Re: [Tagging] Proposed mechanical edit: surface=soil to surface=dirt (history (authors of changesets))

2015-09-07 Thread Ruben Maes
Wednesday 02 September 2015 13:51:09, André Pirard: > What policy, what purpose, that's unclear? > Is OSM.org using that API to display the history on the screen illegal? > Is Osmose using it to attribute errors to some user illegal? > Yep, I suppose that making oneself a complete list of OSM

Re: [Tagging] Proposed mechanical edit: surface=soil to surface=dirt

2015-09-03 Thread Marc Gemis
I'm having a deja-vu :-) Anyone remember the discussion: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2014-March/016811.html ? There someone stated that "ground" is too ambiguous in British English: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2014-March/016836.html after that I

Re: [Tagging] Proposed mechanical edit: surface=soil to surface=dirt (history (authors of changesets))

2015-09-02 Thread Mateusz Konieczny
On Tue, 01 Sep 2015 23:55:14 +0200 "André Pirard" wrote: > On 2015-08-31 20:12, � wrote : > > On Mon, 31 Aug 2015, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: > > > >> On Mon, 31 Aug 2015 12:55:27 +0200 > >> moltonel 3x Combo wrote: > >> > >>> On 31/08/2015, Mateusz

Re: [Tagging] Proposed mechanical edit: surface=soil to surface=dirt

2015-09-02 Thread Mateusz Konieczny
On Wed, 2 Sep 2015 22:28:08 -0700 Bryce Nesbitt wrote: > On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 3:33 AM, Mateusz Konieczny > wrote: > > > > > Is there some method to automate finding who introduced tags? Doing > > it manually would not be worth the effort. On the

Re: [Tagging] Proposed mechanical edit: surface=soil to surface=dirt

2015-09-02 Thread Bryce Nesbitt
On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 3:33 AM, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: > > Is there some method to automate finding who introduced tags? Doing it > manually would not be worth the effort. On the other hand - running > script to detect users (and/or relevant changesets) may be a good

Re: [Tagging] Proposed mechanical edit: surface=soil to surface=dirt (history (authors of changesets))

2015-09-02 Thread André Pirard
On 2015-09-02 08:34, Mateusz Konieczny wrote : On Tue, 01 Sep 2015 23:55:14 +0200 "André Pirard" wrote: On 2015-08-31 20:12, � wrote : On Mon, 31 Aug 2015, Mateusz Konieczny wrote:

Re: [Tagging] Proposed mechanical edit: surface=soil to surface=dirt (history (authors of changesets))

2015-09-02 Thread moltonel 3x Combo
On 02/09/2015, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: > On Tue, 01 Sep 2015 23:55:14 +0200 > "André Pirard" wrote: >> http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/node/3157502486/history >> >> will return the complete list (history) of authors, changesets and >> dates

Re: [Tagging] Proposed mechanical edit: surface=soil to surface=dirt (history (authors of changesets))

2015-09-01 Thread André Pirard
On 2015-08-31 20:12, � wrote : > On Mon, 31 Aug 2015, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: > >> On Mon, 31 Aug 2015 12:55:27 +0200 >> moltonel 3x Combo wrote: >> >>> On 31/08/2015, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: Is there some method to automate finding who introduced

Re: [Tagging] Proposed mechanical edit: surface=soil to surface=dirt

2015-09-01 Thread Warin
On 1/09/2015 6:23 PM, Volker Schmidt wrote: Careful with a mass edit "soil" > "dirt" Have a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirt - note that "soil" is one type of "dirt" in this article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground, which says that "ground", as

Re: [Tagging] Proposed mechanical edit: surface=soil to surface=dirt

2015-09-01 Thread Volker Schmidt
Careful with a mass edit "soil" > "dirt" Have a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirt - note that "soil" is one type of "dirt" in this article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground, which says that "ground", as surface, is the same thing as "soil"

