Re: [Talk-ee] SviMik_import is back to life
Hi Mihkel Oviir (upd: and Mihkel Rämmel too!), I'm glad to see more people here, even if some of them sound like they had a really bad morning. I had already jumped to conclusion that Jaak is the last person in talk-ee, which makes the community essentially dead since there is no one I can discuss anything with. I checked the mailing list history a week ago, and found that this year is completely empty (only Jessica's messages in February about HOT Microgrants, but she's not from the local community). To Mihkel Oviir: 1) I'm using my OSM name and I find it adequate. I wish others would do the same, so I could make a connection between the person who speaks to me and his OSM profile. But I need to point out that "I wish" doesn't mean "I'm asking you to do that" unlike you just have done. It's completely normal to choose a nickname in the Internet, we're not some government organization to be that formal. Again, you're just provoking further conflicts with such an attitude, let's cease that. 2) I want to apologize to Jaak, I went too far with my accusation. Let's just not exclude people who live in Estonia from the local community just because they speak a different language. 3) You have a point. It's another import. But I just wish to point out that I do maintain my previous imports too. For example, I do update addresses on the buildings I imported in 2013. Of course, only if no one else touched that building or any tags on it after that. 3) Honestly, me neither. I just mocked Jaak a bit (sorry, Jaak!) 4) I think buildings and addresses are tightly connected. Sure you can import the address nodes without importing the buildings, but even I would be against that kind of import (at least, if there is a way to avoid doing that). A landuse import is even more questionable thing to do (and closer to "if you need Maa-amet — you have Maa-amet"). 5) All my tools had JOSM buttons from the very beginning. I'm sorry I didn't include ID though, I'll see if I can do that. As a workaround you can use a link to open that place in OSM map and click the Edit button from there. 6) I didn't quite get what nickname you are talking about. If SviMik_import - that's a separate account made just for imports. It's a good practice in OSM to do the imports using a dedicated account so it would be easier to control, verify and monitor it, as well as to fix things if something goes wrong. 7) It was the easiest way to do it. Also, I was thinking that all places equally deserve the attention, so I didn't see any problem with that. Also, I think if I give a choice, most people would just select Tallinn, but it's the last place that needs any imports. It was more intended for rural areas, and people are unlikely to have any preferences between villages they don't know anyway, so that would be a useless option. The idea of sorting the tasks looks great at the first glance, but it will increase the risk that if two people bump into each other, they may get stuck mapping the same things for the entire session. I'll have to invent some algorithm to prevent it, and I think it's an overcomplication for a system with such a simple task. Oh horseapples, Mihkel Rämmel got into my spam folder for some reason. Now he probably thinks I'm ignoring people. Let's fix that. >non-square buildings Since non-square buildings are like <1% of all the buildings I decided not to import them (if someone clicked OK in the validator, I'm really sorry for that. There's a clear instruction to decline the import if the outlines do not match). >Currently buildings do not use same nodes despite sharing a wall. Yes, I'm aware of that. Almost impossible to do anything with that, especially if another outline was created by a human. Not to mention there's a chance that that person not gonna be happy with that. Imagine if that would be a Jaak's building :D >A tool to assist going through such cases afterwards would not hurt. If by tool you mean a list with errors that just says "open these places in your editor and fix them" then it's quite possible to do. Though I already have a bunch of them, an nobody gives a buck. For example, missing roads: http://osm.svimik.com/noroad.php - this page shows all places where a building was imported, but a road still needs to be mapped by a human. Missing streets: http://osm.svimik.com/nostreet.php - that's a bit more challenging. You need to open Maa-amet and figure out why there's no match between building addresses and the street names. Either a street must be (re)named, or the buildings need to be fixed. To Jaak: >without context I'm having hard time to imagine what kind of context do you need. When I map something in JOSM - I just trace everything that catch my attention, the knowledge of what city it is wouldn't change how I do it. Maybe I'm just a bad mapper and there's something I haven't learned? >so there is no way to validate what is real street name The
Re: [Talk-ee] SviMik_import is back to life
Hi, Some notes from my side: The building import from 6 years ago had small issues with 2 things: non-square buildings and adjoining buildings. First one should be easy to solve by not squaring buildings where corners are not around 90 degrees. Or has this been already solved? Currently buildings do not use same nodes despite sharing a wall. It would be hard or impossible to fix it programmatically without faults, even if all data is imported once after post processing the accepted data. A tool to assist going through such cases afterwards would not hurt. This would assist in finding and fixing what came with import + what has been drawn by users but might also need fixing. Otherwise no other issues that I can remember of. About import vs manual mapping - If there would be more mappers I would prefer manual mapping of buildings (as more details get mapped at the same region). But as there are few active mappers and some passive mappers (including myself), I'm happy with import. With current going there is no hope in foreseeable future of manually mapping all significant buildings. There are regions that are well mapped and there are regions where practically no mapping has happened over the past years. Regards, Mihkel R osm: RM87 On Sun, Aug 4, 2019 at 11:41 PM SviMik via Talk-ee wrote: > > First, I'd really like you to stop being so aggressive. You could spend that > energy to actually do something to improve OSM rather than ranting about not > being able to understand other languages. Keep in mind that I was respectful > enough to start this discussion in English, so literally everyone could > understand me. And you was disrespectful enough to say that people who speak > Russian are not part of the local community, even when they physically live > in Estonia. Don't be racist, OSM is not about the race or the language we > speak, okay? International projects are supposed to bring people together. > Where does this hatred come from? > > Now, here are my points: > > 1) It was discussed in talk-ee mailing list 30.03.2013. > > 2) After the 2013 import was done, I even made a short presentation during > SotM Baltics 2013 explaining this import and the tools we used. > > 3) You’re talking about maintaining the data, but that's exactly what I'm > doing right now. > > 4) I'm really sorry for you if your import was a crap. Mine wasn't. Even > looking at my import 5 years later I can still say that it was a complete > success and the right thing to do. > > 5) The source of the data is Maa-amet. I'm not offering any editor tools nor > any way to alter the data. My tools are only to confirm or reject the objects > to be imported, thus there is no editors per se that needs to be identified. > > 6) This is not a blind import - people see every single change that is going > to happen, and free to confirm or reject every one of them. > > > Воскресенье, 4 августа 2019, 19:41 +03:00 от "Jaak Laineste" > : > > > > Your tools are really cool from technical perspective, but have you ever > > discussed it fully with the local community, so the stategy is agreed? I see > > link in the wiki page to some forum, but this is not a local community > > forum, > > it is Russian forum and it is even in a language what a lot of younger > > generation does not understand. It is just as absurd as if we would start to > > discuss in Estonian how to map say New York, agree some strategies and then > > assume that it is ok to garbage the map there. I really hope you don't > > consider Estonia somehow as a part of Russia. > > > > My position is that in early years of OSM automatic imports of map for > > regions > > what you don’t know made some sense, but now they do more harm - create map > > data what is not maintained and not maintainable. Kind of digital garbage. > > Is > > is much better map less, more carefully, and avoid senseless copy of other > > map > > data. Again, if someone needs Maaamet maps then they should take the latest > > version from them anytime. There is no need to copy if over to OSM at all. > > OSM > > is never meant to be collection of different geo datasets, even if they are > > really nice, it is human-created original global map database. > > > > Now if you decide to do it, then the editors must be identified. There is > > process on agreeing on legal contributor terms of edits, including right to > > take back the agreement. If you put all edits under your own name, then > > anyone > > can claim that you did not do the edits, and can request to just undo all of > > them. It looks like complete legal mess there from IP perspective. Also > > there > > is no way to ask comments/clarifications about specific edits. Therefore > > proper way to do it would be like with editors like ID, JOSM etc - every > > user > > is identified with OSM username, takes responsibility for his/her edits, so > > it > > is clear who to contact and who is responsible for this. > > > > I did several
Re: [Talk-ee] SviMik_import is back to life
First, I'd really like you to stop being so aggressive. You could spend that energy to actually do something to improve OSM rather than ranting about not being able to understand other languages. Keep in mind that I was respectful enough to start this discussion in English, so literally everyone could understand me. And you was disrespectful enough to say that people who speak Russian are not part of the local community, even when they physically live in Estonia. Don't be racist, OSM is not about the race or the language we speak, okay? International projects are supposed to bring people together. Where does this hatred come from? Now, here are my points: 1) It was discussed in talk-ee mailing list 30.03.2013. 2) After the 2013 import was done, I even made a short presentation during SotM Baltics 2013 explaining this import and the tools we used. 3) You’re talking about maintaining the data, but that's exactly what I'm doing right now. 4) I'm really sorry for you if your import was a crap. Mine wasn't. Even looking at my import 5 years later I can still say that it was a complete success and the right thing to do. 5) The source of the data is Maa-amet. I'm not offering any editor tools nor any way to alter the data. My tools are only to confirm or reject the objects to be imported, thus there is no editors per se that needs to be identified. 6) This is not a blind import - people see every single change that is going to happen, and free to confirm or reject every one of them. Воскресенье, 4 августа 2019, 19:41 +03:00 от "Jaak Laineste" : > > Your tools are really cool from technical perspective, but have you ever > discussed it fully with the local community, so the stategy is agreed? I see > link in the wiki page to some forum, but this is not a local community forum, > it is Russian forum and it is even in a language what a lot of younger > generation does not understand. It is just as absurd as if we would start to > discuss in Estonian how to map say New York, agree some strategies and then > assume that it is ok to garbage the map there. I really hope you don't > consider Estonia somehow as a part of Russia. > > My position is that in early years of OSM automatic imports of map for regions > what you don’t know made some sense, but now they do more harm - create map > data what is not maintained and not maintainable. Kind of digital garbage. Is > is much better map less, more carefully, and avoid senseless copy of other map > data. Again, if someone needs Maaamet maps then they should take the latest > version from them anytime. There is no need to copy if over to OSM at all. OSM > is never meant to be collection of different geo datasets, even if they are > really nice, it is human-created original global map database. > > Now if you decide to do it, then the editors must be identified. There is > process on agreeing on legal contributor terms of edits, including right to > take back the agreement. If you put all edits under your own name, then anyone > can claim that you did not do the edits, and can request to just undo all of > them. It looks like complete legal mess there from IP perspective. Also there > is no way to ask comments/clarifications about specific edits. Therefore > proper way to do it would be like with editors like ID, JOSM etc - every user > is identified with OSM username, takes responsibility for his/her edits, so it > is clear who to contact and who is responsible for this. > > I did several mass-imports in early OSM days myself, after discussions with > local and international community. They looked nice at once, but in longer > term maybe it was even bad idea, there would be more motivated contributors, > and the map would be more useful and interesting without them. There is still > “dead” data what noone can update (from Corine for example), and I would be > more happy if someone would create a tool to automatically delete it now. > > Jaak > > > > On 4 Aug 2019, at 14:26, SviMik wrote: > > > > For everyone who is new here, this is exactly the same import we did 5 years > ago, just updating it with new data. > > > > The import is briefly described on the wiki page: > > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Maa-amet#Import > > > > 1. The account for the imports is: > > https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/SviMik_import/history > > > > 2. Why do you need streets? I'm just asking to confirm putting that address > on that outline. All you need to do is just make sure they match. > > > > > > Воскресенье, 4 августа 2019, 13:16 +03:00 от "Jaak Laineste" > : > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> About first 2 tools: > >> > >> 1. what they do as result exactly? add data to OSM database? If yes, then > >> under which username? I don’t see any auth here, is feels like “anonymous > >> editor”, but OSM does not allow anonymous edits. > >> > >> 2. about second one - map view is too much zoomed in, usually I don’t see > any > >> streets to see the context,
Re: [Talk-ee] SviMik_import is back to life
Your tools are really cool from technical perspective, but have you ever discussed it fully with the local community, so the stategy is agreed? I see link in the wiki page to some forum, but this is not a local community forum, it is Russian forum and it is even in a language what a lot of younger generation does not understand. It is just as absurd as if we would start to discuss in Estonian how to map say New York, agree some strategies and then assume that it is ok to garbage the map there. I really hope you don't consider Estonia somehow as a part of Russia. My position is that in early years of OSM automatic imports of map for regions what you don’t know made some sense, but now they do more harm - create map data what is not maintained and not maintainable. Kind of digital garbage. Is is much better map less, more carefully, and avoid senseless copy of other map data. Again, if someone needs Maaamet maps then they should take the latest version from them anytime. There is no need to copy if over to OSM at all. OSM is never meant to be collection of different geo datasets, even if they are really nice, it is human-created original global map database. Now if you decide to do it, then the editors must be identified. There is process on agreeing on legal contributor terms of edits, including right to take back the agreement. If you put all edits under your own name, then anyone can claim that you did not do the edits, and can request to just undo all of them. It looks like complete legal mess there from IP perspective. Also there is no way to ask comments/clarifications about specific edits. Therefore proper way to do it would be like with editors like ID, JOSM etc - every user is identified with OSM username, takes responsibility for his/her edits, so it is clear who