Re: [OSM-talk] what to do cues

2013-01-01 Thread Serge Wroclawski
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 12:54 AM, Jeff Meyer j...@gwhat.org wrote: Are there any tools that can tip users to what they could do in a particular map area? In my experience, when mappers go out and start to map, they discover things that interest them straight away. I used to bring the OSM Cheat

Re: [OSM-talk] what to do cues

2013-01-01 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 7:54 AM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 12:54 AM, Jeff Meyer j...@gwhat.org wrote: Are there any tools that can tip users to what they could do in a particular map area? In my experience, when mappers go out and start to map, they

Re: [OSM-talk] what to do cues

2013-01-01 Thread Jeff Meyer
Russ - I agree that rules can be tricky. Would it be possible, to play around with the code you've written, to see what results it generates? The issue I'm trying to address is this: people who sign up for OSM then make 0 edits. Why? Is it because they cannot find the editor? Is it because they

[OSM-talk] Image of the week points to wrong week

2013-01-01 Thread Pierre Béland
In page http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Main_Page, Image of the week points to Template:Iotw image/2013-2. The first week image do not appear today. Is this the zero day bug? Somebody nows how to correct?   Pierre ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] Image of the week points to wrong week

2013-01-01 Thread Erik Lundin
There was an edit [1] to get the correct year belonging to this week, since week number 1 of 2013 started before year 2012 ended. There is a syntax for this in MediaWiki, see [2]. However, the trouble seems to be that using that syntax, the week number is only available zero-padded, while the

Re: [OSM-talk] Image of the week points to wrong week

2013-01-01 Thread Erik Lundin
Another way to get the week number that's not zero-padded is to bring back the {{CURRENTWEEK}}, but then different syntaxes are mixed, which is a bit ugly. I did this as a workaround just to get it working, but we'll have to figure out the best long term solution. Regards, Erik 2013-01-01

Re: [OSM-talk] what to do cues

2013-01-01 Thread Christian Quest
After trying to contaminate a couple of friends with the OSM virus, the biggest problem I think we have comes from the complexity of the editors (even P2) multiplied by the growing data density. The growing amount of data makes editing looking more difficult and newcomers are afraid of breaking

Re: [OSM-talk] Image of the week points to wrong week

2013-01-01 Thread Pierre Béland
Thanks Erik, the image is back.   Pierre De : Erik Lundin e...@lists.lun.nu À : talk@openstreetmap.org Envoyé le : Mardi 1 janvier 2013 14h11 Objet : Re: [OSM-talk] Image of the week points to wrong week Another way to get the week number that's not

Re: [OSM-talk] what to do cues

2013-01-01 Thread Russ Nelson
Christian Quest writes: newcomers are afraid of breaking existing stuff. I was totally afraid of breaking existing stuff. How embarrassing! Maybe if it was easier to revert a changeset, like from the person's changeset listing? -- --my blog is athttp://blog.russnelson.com Crynwr supports

Re: [OSM-talk] what to do cues

2013-01-01 Thread Svavar Kjarrval
What I've found easiest is to encourage people to check on areas they know well, like where they currently live. Armed with that and maybe some imagery, they might have some basis to make edits. They will be fairly careful since it's an area they care about. - Svavar Kjarrval On 01/01/13 18:26,

Re: [OSM-talk] what to do cues

2013-01-01 Thread Robin Paulson
On 2013-01-02 07:26, Jeff Meyer wrote: I agree that rules can be tricky. Would it be possible, to play around with the code youve written, to see what results it generates? The issue Im trying to address is this: people who sign up for OSM then make 0 edits. Why? Is it because they cannot

Re: [OSM-talk] what to do cues

2013-01-01 Thread Jeff Meyer
What do you mean, The wrong route? Is there a wrong route for recruiting and engaging new mappers? As for interacting, why are you presuming I have not done so? On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 8:58 PM, Robin Paulson ro...@bumblepuppy.org wrote: On 2013-01-02 07:26, Jeff Meyer wrote: I agree that

Re: [OSM-talk-nl] ter info prijzen voor hosting via www.PDOK.nl:

2013-01-01 Thread Stefan de Konink
On Wed, 19 Dec 2012, Gert-Jan van der Weijden wrote: Voor dat geld mag je 4x per jaar een update aanleveren, en wordt de boel als WMS en WFS ontsloten (dus niet tiled!) Voor welk bedrag zouden ze dan een WMS-T aanbieden zoals BRT nu wordt aangeboden? Stefan

Re: [OSM-talk-nl] Wegaanpassingen via www.staatscourant.nl

2013-01-01 Thread Robert Elsenaar
Heren Floris en Hugo, Is mijn indruk correct dat er steeds meer data wel beschikbaar is en geschikt voor verwerking in OSM, maar dat geautomatiseerd robotisch toevoegen van deze gegevens of niet mogelijk of onwenselijk is? mvrgr Robert Elsenaar From: St Niklaas Sent: Friday, December 28,

Re: [OSM-talk-nl] Wegaanpassingen via www.staatscourant.nl

2013-01-01 Thread Stefan de Konink
On Tue, 1 Jan 2013, Robert Elsenaar wrote: Is mijn indruk correct dat er steeds meer data wel beschikbaar is en geschikt voor verwerking in OSM, maar dat geautomatiseerd robotisch toevoegen van deze gegevens of niet mogelijk of onwenselijk is? Nouja ik ben wel eens bij een bespreking van IM

Re: [Talk-br] Relação errada

2013-01-01 Thread Aun Yngve Johnsen
Olá Eu saber como mexer com relaçoes mas infelizmente não tem accesso ao ferramentos necesarios ate dia 20 Aun Johnsen On 1. jan. 2013, at 17:35, Eduardo Nunes e...@ymail.com wrote: Olá pessoal, A relação que delimita o município de Formosa está errada, pois está englobando todo o

Re: [Talk-br] Relação errada

2013-01-01 Thread Eduardo Nunes
Isto é o Distrito Federal e não Formosa. Veja: http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/details.php?place_id=97945019 Em 1 de janeiro de 2013 17:35, Eduardo Nunes e...@ymail.com escreveu: Olá pessoal, A relação que delimita o município de Formosa está errada, pois está englobando todo o Distrito

Re: [Talk-br] Relação errada

2013-01-01 Thread Eduardo Nunes
Aun, Obrigado Em 1 de janeiro de 2013 17:55, Eduardo Nunes e...@ymail.com escreveu: Isto é o Distrito Federal e não Formosa. Veja: http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/details.php?place_id=97945019 Em 1 de janeiro de 2013 17:35, Eduardo Nunes e...@ymail.com escreveu: Olá pessoal, A

Re: [Talk-br] Relação errada

2013-01-01 Thread Vitor George
Fala Eduardo, O problema parece ser que segmentos do polígono da fronteira do DF foram unidos em um só, e isso confundiu as relações que tratam dos limites do DFe de Formosa. Dividi novamente o polígono do DF e editei a relação de Formosa para que tenha somente as partes que compõem as

[Talk-de] Routen durch Gebäude (war: Gondeln und Anschluss an das öffentliche Straßen/Wegenetz)

2013-01-01 Thread Martin Trautmann
On 12-08-28 6:23, Rainer Kluge wrote: Es wäre aus meiner Sicht zielführender, Regeln für das Taggen der Zugänglichkeit von Gebäuden und Gebäudeteilen festzulegen (wenn es die nicht schon gibt?). Zum Beispiel: Gebäude mit foot=yes sind grundsätzlich für Fußgänger zugänglich. Wenn dann ein

Re: [Talk-it] R: Aggiornamento dati ortografia strade

2013-01-01 Thread Martin Koppenhöfer
Am 31/dic/2012 um 12:14 schrieb sabas88 saba...@gmail.com: Per far prima puoi usare DBpedia (la versione semantica). http://it.dbpedia.org/sparql Questa query tira fuori tutti i nomi e cognomi di Italiani presenti su Wikipedia SELECT ?name, ?surname WHERE { ?person a

