[OSM-talk] OpenStreetCam plugin

2017-02-03 Thread James
I've noticed that the arrow for each segment seems to be a bit random and not actually pointing in the direction the camera is pointed in which can make it hard to determine which imagery is which ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Spam reporting

2017-02-24 Thread James
In those cases I just forward it to the DWG which can delete/ban the user for repeated spam. On Feb 24, 2017 6:28 AM, "Oleksiy Muzalyev" wrote: > Here is a new spam entry, from February 23, 2017: > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/velpatasvir/diary > > It is an

Re: [OSM-talk] SHA-1 collision announced by Google

2017-02-25 Thread James
It's been known for a while that sha1 can generate duplicates. What next the announcement that MD5s have collisions too? On Feb 24, 2017 3:39 PM, "Pine W" wrote: If you develop or run software that uses SHA-1, here's another reason to upgrade to a more secure algorithm:

Re: [OSM-talk] SHA-1 collision announced by Google

2017-02-25 Thread James
ret techniques and computing power to do it already). > > On Feb 25, 2017, at 10:21, James <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It's been known for a while that sha1 can generate duplicates. What next > the announcement that MD5s have collisions too? > > On Feb 24, 2017 3:

Re: [OSM-talk] No changeset discussion box - Modified via wheelmap.org?

2017-03-01 Thread James
wasn't it like 30 minutes without activity it'll close? On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 8:40 AM, Jakob Mühldorfer wrote: > Hi Dave, > > this is usualy the case when the CS is not closed yet. > https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/29981/what-is-an-open-changeset > Should be

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: [Wikidata] Significant change: new data type for geoshapes

2017-03-29 Thread James
very nice. On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 2:39 PM, Pine W wrote: > Forwarding. > > Pine > > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Léa Lacroix > Date: Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 4:34 AM > Subject: [Wikidata] Significant change: new data type for

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixing broken multipolygons, some notes

2017-03-19 Thread James
Also if I remember correctly the whole point was to optimize/be able to process osm data faster by not having to deal with so many errors(each case can slow down the processing) On Mar 19, 2017 7:23 AM, "Martin Koppenhoefer" wrote: > > > sent from a phone > > > On 19 Mar

Re: [OSM-talk] Responding to vandalism

2017-03-16 Thread James
Even if we had a Git pull request sort of mechanism, who would "approve" edits? DWG? They are volunteers and wouldn't have time to validate the millions of changesets that would come in. On the opposite end of the spectrum, people could just flat out deny good edits which would make many leave.

Re: [OSM-talk] Responding to vandalism

2017-03-16 Thread James
People can't even be bothered to review osmcha, you think people will want to approve changesets? On Mar 16, 2017 1:07 PM, "Sebastiaan Couwenberg" <sebas...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > On 03/16/2017 05:30 PM, James wrote: > > and maintainers privileges, would be determined by

Re: [OSM-talk] Responding to vandalism

2017-03-16 Thread James
bas...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > On 2017-03-16 16:01, James wrote: > >> Even if we had a Git pull request sort of mechanism, who would "approve" >> edits? >> > > Anyone with maintainer priviledges in the respective local community. This > privilege is e

Re: [OSM-talk] What can we offer local government?

2017-03-15 Thread James
The city of Ottawa already uses OSM in their opendata portal: http://data.ottawa.ca/dataset/sledding-hills http://data.ottawa.ca/dataset/neighbourhood-names http://data.ottawa.ca/dataset/airport-runways etc etc But I doubt they know/care as their portal was built by a consultant and not them. On

Re: [OSM-talk] What can we offer local government?

2017-03-15 Thread James
be able to > get the public to point out mistakes. > > 2017-03-15 13:52 GMT+01:00 john whelan <jwhelan0...@gmail.com>: > >> Nice one James. >> >> Thanks John >> >> On 15 March 2017 at 08:38, James <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>>

Re: [OSM-talk] Appropriate attribution to OSM in a mobile app

2017-03-20 Thread James
OSMAnd doesnt even have an attribution on map. There are multiple reference to OSM/OSM editing in settings, but thats about it. I'm aware it has "OSM" in the name, but still doesnt resolve the attribution... On Mar 20, 2017 7:01 AM, "Christoph Hormann" wrote: > On Monday 20

