[OSM-talk] Re : [Talk-ca] Coastline rendering in Quebec

2012-06-20 Thread Pierre Béland
Boucherville island polygons seems to be closed polygons and land is on the left. They are part of St-Laurent-Mtl relation. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?relation=1775822 A wetland is included in the relation (http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/77938080).This wetland should be removed

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Pierre Béland
2012-09-18 Lester Caine Having to clean up some of the mess made by imports that were not as well sanitised as they should have been, personally I get irritated at any 'import' is loaded.   Lester, I have often seen such arguments agains imports. In Canada also, there are contributors

[OSM-talk] Re : Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Pierre Béland
2012-09-8 Frederik Ramm frederik at remote.org DWG does not usually block people without talking to them first, unless they are in the process of breaking things. Frederik, Governance and role of local communities should be looked in a context of multinational, multicultural organization.

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Pierre Béland
2012-09-18 Simon Poole si...@poole.ch The question of (for example of an operational problem) communication to active mappers is a technical problem that we will have to address at one point in time. Either by assuring that the e-mail address remains valid or by other technical means.

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Pierre Béland
2012-09-18 Lester Caine lester at lsces.co.uk Pierre - I'm not arguing against imports. Only unmanaged ones and ones we do not have easy access to the source data. As I understand it you can view the canvec data, but is it available as an overlay in an editor? That is the part of the jigsaw

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Pierre Béland
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Simon Poole si...@poole.ch wrote: The French cadastre imports are, as you know, a rather controversial subject. In my opinion it is a dataset that doesn't actually increase the usefulness of the OSM dataset for most users (building outlines without addresses

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Pierre Béland
Pierre And about governance,  if this community cannot manage his contributors, who can?  We continually have new mappers, some working more or less intensively. We should adapt or organization to this Wikipedia like structure and try to better structure local communities. I certainly

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Pierre Béland
2012-09-18 Frederik Ramm frederik at remote.org I am sure there are many users in France doing exactly that - a careful, small-scale, high-quality data integration.  Most of them are probably way below the OSMF radar. But if the work of one person surpasses the million-object mark then is

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Pierre Béland
2012-09-18 Toby Murray toby.murray at gmail.com     - Openness/transparency. OSMF working groups are notoriously opaque,       though some have improved over the last year by posting open       minutes of meetings (which requires significant effort and which I       applaud). Some of the

Re: [OSM-talk] [Imports] Import guidelines proposal update

2012-09-20 Thread Pierre Béland
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: Check the list of arguments presented here for the mandatory separate account: 1. it's easier to separate from normal contributions 2. it's more effecient for sourcing 3. it's easier to identify the source if we change the

Re: [OSM-talk] [Imports] Import guidelines proposal update

2012-09-20 Thread Pierre Béland
De : 2012-09-20 Lester Caine lester at lsces.co.uk Pieren - please stop banging on about this - we know that the current process is flawed but it WAS put in place when problems arose in the Canadian imports, and it IS current practice. If one 'local group' is treated as a 'special case' then

Re: [OSM-talk] [Imports] Import guidelines proposal update

2012-09-20 Thread Pierre Béland
2012-09-20 Lester Caine lester at lsces.co.uk Comment fields are not documented as well as they should be and the 'problem' that instigated this thread is to my view of what's on line a very good example of why there WAS a problem. Correctly flagging information is essential and we do

Re: [OSM-talk] [Imports] Import guidelines proposal update

2012-09-20 Thread Pierre Béland
2012-09-20 Lester Caine wrote Alright insisting on a 'new account' may be wrong, but identifying the 'import source' somewhere is not unreasonable? We do have the problem of the 'language' used to inform other users and some English translations on some of the    cadastre import stuff would

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines proposal update

2012-09-21 Thread Pierre Béland
2012-09-20 Frederik Ramm However, every once in a while DWG gets a complaint about a particular user making lots of edits that are questionable. Not outright vandalism or edit warring, but something exotic enough to make other mappers in the area uneasy. The other mappers watch the user

Re: [OSM-talk] Improved coastline view in OSM Inspector

2012-09-21 Thread Pierre Béland
2010-09-21 Jochen Topf   I have just added a change to the OSM Inspector which now shows even more   potential coastline errors in the new Questionable category. Jochen, it is a nice addition. Looking at the map, I see all of America coastline being tagged with Invalid geometry. Invalid

Re: [OSM-talk] Improved coastline view in OSM Inspector

2012-09-21 Thread Pierre Béland
Béland infosbelas-...@yahoo.fr Cc : talk@openstreetmap.org talk@openstreetmap.org Envoyé le : Vendredi 21 septembre 2012 16h00 Objet : Re: [OSM-talk] Improved coastline view in OSM Inspector On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 08:50:03PM +0100, Pierre Béland wrote: 2010-09-21 Jochen Topf   I have just added

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines proposal update

2012-09-21 Thread Pierre Béland
2012-09-21 Lester Caine What I have been asking is how we can manage on-going imports of a dataset that is being updated regularly. This is probably on 'off-line' function, and could well be managed by the 'local chapter' on their own computers. This is the 'process' I'm looking to be

[OSM-talk] Community Edit Monitoring vs Worldwide BOT Coverage in Changesets

2012-09-30 Thread Pierre Béland
The Changeset Display for an area (ie. History tab of OpenStreetMap.org) shows all the changesets covering a local area. In this display, we often see Worldwide BOT Changesets even if there is no modifications made to the area,. RSS feeds are producing false alerts, and it is uneasy to find if

Re: [OSM-talk] Community Edit Monitoring vs Worldwide BOT Coverage in Changesets

2012-09-30 Thread Pierre Béland
would facilitate monitoring in a local area.   Pierre De : Pavel Melnikov positro...@gmail.com À : Pierre Béland infosbelas-...@yahoo.fr Cc : talk talk@openstreetmap.org Envoyé le : Dimanche 30 septembre 2012 12h29 Objet : Re: [OSM-talk] Community Edit

[OSM-talk] Re : Community Edit Monitoring vs Worldwide BOT Coverage in Changesets

2012-10-01 Thread Pierre Béland
Thanks Ilya.  Pierre De : Ilya Zverev zve...@textual.ru À : Talk talk@openstreetmap.org Envoyé le : Lundi 1 octobre 2012 1h28 Objet : [OSM-talk] Community Edit Monitoring vs Worldwide BOT Coverage in Changesets Pierre Béland wrote: The changesets listed

Re: [OSM-talk] Activity Stream (a.k.a. social OSM) - demo instance

2012-10-15 Thread Pierre Béland
Pawel, could you give us a permalink to an area where we will see some activity reported?   Pierre De : Paweł Paprota ppa...@fastmail.fm À : talk@openstreetmap.org Envoyé le : Lundi 15 octobre 2012 12h17 Objet : Re: [OSM-talk] Activity Stream (a.k.a.

Re: [OSM-talk] Activity Stream (a.k.a. social OSM) - demo instance

2012-10-15 Thread Pierre Béland
16.0.1 navigator do not provide the Activity list and indicate : Error: data is undefined.   Pierre De : Paweł Paprota ppa...@fastmail.fm À : Pierre Béland infosbelas-...@yahoo.fr; talk@openstreetmap.org talk@openstreetmap.org Envoyé le : Lundi 15 octobre 2012

[OSM-talk] Monitoring activities : visual tools for data mining into history of objects

2012-10-15 Thread Pierre Béland
Various Activity Monitoring tools such as Whodidtit provide the list of recent changesets in an area. But nothing to visualize on the map. The only solution I know to visualize is to revert a Changeset in JOSM. This way, it reconstruct and show the objects of the Changeset. To efficiently

Re: [OSM-talk] Tracking Something/Anything in OSM

2012-10-22 Thread Pierre Béland
I tested this tool and it works very well to identify new contributors. I also added a check on Administrative Limits and Coastlines in my area. Recently, a new contributor succeeded in deleting both administrative limits and coastlines in his first and second Changesets. Then, somebody

Re: [OSM-talk] Data copied from Google Maps

2012-11-04 Thread Pierre Béland
On 04/nov/2012  00:48 , Andrew MacKinnon andrew...@gmail.com: Unless Google has actually formally given OpenStreetMap a license to copy Street View for specific purposes, clearly stating the limits on what is or isn't allowed to be copied, we should not be copying Google Andrew, On

Re: [OSM-talk] POI Viewer in distance

2012-11-14 Thread Pierre Béland
Same grey window with Firefox 16.0.2 and Chrome under windows xp. Bottom message Perbesar untuk melihat satuan pendidikan translate in english to Zoom in to see the educational unit. With Chrome I dont see the scale on the bottom left. With Firefox I zoomed up to scale 30m. without success.

Re: [OSM-talk] Question on undelete/restore

2012-11-19 Thread Pierre Béland
Michael Looking at ways in the changesets, I found that they were undeleted. It seems that Changeset 13937676 by user zors1843 already reverted all of this.   Pierre De : Michael Krämer ohr...@gmail.com À : talk@openstreetmap.org Envoyé le : Lundi 19

Re: [OSM-talk] Question on undelete/restore

2012-11-19 Thread Pierre Béland
.  Pierre De : Pierre Béland infosbelas-...@yahoo.fr À : Michael Krämer ohr...@gmail.com; talk@openstreetmap.org talk@openstreetmap.org Envoyé le : Lundi 19 novembre 2012 16h07 Objet : Re: [OSM-talk] Question on undelete/restore Michael Looking at ways

Re: [OSM-talk] [HOT] Problem with an Etrex 20

2012-11-30 Thread Pierre Béland
I prefer the solution to use an SD adapter were I insert the micro-SD and connect directly to the computer.   Pierre De : Jean-Marc Liotier j...@liotier.org À : Kevin Peat k...@k3v.eu Cc : Talk Openstreetmap talk@openstreetmap.org; hot

Re: [OSM-talk] Multilingual maps demo

2012-11-30 Thread Pierre Béland
Jochen This is very interesting more particulary in areas of the world were we do not recognize the alphabets. I tried it in Syria were default names are in arabic. If there is a correspondance for the language I select it is ok. Otherwise, the default name is kept. And  there are many areas

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing Aerial Imagery Analyzer for OpenStreetMap

2012-12-04 Thread Pierre Béland
Works for me also but very slow.   Pierre De : Svavar Kjarrval sva...@kjarrval.is À : talk@openstreetmap.org Envoyé le : Mardi 4 décembre 2012 17h58 Objet : Re: [OSM-talk] Bing Aerial Imagery Analyzer for OpenStreetMap Excellent work! :) It works for me.

Re: [OSM-talk] Updating www.bestofosm.org

2012-12-11 Thread Pierre Béland
Frederik We could give examples of the reactivity of the OSM community with spontaneous mapping in blank zones areas done with the HOT Task Manager. For example, thousands of  refugees arrived in the last two  weeks in Minova and Bweremana in South-Kivu. Following a request to map the area,

Re: [OSM-talk] Possibly broken multipolygon

2012-12-16 Thread Pierre Béland
According to the Relation analyzer, relation 1357924 is closed. see http://analyser.openstreetmap.fr/cgi-bin/index.py   Pierre De : Cartinus carti...@xs4all.nl À : talk@openstreetmap.org Envoyé le : Dimanche 16 décembre 2012 21h40 Objet : [OSM-talk]

Re: [OSM-talk] Possibly broken multipolygon

2012-12-16 Thread Pierre Béland
Cartinus, a simple test to validate if boundary relation works properly is to interrogate nominatim.openstreetmap.org. Searching Breukelen, Stichtse Vecht seems to work fine and report the appropriate hierarchy of information. result in french : Breukelen, Stichtse Vecht, Bestuur Regio

Re: [OSM-talk] Marketshare iPhone Google Maps Hits 10 Million Downloads in 48 Hours

2012-12-18 Thread Pierre Béland
Outreach! We have to follow the actuality and contact medias and show how dynamic is the tandem Open Source APIs, OSM Open Data. The best would be to have a media kit with infos about both OSM map, Free database, collaborators, routing API like http://map.project-osrm.org/, the many API's

[OSM-talk] Image of the week points to wrong week

2013-01-01 Thread Pierre Béland
In page http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Main_Page, Image of the week points to Template:Iotw image/2013-2. The first week image do not appear today. Is this the zero day bug? Somebody nows how to correct?   Pierre ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] Image of the week points to wrong week

2013-01-01 Thread Pierre Béland
/Help:Extension:ParserFunctions#.23time 2013-01-01 19:35, Pierre Béland skrev: In page http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Main_Page, Image of the week points to Template:Iotw image/2013-2. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Iotw_image/2013-2action=editredlink=1 The first week image do not appear

Re: [OSM-talk] Featured image descriptions

2013-01-03 Thread Pierre Béland
Andrew, For this week image, I added the translation for Français. It was relatively easy to do except we have to understand that the +/- is the link to the translation page. I suggest tha you add a title to this link describing it. After the tranlation is completed, selecting

Re: [OSM-talk] New History tab for openstreetmap.org (beta)

2013-01-03 Thread Pierre Béland
Pawel, That is great. The following link shows Minova that was mapped in a few days in december.  This is a good test since it provides a high volume of data and shows a variety of objects edited. We see additions, deletions, etc. This let us see the various symbols to represent objects

Re: [OSM-talk] Featured image descriptions

2013-01-04 Thread Pierre Béland
...@hotmail.co.uk À : talk@openstreetmap.org Envoyé le : Vendredi 4 janvier 2013 13h41 Objet : Re: [OSM-talk] Featured image descriptions Pierre Béland infosbelas-gps at yahoo.fr writes: Andrew,For this week image, I added the translation for Français. It was relatively easy to do except we have

Re: [OSM-talk] Featured image descriptions

2013-01-05 Thread Pierre Béland
descriptions Pierre Béland infosbelas-gps at yahoo.fr writes: Andrew, In the Main_Page wiki, there is a link to Image of the week.http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Main_Page--­ http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Iotw There you will see the translation that I added for Français.   Pierre

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Future Look

2013-01-07 Thread Pierre Béland
I agree that we should have tools to facilitate adding or updating POI's, including with a smartphone. But we should not forget that OSM is more then a commercial map. This is a community map and we have to show the various activities our contributors are engaged in. I would also like to

[OSM-talk] (sans objet)

2013-01-09 Thread Pierre Béland
I propose to have discussions that are more fun for all of us than the ones in the last few days. The International Open Data Hackathon on Feb 23 is an opportunity for OSM developpers and mappers to work together and have fun. We could let people better know OSM and licensing problems we face

Re: [OSM-talk] overpass turbo - a web GUI for Overpass-API

2013-01-25 Thread Pierre Béland
Very impressive. Nicely thought, rapid and intuitive. Plus the option to produce a map.   Pierre De : AJ Ashton aj.ash...@gmail.com À : Martin Raifer tyr@gmail.com Cc : Talk Openstreetmap talk@openstreetmap.org Envoyé le : Vendredi 25 janvier 2013

Re: [OSM-talk] Wow, Google Maps now has detailed maps for North Korea!

2013-01-29 Thread Pierre Béland
ok, There is very good Bing imagery over Phyongyang. What do you think, if we define a OSM Task Manager Job and ask OSM contributors to map this in a few days. Then we write to the media and say : watch us!   Pierre De : IgnacioZ zigna...@gmail.com À :

Re: [OSM-talk] Recent edits in the wiki / Trademark issue

2013-02-01 Thread Pierre Béland
Should we distinguish between the service and the usage of the name geocode? It seems that the term geocode was first used in the fourtheen century and comes from old french. Google trademark? See http://www.memidex.com/geocode   Pierre De : Richard

[OSM-talk] HOT Activations for humanitarian relief

2013-02-01 Thread Pierre Béland
the HOT distribution list http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot . - Democratic Republic of Congo : Pierre Béland with Claire Halleux has HOT contact in DR Congo - Mali : Pierre Béland and Frédéric Bonifas - Syria : Joseph Reeves - Support to these teams by Nicolas and Kate Chapman Please join

Re: [OSM-talk] HOT Activations for humanitarian relief

2013-02-01 Thread Pierre Béland
CORRECTION The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) offices for each country is involved and not only for Mali. Cut and paste is dangerous!   Pierre ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

[OSM-talk] OpenSource OpenData Experiences

2013-02-11 Thread Pierre Béland
The world of OpenSource and OpenData is very dynamic. There have been many projects announced last year, but it does not make the headlines. So why not create our own event and relay information? This can be done very simply. 1. Relaying the message content on my twitter page:

Re: [OSM-talk] Imagery talk ideas

2013-03-23 Thread Pierre Béland
Hi Paul Thanks for the imagery assembling for the Niger Delta in Mali. On march 14, COVABAR has organized a conference on the use of geomatic for agriculture management.  A consortium bought Lidar imagery for a large portion of the Richelieu valley in Quebec.Various presentations showed how

Re: [OSM-talk] Imagery Boundary?

2013-04-01 Thread Pierre Béland
Martin, For HOT Activations in Mali and Congo, I had this experience of detecting where Bing High Res Imagery is available. This is like a gruyere cheese. To detect areas, you have to zoom in and cover large areas. This is a tedious work and I have not find other ways then tracing polygons.

Re: [OSM-talk] iD Editor live on OpenStreetMap

2013-05-07 Thread Pierre Béland
This looks very nice. Cheers!   Pierre De : tmcw t...@macwright.org À : talk@openstreetmap.org Envoyé le : Mardi 7 mai 2013 12h41 Objet : [OSM-talk] iD Editor live on OpenStreetMap Hi all! Today, we've tagged iD editor v1.0.0 and integrated it into

Re: [OSM-talk] Costa Rica Panama borders

2013-06-19 Thread Pierre Béland
See the changeset http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/16325379 http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/ArielRod24 as deleted this way and many others. I will undelete the way and correct the relation. Could you look at other ways deleted, looking at the changeset ?   Pierre

Re: [OSM-talk] Costa Rica Panama borders

2013-06-20 Thread Pierre Béland
I did contacted it twice. And also asked him to communicate with the list. The first time, yeasterday, he answered that he had modified the way with better data. I sent a new mail this morning showing him the way that was removed from the two border relations and asked him to correct the two

Re: [OSM-talk] Costa Rica Panama borders

2013-06-23 Thread Pierre Béland
On 06/20/2013 03:39 PM, Pierre Béland wrote: I did contacted it twice. And also asked him to communicate with the list. The first time, yeasterday, he answered that he had modified the way with better data. I sent a new mail this morning showing him the way that was removed from

Re: [OSM-talk] Double-clicking on OSM map does not centre the map

2013-07-22 Thread Pierre Béland
Peter, This double click was an easy way to obtain the coordinates of an object and share the information with the others using the permalink. This functionnality does not exist anymore. For example, If I search Tower of London with Nominatim,  the map is centered on the tower and the share

Re: [OSM-talk] New technology ...

2013-07-22 Thread Pierre Béland
I agree with Martin that this is a great redesign. And we should see positively that so many people react to these redesigns. And let's hope we can have more positive / constructive discussions among contributors and developers. I understand that we should accept that some redesigns will affect

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping cooperation between countries in OSM

2013-07-26 Thread Pierre Béland
The net nodes created (created - deleted) would be a good indicator.   Pierre De : Martin Raifer tyr@gmail.com À : talk@openstreetmap.org Envoyé le : Vendredi 26 juillet 2013 8h01 Objet : Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping cooperation between countries in OSM

Re: [OSM-talk] [HOT] Fw: Disaster Preparedness Project

2011-06-07 Thread Pierre Béland
it for Haut-Richelieu street maps. I agree that we should coordinate efforts to move forward and shorten delays to produce such maps. Boundary relations are an easy way to define areas to work on the field and, obviously, Map tools should permit to produce a map from these relations. regards Pierre

Re: [OSM-talk] MapBBCode library and MapBBCode Share website

2013-10-31 Thread Pierre Béland
Ilya, Thanks for this intersting map tool that also let us export with various formats. I tried tracing and exporting circuits and polygons. This is very easy.   Pierre De : Ilya Zverev zve...@textual.ru À : Talk talk@openstreetmap.org Envoyé le : Jeudi

Re: [OSM-talk] Overpass area query gives results outside area...

2013-11-06 Thread Pierre Béland
There were few examples given over the last year.  To use the relation no., you need to add 36 to it.   192775 Relation + 36 = 3600192775 These instructiions extract all nodes with the tag place inside the limits of Dakar. node [place] (area:3600192775); out meta;  

Re: [OSM-talk] News of uMap

2013-11-24 Thread Pierre Béland
Awesome Yohan, I see that the right button click offer very intuitive menu. Also, I see the possibility to show in the panel aside, the list of objects and to move to each easily. Also has promised, the integration of Overpass live queries. This should help the humanitarians for this Typhoon

[OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap.org Notes to help collect OpenData

2014-01-05 Thread Pierre Béland
Contribution of the OSM community fo the Yolanda / Haiyan was awesome with more then 1,600 contributors from 82 countries. Thanks to all of you for this. Various medias have recognized how we made the difference for humanitarian relief, delivering printed maps 10 days after the typhoon. This

[OSM-talk] An empty changeset with an unknow OSM contributor

2014-01-12 Thread Pierre Béland
This french contributor reports an empty changeset with an unknown contributor. Would this be a bug in the ID editor + API creating an empty changeset ?   Pierre - Mail transféré - De : Ista Pouss ista...@gmail.com À : Discussions développeur OSM en français dev...@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] An empty changeset with an unknow OSM contributor

2014-01-12 Thread Pierre Béland
/1871553 http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/user_1871553   Pierre De : Richard Weait rich...@weait.com À : Pierre Béland pierz...@yahoo.fr Cc : Talk talk@openstreetmap.org; Ista Pouss ista...@gmail.com Envoyé le : Dimanche 12 janvier 2014 15h28 Objet : Re: [OSM-talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Why Openstreetmap? (Slashdot and Guardian)

2014-01-30 Thread Pierre Béland
Serge This is video interview is indeed an excellent one to advocate for OpenStreetMap. I invite others to look at it. http://news.slashdot.org/story/14/01/29/2128206/why-we-need-openstreetmap-video   Pierre De : Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com À :

Re: [OSM-talk] [HOT] Resume the Night of the living maps

2014-01-30 Thread Pierre Béland
I also think that this is a fantastic proposition.  What do you think if we would try to cover various parts of the world that are neglected in OSM. We could prepare a serie of Tasks in the Task Manager and invite people to contribute to these in this 24 hours. This way, we would see the

Re: [OSM-talk] [HOT] [OSM-NI] Resume the Night of the living maps

2014-02-05 Thread Pierre Béland
...@openstreetmap.org; talk@openstreetmap.org; h...@openstreetmap.org Envoyé le : Mardi 4 février 2014 18h43 Objet : Re: [HOT] [OSM-NI] [OSM-talk] Resume the Night of the living maps On 2014-01-30 18:03, Pierre Béland wrote: I also think that this is a fantastic proposition. What do you think if we

Re: [OSM-talk] No Changeset Comments from iD

2014-03-06 Thread Pierre Béland
Thrue, this is a good practice to save often. At the same time we need that changeset infos be grouped and more informative to help the community better follow the edits. How to do that? The first step would be by default for the editors to leave the changeset open until a new comment is

[OSM-talk] Guinea Ebola Outbreak, Mapping to support MSF

2014-03-26 Thread Pierre Béland
Following the Ebola outbreak, MSF Switzearland needs rapidly maps of three towns. Thy are requesting since this area is actually unmapped. New imagery have been obtained. We have prepared Task Manager jobs for the three towns to be mapped. We consider this of high priority for the next few

Re: [OSM-talk] Guinea Ebola Outbreak, Mapping to support MSF

2014-03-26 Thread Pierre Béland
...@liotier.org À : Pierre Béland pierz...@yahoo.fr; HOT Discussion list h...@openstreetmap.org; Talk talk@openstreetmap.org Envoyé le : Mercredi 26 mars 2014 7h41 Objet : Re: [OSM-talk] Guinea Ebola Outbreak, Mapping to support MSF On 26/03/2014 12:23, Pierre Béland wrote: Following the Ebola outbreak

Re: [OSM-talk] Guinea Ebola Outbreak, Mapping to support MSF

2014-03-26 Thread Pierre Béland
://imagery.openstreetmap.fr/tms/1.0.0/guinee_msf_pleiades1a/{zoom}/{x}/{y}The link for ID is http://imagery.openstreetmap.fr/tms/1.0.0/guinee_msf_pleiades1a/{z}/{x}/{y}   Pierre De : Pierre Béland pierz...@yahoo.fr À : HOT Discussion list h...@openstreetmap.org; Talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Best way to download data of route relations?

2014-03-26 Thread Pierre Béland
I just learned about this interesting paremetrization with  {{key}} {{value}}   Pierre De : Brad Neuhauser brad.neuhau...@gmail.com À : Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com Cc : OSM talk@openstreetmap.org Envoyé le : Mercredi 26 mars 2014 17h36 Objet :

Re: [OSM-talk] admin_level 4 rendering

2014-04-07 Thread Pierre Béland
In the relation for Nicaragua (id=287666), there are objects with role subarea.  For example, addition of subarea role for Chontales is redundant with Relation  Chontales (id=2194866). I dont know if this would fix the problem, but you could remove the redundant subarea members from the

Re: [OSM-talk] small extract of OSM data for September 2013

2014-04-08 Thread Pierre Béland
Hi Maning You should see with Paul Norman who made the Before layer for the Haiyan Compare map.   http://pierzen.dev.openstreetmap.org/hot/leaflet/OSM-Compare-before-after-philippines.html#9/11.1663/124.8727 Philippines Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) OSM Compare Before and After BEFORE AFTER

Re: [OSM-talk] admin_level 4 rendering

2014-04-08 Thread Pierre Béland
Felix,  A by the nose recipe that you can try is to force update of the relation by simply modifying the order of the members in the list for the relation. After you save this relation, it will force the renderers to update for this relation.  I had such suggestions once and it did fix my

Re: [OSM-talk] [HOT] Floods in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina

2014-05-17 Thread Pierre Béland
The http://www.poplave.rs/ Ushahidi map do not help to identifiy the zones where to map.  A see at one place, more then a thousand reports. It would be important first to define the zones to cover in priority. We coul then see if Bing Imagery is available for these areas and prepare Task

Re: [OSM-talk] [HOT] Floods in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina

2014-05-17 Thread Pierre Béland
I am writing you privately to see if you want to take care of this. I will be travelling tomorrow, You already have rights to create new task manager jobs. If you want to take care of this mapping project, you can start to create the TM jobs. The wiki page for this event could be create

Re: [OSM-talk] [HOT] Floods in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina

2014-05-19 Thread Pierre Béland
Hi Thanks Harry for the wiki page. This is a severe flooding with high waters and lanslides in various areas. It is reported that more then 500,000 people have been evacuated in Bosnia alone.  More than 100,000 houses and other buildings in Bosnia were no longer fit to use and that over a

Re: [OSM-talk] [HOT] Floods in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina

2014-05-19 Thread Pierre Béland
An Aljazeera updates reports that ph. dr. Stjepan Šterc from the Faculty of Sciences in Zagreb, Croatia estimated the flooded area to be about 22.900 km2 in those countries. (http://balkans.aljazeera.net/vijesti/poplavljena-povrsina-veca-od-slovenije) Bosnia: 13.200 km2 Serbia: 9.100 km2

Re: [OSM-talk] Level0 Updates

2014-05-20 Thread Pierre Béland
Thanks to both.  OSM is an ecosystem with great developpers and international community. Your efforts greatly help for the various Humanitarian activations. Level0 French translation revised :)   Pierre De : Ilya Zverev zve...@textual.ru À :

Re: [OSM-talk] [HOT] Floods in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina

2014-05-20 Thread Pierre Béland
See the Map of flooded zones, May 2014 (Red NASA Lance Modis / Light red European Commission Copernicus) at http://floodobservatory.colorado.edu/RapidResponse/2014Bosnia4139/2014Bosnia.html Pierre___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] [HOT] Floods in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina

2014-05-21 Thread Pierre Béland
Hrvoje With OSM Nominatim to geolocate properly for streets, we need to have town boundaries including into OSM. I was looking at this today and it seems that those limits are not imported yet. If we could have such limits to import (license compatible with ODbL), it would greatly enhance the

Re: [OSM-talk] [HOT] Floods in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina

2014-05-21 Thread Pierre Béland
Hrvoje, On the dev server I created a job that focus on priority areas.   I did this looking at the the NASA flood impact map. To progress more rapidly with mapping and focus on priority zones, I would like to replace job 534 with this new job. See http://tasks.dev.hotosm.org/job/480 What do

Re: [OSM-talk] [HOT] Wikimedia Germany awards HOT with Zedler-Award for Taifun Haiyan Project

2014-05-25 Thread Pierre Béland
After all the media publications, we now receive the Deutch Wikimedia Zedler-Award! Thanks to the OpenStreetMap contributors from 82 countries, the developpers and coordinators that made this possible. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Zedler-Preis#Der_Zedler-Preis_2014 If you want to

[OSM-talk] IEEE Conference in Montreal, ShareSlide available, HOT Response to Haiyan and Ebola outbreak

2014-06-05 Thread Pierre Béland
At the IEEE conference in Montreal, june 1.  I presented the two recent Activations for the Haiyan Typhoon in Philippines and  the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Below is the link to the Shareslide of my presentation where someVideos are inserted.

Re: [OSM-talk] overpass query to get last used editor

2014-06-11 Thread Pierre Béland
Hi Roland, It is possible to interrogate the OSM-API to obtain the list of changesets for a given bbox and then the general infos about the changeset. Contents is likehttp://api.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/changeset/16716501 But the problem is that we are limited in the no. of changesets to

[OSM-talk] OpenCycle and Montainuous rivers in Mali

2014-06-12 Thread Pierre Béland
The Niger river delta in Mali is a large and flat zone with lands flooded part of the year. The OpenCycle map surprises me today since it shows mountains near the river around Mopti, Mali. More then that, the link below shows a mountain crossing over a river. Looking around, I see other

Re: [OSM-talk] Peculiar mapping in Caracas

2014-06-14 Thread Pierre Béland
This contributor edit OSM since 2011. He created more then 2,000 changesets. You should try first to contact him and see if he simply made a mistake manipulating data.   Pierre De : Andrew Hain andrewhain...@hotmail.co.uk À : talk@openstreetmap.org Envoyé

Re: [OSM-talk] We need a name!

2014-06-19 Thread Pierre Béland
HistoriaiHistoria   Pierre De : Alex Rollin alex.rol...@gmail.com À : Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com Cc : OpenStreetMap talk@openstreetmap.org Envoyé le : Jeudi 19 juin 2014 14h06 Objet : Re: [OSM-talk] We need a name! History Viewer World

Re: [OSM-talk] Just facts?

2014-06-19 Thread Pierre Béland
There are various ways to influence what is mapped. The Mapnik stylesheet itself has probably a significant impact on what is mapped. While it shows commercial businesses including fast-food, no mention of doctor clinics, social and community services. Mappers are surely influenced by the

Re: [OSM-talk] Overpass API / Overpass QL: center (and centroid) function?

2014-07-24 Thread Pierre Béland
Stefan, In your request, you make a recursive query that loads nodes from the way. In this example, the node and way queries are independant. For the way, the center command is used.   [out:json] [timeout:25] ;   node[shop~dairy] 

Re: [OSM-talk] Overpass API / Overpass QL: center (and centroid) function?

2014-07-24 Thread Pierre Béland
center; ); ; out meta qt; 2014-07-24 15:20 GMT+02:00 Pierre Béland pierz...@yahoo.fr: Stefan, In your request, you make a recursive query that loads nodes from the way. In this example, the node and way queries are independant. For the way, the center command is used. [out:json] [timeout:25

Re: [OSM-talk] Overpass API / Overpass QL: center (and centroid) function?

2014-07-24 Thread Pierre Béland
...@gmail.com: Thanks again - I think I got it - including a bug: GeoJSON is still returning polygons! But with XML it works. E.g. replacing [out:json] with [out:xml] or exporting as XML. --Stefan 2014-07-24 15:48 GMT+02:00 Pierre Béland pierz...@yahoo.fr: Stefan, In your example, the parenthesis

Re: [OSM-talk] Attic data on Overpass API

2014-08-02 Thread Pierre Béland
Roland this is awesome. Your presentation at SOTM was quite interesting and I was waiting for the revision of the database. Below is an example where I extract places for Sierra Leone, with diff from 15-03 to 02-07. This work nicely.

Re: [OSM-talk] HOT Mapping thoughts

2014-08-03 Thread Pierre Béland
Hi John, In general, the tiles are updated to the minute. Looking at my edits this morning after a few minutes, tiles were refreshed both for the OSM and Humanitarian layers. I press F5 to refresh the screen and obtain the new tiles in the navigator. For OSMAnd, updates may vary. For major

[OSM-talk] (sans objet)

2014-08-06 Thread Pierre Béland
I've published a new update about the Ebola Response. http://hot.openstreetmap.org/updates/2014-08-05_reactivation_of_hot_for_the_ebola_epidemic_second_update With 4.3 millions objects added to the OSM database, the intensity of this OSM Activation is now equivalent to the Philippines Haiyan

[OSM-talk] WHO declares Ebola outbreak an 'international public health emergency'

2014-08-08 Thread Pierre Béland
Following the WHO appeal, I published a new HOT update. http://hot.openstreetmap.org/updates/2014-08-08_who_declares_ebola_outbreak_an_international_public_health_emergency Haiti in 2010 revealed the capacity of the OpenStreetMap community to effectively support UN agencies and humanitarian

Re: [OSM-talk] 10th anniversary - Iceland and Botswana progress

2014-08-09 Thread Pierre Béland
Greatings, and reat work  Jóhannes. I like the layout of http://www.openstreetmap.org.bw/index.php#17/-26.28334/21.36767 with the buttons on top. This is very intuitive for beginners. About, Examples, Take Part, Get me on the Map, Add note on Osm, Edit on OSM   Pierre

[OSM-talk] OSM 10th Anniversary - Map for humanitarian emergencies

2014-08-09 Thread Pierre Béland
Mapping for Emergencies like Ebola for international emergencies gives a lot of media coverage to OpenStreetMap. For this 10th anniversary, let show our capacity to escalate for the ungoing humanitarian disasters. Following the declaration friday 8 by the World Health Organization (WHO) that

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