Re: [Talk-us] Mapping for emergency services

2020-02-04 Thread Simon Poole
Just a general remark: we have active fire fighters contributing and using OSM in many places around the globe maybe it's time for a global exchange of ideas and a common forum for that? Simon PS: unluckily HOT and FOSM are already taken so a acronym will need some work :-) Am 4. Februar 2020

Re: [Talk-us] Website showing the best time to survey with GPS.

2019-06-27 Thread Simon Poole
The answer the OP was looking for is likely https://www.gnssplanning.com/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Mapping rail trails

2019-06-24 Thread Simon Poole
Am 24. Juni 2019 19:18:26 MESZ schrieb Greg Troxel : >One wonders how RTC squares this decision with their legal obligation >to >act in the public interest. Not sharing data at all to get "related >income" to fund their operation is one thing, but sharing with Google >while not with OSM see

Re: [Talk-us] California is too big ;)

2018-11-06 Thread Simon Poole
Jumping in here slightly unwarranted, but what the heck :-). I think the question is less where N vs S California is but more if there is a regional split of California that would make sense from a processing pov. Is for example somebody likely to do something with a North-CA extract, or if you wo

Re: [Talk-us] NYC Name Vandalism

2018-09-06 Thread Simon Poole
e filters that produce results that can be > automatically pulled into a local copy? > > (If a changeset has been reviewed by a second person - can that > information be provided). > > All I want is something that allows me to be a little bit more > conservative in accepting edits,

Re: [Talk-us] NYC Name Vandalism

2018-09-05 Thread Simon Poole
osmcha (osmcha.mapbox.com) already does most of this. While detecting vandalism in general is difficult, edits like those in question are easy to detect and small in number. IMHO it really isn't an issue with openstreetmap in this case, as even with the delay (somebody reported the user in questio

Re: [Talk-us] Talk-us Digest, Vol 127, Issue 11

2018-06-13 Thread Simon Poole
ning an import >> in Price George...) (Robert Yaklin) >>3. Re: Slack: Do we need an Alternative (was Planning an import >> in Price George...) (Marc Gemis) >> >> >> -- >> >> Message: 1 >> Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2018 05:47:27 +0200

Re: [Talk-us] Slack: Do we need an Alternative (was Planning an import in Price George...)

2018-06-10 Thread Simon Poole
Am 10.06.2018 um 05:21 schrieb Bryan Housel: >> I'm also interested in how others feel about Slack. Is it good for the >> community or should we look elsewhere? > Glad you asked! I think Slack has changed the way I work for the better. > > Here are some advantages.. > * lower barrier to entry f

Re: [Talk-us] Help fight advertising

2018-03-03 Thread Simon Poole
While I don't think supporting specific, rather questionable business models, is something we should expend a lot of effort on, improving the tooling for individual businesses to maintain an entry in OSM is (and a serious SEO shop could easily use such tools). Some may have already had a look at h

Re: [Talk-us] Looking for GPS with voice annotation?

2018-02-11 Thread Simon Poole
As has already been suggested you can do this with OSMTracker, however (and I used it a lot for gathering house numbers) IMHO voice annotations are really too easy to get wrong in one way or the other and just tend to turn in to a rather stressful experience. If you have a reasonably regular numbe

Re: [Talk-us] Willoughby, Ohio

2017-12-06 Thread Simon Poole
Hi Will On 06.12.2017 01:27, Will Skora wrote: > Hi, > > To those handling the request to LWG and DWG and those who've mapped > in Willoughby as a result of the email thread, thank you. > Even after reading the emails, I'm still a little unsure what was > requested to LWG and DWG and what local m

Re: [Talk-us] Willoughby, Ohio

2017-12-03 Thread Simon Poole
The street in question is Stevens Boulevard http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/41.64710/-81.42325 it seems that there is an issue mainly with trucks and speeding, seems like a  classical rat run. There seems to be a "no trucks" restriction and potentially lower max speed on the road itself (none

[Talk-us] Willoughby, Ohio

2017-12-03 Thread Simon Poole
We've (data & legal) received a request to remove a street in Willoughby, Ohio for safety reasons. It does seem as if a couple of things are rather under mapped there (speed limits, access and so on, not to mention POIs, but that's a different story). Anybody on the list in the vicinity that could

