Keepright returns far too many false positives (in the UK) to be useful.
I'm not an expert, but it seems the further (ie another country) you are
away from the server storing the website the less likely Keepright will
find it.
It makes me wonder if Bryce's script, running from the US, will gar
Unsure, but would OSMtoGeojson be of use?
https://github.com/tyrasd/osmtogeojson
DaveF
On 11/03/2019 10:18, Carlos Cámara Menoyo via talk wrote:
Dear colleagues,
I have just started to use Python and I would like to make a query to Overpass
and store the results in a geospatial format (e.g. G
On 11/03/2019 17:54, Carlos Cámara Menoyo wrote:
Thank you for the clarification, Matheus and for the link, Dave (I am afraid
that's not what I was looking for, as it still requires to download data on osm
format).
You can run the api from a command line or script (such as python).
Paste t
Maybe adapt this answer:
https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/115733/converting-json-to-geojson-or-csv/115736#115736
On 11/03/2019 20:00, Dave F via talk wrote:
On 11/03/2019 17:54, Carlos Cámara Menoyo wrote:
Thank you for the clarification, Matheus and for the link, Dave (I am
afraid
Mateusz
There's also a few osmarender:renderName in the UK. Maybe check
osmarender:* to collate all?
Simon
Never comprehended the reluctance to remove dead items. Does stepping
the version /really/ cause any harm?
Contributors, especially newbies, often copy tags from existing examples
with r
I'm afraid I'm going to have to disagree - OSM is far more detailed &
accurate in my locale.
DaveF
On 18/03/2019 22:51, Nuno Caldeira wrote:
Was curious where DJI managed to get a worldwide DB of polygons of
military facilities and points of prisons, triple checked with a
couple of other user
I understand what your point is, I just disagree with it from the
evidence near me,
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/287865080#map=19/51.50549/-2.55795&layers=N
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D1-nAn2WwAA9QDS.png:large
DaveF
On 18/03/2019 23:21, Nuno Caldeira wrote:
Dave, im not talking about th
I'm not convinced your example proves your point:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D1-qZlaWwAAlJkT.png:large
https://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?editor=id#map=21/38.69444/-9.29481
DaveF
On 18/03/2019 23:21, Nuno Caldeira wrote:
Dave, im not talking about the basemap, but about the non flying zones
t
I'd say almost certainly, yes. Do you have any specific tags in mind?
DaveF
On 17/03/2019 21:27, Andrew Hain wrote:
Is it worth mechanically removing any of the existing discardable tags from the
database as well?
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From: Dave F via talk
Sen
Hi
Back in Sept. '18 I posted about a fake mapper
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2018-September/081426.html
He's just returned to repeat one of edits:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/37764297#map=16/51.3711/-2.3623
Could a block be put on him before he causes more disruption pl
Was this new/improvement additions or bug/maintenance fix?
DaveF
On 22/04/2019 11:37, Simon Poole wrote:
The last functional addition to the editing API was just over a year
ago, in March 2018.
Implying for rhetorical purposes that "nothing has changed" is rather
disingenuous.
Simon
Am 22.04
On 24/05/2019 09:27, Wiklund Johan wrote:
As a frequent mapper of public transport features, I agree with the opinions of
Markus. Adding footway to the platform serves no purpose but to please poorly
built routing engines.
Whole heartedly agree. There are far too many routers who can't be
bo
On 24/05/2019 10:41, Phil Wyatt wrote:
Hi Folks,
As a relatively new OSM editor, I tend to agree with the explicit tagging
rather than implicit - it should help folks learn tags much faster
Hi Phil
1) Even for newbies, common sense should tell you that railway=platforms
are for the purpose
On 27/05/2019 12:23, Phil Wyatt wrote:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dplatform
This suggests replacing highway=platform with public_transport=platform
Most of the public_transport=* tags are pure duplicates of existing,
more popular tags. They add nothing to the OSM databas
On 27/05/2019 16:26, Frederik Ramm wrote:
AFAIK many editors for example silently drop "created-by" and didn't
hear anyone complain about that.
That's a bit different. "created-by" was, err,,, created by the
developers of the API/editors. Contributors never added it themselves.
It hasn't re
I notice these changesets were completed in 30/60 seconds respectively.
I don't use iD. How is this possible? Does it have a JOSM like mass edit
ability?
I don't see asking users to split the changesets as a solution to
what is the clear problem of mass adding/amending tags to
unknown/undoc
Oh Good Lord, that's dangerous.
'Everywhere' in the 'Where' option accumulates more warnings (1000+) as
you pan around
Even JOSM doesn't go that far.
DaveF
On 28/05/2019 19:17, Markus wrote:
On Tue, 28 May 2019 at 19:56, Dave F via talk wrote:
I notice thes
Hi
I was thinking of purchasing a 360 camera & assumed all would have this
feature built in. I was clearly mistaken.
Can anyone recommend one which does?
Cheers
DaveF
On 01/06/2019 04:58, Andrew Harvey wrote:
A neat thing you can do is infill the base of the image where your
hand/body/head
It's taken you longer to write your email than it would to write a line
of extra code to search for them.
Easier to distinguish between the two:
http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/JWq
DaveF
On 14/06/2019 08:27, Johnparis wrote:
For ATMs, at least, I would propose the opposite: add the atm=yes tag to
On 14/06/2019 07:57, Mateusz Konieczny wrote:
Edits would be split to not create overly large bounding boxes.
As long as it's clearly commented, I wouldn't loose any sleep over the
physical size of the changeset. OSM should be concerning itself with
quality rather than quantity.
That the ma
On 14/06/2019 14:10, Jmapb wrote:
If there's a problem with a well-thought-out mechanical edit, it's
highly likely to be localized,
For mechanical/bot/automated edits, errors are more likely to be
duplicated across all amendments.
If 'local mapping communities' have 'different ideas' it s
On 14/06/2019 20:12, Yves wrote:
Given that the two tags aren't the same (amenity=atm is an atm, atm=yes
contains an atm)
That's why Mateusz proposed this edit.
If you're not ready to consume OSM data using NOT, AND or OR, don't even start
:)
As the two tags are mutually exclusive, it sho
It should be 'Don't map *incorrectly* to suit the renderer'
All tags can be used for rendering otherwise we'd just have black dots &
lines.
DaveF
On 04/07/2019 04:53, Joseph Eisenberg wrote:
I've reordered and reworded several sections of the Good practice
page: https://wiki.openstreetmap.or
Hi
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Main_Page
Anybody else getting partial alternate language? (Slovenian?)
https://snag.gy/TlcrxQ.jpg
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On 11/07/2019 14:18, Upliner wrote:
Do you see language switcher at the top near user name? Just select English
there and all will be fine.
Do you see 'English' is in *bold *meaning it's already selected?
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Aargh! Thanks
Is there a way to set language within a bookmarked URL to prevent this
happening?
On 11/07/2019 14:47, Darafei "Komяpa" Praliaskouski wrote:
Please click on the wiki UI selector and not a link inside page:
[image: image.png]
On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 4:46 PM Dave
On 23/07/2019 15:05, Alessandro Sarretta wrote:
Just be careful that it seems that the OS OpenData license is not
compatible with OSM, see
It does not say that.
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Is the 'Bing only' vector?
On 02/08/2019 12:24, Darafei "Komяpa" Praliaskouski wrote:
Hi,
Here's a demo by azavea showing how 125 Million AI-mapped buildings relate
to 33 Million buildings currently in OpenStreetMap in the same region.
https://demos.azavea.com/building-footprint-comparison
Hi
I find it slightly irritating the next panorama icon isn't in a constant
location on the screen. Is there a key shortcut or maybe add directions
arrows at the top of the screen similar to Mapilary?
Cheers
DaveF
On 06/08/2019 15:58, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
Hi,
To follow up my post of a co
Hi
Static Images.
"Static images should be generally attributed the same way as dynamic
images, " I agree & a way to enable users to easily add attribution
needs to be created. The Share>Image feature on the main page should
automatically image stamp the attribution into the corner. "images o
This may help for future routines, if not this one:
nwr[place~"city|town"][capital=yes][admin_level=2]->.Capitals;
.Capitals out center;
in your original you were initially searching *all* of the world's towns
& cities instead of 194 capitals. (OSM appears to be missing one)
It'll need checki
Bernd
Could you post an OSM link to the nature park area?
Yves
Needs confirming, but from Bernd describing the walks as "their routes"
I got the impression they were routes conceived by individual walkers
rather than the park's authorities.
DaveF
On 14/08/2019 05:03, Yves wrote:
If these ro
On 29/08/2019 22:46, Frederik Ramm wrote:
Now, anonymous users can *still* create notes, but they cannot comment
on or close existing notes.
Can they close their own notes?
Perversely, it is much easier to fight a vandal creating new, useless notes (by
just
closing them) than it is to clean
Hi
I was in a conversation with a user who's account has since been
deleted. Unsure if it was by admin or self removed.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/user_7411226 (When he was editing his
username was 'Stonemill2')
As you can see his previous chainsets are now unviewable. When they
we
Thanks for the replies, but before we delve headlong into detailed
database manipulation could it be established why they're not listed on
the website & if possible, get them displayed.
DaveF
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On 11/10/2019 12:17, Andy Townsend wrote:
No, as previously mentioned there _is_ a trace of the edits, just not
a nice button that you can click to get them on osm.org.
What was the specific reason to prevent the changeset from being viewed
normally as if a current user? More time & effort m
Hi
An owner of an art centre in the UK has contacted me to ask why the 10
month old edits to the centre's building haven't appeared in Facebook.
Looking around it appears the render FB are using is more than 12 months
old. Is this delay standard for FB. Disappointing if it is as it shows
OSM
I have to laugh at the irony of not only driving to a gym, but then
being too lazy to even walk from the entrance back to the car.
DaveF
On 12/11/2019 10:11, MARLIN LUKE wrote:
I've recently come across the information that Tesla might be using OSM, at least for
it's "smart summon" feature. T
This question rears its head every year or so & the conclusions are
always the same:
Far too subjective, Far too transient. Best left to be shown as an
overlay by local authorities.
My police force produce both crime & road traffic collision maps.
DaveF
On 31/12/2019 15:14, Martin Trautmann
On 11/01/2020 20:22, Martin Trautmann via talk wrote:
But a good map is for people who do NOT know this area.
People who know about neither need a map nor a warning.
Which those with more accurate, regularly updated data, such a emergency
services & governmental authorities, can provide by ov
On 05/02/2020 15:45, Mario Frasca wrote:
hi all,
I am in no position to take care of the amount of instances of this
practice, and fix them
You shouldn't be expected to. Contributors who make errors should fix them.
I've signalled it to their editors, or to their leaders, but
apparently wh
On 05/02/2020 20:06, marc marc wrote:
Hello,
I've now moved to tagging as many of them them as 'fixme'
nice to highlight the issue.
but why not fixing it ?
As stated previously, it's not the responsibility of the person spotting
errors to fix it, especially if it's been performed knowingly.
In my area, AL are adding legitimate data which helps improve the
quality of the OSM database. I believe they make the same amount of
errors as any other contributors, including experienced ones.
Unsure why he thinks OSMF should be keeping an eye on contributors
purely because they're paid.
I
On 21/03/2020 20:59, Greg Troxel wrote:
This really seems unfair.
When someone maps for OSM because they want to, they have goals and a
typically a good attitude about community norms.
When someone is a a paid mapper, their goals come from the person who is
paying them, and they don't necessa
On 21/03/2020 21:11, Paul Johnson wrote:
Anybody paid to contribute to OSM *must* be capable of setting
the example, as far as I'm concerned.
There appears to be some kind of snobbery infiltrating OSM. Very
disappointing.
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Sorry, could hardly understand a word she said. Gave up after 2 minutes.
A brief intro about who you are & the purpose of the podcast as well as
properly introducing your guest would be useful.
DaveF
.
On 09/04/2020 13:34, Robert Bell via talk wrote:
Hello everyone I'm starting a OSM themed
Thanks for the expansion of Type Shortcuts. It's going to save a lot of
typing, especially with 'count'.
DaveF
On 14/04/2020 06:09, Roland Olbricht wrote:
Dear all,
I'm back with providing updates. After more than a year I'm proud to
present a new release. This release provides some smaller n
As you done it over (far too) many edits, could you provide a comparison
list of amendments here.
DaveF.
On 24/05/2020 11:10, Mateusz Konieczny via talk wrote:
I just added some example at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:access
and improved existing one.
Review, and improving edits (o
On 26/05/2020 09:19, Hartmut Holzgraefe wrote:
sorry, my fault, it is bicycle_road=yes in addition to highway=*
(usually residential)
and it isn't a cycleway as it is a regular road that is either blocked
for most motor vehicles,
Then that's a cycleway. Irrelevant of construction (width, su
On 05/06/2020 13:45, 80hnhtv4agou--- via talk wrote:
when the river stream comes to the bridge can you split and add tunnel ?
There can't be both a tunnel and bridge. It's one or the other. This
goes for all scenarios, including roads.
DaveF
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sent from a phone
On 5. Jun 2020, at 15:44, Dave F via talk wrote:
There can't be both a tunnel and bridge. It's one or the other. This goes for
all scenarios, including roads.
you can have both, but it is rare...
and it depends on your definitions of cour
Provide a link to the changeset.
DaveF
On 07/06/2020 14:07, 80hnhtv4agou--- via talk wrote:
IF someone, not local, relying on satellite views, goes after my
good faith edit, based on my on the ground
surveillance thinks my edit was wrong trying to fix broken polygon’s,
that are making ghost
Good Lord!
That has both tunnel & bridge tags on the same object!
This is not what is being discussed here.
DaveF
On 08/06/2020 11:10, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
Am Sa., 6. Juni 2020 um 18:02 Uhr schrieb Dave F via talk
mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org>>:
Do you have an example?
warning, with the
suggestion
add a bridge or tunnel.
Monday, June 8, 2020 5:13 AM -05:00 from Martin
Koppenhoefer :
Am Sa., 6. Juni 2020 um 18:02 Uhr schrieb Dave F
via talk http://e.mail.
On 08/06/2020 18:12, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
sent from a phone
On 8. Jun 2020, at 16:15, Dave F wrote:
Good Lord!
That has both tunnel & bridge tags on the same object!
This is not what is being discussed here.
it’s in the secondary thread that you started here ;-)
No Martin. Bot
On 12/06/2020 12:00, Frederik Ramm wrote:
and very rarely intentional.
Point 1:
This is what's always confused me. I occasionally look into world wide
changeset & it's often one spurious object in another continent, which
the contributor can't explain.
I'm unsure if it's one specific editor
Yes please - I am using Osmcha to look at changesets around me and i
have a high number of changesets which span half Europe and thus
intersect with the area i am looking at.
Changeset envelopes which span more than 100s of km² are broken.
In which case, isn't it really OSMCha which is 'broke
On 12/06/2020 14:44, Frederik Ramm wrote:
Hi,
On 12.06.20 15:22, Dave F via talk wrote:
There is a lot of negativity about large changsets, but assessment of
them should be based on quality, not quantity.
Yes, we're not discussing a popup that says "You dumbass, why did you
crea
On 12/06/2020 23:00, 80hnhtv4agou--- via talk wrote:
Friday, June 12, 2020 10:20 AM -05:00 from James
:
No they shouldn't, mapping roads in northern Canada, your bbox can
become quite large quickly as mapping logging roads/dirt roads is
quick and easy, but span over multipl
On 12/06/2020 15:32, 80hnhtv4agou--- via talk wrote:
I am confused,
are you telling me being in chicago, where i can go to the place i am
editing, not relying on satellite view
which is behind by at least 7 month or more here, i should be messing
around in London.
If you have information wh
iday, June 5, 2020 8:43 AM -05:00 from Dave F via talk
:
On 05/06/2020 13:45, 80hnhtv4agou--- via talk wrote:
>
> when the river stream comes to the bridge can you split and add
tunnel ?
There can't be both a tunnel and bridge. It's one or the other. Thi
Where was the discussion. Do you have a link?
I think the relation of the 'route' should be purely the ways & if
there's an actual requirement*, the signs should be included as a part
of a super relation https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Super-Relation
* Is there a requirement? Doesn't the
Try this (using your user name)
https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/WvG
[bbox:{{bbox}}];
(
nw(newer:"{{date:1Day}}");
-
nw(user:UserName);
);
out meta geom({{bbox}});
It highlights individual entities instead of vague boxes.
Change nw to nwr to return relations & change the date to return older data.
Just caught up with this thread, & I'm unsure if it's a joke.
If there are any problems/disagreements with names in OSM then surely
the same problem occurs in Wikiland?
DaveF.
On 09/08/2020 09:25, pangoSE wrote:
I suggest we create a roadmap for deprecating of storing and updating
names in
The first two bullet points are poorly worded:
building=house is "where individual people live".
"There is no need to split residential landuse into individual plots."
if that means the actual tag landuse=residential, then I'd probably
agree, but there is nothing wrong with this level of detail
Nick's description is "overgrown, unclear, prone to flooding"
These are all subjective interpretations.
There are many official PROW's in those conditions.
It doesn't mean they're "abandoned" or "disused".
It doesn't mean someone isn't prepared to wade or hack their way through.
