Re: [OSM-talk] Survey about OSM communication behaviors

2023-05-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
ction elsewhere in OSM is absolutely a valid and interesting topic, but the lists belong to pretty much the same period in OSM history as IRC and Potlatch, and I say that as someone who still uses both. :) Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@opens

Re: [OSM-talk] Public Rights of Way overlay missing

2023-01-05 Thread Richard Fairhurst
m.cycle.travel. Unfortunately one of the hosts I use let me down (repeated outages and very little support), so I had to move a bunch of stuff at short notice on New Year's Eve. I haven't had chance to move a few of the tile layers yet but should be able to in the next f

Re: [OSM-talk] [Osmf-talk] Call to Take Action and Confront Systemic Offensive Behavior in the OSM Community

2020-12-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
It might therefore be incumbent on us all to shut up and let women be heard. Their experiences do not need to be mediated through our mansplaining. In that spirit I'll post no more on this. Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org htt

Re: [OSM-talk] I’m running for OSMF board and I’ve set up office hours for questions

2020-12-02 Thread Richard Fairhurst
, Bing, Here, Tencent, ViaMichelin, TomTom, Mapquest, Esri, and Qwant all have on-map attribution. http://www.systemed.net/osm/attribution.png Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] Big Blue Button email outage?

2020-10-31 Thread Richard Welty
trying to either 1) recover a BBB account or 2) setup a new one, there seems to be an email outage. can someone reach out to the admins for the OSM BBB server to get the problem resolved? thanks, richard -- rwe...@averillpark.net Averill Park Networking - GIS & IT Consulting OpenStree

Re: [OSM-talk] Funding of three infrastructure projects : Nominatim, osm2pgsql, Potlatch

2020-08-02 Thread Richard Fairhurst
010, are actually pretty skilled and experienced (by definition the beginner users use iD these days) - many of them have a four-figure number of changesets - so installing AIR shouldn't be beyond them. Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Funding of three infrastructure projects : Nominatim, osm2pgsql, Potlatch 2

2020-08-02 Thread Richard Fairhurst
ot;Other uses" is easy to type but doesn't actually mean anything until you identify what those uses are, and crucially, find someone who is prepared to do them. Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Funding of three infrastructure projects : Nominatim, osm2pgsql, Potlatch 2

2020-08-01 Thread Richard Fairhurst
s showing promise (https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle) and is under very active development, but does not yet support AS3 or the Flash Player features that P2 needs. I would anticipate that P2 will be able to run as WebAssembly when Ruffle reaches feature parity with AIR 2.6. Richard __

Re: [OSM-talk] Let's talk Attribution

2020-05-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
t info. Fine. It takes two clicks on osm.org (Copyright -> Contributors) to get to the equivalent. That's proportionate. It's not what we are talking about here. We are talking about maps where 90%+ of the data comes from OSM, yet a credit to OSM is either missing entirely or deliber

Re: [OSM-talk] remove the suggestion to credit "contributors"

2020-04-17 Thread Richard Fairhurst
uot;, we communicate that the map has many contributors - and, implicitly, you could be one too. So it serves as a recruiting sergeant for OSM, while conveying the democratic, grassroots nature of the project. To my mind the main driver for attribution has always been to get more contributors and mak

Re: [OSM-talk] Digital environmentalism

2020-02-26 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Kathleen Lu wrote: > I would not say this is true. Google maps has routing for walking, > cycling, and public transit, and their public transit information is > probably more complete than OSM's. It is, but on the other hand Google's walking and cycling routing is _mu

Re: [OSM-talk] Web editors and lane rendering

2020-02-19 Thread Richard Fairhurst
will come off the Edit menu after December this year when Flash Player support is no longer available in browsers, although it will probably continue to be available as an executable app via Adobe/Harman AIR. Richard -- Sent from: http://gis.19327.n8.

Re: [OSM-talk] For the sake of peace | Re: Cease use of OpenStreetMap/Antifa logo

2020-02-17 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Rory McCann wrote: > The existence of an OSM cycling logo doesn't mean all > OSMers have to be cycling activists! Wait, what? cheers Richard -- Sent from: http://gis.19327.n8.nabble.com/General-Discussion-f5171242.html ___ talk mailin

Re: [OSM-talk] Cease use of OpenStreetMap/Antifa logo

2020-02-15 Thread Richard
On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 04:01:23PM -0500, Mario Frasca wrote: > On 15/02/2020 15:27, Richard wrote: > >getting better and better: we have now a discussion on the labeling > >of Antifa, definition of facism, authority of Wikipedia, what next? > > > >* less politics is

Re: [OSM-talk] Cease use of OpenStreetMap/Antifa logo

2020-02-15 Thread Richard
tifa, definition of facism, authority of Wikipedia, what next? * less politics is better for OSM * I would not be happy if anyone could mashup his logo with that of OSM Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] New Telegram chat for OSM + LGBTQIA*

2020-01-28 Thread Richard
On Sun, Jan 26, 2020 at 10:58:01PM +, Alan Mackie wrote: > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/List_of_OSM_centric_Telegram_accounts ? thanks, for some reason it was not easy to find. Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org ht

Re: [OSM-talk] New Telegram chat for OSM + LGBTQIA*

2020-01-26 Thread Richard
On Sat, Jan 11, 2020 at 04:19:32PM +0100, Rory McCann wrote: Hi, > A new Telegram group has been set up: “RainbOSM”. A chat about LGBTQIA* > issues and OpenStreetMap. 🙂 > > Join here: https://t.me/joinchat/BDLI7xMzuF5TRZ5lwLYxkA is there a list of OSM groups in Telegram somewhe

Re: [OSM-talk] EuroVelo routes are out of date

2019-10-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Maarten Deen wrote: > Is it an idea to create some kind of ticketing system for this? I think we already have this: - create notes on osm.org, including the word "eurovelo" - search for "eurovelo" on https://ent8r.github.io/NotesReview/ Richard -- Sent from: http://

[OSM-talk] EuroVelo routes are out of date

2019-10-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
nobbery [3], but there’s not a lot of point fretting over how pretty the tagging is on the route relation if the route is actually wrong in the first place. Could I encourage people to check the EuroVelo routes in their home countries and update them where necessary? Richard

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging Governance

2019-09-12 Thread Richard Fairhurst
retaining qualified people to work on this". The choice of technology/platform for such a project would be down to those people and what they find comfortable. Richard -- Sent from: http://gis.19327.n8.nabble.com/General-Discussion-f5171242.html

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging Governance

2019-09-11 Thread Richard Fairhurst
would continue doing what the wiki does. Same principle as switch2osm. Richard -- Sent from: http://gis.19327.n8.nabble.com/General-Discussion-f5171242.html ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging Governance

2019-09-11 Thread Richard Fairhurst
the mapper, no-one is obliged to parse your new tag, etc. etc.). Life is too short to explain this to everyone and, to be honest, the uber-keen tag proposer doesn't want to hear their proposal rubbished in the first five minutes so won't listen anyway. Writing down "this is how OSM t

[OSM-talk] many images in wiki gone missing?

2019-09-06 Thread Richard
Hi, noticed that many wiki pages like https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:bridge:structure https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/DE:Key:bridge:structure are now full of red links instead of the images that were previously there. What happened?? Richard

Re: [OSM-talk] Attribution guideline status update

2019-08-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
, permission for attribution via our central 'Contributors' pages needs to be obtained and documented." cheers Richard -- Sent from: http://gis.19327.n8.nabble.com/General-Discussion-f5171242.html ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Attribution guideline status update

2019-08-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
neither of these in your statement. For better understanding, you claimed "this looks pretty much like being written by corporate representatives", and I pointed out that one of the items in point 2 that you object to was written by me in 2012, so not a corporate representative, and

Re: [OSM-talk] Attribution guideline status update

2019-08-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
a click is not acceptable. That's unambiguous all we need. Fussing about what other logos might be on the map is a diversion and is not supported by the ODbL. Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Attribution guideline status update

2019-08-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
unacceptable and looks pretty much > like being written by corporate representatives Your point 2 is objecting to something I wrote in 2012 when I was editing a magazine about inland waterways and has been on osm.org/copyright ever since, so nope. :) Richard [1] let's be honest, we're

Re: [OSM-talk] Attribution guideline status update

2019-08-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
se the attribution as long as it is initially fully visible" This would be better as "It is permissible to provide a user-activated mechanism to...". There are apps which flash up an OSM credit for under a second, after which it disappears (including one terrific iOS mapping app wh

Re: [OSM-talk] Remove validation rule asking to add highway=footway to railway/public_transport=platform

2019-05-27 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Andrew Hain wrote: > Have a new team of developers code from the codebase of iD. > Write a new online editor from scratch. > Abandon online editing and tell everyone to use an offline editor. Please stop trolling. Richard -- Sent from: http://gis.19327.n8.nabble.com/General-D

Re: [OSM-talk] Remove validation rule asking to add highway=footway to railway/public_transport=platform

2019-05-27 Thread Richard Fairhurst
imodal and you can't do multimodal routing if you can't navigate the platforms. Graphhopper does. I could list about 20 editor tagging improvements that would make foot and bike routing better, and this isn't one of them. Richard -- Sent from: http://gis.19327.n8.nabble.com/Gen

Re: [OSM-talk] An Archive namespace for the OSM wiki?

2019-04-26 Thread Richard
ts about time to admit the total failure of this search and inplement it via google or other ones. Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] iD influencing tagging

2019-04-07 Thread Richard Fairhurst
ocation on the edit tab: JOSM arguably has more "heft" because its bulk editing abilities allow people to impose new tags by force of number, not to mention you 'orrible lot forever bombarding the poor newbie to use JOSM or else. ;) cheers Richard -- Sent from: http://gis.19327.n8

Re: [OSM-talk] weeklyOSM #450 2019-02-26-2019-03-04

2019-03-12 Thread Richard Fairhurst
M were being very fair-minded and, mindful of Mikel's previous comments about them editorialising the news, decided to editorialise this one in his favour for once. ;) cheers Richard -- Sent from: http://gis.19327.n8.nabble.com/General-Discussion-f5171242.html __

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

2019-03-01 Thread Richard Fairhurst
ity Guidelines process explains (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/Community_Guidelines/How_We_Create_Community_Guidelines), such guidelines can be proposed by the community (no kidding, Sherlock). By starting the discussion here, we can begin to ascertain what the community would want to see

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

2019-02-28 Thread Richard Fairhurst
re has been a lot of chatter over recent years about this issue but the issue has never really broken through. Let's talk about it openly, honestly and respectfully and get it sorted out for the benefit of both mappers and data consumers. cheers Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] Help - how to get rid of wrong image in wiki?

2018-12-19 Thread Richard
t rid of it? Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Ground truth for non-physical objects

2018-12-12 Thread Richard Fairhurst
name here in Charlbury and then post a letter to it, Carla the post-lady will ask around until she finds out where the street is (or until she sees the sign you've erected), and then she'll deliver you the letter. A working postcode will speed the process up but isn't absolutely necess

[OSM-talk] cycle.travel's OSM bike routing now covers Scandinavia and Eastern Europe

2018-11-19 Thread Richard Fairhurst
ults. cheers Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Upload picture from OSM Contributor

2018-10-09 Thread Richard
On Tue, Oct 09, 2018 at 10:05:40AM +0700, Bui Quang Hung wrote: > Dear all, > > I am trying to upload a picture from OSM Contributor (Mobile App) but I do > not know how to do. more details please, it is difficult to understand what you are trying to

Re: [OSM-talk] Is it time to redevelop JOSM?

2018-10-07 Thread Richard
enstreetmap.org/wiki/Merkaartor ? Vespucci? Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] weird "excessive bounces" warnings from the list

2018-10-05 Thread Richard
n though that's not what > From: says) and so uses OSM's SPF correctly. interesting, my gmail inbox has 11788 OSM mails and only 39 in the spam folder, out of those one false positive. Richard pgpIcO1SqSRo_.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [OSM-talk] weird "excessive bounces" warnings from the list

2018-10-01 Thread Richard
lists and not seeing this problem, at least not with a gmail account. Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] weird "excessive bounces" warnings from the list

2018-10-01 Thread Richard
081459.html but is this the "offending" message? The messages go straight into a dedicated gmail inbox without any filters. As far as I know gmail will only ever reject messages that contain what looks to it like executable programs - attached files (*.exe, *

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Wikibase is now live

2018-09-23 Thread Richard
streetmap.org/wiki/Item:Q104 > Tag:bridge:movable=bascule: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Item:Q888 how do I get at other language's versions, and how do I get easily at the original source of the information (description text) to fix it? Richard __

Re: [OSM-talk] Is it technically and legally possible to add the Open Location Code to the OSM search?

2018-08-11 Thread Richard Fairhurst
/1818#issuecomment-380695939). I reckon this thread is consensus enough and I'm sure Simon can indulge us on this one little thing if we promise to uncockup some editor presets in return. :) Richard -- Sent from: http://gis.19327.n8.nabble.com/General-Discussion-f5171242.html ___

Re: [OSM-talk] Scientific paper on "Information Seeding"

2018-07-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
l areas, which are big and empty. But, and you'll excuse me stating the blindingly obvious, the thing about empty areas is that there's not much there to map. The TIGER A41 issue continues to be a running sore but, by and large, this can be (and is being) armchaired. Richard [1]

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

2018-07-04 Thread Richard Fairhurst
umerous other cases where wiki documentation differs wildly from real-world mapping practice (there are a couple of notorious examples around access which I won't bore you with here). Richard -- Sent from: http://gis.19327.n8.nabble.com/General-Discussion-f5171242.html ___

Re: [OSM-talk] About OSM social implications and what can/should be displayed on the map (or not)

2018-06-29 Thread Richard Fairhurst
ndly WYSIWYG editor[2]. It's not even infeasible that, one day, individual OSM users could save their own stylesheets somewhere on osm.org, fork and share them with others. The possibilities are endless, and endlessly delightful. That is where to focus our energies - not on mithering arou

Re: [OSM-talk] highway="corridor" tag

2018-05-05 Thread Richard Marsden
ome of the more obvious typos...) So back to my original questions: The only way to find a new valid tag value is to wait for a user to complain about a funky or lack of calculated route? Richard On Sat, May 5, 2018 at 12:31 PM, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: > 5. May 2018 18:07 by winw...@gmail.

[OSM-talk] highway="corridor" tag

2018-05-05 Thread Richard Marsden
he Map_Features page? Is there any way to find out about new additions to avoid future 'surprises' like this? Looking at the maps (and not knowing the two locations), the corridor tagging looks reasonable. Regards, Richard Marsden Winwaed Software Technology LL

Re: [OSM-talk] Name:* tags in the local language

2018-04-24 Thread Richard Fairhurst
logic. Mateusz Konieczny wrote: > This language=en tag would be placed on a administrative > relation, right? If I read Frederik's proposal right, the language=en tag would be placed on the object with the name tag, though putting it on admin relations is an interesting idea. Rich

Re: [OSM-talk] Unify Mapping and wiki accounts? -- WAS: Vote cheating?

2018-03-19 Thread Richard
On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 01:51:54AM -0300, Nicolás Alvarez wrote: > El 18 mar. 2018, a la(s) 20:50, François Lacombe > escribió: > > > > > 2018-03-19 0:38 GMT+01:00 Michael Kugelmann : > >>> Am 18.03.2018 um 20:45 schrieb Richard: > >>> fundamenta

[OSM-talk] Unify Mapping and wiki accounts? -- WAS: Vote cheating?

2018-03-18 Thread Richard
have any use for separate mapping and wiki accounts. Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Danger zone for pedestrians

2018-03-05 Thread Richard
On Mon, Mar 05, 2018 at 01:35:41PM +, Andy Townsend wrote: > On 05/03/2018 11:49, Richard wrote: > >this one problem could be (somewhat) solved by conditional restrictions, > > No, this is not an access restriction - people are allowed to go there > whenever they like; it

Re: [OSM-talk] Danger zone for pedestrians

2018-03-05 Thread Richard
disallowing it for political or ideological reasons. Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Danger zone for pedestrians

2018-03-05 Thread Richard
dfills, busy roads and many other features will allow someone to draw conclusions about the socioeconomic status of the Area. Most of the time you can deduce income status purely by the geometry of houses and roads. Richard ___ talk mailing lis

Re: [OSM-talk] Danger zone for pedestrians

2018-03-05 Thread Richard
nrise https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Conditional_restrictions Not that any routing engine I am aware of would understand those. Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Questions about levels and fractional levels as well as how to handle them.

2017-12-21 Thread Richard
On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 04:21:37PM +, John Karr wrote: Hi, somewhat sidelining the issue, you can always add key:ele which should circumvent most pittfalls as long as it is present on all interesting objects. Richard ___ talk mailing list talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Mailing list security

2017-11-25 Thread Richard
password is useless for 97% of users and should cease to exist. Where some authentication to the list server is needed send a link or code via email or more secure methods. Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] weeklyOSM #382 2017-11-07-2017-11-13

2017-11-22 Thread Richard Fairhurst
d's international language as our mother tongue could, perhaps, be more forgiving of those who weren't. Richard [1] http://blog.openstreetmap.de/blog/2017/11/wochennotiz-nr-382/ -- Sent from: http://gis.19327.n8.nabble.com/General-Discussion-f5171242.html __

Re: [OSM-talk] weeklyOSM #382 2017-11-07-2017-11-13

2017-11-17 Thread Richard Fairhurst
don’t let that stop you with your ever entertaining amateur hour. Richard -- Sent from: http://gis.19327.n8.nabble.com/General-Discussion-f5171242.html ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] New OSM Quick-Fix service

2017-11-14 Thread Richard Fairhurst
th, rather than trying to impose behaviours from elsewhere. Richard -- Sent from: http://gis.19327.n8.nabble.com/General-Discussion-f5171242.html ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

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

2017-11-01 Thread Richard
e if they want to see half of Asia in Russian and Arab alphabets or better in English and then ask the Russsians the equivalent questions. Also, while it is relatively rare that names transliterated to latin can cause political issues, many names in Asia will cause trouble if they a

Re: [OSM-talk] weeklyOSM #379 2017-10-17-2017-10-23

2017-10-30 Thread Richard
dits to a single page within 14 days * 5 edits to talk pages per 7 days * 1 revert per 14 days Nothing personal but very few people here have the time to follow dozens of changesets so this would help a lot. Maybe for some contributors a personal blacklist banning every edit with the word &quo

Re: [OSM-talk] weeklyOSM #379 2017-10-17-2017-10-23

2017-10-28 Thread Richard
imedia are hard to understand. Even though I had only one argument with him I have given up arguing with him. His bad English and awkward contortion of arguments make it no fun. We should try a way to understand him? Richard ___ talk maili

Re: [OSM-talk] weeklyOSM #379 2017-10-17-2017-10-23

2017-10-28 Thread Richard Fairhurst
I agree absolutely. Time to ban verdy_p for continually disruptive behaviour and an unwillingness to work with the community. Richard -- Sent from: http://gis.19327.n8.nabble.com/General-Discussion-f5171242.html ___ talk mailing list talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Topology rules

2017-10-26 Thread Richard
ta_consumers Water and forest is allowed to overlap. OSM landcover model is insufficient and mildly broken. Fixing it is not so easy. Richard pgpAtcSqTx1_j.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] New OSM Quick-Fix service

2017-10-20 Thread Richard
ool but perhaps this was not the intention of the author? Because - if you wanted to do automated editing there are much easier and quicker methods. Of course therer are many ways the tool should be improved before it is used. Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Zooming past native resolution

2017-10-16 Thread Richard Nairn
Thanks - disabling auto zoom worked. I'm working on the Puerto Rico project - they are using ESRI World imagery as a base. On 2017-10-16 11:22 AM, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote: On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 3:09 PM, Richard Nairn wrote: I'm just starting out and I had a question

Re: [OSM-talk] Zooming past native resolution

2017-10-16 Thread Richard Nairn
Sorry - Using JOSM - dev build On 2017-10-16 11:09 AM, Richard Nairn wrote: Hi, I'm just starting out and I had a question related to imagery. I am trying to do some digitizing of house footprints for HOT-OSM. I'm having issues when the houses are very close together, or I&#x

[OSM-talk] Zooming past native resolution

2017-10-16 Thread Richard Nairn
Hi, I'm just starting out and I had a question related to imagery. I am trying to do some digitizing of house footprints for HOT-OSM. I'm having issues when the houses are very close together, or I'm trying to digitize smaller features. When I try to zoom in beyond native resolution to move,

Re: [OSM-talk] New OSM Quick-Fix service

2017-10-16 Thread Richard Fairhurst
drive.) OSM is a collection of human knowledge; this workflow goes too far in removing the human from the equation. As an alternative, could I encourage you to look at something tentative I did the other year for that relic of an editor, Potlatch 2? https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Richa

[OSM-talk] Cycle network nodes and mountain passes

2017-10-04 Thread Richard Fairhurst
America in the next update in a week or so's time. cycle.travel mapping and routing is updated from OSM roughly once a month. And thanks to everyone who has added knooppunten and mountain pass info to OSM! cheers Richard ___ talk mailin

Re: [OSM-talk] Licence compatibility (was Adding wikidata tags to the remaining objects with only wikipedia tag)

2017-10-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
eat-of-the-brow doctrine) as well as the EU database right, at least until this benighted country takes leave of its senses forever and leaves the EU. :( Follow-ups probably best to legal-talk@. Richard -- Sent from: http://gis.19327.n8.nabble.com/General-

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

2017-09-27 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Andy Mabbett wrote: > in different parts of the world IIRC OSM stores spatial information. I might be wrong. Richard -- Sent from: http://gis.19327.n8.nabble.com/General-Discussion-f5171242.html ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org ht

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

2017-09-25 Thread Richard Fairhurst
of openstreetmap-carto. Richard -- Sent from: http://gis.19327.n8.nabble.com/General-Discussion-f5171242.html ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Beach routing

2017-09-06 Thread Richard
On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 11:28:41AM +0200, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > 2017-08-30 11:56 GMT+02:00 Richard : > > > On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 12:53:43PM +0100, Philip Barnes wrote: > > > This really needs routers to be able to route over areas, the same issue > > exists ove

Re: [OSM-talk] Beach routing

2017-08-30 Thread Richard
re", before routers start routing them they awould have to be tagged with access tags. Also grass areas in the mountains can't be assumed to be walkable. Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Highway=trunk : harmonization between countries ?

2017-08-25 Thread Richard
On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 08:15:31AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote: > > Richard writes: > ... ... ... > > So I'm seeing a systematic bias (in fastest time mode) to slower, > shorter routes. > > I should get some actual data and compare reality to OSM more > systemati

Re: [OSM-talk] Highway=trunk : harmonization between countries ?

2017-08-24 Thread Richard
ng decissions. You would have to tag the large majority of roads with this tag to achieve a similar effect like not having it on any of those roads. Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Highway=trunk : harmonization between countries ?

2017-08-22 Thread Richard
s that can't be adequately mapped othwerwise. Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Highway=trunk : harmonization between countries ?

2017-08-22 Thread Richard
ive? > > And will depend on 'time of day' ;) of course - and you can use condiotional descriptions to map this. Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Highway=trunk : harmonization between countries ?

2017-08-22 Thread Richard
On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 10:00:07PM +0200, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > > sent from a phone > > > On 22. Aug 2017, at 15:46, Richard wrote: > > > > called differently, but this is it: > > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:maxspeed:practical > >

Re: [OSM-talk] Highway=trunk : harmonization between countries ?

2017-08-22 Thread Richard
is it: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:maxspeed:practical Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] An import in New Zealand, assistance requested

2017-08-16 Thread Richard
t through (particularly asking about those problematic imports). What kind of strange ml policy is that? Otoh my questions about LINZ imports were answered adequately. I would guess it is a country with a low number of mappers per square kilometer as you call it. Sometimes it happens they

Re: [OSM-talk] An import in New Zealand, assistance requested

2017-08-16 Thread Richard
.org.nz/ https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/LINZ I was in touch with http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/barnaclebarnes_linz regarding the waterways a while ago. Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Draft Trademark Policy

2017-08-05 Thread Richard Fairhurst
How you formulate a policy that permits osmosis and osmium but not OsmAnd, though, I have no idea. Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n8.nabble.com/Draft-Trademark-Policy-tp5900227p5900330.html Sent from the General Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __

Re: [OSM-talk] Deprication of Potlatch

2017-07-26 Thread Richard Fairhurst
No, it will be a desktop app for Mac/Windows running with Adobe AIR. Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n8.nabble.com/Deprication-of-Potlatch-tp5899779p5899781.html Sent from the General Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com

Re: [OSM-talk] class=bicycle usage

2017-07-16 Thread Richard
ose ways where I usually ride on my bike > sharing with the whole traffic (cars, buses, etc.) assuming you mean class:bicycle=*, this is a possibility. It has been critisized as not verifiable but realistically nobody has a better or to be modest a

Re: [OSM-talk] Street Complete

2017-06-04 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote: > The data shows something else. From todays old-style.osm.pbf, at least > these relations were created yesterday with Potlatch 2: Hey wait, aren't you meant to be posting this on an issue tracker? ;) Richard -- View this message in context: http://g

Re: [OSM-talk] Street Complete

2017-06-04 Thread Richard Fairhurst
not defending and do not defend abuse of developers. I have posted repeatedly on this list and elsewhere to that effect. Who would've thought? It figures. :) Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n8.nabble.com/Street-Com

Re: [OSM-talk] Street Complete

2017-06-02 Thread Richard Fairhurst
ng works than you appear to, and I can say that with some certainty having maintained the default osm.org editor from 2007 to 2013. Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n8.nabble.com/Street-Complete-tp5897501p5897529.html Sent from the General Discuss

Re: [OSM-talk] HDYC, login requirement and "privacy"

2017-05-08 Thread Richard Fairhurst
ot think this is coincidence. With identity comes accountability. There is nothing wrong with us saying "100% privacy is valuable, but it's not compatible with the way OSM works, and if you can't cope with your edits being trackable then OSM is perhaps not the project f

Re: [OSM-talk] Disputed border between Greece and Turkey near Imia/Kardak in the Aegean Sea (was: Re: [Geocoding] Boundries of Kardak Islands)

2017-03-31 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Florian Schäfer wrote: > I'm not an expert on borders and how disputed borders are handled > in OSM, so I forward this to the talk-list, because this probably > needs more discussion. https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/w/images/d/d8/DisputedTerritoriesInformation.pdf Richard

Re: [OSM-talk] Spam reporting

2017-02-23 Thread Richard Fairhurst
really is a case of "finishing" - plenty of work has already been done but it hasn't got to a state yet where it can be integrated into the site. For someone with Rails-fu it shouldn't be too hard. cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n8.nabble.co

Re: [OSM-talk] SOTM EU

2017-01-31 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Martijn van Exel wrote: > Here I thought I was asking a simple question. On an OSM mailing list? You must be new round here. (More seriously, there were rumours of an event in Italy, but I've not heard anything concrete.) cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.

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

2017-01-04 Thread Richard Fairhurst
revert, simply to be able to apply the long-standing (and well-founded) rules, would achieve nothing apart from driving away a bunch of selfless, hard-working volunteers. (There are no other large-scale reverts that take place in OSM to my knowledge.) Richard -- View this message in context: http

Re: [OSM-talk] Lot's of locality names in an otherwise empty area

2016-11-21 Thread Richard Fairhurst
bit odd - and begs the question if those tags > really need to be there. Why not? Be conservative in what you change/delete in OSM, be liberal in what you add. Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n8.nabble.com/Lot-s-of-locality-names-in-an-otherwise-empty-area-tp588

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetView name change

2016-11-08 Thread Richard Fairhurst
several years. (It's soon to be replaced by OS Open Map Local.) FWIW, I like the "-scape" suffix, e.g. OpenStreetscape: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/streetscape Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n8.nabble.com/OpenStreetView-name-change-tp5885558

Re: [OSM-talk] Which type of highways are used by routing software?

2016-11-02 Thread Richard Fairhurst
but if it did I would probably route over highway=track there. Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n8.nabble.com/Which-type-of-highways-are-used-by-routing-software-tp5885190p5885210.html Sent from the General Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __

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