Re: [OSM-talk] Digital environmentalism

Maybe stretching, but what about Google driving cars around constantly to capture Street View images and road/POI data? Ideally, a lot of OSM data is gathered by people who are already in the area. On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 1:25 PM Philip Barnes wrote: > OSM includes walking and cycling infrastruc

Re: [OSM-talk] stop deleting abandoned railroads

> How do I know if there is a razed railway there? > > That is, if I'm on the ground and there's a building, how do I know it's a > razed railway? > > - Serge > Personally, I haven't used that tag much, I'm not that into railways. :) When I have, it's usually when I'm doing some remote mapping in

Re: [OSM-talk] stop deleting abandoned railroads

On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 8:59 AM, Max wrote: > so here is a concrete example: > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit#map=16/41.7971/-88.3293 > > there is a hole in the abandoned railway, which orgiginally was probably > going through. How would you map this? >

Re: [OSM-talk] [HOT] Mapping high tension power lines in Nepal

* > > fl dot infosreseaux At gmail dot com > www.infos-reseaux.com > @InfosReseaux <http://www.twitter.com/InfosReseaux> > > 2015-05-14 17:23 GMT+02:00 Brad Neuhauser : > >> Fyi, user GautamPratik already started entering some hydro sites using >> the tag hydropower

Re: [OSM-talk] [HOT] Mapping high tension power lines in Nepal

Fyi, user GautamPratik already started entering some hydro sites using the tag hydropower_project:name. Here's a search for that: http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/9lJ And one for power=generator generally in Nepal: http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/9lN Cheers, Brad On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 9:03 AM, Steve Bowe

[OSM-talk] maintenance?

Looks like there's some database maintenance happening--I didn't notice anything about this on the list recently. Any idea what's up and how long it might last? (was planning a small mapping party this afternoon...) Thanks! Brad ___ talk mailing list tal

Re: [OSM-talk] problems I cant fix

Screen full of red is not what you want to see on the OSM Inspector's Multipolygon checker! :( http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/?view=multipolygon&lon=-89.73150&lat=29.64420&zoom=10&opacity=0.91&overlays=invalid_geometry_hull,duplicate_ways,intersections,intersection_lines,ring_not_closed_hull,ring_

Re: [OSM-talk] Best way to download data of route relations?

Here's a similar but more general query with OverpassTurbo if you want to avoid all that punctuation ;) http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/2S9 On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 4:26 PM, Rob Nickerson wrote: > There was a question about bus routes/route relations just the other day. > See my reply* at: > https://

Re: [OSM-talk] [OHM] Should we map former endonyms?

You can enter whatever language codes you want in the Multilingual Map Test, so for Finnish just enter "fi" in the text box. (ex: http://mlm.jochentopf.com/?zoom=7&lat=52.57802&lon=19.11621&layers=B0T&lang=fi ) To the original question, there is the old_name tag, which is documented on the name p

Re: [OSM-talk] Not attaching polygons to roads

How about this? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Editing_Standards_and_Conventions#Areas_and_Ways_Sharing_Nodes On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Dave F. wrote: > Hi > > There's a general consensus that attaching polygons to ways that represent > roads was a bad idea. For example if a farm fie

Re: [OSM-talk] Nearby Users

To highlight just one of Pascal's maps, there is a "Newest OSM Contributors" map, and if you look at the fine print at the bottom, you can create an RSS feed for a bounding box of your choosing. On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 6:50 AM, SomeoneElse wrote: > Frederik Ramm wrote: > >> I looked ad my pe

Re: [OSM-talk] Making iD the default editor on osm.org

Back to the original question about iD being the default editor: Originally at least part of the thinking behind iD was to have a newbie-friendly editor [0]. As seen before and in this thread, more advanced users want to keep adding functionality, which will tend to make it less simple and friend

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

>From Simon's description, I think this is the "Geocode" in question: http://geocode.biz/ On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Hugo Holscher wrote: > Hi Simon, > > that you may nor hear from them might be very true: see here: > http://www.geocode.com/ > Is apparently part of TomTom, so if you need

Re: [OSM-talk] Why do we have so many registered users with zero edits ?

I don't at all want to discourage improvements, the efforts of the WWG, etc, but at the same time we have to be clear that this kind of ratio is pretty common amongst crowd sourced projects. For example, if you look at English Wikipedia's stats, there are over 800K "wikipedians" (and note, they've

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

There's some teardrop designs on this page (which is linked to from the logo design competitions): http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/Logo On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Jeff Meyer wrote: > Simon - thanks! But... I didn't see any teardrops or armpits there - is > there another place

Re: [OSM-talk] Data copied from Google Maps

>From the dates, it looks like most of those are from the Haiti earthquake tracing, when Google allowed OSM to use its imagery for tracing. See http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti/Imagery_and_data_sources#Google_Imagery Cheers, Brad On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Andrew MacKinn

Re: [OSM-talk] http://sautter.com/map/ display problem

If you zoom out all the way, it looks like there's a projection issue with the Bing base layer and any of the overlays. Brad On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Dave F. wrote: > http://sautter.com/map/ > > I can't speak German so I not sure if it's a known problem, but I can't get > OSM to displa

Re: [OSM-talk] Moving Map on Netbook?

