Re: [OSM-talk] New tool/API to find local OSM mailing lists by location

Thanks for the feedback. It's obvious I need to make two changes: - support other forums beyond the mailing lists hosted on http://lists.openstreetmap.org/ - return all the matches within the result hierarchy, not just the most specific, so searching for Glasgow should give talk-scotland and

[OSM-talk] New tool/API to find local OSM mailing lists by location

I've made a tool with an API for finding local OSM mailing lists. https://local.openstreetmap.directory/ The web interface handles searching by place name or lat/lon, the API can be queried by place name, lat/lon and OSM object. This is a proof of concept, I threw it together to see if it

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Wikidata tags for the West Midlands available as OSM XML

Hi, For a while now I've been working on an automated system to match OSM entities with Wikidata items. I've built something that will let you search for a place and find all Wikidata items in that location with a matching OSM entity. In the past there was interest from the West Midlands mapping

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] [Talk-GB] OSM with Wikidata: now covers UK and Ireland

Brian Prangle wrote: > I would import only after an invitation by a mapper or mappers in the > relevant county, and only after they've checked where your data has more > than one match and indicated which of the multiple matches is the > appropriate one Thanks Brian. My

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM with Wikidata: now covers UK and Ireland

Andrew Hain wrote: > I still get internal errors in a few places, for instance Richmond upon > Thames. It was failing because node 880543279 had been deleted by this recent changeset. http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/37791280 I changed the code to skip

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM with Wikidata: now covers UK and Ireland

Sorry about that. Thanks for the bug report. I've fixed it. Andrew Hain <andrewhain...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote: > I’m getting internal server errors when I try to look at the previews. > > -- > Andrew > > ________ > From: Edward Betts <

Re: [Talk-GB] [Imports] OSM with Wikidata: now covers UK and Ireland

> On 11 March 2016 at 19:15, Edward Betts <edw...@4angle.com> wrote: > > > Chris Hill <o...@raggedred.net> wrote: > > > On 11/03/16 18:03, Edward Betts wrote: > > > >I've uploaded my first changeset - Places of worship in Bi

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM with Wikidata: now covers UK and Ireland

Richard Fairhurst wrote: > Colin Smale wrote: > > As we are not copying the content from Wikipedia/Wikidata, but just > > a reference > > Unfortunately it's not quite that simple. > > The matching is done by co-ordinates. The co-ordinates in Wikidata could be > held to be

Re: [Talk-GB] [Imports] OSM with Wikidata: now covers UK and Ireland

Chris Hill <o...@raggedred.net> wrote: > On 11/03/16 18:03, Edward Betts wrote: > >I've uploaded my first changeset - Places of worship in Birmingham. > > > >https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/37766888 > > > >This is a modification to 10 way

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM with Wikidata: now covers UK and Ireland

I've uploaded my first changeset - Places of worship in Birmingham. https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/37766888 This is a modification to 10 ways and one relation. The relation is a multipolygon representing Birmingham Oratory. The uploader has put the wikidata tag on the relation, which

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM with Wikidata: now covers UK and Ireland

Good question. OSM editors and viewers could be changed to integrate more closely with Wikidata. An OSM editor could suggest to the mapper a matching Wikidata item to tag. We could have the editor automatically look up the label from the Wikidata item in the preferred language of the person

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM with Wikidata: now covers UK and Ireland

I've added admin_level=8 to the output. This is useful for selling matches grouped by districts, London boroughs and metropolitan boroughs. For example: http://edwardbetts.com/osm-wikidata/gb-ie/region/Greater_London -- Edward. ___ Talk-GB mailing

Re: [Talk-GB] [Imports] OSM with Wikidata: now covers UK and Ireland

I've adjusted the output to show the Wikipedia category path that the matcher followed to find the object. These two items are within the 'Dublin (City)' category, so end up being considered as cities. The reason they match is because one of the tags I consider for matching cities is

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM with Wikidata: now covers UK and Ireland

I've updated the category names in the database to remove " by country" from the end. Edward Betts <edw...@4angle.com> wrote: > The category names are from Wikipedia. I start with the "Airports by country" > category and just grab the subcategories for United King

