Re: [OSM-talk] Affordable 1 CM high precision GPS.

On 5/9/2024 5:33 AM, Florian Lohoff wrote: At least in Germany we have a grid of Basestations which offer their RTCM 3.1/3.2 Data via NTRIP which is called SAPOS. As there are huge differences between different states at least in some of them its for Free. When I last looked 5 years ago, the onl

Re: [OSM-talk] AT&T Email

Hi,     AT&T has removed the block and email service to OSM has resumed.   Thanks for your help!   Regards,   Mike On 1/30/2023 9:24 AM, Grant Slater wrote: Hi Mike, We have now reached out to ATT asking them to unblock the OpenStreetMap.org mail relay server or provide us with more detail

[OSM-talk] AT&T Email

Not sure where to report this but it seems that AT&T Email has placed OpenStreetMap Emails on the block list in the past week.    Example: Changeset feed Emails, OpenStreetMap US Email list sent to @att.net destination emails.   They do not show up in a spam box, so I'm guessing it's a full bl

Re: [OSM-talk] Teaching cyclists how to contribute to OSM

On 1/20/2020 5:42 AM, James wrote: I've yet to see an officer stop a cyclist going too fast, general rule is don't be a dick and slow down when you see pedestrians and signal with a bell(bylaw) when passing them Here, the officer on patrol may choose to do speed limit enforcement when it beco

Re: [OSM-talk] Facebook mapping highways using AI in collaboration with OpenStreetMap

On 7/26/2019 4:34 AM, Christoph Hormann wrote: The corporate appropriation of OpenStreetMap I'm not a corporate wonk, but I'll note that in my region, "Amazon Logistics" is effectively solving the Last Mile Mapping problem: how to include driveways into routing.Based on ground truth, they

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

On 7/4/2019 10:33 AM, Jack Armstrong dan...@sprynet.com wrote: In the given example, turns were already permitted prior to the additional superfluous lanes being added. This creates confusion and unnecessary clutter and should not be encouraged. The intersection was fine before the addition of

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

On 7/4/2019 7:50 AM, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: I strongly disagree with this idea, and multiple times changed such splits back to one way. What if strictly following the rule of "no split ways unless physical divider" results in wildly incorrect turn-by-turn instructions? For example - h

Re: [OSM-talk] iD forces mistagging again

On 6/29/2019 8:08 AM, Tomas Straupis wrote: Here I would note that 2nd point is enough to keep original water scheme and depreciate the new one. Because of data consumers. I don't remember why but I arrived at the new scheme several years ago and have been using it ever since. So apparen

Re: [OSM-talk] Which global OSM mailing list for the "community index"?

On 6/20/2019 7:39 AM, Andy Townsend wrote: I'd suggest "talk" as a more sensible introductory mailing list to "tagging" as the latter is higher volume and more in depth in a particular area of OSM. It is almost an automatic reaction to redirect questions like "is this a real shale surface",

Re: [OSM-talk] Which global OSM mailing list for the "community index"?

On 6/20/2019 5:58 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: Clearly one of the global mailing lists is missing here; Forum.openstreetmap.org ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] DJI Fly SafeGEO ZONE MAP uses OSM data... without attribution

On 3/18/2019 6:51 PM, Nuno Caldeira wrote: Was curious where DJI managed to get a worldwide DB of polygons of military facilities and points of prisons, triple checked with a couple of other users of OSM at Telegram and with polygons i added seven years ago. Without a doubt its from OSM, the co

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

On 2/26/2019 8:45 AM, Joseph Reeves wrote: I can't see the security risk you're trying to protect against. We are looking at applications that use OSM data and will refer users to third party websites; what is the risk of a malicious user MiTM'ing a http request to a restaurant website (for exa

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

On 2/22/2019 3:36 PM, Jmapb wrote: IMO the value of an automated edit when there's already a redirect in place is minimal enough that I don't think it justifies bumping the version and modification date. Just my opinion. The value of the automated edit is that there is a small improvement i

Re: [OSM-talk] What use is OpenStreetMap?

On 1/3/2019 5:13 PM, Simon Poole wrote: The slightly longer version is that there are likely economic benefits of many different kinds (traffic control, real estate, marketing and so on) that are difficult to quantify but are likely there. Re: real estate use case - I have seen local agents r

Re: [OSM-talk] Is it time to redevelop JOSM?