Just a guess here, but could it be related to Charlie Foxtrot? On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 3:10 AM, kenneth gonsalves wrote: > On Fri, 2011-08-05 at 10:01 +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote: > > On 08/05/11 04:29, Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote: > > > Please keep in mind that development of tangoGPS stopped a whil

Re: [OSM-talk] Detecting deleted data?

In Potlatch 1: - Press 'U' (for "undelete"). - All the deleted ways will show up as bright red (locked) lines. Locked ways are not written to the server. - Select the one you want to undelete, and edit it if necessary. - Unlock it by clicking the "Click to unlock" bar. - Click el

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-talk-fr] South Sudan, the world's newest Country

Ogle Earth blog has a thorough discussion of the boundary issues regarding South Sudan: http://ogleearth.com/2011/07/mapping-south-sudans-northern-border-not-so-fast/ Not sure if it warrants any changes in the OSM border, but interesting either way. Cheers, Brad 2011/7/9 Vincent Privat > Is th

Re: [OSM-talk] Japan KSJ2 Import

FYI, the import wiki page is http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalogue/Japan_KSJ2_Import and there's separate sub-pages for each type of data. It looks like User:Tatata wrote one script being used? On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > is someone on this li

Re: [OSM-talk] Tag "AND_a_nosr_p" and source="AND"?

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/AND On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 11:57 PM, Joseph Koshy wrote: > I have seen the tags "AND_a_nosr_p=" and "source=AND" > associated with some nodes in OpenStreetMap. For example: > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/245622615/history > > Would anyone know w

Re: [OSM-talk] Response to A critique of OpenStreetMap

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Mike N. wrote: > For 1 - seriously, you do. In the UK we don't have some roads tagged >> "A3400" >> and others tagged "A-3400" and others tagged "CNSE" (Chipping Norton >> Stratford Expressway, _obviously_): they're all tagged a la "A3400". Our >> roads are cohere

Re: [OSM-talk] NearMap Community Licence and OSM Contributor Terms

If it's about NearMap, then talk-au seems more appropriate. On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 7:59 AM, Anthony wrote: > On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 8:54 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: >>   this discussion must move to legal-talk. > > If we don't change the contributor terms, then we lose NearMap. > > That's not a l

Re: [OSM-talk] Problems with names with postfixes / types

When I lived in Japan, almost all place names included the place type, as specified on the Japan tagging page, both officially and in common usage. If you want to change this, I'd suggest first contacting some of the Japanese OSMers. If you remove it, it might actually make the map look wrong fro

Re: [OSM-talk] Placing a node at a known latitude/longitude

If you're not advanced enough to handle the four step process, "L" in Potlatch tells you the lat/long of the current cursor position, so you might be able to get pretty close. Cheers, Brad On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > John F. Eldredge wrote: >> >> If you know t

Re: [OSM-talk] Tag name vs operator

I've been using the operator tag for library branches (where name is the branch name, and operator is the library system). Same could be done with schools within a school district. Does this seem like a reasonable use for the operator tag? Side note: John, Do you seriously check health certifica

Re: [OSM-talk] [Warning: Potential Flamewar] Clarifying Interstate Relations

Paul, I believe this is what you said on another thread. Have you tried it yet? "You can contact the person through the website (change your name in the URL when you look at your profile with the person you're trying to contact)." I'm also pretty sure NE2 is on talk-us. See the thread "proposed

Re: [OSM-talk] USGS map areas with street names

hole section from the wiki? > > -- Karl > > Am 25.01.2010 21:31, schrieb Brad Neuhauser: > > Is the whole thing on the wiki just wrong? I haven't looked extensively, > but the street names appear to match up. This would make sense as the map > says "Street

Re: [OSM-talk] USGS map areas with street names

Is the whole thing on the wiki just wrong? I haven't looked extensively, but the street names appear to match up. This would make sense as the map says "Street data courtesy openstreetmap.org" If there were any other data, it would probably be from MINUSTAH, but that's already mentioned on the O

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Haiti Field requirement: Haiti OSM maps in PDF

In case you haven't seen these, the folks at Delta State University have been making PDFs with the MGRS grid of much of the main earthquake zone (and using some OSM data)--see them here: http://edcftp.cr.usgs.gov/pub/data/disaster/201001_Earthquake_Haiti/data/map_products/MISSISSIPPI_DELTA_STATE_MA

Re: [OSM-talk] Jacmel Haiti, DigitalGlobe Imagery, and Road Alignment

gt;>> are there. Obviously, if there is no tree cover, there is less ambiguity, >>> the road may just be off in another direction, inaccurately placed on the >>> DMA maps – worth looking around for it before deleting it outright – I’ve >>> found that to be the case

Re: [OSM-talk] Jacmel Haiti, DigitalGlobe Imagery, and Road Alignment

i, > > I have the same problem. Brad Neuhauser said on the crisismapping list that > lot of work has been done before digitalglobe was available. In particular, > an old CIA map has been used, there are a lot of objects with a source tag > refering to it. I've started to delete in