On 20/03/2017 12:34, Rob Nickerson wrote:
Let's step back, allow for this data to be completed (else it will be
in a worse case) and find a sensible way forward for the guidelines
when we have time to think with a fresh mind.
Thanks Rob. Looking forward from here, would it be possible to
On 09/03/2017 12:40, Dave F wrote:
On in Firefox & IE 10 the 'Control' button on your site displays the
controls repeatedly one under the other. The 'Off' button removes only
the last added. Wouldn't it be better if the 'Control' was an on/off
toggle?
It would - it's just waiting for the
On 09/03/2017 06:05, Dudley Ibbett wrote:
... I’m not aware of any online map that displays sidewalks. It would
certainly be useful if there was one.
Well,
https://map.atownsend.org.uk/maps/map/map.html#zoom=15=53.02012=-1.73005
does on unclassified, tertiary and secondary. It doesn't on
On 13/02/2017 18:19, Marco Boeringa wrote:
But I will leave this to all you now to decide.
Just for info, I'm currently going backwards through the relevant
changesets by the same user* in north Notts in areas that I'm (very)
familiar with and am fixing or removing "obviously wrong
On 08/02/2017 21:46, Brian Prangle wrote:
Might we tackle this task under the general heading either of "landuse
fixes" or "uplands" as our next quarterly project?
I thought that was going to be to survey all those "Pokemon parks" :)
Cheers,
Andy
On 08/02/2017 20:46, Marco Boeringa wrote:
- Sam888, e.g. http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/413378224
- Glucosamine: http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/405845733
- Dyserth: http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/388818928
There may be more... All of these "users" are prolific, leave almost
no
On 08/02/2017 10:49, Brian Prangle wrote:
It would be great in my opinion if we moved on as a community and
actually decided to act on our discussions.
Well I fixed the northern boundary of the Merthyr "Heath" where it
overlapped with stuff that I was mapping a couple of months ago :)
On 06/02/2017 11:18, Colin Smale wrote:
On 2017-02-06 09:57, Dave F wrote:
On 05/02/2017 11:33, Colin Smale wrote:
Any paths that no longer follow the official route (as per the
DM/DS) should not be tagged as PROW and probably as
access=permissive unless they go across otherwise public
On 28/01/2017 15:03, David Groom wrote:
There seems a lot of duplication in these two route relations:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/2171660
https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1573805
Both are titled "Calder Aire link"
One is route=foot, another route=mtb. Presumably that is
On 17/01/2017 21:52, Warin wrote:
In Australia .. place=farm is appropriate.
The next farm may be 250 miles away, as such it usually has facilities
for seasonal workers (say 20 people), machinery maintenance, air
strip, ... etc.
They are substantial places that are important in a mapping and
On 13/01/2017 22:36, Mark Goodge wrote:
There is a one-way street (to be more precise, a service road) in my
town centre which has the wrong direction of flow on OSM. I can't see
any obvious way of changing that - the "oneway" tag merely has a value
of "yes", and there's no direction attribute
On 09/01/2017 14:38, Adrian McEwen wrote:
On 09/01/17 12:50, Andy Townsend wrote:
More seriously, edits are public, and feeds such as Pascal Neis's,
Whodidit and OsmCha allow monitoring of changes in an area, so if you
see something that "looks wrong" please do investigate a
On 10/01/17 01:20, David Groom wrote:
...
Tag info shows 579 ways tagged with crop = beet, of these 572 are in
northern Italy added by 3 users, so its probably quite easy to ask
what exactly they meant by "beet" , and retag these existing ways if
they actually should be beetroot.
In the UK
On 09/01/17 23:56, David Groom wrote:
Has any one got any instances of any providers of OSM data using the
prow_ref on rendering / routing
A map style rather than a "provider of OSM data", but it seemed like a
good idea so I added basic support at:
On 09/01/2017 12:40, Jez Nicholson wrote:
... so maybe a bot that auto-challenges large/sweeping changes?
I can just see it - "Clippy for OSM" - "It looks as if you are crayoning
in some landuse? May I suggest you leave your chair and map what is
outside your door?" :)
More seriously,
On 09/01/2017 12:28, ael wrote:
When I contacted one of the main offenders; I didn't get a very
helpful response.
It's a shame that this happens, but please do keep trying to contact
other mappers where there's a problem like this. If for no other
reason, it exposes the problem on
On 09/01/2017 11:53, SK53 wrote:
Somehow I have been oblivious to the fact that large numbers of
polygons tagged natural=heath have been added over the past few months
to OSM.
I think what's happening here is one mapper "colouring in" without any
particular knowledge of the area. Whilst
On 03/01/2017 22:34, Rob Nickerson wrote:
Water sounds good.
... and to me too - in fact it's what I've been doing on and off for the
last couple of months, mainly in South Wales bordering areas that I've
been walking where I've noticed that streams are in the wrong places.
OS OpenData
On 21/12/2016 11:32, Dave F wrote:
Interesting. Under what license to you believe East Riding issued the
data that ROWmaps is using?
The actual page at the rowmaps site is:
http://www.rowmaps.com/datasets/EY/
It seems to say (and I'm paraphrasing) "ERYC say it's Crown Copyright,
but the OS
On 20/12/2016 20:55, Paul Sladen wrote:
[Based on developments today], Why not hold it at the Bluebell in
Attenborough on the evening of Wednesday, 8 January 2016[1].
Because it'd be dark? :)
There's no reason why a bunch of OSMers couldn't turn up on that evening
_as well_, of course...
On 19/12/2016 14:12, Paul Berry wrote:
That's a definite usability issue in their application (to say nothing
of an annoyance to OSM mappers downstream). Is it possible to raise it
with them as a bug?
See
https://github.com/mapsme/omim/issues/4819
and the links from there including one
On 09/12/2016 12:54, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote:
I wonder if this could be down to a simple misunderstanding of the
Map.me UI. As far as the user is concerned he's stated that an object
on the map no longer exists. He may not be aware this his action is
adding a note rather than
On 07/12/2016 17:50, Andy Robinson wrote:
Andy T,
As far as I can see the new 2b shapefiles now uploaded to OSM are the "confirmed" and
"consulting" route sections as shown on page 8 of:
On 07/12/2016 10:36, Paul Berry wrote:
... but I believe you're referring to:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hs2-plan-and-profile-maps-woodall-to-conisbrough
North of there actually, up through Mexborough.
If you know previous route mapping has changed in areas, and remains
On 07/12/2016 08:25, Paul Berry wrote:
I We don't know if it's going to take a city centre route or spur from
the Don Valley route yet so unless things change the current relation
still stands: http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/4124756
I thought that, at least here:
On 29/11/2016 19:19, Andy Robinson wrote:
As it happens the Phase 2b shape files are available. Just rather buried
under an obscure filename.
I'll post again once I've made the route updates for 2b (Manchester & Leeds)
Which routes do the 2b updates have for north and south of Sheffield?
On 06/12/2016 19:32, Andy Mabbett wrote:
also Wikidata - ...
Upon reading that my first thought was actually "checking all of the
wikidata references that have been added by people not necessarily
familiar with the area".
See, for example, the discussion on
On 29/11/2016 19:54, Rob Nickerson wrote:
Hi all,
A new user is changing road classifications. I've sent a note:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/44042265
If no change, I will ask for a temporary block on edits as the pace is
very fast.
Thanks Rob. I'm not convinced by
I've just noticed that Chesterfield Pay Scale Area matches neither the
current Plusbus zone, nor the "Day Rider" zone, nor the "Day Rider Plus"
zone. It matches what used to be the "Day Rider" zone, which predates
Plusbus and was reorganised some time ago.
I'm proposing to delete it, but am
Short answer: Probably not.Longer answer:There are two bits to this. One is where your phone got its location from and the other is what you actually added to OSM.Taking the first bit first, it would depend on
On 05/10/2016 11:56, Dave F wrote:
On 04/10/2016 21:03, Andy Townsend wrote:
...the user gets to place the new poi by moving the underlying osm
map around to place it accurately
Oh, if only that were to happen in reality.
Generally speaking, the MAPS.ME problems that I see are associated
he sort of locations you want returned, it won't do it.
Original Message
From: David Woolley
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To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Copyright and MAPS.ME android 6.2.5-Google
On 04/10/16 21:03, Andy Townsend wrote:
> obtained as I understan
As I understand it, MAPS.ME locations are taken from the phone's location. The
"Google" in the created_by tag just means the Android version of MAPS.ME.