On 10/7/2018 5:07 PM, john whelan wrote: C# apparently is open source.  Visual Studio 2017 is a professional development environment.  Yes it is Windows and I recognise that many prefer one flavour of UNIX or another but I think it is time to think strategically and start work on a replacement

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

On 8/11/2018 1:35 AM, Oleksiy Muzalyev wrote: And they will not start putting up signs of the Plus-Codes outside their house unless the OpenStreetMap community accept this technology. What would actually happen in these locations? Do they bring up the web site https://www.openstreetmap.org

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

On 8/10/2018 9:01 AM, oleksiy.muzal...@bluewin.ch wrote: Probably it is done so that plus-codes are known to local actors? Perhaps, local conditions differ from European ones to the degree that it is difficult to comprehend without being part of local community? That is a perfect use case for

Re: [OSM-talk] "The Future of Free and Open-Source Maps" Slashdot.org , Saturday February 17, 2018

On 2/17/2018 11:01 AM, James wrote: except it wouldnt be multiplatform and only run on windows 🤢🤮. Java is a better alternative as it's a popular language and is multiplatform. C/c++ is a bit more complicated and not everyone can contribute. That's no longer true - .Net is open source and gene

Re: [OSM-talk] place=hamlet in cities

On 1/17/2018 6:53 PM, Dave F wrote: Have you been in contact with the two contributors to see if they can revoke/reupload? I presume it came from a database. If it's still available it can be amended as required. At this point it would be much better to just manually fix anything that doesn

Re: [OSM-talk] place=hamlet in cities

On 1/17/2018 5:55 PM, Kevin Broderick wrote: Does anyone see a problem with armchair-mapping these to place:neighbourhood? I am not planning to do this in an automated fashion, but instead to pick away at it while reviewing areas of interest to some of my coworkers, who have noted that an appro

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

On 1/13/2018 5:02 AM, joost schouppe wrote: If we agree it's a problem that users get a message everytime someone reviews one of their changesets, then maybe we need a separate database for reviewing status. OSMcha has that, but we might integrate the reviewing status into OSM.org There hav

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

On 1/12/2018 9:13 AM, Bryan Housel wrote: 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. I haven't used this yet because I wanted to add my own deta

Re: [OSM-talk] no osmf-talk link at listinfo

On 12/18/2017 2:49 PM, Sérgio V. wrote: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo? I've read in http://www.weeklyosm.eu about some interesting discussions there, but I can't find the link to osmf-talk in the listinfo. I'm not sure why it wasn't listed on that page,

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

On 11/24/2017 6:45 AM, James wrote: Yeah I'd like the skipped tasks to comeback eventually, sometimes I look at objects and its either too complicated to fix for my current state of mind or the imagery makes it hard but I'd like to get back to it eventually From what I have seen, the skipped t

[OSM-talk] US Maproulette Railway crossing challenge complete

The series of US railway crossing challenges on MapRoulette is now complete! Thanks to the many people who helped with this project! The topology of the US rail-road intersection areas is now much more accurate, since many of the crossings also required a geometric alignment of roads and rai

Re: [OSM-talk] Responding to vandalism

On 3/16/2017 2:04 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: And in vandalism, I would also distinguish between teenage doodles ("penis! ha ha ha!"), and serious concerted efforts to harm OSM. Then there's the serious and real ha ha ha http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/41.84196/-89.48580 http://chicago.c

Re: [OSM-talk] addr:interpolation and data consumers

On 11/21/2016 2:41 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: Consumers will often try to simply dissolve the interpolation line into points which of course has its downsides in schemes like this where 100 interpolated house numbers are assigned but only 10 houses might exist. (I wonder if we need an interpolation

Re: [OSM-talk] addr:interpolation and data consumers

On 11/20/2016 11:47 AM, nebulon42 wrote: In my opinion addr:interpolation is of little value for data consumers. Personally, I prefer addresses on nodes or buildings where the location of the address is clear. addr:interpolation rather leaves this open. I know that addr:interpolation is an establ

Re: [OSM-talk] Analysis of usage of similar tags over time

On 9/1/2016 6:04 AM, Éric Gillet wrote: You can see on taginfo that there are indeed around 104k ATM on OSM : http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/amenity=atm Also 222000+ combined with amenity=bank as atm=yes , (a small % of those are atm=no) __

