On 12/9/2020 2:34 PM, Maarten Deen wrote:
If you can not make an analogy then conversation and discussion is
lost and I do not see how this comment would degrade women.
Many in the world have the good fortune to live lives where the constant
threat of sexual assault is not an issue. To them,
On 9/28/2020 10:10 PM, Albert Pundt wrote:
It seems another editor by the name of Fluffy89502 is going around
doing similar edits all over the US, even demoting divided, multi-lane
roads. Other users have commented on his changesets and he cites the
wiki's wording.
Yeah when I saw this topic I
On 8/5/2020 9:11 PM, Eric H. Christensen via Talk-us wrote:
Tropical Storm Isaias left several homes in my neighborhood severely damaged
and condemned. Is there a proper way to map these structures?
Thanks,
Eric
Hi Eric, I've used building=ruins (
HI Skyler, I'm also a NY mapper, welcome to the party!
You've probably gleaned by now that imports are a touchy subject in OSM.
Data license is part of the problem, since only the very most open of
open licenses are compatible with OSM. My assumption is that the NYS
address data will pass this
On 7/14/2020 7:44 AM, Greg Troxel wrote:
Around me the norm is that residential driveways (98% of them) are not
signed no trespassing, but that it is considered reasonable to use them
if 1) you live there 2) you are delivering something 3) you are a guest
4) you are going there for some other
On 7/14/2020 4:53 AM, Mateusz Konieczny via Talk-us wrote:
Jul 14, 2020, 02:20 by jm...@gmx.com:
On 7/13/2020 4:09 PM, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
On 13/07/2020 15.16, Kevin Kenny wrote:
The immediate curtilage of a house is presumed to be
private; at least
On 7/13/2020 3:22 PM, Tod Fitch wrote:
Out of curiosity, I looked at the tagging of a neighborhood I know of
which has privately owned roads (maintained by the homeowner’s
association) but no gate blocking entry. There are signs indicating
that the roads are “private” but that state road
On 7/13/2020 4:09 PM, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
On 13/07/2020 15.16, Kevin Kenny wrote:
The immediate curtilage of a house is presumed to be private; at least
in the US, one does not drive or walk directly up to someone's house
without having business there. (Someone making a delivery, obviously,
On 7/13/2020 12:59 PM, Alex Hennings wrote:
The /sole purpose/ of routing is to get the user to their destination
without breaking any laws. These are also /specifically my/ /goals
/when I'm using a router. Frequently (in my rural area) getting to my
destination requires using a privately owned
On 7/12/2020 6:03 PM, Mike Thompson wrote:
On Sun, Jul 12, 2020 at 10:28 AM Jmapb mailto:jm...@gmx.com>> wrote:
> The access -- somewhat common to find a pubic road imported with
access=private, so if I suspect this I'll leave the
> tiger:reviewed=no tag until access can be confir
On 7/9/2020 6:48 PM, Kevin Kenny wrote:
Personally, I think even that much is overkill for deleting tiger:reviewed.
I think that surface, lanes, and traffic controls are things that a
mapper can notice are not mapped, irrespective of the TIGER review
status. There are lots of hand-mapped roads
On 5/7/2020 8:05 PM, Bob Gambrel wrote:
So imagine this simple example. A path (of some sort) goes from point
A to B. Between points B and C there is no way (no path, road,
highway, cycle way, foot path, track, etc. Then there is another path
of some sort between points C and D. So the
On 3/31/2020 7:26 AM, Volker Schmidt wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to find out at what point we sare with the Strava high-res
heatmap.
Forma a lagal point of view: can we use it for improving OSM?
If yes, how can we do that?
Unfortunately there is a lot of out-dated information around.
The latest
On 3/21/2020 10:37 AM, Dave F via talk wrote:
In my area, AL are adding legitimate data which helps improve the
quality of the OSM database. I believe they make the same amount of
errors as any other contributors, including experienced ones.
Unsure why he thinks OSMF should be keeping an eye on
On 3/19/2020 3:17 PM, Mikel Maron wrote:
> How would a mapper performing imports via RapiD comply with the
import guidelines?
By complying with the guidelines before setting up an import process
that leveraged RapiD for conflation.
That doesn't sound so bad to me, pending further details.
On 3/19/2020 10:43 AM, Eric H. Christensen via Talk-us wrote:
Sure, I get that. The flip side is that it is likely to get confusing
what is open and when with all the changes occurring. It would be good
to have a resource to help people determine where they can go if they
need something.
When
On 3/19/2020 7:57 AM, Mikel Maron wrote:
There is nothing here about circumventing our well defined import
guidelines, or disrespecting our basic tenets.
The blog post says "The process of creating an import is too onerous for
many users" and "Our hope is that RapiD can become a tool that’s
On 3/17/2020 10:52 AM, Wayne Emerson, Jr. via talk wrote:
However, among your examples you cite "gnis:feature_id=*" The wiki
page for this key notes:
"Unlike other imported tags such as gnis:created=* and
gnis:import_uuid=*, gnis:feature_id=* is meaningful beyond the import.
In fact, some
On 1/23/2020 8:14 PM, Shawn K. Quinn wrote:
On 1/23/20 17:29, Jmapb wrote:
However, truth be told, since the default map has ceased rendering
healthcare=*, I've found myself tagging anything smaller than a hospital
but larger than a doctor's office as amenity=clinic. For example
On 1/23/2020 5:30 PM, Bill Ricker wrote:
My US doctor's office *is* a clinic, but that's because they were
previously an all in one HMO before merger/spinoff. On-site blood lab,
x-ray, specialities, pediatrics, coffee shop, PT/OT, optometry,
pharmacy, ... . Multiple docs and nurses in each
On 10/1/2019 10:26 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote:
Case 1: http://www.remote.org/frederik/tmp/case1.png
Two small coastal areas that look a bit like rock outcroppings.
Case 2: http://www.remote.org/frederik/tmp/case2.png
The tree-covered green area in the middle of the image
I certainly wouldn't tag
On 8/8/2019 5:52 PM, Bryce Jasmer wrote:
I’m really opposed to this idea of scaring people away from editing
objects with the “data freshness” boogie man argument. If someone
really cares about freshness, the entire history of an object is
available to you.
That's true for any single object.
On 8/8/2019 1:28 PM, Alex Hennings wrote:
Community,
I'm planning a scripted change and would like feedback. Plans are
outlined here:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Automated_edits/blackboxlogic
I'd appreciate feedback or questions in the 'Discussion' portion of
that wiki page, or within
On 8/2/2019 7:24 AM, Darafei "Komяpa" Praliaskouski wrote:
Here's a demo by azavea showing how 125 Million AI-mapped buildings
relate to 33 Million buildings currently in OpenStreetMap in the same
region.
https://demos.azavea.com/building-footprint-comparison/#4.4/38.67/-93.93
Thanks, this is
On 7/4/2019 12:40 AM, Warin wrote:
On the order of things.
Best to tell them what to do first. This provides some motivation.
Leave 'what not to do' for last, these tend to turn people away.
So I would do:
1 One feature, one OSM element
2 Good changeset comments (+Keep the history)
3
On 6/14/2019 9:50 AM, Dave F via talk wrote:
On 14/06/2019 14:10, Jmapb wrote:
If there's a problem with a well-thought-out mechanical edit, it's
highly likely to be localized,
For mechanical/bot/automated edits, errors are more likely to be
duplicated across all amendments.
If 'local
On 6/14/2019 5:02 AM, Dave F via talk wrote:
That the main website is antiquated & unable to display details of
edits is not a reason to improve the database efficiently. Performing
edits in one go makes them easier to keep track of & revert, if
there's a problem.
DaveF
IMO, smaller and more
On 5/30/2019 4:22 PM, Abhijit Kshirsagar wrote:
Hello all,
I'm an old OSM user and have recently moved to the US.
What is the correct procedure to submit temporary (at least a few
weeks long) road closures on OSM?
Also, how long to changes typically take to make it to the
downloadable maps that
On 5/29/2019 11:35 AM, Alexey Zakharenkov via Talk-transit wrote:
Hello everybody!
I'm a part of team who worries about public transport status in OSM database,
especially rapid transit transport. I want to represent a public transport
validator+generator that somebody might find a useful
On 5/28/2019 12:25 PM, Mateusz Konieczny wrote:
28 May 2019, 17:13 by jm...@gmx.com:
Any other suggestions?
Suggest user to split edits into smaller chunks.
Yes that would be far preferable, and I did message this user. That
doesn't address the immediate question of how to attempt QA on
See yesterday's changesets:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/70676813 (
https://nrenner.github.io/achavi/?changeset=70676813 )
https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/70676888 (
https://nrenner.github.io/achavi/?changeset=70676888 )
I believe this is just a casual user browsing around in
On 5/9/2019 6:21 PM, Michael Reichert wrote:
JOSM runs its validation rules only on objects modified or created in
the current session. This seems more sensible both for experienced users
and newbies for two reasons:
- Uses don't get overwhelmed with dozens or hundreds of reports on
objects
On 5/9/2019 4:14 PM, Michael Reichert wrote
Quincy Morgan, one of the maintainers of iD, invented a new tag called
nosquare=yes today which should be added to buildings which are not
square and should not be flagged by iD's validator.
