Re: [OSM-talk] Rendering street names across several ways

Hi again! I hope someone with programming skills is reading this discussion :) The problem is that if you go to a rule one road, name displayed once, you will have to search for the name of the road if the road is very long. The actual rule is: treat it as a single OSM way and then decide

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap in schools

Recently there were three mapping lessons in small towns of Perm region, Russia. It went very well, from collecting data to drawing maps in Potlatch. At the last meeting they even tried to send a weather baloon with a camera (but photos were no good because of strong wind). Here is project

Re: [OSM-talk] OrbView-3 is public domain

hbogner wrote: Anyone tried processing those images? I've translated a page from the Russian GIS community wiki: http://wiki.gis-lab.info/w/Orbview3_Orthorectification What is not said there, you can easily use the result of those transformationg in JOSM by processing the resulting GeoTIFF

[OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap GPS Points Map

Hi! As you know, almost half a year ago a GPX Planet was released (http://blog.osmfoundation.org/2012/04/01/bulk-gps-point-data/). At the time I expressed a hope that someone would process that file, making tile layer and regional extracts. Alas, in those months the file has only been

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap GPS Points Map

Stephan Knauss: I had developed a JOSM plugin and a server backend to download very fast blocks of GPS data. I assumed it be a good companion to the overpass mirror of OSM data. And fetching GPS points from the API is sometimes slow as hell. But how do you deal with private and otherwise

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap GPS Points Map

Mike Dupont писал 2012-09-12 00:56: I have been wondering what the license is on the gps points? is it affected by the change? For a long time I though that all GPX traces are in public domain. There was no user agreement signed, no clauses in CT concerning GPX traces, and with

Re: [OSM-talk] How to add, edit, remove tag for an object without Potlatch, Merkaartor or JOSM ?

LIVINE Christin: How to add, edit, remove tag for an object without Potlatch, Merkaartor or JOSM ? For example. For France, I'd like to add tag name:ty. You could do this with rawedit http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Rawedit but it is broken now. As for JOSM, there is a better way.

[OSM-talk] Who Did It?

Hi! For a long time now, there has been no tool to properly monitor an area. Essentially the only way of doing it is to filter changeset history by bbox (thanks to Pavel for his RSS filter btw). OWL has been turned off, ITO-like visualizations are pretty but unuseful. The simple question who

Re: [OSM-talk] Who Did It?

Dave F.: Is the RSS feed working? When I paste the feed url into the location bar (Firefox 15) it just reverts back to the previous page. I'm sorry, the database was turned off for an hour, because there was a major problem with utf8 encoding, and I had to reupload the sql dump. Now it's

[OSM-talk] Community Edit Monitoring vs Worldwide BOT Coverage in Changesets

Pierre Béland wrote: The changesets listed were reduced by half when providing the url http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changesets?bbox=-73.6318%2C45.409%2C-73.444%2C45.4946 with http://positron96.appspot.com/osmfilter.html. This solution would effectively eliminate an important amount of

[OSM-talk] Who Did It?

Dave F. wrote: I'm sorry, the database was turned off for an hour, because there was a major problem with utf8 encoding, and I had to reupload the sql dump. Now it's back online, updating normally. Thanks. What's the significance of the [!] that is displayed in some of the RSS feed

Re: [OSM-talk] Who Did It?

Willi wrote: Is it possible to deselect a userid? When surveying an area I would prefer to see just the changes others made. I know mine. You can write into user filter '!Willi' (without quotes). There is no such button in the UI at the moment. IZ

Re: [OSM-talk] Who Did It?

