Re: [OSM-talk] Google deletes map of Kurdistan - can we do better?

2019-01-12 Thread Max
I think it's a false equivalence to ask for Kurdistan in OSM when in the case of Google it was a users shared outline. The equivalent would be a uMap. Here, I made one: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/de/map/kurdistan_281832 (I uploaded the .kml of the google user map) I doubt this will enrage

Re: [OSM-talk] anonymous notes spam?

2018-07-20 Thread Max
On 20.07.2018 11:32, maning sambale wrote: I'm getting several single letter notes comments since yesterday. Example: https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/562375 Are people noticing the same? yes ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://li

Re: [OSM-talk] WMF: "Interactive maps, now in your language"

2018-06-29 Thread Max
"Add the missing names to OSM in your language." That is inflating the OSM database with something that Wikidata has solved already in a much better way. Why would someone from wikimedia recommend to create a less mentainable version of their database? On 29.06.2018 12:18, Andy Mabbett wrot

Re: [OSM-talk] Spam/Report user

2017-11-26 Thread Max
There is only info on how to delete content by spammers. No way to bring users to the attention of admins other then comments of changesets. On 2017년 11월 26일 21:30, Simon Poole wrote: See https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Spam Am 26.11.2017 um 21:00 schrieb Max: Oh, and where is the page

Re: [OSM-talk] Spam/Report user

2017-11-26 Thread Max
expectations right, obviously we need to resort to more drastic measures, what about ADMINS HAVE NEVER READ THIS PAGE. ADDING ENTRIES TO THIS PAGE DOES EXACTLY NOTHING 1/2 :-) Am 26.11.2017 um 19:40 schrieb Max: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Spam/Report_user "Admins have never read this

[OSM-talk] Spam/Report user

2017-11-26 Thread Max
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Spam/Report_user "Admins have never read this page, Adding entries to this page does exactly nothing" LOL. someone was frustrated and desperate here. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.open

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

2017-09-27 Thread Max
+1 Until there is a (vector) map that allows you to change the preferred language dynamically or match against a priority list of languages from the user, the current principle of local language = display language is simply the best option. On 2017년 09월 26일 23:00, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:

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

2017-04-21 Thread Max
On 2017년 04월 21일 16:28, Dave F wrote: This is one of my OSM bugbears: http://osm.duschmarke.de/bbox.html Can't use this tool, because alt + mouse click moves the whole window in my desktop environment. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org h

Re: [OSM-talk] Broken multipolygons in South Korea

2017-03-12 Thread Max
You are welcome to post this as is on talk-ko. Most posts are in English there anyways. The "community" is small, all though there have been more users recently due to pokemon go. On 2017년 03월 12일 11:29, Jochen Topf wrote: Hi! As you might know, I am on a "quest" to rid OSM of broken (multi)p

Re: [OSM-talk] RU Wikipedia now uses OSM by Wikidata ID

2017-01-23 Thread Max
Works for me (Firefox 53) On 2017년 01월 23일 07:31, Oleksiy Muzalyev wrote: Dear Yuri, Could you, please, provide an example with the location outline? I tried Salzburg, New York, Odessa, Moscow, etc. in the Russian Wikipedia, but I got always just a marker on the map, but not an outline, i.e. a

Re: [OSM-talk] South Korea Will Not Allow Google to Use Map Data

2016-11-19 Thread Max
On 2016년 11월 19일 13:01, Paul Johnson wrote: On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 12:47 AM, Clifford Snow mailto:cliff...@snowandsnow.us>> wrote: Just read on Yahoo [1] that South Korea will not give Google permission to use map data. Guess Google could always use OSM data, with attribution of cou

Re: [OSM-talk] Multilingual feedback wanted for OpenStreetMap Carto

2016-09-19 Thread Max
On 2016년 09월 19일 20:06, Paul Norman wrote: On 9/19/2016 3:24 AM, Andy Townsend wrote: On 19/09/2016 11:13, Paul Norman wrote: The changes this topic is about are not live on openstreetmap.org. The original message has details, but the issue tracking the proposed changes is https://github.com/g

