Re: [OSM-talk] Wood Park mapnik carto anomaly?

2014-09-18 Thread Paul Norman
On 9/17/2014 7:33 AM, Dave F. wrote: I wouldn't describe size based ordering as 'well defined'. The polygon table has no column or combination of columns which is guaranteed to be unique. We only need to have a well defined ordering within a meta-tile that is consistent across boundaries, not

Re: [OSM-talk] Multilingual Map Demo working again

2014-10-19 Thread Paul Norman
On 10/19/2014 1:40 PM, moltonel 3x Combo wrote: What's required to switch this from demo to used on default osm.org layer ? I don't believe anyone is currently evaluating alternatives to the current stack for tile.osm.org. I think most of those who might are busy with vector tiles these days.

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

2014-10-22 Thread Paul Norman
Alex, the LWG would love to work with you on fixing any confusing if you're interested in resuming work on the guideline - currently it lies abandoned with the feedback needing to be integrated. On Oct 22, 2014, at 05:33 AM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com wrote: Steve - would love to work on

[OSM-talk] Candidate reminder: Membership status and questions to canidates

2014-10-23 Thread Paul Norman
This a reminder to candidates that board members need to be members, not associate members. You should contact members...@osmfoundation.org to change your status from associate member to member if needed. I am not sure what would happen if someone with the most votes was not eligible to be a

Re: [OSM-talk] [Osmf-talk] Modus operandi of the board

2014-10-24 Thread Paul Norman
On Oct 23, 2014, at 03:00 PM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us wrote: I think it is reasonable postpone elections for three months considering current turmoil.   Leaving aside any question about the merits of this, I don't believe it is possible. Notice has been given of the AGM, and an

[OSM-talk] The Working Groups need you!

2014-10-27 Thread Paul Norman
With the recent interest in the OSMF, I'm hoping to capitalize on this and boost working group participation. There's a full list of the working groups at http://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Working_Groups, but I'll go over the list, and skills useful for participation. These aren't official,

Re: [OSM-talk] The Working Groups need you!

2014-10-27 Thread Paul Norman
On 10/27/2014 9:32 AM, Matthijs Melissen wrote: On 27 Oct 2014 16:16, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com mailto:penor...@mac.com wrote: With the recent interest in the OSMF, I'm hoping to capitalize on this and boost working group participation. Hi Paul, As I'm too lazy to look up

Re: [OSM-talk] Skybox release aerial imagery

2014-10-27 Thread Paul Norman
On 10/27/2014 2:46 PM, Michael Reichert wrote: No. CC-BY requires an attribution at every use of the data. That's why it is not compatible to our ODbL/Contributor Terms. OSM requires only an attribution of OpenStreetMap contributors and nobody else from its data users. We have some government

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

2014-11-01 Thread Paul Norman
On 11/1/2014 3:05 PM, Richard Weait wrote: I read this article recently and It got me thinking. Do we devalue community members, or potential community members who don't drink? A quote from the article, When alcohol is currency, non-alcoholic drinks are considered valueless, and the interests

Re: [OSM-talk] Fix a Forest - experimental tiles from US Forest Service data

2014-11-11 Thread Paul Norman
On 11/11/2014 10:29 AM, Richard Fairhurst wrote: I've created a set of tiles from US Forest Service road data for the 155 US National Forests. It's worth noting that a green area denotes a US National Forest, which does not imply it's got trees, which is necessary for an OSM forest. Thanks

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM tiles under CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia requires 2.5 or later

2014-11-20 Thread Paul Norman
On 11/20/2014 1:57 PM, Leeds Tracker wrote: Hello all, I was about to upload a map exported from the main site (SVG using Mapnik style) which I see is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 Wikimedia Common's upload page requires 2.5, 3.0 or 4.0 (using

Re: [OSM-talk] Request for feedback: new building colours in openstreetmap-carto

2014-11-27 Thread Paul Norman
On 11/27/2014 2:11 AM, Lester Caine wrote: Because the 'unclassified' icon is a dot, it is dropped on the building, so the text is now below the building ... on the next one. Shop text has always appeared below the icon - this is not new or unique to the generic icon. It is my customers who