Re: [OSM-talk] Uber most likely using OSM data

On 8/11/2016 10:53 AM, Dave F wrote: Just because it's very similar to OSM doesn't means it isn't using to some other database. You're arguing what I believe is called a 'false cause fallacy' Similarly, the Uber path could follow the OSM path but differ from both Google and Aerial imagery, f

Re: [OSM-talk] Duplicate house numbers

On 5/29/2016 7:13 PM, john whelan wrote: I suspect an import of some type but more importantly is the problem of cleaning up. They have the same values for addr:city addr:housenumber addr:street Re: cleanup check - I have created many duplicates like this, but they generally have different

Re: [OSM-talk] [Osmf-talk] [Talk-us] license changes

On 2/22/2016 4:38 AM, Simone Cortesi wrote: Looking at previous discussions about "yet another licence change" I wonder if the real client of the exercise really isn't OpenStreetMap US but some company whose name starts with Map* Speaking as an OSM US participant and not affiliated with any co

Re: [OSM-talk] Nominatim weakness

On 12/13/2015 6:47 PM, Jorge Gustavo Rocha wrote: ii) Nominatim can search only within a bounding box. You can get the map extent and append to the nominatim query (viewboxlbrt parameter). Why does the default OSM search box include the world instead of the viewport? Is it because no one ha

Re: [OSM-talk] Notes: View them based on age?

On 10/20/2015 7:06 PM, Dave F. wrote: Is there a way to view OSM Notes (right hand side of map) based on the date created? It's a bit of a pain to remember which of the notes I've already clicked on. I've found the RSS feed very helpful for highlighting only new or closed notes within a wat

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

On 9/12/2015 3:02 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: If I were trying to drum up support for OSM in the US, I'd probably also welcome someone who maps abandoned railways, so that I'm not alone at the monthly meetup There's some truth to that in the US - one of the 3 regular mappers here in a several hun

Re: [OSM-talk] Abandoned Rails

On 8/23/2015 2:03 PM, Dave F. wrote: Are you saying if a building gets demolished & replaced with a new one, you wouldn't remove the original outline from OSM? In my case, I've begun to do just that, adding a note to alert the 'Bing tracers' that something has changed. But I would eventually

Re: [OSM-talk] Mechanical edits

On 6/29/2015 11:12 AM, Michael Reichert wrote: That's why I think that there should be no restriction on API side. Either people realize that mechanical edits have to be disussed first (after revert of their first undiscussed mechanical edit) or they get blocked if they refuse contact with the co

Re: [OSM-talk] Chain Store Cleanup

On 5/1/2015 11:07 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: That's a very "computer person" approach to take. In fact, the "McDonald's" issue has already been tried by someone in the past with an undiscussed mechanical edit, promptly falsifying a few non-chain non-fastfood places that*really* were called McDonal

Re: [OSM-talk] what happens to an OSM account if the user dies

On 4/8/2015 7:26 AM, maning sambale wrote: Sad news that my friend and OSM contributor died from a vehicular accident. I'm curious, what happens to an OSM user account if this happens? Sorry to hear this.In the past with the license change, the contributions were summarily deleted at the

Re: [OSM-talk] Routing across parks

Are there routers that do shortest-path routing across areas? I do not have an example of an area without additional roads ready. I'm not aware of any routers that routes across areas. There's some prior work in OpenTripPlanner - http://blog.openplans.org/2012/06/b-roll-david-solves-t

Re: [OSM-talk] Problem with usage of other values than yes for key building

On 3/11/2015 6:37 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: nd common editor presets. In iD without "expert mode / all tags" the only values for the building key are "yes" and "unknown" (which will not set any key I believe), if other tags like amenity etc. are also set. No way to enter free text then. FWIW

Re: [OSM-talk] Routing across parks

On 3/10/2015 12:56 PM, Volker Schmidt wrote: If I understand correctly that you want routing to cross a park as long as the way in and the way out are connected to the perimeter of the park. This is only correct in parks where you are free to walk anywhere. Most parks in continental Europe do not

Re: [OSM-talk] this has to stop: iD user mistakes all over the place

On 2/11/2015 2:49 PM, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: Read through the issue tracker: It's clear that issues reported are pushed back on by the core iD developers. It's very "tightly held". I disagree (not a developer here). The interesting thing that came out of this discussion is the realization tha

Re: [OSM-talk] MEP - pipelines

On 1/6/2015 6:47 AM, Chris Hill wrote: If the new scheme is adopted in staged way that would be better than a single mass edit, though it can still break data use for people who don't follow OSM's mailing lists. I don't blame the proposer of the scheme; he's just following the daft guidelines in

Re: [OSM-talk] Change: How mature is OpenStreetMap?

