Re: [Talk-us] Recent Trunk road edits

2020-09-28 Thread Matthew Woehlke
On 28/09/2020 12.27, Paul Johnson wrote: On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 11:07 AM Matthew Woehlke wrote: On 28/09/2020 11.42, Jack Burke wrote: I'm willing to bet that most OSM editors who drive on either of those two will think "this is a great freeway, just with occasional traffic signals.&quo

Re: [Talk-us] Recent Trunk road edits

2020-09-28 Thread Matthew Woehlke
On 28/09/2020 11.42, Jack Burke wrote: I'm willing to bet that most OSM editors who drive on either of those two will think "this is a great freeway, just with occasional traffic signals." That's an oxymoron. Freeways are, by definition, limited access (no crossing intersections, period) and

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Changeset Comments Copyright

2020-09-23 Thread Matthew Woehlke
On 22/09/2020 17.43, GITNE wrote: As far as I can tell no document covers changeset comments either explicitly nor implicitly. The Contributor Terms state that “…contributing data and/or any other content (collectively, “Contents”) to the geo-database of the OpenStreetMap project (the

Re: [Talk-us] place=neighborhood on subdivisions?

2020-09-23 Thread Matthew Woehlke
On 23/09/2020 00.52, Paul Johnson wrote: In terms of Seattle, I don't think Ballard or Magnolia are a suburb. They're more of a neighborhood, both subordinate to Seattle. I admit this threw me at first also, but read https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:place%3Dsuburb. To wit: "OSM's

Re: [Talk-us] Potential Mechanical Edit to remove access=private from Amazon Logistics driveways in NH

2020-09-01 Thread Matthew Woehlke
On 31/08/2020 15.56, Kevin Broderick wrote: First, I'd like to point out that this discussion started off with the question of removing "access=private" from Amazon-logistics-mapped driveways. I still maintain that the mechanical edit would be a good thing, because the tagging as added is based

Re: [Talk-us] Potential Mechanical Edit to remove access=private from Amazon Logistics driveways in NH

2020-08-31 Thread Matthew Woehlke
On 31/08/2020 11.19, Greg Troxel wrote: What I objected to was not "that is your opinion; many others disagree" but "that is your opinion but *no one else* sees it that way". If you didn't really mean that, sorry for overreacting. Fair enough. I probably should have said something like "my

Re: [Talk-us] Potential Mechanical Edit to remove access=private from Amazon Logistics driveways in NH

2020-08-31 Thread Matthew Woehlke
On 31/08/2020 10.54, Greg Troxel wrote: Matthew Woehlke writes: *You* may see it this way. The rest of the community does not. A declaration that every other member of the community disagrees is unreasonable. I'm not sure if this is directed at me or at Mike. If at me, I'll point out

Re: [Talk-us] Potential Mechanical Edit to remove access=private from Amazon Logistics driveways in NH

2020-08-31 Thread Matthew Woehlke
On 31/08/2020 10.18, Mike Thompson wrote: On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 7:46 AM Matthew Woehlke wrote: The objection is that access=private currently *has* an understood meaning, and that meaning is *no* access without permission, not what you described above. Sounds like my driveway. If you

Re: [Talk-us] Potential Mechanical Edit to remove access=private from Amazon Logistics driveways in NH

2020-08-31 Thread Matthew Woehlke
On 30/08/2020 10.00, Greg Troxel wrote: "Alex Weech" writes: Another thing I just thought of over breakfast, in New Hampshire by default private land has public access, and landowners have to post that trespassing is not allowed. It could be that that's a quirk of this part of the world, and

[OSM-talk] Mapping feature ideas (was: Funding of three infrastructure projects)

2020-08-04 Thread Matthew Woehlke
On 04/08/2020 11.08, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: On 4. Aug 2020, at 16:26, Matthew Woehlke wrote Obviously, this would all almost surely be a temporary mode (maybe it persists as long as JOSM is open, but isn't uploaded), but since you usually draw once, that would be fine. (Bonus points if JOSM

Re: [OSM-talk] Funding of three infrastructure projects : Nominatim, osm2pgsql, Potlatch 2

2020-08-04 Thread Matthew Woehlke
On 04/08/2020 08.10, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: On 4. Aug 2020, at 13:58, Matthew Woehlke wrote: but I would practically *kill* for JOSM to have FreeCAD's suite of sketch constraints ;-). you’re aware that there are sketch constraints for configurable angles (90, 60, 45 etc) and projection

Re: [OSM-talk] Funding of three infrastructure projects : Nominatim, osm2pgsql, Potlatch 2

2020-08-04 Thread Matthew Woehlke
. I want your JVM :-). I have yet to encounter a Java program (including JOSM) that isn't sluggish. (JOSM could be worse, but it's nowhere near what I'd expect from a well-written *native* application.) Matthew Woehlke skrev: (3 augusti 2020 16:14:13 CEST) (¹ iD can 'square up' individual

Re: [OSM-talk] Funding of three infrastructure projects : Nominatim, osm2pgsql, Potlatch 2

2020-08-03 Thread Matthew Woehlke
On 02/08/2020 06.05, Simon Poole wrote: Extending this a bit further, you could just as well say, given that all current and actively maintained general purpose editors require 1-2 FTEs, the OSMF should simply block all non-iD editors and tell the developers to either work on iD or go home.