Re: [OSM-talk] Looking for "primary language" map

2017-04-10 Thread James
if they are in English > and have a second language name as well. name:fr for example. > > Cheerio John > > On 10 April 2017 at 20:47, James <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Well it might not be as simple as you say...take for instance Ottawa. >> It's in Ontario

Re: [OSM-talk] Looking for "primary language" map

2017-04-10 Thread James
More like French for the entirety of the province of Quebec On Apr 10, 2017 7:38 PM, "Yuri Astrakhan" wrote: > Does anyone know of an open source language map - basically a set of > geoshapes with the corresponding language code? Country boundaries are not > needed -

Re: [OSM-talk] Looking for "primary language" map

2017-04-10 Thread James
You could try to look at the street qualifiers ex. Rue, boulevard, cercle, croissant,etc placed before the street name would be french where as English places it after the name Xyz street rue Xyz On Apr 10, 2017 9:07 PM, "James" <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > John I me

Re: [OSM-talk] Looking for "primary language" map

2017-04-10 Thread James
> ... > The shapes may overlap because that would make geojson smaller - I will > simply use the first one. > > Having this map will allow me to determine the likely language of the > "name" tag for any location, which in turn make for a better multilingual > map.

Re: [OSM-talk] The Top Ten Tasks list

2017-04-07 Thread James
it's because http://www.CAcert.org(CAcert Inc.) is not in the recognized issuers of your browser. It's like having a self-signed certificate. On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 7:21 AM, Éric Gillet wrote: > 2017-04-07 12:11 GMT+02:00 David Earl : > >>

Re: [OSM-talk] The Top Ten Tasks list

2017-04-07 Thread James
see my previous email about the root certificate authority not being a trusted source of issuing certificates. Your connection is still encrypted like a self-signed certificate, but because the browser hasn't added the root CA to their list of trusted CAs that comply with the practices/audits it

Re: [OSM-talk] Looking for "primary language" map

2017-04-10 Thread James
Also have you checked: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_official_languages_by_country_and_territory On Apr 10, 2017 7:50 PM, "James" <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > More like French for the entirety of the province of Quebec > > On Apr 10, 2017 7:38 PM, &qu

Re: [OSM-talk] Looking for "primary language" map

2017-04-10 Thread James
Well many countries have multiple official languages, Canada is French and English, but in practice is mostly Quebec and New brunswick...with small patches of french throughout the rest On Apr 10, 2017 8:12 PM, "Yuri Astrakhan" <yuriastrak...@gmail.com> wrote: > James, thank

Re: [OSM-talk] Coordinates in OSM. Really annoying

2017-04-21 Thread James
Could be for precision: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_degrees#Precision On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 10:28 AM, Dave F wrote: > Hi > > This is one of my OSM bugbears: http://osm.duschmarke.de/bbox.html > > Is there /really/ any need for *six* coordinate formats?

Re: [OSM-talk] Auto whitespace removal?

2017-03-11 Thread James
Honestly, I'm not sure why this wasnt built into JOSM or P2 or ID for that matter as strip functions are readily available if not, very easy to code Maybe you should open a bug report to request the feature. I think JOSM warns you about it but still would be nice to have strip() auto applied to

Re: [OSM-talk] European Data Portal declares the CC-BY 4.0 and ODbL 1.0 compatible

2017-08-03 Thread James
Bht are they the owners of the data or just relicensors of existing geodata that's been distributed. We need to make sure that they own all the data and that there are no third party rights involved. On Aug 3, 2017 7:32 AM, "Maurizio Napolitano" wrote: I discovered today a

Re: [OSM-talk] Decline in accuracy of capture date metadata in Bing imagery

2017-07-25 Thread James
"Best is to only map areas that you visit and verify yourself" And the email thread was hot osm webinar On Jul 25, 2017 1:24 PM, "Christoph Hormann" <o...@imagico.de> wrote: > On Tuesday 25 July 2017, James wrote: > > Griping about it on the mailing list won'

Re: [OSM-talk] Mystery structure on a South China Sea reef

2017-08-01 Thread James
Sérgio, that's what they want you to think. There's a secret elevator that leads to an underground bunker  On Aug 1, 2017 2:41 PM, "Sérgio V." wrote: > It's also there with Digital Globe Premium at: > >

Re: [OSM-talk] DigitalGlobe imagery for OSM editing

2017-05-10 Thread James
It says on the imagery api website that the average is like ~2 years, but some places are updated twice a year. So depends on your location. On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 3:44 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 1:30 PM, Kevin Bullock >

