Re: [OSM-talk] Mechanical Edit: Merge of DB Netz AG and DB Station&Service AG to DB InfraGO AG

2023-12-14 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi Mateusz, Am 08.12.23 um 11:00 schrieb Mateusz Konieczny via talk: Why remove operator:wikipedia=* rather than fixing them? I would have to change operator:wikipedia=* to point to the new article (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/DB_InfraGO). However, the tag is a duplication if operator:wiki

[OSM-talk] Mechanical Edit: Merge of DB Netz AG and DB Station&Service AG to DB InfraGO AG

2023-12-07 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi, as of 1 January 2024, DB Netz AG and DB Station&Service AG will merge and renamed to DB InfraGO AG. This requires an update to lots of operator=* tags including operator:wikidata=*, and some owner=* tags. The mechanical edit will also remove existing operator:wikipedia=* from the modified

Re: [OSM-talk] Bad coastline edits in Sweden

2020-11-21 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi Andre, Am 21/11/2020 um 10.54 schrieb Andre Hinrichs via talk: > Hi list! I'm doing a lot coastline fixings all over the world. Normally > only with few pain. But since a few weeks the user Aki_Suokas is doing > very bad coastline edits in the area of Sweden. I've written him several > time via

Re: [OSM-talk] Planned revert of added surface and tracktype tags without local knowledge in various countries

2020-07-19 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi Joseph, Am 18/07/2020 um 21.51 schrieb Joseph Eisenberg: > Do you have evidence that most of the surface tags added by this user are > unreliable? Review results by westnordost (https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?pid=795002#p795002, translated with DeepL): > Here are some bad exampl

Re: [OSM-talk] Planned revert of added surface and tracktype tags without local knowledge in various countries

2020-07-18 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi, Am 18/07/2020 um 21.19 schrieb Mateusz Konieczny via talk: > Are you sure that just satellite imagery was used? I suspect that also > aerial imagery was used in edits. In Hamburg, Germany, where aerial imagery of the city is available, Bing was used. >> I think that the description "all obje

Re: [OSM-talk] Planned revert of added surface and tracktype tags without local knowledge in various countries

2020-07-18 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi Mateusz, Am 18/07/2020 um 19.29 schrieb Mateusz Konieczny: > Can you link affected data in Poland? > > In Poland you actually can reliably estimate real tracktype based solely > on high quality aerial images (not satellite imagery that is unlikely to be > sufficient), typically Geoportal 2 a

Re: [OSM-talk] Planned revert of added surface and tracktype tags without local knowledge in various countries

2020-07-18 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi Mateusz, Am 18/07/2020 um 19.29 schrieb Mateusz Konieczny: > Can you link affected data in Poland? > > In Poland you actually can reliably estimate real tracktype based solely > on high quality aerial images (not satellite imagery that is unlikely to be > sufficient), typically Geoportal 2 a

[OSM-talk] Planned revert of added surface and tracktype tags without local knowledge in various countries

2020-07-18 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi, while reviewing changes in my local area, I discovered that user Modest7 has been adding tracktype=* tags to lots of highway=track at various locations. I asked him what sources he used apart from the satellite imagery mentioned in the imagery_used=* tag of his changesets. See https://www.open

Re: [OSM-talk] Facebook acquires crowdsourced mapping company Mapillary

2020-06-19 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi, Am 19/06/2020 um 16.06 schrieb Simon Poole: > In any case doing that from scratch would be a real pain. I believe the > OSC stack is now actually all OSS which would be a far better starting > point -if- sustainable funding could be built around the whole thing. I looked at the GitHub reposit

Re: [OSM-talk] #AttributionIsNotOptional experiment on OSM France tile servers

2020-03-08 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi Mario, Am 08/03/2020 um 16.00 schrieb Mario Frasca: > well, it does look slightly invasive … I had imagined something like a > transparent text on top of the requested tile.  doing it the way you are > doing it, you are removing part of the underlying information. A transparent overlay require

Re: [OSM-talk] Creation of "Data Items" by bot for undocumented tags

2020-02-18 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi, Am 18.02.20 um 18:46 schrieb Frederik Ramm: > Agree, and I would also request that *any* automated change to the Wiki > be discussed before it is implemented. The use of bots puts too much > power in the hands of those who write them, and this must be balanced by > a requirement to involve the

Re: [OSM-talk] weeklyOSM #497 2020-01-21-2020-01-27

2020-02-04 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi, Am 04/02/2020 um 15.25 schrieb Frederik Ramm: > Hm, the wording is a bit unfortunate really. Of course this "internal > use only" applies to the personal data in the file which according to > (the LWG's interpretation of) the GDPR is ok to use for OSM's own > purposes but not for blasting it o

Re: [OSM-talk] Should a deleted user's chainset list be removed?

