talk-au] Question about houses

2020-03-28 Thread James Cridland
the outline, so they're merged? 3. Adding the building outlines and dropping the address point onto the outline at the entrance, so they're merged? 4. What the hell are you doing James, don't touch the address points? Looking at the renderer: if I do #3, that moves the street number to the entrance

Re: [talk-au] Duplicate of the same airport

2020-03-25 Thread Michael James
It is a military base that allows civilian air traffic to use its runway. As far as air traffic goes it's called Williamtown, only the civilian terminal area is called Newcastle airport. (28 hectares of land) https://www.newcastleairport.com.au/corporate/about/board-governance Hope that helps,

Re: [OSM-talk] Flashing school speed limit sign

2020-03-11 Thread James
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:maxspeed:variable ? On Wed., Mar. 11, 2020, 9:24 p.m. Jack Armstrong, wrote: > How would this be tagged? I can't seem to find anything about this on the > wiki. Perhaps I'm just not looking in the right place. Thanks. > > >

Re: [Talk-ca] Importing buildings in Canada

2020-03-10 Thread James
cument the procedure in the wiki. > > > > Daniel > > > > *From:* James [mailto:james2...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Tuesday, March 10, 2020 10:38 > *To:* Daniel @jfd553 > *Cc:* Talk-CA OpenStreetMap > *Subject:* Re: [Talk-ca] Importing buildings in Canada > > > &g

Re: [Talk-ca] Importing buildings in Canada

2020-03-10 Thread James
. Daniel @jfd553, wrote: > Hi James, > > That is too bad, but there is no rush at this stage because we are simply > refining the import procedure. In the meantime, I propose to act as “Task > manager”. I can provide some tiles (task frame and orthogonalized > buildings’ footprint)

Re: [Talk-ca] Importing buildings in Canada

2020-03-09 Thread James
o have contributed buildings in the past 5 years. It > is a GO for the two people who have answered me so far. > > I’ll wait others’ answer for the next two weeks and once the task will be > set up (James is on it), I will start importing. I expect most of > experienced JOSM

Re: [Talk-ca] Grand-Montréal Utilisation de sidewalk pour cartographier pistes multi-usage

2020-03-09 Thread James
Je said pas si c'est pareil les MUPs à mtl qu'Ottawa/Gatineau(asphalte avec ligne jaune dedans), mais nous le taggeons comme ceci: https://github.com/BikeOttawa/OSM-Bike-Ottawa-Tagging-Guide#Off-Road highway =path

Re: [OSM-talk] Digital environmentalism

2020-02-25 Thread James
I do it whilst riding my bike now. #PlanetSaved On Tue., Feb. 25, 2020, 3:49 p.m. Brad Neuhauser, wrote: > Maybe stretching, but what about Google driving cars around constantly to > capture Street View images and road/POI data? Ideally, a lot of OSM data is > gathered by people who are

Re: [talk-au] Gravel pits?

2020-02-16 Thread Michael James
As someone who drives a lot of country highways they are both temporary and permanent. From: Sebastian S. Sent: Monday, 17 February 2020 11:11 AM To: talk-au@openstreetmap.org; Graeme Fitzpatrick ; OSM-Au Subject: Re: [talk-au] Gravel pits? Is this a temporary thing? Or is this similar to

Re: [Talk-ca] Importing buildings in Canada

2020-02-15 Thread James
if you have data and the extents I can setup tasks(send them to me somehow) On Sat., Feb. 15, 2020, 5:07 p.m. Daniel @jfd553, wrote: > Bonjour groupe, > > I should soon be able to feed the task manager with tiles containing no > more than 200 buildings each. > > > > I will be using a Quadtree

Re: [talk-au] A22 route Sydney

2020-02-07 Thread Michael James
A search for rms route numbers leads here https://www.rms.nsw.gov.au/roads/using-roads/alpha-numeric/index.html Sydney local map is here https://www.rms.nsw.gov.au/roads/using-roads/alpha-numeric/regions.html#Sydney Map shows A36 and A22 end on each other and do not continue past each other.

