Re: [OSM-talk] [Osmf-talk] A Better Map

2014-10-23 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
I usually map house numbers on Sunday morning when there is less traffic. I use bicycle and a specialized application for smartphone for collecting address (with a smartphone stylus). It is better to map addressable first, say, 30 large buildings where 1000 people live or work, than 60 small

Re: [OSM-talk] The world’s best addressable map

2014-10-23 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Super-Relation Regards on behalf of the Icelandic Local Chapter applicant, Jói Þann 22.10.2014 18:28, skrifaði Clifford Snow: On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 5:04 AM, Oleksiy Muzalyev oleksiy.muzal...@bluewin.ch mailto:oleksiy.muzal...@bluewin.ch wrote

Re: [OSM-talk] GoPro video traces?

2014-10-23 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
It is possible to upload photos to the Crowdsourced Street Level Photos http://www.mapillary.com/ from its smartphone application or manually. The photos just must have the following EXIF tags: [GPSLongitude] [GPSLatitude] [DateTimeOriginal,DateTimeDigitized,DateTime,GPSDateStamp] [Orientation]

Re: [OSM-talk] GoPro video traces?

2014-10-23 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
I mapped house numbers in this area http://osm.org/go/0CFtB2b71-- As you can see there are service roads with private access. I never had any problem to cycle on these roads, note the numbers and put down numbers into a smartphone application. But I would not want to film with a video-camera

Re: [OSM-talk] The world’s best addressable map

2014-10-23 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
This is selfevident. Without more or less complete addresses the map cannot be used in, say, an ambulance application, or in a delivery service application, etc. It is unusable. But if there is a /critical mass/ of addresses for a town or a city, then the rest could be completed by the same

Re: [OSM-talk] Addresses are a tiny fraction of what we do

2014-10-24 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
In the city of Karviná, in your example, these two industrial buildings are much larger in reality than imported: http://osm.org/go/0LZc_9WgW?m= http://osm.org/go/0LZc_2625?m= But they can be corrected in JOSM easily. And it is not a big deal. An excellent stadium and a soccer pitch are not

Re: [OSM-talk] The world’s best [Cycling] map

2014-10-24 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
Hi Dave, The Danube Cycle Path (Donauradweg) is arguably one of the best in the world. Here is a camping site for cyclists near Linz: http://osm.org/go/0JhPQJjmt--?m= . As you can see the camping site is mapped with an address and a name. There are such camping sites every 40 - 50 kilometers.

Re: [OSM-talk] The world’s best [Cycling] map

2014-10-24 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
Hi Pierre, There are probably many such cycle paths. I cycled myself at North Sea Cycle Route [1], from Hamburg to Copenhagen, Chesapeake Ohio (Great Allegheny Passage) [2] from Washington D.C. to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Danube Cycle Path. The map is always a critical item, as a speed of

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: OSM country interviews

2014-10-26 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
I was impressed by the story from Nicaragua, by the map of the city of Managua [1]. Many streets of this city do not have names, bus stops and routes are often unofficial. In the past people could not leave home in the evening because it was too difficult to find the way back. It is very large

Re: [OSM-talk] discussion: inclusion and alcohol

2014-11-02 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
There's a variety of ways to meet and talk. At this event about three thousand people meet every Sunday. As you can see they eat, drink and talk together [1] all right. There is also child-care service [2], and genders are represented about equally [3], age groups too. By the way, the main event

Re: [OSM-talk] discussion: inclusion and alcohol

2014-11-04 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
WHO data [1] does not corroborate it. Both countries have comparable litres per capita per year. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_alcohol_consumption brgds Oleksiy On 04.11.2014 14:33, Kathleen Danielson wrote: ... As an aside, since I am an American I cannot say whether

Re: [OSM-talk] discussion: inclusion and alcohol

2014-11-04 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
I looked at the data of The World Health Organization (WHO), a specialized agency of the United Nations. It is the second list. brgds Oleksiy On 04.11.2014 15:23, Tom Hughes wrote: On 04/11/14 14:03, Oleksiy Muzalyev wrote: WHO data [1] does not corroborate it. Both countries have comparable