2019-10-11 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi, Am 11. Oktober 2019 11:52:17 MESZ schrieb Martin Koppenhoefer : > When you know the userid you can grep their changes from a history > file > (e.g. with osmium tool and the opl format). > Provided you don't have a history file around, it is a serious effort > though, due to the file size...

[OSM-talk] State of the Map 2019 being sold out soon

2019-09-06 Thread Michael Reichert
recorded on video. The livestream and recordings will be made available at https://media.ccc.de/ See the programme at https://2019.stateofthemap.org/program/ and https://2019.stateofthemap.org/academic_programme/ which sessions will be recorded. Best regards Michael Reichert SotM Working Group

Re: [OSM-talk] Overpass API - Fetching countries, their capitals, and their borders

2019-08-14 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi, Am 13/08/2019 um 23.41 schrieb Léo El Amri via talk: > I'm trying to fetch countries, their borders, and their capitals through > Overpass API, but the server never replies to me (With a timeout:3600 > setting, the server reply with a 502 error after a while). > I'm only a beginner with this A

[OSM-talk] State of the Map 2019: early bird until 21 July, poster submission

2019-07-19 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi, this year the international OpenStreetMap conference called State of the Map, takes place in Heidelberg, Germany. The programme has been published a few weeks ago, (almost) all descriptions of the talks were published on Wednesday. https://2019.stateofthemap.org/program/ SotM is the chance to

[OSM-talk] Documenting controversial iD decisions

2019-05-28 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi, I started documenting controversial decisions by the maintainers of iD at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/ID/Controversial_Decisions Currently, only the highway=footway and the nonsquare=yes issue are mentioned. Please feel free to add other issues which have proofed controversial so far

[OSM-talk] Improving iD on osm.org (WAS: Remove validation rule asking to add highway=footway to railway/public_transport=platform)

2019-05-28 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi, Am 28.05.19 um 10:32 schrieb Frederik Ramm: > I think this would definitely be the healthiest and most common-sense > approach for the community. Letting an unchecked third party forge ahead > with iD was good in the beginning but now we need some checks and > balances in place to ensure that

Re: [OSM-talk] mass iD validation arrives in NYC

2019-05-28 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi, Am 28.05.19 um 20:28 schrieb Simon Poole: > The times in the changeset do not reflect the length of the associated > editing session except if the changeset was opened on purpose at the > beginning which IMHO no editor does. A better method to guess the length of the editing session is to l

[OSM-talk] Why we square buildings (WAS: iD invents nosquare=yes for buildings which should not be squared)

2019-05-11 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi, Am 11/05/2019 um 21.09 schrieb Simon Poole: > Just a general remark on the technical issue that sparked of this > discussion:  squaring buildings is not primarily about improving data > quality. Non-square buildings are simply visually annoying when > rendered, so much that I support squaring

Re: [OSM-talk] iD invents nosquare=yes for buildings which should not be squared

2019-05-09 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi, Am 10.05.19 um 00:00 schrieb Jmapb: > This strikes me as a pretty bad idea. I map in NYC where we have lots, > lots, lots of nearly-square buildings with official footprints imported > from the city's open data initiative. When a mapper not familiar with > the history here gets a message from

Re: [OSM-talk] iD invents nosquare=yes for buildings which should not be squared

2019-05-09 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi Mikel, Am 09.05.19 um 23:14 schrieb Mikel Maron: > Absolutely. My understanding is this feature will greatly improve data > quality in OSM. I think it's fair to validate squareness of existing > buildings. I did not say that I am against the validation rule itself. I agree that the rule is a

[OSM-talk] iD invents nosquare=yes for buildings which should not be squared

2019-05-09 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi, this could be seen as a tagging discussion but I think that it is a discussion on governance and power. That's why this email goes to the Talk mailing list. Quincy Morgan, one of the maintainers of iD, invented a new tag called nosquare=yes today which should be added to buildings which are n

[OSM-talk] An Archive namespace for the OSM wiki?

