Re: [OSM-talk] Without an address, an Icelandic tourist drew this map of the intended location (Búðardalur) and surroundings on the envelope. The postal service delivered!

2016-08-31 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
On 31/08/16 07:54, Andreas Vilén wrote: "frame;lock;door" hmm... or was it "frame;lock;window"? ---> mail gets delivered to the other side of the world. If you write "Main street 15" instead of "Main street 13" it will probably get delivered correctly anyway as long as the name is correct. Al

Re: [OSM-talk] Without an address, an Icelandic tourist drew this map of the intended location (Búðardalur) and surroundings on the envelope. The postal service delivered!

2016-08-31 Thread Maarten Deen
On 2016-08-31 09:39, Oleksiy Muzalyev wrote: On 31/08/16 07:54, Andreas Vilén wrote: Imo it's better to let these areas choose their own (classic) addresses and then report these to the authorities. /Andreas It looks like they are trying to do exactly this. Here is a map of a part of Rio de

Re: [OSM-talk] Without an address, an Icelandic tourist drew this map of the intended location (Búðardalur) and surroundings on the envelope. The postal service delivered!

2016-08-31 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone > Il giorno 31 ago 2016, alle ore 09:39, Oleksiy Muzalyev > ha scritto: > > But this approach is not scalable, - even on this map you can see three Rua > C, four Rua A (Rua means Street in Portuguese). first it wouldn't harm to get a tiny bit more creative when choosing t

Re: [OSM-talk] Maritime boundary missing. How to fix?

2016-08-31 Thread Walter Nordmann
Hi Evan, this has been done right now. (not by me, but i know and trust that guy). Mapnik rendering is not yet finished on all levels. Regards walter/germany ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] [flame] Without an address, an Icelandic tourist drew this map of the intended location (Búðardalur) and surroundings on the envelope. The postal service delivered!

2016-08-31 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
El onsdag 31. august 2016 09.39.46 CEST Oleksiy Muzalyev escribió: > But this approach is not scalable, - even on this map you can see three > /Rua C/, four /Rua A/ (Rua means Street in Portuguese). Without a > central authority it will end up in numerous duplicates. See, Oleksiy, you're once agai

Re: [OSM-talk] Without an address, an Icelandic tourist drew this map of the intended location (Búðardalur) and surroundings on the envelope. The postal service delivered!

2016-08-31 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
On 31/08/16 10:03, Maarten Deen wrote: How did people manage before the age of smartphones, accurate GPS and free maps? Regards, Maarten Felix Dellatre, a German who lives in Managua, told in his presentation "Community mapping in Nicaragua" at the OSM US conference in San Francisco in 2013

Re: [OSM-talk] Artwork problems

2016-08-31 Thread Janko Mihelić
čet, 25. kol 2016. u 15:30 Daniel Koć napisao je: > > I've also noticed that the line between artworks and memorials is > blurred, especially with statues > In my opinion, we can use both tags. If something is a sculpture, add tourism=artwork+artwork_type=sculpture. If it is a sculpture whose ma

Re: [OSM-talk] Artwork problems

2016-08-31 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
On 25.08.2016 22:11, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: sent from a phone Il giorno 25 ago 2016, alle ore 15:28, Daniel Koć ha scritto: there are some places, where the indoor artworks just make noise and I still don't know how to avoid this clutter in general: http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18

Re: [OSM-talk] Artwork problems

2016-08-31 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone > Il giorno 31 ago 2016, alle ore 13:30, Oleksiy Muzalyev > ha scritto: > > The artwork icon resembles the Academy Award, or "Oscar" statuette > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Awards . It does not evoke art either > inside or outside the museum. while I agree, thi

[OSM-talk] Mailing lists archive not in Google

2016-08-31 Thread Matthijs Melissen
Hi, The mailing list archives at https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/ are currently not indexed by Google. I suppose this is caused by the tag that is included in every page of the archive. Would it be possible to remove this tag? I think it would be very useful if the mailing list archive

Re: [OSM-talk] Mailing lists archive not in Google

2016-08-31 Thread Andy Townsend
On 31/08/2016 17:23, Matthijs Melissen wrote: Hi, The mailing list archives at https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/ are currently not indexed by Google. I suppose this is caused by the tag that is included in every page of the archive. Maybe I'm missing something, but a web search of e.

Re: [OSM-talk] Mailing lists archive not in Google

2016-08-31 Thread Matthijs Melissen
On 31 August 2016 at 18:32, Andy Townsend wrote: > Maybe I'm missing something, but a web search of e.g. "something > site:https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/"; finds relevant posts? > Is there something I'm not understanding here? You're right, something must have gone wrong on my si

[OSM-talk] Analysis of usage of similar tags over time

2016-08-31 Thread Matthijs Melissen
Hi all, Recently, a new tool was created by Martin Raifer (@tyrasd) to generate graphs of the usage of tags over time. This is a great tool that gives us more insight in what drives the choice of tags by mappers. The tool can be found at http://taghistory.raifer.tech/. I wrote an OSM diary to dis

[OSM-talk] Map features page on wiki

2016-08-31 Thread Matthijs Melissen
Hi, We have currently a Map Features page on the wiki: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features The page also contains definitions for all features. We therefore store the definitions now in two places: in the map features tables and in the infoboxes on the pages themselves. Duplication o

Re: [OSM-talk] Map features page on wiki

2016-08-31 Thread Jochen Topf
On Do, Sep 01, 2016 at 12:42:10 +0200, Matthijs Melissen wrote: > We have currently a Map Features page on the wiki: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features > > The page also contains definitions for all features. We therefore > store the definitions now in two places: in the map feature

Re: [OSM-talk] Map features page on wiki

2016-08-31 Thread François Lacombe
Hi Matthijs, +1 to keep Map Feature pages up to date. It would be great to sync definitions with info boxes (with some template tricks but it more looks like wiki-data than simple wikimedia templates) TagInfo already got it from wiki All the best Francois Le 1 sept. 2016 12:45 AM, "Matthijs Meli

Re: [OSM-talk] Analysis of usage of similar tags over time

2016-08-31 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
On 01/09/16 00:15, Matthijs Melissen wrote: Hi all, Recently, a new tool was created by Martin Raifer (@tyrasd) to generate graphs of the usage of tags over time. This is a great tool that gives us more insight in what drives the choice of tags by mappers. The tool can be found at http://taghist

Re: [OSM-talk] Map features page on wiki

2016-08-31 Thread Matthijs Melissen
On Thursday, 1 September 2016, Jochen Topf wrote: > On Do, Sep 01, 2016 at 12:42:10 +0200, Matthijs Melissen wrote: > > We have currently a Map Features page on the wiki: > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features > > > > The page also contains definitions for all features. We therefore