Re: [Diversity-talk] Etiquette Guidelines bad | Re: Code of conduct

right now. zx -- Jo Walsh metaz...@fastmail.net On Wed, Dec 9, 2020, at 4:33 PM, Rory McCann wrote: > Have any of yous read the Ettiquette Guidelines¹? They're rubbish. > > Frederik broke them by publically calling Mike Migurski out, and for > not assuming he was acting i

Re: [Diversity-talk] Code of conduct

. Principles sound but keep it about how things should be in a better world, not about how broken they are in this one. zx -- Jo Walsh metaz...@fastmail.net On Wed, Dec 9, 2020, at 2:29 AM, arnalie faye vicario wrote: > Hello/*Kumusta*, > > *Salamat*/Thanks everyone for c

Re: [Talk-GB] Incorrect spelling of "cemetery"

I fixed a few misspelled building:* keys on a long train ride after Jochen issued this challenge: https://blog.jochentopf.com/2015-03-05-new-taginfo-features-and-a-challenge.html http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org.uk/reports/similar_keys <- useful! cheers, Jo On Thu, Mar 24, 2016, at 12:26 PM,

Re: [OSM-talk] Need some help

> > And isn't this the project that caused a lot of problems because the > users started adding all kind of services/shops/companies without a > physical presence to the OSM data ? [2] > > [1] http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=20859 (April 14, > 2013) >

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: GIS Day in Lomé and Haiti in the middle of two OSM and GIS capacity building missions

Remember that GIS Day is an ESRI trademark. Some of us prefer to celebrate PostGIS Day, which falls the following day. OSGeo4ever, zx On November 18, 2015 11:56:54 PM GMT, nicolas chavent wrote: >Hi all, > > >Apologies for cross-postings, I am resending from

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly project : Stats

What happened incidentally with the "smart traffic" project for which you were mapping out tags with Birmingham city council? It sounded so promising http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mappa_Mercia/UTC Jo aka zool On November 5, 2015 9:10:40 PM GMT, Rob Nickerson

Re: [Talk-GB] User dataone: "splitting into 2 way to tag restriction "

I'm not on irc much at the moment, sorry. In general you can ping d...@osmfoundation.org with requests for mapper blocks, supplying context. This sounds like a call for a zero-hour block, which obliges the mapper to log in and read messages before editing. I will have a look when i get off

Re: [Talk-GB] User dataone: "splitting into 2 way to tag restriction "

Ah, I'm some way behind the times ;) On October 6, 2015 12:40:48 PM GMT+01:00, Frederik Ramm wrote: >Hi, > >On 10/05/2015 05:21 PM, Andy Townsend wrote: >> I'm away for a few days dodging raindrops in Wales so won't be able >to deal with it directly > >Blocked both >

[OSM-talk] Innovative uses of OSM data in cities?

clothing from http://monochome.com/ But I am interested in other examples of novel uses of OSM data, any suggestions from the list would be welcome. Jo -- Jo Walsh metaz...@fastmail.net ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https

[Talk-GB] Fwd: [Talk-scotland] State of the Map Scotland

-- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] HOT in the UK

We've also been holding regular Missing Maps mapathons in Edinburgh and Glasgow, thanks to Margaux Mesle and Duncan Bain. - Jo On May 15, 2015 10:45:55 AM GMT+01:00, SK53 sk53@gmail.com wrote: Hi Paul, The closest to a formal organisation is the Missing Maps

Re: [Talk-GB] User changing place=suburb to neighbourhood

I see there are no changeset comments either. Have you started a changeset discussion? I can't tell on the mobile. On April 23, 2015 12:25:10 AM GMT+01:00, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote: Hi User abc26324 has been changing place=suburb to neighbourhood. This edits are widespread so I

