Re: [OSM-talk] OSRM Update

2023-08-26 Thread Seke Rob
As I was testing routing around an new complex roundabout 2 weeks ago and found Valhalla is the quickest with a day or so delay, GraphHopper came second after a good week, OSRM had me waiting but eventually did.The cycle is not clear. On Fri, Aug 25, 2023 at 6:54 AM Phil Wyatt wrote: > Hi Folks,

[OSM-talk] area:highway=pedestrian signalled in Inspector as an object without tag features

2023-07-18 Thread Seke Rob
redundant. Is this a false positive needing adding to the valid list? Rob (SekeRob in OSM world) ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] Adoption of OSM geometry as state mapping base

2023-02-09 Thread rob potter
quot;Store data available through the Services in order to evade these Terms (including aiding anyone else in doing so); or"* Please any advice would be greatly appreciated, ultimately we will enhance the overall content of OSM in the Victoria, but really do not want to cause

Re: [OSM-talk] Automated Populate/Update Problem

2022-09-28 Thread rob potter
Thanks for your reply. I have read the guidelines. I'm in Victoria, Australia Rob On Wed, 28 Sept 2022, 18:07 Eugene Alvin Villar, wrote: > Hi, > > I work for the state transport department >> > > Sorry if I missed this somewhere, but which state and which country?

[OSM-talk] Automated Populate/Update Problem

2022-09-28 Thread rob potter
current, match data location, enrich what stops.txt has then create all new and remove existing as final step. I would guess there are people screaming NO!! if so, please advise of a viable way of making such a significant Regards, Rob ___ talk mailing

Re: [OSM-talk] How INSPIRE data are sold in your countries

2018-05-02 Thread Rob Nickerson
07:108:TOC So you can look but not necessarily use under licence. That seems to depend on what each country decides to do. The missed a trick but this was over 10 years ago now when views were different. Best, *Rob* On 3 May 2018 at 00:21, Martijn van Exel wrote: > INSPIRE sets the framework f

Re: [OSM-talk] How INSPIRE data are sold in your countries

2018-05-02 Thread Rob Nickerson
INSPIRE is an EU requirement. As far as I know the UK makes all their INSPIRE data open for free, although I am not sure if they had to under the EU rules of if they just decided to. See: https://data.gov.uk/location/inspire *Rob* ___ talk mailing

[OSM-talk] Is Open Historical Map still functioning?

2017-06-12 Thread Rob H Warren
Dave, http://www.openhistoricalmap.org/ died sometime this morning of an overfull tmp directory. It is back up now. The specific cause is being looked at here: https://github.com/OpenHistoricalMap/OpenHistoricalMap/issues/17 Should anything go wrong, complaining to https://github.com/OpenHisto

[OSM-talk] new Wikidata+OSM data in one RDF database

2017-05-14 Thread Rob H Warren
Yuri, There is a plan afoot to do something similar with the geometries from www.openhistoricalmap.org; let's keep in touch, I would really like to enable linkages across datasets. Keep up the good work! -rhw > On May 13, 2017, at 8:00 AM, talk-requ...@openstreetmap.org wrote: > > > Message

[OSM-talk] SotM: Help wanted (comms & program)

2017-03-11 Thread Rob Nickerson
pers). Please contact us on: team AT stateofthemap DOT org. Best regards, *Rob* ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] SotmM 2017 (Japan): Call for scholars and session proposals

2017-03-11 Thread Rob Nickerson
will have a lot to read so we would like to make a start before the application closes. As always, we look forward to seeing some familiar and new faces there. Best regards, *Rob* On behalf of the State of the Map working group http://2017.stateofthemap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] SOTM EU

2017-01-31 Thread Rob Nickerson
get project management right all the time but I'm trying to improve. Hopefully the plans for 2017 demonstrate an improvement. If there is a specific thing that you are missing then we could try to prioritise that. Just ask :-) *Rob* ___

Re: [OSM-talk] SOTM EU

2017-01-31 Thread Rob Nickerson
amount of volunteer hours to the planning of SotM, this is something that we would need help with. I'm sorry this is not the answer you were hoping for. Regards, *Rob* ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] SotM 2017 planning

