Re: [OSM-talk] Tool for users to add wikidata tags

2017-06-08 Thread Christoph Hormann
re producing and connecting data per se than actually recording reliable factual information. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] HDYC, login requirement and "privacy"

2017-05-07 Thread Christoph Hormann
Date' which can be freely chosen by the user. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] HDYC, login requirement and "privacy"

2017-05-05 Thread Christoph Hormann
pproach to the matter than a purely after-the-fact approach to protecting the data. This does not mean i am convinced this is ultimately the best solution, this depends on a lot of details of the implementation. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _

Re: [OSM-talk] HDYC, login requirement and "privacy"

2017-05-05 Thread Christoph Hormann
very specific on what kind of aggregation is necessary to make the data ok to be published. Obviously just replacing each user name with user is not going to cut it. Without clear rules here anyone who publishes anything based on such data would be in a legal mine field. -- Christoph Ho

Re: [OSM-talk] HDYC, login requirement and "privacy"

2017-05-04 Thread Christoph Hormann
at the functionality of HDYC is not really that complex. Writing a replacement for it would certainly be quite a bit of work but it is not really rocket science. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.or

Re: [OSM-talk] HDYC, login requirement and "privacy"

2017-05-04 Thread Christoph Hormann
ery different matters which need to be considered separately. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] HDYC, login requirement and "privacy"

2017-05-04 Thread Christoph Hormann
tters which need to be considered separately. > > I don't think Michał was mixing those two different matters. Michał made a connection to privacy concerns regarding Google StreetView which were exclusively about the recorded data and not about the recording metadata (which Google obviousl

Re: [OSM-talk] DWG survey on organised editing

2017-09-20 Thread Christoph Hormann
action with the community outside mapping itself. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding wikidata tags to the remaining objects with only wikipedia tag

2017-09-20 Thread Christoph Hormann
(boundary relation with boundary=administrative + admin_level=6/8). -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding wikidata tags to the remaining objects with only wikipedia tag

2017-09-20 Thread Christoph Hormann
te between them which is also fine. Why should i attempt to change their data model to be identical to that of OSM (which would be a hopeless endeavor anyway because how things are represented in OSM is constantly changing)? -- Christoph Hormann

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding wikidata tags to the remaining objects with only wikipedia tag

2017-09-20 Thread Christoph Hormann
t a name tag or coordinates - based purely on the assumption that the wikidata object referenced via tag is the same as the OSM feature. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.opens

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding wikidata tags to the remaining objects with only wikipedia tag

2017-09-20 Thread Christoph Hormann
any geographic wikipedia articles that describe several different concepts together for which separate OSM features exist. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] DWG survey on organised editing

2017-09-20 Thread Christoph Hormann
om for interpretation. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding wikidata tags to the remaining objects with only wikipedia tag

2017-09-20 Thread Christoph Hormann
to wikipedia articles) will get duplicated. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Could we just pause any wikidata edits for a month or two?

2017-10-04 Thread Christoph Hormann
roblem because if you have some info from Wikipedia (like a certain name or coordinates) that you don't know the source of and that you cannot verify independently from other sources or from own local knowledge it is not information you should enter into OSM a

Re: [OSM-talk] New OSM Quick-Fix service

2017-10-15 Thread Christoph Hormann
which is likely because you don't get how OpenStreetMap is working overall. I would strongly advise you to reconsider your whole approach to OpenStreetMap and to interacting with the OpenStreetMap community. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _

Re: [OSM-talk] New OSM Quick-Fix service

2017-10-15 Thread Christoph Hormann
d to participate in it, > rather than being productive and beneficial to everyone involved. I rest my case. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] New OSM Quick-Fix service

2017-10-15 Thread Christoph Hormann
edits and want to explore the possibilities of these but who feel the attitude and approach of Yuri Astrakhan is inconsiderate, non-constructive and damaging. I would wish more of them would speak up here but i also understand if they do not want to "pour oil into the fire" so

Re: [OSM-talk] New OSM Quick-Fix service

2017-10-16 Thread Christoph Hormann
different in that regard. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] New OSM Quick-Fix service

2017-10-16 Thread Christoph Hormann
t a fully scripted solution and not something interactive. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] New OSM Quick-Fix service

2017-10-14 Thread Christoph Hormann
accounts being blocked. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Could we just pause any wikidata edits for a month or two?

2017-10-12 Thread Christoph Hormann
. > > To my knowledge nothing automatic of this kind exists so far, so > there should be only a few manual edits of this kind. Yesterday i showed examples of systematic node and name tag additions to OSM clearly sourced from Wikidata. It is clear that this is happeni

Re: [OSM-talk] Could we just pause any wikidata edits for a month or two?

