Re: [OSM-talk] Should we be mapping transformers and powerlines?

2023-01-19 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
The example from Marc_marc tells us keeping underground things hidden is bad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghislenghien_disaster As for underwater, in the 1990s and early 2000s Iceland kept getting disconnected from the rest of the Internet by fishing ships trawling the CANTAT-3 branch, which f

Re: [OSM-talk] Heresy - pure discussion

2020-07-24 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
Nothing beats PostGIS at the moment and there is a large migration of GIS databases going on in general where the free and free ( code and license) aspects of Postgre are major factors as well. In my job I am running and coding for Postgre, MySQL and MSSQL servers and have previously over the pa

Re: [OSM-talk] "helpful" remote correctional edits (or "please don't correct bank ATMs in the Sahara desert" - was: Re: Planned revert of added surface and tracktype tags without local knowledge in va

2020-07-19 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
Incredibly enough surfaces also change, no doubt many of our gravel tracks were correct at the time and have now been paved or bound. 19. júlí 2020 kl. 20:33, skrifaði "Martin Koppenhoefer" : > sent from a phone > >> On 19. Jul 2020, at 14:48, Hauke Stieler wrote: >> >> Blind reverts are als

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM is not the place for dissemination of authoritative data sets

2020-03-19 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
As someone who started as a foot mapper but who is now also in an "authoritative position" I'd like to answer Frederik here. Amongst my professional responsibilities is the dissemination of the authoritative data set for protected areas in Iceland. Many of these are huge, do not have lines draw

Re: [OSM-talk] Too subjective & problematic Re: no-go-areas

2020-01-12 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
So you suggest that we help routers to blacklist these areas, which means living there will become even worse as various services depending on our data stop delivering there? These no-go areas are very much based on estimates. Personally if we are marking hazards then my country can pretty much

Re: [OSM-talk] What does WGS84 mean for openstreetmap these days?

2019-12-20 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
Well the current issue in Iceland is a error of 50 cm between 1993 and 2016 due to crust movements. So it's less than 2 meters but more than one cm. What is your accuracy limit if 2m is just unacceptable but a centimeter is? 19. desember 2019 kl. 17:58, skrifaði "Greg Troxel" : > Interesting a

Re: [OSM-talk] What does WGS84 mean for openstreetmap these days?

2019-12-19 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
Hello Greg I don't think we can or will be providing accuracy up to cm when most of the stuff we map from our chairs is off by a meter or two anyways - the beauty is that it doesn't matter for 99,99% of users. If a centimeter matters then we are probably dealing with legal matters and there OSM

Re: [OSM-talk] Metropolitan France : what todo with all "supossed to be wrong" name:xx ?

2019-11-19 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
Not all languages make, or care about making, a distinction of France (including non-Europe) and France (only Europe). This is an administrative detail which has no relevance for most of us, even if we are frequent visitors in France and love it (me!). Thus our languages do not differentiate be

Re: [OSM-talk] Attribution guideline status update

2019-08-09 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
I concur, this becomes long and unwieldy fast in my own language and to fully capture it requires a full sentence, with a comma for clarity even. Behind OpenStreetMap the brand we have contributors amongst others. 9. ágúst 2019 kl. 14:40, skrifaði "Frederik Ramm" : > Hi, > > I wonder if we c

Re: [OSM-talk] Attribution guideline status update

2019-08-09 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
I think we move in different mapper communities as "mapping for the reward of being recognized by external data users" has never even been on my list, or of those mappers I know, of reasons for why we map. Of course everyones self-image is their own, so I don't know about your claim of there be

Re: [OSM-talk] Facebook mapping highways using AI in collaboration with OpenStreetMap

2019-07-31 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
31. júlí 2019 kl. 19:01, skrifaði "stevea" : > Just because, as you say (and I agree), that "human mappers have not been > able to produce high > quality maps worldwide" doesn't mean that we can't, we simply must strive to > do better. And we do. > And we should using available tools like AI, t

Re: [OSM-talk] Facebook mapping highways using AI in collaboration with OpenStreetMap