Re: [OSM-talk] Multilingual feedback wanted for OpenStreetMap Carto

2016-09-17 Thread Max
This is a huge improvement for the situation in Korea. Thanks you for your work on this. On 2016년 09월 18일 11:32, Paul Norman wrote: I'm looking for feedback from people who read non-latin languages on a proposed OpenStreetMap Carto font change. We are considering moving to Noto fonts and could

Re: [OSM-talk] Need to revert a bunch of changesets

2016-06-26 Thread Max
Korea needs more contributors desperately and everyone should be encouraged to to become one. I just had a presentation where I showed OSM to an interested audience. If this user did not understand the rules, maybe that's also our fault that it wasn't clear? Or the instructions in Korean are insuff

Re: [OSM-talk] How to handle Maps.Me ?

2016-06-22 Thread Max
The user experience of adding something to the maps.me map is quit cool actually. It's really satisfying to see something immediately nicely rendered. I recommend to try it. On 2016년 06월 23일 01:05, Blake Girardot wrote: > On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 2:47 PM, Simone Cortesi wrote: >> Did somebody get

Re: [OSM-talk] How to handle Maps.Me garbage?

2016-06-22 Thread Max
just checked a few of the edits and deleted some nodes. Lee Jin-Jeong did add a couple of things that were already there and in the case of an hostel several times. In Kiev the user added a Korean church with the name "Kiev Korean Unified Church" in Korean. The location is a bit curious though in a

Re: [OSM-talk] Failed water proposal reversal

2016-06-22 Thread Max
On 2016년 06월 22일 18:36, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > 2016-06-22 10:49 GMT+02:00 Max <mailto:abonneme...@revolwear.com>>: > > I did not see any > voting. > how? ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [OSM-talk] Failed water proposal reversal

2016-06-22 Thread Max
the whole process is too opaque. Also there are different protagonists posting on wiki and email list. The gallery tag clarification stalled, because what looked like a consensus on the email list had one loud opponent on the wiki and not many other voices. I did not see any voting. IMHO the proces

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

2016-06-17 Thread Max
If I understand this issue right, those are not even translations, but transliterations. It's the icelandic name written in another character set, so that someone who doesn't know latin letters or iclandic pronounciation can make the sounds of that word. It's not a genuine translation into another

Re: [OSM-talk] Slack

2016-03-27 Thread Max
Public supergroup link: https://telegram.me/OpenStreetMapOrg https://telegram.me/OpenStreetMap already was taken and I see there is some arabic talk going on about OSM.. On 2016년 03월 28일 14:21, Max wrote: > On 2016년 03월 27일 06:37, Nicolás Alvarez wrote: >> 2016-03-26 16:59 GMT-03:00 St

Re: [OSM-talk] Slack

2016-03-27 Thread Max
On 2016년 03월 27일 06:37, Nicolás Alvarez wrote: > 2016-03-26 16:59 GMT-03:00 Steve Coast : >> Ok so look, Slack took over the world. > > It may have taken over the internal-corporate-communication world maybe. > > Slack has a million active users, Telegram gets 350.000 new users > every day. Teleg

Re: [OSM-talk] What3words

2015-11-24 Thread Max
On 2015년 11월 24일 14:29, Jake Wasserman wrote: > On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 11:28 PM, Max <mailto:abonneme...@revolwear.com>> wrote: > > Additionally it is a mind booggling case of anglocentrism and neo > colonialism to put english words all over parts of the world wh

Re: [OSM-talk] What3words

2015-11-23 Thread Max
geocoordinate if you have to remember the latin letters of the three 'words' because you don't know their meaning? max On 2015년 11월 22일 20:16, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > On 11/22/2015 11:39 AM, Colin Smale wrote: >> I have heard a few times recently about what3words, a new