2017-10-11 Thread Christoph Hormann
enstreetmap.org/node/5073632521 http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/5121933121 But this is also a different matter unrelated to the Wikidata IDs in OSM. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding wikidata tags to the remaining objects with only wikipedia tag

2017-10-01 Thread Christoph Hormann
a information is you impose the value system of Wikipedia onto OSM. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding wikidata tags to the remaining objects with only wikipedia tag

2017-10-02 Thread Christoph Hormann
neither add it manually nor through automated edits. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding wikidata tags to the remaining objects with only wikipedia tag

2017-10-01 Thread Christoph Hormann
tags they may and may not add to the things they map. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding wikidata tags to the remaining objects with only wikipedia tag

2017-10-01 Thread Christoph Hormann
t assessments on the matter. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] A thought on bot edits

2017-10-02 Thread Christoph Hormann
his would allow mappers to embrace bot edits but also allows them to reject this and decide they only want to interact with other craft mappers and not with bots. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstre

Re: [OSM-talk] A thought on bot edits

2017-10-03 Thread Christoph Hormann
eby allow mappers to opt out of bot edits on a case-by-case basis. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Could we just pause any wikidata edits for a month or two?

2017-10-03 Thread Christoph Hormann
It in particular needs to tell the mapper what types of wikidata object should be referenced here and how a mapper can find the correct ID for a certain feature. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@opens

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding wikidata tags to the remaining objects with only wikipedia tag

2017-09-26 Thread Christoph Hormann
t; Andy, Wikidata ID is not correct or incorrect -- [...] Then it is non-verifiable data and does not belong in the OSM database at all. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Label language on the Default stylesheet

2017-09-25 Thread Christoph Hormann
me' is definitely an issue, in particular in regions that are largely multilingual (i.e. where several language have a strong base and there is no clear primary language) but also if locals specifically want to serve outside interests. The way this is currently often solved by having several na

Re: [OSM-talk] Label language on the Default stylesheet

2017-09-25 Thread Christoph Hormann
groups, giving them what market research tells you they want and giving up on the core of what makes the OSM standard style unique and forms a significant part of what attracts people to OSM. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _

Re: [OSM-talk] Label language on the Default stylesheet

2017-09-25 Thread Christoph Hormann
in map rendering but so far i have not seen any practical proposal for a client rendered vector tiles concept that would be able to serve the mapper feedback purposes of the current OSM standard style. Rory's port of OSM-Carto to vector tiles is not suitable for client side rendering.

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM and science

2017-08-24 Thread Christoph Hormann
universally unpaid. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Redacting 75, 000 street names contributed by user chdr

2017-08-28 Thread Christoph Hormann
open data) is something that can be done both before and after a redaction without problems. And Frederik already indicated the DWG supports these efforts. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https:/

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Redacting 75, 000 street names contributed by user chdr

2017-08-28 Thread Christoph Hormann
al infractions by ceasing some activity or doing something you neglected to do before. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Multipolygon fixing effort done

2017-08-29 Thread Christoph Hormann
at least the self intersections. ;-) -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Multipolygon fixing effort done

2017-08-29 Thread Christoph Hormann
rt has significantly reduced the visual impact rolling out this change to the OSMF servers would have. I would assume it has but the OSMI does not really allow for a proper assessment here. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk ma

Re: [OSM-talk] Multipolygon fixing effort done

2017-08-29 Thread Christoph Hormann
etmap/osm2pgsql/pull/684 My original idea stands: It would be good to have an idea how far the visual impact of dropping broken geometries has been reduced and if it has reduced a lot it would make sense to actually remove them in the standard map relatively fast before the numbers increa

Re: [OSM-talk] Scientific paper on "Information Seeding"

2017-10-09 Thread Christoph Hormann
over we have in general (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Active_contributors_year.png). -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] A thought on bot edits

2017-10-07 Thread Christoph Hormann
approval though. There are likely also locals who do not think this is a good idea but due to the low intensity and low volume of edits they don't see it necessary to say anything. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] Could we just pause any wikidata edits for a month or two?

2017-10-11 Thread Christoph Hormann
OSM is important to know i think. I have no specific hypothesis here. But obviously such transfer can result both in legal and quality concerns. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixing wiki* -> brand:wiki*

2017-09-27 Thread Christoph Hormann
different approaches to solving problems. It is a good idea not to try pretending these differences do not exist and that you can intermix the two worlds without problems. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing li

[OSM-talk] Misrepresentation of OSM by HOT?