2019-07-29 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
Now you are being obtuse. 29. júlí 2019 kl. 11:53, skrifaði "Nuno Caldeira" : > I don't see the attribution on that map, or that website has an > exception like Facebook seems to have too? > > Oh it does attribute, but you have to scroll down to see it. must be a > UX mistake... ___

Re: [OSM-talk] Software configuration | Re: iD influencing tagging

2019-04-10 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
iD seems to have this feature via MapRules: https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/pull/5617 10. apríl 2019 kl. 21:08, skrifaði "Rory McCann" : > On 07.04.19 14:43, John Whelan wrote: > >> Tagging is not always easy, but I do have concerns when iD is so >> commonly used but the recommended tags

Re: [OSM-talk] Renaming Macedonia

2019-02-04 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
Do we need a plan? I noticed someone overzealous had changed the name in Icelandic to a translation of Northern Macedonia, however that is not the name of the country in Icelandic except for possibly now in official usage. We always referred to it as Macedonia before and FYROM equivalent only i

Re: [OSM-talk] Ground truth for non-physical objects

2018-12-12 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
Mail will not arrive there as mail will be stopped in post-office because of incorrect (not existing) address. Nope - Try it yourself. If you live in Examplestreet 10 and you start sending yourself postcards with Examplestreet 10a they'll reach you. Post offices often have a good time trying

Re: [OSM-talk] weeklyOSM #382 2017-11-07-2017-11-13

2017-11-18 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
Just stop this. This has been a fine example of how to decrease membership of a list that should be productive and friendly but has been anything but so far. On 18.11.2017 18:42, john whelan wrote: No you need to build up trust again and it takes time.  Only then will your ideas start to gai

Re: [OSM-talk] StreetSound

2017-01-06 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
That sounds very Orwellian! Þann 06.01.2017 19:04, Milo van der Linden reit: In Eindhoven a new initiative is launched to capture streetsound: https://translate.google.nl/translate?sl=nl&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=nl&ie=UTF-8&u=https%3A%2F%2Fe52.nl%2Fvan-google-streetview-naar-sorama-streetsound%2F&

[OSM-talk] Examples of well intentioned but wrong edits?

2016-10-13 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
I'm giving a lecture in a weeks time on crowd-sourcing GIS data at a GIS-event in Iceland. As we know OSM gets a bit of bad edits, some of them in good faith, a very minor part vandalism. I will highlight a couple of examples just to give people an idea of the risks but just looking at OSM its

Re: [OSM-talk] Working with lat and long simply

2016-09-10 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
Þann 10.09.2016 18:47, Oleksiy Muzalyev reit: On 10/09/16 20:23, Colin Smale wrote: On 2016-09-10 18:55, Oleksiy Muzalyev wrote: Latitude and longitude are physical values, they will never change for a house on Earth, no matter what. They do not depend on politics, economics, linguistics of t

Re: [OSM-talk] Without an address, an Icelandic tourist drew this map of the intended location (Búðardalur) and surroundings on the envelope. The postal service delivered!

2016-08-30 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
The actual address to that farm would be much shorter even, Hólar, Búðardal. Simple phone book lookup gives us this https://ja.is/?q=h%C3%B3lar%20b%C3%BA%C3%B0ardal (here Hólar has been changed to dative case Hólum). Probably you'll find a small sign by the driveway to the farm at the main

Re: [OSM-talk] Forum admin(s) wanted

2016-08-16 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
Þann 16.08.2016 00:24, Nicolás Alvarez reit: 2016-08-15 21:13 GMT-03:00 Daniel Koć : If we have no current backup available, I think it would be good to have a script harvesting all the entries even just via plain HTML, with publishing date, username and user id, so we could recreate it more or

Re: [OSM-talk] Can we utilise the popularity of Pokémon Go for OSM?

2016-07-14 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
We have avoided PokeStops and Gyms being added to OSM in Iceland by releasing a crowd sourced Google Map instead (not original by us but we now point people to it and I've been adding some there myself). The game hasn't been released yet officially in Iceland but that hasn't been an issue for t

Re: [OSM-talk] Can we utilise the popularity of Pokémon Go for OSM?

