Re: [OSM-talk] Roadmap for deprecation of name tags in OSM

2020-08-09 Thread Lester Caine
rce of local time data for example. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.uk/wiki/Contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.uk Model Engineers Digital Workshop - https://medw.uk Rainbow Digital Media - https://rainbowdigitalme

Re: [OSM-talk] Examples at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:access

2020-05-25 Thread Lester Caine
ick the best route, which may be to approach the destination from the other end and perhaps even indicate 'back up to destination' ... now that WOULD be an intelligent router ... but if there is no information on which to base that decision even the driver has to guess. -- Lester Cai

Re: [OSM-talk] our Q&A site help.openstreetmap.org is dying

2020-05-20 Thread Lester Caine
because it been to difficult to 'recover' it after systems stopped working. So where would I head to get my hands on an XML dump of the current data to see if I can push it into the copy of Q2A I've just set up ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact -

Re: [OSM-talk] our Q&A site help.openstreetmap.org is dying

2020-05-20 Thread Lester Caine
that. Question2Answer looks like it's being well supported. At least it has a release that works on the latest PHP and while it's a little long in the tooth, https://github.com/jamesspittal/osqa-q2a offers a hope that there is potential to pump existing material across? -- Leste

Re: [OSM-talk] [Tagging] nomoj de internaciaj objektoj / nazwy obiektów międzynarodowych / names of international objects

2020-02-25 Thread Lester Caine
st, and the vector maps THAT produces have potential to solve many of the 'complaints' ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.uk/wiki/Contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.uk Model Engineers Digital W

Re: [OSM-talk] handling street names in speech

2019-07-17 Thread Lester Caine
and adding tagging for particular processes will always be wrong. The real problem is that there is no mechanism to add corrections in a secondary system in much the same way as there is no translation system for the key English elements of the data. Even IPA strings depend on the context and accent t

Re: [OSM-talk] Ways divided by paint?

2019-07-04 Thread Lester Caine
one has an 'approved' way of adding it back? Personally I think that micro-mapping complex junctions does require multiple ways even if the planned routes through a junction can be abused by taking the wrong path ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - h

Re: [OSM-talk] We're erasing our history in wiki

2019-04-22 Thread Lester Caine
ubstantially linked to current live data? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - https://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - https://

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMF makes a political decision where should be a technical solution?

2018-11-23 Thread Lester Caine
le to manage this area in a generic way? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - https://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - https://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital M

Re: [OSM-talk] Plus code grid service

2018-11-19 Thread Lester Caine
actually gained traction on the ground? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - https://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - https://medw.co.uk Rain

Re: [OSM-talk] Really heavy browser load with Overpass-turbo map display

2018-10-04 Thread Lester Caine
truggling with the lack of Firebug as the replacement has problems with font sizes at least on linux and does not provide some of the nice features Firebug STILL provides on my development machine. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/

Re: [OSM-talk] Representing places with no housenumber

2018-08-23 Thread Lester Caine
USPS had a similar postal address listing? I find the practice of adding ANY tag that does not enhance the data as pointless. There is no need to TAG that there is no number ... you just don't add the tag ... just as the example here ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL -

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=* + area=yes vs area:highway=*

2018-08-11 Thread Lester Caine
' tags to the areas. IN THAT CASE area=yes could be used to identify that there are associated area objects that can be used on higher resolution mapping. I don't think 'area:highway=' has place especially where the 'centerline' way is used to combine several highway=xx

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=* + area=yes vs area:highway=*

2018-08-08 Thread Lester Caine
wever no current method of converting all of these area elements into 'ways', so one needs additional highway=xxx ways to provide the routing information that provides the macro level view. So you do not want an 'area:highway=footpath' if there is a hi

Re: [OSM-talk] building=grandstand vs leisure=bleachers

2018-07-14 Thread Lester Caine
y structures for a particular event but present for some time perhaps every year. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digita

Re: [OSM-talk] proposed mechanical edit - moving FIXME=* to fixme=*

2018-07-03 Thread Lester Caine
one thing, but 'FIXME' is clean and changing them just because you can adds nothing to the data. Get on an deal with them to remove them all together is the right tack ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine

Re: [OSM-talk] proposed mechanical edit - moving FIXME=* to fixme=*

2018-07-03 Thread Lester Caine
rcing lowercase only tags? The fact that 'FIXME' and 'fixme' can exist on the same node just seems wrong in ANY case? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk Enqui

Re: [OSM-talk] About OSM social implications and what can/should be displayed on the map (or not)

2018-06-30 Thread Lester Caine
continual churn of 'views of what is important' on a single static map and I know the technology is there, just not the resources to generate it? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - htt

Re: [OSM-talk] Please do not re-use old node IDs

2018-03-06 Thread Lester Caine
ible. I think I know the answer, but should the API be able to accept these ID's anyway? In an ideal world, the previous now hidden data should perhaps be flagged when the ID is used? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine

Re: [OSM-talk] Highway=trunk : harmonization between countries ?

2018-02-24 Thread Lester Caine
tting email replies properly handled on different lists :( ) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop -

Re: [OSM-talk] Highway=trunk : harmonization between countries ?

2018-02-24 Thread Lester Caine
s from the distinction? Do any countries not have motorways at all? Certainly the current default rendering is useless for many of us anyway so we have to ue an alternate anyway ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Ca

Re: [OSM-talk] iD news - v2.6.0 lots of new features...

2018-01-23 Thread Lester Caine
On 23/01/18 09:37, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: 2018-01-23 10:06 GMT+01:00 Lester Caine <mailto:les...@lsces.co.uk>>:  Actually it's more likely to be the estate name so for my near by estate it is messy since I've ended up using 'housenumber' so that it

Re: [OSM-talk] iD news - v2.6.0 lots of new features...

2018-01-23 Thread Lester Caine
ered ) and 'property' would be the expanded for. For 'unit' ... 'X' and 'Unit X' ... for office 'blocks' this may be something like 'B4A' for 'Block B, Floor 4, Office A' or something similar. Units on a storage site may well

Re: [OSM-talk] Automatically generated changeset discussion comments by OSMCha

2018-01-17 Thread Lester Caine
agged in a way that you KNOW just how it was generated, and can filter the 'social media' contributions from the 'constructive' ones. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://

Re: [OSM-talk] What would make MapRoulette better?

2017-11-21 Thread Lester Caine
On 21/11/17 04:02, Marc Gemis wrote: > I'll agree with Yuri that is has to be the choice of the mapper to > work in a specific region and not the challenge creator. I stopped using MapRoulette simply because it was taking me well out of my comfort zone ... -- Lester Ca

Re: [OSM-talk] Woods vs Forests

2017-11-02 Thread Lester Caine
On 02/11/17 10:34, Warin wrote: > On 02-Nov-17 09:21 PM, Lester Caine wrote: >> On 02/11/17 09:40, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: >>> ONE tag to say what? You are still owing an answer to this. >> I think the problem is similar to the multiple areas problem. There are >>

Re: [OSM-talk] Woods vs Forests

2017-11-02 Thread Lester Caine
, rather than implying different interpretations on existing tags depending on where they are used? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model E

Re: [OSM-talk] Woods vs Forests

2017-11-02 Thread Lester Caine
anning authorities have requested as perhaps a barrier or simply as an amenity ... or has been preserved as it has been there for hundreds of years ... We need to build a proper hierarchy of LANDUSE into which more detail can be added if required? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL -

Re: [OSM-talk] Woods vs Forests

2017-11-02 Thread Lester Caine
may not be 'managed' ... and are combined with 'grassland' and other natural or managed landcover. We can define landuse=park, but that park can have a lot of detail contained within it ... We are looking to render blocks of trees, grass, and other objects how ever created? -- Le

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

2017-10-25 Thread Lester Caine
ntry. What is currently missing is a clean set of guidelines for using any third party reference? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://en

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

2017-10-18 Thread Lester Caine
the same object class and is nearby" is not very > good and error prone. This could be a human-curated process, e.g. ask > the user to help deciding which  Wikipedia articles does this object > represent, and offer some likely candidates, but it shouldn't be > automatic.  I

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

2017-10-16 Thread Lester Caine
s from the wikidata bot's? Even if it is OSM bots that are doing the processing. The annoying thing here is that the hierarchy of places that wikidata provides could be useful to OSM searches ... but it still needs the likes of Nominatim and/or GeoNames to cross reference that data which provi

Re: [OSM-talk] New OSM Quick-Fix service

2017-10-16 Thread Lester Caine
is an independent and unrelated project with it's own agenda ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop

Re: [OSM-talk] A thought on bot edits

2017-10-02 Thread Lester Caine
f the place data that overlays that, so OSM only needs to use the wikidata namespace for all of that material. I don't think that the idea of 'bot' space actually fits into that model as it is the unique ID that is fixed and 'bot' tags either need to be acces

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

2017-10-02 Thread Lester Caine
a during the UK group push on it there were often a lot of corrections made to get the right 'set' of data on a school object. While only a small number of objects were actually wrong, that is enough to justify needing a manual cross check of some sort. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL --

Re: [OSM-talk] Links from wiki* back into OSM

2017-09-28 Thread Lester Caine
Highgate cemetery. wikidata should probably have an object for that with links to Highgate cemetery and OSM could have a complete set of all gravestones on the site, or link to an external copy of that list. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?

Re: [OSM-talk] Links from wiki* back into OSM

2017-09-28 Thread Lester Caine
d displaying location data but it's the ID of premises such as birth, death and activity locations that overlay all the objects I'm working with. Premises listed on the UK national census are a typical fairly reliable source I'm working with daily ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ---

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixing wiki* -> brand:wiki*

2017-09-27 Thread Lester Caine
ts of objects, which can then be linked to bot's which manage primary data such as the NSG's update reports adding new streets and changes to location hierarchy. But I should prefer that this layer is part of OSM rather than a third party service. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL -

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixing wiki* -> brand:wiki*

2017-09-27 Thread Lester Caine
del. It is why I think 'another' cross-reference tool may be more appropriate with OSM and wikipedia/wikidata simply being sources. THAT requires OSM to have a 'unique id' one can use to cross reference though :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://ls

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixing wiki* -> brand:wiki*

2017-09-27 Thread Lester Caine
tion pane (using the default desktop view) AH - so it's stripped when you grab a printed copy of the article :( There may be a link to Wikimedia Commons material, but not to wikidata material in external links ... that is where I expected to find it ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixing wiki* -> brand:wiki*

2017-09-27 Thread Lester Caine
On 27/09/17 16:48, Andy Mabbett wrote: > On 27 September 2017 at 16:06, Lester Caine wrote: > >>> While it is not yet complete, in what way is Wikdiata failing to be >>> sufficiently reliable? >> >> Much of the work I did on wikipedia was stripped for all s

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixing wiki* -> brand:wiki*

2017-09-27 Thread Lester Caine
On 27/09/17 14:40, Andy Mabbett wrote: > On 27 September 2017 at 14:28, Lester Caine wrote: > >> wikidata provides a section which documents a range of LINKS which >> identify the same object on other databases. It would be nice if there >> was a stable identity on OS

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixing wiki* -> brand:wiki*

2017-09-27 Thread Lester Caine
edata become a more reliable source of such data. Just a single link to a substantial set of additional data. So ... where does 'brand:' come from? Should this not simply be 'link:'? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/w

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

2017-09-20 Thread Lester Caine
took a couple of minutes to find the right location to see what data was in OSM for the collage and some material that has not yet made it into wikidata came up. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services -

Re: [OSM-talk] Highway=trunk : harmonization between countries ?

2017-08-24 Thread Lester Caine
one :) My old dedicated sat nav did a good job as well as handling hands free calls on the N900 mobile. Modern options are going down hill fast and can't even do the basics! Simple reception of a signal would be nice to have once again ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contac

Re: [OSM-talk] Highway=trunk : harmonization between countries ?

2017-08-24 Thread Lester Caine
x27;fastest' route for UK rural areas - and get my blue motorway, green trunk and red primary road back :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquir

Re: [OSM-talk] Highway=trunk : harmonization between countries ?

2017-08-23 Thread Lester Caine
in UK trunk road :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdi

Re: [OSM-talk] Highway=trunk : harmonization between countries ?

2017-08-23 Thread Lester Caine
le Evesham area just grinds to a halt. Stratford is just as bad and the new roads planned will make things even worse rather than helping. We don't stand much chance of designing a harmonized routing process when the planners can't even fix the problems they create :( -- Lester Caine

Re: [OSM-talk] Highway=trunk : harmonization between countries ?

2017-08-22 Thread Lester Caine
... what it should be using is a percentage, so 5% would be tidy and 10% pushing where a traffic camera would be 'within tolerance'. Since speedometers are only required to be 'within 10%' currently ... you get the idea ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] Highway=trunk : harmonization between countries ?

2017-08-22 Thread Lester Caine
On 22/08/17 17:19, Philip Barnes wrote: >> called differently, but this is it: >> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:maxspeed:practical >> > Isn"t that going to be rather subjective? And will depend on 'time of day' ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] Highway=trunk : harmonization between countries ?

2017-08-22 Thread Lester Caine
to the M5 and again 'shortest' picks the quick route but then avoids the M5 as well :) Interesting ... checking OSRM is getting it right so I need to check OSMAND again on that. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S

Re: [OSM-talk] Highway=trunk : harmonization between countries ?

2017-08-22 Thread Lester Caine
7;s not just OSM routing that gives problems, other routing engines are showing similar detours around local 'shortcuts' ... so even within a single country harmonization is a problem ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page

Re: [OSM-talk] Highway=trunk : harmonization between countries ?

2017-08-22 Thread Lester Caine
I see no way to harmonization world wide. Even for just 'trunk'. The 'rules' for a country or area need to cover the differences that apply in that area? Just as the routing rules need to know France is Left Hand and UK is Right ... with different default speed limits. >

Re: [OSM-talk] Highway=trunk : harmonization between countries ?

2017-08-22 Thread Lester Caine
Importance can depend on why you are using the road? Things like 'speed_limit' need to be handled before adding another 'classification' tag? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services

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

2017-04-22 Thread Lester Caine
you may need to swap between languages ... > On 22/04/2017 15:45, Lester Caine wrote: >> On 22/04/17 15:28, Dave F wrote: >>> As they're parameters, the format can be standardised for the end user & >>> any programme should be able to sort out syntax behin

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

2017-04-22 Thread Lester Caine
me and it would not take much for them to take box="w,s,e,n" as an alternative input. But the range of 'standards' for passing parameters is the problem here not simply what is being passed. With each OS and programming language having it's own style of working there is

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

2017-04-21 Thread Lester Caine
t no idea what the tool is supposed to do :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainb

Re: [OSM-talk] it may be useful

2017-03-30 Thread Lester Caine
On 30/03/17 19:47, Lester Caine wrote: > On 30/03/17 18:38, Lester Caine wrote: >> Kind regards, Lester Caine > > *I* did not sent that email! Which is why it has another email address > since forging my own would fall fowl of my spf record! OK anybody know who to repor

Re: [OSM-talk] it may be useful

2017-03-30 Thread Lester Caine
On 30/03/17 18:38, Lester Caine wrote: > Kind regards, Lester Caine *I* did not sent that email! Which is why it has another email address since forging my own would fall fowl of my spf record! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=cont

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetView name change

2016-11-08 Thread Lester Caine
On 08/11/16 18:54, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > FWIW, I like the "-scape" suffix, e.g. OpenStreetscape: Get's my vote Capital 'S' though OpenStreetScape -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Cain

Re: [OSM-talk] Which type of highways are used by routing software?

2016-11-02 Thread Lester Caine
the android phone, something that is becoming worse rather than better. Even driving down the M5 I get gaps in reception, so everything has to be local, which OSMAnd does a good job of for most things ... just not B/unclassified roads :( Docker is yet another infrastructure tool to get ones head arou

Re: [OSM-talk] Which type of highways are used by routing software?

2016-11-02 Thread Lester Caine
likes of yahoo and google ... just leave working systems alone ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http:

Re: [OSM-talk] Which type of highways are used by routing software?

2016-11-02 Thread Lester Caine
On 02/11/16 08:41, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 3:00 AM, Lester Caine <mailto:les...@lsces.co.uk>> wrote: > > On 02/11/16 00:57, john whelan wrote: > > If OSMand etc treat them differently then we may not be showing the > > shortest ro

Re: [OSM-talk] Which type of highways are used by routing software?

2016-11-02 Thread Lester Caine
s ... and currently OSMAnd is simply wrong for the UK! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://med

Re: [OSM-talk] What3words

2016-07-13 Thread Lester Caine
gt; > How about musical notation? We could sing our parcels to their > destinations. ;-) Or even more radical ... just use numbers for time and location :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - h

Re: [OSM-talk] What3words

2016-07-13 Thread Lester Caine
Even something as simple as identifying the local time given some sort of location identifier becomes unreliable when local variations of language and custom are added in. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Se

Re: [OSM-talk] Open Location Code should we support it?

2016-07-11 Thread Lester Caine
to be stored in the database. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - htt

Re: [OSM-talk] Open Location Code should we support it?

2016-07-11 Thread Lester Caine
coding system' for the physical location can be used to display the raw numbers? But for readability, just as OLC does, one uses the town and country and simply provide a GPS location limited to that area. A bit like 'national grid' in the UK > Cheerio John > > On 11

Re: [OSM-talk] Open Location Code should we support it?

2016-07-11 Thread Lester Caine
e thoroughfare elements may be additional to the postcode itself, so 10 characters is never enough. Open Location Code lacks the ability to handle multi-story housing. It only gets you to the apartment block. This is an area where OSM still needs some more work. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL --

Re: [OSM-talk] Failed water proposal reversal

2016-06-22 Thread Lester Caine
waterway data structure given all of the secondary tagging to http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:waterway%3Driver and the like. But where lakes - natural and man-made - have navigation routes through many of the waterway tags also apply but this has been another area of discussion to map t

Re: [OSM-talk] Failed water proposal reversal

2016-06-20 Thread Lester Caine
a even if we currently tag it as leisure=marina without any agreement as to just what area that should cover. It's the insistence that water only applies to natural elements which just does not fit properly, and man_made=reservoir while much more accurate does not fit in with a consistent

Re: [OSM-talk] Failed water proposal reversal

2016-06-20 Thread Lester Caine
features. And the Idea that natural=water should wrap what are quite clearly man made waterway features just reinforces that and while the effects are small, many parts of the world even 'coastline' is now a man made construction. But the 'tags' list is probably the p

Re: [OSM-talk] OT: How do you read OSM Emaillists?

2016-05-20 Thread Lester Caine
hen as a group simply fails to display properly ... but here is not the place to be complaining :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model

Re: [OSM-talk] Guides to improve navigation data in OpenStreetMap

2016-03-10 Thread Lester Caine
On 10/03/16 17:46, Philip Barnes wrote: > You will also need to consider bus lanes as well. Complicated by selective operating times and contraflow problems :) I got caught out by that going to SOTM at Birmingham ... OSMAND was telling me where to turn ... -- Lester Caine - G8

Re: [OSM-talk] OsmAnd financially rewarding mappers

2016-03-04 Thread Lester Caine
I don't think this third party activity is helpful to > OSM! In the first instance I have no intention of contributing to > bitcoin since I think it's main reason for existence is to hid scammers > and until that secrecy is removed ... I will not be signing up ... -- Lester

Re: [OSM-talk] OsmAnd financially rewarding mappers

2016-03-04 Thread Lester Caine
OSM! In the first instance I have no intention of contributing to bitcoin since I think it's main reason for existence is to hid scammers and until that secrecy is removed ... I will not be signing up ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?p

Re: [OSM-talk] Tile Server manual build 15.10 troubleshooting

2016-01-04 Thread Lester Caine
em which I was hoping to make live to produce a UK style service, but currently only the OSRM layer is working fully. I'm at the pink square stage on the tile server ... and need to pay the bills so don't have time to 'start again' with a new framewor

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

2015-12-15 Thread Lester Caine
be added directly to the database and the Starbucks finder is a particularly good example! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers D

Re: [OSM-talk] Nominatim weakness

2015-12-15 Thread Lester Caine
;holland' then 'starbucks', but of cause the 'holland' search needs to be global ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquiry

Re: [OSM-talk] How does one tag a business that closed and was replaced by something else?

2015-12-14 Thread Lester Caine
the two units may split again. I presume that both already have their own address entries anyway? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model En

Re: [OSM-talk] Nominatim weakness

2015-12-14 Thread Lester Caine
not be useful, but just that 'importance' is difficult to gauge if you don't know what the user expects to see? (An the pigging change of motorway colour really does not help a new user in the UK! One can not readily distinguish the motorways around Birmingham) -- Lester Caine

Re: [OSM-talk] What3words

2015-11-30 Thread Lester Caine
rticle if the smartcode goes down to individual postal addresses, or just the building? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Dig

Re: [OSM-talk] What3words

2015-11-30 Thread Lester Caine
olution ? And of cause why rely on some optical barcode marking when a wireless based tag would be better. May need to change the battery every few years, but it only need to be in receive mode until a drone is in range ... with a button to 'sync' location with base ... -- Lester Caine - G8H

Re: [OSM-talk] What3words

2015-11-30 Thread Lester Caine
rect mat can be identified. As has already been pointed out on the discussions on these droids, it only works when there is a single story dwelling. Add 100 flats with one front door on a busy street ... but personally I think there will be more losses due to droids being intercepted in flight?