On 1/6/2015 4:23 AM, Andreas Goss wrote: I have this with fitness centre/gym now again. A few replies and then nobody cares. I'm pretty sure that now I tag each fitness centre randomly differently. I'd prefer a single convention, but I can see that there will never be agreement.

Re: [OSM-talk] Wiki - contact: Tag & Map Features

On 12/19/2014 3:47 PM, Dave F. wrote: From memory the original claim was all 'contacts' could be filtered out in one go, but it was pointed out that post filtering would still need to be performed, and I'm no programming expert, but I was led to believe parsing a string like 'contact:email' is s

[OSM-talk] OSM Mapwear

I don't remember seeing this mentioned here... http://monochome.com/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Detrimental validation software

On 10/13/2014 6:48 AM, Dave F. wrote: This, & other similar types of software is being misused to insert errors into the OSM database. Without local knowledge there is no way users can be sure of the accuracy of there edits. They should stick to what they know. I believe this type of validation s

Re: [OSM-talk] Detrimental to the OSM database

On 8/24/2014 10:48 AM, Russ Nelson wrote: I do wish I could tell it "Only show me things in New York State, because screw everybody else, this is a competition and I'm here to win." Go NY! Go NY! Your wish has been granted. At the top of the "Select a different challenge" dialog, press "I

Re: [OSM-talk] Detrimental to the OSM database

On 8/23/2014 5:20 AM, Lester Caine wrote: http://openstreetmap.us/iD/release/#background=Bing&map=17.00/-83.15249/36.43657 is the one I'm currently on and leaving as it's impossible to see any detail in iD ... how do people cope with the dark images? In iD, select the imagery layer "New & Misal

Re: [OSM-talk] TIGER to OSM comparison

On 5/2/2014 11:32 AM, Murry McEntire wrote: Are you assuming the Tiger values are more accurate than what is in OSM? If so, rethink that. For armchair mapping, the only thing that might be safe is that new TIGER is more accurate than old TIGER. But any such TIGER comparison must not overr

Re: [OSM-talk] TIGER to OSM comparison

On 5/2/2014 7:29 AM, Hans De Kryger wrote: Has anyone ever thought of developing a program to compare street names from tiger to street names in osm? I know I've come across plenty of errors in which the street name is misspelled or completely wrong. http://maproulette.org/battlegrid/ I'm n

Re: [OSM-talk] Timezones

On 10/19/2013 12:20 PM, Russ Nelson wrote: Filters are your friend. That's why they exist. I hate seeing borders, so I filter them out. I don't delete them. Filters are our version of layering. With one exception: if nodes are shared, I can't see the damage I might be doing to another layer

Re: [OSM-talk] Timezones

On 10/19/2013 10:25 AM, Jason Remillard wrote: But, my number one rule is that if there is a individual or group that want to maintain a specific set of data in OSM (timezones, ancient rail roads, protected zones in the ocean, etc), we should give them as much latitude as possible to do it. I a

Re: [OSM-talk] Outperforming TomTom

On 9/12/2013 9:37 AM, Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr) wrote: I don't know how open their data is, but have you heard of waze? I just stumbled onto it yesterday. http://www.waze.com/ Google recently bought Waze, so the data is definitely not open. I now see more local MapMaker activity, probably s

Re: [OSM-talk] Making iD the default editor on osm.org

On 8/21/2013 11:59 AM, Johan C wrote: + 1 as well. OSM is fortunate to have the Id developers on board. Here also - I was happy to see a new mapper pop up in this lonely corner of the map and make some quality contributions. The editor on the changesets? iD , so in that case the goal of h

Re: [OSM-talk] Why do we have so many registered users with zero edits ?