2017-01-31 Thread Rob Nickerson
this is our aim and does not constitute a guarantee to you. Once we have more certainty we will post to blog.openstreetmap.org. Should you have any questions please direct them (or at least cc them) to t...@stateofthemap.org. Best regards, *Rob* ___ ta

[OSM-talk] SotM 2018 - bids in March

2017-01-31 Thread Rob Nickerson
All, As per the SotM 2017 timeline, you will note that we will be seeking bids for SotM 2018 in March 2017. This is likely to follow a similar process to last year [1]. Should you be interested in bidding, we recommend that you contact t...@stateofthemap.org early (i.e. from now). Regards, *Rob

Re: [OSM-talk] SOTM EU

2017-01-31 Thread Rob Nickerson
e emails on the Japan event and the process for 2018. Best regards, *Rob* p.s. The SotM Working Group is available on t...@stateofthemap.org should similar questions arise. We do not actively monitor this "talk" mailing list. ___ talk mailing li

Re: [OSM-talk] Wikipedia/Wikidata admins cleanup

2017-01-04 Thread Rob Nickerson
this list does not equate to the voice of the OSM community! Best, *Rob* ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Maps.me editing

2016-12-11 Thread Rob Nickerson
restricting this type of edit? Rob ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] Maps.me editing

2016-12-10 Thread Rob Nickerson
Surely that's the true spirit of the wiki style, on the ground surveys many wish for. :-) Rob P.s. don't forget, no editing software is perfect (desktop or mobile). The best aim is to help improve the user experience to reduce the error rate. The alternative is we restrict editing to

[OSM-talk] OpenFest, Bulgaria

2016-10-04 Thread Rob Nickerson
sted! Can somebody please forward this to the local mailing list/community. *Rob* --- Begin forwarded message: We do an event in Bulgaria in November, OpenFest (http://www.openfest.org/2016/en/). It's oriented towards a somewhat technical crowd, but caters to all kind of people that work w

[OSM-talk] SotM live streams

2016-09-23 Thread Rob Nickerson
Live streams for SotM are up online. Follow along, tweet and ask questions: http://2016.stateofthemap.org/ On the program page, click a link to a talk where you can ask questions and discuss the talk. We will try to keep an eye on these and ask your questions here at SotM! -- *Rob

[OSM-talk] Send questions and discuss State of the Map talks

2016-09-20 Thread Rob Nickerson
: http://2016.stateofthemap.org/2016/openstreetmap-analytics/ We're also on twitter @sotm We are looking forward to welcoming 400 people in Brussels and the whole OSM community online :-) *Rob* ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] SotM 2016: Brussels

2016-09-06 Thread Rob Nickerson
https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2016/09/06/gather-your-birds-of-a-feather-at-state-of-the-map/ See you in Belgium! Best, *Rob* On 4 September 2016 at 23:42, Rob Nickerson wrote: > Hi all, > > It is just over 2 weeks until we meet in Brussels for State of the Map > 2016. This will be our

[OSM-talk] SotM 2016: Brussels

2016-09-04 Thread Rob Nickerson
oking your tickets early you assist us in purchasing the correct volume of t-shirts, guidebooks and food. See you in Belgium! Regards, *Rob* ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenDroneMap and Portable OSM (POSM)

2016-09-02 Thread Rob Nickerson
7;t a particularly technical group so would struggle with the image processing. If POSM did it all for us then that would be amazing! Looking forward to hearing more about POSM at State of the Map Brussels. *Rob* ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetma

[OSM-talk] Compare GPX to OSM ways

2016-08-22 Thread Rob Nickerson
That's neat. Thinking ahead it would be great if that analysis could be run when capturing GPS tracks (via a Android/iOS app) or when the GPS track is uploaded to OSM. You'd then get a notification: "Hey, you went somewhere new: please

[OSM-talk] Closing soon! State of the Map early bird tickets and our Brussels hotel deal

2016-07-27 Thread Rob Nickerson
In case you're not subscribed to our newsletter or the osm blog: Thanks to the support of our amazing sponsors we have kept the Early Bird tickets for State of the Map available for as lo

[OSM-talk] State of the Map deadlines this Saturday

2016-05-19 Thread Rob Nickerson
state-of-the-map-apply-for-a-scholarship/ *Rob* p.s. We are delighted that HOT Summit will be the day before SotM. If you want to attend both please note they are separate sign-ups. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetma

[OSM-talk] Cheap Mapillary setup

2016-05-16 Thread Rob Nickerson
Based on the new v2 Raspberry Pi Zero: https://twitter.com/mappamercia/status/732334812703379456 Would love to see one of these up and running. Would be even better if they were available by State of the Map 2016! *Rob* ___ talk mailing list talk

[OSM-talk] Workshops at State of the Map 2016

2016-05-12 Thread Rob Nickerson
ntact the SotM working group at t...@stateofthemap.org Best regards, *Rob* ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] SotM 2016 Accomodation

2016-03-01 Thread Rob Nickerson
booking sites and found nothing cheaper once breakfast and taxes had been added. The prices we have are fixed whereas booking sites trend up as availability falls. Rob On Tue, 1 Mar 2016 07:04 Jochen Topf, wrote: > On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 03:00:04PM +0000, Rob Nickerson wrote: > >

[OSM-talk] SotM 2016 Accomodation

2016-02-29 Thread Rob Nickerson
...@stateofthemap.org Hope to see you in Brussels *Rob* p.s. To stick with a commitment we made last year the call for venues for SotM 2017 opens 1st March (tomorrow). It's super early but this give us loads of time and the best chance of available venue

[OSM-talk] More accurate GPS...?

2016-02-16 Thread Rob Nickerson
Interesting read if you're in to the tech behind how GPS works: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/02/16021507.htm *Rob* ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal to close newbies@ list

2016-01-11 Thread Rob Nickerson
On 11 January 2016 at 19:22, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > > Am 11.01.2016 um 19:20 schrieb Rob Nickerson >: > > > > Would be happy to see a few other low use mailing lists closed. > > > why? > Because they are not benefiting the community but they ar

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal to close newbies@ list

2016-01-11 Thread Rob Nickerson
I agree with this proposal. Newbies@ was for non-technical first time users and other methods are probably more appropriate today. Would be happy to see a few other low use mailing lists closed. *Rob* ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https

[OSM-talk] VisualEditor on the OSM wiki

2016-01-03 Thread Rob Nickerson
syntax to make an edit :-) *Rob* ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] Community Conference

2015-12-02 Thread Rob Nickerson
know this. >Richard >But I would really caution against contrasting "corporate" and "community". +1 It's all about the getting the balance right. Keep the comments coming folks - this is great stuff :-) Best, *Rob* ___ ta

Re: [OSM-talk] Community Conference

2015-12-02 Thread Rob Nickerson
speaking to, to share their views on this too. Best wishes, *Rob* P.s There is already a placeholder for a call for venues for 2017 on the OSM wiki and I have scheduled some time in our plan to look again at the function of SotM. We want this to work for the community and for OpenStreetMap so pleas

Re: [OSM-talk] State of the Map 2016 Brussels: When? (Was: Help us make a logo! and win tickets to State of the Map 2016!)

2015-10-12 Thread Rob Nickerson
el tickets/accommodation shortly after the announcement so we need to ensure that everything is finalised before announcing. We are looking at September so still plenty of time to organise a great conference. Best Rob - SotM-WG lead ___ talk mailing

Re: [OSM-talk] Help us make a logo! (and win tickets to State of the Map 2016!)

2015-08-06 Thread Rob Nickerson
go_brief > Good luck :-) Rob ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] Help us make a logo! (and win tickets to State of the Map 2016!)

2015-07-16 Thread Rob Nickerson
(before midnight) on Saturday 15th August 2015 and we can’t wait to see your all your wonderful entries! Good luck! Rob, On behalf of the SotM WG * In fact we're delighted - this has been something we've done for previous SotM's and it is always amazing to see your

Re: [OSM-talk] Can wikidata links help fight name inflation?

2015-05-29 Thread Rob Nickerson
ecords. Removing names just because they are not "on the ground" is taking the rule too far and wastes the effort people have put it to the map. It is tagging for the routing engine - we should adopt another method to stop routing engines announcing

Re: [OSM-talk] Can wikidata links help fight name inflation?

2015-05-27 Thread Rob Nickerson
for OpenStreetMap, please use wikidata" if the contributor prefers OSM's share alike and attribution license. Best regards, Rob [1] http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q84 ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging FOR the renderer

2015-05-15 Thread Rob Nickerson
e there is nothing to stop you setting up your own map renderer and doing as you please (although good luck making it look anything other than a mess). I'm sure folks will be happy to point you in the direction of guides for setting that up. Perhaps look at

[OSM-talk] Learn Rails

2015-05-06 Thread Rob Nickerson
Code academy have added Ruby on Rails, which is what OpenStreetMap uses for the website. Learn via their online interactive learning. http://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-rails You never know, you could be contributing to OpenStreetMap code soon after :)

[OSM-talk] Case study: Lloyds TSB (Was: Chain Store Cleanup)

2015-05-02 Thread Rob Nickerson
ools to compare to external data sources, QA tools, Maproulette type tools, apps for Android, Windows phone and iOS, and yes, mechnaincal edits) would be welcome in my eyes. We need to grow our community and our toolset. Best, Rob [1] http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org.uk/search?q=name%3Dlloyds+t

Re: [OSM-talk] Chain Store Cleanup

2015-05-01 Thread Rob Nickerson
On 1 May 2015 at 20:26, Johan C wrote: > > 2015-05-01 13:36 GMT+02:00 Rob Nickerson : > >> >I think eventually chains will see the >light, and publish their >> locations in an >open format compatible manner. At >that point a quick >> cross check with

[OSM-talk] Open community (was: Chain Store Cleanup)

2015-05-01 Thread Rob Nickerson
lems in OSM data and help us to make use of new exciting third party datasets (e.g. by building tools to help us merge/"conflate" this data). Unfortunately OSM is not good at attracting software developers but we could really do with lots more devs :-) Best, Rob _

[OSM-talk] Chain Store Cleanup

2015-05-01 Thread Rob Nickerson
can merge in some of their attributes (phone number, opening hours, etc). This could be a bigger challenge! Regards, Rob ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] Next: Relation name (WAS: Removing redundant routing instructions)

2015-04-27 Thread Rob Nickerson
e approval process - I've heard it all before). Question: Should I revive the "through_route" proposal or start a new one under a different name, say "route_continues" (or just "continues") so as to avoid any ambiguity with the use of &quo

Re: [OSM-talk] Removing redundant routing instructions

2015-04-26 Thread Rob Nickerson
rovides an optimal route with user friendly route instructions. I can't believe this is an easy tag and as such I would expect the routing developers to be raising issues they cannot solve via code alone. This is one area where I would like my SatNav not to spew redundant instructio

[OSM-talk] Removing redundant routing instructions

2015-04-26 Thread Rob Nickerson
better worded). I've tried to add extra nodes so that the road naturally bends but the main routing engines still tell you to "turn". == Question == Could we benefit from a new route relation? For example a "route_continues" relation? Would others find this useful? Re

[OSM-talk] Routing over areas

2015-04-20 Thread Rob Nickerson
Interesting article for any routing experts: http://anitagraser.com/2015/04/17/routing-in-polygon-layers-yes-we-can/ Rob ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] SotM 2016: Call for venues - Last Week

2015-04-07 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi all, Just one more weekend until the call for venues for State of the Map 2016 closes. We've also got the website up and running thanks to Tom H and the Operations Working Group. I'm getting excited and we still have a long way to go! www.stateofthemap.org Regards, Your SotM team

[OSM-talk] Taginfo challenge

2015-03-15 Thread Rob Nickerson
to manually assess and fix possible tag errors (a sort of maproulette on steroids that creates tasks based on a users behaviour rather than a list of predefined tasks). For now though it would be good to link taginfo to maproulette in some way. Rob __

[OSM-talk] Call for Venues for State of the Map 2016 - now open!

2015-03-10 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi all, It's emails like this that I really enjoy writing but Richard's beat me too it :-(. Ah well I had it written anyway so might as well hit send :-) --- The state of the map working group are delighted to announce that the call for venues for 2016 is now open! http://wiki.openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Quality of OSM Notes

2015-02-20 Thread Rob Nickerson
few words (and I'm sure if it made sense without it mapbox would drop the word "what's" too :-) ). I wonder if the mapbox guys have a breakdown of the notes they receive - what is their quality note to junk ratio? https://www.mapbox.com/blog/streamlining-map-feedback/ Best, R

[OSM-talk] Routing on osm.org

2015-02-16 Thread Rob Nickerson
Congratulations to all those who were involved in getting directions/routing on openstreetmap.org :-) Worth the wait and will hopefully encourage mappers to contribute more turn restrictions and other routing related info. Cheers, Rob ___ talk mailing

[OSM-talk] Spring 2015 (Was: "guide to vandalism” in OSM?)

2015-02-14 Thread Rob Nickerson
> Pierre wrote: >We have to think of OSM as a global community where not all countires are >equal with access to internet and computers. Often, people have smartphones >and could contribute. >Adding a note with photo would greatly help. The @osmthis Twitter tag let's do >this. But it is uneasy

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

2015-01-05 Thread Rob Nickerson
There have been a couple of threads on OpenStreetMap’s mailing list this month to do with change. The first, entitled “Request for feedback: new building colours in openstreetmap-carto”, is all to do with a change to the way the default map style *looks* on openstreetmap.org. The second, “MEP – pip

Re: [OSM-talk] Skybox for good imagery test

2014-11-30 Thread Rob Nickerson
hat Mikel wrote, but in any >case there is more than enough fuzziness to sit quiet at this point in time. > >Simon > Thanks Simon, I hadn't seen that. Will speak with Mikel. Rob ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Skybox for good imagery test

2014-11-29 Thread Rob Nickerson
e the following statement: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2014-October/071318.html Whilst a more formal written text is sitting with Mike Collinson and we hope to have him and LWG ok it soon. Best, Rob p.s. Any comments on alignment very welcome especially if evidenced with GPS traces

Re: [OSM-talk] Request for feedback: new building colours in openstreetmap-carto

2014-11-27 Thread Rob Nickerson
I would be tempted to go a little bit darker - not much but right now the proposal looks very washed out against the background and the contrast between buildings and churches is very stark. But in general this is a good idea. Rob ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] Is there some loop trip founder?

2014-11-26 Thread Rob Nickerson
Take a look at http://walks.io/ as a good starting point. Regards, Rob ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] 176k Wikidata tags to add to OSM

2014-11-25 Thread Rob Nickerson
need to review the Sep-Oct comments on talk mailing list. Regards, Rob ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] Project #OSMselfie

2014-11-17 Thread Rob Nickerson
Nice idea. Too often our communications are faceless and I wonder if this in any way has an effect on the tone of the discussions (that is, would we be more polite if we could 'see' the person we are talking too)? Rob p.s. The more time I spend on the mailing lists, the more I see them

Re: [OSM-talk] Your chance to host State of the Map 2015

2014-10-28 Thread Rob Nickerson
le to support. A venue would be great but not essential (hopefully a year in advance in a large city still leaves lots of suitable venues left). Rob P.s If it turns out to be too much of a challenge I guess the deadline will just have to slip back beyond SotM 2014. On 28 Oct 2014 01:53, "Michael

[OSM-talk] Skybox release aerial imagery

2014-10-27 Thread Rob Nickerson
great day :-) Best, Rob ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Applications to the Local Chapter Agreement

2014-10-25 Thread Rob Nickerson
w groups I was unaware of :-) All the best, Rob *Jóhannes Birgir Jensson* *Thu Oct 23 08:47:05 UTC 2014* -- On behalf of the Icelandic applicants we are fairly sure that we are the only ones representing our area and we will strive hard to include others who will be or a

[OSM-talk] Simon Poole resigns

2014-10-23 Thread Rob Nickerson
ne for now as heat of the moment messages can turn out to be very bad). Thank you Simon for your work and input into the OSMF Board. Regards, Rob ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] AGM announcements

2014-10-23 Thread Rob Nickerson
is a good thing, but in this case I feel we could have got an initial message out with the formal confirmation following. Best, Rob ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] A Better Map<\strike> community

2014-10-22 Thread Rob Nickerson
ght now I'm not sure I would. (In regards to that last one I know I wouldn't be supported because I've raised it before and got nowhere. And getting a sotm banner on osm.org can be an uphill battle too!) Regards, Rob [1] http://www.o

[OSM-talk] Applications to the Local Chapter Agreement

2014-10-22 Thread Rob Nickerson
local groups that feel they represent the geographic regions included in the first three applications. Also I'm curious :-) Best, Rob [1] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/osmf-talk/2014-October/002697.html [2] http://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Local_OSMF_Cha

[OSM-talk] SotM 2014 program and AGM

2014-10-22 Thread Rob Nickerson
this years program together, including all who submitted a talk for consideration, the evaluation team, and the local sotm team for putting the final program together (it's no small task to try to put talks of a similar theme together within the limits of time and available rooms).

