Re: [OSM-talk] Precisions about tourism=chalet (was Re: RFC - tourism=chalets)

2016-03-30 Thread sly (sylvain letuffe)
Sorry wrong list, [tagging] is better suited for that, I'll forward there. - -- sly, contact direct : sylvain /a\ letuffe o r g http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Sletuffe -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/RFC-tourism-chalets-tp5212039p5870992.html Sent f

[OSM-talk] Precisions about tourism=chalet (was Re: RFC - tourism=chalets)

2016-03-30 Thread sly (sylvain letuffe)
Current tag page is here : http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:tourism%3Dchalet My questions copied from talk page : As a non native english speaker, I have no clues about what a chalet is supposed to be (in french, a chalet is a type of construction found in the mountain made of wood and does

Re: [OSM-talk] Mechanically Cleaning Up FIXME Tags

2015-02-28 Thread sly (sylvain letuffe)
brycenesbitt wrote > about mechanically reversing: > > fixme=set␣better␣denotation > denotation=cluster Agreed on this one. And with 222k objects, that is a really big clean up. - -- sly, contact direct : sylvain /a\ letuffe o r g http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Sletuffe -- V

Re: [OSM-talk] Mechanically Cleaning Up FIXME Tags

2015-02-25 Thread sly (sylvain letuffe)
brycenesbitt wrote > It's also possible to turn some of those like > "could_be_dunes_or_beach" into notes, rather than FIXME. -1 Don't push dust under another carpet - -- sly, contact direct : sylvain /a\ letuffe o r g http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Sletuffe -- View this message

Re: [OSM-talk] Mechanically Cleaning Up FIXME Tags

2015-02-25 Thread sly (sylvain letuffe)
> But mass-removing that import's fixmes I meant : "mass-removing the import's objects" -- sly, direct contact : sylv...@letuffe.org http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Sletuffe - -- sly, contact direct : sylvain /a\ letuffe o r g http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Sletuffe --

Re: [OSM-talk] Mechanically Cleaning Up FIXME Tags

2015-02-25 Thread sly (sylvain letuffe)
On mercredi 25 février 2015, you wrote: > +1, in any case it seems more likely that the problems gets fixed with a > fixme tag than without. -1 I do think this is is only true in a short term view. Push that reasoning to the extrem, should we add fixme=* tags for every QA tool report, people will

Re: [OSM-talk] Mechanically Cleaning Up FIXME Tags

2015-02-25 Thread sly (sylvain letuffe)
I agree with Tordanik that automated addition of fixme=* tags to previously existing objects (just like set better denotation on natural=tree) is counter productive, and not only displays warning on JOSM, but make my days on the ground worst as my osmand is showing non human asked corrections. (Bet

Re: [OSM-talk] minutely update DB

2012-11-14 Thread sly (sylvain letuffe)
Le mardi 13 novembre 2012 00:11:26, ciprian niculescu a écrit : > On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 2:21 PM, sly (sylvain letuffe) wrote: > > On lundi 12 novembre 2012, ciprian niculescu wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > Hi, > > Medium size answer : It does exists for some ar

Re: [OSM-talk] minutely update DB

2012-11-12 Thread sly (sylvain letuffe)
On lundi 12 novembre 2012, ciprian niculescu wrote: > Hello, Hi, > I'm wondering why it don't exist the possibility to have minutely updates > (or hourly) for a country? Short answer : because no one bothered to provide that for all countries. Medium size answer : It does exists for some areas

[OSM-talk] What are the technical functions you miss the most as an OSM contributor ?

2012-10-23 Thread sly (sylvain letuffe)
Hi to OSM contributors , You are a rather long standing OSM contributor and adding data on regular basis in OSM ? You are aware of dozens of editors, tools, tricks to improve your day to day mapping efficiency ? But your are still missing things ? Then I'd like to hear your voice in a test atte

Re: [OSM-talk] Standard way across edits to tag changesets

2012-10-21 Thread sly (sylvain letuffe)
tags (e.g. a filename or unique ID which allows you to find > which upload failed if problems are later found) Sure, whatever my table contains, every one is free to add specific tags, since, anyway, they'll have to create special analysis tools to handle ID or filename imports problems -- sly (sylvain letuffe) ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Standard way across edits to tag changesets