Re: [OSM-talk] discussion: inclusion and alcohol

2014-11-04 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
Here is the WHO (World Health Organization) statistics of /heavy episodic drinking among drinkers, males and females /[1] by country for 2010. It is in the form of interactive graph (Requires Flash player). [1] http://www.who.int/gho/alcohol/consumption_patterns/heavy_episodic_drinkers/en/

Re: [OSM-talk] discussion: inclusion and alcohol

2014-11-05 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
Hi Kathleen, OK. No more statistical data in this topic (just wanted to make a point that drinking is present in the traditional culture of many countries). As for the inclusion, - the industry provides nowadays a large choice of alcohol-free beer, wine, sparkling wine [1]. And even alcohol-free

Re: [OSM-talk] discussion: inclusion and alcohol

2014-11-05 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
Joseph, During millions of years of evolution eating and drinking together meant that people belonged to the same tribe. Drinking together is beneficial for a group cohesion. It is in our culture and in our genes. Certainly, if I go to a sport event people drink tea and water there. I just

Re: [OSM-talk] discussion: inclusion and alcohol

2014-11-05 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
On 05.11.2014 12:23, Serge Wroclawski wrote: Olekisy, ... for me, it's not the alcohol per se, but the whole bar/beer culture. It's not that if you provide some beverages, I'm more willing to go, it's that being in a loud, crowded place is quite literally painful, and so while I will

Re: [OSM-talk] State of the Map US 2015 in New York, NY, June 6-8

2014-11-11 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
Although it is situated in New York City, the//land occupied by the United Nations Headquarters and the spaces of buildings that it rents are under the sole administration of the United Nations. They are technically extraterritorial through a treaty agreement with the U.S. government (1).

Re: [OSM-talk] State of the Map US 2015 in New York, NY, June 6-8

2014-11-12 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
On 12.11.2014 13:22, SomeoneElse wrote: On 12/11/2014 03:13, Oleksiy Muzalyev wrote: They are technically extraterritorial through a treaty agreement with the U.S. government (1). Good luck getting there without a US visa though! Cheers, Andy

Re: [OSM-talk] Unelected OSMF advisers

2014-11-17 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
There is a good Chinese proverb, Wisdom begins with acceptance of reality. If it is the reality, it makes sense to accept it and create a transparent explicit OSM Meritocracy Technical Council (MTC), the second branch of authority, in addition to the OSMF Board. Merits could be clearly defined.

Re: [OSM-talk] Search results for disputed territories (Nominatim)

2014-11-24 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
Hi, Just wanted to let you know that you are not alone who is making an effort to understand how Nominatim database works. When I try to pull about fifty locations into an XML file with a query by the tag *int_name* either from: http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search/ or its mirror:

Re: [OSM-talk] MAPS.ME edits - partly sub-standard

2016-06-21 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
On 21.06.2016 15:18, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: 2016-06-21 14:40 GMT+02:00 Andy Mabbett >: On 20 Jun 2016 5:31 pm, "Martin Koppenhoefer" > wrote: > I have just

Re: [OSM-talk] MAPS.ME edits - partly sub-standard

2016-06-21 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
On 21.06.2016 15:36, Oleksiy Muzalyev wrote: I wrote a program http://ausleuchtung.ch/geo_wiki/ which allows to find location of all Wikipedia articles either by coordinates in the articles themselves, or by the OpenStreetMap tags (wikipedia, wikimedia_commons, wikidata) in the radius of ten

Re: [OSM-talk] 3D somehow not compatible with our map and editing concepts / capabilities?

