Re: [OSM-talk] Ground truth for non-physical objects

2018-12-11 Thread Victor Shcherb
I think, the problem that rule says "on-the-ground" and if it doesn't mean on-the-ground and people *cannot find it, * for example there is no sign at all like houses missing the number plate or abandonned houses or forest / national park divisions. Indeed, mail address is one of the possibility

Re: [OSM-talk] Feature Proposal - RFC - Mapping disputed boundaries

2018-11-27 Thread Victor Shcherb
Hi All, It might sound a bit critical but I believe the ways *without a role * in admin_level=2 creates more confusion than bring value. First of all, the biggest value of admin_level=2: - to identify country as it is in UN - to have name translated in different languages - to have extra tags

Re: [OSM-talk] Distribution of OSM ids could be much more useful!

2018-11-25 Thread Victor Shcherb
Sorry messed up with interface, my reply was to Paul Norman but I didn't get his message so replied to a wrong email. I mentionned Permanent id because OSM anyway failed to implement it or didn't want to have it with sequential id. Best Regards, Victor On Sun, 25 Nov 2018 at 16:13, Tomas

Re: [OSM-talk] Distribution of OSM ids could be much more useful!

2018-11-25 Thread Victor Shcherb
Yes, I threw the idea slightly unprepared to create a discussion. May be it shouldn't be that revolutionary as using 30 bits for geo-location index but *16 bits *wouldn't change much. As I see, we are talking *density vs geo-index.* I understand, your point that most of (or some) software is

[OSM-talk] Distribution of OSM ids could be much more useful!

2018-11-25 Thread Victor Shcherb
Hi All, As we know OSM id for nodes exceeded long time ago 2^32 and keep growing on the other hand the ids itself are pretty useless because they don't represent history good enough and also they couldn't implement principle of Permanent ID (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Permanent_ID). I

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

2018-11-22 Thread Victor Shcherb
Hi All, I followed many topics for the last 3 days about the Ukraine/Crimea and I would like to propose another look to all known issues. *DISCLAIMER:* First of all, I would like to thank everybody for staying calm and considering all views for this *non-trivial* problem. Originally, I'm from