2016-07-14 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
I've wondered about it but doubt it. The Pokémon Go app needs to be in the foreground to work whilst we would want them to swap over to Maps.me (ease of use), Vespucci, OsmAnd or other app editors on occassions. Best bet would maybe be some Field Papers thing? --Jói Þann 14.07.2016 11:46, Sva

Re: [OSM-talk] What3words

2016-07-12 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
ut how to turn this tide in a collaborative way. Heather Heather Leson heatherle...@gmail.com Twitter/skype: HeatherLeson Blog: textontechs.com On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 2:04 PM, Jóhannes Birgir Jensson wrote: I don't know if they are using the English version in Mongolia but I doubt it. You can

Re: [OSM-talk] What3words

2016-07-12 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
I don't know if they are using the English version in Mongolia but I doubt it. You can already swap to 8 other languages on their website (top right option). I did discuss Icelandic with Mapillary and they looked into available word sets and concluded that it was more than sufficient to make I

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

2016-06-20 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
I've been using Maps.me myself and find it easy to add shops - although I'm missing many presets (I change them when I come home to the right one but other users will not do that generally). Maps.me was perfect for one activity that is usually painful - updating shops inside Iceland's largest

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

2016-06-17 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
The reply from Maps.me was "We plan to add multi-lingual names in one of our future releases, we’ll think about your suggestion." No timescale given. The reason for why "people are suddenly waking up" is because we are getting lots of edits now - that was not the case before - at least not in

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

2016-06-17 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
I've contacted Maps.me about this issue as we are cleaning up where people are adding English and Chinese names to the name field in Iceland. I've suggested they have 3 name fields - name, name:en and a name:?? which is chosen by user in preferences (at install). They have acknowledged it but mad

Re: [OSM-talk] Duplicate house numbers

2016-05-29 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
This is an import as we can see on the history of one of the nodes: http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3696941268/history Notice in some cases the same housenumbers are valid! Based on the aerial images this is not the case here as the cadaster import seems to be for the building footprint, the

Re: [OSM-talk] What3words

2015-11-22 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
I see many merits in What3Words solution. I don't think it should be incorporated into OSM en-masse but a place adding its address:what3words=pull.donkey.cart should be fine in my view, just like them adding phone= and even the disappearing fax= Þann 22.11.2015 18:08, skrifaði Peter Gervai:

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

2015-11-19 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
Þann 19.11.2015 14:14, Christoph Hormann reit: And if on http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/1300 i read: "Please draw one large area outline around groups of buildings and tag them landuse=residential" that is in violation of one of the core principles of OSM, namely to map reality, what's on t

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

2015-11-19 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
HOT uses the OSM database/platform and therefore it has to adapt and follow OSM's rules. Nobody forces you to use OSM. Why don't you do something like OpenHistoricalMap and use your own database basrd on OSM software? There are no rules for changeset comments. They are an optional feature, the

Re: [OSM-talk] Seek support for worldwide mapathon on Dec 3rd for places accessibility

2015-11-18 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
We'll see what we can do in Iceland. Þann 18.11.2015 12:30, Holger Dieterich reit: Dear fellow OSM members, I'm the cofounder of http://wheelmap.org [1] and want to ask for your advice and support for a mapathon we are planning. The worldwide mapathon #MapMyDay will take place on December 3 an

Re: [OSM-talk] New OSM Carto: White Roads & Road Widths

2015-11-03 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
Þann 03.11.2015 14:08, Christoph Hormann reit: On Tuesday 03 November 2015, Jóhannes Birgir Jensson wrote: As an active participant in the discussion (mostly advocating for tertiary to be colored) I have to say that "in depth" doesn't really describe how the decision was

Re: [OSM-talk] New OSM Carto: White Roads & Road Widths

2015-11-03 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
Þann 03.11.2015 12:46, Christoph Hormann reit: This is a lot of material to review but it is highly recommended to work through that before you make specific suggestions for changes because otherwise you are very likely to frustrate those who participated in those previous discussions by bringin

Re: [OSM-talk] Activity statistics per city (or region)

2015-10-27 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
Þann 27.10.2015 07:09, Paul Norman reit: On 10/26/2015 8:24 AM, Fabian Schmidt wrote: It is rare but there are users who renamed their account, so there are more user names than numeric user ids. No. Although users have renamed their account, this doesn't increase the number of user names, it

Re: [OSM-talk] open question about boundaries sharing nodes with ways or nodes

2015-10-14 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
It's not that simple. I work in an government agency and the issue of boundaries rises often, both for public and private issues. Iceland is an advanced nation regarding technology adaption. However boundaries are not all clearly defined as GIS vectors and many of them are disputed. There ar

Re: [OSM-talk] Innovative uses of OSM data in cities?