2016-06-17 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
What surprises is that such colossal structures as Eiffel Tower [1], Emley Moor Mast [2], Ostankino Tower [3], etc. do not even have an icon on the OSM map. They look as an usual building at best. Just for comparison, - on Google map it is immediately visible that it is a tall structure

Re: [OSM-talk] MAPS.ME edits - partly sub-standard

2016-06-20 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
One of the fundamental principles of the Red Cross and Red Crescent is Impartiality: "It makes no discrimination as to nationality, race, religious beliefs, class or political opinions" [1]. I could not find anything about impartiality neither at the OpenStreetMap Foundation Core principles

Re: [OSM-talk] MAPS.ME edits - partly sub-standard

2016-06-20 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
Maps.me editor has got the principal difference from other editors, - it can be used without an active Internet connection. It means it is possible now to map in wilderness, in mountains, while traveling without worrying about roaming fees. Couple of years ago I used the Google maps on

Re: [OSM-talk] MAPS.ME edits - partly sub-standard

2016-06-21 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
Thank you for the information. Frankly I heard about Vespucci, but I was not sure what this app does. Now I will definitively give Vespucci a try. It is much better to have two or more excellent mobile maps and editors than none. Best regards, Oleksiy On 21.06.2016 8:20, Simon Poole wrote:

Re: [OSM-talk] Mobile businesses

2016-06-17 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
As requested here are my thoughts. They can find locations of bicycle parking stations in a city via query "amenity=bicycle_parking" at https://overpass-turbo.eu/. A cycle mechanic sees immediately a bicycle which needs a service. So they may place on such bicycles a leaflet with a rubber band

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

2016-05-13 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
On 13.05.2016 15:58, Tom Hughes wrote: On 13/05/16 14:43, Maarten Deen wrote: On 2016-05-13 14:59, Grant Slater wrote: Kudos for the very clear explanation. Over today (for at least the weekend) we are switching to the new frontend & backend servers in York (Bytemark). London Imperial will

[OSM-talk] What pointing device you use for mapping?

2016-07-12 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
I use Nexus Silent Mouse SM-8500B [1]. This mouse does not produce a "click" sound, though there is a tactile click. This type of soundless mouse makes a difference while working in an OSM editor. I like SM-8500B. I own three of them, including a spare one. It works fine on Mac and W10.

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping Klong Toey Slums

2016-07-27 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
Power poles, wires, wind, trees are usual dangers for multirotor aircraft too. There is also an issue of a large bird attack. These risks could be mitigated via sport flying. I usually train sport flying at a stadium very early in the morning when there no people there. I have got a small

Re: [OSM-talk] New Google Maps style - interesting cartographic innovation

2016-08-12 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
On 11.08.2016 20:37, Michał Brzozowski wrote: ... The activity areas aren't merely about the usage itself, but, well, the activity - i.e. concentration of interesting places and number of people visiting them (or other similar popularity metric). I saw recently a documentary about the phenomenon

[OSM-talk] successful test of aerial photography from a folding canoe

2016-08-14 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
Cities and towns are usually located near water bodies. So the idea was to use a foldable canoe as a mobile platform to launch a quadcopter for aerial photography. I transport the canoe Ally Expedition 18 on a back seat of a car. It takes about 15 minutes to assemble this canoe. As you can

Re: [OSM-talk] successful test of aerial photography from a folding canoe

2016-08-15 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
On 15/08/16 09:32, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: sent from a phone Il giorno 14 ago 2016, alle ore 18:38, Oleksiy Muzalyev <oleksiy.muzal...@bluewin.ch> ha scritto: I made a short (two minutes) video about the test: https://youtu.be/lpRloVZ5w5U impressive clip, very nice quality an

Re: [OSM-talk] What pointing device you use for mapping?

2016-07-13 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
/16 22:10, Andreas Vilén wrote: Nothing fancy. Heavy osming has a tendency to break mice so I only use cheap stuff. Once I bought a fancy one but the precision was so bad I had to change back to the standard Ms mouse... /Andreas Skickat från min iPhone 12 juli 2016 kl. 10:18 skrev Oleksiy

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping Klong Toey Slums

2016-07-15 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
Dear Mishari, If you plan borrowing a drone for filming in an urban area, I would advise to obtain first a small trainer quad-copter and fly it extensively in an open remote area to develop some flying experience and piloting instincts. Most of crashes are caused by an avoidable pilot error,

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping Klong Toey Slums

2016-07-15 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
Dear Mishari, If you are interested in the subject of slums, you may read and view videos about the work of Prof. Alfredo Brillembourg: http://www.designboom.com/architecture/interview-alfredo-brillembourg-of-urban-think-tank-06-12-2014/ This man is part of the Urban-Think Tank (U-TT). This

