Re: [OSM-talk] MAPS.ME edits - partly sub-standard

2016-06-21 Thread Andy Mabbett
ly or weekly say. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Without an address, an Icelandic tourist drew this map of the intended location (Búðardalur) and surroundings on the envelope. The postal service delivered!

2016-09-05 Thread Andy Mabbett
ames (while ensuring no duplicates), allocating numbers to properties/ entrances, hosting a lookup database, etc. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] SOTM Brussels public transport info

2016-09-22 Thread Andy Mabbett
ls so that others may find and benefit from it. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] OSM in Kosovo

2016-10-11 Thread Andy Mabbett
I'm speaking (about Wikipedia and Wikidata, not OSM - though it may get mentioned ;-) ) in Pristina, Kosovo, next week, at "Software Freedom Kosova 2016: SFK16": http://sfk.flossk.org/sfk16/ Are any OSM folk going? Do we know the local editors there? -- Andy Mabbett @pig

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetView name change

2016-11-08 Thread Andy Mabbett
n Mini", nor a "BurgerKing Happy Meal". for example). > So we are looking for a new name. We have some ideas already but I wanted to > ask > if you had any suggestions for a new name for OSV? OpenStreets OpenVista OpenPanorama -- Andy

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:Destination Abbreviations

2016-12-18 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 18 December 2016 at 21:40, Edwin Smith wrote: > 1) Destination is for the use of the navigation program. That's a form of "tagging for the renderer". Besides, if you wan to record, literally, what's on a sign, use something like 'transcription=' --

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:Destination Abbreviations

2016-12-19 Thread Andy Mabbett
y. I didn't miss that; I wrote: if you want to record, literally, what's on a sign, use something like 'transcription=' -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Key:Destination Abbreviations

2016-12-19 Thread Andy Mabbett
agging_for_the_renderer -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Beware Pokemon users

2016-12-26 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 25 December 2016 at 17:17, Toby Murray wrote: > Beware Pokemon users You appear to have accidentally typed "Beware Pokemon users", where the correct subject would be "Please Welcome Pokemon users". HTH, and Merry Christmas! -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http

Re: [OSM-talk] Wikipedia/Wikidata admins cleanup

2017-01-04 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 3 January 2017 at 09:11, Yuri Astrakhan wrote: > To my knowledge, there is no site where one could add a set of OSM IDs that > need attention There is, and you can edit it yourself: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Main_Page -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.

Re: [OSM-talk] Wikipedia/Wikidata admins cleanup

2017-01-04 Thread Andy Mabbett
people whose hard work has seen many thousands of Wikidata tags usefully - and automatically - added to OSM. * not anecdotes. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Wikipedia/Wikidata admins cleanup

2017-01-04 Thread Andy Mabbett
OSM are already of low quality" goes. Or would you accept a single random bad tag on OSM as evidence that "tags in OSM are already of low quality"? -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___

Re: [OSM-talk] Wikipedia/Wikidata admins cleanup

2017-01-04 Thread Andy Mabbett
nce. Link, please. There are circumstances where it is legitimate for a Wikidata value to be used more than once. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Wikipedia/Wikidata admins cleanup

2017-01-04 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 4 January 2017 at 15:24, Andy Townsend wrote: > On 04/01/2017 15:08, Andy Mabbett wrote: >> >> On 4 January 2017 at 13:09, Andy Townsend wrote: >> >>> Do my comments on http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/43749373 count >>> as >>> &qu

Re: [OSM-talk] Wikipedia/Wikidata admins cleanup

2017-01-04 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 4 January 2017 at 15:38, Christoph Hormann wrote: > On Wednesday 04 January 2017, Andy Mabbett wrote: >> There are circumstances where it is legitimate for a >> Wikidata value to be used more than once. > > Then you'd need to change the tag definition on the wiki

Re: [OSM-talk] Wikipedia/Wikidata admins cleanup

2017-01-04 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 4 January 2017 at 15:55, Andy Townsend wrote: > On 04/01/2017 15:36, Andy Mabbett wrote: >> Please quantify that; against the total number of Wikidata tags. > 214 changes in that changeset; at first glance 82 civil parishes in there > likely to be in error if they have the &

Re: [OSM-talk] Wikipedia/Wikidata admins cleanup

2017-01-04 Thread Andy Mabbett
t; working in has the time to add Wikidata tags. As has been made clear in other discussions in which you have been involved, this is already underway. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ talk mailing list talk@openst

Re: [OSM-talk] Wikipedia/Wikidata admins cleanup

2017-01-04 Thread Andy Mabbett
several other, disparate, parts of the globe. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Wikipedia/Wikidata admins cleanup

2017-01-06 Thread Andy Mabbett
ussed import or because they made a mistake > themselves and ask for help after getting in trouble with others about > it. It seems to me that precisely the opposite is true. But as we've both offered zero evidence for our beliefs, they should each carry no weight. -- Andy Mabb

Re: [OSM-talk] Automated wifi=* edits

2017-01-09 Thread Andy Mabbett
of data. My local library, for example, offers Internet access, but not Wi-Fi - I can use their PC, but not my device. Or do you mean to change wi-fi=yes to internet_access=wi-fi ? The proposal is not clear. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk __

Re: [OSM-talk] RU Wikipedia now uses OSM by Wikidata ID

2017-01-20 Thread Andy Mabbett
ia.org/wiki/Template_talk:GeoTemplate#Kartographer_extension to get a discussion about Kartographer started there. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] Rendering hill figures

2017-02-26 Thread Andy Mabbett
if these tourist attractions could be rendered in the default map. We could agree an additional tag if necessary. A list of such figures may be found at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_figure -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

Re: [OSM-talk] Auto whitespace removal?

2017-03-11 Thread Andy Mabbett
gs on upload? What editing tool are you using. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] JOSM help needed - settings lost

2017-04-10 Thread Andy Mabbett
I'm using JOSM 11639, under Windows 10, and all my settings seem to be missing - for example aerial imagery, remote control activation, and plugins. My user name and password are remembered. Any tips for recovering them? -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.o

Re: [OSM-talk] JOSM help needed - settings lost

2017-04-11 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 10 April 2017 at 14:57, Jo wrote:> Hi Andy, > Your JOSM settings are stored here: > > C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\Roaming\JOSM\preferences.xml Thank you. That was missing, but I was able to restore a backup, one I knew where to put it! -- Andy Mabbett @pigson

[OSM-talk] Tagging and rendering of television masts

2017-04-21 Thread Andy Mabbett
nd three anchor points - how should those be tagged? -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging and rendering of television masts

2017-04-21 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 22 April 2017 at 00:37, Andy Townsend wrote: > On 21/04/2017 22:56, Andy Mabbett wrote: >> >> the Sutton Coldfield (England) TV mast: >> http://www.opensntreetmap.org/?mlat=37.08321&mlon=-8.13643#map=17/37.0832/-8.1364 > That's the one in Portugal, I

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging and rendering of television masts

2017-04-22 Thread Andy Mabbett
t) > One could also add a "wikidata" tag For Sutton Coldfield, that tag is on the while station, not just the mast. What about tagging the anchor points and cables, as mentioned in my original post? -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk _

Re: [OSM-talk] [Tagging] OSM+Wikidata intro video

2017-06-15 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 15 June 2017 at 21:02, Yuri Astrakhan wrote: > This service is still looking for a proper home. If you have an extra 700GB > of space on a server, please PM. Perhaps the WMF toolserver? -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.

Re: [OSM-talk] "NRCS basic OSM training" - low quality changesets in Nepal

2017-06-21 Thread Andy Mabbett
h Thank you, Dan, for making these and your other points so cogently. Comments like: Stop destroying detailed map using generalization tools. In developing countries like Nepal eactly map can save human life. beggar belief. Perhaps whoever left that should themselves be warned to desist. --

[OSM-talk] Where the streets have known names

2017-06-24 Thread Andy Mabbett
a can reveal facets of the cultural texture that pervades place" -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] Mystery structure on a South China Sea reef

2017-07-31 Thread Andy Mabbett
house-sized structure, on Commodore Reef, in the South China Sea There is nothing showing on OSM at that location. Anyone fancy doing a survey? ;-) Also, there is a node on the reef with name=Northeast Shea -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

[OSM-talk] Mapping in HTML - a proposal for a new element

2017-08-24 Thread Andy Mabbett
My friend Terence Eden has proposed a new HTML element for maps: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2017/08/mapping-in-html-a-proposal-for-a-new-element/ I've already left some comments on his post. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.o

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Redacting 75, 000 street names contributed by user chdr

2017-08-28 Thread Andy Mabbett
wiki/Trap_street ? You say that this has been verified, but I have not seen any alleged examples - where are they? -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Redacting 75, 000 street names contributed by user chdr

2017-08-28 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 28 August 2017 at 08:57, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is a data deletion - a very different thing. Another editor in this discussion says that they: changed the name tag to chdr_USA_AZ_name_fixup_required That's not merely a deletion. It behoves DWG to adhere to their own

Re: [OSM-talk] a sample panoramic aerial image for 3D mapping made with the new DJI Spark quad-copter

2017-09-02 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 1 September 2017 at 14:37, Oleksiy Muzalyev wrote: > I received today my new DJI Spark quad-copter and made a panoramic aerial > image with it: Impressive pic. Curious about the drone, I found this review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eYGih4FI8c and now I want one! ___

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding wikidata tags to the remaining objects with only wikipedia tag

2017-09-19 Thread Andy Mabbett
nk). The commonest error I have found is wikidata=Qnnn instead of brand:wikidata=Qnnn for franchises like McDonalds and petrol stations. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding wikidata tags to the remaining objects with only wikipedia tag

2017-09-20 Thread Andy Mabbett
know > that in Israel, @SwiftFast uses a template to keep them in sync for gas > stations and ATMs, but we need a more generic solution. They should be easy to find by looking for items with the same QID, but geographically remote from each other. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding wikidata tags to the remaining objects with only wikipedia tag

2017-09-20 Thread Andy Mabbett
link. >> find location errors (e.g. >> wikidata and OSM point to very different locations, implying that its an >> incorrect link). > > Again, OpenStreetMap is not a workbench for importing and then fixing > non-OSM data (even if it may look convenient). Please build a Q

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding wikidata tags to the remaining objects with only wikipedia tag

2017-09-20 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 20 September 2017 at 12:50, JB wrote: > Le 20/09/2017 à 13:05, Oleksiy Muzalyev a écrit : >> It would give a boost to the Wikidata project. > > Am I really reading from an OSM mailing list here? Yes. I read that as "the project at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Wikidata " and not "the pr

Re: [OSM-talk] Wheelchair accessibility

2017-09-21 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 21 September 2017 at 08:17, Philip Barnes wrote: > As far as I am aware, all bus routes have to be wheelchair accessible by > law. This very much depends on the jurisdiction. Please remember that this is a global mailing list. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.

Re: [OSM-talk] Changing WIKI username

2017-09-22 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 22 September 2017 at 22:08, SwiftFast wrote: > Is it possible to change my Wiki username? It should be - email me off-list and I'll take a look (maybe tomorrow). -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ talk mail

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding wikidata tags to the remaining objects with only wikipedia tag

2017-09-26 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 26 September 2017 at 03:40, Yuri Astrakhan wrote: > I have been blocked by Andy Townsend with the following message. > I believe Andy is acting in best interest of the project, yet might have > missed or misread this discussion. I agree with Yuri. This series of edits will, once complete, le

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding wikidata tags to the remaining objects with only wikipedia tag

2017-09-26 Thread Andy Mabbett
Belgium and Japan. That is clearly impractical for a task of this nature and, if true, would be an effective prohibition on any such beneficial editing. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetm

Re: [OSM-talk] Label language on the Default stylesheet

2017-09-26 Thread Andy Mabbett
r? In Jakarta, Doha, Cairo, Larnaca, Istanbul, or Warsaw? -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixing wiki* -> brand:wiki*

2017-09-27 Thread Andy Mabbett
gt; corresponding brand:wikidata/brand:wikipedia. Thank you. I support this proposal. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixing wiki* -> brand:wiki*

2017-09-27 Thread Andy Mabbett
sion went titsup a few years back, there were chains of stores in the UK and in Australia, each called "Woolworths". Though they had common roots, they were not the same. > anybody that wants to look up WD keys could do so via a simple external table. Please can you tell us where to f

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixing wiki* -> brand:wiki*

2017-09-27 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 27 September 2017 at 12:57, Simon Poole wrote: >> For example, until the UK version went titsup a few years back, there >> were chains of stores in the UK and in Australia, each called >> "Woolworths". Though they had common roots, they were not the same. > Why would that matter to OSM? It m

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixing wiki* -> brand:wiki*

2017-09-27 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 27 September 2017 at 12:49, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > Andy Mabbett wrote: >> in different parts of the world > > IIRC OSM stores spatial information. I might be wrong. For some reason I can't determine, you quote me out-of-context; the context was that we were discussin

