Re: [OSM-talk] Old phone line or old power line?
On Sat, 27 Jun 2020 12:04:46 -0600, Mike Thompson wrote: >Any idea whether this is an old powerline or an old phone line? Photo is >geotagged, so if you download it and drop it into JOSM you can see the >larger context. > >https://photos.app.goo.gl/6cMueDbGJPdz8Es77 That is standard construction for the old above ground telephone lines in the US - many times those lines would run along a rail bed, perhaps even for railroad signaling purposes. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Could/should editors detect/disallow huge changeset bboxes?
On Sat, 13 Jun 2020 21:36:37 +0100, Alan Mackie wrote: >I have no problem with big bounding boxes that result from editing large >objects. I get annoyed by the ones where somebody added twontiny houses on >opposite sides of the world. And those with a normal work method of editing random items in their 'home location' and an 'away location' on the other side of the country, with a comment of 'updating'. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Should we map things that do not exist?
On Mon, 25 May 2020 08:20:03 -0600 (GMT-06:00), Jack Armstrong wrote: >Why are railways given a special status? One possible view is that railways were an early OSM data consumer. In many cases, OSM became the best resource to know current and previous rail lines, and useful for cases to track down related historical artifacts, plan for reuse based on slope, etc. OSM did render all rail lines for a time (including razed), then stopped rendering historical items. OpenRailwayMap has taken over rendering, but I'm not sure if they've started transitioning to OpenHistoricalMap as a source of purely historical items. It would be handy if there was a way to delete an OSM object "into OpenHistoricalMap" with a checkbox. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Taking a break and a call for help
Paul, I hope your truck is recovered in good condition. My perception of Amazon edits is overwhelmingly positive. I see the same types of mistakes, but those mistakes are one the same level or less than traditional craft mappers. On the plus side, they are neatly solving the last mile mapping problem. They detect blocked / gated roads on a level not possible for 2 or 3 mappers covering hundreds of square miles. Based on gps / video surveying tracks, they are adding driveways - and having long driveways mapped is becoming increasingly useful for OSM general purpose navigation or analysis. I've been adding driveways from high quality off-leaf imagery, and leaving driveways out where the location is hidden. They have added a few driveways from surveys in those areas that were hidden by evergreen trees for example. My only problem with Amazon is that edits are randomly distributed over an area. The result is that the individual edits can mask a single case of vandalism or newbie stepping up to map. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