Re: [OSM-talk] School project Ghana

2016-07-06 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
On 05/07/16 23:28, Alert Bouterse wrote: ... Open Street Maps Ghana is looking for educational material like (prinable / ofline) workbooks to educate children on JHS and SHS schools. ... Hello Alert Bouterse, The official language in Ghana is English [1], so here are some books in

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping Klong Toey Slums

2016-08-09 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
of path following feature. Anything else? Thank you everybody for your input so far. Best regards Mishari On Jul 28, 2016 12:29 PM, "Oleksiy Muzalyev" <oleksiy.muzal...@bluewin.ch <mailto:oleksiy.muzal...@bluewin.ch>> wrote: Power poles, wires, wind, trees are usual

Re: [OSM-talk] New Google Maps style - interesting cartographic innovation

2016-08-08 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
Using colors like this is an excellent idea, however we shall not rely on colors alone as several percent of people cannot distinguish colors due to color blindness [1]. Besides, color blindness may develop with an advanced age, so no one is color-safe. We do not hear often about color

Re: [OSM-talk] New Google Maps style - interesting cartographic innovation

2016-08-08 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
happening. If you're trying to find a nice restaurant, night club, pub or something like that, zoom in to the yellow area. Janko pon, 8. kol 2016. u 12:39 Oleksiy Muzalyev <oleksiy.muzal...@bluewin.ch <mailto:oleksiy.muzal...@bluewin.ch>> napisao je: Using colors like this

Re: [OSM-talk] MAPS.ME edits - partly sub-standard

2016-06-19 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
Perhaps, there should be only a login with the OSM user name and password until the editing interface of Maps.me Editor is improved further? So that only people who have an access to JOSM, ID, and other desktop editors and have some prior OSM experience can add objects? I just added a

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM for government

2017-02-03 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
Hi, The website of the Stockholm Public Transport company website: http://sl.se/en/ is based on the OSM. I do not know if they contribute, but the website is really effective. I used it daily recently while in Stockholm, both on a computer and a smartphone. The Stockholm Public Transport

Re: [OSM-talk] State of the Map US 2017 Announced!

2017-02-01 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
Hi Ian, Thank you for the information. I would like just to add that Boulder is located at the base of the foothills of the Rocky Mountains at an elevation of 5,430 feet (1,655 m). It seems there are a lot of mountain trails there, - one can see it by GPS traces:

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixing wikipedia/wikidata tags

2017-02-07 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
Good morning Yuri, On Saturday I added the Wikidata tag to the monument [1] of Mikhail Bakunin [2] in Bern. In fact, I had added also the monument itself on the map. I searched for it for quite some time at Bremgartenfriedhof, as there was a typing error in the English Wikipedia article

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM for government

2017-02-05 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
In this video in English about the Russian Trans-Siberian Railway: https://youtu.be/jRyJiL41Umg?t=3m34s at 3 minutes 34 seconds a Navigation and Security application of a Passenger Train is shown which seems to be based on the OSM. The film was produced in 2014, so the town of Khabarovsk (rus.

Re: [OSM-talk] RU Wikipedia now uses OSM by Wikidata ID

2017-01-22 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
Dear Yuri, Could you, please, provide an example with the location outline? I tried Salzburg, New York, Odessa, Moscow, etc. in the Russian Wikipedia, but I got always just a marker on the map, but not an outline, i.e. a line indicating the outer contours or boundaries of an object or

Re: [OSM-talk] RU Wikipedia now uses OSM by Wikidata ID

2017-01-23 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
Firefox 53) On 2017년 01월 23일 07:31, Oleksiy Muzalyev wrote: Dear Yuri, Could you, please, provide an example with the location outline? I tried Salzburg, New York, Odessa, Moscow, etc. in the Russian Wikipedia, but I got always just a marker on the map, but not an outline, i.e. a line indicating

Re: [OSM-talk] RU Wikipedia now uses OSM by Wikidata ID

2017-01-23 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
ipedia app (possibly iPhone too), but not in mobile or desktop. This functionality has been discussed, but hasn't been implemented yet. On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 5:52 AM Oleksiy Muzalyev <oleksiy.muzal...@bluewin.ch <mailto:oleksiy.muzal...@bluewin.ch>> wrote: Yes. It works my en