2019-04-19 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi, there is currently a voting on a Deletion Policy [1] for the OSM wiki. The policy was drafted because we had two incidents last year when someone tried to delete a large number of old and orphaned tagging proposals in draft state. He claimed that these pages might confuse users looking for a t

Re: [OSM-talk] Bank of India (and other) Wikidata tags

2019-04-17 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi Andy, Am 17/04/2019 um 17.53 schrieb Andy Mabbett: > There are currently 956 objects in OSM with the tag "wikidata=Q1340361": > >https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/wikidata=Q1340361 > > where: > >https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1340361 > > is the item for the State Bank of India.

Re: [OSM-talk] HTTPS all the Things (Automated Edit)

2019-03-08 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi Bryce, Am 22/02/2019 um 08.02 schrieb Bryce Jasmer: > The wiki page is https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Automated_Edits/b-jazz I have seen that you started uploading. Could you please add a link to that wiki page to the profile page of b-jazz-bot or create https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wik

Re: [OSM-talk] HTTPS all the Things (Automated Edit)

2019-02-26 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi Bryce, Am 22/02/2019 um 08.02 schrieb Bryce Jasmer: > I have written a script that will search for OSM objects that have a > website tag that explicitly states "http://..."; or implicitly uses http by > leaving of the protocol specification. The script will then loop through > all that it disco

Re: [OSM-talk] Board decision on Crimea complaint

2018-12-10 Thread Michael Reichert
Dear board, Am 10.12.18 um 18:14 schrieb Tom Hughes: > On 10/12/2018 16:55, Martijn van Exel wrote: > >> On November 17, the OSMF Board of Directors received a request to >> review the Nov 14, 2018 Data Working Group decision regarding Crimea. >> >> The Board decided that this decision is to be r

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

2018-11-24 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi, Am 24/11/2018 um 15.09 schrieb Andy Townsend: > I'm not actually aware of a situation where countries have said "this > bit belongs equally to both of us" (I'd be interested to hear of any > examples, actually), though there are plenty of places where they say "I > think it belongs to me, and

[OSM-talk] Amazon Logistics (WAS: Short ways added to substitute barriers)

2018-10-30 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi Jem, Am 29.10.18 um 04:08 schrieb Jem: > Re: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/634085262 and several more like it in > the area. > > It seems that new, short ways have been introduced to replicate the purpose > of the existing barrier nodes. i.e. to prevent routing for vehicular > traffic. I b

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Wikibase is now live

2018-09-23 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi Yuri, Am 18.09.18 um 11:30 schrieb Yuri Astrakhan: > as of today, OSM Wiki can store structured tag metadata similar to > Wikidata. In every possible language, cross-linked, with images, > validation rules, or anything else the community decides to store there. > See examples: > > Key:bridge:

Re: [OSM-talk] Taking a stand against EU directive "Copyright in the Digital Single Market" (upload filters etc.)

2018-09-09 Thread Michael Reichert
und_Leistungsschutzrecht#Umfrage Best regards Michael PS An English translation of the German page explaining the problems of upload filters (https://www.openstreetmap.de/uf/) is under work. [1] https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Mission_Statement Am 06.09.2018 um 22:47 schrieb Michael Re

Re: [OSM-talk] Error on OSM

2018-09-05 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi Am 05.09.2018 um 16:56 schrieb Stadia Arcadia: > Hi, "Tribune Colombier" of Stade Raymond-Kopa now has the same size as > "Tribune Coubertin". Is now has a square shape. The old stand has been > replaced with a new one. Who can fix this? I'm a member of OSM, but I can't > get it fixed. Who can

Re: [OSM-talk] Is it technically and legally possible to add the Open Location Code to the OSM search?

2018-08-10 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi, Am 2018-08-09 um 22:48 schrieb Vao Matua: > The Tanzania Development trust has calculated the Plus Code addresses for > 17 million building points in Tanzania and have added a sample village > (1800 points) as a test. > https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/59213224 > > The Python code on G

Re: [OSM-talk] [Osmf-talk] Draft Terms of use for the OSM website, API and other services

2018-08-08 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi Simon, dear other LWG members, Am 29.07.2018 um 08:08 schrieb Simon Poole: > Thanks to work by Kathleen Lu we have a draft Terms of Use document. > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xtPjrTj09vQLloKmzyf-H-5mKtqh-vbPjsxE-5YRF5g/edit?usp=sharing >

[OSM-talk] User deleting abandoned and rejected proposals on the wiki

2018-07-25 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi, I (Mateusz Konieczny was faster) found a user who removes all content from abandoned and rejected proposal pages on the wiki and adds the Delete template. It's the template asking a administrator to delete the page. I think that our admins are clever enough to not blindly follow these requests

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

2018-07-02 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi Mateusz, Am 02.07.2018 um 19:42 schrieb Mateusz Konieczny: > Please comment - especially if there are any problems with this idea. > Please also comment if you support this edit, in case of no response > at all edit will not be made as there would be no evidence that > this idea is supported.

Re: [OSM-talk] proposed mechanical edit - moving building=building to building=yes

2018-06-09 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi Mateusz, Am 2018-06-09 um 16:20 schrieb Mateusz Konieczny: > So, is analysis by  Christoph Hormann > > sufficient for this proposed edit? Yes Best regards Michael -- Per E-Mail kommuniziere ich bevorzugt GPG-verschlüsselt. (Mailinglisten ausgenommen) I prefer GPG encryption of emails. (d

Re: [OSM-talk] proposed mechanical edit - moving building=building to building=yes

2018-06-09 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi Mateusz, Am 2018-06-09 um 12:17 schrieb Mateusz Konieczny: > Are you aware about any analysis like that? > > > > > I thought about > > > > > > - listing top contributors > > - time distribution graph (when tag was added) > > > - distribution of editors used to enter data > > > - m

Re: [OSM-talk] proposed mechanical edit - moving building=building to building=yes

2018-06-09 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi Mateusz, Am 2018-06-08 um 19:19 schrieb Mateusz Konieczny: > building=yes is a standard way to mark building without specifying its > type. Editors wishing to specify building type would (directly or > indirectly, for example using StreetComplete) look through buildings > tagged as building=yes

[OSM-talk] How do you mapping gender neutral toilets? What should the unisex tag mean?

2018-04-25 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi Rory, Am 2018-04-24 um 18:27 schrieb Rory McCann: > But I don't think that's how "unisex=yes" been used in OSM. The wiki > page says "unisex=yes" is a shorthand for "male=yes female=yes". The > JOSM validator used to suggest that replacement, until I filed a bug[2]. > iD's preset has 3 mutually

[OSM-talk] New wave of Pokémon Go mappers – check the parks

2018-04-24 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi, Pokémon Go seems to have updated its OpenStreetMap data [1] leading to an higher than usual number of new mapppers adding parks – some or many of them are fictional. It is a good idea to check http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/newestosm for your country (click on the flags to show only edits from

Re: [OSM-talk] GDPR introduction

2018-04-17 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi Simon, Am 2018-04-17 um 12:48 schrieb Simon Poole: > On the 25th of May 2018 the *General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) > * will > enter in to force, this will likely result in some changes in how > OpenStreetMap operates and

[OSM-talk] no_feature_tag_nodes

2018-04-14 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi Maarten, I am the developer of that layer. Am 13.04.2018 um 07:20 schrieb Maarten Deen: > On 2018-04-13 05:02, Jack Armstrong dan...@sprynet.com wrote: >> OSM Inspector tags some individual address nodes as errors. For >> example, these nodes located inside the lateral boundaries of >> buildin

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

2018-01-12 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi, Am 2018-01-12 um 17:01 schrieb Tobias Knerr: > On 12.01.2018 15:39, Andy Townsend wrote: >> More seriously, any automatic use of OSM messages is problematical >> because it devalues the messages that we want people to actually read - >> the ones that are composed by and sent be a human, and ha

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

2018-01-12 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi, Am 2018-01-12 um 15:13 schrieb Bryan Housel: > I love this feature, and I hope Wille keeps it in. > The message is very well written, and it’s not spam if the user asks for > their changeset to be reviewed and then somebody actually does it. It should be optional to post a changeset comment.