Re: [OSM-talk] JOSM data upload change

2017-05-11 Thread James
might be your upload settings? Are you uploading 1 item at a time vs say 100 or full changeset? On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 12:42 PM, Palolo wrote: > Yesterday I noticed that JOSM would display a count for each object as it > uploaded. >

Re: [OSM-talk] DigitalGlobe imagery for OSM editing

2017-05-09 Thread James
Just so that it is more clear, do we have to subscribe(paid model) to have access to the imagery to edit in ID/JOSM? As in we would need to sign in with a paid account to access the imagery layer in JOSM/ID; or is this provided much like Bing and Mapbox already have done and provide this service

Re: [OSM-talk] If you run an instance HOT's OSM Tasking Manager 2 please read

2017-05-16 Thread James
how2fix? On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 7:21 AM, Blake Girardot wrote: > Greetings, > > A security vulnerability has been identified in the latest version of > the OSM Tasking Manager 2. > > Please contact me directly, off list and I will pass on the > information on how to fix

Re: [OSM-talk] JOSM data upload change

2017-05-11 Thread James
Happened to me before during and upgrade. :) On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 2:14 PM, Palolo <vaoma...@gmail.com> wrote: > @James-2 Thanks, it took me a while to find the setting in Advanced > Preferences. > I don't know how that got changed, but I'm back functioning now. > Thanks

Re: [OSM-talk] HDYC, login requirement and "privacy"

2017-05-04 Thread James
As Michal said, forcing login wont stop "those that want to cause harm". They will just login and harvest the data. They can also just scrape the osm data, so I dont think this is an issue with HDYC as much it is a privacy concern with OSM data itself. If you dont want to be associated with your

Re: [OSM-talk] HDYC, login requirement and "privacy"

2017-05-04 Thread James
> So you think the German community should be required to proactively > communicate any subject they discuss in German language channels to the > international community? We have to do this for imports, the least you could have done is brought it up on the talk mailing list. On May 4, 2017 4:41

Re: [OSM-talk] HDYC, login requirement and "privacy"

2017-05-04 Thread James
What Michal said. Any body can download the OSM data and run the same analysis. You agreed to contribute to OSM, if you want your online footprint to be non-existant: unplug your internet. On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 3:33 PM, Michał Brzozowski wrote: > Many know Pascal Neis'

Re: [OSM-talk] Name challenge - what to call the new OSM+Wikidata service?

2017-09-17 Thread James
Mappy McDataFace+1 On Sep 17, 2017 8:05 PM, "Blake Girardot HOT/OSM" wrote: Mappy McDataFace is a serious suggestion, please include it in any official lists of proposals. Cheers Blake On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 5:46 PM, Yuri Astrakhan wrote:

Re: [OSM-talk] WhatOSM, a guide for contribution tools

2017-09-21 Thread James
sing OSM is clearly boring plus misleading for users. > > > Thanks for reading this nonsense, I'm totally open to find a way to solve > this potential naming issue, if someone can give me some hints about it, it > would be great. > > Regards, > > Adrien. > > > Le 21

Re: [OSM-talk] WhatOSM, a guide for contribution tools

2017-09-21 Thread James
https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Contact On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 2:22 PM, PanierAvide <panierav...@riseup.net> wrote: > As this is new, is there a dedicated email contact to reach people > handling this ? > > Regards, > > Adrien. > > > Le 21/09/2017 à 20:17, J

Re: [OSM-talk] WhatOSM, a guide for contribution tools

2017-09-21 Thread James
You might want to reconsider the name as you started this project 2 weeks ago and XYZosm or osmXYZ or OpenXYZMap are "copyrighted" and goes against the new usage policy. On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 1:45 PM, PanierAvide wrote: > Hi everyone, > > As you may know, OSM has a

Re: [OSM-talk] DWG survey on organised editing

2017-09-20 Thread James
vs normal mapper(to which the new policy wouldn't apply) On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 7:46 AM, Christoph Hormann <o...@imagico.de> wrote: > On Wednesday 20 September 2017, James wrote: > > Also does organised mapping include groups that hold little > > mapathons? Example a local

Re: [OSM-talk] DWG survey on organised editing

2017-09-20 Thread James
that this is not appropriate for osm)) On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 7:57 AM, Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> wrote: > Hi, > > On 20.09.2017 13:17, James wrote: > > Also does organised mapping include groups that hold little mapathons? > > Example a local mapping group from Vancouver, Toro

Re: [OSM-talk] DWG survey on organised editing

2017-09-20 Thread James
Also does organised mapping include groups that hold little mapathons? Example a local mapping group from Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal or Ottawa decide to say map sidewalks in their city. It's an organised event. Would they be included as well? The terms used in this survey seem a little vague

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixing wrong "adr:housenumber" keys

2017-09-09 Thread James
I dont see an issue fixing this obvious typo On Sep 9, 2017 2:10 PM, "Nelson A. de Oliveira" wrote: > While taking a look at something related with addr:housenumber I saw > http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/rAd that we have 18391 objects with a wrong > adr:housenumber key (it's

Re: [OSM-talk] Beach routing

2017-09-06 Thread James
Not really, with a roundabout, you have a way you can follow. Where as an area, you'd calculate somewhat of the middle between the two edges to generate a path, as you can't just route on the boundary of the polygon as it might be unwalkable/doesnt make sense in reality On Sep 6, 2017 7:24 AM,

Re: [OSM-talk] Beach routing

2017-09-06 Thread James
Or just follow the same shape as border +/- say 1-4meters offset(keep it inside the polygon) On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 7:57 AM, Dave F wrote: > Sorry wanted to add this: > > With irregular shapes (crescent, for example) a check to see if the route > is within the

Re: [OSM-talk] Label language on the Default stylesheet

2017-09-25 Thread James
I think Latin as default is disrespectful to areas like Japan which might not be able to read Latin letters as they have kana for non-japanese words. It's a bit biased to ask if Latin should be the default on a Latin based list(letters not language).I'm sure there would be a different opinion if

Re: [OSM-talk] Label language on the Default stylesheet

2017-09-25 Thread James
dding 500 extra layers is > not a practical endeavour. > > 2017-09-25 12:15 GMT+02:00 James <james2...@gmail.com>: > >> I think Latin as default is disrespectful to areas like Japan which might >> not be able to read Latin letters as they have kana for non-japanes

Re: [OSM-talk] # with color code

2017-09-28 Thread James
usually # specifies that it's a hexidecimal number vs a base 10 number. When you have letters A-F it's obvious that it's hexidecimal and can be implecitely converted. The issue is when you don't have letters: 255 in hexadecimal 255 is 2*16^2 + 5*16^1 + 5*16^0 = 512+80+5=597 255 base 10 would be

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping in HTML - a proposal for a new element

2017-08-24 Thread James
There has already been work like this started by Peter Rushforth over a year ago: https://www.w3.org/community/maps4html/author/prushfor/ On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 1:59 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote: > My friend Terence Eden has proposed a new HTML element for maps: > >

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping in HTML - a proposal for a new element

2017-08-24 Thread James
Specifically, that they have a working example: https://www.w3.org/community/maps4html/ On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 2:22 PM, James <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > There has already been work like this started by Peter Rushforth over a > year ago: > https://www.w3.org/community/m

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Redacting 75, 000 street names contributed by user chdr

2017-08-27 Thread James
The odbl=clean could be a way to exclude road names from the removal, though sources from the info should be given, whether Canvec, Mapillary, OpenStreetCam or local survey On Aug 27, 2017 3:29 PM, "john whelan" wrote: > There are a couple of issues here. The first are

Re: [OSM-talk] Redacting 75, 000 street names contributed by user chdr

2017-08-27 Thread James
If we validate via survey say in Canada, will we be able to remove the id from the revert list? Canada has Canvec we can reference to as well as OpenStreetCam and Mapillary On Aug 27, 2017 9:50 AM, "Frederik Ramm" wrote: > Hi, > >in 2010 I was privately contacted by

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Redacting 75, 000 street names contributed by user chdr

2017-08-27 Thread James
Indeed, with the geometry still remaining it will be easy to create a maproulette task(s) to repair the damage +1 for name tag redaction On Aug 27, 2017 12:26 PM, "Ian Dees" wrote: > Frederik, > > Thanks for notifying us about this. I hope that you treat this as an > import

Re: [OSM-talk] Redacting 75, 000 street names contributed by user chdr

2017-08-27 Thread James
As Mr.Ramm said, there can be trap streets, which should be removed. When I inspected the data, it seems most of it is in Québec and wouldnt be hard to validate streetnames for 1400 something items. On Aug 27, 2017 11:24 AM, "Paul Norman" wrote: > On 8/27/2017 7:26 AM, john

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Redacting 75, 000 street names contributed by user chdr

2017-08-28 Thread James
As Stewart has pointed out there are some changes that are valid(name expansion). I think Mr.Ramm needs to revise his selection algorithm before mass deletion On Aug 28, 2017 6:05 AM, "joost schouppe" wrote: 2017-08-28 10:27 GMT+02:00 Simon Poole : >

Re: [OSM-talk] Beach routing

2017-08-29 Thread James
"Dont tag for the rendered" Routers should make beaches routable even though theres no clear path. Same with indoor mapping: I'm not going to add a bunch of paths in something already tagged as a corridor/hallway On Aug 29, 2017 6:54 AM, "Jean-Marc Liotier" wrote: > Last

Re: [OSM-talk] a sample panoramic aerial image for 3D mapping made with the new DJI Spark quad-copter

2017-09-01 Thread James
Put it to 85 degrees and pitch the drone 5 degrees forward. Problem solved. On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 10:24 AM, Oleksiy Muzalyev < oleksiy.muzal...@bluewin.ch> wrote: > On 9/1/2017 4:07 PM, Greg Morgan wrote: > > > > On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 6:37 AM, Oleksiy Muzalyev < > oleksiy.muzal...@bluewin.ch>

Re: [OSM-talk] a sample panoramic aerial image for 3D mapping made with the new DJI Spark quad-copter

2017-09-01 Thread James
Stock WIFI antennas have a ranges of about 32m (105feet) in optimal conditions. So unless he has a booster that will be the limit On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 11:12 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > > 2017-09-01 16:24 GMT+02:00 Oleksiy Muzalyev :

Re: [OSM-talk] Publishing bot code. GPL or AGPL?

2017-10-17 Thread James
You could always release it under Mozilla Public License 2.0 and that explicitely requires people to offer source code. On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 3:01 PM, Nicolás Alvarez wrote: > 2017-10-17 13:27 GMT-03:00 Safwat Halaby : > > I understand that GPLv3

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

2017-11-25 Thread James
There's already a false positive button for that. Skip is for meh don't want to do that right now. On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 12:51 PM, Stefan Keller wrote: > Hi, > > 2017-11-24 22:18 GMT+01:00 Dave F : > > > > On 24/11/2017 07:59, joost schouppe

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

2017-11-24 Thread James
Yeah I'd like the skipped tasks to comeback eventually, sometimes I look at objects and its either too complicated to fix for my current state of mind or the imagery makes it hard but I'd like to get back to it eventually On Nov 24, 2017 3:04 AM, "joost schouppe" wrote:

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

2017-12-03 Thread James
Good idea, is it normal you get a "Error connecting to OSM API"? On Dec 3, 2017 5:22 PM, "Ilya Zverev" wrote: > Wow, that is an awesome project! I envy you students for having such > unusual OSM activities :) And thanks to you, now I know about the > backrest=* tag. Everyone

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

2017-12-05 Thread James
Actually I find it great so far, one day it's buildings, one day it's adding an unmapped road, takes people out of their usual mapping rut and expands their breath of knowledge about osm(may have to use wiki to look how to tag things On Dec 5, 2017 5:52 AM, "Frederik Ramm"

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

2017-11-18 Thread James
Seriously this is what 2017 has become? A bunch of snowflakes argueing whoes feelings are hurt? Seriously grow up people, the world is not full of cupcakes and rainbows. "Yuri is perceived by many as unreasonable as before and tries to ignore all the unwritten rules in OSM." I was somewhat

Re: [OSM-talk] Serious JOSM performance degradation

2017-11-11 Thread James
have you tried with wireframe mode(ctrl+w)? On Nov 11, 2017 5:11 PM, "Jan Martinec" wrote: > You can download somewhat-recent JOSM versions from > https://josm.openstreetmap.de/download/ , I do see 12921 there. Also > josm-latest, which is the testing version (currently

Re: [OSM-talk] Effecting change in OpenStreetMap

2017-11-21 Thread James
I am a developer. I should not be expected to learn Psychology 101 to improve OpenStreetMap. Funny you should say that...I had to take Psychology 101 for my CS degree. I see why now. On Nov 21, 2017 12:02 PM, "Ilya Zverev" wrote: > Christoph Hormann wrote: > > Oh come on.

