Re: [Talk-us] USPS Post Boxes

Are you planning to run this on a regular schedule (e.g. every month) ? m. On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 6:18 AM Leif Rasmussen <354...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > The opinions expressed on the USPS/United States Postal Service tagging have > been very mixed, with seemingly equivalent

Re: [Talk-us] Slack: Do we need an Alternative (was Planning an import in Price George...)

The Belgian community lives now mostly on Riot, we do have an IRC bridge and different channels to discuss dev or landuse related stuff. The main drawback is the lack of threads (ever tried to follow 2 discussions taking place at the same time, let alone read was said during the day ?). The not

Re: [Talk-us] Old Bing/ESRI satellite imagery?

On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 5:49 AM, Rihards wrote: > On 2018.01.31. 03:16, Albert Pundt wrote: >> Yeah, that wasn't right of me... I've been using the other sources for a >> bit now and it's really not as bad as I thought it was, plus there's >> more of the old imagery still

Re: [Talk-us] Coolidge Corner, Brookline, MA has wrong zip code

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

Re: [Talk-us] Bicycle infrastructure

Do you know this http://mijndev.openstreetmap.nl/~ligfietser/fiets/index.html?map=cycleways map ? It shows a lot of cycleway tags, including surfaces, cycleway routes and common mapping mistakes. There is nothing about shoulders, but I'm pretty sure that you ask to include them (on the Dutch

Re: [Talk-us] dubious church node

> Another point is that if you have the outline for something that GNIS shows > as a node, please conflate! I've done that with a lot of buildings and parks > locally - just copy-and-paste the GNIS tags from the node to the polygon and > then delete the node. The utilsplugin2 [1] for JOSM and

Re: [Talk-us] Hurricane Irma - Puerto Rico

The hot task manager http://tasks.hotosm.org/ already lists 4 tasks : 3499, 3501, 3502 and 3504 regards m. On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 5:33 AM, Jordan Brod wrote: > Hey all, > > I was curious if anybody was planning to do a response similar to what was > done in the Houston

Re: [Talk-us] Gender in OpenStreetMap

In the old thread someone wrote (paraphrasing): I map from photographs, so I'm not biased. Since I map in the same way, I have a couple of thoughts. A photo is a personal interpretation of the real world. The photographer framed the scene, leaving out or including items. This can be conscious or

Re: [Talk-us] Open survey on participation biases in OSM

While I agree that changing peoples mapping habits is possible by posting about certain mapping subjects, or developing apps, I do not see why it is wrong to question whether a typical mapper only maps what interests him/her or whether they also map other stuff. I map a lot of items in which I

Re: [Talk-us] Open survey on participation biases in OSM

One of the discussion points on her diary entry was female hygiene products found in women's toilets. How is a man going to map that, without access to women's toilets ? The real question for me is are men more likely going to map shop=car than shop=clothes;clothes=underwear/fashion/ ... (sorry

Re: [Talk-us] Tiger Zip Data Removal Project (Update)

I wonder whether it is interesting to know the difference between concrete, asphalt and pervious concrete. All three have different characteristics whether it be comfort for the cyclist or being dangerous under icy conditions or durability under heavy loaded trucks. What do you think ? Is it worth

Re: [Talk-us] Best practice in Lane Editing 3

On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 10:14 PM, Eric Ladner wrote: > Just to play Devil's advocate: B is probably more TECHNICALLY correct since > a solid white line indicates "lane change discouraged, but not illegal" and > you'd probably want the routing software to indicate where the

Re: [Talk-us] Best practice in Lane Editing 2

On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 10:37 PM, wrote: > The turn lanes plugin seems to support this nicely: > https://www.dropbox.com/s/8wmp5h2cn931pic/Screenshot%202017-06-19%2014.33.40.jpg?dl=0 > — even though the center lane is rarely marked with left turn arrows, as > suggested by the

Re: [Talk-us] Mapping traffic signals and stop signs using MapRoulette

a proposal, relations will not be used. regards m. On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 4:33 PM, Paul Johnson <ba...@ursamundi.org> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 9:14 AM, Marc Gemis <marc.ge...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> As I asked you before, show me a real world case where you hav

