Re: [OSM-talk] proposed mechanical edit - moving FIXME=* to fixme=*

Hi, I support this edit. This spring, I was working on changeset validation code and I was quite surprised to find that FIXME (an invalid key) was so prevalent in the database. I had to collect a bunch of extra validation changesets with the FIXME tag present to train the neural network that an

[OSM-talk] New data center status for openstreetmap.org?

Hi, I can't seem to find any 2018 minutes online for the Operations Working Group. An RFQ for a new data center was sent out in February 2018. https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2018/02/19/osmf-request-for-proposals-data-centre-2018/ Given that the previous/current data center space is donated, I

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM SPAM detector

m"? > In what way are users informed of spammy changesets? > > DaveF > > > On 05/03/2018 14:06, Jason Remillard wrote: > > Hi, > > This weekend I put together a SPAM detector for OSM changesets. > > https://github.com/jremillard/osm-changeset-classification >

[OSM-talk] OSM SPAM detector

Hi, This weekend I put together a SPAM detector for OSM changesets. https://github.com/jremillard/osm-changeset-classification You don't need to be a developer to contribute, send over any SPAM'y changesets you come across via a github issue, a pull request, or even an email to me. I just need

Re: [Talk-us] Help fight advertising

Hi Frederik > * Should we have some MapRoulette task or OSMCha automatism or OSMI view > to detect potential advertising? > > > Detecting these change sets should be quite straightforward. Here is a Keras sample that could be easily modified to process change sets. The model in this example is

Re: [OSM-talk] Nominatim on the main page

Hi Grant, If you read Serge's post, he is quite clear on what his preferred solution to this resourcing problem. Our tiles and Nominatim services should have terms of services that include paid higher levels that support the foundation, which in turn pays for the infrastructure. When somebody is

[OSM-talk] AI With Satellite Images for OpenStreetMap

Hi, Microsoft this week granted permission to use the Bing satellite images for nonprofit AI projects that are contributing to OSM. Mapbox has indicated that they are also on board (with some conditions/restrictions). I think this pretty big deal for OSM. If you are interested in this kind of

Re: [Talk-us] US Sports Fields Import

sting > OSM data, and would be under the ODbL? > > I haven't looked at your data, or tried to run the code myself, but I'd > like to do it sometime. > > Rory > > On 30/12/17 20:51, Jason Remillard wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have trained a neural network to f

[Talk-us] US Sports Fields Import

Hi, I have trained a neural network to find baseball, basketball, and baseball fields in satellite images. It was trained using OSM and bing tiles. Using the neural network I have mapped 2,800 new fields in the US northeast, I would like to import the missing fields back into OSM. Wiki project

Re: [Talk-us] Need advice on a project i've taken on

Hi It is my opinion that removing imported non standard tags is almost always ok. It has been 10 years since tiger was imported, any effort to maintain it should be welcomed. We own it now, no script is comming to automatically update it. You might want to run it as an automated edit.

Re: [Talk-us] Green Mountain National Forest cleanup

Hi Kevin, hstore support, which would allow rendering boundary=protected_area is being actively worked on the main style sheet. Its coming... https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/1504 https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/1975 Otherwise, I agree with

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Boston, MA, USA addr:housenumber Import

Hi Roman, The city of Boston building data set for buildings has address. http://bostonopendata.boston.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/492746f09dde475285b01ae7fc95950e_1 It seems like they have already figured out what address goes on what building. Should this data set be used rather than the

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Boston, MA, USA addr:housenumber Import

Hi Roman , - The source addresses uses abbreviations (RD, ST,etc) are you expanding them? - The source addresses are capitalized, are you fixing that? - How are you dealing with multiple addresses per building - How are you dealing with multiple buildings per address. - Unless you are working

Re: [OSM-talk] Abandoned Rails

Hi I'd therefor like to propose that abandoned railways be treated like borders. Even if you can't see it along a given stretch there are people who can and they have put a huge amount of effort into that work. Lets respect that and strengthen the community rather than deleting it and doing

[OSM-talk] Bing satellite tiles

Hi, Given the recent large changes to Microsoft's bing mapping group, is osm at risk for losing access to the bing (uber?) satellite tiles? It is a pretty important resource to osm. Jason ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-us] Tesla Supercharger import

Hi Charles, tag k='capacity' v='6' / tag k='socket:tesla_supercharger' v='6' / tag k='name' v='Tesla Supercharger Harris Ranch' / tag k='addr:city' v='Coalinga' / tag k='tesla:ref' v='harrisranchsupercharger' /

Re: [OSM-talk] Keeping imported data updated with source changes

Hi Wiktor, I don't think an address tag is needed or desirable. The best way of doing this is to compare versions of the official data (perhaps every 6 months), making a list of things that have changed so that they can be examined in OSM. Of coarse the big issue is that the matching is not

Re: [OSM-talk] Keeping imported data updated with source changes

...@vink.pl wrote: 2015-01-10 16:44 GMT+01:00 Jason Remillard remillard.ja...@gmail.com: Hi Wiktor, I don't think an address tag is needed or desirable. The best way of doing this is to compare versions of the official data (perhaps every 6 months), making a list of things that have changed so

Re: [OSM-talk] Steve's better map

Hi, The OpenAddress project is great, but we still need addresses in OSM. It would make sense to write OSM importing (and updating) software that is assumes OpenAddress as an input, rather than the raw files released by official GIS committees. By standardizing on the output of the OpenAddress

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

Hi, This is an unhappy read. I am stunned that the board members don't have access to the bank registers. How can any decisions be made about the servers, STOM, fundraising effectiveness, etc without having a handle on the cash? The foundation handles so little money, it should be very simple

Re: [Talk-us] Merging NYC buildings

Hi, the building to the east. In this case it was the tax parcel and multiple address that indicate two buildings not one. We have a the MA state tax parcel data as a translucent imaging layer hosted on the US OSM. It can be used in JOSM, and it useful for all kinds of things. Perhaps, the

Re: [Talk-us] routing tags used by actual routing applications

confusing. Thanks Jason On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Martijn van Exel marti...@telenav.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 12:15 PM, Jason Remillard remillard.ja...@gmail.com wrote: Playing around with scout, I have discovered that it will not route over tracks, cycleways, and paths unless

[Talk-us] routing tags used by actual routing applications

Hi, Would it be possible for somebody from telenav/scout/skobbler to update this page, or make a new wiki page describing what tagging is actually used to determine if a way is considered for a route? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_tags_for_routing Playing around with scout, I have

Re: [Talk-us] routing tags used by actual routing applications

Hi Martin, Some of the highway tag values are not clear. For example, scout does not route over highway=tracks, unless you are in pedestrian mode. It seems like a reasonable decision, perhaps all of the routers do this, but the wiki documentation says nothing of the sort, and it surprised me. If

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: USBRS WikiProject seeks volunteer mappers

Hi, Bike Route 1 on Cape Cod, MA is signed. I saw a bunch of them last summer biking around on vacation. In my opinion at this point the new routes should go through the import process, but given that signs are already up, and over time more are sure to come, I don't see any problem having the

Re: [talk-au] [Imports] Proposed Data import - Queensland, Australia: Peaks and Mountains

Hi, Attribution, source, source_ref should go on the change set. Round ele value to a meter, 657.003999554 should be 657 I think The attribution, should go here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors ? Otherwise, everything else looks ok. Thanks Jason On Sat, May 3, 2014 at

Re: [Talk-us] Sidewalks as footpaths

Hi I think highway=footway for a sidewalk is 100% ok. Also I get the impression that the tagging is not settled yet either. Jason On Wednesday, April 30, 2014, William Morris wboyk...@geosprocket.com wrote: Is there a general OSM policy on marking sidewalks as highway=footway? User

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] fleet manager speed limit import proposal (Canada, USA)

Hi Richard, - Is it possible to get the way version number in the output file? Otherwise, if the drivers are using older map data, we might overwrite more recent corrections. - Will the data have duplicate change requests on the same way id from different drivers, so we can get some kind of

[Talk-us] Any foursquare/OSM editing update? How about Craigslist?

