Re: [OSM-talk] amenity=bicycle_repair_station :::: only 18 so far

On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 3:56 AM, SomeoneElse li...@atownsend.org.uk wrote: On 25/01/2015 05:20, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: Where do OSM cycling enthusiasts hang out : is there a mailing list or group focused on cycling features? #osm-gb on IRC. :) (I'm only half joking - the channel topic is

Re: [OSM-talk] [Imports] amenity=bicycle_repair_station :::: only 18 so far

On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 11:27 AM, JB jb...@mailoo.org wrote: Le 26/01/2015 17:59, Jo a écrit : It would indeed be preferable to use OSM Notes for that purpose. Ho crap. Instead of importing 500 low-quality POI, just import 500 low-quality notes… So that only the notes DB is a dump, but not

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: [Imports] amenity=bicycle_repair_station :::: only 18 so far

On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 1:19 PM, Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com wrote: 3) Everything in OSM is subject to verification and change over time. There are hundreds if not thousands of USA post offices in OSM that no longer exist: data quality never absolute. Heck, it can even fluctuate

[OSM-talk] Usage without attribution: US Geological Survey

Found it here while checking out a nearby earthquake I was notified about... http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usb000tiqz#general_map The Street layer of the map is very clearly taking tiles from Mapquest Open (spotted at relatively low zoom over tulsa due to Mapquest lagging

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

On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 8:09 AM, Hans De Kryger hans.dekryge...@gmail.com wrote: I think the reason most long time mappers don't communicate the mistake the was made to new mapper ​s​ is ​ the fact that where​ afraid of getting into a long drawn out conversation with them or it turning

[OSM-talk] Android Network Location Providers?

As I've experienced unusually poor performance with Google's NLP in Android, I was wondering if anybody knew of a dropin replacement I can install that cuts Google's NLP while still allowing NLP through some kind of open means, even if self-generated on the device? MicroG Unified NLP doesn't work

Re: [OSM-talk] Android Network Location Providers?

I'd be curious if you have specific links. On Feb 10, 2015 4:47 AM, Richard Z. ricoz@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 02:36:13AM -0600, Paul Johnson wrote: As I've experienced unusually poor performance with Google's NLP in Android, I was wondering if anybody knew of a dropin

Re: [OSM-talk] Android Network Location Providers?

February 2015 at 08:36, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: As I've experienced unusually poor performance with Google's NLP in Android, I was wondering if anybody knew of a dropin replacement I can install that cuts Google's NLP while still allowing NLP through some kind of open means, even

Re: [OSM-talk] Routing across parks

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 12:35 PM, moltonel 3x Combo molto...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/03/2015, Mike N nice...@att.net wrote: On 3/10/2015 12:56 PM, Volker Schmidt wrote: If I understand correctly that you want routing to cross a park as long as the way in and the way out are connected to the

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping dangerous bicycle locations?

I've brought this up before, but have since gone with the general consensus that this is just too subjective, even if we were to come up with some kind of rubric to standardize things. A big and highly inconsistent issue between regions is regional attitude. I don't care for on-street riding,

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Your opinion about SOTM US

I'm still kicking up chunks of stuff GNIS and TIGER pulled in that are woefully inaccurate. Just did some cursory Lincoln County, NV work after my father got lost out there while motorcycling with his wife (fortunately for him, he carries survival basics and knows how to survive in the Great Basin

Re: [OSM-talk] Mechanically Cleaning Up FIXME Tags

On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 8:30 AM, JB jb...@mailoo.org wrote: Le 26.02.2015 19:25, Paul Johnson a écrit : Now that we have an anointed notes system, how about an automated move to notes, with the owner of the note being the person who originated the FIXME? Please, no. On http

Re: [OSM-talk] Quality of OSM Notes

On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 9:39 PM, Russ Nelson nel...@crynwr.com wrote: Greg Troxel writes: That said, there is a lot of junk. But I just close them if I can't figure them out and if I'm fairly sure I wouldn't be able to if I showed up. I agree with Greg. If the not submitter didn't

Re: [OSM-talk] Quality of OSM Notes

On Feb 21, 2015 3:03 PM, Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com wrote: On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 12:27 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: Do we have a graph of how many notes are open? It wouldn't be surprising to see a downward trend in the last few weeks from this change. http

