Re: [OSRM-talk] Time-to-destination on OSRM is too short

2014-02-10 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Spod OSM wrote: Looking at the OSM data, it does look as if there is missing maxspeed data on some of the roads involved (but the maxspeed on the major length of motorway is correctly tagged), but presumably OSRM uses sensible scaled down defaults, relative to the way type, in that case? Any

Re: [OSRM-talk] Time-to-destination on OSRM is too short

2014-02-10 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: Generally it seems that different ideas in different areas of the world, of what a trunk road is supposed to be, now fall onto our feet ;-) One option that comes to my mind would be that you change the road classification in Britain to use trunk only on those ways

Re: [Talk-GB] cycle.travel - new OSM-powered cycling site

2013-12-04 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Gregory wrote: I'll definitely be wanting to try this out next time I have somewhere to go. Thanks Richard. \o/ Thanks! Hmm, I think the gridline must be a glitch in the data. It is, I'm afraid - it's a bug in the way that the SRTM tiles line up which I haven't ironed out yet. * The

Re: [Talk-GB] cycle.travel - new OSM-powered cycling site

2013-12-04 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
On 04/12/2013 16:02, Alex Barth wrote: Congrats, Richard. The site looks awesome. Now I just wish I could make time for a bike tour in England next year Thanks! (John F used an early version of the site for his post-SOTM cycle tour this year. Maybe I should try and follow SOTM around

Re: [Talk-GB] Upcoming changes to OpenStreetMap.org website

2013-12-02 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Philip Barnes wrote: Not sure if its been changed recently, but using IE on my corporate desktop, there is a close button. Yes, I submitted a patch and Tom deployed it. People complaining about lacking communication should IMO volunteer to join the Communications Working Group (not you,

Re: [Talk-GB] Upcoming changes to OpenStreetMap.org website

2013-12-02 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
lsces wrote: At least we can still access potlatch in place of Id so the principle has already been adopted here. That's because iD isn't a replacement for Potlatch, it's a new entry-level editor to complement the existing intermediate-level one. Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [Talk-GB] Upcoming changes to OpenStreetMap.org website

2013-12-02 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Andy Mabbett wrote: Perhaps we need an Announce mailing list (with follow-ups set to the 'talk' list)? https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/announce/ :) (it's a bit unloved though... needs more people volunteering for CWG to help) I miss the slider for zooming in and out. Having to make

[Talk-GB] cycle.travel - new OSM-powered cycling site

2013-11-28 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Hi all, Thought I might show you what I've been working on for the last year or so. :) http://cycle.travel/ is a new everyday cycling website for Britain and it won't surprise you to learn it has lots of OSM mapping in there. Click on 'Map' and you'll find OSM-based route-planning and

Re: [Talk-us] Completing the Appalachian Trail relation

2013-11-27 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Richard Welty wrote: Josh Doe wrote: I believe I saw SURFACE and CLUB which might be useful. i'm not keeping any of it, the source tag points back to the original data set and that should be sufficient. [...] i don't know that i see a mapping from the AT surface attributes to our surface

Re: [Talk-GB] Grounds of Places of Worshiip when not Graveyards

2013-08-28 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
OpenStreetmap HADW wrote: The rules for places of worship This is OpenStreetMap. We don't have rules. Stop placing so much trust in the wiki. :) cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [Talk-GB] Phone numbers in little England

2013-08-23 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Colin Smale wrote: Calling the transformation from OSM data to international format trivial does not do justice to the creativity of mappers when entering phone numbers or to telecoms regulators when defining numbering plans. A quick gander at

Re: [Talk-GB] Phone numbers in little England

2013-08-22 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Colin Smale wrote: Someone needs to stick up for the data consumers; it's not *all* about the mappers, and anyway most mappers are not so lazy that they can't be bothered to conform to conventions. As a data consumer I wish people would stop sticking up for me and my kin! IMX more

Re: [OSM-talk] In the works: iD 1.1

2013-08-08 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Tom Hughes wrote: No, because they each use their own database, which is entirely separate from the main database. ...and because site improvements often require changes to the database structure - new columns, new indexes, and so on - so it wouldn't generally be possible to hook test

Re: [OSM-talk] comments on new map widget on main page

2013-07-29 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Michal Migurski wrote: Provable evidence that the view tab is not sufficiently informing visitors of its functionality? Having a button that says “link” is a great clue that there is an option to link vs. hunting around. Perhaps, but this is definitely a pro feature. There _is_ a button

Re: [OSM-talk] comments on new map widget on main page

2013-07-28 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Greg Troxel wrote: add the shortlink link in the lower right, so you can more easily use it to get to a URL for the current view, so you can shift-reload to see what yfou just edited Click the View tab. /stuck_record cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

[OSM-talk] Build your own osm.org (was Re: New technology ...)

2013-07-22 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Lester Caine wrote: Note that I'm not saying that the main map should change - this is mobile technology use, but personally I WOULD like to have the option to select the old style layout. It's not fundamental to how the map works - it's only a style sheet, and we could have several -

Re: [OSM-talk] Double-clicking on OSM map does not centre the map

2013-07-22 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Lester Caine wrote: is there a change log for the code running live? https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/commits/master (though changes may take a short while to percolate to the live servers, of course) cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls

2013-07-21 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Michal Migurski wrote: On Jul 21, 2013, at 5:42 AM, Pieren wrote: If you missed the discussion because you don't watch the non-localized 35 mailing lists [...] I don't know, and I don't want to have to subscribe to Github pull requests to find out. You only have to follow one mailing

Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls

2013-07-20 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
James Mast wrote: I'm personally not liking that they now have hidden the long/short links to the map location behind buttons. Instead of just one click to get the map location, now it's two clicks and is really annoying and slowing down work for me. :( Ok, I've said this at least three

Re: [Talk-us] Steady increase in the number of mappers in the US

2013-07-19 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Clifford Snow wrote: We need publicity! Harry Wood is trying to recruit more volunteers for the Communication Working Group. You can e-mail him on o...@harrywood.co.uk . cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [Talk-GB] Aylesbury mapping expedition: Saturday 20th July

2013-07-17 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Andrew Chadwick wrote: Anyone want to join up with a handful of people from the Oxfordshire/Cotwolds group for a short mapping expedition to Aylesbury this coming Saturday? I can't make it, I'm afraid, but anyone visiting avec velo might like to map Aylesbury's cycle network: List of

Re: [OSM-talk] Using OpenStreetMap on a daily basis

2013-07-11 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Guillaume Pratte wrote: How can users actively contribute to the map if they need to rely to a competitive service for their daily needs? No-one has said that. We want everyone to be using OpenStreetMap data. But OpenStreetMap is much more than openstreetmap.org. Just because it isn't on

Re: [OSM-talk] Using OpenStreetMap on a daily basis

2013-07-09 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Maarten Deen wrote: The problem with OSM is that with Google, Google maps is the go-to site to get everything: map, routing, information. With OSM it is not. [...] It just is less userfriendly than having it all on one site. And that's a great business opportunity for someone... right?

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] [oxoncotswolds] Possible pub meetup with the West Midlands crew in early October?

2013-07-08 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
On 08/07/2013 17:45, Andy Robinson wrote: No schedule but I'd expect it to be a bit of an ad-hoc mapping party before adjourning to the pub but if something more substantial gets organised that's cool. We certainly would need: 1. A cake Banbury Cake! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banbury_cake

Re: [Talk-GB] [oxoncotswolds] Possible pub meetup with the West Midlands crew in early October?

2013-07-08 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
On 08/07/2013 17:45, Andy Robinson wrote: No schedule but I'd expect it to be a bit of an ad-hoc mapping party before adjourning to the pub but if something more substantial gets organised that's cool. We certainly would need: 1. A cake Banbury Cake! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banbury_cake

[Talk-GB] Swindon mapping party

2013-07-05 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Hi all, Swindon Borough Council is organising a mapping party in Swindon on Saturday 13th July. (How enlightened is that?) http://www.swindontravelchoices.co.uk/news/contribute-to-swindons-new-map.aspx The core event is 10am-2pm but people are welcome to come for longer. Swindon also has a

Re: [OSM-talk] Survey on the OSM Wiki

2013-06-25 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Pieren wrote: You cannot say that. Give me an example where the editors decided how to tag features in the past. Two off the top of my head: 1. Potlatch popularised the use of a certain set of values for the surface= tag. 2.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Place name translations

2013-06-14 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Someoneelse wrote: Someone's being adding translations of place names using: These aren't translations, they're transliterations. General consensus is that we shouldn't add transliterations (which are essentially algorithmic) to OSM. Apparently Place names translations are public knowledge and

Re: [Talk-us] Removing US Bicycle Route tags

2013-06-05 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Kerry Irons wrote: Nathan, [...] Please advise when you will remove these tags. Nathan (NE2) has been given an indefinite ban from OpenStreetMap on account of his inability to work with others on what is a crowd-sourcing project: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks/347 It'll therefore

Re: [Talk-us] Google maps source

2013-06-04 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Rick Marshall wrote: If we use bing imagery for tracing the road geometry, but Google Maps to discover the name of the road is it incorrect to use source=google? You are not tracing a road geometry from Google Maps, but you might be using it for other attribute data.

Re: [Talk-us] User Cam4rd98 gun-jumping new highways + adding fictional alignments

2013-06-01 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Ian Dees wrote: This is what an account block is and it already happens. For those unaware of account blocks, you can read all those that have been imposed at http://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks . cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [Talk-us] OSM Data Quality

2013-05-31 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Martijn van Exel wrote: I think I just wrote half of one of my SOTM US talk. I think you just wrote half of mine too. ;) cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/OSM-Data-Quality-tp5763578p5763648.html Sent from the USA mailing list archive at

Re: [OSM-talk] iD Editor live on OpenStreetMap

2013-05-25 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Russ Nelson wrote: This is ridiculous. I tried ID, and it didn't make my penis bigger OR harder, my breasts didn't get bigger, I didn't get six-pack abs, and I didn't get shaplier thighs in just six weeks. You should submit an issue on github. I believe there's a Math.abs function in JS so

Re: [OSM-talk] source=Google

2013-05-21 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: But in the end I think this whole source thing is completely overestimated. Yup. What do you propose to do with source tags found on an object when you modify this object based on a different source? OSM has full object history. :) cheers Richard -- View

[Talk-GB] railway:historic=rail

2013-05-13 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
I've just been bitten by the minority, largely undocumented usage of railway:historic=rail on a bunch of dismantled/abandoned railways in Britain. Having exported some OSM data and done a few days' manual processing on it, I belatedly find that various lines are missing due to not taking

Re: [OSM-talk] iD Editor live on OpenStreetMap

2013-05-07 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
NopMap wrote: And putting a simple general or how to question into an issue tracker is rather weird. help.openstreetmap.org is the commonly used and expected method of asking simple general and how to questions. :) cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [Talk-GB] Complaining about refs on roads again!

2013-05-01 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote: It's only because of poor assumtions and a lack of forsight by renderers and data users that we have this problem now. I don't think that's fair. We do have the general (and generally misinterpreted) rule of don't tag for the renderer, but there's also the

Re: [Talk-GB] Missing place=city nodes: Manchester, Leeds

2013-04-28 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Philip Barnes wrote: Leeds, however it is in the middle of a pedestrianised area, so makes routing results at best unhelpful as it directs you to a dead end side street. Would be better on a main road from which the central car parks are accessible. http://osrm.at/33S Agreed that routing

Re: [OSM-talk] RFC updated: OSM Attribution Mark (was: contributor mark)

2013-04-23 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Alex Barth wrote: This is an updated proposal based on an initial RFC from earlier this year titled Contributor Mark [1, 2]. Thumbs up. This is really good. I love having Local knowledge in prime position. It'd be good to release Leaflet/OpenLayers plugins to do the attribution. If I were

Re: [OSM-talk] What to do with failed (Potlatch) save changeset?

2013-04-14 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Steve Bennett wrote: Assuming I'm happy to simply lose any changes where there really is a version conflict (which I am), what can I do with it? (I don't use JOSM at all, so would prefer to avoid that hurdle if possible...) The couple of times I've encountered this situation, I've manually

Re: [OSM-talk] Why do we have so many registered users with zero edits ?

2013-04-12 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Cartinus wrote: Most of these are people who didn't read what Openstreetmap was about before they registered. They most likely thought they would need to register to _USE_ all the features of Openstreetmap, not contribute to it. +1. You'd be surprised how common this is. Our village

[Talk-GB] NCN 28?

2013-04-09 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Hi all, Is anyone able to verify the existence or otherwise of NCN 28 from Exeter to Dartmoor, as shown on OSM right now? It's been mapped from the DfT cycling data, but when cycling in Devon last week, I didn't see any signs of it when I'd have expected to do so. The Sustrans mapping shows

Re: [Talk-GB] Railway bridge numbers

2013-04-09 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Philip Barnes wrote: Seems a good idea. I would suggest a new tag, such as bridge_ref. I have come across cases of canal bridge numbers using the ref tag [...] Most canal bridge numbers are in the name tag, but I am not sure that is right either. There seem to be a lot of canal bridge numbers

Re: [Talk-GB] NCN 28?

2013-04-09 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Kevin Peat wrote: The South Devon Link Road construction gives rise to new cycle paths from Newton Abbot down to Torquay which this document: http://www.devon.gov.uk/ldfpaper-newtonabbot.pdf mentions as being part of NCN 28. Interesting - thanks. That tallies with the Sustrans website and

Re: [Talk-GB] Sustrans still using OS map data

2013-04-05 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Dave F. wrote: I presume someone within OSM has talked to them about it. Do they have a long term contract, or not consider our data complete enough? Seems a great shame a charity is paying for something that could be free. Some Sustrans maps are now made with OSM data - in particular, the

Re: [OSM-talk] Crossroad names

2013-03-25 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Andrew Errington wrote: That's exactly what he did. So what else is he supposed to do? Perhaps the wiki should be edited to state don't bother making graphical suggestions because the system is too unwieldy now and we dare not change it. No-one has said that. There is an active effort to

Re: [OSM-talk] [Design] Banners on the Front Page

2013-03-22 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
[wider issue, so cc:ing talk@] On 22/03/2013 15:32, Shaun McDonald wrote: On 22 Mar 2013, at 14:06, Harry Wood m...@harrywood.co.uk wrote: ...we have a strip down the left, and this screen real-estate is valuable space. Here more than anywhere users are eyeballing the graphics, text, and user

[Talk-GB] International cycling routes tagged as NCN

2013-03-18 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Hello all, And in an echo of the C-road thread... Someone has created relations for the UK parts of several international cycle routes, such as 2793118, which is EuroVelo 2 - part United Kingdom [sic]. These are tagged as network=ncn. This, to me, appears to be clearly wrong. They are not

Re: [Talk-GB] Refs on Tertiary Unclassifed Roads in Highland

2013-03-17 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
SK53 wrote: I'd be interested in what others think (these council based refs do appear elsewhere in the country: I can't recall ever seeing one on a road sign). I agree very, very strongly that unsignposted C-road numbers (or U, or D, or E, or whatever) should not be placed in the ref tag.

Re: [Talk-GB] Refs on Tertiary Unclassifed Roads in Highland

2013-03-17 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Someoneelse wrote: Could that, or something more appropriate to road reference numbers, be used here? Ah, déjà vu. http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2011-May/011628.html cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [Talk-us] US Bicycle Routes in KY, TN, AL, MS, and GA

2013-03-10 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Kerry Irons wrote: I would like to get in contact with the mapper(s) who put these routes into OpenStreetMap/OpenCycleMap and clarify this. We are always looking for enthusiastic folks who want to work on the USBR system but in this case putting detailed routes on maps is a source of

Re: [Talk-GB] London Tube Tagging Problems

2013-03-09 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Derick Rethans wrote: What's wrong with names in different languages? Names in different languages are genuine content and therefore worth tagging (e.g. Londres, Moscow). Simple transliterations aren't content, however. They're essentially just algorithmic derivatives. AFAICT the Russian names

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-02-27 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
WhereAmI wrote: It would appear that any and all data associated with a website or mobile app becomes fair game once OSM data is used. What? No. No, that isn't true. I'm no fan of share-alike but that is trivially disprovable. Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Question about copyrighted hiking routes in France

2013-02-22 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Eric Sibert wrote: They established a route that for instance allows to from city A to city B but not with the short way. Instead, it is going left and right to visit points of interest, alpine hutch and so on. They claim that such a work is an original work. Yes, I can see that. I've

Re: [OSM-talk] License Review

2013-02-22 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
nicholas ingalls wrote: Just want an opinion from someone a bit more knowledgeable in the field of license compatibility. In Canada *paging Richard Weait* cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/License-Review-tp5750426p5750441.html Sent from the

Re: [Talk-GB] road names along the A50 (and elsewhere)

2013-02-20 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Rovastar wrote: Fos­ton Hat­ton Hilton Bypass, etc don't as far I I know appear on the ground however I think the some record should appear in OSM. I am worried about the trend in this case of placing them as the name of the road as what reference point would people use for these.

Re: [Talk-GB] road names along the A50 (and elsewhere)

2013-02-20 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Philip Barnes wrote: I did briefly discuss this with Andy on IRC and the other issue is the insertion of soft-hyphens into the names so Hatton becomes Hat-ton. Not sure why, is he trying to make a satnav pronounce each syllable? Or copied and pasted from a document? cheers Richard --

Re: [Talk-GB] New user reinstating old railways in Norfolk

2013-02-18 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote: However, I think it's now clear that the whole of both changesets [3,4] need to be reverted. Presumably, this should be done as quickly as possible to avoid the risk of subsequent edits complicating things. I don't have any recent experience of doing

Re: [OSM-talk] Paweł's q: what can be done?

2013-02-04 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Paweł Paprota wrote: Just a last word - I am not proclaiming doom. To the contrary - I am full of energy and ideas but at the same time I am a bit afraid that if this energy does not lead anywhere then I will be burnt out in this project because of the frustration that I cannot change

Re: [OSM-talk] Paweł's q: what can be done?

2013-02-03 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Michal Migurski wrote: We seem to have an OSMF that's not effective at communicating I tried :( FWIW Communications Working Group is very good, just under-resourced. There needs to be more of them, and they need to be given the space to thrive without interference. cheers Richard (ex-board,

Re: [OSM-talk] Recent edits in the wiki / Trademark issue

2013-02-01 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Jean-Marc Liotier wrote: Why is Openstreetmap yielding to such blatant appropriation of the English language ? Because we have bigger battles to fight. Let Google piss their money away on defending the term geocode. If OSM has $1m to spend, which it doesn't, I'd rather it spent it on making

Re: [OSM-talk] Recent edits in the wiki / Trademark issue

2013-02-01 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: What about mailing list archives? Will the OSMF then start deleting emails if they contain Google Maps links? I'd quite like the OSMF to start deleting e-mails that don't quote the previous message properly. ;) cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik at zoom=19

2013-01-27 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Gervase Markham wrote: Who do we need to talk to or where do we need to file a bug to get this request considered officially? Anyone? If you want to make it happen, the best way to do this is to take part in the project to port the current stylesheet to Carto:

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik at zoom=19

2013-01-27 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
On 27/01/2013 16:23, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: IMHO there is no connection between the port to a different style sheet language and the decision which zoom level gets rendered. The connection is that the current stylesheet is abandonware. If anything is to be fixed then it'll be in the Carto

Re: [OSM-talk] Simple improvement(s) to openstreetmap.org

2013-01-15 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Paul Johnson wrote: So pick social media that doesn't cater exclusively to a crowd whose education stopped midway through Grade 2. It's nearly impossible, in the English-speaking world, to express an intelligent thought in 140 characters or less. It's writing system just doesn't work

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Future Look

2013-01-08 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Paweł Paprota wrote: The simple fact is that some of the improvements won't ever be implemented without people working full time on it (look at the Top Ten Task list to get some idea). How do you propose to solve this problem without funding people to develop them? Complete disarming

Re: [Talk-us] Anyone ever talked about adding more Land Ownership data to OSM?

2013-01-08 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Toby Murray wrote: I think it would be great to make more tools support more external data sets as opposed to dumping *everything* into OSM. Yep. Absolutely. To my mind this is one of the really nice things about TileMill. I'm currently playing with it to render (UK) maps that combine OSM and

Re: [Talk-GB] Guidance for adding PRoW to OSM: prow_ref=

2013-01-04 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Barry Cornelius wrote: Robert Whittaker wrote: I wouldn't have thought that listing the authority would be that useful -- you should be able to work that out from the county that the way resides in. My view is that it would be useful to include the id of the council as I do not think

Re: [Talk-GB] Marking landuse and field boundaries

2013-01-01 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Tom Chance wrote: Mapping it as farmland needn't distract anybody apart from the poor sod editing the data, that is. yours from the sticks Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Marking-landuse-and-field-boundaries-tp5742119p5742180.html Sent from the

Re: [Talk-GB] Marking landuse and field boundaries

2013-01-01 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Tom Chance wrote: I also cannot understand comments such as Richard's, which arise every time somebody wants to add additional data that they consider valuable. Compared to the days of just mapping roads, many cities today are a dense mass of addressed buildings, metadata-to-the- eyeballs

[OSM-talk] State of the Map 2013 - Call for Venues

2012-12-18 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Hi all, The State of the Map 2013 call for venues is out: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_Of_The_Map_2013/Call_for_venues Looking forward to seeing the bids. Please do forward this to/translate for your local country lists. cheers Richard [sent to both talk@ and osmf-talk@, please

Re: [Talk-GB] The Monsal Trail in Derbyshire

2012-12-17 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Someoneelse wrote: o Instead of the mixture of highway=cycleway, highway=path and highway=track that exists currently, replace with highway=track throughout (it's all wide enough for the trail maintenance folks' Land Rovers) To my mind, the duck tagging principle means that

Re: [Talk-GB] Unfit for motors - tagging for routing

2012-12-10 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Robert Whittaker (OSM) wrote: Instead I've used highway=track based on the physical appearance, and then added designation= unclassified_highway to record the legal classification. Agreed: I often do something similar. In this case, though, I'm not entirely comfortable with highway=service

[Talk-GB] Oxford OSM meeting tonight - quick reminder

2012-12-04 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
http://lanyrd.com/2012/openstreetmap-oxford/ Hope to see some of you there. cheers Richard ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-us] US Addressing

2012-11-30 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
brycenesbitt wrote: Is there evidence of Google using streetview plus OCR for addressing data yet? They've integrated it into ReCaptcha: http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/29/google-now-using-recaptcha-to-decode-street-view-addresses/ cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [Talk-us] Address push part deux: tracking licenses, notifications, etc.

2012-11-30 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Jeff Meyer wrote: Ok... this is sort of an import question, but how do we / should we credit each imported item with a link or tie to the appropriate use statement / contributor? source= is just for showing your working. It is not a means of providing attribution. That should be done on the

Re: [Talk-us] US Addressing

2012-11-29 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Jeffrey Ollie wrote: It looks pretty good from what I saw, with the obvious exception that newer homes aren't tagged. I'm going to clean up my code a bit and stick it up on github somewhere. If you chaps are all dead set on doing another massive TIGER import - hey, it's your funeral - could

Re: [Talk-us] US Addressing

2012-11-29 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
On 29/11/2012 22:46, Jeffrey Ollie wrote: None of the Iowa data that I am processing originates with the US Census or TIGER. Sure, I should have said big massive ---k-off import rather than TIGER. They both look the same from several thousand miles away I'm afraid. :) As Richard Welty

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Combining Creative Commons Licensed Data with ODbL and Redistributing

2012-11-28 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Kate Chapman wrote: So is the new dataset a derived database? It seems like it is to me. What should we be licensing this? CC-BY is pretty much compatible with ODbL: CC-BY only requires attribution and ODbL provides that. There may be tiny differences of legalese but nothing substantive. So

Re: [Talk-us] Operation Cowboy - Preaparing Thank you gift

2012-11-28 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
!i! wrote: Hi, one last personal note on the mapathon and a big thank you (literally): http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/!i!/diary/18132 And thank you, too. I've always been sceptical about this sort of event - my vision for OSM is that we need more contributors with local knowledge, not more

Re: [OSM-talk] What to call OSM data?

2012-11-26 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Kate Chapman wrote: Does anyone have suggestions or a preference? OpenStreetMap says it all. As in Hi. We're OpenStreetMap. You may have heard of us. cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/What-to-call-OSM-data-tp5737570p5737660.html Sent from the

Re: [OSM-talk] Relations on Irish islands

2012-11-21 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Joseph Reeves wrote: What does different mean? This should be outer? I'd hazard a guess that's a Potlatch 2 bug resulting from some edge case when editing the role with multiple items selected. I'll have a look but feel free to add a trac ticket to remind me. cheers Richard -- View this

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] tesco store location data

2012-11-05 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Chris Hill wrote: So the answer, as always with this sort of question, is no we cannot use that data without written permission of the copyright holder to use this data in OSM for any purpose. I don't think that is likely to be forthcoming. Indeed. Don't forget, too, that Tesco probably

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licenses for Produced Works under ODbL

2012-10-22 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Igor Brejc wrote: 4.3 Notice for using output (Contents). Creating and Using a Produced Work does not require the notice in Section 4.2. However, if you Publicly Use a Produced Work, You must include a notice associated with the Produced Work reasonably calculated to make any Person that

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-talk-fr] Continued aggression against French contributors (cadastre integration)

2012-10-19 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Jean-Marc Liotier wrote: Talking about that, members of the talk-fr mailing list are discussing pragmatic solutions that might bring everyone together Good luck. I tried that last month: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2012-September/064482.html and immediately got shouted down

Re: [Talk-us] What is the status of the Toolbox?

2012-10-19 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
David ``Smith'' wrote: The banner at the bottom has some issues. Helpful for new and maybe intermediate users, but i'd like the option to turn it off. You can do that from the options dialogue (and it remembers your preference). I tried to put a little 'x' close box in there but, well, Flex

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-talk-fr] Continued aggression against French contributors (cadastre integration)

2012-10-18 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Pierre Enclos wrote: Henning Scholland wrote: Just a question: If I filter all buildings with cadastre-source out of an osm-planet and publish this extract [...] it is illegal? There is no difference between ODbl and CC-by-SA on this point. Which may be true but is largely irrelevant. :)

Re: [Talk-us] What is the status of the Toolbox?

2012-10-18 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Charlotte Wolter wrote: What is the status of the Toolbox? When will it be fixed? It is difficult to do any editing without those tools. And, whose idea was that banner? Did they ask anyone before they implemented it? Did they test to make sure it didn't break anything? Goodness me,

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licensing of works containing geocodes pinpointed on OSM data

2012-10-16 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Jani Patokallio wrote: Any advice would be appreciated, as I still have a faint flicker of hope that we can get this past the corporate legal team and possibly even contribute back to OSM! On this specific issue: I'd suggest you consider whether your combination of OSM-derived data and other

Re: [Talk-GB] Stiles (and gates) on roads

2012-10-10 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Philip Barnes wrote: Does anyone know how I go about getting this added to keepright? Harald Kleiner, keepright [at] gmx [dot] at (and +1 to the suggestion) cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Stiles-and-gates-on-roads-tp5729687p5729817.html

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] Potlatch2 a évolué (était Encore un alignement de points abusif liéà Potlatch 2.)

2012-10-09 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Teuxe a écrit: J'ai l'impression que nous avons été entendus... Oui. :) amitiés Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Encore-un-alignement-de-points-abusif-liea-Potlatch-2-tp5729034p5729634.html Sent from the France mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: [Talk-GB] Bomb dropped on St Helens Town Centre

2012-10-08 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Nick Whitelegg wrote: As an aside I'm quite surprised at that, as almost all places ending in hurst in the UK are south of the M4 and east of two degrees west. That sort of factoid is surely what OpenStreetMap was invented for. :) The origin of Fairhursts is quite starkly regional, though:

Re: [OSM-talk] Réf.: Re: All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-28 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Philip Barnes wrote: Select way or node. Click advanced. Click way/node number. Click more details. You don't even need the fourth step - the dialogue that appears when you click the way/node id is the history. cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging the source

2012-09-28 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Lester Caine wrote: I did put my hand up for a tag which is automatically applied for those of us who forget it ;) If I have a background layer up it automatically adds that tag to each object. In Potlatch you can simply press 'B' (for 'Background') to add the source= tag for the current

Re: [OSM-talk] Réf.: Re: All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-28 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Someoneelse wrote: Is there any easy way (in any editor with any plugin) of getting to this information - preferably a collated list of object / changeset tags? I've just done this in P2's history dialogue for 'comment' and 'source':

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal for import guidelines

2012-09-26 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
ThomasB wrote: Seems what you mean and what you wrote differ somehow I'm not sure where you read the extra requirement for discussion or bureaucracy in what I wrote. Could you clarify? But I read it so. Also selecting 10 buildings in JOSM and pressing Q would fall below your proposal

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal for import guidelines

2012-09-26 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Tordanik wrote: If you want to address changes performed by scripts/bots, then why don't you just say so explicitly and avoid any potential misunderstandings? Because it's not just about scripts and bots. The Cadastre situation, which started all of this off, is often people loading .osm

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] Imports du cadastre et compte dédié

2012-09-26 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Christian Quest a écrit: Richard, en quoi le volume change quelque chose ? C'est un impact plus grand sur le map (et le communauté) alors on a besoin de visibilité maximale. Je pense que c'est approprié que, par example, DaveHansenTiger et xybot sont des comptes dediés. Mais tout d'abord, c'est

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal for import guidelines

2012-09-25 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
I'm off to bed but would just like to respond to this one before I do. Tordanik wrote: On 25.09.2012 19:11, Richard Fairhurst wrote: - search-and-replace tag changes - automated geometry fixup - reverting edits In my opinion, none of that (if performed though editing software

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] Imports du cadastre et compte dédié

2012-09-25 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Nicolas Moyroud a écrit: C'est vraiment une honte d'avoir effaceacute; le texte de Pieren du Wiki ! Without wanting to reawaken the argument, I think Pierre's wiki text was a little injudicious and I can see why Grant removed it. Writing a local community guideline instructing people to reply

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