Re: [OSM-talk] iD news: v1.9.6 released

On 17.06.16 16:35, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: Another issue I believe to have found in this item looking at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q486972 : the first words, (I believe it is meant to be the definition, although it does not explicitly say so,) are "densely populated geographic location

[OSM-talk] Wiki - Renaming Template Names

Hello! Some guy (named "Verdy p") renames templates in the Wiki that don't make any sense. For instance: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Template:Stammtisch_Wien is a template to select pages of past regular meetups in Vienna. He changed it to DE:... This template has nothing language depe

Re: [OSM-talk] Mechanically Cleaning Up FIXME Tags

On 25.02.15 08:01, Frederik Ramm wrote: >I think in many cases the proper action to perform on an object with > a FIXME tag that has "a low chance of ever getting addressed" is deletion. -1 You can't really tell if the problem wasn't fixed of if it was fixed and the user fixing it forgot to d

Re: [OSM-talk] Routing on osm.org

On 17.02.15 12:30, Andreas Labres wrote: > Is there a *Route To Here* option? This seems to work like this: https://www.openstreetmap.org/directions?route=;48.19484,16.36637#map=18/48.19484/16.36637 /al ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.

Re: [OSM-talk] Routing on osm.org

On 16.02.15 20:20, Rob Nickerson wrote: > Congratulations to all those who were involved in getting directions/routing > on openstreetmap.org :-) +1 Is there a *Route To Here* option? In the form that: -> I give the destination (coordinates plus name) as GET parameters

[OSM-talk] New building colour

Hi! The old building colour looks much better than the new one, IMHO: https://www.openstreetmap.at/karte/Wolfersberg-alt-neu.png Especially in "garden districts". /al ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/li

[OSM-talk] Tile CDN

Hi! Serving tiles for Austria via Pula doesn't make that much sense. It should be something "near" to DE-CIX (or VIX). Hetzner for instance is ok. Sample traceroutes for the two biggest Austrian ISPs (A1/Telekom Austria and UPC): traceroute to c.tile.openstreetmap.org (193.198.233.211), 30 hops

Re: [OSM-talk] Using Notes in France

On 29.07.14 22:32, Jóhannes Birgir Jensson wrote: > Map Notes are in my mind a to-do list obvious problems that require surveying > on the ground I disagree with this (principle idea). Notes were created as an easy means for non-mappers (or less experienced mappers) to give some kind of hint where

Re: [OSM-talk] Street Name

On 01.06.14 08:56, malenki wrote: > they should name it "Edelweißweg" But for OpenStreetMap the only thing relevant is how it is written on the sign there... ;) /al (and what if it's a Swiss "Edelweissweg" ;) ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.or

Re: [OSM-talk] Street Name

And BTW, "Edelweiss" is a mountain flower /*(leontopodium alpinum)*/ from the Alps. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edelweiss /al ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Street Name

On 30.05.14 01:34, Clifford Snow wrote: > I need help with a street name. In Leavenworth, WA there is a street named > "Edelweiss Weg" that I want to add. Is Weg an abbreviation for something? It > will be tagged highway=service service=alley. Google translate doesn't help. "Weg" is German for a

Re: [OSM-talk] State of the Map US videos are now all available

On 16.04.14 01:50, Andreas Labres wrote: > I've collected a list of the videos in the wiki: > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_Of_The_Map_U.S._2014/Video_recordings Are there some more slides available? somewhere? somehow? Please tell me or update the wiki p

Re: [OSM-talk] State of the Map US videos are now all available

On 15.04.14 19:35, Alex Barth wrote: > Videos of every session from this weekend's State of the Map US conference are > now available to watch from http://stateofthemap.us/schedule/. The recordings > also show slides from the presentation. I've collected a list of the videos in the wiki: http

[OSM-talk] SOTM-EU - Submit your talk

Hello! Deadline to submit your talk for SOTM-EU ends March 17th! Details: https://sotm-eu.org/en/pages/cfp /al ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Es weihnachtet wieder sehr ....

On 08.11.13 12:17, Pieren wrote: > Please, don't tag events in OSM. Christmas trees are not an "event". They are built up on mostly the same spot every year (at least here in Vienna) and it of course makes sense to map them. I regret you delete features without having verified if they are current

[OSM-talk] Tile cache in Germany?