Dave F. wrote: I'm not sure edits done in Potlatch should automatically be considered suspicious, and classifying an edit 'red' because six nodes one way were removed when 134/3 were added seems a bit harsh. Since today, after a discussion on #osm, only these potlatch edits that modify or

[OSM-talk] Conferences

Hi! First of all, I'd like to ask those who gave talks at SotM US 2012 to publish their slides and notes and link them from the wiki page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_Of_The_Map_U.S._2012/Schedule Also, a small announcement. In mid-November we are organizing the first Russian

[OSM-talk] State of the Map US 2012

Hi! It's been a month since SotM US, and there are still a lot of gaps in a slides and presentations collection at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_Of_The_Map_U.S._2012/Schedule . But we have a bigger question. There were online translations of the conference. It should mean that every

[OSM-talk] Open GIS 2012 conference

Hi! On 17-18 of November the first Russian conference on open GIS and open geodata took place. It was organized in three tracks: one for GIS, one for workshops, and OpenStreetMap got a whole two-day track too. To say it was fun is understatement. This was the best conference I've attended! :)

Re: [OSM-talk] Multilingual maps demo

I have been working on a multilingual OSM map, ie. a map where you, the user can decide in which language the labels should be. A demo of the system is now available at http://mlm.jochentopf.com/ . The tiles for this demo are rendered on tile.openstreetmap.de, the software used is the MapQuest

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik at zoom=19

Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: +1, the more you zoom in, the more you wish there were highway areas. No you don't. http://not.textual.ru/zverik/2/3/mapsurfer-areahighway-spb.png Highway areas look ugly, even at zoom 18. Openstreetmap.by also renders those areas:

[OSM-talk] Who's That? OSM User Names Database

Hi. 2300 users have changed their username at least once. 126 of those did that twice or more. One of the problems with OSM API is that it heavily relies on user names, not even allowing to query users by their identifier. As a result, when a user changes his display name, he virtually

[OSM-talk] POI display on osm.org

Hi. I'd like to put the discussion of Roland's POI feature in perspective. Last month the team of openstreetmap.ru released their version of POI search and display engine. Check out the screenshot: http://shtosm.ru/pictures/osmrupoi.gif and another one:

Re: [OSM-talk] talk Digest, Vol 101, Issue 80

Tobias Knerr: However, the approach with the very large and prominent markers on openstreetmap.ru can only really be used together with the feature catalogue. If every single POI in the map were to be represented like that, the screen would be flooded with markers. A feature catalogue requires

Re: [OSM-talk] Recent edits in the wiki / Trademark issue

Hi. Regardless of that trademark business, I've checked Simon's edits and they mostly consist of removing links to google maps, which contain empty geocode parameter and them (and many other redundant parameters that editors didn't bother to omit). Some of the edits are quite funny, for

Re: [OSM-talk] Recent edits in the wiki / Trademark issue

Hi. Since no one has explained, I'd quote a part from OSMF Board Meeting Minutes: OSMF received C+D letter from someone who trademarked the word “Geocode(TM)” and asks us to remove all references to this from our web site where it is connected in some way with Google services. Simon is in

[OSM-talk] Imagery Offset Database

Hi! I'm proud to announce the Imagery Offset Database: a centralized offset bookmarks and calibration geometries storage. At the moment it consists of: - API: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Imagery_Offset_Database/API - JOSM plugin:

[OSM-talk] GPX Planet Dump Visualization

Hi! I have updated GPX Planet Tools https://github.com/Zverik/gpxplanet-tools for new GPX dump format and have made tiles up to zoom 11, as the last time: http://zverik.osm.rambler.ru/gps/ . Country extracts are being made right now, I expect them to be ready in a week (the processing is very

Re: [OSM-talk] Still need for spam protection and if yes, what about OSM-based CATPCHA?

Stefan Keller wrote: Actually, I'd like to hear the opinions of those website admins who really are affected by spam registrations (see subject). For those who hate CAPTCHAs please provide alternative solutions. Whitelists or bayesian filter are not among them. Hi. In some cases captchas are

[OSM-talk] GeoChat plugin for JOSM

Hi! Sorry to bother you, but I've written something again, and I'd like for everyone to use it :) http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Plugins/GeoChat It is a plugin for JOSM that allows users mapping in a same area to talk to each other. At the least it should render a chat window in

[OSM-talk] GeoChat plugin for JOSM

Frederik Ramm wrote: Zverik, On 10.05.2013 10:29, Ilya Zverev wrote: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Plugins/GeoChat That sounds great. I always wanted to have something like that! I have some thoughts about it - not meant to criticize, I'm really looking forward to seeing