Re: [Talk-us] Mapping traffic signals and stop signs using MapRoulette

that proposal, move it forward, make sure the tools get updated etc. m. On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 2:19 PM, Paul Johnson <ba...@ursamundi.org> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 7:00 AM, Marc Gemis <marc.ge...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 12:56 PM, Paul J

Re: [Talk-us] Mapping traffic signals and stop signs using MapRoulette

On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 12:56 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: > How does it not? A node doesn't infer a way that it's attached to, though a > node may infer what nodes it crosses through. This is why relations became > a thing, to model things that can't be inferred from the other

Re: [Talk-us] Best practice in Lane Editing

Oh , I thought position 2 was where the physical barrier ended. Must have misinterpreted the image On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 1:28 PM, Harald Kliems <kli...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 12:09 AM Marc Gemis <marc.ge...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I

Re: [Talk-us] Best practice in Lane Editing

I thought the "standard" was to put the exit and entrance nodes at the place where there is no physical barrier. Continuous white lines should be mapped with change:lanes and should have no impact on the position of the node. So definitely position "2". IMHO This is illustrated by the picture on

Re: [Talk-us] Creating dual-carraigeways where there are existing oute relations

JOSM has functionality to copy relations from one way to another. Of course, you will still have to delete the relations that hold for the other direction. There is also a plugin that helps you check public transport relations, see https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Plugins/PT_Assistant

[Talk-us] Mapper of the Month: Steve All

Steve was so kind to accept my request for an interview. You can read it at the new website of the Belgian Community: http://www.osm.be/2017/01/19/en-motm-Steve-All.html Enjoy. m ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-us] Whole-US Garmin Map update - 2016-12-17

On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 4:37 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: > There's also garmin.openstreetmap.nl where you can define your own custom > bounding box for generating Garmin routable map files. Perhaps that helps. Lately several people reported errors with this service. You

Re: [Talk-us] TopOSM

there is also https://opentopomap.org, is this similar to what you need ? regards m On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 4:06 PM, Lars Ahlzen wrote: > On 05/20/2016 10:58 PM, Richard Welty wrote: >> >> On 5/20/16 9:24 PM, Clifford Snow wrote: >>> >>> I was just on TopOSM [1] which appears

Re: [Talk-us] Caliparks re-tagging paths?

They tagged them as "social_path", according to their blog entry [1] regards m [1] https://hi.stamen.com/patrolling-trails-in-openstreetmap-a1c4762efb70#.2qq0g0v79 On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 10:15 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > >I find this article a bit worrying: > >

Re: [Talk-us] Why do city names display in the local language at osm.org?

Jochen Topf has an experimental site where you can pick the language for the tags, see http://mlm.jochentopf.com/ regards m On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 5:07 PM, Toby Murray wrote: > Yeah, the tiles on osm.org just straight up render the name=* tag > which is supposed to

Re: [Talk-us] rebooting: tagging footways and sidewalks discussion

I just noticed a similar question on the tagging mailing list: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2015-October/027115.html It would be nice to combine efforts, not ? regards m On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 12:19 PM, maning sambale wrote: > Hi, > > We are

Re: [Talk-us] Growing OSM (was OpenStreetMap US elections: October 12 townhall with candidates)

After 11 editions of "Mapper of the Month" in Belgium and number 12 coming, we see that almost all people started mapping because they are coming for from Open Source/Data communities or because the other map solutions are lacking for their needs. They need a map for hiking, cycling, etc. and the

Re: [Talk-us] Best iOS app for GPS wander, GPX to laptop into OSM?

Keypadmapper can send the recorded data via email. OSMTracker can upload the GPX-trace directly to OSM I use Bluetooth to get the data from OSMTracker or OsmAn to my laptop. regards m On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 7:53 AM, stevea <stevea...@softworkers.com> wrote: > Marc Gemis writes:

Re: [Talk-us] Best iOS app for GPS wander, GPX to laptop into OSM?

I've tried OsmAnd, OSMTracker and KeypadMapper 3. The latter two do not show a map. The first one does. Still prefer a dedicated GPS-device, in my case a Garmin 10 + photo camera. Reasons: * I can take more pictures and faster with the camera. All the smartphone apps requires to many clicks and

Re: [Talk-us] Should driveways be on OSM?

They can be mapped, especially the long ones and tagged as highway=service, service=driveway, and typically access=private. I don't care for the appearance of the map, it's more important to connect houses that are further away from the main road via the proper driveway to allow navigation to the

Re: [Talk-us] understanding administrative boundary relations

On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 3:56 AM, Ray Kiddy wrote: > It has occurred to me that there will probably need to be a "boundary > watcher" tool, which can let an interested group know about it when a > boundary gets broken in some way. And I have started playing with the > python

Re: [Talk-us] perceptions of OHM and other similar projects

, Apr 16, 2015 at 10:30 PM, Marc Gemis marc.ge...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 7:51 PM, Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com wrote: The razed sections of the abandoned railway need not confuse anybody. Will you allow razed buildings and razed streets as well in OSM ( just curious

Re: [Talk-us] perceptions of OHM and other similar projects

On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 7:51 PM, Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com wrote: The razed sections of the abandoned railway need not confuse anybody. Will you allow razed buildings and razed streets as well in OSM ( just curious) ? What about previous swamps, forest, etc. that are now turned into

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Importing Tesla Superchargers

Do you think anybody will do the effort to correct some of the data, when it will be overwritten again with each update ? That's why people ask not to overwrite the data automatically. regards m p.s. it's annoying that this is cross-posted on 2 mailing lists, I'm only subscribed to one of

Re: [Talk-us] Bus flag stops?

So you mean that there is at least a pole to indicate the stop, something as on this picture [1] ? regards m [1] http://xian.smugmug.com/OSM/OSM-2015/2015-03-08-Kester/i-LFFfVns On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 4:12 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 5:22 AM, Martin

Re: [Talk-us] I've been workin' on the railroad (in California)

Somehow my mail program corrupted your query, the greater-than sign was gone. It's easier to share Overpass Queries with the share button, so just follow this link: http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/76j . Position over an area you would like to investigate and press Run. If needed you could include an

Re: [Talk-us] GNIS POI populations

Or Overpass + Level0 :-) regards m. On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 7:50 PM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: Minh Nguyen wrote: I think we should consider a mechanical edit to update these tags While you're thinking about GNIS mechanical edits, could I suggest one for

Re: [Talk-us] Misspelled names

In the UK someone is trying to do the same. He's following the mechanical edit procedure. Here is his proposal page: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mechanical_Edits/Math1985/UK_Shop_Names regards m On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 1:02 AM, Eric Christensen e...@christensenplace.us wrote: On ,

Re: [Talk-us] Ghost Towns

Is the abandoned prefix [1] something for you ? or abandoned=village [2] (in German) both tags are rendered on [3] regards m [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:abandoned [2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/DE:Tag:abandoned%3Dvillage [3]

Re: [Talk-us] Vandalism

Is this really vandalism or a user that wanted to add her/his company to the map (o.a. for advertising purposes) and accidentally selected the street instead of the building ? regards m On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 8:36 AM, Hans De Kryger hans.dekryge...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to report

Re: [Talk-us] Vandalism

:55 AM, Shawn K. Quinn skqu...@rushpost.com wrote: On Thu, 2014-10-09 at 08:42 +0200, Marc Gemis wrote: Is this really vandalism or a user that wanted to add her/his company to the map (o.a. for advertising purposes) and accidentally selected the street instead of the building ? I fixed

Re: [Talk-us] Vandalism

Since when has the DWG jurisdiction on user pages ? IMHO the DWG can only interfere when the data of OSM was affected. I'm not saying that I like that persons' user page, but where is it written that you cannot advertise on that page? regards m On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 5:24 PM, Greg Morgan

Re: [Talk-us] Prima Facie Speed Limits

In Europe (at least Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands, UK) people started to add both source:maxspeed=country code:classification and explicit maxspeed tags. Then there is no need for an external DB to lookup the speeds. Although it means that when the speed changes, all roads have to be retagged.