Re: [OSM-talk] New study on OSM from the University of Heidelberg (OpenStreetMap study shows around 192, 000 active users)

2012-08-01 Thread Michael Kugelmann
On 01.08.2012 18:54, pavithran wrote: More SOTM's in Asia [...] could change things in Asia I'm not sure about that: * somebody who is not active in OSM doesn't know about a SOTM or doesn't join it as it doesn't seem relevat to him * The "big SOTM" does maybe not addess the needs of a local m

Re: [OSM-talk] New study on OSM from the University of Heidelberg (OpenStreetMap study shows around 192, 000 active users)

2012-08-01 Thread pavithran
On 1 August 2012 03:20, Michael Kugelmann wrote: > FYI: there is a new study available from the university of Heidelberg > regarding OSM. Please see > http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/OpenStreetMap-study-shows-around-192-000-active-users-1656609.html 72% of users who had contributed data to

Re: [OSM-talk] [Tagging] RFC: Names localization

2012-08-01 Thread Miloš Komarčević
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 11:48 AM, John Sturdy wrote: > > Having just suggested keeping it simple, I'll suggest a complication > as well: multiple scripts for the same language. In particular, I'm > thinking of mainland China, as it opens up more to interaction with > "the West"; and, when I did an

Re: [OSM-talk] [Tagging] RFC: Names localization

2012-08-01 Thread John Sturdy
> [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Names_localization +1, generally; but I'm not keen on deprecating the bare "name=*" tag, because for many (perhaps most) named features, there is only one name. For example, a minor rural road in England will probably have a name (in Engl

[OSM-talk] RFC: Names localization

2012-08-01 Thread Petr Morávek [Xificurk]
Hello, I've summarized [1] the ideas that were recently discussed in talk@ regarding the names, their different language mutations, ... I would like to hear some comments, additional pros/cons I could not think of myself, etc. Although I was arguing for the "don't repeat yourself" solution, I ca