Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Redacting 75, 000 street names contributed by user chdr

2017-08-27 Thread john whelan
>I haven't seen any compelling evidence or discussion about whether or not the data in question was illegally copied into OSM. All we have to go on is the first paragraph of Frederik's initial post. I'm not questioning Frederik's (or any DWG members') passion or dedication to the project, but we ar

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Redacting 75, 000 street names contributed by user chdr

2017-08-27 Thread Ian Dees
On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 7:20 PM, Paul Norman wrote: > On 8/27/2017 10:29 AM, Ian Dees wrote: > >> >> I strongly disagree. As a group of people who have received >> extra-judicial powers in the OSM community, they should be expected to >> follow community guidelines to a higher degree than the res

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Redacting 75, 000 street names contributed by user chdr

2017-08-27 Thread Paul Norman
On 8/27/2017 10:29 AM, Ian Dees wrote: I strongly disagree. As a group of people who have received extra-judicial powers in the OSM community, they should be expected to follow community guidelines to a higher degree than the rest of the community. As the publisher of the OSM database, the

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Redacting 75, 000 street names contributed by user chdr

2017-08-27 Thread Pierre Béland
John, Once the way names are redacted, I will revise for Québec following the naming rules different from the english part of Canada. ToDo / JOSM should help for this. regard   Pierre john whelan wrote : I suspect Jamie could wave a magic wand for Quebec. _

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Redacting 75, 000 street names contributed by user chdr

2017-08-27 Thread James
The odbl=clean could be a way to exclude road names from the removal, though sources from the info should be given, whether Canvec, Mapillary, OpenStreetCam or local survey On Aug 27, 2017 3:29 PM, "john whelan" wrote: > There are a couple of issues here. The first are our users, we don't > nor

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Redacting 75, 000 street names contributed by user chdr

2017-08-27 Thread Greg Morgan
On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 12:01 PM, Nicolás Alvarez wrote: > I don't understand what people mean with 'verifying' objects. We're > not trying to find factually-incorrect data. The data is legally > tainted. It's questionable whether looking at the current names > imported from GMaps, comparing to a

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Redacting 75, 000 street names contributed by user chdr

2017-08-27 Thread john whelan
There are a couple of issues here. The first are our users, we don't normally think about them but deleting the names at the wrong point in OSMAND's cycle could mean missing street names for a period of time. Second is the problem of some data might be incorrect as a result of the source delibera

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Redacting 75, 000 street names contributed by user chdr

2017-08-27 Thread Andrew Hain
There was a script during the licence change that assessed whether or not changes to names were copyrightable. -- Andrew From: Mikel Maron Sent: 27 August 2017 19:51:05 To: Greg Morgan; Martijn van Exel Cc: Talk Openstreetmap; Steve Friedl; Tod Fitch; talk...@ope

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Redacting 75, 000 street names contributed by user chdr

2017-08-27 Thread Andrew Hain
Presumably it means something like the https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:odbl%3Dclean tag. It may not be as much use hete though. -- Andrew From: Nicolás Alvarez Sent: 27 August 2017 20:01:16 To: Frederik Ramm Cc: Talk Openstreetmap; talk...@openstreetmap.o

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Redacting 75, 000 street names contributed by user chdr

2017-08-27 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
I don't understand what people mean with 'verifying' objects. We're not trying to find factually-incorrect data. The data is legally tainted. It's questionable whether looking at the current names imported from GMaps, comparing to another source, seeing they match and marking them as "verified" wil

[OSM-talk] DWG redaction and Autometed edits code of conduct

2017-08-27 Thread Yves
Le 27 août 2017 20:37:18 GMT+02:00, Greg Morgan a écrit : >On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 10:29 AM, Ian Dees wrote: > >> >> >> On Aug 27, 2017 11:58, "Yves" wrote: >> >> a écrit : >> >> >> Frederik, >> >> >> Thanks for notifying us about this. I hope that you treat this as an >> import or automated

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Redacting 75, 000 street names contributed by user chdr

