Re: [Imports] Updating large amount of un-named records of Tehran / Iran

2015-07-26 Thread Serge Wroclawski
Ehsan, There seem to be a number of issues that people have pointed out with this dataset already and your responses have not addressed them. Before we can even discuss any of the merits of the data, we need to address some very basic issues- such as: 1. Is this data autogenerated from another

Re: [Imports] Updating large amount of un-named records of Tehran / Iran

2015-07-26 Thread Serge Wroclawski
Ehsan, In the United States, where I live, we use a different measurement system than most places. Instead of meters and kilometers, we use feet and miles. We have many measurements in OSM using meters, which could then be changed to feet. Someone could write a script to take every single

Re: [Imports] [HOT] Undiscussed import of village nodes in Nepal

2015-04-28 Thread Serge Wroclawski
I have placed a block message on this users's account in the hopes that she reads it and can reply quickly to the changeset discussions. If I don't hear back from her soon, I will revert the changesets in order to minimize the disruption of mapping in Nepal during the crisis.

Re: [Imports] Import of Paris buildings heights

2015-04-20 Thread Serge Wroclawski
On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 5:06 PM, Vincent Frison vincent.fri...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the arguments, I will put the source tag into the changeset. @Serge: I don't think it would be a good idea to remove the current source tags. Ok if it would be saved in the history but I think it must be

Re: [Imports] Import of Paris buildings heights

2015-04-19 Thread Serge Wroclawski
I'm very excited to see more information being applied to the Paris building data, and I think we'll want to look at the technique in general to see where it could be applied to other imports. Can you explain why you want a source tag instead of including the information in the changeset?

Re: [Imports] Importing Indianapolis data

2015-04-09 Thread Serge Wroclawski
Mark, Thanks for your interest in getting this data into OSM. That's very exciting! We have lots of reasons for needing to evaluate the data pre-seeing it on OSM. Looking at the sample data you provided[1], I have a few concerns: 1. Simple rectangular ways have more nodes than necessary eg

Re: [Imports-us] Business Listings

2015-03-25 Thread Serge Wroclawski
Richard, It would be of great use! Normally such data is either under a non-Free license and or has been geocoded by a service like Google, which makes it unsuitable for import, but having a Freely licensable dataset without license issues and without issues of geocoding would be of immense value

Re: [Imports] [OSM-talk] amenity=bicycle_repair_station :::: only 18 so far

2015-02-08 Thread Serge Wroclawski
Bryce, After reading through this thread, I just don't see this dataset as being high enough of quality to import. Arguing that users will be free to move objects does not jive with the ~10 years experience we have in OSM, and nearly that long with imports. Imported data is rarely touched, even

Re: [Imports] Community import of Flemish addresses, take 2

2014-12-07 Thread Serge Wroclawski
Sander, It's the weekend, give folks some time to read and digest. :) - Serge On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Sander Deryckere sander...@gmail.com wrote: No comments? 2014-12-06 13:44 GMT+01:00 Sander Deryckere sander...@gmail.com: Hi all, Last year, there was already an attempt to

Re: [Imports-us] Portland Metro Area Building Import

2014-12-01 Thread Serge Wroclawski
Mele, This is why I created this list in the first place, to help those on the path to importing get a sense of the issues they'd face and provide guidance. The issues we had with the last license change were dramatic and traumatic for much of the project, and so it'd be nice to avoid that if

Re: [Imports-us] Portland Metro Area Building Import

2014-12-01 Thread Serge Wroclawski
Folks, I feel like we're getting off topic a bit here. Please, let's stick to the issues of the import Portland Metro Area Buildings. If there are other agreements that people want to make or discussions about legal contracts, they should be made in other forums. Let's try to stick to the

Re: [Imports] Adding pcodes to villages in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea

2014-11-26 Thread Serge Wroclawski
Pierre, I'm sorry for coming into this discussion late. It's a very major holiday week in the US and I've been very busy scrambling to get things done before the madness. I have a number of questions about this import, most of which I'm sure are on the proposal wiki page for this import. Where

Re: [Imports-us] DWG Action on Blacksburg, VA Building and Address Import

2014-11-26 Thread Serge Wroclawski
Clifford, Thank you for taking action on this mater. The license issue is certainly a prerequisite to addressing this problematic import. Ican't speak for the DWG or LWG here but I think that the email you got, if it's properly documented, is Good enough. It bothers me that they think this is

[Imports-us] DWG Action on Blacksburg, VA Building and Address Import

2014-11-25 Thread Serge Wroclawski
Folks, The DWG has been informed of a bad import in Blacksburg, VA. There are a large number of building changesets, but there seems to be only one address changeset that I see, which is: https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/5946768 The buildings and addresses are in separate changesets by

[Imports] Fwd: Marin County data license

2014-10-31 Thread Serge Wroclawski
Sorry, this was supposed to also go to the imports list. -- Forwarded message -- From: Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com Date: Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 6:53 AM Subject: Re: [Imports] Marin County data license To: Nathan Mixter nmix...@gmail.com Nathan, Unfortunately, as is often

Re: [Imports] Fwd: Marin County data license

2014-10-31 Thread Serge Wroclawski
31, 2014 at 7:14 AM, Dan S danstowell+...@gmail.com wrote: Serge, It reads to me as if the must is a condition on the use of the name MarinMap, not a condition on the use of the data. Best Dan 2014-10-31 11:08 GMT+00:00 Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com: The minute you use the word

Re: [Imports-us] City Building Import

2014-10-31 Thread Serge Wroclawski
John, You need to follow the import guidelines on the wiki. First step, though, is identifying the data license to see if it's even possible. What's the URL for this data? - Serge On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 11:12 PM, John J Czaplewski jczap...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings! I'm an experienced

Re: [Imports] Special training needed for imports? Re: Import Plan for Buildings Address in Washington, DC, USA

2014-07-21 Thread Serge Wroclawski
Alex, That's a great question. Since Paul hasn't responded yet, I'll speculate that his question is asking about the training process, which is similar to the questions that we in NYC had about Seattle's training process. I remember having an online meeting with you, some other NYC locals and

Re: [Imports] Import Plan for Buildings Address in Washington, DC, USA

2014-07-15 Thread Serge Wroclawski
heard this before several times from you before on numerous threads. Time to move on. Sincerely -Mikel * Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron On Tuesday, July 15, 2014 9:12 AM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: David, Thank you for your straightforward answer. Mikel

Re: [Imports] Import Plan for Buildings Address in Washington, DC, USA

2014-07-14 Thread Serge Wroclawski
On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 7:09 PM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com wrote: From the Mapbox team, I myself and my colleague Aaron have been in touch with David Jackson from DC/OCTO who's leading the import to help him work through setting up tools, so has Mikel who is not affiliated with Mapbox. Brian

Re: [Imports] Buildings Address in Washington, DC, USA.

2014-06-12 Thread Serge Wroclawski
David, It's been over two weeks and while we've had a lot of questions and discussion, I haven't seen an update from you on this proposal. What's the situation? - Serge ___ Imports mailing list Imports@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Imports] [tl; dr] Re: cleanup broken import fix

2014-05-29 Thread Serge Wroclawski
On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 3:29 AM, malenki o...@malenki.ch wrote: On Thu, 29 May 2014 02:52:23 +0200 Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: do you have a complete list of the tags that you propose to drop? key with count of occurrence: gnis:feature_id=* 26 gnis:id=* 6577 The US

Re: [Imports] Buildings Address in Washington, DC, USA.

2014-05-26 Thread Serge Wroclawski
Aaron, Your memory on the NYC import differs from mine. I recall the major cause of stopping was not a technical issue- it was that MapBox employees were importing recklessly (for a lack of a better word) , and it was also due to lack of transparency by MapBox on the import being done by paid

Re: [Imports] Buildings Address in Washington, DC, USA.

2014-05-24 Thread Serge Wroclawski
, but based on the supporters explicitly listed, I think this is a question that the community deserves to know the answer to. - Serge Wroclawski ___ Imports mailing list Imports@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports

[Imports-us] No meeting next week

2014-04-07 Thread Serge Wroclawski
I just want to send out a note saying that next week's meeting will be postponed due to two events. The first is that it's the day after the State of the Map and many people will be either travelling or returning. The second is that it's the first night of Passover. We'll have to reschedule.

[Imports-us] Meeting tonight

2014-03-31 Thread Serge Wroclawski
Hey all, Just a quick reminder than we're on for tonight, 7pm EST on Google Hangouts. I'll send an email with the URL 10 minutes before the meeting. - Serge ___ Imports-us mailing list Imports-us@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Imports-us] Meeting tonight

2014-03-31 Thread Serge Wroclawski
URL: https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/7acpibsmh7vmdn03uknqi3vto8?hl=en On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: Hey all, Just a quick reminder than we're on for tonight, 7pm EST on Google Hangouts. I'll send an email with the URL 10 minutes before

Re: [Imports] [Talk-cz] CzechAddress Import

2014-03-27 Thread Serge Wroclawski
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 12:18 AM, Dalibor Jelínek dali...@dalibor.cz wrote: Also we plan to re-import all the address nodes in Czechia how do we tell What do you mean by re-import? Do you mean that you'll touch every single address node, either by deleting and re-creating, or by modifying? If

Re: [Imports] Mass fixing street names in Queensland Australia

2014-03-19 Thread Serge Wroclawski
Benjamin, Doing mass tagging or mass renaming is quite a difficult process in OSM. I did a more modest mass tagging change last year, renaming millions of road names in the US from Rd to Road, and that process took almost six months of discussion and debate before it was approved, and what was

Re: [Imports] [Tagging] [osm_sk] Re: Aktualizace: Tags for Czech/Slovak address system

2014-03-19 Thread Serge Wroclawski
Petr, You're clearly frustrated, but we're all trying to work towards a solution. Unfortuntely, as you point out, I don't speak Czech. I did spend a week in Prague, if that counts for anything, but I didn't know the addressing system. If your English is up to it, I propose we try to meet by

[Imports-us] Meeting tonight (ooops!)

2014-03-17 Thread Serge Wroclawski
Sorry, I forgot to announce the meeting tonight on Google Hangouts Yes, it's tonight! 7pm EST. - Serge ___ Imports-us mailing list Imports-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports-us

[Imports] Blog post about imports

2014-03-13 Thread Serge Wroclawski
Hi all, I wrote a blog post on the long term maintenance of imported OSM data that others may find interesting: http://blog.emacsen.net/blog/2014/03/13/the-maintenance-of-imported-data-in-openstreetmap/ - Serge ___ Imports mailing list

Re: [Imports] [Talk-cz] CzechAddress Import

2014-03-12 Thread Serge Wroclawski
Martin, For maybe the first time ever, we agree on something, and this is something I brought up early on with this import. There is an enormous amount of redundancy in this information, since the districts/sections of the city are polygons, it would make more sense to add them as polygons and

Re: [Imports] [Talk-cz] CzechAddress Import

2014-03-11 Thread Serge Wroclawski
What's really curious is how addr:suburb seems to have changed meanings between 2009 and 2011... The current meaning doesn't fit the meaning of the English word at all, which is part of our tagging philosophy (that tags should make sense in English). - Serge On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 11:03 PM,

Re: [Imports] CzechAddress Import

2014-02-24 Thread Serge Wroclawski
On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 10:43 PM, Dalibor Jelínek dali...@dalibor.czwrote: Is there anything else you would like us to do before we start the import? I have a few questions. 1. Can you please directly link to where the data is specified as public domain? Is it in the metadata? I did not see

Re: [Imports] Fwd: [osm-pl] Import adresów Gmina Wieprz

2014-02-21 Thread Serge Wroclawski
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 7:48 PM, Jason Remillard remillard.ja...@gmail.comwrote: Hello Everybody, Each municipality is a different import. Part of the process needs to be to be validation, for example, which has already been brought up and not answered. I have been trying to follow this

