Re: [OSM-talk] Organizational mapping policy

2014-06-18 Thread Johan C
Since there is still no clear picture on the exact nature of the (potential) problem for OSM it's indeed very wise not to implement a solution, because logically that solution wouldn't solve the (potential) problem. Therefore to sit back is not necessary either, since there can be an open discus

[OSM-talk] We need a name!

2014-06-18 Thread Rob Nickerson
A few OSM members interested in historic maps are working on our own version of the New York Public Library "Building Inspector". If you've not yet tried it out, go take a look - it's a great site: http://buildinginspector.nypl.org/ So, the core function they are asking contributors to do is to c

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposed repeated mechanical edit: Empty relations

2014-06-18 Thread Werner Hoch
Hi, some years ago I've started this article in the wiki about empty relations, the reasons and the cleanup: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Empty_relations Am Montag, den 16.06.2014, 13:17 -0700 schrieb Paul Norman: > I'm proposing a regular mechanical edit to remove relations over two > da

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-GB] Fwd: Adding links to Wikidata (and Wikipedia?)

2014-06-18 Thread David Cuenca
Hi there, I am a member of the wikidata community and from our side we also try to be as integrative as possible. It is really nice to see that there are similar efforts happening on OSM. Really cool! Not long ago Magnus Manske (CC'ed) released Wikidata The Game. Explained on this blog post http:

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-GB] Fwd: Adding links to Wikidata (and Wikipedia?)

2014-06-18 Thread Janko Mihelić
This would be a very interesting experiment that would show how much this two data sets correlate. The starting premises (distance, involving tags and properties) should be heavily reviewed and scrutinized in this mailing list though. I think we should have a (semi-official) list of correlating se

Re: [OSM-talk] admin_level 4 rendering

2014-06-18 Thread Felix Delattre
Thank you everybody! Finally I could resolve this, with the kind help provided in this issue: https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/633 Labels need a place=state tag in order to get rendered. A deeper discussion about how place areas should be rendered can be found here: http

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-GB] Fwd: Adding links to Wikidata (and Wikipedia?)

2014-06-18 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
> Am 17/giu/2014 um 22:10 schrieb Rob Nickerson : > > What are the risks of introducing bad data and how can we reduce/eliminate > this? I agree that integration of wikidata ids into OSM is desirable as it overcomes (hopefully) the limitations of linking to articles (an article often deals n

Re: [OSM-talk] UK is turning blue?

2014-06-18 Thread Colin Smale
Indeed, it seems to be fixing itself now. Panic over! On 2014-06-18 08:56, JB wrote: > After rerendering (/dirty), blue went away: > http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=12/51.9605/-0.7644 [2] > > Le 18/06/2014 08:27, Colin Smale a écrit : > > It only appears to be happening on areas with t