Re: [OSM-talk] DWG survey on organised editing

2017-09-24 Thread Greg Troxel
I think the survey asks excellent questions. One nit is that while I think the notion of paid/organized as a single notion is generally good, I do see a distinction in one area, and might have answered the anonymous question differently for the two sub-groups. Besides paid and unpaid, there is a

[OSM-talk] Label language on the Default stylesheet

2017-09-24 Thread Matthijs Melissen
Hi all, I would like to ask for your opinion on the choice of language used in the Default map on openstreetmap.org. This map (based on the openstreetmap-carto style) currently displays all labels in their native language (as defined in the 'name' tag). For example, we have a label 北京市 for Beijin

Re: [OSM-talk] An import in New Zealand, assistance requested

2017-09-24 Thread Robin Paulson
On 16 August 2017 at 06:31, Oleksiy Muzalyev wrote: > I see that these buildings have got one author who has on his statistics > page about 6 thousand edits. How do you know that these buildings were > actually imported and not drawn manually in an editor? Was there a clear > acknowledgement about

Re: [OSM-talk] An import in New Zealand, assistance requested

2017-09-24 Thread Robin Paulson
On 17 August 2017 at 01:29, Richard wrote: > soneone else has to answer that but I was under the impression that > the LINZ has been looked at in detail. It seems to be an import effort > that is underway since many years. yes, but they keep adding more and more detail to the "LINZ" pile. LINZ is

Re: [OSM-talk] An import in New Zealand, assistance requested

2017-09-24 Thread Robin Paulson
On 1 September 2017 at 02:55, Simon Poole wrote: > Sorry for responding to this late. > > Just because a specific source has been legally "OK"ed doesn't imply > that an import of all the data from a specific source is warranted and > should continue on for all times. The import guidelines are sile

Re: [OSM-talk] An import in New Zealand, assistance requested

2017-09-24 Thread Robin Paulson
On 2 September 2017 at 05:07, Éric Gillet wrote: >> Well it seems as if exactly -that- wasn't happening which is why this >> thread was started in the first place. Seems however that the brakes have >> been put on now, see the brakes have not been put on; every day, hundreds/thousands more buildi

Re: [OSM-talk] Label language on the Default stylesheet

2017-09-24 Thread Yves
If the OSMF tile servers were to be used to provide webmaps for a vast audience, I would understand double labeling in English. That not the primary purpose, though. Yves Le 24 septembre 2017 23:01:00 GMT+02:00, Matthijs Melissen a écrit : >Hi all, > >I would like to ask for your opinion on

Re: [OSM-talk] Label language on the Default stylesheet

2017-09-24 Thread Edoardo Yossef Marascalchi
my 2 cents: having a 2 layers map, one with local languages rendered, the second with english ones when present as first choice, then local when not Il 25 set 2017 7:14 AM, "Yves" ha scritto: > If the OSMF tile servers were to be used to provide webmaps for a vast > audience, I would understand

Re: [OSM-talk] Label language on the Default stylesheet

2017-09-24 Thread Jo
The purpose of the default rendering is to give feedback to mappers. Preferably local mappers, so having the map rendered in local languages shouldn't be a problem. If you want to use OSM data as a tourist use OsmAND or MAPS.ME and set a language of your choice. If other projects need tiles for t

Re: [OSM-talk] Label language on the Default stylesheet

2017-09-24 Thread Maarten Deen
On 2017-09-24 23:01, Matthijs Melissen wrote: Hi all, I would like to ask for your opinion on the choice of language used in the Default map on openstreetmap.org. This map (based on the openstreetmap-carto style) currently displays all labels in their native language (as defined in the 'name' t