2017-10-23 Thread Christoph Hormann
; always happens via HOT tasks. In my eyes this is a fairly clear misrepresentation of OpenStreetMap not covered by the trademark policy we now have. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lis

Re: [OSM-talk] Misrepresentation of OSM by HOT?

2017-10-23 Thread Christoph Hormann
reetMap and HOT and how they relate to the visitor. learnosm.org (which i think is also mainly built by HOT) shows this is possible to do. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Misrepresentation of OSM by HOT?

2017-10-24 Thread Christoph Hormann
Note this is a completely subjective impression of me and in no way meant to imply being representative for any group of people. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] New OSM Quick-Fix service

2017-11-13 Thread Christoph Hormann
d developing an intuitive understanding of the unwritten rules. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] New OSM Quick-Fix service

2017-11-13 Thread Christoph Hormann
its because they are only applied to features that are (manually) edited otherwise. Applying the same 'fixes' mechanically to all features with a certain tag however is a mechanical edit and needs to be discussed on a per-case basis - always, no matter how trivial, useful or obvious they mi

Re: [OSM-talk] How to show school icons ?

2017-11-24 Thread Christoph Hormann
grounds. * the school consists of a number of rooms in a building but not the whole building. * there are multiple schools using the same infrastructure together. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.

Re: [OSM-talk] Directed Editing Policy

2017-11-22 Thread Christoph Hormann
just my personal interpretation of the policy of course - others might see this differently. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] weeklyOSM #382 2017-11-07-2017-11-13

2017-11-22 Thread Christoph Hormann
also be translated as unregenerate. My attempt at a translation of the German text would be: "Yuri is perceived by many in this discussion, in a similar way as in previous discussions, as unreasonable/unregenerate and questions the relevancy of the unwritten rules of OSM." -- Christoph H

Re: [OSM-talk] Planned rendering changes of protected areas

2017-11-30 Thread Christoph Hormann
then drop arguing for certain tagging ideas based on your perceived needs for rendering. Tagging decisions should be based on how mappers can best document their knowledge about the geography. Not on what some developers find convenient for rendering. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _

Re: [OSM-talk] Support OSM communities and disaster response this holiday season (by 31 Dec)

2017-12-16 Thread Christoph Hormann
ks for the links. I stand by my critique of how the OSM community is engrossed in how this is presented by HOT and also by my assessment of the decision making processes being intransparent (the validity of which has no bearing on the main point of critique though). -- Christoph Hormann http:

Re: [OSM-talk] Support OSM communities and disaster response this holiday season (by 31 Dec)

2017-12-14 Thread Christoph Hormann
that are unclear and subjective but you should not present this as if this financing is somehow integrated into and supervised by the OSM community. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.o

Re: [OSM-talk] weeklyOSM #382 2017-11-07-2017-11-13

2017-11-17 Thread Christoph Hormann
a does not work with any of these other, more fitting terms - sorry. ;-) -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] weeklyOSM #382 2017-11-07-2017-11-13

2017-11-17 Thread Christoph Hormann
the message... I sincerely hope the weeklyOSM team ignores such advise. No one really wants a shallow, politically whitewashed verbal ornamentation of the links carefully vetted not to hurt anyone that could be generated by a bot (yes, there is some irony in that). -- Christ

Re: [OSM-talk] weeklyOSM #382 2017-11-07-2017-11-13

2017-11-17 Thread Christoph Hormann
the way they perceive it, including the intensity and extent of the displeasure felt by those in the discussion, you are going to do more damage to the OSM community than either Yuri or anyone maybe going on occasion a bit overboard with their choice of words in the discussion. -- Christoph Hormann

Re: [OSM-talk] Effecting change in OpenStreetMap

2017-11-18 Thread Christoph Hormann
pt at something created the impulse for a better and successful solution. (Changed the subject because this of course does not have much to do with the original subject of this thread - still i think this is an important topic to discuss) -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___

Re: [OSM-talk] Effecting change in OpenStreetMap

2017-11-21 Thread Christoph Hormann
urnover in people is much faster in OSM than in science (see https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Active_contributors_year.png). -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] New OSM Quick-Fix service

2017-11-13 Thread Christoph Hormann
you have developed based on that assumption. https://xkcd.com/386/ is something something most of us have stopped doing relatively soon after we discovered the internet... -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list t

Re: [OSM-talk] Planned rendering changes of protected areas

2017-12-03 Thread Christoph Hormann
said before: *do not mix rendering and tagging discussions*. [1]https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/blob/master/CARTOGRAPHY.md -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.opens

Re: [OSM-talk] weeklyOSM #379 2017-10-17-2017-10-23

2017-10-28 Thread Christoph Hormann
s for OSM as a whole. I am not claiming this is easy to determine but it should be the benchmark to apply - which is what i am suggesting everyone to do here. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.