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

2018-01-12 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi, OSMCha started posting comments to changesets a few days ago when a user marks a changeset as good or bad. https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/wille/diary/43101 I would like to ask the author(s) of OSMCha to disable this feature. We expect to read all mappers incoming message (personal message

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

2017-11-13 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi Yuri, Am 13.11.2017 um 22:58 schrieb Yuri Astrakhan: > Andy, I can only assume you agree with the rest of my argument. As for this > case -- this is not a mechanical edit. Per definition. I looked at each of > these three features, analyzed them, and thought this is a reasonable > change. You c

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

2017-11-13 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi Yuri, Am 13.11.2017 um 13:20 schrieb Yuri Astrakhan: > Christoph, I don't think this works for any community that grows beyond a > certain size, especially when the community is not in the same > location/building/land otherwise, and doesn't see each other every day. > Look at Wikipedia, or any

[OSM-talk] Dispute on wiki page Collaboration_with_Wikipedia

2017-11-05 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi, I have a dispute with user Verdy_p on the sections "Importing geodata from Wikipedia" and "Importing geodata to Wikipedia" of the wiki page https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Collaboration_with_Wikipedia and would like to get comments from other members of the OSM community because edit wars

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

2017-10-16 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi Yuri, Am 16.10.2017 um 16:02 schrieb Yuri Astrakhan: > Rory, most of those queries were copied from the current JOSM validator > autofixes. I don't think they were discussed, but they might have been > mass applied without much thought by all sorts of editors. Could you please give examples f

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

2017-10-15 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi Ryszard, Am 2017-10-12 um 22:41 schrieb Ryszard Mikke: > On 3 October 2017 at 18:56, Christoph Hormann wrote: > >> On Tuesday 03 October 2017, Frederik Ramm wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>>seeing that the matter is discussed quite intensively and opinions >>> vary widely, could we perhaps agree to

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

2017-10-15 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi Ryszard, Am 2017-10-13 um 01:11 schrieb Ryszard Mikke: > On 12 October 2017 at 23:23, Christoph Hormann wrote: > >> As i have pointed out elsewhere doing QA in OSM based on Wikidata does >> not in any way depend on the automatic addition of Wikidata IDs to >> OSM - or in other words: Any ID y

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

2017-10-14 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi Yuri, Am 2017-10-13 um 23:25 schrieb Yuri Astrakhan: > I would like to introduce a new quick-fix editing service. It allows users > to generate a list of editing suggestions using a query, review each > suggestion one by one, and click "Save" on each change if they think it's a > good edit. >

Re: [OSM-talk] All the subway systems in the world

2017-10-08 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi Ilya, Am 2017-10-08 um 14:53 schrieb Ilya Zverev: > Michael, this is the first time I'm hearing about that light_rail > controversy. It is documented somewhere? If not, why does it make my proposal > worse? Dig a little bit in the history of the wiki page and you will see the edit wars. http

Re: [OSM-talk] All the subway systems in the world

2017-10-07 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi, Am 2017-10-07 um 09:11 schrieb Roland Olbricht: > I strongly suggest to oppose the proposal. To do so, you need to add > > {{vote|no}} --[[User:|]] date > > under the headline == Voting == once voting is opened. Said in short: > Adding more contradictions and confusion in public transport ma

Re: [OSM-talk] All the subway systems in the world

2017-10-04 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi Ilya, Am 30.09.2017 um 18:35 schrieb Ilya Zverev: > I have made a script that parses and validates subway systems. It prints the > number of subway lines and stations that an automated system can extract from > the OpenStreetMap data. See the latest report here (these are updated > manually

Re: [OSM-talk] All the subway systems in the world

2017-10-04 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi Ilya, Am 30.09.2017 um 18:35 schrieb Ilya Zverev: > Some questions are answered on the Talk page there. Next week I'll open a > voting, so that tagging schema could be made official. You are aware that the RFC phase has to bee at least two weeks long? https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Pro

Re: [OSM-talk] Overlapping brands (was "Fixing wiki* -> brand:wiki*")

2017-10-03 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi Andy, Am 2017-09-27 um 17:57 schrieb Andy Townsend: > On 27/09/2017 15:35, John F. Eldredge wrote: >> The spatial information will tell you where each business location is; >> it is not sufficient to tell you whether these are multiple locations >> of the same brand, or two unrelated brands tha

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

2017-10-03 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi Martin, Am 2017-10-03 um 00:28 schrieb Martin Koppenhoefer: > indeed it’s not helping the quality if editors are not familiar with the > language specifics for the area of the things they edit (this is true for all > UGC, be it osm, wikidata, etc). Aldi Sud does not make sense, it’s either Sü

Re: [OSM-talk] Downloading Version 3 of all bus stops in a country

2017-09-26 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi, Am 2017-09-26 um 09:19 schrieb SwiftFast: > I need to download all version 3 bus stops in a country which has about > 30,000 bus stops. Version 3 exists since a 2012 import. What's the > recommended way to accomplish this? I have two ways in mind. Version 3 of what? Best regards Michael -

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Awards 2017

2017-07-12 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi Ilya, Am 18.06.2017 um 11:05 schrieb Ilya Zverev: > This year the nominees for the short list will be decided not by a > single committee, but by a separate groups of people. For example, the > Innovations award will be manager by the Engineering Working Group, and > the Writing award — by the

Re: [OSM-talk] Responding to vandalism

2017-03-16 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi Manohar, Am 2017-03-16 um 14:47 schrieb Manohar Erikipati: > - DWG currently acts promptly on incidents reported via email, but we > need a more accessible mechanism that allows new users to report such > incidents directly from the website or editors. The email details and > existence of DWG,

Re: [OSM-talk] Responding to vandalism

2017-03-16 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi, Am 2017-03-16 um 15:48 schrieb Clifford Snow: > Manohar, > My experience is most of these edits can be cleaned up easily with simple > edits. Some need full reverting, which can be done using JOSM, while others > need careful pruning of the bad but leaving the good. I've fixed numerous > pokem

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixing broken multipolygons

2017-03-03 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi, Am 03.03.2017 um 17:27 schrieb Sebastiaan Couwenberg: > Are there plans to make these challenges permanent or periodically > re-introduce them when a new batch of issues has been prepared? The German speaking countries have a handful of mappers who regularly look for multipolygon errors using

Re: [OSM-talk] Cleanup of Wiki Page "Contact_channels"

2016-12-12 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi Simon, Am 12.12.2016 um 21:47 schrieb Simon Poole: > Like so many wiki pages there is really only one good action: send it to > the circular folder. > > https://www.openstreetmap.org/help already lists all OSMF operated > services, and at SOTM we discussed that we might add in one way of the >

[OSM-talk] Cleanup of Wiki Page "Contact_channels"

2016-12-12 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi, I just wanted to paste the link to https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contact_channels into a message to a newbie and checked if the content of page is up-to-date. By checking the page some questions arised: The page lists three XMPP channels. I checked if the English and the Austrian are st

[OSM-talk] Central Place to Reach Wiki Administrators?

2016-11-15 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi, is there any method to reach all administrators of the OSM Wiki [1] in one go, e.g. to ask them to block a user? Currently, I have to select one of them and ask him at his personal discussion page. But if he has more important things to do, it may take some time until he reacts. Therefore, it

Re: [OSM-talk] International mapping getting together day

2016-09-30 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi Andrew, Am 2016-09-30 um 21:43 schrieb Andrew Hain: > Any interest in organising a distributed mapping party where we get together > round the world, attracting armchair mappers who haven't experienced field > mapping or just people with a casual interest? It could be a chance to > promote o

[OSM-talk] SotM Group Photo without Logo

2016-09-29 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi, for the upcoming WeeklyOSM and Wochennotiz issue 323 we, the team of WeeklyOSM and Wochennotiz, would like to use the group photo of State of the Map in Brussels. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:State_Of_The_Map_2016_group_photo.jpg Unfortunately, the photo published at OSM wiki con

[OSM-talk] Neutrality of SotM

2016-09-08 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi, could someone who is member of SotM Working Group explain me, why the Twitter account of SotM promotes voting for Ramani Huria at OSM Award? It is ok that SotM promotes OSM Award itself but it should not promote some candidates and others not. @sotm has retweeted following tweets: https://twi

Re: [OSM-talk] SearchAroundBot: a Telegram Bot for OSM

2016-08-24 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi Frederik, Am 24.08.2016 um 23:16 schrieb Frederik Ramm: > On 08/24/2016 03:18 PM, Nicolás Alvarez wrote: >>> Please ensure that everyone who contributes data to OSM with this bot >>> actually has got an OSM account (and hence has agreed to the OSM >>> contributor terms), and that the data is co

Re: [OSM-talk] Automated edits code of conduct

2016-07-14 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi Eric, Am 14.07.2016 um 17:19 schrieb Éric Gillet: > However I'd believe that there is (in Europe for the example's sake) a very > low number of restaurant really named McDonalds and not part of the > franchise. So if the changeset correct 300 restaurants but 2 are "damaged" > by the automated e

Re: [OSM-talk] Automated edits code of conduct

2016-07-10 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi Éric, Am 10.07.2016 um 23:26 schrieb Éric Gillet: > OSM contributions must follow the Contributor Terms > ; these > therms are being shown to new users and they must explicitely accept them > before they can start contributing. > >

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

2016-06-26 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi Robert, Am 26.06.2016 um 06:10 schrieb Robert Helvie: > I don't know about any other edits the user has made, but the ones in the > Sejong area really should be reverted. It is a shame, because the other > data they add such as names and address info could be very useful. But > their copying of

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

2016-06-22 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi Martin, Am 22.06.2016 um 15:04 schrieb Martin Koppenhoefer: > I would add fixme tags and decide on an individual basis how to deal with > it. Still, despite all lamentation, I admit that the amount of surveyed > addressing information we are getting this way is great (precision to be > confirme

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

2016-06-22 Thread Michael Reichert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi Joost, Am 22.06.2016 um 15:09 schrieb joost schouppe: > Did you miss the ongoing thread on this subject? [1] If read the thread but was not able to draw a conclusion regarding my question. > You should of course contact the mapper with the expl

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

2016-06-22 Thread Michael Reichert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, by browsing the map, I have discovered the edits of user 이진영 (Google Translator says that this is a Korean name). He added some POIs in serveral European countries and entered the Korean name into name=*. https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/%EC%

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

2016-06-17 Thread Michael Reichert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi Martin, Am 17.06.2016 um 17:52 schrieb Martin Koppenhoefer: > Apparently Maps.me, the most popular open map app for mobile, has > gained some editing functions recently. While this is great news > (millions of new mappers), it also bears some pot

Re: [OSM-talk] iD news: v1.9.6 released

2016-06-08 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi Bryan, Am 08.06.2016 um 17:59 schrieb Bryan Housel: > - When setting Wikipedia field value, also set corresponding Wikidata tag > (worked on by Minh Nguyễn) Isn't this a kind of mechanical edit which should be discussed on this mailing list *beforehand*? https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/A

Re: [OSM-talk] RfD notification: Purge tag "priority" from tracks

2016-04-09 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi Greg, Am 09.04.2016 um 18:52 schrieb Greg Morgan: > Thank you for publishing your intent. I am coping the US Talk list because > a number of us rail fans in the US are looking at European tag models for > the vast railway network that we are piecing together. > http://www.openrailwaymap.org/ l

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Slack

2016-03-29 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi Dave, Am 29.03.2016 um 22:45 schrieb Dave F: > Because IRC works in real time. Contributors have to be in the same time > zone (or stay up really late/ get up really early). It's biased towards > densely populated zones ie Northern Europe or East coast if North America. You will face this prob

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Slack

2016-03-29 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi Martijn, Am 29.03.2016 um 21:52 schrieb Martijn van Exel: > I find this a really worthwhile conversation to have. IRC is still great for > some but it’s hardly inclusive. Is http://irc.openstreetmap.org/ no web interface? I might lack some advertisment (and maybe an modern styling). If you ju

Re: [OSM-talk] who do we trust for photos?

2016-02-13 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi Russ, Am 13.02.2016 um 22:24 schrieb Russ Nelson: > Here's a possibly silly, possibly serious question: who do we trust to > keep photos of features? Once I finish gathering my set of photos of > NY railroad bridges, where should I upload them so that I can > automagically add links to the phot

Re: [OSM-talk] Georeferencing lots of photos using JOSM

2016-02-13 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi Russ, Am 13.02.2016 um 21:41 schrieb Russ Nelson: > Solution: I remember where I took every photo (but if I see you > walking on the street I won't remember your name; go figure), so it's > just a matter of getting a lat/lon and storing it with every > photo. So, I look at the photo, and use JO

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: OpenStreetMap Wiki page Map Features has been changed by David1234

2015-12-26 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi Colin, Am 2015-12-26 um 11:41 schrieb Colin Smale: > Anyone know what is going on here? A newly registered user has removed > all the content from an important wiki page (Map Features) and replaced > it with a test message... I reverted his changes at Map_Features and will have a look at his o

Re: [OSM-talk] Community Conference

2015-12-02 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi Steve, Am 2015-12-02 um 22:23 schrieb Steve Coast: > I’ve heard from a few people thinking of organizing an OpenStreetMap > conference focused on the community, very different from what SOTM has become. I have counted 20 talks by companies and universities out of 40 talks at all at SotM 2014.

