Re: [Talk-us] a plea to armchair mappers

2015-06-18 Thread Martijn van Exel
On Jun 14, 2015, at 12:48 PM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote: secondarily, if it is indeed the case that this is mostly happening because of paid mappers (i don't know that for a fact), can we please contact who ever is supervising the paid mappers and discuss whether their

Re: [Talk-us] a plea to armchair mappers

2015-06-18 Thread James Mast
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2015 07:01:35 -0500 From: ba...@ursamundi.org To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-us] a plea to armchair mappers On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 9:08 PM, James Mast rickmastfa...@hotmail.com wrote: Maybe we should invite the MapBox paid mappers to join

Re: [Talk-us] a plea to armchair mappers

2015-06-17 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 9:08 PM, James Mast rickmastfa...@hotmail.com wrote: Maybe we should invite the MapBox paid mappers to join in this conversation? This is something I would like to become (hint, hint). ___ Talk-us mailing list

Re: [Talk-us] a plea to armchair mappers

2015-06-14 Thread Minh Nguyen
On 2015-06-11 06:42, Richard Welty wrote: please, please when doing the armchair mapping thing, be aware that aerial imagery may be several years out of date. yesterday i discovered that a highway reconfiguration i'd mapped in Rensselaer, NY had been realigned with the out-of-date bing aerial

Re: [Talk-us] a plea to armchair mappers

2015-06-14 Thread Richard Welty
On 6/14/15 2:27 PM, Minh Nguyen wrote: With both outdated imagery and the Ohio River [1], I've had better luck placing redundant `note` tags on every way that such a mapper would be inclined to delete. iD shows `note` in a big box in the sidebar. It's a bit harder to miss than a (heretofore)

Re: [Talk-us] a plea to armchair mappers

2015-06-11 Thread Bryan Housel
:29 AM To: Talk Openstreetmap; Help for newbie mappers Subject: [Talk-us] a plea to armchair mappers please, please when doing the armchair mapping thing, be aware that aerial imagery may be several years out of date. yesterday i discovered that a highway reconfiguration i'd mapped

Re: [Talk-us] a plea to armchair mappers

2015-06-11 Thread Kam, Kristen
From: Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2015 6:42:29 AM To: Talk Openstreetmap; Help for newbie mappers Subject: [Talk-us] a plea to armchair mappers please, please when doing the armchair mapping thing, be aware that aerial imagery may be several years out

Re: [Talk-us] a plea to armchair mappers

2015-06-11 Thread Richard Welty
On 6/11/15 10:05 AM, Kam, Kristen wrote: We need to make it more easier to load up-to-date imagery to our OSM editing applications. And I think something easy as publicizing the date of the imagery collection would get folks to do a double take before using older imagery. i am not

Re: [Talk-us] a plea to armchair mappers

2015-06-11 Thread Mike Thompson
On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 8:41 AM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote: i'd like a tag that we could use that has some editor support, it might be the case that all we need is a pop up dialog when there's a README tag that says something like Read this before committing: text of

[Talk-us] a plea to armchair mappers

2015-06-11 Thread Richard Welty
please, please when doing the armchair mapping thing, be aware that aerial imagery may be several years out of date. yesterday i discovered that a highway reconfiguration i'd mapped in Rensselaer, NY had been realigned with the out-of-date bing aerial imagery. i was able to locate my GPX tracks

Re: [Talk-us] a plea to armchair mappers

2015-06-11 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 06/11/15 18:46, Mike N wrote: I've seen this problem also - an area marked for construction, all roads bulldozed out, - the roads re-appear due to a TIGEROSM comparison test because they're in Bing. An area where all buildings are demolished and a single large entity takes

Re: [Talk-us] a plea to armchair mappers

2015-06-11 Thread Mike N
On 6/11/2015 12:46 PM, Mike N wrote: I've seen this problem also - an area marked for construction, all roads bulldozed out, - the roads re-appear due to a TIGEROSM comparison test because they're in Bing. Speaking of which, one of those came back to life yesterday. I tried the README

Re: [Talk-us] a plea to armchair mappers

2015-06-11 Thread James Mast
Maybe we should invite the MapBox paid mappers to join in this conversation? They are the major people doing this. -James Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 21:10:58 -0400 From: nice...@att.net To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-us] a plea to armchair mappers On 6/11/2015 12:46 PM

Re: [Talk-us] a plea to armchair mappers

2015-06-11 Thread Darrell Fuhriman
...@averillpark.net mailto:rwe...@averillpark.net Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2015 6:42:29 AM To: Talk Openstreetmap; Help for newbie mappers Subject: [Talk-us] a plea to armchair mappers please, please when doing the armchair mapping thing, be aware that aerial imagery may be several years out of date

Re: [Talk-us] a plea to armchair mappers

2015-06-11 Thread Ian Dees
mappers Subject: [Talk-us] a plea to armchair mappers please, please when doing the armchair mapping thing, be aware that aerial imagery may be several years out of date. yesterday i discovered that a highway reconfiguration i'd mapped in Rensselaer, NY had been realigned with the out-of-date

Re: [Talk-us] a plea to armchair mappers

2015-06-11 Thread Richard Welty
On 6/11/15 12:46 PM, Mike N wrote: My current strategy is to leave the original objects, just remove all tagging except for a note about Bing imagery dated is out of date. i did this with a slip ramp from I-90 nearby that was removed when a roundabout was put in; i had removed the

Re: [Talk-us] a plea to armchair mappers

2015-06-11 Thread Darrell Fuhriman
before using older imagery. Kristen Sent from OWA on Android From: Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net mailto:rwe...@averillpark.net Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2015 6:42:29 AM To: Talk Openstreetmap; Help for newbie mappers Subject: [Talk-us] a plea

Re: [Talk-us] a plea to armchair mappers

2015-06-11 Thread Richard Welty
On 6/11/15 1:27 PM, Darrell Fuhriman wrote: Shouldn’t be too hard to add this: https://github.com/rjhale1971/NAIP_WMS Unfortunately, the WMS server seems to be misbehaving right now. I sent a note to what I hope are the right people about that. i had found Randy's page back when Darrell

Re: [Talk-us] a plea to armchair mappers

2015-06-11 Thread Darrell Fuhriman
Yes, it has. I was using it not all that long ago. I’m sure it’s just a temporary outage. d. On Jun 11, 2015, at 10:59, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote: On 6/11/15 1:27 PM, Darrell Fuhriman wrote: Shouldn’t be too hard to add this: https://github.com/rjhale1971/NAIP_WMS