Re: [OSM-talk] A message to our friends at HOT, Peace Corps etc. about Changeset Comments

2015-11-19 Thread Christian Pietzsch
> > > Worse, I see many HOT changesets that have source=Bing in the > changeset comment instead of a separate tag. > > Although... Does iD allow setting changeset tags? The ID Editor doesn't seem to support other changeset tags. JOSM supports as much changeset tags as you like, but you have to kn

Re: [OSM-talk] Improved new Icon set for Open Street map

2015-11-02 Thread Christian Pietzsch
This can be seen from different perspectives. Someone who wants a more aesthetic clean map, will like GMaps more. Meanwhile OSM carto is much more informative with a lot more details. But you can still have a look at the icons used and try to make an improved version and suggest it to the style mai

Re: [OSM-talk] Emergency button on phone OSM apps?

2015-10-26 Thread Christian Pietzsch
Sounds interesting. The problem is that if you show all these things at the same time the map might get cluttered. So after pressing the button you could show a dialog (Fire?/Health?/...). The emergency wiki page should give an good over few over possible additions: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wi

Re: [OSM-talk] Portal for end users

2015-09-18 Thread Christian Pietzsch
> > I understand that if we want to build a data-use portal, it should be > managed separately from the current OSM.org infrastructure. But > couldn't we make a subdomain like use.openstreetmap.org [9] to > showcase projects? And maybe try and let that evolve into an ecosystem > of applications, to

Re: [OSM-talk] stop deleting abandoned railroads

2015-08-11 Thread Christian Pietzsch
Hi deleting abandoned railways if they are still clearly visible on the ground isn't okay. Near my hometown we have one of these rail trails. http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/247337009 It has been a light rail track and now it is used as asphalt cycle way. As you can see it is tagged as railway=aba