Re: [OSM-talk] Automated Populate/Update Problem

Hi, I work for the state transport department > Sorry if I missed this somewhere, but which state and which country? Depending on the answer, there might be a local community that can help and provide guidance as well with the conflation/import process. Thanks, Eugene On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 3

[OSM-talk] Pista ng Mapa 2020: open mapping conference in the Philippines starts tomorrow

Hello all! To celebrate OSM+Geography Awareness Week, the OSM and OSGeo/FOSS4G community in the Philippines is holding the 2nd annual Pista ng Mapa (Festival of Maps) conference online for the next three Fridays, on November 13th, 20th, and 27th: https://pistangmapa.github.io/2020/ There are plen

[OSM-talk] A Call to Correct Narratives about Geospatial Work in the Philippines

Hello all, Last September 1, Amazon Web Services (AWS) released an episode of their documentary series Now Go Build which highlighted the work done by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team in the Philippines, especially in mapping the town of Guagua, in the province of Pampanga. You can see AWS' vi

Re: [OSM-talk] Please be gentle with newbies

Wikipedia has had a behavioural guideline like this since almost the beginning with the nickname WP:BITE: Please do not bite the newcomers. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_do_not_bite_the_newcomers On Wed, Mar 4, 2020, 7:25 AM john whelan, wrote: > These days I'm retired and us

Re: [OSM-talk] MS GitHub? | Re: Tagging Governance

On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 11:27 PM Andy Townsend wrote: > If someone's less familiar with something, they're likely to volunteer to > contribute using it. It doesn't matter if it's Markdown, TeX (is that > still a thing? I last used it 30-odd years ago) or the solution du jour - > anything that "

Re: [OSM-talk] Announcing the Tabang-AI initiative

Hi Marc, On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 7:36 PM marc marc wrote: > could you share a link that shows that it is the local community that > solicited facebook as the wiki page claims and not facebook that invents > a collaboration to "whashing" their wishs ? given the frequent issues > (about both the q

Re: [OSM-talk] Announcing the Tabang-AI initiative

Hi Frederik, On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 5:55 PM Frederik Ramm wrote: > do I understand correctly that you and your local partners aim to > recruit new mappers to OSM, who will not learn the "old fashioned" > workflow of tracing stuff from imagery by hand, but be mainly taught to > work with pre-pro

[OSM-talk] Announcing the Tabang-AI initiative

Hello! The community of OSM mappers in the Philippines are pleased to announce an initiative to use AI or machine learning (ML)-derived data to help improve the coverage of OpenStreetMap in the Philippines and we are calling it Tabang-AI. This is word play on the Cebuano word *tábangay* which mean

Re: [OSM-talk] Survey on global and local communities in OpenStreetMap

On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 10:55 PM marc marc wrote: > where are the results of the previous survey and the resulting actions > available? > I don't remember the exact title but I'm talking about the investigation > about what osmf could/should do, a few months ago. > The OSMF Board published a blog

Re: [OSM-talk] Terminate Facebook rights under ODbL (Andy Mabbett )

On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 6:17 PM Nuno Caldeira wrote: > [...] OSMF is the licensor [...] > Well, if we really want to be strict about it, AFAIK, Facebook did not get their map data directly from OSMF but rather through Mapbox. Mapbox got their data directly from OSMF and are re-releasing their OS

Re: [OSM-talk] Terminate Facebook rights under ODbL

On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 4:47 PM Yves wrote: > I think a small '(c)OSM' for small screen web or app could be suggested as > OK, what do you think? > Why not revive this dormant proposal for a small attribution logo that was proposed 6 years ago: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/RFC_Attribution

Re: [OSM-talk] We need to have a conversation about attribution

On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 8:06 PM Christoph Hormann wrote: > I cannot help pointing out that the EU commission is also responsible for > one of the most ridiculous cases of improper attribution i have seen so far: > > https://scihub.copernicus.eu/dhus/ > Well, OSM *is* attributed on the bottom-righ

Re: [OSM-talk] Bot edits on the OSM wiki

On Monday, February 25, 2019, Christoph Hormann wrote: > Now the question if aristocratic governance would be beneficial for the > OSM wiki compared to the anarchy we currently have more or less is > something i would be open to discuss. But basing membership in the > aristocratic class on the te

Re: [OSM-talk] Looking for phot of mapping mappers

On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 5:22 AM Christoph Hormann wrote: > I like in particular > > > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Guagua_ESSC-OSMPH_Training_field_survey.jpg > Thanks! Looking at this media page, I see that I only uploaded a scaled-down version. Oops. I have now re-uploaded the full

Re: [OSM-talk] Language used in OSM forum/wiki/mailing list

On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 5:40 PM Naveen Francis wrote: > Is there any policy on the language used in OSM talk/forum/wiki ? > I was going through Thailand OSM forum > . > For a raising a concern we need not use abusive language. > Users using

Re: [OSM-talk] Grab using OSM Data for route preview

On Wednesday, December 19, 2018, Mishari Muqbil wrote: > Hi Everyone, > Good news overall for the project I suppose, Grab (SE Asia's Uber) is using data from OSM to do fare calculations as well as display route previews in their app, making it a high profile use case for OSM Data. Now if only they

Re: [OSM-talk] [Osmf-talk] Candidate's views? Re: Board decision on Crimea complaint

On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 10:02 PM Imre Samu wrote: > TLDR: We need focusing for the customizable vector tiles for the next > year!( Less community fighting - more working on the real problems! ) > Vector tiles and customizable styling is not enough. AFAIK, we never use 3rd-party data (exce

Re: [OSM-talk] Wikimedia Maps deployment

On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 2:50 PM, Daniel Koć wrote: > It's also good that they were able to deploy multiple language versions > - we would hit this problem anyway, sooner or later, and I hope that > eventually we will be able to provide them too. > FWIW, multi-language maps is one of the Top Ten T

Re: [OSM-talk] Donation from the Pineapple Fund

On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 8:21 PM, Dave F wrote: > I've very little knowledge or even interest in Bitcoin, but was it > converted into hard currency? If not, is it worth much now? > > DaveF > Per Frederik's (OSMF Treasurer) email on the OSMF mailing list in January, all of the donated bitcoins shou

[OSM-talk] SharedStreets open platform is built on top of OSM

I came across this article describing SharedStreets which is intended to be an open platform for city governments and private entities like Uber to share street-related data like traffic data, taxi/cab pickup points, and the like. The chief architect for SharedStreets says: "What GTFS does for tran

Re: [OSM-talk] "The Future of Free and Open-Source Maps" Slashdot.org , Saturday February 17, 2018

On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 9:53 PM, john whelan wrote: > Possibly a technical working group to identify areas that could be > improved or even if we were to start over again how would we do it from a > technical point of view? Funding would be a different problem. > I believe the now-defunct Strat

Re: [OSM-talk] Support OSM communities and disaster response this holiday season (by 31 Dec)

On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 2:44 AM, Christoph Hormann wrote: > On Thursday 14 December 2017, Tyler Radford wrote: > > [...] big-impact projects conceptualized by OSM community leaders. > > I had hoped that HOT learned from the tasking manager problem a few > months back that properly referring to OS

Re: [OSM-talk] Planned rendering changes of protected areas

On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 8:58 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 6:05 PM, ajt1...@gmail.com > wrote: > >> On 30/11/2017 13:46, Daniel Koć wrote: >> >>> 1. Currently leisure=nature_reserve (old scheme) and boundary=* (new >>> scheme) are frequently tagged in parallel, and it looks li

Re: [OSM-talk] Woods vs Forests

On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 5:18 PM, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > A problem comes from the name "natural" that to most people (including > mappers) carries a meaning that excludes some meanings accepted in the > OSMwiki definition. > For this reason it would be better to use a tag that carri

Re: [OSM-talk] Misrepresentation of OSM by HOT?

On Oct 24, 2017 3:08 AM, "Blake Girardot HOT/OSM" wrote: Here is my American, collaborative version of the same issue: Hi, I see the new HOT Tasking Manager. I feel like it does not clearly describe how it it used in the OpenStreetMap community. It is just a tool for OSM mapping, it is not t

Re: [OSM-talk] Could we just pause any wikidata edits for a month or two?

On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 3:52 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > yes, currently it doesn’t seem the deletionists are active in wikidata, > but also wikipedia was not always like it is today. The notability policy > is there and one day someone might come and say: these roads are just > ordinary road

Re: [OSM-talk] Could we just pause any wikidata edits for a month or two?

On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 9:02 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > From what I have seen so far, this should probably be less of a concern, > but it is an uncertainty (because it could be interpreted more rigidly in > the future), I agree. Requirements seem to be much lower than they are for > wikiped

Re: [OSM-talk] Could we just pause any wikidata edits for a month or two?

On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 11:20 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > Maybe because these are seen as facts and not copyrightable? > Ignoring the issue regarding the provenance of geographic coordinates, for other types of data (like names), it is the position of the Wikimedia Foundation that facts are

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

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] Adding wikidata tags to the remaining objects with only wikipedia tag

On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 11:02 PM, Christoph Hormann wrote: > Simple example: The Faroe Islands are both a country: > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/52939 > > and an archipelago: > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/3067431 > > in OSM which are represented as separate features obvio

Re: [OSM-talk] [Tagging] OSM+Wikidata intro video

Please clarify the license of this combined database and any data returned from a SPARQL query. I assume any data returned is under ODbL since it contains data derived from the OSM database. But this is not indicated anywhere in the Query Service and is not included as metadata in the returned data

Re: [OSM-talk] new Wikidata+OSM data in one RDF database

So what is the license of this combined database and is this combined database a whole database or a collective database? Note that Wikidata is under CC0 while OSM is under ODbL. On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 12:03 AM, Yuri Astrakhan wrote: > TLDR: A SPARQL (rdf) database with both OSM and Wikidata da

Re: [OSM-talk] Public GPS Traces

Canonical blog post that explains this layer: https://www.mapbox.com/blog/openstreetmap-gps-layer/ On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 1:41 AM, Dave F wrote: > Main Page > Map Layers > Public GPS Traces > > What do the different colours represent for this feature? > > DaveF > > --- > This email has been chec

Re: [OSM-talk] The movie Eye in the Sky credits OpenStreetMap

d from the "Press" wiki page[2]. [1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Films [2] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Portal:Press ~Eugene On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 3:12 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: > Hi all, > > I just saw the film Eye in the Sky, starring Helen Mirren and

[OSM-talk] The movie Eye in the Sky credits OpenStreetMap

Hi all, I just saw the film Eye in the Sky, starring Helen Mirren and Alan Rickman (the movie is really good), and I was pleasantly surprised to see OpenStreetMap and its contributors get a credit in the end credits. The surprise is partly because I do not recall seeing any map in the film that lo

Re: [OSM-talk] Automated edits code of conduct

On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 5:26 AM, Éric Gillet wrote: > Hello, > > OSM contributions must follow the Contributor Terms > ; these > therms are being shown to new users and they must explicitely accept them > before they can start contribu

[OSM-talk] State of the Map Asia 2016 Call for Presentations

Dear everyone, The State of the Map Asia 2016 team is hard at work to bring to you the best presentations about OpenStreetMap and resilience in Asia and the rest of the world. We couldn’t do that without your help! So we are inviting you to submit proposals for 20-minute talks, 5-minute lightning

Re: [OSM-talk] MAPS.ME edits - partly sub-standard

On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 9:45 PM, Andy Townsend wrote: > On 24/06/2016 14:40, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: > > > This defect has already been reported to their GitHub repository: > https://github.com/mapsme/omim/issues/2902 > > > You've seen https://github.com/m

Re: [OSM-talk] MAPS.ME edits - partly sub-standard

On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 11:57 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer < dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote: > while at it, whitespace at the beginning and end of the tag values should > be removed before upload... > > https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/39910220 > This defect has already been reported to their Gi

Re: [OSM-talk] who do we trust for photos?

On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 5:24 AM, Russ Nelson wrote: > The trouble with any non-profit service is that if they cease to get > donations, they will be shut down. > This observation also applies to the OSM database as hosted by the OSMF. But we all still contribute to OSM anyway because we trust th

Re: [OSM-talk] VisualEditor on the OSM wiki

OK. I'm slightly amused at the praise for enabling VisualEditor on the OSM Wiki, when there was a huge backlash on the English and German Wikipedias when VisualEditor was turned on and made the default editor for non-logged-in and newly registered users: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VisualEditor#R

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

On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 3:59 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > besides the precise tagging (social facility or emergency), I just want to > point out that you can have 2 main tags for the same area (overlapping), > just not on the same object. > You could for instance have a way tagged as school a

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixing Starbucks Wikipedia Tags (Was Nominatim Weakness)

On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 1:36 AM, Clifford Snow wrote: > My adding the wikipedia tag to the original Starbucks store... > I disagree with this tagging. You only tag wikipedia=* if the Wikipedia article and the OSM object refers to the same thing. The Wikipedia article is about the company/brand a

Re: [OSM-talk] Nominatim weakness

On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 10:13 AM, Dave F. wrote: > On 14/12/2015 08:25, Sarah Hoffmann wrote: > >> >> Some helpful person has put a wikipedia link to the Starbucks >> wikipedia page on every single Starbucks in Japan. That's what >> throwing off Nominatim. Having a wikipedia page boosts the impor

Re: [OSM-talk] A message to our friends at HOT, Peace Corps etc. about Changeset Comments

On 11/19/15, Simon Poole wrote: > While rabid anti-OSMers are gaining more power and influence in HOT and > MM, [...] This bit is new to me. Care to explain who these anti-OSMers are, what their agenda is, and how they are using HOT and Missing Maps to further their agenda? (I've talked with some

Re: [OSM-talk] THIS is the kind of enthusiasm some would reject

On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 11:31 PM, Russ Nelson wrote: > I could go through the discussion over the last month and identify a > grand total of five people who reject mapping abandoned railroads. > Just like in any mailing list, there is a vast majority of people who have one opinion or the other wh

Re: [OSM-talk] The Proposed Great Colour Shift

On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 6:23 PM, Lester Caine wrote: > The main problem here is that OSM is used by a large part of the UK web > services [...] > I agree that this is a problem. But not for the reasons you may think. The OSM default tileset is *not* meant to be used as a general-purpose tileset

Re: [OSM-talk] Routing Applications

you have multiple via ways. On 6/17/15, Michael Reichert wrote: > Hi, > > Am 2015-06-17 um 14:38 schrieb Eugene Alvin Villar: >> This has been fixed in Osmand early this year after being reported >> more than 2 years ago. Unfortunately, multiple via ways are still not >>

Re: [OSM-talk] Routing Applications

This has been fixed in Osmand early this year after being reported more than 2 years ago. Unfortunately, multiple via ways are still not supported. https://code.google.com/p/osmand/issues/detail?id=1729 On 6/17/15, Janko Mihelić wrote: > If you ask me, they are all in their infancy. Non of these

Re: [OSM-talk] (licence of wikidata) was: Can wikidata links help fight name inflation?

On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 7:46 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > 2015-06-08 12:34 GMT+02:00 Eugene Alvin Villar : > >> Please see the following page for >> the relevant discussion: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:Sources >> > > > the second word in this

Re: [OSM-talk] (licence of wikidata) was: Can wikidata links help fight name inflation?

le, a city can be tagged as being a metropolis if a reliable source states so, such as a government economic planning office. On 6/8/15, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > > > >> Am 07.06.2015 um 21:37 schrieb Eugene Alvin Villar : >> >> Because in US copyright law, fac

Re: [OSM-talk] (licence of wikidata) was: Can wikidata links help fight name inflation?

On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 4:06 AM, Simon Poole wrote: > - individual facts extracted from wikipedia articles. From a WMF pov > unproblematic since "facts can't be copyrighted", from an OSM pov > problematic because they might have originally been extracted from a 3rd > party source and might be from

Re: [OSM-talk] (licence of wikidata) was: Can wikidata links help fight name inflation?

On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 12:40 AM, SomeoneElse wrote: > However the bit that I really don't understand is that, to take an example > wikidata page: > > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23098 > > the source of that is from other, non-CC0-licensed places - how can the > result be CC0? > Because in US

Re: [OSM-talk] Can wikidata links help fight name inflation?

On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 10:29 PM, Simon Poole wrote: > Am 07.06.2015 um 14:12 schrieb Eugene Alvin Villar: > .. > > > > So the advice of being wary of Wikidata's CC0 license should also be the > > same advice for OSM's ODbL license. > > > The difference

Re: [OSM-talk] Can wikidata links help fight name inflation?

On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 7:43 PM, Simon Poole wrote: > tl;dr version: linking to wikidata is probably ok, including wikidata > could be a minefield. > I don't think anybody was actually suggesting to include bits and pieces of Wikidata into *the* OSM database. I think the idea is for third parties

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM is a right mess (was: Craigslist OpenStreetMap Rendering Issue)

On 6/3/15, Steve Coast wrote: > >> On Jun 2, 2015, at 6:22 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: >> On Jun 3, 2015 8:06 AM, "pmailkeey ." > <mailto:pmailk...@googlemail.com>> wrote: >> > OSM's k=v design is completely a serious and unnecessar

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM is a right mess (was: Craigslist OpenStreetMap Rendering Issue)

On Jun 3, 2015 8:06 AM, "pmailkeey ." wrote: > OSM's k=v design is completely a serious and unnecessary flaw. [...] OSM is 90% argument, 5% dead-end discussions and 5% progress. The whole is not a marketable product; it's not fit to be rated as 'beta'. Is this a significant cause of ex-mappers ? I

Re: [OSM-talk] Can wikidata links help fight name inflation?

On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 8:33 PM, moltonel 3x Combo wrote: > > On 28/05/2015, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > Another issue that can be seen here: nobody will want this "Puente Nuevo > > (París)" as a label for a bridge on a map (París) > > Funny ah? Every single entity in wikidata I have looked at

Re: [OSM-talk] Can wikidata links help fight name inflation?

I agree that OSM is not the proper place to record every possible translation of every place name. And I think that Wikidata should be that proper place and just leave the few name:xx tags in place for the major languages that are spoken in that place, and only if the name is not a straight-up tran

Re: [OSM-talk] High load on the rendering servers?

On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 6:15 AM, Simon Poole wrote: > > Jon Burgess tracked the issue down to a way node being dragged from > Japan to Brazil on the 3rd of this month, creating a very very long way > that increased the rendering time for a large number of tiles at high > zoom levels. > Wow. This

Re: [OSM-talk] State of the Map US 2015 in New York, NY, June 6-8

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 12:04 AM, Michael Kugelmann wrote: > I personally have a somehow different opinion: 2014 was in (South) > America, so why host the next SOTM again relativeley close to there (from > the viewpoint of an European)? OK, the UN is prestigious location for such > a meeting. But

Re: [OSM-talk] State of the Map US 2015 in New York, NY, June 6-8

The following is just my opinion. Based on New York's bid proposal, the fact that it will be held at the UN and that it has an international character and not just a simple regional SotM, SotM US 2015 will definitely overshadow any of the 2 SotM 2015 bids which are Toronto and Venice. If the OSMF

Re: [OSM-talk] tag with value lists Was: Proposed mechanical edit to convert alt_name tags

On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 3:00 AM, Florian Lohoff wrote: > Isnt the semicolon the list seperator typically used in OSM? My > intuitive answer would have been alt_name=a;b;c;d > +1 I think using a semicolon-delimited list is better than a potentially open-ended set of keys such as "alt_name_x", and

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding Wikidata tags to 70k items automatically

On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 5:22 AM, Lester Caine wrote: > But where do you stop. Wikipedia and wikidata are not the only sources > so if they get 'special treatment' then why not some of the other > similar archives? Now if every other archive simply included an OSM tag > ... problem solved. But why

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding Wikidata tags to 70k items automatically

On Aug 31, 2014 4:53 PM, "Fabio Alessandro Locati" wrote: > Also, I would add that Wikidata is different from many (or all) other databases since: > 1. it can give REAL value to OSM users (while most dbs don't) > 2. It's philosophically close to OSM (while most dbs aren't) +1. We already link to

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding Wikidata tags to 70k items automatically

On Aug 31, 2014 5:14 PM, "Simon Poole" wrote: > Nipping this in the bud: the OSMF and WMF are working together on > exactly 0 (in words: zero) projects. > > Note: this is simply a statement of fact and not an opinion on if the > OSMF should or should not collaborate more (less not being possible)

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding Wikidata tags to 70k items automatically

On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 6:45 AM, Rob Nickerson wrote: > Summary: Good question and some long term thinking required but the import > will, at most, only make this thinking need to be done sooner. We'll have > to cross this question even if this import doesn't occur. > Just to provide some backgr

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding Wikidata tags to 70k items automatically

On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 12:47 AM, Edward Betts wrote: > I'd like to annotate these 70k objects in OSM with a Wikidata tag > automatically. > +1. As somebody who would like closer integration between Wikimedia projects like Wikidata and OSM, I definitely agree with the proposal. The methodology,

Re: [OSM-talk] Personal maps tool similar to my maps

Try uMap: http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/ On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 1:34 AM, Tanveer Singh wrote: > In google maps world you can create your own map, with waypoints, POIs > etc., of your choice and export it as KML etc., etc., > > IS there a similar website/tool/system available for OSM where I

Re: [OSM-talk] Street Name

On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 7:34 AM, 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. > > If

Re: [OSM-talk] overpass api tips and tricks

Generally, the Overpass API and Overpass Turbo documentation is enough for developers to understand. What they really need to know also is the OSM data model (nodes, ways, relations, tagging) in order to make the most out of Overpass. On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 7:13 PM, maning sambale wrote: > Hi, >

Re: [OSM-talk] Issues with finding street corners

On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 8:44 AM, Droid Power wrote: > In Ecuador it is quite common for places to be identified by the two > intersecting streets since street numbering is not consistent. Yet it seems > OSM does not allow this, is this a bug or my fault? > Do you mean while using the place searc

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 9:15 PM, Serge Wroclawski wrote: > We see this already. I've spoken to companies and orgs who have said > specifically that they would not contribute to OSM if it was not > Share-Alike. No one wants to be competing against themselves in the > future. > This is actually a

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

On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 6:42 PM, Dave F. wrote: > I'm not convinced this is usually true. It maybe UK specific, but > municipal boundaries were more likely to originally be placed on physical > boundaries to farms & estates such as walls, fences etc. before > tracks/roads were developed. Roads su

Re: [OSM-talk] good intro slidesets about OSM

On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 12:12 AM, Steve Chilton wrote: > Any links or offers gratefully received. > I usually do a search at SlideShare to look for inspiration: http://www.slideshare.net/search/slideshow?q=openstreetmap ___ talk mailing list talk@openstr

[OSM-talk] Typhoon Haiyan and OpenStreetMap

Hello everyone, The online response to mapping the areas affected by Typhoon Haiyan is very heartwarming. Thank you to everyone involved. Please do continue to map as the data is being used by first responders and relief workers. Most of the information about mapping efforts can be found on the O

Re: [OSM-talk] Upcoming changes to OpenStreetMap.org website

On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 6:58 PM, Peter Barth wrote: > * History mostly always gives "No changesets in this area" for areas > smaller than whole europe > This is because the test website uses a completely separate database from the main OSM website, except for Nominatim search results and the t

Re: [OSM-talk] Wikipedia article

On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 10:53 PM, Jason Remillard wrote: > Eugene - Obviously, I think it is OK right now that it is hard to diff > and revert changes. We are not under assault by spammers. > But you do agree that it's something that needs to be improved eventually? It's not spammers alone that

Re: [OSM-talk] Wikipedia article

On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 5:06 AM, Jason Remillard wrote: > It seems like Wikipedia has revert first policy on questionable edits. > It makes it unpleasant to start with the project, since probably every > bodies first edits are questionable. > > OSM policy/culture of discussing a change *before* re

Re: [OSM-talk] Administrative boundaries export

esort to scraping the HTML page. > 2013/10/3 Eugene Alvin Villar > >> On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 6:35 PM, César Martínez Izquierdo < >> cesar@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Eugene, I am also interested on your proposal to store on Wikidata a >>> table/data

Re: [OSM-talk] Administrative boundaries export

On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 6:35 PM, César Martínez Izquierdo < cesar@gmail.com> wrote: > Eugene, I am also interested on your proposal to store on Wikidata a > table/database similar to the one described on 1, so any further details on > available infrastructure, technologies in use, work already

Re: [OSM-talk] Administrative boundaries export

On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 9:18 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > 2013/10/3 Paul Norman > >> >> Frankly, I find the idea of using the coastline as an admin boundary >> rather silly. This would mean that if you step out 1 foot into the >> water, you've left the state or country. > > > > indeed it see

Re: [OSM-talk] Administrative boundaries export

On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 6:52 AM, Christian Quest wrote: > UK level 4 is on the maritime borders (island culture ?) where most other > European countries stop on the coastline... tagging bio-diversity is not > helpful ! > This is actually another point to consider when extracting admin boundaries f

Re: [OSM-talk] Administrative boundaries export

On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 3:58 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > What we would really need though, is something much bigger: A separate > database of admin hierarchies, where people could - in a crowdsourced > manner - record things like: > > "There is an adminlevel 2 entities called Germany" > "It is divi

Re: [OSM-talk] osm2pgsql multipolygon parsing

On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 4:51 AM, Peter Wendorff wrote: > IMHO it's clear: > - a tag on a way describes that way, if it's a closed way and the tag is > describing an area, the tag matches the complete area inside that polygon. > - if a way is outer of a multipolygon and there are tags on the way, >

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM History Viewer

OSM History Viewer has been like that for almost 2 weeks now. This has been reported on the service's official (?) bug reporting system by somebody 10 days ago but there has been no response: https://bugs.cdauth.eu/index.php?do=details&task_id=80&project=2 On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 7:28 AM, Mike

Re: [OSM-talk] Please test this "Native wikipedia link" - feature

On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 9:00 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > isn't wikidata an extract of Wikipedia and therefor doesn't provide more > but at the most the same information than Wikipedia? What can you do with > your approach that you can't do with the inter language links in WP? > Wikidata a

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

Hi Alex, Thanks for bringing these videos up. These will be great for those among us who cannot attend. How about the slides of the presentations? Will these become available too? Thanks, Eugene On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 9:20 AM, Alex Barth wrote: > We have just finished video uploads from thi

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-ca] Tag for Tim Horton's

On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 5:11 AM, Andrew MacKinnon wrote: > is there such a thing as a cafe that is not a coffee shop? > Yes, if it is a tea shop. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] List: Densely Mapped Areas

On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 3:51 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Someone said that taking the area into account should improve the results > for Indonesia; either I did something wrong ior the opposite is the case - > Indonesia featured at #23 before and has now dropped completely off the > list. > That

Re: [OSM-talk] List: Densely Mapped Areas

Since the list provided ranks the metatiles in terms of the number of nodes, It might be better to also normalize the number of nodes with the area covered by the z16 metatile. A tile far from the equator covers more area than a tile near the equator. For example, a z16 tile in Helsinki covers arou

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

On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 2:26 AM, Tobias Knerr wrote: > On 06.05.2013 18:54, Peter Wendorff wrote: > > Do they have something like a persistent ID in wikidata, yet? > > I think the Wikidata page title - something like Q35525 - is intended to > be rather stable. Of course there are sometimes problem

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

On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 3:33 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > On 03.05.2013 18:15, Svavar Kjarrval wrote: > >> Just wanted to notify those who didn't know: There is now a property >> (P402) in use in Wikidata to link the corresponding entry to a relation >> ID in OSM. >> > > This is a very bad idea and

Re: [OSM-talk] Imagery Boundary?

On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 11:35 PM, ingalls wrote: > Hey guys came across a really weird way. > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/104974280 > > Not sure exactly what it is supposed to represent? Is it showing where > bing has high quality imagery? And secondly can I remove it! > In my comm

Re: [OSM-talk] Jump in to SotM 2013

On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 5:55 AM, Rob Nickerson wrote: > === Get Involved === > Jump in to SotM 2013 by helping us spread the message. We would like to > translate our theme of "Change" into as many languages as possible. Please > send your translations of the word "Change" to me (or this list) and

Re: [OSM-talk] Jump in to SotM 2013

On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 5:55 AM, Rob Nickerson wrote: > Hello, > > === Welcome to SotM 2013 === > It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to State of the Map 2013. > This year's annual conference for all OpenStreetMap contributors and users > will be held in Birmingham, United Kingdom, on the

Re: [OSM-talk] Missing attribution : Guardian Data and OII use OSM

On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 10:20 PM, pavithran wrote: > On 15 February 2013 19:35, Joseph Reeves wrote: > > Looking at the images, I can see attribution in the bottom left corners. > > It's a little small, but it's there: > > Ofcourse its there, anyone taking a screenshot , unless if it is > intent

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

You mentioned cleaning up the Wiki and the Help Q&A site. What about mailing list archives? Will the OSMF then start deleting emails if they contain Google Maps links? On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 2:41 AM, Simon Poole wrote: > > Because of the time constraints the removal of the google links is quit

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik at zoom=19

On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 7:10 AM, Kai Krueger wrote: > There are by now enough densely mapped areas, where a z19 level offers a > real advantage. At z18 too much information gets dropped in the > decluttering > process. > > At the moment, when I want to e.g. check if something is already mapped i

Re: [OSM-talk] Rendering of Farmland not 'Light' enough?

I prefer landuse areas to be darker than the default light gray background color in the Standard rendering. This makes it obvious (especially on LCD screens where lightness/luminance of colors vary depending on the viewing angle) that there is a tagged area there. You could make the case that the

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