Re: [OSM-talk] Call for verification (Was: Re: VANDALISM !)

2020-08-22 Thread Jo
On Sat, Aug 22, 2020, 11:30 pangoSE wrote: > Hi 😀 > > Mateusz Konieczny skrev: (22 augusti 2020 > 10:51:49 CEST) > >(1) Wikipedia may strongly encourage or mandate it in theory, but there > >are > >still edits being made without any citations > > Yeah I know, but the point is its really hard to

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal for Software Dispute Resolution Panel

2020-08-05 Thread Jo
I support your nomination. You're a really good candidate for it. I would propose myself, but I don't, as I have almost zero experience with using iD. Polyglot On Thu, Aug 6, 2020, 06:47 Roland Olbricht wrote: > Hello, > > first of all I'm glad to read that the board addresses the sudden > fund

Re: [OSM-talk] [Osmf-talk] Funding of iD Development and Maintenance

2020-08-02 Thread Jo
The way I read this, is that there is money that will be used toward advancing the 3 projects and funding is being sought to finance continued development of iD. So I'd say there is a difference. I take it all as good news. Of course, I would also like to see some financial support for JOSM and Ve

Re: [OSM-talk] fake mapping

2020-06-09 Thread Jo
And there is no need to be comprehensive. Map it as you you, little by little. On Tue, Jun 9, 2020, 12:15 Mateusz Konieczny via talk < talk@openstreetmap.org> wrote: > > > > Jun 9, 2020, 00:26 by talk@openstreetmap.org: > > just to be safe i went to a pre-edit location, less than 5 miles 2 hours

Re: [OSM-talk] Should we map things that do not exist?

2020-05-25 Thread Jo
Here in Belgium many of these are repurposed as cycling highway infrastructure. I wouldn't mind having highway=cycleway, railway=razed on them. Polyglot On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 1:47 PM Mateusz Konieczny via talk < talk@openstreetmap.org> wrote: > > > > May 25, 2020, 06:37 by jacknst...@sprynet.c

Re: [OSM-talk] SotM 2020 - Move to virtual conference

2020-03-26 Thread Jo
The reason I'm asking is that I couldn't request a scholarship this year and SA is too far to travel to at my own expense. Thus, I didn't propose a talk. If the conference becomes virtual that changes completely. If things change, I'll most likely (proof)-read it in WeeklyO

Re: [OSM-talk] SotM 2020 - Move to virtual conference

2020-03-26 Thread Jo
Hi Christine, That's great news, better than to have to cancel it completely anyway. If the conference is virtual, I wouldn't mind submitting a talk for it. Is this still possible? Polyglot On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 1:50 PM Christine Karch wrote: > Hi all, > > SotM 2020 will be a virtual confer

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

2020-02-29 Thread Jo
'-' might be used in the name itself, ' - ' never will be. I think readability is better with ' - ' than with ' / ', but I guess it's a matter of taste. Jo On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 1:46 PM Yves wrote: > The wiki description is clear enough: > n

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

2020-02-25 Thread Jo
On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 4:33 PM Hartmut Holzgraefe wrote: > On 25.02.20 15:36, Tomek wrote: > > Everyone uses the same learning > > costs when using Esperanto, they do not have the privileged ones. > > I'd assume that the cost argument doesn't hold, it's going to be more > easy for Europeans th

Re: [OSM-talk] HOT Summit is looking for a location

2020-01-23 Thread Jo
It's unlikely that I will be able to make it to South Africa this year, but I liked that the HOT Summit was adjacent to SotM like it was in Heidelberg in 2019 and in Brussels a few years ago. Polyglot On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 12:00 PM Christine Karch wrote: > Huhu, > > Hot Inc asked SotM Working

Re: [OSM-talk] JOSM: hover-Coordinate by easy click into clipboard?

2020-01-11 Thread Jo
Would this help? https://pythex.org/?regex=(%5Cd%2B.%5Cd%2B%2C%5Cd%2B.%5Cd%2B)&test_string=geo%3A42.2010%2C20.7331%3Fz%3D14&ignorecase=0&multiline=0&dotall=0&verbose=0 Probably still more involved than what you would like. Jo On Sat, Jan 11, 2020, 10:51 Oleksiy Muzalyev w

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

2020-01-07 Thread Jo
You forgot OpenStreetMap.fr and osm.be On Wed, Jan 8, 2020, 07:18 Michael Collinson wrote: > On 2020-01-07 18:27, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: > > 6 Jan 2020, 16:35 by dieterdre...@gmail.com: > > On 6. Jan 2020, at 07:29, Maarten Deen > wrote: > > Baltic Sea to be the "Baltic Sea" or for South Ame

Re: [OSM-talk] We got permission to continue tracing from Strava

2019-11-16 Thread Jo
That's good news indeed. It can be a usefu additional tooll to find smaller ways we don't have yet. Or to confirm that it is possible to pass somewhere. Jo On Sat, Nov 16, 2019 at 8:33 AM pangose wrote: > Good news for OSM! > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Permissions/Str

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetCam to Mapillary?

