Re: [OSM-talk] FW: [EXTERNAL] Re: ODbl concerns

2023-08-24 Thread James
You can check out these compatible licenses https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Licence/Licence_Compatibility You can use CC BY if you grant a waiver to OSM to be able to import/use the data stating that it's okay that we attribute you here: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors __

Re: [OSM-talk] mapilio? (street-level imagery)

2023-05-30 Thread James
Mapillary(facebook) KartaView(was OpenStreetCam aquired by a taxi company) On Tue, May 30, 2023, 4:43 PM Andrew Hain wrote: > Is there an imagery host that offers an OSM-friendly way to support > mapping and is suitable for contributions using a smartphone or tablet? > > -- > Andrew > -

Re: [OSM-talk] Rent-a-crowd needed JOSM Microsoft store

2022-11-27 Thread James
IANAL but GPL v2 does allow to charge for distribution. Is it ethical, lol no, would lawyers care? Probably not On Sun, Nov 27, 2022, 11:30 PM stevea wrote: > Yes, thanks much, James! (For linking "Reporting Infringement to > Microsoft"). I do wonder if simply forking and ch

Re: [OSM-talk] Rent-a-crowd needed JOSM Microsoft store

2022-11-27 Thread James
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/intellectualproperty/infringement On Sun, Nov 27, 2022, 11:15 PM john whelan wrote: > You can only leave a review if you download the software. > > Both are JOSM, one is a fork which costs money which goes to the person > who created the fork the other is no

Re: [OSM-talk] Rent-a-crowd needed JOSM Microsoft store

2022-11-27 Thread James
https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/openstreet-map-editor/9MVMVXFPM5SV https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/josm/XPFCG1GV0WWGZX On Sun, Nov 27, 2022, 11:01 PM stevea wrote: > If choosing which version is "legitimate" (or preferred) is important, and > "leaving a review" is a (one) metho

Re: [OSM-talk] Rent-a-crowd needed JOSM Microsoft store

2022-11-27 Thread James
not everyone runs winblows On Sun, Nov 27, 2022, 8:19 PM John Whelan wrote: > On a windows machine do a search for Microsoft store. Then search for > JOSM. Download it then you can leave a review. The more reviews it has > the more it looks as if it is the legitimate version. > > The other ve

Re: [OSM-talk] Making GPS tracks in Android

2020-12-20 Thread James
OSMAnd With GPS status (to force redownloading gps hints) On Sun., Dec. 20, 2020, 7:41 a.m. Andy Mabbett, wrote: > Father Christmas came early this year, and has delivered to me a smart > new Android phone, whose GPS is much better than on my old one. > > I want to use it to trace some tracks o

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM and Google

2020-12-14 Thread James
are you using 8.8.8.8 or 4.4.4.4 as a dns? could explain it. On Mon., Dec. 14, 2020, 1:58 p.m. Niels Elgaard Larsen, wrote: > Google services was down for an hour today. I noticed that at the same > time I could > not push my edits with JOSM due to "internal server error" > > Was that a coincide

Re: [OSM-talk] Call to Take Action and Confront Systemic Offensive Behavior in the OSM Community

2020-12-10 Thread James
> The lack of discussion by non-men is an undeniable fact. >Right, this is true. Sadly true. Something I also know from Linux Communities and other Open Source/Open Data Communities. Same in programming and IT fields, firefighters, mechanics, carpenters, construction workers, taxi drivers, etc et

Re: [OSM-talk] Find actively browsed undermapped regions and other gaps in OSM

2020-10-20 Thread James
Just a little feedback, the "mobile" version looks like eye cancer: https://imgur.com/a/lA44Qmn On Tue., Oct. 20, 2020, 9:38 a.m. Darafei Praliaskouski via talk, < talk@openstreetmap.org> wrote: > Hi, > > Fixed links: > > Kontur OpenStreetMap Antiquity: > > https://disaster.ninja/live/#id=GDACS_

Re: [OSM-talk] Examples of good paid mapping?

