Re: [OSM-talk] tag with value lists Was: Proposed mechanical edit to convert alt_name tags

2014-09-08 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 02:23:40PM -0500, Andrew Buck wrote: > > Isnt the semicolon the list seperator typically used in OSM? My > > intuitive answer would have been alt_name=a;b;c;d > > > > Flo > > My understanding was that since almost nothing actually understands > the ; separator that doing

Re: [OSM-talk] tag with value lists Was: Proposed mechanical edit to convert alt_name tags

2014-09-08 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/08/2014 05:44 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: > On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 3:00 AM, Florian Lohoff wrote: > >> Isnt the semicolon the list seperator typically used in OSM? My >> intuitive answer would have been alt_name=a;b;c;d >> > > +1 > > I t

Re: [OSM-talk] tag with value lists Was: Proposed mechanical edit to convert alt_name tags

2014-09-08 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 3:00 AM, Florian Lohoff wrote: > Isnt the semicolon the list seperator typically used in OSM? My > intuitive answer would have been alt_name=a;b;c;d > +1 I think using a semicolon-delimited list is better than a potentially open-ended set of keys such as "alt_name_x", and

Re: [OSM-talk] That nice popup about the State of the Map

2014-09-08 Thread Paul Norman
On 9/8/2014 12:03 PM, Cristian Consonni wrote: (Ruby on Rails? i thought it was PHP!) With the exception of some API calls in C++, the code powering the website is all Ruby on Rails. There's also obviously user-facing Javascript. The map rendering and geocoding are not part of the website on a

Re: [OSM-talk] tag with value lists Was: Proposed mechanical edit to convert alt_name tags

2014-09-08 Thread Christoph Hormann
On Monday 08 September 2014, Andrew Buck wrote: > > My understanding was that since almost nothing actually understands > the ; separator that doing it as multiple tags is the preferred > system. That does not seem quite comprehensible to me. Note there have been placename imports using the semic

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposed mechanical edit to convert alt_name tags

2014-09-08 Thread Yves
Consolidation seems fine, if there is a better tagging scheme that arise meanwhile, it will be easier to change. Yves On 8 septembre 2014 22:12:25 UTC+02:00, Andrew Buck wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >Responses inline... > > > >On 09/08/2014 02:53 PM, Frederik Ramm w

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposed mechanical edit to convert alt_name tags

2014-09-08 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Responses inline... On 09/08/2014 02:53 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > I think using alt_name:1 was not the greatest idea at the time. > > So you have a > >> hand-picked team of people using private task manager jobs so >> that the work is do

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposed mechanical edit to convert alt_name tags

2014-09-08 Thread Frederik Ramm
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I think using alt_name:1 was not the greatest idea at the time. So you have a > hand-picked team of people using private task manager jobs so that > the work is done carefully and no one just "blindly" dumps a load > of data in without first

Re: [OSM-talk] tag with value lists Was: Proposed mechanical edit to convert alt_name tags

2014-09-08 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Isnt the semicolon the list seperator typically used in OSM? My > intuitive answer would have been alt_name=a;b;c;d > > Flo My understanding was that since almost nothing actually understands the ; separator that doing it as multiple tags is the p

Re: [OSM-talk] That nice popup about the State of the Map

2014-09-08 Thread Cristian Consonni
2014-09-08 20:54 GMT+02:00 Paul Norman : > > On 9/8/2014 11:45 AM, Cristian Consonni wrote: >> >> Both are absolutely good points, for the first one can I suggest to >> use the same system that is used on Wikimedia websites? >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Geonotice > > Code to add geonotices to

[OSM-talk] tag with value lists Was: Proposed mechanical edit to convert alt_name tags

2014-09-08 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 01:52:17PM -0500, Andrew Buck wrote: > Are there any objections, or suggestions on how to do this better? > And finally, if it is decided to carry out this action, is there > someone who would be willing to actually carry out the change > themselves with a mechanical edit ac

Re: [OSM-talk] That nice popup about the State of the Map

2014-09-08 Thread Paul Norman
On 9/8/2014 11:45 AM, Cristian Consonni wrote: Both are absolutely good points, for the first one can I suggest to use the same system that is used on Wikimedia websites? https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Geonotice Code to add geonotices to a Mediawiki wiki is unlikely to be directly applicable t

[OSM-talk] Proposed mechanical edit to convert alt_name tags

2014-09-08 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello everyone. Recently HOT has been responding to the ebola outbreak in western Africa (specifically the countries of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone). As a part of this response we have converted the GNS name files containing populated place nam

Re: [OSM-talk] That nice popup about the State of the Map

2014-09-08 Thread Cristian Consonni
2014-09-08 20:25 GMT+02:00 Paul Norman : > On 9/8/2014 11:18 AM, Cristian Consonni wrote: >> >> it has been some days that, when I visit openstreetmap.org, I am shown >> a nice box reminding me that SoTM is coming soon (see screenshot[1]), >> is there a way to use this system to promote local event

Re: [OSM-talk] That nice popup about the State of the Map

2014-09-08 Thread Paul Norman
On 9/8/2014 11:18 AM, Cristian Consonni wrote: it has been some days that, when I visit openstreetmap.org, I am shown a nice box reminding me that SoTM is coming soon (see screenshot[1]), is there a way to use this system to promote local events (say local State of the Map conferences?). There ar

[OSM-talk] That nice popup about the State of the Map

2014-09-08 Thread Cristian Consonni
Hi all, it has been some days that, when I visit openstreetmap.org, I am shown a nice box reminding me that SoTM is coming soon (see screenshot[1]), is there a way to use this system to promote local events (say local State of the Map conferences?). Thanks, Cristian (an interested party :P) [

[OSM-talk] initializing an apidb database

2014-09-08 Thread Richard Welty
i'm trying to figure out the requirements for a properly set up apidb using the rails port. i have the rails port installed (with postgresql) on an ubuntu 14.04 instance in the EC2 cloud. i have an extract (made of state boundaries taken from TIGER 2013 data using ogr2osm) which i installed in the

Re: [OSM-talk] Nexus 5 - No GPS - Fix

2014-09-08 Thread John F. Eldredge
Sounds like an electrical contact wasn't quite touching until the back was fully snapped on. I have had problems in the past with micro-USB cables, as they get increasingly loose-fitting over time. On September 7, 2014 6:39:49 PM CDT, Clifford Snow wrote: > I want to pass along a fix I found

Re: [OSM-talk] "Incorrect speed limit" anonymous notes - who is behind that?

2014-09-08 Thread Peter Wendorff
Hi Per, thanks for your reply to the thread here. My suggestion regarding GPS traces would be twofold: 1) it would be great to have more gps traces alltogether in general, so a general upload of traces would be ideal, but it requires teaching the users about the danger of it, and uploading traces

Re: [OSM-talk] "Incorrect speed limit" anonymous notes - who is behind that?

2014-09-08 Thread Norbert Wenzel
On 09/08/2014 05:05 PM, Per Rosengren wrote: > Like Andreas Vilén suspected, our default position was sometimes used when > posting a note. It is users who have not yet gotten a real GPS fix (probably > in combination with that they do not understand the reporting functionality). > In coming rel

Re: [OSM-talk] "Incorrect speed limit" anonymous notes - who is behind that?

2014-09-08 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
Not that I want to create even more problems but 35 km/h is a typical max speed in many rural towns in Iceland. These are often 4-5 street towns with a major road going through 1 of them so they see the need to severely limit the speed. It is up to each municipality to select max speed and som

Re: [OSM-talk] "Incorrect speed limit" anonymous notes - who is behind that?

2014-09-08 Thread Per Rosengren
Hi all! I work together with Erik Matsson who also have written in this thread (in August). For those of you who haven’t read his message, we work at Appello that owns the navigation application Wisepilot. It is through Wisepilot those anonymous notes have been posted. First of all, thanks for

Re: [OSM-talk] problems I cant fix

2014-09-08 Thread SomeoneElse
On 08/09/2014 15:21, Pieren wrote: On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 4:13 PM, Brad Neuhauser wrote: http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/?view=multipolygon&lon=-89.73150&lat=29.64420&zoom=10&opacity=0.91&overlays=invalid_geometry_hull,duplicate_ways,intersections,intersection_lines,ring_not_closed_hull,ring_not

Re: [OSM-talk] problems I cant fix

2014-09-08 Thread Pieren
On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 4:13 PM, Brad Neuhauser wrote: > http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/?view=multipolygon&lon=-89.73150&lat=29.64420&zoom=10&opacity=0.91&overlays=invalid_geometry_hull,duplicate_ways,intersections,intersection_lines,ring_not_closed_hull,ring_not_closed,unconnected_end_nodes,touchi

Re: [OSM-talk] problems I cant fix

2014-09-08 Thread Maarten Deen
On 2014-09-08 16:13, Brad Neuhauser wrote: Screen full of red is not what you want to see on the OSM Inspector's Multipolygon checker! :( Luckily for me that's not an area that I worked on. And yes: there are a lot of incorrect multipolygons. Usually all the nodes are there, but just connecte

Re: [OSM-talk] problems I cant fix

2014-09-08 Thread Brad Neuhauser
Screen full of red is not what you want to see on the OSM Inspector's Multipolygon checker! :( http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/?view=multipolygon&lon=-89.73150&lat=29.64420&zoom=10&opacity=0.91&overlays=invalid_geometry_hull,duplicate_ways,intersections,intersection_lines,ring_not_closed_hull,ring_