Accurate descrip
On 25/09/2020 17:53, Andy Townsend wrote:
On 25/09/2020 17:43, Dave F via talk wrote:
Nick's description is "overgrown, unclear, prone to flooding"
These are all subjective interpretations.
There are many official PROW's in those conditions.
(for the benefit of peopl
All the OSM 'leaderboard' sites I've seen are based on quantity.
OSM needs more quality mappers.
There's a page which tabled the number of changesets created by
individual contributors per day/week/month. I believe this led to a few
anal retentives quickly creating one changeset for every coupl
Hi
I don't use iD editor much, but I've just discovered it auto-converts
closed polygons which are split (Shortcut Key = X) into MP relations.
I'm struggling to comprehend a logical reason for this. Is there one? If
there's been a previous discussion which I've missed please post a link.
Th
be sure that the user is finished
with it and you could simplify, particularly when you are trying to
get the user to save often and early. So the simplification for the iD
user comes at the expense of wtf's of everybody else.
Simon
Am 27.10.2020 um 02:05 schrieb Dave F via talk:
Hi
On 27/10/2020 03:56, Bryce Cogswell wrote:
I agree it’s a little counterintuitive for experienced users but I understand
the rationale: If you’re splitting a building (closed way) how is the result
valid unless it’s converted to a multipolygon?
The editor is presuming the splitting of the way
On 29/10/2020 06:41, Simon Poole wrote:
Am 29.10.2020 um 00:17 schrieb Dave F:
iD editor attracts a hell of a lot of "WTFs", doesn't it? I mean,
even its most ardent fan must occasionally raise a Roger Moore eyebrow.
bhuousel has taken the presumptive decision that the contributor's
desired e
On 25/10/2022 08:42, Warin wrote:
If OSM is about mapping what exists today .. why have the tags that
mean there is nothing left of it?
The main OSM website/database shouldn't. it is for *current* data.
"OpenStreetMap is a place for mapping things that are both /real and
current/"
https:/
Most roads don't have names.
Any comparison has to be done against an authoritative database or on
ground surveying, for the area in which you're searching.
"where the name can be interpolated from neighbouring ways. This allows
to detect and armchair-fix a (small) subset of these cases with
Link(s)?
On 30/10/2022 18:47, john whelan wrote:
There are two versions of JOSM available on the Microsoft store. One
is a fork and costs money the other is the kosher version.
It might be helpful if JOSM had a few reviews to make it stand out
from the other version.
Thanks John
On 28/11/2022 23:48, Tobias Knerr wrote:
we would like to offer data donors a standard legal text that they can
use to make their data available to OSM in such a way that we would
expect it to survive a hypothetical license change.
I'm confused.
If a maintainer of a database wishes to change t
Sorry, but I'm unclear what that detailed story has to do with my point?
DaveF
On 29/11/2022 16:54, John Whelan wrote:
The story of the Ottawa bus stops...
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On 19/01/2023 03:03, john whelan wrote:
Should we have a process that says some things should not be mapped?
No.
Next question?
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On 19/01/2023 10:00, Marc_marc wrote:
it's funny to find here and in different proposals this justification
I find it fanciful
You don't find tall structures, viewable from miles around useful
markers while out & about? How strange.
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Hi
You may wish to take a look at these changesets by a single contributor
to decide if you think these are dubious websites added to tourist
attractions.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Aliaksandr%20Kopyshau/history#map=1/37/3
The one in my locale had poor spelling (translation to Engl
On 25/02/2023 21:44, Andy Mabbett wrote:
shop = watch → shop = watches
This could plausibly mean watch as in "monitor" - in other words
"please watch for developments".
No it can't.
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Could admin transfer this to Talk-GB please.
DaveF
On 27/03/2023 13:51, Ragone, Olivia via talk wrote:
Thank you for providing feedback on some of the edits made by National
Trust staff as part of our organised editing activity, on the
representation of paths. We’d like to apologise that it
There /may/ be a way using josm's revert changeset.
Load the changeset using the revert changeset tool.
Use filters to select only the required data (start with layer<0).
When you have only the objects you require, select them. Then go to the
revert changeset dialog again & select the 'revet sel
You don't say what you want to output to but I use the command line
program ogr2ogr (you will need to install all GDAL, I believe -
https://gdal.org/index.html).
Example to convert to CSV:
ogr2ogr.exe -f csv output.csv input.geojson -lco GEOMETRY=AS_XY
You may have to adjust the GEOMETRY sett
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