Re: [OSM-talk] Quality of OSM Notes

On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 10:19 PM, Eduardo e...@mayorgalinux.com wrote: Maybe I could do research into an app which would allow for no-frills GPS trace collection and upload to some service (actually this can be done in HTML5 - you can ask specifically for GPS in geolocation API). This way

[OSM-talk] Looks like Domino's dropping Pizza from its name is official.

http://consumerist.com/2015/02/19/dominos-promotion-guilts-stores-that-havent-dropped-pizza-from-restaurant-signage/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] new payment type

On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 12:52 PM, Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 9:38 AM, Greg Knisely g...@mapzen.com wrote: From a routing/driving directions perspective, I was hoping to determine if the user needs to slow down at all where a toll exists if they use an

Re: [OSM-talk] Mechanically Cleaning Up FIXME Tags

Now that we have an anointed notes system, how about an automated move to notes, with the owner of the note being the person who originated the FIXME? On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 10:38 AM, John F. Eldredge j...@jfeldredge.com wrote: I agree. In most cases, a FIXME should be left until someone

Re: [OSM-talk] Quality of OSM Notes

On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 12:33 AM, Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com wrote: Many open notes were not actionable: 1) Pure junk (empty, scribbles) This is probably a UI situation. I know the old Skobbler app was *notorious* for this, and probably a huge reason behind the massive flop that was

[OSM-talk] Mapillary layers

Is there a way to get a transparent WMS of locations Mapillary has detected a traffic sign? ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapillary plugin for JOSM

On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 12:11 PM, Jo winfi...@gmail.com wrote: There is a GSoC project proposal this year to make a JOSM plugin for Mapillary. I'm not sure what the status on that is right now. The Mapillary plugin for JOSM project was accepted. Coding will start in about 1 month. You can

Re: [OSM-talk] Chain Store Cleanup

On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 12:30 PM, Imre Samu pella.s...@gmail.com wrote: .. McDonald's problem... Please don't forget the true McDonald's problem! It is a content encoding hell. and very hard to detect by any ordinary field mappers. #1. name=McDonald’s( count=126 ) U+2019 ’ e2

Re: [OSM-talk] GeoHipster comment on OSM

On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 1:47 AM, Simon Poole si...@poole.ch wrote: It should be pointed out that during 2012 and 2014 and continuing with at least the LWG till today, dozens of companies and organisations (outside of the geo-industry) with questions have had no problems contacting the OSMF and

Re: [OSM-talk] Chain Store Cleanup

On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 6:44 PM, Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com wrote: I think eventually chains will see the light, and publish their locations in an open format compatible manner. At that point a quick cross check with OSM would clear up most of the issues. I think this depends on the

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap newbie - help/guidance to convert OSM XML data to .gpx

On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 3:02 AM, Ángel de Vicente angel.vicente.garr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, a complete newbie to Openstreetmap here, so bear with me... Briefly, what I'm, trying to achieve is the following: I have a .gpx file from a bike ride, and I want to use the gps data to get

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap newbie - help/guidance to convert OSM XML data to .gpx

, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 3:02 AM, Ángel de Vicente angel.vicente.garr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, a complete newbie to Openstreetmap here, so bear with me... Briefly, what I'm, trying to achieve is the following: I have a .gpx file from a bike ride

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap newbie - help/guidance to convert OSM XML data to .gpx

that no data was found (and thus I don't see any Convert option when I right click the output.xml layer. I hope now it is a bitt more clear. Thanks a lot Angel de Vicente https://mapmatching.3scale.net/ On 6 May 2015 at 14:21, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: OK, I seem to have

Re: [OSM-talk] Looking for maps with rendered toll status

On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 9:36 AM, Richard Z. ricoz@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 10:27:54AM +0200, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: I am looking for examples how toll status of roads is displayed on existing maps. I am considering rendering toll status in openstreetmap-carto. But I

Re: [OSM-talk] Please ban Xxzme in wiki

On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 3:39 AM, Elena ``of Valhalla'' elena.valha...@gmail.com wrote: On 2015-05-11 at 08:41:48 +0100, Lester Caine wrote: On 11/05/15 02:07, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: I expect to see Xxzme back under a different username soon. This is the real problem. While it is now