2020-09-11 Thread James
I've been paid in the past to do mapping for someone, but I was already an active experienced osm mapper beforehand. How to be successful: Listen to osm experts/community and not fight against them Use existing tags on the wiki, don't invent your own Verify data accuracy as much as you can, no

[OSM-talk] Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 using OSM data with hilarious results

2020-08-20 Thread James
Seems the snapshot was about a year ago: https://twitter.com/liamosaur/status/1296305264870662144 https://twitter.com/alexandermuscat/status/1296010700746194945 and people trying to land on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhrGEdO88kE Not sure if osm is being credited in game ___

Re: [OSM-talk] Roadmap for deprecation of name tags in OSM

2020-08-09 Thread James
est route forward, given that wikidata is > so big and contains a lot of osm unrelated data. > > James skrev: (9 augusti 2020 14:31:57 CEST) >> >> and if the solution is to download the data then download wikidata, it's >> even more clunky than the name tag itself &g

Re: [OSM-talk] Roadmap for deprecation of name tags in OSM

2020-08-09 Thread James
ogramming > language. All our data consumers are already doing this. > > I made a simple map in a few hours that query both overpass and wikidata > based on the osmid to find links to images of shelters. See > https://github.com/pangoSE/sheltermap > > James skrev: (9 augusti

Re: [OSM-talk] Roadmap for deprecation of name tags in OSM

2020-08-09 Thread James
and if the solution is to download the data then download wikidata, it's even more clunky than the name tag itself On Sun., Aug. 9, 2020, 8:29 a.m. Jeremy Harris, wrote: > On 09/08/2020 09:25, pangoSE wrote: > > I suggest we create a roadmap for deprecating of storing and updating > names in OSM

Re: [OSM-talk] Roadmap for deprecation of name tags in OSM

2020-08-09 Thread James
tributors to check an independant database before uploading survey > results seems like a lot of extra effort for a volunteer driven project. > > On Sun, 9 Aug 2020 at 12:11, pangoSE wrote: > >> These are valid concerns. See my response to James. >> If Wikimedia should become un

Re: [OSM-talk] Roadmap for deprecation of name tags in OSM

2020-08-09 Thread James
is there a contingency plan if wikipedia/wikimedia ceases to exist? On Sun., Aug. 9, 2020, 4:29 a.m. pangoSE, wrote: > I suggest we create a roadmap for deprecating of storing and updating > names in OSM for objects with a Wikidata tag. > > The rationale is explained here: > https://josm.openstr

Re: [OSM-talk] Funding of three infrastructure projects : Nominatim, osm2pgsql, Potlatch 2

2020-08-02 Thread James
Personally I use Linux and I fail to see why funding an application that isn't multiplatform. I choose to use linux as scripting/data manipulation is easier than windows. I will not install adobe air as it's discontinued on linux since 2011(security bugs anyone?). Development and bug fixes on AIR

Re: [OSM-talk] Heresy - pure discussion

2020-07-24 Thread James
POSTGRESQL with Gis extension has better performance than SQL Server indexing coordinates/type(node, way, polygon, relation) as columns. On Fri., Jul. 24, 2020, 7:01 p.m. John Whelan, wrote: > Thank you Hartmut, > > my expertise is not in GIS databases so this is helpful to know. My > experienc

Re: [OSM-talk] Facebook acquires crowdsourced mapping company Mapillary

2020-06-19 Thread James
Might want to refine your searching skills: https://github.com/openstreetcam/openstreetcam.org/issues/254 On Fri., Jun. 19, 2020, 9:21 a.m. Mateusz Konieczny via talk, < talk@openstreetmap.org> wrote: > > > > Jun 19, 2020, 08:58 by f...@zz.de: > > On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 01:21:59AM +0200, Niels

Re: [OSM-talk] Facebook acquires crowdsourced mapping company Mapillary

2020-06-18 Thread James
Openstreetcam was transferred to grab taxi, images have stopped processing and devs say they are working on back end but project seems dead On Thu., Jun. 18, 2020, 7:27 p.m. Paul Johnson, wrote: > Doesn't OpenStreetCam have similar corporate ownership problems, with the > additional problematic

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] fake, edit, fake map.

