Re: [Talk-us] Pokémon Go no officially using OpenStreetMap

[Alan Richards]

As a Pokemon Go player myself, everything I'm hearing in the community this
time around has been a lot more positive, with people suggesting to update
their local neighborhoods with the correct information. I'm not seeing the
same level of fake lakes and parks. Now this may just be the groups that I
get my info from, but I'm hopeful this might bring in some good and useful
updates, and maybe some long-term mappers.

On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 2:25 PM, Toby Murray  wrote:

> On the flip side, this seems to be driving a second wave of pokemon
> players coming to OSM and mapping parks over their homes, changing
> things to footways and such nonsense. It is also driving beneficial
> edits though. Hopefully the helpful users will stick around longer
> than the trolls. Just keep an eye out for random parks appearing on
> the map for a while.
>
> Toby
>
> On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 7:22 PM, Bill Ricker  wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 2:27 PM, Peter Dobratz  wrote:
> >> I'm not sure how many active OSM contributors also play Pokémon Go, but
> the
> >> game is now officially using OSM for the basemap that players see in the
> >> game (previously was using Google Maps data for the base map).  The
> in-game
> >> about screen has text in the bottom of the License section correctly
> >> attributing OSM.
> >
> >
> > Thank you for sharing this.
> >
> > I was guessing so, when my daughter said a couple of the walking paths
> > in our neighborhood had shown up in the game. ( I haven't added them
> > to GoogleMaps so was pretty sure what map it was :-).)
> >
> > Glad to hear it's properly attributed.
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Re: [Talk-us] Pokémon Go no officially using OpenStreetMap

[Toby Murray]

On the flip side, this seems to be driving a second wave of pokemon
players coming to OSM and mapping parks over their homes, changing
things to footways and such nonsense. It is also driving beneficial
edits though. Hopefully the helpful users will stick around longer
than the trolls. Just keep an eye out for random parks appearing on
the map for a while.

Toby

On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 7:22 PM, Bill Ricker  wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 2:27 PM, Peter Dobratz  wrote:
>> I'm not sure how many active OSM contributors also play Pokémon Go, but the
>> game is now officially using OSM for the basemap that players see in the
>> game (previously was using Google Maps data for the base map).  The in-game
>> about screen has text in the bottom of the License section correctly
>> attributing OSM.
>
>
> Thank you for sharing this.
>
> I was guessing so, when my daughter said a couple of the walking paths
> in our neighborhood had shown up in the game. ( I haven't added them
> to GoogleMaps so was pretty sure what map it was :-).)
>
> Glad to hear it's properly attributed.
>
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Re: [Talk-us] Coolidge Corner, Brookline, MA has wrong zip code

[Marc Gemis]

If you fill in "Coolidge Corner, Brookline, MA" on the nominatim
website, and run that query:
http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search.php?q=Coolidge+Corner%2C+Brookline%2C+MA_geojson=1=
Then click details, you end on the page
http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/details.php?place_id=498867

There you see how the address is computed. The postal code is computed
a bit different than the other data. From the table you see there is
no boundary or so defined in OSM with the postal code  (there is no
"details >").
This means the postal code comes from either an external source that
was imported by Nominatim or an as part of an address node. But when I
click on the address node details for "Coolidge Corner, Brookline, MA"
or Allston, I do not see a postal code at all.

So I think

1) whatever you changed is not reflected in the OSM database
2) the postal code is coming from an import (most likely Tiger data)
in the Nominatim database.

hope this make sense
m.

On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 2:42 AM, Andre Robatino
 wrote:
> Nominatum's top result for "Coolidge Corner, Brookline, MA" still has 02446
> (as it did immediately after I read your reply), but the other results still
> have 02118. Shouldn't it have been copied to all the mirrors by now?
>
> BTW, I was wondering if it would make sense to use a list of specific
> addresses as a sanity check on edits. Someone could register address(es)
> they are familiar with, such as their own, and they would be notified
> automatically if any of the associated data (such as county or zip code)
> changed. If the change is wrong, they could log in and flag the error, and
> the mistake could be traced back to the offending edit. If this existed, I
> could have used it both for the zip code error, and for the wrong county
> error that I reported in July, in
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2017-July/017529.html .
>
> On 11/19/2017 02:57 PM, Clifford Snow wrote:
>
> Nominatim should return the correct results now.
>
> Problem that Max Erickson discovered was an incomplete edit in Boston that
> caused the problem. By adding a tag to the Boston node to describe the
> feature, resulted in Nominatim returning the correct results.
>
> Clifford
>
> On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 11:34 AM, Clifford Snow 
> wrote:
>>
>> I just asked about nominatim on the IRC
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 11:30 AM, Max Erickson 
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Nominatim calculates 02118:
>>>
>>> http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/details.php?place_id=498867
>>>
>>> Most of the data seems to have the correct addr:postcode:
>>>
>>> http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/t5e
>>>
>>> (The query includes postal_code but there aren't any in the data)
>>>
>>> So what is Nominatim looking at to come up with the calculated value?
>>> I think the next thing to check would be boundaries enclosing
>>> Brookline, not sure if that is how nominatim works though.
>
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[Talk-us] Whole-US Garmin Map update - 2017-12-01

[Dave Hansen]

These are based off of Lambertus's work here:

http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl

If you have questions or comments about these maps, please feel
free to ask.  However, please do not send me private mail.  The
odds are, someone else will have the same questions, and by
asking on the talk-us@ list, others can benefit.

Downloads:

http://daveh.dev.openstreetmap.org/garmin/Lambertus/2017-12-01

Map to visualize what each file contains:


http://daveh.dev.openstreetmap.org/garmin/Lambertus/2017-12-01/kml/kml.html


FAQ



Why did you do this?

I wrote scripts to joined them myself to lessen the impact
of doing a large join on Lambertus's server.  I've also
cut them in large longitude swaths that should fit conveniently
on removable media.  

http://daveh.dev.openstreetmap.org/garmin/Lambertus/2017-12-01

Can or should I seed the torrents?

Yes!!  If you use the .torrent files, please seed.  That web
server is in the UK, and it helps to have some peers on this
side of the Atlantic.

Why is my map missing small rectangular areas?

There have been some missing tiles from Lambertus's map (the
red rectangles),  I don't see any at the moment, so you may
want to update if you had issues with the last set.

Why can I not copy the large files to my new SD card?

If you buy a new card (especially SDHC), some are FAT16 from
the factory.  I had to reformat it to let me create a >2GB
file.

Does your map cover Mexico/Canada?

Yes!!  I have, for the purposes of this map, annexed Ontario
in to the USA.  Some areas of North America that are close
to the US also just happen to get pulled in to these maps.
This might not happen forever, and if you would like your
non-US area to get included, let me know. 

-- Dave


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