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapillary plugin for JOSM

On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 5:48 PM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us wrote: On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 3:16 PM, moltonel 3x Combo molto...@gmail.com wrote: Looking forward to the josm plugin and the merging/locating of signs :) +1 - I got so excited that I purchased a new cell phone mount

Re: [OSM-talk] SOTM-US: directions please

Late to the party, and not being local to New York, I vaguely recall the Local trains have circles and Express have diamonds (except on older cars, in which it'll have a red LOCAL light or a green EXPRESS light, but you're unlikely to see these unless there's a big holiday like the Fourth of July

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] README tag with editor support

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 12:27 PM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote: so i have two things in mind here: 1) formalize the README tag as a way to caution future mappers 2) request editor support, when someone goes to change a README tagged entity, it would be nice if editors would

Re: [OSM-talk] Neat use of OpenStreetMap

On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 3:59 PM, Simon Poole si...@poole.ch wrote: It is not clear to me what isn't free about MLS, but in any case openbmap has been around for quite a while. It's the fact you have to go through an API and tell Mozilla what you can see now, and they provide you a

Re: [OSM-talk] Neat use of OpenStreetMap

On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 3:09 PM, Michał Brzozowski www.ha...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 9:54 PM, Robert Kaiser ka...@kairo.at wrote: Also, I really, really hope my access point will not get into any really open-to-everyone database because I don't want people to follow me

[OSM-talk] Neat use of OpenStreetMap

OpenBMap http://radiocells.org/ It's similar to Google's location services or Mozilla's location service, but free. You can make use of it as a location provider in Android using the OpenBMap plugin https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=unifiednlpfdid=org.openbmap.unifiedNlp for microG

Re: [OSM-talk] Neat use of OpenStreetMap

On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 6:17 AM, Michał Brzozowski www.ha...@gmail.com wrote: This could be big. Remember that Mozilla Location Services does not provide Wi-Fi data download due to privacy concerns (Which is BS in my opinion). But with data downloads available, one can develop off-line

Re: [OSM-talk] History of specific areas

On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 1:22 AM, Maarten Deen md...@xs4all.nl wrote: I don't know if OWL can do it because it is offline. Is OWL gone forever? My recollection is I was living in Salem and just joined the project more recently than OWL's been online.

Re: [OSM-talk] The Proposed Great Colour Shift

On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 5:13 AM, Colin Smale colin.sm...@xs4all.nl wrote: While we are at it, what about specific symbols for train/metro stations per operator? That is also a great landmark for map users. I'd settle for the transit map acknowledging that colour=* is a tag that exists for

Re: [OSM-talk] The Proposed Great Colour Shift

On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 5:17 PM, Minh Nguyen m...@nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us wrote: Lester Caine lester at lsces.co.uk writes: Just what is the convention in the US, Russia or China? Regarding the U.S., Paul and I describe the conventions here in detail:

Re: [OSM-talk] Crossposting

On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 11:08 AM, Richard ricoz@gmail.com wrote: So I am wondering - would there be some option to relax the rules so that reply-crossposting would work without being subscribed to every single list? Debian has an open list policy and it doesn't seem to be for the worse.

Re: [OSM-talk] The Proposed Great Colour Shift

On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: On 20/08/15 02:16, Jóhannes Birgir Jensson wrote: The question really arises if this change is beneficial or not for the project. Many hours have gone into it and doing CartoCSS on all these zoom levels is not trivial.

Re: [OSM-talk] stop deleting abandoned railroads

On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 5:07 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: If you were complaining that the trail isn't there then I'd understand, and you'd have my full support for adding it. But complaining instead that the abandoned railway isn't there...? They're often prominent features,

Re: [OSM-talk] New road style for the Default map style - the second version. And thanks for rural test locations!

On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 9:07 AM, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: On 23/07/15 14:53, André Riedel wrote: For me the way motorways and trunks are rendered in the german style looks better. This is going to a sticking point much of the time. Certainly if the colours change form the

Re: [OSM-talk] New road style for the Default map style - the second version. And thanks for rural test locations!

I think I'm still in heavy preference towards the more distinctive colors and level of detail of the existing mapnik, but I do like the smaller line weights for residential. On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 4:01 AM, Mateusz Konieczny matkoni...@gmail.com wrote: I published new diary entry. It includes

Re: [OSM-talk] Replication broken?

On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 5:06 PM, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: On 12/07/15 22:26, Simon Poole wrote: Replcation has been back for a while, ramoth didn't come back up on its own and had to be booted by Tom. That wasn't actually the cause of the replication failure, that was just the

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=residential_link

On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 2:36 AM, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: > On Mon, 9 Nov 2015 22:36:28 -0500 > Andrew Guertin wrote: > > > So the question is, should uses of highway=residential_link be edited > > away, should they be left as-is (unless a different

[OSM-talk] Proposal: effective_hours tag for restrictions

On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 7:36 AM, Nicolás Alvarez wrote: > > El 10 nov 2015, a las 09:57, Badita Florin > escribió: > > Hello, i have a question, how do you tag the opening hours for a turn > restriction that is activated only during a certain

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=residential_link

On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 3:41 PM, Mateusz Konieczny <matkoni...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, 11 Nov 2015 04:33:57 -0600 > Paul Johnson <ba...@ursamundi.org> wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 2:36 AM, Mateusz Konieczny > > <matkoni...@gmail.com> wrote: >

Re: [OSM-talk] Traffic Flow Direction

On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 9:27 PM, Clifford Snow wrote: > Martijn, > I like your new challenge, Traffic Flow Direction [1] > > [1] https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/mvexel/diary/36209 > I saw this and I was really hoping it would be for how to tag hints for data

Re: [OSM-talk] Release openstreetmap-carto v2.36.0

Just noticed it's starting to roll across the Big Empty now. http://imgur.com/a/od9sr On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 4:01 PM, Matthijs Melissen wrote: > Dear all, > > Today, v2.36.0 of the openstreetmap-carto stylesheet has been > released and rolled out to the

Re: [OSM-talk] [Tagging] Proposal: Sunset ref=* on ways in favor of relations

On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 7:00 AM, Christoph Hormann <chris_horm...@gmx.de> wrote: > On Friday 06 November 2015, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Stop rendering this key and instead render the relations > > Is there *any* map style that does this at the moment? > I believe Toby ha

Re: [OSM-talk] User WJtW - railway track counts

Not even sure how passenger_lines=* is even a tag given route=rail relations... On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 6:02 AM, Dave F. wrote: > I'm unsure of the difference between passenger_lines=* & tracks=*. > > Reading the wiki page, it appears the writer is confused as well,

Re: [OSM-talk] User WJtW - railway track counts

On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 4:09 AM, Colin Smale wrote: > > I noticed he has unblocked himself and is working again, but in the > new changeset I looked at yesterday "tracks=N" was no longer being added. > Still not sure about the sources of the other information

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Find missing roads

On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 11:47 PM, Russ Nelson wrote: > Martijn van Exel writes: > > Hi all, > > > > Our OSM team cooked up something new. A missing roads plugin for JOSM. I > > think it's pretty nice but I would really like to hear what you think. > > Something's wrong --

Re: [OSM-talk] User WJtW - railway track counts

On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 2:20 AM, Colin Smale wrote: > > User WJtW[1] has been making large numbers of edits to railways across > Europe in the past few months, all with the changeset comment > "Electrified". Most of them are adding tags like gauge=1435 which may well > be

Re: [OSM-talk] Reply-to header

On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 11:09 PM, Russ Nelson nel...@crynwr.com wrote: Balaco Baco writes: All messages I received from OSM list does not have the reply-to header with the list address. They should not. If you want to reply to the list, use your email software's reply to list function.

Re: [OSM-talk] stop deleting abandoned railroads

On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 6:09 PM, moltonel 3x Combo molto...@gmail.com wrote: On 22/08/2015, John Eldredge j...@jfeldredge.com wrote: So, if you are looking for a route without steep grades, a former railway is a natural choice. Do people actually do this ? Yes, I do. It sounds like a

Re: [OSM-talk] Abandoned Rails

On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 4:02 AM, moltonel 3x Combo molto...@gmail.com wrote: On 27/08/2015, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: I believe we're talking about abandoned railroad rights of way that still mark the landscape, not something that no longer has a trace. No : Russ Nelson

Re: [OSM-talk] Abandoned Rails

On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 3:32 PM, Tim Waters chippy2...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to recommend OpenHistoricalMap.org (OHM) which will welcome all types of historical, disused and abandoned features. Please, go add every abandoned railway to OHM, and then together we can eventually get an

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

On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 10:39 AM, Jo Walsh wrote: > > But I am interested in other examples of novel uses of OSM data, any > suggestions from the list would be welcome. > Not sure if they're still doing it, but I vaguely recall both Trimet and Portland Streetcar used

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Request revert on Changeset #33669446

On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 5:47 PM, Nathan Mills wrote: > I can't speak to this specific instance, but based on Paul's usual > criteria, I'd take what he has to say on the topic with a grain of salt. I > gave up trying to convince him OK11 between I-244 and US-75 in Tulsa should >

Re: [OSM-talk] Abandoned Rails

On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 7:23 AM, wrote: > We can map barriers and visible dividing marks, but land ownership has > massive privacy and data protection issues. Depends on the region. I've even heard it from county officials (incorrectly!) citing this regarding trying to

Re: [OSM-talk] Abandoned Rails

On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 7:22 PM, Russ Nelson wrote: > Too bad for that guy that he didn't check OpenStreetMap first, because > there was an abandoned railroad mapped in his back yard. Now that the > trail has been built, he has a fence about 5' behind his house. I > can't

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] understanding administrative boundary relations

On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 8:56 PM, Ray Kiddy wrote: > It has occurred to me that there will probably need to be a "boundary > watcher" tool, which can let an interested group know about it when a > boundary gets broken in some way. And I have started playing with the > python

Re: [OSM-talk] Portal for end users

It actually appears they are claiming to do so (based on Mapbox attribution), though I question how recent their snapshot is or how they're coming to some of the conclusions they are in the Tulsa area, http://mapq.st/1fX5bwr . Some major glaring inconsistencies are standing out, as in this is

Re: [OSM-talk] Portal for end users

On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 2:54 PM, Daniel Koć wrote: > W dniu 15.09.2015 18:10, Joseph Reeves napisał(a): > >> http://hello.mapquest.com/ [5] ? >> > > Nice try, Sauron!... ;-) > > I would say this is not the answer for OSM and for me this is half baked > solution at best. > > Nice

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Find missing roads

On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 10:58 AM, Martijn van Exel wrote: > Paul, > > The GPS data is from Scout (US as well as Skobbler / Global) users. It is > collected during navigation sessions as well as in Scout Global ‘free > drive’ mode. > > The fact that you see incomplete sets is to do

Re: [OSM-talk] Traffic Signs

On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 3:42 AM, Florian Lohoff wrote: > On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 04:04:32PM +0200, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > sent from a phone > > > > > Am 30.09.2015 um 14:57 schrieb Florian Lohoff : > > > > > > Given that mapillary stays i can > > > go back to those

Re: [OSM-talk] How does one tag a business that closed and was replaced by something else?

On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 11:18 AM, Andrew Wiseman wrote: > Hi, > > In this case, two businesses closed and were replaced by a single business > that took over both buildings (they are adjoining.) How should I tag this? > I didn't see anything about closed: or former: on the

Re: [OSM-talk] Involving Cyclists in OSM

On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 2:58 AM, Volker Schmidt wrote: > > OSM maps for cycling navigation with routing: > >- OSM maps for Garmin navigation devices: >- velomap/MTBmap, > - openfietsmap (www.openfietsmap.nl/) >- OSM maps as native maps on navigation devices

Re: [OSM-talk] Not sure what to think

On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 10:33 AM, Simon Poole wrote: > > But the idea that facts indexed by Google could be tainted is a > > stretch. It's not something they've tried to claim, it would be a > > tenuous legal argument, and it doesn't make much sense. I think this > > is a case

Re: [OSM-talk] What3words

On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 10:25 AM, Tom Taylor wrote: > Isn't it simply the equivalent of TinyURL for coordinates? > Not quite. TinyURL's point is to fit around limitations with some means of electronic communication in terms of handling certain characters or arbitrary

Re: [OSM-talk] A message to our friends at HOT, Peace Corps etc. about Changeset Comments

On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 6:52 PM, john whelan wrote: > Or are we now asking that all mappers on OSM have to be able to read and > write in English since that is the normal language for communication in OSM > or is one of the local African languages sufficient. If it is

Re: [OSM-talk] What3words

On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 12:08 PM, Peter Gervai wrote: > On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 2:01 PM, ajt1...@gmail.com > wrote: > > On 22/11/2015 12:51, Colin Smale wrote: > > > ...and once again, as seems to be the norm in OSM, any minority interest > > which

Re: [OSM-talk] What3words

On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 6:00 AM, Stefano wrote: > Hi, > just for reference in May I saw a discussion on okfn-labs on "opening up" > w3w by doing an open location code system (different from the Google one). > https://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/okfn-labs/2015-May/001623.html > >

Re: [OSM-talk] What3words

On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 11:29 PM, Jake Wasserman wrote: > On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 11:28 PM, Max wrote: > >> Additionally it is a mind booggling case of anglocentrism and neo >> colonialism to put english words all over parts of the world where >>

Re: [OSM-talk] What3words

On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 3:10 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > 2015-11-24 8:54 GMT+01:00 Colin Smale : > >> I think their idea is that you can quote a location with the words which >> for humans is much easier to memorize and less prone to

Re: [OSM-talk] A message to our friends at HOT, Peace Corps etc. about Changeset Comments

On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 7:54 AM, Simon Poole wrote: > This seems a bit of an odd time to announce a schism and I'm sure you > didn't intend for your statement to come across as it just did. > > While rabid anti-OSMers are gaining more power and influence in HOT and MM, > Not

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping Parking Lots

On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 6:22 PM, Mike Thompson wrote: > I notice that some times just the part of a parking lot where cars may > park is mapped [1]. In other cases the entire lot, including the lanes > between rows of cars, has been mapped [2]. > I find the latter to be

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping Parking Lots

On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 4:08 AM, Badita Florin wrote: > When i have time, i also add the ways in the parking lots, mostly because > i know that here at telenav it`s generating a lot of false positive missing > roads, that are in fact parking ways. > The algorithm can

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

On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 8:52 AM, Andy Townsend wrote: > On 21/06/2016 10:12, joost schouppe wrote: > > Some ideas: > > - maps.me should probably stick to simple-to-map objects when it adds > data. Complicated stuff should go in a note. > > > - if the maps.me data is old, any

Re: [OSM-talk] What is 'Attic Data'? or 'Why can't wiki writers use plain language'.

I suspect you're onto something here; it's not a phrase that's even in my GIS vernacular. Don't even recall it from college experience (though I took French and majored in civil engineering; amazing I'm not mapping professionally)... On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 10:18 PM, Marc Gemis

Re: [OSM-talk] What is 'Attic Data'? or 'Why can't wiki writers use plain language'.

On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 1:06 AM, Maarten Deen <md...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > On 2016-02-04 07:58, Paul Johnson wrote: > >> I suspect you're onto something here; it's not a phrase that's even in >> my GIS vernacular. Don't even recall it from college experience >> (th

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenRandomMap

Wow, the RNG gods are apparently aware of my fursona. I got OpenAlaskanBrownBearMap on the first try. On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 1:52 PM, Alex Barth wrote: > ***OpenEpicMap*** > > > On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 9:39 AM, Nick Whitelegg < > nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk> wrote: > >> >>

Re: [OSM-talk] Winter Road Closures

On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 8:21 AM, wrote: > In order to help avoid this situation with OSM, I tagged highway 82 across > Independence Pass with "seasonal=yes". If anyone knows more specifics; > i.e. the precise extent of the seasonal closure or how better to tag > "Closed

Re: [OSM-talk] Winter Road Closures

On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 4:23 PM, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 25/02/2016 4:01 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 8:21 AM, <dasdje...@comcast.net> wrote: > >> In order to help avoid this situation with OSM, I tagged highway

Re: [OSM-talk] Guides to improve navigation data in OpenStreetMap

On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 8:56 AM, Abhishek Saikia wrote: > Hi Marc, > > Thank you for the kind words and prompt feedback. `turn:lanes` are > exclusively for vehicles and as per discussion with the OSRM team here: >