Re: [Imports] [osm-pl] Import adresów Gmina Wieprz

2014-02-20 Thread Serge Wroclawski
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 5:24 AM, Zbigniew Czernik zbign...@openstreetmap.pl wrote: W dniu 20.02.2014 09:57, Martin Koppenhoefer pisze: I sent this data after checking and confirmation by user:ukasiu, who gave me a feedback via IRC. Should I wait for confirmation from non-polish community

[Imports] Fwd: [osm-pl] Import adresów Gmina Wieprz

2014-02-20 Thread Serge Wroclawski
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 8:52 AM, Pieren pier...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 2:25 PM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: Should I wait for confirmation from non-polish community for every municipality? :P Yes. That is part of the process, to get the feedback

Re: [Imports] [osm-pl] Import adresów Gmina Wieprz

2014-02-19 Thread Serge Wroclawski
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 9:26 PM, Zbigniew Czernik zbign...@openstreetmap.pl wrote: Should I compare every address with imagery? If you aren't comparing them to imagery, how do you know they're accurate? - Serge ___ Imports mailing list

[Imports-us] Meeting tonight, 7pm EST

2014-02-17 Thread Serge Wroclawski
Hi all, We have a meeting tonight on Google+, 7pm EST. I'll send the hangout link 10 minutes before the meeting. Thanks all, - Serge ___ Imports-us mailing list Imports-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports-us

Re: [Imports-us] Meeting today

2014-02-17 Thread Serge Wroclawski
It's way early but: https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/7ecpiiabue487jgf1ahm5544rc?hl=en - Serge On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 10:03 AM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: Hey all, Meeting today at Google+. Same bat time, same bat station. 7pm EST. I'll send the hangout URL before

Re: [Imports] Value of imports in general

2014-02-07 Thread Serge Wroclawski
All, I have to tell everyone that this thread has me extremely burned, not just on imports, but I may need to take some time off OSM after today, just to keep my sunny disposition... As I see it, this discussion has both sides digging in their heels and seeing less of what the other side is

Re: [Imports] [osm-pl] Fwd: Re: Import of addresses in Poland

2014-02-05 Thread Serge Wroclawski
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 2:43 PM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com wrote Of course OpenStreetMap is meant to be used. What else is it about? If we want to build a project of social impact, one that changes who draws the map, then this is about getting OpenStreetMap used. We all want OSM to be a

Re: [Imports] [osm-pl] Fwd: Re: Import of addresses in Poland

2014-02-05 Thread Serge Wroclawski
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 3:34 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: But your statement does remind me of a good point: those that claim imports harm community have not shown any data supporting that viewpoint. I have anecdotal evidence to that effect, which is that I've personally had trouble

Re: [Imports] [osm-pl] Fwd: Re: Import of addresses in Poland

2014-02-05 Thread Serge Wroclawski
My anecdotal evidence shows the opposite: people are more excited about OSM in Chicago with the buildings import from last year. I am not talking about excitment, I'm talking about how many objects are actually updated. - Serge ___ Imports mailing

Re: [Imports] [Imports-us] Address Data Import for Fulton County, Georgia

2014-01-13 Thread Serge Wroclawski
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 9:20 AM, Saikrishna Arcot saiarcot...@gmail.com wrote: I'm using the capitalization of the street name as it is in OSM. Technically, shouldn't the city name in OpenStreetMap match the legal/geographical city and not the postal city? Technically the city name in OSM

Re: [Imports] [Imports-us] Completion of King County Address Import

2014-01-12 Thread Serge Wroclawski
Please do not cross post. On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 5:19 PM, Johan C osm...@gmail.com wrote: But if you have the buildings, I think the consensus has been to merge them in. Not quite. Consensus has been that there are two options, and that local communities (not individuals) can decide on the

Re: [Imports] [Imports-us] Address Data Import for Fulton County, Georgia

2014-01-09 Thread Serge Wroclawski
Saikrishna, You've made some big improvements to the wiki- thank you. I think we still have a ways to go before this is ready to be vetted in depth- we have a few big issues, as I see it (and I'm sure others will jump in with their own): 1. The license issue is still unresolved I looked at the

Re: [Imports] [Imports-us] Address Data Import for Fulton County, Georgia

2014-01-09 Thread Serge Wroclawski
On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.uswrote: I agree with Martijn. Addresses add real value to OSM. With an address node, routing works better, adding POI information is easier, and it aids disaster recovery work. I'll admit, building outlines look nice and