2019-09-25 Thread Jo
I can imagine they can have such a restriction for photos made with their app. (Don't know if they do, too much legalese to wade through), but photos made with an action cam are yours, so you can do whatever you want with them. I would expect that photos made with either app, should also be your in

Re: [OSM-talk] handling street names in speech

2019-07-17 Thread Jo
Mapping for the renderer means: adding factually wrong data such that it renders the way the mapper wants to see it getting rendered (on the standard rendering). That's not what adding IPA strings would do. True, there are multiple ways to pronounce certain words. Unfortunately TTS is not perfect

Re: [OSM-talk] handling street names in speech

2019-07-16 Thread Jo
If we were to make such exceptions, we would get into trouble really fast, as some streets are signed differently on one end and on the other, depending how big the street sign is, or in what period it was put there. Expanding abbreviations is the norm. I try to do it even for first and middle nam

Re: [OSM-talk] handling street names in speech

2019-07-16 Thread Jo
When using OsmAnd in the streets of Brussels, it doesn't matter what the language is set to, the French - Dutch combo is consistently pronounced wrongly. IPA would indeed solve that. Editor support would be very welcome to enter the proper characters and to listen to the result, both in JOSM and

Re: [OSM-talk] Remove validation rule asking to add highway=footway to railway/public_transport=platform

2019-05-27 Thread Jo
For a very long time I have been trying to adopt the public_transport scheme. After several years of asking it would be rendered on its own without the need for highway=bus_stop tags, I'm giving up on it and came to the conclusion that highway=bus_stop on nodes next to the highway and highway=pl

Re: [OSM-talk] Remove validation rule asking to add highway=footway to railway/public_transport=platform

2019-05-27 Thread Jo
And the disease is spreading: https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/Jnd I'm scared. This needs to be mitigated, but indeed, how? Jo On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 1:03 PM Jo wrote: > I went to check a platform tagged as > > highway=platform > > which is perfectly alright. > > iD

Re: [OSM-talk] Remove validation rule asking to add highway=footway to railway/public_transport=platform

2019-05-27 Thread Jo
call, of course and they know it. Oh well, Back to JOSM for me. Jo On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 12:57 PM Richard Fairhurst wrote: > Andrew Hain wrote: > > Have a new team of developers code from the codebase of iD. > > Write a new online editor from scratch. > > Abandon online ed

Re: [OSM-talk] Relation #2632934 is "killing" differential update

2019-02-11 Thread Jo
I split the route relation in 2. Didn't fix the erroneous use of route_master though. Polyglot On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 12:30 PM Jo wrote: > I'm looking into it, but someone completely misunderstood the use of > route_master relations and all those relations should be split in a

Re: [OSM-talk] Relation #2632934 is "killing" differential update

2019-02-11 Thread Jo
I'm looking into it, but someone completely misunderstood the use of route_master relations and all those relations should be split in at least 2, for each direction of travel / variation in itinerary. Jo On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 12:27 PM Maarten Deen wrote: > On 2019-02-11 12:14

Re: [OSM-talk] Need some help regarding GSOC

2018-09-13 Thread Jo
Hi Vasu, It's indeed great to see you're interested at this early stage. If you like we can have a hangout, where I'll demo JOSM to you. JOSM is our advanced editor and it's written in Java. We can talk about improvements that can be made to it. But first I'll show you how to use it to map. It's i

Re: [OSM-talk] Is it technically and legally possible to add the Open Location Code to the OSM search?

2018-08-13 Thread Jo
I would think that if you are in the field, apps like OsmAnd and Maps.ME can show you the OLC address of where you are. If you want to see a grid in JOSM or iD, it should be trivial to either show them as transparent imagery, or in the case of JOSM, have a plugin draw the grid and show it as an ex

Re: [OSM-talk] Is it technically and legally possible to add the Open Location Code to the OSM search?

2018-08-11 Thread Jo
Op za 11 aug. 2018 om 11:24 schreef mmd : > > With all due respect, I think we've long crossed that point: > > https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/KSJ2%3Alat > https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/ngbe%3Alat_ed50 > https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/gns%3ALAT > https://taginfo.openstreetm

Re: [OSM-talk] Lua modules are here: Improving OSM wiki templates

2018-07-29 Thread Jo
I'm afraid it's not useful on our wiki. First of because our pages are not connected to Wikidata (for obvious reasons). But if people want to have a look at Lua code, or if they want to use it on a Wikipedia to refer back to OSM objects, that's where it could be useful. Jo Op zo

Re: [OSM-talk] Lua modules are here: Improving OSM wiki templates

2018-07-29 Thread Jo
This is only tangentially related, but I created a Lua module for the wikipedias a few years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:OSM It generates an Overpass Query showing all the objects related to the Wikipedia entry via wikidata tags in the OSM data. Polyglot Op zo 29 jul. 2018 om 15:0

Re: [OSM-talk] Documentation issues of PT tagging schemes

2018-07-26 Thread Jo
For me the fact that highway=bus_stop is only allowed on nodes is a plus, not a minus. The reason why I would like us all to use nodes for representing the stops is that a route relation with a single node for each stop and then a continuous linked string of ways is conceptually about as simple a

Re: [OSM-talk] [Imports] Automated edit for bus lines in Paris area

2018-06-05 Thread Jo
A tool to help with this kind of integration is being developed as a Google Summer of Code project. It's in early stages and focused on GTFS feeds, but we can look into doing this for lists of stops with approximate coordinates as well. Polyglot Op di 5 jun. 2018 om 08:59 schreef Stefan de Konink

Re: [OSM-talk] More secondary attributes for schools

2018-05-27 Thread Jo
This may be better stored in Wikidata. And the OSM school object simply points to wikidata. Wikidata has support for such historical statistics data. Polyglot 2018-05-27 13:14 GMT+02:00 Tom Pfeifer : > On 27.05.2018 12:47, Gaurav Thapa wrote: > >> Recently, in Nepal we have been getting more an

Re: [OSM-talk] Tool to change dual carriageway to sinjle preserving route relations?

2018-05-10 Thread Jo
PT_Assistant can probably be of some help to 'sanitize' them again, or at least notify you of which relations aren't continuous anymore. Polyglot 2018-05-11 0:47 GMT+02:00 Andrew Hain : > Is there a tool that preserves bus route relations properly whlle > correcting a road currently mapped as du

Re: [OSM-talk] Local language help

2018-05-10 Thread Jo
anguage tag, without mentioning all the 'possible' ones. I guess the best we can achieve is cover the majority and then use name:language for the exceptions? Jo 2018-05-10 11:35 GMT+02:00 Marc Gemis : > Don't you think that Belgians like Jo and the rest of the Belgian > comm

Re: [OSM-talk] Local language help

2018-05-09 Thread Jo
distinguish it from a simple hyphen. We were smart enough not to use that ' - ' combination for anything else than separating 2 language forms. And there is always a name:nl and name:fr to compare with on those objects. Jo 2018-05-10 1:10 GMT+02:00 Martin Koppenhoefer : > > >

Re: [OSM-talk] Local language help

2018-05-08 Thread Jo
in most multilingual countries the regions are not so clearly defined. Jo 2018-05-09 2:37 GMT+02:00 Yuri Astrakhan : > Polyglot, thanks! I just ran the list of names for Belgium - > http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/yEj (takes a few minutes and 20MB download). > It seems that most of the

Re: [OSM-talk] Local language help

2018-05-08 Thread Jo
Since there is not 1 language for Belgium and nl;fr;de is not allowed, it won't be possible to set this tag for Belgium. I did set it on the regions/communities. Polyglot 2018-05-08 22:31 GMT+02:00 Yuri Astrakhan : > Daniel, I agree - it seems most of the low-zoom Moroccan names are in a > tripl

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM and new Wikipedia map features

2018-05-03 Thread Jo
Japanese has 3 writing systems. Jo 2018-05-04 1:10 GMT+02:00 Daniel Koć : > W dniu 04.05.2018 o 00:33, Joe Matazzoni pisze: > > Here is the list of languages Wikimedia supports. https://en. > wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:SiteMatrix > <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://en.

Re: [OSM-talk] [Diversity-talk] How do you mapping gender neutral toilets? What should the unisex tag mean?