Hi, Richard Fairhurst, posted an blog about attributing OSM this weekd. http://blog.systemed.net//post/7 Beyond attributing OSM, hopefully our large commercial users can take it a step further and provide a way of editing OSM from their user interface. For example, in August, Foursquare

Re: [Talk-us] Any foursquare/OSM editing update? How about Craigslist?

Hi, For Foursquare, I am interested in knowing if it has been rolled out everywhere, do they have any idea how much the edit button has been pressed, and if it has caused any support burden or other unexpected problems. As a baseline, hopefully adding the edit button does not harm... Of

[Talk-us] GNIS updating

Hello Everybody, My winter OSM project is to merge all of the imported GNIS reservoir points in MA with the actual water ways. It is a manual process, I am about 60% through it. I have been getting very, very familiar with the GNIS data set. When I find a confusing, wrong GNIS point, or duplicate

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports-us] Address Data Import for Fulton County, Georgia

Hi Saikrishna, I agree with Serge, we need to be 100% sure the license situation is straight. Often the data providers say the data is in the public domain, but in fact, isn't. Some workflow suggestions - In general, you should try to script the workflow from start to finish. You will be

Re: [OSM-talk] Bitcoin Spam

Hi, This is a good problem to have. The http://coinmap.org/ web site has a video on how to had POI to OSM. We should ask them to update the video. Thanks Jason. On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Hi, we're seeing a rising number of new ways and nodes

Re: [OSM-talk] Bitcoin Spam

Hi, I put on a comment on the u-tube video asking them to add instructions on how to enter addresses. The coinmap website uses OSM's other tags like shop/sport/etc for different icons. They are not encouraging tagless POI's. I suspect that the person running the coinmap website does not want

Re: [OSM-talk] Admin boundaries - data consumers

Hi Does India have a local osm chapter? If yes, this would be a perfect place to host the tiles. Many local chapters host tile servers. Thanks Jason On Monday, November 11, 2013, Arun Ganesh wrote: Easy: take everything from OSM but the borders and supply your own favourite borders from a

Re: [Talk-us] Admin borders in the US

Hello, The inconsistency is caused by those that insist on defining the project in terms of things that can be verified on the ground. My definition of the project has no inconsistency. A free map of the entire world. Thanks Jason On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 4:04 PM, Serge Wroclawski

Re: [OSM-talk] Admin borders/separate database

Hi Richard, In my opinion, changing the back end (which would be ton of work), is probably not the best way of addressing the issues you are seeing. We are still dealing with the hangover from the batch poorly done imports in 2009 and 2010. We also have an editor issue. A better approach would

Re: [Talk-us] NHD tags

Anybody care about NHD tags The geometry is very rough on the import. I guess it's OK to delete the NHD tags while fixing up the geometry? On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 6:47 PM, Jason Remillard remillard.ja...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I came across my first NHD imported data set this weekend

[Talk-us] NHD tags

Hi, I came across my first NHD imported data set this weekend, in Western MA. http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/43638395 It has the following tags. NHD:ComID = 7711652 NHD:FCode = 39004 NHD:FDate = 1999/09/06 NHD:FTYPE = LakePond NHD:GNIS_ID = 00212194 NHD:GNIS_Name = Lake Winnemaug

Re: [Talk-us] Admin borders in the US: misalignments

Hi, For what it is worth, this is an example of a several different imports ignoring each other rather than a problem specific to admin boundaries. http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/36.2642/-95.7297 that is a good one. This is the same problem as above.

Re: [OSM-talk] Wikipedia article

know that 80% of the edits are done by the active editors. Using this important metric, we are about half the size of Wikipedia, which is amazing. Jason On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 12:11 AM, Jason Remillard remillard.ja...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Tom Your blog post is very interesting. Just in case

[OSM-talk] Wikipedia article

Hi, The MIT technology review just published this article on Wikipedia. http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/520446/the-decline-of-wikipedia/ It is sport criticizing Wikipedia, but two things stuck out. Wikipedia is trying to get more editors. However, they seem to have some

Re: [OSM-talk] Wikipedia article

for some relatively deep changes to infrastructure and user experience, but the more actionable and immediately useful thing that everyone can do is to be friendly. On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 5:06 PM, Jason Remillard remillard.ja...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, The MIT technology review just

