[OSM-talk] weeklyOSM #337 The Maps that-made 2016 extraordinary

2017-01-07 Thread weeklyteam
The German team produced a review of the amazing maps in the year of 2016, here we have the English version of the same review of the maps from WeeklyOSMs 'maps' category. Here is our choice for you: maps in weeklyOSM 2016 http://www.weeklyosm.eu/end-of-the-year-review-2016 Have a lot of fun!

Re: [OSM-talk] Wikipedia/Wikidata admins cleanup

2017-01-07 Thread Mikel Maron
blockquote, div.yahoo_quoted { margin-left: 0 !important; border-left:1px #715FFA solid !important; padding-left:1ex !important; background-color:white !important; } Paul, thanks I hadn't seen that before, and it's a good response. Mikel On Friday, January 6, 2017, 7:05 PM, Paul Norman wrot

Re: [OSM-talk] Wikipedia/Wikidata admins cleanup

2017-01-07 Thread Mikel Maron
> It is fatal for the project... It's difficult for me to see how more respect, patientience, and clarity is an existential threat to OpenStreetMap. Perhaps I'll feel different after I run through a few of these cases... Mikel On Friday, January 6, 2017, 11:52 AM, Simon Poole wrote: Am 06.01.2

Re: [OSM-talk] Wikipedia/Wikidata admins cleanup

2017-01-07 Thread Christoph Hormann
On Friday 06 January 2017, john whelan wrote: > > We have more lakes in Canada than exist in the whole of Europe. [...] As Oleksiy already hinted you probably can get useful input from Russian mappers in that regard. They have a vast country and a lot of lakes too and somehow managed to map at

Re: [OSM-talk] Wikipedia/Wikidata admins cleanup

2017-01-07 Thread Simon Poole
Am 06.01.2017 um 22:22 schrieb john whelan: > >When Simon says "Canvec and broken import is essentially a synonym" > that is not an > exaggeration, if you mention Canvec in a typical European community > meeting you usually just get a big sigh in return. > > I think you have to understand a bit m

Re: [OSM-talk] Wikipedia/Wikidata admins cleanup

2017-01-07 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
Canada is the second largest country in the world by area. I understand only too well how inaccessible and unexplored a land with a harsh cold climate could be as I was born and grew up in a remote part of Siberia. However, the situation changes nowadays. There is now a lot of innovation in cl

Re: [OSM-talk] Public GPS Traces

2017-01-07 Thread Oleksiy Muzalyev
On 07.01.17 10:42, Paul Johnson wrote: On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 2:25 PM, Oleksiy Muzalyev mailto:oleksiy.muzal...@bluewin.ch>> wrote: I wish it were written in the Map Key. Something like this: The color of the GPS tracks : eastbound movement - red, westbound - cyan, northbou

Re: [OSM-talk] Public GPS Traces

2017-01-07 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 2:25 PM, Oleksiy Muzalyev < oleksiy.muzal...@bluewin.ch> wrote: > I wish it were written in the Map Key. Something like this: > > The color of the GPS tracks : > eastbound movement - red, > westbound - cyan, > northbound - yellow, > southbound - violet. > > It is a very inte

Re: [OSM-talk] Beware Pokemon users

2017-01-07 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 9:14 PM, Andrew Guertin wrote: > On 01/04/2017 03:03 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: > >> On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 1:04 AM, Steve Bennett >> wrote: >> I've yet to hear of any evidence that OSM is being used at all. I'm sure >> someone from our web team might be able to locate Niant