2018-04-25 Thread Jo
y, as it goes without saying. If there is only 1 toilet, wouldn't it always be gender neutral? Are we soon going to find 4 different toilet doors in buildings, male, female, disabled and "something else"? Jo 2018-04-26 1:00 GMT+02:00 Nicolás Alvarez : > 2018-04-25 19:21 GMT-03:0

Re: [OSM-talk] Name:* tags in the local language

2018-04-25 Thread Jo
2018-04-25 8:21 GMT+02:00 Mateusz Konieczny : > > 24. Apr 2018 21:29 by rich...@systemed.net: > > If I read Frederik's proposal right, the language=en tag would be placed on > the object with the name tag > > > Interesting idea, I like it. Is there already a page on the OSM wiki > describing this

Re: [OSM-talk] Name:* tags in the local language

2018-04-24 Thread Jo
I thought we were already indicating which language name is in, with the name:language=:iso tag? Hmm, apparently not: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Language_information_for_name Polyglot 2018-04-24 21:29 GMT+02:00 Richard Fairhurst : > Paul Norman wrote: > > If there's

Re: [OSM-talk] today's tragic helicopter accident in Bavaria

2018-04-10 Thread Jo
derbies -> debris Oleksiy's attention was drawn to that airport because of the tragic fatality. He noticed the tower was not mapped, so he mapped it. Cheers, Jo 2018-04-11 8:17 GMT+02:00 Milo van der Linden : > Dear Armstrong, please be aware that Oleksiy is no native english sp

Re: [OSM-talk] Serious JOSM performance degradation

2017-11-11 Thread Jo
It has something to do with the difference between 10**3 and 2**10 2017-11-11 23:21 GMT+01:00 john whelan : > >but it is not widely acknowledged within the industry or media. > > That probably explains why in fifty years of working with computers I > hadn't come across the term. > > Cheerio John

Re: [OSM-talk] Serious JOSM performance degradation

2017-11-11 Thread Jo
When working with public transport, the PT_Assistant plugin might be interesting for you. On the other hand, it might cause additional overhead. Jo 2017-11-11 22:23 GMT+01:00 Safwat Halaby : > I don't know what these are. > > The test described below was done without plugins, by t

Re: [OSM-talk] Serious JOSM performance degradation

2017-11-11 Thread Jo
Did you start using PT_Assistant? Or a MapCSS style dedicated to PT? Polyglot 2017-11-11 22:10 GMT+01:00 john whelan : > If you give it more memory sometimes that compensates on the CPU side by > not requiring so much disk reading and writing. Also there are almost > certainly internal tables w

Re: [OSM-talk] Odd mapping in Atar Mauritania

2017-11-08 Thread Jo
What you can also do is map 1 new building properly and then use replace geometry, if history seems important enough to preserve. Polyglot 2017-11-08 18:47 GMT+01:00 Andy Townsend : > On 08/11/2017 17:40, john whelan wrote: > >> ... and to be honest how does one correct this stuff? Move the poi

Re: [OSM-talk] Sudden influx of bad HOTosm edits in West Bank

2017-10-29 Thread Jo
You can also use OSM inspector to find untagged ways: http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/?view=tagging&lon=-1.25144&lat=5.12425&zoom=13&opacity=0.63&overlays=ways_without_tags and it's of course the better option instead of adding load to Overpass API. Polyglot 201

Re: [OSM-talk] Sudden influx of bad HOTosm edits in West Bank

2017-10-29 Thread Jo
Untagged ways in a bbox: https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/sFU way({{bbox}})(if:count_tags()==0)->.w1; rel(bw.w1);way(r)->.w2; (.w1; - .w2;); (._; >;); out meta; Michael beat me to the answer for the other query. Way too many comes near as an answer. Jo 2017-10-30 2:01 GMT+01:00 jo

Re: [OSM-talk] Sudden influx of bad HOTosm edits in West Bank

2017-10-29 Thread Jo
- so maybe we should rethink this as a > community how we handle obviously bad edits. > > Bryan > > > > > On Oct 29, 2017, at 7:23 PM, Jo wrote: > > Yes, it's amazing that after all these years of reporting it, that BUG in > iD still hasn't been resolved. But

Re: [OSM-talk] Sudden influx of bad HOTosm edits in West Bank

2017-10-29 Thread Jo
Yes, it's amazing that after all these years of reporting it, that BUG in iD still hasn't been resolved. But don't dare to complain, we might offend Bryan. Polyglot 2017-10-29 23:47 GMT+01:00 Mark Wagner : > On Sun, 29 Oct 2017 22:15:18 +0200 > Safwat Halaby wrote: > > > - Adding closed ways wi

Re: [OSM-talk] New OSM Quick-Fix service

2017-10-17 Thread Jo
If there would be real problems with autofixes in JOSM, it's easy to report those as a bugs or enhancement requests. JOSM's issue tracker may be antiquated, but it does work and JOSM's developers are very responsive. If JOSM users who apply these auto fixes would worsen the data, then they would g

Re: [OSM-talk] A thought on bot edits

2017-10-06 Thread Jo
idata is actually an opendata project that stands closer to OSM than WP, or it certainly can be. Polyglot 2017-10-06 10:18 GMT+02:00 Martin Koppenhoefer : > 2017-10-06 10:10 GMT+02:00 Jo : > >> What I don't understand is the problems people seem to have with >> wikidata. If an

Re: [OSM-talk] A thought on bot edits

2017-10-06 Thread Jo
Or a bot=https://fancyurl.iou/lawyeredcontract.json to clearly define what the bot can and cannot do? Personally I think we need all the help we can get from automation, but it needs to remain 'overseen' by an actual mapper. That's why I like the todo list plugin in JOSM a lot. And why I try to

Re: [OSM-talk] Links from wiki* back into OSM

2017-09-28 Thread Jo
o stale. That's too bad. Polyglot 2017-09-28 12:53 GMT+02:00 Martin Koppenhoefer : > > > 2017-09-28 12:07 GMT+02:00 Jo : > >> My experience is that adding something we map (or refer to like the name >> of a mayor) to Wikipedia is absurdly hard to accomplish. Adding it to

Re: [OSM-talk] Links from wiki* back into OSM

2017-09-28 Thread Jo
My experience is that adding something we map (or refer to like the name of a mayor) to Wikipedia is absurdly hard to accomplish. Adding it to Wikidata is trivially easy in comparison. So the inclusion rules for Wikipedia and Wikidata are very different too. This also means that not every entry pre

Re: [OSM-talk] Overlapping brands (was "Fixing wiki* -> brand:wiki*")

2017-09-28 Thread Jo
If we would have stable ids, then this 'problem' could be resolved by adding the foreign keys to our objects to Wikidata, which is their normal way of operating. It took me a few messages to explain to the Wikidata contributors that we don't have stable ids and that the best way forward was to ad

Re: [OSM-talk] Downloading Version 3 of all bus stops in a country

2017-09-27 Thread Jo
thout mappers OSM quickly dies off. It might be complex to put such a solution in place, but it should be obvious that if data flows in 2 directions, too much simplification doesn't work. Jo 2017-09-27 10:46 GMT+02:00 Safwat Halaby : > On Wed, 2017-09-27 at 09:12 +0200, Jo wrote: > &g

Re: [OSM-talk] Downloading Version 3 of all bus stops in a country

2017-09-27 Thread Jo
2017-09-27 8:30 GMT+02:00 Safwat Halaby : > On Tue, 2017-09-26 at 11:46 +0200, Jo wrote: > > > Then load that in PostGIS and create scripts to read GTFS into > > PostGIS. > > > > Then compare the data in the DB and produce output and ideally a UI. > > > >

Re: [OSM-talk] Downloading Version 3 of all bus stops in a country

2017-09-27 Thread Jo
Deleting data on OpenStreetMap and replacing it by imported data is obviously never the acceptable approach. What I don't understand is why you don't create something that compares the latest version of all the bus stops in OSM with the latest version of the GTFS data from upstream. Why compare w

Re: [OSM-talk] Downloading Version 3 of all bus stops in a country

2017-09-26 Thread Jo
It is a bit odd that you are not interested in the latest versions of these objects, but OK. (As long as you don't plan to use them for an updated import to OSM, of course) Overpass API also makes it possible to fetch data for a given point in time. Jo 2017-09-26 13:31 GMT+02:00 Safwat H

Re: [OSM-talk] Downloading Version 3 of all bus stops in a country

2017-09-26 Thread Jo
that here: https://github.com/osmbe/public_transport Let me know if you see ways of working on that or another way to tackle the problem together. Jo 2017-09-26 9:19 GMT+02:00 SwiftFast : > I need to download all version 3 bus stops in a country which has about > 30,000 bus stops. Versi

Re: [OSM-talk] Label language on the Default stylesheet

2017-09-25 Thread Jo
Mi ankaŭ proponas ke ni uzos esperanto! :-) 2017-09-25 16:19 GMT+02:00 Andy Townsend : > On 25/09/2017 14:53, Oleksiy Muzalyev wrote: > >> >> If not Latin, then why English? Why not French? >> >> Well _obviously_ the answer is Esperanto. There are a few Esperanto > enthusiasts adding names to OS

Re: [OSM-talk] Label language on the Default stylesheet

2017-09-25 Thread Jo
Vector based rendering is just around the corner, I keep hearing. 2017-09-25 12:39 GMT+02:00 James : > That's why you could have text rendered via JavaScript and not in the JPG > itself > > On Sep 25, 2017 6:37 AM, "Jo" wrote: > >> 1000 - 7000 extra layer

Re: [OSM-talk] Label language on the Default stylesheet

2017-09-25 Thread Jo
1000 - 7000 extra layers? That's give or take the number of languages in existence... depending on who you ask, but even adding 500 extra layers is not a practical endeavour. 2017-09-25 12:15 GMT+02:00 James : > I think Latin as default is disrespectful to areas like Japan which might > not be ab

Re: [OSM-talk] Label language on the Default stylesheet

2017-09-24 Thread Jo
s for their own purposes/user base, they should render them to their liking and make them available. Jo 2017-09-25 7:56 GMT+02:00 Edoardo Yossef Marascalchi < e.marascal...@gmail.com>: > my 2 cents: > having a 2 layers map, one with local languages rendered, the second with > engli

Re: [OSM-talk] WhatOSM, a guide for contribution tools

2017-09-22 Thread Jo
anyway. Making automated picture sequences doesn't really get in the way of what I'm actuallly doing, cycling, or walking. When couch mapping they are often really handy to have and work with, so I definitely helps us. Aerial imagery is great, but even at high resolution it's not

Re: [OSM-talk] JOSM now supports OSM+Wikidata service

2017-09-18 Thread Jo
That is wonderful news! It will take a while before I get used to that query language though. Does it also work if an object has a semicolon separated list of wikidata items in for example subject:wikidata? A statue with more than one person in it, for example? Polyglot 2017-09-18 7:28 GMT+02:00

Re: [OSM-talk] Name challenge - what to call the new OSM+Wikidata service?

2017-09-17 Thread Jo
SparklyMapData or SparklyDataMap 2017-09-17 23:46 GMT+02:00 Yuri Astrakhan : > One thing we should consider is the domain name. I doubt we can afford > woq.com :) > > These names were proposed > woq 2 > wdoqs > woqs > q936 > > And these proposed names have OSM in them, so likely are not good >

Re: [OSM-talk] Editing problem?

2017-06-18 Thread Jo
I guess in rural Africa those are where the zebras cross... :-) 2017-06-18 18:08 GMT+02:00 john whelan : > When you mix new users with iD and OSM all sorts of strange things > happen. For example there seems to be a large number of Zebra pedestrian > crossings in rural Africa so unfortunately I

Re: [OSM-talk] Revisiting traffic control and traffic calming

2017-05-07 Thread Jo
2017-05-07 9:30 GMT+02:00 Paul Johnson : > On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 2:25 AM, Jo wrote: > >> What about a type=traffic_sign relation? >> >> Where traffic_sign could be stop, give_way, parking >> > > I was thinking the typical highway=* tags for highway=stop, &

Re: [OSM-talk] Revisiting traffic control and traffic calming

2017-05-07 Thread Jo
What about a type=traffic_sign relation? Where traffic_sign could be stop, give_way, parking. We can put a traffic_sign tag on nodes, where they get the country_code:specific_national_code like BE:C1. Several traffic signs can have an effect on several ways and nodes of the road network, so we co

Re: [OSM-talk] Coordinates in OSM. Really annoying

2017-04-22 Thread Jo
On the left side, go figure! Or is that the right side? 2017-04-22 20:21 GMT+02:00 Martin Koppenhoefer : > > > sent from a phone > > > On 22. Apr 2017, at 14:57, Oleksiy Muzalyev > wrote: > > > > But such a situation is the same everywhere. > > > +1, there are even countries driving on the other

Re: [OSM-talk] JOSM help needed - settings lost

2017-04-10 Thread Jo
Hi Andy, Your JOSM settings are stored here: C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\Roaming\JOSM\preferences.xml Did you logon as another user? Polyglot 2017-04-10 14:45 GMT+02:00 Andy Mabbett : > I'm using JOSM 11639, under Windows 10, and all my settings seem to be > missing - for example aerial ima

Re: [OSM-talk] [HOT] A tool for picking up settlements tagged as a single building?

2017-03-25 Thread Jo
gt; > Thanks John > > On 25 March 2017 at 20:05, Jo wrote: > >> Hi John, >> >> When I first saw your message, I looked into Overpass API, but no luck. >> In JOSM areasize would definitely work. You'll have to find a sweetspot >> around 100- >

Re: [OSM-talk] [HOT] A tool for picking up settlements tagged as a single building?

2017-03-25 Thread Jo
Hi John, When I first saw your message, I looked into Overpass API, but no luck. In JOSM areasize would definitely work. You'll have to find a sweetspot around 100- so building areasize:100- or possibly 500 or 1000. Polyglot 2017-03-25 19:34 GMT+01:00 john whelan : > Probably what I'm after

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Fwd: Re: Beware Pokemon users

2016-12-28 Thread Jo
As long as we eat our own dog food, we should be able to locate these problems, albeit not in a timely enough fashion. If those new users get it wrong, help them like you would any other new user. Keeping in mind they have: decent smartphones with GPS, heaps of time to spend either on PoGo or poss

Re: [OSM-talk] Should we send automated "nag" emails?

