Re: [OSM-talk] Is the standard map down?

2014-10-09 Per discussione SomeoneElse
On 09/10/2014 12:56, Dave F. wrote: Are others getting the same? Anybody able to sort the problem? It's not your ISP is it? I'm seeing some (unrelated to OSM) routing oddities on Plusnet (madasafish's parent) in the UK currently to some US sites. Other than re-render issues I'm seeing no

Re: [OSM-talk] Release of osmapi 0.4.0 (python) with Notes API support

2014-10-07 Per discussione SomeoneElse
On 07/10/2014 16:23, Stefan Oderbolz wrote: just a quick information that I just releases osmapi 0.4.0 which finally supports the Notes API (add, comment, close, reopen, search). For those who have never heard if it, it is a python wrapper for the OpenStreetMap API (version 0.6). Thanks

Re: [Talk-GB] Deletions and newbie editors (was: Vandalism in London)

2014-10-06 Per discussione SomeoneElse
On 06/10/2014 11:30, Tom Chance wrote: My principal difficulty is in working out what people have done in each changeset. The best tool we had for this - OWL - is now defunct. This let you browse around the area looking at all changesets, seeing features that had been deleted / moved /

Re: [Talk-GB] Deletions and newbie editors (was: Vandalism in London)

2014-10-05 Per discussione SomeoneElse
With new editors though I sometimes think we forget how hard it is for someone to start editing now in e.g. the centre of London compared to when we experienced mappers started. Here, for example (courtesy of Martijn Van Exel's OSM Then and Now) is what the area I started mapping in looked

Re: [Talk-GB] Vandalism in London

2014-10-04 Per discussione SomeoneElse
On 04/10/2014 10:14, David Woolley wrote: ... it is probably a mistaken attempt at personal mapping. That's what it looked like to me, certainly. The big problem with relations is that they tend to be subject to frequent edits, so reverts may fail, because they would take out a

Re: [OSM-talk] How best to create a single point of interest online map with OSM data?

2014-10-01 Per discussione SomeoneElse
On 01/10/2014 02:00, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: * Slowed down too much after about 200 points of interest (I need about 30,000 minimum for the current project) * Limited flexibility in designing the popup * Ways disappear on the map (they don't get a pin: zoom in on the map to see two hidden

Re: [OSM-talk] How best to view geometry history for a way?

2014-09-26 Per discussione SomeoneElse
On 25/09/2014 14:32, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: I'm looking for a current answer to: https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/6208/ /How to view the geometry of an older way?/ Specifically I'm trying to view 2 and 3 of: http://iandees.github.io/osm-deep-history/#/way/20953890 How about something

Re: [OSM-talk] Visually detect missing roads

2014-09-15 Per discussione SomeoneElse
On 15/09/2014 08:53, Stephan Knauss wrote: So actually a map with no diff is good. At least a good indication that the map is not missing something important. Assuming for a moment that Google data is a perfect reference (which is not as we all know). Unfortunately, we (as in all OSM users

Re: [OSM-talk] Visually detect missing roads

2014-09-09 Per discussione SomeoneElse
On 09/09/2014 08:11, Stephan Knauss wrote: I have created a map which visually diffs our data against Google Maps. I can see how Google could find this useful locally to me - it would enable them to remove some of the roads on their map that don't exist, like the one to a coal mine that

Re: [OSM-talk] problems I cant fix

2014-09-08 Per discussione SomeoneElse
On 08/09/2014 15:21, Pieren wrote: On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 4:13 PM, Brad Neuhauser brad.neuhau...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Talk-GB] NCN 279 Exeter to Okehampton (and other destructions)

2014-09-07 Per discussione SomeoneElse
On 06/09/2014 23:09, Guy Collins wrote: ... inadvertently made the runways disappear ... and see also this issue raised against the standard style sheet today: https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/927 (Airport runways have disappeared)

Re: [OSM-talk] 112k Wikidata tags to add to OSM

2014-09-06 Per discussione SomeoneElse
On 06/09/2014 09:15, Edward Betts wrote: I adjusted my criteria for islands, villages, towns and cities. There are now 102,691 matches and 230 mismatches. http://edwardbetts.com/osm-wikidata/ http://edwardbetts.com/osm-wikidata/mismatches.html One question that immediately springs to mind -

Re: [OSM-talk] 112k Wikidata tags to add to OSM

2014-09-06 Per discussione SomeoneElse
On 06/09/2014 22:15, Archer wrote: https://wdq.wmflabs.org/ is a powerful Tool for Wikidata Thanks, but the query builder doesn't appear to actually work, though (in either Chrome or SeaMonkey on Windows) without cutting and pasting the resulting magic codeinto a separate search form, and

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding Wikidata tags to 70k items automatically

2014-09-01 Per discussione SomeoneElse
On 01/09/2014 02:28, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: 1. We already link to Wikipedia using the wikipedia=* tag. I really can't see how wikidata=* is any different. One way that it is different is that a wikipedia link for e.g. (1) is human-readable (en:Tate Britain

Re: [OSM-talk] need advice for clever query or script

2014-08-29 Per discussione SomeoneElse
On 28/08/2014 11:39, Richard Z. wrote: To make things complicated - a few days ago one contributor did a well meant effort to convert all bridge=swing - bridge=movable+bridge:movable=swing and reverted that edit because there were too many errors in it. Hence doing a naive search for user

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding Wikidata tags to 70k items automatically

2014-08-28 Per discussione SomeoneElse
On 27/08/2014 22:15, Andy Mabbett wrote: What, again? ;-) You've been beating the drum for wikidata for a while, but that's mostly been on the GB list or even more locally. I definitely think that it's worth explaining the benefits on talk@. For example: Wikidata has data on each of

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding Wikidata tags to 70k items automatically

2014-08-28 Per discussione SomeoneElse
On 28/08/2014 13:25, Andy Mabbett wrote: I'm not anticipating many changes; this import gives a leg-up to a human process. (as has been mentioned before) wikidata may not change, but OSM data surely does. If I split a way that has a wikidata tag, how do I know which of the two resulting

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding Wikidata tags to 70k items automatically

2014-08-27 Per discussione SomeoneElse
On 27/08/2014 17:47, Edward Betts wrote: Matching criteria: https://github.com/EdwardBetts/osm-wikidata/blob/master/entity_types.json Presumably there's some geographical matching criteria too (so each Black Hill in the hills list is matched to the correct one)? If so, is there a licence

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding Wikidata tags to 70k items automatically

2014-08-27 Per discussione SomeoneElse
On 27/08/2014 17:47, Edward Betts wrote: I'd like to annotate these 70k objects in OSM with a Wikidata tag automatically. Perhaps it's worth explaining the benefits of having a link to a wikidata item on an OSM item? When this was discussed previously

Re: [OSM-talk] A new contributor action to be investigated

2014-08-25 Per discussione SomeoneElse
On 25/08/2014 14:01, Pierre Béland wrote: Could somebody take care of contacting this contributor. I'd have thought that in the first instance you were best placed to do this, since you know what you mapped and why, and you can ask why things were deleted? Unless you know what their

Re: [OSM-talk] route=road - What's that all about then?

2014-08-24 Per discussione SomeoneElse
On 24/08/2014 00:10, Andy Street wrote: That's not strictly true, we do multiplex routes but individual sections of road are only ever referred to by a single route number (usually the most significant route being carried by the road). I'm not convinced that we (in the UK) do. I don't

Re: [OSM-talk] Detrimental to the OSM database

2014-08-23 Per discussione SomeoneElse
On 23/08/2014 03:49, Andreas Vilén wrote: I have never edited in Great Britain before so I hope I didn't step on any toes, but I have edited in southern Sweden since 2008 and before I started there was barely anything there... Looking at ITO's OSM Mapper, that village hasn't had a local

Re: [OSM-talk] route=road - What's that all about then?

2014-08-23 Per discussione SomeoneElse
On 23/08/2014 10:55, Christian Quest wrote: For the third one, I don't understand it. It is a big list (collection if your prefer) of roads, and I don't understand the opening_hours tags. What is this supposed to describe ? Does this mean nobody can drive on these roads except during the

Re: [OSM-talk] Detrimental to the OSM database

2014-08-22 Per discussione SomeoneElse
On 23/08/2014 02:03, Dave F. wrote: ... Of course you need local knowledge. ... I'm not convinced that that's always the case. For example, to-fix has just taken me here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/41203129#map=19/53.23534/-0.61945 Whilst I'm no fan of armchair mapping, you don't

Re: [OSM-talk] route=road - What's that all about then?

2014-08-21 Per discussione SomeoneElse
On 21/08/2014 22:36, Janko Mihelić wrote: This makes sense because you can have more than one route on one way. Some countries do this, but the UK (where the B3070 is) does not*, so there's really no need for it. Cheers, Andy * with the exception of E road routes - which aren't

[Talk-GB] Imaginery footpaths added by user Gavaasuren

2014-08-18 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Hi, User Gavaasuren has been adding a series of imaginary footpaths over the last few weeks, each with the changeset comment zwischen Fußgängerzonen und Straßen Fußweg erstellt. What they seem to be doing is joining pedestrian islands to random nearby roads in order to resolve routing

Re: [OSM-talk] UK is turning blue?

2014-08-17 Per discussione SomeoneElse
On 17/08/2014 20:34, Ruben Maes wrote: It's doing it again – the UK is going blue once more! Does anyone know what the problem is? Last time, was it a broken coastline in the end? The Coastline view in OSMI http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/ suggests a self-intersection problem roughly here:

[Talk-GB] Unsigned road names (was C roads again)

2014-08-13 Per discussione SomeoneElse
On 13/08/2014 10:05, Philip Barnes wrote: On Wed, 2014-08-13 at 07:37 +0100, Lester Caine wrote: But it's a bit like the 'name' problem where a few roads have locally known names, but these are not displayed on signs :( Need recording but not necessarily displaying. I think thats an important

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixing common possible Tagging Mistakes

2014-08-11 Per discussione SomeoneElse
On 11/08/2014 13:00, Frédéric Rodrigo wrote: You can add this kind of simple detection problem to Osmose QA just by adding it on this wiki page : http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:FrViPofm/TagwatchCleaner In the case of things that aren't simple typos that you think might be

Re: [OSM-talk] Incorrect speed limit anonymous notes - who is behind that?

2014-08-10 Per discussione SomeoneElse
On 10/08/2014 11:50, JB wrote: Hello, I think I will reopen the debate here, by asking a simple question: how many of those saying hey, let this note open, it does no harm to anybody have actually browsed a country for its opened notes and tried to close them? Yes, I do this all the time,

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging of British canals.

2014-08-10 Per discussione SomeoneElse
On 06/08/2014 19:17, richard wrote: Firstly a disclaimer, I am mostly an armchair mapper. I am working my way around the canals of Britain, tracing the canal banks and tidying up locks etc. (I have probably seen a dozen different ways that locks have been tagged.) (on the more general point)

Re: [Talk-GB] City names translation

2014-08-10 Per discussione SomeoneElse
On 05/08/2014 07:58, Pavlo Dudka wrote: Not, it is not a job for external services. It is much better to use single service(OSM) rather than multiple(OSM+Wikidata). Personally, I'd argue that OSM isn't a service so much as a large lump of data. It has services, but these are designed for

Re: [Talk-GB] City names translation

2014-08-05 Per discussione SomeoneElse
On 05/08/2014 08:11, Pavlo Dudka wrote: I will use my own knowledge obtained on school lessons of history, geography and English. Large cities are worldwide-known. OK... I will be right saying that I can not know all cities, especially small. I will search ukrainian web articles to see if

Re: [Talk-GB] NaPTAN (stop) import

2014-08-04 Per discussione SomeoneElse
On 01/08/2014 11:17, Stuart Reynolds wrote: OK. Clearly I'm going to have to think on this for a bit longer. I think looking at somewhere like Swanley is a good idea, and also at somewhere like Derbyshire if the stops data hasn't been imported there. If you want to test a merge/import in

Re: [Talk-GB] City names translation

2014-08-04 Per discussione SomeoneElse
On 04/08/2014 18:08, Philip Barnes wrote: The big problem with transliteration to help pronunciation is where do you stop, Berlin for example has 194 name tags for different languages, 84 of which just say Berlin. Which gets straight to the nub of the problem. Berlin does _not_ need a

Re: [Talk-GB] City names translation

2014-08-04 Per discussione SomeoneElse
On 04/08/2014 16:15, Pavlo Dudka wrote: Hi! I would like to add ukrainian names for cities of UK, but found that SomeoneElse_Revert removed some of name:uk-tags in changeset 20757217 with a comment reverting undiscussed Ukrainian translations including ones for which there's nothing on the