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixing wiki* -> brand:wiki*

2017-09-27 Thread Andy Mabbett
iata failing to be sufficiently reliable? > Just a single link to a substantial set of additional data. That is exactly what Wikidata is for. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ talk mailing list talk@op

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixing wiki* -> brand:wiki*

2017-09-27 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 27 September 2017 at 14:37, Simon Poole wrote: > Am 27.09.2017 um 15:00 schrieb Andy Mabbett: >> Tim Berners Lee coined the "Five Stars of Open Data" >> >> http://5stardata.info/en/ > You are assuming > a) that an arbitrary best practice def

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixing wiki* -> brand:wiki*

2017-09-27 Thread Andy Mabbett
e OSM wiki, like this: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Tag:amenity%3Dice_cream&diff=1510821&oldid=1424407 just as it it should be recorded once in Wikidata, on the corresponding item, using the "OpenStreetMap tag or key" property, P1282, like this: https://www

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding wikidata tags to the remaining objects with only wikipedia tag

2017-09-27 Thread Andy Mabbett
wanting to make an automated edit in the region has to buy the beer? -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixing wiki* -> brand:wiki*

2017-09-27 Thread Andy Mabbett
nclined to concur. So that's at least three of you tilting at the same windmill. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixing wiki* -> brand:wiki*

2017-09-27 Thread Andy Mabbett
nique reference? I've not seen anyone advocate that. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixing wiki* -> brand:wiki*

2017-09-27 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 27 September 2017 at 17:31, Lester Caine wrote: > On 27/09/17 16:48, Andy Mabbett wrote: >> On 27 September 2017 at 16:06, Lester Caine wrote: >>> critically I'd prefer to see the wikipedia pages containing a link to >>> the wikidata entry! >> >> T

Re: [OSM-talk] Overlapping brands (was "Fixing wiki* -> brand:wiki*")

2017-09-27 Thread Andy Mabbett
ia > wikidata. No, it's an example of wrong data in OSM. Albeit on a single object: way/25716765 -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Links from wiki* back into OSM (was: Overlapping brands)

2017-09-28 Thread Andy Mabbett
map.org/tags/wikidata=Q118958 or even > https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/wikipedia=nl%3ALeuven Objects named after Leuven MUST NOT be tagged "wikidata=Q118958", nor "wikipedia=:Leuven" -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk __

Re: [OSM-talk] Links from wiki* back into OSM

2017-09-28 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 28 September 2017 at 11:23, Andy Townsend wrote: > On 28/09/2017 11:13, Andy Mabbett wrote: >> >> On 28 September 2017 at 09:53, Andy Townsend wrote: >> >>> "objects named after Leuven" >>> I'd have thought that this sort of "extra no

Re: [OSM-talk] Links from wiki* back into OSM

2017-09-28 Thread Andy Mabbett
/Q18983100 is the Wikidata item about an ornamental gate, made by a locally well-known artist, which exists in OSM as: https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/2312982822 Never in a million years will it qualify for its own Wikipedia article. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigson

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding wikidata tags to the remaining objects with only wikipedia tag

2017-10-01 Thread Andy Mabbett
les, and other useful third-party sources? -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding wikidata tags to the remaining objects with only wikipedia tag

2017-10-01 Thread Andy Mabbett
d Wikipedia." > and misinterpreting constructive > critique of that as an attempt to tell local mappers what tags they may > and may not add to the things they map. And now you're making things up. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk -- Andy Mabbett @pi

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding wikidata tags to the remaining objects with only wikipedia tag

2017-10-01 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 1 October 2017 at 14:03, Andy Townsend wrote: > On 01/10/2017 13:05, Andy Mabbett wrote: >> And now you're making things up. >> > just two posts earlier in this thread you said > >> I don't think this kind of sarcastic hyperbole helps to move things >

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding wikidata tags to the remaining objects with only wikipedia tag

2017-10-01 Thread Andy Mabbett
> We are in active action on not only fixing wikipedia > tags, but also adding missing tags to OSM, adding missing coordinates > to wikipedia, aligning coordinates between OSM and wikipedia etc. For > YEARS! Me too. That does not preclude the work Yuri is doing; the two are not mutua

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding wikidata tags to the remaining objects with only wikipedia tag

2017-10-03 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 2 October 2017 at 19:36, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Instead, I have Yuri adding, modifying, > and re-adding Wikidata tags all over the planet and ignoring most calls > for moderation, and Andy Mabbett from England editing supermarkets in > Germany. I've asked you once alr

Re: [OSM-talk] Could we just pause any wikidata edits for a month or two?