Re: [OSM-talk] Guides to improve navigation data in OpenStreetMap

of > how to > > incorporate cycles and non motorized vehicle into this tag. These are > still > > open questions that should be discussed by the community. > > > > Philip, if you have a particular example of how to tag turn lanes for > buses, > > we will incor

Re: [OSM-talk] Guides to improve navigation data in OpenStreetMap

On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 6:02 PM, Janko Mihelic wrote: > pet, 11. ožu 2016. 21:00 Martin Koppenhoefer je > napisao: > >> >> what about the pavement/sidewalk, shall it be included? If yes, what is a >> lane there, e.g. when there are (partially)

Re: [OSM-talk] Guides to improve navigation data in OpenStreetMap

Really, any restricted lane should be in the total lane count and have the appropriate lane permissions assigned. On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 11:46 AM, Philip Barnes <p...@trigpoint.me.uk> wrote: > On Thu, 2016-03-10 at 11:24 -0600, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > On Thu, Ma

Re: [OSM-talk] Guides to improve navigation data in OpenStreetMap

On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 7:12 AM, Arun Ganesh wrote: > this means that all turn:lanes, change:lanes, access:lanes, >> forward:lanes, backward:lanes, etc. should count ALL lanes > > > Turn lanes meant for a turn in a particular direction at the junction. I'm > not sure if

Re: [OSM-talk] Guides to improve navigation data in OpenStreetMap

On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 10:09 AM, Nicolás Alvarez <nicolas.alva...@gmail.com > wrote: > > El 12 mar 2016, a las 04:18, Paul Johnson <ba...@ursamundi.org> escribió: > > On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 6:02 PM, Janko Mihelic <janko.mihe...@gmail.com> > wrote: >

Re: [OSM-talk] Old Aerodromes

On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 4:19 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com > wrote: > > 2016-04-12 11:00 GMT+02:00 Paul Johnson <ba...@ursamundi.org>: > >> Can we really be sure there is no airfield, just because we don't see >>> anything in the aerial im

Re: [OSM-talk] Old Aerodromes

On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 3:23 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > 2016-04-12 4:50 GMT+02:00 Martijn van Exel : > >> I was mapping some rural area in the U.S. and noticed, not for the first >> time, an aerodrome node in the middle of a field where there is

Re: [OSM-talk] OsmAnd financially rewarding mappers

On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 5:17 AM, Marc Gemis wrote: > If I understand the discussion on [1] correctly OsmAnd will reward > mappers with bitcoins. The bitcoins seem to be paid via a formula > based on the number of changesets you upload. > > I think this is a bad idea, (just

Re: [OSM-talk] OsmAnd financially rewarding mappers

You realize that Osmand~ on f-droid is already Osmand+ right? On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 11:11 AM, joost schouppe wrote: > I am surprised to see so few negative reactions. Nothing against the idea, > but it should be better thought out to avoid perverse incentives. > > A

Re: [OSM-talk] OsmAnd financially rewarding mappers

On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 5:31 AM, Marc Gemis wrote: > So you will start making changesets where you move points one pixel > at the time to their final position ? (just to increase the number of > changesets) :-) My current ongoing project is to detail micromap all nearly

Re: [OSM-talk] OsmAnd financially rewarding mappers

On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 12:17 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > On 03/03/2016 06:11 PM, joost schouppe wrote: > > I am surprised to see so few negative reactions. Nothing against the > > idea, but it should be better thought out to avoid perverse incentives. > > I have no

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Slack

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 3:45 PM, Dave F wrote: > > On 29/03/2016 21:20, Tom Hughes wrote: > >> On 29/03/16 20:52, Martijn van Exel wrote: >> >> I find this a really worthwhile conversation to have. IRC is still great >>> for some but it’s hardly inclusive. >>> >> >>

Re: [OSM-talk] Bicycle GPS traces - more opendata

On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 6:03 AM, john whelan wrote: > Now that is an interesting idea. I think they're date stamped as well. > If they're uploaded with the Trackable or Identifiable permission, which is advantageous for OSM usage but has potential privacy issues for the

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