Re: [OSM-talk] Affordable 1 CM high precision GPS.

2024-05-08 Thread John Whelan
for that matter is a problem. Cheerio John Greg Troxel wrote on 2024-05-08 8:32 AM: john whelan writes: For some reason building sites, especially large ones, use GPS as a quick way to measure things rather than setting up a theodolite which needs a trained person to use it. But this is not relevant

Re: [OSM-talk] Affordable 1 CM high precision GPS.

2024-05-08 Thread john whelan
For some reason building sites, especially large ones, use GPS as a quick way to measure things rather than setting up a theodolite which needs a trained person to use it. Cheerio John On Wed, May 8, 2024, 05:39 Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > > sent from a phone > > > On 7

Re: [OSM-talk] Affordable 1 CM high precision GPS.

2024-05-07 Thread john whelan
. Cheerio John ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Affordable 1 CM high precision GPS.

2024-05-05 Thread john whelan
not there isn't really anyway to tell which is the high accuracy one. Cheerio John On Sun, May 5, 2024, 14:30 Greg Troxel wrote: > John Whelan writes: > > > Search Youtube for "Andreas Spiess ESP32 precision GPS receiver > > (incl. RTK-GPS Tutorial)" I deliberate

[OSM-talk] Affordable 1 CM high precision GPS.

2024-05-05 Thread John Whelan
Search Youtube for "Andreas Spiess ESP32 precision GPS receiver (incl. RTK-GPS Tutorial)"  I deliberately haven't put a direct link in. It needs packaging and documenting but I think this sort of differential GPS could be very useful in accurate mapping. Cheerio John -- Sent fr

[OSM-talk] Fwd: FW: [EXTERNAL] Re: ODbl concerns

2023-08-24 Thread john whelan
Apols to Allen, the message was too large with the old stuff on the end and I forwarded it to the talk ca list by mistake. -- Forwarded message - From: john whelan Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2023 at 14:04 Subject: Re: FW: [EXTERNAL] Re: [OSM-talk] ODbl concerns To: George Boulos (DTP

Re: [OSM-talk] Announcing State of the Map 2024: Join us in Nairobi and online on 6-8 September 2024!

2023-08-22 Thread john whelan
is getting HOT and WHO involved might up the chances of success. Cheerio John On Tue, Aug 22, 2023, 19:28 o_andras wrote: > Hi fellow humans! > > (replying to the top email to avoid accidentally pointing fingers, lest > anyone think I'm accusing them of anything; it's intende

[OSM-talk] Mapping in war zones

2023-08-18 Thread John Whelan
I'm looking for thoughts on this. Specifically Mali at the moment.  Are there any NGOs still operating or am I just defining targets for the Wagner group etc? Ideally any input from local Mali mappers would be valued together with thoughts for a more general case. Many Thanks John -- Sent

Re: [OSM-talk] Announcing State of the Map 2024: Join us in Nairobi and online on 6-8 September 2024!

2023-08-16 Thread John Whelan
. Is there a danger that SotM US or SotM EU might become larger than SotM so it becomes less relevant? I might suggest that alternate years somewhere more exotic is chosen than the EU. Cheerio John Frederik Ramm wrote on 8/16/2023 3:43 PM: Hi, On 8/16/23 20:01, John Whelan wrote: If it was in the EU

Re: [OSM-talk] Announcing State of the Map 2024: Join us in Nairobi and online on 6-8 September 2024!

2023-08-16 Thread John Whelan
nd "Women’s safety: Women travelling alone may be subject to some forms of harassment and verbal abuse. Attacks involving sexual assault have occurred."  The LBGTQ side of things might be the least of your problems. Have fun but do your risk analysis before attending and know wha

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding automated trees to OSM

2023-08-08 Thread john whelan
of your reply, please don't do this. If you must press ahead then at least follow the automated edit rules and go through the formal import process including checking the license is compatible with OSM. Many open data licences are not. Cheerio John On Tue, Aug 8, 2023, 14:25 Harsha Somaya

Re: [OSM-talk] bot proposal: shop values cleanup (low use values only, 1 used 250 times, three over 100 times, many used less)

2023-05-19 Thread John Whelan
shop=consignment Locally it means a shop that sells things such as high end used clothes on consignment. ie the owner of the goods only get paid when the items are sold. Cheerio John Philip Barnes wrote on 5/19/2023 12:25 PM: On Wed, 2023-05-17 at 20:48 +0200, Mateusz Konieczny via talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Intercultural differences / cultural diversity / OSM communication behaviors