[OSM-talk] OSM Authentication Proxy

Hi! When Frederik asked about using OAuth for the GeoChat plugin, I remembered the same problem I had with the imagery offset database. And since I was in a programming mode, this lead to an idea on how to skip OAuth for client applications, while reliably identifying users. So the whole

[OSM-talk] State of the Map Baltics 2013: Registration is open

Hi! As you probably don't know, we (OSM EE and russian mappers) are organizing a european OpenStreetMap conference just between SotM US and SotM. It is called SotM Baltics 2013 and will be held in Tartu, Estonia on 3-4 of August. The website is at http://sotm-baltics.org We hope to bring

Re: [OSM-talk] State of the Map Baltics 2013: Registration is open

Martin Koppenhoefer писал 2013-05-22 17:31: 2013/5/22 Ilya Zverev zve...@textual.ru Hi! As you probably don't know, we (OSM EE and russian mappers) are organizing a european OpenStreetMap conference just between SotM US and SotM. It is called SotM Baltics 2013 and will be held in Tartu

Re: [OSM-talk] Spain needs OSM love

Wow, what a lot of work. What made you decide to go down the subjective assessment path, rather than just counting the number of OSM entities within a given bounding box? Was this done entirely by hand, or did you have some automated process to help with this? Id really like to look at

[OSM-talk] What is this i don't even

Hi. http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/SzPaula/edits This user has broken Russian border and who knows what else. The list of edits looks crazy. (I've sent him/her a message, but don't expect to receive an answer) IZ ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM is dying (was Re: We Need to Stop Google's Exploitation of Open Communities)

Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: well I was very active, but there is nothing left to do except when I go to a new area, and most of my travel is to the same old places where some other guy has already done the work. I find even new places are no longer a challenge - I am not the first, and I HATE

Re: [OSM-talk] New Logo in the Wiki

Since this mailing list is about the new logo now, I'd like to point out some things concerning it that got broken. First of all, wiki logo was a bit different from osm.org: it had a little W in the corner. The new logo's contrast is too low, so the favicon is not recognizable at a glance. And

Re: [OSM-talk] Pitiful proceedings - as usual

TimSC, Your definition of ad hominem is slightly wrong. An ad hominem is always against the author of the argument being criticised. An attack on a third party (e.g. my mother) would be merely an insult and can never be ad hominem. You do realize that there are thousands of people

Re: [OSM-talk] featured image

Does anybody recall a heat map that shows a very local user? Perhaps some account that has been contributing within one town? I've found one recently, as he accepted CT last week: http://yosmhm.neis-one.org/?haword http://wdye.osm-tools.org/?haword IZ

Re: [OSM-talk] High Road - pre-cooked Postgres views for rendering OSM roads

Hi! A few Stamen colleagues and myself put this together recently: https://github.com/migurski/HighRoad It's pretty sketchy so far, but it's a solid and we-think-pretty-good attempt to create a one true road query for OSM data in a way that's painlessly usable in Mapnik, Cascadenik and

[OSM-talk] Yahoo Imagery

Hi! A month ago we said bye to Yahoo imagery due to the shutting down of some of their services. But it is still available in both Potlatch versions. Did the permission to trace mention the services that can be used for tracing (and how is it available in Potlatch then), or it is possible to

[OSM-talk] MapBBCode library and MapBBCode Share website

Hi! Today I am releasing the first version of MapBBCode JavaScript library. It allows for easy integration of maps into forums, blogs and other web engines. All you have to do is write a simple plugin employing the library :) There are examples and extensive documentation. Sadly, FluxBB

Re: [OSM-talk] Details about wooded belt in Saratov Oblast?

osm@0sg.net: today, using the OSM slippy map, I came across a regular structure in the Saratov Oblast, Russia. Map data and aerial images suggest it be wood or stripes of wood. It looks like a barrier. Against what or whom? Or when was it grown? Hi! Sadly there is no English version of

Re: [OSM-talk] Crimea/Russia/Ukraine Borders

Hi! Russian and Ukrainian community, including DWG member Eugene Sandulenko, have come to an agreement to not touch administrative borders and name tags of Crimea until 1st of June, 0:01 MSK. The situation there is quite unstable and will change significantly in coming months. Ukrainian

[OSM-talk] Imagery Offset Database turns 1

Hi! On this day a year ago I announced the Imagery Offset Database. Since then mappers have uploaded around 6 thousand offsets, and the number of editors supporting the database has doubled. I hope we are still teaching beginner mappers to properly align imagery layers, and I've prepared some

[OSM-talk] Level0 OpenStreetMap Editor

Hi! I'm quite proud to announce a new OSM editor, Level0: http://level0.osmz.ru It is a web-based, text-only editor, a bit like RawEdit, but with more features and without scary XML. Basically, you are editing easy to understand lines like way 123123 with tags written like highway=primary.

Re: [OSM-talk] Level0 OpenStreetMap Editor

Hi! I'm quite proud to announce a new OSM editor, Level0: http://level0.osmz.ru Looks interesting, but I haven't looked very far because I can't find how to change the language. I'm really lost with Russian. My browser asks for English or French or German. Oops, sorry, it had three

[OSM-talk] Nik4: mapnik → image

Hi! I recently needed to create a big georeferenced image from a mapnik style file, and found out no image exporting tool currently offers more than a direct interface to mapnik's options. That is, I could not get image in 300 dpi for printing on an A5 sheet, I had to understand what

Re: [OSM-talk] Nik4: mapnik → image

Ilya, a big thank you! This looks convenient and promising, am waiting now for the second output, the first one, created like this: nik4.py -b 5.8 35.5 19 48.1 --ppi 300 --size-px 28108 36000 osm-render.xml italiabig300dpi.png didn't work like expected (I got a tiny map in the upper left

[OSM-talk] Level0 Updates

Hi! Jochen's work on Taginfo encouraged me to work on Level0's github issues, and today I'm releasing version 1.1 of the editor. The major (well…) change is that whitespace trimmed from keys and values is now registered as modification. For example, a downloaded object with name key will be

[OSM-talk] Achavi + WhoDidIt

Hi! Roland, thanks for Overpass attic feature, and thanks to Norbert for Achavi, especially for changeset visualizing feature. I've just added links to Achavi from WhoDidIt RSS feed and popups, so you can easily check what's been modified. Also there is a bookmarklet in this shtosm article:

[OSM-talk] Early History of OSM

Frederik Ramm wrote: I happen to have a number of really old PostgreSQL databases lying around and I tried to quickly expose them to anyone who would like to have a go at rendering old maps. Caveat: These *only* cover the non US part of the planet (the databases were created for animation

Re: [OSM-talk] Early History of OSM

Nick Whitelegg wrote: Another thing about the 2006 map is that many of the ways that definitely were there then. e.g. http://osmz.ru/osm2006.html#14/51.0523/-0.7374 This is the Fernhurst area, West Sussex. There should be a primary road north to south and many more footpaths Primary and

Re: [OSM-talk] Nik4: mapnik → image

Today I have published Nik4. It makes everything easier. I see that it can split a large image into smaller mapnik rendering jobs and combine them after, with --tiles. That's already very useful but is it also possible to actually keep the tiles (e.g. for building a GDAL VRT from them)? This

[OSM-talk] Tiles and geocoding

Hi, Just this morning I've done the final todo in the polytiles script: now it produces tiles 10 times faster, because it renders them in metatiles. Also MBTiles writer now supports multiprocessing, so it's also 6-8 times more speed. If you need a lot of tiles, do not download them from osm.org

[OSM-talk] Warning: OSM password phishing

Hi, one of our users by mistake logged in on another site: http://www.reidel.me/index.php It looks like the OSM forum and mirrors it nearly in real time. Please be careful and check the address bar before typing a password. (Of course it can be an alternative URL for our forum, since it

[OSM-talk] Please ban Xxzme in wiki

Hi, Who banned Xxzme in wiki a while ago? Please do it again. Not only he abuses mappers, in part by deleting parts of their pages in private namespaces, he also renames and/or modifies in a bad way wiki pages that many mappers link to. E.g. there is no How we map page now. This is not his

[OSM-talk] Three-months ban is over

Browsing https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions/Xxzme==500=Xxzme (500 edits in 4 days!), you can find some interesting things. Xxzme moved page User:Ajoessen/Mapnik to DE:Ajoessen/Mapnik: guessing language (moved a user page to a public namespace?) Xxzme

