Re: [Talk-us] a plea to armchair mappers

2015-06-18 Thread Martijn van Exel
 On Jun 14, 2015, at 12:48 PM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote:
 
 secondarily, if it is indeed the case that this is mostly happening
 because of paid mappers (i don't know that for a fact), can we
 please contact who ever is supervising the paid mappers and
 discuss whether their training program and standards could
 be improved?

That would be me :)

The folks at Telenav who do mapping as part of their job are urgently aware 
that they need to treat local knowledge with the utmost respect and care, and 
that Bing (and any) imagery is to be used with caution. When in doubt, we try 
to compare against other imagery sources, and State / local GIS data. If that 
does not give us something definitive, we don’t touch the situation, or leave 
an OSM note [1].

Also, mapping for the United States is exclusively done by folks who live in 
the United States and therefore a) are familiar at a general level with road 
layout / signage etc. in the US and b) are able to connect easily with the 
local community / individual mappers.

As always, if you find any issue with mapping done by one of our folks, please 
don’t hesitate to get in touch with them, or me.

Martijn

[1] see for example notes by Kristen (who has participated in this thread 
already)  http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/KristenK/notes 
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Re: [Talk-us] a plea to armchair mappers

2015-06-18 Thread James Mast


Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2015 07:01:35 -0500
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On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 9:08 PM, James Mast rickmastfa...@hotmail.com wrote:



Maybe we should invite the MapBox paid mappers to join in this conversation?

 This is something I would like to become (hint, hint).

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Re: [Talk-us] a plea to armchair mappers

2015-06-17 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 9:08 PM, James Mast rickmastfa...@hotmail.com
wrote:

 Maybe we should invite the MapBox paid mappers to join in this
 conversation?


 This is something I would like to become (hint, hint).
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Re: [Talk-us] a plea to armchair mappers

2015-06-14 Thread Minh Nguyen

On 2015-06-11 06:42, Richard Welty wrote:

please, please when doing the armchair mapping thing, be aware
that aerial imagery may be several years out of date.

yesterday i discovered that a highway reconfiguration i'd mapped
in Rensselaer, NY had been realigned with the out-of-date bing
aerial imagery. i was able to locate my GPX tracks and put it back,
but i still had to revisit the site to re-verify some connecting roads.

i had even put a README tag on the roads warning that the
imagery was out of date, but the armchair mapper didn't bother
to, you know, read the README.


With both outdated imagery and the Ohio River [1], I've had better luck 
placing redundant `note` tags on every way that such a mapper would be 
inclined to delete. iD shows `note` in a big box in the sidebar. It's a 
bit harder to miss than a (heretofore) ad-hoc tag that would be 
relegated to the All Tags section. Potlatch 2 doesn't support anything 
like it, unfortunately.


If it gets really bad, you could try spelling out DO NOT ERASE in 
aerialway=contrail ways. :-P


[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ohio_River

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Re: [Talk-us] a plea to armchair mappers

2015-06-14 Thread Richard Welty
On 6/14/15 2:27 PM, Minh Nguyen wrote:

 With both outdated imagery and the Ohio River [1], I've had better
 luck placing redundant `note` tags on every way that such a mapper
 would be inclined to delete. iD shows `note` in a big box in the
 sidebar. It's a bit harder to miss than a (heretofore) ad-hoc tag that
 would be relegated to the All Tags section. Potlatch 2 doesn't support
 anything like it, unfortunately.
well, it's nice that iD supports a note tag this way. as far as i know
Potlatch does not and i tested JOSM and it doesn't seem to. so
note in iD would appear to be as ad-hoc as my use of README
because it sorts to the top of the tag lists in Potlatch and JOSM.

so can we have one tag which is properly supported across the
major editors? is that too much to ask?

secondarily, if it is indeed the case that this is mostly happening
because of paid mappers (i don't know that for a fact), can we
please contact who ever is supervising the paid mappers and
discuss whether their training program and standards could
be improved?

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Re: [Talk-us] a plea to armchair mappers

2015-06-11 Thread Bryan Housel
There is an open item in iD to display the date of the aerial imagery alongside 
the attribution message.  We actually don’t get this from most tile providers, 
but we can get it from Bing in the response header.