2023-05-03 Thread John Whelan
quot; a corporate TomTom endeavour? Is it the OSMF Communications working group? Or...? Unclear affiliations are a problem, as I pointed out in this thread a few days ago. Has everything I said been filed away under "pushback" and ignored? Many Thanks Ch

Re: [OSM-talk] Intercultural differences / cultural diversity / OSM communication behaviors

2023-05-03 Thread John Whelan
A very accurate summation in my opinion. Thank you John Imre Samu wrote on 5/3/2023 1:03 PM: Courtney <mailto:courtney.william...@gmail.com>> ezt írta (időpont: 2023. ápr. 30., V, 19:06): This conversation has opened up important new questions.  Why is the main "

Re: [OSM-talk] Survey about OSM communication behaviors

2023-04-30 Thread john whelan
eone to go to Europe in person to a state of the map when I wanted to pull something together but mailing lists serve a purpose. Cheerio John On Sun, Apr 30, 2023, 17:26 Courtney wrote: > Hi, all, > > Here, thanks to the generosity of some folks on the OWG and OSMF who > donated their

Re: [OSM-talk] Survey about OSM communication behaviors

2023-04-30 Thread john whelan
and content. Cheerio John On Sun, Apr 30, 2023, 13:06 Courtney wrote: > > We do indeed have people with non technical backgrounds working on the > survey, including a multilingual person with an advanced degree in language > and technology, and a person with an advanced degree in English la

Re: [OSM-talk] Survey about OSM communication behaviors

2023-04-30 Thread John Whelan
is trying to justify a particular stance or get accurate information. Cheerio John Frederik Ramm wrote on 4/30/2023 11:18 AM: Hi, On 4/28/23 15:57, Marc_marc wrote: I am impressed (and disappointed) that those who do these surveys have still not learned that part of the active opendata community

Re: [Talk-se] New MapRoulette Challenge: Sweden - Add Highways

2023-04-21 Thread John Bäckstrand
Jag kollade lite snabbt, och nej det verkar inte handla om motorvägar utan snarare motsatsen: grusvägar / servicevägar! Felöversatt kanske? /John B On Fri, Apr 21, 2023 at 3:33 PM Snusmumriken wrote: > Jag ställer mig lite frågande till denhär utmaningen. För finns det > faktiskt motorv

Re: [OSM-talk] Talk-GB Digest, Vol 197, Issue 27

2023-04-02 Thread john whelan
languages, for example name:fr=Londres This has been particularly useful locally when dealing with official languages and I seem to recall the National Trust owns a few in Wales. I suspect there can be a lot of mutual benefit if the two organisations can work together. Cheerio John On Sun, Apr 2, 2023

Re: [OSM-talk] Automated Edit - Bus stops status link & Bus lines timetable link (Tenerife)

2023-03-26 Thread john whelan
it. On a personal note anything that makes catching a bus easier has my vote. Cheerio John On Sun, Mar 26, 2023, 12:08 Marc_marc wrote: > On Fri, 2023-03-24 at 20:33 +0100, Sören Reinecke wrote: > >> If these urls are following a fixed scheme like you mentioned then I > >&g

Re: [OSM-talk] Duplicate Buildings

2023-03-12 Thread john whelan
Many thanks for putting some numbers on this. Warin's comment would suggest it may also be more than just buildings that are involved. For buildings the total number as a percentage is small unfortunately they tend to cluster so are more of a problem than if they were more spread out. John

Re: [OSM-talk] Duplicate Buildings

2023-03-05 Thread john whelan
to see which should be deleted. Cheerio John On Sun, Mar 5, 2023, 15:53 Isaac Boates wrote: > It might be better to check for building features which have a very large > percentage of their area overlapping with another, rather than an exact > duplicate, just in case there are a fe

[OSM-talk] Duplicate Buildings

2023-03-05 Thread John Whelan
when doing population counts etc that rely on the number of buildings in a given area.  A duplicated building means the wrong number of vaccines etc get delivered to the area besides cluttering up the map. Thanks John -- Sent from Postbox <https://www.postbox-inc.