Re: [OSM-talk] Teaching cyclists how to contribute to OSM

2020-01-20 Thread James
schrieb Mike N : > >> On 1/20/2020 5:42 AM, James wrote: >> > I've yet to see an officer stop a cyclist going too fast, general rule >> > is don't be a dick and slow down when you see pedestrians and signal >> > with a bell(bylaw) when passing them >> &g

Re: [OSM-talk] Teaching cyclists how to contribute to OSM

2020-01-20 Thread James
-01-20 11:10, James wrote: > > I find the path way of tagging like Germany & Italy more accurate, > > because MUPs aren't favouring anyone, they are paths that can > > accomodate cyclists, pedestrians equally and bikes are limited to > > 20km/h on MUPs as they are not seg

Re: [OSM-talk] Teaching cyclists how to contribute to OSM

2020-01-20 Thread James
I find the path way of tagging like Germany & Italy more accurate, because MUPs aren't favouring anyone, they are paths that can accomodate cyclists, pedestrians equally and bikes are limited to 20km/h on MUPs as they are not segregated from pedestrians On Mon., Jan. 20, 2020, 4:46 a.m.

Re: [OSM-talk] Teaching cyclists how to contribute to OSM

2020-01-18 Thread James
Bike advocacy group in Ottawa created this: https://github.com/BikeOttawa/OSM-Bike-Ottawa-Tagging-Guide/blob/master/README.md as well as a crowd sourced map like the one for winter bike trails that allows a user to submit if a path is winter maintained or not, it will then update OSM in the back

Re: [Talk-ca] Importing buildings in Canada

2020-01-17 Thread James
and could > not be achieve quickly, I would assume. One way of making sure that this > is dealt with diligently, would be setting the tasking manager to > 'experienced mappers only'. We would have to ask James, who is in charge > of the Canada Tasking Manager, how to edit/set up the 'exp

Re: [Talk-ca] FW: Re: Importing buildings in Canada

2020-01-15 Thread James
ies! > > Now, about... > > *a) Data hosting:* > > Thank you James, I really appreciate your offer (and that of others). So > yes, I think hosting pre-processed data in the task manager, for approved > regions, is an attractive offer. When we agree on a municipality for > pre-

Re: [Talk-ca] FW: Re: Importing buildings in Canada

2020-01-15 Thread James
Stats Can hosts it obviously. As for processed data, I can host it in the tasking manager for approved regions. On Wed., Jan. 15, 2020, 8:35 a.m. Daniel @jfd553, wrote: > Bonjour Groupe, > > Concerning the proposal (ODB import), there are questions that remain > before moving forward; here are

[talk-au] (no subject)

2020-01-14 Thread James Oliver
Hello ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [Talk-us] User in Florida changing several motorways to trunk

2020-01-08 Thread James Mast
on-state roads around Walt Disney World. But those routes are some pretty long ones, and will take some time to fix since they have several exits along them. From: Levente Juhász Sent: Wednesday, January 8, 2020 7:56 AM To: talk-us Cc: James Mast Subject: Re: [Talk-

[Talk-us] User in Florida changing several motorways to trunk

2020-01-07 Thread James Mast
I was just alerted to this by a friend, and thought I'd post about it here as well, since I don't really have the time to work on doing all the reverting that unfortunately needs to be done here (there's a lot). But over the last 2 weeks, there's been a user changing several 100% motorways (&

Re: [Talk-ca] Importing buildings in Canada

2020-01-04 Thread James
Tell me when and where and the tasking manager project for xyz location will be setup and hosted On Sat., Jan. 4, 2020, 12:42 p.m. Daniel @jfd553, wrote: > Bonjour groupe > > > > Looks like we're going in the same direction so far :-) > > I agree with Nate regarding the implementation of the

Re: [OSM-talk] no-go-areas

2019-12-31 Thread James
Wouldn't that just be a crime map or a bias towards areas vs others. Sounds like an osm use case more than a needed tag On Tue., Dec. 31, 2019, 10:18 a.m. Martin Trautmann, wrote: > hi all, > > did you read about the Suisse tourist couple which was shot because they > got lost in a Brasilian

Re: [Talk-ca] Importing buildings in Canada

2019-12-24 Thread James
wasn't there talk about this before and someone blocked it because of non-square buildings and the resulting discussion was that each community was going to decide if they want to import or not? On Tue., Dec. 24, 2019, 1:26 p.m. Daniel @jfd553, wrote: > Hi Group! > > I am currently working on a

Re: [Talk-GB] What is a Department Store

2019-12-20 Thread James Derrick
nal commercial carrying... TTFN, James -- James Derrick li...@jamesderrick.org, Cramlington, England I wouldn't be a volunteer if you paid me... https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/James%20Derrick ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstree

Re: [Talk-GB] barrier=kerb on highways may be blocking OSRM (Car) routing

2019-12-19 Thread James Derrick
ng"] : https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/P5YJames Brilliant - there is a rash of barrier=kerb in North Tyneside (Cullercoates and Whitley Bay), which rather explains the original routing issues. Time to fire up JOSM... Thanks, James -- James Derrick li...@jamesderrick.org, Cramlington, Engl

Re: [Talk-GB] What is farmland?

2019-12-18 Thread James Derrick
cle survey, and different imagery providers whilst accepting it's not going to be as canonical as a housing estate! TTFN, James James -- James Derrick li...@jamesderrick.org, Cramlington, England I wouldn't be a volunteer if you paid me... https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/James

[Talk-GB] barrier=kerb on highways may be blocking OSRM (Car) routing

2019-12-18 Thread James Derrick
tag, or is familiar with the inner workings of OSRM or similar engines please? Thanks, James -- James Derrick li...@jamesderrick.org, Cramlington, England I wouldn't be a volunteer if you paid me... https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/James%20Derrick

[OSM-talk] Website selling OpenStreetMap prints without attribution

2019-11-17 Thread James
https://365canvas.com/product/hello-will-you-i-do-map-canvas-prints/ The preview of the customize is 100% OSM data as I always have "trap" data I check that other map providers haven't mapped yet(usually being excessive detail). Not sure who the tile set provider is, possibly mapbox? The heart

Re: [OSM-talk] Tesla using OSM without attribution?

2019-11-12 Thread James
not sure if using maps to render tiles or just for parking lot routing On Tue., Nov. 12, 2019, 5:28 a.m. MARLIN LUKE, wrote: > Sorry for the self-response, but it seems it's already been noticed > because it's listed in weeklyOSM #485 [1]. > > There's no mention of the attribution issue though.

Re: [talk-au] local traffic only

2019-11-11 Thread Michael James
Department of Transport and Main Roads website specifically lists “Local Traffic Only” as an official state level sign. https://www.qld.gov.au/transport/safety/signs/instruction (see section “Local traffic restriction signs”) From: Michael James mailto:mich...@techdrive.com.au>> Sent: Mond

Re: [talk-au] local traffic only

2019-11-10 Thread Michael James
They existed prior to 1997 and were removed when the national rules were introduced that year. It’s likely that local councils are unaware that they no longer have any legal purpose. From: Sebastian S. Sent: Sunday, 10 November 2019 9:50 PM To: talk-au@openstreetmap.org; Andrew Harvey ;

Re: [OSM-talk] Addressing SIG

2019-11-05 Thread James
It's a pretty cool concept, but doesn't necessarily invoke ALL addresses have been found, what happens if a few addresses are there? What happens if someone adds 1 or 2 addresses? Pretty good QA tool I'm guessing? ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] [Osmf-talk] Reminder: OSM Etiquette guidelines

2019-11-04 Thread James
Conspiracy: tagging a grassy knoll "the place JFK was shot from" Nitpicking: You rounded off the 16th decimal on a city's name tag, losing a maximum on 10cm of precisionon...a...city...nametag. On Mon., Nov. 4, 2019, 4:56 a.m. Martin Koppenhoefer, < dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote: >

Re: [Talk-ca] Parkings amb carsharing (opendata bcn)

2019-11-03 Thread James
Es el listo de email para el Canada. No esta para Catalan. Mucho gracias On Sun., Nov. 3, 2019, 8:03 p.m. Jarek Piórkowski, wrote: > Hi Joan, this is the Canadian mailing list, not the Catalan one :) > > Thanks, > --Jarek > > On Sun, 3 Nov 2019 at 19:59, Joan Quintana wrote: > > > > Aquesta

Re: [OSM-talk] Geofabrik Download server maintains privacy | Re: Maintaining privacy as a casual mapper

2019-11-03 Thread James
but lets be honest, if there was a malicious entity that wanted to find out where he lived, an OpenStreetMap account isnt really a barrier to entry. On Sun., Nov. 3, 2019, 6:31 a.m. Rory McCann, wrote: > On 03.11.19 11:42, Philippe Latulippe wrote: > > Are there better ways to maintain some

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