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

2015-11-03 Thread Max
On 2015년 11월 03일 21:17, Dave F. wrote: > > 2. Road widths > https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CS4l8ZKWUAA-566.jpg > https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CS4tfRDWUAA6AkN.png > > As can be seen, there's a problem with the new increased widths. At > interchanges individually mapped lanes are overlapping turning it

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

2015-11-01 Thread Max
On 2015년 11월 01일 20:51, Richard wrote: > not long ago (maybe even today?) pharmacies were not only selling goods but > also producing many kinds of ointments and possibly other things as ordered > by the prescribing physician. > > So "shop" would be a too narrow definition. With that argument

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

2015-10-31 Thread Max
On 2015년 10월 31일 06:01, Matthijs Melissen wrote: > * Dropped rendering of the following tags: > - amenity=car_sharing (not relevant for the general public) I disagree. Car sharing stations are a vital part of mobility infrastructure and as more and more people in densely populated places decide

Re: [OSM-talk] Audio mapping experiences

2015-10-21 Thread Max
For a second I thought you meant mapping audio events/soundscapes to ad them to the database. Like this: http://aporee.org/maps/ On 2015년 10월 21일 11:39, Martijn van Exel wrote: > Hi all, > > I wrote up my first experiences with audio mapping. I finally made some time > to try it. It’s on my d

Re: [OSM-talk] running and registering an old osmand version

2015-09-25 Thread Max
using the f-droid repository that should be possible to install an old (full) version. On 2015년 09월 26일 00:31, Olaf Hering wrote: > The current osmand versions causes a system reboot during installation > on this Motorola Pro+ MB632. This happens with the free and with the > paid version. Too bad

Re: [OSM-talk] Strava Heatmap + TSBP

2015-09-16 Thread Max
Actually just today at the foss4g I saw a presentation by Tom Lee from mapbox how they did exactly that. Not with strava, but runkeeper data. On 2015년 09월 17일 00:34, David W. wrote: > Hi all, > > The Strava heatmap has been a great help contributing to OSM. > > The Wiki of Strava [1] suggests t

Re: [OSM-talk] Reply-to header

2015-08-24 Thread Max
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 AFAIK this is the standard mailman configuration and not different from other lists. the reply-to you mention is mot in every mail from this list, but only in those which are from this person. that's expected. You should respect netiquette and make a

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

2015-08-22 Thread Max
On 2015년 08월 22일 19:23, Lester Caine wrote: > The main problem here is that OSM is used by a large part of the UK web > services, and any change needs to be managed in such a manor that those > services are not too badly affected. We do not have a list of every site > actually using OSM over google

Re: [OSM-talk] stop deleting abandoned railroads

2015-08-13 Thread Max
so here is a concrete example: http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit#map=16/41.7971/-88.3293 there is a hole in the abandoned railway, which orgiginally was probably going through. How would you map this? ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https:

Re: [OSM-talk] Deletions in Korea

2015-07-12 Thread Max
dn't get a response. Also, I see that > someone else has queried the NIS building edit, but didn't get a > response. > > Andrew > > On 30 June 2015 at 01:16, Max <mailto:abonneme...@revolwear.com>> wrote: > > Hi List, > > th

[OSM-talk] Deletions in Korea

2015-06-29 Thread Max
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi List, the user jbeank did some strange edits. he deleted the National Intelligence Service HQ south of Seoul, a kind of South Korean CIA. http://osmhv.openstreetmap.de/changeset.jsp?id=32029119 So I looked at some other edits of that user: He ed

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-de] DVB-T Empfangsqualität in OSM mappen

2009-12-26 Thread Max
just make it 2-D. make an layer/tag for DVB-T quality Make it anywhere green with this layer, which means good quality with room antenna anywhere. then users can - if they like - map blue (roof antenna needed) and red (no recieve) all their POI s. Setting a POI for DVB-T should mean, that the layer

[OSM-talk] DVB-T Empfangsqualität in OSM mappen

2009-12-25 Thread Max
seine Strasse oder einen definierten Umkreis eine Farbe oder Kennung hätte. Danke für eine Info Viele Grüsse Max ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk