I have got some comments on the article on 41Latitude about
OSM.[http://www.41latitude.com/post/1310985699/openstreetmap-critique] My
comments concentrate on the criticisms as they relate to the map database in
Britain.
USER INTERFACE
Not a database issue.
APPEARANCE
Not a database issue
[i sent this to talk-us earlier, and a member of that list suggested it
was worth broadcasting to a larger audience]
as i work my way west along the PA/NY border fixing connectivity
problems, i'm suitably impressed by the patches west of
Waverly/NY 17 where the ways are missing, only the
Both started with ways tagged as boundary=administrative admin_level=10,
but I changed at least some of the Broxtowe ones to boundary=political as
I know of at least some ward boundaries which are NOT contiguous with
Civil Parish boundaries.
Is it more useful to define constituency and
A sentence was recently added to the wiki
[http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:place] stating that the tag
place=city should be used for legally defined cities in countries where
such a status exists. This is superficially attractive but it gives rise
to problems. The key issue is that place
Hello list members,
starting today there is a visual slippy map displaying map features for
the blind an visually impaired available in a beta testing state:
http://freenet-homepage.de/rapunzely/OSM/blindmap.html
Hobby cartographers without visual impairment can now check their
Different people can then
experiment with different approaches to produce consistent datasets
tailored to their own needs. They don't need to be proprietary - in
fact, given the number of people around here talking about it I'd have
hoped someone would have stepped up and produced a tailored
On Wed, 9 Sep 2009, David Earl wrote:
On 09/09/2009 00:10, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
David Earl wrote:
Richard - why do we still need this mode now you can save in
Potlatch and groups of changes fit much better with changesets
anyway?
Lots of people still prefer it. I've not seen any
A fellow mapper has kindly informed me that my changeset 2315455
appears to have deleted all the members from the National Byway cycle
route.
Unfortunately I am not sure how to revert this changeset; If anyone is
able to revert this for me I would be most grateful.
According to
On 27/08/09 12:13, Jack Stringer wrote:
lock=yes
lock_name=Withrington Bottom Lock
When you are tagging a way, you can't use name= because that will
already contain the name of the canal. Hence lock_name=.
Why would you want to repeat the name of a canal on its individual nodes?
Isnt that
The new Bad data proposal is a scheme to mark traced aerial photography or
maps as out of date or otherwise unreliable so that they can be obscured
in editors and users dont copy details into the OSM database reducing its
accuracy.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bad_data
I've noticed a lot of new data on Korea.
Who is working on Korea and is there a separate email list?
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Jeffrey John Martin
dogs...@gmail.com
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Could you please give examples of usage on that page?
In the main most chains, such as the Tesco supermarket have the tags
shop=supermarket; name=Tesco, which I don't think is compatible with
your idea of having an operator and name tag where you would put the
name of the branch (for
I have put together some thoughts about how you could go about tagging a
whole shop chain or similar while making searches for the chain or the
type of shop useful. I have put them online in the OSM wiki at:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/user:Wynndale/Tagging_branch_networks_(draft)
As a
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