On 4/12/2013 8:00 AM, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote: Looking at the profiles of nearby mappers displayed on my profile page's map, I am astonished to find that most of them have made zero edits. Those people went through the effort of registering (some even added an avatar picture) but then did not use

[OSM-talk] The globe, mapped by you

Congratulations to Simon Poole for this interview! http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss_news/The_globe,_mapped_by_you.html?cid=35084414&link=tdj "A map of the world, by the world, for the world – that’s what Swiss-based Openstreetmap chairman Simon Poole and a global network of more than a millio

Re: [OSM-talk] Interesting cases of vandalism?

On 2/23/2013 8:19 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: and eventually with the public_transport-scheme you'd also need an explicit relation for what can be easily accomplished by software (projecting the bus stop to the stop position on the road). It depends on the eventual use - if it's only to cr

Re: [OSM-talk] Changeset Comments

On 1/5/2013 1:37 PM, Russ Nelson wrote: I try not to bother putting in the placename or the thing I modified. Both of those things they can figure out from using the changeset browser. Instead, I try to say why I made the change. Conversely, I do try to include the place name if it is new or a

Re: [OSM-talk] obsolete TIGER-tags

On 11/20/2012 11:04 AM, Paul Norman wrote: tiger:county tiger:zip_left tiger:zip_right These are the only ones I use regularly, although there are probably sources to derive them. I also remove reviewed when I have verified the geometry and general road type, although others use the rev

Re: [OSM-talk] How to improve addressing?

On 11/12/2012 8:56 AM, Russ Nelson wrote: What if the Presets/Annotation/Addresses dialog box wasn't modal (like the relations editor, where it lets you continue to edit), and had a "Apply and Increment" button? Then you could go down a row of houses (once you've verified that they're consecutiv

Re: [OSM-talk] Data copied from Google Maps

On 11/5/2012 8:15 AM, Floris Looijesteijn wrote: If they can find views (maybe even searches) for 1 or multiple areas and correlate those with 1 or multiple changesets on OSM they have the proof they want. And Google could always use Photoshop to plant a few 'Easter eggs' with fake names in S

Re: [OSM-talk] FYI - OpenTripPlanner instance

On 10/31/2012 11:24 AM, Peter Wendorff wrote: Is it possible to add one of the public transport maps as a layer? I did not have much time now to test, but obviously I missed useful locations and got no trips planned because my end points aren't safe (only connected to highway or sth. like that).

Re: [OSM-talk] FYI - OpenTripPlanner instance

On 10/31/2012 10:22 AM, Tiziano D'Angelo wrote: Quite cool. I saw the note on the left bar. So, did you set it up as an alternative to the official bus service information? I may do the same in my city, Padova, Italy, where the bus company provides quite a lame service concerning information on r

[OSM-talk] FYI - OpenTripPlanner instance

FYI - I've finished the testing for my local instance of OpenTripPlanner [1] and it's ready to go live. The code I used to create the GTFS from OSM data is in SVN: http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/utils/export/OSM2GTFS/ - still very fragile, and not very informative when it doesn't li

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-talk-fr] Continued aggression against French contributors (cadastre integration)

On 10/18/2012 3:57 PM, Frank Steggink wrote: Does nobody know about the -Djosm.home= parameter you can pass to JOSM when starting up? It can be put easily in a shortcut. The difficulty is that any JOSM customization (styles, plugins, preferences) becomes spread among multiple accounts and di

Re: [OSM-talk] Obscure African dirt tracks in Google Maps - how does Google records them ? Automated tracing ?

On 10/16/2012 7:34 AM, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote: Maybe they just have an army of tracers, but automation seems more like how Google solves problems. Is there any Smartphone coverage for those areas? Google can track via their Smartphone apps. By generating tracks from the owner's movements,

Re: [OSM-talk] [possibly OT] Apples IOS 6 Maps and the response

On 9/21/2012 3:12 AM, Lester Caine wrote: Begs the question - are any of the OSM routing options iPhone friendly? GPS Nav/2 from Skobbler ($): Can do offline routing OpenTripPlanner for transit on the iPhone - I'm guessing about 2 months yet until a release http://www.kickstarter.com/projec

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines proposal update

On 9/19/2012 6:29 PM, Michael Kugelmann wrote: Or to be more precise: you need to use a lot of effort and check all versions of an object (this means: the whole planet) whether it once had the "source=cadastre" tag. But thats a lot of work to do. Much (!) more easy to identify all the object is i

[OSM-talk] JOSM - recovery from failed uploads

On 9/18/2012 1:56 PM, Pieren wrote: The uploads we are talking are normally done with JOSM after the integration with the existing data and validation. How do you recover from a failed JOSM upload when working with large datasets? ___ talk mailin

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines & OSMF/DWG governance

On 9/18/2012 7:51 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: well, not sure where this comes from and if it makes sense: I don't see a real obstacle as email addresses are not a scarse ressource (you get as many as you like for free), but I agree that it seems to be better to allow the same email address for

Re: [OSM-talk] Shoud OSM Help move to Stackexchange community?