Re: [OSM-talk] proposed mechanical edit - moving building=building to building=yes

2018-06-08 Thread James
I don't see a problem with this as the major concerns: big edit boundaries, what does it affect? are taken care of by documentation if building=building is not or was not a wiki approved way of tagging, this seems more on the side of linting osm tags than it does a "mass blind edit"/import On

Re: [OSM-talk] Remote Sensing / DOP / DIY people

2018-06-03 Thread James
: > > > Am 02.06.2018 um 00:45 schrieb James: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kite_aerial_photography#Picavet_suspension > > When I was looking at RC planes, the one that could hold a quality > camera+fly for for a relatively long time is the skywalker X8(~200$ USD) + > batter

Re: [OSM-talk] Remote Sensing / DOP / DIY people

2018-06-01 Thread James
cheaper and simpler would be a kite and a picavet system. I was looking into building a FPV, but just getting it to fly in a pattern gets expensive quickly(even building from scratch) On Thu, May 31, 2018, 9:01 PM Florian Lohoff, wrote: > > Hi, > is there a Mailinglist for the Technical aspects

Re: [OSM-talk] Remote Sensing / DOP / DIY people

2018-06-02 Thread James
Still cant beat ~50$ for a good kite pieces of string and a block of wood On Fri, Jun 1, 2018, 4:19 AM Florian Lohoff, wrote: > On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 11:12:49PM -0400, James wrote: > > cheaper and simpler would be a kite and a picavet system. I was looking > > into building

Re: [OSM-talk] Remote Sensing / DOP / DIY people

2018-06-02 Thread James
ld be interesting to examine the > faisability to develop such a project including both hardware and open > source software. > > > Pierre > > > Le vendredi 1 juin 2018 17 h 39 min 06 s HAE, James > a écrit : > > > cheaper and simpler would be a kite and a picav

Re: [OSM-talk] [Imports] Automated edit for bus lines in Paris area

2018-06-05 Thread James
Have you taken a look at this project? https://github.com/CUTR-at-USF/gtfs-osm-sync On Tue, Jun 5, 2018, 6:36 AM Johnparis, wrote: > Hi, Stefan, two steps required. The second is a lot easier than the first. > > 1) curate a database of exiting nodes. Choosing a unique key usually isn't >

Re: [OSM-talk] proposed mechanical edit - moving FIXME=* to fixme=*

2018-07-02 Thread James
are there any overlap with FIXME and fixme as in an object tagged with both? Is it possible or the osm API considers them the same(case insensitive)? If there are no overlaps I dont see an issue tagging this the proper way On Mon, Jul 2, 2018, 1:44 PM Mateusz Konieczny, wrote: > fixme tag is a

Re: [OSM-talk] How INSPIRE data are sold in your countries

2018-05-02 Thread James
Canada: Canvec data is free from NRCan On Wed, May 2, 2018, 11:13 AM Honza Cibulka, wrote: > Hello, > > I am in the middle of court proceedings related to prices which Czech > state GIS authority asks for INSPIRE data (for context, it´s about hundreds > of thousands Euro for

Re: [OSM-talk] Wikimedia Maps deployment

2018-05-03 Thread James
also i believe a multi-lingual map will require vector tiles to be dynamic, which is being worked on as well On Thu, May 3, 2018, 3:36 AM Eugene Alvin Villar, wrote: > On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 2:50 PM, Daniel Koć wrote: > >> It's also good that they were able to

Re: [OSM-talk] Woods vs Forests

2017-10-27 Thread James
landuse= man made and maintained natrual= it made itself(which is 99.9% of the time the case) On Oct 27, 2017 5:27 AM, "Dave F" wrote: > You appear to be differentiating based on size & location which, seeing > OSM's output is visual & geospatial seems unnecessary.