Re: [OSM-talk] Using Notes in France

2014-07-30 Per discussione SomeoneElse
On 30/07/2014 15:08, colliar wrote: Am 30.07.2014 15:58, schrieb Glenn Plas: ... So he's asking if you know the names of the missing street. and closing the note. Therefor you need to have a login to reopen in order to be able to comment and it will disappear after one week. Not the best

Re: [Talk-GB] New mapper has imported all Nottingham street lights

2014-07-30 Per discussione SomeoneElse
On 29/07/2014 23:03, Dave F. wrote: ... Is the data valid? Is it an accurate import? Would he have flagged it up if the user had added them manually one at a time? If the answers are Yes/Yes/No, then is there a genuine problem? I suspect the answers are currently FSVO valid (inasmuch it's

Re: [Talk-GB] highway=trunk Roads and Cycle Navigation

2014-07-27 Per discussione SomeoneElse
On 27/07/2014 22:26, ianmspen...@gmail.com wrote: The problem is that there is a tagging system in place which is ambiguous from an International point of view. It is indeed the case that when someone in Germany tags a trunk road the default access rules are different to when someone in

Re: [OSM-talk] Upcoming openstreetmap-carto changes

2014-07-26 Per discussione SomeoneElse
On 25/07/2014 20:18, Andy Street wrote: Yes this is a bug. I would have reported it myself but it appears that you need a GitHub account to do that rather than a standard OSM account. Please feel free to report it on my behalf. For info, I've created

Re: [OSM-talk] Upcoming openstreetmap-carto changes

2014-07-25 Per discussione SomeoneElse
On 25/07/2014 13:21, Andy Street wrote: It's a public footpath i.e. private property over which the public has been granted a right of access (on foot). Since everything but pedestrian access is not permitted it therefore tagged as access=private, foot=yes. This isn't Andy's example, but is

Re: [OSM-talk] Upcoming openstreetmap-carto changes

2014-07-25 Per discussione SomeoneElse
On 25/07/2014 13:41, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: IMHO it is a tagging error as it should be tagged as [highway=footway; foot=permissive] Using yes rather than permissive also seems to be wrong in this case. Is my highway=track example also a tagging error? Cheers, Andy

Re: [OSM-talk] Upcoming openstreetmap-carto changes

2014-07-25 Per discussione SomeoneElse
On 25/07/2014 14:03, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: From this description - I would tag it as highway=footway (as for public it is a footway and I guess that it is used primarily as footway, not as a driveway) It's not used primarily as a footway - it's primarily a track used to access farmland

Re: [OSM-talk] Upcoming openstreetmap-carto changes

2014-07-25 Per discussione SomeoneElse
On 25/07/2014 15:03, Tom Hughes wrote: How about assuming good intent ... No-one's suggesting anything other than people wanting to make the standard layer better. It's better for what that's the issue. I think that we ought to be making a map style that better helps people navigate to

Re: [OSM-talk] Upcoming openstreetmap-carto changes

2014-07-25 Per discussione SomeoneElse
On 25/07/2014 15:26, Tom Hughes wrote: Traditionally we have always said that out web site is aimed at supporting mappers That certainly used to be the case, but the most recent series of changes have all being about showing less rather than showing more. How does that support mappers?

Re: [Talk-GB] Solarium vs. Sunbed Salon vs. Tanning Salon

2014-07-16 Per discussione SomeoneElse
On 16/07/2014 19:09, SK53 wrote: I think all are acceptable. FWIW I've always followed Harry Wood's dictum and lumped these in as shop=beauty (aka Beauty Salon) possibly with a sub-tag beauty=tanning. But given the paucity of usage on taginfo.uk http://taginfo.uk, I suspect I haven't been

Re: [Talk-GB] os.openstreetmap.org down since at least Sunday

2014-07-11 Per discussione SomeoneElse
On 11/07/2014 14:15, SomeoneElse wrote: This message from Grant (and the previous items in the thread) explains what happened, I think? D'oh - more coffee clearly required - thankfully Andy Street beat me to it and actually included a link

Re: [OSM-talk] Come back Osmarender, all is forgiven!

2014-07-04 Per discussione SomeoneElse
On 23/06/2014 22:12, Rob Nickerson wrote: Andy, I think there is a lot of positives in the new rendering as well. I for one am delighted to see some life back in the standard map style, this way new tags can be (and have been) added to the rendering rules. So it's a mix - some things are

Re: [OSM-talk] Drop rendering of permissive access?

2014-07-01 Per discussione SomeoneElse
On 01/07/2014 09:46, Simon Poole wrote: Regardless of aesthetics, as pointed out here https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/pull/371 the current access renderings are misleading and entice wrong tagging. Playing devil's advocate here, how do we know this? That information

Re: [OSM-talk] Drop rendering of permissive access?

2014-06-30 Per discussione SomeoneElse
On 30/06/2014 22:23, Matthijs Melissen wrote: We are currently considering dropping the rendering of access=permissive (currently rendered as green dashes) from openstreetmap-carto, the main map on opensteetmap.org http://opensteetmap.org. What would be useful would be some comments from the

[OSM-talk] Come back Osmarender, all is forgiven!

2014-06-23 Per discussione SomeoneElse
. The question is, what is? Cheers, Andy [1] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2014-June/069959.html [2] https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/pull/542 [3] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osmarender [4] https://github.com/SomeoneElseOSM/SomeoneElse-style/blob

Re: [OSM-talk] Come back Osmarender, all is forgiven!

2014-06-23 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Andrew Hain wrote: Have you talked to them or reverted their edits? Re the disused railway, I did talk to the person who changed it - and attached a photo (which showed it to be very much abandoned). Re the most recent time that I saw I know we shouldn't tag for the renderer but in

Re: [OSM-talk] Come back Osmarender, all is forgiven!

2014-06-23 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Yves wrote: Or directed them toward Openrailwaymap ? I'd have suggested that (in fact it's the first place I looked), had any of the renderings there been at all useful. There do seem to have been some odd choices in terms of what gets rendered and what doesn't. Here's an area not far

Re: [OSM-talk] Worldwide non-surveyed tag edits

2014-06-12 Per discussione SomeoneElse
John Baker wrote: crazy golf is what we call it in the UK others call it miniature golf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miniature_golf In that particular example it's perhaps worth mentioning that that wikipedia suggests that the two _aren't_ the same - the last sentence of the first

[OSM-talk] Worldwide non-surveyed tag edits

2014-06-10 Per discussione SomeoneElse
An OSM user seems to be on a mission to replace a large number of the low usage tags in OSM - mostly in Europe, but also elsewhere: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Markus59/history (hit load more a few times and you'll see the extent of it). Let's leave aside for now the issue that in some

Re: [OSM-talk] gpsbabel and osm (.osm.cc file)

2014-06-09 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Roman Neumüller wrote: Recently I noticed that gpsbabel still uses version='0.5' string in its osm.cc (1). Latest josm for example complains now when it does not find version='0.6' string. It's been discussed on the josm-dev mailing list - see the discussion either side of this post:

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch 2

2014-06-09 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Hans De Kryger wrote: I don't know if anyone else is aware of this, but Potlatch 2 is completely falling apart, It's starting to become unusable. It's a concern for me because it's a huge part of my editing. Anyone else having problems with it? No problems here. You might be better off on

Re: [OSM-talk] Chinese doodles / vandalism

2014-06-01 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Dennis Raylin Chen wrote: Hi all I write a message to him to remind him OpenStreetMap is not place for random drawing in Chinese. Waiting for his response Dennis Thanks for that. However, they've edited again (changeset 22576684), it's obviously just doodles, and I've reverted it

Re: [Talk-GB] Very creative teenager and railway=abandoned

2014-05-31 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Paweł Stankiewicz wrote: Hi Recently many railways in Fife have been resurrected like from Kelty and from Dunfermline to NW and to W: http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=13/56.1121/-3.4351 http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/104131260/history The author can be easy found by googling his name and

Re: [OSM-talk] Visualizing mapping history of an area

2014-05-21 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Arun Ganesh wrote: Thanks for the lead. Its a bit disappointing that this isn't possible. Any idea if there is an outdated (6months) mapnik render somewhere that I could use to go back in osm time? Perhaps you could create one from old data using an old dataset from:

Re: [OSM-talk] undiscussed (?) mechanical edit on diet:vegan and diet:vegetarian

2014-05-21 Per discussione SomeoneElse
John Packer wrote: The tags cuisine=vegetarian and cuisine=vegan are already explicitly deprecated. Says who? People who edit the wiki or people who edit the map? Any change to previously-used keys needs to be talked about in public so that someone who's got a map that depends on the

Re: [OSM-talk] undiscussed (?) mechanical edit on diet:vegan and diet:vegetarian

2014-05-20 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Michael Reichert wrote: Hi, I have discovered a mechanical edit of 100 restaurants worldwide by user BuganiniQ. https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/22303143 comment=update diet:vegen/diet:vegetarian: set to only according to cuisine; remove redundant tags created_by=osmapi/0.2.24 Has this

Re: [Talk-GB] FW: Wrongly mapped Lake District ways

2014-05-18 Per discussione SomeoneElse
On 18/05/2014 19:19, Dudley Ibbett wrote: Hi Sum Wum has replied and was apologetic. They have attempted to correct their edits but several footpaths were still distorted. I have therefore reverted this changeset and the original edits. Thanks Dudley - looks much less higgledypiggledy

Re: [OSM-talk] Chinese doodles / vandalism

2014-05-11 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Colin Smale wrote: User mangoyang has been doodling random multipolygons in the middle of the North Sea... I notice three more changesets from them have contributed doodles near Bremen: http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/280211805 http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/280211805

[OSM-talk] Are newbie bitcoin edits more of a problem than other newbie edits? (Was: Menufy.com added hundrets of stores with payment:bitcoin=yes, which don't accept Bitcoin)

2014-05-08 Per discussione SomeoneElse
moltonel 3x Combo wrote: ... Why does bitcoin, out of any other likely interests, attract a combination of enthusiastic but clueless osm contributors in such high numbers ? What's special about Bitcoin ? We have plenty of niche enthusiasts in OSM, but they usually map quite well (at least not

Re: [Talk-GB] Fwd: New Contributor: YvetteE90

2014-05-08 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Andy Robinson wrote: I reverted this morning before I saw this thread. Oops - forgot to mention earlier - I added a Unibus 6 relation that matched the path of the added and then deleted service road: http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/3706081

Re: [OSM-talk] Chinese doodles / vandalism

2014-04-26 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Colin Smale wrote: The edits don't seem to have done any damage as such. Shall I just go ahead and remove them? This service road still seems to be on the Bing imagery: http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/200271054/history It was deleted by that user 8 months ago. That suggests a changeset

Re: [Talk-GB] Town v City (again, sorry!)

2014-04-24 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Tom Hughes wrote: On 22/04/14 13:29, SomeoneElse wrote: 1) place=city in OSM might or might not not mean the same as is a ceremonial city, as defined in the UK There is no might about it. The wiki at least is explicit: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:place%3Dcity Absolutely

Re: [Talk-GB] Fwd: New Contributor: YvetteE90

2014-04-23 Per discussione SomeoneElse
jonathan wrote: I hate to do this but I don't have time to look in to this for ages. This new user has made one edit with various changes but a few pages of deletions. This always worries me, it may need reverting? http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/21863539#map=18/52.95394/-1.47650 I

[Talk-GB] Town v City (again, sorry!)

2014-04-22 Per discussione SomeoneElse
This was last discussed back in February: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2014-February/015867.html when someone (in the UK) changed a number of place=city to place=town. The discussion at the time covered: 1) place=city in OSM might or might not not mean the same as is a

Re: [OSM-talk] Azimuth measurement

2014-04-08 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: on iPhones you can change this in settings (geographic vs magnetic north) not sure for other devices but my guess is there will be settings as well... Unless you're in northern Canada I really wouldn't worry about the difference between geographic and magnetic

Re: [OSM-talk] Foursquare and OSM Note Instructions

2014-03-28 Per discussione SomeoneElse
JB wrote: Dos and don'ts section does not validate this in the wiki : « Don't use it to put your personal notes here. ». Rather use personal stuff like gpx files or whatever. Many personal notes just get forgotten (where is this filtering tool showing /my/ notes? Ha, doesn't exist, I

Re: [OSM-talk] Foursquare and OSM Note Instructions

2014-03-28 Per discussione SomeoneElse
JB wrote: Didn't know that. Is it documented somewhere? Not on the wiki about the api (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/API_v0.6#Map_Notes_API). Good to know, anyway, but still unusable for the basic contributor (even I would not use it easily). JB. Sorry - my fault - it's not. I had to

Re: [OSM-talk] landuse=port_terminal etc. to landuse=port changes

2014-03-26 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Hi, Thanks for the reply. sabas88 wrote: Hi Andy, I did the manually via JOSM. OK, but: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mechanical_Edit_Policy contains this policy covers a wider range of edits, including not only edits made by bots but also imports and any edits that have a

Re: [Talk-GB] Not all Notes are Equal

2014-03-26 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Brian Prangle wrote: ... BUT …. now all the extant OpenStreetBugs Notes have migrated over , some of which are YEARS old, it’s all getting a bit crowded and hard to differentiate new notes. Most of the migrated notes (such as e.g. http://www.openstreetmap.org/note/110664 ) presumably

[OSM-talk] landuse=port_terminal etc. to landuse=port changes

2014-03-25 Per discussione SomeoneElse
(just something that I noticed while checking for local overlapping changesets) http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/20990644 seems to have made a number of tag merges to landuse=port. Apologies for the noise if it's already been discussed and agreed on an import list somewhere; just

Re: [Talk-GB] Problems with armchair edits of major road junctions in England

2014-03-25 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Philip Barnes wrote: The number of edits suggests to me that they are not inexperienced. Is it possible to get some sort of block until they start responding to emails? Phil (trigpoint) Unfortunately, the problem is still occurring:

Re: [Talk-GB] Problems with armchair edits of major road junctions in England

2014-03-19 Per discussione SomeoneElse
On 18/03/2014 07:13, Filip Chirita Rares Cristian wrote: What seems to be the general purpose of his edits? His change sets have no comments, so could it be that this is just a case of an inexperienced mapper, at worst a vandal? I'm not sure what the purpose is, as I've not had a reply to

Re: [Talk-GB] Problems with armchair edits of major road junctions in England

2014-03-19 Per discussione SomeoneElse
On 19/03/2014 11:04, Filip Chirita Rares Cristian wrote: According to this, there's a lot of edits all over the UK, but also in the US, in some non-descript towns. http://hdyc.neis-one.org/?dbisping Since the number of edits is so high, over 4 years, I don't think reverting everything this

[Talk-GB] Problems with armchair edits of major road junctions in England

2014-03-17 Per discussione SomeoneElse
There has been a large series of recent edits to major road junctions across England such as: http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/21125717 There have been about half a dozen by the same mapper near me (I'm in North Derbyshire) which are problematical for a number of reasons: a) Bus

Re: [OSM-talk] Newbie alert

2014-03-13 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Bryce Nesbitt wrote: The entry level editor could reasonably limit new users to entry level edits. Messing with anything with a relation is not a first edit kind of activity. What if the entry level editor said hey, this is too complex, map something else and gain some experience and come

Re: [OSM-talk] Newbie alert

2014-03-12 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Colin Smale wrote: I don't wish to cause offence... Perhaps someone more tactful than me would consider contacting the user to advise caution? It looks like someone's already fixing the broken relations; I'd have thought that it's probably best that they do it as they'll be familiar

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:layer update

2014-03-11 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Dave F. wrote: Could you give some visual examples, maybe temporarily creating them in OSM ( deleting them afterwards) ... or on the dev server: http://api06.dev.openstreetmap.org/ Cheers, Andy ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] new mailing list request - OSM outdoor/natural phenomena mapping

2014-03-05 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Richard Z. wrote: Hi, I want to propose a new mailing list. Currently we have serious gaps in modeling vegetation zones, climatic zones, geology, oceanography and most other natural phenomena. Also a mailing list for outdoor enthusiasts and outdoor sports does not seem to exist. The tagging

Re: [OSM-talk] View data

2014-03-04 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Morten Wang wrote: Hi, One of my current research projects[1] looks at OpenStreetMap and we're interested in knowing the number of views for different regions in North America (with North America as defined by Geofabrik[2]). and (apologies for stating what might be obvious but) it's

Re: [Talk-GB] Bing imagery

2014-03-04 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Brian Prangle wrote: Try anywhere across Wolverhampton through Willenhall to Walsall - as you zoom through to level 19 you'll briefly see a nice sharp clear image which then reverts spontaneously to a less clear image with a huge shadow which furhter obscures detail. Have you got a link for

Re: [Talk-GB] Bing imagery

2014-03-04 Per discussione SomeoneElse
(taking these in a slightly different order) Eric Grosso wrote: So from my point of view, the problem described initially by Will is still a current one. Indeed - higher up this thread I mentioned a location in Mansfield which used to have z18 imagery and now no longer does for me (in

Re: [Talk-GB] Bing imagery

2014-03-03 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Andy Robinson wrote: Zooming in on Nottingham I'm seeing three different imagery versions at different zoom levels. I don't anything missing. Here's a specific example, to the north in Mansfield: https://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?editor=potlatch2#map=19/53.14850/-1.18456 (using P2 because

Re: [Talk-GB] Bing imagery - West Midlands

2014-03-03 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Interestingly, Bing imagery that was present in December but missing in January has now reappeared: https://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?editor=potlatch2#map=18/52.72279/-2.12197 so perhaps some kind of scheduled renewal process? Cheers, Andy ___

Re: [talk-au] Automating the replacement of abbreviation of street names

2014-03-02 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Frank wrote: I'm toying with automating the replacement of abbreviation of street names e.g. St to Street, Ave to Avenue etc. I think that people in the USA had similar issues with TIGER data and created a bunch of tools to do the conversions. It might be worth asking somewhere that USA

Re: [Talk-GB] A9 West of Perth - Vandalism - robbief14 again.

2014-02-20 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Alasdair McKinnon wrote: I've spotted that the A9 West of Perth is wrongly designated as the M9 and A93. It has also been re-routed over a short length. Thanks for mentioning it. From looking at it, it appears that the current status is as a result of a revert 10 days ago:

Re: [Talk-GB] Possible vandalism? New Forth Road Bridge being changed to motorway from construction

2014-02-16 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Their edits in Australia have led to a block being requested: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-au/2014-February/010286.html Cheers, Andy ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-GB] Possible vandalism? New Forth Road Bridge being changed to motorway from construction

2014-02-15 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Donald Noble wrote: Hi All, The user robbief14 [1] has changed sections of the M90 around the New Forth Road Bridge which are still currently under construction to live motorway. They had also deleted all of the tags for the current road bridge. ... and they're back:

[talk-au] Motorway edits in NSW / Vic

2014-02-10 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Just for a info, the people on the talk-gb list have noticed a number of edits upgrading unfinished motorways to constructed status. The same user has made similar edits in Australia, the most recent of which is: http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/20479197 Are these valid (i.e. have

Re: [talk-au] Motorway edits in NSW / Vic

2014-02-10 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Leon Kernan wrote: Sorry guys, another one. This change is just pure vandalism. He's created non-existent freeways and roads around Ballarat. http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/20425446 Has anyone got any idea about the NSW ones such as:

Re: [Talk-GB] Possible vandalism? New Forth Road Bridge being changed to motorway from construction

2014-02-10 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Roger Calvert wrote: It might be worth considering a 'play' version of the data base, where beginners, schools and others could try things out without damaging the main map. This would be refreshed every so often, and changes would disappear. I've occasionally pointed new mappers at

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Bing tiles Wolverhampton

2014-01-29 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Brian Prangle wrote: What's happened to the tiles here? In JOSM I can't see anything at higher zoom levels except No Tiles at this Zoom Level Is it me or is there a system failure somehwere? Is that the same hole that's between Stafford and the A5, west of Penkridge? If so it's been there

Re: [Talk-GB] Vandalism by user DoubleA

2014-01-20 Per discussione SomeoneElse
For info, another example - I've reverted http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/20083935 which moved the source (for the relation membership) from one way to the relation as a whole so that http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1438826/history had tag source=paths at each end, which is

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposed automated edit: remove railway=* or highway=* tag on relations tagged type=route

2014-01-14 Per discussione SomeoneElse
Guillaume Rischard wrote: It looks like most of these are bad data, and I will attempt to fix them all manually. That definitely looks like the best approach... Others make no sense whatsoever: http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/238402296 (part of

Re: [Talk-GB] Could somebody revert this changeset?

2013-12-19 Per discussione SomeoneElse
On 19/12/2013 10:15, Tom Chance wrote: ... http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/19400206 ... Would somebody be able to revert it? Done in http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/19528645 Cheers, Andy ___ Talk-GB mailing list

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