Re: [OSM-talk] Timezones (was: Deleting data)

Hi, Everybody has these rules of thumb about what OSM is and isn't. I could write a couple of pages with all of my rules about imports. But, my number one rule is that if there is a individual or group that want to maintain a specific set of data in OSM (timezones, ancient rail roads, protected

Re: [OSM-talk] Carto stylesheet for parks/campgrounds

Hi, But, I don't see any reason why the default style shouldn't render individual sites at zoom level 19. It might drive a consensus on how to tag individual camp sites. If you feel like it, perhaps you could give that a try? Thanks Jason. On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 9:29 AM, Josh Doe

Re: [OSM-talk] NY Lakes and Ponds project is completed

Hi Russ, We have been working on the lakes and ponds in MA, and are about to start working on names. I have discovered that the GNIS database has the names of lakes and ponds, but they were not imported into OSM. Only the reservoirs were imported. If you are scrounging around for lake/pond

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] GNIS tag removal proposal

Hi Bryce, If you really want to be sure nobody gets confused by some of the extra tags in the drop tags, you could run an automated edit project to remove them. I am not 100% sure about this, but putting something in the JOSM drop list is 50x less work than running an automated edit project over

Re: [OSM-talk] Annoucement: Poup layer beta reworked

Hi Roland, I agree with your criticisms on the show data feature. However, I think it would better (easier for people to use) to fix the issues with show data, rather than duplicating a bunch of its functionality in a new way. You could put your tag - English translation into it, somehow fix the

Re: [OSM-talk] Annoucement: Poup layer beta reworked

Hi Roland, Without some context it is hard to make any comments. What are the goals/user scenarios of the feature not covered by the show data function? Thanks Jason On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 12:23 PM, Roland Olbricht roland.olbri...@gmx.de wrote: Dear all, the Popup extension for the

Re: [Talk-us] Putting businesses on OSM with onosm.org

Hi Ian, I gave it a spin. For me the interesting question is how to deploy it. Option 1, would be to make this a feature on the main OSM site. Instead of asking people to add a note, we could ask a couple more structured questions to insure we have enough info in the note. Let face it, add a

Re: [OSM-talk] Making iD the default editor on osm.org

Hi, Since everybody is pilling onto this, here is my 2 cents. I find the P2 editor completely unusable, it is too slow, its is very hard to use, and requires me to enable a completely insecure plugin to run. I would not be involved in the project if I did not discover JOSM shortly after

Re: [Talk-us] Mark your calendars for the #BirthdaySprint! (Now with snazzy website!)

Hi, Also, it looks like we have some actual locations for some US events this weekend too. San Francisco, Denver, Nashua, NH. Thanks Jason On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Kathleen Danielson kathleen.daniel...@gmail.com wrote: As you all know, in honor of OpenStreetMap's 9th birthday, we are

Re: [OSM-talk] Foursquare superusers encouraged to directly edit OSM

Hi, It is fantastic news that foursquare is adding an edit OSM button into their interface. Hopefully they have good luck with it and roll it out everywhere. Craigslist, how about an edit OSM button too? Jason. On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Stefan Keller sfkel...@gmail.com wrote: Hi

Re: [Talk-us] Cemeteries in OSM?

Hi Thomas, It would be 100% fine putting in individual gravestones into OSM. It is an physical object that can be surveyed, does not move, and people care about it. Personally, I would enjoy mapping the locations of gravestones of loved ones, important people, kind of like a little Internet

Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls

I just watched all 30 minutes of the video. I am a professional software engineer, the designer seemed extremely competent. Because of the presentation, I trust that the people working on his know what they are doing and I am very excited to see what comes next. Please lets give them some space to

Re: [Talk-us] Steady increase in the number of mappers in the US

Hello, Most people would agree that we don't have nearly enough people mapping. Clearly, transcending our early adopter types of GIS and open source software people will be needed. However, effective strategies for on boarding the next million people are going to be very different than what was

Re: [Talk-us] Edit-a-thon promotion

Hello, There is already a mapping party at NeighborLand, mapping seats in NYC! http://handbook.neighborland.com/nyc-mapping-party/ Bummer, they are not doing this on top of OSM! The site is using google for everything, even storing the raw data.

Re: [Talk-us] MA pond/lake import

that we covered in the previous import? Mike On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 7:49 PM, Jason Remillard remillard.ja...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, We would like to import the rest of the ponds/lakes into Massachusetts. The import wiki is below. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki

[Talk-us] Massachusetts MassGIS L3 Parcel JOSM image layer updated

Hi, The Massachusetts JOSM parcel image layer has been updated, with new MassGIS data. The following towns were added. Athol, Holbrook, Needham, Newbury, North Andover, Springfield, Wayland and Worcester The following towns/cities still don't have MassGIS data released yet. BOSTON, BUCKLAND,

[Talk-us] MA pond/lake import

Hi, We would like to import the rest of the ponds/lakes into Massachusetts. The import wiki is below. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/MassGIS_DEP_Wetlands_Import_2013 - The data is public domain (all MassGIS data is public domain) - We are conflating via a script to avoid double imports -

Re: [Talk-us] ref tags

make it a switch / option in osm2pgsql so folks can choose based on their local situation? On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Jason Remillard remillard.ja...@gmail.com wrote: Why not just patch osm2pgsql? It seems like the right place for this is on the relation. On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 4:03

Re: [Talk-us] Road Restriction: No RV's?

Hi Thomas, This is all i could find http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:hgv#Land-based_transportation motorhome=no, Not used really at all (69 times). http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/?key=motorhome The wiki page is empty. The hgv tag is used a lot more, but it is not really the

Re: [Talk-us] GNIS?

Hi Thomas, I don't know if we/OSM have a policy for dealing with the gnis imported data. I have been deleting all of the gnis tags except gnis:feature_id. The justification for deleting them is that given the gnis:feature_id and its position, the rest of the tags can be recreated from original

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging camp sites within campground

Hi Some guesses :-) 1. node, ref=xxx 2. node, addr:housenumber 3. node, place=locality, name=xxx 4. node, tourism=camp_site, name=xxx http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/?key=tourismvalue=camp_site#combinations Try using turbo overpass (http://overpass-turbo.eu/) , and look for campsites

Re: [Talk-us] Take another look at notes!

Hi, Since we are talking about the new notes feature. I think it is great, how about showing the notes by default on main OSM page? Thanks Jason. On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote: On 5/31/13 6:30 PM, Richard Welty wrote: On 5/31/13 2:57 PM, Alex

[Talk-us] MassGIS L3 parcel layer update

Hi, The JOSM iMassGIS L3 parcel layer has been updated with the latest data. 326/351 cities and towns are present. Beverly, Holliston, Leominster, Somerset and Sudbury were added. You may need to clear our your local cache to get the new towns. Thanks Jason.

[Talk-us] MassGIS L3 Parcel Layer updated

Hi, The Massachusetts L3 parcel imaging layer has been updated. 10 new towns were added by MassGIS on 4/25. 321 of 351 towns are now covered. If you use JOSM for map editing in MA and have not yet tried the parcel layer, you just need to update the image sources, activate it, and restart.

Re: [Talk-us] RC Airfields

Hi, I have an RC field in my town. http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/154081216 I just marked it has a private park, included its name, and the web site for the club that runs the field. Thanks Jason. On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Rick Marshall rick.marsh...@verticalgeo.com wrote:

Re: [Talk-us] Baltimore Building Outlines Import

Hi, If you carefully read the original mail, you will see two download links. Both of those links it says the data is public domain I don't think the the web site terms of use apply. The data can't both be in the public domain and have a license. Thanks Jason. On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 10:41 PM,

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM relation ID property in Wikidata

Hi, In general is seems like it might be useful to have some kind of somewhat permanent URL to an element inside of OSM. However, given what exists today shouldn't Wikipedia be using the overpass API for referencing OSM? Thanks Jason. On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 6:46 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com

[Talk-us] MA Parcel Image Layer for JOSM

Hi, With lots of help from Ian Dees, and Lars Ahlzen and servers from US OSM chapter, a new image layer is available in JOSM that includes the parcel boundaries, house numbers, and ownership info for most of Massachusetts. If you map in MA, update your images sources in JOSM, and activate the

Re: [OSM-talk] EWG policy on including features end users versus mappers

for bothering everybody + EWG with this. Thanks Jason. On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 9:37 PM, Jason Remillard remillard.ja...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Peter, When you talk about Users, who are you talking about? To me, the users of openstreetmap.org are a) mappers, who use the site to veryfiy their work and b

Re: [OSM-talk] osm.org POI display: next beta

Hi Paul, There was some discussion at the EWG about POI display being targeted at mappers vs. end users. Which is this aiming at? It is very disappointing to me that this is even being asked. Not sure how we going to get large enough to actually maintain all of our data. Following the 1% rule,

[OSM-talk] EWG policy on including features end users versus mappers

Hi Peter, When you talk about Users, who are you talking about? To me, the users of openstreetmap.org are a) mappers, who use the site to veryfiy their work and b) people using (or aiming at using) the data in their projects, mashups, products or papers. I, personally, don't see my

Re: [Talk-us] Chicago Buildings Redux

Hi Ian, - The changeset source tag, shouldn't that be something like - City of Chicago, data set blablabla. The github link will probably be dead in 5 years. You could use a website= tag on the change set for the github repo link. - The wiki says that you are planning on manually checking for

Re: [Talk-us] Chicago Buildings Redux

Hi Ian, One more thing. I realize that this is a controversial area. On our import MA building import we decided to not include the MassGIS building id. The id was just a munged centroid position and MassGIS indicated they don't intend for it to be preserved/maintained long term. Basically, the

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenSportMap database layer

Hi Dave, You might be able to build this off the existing GPS upload functionality. It looks like you can add any kind of tag you want. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/API_v0.6#Uploading_traces In general, it would probably be better to have the GPS traces in the main OSM database, so we can

Re: [Talk-us] OSM US Server Infrastructure

Hi, Just a thought on US tag info server, It might be better to just work on a patch to the existing tag info code/server to support regions directly. Having our own taginfo server is not that useful if it is not integrated into the main wiki. The wiki is the major entryway to the tag info

Re: [OSM-talk] Comments On New Tile Layer Guideline Process

to osm.org. -Mikel * Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron From: Jason Remillard remillard.ja...@gmail.com To: talk@openstreetmap.org Sent: Friday, February 22, 2013 11:27 AM Subject: [OSM-talk] Comments On New Tile Layer Guideline Process Hi

Re: [Talk-us] parcel data next steps

+1 on this, one step at a time. Lets just get the data first. I don't think we should worry about importing or standardizing into anything yet. That step should happen once we have a pretty good size sample of the data so we can figure out what's available. Thanks Jason.

[OSM-talk] additional layers on osm.org

Hello Everybody, We apparently have a lots extra bandwidth and disk space on our US OSM servers. Requests have gone out asking for ideas. We are also starting the google summer of code project suggestions. I wanted to confirm the major reason we only have 4 layers on osm.org, is a resourcing

Re: [OSM-talk] additional layers on osm.org

the context I described combined with the process as currently defined, would any of these layers have a chance of getting approved? Thanks Jason On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: On 21/02/13 15:05, Jason Remillard wrote: I wanted to confirm the major reason we

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] additional layers on osm.org

Hi, Well öpnvkarte was considered along with the current transport layer and the decision was that having two transport layers would be silly and that we preferred the one that we are currently offering. OK, just to be clear. öpnvkarte passed all of the technical requirements, but was

Re: [Talk-us] parcel boundaries and associated data in OSM

Hi Brian, All of your questions are good, and like you mentioned, we had a debate about this in late December. I don't think we (community and our software) are ready right now to import all of the parcel data in the US. However, it does not mean we should sit around and do nothing either! One

Re: [Talk-us] matching external data to OSM

to deploy this kind of functionality to everybody that needs it. Thanks Jason. On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Hi, On 12.01.2013 19:05, Jason Remillard wrote: I'm not sure if this has been discussed or not, if yes, a pointer to the old thread

[Talk-us] matching external data to OSM

Hi, I'm not sure if this has been discussed or not, if yes, a pointer to the old thread would be much appreciated! People working on imports, QA tools, and others come across the problem of comparing data in OSM to external data sources. So far, I have seen proposals that look like git and use

Re: [Talk-us] parcel data in OSM

Hi, * Another is, the threat of importing crappy TIGER ranges is motivating people to go look at available county data. That is fantastic. So as Ian alluded to pushing the conversation forward is itself a motivator The reason why I pushed the building import is that I am worried about

Re: [Talk-us] parcel data in OSM

Hi, On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: OSM is not data repository, it's a dataset onto itself. Through years of experience, and trial and error, we have found that importing these external datasets does not help the project in most cases. Therefore we

Re: [Talk-us] parcel data in OSM

with the existing data. I have been working on it, but I am not sure if I am doing the best thing. Thanks Jason. On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 4:33 PM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Jason Remillard remillard.ja...@gmail.com wrote: The open space layer

Re: [Talk-us] parcel data in OSM

having a parcel layer, in the openstreetmap.org, the map would be less useful to people who are trying to figure out where to take a hike. Thanks Jason. On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 6:11 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Hi, On 28.12.2012 22:16, Jason Remillard wrote: So the question

Re: [Talk-us] Imports and Mass Edits in the US

Hi, Just wanted to put my 2 cents on on this. OSM already has a rough consensus on its relationship to external data sources. I don't think there we be any controversy saying no thank you if somebody showed up wanting to import a shape file containing the habitat of say black bears. We don't

Re: [Talk-us] Imports and Mass Edits in the US

Hi, There are some technical issues that make imports more complicated than needed. First is the entire user account thing. I don't understand why it is needed. If something gets screwed up, either way, we are reverting the change set. Besides discouraging people form the import, I don't know we

Re: [Talk-us] Imports and Mass Edits in the US

. On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 9:38 PM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 9:15 PM, Jason Remillard remillard.ja...@gmail.com wrote: If you setup a user group to help with the imports, I think it will be overrun with people that don't like all imports or are terrified

Re: [Talk-us] Imports and Mass Edits in the US

(s) and accept my apologies. Thanks Jason. On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 10:07 PM, Jason Remillard remillard.ja...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Serge, You are tougher man than me :-) How about this, nobody on the committee that has not personally done at least 1 large import. If you do that, I am happy

[Talk-us] MassGIS building import - update 1

Hi, The following towns were imported this weekend that were previously mostly devoid of structures. Abington, Acton, Acushnet, Alford, Arlington, Ashfield, Auburn, Avon, Dunstable, Harwich, Leyden, Littleton, Mattapoisett, Millville, Mount Washington, Nahant, Newburyport, Truro, and

Re: [Talk-us] MassGIS Building Import - process

, 2012 at 11:12 PM, Jason Remillard remillard.ja...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I update the wiki http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/MassGIS_Buildings_Import Jason, While I think it's great you want to help OSM in this way, I have a few concerns. I think it's great that you've documented

Re: [Talk-us] MassGIS Building Import Start

Hi Paul On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: A couple of initial comments: ** ** Has some kind of simplify been run on the data? Although most of the buildings are quite good some of the curved ones are overnoded (e.g.

Re: [Talk-us] MassGIS Building Import Start

Hi, On second thought, we will ask everybody that wants to help to use their own import account. Besides the simplifications, and the re-projection verification does anybody have any other issues? Thanks Jason. On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Jason Remillard remillard.ja...@gmail.com wrote

[Talk-us] MassGIS Building Import - simplify

Hi, I would like to continue the discussion on the simplification of the MassGIS buildings in a new thread. In my town, there are 5427 buildings. 43,628 nodes, or 8 nodes per structure. I did a 0.25 meter simplify on the entire town, and the node count went down to 41,809. We are looking at an

[Talk-us] MassGIS Building Import - merge

Hi, I would like to start a new thread to talk about merging building data. My town Groton has mostly hand drawn buildings from bing. Like was suggested previously, dumping them all and replacing them with the MassGIS buildings would be a definite improvement of the map quality. My suggestion is

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