Re: [OSM-talk] Questionnaire

2019-03-23 Thread ajt1...@gmail.com
On 23/03/2019 10:16, Vincent Bergeot wrote: Le 23/03/2019 à 10:56, Daniela Šedlárová a écrit : Good day, My name ist Daniela and I´m a student of geography. Please fill out the questionnaire for my thesis. The It takes you about 10 minutes. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdSZIjLltmnY

Re: [OSM-talk] Relation #2632934 is "killing" differential update

2019-02-11 Thread ajt1...@gmail.com
On 11/02/2019 10:59, Roland Olbricht wrote: There must have happened something ugly at versions 99 and 106: https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/FYm Thanks for that - yet again something useful in overpass-turbo ("make stat") that I had no idea existed.  Is there any documentation about it anywhere? 

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Undiscussed mass-revert by user Nakaner-repair

2018-04-22 Thread ajt1...@gmail.com
On 23/04/2018 03:40, Jack Armstrong dan...@sprynet.com wrote: I fully support the efforts of Nakaner. There are 6-8 users creating a mess in the Denver, Colorado area. What'd really help matters would be if local mappers could comment on changesets by new mappers (both "good" and "bad").  I se

Re: [OSM-talk] Unify Mapping and wiki accounts? -- WAS: Vote cheating?

2018-03-18 Thread ajt1...@gmail.com
On 18/03/2018 19:45, Richard wrote: fundamental decission - maybe osm and osm-wiki accounts should be the same? Interestingly, there's recently been a suggestion on OSMF-talk about an "OSMF-owned engine for social surveys": https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/osmf-talk/2018-March/005

Re: [OSM-talk] AI With Satellite Images for OpenStreetMap

2018-02-11 Thread ajt1...@gmail.com
On 10/02/2018 20:52, john whelan wrote: My personal reaction is this is frightening. Already we have buildings mapped twice and unless the import is done very very carefully I can see problems ahead. This sort of thing has been tried before, with varying degrees of success.  Facebook tried

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM maps that are accessible for the visually impaired

2017-12-12 Thread ajt1...@gmail.com
On 12/12/2017 14:28, john whelan wrote: Are you asking specifically for ones that run on Apple systems or would another operating system be acceptable? It's not actually me that's asking, so I can't add too much, but I suspect that the explicit mention of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VoiceOv

[OSM-talk] OSM maps that are accessible for the visually impaired

2017-12-12 Thread ajt1...@gmail.com
Someone's just asked a question over on the forum asking about "OSM maps that are accessible for the visually impaired" https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?pid=676783#p676783 .  I said I'd ask here as this list probably has a wider readership. Question from forum follows: "we are c

Re: [OSM-talk] Planned rendering changes of protected areas

2017-11-30 Thread ajt1...@gmail.com
On 30/11/2017 13:46, Daniel Koć wrote: 1. Currently leisure=nature_reserve (old scheme) and boundary=* (new scheme) are frequently tagged in parallel, and it looks like the old scheme is used as a hack just to make it visible on default map. Just to chuck one example in - I've tagged lots of

Re: [OSM-talk] Spam/Report user

2017-11-26 Thread ajt1...@gmail.com
On 26/11/2017 22:11, Max wrote: There is only info on how to delete content by spammers. No way to bring users to the attention of admins other then comments of changesets. Hi, I've updated the three last sections with what I believe are currently the most effective ways of dealing with spam

Re: [OSM-talk] New tool/API to find local OSM mailing lists by location

2017-11-26 Thread ajt1...@gmail.com
On 25/11/2017 19:18, joost schouppe wrote: That's really cool. What would it take to merge more sources in there? For example the main community e-mail address, their activities calendar, their riot/telegram/slack group? Maybe a structured wiki page could be the source? Firstly, it's a grea

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

2017-11-25 Thread ajt1...@gmail.com
On 24/11/2017 21:18, Dave F wrote: On 24/11/2017 07:59, joost schouppe wrote: For example, "Skipped" to me means "meh, didn't feel like doing this task". No! it's an option to ignore the task if the user doesn't think there's anything wrong. Maproulette is based on guesswork. A task doesn't

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

2017-11-25 Thread ajt1...@gmail.com
On 19/11/2017 20:59, Martijn van Exel wrote: For those who have used MapRoulette or at least have a good understanding of what it does: what would be the *one top thing* for you that would make it better? Most importantly, I'd try and make it a bit more obvious what it is.  When you go to

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

2017-11-09 Thread ajt1...@gmail.com
On 09/11/2017 20:48, Yuri Astrakhan wrote: JB, the "layer=0 removal" is one of the JOSM validations - it automatically gets suggested to anyone editing an area with that object, with the "fix" button autofixing it. JOSM doesn't have a "mark this autofix as invalid" button, which means that even

Re: [OSM-talk] weeklyOSM #379 2017-10-17-2017-10-23

2017-10-28 Thread ajt1...@gmail.com
On 28/10/2017 14:53, Blake Girardot wrote: ... Please read his personal page on the wiki to understand his overall goal and why to achieve it he has made a lot (like thousands) of edits: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Verdy_p I've read many, many screeds written by him over the last

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

2017-10-15 Thread ajt1...@gmail.com
On 15/10/2017 13:04, Yuri Astrakhan wrote: Andu, with all due respect, you are misrepresenting things.  I have received praises on OSM-RU channel, and that's where I got my first bug reports and suggestions that were quickly fixed.  The current mailing thread also received a praise from Steve.

