Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Birmingham Bike Hire pods

2014-10-05 Thread Andy Robinson
Brian, Do you mean the Brompton Dock? Its not a Borris bike btw. There is also a dock due in at New Street. Cheers Andy From: Brian Prangle [mailto:br...@mappa-mercia.org] Sent: 05 October 2014 11:52 To: OSM Group WM Subject: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Birmingham Bike Hire pods Hi

Re: [Talk-GB] Vandalism in London

2014-10-05 Thread David Woolley
On 05/10/14 09:49, Lester Caine wrote: there should be a block on the deleted element being removed until the 'damage' is repaired. Something that JOSM at least tries to help with, but iD ignores? Where the damage is the breaking of a relation, iD is not ignoring it, it is actively but

Re: [Talk-GB] Vandalism in London

2014-10-05 Thread Andy Street
On Sun, 05 Oct 2014 00:35:20 +0100 David Woolley for...@david-woolley.me.uk wrote: I think iD has taken totally the wrong approach. If the concept is too difficult for the target audience, it should have refused the operation, rather than hidden the problem. Simply refusing to delete seems

Re: [Talk-GB] Deletions and newbie editors

2014-10-05 Thread Spike
On 05/10/2014 10:47, David Woolley wrote: A classic example is NaPTAN stop data, where the rule for one that has gone away is to invalidate the bus stop tag and add physically_present=no, but leave the node present. I think I've seen cases where a stop being moved has triggered an delete/add

Re: [Talk-GB] Deletions and newbie editors

2014-10-05 Thread David Woolley
On 05/10/14 11:27, Spike wrote: On 05/10/2014 10:47, David Woolley wrote: A classic example is NaPTAN stop data, where the rule for one that has gone away is to invalidate the bus stop tag and add physically_present=no, but leave the node present. I think I've seen cases where a stop being

Re: [Talk-GB] Deletions and newbie editors

2014-10-05 Thread Dan S
2014-10-05 12:11 GMT+01:00 David Woolley for...@david-woolley.me.uk: On 05/10/14 11:27, Spike wrote: On 05/10/2014 10:47, David Woolley wrote: A classic example is NaPTAN stop data, where the rule for one that has gone away is to invalidate the bus stop tag and add physically_present=no,

Re: [Talk-GB] Deletions and newbie editors

2014-10-05 Thread Ian Caldwell
On 5 October 2014 12:11, David Woolley for...@david-woolley.me.uk wrote: Could I ask please the logic behind retaining references to a stop that does not exist? In rural area there are places that buses stop but no physical stop. And in Malvern there are examples of where this only a physical

Re: [Talk-GB] Deletions and newbie editors (was: Vandalism in London)

2014-10-05 Thread David Woolley
On 05/10/14 11:25, Andy Street wrote: Simply refusing to delete seems rather unhelpful. I'd much prefer the user to be presented with a dialog box that explains the problem in simple terms before allowing them to either continue with the delete or seek assistance. If the user requires assistance

Re: [Talk-GB] Vandalism in London

2014-10-05 Thread Lester Caine
On 05/10/14 11:25, Andy Street wrote: I think iD has taken totally the wrong approach. If the concept is too difficult for the target audience, it should have refused the operation, rather than hidden the problem. Simply refusing to delete seems rather unhelpful. I'd much prefer the user

Re: [Talk-GB] Deletions and newbie editors (was: Vandalism in London)

2014-10-05 Thread Andy Street
On Sun, 05 Oct 2014 12:47:29 +0100 David Woolley for...@david-woolley.me.uk wrote: Newbies will tend to do what is necessary to suppress the error message, without thinking what they are doing. Alternatively, they will reject the editor as one of the big problem with creating dumbed down

Re: [Talk-GB] Deletions and newbie editors (was: Vandalism in London)

2014-10-05 Thread Antje (OpenStreetMap)
I am trying to think how to reduce incidents that would cause alarm to users like me, but there is no point in flagging new editors because it won’t help them integrate into OSM. I am not an expert in iD since I moved on from Potlatch, but Potlatch at least denotes relations on ways, while iD

Re: [Talk-GB] Deletions and newbie editors

2014-10-05 Thread Stuart Reynolds
This is digressing somewhat into a discussion about NaPTAN but before I get into that point, if I can just pick up on the comment about leaving things in because it shows a history of what the data looked like. Sorry, but OSM IS a dynamic data set and doesn't AFAIK have the facility to keep a

Re: [Talk-GB] Deletions and newbie editors

2014-10-05 Thread Stuart Reynolds
That should have been DfT in my last sentence. Curse autocorrect! Sent from my iPhone On 5 Oct 2014, at 18:00, Stuart Reynolds stu...@travelinesoutheast.org.ukmailto:stu...@travelinesoutheast.org.uk wrote: This is digressing somewhat into a discussion about NaPTAN but before I get into that

Re: [Talk-GB] Deletions and newbie editors

2014-10-05 Thread David Woolley
On 05/10/14 17:58, Stuart Reynolds wrote: On NaPTAN, deleted stops are those that have been removed and should correspondingly be removed from OSM If that is the new policy, you should change

Re: [Talk-GB] Deletions and newbie editors

2014-10-05 Thread David Woolley
On 05/10/14 18:20, David Woolley wrote: On 05/10/14 17:58, Stuart Reynolds wrote: On NaPTAN, deleted stops are those that have been removed and should correspondingly be removed from OSM If that is the new policy, you should change

Re: [Talk-GB] Deletions and newbie editors

2014-10-05 Thread Stuart Reynolds
That's my view as someone who is closely involved with NaPTAN. I don't know what official OSM policy is-I'm just saying what it ought to be Regards Stuart Sent from my iPhone On 5 Oct 2014, at 18:20, David Woolley for...@david-woolley.me.uk wrote: On 05/10/14 17:58, Stuart Reynolds wrote:

Re: [Talk-GB] Deletions and newbie editors

2014-10-05 Thread Lester Caine
On 05/10/14 17:58, Stuart Reynolds wrote: This is digressing somewhat into a discussion about NaPTAN but before I get into that point, if I can just pick up on the comment about leaving things in because it shows a history of what the data looked like. Sorry, but OSM IS a dynamic data set and

Re: [Talk-GB] Deletions and newbie editors

2014-10-05 Thread David Woolley
On 05/10/14 21:00, Lester Caine wrote: and historic material would have an end date set which the renderers would also respect. A view of the data with any out of scope material suppressed is easy to implement, but at present we still don't have a reliable method of archiving material even if

Re: [Talk-GB] Deletions and newbie editors (was: Vandalism in London)

2014-10-05 Thread David Woolley
On 05/10/14 14:11, Lester Caine wrote: Which sort of ties in with my constraints on relations. If an edit is breaking something it's easy enough to say unable to proceed because ... but ideally the API should be able to find a new missing bit and add it into the relation? Only blocking

Re: [Talk-GB] Deletions and newbie editors

2014-10-05 Thread Lester Caine
On 05/10/14 21:43, David Woolley wrote: On 05/10/14 14:11, Lester Caine wrote: Which sort of ties in with my constraints on relations. If an edit is breaking something it's easy enough to say unable to proceed because ... but ideally the API should be able to find a new missing bit and add

Re: [Talk-GB] Deletions and newbie editors (was: Vandalism in London)

2014-10-05 Thread SomeoneElse
With new editors though I sometimes think we forget how hard it is for someone to start editing now in e.g. the centre of London compared to when we experienced mappers started. Here, for example (courtesy of Martijn Van Exel's OSM Then and Now) is what the area I started mapping in looked