On 9/9/2012 11:33 AM, Martijn van Exel wrote: As for authentication: I don't buy the 'That would make me sign up to a new thing and I would need to remember another password' argument and in general I strongly support integrating OSM authentication with existing authentication domains. I agre

[OSM-talk] The Case for Open Geo Data - resources?

I map in OpenStreetMap for fun, but when it comes to talking to local governments or the media, I don't have a good idea of how to justify open data.I'm thinking in terms of being able to tell local government how open Geodata would benefit them. Are there any resources that discuss the

Re: [OSM-talk] FYI - Creating GTFS data from OSM data

On 8/18/2012 8:00 AM, Mike Dupont wrote: This is openplans.org? is the opentrip planner able to use osm data directly? https://github.com/openplans/OpenTripPlanner Yes, OpenTripPlanner can use OSM data directly to route for cycle, foot, and even car traffic - although they don't optimize ca

Re: [OSM-talk] FYI - Creating GTFS data from OSM data

On 8/18/2012 3:56 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: maybe the existence of an OSM-to-GTFS converter could be misunderstood by some as an invitation to upload OSM transit data to Google's database? I would go further and say that the existence of GTFS data itself would be an invitation to upload to Goo

[OSM-talk] FYI - Creating GTFS data from OSM data

This project falls in the "Why would anybody want to do that? [1]" category. - The OSM bus route paths and stops have all been surveyed in my area. - There is no GTFS feed, and the transit provider isn't planning one soon (no budget). - I wanted to apply the data to OpenTripPlanner for bicy

[OSM-talk] License Change plans?

Now that the redaction bot has finished, what is remaining to bless the database as ODBL? Just asking because it will be good to see some of the consumers be able to switch to pulling their feeds from the new license rather than displaying data from April 2012.

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposed mechanical import: Empty relations 1

On 7/29/2012 5:06 AM, Paul Norman wrote: - Those with no members and no tags - Those with no members and type=multipolygon as the only tag Relations removed will be limited to those more than a day old to avoid conflicting with any open changesets. I would suggest a longer time interval, perh

Re: [OSM-talk] City routing grid for Australia and the US

On 7/24/2012 2:59 PM, Svavar Kjarrval wrote: Does anyone know of any other services which could provide reference distances? Does anyone have a pre-redaction planet that could have an OSRM instance created? I would think that this would not violate the ODBL or CC-BY of either state if it i

[OSM-talk] FYI - Automated edit: footway -> sidewalk

FYI, please provide any feedback to the original author on the forum. http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=17526 ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] OT - Unusual Bing imagery

I spotted this today as I was entering survey information: http://greenvilleopenmap.info/Airplane.jpg I didn't realize that the Bing planes flew so high. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] new bing hires updates not visible in JOSM?

On 6/13/2012 5:58 PM, Jonas Häggqvist wrote: Remove bing.attribution.xml from the cache dir: %APPDATA%\JOSM\cache\bing.attribution.xml on Windows ~/.josm/cache/bing.attribution.xml on Linux This appears to be a JOSM bug, as the attribution file/config should not be cached. https://josm.opens

Re: [OSM-talk] new bing hires updates not visible in JOSM?

On 6/13/2012 4:06 PM, hbogner wrote: Try to delete the cache :D I posted this to talk-US - I have 2 instances of JOSM - one 'works', and the other always shows the 'old imagery'. I removed all cached images from the JOSM settings folder, and the shared %TEMP%\JmapViewer_UserName cache (f

Re: [OSM-talk] new bing hires updates not visible in JOSM?