Re: [OSM-talk] Territorial waters of Gibraltar

In between is disputed territory. How do we handle that in other cases? We follow the on the ground principle. http://osmfoundation.org/w/images/d/d8/DisputedTerritoriesInformation.pdf Now that document says one interesting thing about OSM holding one set of most-recognised borders;

Re: [OSM-talk] PD: what can I do with automatic changes done against code of conduct

So my questions are: is community supposed to run like this? What can I do about it to fix it? Can I escalate this problem somewhere? Would it be ok if I reverted those changes? The Data Working Group exists in order to give mappers a chance to escalate concerns about other mappers'

Re: [Talk-GB] HampshireCC aerial imagery and height data

We have had a Scottish server for some time, you know. We have plans and dreams for the Scottish server, mostly, plus a broken Rails prototype, and a lovely animated GIF of a massive saltire. On Wed, Mar 25, 2015, at 10:33 AM, SK53 wrote: I think it's safe to say that faffy is no more[1]. As

Re: [Talk-GB] state of the map 2015

much more likely to bust a gut to get there if it had been the main sotm, but not a -us spinout with parochial concerns... zx -- Jo Walsh metaz...@fastmail.net ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-GB] Proposed import of approximately 6 bicycle repair tool stands in the UK

+1 And/or add 6 notes to the map, providing notes have meaningful content they tend to be picked up local mappers.. There is really no need to import this type of data in the UK where the mapping culture is to walk/cycle and just go and have a looksee. +1 - this seems like an ideal

Re: [Talk-GB] OS OpenData now OGL

are happy v2 is compatible with OdBL (IMO it is) then v3 is also. zx -- Jo Walsh metaz...@fastmail.net On Wed, Feb 18, 2015, at 12:04 AM, Rob Nickerson wrote: On 17 February 2015 at 23:57, Matthijs Melissen i...@matthijsmelissen.nl wrote: I could imagine that OGL-3 has imported OS ODL's

Re: [OSM-talk] Routing on osm.org

On Mon, Feb 16, 2015, at 08:19 PM, Colin Smale wrote: +1 to that! Hope it doesn't lead to an outbreak of tagging for the router though... You know, down/upgrading roads to improve the results... Anecdatally, I would say that outbreak is well in hand already :/

Re: [OSM-talk] How We Map

On Thu, Feb 12, 2015, at 07:39 PM, Matthijs Melissen wrote: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/How_We_Map I welcome this page, I think it is very useful. One small comment - I oppose the following sentence: Thank you for the comment Matthijs, I've added it to the discussion page here,

Re: [OSM-talk] How We Map

OpenStreetMap values community cohesion over data perfection. Could both terms be more elaborated on? Does data perfection in practice mean adding true but not really useful things, often in not-well-thought-out way? Because otherwise, we should strive to be perfect. Ah, this is exactly

Re: [OSM-talk] How to locate errors

/28770763 It should all work properly everywhere by tomorrow, Hendrik :) w00t everyone -- Jo Walsh metaz...@fastmail.net On Tue, Feb 10, 2015, at 11:25 AM, Jo Walsh wrote: On Mon, Feb 9, 2015, at 10:24 AM, Hendrik Hoeth wrote: - Import planet-150202 into psql-database using imposm

Re: [OSM-talk] How to locate errors

On Mon, Feb 9, 2015, at 10:24 AM, Hendrik Hoeth wrote: - Import planet-150202 into psql-database using imposm. Settings are at the bottom of this mail. - The Lake Geneva (Lac Leman, Switzerland) is missing. There is no polygon data for the lake in my database. Anything else I've looked

Re: [OSM-talk] How to locate errors

On Tue, Feb 10, 2015, at 06:14 AM, Hendrik Hoeth wrote: Hello again, I've imported Europe from geofabrik.de (2015-02-08), made sure I didn't use the wrong table, and Lac Leman is still missing. So how would I proceed? I have no idea how to debug this. The relation for Lac Leman / Lake

Re: [OSM-talk] this has to stop: iD user mistakes all over the place

What might help here is to get details from the new mapper concerned of how they felt that they needed to merge nodes or ways. I use changeset discussions a fair bit, partly because they end up right in the new mapper's inbox, and that provides a link to an outside view of the new mapper's

[OSM-talk] How We Map

on the imports list. -- Jo Walsh metaz...@fastmail.net ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [Talk-GB] import / mech edit of some Aberdeen city council open data

On Sun, Feb 8, 2015, at 07:04 AM, Jo Walsh wrote: Ugh, okay, we had it from the horse's mouth so to speak that the license on the new CKAN catalogue would be OGL. I will sanity check this today. Sadly, the horse is over-optimistic, so to speak, on this topic. Aberdeen City Council plans a re

[Talk-GB] import / mech edit of some Aberdeen city council open data

An overpass query reveals a mix of node and way data for schools existing, with nothing like the same coverage. Would people be broadly okay with this / should we be following a process through the list? The data is OGL licensed. zx -- Jo Walsh metaz...@fastmail.net

Re: [Talk-GB] import / mech edit of some Aberdeen city council open data

mainly the licence question for me. Oh and I don't live anywhere near Aberdeen ;) Best Dan 2015-02-07 17:24 GMT+00:00 Jo Walsh metaz...@fastmail.net: I'm here at http://codethecity.org and neiljp has just arrived, too, and we are egging one another on to import some Aberdeen city council

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: [dispatch] Forming and chartering a GeoJSON WG

input into the WG in a more formal way. -- Jo Walsh metaz...@fastmail.net On Thu, Feb 5, 2015, at 06:20 PM, Tom Taylor wrote: Thought this proposed new Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) activity might be of interest. Tom Taylor Forwarded Message Subject: Re

Re: [OSM-talk] API down

Fight, those powers-that-be! ps. thank you, mysterious powers, for the dull hard totally unremunerated work on the planets and the API, whoever you are. On February 2, 2015 9:01:52 AM GMT, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: On 02/02/15 08:46, Malcolm Herring wrote: Are the powers-that-be

Re: [Talk-GB] Fix the road name! Progress Report

. Apologies if i've been harsh here, pressed for time but wanted to say something at this point and not spam the thousands of people on the main osm list. Thanks for following this up with me, the snappy one-liner was emitted in poor circumstances, hope you understand. ::) Jo -- Jo Walsh metaz

Re: [OSM-talk] There is a working map for people with Visual Impairment ?

Check out the work of Duncan Bain in Glasgow, here. On January 21, 2015 4:20:06 PM GMT, Cristian Consonni kikkocrist...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, 2015-01-21 16:37 GMT+01:00 Badita Florin baditaflo...@gmail.com: I want to apply in Romania for a Grant , for helping blind or visual impaired persons

Re: [OSM-talk] Change: How mature is OpenStreetMap?

of commitment. I just accidentally got a bit overcommitted to OSM. On 2015-01-06 06:46, Jo Walsh wrote: dear Michal, This is an interesting set of comprehensive criticisms that gives OSM something to aim for in terms of a classical maturity model. However, I wonder what you bring to the party

Re: [OSM-talk] Change: How mature is OpenStreetMap?

I keep preaching it over and over again, but unfortunately very few people are willing to invest time into the Wiki. It's just so sad when you look on TagInfo and see how many tags lack a documentation. I recently attended a weekend mapping party organised by the 57 North Hacklab up in

Re: [OSM-talk] Change: How mature is OpenStreetMap?

