[OSM-talk] New features in iD - looking for feedback and beta testers..

2015-03-27 Thread Bryan Housel
Hi Everyone… It’s been a busy few months for the iD team, and we have a handful of new features that will be launching soon. We’d love to get some mappers to beta test and provide feedback! These features are available now by using the latest development branch of iD hosted at

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging POI's - Nodes vs. areas

2015-04-21 Thread Bryan Housel
`amenity=hospital` is what makes it a proper hospital. You can create a node where the hospital is, or an area around the property of the hospital. Drawing either a node or an area is ok, but drawing areas is preferred if you have time for it. If the hospital is just one building, you can

Re: [OSM-talk] contact: tags

2015-05-03 Thread Bryan Housel
I like the `contact:*` tags, but only because it simplifies a few things in the iD editor. When copying and pasting an object, we really want to remove the name/address/contactinfo so that the pasted object doesn’t have the same values. If all the custom keys are grouped under

Re: [OSM-talk] [Tagging] README tag with editor support

2015-06-12 Thread Bryan Housel
I’ll add my thoughts here.. Imagery: The issue of outdated imagery is complicated because: 1. In iD we don't really know the date range that the imagery was taken (Bing is the exception not the rule, and we can get from their API only a range not a hard date) 2. It depends on what zoom the

Re: [OSM-talk] [HOT] Post-seism Pleiades images of 3 Afghanistan cities

2015-10-29 Thread Bryan Housel
FYI, iD does understand {zoom} in an imagery url - you don’t need to replace it with {z}. Thanks, Bryan > On Oct 29, 2015, at 6:54 AM, Jean-Guilhem Cailton wrote: > > Hi, > > After the Oct 26 Badakhshan earthquake, Airbus DS has donated access to > Pleiades images of

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=residential_link

2015-11-10 Thread Bryan Housel
Makes sense to me for little connecting ways between `highway=residential` I just added a `highway=residential_link` here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/379558356#map=19/40.68813/-74.38970 Thanks, Bryan > On Nov 10,

[OSM-talk] iD 1.8.1 release candidate with IE11 & Edge support

2015-12-02 Thread Bryan Housel
Hey everyone, Just wanted to send a quick note that I’ve prepared a new version of iD that supports Internet Explorer 11 and Edge browsers (finally!). I have only tested these browsers through vmware, so I would really like to get some more mappers to try them out and let me know if there are

[OSM-talk] iD news: v1.9.6 released

2016-06-08 Thread Bryan Housel
iD v1.9.6 was released June 7 2016 and is now available for editing on openstreetmap.org The release includes: - Embed interactive Mapillary JS viewer (worked on by Peter Neubauer and Kushan Joshi) - Add “grill” as search term for `amenity=bbq` preset (worked on by

[OSM-talk] iD news: v1.9.5 released

2016-05-25 Thread Bryan Housel
iD v1.9.5 was released May 25 2016 and is now available for editing on openstreetmap.org The release includes: - Fix bug causing Russian track type translated strings to sneak into tag values - Change color of save button as user edits increase (built by tanerochris)

[OSM-talk] iD news: v1.9.4 released

2016-05-04 Thread Bryan Housel
iD v1.9.4 was released May 3 2016 and is now available for editing on openstreetmap.org The release includes: - Fix bug causing the Save button to remain disabled even when changeset comment entered - Support setting imagery offset via url parameter - New multiple selection field type (built by

[OSM-talk] iD news: v1.9.7 released

2016-07-17 Thread Bryan Housel
iD v1.9.7 was released Jul 16 2016 and is now available for editing on openstreetmap.org The release includes: - Features on `addr:interpolation` lines will be rendered as points with icon - Fix crash when selecting and moving multiple points - Fix bug determining

[OSM-talk] iD news: v2.1.0 released

2017-02-04 Thread Bryan Housel
iD v2.1.0 was released Feb 4 2017 and is now available for editing on openstreetmap.org Here are some of our favorite new features: - Disconnected endpoints now appear slightly larger, and iD will warn if a user creates a disconnected road - Improved save flow

[OSM-talk] iD is getting a new menu...

2017-02-25 Thread Bryan Housel
Just wanted to pre-announce that the next version of iD (coming sometime in March) will have a new menu! Here’s a picture: https://twitter.com/bhousel/status/835607333640232962 We don’t often change iD’s user interface, but we felt that

Re: [OSM-talk] osm.org Banner about SotM (missing THE SotM in Brussels!)

