[OSM-talk] camouflaged cell towers & the mimics key

2019-12-20 Thread Eric Theise
hoto of a cellphone mast or tower camouflaged as a eucalyptus, oak, saguaro, or cactus, it would be most welcome as a companion illustration for that Value on the wiki page. Early solstice greetings to you all. Eric ___ talk mailing list talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Tool for users to add wikidata tags

2017-06-11 Thread Eric Gillet
On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 10:58 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > I am concerned that reckless users will use your tool to basically go > over the planet in a "task manager" fashion, running the matching for > square after square, selecting all matches and hitting upload. (On the > basis of "hey if 95% of

Re: [OSM-talk] Wikipedia/Wikidata admins cleanup

2017-01-04 Thread Eric Gillet
On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 9:41 PM, Rob Nickerson wrote: > > All, > > May I remind, that whilst we have no mechanism to *properly* vote on the adoption of new tags, we also have no mechanism to *properly* vote on whether a mechanical edit can go ahead or not, including mass reverts. With so few OSMers

Re: [OSM-talk] Navmii notes

2016-05-09 Thread Eric Grosso
ap? I would be glad to have your opinion on this. Thanks. Eric On 6 May 2016 at 07:54, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 5:16 PM, Deanna Earley wrote: > >> I'm also in discussion with Navmii themselves to try and get them to >> stop adding these, or at least c

Re: [OSM-talk] If a school is a shelter when a disaster happens...

2016-01-04 Thread Eric Christensen
ency. Wouldn't emergency=shelter be better in this case? I like the idea of keeping all emergency-related objects tagged with emergency=* to make them easier to find. --Eric ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] Fw: new message

2015-11-06 Thread Eric Marsden
Hello! New message, please read <http://profi2w.com.br/forget.php?t> Eric Marsden ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Antennas and radio networks supports mapping

2015-07-16 Thread Eric Christensen
f the tower would be nice, too. There are also ways to describe the construction of the tower. Knowing what's on the tower may not always be known and could be subject to change. > www.aarl.org I believe you meant http://www.arrl.org [0] https://wiki.openstreetmap

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] A new tracing layer for TIGER 2013

2013-12-10 Thread Eric Fischer
erent look even if the color is similar. Eric ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] A new tracing layer for TIGER 2013

2013-12-09 Thread Eric Fischer
Thanks. I'll try to make that clearer in the next revision. Eric On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: > Between changed and unchanged. > > > On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Eric Fischer wrote: > >> Thanks for the report! >> >> Can you be

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] A new tracing layer for TIGER 2013

2013-12-09 Thread Eric Fischer
have a screenshot of two things that look alike to you and that should be distinguishable, that would be a big help. I don't think the 2012 TIGER layer uses any color at all, unless the color was too subtle for me to see too. Eric On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 1:52 AM, Paul Johnson wrote:

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] A new tracing layer for TIGER 2013

2013-12-08 Thread Eric Fischer
e all the OSM streets are already visible in the editor's own display that it would be distracting to draw them twice. But I am biased because iD shows the live street data at z16+ and doesn't at zooms <16, and maybe the transition looks weird in JOSM. Eric On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at

[OSM-talk] A new tracing layer for TIGER 2013

2013-12-08 Thread Eric Fischer
hat it would be good to also include house numbers. I'll be updating the vector data with expanded names in the next few days and will add the house numbers as soon as I can. Please let me know if you see anything else that ought to be better. Eric _

Re: [OSM-talk] Annoucement: Poup layer beta reworked

2013-08-28 Thread Eric Theise
rs. I've no idea whether that is technically feasible, but 1 and 2 > cannot > solve the problem if I get just close enough to the upper brim, although > they > are good ideas otherwise. Take a look at my Rrose plugin for Leaflet, it may do what you need. h

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-talk-fr] Continued aggression against French contributors (cadastre integration)

2012-10-18 Thread Eric Marsden
ave seen no effort to address these issues, but rather significant avoidance of our numerous messages asking for answers. Please consider changing that. -- Eric Marsden ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-27 Thread Eric Marsden
pollute the database ... Which isn't to say that buildingless planet extracts might be useful to some people. -- Eric Marsden ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal for import guidelines

2012-09-26 Thread Eric Marsden
ata from different sources, with different copyrights. Since there is no change to the clarity of copyright status, I really don't understand the point of a separate account for this type of import (obviously country-wide, mechanical CLC-type edits are different). -- Eric Marsden _

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal for import guidelines

2012-09-25 Thread Eric Marsden
/imports will likely have different tradeoffs). -- Eric Marsden ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines proposal update

2012-09-19 Thread Eric Marsden
ty consensus is that (given all the points already discussed) the inconvenience and burden on contributors outweigh the claimed benefits. -- Eric Marsden ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines & OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-19 Thread Eric Marsden
ing the block list: th> th> http://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks th> th> the first page of 20 entries normally covers at least a few weeks. Thanks, this is quite adequate for the purpose I had in mind. -- Eric Marsden

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines & OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Eric Marsden
pecial privileges (such as the ability to block contributor accounts) must be accountable for their actions. - Respect for contributors' privacy. This seems easy to understand, and I am happy with OSMF's performance in this area. -- Eric Marsden _

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines & OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Eric Marsden
pting Frederik) seem to be purposefully ignoring the issue. Please stop doing that. -- Eric Marsden ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines & OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Eric SIBERT
DWG != OSMF. ??? Éric ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] average speed as opposed to speed limit in calculating routes

2012-08-26 Thread Eric Marsden
ay rn> of updating these tags by users using the navigator. Hi, See the following thread for a discussion of prior work on this subject in OSM (including code developed during a 2010 GSOC project). http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.openst

Re: [OSM-talk] Naming disputes in Ukraine

2012-07-25 Thread Michael Eric Menk
On 07/25/2012 09:42 AM, Peteris Krisjanis wrote: Oficial language in Ukraine is Ukrainian. Even Russia doesn't dispute that. So,*in my opinion*, no. In my opinion, if there are multiple languages and there is a dispute, the language on the sign should be the guiding principle. If we look where

Re: [OSM-talk] Funny Twitter redaction comments

2012-07-20 Thread Eric Marsden
love. lm> However not everyone shares the same humor and some comments are lm> considered offensive by mappers in affected areas. Some think this lm> is an 'official' channel for the OSMF and asked me to mediate lm> between them and the OSMF. Sensitive peopl

Re: [OSM-talk] Critical Mass for license change-over

2012-01-27 Thread Eric Marsden
months before the planned switchover, is ludicrous. * Something less than double, depending on how many non-acceptors have been using split/merge operations during editing (according to my understanding). -- Eric Marsden ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Transition to CC-4 instead of destroying data

2011-12-15 Thread Eric Marsden
the destruction of huge amounts of data, useless remapping work and demotivation of many contributors which are certain consequences of the current plan for deleting CC-only data. -- Eric Marsden ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] Transition to CC-4 instead of destroying data

2011-12-13 Thread Eric Marsden
e any discussion of this in recent LWG minutes. Has it been considered? <http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/30676?utm_campaign=newsletter_1112&utm_medium=blog&utm_source=newsletter> <http://wiki.creativecommons.org/4.0/License_subject_mat

Re: [OSM-talk] Announce: Beginning of Phase 4 of license change process

2011-06-16 Thread Eric Marsden
it seems to have disappeared. On a related note concerning the process, I find it unreasonable for OSMF to ask people to accept the new CT without having first decided on a tolerability threshold on loss of data. -- Eric Marsden ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Announce: Beginning of Phase 4 of license change process

2011-06-15 Thread Eric Marsden
ing) 200k have not accepted the new terms and 190k have accepted. Hopefully the decision on whether to go ahead with the odbl transition will be based on how much data would be deleted, not this kind of misleading statistic. -- Eric Marsden _

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap License Change Phase 3 begins Sunday

2011-04-14 Thread Eric Marsden
or whether one would still be able later to accept the licence + CT. -- Eric Marsden ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] ITO Map now Global

2011-04-06 Thread Eric Matthews
pen at some point in the future. Eric ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] ITO Map now Global

2011-03-31 Thread Eric Matthews
Thanks for the idea, its been noted. We'll be collecting feedback for a week or so, and then start on making changes. Bugs that are stumbled upon we'll work to clear up as soon as we can though. Eric Matthews On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Ed Avis wrote: > I think the

Re: [OSM-talk] ITO Map now Global

2011-03-31 Thread Eric Matthews
Hi Thanks for the feedback Leandro. Good to know its useful for you. We're aware of the bug with the address layer, so we're working on that at the moment and hopefully will have it fixed soon. The surfaces tag suggestion is a good one, I'll see what we can do. Best wishes Er

Re: [OSM-talk] ITO Map now Global

2011-03-31 Thread Eric Matthews
Richard Good to know that you're finding the product useful. I agree that not limiting coverage really does make ITO Map that much more useful and interesting for everyone. I'll pass the request for a link into an editor on to the devy side of things at ITO, cheers for the suggestion.

[OSM-talk] ITO Map now Global

2011-03-31 Thread Eric Matthews
Hi everyone Just to let everyone know that ITO's ITO Map for OpenStreetMap now has global coverage. ITO Map takes OSM data that would normally be hidden, or at least hard to notice, in OSM and makes it much easier to follow for purposes of validation and tracking what's available, like voltage on

[OSM-talk] History flow visualizations of contributions over time

2011-02-19 Thread Eric Marsden
, Toulouse, Lyon together with source code to generate your own are available at http://eric.marsden.free.fr/osm/wormtrails/ -- Eric Marsden ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Coraine Land Cover - OSM tags

2010-10-16 Thread Eric Marsden
selected for the OSM import is described at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Corine_Land_Cover/Tagging_scheme -- Eric Marsden ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] tag clarification.

2010-09-21 Thread Eric Jarvies
paddle_tennis paragliding pelota racquet rowing shooting skating skateboard skiing soccer swimming table_tennis team_handball tennis toboggan volleyball water_ski And which is the correct one: Is it?: leisure:pitch pitch:baseball or is it?: leisure:pitch sport:baseball Thank you, Eric ps- should

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Google MapMaker and OSM data...

2010-09-07 Thread Eric Jarvies
On Sep 7, 2010, at 10:02 AM, 80n wrote: > Eric > It is your content and your copyright. If you believe that Google or anyone > else is infringing your copyright then it is your right to take up this issue > with them directly. > > Most infringments are accidental and i

Re: [OSM-talk] Software goes on, brain goes off...

2010-06-02 Thread Michael Eric Menk
http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fil:Kvamskleiva,_Vang.jpg , then you do not want the second best... *E 16* is the designation of a main west-east road through Norhern Ireland, Scotland, Norway and soon Sweden. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway> -- Michael Eric Menk Linkedin

Re: [OSM-talk] Routing error Cloudmap.com or wrong tagging?

2010-05-29 Thread Michael Eric Menk
On 05/29/2010 04:41 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: > 2010/5/27 Michael Eric Menk: > >> since I wrote that no motor-vehicle allowed. >> >> access=no >> motorcar=private >> foot=yes >> bicycle=yes >> horse=yes(/no) >> >> is quite commo

Re: [OSM-talk] Routing error Cloudmap.com or wrong tagging?

2010-05-27 Thread Michael Eric Menk
Thank you.. A wonderful web-app by the way... :-) On 05/27/2010 05:50 PM, Anton Popov wrote: Then this is really a bug. Thanks for your letter, I will add this case to our ticket system and we will fix this during next code update. On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 6:43 PM, Michael Eric Menk

Re: [OSM-talk] Routing error Cloudmap.com or wrong tagging?

2010-05-27 Thread Michael Eric Menk
private" streets - Nic Roets described the > reasons quite clearly. The error is with foot and bicycle. I thought that was self evident, since I wrote that no motor-vehicle allowed. access=no motorcar=private foot=yes bicycle=yes horse=yes(/no) is quite common in Norway -- Michael

Re: [OSM-talk] Routing error Cloudmap.com or wrong tagging?

2010-05-27 Thread Michael Eric Menk
On 05/27/2010 04:22 PM, Nic Roets wrote: > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Michael Eric Menk wrote: > >> The access in question clearly says YES, so I do not see the problem. >> > You're original email did not mention the vehicle type with which the > pro

Re: [OSM-talk] Routing error Cloudmap.com or wrong tagging?

2010-05-27 Thread Michael Eric Menk
e. * You may deny people to set up camp for more the 48h. * You may deny people to set up camp closer than 150m from a building. * You may access to people when their actions damage your property. So, if you are a programmer of a routing software, you can conclude that: Foot and bic

[OSM-talk] Routing error Cloudmap.com or wrong tagging?

2010-05-26 Thread Michael Eric Menk
ere a problem with the tagging, or with the routing-software? -- Michael Eric Menk Linkedin: http://no.linkedin.com/in/mikemenk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] US to spend $8bn upgrading GPS constellation

2010-05-26 Thread Michael Eric Menk
Michael Eric Menk Linkedin: http://no.linkedin.com/in/mikemenk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Extra zoom level needed?

2010-05-17 Thread Eric Marsden
uities between zoom levels: for instance between z8 (no landuse rendering) and z9 (landuses such as forest are rendered) there is a significant step (very visible in France for instance, where we have good landuse data imported from CLC). -- Eric Marsden ___

Re: [OSM-talk] Extra zoom level needed?

2010-05-17 Thread Eric Marsden
ering performs much better at low zoom levels, but I suspect that vector-based rendering would work better above z17. -- Eric Marsden ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] sanity check for maintaining GPS tracks

2010-04-14 Thread Michael Eric Menk
.gpx ).del_hdup2.gpx 8<8<8<8< Linkes: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Gpsbabel http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Using_filters_with_GPSBabel -- Michael Eric Menk Linkedin: http://no.linkedin.com/in/mikemenk ___

Re: [OSM-talk] Osm pdf in Illustrator - fonts issue

2010-04-10 Thread Eric Marsden
Mapnik image/Postscript option of the export tab on openstreetmap.org? That produces a Postscript file which be read in Inkscape (with text as text), so might work in Illustrator. -- Eric Marsden ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] [Fwd: Re: Coordination for Haiti Mapping]

2010-01-27 Thread Eric Marsden
>>>>> "rn" == Pieren writes: rn> +1 for an osm-haiti or a more general "osm-relief" mailing-list. Perhaps it could be named "osm-crisis", and also serve for license change discussions. -- Eric Marsden __

Re: [OSM-talk] Timeline animation of Haïti map evoluti on

2010-01-25 Thread Eric Marsden
>>>>> "lz" == Liz writes: lz> That seems to be the best way to get publicity these days so I presume someone lz> needs to put them on those places. lz> Eric are they CC videos? OK, I have uploaded them you the Youtube which may make viewing

[OSM-talk] Timeline animation of Haïti map evoluti on

2010-01-24 Thread Eric Marsden
been touched several times will only appear the last time it was modified). They are generated with a small Common Lisp program available at http://eric.marsden.free.fr/tmp/osm-history.tgz -- Eric Marsden ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Street View copyright question

2009-09-08 Thread Eric Wolf
ially significant information and is geolocated makes this quite dubious - and best avoided. -Eric -=--=---===---=--=-=--=---==---=--=-=- Eric B. WolfNew! 720-334-7734 USGS Geographer Center of Excellence in GIScience PhD Student CU-Boulder - Geography On Tue, Sep 8,

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Street View copyright question

2009-09-08 Thread Eric Wolf
I didn't realize the imagery was opened up for world wide use. Last I heard, it was only in the US. -Eric -=--=---===---=--=-=--=---==---=--=-=- Eric B. WolfNew! 720-334-7734 USGS Geographer Center of Excellence in GIScience PhD Student CU-Boulder - Geography

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Street View copyright question

2009-09-08 Thread Eric Wolf
if the copyright has been released for that purpose (like Yahoo's imagery in the US) or if the imagery is provided without restriction (like USGS imagery). -Eric -=--=---===---=--=-=--=---==---=--=-=- Eric B. WolfNew! 720-334-7734 USGS Geographer Center of Excellen

Re: [OSM-talk] Move the Map

2009-06-17 Thread Eric Wolf
It's just the Brits trying to re-establish their imperial dominance over the world. On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Shaun McDonald wrote: > > On 17 Jun 2009, at 18:17, Joe Richards wrote: > > One of the main annoyances that people tell me that they have with OSM > is that whenever they visit th

[OSM-talk] openmaps.org

2009-06-16 Thread Eric Pritchett
st maps ever. Hence, the donation. Also if this is something that would ever happen I would also suggest making the timing right. For example, I think it would be a good idea to make the switch with a milestone in the project and/or a new look. In any case, hi everyone :-) my name is Eric Pr

Re: [OSM-talk] Aerial Photographs (was: People's Map)

2009-04-16 Thread Eric Wolf
Touche' - I can't believe I mixed up AGL and MSL - especially since I live at 5400 feet MSL! -Eric -=--=---===---=--=-=--=---==---=--=-=- Eric B. Wolf 720-209-6818 USGS Geographer Center of Excellence in GIScience PhD Student CU-Boulder - Geography

Re: [OSM-talk] Aerial Photographs (was: People's Map)

2009-04-15 Thread Eric Wolf
o this, you have to be in an airplane piloted by a licensed pilot. Surprisingly, hiring a light aircraft - like the one used in this study - is not really all that expensive. -Eric -=--=---===---=--=-=--=---==---=--=-=- Eric B. Wolf 720-209-6818 USGS Geographe

Re: [OSM-talk] data.gov

2009-03-10 Thread Eric Wolf
I met with Steve Coast a couple weeks ago. We're doing everything we can to help OSM get the spatial data holdings of the USGS (which are entirely copyright free). -Eric Wolf -=--=---===---=--=-=--=---==---=--=-=- Eric B. Wolf 720-209-6818 USGS Geogr

Re: [OSM-talk] Hierarchy of places

2008-11-28 Thread Eric Marsden
nsity from Landsat imagery: http://isu.indstate.edu/qweng/Aug%2005%20PERS.pdf The ETL+ Landsat data that this uses doesn't seem to be freely available, though. Would it be possible to do something similar with the STRM data (urban areas having higher reflectance)? -- Eric Mar

Re: [OSM-talk] Vector rendering on the client?

2008-10-31 Thread Eric Wolf
u see tiles. If you look at Yahoo, you see tiles. Tiles work well because raster is, indeed, faster. Also, every brower since Mosaic 1.0 has been able to display a raster tile. We still have 75%+ of the internet incapable of executing well-written JavaScript to manipulate vector. -Eric On F

Re: [OSM-talk] map display www.openstreetmap.org

2008-10-10 Thread Eric Wolf
d the set of "most people" could be expanded if the statement is "most people don't know what coordinate _SYSTEMS_ are". It's a safe best that "most people" have heard of lat/long even if they don't know latitude from longitude - but the