Re: [Talk-us] Key:man_made... Outdated language?
Richard Fairhurst writes: > Joshua Houston wrote: > > It occurred to me that "man_made" is an outdated term that should be > > phased out from OpenStreetMap language. > > FWIW, the lingua franca of OSM tagging is British English: so, colour rather > than color, and so on. > > man_made is possibly not too different. I can see how it might sound jarring > to US ears Some of us remember that women are humans, too. -- --my blog is athttp://blog.russnelson.com Crynwr supports open source software 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315-600-8815 Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | Sheepdog ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
[Talk-us] Whole-US Garmin Map update - 2017-03-08
These are based off of Lambertus's work here: http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl If you have questions or comments about these maps, please feel free to ask. However, please do not send me private mail. The odds are, someone else will have the same questions, and by asking on the talk-us@ list, others can benefit. Downloads: http://daveh.dev.openstreetmap.org/garmin/Lambertus/2017-03-08 Map to visualize what each file contains: http://daveh.dev.openstreetmap.org/garmin/Lambertus/2017-03-08/kml/kml.html FAQ Why did you do this? I wrote scripts to joined them myself to lessen the impact of doing a large join on Lambertus's server. I've also cut them in large longitude swaths that should fit conveniently on removable media. http://daveh.dev.openstreetmap.org/garmin/Lambertus/2017-03-08 Can or should I seed the torrents? Yes!! If you use the .torrent files, please seed. That web server is in the UK, and it helps to have some peers on this side of the Atlantic. Why is my map missing small rectangular areas? There have been some missing tiles from Lambertus's map (the red rectangles), I don't see any at the moment, so you may want to update if you had issues with the last set. Why can I not copy the large files to my new SD card? If you buy a new card (especially SDHC), some are FAT16 from the factory. I had to reformat it to let me create a >2GB file. Does your map cover Mexico/Canada? Yes!! I have, for the purposes of this map, annexed Ontario in to the USA. Some areas of North America that are close to the US also just happen to get pulled in to these maps. This might not happen forever, and if you would like your non-US area to get included, let me know. -- Dave ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
[Talk-us] How to apply changesets
Hello, I do know what the command line using omosis looks like (and I have osmosis). What I don't know is this. 1: Do I need every changes set or just the latest of the year? 2: If I need multiple changesets, can I apply them all at once using multiple --read-xml-change directives? Thanks, David ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] Key:man_made... Outdated language?
Joshua Houston wrote: > It occurred to me that "man_made" is an outdated term that should be > phased out from OpenStreetMap language. FWIW, the lingua franca of OSM tagging is British English: so, colour rather than color, and so on. British English does of course have different cultural assumptions to American English. As an example in the opposite direction, I remain genuinely astonished that there is a US movement called "GeoLadies". Here in Britain, if you described any woman under 80 as a "lady", you would probably be expecting a slap; it's generally a patronising and slightly pejorative word with connotations of passivity and indolence, and outside of those parts of London influenced by the US, I don't see that it's been reclaimed. That isn't to say that GeoLadies is objectively wrong: it isn't wrong in the slightest. Just that, inevitably, some cultural references fall differently in different parts of the world. man_made is possibly not too different. I can see how it might sound jarring to US ears but it's not something at which anyone would bat an eyelid in Britain. (And of course, going to the country where OSM has historically been strongest, "man" is a neutral pronoun in German.) Nothing is going to be entirely consistent across all the cultures in which OSM is used. Of course, there is a great irony in that this thread has been populated by people called Joshua, Joel, Ian, Brian, Harald, Mike, Frederik, Blake, Clifford, Kevin, and Richard, so maybe we should shut the heck up and let some women have their say. cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n8.nabble.com/Key-man-made-Outdated-language-tp5892860p5892877.html Sent from the USA mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
