Re: [talk-au] Inappropriate tagged areas

On 16/12/2015 21:58, Warin wrote: On 17/12/2015 8:35 AM, Ben Kelley wrote: Use is not consistent. Situation normal. (If you harvest the natural trees, which one is it?) forestry. See the Forest page on the wiki, The http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Forest page describes 4

[talk-au] Northern NSW again

Hi, Just for info, I've suggested that a relatively new mapper in Northern NSW might want to contact other mappers here in a comment on https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/35480438 (https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/332351666 is clearly unjoined, but there may be other issues). It's a

[Talk-GB] Removal of "sport" from recreation grounds, adding fixmes (was sport=soccer not sport=football.)

As a bit more background to this, see the changeset discussion comments on https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/39809705 and https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/39812846 . I got a reply re "football vs soccer", but not about any of the other questions raised in there. I didn't revert

Re: [Talk-us] Tile cache issue?

On 28/05/2016 23:39, Kevin Kenny wrote: On the main server with the default layer, I notice that http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/42.6437/-74.0033 has paths that abruptly disappear at a tile boundary. I suspect that for whatever reason (server move related perhaps?) it just got missed.

Re: [Talk-GB] Changeset #36985172 revert request - Deal area, Kent

On 04/02/2016 16:50, Gregory Williams wrote: I did the original mapping of Deal, so I'll take a look later, when I can get to a PC. Brilliant - thanks! ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-GB] place=village/town/city

On 12/02/2016 13:15, Colin Smale wrote: According to Wikipedia, ... ... I wouldn't assume that what wikipedia says has any particular relevance with respect to how something is mapped in OSM. The language used in the English wikipedia is a mix of American and English (and other) usages,

Re: [Talk-GB] Changeset #36985172 revert request - Deal area, Kent

On 04/02/2016 15:49, Colin Smale wrote: Actually, this user has done a lot more damage, in many other changesets over the past few weeks... Methinks a candidate for a block pending contact... Anyone with an interest in the Deal area is recommended to check the area...ent I'd suggest that

Re: [OSM-co] No puedo cargar la capa de imagenes de Bing aerial Imagery

On 26/01/2016 11:01, Luis Mejia wrote: Recientemente instalé JOSM en un equipo con el S.O. xubuntu. Cuando hago click (adjunto pantallazos) para cargar la capa de imagenes satelitales de bing para aparece el error: *input == null!* ver también

Re: [Talk-GB] New users and P2

On 25/02/2016 17:04, Nick Whitelegg wrote: One thought I've had for a long time (and have probably mentioned in the past) is a walkers' editor (app rather than web-based). To be used something like: User goes for walk and records GPX trace, following this sort of pattern. Each time the

Re: [Talk-GB] New users and P2

On 26/02/2016 07:59, Marc Gemis wrote: How do you detect that stuff is gone ? I'm thinking of benches, waste-bins, telephones, etc. All those little things that are not or hardly visible on aerial imagery ? Do you constantly look at the screen of your smartphone or GPS to see whether there is

Re: [Talk-GB] Admin Boundaries in Northern Ireland

On 26/01/2016 17:19, Walter Nordmann wrote: Hi, any reason why there are only admin boundaries with admin_level=10 in Northern Ireland? No counties (AL6), no cities (AL8), no Suburbs(AL9) - nothing Ireland (the island) is normally handled as one entity in OSM, so tends to be covered by

Re: [Talk-GB] place=village/town/city

On 12/02/2016 17:10, Philip Barnes wrote: The original node, http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3216768/history http://osm.mapki.com/history/node.php?id=3216768 Thanks. So mostly city, but it did spend a couple of years as a town and a couple of shorter periods as village. Cheers, Andy

Re: [Talk-GB] place=village/town/city

On 15/02/2016 12:35, Gregory wrote: What did people think of my place:designation=* suggestion? Sounds good to me. No uses yet (obviously), but would allow a more sane "place" tagging for e.g. St David's, which isn't a really city in any normal sense. Cheers, Andy

Re: [Talk-GB] Other Routes With Public Access

On 14/02/2016 18:34, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote: Routes marked by OS as "Other Route with Public Access" will most probably be routes that appear on the local Highway Authority's "List of Streets Maintainable at the Public Expense", but are not maintained to a standard for regular motor

Re: [Talk-us] mapRe: (Second attempt) Potential data source: Adirondack Park Freshwater Wetlands

On 15/03/2016 19:00, Nathan Mills wrote: That said, without TIGER, OSM would have been useless (and still would be!) in large swaths of the US. (stating the bleeding obvious) there are divided opinions on this - when exactly this topic has come up previously people have said both "I only

Re: [Talk-GB] Pubs as areas: should be map the property or the building?

On 11/03/2016 17:26, SK53 wrote: A quick query on IRC and Andy (SomeoneElse) also maps pubs this way True, but not with a zealous committment to it "absolutely being the best way". I'm open to persuasion. Part of the reason might be that I'm probably more likely to sit in the beer garden

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Quarterly Projects

On 14/03/2016 20:50, Rob Nickerson wrote: My concern with rivers is that we don't have tools to measure progress - taginfo gives a count of nodes/ways/relations whereas we'd want total length of features per region (in miles/km). I'd agree that tracking progress with that one would be tricky.

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM with Wikidata: now covers UK and Ireland

On 11/03/2016 12:40, Andy Mabbett wrote: Tickets have also been raised (to save anyone else looking it up) https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/2680 https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/11541 I don't see anything for P2. I haven't looked for other editors. Cheers, Andy

[Talk-GB] Sad News

News reached the OSM Weekly team recently that Bogus Zaba*, occasional poster to this list and regular contributor to www.weeklyosm.eu, has passed away after a short illness. According to a note from his wife "the cause of OSM was very dear to his heart and he greatly enjoyed his virtual

Re: [Talk-GB] Incorrect spelling of "cemetery"

On 24/03/2016 11:14, Stuart Reynolds wrote: Can I propose that someone who is more knowledgeable than me does a mechanical edit within the UK to correct “Cemetary” to “Cemetery”? I added a bunch of notes for misspelt cemeteries a while back (mainly trying to provide an "in" for new local

Re: [Talk-us] Caliparks re-tagging paths?

On 24/03/2016 12:50, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, On 03/24/2016 11:26 AM, Marc Gemis wrote: They tagged them as "social_path", according to their blog entry [1] Thank you for the link. This is what I feared. highway=social_path is certainly unacceptable - a self-made tag that essentially deletes

Re: [Talk-GB] Incorrect spelling of "cemetery"

On 24/03/2016 11:26, Andy Townsend wrote: I added a bunch of notes for misspelt cemeteries For completeness, this list will include the notes that I added for this particular misspelling: http://api.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/notes/search?q=cemetary=0 (just for info in case anyone wasn't

Re: [Talk-GB] Revert request: #38048227 and #38048737

On 31/03/2016 14:16, Ed Catmur wrote: Could someone with access to the revert scripts please rollback these changesets? Dee's just mentioned on IRC that she's reverted them - so all sorted now I think. Cheers, Andy ___ Talk-GB mailing list

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Incorrect 'suburb' in 'reverse nominatim' search

(top-posting because it probably does make sense to keep the whole of the previous email together at the end) I suspect that this might be partly related to this enhancement request: https://github.com/twain47/Nominatim/issues/231 The tl;dr of that is "nominatim works much better with areas

Re: [Talk-us] Restoring bus routes in Portland

On 20/05/2016 13:20, Arun Ganesh wrote: Reverting the changesets are causing multiple conflicts and there does not seem to be a mechanism to just restore relation membership to a historical version. Any help and ideas appreciated [1] https://github.com/mapbox/mapping/issues/185 If it

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project (Health): Pharmacies and Defibrillators

On 20/05/2016 16:29, SK53 wrote: In my experience there are certain prescription which I can only get fulfilled by a hospital pharmacy (those written by a consultant). Agreed - and in the case of the one I'm familiar with it's not a stock issue but a bureacracy one - anything written

Re: [Talk-GB] New user renaming highway=cycleway with NCN references

On 12/05/2016 23:13, David Woolley wrote: They started their life being purely for private profit, got nationalised, then handed to a charity, but never got made public rights of way. It depends where you are, I think. Certainly the canal towpath nearest to me (Cromford Canal) is mostly

Re: [Talk-GB] Remove tag "priority" from railways

On 21/04/2016 09:32, Brian Prangle wrote: Hi Roland If it's only one line affected it looks like it's the work of one user. Have you tried contacting him/her? Otherwise I have no objections to your proposed mechanical edit As I understand it, that one user was also working for Mentz. I'm

Re: [Talk-GB] Schools

On 04/08/2016 14:42, Brian Prangle wrote: Yesterday approx 150 schools were added as relations according to the taginfoscript which is monitoring schools. Does anyone know what's going on? I'd ask Christian Ledermann - the numbers roughly match his changes I think. Example:

Re: [talk-au] Possible illegal imports in Western Australia (Andy Townsend)

On 18/07/2016 14:13, Warren wrote: I am reasonably local. Both areas have had recent road building. But I think they are now complete. I will divert when I am close and resort to a gps trace. Excellent stuff - thanks. Best Regards, Andy ___

Re: [talk-au] Possible illegal imports in Western Australia

. Two issues that I spotted on the way through I've commented on on: https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/40195315 https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/40195392 It'd be great if a Perth local could have a look at those. Best Regards, Andy Townsend (SomeoneElse), on behalf of the Data

Re: [Talk-us] Common names of highways do not match road signs.

I've tended to use "name:signed=no" and/or "ref:signed=no" if there's a name or ref that is agreed to be "correct" but not useful for navigation. It's not used much: http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/name%3Asigned but it does mean that you can exclude "non-useful names" from maps made

Re: [Talk-us] Common names of highways do not match road signs.

On 08/07/2016 15:45, Jeffrey Ollie wrote: ... According to the Iowa DOT, it's official name is "Interstate Highway 235" but ... As Paul has already said, that sounds like a "ref" to me, not a "name". If something doesn't have a name, you don't need to create one for OSM... Cheers, Andy

Re: [talk-au] Familiar with these places in WA?

On 07/07/2016 11:28, Nev Wedding wrote: Anyone familiar with these places in WA to fix some of this mappers tags. shop=dry_cleaning appears to be a booming business to me. Also adding odd characters at end of names and parts of names in lower case

Re: [talk-au] Familiar with these places in WA?

On 07/07/2016 11:28, Nev Wedding wrote: http://mmwatch.osmz.ru/?country=Australia=%E7%8E%8B%E7%90%B3%E9%9B%85 ... one more thing to add - not all of their edits are unhelpful: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/34911431/history now has opening hours on it and didn't before. I am familiar

Re: [Talk-GB] Schools

On 04/08/2016 15:22, Andy Allan wrote: I had a look at a few of these, and they seem to be simple shapes that I'd normally tag on the ways (i.e. they are multipolygons with only a single outer way). This seems strange to me - is it intended? Is it desirable? Maybe they'd be better as ways,

Re: [Talk-GB] Next Quarterly Project

On 30/06/2016 18:13, Brian Prangle wrote: ... some farms seem to be little more than caravan storage, some have transformed into equestrian centres, small industrial parks or become just residential ... Indeed, farms sounds like a good idea to me. Quite a few to the east of me seem to have

Re: [Talk-GB] ref:hectares on admin boundary, and non-responsive mapper

things that is often a surprise and a frustration to people and companies coming into OSM anew (especially companies) is that everything moves quite slowly - it's about creating a Canaletto rather than Sid from down the road applying a couple of coats of Dulux. I suspect that that the speed perception

Re: [Talk-GB] any cyclists familiar with Calder Aire link

On 28/01/2017 15:03, David Groom wrote: There seems a lot of duplication in these two route relations: https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/2171660 https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1573805 Both are titled "Calder Aire link" One is route=foot, another route=mtb. Presumably that is

Re: [Talk-GB] Large swaths of "heath" in Wales?

On 08/02/2017 21:46, Brian Prangle wrote: Might we tackle this task under the general heading either of "landuse fixes" or "uplands" as our next quarterly project? I thought that was going to be to survey all those "Pokemon parks" :) Cheers, Andy

Re: [Talk-GB] Large swaths of "heath" in Wales?

On 08/02/2017 20:46, Marco Boeringa wrote: - Sam888, e.g. http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/413378224 - Glucosamine: http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/405845733 - Dyserth: http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/388818928 There may be more... All of these "users" are prolific, leave almost no

Re: [Talk-GB] Footpath Open Data is not always accurate.

On 06/02/2017 11:18, Colin Smale wrote: On 2017-02-06 09:57, Dave F wrote: On 05/02/2017 11:33, Colin Smale wrote: Any paths that no longer follow the official route (as per the DM/DS) should not be tagged as PROW and probably as access=permissive unless they go across otherwise public

Re: [Talk-GB] Large swaths of "heath" in Wales?

On 08/02/2017 10:49, Brian Prangle wrote: It would be great in my opinion if we moved on as a community and actually decided to act on our discussions. Well I fixed the northern boundary of the Merthyr "Heath" where it overlapped with stuff that I was mapping a couple of months ago :)

[talk-ph] Edits in Metro Manila

one? Some of the ways in them have already been "connected up" by Mapbox's data people (see e.g. http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/467178965) so it'd be good to know that what they joined up actually existed. Best Regards Andy Townsend (from OpenStreetMap'

Re: [Talk-us] reporting Pokemon Go related vandalism

On 27/01/2017 22:49, ajt1...@gmail.com wrote: On 27/01/2017 06:20, Will Senechal wrote: I'll try to keep an eye on activity around here, and will try to continue updating my area. They've just "edited" again, and I've blocked in http://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks/1169 , so I'd be

Re: [Talk-us] reporting Pokemon Go related vandalism

asiest way to go, but it helps if you are familiar with the JOSM editor first. There are more details on https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Change_rollback . Best Regards, Andy Townsend, from OSM's Data Working Group. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstr

Re: [Talk-GB] Large swaths of "heath" in Wales?

On 13/02/2017 18:19, Marco Boeringa wrote: But I will leave this to all you now to decide. Just for info, I'm currently going backwards through the relevant changesets by the same user* in north Notts in areas that I'm (very) familiar with and am fixing or removing "obviously wrong

Re: [Talk-GB] Named landuse polygons

On 17/01/2017 21:52, Warin wrote: In Australia .. place=farm is appropriate. The next farm may be 250 miles away, as such it usually has facilities for seasonal workers (say 20 people), machinery maintenance, air strip, ... etc. They are substantial places that are important in a mapping and

Re: [Talk-GB] Defibrillator Mapping

On 16/08/2016 09:35, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote: As in other areas, our mapping of Defibrillators in the East Midlands doesn't seem to be very complete yet... Thanks Robert. The two nearest to me that I'm aware of are actually very new - they've only appeared within the last couple

Re: [Talk-GB] National Park extensions

On 17/08/2016 16:42, jc...@mail.com wrote: As a result much of what has been added is inaccurate, not least because many nodes are shared with highways etc. despite the written descriptions clearly stating "...it follows the edge..." (Yorkshire Dales was mostly clean of shared nodes but Lake

Re: [Talk-GB] Users tagging Farmyard as place=farm (Was Summer quarterly project)

On 13/09/2016 13:29, Dave F wrote: There's been an increase (world wide) in the use of place=farm. ... The reason for the increase could be it being displayed in the OSM carto rendering Just one example: http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/4364588497 I believe many, if not all, are

Re: [Talk-GB] Copyright and MAPS.ME android 6.2.5-Google

On 05/10/2016 11:56, Dave F wrote: On 04/10/2016 21:03, Andy Townsend wrote: ...the user gets to place the new poi by moving the underlying osm map around to place it accurately Oh, if only that were to happen in reality. Generally speaking, the MAPS.ME problems that I see are associated

Re: [Talk-GB] Copyright and MAPS.ME android 6.2.5-Google

As I understand it, MAPS.ME locations are taken from the phone's location. The "Google" in the created_by tag just means the Android version of MAPS.ME‎. The actual location comes from the phone - obtained as I understand it in recent versions via Google Play Services*. Whether that's

Re: [Talk-GB] Copyright and MAPS.ME android 6.2.5-Google

he sort of locations you want returned, it won't do it.   Original Message   From: David Woolley Sent: Tuesday, 4 October 2016 21:44 To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Copyright and MAPS.ME android 6.2.5-Google On 04/10/16 21:03, Andy Townsend wrote: > obtained as I understan

Re: [Talk-GB] Location: High accuracy mode on android

Short answer: Probably not.Longer answer:There are two bits to this. One is where your phone got its location from and the other is what you actually added to OSM.Taking the first bit first, it would depend on

[Talk-ca] Nunavut place names language

he name raise it here; that didn't happen, so I'm mentioning it :) Best Regards, Andy Townsend ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

[Talk-GB] Does "Great Britain" need a relation with "place=island" on it?

This was prompted by a comment directed at me on https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/37713755 , after I'd mentioned a problem raised on the help site that might be related https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/49058/rendering-of-lakes-on-garmin-devices . Given that it seems impossible

[Talk-GB] Chesterfield Pay Scale Area (former NaPTAN Plusbus zone)

I've just noticed that Chesterfield Pay Scale Area matches neither the current Plusbus zone, nor the "Day Rider" zone, nor the "Day Rider Plus" zone. It matches what used to be the "Day Rider" zone, which predates Plusbus and was reorganised some time ago. I'm proposing to delete it, but am

[talk-ph] Problematical OpenStreetMap edits around "null island"

re. In order to do that, can anyone think what might be the best way to contact whoever would have run the OSM session in which this user uploaded that changeset? If we can work out want went wrong we can fix it for next time, whether it's a JOSM bug or something procedurally that needs changing.

[talk-au] Trail deletions just outside Wagga Wagga

Hi all, I commented on the discussion on https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/43618845 a while back, but didn't get a reply. It's like just a local mapper tidying up what does and doesn't really exist, but might be worth someone having a look at it if they're familiar with the area.

Re: [Talk-GB] Road classifications in Leicester

On 29/11/2016 19:54, Rob Nickerson wrote: Hi all, A new user is changing road classifications. I've sent a note: https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/44042265 If no change, I will ask for a temporary block on edits as the pace is very fast. Thanks Rob. I'm not convinced by

Re: [Talk-GB] HS2 phase 2a preferred route

On 07/12/2016 17:50, Andy Robinson wrote: Andy T, As far as I can see the new 2b shapefiles now uploaded to OSM are the "confirmed" and "consulting" route sections as shown on page 8 of:

Re: [Talk-GB] [OSM-talk] This is an auto-generated note from MAPS.ME application:

On 09/12/2016 12:54, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote: I wonder if this could be down to a simple misunderstanding of the Map.me UI. As far as the user is concerned he's stated that an object on the map no longer exists. He may not be aware this his action is adding a note rather than

Re: [Talk-GB] HS2 phase 2a preferred route

On 07/12/2016 08:25, Paul Berry wrote: I We don't know if it's going to take a city centre route or spur from the Don Valley route yet so unless things change the current relation still stands: http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/4124756 I thought that, at least here:

Re: [Talk-GB] HS2 phase 2a preferred route

On 07/12/2016 10:36, Paul Berry wrote: ... but I believe you're referring to: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hs2-plan-and-profile-maps-woodall-to-conisbrough North of there actually, up through Mexborough. If you know previous route mapping has changed in areas, and remains

Re: [Talk-GB] Ideas for quarterly projects

On 06/12/2016 19:32, Andy Mabbett wrote: also Wikidata - ... Upon reading that my first thought was actually "checking all of the wikidata references that have been added by people not necessarily familiar with the area". See, for example, the discussion on

Re: [Talk-GB] HS2 phase 2a preferred route

On 29/11/2016 19:19, Andy Robinson wrote: As it happens the Phase 2b shape files are available. Just rather buried under an obscure filename. I'll post again once I've made the route updates for 2b (Manchester & Leeds) Which routes do the 2b updates have for north and south of Sheffield?