Re: [OSM-talk] weeklyOSM #379 2017-10-17-2017-10-23

2017-10-28 Thread Christoph Hormann
r benefit for OSM and the OSM community beyond the wiki itself. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Misrepresentation of OSM by HOT?

2017-10-30 Thread Christoph Hormann
//tasks-stage.hotosm.org/ Looks like a big step in the right direction, thanks. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Using Wikipedia to add names in other languages

2018-05-05 Thread Christoph Hormann
the legal issues. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] proposed mechanical edit - moving building=building to building=yes

2018-06-09 Thread Christoph Hormann
waterway etc. are things that could be hinted cautiously to the user to be possible errors. From JOSM i only know the message that a value is not in presets - which would catch these errors as well but which is not that meaningful. -- Christoph Hormann http://ww

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Carto design

2018-06-30 Thread Christoph Hormann
t this will not necessarily be the case in all eternity and the idea is floated to maybe even render more than one style this becomes a relevant question. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM and new Wikipedia map features

2018-05-03 Thread Christoph Hormann
ames. Otherwise people will inevitably add tons of non-verifiable transliterated names in a misguided attempt improve the map. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Misrepresentation of OSM by HOT?

2017-10-23 Thread Christoph Hormann
dding at least brief verbal credits to OSM - for example like Frederik cited from Missing Maps - to the starting page somewhere. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Misrepresentation of OSM by HOT?

2017-10-23 Thread Christoph Hormann
way - although this is of course a question i did contemplate. It would be nice to see you doing me the same courtesy by arguing the topic at hand without insinuating "an argumentative pose", "distrust", "Combative questions" or a lack of respect. -- C

Re: [OSM-talk] Standard map style contributions

2017-12-29 Thread Christoph Hormann
s/2270 While i agree with you that from my perspective a style direction or design paradigm is needed for successful development i try to be open to the possibility that it is not. How to attract contributors in such a framework is not something i can provide a competent o

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping rivers that flow into/through lakes?

2018-02-22 Thread Christoph Hormann
stion probably is if this is something editors should provide support to produce automatically or if it is something that data users should generate automatically as needed. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstre

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap 2008

2018-02-19 Thread Christoph Hormann
s ago: > > http://osmz.ru/osm2008.html Have you tried running OSMCoastline on that planet? Might be tricky but would significantly improve the realism of the historic image. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@op

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping rivers that flow into/through lakes?

2018-02-23 Thread Christoph Hormann
ter area. This is hampered by the problem that we mostly have no consistent distinction between river and lake areas in OSM (i.e. standing and flowing water areas). -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Is it technically and legally possible to add the Open Location Code to the OSM search?

2018-08-10 Thread Christoph Hormann
am afraid that even after reading it several times i have no idea what you want to say with that. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Is it technically and legally possible to add the Open Location Code to the OSM search?

2018-08-10 Thread Christoph Hormann
mming, data processing and data maintainance that even after ignoring all the arguments in substance that have been voiced this should be universally rejected if for no other reason then because it would make OSM the laughing stock of the whole geodata world. -- Christoph Hormann

Re: [OSM-talk] Learning to Use Machine Learning - A learn along for folks who want to be using ML in their work.

2018-08-09 Thread Christoph Hormann
Side note: It would be a responsible thing to include a reminder like what i wrote above with a message like the one i reply to here or in the welcome messages/FAQs etc. of dedicated communication channels. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ __

Re: [OSM-talk] Is it technically and legally possible to add the Open Location Code to the OSM search?

2018-08-11 Thread Christoph Hormann
up against these arguments except the continued expression of the political desire to push this into the OSM database despite all the arguments against it. Everyone is entitled to their political views but i don't think the OSM database is a place where these can

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=* + area=yes vs area:highway=*

2018-08-11 Thread Christoph Hormann
of the transit from expansion (where edits were predominantly writing new documentation) to maintainance (with predominantly changes of existing documentation). -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.or

Re: [OSM-talk] Is it technically and legally possible to add the Open Location Code to the OSM search?

