[OSM-talk] How to handle Maps.Me garbage?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, by browsing the map, I have discovered the edits of user 이진영 (Google Translator says that this is a Korean name). He added some POIs in serveral European countries and entered the Korean name into name=*. https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/%EC%

Re: [OSM-talk] How to handle Maps.Me garbage?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi Joost, Am 22.06.2016 um 15:09 schrieb joost schouppe: > Did you miss the ongoing thread on this subject? [1] If read the thread but was not able to draw a conclusion regarding my question. > You should of course contact the mapper with the expl

Re: [OSM-talk] How to handle Maps.Me garbage?

Hi Martin, Am 22.06.2016 um 15:04 schrieb Martin Koppenhoefer: > I would add fixme tags and decide on an individual basis how to deal with > it. Still, despite all lamentation, I admit that the amount of surveyed > addressing information we are getting this way is great (precision to be > confirme

Re: [OSM-talk] Need to revert a bunch of changesets

Hi Robert, Am 26.06.2016 um 06:10 schrieb Robert Helvie: > I don't know about any other edits the user has made, but the ones in the > Sejong area really should be reverted. It is a shame, because the other > data they add such as names and address info could be very useful. But > their copying of

Re: [OSM-talk] Automated edits code of conduct

Hi Éric, Am 10.07.2016 um 23:26 schrieb Éric Gillet: > OSM contributions must follow the Contributor Terms > ; these > therms are being shown to new users and they must explicitely accept them > before they can start contributing. > >

Re: [OSM-talk] Automated edits code of conduct

Hi Eric, Am 14.07.2016 um 17:19 schrieb Éric Gillet: > However I'd believe that there is (in Europe for the example's sake) a very > low number of restaurant really named McDonalds and not part of the > franchise. So if the changeset correct 300 restaurants but 2 are "damaged" > by the automated e

Re: [OSM-talk] SearchAroundBot: a Telegram Bot for OSM

Hi Frederik, Am 24.08.2016 um 23:16 schrieb Frederik Ramm: > On 08/24/2016 03:18 PM, Nicolás Alvarez wrote: >>> Please ensure that everyone who contributes data to OSM with this bot >>> actually has got an OSM account (and hence has agreed to the OSM >>> contributor terms), and that the data is co

[OSM-talk] Neutrality of SotM

Hi, could someone who is member of SotM Working Group explain me, why the Twitter account of SotM promotes voting for Ramani Huria at OSM Award? It is ok that SotM promotes OSM Award itself but it should not promote some candidates and others not. @sotm has retweeted following tweets: https://twi

[OSM-talk] SotM Group Photo without Logo

Hi, for the upcoming WeeklyOSM and Wochennotiz issue 323 we, the team of WeeklyOSM and Wochennotiz, would like to use the group photo of State of the Map in Brussels. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:State_Of_The_Map_2016_group_photo.jpg Unfortunately, the photo published at OSM wiki con

Re: [OSM-talk] International mapping getting together day

Hi Andrew, Am 2016-09-30 um 21:43 schrieb Andrew Hain: > Any interest in organising a distributed mapping party where we get together > round the world, attracting armchair mappers who haven't experienced field > mapping or just people with a casual interest? It could be a chance to > promote o

[OSM-talk] Central Place to Reach Wiki Administrators?

Hi, is there any method to reach all administrators of the OSM Wiki [1] in one go, e.g. to ask them to block a user? Currently, I have to select one of them and ask him at his personal discussion page. But if he has more important things to do, it may take some time until he reacts. Therefore, it

[OSM-talk] Cleanup of Wiki Page "Contact_channels"

Hi, I just wanted to paste the link to https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contact_channels into a message to a newbie and checked if the content of page is up-to-date. By checking the page some questions arised: The page lists three XMPP channels. I checked if the English and the Austrian are st

Re: [OSM-talk] Cleanup of Wiki Page "Contact_channels"

Hi Simon, Am 12.12.2016 um 21:47 schrieb Simon Poole: > Like so many wiki pages there is really only one good action: send it to > the circular folder. > > https://www.openstreetmap.org/help already lists all OSMF operated > services, and at SOTM we discussed that we might add in one way of the >