I have no memory of sending this message. On January 6, 2015 10:38:29 PM GMT, Andrew Hain andrewhain...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: Jo Walsh metazool at fastmail.net writes:   Attack is the best form of defence? Sorry, I don't have much sense of the OSM community as it currently exists, and I

Re: [OSM-talk] MEP - pipelines

Data won't slip away because it is not tagged; it will slip away because it is not linked. The linking process benefits from having less coordination. On Tue, Jan 6, 2015, at 06:06 AM, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: You'd rather face a tag fragmentation, and slowly see your data slip away? It seems in

Re: [OSM-talk] Change: How mature is OpenStreetMap?

dear Michal, This is an interesting set of comprehensive criticisms that gives OSM something to aim for in terms of a classical maturity model. However, I wonder what you bring to the party apart from critique. What are your contributions to OSM? Jo / zool * People are making discussions

Re: [Talk-GB] RFC-3 Mechanical edit: UK Shop Names

My take is that Matthijs' heroic stand is a gesture of sacrifice of a small portion of his sanity for the greater good of OSM However, i will totally admit to secretly preparing a kind of endographic study of the social work of the DWG which i'm going to knock some academics out of the sky

Re: [Talk-GB] No more voting on mechanical edits

On reflection, I don't really laugh with scorn in the face of the Mechanical Edit Policy. But it certainly looks like a mess to me. My take would be to attempt to extract the spirit of that policy and not bother kvetching over the letter of it. The phrase rough consensus and running code is

Re: [Talk-GB] No more voting on mechanical edits

Hello again. I recently volunteered to serve on the DWG as a form of intellectual self-punishment, and that's working out pretty well for me so far. One thing I'm nudging for in the DWG is more documentation around the cases dealt with by the DWG. What evidence is considered, and where there

Re: [diversity-talk] The recent unpleasantness

+1 what Frederik said. Thanks, saved me some typing there. We seem to have calmed down, I thought Mele had some very helpful advice. We can all help to drag up the baseline of civility after this painfully illustrative incident. To me this looks like a pre-emptive attempt at a decision which

[Talk-GB] dev8d Open Mapping workshop?

dear all, I'm wondering if there would be interest on this list in teaching at an Open Mapping workshop (OSM + OpenLayers + PostGIS) during the dev8d conference, which is at ULU in London February 14th - 16th. Thw workshop would be a couple of hours long in total with two or three people

[Talk-GB] Bing imagery alignment in Potlatch 2

In this area Bing is a few metres out of alignment with features traced from historic maps and town plans. Yahoo imagery lower res seemed to fit better. A way to drag base layer like in JOSM. Or can it be corrected at source? phone: +441316502973 talk-gb-requ...@openstreetmap.org wrote:

Re: [Talk-GB] National Map Library of Scotland API

dear Bob, all, On 08/05/2010 18:17, Bob Kerr wrote: Hi, I have been in touch with them and they are keen that we should be allowed to use their data so that we can create derived information that we can use for Openstreetmap. They have told me that they are willing to use the Open Database

[Talk-GB] Search OS OpenData through Unlock Places API

dear all, Sorry that the below is a bit spammy, but I figure there's a good chance of reaching UK researchers with geodata interest through this list. We recently added some of the OS OpenData sources to the Unlock Places search service that EDINA runs, the details are below. Not sure if the

[Talk-GB] VectorMap District tomorrow (29th)

dear all, Pls forgiveness if this is old news/missed in digest, but heard today that the new VectorMap District OS dataset is expected out tomorrow, however OS are unable to make any announcement about it due to pre-election purdah. Suppose it will quietly appear at

Re: [Talk-GB] London Mapping Marathons

On 12/04/2010 21:59, Gregory wrote: I'd be happy to do that (I'm back from the start of May!). I think Thursdays might pan out better for me, but I might alternate if stuff comes up on Tuesdays. I think it was another Nick that mentioned SOTM and language in another e-mail, and I feel I

Re: [Talk-GB] Opportunity for OSM to give a talk at University of Edinburgh

dear all, On 07/04/2010 09:51, James Stewart wrote: I see someone has put there name down at this event for giving a talk - I am prepared to contribute something too, if you would like soe support, http://okscotland.eventbrite.com/ It would be great to have a State of the Scottish Map talk