Re: [Talk-GB] [Talk-gb-westmidlands] [oxoncotswolds] Possible pub meetup with the West Midlands crew in early October?

2013-09-23 Thread Andy Robinson
We had tentative plans for some mapping in Banbury on Oct 5th. I suspect because of all the other things that have been going on its slipped from everyone's mind (it certainly has from mine). I now find I can't make the 5th as originally proposed, just wondering how many wish to keep it as it is

Re: [Talk-GB] National speed limit changes

2013-09-23 Thread Philip Barnes
On Sat, 2013-09-21 at 22:09 +0100, Andy Street wrote: I'd agree that maxspeed=national is insufficient as it is impossible to tell what speed you can do in a built up area. National speed limits rarely apply in built up areas, other than sometimes on faster feeder roads. The built up area limit

[Talk-GB] User with long list of slow vandalism

2013-09-23 Thread Tom Chance
Hello all, I'm trying to get this user account suspended/banned: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Quercus1/edits I have tried contacting him/her to no avail. All these edits are bogus and many involve the deletion of features. I emailed the DWG but got no response, and the wiki page is a bit

Re: [Talk-GB] User with long list of slow vandalism

2013-09-23 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 09/23/13 12:39, Tom Chance wrote: I emailed the DWG but got no response, and the wiki page is a bit unclear as to whether this can be dealt with in the community (mailing lists?) or by the DWG. It seems you have already repaired the most obvious damage yourself. Indeed DWG prefers it

Re: [Talk-GB] User with long list of slow vandalism

2013-09-23 Thread OpenStreetmap HADW
On 23 September 2013 11:39, Tom Chance t...@acrewoods.net wrote: I'm trying to get this user account suspended/banned: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Quercus1/edits Whilst, if they fail to respond to a direct approach, such steps may be needed... I have tried contacting him/her to no

Re: [Talk-GB] User with long list of slow vandalism

2013-09-23 Thread SomeoneElse
OpenStreetmap HADW wrote: The edits seem to be seriously incompetent, rather than actually bogus, or malicious. What they've added is mostly just untagged ways (sometimes for buildings, sometimes perhaps fences, sometimes unclear). I'd mostly therefore mostly agree with incompetence rather

Re: [Talk-GB] User with long list of slow vandalism

2013-09-23 Thread Tom Chance
On 23 September 2013 12:22, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: It seems you have already repaired the most obvious damage yourself. Of the changesets in my local area - others covered some other edits. Indeed DWG prefers it if such issues can be resolved by the community through

Re: [Talk-GB] User with long list of slow vandalism

2013-09-23 Thread Tom Chance
On 23 September 2013 12:27, OpenStreetmap HADW osmh...@gmail.com wrote: The edits seem to be seriously incompetent, rather than actually bogus, or malicious. I'm not sure, they are strange edits. On the one hand there are some outlines of actual features, on the other hand there are * random

[Talk-GB] Rendering a before image of a change (was: User with long list of slow vandalism)

2013-09-23 Thread SomeoneElse
OpenStreetmap HADW wrote: Incidentally, is there any easy way of rendering a before image of a change? A couple of possibilities: o If you're quick, the Cycle Map layer on osm.org might show the old version. There are also many other OSM-based online maps, many of which don't update as

Re: [Talk-GB] User with long list of slow vandalism

2013-09-23 Thread Tom Chance
On 23 September 2013 16:01, OpenStreetmap HADW osmh...@gmail.com wrote: * changesets with the same comment that doesn't correspond with the thing they have traced, like This is a House Unfortunately, like subjects on many PC support forums, the average contributor doesn't seem to be able

Re: [Talk-GB] User with long list of slow vandalism

2013-09-23 Thread Filip Chirita Rares Cristian
Can we check their IP? Didn't something similar happen with some Google employees vandalizing OSM a few years ago? Chris On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Tom Chance t...@acrewoods.net wrote: On 23 September 2013 16:01, OpenStreetmap HADW osmh...@gmail.com wrote: * changesets with the same

Re: [Talk-GB] User with long list of slow vandalism

2013-09-23 Thread OpenStreetmap HADW
On 23/09/13 14:08, Tom Chance wrote: On 23 September 2013 12:27, OpenStreetmap HADW osmh...@gmail.com mailto:osmh...@gmail.com wrote: The edits seem to be seriously incompetent, rather than actually bogus, or malicious. I'm not sure, they are strange edits. On the one hand there are

Re: [Talk-GB] National speed limit changes

2013-09-23 Thread Peter Miller
Apologies for being slow to pick this one up. I was in private discussion with Andy on this using OSM messaging which appeared to have come to a conclusion. I now notice that it had moved to talk-gb. For avoidance of doubt, all my edits have been fully manual. Here is the explanation I gave to

Re: [Talk-GB] User with long list of slow vandalism

2013-09-23 Thread OpenStreetmap HADW
On 23 September 2013 18:47, Peter Oliver p.d.oli...@mavit.org.uk wrote: Didn't someone mention that this user was using JOSM? JOSM pre-populates the comment field with the previously submitted comment. The other thing it does is to add to an existing changeset, and the changeset is left

Re: [Talk-GB] User with long list of slow vandalism

2013-09-23 Thread SomeoneElse
Frederik Ramm wrote: (the *ideal* but often utopian course of action being that the user sees his mistake and fixes it himself!), In my personal experience, mappers that are still engaged with the project *1 normally do reply to a hello-and-welcome-but-by-the-way message positively *2, and

Re: [Talk-GB] Search for location

2013-09-23 Thread Robert Norris
I'm buried in other code at the moment so don't have time to dig for an answer, so can someone point me in the right direction to get a 'search result' via the API for looking up a location. I know I can go via the website, but I need to be able to search for

Re: [Talk-GB] Rendering a before image of a change

2013-09-23 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 23.09.2013 17:22, SomeoneElse wrote: o If you're quick, the Cycle Map layer on osm.org might show the old version. There are also many other OSM-based online maps, many of which don't update as quickly as the osm.org standard map. o A local server using a small rendering database

Re: [Talk-GB] [Talk-gb-westmidlands] [oxoncotswolds] Possible pub meetup with the West Midlands crew in early October?

2013-09-23 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi Andy, == You may need to forward this to the Oxon list as I'm not subscribed == We hadn't forgotten that there were plans to meet-up but it had slipped my mind that we had already picked a date. Given that you weren't able to attend SOTM, I'm quite happy to change the date to one that you are