Re: [OSM-talk] What3words

2015-11-30 Thread Lester Caine
rdinates before you can convert that TO a w3w title. If the mapping system is only accurate to 10mts your android drone has a selection of targets. I've just looked up my own address in the UK and depending on which map overlay I select I got four different answers, some the next door addresses.

Re: [OSM-talk] What3words

2015-11-30 Thread Lester Caine
way.xxx by following signs? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Ra

Re: [OSM-talk] Undiscussed (?) edits removing lesser-used highway=* tags

2015-11-10 Thread Lester Caine
ne? As with the current discussion, key elements need a few ground rules, but that does not prevent additional data being added via extra tags. The rule about not tagging for renderer or router works both ways since one may need to add information that can't easily b

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=residential_link

2015-11-10 Thread Lester Caine
ction should be 'Take slip road onto Axx' and that in my book is where the _link information has an important element but could also be a second tag. However like 'highway=residential', 'highway=trunk_link' is a shorthand that works at many levels ... but should the lin

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

2015-11-04 Thread Lester Caine
er is secondary, tertiary and unclassified roads in many areas of the world have the same importance, so rendering them drastically differently is a mistake! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services -

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

2015-11-04 Thread Lester Caine
boundary. On smaller devices the problem is worse than on high resolution devices. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digi

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

2015-11-03 Thread Lester Caine
ad, so trials may well have missed numerous examples of where something that looks good for a few limited examples fails in the wider coverage. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.

Re: [OSM-talk] Improved new Icon set for Open Street map

2015-11-02 Thread Lester Caine
m now looking to extend that into the icon map for my own rendering. While the styling for OSM is quite complicated it can easily be broken down into manageable elements such as road colours, or icon library, so switching elements is not particularly difficult once one has a working local rendering

Re: [OSM-talk] Release openstreetmap-carto v2.36.0

2015-11-01 Thread Lester Caine
ilding is an office, shopping_mall or retail premise, and once again, the amenity provided is the job function. The estate agent is next to the chemist's shop in the same building, so tag the building 'retail', and each unit with is amenity(s)? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL --

Re: [OSM-talk] Release openstreetmap-carto v2.36.0

2015-10-30 Thread Lester Caine
On 30/10/15 21:01, Matthijs Melissen wrote: > * Major rewrite of road and railway rendering, as part of Mateusz > Konieczny's Google Summer of Code project. See BUGGER I still haven’t got the backup system working and now all my UK stuff is screwed up :( This really does not work!

Re: [OSM-talk] Map key

2015-10-17 Thread Lester Caine
re was a more general agreement for the change. But I have no doubt other sources will become live if the change goes ahead with their own style of map key ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsc

Re: [OSM-talk] recent changes in rendering the map make it worse

2015-09-23 Thread Lester Caine
opy, and I still need to get a proper tile cache working. But what I do have working shows in house rendering is not at all difficult. Just need to nail all the cludges in a simple to roll package of tools? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?p

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

2015-09-15 Thread Lester Caine
nt state on the ground along with the future planned state. History is an inherent part of the current 'namespace'! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - ht

Re: [OSM-talk] Buildings on abandoned railways (via Overpass)

2015-09-14 Thread Lester Caine
rail-line-idea-be-back-on-track.html is a current item on my own pet 'abandoned railway' ... and the preserved railway is fast approaching from he south ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Service

[OSM-talk] Mapping what is on the ground ...

2015-09-12 Thread Lester Caine
roadsigns show 'Aston Subedge' and 'Weston Subedge' mixed with 'Weston-Sub-Edge'. Old maps consistently use the 'Subedge' second half and that incudes what started the fun ... the map showing the 'Weston Subedge Halt' on t

Re: [OSM-talk] Fw: important... recomend auto deletion of any Fw:important

2015-09-11 Thread Lester Caine
On 11/09/15 01:27, Warin wrote: > I'll be putting a block on any more messages with the subject containing > Fw:important The buggers are using several subjects, multiple probably hacked relay sites, but all ending at the same crap. Just need that site closing down? -- Lester Ca

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