Re: [OSM-talk] landcover=trees [was Re: OpenStreetMap Carto v2.33.0 release]

2015-08-17 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone Am 17.08.2015 um 01:30 schrieb Mateusz Konieczny matkoni...@gmail.com: I am not aware about values that should be used in that case. you are saying that landuse=forest is not a good tag to describe an area where trees have just been logged and will soon be planted

Re: [OSM-talk] landcover=trees [was Re: OpenStreetMap Carto v2.33.0 release]

2015-08-17 Thread Warin
On 17/08/2015 7:20 PM, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: In that case it is perfectly OK to do not edit map and keep it as it was (yes, as I understand it and it seems to be a widely used in this way - landuse=wood, natural=wood, landcover=trees are used currently for the same objects). Err disagree,

Re: [OSM-talk] stop deleting abandoned railroads

2015-08-17 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone Am 17.08.2015 um 02:39 schrieb moltonel 3x Combo molto...@gmail.com: * A broken bridge with just a few meters left on both riverbanks I surely wouldn't have removed this one. Isn't this a significant feature to many people? cheers Martin

Re: [OSM-talk] stop deleting abandoned railroads

2015-08-17 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone Am 17.08.2015 um 02:53 schrieb moltonel 3x Combo molto...@gmail.com: http://www.dieter-kloessing.de/Berlin/Berlin-Zehlendorf3.html#Anchor-Stammbahn-47857 That actually looks like disused rather than abandoned to me. these are clearly abandoned, have been there (although

Re: [OSM-talk] stop deleting abandoned railroads

2015-08-17 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone Am 17.08.2015 um 08:28 schrieb Colin Smale colin.sm...@xs4all.nl: OSM IDs are too volatile, and IIRC there were objections to putting foreign keys (like shop branch numbers) into OSM on the grounds that someone would need to maintain that link. Some people are adding

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] était Subject=Re: SeFaireConnaitre :(, devient SeFaireConnaitre :|

2015-08-17 Thread Support Sefaireconnaitre
OK. c'est fait. on a retiré les éléments de tracling situés dans les URL. Le 14 août 2015 21:30, osm.sanspourr...@spamgourmet.com a écrit : Je prends acte du mea culpa (merci). Pour la prise en compte, j'attends encore de voir. À ce jour encore 101 liens pistants Ubiflow. Mon critère :

Re: [OSM-talk] stop deleting abandoned railroads

2015-08-17 Thread Warin
On 17/08/2015 4:28 PM, Colin Smale wrote: If only all this energy were directed at helping OSM forwards. We haven't had a lot of progress in the last few years (I am not talking about mapping as such, but about the OSM framework itself). There are still periodical discussions about how to

Re: [OSM-talk] landcover=trees [was Re: OpenStreetMap Carto v2.33.0 release]

2015-08-17 Thread Mateusz Konieczny
In that case it is perfectly OK to do not edit map and keep it as it was (yes, as I understand it and it seems to be a widely used in this way - landuse=wood, natural=wood, landcover=trees are used currently for the same objects). Probably landuse=forestry and landcover=trees would be a good idea

Re: [OSM-talk] landcover=trees

2015-08-17 Thread Daniel Koć
W dniu 17.08.2015 13:20, Warin napisał(a): On 17/08/2015 7:20 PM, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: In that case it is perfectly OK to do not edit map and keep it as it was (yes, as I understand it and it seems to be a widely used in this way - landuse=wood, natural=wood, landcover=trees are used

Re: [OSM-talk] stop deleting abandoned railroads

2015-08-17 Thread Warin
On 17/08/2015 10:48 PM, moltonel 3x Combo wrote: On 17/08/2015, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: Am 17.08.2015 um 02:39 schrieb moltonel 3x Combo molto...@gmail.com: * A broken bridge with just a few meters left on both riverbanks I surely wouldn't have removed this one.