2017-10-03 Thread Andy Mabbett
n we would like to > see, and reach a consensus on this. It seems to me that such consensus was reached a long while ago, and that only you and a couple of other people refuse to accept this. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding wikidata tags to the remaining objects with only wikipedia tag

2017-10-03 Thread Andy Mabbett
> You have advanced to justification "You have advanced no justification..." On 3 October 2017 at 13:43, Andy Mabbett wrote: > On 2 October 2017 at 19:36, Frederik Ramm wrote: > >> Instead, I have Yuri adding, modifying, >> and re-adding Wikidata tags all ov

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding wikidata tags to the remaining objects with only wikipedia tag

2017-10-25 Thread Andy Mabbett
making things up. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding wikidata tags to the remaining objects with only wikipedia tag

2017-10-25 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 25 October 2017 at 11:33, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > 2017-10-25 11:49 GMT+02:00 Andy Mabbett : >> >> On 25 October 2017 at 10:06, Martin Koppenhoefer >> wrote: >> > wikidata objects often don't say what they are about >> > (besides the name),

[OSM-talk] Length of ways

2017-11-30 Thread Andy Mabbett
Do we have a tool that will give me the length of a way (or a relation, made from several continuous ways)? -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Length of ways

2017-11-30 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 1 December 2017 at 00:20, Mike Thompson wrote: > On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 5:15 PM, Andy Mabbett > wrote: >> >> Do we have a tool that will give me the length of a way (or a >> relation, made from several continuous ways)? > If you select the way in JOSM it will

Re: [OSM-talk] Length of ways

2017-11-30 Thread Andy Mabbett
OSM's main window Really, really, useful. Thank you. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] You have not arrived: why Google Maps is a lost cause for Indonesian drivers

2018-04-03 Thread Andy Mabbett
? [Hence BCCd to some of my friends in Jakarta] -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] Recent geotagged additions to Wikidata

2018-04-06 Thread Andy Mabbett
anlayses several "hotspots", the reasons for which are not yet clear. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Android program with a custom map style

2018-05-06 Thread Andy Mabbett
ssible. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] Changes to www.openstreetmap.org markup - where to requsest?

2018-06-16 Thread Andy Mabbett
ot;</a>;, "sameAs" : [ "<a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q936"">https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q936"</a>;, ], } and possibly some other schema.org values; you

[OSM-talk] WMF: "Interactive maps, now in your language"

2018-06-29 Thread Andy Mabbett
New Wikimedia Foundation blog post: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/06/28/interactive-maps-now-in-your-language/ -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https

Re: [OSM-talk] WMF: "Interactive maps, now in your language"

2018-06-29 Thread Andy Mabbett
tainable version of their database? Because the OSM community refuses to allow the import of data from Wikidata. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] WMF: "Interactive maps, now in your language"

2018-06-29 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 29 June 2018 at 11:57, Simon Poole wrote: >> On 29.06.2018 12:18, Andy Mabbett wrote: >>> New Wikimedia Foundation blog post: >>> >>> >>> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/06/28/interactive-maps-now-in-your-language/ > they should not be calling fo

Re: [OSM-talk] WMF: "Interactive maps, now in your language"

2018-06-29 Thread Andy Mabbett
So you are denying that they are asking their users to add names to OSM so > that their application looks better? Everyone on this mailing list can see for themselves that that is not what I said. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk __

Re: [OSM-talk] proposed mechanical edit - moving FIXME=* to fixme=*

2018-07-02 Thread Andy Mabbett
f such tags could be standardised. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] As Google Maps Renames Neighborhoods, Residents Fume - The New York Times

2018-08-16 Thread Andy Mabbett
This may be of interest: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/02/technology/google-maps- neighborhood-names.html -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org

[OSM-talk] Arkhivna Street

2018-08-16 Thread Andy Mabbett
"This street has over a half-dozen names, all at once." https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/arkhivna-street Mapped here, but without all those names: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/234767127 -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthew

[OSM-talk] ARIADNEplus Project uses OSM

2019-01-17 Thread Andy Mabbett
Nice use of OSM data in the ARIADNEplus Project, a new European initiative for Digital Archaeology and Cultural Heritage.: http://portal.ariadne-infrastructure.eu/ -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] Bot edits on the OSM wiki

2019-02-24 Thread Andy Mabbett
lso for performing maintenance tasks in bulk, > Note this has nothing to do with the merits of the edits themselves. That should be the only consideration -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetm

Re: [OSM-talk] HTTPS all the Things (Automated Edit)

2019-02-27 Thread Andy Mabbett
gt; talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk I have read the full thread to date and find myself strongly in favour of this well-argued proposal. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

Re: [OSM-talk] HTTPS all the Things (Automated Edit)

2019-02-27 Thread Andy Mabbett
or similar or both of the above. And perhaps, if the dead URL is found on archve.org, add something like a 'website_archive=' tag. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreet

Re: [OSM-talk] We need to have a conversation about attribution

2019-02-28 Thread Andy Mabbett
mmunity) just doesn't care that much - which suggests your options a or b would apply? -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] We need to have a conversation about attribution

2019-03-01 Thread Andy Mabbett
On Fri, 1 Mar 2019 at 09:51, Simon Poole wrote: > Am 01.03.2019 um 01:12 schrieb Andy Mabbett: > > 28 characters. There are many cases, such as mobile phones, where - > > depending on user settings - that's either going to be too small to be > > readable, or so big it

Re: [OSM-talk] We need to have a conversation about attribution

2019-03-01 Thread Andy Mabbett
OSMF authority to act as my agent. Did you? Wikipedia's advice for people whose open-licensed copyright material is misused is pertinent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks#Non-compliance_process [usual OSMF is not WMF caveats apply]. -- Andy Mabbett

Re: [OSM-talk] We need to have a conversation about attribution

2019-03-01 Thread Andy Mabbett
On Fri, 1 Mar 2019 at 11:56, Marc Gemis wrote: > > I don't recall ever giving the OSMF authority to act as my agent. Did you? > You probably agreed to > https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Licence/Contributor_Terms, not ? I believe I did. What does that have to do with my

Re: [OSM-talk] We need to have a conversation about attribution

2019-03-01 Thread Andy Mabbett
work and to > pursue other legal remedies. I can't parse that; please can you restate it, more clearly? -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] We need to have a conversation about attribution

2019-03-01 Thread Andy Mabbett
nStreetMap contributors, > Rendering © MapServer and EOX}" > > But the attribution font is so tiny that is is barely noticeable. There is > attribution, but it is debatable whether using a tiny font size makes > the attribution improper or ridiculous. Perhaps its a

Re: [OSM-talk] We need to have a conversation about attribution

2019-03-01 Thread Andy Mabbett
On Fri, 1 Mar 2019 at 13:44, Simon Poole wrote: > Am 01.03.2019 um 12:49 schrieb Andy Mabbett: > > On Fri, 1 Mar 2019 at 11:05, Mateusz Konieczny > > wrote: > > > >> Additional question - who can file DMCA. AFAIK only OSMF can do that and > >> indi

Re: [OSM-talk] We need to have a conversation about attribution

2019-03-01 Thread Andy Mabbett
On Fri, 1 Mar 2019 at 16:23, Frederik Ramm wrote: > On 01.03.19 16:04, Andy Mabbett wrote: > > Poppycock. > > The rest of us are trying to have a serious conversation here. Please > adapt or leave. And "Poppycock" is a serious word in the English language.

Re: [OSM-talk] We need to have a conversation about attribution

2019-03-01 Thread Andy Mabbett
gt; through multiple tiers of sub-licensees and to sue for any copyright violation > directly connected with OSMF's rights under these terms. The words you quote don't mean what you seem to think they do; they certainly do not authorise the OSMF to act as my agent i

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding Wikidata tags to 70k items automatically

2014-08-27 Thread Andy Mabbett
gion. I've corresponded with Edward during his prepartory work, and know that the former is already in place. I've also checked random instances of his matches, and have found no false positives; indeed, his cautious approach has been admirable -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http:/

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding Wikidata tags to 70k items automatically

2014-08-27 Thread Andy Mabbett
being added to OSM. No cordinates from Wikidata are being added to OSM. No text from Wikidata is being added to OSM. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding Wikidata tags to 70k items automatically

2014-08-27 Thread Andy Mabbett
e added garbage data > from both to OSM. How do we know that the wikidata items for which links > are added are accurate? That sounds much like an edge case - a extreme-edge case, at that. How many such villages are mapped in OSM? Isn't that what needs fixing? -- Andy Mab

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding Wikidata tags to 70k items automatically

2014-08-27 Thread Andy Mabbett
agreed? And would you like to address the merits of the proposal at hand? -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

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