2020-06-16 Thread James
as have I, I don't live it Africa, made edits there, I certainly don't live in North Korea, made edits there, I don't live in Florida, made edits there. What's your point being 100miles away? Some of these places I have visited, some I haven't On Tue., Jun. 16, 2020, 1:54 p.m. Hauke Stieler, wrot

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Google earth, Google maps

2020-06-13 Thread James
also there's a ruler in JOSM On Sat., Jun. 13, 2020, 11:45 a.m. Mateusz Konieczny via talk, < talk@openstreetmap.org> wrote: > If you were not copying Google Maps then why you were using the ruler? > > Why using ruler on Google Maps would be even necessary? > > Jun 13, 2020, 17:31 by talk@openstr

Re: [OSM-talk] Could/should editors detect/disallow huge changeset bboxes?

2020-06-12 Thread James
No they shouldn't, mapping roads in northern Canada, your bbox can become quite large quickly as mapping logging roads/dirt roads is quick and easy, but span over multiple kms On Fri., Jun. 12, 2020, 11:10 a.m. ndrw, wrote: > On 12/06/2020 15:32, 80hnhtv4agou--- via talk wrote: > > I am confused

Re: [OSM-talk] CyclOSM Lite a new cycling infrastructure map layer

2020-05-26 Thread James
and if pedestrians are allowed on it: highway=path segregated=no On Tue., May 26, 2020, 9:58 a.m. Dave F via talk, wrote: > > > On 26/05/2020 09:19, Hartmut Holzgraefe wrote: > > > > sorry, my fault, it is bicycle_road=yes in addition to highway=* > > (usually residential) > > > > and it isn't

Re: [OSM-talk] mspray stealth organized mapping

2020-05-25 Thread James Nyirenda
Greetings. I am one of the coordinators for the mSpray organized mapping. We are aware of the issues that have been raised and we are working on them. James ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] mspray stealth organized mapping

2020-05-22 Thread James
>If the person doing the editing is just a geography student going through the motions for a course credit it's less likely to, I agree. Or a Comms class at a certain university 🤦‍♂️ We are still trying to clean that mess up in Ottawa On Fri., May 22, 2020, 6:52 p.m. Andy Townsend, wrote: > On

Re: [OSM-talk] our Q&A site help.openstreetmap.org is dying

2020-05-20 Thread James
Has the code base diverged from OSQA? If we were to submit changes would we need to provide source code as the original code is GPL3? On Wed., May 20, 2020, 4:25 p.m. Tobias Wrede, wrote: > Am 20.05.2020 um 21:32 schrieb Frederik Ramm: > > > > We've taken great care to write our replies in a gen

Re: [OSM-talk] Flashing school speed limit sign

2020-03-11 Thread James
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:maxspeed:variable ? On Wed., Mar. 11, 2020, 9:24 p.m. Jack Armstrong, wrote: > How would this be tagged? I can't seem to find anything about this on the > wiki. Perhaps I'm just not looking in the right place. Thanks. > > > https://www.mapillary.com/app/?

Re: [OSM-talk] Digital environmentalism

2020-02-25 Thread James
I do it whilst riding my bike now. #PlanetSaved On Tue., Feb. 25, 2020, 3:49 p.m. Brad Neuhauser, wrote: > Maybe stretching, but what about Google driving cars around constantly to > capture Street View images and road/POI data? Ideally, a lot of OSM data is > gathered by people who are already

Re: [OSM-talk] Teaching cyclists how to contribute to OSM

2020-01-20 Thread James
, 7:13 a.m. Martin Koppenhoefer, < dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Am Mo., 20. Jan. 2020 um 12:43 Uhr schrieb Mike N : > >> On 1/20/2020 5:42 AM, James wrote: >> > I've yet to see an officer stop a cyclist going too fast, general rule >> > is don

