[OSM-talk] ADD import (Antarctica natural features and POIs)

/Antarctic_Digital_Database [5] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Antarctic_Digital_Database/Data -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] ADD import (Antarctica natural features and POIs)

history. I know that because of this the recommendation is to apply source tags to the changeset rather than the geometries. This is not feasible in case of fine grained attributes like the ADD coastline though where every way has different attributes. Greetings, -- Christoph Hormann http

Re: [OSM-talk] source=Google

changes could accumulate to a substantial change without being noticed). Greetings, -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] source=Google

own metadata and this would be reset everytime the tag value is changed. And of course in addition to 'source' one could think of various other metadata types. The date is obvious but accuracy as well as reliability information could also be useful metadata. -- Christoph Hormann http

Re: [OSM-talk] List: Densely Mapped Areas

. Currently it has a kind of Berlin airport flair... Greetings, -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] List: Densely Mapped Areas

is about 2 so it could be that Bordeaux beats Yaounde in real world node density. :-) -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] List: Densely Mapped Areas

correctly, it's the other way round but the difference between Cameroon and Indonesia is marginal. Arkhangelsk seems to be the only high latitude place that newly made it into the new list. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk

[OSM-talk] Use of OSM data by UNEP without proper attribution

what should be done about this. There are probably no bad intentions there and if the mentioned organisations have indeed contributed better data it might be nice to have this available to OSM as well. Greetings, -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik Lowzoom TIles - proof of concept

when scaling down. Greetings, -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik Lowzoom TIles - proof of concept

somewhat distort the colors when you do it in RGB. Greetings, -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Use of OSM data by UNEP without proper attribution

On Thursday 04 July 2013, Mikel Maron wrote: I just now have contact directly with those involved (relatively fast for a big organization), and am explaining the issue to them. Great, thanks for that. Greetings, -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik Lowzoom TIles - proof of concept

and a second high quality version that is pre-rendered periodically using techniques that can be more expensive. Greetings, -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik Lowzoom TIles - proof of concept

On Thursday 04 July 2013, Tom Hughes wrote: Low zooms (0 to 12) are not actually updated in real time anyway - they are only updated periodically by a batch job. But you can still trigger a rerender using /dirty. Greetings, -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik Lowzoom TIles - proof of concept

, -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] High Cartographic Quality Label Placement on OSM-based Map

-label feature do not appear to play a role in label placement and there are some strange priorities. Is the algorithm available as open source? Greetings, -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [OSM-talk] High Cartographic Quality Label Placement on OSM-based Map

research institution should benefit the public... Greetings, -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] High Cartographic Quality Label Placement on OSM-based Map

proprietary software a little bit. Just to clarify this - if the code is not available for others to use, modify and redistribute it is proprietary software, even if all code except your own is free. Greetings, -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de

Re: [OSM-talk] New tile rendering (Live Worldwide)

: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-84.8lon=-167.75zoom=6 Greetings, -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] Combining OSM waterbody and elevation data for better map rendering and QA

/mc/?lon=6.02164lat=60.45423zoom=13num=2mt0=mapnikmt1=bing-satellite [5] http://www.imagico.de/map/errormap_en.php -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Deleting data

is essentially left alone with what to do with it. I think it is to be expected that there are quite a few mappers who then simply try to adjust the data to match what they see in the images by either changing, deleting or adding elements. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de

Re: [OSM-talk] Wikipedia article

suited for professional contributors who in Wikipedia always risk being accused of lacking neutrality. There are however other barriers that discourage such people to become active contributors. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Area mapping density gap - Was: Wikipedia article

and fixme tags are not optimal here) but it is also a matter of mapping culture i think. It bothers me when i see such things because they are strongly visible quality issues which could be solved with relatively little work. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de

Re: [OSM-talk] Admin borders/separate database

/48854191 -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Admin borders/separate database

a Condominium for the river itself as in parts of the Luxembourg/Germany border. It is also important to keep in mind that in case of borders authoritively defined through discrete points an officially released data set does not necessarily represent exactly this definition. -- Christoph Hormann

