[Talk-us] Fwd: [OSM-talk] The game 'Kort' finally updates OpenStreetMap

2014-01-14 Thread Simon Poole
From the talk mailing list (mandatory disclosure: yes I know the authors). Original-Nachricht Hi there, I'm very proud to announce that finally Kort[1] (the OSM game) writes back it's collected solutions to OSM! All changes are made by the OSM user kort-to-osm[2], so it's

Re: [Talk-us] Semi-spammy sorta-helpful edit: how to handle

2014-01-14 Thread Bryce Nesbitt
I ran into something similar: a note tag entered a week ago by user Noram (near a new node with name= Noram Auto Repair) which simply listed Repair and service of Japanese, and American made automobiles and trucks. Let's do better than that at http://www.noramautorepairservices.com/ But

Re: [Talk-us] Quick intro and request to contribute

2014-01-14 Thread Bryce Nesbitt
And I encourage you to ask is this a one time import or an ongoing import? For your speed data a one time import might be OK. For something like store locations, which change all the time, the data might just get stale in OSM. The proper term for matching up data like this is 'conflation', and