Re: [OSM-talk] [automated edit] replace some obviously mistaken surface values by their clear intended meaning

2023-02-11 Thread john whelan
be overpass the database for these sort of edits done in the previous seven days. Then flip one automated email noting the accepted practice is XYZ but a bot will correct their edits. If you can grab the language of the mapper that might help here. Cheerio John On Sat, Feb 11, 2023, 13:24 Marc_marc

Re: [OSM-talk] replace some obviously mistaken surface values by their clear intended meaning

2023-02-11 Thread john whelan
Sounds wonderful. John On Sat, Feb 11, 2023, 12:49 Mateusz Konieczny via talk < talk@openstreetmap.org> wrote: > I propose to replace following surface tags by doing an automated edit: > > obvious typos: > > `surface=paving stones` → `surface=paving_stones` > `surface=P

Re: [OSM-talk] Adoption of OSM geometry as state mapping base

2023-02-09 Thread john whelan
and they have a back log. So do your TRA (Threat Risk Analysis) and see what you think. Remember lawyers are paid to be cautious. Cheerio John On Thu, Feb 9, 2023, 19:43 rob potter wrote: > Hi, > > I am representing the state transport department Department of Transport >

Re: [OSM-talk] Should we be mapping transformers and powerlines?

2023-01-19 Thread john whelan
? Cheerio John On Thu, Jan 19, 2023, 12:40 Nick Whitelegg wrote: > > Even still, the location of major substations (e.g the 400-132kv type) > isn't really a secret. I could reel off quite a few in the UK without even > looking at a map. > > Nick > > > ---

Re: [OSM-talk] Should we be mapping transformers and powerlines?

2023-01-19 Thread john whelan
I accept powerlines are fine and visible on other maps but the case for transformers isn't quite so strong. Cheerio John On Thu, Jan 19, 2023, 12:15 Nick Whitelegg via talk wrote: > > I thought the whole point of OSM was to map the ground truth? > >

Re: [OSM-talk] Should we be mapping transformers and powerlines?

2023-01-19 Thread John Whelan
whose boss is imprisoned in the US? Then you have those that would like to overthrow the government or do it just for kicks. Have fun Cheerio John Clifford Snow wrote on 1/18/2023 10:35 PM: On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 7:05 PM john whelan <mailto:jwhelan0...@gmail.com>> wrote: A

Re: [OSM-talk] Should we be mapping transformers and powerlines?

2023-01-18 Thread john whelan
Perhaps you could expand on the benefits of mapping them? Thanks John On Wed, Jan 18, 2023, 10:09 PM stevea, wrote: > I'd like to say "oh, please..." because this seems a bit harsh. But I > understand that people can be sensitive. > > But this is OSM and I'd like to beli

[OSM-talk] Should we be mapping transformers and powerlines?

2023-01-18 Thread john whelan
? I seem to recall that the location of the pipeline that supplies aviation fuel to airports is considered an official secret in the UK. Thoughts? Thanks John ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [Talk-se] Block av PostNord

2022-12-07 Thread John Bäckstrand
> > Jag är tveksam till om blockeringen är nödvändig eller konstruktiv. > > -- > /emj > > ___ > Talk-se mailing list > Talk-se@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-se > -- John Bäckstrand

Re: [OSM-talk] FYI: Board now requires imports list (in)compatibility with OSM CT (& will work on a template)

2022-11-29 Thread John Whelan
It was merely in response to Greg Troxel's comment. "In the case of your transit system, what were the key problems, and how were they overcome? I suspect that history is very useful for others." Cheerio John Dave F wrote on 11/29/2022 3:13 PM: Sorry, but I'm unclear what tha

Re: [OSM-talk] FYI: Board now requires imports list (in)compatibility with OSM CT (& will work on a template)

2022-11-29 Thread John Whelan
. The bus stops, well once the Open Data licenses had been sorted out the local mappers imported the data. Any change to the license requirements to import Open Data can have an impact and that is a concern. It takes a long time to get things changed to line up. Cheerio John Dave F via talk wrote

Re: [OSM-talk] FYI: Board now requires imports list (in)compatibility with OSM CT (& will work on a template)

2022-11-28 Thread john whelan
.' Cheerio John On Mon, Nov 28, 2022, 2:18 PM Amanda McCann, < amanda.mcc...@osmfoundation.org> wrote: > Hello fellow OSMers. > > As you are no doubt aware, OSM requires that data imports be listed on the > OSM Wiki ( https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalogue ), > in

Re: [OSM-talk] Rent-a-crowd needed JOSM Microsoft store

2022-11-27 Thread john whelan
I forget where but it has been said that it is legal and that is the reason JOSM is now available via the store. Cheerio John On Sun, Nov 27, 2022, 11:43 PM James, wrote: > IANAL but GPL v2 does allow to charge for distribution. Is it ethical, lol > no, would lawyers care? Pr

Re: [OSM-talk] Rent-a-crowd needed JOSM Microsoft store

2022-11-27 Thread john whelan
You can only leave a review if you download the software. Both are JOSM, one is a fork which costs money which goes to the person who created the fork the other is normal JOSM which is free. Cheerio John On Sun, Nov 27, 2022, 11:01 PM stevea, wrote: > If choosing which version is "le

Re: [OSM-talk] Rent-a-crowd needed JOSM Microsoft store

2022-11-27 Thread john whelan
Agreed but some do and currently both have one review each so it isn't that clear which is the official OpenStreetMap editor. Even a couple more reviews would help. Thanks Cheerio John On Sun, Nov 27, 2022, 20:27 James wrote: > not everyone runs winblows > > On Sun, Nov 27, 2022

Re: [OSM-talk] Rent-a-crowd needed JOSM Microsoft store

2022-11-27 Thread John Whelan
shot and costs $5.99 can. Thanks John Dave F wrote on 11/27/2022 7:15 PM: Link(s)? On 30/10/2022 18:47, john whelan wrote: There are two versions of JOSM available on the Microsoft store.  One is a fork and costs money the other is the kosher version. It might be helpful if JOSM had a few

[OSM-talk] Rent-a-crowd needed JOSM Microsoft store

2022-10-30 Thread john whelan
There are two versions of JOSM available on the Microsoft store. One is a fork and costs money the other is the kosher version. It might be helpful if JOSM had a few reviews to make it stand out from the other version. Thanks John ___ talk mailing

Re: [Talk-se] Vänern försvunnen?

2022-10-19 Thread John Bäckstrand
Ja den där OSMOptimizer gör bisarrt många edits just nu. Verkar baseras på nvdb, och det lilla jag kollat ser ju ok ut, typ lägga till och korrigera gc-vägar. Hämta Outlook for Android From: Tomas Marklund Sent: Wednesday, October 19,

Re: [OSM-talk] I need your help please

2022-09-19 Thread john whelan
it is. Cheerio John On Mon, Sep 19, 2022, 5:42 AM Fakhreddine Azzouni, < azzounifakhredd...@gmail.com> wrote: > Good afternoon, I started using OSM for a tourism project. The idea is > make a tour's road map with places from OSM. But some places are not on > the map so I added th

Re: [Talk-se] Upplandsleden Hiking trail wiki page + relation are MIA

2022-08-31 Thread John Bäckstrand
It just seems the page was split so that Upplandsleden is now on https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Sweden/Hiking_trails/National_trails. The relation it points to is https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/241043 Does this look correct? /John Bäckstrand On Wed, Aug 31, 2022 at 8:18 AM

Re: [Talk-se] Importera byggnadshöjder där dessa saknas?

2022-03-15 Thread John Bäckstrand
; > > > ___ > Talk-se mailing list > Talk-se@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-se > -- John Bäckstrand ___ Talk-se mailing list Talk-se@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-se

Re: [talk-au] OpenStreetMap Wiki page Australian Tagging Guidelines has been changed by Aaronsta

2022-02-10 Thread John Bryant
handed to me. Cheers John On Fri, 11 Feb 2022 at 09:01, Luke Stewart wrote: > With their reasons for deletion: > > "largely they are fragmented, and consist of riding on roads without any > dedicated infrastructure" - this is representative of routes across > Australia; many

[talk-au] Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

2021-11-30 Thread John Luan
provider on the contributor list, it should be fine. Regards, John ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Enriching OpenStreetMap with open data

2021-11-25 Thread John Luan
Hi Andrew, Yes, I will fellow the guideline to prepare this bulk import, and I will get peer reviewef in this group before we sumbit the changes. Cheers, John On Fri, 26 Nov 2021, 3:42 pm Andrew Harvey, wrote: > > > On Fri, 26 Nov 2021 at 15:27, John Luan wrote: > >> And we

Re: [talk-au] Enriching OpenStreetMap with open data

2021-11-25 Thread John Luan
Thank you Brendan, unfortunately I forgot to record this session. And we will have another follow up session after we finish the bulk import, and we will talk about our bulk import experience. On Fri, 26 Nov 2021 at 15:17, Brendan Barnes wrote: > That was an informative session. John, tha

Re: [talk-au] Enriching OpenStreetMap with open data

2021-11-23 Thread John Luan
Hi Map Fans, Just a reminder, tonight at 7pm Melbourne time. A meetup for how to enrich osm with open data. https://www.intelematics.com/events/enriching-openstreetmap-with-open-data/ Regards, John On Fri, 19 Nov 2021 at 10:15, John Luan wrote: > Hi Guys, > > There is a virtu

