Re: [OSM-talk] Old phone line or old power line?

2020-06-27 Thread Bryan Housel
I’d tag as `abandoned:power=minor_line` since you said it is down in places. It is impossible to tell from the picture what its original purpose was, but this doesn’t matter much if you just want to get it mapped. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Lifecycle_prefix

Re: [Talk-us] Alt_names on counties

2019-12-30 Thread Bryan Housel
They could all have `operator:wikidata=Q7414497`, then there is no confusion. A dataset of all operators in OSM linked to wikidata QIDs will be coming soon, I promise!  We already have this for brands, and it’s pretty rad: https://nsi.guide Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 30, 2019, at 6:01

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging Governance

2019-09-10 Thread Bryan Housel
>> >> The decisions we make in iD with the tags are mostly because 1. someone >> asked us to in a ticket or pull request, and we try to give people what they >> want.. or 2. we are trying to solve an actual problem - for example, the >> explicit tagging of piers and platforms came from us

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging Governance

2019-09-10 Thread Bryan Housel
Simon you’re completely wrong about this, but I doubt there is anything that I can say that would change your mind. The "US-corporate bubble" does not care about the tags used by the iD presets as much as you think they do. The decisions we make in iD with the tags are mostly because 1.

Re: [OSM-talk] Way to delete buildings added by specific user, or help reverting?

2019-07-09 Thread Bryan Housel
irect messages via OSM web, > offering help and asking to stop copy/paste buildings, or messing landuses. > > Regards, Hrvoje Bogner > > On 08. 07. 2019. 21:36, Bryan Housel wrote: >> hbonger, your comment here is not very nice. >> https://www.openstreetmap.org/changese

Re: [OSM-talk] Way to delete buildings added by specific user, or help reverting?

2019-07-08 Thread Bryan Housel
hbonger, your comment here is not very nice. https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/56552674 Reviewing their edits on OSMCha, most of their edits don’t look too bad

Re: [OSM-talk] [Osmf-talk] Anyone who likes to organize an ID discussion panel at SotM?

2019-05-29 Thread Bryan Housel
Christine.. We mustn't define “the community” as the few remaining handful of people who have not yet been driven off the mailing lists by persistent abusers and trolls. I am very aware of what people are saying about iD on all discussion channels. I read all of it, even the stuff written in

Re: [Talk-us] motel vs. hotel

2019-03-08 Thread Bryan Housel
Good question! As others have said - hotels have rooms that open indoors, motels have rooms that open outdoors. That’s the only difference. I did a bit of research on this last year for https://github.com/osmlab/name-suggestion-index because

Re: [Talk-us] Fixing intersection OSMAnd treats as roundabout?

2019-03-04 Thread Bryan Housel
Thanks for asking, I.AM.. The Northeast Parkway here should really be split at the intersection. It is currently mapped as a single long road. I’ll fix this now. If you are interested in more reading about mapping best practices, Mapbox has made their team mapping guides available here:

Re: [Talk-us] Proposed mechanical edit - elimination of old-style Wikipedia links in USA

2019-02-26 Thread Bryan Housel
Replacing the deprecated `wikipedia:en` tags with newer `wikipedia` tags sounds like a great idea. As mentioned on Slack, I agree that if you can add `wikidata` tags at the same time, even better. Thank you for your work on this! Bryan > On Feb 26, 2019, at 7:51 AM, Mateusz Konieczny >

Re: [OSM-talk] Tag:barrier=kerb

2018-12-14 Thread Bryan Housel
The arrows indicate the “down” direction alongside certain kinds of ways. For example, cliffs, coastlines, retaining walls, kerbs, guard rails, embankments. If the arrows are pointing to the “up” side instead of the “down” side, you can reverse the way. Thanks, Bryan > On Dec 14, 2018, at

Re: [Talk-us] Reminder: Please vote in the OSMF board election!

2018-12-10 Thread Bryan Housel
Oh one other thing I forgot to mention... When you cast your vote, you will need JavaScript enabled in your browser, and you may need to disable your ad blocker in order to view the candidates in the voting panel. > On Dec 10, 2018, at 3:20 PM, Bryan Housel wrote: > > He

[Talk-us] Reminder: Please vote in the OSMF board election!

