Re: [OSM-talk] Changing WIKI username

2017-09-22 Thread SwiftFast
On Fri, 2017-09-22 at 22:32 +0100, Andy Mabbett wrote: > On 22 September 2017 at 22:08, SwiftFast wrote: > > > Is it possible to change my Wiki username? > > It should be - email me off-list and I'll take a look (maybe > tomorrow). Thanks! ___ talk m

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding wikidata tags to the remaining objects with only wikipedia tag

2017-09-22 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 9:22 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > This is one of the fields (fundamental to OSM), where wikidata is just a > mess: distinction of geographically localized communities and > administrative territorial entities. > > Just a few examples: > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1

Re: [OSM-talk] Changing WIKI username

2017-09-22 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 22 September 2017 at 22:08, SwiftFast wrote: > Is it possible to change my Wiki username? It should be - email me off-list and I'll take a look (maybe tomorrow). -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ talk mailing list tal

[OSM-talk] Changing WIKI username

2017-09-22 Thread SwiftFast
Is it possible to change my Wiki username? ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] Place Tagging Overview Wiki page

2017-09-22 Thread SwiftFast
There are many places to tag places. (node, way, admin area, landuse=residential, etc). This confuses me, and I assume it confuses many others. We need a comprehensive summary covering all cases. Here's a draft: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Place_tagging_overv iew . It's likely inaccurate/i

[OSM-talk] weeklyOSM #374 2017-09-12-2017-09-18

2017-09-22 Thread weeklyteam
The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue # 374, is now available online in English, giving as always a summary of all things happening in the openstreetmap world: http://www.weeklyosm.eu/en/archives/9476/ Enjoy! weeklyOSM? who?: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WeeklyOSM#Available_Languages

Re: [OSM-talk] WhatOSM, a guide for contribution tools

2017-09-22 Thread PanierAvide
+1, taking pictures for Mapillary or OpenStreetCam is not really competiting with time for OSM contribution. Moreover, I gave a talk about using street-level imagery for contributing to OSM [1] to this year State of the Map. Clearly, pictures taken by other people allowed me to spend hours cont

Re: [OSM-talk] WhatOSM, a guide for contribution tools

2017-09-22 Thread Jo
I don't really mind having Mapillary in there, but if you do, you'd have to mention OpenStreetCam as well, of course. When I go out to survey using making Mapillary pictures, it's true I'm not adding data using Vespucci or Walking Papers, but I wouldn't do those things anyway. Making automated pi

Re: [OSM-talk] WhatOSM, a guide for contribution tools

2017-09-22 Thread Tobias Knerr
On 21.09.2017 19:45, PanierAvide wrote: > http://projets.pavie.info/whatosm/ This may be controversial, but I don't think a guide for people considering to contribute to OSM should send them away to Mapillary. They aren't part of OSM proper and arguably compete with us for volunteer time. Mapillar

Re: [OSM-talk] Which tool for OSM, a guide for contribution tools (was WhatOSM)

2017-09-22 Thread PanierAvide
Hello, Everyone concerned by naming issues might be interested to know that name was changed into "Which tool for OSM ?" in user interface and documentation. Also, a clear disclaimer was added into the repository README about the absence of link with OSMF. I hope this is enough for complying

Re: [OSM-talk] WhatOSM, a guide for contribution tools

2017-09-22 Thread PanierAvide
Hello, Thanks for this idea. In fact these videos can have an interesting value for mapping. I opened an issue on the repository : https://framagit.org/PanierAvide/Pic4Carto.js/issues/33 I'm not very sure yet how to query Wikimedia Commons to retrieve these videos, I have to read some docs !