2015-08-29 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
OpenFireMap and Sochi for example, Sochi Fire Department has used OpenFireMap as their reference for a number of years, even before Sochi. Þann 29.8.2015 15:39, skrifaði Jo Walsh: dear all, Next week I'm giving a talk about OSM and the work of the DWG to a group of mostly academics who are int

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

2015-08-20 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
Þann 20.8.2015 18:36, skrifaði Frederik Ramm: Your use case of "easily recognizable tertiary road in sparsely populated regions" is valid, but perhaps it is "niche" enough to accept that it need to be served by the main map style. I'm fairly certain that the rural regions of the world are not

[OSM-talk] The Proposed Great Colour Shift

2015-08-19 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
For those that did not check on Mateusz Konieczny diary entries[1], postings to this mailing list and github discussions then the Proposed Great Colour Shift might come as a surprise if it is implemented. According to the github discussion there is an "overwhelming consensus" [2] on moving fro

Re: [OSM-talk] Marking tight corners

2015-07-29 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
Sounds like http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Proposed_features/hazard might be of interest to you. Not yet seen uptake. Þann 29.7.2015 19:45, skrifaði Subhodip Biswas: Hi, On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 2:34 PM, Mateusz Konieczny mailto:matkoni...@gmail.com>> wrote: Geometry of road i

Re: [OSM-talk] Looking for well mapped rural area and well mapped town/city

2015-07-20 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
Rossleben is hard to beat. I do have two more examples though: Húsavík, small rural town in Iceland, plenty of landuse, a river, paths http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/66.0412/-17.3295 Smárar neigborhood in larger town Kópavogur in Iceland, landuse, roads, paths, sport fields, public and p

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging concert / music hall

2015-07-20 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
Hello Peter. I found this same issue 2 years ago, when tagging Salurinn http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/180359924#map=19/64.11188/-21.90910 We achieve this by using the correct tag, in this case amenity=music_hall (both classical and smaller pop concerts are played there). There is no ultim

[OSM-talk] 3D help needed

2015-07-05 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
Greetings. I'm in touch with a person that added many buildings in Iceland as 3D models in Google Earth some years ago. You can find many of them there if you type in Kvosin into Google Earth - they look really good. He is willing to add the 3d models to OSM but neither of us has any knowled

Re: [OSM-talk] Some thoughts against remote mapping

2015-06-15 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
Þann 15.6.2015 10:07, skrifaði Marc Gemis: On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 4:37 PM, Frederik Ramm > wrote: I'm known for being critical of armchair mapping by people with no personal connection tho the area being mapped. Whether done for fun, for money, o

Re: [OSM-talk] Some thoughts against remote mapping

2015-06-14 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
Bryce Nesbitt: On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 6:12 AM, Jóhannes Birgir Jensson <mailto:j...@betra.is>> wrote: Who said anything about Westerners? Projects like mapping entire Botswana and Lesotho is not for HOT issues, acute distress. It is for making it easier for the local economi

Re: [OSM-talk] Some thoughts against remote mapping

2015-06-14 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
Þann 14.6.2015 12:57, skrifaði Frederik Ramm: Hi, On 06/14/2015 02:12 PM, Jóhannes Birgir Jensson wrote: I find this point of view to be astounding in its arrogance and indeed blatant colonialistic spirit. Harsh words. In the final paragraph of your blog post, you write: "In additio

Re: [OSM-talk] Some thoughts against remote mapping

2015-06-14 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
I find this point of view to be astounding in its arrogance and indeed blatant colonialistic spirit. The noble savages should not be influenced by us, the decadent Westerners. A sickening insular attitude that I have not found in similar projects like Project Gutenberg and Wikipedia. When do I