Re: [OSM-talk] List of "A year of edits" videos

MonkZ wrote: > I'm seeking a list of "A Year of Edits" videos. Done: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Timelapse_videos IZ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Failed water proposal reversal

Tomas Straupis wrote: > Water proposal tried to change the tagging: > landuse=reservoir => natural=water|water=reservoir > And in general all water landuse=x => natural=water|water=x (basin, pond > etc.) > waterway=riverbank => natural=water|water=riverbank No. The water proposal didn't

Re: [OSM-talk] MAPS.ME edits - partly sub-standard

Hi everyone, I'm very pleased some of us consider me the source of all evil that comes from Russia. Although I must confess that I have nothing to do with "World of Tanks" (haven't even played it), and the proposal about water=* was accepted by 16 mappers, and if you have a problem with that,

[OSM-talk] The OpenStreetMap Awards - Call for Nominees

Hi everyone, I'm proud to announce the OpenStreetMap Awards, awarded for the first time this September at the State of the Map 2016 conference in Brussels! This is a community award: nominees and winners are chosen by the community. We are now opening the Call for Nominees, to learn more about

[OSM-talk] Revert UI

Hi everyone, I've made a web interface to my revert scripts: http://revert.osmz.ru It is as easy to use as the simple-revert.py, but you don't have to use the command-line interface. Simply paste some changesets, press a button and watch as they are being reverted. The reverter has some

[OSM-talk] OSM Conflation Tool

Hi everyone, I have just finished the conflation script, that would make importing a set of points much easier. For example, when you have a GeoJSON of McDonalds' restaurants or a website with locations of Carrefour Express shops. It reads or downloads OSM data and finds matching objects

[OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Awards - The Voting Has Started

Hi everyone, Some of you have submitted nominees for the OSM Awards, and two days ago we (as in some members of CWG, SotMWG and the Board) have discussed them and compiled a short list: five nominees for each category. Now the final stage of the OSM Awards begins: please open the website,

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Awards - The Voting Has Started

Sorry everyone, I've added a confirmation after receiving the votes. Of course votes are tied to your accounts. Please do not use _import of any technical accounts to vote multiple times :) I've also added a number of total voters at the bottom of the page. It is nearing 200! IZ

[OSM-talk] The Top Ten Tasks list

Hi everyone, Since 2008 we had a https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Top_Ten_Tasks wiki page which listed things new developers could work on, that would improve OSM users experience. Things like OSM bugs (notes) integration, an improved history tab and clickable points of interest. The list

[OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Awards 2017

Hi folks, Yesterday a 500th OSM member has voted at the OSM Awards. And we have just a week left for the other 500 to vote. Which means you: go to the... http://awards.osmz.ru/ ...right now, read through the names and descriptions, and choose people you think should be awarded something for

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-legal-talk] Putting simple scripts in the Wiki without violating CC BY-SA 2.0

https://gist.github.com would be the better option — it was specifically made for short rarely changing scripts. I keep a couple scripts there. Don't forget to put the license information in the comments in the script header. Ilya > 19 сент. 2017 г., в 20:09, Kathleen Lu

Re: [OSM-talk] All the subway systems in the world

Thanks Frederik, I did exactly that in the "What This Affects" chapter of the proposal: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Metro_Mapping#What_This_Affects Basically it introduces (revives) stop_area_group relations and suggest using entrance=* on subway_entrances. Of course

[OSM-talk] All the subway systems in the world

Hi, I have made a script that parses and validates subway systems. It prints the number of subway lines and stations that an automated system can extract from the OpenStreetMap data. See the latest report here (these are updated manually for now): http://osmz.ru/subways/ It is still in beta:

Re: [OSM-talk] All the subway systems in the world

> > Silly question but what is your definition of a subway? > > Is it different to commuter rail? > > Thanks John > > On 30 Sep 2017 12:38 pm, "Ilya Zverev" <i...@zverev.info> wrote: > Hi, > > I have made a script that parses and validates