[OSM-legal-talk] Disclaimer regarding data in Virginia (US)?

2020-07-20 Thread Matthew Woehlke
OSM surely incorporates data in Virginia which was not prepared by suitably licensed entities (per https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title54.1/chapter4/section54.1-402/). According to Virginia law, OSM must therefore display the following notice: Any determination of topography or

Re: [Talk-us] Labeling forestry service roads/tracks

2020-07-20 Thread Matthew Woehlke
On 19/07/2020 18.47, tj-osmw...@lowsnr.net wrote: Editing in Boundary County, Idaho in the Panhandle, I've been extending the forest landuse area around Bonners Ferry and have come across a difficulty in classifying forest roads. It seems that many have been automatically imported and have

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] private or not, USA ?

2020-07-17 Thread Matthew Woehlke
On 16/07/2020 21.06, Steve Friedl wrote: On 16/07/2020 20.58, 80hnhtv4agou--- via Talk-us wrote: Are wi-fi passwords and the IP number of a hot spot, located in MC Donald, burger-king, Starbucks, Answering a different question than what you asked: they don’t belong in OSM, so any other

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports-us] Interested in importing address points in New York State

2020-07-16 Thread Matthew Woehlke
On 16/07/2020 00.44, Skyler Hawthorne wrote: Reading up on the import guidelines, I can see that the license is important. However, I am not able to see anything that explicitly states one way or another what kind of license the data sets are distributed under, and this whether or not it is

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] local copyright law on government data and OSM license

2020-07-16 Thread Matthew Woehlke
On 15/07/2020 21.16, Erwin Olario wrote: Recently, some edits in the country came to the attention of the community When you say "the country", what country are we talking about? I guess from context you mean "the Philippines", but you really ought to specify. (I've been editing a bunch

Re: [Talk-us] Importing data for Prince William County, VA

2020-07-14 Thread Matthew Woehlke
On 13/07/2020 17.46, Mateusz Konieczny via Talk-us wrote: Jul 13, 2020, 20:29 by mwoehlke.fl...@gmail.com: It is still required to use a separate account for manually audited changes? Is it going to be "by comparing dataset X and OSM I found places to map roads that I added using aerial

Re: [Talk-us] access=private on driveways

2020-07-14 Thread Matthew Woehlke
On 14/07/2020 09.44, Alex Hennings wrote: Regarding: a driveway to a house should not be tagged access=yes because a no trespassing sign cannot be seen. That is a complete violation of verfiability, becuase the mapper has zero evidence that access should be yes. *Given our defaults, no access

Re: [Talk-us] access=private on driveways (was: Deleting tiger:reviewed=no/addr:street for routes)

2020-07-13 Thread Matthew Woehlke
On 13/07/2020 15.16, Kevin Kenny wrote: I'll confess to having perpetrated a fair number - at a time when I didn't know better. Likewise. That said... A few things, though: The immediate curtilage of a house is presumed to be private; at least in the US, one does not drive or walk directly

Re: [Talk-us] Importing data for Prince William County, VA

2020-07-13 Thread Matthew Woehlke
On 13/07/2020 14.22, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: If you are staying from manually reviewing and editing based on this new data, aerials and current data it should be perfectly fine as long as you actually review what you add. For now, yes. For buildings (later, and I'll probably ping y'all

Re: [Talk-us] Importing data for Prince William County, VA

2020-07-13 Thread Matthew Woehlke
On 13/07/2020 13.44, Mateusz Konieczny via Talk-us wrote: Are you sure that it is in public domain? It is according to the government POC. https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/imports-us/2020-July/000954.html -- Matthew ___ Talk-us mailing

Re: [Talk-us] Importing data for Prince William County, VA

2020-07-13 Thread Matthew Woehlke
(Repost to talk-us also.) On 13/07/2020 10.44, Matthew Woehlke wrote: I am working on a project that wishes to tentatively use OSM data from Quantico and possibly surrounding areas. Unfortunately, OSM is somewhat lacking in this area, especially within Quantico itself. I would like to import