[talk-au] Enriching OpenStreetMap with open data

2021-11-18 Thread John Luan
Hi Guys, There is a virtual meetup session for openstreetmap data contribution. https://www.intelematics.com/events/enriching-openstreetmap-with-open-data/ Regards, John ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https

Re: [talk-au] Import vs filtering query

2021-09-05 Thread John Luan
Hi Ian, How would you match the different map set, the government one to OSM? And how will you validate the matching is correct? Regards, John On Mon, 6 Sept 2021 at 14:41, stevea wrote: > To be clear, Ian, I'm not saying this use of data is an import, as you > have said and as it a

Re: [talk-au] Asia Pacific Map and Chat Hour

2021-08-24 Thread John Bryant
Hi Yuchen, sorry for the slow reply. Yes, you can register by email, I'll forward your info to the organisers and they can get in touch with you. Cheers! John On Thu, 19 Aug 2021 at 21:08, Yuchen Pei wrote: > John Bryant writes: > > > Hi all, there is a mapping event coming up ne

Re: [Talk-transit] [Talk-GB] Mapping train services in Great Britain

2021-06-01 Thread john whelan
. Cheerio John On Tue, Jun 1, 2021, 11:29 Dave F via Talk-transit < talk-transit@openstreetmap.org> wrote: > What's wrong with consulting a timetable? > > Maps show you where you can go, timetables tell you when . > > DaveF > > On 01/06/2021 01:18, Michael Tsang wrote: &g

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] Query re publishing tracks

2021-05-29 Thread John
know it's more work but also more useful long term. Perhaps you can get others to help in the Mountain Meanders group as a project. I'm sure you may also find some sort here when needed!! Just some thoughts, Good luck, I like what you are doing! John On Fri, 28 May 2021, 13:10 Tony Heher, wrote

Re: [talk-au] Snapping Major regional roads to GPS traces

2021-05-14 Thread John Henderson
On 14/5/21 4:23 pm, Bob Cameron wrote: Just checking if this is an okay thing to do. ie moving a major road so it is centred on GPS traces - assuming there enough data for accuracy (eg bidirectional, multi trace etc) Just a word of caution, to say that using historical GPS data will undo

Re: [OSM-talk] JOSM on Raspberry pi 4

2020-12-21 Thread John Whelan
Thank you for the process. Cheerio John James wrote on 2020-12-21 19:15: wget https://josm.openstreetmap.de/josm-latest.jar java -jar josm-latest.jar in a terminal On Mon., Dec. 21, 2020, 7:13 p.m. John Whelan, <mailto:jwhelan0...@gmail.com>> wrote: I don't know enough abo

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging of shared use paths

2020-12-10 Thread John Aldridge
to be in a grumpy mood today. Sorry! I love OSM really :) John ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [OSM-talk] [Osmf-talk] Call to Take Action and Confront Systemic Offensive Behavior in the OSM Community

2020-12-09 Thread john whelan
realised the name Kathleen was one that either gender could use and I apologise for making an assumption about the gender of the person using it. Cheerio John On Wed, Dec 9, 2020, 16:00 Clay Smalley wrote: > I'm noticing a pattern here in the replies to this email: > > Only men hav

Re: [OSM-talk] [Osmf-talk] Call to Take Action and Confront Systemic Offensive Behavior in the OSM Community

2020-12-09 Thread john whelan
this? And yes I admit to being white male etc. Many Thanks for your thoughts. Cheerio John On Wed, Dec 9, 2020, 15:45 Kathleen Lu wrote: > > Many females do not map using their own name but will use a male > sounding name to avoid problems. > > John, are you seriously citing t

Re: [OSM-talk] Call to Take Action and Confront Systemic Offensive Behavior in the OSM Community

2020-12-09 Thread John Whelan
was in purdah means mother's views may not be communicated easily. Cheerio John Celine Jacquin wrote on 2020-12-09 14:06: Hello everybody I hope you are all well We, several groups, chapters, organizations and individuals, have reacted to the conversation in the osm-talk-list (https://lis

Re: [OSM-talk] time to review

2020-12-02 Thread john whelan
more problems in the future. Cheerio John On Wed, Dec 2, 2020, 16:29 Mario Frasca wrote: > Hi Rory, > > let's include the list, so you're talking with the whole community, not > just to me. > > BACKGROUND: we're trying to have the YouthMappers Chapter of the > University of Pa

Re: [Talk-ca] mapping Ottawa light rail stations.