Hi! When queried from an Austrian nameserver, I get: host -t a a.tile.openstreetmap.org 195.58.160.194 a.tile.openstreetmap.org is an alias for tile.geo.openstreetmap.org. tile.geo.openstreetmap.org is an alias for at.ti

Re: [OSM-talk] Videos of State of the Map US are up!

On 12.06.13 03:20, Alex Barth wrote: > We have just finished video uploads from this weekend’s State of the Map US > sessions. Great, thank you! Is there a way to download video files? /al ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.opens

Re: [OSM-talk] Use of terms similar to "GEOCODE"

Simon, Thank you. IMO a good example of descriptive usage is also: "OpenRouteService including POI search, geocoding and reverse geocoding, pedestrian, bicycle and car routing etc." http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/University_of_Heidelberg_GIScience_(Geoinformatics)_Research_Group

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM relation ID property in Wikidata

On 05.05.13 14:55, Kolossos wrote: > I don't like to support different reference systems in WIWOSM. I see the point. But WIWOSM seems not to work with anchor-links: Neither http://toolserver.org/~kolossos/openlayers/kml-on-ol-json3.php?lang=de&title=Liste%20der%20denkmalgesch%C3%BCtzten%20Objekte

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM relation ID property in Wikidata

Tim, There are different problems, let's keep them separate (vielleicht reden wir auch - Englisch - aneinander vorbei... ;) a) There is a problem in the code of osm.org how it links wikipedia articles. You can't do a link like this: $PATH#anchor?uselang=en This is bad URL syntax. You (os

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM relation ID property in Wikidata

Tim, There are problems with WIWOSM that aren't solved at all... Example: Historic monuments in Austria. They are all covered in Wikipedia, but mostly only in Lists. And they do have a distinguishable objectID, but I can't really state this in OSM. For instance: http://www.openstreetmap.org/bro

Re: [OSM-talk] RFC updated: OSM Attribution Mark (was: contributor mark)

On 22.04.13 14:40, Alex Barth wrote: > 2. A completely redesigned mark, containing the letters "OSM" While "OSM" is a common phrase to us "mappers", only the name/brand "OpenStreetMap" is widely and well known to the public. So this name "OpenStreetMap" should always be visible, whether the attrib

Re: [OSM-talk] Explanation of crowd sourcing?

On 16.03.13 01:59, Dave F. wrote: > I wanted to send a link to people who'd never heard of OSM that explains the > basics of what it is & entails, but I couldn't find a page with a clear, > simple explanation of what crowd sourcing is & that they can contribute . Starting on the German "Hauptseite

Re: [OSM-talk] Recent edits in the wiki / Trademark issue

On 01.02.13 16:48, Jochen Topf wrote: > I don't think use of the English language is "merely incidental" to what we > are > doing here. Can you explain why we suddenly can't use words from the English > language any more? ... And no, I don't think this is something for private > emails. 100% agr

Re: [OSM-talk] RFC - OSM contributor mark

On 16.01.13 20:08, Alex Barth wrote: > My initial writeup could have been clearer: This RFC _does_ seek to replace > the currently recommended line "(c) OpenStreetMap contributors" linking to > http://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright with a visual mark linking to a future > http://openstreetmap.

Re: [OSM-talk] No attribution on osm.org?

On 09.03.12 11:17, Floris Looijesteijn wrote: > I just noticed that there no longer is proper attribution on a small > website you might have heard of: > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/ +1 Even worse, the permalink is surrounded by an intransparent white rectangle. Bad. (I also don't like the g

Re: [OSM-talk] iPhoto for iOS Not Using Google Maps

Same for Austria (look for the paths in the forests): Vienna: http://ivan.sanchezortega.es/leaflet-apple.php?lat=48.22255689468653&lon=16.288175582885742&z=14 Innsbruck: http://ivan.sanchezortega.es

Re: [OSM-talk] Spam in user diaries

On 20.01.12 10:25, Tom Hughes wrote: > Sorry, I wasn't trying to be negative, just trying to explain that it was > nothing to do with the OSM admins as such and it wasn't something we had any > direct control over. To get to the root of the problem: How is the spam happening? I would suspect: * r