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

2015-05-30 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
I find it odd that inaction, incapability or incompetence of local sign installers is a worry for a database of geographical facts, which OSM is. Some roads are hundreds of miles long, at what interval does it need to be signed for it to be considered signed. Beginning and end? Every 100 km? S

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

2015-05-29 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
Single handedly deleting hundreds of name:ru on nodes without an alternative in place instantly made map less useful. Upphafleg skilaboð Frá: SomeoneElse Dagsetning: 29/05/2015 07:53 (GMT+00:00) Til: talk@openstreetmap.org Efni: Re: [OSM-talk] Can wikidata links help fight

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

2015-05-28 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
Þann 28.5.2015 19:43, skrifaði Frederik Ramm: Hi, On 05/28/2015 09:19 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: What I would not support in OSM, and like to outsource to Wikidata or other, is if speakers of these 20 languages were to start assigning name tags in their language to thousands of places in, say, th

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

2015-05-28 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
Þann 28.5.2015 19:19, skrifaði Frederik Ramm: What I would not support in OSM, and like to outsource to Wikidata or other, is if speakers of these 20 languages were to start assigning name tags in their language to thousands of places in, say, the UK. Bye Frederik Where do you draw the limit

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

2015-05-28 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
Þann 28.5.2015 15:38, skrifaði Andrew Guertin: While your exact words here aren't wrong, I think you're severely underestimating what objects have names in what languages. Russia and the UK are major world powers that have had a lot of interaction as both allies and enemies, economically, milit

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

2015-05-27 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
I hope the notability hotheads aren't around in Wikidata... had enough hard time with them in English Wikipedia. I like the concept and if easy solutions are available for tilemakers to join then I'm all for it... as long as Deletionists don't run amok. Upphafleg skilaboð Frá:

Re: [OSM-talk] Continent Oceania or Australia

2015-04-29 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
t. 2015-04-29 14:13 GMT+02:00 Jóhannes Birgir Jensson <mailto:j...@betra.is>>: However looking at what is within is_in:continent="Australia" then I only get regions and cities and no countries. is_in:continent="Oceania" gives me the normal countries we thin

[OSM-talk] Continent Oceania or Australia

2015-04-29 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
I was doing an overpass query for place=continent and noticed that we do not have Oceania but Australia with this note: "Note that Oceania, which is a more common designation in some countries, is actually based on a different continental classification system to the one OSM uses. So please tr

[OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: [talk] Wiki links to Mapillary pictures

2015-04-14 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
CC: Jóhannes Birgir Jensson , Mapillary Hello Hi Volker and Peter. The Template on Wikimedia Commons to use is Template:Mapillary <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Mapillary>. The usage instructions are given on the page. This requires you to manually enter latitude, lon

Re: [OSM-talk] New features in iD - looking for feedback and beta testers..

2015-03-28 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
Thank you for that Bryan. I found the C/V mechanism on live by accident recently and was ever so happy to see it introduced. I have not tried it on an Apple. The mini-map feature is fantastic, although on my keyboard it is the + button, the same location on keyboard as / in your case. The low

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging Warnings Posted on Beaches

2015-03-21 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
Excellent question. We have several dangerous beaches here where just standing at the waters edge can get you pulled into the sea, there is a vertical drop a few meters from the shore and the current will sweep you away... Example of tourists that barely escaped: https://www.facebook.com/vide

Re: [OSM-talk] Problem with usage of other values than yes for key building

2015-03-10 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
Well I for one see hardly any usage of building=yes in my town Kópavogur, in fact it has a usage of only 7,25% ! No imports were made so that could explain the low value of building=yes apartments458 commercial85 construction2 garage771 garages168 house1025 indust

Re: [OSM-talk] Looks like Domino's dropping Pizza from its name is official.

2015-02-23 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
Not applicable in Iceland, I advise a careful manual edit - if automated do by country. Upphafleg skilaboð Frá: Paul Johnson Dagsetning:23/02/2015 05:09 (GMT+00:00) Til: talk@openstreetmap.org Efni: [OSM-talk] Looks like Domino's dropping Pizza from its name is official. h

Re: [OSM-talk] Routing on osm.org

2015-02-16 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
Adding surface tags sounds more like an upgrade than an outbreak. Tagging for the router surely means that you are tagging roads based on their finer properties, single-lane or dual-lane, asphalt or gravel etc. Also if the road is less traveled it sounds like a no-brainer to tag it as unclassi

Re: [OSM-talk] New building colour

2015-01-04 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
Þann 4.1.2015 12:15, skrifaði Maarten Deen: On 2015-01-04 11:33, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: Note that there was "Request for feedback: new building colours in openstreetmap-carto" thread before this change was made. I missed that, but it was only a two day discussion where I see people for and

Re: [OSM-talk] New building colour

2015-01-04 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
Also none of the demos linked had Landuse=residential as background - the lack of contrast there as buildings merge into the landuse is my biggest issue with this change. However this seems to be a nice way of telling us to stop using that tag - you are not supposed to map for the renderer but

Re: [OSM-talk] New building colour

2015-01-04 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
The new color looks even worse in non-garden areas where the new building color vanishes into the residential area background. Old and new colors in Kópavogur, Iceland: https://www.dropbox.com/s/vo7pyhsuciqlppq/z16.png?dl=0 Old color in Maun, Botswana: https://www.dropbox.com/s/x0uj6bw1gp4nhnk

Re: [OSM-talk] discussion: inclusion and alcohol

2014-11-01 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
As someone who does not drink coffee or beer it is a minor obstacle sometimes in social situations. The "free beer draw" has usually a negative effect on the odds of me attending some session. So far in Iceland we haven't been active in planning events but if I have a say in it we will make an

Re: [OSM-talk] The world’s best addressable map

2014-10-23 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
good goal to have, and OSM was complicated and hard in the first place. Steve *From:* Oleksiy Muzalyev <mailto:oleksiy.muzal...@bluewin.ch> *Sent:* ‎Thursday‎, ‎October‎ ‎23‎, ‎2014 ‎2‎:‎53‎ ‎AM *To:* Jóhannes Birgir Jensson <mailto:j...@betra.is>, talk@openstreetmap.org <mailto:ta

Re: [OSM-talk] GoPro video traces?

2014-10-23 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
Well all the images are under CC-BY-SA license http://www.mapillary.com/legal.html I don't see anyone at the moment making another non-profit solution that gives an instant benefit to OSM (via iD editor). Storage space and bandwidth are never free while volunteer time is, wether it is program

Re: [OSM-talk] GoPro video traces?

2014-10-23 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
I think you are looking for Mapillary! Mapillary images are now built into the iD editor, if you go into Background settings you can check the Photo Overlay (Mapillary) option and see images from there. Example area: http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit#map=18/64.08253/-21.80923 Þann 23.10.2014

Re: [OSM-talk] Applications to the Local Chapter Agreement

2014-10-23 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
On behalf of the Icelandic applicants we are fairly sure that we are the only ones representing our area and we will strive hard to include others who will be or are interested in the area. We have a small blurb in English about us on our webpage, the OSM affiliation would be presented under O

Re: [OSM-talk] The world’s best addressable map

2014-10-23 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
I like addresses but they don't behave like you would think. For example we have a part of a street that has each individual flat as its own address number. We first used the number;number;number; approach but I'm now in favor of naming the house what it says on the front (the range 37-51) and

Re: [OSM-talk] How best to create a "single point of interest" online map with OSM data?

2014-09-18 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
Mappa Mercia have a tutorial on this, using uMap with live data from Overpass http://www.mappa-mercia.org/2014/09/creating-an-always-up-to-date-map.html Þann 18.9.2014 08:30, skrifaði Maurizio Napolitano: IMHO: http://umap.openstreetmap.fr ... and you can also add a osm layer by using a overp

Re: [OSM-talk] How best to create a "single point of interest" online map with OSM data?

2014-09-18 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
I'm using leaflet in this 5.000 POI map to show the distribution of estates in Iceland http://osm.hlidskjalf.is/map-estates.php#7/64.767/-18.666 It seems adequate although zooming slows a bit down, each node is clickable but at the moment only contains the name. Þann 17.9.2014 23:32, skrifa

Re: [OSM-talk] 1.61 Gigapixel density map of the POI in Europe

2014-09-09 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
Looks very interesting for *most* of Europe. Signed, Iceland It is very nice though, showing the density in Central Europe, both due to population and very active OSM communities. Upphafleg skilaboð Frá: Badita Florin Dagsetning:10/09/2014 02:48 (GMT+00:00) Til: talk@ope

Re: [OSM-talk] "Incorrect speed limit" anonymous notes - who is behind that?

2014-09-08 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
Not that I want to create even more problems but 35 km/h is a typical max speed in many rural towns in Iceland. These are often 4-5 street towns with a major road going through 1 of them so they see the need to severely limit the speed. It is up to each municipality to select max speed and som

[OSM-talk] Africa - Setswana speakers

2014-09-02 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
So long story short, I'm running Mapping Botswana, trying to remotely kickstart a mapping movement in Botswana, but I don't speak setswana which is spoken by the majority of Batswanas. Setswana is also spoken in South-Africa and we might have mappers there that can assist me? I've been makin

Re: [OSM-talk] Detrimental to the OSM database

2014-08-22 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
Þann 23.8.2014 01:03, skrifaði Dave F.: http://maproulette.org/#t=osmose-8170-147-soccer/osmose-8170-147-soccer-None-d19295cc3e005283ae80b66bde86f474 Supposed missing soccer pitch in France. I mean, really? I believe these sites add more inaccuracy than accuracy. Hello Dave. On the contrary

[OSM-talk] 10th anniversary - Iceland and Botswana progress

2014-08-09 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
Greetings fellow map-makers. In honor of todays 10th birthday of OpenStreetMap it is my great pleasure to have sent in an application today for my society, Hliðskjálf, to become the Local Chapter for Iceland operating as OpenStreetMap á Íslandi. It is also my great pleasure to officially ope

Re: [OSM-talk] Using Notes in France

2014-07-30 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
Þann 30.7.2014 19:50, skrifaði SomeoneElse: On 30/07/2014 15:08, colliar wrote: Am 30.07.2014 15:58, schrieb Glenn Plas: ... So he's asking if you know the names of the missing street. and closing the note. Therefor you need to have a login to reopen in order to be able to comment and it wil

Re: [OSM-talk] Using Notes in France

2014-07-29 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
Þann 29.7.2014 22:05, skrifaði Andreas Labres: On 29.07.14 22:32, Jóhannes Birgir Jensson wrote: Map Notes are in my mind a to-do list obvious problems that require surveying on the ground I disagree with this (principle idea). I disagree with your disagreement. But if the names exist and

[OSM-talk] Using Notes in France

2014-07-29 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
The previous discussion about apparent automated Notes spam in various places about speed limits brought one comment I found interesting, where JB said "but in France, I have never ever seen anyone comment on someone else's note". Well I was surveying some area in France earlier this year and

Re: [OSM-talk] Upcoming openstreetmap-carto changes

2014-07-25 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
x27;m very confused now, are the carto changes partially alive or am I seeing different things to what others see - am I getting my tiles from a different server? --Jói Þann 25.07.2014 13:04, Mateusz Konieczny reit: Both linked shops are displayed. 2014-07-25 14:59 GMT+02:00 Jóhannes Birgir Je

Re: [OSM-talk] Upcoming openstreetmap-carto changes

2014-07-25 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
On my screen I see a purple dot in zoom 19, the address number at zoom 18 and nothing in zoom 17. Before I was a basket with a wine bottle or similar. Þann 25.07.2014 13:04, Mateusz Konieczny reit: Both linked shops are displayed. 2014-07-25 14:59 GMT+02:00 Jóhannes Birgir Jensson : I was

Re: [OSM-talk] Upcoming openstreetmap-carto changes

2014-07-25 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
I was under the impression more shops would be displayed than previously? So far I'm seeing fewer, a notable example being liquor stores that have now vanished from visual. Examples: http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/2939951075 http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/2125818740 Also worrying that

[OSM-talk] Drones

2014-07-24 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
Greetings. I'm curious to know if any OSM groups are currently running their own drones for imagery. In Iceland we have been looking longingly at the eBee https://www.sensefly.com/drones/ebee.html but so far haven't started fundraising for it. Are there similarly sophisticated yet cheaper op