[OSM-talk] Adding Wikidata tags to 70k items automatically

2014-10-19 Thread Rob Nickerson
hing I recall Edward was working on some adjustments based on a constructive review of his work. Assuming these are resolved then let's push forwards. Rob ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: Your chance to host State of the Map 2015

2014-10-18 Thread Rob Nickerson
so be good but not essential. Henk has kicked off the process earlier this year to give more time to work on securing a venue. > > Rob ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] Your chance to host State of the Map 2015

2014-10-15 Thread Rob Nickerson
o why are you still reading this, get bidding :-) Regards, Rob SotM 2013 (Birmingham) local team ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] How best to create a "single point of interest" online map with OSM data?

2014-10-01 Thread Rob Nickerson
.mappa-mercia.org/2014/09/extracting-centroids-from-openstreetmap.html Hope this helps. As for the issue of too many points, one option is to have uMap collect data dynamically (as per our guide) and restrict to only showing data when at a certain zoom level or above (with clustering at lower zoom le

[OSM-talk] The problem of mapping temporary features

2014-09-07 Thread Rob Nickerson
data has been removed from OpenStreetMap [1]. This is a good example of why we need to be very careful mapping temporary features. Many data users update infrequently. Suggestions of how to get the balance right are welcome. Regards, Rob [1] http://osmapa.pl/#lat=51.0220&lon=-2.8997&z

[OSM-talk] Adding Wikidata tags to 70k items automatically

2014-08-30 Thread Rob Nickerson
this thinking need to be done sooner. We'll have to cross this question even if this import doesn't occur. Regards, Rob ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] Adding Wikidata tags to 70k items automatically

2014-08-29 Thread Rob Nickerson
ing whether the script conflicts with any existing wikidata tags in OSM, checking whether the script would add a wikidata tag to an object when there is already a different object in OSM with that wikidata tag, and a check on the 400m distance rule [2]. Are these things possible Edward? Regards, Rob

[OSM-talk] Adding Wikidata tags to 70k items automatically

2014-08-27 Thread Rob Nickerson
manually. At which stage you end up with some wikidata tags in OSM, an API based on Edward's work, and no doubt lots of overlap and wasted effort. In summary I'm not sure an API is a good strategy. Instead I support the proposed import. Regards, Rob P.s. I consider myself part of th

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging of private roads

2014-08-10 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi Matthijs, Spotted the following sign related to your "tagging of private roads" discussion the other day. Enjoy :-) https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6J5ZA1hu93beGxtSTVGeUR2aFRqQzdaYXNGR0d6WlBhQXFr/edit?usp=sharing Rob ___ talk mailing

[OSM-talk] UK public footpaths (was: Upcoming openstreetmap-carto changes)

2014-07-25 Thread Rob Nickerson
valid way of tagging (i.e. close off access to all transport types and then overwrite for people on foot, as per the access hierarchy) The exception to the rule is if you tag the route as highway=path. In this case access tags are required. Regards, Rob

Re: [OSM-talk] Wiki VisualEditor (Was: Wiki translate extension)

2014-07-24 Thread Rob Nickerson
;s wiki. I don't blame Grant - he works hard to keep everything up and running and as such a "stable" version is a reasonable request. If anything it's the visualeditor developers who need to hurry up and stop pushing the requirements u

Re: [OSM-talk] Wiki translate extension

2014-07-24 Thread Rob Nickerson
ge updated, translations not updated, or a non-English page updated and not copied back to the English page (in any language). I'd encourage people to copy between the pages even if they just mark the text as needing translating. Regards, Rob [1] You could also copy it to other language pages, but at a b

Re: [OSM-talk] Wiki translate extension

2014-07-24 Thread Rob Nickerson
>What we really need is people actually editing the Wiki in the first >place and in my opinion the best way to get people to do so would be a >better editor: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor > There's an issue for this on trac [1] but the main problem is that the extension moved from re

Re: [OSM-talk] Come back Osmarender, all is forgiven!