[OSM-talk] adding Wikimedia videos to OpenStreetMap objects

2017-01-30 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
Dear fellow mappers, It is possible now to upload to the Wikimedia Commons the videos which illustrate Wikipedia articles. On Saturday I went to the highest summit of the Swiss portion of the Jura mountains, Mont Tendre , and filmed a short, 4

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixing broken multipolygons

2017-02-17 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
On 15.02.17 23:51, Sarah Hoffmann wrote: ... we are currently discussing about changing the algorithm that assembles the polygons[1]. The new algorithms will be a lot faster but that comes at the price that it is less tolerant with invalid geometries. A lot of bad geometries that are currently

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixing broken multipolygons

2017-02-18 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
On 18.02.17 08:43, Jochen Topf wrote: On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 07:50:07AM +0100, Oleksiy Muzalyev wrote: On 15.02.17 23:51, Sarah Hoffmann wrote: ... we are currently discussing about changing the algorithm that assembles the polygons[1]. The new algorithms will be a lot faster but that comes

Re: [OSM-talk] Spam reporting

2017-02-24 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
Here is a new spam entry, from February 23, 2017: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/velpatasvir/diary It is an entry in Russian language but written via Google translator. It advertising some medicament produced in India. I do not see how I can remove or report it. Best regards, Oleksiy

Re: [OSM-talk] SOTM EU

2017-01-19 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
On 19.01.17 10:58, Christoph Hormann wrote: ...better to see it just as SOTM Europe,... And why not Eurasia? In fact the continent, the continental landmass, is Eurasia, - 90 countries, population 5 billion. ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenDroneMap and Portable OSM (POSM)

2016-09-03 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
On 02/09/16 22:06, Dan Joseph wrote: Hi All, The American Red Cross GIS Team is constantly looking for new ways to improve our workflows and learn from the OpenStreetMap and FOSS4G communities. The vast majority of the GIS analysis and map making we do is done using FOSS4G tools and we

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!

2016-09-05 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
I typed "slums" in Google and looked at resulting numerous images of slums. I tried to imagine where to place street signs or block number plaques. Often the walls of shacks are made from a mixture of worn-out fabric, cardboard, corrugated iron. Even if street signs are placed on poles, I am

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

2016-09-01 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

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

2016-09-01 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
On 01.09.2016 12:43, Mike N wrote: On 9/1/2016 6:04 AM, Éric Gillet wrote: You can see on taginfo that there are indeed around 104k ATM on OSM : http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/amenity=atm Also 222000+ combined with amenity=bank as atm=yes , (a small % of those are atm=no) Thank

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Awards - The Voting Has Started

2016-09-07 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
On 07.09.2016 9:40, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: sent from a phone Il giorno 07 set 2016, alle ore 07:29, Oleksiy Muzalyev <oleksiy.muzal...@bluewin.ch> ha scritto: but i did not press Submit button again, the second time, as I was afraid that it would count my vote twice. as you

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Awards - The Voting Has Started

2016-09-07 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
On 07.09.2016 10:02, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: sent from a phone Il giorno 07 set 2016, alle ore 09:46, Frederik Ramm ha scritto: Damn, NOW you tell me? Why else would you have to login via OAuth, and how could you later change your initial decision if it's not

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!

2016-08-30 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
in rural areas. Þann 30.08.2016 13:44, Oleksiy Muzalyev reit: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/50a5pk/without_an_address_an_icelandic_tourist_drew_this/?ref=share_source=link I never saw this type of addressing on an envelope. It is interesting because the system with the street name

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!

2016-08-30 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
On 30.08.2016 17:03, Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote: ... Tell me what's not affordable about spray-painting letters on the sides of buildings? ... If it were as simple as this. An address, currently a street name and house number, is to be present in a property title, so it should be unambiguous

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!

2016-08-30 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
On 30/08/16 20:12, Stefano wrote: 2016-08-30 19:24 GMT+02:00 Colin Smale >: I am going to say this very quietly what3words IKEA furniture is more recognizable than english words http://www.what3ikea.com/ /s Cheers, Stefano

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

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.

[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!

2016-08-30 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/50a5pk/without_an_address_an_icelandic_tourist_drew_this/?ref=share_source=link I never saw this type of addressing on an envelope. It is interesting because the system with the street name signs and the house number plaques is very expensive, requires a

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:

Re: [OSM-talk] Working with lat and long simply

2016-09-12 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
On 11/09/16 10:49, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: Il giorno 11 set 2016, alle ore 05:50, Oleksiy Muzalyev <oleksiy.muzal...@bluewin.ch> ha scritto: I encountered exactly this problem when I was trying to explain a person how to find coordinates for the Upload photo page of Wikimedia

Re: [OSM-talk] Working with lat and long simply

2016-09-10 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
On 10/09/16 17:43, john whelan wrote: In many parts of the world addresses don't exist. There are multiple schemes that will create addresses using three words, etc. However lat and long exists for everywhere on the planet. Internally .osm files have the lat and long for every POI. However

Re: [OSM-talk] Working with lat and long simply

2016-09-10 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
On 10/09/16 20:23, Colin Smale wrote: On 2016-09-10 18:55, Oleksiy Muzalyev wrote: Latitude and longitude are physical values, they will never change for a house on Earth, no matter what. They do not depend on politics, economics, linguistics of the current moment. You sure about

Re: [OSM-talk] Working with lat and long simply

2016-09-10 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
On 10/09/16 20:46, john whelan wrote: I see to recall that Australia is on the move. So it would seem that we should retain as much accuracy as possible then if we're a metre out it isn't quite so important. I think any generic addressing scheme is going to suffer from parts of the world

Re: [OSM-talk] Working with lat and long simply

2016-09-10 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
On 10/09/16 23:02, john whelan wrote: So essentially we're saying it's just a matter of documentation. OSMand has the capability to display the lat and long of a poi as well and this can be cut and pasted so it looks as if we can use lat and long as an address system. Thanks John I would

Re: [OSM-talk] Filling in the gaps in the map with crowdsourcing techniques

2016-09-26 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
On 25.09.16 20:11, john whelan wrote: If we go back in time OSM started with people cycling round carrying a GPS tracker device and photographing street signs. Now we have other ways of collecting data and to be honest often it's a matter of ensuring what we have in the map is up to date.

Re: [OSM-talk] Multilingual feedback wanted for OpenStreetMap Carto

2016-09-19 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
On 19.09.2016 12:13, Paul Norman wrote: On 9/19/2016 2:32 AM, Oleksiy Muzalyev wrote: The hyphens are not disappearing from the Ukrainian geographical names. The names are just always spit in two lines at a hyphen for some towns. Exactly as for Wotton-under-Edge <https://en.wikipedia.

Re: [OSM-talk] Multilingual feedback wanted for OpenStreetMap Carto

2016-09-19 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
On 18/09/16 04:32, Paul Norman wrote: I'm looking for feedback from people who read non-latin languages on a proposed OpenStreetMap Carto font change. We are considering moving to Noto fonts and could use feedback from people who can read languages which have non-latin scripts, particularly

Re: [OSM-talk] Multilingual feedback wanted for OpenStreetMap Carto

2016-09-19 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
s in place names should always be treated as non-breaking. Best wishes, Andrew On 19 September 2016 at 16:52, Oleksiy Muzalyev <oleksiy.muzal...@bluewin.ch <mailto:oleksiy.muzal...@bluewin.ch>> wrote: On 18/09/16 04:32, Paul Norman wrote: I'm looking for feedback from peo

Re: [OSM-talk] Multilingual feedback wanted for OpenStreetMap Carto

2016-09-19 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
On 19/09/16 11:06, Tom Hughes wrote: On 19/09/16 08:52, Oleksiy Muzalyev wrote: I noticed a slight bug for the Ukrainian alphabet. A hyphen "-" can be an integral part of a town name, as opposite to indication of the division of a word at the end of a line. Well that's true in the

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Awards - The Voting Has Started

2016-09-06 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
The same here. After clicking Submit the page seemed to reload, but there was no confirmation message, something like: "Your vote was submitted successfully. Thank you." I voted with the latest Firefox 48.0.1 on Mac. And after reloading of the page the choices (radio buttons) remained

Re: [OSM-talk] Strange location reading

2016-09-28 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
On 27.09.16 21:51, John Eldredge wrote: This past weekend, I made a long road trip. At one point, while in a highway rest stop, I checked Google Maps to see how far I had come. To my surprise, it showed me at a different rest stop, about 200 miles from my actual location. I suspect that my

Re: [OSM-talk] Mozambique's living streets

2016-12-11 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
On 11.12.16 01:15, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote: On 12/10/2016 08:47 PM, john whelan wrote: I just did a search on part of Mozambique and came across more than 500 highway=living_street. I always understood them to be a European concept highway with signs on the street and a very low max speed.

[OSM-talk] RPAS school

2016-12-01 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
Dear Fellow Mappers, I would like to share information about one of the first RPAS (Remotely Piloted Aircraft System) schools in Europe, Fly & Film SA . The school is situated in the town of Sierre in the canton of Valais.

Re: [OSM-talk] Public GPS Traces

2017-01-06 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
I wish it were written in the Map Key. Something like this: The color of the GPS tracks : eastbound movement - red, westbound - cyan, northbound - yellow, southbound - violet. It is a very interesting feature, I mean the new GPS tracks layer, especially for hiking in the wilderness. One can

Re: [OSM-talk] Data Quality

2017-01-03 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
On 31.12.16 00:30, john whelan wrote: There has been some recent traffic about new users and the occasional problems they cause. The recent traffic was about Pokemon. In HOT in theory new users work is validated. In practise its only when a tile is completed and even then most tiles aren't

Re: [OSM-talk] Wikipedia/Wikidata admins cleanup

2017-01-04 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
.io/wikidata-osm code: https://github.com/osmlab/wikidata-osm ( first commit: Nov 25, 2016 ) issues: https://github.com/osmlab/wikidata-osm/issues 2017-01-04 11:21 GMT+01:00 Oleksiy Muzalyev <oleksiy.muzal...@bluewin.ch <mailto:oleksiy.muzal...@bluewin.ch>>: Certainly

Re: [OSM-talk] Wikipedia/Wikidata admins cleanup

2017-01-07 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
Canada is the second largest country in the world by area. I understand only too well how inaccessible and unexplored a land with a harsh cold climate could be as I was born and grew up in a remote part of Siberia. However, the situation changes nowadays. There is now a lot of innovation in

Re: [OSM-talk] Public GPS Traces

2017-01-07 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
On 07.01.17 10:42, Paul Johnson wrote: On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 2:25 PM, Oleksiy Muzalyev <oleksiy.muzal...@bluewin.ch <mailto:oleksiy.muzal...@bluewin.ch>> wrote: I wish it were written in the Map Key. Something like this: The color of the GPS tracks : eastbound mo

Re: [OSM-talk] Beware Pokemon users

2017-01-01 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
It is a good news that new users got involved. But they should be made aware that the OSM is a part of an infrastructure of the whole communities. For example, the Public Transport of the city of Stockholm, Sweden, is based on the OSM map: http://sl.se/en/ . Delivery services, supplying people

Re: [OSM-talk] Wikipedia/Wikidata admins cleanup

2017-01-04 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
On 04.01.2017 19:52, Christoph Hormann wrote: It is not the check that needs to be manual, it is the edit. In other words: finding errors can often be automatized to a high degree with good reliability - just look at the OSM Inspector coastline and area views which are very useful for the

Re: [OSM-talk] Wikipedia/Wikidata admins cleanup

2017-01-04 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
On 04.01.2017 18:05, Christoph Hormann wrote: Well - in OSM use of and reliance on this expensive resource is the core of the whole project and we use automated edits only when they are deemed desirable by the expensive humans on a per case basis. I agree with this idea completely. At the same

Re: [OSM-talk] Wikipedia/Wikidata admins cleanup

2017-01-04 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
Certainly a tool to check and correct obviously broken or duplicate wikipedia=*, wikimedia_commons=*, wikidata=* links from the OSM map would be very useful. However, I've met inconsistencies which could be noticed only by a knowledgeable human on the ground. For example, this coordinates

Re: [OSM-talk] Wikipedia/Wikidata admins cleanup

2017-01-04 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
On 04.01.2017 20:04, Yves wrote: This all conversation confort my (un-educated, I confess) idea of the uselessness of cross referencing the Wikipedia ecosystem with OSM with OSM tags. Automated addition of wikidata id to OSM objects seems worthy, so why not doing it on the fly instead of

Re: [OSM-talk] Building Detection using Machine Learning

2016-12-24 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
It reminds me how in 60s and 70s it was widely believed that the computers will be doing text translation instead of human translators. We realize now, fifty years later, that is actually a hard problem. And it is still impossible to translate a novel or a poem by a computer program alone. I

Re: [OSM-talk] Building Detection using Machine Learning

2016-12-25 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
On 25.12.16 00:58, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: sent from a phone On 24 Dec 2016, at 19:57, Oleksiy Muzalyev <oleksiy.muzal...@bluewin.ch> wrote: example, I would like to be able to hide in the JOSM existing already power-lines, roads, paths, etc. in order to map farlmland, woods, gra

Re: [OSM-talk] Responding to vandalism

2017-03-19 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
On 17.03.17 20:22, Jakob Mühldorfer wrote: Google tried to have restrictions on new editors The map got vandalised anyways and they shut down public editing So basically what others said, not in favour of any kind of restrictions. I also think it is impossible to stop vandalism by a single

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

2017-04-22 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
On 21.04.17 17:28, Dave F wrote: Hi This is one of my OSM bugbears: http://osm.duschmarke.de/bbox.html Is there /really/ any need for *six* coordinate formats? It's hard enough to learn a new process without basics like this tripping you up. Is there any reason why the developers of these

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging and rendering of television masts

2017-04-22 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
On 22.04.17 00:56, Andy Mabbett wrote: the Sutton Coldfield (England) TV mast: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutton_Coldfield_transmitting_station at: http://www.opensntreetmap.org/?mlat=37.08321=-8.13643#map=17/37.0832/-8.1364 is a significant landmark, visible for several miles,

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging and rendering of television masts

2017-04-22 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
On 22.04.17 21:17, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: sent from a phone On 22. Apr 2017, at 08:33, Oleksiy Muzalyev <oleksiy.muzal...@bluewin.ch> wrote: In my opinion, it is a significant issue, in fact a disaster waiting to happen. There will be soon air-born taxi in Dubai, Singapor

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging and rendering of television masts

2017-04-23 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
Pilots do not use the osm base map... /Andreas Skickat från min iPhone 23 apr. 2017 kl. 07:50 skrev Oleksiy Muzalyev <oleksiy.muzal...@bluewin.ch <mailto:oleksiy.muzal...@bluewin.ch>>: On 22.04.17 21:17, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: sent from a phone On 22. Apr 2017, at 0

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging and rendering of television masts

2017-04-23 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
attract an attention to this phenomenon. Best regards, Oleksiy On 23.04.17 11:41, Andy Townsend wrote: On 22/04/2017 07:33, Oleksiy Muzalyev wrote: It is possible to map it as: "man_made=mast", "height=190", etc., then it will be rendered. In the general case, please don't su

Re: [OSM-talk] Mystery structure on a South China Sea reef

2017-07-31 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
international dispute On Jul 31, 2017 8:37 AM, "Oleksiy Muzalyev" <oleksiy.muzal...@bluewin.ch <mailto:oleksiy.muzal...@bluewin.ch>> wrote: Hi Andy, Actually it is doable. The TAM-5, 11-pound RC plane, flew 1,888 miles from Canada to Ireland over the Atlantic ocean in 38 h

Re: [OSM-talk] Mystery structure on a South China Sea reef

2017-08-01 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
Come to think about it looks indeed as a small resort. There is no helipad, no pier to accept heavier armored boats. This case shows a limitation of satellite imagery. It is hard to tell by looking at the roofs from above what it is. But if in addition to the satellite imagery we had an

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