Re: [Imports] [Imports-us] Address Data Import for Fulton County, Georgia

2014-01-07 Thread Serge Wroclawski
Saikrishna, I understand your enthusiasm for wanting to have address points for Fulton County, Georgia, but before you start uploading, we need to examine a few issues: 1. What is the license for this data? I was unable to download the data that was linked to from the wiki page. You have a

[Imports-us] Meeting tonight at 7pm EST

2014-01-06 Thread Serge Wroclawski
Hi all, Happy New Year! It's time for another meeting, on Google Hangouts, at 7pm EST. I'll be posting a link to the hangout 10-15 minutes before the meeting. Hope to see you all there. - Serge ___ Imports-us mailing list

[Imports-us] Last meeting of the year tonight

2013-12-23 Thread Serge Wroclawski
Hey all, Quick reminder that there's a meeting tonight on Google+. Will send URL 10-15 minutes before meeting. - Serge ___ Imports-us mailing list Imports-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports-us

Re: [Imports-us] Last meeting of the year tonight

2013-12-23 Thread Serge Wroclawski
https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/76cpjh57qafavg0j6t3fkfokf0?hl=en On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 7:25 AM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: Hey all, Quick reminder that there's a meeting tonight on Google+. Will send URL 10-15 minutes before meeting. - Serge

Re: [Imports-us] Seattle Import

2013-12-14 Thread Serge Wroclawski
Indeed, they absolutely lead to problems. In NYC we've found several problems with IDs already: 1. The IDs that we thought were unqiue are not- some have special magic values. It turns out two agencies have different IDs for the same building, and we may have wanted to be using the other one the

Re: [Imports-us] NYC Import Review

2013-12-13 Thread Serge Wroclawski
No offense to either of you, and mad props to Ian Dees, but there have been a number of people who've been checking the NYC area very mythodically, including Toby Murray, Richard Welty, Paul Norman and myself I want to be sure that all non-local folks who've been digging in and checking the areas

Re: [Imports-us] People ignoring NYC import pause, tasks done outstripping validation

2013-12-10 Thread Serge Wroclawski
For anyone who could not be there, this is the recording of the meeting: http://youtu.be/Q-79vu4gbVM ___ Imports-us mailing list Imports-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports-us

Re: [Imports-us] People ignoring NYC import pause, tasks done outstripping validation

2013-12-09 Thread Serge Wroclawski
I can make it today at 5pm. At 7pm we have the import meeting, so that's my hard stop. - Serge On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 7:23 AM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.comwrote: It's actually more bizarre than that- the importers

Re: [Imports-us] People ignoring NYC import pause, tasks done outstripping validation

2013-12-09 Thread Serge Wroclawski
On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 4:51 AM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.comwrote: MapBox employee edits have been of bad quality, done extremely rapidly with lots of errors, tons of omissions. In nearly every single task I've

Re: [Imports-us] People ignoring NYC import pause, tasks done outstripping validation

2013-12-09 Thread Serge Wroclawski
Ian, Please stick to the facts, file bugs where you see them*, and stop using overblown, unsubstantiated words. This pushes people away from our community and makes the people you're criticizing defensive and ignore the issue at hand. I have made a number of bug reports in the past, mainly in

Re: [Imports-us] People ignoring NYC import pause, tasks done outstripping validation

2013-12-09 Thread Serge Wroclawski
I got word that Eric won't be able to make the meeting. Can we record it so that he (or anyone else) can watch it later? - Serge ___ Imports-us mailing list Imports-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports-us

Re: [Imports-us] People ignoring NYC import pause, tasks done outstripping validation

2013-12-09 Thread Serge Wroclawski
. I recommend trying this once before, it's really easy but there's an additional authentication step tha tyou need to do once if I remember this right. On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 4:12 PM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.comwrote: I got word that Eric won't be able to make the meeting. Can we

Re: [Imports-us] Import Commitee Meeting Tonight

2013-12-09 Thread Serge Wroclawski
URL: https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/76cpiohn2sl8v0ev66jltm3v0k?authuser=0hl=en On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 8:00 AM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, It's hard to believe it's been only two weeks since our last meeting, but it has, and so it's time for another one! We'll

Re: [Imports-us] Union County Georgia Building Footprints

2013-12-01 Thread Serge Wroclawski
On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 11:10 PM, Randal Hale rjh...@northrivergeographic.com wrote: I'll get the files up shortly - found an issue and I'm working back through them. For me the whole license issue is a bit foggy. If public domain isn't a good one to go with there are multiple imports that

[Imports-us] Meeting tonight

2013-11-25 Thread Serge Wroclawski
Hi all, There's a meeting tonight, on Google+ at 7pm EST. I will send the hangout URL 10-15 minutes before the meeting begins. See you there. - Serge ___ Imports-us mailing list Imports-us@openstreetmap.org

[Imports-us] Hangout URL

2013-11-25 Thread Serge Wroclawski
https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/76cpj4oq75rj2psv03jp2ip82k?hl=en ___ Imports-us mailing list Imports-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports-us

Re: [Imports] Belgium address import

2013-11-24 Thread Serge Wroclawski
After thinking about this import- I think that it's overall a bad idea because the addresses are not tied to physical structures. It would be better, IMHO, until the areas have building coverage, to use this as an external resource. Nonetheless I will reply to this address expansion because I

Re: [Imports] Best practices for address imports

2013-11-24 Thread Serge Wroclawski
On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Martin Raifer tyr@gmail.com wrote: Randal Hale rjh...@northrivergeographic.com wrote: I ask because I will (hopefully) be faced with a comparable problem in 2014 I'm also involved in a similar address import which is still in an early phase. And I see

Re: [Imports] Belgium address import

2013-11-24 Thread Serge Wroclawski
/24/2013 08:32 AM, Kurt Roeckx wrote: On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 07:53:30AM -0500, Serge Wroclawski wrote: After thinking about this import- I think that it's overall a bad idea because the addresses are not tied to physical structures. It would be better, IMHO, until the areas have building

Re: [Imports] Belgium address import

2013-11-23 Thread Serge Wroclawski
Ben, As someone who is overseeing a large import as well (though not as large as all of Belgium), I have a number of questions: 1. What QA have you done on the data to see that it's both good and consistent? Belgium is a large area and what we have found in the past is that data may be great in

Re: [Imports-us] Request from OSM US Import Committee

2013-11-12 Thread Serge Wroclawski
Darrell, The US board has given us the impression that it is very concerned about the state of the documentation around imports, so we've begun looking at what can be done to fix the situation. I proposed documentation to go on the OSM US website on the request of Martijn (the president) and

[Imports-us] Meeting Reminder tonight 7pm EST

2013-11-11 Thread Serge Wroclawski
Hi all, It's time again for our biweekly meeting. That will be tonight at 7pm EST on Google Hangouts. I'll send the URL to the group and IRC 10-15 minutes before the meeting starts. - Serge ___ Imports-us mailing list Imports-us@openstreetmap.org

[Imports-us] Meeting URL

2013-11-11 Thread Serge Wroclawski
https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/76cpib8415j0v5e7liig5jemig?hl=en ___ Imports-us mailing list Imports-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports-us

Re: [Imports] edit import guideline wiki page

2013-11-06 Thread Serge Wroclawski
On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 6:56 PM, Daniel O'Connor daniel.ocon...@gmail.com wrote: Can I push a different approach, for the longer term? You can discuss it. I understand the problem we are trying to solve is preventing harmful imports, so the map data is of high quality. That's *one* of the

Re: [Imports-us] OSM US Import Document Draft

2013-11-04 Thread Serge Wroclawski
Folks, Have we lost our digital heritage? If you use in-line replies (like we do for pretty much everything else), all will be easy. http://www.river.com/users/share/etiquette/#inline I'll reply about substance soon. - Serge ___ Imports-us mailing

Re: [Imports-us] OSM US Import Document Draft

2013-11-04 Thread Serge Wroclawski
Carol, Your responses are commentary, rather than suggestions for improvements to the document. Please make concrete suggestions, such as Original text Original doesn't sound as good to the ear as Classic, so it would read Classic text Thank you, - Serge

Re: [Imports-us] OSM US Import Document Draft

2013-11-04 Thread Serge Wroclawski
Randal and all, Let's remember that this is a discussion about a web page, not regarding policy of any sort. This is about telling people about the issue of imports with clear, factual information- telling them that imports are welcome if they're carefully cultivated, but many datasets, and many

Re: [Imports-us] OSM US Import Committee

2013-11-04 Thread Serge Wroclawski
in and of itself. -Carol - Carol Kraemer North River Geographic Systems, Inc http://www.northrivergeographic.com 404.431.0125 cakrae...@northrivergeographic.com On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, In light

Re: [Imports-us] OSM US Import Committee

2013-11-04 Thread Serge Wroclawski
Carol, My issue is this is not Serge vs Carol or Serge vs Randal. In fact, I liked Randal for the few hours I met him back in Atlanta so many years ago (that doesn't mean I don't like you- I've just never met you). I will tell you that I'm quite frustrated when I read comments like this from

[Imports-us] OSM US Import Document Draft

2013-11-03 Thread Serge Wroclawski
All, At the last meeting, we discussed creating a page on the OSM US website about imports. The message for this page is that we welcome imports, but that before an import is done, the importer must do a lot of homework and be prepared for a long process. Martijn and I separately decided to take

Re: [Imports-us] OSM US Import Document Draft

2013-11-03 Thread Serge Wroclawski
Carol, I want the mail to go through so that we can capture the discussion. That is, I don't want to shunt the discussion to a third party platform. Please folks, if you have feedback, use the mailing list. If we want to move the discussion to an editable document, we can use the Wiki or

Re: [Imports-us] OSM US Import Document Draft

2013-11-03 Thread Serge Wroclawski
Randal, I strongly dislike wikis for discussion because the discussion is split between the group and those on the wiki. If we keep everything on the list, we keep not only the text, but the discussion, which is even more important. I sent the draft in plain text markdown, which is the format

[Imports-us] Meeting tonight, but will postpone if no one comes

2013-10-28 Thread Serge Wroclawski
I'm very sorry for not announcing the call for tonight. I've been very busy with some family issues. I can make it tonight and will run it if people show up. If not, I will postpone one week. Am EXTREMELY SORRY. - Serge ___ Imports-us mailing list

[Imports-us] Meeting URL

2013-10-28 Thread Serge Wroclawski
https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/72cpimguatrfs5uoe062q3v39c?hl=en ___ Imports-us mailing list Imports-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports-us

Re: [Imports] NYC building + address import - to merge or not to merge?

2013-10-14 Thread Serge Wroclawski
There's a bit of context missing from this conversation, so I want to fill people in on what happened, and then we can discuss the technical merits. Alex made his proposal (with my endorsement) before the import happened. Alex suggestebut then modified the data to this alternate way before the

[Imports] Help us address issues with the NYC Import

2013-10-14 Thread Serge Wroclawski
Hi all, As Alex mentioned, we had a test of our import this weekend. The event went great, with 22 people coming to help import. Before the event began, Alex gave a great walkthrough. In addition, we had written instructions on the tasking manager: http://tasks.openstreetmap.us/job/2 And I

[Imports-us] Meeting reminder: Meeting tonight

2013-10-14 Thread Serge Wroclawski
Hi all, Meeting tonight at 7pm EST, on Google Hangout, as usual. Same bat time, same bat place, as they say. - Serge ___ Imports-us mailing list Imports-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports-us

Re: [Imports] presenting the case for open data to local government?

2013-10-12 Thread Serge Wroclawski
The reason I didn't bring up Dan's argument (though I love Dan's evidence) is that cost recovery is often a term used. So someone might ask Where's our cost recovery? So for the economic argument, you need to talk to the mayor or others, rather than the GIS department. - Serge On Sat, Oct 12,

Re: [Imports] Import Proposal - Los Angeles County Land Use

2013-10-02 Thread Serge Wroclawski
Aaron, I think this is really great, really smart, innovative and awesome work generally. The direction you're going is exactly along the trajectory that we're moving as a community, using the combination of people and tools and trying to figure out how to use them both where they can do the

[Imports-us] Meeting reminder for tonight

2013-09-30 Thread Serge Wroclawski
Hi all, We have another of our bi-weekly meetings tonight on Google+, at 7pm EST. I'll be sending the link 10-15 minutes before the meeting. Thanks, - Serge ___ Imports-us mailing list Imports-us@openstreetmap.org

[Imports-us] Meeting URL

2013-09-30 Thread Serge Wroclawski
Hangout URL: https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/085ef8ff609c3aa633072845ebcf29b2cc5683f2?hl=en ___ Imports-us mailing list Imports-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports-us

Re: [Imports] SASA bus stops import

2013-09-27 Thread Serge Wroclawski
I didn't have to go very far on this proposal to see a showstopper: Recently, SASA published some of its data as “quasi open data” (CC-BY-NC) Well, that's not OSM compatible, so there's no need to comment on anything else. - Serge ___ Imports mailing

Re: [Imports] Introducing OSMLY

2013-09-20 Thread Serge Wroclawski
Aaron, I have a number of thoughts about your tool. First, the good: This is great. It is very similar to the work Martijn and I have done with MapRoulette. MapRoulette can essentially do what this tool does, so there wasn't really a need for yet another tool. In fact, my only complaint is that

Re: [Imports-us] NYC building + address import

2013-09-17 Thread Serge Wroclawski
On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 7:57 AM, a...@mapbox.com a...@mapbox.com wrote: Maybe i am missing something here, what are the issues referred to her_specifically_? : Because of previous imports issues with manual imports The examples that came up were the French imports, and the DC imports. The

Re: [Imports] Add to discard ist : more tiger tags

2013-09-12 Thread Serge Wroclawski
tiger:name_1 The tiger name_#, name_base, name_direction, prefix, suffix tags are still useful. Ideally, all TIGER names would be folded into more meaningful tags (name, alt_name, etc.) but until then, we want to keep the names in the object. - Serge

[Imports] TIGER name expansion (was GNIS tags)

2013-09-12 Thread Serge Wroclawski
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 6:42 PM, Andrew Buck andrew.r.b...@gmail.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hmm, regarding the ones not touched by the name expansion bot due to prior user activity... is there a list of these way id's somewhere? No, but it wouldn't be too hard

[Imports-us] Meeting tonight with guest host Jason Remillard!

2013-09-02 Thread Serge Wroclawski
Hi all, There's a meeting scheduled for tonight, but I have an old friend in town that I haven't seen in a long while, so I won't be able to make it. But Jason Remillard has agreed to take over for me, so he'll be running things tonight. I hope I see all, or at least most of you this weekend

Re: [Imports-us] Massachusetts lakes upload next weekend

2013-09-01 Thread Serge Wroclawski
Looks good to me. Maybe add bot=yes or some other specific import identifier to the changeset tags? - Serge On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Jason Remillard remillard.ja...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Lars and I have finished QA'ing the MassGIS lake uplaod file, and would like to do the upload next

Re: [Imports] Data Imports

2013-08-30 Thread Serge Wroclawski
Innocensia, I think I speak for many of us when we say that we want to help you, but are very confused. Your previous import changeset had 600 ways. What is this one road? And why is this single way object inside a relation? Is this part of a new import attempt of the same data, or new data?

Re: [Imports-us] NJ Landuse import (NJ2002LULC)

2013-08-29 Thread Serge Wroclawski
I haven't heard any news on this. I know this import had its supporters who think it can be salvaged. Are you folks going to provide a plan to address its various issues? - Serge ___ Imports-us mailing list Imports-us@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Imports-us] NPS/GRSM Import: OSM file for review/comment

2013-08-27 Thread Serge Wroclawski
Thomas, Your answers are really interesting, but your style of response is quite complicated. Can you please use the in-line reply style that many of us are used to: http://www.river.com/users/share/etiquette/#inline Thanks, - Serge ___ Imports-us

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