Re: [OSM-talk] Looking for "primary language" map

On 04/10/2017 07:35 PM, Yuri Astrakhan wrote: Does anyone know of an open source language map - basically a set of geoshapes with the corresponding language code? Country boundaries are not needed - e.g. Canada and USA would be English with the exception of French for Montreal area. This is

Re: [Talk-us] Boston speed limit too Re: Michigan speed limit changes coming soon

On 01/07/2017 06:49 PM, Bill Ricker wrote: On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 6:31 PM, Greg Troxel wrote: Also, we do have the implicit 30 mph tagged on many roads. While there are usually not signs, it is entirely verifable. One only has to read the law and measure the distance

Re: [OSM-talk] Beware Pokemon users

On 01/04/2017 03:03 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 1:04 AM, Steve Bennett wrote: I've yet to hear of any evidence that OSM is being used at all. I'm sure someone from our web team might be able to locate Niantic IPs if we really drilled down and it happened

[OSM-talk] highway=residential_link

A question recently came up as to whether highway=residential_link is a meaningful tag or whether uses of it should be changed to some other value (like highway=residential or highway=service). This tag has no description in the wiki, though it is analogous to the other highway=*_link types

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=residential_link

Oops, this was supposed to go to tagging... ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Undiscussed (?) edits removing lesser-used highway=* tags

On 11/09/2015 01:39 AM, GerdP wrote: Andrew Guertin wrote As a negative example, they seem to have deemed the tag highway=residential_link bad, and replaced it with either highway=service or highway=residential. (https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/18820600/history, https://www.openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Undiscussed (?) edits removing lesser-used highway=* tags

On 11/06/2015 05:01 PM, Andy Townsend wrote: Previously there were quite a lot of changeset discussion comments from GerdP asking about odd values: http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/osm-discussions (scroll down a bit) Ah! That's very good to see! So perhaps I've overreacted a bit. I now see the

[OSM-talk] Undiscussed (?) edits removing lesser-used highway=* tags

Hi, The user GerdP seems to be going around editing things with unusual highway=* tags, apparently in an attempt to standardize them. In my opinion, some of these changes are positive and some are negative, but the negatives outweigh the positives. As a positive example, GerdP seems to

Re: [OSM-talk] open question about boundaries sharing nodes with ways or nodes

On 10/14/2015 05:21 PM, Minh Nguyen wrote: I've been guilty of mistakenly joining state boundaries to the Ohio River's thalweg in the past, and by now I've had to correct those boundaries on several occasions. It's unfortunate that few mappers are aware of these complexities. The full situation

Re: [OSM-talk] open question about boundaries sharing nodes with ways or nodes

On 10/14/2015 04:05 AM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote: On 14-10-15 09:49, Badita Florin wrote: Our task is to delete all the existing admin_level=6 boundaries and start fresh, but this seems much more things needs to happen before you do this. Don't delete the existing boundaries, update them

Re: [OSM-talk] open question about boundaries sharing nodes with ways or nodes

On 10/14/2015 03:49 AM, Badita Florin wrote: Our task is to delete all the existing admin_level=6 boundaries and start fresh Since this doesn't seem to have been discussed either here or on the imports list before*, how confident are you that the new data is better than the current data in

Re: [OSM-talk] open question about boundaries sharing nodes with ways or nodes

On 10/14/2015 03:49 AM, Badita Florin wrote: This way is a highway and at the same time is part of the relation of a boundary. This seems invalid since it merges two types of features on the same way instead of keeping a logical separation between two different things. Is this a valid way? What

Re: [Talk-us] Railway crossing challenge for MapRoulette

On 07/06/2015 10:46 AM, Martijn van Exel wrote: (In particular I am never sure whether to use crossing or level_crossing.) My understanding is that railway=level_crossing is where cars cross a railway, and railway=crossing is where pedestrians cross. I'm not sure what to use where bikes

Re: [OSM-talk] README tag with editor support

On 06/11/2015 01:27 PM, Richard Welty wrote: so i have two things in mind here: 1) formalize the README tag as a way to caution future mappers 2) request editor support, when someone goes to change a README tagged entity, it would be nice if editors would popup a dialog saying something along

Re: [OSM-talk] Can wikidata links help fight name inflation?

On 05/27/2015 05:13 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: We are a database of geodata [...] Would it not be better to record the wikidata link for London, and then (perhaps in co-operation with people at Wikidata) provide means for people doing map rendering to join OSM data with a separately-loaded

Re: [OSM-talk] Can wikidata links help fight name inflation?

On 05/29/2015 08:18 AM, Philip Barnes wrote: On Fri, 2015-05-29 at 13:14 +0200, moltonel 3x Combo wrote: And as it happens, Абергавенни comes from Abergavenny rather than Y Fenni, showing that some discernment was applied. Not sure I understand that statement, transliterating Y Fenni is

Re: [OSM-talk] Can wikidata links help fight name inflation?

On 05/28/2015 03:43 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: *Especially* if their reasoning was that this makes it nicer for them to run a tank through these places in their own-language war simulation with their buddies. If the data is valid, it doesn't matter what the use case is. I'm HAPPY knowing that

Re: [OSM-talk] Can wikidata links help fight name inflation?

On 05/27/2015 05:13 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: Not only well-known tourist magnets carry foreign names; some dedicated language mappers have gone over and beyond the call of duty and added, for example, name:ru tags even to small villages: http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/name%3Aru#map

Re: [OSM-talk] Can wikidata links help fight name inflation?

On 05/28/2015 12:37 PM, SomeoneElse wrote: There is a fundamental difference between an actual name for a place and a translation of one of those names I DO agree with this statement[1]. However, I think that the point at which a word stops being a transliteration and starts being a native

Re: [OSM-talk] Can wikidata links help fight name inflation?

On 05/28/2015 07:07 AM, SomeoneElse wrote: On 28/05/2015 10:30, Komяpa wrote: Hello, I'd like to share my story. We're making a new Global Map for World of Tanks game. Game is translated into many languages, of which Russian and English are most significant. Now we're in open beta, you can

Re: [OSM-talk] a, b and c.tile.openstreetmap.org refer to the same server?

On 05/17/2015 11:09 AM, Jochen Topf wrote: (Modern browsers probably don't have this limitation any more, sombody should probably check whether we need the a/b/c stuff any more.) I gave this a quick check, Firefox's was last changed in 2008:

Re: [Talk-us] Best practices for high-density residential areas

On 03/31/2015 01:07 PM, Steve Friedl wrote: 2) Are rectangular house outlines good enough? So in my area I've been making the outlines look actually like the house, as best as I can, but there's no way I'm going to do this to every house in America. For other areas, assuming house outlines are

[OSM-talk] High load on the rendering servers?

For the past few days, lots of things I've changed haven't had their tiles re-rendered, and I noticed that the servers are reporting very high load and lots of dropped tiles: http://munin.openstreetmap.org/renderd-week.html Based on my (completely uneducated) reading of the graphs there, it

Re: [Talk-us] Edits needing investigation in Tennessee

On 10/10/2014 11:54 AM, Andrew Guertin wrote: While investigating changes in my area, I noticed that http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Rondale has quite a large number of changes recently where they changed highway=* to highway=residential (* including at least service[1], unclassified[1

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposed changes to landcover labelling in openstreetmap-carto

I like the looks of this in the Adirondacks. For some reason, Vanderwhacker Mountain is not having its label rendered at zoom 14: http://tile.paulnorman.ca/demo/landcover-labels.html#14.00/43.8912/-74.0996 The same thing happens for Mud Lake Mountain at zooms 14 and 15:

Re: [Talk-us] Prima Facie Speed Limits

On 09/08/2014 05:27 PM, Tod Fitch wrote: [...] instead there is a state wide prima facie limit: source:maxspeed=US:CA:residential [...] My state doesn't have such a limit, but my city does. Supposing I started tagging things with source:maxspeed=US:VT:Burlington, would anyone be upset that

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding Wikidata tags to 70k items automatically

On 08/27/2014 12:47 PM, Edward Betts wrote: I'd like to annotate these 70k objects in OSM with a Wikidata tag automatically. I like the sound of this. Personally, I think it adds value, and having looked at the code your matching criteria sound good. There are a couple of things it would

Re: [Talk-us] Beach routing

On 07/09/2014 12:50 PM, Elliott Plack wrote: OSM US: I've been using some routing engines to map fitness routes (e.g. Strava) that use OSM data. Along our US coasts, there are beaches. The beaches I'm familiar with are popular with walkers and joggers to go up and down the shore, since access

Re: [Talk-us] Beach routing

On 07/09/2014 12:50 PM, Elliott Plack wrote: OSM US: I've been using some routing engines to map fitness routes (e.g. Strava) that use OSM data. Along our US coasts, there are beaches. The beaches I'm familiar with are popular with walkers and joggers to go up and down the shore, since access

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-GB] Fwd: Adding links to Wikidata (and Wikipedia?)

On 06/17/2014 04:10 PM, Rob Nickerson wrote: [...] My understanding is that the script would look for objects in wikidata that have a location (lat/longitude) and some wikidata tags that help us to identify the object (e.g. that it's a church and it's name is St Nicolas's). The script would then

Re: [OSM-talk] Worldwide non-surveyed tag edits

I've just read through http://wiki.osm.org/wiki/Mechanical_Edit_Policy and this thread, and here's my thoughts on the matter. It is possible to improve OSM using only the data already within OSM--with no external knowledge, survey, or other data sources. Typo fixing and other similar

Re: [OSM-talk] Worldwide non-surveyed tag edits

On 06/11/2014 04:03 PM, Marc Gemis wrote: irc will only work when that is an established communication channel in that country. So please, do not make that a requirement. E.g. in Belgium the best way to contact other mappers is the mailing list. I'll understand that this makes it more difficult

Re: [Talk-us] Sidewalks as footpaths

On 04/30/2014 11:38 AM, William Morris wrote: Is there a general OSM policy on marking sidewalks as highway=footway? User dolphinling appears to have gone crazy in downtown Burlington,VT tracing the sidewalks and calling them footways. Which wouldn't be a problem if footways weren't so

[OSM-talk] MapQuest Open tiles not updating?

It looks like the MapQuest Open tiles haven't updated since the beginning of February. I narrowed the last update down to sometime between https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/20325021 (Feb 1, 10 PM) and https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/20340010 (Feb 2, 7 PM) Does anyone know what's

Re: [OSM-talk] MapQuest Open tiles not updating?

On 03/11/2014 05:12 PM, James Mast wrote: See this tweet I got back from them asking the same question: https://twitter.com/MapQuestTech/status/436876342861512704 -James Thanks, that explains it. --Andrew ___ talk mailing list

Re: [Talk-us] Aerial Imagery for Chittenden County, VT

On 02/12/2014 11:15 PM, Andrew Guertin wrote: I'm working on the rest of the county now, and I'll put it in the same place when it's available. I expect it to take a week or two of cpu time. --Andrew Quick update on this: conversion from jp2 to tiff and merging into one large (107GiB) file

[Talk-us] Aerial Imagery for Chittenden County, VT

The Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission (http://www.ccrpcvt.org) recently acquired 15cm per pixel orthophotos for all of Chittenden County, Vermont, and has made them available online[1]. They seem very high quality, in both alignment and visibility of detail. They are also more

Re: [Talk-us] Bing imagery update

Unfortunately, in my area (Burlington VT), it seems like the 2008-era high resolution images (zoom 20?) are no longer available, and only the 2010? era zoom 19 are there. On the Bing website I can still see the higher resolution images, but neither JOSM nor the Bing Imagery Analyzer is

Re: [OSM-talk] Bitcoin Spam

On 12/03/2013 09:55 PM, Steve Bennett wrote: On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: However, in the case at hand, it seems that the interest is not to improve OSM but instead we're just a vehicle for people to show up on the coinmap, a business directory for

[OSM-talk] Public, no-cost, general-purpose tile servers

Hi, My university is converting our campus map to use OSM, and I was asked to look in to our options for tiles. Without going down the custom tile route, it seems like most of the publicly available tiles are for special purposes (biking, public transport, etc), and the only general road map

Re: [Talk-us] [OT] Anyone ever talked about adding more Land Ownership data to OSM?