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixing broken multipolygons

Hi, Am 03.03.2017 um 17:27 schrieb Sebastiaan Couwenberg: > Are there plans to make these challenges permanent or periodically > re-introduce them when a new batch of issues has been prepared? The German speaking countries have a handful of mappers who regularly look for multipolygon errors using

Re: [OSM-talk] Responding to vandalism

Hi, Am 2017-03-16 um 15:48 schrieb Clifford Snow: > Manohar, > My experience is most of these edits can be cleaned up easily with simple > edits. Some need full reverting, which can be done using JOSM, while others > need careful pruning of the bad but leaving the good. I've fixed numerous > pokem

Re: [OSM-talk] Responding to vandalism

Hi Manohar, Am 2017-03-16 um 14:47 schrieb Manohar Erikipati: > - DWG currently acts promptly on incidents reported via email, but we > need a more accessible mechanism that allows new users to report such > incidents directly from the website or editors. The email details and > existence of DWG,

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Awards 2017

Hi Ilya, Am 18.06.2017 um 11:05 schrieb Ilya Zverev: > This year the nominees for the short list will be decided not by a > single committee, but by a separate groups of people. For example, the > Innovations award will be manager by the Engineering Working Group, and > the Writing award — by the

Re: [OSM-talk] Downloading Version 3 of all bus stops in a country

Hi, Am 2017-09-26 um 09:19 schrieb SwiftFast: > I need to download all version 3 bus stops in a country which has about > 30,000 bus stops. Version 3 exists since a 2012 import. What's the > recommended way to accomplish this? I have two ways in mind. Version 3 of what? Best regards Michael -

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding wikidata tags to the remaining objects with only wikipedia tag

Hi Martin, Am 2017-10-03 um 00:28 schrieb Martin Koppenhoefer: > indeed it’s not helping the quality if editors are not familiar with the > language specifics for the area of the things they edit (this is true for all > UGC, be it osm, wikidata, etc). Aldi Sud does not make sense, it’s either Sü

Re: [OSM-talk] Overlapping brands (was "Fixing wiki* -> brand:wiki*")

Hi Andy, Am 2017-09-27 um 17:57 schrieb Andy Townsend: > On 27/09/2017 15:35, John F. Eldredge wrote: >> The spatial information will tell you where each business location is; >> it is not sufficient to tell you whether these are multiple locations >> of the same brand, or two unrelated brands tha

Re: [OSM-talk] All the subway systems in the world

Hi Ilya, Am 30.09.2017 um 18:35 schrieb Ilya Zverev: > Some questions are answered on the Talk page there. Next week I'll open a > voting, so that tagging schema could be made official. You are aware that the RFC phase has to bee at least two weeks long? https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Pro

Re: [OSM-talk] All the subway systems in the world

Hi Ilya, Am 30.09.2017 um 18:35 schrieb Ilya Zverev: > I have made a script that parses and validates subway systems. It prints the > number of subway lines and stations that an automated system can extract from > the OpenStreetMap data. See the latest report here (these are updated > manually

Re: [OSM-talk] All the subway systems in the world

Hi, Am 2017-10-07 um 09:11 schrieb Roland Olbricht: > I strongly suggest to oppose the proposal. To do so, you need to add > > {{vote|no}} --[[User:|]] date > > under the headline == Voting == once voting is opened. Said in short: > Adding more contradictions and confusion in public transport ma

Re: [OSM-talk] All the subway systems in the world

Hi Ilya, Am 2017-10-08 um 14:53 schrieb Ilya Zverev: > Michael, this is the first time I'm hearing about that light_rail > controversy. It is documented somewhere? If not, why does it make my proposal > worse? Dig a little bit in the history of the wiki page and you will see the edit wars. http

Re: [OSM-talk] New OSM Quick-Fix service

Hi Yuri, Am 2017-10-13 um 23:25 schrieb Yuri Astrakhan: > I would like to introduce a new quick-fix editing service. It allows users > to generate a list of editing suggestions using a query, review each > suggestion one by one, and click "Save" on each change if they think it's a > good edit. >

Re: [OSM-talk] Could we just pause any wikidata edits for a month or two?

Hi Ryszard, Am 2017-10-13 um 01:11 schrieb Ryszard Mikke: > On 12 October 2017 at 23:23, Christoph Hormann wrote: > >> As i have pointed out elsewhere doing QA in OSM based on Wikidata does >> not in any way depend on the automatic addition of Wikidata IDs to >> OSM - or in other words: Any ID y

Re: [OSM-talk] Could we just pause any wikidata edits for a month or two?

Hi Ryszard, Am 2017-10-12 um 22:41 schrieb Ryszard Mikke: > On 3 October 2017 at 18:56, Christoph Hormann wrote: > >> On Tuesday 03 October 2017, Frederik Ramm wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>>seeing that the matter is discussed quite intensively and opinions >>> vary widely, could we perhaps agree to

Re: [OSM-talk] New OSM Quick-Fix service

Hi Yuri, Am 16.10.2017 um 16:02 schrieb Yuri Astrakhan: > Rory, most of those queries were copied from the current JOSM validator > autofixes. I don't think they were discussed, but they might have been > mass applied without much thought by all sorts of editors. Could you please give examples f

[OSM-talk] Dispute on wiki page Collaboration_with_Wikipedia

Hi, I have a dispute with user Verdy_p on the sections "Importing geodata from Wikipedia" and "Importing geodata to Wikipedia" of the wiki page https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Collaboration_with_Wikipedia and would like to get comments from other members of the OSM community because edit wars

Re: [OSM-talk] New OSM Quick-Fix service

Hi Yuri, Am 13.11.2017 um 13:20 schrieb Yuri Astrakhan: > Christoph, I don't think this works for any community that grows beyond a > certain size, especially when the community is not in the same > location/building/land otherwise, and doesn't see each other every day. > Look at Wikipedia, or any

Re: [OSM-talk] New OSM Quick-Fix service

Hi Yuri, Am 13.11.2017 um 22:58 schrieb Yuri Astrakhan: > Andy, I can only assume you agree with the rest of my argument. As for this > case -- this is not a mechanical edit. Per definition. I looked at each of > these three features, analyzed them, and thought this is a reasonable > change. You c

[OSM-talk] Automatically generated changeset discussion comments by OSMCha

Hi, OSMCha started posting comments to changesets a few days ago when a user marks a changeset as good or bad. https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/wille/diary/43101 I would like to ask the author(s) of OSMCha to disable this feature. We expect to read all mappers incoming message (personal message

Re: [OSM-talk] Automatically generated changeset discussion comments by OSMCha

Hi, Am 2018-01-12 um 15:13 schrieb Bryan Housel: > I love this feature, and I hope Wille keeps it in. > The message is very well written, and it’s not spam if the user asks for > their changeset to be reviewed and then somebody actually does it. It should be optional to post a changeset comment.

Re: [OSM-talk] Automatically generated changeset discussion comments by OSMCha

Hi, Am 2018-01-12 um 17:01 schrieb Tobias Knerr: > On 12.01.2018 15:39, Andy Townsend wrote: >> More seriously, any automatic use of OSM messages is problematical >> because it devalues the messages that we want people to actually read - >> the ones that are composed by and sent be a human, and ha

[OSM-talk] no_feature_tag_nodes

Hi Maarten, I am the developer of that layer. Am 13.04.2018 um 07:20 schrieb Maarten Deen: > On 2018-04-13 05:02, Jack Armstrong dan...@sprynet.com wrote: >> OSM Inspector tags some individual address nodes as errors. For >> example, these nodes located inside the lateral boundaries of >> buildin

Re: [OSM-talk] GDPR introduction

Hi Simon, Am 2018-04-17 um 12:48 schrieb Simon Poole: > On the 25th of May 2018 the *General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) > * will > enter in to force, this will likely result in some changes in how > OpenStreetMap operates and

[OSM-talk] New wave of Pokémon Go mappers – check the parks

Hi, Pokémon Go seems to have updated its OpenStreetMap data [1] leading to an higher than usual number of new mapppers adding parks – some or many of them are fictional. It is a good idea to check http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/newestosm for your country (click on the flags to show only edits from

[OSM-talk] How do you mapping gender neutral toilets? What should the unisex tag mean?

Hi Rory, Am 2018-04-24 um 18:27 schrieb Rory McCann: > But I don't think that's how "unisex=yes" been used in OSM. The wiki > page says "unisex=yes" is a shorthand for "male=yes female=yes". The > JOSM validator used to suggest that replacement, until I filed a bug[2]. > iD's preset has 3 mutually

Re: [OSM-talk] proposed mechanical edit - moving building=building to building=yes

Hi Mateusz, Am 2018-06-08 um 19:19 schrieb Mateusz Konieczny: > building=yes is a standard way to mark building without specifying its > type. Editors wishing to specify building type would (directly or > indirectly, for example using StreetComplete) look through buildings > tagged as building=yes

Re: [OSM-talk] proposed mechanical edit - moving building=building to building=yes

Hi Mateusz, Am 2018-06-09 um 12:17 schrieb Mateusz Konieczny: > Are you aware about any analysis like that? > > > > > I thought about > > > > > > - listing top contributors > > - time distribution graph (when tag was added) > > > - distribution of editors used to enter data > > > - m

Re: [OSM-talk] proposed mechanical edit - moving building=building to building=yes

Hi Mateusz, Am 2018-06-09 um 16:20 schrieb Mateusz Konieczny: > So, is analysis by  Christoph Hormann > > sufficient for this proposed edit? Yes Best regards Michael -- Per E-Mail kommuniziere ich bevorzugt GPG-verschlüsselt. (Mailinglisten ausgenommen) I prefer GPG encryption of emails. (d

Re: [OSM-talk] proposed mechanical edit - moving FIXME=* to fixme=*

Hi Mateusz, Am 02.07.2018 um 19:42 schrieb Mateusz Konieczny: > Please comment - especially if there are any problems with this idea. > Please also comment if you support this edit, in case of no response > at all edit will not be made as there would be no evidence that > this idea is supported.

[OSM-talk] User deleting abandoned and rejected proposals on the wiki

Hi, I (Mateusz Konieczny was faster) found a user who removes all content from abandoned and rejected proposal pages on the wiki and adds the Delete template. It's the template asking a administrator to delete the page. I think that our admins are clever enough to not blindly follow these requests

Re: [OSM-talk] [Osmf-talk] Draft Terms of use for the OSM website, API and other services

Hi Simon, dear other LWG members, Am 29.07.2018 um 08:08 schrieb Simon Poole: > Thanks to work by Kathleen Lu we have a draft Terms of Use document. > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xtPjrTj09vQLloKmzyf-H-5mKtqh-vbPjsxE-5YRF5g/edit?usp=sharing >

Re: [OSM-talk] Is it technically and legally possible to add the Open Location Code to the OSM search?

Hi, Am 2018-08-09 um 22:48 schrieb Vao Matua: > The Tanzania Development trust has calculated the Plus Code addresses for > 17 million building points in Tanzania and have added a sample village > (1800 points) as a test. > https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/59213224 > > The Python code on G

Re: [OSM-talk] Error on OSM

Hi Am 05.09.2018 um 16:56 schrieb Stadia Arcadia: > Hi, "Tribune Colombier" of Stade Raymond-Kopa now has the same size as > "Tribune Coubertin". Is now has a square shape. The old stand has been > replaced with a new one. Who can fix this? I'm a member of OSM, but I can't > get it fixed. Who can

Re: [OSM-talk] Taking a stand against EU directive "Copyright in the Digital Single Market" (upload filters etc.)

und_Leistungsschutzrecht#Umfrage Best regards Michael PS An English translation of the German page explaining the problems of upload filters (https://www.openstreetmap.de/uf/) is under work. [1] https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Mission_Statement Am 06.09.2018 um 22:47 schrieb Michael Re

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Wikibase is now live

Hi Yuri, Am 18.09.18 um 11:30 schrieb Yuri Astrakhan: > as of today, OSM Wiki can store structured tag metadata similar to > Wikidata. In every possible language, cross-linked, with images, > validation rules, or anything else the community decides to store there. > See examples: > > Key:bridge:

[OSM-talk] Amazon Logistics (WAS: Short ways added to substitute barriers)

Hi Jem, Am 29.10.18 um 04:08 schrieb Jem: > Re: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/634085262 and several more like it in > the area. > > It seems that new, short ways have been introduced to replicate the purpose > of the existing barrier nodes. i.e. to prevent routing for vehicular > traffic. I b

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMF makes a political decision where should be a technical solution?

Hi, Am 24/11/2018 um 15.09 schrieb Andy Townsend: > I'm not actually aware of a situation where countries have said "this > bit belongs equally to both of us" (I'd be interested to hear of any > examples, actually), though there are plenty of places where they say "I > think it belongs to me, and

Re: [OSM-talk] Board decision on Crimea complaint

Dear board, Am 10.12.18 um 18:14 schrieb Tom Hughes: > On 10/12/2018 16:55, Martijn van Exel wrote: > >> On November 17, the OSMF Board of Directors received a request to >> review the Nov 14, 2018 Data Working Group decision regarding Crimea. >> >> The Board decided that this decision is to be r

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

Hi Bryce, Am 22/02/2019 um 08.02 schrieb Bryce Jasmer: > 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 protocol specification. The script will then loop through > all that it disco

[OSM-talk] undiscussed (?) mechanical edit on diet:vegan and diet:vegetarian

Hi, I have discovered a mechanical edit of 100 restaurants worldwide by user BuganiniQ. https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/22303143 comment=update diet:vegen/diet:vegetarian: set to only according to cuisine; remove redundant tags created_by=osmapi/0.2.24 Has this edit been discussed before

Re: [OSM-talk] undiscussed (?) mechanical edit on diet:vegan and diet:vegetarian

Hi, Am 20.05.2014 12:26, schrieb SomeoneElse: > Michael Reichert wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have discovered a mechanical edit of 100 restaurants worldwide by user >> BuganiniQ. >> >> https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/22303143 >> comment=update diet:ve

Re: [OSM-talk] SOTM-EU videos

Hi, Am 17.06.2014 15:13, schrieb Дмитрий Киселев: > Is it possible to edit subtitles? > Maybe someone can share google generated subtitles on wiki for further > editing, and load them back after they will be done? Does Google Terms of Use even allow to use the subtitles in OSM Wiki? Please rememb

[OSM-talk] reporting OpenRailwayMap bugs (WAS: Come back Osmarender, all is forgiven!)

Hi, Am 23.06.2014 19:13, schrieb SomeoneElse: > Yves wrote: >> Or directed them toward Openrailwaymap ? > > I'd have suggested that (in fact it's the first place I looked), had any > of the renderings there been at all useful. There do seem to have been > some odd choices in terms of what gets r

Re: [OSM-talk] The biggest violation of OpenStreetMap, ever.

Hi, On 07/07/14 11:20, Stephan Knauss wrote: > Cristian Consonni writes: >> The agency has copied only some data (buildings and landuse [parks, >> rivers, lakes, etc.]) and they superimposed the road graph taken from >> another source, probably proprietary data. > > So you talk about a produced w

[OSM-talk] Anonymous edits by user OpenBeerMapContributor

Hi, I have discovered that the user OpenBeerMapContributor [1] uploads anonymous edits from OpenBeerMap [2] to OSM database. Users can edit parts of OSM data via OpenBeerMap. The can add/modify the tags brewery=*, opening_hours=*, name=*, internet_access=*, brewery:note=* and "Happy Hours" (I don

Re: [OSM-talk] Anonymous edits by user OpenBeerMapContributor

Hi, Am 2014-09-21 um 12:07 schrieb Michael Reichert: > I have discovered that the user OpenBeerMapContributor [1] uploads > anonymous edits from OpenBeerMap [2] to OSM database. > > Users can edit parts of OSM data via OpenBeerMap. The can add/modify the > tags brewery=*, openin

Re: [OSM-talk] Skybox release aerial imagery

Hi, Am 2014-10-27 um 22:35 schrieb Rob Nickerson: > Google (through their acquisition of skybox) have released some aerial > imagery under the Cc-by licence: > > http://www.engadget.com/2014/10/26/skybox-for-good/ > > Can someone just remind me - are we able to use this in OpenStreetMap? If > ye

Re: [OSM-talk] Streams / Videos from SOTM 2014

Hi, http://www.ustream.tv/channel/state-of-the-map-2014 writes: > Your Flash plugin is outdated > > Get the latest Flash player to view this content, This is a bad website. Because I do not have Flash (on Firefox), I cannot view this video streams. If I use Chromium and fake an iPad, I get > Con

Re: [OSM-talk] Back on OSM

Hi, Am 2014-12-19 um 13:33 schrieb Peter: > Eindelijk nog eens vrije tijd en natuurlijk kwam OSM weer op de proppen. > Dacht beginnen te mappen voor mijn dorp (Peutie) maar zie dat er de laatste > tijd al veel aangepast werd. Nu stel ik vast dat er verschillende manieren > worden gebruikt in het

[OSM-talk] Wiki does not work anymore (missing Recaptcha API key?)

