[OSM-talk] Beware Pokemon users

2016-12-25 Thread Toby Murray
There was a video uploaded to YouTube a couple of days ago that claims to show some possible evidence that Pokemon Go uses data from OSM to determine good spawn locations for Pokemon. There are also several threads on reddit under /r/TheSilphRoad that have similar claims. It is amusing to see their

Re: [OSM-talk] Beware Pokemon users

2016-12-25 Thread Grant Slater
Someone should mentioned to the Pokรฉmon players that if they correctly fix up TIGER data & other imports the spawn rate is significantly higher, not to mention the amazing effects of adding genuine buildings, shops, addresses and other amenities. Based on my unauthoritative unqualified zero sample

Re: [OSM-talk] Beware Pokemon users

2016-12-25 Thread Clifford Snow
I've been seeing a number of new users adding paths and parks. I deleted three "parks" in Tacoma Washington just this morning. One was covering a residential area, another was a group of trees behind some houses and the third was a vacant lot. The area with the trees might have been an attempt to a

Re: [OSM-talk] Building Detection using Machine Learning

2016-12-25 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
On 25.12.16 00:58, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: sent from a phone On 24 Dec 2016, at 19:57, Oleksiy Muzalyev wrote: example, I would like to be able to hide in the JOSM existing already power-lines, roads, paths, etc. in order to map farlmland, woods, grassland, etc. Perhaps, it is possible

[OSM-talk] MapContrib 1.0.0 is arrived in the fireplace ๐ŸŽ๐ŸŽ„๐ŸŽ…

2016-12-25 Thread Guillaume AMAT
Oh oh oh!... When I woke up this morning I have found the new version of MapContrib under the tree, the 1.0.0! So I rushed to install it on a brand new server it is available at the usual addresses: https://mapcontrib.xyz (https://mapcontrib.xyz) et https://cartes.xyz (https://cartes.xyz)