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM tagging validation lib

2017-12-24 Thread James
ID is javascript, JOSM is java. So right there I already see a intercompatibility issue On Dec 24, 2017 6:12 AM, "François Lacombe" wrote: > Hi > > Here is an idea I got regarding tagging validation in editors (iD, JOSM, > others). > Subsequently to wiki proposal

Re: [OSM-talk] "The Future of Free and Open-Source Maps" Slashdot.org , Saturday February 17, 2018

2018-02-17 Thread James
except it wouldnt be multiplatform and only run on windows 濫冷. Java is a better alternative as it's a popular language and is multiplatform. C/c++ is a bit more complicated and not everyone can contribute. On Feb 17, 2018 10:56 AM, "john whelan" wrote: > I think that

Re: [OSM-talk] "The Future of Free and Open-Source Maps" Slashdot.org , Saturday February 17, 2018

2018-02-17 Thread James
On 2/17/2018 11:01 AM, James wrote: > >> except it wouldnt be multiplatform and only run on windows 濫冷. Java is >> a better alternative as it's a popular language and is multiplatform. C/c++ >> is a bit more complicated and not everyone can contribute. >> > > That'

Re: [OSM-talk] Is this legal to what philly.com is doing?

2018-02-23 Thread James
-2018-02-dixon-384405-e-wp-content-uploads-2018-02-new-map-1200x800.png=006=dixon-384405-e-wp-content-uploads-2018-02-new-map=The%20new%20congressional%20map%20released%20Monday%20by%20the%20Pennsylvania%20Supreme%20Court . On Feb 22, 2018 11:06 PM, "James Mast" <rickmastfa...@hotma

Re: [OSM-talk] Standard map style contributions

2017-12-28 Thread James
Lack of time due to real life preoccupations? On Dec 28, 2017 8:45 AM, "Mateusz Konieczny" <matkoni...@gmail.com> wrote: > If somebody tried contributing and missing documentation was what > stopped him/her - what was missing? > > On Thu, 28 Dec 2017 08:34:34 -0500

Re: [OSM-talk] Standard map style contributions

2017-12-28 Thread James
as they know what parts do what vs reading all of the project and guessing what parts do what. On Dec 28, 2017 8:25 AM, "Daniel Koć" <daniel@koć.pl> wrote: > W dniu 28.12.2017 o 14:04, James pisze: > >> not everyone knows lua scripting might be one of the major herdles &

Re: [OSM-talk] Standard map style contributions

2017-12-28 Thread James
not everyone knows lua scripting might be one of the major herdles On Dec 28, 2017 5:49 AM, "Daniel Koć" wrote: > Hi, > > We have a lot of tickets waiting for solving in osm-carto (almost 400) and > I'm interested how could we do it effectively. > > It's not realistic to expect

Re: [OSM-talk] Paper/Article about stagnation in OSM

2018-08-01 Thread James
A lot can happen in 10 years... On Wed, Aug 1, 2018, 3:34 PM Mateusz Konieczny, wrote: > 1. Sierpień 2018 21:27 od matkoni...@tutanota.com: > > 31. Lipiec 2018 23:49 od frede...@remote.org: > > an interesting read: "The social construction of technological stasis: > The stagnating data

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: 2 Great Lakes missing

2018-08-13 Thread James
Yeah those great "lakes" are such a massive relations... I think I can make toast on my computer while it's calculating the errors. Thanks for fixing it Selfish Seahorse On Mon., Aug. 13, 2018, 9:12 a.m. SelfishSeahorse, < selfishseaho...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, 13 Aug 2018 at 14:01,

Re: [OSM-talk] 2 Great Lakes missing

2018-08-09 Thread James
someone probably broke them again... happens quite often sadly... On Thu., Aug. 9, 2018, 9:05 p.m. Daniel Koć, wrote: > Hi, > > Is anybody aware what happened to Lake Superior and Lake Huron? > > https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/4039486 > > https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1205151 >

Re: [OSM-talk] API a lot slower?

2018-07-17 Thread James
https://twitter.com/OSM_Tech/status/1018447091423744000?s=20 On Tue, Jul 17, 2018, 5:46 AM Maarten Deen, wrote: > Is it just me or just today or is the API a lot slower after the move on > sunday? I'm downloading a number of busrelations and it takes a lot > longer than before the weekend. > >

Re: [OSM-talk] Source 'NTIC' on S-Korea OSM data

2018-07-05 Thread James
Could it be: Northern Technologies International Corporation? They seem to have businesses(oil and energy) in korea. Either that or Tourist Information Center? On Thu, Jul 5, 2018, 6:00 PM Martijn van Exel, wrote: > Hi all, > I was looking at source tags and noticing that a lot of ways have

Re: [OSM-talk] Scientific paper on "Information Seeding"

