[OSM-talk] Incorrect speed limit anonymous notes - who is behind that?

Recently I saw anonymous notes being added of the form Incorrect speed limit. Reported speed limit is X km/h. Here's a search query: http://api.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/notes/search?q=Incorrect%20speed%20limit.%20Reported%20speed%20limit%20is As they all are generated from a template, I guess

Re: [OSM-talk] Incorrect speed limit anonymous notes - who is behind that?

They also appear in French: Limitation de vitesse inappropriée. La limitation de vitesse signalée est X km/h And in Portugese: Limite de velocidade incorreto. O limite de velocidade informado é X km/h also Finnish, Czech, Swedish, Italian... Oh, you can just view all of them by searching km/h :)

Re: [OSM-talk] Using Notes in France

useful in what ? That the street names are missing in a town ? Then create a note for missing addresses, shops, pharmacies, etc. Such notes do not help contributors because it is so obvious and does not bring any information or error report helping the others. It just a bit arrongant or

[OSM-talk] Fwd: Addresses are a tiny fraction of what we do (was: The world’s best addressable map)

On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 2:56 PM, Paweł Marynowski y...@openstreetmap.pl wrote: Don't you think that more data = more people eager to add notes about what's missing? Eg. nearly noone wants to add bunch of notes about missing addresses. When you make import, people are starting make notes about

[OSM-talk] Experiences with graphical tablets and JOSM?

Hello there. So from yesterday, in Polish Biedronka shops (similar to Lidl, Aldi) there is a Wacom One S graphical tablet available for a really low price. [1] I'd like to ask about your experience with using graphical tablets with OSM editors, preferably JOSM. My area of interest is tracing

Re: [OSM-talk] Experiences with graphical tablets and JOSM?

I think that FastDraw could be where a tablet would excel. That is drawing without lifting the mouse button. A mouse is sometimes not precise enough and you have to correct afterwards. Though, I am accustomed to frequent and rapid zooming and panning - this is where I am concerned the most. I

Re: [OSM-talk] Monitoring route relations

There was OSMonitor by Paweł Paprota, but it is down for a long time. Hopefully, as the source is available, one could repurpose it to add the functionality you mentioned. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSMonitor Michał On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 10:38 AM, Volker Schmidt vosc...@gmail.com

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

The API is so simple you could POST a note with cURL - optionally logging in via HTTP Basic Authentication. Check the Wiki. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/API_v0.6#Create_a_new_note:_Create:_POST_.2Fapi.2F0.6.2Fnotes Michał ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] Release openstreetmap-carto v2.28.0

Now this is a nice compromise. As much as I didn't like the old-new color of buildings, this one looks much better. Good job ;) Michał ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] JOSM Query for recent edits to area?

Also, for detailed before/after overview of a changeset, you may use OSM History Viewer http://osmhv.openstreetmap.de/index.jsp Michał On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 11:38 PM, Mike Thompson miketh...@gmail.com wrote: I just spoke to a class of college students, introduced them to OSM, and had them

Re: [OSM-talk] this has to stop: iD user mistakes all over the place

I was wondering, what do you think (interpret this only as a question) about introducing validation in iD in the future? Using MAGIC integrated circuit design tool, that does DRC (Design Rule Check) in real time and highlights errors inspired me that OSM editors could also incorporate this. It

Re: [OSM-talk] this has to stop: iD user mistakes all over the place

Whoops. Good to know. Though it's still rudimentary ;) Not long ago I tried to do intentionally do stupid things in iD demo in order to see if it would stop me - it didn't. There's one more face to iD and mistakes users make: translations. Bad translations cause bad tagging. English terms don't

Re: [OSM-talk] How We Map

On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 1:19 PM, Jo Walsh metaz...@fastmail.net wrote: OpenStreetMap values community cohesion over data perfection. Could both terms be more elaborated on? Does data perfection in practice mean adding true but not really useful things, often in not-well-thought-out way? Because

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

Great idea. I added three in the Tricity area, Poland. Two at the Gdańsk University of Technology campus, one at the InfoBox in Gdynia. There may be more, but these are the ones I know of. Anyway, if newer tagging scheme will be agreed upon, you may freely re-tag them. On a side note: To be even

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

OSM is not mature IMO: * People are making discussions that come to no conclusion, this is so notorious. * OSMF does very little work to actually promote OSM and improve its ecosystem (the only things they do that matter are providing servers and the SOTM) * There is very little collaboration

Re: [OSM-talk] guide to vandalism” in OSM?

I happen to fix a lot of notes in Poland. For me it would be impractical to check every POI that I add from notes. Mind you, I do the research in the Internet if it's a feature that could possibly have a website (fire station, church, restaurant, supermarket etc), but the only way to check some

Re: [OSM-talk] guide to vandalism” in OSM?

I think the person who added these fake notes misses the point in how OSM actually works. Wouldn't be for the trust and assumption of good faith, there would be no OSM! @Pieren: You switch topics so easily that I'm not sure what are you talking about precisely. Is your stance Someone showed that

Re: [OSM-talk] Quality of OSM Notes

On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 10:11 PM, Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com wrote: Perhaps the most frustrating type of note is one where the writer clearly meant to help, but there's just not enough information available to act on it. I can also relate to this. Any help on getting this is

[OSM-talk] iD name suggestion index - asking non-English-speaking mappers to review

https://github.com/osmlab/name-suggestion-index So this index is used in iD and it's supposed to suggest names of shops/amenities that are part of some chain. (like: McDonald's, Aldi, ...). But due to how it works (counting occurrences) there are generic nouns that end up here, which is bad

Re: [OSM-talk] PD: what can I do with automatic changes done against code of conduct

Quasi off-topic, but you should have written on users:Poland board on forum.osm.org. The talk-pl mailing list is pretty much dead among active (in terms of participation) OSM contributors. On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 10:39 PM, jan zejer zejer1...@wp.pl wrote: Hi, Recently I sent following message to

Re: [OSM-talk] Some thoughts against remote mapping

I was imagining a new OSM editing program and thought about making provisions in the API for editor programs to wait for edits to be approved (so that it's still posted as the actual user). But it would get too tricky, considering just conflicts for instance. So in this form it's unsuitable. The

Re: [OSM-talk] Routing Applications

This was bothering me, too. But aren't we expecting too much? I guess that via ways could be not that easy to implement for all but the simplest cases (where it can be reduced to via nodes, anyway - like no U-turn on a double carriageway which intersects with a single-carriageway road). Can

Re: [OSM-talk] Routing Applications

On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 2:55 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: Imagine a single-carriageway road crossing a dual-carriageway road. All turns are allowed except u-turns from one side of the dual-carriageway to the other. This common situation can only be modeled using a turn

Re: [OSM-talk] Neat use of OpenStreetMap

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 around by database request when I'm moving somewhere and don't want to be easily

Re: [OSM-talk] Attributing others' errors to OSM data and what to do about it. Was: Craigslist OpenStreetMap Rendering Issue

100% true. Consumers don't respect (Polish word szanować beside to respect means something like taking care of a thing, especially if you got it from someone) our data. Most implementations are mediocre to horrible. Main offenses are displaying irrelevant things, very scarce tags support, partial

Re: [OSM-talk] Neat use of OpenStreetMap

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 location services that could very well complement one of our selling points, that is full

[OSM-talk] Students editing for assignments

So this topic is recurring in my work once in a while. I go through newbies list in Poland [1], check their edits, try to correct them and contact users (now preferably via changeset discussions). One kind of sloppy edits is interesting: students editing OSM for their homework. They are capable of

Re: [OSM-talk] Micromapping and other subforums

On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 3:37 AM, Warin 61sundow...@gmail.com wrote: Definition of mirco mapping would be usefull if this starts up? Mapping areas of, say, less than 5? square metres? Mapping nodes where the separation to other features is less than, say, 5? metres? Sarcasm detected? (as per

[OSM-talk] Why newbies' comment/message response rate is so low?

I watch what new users do, reviewing their work and I am kind of fed up with how rarely newbies respond to changeset comments and messages. Have you observed such low rate in your area? Is there anything we could do in order to increase it? I feel it's so futile to ever contact these hit-and-run

Re: [OSM-talk] Odd edits by rowers2 in Cameroon

I seem to know why he's doing this and at users:Poland forum he was instructed not to do this. He's testing rendering of OSM-3D in some web maps (f4map?). Feel free to delete it. For the future, use changeset comments first, if you didn't. It his activity persists, go DWG on him. The takeaway is

Re: [OSM-talk] Odd edits by rowers2 in Cameroon

On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 11:55 PM, Jo <winfi...@gmail.com> wrote: > The buildings are not in Cameroon though. > > I wrote him a changeset comment: > https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/34368108#map=3/31.80/21.27 > > Polyglot > > 2015-11-11 23:49 GMT+01:00 Michał B

Re: [OSM-talk] Notes: View them based on age?

You may file a feature request: https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues If you want to view them now, you can always fiddle with XPath: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/RicoElectrico/diary/34338 If it's stupid and it works, it's not stupid (although as the comment points out

Re: [OSM-talk] Why newbies' comment/message response rate is so low?

On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 7:44 PM, tony wroblewski wrote: > From experience, I know that such responses are intimidating and put > people off mapping. My girlfriend started mapping some areas when I > showed her how to do it and immediately somebody sent her an email >

Re: [OSM-talk] Why newbies' comment/message response rate is so low?

On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 5:19 PM, Gerd Petermann wrote: > I think that's quite okay presuming that many users don't speak english I forgot to mention. My operations with respect to newcomers are almost solely in Poland. So I write in Polish. > and another group

Re: [OSM-talk] Why newbies' comment/message response rate is so low?

On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 8:49 PM, Clifford Snow wrote: > I like that concept. I try to invite new users are in the geographic area of > our meetup group. If I think they need a helpful hint I add it to the > welcome message. I'd really like to automate the process. Is

[OSM-talk] MAPS.ME open-sourced

A few days ago MAPS.ME - an offline OSM-based map and navigation for Android and iOS has been open-sourced. Weird that nobody did mention it already, as it's great news. https://twitter.com/MAPS_ME/status/649213918255161344 I hope this will boost their development, as it's overall a good and

Re: [OSM-talk] New MapRoulette now in early public beta

I occasionally make some queries with Overpass Turbo to clean up data, many of which are country-specific - related to street naming etc. One of them though is related to misuse of iD: people (or companies trying to mark themselves) add POIs to the map as an address point with a name (or adding a

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

While Tomas' reply is quite harsh, I can relate. Personally, I am not a big fan how MAPS.ME development is directed. I asked them to implement addr:place, which they didn't, and now that they have an editor, people inadvertently mistag such addresses in villages without street names (which are

Re: [OSM-talk] weeklyOSM 290

I did see when I've read the RSS. ;) (I set up a Pushbullet feed). So I guess it's wasn't officially released by that date (10th Feb)? Michał On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 9:51 PM, Nicolás Alvarez <nicolas.alva...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2016-02-11 17:43 GMT-03:00 Michał Brzozowski <www.ha.

Re: [OSM-talk] weeklyOSM 290

So I checked what I have set up in Pushbullet and it's http://www.weeklyosm.eu/feed. Maybe this is a result of their server configuration or geographical location. Michał On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 9:56 PM, Peter Barth wrote: > Hi, > > Andy Townsend schrieb: >> What seems to have

Re: [OSM-talk] weeklyOSM 290

Can you tell me what's up with this "This entry is available only in Spanish"? I think people won't care if it got delayed a day later or so. Also weird it's Spanish if you have to aggregate multiple mostly English sources anyway. Michał ___ talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Wilingness to contribute to OpenStreet

Hello. I think you should ask at the dev mailing list. https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev BTW, we're OpenStreetMap, not OpenStreet. Michał On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 12:17 PM, K2K wrote: > Hi > I'm a second year student of Informatics Institute of

Re: [OSM-talk] How to extract the 12M maritime borders using osmosis?

