Re: [Talk-ca] [OSM-talk] GeoBase nodes import

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Re: [Talk-ca] [OSM-talk] GeoBase nodes import

Hi, Sam Vekemans wrote: And so, im not sure that the local are mappers would want to have a manual merge (wiping out what they did, importing all the roads, then slowely bringing back the OSM roads if any are needed) By having the roads which were not mapped available as nodes to be traced,

Re: [Talk-ca] [OSM-talk] Merging changed osm nodes in JOSM

Hi, Sam Vekemans wrote: Is it possable to have an option of merging both changes? To the best of my knowledge, the JOSM merge dialog does exactly that. It shows you both versions and allows you to pick'n'mix. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008

Re: [Talk-ca] [OSM-talk] Addr:streetnumber:first;last:left;right

Hi, Russ Nelson wrote: Here in the USA, many areas were renumbered for the e911 initiative. The numbering? Well, it may vary from place to place, but for my area, it's the number of feet down your road divided by 25 (half the width of a buildable lot, so you can have a unique

Re: [Talk-ca] [Talk-us] [Local-chapters] Can someone please start communicating better?

more. Often it is also a different kind of person - doing an import requires technical expertise but being socially inept is not a problem, whereas you can successfully run a chapter without knowing what a changeset is if you are a good communicator and motivator... Bye Frederik -- Frederik

Re: [Talk-ca] [Talk-us] Fwd: [OSM-talk] New users have to sign up to the ODbL

were with us on this because they aren't. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] Forests/Land Use, was: Canvec reverts

(not even talking of community engagement). "It looks nice on the map" can be a treacherous criterion; beneath the surfaceit can still be rubbish, and rubbish should not be imported into OSM even if it looks nice. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede.

Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec Reverts

more responsible to come along. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec Reverts

Sam, On 09/01/2016 11:26 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: >> I believe the given what we have just spent the last 24 hours discussing >> this request is unreasonable and the issue is not significant. Thoughts? > > An importer who imports data into OSM that doesn't match up with alrea

Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec Reverts

rted data (perhaps to replace it with new, better-imported data) would also have to take into account potential manual work that has been performed on the imported by mappers with local knowledge and it would be sad to lose that. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.o

Re: [Talk-ca] Wikidata in OpenStreetMap

sufficient, and we don't want to copy stuff from Wikidata. (Nor do we want to copy stuff from OSM *into* Wikidata because this would then make parts of Wikidata ODbL licensed, something that Wikidata certainly won't approve of.) Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org #

Re: [Talk-ca] City of Ottawa imported buildings & addresses

Hi, On 10/18/2016 07:53 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Unfortunately the import was larger than expected and the revert drags > on. And it still does! I was going a bit slower today in order not to overload the API. Thank you everyone for letting the revert run its course without inter

Re: [Talk-ca] City of Ottawa imported buildings & addresses

up a poor revert should be the person who ran it ;) it's only 30% complete and will run far into the night in my time zone and I'll have to check on it after getting up. I'm confident all will be fixed when you get up tomorrow morning. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org

Re: [Talk-ca] Ottawa Buildings has the revert finished? Is it safe to add a new Internet cafe yet?

John, the bulk of the revert has run its course, I'm just sifting through the remaining incomplete things for a little fixup here and there. I think normal mapping should be safe now ;) Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°

Re: [Talk-ca] City of Ottawa imported buildings & addresses

reverting this import (and the deletions that went with it) now. Not because we shouldn't ever import the data, but because I don't want a fait accompli to stand in the way of a serious discussion about the matter. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09&qu

[Talk-ca] Community Conduct

uspicion was correct. It should be easy enough to disprove but instead we're seeing statements, attacks and excuses worthy of an US election twitter exchange. But maybe I'm overreacting and I'm prepared to let the matter rest if the Canadian community finds that nomal. Bye Frederik -- Frederik R

Re: [Talk-ca] Ottawa, Canada Tree Import

t a few pairs of critical eyeballs to ensure they don't embarrass themselves with a broken or silly import. If you do not have the time to offer solid feedback, then hold back on it until you do. A knee-jerk "+1" makes a mockery of the process. Bye

Re: [Talk-ca] Issues with an Ottawa school

Apologies everyone (and thanks John for stepping forward) - I have the wrong Ottawa. My school isn't even in Canada. Sorry for the noise, I'll have to ask elsewhere. On 02/22/2018 07:58 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > DWG has received a complaint about a fictional village

Re: [Talk-ca] Manitoba buildings, addresses and high school work

e to the creative task. Best Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] DigitalGlobe building footprints for sale in Canada

you can then use these fixes as a new input for your machine learning system... ... which will thereby of course fall fully under ODbL ;) Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ Talk-ca maili

[Talk-ca] Nova Scotia imports, and boundary=land_area

of the ways" A number of people have complained in the past http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/osm-discussion-comments?uid=698649 but many of the issues seem to be present still. Before I ask him to fix this -- are any of the behaviours / mapping techniques outlined above somehow usual in Canada? Bye Fre

Re: [Talk-ca] Nova Scotia imports, and boundary=land_area

/2312 I hope he will explain himself here. I will also consider reverting some of the most unusual contributions in so far as I can determine them algorithmically. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _

Re: [Talk-ca] Building Import

d judgement, something that the larger community can help against. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] Tagging sidewalks as separate ways and issues with bicycle routing

formation, and just serve as crutches for routing engines. Personally I am very much opposed to the separate mapping of sidewalks, though I recognize that unless we have routing engines that work without these crutches, I will have a hard time convincing people to stop doing that. Bye Frederi