Re: [Tagging] Proposed mechanical edit: surface=soil to surface=dirt

2015-08-31 Thread Mateusz Konieczny
On Mon, 31 Aug 2015 12:55:27 +0200 moltonel 3x Combo wrote: > On 31/08/2015, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: > > Is there some method to automate finding who introduced tags? Doing > > it manually would not be worth the effort. On the other hand - > > running

Re: [Tagging] Proposed mechanical edit: surface=soil to surface=dirt

2015-08-31 Thread Ilpo Järvinen
On Mon, 31 Aug 2015, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: > On Mon, 31 Aug 2015 12:55:27 +0200 > moltonel 3x Combo wrote: > > > On 31/08/2015, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: > > > Is there some method to automate finding who introduced tags? Doing > > > it manually

Re: [Tagging] Proposed mechanical edit: surface=soil to surface=dirt

2015-08-31 Thread ajt1...@gmail.com
On 31/08/2015 10:00, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: I plan to change surface=soil to surface=dirt. surface=soil is a clear duplicate of surface=dirt. Are you planning to contact the original mappers explaining why, if they're still using it, using the same tag to represent the same thing makes

Re: [Tagging] Proposed mechanical edit: surface=soil to surface=dirt

2015-08-31 Thread Matthijs Melissen
On 31 August 2015 at 11:00, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: > See > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mechanical_Edits/Mateusz_Konieczny/surface%3Dsoil_to_surface%3Ddirt > > I plan to change surface=soil to surface=dirt. surface=soil is a clear > duplicate of surface=dirt. It is

Re: [Tagging] Proposed mechanical edit: surface=soil to surface=dirt

2015-08-31 Thread moltonel 3x Combo
On 31/08/2015, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: > Is there some method to automate finding who introduced tags? Doing it > manually would not be worth the effort. On the other hand - running > script to detect users (and/or relevant changesets) may be a good idea. curl -s

Re: [Tagging] Proposed mechanical edit: surface=soil to surface=dirt

2015-08-31 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Matthijs Melissen wrote on 2015-08-31 11:47: On 31 August 2015 at 11:00, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: See http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mechanical_Edits/Mateusz_Konieczny/surface%3Dsoil_to_surface%3Ddirt I plan to change surface=soil to surface=dirt. surface=soil is a

Re: [Tagging] Proposed mechanical edit: surface=soil to surface=dirt

2015-08-31 Thread Mateusz Konieczny
On Mon, 31 Aug 2015 10:35:24 +0100 "ajt1...@gmail.com" wrote: > > > On 31/08/2015 10:00, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: > > I plan to change surface=soil to surface=dirt. surface=soil is a > > clear duplicate of surface=dirt. > > Are you planning to contact the original mappers

Re: [Tagging] Proposed mechanical edit: surface=soil to surface=dirt

2015-08-31 Thread Andy Townsend
On 31/08/15 11:33, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: On Mon, 31 Aug 2015 10:35:24 +0100 "ajt1...@gmail.com" wrote: There are 32 in the UK, by only 2 mappers (both still active but edits are from many years ago). Extrapolating that there have only been probably only 25 mappers

Re: [Tagging] Proposed mechanical edit: surface=soil to surface=dirt

2015-08-31 Thread johnw
> On Aug 31, 2015, at 7:11 PM, Tom Pfeifer wrote: > >> Totally agree, I support this edit. > > +1, also the definition of 'dirt' should be improved in the wiki (currently > referring back to 'ground'), and 'soil' should be written into the wiki as > deprecated > and

Re: [Tagging] Proposed mechanical edit: surface=soil to surface=dirt

2015-08-31 Thread Dave Swarthout
Agree with the edit - change soil to dirt. Soil is a word commonly used for potting soil in the U.S. You will also sometimes see the phrase "night soil", an older but once common euphemism for human waste. FWIW, in my part of the U.S. any road that was unpaved was commonly referred to as a dirt