Re: [Talk-it] R: Aggiornamento dati ortografia strade

2013-01-01 Thread Martin Koppenhöfer
Scusate, visto solo ora che se n'era già parlato... Am 01/gen/2013 um 10:32 schrieb Martin Koppenhöfer dieterdre...@gmail.com: Am 31/dic/2012 um 12:14 schrieb sabas88 saba...@gmail.com: Per far prima puoi usare DBpedia (la versione semantica). http://it.dbpedia.org/sparql Questa query

Re: [Talk-it] Legal FAQ italiane non aggiornate

2013-01-01 Thread Luca Delucchi
Il 25 dicembre 2012 21:49, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com ha scritto: secondo me dovrebbe essere una traduzione della pagina inglese, quindi se vogliamo togliere o modificare qualcosa lo dovremmo togliere o modificare anche nella/dalla pagina inglese. condivido, qualcuno che ha

[Talk-it] Varie Porta Nuova a Milano

2013-01-01 Thread emmexx
Buona anno a tutti! Scusate per l'oggetto un po' generico ma ci sono varie questioni legate alla nuova apertura di parte della zona di Porta Nuova/Stazione Garibaldi. Oggi sono stato in visita e confrontando cio' che ho visto con quel che c'e' su OSM, ho parecchi dubbi. Credo che alcune cose

Re: [Talk-it] Varie Porta Nuova a Milano

2013-01-01 Thread sabas88
Il giorno 01 gennaio 2013 23:27, emmexx emm...@tiscalinet.it ha scritto: Buona anno a tutti! Ciao e buon anno! Scusate per l'oggetto un po' generico ma ci sono varie questioni legate alla nuova apertura di parte della zona di Porta Nuova/Stazione Garibaldi. Oggi sono stato in visita e

[Talk-it] Differenza tra tag Website

2013-01-01 Thread Gianluca Boero
Ciao a tutti. Secondo questa pagina non ci dovrebbe essere differenza nell'usare contact:website o website= http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:contact Come pure per fax e contact:fax ad esempio. In quanto sono segnalati come tag alternativi. Come vi regolate voi? Io preferisco

[Talk-dk] Fejl i opdatering af adresser?

2013-01-01 Thread Hjart
Jeg har bemærket at findvej botten de sidste par dage har slettet, men ikke erstattet/opdateret alle addresser på de veje den har arbejdet. Nu har jeg ikke tidligere holdt øje med botten, så jeg ikke helt klar over processen, men umiddelbart virker det for mig lidt mistænkeligt. Er det en fejl?

Re: [Talk-dk] Fejl i opdatering af adresser?

2013-01-01 Thread Peter Brodersen
Hej, Yep, Geoservicen er nede i øjeblikket - og mit script var ikke så robust, som jeg havde regnet med :-( Jeg har sørget for, at scriptet ikke længere vil opdatere, hvis den ikke kan hente data (uanset om man manuelt eller automatisk vil rette adresser). Og så har jeg lige sat den automatiske

[Talk-es] Desplazamiento Ortofotos BING vs PNOA

2013-01-01 Thread Fco . Javier González Jiménez
Hola, también hay que tener en cuenta que Bing actualmente al menos en mi zona está más actualizado que PNOA. Feliz 2013 a todos!!! ___ Talk-es mailing list Talk-es@openstreetmap.org

[Talk-es] historial ediciones

2013-01-01 Thread Ricardo Sanz
Hola, desde hace aproximadamente un mes cuando le doy a la flechita de editar ya no me sale la última opción para ver quién ha editado una determinada zona. sabéis como puedo hacerlo? ___ Talk-es mailing list Talk-es@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-es] historial ediciones