These nodes seem to be admin centres of countries. They are part of the boundary relations. Try not to reject relations. Michał On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 1:43 PM, Egil Möller wrote: > Hi! > > I'm working for a project that aims to measure IUU (illegal, unregulated and >

Re: [OSM-talk] Global high-resolution model of relief

It's actually better described as "hillshade". Hence why 15 m data from a 30 m source make sense. For me it's nothing new, really. This has been done many times, the only differentiator being the denoising method, if any. Michał On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 10:04 PM, moltonel

Re: [OSM-talk] India wants to license maps

So then we should promptly raise awareness of the issue. I think EFF is the right place to ask for support, if they hadn't covered it already. Also, OSMF might make a blog post describing how it can affect us, that could be shared / linked to raise awareness. Information moves rather quickly in

Re: [OSM-talk] Upload slowness - what's going on?

Their response is indeed so vague that I suspect even they don't know what's happening ;) Certainly, when you use JOSM, you can choose how much objects to upload at once. Small bundles (100...200) seem to work better. You can experiment with it. Michał On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 7:02 AM, Ben

Re: [OSM-talk] Viewing pre-redaction OSM tiles?

No. They render maps on their own and also FOSM data seem not to be *just* before the redaction (am I right? There are no changes I made in May 2012) Michał On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 8:59 PM, Andy Townsend <ajt1...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 14/07/2016 19:49, Michał Brzozowski wrote: >

[OSM-talk] Viewing pre-redaction OSM tiles?

Hi. I would swear I saw a page doing exactly that (with a comparison slider). The reason is I suspect that some website uses old cc-by-sa OSM data (due to its nature, with their own updates) without attribution nor with modified map data released. Michał

Re: [OSM-talk] Viewing pre-redaction OSM tiles?

-07-14 21:11 GMT+02:00 Michał Brzozowski <www.ha...@gmail.com>: >> >> No. They render maps on their own and also FOSM data seem not to be >> *just* before the redaction (am I right? There are no changes I made >> in May 2012) > > > > > maybe you are tal

Re: [OSM-talk] Forum admin(s) wanted

Somebody also tried to contact Lambertus to no avail, asking for creation of users:Iceland http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=55089 Michał On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 12:24 AM, Daniel Koć wrote: > W dniu 14.07.2016 23:46, Hakuch napisał(a): > >> did you try to contact

Re: [OSM-talk] New Google Maps style - interesting cartographic innovation

On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 6:03 PM, David Fisher wrote: > Out of interest, do you also take issue with the central point of my > last post -- that "landuse=retail" polygons may be seen as a similar > sort of concept to Google's beige areas? (assuming such polygons are > placed

Re: [OSM-talk] Building a free/open reviews community w/ OSM support

Have you devised any robust algorithm for linking OSM primitives to objects in the external database? In general case, it seems really hard to track objects as they get converted from nodes to areas, or decide whether given OSM feature is no longer representing some entity in the external

Re: [OSM-talk] New Google Maps style - interesting cartographic innovation

On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 12:36 PM, Oleksiy Muzalyev wrote: > Using colors like this is an excellent idea, however we shall not rely on > colors alone as several percent of people cannot distinguish colors due to > color blindness [1]. Besides, color blindness may

[OSM-talk] New Google Maps style - interesting cartographic innovation

There has been an update to Google Maps styling [1] and I have to say, they left me impressed. The overall look is cleaner, which is very welcome after a series of disappointing changes, but the thing I consider very innovative is how buildings (and on lower zooms - areas) with lots of

Re: [OSM-talk] New Google Maps style - interesting cartographic innovation

On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 8:53 AM, Maarten Deen wrote: >So it's a heatmap for POI's? A thresholded heatmap, maybe. But really the area thingy seen on zooms lower than buildings is a concave hull on slightly expanded outlines of "interesting" buildings (as I said the ones which

Re: [OSM-talk] New Google Maps style - interesting cartographic innovation

On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 8:05 AM, Maarten Deen wrote: > I don't know if I understand you right, but different colors for different > purposes is hardly an innovation. You haven't got the point I guess. The new thing is that this process is carried out automatically (for most

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

Recently, multilingual name support was rolled out. Still, seems that the new name: tags get abused, or rather filled with useless data. Eg. http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/41589376 Michał ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] http://overpass-api.de/ seems to be down on Saturday 20.08.2016 at 19:09

The areas feature of overpass-api.de doesn't work and Achavi returns 404. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Forum admin(s) wanted

On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 12:42 AM, Simon Poole wrote: > May I suggest that switching to panic mode is a bit premature. Lambertus > last contribution to OSM is just over half a year old, and there are > other ways to contact people than just e-mail. But it's so irresponsible to

Re: [OSM-talk] Compare GPX to OSM ways

On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 9:45 PM, Rob Nickerson wrote: > That's neat. Thinking ahead it would be great if that analysis could be run > when capturing GPS tracks (via a Android/iOS app) or when the GPS track is > uploaded to OSM. You'd then get a notification: "Hey, you

Re: [OSM-talk] Overpass XAPI URL Status

On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 8:04 PM, mmd wrote: > xapi endpoint is the only service that is blocked right now. That's due > to one particular mobile app firing off excessive amounts of queries. > Details are also known to the OSMF board. Is it, shall I say, classified information?

Re: [OSM-talk] Should we send automated "nag" emails?

On Sun, Oct 9, 2016 at 8:27 PM, john whelan wrote: > To catch the mappers before they get set in their habits? This is, in my opinion, the most underrated wisdom right now. Bad data causes more bad data. This is both by imitation by other users and by implicit approval, or

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetView name change

How about StreetOpenView? ;) Streetscape sounds fine to me, too. 08.11.2016 16:37 "Martijn van Exel" napisał(a): > Hi all, > > A few months ago, we started with OpenStreetView, the free and open street > level imagery project made 100% for OSM with apps for Android and iOS. >

Re: [OSM-talk] [Tagging] Hunting area tagging

I, for one, think that hunting areas don't really belong to OSM. Or at least benefits are outweighed by problems. Firstly they may or may not be associated with OSM features. In the latter case, there's no guarantee that someone who edits a forest would understand it and not merge it with other

Re: [OSM-talk] Overhaul of https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Use_OpenStreetMap

Two weeks ago or so I thought of creating "Introduction for GIS users" page or something like that (explaining how OSM is different from, for a lack of better word, shapefile-based GIS). We see many questions asked over and over, but the documentation isn't really at the point of "if you can't

Re: [OSM-talk] Which type of highways are used by routing software?

The rules for routing appear to be mostly global for popular routers. There is very little magical sauce, if any. You can try many routers from osm.org main page. OSRM, for instance, avoids track at all times, unless access=destination (or more particular class like motor_vehicle) is used. The

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM New Logo Proposal

Most of what I agree with has already been said. If any media, such as lo-fi print or t-shirts calls for a simplified design, there's no problem going with it. This has been done. The good thing about the general concept of our logo (lens+map) is that it will be recognizable in either case. These

Re: [OSM-talk] This is an auto-generated note from MAPS.ME application:

The thing is: I follow changeset discussions in Poland regularly.. I am yet to find a MAPS.ME user responding to a changeset comment (OK, there was one person I can barely remember quite a while ago). I really don't know what I'm missing. These people had to somehow validate their e-mail address

Re: [OSM-talk] multipolygon source tags preferred method

I, for one, use source tags extensively when tracing from multiple sources, e.g. when I trace buildings from a county's WMS layer, but supplement it with Bing / Geoportal when for whatever reason a building is omitted from the WMS. Using separate changesets for different sources seems pretty

Re: [OSM-talk] Responding to vandalism

Here are two accounts which have spam (SEO) user description page and have vandalized the map: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Morland http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Mlafagos Just for a reference for another vandal motivation (doubly stupid, first - rel=nofollow being used on osm.org and

[OSM-talk] A reminder that addr:place exists

There's a tag called addr:place [1] (6.2 million uses worldwide) which is used e.g. in villages without street names. A surprisingly high amount of software seems to ignore it, notable exceptions being Mapfactor Navigator and Nominatim. If proper usage of OSM data is of your concern, please

Re: [OSM-talk] New Overpass API v0.7.54 version

About these "dark" POIs, I can claim prior art ;) Initially I thought about buildings, but then I realized you can more easily search nodes with name=* and addr:housenumber=* that don't have any main (shop, amenity, ...) tag. These are often a result of iD beginners ;)

