Re: [OSM-talk] proposed mechanical edit - moving FIXME=* to fixme=*

2. Lipiec 2018 19:49 od james2...@gmail.com : > are there any overlap with FIXME and fixme as in an object tagged with both? Yes. http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/A0y As described in

[OSM-talk] proposed mechanical edit - moving FIXME=* to fixme=*

fixme tag is a standard way to mark fixmes. Editors wishing to finish mapping in their area would (directly or indirectly, for example using JOSM) look through objects tagged with fixme tags. FIXME tag is an unexpected way to mark fixmes, retagging this duplicate to fixme key would improve

Re: [OSM-talk] WMF: "Interactive maps, now in your language"

29. Jun 2018 13:18 by a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk : > On 29 June 2018 at 11:38, Max <> abonneme...@revolwear.com > > > wrote: > >> "Add the missing names to OSM in your language." >> >> That is inflating the OSM database with

Re: [OSM-talk] About OSM social implications and what can/should be displayed on the map (or not)

29. Jun 2018 17:27 by carlos.cam...@gmail.com : > OSM does not take "any ethical stance and display the world as it is." > It is for that reason that I want to raise that particular topic to OSM > community: > Is that true? yes   > and if so, should it

Re: [OSM-talk] Golan Heights

https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/w/images/d/d8/DisputedTerritoriesInformation.pdf is an useful resource. 20. Jun 2018 15:40 by ma...@anche.no : > good day list! > >

Re: [Talk-transit] tram vs. bus_guideway

19. Jun 2018 19:39 by ok...@johnfreed.com : > On balance, it seems to me that the tagging should reflect the term used to > publicize the line by the operator, rather than some esoteric technicality > knowable only to civil engineers and wiki readers. As long

Re: [OSM-talk] overpass turbo for beginners

19. Jun 2018 21:46 by mmd@gmail.com : > Take a look at the following presentation by Boris Mericskay, which is > one of the best and most up to date presentations on Overpass API and > overpass turbo I'm aware of (yes, some 0.7.55 features are missing, but > that's

[OSM-talk] overpass rurbo for beginners

Is there some Overpass Turbo tutorial assuming no programming or OSM knowledge? I am planning to write one, I failed to find any description like this. I am asking to avoid duplication of existing resources. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-transit] tram vs. bus_guideway

After looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber-tyred_trams especially "The Translohr system operates as a guided vehicle at all times, while with the Bombardier system the vehicles can be driven autonomously as requirements dictate, such

Re: [Talk-transit] tram vs. bus_guideway

16. Jun 2018 01:08 by ok...@johnfreed.com : > I asked TRuchin, who gave me a technical explanation. (Apparently the wheels > are different.) Is this discussion on forum, changeset discussion or other public place that can be linked ?

Re: [OSM-talk] proposed mechanical edit - moving building=building to building=yes

9. Jun 2018 12:54 by osm...@michreichert.de : > I did not expect you to write such a tool. It would be ok to pick some > random samples and look into their history. So, is analysis by  Christoph Hormann sufficient for this proposed edit?

Re: [OSM-talk] proposed mechanical edit - moving building=building to building=yes

9. Jun 2018 12:17 by matkoni...@tutanota.com : > > But I would prefer to avoid spending time on creating > > > tool that already exists. > I found  http://taghistory.raifer.tech that reveals that this tag is target of

Re: [OSM-talk] proposed mechanical edit - moving building=building to building=yes

9. Jun 2018 11:36 by osm...@michreichert.de : > Did you investigate who used that tag and maybe why? Was it a bot, a > editor preset, an import or manual user input? I would like to have this > question answered before a mechanical edit. Are you aware about

Re: [OSM-talk] proposed mechanical edit - moving building=building to building=yes

8. Jun 2018 22:41 by james2...@gmail.com : > if building=building is not or was not a  wiki approved way of tagging, this > seems more on the side of linting osm tags than it does a "mass blind > edit"/import Note that just because tags are not described on

[OSM-talk] proposed mechanical edit - moving building=building to building=yes

building=yes is a standard way to mark building without specifying its type. Editors wishing to specify building type would (directly or indirectly, for example using StreetComplete) look through buildings tagged as building=yes. building=building is an unexpected way to mark building without

Re: [OSM-talk] Automated edit for bus lines in Paris area

"Summary: Adding values for two existing tags to bus stops"  example edit changes three tags. The same in the proposed changes etc comment. "This provides a link between the OSM node and the STIF stop_id." And how this match is obtained? Is source code of program generating matches and

[OSM-talk] finding drinking water with an Android app

I am looking for an application for Android displaying amenity=drinking_water locations with available offline map - I am frequently using it to avoid buying plastic bottles just to almost immediately throw it out. Any simple open source map displaying locations of some objects would also be

Re: [OSM-talk] More secondary attributes for schools

il.com: > Thank you for the replies. Is there an example of how this has been done > elsewhere? I think dumping into wikidata would be a good option and a > solution we will be pursuing. > > > > On Sun, May 27, 2018 at 5:17 PM, Mateusz Konieczny <> matkoni...@tutanota.com

Re: [OSM-talk] Redactions in North Korea

2 Jun 2018, 13:11 by frede...@remote.org: > This particularly applies to information > sourced from Wikipedia/Wikidata - please do not use them as sources. > >From what I checked this two projects are generally unusuable as data sources >due to licensing issues.

Re: [OSM-talk] More secondary attributes for schools

27. May 2018 12:47 by gthapa.w...@gmail.com : > collected every year I think that better solution would be to keep it in the external database, and create/use something to link them. For example external database may contain locations of school or this

Re: [OSM-talk] what can be mapped - temporary, pernament and reoccuring

25. May 2018 20:17 by frede...@remote.org : > I think the key here is, like so often, verifiability. Things in OSM > must be verifiable, and I'd like to add "... with reasonable effort by > an average person". If something is verifiable only with expensive > special

Re: [OSM-talk] what can be mapped - temporary, pernament and reoccuring

25. May 2018 20:17 by frede...@remote.org : > How infrequent does the flea market have to happen in order for it to > become an un-mappable "event"? Take a Christmas market for example, > which is like a flea market just less frequent... or is it an event already? >

[OSM-talk] what can be mapped - temporary, pernament and reoccuring

Some features are always present and are indisputable mappable - like buildings. Some features are seasonal but are easily verifiable all the time as they merely change the form. For example an intermittent river - riverbed is always there, nearly always with obvious indications that water flowed

[OSM-talk] Android program with a custom map style

I am looking for an Android application that has bicycle-focused map style available offline. I am looking for features like - ability to distinguish road based on surface (=sand =dirt =asphalt should be easy to distinguish) - oneway arrows displayed based also on oneway:bicycle,

Re: [OSM-talk] highway="corridor" tag

5. May 2018 21:38 by winw...@gmail.com : > So back to my original questions: The only way to find a new valid > tag value is to wait for a user to complain about a funky or lack of > calculated route? > Yes, but that is extremely unlikely to happen. List of values

Re: [OSM-talk] highway="corridor" tag

5. May 2018 18:07 by winw...@gmail.com : > my code assumes unknown highway tags are > vehicle-routable (and filters out footpaths, stairs, etc). > that is (1) not relevant (2) a really bad assumption - making highway=cyclewa vehicle-routable is a surprising design,

Re: [OSM-talk] Using Wikipedia to add names in other languages

5. May 2018 16:14 by dieterdre...@gmail.com <mailto:dieterdre...@gmail.com>: > On 5. May 2018, at 15:39, Mateusz Konieczny <> matkoni...@tutanota.com > <mailto:matkoni...@tutanota.com>> > wrote: > > >> >> How copying location data[1] from