And a big thanks to the Bing Team for getting this imagery update out. It's a huge help in keeping maps current! ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Import of buildings in Chicago

On 5/29/2012 1:09 AM, Alan Mintz wrote: I used to agree with you, but in terms of minimum labor, updates are best performed by retaining the original upload data, then doing a conflation between the original data and a later update. That will highlight only changes from the original source, a

Re: [OSM-talk] Import of buildings in Chicago

On 5/27/2012 2:53 PM, Alan wrote: As I discussed with you, I am no longer uploading data with the tag and will > go back to remove the tag from the existing data. I object. An ID tag is highly useful for future reconciliation and/or synchronization later. I used to agree with you, but in

Re: [OSM-talk] Celebrating Neskie

On 5/8/2012 6:23 AM, Richard Weait wrote: He was active in several communities, with an interest in Free Software / Open Source, OpenStreetMap The follow-on question is: since he didn't have a chance to accept or reject the CT, do we honor his contribution by unleashing the ODBL deletion bo

Re: [OSM-talk] New editors

On 4/19/2012 3:50 AM, Floris Looijesteijn wrote: On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 10:21 PM, Mike N wrote: ... But one newbie deleted about 300 streets, seemingly for a wedding-related event map :-( ... I couldn't help laughing, that's actually pretty funny. Did you contact the user?

[OSM-talk] New editors

In this area, there's been a surprising number of new contributors in the last 2 months: about 5 altogether. This is most likely from publicity received from the news stories surrounding the #switch2osm cases. In one case, they had actually registered a year ago, but made no edits until now.

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposed mechanical edit: Empty Relations

On 4/13/2012 5:12 AM, Paul Norman wrote: I will filter out ones touched in the last 24 hours to avoid conflicting with anyone. Could this be extended to 30 days, or at least a week? I remember creating a set from a survey on one weekend, and finishing it the following weekend. I think par

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapdust

On 4/6/2012 11:13 AM, Philip Barnes wrote: Have spotted one problem, not got a clue if its what was reported, where the route was going onto a roundabout, rather than using the bypass lane. Have changed the bypass to 'Trunk link' from 'Primary link' to see if that will fix it. Are there any onli

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapdust

On 4/6/2012 10:24 AM, Philip Barnes wrote: Anyone else try to fix bugs off there? I have tried as I want to improve OSM. I am increasingly finding it a waste of time, too many bugs are labelled 'other' and just don't have enough info to work out what the problem is. In these cases I usually clo

Re: [OSM-talk] It has begun

On 4/1/2012 3:01 PM, Toby Murray wrote: I attempted contact with 168 users. 105 of them accepted the new terms. That's much higher than I would have expected. My stats: Contact about terms via OSM: 8 Response: 0Obviously I used the wrong wording or was unlucky. But I did tailor t

Re: [OSM-talk] automated abbreviation changes?!

On 3/23/2012 8:36 AM, Mikel Maron wrote: User chdr (http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/chdr) seems to be running a script to automatically replace street name abbreviations with the full word. They don't look like mass automated edits to me - these are smaller quantities of changes made via Pot

Re: [OSM-talk] Survey about Incentives to contribute to OSM

On 3/14/2012 11:10 AM, Richard Weait wrote: You might not be sick of nonsense survey authors requesting our personal information to "study our project". You might even be tempted to reply and to fill in their survey. I noticed that the first survey redirected 40% of the users to something li

Re: [OSM-talk] iPhoto for iOS Not Using Google Maps

On 3/7/2012 7:50 PM, Richard Fairhurst wrote: ...and the consensus is that the data is from some time late March/early April 2010. Yes, really. With an update rate of at least 2 years, I don't expect they'll see a problem with temporary license data deletion. __

Re: [OSM-talk] Remapping

On 2/7/2012 7:04 PM, Clifford Snow wrote: One other question. Sunny added streets using TIGER data. (Imported?) If I replace the data, all the TIGER data goes away. Is that something I should worry about? Don't worry about losing the TIGER reference tags - just copy the street name and an

Re: [OSM-talk] Contact And Remap Campaign

On 2/7/2012 2:19 PM, Toby Murray wrote: Any chance we could get on the front page of slashdot with a relicensing post from some official blog? The google-vandalising-osm story got there somehow... Using a slant of searching for missing / long-lost contributors and losing their work would hopef

Re: [OSM-talk] Contact And Remap Campaign

On 2/6/2012 11:02 PM, Toby Murray wrote: Just yesterday I managed to track down a phone number for the biggest remaining non-decider in Kansas. I gave him a call, had a pleasant conversation and then he logged in and agreed a few minutes after we hung up. I often wonder - do these guys never

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