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM with Wikidata: now covers UK and Ireland

The category names are from Wikipedia. I start with the "Airports by country" category and just grab the subcategories for United Kingdom and Ireland. In a previous version I had code to strip the ' by country' from the end. I'll try and restore it to reduce the confusion. -- Edward. Colin Smale

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM with Wikidata: now covers UK and Ireland

Now fixed: http://edwardbetts.com/osm-wikidata/gb-ie/region/Isle_of_Man Thanks for the bug report. -- Edward. Colin Spiller <co...@thespillers.org.uk> wrote: > Isle of Man conspicuous by its absence > Colin > > Edward Betts <edw...@4angle.com> wrote: > > >I'

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM with Wikidata: now covers UK and Ireland

The matching code is looking for castles to be tagged with one of: historic=castle, building=castle, or tourism=attraction '@ Bristol' is tagged as tourism=attraction. hen my code is matching names it tries removing ' castle' from the end of castle names. It also removes any symbols, so we

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM with Wikidata: now covers UK and Ireland

Dave F wrote: > I haven't been paying full attention to this. Are we not meant to add a > wikipedia tag any more? > > Could you give a brief update on the proposal please. Here are the relevant pages on the wiki: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Wikidata

[Talk-GB] OSM with Wikidata: now covers UK and Ireland

I've extended my search for matches between OSM and Wikidata again. It now covers all of the UK and Ireland. I used map data from http://download.geofabrik.de/europe/british-isles.html The results are grouped by region or county as well as by category. http://edwardbetts.com/osm-wikidata/gb-ie/

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM with Wikidata: 27,232 matches found in England

Edward Betts <edw...@4angle.com> wrote: > Colin Spiller <co...@thespillers.org.uk> wrote: > > Thank you. Are there no entries at all for West Yorkshire? > > West Yorkshire is missing because there is no admin_level tag on the relation. > > https://www

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM with Wikidata: 27,232 matches found in England

Colin Spiller wrote: > Thank you. Are there no entries at all for West Yorkshire? West Yorkshire is missing because there is no admin_level tag on the relation. https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/88079 boundary=ceremonial, name=West Yorkshire, type=boundary My

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM with Wikidata: 27,232 matches found in England

Colin Spiller wrote: > This looks good but doesn't seem to work well for Yorkshire and the Humber. > West Yorkshire doesn't seem to be available at all, and when I select > Schools (or anything else) i just get > Internal Server Error > Sorry, there was a bug, it is now

Re: [Talk-GB] [Imports] OSM with Wikidata: 27232 matches found in England

Neil Matthews wrote: > I had a look at your Bristol matches -- most are reasonable, a few issues: > > Q5015771 — Cabot Circus — Cabot Circus (way, distance: 165 m) building=yes > Matched to parking not the shopping area -- OSM updated, was a suburb > place I've added

Re: [Talk-GB] [Imports] OSM with Wikidata: 27232 matches found in England

Dan S wrote: > I'm curious how The Shard ended up matching against its correct match > but also London Bridge station? The station doesn't seem to have any > matching metadata: > http://edwardbetts.com/osm-wikidata/england/region/Greater_London/Apartment_buildings The

[Talk-GB] OSM with Wikidata: 27,232 matches found in England

I've extended my search for matches between OSM and Wikidata. It now covers all of England instead of just the West Midlands. The results are grouped by region or county as well as by category. http://edwardbetts.com/osm-wikidata/england/ It should be possible to use this a basis for uploading.

