Re: [Imports] [OSM-talk] The French Corine Import has started

2009-09-28 Thread Pieren
rds, Marc I would like too. But if we move the attribution (which is a legal statement we must insert) into the changesets, it disappears in the exports and planet dumps. If you have a solution for that, we will take it. Pieren ___ Imports mailing

Re: [Imports] TMC LCL - automatic script

2009-11-11 Thread Pieren
dary to multipolygon probably because the proposal came late and also maybe because many people think that the relation represents first a boundary, not a polygon. Pieren ___ Imports mailing list Imports@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports

Re: [Imports] [Talk-ca] Shp2OSM : various questions

2009-11-17 Thread Pieren
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Emilie Laffray wrote: > Ian Dees wrote: >> Who wrote the Java program? I'd love to integrate that in to shp-to-osm. > Pieren did. > I'm sure it can be coded in a better way, especially with a real xml parsing but it

Re: [Imports] [Talk-ca] Modifying GeoBase Ways.

2009-11-20 Thread Pieren
would like to find a better one, but we cannot make the attribution invisible. Pieren ___ Imports mailing list Imports@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports

Re: [Imports] Donut Holed Polygons

2010-01-03 Thread Pieren
d you have to open a second dialog to understand the meaning of the way. It is even worse if the way belongs to several relations. So, as a data contributor and not as a data consumer, I prefer the tags on the ways for a better readability. Pieren ___ I

Re: [Imports] Bulk Import of Hotels

2010-01-28 Thread Pieren
und. If yes, just refresh the node_id in your db. If not, recreate the POI or revert the deletion. The link between your db and OSM is the lat/lon, not an id which is not guaranteed in time. Pieren ___ Imports mailing list Imports@openstreetmap.org h

Re: [Imports] Announcement: Corine 2006 Land Cover Import for Republic of Ireland

2011-01-17 Thread Pieren
t > > > welcome to the club ;-) what will be the script importing the data ? are you going to automatically resume when the upload is interrupted ? will you upload by polygons or by object types (nodes, then ways, then relations) ? Pieren ___ I

Re: [Imports] Importing Arkansas data

2011-03-21 Thread Pieren
> For information, in France (65 M inhabitants), we have all the tools to import parcels for about 2 thirds of the territory but we all agreed to not do this for the same reasons as listed above. Pieren ___ Imports mailing list Imports@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports

Re: [Imports] Spanish cadastre

2012-03-22 Thread Pieren
It does not really help for tagging other things (excepted some fences or walls as we do manually in France but we use the parcels as an external source with a seperate WMS layout in the editor). Pieren ___ Imports mailing list Imports@openstreet

Re: [Imports] Fwd: Re: Spanish cadastre

2012-03-28 Thread Pieren
hat OSM was primarily a social network service where the best map was a consequence, not the objective. Pieren ___ Imports mailing list Imports@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports

Re: [Imports] Fwd: Re: Spanish cadastre

2012-03-28 Thread Pieren
loading. Even if most of the contributors will, some of them are just looking for quantity, not quality, as soon as it renders good enough on the mapnik slippy map. And they don't care if the map is not or hardly editable with current editors after the

Re: [Imports] Import guidelines review

2012-06-06 Thread Pieren
equence which is wrong as mentionned several times on the diary. The license is really the first point to check. Pieren ___ Imports mailing list Imports@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports

Re: [Imports] addressmerge 0.1 release

2012-12-11 Thread Pieren
ave to do anyway for the county/region/state/country) just because you really need it for, let say, 0.001% of uncertain cases. Especially from someone who promotes the move of the tag 'source' from the elements to the changesets. Pieren __

Re: [Imports] Import guidelines - official or not? was: [Talk-us] parcel data in OSM

2012-12-31 Thread Pieren
em do we find the same person being part of the legislative, judiciary and executive bodies ? Pieren ___ Imports mailing list Imports@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports

Re: [Imports] [Cat2Osm2] Tool for exporting Spanish Cadastre data in OSM suitable format

2013-02-28 Thread Pieren
ncorrectly. A tool monitoring the changesets containing your source, some manual control or even better some software automatically detecting the cadastral raw files uploaded and a possibility to block very quicly the black sheeps is something which can help a lot in such cro

Re: [Imports] [Cat2Osm2] Tool for exporting Spanish Cadastre data in OSM suitable format

2013-02-28 Thread Pieren
API's for third parties access is also planned. But ithe tool is currently not covering Spain. It could if the admins can find some disk resources for the server (something which could be solved by the oms-fr community I guess. I can provide more information if you ask me directly. Pieren ___

Re: [Imports] Norwegian place name registry (SSR)

2013-07-12 Thread Pieren
d only locally), the use of "loc_name" or "reg_name" tag is also perfectly valid. So let the local community decides how they use name/loc_name/reg_name/official_name... Pieren ___ Imports mailing list Imports@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports

Re: [Imports] Norwegian place name registry (SSR)

2013-07-12 Thread Pieren
name". So let the danish community decide what they want into the tag name. Pieren ___ Imports mailing list Imports@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports

Re: [Imports] Norwegian place name registry (SSR)

2013-07-12 Thread Pieren
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Pieren wrote: > So let the danish community decide what they want into the tag name. Sorry. I meant "Norwegian"... Pieren ___ Imports mailing list Imports@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap

Re: [Imports] [Imports-us] Automated Edit Proposal, remove area=yes, and fix broken source tag in US Massachusetts

2013-08-12 Thread Pieren
cessary tags is not harmless. Many new contributors simply check around how stuff are already mapped. Leaving bad practices is a way to spread them. Pieren ___ Imports mailing list Imports@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports

Re: [Imports] Help us address issues with the NYC Import

2013-10-14 Thread Pieren
, we developed a QA tool called osmose reporting duplicate nodes, highways crossing buildings (item 1070), buildings overlapping (item 0) etc ([1]). If errors are increasing, create taskforces around a specific error or area. Pieren [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osmose [2] http://wiki.ope

Re: [Imports] NYC building + address import - to merge or not to merge?

2013-10-15 Thread Pieren
e moved x times and original link lost after some years). If the Task Manager can insert automagically this in the changeset tags (plus maybe the year of the original dataset release), it costs no additional effort from the contributors. Pieren ___ Impor

Re: [Imports] NYC building + address import - to merge or not to merge?

2013-10-15 Thread Pieren
re multiple addresses is common. Pieren ___ Imports mailing list Imports@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports

Re: [Imports] Source tag (was: Re: NYC building + address import - to merge or not to merge?)

2013-10-15 Thread Pieren
archives your repeatedly statements about the importance of sourcing ? ;-) Pieren ___ Imports mailing list Imports@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports

Re: [Imports] Source tag (was: Re: NYC building + address import - to merge or not to merge?)

2013-10-15 Thread Pieren
is even worst. And *_nycbuildings is not self-explanatory as "source=NYC DoITT City Wide GIS, 09-2013" Pieren ___ Imports mailing list Imports@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports

Re: [Imports] Source tag (was: Re: NYC building + address import - to merge or not to merge?)

2013-10-16 Thread Pieren
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 9:06 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer > Pieren, not only on accounts, but on the changeset comment and tags on the > changeset. This is common practise for some time now AFAIK. In general, user accounts are not relyable for sourcing. Contributors can use them for other s

Re: [Imports] NYC building + address import - to merge or not to merge?

2013-10-23 Thread Pieren
But the fact is that, at the end, the "convention" is addr:housenumber's on nodes. I cannot influence your decision but just tell you that you will regret this one in the future. And the "convention" argument is simply wrong. Pieren __

Re: [Imports] NYC building + address import - to merge or not to merge?

2013-10-23 Thread Pieren
is contradicted by the facts. Pieren ___ Imports mailing list Imports@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports

Re: [Imports] Polish Forests - Imports

2013-11-02 Thread Pieren
MS/TMS server if you don't have already one, ask a GIS colleague to help you. If you see some markers in the forest, add the markers. Pieren ___ Imports mailing list Imports@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports

Re: [Imports] Belgium address import

2013-11-25 Thread Pieren
ey like to duplicate the same address on all the POI they add into the same building. So when I read that conflation should avoid duplicates, I'm unconvinced because duplicates will come back later, anyway. - it was not mentionned here but OSMI is providing a nice QA tool for addresses

Re: [Imports] Vermont Town boundaries from VCGI

2013-12-03 Thread Pieren
the line style and has not to be computed). It's also that member ways can belong to multiple relations (road, river, routes, etc) and saying explicitely on the way it's also an admin boundary may prevent some contributors to adjust them to the

Re: [Imports] [Imports-us] Address Data Import for Fulton County, Georgia

2014-01-08 Thread Pieren
tag to handle address updates, nor should you use one. > The address is sufficient information to match address changes. +1 And updates can be discussed later. Integration with the existing contributions and conflicts resolutions is much more im

Re: [Imports] Import of addresses in Poland

2014-02-05 Thread Pieren
ddresses are released in open licences by public authorities, it would be foolish to not take this opportunity to considerably speed-up the task. Pieren ___ Imports mailing list Imports@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports

Re: [Imports] Value of imports in general (was: Import of addresses in Poland)

2014-02-06 Thread Pieren
ateway between two communities. But you are right on one point : bad imports can create more damages than bad individual contributors. In this way, I agree that imports need some additional control. Pieren ___ Imports mailing list Imports@openstreetmap.org h

Re: [Imports] Announce import of housenumbers in South Tyrol

2014-02-11 Thread Pieren
ens to tag all of them in a consistent way and migrate the few POI's addresses to a general and single method. I don't care much about the different ones but I hate small areas mixing them. Pieren ___ Imports mailing list Imports@openstreet

Re: [Imports] Restarting NYC building and address imports

2014-02-18 Thread Pieren
M hosted wiki like in other countries ? Or the github subscription is just transient ? It's always good to promote the OSM wiki : we never have enough participants to the OSM documentation. Pieren ___ Imports mailing list Imports@openstreet

Re: [Imports] [osm-pl] Import adresów Gmina Wieprz

2014-02-20 Thread Pieren
shed and approved and verified for one or two municipalities, why the hell are you asking the same approval for hundreds municipalities ? Where is the group of OSM officers payed for stamping papers ? Foolish remark from an anti-importer trying to avoid imports

Re: [Imports] Fwd: [osm-pl] Import adresów Gmina Wieprz

2014-02-20 Thread Pieren
process in the future) which is their unspoken target. Pieren ___ Imports mailing list Imports@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports

Re: [Imports] Honduras Imports

2014-03-10 Thread Pieren
try in the wiki table once you find a consensus with the local community- Pieren ___ Imports mailing list Imports@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports

Re: [Imports] [Talk-cz] CzechAddress Import

2014-03-11 Thread Pieren
t use it in the address and keep only "addr:street" and "addr:housenumber". All other attributs are superfluous and are deduced from admin boundaries (we only have exceptions for "addr:postcode" in some other cities in France) Pieren ___

Re: [Imports] Mass fixing street names in Queensland Australia

2014-03-19 Thread Pieren
Btw, you should open a wiki page about the import and publish somewhere the written permission from the government (or point out the license) Pieren ___ Imports mailing list Imports@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports

Re: [Imports] CLC meadow cleanup

2014-03-22 Thread Pieren
ahead for all European countries where CLC was imported because it was the same source/process, Pieren ___ Imports mailing list Imports@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports

Re: [Imports] CLC meadow cleanup

2014-03-24 Thread Pieren
of thinking that the local community cannot decide by itself if something is wrong and need some rework. Pieren ___ Imports mailing list Imports@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports

Re: [Imports] CLC meadow cleanup

2014-03-24 Thread Pieren
//www.openstreetmap.org/relation/2698607 Pieren ___ Imports mailing list Imports@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports

Re: [Imports] CLC meadow cleanup

2014-03-24 Thread Pieren
o talk-fr@ (even in English) to get some support. I'm upset when I see armchair mappers suggesting to massively remove foreing data without any discussion with the local community. What is questionable is not the criticism but this approach of thinking that the local community cannot deci

Re: [Imports] [Talk-cz] CzechAddress Import

2014-03-26 Thread Pieren
hem too. I don't see the point why a redundant tag becomes suddently untouchable and sacred just because it was added manually... Pieren ___ Imports mailing list Imports@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports

Re: [Imports] [Talk-cz] CzechAddress Import

2014-03-27 Thread Pieren
um set of tags required by data consumers. Who is adding addresses which cannot be interpreted later by geocoders like nominatim ? Pieren ___ Imports mailing list Imports@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports

Re: [Imports] [Talk-cz] CzechAddress Import

2014-03-27 Thread Pieren
xpect that normal "manual" contributors will add the "addr:country" to all addreses only when it's close to a boundary and just because some data consumer could potentially simplify this border. Pieren ___ Imports mailing list Imports@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports

Re: [Imports] "fleet manager" speed limit import proposal (Global)

2014-06-25 Thread Pieren
l (or close) which is not true in many places. Perhaps a good starting point would be to compare the values with already existing data in OSM. Pieren ___ Imports mailing list Imports@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports

Re: [Imports] Mali Schools

2014-09-08 Thread Pieren
g and you shouldn't include. In France, we have ~24.000 "school:FR" tags in use. But this is a secondary tag, not remplacing the "amenity=school" and provides the French details about schools (see [1]). We went to this solution because school systems are too different between coun

Re: [Imports] Mali Schools

2014-09-08 Thread Pieren
ist. No ? If not, we can explain that level 4 means "Post-secondary non-tertiary education", it is much clearer for the average contributor... Pieren ___ Imports mailing list Imports@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports

Re: [Imports] Address import for Biella

2014-11-21 Thread Pieren
better than an approximation. Pieren ___ Imports mailing list Imports@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports

Re: [Imports] Adding pcodes to villages in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea

2014-11-26 Thread Pieren
ntributors what it means. Pieren ___ Imports mailing list Imports@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports

Re: [Imports] Importing names of homeowners : Nepal Red Cross

2015-03-10 Thread Pieren
ate data in OSM. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Census#Privacy Pieren ___ Imports mailing list Imports@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports

Re: [Imports] Importing names of homeowners : Nepal Red Cross

2015-03-12 Thread Pieren
in these countries. Pieren ___ Imports mailing list Imports@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports