Re: [Talk-ca] Building Canada 2020 initiative

2017-09-29 Thread James
a project of this size you need some > sort of team approach. Although buses are fairly safe the odd one gets hit > by a train and if you happen to be sitting in the front seat you may not be > available to sort things out. > > Cheerio John > > On 29 September 2017 at 09:33, Jam

Re: [Talk-ca] Building Canada 2020 initiative

2017-09-29 Thread James
To answer you question about who would organise the tasking manager, I'm willing to do so. On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 9:24 AM, john whelan wrote: > A couple of comments: > > 1. Pierre Beland has identified > 95% of contributors only

Re: [OSM-talk] # with color code

2017-09-28 Thread James
usually # specifies that it's a hexidecimal number vs a base 10 number. When you have letters A-F it's obvious that it's hexidecimal and can be implecitely converted. The issue is when you don't have letters: 255 in hexadecimal 255 is 2*16^2 + 5*16^1 + 5*16^0 = 512+80+5=597 255 base 10 would be

Re: [Talk-ca] OSM Canada & State of the Map US: Oct 20-22

2017-09-28 Thread James
And as a local chapter new comers could suggest/view tasks to work on. Kind of like what we did for Fort Mac. A centralized communication hub would enable us to move forward and concentrate our efforts(small remote villages for example) On Sep 28, 2017 12:12 PM, "Matthew Darwin"

Re: [Talk-ca] Stats Canada building project

2017-09-27 Thread James
ich basically has >>> the same license as the city of Ottawa uses plus how to use it. >>> >>> Cheerio John >>> >>> On 27 September 2017 at 18:40, Stewart Russell <scr...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> But they can't use OGL-CA v2 cos munici

Re: [Talk-ca] Stats Canada building project

2017-09-27 Thread James
a multi-month > review. > > Stewart > > On Sep 27, 2017 18:28, "James" <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> other then have them change their license from say ogl-ca v1 to ogl-cav2 >> >> theres not much we can do from a legal stand point. ogl-ca v1 puts too

Re: [Talk-ca] Stats Canada building project

2017-09-27 Thread James
other then have them change their license from say ogl-ca v1 to ogl-cav2 theres not much we can do from a legal stand point. ogl-ca v1 puts too many restrictions On Sep 27, 2017 6:21 PM, "Matthew Darwin" wrote: > How do we want to move this discussion forward? Do we need

Re: [OSM-talk] Label language on the Default stylesheet

2017-09-25 Thread James
dding 500 extra layers is > not a practical endeavour. > > 2017-09-25 12:15 GMT+02:00 James <james2...@gmail.com>: > >> I think Latin as default is disrespectful to areas like Japan which might >> not be able to read Latin letters as they have kana for non-japanes

Re: [OSM-talk] Label language on the Default stylesheet

2017-09-25 Thread James
I think Latin as default is disrespectful to areas like Japan which might not be able to read Latin letters as they have kana for non-japanese words. It's a bit biased to ask if Latin should be the default on a Latin based list(letters not language).I'm sure there would be a different opinion if

Re: [Talk-ca] High resolution Air photos for New Brunswick

2017-09-22 Thread James
For anyone wanting to contribute to the New Brunswick high res maps, I'm creating tasks on the osmcanada tasking manager (http://tasks.osmcanada.ca/) On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 9:32 AM, Bernie Connors wrote: > Hello all, > > > > My apologies if this has

Re: [Talk-GB] OpenStreetCam or Mapillary?

2017-09-22 Thread James Harrison
ifferent capture locations, what would produce the most useful images for map editing? Cheers, James ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [OSM-talk] WhatOSM, a guide for contribution tools

2017-09-21 Thread James
https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Contact On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 2:22 PM, PanierAvide <panierav...@riseup.net> wrote: > As this is new, is there a dedicated email contact to reach people > handling this ? > > Regards, > > Adrien. > > > Le 21/09/2017 à 20:17, J

Re: [OSM-talk] WhatOSM, a guide for contribution tools

2017-09-21 Thread James
sing OSM is clearly boring plus misleading for users. > > > Thanks for reading this nonsense, I'm totally open to find a way to solve > this potential naming issue, if someone can give me some hints about it, it > would be great. > > Regards, > > Adrien. > > > Le 21

Re: [OSM-talk] WhatOSM, a guide for contribution tools

2017-09-21 Thread James
You might want to reconsider the name as you started this project 2 weeks ago and XYZosm or osmXYZ or OpenXYZMap are "copyrighted" and goes against the new usage policy. On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 1:45 PM, PanierAvide wrote: > Hi everyone, > > As you may know, OSM has a

Re: [OSM-talk] DWG survey on organised editing

2017-09-20 Thread James
that this is not appropriate for osm)) On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 7:57 AM, Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> wrote: > Hi, > > On 20.09.2017 13:17, James wrote: > > Also does organised mapping include groups that hold little mapathons? > > Example a local mapping group from Vancouver, Toro

Re: [OSM-talk] DWG survey on organised editing

2017-09-20 Thread James
vs normal mapper(to which the new policy wouldn't apply) On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 7:46 AM, Christoph Hormann <o...@imagico.de> wrote: > On Wednesday 20 September 2017, James wrote: > > Also does organised mapping include groups that hold little > > mapathons? Example a local

Re: [OSM-talk] DWG survey on organised editing

2017-09-20 Thread James
Also does organised mapping include groups that hold little mapathons? Example a local mapping group from Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal or Ottawa decide to say map sidewalks in their city. It's an organised event. Would they be included as well? The terms used in this survey seem a little vague

Re: [OSM-talk] Name challenge - what to call the new OSM+Wikidata service?

2017-09-17 Thread James
Mappy McDataFace+1 On Sep 17, 2017 8:05 PM, "Blake Girardot HOT/OSM" wrote: Mappy McDataFace is a serious suggestion, please include it in any official lists of proposals. Cheers Blake On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 5:46 PM, Yuri Astrakhan wrote:

Re: [Talk-ca] High resolution Air photos for New Brunswick

2017-09-15 Thread James
Sweet! I've been looking at a few places as well and it's very good with minimal real world shift! Very nice imagery in remote areas too! On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 10:15 AM, Bernie Connors <bernie.conn...@unb.ca> wrote: > James, > > I have not undertaken an overall assessm

Re: [Talk-ca] High resolution Air photos for New Brunswick

2017-09-15 Thread James
How well is the ESRI Imagery aligned with the real world (in General)? On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 9:32 AM, Bernie Connors wrote: > Hello all, > > > > My apologies if this has already been mentioned on this > list. The Esri World Imagery basemap is now

Re: [Talk-ca] Les méfaits de Telenav dans La Prairie

2017-09-15 Thread James
des photos* 2017-09-15 9:10 GMT-04:00 James <james2...@gmail.com>: > OSC C'est OpenStreetCam. C'est comme Mapillary ou google street view, mais > opensource et on peut l'utiliser comme référence pour OSM. Essentiellement > le monde se promenes avec leur cameras dans leur voitures

Re: [Talk-ca] Les méfaits de Telenav dans La Prairie

2017-09-15 Thread James
OSC C'est OpenStreetCam. C'est comme Mapillary ou google street view, mais opensource et on peut l'utiliser comme référence pour OSM. Essentiellement le monde se promenes avec leur cameras dans leur voitures et prennent des voitures 2017-09-15 9:07 GMT-04:00 James <james2...@gmail.com>: &g

Re: [Talk-ca] Les méfaits de Telenav dans La Prairie

2017-09-15 Thread James
Est-ce que tu as contacté Martijn à ce propos? Il est la personne qui coordonne le plus avec la communauté OSM 2017-09-15 8:58 GMT-04:00 Ga Delap : > Bonjour à tous et toutes > J'ai récemment consulté notre carte et, par hasard, j'ai aperçu dans La > Prairie des rues que je ne

[Talk-us] wtsp.com using OSM for detour maps

2017-09-13 Thread James Mast
http://www.wtsp.com/news/flooding-could-close-i-75-as-floridians-try-to-get-home/474415152 [http://content.wtsp.com/photo/2017/09/13/map_1505321021730_10880901_ver1.0.PNG] Flooding could close I-75 as

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixing wrong "adr:housenumber" keys

2017-09-09 Thread James
I dont see an issue fixing this obvious typo On Sep 9, 2017 2:10 PM, "Nelson A. de Oliveira" wrote: > While taking a look at something related with addr:housenumber I saw > http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/rAd that we have 18391 objects with a wrong > adr:housenumber key (it's

Re: [OSM-talk] Beach routing

2017-09-06 Thread James
Or just follow the same shape as border +/- say 1-4meters offset(keep it inside the polygon) On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 7:57 AM, Dave F wrote: > Sorry wanted to add this: > > With irregular shapes (crescent, for example) a check to see if the route > is within the

Re: [OSM-talk] Beach routing

2017-09-06 Thread James
Not really, with a roundabout, you have a way you can follow. Where as an area, you'd calculate somewhat of the middle between the two edges to generate a path, as you can't just route on the boundary of the polygon as it might be unwalkable/doesnt make sense in reality On Sep 6, 2017 7:24 AM,

Re: [OSM-talk] a sample panoramic aerial image for 3D mapping made with the new DJI Spark quad-copter

2017-09-01 Thread James
Stock WIFI antennas have a ranges of about 32m (105feet) in optimal conditions. So unless he has a booster that will be the limit On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 11:12 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > > 2017-09-01 16:24 GMT+02:00 Oleksiy Muzalyev :

Re: [OSM-talk] a sample panoramic aerial image for 3D mapping made with the new DJI Spark quad-copter

2017-09-01 Thread James
Put it to 85 degrees and pitch the drone 5 degrees forward. Problem solved. On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 10:24 AM, Oleksiy Muzalyev < oleksiy.muzal...@bluewin.ch> wrote: > On 9/1/2017 4:07 PM, Greg Morgan wrote: > > > > On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 6:37 AM, Oleksiy Muzalyev < > oleksiy.muzal...@bluewin.ch>

Re: [OSM-talk] Beach routing

2017-08-29 Thread James
"Dont tag for the rendered" Routers should make beaches routable even though theres no clear path. Same with indoor mapping: I'm not going to add a bunch of paths in something already tagged as a corridor/hallway On Aug 29, 2017 6:54 AM, "Jean-Marc Liotier" wrote: > Last

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Redacting 75, 000 street names contributed by user chdr

2017-08-28 Thread James
As Stewart has pointed out there are some changes that are valid(name expansion). I think Mr.Ramm needs to revise his selection algorithm before mass deletion On Aug 28, 2017 6:05 AM, "joost schouppe" wrote: 2017-08-28 10:27 GMT+02:00 Simon Poole : >

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Redacting 75, 000 street names contributed by user chdr

2017-08-27 Thread James
The odbl=clean could be a way to exclude road names from the removal, though sources from the info should be given, whether Canvec, Mapillary, OpenStreetCam or local survey On Aug 27, 2017 3:29 PM, "john whelan" wrote: > There are a couple of issues here. The first are

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Redacting 75, 000 street names contributed by user chdr

2017-08-27 Thread James
Indeed, with the geometry still remaining it will be easy to create a maproulette task(s) to repair the damage +1 for name tag redaction On Aug 27, 2017 12:26 PM, "Ian Dees" wrote: > Frederik, > > Thanks for notifying us about this. I hope that you treat this as an > import

Re: [OSM-talk] Redacting 75, 000 street names contributed by user chdr

2017-08-27 Thread James
As Mr.Ramm said, there can be trap streets, which should be removed. When I inspected the data, it seems most of it is in Québec and wouldnt be hard to validate streetnames for 1400 something items. On Aug 27, 2017 11:24 AM, "Paul Norman" wrote: > On 8/27/2017 7:26 AM, john

Re: [OSM-talk] Redacting 75, 000 street names contributed by user chdr

2017-08-27 Thread James
If we validate via survey say in Canada, will we be able to remove the id from the revert list? Canada has Canvec we can reference to as well as OpenStreetCam and Mapillary On Aug 27, 2017 9:50 AM, "Frederik Ramm" wrote: > Hi, > >in 2010 I was privately contacted by

Re: [Talk-ca] Sentier cyclable et pédestre OKA/Mont-Saint-Hilaire

2017-08-25 Thread James
vaste que la Ville de > Montréal. > > Cordialement, > > Claude > > > > *From:* James > *Sent:* Friday, August 25, 2017 2:10 PM > *To:* Alouette955 > *Cc:* Talk-CA OpenStreetMap > *Subject:* Re: [Talk-ca] Sentier cyclable et pédestre > OKA/Mont-Saint-Hilaire > > Es

Re: [Talk-ca] Sentier cyclable et pédestre OKA/Mont-Saint-Hilaire

2017-08-25 Thread James
Est-ce que les routes tels que la 80 et la 13 continue à l'extérieur de la ville? Est-ce qu'il sont complété ou just arrêter à la frontière de Montreal? Je demande cela, puisque la 20 a l'aire de faire la même chose et sort de la frontière de montreal, est-ce qu'elle va être mise en place jusqu'à

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping in HTML - a proposal for a new element

2017-08-24 Thread James
Specifically, that they have a working example: https://www.w3.org/community/maps4html/ On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 2:22 PM, James <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > There has already been work like this started by Peter Rushforth over a > year ago: > https://www.w3.org/community/m

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping in HTML - a proposal for a new element

2017-08-24 Thread James
There has already been work like this started by Peter Rushforth over a year ago: https://www.w3.org/community/maps4html/author/prushfor/ On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 1:59 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote: > My friend Terence Eden has proposed a new HTML element for maps: > >

Re: [OSM-talk] European Data Portal declares the CC-BY 4.0 and ODbL 1.0 compatible

2017-08-03 Thread James
Bht are they the owners of the data or just relicensors of existing geodata that's been distributed. We need to make sure that they own all the data and that there are no third party rights involved. On Aug 3, 2017 7:32 AM, "Maurizio Napolitano" wrote: I discovered today a

Re: [OSM-talk] Mystery structure on a South China Sea reef

2017-08-01 Thread James
Sérgio, that's what they want you to think. There's a secret elevator that leads to an underground bunker  On Aug 1, 2017 2:41 PM, "Sérgio V." wrote: > It's also there with Digital Globe Premium at: > >

Re: [OSM-talk] Decline in accuracy of capture date metadata in Bing imagery

2017-07-25 Thread James
"Best is to only map areas that you visit and verify yourself" And the email thread was hot osm webinar On Jul 25, 2017 1:24 PM, "Christoph Hormann" <o...@imagico.de> wrote: > On Tuesday 25 July 2017, James wrote: > > Griping about it on the mailing list won'

Re: [Talk-ca] vandalism in Toronto

2017-07-23 Thread James
If he continues, contact dwg. I dont think "avoid this area" belongs in OSM. On Jul 23, 2017 5:31 PM, "Stewart C. Russell" wrote: > A friend alerted me to some locations with odd labels in Toronto, and I > noticed it was the result of some fairly comprehensive vandalism by

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] Ottawa, Canada Tree Import

2017-07-04 Thread James
>But i understand that as Canadians you have a reputation to defend - i >mean with marvels like this: >http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/45.40668/-75.66268 You are assuming that we had the most up to date imagery at all times, but the problem is that a local mapper could tell you that the

Re: [Talk-ca] Multipolygon problems

2017-07-01 Thread James
Depends where you get the data I think, canvec from ftp is different from canvec from toporama/atlas On Jul 1, 2017 5:44 PM, "Stewart C. Russell" <scr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi James, > > > Canvec 10.0 doesnt have the issues of double tagging, just overlapping

Re: [Talk-ca] Multipolygon problems

2017-07-01 Thread James
Error free Québec, just in time for Canada day! Good job Pierre :-) On Jul 1, 2017 4:34 AM, "Frank Steggink" wrote: > Hi Jochen, > > Maybe a MapRoulette challenge might even not be necessary. Yesterday I > started to clean up a bit in Québec, but since it was already past

Re: [Talk-ca] Multipolygon problems

2017-06-30 Thread James
If we have a overpass query that Pierre provided, we can create a maproulette task...then everyone can contribute! I can read up on how to create a task or ask Martjin --- Si nous avons un query overpass que Pierre nous ont fournit, on pourrais créer une tache maproulette...pour que tout le monde

Re: [Talk-ca] Multipolygon problems

2017-06-30 Thread James
If it's just removing tags, on inner polygons of a multipolygon, that should be manageable in itself... is there a way you are querying for said items without setting up a postgresql database? On Jun 30, 2017 3:57 PM, "James" <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > To be fairy

Re: [Talk-ca] Multipolygon problems

2017-06-30 Thread James
To be fairyour example is from Canvec 4.0.that's reaaallly oldwas it possible that was a way of tagging back in the days? Or was it created initially as a polygon and was later converted to a relation? Canvec 10.0 doesnt have the issues of double tagging, just overlapping On

Re: [Talk-ca] Multipolygon problems

2017-06-30 Thread James
Especially when the only imagery available is Landsat On Jun 30, 2017 2:18 PM, "Frank Steggink" wrote: > Hi Jochen, > > Maybe I'm not understanding it, but in the OSM inspector [1] I just see > one case of old style multipolygon, in Manitoba. Last week, when you

Re: [Talk-ca] Multipolygon problems

2017-06-30 Thread James
ppers per square kilometer. As James has stated this sort of clean up requires fairly specialised resources that realistically we don't have in sufficient quantity to meet your priorities and I think the Canadian mappers have indicated this is not a high priority for them and they are happy with the statu

Re: [Talk-ca] Multipolygon problems

2017-06-30 Thread James
https://i.imgur.com/8xKttYm.jpg Image was ridiculously small On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 6:28 AM, James <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Example: > https://i.imgur.com/8xKttYm_d.jpg > > Represents multiple thousand square kilometers of forest/objects. To > actually be able to

Re: [Talk-ca] Multipolygon problems

2017-06-30 Thread James
... not everyone has the experiance needed to merge down polygons/relations on such a large object scale and very wide spread throughout Canada On Jun 30, 2017 6:12 AM, "James" <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: The problem that canvec has is multi polygons with different attributes wer

Re: [Talk-ca] Multipolygon problems

2017-06-30 Thread James
The problem that canvec has is multi polygons with different attributes were stacked on top of eachother(i.e. hole in the forest that is also a lake? That makes 2 polygons with same shape stacked one of top of eachother... marshland+water+hole in forest? 3 polygons etc etc. Not that I wouldnt live

Re: [Talk-ca] Radio-Canada - Carte Google premières nations est la meilleure - Réagissez

2017-06-29 Thread James
Au cas que le monde ont besoin des endroids ou se trouve les premieres nations le Canada a ses donnees: First Nations Location dataset: http://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/b6567c5c-8339-4055-99fa-63f92114d9e4 Inuit Communities Location dataset:

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] Ottawa, Canada Tree Import

2017-06-29 Thread James
I can already see the Rideau Mall roof top as being an exception (there's a giant garden on the roof) On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 8:52 AM, Denis Carriere wrote: > There's many of us that are from the local Ottawa area, we will make sure > we capture those exceptions. I am

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] Ottawa, Canada Tree Import

2017-06-29 Thread James
ttawa? Have you noticed this? This is a danger of doing an import > without looking at the existing OSM data. > > Doing some data analysis isn't a "mechanical edit", you're looking at > the data, not editing it. > > Rory > > On 28/06/17 17:13, James wrote: > >

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] Ottawa, Canada Tree Import

2017-06-29 Thread James
This is probably why dbh is used as the diameter only changes a tiny fraction of the circumferance per year, so the data is less stale and you dont have to audit them every year On Jun 28, 2017 9:21 PM, "Max Erickson" wrote: > > > On Jun 28, 2017 6:46 PM, "Kyle Nuttall"

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] Ottawa, Canada Tree Import

2017-06-28 Thread James
If you can assume that OSM data is 100% correct then you can also assume that data from a city GIS department that have done their jobs correctly is also 100% correct. On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 12:04 PM, James <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Rory said: > What if OSM data is wrong? What

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] Ottawa, Canada Tree Import

2017-06-28 Thread James
ple of why it could be incorrect). Maybe understanding the logic flaw I'm trying to express in your "analysis" would be a good place to start. On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 11:56 AM, Christoph Hormann <o...@imagico.de> wrote: > On Wednesday 28 June 2017, James wrote: > > Well t

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] Ottawa, Canada Tree Import

2017-06-28 Thread James
Well that analysis is incorrect in itself as others have stated, OSM can be wrong. So a river bank, building, etc may not be properly drawn. So with that being said what you are saying is the only viable way to accept an import is to manually review every single item in the dataset. On Wed, Jun

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] Ottawa, Canada Tree Import

2017-06-28 Thread James
Other than MANUALLY VERIFYING EACH AND EVERY TREE, there is no way to give a statistical analysis of the accuracy of the entire dataset. If we did it programatically we'd have to prove how the method of analysis is correct and would be probably be brushed off as being a "mechanical edit" thus

Re: [Talk-ca] Ottawa, Canada Tree Import

2017-06-27 Thread James
+1 Trees are good for the environment and data looks up to par with the wiki On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 3:23 PM, John Marshall wrote: > +100 > > On Jun 27, 2017 15:20, "Denis Carriere" wrote: > >> +1 That's awesome work! >> >> So many tree related OSM

Re: [Talk-us] Best practice in Lane Editing 2

2017-06-20 Thread James Mast
Because back in the day, people complained about the spelling and that it had to be in the 'British' way. So, it's under 'centre_turn_lane'. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:centre_turn_lane Key:centre_turn_lane - OpenStreetMap

Re: [Talk-ca] Add data of the City of Rouyn-Noranda, Québec, Canada

2017-06-17 Thread James
This is the vanilla template: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Plan_Outline And I dont mind helping you fill it out, but it's the information we are going to need to present it further to import list On Jun 17, 2017 9:06 AM, "James" <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: >

Re: [Talk-ca] Add data of the City of Rouyn-Noranda, Québec, Canada

2017-06-17 Thread James
Hi Guillaume, I'd like to help you with this as I've done so with Ottawa/Gatineau. First step is to write a wiki arcticle to document what license the data is under and where the data is located. Example for Ottawa: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canada:Ontario:Ottawa/Import/Plan I can help

[Talk-ca] Airport codes

2017-06-08 Thread James
Does anyone know if there is a tagging mechanism for airport codes(IATA & OACI specifically)? Example: Toronto airport IATA=YYZ and OACI=CYYZ Ottawa IATA=YOW and OACI = CYOW ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-ca] tags ???

2017-06-01 Thread James
tu pourrais utiliser ceci: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:baseball 2017-06-01 14:10 GMT-04:00 Pierre Boucher : > > Comment tagger les "estrades" des spectateurs qui bordent les rerrains de > baseball ou soccer > > MERCI > >

Re: [OSM-talk] If you run an instance HOT's OSM Tasking Manager 2 please read

2017-05-16 Thread James
how2fix? On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 7:21 AM, Blake Girardot wrote: > Greetings, > > A security vulnerability has been identified in the latest version of > the OSM Tasking Manager 2. > > Please contact me directly, off list and I will pass on the > information on how to fix

Re: [OSM-talk] JOSM data upload change

2017-05-11 Thread James
Happened to me before during and upgrade. :) On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 2:14 PM, Palolo <vaoma...@gmail.com> wrote: > @James-2 Thanks, it took me a while to find the setting in Advanced > Preferences. > I don't know how that got changed, but I'm back functioning now. > Thanks

Re: [OSM-talk] JOSM data upload change

2017-05-11 Thread James
might be your upload settings? Are you uploading 1 item at a time vs say 100 or full changeset? On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 12:42 PM, Palolo wrote: > Yesterday I noticed that JOSM would display a count for each object as it > uploaded. >

Re: [OSM-talk] DigitalGlobe imagery for OSM editing

2017-05-10 Thread James
It says on the imagery api website that the average is like ~2 years, but some places are updated twice a year. So depends on your location. On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 3:44 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 1:30 PM, Kevin Bullock >

Re: [OSM-talk] DigitalGlobe imagery for OSM editing

2017-05-09 Thread James
Just so that it is more clear, do we have to subscribe(paid model) to have access to the imagery to edit in ID/JOSM? As in we would need to sign in with a paid account to access the imagery layer in JOSM/ID; or is this provided much like Bing and Mapbox already have done and provide this service

Re: [OSM-talk] HDYC, login requirement and "privacy"

2017-05-04 Thread James
As Michal said, forcing login wont stop "those that want to cause harm". They will just login and harvest the data. They can also just scrape the osm data, so I dont think this is an issue with HDYC as much it is a privacy concern with OSM data itself. If you dont want to be associated with your

Re: [OSM-talk] HDYC, login requirement and "privacy"

2017-05-04 Thread James
> So you think the German community should be required to proactively > communicate any subject they discuss in German language channels to the > international community? We have to do this for imports, the least you could have done is brought it up on the talk mailing list. On May 4, 2017 4:41

Re: [OSM-talk] HDYC, login requirement and "privacy"

2017-05-04 Thread James
What Michal said. Any body can download the OSM data and run the same analysis. You agreed to contribute to OSM, if you want your online footprint to be non-existant: unplug your internet. On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 3:33 PM, Michał Brzozowski wrote: > Many know Pascal Neis'

Re: [Talk-ca] Telenav mapping turn restrictions

2017-04-26 Thread James
For once, I agree with Nakaner. On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 12:49 PM, Michael Reichert wrote: > Hi Martijn, > > Am 26.04.2017 um 18:22 schrieb Stewart C. Russell: > > I know that Github issues are the industry standard, and the OSM > > comment/discussion mechanisms may seem a

Re: [Talk-ca] Telenav mapping turn restrictions

2017-04-25 Thread James
enefits from all of this in some twisted way... Andrew Lester Victoria, BC, Canada -- *From: *m...@rtijn.org *To: *"James Mast" <rickmastfa...@hotmail.com> *Cc: *"OSM US" <talk...@openstreetmap.org>, "talk-ca" < talk-ca@openstreetm

Re: [OSM-talk] Coordinates in OSM. Really annoying

2017-04-21 Thread James
Could be for precision: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_degrees#Precision On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 10:28 AM, Dave F wrote: > Hi > > This is one of my OSM bugbears: http://osm.duschmarke.de/bbox.html > > Is there /really/ any need for *six* coordinate formats?

Re: [OSM-talk] Looking for "primary language" map

2017-04-10 Thread James
You could try to look at the street qualifiers ex. Rue, boulevard, cercle, croissant,etc placed before the street name would be french where as English places it after the name Xyz street rue Xyz On Apr 10, 2017 9:07 PM, "James" <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > John I me

Re: [OSM-talk] Looking for "primary language" map

2017-04-10 Thread James
if they are in English > and have a second language name as well. name:fr for example. > > Cheerio John > > On 10 April 2017 at 20:47, James <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Well it might not be as simple as you say...take for instance Ottawa. >> It's in Ontario

Re: [OSM-talk] Looking for "primary language" map

2017-04-10 Thread James
> ... > The shapes may overlap because that would make geojson smaller - I will > simply use the first one. > > Having this map will allow me to determine the likely language of the > "name" tag for any location, which in turn make for a better multilingual > map.

Re: [OSM-talk] Looking for "primary language" map

2017-04-10 Thread James
Well many countries have multiple official languages, Canada is French and English, but in practice is mostly Quebec and New brunswick...with small patches of french throughout the rest On Apr 10, 2017 8:12 PM, "Yuri Astrakhan" <yuriastrak...@gmail.com> wrote: > James, thank

Re: [OSM-talk] Looking for "primary language" map

2017-04-10 Thread James
Also have you checked: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_official_languages_by_country_and_territory On Apr 10, 2017 7:50 PM, "James" <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > More like French for the entirety of the province of Quebec > > On Apr 10, 2017 7:38 PM, &qu

Re: [OSM-talk] Looking for "primary language" map

2017-04-10 Thread James
More like French for the entirety of the province of Quebec On Apr 10, 2017 7:38 PM, "Yuri Astrakhan" wrote: > Does anyone know of an open source language map - basically a set of > geoshapes with the corresponding language code? Country boundaries are not > needed -

Re: [OSM-talk] The Top Ten Tasks list

2017-04-07 Thread James
see my previous email about the root certificate authority not being a trusted source of issuing certificates. Your connection is still encrypted like a self-signed certificate, but because the browser hasn't added the root CA to their list of trusted CAs that comply with the practices/audits it

Re: [OSM-talk] The Top Ten Tasks list

2017-04-07 Thread James
it's because http://www.CAcert.org(CAcert Inc.) is not in the recognized issuers of your browser. It's like having a self-signed certificate. On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 7:21 AM, Éric Gillet wrote: > 2017-04-07 12:11 GMT+02:00 David Earl : > >>

Re: [Talk-us] [Talk-ca] Telenav mapping turn restrictions

2017-04-03 Thread James Mast
they were replacing on Pine Creek Road (well since completed) that was on the other side of the intersection. -James From: Martijn van Exel <m...@rtijn.org> Sent: Monday, April 3, 2017 1:18:38 PM To: James Mast Cc: talk...@openstreetmap.org; OSM US Subje

Re: [Talk-ca] Telenav mapping turn restrictions

2017-04-03 Thread James Mast
they were replacing on Pine Creek Road (well since completed) that was on the other side of the intersection. -James From: Martijn van Exel <m...@rtijn.org> Sent: Monday, April 3, 2017 1:18:38 PM To: James Mast Cc: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org; OSM US Subje

Re: [Talk-ca] In progress: Clearances for Ontario and Toronto Open Data Licences

2017-04-03 Thread James
Is there documentation on this, you will have to create a wiki page on the matter with links to the dataset so we can analyze it. On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 5:46 PM, Stewart Russell wrote: > Just so folks know, there are a few initiatives going on that could lead > us to using

Re: [Talk-ca] Telenav mapping turn restrictions

2017-04-03 Thread James
I've made it easier for everyone I sent an email to the local police station about the legalities of turning right at the light vs taking the ramp/turning lane. Hopefully they will answer me. On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 1:18 PM, Martijn van Exel <m...@rtijn.org> wrote: > James -- I could not

Re: [Talk-ca] Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Labrador, Canada Data

2017-04-03 Thread James
As long as the license of the data is compatible with the ODbL, I'd love to help out. I can help you set up the project on the osmcanada tasking manager : tasks.osmcanada.ca so many people could collaborate on this effort. On Apr 3, 2017 12:33 PM, "Anatolijs Venovcevs" <

Re: [Talk-ca] Telenav mapping turn restrictions

2017-04-03 Thread James Mast
be completely legal and would be prevented if a false relation were to be added here. This is just something you can't be 100% sure of without visiting it in person, or have imagery from something like Mapillary to see it. So, I can see why Andrew was upset about this. -James [1] https

Re: [Talk-ca] Ottawa import: deleting existing content

2017-04-01 Thread James
Fixed: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/480316853/history & https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/480316854/history On Sat, Apr 1, 2017 at 6:48 AM, James <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Could have been a mistake as we told people not to delete buildings. If > building geometry was

Re: [Talk-ca] Ottawa import: deleting existing content

2017-04-01 Thread James
com> wrote: > On 2017-03-31 10:35 PM, James wrote: > > Your example for building deletion, has 0 building deletion > > > > https://overpass-api.de/achavi/?changeset=47337186 > > Ah, linked to the wrong one. This has it: > https://overpass-api.de/achavi/?changeset=47

Re: [Talk-ca] Ottawa import: deleting existing content

2017-03-31 Thread James
wa, there's good data that supercedes this bad data. > > In my opinion these interpolations are actually making Ottawa worse and I > question the necessity of them. > > Cheers, > Kyle > > On Mar 31, 2017 9:48 PM, James <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Just a

Re: [Talk-ca] Ottawa import: deleting existing content

2017-03-31 Thread James
Just an FYI canvec is not the best in Ottawa: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9ueWCOgxq2GT0JfTkRnb2JXcTQ/view?usp=drivesdk On Mar 31, 2017 9:37 PM, "Stewart C. Russell" wrote: > It seems that some of the import users didn't get the “Don't delete > stuff” memo. User

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: [Wikidata] Significant change: new data type for geoshapes

2017-03-29 Thread James
very nice. On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 2:39 PM, Pine W wrote: > Forwarding. > > Pine > > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Léa Lacroix > Date: Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 4:34 AM > Subject: [Wikidata] Significant change: new data type for

Re: [Talk-ca] Telenav mapping turn restrictions

2017-03-26 Thread James
rly aligning aerial imagery, so I'm not exactly filled with >> confidence that they should be making widespread changes like they are. >> >> Martijn, I think Telenav needs to stop what they're doing and have a >> careful discussion with us about their plans and editing p

Re: [OSM-talk] Appropriate attribution to OSM in a mobile app

2017-03-20 Thread James
OSMAnd doesnt even have an attribution on map. There are multiple reference to OSM/OSM editing in settings, but thats about it. I'm aware it has "OSM" in the name, but still doesnt resolve the attribution... On Mar 20, 2017 7:01 AM, "Christoph Hormann" wrote: > On Monday 20

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