Re: [OSM-talk] stop deleting abandoned railroads

2015-08-17 Thread Warin
On 17/08/2015 11:13 PM, Colin Smale wrote: On 2015-08-17 13:37, Warin wrote: On 17/08/2015 4:28 PM, Colin Smale wrote: Will the free-tagging laissez-faire camp win, or will the curated/managed tagging camp win? I'm in the 'systematised free tagging' camp .. I want a structure that has

[talk-ph] Dumaguete OSM events

2015-08-17 Thread Erwin G. Olario
Hi everyone. FYI. We have several upcoming events [0] in Dumaguete, and I would love to touch bases with local awesome(OSM) mappers. 20-21 Aug - Crowd-mapping with OSM :: The Asia Foundation + local partners 22 Aug, 0900~ - OSM Appreciation Seminar :: Foundation University 24 Aug, 0900~ - OSM

Re: [OSM-ja] Fwd: [OSM-dev] OpenStreetMap Carto v2.33.0 release

2015-08-17 Thread Hiroshi Miura(@osmf)
三浦です On 2015年08月15日 21:57, Satoshi IIDA wrote: いいだです。 OSM Cartoの v.2.33.0がリリースされ、osm.orgに適用されました。 おしらせありがとうございます。 今回の更新での大きな変更点は以下のとおりです。 * 森林のレンダリングが統一された landuse=forest と natural=woodの色合いが統一されました。 そのため、京都・神戸・奈良と他の地域の森林地域レンダリングの色合いが異なる、という点が、 少なくともレンダリングの観点からは解消されました。 *

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging National Forests

2015-08-17 Thread Mike Thompson
The definitive characteristic of US National Forests is that they are administered/managed by the US National Forest Service.[5] Thus US National Forests are administrative areas. Areas where the National Forest Service has some jurisdiction and responsibility. However, National Forests are

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging National Forests

2015-08-17 Thread stevea
Joel Holdsworth writes: ...when the whole administrative area is clobbered with green. What isn't forest shouldn't be tagged landuse=forest, and what is should be. It is not obvious anything administrative (here) is clobbered with green. It seems semantics are conflated, or I don't

Re: [Talk-GB] Paths and Footways

2015-08-17 Thread Andy Townsend
On 17/08/2015 23:25, Rob Nickerson wrote: So far there is little interest to do this on the OSM default render style which seems odd to me given how much fuss there has been on this list to recent changes to the footway/path style (over the last year)! There's no interest to do this in the

Re: [Talk-GB] Paths and Footways

2015-08-17 Thread Andy Townsend
On 17/08/2015 21:43, Rob Nickerson wrote: ... In regards to designation=*, are we now the only country that makes a distinction between paths you have a legal right to walk on and any other path that might exist because people happen to walk over the land thus leaving a desire line path? Hi

Re: [Talk-GB] Paths and Footways

2015-08-17 Thread Rob Nickerson
Thanks Andy, Fully aware of access land, undocumented rights of way and permissive paths. I just need to remember to be careful of what I write on this mailing list (but I was trying not to write an essay). I'm surprised if this is just England and Wales as I would have thought some other

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging National Forests

2015-08-17 Thread Joel Holdsworth
Therefore, tagging them as protected areas is appropriate (not withstanding the fact that not much in a National Forest seems protected based upon my visit to a section of the Roosevelt National Forest yesterday). +1 agree with everything you say. Also, come help me map the land-cover! -

Re: [OSM-talk] stop deleting abandoned railroads

2015-08-17 Thread Russ Nelson
Serge Wroclawski writes: TIGER wasn't what I was referring to. Please don't speak on my behalf. Very well. Feel free to point to anything anywhere that people are afraid to delete. I want to see 1) something that obviously doesn't belong there, 2) which isn't TIGER and 3) evidence that

Re: [Talk-ca] Fwd: Ottawa, Canada import

2015-08-17 Thread Stewart C. Russell
Hi James, but I did receive approval from the city that we could import data from data.ottawa.ca/dataset http://data.ottawa.ca/dataset. Which I documented here: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canada:Ontario:Ottawa/Import/Permission I'm not a legal expert, but I think that OSM would have

[talk-ph] passive data references: Strava and others

2015-08-17 Thread maning sambale
Just re-discovered Strava [0] last week, you can overlay their anonymized traces in JOSM and iD and use as reference for mapping roads. I found a lot of unmapped roads in several areas last week. Also, interesting to see in strava where cyclists and runners go. Very few traces in SLEX versus

Re: [OSM-talk] stop deleting abandoned railroads

2015-08-17 Thread Warin
On 17/08/2015 11:54 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, On 08/17/2015 03:13 PM, Colin Smale wrote: So if I think something is useful to me, and I am prepared to maintain it to my own satisfaction, I can feel free add it I'd think it should be documented in the wiki .. so others can 'see' what it is

Re: [Talk-GB] Paths and Footways

2015-08-17 Thread Paul Norman
On 8/17/2015 3:25 PM, Rob Nickerson wrote: I'm surprised if this is just England and Wales as I would have thought some other country has some way of documenting paths in a legal context and as such this may be relevant for other countries I'm not aware of any countries which quite have the