2014-06-23 Thread Rob Nickerson
dded, and a few things get removed. As for a "show it all map", I guess this is where Vector Tiles may help in the future. Meanwhile we have a lot of rendering options available, it's also easier than ever to create your own, and tools like Overpass Turbo allow you to on-the-fly

Re: [OSM-talk] We need a name!

2014-06-19 Thread Rob Nickerson
these 3 projects, that way we don't need to change the name as things evolve. :-) Rob On 19 June 2014 23:13, Clifford Snow wrote: > Open Historical Map which already has a website www.openhistoricalmap.org > > > On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 1:04 PM, Rob Nickerson > wrote: > >

Re: [OSM-talk] We need a name!

2014-06-19 Thread Rob Nickerson
I've had a couple of responses off list. These are: * Constructing the past * something with "crowd" in it? Thanks, for these good ideas. Any more suggestions? Rob On 18 June 2014 21:04, Rob Nickerson wrote: > A few OSM members interested in historic maps are working on ou

[OSM-talk] We need a name!

2014-06-18 Thread Rob Nickerson
- Historic Building Outliner We're after your thoughts - which name works best? Is there some amazing name we haven't thought of yet? Best, Rob (RobJN) p.s. You're more than welcome to help in other ways. We're on the historic mailing

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-GB] Fwd: Adding links to Wikidata (and Wikipedia?)

2014-06-17 Thread Rob Nickerson
spark some interest amongst osm developers. Rob On 17 Jun 2014 23:24, "John Packer" wrote: To make this process smoother, it could be good to do things such as retrieve the target object location according to Nominatim and show the wikidata page or preferably the wikipedia page on X lang

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-GB] Fwd: Adding links to Wikidata (and Wikipedia?)

2014-06-17 Thread Rob Nickerson
of_worship then we have a bigger problem!! A script that flags these up for human interaction would be a great start (one for maproulette?) but I'm hoping under tight controls we will find that the level of accuracy is high enough to consider automation. I'm not here to force au

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-GB] Fwd: Adding links to Wikidata (and Wikipedia?)

2014-06-17 Thread Rob Nickerson
devs. We may have more luck looking on the Wikimedia Commons community. Regards, Rob ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] openstreetmap-carto updates

2014-06-10 Thread Rob Nickerson
t SOTM just how popular this was (sorry for the room fiasco Andy) so I'm sure there will be a lot of other people who are equally delighted to see this latest update. Thanks to all involved. Best, Rob ___ talk mailing list talk@ope

[OSM-talk] This has to stop: User Diaries Spam

2014-05-14 Thread Rob Nickerson
ailing lists and IRC are simply not known about by average Joe. I'm glad to see the Google Summer of Code project as a good first start: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/details/google/gsoc2014/ukasiu/5724160613416960 Rob ___ talk mailin

[OSM-talk] Info on SOTM (WAS: No new information on the SOTM since January 2014)

2014-04-07 Thread Rob Nickerson
from here in the UK). I'll send you some tips and the feedback results from last year - although I expect Henk may have done that already. Best wishes, Rob ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] No new information on the SOTM since January 2014

2014-04-05 Thread Rob Nickerson
uring SOTM US). This year we won't have that problem. I would expect there will be more announcements post SOTM FR and SOTM US. Best regards, Rob [1] https://blog.openstreetmap.org/about/ * If anyone would like the OSMF to expand their role then they can put themselves forwa

Re: [OSM-talk] No new information on the SOTM since January 2014

2014-04-04 Thread Rob Nickerson
. The conference was in early September. Based on these dates (if you add two months to each to reflect that SOTM is two months later) we are still ahead of last years schedule. Regards, Rob On 4 April 2014 22:59, Rob Nickerson wrote: > >SOTM EU and US, combined with the OSMF focus on

Re: [OSM-talk] No new information on the SOTM since January 2014

2014-04-04 Thread Rob Nickerson
already been confirmed to be held in Buenos Aires): https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2014/01/12/buenos-aires-hosts-sotm14/ Hold tight, these things take time to organise. If you are able to help, then get in touch with Henk who will appreciate the help. Rob __

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