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Review plan for adding 1, 164 wikidata tags in the West Midlands

I've written software to match geographic objects in OSM with Wikidata items. Members of the England West Midlands community have asked me to add Wikidata tags to OSM in the West Midlands. I have produced a list of objects to modify, there are 1,164 of them in 44 categories. Wikidata identifiers

Re: [Talk-GB] Review plan for adding 1, 164 wikidata tags in the West Midlands

Lester Caine <les...@lsces.co.uk> wrote: > On 18/01/16 06:54, Edward Betts wrote: > > The list of schools in the West Midlands is ready to go. Does anybody have > > an > > objection to me adding the wikidata tags now? If not I'll add them. > > Only done a qui

Re: [Talk-GB] [Imports] Review plan for adding 1, 164 wikidata tags in the West Midlands

Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > I have started some time ago to add wikidata tags manually myself and have > found that there are a few problems to be careful about. Will you be > checking the matches you have found to see if there would be contradictions > between single

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] [Imports] Review plan for adding 1, 164 wikidata tags in the West Midlands

Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > I have started some time ago to add wikidata tags manually myself and have > found that there are a few problems to be careful about. Will you be > checking the matches you have found to see if there would be contradictions > between single

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] [Talk-GB] Review plan for adding 1, 164 wikidata tags in the West Midlands

Lester Caine wrote: > If there is not a node for a village in the OSM data, then it needs > adding. While wikipedia may return the same page for the village and the > matching parish, I thought that wikidata should distinguish between a > village record and a parish one? For

Re: [Talk-GB] Review plan for adding 1, 164 wikidata tags in the West Midlands

Lester Caine wrote: > If there is not a node for a village in the OSM data, then it needs > adding. While wikipedia may return the same page for the village and the > matching parish, I thought that wikidata should distinguish between a > village record and a parish one? For

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] [Talk-GB] Review plan for adding 1, 164 wikidata tags in the West Midlands

Lester Caine <les...@lsces.co.uk> wrote: > On 17/01/16 11:08, Edward Betts wrote: > > This is the list of Wikidata tags that I actually plan to add: > > > > https://edwardbetts.com/osm-wikidata/west_midlands/matches_2016-01-16.txt > > Please remove the School

[Talk-GB] Cambridge pub meetup, Tuesday 10th Feb

There is a meetup this evening in Cambridge. Location: The Castle Inn, 38 Castle Street, Cambridge Time: 19:00 http://www.meetup.com/Cambridge-OpenStreetMap/events/220223825/ Sorry for the late notice. I thought it would be useful to mention here, just in case anybody is interested and wants to

Re: [OSM-talk] 176k Wikidata tags to add to OSM

Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: I've started to produce that page now: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mechanical_Edits/wikidata So far I've included comments from August and November. I need to review the Sep-Oct comments on talk mailing list. Great work, thanks Rob. --

[OSM-talk] 176k Wikidata tags to add to OSM

This is a progress report about my attempt to match Wikidata items and OSM objects automatically. Here are some page about adding Wikidata identifiers to OSM: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Wikidata http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Wikidata The list is available here, it

Re: [OSM-talk] amenity=bicycle_repair_station :::: only 18 so far

Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com wrote: I'd like to encourage people to map bicycle repair stations. There are only 18 in the database right now. Can we double that this week? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dbicycle_repair_station The airport at Portland, Oregon (PDX)

Re: [OSM-talk] amenity=bicycle_repair_station :::: only 18 so far

Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: in Rome and Berlin (and surely many more places) another typology of places to repair your bike are common: workshops without commercial interest. They typically do have opening hours and you go there with your bicycle to repair it yourself.

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding Wikidata tags to 70k items automatically

Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: On 27 August 2014 17:47, Edward Betts edw...@4angle.com wrote: I'd like to annotate these 70k objects in OSM with a Wikidata tag automatically. Can we now move forward with this? I'll generate a fresh list of Wikidata items. -- Edward

Re: [OSM-talk] 112k Wikidata tags to add to OSM

I adjusted my criteria for islands, villages, towns and cities. There are now 102,691 matches and 230 mismatches. http://edwardbetts.com/osm-wikidata/ http://edwardbetts.com/osm-wikidata/mismatches.html -- Edward. ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] 112k Wikidata tags to add to OSM

Morray os...@go4more.de wrote: One thing I still don't get is why you are relying on wikipedia categories instead of on the instance of property in wikidata. In my view the correct way would be to use these and if they are not present at the moment make them become present. Since you already

[OSM-talk] 112k Wikidata tags to add to OSM

I modified my code, adding more categories and extending the matching distance for some objects. I started checking addr:housename, some buildings have this tag but are missing the name tag. http://edwardbetts.com/osm-wikidata/ There are now 112,278 matches found. I thought the extended range

Re: [OSM-talk] 112k Wikidata tags to add to OSM

Archer arc...@gulli.com wrote: There is a difference between municipality and settlements like villages. Wikipedia articles are often about the whole municipality and not about a single village. So the wikidata-tag should only be tagged onto the administrative relation for the municipality

Re: [OSM-talk] 112k Wikidata tags to add to OSM

Pieren pier...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 11:06 AM, Edward Betts edw...@4angle.com wrote: I started checking addr:housename, some buildings have this tag but are missing the name tag. addr:housename is most of the time improperly used in OSM (should be in the name tag). I

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding Wikidata tags to 70k items automatically

Archer arc...@gulli.com wrote: Please don’t understand me wrong. I’m a big fan of Wikidata but I'm against an automated import. The mismatches list gives good examples that your matching algorithm doesn't work very well: http://edwardbetts.com/osm-wikidata/mismatches.html Some examples:

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding Wikidata tags to 70k items automatically

Archer arc...@gulli.com wrote: 2014-08-31 20:19 GMT+02:00 Edward Betts edw...@4angle.com: Archer arc...@gulli.com wrote: Please don’t understand me wrong. I’m a big fan of Wikidata but I'm against an automated import. The mismatches list gives good examples that your matching

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding Wikidata tags to 70k items automatically

Archer arc...@gulli.com wrote: I've found some more examples for villages in the Czech Republic (I've looked only randomly) if you need some more please let me know. In your mismatch list there seem to be many german municipalities: http://edwardbetts.com/osm-wikidata/mismatches.html The

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding Wikidata tags to 70k items automatically

Edward Betts edw...@4angle.com wrote: Andrew Guertin andrew.guer...@uvm.edu wrote: 1: Elsewhere in this thread it was mentioned that there are 22000 wikidata ids in OSM currently. Are there any objects which currently have a wikidata id that your code would assign a different id

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding Wikidata tags to 70k items automatically

Edward Betts edw...@4angle.com wrote: Edward Betts edw...@4angle.com wrote: Andrew Guertin andrew.guer...@uvm.edu wrote: 1: Elsewhere in this thread it was mentioned that there are 22000 wikidata ids in OSM currently. Are there any objects which currently have a wikidata id

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding Wikidata tags to 70k items automatically

Simon Poole si...@poole.ch wrote: Edward, just so there is no misunderstanding: you are saying of the 21'000 odd wikidata tags 281 gave different results? And if I understand the results correctly the majority of the 281 are simply due to the wikidata tag not being on the place node but on

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding Wikidata tags to 70k items automatically

SomeoneElse li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk wrote: * Personally, I'm actually fairly agnostic about the process of adding wikidata tags - I can't really see what I'd use them for myself, but am open to the possibility that someone could use them for something. However, an important part of things

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding Wikidata tags to 70k items automatically

Simon Poole si...@poole.ch wrote: On 28 August 2014 09:09, Simon Poole si...@poole.ch wrote: What you do avoid by not tagging in OSM is maintenance (given that OSM objects are not necessarily a persistent reference to a single real world entity). Very few Wikidata IDs will change

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding Wikidata tags to 70k items automatically

Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: In my mind this is a good move and should be supported. Point 3 above could be resolved by running the script regularly to see if there are any new matches. There have also been some good suggestions on this list such as a KeepRight style (i.e.

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding Wikidata tags to 70k items automatically

Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: What we have here is a third-party database whose object identifiers we add to OSM as tags in order to make linking things easier. This is something that has often been requested by people but never been granted on a large scale because we always said

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding Wikidata tags to 70k items automatically

Andrew Guertin andrew.guer...@uvm.edu wrote: On 08/27/2014 12:47 PM, Edward Betts wrote: I'd like to annotate these 70k objects in OSM with a Wikidata tag automatically. I like the sound of this. Personally, I think it adds value, and having looked at the code your matching criteria sound

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding Wikidata tags to 70k items automatically

Janko Mihelić jan...@gmail.com wrote: There's one fundamental question about wikidata tags; how do you tag multiple objects that have the same wikidata tag? For example, a wikidata entry about a church and a connected monastery. When I was writing the Wikidata proposal on our wiki, I've put a

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding Wikidata tags to 70k items automatically

Janko Mihelić jan...@gmail.com wrote: Bridges are bit of a grey area, is a highway with bridge=yes really a bridge, or is it a highway which has a property of being on a bridge? I think we should map these notable bridges as an area with man_made=bridge and put the tag on that. The very first

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding Wikidata tags to 70k items automatically

Janko Mihelić jan...@gmail.com wrote: Here's another example: http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/34012792 This railroad track will get the wikidata tag, the other track and footway won't. And even the track that gets the tag, isn't the whole length of the bridge. And I didn't even look that

[OSM-talk] Adding Wikidata tags to 70k items automatically

I've written some code to match items in Wikidata with items in OSM. Currently I have found 70,849 unique matches, where there is a one-to-one mapping between OSM and Wikidata objects. I'd like to annotate these 70k objects in OSM with a Wikidata tag automatically. For example: Way: Piper's

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding Wikidata tags to 70k items automatically

Matthijs Melissen i...@matthijsmelissen.nl wrote: On 27 August 2014 17:47, Edward Betts edw...@4angle.com wrote: I've written some code to match items in Wikidata with items in OSM. Currently I have found 70,849 unique matches, where there is a one-to-one mapping between OSM and Wikidata

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding Wikidata tags to 70k items automatically

SomeoneElse li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk wrote: On 27/08/2014 17:47, Edward Betts wrote: Matching criteria: https://github.com/EdwardBetts/osm-wikidata/blob/master/entity_types.json Presumably there's some geographical matching criteria too (so each Black Hill in the hills list

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding Wikidata tags to 70k items automatically

Svavar Kjarrval sva...@kjarrval.is wrote: If you do this, please split by region. For those of us who monitor specific areas for new changesets, it would be better if we didn't see a whole lot of entries where only one or two of the items in each entry are actually related to the area we are

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding Wikidata tags to 70k items automatically

Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: On 8/27/2014 9:47 AM, Edward Betts wrote: Does anybody have a strong preference that the edits are split up by region, or loaded in batches? Any objections? When the idea of a mechanical edit to add wikidata tags to objects in GB came up, the local view

[Talk-gb-midanglia] Bus stops at Cambridge railway station moved

The bus stops at Cambridge railway station have moved. They are now along Station Place, rather than clustered at the station. The map needs to be updated. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.19306lon=0.13647zoom=17layers=T Also the bus route relations need updating. -- Edward.

[Talk-GB] Largest buildings in Great Britain

Largest 1000 buildings in Great Britain sorted by size and node count: http://edwardbetts.com/osm/buildings_by_size.html http://edwardbetts.com/osm/buildings_by_node_count.html -- Edward. ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

[OSM-talk] Street guide built from OSM data, looking for feedback

I wrote some code (in Python) to generate a very simple street guide using data from OpenStreetMap. Code here: http://github.com/EdwardBetts/streetguide/ Sample output here: http://edwardbetts.com/streetguide/ I just have five samples, all in London: Upper Street, Oxford Street, Regents Street,

[OSM-talk] Possible source: Books scanned by the Internet Archive

Title: Survey of properties owned by the city of Boston, part 6: Jamaica Plain - parker hill (1970) Author: Boston Redevelopment Authority http://www.archive.org/details/surveyofproperti0607bost To read the book have a look at http://www.archive.org/stream/surveyofproperti0607bost This is the

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMXAPI

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 5:54 PM, 80n [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you find that it is rejecting a request that you think is reasonable then please let me know. I want to find the point where all reasonable requests are still accepted but silly or badly formed ones are rejected. Every few days

Re: [OSM-talk] UK post box data

On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Tom Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently made a Freedom of Information Act request for the location of every UK post box. Royal Mail responded with a 1600 page PDF containing their info. I parsed the PDF and resorted it, the result is in tab separated