2017-08-27 Thread Mikel Maron
> we can find a good workflow for that. I wasn't expecting the community to >start working on this pre-redaction but if people prefer that to fixing issues >later... Absolutely, let's do this! Also, Frederik, I think your script picked up false positives. Spot checked in DC, and these are expans

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Redacting 75, 000 street names contributed by user chdr

2017-08-27 Thread Greg Morgan
On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 10:55 AM, Martijn van Exel wrote: > Happy to help. All we'd need for MapRoulette is a list of locations and a > proper description of the work we'd expect people to do. Anyone can create > the challenge but I'd be happy to do it. > > Martijn > Martijn, I'd would be great

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Redacting 75, 000 street names contributed by user chdr

2017-08-27 Thread Greg Morgan
On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 10:29 AM, Ian Dees wrote: > > > On Aug 27, 2017 11:58, "Yves" wrote: > > a écrit : > > > Frederik, > > > Thanks for notifying us about this. I hope that you treat this as an > import or automated edit and follow the rules you would expect to see the > rest of the communi

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Redacting 75, 000 street names contributed by user chdr

2017-08-27 Thread Pierre Béland
Frederik just answered Steve, but no message was received from Steve on the talk list. Bad documentation of the thread and difficulty to follow discussions coming from two lists, talk and talk-us. I then suggest that this thread be only on talk. >From the list that Frederik provided earlier (ie

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Redacting 75, 000 street names contributed by user chdr

2017-08-27 Thread Clifford Snow
On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 6:49 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > > Here's a list of way IDs affected, with country and state: > > http://www.remote.org/frederik/tmp/chdr.details > > Frederik, I looked a small sample of the list. For example, way 10012342 [1] in Texas was only touched by chdr. The name ori

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Redacting 75, 000 street names contributed by user chdr

2017-08-27 Thread Frederik Ramm
Steve: thank you for your work. I'll save your list. It appears that others might be eager to do the same, maybe we can find a good workflow for that. I wasn't expecting the community to start working on this pre-redaction but if people prefer that to fixing issues later, it is of course an option

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Redacting 75, 000 street names contributed by user chdr

2017-08-27 Thread Ian Dees
On Aug 27, 2017 11:58, "Yves" wrote: a écrit : Frederik, Thanks for notifying us about this. I hope that you treat this as an import or automated edit and follow the rules you would expect to see the rest of the community follow Ian, To lessen the burden of the DWG, I would say that this t

Re: [OSM-talk] Highway=trunk : harmonization between countries ?

2017-08-27 Thread djakk djakk
> > If we are going to have the consistency you want, the way would be to > downgrade the trunk sections to primary, because after all it's US 2, > not "Trunk 2". In the UK, it would be the A2, and unquestionably > primary. yes, that's what I want. Perhaps you should make your own render, and

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Redacting 75, 000 street names contributed by user chdr

2017-08-27 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi Ian, On 08/27/2017 06:23 PM, Ian Dees wrote: > Thanks for notifying us about this. I hope that you treat this as an > import or automated edit and follow the rules you would expect to see > the rest of the community follow. Sorry for not being clear about this. I posted this with my DWG hat on

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Redacting 75, 000 street names contributed by user chdr

2017-08-27 Thread Yves
a écrit : Frederik, Thanks for notifying us about this. I hope that you treat this as an import or automated edit and follow the rules you would expect to see the rest of the community follow Ian, To lessen the burden of the DWG, I would say that this thread is sufficient to document the

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Redacting 75, 000 street names contributed by user chdr

2017-08-27 Thread James
Indeed, with the geometry still remaining it will be easy to create a maproulette task(s) to repair the damage +1 for name tag redaction On Aug 27, 2017 12:26 PM, "Ian Dees" wrote: > Frederik, > > Thanks for notifying us about this. I hope that you treat this as an > import or automated edit an

