Re: [OSM-talk] Nominatim weakness
> To make a long story short: it's a tagging error. The wikipedia tag > should contain only links to wikipedia pages describing the object > not to pages about the operator. Sorry, I'm with Maarten on this: it's a programming error. I've tried searching on plenty of common stores and businesses that the average user here in the US might -- Dunkin' Donuts, Kohl's, PetSmart, Lowe's, Dollar Tree, Sports Authority, Red Roof Inn -- and the matching location that is ACTUALLY ON THE MAP in front of me is almost never shown in the first page of hits, let alone on the top of the list. I'm well aware that OSM is more than a map, but the fact remains that when I tell people "Hey, you should check out OpenStreetMap", the first thing they see is the main map page. And if its searching facility is braindead, I feel we're doing ourselves a disservice. John ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Nominatim weakness
Please avoid being gratuitously offensive by describing something that lots of volunteers have put countless hours into as "braindead". No offense meant; it just seemed an apt term for a search algorithm that favors matches 15,000 km away from one right in the area of obvious interest. As an aside, I've just spent the last 2-1/2 months completely addressing and detailing a city of 40,000, so I am familiar with "countless hours". John ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
[OSM-talk] Nominatim weakness
Am I missing something, or is there no way to sort Nominatim searches on the main OpenStreetMap map page? For example, if my map is showing an area of the United States where I happen to know a mapped Starbucks exists, and I search for "Starbucks" in the search panel, the entire panel is filled with Starbucks in Japan. Do the same on a "competitor's" map, and you get what you expect: the Starbucks that are closest to the current map view are listed first. I could easily envision a first-time user not returning to OSM because of this. John ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
[OSM-talk] OWL down
I sent a message to User Matt (who supposedly maintains OWL) last Friday, but never got a reply. Even when the maps were working, its RSS feed was something like 40 days behind. I posted about that two weeks ago here and no one seems to know what is going on. John ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
[OSM-talk] OWL down
OWL on zark will be coming online after the license change... ...it's likely there will be some pretty significant re-loading to do after the license change is finished. Thanks for the update. Glad to know it will be back again at some point. John ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
[OSM-talk] OWL RSS Delay
According to its graph, OWL has been steadily catching up over the last few weeks and is currently only about 13000 minutes (9 days) behind. However, the RSS feed I'm getting (eastern Massachusetts) is about 38-39 days behind (e.g. today I'm getting notifications of changesets from 22 March) and does not seem to be getting any closer. Anyone know what's going on? John ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] New tool in Potlatch 2 for areas that share a way
Thought I would announce a new tool that is now available in Potlatch 2 that makes it easier to draw ways that share nodes with another way: follow. This sounds great, especially for coastline work. I hope JOSM can get something similar. John ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] New tool in Potlatch 2 for areas that share a way
This sounds great, especially for coastline work. I hope JOSM can get something similar. It seems the ContourMerge plugin for JOSM does something like this (though I've not tried it myself). http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Plugins/ContourMerge Thanks! Looks like that was released several weeks ago, but I hadn't seen any announcements. John ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal for additional Mapnik power=tower icons
Ãvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ava...@gmail.com wrote: I think it looks much better. Please file a ticked, and a patch against the current style would be great. I don't know how to make a patch, but I will submit a ticket. John ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
[OSM-talk] Proposal for additional Mapnik power=tower icons
I'd like to propose a couple additional icons to use in the Mapnik renderer with power=tower nodes. The current Mapnik icon (a 7x7 square, crossed diagonally) is currently used for all zoom levels in which it is visible (14 through 18). This tends to result in power lines looking cluttered and over-emphasized at the lower zoom levels, especially where there are multiple, parallel power lines. I propose using a 5x5 icon at zoom levels 16 and 15, and a 3x3 icon at zoom level 14. Simulated examples of the proposed look is shown here: http://www.qlam.com/power_tower_proposal.png (This image is a little tall and may result in browser scaling -- please view an unscaled version). I have yet not added an enhancement ticket -- wanted to see what people thought. John ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
