Re: [talk-au] [Talk-us] Go Map!! is in the Apple app store

2013-01-26 Thread Martijn van Exel
___ Talk-us mailing list talk...@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us -- Martijn van Exel http://oegeo.wordpress.com/ http://openstreetmap.us/ ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http

[talk-au] Hello!

2018-11-07 Thread Martijn van Exel
I’m new on this list. My name is Martijn van Exel. I am Dutch but live in the U.S.A. where I work for Telenav. I already introduced myself on Slack where I talked a bit about Telenav looking at possibly helping improve the map in Australia. I am just not sure if there’s folks here who

Re: [talk-au] Announcing: OpenStreetCam competition

2019-01-18 Thread Martijn van Exel
2019 and win a $25 or $100 gift card. Some stats so far: we started at 126 752 images in Australia on Dec 1, now we are at 330 648 covering 8882 km of which 6293 unique. Happy mapping / capturing :) -- Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org On Tue, Jan 8, 2019, at 16:40, Martijn van Exel wrote: >

Re: [talk-au] Announcing: OpenStreetCam competition

2018-12-12 Thread Martijn van Exel
if you have any questions. Happy mapping / capturing, -- Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org On Fri, Dec 7, 2018, at 11:53, Martijn van Exel wrote: > Hi folks, > > We (Telenav map team) are holding an OpenStreetCam image capture > competition. In case you're not familiar, O

Re: [talk-au] Adding lane tags to major roads

2018-12-11 Thread Martijn van Exel
o a good idea to include the NSW LPI Imagery as the default > background layer for this task. I just filed > https://github.com/osmlab/maproulette3/issues/572 > <https://github.com/osmlab/maproulette3/issues/572> in relation to this. > > On Sun, 9 Dec 2018, at 4:53 AM, Martijn

Re: [talk-au] Adding lane tags to major roads

2018-12-16 Thread Martijn van Exel
' challenge for Queensland a little while ago, which you can find here: https://maproulette.org/mr3/browse/challenges/3376 -- Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org On Sun, Dec 16, 2018, at 04:20, Joel H. wrote: > Hey I'm not familiar with MapRoulette. > Where can I view the source code? I (or

Re: [talk-au] Replies to list messages not going to the list?

2018-12-23 Thread Martijn van Exel
Graeme, It should work the same way for all OSM lists, or for all properly configured mailing lists for that matter. Some mail programs try to be smart about it and either inject a ‘Reply-To’ header whenever you compose a response to a mailing list message, or look for a ‘List-Post’ or similar

[talk-au] Open Data

2018-12-05 Thread Martijn van Exel
-BY 3.0 Australia) I'm wondering what the best way is to proceed. We can send out waiver requests directly as needed, but perhaps there are folks here who are local to some of the datasets above and can advise? -- Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org

[talk-au] Announcing: OpenStreetCam competition

2018-12-07 Thread Martijn van Exel
Hi folks, We (Telenav map team) are holding an OpenStreetCam image capture competition. In case you're not familiar, OpenStreetCam is an open source / open data street level imagery collection platform for OSM. It is widely used to help improve OSM (through iD and JOSM) but there is not a lot

Re: [talk-au] Adding lane tags to major roads

2018-12-07 Thread Martijn van Exel
3/challenge/3375/task/6686753 which > shouldn't need a redundant lanes tag as you can just add them up. > On Fri, 7 Dec 2018 at 10:49, Martijn van Exel wrote: >> >> Hi folks. >> I created MapRoulette challenge asking mappers to look at aerial images and >> add lane tags

[talk-au] Adding lane tags to major roads

2018-12-06 Thread Martijn van Exel
Hi folks. I created MapRoulette challenge asking mappers to look at aerial images and add lane tags to major roads. https://maproulette.org/mr3/browse/challenges/3375 This particular one is for NSW but can easily be ‘cloned’ for other

Re: [talk-au] Adding lane tags to major roads

2018-12-08 Thread Martijn van Exel
Andrew H-- correct and I wasn't suggesting that you amend it yourself :) I will make the update when I find a moment.Andrew H/D -- thanks for pointing me to the import plan. -- Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org On Fri, Dec 7, 2018, at 17:29, Andrew Harvey wrote: > On Sat., 8 Dec. 2018,

Re: [talk-au] Hello!

2018-11-23 Thread Martijn van Exel
Andrew -- I am very glad to hear it! I would be delighted to help promote MapRoulette use more, please do let me know if you have issues or you want help setting up a particular challenge.-- Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org On Fri, Nov 23, 2018, at 02:56, Andrew Harvey wrote: > Hey Mart

Re: [talk-au] Hello!

2018-11-23 Thread Martijn van Exel
consider it. Is there already some coordination going on, like collecting information about datasets and licenses on an OSM wiki page?-- Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org On Thu, Nov 22, 2018, at 22:10, Nick Hocking wrote: > Hi Martijn, > In my opinion the biggest improvement to Aust

Re: [talk-au] Hello!

2018-11-20 Thread Martijn van Exel
her what I did was correct, or if my method has given you > any ideas? > > https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Joel%20Hansen/diary/43896 > <https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Joel%20Hansen/diary/43896> > > On 8/11/18 4:10 am, Martijn van Exel wrote: >> I’m new on thi

Re: [talk-au] Hello!

2018-11-20 Thread Martijn van Exel
/44833 > On Nov 20, 2018, at 12:32 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: > > Hi Joel, > > Nice to make your virtual acquaintance. > > I noticed there was a bit of discussion as to how to snap _link / ramp roads > to the main highway. > The Telenav team uses the co

Re: [talk-au] Question Regarding multiple alt_names

2018-11-20 Thread Martijn van Exel
Hi Nemanja, You can use semicolons if there are multiple alternate names, like alt_name=Big Apple Street;Highway 666. Folks used to use name_1, name_2 but this seems to be generally discouraged now. There is also loc_name but the use of that has always been a bit unclear to me, since local

[talk-au] MapRoulette challenges

2018-11-27 Thread Martijn van Exel
Hi folks. The Telenav team continuously runs a series of data integrity checks on OSM data that we’re interested in. The OSM wiki has an overview [1]. Now some of these are easy fixes, and that means they make interesting MapRoulette challenges. For example here’s a challenge that highlights

Re: [talk-au] Announcing: OpenStreetCam competition

2019-01-08 Thread Martijn van Exel
Best, -- Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org On Wed, Dec 12, 2018, at 12:33, Martijn van Exel wrote: > Folks, > > We added an additional holiday prize for the 2 mappers who collect the most > imagery before Christmas. > Details added on the competition page! You ne

Re: [talk-au] Our work in last two weeks

2019-01-24 Thread Martijn van Exel
It sounds like one of those things where opinions are going to vary. Personally I would split them, but I don’t think it’s a big deal to do it one way or the other, and it doesn’t affect the map either way. Mapping to make some random QA tool happy doesn’t sound tenable to me. Horea (my

Re: [talk-au] Announcing: OpenStreetCam competition

2019-01-24 Thread Martijn van Exel
communities who want to make an effort to capture their entire city or area. If you’re interested, please get in touch with me off-list. Happy mapping, Martijn [1] https://www.openstreetmap.us/2018/05/camera-lending-program/ > On Jan 18, 2019, at 2:26 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: > &g

[talk-au] Sign detections from OpenStreetCam

2019-02-28 Thread Martijn van Exel
Hi all, You will remember from my previous messages to this list that OpenStreetCam held a competition to collect imagery in Australia (as well as in New Zealand). The winners have their gift cards, but the community as a whole gains as well. Our map team used the contributed imagery to

Re: [talk-au] Local Chapter

2019-03-05 Thread Martijn van Exel
John — I used to be OSMF secretary and have guided multiple local groups through the OSMF LC application process. I am no longer on the board but know the current secretary, and am happy to help with the process if needed. Martijn > On Mar 4, 2019, at 8:41 PM, John Bryant wrote: > > Hi

[talk-au] new OpenStreetCam competition

2019-03-18 Thread Martijn van Exel
lugin <http://blog.improveosm.org/en/2019/03/openstreetcam-plug-in-display-osmelement/> was just updated with some new features as well. Let me know if you have any questions, and Happy mapping! -- Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org___ Talk-au ma

Re: [talk-au] new OpenStreetCam competition

2019-03-18 Thread Martijn van Exel
g urban > streets as the GPS averaging is too slow to deal with the acceleration > changes. > > Thanks Michael > > > From: Martijn van Exel mailto:m...@rtijn.org>> > Sent: Tuesday, 19 March 2019 1:08 AM > To: OSM Australian Talk List <mailto:talk-au@

Re: [talk-au] new OpenStreetCam competition

2019-03-20 Thread Martijn van Exel
it take to show on the > openstreetcam.org website? > > Cheers > > Ross > > > > > On 19/03/19 01:08, Martijn van Exel wrote: >> Howdy. >> >> We had a good time with the first OpenStreetCam competition, the winners >> received their prizes, and we decide

[talk-au] OpenStreetCam competition results

2019-02-06 Thread Martijn van Exel
do this again..Watch this space. Don’t stop now! We’re using all photos to improve sign recognition for OSC and the more photos we have, the better that system gets. Happy Mapping! Martijn > On Jan 24, 2019, at 3:47 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: > > Hi all! > > Let me give you

Re: [talk-au] more SEO spam?

2019-01-30 Thread Martijn van Exel
You can point businesses to https://www.onosm.org/ which gives businesses an easy way to add themselves. It generates a note on OSM, that mappers can then turn into an actual node or whatever OSM type is relevant to add the information to the map in a responsible way.

Re: [talk-au] Announcing: OpenStreetCam competition

2019-02-01 Thread Martijn van Exel
ore about these cameras on the OSM US blog: https://www.openstreetmap.us/2018/05/camera-lending-program/ <https://www.openstreetmap.us/2018/05/camera-lending-program/> > On Jan 24, 2019, at 3:47 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: > > Hi all! > > Let me give you a status update on

Re: [talk-au] Question on how to fix this intersection

2019-01-30 Thread Martijn van Exel
Especially if the street name does not change AND the road splits into two oneway segments of the same name AND the angle of the ’turn’ is very slight, the software should figure this out, and I would say this is indeed an OSMAnd problem. In any case, the mapping looks correct to me. Sort of

Re: [talk-au] more SEO spam?

2019-01-30 Thread Martijn van Exel
Graeme Fitzpatrick <mailto:graemefi...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > On Thu, 31 Jan 2019 at 06:51, Martijn van Exel <mailto:m...@rtijn.org>> wrote: > You can point businesses to https://www.onosm.org/ <https://www.onosm.org/> > which gives businesses an easy way to a