Re: [OSM-talk] What3words

2015-11-22 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi Colin, Am 2015-11-22 um 11:39 schrieb Colin Smale: > I have heard a few times recently about what3words, a new novel > coordinate/addressing system for the whole world. > > Could/should we be doing anything to support/facilitate/implement this > system in OSM? No. It is a propietary system

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

2015-11-19 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi, Am 19. November 2015 01:52:40 MEZ, schrieb john whelan : > HOT and OSM are slightly different, HOT maps on OSM but uses a simpler > more > standardized approach. HOT uses the OSM database/platform and therefore it has to adapt and follow OSM's rules. Nobody forces you to use OSM. Why don

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

2015-11-02 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi Nasir, Am 2015-11-02 um 17:53 schrieb Nasir Khan: > One thing i faced every time and asked from many that, is there a way to > improve the icon set to make the map more attractive. I really feel that we > all should look at this issue and make a plan to improve this user > experience. If you co

[OSM-talk] Become an OSMF member without Paypal?

2015-10-19 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi, I would like to become an OSMF normal member to be entitle to vote at the next AGM but I have a problem regarding the first payment of the membership fee. How can I become an OSMF normal member by paying the fee via bank transfer instead of PayPal? [1] The signup page (https://join.osmfoundat

Re: [OSM-talk] User WJtW - railway track counts

2015-10-16 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi Paul, Am 2015-10-16 um 22:58 schrieb Paul Johnson: > Not even sure how passenger_lines=* is even a tag given route=rail > relations... As far as I know, passenger_lines=* is intended as an tracks=* replacement if each track is mapped. There is an ITO map which renders passenger_lines=*. There

Re: [OSM-talk] User WJtW - railway track counts

2015-10-10 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi Colin, Am 2015-10-10 um 14:07 schrieb Colin Smale: > Oh by the way, user WJtW is still at it, most recently in Italy, filling > in loads of detail tags on railways. No idea where the information comes > from. But every segment he touches has tracks=N added, often with N>1 on > routes already ma

Re: [OSM-talk] User WJtW - railway track counts

2015-10-07 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi, Am 2015-10-07 um 10:24 schrieb Richard Mann: > Putting tracks=1 on multiple parallel tracks is also potentially > misleading. It's a method of tagging that's been superseded by drawing each > line separately. > > So I took to adding passenger_lines=N, to avoid a compatability conflict. I > on

Re: [OSM-talk] User WJtW - railway track counts

2015-10-07 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi. Am 2015-10-07 um 10:03 schrieb Colin Smale: > I am not sure it would be vandalism - It is more likely a > misunderstanding of the intention of the tracks=* tag. But it is very > damaging, and potentially hard to revert as this has been going on for > some time and newer edits may have been mad

Re: [OSM-talk] Previous planet dump sizes

2015-09-22 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi Stephen, Am 2015-09-22 um 20:29 schrieb Stephen Knox: > Is there a log or archive of these files anywhere? I would like to plot the > growth of open street map data by time, ideally but not necessarily by > region. So I am interested in the file size rather than the file itself. You can even g

Re: [OSM-talk] Motion: Dedicated mailing list for abandoned railways

2015-09-09 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi Jukka, Am 2015-09-09 um 09:48 schrieb Jukka Rahkonen: > I suggest to make a new mailing list for those who want to talk about > abandoned railways. I can see that such does not exist yet > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo. It has already suggested to use > the Historic list https://list

Re: [OSM-talk] Mechanical edits

2015-06-29 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi Andrew, Am 2015-06-29 um 17:01 schrieb Andrew MacKinnon: > I admit that I have been guilty of doing inappropriate mechanical > edits in the past, but I am wondering: is it time that OSM implements > controls on doing mechanical edits in the API? In other words, should > OSM implement a feature

Re: [OSM-talk] Routing Applications

2015-06-17 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi, Am 2015-06-17 um 05:33 schrieb Hans De Kryger: > Why do OSRM & OpenRoutingService compete against each other instead of > joining resources and combining efforts to make the best routing service > out there? Am i missing something? There are differences in history between these two projects.

Re: [OSM-talk] Routing Applications

2015-06-17 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi, Am 2015-06-17 um 14:38 schrieb Eugene Alvin Villar: > This has been fixed in Osmand early this year after being reported > more than 2 years ago. Unfortunately, multiple via ways are still not > supported. I wonder if a via way instead of an via node is necessary so much. I wonder more where

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