Re: [OSM-talk] Map features page on wiki

2016-09-26 Thread François Lacombe
Hi Matthijs, 2016-09-23 14:27 GMT+02:00 Matthijs Melissen : > Yes, for the moment it is necessary to create a new page under a > different name. If you move over the current template to TagList, > non-English language wiki pages will break. > For me It worked like a charm. I don't see that probl

Re: [OSM-talk] Map features page on wiki

2016-09-26 Thread François Lacombe
Understood Dalibor, Obviously, no offense intended while replacing the whole template like I did few days ago. The problem isn't the taglist itself but the lack of translation of keys' pages on wiki, I agree with that too. Nevertheless I think it's a bad idea to wait for all translations of all

Re: [OSM-talk] Filling in the gaps in the map with crowdsourcing techniques

2016-09-26 Thread Dave F
On 25/09/2016 19:11, john whelan wrote: OSMand and POI editing springs to mind... From evidence of the edits I'm still to be convinced as to the usefulness of these smart phone devices. Often inaccurate & unclear (Navmii) or unable to recognise entities mapped as polygons & limit presets. (

Re: [OSM-talk] Filling in the gaps in the map with crowdsourcing techniques

2016-09-26 Thread john whelan
>From evidence of the edits I'm still to be convinced as to the usefulness of these smart phone devices. Often inaccurate & unclear (Navmii) or unable to recognise entities mapped as polygons & limit presets. (MAPS.ME & others) A _very_ experienced mapper recently added POIs to places already mapp

Re: [OSM-talk] Filling in the gaps in the map with crowdsourcing techniques

2016-09-26 Thread Simon Poole
I assume everybody saw my talk yesterday :-). Seriously, even if you don't expose geometry to the end user your editor needs to be geometry-aware (that means have at least internal access to all variants of how the object of interest can be modeled in OSM) and make the user aware of the presence o

[OSM-talk] non-temporary usage of highway=road

2016-09-26 Thread Aun Johnsen
I see a lot of usage of the generic tag highway=road, which is meant as a temporary tag and a “low level entry tag” for beginners. The problem with this is that because of its ambiguous meaning, it is impossible for data consumers to process this correctly. i.e., highway=road means anything be

Re: [OSM-talk] non-temporary usage of highway=road

2016-09-26 Thread Simon Poole
Aun The use of highway=road goes back to before we had access to aerial imagery. Often you would simply have a raw GPX track without any further meta-data and you might simply wanted to indicate that there might be something there for later survey and there was neither the amount of correct road d