This strikes me as a pretty bad idea. I map in NYC where
On 4/26/2019 9:49 PM, OSM Volunteer stevea wrote:
Other than that I can't think of any tags that would be applicable to
these sorts of situations. We tend to tag the regulations themselves,
not the extent to which they're adhered to. Certainly just calling it a
park because kids play there
On 4/25/2019 8:39 PM, OSM Volunteer stevea wrote:
A hazy sort-of-emerging along with this is wider recognition that a proto_park thingy exists. Put
it in the planning departments "bin" for "department of parks budget, depending how
much we convert protected_area into human-leisure-activity
It's like a second-hand department store. I think shop=second_hand is
correct tagging in this case, barring any surveyed details about the
inventory of the particular branch. J
On 4/26/2019 9:55 AM, Evan Derickson wrote:
They sell a mix of everything...certainly a lot of clothes, but also
On 4/20/2019 9:18 AM, Aaron Forsythe wrote:
> cycleway ; bike path ; paved path, open to bikes, & I've never seen
one that
> wasn't open to pedestrian too
These do exist. There are a few around here (Missouri, USA). In these
cases, there’s usually a separate path for pedestrians so cyclists
On 2/26/2019 10:58 AM, Michael Reichert wrote:
Hi Bryce,
Do you have any safeguards against POIs which do not exist any more and
whose domains are owned by domain sellers now? They often have a very
basic website with a message like "This domain is for sale." and some
advertisement. I would not
On 2/22/2019 3:48 PM, Mike N wrote:
On 2/22/2019 3:36 PM, Jmapb wrote:
IMO the value of an automated edit when there's already a redirect in
place is minimal enough that I don't think it justifies bumping the
version and modification date. Just my opinion.
The value of the automated edit
On 2/22/2019 2:02 AM, Bryce Jasmer wrote:
I have written a script that will search for OSM objects that have a
website tag that explicitly states "http://...; or implicitly uses
http by leaving of the protocol specification. The script will then
loop through all that it discovers and asks the
On 2/12/2019 6:52 PM, Steve Doerr wrote:
Feeds have now resumed.
Looks like they're slowly catching up... up to Feb 1st now. J
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On 2/9/2019 9:30 AM, Ilya Zverev wrote:
Yesterday I took ~1 mln rides we made in December and matched them to
the OSM road network. With that I found a few hundred points where an
actual trace diverged from the matched one quite often. This usually
means a oneway tag is wrong, or a turn
On 2/9/2019 7:39 AM, Steve Doerr wrote:
None of my WhoDidIt RSS feeds seem to have updated since 18/01/2019.
The main one is
http://simon04.dev.openstreetmap.org/whodidit/scripts/rss.php?bbox=0.184967,51.325448,0.618584,51.453992
Has this service been discontinued or is there a known
On 12/11/2018 9:41 AM, Rory McCann wrote:
On 11/12/2018 12:38, Tomas Straupis wrote:
If someone puts a label "Military academy" on their house, would we
map it as an actual military academy?
No, but you would put "addr:housename=Military academy".
Sidebar, according to my reading of the
On 12/9/2018 6:38 AM, Andy Townsend wrote:
On 23/11/2018 21:24, Andy Townsend wrote (heavily snipped):
Hello,
Over the last couple of months there have been edits by a new mapper
in New York who seems to like changing things but hasn't quite got
the hang of what they're doing yet. ...
On 9/25/2018 10:37 AM, Martijn van Exel wrote:
But there's also an opportunity to have the community have another
look at the area surrounding the nodes. It's only ~4600 items:
http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/Cg0 .
By far the majority of post_boxes in the USA have no operator tag: 6871
by my
On 9/6/2018 6:44 PM, Leif Rasmussen wrote:
First, for keeping the tagging style as consistent as possible, each
post box will be given the tag "operator:wikidata"="Q668687". This
way, even if the operator=* tags are changed later on, all post boxes
will still be consistent and easy to
On 8/28/2018 3:31 PM, Leif Rasmussen wrote:
Hi everyone,
A couple of days ago, I noticed that different post boxes in the
United States had different ways of tagging that they were part of the
USPS system. Roughly 60% had "operator"="USPS", 40%
"operator"="United States Postal Service", and
On 8/10/2018 1:33 PM, Barry Hunter wrote:
But in the case of a long driveway wouldnt the address be attached to
the entryway (so that directions etc, can route to the right location)?
This isn't very common, and there's no documentation of this practice on
the addr or service=driveway wiki
On 7/25/2018 12:57 PM, Christoph Hormann wrote:
I am somewhat amazed by the fact that hardly anyone from the US
community (where a lot of mappers routinely map abroad and should be
able to empathize with Frederik being concerned about an area where he
has no first hand knowledge of) seems to
Thanks Jubal, this looks like fantastic no-nonsense work. Seems like it
might be wise to wait until after the Milan conference to see if a
recommended workflow will emerge to begin putting these footprints to use.
Any plans to publish data for other countries? How about quarterly diffs?
jmb
The wiki contains some suggestions/guidelines about when to map
sidewalks as separate footways versus when to encode them as tags on the
main road. The basic recommendation seems to be that if there's a
barrier or even a strip of grass between the two, a separate way is fine
and even sometimes
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