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

2017-10-15 Thread ajt1...@gmail.com
On 15/10/2017 11:04, Christoph Hormann wrote: On Sunday 15 October 2017, Yuri Astrakhan wrote: [...] I was following up on the Christoph Hormann's idea of the "bot=no" tag, to "allow mappers to opt out of bot edits on a case-by-case basis." No, you were not, likely because you misunderstood my

Re: [OSM-talk] Highway=trunk : harmonization between countries ?

2017-08-20 Thread ajt1...@gmail.com
On 20/08/2017 11:36, djakk djakk wrote: Why I want to do that ? To improve openstreetmap, this is a worldwide map and the renderer can't be adapted by countries. Sure it can - it's perfectly possible for a render to use a location-sensitive rendering (I've just done it myself). Best Rega

[OSM-talk] Has anyone cracked the code yet?

2017-07-09 Thread ajt1...@gmail.com
Over the last few months there have been lots of single-character note comments - initially in China and Russia, but recently more widespread (see for example http://www.openstreetmap.org/note/369774 ). The single-character comments seem to include cyrillic characters, which may suggest that t

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

2016-04-09 Thread ajt1...@gmail.com
On 08/04/2016 20:30, Paul Norman wrote: On 4/8/2016 7:14 AM, Roland Olbricht wrote: This constitutes a mechanical edit. Therefore, I would like to notify you that I have put a request for discussion on talk-transit@ . If you would like to discuss, please do so there. The talk-transit@ list

Re: [OSM-talk] What3words

2015-11-22 Thread ajt1...@gmail.com
On 22/11/2015 12:51, Colin Smale wrote: ...and once again, as seems to be the norm in OSM, any minority interest which is not supported by the oligarchy gets mercilessly shot down. ... except it's not _just_ the "oligarchy", is it? No-one on this list seems to have a good word for the

Re: [OSM-talk] What's the point of the Wiki 'k=v' icon?

2015-08-30 Thread ajt1...@gmail.com
On 30/08/2015 10:34, Dave F. wrote: I'm looking for either a valid reason to keep it & if there is none, remove it. Poor/lazy wiki page design doesn't seem a valid one. Neither is giving irrelevant, baffling info to newbies. We're meant to be encouraging people to join in, not turn them a

Re: [OSM-talk] List of OSM-based services

2015-08-23 Thread ajt1...@gmail.com
On 23/08/2015 12:31, Andrew Hain wrote: As part of an article on the diversity of OSM-based mapping I’m looking to check if the list at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/List_of_OSM-based_services is up to date, including sites and especially map styles that may not have been noted. A quic

Re: [OSM-talk] landcover=trees

2015-08-16 Thread ajt1...@gmail.com
On 16/08/2015 21:27, Lester Caine wrote: The tree areas that are within the farmland area are NOT now farmland and probably never were Can you point to a "tree area within farmland"? I couldn't see one when I had a quick look. It's slightly confusing because the multipolygon is pulling th

Re: [OSM-talk] landcover=trees

2015-08-16 Thread ajt1...@gmail.com
On 15/08/2015 21:42, Lester Caine wrote: My quick fix for any new rendering is simply to switch off 'farmland' so that the tree blocks it masks actually display. http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/245442613 is an example of the problem, as are the adjacent areas to the right, while to the left th

Re: [OSM-talk] landcover=trees

2015-08-16 Thread ajt1...@gmail.com
On 15/08/2015 20:59, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: ... And then there are areas where actually trees grow, sometimes in a forest and sometimes elsewhere. That's where landcover trees seems appropriate for me. Maybe a diary entry explaining your point of view on this in detail would help her

Re: [OSM-talk] Best base to build on ...

2015-08-16 Thread ajt1...@gmail.com
On 16/08/2015 01:46, Paul Norman wrote: ... The problem with Tilemill is that is is abandoned, and includes in-program text editing, which adds significant complexity to the codebase, and this text editing does not function with large complex styles. FWIW I've always used TileMill with an e

Re: [OSM-talk] History of specific areas

2015-08-13 Thread ajt1...@gmail.com
On 13/08/2015 07:22, Maarten Deen wrote: Is there a tool available to search for the history of items in a specific area? OSM History Viewer only works if you have the id of an object. I don't have the id for the node, I just know something was there and has been deleted at some point. If w