Re: [OSM-talk] Spam in user diaries

2012-01-19 Thread Tom Hughes
On 19/01/12 19:08, Matthias Meißer wrote: Hi, as our spam protection by trigger on people that mark a entry with the words "spam" seem to work, Not sure what you're saying here, but if you think writing "spam" as a comment has some effect then you are very mistaken.

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch licence status highlighting wrong?

2012-01-19 Thread woll
Build 2.3-129 of Potlatch does seem to have fixed the inconsistencies that I was seeing. -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/Potlatch-licence-status-highlighting-wrong-tp7199815p7205388.html Sent from the General Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___

[OSM-talk] Spam in user diaries

2012-01-19 Thread Matthias Meißer
Hi, as our spam protection by trigger on people that mark a entry with the words "spam" seem to work, we get currently a lot of spam, that seems to be send out via our twitter account anyway: https://twitter.com/#!/osmblogs So I'd like to ask if we could add a delay before twitter them. This g

Re: [OSM-talk] How I got here - was Geocaching.com moved to OSM (partly)

2012-01-19 Thread John Sturdy
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > One problem I'd see around here is that this kind > of data is not very stable (usually the dead remain only for 20 years > in their graves, not for eternity, but this depends on the religion > and local culture). In ordinary UK churc

Re: [OSM-talk] How I got here - was Geocaching.com moved to OSM (partly)

2012-01-19 Thread Janko Mihelić
There is such thing as sustainable mapping. That means, you should map things that are likely to be properly corrected when they change. A better alternative for graves would be a link to the graveyards website where there could be a list of graves. Janko 2012/1/19 LM_1 > There are much less st

Re: [OSM-talk] How I got here - was Geocaching.com moved to OSM (partly)

2012-01-19 Thread Peter Wendorff
You see? Again the multi-layer and merging-data problem... I'm pretty sure, that problem is one of the most important problems to solve in or around osm. A few years ago I thought about writing an application to manage a graveyard. As my father had to manage one (who is in which grave? in whic

Re: [OSM-talk] How I got here - was Geocaching.com moved to OSM (partly)

2012-01-19 Thread LM_1
There are much less stable things than graves and tombstones being mapped. That is not really a problem. The graves are there (unlike some historical feature), easily visible, fairly stable. I do not see any reason why they should not be mapped in OSM database. They are not likely going to be rende

Re: [OSM-talk] How I got here - was Geocaching.com moved to OSM (partly)

2012-01-19 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2012/1/19 Nick Hocking : > mick Wrote > > "I was pointed here by someone on the Devon list at the rootsweb genealogy " > > > Hi mick > > When I map a country town I am always on the lookout for any cemetery. > I find some very obscure ones and always put them on the map. > > What are your feelings

Re: [OSM-talk] Geocaching.com moved to OSM (partly)

2012-01-19 Thread Borbus
On 18/01/12 16:46, Ben Johnson wrote: > That's exactly how I ended up here. Me too. I bought my GPS receiver for Geocaching, but I also love maps and quickly realised that the only good maps for my Garmin were based on OSM. Nowadays OSM has become much more important than Geocaching for me, thou