Re: [OSM-talk] stop deleting abandoned railroads

2015-08-17 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
2015-08-17 6:04 GMT-03:00 Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com: sent from a phone Am 17.08.2015 um 08:28 schrieb Colin Smale colin.sm...@xs4all.nl: OSM IDs are too volatile, and IIRC there were objections to putting foreign keys (like shop branch numbers) into OSM on the grounds

Re: [Talk-ca] Fwd: Ottawa, Canada import

2015-08-17 Thread Paul Norman
On 8/17/2015 8:20 PM, Stewart C. Russell wrote: Hi James, but I did receive approval from the city that we could import data from data.ottawa.ca/dataset http://data.ottawa.ca/dataset. Which I documented here: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canada:Ontario:Ottawa/Import/Permission I'm

Re: [Talk-in] Tirumala Printed Map

2015-08-17 Thread Aruna S
Hey Chethan, This is such a lovely idea. The map looks very informative. Great job! :) More power to the people, Aruna ___ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in

Re: [OSM-talk] landcover=trees [was Re: OpenStreetMap Carto v2.33.0 release]

2015-08-17 Thread moltonel 3x Combo
On 16/08/2015, Mateusz Konieczny matkoni...@gmail.com wrote: 2015-08-16 15:27 GMT+02:00 Greg Troxel g...@ir.bbn.com: landuse=forest does not imply the area is completely tree covered. Note that in typical usage it means exactly this. Maybe original intention was for that tag was to mean

Re: [OSM-talk] stop deleting abandoned railroads

2015-08-17 Thread moltonel 3x Combo
On 17/08/2015, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: Am 17.08.2015 um 02:39 schrieb moltonel 3x Combo molto...@gmail.com: * A broken bridge with just a few meters left on both riverbanks I surely wouldn't have removed this one. Isn't this a significant feature to many people? In

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging National Forests

2015-08-17 Thread Joel Holdsworth
Yeah I posted a question about this last week: https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/44763/tagging-us-national-forests To me landuse=forest is pretty clearly incorrect. It should be boundary=protected_area,protect_class=6 and the rendering rules should be patched to make it appear similar

Re: [OSM-talk] stop deleting abandoned railroads

2015-08-17 Thread Colin Smale
On 2015-08-17 13:37, Warin wrote: On 17/08/2015 4:28 PM, Colin Smale wrote: If only all this energy were directed at helping OSM forwards. We haven't had a lot of progress in the last few years (I am not talking about mapping as such, but about the OSM framework itself). There

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging National Forests

2015-08-17 Thread Martijn van Exel
I removed the landuse=forest from the national forest relations in Utah: http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/33392465. The map will look very white :( but at least it's not wrong anymore. Martijn van Exel Secretary, US Chapter OpenStreetMap http://openstreetmap.us/ http://osm.org/ skype:

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Carto v2.33.0 release

2015-08-17 Thread Martijn van Exel
Richard -- I filed a bug for this, there was some discussion, and I closed it: https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/1754 Feel free to reopen if you think this needs more discussion. The consensus seemed to be that lakes within forests should be tagged as inner of the forest

Re: [OSM-talk] landcover=trees [was Re: OpenStreetMap Carto v2.33.0 release]

2015-08-17 Thread moltonel 3x Combo
On 16/08/2015, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: which landuse is good for an area where trees have just been logged and will soon be planted again? landuse=forest, which I've always reasoned of as being landuse=forestry :) Which landuse value is suitable for an area where

Re: [OSM-talk] landcover=trees [was Re: OpenStreetMap Carto v2.33.0 release]

2015-08-17 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone Am 17.08.2015 um 11:20 schrieb Mateusz Konieczny matkoni...@gmail.com: Probably landuse=forestry and landcover=trees would be a good idea and I would support such proposal. how do you suggest to put names? On locality nodes? On landuse objects? If you do the latter

Re: [OSM-talk] stop deleting abandoned railroads

2015-08-17 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 08/17/2015 03:13 PM, Colin Smale wrote: So if I think something is useful to me, and I am prepared to maintain it to my own satisfaction, I can feel free add it ... to a file on your local computer where it will continue to please you for years to come ;) Bye Frederik -- Frederik

[Talk-lv] LVM publicējuši telpiskos datus

2015-08-17 Thread Pēteris Brūns
Laba diena! Nejauši uzskrēju šādiem datiem, saimniecībā varbūt noder. Nav ne jausmas vai un kā šie dati iet kopā ar OSM licenci. Vai pietiek tags ar atsauci © Datu izmantošas gadījumā atsauce uz AS “Latvijas valsts meži” ir obligāta.

[Talk-in] Tirumala Printed Map

2015-08-17 Thread Chetan H A
Hi OSM enthusiast's, As I had a long weekend, decided to visit Tirumala for the first time. On 14th August, customised the OSM Tirumala data with Mapbox Studio and left Bengaluru in the evening with printed A3 size map which costed me JUST Rs. 32 at Printo shop. I was thinking to

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Carto v2.33.0 release

2015-08-17 Thread Richard
On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 07:27:11PM -0700, Paul Norman wrote: This email is also in user diary form at osm.org/user/pnorman/diary/35589 where issue numbers are linked. OpenStreetMap Carto 2.33.0 has been released. This release focuses on cartographic style improvements, but the release notes

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging National Forests

2015-08-17 Thread Christoph Hormann
On Monday 17 August 2015, Martijn van Exel wrote: I removed the landuse=forest from the national forest relations in Utah: http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/33392465. To find further occurances you can use: http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/aZs You will also see there that many national forests

[Talk-ca] Fwd: Ottawa, Canada import

2015-08-17 Thread James
Hello everyone, I was informed that before any kind of data import was to be approved by the community. Unfortunately I have imported a bit of data into openstreetmap and for this I am sorry. but I did receive approval from the city that we could import data from data.ottawa.ca/dataset. Which I

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging National Forests

2015-08-17 Thread Charlotte Wolter
Folks, This whole discussion going back more than a year ago has been dominated by very European concepts of what is a forest. I live in the dry, high western United States, where forests are very different from those in Europe (not leafy!) but are no less forests. How would you tag the

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging National Forests

2015-08-17 Thread Joel Holdsworth
This whole discussion going back more than a year ago has been dominated by very European concepts of what is a forest. I think that's the problem. In europe (and for that matter the whole of OSM) forest == trees. Every square foot of a landuse=forest area should be covered in trees.

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging National Forests

2015-08-17 Thread Tod Fitch
The issue, as I see it, is that the OSM landuse=forest means that all the land so designated is used for timber production. Thus the long discussions about natural=wood, landcover=trees, etc. In the case of the US National Forests, the boundaries are still tagged with boundary=national_park,

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging National Forests

2015-08-17 Thread Charlotte Wolter
But, in the United States, forests are not always about timber production. You won't get any timber for building from a pinon-juniper forest. The trees are too small (though you will get great pinon nuts and mesquite charcoal). It would be a serious problem for OSM if we don't

Re: [Talk-lv] LVM publicējuši telpiskos datus

2015-08-17 Thread Viesturs Zarins
Piedāvāju ielikt source=Latvijas Valsts Meži un importēt iekšā. On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 5:15 PM Pēteris Brūns peteris.br...@gmail.com wrote: Laba diena! Nejauši uzskrēju šādiem datiem, saimniecībā varbūt noder. Nav ne jausmas vai un kā šie dati iet kopā ar OSM licenci. Vai pietiek tags ar

[Talk-us] Fwd: Re: Tagging National Forests

2015-08-17 Thread Charlotte Wolter
I see your point that it's not a natural forest, but national forests are important institutions as preserves, especially, in addition to their other uses (recreation, research). Having just returned from a camping vacation in the Southwest, I am especially aware that the

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging National Forests

2015-08-17 Thread stevea
I am disappointed to see landuse=forest removed from the very quintessence of what our wiki defines as forest: our USDA's National Forests. True, our wiki page (forest) defines four distinct tagging approaches which use this tag, all of which can be assumed to be correct, even as they might

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging National Forests

2015-08-17 Thread Martijn van Exel
My removing the landuse tags from the Utah national forest objects is part of the process of achieving that consensus, is the way I see it. It's a simple change that could easily be reverted, and I think it helps the discussion to actually see the outcome of the change. Apologies for posting my

Re: [OSM-talk] landcover=trees [was Re: OpenStreetMap Carto v2.33.0 release]

2015-08-17 Thread moltonel 3x Combo
On 17/08/2015, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: Am 17.08.2015 um 11:20 schrieb Mateusz Konieczny matkoni...@gmail.com: Probably landuse=forestry and landcover=trees would be a good idea and I would support such proposal. how do you suggest to put names? On locality nodes?