2016-10-09 Thread Jo
We've been nagging iD developers for months, if not years, about this now. I thought it was resolved a few months back, but apparently not. Why is it necessary to make it so complicated to draw a building that doesn't get uploaded as area=yes in iD? Why not simply default to building=yes or warn a

[OSM-talk] free ebook, R for geospatial analysis

2016-10-01 Thread Jo
Hi, Packt Publishing gives away a free ebook https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/free-learning Jo ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] SOTM Brussels public transport info

2016-09-22 Thread Jo
k nearest bicycle stations. > > Cheers, > > Rafael. > > [1] http://en.villo.be/ > > [2] http://en.villo.be/Rates/Rates/Consult-the-rates > > [3] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jcdecaux.a > llbikesnow&hl=nl > > > On 22/09/16 07:59, Ste

Re: [OSM-talk] SOTM Brussels public transport info

2016-09-21 Thread Jo
The reason for the Diabolo tax (when you take the train), is that extra rails and tunnels were built to make the airport connection a lot smoother. http://www.belgianrail.be/jp/sncb-nmbs-routeplanner/query.exe/en?S=Brussels+Airport+-+Zaventem&Z=Delta&date=23/09/2016&time=05:46&start=1×el=depart&&R

Re: [OSM-talk] Can we utilise the popularity of Pokémon Go for OSM?

2016-07-14 Thread Jo
I'm not playing the game, as it would get in the way of making Mapillary pictures... If you could convince the creators of the game to include making pictures (and sending them out when back on wifi) to gain extra points of spots where we need such pictures, then yes. Without their cooperation, you

Re: [OSM-talk] Revert UI

2016-06-30 Thread Jo
Great work, Ilya! A big thank you. Polyglot 2016-06-30 22:46 GMT+02:00 Ilya Zverev : > Hi everyone, > > I've made a web interface to my revert scripts: http://revert.osmz.ru > > It is as easy to use as the simple-revert.py, but you don't have to use > the command-line interface. Simply paste som

Re: [OSM-talk] Upload slowness - what's going on?

2016-05-13 Thread Jo
Hi Grant, Thank you for the technical explanation and especially for all the efforts improving the infrastructure! It's unfortunate uploads are so much slower now, but if the whole setup is more reliable/redundant, that's a small price to pay. Polyglot 2016-05-13 14:59 GMT+02:00 Grant Slater :

Re: [OSM-talk] A student interested in OSM and GSoC2016

2016-03-13 Thread Jo
Hi, The JOSM Plugin to assist with adding public transport routes seems like a very popular project. I've already talked to 7 people about it. We can have a hangout, so I can explain to you what it's all about, but you'll have a lot of competition. The project in itself isn't very hard for somebo

Re: [OSM-talk] who do we trust for photos?

2016-02-14 Thread Jo
The main problem with Commons (at least for the pictures I took while mapping) is that there is no guarantee your pictures will be kept. For the good ones, there is no problem. For the 1000th picture of a bus stop and its surroundings, they will be nominated and removed. Personally I would go with

Re: [OSM-talk] who do we trust for photos?

2016-02-13 Thread Jo
Commons on Wikipedia/Wikimedia? Mapillary? Upload them to 4 different services, to be sure? Spread the risk. Polyglot 2016-02-13 22:41 GMT+01:00 Michael Reichert : > Hi Russ, > > Am 13.02.2016 um 22:24 schrieb Russ Nelson: > > Here's a possibly silly, possibly serious question: who do we trust t

Re: [OSM-talk] Need some help

2016-02-11 Thread Jo Walsh
> > And isn't this the project that caused a lot of problems because the > users started adding all kind of services/shops/companies without a > physical presence to the OSM data ? [2] > > [1] http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=20859 (April 14, > 2013) > [2]https://lists.openstreet

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixing Starbucks Wikipedia Tags (Was Nominatim Weakness)

2016-01-21 Thread Jo
ady mapped ones. Jo 2016-01-21 18:27 GMT+01:00 JB : > Just saying that I'm impressed how much people can write about that > specific private company. Are there some lobbyists hidden somewhere out > there? Will next month be the same with McDonald's or Burger King? > > L

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixing Starbucks Wikipedia Tags (Was Nominatim Weakness)

2016-01-20 Thread Jo
I totally agree, so this morning I worked on the Starbucks the Starbucks that existed previously in Belgium. http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/36694768 I also added direct links to the Starbucks home page for that particular one + created a Wikidata item for the operator and pointed to that

Re: [OSM-talk] Belgium/Netherlands Boundary Change

2016-01-05 Thread Jo
We'll take care of it, when it's ratified. It still needs to be discussed by both governments before it becomes official. Polyglot 2016-01-05 12:54 GMT+01:00 Steve Doerr : > Just read this article about a territory-swap between The Netherlands and > Belgium: http://actualite24.info/post/316916 >

Re: [OSM-talk] Best way to amalgamate two relations?

2016-01-01 Thread Jo
Hi Dave, You're right, you have to tag that one as deleted. Or search for it with JOSM and delete it there. You don't have to do it in one session. While editing with a text editor, it's probably best not to have the layer present in JOSM. Jo 2016-01-01 19:56 GMT+01:00 Dave F.

Re: [OSM-talk] Best way to amalgamate two relations?

2015-12-23 Thread Jo
In XML (the raw .osm format) you can also solve this. Use JOSM to download both relations, save them as an .OSM file. Open the file with a text editor and do some copy/pasting so only 1 relations is left with the original id. Open the file in JOSM and upload. Use the comment to indicate what you

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: GIS Day in Lomé and Haiti in the middle of two OSM and GIS capacity building missions

2015-11-18 Thread Jo Walsh
Remember that GIS Day is an ESRI trademark. Some of us prefer to celebrate PostGIS Day, which falls the following day. OSGeo4ever, zx On November 18, 2015 11:56:54 PM GMT, nicolas chavent wrote: >Hi all, > > >Apologies for cross-postings, I am resending from crisis mappers and >hot >this no

Re: [OSM-talk] Why newbies' comment/message response rate is so low?

2015-11-16 Thread Jo
Indeed, without a feedback loop it's rather moot, an exercise in futility to edit in the sandbox. Jo 2015-11-17 0:20 GMT+01:00 Nicolás Alvarez : > 2015-11-15 2:06 GMT-03:00 Daniel Koć : > > > > W dniu 14.11.2015 19:44, tony wroblewski napisał(a): > > > >>

Re: [OSM-talk] Odd edits by rowers2 in Cameroon

2015-11-12 Thread Jo
That's also the impression I got when looking at his edits in a superficial way. Maybe I should ask him what I did wrong here: http://demo.f4map.com/#lat=47.0788995&lon=8.4305183&zoom=21 My first attempt at 3D Jo 2015-11-12 12:27 GMT+01:00 marekskleciak : > Rowers2 is doing a

Re: [OSM-talk] Odd edits by rowers2 in Cameroon

2015-11-11 Thread Jo
He has indeed done some good work as well. I removed the 10-15% that wasn't. Jo 2015-11-12 0:19 GMT+01:00 john whelan : > Looking more closely he's dropped in some 24,000 objects in this bit of > Cameroon most are useful and legit. > > I've dropped him a message and h

Re: [OSM-talk] Odd edits by rowers2 in Cameroon

2015-11-11 Thread Jo
The buildings are not in Cameroon though. I wrote him a changeset comment: https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/34368108#map=3/31.80/21.27 Polyglot 2015-11-11 23:49 GMT+01:00 Michał Brzozowski : > I seem to know why he's doing this and at users:Poland forum he was > instructed not to do this

Re: [OSM-talk] Unrepentant Vandal

2015-11-07 Thread Jo
Hi Andrew, I used Potlatch 1 to retrieve your work. (edit with Potlatch, then remove the 2 from the url) Then advanced/undelete select the way and unlock. Don't forget to save. It would indeed be better to map the road as a dual carriageway as well. Polyglot 2015-11-07 11:36 GMT+01:00 Andrew Er

Re: [OSM-talk] Bus Routes

2015-10-08 Thread Jo
2015-10-08 17:37 GMT+02:00 Clifford Snow : > Looks like I need to find a different route, something easier. What I > picked looked easy, only 4 stops, but over 100km long. > > My plan is to do as suggested, a relationship for each direction. When > done, I'll look at a master relation for all. > >

Re: [OSM-talk] Bus Routes

2015-10-08 Thread Jo
> Where is this master-master documented? I think some may shoot it >> down, calling it a category. I use the operator and network tags to >> group 'concessions', although here in Belgium they correspond to the >> provinces. >> > > It is not documented. > In the Netherlands we have at present 35 co

Re: [OSM-talk] Bus Routes

2015-10-08 Thread Jo
2015-10-08 9:39 GMT+02:00 Martin Koppenhoefer : > > 2015-10-08 4:12 GMT+02:00 Clifford Snow : > >> If the bus travels over the same way going two different directions, is >> the way added twice to the relationship, which means ignoring the JOSM >> warning message? Or is the way only entered once w

Re: [OSM-talk] Bus Routes

2015-10-07 Thread Jo
Hi, I wrote something about it here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Polyglot/diary/28401 It's written as a reaction to how the stops are mapped in Germany. The way I see it, the nodes next to the ways are the more important ones, so they are the ones that get added to the route relations and

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