Re: [OSM-talk] Organizational mapping policy

2014-05-15 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
Substitute cajole for persuade... Þann 15.05.2014 15:48, Jóhannes Birgir Jensson reit: Because very zelous mappers are the last thing we need? Just because we can use data to catch out stuff then we hardly need to use it to limit the users, it should be fine to use the data to put the name on

Re: [OSM-talk] Organizational mapping policy

2014-05-15 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
Because very zelous mappers are the last thing we need? Just because we can use data to catch out stuff then we hardly need to use it to limit the users, it should be fine to use the data to put the name on a watch list, making it easier to revert if edits are found to be harmful (license or c

[OSM-talk] Re: This has to stop: User Diaries Spam

2014-05-14 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
Having just had over 20 such entries popping up not only on the RSS-feed but also on Twitter this indeed has become very irksome. I suggest first posting of a user with less than 10 edits to be held for moderation. Red tape which I generally am hesitant about but generally people with less tha

Re: [OSM-talk] Organizational mapping policy

2014-05-14 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
Þann 14.05.2014 08:49, Pieren reit: On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 1:44 AM, Paul Norman wrote: Some types of activities that *could* be covered are - Teachers requiring their students to edit OSM as part of a course I hope not. How can we have on one side a (foundation) group trying to reduce barr

Re: [OSM-talk] High res DigitalGlobe imagery open for tracing through Mapbox Satellite

2014-04-11 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
Þann 11.04.2014 12:03, Alex Barth reit: On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 9:47 PM, maning sambale wrote: This is full coverage down to zoom level 19 imagery in the US + Western Europe and world wide to zoom level 17. May I ask why? Working on it :) As part of the same agreement w/ DG that allows us

[OSM-talk] Sneak preview: OSM in Botswana

2014-04-04 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
Greetings. I've been running the Mapping Botswana project for the past 6 months and the map is in a better state there than before. However to get more locals to participate I thought it would be prudent to use a .bw domain and to give them a few options you don't get on the default OSM webs

Re: [OSM-talk] Foursquare and OSM Note Instructions

2014-03-28 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
Perhaps it is because English is not my native language but I understand a Note to be a comment, whether about missing data or wrong data or in fact, as I've sometimes done, a note about imagery missing for a future imagery refresh. I mapped my hometown last summer and one part of it was missi

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping flood

2014-02-16 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
Maybe a good time to work on this proposal: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/floodplain Þann 16.2.2014 19:12, skrifaði Christoph Hormann: On Sunday 16 February 2014, Pieren wrote: Someone is mapping the UK floods in OSM (reported on twitter): http://www.openstreetmap.org/

Re: [OSM-talk] Horse trails. Good examples?

2013-12-22 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
An example from Iceland includes these bridleways and stables (two seperate areas, one in each municipality). The racetrack seems to be rendering incorrectly. http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/64.0789/-21.8358 Þann 22.12.2013 16:25, skrifaði Philip Barnes: On Sun, 2013-12-22 at 09:18 -05

Re: [OSM-talk] MapBBCode library and MapBBCode Share website

2013-10-31 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
This looks fantastic Ilya, I'm interested in seeing if I can contribute to a WordPress plugin. Not written WP plugins before but they have a nice guide and I might be able to muddle through it, any other out there interested in contributing to it? --Jóhannes Þann 31.10.2013 20:15, skrifaði

[OSM-talk] Mind the Gap - how to see where OSM is lacking

2013-10-26 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
In the Wikipedia topic Christoph Hormann said >Although this is difficult to back up with numbers i have the impression >the gap between well mapped and badly mapped areas in Openstreetmap >is widening even though you would think it is much easier to improve a >badly mapped area than a well mappe

Re: [OSM-talk] Wikipedia article

2013-10-26 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
iD is a leap forward for getting more people to contribute. Technical people I try to get involved do ask "so anyone can delete anything" with some incredulity but as Scroobius Pip says "some people are just nice" and so far the ratio I've seen in OSM is that 99,999% are. A troll passes by now