Re: [OSM-talk] Remove validation rule asking to add highway=footway to railway/public_transport=platform

2019-05-30 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 5/28/19 10:32, Frederik Ramm wrote: > I think this would definitely be the healthiest and most common-sense > approach for the community. (with my OSMF board hat on) I would like to make it clear that nothing of what I or any other OSMF board member has said in this thread or any other

Re: [OSM-talk] Remove validation rule asking to add highway=footway to railway/public_transport=platform

2019-05-28 Thread Markus
On Mon, 27 May 2019 at 16:48, Jo wrote: > > This has been discussed on the public transport list very recently, but as > usual, without any resolution one way or the other. Status quo rules. OT: I haven't forgotten that topic, i'm just a bit too busy right now (private and on OSM). I'll resume

Re: [OSM-talk] Remove validation rule asking to add highway=footway to railway/public_transport=platform

2019-05-28 Thread mmd
Am 28.05.19 um 10:32 schrieb Frederik Ramm: > Perhaps it is possible to have a forked iD that does not work by > meticulously cherry-picking every new change that is added to iD > (because that would be too much work), but instead - a bit like the > mechanisms when building a Debian or Ubunutu

Re: [OSM-talk] Remove validation rule asking to add highway=footway to railway/public_transport=platform

2019-05-28 Thread john whelan
I would support a forked version of iD as a default editor on the home page. I think OpenStreetMap is mature and complex enough now to start using techniques like change management which are used in the IT world to manage change. It is common practice in corporate IT. Cheerio John On Tue, May

Re: [OSM-talk] Remove validation rule asking to add highway=footway to railway/public_transport=platform

2019-05-28 Thread Mateusz Konieczny
28 May 2019, 10:32 by frede...@remote.org: > Hi, > > On 27.05.19 12:07, Simon Poole wrote: > >> As I see it we can choose between >> > > [...] > >> - deploy from a forked iD that is selective with respect to which >> commits are integrated (IMHO too much work) >> > > I think this would

Re: [OSM-talk] Remove validation rule asking to add highway=footway to railway/public_transport=platform

2019-05-28 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 27.05.19 12:07, Simon Poole wrote: > As I see it we can choose between [...] > - deploy from a forked iD that is selective with respect to which > commits are integrated (IMHO too much work) I think this would definitely be the healthiest and most common-sense approach for the

Re: [OSM-talk] Remove validation rule asking to add highway=footway to railway/public_transport=platform

2019-05-28 Thread Simon Poole
Am 27.05.2019 um 12:58 schrieb Christoph Hormann: > .. > I think this is a too limited view of the options the OSM community has. I don't think I claimed to explore every possible sub-variant. > I in particular see: > > * a wide range of possibilities to offer iD on osm.org but not exactly >

Re: [OSM-talk] Remove validation rule asking to add highway=footway to railway/public_transport=platform

2019-05-27 Thread Christoph Hormann
On Monday 27 May 2019, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: > > I admit I am not convinced that it addresses the problem. > > I think that problem in in specific validator rule that is clearly > unwanted by general community* and it does not matter when and how it > appears. Yes, i agree for this particular

Re: [OSM-talk] Remove validation rule asking to add highway=footway to railway/public_transport=platform

2019-05-27 Thread Mateusz Konieczny
27 May 2019, 19:38 by o...@imagico.de: > On Monday 27 May 2019, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: > >> >> By default iD actively suggests to >> - change objects modified by user (like JOSM) >> - objects selected by user during editing >> > > Wouldn't it be relatively simple to change the default to

Re: [OSM-talk] Remove validation rule asking to add highway=footway to railway/public_transport=platform

2019-05-27 Thread Christoph Hormann
On Monday 27 May 2019, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: > > By default iD actively suggests to > - change objects modified by user (like JOSM) > - objects selected by user during editing Wouldn't it be relatively simple to change the default to only touch features modified by the user in the version

Re: [OSM-talk] Remove validation rule asking to add highway=footway to railway/public_transport=platform

2019-05-27 Thread Mateusz Konieczny
27 May 2019, 17:51 by o...@imagico.de: > actively modifying features the mapper has not touched in > their fundamental semantics. As already hinted i know too little about > how iD works to specifically say something about how it fits in here. > By default iD actively suggests to - change

Re: [OSM-talk] Remove validation rule asking to add highway=footway to railway/public_transport=platform

2019-05-27 Thread Dave F via talk
On 27/05/2019 16:26, Frederik Ramm wrote: AFAIK many editors for example silently drop "created-by" and didn't hear anyone complain about that. That's a bit different. "created-by" was, err,,, created by the developers of the API/editors. Contributors never added it themselves. It hasn't

Re: [OSM-talk] Remove validation rule asking to add highway=footway to railway/public_transport=platform

2019-05-27 Thread Christoph Hormann
On Monday 27 May 2019, Frederik Ramm wrote: > > > > it seems clear to me that any tool that leads mappers to > > unconsciously perform automated edits could and should be blocked > > from write access to the API and accordingly should not be > > available on osm.org. > > I guess that in cases

Re: [OSM-talk] Remove validation rule asking to add highway=footway to railway/public_transport=platform

2019-05-27 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 5/27/19 12:58, Christoph Hormann wrote: >> * Automated Edits code of conduct >> (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Automated_Edits_code_of_conduct) >> : You take advantage of mappers unconsciously adding highway=footway >> to platforms. This is an automated edit. > it seems clear to me

Re: [OSM-talk] Remove validation rule asking to add highway=footway to railway/public_transport=platform

2019-05-27 Thread Jo
For a very long time I have been trying to adopt the public_transport scheme. After several years of asking it would be rendered on its own without the need for highway=bus_stop tags, I'm giving up on it and came to the conclusion that highway=bus_stop on nodes next to the highway and

Re: [OSM-talk] Remove validation rule asking to add highway=footway to railway/public_transport=platform

2019-05-27 Thread Dave F via talk
On 27/05/2019 12:23, Phil Wyatt wrote: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dplatform This suggests replacing highway=platform with public_transport=platform Most of the public_transport=* tags are pure duplicates of existing, more popular tags. They add nothing to the OSM

Re: [OSM-talk] Remove validation rule asking to add highway=footway to railway/public_transport=platform

2019-05-27 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
Am Mo., 27. Mai 2019 um 15:23 Uhr schrieb Andy Townsend : > Occasionally there are examples of people > accepting suggestions like this without thinking, and what I'd normally > do in such cases is to comment on the changeset concerned and politely > explain why in this particular case the

Re: [OSM-talk] Remove validation rule asking to add highway=footway to railway/public_transport=platform

2019-05-27 Thread Andy Townsend
On 27/05/2019 12:08, Jo wrote: And the disease is spreading: https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/Jnd I'm scared. This needs to be mitigated, but indeed, how? Suggestions about tag improvements by an editor are not a new thing - JOSM has had them for ages.  Occasionally there are examples of people

Re: [OSM-talk] Remove validation rule asking to add highway=footway to railway/public_transport=platform

2019-05-27 Thread Mateusz Konieczny
In case that this is an undesirable wrong tagging one may request JOSM dev to add validator rule fixing this. You may also propose worldwide bot edit reverting such changes. (note, I am not sure whatever either is a good idea, it is one of reasons why I did neither) 27 May 2019, 13:08 by

Re: [OSM-talk] Remove validation rule asking to add highway=footway to railway/public_transport=platform

2019-05-27 Thread Phil Wyatt
] Remove validation rule asking to add highway=footway to railway/public_transport=platform I went to check a platform tagged as highway=platform which is perfectly alright. iD tells me that's deprecated and suggests to change it to: public_transport=platform bus=yes Then upon

Re: [OSM-talk] Remove validation rule asking to add highway=footway to railway/public_transport=platform

2019-05-27 Thread Jo
And the disease is spreading: https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/Jnd I'm scared. This needs to be mitigated, but indeed, how? Jo On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 1:03 PM Jo wrote: > I went to check a platform tagged as > > highway=platform > > which is perfectly alright. > > iD tells me that's deprecated

Re: [OSM-talk] Remove validation rule asking to add highway=footway to railway/public_transport=platform

2019-05-27 Thread Jo
I went to check a platform tagged as highway=platform which is perfectly alright. iD tells me that's deprecated and suggests to change it to: public_transport=platform bus=yes Then upon uploading it tells me another "improvement" can be made: highway=footway So they are transposing

Re: [OSM-talk] Remove validation rule asking to add highway=footway to railway/public_transport=platform

2019-05-27 Thread Christoph Hormann
On Monday 27 May 2019, Simon Poole wrote: > The problem with this (and the longer thread on tagging), that it has > had exactly 0 effect. > > As I see it we can choose between > > [...] I think this is a too limited view of the options the OSM community has. I in particular see: * a wide range

Re: [OSM-talk] Remove validation rule asking to add highway=footway to railway/public_transport=platform

2019-05-27 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Andrew Hain wrote: > Have a new team of developers code from the codebase of iD. > Write a new online editor from scratch. > Abandon online editing and tell everyone to use an offline editor. Please stop trolling. Richard -- Sent from:

Re: [OSM-talk] Remove validation rule asking to add highway=footway to railway/public_transport=platform

2019-05-27 Thread Phil Wyatt
[mailto:andrewhain...@hotmail.co.uk] Sent: Monday, 27 May 2019 8:27 PM To: Simon Poole; talk@openstreetmap.org; osmf-t...@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Remove validation rule asking to add highway=footway to railway/public_transport=platform Also: Have a new team of developers code

Re: [OSM-talk] Remove validation rule asking to add highway=footway to railway/public_transport=platform

2019-05-27 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Wiklund Johan wrote: > Adding footway to the platform serves no purpose but to please poorly > built > routing engines. Are there actually any such engines, or is this a post-facto justification? OSRM has routed over platforms since 8 September 2013. Valhalla does - it's multimodal and you

Re: [OSM-talk] Remove validation rule asking to add highway=footway to railway/public_transport=platform

2019-05-27 Thread Andrew Hain
...@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Remove validation rule asking to add highway=footway to railway/public_transport=platform The problem with this (and the longer thread on tagging), that it has had exactly 0 effect. As I see it we can choose between - doing nothing (seems to be most

Re: [OSM-talk] Remove validation rule asking to add highway=footway to railway/public_transport=platform

2019-05-27 Thread Simon Poole
The problem with this (and the longer thread on tagging), that it has had exactly 0 effect. As I see it we can choose between - doing nothing (seems to be most popular currently) - wage an edit war by reverting any edits that clearly do not correspond to best practices (not good) - put in

Re: [OSM-talk] Remove validation rule asking to add highway=footway to railway/public_transport=platform

2019-05-24 Thread Dave F via talk
On 24/05/2019 10:41, Phil Wyatt wrote: Hi Folks, As a relatively new OSM editor, I tend to agree with the explicit tagging rather than implicit - it should help folks learn tags much faster Hi Phil 1) Even for newbies, common sense should tell you that railway=platforms are for the purpose

Re: [OSM-talk] Remove validation rule asking to add highway=footway to railway/public_transport=platform

2019-05-24 Thread Dave F via talk
On 24/05/2019 09:27, Wiklund Johan wrote: As a frequent mapper of public transport features, I agree with the opinions of Markus. Adding footway to the platform serves no purpose but to please poorly built routing engines. Whole heartedly agree. There are far too many routers who can't be

Re: [OSM-talk] Remove validation rule asking to add highway=footway to railway/public_transport=platform

2019-05-24 Thread Snusmumriken
On Fri, 2019-05-24 at 08:27 +, Wiklund Johan wrote: > As a frequent mapper of public transport features, I agree with the > opinions of Markus. Adding footway to the platform serves no purpose > but to please poorly built routing engines. I concur

Re: [OSM-talk] Remove validation rule asking to add highway=footway to railway/public_transport=platform

2019-05-24 Thread Phil Wyatt
then yes they should also be added…in my opinion. Cheers - Phil From: Martin Koppenhoefer [mailto:dieterdre...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, 24 May 2019 8:02 PM To: Phil Wyatt Cc: Wiklund Johan; Talk Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Remove validation rule asking to add highway=footway to railway

Re: [OSM-talk] Remove validation rule asking to add highway=footway to railway/public_transport=platform

2019-05-24 Thread Lester
On 24/05/2019 09:27, Wiklund Johan wrote: As a frequent mapper of public transport features, I agree with the opinions of Markus. Adding footway to the platform serves no purpose but to please poorly built routing engines. Same here ... Routing for rail passengers should be handled correctly

Re: [OSM-talk] Remove validation rule asking to add highway=footway to railway/public_transport=platform

2019-05-24 Thread Phil Wyatt
From: Martin Koppenhoefer [mailto:dieterdre...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, 24 May 2019 8:02 PM To: Phil Wyatt Cc: Wiklund Johan; Talk Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Remove validation rule asking to add highway=footway to railway/public_transport=platform Am Fr., 24. Mai 2019 um 11:44 Uhr schrieb Phil

Re: [OSM-talk] Remove validation rule asking to add highway=footway to railway/public_transport=platform

2019-05-24 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
Am Fr., 24. Mai 2019 um 11:44 Uhr schrieb Phil Wyatt : > Hi Folks, > > As a relatively new OSM editor, I tend to agree with the explicit tagging > rather than implicit - it should help folks learn tags much faster The problem is that a platform is not a footway, at least not universally.

Re: [OSM-talk] Remove validation rule asking to add highway=footway to railway/public_transport=platform

2019-05-24 Thread Phil Wyatt
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Remove validation rule asking to add highway=footway to railway/public_transport=platform As a frequent mapper of public transport features, I agree with the opinions of Markus. Adding footway to the platform serves no purpose but to please poorly built routing engines

Re: [OSM-talk] Remove validation rule asking to add highway=footway to railway/public_transport=platform

2019-05-24 Thread Wiklund Johan
: Markus [mailto:selfishseaho...@gmail.com] Sent: torsdag 23. mai 2019 18.11 To: Talk Cc: Bryan Housel Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Remove validation rule asking to add highway=footway to railway/public_transport=platform Hello Bryan, hello everyone, I'm posting this reply to Bryan's message on GitHub

Re: [OSM-talk] Remove validation rule asking to add highway=footway to railway/public_transport=platform

2019-05-23 Thread Markus
Hello Bryan, hello everyone, I'm posting this reply to Bryan's message on GitHub (https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/6409#issuecomment-495231649) here, as the issue has been locked by Bryan. > Hey all, I've locked this topic. Inviting other people to jump on the thread > just to express