Re: [Talk-us] Extremely long Amtrak route relations

2020-11-22 Thread Rory McCann
On Sat, 21 Nov 2020, at 18:06, Clay Smalley wrote: > Many long-distance Amtrak trains have route relations with 1000+ > members. If I split one way that happens to be a member of one of these > routes, I end up with a changeset with a gigantic bounding box, and > often get edit conflicts due to

[Talk-us] licence? | Re: [Imports] Importing data from alltheplaces.xyz

2020-08-22 Thread Rory McCann
That site is “A growing set of web scrapers designed to output consistent geodata about as many places of business in the world as possible.” I don't think it's CC0 licenced. It's a collection of other databases. Have they gotten permission from all the business that they scrape that they

Re: [Talk-us] Potential Mechanical Edit to remove access=private from Amazon Logistics driveways in NH

2020-08-17 Thread Rory McCann
I don't map in USA, but when I map driveways in Ireland, I add `access=private`. So I agree they should be there. However, is the data that Amazon added accurate & reliable? If it's of very poor standard, then deleting the tag would make OSM better & more reliable. On 17/08/2020 05:33,

[Talk-us] sweat of the brow & sui generis database rights | Re: Interested in importing address points in New York State

2020-07-16 Thread Rory McCann
On 16/07/2020 13:35, Russell Nelson wrote: As you say, it's just a listing of facts about the world. At most the presentation of them is copyrightable, but as Skyler noted, he's changing the presentation. No license needed for facts. Remember, that might the law in the USA, but not in the

[Talk-us] OEG say so | Re: Taking a break and a call for help

2020-03-29 Thread Rory McCann
On 22.03.20 01:45, brad wrote: How can I tell who is a one-edit-and-done spam, amazon logistics account, and who is a first edit noob? The Organised Editing Guidelines do say: A user’s profile page should also include links to the wiki pages of the organised edits and organisations they

[Talk-us] Careful, "st" can mean "stone" in some places | Re: Typical maxweight signs in USA? (editor developmnent question)

2019-06-27 Thread Rory McCann
On 25/06/2019 20:01, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: 25 Jun 2019, 17:47 by pe...@dobratz.us: Reading this page, I see the potential ambiguity extends deeper than I realized (short ton, metric ton, long ton) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonne AFAIK all cases of "t" in USA on max weight signs means

Re: [Talk-us] Grand Junction, CO Fire Hydrant Import

2018-11-15 Thread Rory McCann
On 15/11/2018 14:37, smocktay...@gmail.com wrote: Flow Rate => flow_rate (probably), possibly use fire:hydrant:awwa_class Flow at 20 PSI => No tagging scheme for this yet. Maybe add a new tag for that, like flow_rate:? This is covered in the wiki (

Re: [Talk-us] US Sports Fields Import

2018-01-02 Thread Rory McCann
Hi, This is very interesting! And it's great to see some source code. I'd be tempted to try this myself on things I'm interested in. You mentioned that Microsoft has given permission for this, is that just for your one specific thing, or can any OSMer run this on their area? Can you post the

Re: [Talk-us] SEO Damage to OSM

2017-07-06 Thread Rory McCann
On 06/07/17 04:42, John F. Eldredge wrote: The "mechanical Turk" term is not an ethnic slur, but instead an allusion to a famous 18th-century chess-playing automaton, made to resemble the upper body of a man in traditional Turkish clothing, mounted on a cabinet. It was eventually revealed to

Re: [Talk-us] Dakota County, MN Building Import

2017-04-07 Thread Rory McCann
unties in the metro that says, free take it, no contraints? Joe *From: *Greg Troxel <mailto:g...@lexort.com> *Sent: *Thursday, April 6, 2017 9:42 AM *To: *joe.saple...@charter.net <mailto:joe.saple...@charter.net> *Cc: *Rory McCann <mailto:r...@technomancy.org>;

Re: [Talk-us] Dakota County, MN Building Import

2017-04-06 Thread Rory McCann
Hi, Can I ask about the licence of this data? I don't see anything on the wikipage about the licence, and the page[1] from Dakota County is unclear. It doesn't say what the licence is, and has this condition: If you transmit or provide the GIS Data (or any portion of it) to another user, you

Re: [Talk-us] Key:man_made... Outdated language?

2017-03-13 Thread Rory McCann
On 10/03/17 22:27, Joshua Houston wrote: > It occurred to me that "man_made" is an outdated term that should be > phased out from OpenStreetMap language. The philosophy of OpenStreetMap > is very inclusive and that should be represented even in the way data is > tagged. I'd like to propose to

Re: [Talk-us] Deleting / Closing / Renaming all places in a chain

2016-09-07 Thread Rory McCann
On 06/09/16 23:01, Elliott Plack wrote: > Should we launch an automated edit, or some kind of batch process on OSM > to clear the database `name=ITT Tech` (or similar) worldwide? Be careful about the "worldwide" part. There are many country specific brands, and it could be possible that the name

Re: [Talk-us] Proposing import of sidewalk data Seattle, WA, USA

2016-08-03 Thread Rory McCann
On 02/08/16 17:59, Clifford Snow wrote: > We tell people not to map for the renderer. In the same spirit shouldn't > we tell people not to let the limitations of the editor stop them from > mapping? "Mapping for the renderer" is when someone adds incorrect data, purely so it will show up nicely