2020-11-25 Thread John Whelan
to the subway entrances please.  I'm unable to figure out what they should be.  Lyon is missing the names, Parliament has everything labelled parliament. Dunno about the others. Thanks John Jeff McKenna wrote on 2020-11-25 07:45: You can ask the OsmAnd community directly in their forum, which

Re: [Talk-ca] mapping Ottawa light rail stations.

2020-11-24 Thread John Whelan
I'm more interested in being able to say to OSMAND get me from a specific exit whatever to a street address and I couldn't figure out how to do that. Cheerio John James wrote on 2020-11-24 19:30: I don't think osmand handles elevators, there's a issue open on github to support indoor mapping

[Talk-ca] mapping Ottawa light rail stations.

2020-11-24 Thread John Whelan
find? Thanks John -- Sent from Postbox <https://www.postbox-inc.com> ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

[talk-au] Nominations - OSGeo Oceania board election

2020-11-18 Thread John Bryant
were solicited and accepted up to 26 Nov). It's easy to join. Learn more, and apply here: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Oceania#Membership Thanks, John ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [Talk-ca] How is protect_class used in Canada?

2020-11-16 Thread john whelan
>I am guessing that some or all of the categories on that list under class 7 can simply be deleted. Have you attempted to contact the original mappers? We have a few mappers in Canada who have been mapping for more than ten years. John On Sun, Nov 15, 2020, 23:28 Brian M. Sperlongano wr

[talk-au] Fwd: Please sign up as a member of OSGeo Oceania, and vote

2020-11-01 Thread John Bryant
Hi, Please see email below re: participation in upcoming OSGeo Oceania elections. OSGeo Oceania is the official Oceania Local Chapter of the OpenStreetMap Foundation, so these elections directly affect the OSM community. Thanks John -- Forwarded message - From: John Bryant

Re: [talk-au] Talk-au Digest, Vol 160, Issue 14

2020-10-21 Thread John Bryant
probably do some tinkering with them, as a JOSM learning exercise. Cheers John On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 at 15:49, Warren wrote: > That was also my plan John. The Kings Park data set looks like a perfect > example. I can load that as a layer and compare the existing OSM data in > anot

Re: [talk-au] Talk-au Digest, Vol 160, Issue 14

2020-10-21 Thread John Bryant via Talk-au
needed > > > On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 5:10 PM John Bryant wrote: > >> Hi Warren, I've split it out into .osm files for each of the WA suburbs >> [1], see attached small example file for King's Park. Does something like >> this work? I can drag and drop them into JOSM, bu

Re: [talk-au] Talk-au Digest, Vol 160, Issue 14

2020-10-21 Thread John Bryant
Hi Warren, I've split it out into .osm files for each of the WA suburbs [1], see attached small example file for King's Park. Does something like this work? I can drag and drop them into JOSM, but I'm not 100% sure if they're formatted or attributed correctly to be most useful. Cheers John [1

Re: [talk-au] Talk-au Digest, Vol 160, Issue 14

2020-10-20 Thread John Bryant
Hi Warren, I could probably help with this. What would be a good size for a chunk? What would be a useful format? On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 at 07:21, Warren wrote: > Hi > > I am in the eastern suburbs of Perth where minimal buildings have been > traced. I would be happy to check trace data in my

Re: [talk-au] Fwd: vine row tagging

2020-10-15 Thread John Bryant
On Fri, 16 Oct 2020 at 05:37, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: > Resending message to the list :-( > > How do we fix it so that "Reply" goes to the list, not just the last > poster? > I'm not totally full bottle on all the mailman list management variables, but I think it's managed with the

Re: [talk-au] Fwd: vine row tagging

2020-10-15 Thread John Bryant
then it probably won't go very far. Cheers John On Fri, 16 Oct 2020 at 10:54, Benjamin Ceravolo wrote: > I understand the principal being explained above as to why Vire rows are > wanting to be mapped, but my question is is it even practical within the > use of the map considering that v

Re: [talk-au] Fwd: vine row tagging

2020-10-15 Thread John Bryant
That’s an interesting development in OSM micro-mapping John. Can I put a > vote in for using natural=tree_row rather than barrier=fence, if no better > options are available. I’m not arguing from the point of rendering, but > from the perspective of developing a tagging scheme that will be u