The actual location comes from the phone - obtained as I understand it in
recent versions via Google Play Services*. Whether that's
On 13/09/2016 13:29, Dave F wrote:
There's been an increase (world wide) in the use of place=farm.
...
The reason for the increase could be it being displayed in the OSM
carto rendering
Just one example: http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/4364588497
I believe many, if not all, are
This was prompted by a comment directed at me on
https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/37713755 , after I'd mentioned a
problem raised on the help site that might be related
https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/49058/rendering-of-lakes-on-garmin-devices
.
Given that it seems impossible
On 17/08/2016 16:42, jc...@mail.com wrote:
As a result much of what has been added is inaccurate, not least because many nodes are
shared with highways etc. despite the written descriptions clearly stating "...it
follows the edge..." (Yorkshire Dales was mostly clean of shared nodes but Lake
things that is often a surprise and a
frustration to people and companies coming into OSM anew (especially
companies) is that everything moves quite slowly - it's about creating a
Canaletto rather than Sid from down the road applying a couple of coats
of Dulux. I suspect that that the speed perception
On 16/08/2016 09:35, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote:
As in other areas, our mapping of Defibrillators in the East Midlands
doesn't seem to be very complete yet...
Thanks Robert. The two nearest to me that I'm aware of are actually
very new - they've only appeared within the last couple
On 04/08/2016 15:22, Andy Allan wrote:
I had a look at a few of these, and they seem to be simple shapes that
I'd normally tag on the ways (i.e. they are multipolygons with only a
single outer way). This seems strange to me - is it intended? Is it
desirable?
Maybe they'd be better as ways,
On 04/08/2016 14:42, Brian Prangle wrote:
Yesterday approx 150 schools were added as relations according to the
taginfoscript which is monitoring schools. Does anyone know what's
going on?
I'd ask Christian Ledermann - the numbers roughly match his changes I
think. Example:
On 30/06/2016 18:13, Brian Prangle wrote:
... some farms seem to be little more than caravan storage, some have
transformed into equestrian centres, small industrial parks or become
just residential ...
Indeed, farms sounds like a good idea to me. Quite a few to the east of
me seem to have
As a bit more background to this, see the changeset discussion comments
on https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/39809705 and
https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/39812846 . I got a reply re
"football vs soccer", but not about any of the other questions raised in
there.
I didn't revert
On 20/05/2016 16:29, SK53 wrote:
In my experience there are certain prescription which I can only get
fulfilled by a hospital pharmacy (those written by a consultant).
Agreed - and in the case of the one I'm familiar with it's not a stock
issue but a bureacracy one - anything written
On 12/05/2016 23:13, David Woolley wrote:
They started their life being purely for private profit, got
nationalised, then handed to a charity, but never got made public
rights of way.
It depends where you are, I think. Certainly the canal towpath nearest
to me (Cromford Canal) is mostly
(top-posting because it probably does make sense to keep the whole of
the previous email together at the end)
I suspect that this might be partly related to this enhancement request:
https://github.com/twain47/Nominatim/issues/231
The tl;dr of that is "nominatim works much better with areas
On 21/04/2016 09:32, Brian Prangle wrote:
Hi Roland
If it's only one line affected it looks like it's the work of one
user. Have you tried contacting him/her? Otherwise I have no
objections to your proposed mechanical edit
As I understand it, that one user was also working for Mentz. I'm
On 31/03/2016 14:16, Ed Catmur wrote:
Could someone with access to the revert scripts please rollback these
changesets?
Dee's just mentioned on IRC that she's reverted them - so all sorted now
I think.
Cheers,
Andy
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On 24/03/2016 11:26, Andy Townsend wrote:
I added a bunch of notes for misspelt cemeteries
For completeness, this list will include the notes that I added for this
particular misspelling:
http://api.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/notes/search?q=cemetary=0
(just for info in case anyone wasn't
On 24/03/2016 11:14, Stuart Reynolds wrote:
Can I propose that someone who is more knowledgeable than me does a mechanical
edit within the UK to correct “Cemetary” to “Cemetery”?