Re: [Talk-us] Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest (landuse=forest and US National forests again)

I see that no-one has yet removed "landuse=forest" from http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1447414 again ... I'm happy to do so (based on what I think is the general view in this thread) - or does anyone violently object? Let me know if you do, otherwise I'll remove the tag in a couple of

Re: [Talk-GB] Reversing the flow of a one-way street

On 13/01/2017 22:36, Mark Goodge wrote: There is a one-way street (to be more precise, a service road) in my town centre which has the wrong direction of flow on OSM. I can't see any obvious way of changing that - the "oneway" tag merely has a value of "yes", and there's no direction attribute

Re: [Talk-ca] Route verte 1 a perdu plus de 2000 km de voies

On 13/01/2017 20:58, Alouette955 wrote: Bonjour, Je viens de m’apercevoir que la relation Route verte 1 (416115) ne fait plus que 0,7 km ... Puisque afficher l’historique des modifications est impossible sur un si gros objet (erreur du serveur) je ne peux être certain de ce qui est arrivé.

Re: [Talk-GB] tag prow_ref

On 09/01/17 23:56, David Groom wrote: Has any one got any instances of any providers of OSM data using the prow_ref on rendering / routing A map style rather than a "provider of OSM data", but it seemed like a good idea so I added basic support at:

Re: [Talk-GB] beetroot or beet

On 10/01/17 01:20, David Groom wrote: ... Tag info shows 579 ways tagged with crop = beet, of these 572 are in northern Italy added by 3 users, so its probably quite easy to ask what exactly they meant by "beet" , and retag these existing ways if they actually should be beetroot. In the UK

[Talk-us] Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest (landuse=forest and US National forests again)

I commented on http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/43314846 a few days ago - does landuse=forest really make sense there? For more details on the relation see http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1447414#map=15/47.9626/-120.2074 and http://osm.mapki.com/history/relation.php?id=1447414 .

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly task

On 03/01/2017 22:34, Rob Nickerson wrote: Water sounds good. ... and to me too - in fact it's what I've been doing on and off for the last couple of months, mainly in South Wales bordering areas that I've been walking where I've noticed that streams are in the wrong places. OS OpenData

Re: [Talk-GB] natural=heath

On 09/01/2017 11:53, SK53 wrote: Somehow I have been oblivious to the fact that large numbers of polygons tagged natural=heath have been added over the past few months to OSM. I think what's happening here is one mapper "colouring in" without any particular knowledge of the area. Whilst

Re: [Talk-GB] natural=heath

On 09/01/2017 12:28, ael wrote: When I contacted one of the main offenders; I didn't get a very helpful response. It's a shame that this happens, but please do keep trying to contact other mappers where there's a problem like this. If for no other reason, it exposes the problem on

Re: [Talk-GB] natural=heath

On 09/01/2017 12:40, Jez Nicholson wrote: ... so maybe a bot that auto-challenges large/sweeping changes? I can just see it - "Clippy for OSM" - "It looks as if you are crayoning in some landuse? May I suggest you leave your chair and map what is outside your door?" :) More seriously,

Re: [Talk-GB] Monitoring OSM changes (was Re: natural=heath)

On 09/01/2017 14:38, Adrian McEwen wrote: On 09/01/17 12:50, Andy Townsend wrote: More seriously, edits are public, and feeds such as Pascal Neis's, Whodidit and OsmCha allow monitoring of changes in an area, so if you see something that "looks wrong" please do investigate a

Re: [Talk-GB] 3rd Midlands OSM New Year Meetup

On 20/12/2016 20:55, Paul Sladen wrote: [Based on developments today], Why not hold it at the Bluebell in Attenborough on the evening of Wednesday, 8 January 2016[1]. Because it'd be dark? :) There's no reason why a bunch of OSMers couldn't turn up on that evening _as well_, of course...

