> Is your process documented anywhere and is the code available?
There is a "help" page, but it is in Lithuanian... Maybe google
translate can help:
http://patrulis.openmap.lt/pagalba.html
Code (php+postgresql) is very basic and dirty (i'm not a web
developer) and I didn't have time to put
On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 8:50 AM, Tomas Straupis
wrote:
>
> What we are doing in Lithuania for the last 5 years or so is we have a
> patrolling mechanism similar to wikipedia. That is all changesets in
> the region (in our case in Lithuania) are filtered out and placed into
> "check list". If the
> Interesting, I didn't know such patrolling took place at a country scale in
> OSM. Have you revert/re-map stats?
No, such stats are not collected. And it would be hard to do that,
because it is not yes/no. Sometimes it's just a minor problem,
sometimes it is something much worse. Until appeara
Google tried to have restrictions on new editors
The map got vandalised anyways and they shut down public editing
So basically what others said, not in favour of any kind of restrictions.
Am 16.03.2017 um 14:47 schrieb Manohar Erikipati:
Hi all,
Last saturday, Central park in New York City was
Hi there!
MapContrib is out for its monthly release. No big features this time but we
like release early and often.
In a nutshell, MapContrib has now 4 activated backgrounds by default (OSM, OSM
monochrome, Watercolor and Mapbox satellite) and a « Display more » button, the
theme creator can f
Interesting, I didn't know such patrolling took place at a country scale in
OSM. Have you revert/re-map stats?
However with your point 1)you have an idea.
How about a service rendering the area affected by an edit before 'commit'?
This preview could be the place for an additional warning about
Let's get on the higher level first.
There are two ways of doing it from the process perspective:
1) EDIT->TEST->COMMIT
2) EDIT->COMMIT->TEST
The first one gives higher quality but also discourages edits and
maybe even prohibits edits in areas with no/few "checkers".
So obviously the way to go f
On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 7:03 AM, Rory McCann wrote:
> But the advantage is that we get a free, global map. IMO new users being
> able to see their changes on the map is very powerful, and makes them
> more likely to continue to edit. I don't think we would have the map we
> have today if people n
It's a shame that this happened, ideally it shouldn't and it should be
be fixed faster. But I don't think we should give up the "wiki" aspect.
Everyone, even new users, should be able to edit the "live" database.
Which yes, will have disadvantages.
But the advantage is that we get a free, glob
2017-03-16 20:00 GMT+01:00 Mike N :
> Then there's the serious and real ha ha ha
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/41.84196/-89.48580
>
> http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2013/10/31/from-the-sky-dixon-ch
> urch-looks-like-a-penis/
>
likely intentional, the "view from the sky" is the same as th
2017-03-16 16:01 GMT+01:00 James :
> The more restrictions you put, the smarter people will get (just look at
> CAPTCHA, for bots, people would upload images of captchas to a service
> which real people would solve and return the answer to the bots)
+1, recently there was a proof of concept of
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