I added a bunch of notes for misspelt cemeteries a while back (mainly
trying to provide an "in" for new local
On 14/03/2016 20:50, Rob Nickerson wrote:
My concern with rivers is that we don't have tools to measure progress
- taginfo gives a count of nodes/ways/relations whereas we'd want
total length of features per region (in miles/km).
I'd agree that tracking progress with that one would be tricky.
On 11/03/2016 17:26, SK53 wrote:
A quick query on IRC and Andy (SomeoneElse) also maps pubs this way
True, but not with a zealous committment to it "absolutely being the
best way". I'm open to persuasion.
Part of the reason might be that I'm probably more likely to sit in the
beer garden
News reached the OSM Weekly team recently that Bogus Zaba*, occasional
poster to this list and regular contributor to www.weeklyosm.eu, has
passed away after a short illness. According to a note from his wife
"the cause of OSM was very dear to his heart and he greatly enjoyed his
virtual
On 11/03/2016 12:40, Andy Mabbett wrote:
Tickets have also been raised
(to save anyone else looking it up)
https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/2680
https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/11541
I don't see anything for P2. I haven't looked for other editors.
Cheers,
Andy
On 26/02/2016 07:59, Marc Gemis wrote:
How do you detect that stuff is gone ? I'm thinking of benches,
waste-bins, telephones, etc. All those little things that are not or
hardly visible on aerial imagery ?
Do you constantly look at the screen of your smartphone or GPS to see
whether there is
On 25/02/2016 17:04, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
One thought I've had for a long time (and have probably mentioned in
the past) is a walkers' editor (app rather than web-based). To be
used something like:
User goes for walk and records GPX trace, following this sort of pattern.
Each time the
On 14/02/2016 18:34, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote:
Routes marked by OS as "Other Route with Public Access" will most
probably be routes that appear on the local Highway Authority's "List
of Streets Maintainable at the Public Expense", but are not maintained
to a standard for regular motor
On 15/02/2016 12:35, Gregory wrote:
What did people think of my place:designation=* suggestion?
Sounds good to me. No uses yet (obviously), but would allow a more sane
"place" tagging for e.g. St David's, which isn't a really city in any
normal sense.
Cheers,
Andy
On 12/02/2016 17:10, Philip Barnes wrote:
The original node, http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3216768/history
http://osm.mapki.com/history/node.php?id=3216768
Thanks.
So mostly city, but it did spend a couple of years as a town and a
couple of shorter periods as village.
Cheers,
Andy
On 12/02/2016 13:15, Colin Smale wrote:
According to Wikipedia, ...
... I wouldn't assume that what wikipedia says has any particular
relevance with respect to how something is mapped in OSM. The language
used in the English wikipedia is a mix of American and English (and
other) usages,
On 04/02/2016 16:50, Gregory Williams wrote:
I did the original mapping of Deal, so I'll take a look later, when I can get
to a PC.
Brilliant - thanks!
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On 04/02/2016 15:49, Colin Smale wrote:
Actually, this user has done a lot more damage, in many other
changesets over the past few weeks... Methinks a candidate for a block
pending contact... Anyone with an interest in the Deal area is
recommended to check the area...ent
I'd suggest that
On 26/01/2016 17:19, Walter Nordmann wrote:
Hi,
any reason why there are only admin boundaries with admin_level=10 in
Northern Ireland?
No counties (AL6), no cities (AL8), no Suburbs(AL9) - nothing
Ireland (the island) is normally handled as one entity in OSM, so tends
to be covered by
On 07/12/2015 11:35, Colin Smale wrote:
Where two roads are multiplexed, it looks like one of the refs is the
primary and is shown without brackets, and the other is shown within
brackets, such as the A22 near Uckfield which multiplexes with the
A26. It is shown as "Eastbourne A22 / Lewes
On 04/11/2015 12:54, James Tait wrote:
... I stumbled upon a changeset[1] that highlighted questions
I already had about the tagging of roads in Mickleover.
I'd tend to agree that Mickleover's "over-tertiarised" (and it's not the
only place). It might be something to raise at the next East
On 31/10/2015 02:09, Lester Caine wrote:
OK ... what do we need to do to get a working UK map again?
Simply put, if you're relying on a remote resource staying the same over
time (perhaps you're selling services based on that resource and don't
want the customer re-education cost of a future
Currently the Cerne Abbas Giant is suffering from an extreme bit of
"tagging for the renderer" - for example
http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/320313087 is apparently a "driveway".
Is there a more usual way to tag the constituent parts of this sort of
thing? A couple of the white horses are
For info - I've added a comment to the discussion on
https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/34799530 (a recent changeset by
Zain Ahmad Hashmi) and also one to
https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/34777018 (dataOne).
It'd certainly be interesting to see what correlation there is between
On 23/10/2015 00:08, Rob Nickerson wrote:
>Phil (trigpoint) wrote:
>
>In http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/34325458 comments Zain Ahmad
>Hashmi mentions PIE mapping, which is is for commercial truck routing.
>
Hi all,
PIE mapping were at the London OSM mobile themed dev hack weekend at
On 07/10/2015 00:05, Dave F. wrote:
Hi
Two parts to this post.
1) A user https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/mustafa_geo has made some
country wide amendments where service roads are being named 'Driveway'
They all appear to be related to parcel delivery stations. It seems
very unlikely they
On 19/10/2015 18:29, Michael Maggs wrote:
How do I go about tagging rising bollard barriers that are used to
control vehicular access to an area of streets? There have been some
new rising bollards installed in Bath recently which block most motor
vehicles between the hours of 10am and 6pm,
(let's try that again with an actual message)
I did have a bit of a conversation on some of the earliest of their changesets,
but didn't really get a sense of why the roads were being split. You could
argue that splitting a piece out "prior to surveying what the height
restriction actually is"
On 21/09/2015 22:36, Neil Matthews wrote:
I want to flag up a couple of "historical edits" in Bristol:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/34126960
http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/34147883
it might be wise to check other edits from this user.
Many thanks,
Neil (ndm)
P.S.
First of all - thank you for "properly mapping" this bit of the country.
Wales tends to be a bit of a poor relation when it comes to
on-the-ground mapping (like some of the other bits of the island also
far from population centres). For those who aren't familiar with it,
often the mapping
On 10/09/2015 04:16, mick wrote:
On Wed, 09 Sep 2015 18:59:59 +0100
Philip Barnes wrote:
Spotted this on the Rambler-Net list.
In case you hadn't already spotted this:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06b36q3
See also:
On 05/09/15 09:18, Dave F. wrote:
Hi
A user has been converting the maxspeed tag of railway line from mph
to kph:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/278060675/history#map=17/51.42363/-2.72120
It appears to be a straight conversion ie 100mph = 161. Which seems a
bit silly. I'm sure the
I've done rural bits and pieces in Rutland on and off over the years* and would certainly be up for more mapping there. The tricky bit I suspect might be finding a mutually acceptable weekend before the clocks go
On 18/08/2015 07:43, Matthijs Melissen wrote:
On 18 Aug 2015 03:56, Andy Townsend ajt1...@gmail.com
mailto:ajt1...@gmail.com wrote:
There's no interest to do this in the OSM standard style because
it is abundantly clear that any new attempts at changes that make
rural navigation possible
On 18/08/2015 09:48, Matthijs Melissen wrote:
On 18 August 2015 at 10:20, Andy Townsend ajt1...@gmail.com wrote:
In the
immediately previous message you said:
So far there is little interest to do this on the OSM default render style
which seems odd to me given how much fuss there has been
On 17/08/2015 23:25, Rob Nickerson wrote:
So far there is little interest to do this on the OSM default render
style which seems odd to me given how much fuss there has been on this
list to recent changes to the footway/path style (over the last year)!
There's no interest to do this in the
On 17/08/2015 21:43, Rob Nickerson wrote:
... In regards to designation=*, are we now the only country that
makes a distinction between paths you have a legal right to walk on
and any other path that might exist because people happen to walk over
the land thus leaving a desire line path?
Hi
On 17/07/2015 09:37, Tom Chance wrote:
Could someone contact / chase up these new users and remove their
edits? Could be vandalism, or just people not realising what they're
doing.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/panchal%20chetana/history
On 09/11/13 11:58, Rob Nickerson wrote:
As you have seen my responses at [1] and [2], it will come as no
surprise that I oppose this move. I have set out my reasoning below:
Hi Rob, hi Paul,
I'll not venture into the how of this only the what...
Let's think about it from the perspective
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