Re: [OSM-talk-be] waymarked or not?

2020-10-13 Thread Francois Gerin
+1 for the "end user's perspective". From my point of view, two key rules make the ground for OSM as pointed out in several places of the documentation: 1. Think to end users 2. Map what really exists "Map what really exists" is visible in many places in the docs, and this is indeed

Re: [OSM-talk-be] slowroads conventions

2020-08-12 Thread Francois Gerin
Hi Stijn, Thanks a lot for sharing this. Despite the many hours I spent reading the doc, I never found this one... It definitely deserves attention from mappers focused on this network. After reading, and with the various experiences I got mapping specifically that network, I would like to

Re: [OSM-talk-be] Mapping disaperead vicinal paths

2020-08-07 Thread Francois Gerin
Thanks to Pieter for the link https://www.openhistoricalmap.org => It deserves more visibility/publicity I think, so as to improve the cleaning of the main OSM DB... I'm contributing a lot to balnam too. I make use of it a lot, exactly to ensure or recover missing paths. Most of the time

Re: [OSM-talk-be] Mapping disaperead vicinal paths

2020-08-06 Thread Francois Gerin
Hi, I faced the same situation here. I sent the author a kind message, telling this fight, even if fully justified, is not to lead via OSM but via balnam.be (for the Wallonia part). I got no reply, but pointing to an alternative for this justified cause is probably something that can help

Re: [OSM-talk-be] hidden official path vs. unofficial by-pass : consensus?

2019-08-26 Thread Francois Gerin
"clutters" the map. And even where it does, people don't seem to mind much anyway. Check out: https://www.mapcontrib.xyz/t/6d1770-Trage_wegen_als_Note It shows a bunch of ways with no properties except a note="some buurtweg here". I shared it a few times here, and nobody bothe

Re: [OSM-talk-be] hidden official path vs. unofficial by-pass : consensus?

2019-08-21 Thread Francois Gerin
describe the problem. I did that once and the day after, the track was open to the public again. On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 8:59 PM Francois Gerin mailto:francois.ge...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Hi, > > Here is a probably subjective issue, that has certainly

[OSM-talk-be] hidden official path vs. unofficial by-pass : consensus?

2019-08-20 Thread Francois Gerin
Hi, Here is a probably subjective issue, that has certainly already been discussed, but I cant' find a search engine for the mailing archives. Problem: It's very frequent, in Belgium and certainly in many places, that a private or farmer steals a footway because he dislikes people pass there