Re: [Talk-us] Potential vandalism or very misguided edits near Madison

2017-11-09 Thread Simon Poole
ood reason/explanation for those > deletions. Looks like a clear case for a revert. I'm not confident > enough in my revert abilities, though. >  Harald, Madison (WI) > > On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 2:09 PM Simon Poole <mailto:si...@poole.ch>> wrote: > > See at

[Talk-us] Potential vandalism or very misguided edits near Madison

2017-11-09 Thread Simon Poole
See at least the last 5 or so changesets here https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/JuggernautMapper/history Walter has already commented on one of the changesets but maybe somebody local should have a look at the edits and potentially revert. Simon signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital sig

Re: [Talk-us] anyone know what software is generating these Q/A Notes?

2017-08-12 Thread Simon Poole
We've been having issues on and off for a while now (now and then with a lot longer delays than 2 hours), as I understand from Tom this is due to a large number of bogus spammy subscription requests. Simon On 12 August 2017 02:03:03 CEST, Rihards wrote: >On 2017.08.12. 00:11, Max Erickson wrot

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

2017-07-27 Thread Simon Poole
Am 27.07.2017 um 16:23 schrieb Bryan Housel: > TODO: We don’t have a template letter, or clear guidelines on which > imagery licenses are compatible with our use, and we should. > See https://github.com/osmlab/editor-layer-index/issues/166 . Like > you said in your other email, tracing is very

Re: [Talk-us] SEO Damage to OSM

2017-07-05 Thread Simon Poole
Just to put the whole thing into perspective: the current run rate of SEO fake accounts in the US seems to be reasonably low. I counted 5 for the last 7 days, that is roughly 2% of new mappers in the US during those 7 days. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature __

Re: [Talk-us] SEO Damage to OSM

2017-07-05 Thread Simon Poole
Am 05.07.2017 um 17:27 schrieb Greg Morgan: > > > Am 01.07.2017 um 08:33 schrieb Simon Poole: > > ...given that we have a known US based SEO company that has created > (literally) 1000s of such accounts (but with slightly less spammy > edits), and "we" haven'

Re: [Talk-us] SEO Damage to OSM

2017-07-01 Thread Simon Poole
Am 01.07.2017 um 12:48 schrieb Walter Nordmann: > hi simon, > > > Am 01.07.2017 um 08:33 schrieb Simon Poole: >> >> I've already touched on this with the sys admins and saved refs to >> the ones that I fixed. However it is unlikely that we will do any >> t

Re: [Talk-us] SEO Damage to OSM

2017-06-30 Thread Simon Poole
e reused, and on the other hand, given that we have a known US based SEO company that has created (literally) 1000s of such accounts (but with slightly less spammy edits), and "we" haven't taken any action, why should we in this case? Simon > > On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 1:26 P

Re: [Talk-us] SEO Damage to OSM

2017-06-30 Thread Simon Poole
an a hateful one. > > Thanks, > Ian > > On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 4:43 PM, Simon Poole <mailto:si...@poole.ch>> wrote: > > I would suggest that TeleNav fixes the mess they made here > http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/402471851#map=18/34.18198/-118.39599 >

Re: [Talk-us] SEO Damage to OSM

2017-06-30 Thread Simon Poole
I would suggest that TeleNav fixes the mess they made here http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/402471851#map=18/34.18198/-118.39599 themselves. Am 30.06.2017 um 22:26 schrieb Simon Poole: > > I''m in the process of fixing a couple of these. and I couldn't help > noticing

Re: [Talk-us] SEO Damage to OSM

2017-06-30 Thread Simon Poole
A good example is "Box-n-Go Self Storage North" road in North Hollywood (I believe it should really be Laurel Canyon Boulevard) I would suggest TeleNav cleaning that up themselves. Am 30.06.2017 um 22:26 schrieb Simon Poole: > > I''m in the process of fixing a coupl

Re: [Talk-us] SEO Damage to OSM

2017-06-30 Thread Simon Poole
I''m in the process of fixing a couple of these. and I couldn't help noticing that some of them can't simply be reverted because the TeleNav data team has added lane tagging on them Simon Am 30.06.2017 um 18:21 schrieb Clifford Snow: > Edits, from what appears to be a search engine optimiza

