Re: [OSM-talk] mapping outside Europe

2020-01-08 Thread Mateusz Konieczny
8 Jan 2020, 17:33 by ma...@anche.no: > more constructively: > On 08/01/2020 02:54, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: > >> Is a new photo differing in content (confusing for Europeans in the similar >> way as original >> was confusing for people from Panama)? Then both should be present, one in >> the

Re: [OSM-talk] mapping outside Europe

2020-01-08 Thread Mario Frasca
Hi Maarten, Mateusz, Marc, Pierre, everybody: On 08/01/2020 01:32, Maarten Deen wrote: If they don't use the wiki, then who complains about missing local information in the wiki? these are chained questions: who complains? who complains about missing local information (in the wiki)? I'm

Re: [OSM-talk] mapping outside Europe

2020-01-08 Thread Marc Gemis
+1 to what Mateusz wrote. What I meant with "write the wiki page you want to see" is: create a new wiki page "Highways in Panama" or "Highways in South America", preferable in Spanish and Portuguese and link to that page from one of the existing pages. Similar to the Highways in Africa page that

Re: [OSM-talk] mapping outside Europe

2020-01-07 Thread Mateusz Konieczny
7 Jan 2020, 20:53 by ma...@anche.no: > On 07/01/2020 14:38, Marc Gemis wrote: > >> Since OSM is a do-ocracy, do not complain, but write the wiki page you >> want to see >> > > that's fine, and I've been doing that for Panama, and for Morocco, but I do > not like mapping without having reached a

Re: [OSM-talk] mapping outside Europe

2020-01-07 Thread Maarten Deen
On 2020-01-07 20:53, Mario Frasca wrote: On 07/01/2020 14:38, Marc Gemis wrote: Since OSM is a do-ocracy, do not complain, but write the wiki page you want to see that's fine, and I've been doing that for Panama, and for Morocco, but I do not like mapping without having reached a consensus.

Re: [OSM-talk] mapping outside Europe

2020-01-07 Thread Pierre Béland via talk
Eh, I am quite please to realise that the page is now available in 6 languages. The  first version of the page early 2013 was for the OpenStreetMap response North of Mali. But in later discussions, contributors did say that it did also represent reality of other African countries. We then

Re: [OSM-talk] mapping outside Europe

2020-01-07 Thread Mario Frasca
On 07/01/2020 15:46, Pierre Béland wrote: I am the original author of the Highway Africa Tag wiki page.  This page is now widely used outside of Africa (Asia and Latin-America) in areas where it better correspond to the reality of the roads infrastructure. I see, and I like it.  good job!

Re: [OSM-talk] mapping outside Europe

2020-01-07 Thread Pierre Béland via talk
Hi Mario I am the original author of the Highway Africa Tag wiki page.  This page is now widely used outside of Africa (Asia and Latin-America) in areas where it better correspond to the reality of the roads infrastructure.  And pictures have been used to better correspond to the ligther road

Re: [OSM-talk] mapping outside Europe

2020-01-07 Thread Mario Frasca
On 07/01/2020 14:53, Mario Frasca wrote: so you say: just revolutionize the overview for the highway tag, without first reaching a consensus?  or I understood you wrong? or replace the Eurocentric pictures with Panama and Morocco pics? an edit like this will be reverted after 15 minutes!

Re: [OSM-talk] mapping outside Europe

2020-01-07 Thread Mario Frasca
On 07/01/2020 14:38, Marc Gemis wrote: Since OSM is a do-ocracy, do not complain, but write the wiki page you want to see that's fine, and I've been doing that for Panama, and for Morocco, but I do not like mapping without having reached a consensus. for that, we need other mappers to

Re: [OSM-talk] mapping outside Europe

2020-01-07 Thread Marc Gemis
> a more important issue (I would call it "mapping outside Europe", hence > the subject) is for me each and every (photo)graphic explanation of the > tagging values. take `highway` > (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:highway). text are fine, > really, but the associated pictures seem all

Re: [OSM-talk] mapping outside Europe

2020-01-07 Thread Martin Constantino–Bodin
apart from the issue "international objects receive a tag 'name' with an English value", there are other ways in which you see how we're letting USA-UK patronize the rest. the latest example in my experience would be the 'sac_scale' tagging.  it comes from the SAC-CAS classification, of the