2012-10-21 Thread sly (sylvain letuffe)
th what has been done is more important than the tag's name. -- sly (sylvain letuffe) ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] Standard way across edits to tag changesets

2012-10-21 Thread sly (sylvain letuffe)
s it isn't about tagging objects but changesets. I'll move there however if you think it is more appropriate. -- sly (sylvain letuffe) ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] Alternative to the 2nd account requirement for imports

2012-10-21 Thread sly (sylvain letuffe)
Hi, ( Concerning the current discussion about french cadastre import, but also could apply to other types of imports, and following Richard's proposition. ) In order to try reaching a more peacefull atmosphere about the french cadastre import, I'd like to suggest an alternative to the current

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

2012-10-18 Thread sly (sylvain letuffe)
Hi Peter, > To set these in josm use the corresponding tab in the upload dialog of > JOSM. Sorry for beeing unclear, yes I know that, I was refering to the other way round. A way to automatically add changeset tags in JOSM, without "I forgot, too long, too hard, too..." based on a previous im

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

2012-10-18 Thread sly (sylvain letuffe)
Hi martin, > please also see the other side's motivation: there is good reason not > to put meta data into the main database but on a changeset level, You have to prove such a claim and then compare it to the "bad reasons not to" > http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/source#values > (There are

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

2012-10-18 Thread sly (sylvain letuffe)
[I know it might be painfull to continue this discussion on talk, but it's even worse on talk-fr as lots of people don't read english and will be anoyed by this discussion, so I'm switching to an english talking mailing list] Frederik, > See, the same applies to DWG as well. It is utterly triv

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMI Boundaries Views

2012-09-22 Thread sly (sylvain letuffe)
ld wide, and admin_level 4,5,6,7,8,10 are in seperate layers. This tool was created for France at first, but then extended to world coverage. In case you absolutely need the admin_level 9 (not used in France) I can add it if that's needed. -- sly

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines proposal update

2012-09-21 Thread sly (sylvain letuffe)
On vendredi 21 septembre 2012, SomeoneElse wrote: > sly (sylvain letuffe) wrote: > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks/248 because that poor guy > > doesn't read english, was following what we've always done. > Surely they're exactly the sort of

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines proposal update

2012-09-21 Thread sly (sylvain letuffe)
On vendredi 21 septembre 2012, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, Hi again, > This is not about "one rule". This is about the whole question of rules > and authority. No problems, let's also talk about rules and authority. But we (french community) are facing one problem right now, not "problems", on

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines proposal update

2012-09-21 Thread sly (sylvain letuffe)
On jeudi 20 septembre 2012, Lester Caine wrote: > sly (sylvain letuffe) wrote: > >> The 'mechanisms' that we use MUST be managed centrally, > > What are you talking about ? What "mechanisms" are you refering to ? > > Simply the methods by which data

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines proposal update

2012-09-21 Thread sly (sylvain letuffe)
On jeudi 20 septembre 2012, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, Hi, > If the negative effects however affect other/different people - perhaps > because they are using the API outside of specifications, or causing > more work for people elsewhere in the project - then they can't. I can only fully agree

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines proposal update

2012-09-20 Thread sly (sylvain letuffe)
> The 'mechanisms' that we use MUST be managed centrally, What are you talking about ? What "mechanisms" are you refering to ? > and it is this mechanism that is currently BROKEN when handling > imported data? Are you talking about the mechanism that "the dwg is blocking users not using a de

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines proposal update

2012-09-20 Thread sly (sylvain letuffe)
> > I'd like to propose a change on the wiki page : > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines > > I think that imports, or all automated edits, have multiple aspects. Up to that point, we fully agree. > there's also the technical or procedural aspect (...) > I don't think these s

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

2012-09-20 Thread sly (sylvain letuffe)
On jeudi 20 septembre 2012, Marc SIBERT wrote: > > The complete > > ignorance of any contact (threre have been two or three tries) was the > > reason for the (short term) block, not the disregard of the guidelines. > > > In fact I *did* answer twice, in March & September. I explain my point of > vi

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines proposal update

2012-09-19 Thread sly (sylvain letuffe)
> The really obvious example of this is the Polish UMP data, which was > licensed CC-BY-SA and could not be kept post-licence change. If dedicated > accounts had been used, removing this data would have been relatively easy; > in reality, it has been (and continues to be) a nightmare. :( Although

[OSM-talk] Import guidelines proposal update

2012-09-19 Thread sly (sylvain letuffe)
Hi, I've read the rather long thread "Import guidelines & OSMF/DWG governance" and I'd like to propose a change on the wiki page : http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines (you can also read and comment on my proposal change on the talk page if you wish to keep this list trafic lower

[OSM-talk] ODL switch, will data be removed ?

2009-12-11 Thread sly (sylvain letuffe)
vote A two rounds voting might help maybe ? (And the gun will only be used on the second round, which might not be what some want) -- sly Sylvain Letuffe li...@letuffe.org qui suis-je : http://slyserv.dyndns.org ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] [tagging] RFC - military boundary for areas used by military

2009-10-12 Thread sly (sylvain letuffe)
ermit that) Comment on the wiki welcome -- sly Sylvain Letuffe li...@letuffe.org qui suis-je : http://slyserv.dyndns.org ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] RFC : landuse=salt_pond for artificial Salt evaporation ponds

2009-05-28 Thread sly (sylvain letuffe)
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Salt_Pond -- sly Sylvain Letuffe li...@letuffe.org qui suis-je : http://slyserv.dyndns.org ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Osm2pgsql and column names with two underscores

2009-03-30 Thread sly (sylvain letuffe)
lace where the error occurs? Looks like I went lucky : # grep 24 output-pgsql.c char buffer[1024]; char buffer[1024]; char osmtype[24]; char tag[24]; char datatype[24]; Recompiling osm2pgsql might help, if that limit of 24 is not present elsewhere -- sly S

talk@openstreetmap.org

2009-03-27 Thread sly (sylvain letuffe)
out having to guess if highway=footway isn't more clever because BOTH are to go on that... path -- sly Sylvain Letuffe li...@letuffe.org qui suis-je : http://slyserv.dyndns.org ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] (French/Legal) Legal clarification of using the French Cadastral plans

2009-03-23 Thread sly (sylvain letuffe)
9" > (e.g.) > Then I may: > > Trace buildings, plots, rivers, and administrative boundaries. You've got it 100% right. -- sly Sylvain Letuffe li...@letuffe.org qui suis-je : http://slyserv.dyndns.org ___ talk mailing list talk@

Re: [OSM-talk] immutable=yes Fwd: DEC Lands

2009-03-16 Thread sly (sylvain letuffe)
here else as shapefiles, or whatever format and create a combined map of both. > It's easy enough to set > up your own map render with any external data you want. Wether it's easy or hard is irrelevant to me. -- sly Sylvain Letuffe li...@letuffe.org

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenPisteMap: Cross Country Ski Trails.

2009-03-02 Thread sly (sylvain letuffe)
well, puting in somewhere on a way might be problematic has someone might mive the node along the way, but if properly tagged at a mountain_pass, a peak, a crossing, I would find it very usefull. -- sly Sylvain Letuffe li...@letuffe.org qui suis-je : http://slyserv.dyndns.org

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan - better on legal@

2009-02-27 Thread sly (sylvain letuffe)
on't force anyone to follow the discussion he is not interesting in. This announce as been made, I'd perfer you to continue talking about it on legal. -- sly Sylvain Letuffe li...@letuffe.org qui suis-je : http://slyserv.dyndns.org ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] oneway yes or true

2009-02-27 Thread sly (sylvain letuffe)
ow the "process" so I let it like that. > I'd argue that perhaps you should try simplifying the stylesheets > and then people will understand why the maplint highlighting was > important... ;) Your wishes are on their way, at least on my renderer where I don't repeat

Re: [OSM-talk] oneway yes or true

2009-02-27 Thread sly (sylvain letuffe)
tware to consider an undocummented value to be the default when there is no value rather than making a guess. But your point is valid as well in the oneway case. > That's the place where mappers and developers look up the semantics of > key-value -pairs. Agreed -- sly Sylvain Letu

Re: [OSM-talk] oneway yes or true

2009-02-27 Thread sly (sylvain letuffe)
Looks like Ed was faster than me doing it on the wiki. Also I would have prefered a bit of talking since some people seams to prefere 1/0 rather than yes/no -- sly Sylvain Letuffe li...@letuffe.org qui suis-je : http://slyserv.dyndns.org ___ ta

Re: [OSM-talk] oneway yes or true

2009-02-27 Thread sly (sylvain letuffe)
R760 | 3 true; 1; true | 2 yes; yes; true; yes; yes | 2 hy | 2 no;yes | 2 +1 | 2 maybe | 2 no?

Re: [OSM-talk] oneway yes or true

2009-02-27 Thread sly (sylvain letuffe)
inking cheese so we can still do a face to face (first under the table won) -- sly Sylvain Letuffe li...@letuffe.org qui suis-je : http://slyserv.dyndns.org ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] oneway yes or true

2009-02-27 Thread sly (sylvain letuffe)
still my point stands, I don't care about yes or true, I care about avoiding duplicates. Coluche a french humorist approximatively said : "If I have to disagree with some people, I prefere to disagree with less numerous" I do tag oneway=yes -- sly Sylvain Letuffe

Re: [OSM-talk] oneway yes or true

2009-02-27 Thread sly (sylvain letuffe)
an towards humans" "shame on software unable to parse yes/no" -- sly Sylvain Letuffe li...@letuffe.org qui suis-je : http://slyserv.dyndns.org ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] oneway yes or true

2009-02-27 Thread sly (sylvain letuffe)
changing them I'm fighting for, but for that : http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-fr/2009-January/006179.html ( don't want to waste time translating, but get help from google translator if you want to read my story ) > Eek - people are really doing this? I am -- sly Sylvain

Re: [OSM-talk] amenity=doctor or amenity=doctors ? & other duplicate tags [tagging]

2009-02-24 Thread sly (sylvain letuffe)
y you'll see my tries (after a discussion of wich noone cared of) Then someone undid my change with the reason : "because it shows an error in maplint" and that's anoying ;-)) -- sly Sylvain Letuffe li...@letuffe.org qui suis-je : http://slyserv.dyndns.org

Re: [OSM-talk] amenity=doctor or amenity=doctors ? & other duplicate tags [tagging]

2009-02-24 Thread sly (sylvain letuffe)
rly and people can change as they find things, and you > can remove the duplicate handling and extra docs when the number as > reduced to a "low" level. I would do that too, but not in the same order. -- sly Sylvain Letuffe li...@letuffe.org qui suis-je : http:/

Re: [OSM-talk] amenity=doctor or amenity=doctors ? & other duplicate tags [tagging]

2009-02-24 Thread sly (sylvain letuffe)
gh bots & scripts. For data uses yes, but not for data feeding. The idea I was after with a pre-processor was to explicit those so many default values than need to be hardcoded in every routing software in order to guess that a motorway is unaccessible to pedestrians. But that's another

Re: [OSM-talk] amenity=doctor or amenity=doctors ? & other duplicate tags [tagging]

2009-02-24 Thread sly (sylvain letuffe)
of disussion, describing only one, removing the others from any documentation, removing slowly support in renderers and slowly, replace old values by new values. -- sly Sylvain Letuffe li...@letuffe.org qui suis-je : http://slyserv.dyndns.org ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik boundaries

2009-02-20 Thread sly (sylvain letuffe)
: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2009-February/013971.html dev might well be a better place to discuss this, that code could be removed if I'm the only one to use it (or pushed into a style's switch) -- sly Sylvain Letuffe li...@letuffe.org qui suis-je : http://slyserv.dynd

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Problem exporting maps

2009-02-05 Thread sly (sylvain letuffe)
may not be related -- sly Sylvain Letuffe li...@letuffe.org qui suis-je : http://slyserv.dyndns.org ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] setting up a server for a country

2009-02-04 Thread sly (sylvain letuffe)
wiki/The_Rails_Port > > > > > > This has some pointers on how to get started. > > > > I am looking at mapnik right now - since it is in python, I can handle it. All you need is here : http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mapnik It's very well done, just follow t