29 Dec 2019, 21:46 by talk@openstreetmap.org:
> i am talking about in my own back yard,
>
>
Have you tried what was proposed in
"In your specific case you should engage with the mapper(s) in question via
changeset comments and try to explain the situation to them. If that doesn't
work out,
OSM is not a "fake map." OSM is a crowdsourced map, pretty good in many
places, even excellent in others. Does it have errors? Yes, as do all maps.
Do these errors diminish and does the map improve over time? For the most
part, yes, unlike many maps.
If you don't like OSM or find it doesn'
i am talking about in my own back yard,
i just hiked a mile down the street to check it out, it was not the same when i
was there in
1985, but it did not match the mapper either.
to that end, bing is 2015 or 16,
as an example the county forest preserve map took from osm, so mappers have
I'm fairly lucky in that in the last three years nothing much has changed
locally. The highways have stayed much the same. Most buildings are still
there.
If you use Bing to add things then realistically it fills in gaps in the
map. If you delete things because they are not in Bing that is a qu
A couple of general points first:
- nobody "owns" their OSM data in any larger OSM community your data
will be changed by other mappers, and sometimes they will be wrong and
sometimes you,
- good comments and source tags are your friend, indicating how the data
was sourced is key to enabling othe
it say in some wiki. to correct what you find wrong on the map,
not one “other nearby users” is a current mapper, and all edits in a 5 mile
radius are not coming from an on the ground
mappers in my area but 20 miles + away and are tracing from bing, and the
images on bing in my local area ar
If you read this
https://blog.mapbox.com/19-amazing-maps-from-2019-c2db8f2b6b9f you can see
several clients of them that are not complying. Example
https://parallel.co.uk/netherlands/#14.23/52.34361/4.85248/0/40 they
credited us as OSM and no notice of what the license is or hyperlink.
But still
true, but was mentioned here on March 2019
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2019-March/082147.html
On 29/12/2019 03:43, Kathleen Lu wrote:
Nuno I searched your attachment for the word "Snap" and it is nowhere
to be found.
On Tue, Dec 24, 2019 at 10:55 AM Nuno Caldeira
mailto:nu
The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue # 492,
is now available online in English, giving as always a summary of a lot of
things happening in the openstreetmap world:
http://www.weeklyosm.eu/en/archives/12676/
Enjoy!
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> On 29. Dec 2019, at 07:18, Phil Wyatt wrote:
>
> I think what many people are suggesting is that the attribution cant be
> behind an I icon or similar. I have noted that on wider screens the correct
> attribution is shown but as screen size gets smaller it MAY disappear (
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