Would definitely welcome a pull request if someone wants to take a shot at 
implementing this.
https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/2492 
https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/2492

Thanks, Bryan



 On Jun 11, 2015, at 10:05 AM, Kam, Kristen krist...@telenav.com wrote:
 
 We need to make it more easier to load up-to-date imagery to  our OSM editing 
 applications. And I think something easy as publicizing the date of the 
 imagery collection would get folks to do a double take before using older 
 imagery.
 
 Kristen
 
 Sent from OWA on Android
 
 From: Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net
 Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2015 6:42:29 AM
 To: Talk Openstreetmap; Help for newbie mappers
 Subject: [Talk-us] a plea to armchair mappers
 
 please, please when doing the armchair mapping thing, be aware
 that aerial imagery may be several years out of date.
 
 yesterday i discovered that a highway reconfiguration i'd mapped
 in Rensselaer, NY had been realigned with the out-of-date bing
 aerial imagery. i was able to locate my GPX tracks and put it back,
 but i still had to revisit the site to re-verify some connecting roads.
 
 i had even put a README tag on the roads warning that the
 imagery was out of date, but the armchair mapper didn't bother
 to, you know, read the README.
 
 i don't object to careful armchair mapping, i do it myself, but
 you need to keep in mind that the imagery available may a number
 of years old. i can name a number of highways in the Capital District
 of NY where the imagery is old and the highways have been realigned
 and/or reconfigured.  this will be true in many places. if you see a
 mismatch, it would be a good idea to look at the history and try to
 contact the the mapper responsible for the mismatch first.
 
 thanks,
   richard
 
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Re: [Talk-us] a plea to armchair mappers

2015-06-11 Thread Kam, Kristen
We need to make it more easier to load up-to-date imagery to  our OSM editing 
applications. And I think something easy as publicizing the date of the imagery 
collection would get folks to do a double take before using older imagery.

Kristen

Sent from OWA on Android

From: Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net
Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2015 6:42:29 AM
To: Talk Openstreetmap; Help for newbie mappers
Subject: [Talk-us] a plea to armchair mappers

please, please when doing the armchair mapping thing, be aware
that aerial imagery may be several years out of date.

yesterday i discovered that a highway reconfiguration i'd mapped
in Rensselaer, NY had been realigned with the out-of-date bing
aerial imagery. i was able to locate my GPX tracks and put it back,
but i still had to revisit the site to re-verify some connecting roads.

i had even put a README tag on the roads warning that the
imagery was out of date, but the armchair mapper didn't bother
to, you know, read the README.

i don't object to careful armchair mapping, i do it myself, but
you need to keep in mind that the imagery available may a number
of years old. i can name a number of highways in the Capital District
of NY where the imagery is old and the highways have been realigned
and/or reconfigured.  this will be true in many places. if you see a
mismatch, it would be a good idea to look at the history and try to
contact the the mapper responsible for the mismatch first.

thanks,
   richard

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Re: [Talk-us] a plea to armchair mappers

2015-06-11 Thread Richard Welty
On 6/11/15 10:05 AM, Kam, Kristen wrote:
 We need to make it more easier to load up-to-date imagery to  our OSM editing 
 applications. And I think something easy as publicizing the date of the 
 imagery collection would get folks to do a double take before using older 
 imagery.

i am not persuaded that these armchair mappers are paying attention. unless
there's a big warning this imagery is X years old that can't be
ignored, i think
the information will frequently be ignored.

i'd like a tag that we could use that has some editor support, it might
be the
case that  all we need is a pop up dialog when there's a README tag that
says
something like Read this before committing: text of README tag

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Re: [Talk-us] a plea to armchair mappers

2015-06-11 Thread Mike Thompson
On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 8:41 AM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net
wrote:


 i'd like a tag that we could use that has some editor support, it might
 be the
 case that  all we need is a pop up dialog when there's a README tag that
 says
 something like Read this before committing: text of README tag

I like this suggestion.  I have not noticed any of my work undone by
armchair mappers, but it is something that has crossed my mind as there are
several trails that I have surveyed that have been rerouted recently, and
that rerouting is not reflected in the Bing imagery.