Re: [OSM-talk] Redacting 75, 000 street names contributed by user chdr

2017-08-27 Thread john whelan
On balance I'd go rip it out then go back in and clean it up. Cheerio John On 27 August 2017 at 12:04, James wrote: > As Mr.Ramm said, there can be trap streets, which should be removed. > > When I inspected the data, it seems most of it is in Québec and wouldnt be > hard to validate streetname

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Redacting 75, 000 street names contributed by user chdr

2017-08-27 Thread Ian Dees
Frederik, Thanks for notifying us about this. I hope that you treat this as an import or automated edit and follow the rules you would expect to see the rest of the community follow. Please post samples of your changes, make a wiki page for posterity, and thanks for working to get buy-in from loca

Re: [OSM-talk] Redacting 75, 000 street names contributed by user chdr

2017-08-27 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
Then it wouldn't be hard either to add the names again from a legal source after the redaction. > El 27 ago 2017, a las 13:04, James escribió: > > As Mr.Ramm said, there can be trap streets, which should be removed. > > When I inspected the data, it seems most of it is in Québec and wouldnt be

Re: [OSM-talk] Redacting 75, 000 street names contributed by user chdr

2017-08-27 Thread James
As Mr.Ramm said, there can be trap streets, which should be removed. When I inspected the data, it seems most of it is in Québec and wouldnt be hard to validate streetnames for 1400 something items. On Aug 27, 2017 11:24 AM, "Paul Norman" wrote: > On 8/27/2017 7:26 AM, john whelan wrote: > >> I

Re: [OSM-talk] Redacting 75, 000 street names contributed by user chdr

2017-08-27 Thread john whelan
Either directly or indirectly, and it is a suggestion only. Cheerio John On 27 August 2017 at 11:21, Paul Norman wrote: > On 8/27/2017 7:26 AM, john whelan wrote: > >> I would suggest that any street names added by chdr in Canada were more >> than likely derived from CANVEC sources >> > > What

Re: [OSM-talk] Redacting 75, 000 street names contributed by user chdr

2017-08-27 Thread Pierre Béland
What do you think is  google source for names in Canada ;)   Pierre De : Paul Norman À : talk@openstreetmap.org Envoyé le : Dimanche 27 août 2017 11h24 Objet : Re: [OSM-talk] Redacting 75, 000 street names contributed by user chdr On 8/27/2017 7:26 AM, john whelan wrote: > I would

Re: [OSM-talk] Redacting 75, 000 street names contributed by user chdr

2017-08-27 Thread Paul Norman
On 8/27/2017 7:26 AM, john whelan wrote: I would suggest that any street names added by chdr in Canada were more than likely derived from CANVEC sources What makes you believe this to be so? ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.

Re: [OSM-talk] Redacting 75, 000 street names contributed by user chdr

2017-08-27 Thread Pierre Béland
As James said earlier, canvec/geobase opendata provides the street names. This can be easily corrected. But we need to establish a procedure and identify which ways chdr originally added the name. We can look simply at the history with a link to the OSM APIexample adding the id after way/ : htt

Re: [OSM-talk] Redacting 75, 000 street names contributed by user chdr

2017-08-27 Thread john whelan
In Canada as James has said CANVEC which has been accepted as Open Source acceptable to OSM has most street names in Canada. There are a few exceptions locally where the city has renamed streets and these changes have not yet been reflected in CANVEC. I would suggest that any street names added b

Re: [OSM-talk] Redacting 75, 000 street names contributed by user chdr

2017-08-27 Thread James
If we validate via survey say in Canada, will we be able to remove the id from the revert list? Canada has Canvec we can reference to as well as OpenStreetCam and Mapillary On Aug 27, 2017 9:50 AM, "Frederik Ramm" wrote: > Hi, > >in 2010 I was privately contacted by another OSM user with the

[OSM-talk] Redacting 75,000 street names contributed by user chdr

2017-08-27 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, in 2010 I was privately contacted by another OSM user with the suspicion that user "chdr" might be copying names from Google maps (there were few "easter eggs" in Oman that were only on Google and not in the real world, and they suddenly popped up on OSM). "chdr" was contacted at the time,