On 01/07/2013 10:45 PM, Richard Welty wrote: On 1/7/13 10:37 PM, the Old Topo Depot wrote: We do have an issue with US state and county borders, as some are missing, incorrect, incomplete or incorrectly tagged. Perhaps we can organize a cleanse the state and county borders project to

Re: [Talk-us] Importing highway surface tags

On 12/20/2012 05:03 PM, Adam Franco wrote: * Has anyone located a good source for state or national road surface data? The TIGER data doesn't seem to include surface information as far as I can tell. The VCGI EmergencyE911_RDS file has a field for this. Unfortunately, 58773 out of 64302 values

Re: [Talk-us] Burlington, Vermont road classification

On 10/19/2012 07:55 AM, Greg Troxel wrote: Primary highways generally lack stop signs; however, stop signs may control major intersections in rural areas with low traffic volumes and occur rarely elsewhere. The most notable example of this is North Willard Street[2]. It is part of US

Re: [Talk-us] Talk-us Digest, Vol 59, Issue 20

On 10/18/2012 07:58 PM, William Morris wrote: Third local mapper chimes in: As weird as the cartography will look (and I've seen it appear as such on OSM in other U.S. cities), Route 7 through Burlington has no business being listed as primary. I can hit a maximum of 25mph on the sections

[Talk-us] Burlington, Vermont road classification

Hi, There are two active mappers in the Burlington, Vermont area, and we disagree about how the roads should be classified, so we're looking for more opinions. The crux of the problem is the answer to the question: Which is more important, outside/official classifications, or physical

Re: [Talk-us] Burlington, Vermont road classification

On 10/18/2012 05:07 PM, Richard Weait wrote: On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Andrew Guertin andrew.guer...@uvm.edu wrote: Hi, There are two active mappers in the Burlington, Vermont area, and we disagree about how the roads should be classified, so we're looking for more opinions

Re: [OSM-talk] Licence redaction ready to begin

On 07/09/2012 04:46 PM, Richard Fairhurst wrote: Where data has been redacted, any attempt to access it from the API or the site's 'browse' pages will return a response to that effect. What methods will still exist to get redacted data? * Old planet files (or other old copies of data) * Full

Re: [OSM-talk] Jerusalem name tag - Mediation

On 10/07/2011 11:40 AM, Andy Robinson wrote: I'm going to suggest the latter, three nodes as follows: [...] Any solution should probably apply to relations as well as nodes (or instead of nodes, if I had my way). See also http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/131585141 with a creation date of

Re: [OSM-talk] data reconciliation tools

On 07/20/2011 12:54 PM, Richard Weait wrote: Color-coded map of ODbL status http://osm.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/map/ Is this using old data? I've spent the last few months cleaning up road centerlines, names, etc. in my area, and the overlay looks like it doesn't have some changes from May 1,

Re: [OSM-talk] shortened names

On 07/06/2011 11:35 PM, Robin Paulson wrote: is there any consensus on shortening of parts of names? e.g.: street/st saint/st avenue/ave point/pt mount/mt i was under the impression consensus was to type the full word, then renderers would shorten where necessary? apparently some

[OSM-talk] Movement of Japan coastline

I've read news reports (e.g. [1]) that the entire country of Japan has moved about 2.4 meters (8 feet) because of the recent earthquake. Is this something that we want to deal with on a large-scale basis? If so, should it be done soon, before people start mapping from updated imagery and mix

[OSM-talk] Underground / hovering buildings

I have a few buildings that are not simply at ground level, and I can't find how to map them on the wiki. First off, a skywalk between two buildings. Nothing fancy, although it does go over a road. Second, an underground building. Connects to other buildings that are at ground level and have

[OSM-talk] Questions about importing data for University of Vermont campus

the data, and, in fact, on the data itself (which we're still waiting on access to). Having the answers to these questions ahead of time will help make sure the OpenStreetMap implementation is the one we use. Thanks, Andrew Guertin University of Vermont Web Team