Re: [OSM-talk] Candidate's views? Re: Board decision on Crimea complaint

On 12/11/2018 2:39 PM, Tom Hughes wrote: On 11/12/2018 13:22, Oleksiy Muzalyev wrote: I would like to point out that in Ukraine displaying a map without Crimea is illegal, article 110, part 1, of the Penal code. It involves from 3 to 5 years of imprisonment [1]. So the OSM map without Crimea

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMF makes a political decision where should be a technical solution?

The topic of territorial claims is very complicated, long lasting,  and painful. It involves not only such relatively remote and insignificant cases as Hans Island, Sudan, Croatia, Crimea, Pakistan, etc. cases, but also the industrial developed lands. For example, the Reconquista [1] in the

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMF makes a political decision where should be a technical solution?

It seems to be a good idea to show the disputed boundaries in a different style. For example, if a captain of a see ship visits a port in Crimea and then one in Ukraine, as far as I know, he may have legal problems and the ship could be delayed in Ukraine. A captain from say the Southeast Asia

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Carto release v4.17.0

Good morning Daniel, There is a relatively new leisure or sport activity, the so called "street workout". I mapped couple of new street workout grounds as leisrure=fitness_station, sport=exercise, which could be seen with the HD images via these links:

Re: [OSM-talk] cycle.travel's OSM bike routing now covers Scandinavia and Eastern Europe

It is a good news. Still it is only a part of Eastern Europe. Here is an article with the map of Eastern Europe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Europe I was recently in the town of Izmail, Ukraine. Thee are quite a few cycling venues there. For example this new park on the shore of

Re: [OSM-talk] Plus code grid service

Thank you for the information! I implemented the grid on my OLC (Plus) code Generator & Search web-application: http://ausleuchtung.ch/olc/ It works fine. The grid appears almost immediately. I read that it is possible to change the color of the grid, and that it is done via col=white or

Re: [OSM-talk] Plus code grid service

Please, ignore my question about grid color. I solved it myself. The grid works fine on the OSM map with Leaflet. Colors change all right. Brgds, O. On 11/19/2018 6:36 PM, Oleksiy Muzalyev wrote: Thank you for the information! I implemented the grid on my OLC (Plus) code Generator & Se

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Carto release v4.17.0

On 26.11.18 17:14, Marc Gemis wrote: My intention was rather to hear about some general trends, As far as I understand, One general trend is to be "cleaner, have less information". ... ...The one trend I really like more icons for more items, maybe even a zoom level where you can see lanes

Re: [OSM-talk] 3rd party API integration

I wrote a web-application which can display either Wikipedia articles of any language version, which have got geographical coordinates, or Wikidata items, which have got coordinates, or Wikimedia Commons categories with coordinates, or OSM objects which have got wikidata=, wikipedia=,

Re: [OSM-talk] What use is OpenStreetMap?

A detailed map is an essential tool for firefighters, ambulance, and police. And not only of the town itself but also of the countryside especially along railways and automobile roads. The city of Stockholm built an interactive public transportation map on the basis of OSM: https://sl.se/en/

Re: [OSM-talk] Congratulations everyone!

Hi Kate, Thank you for sharing! I read the article and the description of the Award for Projects of Social Benefit. Still I have a question, - is it a music plate, what you hold in your hands on the photo? If yes, what kind of music it contains? Unfortunately, the photos in the article are

Re: [OSM-talk] uselessness of brand:wikipedia and brand:wikidata tags (was Re: Bank of India (and other) Wikidata tags)

Hi, I agree that adding tons of links with a script is not a good idea. However, there are cases where a wikidata tag could be useful. For example, I created the Wikidata item (and the Commons category) for the medieval quarry Carrière Jaune (eng. Yellow Quarry):

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM user diary etiquette

Hi, Socrates,  a Greek philosopher, wrote still more than two thousand years ago  "When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser". That is, soft words if presented in hard arguments can convey the message more efficiently. One more person had to learn this precious lesson

Re: [OSM-talk] usefulness of brand:wikipedia and brand:wikidata tags (was Re: Bank of India (and other) Wikidata tags)

Dear Roland, I understood well the idea about an external tool and its availability in the long run. It makes good sense. I would like just to mention that Wikipedia articles change their titles at the drop of a hat. Wikidata items also change sometimes, but I have never encountered it

Re: [OSM-talk] Anonymous comments on notes now disabled

Good afternoon, I think in future when there will be more space on servers it would be a good idea to add a possibility to attach an optional image to a note for the registered users. Nowadays a lot of people do have a good camera in their pockets. After the note is closed down the JPG file

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Carto release v4.22.0

Yves Le 28 août 2019 08:13:13 GMT+02:00, Oleksiy Muzalyev a écrit : Good morning, Thank you for the information. I did not understand these two changes. I would like to see an example on the map or/and read a wiki article about the building label, the shop label

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Carto release v4.22.0

Good morning, Thank you for the information. I did not understand these two changes. I would like to see an example on the map or/and read a wiki article about the building label, the shop label, and the ST_PointOnSurface. In the two following articles:

Re: [OSM-talk] Anonymous comments on notes now disabled

On 8/30/19 15:47, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: 30 Aug 2019, 15:16 by talk@openstreetmap.org: On 29/08/2019 22:46, Frederik Ramm wrote: Perversely, it is much easier to fight a vandal creating new, useless notes (by just closing them) than it is to clean up their

Re: [OSM-talk] Anonymous comments on notes now disabled

On 9/1/19 09:50, joost schouppe wrote: Op vr 30 aug. 2019 13:15 schreef Oleksiy Muzalyev mailto:oleksiy.muzal...@bluewin.ch>>: I think in future when there will be more space on servers it would be a good idea to add a possibility to attach an optional image to a

Re: [OSM-talk] Tile Usage Limitation

Hello Margarita, You can also generate your own tiles. Here is the link to the explanation of how to do it: https://switch2osm.org/ It is relatively simple. You can do it either for one country or for the whole planet. You will need a modern web-server machine with the Ubuntu Linux OS. As

[OSM-talk] adding my aerial sphere 360 panorama to the OpenStreetMap

Good day, I published a new diary entry about an experiment of adding my aerial sphere 360 panorama to the OpenStreetMap: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Alex-7/diary If you are interested of virtual, 3D or deep mapping, please, read and comment. Best regards, O. (Alex-7@OSM)

Re: [OSM-talk] adding my aerial sphere 360 panorama to the OpenStreetMap

. (Alex-7@OSM) On 25-Jul-19 12:14, James wrote: There are already services such as Mapillary or OpenStreetCam that can be used as an imagery overlay to OSM. On Thu., Jul. 25, 2019, 6:11 a.m. Oleksiy Muzalyev, mailto:oleksiy.muzal...@bluewin.ch>> wrote: Good day, I published a new

Re: [OSM-talk] stalking, or stepping on someone's toes (area) ?

It is also possible to see changes in a certain area at this page: https://simon04.dev.openstreetmap.org/whodidit/ If you do an on-the-ground survey of bus stops you can use some quality tools. For example, a GPS handheld device Garmin eTrex Touch 35, a portable digital camera Sony RX100, a

Re: [OSM-talk] Map of Population Density vs. OpenStreetMap density

Good morning, As an aside, I've heard at a conference that the amount of data in the OpenStreetMap database per capita in a country is proportional to the per capita income [1] of the country. I wonder if there is an inverse relationship. For example, if we take a country and map it

Re: [OSM-talk] Maintaining privacy as a casual mapper

You can assist from time to time in mapping the areas were there is one or another trouble, like a military conflict, or a natural or technogenic disaster. The list can be found here: https://tasks.hotosm.org/contribute?difficulty=ALL This way it would be not easy to figure out in which place

Re: [OSM-talk] Maintaining privacy as a casual mapper

On 11/3/19 21:11, Mark Wagner wrote: On Sun, 3 Nov 2019 16:55:43 +0100 Oleksiy Muzalyev wrote: You can assist from time to time in mapping the areas were there is one or another trouble, like a military conflict, or a natural or technogenic disaster. The list can be found here: https

Re: [OSM-talk] Addressing SIG

On the main osm.org site one can right-click on a building and select "Show address" or "Add a note here" . What if a new type of a note is introduced, a structured address note? The structured address note entry form will consist of several input fields: Building number: ... Street (avenue):

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

For many geographical names there are articles in the Latin version of Wikipedia. For example, for the Black Sea: https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontus_Euxinus for Poland: https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polonia , for Canada: https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada , etc. So if one wishes to add

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

Often people may think that they speak English, but in fact they do not speak it good enough. English seems to be an easy language, but it is as difficult as it gets. Its real complexity is in numerous idiomatic expressions. I would say a person speak English if she/he sat and passed the exam

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

At least in the JOSM editor there is an additional text in English near the wikidata code-title. Since the wikidata title (or name) is usually translated on the wikidata page itself in different languages and it is a part of the accessible database, this text could be in different languages

Re: [OSM-talk] Relevance of the “name” tag in places where there is no obvious associated language

Most people know where the Atlantic Ocean, and it is not a problem. But if I want to see, for example, where is the Laptev Sea I cannot find it on the OSM map, not on any layer. Both the Atlantic Ocean and the Laptev Sea could be marked in Latin language as Oceanus Atlanticus and Mare

Re: [OSM-talk] Relevance of the “name” tag in places where there is no obvious associated language

It is certainly the case. However, the new tools begin to change this situation. For example, at Wikidata items one can add a translation into any language quickly and conveniently. The commercial websites also get the different language versions, since it can be implemented now easily and

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

On 12/7/19 02:54, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: sent from a phone On 6. Dec 2019, at 15:16, pangoSE wrote: I believe that we should deprecate all wikipedia links as they are just potentially obsolete cruft that can be inferred from the wikidata item. (I am also an editor of Wikidata) If

Re: [OSM-talk] The benefits of cross-linking OSM and Wikidata

On 03-Mar-20 17:17, Andy Mabbett wrote: Some of you will remember, around five years ago, a debate about whether or not we should add Wikidata IDs to OSM. We did, and so here's "EqualStreetNames.Brussels", an example of what is now possible: https://equalstreetnames.brussels/en/index.html

Re: [OSM-talk] The benefits of cross-linking OSM and Wikidata

On 3/4/20 18:37, Mateusz Konieczny via talk wrote: Mar 4, 2020, 16:42 by oleksiy.muzal...@bluewin.ch: It is possible not only to add the Wikidata IDs to the OSM map, but also to add (or verify) the geographical coordinates in the Wikidata items themselves, Using OSM data? I

Re: [OSM-talk] missing maps? no: missing GPS traces.

Hi Mario, I switched from an app to the dedicated GPS device. It is for now the Garmin eTrex 35 Touch (no affiliation). It is capable to record a GPS trace for about 20 hours on the pair of cheap AA alkaline batteries. Here is, for example, the 431 km GPS trace I recorded in Mexico from

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

On MacOS it is Command+Shift+C. I wish there were such a feature on the OSM.org map. Now it is also possible to copy the coordinates of a place, but one has to copy a long string and then to extract the coordinates from it. But is JOSM one gets them directly in the proper format, something

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

s an empty space under: Geo URI Best regards, O. On 1/11/20 13:50, Jo wrote: Would this help? https://pythex.org/?regex=(%5Cd%2B.%5Cd%2B%2C%5Cd%2B.%5Cd%2B)_string=geo%3A42.2010%2C20.7331%3Fz%3D14=0=0=0=0 Probably still more involved than what you would like. Jo On Sat, Jan 11, 2020, 10:51 Oleksi

Re: [OSM-talk] is OSM a fake map.

, 80hnhtv4a...@bk.ru wrote: yes i used a phone to check it out, but if the tracers are using old images, who to say the rest of the world is correct. rivers, streams, trails, sidewalks dry flood ponds bus stops, gates, fences, billboards phone towers, ect. *From:* Oleksiy Muzalyev *Sent:* Monday

Re: [OSM-talk] It's time to manage libraries properly in OSM

I would like to remark that many libraries have their Wikipedia articles. Even when a library does not have an article, it could be created. The best way to approach this is to do a survey of the library. For example, I created the article (plus the Wikidata item and Wikimedia category) for

Re: [OSM-talk] It's time to manage libraries properly in OSM

Certainly, it is a good idea. There is the list of 32 countries on the  page: https://english.slks.dk/libraries/library-standards/isil/ . Does it mean that other countries did not join the ISIL classification yet? I wanted to add an ISIL code for a library in a country which is not in this

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: trace and signs

Here are some more examples demonstrating that signs could be of interest to travelers. - in this video the popular British travel video-blogger goes to great lengths to get to the specific sign to record his video: https://youtu.be/6RQlQDp1uiU?t=90 - it is customary during long distance

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: trace and signs

It is a very good question. I always search in a park the sign which bears its name. Some parks have such a sign and some don't. It takes sometimes a lot of time to find the sign with the park's name. First of all, you do not know if it exists at all. So you have to walk several times around,

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM is not the place for dissemination of authoritative data sets

The fundamental point of this discussion is that the AI, the Artificial Intelligence, does not exist yet. It is kind of a marketing gimmick. Sure, there are good computer programs, there are sophisticated automatons, but there is no AI, except in movies and serials. Let me give you an

Re: [OSM-talk] We need your help to thwart this pandemic!

On 20-Mar-20 11:28, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: Am Fr., 20. März 2020 um 09:17 Uhr schrieb Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com >: If the area is higher risk than an adjacent area then encouraging people to go from the high risk area to the low risk are will

Re: [OSM-talk] healthsites.io breaks OSM data, do not use

On 3/21/20 17:39, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, the "healthsites.io" web app allows you to contribute data to OSM, however if you modify existing OSM objects, it throws away all tags it does not know of. Until this bug is fixed, please refrain from using healthsites.io! You can track progress here

Re: [OSM-talk] Examples of good paid mapping?

Good morning, I agree that the existing tags are to be used. And they should be used correctly, as it's described in the wiki. It is applicable not only to professional but also to hobby mapping. I think that it makes sense to survey objects before mapping by physically visiting them.

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM nicknames are Unicode characters? (not Ascii?)

Practically all people in Russia studied a foreign language within the compulsory education system. Usually it is English, French, or German. How well they may know the language is debatable, however I am sure that typing several Latin letters would not be a challenge. Besides in such

Re: [OSM-talk] Find actively browsed undermapped regions and other gaps in OSM

It is the interesting idea to see where people tend to look at the map mostly and improve these parts as a priority. I think this relation could be also inverted. I read recently an article "Wikipedia edits have massive impact on tourism, say economists" [1]. This article reports that it was

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