[OSM-talk] DWG looking for Chinese translation help

2016-08-16 Thread Paul Norman
The OSM Foundation Data Working Group is looking for help with translating a couple of messages to Chinese. These messages are about data we're going to need to redact, so we want to make sure they understand. If you can help, please contact d...@osmfoundation.org

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

2016-08-16 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
Þann 16.08.2016 00:24, Nicolás Alvarez reit: 2016-08-15 21:13 GMT-03:00 Daniel Koć : If we have no current backup available, I think it would be good to have a script harvesting all the entries even just via plain HTML, with publishing date, username and user id, so we could recreate it more or

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

2016-08-16 Thread Hakuch
On 16.08.2016 11:45, Jóhannes Birgir Jensson wrote: > Þann 16.08.2016 00:24, Nicolás Alvarez reit: >> ArchiveTeam.org is already doing this HTML backup. > With access to forums you only see after login? The scraping is not about a html-backup. What we would need for transfering the old posts into

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

2016-08-16 Thread Daniel Koć
W dniu 16.08.2016 12:04, Hakuch napisał(a): as this new-server-software project will take some time. How do you think about hijacking another country-subforum? There are a lot where no one is active with only very few posts. I would accept it as temporary solution. No need to invade Uruguay

[OSM-talk] Nominatim - Does it use the is_in tag?

2016-08-16 Thread Dave F
Hi I've heard a claim from a user who still wants to use the is_in:* tag as well as boundary tags that Nominatim uses is_in as preference because "geospacial mathematics is resource intensive". Is this true? I thought geospacial calculations were fairly light on processing power. I also tho

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

2016-08-16 Thread Microgamer
As Hakuch already says: The project "new server" will take some time. I don't know what all has to be done, to fire up the server, set the admins into position etc. I think that we should go with an other forum, because fluxbb seems not to be that easy to handle. Then all software we need has to

Re: [OSM-talk] Nominatim - Does it use the is_in tag?

2016-08-16 Thread Hakuch
following the wiki, its not deprecated https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:is_in However, I really would love to see a scheme that shows how nominatim finds it results.. On 16.08.2016 15:29, Dave F wrote: > Hi > > I've heard a claim from a user who still wants to use the is_in:* tag as > we

Re: [OSM-talk] Nominatim - Does it use the is_in tag?

2016-08-16 Thread Andy Townsend
On 16/08/2016 16:19, Hakuch wrote: following the wiki, its not deprecated https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:is_in I was surprised when I read that the other day too... However, I really would love to see a scheme that shows how nominatim finds it results.. There's the nominatim.opens

Re: [OSM-talk] Nominatim - Does it use the is_in tag?

2016-08-16 Thread Sarah Hoffmann
On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 02:29:26PM +0100, Dave F wrote: > Hi > > I've heard a claim from a user who still wants to use the is_in:* > tag as well as boundary tags that Nominatim uses is_in as preference > because "geospacial mathematics is resource intensive". > > Is this true? Not at all. Nomina

Re: [OSM-talk] Nominatim - Does it use the is_in tag?

2016-08-16 Thread Hakuch
Hey Sarah, do you have documentations that explain how nominatim processes the queries? That could be an answer to questions like that one On 16.08.2016 21:27, Sarah Hoffmann wrote: > On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 02:29:26PM +0100, Dave F wrote: >> Hi >> >> I've heard a claim from a user who still wants

Re: [OSM-talk] Nominatim - Does it use the is_in tag?

2016-08-16 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
Wouldn't that lead to "mapping for the geocoder"? I'm sure that would be frowned upon as much as "mapping for the renderer". -- Nicolás 2016-08-16 16:50 GMT-03:00 Hakuch : > Hey Sarah, do you have documentations that explain how nominatim > processes the queries? That could be an answer to quest

Re: [OSM-talk] Nominatim - Does it use the is_in tag?

2016-08-16 Thread Sarah Hoffmann
On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 09:50:05PM +0200, Hakuch wrote: > Hey Sarah, do you have documentations that explain how nominatim > processes the queries? That could be an answer to questions like that one Not really. You can have a look at the presentation I gave at SOTM Birmingham[1] but it's a bit dat

Re: [OSM-talk] Nominatim - Does it use the is_in tag?

2016-08-16 Thread Dave F
On 16/08/2016 21:35, Nicolás Alvarez wrote: Wouldn't that lead to "mapping for the geocoder"? I'm sure that would be frowned upon as much as "mapping for the renderer". All tags are 'mapping for the renderer/geocoder/router. Otherwise you have just black lines, lots of 'You are here' signs st

[OSM-talk] Fwd: Invitation: OSM Analytics Roadmap Chat

2016-08-16 Thread Cristiano Giovando
Hey fellow mappers, Some of you already know and have been using OSM Analytics since its launch in April [0], but for those who are not familiar with it, here's the direct link http://osm-analytics.org This was initially a small prototype project, but given the interest and feedback by many in th

[OSM-talk] Spoken street names

2016-08-16 Thread Nick Hocking
Is there any navigation software (for a Mobile phone) that uses offline OSM data and also has spoken street names? ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Spoken street names

2016-08-16 Thread Hans De Kryger
OsmAnd http://osmand.net/ Scout http://www.telenav.com/products/scout/ *Regards,* *Hans* On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 9:09 PM, Nick Hocking wrote: > Is there any navigation software (for a Mobile phone) that uses offline > OSM data and also has spoken street names? > > ___

Re: [OSM-talk] Spoken street names

2016-08-16 Thread Rodrigo Rodríguez
Speakig of that, I have MAPS.ME installed on my Android and it's supposed the app has a voice navigation system but it doesn't work. Any thoughts on that? Regards, On 16/08/16 23:03, Hans De Kryger wrote: > OsmAnd > http://osmand.net/ > > > Scout > http://www.telenav.com/products/scout/ > > *Reg

Re: [OSM-talk] Spoken street names

2016-08-16 Thread Hans De Kryger
*Regards,* *Hans* On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 10:13 PM, Rodrigo Rodríguez wrote: > Speakig of that, I have MAPS.ME installed on my Android and it's supposed > the app has a voice navigation system but it doesn't work. Any thoughts on > that? > > Regards, > ​It just tells you where to turn, sadly i