Re: [OSM-talk] Using Wikipedia to add names in other languages

5. May 2018 16:14 by dieterdre...@gmail.com <mailto:dieterdre...@gmail.com>: > On 5. May 2018, at 15:39, Mateusz Konieczny <> matkoni...@tutanota.com > <mailto:matkoni...@tutanota.com>> > wrote: > > >> >> sui generis database right is not existin

Re: [OSM-talk] Using Wikipedia to add names in other languages

5. May 2018 14:55 by dieterdre...@gmail.com <mailto:dieterdre...@gmail.com>: > sent from a phone > >> On 5. May 2018, at 14:28, Mateusz Konieczny <>> matkoni...@tutanota.com >> <mailto:matkoni...@tutanota.com>>> > wrote: >> >> (and

[OSM-talk] Using Wikipedia to add names in other languages

For example: mapper encounters https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/244082386#map=18/36.62214/101.77352 and wants to add missing name:pl (s)he opens linked https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xining

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM and new Wikipedia map features

r preference.  The exact same code (it's all in JavaScript) can >> be used to decide the labeling. Caching would only improve, because instead >> of caching multiple raster tiles, it would only cache a single vector tile.  >>  Mapbox.gl or open layers can both do this fairly efficiently.

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM and new Wikipedia map features

3. May 2018 22:49 by jmatazz...@wikimedia.org : > I’d very much like to get your suggestions for a short list of Help links on > OSM—pages you think a user coming in to add multilingual names would find > useful. Also please send your thoughts about any

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM and new Wikipedia map features

4. May 2018 07:36 by md...@xs4all.nl : > On 2018-05-04 00:33, Joe Matazzoni wrote: >> No fallback is currently defined for Polish. We’ll be happy to >> change that if you can show community consensus. > > Community consensus? You mean a bunch of people who decide for

Re: [OSM-talk] Name:* tags in the local language

It is not handling - regions with more than one widespread language - features that have name tag in an atypical language 26. Apr 2018 10:04 by jan...@gmail.com : > > > sri, 25. tra 2018. u 08:51 Darafei "Komяpa" Praliaskouski <> m...@komzpa.net >

Re: [OSM-talk] New wave of Pokémon Go mappers – check the parks

25. Apr 2018 06:17 by roland.olbri...@gmx.de : > Thus, I suggest the query > here is overpass link with it: http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/yee (navigate to your area, click "run" and wait) At least in my region detecting parks

Re: [OSM-talk] Name:* tags in the local language

24. Apr 2018 21:29 by rich...@systemed.net : > If I read Frederik's proposal right, the language=en tag would be placed on > the object with the name tag > Interesting idea, I like it. Is there already a page on the OSM wiki describing this proposal?

Re: [OSM-talk] Sidewalk symmetry

25. Apr 2018 07:01 by marc.ge...@gmail.com : > I wonder why those arguments always pop up when we talk about separate > sidewalks and not when we talk about separate cycleways. > AFAIK it is common practice to map cycleways as separate ways in OSM > as soon as there

Re: [OSM-talk] Name:* tags in the local language

24. Apr 2018 20:03 by md...@xs4all.nl : > I think you're opening another can of worms here. How would this work out for > me (in Dutch) where I don't want to see places in latin script translated? I > do not want to see Londen or Berlijn or Brunswijk, I also don't want

Re: [OSM-talk] Name:* tags in the local language

On Tue, 24 Apr 2018 20:16:08 +0200 Frederik Ramm wrote: > I.e. we'd have tons of "name:xx" tags > plus one tag called e.g. "language=en", that would then mean: The > default name to use is the name:en name. > > I think this would be more elegant than the duplication that

Re: [OSM-talk] Name:* tags in the local language

I fully agree that it is a problem. I encountered nasty issues after implementing name rendering fallback with following language order (order is simplified for this example): name:pl, name:en, name:de, name Intention was to render English name in China/Korea rather than unreadable (for typical

Re: [OSM-talk] How do you mapping gender neutral toilets? What should the unisex tag mean?

On Tue, 24 Apr 2018 18:27:02 +0200 Rory McCann wrote: > Thoughts? Feedback? Anything I'm missing? Note that defining tag with proposal on wiki will not change existing data or immediately change how people understand tag. I was not investigating the situation in this case

Re: [OSM-talk] Sidewalk symmetry

On Mon, 23 Apr 2018 19:25:12 +0200 Tobias Knerr wrote: > Comparing the mapping styles solely based on ease of mapping would > only make sense if separate ways were able to express the same > information contained in sidewalk tags. Note that some information may not be

Re: [OSM-talk] Oracle is changing Java's license how will it affect JOSM?

On Sun, 22 Apr 2018 14:26:13 -0400 john whelan wrote: > Someone who worked at Oracle has mentioned Oracle would like to be > out of JAVA by 2020 and that is the date for individual free licenses > to expire. Source? ___ talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Roundabouts - why is a separate segment required?

On Thu, 15 Feb 2018 09:52:19 +0100 Tom Pfeifer wrote: > May we ask you to undo your revert in CS 56352276? You still have not > explained how the two node solution "fudge OSM". Especially, as from looking at aerial images it is clear that these roads are not

Re: [OSM-talk] Roundabouts - why is a separate segment required?

On Wed, 14 Feb 2018 19:23:39 +0100 Johan C wrote: > The present tagging (used since 2005 or so, and all around the globe) > is fine. I agree, I see no problem with this recommendation. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Roundabouts - why is a separate segment required?

On Wed, 14 Feb 2018 14:53:07 + Dave F wrote: > I see no requirement for a separate segment: Can you give example of roundabount (preferably, with good aerial images) where such requirement makes mapping problematic?

Re: [OSM-talk] Limitations on mapping private information

On Sat, 10 Feb 2018 00:50:32 +0100 Tom Pfeifer wrote: > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Limitations_on_mapping_private_information What I miss is some generic "do not map completely private data". For example, while mapping amenity=place_of_worship in Europe is OK,

[OSM-talk] how one may detect notes closed by people who made less than 10 edits on this account?

Is there some existing tool to query note activity (especially closing) by user with low edit count? I noticed a vandal creating multiple accounts*, all with 0 edits and closing random valid notes (or at least closing without explanation notes that seemed to not be clearly invalid). I undid it

Re: [OSM-talk] Automatically generated changeset discussion comments by OSMCha

On Fri, 12 Jan 2018 15:07:11 +0100 Michael Reichert wrote: > If third-party tools start to post comments to lots > of changesets automatically In that case that would be clearly wrong. But if I understand > From now on, when we review a changeset in OSMCha, a comment

Re: [OSM-talk] Advertising on OSM

On Fri, 12 Jan 2018 06:55:56 +0400 (GMT+04:00) "Jack Armstrong dan...@sprynet.com" wrote: > I can't seem to find anything on the OSM Wiki. Have you checked https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:description ? It has "Never use description=* to add advertising

Re: [Talk-us] New to lists and would like to suggest some imports

On Mon, 8 Jan 2018 19:54:09 -0500 Russell Meier wrote: > I am not sure were to start. (...) > Thanks, > > Treldin Assuming that you are https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Treldin - I would start from manual mapping to be better aware how mapper interacts with data.

Re: [Talk-us] Leonia, NJ doesn't want you to navigate through

On Mon, 08 Jan 2018 13:53:02 -0500 Jack Burke wrote: > I'll leave it to others to decide what, if anything, we should do > about this. Tag traffic signs? It is not clear from article is it - motor_vehicle=destination - vehicle=destination - toll=yes - nothing, article is

Re: [Talk-us] Parks, again

For start: the best place to propose improvements to default map style is to propose it at https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto In other places it is highly unusual that somebody involved in development map style will notice it and on issue tracker (

Re: [Talk-us] Parks, again

On Sat, 6 Jan 2018 21:11:04 + Doug Hembry wrote: > IMHO, AT THE VERY LEAST, the background green fill for leisure=park > could and should be dropped by openstreeetmap-carto - it is > unnecessary, causes problems, and can be replaced by natural=* or > landcover=* .

Re: [OSM-talk] Standard map style contributions

If somebody tried contributing and missing documentation was what stopped him/her - what was missing? On Thu, 28 Dec 2017 08:34:34 -0500 James wrote: > Although the rest seems like CSS or a variation there of the project > is big and they may not grasp everything. Proper

[OSM-talk] massgis:MANAGR_ABR=M173BS, massgis:DEED_ACRES=0.00000000 and other useless(?) tags

I encountered https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/29690455 that is obviously result of some unfinished import - somebody dumped random database fields into OSM such as massgis:DEED_ACRES=0. massgis:MANAGR_ABR=M173BS and many other tags such as: massgis:ARTICLE97 massgis:ASSESS_ACR

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM tagging validation lib

> conform validation to wiki Sometimes wiki is wrong and should be changed. Note also that authors of different tools have different opinions how and what should be reported as errors. On 24 Dec 2017 11:12 a.m., "François Lacombe" wrote: Hi Here is an idea I got

Re: [OSM-talk] Editing in Front Range of US State of Colorado

During deleting of destroyed features I typically leave outlines with notes reminding that aerial image is outdated and delete such historic days after aerial images are updated. Have you tried doing something like that? On 16 Dec 2017 4:37 p.m., "Mike Thompson" wrote:

Re: [OSM-talk] What would make MapRoulette better?

On Sun, 19 Nov 2017 13:59:26 -0700 Martijn van Exel wrote: > Hi all,  > > For those who have used MapRoulette or at least have a good > understanding of what it does: what would be the *one top thing* for > you that would make it better?  > > I am asking because I am working on

Re: [OSM-talk] Directed Editing Policy

> This policy applies as soon as someone is > directed by a third party exactly what and how to contribute to > OpenStreetMap. Maybe it would be a good idea to exclude small scale guided editing. For example my friend asked me to show how OSM worked. I showed him/her a map and asked to find

Re: [OSM-talk] finding overlapping buildings

On Wed, 22 Nov 2017 00:49:10 + Dave F wrote: > Note: Some building are drawn on top of eachother to produce 3D > rendering of multi-storey buildings. It is still tagging that should be fixed (building:part is typical solution, in rare cases like

Re: [OSM-talk] Effecting change in OpenStreetMap

On Tue, 21 Nov 2017 13:47:26 + Darafei "Komяpa" Praliaskouski wrote: > Many words, long story short: technology-wise, OpenStreetMap core is > dead. This sounds bad and it is hard for me to discuss other examples, but in > "I'm worried about this. I have not performed a

Re: [OSM-talk] Hillshading on OSM maps

For examples of places where OSM seems to have higher quality than relief see sloped lakes in Tatra mountains at http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/49.2044/20.0272=C On 7 Nov 2017 8:48 a.m., "Martin Koppenhoefer" wrote: > > > sent from a phone > > > On 7. Nov 2017, at

Re: [OSM-talk] CC0 in UK, CC0 in USA, sui generis database right and Wikidata

On Sun, 5 Nov 2017 21:29:21 +0100 Simon Poole wrote: > Back to WD: as pointed about above, the issue is not that the WMF is > claiming that WD can be used on CC0 terms when it couldn't be, aka > laundering the data (quite to the contrary), it is that because  we > would need to

Re: [OSM-talk] Dispute on wiki page Collaboration_with_Wikipedia

On Sun, 5 Nov 2017 13:45:25 +0100 Michael Reichert wrote: > I think that the question if someone may copy > data from OSM/Wikipedia/Wikidata to Wikipedia or Wikidata should not > be discussed in the OSM wiki in full length. Especially Wikidata to Wikipedia and Wikipedia

Re: [OSM-talk] CC0 in UK, CC0 in USA, sui generis database right and Wikidata

On Sun, 5 Nov 2017 10:28:29 -0800 Mark Wagner wrote: > Not an issue. The CC0 license explicitly calls out database rights as > being released to the greatest extent possible. From the text of the > license (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)

[OSM-talk] CC0 in UK, CC0 in USA, sui generis database right and Wikidata

tl;dr It may be not OK to import data from Wikidata despite that this database is CC0 (adding wikipedia/wikidata tags is still OK, but this connection is mostly useless for adding data into OSM). It may be necessary to revert some imports of data from Wikidata Note: it is likely that

Re: [OSM-talk] Guides to improve navigation data in OpenStreetMap

On Sat, 12 Mar 2016 18:42:25 +0530 Arun Ganesh wrote: > > > > this means that all turn:lanes, change:lanes, access:lanes, > > forward:lanes, backward:lanes, etc. should count ALL lanes > > > Turn lanes meant for a turn in a particular direction at the > junction. I'm

Re: [OSM-talk] Guides to improve navigation data in OpenStreetMap

On Thu, 10 Mar 2016 20:26:15 +0530 Abhishek Saikia wrote: > `turn:lanes` are > exclusively for vehicles (...) we are at > present ignoring adding cycle lanes during `turn:lanes` mapping. This is inconsistent given that bicycles are vehicles. see for example

Re: [OSM-talk] OsmAnd financially rewarding mappers

On Thu, 3 Mar 2016 09:20:05 -0300 Nicolás Alvarez wrote: > The reason why I didn't try this yet is that they unnecessarily ask > me for my OSM *password* when signing up. There are much better ways > to verify the account... "We will give you money once you will share

Re: [OSM-talk] Names for Fiji

On Fri, 26 Feb 2016 10:01:40 +0100 Jean-Guilhem Cailton wrote: > For names used in news or social media reports, you can find their > location using (...) and Bing > (or other allowed satellite imagery). AFAIK only Bing satellite imagery is on suitable license. And satellite

Re: [OSM-talk] Names for Fiji

On Fri, 26 Feb 2016 02:02:23 +0100 Jean-Guilhem Cailton wrote: > Note that names currently in use are often a simplified form of these > "old" names, and that it is straightforward to recognize current names > in old names. > > For example, on Koro Island, here is a list of

Re: [OSM-talk] Routing through access=delivery

On Sat, 13 Feb 2016 10:13:45 +0100 Markus Heidelberg wrote: > Hi, > > last week after missing the exit on a highway=motorway, a Garmin Nüvi > 300 with a Lambertus map tried to turn through a service road mapped > with motor_vehicle=delivery. This road connects the

Re: [OSM-talk] What is 'Attic Data'? or 'Why can't wiki writers use plain language'.

On Wed, 03 Feb 2016 22:06:32 + Dave F wrote: > Why is it headed as 'Attic Data'? AFAIK it is how this is named internally in Overpass API - see https://github.com/drolbr/Overpass-API/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93=attic ___

Re: [OSM-talk] Applicability of wiki tagging and votes: may, should or must

On Thu, 28 Jan 2016 19:50:11 + Andy Townsend wrote: > On 28/01/2016 19:16, David Marchal wrote: > > Hello, there. > > > > On a GitHub issue > > (https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/2027#issuecomment-174443685), > > > > I've been told that Wiki

Re: [OSM-talk] Applicability of wiki tagging and votes: may, should or must

On Fri, 29 Jan 2016 19:38:46 +0100 Roland Olbricht wrote: > >> This diversity of tagging is often quoted as a problem for data > >> consumers. Oddly, this is often by people who don't actually use > >> the data but feel it must be awkward. Actually it's not. All OSM >

Re: [OSM-talk] Applicability of wiki tagging and votes: may, should or must

On Thu, 28 Jan 2016 20:31:04 +0100 Matthijs Melissen wrote: > On 28 January 2016 at 20:16, David Marchal wrote: > > On a GitHub issue > > (https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/2027#issuecomment-174443685), > > I've been told that

Re: [OSM-talk] Abandoned buildings

On Tue, 5 Jan 2016 00:14:25 +0100 John Doe wrote: > I tagged some abandoned building in my native city with > abandoned:building=yes (as wiki) and the building name but now i can't > search these ones with nominatim (no results) and none of these > appears on mapnik. > Is

Re: [OSM-talk] How does one tag a business that closed and was replaced by something else?

On Mon, 14 Dec 2015 12:18:41 -0500 Andrew Wiseman wrote: > Hi, > > In this case, two businesses closed and were replaced by a single > business that took over both buildings (they are adjoining.) How > should I tag this? I didn't see anything about closed: or former: on >

Re: [OSM-talk] Involving Cyclists in OSM

On Tue, 8 Dec 2015 19:39:05 -0800 Clifford Snow wrote: > > > > - Useful for cycling advocacy, as it presents a more accurate less > > car-focused set of data, and the open tools around OSM make it > > easier to draw potential options > > > > Can you help me understand

Re: [OSM-talk] Involving Cyclists in OSM

On Wed, 9 Dec 2015 10:24:54 +0100 Simon Poole wrote: > road works (ok we don't have that) Depends on region. Some mappers in Poland map construction works lasting for longer period (switch to highway=construction during time when road is inaccessible). See for example

Re: [OSM-talk] From osmf-talk: "Balancing the presence of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT US Inc) in the OpenStreetMap Foundation"

On Wed, 02 Dec 2015 23:12:22 +0100 Jean-Guilhem Cailton wrote: > - Rejection of public lies : Several communications of HOT US Inc., > both internal and external, are in contradiction with facts. They > sometimes combine with the next item, ... Maybe I missed it but see

Re: [OSM-talk] What3words

On Sun, 22 Nov 2015 12:07:43 +0100 Colin Smale wrote: > I guess there would be no objections to someone adding > addr:w3w:en=nice.place.here ? Or addr:w3w=en:nice.place.here ? Only in cases where such "adress" is displayed on the ground.

Re: [OSM-talk] What3words

On Sun, 22 Nov 2015 13:16:24 +0100 Colin Smale <colin.sm...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > > > On 2015-11-22 13:04, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: > > > On Sun, 22 Nov 2015 12:07:43 +0100 > > Colin Smale <colin.sm...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > > > >> I g

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

On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 19:52:40 -0500 john whelan wrote: > HOT and OSM are slightly different, HOT maps on OSM but uses a > simpler more standardized approach. Many of their volunteers often > do not know enough English to write a meaningful change set comment. In that case

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=residential_link

On Thu, 12 Nov 2015 08:44:59 -0600 Paul Johnson <ba...@ursamundi.org> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 3:41 PM, Mateusz Konieczny > <matkoni...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, 11 Nov 2015 04:33:57 -0600 > > Paul Johnson <ba...@ursamundi.org> wrote: &g

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=residential_link

On Wed, 11 Nov 2015 04:33:57 -0600 Paul Johnson <ba...@ursamundi.org> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 2:36 AM, Mateusz Konieczny > <matkoni...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, 9 Nov 2015 22:36:28 -0500 > > Andrew Guertin <andrew.guer...@uvm.edu> wrote: &g

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=residential_link

On Mon, 9 Nov 2015 22:36:28 -0500 Andrew Guertin wrote: > So the question is, should uses of highway=residential_link be edited > away, should they be left as-is (unless a different highway type is > clearly better), or should the tag be approved and documented? Can

Re: [OSM-talk] Activity statistics per city (or region)

On Mon, 26 Oct 2015 10:09:16 +0100 César Martínez Izquierdo wrote: > Thanks to everyone for so many links and ideas. I like the idea of > combining active users + nodes to build the indicator. > Just to be sure I understand the existing approach: do you need to get > the

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: [HOT] Cat-5 Hurricane Patricia heading to Mexican Pacific Coast

On Sun, 25 Oct 2015 01:15:15 +0200 Simon Poole wrote: > the resp. IP rights without problems. In other words: you would need > to provide downstream attribution for CC-by v3 material included in > OSM. I am pretty sure that it makes using this material impossible and such

Re: [OSM-talk] Activity statistics per city (or region)

On Wed, 21 Oct 2015 17:00:49 +0200 César Martínez Izquierdo wrote: > Hi, we are interested on getting some OSM statistics per city. > > The idea is to get a rough idea of the activity of the community on > each city, by counting the number of active users or the number of >

Re: [OSM-talk] JOSM Error

On Thu, 15 Oct 2015 11:54:40 -0600 Mike Thompson wrote: > When I start JOSM I get: > === > JOSM tried to access the following resources: > >- https://josm.openstreetmap.de/maps >- https://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/StartupPage >

[OSM-talk] Generating list of interesting places

Is there already some tool that for given area generates list of interesting places (museums, caves, old trees, famous tourism attractions, monuments, etc etc) based on OSM data? ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Find missing roads

On Mon, 5 Oct 2015 17:16:39 -0600 Martijn van Exel wrote: > Andrew — > > We tried to strike a balance between giving enough hints so that > mappers could figure out where roads are missing, and avoiding > showing too many false positives. This resulted in the sometimes >

Re: [OSM-talk] recent changes in rendering the map make it worse

On Wed, 23 Sep 2015 13:59:43 +0100 Andy Townsend wrote: > For comparison I > recently had a look at the OSM map style as it was in April 2014 (...) > and it's not any easier to customise. This is less subjective than two others - and in that case I am pretty sure that

Re: [OSM-talk] recent changes in rendering the map make it worse

On Wed, 23 Sep 2015 09:10:44 +0200 henk van der laan <h...@mijneigen.net> wrote: > > > > W dniu 22.09.2015 15:49, Mateusz Konieczny napisa?(a): > > > > > Note that it is not including the latest changes that are not > > > deployed on the OSM w

Re: [OSM-talk] recent changes in rendering the map make it worse

On Tue, 22 Sep 2015 13:32:42 +0200 Matthijs Melissen wrote: > To aid the discussion, here you can compare the old and new rendering > (Netherlands/Belgium/Luxembourg only): > http://bl.ocks.org/tyrasd/raw/67a00dbb869456094373/#9.00/52.3535/5.0572 Note that it is not

Re: [OSM-talk] A big debate about OSM quality in Strava community

On Fri, 18 Sep 2015 20:59:41 + moltonel wrote: > The app still uses Google, which is vastly inferior to OSM for my > region, both in map data and satellite. It is likely that Google map is worse than OSM map, but it can not be true for aerial view as OSM is not providing

Re: [OSM-talk] THIS is the kind of enthusiasm some would reject

I will not continue to discuss other issues as at this point everybody exchanged opinions and repeating the same makes no sense. But... On Sat, 12 Sep 2015 17:55:07 -0400 Russ Nelson wrote: > and they aren't making more abandoned railroads anymore (Beeching is > dead, and

Re: [OSM-talk] THIS is the kind of enthusiasm some would reject

On Sat, 12 Sep 2015 16:25:18 -0400 Greg Troxel wrote: > > Frederik Ramm writes: > > > But that's how far my "convictions" go - as long as I don't survey > > where Russ draws his abandoned railway lines, we're fine. > > In terms of reaching a detente, I

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