Re: [OSM-talk] All the subway systems in the world

Hi Daniel, > Nice to see another unification effort, but I have a specific question: we > have an interchange station in Warsaw called "Świętokrzyska". I marked it as > one station some time ago in the middle of lines crossing. > Lately somebody (namely

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

Hi folks, One question: why brand:wikipedia and not wikipedia:brand? Should we now use brand:ref, en:name, maxspeed:source instead of the regular order? http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/52002801 http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/52529386 etc. Ilya

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

dia tag for brand, not brand for wikipedia. ("Wikipedia" > property of "brand") Like name:en is "English" property of "name", not "name" > property of "English". 02.10.2017 11:41, Ilya Zverev пишет: > Hi folks, > > > &g

Re: [OSM-talk] All the subway systems in the world

Hi again, I've got some more news regarding the subway validator. It is still there, updated just yesterday: http://osmz.ru/subways/ Now it has all the systems for Europe, Africa and both Americas. I am slowly adding asian cities: there are too many of these, sorry. The link to the

Re: [OSM-talk] All the subway systems in the world

Hi Roland. I sense a lot of hostility in your message. This is actually the first time in my OSM experience that I see a call to (negative) voting in this list. Even weirder that the voting won't start for a week or so. > Adding more contradictions and confusion in public transport mapping

Re: [OSM-talk] All the subway systems in the world

Michael Reichert wrote: > You are aware that the RFC phase has to bee at least two weeks long? Thanks for reminding that, I indeed think I was too hasty. There are still some unresolved questions, like the one about interchanges (see tagging@). > Why does your validator find lots of errors on

[OSM-talk] OSM Streak: edit the map every day

Hi, I am Ilya and I have been uploading changesets 15 days in a row. Not because I'm so into it or somebody makes me: I've made a tool that reminds me to do it. In a year I expect my HDYC activity chart to be completely filled. And you can have the same too. Introducing OSM Streak: a

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Streak: edit the map every day

[1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/PoliMappers/Adventures On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 9:27 PM, Ilya Zverev <i...@zverev.info <mailto:i...@zverev.info>> wrote: Hi, I am Ilya and I have been uploading changesets 15 days in a row. Not because I'm so into it or somebody make

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Streak: edit the map every day

get a >> "Error connecting to OSM API"? > > +1 but I'm getting this error too. > > :Stefan > > 2017-12-03 23:31 GMT+01:00 James <james2...@gmail.com>: >> Good idea, is it normal you get a >> "Error connecting to OSM API"

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Streak: edit the map every day

Frederik wrote: > I'm sure that before too long, you will receive many emails by people who > offer all kinds of excuses for not having edited on one particular day and > who beg you to allow them to make up for it without breaking their "streak" ;) Actually the website should accept a

Re: [OSM-talk] What would make MapRoulette better?

Martijn van Exel wrote > For those who have used MapRoulette or at least have a good understanding of > what it does: what would be the *one top thing* for you that would make it > better? Built-in iD editor, to avoid switching contexts. Ilya ___

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

john whelan wrote: No you need to build up trust again and it takes time. Only then will your ideas start to gain acceptance. Oh come on. I've been a mapper since 2010, I've hosted dozens of events, I've written many articles and tools, some of which you might have used, I'm on the Board

Re: [OSM-talk] Effecting change in OpenStreetMap

Christoph Hormann wrote: > Oh come on. I've been a mapper since 2010, I've hosted dozens of > > events, I've written many articles and tools, some of which you might > > have used, I'm on the Board currently, and still my proposals and > > pull requests fail again and again, because there is

[OSM-talk] All the metro systems of the world, continued

Hi again, You know how people introduce proposals with zero tag usages on the map? Well, I've been fixing metro systems, and now you cannot say the "Metro Mapping" proposal is too abstract. I have reworded a few sections, and improved some, thanks to commenters. The "What This Affects" section

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

To clarify, I'm on Verdy's side regarding the calendar dispute (not that I follow it closely). Third-party developers should improve their wiki parsers, not impose restrictions on pages. But I don't like the introduction of microformats to the calendar template, which he made. It made reading

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

Tobias wrote: > > This does not mean that he should be exempt from the rules, of course. > To the contrary: What I would hope for is consistent enforcement of the > rules, with gradually increasing penalties. Jumping straight from spotty > enforcement to a permanent ban, though, seems wasteful

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

I agree. Verdy p is very hard to work with on the wiki, and his number of edits makes his work virtually unverifyable and unrevertable. I assume has has alienated a lot of wiki contributors, including few people I know. Ilya Andrew Hain wrote: > It is now time to talk about banning Verdy p

[OSM-talk] Subway Routing in Maps.Me

Hi, You might have noticed an unusually high attention to public transport mapping in OpenStreetMap recently. There was a validator, a big proposal that got rejected, and another one that isn't yet. You might have seen subway route relations in your city edited, to better conform to the PTv2

Re: [OSM-talk] GeoChat

Paul wrote: Is GeoChat down or defunct now? I haven't been able to connect to it in a couple days now. Sorry Paul, that was caused by forcing https on all OSM servers. Java, turns out, does not auto-redirect from http to https. I've

[OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap 2008

Hi folks, I've seen a lot of tile servers showing how OSM looked in 2006 or 2007. The map was an awful spaghetti of broken roads back then, and it looked like half the data were lost. So I decided to get a proper API 0.5 planet dump — and since the switch happened in late 2017, going back from

[OSM-talk] OSM Awards 2018 — The voting is closing soon!

Hi, This year we are for the third time honouring people and organisations in OpenStreetMap that made great contributions to the map, the ecosystem and the community. OSM Awards is all about showing active members of the community that their work is seen and respected. All you have to do is to

[OSM-talk] OpenWhateverMap

Hi folks, I think you'd be happy to know I've revived the OpenWhateverMap, originally by Grant Slater: http://openwhatevermap.xyz/ Ilya ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Awards 2018

Hi folks, Announcing the third OpenStreetMap Awards! After two successful years with 15 people or projects awarded and nearly 60 nominated, we continue with the next one. Please nominate people and projects for achievements of the past year on the Awards website: http://awards.osmz.ru This

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMF silently sides with Russia?

Hi everyone, Adding some constructive data to the discussion, I’ve run a query to find disputed territories that are mapped in violation to the 2013 agreement — like Crimea was before this week. There are only 20 overlaps of admin_level=2 polygons (has been in Spring 2018, I haven’t updated

Re: [OSM-talk] admin_level=2 overlaps (was: Re: OSMF silently sides with Russia?)

After I sent the message, I’ve read in the wiki about this part of Serbian-Croatian border: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=11/45.7313/18.9257 Parts to the left of the river are controlled by Croatia, parts to the right — by Serbia, but administrative relations do not reflect that. Ilya

[OSM-talk] FOSDEM 2019: Geospatial Devroom - Call for Participation

Hi folks, Let me remind you that there is an annual open-source conference in Brussels, FOSDEM, which is the largest and most fun of all. Thousands of OS enthusiasts road around a dozen buildings in ULB, share their passion and enjoy waffles and coffee. People come from many countries, mostly

[OSM-talk] A source for mapping New York City never more than two days old

Hi folks, Since last August I work at Juno, a ride-sharing service operating in New York City only, and recently I found out we have something to share with the OpenStreetMap community. We took all our GPX traces received from drivers and published these on a tile layer under an open license.

[OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Awards 2019 Call for Nominees is open!

Hi folks, 'Tis that time of the year: only a week until SotM Call for Papers closes, and time to think not only of your talk, but to remember everybody who has inspired you over the past year. We are preparing the next installment of the OSM Awards: please help us collect a long list of

[OSM-talk] We're erasing our history in wiki

Hi, In my research of API 0.6 (which turned ten years old yesterday) I've stumbled on this page: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/API_v0.6/Crowd_sourced_Testing It was deleted 7 years ago. And this is a disaster. The page was an important milestone in our history: authors, dates, items

Re: [OSM-talk] We're erasing our history in wiki

hen Topf wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 12:03:40AM +0300, Ilya Zverev wrote: >> In my research of API 0.6 (which turned ten years old yesterday) I've >> stumbled on this page: >> >> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/API_v0.6/Crowd_sourced_Testing

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