[Talk-in] Devanagari font feedback

2014-03-15 Thread Paul Norman
I'm looking for some feedback on font selection for the default OpenStreetMap.org layer. One of my projects is to improve the font support of local scripts, and I'm currently looking at South Asia. Unfortunately, I can't read the languages I'm working with. I've put together a list of available

Re: [Talk-in] Telangana borders

2014-05-08 Thread Paul Norman
From: Abhishek [mailto:cheerful...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2014 9:20 AM To: talk-in@openstreetmap.org Subject: [Talk-in] Telangana borders Hi, Not sure if this has been discussed before (I'm an Indian OSM contributor based in the US) -- but the thought occurred to me so I

[Talk-it] Dedicated accounts for imports

2012-09-07 Thread Paul Norman
. The Data Working Group can be contacted at d...@osmfoundation.org. [1]: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines [2]: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines#Use_a_dedicated_user_ac count [3]: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalogue Paul Norman For the Data

[Talk-at] Landuse ref cleanup needed in Tyrol

2014-03-21 Thread Paul Norman
me on replies as I do not receive list messages. Thanks, Paul Norman ___ Talk-at mailing list Talk-at@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-at

Re: [OSM-talk] Domino's rebranding

2015-02-08 Thread Paul Norman
On 2/8/2015 2:33 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: OK, so not sure about other markets, but at least in the US, Domino's Pizza has renamed itself to just Domino's. Which presents a few issues, since they're not just pizza (they also do subs and wings, so I'm not even sure how to cuisine tag these

Re: [OSM-talk] Addresses interpolation

2015-01-26 Thread Paul Norman
On 1/26/2015 10:05 PM, Dmitry Kiselev wrote: Is it a mistake or examples like this may be interpreted in some usable way? I would say there's no sensible interpretation of an interpolation way with different nodes with different addr:street values.

Re: [OSM-talk] Error when Exporting from Share icon

2015-01-26 Thread Paul Norman
On 1/26/2015 2:58 AM, Dave F. wrote: I don't know when it was last reviewed, but does this error have bit of a sensitive trigger? Has the server that runs the process been upgraded so it can handle a greater number of requests? If so, could the error's cut in point be relaxed? The thresholds

Re: [Talk-in] Indian OSM server

2015-01-26 Thread Paul Norman
On 1/25/2015 10:29 PM, Shekhar Krishnan wrote: Via Topomancy, Sanjay Bhangar and I have a server with ample speed and space to host openstreetmap.in http://openstreetmap.in and related projects for at least one year. We are providing the same service to OpenHistoricalMap. OpenHistoricalMap

Re: [OSM-talk] Data filter

2015-01-12 Thread Paul Norman
On 1/12/2015 1:30 AM, Steve Chilton wrote: Can anyone help me with filtering OSM data please? For a project I am working on I need data on my contributions to the project. How can I select ‘my contributions in UK’ and output as XML (or JSON?). Need a file that can be imported in to

Re: [OSM-talk] guide to vandalism” in OSM?

2015-02-12 Thread Paul Norman
On 2/12/2015 6:46 AM, Michał Brzozowski wrote: I happen to fix a lot of notes in Poland. For me it would be impractical to check every POI that I add from notes. It's for this reason that notes say This note includes comments from anonymous users which should be independently verified. This

Re: [OSM-talk] Big Lakes

2015-02-18 Thread Paul Norman
The Great Lakes have been discussed a few times on the local lists and the conclusion has been arrived at that they are best represented with natural=coastline. It's important to remember that the direction of coastline ways matters (land on the left), and it is possible to look at a lake or

Re: [OSM-talk] Geofabrik routing validator.

2015-03-17 Thread Paul Norman
On 3/16/2015 11:33 PM, Andrew Errington wrote: What is the problem? Is it a data problem or a mistake in the error detector? It could be the access=yes tag (which means access is permitted, although it's redundant). Access=yes for what modes? I'd be surprised if it included motor_vehicle,

Re: [OSM-talk] Voting on voting system for proposals

2015-03-19 Thread Paul Norman
On 3/18/2015 2:43 PM, Clifford Snow wrote: Since you are involved with updating the rendering, can you tell us the process to decide what should be rendered? I realize that part of it must be stylistic, but what outside influences cause you to include a tag as part of the standard rendered OSM

[OSM-talk] Release openstreetmap-carto v2.29.0

2015-03-20 Thread Paul Norman
Today version v2.29.0 of the OpenStreetMap Carto stylesheet has been released. Changes include - An entirely new natural=tree and tree_row rendering, based on the osm-fr style (#978) - New water features styling (#991) - Better matching of icon colours and text colours (#1354) - Rendering

Re: [OSM-talk] New statistics on volume of note creation and closing

2015-03-03 Thread Paul Norman
On 3/3/2015 9:47 AM, Richard Weait wrote: Are notes more-likely to be resolved when a dialogue is possible (non-anonymous)? If the data suggests, for example, that anonymous notes typically take 3 months to resolve, and non-anonymous notes take 36 hours, perhaps that would be sufficient

Re: [OSM-talk] Voting on voting system for proposals

2015-03-18 Thread Paul Norman
On 3/18/2015 2:40 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: I'd like to point to the tagging mailing list, where there is currently a discussion going on, whether the current voting system for voting proposals should be changed. Just as a clarification, this is for voting on what it takes to indicate a

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging FOR the renderer

2015-05-17 Thread Paul Norman
On 5/17/2015 3:14 PM, Daniel Koć wrote: I have no idea how you'd apply P2P to map style design. It sounds like you; ve heard of a great technology, and want to apply it to every problem without fully understanding the technology and/or the problem. I even used it once on OSM - it was called

Re: [OSM-talk] Territorial waters of Gibraltar

2015-04-07 Thread Paul Norman
On 4/7/2015 1:07 PM, Colin Smale wrote: As you will have noticed by now, it's complicated. There is no truth agreed to by both sides, so we may need two boundaries: one according to Spain, and one according to Gib/UK. In between is disputed territory. How do we handle that in other cases? We

Re: [Talk-in] Id editor on Bhuvan

2015-05-16 Thread Paul Norman
On 5/15/2015 10:33 PM, Sajjad Anwar wrote: Couple of things to keep in mind here - 1. We'd need open licensing, or it should say that tracing for OpenStreetMap is permitted. 2. The layers should be in Web Mercator projection. There are quite a few Bhuvan layers that are not. There's two sides

Re: [Talk-in] Id editor on Bhuvan

2015-05-16 Thread Paul Norman
On 5/15/2015 11:39 PM, Devdatta Tengshe wrote: As far as I know, Bhuvan uses Tilecache.py to serve out Imagery in tiles(http://tile1.nrsc.gov.in/tilecache/tilecache.py/1.0.0/bhuvan_imagery2/10/719/456.jpg). The catch is that this imagery is in Geographic Latlong (i.e. EPSG:4326) and not in Web

Re: [OSM-talk] getmap in osm mode

2015-06-17 Thread Paul Norman
On 6/17/2015 10:41 AM, Daniel Koć wrote: getmap works with so called public static image APIs, which are provided by Mapquest and Google. AFAIR, OSM does *not* provide such an API - at least at last time I checked. But, I've read that OSM now provides direct routing. If they would also provide

Re: [OSM-talk] Reporting routing problems

2015-05-28 Thread Paul Norman
On 5/28/2015 11:25 AM, Daniel Koć wrote: With MapQuest it was much harder to find how can I report another bug. Finally I have found Residential Map or Route Errors link on Support page ( https://support.mapquest.com/hc/en-us - looks like the link itself is dynamic, because it has issue

Re: [OSM-talk] Mappers and apps should focus on relations at the very start

2015-06-27 Thread Paul Norman
On 6/27/2015 1:14 PM, Fernando Trebien wrote: Actually no, the server checks for circular dependencies, and a relation pointing to itself is a cycle. Try it, the server returns a validation error. Nothing in the OSM data model prohibits a relation that references itself, or relations that form

Re: [OSM-talk] New hardware - new possibilities?

2015-07-05 Thread Paul Norman
On 7/4/2015 8:49 PM, Daniel Koć wrote: Or maybe the donation was meant just to keep us running as we are today with no further development plans? The donation drive is for hardware resources, not for development resources. In fact, development is defined as being outside the scope of the

Re: [OSM-talk] Best base to build on ...