Hi, OSM wiki only shows an error message when trying to view a page. I always get > You need to set $wgReCaptchaPrivateKey and $wgReCaptchaPublicKey in > LocalSettings.php to use the reCAPTCHA plugin. You can sign up for a > key here. The page I get only contains this text, no HTML header. It see

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

Hi, Am 2015-02-11 um 17:25 schrieb Tom MacWright: >> Unfortunately, experience suggests that there's relatively little that a >> discussion on on the "talk" mailing list is going to be able to do here. > > > This. Help with development or give productive feedback on the issue > tracker. FUD arou

Re: [OSM-talk] "How We Map"

Hi, Am 2015-02-11 um 17:51 schrieb Mikel Maron: > Already a great piece. This should go out to all new signups. I agree, too. It is short enough to be shown at the signup page. Best regards Michael -- Per E-Mail kommuniziere ich bevorzugt GPG-verschlüsselt. I prefer GPG encryption of emails.

[OSM-talk] SafeThru spam via PN

Hi, I have received spam via PN (for the first time ever) by user "SafeThru". He/She sent the same text a few hours before to b...@openstreetmap.de, the email address of the team of German Wochennotiz (Weekly). SafeThru is promoting a strange non-free, proprietary Android app called "SafeThru" an

[OSM-talk] When to celebrate OSM birthday?

Hi, when should we celebrate OSM birthday this year? It was a weekend in August in 2013 and 2014 I remember. How did you "calculate" the date? It would be nice to know this date early. Best regards Michael -- Per E-Mail kommuniziere ich bevorzugt GPG-verschlüsselt. (Mailinglisten ausgenomme

Re: [OSM-talk] README tag with editor support

Hi Richard, Am 2015-06-11 um 19:27 schrieb Richard Welty: > i have started using the unofficial tag README whenever i > make edits that differ from current bing imagery; i usually > place the date of the note in ISO format at the beginning > of the text. for example, here is the note i placed on t

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

Hi, Am 2015-06-15 um 22:49 schrieb Pierre Béland: > This is the ransom of success for OSM, being exposed to the medias, the > international organizations recognizing our significant contribution to such > humanitarian responses. OSM might be more in media but which OSM? It is not the OpenStree

[OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Hardware Funding Drive 2015 at openstreetmap.org

Hi, OSMF is running a hardware funding drive for OSM server infrastructure for about 1 week. http://donate.openstreetmap.org/server2015/ Why is this funding drive not visible at osm.org like it was at our last funding drive in 2013? https://web.archive.org/web/20130705213620/http://www.openstreet

Re: [OSM-talk] Routing Applications

Hi, Am 2015-06-17 um 14:38 schrieb Eugene Alvin Villar: > This has been fixed in Osmand early this year after being reported > more than 2 years ago. Unfortunately, multiple via ways are still not > supported. I wonder if a via way instead of an via node is necessary so much. I wonder more where

Re: [OSM-talk] Routing Applications

Hi, Am 2015-06-17 um 05:33 schrieb Hans De Kryger: > Why do OSRM & OpenRoutingService compete against each other instead of > joining resources and combining efforts to make the best routing service > out there? Am i missing something? There are differences in history between these two projects.

Re: [OSM-talk] Mechanical edits

Hi Andrew, Am 2015-06-29 um 17:01 schrieb Andrew MacKinnon: > I admit that I have been guilty of doing inappropriate mechanical > edits in the past, but I am wondering: is it time that OSM implements > controls on doing mechanical edits in the API? In other words, should > OSM implement a feature

Re: [OSM-talk] Motion: Dedicated mailing list for abandoned railways

Hi Jukka, Am 2015-09-09 um 09:48 schrieb Jukka Rahkonen: > I suggest to make a new mailing list for those who want to talk about > abandoned railways. I can see that such does not exist yet > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo. It has already suggested to use > the Historic list https://list