2016-09-13 Thread Bryan Housel
The OpenStreetMap site will show you banners for any upcoming events in a rotation until you dismiss the banner by clicking the ‘X'. After you have dismissed a banner, you won’t be shown the banner again (unless you clear your cookies). > On Sep 13, 2016, at 2:49 PM, Stefan Keller

[OSM-talk] iD v2.0.0 beta - help test!

2016-11-04 Thread Bryan Housel
We have been working really hard on iD the past few months and we’re releasing v2.0.0 in the next week or so. iD v2.0.0 will look and feel the same as v1.x but has significant changes to the code structure. It is written in a modular style, and uses new tools to build the code. This will

Re: [OSM-talk] Disable snapping in iD Editor?

2016-11-16 Thread Bryan Housel
Yes, you can hold down the Alt/Option key to disable snapping in iD. > On Nov 16, 2016, at 9:47 AM, Mike Thompson wrote: > > Is there a way to temporarily disable snapping in the iD editor? In JOSM one > can hold down the Ctrl key while in the add mode to do so, but I

[OSM-talk] Help Translate iD!

2017-04-20 Thread Bryan Housel
I'm excited to announce that I'll be releasing a new version of iD in the next week or two. If you are fluent in multiple languages, or know someone who is, I’d love your help in translating iD! We support over 70 languages, but many of them are barely translated. Localizing iD helps bring

[OSM-talk] iD news: v2.2.0 released

2017-05-09 Thread Bryan Housel
iD v2.2.0 was released May 9 2017 and is now available for editing on openstreetmap.org This is possibly our biggest release ever because it includes over 100 features and represents about 3 months of work by 13 contributors, and countless other translators and

Re: [OSM-talk] iD news: v2.2.0 released

2017-05-09 Thread Bryan Housel
;> wrote: > Excellent, the radial menu's finally been removed! It always appeared > precisely where I wanted to edit! I might start using it now. > > The walk-through is very intuitive. > > DaveF. > > > On 09/05/2017 19:49, Bryan Housel wrote: >> iD v2.2.0

Re: [OSM-talk] Name challenge - what to call the new OSM+Wikidata service?

2017-09-17 Thread Bryan Housel
I’d call it Q936 :) Bryan 2017-09-16 23:11 GMT+02:00 Yuri Astrakhan >: The new service is getting more and more usage, but it lacks the most important thing - a good name. So far my two choices are: * wikosm * wikidosm Suggestions?

[OSM-talk] iD news: v2.4.0 released

2017-08-25 Thread Bryan Housel
iD v2.4.0 was released August 25, 2017 and is now available for editing on openstreetmap.org  A few highlights from the release: NEW Esri World Imagery layer: Esri has made their World Imagery Service available for OSM use! Read more here:

Re: [OSM-talk] iD news: v2.4.0 released

2017-08-26 Thread Bryan Housel
Ok, I see what you mean.. Would it be ok if we just add +1 to the number before uploading the changeset? > On Aug 26, 2017, at 2:17 PM, Dave F wrote: > > >> It does display the same number as is displayed on a user’s homepage, but >> that number is 0 before they

Re: [OSM-talk] iD news: v2.4.0 released

2017-08-26 Thread Bryan Housel
htags used for? > > Surely changesets_count should start at 1, the same as displayed on a users > homepage? > > DaveF > On 26/08/2017 06:47, Bryan Housel wrote: >> iD v2.4.0 was released August 25, 2017 and is now available for editing on >> openstreetmap.org <http://ope

Re: [OSM-talk] What would make MapRoulette better?

2017-11-20 Thread Bryan Housel
Hey Martijn, it’s currently possible to send comments and hashtags to iD (they can be sent as two different parameters, or just embed the hashtags in the comments like the task managers currently do). It’s not possible to set other changeset tags, but it is something I could add if there is a

[OSM-talk] iD news: v2.5.0, OpenStreetCam, and request for translation help..

2017-12-07 Thread Bryan Housel
Happy December! We have lots moving in the iD editor project.  OpenStreetCam Last month, I released iD v2.5.0 (November 10, 2017), which includes support for OpenStreetCam. If you haven’t tried it yet, you should really check out how easy it is to work with street level imagery in iD.

