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

2018-05-12 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Clifford Snow wrote: > I did learn from Toby Murray this morning that you can add > tiger:reviewed to the list of discarded tags in JOSM by going > to preferences->Advanced Preferences and adding > tiger:reviewed to tags.discardable. Then just reload > JOSM for the changed to be active. Just

Re: [Talk-GB] Footpaths - search for the missing ones

2018-05-10 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Rob Nickerson wrote: > Basically we have point data of historic footpaths (some 300k points) and > I think it would be amazing to compare this to OSM to see if we can find > more footpaths to map. Very cool. Could you post the data somewhere? Richard -- Sent from:

Re: [Talk-GB] Implicit speed limits: What to tag in built-up areas?

2018-05-01 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Philip Barnes wrote: > I wouldn't invent a type tag, it's maxspeed = 20 mph > because that's what the sign says. There is nothing special > about these areas. No, 20mph zones and roads with 20mph limits are different legal concepts and are signed differently. A 20mph zone must have physical

Re: [OSM-talk] Name:* tags in the local language

2018-04-24 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Paul Norman wrote: > If there's agreement that there is a problem here, I could look > at preparing a mechanical edit or MapRoulette challenge to add > name:* tags, e.g. adding name:en to objects in the US with > other name:* tags, and adding name:zh in China. As an > estimate, this would be

Re: [Talk-us] Gravel roads and surface tags in the US

2018-04-19 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Jack Burke wrote: > Keep in mind that OSM apparently uses "compacted" to refer to > macadamized roads, which is a specific process for building roads. surface=compacted in OSM, following British English usage, is traditionally as described on pages 18-20 of this document:

Re: [Talk-us] Edit war after MapRoulette motorway downgrading task

2018-04-03 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: > * you have developed a certain way to map certain objects, that might > be a little out of touch with what is considered the "right" approach > elsewhere in the project, but you don't notice or care Adding to which... I think half the problem is that the wiki

Re: [OSRM-talk] OSRM v5.16.0 Release

2018-02-24 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Chau Nguyen wrote: ### Maneuver Override Relations: Sometimes road geometries of complicated intersections do not give enough information on how a suitable guidance should look like. OSRM is now supporting the `maneuver override` tag in OSM to detect such intersections and choose better

Re: [Talk-us] Rural US: Correcting Original TIGER Imported Ways

2018-02-19 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Great to see so much attention being paid to rural TIGER fixup. The majority of my editing these days is that, and it's a massive but rewarding job. I put together a view a while back which superimposes unreviewed rural residentials onto the Strava heatmap. The idea is that you look for

Re: [Talk-us] Old Bing/ESRI satellite imagery?

2018-01-31 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
The previous ESRI imagery has just been restored to the imagery list (by ESRI, so 100% legit) under the name “Clarity”. Richard -- Sent from: http://gis.19327.n8.nabble.com/USA-f5284732.html ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-GB] Mistagging of old telephone boxes

2017-12-23 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Dave F wrote: > To double check - CC BY-SA 2.0 is compatible with OSM? It isn't, but in this case it doesn't matter: this is what's sometimes described as a "thin copyright". Reproducing the photograph itself is an act restricted by copyright, but deducing information from it isn't. (Of course,

Re: [Talk-GB] Open route service update

2017-12-12 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Rob Nickerson wrote: > A few months ago I spotted an edit where a company employee was > moving height restriction data from nodes to ways. This in itself is > not wrong Absolutely - the restriction is much better tagged on the way. It's a property of the road just like a speed limit or

Re: [OSM-talk] weeklyOSM #382 2017-11-07-2017-11-13

2017-11-22 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
joost schooupe wrote: > It doesn't help that it was worded as "people are > saying", but then the last part of the sentence seems more > like their own opinion. Worth noting that WeeklyOSM is produced alongside and seeded by the German Wochennotiz. I don't sprechen sufficient Deutsch to be

Re: [OSM-talk] weeklyOSM #382 2017-11-07-2017-11-13

2017-11-17 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Sheesh, you lot are hilarious sometimes. Publications have an inviolable duty to be impartial? That’s great. Very interesting attitude in 2017. Tell me when you’ve found one such. WeeklyOSM writes what WeeklyOSM wants. If you don’t like it, contribute or start your own. It saddens me that the

Re: [OSM-talk] New OSM Quick-Fix service

2017-11-14 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Yuri Astrakhan wrote: > Look at Wikipedia, or any large social organization for that matter. At > the village/startup level, you have very few codified rules, but as the > group grows to a city/corporation size, it becomes more and more > bureaucratic. We may not like it, but clear rules help

Re: [Talk-us] Integrating our open source data into OSM

2017-11-13 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Sean Lindsey wrote: > I do want to produce something that is useful for > open source and OSM/its community Let me join in the thanks for making this available. Even though it might not be suitable for direct import into OSM (for legal and/or community reasons), I wonder whether it might be

Re: [Talk-GB] Importing Shell fuel stations

2017-11-06 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Andy Mabbett wrote: > Can that tool not be repurposed, and thereby avoid the friction > that imports like this seem sadly to cause? It was implemented as part of Potlatch 2, so sadly probably not appropriate for general consumption in a post-Flash age:

Re: [Talk-GB] Importing Shell fuel stations

2017-11-03 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Ilya Zverev wrote: > Please help me review the data. Here is the updated map: > http://bl.ocks.org/Zverik/raw/ddcfaf2da25a3dfda00a3d93a62f218d/ Eek, this still looks a bit sketchy. Choosing one of the two nearest affected petrol stations to me, the one on Woodstock Road, Yarnton looks like it

Re: [OSM-talk] weeklyOSM #379 2017-10-17-2017-10-23

2017-10-28 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
I agree absolutely. Time to ban verdy_p for continually disruptive behaviour and an unwillingness to work with the community. Richard -- Sent from: http://gis.19327.n8.nabble.com/General-Discussion-f5171242.html ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] New OSM Quick-Fix service

2017-10-16 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Yuri Astrakhan wrote: > For example, RU community wants to convert amenity=sanatorium > -> leisure=resort + resort=sanatorium. Clicking on a dot shows a > popup with the suggested edit. If you think the edit is correct, simply > click Save. I've been a bit loth to get involved with this one

Re: [Talk-us] Trunk

2017-10-15 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Bradley White wrote: > The UK/Canada system and the central Europe system both adopt > the tag in a way that makes sense for the road network they > have. We are trying to shoehorn the central European tagging > system into our country when, to me, it makes more sense to > use the UK/Canada

Re: [Talk-us] Bicycle infrastructure

2017-10-04 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Martijn van Exel wrote: > Do you see any improvements I should make to this query / am I missing > important features? Shoulder information is good, especially on rural roads. A simple shoulder=yes/no suffices. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:shoulder Surface information is good on rural

[OSM-talk] Cycle network nodes and mountain passes

2017-10-04 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Hi all, I've just added support for a couple more tags to cycle.travel's directions and thought it worth mentioning here - everyone likes seeing their mapping being used. :) First up, cycle.travel now includes 'knooppunten' (cycle node networks) in turn-by-turn directions. These are found

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging "Shared space" roads (Preston City Centre)

2017-10-04 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Matt Ellery wrote: > I agree with the idea that living_street isn't appropriate for the > town centre roads identified here. I did notice that New Road > in Brighton (mentioned in the shared space Wikipedia article) > has also been changed to living_street by Pete Owens, although > he has

Re: [OSM-talk] Licence compatibility (was Adding wikidata tags to the remaining objects with only wikipedia tag)

2017-10-03 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Yuri Astrakhan wrote: > Also, what about the location where data is combined? E.g. if wikidata > is in public domain, and US courts agree with that statement, anyone > in the US can combine it with OSM data? What about UK? In any > case, i suspect nothing we decide has any merit until the

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixing wiki* -> brand:wiki*

2017-09-27 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Andy Mabbett wrote: > in different parts of the world IIRC OSM stores spatial information. I might be wrong. Richard -- Sent from: http://gis.19327.n8.nabble.com/General-Discussion-f5171242.html ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Label language on the Default stylesheet

2017-09-25 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: > I'd invest the available brainpower in steps needed to achieve > this goal, even if it's a year or two in the future. Which means vector tiles... which we should be looking at anyway. But that needs to be a separate project really, rather than a facet of

Re: [Talk-GB] Edits in Wales

2017-08-14 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
I've fixed the wiki to reflect Chris's comments, given that he's a resident of Wales and has a long pedigree in creating the Welsh-language rendering so is better qualified than the rest of us to pronounce on this.[1] The much shorter text should hopefully also be easier for new mappers to follow.

Re: [Talk-GB] Edits in Wales

2017-08-11 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Brian Prangle wrote: > You have raised a subject which needs attention but we don't > have an active community in Wales, just individual mappers I don't find that a helpful distinction. Aside from a few places (London, Birmingham, Edinburgh, the North-East Midlands), OSM in the UK doesn't have

Re: [OSM-talk] Draft Trademark Policy

2017-08-05 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Roland Olbricht wrote: > This makes clear that neither the file name extension "osm" is > jeoparday. Or you do not want to discourage people from using > "osmium", "osmosis" or a range of other software. I see your point there, but conversely I am really uncomfortable with the OsmAnd situation.

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

2017-07-17 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Marc Gemis wrote: I wonder whether it is interesting to know the difference between concrete, asphalt and pervious concrete. All three have different characteristics whether it be comfort for the cyclist or being dangerous under icy conditions or durability under heavy loaded trucks. What do you

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

2017-07-16 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Kevin Kenny wrote: > Fair enough. I will confess that I'm a little lackadaisical about > tagging the surface on hard-surfaced roads. It appears that > some sort of hard surface is more or less assumed by default. > I do tag 'gravel', 'compacted', 'shale', 'sand', 'ground' > assiduously, and

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

2017-07-16 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Bryan Housel wrote: > We haven’t discussed automatic removal of any other tiger tags. > (I don’t have a strong opinion for either keeping or removing them.) I have a really strong opinion _against_ removing tiger:reviewed tags where the road type and surface have not been manually reviewed!

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping bridge heights from open imagery

2017-07-07 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Hi Manfred, Maybe http://maxheight.bplaced.net/overpass/map.html can help. ;-) It can indeed - I mentioned it in my diary entry! :) cheers Richard ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

[Talk-GB] Mapping bridge heights from open imagery

2017-07-07 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Hi all, It would be great to get bridge height data into OSM, to stop those embarrassing truck-vs-bridge-deck interface moments. It turns out that with the advent of open street-level imagery (e.g. Mapillary, OpenStreetCam, and of course Geograph) it's really easy to find and tag bridge

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

2017-06-12 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Kevin Kenny wrote: > Is there *anyone* that actually can speak to what *is* common > practice in the US? When I've asked, I've always drawn a lot of > replies and come away more confused than before. I've been doing vast amounts of rural TIGER fixup over the past couple of years and this is

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

2017-06-12 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Albert Pundt wrote: > This seems like a way overboard change. I've just received a changeset message back from someone else who had made a few unusual reclassifications, in this case highway=secondary for dirt roads in Nebraska. The user explained that they had been working from this wiki page:

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

2017-06-11 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Bryan Housel wrote: > What’s an acceptable amount of time to wait for a response before I > just start reverting? I commented on another of granpueblo's changesets on 21st May and have also not had a response yet. Given that, you probably only need to wait just a couple of days before embarking

Re: [Talk-us] Unreviewed TIGER in Jacksonville (was Re: Talk-us Digest, Vol 114, Issue 22)

2017-06-02 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
maning sambale wrote: > While our team is working on Jacksonville, we found unreviewed > TIGER (v1, tiger:reviewed:=no) in some areas. I don't want to dismay you too much, but 90%+ of the US is like that... (...though don't take v1 as an important signifier: it's possible for a way to be at v3

Re: [Talk-GB] [Imports] Importing fuel stations in UK and future similar imports

2017-05-13 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Ilya Zverev wrote: > I think that would fall into the "fair use" clause. There is no "fair use" clause in UK copyright law, which is important not just because OSM is hosted in England & Wales but also because this is presumably a dataset in part containing materials with an E copyright holder.

Re: [OSM-talk] HDYC, login requirement and "privacy"

2017-05-08 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: > saying "your privacy goes down the drain if you do anything > online anyway, so why should we at OSM take steps to protect > it more". > > Perhaps: because we can, and because it's a good thing? ...or perhaps it isn't quite that black and white. OSM, at its best, is a

Re: [Talk-us] People For Bikes Connectivity Tool

2017-04-07 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Spencer Gardner wrote: > The tool uses OSM for routing and uses information such as speed > limits, number of vehicle lanes, the presence and type of bicycle > facilities, and the types of treatments at intersections/crossings > for determining whether a particular way is acceptable for

Re: [OSM-talk] Disputed border between Greece and Turkey near Imia/Kardak in the Aegean Sea (was: Re: [Geocoding] Boundries of Kardak Islands)

2017-03-31 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Florian Schäfer wrote: > I'm not an expert on borders and how disputed borders are handled > in OSM, so I forward this to the talk-list, because this probably > needs more discussion. https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/w/images/d/d8/DisputedTerritoriesInformation.pdf Richard -- View this

[OSM-talk-ie] Waterford Greenway

2017-03-28 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Hello talk-ie, I see you have a lovely new cycle route, the Waterford Greenway: http://www.independent.ie/life/travel/ireland/green-light-irelands-longest-greenway-opens-in-waterford-35562434.html The mapping is a bit, shall we say... confused? Quite a lot of the route in OSM seems to be ways

Re: [Talk-GB] Import Progress

2017-03-19 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
On 19/03/2017 21:29, Matthijs Melissen wrote: Or is your post simply a request for all people to follow *your* rules? Wow. Stay classy. I'm not sure why I'm even bothering to reply to that, but there's an extensive debate about that sentence in the mailing list archives a propos of the

Re: [Talk-GB] Import Progress

2017-03-19 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Rob Nickerson wrote: > Mailing list posts drift off topic way too easily any it's never clear > when "consensus" is found. Richard F did the right thing in 2013 > when he quit them and I encourage others to do the same However, just because I no longer spend my time batting back and forth to

Re: [Talk-us] Key:man_made... Outdated language?

2017-03-11 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Joshua Houston wrote: > It occurred to me that "man_made" is an outdated term that should be > phased out from OpenStreetMap language. FWIW, the lingua franca of OSM tagging is British English: so, colour rather than color, and so on. British English does of course have different cultural

Re: [OSM-talk] Spam reporting

2017-02-23 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Joost Schouppe wrote: > Well the annoyance with spam does pop up often enough. The usual > answer to things like this in the OSM ecosystem is "why don't you > do it yourself". I've not seen this answer for spam. Is there no easy > way for people to become spam-police if they like to do so?

Re: [Talk-GB] Large swaths of "heath" in Wales?

2017-02-08 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Marco Boeringa wrote: > There may be more... All of these "users" are prolific, leave almost > no changeset comments, and seem to be editing all day. It seems > to me these are editors working professionally for some OSM > related company. Thanks for the detective work and for persisting with

Re: [Talk-us] Blue Ridge Parkway

2017-01-31 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Greg Troxel wrote: > Around me (amusingly as we discuss British influence on tagging) > is "Minuteman National Historic Park". This is not a "National Park", > but it has the same kind rangers in the same uniforms, the same > kinds of rules, and is managed to preserve the historic landscape

Re: [OSM-talk] SOTM EU

2017-01-31 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Martijn van Exel wrote: > Here I thought I was asking a simple question. On an OSM mailing list? You must be new round here. (More seriously, there were rumours of an event in Italy, but I've not heard anything concrete.) cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

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

2017-01-04 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Mikel Maron wrote: > Reverts should be held to the same standard as imports (outside > of obviously urgent problems). Where a revert of an import (or other automated edit) is done by DWG because an import did not follow the rules, reverting that import just goes back to the status quo ante.

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM UK site

2017-01-03 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Rob Nickerson wrote: > If anyone is holding off from doing something just because the OSM UK > company is "coming", please don't. For one, you can make a great start > before OSM UK, but also there is no guarantee that OSM UK will work > on your specific idea. The main issue is that there are

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM UK site

2017-01-03 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Rob Nickerson wrote: > No, the first steps are to get people signed up as members (more > shortly when I have had a chance to speak with Gregory) and then > to host a first meeting. I see your point and it's great that so much work has gone into pre-thinking the incorporation and such like...

Re: [Talk-us] highway=trunk for NHS routes?

2016-12-31 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
voschix wrote: > The answer is definitely NO. > You can find detailed PDF maps of all NHS Routes, state-by-state at a > web page of the Federal Highway Administration [1]. On these maps > you will find plenty of NHS roads that are definitively not trunk roads. > Just two examples in Arizona: [2]

Re: [Talk-GB] Ideas for quarterly projects

2016-12-30 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Andy Mabbett wrote: > I'd like to float the following ideas for quarterly projects, and see > what folk think. > [...] > What are your thoughts? I'll throw one in early for Q2: campsites, hostels and bunkhouses. OSM coverage is oddly patchy and it would be great to encourage better coverage at

Re: [OSM-talk] Lot's of locality names in an otherwise empty area

2016-11-21 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Sebastian Arcus wrote: > Well, looking at the map, it looks like each and every parcel of > land and section of field has a locality tag associated with it. It's very common in the UK, too, for uninhabited sections of woodland and hillside to have placenames. > it still seems a bit odd - and

Re: [Talk-us] .... finding areas that are underserved

2016-11-19 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Minh Nguyen wrote: > The entire state of West Virginia -- no exaggeration. The original data > imported from TIGER is badly misaligned throughout this state > and rarely resembles the road network at all. *shudders* Yes. Genuinely the worst geometry I've encountered anywhere in the US, and

Re: [Talk-us] .... finding areas that are underserved

2016-11-16 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Markus Fischer wrote: > I am new to this and the area where I live is very well > mapped (probably due to high density of tech workers). > Where do I go to start mapping areas that are less well > mapped (me aimlessly poking at this does not sound > like a good approach)? Possibly the biggest

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetView name change

2016-11-08 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Andy Mabbett wrote: > This is hardly surprising, and not unreasonable (there's no > "Ford Beetle" or "Volkswagen Mini", nor a "BurgerKing > Happy Meal". for example). Though there is Ordnance Survey Street View, which pre-dates Google Street View by several years. (It's soon to be replaced by

Re: [OSM-talk] Which type of highways are used by routing software?

2016-11-02 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Michał Brzozowski wrote: > The rules for routing appear to be mostly global for popular > routers. There is very little magical sauce, if any. I wouldn't say that. Obviously the demo instances for OSRM and GraphHopper use their own vanilla profiles, but other routers very often have customised

Re: [Talk-GB] access:psv

2016-10-14 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Rob Nickerson wrote: > I understand this to be "easy" for data consumers It is indeed easy. There are 442,133 instances of foot=* in the UK and 748 of access:foot=*. That makes it a nice easy decision for the data consumer not to bother supporting access:foot. ;) cheers Richard -- View this

Re: [Talk-GB] Upper Booth camp site, Pennine Way near Edale

2016-10-02 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
David Woolley wrote: > So I would say that highway=path was equivalent to highway=path; > foot=yes; bicycle=yes; horse=yes; motor_vehicle=no (spellings may > be wrong). highway=footway would imply yes to just foot. Renderers > and routers will, I think follow this policy. I can't speak for

Re: [Talk-GB] Upper Booth camp site, Pennine Way near Edale

2016-10-02 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm quoted Mr Angry: > "NONE of the paths indicated on the map that proceed north through > Upper Booth Farm are public footpaths" And indeed they're not tagged as such: they are tagged as the perennially useless highway=path, some of them with highway=permissive, while the Pennine Way

Re: [Talk-GB] Users tagging Farmyard as place=farm (Was Summer quarterly project)

2016-09-13 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Andy Townsend wrote: > ** many "names" on OS OpenData aren't names at all (for example, > search for "poultry houses" in OSM and you'll get lots of things > "named" that). On the hillside above the Crawnon Valley (up from Llangynidr in the Brecon Beacons) OS StreetView has helpfully marked

Re: [Talk-GB] Composite mapping (OSM and OS, PRoWs etc)

2016-09-09 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote: > it would be interesting to know what routers make of highway=no. From https://github.com/Project-OSRM/osrm-backend/blob/master/profiles/foot.lua: elseif access and access_tag_whitelist[access] then -- unknown way, but valid access tag

Re: [Talk-GB] Composite mapping (OSM and OS, PRoWs etc)

2016-09-07 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Luke Smith wrote: > If anyone has comments or advice for us, it would be gratefully received. This is terrific. I've been waiting to see what you do with this since you first posted some sample images in 2011, so it's good to see it finally come to fruition. Lovely clear cartography and a

Re: [Talk-GB] Does "Great Britain" need a relation with "place=island" on it?

2016-08-22 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Andy Townsend wrote: > What does everyone else think? I would tend to think that if - 12 years into the life of a project that was started in Britain and much of which is still run out of Britain - you are radically changing the way Britain is tagged, you should probably reflect on why no-one has

Re: [Talk-GB] Admin boundaries for unparished areas - how to handle?

2016-08-20 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Colin Smale wrote: > I was hoping that we could find some middle ground by allowing > the relations to persist but outside the admin boundary regime Yes, I would agree with this. If there's no administration then they're not admin boundaries. > If I'm honest I am beginning to doubt whether the

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] MAPS.ME combining OSM data and non-OSM data?

2016-07-22 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Johan C wrote: > It's quite simple: as long as MAPS.ME operates in either the white or > the grey area of the license it's perfectly fine what they are doing. Um, no, that's precisely what "grey area" _doesn't_ mean. Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] MAPS.ME combining OSM data and non-OSM data?

2016-07-22 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Ilya Zverev wrote: > Let's consider another use case. An application that shows OSM map, > and on top of it shows 1 mln of user points. A users has an option to > hide the OSM map underneath proprietary points, with a radius of 1 > km. Does in that moment when a user clickes the options, the >

Re: [OSM-talk] Automated edits code of conduct

2016-07-20 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Victor Grousset wrote: > On 14/07/2016 17:35, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > > The person proposing the automated edit isn't the best placed > > person to weigh that up: they're already convinced of the desirability > > of the edit (which is why they're proposing it). > >

Re: [OSM-talk] Automated edits code of conduct

2016-07-14 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Éric Gillet wrote: > However I'd believe that there is (in Europe for the example's sake) a > very low number of restaurant really named McDonalds and not part > of the franchise. So if the changeset correct 300 restaurants but 2 > are "damaged" by the automated edit, would the edit be bad

Re: [OSM-talk] Automated edits code of conduct

2016-07-14 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Éric Gillet wrote: > That would be slightly faster to execute than the first approach I was > suggesting, but then how would you prove that you checked every > and all features ? Well, the best way to prove that you checked everything is not to fuck things up, which of course you won't, because

Re: [OSM-talk] Automated edits code of conduct

2016-07-11 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Éric Gillet wrote: > In contrary to the Contributor Terms, these rules : > - Doesn't seem to have been voted on before their "establishment" The Code of Conduct is a document enforced and revised by DWG, with the intention of codifying long-standing principles in OSM (principally, "respect the

Re: [Talk-us] Common names of highways do not match road signs.

2016-07-10 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Greg Troxel wrote: > When converting to garmin format with mkgmap, and I think with osmand, > I will tend to hear both the name and the ref. That's a big lengthy, but > there's no real pattern on which to leave out. For cycle.travel's directions in the US, I've started post-processing the name

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] path, cycleway et footway

2016-06-22 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Eric Sibert a écrit: > highway=path > bicycle=yes/designated > foot=yes/designated > segregated=yes Ajoutez un tag 'surface', svp :) Il y a trop de voies vertes en France sans 'surface'... Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-talk] MAPS.ME edits - partly sub-standard

2016-06-21 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Andreas Vilén wrote: > Post codes are also a little dubious, since those aren't open > data in Sweden and can normally only be figured out through > local knowledge Perish the thought that people might add their local knowledge to OSM. I thought it was all imports, armchairing and tagwanking

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

2016-06-15 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Jeff Medaugh wrote: > MapQuest is moving to a 100% cloud solution - the new > infrastructure dictates that all tile access will require a key. > Details on how to get keys, SDKs and general migration > information is below: Thanks for posting this. Will there still be specific 'MapQuest Open'

Re: [OSRM-talk] Eliminating, or reconstructing, via points

2016-06-05 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Patrick Niklaus wrote: My solution for that would remove vias if the way through them is a shortest (duration) path. Technically shortest paths are not unique (think of grid cities). So this might lead to some route modifications that don't change the duration of the route but maybe the actual

[OSRM-talk] Eliminating, or reconstructing, via points

2016-06-04 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Two similar via-points-related questions I'd like to hear people's opinions on. I realise that out-of-the-box OSRM might not be able to solve these efficiently, but I'd be interested to hear ideas how one might build a plugin (or other code) to solve these. 1. Sometimes users of cycle.travel

Re: [Talk-us] Best practices for dealing with old TIGER tags?

2016-06-03 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Madeline Steele wrote: > What do you all think about this? The sine qua non for me is that the absence of a tiger:reviewed= tag (or one set to =yes) means that you can trust the value of the highway= tag. This is especially true of rural areas where unreviewed highway=residential covers a

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Wednesfield-Walsall old railway

2016-05-23 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Hi all, There is an old railway from Wednesfield to Walsall, starting hereish: http://cycle.travel/map?lat=52.5944=-2.0743=16 and continuing east to the northern edge of Walsall. I believe some of it is a path, particularly to the west of the M6. At present it's just in OSM as

Re: [Talk-transit] Tag railway=station on ways and Wiki

2016-05-19 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Mauro Constantini wrote: Two hours later someone edited [4] the wiki page removing the difference between a station and a halt, writing that the difference is only in German speaking countries (of course it's false: English has station/halt, Italian has stazione/fermata, French has gare/halte,

Re: [Talk-GB] New user renaming highway=cycleway with NCN references

2016-05-13 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
David Woolley wrote: > For canal towpaths, bicycle=designated is misleading, as it tends > to imply a public right of way, whereas these are normally > access=permissive, and privately owned by the Canal and River > Trust. Again, Scotland is different. :) Scotland's canals didn't go to CRT:

Re: [Talk-GB] New user renaming highway=cycleway with NCN references

2016-05-12 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Craig Wallace wrote: > Maybe the consensus in England. > In Scotland, where paths can be used on foot, bicycle, horse etc, > then highway=path makes sense. And that is how they are > generally tagged in OSM. Yes, access laws are indeed different in Scotland to England & Wales. However, the

Re: [Talk-GB] New user renaming highway=cycleway with NCN references

2016-05-10 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
On 10/05/2016 20:59, Eric Grosso wrote: What do you think? Do we, OSM contributors, tag all the highways part of a NCN as cycleways? What to do when in some cases, a highway is both part of a NCN route and a hiking route (e.g the John Muir Way)? Please don't use highway=path:

Re: [Talk-GB] New user renaming highway=cycleway with NCN references

2016-05-08 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
David Woolley wrote: > I'm not sure of the likely sources (assuming they have missed > the reference in the existing mapping) but Sustrans have a no > commercial use restriction, that is incompatible with OSM. I wouldn't assume bad faith in this or indeed any NCN-related case. As I thought was

Re: [Talk-us] Colorado mappers: Check your notes carefully

2016-05-02 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
SteveA wrote: > [Great Divide Mountain Bike Route] > where MountainAddict keeps setting this to network=ncn > when clearly it is network=icn (as it crosses the Canadian > border in Alberta). A partial compromise/consensus > solution has emerged: keep a duplicate relation synced as >

Re: [OSM-talk] osm maps on wikipedia - discussion

2016-04-29 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: > We'd have to explain to Wikipedia users that what they see on our > maps might not be what they expect, and that we do *not* want > them to fix it... I've just created a quick, friendly wiki page to explain that and other differences:

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Chapter Directors' Powers

2016-04-25 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Rob Nickerson wrote: > The poll we did last year (?) suggested that the OpenStreetMap UK > community want to be involved in decision making. My suggestion is > that, if this is the culture we want to breed then the Articles should > reflect this. I'm the chairman of a community-owned

Re: [Talk-GB] Open data

2016-03-30 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Rob Nickerson wrote: 1. Would there be any cases where merging open data in OSM would reduce end user challenges (e.g height restrictions on bridges, traffic calming, cafes from the food hygiene data*)? End-user merging any of those is reasonably easy - these datasets are point data, which

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Slack

2016-03-30 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Martijn van Exel wrote: > The web site has always been about the map primarily, > not the people. I am curious if there are any ideas out > there to change that. Groups! cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Slack-tp5870718p5870933.html Sent from

Re: [Talk-GB] Fwd: Re: Open data (Was: Parliamentary debate mentions OSM)

2016-03-30 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Rob Nickerson wrote: > Is it OK to leave it to the data users to merge the open data with OSM > or is that burden too large for them to bother (at which point the > pressure of OSM in the UK reduces)? > > The reason I ask is because I don't have the answers. Hoping some > of the data users on

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

2016-03-11 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
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 information copyrighted by Google. Consequently you could argue

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

2016-03-11 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Hi all, Without wanting to be a rotten party-pooper, could I just raise the licence issues with this? Wikidata co-ordinate information is chiefly sourced from Wikipedia, which claims to be CC-BY-SA licensed. Wikipedia co-ordinate information is chiefly sourced from Google Maps[1]. Google

Re: [Talk-GB] Reminder: Footpath Mapping Consall Forge/Ipstones this Saturday 5th March

2016-03-03 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
sk53.osm wrote: > We are meeting at Ipstones because the lunch spot Black Lion pub is deep > in the valley of the Churnet and reached by a rather tortuous road. Quite a direct canal, though. Unfortunately it's a bit of a long way from Worcester or I'd use it to join you... cheers Richard --

Re: [Talk-GB] New users and P2

2016-02-25 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Jerry Clough wrote: > However, when it's end comes it's likely to be swift as flash gets > eliminated by major browsers. I think that remains to be seen. There's a number of alternative options for running Flash apps, either in-browser (Shumway, FlexJS) or on Mac/Windows desktop (AIR). There's

[Talk-GB] London bus lanes

2016-02-24 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Hi all, I was slightly surprised to find that bus lane tagging in London is very patchy! Bus lanes are easy to spot, even from imagery: 1. They are on roads with bus routes (see Andy's Transport map) 2. They have thick white lines separating them from the general lanes 3. They are often

Re: [Talk-GB] UK war office maps of Africa digitised

2016-01-31 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Andy Mabbett wrote: > David Woolley wrote: > > Are you really asking if anyone is prepared to fund the tile server, > > and donate time to any georeferencing needed? > I'm asking what the *potential* is for that, or any other necessary > steps, to be done. For individual sheets like this, I

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

2016-01-30 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Mateusz Konieczny wrote: > I am not claiming that there are quick & easy ways to reduce > complexity - but complexity has some real negative consequences. The cycleway tagging mess has come about because a bunch of wikifiddlers keep inventing ever more spurious and unnecessary tags -

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