Re: [OSM-talk] Antimeridian

extending across the 180°-Meridian should also be possible... -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Coastline updates

and New Guinea i suppose. But there probably is a limit. There have for example been many coastline errors in the Philippines recently due to recent mapping activity there but many on fairly small islands. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de

Re: [OSM-talk] very long multiple int_name tags in Near East

the languages). There is: (صيد) Arabic (صَيْدَ) Arabic with harakat (short vowel marks) The latter is not in the other name tags and since it can help to resolve possible pronounciation ambiguities it might be useful to keep it. Not sure if there is a separate language code for that. -- Christoph

Re: [OSM-talk] Coastline updates

artefacts at the tile boundaries when one tile is changed and the other tile is not. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] proprietary and unrelated images on the about page

or the Multilingual map (http://mlm.jochentopf.com/) I know combining such to an image with harmonic colors is not easy but for this purpose it would be perfectly acceptable to tweak the colors of the various maps for an appealing collage. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de

Re: [OSM-talk] The new OpenStreetMap.org design

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

[OSM-talk] SotM-EU 2014 - Call for Presentations

and updates on the conference. You should submit by February 28. We're looking forward to seeing you in Karlsruhe in June! On behalf of the SOTM-EU 2014 program committee, -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Assembling imagery: to mosaic or not

can be. A frequent mistake in common practice armchair mapping is that people regard the image as the truth rather than a most likely inaccurate depiction of the truth. Having several images available can help here. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de

Re: [OSM-talk] NYPL / map-vectorizer - An open-source map vectorizer

/AT/basemap -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] NYPL / map-vectorizer - An open-source map vectorizer

only deal with two different area types (i.e. two colors) - if anyone knows an open source tools with a similar feature set that does not have this limitation i would be eager to hear. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] CJK fallback fonts - testing needed

arbitrarily scaled to fit into a latin line geometry. In your demo the alternative fallbacks do not seem to contain Arabic characters - the missing glyphs are however often the ones worst to read in the normal rendering (although the other ones are not great either). -- Christoph Hormann http

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

said these strips seem to be quite common in the area. I would assume they are trees planted for protection against wind erosion. For this purpose having a singular structure across several hundred kilometers is kind of pointless of course. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping flood

://www.openstreetmap.org/way/183083855 http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/71290542 -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] SOTM-EU talk submission extended

/presentations/new where you can also find further information on the event. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] Tile refresh on openstreetmap.org

that caused this? -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Tile refresh on openstreetmap.org

On Friday 28 February 2014, Tom Hughes wrote: There have been several stylesheet updates in the last week so the servers are very busy and are likely to serve old tiles if they are too busy to rerender them. I see, thanks. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de

Re: [OSM-talk] Tile refresh on openstreetmap.org

normal tile requests triggering re-rendering of high zoom tiles. Well - in principle i think re-rendering of very old tiles (like 2 weeks age) at the low zooms should take precedence over style induced updates at the high zooms. Not sure how feasible it is to implement this. -- Christoph

Re: [OSM-talk] Tile refresh on openstreetmap.org

they show up in the map as fast as possible. Not sure if this is possible with the current render stack of course. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] new mailing list request - OSM outdoor/natural phenomena mapping

tags. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] new mailing list request - OSM outdoor/natural phenomena mapping

/Talk:Tag:natural%3Ddesert -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] new mailing list request - OSM outdoor/natural phenomena mapping

for many years to approximately determine the long term average. Precipitation is even trickier. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

of database law which are open to interpretation and which have not yet been decided in courts yet. A license can only be as clear as the law it is based on. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

with them but i see no perspective to convince me, the mapper, to settle without it just because it would be more convenient/more profitable for me, the data user... ;-) -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk

Re: [OSM-talk] SOTM-EU - Submit your talk

: Call for presentations: https://sotm-eu.org/en/pages/cfp Talk submission: https://www.sotm-eu.org/en/presentations/new Visitor registration: https://www.sotm-eu.org/en/pages/attendees -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Azimuth measurement

on it) you can also record relative orientations and this way avoid the need to find a reference point in exactly the direction your object points to. This is how you used to measure everything before the age of GPS. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de

Re: [OSM-talk] Organizational mapping policy

) as a mapping source - such sources should probably be required to be disclosed even if the mapping itself is a totally private activity. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https

Re: [OSM-talk] Taginfo Updates

there are definitely more features tagged than show up in the map, see for example: http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=6/-71.329/-69.807 -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo

Re: [OSM-talk] Taginfo Updates

with this tag. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Taginfo Updates

member way. But that would be somewhat expensive to do i suppose. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Worldwide non-surveyed tag edits

to the database are individually verified by the mapper, not if you use some fancy filtering to find those objects you want to modify. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https

Re: [OSM-talk] Just facts?

be less critical than deletions and modifications like changing tags. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] The biggest violation of OpenStreetMap, ever.

for months. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik Lowzoom TIles - proof of concept

://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concordia_Station The tagging might of course be considered wrong - it could be more like highway=track and surface=snow but for the standards of the region highway=secondary might even be an understatement. The map could use an update of the coastline file. -- Christoph

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik Lowzoom TIles - proof of concept

is tagged highway=road by the way: http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/187792384 -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] The biggest violation of OpenStreetMap, ever.

rarely any OSM based map out there tells exactly where OSM data is used and where not, even OSMs own 'standard style' map fails to mention the use of non-OSM data. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk

Re: [OSM-talk] The biggest violation of OpenStreetMap, ever.

are not open. And the ODbL as far as i can see does not make any difference if a derivative/collective database contains data originally published under an ODbL compatible license or not. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Availability (Coverage) 2014

parts of the data will influence many conclusions people might draw from such a map. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Availability (Coverage) 2014

On Tuesday 15 July 2014, Stefan Keller wrote: Which node density map by Martin Raifer do you mean? http://tyrasd.github.io/osm-node-density/ -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Availability (Coverage) 2014

Greenland inhabited is a bit of a stretch... -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Upcoming openstreetmap-carto changes

for the map user nor for the mapper. This is of course a subjective impression - it might appear quite differently for others. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] New mapping satellite

, they generally take images on demand for customers. Practically it will probably mean that in the long term more up-to-date imagery will become available but mostly in areas where there generally are already less up-to-date high resolution aerial images. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de

Re: [OSM-talk] New mapping satellite

and updating OSM. That would be great. I think i mentioned this before but it would be really nice if the Mapbox satellite layer provided information on the date of image acquisition. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] New mapping satellite

out. This is however kind of my original point - the new satellite will likely not have much influence on what practically is available to the OSM mapper since what images can be and are taken and which are made available to the OSM mapper are two entirely different things. -- Christoph

Re: [OSM-talk] online survey about the OSM community

. How would you suggest he obtained a large enough random sample? With voluntary participation you can't, no matter what you do. That's why a census generally is not voluntary. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Early History of OSM

to be http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/12183965 mapped as part of a man_made=pier originally. The earliest PGS imported node still in use apparently is http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/13491356 -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Introducing Fix waterway direction

the direction in MapRoulette so you can verify the data without actually loading it in the editor. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Introducing Fix waterway direction

the direction of the other waterways around would be very useful - but probably difficult to implement. I would always show the currently mapped direction - so the potential answer 'this is not an error' matches that rendering. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de

Re: [OSM-talk] tag with value lists Was: Proposed mechanical edit to convert alt_name tags

is actually used frequently elsewhere i would strongly suggest if you want to do a mechanical edit you change those to a semicolon list. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org

