Re: [OSM-talk] MapRoulette - cryptic tasks

2020-02-26 Thread Pierre Béland via talk
Hi Martin, If we want to monitor revisions for a specific territory we take care of, I see that Maproulette Challenge offers a map where we can see I suppose individual objects/tasks for the area. Zooming in and out of the area, the numbers constantly change.  If I zoom-in, I cannot see the in

Re: [OSM-talk] MapRoulette - cryptic tasks

2020-02-26 Thread Martijn van Exel
On Wed, Feb 26, 2020, at 08:42, Andy Townsend wrote: > > On 26/02/2020 15:00, Martijn van Exel wrote: > > You can see the newest created challenges using > > https://maproulette.org/browse/challenges?sort=created, there is also > > an API call you can use. Drop me a line if you want some more gu

Re: [OSM-talk] MapRoulette - cryptic tasks

2020-02-26 Thread Andy Townsend
On 26/02/2020 15:00, Martijn van Exel wrote: You can see the newest created challenges using https://maproulette.org/browse/challenges?sort=created, there is also an API call you can use. Drop me a line if you want some more guidance. Thanks.  What does that API do? Best Regards, Andy __

Re: [OSM-talk] MapRoulette - cryptic tasks

2020-02-26 Thread Martijn van Exel
> > Is there any way to find answers other than sending a private message to > > the pseudonymous "Mapping Human" through MapRoulette? > > This would be their OSM username. There is no internal messaging system > in MapRoulette, clicking the 'message' link would actually send you to > the OSM me

Re: [OSM-talk] MapRoulette - cryptic tasks

2020-02-26 Thread Martijn van Exel
Hi, > Is there any way to find answers other than sending a private message to > the pseudonymous "Mapping Human" through MapRoulette? This would be their OSM username. There is no internal messaging system in MapRoulette, clicking the 'message' link would actually send you to the OSM message s

Re: [OSM-talk] Digital environmentalism

2020-02-26 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Kathleen Lu wrote: > I would not say this is true. Google maps has routing for walking, > cycling, and public transit, and their public transit information is > probably more complete than OSM's. It is, but on the other hand Google's walking and cycling routing is _much_ worse. Richard -- Se

Re: [OSM-talk] MapRoulette - cryptic tasks

2020-02-26 Thread Mateusz Konieczny via talk
26 Feb 2020, 12:57 by frede...@remote.org: > Is there even any quality control when people create new MapRoulette > tasks? > > AFAIK no. I opened issue on maproulette GitHub requesting taking down this task as it is not something that improves OSM. I also contacted main (sole?) editor adding thi

Re: [OSM-talk] [Tagging] nomoj de internaciaj objektoj / nazwy obiektów międzynarodowych / names of international objects

2020-02-26 Thread Yves
I think that getting rid of the name tag in those cases is the best way to avoid breaking things on the data consumers side, as clever consumers already using name:xx would not be affected, and those relying on a name tag to display local language wouldn't be mistaken. Yves Le 26 février 2020

Re: [OSM-talk] MapRoulette - cryptic tasks

2020-02-26 Thread Andy Townsend
On 26/02/2020 11:57, Frederik Ramm wrote: a user started adding "trace_zoom" and "trace_zoom:range" tags to objects in OSM, and closer inspection led to this MapRoulette task: https://maproulette.org/challenge/12836/task/42414493 In this particular example the person creating the task instruct

Re: [OSM-talk] [Tagging] nomoj de internaciaj objektoj / nazwy obiektów międzynarodowych / names of international objects

2020-02-26 Thread Joseph Eisenberg
Clarification: The Openstreetmap Carto style (which is used on the "Standard" map layer of openstreetmap.org) does not render place=ocean or place=sea or place=continent. The only features discussed which are currently getting rendered are natural=strait and natural=bay*. Currently Openstreetmap

Re: [OSM-talk] Digital environmentalism

2020-02-26 Thread Gerry McGovern
Thanks, Ciaran, and to everyone else who has responded to my query. I think the ability to reuse and build on the data is a powerful sustainability and environmental argument. From: Ciaran Sent: Wednesday 26 February 2020 06:49 To: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Digital envi

Re: [OSM-talk] [Tagging] nomoj de internaciaj objektoj / nazwy obiektów międzynarodowych / names of international objects

2020-02-26 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 26.02.20 13:13, Maarten Deen wrote: > Will it be nothing in the name tag and are we then going to complain > that the opencarto style falls back to name:en? Increasingly, I think the absence of a name tag wouldn't even be noticed. JOSM already shows the name tags in the editing user's lang

Re: [OSM-talk] [Tagging] nomoj de internaciaj objektoj / nazwy obiektów międzynarodowych / names of international objects

2020-02-26 Thread Maarten Deen
On 2020-02-26 12:34, Florimond Berthoux wrote: The problem is not the OSM "default" (there is no default) map. OSM is *not* a map ! The problem is the data put in name tag of some objects, which are not respectful with the international idea of the project. I find it a stretch to say that some

[OSM-talk] MapRoulette - cryptic tasks

2020-02-26 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, a user started adding "trace_zoom" and "trace_zoom:range" tags to objects in OSM, and closer inspection led to this MapRoulette task: https://maproulette.org/challenge/12836/task/42414493 It claims to be created by "MappingHuman" and carries these instructions: --- snip --- use your mo

Re: [OSM-talk] [Tagging] nomoj de internaciaj objektoj / nazwy obiektów międzynarodowych / names of international objects

2020-02-26 Thread Yves
Florimond is right, putting anything in the name tag that is not in the local language is wrong and one should not expect data consumers to detect it. Name:xx is the only way to go for international places. Yves Le 26 février 2020 12:34:04 GMT+01:00, Florimond Berthoux a écrit : > The problem

Re: [OSM-talk] [Tagging] nomoj de internaciaj objektoj / nazwy obiektów międzynarodowych / names of international objects

2020-02-26 Thread Florimond Berthoux
The problem is not the OSM "default" (there is no default) map. OSM is *not* a map ! The problem is the data put in name tag of some objects, which are not respectful with the international idea of the project. Le mar. 25 févr. 2020 à 22:57, Mario Frasca a écrit : > I'm afraid that the conclusi

Re: [OSM-talk] [Tagging] nomoj de internaciaj objektoj / nazwy obiektów międzynarodowych / names of international objects

2020-02-26 Thread Florimond Berthoux
Sorry I missed to send this message to the list : Hi, As a cartographer I tag the reality of the world, I’m not here to push one culture, one language, one nation, one ideology over others. As a OSM data consumer I'd like to have good data quality. To have good data quality, tags and values wik