Re: [Talk-us] Data team mapping buildings in Fort Worth and Dallas

2017-05-25 Thread Simon Poole
Andrew, could you perhaps weigh in on https://github.com/osmlab/editor-layer-index/issues/281 ? It seems to be rather silly to not be showing the best imagery as default in the editors (as I suspect we are doing for Texas). Thanks Simon On 25.05.2017 18:10, Andrew Matheny wrote: > Jinal- > > I

Re: [Talk-us] Choptank River

2017-01-16 Thread Simon Poole
Am 16.01.2017 um 15:08 schrieb Christoph Hormann: > On Sunday 15 January 2017, Simon Poole wrote: >> Given that Washington is supposedly the global centre of mapping >> goodness, I hope we might be able to find somebody there that perhaps >> is interested in fixing the,

[Talk-us] Choptank River

2017-01-15 Thread Simon Poole
While investigating a complaint to legal today in the vicinity of Denton Maryland, I couldn't help noticing that while Choptank River has a horribly broken, imported river bank, it seems to be missing the river. See for example http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=14/38.9018/-75.8339 Given that Was

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Beware Pokemon users

2016-12-30 Thread Simon Poole
The ODbL is very clear on what "Publicly" is: “Publicly” – means to Persons other than You or under Your control by either more than 50% ownership or by the power to direct their activities (such as contracting with an independent consultant). No need to speculate on that point. On the other han

Re: [Talk-us] API Behavior

2016-02-26 Thread Simon Poole
Am 26.02.2016 um 18:09 schrieb Richard Welty: > > the problem is that detecting the condition is pretty expensive. > consider long, straight boundaries that pass through your > bounding box. the search to find these segments of ways > might have to range out pretty far. > > Pretty far == the whole

Re: [Talk-us] QA tool to find duplicate addresses?

2015-12-06 Thread Simon Poole
reet"="Plymouth Drive" ("addr:housenumber"="415") >>"addr:street"="Rudd Road" ("addr:housenumber"="219") >>"addr:street"="Shadow Mountain Terrace" >("addr:housenumber"

Re: [Talk-us] QA tool to find duplicate addresses?

2015-12-06 Thread Simon Poole
OSMOSE does that http://osmose.openstreetmap.fr/de/map/ Am 07.12.2015 um 00:06 schrieb Tod Fitch: > I’ve come across data from an old address import that seems to have numerous > duplicate addresses. It would be nice to point JOSM to the places with the > most problems rather than to just random

Re: [Talk-us] Gosh ... something about mapping ...

2015-12-02 Thread Simon Poole
st to confuse things in Germany it is colloquially quite common to refer to any motorcycle as "moped" (even my 1300cc beemer) Am 02.12.2015 um 10:13 schrieb Paul Johnson: > On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 9:30 AM, Simon Poole <mailto:si...@poole.ch>> wrote: > > > I've c

Re: [Talk-us] Gosh ... something about mapping ...

2015-12-01 Thread Simon Poole
does it mean? > > Elliott > > On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 9:23 AM Ben Miller <mailto:bborkmil...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > I'm not familiar with the MUTCD, and a little Googling didn't get > me any clarification, but I'm guessing that "motor-driven c

Re: [Talk-us] Gosh ... something about mapping ...

2015-12-01 Thread Simon Poole
b Ben Miller: > I'm not familiar with the MUTCD, and a little Googling didn't get me > any clarification, but I'm guessing that "motor-driven cycles" refers > to mopeds and such, not to motorcycles. > > On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 8:21 AM Simon Poole <mailto:

[Talk-us] Gosh ... something about mapping ...

2015-12-01 Thread Simon Poole
To give us all a break from the usual political machinations at this time of year I've drawn up the following table https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/US_MUTCD_exclusionary_signs_to_OSM_access The context is the work I've been doing on https://github.com/simonpoole/beautified-JOSM-preset which

Re: [Talk-us] GeoBadges 1.0 for OpenStreetMap

2015-11-18 Thread Simon Poole
during the sign up process without creating a cascade of further problems. Simon PS: given that this is slowly getting very off topic , I would suggest carrying on the discussion on the legal-talk list. Am 18.11.2015 um 02:26 schrieb Simon Poole: > > > Am 18.11.2015 um 01:26 schrieb Kate C

Re: [Talk-us] GeoBadges 1.0 for OpenStreetMap

2015-11-17 Thread Simon Poole
Am 18.11.2015 um 01:26 schrieb Kate Chapman: > Hi Simon, > > The groups releasing Geobadges "TeachOSM with support from > Mapstory.org and American Geographical Society" are not large > multi-million dollar US organizations. None of them have highly paid > in-house lawyers. Thank you for pointing

Re: [Talk-us] GeoBadges 1.0 for OpenStreetMap

2015-11-17 Thread Simon Poole
the part which encouraged > people under the age of 13. What is the issue? > > -Kate > > On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 11:11 AM, Simon Poole <mailto:si...@poole.ch>> wrote: > > Thais good, but doesn't address the OSM side of things. > > Historically, aka pre

Re: [Talk-us] GeoBadges 1.0 for OpenStreetMap

2015-11-17 Thread Simon Poole
geo.org>."/ > / > / > 2. We're removing the Grade 3-5 option, since clearly that would be > marketed to under 13. > > Thanks for your concern. Hope I've addressed your question. Best regards, > > > -- SEJ > -- twitter: @geomantic > -- skype: sejohnson8 >

Re: [Talk-us] GeoBadges 1.0 for OpenStreetMap

2015-11-17 Thread Simon Poole
I assume that you have got legal advice on the COPPA related consequences of your activities and are willing to share this with the OSMF? Simon Am 17.11.2015 um 02:45 schrieb Steven Johnson: > Hello list, > > Just in time for #OSMGeoweek, TeachOSM with support from Mapstory.org > and American Ge

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

2015-10-16 Thread Simon Poole
A quick reality check: forget scraping stuff from FB or any other commercial operator of similar services (for legal/ToS reasons). And second: there is already the OSM forums which, depending on region, are quite popular. Further: none-of the above are really a replacement for a integrated group

Re: [Talk-us] OpenStreetMap US elections: October 12 townhall with candidates

2015-10-14 Thread Simon Poole
No, I'm not going to tell you who to vote for in the elections :-). However I believe there is some substantial misunderstanding of the numbers involved. Martijn noted in his manifesto that the daily editors numbers was flat for the US and Michael used that as one of the corner points in his dia

Re: [Talk-us] Best iOS app for GPS wander, GPX to laptop into OSM?

2015-10-06 Thread Simon Poole
Besides having all the issues Keypadmapper has squared, how do you prevent IP leakage from google to OSM? For example do you know if it employs any "lock on road" or similar technology? Simon Am 06.10.2015 um 17:47 schrieb Adam Franco: > For trail surveys and other GPS recording on Android I've b

Re: [Talk-us] Best iOS app for GPS wander, GPX to laptop into OSM?

2015-10-06 Thread Simon Poole
Am 06.10.2015 um 08:55 schrieb Peter Dobratz: ... a lot of stuff I was just going to write :-) ... In any case, I believe it is important not to get trapped in the "old" way of doing things. For the majority* of edits the "modern" (excluding on device editing which actually works fine) way is

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

2015-06-11 Thread Simon Poole
ng. Simon Am 11.06.2015 um 17:20 schrieb Randy Meech: > On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 10:55 AM, Simon Poole <mailto:si...@poole.ch>> wrote: > > I just want to point out that there is an existing and well established > OSM-based service that already supplies worldwide

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

2015-06-11 Thread Simon Poole
Randy, I just want to point out that there is an existing and well established OSM-based service that already supplies worldwide boundaries in a number of formats https://osm.wno-edv-service.de/boundaries/ . Further the operator runs daily quality checks on changes in the boundaries. Simon Am

Re: [Talk-us] Am I doing this right? Houses w/ addresses

2015-04-14 Thread Simon Poole
Am 14.04.2015 um 20:42 schrieb John F. Eldredge: > If all you are doing on the spot is recording the house number, then > what is the advantage to using Vespucci instead of a simpler tool? No further processing step, upload and you are finished. Other stuff, POIs and so one will tend to take lo

Re: [Talk-us] Am I doing this right? Houses w/ addresses

2015-04-14 Thread Simon Poole
ks are likely to become if you > stand in front of each building for up to several minutes before moving on. > > > On April 13, 2015 4:02:24 AM CDT, Simon Poole wrote: > > > IMHO if you are actually entering stuff in to a mobile device, you may > as well use ve

Re: [Talk-us] Am I doing this right? Houses w/ addresses

2015-04-13 Thread Simon Poole
Am 13.04.2015 um 16:37 schrieb Tod Fitch: > My few trial uses of Vespucci lead me to believe that I need an data > connection while using it. Am I wrong? Given that it is a full editor you need connectivity in some form to initially get the data and then to upload your edits. However this can be a

Re: [Talk-us] Am I doing this right? Houses w/ addresses

2015-04-13 Thread Simon Poole
IMHO if you are actually entering stuff in to a mobile device, you may as well use vespucci and just do it properly the first time. But hten I'm biased. Simon Am 12.04.2015 um 18:50 schrieb Greg Morgan: > > > On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 6:35 PM, Harald Kliems > wrote: >

Re: [Talk-us] Facts about the world

2015-04-08 Thread Simon Poole
Am 08.04.2015 um 15:23 schrieb Russ Nelson: > Simon Poole writes: > > The wiki already explains: they hold a trademark for GR which makes > > using the "official" names of the routes essentially impossible in and > > Perhaps French trademark law is different

Re: [Talk-us] Facts about the world

2015-04-08 Thread Simon Poole
Am 07.04.2015 um 16:51 schrieb Martin Koppenhoefer: ... > > is this something the OSMF lawyers have had a look into? Is the issue > really "copyright" or is this about "trademark" (regarding the names > "GR" "PR" etc.)? Currently it seems we are accepting what the Fédération > Francaise de la Ra

Re: [Talk-us] Facts about the world

2015-04-04 Thread Simon Poole
Am 04.04.2015 um 18:40 schrieb stevea: > Re: [Talk-us] Facts about the world > I respectfully and strenuously disagree. We still (and likely will) > continue to have some predictable and manageable problems with import > of data from third party sources, but we have procedures in place to > make i

Re: [Talk-us] Facts about the world

2015-04-04 Thread Simon Poole
Am 04.04.2015 um 17:03 schrieb Alex Barth: > I just don't want to be called a couch potato in the course of it ;-) Couch carrot? :-P Seriously, I believe Frederik was more referring to how OSM is viewed by third parties and the impression outsiders could get from the image we tend to market. And h

Re: [Talk-us] Facts about the world

2015-04-04 Thread Simon Poole
Am 03.04.2015 um 02:41 schrieb stevea: > Facts about the world > Simon Poole writes: >> Up to now OSM has drawn the line in such a way that stuff that is >> signposted and is observable on the ground is fair game (with some >> exceptions, I believe the GR issue is still un

Re: [Talk-us] Facts about the world

2015-04-04 Thread Simon Poole
Am 04.04.2015 um 14:57 schrieb Kate Chapman: ... Small reality check (not saying that this is anybodies fault, just how it is): - the US community shapes how the project is perceived by the media globally - US based companies control the majority of funds spent on OSM development and have a major

Re: [Talk-us] USA Rail: Calling all OSM railfans! (especially in California)

2015-04-02 Thread Simon Poole
Am 02.04.2015 um 05:20 schrieb Russ Nelson: > ... > April Fools! Yes, you can. There are many kinds of public domain maps > whose republication needs no license. For example, in the US all maps > published before the magic date, whatever year it is we're up to > now. Maps copyrighted but not renewe

Re: [Talk-us] Best practices for outdoor mapping party

2015-03-09 Thread Simon Poole
how other mappers work, even for contributors very much ingrained in how they do it. Simon Am 09.03.2015 um 20:23 schrieb Clifford Snow: > > On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 12:19 PM, Simon Poole <mailto:si...@poole.ch>> wrote: > > (obviously for nearly every thing except large

Re: [Talk-us] Best practices for outdoor mapping party

2015-03-09 Thread Simon Poole
The real core question is: will you have newbies or not? Old hands will have their favourite method of mapping anyway and are unlikely to change (obviously for nearly every thing except large scale geometry changes vespucci is the only reasonable solution :-)). For them you simply need a reasonab

Re: [Talk-us] GNIS POI populations

2015-01-28 Thread Simon Poole
Am 13.01.2015 um 21:29 schrieb Wolfgang Zenker: ... > In Montana I have removed rather than changed these POIs, as they definitely > no longer existed before the GNIS import. Removing these for all of the US > would be a good thing, especially for hospitals. We definitely don't want > people in a

Re: [Talk-us] Dirt Roads (formerly: Abandoned railway)

2014-09-06 Thread Simon Poole
Am 06.09.2014 15:19, schrieb Tod Fitch: > It is way too late now, but I think tagging of traveled ways would > have been better off it a simple highway=yes tag had been agreed to > with everything else in other tags like width=*, surface=*, > maxspeed=*, access=*, etc. IMHO you should si

Re: [Talk-us] More road name expansion thoughts

2014-07-22 Thread Simon Poole
Just a quick remark: there is already a tag "short_name" that is supported for example by nominatim that can be used for storing a contracted version of name for rendering and other purposes if necessary. Simon PS: these discussions are not unique to the states, even though the use of contraction

Re: [Talk-us] Tags used for routing

2014-07-18 Thread Simon Poole
Martijn Wouldn't it be better to have this discussion on dev or tagging or at least some where with a slightly larger audience than talk-us? In any case the -really- important page is https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_tags_for_routing/Access-Restrictions which is essentially the only documen

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: USBRS WikiProject seeks volunteer mappers

2014-06-03 Thread Simon Poole
Am 03.06.2014 17:48, schrieb Mike N: > > Further the area not being surveyed implies that all the value add that > > we can offer a cyclist is not there (surface, lanes, shoulders etc). > > Blocking bike routes until "everything is surveyed" is not realistic > - we'd need to map every parking spot

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: USBRS WikiProject seeks volunteer mappers

2014-06-03 Thread Simon Poole
Am 03.06.2014 10:42, schrieb Minh Nguyen: > On 2014-06-02 13:24, Simon Poole wrote: >> @stevea you would substantially help your cause if the route data was >> available for inspection, best a public source from where it could be >> obtained. > > Here are the special

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: USBRS WikiProject seeks volunteer mappers

2014-06-02 Thread Simon Poole
@stevea you would substantially help your cause if the route data was available for inspection, best a public source from where it could be obtained. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: USBRS WikiProject seeks volunteer mappers

2014-06-02 Thread Simon Poole
Am 02.06.2014 06:28, schrieb Russ Nelson: > . Let's say that I follow this > route on my bicycle using a cue sheet and keep a GPS track. Then I load > my GPS track into JOSM and create a relation and call it USBRS #47 (or > whatever). How is this an import?? > Wh

Re: [Talk-us] Standard (mapnik) toolchain/processes: can we teach these better?

2014-05-26 Thread Simon Poole
Am 25.05.2014 21:46, schrieb stevea: > > Thanks to the talk-us community for entertaining my grumpiness about > this, but I truly believe there is a direct connection between asking > OSMers to "map well" and the visual feedback (rewards? yes, I think so) > we get by doing so. Sure, it's g

Re: [Talk-us] Named beaches, too?

2014-05-24 Thread Simon Poole
It has been pointed out in numerous places before, but just in case you missed it: there is an ongoing effort (since months) to remove all "catch alls" from the standard style. This implies that stuff you thought was rendered might vanish, but in fact it was just accidental that it was shown in th

Re: [Talk-us] Sidewalks as footpaths

2014-04-30 Thread Simon Poole
This is not the OSMF becoming involved in tagging :-) I'm guilty of quite a bit of sidewalk mapping, even though I have some sympathy for a generalized approach (adding a tag to the main road way). In reality, at least here, this tends not to model the actual topology particularly well. I do a fai

Re: [Talk-us] Core Infrastructure Initiative

2014-04-25 Thread Simon Poole
I have to say, my gut feeling would be to let them spend the money on what it is intended for and not try and divert the funds to something which, while important, doesn't quite fit the bill. Particularly because the both our operations and those of companies and organisation in the OSM ecosystem

Re: [Talk-us] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-14 Thread Simon Poole
Am 14.03.2014 21:47, schrieb Carol Kraemer: > .. > > Let's say that there are 1,500,000 registered users > as is > stated by the first graph. I will also look at the last year of % of > total users contributing where the highest pe

Re: [Talk-us] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-14 Thread Simon Poole
Am 14.03.2014 22:32, schrieb Simon Poole: > ... January showed the largest increase in contributors in a month to > date in the history of OSM and the second largest total number of > monthly active contributors. Sorry, that should have been the other way around: the 2nd largest absolute

Re: [Talk-us] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-14 Thread Simon Poole
Yes, I believe that is fairly clear. We do however seem to have a clear continuing increase in the average rate of new contributors too. Simon Am 14.03.2014 22:39, schrieb Richard Weait: > On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 5:32 PM, Simon Poole wrote: > >> And while I haven't updated m

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-13 Thread Simon Poole
I wrote an unpublished blog article a week ago (obviously not in response to post of Alex) that I've put online now http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/SimonPoole/diary/21225 It might be of interest where IMHO Alex didn't get it quite right. Simon ___

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: [OSM-talk] Using 'Kort' outside of Switzerland

2014-01-17 Thread Simon Poole
anket limit in Oregon's urban areas, > but when I tried to enter this it was rejected. I was allowed to enter > 25, but I worried that Kort might think this was in km/h. Would it > enter 25 km/h into OpenStreetMap if someone confirmed my response? > Meanwhile I found all of ce

Re: [Talk-us] Local user groups

2014-01-15 Thread Simon Poole
Just a couple of observations from the other side of the Atlantic: - please make it easy to contact your group without having to go through a sign up procedure with yet another service. Not everybody is interested in joining permamently and making a meetup account mandatory just means you wont ge

[Talk-us] Fwd: [OSM-talk] The game 'Kort' finally updates OpenStreetMap

2014-01-14 Thread Simon Poole
>From the talk mailing list (mandatory disclosure: yes I know the authors). Original-Nachricht Hi there, I'm very proud to announce that finally Kort[1] (the OSM game) writes back it's collected solutions to OSM! All changes are made by the OSM user "kort-to-osm"[2], so it's

Re: [Talk-us] Admin borders in the US

2013-11-07 Thread Simon Poole
Am 07.11.2013 06:20, schrieb Bryce Cogswell: > I have to agree with Jason on this as well. Admin borders are some of > the most important cartographic information on the planet, to the > extent that wars are fought over them, and are easily verified through > dozens of independent sources. To excl

Re: [Talk-us] Admin borders in the US

2013-11-04 Thread Simon Poole
IMHO we shouldn't and I don't believe it is necessary to, give up the principle of everybody can edit anything, even in the case of admin borders. On the one hand we have cases where the borders are estimates generated by mappers because there are no available and free sources, on the other hand

[Talk-us] San Diego meet up?

2013-08-26 Thread Simon Poole
I'm going to be in San Diego end of September, first two weeks of October, if anybody feels like organizing a local contributors meet up or even something less involved I'll make time. Simon ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lis

Re: [Talk-us] Spammy-sounding survey sent to my OSM inbox today.

2013-07-28 Thread Simon Poole
Am 28.07.2013 17:51, schrieb stevea: ... > Re: [Talk-us] Spammy-sounding survey sent to my OSM inbox > > I might be the nicest person you have ever met, I hope I am a good OSM > mapper, and I am kind to children and animals. However, I vehemently > oppose OSM collecting any additional persona

Re: [Talk-us] Steady increase in the number of mappers in the US

2013-07-19 Thread Simon Poole
Am 19.07.2013 12:06, schrieb Kathleen Danielson: > Hi Clifford, > > Wow--thanks for sharing those stats! They are really interesting! > > I just took a look at the link you shared and it looks like we're > seeing the number of mappers contributing on any given day. Do you > know if it's possible

Re: [Talk-us] NYC neighborhood data

2013-04-05 Thread Simon Poole
Kushal welcome to OSM. Please feel free to improve our data, while adding the neighbourhoods as a first project is going to result in a fairly steep learning curve for you, it is certainly doable. Unluckily the map used in Wikipedia is unlikely to be usable directly in OSM for licence reasons, h