Re: [OSM-talk] Previous planet dump sizes

Hi Stephen, Am 2015-09-22 um 20:29 schrieb Stephen Knox: > Is there a log or archive of these files anywhere? I would like to plot the > growth of open street map data by time, ideally but not necessarily by > region. So I am interested in the file size rather than the file itself. You can even g

Re: [OSM-talk] User WJtW - railway track counts

Hi. Am 2015-10-07 um 10:03 schrieb Colin Smale: > I am not sure it would be vandalism - It is more likely a > misunderstanding of the intention of the tracks=* tag. But it is very > damaging, and potentially hard to revert as this has been going on for > some time and newer edits may have been mad

Re: [OSM-talk] User WJtW - railway track counts

Hi, Am 2015-10-07 um 10:24 schrieb Richard Mann: > Putting tracks=1 on multiple parallel tracks is also potentially > misleading. It's a method of tagging that's been superseded by drawing each > line separately. > > So I took to adding passenger_lines=N, to avoid a compatability conflict. I > on

Re: [OSM-talk] User WJtW - railway track counts

Hi Colin, Am 2015-10-10 um 14:07 schrieb Colin Smale: > Oh by the way, user WJtW is still at it, most recently in Italy, filling > in loads of detail tags on railways. No idea where the information comes > from. But every segment he touches has tracks=N added, often with N>1 on > routes already ma

Re: [OSM-talk] User WJtW - railway track counts

Hi Paul, Am 2015-10-16 um 22:58 schrieb Paul Johnson: > Not even sure how passenger_lines=* is even a tag given route=rail > relations... As far as I know, passenger_lines=* is intended as an tracks=* replacement if each track is mapped. There is an ITO map which renders passenger_lines=*. There

[OSM-talk] Become an OSMF member without Paypal?

Hi, I would like to become an OSMF normal member to be entitle to vote at the next AGM but I have a problem regarding the first payment of the membership fee. How can I become an OSMF normal member by paying the fee via bank transfer instead of PayPal? [1] The signup page (https://join.osmfoundat

Re: [OSM-talk] Improved new Icon set for Open Street map

Hi Nasir, Am 2015-11-02 um 17:53 schrieb Nasir Khan: > One thing i faced every time and asked from many that, is there a way to > improve the icon set to make the map more attractive. I really feel that we > all should look at this issue and make a plan to improve this user > experience. If you co

Re: [OSM-talk] A message to our friends at HOT, Peace Corps etc. about Changeset Comments

Hi, Am 19. November 2015 01:52:40 MEZ, schrieb john whelan : > HOT and OSM are slightly different, HOT maps on OSM but uses a simpler > more > standardized approach. HOT uses the OSM database/platform and therefore it has to adapt and follow OSM's rules. Nobody forces you to use OSM. Why don

Re: [OSM-talk] What3words

Hi Colin, Am 2015-11-22 um 11:39 schrieb Colin Smale: > I have heard a few times recently about what3words, a new novel > coordinate/addressing system for the whole world. > > Could/should we be doing anything to support/facilitate/implement this > system in OSM? No. It is a propietary system

Re: [OSM-talk] Community Conference

Hi Steve, Am 2015-12-02 um 22:23 schrieb Steve Coast: > I’ve heard from a few people thinking of organizing an OpenStreetMap > conference focused on the community, very different from what SOTM has become. I have counted 20 talks by companies and universities out of 40 talks at all at SotM 2014.

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: OpenStreetMap Wiki page Map Features has been changed by David1234

Hi Colin, Am 2015-12-26 um 11:41 schrieb Colin Smale: > Anyone know what is going on here? A newly registered user has removed > all the content from an important wiki page (Map Features) and replaced > it with a test message... I reverted his changes at Map_Features and will have a look at his o

Re: [OSM-talk] Georeferencing lots of photos using JOSM

Hi Russ, Am 13.02.2016 um 21:41 schrieb Russ Nelson: > Solution: I remember where I took every photo (but if I see you > walking on the street I won't remember your name; go figure), so it's > just a matter of getting a lat/lon and storing it with every > photo. So, I look at the photo, and use JO

Re: [OSM-talk] who do we trust for photos?