2018-07-09 Thread James
>From what I understand TIGER data is very poor quality to begin with and is at a federal level, this study doesnt take into account local GIS data(say a city or a province/state data) which often is more accurate. It seems fixated on one data import instance vs many in statististics their sample

Re: [OSM-talk] Strava Cycling and Running Heatmap not working

2018-03-15 Thread James
403 is Forbidden Possibly due to api endpoint changes. On Thu, Mar 15, 2018, 3:34 PM Sérgio V., wrote: > Perhaps due to this update? > > "...we are eager to introduce new ways we are protecting that data and the > athletes who provide it:..." > > "...Roads and trails with

Re: [OSM-talk] Please do not re-use old node IDs

2018-03-06 Thread James
@Yves unfortunately would be hard to implement as reverting reuses/undeletes the object if I'm not mistaken. So someone could just undelete a node than move it to where they need to. On Mar 6, 2018 5:47 AM, "Yves" wrote: > Hi Frederik, > For my curiosity, is it a feature of

Re: [OSM-talk] [Osmf-talk] ODbL text

2018-04-08 Thread James
On Sun, Apr 8, 2018, 8:13 AM Simon Poole, <si...@poole.ch> wrote: > > > Am 08.04.2018 um 13:30 schrieb James: > > why not host it on the osmf website? > > > Because we don't own the domain (which is what most references to the > actual text use) and are not th

Re: [OSM-talk] [Osmf-talk] ODbL text

2018-04-08 Thread James
why not host it on the osmf website? On Sun, Apr 8, 2018, 5:46 AM Simon Poole, wrote: > Currently I'm pointing to > http://web.archive.org/web/20180317184051/https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/ > however as the opendatacommons.org links are all over the place that > isn't

Re: [OSM-talk] weeklyOSM #403 2018-04-03-2018-04-09

2018-04-13 Thread James
the English page is in spanish for some reason.. On Fri, Apr 13, 2018, 1:59 PM weeklyteam, wrote: > The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue # 403, > is now available online in English, giving as always a summary of all > things happening in the openstreetmap world: > >

Re: [OSM-talk] How do you mapping gender neutral toilets? What should the unisex tag mean?

2018-04-24 Thread James
not only that, bit generally in North America, men's washrooms are usually dirtier than woamns washrooms On Tue, Apr 24, 2018, 2:46 PM Kathleen Lu, wrote: > I think the most likely application may be the other way around, where > transgender individuals concerned about

Re: [OSM-talk] Vote cheating?

2018-03-16 Thread James
>> That is a different matter. This is about the possibility that on >>>> person makes multiple wiki accunts and use those to vote (thereby >>>> cheating the vote). >>>> >>>> I think it would be a good thing to check this. >>>> >>

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Carto release v4.9.0

2018-03-23 Thread James
You're welcome :) On Fri, Mar 23, 2018, 9:45 AM Daniel Koć, wrote: > Dear all, > > Today, v4.9.0 of the openstreetmap-carto stylesheet (the default > stylesheet on the OSM website) has been released. Once changes are > deployed on the openstreetmap.org it will take couple of days

Re: [OSM-talk] Vote cheating?

2018-03-16 Thread James
You could also argue the opposite way: Not everyone in OSM edits the wiki, thus probably doesnt have an account, thus to participate, they need to create an account to vote On Fri, Mar 16, 2018, 7:16 AM Selfish Seahorse, wrote: > Hi everyone > > I've remarked that

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM SPAM detector

2018-03-05 Thread James
most but not all cases: undiscussed imports get reverted and when they get the go ahead they would be marked as spam. Very bad way to train the dataset vs ground truthed spam identification. On Mar 5, 2018 9:50 AM, "Michał Brzozowski" wrote: Could we use something similar

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Carto design

2018-06-29 Thread James
So what is intended to replace CartoCSS? Vector tiles? On Fri, Jun 29, 2018, 5:42 AM Frederik Ramm, wrote: > Hi, > >without going into the finer details, I'd like to offer an outsider's > view of OSM Carto development. > > When Andy first created OSM Carto, he set out a road map that has

Re: [OSM-talk] About OSM social implications and what can/should be displayed on the map (or not)

2018-06-29 Thread James
Not showing things on map to me is a form of censorship. I.E if a study finds that the sight of trees triggers suicide by hanging do we start removing all tree icons? This sets a precedent to what can and can't be displayed on map. There are some disputed boarders that are displayed differently

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