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging National Forests

2015-08-17 Thread Tod Fitch
I have seen lots of “bike shedding” on this and I am of the opinion that landuse=forest should be removed from the US national forest boundary relations. But I was unaware that a consensus had been achieved. If it has, perhaps the wiki page at

[OSM-talk] Crossposting

2015-08-17 Thread Richard
Hi, it occurs that people crosspost to several OSM lists. Problem arises when someone tries to reply to such posts - most people are not subscribed to all the same lists like the original poster and hence everyone gets plenty of bounces and does not reach all intended recipients. So I am

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging National Forests

2015-08-17 Thread Joel Holdsworth
I did the same to the Roosevelt National Forest a couple of weeks ago: http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=12/40.6167/-105.3240 Hopefully we can patch the rendering rules to display boundary=protected_area Joel On 17/08/15 15:44, Martijn van Exel wrote: I removed the landuse=forest from the

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Carto v2.33.0 release

2015-08-17 Thread Marc Zoutendijk
Op 17 aug. 2015, om 16:48 heeft Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org het volgende geschreven: Richard -- I filed a bug for this, there was some discussion, and I closed it: https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/1754

Re: [OSM-talk] landcover=trees [was Re: OpenStreetMap Carto v2.33.0 release]

2015-08-17 Thread moltonel 3x Combo
On 17/08/2015, Warin 61sundow...@gmail.com wrote: On 17/08/2015 7:20 PM, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: In that case it is perfectly OK to do not edit map and keep it as it was The problem with that is that the map will be wrong for 5-15 years (depending on what kind of trees are being grown). I

Re: [OSM-talk] landcover=trees [was Re: OpenStreetMap Carto v2.33.0 release]

2015-08-17 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone Am 17.08.2015 um 17:05 schrieb moltonel 3x Combo molto...@gmail.com: You would also have to have overlapping landuse forest areas. When would you need that ? when a forest with a name is part of a bigger forest with a different name cheers Martin

[Talk-ca] Ottawa, Canada import

2015-08-17 Thread James
Hello everyone, I was informed that before any kind of data import was to be approved by the community. Unfortunately I have imported a bit of data into openstreetmap and for this I am sorry. but I did receive approval from the city that we could import data from data.ottawa.ca/dataset. Which I

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging National Forests

2015-08-17 Thread Joel Holdsworth
It worked before, it can work this way again. It worked to some degree, but it was rather a road-block to adding more detail. It won't every be possible to produce a detailed image like this: http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=13/49.1850/7.9723 ...when the whole administrative area is clobbered

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging National Forests

2015-08-17 Thread Martijn van Exel
If we end up opting to maintain current landuse=forest tagging for national forests, then we may create a MapRoulette challenge to highlight all 'forest internal' way features and have folks convert them into inner members of the NF multipolygon. As I said before, I am just trying to ease the

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging National Forests

2015-08-17 Thread Wolfgang Zenker
* stevea stevea...@softworkers.com [150817 20:08]: I am disappointed to see landuse=forest removed from the very quintessence of what our wiki defines as forest: our USDA's National Forests. [..] [..] It does not appear that a consensus is reached about this, as Martijn (and what appear

Re: [Talk-GB] Paths and Footways

2015-08-17 Thread Dudley Ibbett
Hi My thoughts as follows: This is really going to be something for a UK specific rendering. It is actually quite useful as a QC exercise to rendering footways/paths with and without a designation tag. Something I do on my own Garmin map. The presumption on my part being that ideally we

Re: [Talk-lv] LVM publicējuši telpiskos datus

2015-08-17 Thread Rich
On 17/08/15 20:46, Viesturs Zarins wrote: Piedāvāju ielikt source=Latvijas Valsts Meži un importēt iekšā. specifiska licence nav noraadiita un laikam vieniigais nosaciijums ir atsauce. imports laikam buutu ok... bet ar ljoti uzmaniigu saliidzinaashanu ar esoshajiem datiem, celju savienojumiem

Re: [Talk-lv] LVM publicējuši telpiskos datus

2015-08-17 Thread Jānis Skudra
Paldies Pēterim! Šie dati noderēs man savos darbos. :) Par datu importēšanu. Jautājums ko mēs vispār gribam importēt - domājams, ka tās ir stigas. Bet pirmkārt jau ka dati ir poligoni, kurus protams var pārveidot par līnijām, bet galvenais, ka dabā ne vienmēr kvartāla līnija ir stiga. Cieņā

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging National Forests

2015-08-17 Thread Christoph Hormann
On Monday 17 August 2015, Charlotte Wolter wrote: And, Christoph, the forests are divided into subunits because that's how they are administered and because many national forests are made up of physically separate subunits. They can be as much as 100 miles apart. For example, the

Re: [Talk-lv] LVM publicējuši telpiskos datus

2015-08-17 Thread Pēteris Brūns
Stigas manuprāt tur nebija, atvasināt protams var, bet tad tikai sanāks kvartāl stigas. Un ar importu tiešām jābūt uzmanīgiem. Es drīzāk teiktu, ka šos kvartālu datus var izmantot esošo mežu precizēšanai, bet šaubos par importu. Vairs lāga neatceros, bet kvartāla ietvaros var būt ne tikai mežs,

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging National Forests

2015-08-17 Thread Tod Fitch
Unfortunately the magnifying glass is hidden away someplace so my old microprint copy of the Oxford English Dictionary is hard to read. I see “An extensive tract of land covered with trees and undergrowth, sometimes intermingled with pasture.”, Or “A woodland district, usually belonging to the

[Talk-GB] Glasgow social meetup cancelled

2015-08-17 Thread Fozy 81
Hi, Sorry, bit last minute but Glasgow social meetup is cancelled tomorrow. But will be meeting again soon. Watch this space for updates Thanks, Tim ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging National Forests

2015-08-17 Thread James Umbanhowar
I've used natural=woods for areas formerly in agriculture that were not naturally growing in with trees. This seemed more appropriate than forest as they are not really being managed for harvest. I could go either way on the National Forest tagging issue. While technically they are managed as

Re: [OSM-talk] Crossposting

2015-08-17 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 11:08 AM, Richard ricoz@gmail.com wrote: So I am wondering - would there be some option to relax the rules so that reply-crossposting would work without being subscribed to every single list? Debian has an open list policy and it doesn't seem to be for the worse.

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging National Forests

2015-08-17 Thread Russell Deffner
Hi everyone, Disclaimer - I do have a degree in forestry, but only loosely continue to follow the field. I would agree with the camp that says 'no' to landuse=forest broadly used for all National Forests. I think someone said 'because you can pick up sticks, etc. for campfires' but this is

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] était Subject=Re: SeFaireConnaitre :|, devient SeFaireConnaitre :)

2015-08-17 Thread osm . sanspourriel
Effectivement. En espérant voir les mêmes progrès sur les autres points soulevés. Cordialement, Jean-Yvon Le 17/08/2015 11:59, Support Sefaireconnaitre - supp...@sefaireconnaitre.com a écrit : OK. c'est fait. on a retiré les éléments de tracling situés dans les URL. Le 14 août 2015 21:30,

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging National Forests

2015-08-17 Thread Clifford Snow
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 1:57 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: No. Unfortunately, all that a data consumer can gather from landuse=forest or natural=wood is that there are trees there. Data consumers should be able to determine how much land is set aside for harvest with landuse=forest.

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging National Forests

2015-08-17 Thread stevea
Apologies for length. Tod Fitch writes: ...there is little or no logging in the forests in the mountains of Southern California (in or out of the administrative boundaries of the US Forest Service). I'm not sure you know this to be true: Cleveland National Forest is a big place, publicly

Re: [Talk-GB] Paths and Footways

2015-08-17 Thread Rob Nickerson
Thanks Dudley. I'm not sure that I agree that this is UK specific. We render roads according to their status (motorway to unclassified), and as such I see potential to do this for paths irrespective of country. In regards to designation=*, are we now the only country that makes a distinction

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging National Forests

2015-08-17 Thread Paul Norman
On 8/17/2015 10:10 AM, Tod Fitch wrote: The issue, as I see it, is that the OSM landuse=forest means that all the land so designated is used for timber production No. Unfortunately, all that a data consumer can gather from landuse=forest or natural=wood is that there are trees there.

[OSM-talk] Preview of OpenStreetMap Carto proposed road rendering changes

2015-08-17 Thread Paul Norman
I have set up a preview at http://bl.ocks.org/pnorman/raw/c61d6b11193081910866 of the proposed road rendering changes done by Matkoniecz as part of GSOC. There are more details at https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/pull/1736#issuecomment-131638433, but please keep in mind

Re: [OSM-talk] stop deleting abandoned railroads

2015-08-17 Thread Serge Wroclawski
Russ, TIGER wasn't what I was referring to. Please don't speak on my behalf. - Serge ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk