Re: [OSM-talk] .poly file for Spain used by Geofabrik

2014-05-13 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 13.05.2014 16:47, Juan Lucas Domínguez Rubio wrote: > Perhaps there is a reason why the .poly file for Spain used by Geofabrik > does not include the Canary Islands (5% of Spain's population). Yes, the reason is that we're first cutting up the planet into continents and then further into c

[OSM-talk] man_made=quay ?

2014-05-13 Thread Jean-Marc Liotier
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Harbour mentions quays, but while we have 158 546 man_made=pier there are only 70 man_made=quay: http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/man_made=quay The page for proposed harbour features mention quays but does not even propose a tag for them ! http://wiki.openst

Re: [OSM-talk] man_made=quay ?

2014-05-13 Thread Malcolm Herring
On 13/05/2014 20:57, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote: there are only 70 man_made=quay There are also 106 instances of man_made=wharf. The IHO treat quay and wharf as synonyms. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/li

[OSM-talk] This has to stop: User Diaries Spam

2014-05-13 Thread Andreas Goss
First of all let me say I'm a huge fan of the diaries, I think it is great that OpenStreetMap gives every user the chance to present his own "blog" to a larger audiance. BUT something has to be done against the Spam on the User Diaries page. This could be done by moderating faster, but then th

[OSM-talk] Organizational mapping policy

2014-05-13 Thread Paul Norman
We have more and more organizations and businesses mapping in OSM. Multiple organizations have been conducting paid editing in Europe and the US. This generally comes to light *after* complaints are made - with the company usually not identifying who they are, what their goals are, and what the

Re: [OSM-talk] man_made=quay ?

2014-05-13 Thread Jean-Marc Liotier
On 05/13/2014 10:15 PM, Malcolm Herring wrote: > On 13/05/2014 20:57, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote: >> there are only 70 man_made=quay > > There are also 106 instances of man_made=wharf. The IHO treat quay and > wharf as synonyms. Also, Wikipedia's "quay" page redirects to "wharf" - so let's say that "

Re: [OSM-talk] Organizational mapping policy

2014-05-13 Thread Kate Chapman
Hi Paul, I'm curious how HOT projects which are mentioned relate to this. What I mean is we frequently train other non-governmental organizations (NGOs), governments and universities in OSM. The proposed guidelines read to me that people would have to declare that they were being paid to map. A fr

Re: [OSM-talk] Organizational mapping policy

2014-05-13 Thread Simon Poole
Paul Are there actually examples of larger scale paid mapping that haven't been disclosed and that have been detected by the DWG? I know we have now and then had companies adding their outlets/operations but that would typically be covered by the import guidelines in any case. Simon signatur