2018-12-10 Thread Bryan Housel
Hey Talk-US! If you’ve joined the OpenStreetMap Foundation (OSMF) and your membership is in good standing you should have received a ballot to vote in the OSMF Board Election. The ballot would arrive in your email from opavote, and the deadline to cast your ballot is Saturday 15th December,

[OSM-talk] iD news - 2.12.0 released 

2018-12-09 Thread Bryan Housel
Last week, after several months of work, we released iD v2.12.0 for editing OpenStreetMap. I hope you like it! Here are some of the highlights from the release: ✌️ 2-finger pan and zoom gestures Mac users can now use 2 finger trackpad gestures to pan and zoom the map. Try swiping with 2

[Talk-us] iD news - 2.12.0 released 

2018-12-09 Thread Bryan Housel
Last week, after several months of work, we released iD v2.12.0 for editing OpenStreetMap. I hope you like it! Here are some of the highlights from the release: ✌️ 2-finger pan and zoom gestures Mac users can now use 2 finger trackpad gestures to pan and zoom the map. Try swiping with 2

Re: [Talk-us] Trunk versus motorway

2018-12-01 Thread Bryan Housel
> On Dec 2, 2018, at 12:42 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 8:37 PM Bryan Housel <mailto:bhou...@gmail.com>> wrote: > Can’t a motorway begin or end at an at-grade intersection though? > > No, I don't think so. It's at least not a freeway tra

Re: [Talk-us] Trunk versus motorway

2018-11-28 Thread Bryan Housel
Can’t a motorway begin or end at an at-grade intersection though? What you did by classifying it “trunk” back to the Apache Street interchange just looks weird. Sorry, but I have to disagree, and would leave it as a motorway up to Gilcrease, then trunk beyond that point. For comparison, our

Re: [Talk-us] Thoughts on a standard "ref" abbreviation for PA Turnpike?

2018-11-11 Thread Bryan Housel
Sounds good to me - I think the PATP abbreviation is easy to understand. Thanks, Bryan Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 10, 2018, at 7:50 PM, Albert Pundt wrote: > > Does anyone object to the use of "PATP" as the ref equivalent for the PA > Turnpike? Particularly for destination:ref tags, as

[OSM-talk] Please help with name-suggestion-index project!

2018-10-16 Thread Bryan Housel
Hey OSM! I have a project called `name-suggestion-index` that I could use help with… You can even get some free stuff if you sign up on https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/ with your GitHub account. Go to this project:

Re: [Talk-us] USPS Post Boxes

2018-09-25 Thread Bryan Housel
I agree that adding `wikipedia` or `wikidata` to each location is wrong.. But using `operator:wikidata`/`operator:wikipedia` (and or `brand:wikidata`/`brand:wikipedia`) should be ok, even preferred.. This is the approach I’m taking with https://github.com/osmlab/name-suggestion-index

Re: [Talk-us] USPS Post Boxes

2018-09-06 Thread Bryan Housel
Can we please leave it as USPS? Other shippers UPS, FedEx, and DHL are also abbreviated. The “expand abbreviations” rule is really for street addresses, not everything in OSM. Taginfo can show you what values are currently stored in the `operator` tag:

Re: [OSM-talk] Community Data License Agreement – Permissive and ODbL?

2018-08-22 Thread Bryan Housel
Hmm - I’ve always felt Who’s on First was more of a Wikidata competitor than anything. It contains historical names.. I don’t see it as really having the same mission as OSM at all. > On Aug 22, 2018, at 2:08 PM, Simon Poole wrote: > > WOF as a OSM compeitor. > > Am 22.08.2018 um 20:06

[OSM-talk] State of the Map US Early Bird tickets end tomorrow!

2018-08-16 Thread Bryan Housel
A few quick reminders about... State of the Map US  Detroit, MI · October 5-7th  The reduced-price tickets will be available until midnight tomorrow on Friday, August 17th. Sign up today before the price doubles… https://2018.stateofthemap.us/ By the

[Talk-us] State of the Map US Early Bird tickets end tomorrow!

2018-08-16 Thread Bryan Housel
A few quick reminders about... State of the Map US  Detroit, MI · October 5-7th  The reduced-price tickets will be available until midnight tomorrow on Friday, August 17th. Sign up today before the price doubles… https://2018.stateofthemap.us/ By the

Re: [Talk-us] State Open Data

2018-08-07 Thread Bryan Housel
Hey Clifford, this is a great idea and thanks for volunteering to collect these open data sources.. Also make sure to check out Telenav’s mapping repo for a really impressive list of public sources of centerline data. https://github.com/TelenavMapping/mapping-projects/issues Bryan > On Aug

[Talk-us] iD news - v2.10.0 with OSM Notes and more

2018-08-03 Thread Bryan Housel
We released iD v2.10.0 last week!  OSM Notes You can now create, comment on, and resolve OpenStreetMap notes from within iD! This work was done as part of Thomas Hervey's 2018 Google Summer of Code project, and you can read about it in his diary here:

[OSM-talk] iD news - v2.10.0 with OSM Notes and more

2018-08-03 Thread Bryan Housel
We released iD v2.10.0 last week!  OSM Notes You can now create, comment on, and resolve OpenStreetMap notes from within iD! This work was done as part of Thomas Hervey's 2018 Google Summer of Code project, and you can read about it in his diary here:

Re: [Talk-us] Hostility towards US mappers

2018-07-25 Thread Bryan Housel
Hey Christoph, you make a good point, and I apologize for the flippant subject line. I realize that changing “Senseless sidewalks” to “Senseless Germans” distracts from the overall point that I was trying to make. In truth, most sidewalks are fine and most Germans are sensible people. That

Re: [Talk-us] Senseless Germans, again.

2018-07-25 Thread Bryan Housel
> Let's concentrate on the concerns Frederik raised and discuss them based > on their own merit. I’m focused on this part of the email. This is not an ok way to talk about teams of mappers working in the US: It’s obviously a work in progress. He can’t just threaten to “delete them all once

Re: [Talk-us] Senseless Germans, again.

2018-07-25 Thread Bryan Housel
AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > > Hi, > > On 25.07.2018 12:33, Bryan Housel wrote: >> Do you live in Austin, TX? >> If not, why do you care whether the students want to map sidewalks there? > > What does this have to do with my nationality? > > Bye > Frederik

Re: [Talk-us] Senseless Germans, again.

2018-07-25 Thread Bryan Housel
Do you live in Austin, TX? If not, why do you care whether the students want to map sidewalks there? Since you seem confused about “what the purpose of this is”, and can’t even be bothered to look up any of the “long-ish discussions”, I’ve done a Google search for you to find this:

Re: [OSM-talk] iD news - v2.9.0 now with Bing Streetside support

2018-06-19 Thread Bryan Housel
> > Regards. > > De : Bryan Housel > Envoyé : mardi 19 juin 2018 13:46 > À : David Marchal > Cc : osm-talk > Objet : Re: [OSM-talk] iD news - v2.9.0 now with Bing Streetside support > > Be nice, we’re improving the resolution: > https://github.com/openst

Re: [OSM-talk] iD news - v2.9.0 now with Bing Streetside support

2018-06-19 Thread Bryan Housel
ld > have been a great help to add destination[:*] tags. Nice move from Microsoft > anyway. > > Regards. > > De : Bryan Housel > Envoyé : samedi 16 juin 2018 16:32 > À : osm-talk > Objet : [OSM-talk] iD news - v2.9.0 now with Bing Streetside support > > Happy

[Talk-us] iD news - v2.9.0 now with Bing Streetside support

2018-06-16 Thread Bryan Housel
Happy Summer!  I just released iD v2.9.0 this week and it’s now available on openstreetmap.org for editing. If you use street level imagery you will like this...  Bing Streetside now supported iD now includes a layer for Bing Streetside! This new layer provides

[OSM-talk] iD news - v2.9.0 now with Bing Streetside support

2018-06-16 Thread Bryan Housel
Happy Summer!  I just released iD v2.9.0 this week and it’s now available on openstreetmap.org for editing. If you use street level imagery you will like this...  Bing Streetside now supported iD now includes a layer for Bing Streetside! This new layer provides

Re: [Talk-us] Slack: Do we need an Alternative (was Planning an import in Price George...)

2018-06-09 Thread Bryan Housel
> I'm also interested in how others feel about Slack. Is it good for the > community or should we look elsewhere? Glad you asked! I think Slack has changed the way I work for the better. Here are some advantages.. * lower barrier to entry for less technical folks * great mobile experience *

Re: [Talk-us] Prospect Mountain Interchange Reconfiguration, Binghamton NY

2018-05-18 Thread Bryan Housel
Thanks for the heads up Andy! Of the top of my head, I consider Russ Nelson, Kevin Kenny, Richard Welty are all power users in NY State (though maybe not the Binghamton area) and would be great for this. I will share your message on Slack too. Bryan > On May 18, 2018, at 6:57 AM, Andy

Re: [Talk-us] Drop the tiger:reviewed tag from roads

2018-05-11 Thread Bryan Housel
I agree it would be great to get rid of `tiger:reviewed`. I proposed this for iD 3 years ago but received some pushback: https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/2697 I would be ok if it were removed via a mechanical edit. As an aside, I

[Talk-us] iD news - v2.8.0, GSoC, OSM-US Hackathon 5/21-5/22 at Mapbox DC!

2018-05-04 Thread Bryan Housel
Hello all! I’ve got a bunch of exciting items to share about iD - please check out the news and share..  iD 2.8.0 released, including Community Index We've changed how things look on the post-upload screen. Now after saving your edits, you will see a list of OpenStreetMap communities that

[OSM-talk] iD news - v2.8.0, GSoC, OSM-US Hackathon 5/21-5/22 at Mapbox DC!

2018-05-04 Thread Bryan Housel
Hello all! I’ve got a bunch of exciting items to share about iD - please check out the news and share..  iD 2.8.0 released, including Community Index We've changed how things look on the post-upload screen. Now after saving your edits, you will see a list of OpenStreetMap communities that

Re: [OSM-talk] Help me build an OSM Community Index

2018-04-04 Thread Bryan Housel
ithub issue. It probably > should extend out more than just the metro relation but I felt it was a good > start. > > Clifford > > On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 2:50 AM, Paul Norman <penor...@mac.com > <mailto:penor...@mac.com>> wrote: > On 3/31/2018 5:25 AM, Bryan Ho

Re: [OSM-talk] QA bots commenting on changesets - your thoughts?

2018-04-04 Thread Bryan Housel
I think the more we can do to automate QA, the better. There should be some common sense guidelines for running bots though: * user names with “bot” in them * user profiles that say what the bot does and where the source code is * common place on GitHub for bot development (osmlab/bots?)

Re: [OSM-talk] Help me build an OSM Community Index

2018-04-03 Thread Bryan Housel
to GitHub tickets  In your email you mentioned some osm wiki pages that contain a lot of meetup links - I’d do those first... Thanks, Bryan > On Apr 2, 2018, at 12:45 PM, Andy Townsend <ajt1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 31/03/18 13:25, Bryan Housel wrote: >> I’ve started

[OSM-talk] Help me build an OSM Community Index

2018-03-31 Thread Bryan Housel
I’ve started building an index of OSM community resources here: https://github.com/osmlab/osm-community-index "Resources" can be links to forums, meetups, Slack groups, Facebook groups, mailing lists, and so on. Anything that mappers, especially

Re: [Talk-us] DigitalGlobe Premium Imagery: Invalid Token?

2018-03-10 Thread Bryan Housel
I updated the tokens, per DG request, in this commit: https://github.com/osmlab/editor-layer-index/commit/034ac3910fc2fe118394bc953d3ca4ca2212b71c I don’t know how to update the imagery that JOSM

Re: [Talk-us] iD news - v2.7.0, new imagery, upgraded turn restriction editor

2018-03-05 Thread Bryan Housel
> Thank you, thank you! > > I'd just recently cleared the use of New York State Orthos Online (which has > 30-cm 'leaves down' imagery!) - and now I can see it for casual edits in iD > as well as serious editing sessions in JOSM. > > Is there a way that I can make it the default? For just

[OSM-talk] iD news - v2.7.0, new imagery, upgraded turn restriction editor

2018-03-05 Thread Bryan Housel
Hey everyone, I just released iD v2.7.0 and it’s now available for editing on openstreetmap.org  Release Highlights •  We've added support for more background imagery from WMS servers. Thanks Martin Raifer and Guillaume Rischard for your work on this.. Press B to

Re: [OSM-talk] iD news - v2.6.0 lots of new features...

2018-01-22 Thread Bryan Housel
Yes this is an interesting issue.. A lot of people were pretty upset when the `addr:unit` field started appearing in their address field. Field was added here: https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/pull/4235 At the time it seemed pretty harmless.

[Talk-us] iD news - v2.6.0 lots of new features...

2018-01-22 Thread Bryan Housel
Happy 2018! I just released iD v2.6.0 yesterday..  Release Highlights -  You can now adjust imagery brightness, contrast, saturation, and sharpness. (Not currently available in Internet Explorer or Edge) Try enhancing the background imagery by opening the Background pane (shortcut “B")

[OSM-talk] iD news - v2.6.0 lots of new features...

2018-01-22 Thread Bryan Housel
Happy 2018! I just released iD v2.6.0 yesterday..  Release Highlights -  You can now adjust imagery brightness, contrast, saturation, and sharpness. (Not currently available in Internet Explorer or Edge) Try enhancing the background imagery by opening the Background pane (shortcut “B")

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM data, how can we contribute to keep it to a reasonable size?

2018-01-22 Thread Bryan Housel
Milo's point on database growth is actually very important, and I worry that it might be missed. We shouldn’t be concerned about shaving a few bytes off of the tag values to save space, or the power consumption of different processors. OSM needs a growth plan. We should already have pretty

Re: [OSM-talk] Automatically generated changeset discussion comments by OSMCha

2018-01-12 Thread Bryan Housel
e comments look like they were written by a six-year-old” Be nice everyone! > On Jan 12, 2018, at 9:25 AM, Mike N <nice...@att.net> wrote: > > On 1/12/2018 9:13 AM, Bryan Housel wrote: >> I love this feature, and I hope Wille keeps it in. >> The message is very w

Re: [OSM-talk] Automatically generated changeset discussion comments by OSMCha

2018-01-12 Thread Bryan Housel
I love this feature, and I hope Wille keeps it in. The message is very well written, and it’s not spam if the user asks for their changeset to be reviewed and then somebody actually does it. Thanks Bryan > On Jan 12, 2018, at 9:07 AM, Michael Reichert wrote: > > Hi, >

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM tagging validation lib

2017-12-24 Thread Bryan Housel
re aren't any. Also reduce the numbers of highway=footway rather > than path. > > We might even get a few more building=yes tags rather than the range we get > at the moment. > > Thanks John > >> On 24 December 2017 at 10:45, Bryan Housel <br...@7thposition.co

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM tagging validation lib

2017-12-24 Thread Bryan Housel
Have you looked at https://github.com/osmlab/osmlint ? Of all the current validation efforts, that seems like the most promising. I’d definitely echo what other people are saying about avoiding the osm wiki if possible. It works on vector tiles though, so

[Talk-us] iD news: v2.5.0, OpenStreetCam, and request for translation help..

2017-12-07 Thread Bryan Housel
Happy December! We have lots moving in the iD editor project.  OpenStreetCam Last month, I released iD v2.5.0 (November 10, 2017), which includes support for OpenStreetCam. If you haven’t tried it yet, you should really check out how easy it is to work with street level imagery in iD.

[OSM-talk] iD news: v2.5.0, OpenStreetCam, and request for translation help..

2017-12-07 Thread Bryan Housel
Happy December! We have lots moving in the iD editor project.  OpenStreetCam Last month, I released iD v2.5.0 (November 10, 2017), which includes support for OpenStreetCam. If you haven’t tried it yet, you should really check out how easy it is to work with street level imagery in iD.

Re: [OSM-talk] What would make MapRoulette better?

2017-11-20 Thread Bryan Housel
Hey Martijn, it’s currently possible to send comments and hashtags to iD (they can be sent as two different parameters, or just embed the hashtags in the comments like the task managers currently do). It’s not possible to set other changeset tags, but it is something I could add if there is a

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

2017-10-29 Thread Bryan Housel
Haha I promise I won’t be offended. I welcome the criticism - this is part of working on something that matters to a lot of people. Anyway, iD already does train the user in the walkthrough how to assign tags, and iD does warn the user on the save screen if they are uploading untagged

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

2017-09-17 Thread Bryan Housel
I’d call it Q936 :) Bryan 2017-09-16 23:11 GMT+02:00 Yuri Astrakhan >: The new service is getting more and more usage, but it lacks the most important thing - a good name. So far my two choices are: * wikosm * wikidosm Suggestions?

Re: [OSM-talk] iD news: v2.4.0 released

2017-08-26 Thread Bryan Housel
Ok, I see what you mean.. Would it be ok if we just add +1 to the number before uploading the changeset? > On Aug 26, 2017, at 2:17 PM, Dave F wrote: > > >> It does display the same number as is displayed on a user’s homepage, but >> that number is 0 before they

Re: [OSM-talk] iD news: v2.4.0 released

2017-08-26 Thread Bryan Housel
htags used for? > > Surely changesets_count should start at 1, the same as displayed on a users > homepage? > > DaveF > On 26/08/2017 06:47, Bryan Housel wrote: >> iD v2.4.0 was released August 25, 2017 and is now available for editing on >> openstreetmap.org <http://ope

[OSM-talk] iD news: v2.4.0 released

2017-08-25 Thread Bryan Housel
iD v2.4.0 was released August 25, 2017 and is now available for editing on openstreetmap.org  A few highlights from the release: NEW Esri World Imagery layer: Esri has made their World Imagery Service available for OSM use! Read more here:

[Talk-us] iD news: v2.4.0 released

2017-08-25 Thread Bryan Housel
iD v2.4.0 was released August 25, 2017 and is now available for editing on openstreetmap.org  A few highlights from the release: NEW Esri World Imagery layer: Esri has made their World Imagery Service available for OSM use! Read more here:

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Sourcing Open Aerial Imagery

2017-07-27 Thread Bryan Housel
Thanks for the correction Simon! Sorry I missed that announcement... I will update the editor-layer-index project docs to include some guidance on using the imagery waiver. Bryan > On Jul 27, 2017, at 1:29 PM, Simon Poole <si...@poole.ch> wrote: > > > > Am 27.07.2017 u

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Sourcing Open Aerial Imagery

2017-07-27 Thread Bryan Housel
Thanks Kevin for the followup - sourcing imagery for use in editors is indeed a complicated topic! I think the key takeaways (TL;DR): - there are lots of public sources of aerial imagery available, especially at the us-state level, and we could use help collecting them. -

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Decline in accuracy of capture date metadata in Bing imagery

2017-07-26 Thread Bryan Housel
Hey this is a topic that I care about - It turns out, you are already chipping in some money for high resolution orthoimagery! OK state Geographic Information Council http://okmaps.onenet.net/index.html OK state GIS Portal:

Re: [Talk-us] Tiger Zip Data Removal Project (Update)

2017-07-15 Thread Bryan Housel
Hey Hans, We have a closed issue on the iD tracker for automatic removal of `tiger:reviewed`: https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/2697 We haven’t discussed automatic removal of any other tiger tags. (I don’t have a strong opinion for

[Talk-us] iD news: v2.3.0 released

2017-07-07 Thread Bryan Housel
iD v2.3.0 was released July 7, 2017 and is now available for editing on openstreetmap.org  A few highlights from the release: New: Toggle-able information panels can be used to expose more advanced features without cluttering the user interface. ⌘I: Show/Hide

Re: [Talk-us] NJ mass road demotions?

2017-06-10 Thread Bryan Housel
2 months later and they’re still at it. I finally did reach out to the user with a changeset comment here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/46561481#map=12/40.7194/-74.4255 What’s an acceptable amount of time to

Re: [OSM-talk] iD news: v2.2.0 released

2017-05-09 Thread Bryan Housel
;> wrote: > Excellent, the radial menu's finally been removed! It always appeared > precisely where I wanted to edit! I might start using it now. > > The walk-through is very intuitive. > > DaveF. > > > On 09/05/2017 19:49, Bryan Housel wrote: >> iD v2.2.0

[Talk-us] iD news: v2.2.0 released

2017-05-09 Thread Bryan Housel
iD v2.2.0 was released May 9 2017 and is now available for editing on openstreetmap.org This is possibly our biggest release ever because it includes over 100 features and represents about 3 months of work by 13 contributors, and countless other translators and

[OSM-talk] iD news: v2.2.0 released

2017-05-09 Thread Bryan Housel
iD v2.2.0 was released May 9 2017 and is now available for editing on openstreetmap.org This is possibly our biggest release ever because it includes over 100 features and represents about 3 months of work by 13 contributors, and countless other translators and

Re: [Talk-us] Fixing Multipolygons

2017-04-21 Thread Bryan Housel
Jochen thanks for taking the lead on this issue! I just wanted to add for anyone working on this effort, old-style multipolygons will render a bit differently in iD soon. They will have little gaps along the edge, screenshot here:

[OSM-talk] Help Translate iD!

2017-04-20 Thread Bryan Housel
I'm excited to announce that I'll be releasing a new version of iD in the next week or two. If you are fluent in multiple languages, or know someone who is, I’d love your help in translating iD! We support over 70 languages, but many of them are barely translated. Localizing iD helps bring

Re: [Talk-us] [HOT] iD issues?

2017-04-20 Thread Bryan Housel
As far as I know, the issue is only with Chrome on Windows.. Firefox, IE, and Edge should be ok. We’re tracking it here: https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/3805 It’s very similar to another issue that I fixed in December, so I think I

Re: [Talk-us] NJ mass road demotions?

2017-04-04 Thread Bryan Housel
I agree that seems wrong.. If you’ve got a list of changesets, or the username who is doing it, I can help with the revert. Thanks, Bryan > On Apr 4, 2017, at 11:00 AM, Albert Pundt wrote: > > Recently somebody went around and bulk-"demoted" many northern NJ roads. >

Re: [Talk-us] greenways tagging

2017-03-23 Thread Bryan Housel
I agree that that Tiffany Avenue is just a normal street, not a “living street”. Our driver even drove it a few times and you can see it pretty clearly on Mapillary. https://www.mapillary.com/app/?pKey=Tt-musXAKC5Qpuo7OAjyQA=photo=37.74456457237605=-122.42159001944155=19.941223418815095

[OSM-talk] iD is getting a new menu...

2017-02-25 Thread Bryan Housel
Just wanted to pre-announce that the next version of iD (coming sometime in March) will have a new menu! Here’s a picture: https://twitter.com/bhousel/status/835607333640232962 We don’t often change iD’s user interface, but we felt that

[OSM-talk] iD news: v2.1.0 released

2017-02-04 Thread Bryan Housel
iD v2.1.0 was released Feb 4 2017 and is now available for editing on openstreetmap.org Here are some of our favorite new features: - Disconnected endpoints now appear slightly larger, and iD will warn if a user creates a disconnected road - Improved save flow

[Talk-us] iD news: v2.1.0 released

2017-02-04 Thread Bryan Housel
iD v2.1.0 was released Feb 4 2017 and is now available for editing on openstreetmap.org Here are some of our favorite new features: - Disconnected endpoints now appear slightly larger, and iD will warn if a user creates a disconnected road - Improved save flow

Re: [OSM-talk] Disable snapping in iD Editor?

2016-11-16 Thread Bryan Housel
Yes, you can hold down the Alt/Option key to disable snapping in iD. > On Nov 16, 2016, at 9:47 AM, Mike Thompson wrote: > > Is there a way to temporarily disable snapping in the iD editor? In JOSM one > can hold down the Ctrl key while in the add mode to do so, but I

[Talk-us] iD v2.0.0 beta - help test!

2016-11-04 Thread Bryan Housel
We have been working really hard on iD the past few months and we’re releasing v2.0.0 in the next week or so. iD v2.0.0 will look and feel the same as v1.x but has significant changes to the code structure. It is written in a modular style, and uses new tools to build the code. This will

[OSM-talk] iD v2.0.0 beta - help test!

2016-11-04 Thread Bryan Housel
We have been working really hard on iD the past few months and we’re releasing v2.0.0 in the next week or so. iD v2.0.0 will look and feel the same as v1.x but has significant changes to the code structure. It is written in a modular style, and uses new tools to build the code. This will

Re: [OSM-talk] osm.org Banner about SotM (missing THE SotM in Brussels!)

2016-09-13 Thread Bryan Housel
The OpenStreetMap site will show you banners for any upcoming events in a rotation until you dismiss the banner by clicking the ‘X'. After you have dismissed a banner, you won’t be shown the banner again (unless you clear your cookies). > On Sep 13, 2016, at 2:49 PM, Stefan Keller

Re: [Talk-us] Check your turn:lanes

2016-08-25 Thread Bryan Housel
This was discussed extensively on the tagging mailing list 2 months ago: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2016-June/029335.html The consensus at the time was that combinations including ‘none’ are not

Re: [Talk-us] Proposing import of sidewalk data Seattle, WA, USA

2016-08-02 Thread Bryan Housel
Meg this is excellent! Thank you for sharing your plans with `talk-us` and `talk-us-pugetsound`. I’m looking forward to seeing this public data source imported into OpenStreetMap. Given that your team is located in Seattle and is very involved with the local community there, I don’t see any

[OSM-talk] iD news: v1.9.7 released

2016-07-17 Thread Bryan Housel
iD v1.9.7 was released Jul 16 2016 and is now available for editing on openstreetmap.org The release includes: - Features on `addr:interpolation` lines will be rendered as points with icon - Fix crash when selecting and moving multiple points - Fix bug determining

[Talk-us] iD news: v1.9.7 released

2016-07-17 Thread Bryan Housel
iD v1.9.7 was released Jul 16 2016 and is now available for editing on openstreetmap.org The release includes: - Features on `addr:interpolation` lines will be rendered as points with icon - Fix crash when selecting and moving multiple points - Fix bug determining

[Talk-us] iD news: v1.9.6 released

2016-06-08 Thread Bryan Housel
iD v1.9.6 was released June 7 2016 and is now available for editing on openstreetmap.org The release includes: - Embed interactive Mapillary JS viewer (worked on by Peter Neubauer and Kushan Joshi) - Add “grill” as search term for `amenity=bbq` preset (worked on by

[OSM-talk] iD news: v1.9.6 released

2016-06-08 Thread Bryan Housel
iD v1.9.6 was released June 7 2016 and is now available for editing on openstreetmap.org The release includes: - Embed interactive Mapillary JS viewer (worked on by Peter Neubauer and Kushan Joshi) - Add “grill” as search term for `amenity=bbq` preset (worked on by

[Talk-us] iD news: v1.9.5 released

2016-05-25 Thread Bryan Housel
iD v1.9.5 was released May 25 2016 and is now available for editing on openstreetmap.org The release includes: - Fix bug causing Russian track type translated strings to sneak into tag values - Change color of save button as user edits increase (built by tanerochris)

[OSM-talk] iD news: v1.9.5 released

2016-05-25 Thread Bryan Housel
iD v1.9.5 was released May 25 2016 and is now available for editing on openstreetmap.org The release includes: - Fix bug causing Russian track type translated strings to sneak into tag values - Change color of save button as user edits increase (built by tanerochris)

[Talk-us] iD news: v1.9.4 released

2016-05-04 Thread Bryan Housel
iD v1.9.4 was released May 3 2016 and is now available for editing on openstreetmap.org The release includes: - Fix bug causing the Save button to remain disabled even when changeset comment entered - Support setting imagery offset via url parameter - New multiple

[OSM-talk] iD news: v1.9.4 released

2016-05-04 Thread Bryan Housel
iD v1.9.4 was released May 3 2016 and is now available for editing on openstreetmap.org The release includes: - Fix bug causing the Save button to remain disabled even when changeset comment entered - Support setting imagery offset via url parameter - New multiple selection field type (built by

[Talk-us] iD news: v1.9.3 release and participation in Google Summer of Code

2016-04-28 Thread Bryan Housel
Hi, OSM! Just wanted to announce a few things about the iD editor project.. iD 1.9.3 was released Monday 4/25/16 and is now available for editing on openstreetmap.org . The release includes: - easy draggable imagery offset adjustment control (built by Kushan Joshi) -

[Talk-us] iD 1.8.1 release candidate with IE11 & Edge support

2015-12-02 Thread Bryan Housel
Hey everyone, Just wanted to send a quick note that I’ve prepared a new version of iD that supports Internet Explorer 11 and Edge browsers (finally!). I have only tested these browsers through vmware, so I would really like to get some more mappers to try them out and let me know if there are

[OSM-talk] iD 1.8.1 release candidate with IE11 & Edge support

2015-12-02 Thread Bryan Housel
Hey everyone, Just wanted to send a quick note that I’ve prepared a new version of iD that supports Internet Explorer 11 and Edge browsers (finally!). I have only tested these browsers through vmware, so I would really like to get some more mappers to try them out and let me know if there are

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=residential_link

2015-11-10 Thread Bryan Housel
Makes sense to me for little connecting ways between `highway=residential` I just added a `highway=residential_link` here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/379558356#map=19/40.68813/-74.38970 Thanks, Bryan > On Nov 10,

Re: [OSM-talk] [HOT] Post-seism Pleiades images of 3 Afghanistan cities

2015-10-29 Thread Bryan Housel
FYI, iD does understand {zoom} in an imagery url - you don’t need to replace it with {z}. Thanks, Bryan > On Oct 29, 2015, at 6:54 AM, Jean-Guilhem Cailton wrote: > > Hi, > > After the Oct 26 Badakhshan earthquake, Airbus DS has donated access to > Pleiades images of

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