Re: [OSM-talk] New OSM Quick-Fix service
2017-11-13 20:52 GMT+01:00 Andy Townsend : > On 13/11/2017 19:36, Yuri Astrakhan wrote: > > > That's why I think Sophox is a much better and safer alternative to > JOSM's autofixes. > > At the risk of repeating something that's been said multiple times > previously, with JOSM autofixes you're performing edits in an area where > you've already edited. You're presumably somewhat familiar with what's > there (you may even have actually visited in person and seen what it looks > like on the ground). > The data one have edited is automatically validated before upload by JOSM validator, but you can also use it to validate and auto-fix any area you have downloaded, without any prior "manual" edits. It's a bit convoluted of a process, but it can be used like that to do mass edits. So comparing it to OSM Quick-fix seems valid to me, even if JOSM is our beloved editor. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] How to map alleys in African cities?
Hi guys, Just adding in the OSM africa mailing list... Jorieke 2017-11-15 14:15 GMT+00:00 Jean-Marc Liotier : > On Tue, 14 Nov 2017 21:26:02 + (UTC) > Pierre Béland wrote: > > > > I we follow the Highway Tag Africa wiki page I initiated in 2013, > > narrow highways should be evaluaed on the type of traffic possible - > > highway= residential in residential areas if at least passable by 4 > > wheels- highway=path if only motorcycles, bicyles and foot traffic is > > possible. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway_Tag_Africa > > I second Pierre's reference to the Highway Tag Africa. Residential > streets mapped as highway=service an all too common error in African > cities. > > Same problem here as for highway=living_street - a conversation we had > a year ago: > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2016- > December/thread.html#77191 > > Mappers from more developed countries expect a residential street to > look like their idea of a residential street - for example the lack > of sidewalks confuses them... But it is a residential road nevertheless. > > I'm partial to always using surface=* but maybe sidewalk=no will also > help make confused residential mappers happier with tagging a six-meter > wide sandy residential street with no sidewalk as > highway=residential... (I just wrote that and realize I wrote almost > the same thing last year... I'm getting old > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2016-December/077195.html) > > ___ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