Re: [OSM-talk] Spam in user diaries

On 20.01.12 01:30, Tom Hughes wrote: > On 19/01/12 19:08, Matthias Meißer wrote: >> https://twitter.com/#!/osmblogs @osmblogs seems to be a mirror of http://blogs.openstreetmap.org/atom.xml Both are mirroring user diaries, including the spam, of course. /al ___

Re: [OSM-talk] Funding drive – Improving OSM reliability and performance

On 02.12.11 18:02, Tom Hughes wrote: > The critical point, and wikipedia makes this clear, is that they are only > obliged to treat them the same as domestic Euro transfers. > > As there generally no domestic Euro transfers in the UK they can happily levy > large fees for such transfers and then le

Re: [OSM-talk] Friends

On 01.12.11 13:20, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > shouldn't that be the other way round? Everyone can edit your wiki user page. Good point! Yes, the "social data" should be edited under the OSM realm. /al ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [OSM-talk] Funding drive – Improving OSM reliability and performance

Harry, What is interesting for all of us living in European counties: Can donations be made via SEPA money transfer to the bank account of the foundation? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Euro_Payments_Area If yes, this should be stated somewhere on the website. /al __

Re: [OSM-talk] Friends

I'd do those things: 1. Connect OSM user and Wiki user better: whoever links from the Wiki user page to the OSM user (using the standard template) automatically get's a link vom his/her OSM user page back to the Wiki user page. 2. Create a "social informations template" in the Wiki that allows th

Re: [OSM-talk] Portugal proposal for the SOTM 2012

Jorge, having arranged SOTM-EU this year, I'd suggest top priority issues being: 1. accessability with low cost air carriers 2. plenty affordable accomodations in vicinity 3. a "good" location (enough space, having everything together, technical infrastructure, WLAN (!)) Top countries of the del

Re: [OSM-talk] Sotm-EU11: thanks to the organisation committee

On 21.07.11 12:44, Mitja Kleider wrote: > The non-Matterhorn downloads linked in the schedule include slides and > speaker as picture in picture. Thanks again! You're welcome. Markus did those for the two keynotes on friday. We could of course do it for other talks too, it's just a matter of time

[OSM-talk] State of the Map Europe - submission deadline approaching

Hello, Paper/talk submission deadline for the State of the Map Europe 2011 conference is approaching! Please submit your talks until 20th March 2011. http://sotm-eu.org/cfp BTW, if you don't want to give a talk: registration is open, get your ticket here: https://sotm-eu.org/registr

[OSM-talk] State of the Map Europe - Registration OPEN

Hello, We opened registration for the State of the Map Europe 2011 in Vienna today. Your early bird conference pass for all three days comes at EUR 60. We suggest payment by bank transfer (no additional costs in European SEPA area). On payments by PayPal, we need to add an additional surcharge of

[OSM-talk] Call for Papers for SotM-EU is OPEN

your papers/talks by the end of February 2011. We are looking forward to your proposals! Please forward this to other lists or forums. Also, see twitter under @sotmeu #sotmeu. Many thanks - Manuela Schmidt - Andreas Labres ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging Seamarks

On 17.08.10 11:42, Malcolm Herring wrote: > > Since these tags relate to nodes not used by OpenStreetMap, "we" (i.e. the OSM > community as a whole) do not have to decide on one scheme or another since it > has no impact on the map. -1. Continuing dispute between the two groups (accompanied by r

Re: [OSM-talk] Defining critical mass...

On 14.07.10 09:59, Ulf Lamping wrote: > A lot of the points in this thread was already discussed by others and me > around 2009. The whole license (change) discussion in 2009 (to my > understanding) boiled down to: Become member of the OSMF or shut up and follow > our judgement. Well, I am an OS

[OSM-talk] openmaps.eu

Patrick from talk-at found this by chance: http://openmaps.eu/ They seem to be reinventing the wheel, somehow... /al ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] mapnik shelter rendering

Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > How do you know that OSM-"shelter" is "Schutzhütte"? It could as well > be "Unterstand" Agreed. I think terms match closely: English "shelter" is German "Unterstand" which is (wikipedia) "a basic structure or building that provides cover", in German "ein überdachter [