Re: [talk-au] vine row tagging

2020-10-15 Thread John Bryant
mbinations > > > > Cheers Phil > > > > > > *From:* Andrew Harvey > *Sent:* Thursday, 15 October 2020 7:52 PM > *To:* John Bryant > *Cc:* talk-au > *Subject:* Re: [talk-au] vine row tagging > > > > I think it's fine to map these in OSM, like all other thing

Re: [talk-au] vine row tagging

2020-10-15 Thread John Bryant
an open platform to enable it. Cheers John On Thu, 15 Oct 2020 at 15:58, Simon Slater wrote: > On Thursday, 15 October 2020 6:23:36 PM AEDT John Bryant wrote: > > This is part of a viticulture community-driven project to build consensus > > around use & sharing of data, and par

Re: [talk-au] vine row tagging

2020-10-15 Thread John Bryant
... made up of vines on wires running between posts, the typical vine row is quite fence-like. Thanks John On Thu, 15 Oct 2020 at 14:49, Brendan Barnes wrote: > Depends of level of detail sought, but each grapevine could be marked as > natural=shrub <https://wiki.openstreetmap

Re: [talk-au] vine row tagging

2020-10-15 Thread John Bryant
ticulture community is pretty non-fussed about what specific tags are used, as long as they can use OSM and do the right thing by the OSM community. Cheers John [1] https://nff.org.au/programs/australian-farm-data-code/ ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@open

Re: [talk-au] vine row tagging

2020-10-15 Thread John Bryant
sts to > assist direction of workers, etc. > These could be numbered using the addr interpolation scheme and then > individual rows would not need to be mapped but does need a close survey. > > On 15 Oct 2020, at 3:32 pm, Graeme Fitzpatrick > wrote: > > > > > On Th

Re: [talk-au] vine row tagging

2020-10-15 Thread John Bryant
ldn't be in OSM it would be good to know, so the folks I'm helping can change course. Cheers John ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

[talk-au] vine row tagging

2020-10-14 Thread John Bryant
, but not totally confident about this. Does anyone here have any thoughts or suggestions? Thanks John [1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:landuse%3Dvineyard [2] https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/landuse=vineyard#combinations ___ Talk-au mailing list

Re: [Talk-ca] York Region Building Import

2020-10-06 Thread john whelan
Thanks John On Tue, Oct 6, 2020, 09:47 Daniel @jfd553 wrote: > There is a list of available datasets and the proportion of > existing/imported buildings for each municipality [1]. > > > > Daniel > > > > [1] > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canada

Re: [Talk-ca] York Region Building Import

2020-10-06 Thread John Whelan
does the data exist for that haven't been imported yet? Perhaps there might be some interest in importing a few other areas. Thanks John Daniel @jfd553 wrote on 2020-10-06 00:00: Hi all. The York Region is a component of ODB data import, which has been widely discussed and we all agreed

Re: [Talk-ca] York Region Building Import

2020-10-05 Thread john whelan
with the raw data. Cheerio John On Sun, Oct 4, 2020, 12:32 PM Andrew Deng via Talk-ca < talk-ca@openstreetmap.org> wrote: > Hello, > > I primarily map in York Region, Ontario, and I have noticed that the > Toronto Building Import has been completed 3 months ago. Therefore

Re: [OSM-talk] Can you recommend good introduction to JOSM for 100% osm newbie?

2020-10-05 Thread john whelan
. The number of misshapped, mistagged, untagged buildings in OSM is testament to the difficulties they have with other editors. Highways, I think it is iD that offers many choices of tags but do we really need rural highways in Africa to be tagged as unlit? Cheerio John On Mon, Oct 5, 2020, 06:25

Re: [Talk-ht] hebdoOSM Nº 531 2020-09-15-2020-09-21

2020-09-27 Thread John Trilik
Unsubscribe Get Outlook for iOS From: theweekly@gmail.com Sent: Sunday, September 27, 2020 6:04:18 AM To: talk-ht@openstreetmap.org Subject: [Talk-ht] hebdoOSM Nº 531 2020-09-15-2020-09-21 Bonjour, Le résumé hebdomadaire n° 531 de

Re: [OSM-talk] A Call to Correct Narratives about Geospatial Work in the Philippines

2020-09-04 Thread john whelan
complex that it might sound at first glance. Cheerio John On Fri, Sep 4, 2020, 10:08 Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: > Hello all, > > Last September 1, Amazon Web Services (AWS) released an episode of their > documentary series Now Go Build which highlighted the work done by the &g

Re: [Talk-GB] National Cycle Network removal/reclassification

2020-08-13 Thread John Aldridge
on an NCN is definitely no guarantee: one of the least comfortable couple of mile's cycling I recall was on the NCN 3 at Penzance, for example. John ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: Roadmap for deprecation of name tags in OSM

2020-08-09 Thread john whelan
rs to dump snow on in winter. In summer they are often used by cyclists but they aren't cycle lanes by any stretch of imagination even though some are paved. Cheerio John On Sun, Aug 9, 2020, 15:04 pangoSE wrote: > Could you reply with your arguments in favor of the current one2one tag &

Re: [OSM-talk] Funding of three infrastructure projects : Nominatim, osm2pgsql, Potlatch 2

2020-08-02 Thread john whelan
into account. Cheerio John On Sun, Aug 2, 2020, 08:54 pangoSE wrote: > Is this the platform you are targeting? > https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_AIR > > Its proprietary which makes it prone to the same fate as Flash Player. Why > even consider such a move? > > I never

Re: [OSM-talk] [Osmf-talk] Funding of three infrastructure projects : Nominatim, osm2pgsql, Potlatch 2

2020-08-01 Thread John Whelan
work but that didn't solve the program problem. Have fun Cheerio John Frederik Ramm wrote on 2020-08-01 19:40: Hi, nice to see you rescue a few worthwhile things that have fallen through the cracks of the Microgrant programme. During the Microgrants process, there were proposals that didn’t

Re: [OSM-talk] Heresy - pure discussion

2020-07-25 Thread John Whelan
number of new mappers who do odd things I get the impression that our procedures are robust and to be honest quite a lot of security is good procedures. So thank you for your inputs, especially those who raised or addressed specific issues. Cheerio John Mateusz Konieczny via talk wrote

Re: [OSM-talk] Heresy - pure discussion

2020-07-25 Thread john whelan
And as we start to fill the database with buildings even those might not fit. Thanks John On Sat, Jul 25, 2020, 05:19 Hartmut Holzgraefe wrote: > On 24.07.20 23:55, john whelan wrote: > > Microsoft SQL Server Express is a free limited version of SQL server > > that may well do

Re: [OSM-talk] Heresy - pure discussion

2020-07-24 Thread John Whelan
Thank you Hartmut, my expertise is not in GIS databases so this is helpful to know.  My experience is much more to do with straight SQL databases doing none GIS work on a variety of platforms. Cheerio John Hartmut Holzgraefe wrote on 2020-07-24 18:49: On 25.07.20 00:16, Alexandre Oliveira

Re: [OSM-talk] Heresy - pure discussion

2020-07-24 Thread john whelan
be able to connect practically anything to it. For development Microsoft visual studio is normally recognised as the gold standard for development environments and remember Github is now owned by Microsoft. Cheerio John On Fri, Jul 24, 2020, 17:03 Yves wrote: > But face it, philosophy is now a

Re: [OSM-talk] Heresy - pure discussion

2020-07-24 Thread john whelan
I know what is best and all the things that need to be considered. Cheerio John On Fri, Jul 24, 2020, 14:35 Yves wrote: > You're probably have some very good points when it comes to database > management, but running an open map on open source software makes a lot of > sense. > >

[OSM-talk] Heresy - pure discussion

2020-07-24 Thread john whelan
has worked closely with us in the past the cost might not be too bad. I do understand that we have a large investment in our current set up both as an organisation and personally and many will consider this as heresy but now is probably the time to think about it. Cheerio John Your

Re: [Talk-ca] Proposal to tag Yonge Street in Toronto and York Region as Primary

2020-07-17 Thread john whelan
What Jarek says makes sense to me. I suspect many of the map users don't live where the use the map. Having said that could we come up with something that could be applied across Canada or is that too much to ask for? Thanks John On Thu, Jul 16, 2020, 22:39 Jarek Piórkowski wrote: > On

Re: [Talk-ca] can I submit road data?

2020-07-07 Thread John Marshall
Hi Jason, I am happy to help. Sounds like a fun project. John On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 1:02 PM Jason Carlson wrote: > While waiting for a response I think if I import roads that already exist > (albeit incorrectly) it will possibly be just as much work to fix. I tried > editin

Re: [OSM-talk] Paid mapping

2020-06-22 Thread John Whelan
I've seen a lot of poor mapping get replicated in this way by newcomers copying the tags. Cheerio John Mike Thompson wrote on 2020-06-22 8:25 PM: On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 4:12 PM Mateusz Konieczny via talk mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org>> wrote: Jun 23, 2020, 00:07 by

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