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Re: [OSM-talk] weekly – 219 – 23.09.-29.09.2014

2014-10-07 Thread Martijn van Exel
Thanks again for providing this great resource to the community, Manfred and team! On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 4:27 PM, Manfred A. Reiter wrote: > Hi, > > the weekly Nr. 219 with all important news from the OpenStreetMap > ecosystem is published. > > http://ww

[OSM-talk] weekly – 219 – 23.09.-29.09.2014

2014-10-07 Thread Manfred A. Reiter
Hi, the weekly Nr. 219 with all important news from the OpenStreetMap ecosystem is published. http://www.weeklyosm.eu/ Have a lot of fun. -- ## Manfred ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://list

Re: [OSM-talk] Osmose's News since March - new : Scotland and Wales

2014-10-07 Thread Frédéric Rodrigo
We still move forward. Now, we added two parts of United Kingdom into Osmose : Scotland and Wales. http://osmose.openstreetmap.fr/map/#zoom=12&lat=55.9864&lon=-3.2963&layer=Mapnik&overlays=FFFT&item=&level=1 England not covered, we can't support a so big data-area on French

Re: [OSM-talk] wiki tag page template: ways vs areas vs relations

2014-10-07 Thread Tobias Knerr
Am 07.10.2014 11:05, schrieb moltonel 3x Combo: > [...] In other words, for that template's usecase, > ways/area/relations are separate sets, despite sharing primitives. > > Is that everyone else's understanding too ? Yes, I agree with this. Any changes should also be propagated to the Descriptio

Re: [OSM-talk] Missing Maps article in The Guardian

2014-10-07 Thread Kate Chapman
Hi Ben, Thanks for sharing this here. If you are interested in hosting your own Missing Maps event we'd love to support. Having experienced OSM mappers really is key for helping get new people started. Thanks to all the London OSM people who have been assisting in the series of mapathons that have

Re: [OSM-talk] Release of osmapi 0.4.0 (python) with Notes API support

2014-10-07 Thread Stefan Oderbolz
Hi Andy, actually no, it's currently not possible to query other sources. The only thing that's possible is to define a bounding box and using the Map() method of osampi to get everything that's inside that boundary. But of course this is not good enough for more complex regions or if you actuall

Re: [OSM-talk] Release of osmapi 0.4.0 (python) with Notes API support

2014-10-07 Thread SomeoneElse
On 07/10/2014 16:23, Stefan Oderbolz wrote: just a quick information that I just releases osmapi 0.4.0 which finally supports the Notes API (add, comment, close, reopen, search). For those who have never heard if it, it is a python wrapper for the OpenStreetMap API (version 0.6). Thanks -

[OSM-talk] Release of osmapi 0.4.0 (python) with Notes API support

2014-10-07 Thread Stefan Oderbolz
Hi there, just a quick information that I just releases osmapi 0.4.0 which finally supports the Notes API (add, comment, close, reopen, search). For those who have never heard if it, it is a python wrapper for the OpenStreetMap API (version 0.6). The osmapi package is on PyPI [1], which means it

Re: [OSM-talk] wiki tag page template: ways vs areas vs relations

2014-10-07 Thread moltonel 3x Combo
On 07/10/2014, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: >> In this case this is correct: non-closed ways shouldn't be tagged >> area=*, because "no" is implicit for non-closed ways and "yes" would >> by definition turn the object into an "area" rather than a "way". > > it is not correct for the reason I have wr

Re: [OSM-talk] wiki tag page template: ways vs areas vs relations

2014-10-07 Thread moltonel 3x Combo
On 07/10/2014, moltonel 3x Combo wrote: > On 07/10/2014, Pieren wrote: >> I think it is very confusing for new comers. The description uses the >> OSM primitives vocabular "node", "way", "relation" where the "area" is >> mixing them. It could be improved by saying "point" instead of node, >> or "

Re: [OSM-talk] wiki tag page template: ways vs areas vs relations

2014-10-07 Thread Theodin
Am 07.10.2014 um 14:43 schrieb Martin Koppenhoefer: > For landuse nodes are not "allowed", but there are 220.000 of these in the > data. Mines are tagged as Landuse=quarry, a feature where nodes are perfectly resonable. So not all landuse-nodes are wrong. And if an area has only low-res image co

Re: [OSM-talk] wiki tag page template: ways vs areas vs relations

2014-10-07 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
Il giorno 07/ott/2014, alle ore 15:31, moltonel 3x Combo ha scritto: >> the setting is currently "not on ways", but that's nonesense because you >> need this key on some ways (e.g. linear closed barriers) with area=no to >> avoid confusion. > > In this case this is correct: non-closed ways

Re: [OSM-talk] wiki tag page template: ways vs areas vs relations

2014-10-07 Thread moltonel 3x Combo
On 07/10/2014, Pieren wrote: > On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 11:05 AM, moltonel 3x Combo > wrote: > >> Is that everyone else's understanding too ? In that case, I'll mention >> that fact in the template's documentation, and keep an eye out for >> misdocumented tags. > > I think it is very confusing for

Re: [OSM-talk] wiki tag page template: ways vs areas vs relations

2014-10-07 Thread moltonel 3x Combo
The wiki is not in great shape (arguably in worse shape than the osm data itself), but if less than perfect data was a blocker, OSM would never have goten off the ground. The wiki is the 2nd most important source of OSM docs, after all the in-editor stuff. It should be well cared for. Tools to cro

Re: [OSM-talk] wiki tag page template: ways vs areas vs relations

2014-10-07 Thread moltonel 3x Combo
On 07/10/2014, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > Besides this, in the past I have so often encountered wrong/incomplete > settings (compared to what is actually done, and to what should / can be > done according to my own understanding) that I generally ignore these > icons. In my view, they are more

Re: [OSM-talk] wiki tag page template: ways vs areas vs relations

2014-10-07 Thread Pieren
On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 11:05 AM, moltonel 3x Combo wrote: > Is that everyone else's understanding too ? In that case, I'll mention > that fact in the template's documentation, and keep an eye out for > misdocumented tags. I think it is very confusing for new comers. The description uses the OSM

Re: [OSM-talk] Roll your own cigarette tag

2014-10-07 Thread Badita Florin
Thanks for the answer, I will check and join the ml group On Oct 7, 2014 3:55 PM, "Martin Koppenhoefer" wrote: > > 2014-10-06 22:46 GMT+02:00 Badita Florin : > >> What tag / sub-tag you say it should be used / created for doing this ? > > > > I think this question would be better suited for the t

Re: [OSM-talk] Roll your own cigarette tag

2014-10-07 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2014-10-06 22:46 GMT+02:00 Badita Florin : > What tag / sub-tag you say it should be used / created for doing this ? I think this question would be better suited for the tagging-ML. You could use a generic subtag like "sells=cigarette_papers" or "sells=cigarette_tobacco". The "sells" key is not

Re: [OSM-talk] wiki tag page template: ways vs areas vs relations

2014-10-07 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2014-10-07 14:21 GMT+02:00 Jochen Topf : > For phone booths, everybody uses nodes, everybody understands > that, the software understands that. For practical purposes this is what we > do and what we document. > actually I think that the software (i.e. osm-carto) does also understand and render

Re: [OSM-talk] wiki tag page template: ways vs areas vs relations

2014-10-07 Thread Jochen Topf
On Di, Okt 07, 2014 at 01:20:14 +0200, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > Besides this, in the past I have so often encountered wrong/incomplete > settings (compared to what is actually done, and to what should / can be > done according to my own understanding) that I generally ignore these > icons. Do w

Re: [OSM-talk] wiki tag page template: ways vs areas vs relations

2014-10-07 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2014-10-07 11:05 GMT+02:00 moltonel 3x Combo : > Hi List, > > all tag pages on the wiki have a sidebar[1] that tells which element > (node, way, area, relation) the tag applies to. Since an "area" is > either a closed way or a multipolygon relation, my understanding has > always been that if a tag

Re: [OSM-talk] wiki tag page template: ways vs areas vs relations

2014-10-07 Thread Jochen Topf
On Di, Okt 07, 2014 at 11:05:30 +0200, moltonel 3x Combo wrote: > all tag pages on the wiki have a sidebar[1] that tells which element > (node, way, area, relation) the tag applies to. Since an "area" is > either a closed way or a multipolygon relation, my understanding has > always been that if a

[OSM-talk] wiki tag page template: ways vs areas vs relations

2014-10-07 Thread moltonel 3x Combo
Hi List, all tag pages on the wiki have a sidebar[1] that tells which element (node, way, area, relation) the tag applies to. Since an "area" is either a closed way or a multipolygon relation, my understanding has always been that if a tag is only meant for an area (for example most landuse tags),

[OSM-talk] Missing Maps article in The Guardian

2014-10-07 Thread Ben Pollinger
Hello all, I spotted this yesterday: http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/oct/06/missing-maps-human-genome-project-unmapped-cities It ends with: "Guardian Cities will host a Missing Maps party next month to map an African city. Get involved: cit...@theguardian.com" Regards, Ben __