2013-01-01 Thread Manfred A. Reiter
Ajuda este link? http://zverik.osm.rambler.ru/whodidit/ ## Manfred - (android) mobil - please excuse typos and brevity. Am 01.01.2013 23:03 schrieb Ricardo Sanz ricardosanz1...@gmail.com: Hola, desde hace aproximadamente un mes cuando le doy a la flechita de editar ya no me sale la última

Re: [Talk-es] historial ediciones

2013-01-01 Thread Ricardo Sanz
necesito saber el historial de un determinado elemento y con este enlace solo puedo por nodos pero muchas gracias :) El día 2 de enero de 2013 05:00, Manfred A. Reiter ma.rei...@gmail.com escribió: Ajuda este link? http://zverik.osm.rambler.ru/whodidit/ ## Manfred - (android) mobil - please

[Talk-ee] Fwd: [Talk-lt] Statistika (lt+lv+ee)

2013-01-01 Thread Gints Polis
Small statistic from our Lithuanian friends :). -- Forwarded message -- From: Tomas Straupis tomasstrau...@gmail.com Date: 2013/1/1 Subject: [Talk-lt] Statistika (lt+lv+ee) To: OSM Talk LT talk...@openstreetmap.org Sveiki Kaip ir žadėjau, štai statistika su tendencijomis:

[Talk-at] Gutes Neues

2013-01-01 Thread martin ringer
Ich wünsche Allen OSM Freunden ein Gutes Neues Jahr 2013 Viel Erfolg, viele schöne Momente beim Mappen im Gelände und vor dem PC Spass, Erlebnisse und natürlich Gesundheit Martin alias Gosausee ___ Talk-at

[Talk-lv] Fwd: [Talk-lt] Statistika (lt+lv+ee)

2013-01-01 Thread Gints Polis
Lietuviešu kolēģis savācis nelielu statistiku :). -- Forwarded message -- From: Tomas Straupis tomasstrau...@gmail.com Date: 2013/1/1 Subject: [Talk-lt] Statistika (lt+lv+ee) To: OSM Talk LT talk...@openstreetmap.org Sveiki Kaip ir žadėjau, štai statistika su tendencijomis:

[Talk-ca] Mappy New Year.

2013-01-01 Thread Richard Weait
Mappy New Year, mappers. I'd love to see more Canadian cities start to host monthly OpenStreetMap events in 2013. They're a great way to meet other mappers, to learn and share the experiences of other mappers, to learn about the other things interesting people do besides mapping. And they're

Re: [Talk-ca] Toronto-area events in early January

2013-01-01 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 7:00 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: I'm going to be in Toronto in the new year and was wondering if any OSM or GIS events, meetings or mappy hours would be taking place. I'll be arriving on the 2nd and leaving on the 7th for Penetang but might be free after

Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec misalignment? Ottawa end of Portage Bridge

2013-01-01 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 11:30 AM, William Rieck bi...@thinkers.org wrote: There is no gospel, although surveys and GPS traces may be close, but certainly not Bing and CanVec imports. The map should represent what you see on the ground, so make whatever adjustments are needed, using deduction

[Talk-ca] Fredericton WMS Offset

2013-01-01 Thread nicholas ingalls
Hello all, I've been recently drawing all of the buildings in Fredericton in preparation for going around and collecting the addresses. I'd noticed that all the buildings in Fredericton were offset. Naturally I assumed that the original mappers in Fredericton had done this offset on purpose. I

Re: [Talk-ca] Osmose, Outil de qualité, maintenant disponible pour le Québec

2013-01-01 Thread Paul Norman
I’ve been looking at a bot to fix the double-space issue with CanVec/Geobase, but no idea when I’ll have the time for it so don’t let that stop anyone else interested from developing one, consulting, etc. Serge’s work in the US with TIGER name expansions might be helpful. Also, just a

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] zones inondables

2013-01-01 Thread Eric Sibert
Dans le Delta intérieur du Niger au nord du Mali, de vastes zones parfois sur plusieurs kilomètres sont inondées à chaque année, incluant des terres agricoles.  Les champs saturés d'eau sur l'imagerie Bing HR permettent de repérer ces zones inondables. Même genre de chose à Madagascar. On

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] documents d'urbanisme

2013-01-01 Thread christian Herbé
Bonjour soucis de débutant sans doute, je ne peux pas répondre aux messages ? /* de Jo. : Je suis nouveau sur OSM et je serait curieux de voir à quoi ressemblerai un PLU. Est ce que tu aurait un extrait à me partager afin que je me fasse une idée sur la question ? */ Le PLU en question est

[OSM-talk-fr] Conversion shp ou img

2013-01-01 Thread Stéphane MARTIN
Bonjour, et meilleurs vœux à tous :-) On vient de m'envoyer trois fichiers : un .mp, un .shp et un .img. http://tuxdomain.dyndns.org/osm-garmin/index.php?dir=Guyane/Yiyi Comment peut-on s'en servir pour importer des données dans OSM ou les convertir pour ce faire ? J'ai essayé sur le .shp

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] Conversion shp ou img

2013-01-01 Thread Christian Quest
Avant d'envisager un import... - quid de l'aspect licence de ces données ? d'où proviennent-elles ? - quid de leur exactitude/précision/fraicheur/pertinence ? que sont-elles ? Les questions techniques viennent après ;) Un fichier .shp seul c'est étonnant, en général il sort accompagné d'un

[OSM-talk-fr] [forum-osm-fr] Présentation: sud de la Belgique

2013-01-01 Thread forum
Le message suivant de : ## Salut à tous Ca fait un moment que je contribue à OSM mais rejoindre votre forum peut peut-être répondre a certaine de mes questions. Je suis pompier volontaire et je souhaiterais pouvoir sortir une série de carte avec toutes les informations utile à

[OSM-talk-fr] Voeux pour 2013...

2013-01-01 Thread Christian Quest
C'est la saison des voeux, des bonnes résolutions... Que peut-on souhaiter à OSM et OSM-FR ? Pour OSM, le million de comptes ouvert va être franchit dans quelques heures, d'ici 24 à 48h car 2012 s'est achevée avec 997250 comptes. On n'était pas loin de passer le million pendant que les feux

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] Modifier l'intégration d'une école

2013-01-01 Thread Emmanel Dewaele
Bonsoir, Je n'ai pas prévu de moyen de corriger les données présentées dans l'outil. Néanmoins, tant que l'établissement a été marqué comme intégré, il n'y a pas trop de raisons qu'une tierce personne veuille l'intégrer à nouveau. -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] Voeux pour 2013...

2013-01-01 Thread Emilie Laffray
Et bonne année au final On 1 Jan 2013 18:25, Christian Quest cqu...@openstreetmap.fr wrote: C'est la saison des voeux, des bonnes résolutions... Que peut-on souhaiter à OSM et OSM-FR ? Pour OSM, le million de comptes ouvert va être franchit dans quelques heures, d'ici 24 à 48h car 2012

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] Voeux pour 2013...

2013-01-01 Thread Etienne Trimaille
Et pour ceux qui veulent voir 2012 en vidéo avec le fameux changement de licence : http://derickrethans.nl/year-of-edits-2012.html Le 1 janvier 2013 22:12, Emilie Laffray emilie.laff...@gmail.com a écrit : Et bonne année au final On 1 Jan 2013 18:25, Christian Quest cqu...@openstreetmap.fr

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] Modifier l'intégration d'une école

2013-01-01 Thread Jo.
Bonsoir, Je comprend mais dans mon cas je pense avoir faire une erreur de saisi. L'intégration de l'école est indiqué à plus de 300 mètre de son emplacement exact. En fait j'ai validé au lieu de modifier l'emplacement et j'ai donc confirmé le point temporaire. Est ce que tu pourrait faire la

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] Voeux pour 2013...

2013-01-01 Thread didier2020
la facilité est de souhaiter de bon nodes, joyeux ways et de bonnes relations, d'assumer ses toc et d'eviter les tms (s pour souris) didier Le mardi 01 janvier 2013 à 19:24 +0100, Christian Quest a écrit : C'est la saison des voeux, des bonnes résolutions... Que peut-on souhaiter à OSM et

Re: [OSM-ja] アイランド・マッピングの後方支援募集!

2013-01-01 Thread yuu hayashi
はやしです。 伊豆大島分だけ国土数値情報からインポートしておいて頂けると嬉しいです。 大島旅客自動車の6路線分のバス停をインポートしました。 ___ Talk-ja mailing list Talk-ja@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ja

Re: [OSM-ja] アイランド・マッピングの後方支援募集!

2013-01-01 Thread Shu Higashi
はやしさん、ありがとうございます。 複数のノードが重なっている箇所がありますが 路線が違う場合は別物としてインポートされているのでしょうか。 その場合ひとつで良いように思いますがどうなんでしょう。 <例> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/2090855814 →ノードが5つあります。 2013/01/01 yuu hayashi hayashi@gmail.com: はやしです。 伊豆大島分だけ国土数値情報からインポートしておいて頂けると嬉しいです。 大島旅客自動車の6路線分のバス停をインポートしました。

Re: [Talk-GB] Marking landuse and field boundaries

2013-01-01 Thread John Aldridge
On 31/12/2012 21:59, Graham Jones wrote: I would like to see field boundaries and land uses in OSM, for the same reason as you. I think the main reason that there are not many in there, is that they are very difficult to survey. I second that! See my diary entry

Re: [Talk-GB] Marking landuse and field boundaries

2013-01-01 Thread Dudley Ibbett
My main motivation for getting involved with OSM was to get a better walking map on my garmin. To this extent I have been adding lots of barriers in the southern part of the Peak District. So it is being done. Whilst it is time consuming I wouldn't say it is difficult. I do survey with a

Re: [Talk-GB] Marking landuse and field boundaries

2013-01-01 Thread Graham Jones
I guess it depends on what you think is 'difficult' - to actually survey them means a lot of walking, so I tend to only add the ones that I can remember when I get home, and get the routes from Bing. I have just had another look and for dry stone walls, it is quite easy to distinguish some in

Re: [Talk-GB] Marking landuse and field boundaries

2013-01-01 Thread Steven Horner
Good job there Graham. I know most of the area around there quite well. The Bing imagery is old, it still shows the cement works which was demolished in 2005 I think. Compare it to Google and you can see it is there no more. Although you can't use Google Satellite view to trace there is surely no

Re: [Talk-GB] Marking landuse and field boundaries

2013-01-01 Thread Graham Jones
Thanks Steven, I am pretty sure that any reference to Google maps/imagery is not allowed (it would be worth searching through the mail archives for last time it was discussed). You are right though about the age of the Bing imagery - I noticed that the cement works is still there in the photos. I

Re: [Talk-GB] Marking landuse and field boundaries

2013-01-01 Thread Tom Chance
I have been adding lots of landuse data in south east London as part of a few projects (see recent posts tagged http://tom.acrewoods.net/tag/openstreetmap/). Adding farmland fields, hedges, fences and footpaths is really valuable. The same goes for accurate landuse mapping in cities. I would

Re: [Talk-GB] Marking landuse and field boundaries

2013-01-01 Thread Chris Hill
On 01/01/13 11:15, Dudley Ibbett wrote: I must admit I don't map land use if it is farmland. To me if it isn't mapped it is farmland. It would seem a reasonable default. +1 Smothering the countryside with landuse when it's farmland seems well over the top to me. Marking a single field

[Talk-GB] Fwd: Guidance for adding PRoW to OSM: prow_ref=

2013-01-01 Thread Craig Loftus
I have been using prow:ref, just because I came across it in the mailing lists. I have not added many (~60 prows) and I don't mind converting those over to prow_ref if that is the consensus. My preference would be for prow:ref, as the colon is the 'standard' way to define namespaces, and I am not

Re: [Talk-GB] Marking landuse and field boundaries

2013-01-01 Thread Tom Chance
On 1 January 2013 16:10, Chris Hill o...@raggedred.net wrote: On 01/01/13 11:15, Dudley Ibbett wrote: I must admit I don't map land use if it is farmland. To me if it isn't mapped it is farmland. It would seem a reasonable default. +1 Smothering the countryside with landuse when it's

Re: [Talk-GB] Marking landuse and field boundaries

2013-01-01 Thread Jason Cunningham
Find myself more or less agreeing with the points Chris and Dudley made. I see see farmland as a default, and haven't put any effort into mapping farmland or fields. But I also agree with Tom's point, it is information that has a place in the database, and you dont need to render it if you dont

Re: [Talk-GB] Marking landuse and field boundaries

2013-01-01 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Tom Chance wrote: Mapping it as farmland needn't distract anybody apart from the poor sod editing the data, that is. yours from the sticks Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Marking-landuse-and-field-boundaries-tp5742119p5742180.html Sent from the

Re: [Talk-GB] Marking landuse and field boundaries

2013-01-01 Thread Tom Chance
On 1 January 2013 18:39, Chris Hill o...@raggedred.net wrote: As I said above (you must have missed it) marking fields within urban areas is a good idea as you been doing. The contrast with the surroundings is valuable and is not smothering thousands of square kilometres with pointless

Re: [Talk-GB] Marking landuse and field boundaries

2013-01-01 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Tom Chance wrote: I also cannot understand comments such as Richard's, which arise every time somebody wants to add additional data that they consider valuable. Compared to the days of just mapping roads, many cities today are a dense mass of addressed buildings, metadata-to-the- eyeballs

Re: [Talk-GB] Marking landuse and field boundaries

2013-01-01 Thread Graham Jones
While I agree that high data density is an issue, I can't see why this is a strong argument for not tagging land use in rural areas, as even if we do draw big polygons to distinguish farmed land from woodland from moors from scree slopes etc, these areas are so big that it doesn't make rural data

Re: [Talk-GB] Marking landuse and field boundaries

2013-01-01 Thread Kevin Peat
On 1 Jan 2013 20:34, Richard Fairhurst richard@systeme... Until then, the advanced mappers must share in OSM's collective responsibility to keep the project editable by newbies. That's why I believe widespread farm landuse mapping in the countryside is an actively harmful indulgence.

Re: [Talk-GB] Guidance for adding PRoW to OSM: prow_ref=

2013-01-01 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
On 1 January 2013 16:30, Craig Loftus craiglof...@gmail.com wrote: 1/ prow:ref suggests some sort of name-spacing, but we haven't actually developed any tagging scheme that makes use of a prow:* name-space. So currently prow:ref would be the only tag used. Is it wise to preclude adding more

[Talk-us] The best import

2013-01-01 Thread Richard Weait
One OSM commenter suggested that the best thing for the map was an import, Import some German mappers they suggested. That isn't wrong, but in some places it might be historically provocative. :-) About 18 months ago I posted this Mappy Hour HOWTO.

[Talk-us] parcel data in OSM

2013-01-01 Thread dies38061
I am generally opposed to importation of parcel data at the individual parcel level. This goes _directly_ to the design of OSM with a non-layered data model and the resultant massive increase in rendered data density.However, there is much information in local GIS datastores about subdivision and

Re: [Talk-us] An admin_level for CDPs?

2013-01-01 Thread stevea
On 12/31/12 5:12 PM, Minh Nguyen wrote: I'd argue that not all governmental boundaries need to be tagged as boundary=administrative. In Ohio, we've started to retag CDP boundaries with boundary=census and place=locality but without admin_level. [1][2] They still show up in Nominatim as

[Talk-us] NC Mappers near Charlotte, please contact me off list

2013-01-01 Thread Richard Welty
i have observed some things along I 85 north of Charlotte that could use some attention from a local mapper. please contact me off list if you are in a position to go look at some stuff and i'll give you all the details. thanks, richard ___

Re: [Talk-us] An admin_level for CDPs?

2013-01-01 Thread Jeff Meyer
Zip code areas and voting districts seem to me to be be functionally equivalent to CPDs in that they are arbitrary geographic distinctions determined by agencies outside of local governments or administrations. Are they given a boundary=administrative? For most administrative boundaries, one side

Re: [Talk-us] An admin_level for CDPs?

2013-01-01 Thread Richard Welty
On 1/1/13 6:52 PM, Jeff Meyer wrote: Zip code areas and voting districts seem to me to be be functionally equivalent to CPDs in that they are arbitrary geographic distinctions determined by agencies outside of local governments or administrations. Are they given a boundary=administrative? zip

Re: [Talk-us] An admin_level for CDPs?

2013-01-01 Thread Paul Norman
From: stevea [mailto:stevea...@softworkers.com] Sent: Monday, December 31, 2012 12:31 PM To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org Subject: [Talk-us] An admin_level for CDPs? I have been pondering the use of the admin_level key in the USA, and have come to the realization that while values 2, 4, 6

[Talk-us] An admin_level for CDPs?

2013-01-01 Thread dies38061
{{key|border_type}} is described as an alternative and sometimes complement to {{key|admin_level}} . I have recently been drawing subdivision boundaries based on County GIS data and including {{tag|border_type|subdivision}} as part of a relation of type border; see for instance

[Talk-us] Adopt-a-highway representation in OSM

2013-01-01 Thread dies38061
I am interested in what tagging you would suggest to indicate that a stretch of road has been adopted as part of an Adopt-a-Highway program. Quoting from the Wikipedia article: The Adopt-a-Highway program, also known as Sponsor-a-Highway (but see distinction below), is a promotional campaign

Re: [Talk-us] Adopt-a-highway representation in OSM

2013-01-01 Thread Serge Wroclawski
On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 7:32 PM, dies38...@mypacks.net wrote: I am interested in what tagging you would suggest to indicate that a stretch of road has been adopted as part of an Adopt-a-Highway program. My thinking right now would be to include at the way level these additional tags:

Re: [Talk-us] An admin_level for CDPs?

2013-01-01 Thread Minh Nguyen
On 2013-01-01 2:18 PM, stevea wrote: On 12/31/12 5:12 PM, Minh Nguyen wrote: I'd argue that not all governmental boundaries need to be tagged as boundary=administrative. In Ohio, we've started to retag CDP boundaries with boundary=census and place=locality but without admin_level. [1][2] They

Re: [Talk-us] An admin_level for CDPs?

2013-01-01 Thread Minh Nguyen
On 2013-01-01 4:29 PM, dies38...@mypacks.net wrote: {{key|border_type}} is described as an alternative and sometimes complement to {{key|admin_level}} . I have recently been drawing subdivision boundaries based on County GIS data and including {{tag|border_type|subdivision}} as part of a

[Talk-us] Adopt-a-highway representation in OSM

2013-01-01 Thread dies38061
Thanks for your comments, Serge. I'm confused by your reference to changeset metadata as that is not easily accessible to future editors of the same ways. It would put informative content remove from the editing process. I've made reply comments in-line below. --ceyockey -Original

Re: [Talk-us] Adopt-a-highway representation in OSM

2013-01-01 Thread Serge Wroclawski
On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 8:33 PM, dies38...@mypacks.net wrote: Thanks for your comments, Serge. I'm confused by your reference to changeset metadata as that is not easily accessible to future editors of the same ways. Changeset tags are accessible to editors just as easily accessible as

Re: [Talk-us] Adopt-a-highway representation in OSM

2013-01-01 Thread Toby Murray
The amenity tag is way too overloaded to the point where it is pretty useless. It might as well be thing instead of amenity. Do not use it for new things. Why not just make a new tag like adopt_a_highway=name of organization - it only requires one tag to encode to encode the information and is