2018-08-11 Thread Christoph Hormann
ck of quality control for imports in OSM they are not even remotely as damaging as would be the deliberate large scale addition of encoded coordinates as tags to millions of features. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list t

Re: [OSM-talk] AI detecting of buildings Idle thoughts

2018-08-16 Thread Christoph Hormann
nstreetmap.org/way/614459980 From a purely technical point of view if it wasn't littering OSM this would just be droll. Verifiability my ass... -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists

Re: [OSM-talk] AI detecting of buildings Idle thoughts

2018-08-16 Thread Christoph Hormann
important but with organized efforts like this i can't help but get the impression there is a certain amount of malice to sabotage or at least an excessive amount of carelessness. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing

Re: [OSM-talk] AI detecting of buildings Idle thoughts

2018-08-16 Thread Christoph Hormann
really help the original question from John. My answer to that would be: Yes, automated methods can help to find unmapped settlements in OSM - less though in actually mapping them. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk maili

Re: [OSM-talk] AI detecting of buildings Idle thoughts

2018-08-16 Thread Christoph Hormann
se=residential mapping in Eastern Africa this is not the worst data in the database, not by a large margin. I just pointed it out here as an example because it was a perfect fit for the idea John brought up. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___

Re: [OSM-talk] AI detecting of buildings Idle thoughts

2018-08-16 Thread Christoph Hormann
verifiable mapping of settlements in the area than what we can see now in the database. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] AI detecting of buildings Idle thoughts

2018-08-16 Thread Christoph Hormann
e most likely explanation seems to be that the quality of building detection and especially of building geometry generation (if that is being done at all) is probably quite bad and by not using the building data directly you can kind of disguise such deficits. -- Christop

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: 2 Great Lakes missing

2018-08-13 Thread Christoph Hormann
) or magenta (ring not closed). -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: 2 Great Lakes missing

2018-08-13 Thread Christoph Hormann
f the big lakes that is a few dozen MB of download via overpass API and then a few seconds with osmium to assemble the multipolygon. You can easily set this up to run on a daily basis to check a few lakes you want to keep an eye on. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.i

Re: [OSM-talk] Representing places with no housenumber

2018-08-24 Thread Christoph Hormann
f encoded coordinate systems but because of digital technology increasingly allowing dynamically connecting people with locations (and Amazon will just send you your order to whereever you are - or where you are likely to be when the order is shipped). -- Christoph Hormann http://ww

Re: [OSM-talk] Representing places with no housenumber

2018-08-22 Thread Christoph Hormann
ne building at this street or with this postcode) or if you want to defend pointless or non-verifiable tagging of addr:street for buildings without a unique address. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [OSM-talk] Representing places with no housenumber

2018-08-22 Thread Christoph Hormann
On Wednesday 22 August 2018, Rory McCann wrote: > > The single most important property of an address is that it is > > unique > > 35% of addresses in Ireland aren't unique. I strongly suspect we have a different understanding of either 'address' or 'uniqueness' here. -- Chri

Re: [OSM-talk] Representing places with no housenumber

2018-08-22 Thread Christoph Hormann
en if you can specify a street, city etc. at/in which it is located. Specifying addr:street on a building that does not have an address is either pointless or non-verifiable. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk maili

Re: [OSM-talk] Representing places with no housenumber

2018-08-22 Thread Christoph Hormann
ldings which happen to have the same address (which clashes with my understanding of the concept of an address). Note to document a building/place belongs to a certain street we also have the concept of the associatedStreet relation. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation:a

Re: [OSM-talk] Representing places with no housenumber

2018-08-22 Thread Christoph Hormann
gging somehow. And And I don't think the fact that there is no house number needs to be specifically indicated then. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Representing places with no housenumber

2018-08-22 Thread Christoph Hormann
noaddress -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Representing places with no housenumber

2018-08-23 Thread Christoph Hormann
unique. I can confirm from having worked there > that it has indeed no housenumber. Yes, that looks like a good example for the first case. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Representing places with no housenumber

2018-08-23 Thread Christoph Hormann
eds to include the name - kind of like name_is_a_necessary_part_of_address=yes (not a serious suggestion in this form but you probably get the idea) as to explicitly indicate the lack of a house number. Also i kind of doubt if this form of specifying the lack of a house number is that common ma

Re: [OSM-talk] Extend natural=shingle tag also for city stone areas.

2018-08-31 Thread Christoph Hormann
extending natural=shingle to urban areas artificially covered with loose stones based on a physical similarity. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Representing places with no housenumber

2018-09-01 Thread Christoph Hormann
presented that makes sense, somethings that helps someone to locate something does not cut it. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

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