[OSM-talk] "NRCS basic OSM training" - low quality changesets in Nepal

There has been a number of users making very low quality edits (lowercase names, wrong tags. geometry problems among others) in Nepal. They all use this mysterious changeset description: "NRCS basic OSM training" If this is training, then the instructor clearly has no OSM expertise required. The

[OSM-talk] The real face of MAPS.ME edits and notes - a short analysis

Much has been said about MAPS.ME note and edit functionality on this list and elsewhere. I tried to get a real picture of how good/bad they are. I went to mmwatch.osmz.ru and assessed 73 edits/notes made between June 6th and 10th in Poland. Then I made a spreadsheet (percentages at the bottom):

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

Many know Pascal Neis' site HDYC which displays detais about an OSM user, like first created node, activity area, edit stats and so on: http://hdyc.neis-one.org/ Today to view any stats of a user you have to login with OSM. Pascal replied to me that this is related to this discussion on the

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

> So you think the German community should be required to proactively > communicate any subject they discuss in German language channels to the > international community? I think the tools are _de facto_ used by the whole OSM community worldwide, that's why I think any sort of announcement would

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

On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 11:33 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > I have personally talked to people who said they don't want to > contribute to OSM because Pascal Neis' page was "inviting stalkers". > > Those people were not the geek elite who have made it a habit to > thoroughly

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

On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 10:48 PM, Christoph Hormann wrote: > Michał made a connection to privacy concerns regarding Google StreetView > which were exclusively about the recorded data and not about the > recording metadata (which Google obviously has no interest in > publishing).

Re: [OSM-talk] New tool/API to find local OSM mailing lists by location

Exactly. This is very important, as sometimes it's not obvious which contact channel is used by respective local communities. This could be integrated as a button into iD so that it's hard to miss for beginners. Michał On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 10:43 PM, ajt1...@gmail.com

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

Incidentally, that's what I envisioned, as well as did Polimappers [1]. Great minds think alike - all in a short period ;) But unlike me you actually delivered, with software to support it. I planned to have 30 or more challenges in some succession, not limited to mapping, but also showing the

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

gt; you don't have to plan your mapping. Just start an editor, click around for > a minute, upload. Otherwise you'd get tired after a month or two. > > The source code is published on github: https://github.com/Zverik/osms > treak > > Ilya > > 04.12.2017 00:46, Michał Brzozow

[OSM-talk] Pokemon GO now uses OSM globally - influx of new users

FYI, Pokemon GO now uses OSM not only to generate spawns, but also to display the in-game map. The news broke out on the web, especially on sites like Reddit. There is a spike of new users in some countries, like Brazil and USA. Thankfully, the Reddit community [1] discourages people from adding

Re: [OSM-talk] Effecting change in OpenStreetMap

I think that developers of JOSM are another noteworthy exception to add along with openstreetmap-carto. Even if they break something, they are quick to respond, and it seems that there's always some work going on. But yes, I do share your feelings to a degree as well. People from many core OSM

Re: [OSM-talk] Sudden influx of bad HOTosm edits in West Bank

Some time ago I suggested that the user should choose the preset and *then* draw a feature. Such reversal is logical, allows to disable incompatible geometry types (such as building=* on lines and points) and even opens the door for displaying a concise tip on how to draw the object based on

Re: [OSM-talk] Welcome_to_OpenStreetMap_users ?

I think this is to contrast our rules with their - quite different - rules. But maybe you're right. Obviously in the old times much of our users were Wikipedians. Michał 25.10.2017 07:36 "Daniel Koć" napisał(a): > W dniu 25.10.2017 o 07:08, Roland Olbricht pisze: > >> See

Re: [OSM-talk] Tool for tag tracking

I second the question. A marriage of Google Alerts and overpass turbo would be great for tracking tags that e.g. shouldn't exist in given country (or are suspicious). Or just plain QA in which overpass is quite powerful. Michał 11.01.2018 9:57 AM "Javier Sánchez Portero"

Re: [OSM-talk] How to teach novices about optimal changeset size?

is reasonable to include in a changeset. Michał 17.01.2018 2:54 PM "Tobias Zwick" <o...@westnordost.de> napisał(a): > So, what is the optimal changeset size, and why? > > Tobias > > On 17/01/2018 14:26, Michał Brzozowski wrote: > > Many new users have a habit o

Re: [OSM-talk] How to teach novices about optimal changeset size?

l you use. imho: it is easier to group the changeset on the reviewer side : by user + by hour ( group by user, hour ) than change the community. Imre 2018-01-17 15:13 GMT+01:00 Michał Brzozowski <www.ha...@gmail.com>: > Certainly not: > - one changeset per building, repe

[OSM-talk] How to teach novices about optimal changeset size?

Many new users have a habit of e.g. sending one or few objects per changeset, resulting in a dozen or even more changesets per day. Obviously this makes them PITA to review quickly in Achavi or whatever tool you use. This habit is probably caused by non-knowledge of how auto-save works in iD

Re: [OSM-talk] how one may detect notes closed by people who made less than 10 edits on this account?

I, being a lazy person, took ChangesetMD and modified it to import OSM notes into a pgsql database. I called it, well, NoteMD ;-) [1] Other than that, I hacked ChangesetMD [2] to add some small "epsilon" to changeset bboxes if they're zero height/width so that PostGIS doesn't complain about

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

The emacsen's blog post is spot on. I see it as a call for change from a person who genuinely cares about OSM, not a bitter rant. When you say A and the world says B, it maybe well worth considering that B is the way to go. I think many other people share his views, but were afraid to voice it,

[OSM-talk] Generic Tasking Manager instances

Hi all, from all the instances of OSM Tasking Manager, are there ones which - won't close in foreseeable future - won't mind hosting generic tasks (not related to specific cause/region)? So, in essence, kind of like MapCraft, but with all the benefits of TM - including, but not limited to,

[OSM-talk] QA bots commenting on changesets - your thoughts?

There's a bot in Poland that comments on changesets which break addresses (e.g. combining addr:place with addr:street), along with an explanation and links to forum topic. What do you think about it? Are such bots useful or not? Michał ___ talk mailing

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM SPAM detector

Could we use something similar to detect generic vandalism by training on reverted changesets? Many of them have "this changeset was reverted fully or in part..." comments. Also, analyzing object history or detecting created_by=reverter;JOSM * would give you more examples to train on. *

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

Do keep in mind that none of the maintainers opposed (as far as I can see). The comments are essentially from random people who may or may not be closely involved in the project. Michał pt., 29 cze 2018, 17:30 użytkownik Carlos Cámara napisał: > Dear all, > > After participating in this

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Carto design

Rendering (unpaved) surface is a real need. Judging from the map notes users don't get the distinction and conflate track symbol with unpaved. Mappers do it too. In Poland (and maybe somewhere else) wrongly tagged tracks (what should be residential+unpaved) are a big problem, almost intractable

[Talk-it] Your experience with Wikimedia Italia being a local OSMF chapter

the members interested in OSM organize within WMIT? What is the level of autonomy if any or necessary at all? - Do you form strategic or one-off partnerships related to OSM with outside entities? NB: to be clear, I am not writing this in official capacity. Greetings, Michał Brzozowski https

Re: [OSM-talk] Documenting controversial iD decisions

That's a good point, let's make a list about MAPS.ME. In the countries where there's a community to fix the mess it's not that bad, but elsewhere like the Middle East... - Limited set of available POI types to add and no choice for "not on the list". Like people adding amenity=motorcycle_parking

Re: [OSM-talk] Anonymous comments on notes now disabled

Hi, It seems a reasonable option, but we better make sure that users are aware they need to log in! For now judging from the patch I don't see any new messages, but I stand to be corrected. Another thing on top of my head - having commented/fixed many MAPS.ME notes, it seems that people using

[OSM-talk] Examples of good paid mapping?

Hi all, Do we have any examples of companies that do paid mapping (preferably at scale) and do it right? Maybe leading by example will help other mapping teams get along better with local OSM communities? Michał ___ talk mailing list

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