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[Talk-us] a plea to armchair mappers

2015-06-11 Thread Richard Welty
please, please when doing the armchair mapping thing, be aware
that aerial imagery may be several years out of date.

yesterday i discovered that a highway reconfiguration i'd mapped
in Rensselaer, NY had been realigned with the out-of-date bing
aerial imagery. i was able to locate my GPX tracks and put it back,
but i still had to revisit the site to re-verify some connecting roads.

i had even put a README tag on the roads warning that the
imagery was out of date, but the armchair mapper didn't bother
to, you know, read the README.

i don't object to careful armchair mapping, i do it myself, but
you need to keep in mind that the imagery available may a number
of years old. i can name a number of highways in the Capital District
of NY where the imagery is old and the highways have been realigned
and/or reconfigured.  this will be true in many places. if you see a
mismatch, it would be a good idea to look at the history and try to
contact the the mapper responsible for the mismatch first.

thanks,
   richard

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Re: [Talk-us] a plea to armchair mappers

2015-06-11 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi,

On 06/11/15 18:46, Mike N wrote:
I've seen this problem also - an area marked for construction, all 
 roads bulldozed out, - the roads re-appear due to a TIGEROSM 
 comparison test because they're in Bing.
 
   An area where all buildings are demolished and a single large entity 
 takes its place, add a circle / rectangle with a NOTE around the area: 
 buildings reappear because they're in Bing.

If you see this happening regularly, try to find out who the responsible
mapper is and contact them.

If it turns out that this is not an accident but a systemic problem
(e.g. due to the mapper employing some sort of TIGER-OSM comparison
and systematically re-adding stuff) then the mapper should be encouraged
to be more diligent, or if that is not possible, the mapper should
probably stop making these types of edits altogether.

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Re: [Talk-us] a plea to armchair mappers

2015-06-11 Thread Mike N

On 6/11/2015 12:46 PM, Mike N wrote:

   I've seen this problem also - an area marked for construction, all
roads bulldozed out, - the roads re-appear due to a TIGEROSM
comparison test because they're in Bing.


 Speaking of which, one of those came back to life yesterday.   I tried 
the README trick on an empty object this time.



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Re: [Talk-us] a plea to armchair mappers

2015-06-11 Thread James Mast
Maybe we should invite the MapBox paid mappers to join in this conversation?  
They are the major people doing this.

-James

 Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 21:10:58 -0400
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 To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org
 Subject: Re: [Talk-us] a plea to armchair mappers
 
 On 6/11/2015 12:46 PM, Mike N wrote:
 I've seen this problem also - an area marked for construction, all
  roads bulldozed out, - the roads re-appear due to a TIGEROSM
  comparison test because they're in Bing.
 
   Speaking of which, one of those came back to life yesterday.   I tried 
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Re: [Talk-us] a plea to armchair mappers

2015-06-11 Thread Darrell Fuhriman
Another useful tool might be to have a repository of local imagery servers that 
can automatically become available when in an appropriate area.

For instance, I use the 2014 NAIP imagery via a WMS server in JOSM. It’s only 
1m resolution, but it’s great for double checking that nothing has changed.

At smaller zoom levels, that might actually be a preferable default to always 
using bing, and having the imagery change, combined with imagery dates, draws 
attention to the fact that things might not always be current.

d.





 On Jun 11, 2015, at 07:54, Bryan Housel br...@7thposition.com wrote:
 
 There is an open item in iD to display the date of the aerial imagery 
 alongside the attribution message.  We actually don’t get this from most tile 
 providers, but we can get it from Bing in the response header.
 
 Would definitely welcome a pull request if someone wants to take a shot at 
 implementing this.
 https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/2492 
 https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/2492
 
 Thanks, Bryan
 
 
 
 On Jun 11, 2015, at 10:05 AM, Kam, Kristen krist...@telenav.com 
 mailto:krist...@telenav.com wrote:
 
 We need to make it more easier to load up-to-date imagery to  our OSM 
 editing applications. And I think something easy as publicizing the date of 
 the imagery collection would get folks to do a double take before using 
 older imagery.
 
 Kristen
 
 Sent from OWA on Android
 
 From: Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net mailto:rwe...@averillpark.net
 Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2015 6:42:29 AM
 To: Talk Openstreetmap; Help for newbie mappers
 Subject: [Talk-us] a plea to armchair mappers
 
 please, please when doing the armchair mapping thing, be aware
 that aerial imagery may be several years out of date.
 
 yesterday i discovered that a highway reconfiguration i'd mapped
 in Rensselaer, NY had been realigned with the out-of-date bing
 aerial imagery. i was able to locate my GPX tracks and put it back,
 but i still had to revisit the site to re-verify some connecting roads.
 
 i had even put a README tag on the roads warning that the
 imagery was out of date, but the armchair mapper didn't bother
 to, you know, read the README.
 
 i don't object to careful armchair mapping, i do it myself, but
 you need to keep in mind that the imagery available may a number
 of years old. i can name a number of highways in the Capital District
 of NY where the imagery is old and the highways have been realigned
 and/or reconfigured.  this will be true in many places. if you see a
 mismatch, it would be a good idea to look at the history and try to
 contact the the mapper responsible for the mismatch first.
 
 thanks,
   richard
 
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Re: [Talk-us] a plea to armchair mappers

2015-06-11 Thread Ian Dees
Such a thing exists and is here:
https://github.com/osmlab/editor-imagery-index

It is used by iD and Potlatch, with JOSM output available but not installed
by default.
I'm happy to help anyone add their imagery.

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 11:36 AM, Darrell Fuhriman darr...@garnix.org
wrote:

 Another useful tool might be to have a repository of local imagery servers
 that can automatically become available when in an appropriate area.

 For instance, I use the 2014 NAIP imagery via a WMS server in JOSM. It’s
 only 1m resolution, but it’s great for double checking that nothing has
 changed.

 At smaller zoom levels, that might actually be a preferable default to
 always using bing, and having the imagery change, combined with imagery
 dates, draws attention to the fact that things might not always be current.

 d.





 On Jun 11, 2015, at 07:54, Bryan Housel br...@7thposition.com wrote:

 There is an open item in iD to display the date of the aerial imagery
 alongside the attribution message.  We actually don’t get this from most
 tile providers, but we can get it from Bing in the response header.

 Would definitely welcome a pull request if someone wants to take a shot at
 implementing this.
 https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/2492

 Thanks, Bryan



 On Jun 11, 2015, at 10:05 AM, Kam, Kristen krist...@telenav.com wrote:

 We need to make it more easier to load up-to-date imagery to  our OSM
 editing applications. And I think something easy as publicizing the date of
 the imagery collection would get folks to do a double take before using
 older imagery.

 Kristen

 Sent from OWA on Android
 
 From: Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net
 Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2015 6:42:29 AM
 To: Talk Openstreetmap; Help for newbie mappers
 Subject: [Talk-us] a plea to armchair mappers

 please, please when doing the armchair mapping thing, be aware
 that aerial imagery may be several years out of date.

 yesterday i discovered that a highway reconfiguration i'd mapped
 in Rensselaer, NY had been realigned with the out-of-date bing
 aerial imagery. i was able to locate my GPX tracks and put it back,
 but i still had to revisit the site to re-verify some connecting roads.

 i had even put a README tag on the roads warning that the
 imagery was out of date, but the armchair mapper didn't bother
 to, you know, read the README.

 i don't object to careful armchair mapping, i do it myself, but
 you need to keep in mind that the imagery available may a number
 of years old. i can name a number of highways in the Capital District
 of NY where the imagery is old and the highways have been realigned
 and/or reconfigured.  this will be true in many places. if you see a
 mismatch, it would be a good idea to look at the history and try to
 contact the the mapper responsible for the mismatch first.

 thanks,
   richard

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Re: [Talk-us] a plea to armchair mappers

2015-06-11 Thread Richard Welty
On 6/11/15 12:46 PM, Mike N wrote:

   My current strategy is to leave the original objects, just remove
 all tagging except for a note about Bing imagery dated  is out of
 date.

i did this with a slip ramp from I-90 nearby that was removed when a
roundabout was put in; i had removed the ramp, someone put it
back in because bing, so i removed the tags and added a README note
to the bare way.

nobody's messed with it since. here's hoping it stays that way.

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Re: [Talk-us] a plea to armchair mappers

2015-06-11 Thread Darrell Fuhriman
Shouldn’t be too hard to add this: https://github.com/rjhale1971/NAIP_WMS 
https://github.com/rjhale1971/NAIP_WMS

Unfortunately, the WMS server seems to be misbehaving right now. I sent a note 
to what I hope are the right people about that.

d.



 On Jun 11, 2015, at 08:43, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 Such a thing exists and is here: 
 https://github.com/osmlab/editor-imagery-index 
 https://github.com/osmlab/editor-imagery-index
 
 It is used by iD and Potlatch, with JOSM output available but not installed 
 by default.
 I'm happy to help anyone add their imagery.
 
 On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 11:36 AM, Darrell Fuhriman darr...@garnix.org 
 mailto:darr...@garnix.org wrote:
 Another useful tool might be to have a repository of local imagery servers 
 that can automatically become available when in an appropriate area.
 
 For instance, I use the 2014 NAIP imagery via a WMS server in JOSM. It’s only 
 1m resolution, but it’s great for double checking that nothing has changed.
 
 At smaller zoom levels, that might actually be a preferable default to always 
 using bing, and having the imagery change, combined with imagery dates, draws 
 attention to the fact that things might not always be current.
 
 d.
 
 
 
 
 
 On Jun 11, 2015, at 07:54, Bryan Housel br...@7thposition.com 
 mailto:br...@7thposition.com wrote:
 
 There is an open item in iD to display the date of the aerial imagery 
 alongside the attribution message.  We actually don’t get this from most 
 tile providers, but we can get it from Bing in the response header.
 
 Would definitely welcome a pull request if someone wants to take a shot at 
 implementing this.
 https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/2492 
 https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/2492
 
 Thanks, Bryan
 
 
 
 On Jun 11, 2015, at 10:05 AM, Kam, Kristen krist...@telenav.com 
 mailto:krist...@telenav.com wrote:
 
 We need to make it more easier to load up-to-date imagery to  our OSM 
 editing applications. And I think something easy as publicizing the date of 
 the imagery collection would get folks to do a double take before using 
 older imagery.
 
 Kristen
 
 Sent from OWA on Android
 
 From: Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net mailto:rwe...@averillpark.net
 Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2015 6:42:29 AM
 To: Talk Openstreetmap; Help for newbie mappers
 Subject: [Talk-us] a plea to armchair mappers
 
 please, please when doing the armchair mapping thing, be aware
 that aerial imagery may be several years out of date.
 
 yesterday i discovered that a highway reconfiguration i'd mapped
 in Rensselaer, NY had been realigned with the out-of-date bing
 aerial imagery. i was able to locate my GPX tracks and put it back,
 but i still had to revisit the site to re-verify some connecting roads.
 
 i had even put a README tag on the roads warning that the
 imagery was out of date, but the armchair mapper didn't bother
 to, you know, read the README.
 
 i don't object to careful armchair mapping, i do it myself, but
 you need to keep in mind that the imagery available may a number
 of years old. i can name a number of highways in the Capital District
 of NY where the imagery is old and the highways have been realigned
 and/or reconfigured.  this will be true in many places. if you see a
 mismatch, it would be a good idea to look at the history and try to
 contact the the mapper responsible for the mismatch first.
 
 thanks,
   richard
 
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Re: [Talk-us] a plea to armchair mappers

2015-06-11 Thread Richard Welty
On 6/11/15 1:27 PM, Darrell Fuhriman wrote:
 Shouldn’t be too hard to add this: https://github.com/rjhale1971/NAIP_WMS

 Unfortunately, the WMS server seems to be misbehaving right now. I
 sent a note to what I hope are the right people about that.

i had found Randy's page back when Darrell brought it up, and
verified that 2013 NYS imagery was available from NAIP that
clearly showed the road reconfiguration that's missing from Bing.
so the NAIP stuff has been seen working recently.

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Re: [Talk-us] a plea to armchair mappers

2015-06-11 Thread Darrell Fuhriman
Yes, it has. I was using it not all that long ago.

I’m sure it’s just a temporary outage.

d.


 On Jun 11, 2015, at 10:59, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote:
 
 On 6/11/15 1:27 PM, Darrell Fuhriman wrote:
 Shouldn’t be too hard to add this: https://github.com/rjhale1971/NAIP_WMS 
 https://github.com/rjhale1971/NAIP_WMS
 
 Unfortunately, the WMS server seems to be misbehaving right now. I sent a 
 note to what I hope are the right people about that.
 
 i had found Randy's page back when Darrell brought it up, and
 verified that 2013 NYS imagery was available from NAIP that
 clearly showed the road reconfiguration that's missing from Bing.
 so the NAIP stuff has been seen working recently.
 
 richard
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