Hi Russ, Am 13.02.2016 um 22:24 schrieb Russ Nelson: > Here's a possibly silly, possibly serious question: who do we trust to > keep photos of features? Once I finish gathering my set of photos of > NY railroad bridges, where should I upload them so that I can > automagically add links to the phot

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Slack

Hi Martijn, Am 29.03.2016 um 21:52 schrieb Martijn van Exel: > I find this a really worthwhile conversation to have. IRC is still great for > some but it’s hardly inclusive. Is http://irc.openstreetmap.org/ no web interface? I might lack some advertisment (and maybe an modern styling). If you ju

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Slack

Hi Dave, Am 29.03.2016 um 22:45 schrieb Dave F: > Because IRC works in real time. Contributors have to be in the same time > zone (or stay up really late/ get up really early). It's biased towards > densely populated zones ie Northern Europe or East coast if North America. You will face this prob

Re: [OSM-talk] RfD notification: Purge tag "priority" from tracks

Hi Greg, Am 09.04.2016 um 18:52 schrieb Greg Morgan: > Thank you for publishing your intent. I am coping the US Talk list because > a number of us rail fans in the US are looking at European tag models for > the vast railway network that we are piecing together. > http://www.openrailwaymap.org/ l

Re: [OSM-talk] iD news: v1.9.6 released

Hi Bryan, Am 08.06.2016 um 17:59 schrieb Bryan Housel: > - When setting Wikipedia field value, also set corresponding Wikidata tag > (worked on by Minh Nguyễn) Isn't this a kind of mechanical edit which should be discussed on this mailing list *beforehand*? https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/A

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

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi Martin, Am 17.06.2016 um 17:52 schrieb Martin Koppenhoefer: > Apparently Maps.me, the most popular open map app for mobile, has > gained some editing functions recently. While this is great news > (millions of new mappers), it also bears some pot

Re: [OSM-talk] Bitcoin

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Clifford, Am 10.12.2013 15:42, schrieb Clifford Snow: > Found this website this morning, http://coinmap.org/ that displays > all of the bitcoin tags in OSM. The page has instructions on how to > add a bitcoin location in OSM. The instructions di

[OSM-talk] mechanical edit on fire hydrants worldwide – revert or not?

Hi, because I use a RSS feed from WhoDidIt [1,2] to know the latest edits in my home area, I have noticed that fire hydrants have been edited by mechanically worldwide. http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/21264027 User: digital0533 Changeset comment: "Changing amenity=fire_hydrant to emergency

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

Hi Bryce, Am 22/02/2019 um 08.02 schrieb Bryce Jasmer: > The wiki page is https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Automated_Edits/b-jazz I have seen that you started uploading. Could you please add a link to that wiki page to the profile page of b-jazz-bot or create https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wik

Re: [OSM-talk] Bank of India (and other) Wikidata tags

Hi Andy, Am 17/04/2019 um 17.53 schrieb Andy Mabbett: > There are currently 956 objects in OSM with the tag "wikidata=Q1340361": > >https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/wikidata=Q1340361 > > where: > >https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1340361 > > is the item for the State Bank of India.

[OSM-talk] An Archive namespace for the OSM wiki?

Hi, there is currently a voting on a Deletion Policy [1] for the OSM wiki. The policy was drafted because we had two incidents last year when someone tried to delete a large number of old and orphaned tagging proposals in draft state. He claimed that these pages might confuse users looking for a t

[OSM-talk] iD invents nosquare=yes for buildings which should not be squared

Hi, this could be seen as a tagging discussion but I think that it is a discussion on governance and power. That's why this email goes to the Talk mailing list. Quincy Morgan, one of the maintainers of iD, invented a new tag called nosquare=yes today which should be added to buildings which are n

Re: [OSM-talk] iD invents nosquare=yes for buildings which should not be squared

Hi Mikel, Am 09.05.19 um 23:14 schrieb Mikel Maron: > Absolutely. My understanding is this feature will greatly improve data > quality in OSM. I think it's fair to validate squareness of existing > buildings. I did not say that I am against the validation rule itself. I agree that the rule is a

Re: [OSM-talk] iD invents nosquare=yes for buildings which should not be squared

Hi, Am 10.05.19 um 00:00 schrieb Jmapb: > This strikes me as a pretty bad idea. I map in NYC where we have lots, > lots, lots of nearly-square buildings with official footprints imported > from the city's open data initiative. When a mapper not familiar with > the history here gets a message from

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