Re: [OSM-talk] Sudden influx of bad HOTosm edits in West Bank

2017-10-29 Thread Bryan Housel
Haha I promise I won’t be offended. I welcome the criticism - this is part of working on something that matters to a lot of people. Anyway, iD already does train the user in the walkthrough how to assign tags, and iD does warn the user on the save screen if they are uploading untagged

[OSM-talk] iD news - v2.8.0, GSoC, OSM-US Hackathon 5/21-5/22 at Mapbox DC!

2018-05-04 Thread Bryan Housel
Hello all! I’ve got a bunch of exciting items to share about iD - please check out the news and share..  iD 2.8.0 released, including Community Index We've changed how things look on the post-upload screen. Now after saving your edits, you will see a list of OpenStreetMap communities that

[OSM-talk] iD news - v2.9.0 now with Bing Streetside support

2018-06-16 Thread Bryan Housel
Happy Summer!  I just released iD v2.9.0 this week and it’s now available on openstreetmap.org for editing. If you use street level imagery you will like this...  Bing Streetside now supported iD now includes a layer for Bing Streetside! This new layer provides

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM tagging validation lib

2017-12-24 Thread Bryan Housel
re aren't any. Also reduce the numbers of highway=footway rather > than path. > > We might even get a few more building=yes tags rather than the range we get > at the moment. > > Thanks John > >> On 24 December 2017 at 10:45, Bryan Housel <br...@7thposition.co

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM tagging validation lib

2017-12-24 Thread Bryan Housel
Have you looked at https://github.com/osmlab/osmlint ? Of all the current validation efforts, that seems like the most promising. I’d definitely echo what other people are saying about avoiding the osm wiki if possible. It works on vector tiles though, so

Re: [OSM-talk] Automatically generated changeset discussion comments by OSMCha

2018-01-12 Thread Bryan Housel
I love this feature, and I hope Wille keeps it in. The message is very well written, and it’s not spam if the user asks for their changeset to be reviewed and then somebody actually does it. Thanks Bryan > On Jan 12, 2018, at 9:07 AM, Michael Reichert wrote: > > Hi, >

Re: [OSM-talk] Automatically generated changeset discussion comments by OSMCha

2018-01-12 Thread Bryan Housel
e comments look like they were written by a six-year-old” Be nice everyone! > On Jan 12, 2018, at 9:25 AM, Mike N <nice...@att.net> wrote: > > On 1/12/2018 9:13 AM, Bryan Housel wrote: >> I love this feature, and I hope Wille keeps it in. >> The message is very w

Re: [OSM-talk] iD news - v2.9.0 now with Bing Streetside support

2018-06-19 Thread Bryan Housel
ld > have been a great help to add destination[:*] tags. Nice move from Microsoft > anyway. > > Regards. > > De : Bryan Housel > Envoyé : samedi 16 juin 2018 16:32 > À : osm-talk > Objet : [OSM-talk] iD news - v2.9.0 now with Bing Streetside support > > Happy

Re: [OSM-talk] iD news - v2.9.0 now with Bing Streetside support

2018-06-19 Thread Bryan Housel
> > Regards. > > De : Bryan Housel > Envoyé : mardi 19 juin 2018 13:46 > À : David Marchal > Cc : osm-talk > Objet : Re: [OSM-talk] iD news - v2.9.0 now with Bing Streetside support > > Be nice, we’re improving the resolution: > https://github.com/openst

[OSM-talk] iD news - v2.10.0 with OSM Notes and more

2018-08-03 Thread Bryan Housel
We released iD v2.10.0 last week!  OSM Notes You can now create, comment on, and resolve OpenStreetMap notes from within iD! This work was done as part of Thomas Hervey's 2018 Google Summer of Code project, and you can read about it in his diary here:

[OSM-talk] State of the Map US Early Bird tickets end tomorrow!

2018-08-16 Thread Bryan Housel
A few quick reminders about... State of the Map US  Detroit, MI · October 5-7th  The reduced-price tickets will be available until midnight tomorrow on Friday, August 17th. Sign up today before the price doubles… https://2018.stateofthemap.us/ By the

Re: [OSM-talk] Community Data License Agreement – Permissive and ODbL?

2018-08-22 Thread Bryan Housel
Hmm - I’ve always felt Who’s on First was more of a Wikidata competitor than anything. It contains historical names.. I don’t see it as really having the same mission as OSM at all. > On Aug 22, 2018, at 2:08 PM, Simon Poole wrote: > > WOF as a OSM compeitor. > > Am 22.08.2018 um 20:06

Re: [OSM-talk] iD news - v2.6.0 lots of new features...

2018-01-22 Thread Bryan Housel
Yes this is an interesting issue.. A lot of people were pretty upset when the `addr:unit` field started appearing in their address field. Field was added here: https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/pull/4235 At the time it seemed pretty harmless.

[OSM-talk] iD news - v2.6.0 lots of new features...

2018-01-22 Thread Bryan Housel
Happy 2018! I just released iD v2.6.0 yesterday..  Release Highlights -  You can now adjust imagery brightness, contrast, saturation, and sharpness. (Not currently available in Internet Explorer or Edge) Try enhancing the background imagery by opening the Background pane (shortcut “B")

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM data, how can we contribute to keep it to a reasonable size?

2018-01-22 Thread Bryan Housel
Milo's point on database growth is actually very important, and I worry that it might be missed. We shouldn’t be concerned about shaving a few bytes off of the tag values to save space, or the power consumption of different processors. OSM needs a growth plan. We should already have pretty

Re: [OSM-talk] QA bots commenting on changesets - your thoughts?

2018-04-04 Thread Bryan Housel
I think the more we can do to automate QA, the better. There should be some common sense guidelines for running bots though: * user names with “bot” in them * user profiles that say what the bot does and where the source code is * common place on GitHub for bot development (osmlab/bots?)

Re: [OSM-talk] Help me build an OSM Community Index

2018-04-04 Thread Bryan Housel
ithub issue. It probably > should extend out more than just the metro relation but I felt it was a good > start. > > Clifford > > On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 2:50 AM, Paul Norman <penor...@mac.com > <mailto:penor...@mac.com>> wrote: > On 3/31/2018 5:25 AM, Bryan Ho

Re: [OSM-talk] Help me build an OSM Community Index

2018-04-03 Thread Bryan Housel
to GitHub tickets  In your email you mentioned some osm wiki pages that contain a lot of meetup links - I’d do those first... Thanks, Bryan > On Apr 2, 2018, at 12:45 PM, Andy Townsend <ajt1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 31/03/18 13:25, Bryan Housel wrote: >> I’ve started

[OSM-talk] Help me build an OSM Community Index

2018-03-31 Thread Bryan Housel
I’ve started building an index of OSM community resources here: https://github.com/osmlab/osm-community-index "Resources" can be links to forums, meetups, Slack groups, Facebook groups, mailing lists, and so on. Anything that mappers, especially

[OSM-talk] iD news - v2.7.0, new imagery, upgraded turn restriction editor

2018-03-05 Thread Bryan Housel
Hey everyone, I just released iD v2.7.0 and it’s now available for editing on openstreetmap.org  Release Highlights •  We've added support for more background imagery from WMS servers. Thanks Martin Raifer and Guillaume Rischard for your work on this.. Press B to

[OSM-talk] Please help with name-suggestion-index project!

2018-10-16 Thread Bryan Housel
Hey OSM! I have a project called `name-suggestion-index` that I could use help with… You can even get some free stuff if you sign up on https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/ with your GitHub account. Go to this project:

Re: [OSM-talk] Tag:barrier=kerb

2018-12-14 Thread Bryan Housel
The arrows indicate the “down” direction alongside certain kinds of ways. For example, cliffs, coastlines, retaining walls, kerbs, guard rails, embankments. If the arrows are pointing to the “up” side instead of the “down” side, you can reverse the way. Thanks, Bryan > On Dec 14, 2018, at

[OSM-talk] iD news - 2.12.0 released 

2018-12-09 Thread Bryan Housel
Last week, after several months of work, we released iD v2.12.0 for editing OpenStreetMap. I hope you like it! Here are some of the highlights from the release: ✌️ 2-finger pan and zoom gestures Mac users can now use 2 finger trackpad gestures to pan and zoom the map. Try swiping with 2

Re: [OSM-talk] [Osmf-talk] Anyone who likes to organize an ID discussion panel at SotM?

2019-05-29 Thread Bryan Housel
Christine.. We mustn't define “the community” as the few remaining handful of people who have not yet been driven off the mailing lists by persistent abusers and trolls. I am very aware of what people are saying about iD on all discussion channels. I read all of it, even the stuff written in

Re: [OSM-talk] Way to delete buildings added by specific user, or help reverting?

2019-07-08 Thread Bryan Housel
hbonger, your comment here is not very nice. https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/56552674 Reviewing their edits on OSMCha, most of their edits don’t look too bad

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging Governance

2019-09-10 Thread Bryan Housel
Simon you’re completely wrong about this, but I doubt there is anything that I can say that would change your mind. The "US-corporate bubble" does not care about the tags used by the iD presets as much as you think they do. The decisions we make in iD with the tags are mostly because 1.

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging Governance

2019-09-10 Thread Bryan Housel
>> >> The decisions we make in iD with the tags are mostly because 1. someone >> asked us to in a ticket or pull request, and we try to give people what they >> want.. or 2. we are trying to solve an actual problem - for example, the >> explicit tagging of piers and platforms came from us

Re: [OSM-talk] Way to delete buildings added by specific user, or help reverting?

2019-07-09 Thread Bryan Housel
irect messages via OSM web, > offering help and asking to stop copy/paste buildings, or messing landuses. > > Regards, Hrvoje Bogner > > On 08. 07. 2019. 21:36, Bryan Housel wrote: >> hbonger, your comment here is not very nice. >> https://www.openstreetmap.org/changese

Re: [OSM-talk] Old phone line or old power line?

2020-06-27 Thread Bryan Housel
I’d tag as `abandoned:power=minor_line` since you said it is down in places. It is impossible to tell from the picture what its original purpose was, but this doesn’t matter much if you just want to get it mapped. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Lifecycle_prefix

Re: [Talk-us] USGS Orthoimagery

2014-07-07 Thread Bryan Housel
The project for the common imagery sources is here: https://github.com/osmlab/editor-imagery-index You could enter an issue there to include this source so that it will be available in the various OSM editors. Before including it in the index, they will want to ensure that the source is

Re: [Talk-us] NJ Orthoimagery

2014-07-08 Thread Bryan Housel
...but the upstream USGS server that used to host this imagery seems to be broken (it's throwing 500's). I'm working on finding someone to talk to about that, but until then we'll have to find something else. On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Bryan Housel br...@7thposition.com wrote: The project

Re: [Talk-us] Beach routing

2014-07-10 Thread Bryan Housel
I say go ahead and add it, though `highway=track` (with appropriate access tag) might make more sense if vehicles drive along the beach. Here in NJ, people have also been mapping the paths that lead down to the beach from the boardwalks, but they generally aren’t connected. I’m a runner, so I

Re: [Talk-us] Beach routing

2014-07-11 Thread Bryan Housel
I thought about this, but not all beaches are navigable. Some really are pretty treacherous, and I don’t think this is always easy to tell from aerial imagery. I have also been to perfectly navigable beaches where you are specifically not allowed to use vehicles because turtles build their

Re: [Talk-us] 2014 Tiger Update

2014-08-30 Thread Bryan Housel
iD mostly uses https://github.com/osmlab/editor-imagery-index So if it is added as a layer there, it can be made available in iD very easily. So I think tiles need to be generated and the source needs to be added here:

Re: [Talk-us] Help with revert : Drag moved street in Denver

2014-09-23 Thread Bryan Housel
Because it was an iD 1.5.4 changeset, probably this bug: https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/2248 On Sep 23, 2014, at 9:27 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: Il giorno 23/set/2014, alle ore 10:08, Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com ha scritto: What might have

Re: [Talk-us] Beaver dam? Wrecked bridge? Hallucinatory roads in TIGER?

2014-12-20 Thread Bryan Housel
On Dec 20, 2014, at 11:09 AM, Kevin Kenny kken...@nycap.rr.com wrote: In at least one place (44.07447,-74.28335, says GPS) the trail crosses an unnamed tributary of Pine Brook on a beaver dam that is visible in aerial images. https://flic.kr/p/pFf3TV Hikers who don't quite believe that

Re: [Talk-us] Pennsylvania's quadrant routes

2015-01-16 Thread Bryan Housel
I’m from PA and I know exactly the little signs that you’re talking about. I agree with everything you suggested about moving the SR ref to a different key. It’s not significant enough to be a “ref”. I’m not sure who “owns” the Pennsylvania wiki page:

Re: [Talk-us] Retagging hamlets in the US

2015-03-17 Thread Bryan Housel
Brand new anonymous users come to the map every day and are confused by what these hamlets are. proof: https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/163246 https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/163246 I kind of doubt this person is going to stick around and improve the map. To them, it just looks like

Re: [Talk-us] Retagging hamlets in the US

2015-03-19 Thread Bryan Housel
OK, I’ll revert the changeset if if bothers you that much.. On Mar 20, 2015, at 12:23 AM, Greg Morgan dr.kludge...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 7:45 AM, Bryan Housel br...@7thposition.com mailto:br...@7thposition.com wrote: I wouldn’t. The USPS doesn’t recognize it, so

Re: [Talk-us] Retagging hamlets in the US

2015-03-19 Thread Bryan Housel
I wouldn’t. The USPS doesn’t recognize it, so mail can not be delivered there. There are no signs either. I did some googling to see if it is a historical name, but all the results are spam (“Best plumber in Benders Corner, NJ!”) Nobody around here knows what it is. I’m just going to remove

[Talk-us] New features in iD - looking for feedback and beta testers..

2015-03-27 Thread Bryan Housel
Hi Everyone… It’s been a busy few months for the iD team, and we have a handful of new features that will be launching soon. We’d love to get some mappers to beta test and provide feedback! These features are available now by using the latest development branch of iD hosted at

Re: [Talk-us] No Parallel/Resize or Copy/Paste in iD editor?

2015-04-20 Thread Bryan Housel
iD will use the modifier key Cmd on Mac and Ctrl on Windows/Linux. It adjusts the popup tooltips to say the correct thing too. I didn't put anything in the builtin help yet about Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V but I do intend to. I only added the copy buffer code in the latest release a month ago. Also

Re: [Talk-us] No Parallel/Resize or Copy/Paste in iD editor?

2015-04-19 Thread Bryan Housel
On Apr 18, 2015, at 8:39 PM, David Wisbey yourvillagem...@yahoo.com wrote: don't see any way to create parallel features (or Copy and Paste as in JOSM). We don't have a way to create parallel features yet, but there is an open issue for it in github. It's something that a lot of people

Re: [Talk-us] cycle.travel US bike routing, and unreviewed rural TIGER

2015-06-22 Thread Bryan Housel
I’m considering whether it makes sense to remove the `tiger:reviewed=no` tag when a user performs certain edits in iD. Discuss here: https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/2697 On Jun 22, 2015, at 2:46 AM, Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com wrote: In other words, it won't route over a

Re: [Talk-us] Proper tagging for crosswalks

2015-06-23 Thread Bryan Housel
It’s ok to map them as either a single intersection node or a way. Here is my understanding from the various wiki pages the document these things, and it matches what I see people map in places with sidewalks and crosswalks. Keep in mind, the wiki does seem to change kind of frequently, and

Re: [Talk-us] Proper tagging for crosswalks

2015-06-24 Thread Bryan Housel
, but could make sense 2) I could also use highway=path, crossing=yes, bicycle=yes -- this seems better to me, but I don't know if it's acceptable to use crossing without connecting it to a value -- Jim On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Bryan Housel br...@7thposition.com mailto:br

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

2015-06-11 Thread Bryan Housel
There is an open item in iD to display the date of the aerial imagery alongside the attribution message. We actually don’t get this from most tile providers, but we can get it from Bing in the response header. Would definitely welcome a pull request if someone wants to take a shot at

Re: [Talk-us] [Tagging] [OSM-talk] README tag with editor support

2015-06-12 Thread Bryan Housel
I’ll add my thoughts here.. Imagery: The issue of outdated imagery is complicated because: 1. In iD we don't really know the date range that the imagery was taken (Bing is the exception not the rule, and we can get from their API only a range not a hard date) 2. It depends on what zoom the

Re: [Talk-us] Things that are not buildings but are used as one

2015-06-01 Thread Bryan Housel
Yes, this is commonly done in OSM. Generally speaking, anything with a footprint and some kind of roof can get a `building=*` tag. In most cases people tag it as `building=yes` but you could really just make up anything for the tag value. `building=riverboat` or `building=train_car` would

Re: [Talk-us] Increasing the number of US Mappers

2015-10-15 Thread Bryan Housel
Agree with everything you said about *why* groups are important, except that: now that it's 2015, Facebook groups is really a better place for this. > On Oct 15, 2015, at 3:43 AM, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > > Paul Norman wrote: >> The problem is that if you make a

Re: [Talk-us] Increasing the number of US Mappers

2015-10-15 Thread Bryan Housel
that runs local meetups for this purpose. They currently seem to prefer Meeetup/Twitter, but I think a stronger presence on Facebook would do more to further their aims. > On Oct 15, 2015, at 9:33 AM, Greg Troxel <g...@ir.bbn.com> wrote: > > > Bryan Housel <br...@7t

[Talk-us] iD 1.8.1 release candidate with IE11 & Edge support

2015-12-02 Thread Bryan Housel
Hey everyone, Just wanted to send a quick note that I’ve prepared a new version of iD that supports Internet Explorer 11 and Edge browsers (finally!). I have only tested these browsers through vmware, so I would really like to get some more mappers to try them out and let me know if there are

[Talk-us] iD news: v1.9.6 released

2016-06-08 Thread Bryan Housel
iD v1.9.6 was released June 7 2016 and is now available for editing on openstreetmap.org The release includes: - Embed interactive Mapillary JS viewer (worked on by Peter Neubauer and Kushan Joshi) - Add “grill” as search term for `amenity=bbq` preset (worked on by

[Talk-us] iD news: v1.9.5 released

2016-05-25 Thread Bryan Housel
iD v1.9.5 was released May 25 2016 and is now available for editing on openstreetmap.org The release includes: - Fix bug causing Russian track type translated strings to sneak into tag values - Change color of save button as user edits increase (built by tanerochris)

[Talk-us] iD news: v1.9.3 release and participation in Google Summer of Code

2016-04-28 Thread Bryan Housel
Hi, OSM! Just wanted to announce a few things about the iD editor project.. iD 1.9.3 was released Monday 4/25/16 and is now available for editing on openstreetmap.org . The release includes: - easy draggable imagery offset adjustment control (built by Kushan Joshi) -

[Talk-us] iD news: v1.9.4 released

2016-05-04 Thread Bryan Housel
iD v1.9.4 was released May 3 2016 and is now available for editing on openstreetmap.org The release includes: - Fix bug causing the Save button to remain disabled even when changeset comment entered - Support setting imagery offset via url parameter - New multiple

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

2016-08-02 Thread Bryan Housel
Meg this is excellent! Thank you for sharing your plans with `talk-us` and `talk-us-pugetsound`. I’m looking forward to seeing this public data source imported into OpenStreetMap. Given that your team is located in Seattle and is very involved with the local community there, I don’t see any

[Talk-us] iD news: v1.9.7 released

2016-07-17 Thread Bryan Housel
iD v1.9.7 was released Jul 16 2016 and is now available for editing on openstreetmap.org The release includes: - Features on `addr:interpolation` lines will be rendered as points with icon - Fix crash when selecting and moving multiple points - Fix bug determining

[Talk-us] iD news: v2.1.0 released

2017-02-04 Thread Bryan Housel
iD v2.1.0 was released Feb 4 2017 and is now available for editing on openstreetmap.org Here are some of our favorite new features: - Disconnected endpoints now appear slightly larger, and iD will warn if a user creates a disconnected road - Improved save flow

Re: [Talk-us] Check your turn:lanes

2016-08-25 Thread Bryan Housel
This was discussed extensively on the tagging mailing list 2 months ago: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2016-June/029335.html The consensus at the time was that combinations including ‘none’ are not

[Talk-us] iD v2.0.0 beta - help test!

2016-11-04 Thread Bryan Housel
We have been working really hard on iD the past few months and we’re releasing v2.0.0 in the next week or so. iD v2.0.0 will look and feel the same as v1.x but has significant changes to the code structure. It is written in a modular style, and uses new tools to build the code. This will

Re: [Talk-us] greenways tagging

2017-03-23 Thread Bryan Housel
I agree that that Tiffany Avenue is just a normal street, not a “living street”. Our driver even drove it a few times and you can see it pretty clearly on Mapillary. https://www.mapillary.com/app/?pKey=Tt-musXAKC5Qpuo7OAjyQA=photo=37.74456457237605=-122.42159001944155=19.941223418815095

Re: [Talk-us] NJ mass road demotions?

2017-04-04 Thread Bryan Housel
I agree that seems wrong.. If you’ve got a list of changesets, or the username who is doing it, I can help with the revert. Thanks, Bryan > On Apr 4, 2017, at 11:00 AM, Albert Pundt wrote: > > Recently somebody went around and bulk-"demoted" many northern NJ roads. >

Re: [Talk-us] Fixing Multipolygons

2017-04-21 Thread Bryan Housel
Jochen thanks for taking the lead on this issue! I just wanted to add for anyone working on this effort, old-style multipolygons will render a bit differently in iD soon. They will have little gaps along the edge, screenshot here:

Re: [Talk-us] [HOT] iD issues?

2017-04-20 Thread Bryan Housel
As far as I know, the issue is only with Chrome on Windows.. Firefox, IE, and Edge should be ok. We’re tracking it here: https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/3805 It’s very similar to another issue that I fixed in December, so I think I

[Talk-us] iD news: v2.3.0 released

2017-07-07 Thread Bryan Housel
iD v2.3.0 was released July 7, 2017 and is now available for editing on openstreetmap.org  A few highlights from the release: New: Toggle-able information panels can be used to expose more advanced features without cluttering the user interface. ⌘I: Show/Hide

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

2017-07-15 Thread Bryan Housel
Hey Hans, We have a closed issue on the iD tracker for automatic removal of `tiger:reviewed`: https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/2697 We haven’t discussed automatic removal of any other tiger tags. (I don’t have a strong opinion for

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Sourcing Open Aerial Imagery

2017-07-27 Thread Bryan Housel
Thanks Kevin for the followup - sourcing imagery for use in editors is indeed a complicated topic! I think the key takeaways (TL;DR): - there are lots of public sources of aerial imagery available, especially at the us-state level, and we could use help collecting them. -

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Sourcing Open Aerial Imagery

2017-07-27 Thread Bryan Housel
Thanks for the correction Simon! Sorry I missed that announcement... I will update the editor-layer-index project docs to include some guidance on using the imagery waiver. Bryan > On Jul 27, 2017, at 1:29 PM, Simon Poole <si...@poole.ch> wrote: > > > > Am 27.07.2017 u

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Decline in accuracy of capture date metadata in Bing imagery

2017-07-26 Thread Bryan Housel
Hey this is a topic that I care about - It turns out, you are already chipping in some money for high resolution orthoimagery! OK state Geographic Information Council http://okmaps.onenet.net/index.html OK state GIS Portal:

[Talk-us] iD news: v2.2.0 released

2017-05-09 Thread Bryan Housel
iD v2.2.0 was released May 9 2017 and is now available for editing on openstreetmap.org This is possibly our biggest release ever because it includes over 100 features and represents about 3 months of work by 13 contributors, and countless other translators and

Re: [Talk-us] NJ mass road demotions?

2017-06-10 Thread Bryan Housel
2 months later and they’re still at it. I finally did reach out to the user with a changeset comment here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/46561481#map=12/40.7194/-74.4255 What’s an acceptable amount of time to

[Talk-us] iD news: v2.4.0 released

2017-08-25 Thread Bryan Housel
iD v2.4.0 was released August 25, 2017 and is now available for editing on openstreetmap.org  A few highlights from the release: NEW Esri World Imagery layer: Esri has made their World Imagery Service available for OSM use! Read more here:

[Talk-us] iD news: v2.5.0, OpenStreetCam, and request for translation help..

2017-12-07 Thread Bryan Housel
Happy December! We have lots moving in the iD editor project.  OpenStreetCam Last month, I released iD v2.5.0 (November 10, 2017), which includes support for OpenStreetCam. If you haven’t tried it yet, you should really check out how easy it is to work with street level imagery in iD.

[Talk-us] iD news - v2.8.0, GSoC, OSM-US Hackathon 5/21-5/22 at Mapbox DC!

2018-05-04 Thread Bryan Housel
Hello all! I’ve got a bunch of exciting items to share about iD - please check out the news and share..  iD 2.8.0 released, including Community Index We've changed how things look on the post-upload screen. Now after saving your edits, you will see a list of OpenStreetMap communities that

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