[OSM-talk] The real face of MAPS.ME edits and notes - a short analysis

2017-06-10 Thread MichaƂ Brzozowski
Much has been said about MAPS.ME note and edit functionality on this list and elsewhere. I tried to get a real picture of how good/bad they are. I went to mmwatch.osmz.ru and assessed 73 edits/notes made between June 6th and 10th in Poland. Then I made a spreadsheet (percentages at the bottom): ht

Re: [OSM-talk] Street Complete

2017-06-10 Thread Greg Morgan
On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 3:04 PM, john whelan wrote: > >It is the same issue. Not every location is covered by wifi either. > > I'm missing something here. The application stores the quests and tile > images on the device when connected to wifi. Then I wander off and whilst > unconnected from wi

Re: [OSM-talk] Street Complete

2017-06-10 Thread john whelan
>I am not sure, since I didn't build the app, but my experience is that it download the quests of the direct area in a range of 1 km or so, witch means, you need a working data connection, be it WiFi or 3/4G. The upload of your answers will happen when you get a data connection, until then it will

Re: [OSM-talk] Street Complete

2017-06-10 Thread Alert Bouterse
I am not sure, since I didn't build the app, but my experience is that it download the quests of the direct area in a range of 1 km or so, witch means, you need a working data connection, be it WiFi or 3/4G. The upload of your answers will happen when you get a data connection, until then it will

Re: [OSM-talk] Street Complete

2017-06-10 Thread john whelan
>It is the same issue. Not every location is covered by wifi either. I'm missing something here. The application stores the quests and tile images on the device when connected to wifi. Then I wander off and whilst unconnected from wifi I complete the quests or some of them. If I return to a civ

[OSM-talk] Any golfers?

2017-06-10 Thread Simon Poole
We've (we as the legal-question mailing list/LWG, yes somewhat off course) been contacted by a sports HW company that is working on a golfing orientated sportswatch or similar, that would be interested in talking to contributors that map golf courses (I suspect mainly those that golf themselves).

Re: [OSM-talk] Street Complete

2017-06-10 Thread Greg Morgan
On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 2:01 PM, john whelan wrote: > > Every location is not covered by cellular networks. > > I use only wifi, it will store the area image tiles on the phone and the > changes until you get back to wifi. > > It is the same issue. Not every location is covered by wifi either.

Re: [OSM-talk] Street Complete

2017-06-10 Thread john whelan
> Every location is not covered by cellular networks. I use only wifi, it will store the area image tiles on the phone and the changes until you get back to wifi. Cheerio John On 10 June 2017 at 16:48, Greg Morgan wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 3:17 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: > >> On Fri, J

Re: [OSM-talk] Street Complete

2017-06-10 Thread Greg Morgan
On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 3:17 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 9:06 AM, James wrote: > >> Mean while in other common wealth countries like Canada or Australia, >> it's not economically viable to pave every road. This is a very closed view >> on the world we live in. >> > > Heck, th

[OSM-talk] weeklyOSM #359 2017-05-30-2017-05-05

2017-06-10 Thread weeklyteam
The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue # 359, is now available online in English, giving as always a summary of all things happening in the openstreetmap world: http://www.weeklyosm.eu/en/archives/9135/ Enjoy! weeklyOSM? who?: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WeeklyOSM#Available_Languages

Re: [OSM-talk] Wikipedia app v5.5.0 for iOS released to beta

2017-06-10 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Joshua Minor, 08/06/2017 00:53: The Places feature currently uses the iOS provided Apple MapKit library and Apple maps. This is not a decision the team made easily, but after much feedback and research, we believe this is the only option for now. A couple important notes: 1. This is only use

[OSM-talk] OSGeo-Live looking for overview and quickstart tutorial for OSM

2017-06-10 Thread althio
Dear all, Please support the initiative from OSGeo-Live to update OSM presentation: > The OSGeo-Live team (https://live.osgeo.org/) is looking for new > documentation for OSM (current OSM overview > https://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/osm_overview.html and current quickstart > tutorial https://l