to contact and who is responsible for this. I did several mass-imports in early OSM days myself, after discussions with local and international community. They looked nice at once, but in longer term maybe it was even bad idea, there would be more motivated contributors, and the map would be more useful and interesting without them. There is still “dead” data what noone can update (from Corine for example), and I would be more happy if someone would create a tool to automatically delete it now. Jaak > On 4 Aug 2019, at 14:26, SviMik wrote: > > For everyone who is new here, this is exactly the same import we did 5 years > ago, just updating it with new data. > > The import is briefly described on the wiki page: > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Maa-amet#Import > > 1. The account for the imports is: > https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/SviMik_import/history > > 2. Why do you need streets? I'm just asking to confirm putting that address > on that outline. All you need to do is just make sure they match. > > > Воскресенье, 4 августа 2019, 13:16 +03:00 от "Jaak Laineste" > : >> >> Hi, >> >> About first 2 tools: >> >> 1. what they do as result exactly? add data to OSM database? If yes, then >> under which username? I don’t see any auth here, is feels like “anonymous >> editor”, but OSM does not allow anonymous edits. >> >> 2. about second one - map view is too much zoomed in, usually I don’t see any >> streets to see the context, so it is really like filling random captchas >> without any real check. >> >> >> In general I miss here location filters, I want only work with my home >> city/village what I know about. Generally “guerilla mapping” where you jump >> in >> to a random place you really know nothing about is not generating good map >> quality in long term at all, and this not suggested. If you map something, >> then you will be responsible for the data and you need to be sure that it >> will >> be also up-to-date in years to come. Especially if you do random map copy, in >> principle here we just copy maa-amet map which does not give much value, >> everyone could just use maaamet vector map data, this is openly shared also. >> Remote mapping is suggested only for exceptional cases, e.g. in emergencies >> (HOT actions) where you need quickly map and cannot go to the place. >> >> But the tools can be very useful - I would use them for my known, usually >> quite small specific regions like city or village. I can do ground work and >> will maintain my edits later, and I cannot do it if mapping area is whole >> country. >> >> >> Jaak >> >> >> >> >>> On 3 Aug 2019, at 17:38, SviMik via Talk-ee >> wrote: >>> >>> And it needs your help! >>> There's many new buildings that were built during the last 5 years. Let's >> bring the map up to date. >>> >>> - To import brand new buildings, visit this page: >>> http://osm.svimik.com/btrace_verify.php >>> Just click OK making sure there's no building in OSM already by looking at >> the map in the middle. >>> >>> - Some buildings were drawn by other users, but they didn't put an address. >> Visit this page to help add addresses to
Re: [Talk-ee] SviMik_import is back to life
Hi, About first 2 tools: 1. what they do as result exactly? add data to OSM database? If yes, then under which username? I don’t see any auth here, is feels like “anonymous editor”, but OSM does not allow anonymous edits. 2. about second one - map view is too much zoomed in, usually I don’t see any streets to see the context, so it is really like filling random captchas without any real check. In general I miss here location filters, I want only work with my home city/village what I know about. Generally “guerilla mapping” where you jump in to a random place you really know nothing about is not generating good map quality in long term at all, and this not suggested. If you map something, then you will be responsible for the data and you need to be sure that it will be also up-to-date in years to come. Especially if you do random map copy, in principle here we just copy maa-amet map which does not give much value, everyone could just use maaamet vector map data, this is openly shared also. Remote mapping is suggested only for exceptional cases, e.g. in emergencies (HOT actions) where you need quickly map and cannot go to the place. But the tools can be very useful - I would use them for my known, usually quite small specific regions like city or village. I can do ground work and will maintain my edits later, and I cannot do it if mapping area is whole country. Jaak > On 3 Aug 2019, at 17:38, SviMik via Talk-ee wrote: > > And it needs your help! > There's many new buildings that were built during the last 5 years. Let's > bring the map up to date. > > - To import brand new buildings, visit this page: > http://osm.svimik.com/btrace_verify.php > Just click OK making sure there's no building in OSM already by looking at > the map in the middle. > > - Some buildings were drawn by other users, but they didn't put an address. > Visit this page to help add addresses to existing buildings: > http://osm.svimik.com/xgis2osm.php?lang=en > Just enter the house numbers from the pictures like a captcha solving. > > - Like to map roads? The 'Missing roads' validator is back to life too! > http://osm.svimik.com/noroad.php > It shows all the places where a building exists, but there's no roads around > to get there. > ___ > Talk-ee mailing list > Talk-ee@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ee ___ Talk-ee mailing list Talk-ee@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ee