Re: [OSM-talk] Teaching cyclists how to contribute to OSM

2020-01-20 Thread James
Maarten Deen, wrote: > On 2020-01-20 11:10, James wrote: > > I find the path way of tagging like Germany & Italy more accurate, > > because MUPs aren't favouring anyone, they are paths that can > > accomodate cyclists, pedestrians equally and bikes are limited to >

Re: [OSM-talk] Teaching cyclists how to contribute to OSM

2020-01-20 Thread James
I find the path way of tagging like Germany & Italy more accurate, because MUPs aren't favouring anyone, they are paths that can accomodate cyclists, pedestrians equally and bikes are limited to 20km/h on MUPs as they are not segregated from pedestrians On Mon., Jan. 20, 2020, 4:46 a.m. Alessandro

Re: [OSM-talk] Teaching cyclists how to contribute to OSM

2020-01-18 Thread James
Bike advocacy group in Ottawa created this: https://github.com/BikeOttawa/OSM-Bike-Ottawa-Tagging-Guide/blob/master/README.md as well as a crowd sourced map like the one for winter bike trails that allows a user to submit if a path is winter maintained or not, it will then update OSM in the back

Re: [OSM-talk] no-go-areas

2019-12-31 Thread James
Wouldn't that just be a crime map or a bias towards areas vs others. Sounds like an osm use case more than a needed tag On Tue., Dec. 31, 2019, 10:18 a.m. Martin Trautmann, wrote: > hi all, > > did you read about the Suisse tourist couple which was shot because they > got lost in a Brasilian fa

[OSM-talk] Website selling OpenStreetMap prints without attribution

2019-11-17 Thread James
https://365canvas.com/product/hello-will-you-i-do-map-canvas-prints/ The preview of the customize is 100% OSM data as I always have "trap" data I check that other map providers haven't mapped yet(usually being excessive detail). Not sure who the tile set provider is, possibly mapbox? The heart sh

Re: [OSM-talk] Tesla using OSM without attribution?

2019-11-12 Thread James
not sure if using maps to render tiles or just for parking lot routing On Tue., Nov. 12, 2019, 5:28 a.m. MARLIN LUKE, wrote: > Sorry for the self-response, but it seems it's already been noticed > because it's listed in weeklyOSM #485 [1]. > > There's no mention of the attribution issue though.

Re: [OSM-talk] Addressing SIG

2019-11-05 Thread James
It's a pretty cool concept, but doesn't necessarily invoke ALL addresses have been found, what happens if a few addresses are there? What happens if someone adds 1 or 2 addresses? Pretty good QA tool I'm guessing? ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap

Re: [OSM-talk] [Osmf-talk] Reminder: OSM Etiquette guidelines

2019-11-04 Thread James
Conspiracy: tagging a grassy knoll "the place JFK was shot from" Nitpicking: You rounded off the 16th decimal on a city's name tag, losing a maximum on 10cm of precisionon...a...city...nametag. On Mon., Nov. 4, 2019, 4:56 a.m. Martin Koppenhoefer, < dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'

Re: [OSM-talk] Geofabrik Download server maintains privacy | Re: Maintaining privacy as a casual mapper

2019-11-03 Thread James
but lets be honest, if there was a malicious entity that wanted to find out where he lived, an OpenStreetMap account isnt really a barrier to entry. On Sun., Nov. 3, 2019, 6:31 a.m. Rory McCann, wrote: > On 03.11.19 11:42, Philippe Latulippe wrote: > > Are there better ways to maintain some priv

Re: [OSM-talk] Birthplace of artist - how to map with Wikidata?

2019-09-25 Thread James
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:memorial%3Dplaque historic=memorial memorial=plaque name=[what ever the plaque says] On Wed., Sep. 25, 2019, 5:56 a.m. Frederik Ramm, wrote: > Hi, > > I passed a building today that had a plaque saying that a famous writer > was born there ("on the first

Re: [OSM-talk] [Osmf-talk] Attribution guideline status update

2019-09-08 Thread James
Can confirm roads, buildings, parks are from OSM from a little bit more than a year ago. Not sure what the other sources contributed On Sun., Sep. 8, 2019, 6:17 a.m. Nuno Caldeira, < nunocapelocalde...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Here's another example of why we should not adopt the multiple sources >

Re: [OSM-talk] many images in wiki gone missing?

2019-09-06 Thread James
https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/d0olyb/wikipedia_is_currently_under_a_ddos_attack_and/ Wikipedia is under a DDoS attack, so it will be down until they mitigate it On Fri., Sep. 6, 2019, 5:38 p.m. Michael Bemmerl, wrote: > Pine W schrieb: > > Wikimedia sites are not fully down. The a

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

2019-08-29 Thread James
I support this, I've even seen SEO services open notes just to have a "link back to their site" On Thu., Aug. 29, 2019, 5:49 p.m. Frederik Ramm, wrote: > Hi, > > after two years of discussing the pros and cons, a decision has now been > reached to disallow anonymous comments on notes. > > Up unt

Re: [OSM-talk] adding my aerial sphere 360 panorama to the OpenStreetMap

2019-07-25 Thread James
There are already services such as Mapillary or OpenStreetCam that can be used as an imagery overlay to OSM. On Thu., Jul. 25, 2019, 6:11 a.m. Oleksiy Muzalyev, < oleksiy.muzal...@bluewin.ch> wrote: > Good day, > > I published a new diary entry about an experiment of adding my aerial > sphere 360

Re: [OSM-talk] Facebook mapping highways using AI in collaboration with OpenStreetMap

2019-07-24 Thread James
News outlet sensationalizes story to attract views to its website.I can't think of one example of this ever happening in the history pf the planet p.s. I dropped this: */s* On Wed., Jul. 24, 2019, 5:32 p.m. stevea, wrote: > An article such as that proposed by John would almost be a master

Re: [OSM-talk] We need to have a conversation about attribution

2019-07-23 Thread James
It's kind of funny when people deny osm data as it has it's own sort flavour that differentiates it from google, bing, here, etc. It's instantly recognizable. On Tue., Jul. 23, 2019, 6:43 p.m. Nuno Caldeira, < nunocapelocalde...@gmail.com> wrote: > Months go by nothing happens. here's another exa

Re: [OSM-talk] DJI Fly SafeGEO ZONE MAP uses OSM data... without attribution

2019-06-27 Thread James
on the desktop version they show ©Mapbox ©OpenStreetMap Improve this map On Thu., Jun. 27, 2019, 7:50 a.m. Nuno Caldeira, < nunocapelocalde...@gmail.com> wrote: > Just an update on this, DJI now complies with the license now. they added > the notice on the map https://www.dji.com/pt/mobile/flysaf

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenTrailView 360 - StreetView-like application for hikers

2019-06-01 Thread James
some don't stitch the image either as it requires too much processing, which you have to do with hugin or a proprietary software i.e. the Xiaomi Sphere 360 On Sat., Jun. 1, 2019, 8:29 a.m. Dave F via talk, wrote: > Hi > > I was thinking of purchasing a 360 camera & assumed all would have this >

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetCam versatility

2019-04-19 Thread James
it "supports" it, but not on the main website for tagging what ways are already visited, but you are able to see them in JOSM as where the original tracks are. There's a bug open for them to fix the "autobinding" on main website to "support" walkways and trails On Fri., Apr. 19, 2019, 6:46 p.m. P

Re: [OSM-talk] DJI Fly SafeGEO ZONE MAP uses OSM data... without attribution

2019-03-18 Thread James
Looks like google to me: http://imgur.com/a/fZt6gxR On Mon., Mar. 18, 2019, 6:55 p.m. Nuno Caldeira, < nunocapelocalde...@gmail.com> wrote: > Was curious where DJI managed to get a worldwide DB of polygons of > military facilities and points of prisons, triple checked with a couple of > other use

Re: [OSM-talk] Your thoughts on osm.org

2019-03-12 Thread James
would be pretty uselessit would reduce OSM to a database to which there is no way to view an example of what it is to common folk(non-technical) I imagine it would just be what is on wiki.osm.org with links/documentation like any other FOSS landing page: description of project, download link,

Re: [OSM-talk] HTTPS all the Things (Automated Edit)

2019-02-26 Thread James
I can give an example of this going horribly wrong: http://www.osmcanada.ca redirects to https://www.osmcanada.ca but I specifically disabled https on http://tasks.osmcanada.ca (hosted on same server) because josm doesnt play nice with https task manager Web admins will redirect their traffic if

Re: [OSM-talk] HTTPS all the Things (Automated Edit)

2019-02-22 Thread James
s basically you copied this? https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere On Fri., Feb. 22, 2019, 2:05 a.m. Bryce Jasmer, wrote: > I have written a script that will search for OSM objects that have a > website tag that explicitly states "http://..."; or implicitly uses http > by leaving of the proto

[OSM-talk] State of the Map Africa 2019 LOGO Submission Deadline

2019-01-29 Thread James Magige
lid=IwAR21V_nmDDNPWg4pLDBqc7XmjwATOTQtlLD9slWEBFENEnMkBOO8TL4CiOc> Deadline for Submission: Thursday 31st Jan, 2019. Regards, *Magige **M. **James* *Environmental Planner and Manager* */GIS and Remote Sensing specialist. * *Kenyatta University* *phone no:+2540707

Re: [OSM-talk] What use is OpenStreetMap?

2019-01-03 Thread James
Also to note that despite city believing their data is 100% correct, it never seems to be the case thus requiring data manipulation/corrections. In a way OSM is a repository with accurate/validated geo data On Thu., Jan. 3, 2019, 5:40 p.m. john whelan Then of course we have the mapping for the bl

Re: [OSM-talk] What use is OpenStreetMap?

2019-01-03 Thread James
community data hacking like the maps from bike ottawa(maps.bikeottawa.ca) On Thu., Jan. 3, 2019, 4:10 p.m. John Whelan I got a phone call from someone who works for a municipality who was > passed my phone number. Basically asking from a municipal government point > of view was there any advanta

Re: [OSM-talk] Plus code grid service

2018-11-19 Thread James
it's like saying: HEY GUYS! INSTEAD OF WRITING BINARY, YOU CAN NOW WRITE IT IN HEX! not very exciting at all, just another way to represent the same thing On Mon., Nov. 19, 2018, 11:28 a.m. djakk djakk Well, it is possible for a human to memorize it :) > > Julien « djakk » > > > Le lun. 19 nov.

Re: [OSM-talk] Multiple errors in the same location

2018-11-16 Thread James
could be many things: 1. CanVec import without corrections to todays standards 2. Old CanVec version1 imports(was pretty bad) 3. Someone added data that was already there On Fri., Nov. 16, 2018, 11:57 a.m. Nelson A. de Oliveira On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 2:08 PM SandorS wrote: > > A careful analyse

Re: [OSM-talk] it seems josm.openstreetmap.de is down

2018-10-30 Thread James
if you read josm announcement (start of josm) there's maintenance for a couple hours On Tue., Oct. 30, 2018, 12:33 p.m. Oleksiy Muzalyev, < oleksiy.muzal...@bluewin.ch> wrote: > I cannot open the link https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ and I cannot > launch the JOSM application on macOS. > > I do not

Re: [OSM-talk] Is it time to redevelop JOSM?

2018-10-10 Thread James
http://openjdk.java.net/ All the code is gplv2 so I doubt we'd have any issues using it. Java 11 is supported on openjdk and there are beta builds of Java 12 far are the days where openjdk was 2-3 versions behind the current api level On Wed., Oct. 10, 2018, 6:42 p.m. John Whelan, wrote: >

Re: [OSM-talk] Is it time to redevelop JOSM?

2018-10-07 Thread James
Android(google) has been sued over implementing their own JVM, so they do not depend on Oracle(oracle lost that fight too) On Sun., Oct. 7, 2018, 5:38 p.m. Richard, wrote: > On Sun, Oct 07, 2018 at 05:11:20PM -0400, James wrote: > > people will switch to openjdk. problem solved. > &

Re: [OSM-talk] Is it time to redevelop JOSM?

2018-10-07 Thread James
etary binaries, that's about it. On Oct. 7, 2018 5:25 p.m., "john whelan" wrote: But will it run JOSM today or would some changes be required to JOSM? Thanks John On Sun, 7 Oct 2018, 5:11 pm James, wrote: > people will switch to openjdk. problem solved. > > On Sun., Oct. 7

Re: [OSM-talk] Is it time to redevelop JOSM?

2018-10-07 Thread James
people will switch to openjdk. problem solved. On Sun., Oct. 7, 2018, 5:09 p.m. john whelan, wrote: > JAVA has a number of problems. Many corporations ban its installation > citing security issues which restricts the machines that can use JOSM with > all its nice tools. > > Oracle never was ena

Re: [OSM-talk] weird "excessive bounces" warnings from the list

2018-10-01 Thread James
I get it too, it might be rejecting them because the mailing list is sending too many emails to too many gmail addresses(way to combat spam: limit same messages to different recipients) On Mon., Oct. 1, 2018, 2:56 p.m. Richard, wrote: > Hi, > > from time to time I am getting messages like > > <

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, Christop

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] 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 structure

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. > > R

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 s

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 'NT

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] 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 in

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Carto design

2018-06-29 Thread James
But they say CartoCSS is dead, what is the intended replacement(if it's dead it's because there's a newer better thing?)? just a data structure that contains data/styling? On Fri, Jun 29, 2018, 6:49 AM Paul Norman, wrote: > On 2018-06-29 2:48 AM, James wrote: > > So wha

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 lon

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 Fr

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 > difficu

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

2018-06-02 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 picavet

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

2018-06-01 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] 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 deploy multiple language versions

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 altimetry dataset, w

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 harassment may purposefull

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: > > http://www.weeklyosm.eu/en/

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

2018-04-08 Thread James
On Sun, Apr 8, 2018, 8:13 AM Simon Poole, 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 the curators of the lice

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 really a solutio

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 before all > ti

Re: [OSM-talk] Vote cheating?

2018-03-16 Thread James
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. >>>> >>>> Maarten >>>> >>>> On 2018-03-16 12:

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 there are wiki accounts that we

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 very little activity wi

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 the API to: > _ allow

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 to detect generic vanda

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

2018-02-23 Thread James
f-wp-content-uploads-2018-02-dixon-384405-e-wp-content-uploads-2018-02-new-map-1200x800.png&source=006&title=dixon-384405-e-wp-content-uploads-2018-02-new-map&caption=The%20new%20congressional%20map%20released%20Monday%20by%20the%20Pennsylvania%20Supreme%20Court . On Feb 22, 2018 11:06

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

2018-02-22 Thread James Mast
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/will-republicans-impeach-pennsylvania-supreme-court-justices-20180222.html (ignore what the article is about) Just happen to see a thumbnail and clicked on the article since I noticed the OSM base map. Nowhere that I can find does it give credit to O

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

2018-02-17 Thread James
You would need to install mono to run it and not everyone has mono or wants it installed(thats the problem with Virtual Machine languages). We would also have to rename it to Cosm. Doesn't have a nice ring to it ;). On Feb 17, 2018 1:19 PM, "Mike N" wrote: > On 2/17/2018 11:

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 🤢🤮. 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 highlights the point on the

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" 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 > James wrote: > >

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" wrote: > W dniu 28.12.2017 o 14:04, James pisze: > >> not everyone knows lua scripting might be one of the major herdles >> > > Is

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 that the core tea

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