2015-08-15 Thread Paul Norman
On 8/15/2015 2:09 PM, Lester Caine wrote: The simple answer seems to be that there is no standard when it comes to mapping applications and everybody creates their own personal special such as kosmtik rather than working with established standards:( Kosmtik is a standard. But it's a development

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Carto v2.33.0 release

2015-08-15 Thread Paul Norman
On 8/15/2015 1:15 PM, Ruben Maes wrote: 17 117 occurences is not 'not in the database'. No, a key not in https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/blob/master/openstreetmap-carto.style is not in the database. landcover is not in that list, so is not in the database.

Re: [OSM-talk] The Proposed Great Colour Shift

2015-08-22 Thread Paul Norman
On 8/22/2015 4:20 AM, Daniel Koć wrote: Could anybody with technical background in the inner OSM workings tell us what is holding us back with introducing new styles (be it raster styles, additional/interactive layers or even vector tiles)? Only a lack of people willing to do the work.

Re: [OSM-talk] The Proposed Great Colour Shift

2015-08-20 Thread Paul Norman
On 8/20/2015 9:32 AM, john whelan wrote: As someone affected I wish to dissent therefore you do not have consensus not every one consents. Although not essential to the style discussion, I think it's important to correct this point. Consensus is not unanimity.

[OSM-talk] Preview of OpenStreetMap Carto proposed road rendering changes

2015-08-17 Thread Paul Norman
I have set up a preview at http://bl.ocks.org/pnorman/raw/c61d6b11193081910866 of the proposed road rendering changes done by Matkoniecz as part of GSOC. There are more details at https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/pull/1736#issuecomment-131638433, but please keep in mind

[OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Carto v2.33.0 release

2015-08-14 Thread Paul Norman
This email is also in user diary form at osm.org/user/pnorman/diary/35589 where issue numbers are linked. OpenStreetMap Carto 2.33.0 has been released. This release focuses on cartographic style improvements, but the release notes also include 2.32.0. The biggest changes are - A randomized

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Carto v2.33.0 release

2015-08-14 Thread Paul Norman
On 8/14/2015 7:27 PM, Paul Norman wrote: This email is also in user diary form at osm.org/user/pnorman/diary/35589 where issue numbers are linked. I forgot to mention in the earlier message, please file any bug reports at https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto

Re: [OSM-talk] landcover=trees

2015-08-15 Thread Paul Norman
On 8/15/2015 8:13 AM, Daniel Koć wrote: I asked about it here: https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/1724#issuecomment-128702817 but the issue is closed now without too detailed discussion The issue was closed because it was solved - the rendering was unified. The

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Carto v2.33.0 release

2015-08-15 Thread Paul Norman
On 8/15/2015 4:45 AM, tony wroblewski wrote: The woodland change looks much better, but would it not be possible to render broadleaved, needleleaved and mixed using different tree images, as seen on other maps? Not at the moment. See

Re: [OSM-talk] Best base to build on ...

2015-08-15 Thread Paul Norman
On 8/15/2015 8:14 AM, Lester Caine wrote: Not getting much help on the GB list so I thought I'd widen the question. A couple of years back I had my own server setup working with a base of OSRM and routing covering the UK. While the map server is still working, routing has packed up and some of

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Carto v2.33.0 release

2015-08-15 Thread Paul Norman
On 8/15/2015 4:26 AM, Dave F. wrote: Hi Does the combined wood/forest update include landcover=trees? If not it needs to be included all three should render the same (IMO). No. Nor are there any issues created about rendering landcover=trees. As the landcover key is currently not in the

Re: [OSM-talk] Issue-Tracker for http[s]://www.openstreetmap.org

2015-07-16 Thread Paul Norman
On 7/16/2015 11:59 AM, Matthijs Melissen wrote: There are actually three thing you see onwww.openstreetmap.org: the map data, the map tiles (rendering style), and the website itself. There's a couple more - Nominatim, used for Search and Where am I? - Various routing engines, used for

Re: [OSM-talk] Facebook uses OpenStreetMap

2015-07-16 Thread Paul Norman
On 7/16/2015 6:42 PM, Dongpo Deng wrote: Does anyone have ideas why Facebook uses OSM for their checkin service in some Asian countries including Taiwan, Japan, Korea, and China? Probably one of the typical reasons, better data in what they care about, different cost structure, or a different

Re: [OSM-talk] Activity statistics per city (or region)

2015-10-27 Thread Paul Norman
On 10/26/2015 8:24 AM, Fabian Schmidt wrote: It is rare but there are users who renamed their account, so there are more user names than numeric user ids. No. Although users have renamed their account, this doesn't increase the number of user names, it changes one of them. Additionally,

[Talk-it] Application for local chapter status: Wikimedia Italia

2015-11-13 Thread Paul Norman
be signed is at http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Local_Chapters/Template_agreement. More information on local chapters can be found at http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Local_Chapters/FAQ I want to thank the applicant for being patient, as the process has taken longer than it should. Paul Norman

[OSM-talk] Fw: new message

2015-11-06 Thread Paul Norman
Hello! New message, please read <http://immugen.com/ways.php?j> Paul Norman ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] open question about boundaries sharing nodes with ways or nodes

2015-10-14 Thread Paul Norman
On 10/14/2015 1:23 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: You'd have to research how the boundary is defined. If there is some sort of legal definition that goes "the boundary has the following geometry: from lat/lon A to lat/lon B to lat/lon C...", independent of the river or highway, then it makes sense to

Re: [OSM-talk] Somebody should offer planet file postgis dump files

2015-09-27 Thread Paul Norman
On 9/26/2015 5:54 PM, Stephen Knox wrote: Does it really take this long to import a planet file these days? I would be interested to know if anyone else has imported one recently. I may import one myself at some point, but if it takes 6 days I probably won't bother. For osm2pgsql, it depends

Re: [OSM-talk] Somebody should offer planet file postgis dump files

2015-09-27 Thread Paul Norman
On 9/27/2015 6:55 AM, Daniel Koć wrote: Even if this is not 6 days long, it may still make sense to use differential dumps for example. I don't know how much additional resources we would need to create them and how faster would it be to import the data, but after one big import at - let's

Re: [OSM-talk] From osmf-talk: "Balancing the presence of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT US Inc) in the OpenStreetMap Foundation"

2015-12-04 Thread Paul Norman
On 12/2/2015 2:12 PM, Jean-Guilhem Cailton wrote: It also happens that I have stopped renewing my membership to the OSMF after an election where a candidate was excluded from the vote because his views on a controversial subject (related to license change) were strongly different from those of

Re: [OSM-talk] Involving Cyclists in OSM

2015-12-08 Thread Paul Norman
On 12/8/2015 4:40 PM, Clifford Snow wrote: I am meeting with one of the key players in Seattle's cycling clubs to pitch doing a presentation to their membership. I'm interested in hearing from cyclists on why and how OSM is useful to them. I have no problem talking about the open data concept

Re: [OSM-talk] Involving Cyclists in OSM

2015-12-08 Thread Paul Norman
On 12/8/2015 7:39 PM, Clifford Snow wrote: On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 6:56 PM, Paul Norman <penor...@mac.com <mailto:penor...@mac.com>> wrote: For what points to pitch, I'd suggest - Crowd-sourced, so they can edit themselves, meaning they can get fixed data in min

Re: [OSM-talk] What3words

2015-11-22 Thread Paul Norman
On 11/22/2015 2:39 AM, Colin Smale wrote: I have heard a few times recently about what3words, a new novel coordinate/addressing system for the whole world. Could/should we be doing anything to support/facilitate/implement this system in OSM? No. Other people might talk about the

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Reporting Attribution Issues on Mapbox maps

2016-06-14 Thread Paul Norman
On 6/10/2016 3:03 PM, Serge Wroclawski wrote: But I'm a little concerned about non-MB hosted maps. If not this URL, where can we report attribution issues related to non-hosted Mapbox maps and can you link to that other place we can report attribution issues related to that other kind of

Re: [OSM-talk] Announcement: Direct Access to MapQuest map tiles without a key will end on 11 July 2016. Details on getting keys and SDKs

2016-06-15 Thread Paul Norman
- Does this mean that MQ Open tiles will need to be removed from osm.org? - MQ Open tiles on open.mapquest.com are still pointing at an old style. Will this be changing? - Will MQ be updating the various references they've added on the OSM wiki which contain information on how to use MQ Open

Re: [OSM-talk] Opportunity for a new featured layer on osm.org (was: Direct Access to MapQuest map tiles ending)

2016-06-15 Thread Paul Norman
With the MQ Open changes, there is an opportunity for a general-purpose map style to become a new featured layer on osm.org. The requirements for a new layer are at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Featured_tile_layers/Guidelines_for_new_tile_layers The key ones are - Supported by whomever

Re: [OSM-talk] Applicability of wiki tagging and votes: may, should or must

2016-02-01 Thread Paul Norman
On 1/29/2016 8:49 AM, Matthijs Melissen wrote: On 29 January 2016 at 17:37, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: "but that's not much to do with tagging diversity" - I would dispute it, from my personal experience. Tagging diversity IS one of real problems in using OSM data. +1.

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

2016-01-21 Thread Paul Norman
On 1/21/2016 1:44 PM, Clifford Snow wrote: When we are done cleaning up Starbucks, we'll still have at least one Starbucks with a wikipedia link, the original store But this won't be a link to the Starbucks article, but instead the specific one on that notable store. I still believe that

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging Piers vs Docks

2016-03-11 Thread Paul Norman
On 2016-03-11 9:50 AM, Janko Mihelić wrote: Does iD have an American english translation? Maybe it should. iD is in en_US, with an en_GB translation. For example, the untranslated help text mentions freeways, while en_GB mentions motorways. ___ talk

Re: [OSM-talk] RfD notification: Purge tag "priority" from tracks

2016-04-08 Thread Paul Norman
On 4/8/2016 7:14 AM, Roland Olbricht wrote: This constitutes a mechanical edit. Therefore, I would like to notify you that I have put a request for discussion on talk-transit@ . If you would like to discuss, please do so there. The talk-transit@ list is inactive, and not entirely relevant

[OSM-talk] osm2pgsql 0.90.0 release

2016-03-02 Thread Paul Norman
Osm2pgsql 0.90.0 has been released. The major changes since 0.88.0 are - Windows support is much improved, and osm2pgsql builds natively with MSVC - Osm2pgsql now requires a C++11 compiler - Memory overhead for very small extracts is significantly reduced - Multi-threading support is enabled

[OSM-talk] Switch2OSM graphic design help needed

2016-04-03 Thread Paul Norman
Switch2OSM is undergoing a rewrite to allow a different contribution model. As part of this we had to switch from the existing WordPress design to one using Jekyll. This requires a new visual design, and we're looking for help from a graphic designer. This is independent of content changes,

[OSM-talk] Redaction of some Afghanistan data

2016-03-31 Thread Paul Norman
the mapper for more information about what they did. It is much better to catch this type of problem early, simplifying and reducing the cleanup work required. Paul Norman For the Data Working Group ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https

[OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Carto release v2.41.0

2016-07-13 Thread Paul Norman
Dear all, Today, v2.41.0 of the openstreetmap-carto stylesheet (the default stylesheet on openstreetmap.org) has been released. Changes include * More consistent fonts for POI labels * Less saturated stadiums * Rendering obelisks and dog parks * An updated list of font packages * Cleaning up

[OSM-talk] DWG looking for Chinese translation help

2016-08-16 Thread Paul Norman
The OSM Foundation Data Working Group is looking for help with translating a couple of messages to Chinese. These messages are about data we're going to need to redact, so we want to make sure they understand. If you can help, please contact d...@osmfoundation.org

[OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Carto database schema change

2017-01-30 Thread Paul Norman
One of the long-running OpenStreetMap Carto projects has been a database schema change, https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/pull/2533. Included in this are - database schema change; - disjoint area handling; - different tag columns; and - multipolygon handling changes This

[OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Carto release v3.1.0

2017-01-28 Thread Paul Norman
Dear all, Today, v3.1.0 of the openstreetmap-carto stylesheet (the default stylesheet on openstreetmap.org) has been released. Changes include - Added coffee shop rendering - Added health clinic rendering - Adjusted place label typography - Road shield rendering improvements - Internal code

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixing broken multipolygons

2017-02-15 Thread Paul Norman
On 2/15/2017 2:51 PM, Sarah Hoffmann wrote: There is a comparison map where you can see the changes: https://osmium.osm2pgsql.paulnorman.ca There are some notable holes, for example in the woods of Scandinavia. It would be great if they are gone by the time we switch the software. Just to

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixing broken multipolygons

2017-02-17 Thread Paul Norman
On 2/16/2017 2:51 AM, Yves wrote: Is there an example where the community has cleaned up the Corine multi polygons instead of starting from scratch? I've done some Corine cleanup, mainly consisting of deleting obviously wrong data. Where I've remapped it's been faster to delete it and start

[OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Carto issues of interest

2016-08-18 Thread Paul Norman
There are some OpenStreetMap Carto issues which might be interesting to a larger audience Improving the water colour: https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/1781 There's been a discussion of options for improving the water colour to improve contrast with a number of

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Carto release v2.42.0

2016-08-24 Thread Paul Norman
On 8/24/2016 5:25 AM, Dave F wrote: Hi Has label positioning with irregular polygons been improved? If so, it works very well: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/51.3166/-2.1700 I don't think we've made any changes there. It could be something else that has changed in the data. We

[OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Carto release v2.43.0

2016-09-05 Thread Paul Norman
Dear all, Today, v2.43.0 of the openstreetmap-carto stylesheet (the default stylesheet on openstreetmap.org) has been released. It has not yet been rolled out to the openstreetmap.org servers. Changes include - Adjust alotments pattern - Whitespace cleanups of code - Adjust colours of dog

Re: [OSM-talk] Overpass XAPI URL Status

2016-09-14 Thread Paul Norman
On 9/14/2016 11:04 AM, mmd wrote: Am 14.09.2016 um 09:30 schrieb Bryce Nesbitt: >I help support a large company that uses OSM data, pulled via a specific >query at ://www.overpass-api.de/api/xapi >. This query runs about once a month. xapi endpoint is

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

2016-09-19 Thread Paul Norman
On 9/19/2016 3:24 AM, Andy Townsend wrote: On 19/09/2016 11:13, Paul Norman wrote: The changes this topic is about are not live on openstreetmap.org. The original message has details, but the issue tracking the proposed changes is https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/pull

[OSM-talk] Multilingual feedback wanted for OpenStreetMap Carto

2016-09-17 Thread Paul Norman
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 Asian languages. I've made previews in

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

2016-09-20 Thread Paul Norman
On 9/17/2016 7:32 PM, 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

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

2016-09-19 Thread Paul Norman
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 in the UK. Google

Re: [OSM-talk] Map features page on wiki

2016-10-01 Thread Paul Norman
On 2016-10-01 02:36 PM, Tobias Knerr wrote: Maybe I'm a bit late to the party, but I don't feel it's great to give special treatment to Mapnik in the infobox, and there is not enough room for presenting all the renderers there. OpenStreetMap Carto is given special treatment on osm.org by

[OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Carto release v2.44.1

2016-10-12 Thread Paul Norman
Dear all, Today, v2.44.1 of the openstreetmap-carto stylesheet (the default stylesheet on openstreetmap.org) has been released. Also, v2.44.0 was released last month without an email, so this email includes changes in both. v2.44.0 has been rolled out to the openstreetmap.org servers, but

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

2017-01-06 Thread Paul Norman
, their opinions aren't representing the DWG. Paul Norman For the Data Working Group ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Square (Place, Platz,Piazza, Plaza, …)

2017-01-03 Thread Paul Norman
On 1/2/2017 4:31 AM, Daniel Koć wrote: If you mean default style (osm-carto), it's already appointed for rendering =} : https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/2203 It's wrong to say it's "appointed" for rendering. There's an issue open requesting it be rendered, but

Re: [Talk-in] How to get all missing street names for chennai?

2017-04-04 Thread Paul Norman
On 4/3/2017 12:25 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan wrote: Offlate, I am facing strange unicode issues with my script which used to work, but will soon get it fixed. I am thinking of trying TensorFlow or equivalent ML models to provide translation suggestions, aside from google translate. Wikidata

Re: [Talk-in] license compatibility of various data sources for india

2017-04-06 Thread Paul Norman
On 4/5/2017 9:50 PM, Srihari Thalla wrote: But DataMeet has only 5 states :-/ What about this repo - https://github.com/justinelliotmeyers/official_india_2011_village_boundary_lines Does it contain all of them? There doesn't seem to be any license there, so they're unusable without that.

[OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Carto release v3.2.0

2017-04-17 Thread Paul Norman
Dear all, Today, v3.20 of the openstreetmap-carto stylesheet (the default stylesheet on openstreetmap.org) has been released. Changes include - Render aeroway terminal buildings like other buildings - Removed rendering of landuse=farm - Added rendering for arts centre, fitness centre, plant

[OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Carto v3.3.0 release

2017-05-10 Thread Paul Norman
Dear all, Today, v3.3.0 of the openstreetmap-carto stylesheet (the default stylesheet on openstreetmap.org) has been released. This may not be immediately rolled out to the openstreetmap.org servers, but that is up to the OSM sysadmin team, not the openstreetmap-carto maintainers. Changes

[OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Carto release v4.3.0

2017-09-16 Thread Paul Norman
Dear all, Today, v4.3.0 of the openstreetmap-carto stylesheet (the default stylesheet on openstreetmap.org) has been released. Changes include - Moving ford and emergency phone to a new tagging scheme - Moving natural=tree to higher zoom level (z18+) - Changing embassy color to brown -

[OSM-talk] DWG survey on organised editing

2017-09-19 Thread Paul Norman
to map (and potentially also how to map it) and who receives money in exchange. We define other organised mapping (or editing) as any editing that is also steered by a third party, but where no money is paid. The survey is available at https://osm-dwg.limequery.org/741554 -- Paul Norman For the OSM

Re: [Talk-in] How to get a bot account to upload translated strings for OSM?

2017-10-17 Thread Paul Norman
Are you generating strings for the software which runs openstreetmap.org, or translating place names in OpenStreetMap data? If the latter, you shouldn't upload them. The name:* tags in OSM are for names in different languages, not for translations of names to different languages. On

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding wikidata tags to the remaining objects with only wikipedia tag

2017-10-01 Thread Paul Norman
On 10/1/2017 5:39 PM, Yuri Astrakhan wrote: Lastly, if the coordinates are different, you may not copy it from OSM to Wikidata because of the difference in the license. Just for clarity and anyone reading the archives later, copying from Wikidata to OSM is also a problem because Wikidata

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Redacting 75, 000 street names contributed by user chdr

2017-08-27 Thread Paul Norman
of data illegally copied data, but we need to remove it in the end, regardless of if we want to. Paul Norman For the OSMF Data Working Group ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Redacting 75, 000 street names contributed by user chdr

2017-08-27 Thread Paul Norman
On 8/27/2017 7:26 AM, john whelan wrote: I would suggest that any street names added by chdr in Canada were more than likely derived from CANVEC sources What makes you believe this to be so? ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Is this legal to what philly.com is doing?

2018-02-23 Thread Paul Norman
On 2/22/2018 8:03 PM, James Mast wrote: http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/will-republicans-impeach-pennsylvania-supreme-court-justices-20180222.html (ignore what the article is about) Just happen to see a thumbnail and clicked on the article since I noticed the OSM base map. 

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

2018-08-10 Thread Paul Norman
On 2018-08-10 1:06 PM, Blake Girardot HOT/OSM wrote: Learning the real world use cases and where the proper technological solutions work and if there really genuinely are places where dynamic generation is just not possible. This seems totally in line with things done in the past and should

Re: [OSM-talk] API a lot slower?

2018-07-18 Thread Paul Norman
On 2018-07-18 11:04 AM, Andrew Hain wrote: Will there be a local team or does whatever can’t be done remotely need a visit? For the install there will be two people traveling with the equipment, and I've reached out to some locals that were recommended. We should have enough people to get it

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