Re: [OSM-talk] "local chapter" DWG

2014-04-15 Thread Henning Scholland
Hi everybody, I prefer a single/global DWG, which deals with conflicts. To my mind a global authority is necessary to deal with several cases. Eg. boundary-disputes, language-disputes of names, global vandalism and so on. "Local DWG" wont be that objective in some cases and/or it's not clear

Re: [OSM-talk] How useful is the JOSM wiki

2013-06-29 Thread Henning Scholland
I think a Software should explain their general functionality itselfand josm does this.But of course you can't explain every functionality by itself because this function is mainly used by some experts. In these cases its much better to have a wiki-documentation then only source code. Henning

Re: [OSM-talk] Key Proposal wheelchair:toilet

2013-06-08 Thread Henning Scholland
Maybe it is supported by a special wheelchair-editor? In general I think the meanings of both tagings are different. amenity=toilets => there is a single toilet wheelchair:toilet=yes => there is another amenity, shop, whatever, which offers a toilet. Henning Am 08.06.2013 02:14, schrieb And

Re: [OSM-talk] source=Google

2013-05-21 Thread Henning Scholland
Hi, maybe a little bit. For remote-mappers it's a good hint, if objects doesn't fit to imagery. Henning Am 21.05.2013 13:26, schrieb Martin Koppenhoefer: But in the end I think this whole source thing is completely overestimated. ___ talk mailin

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

2013-05-03 Thread Henning Scholland
Am 03.05.2013 23:08, schrieb andrzej zaborowski: On 3 May 2013 22:58, Frederik Ramm wrote: On 03.05.2013 22:12, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: The consensus was that--at least for place relations which are the target of the said property--OSM relation IDs are stable enough and any changes in IDs c

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

2013-04-22 Thread Henning Scholland
Hi, I like the Attribution Mark, but I think one point is missing: The link to the wiki-contributors-page. Henning ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] How to improve addressing?

2012-12-28 Thread Henning Scholland
Am 28.12.2012 10:47, schrieb Frederik Ramm: I've added an auto-increment facility to JOSM's address preset dialog. It's kind of experimental, and included in josm-latest as of a few hours ago; happy to hear feedback on that. Hi There was already a HouseNumberTaggingTool for josm, which has an

Re: [OSM-talk] What to call OSM data?

2012-11-26 Thread Henning Scholland
Am 26.11.2012 14:06, schrieb Joseph Reeves: >I think crowdsourced is accurate. Playing Devil's Advocate, "crowdsourced" isn't appropriate for large swathes of OSM data: Europe, for example, is dominated by imported, not crowdsourced, CORINE data. I think imported data isn't a question of crowe

[OSM-talk] obsolete TIGER-tags

2012-11-20 Thread Henning Scholland
Hi, because of Operation Cowboy many users will become into contact with TIGER-tags and don't really now ho to deal with them. There are: tiger:cfcc tiger:county tiger:name_base tiger:name_direction_suffix tiger:name_direction_prefix tiger:name_type tiger:reviewed tiger:seperated tiger:source

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

2012-10-18 Thread Henning Scholland
Just a question: If I filter all buildings with cadastre-source out of an osm-planet and publish this extract under ODbL it is illegal? If so, this is a very problematic thing. It should be allowed, to do anything that ODbL-license (and also cc-by-sa license did this before) allows me to do with