[OSM-talk] Outdated info on planet.openstreetmap.org

/historical-shapefiles/ already points to the replacements. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] International Map Year

to OSM. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Modus operandi of the board

certainly fail to meet their purpose as comprehensive documentation of the work of the OSMF bodies. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Postponing elections, or other alternatives (Was: Modus operandi of the board)

and the other candidates for answering the questions on the wiki. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Postponing elections, or other alternatives (Was: Modus operandi of the board)

would immediately sign up for membership to be able to vote (and not for candidacy) Since you as well as other candidates have expressed the desire to expand OSMF membership this might work a lot towards this goal. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de

Re: [OSM-talk] discussion: inclusion and alcohol

is not a useful guideline for anyone planning an OSM event. Just don't think alcoholic drinks are the only sensitive issue to be considered. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: [Osmf-talk] Preliminary Voting Results

to the winners. The description leaves it somewhat unclear how you arrive at the 55 votes threshold. One could get the impression this is an arbitrary limit. Might be good to add that this is calculated from the base parameters of the elecation. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de

Re: [OSM-talk] Omaha World-Herald using OSM without attribution

of gratification. Therefore it is not as frivolous as it might seem at the first glance to demand something that would be impractical to give to all sources. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https

Re: [OSM-talk] Big Lakes

/metadata/4923/LC81740442015047LGN00/ -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Big Lakes

/changeset/28625595 -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Big Lakes

zooms by showing lakes in a way that does not require an arbitrary importance rating by the mapper. This is not trivial though - a bit of background can be found here: https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/754 -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de

Re: [OSM-talk] Big Lakes

/#map=16/18.9860/32.4292 ;-) -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Cat Forest

they do not show up in Mercator projection. Be careful when cleaning things up though - there is also real stuff at the south pole. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https

Re: [OSM-talk] Request for feedback: new building colours in openstreetmap-carto

and it further smudges the already difficult to distinguish urban landuse colors. In any case ultimately i think it is good to try things out this way - there is only so much you can evaluate in advance in a test deployment as it has been done for this change. -- Christoph Hormann http

Re: [OSM-talk] High load on the rendering servers?

should prominently warn about such edits. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

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

the geometries as they are and doing a 1:1 translation of some of the NHD attributes into an arbitrary selection of OSM tags. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org

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

into the second foot after having already lost the first. I see only two option here - removing the data or fixing it based on other data sources (which is tricky of course). On the other hand this could be a fairly good candidate for something like maproulette. -- Christoph Hormann http

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

data in America option (4) might be the better thing to do (we are talking about stuff here that has not been touched for five years). -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https

Re: [OSM-talk] Chain Store Cleanup

to something else just because it happens to be identical to a common misspelling of a certain brand name. Both maintining a list of tagged brands and making mechanical edits in case of brand name changes or widespread typos make sense for brand tags IMO but not for name. -- Christoph

Re: [OSM-talk] GeoHipster comment on OSM

addresses. rant Of course big head at company A usually knows how to quickly get in contact with big head at company B, what really bugs them with OSM is that they are supposed to use the same channels as John Doe. /rant -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de

Re: [OSM-talk] Broken coastline

on the left) Yes, that's a tricky one - i don't think there are that many islands not yet tagged coastline though. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Broken coastline

with the coastline please. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

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

the situation getting again as unbearable and damaging for the atmosphere on the wiki as it was now. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Broken coastline

doing that. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Problems with the wiki (was Why OSM and not another collaborative mapping service?)

://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Environment -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Broken coastline

existing code as much as possible. You probably could save the islands after you tagged them as coastline from JOSM (only the islands) and run them through osmcoastline as if they were the only land on earth and see if there are any errors/warnings. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de

Re: [OSM-talk] (licence of wikidata) was: Can wikidata links help fight name inflation?

books from his/her library out of fear for license problems. Of course it never hurts to verify information from Wikipedia (or from books for that matter) with a second independent source. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing

Re: [OSM-talk] Survey Results for the thread Some thoughts against remote mapping

mapping activities is remote mapping?' or 'have you participated in humanitarian mapping projects?' would have been very useful. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org

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