Re: [Talk-GB] Local Authority rights of way information

On 21/12/2016 11:32, Dave F wrote: Interesting. Under what license to you believe East Riding issued the data that ROWmaps is using? The actual page at the rowmaps site is: http://www.rowmaps.com/datasets/EY/ It seems to say (and I'm paraphrasing) "ERYC say it's Crown Copyright, but the OS

Re: [Talk-GB] [OSM-talk] This is an auto-generated note from MAPS.ME application:

On 19/12/2016 14:12, Paul Berry wrote: That's a definite usability issue in their application (to say nothing of an annoyance to OSM mappers downstream). Is it possible to raise it with them as a bug? See https://github.com/mapsme/omim/issues/4819 and the links from there including one

[Talk-GB] OSM UK (was "Import Progress")

On 22/03/2017 09:24, Gregory wrote: I've been roughly following this thread, and feel I should add some balance. *As a director of OpenStreetMap UK,* ... I suspect that it's unavoidable that if a prominent member of a group or organisations says or does something, that people think that

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Import Progress

s (including answering e.g. Will's questions from https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2017-March/020058.html ). The replies to this thread make it pretty clear that the West Midlands group has some work to do to persuade the majority of the UK OSM community tha

Re: [Talk-GB] [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Import Progress

s (including answering e.g. Will's questions from https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2017-March/020058.html ). The replies to this thread make it pretty clear that the West Midlands group has some work to do to persuade the majority of the UK OSM community tha

[Talk-us] Building import in the Chicago suburbs

? If not, would it be possible for anyone more local than me to try and find out? Best Regards, Andy Townsend, on behalf of OpenStreetMap's Data Working Group. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-GB] Cleaning Spam

On 28/03/2017 18:12, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote: Anyone got any ideas what's going on with this object: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/153803935/history ? It seems to have been spammed twice by two different US cleaning companies in the last month. In this case I'm guessing it's a

Re: [Talk-GB] Cleaning Spam

On 28/03/2017 21:37, Andrew Hain wrote: Are the spammers the same or different people and have they been active elsewhere? If I had to guess, I'd say "same". Although I've not been directly involved in investigating them, I believe that the account information is different in each case, but

Re: [Talk-GB] sports centre tagging

On 31/03/2017 11:09, Jez Nicholson wrote: I sound like a n00b here, but I added the Boulder Brighton climbing centre as a sports centre on top of a building https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/4766325998 and it doesn't appear to be rendering. Have I made an error or just lack patience? It

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] [Talk-GB] Import Progress

On 20/03/2017 12:34, Rob Nickerson wrote: Let's step back, allow for this data to be completed (else it will be in a worse case) and find a sensible way forward for the guidelines when we have time to think with a fresh mind. Thanks Rob. Looking forward from here, would it be possible to

Re: [Talk-us] Building import in the Chicago suburbs

Still no response on this - can anyone suggest a better way of getting in contact with Chicago-area mappers? Best Regards, Andy Townsend, on behalf of OpenStreetMap's Data Working Group. On 25/03/2017 08:59, Andy Townsend wrote: It looks like someone's been trying to perform a building

Re: [Talk-GB] StyleSheet for Outdoors Rendering

On 03/04/2017 18:08, Graham Jones wrote: One more thing. Does anyone have a way of generating a map key from a carto style? Otherwise I might have to write something. You might want to start with https://github.com/gravitystorm/mapnik-legendary . Not sure how far that progressed, or what

Re: [Talk-GB] Rendering Stiles

On 05/04/2017 20:12, Michael Booth wrote: Might be worth commenting on this issue about adding kissing gate/stile icons, with any suggestions for rendering them on the standard layer: https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/846 To be honest, as the last comment there says,

Re: [Talk-GB] Rendering national/regional walking trails

On 21/04/2017 11:26, Elizabeth Oldham wrote: I am trying to render the national and regional walking trails. These are done as relations, with tags like network=rwn so easy to pick out. When I render them I find there are alternative routes, as an example the Coast to Coast Walk splits into 3

Re: [Talk-GB] Birmingham Tree Import

On 13/04/2017 16:12, Brian Prangle wrote: On the subject of fixing things, my block seems to have been precipitated by my not participating in changeset discussions of which I still remain oblivious because apparently the automatic email notification system breaks randomly and it seems I'm

Re: [Talk-GB] Rendering national/regional walking trails

On 23/04/17 11:43, Elizabeth Oldham wrote: ... But I still get only a few labels rendered. My stylesheet for rendering ldpnwn is similar to yours. So I'm kind of confused as to where the magic is that places multiple labels instead of just a few? The "text-spacing" settings below

Re: [Talk-GB] Rendering national/regional walking trails

On 22/04/2017 20:43, Elizabeth Oldham wrote: Anyway. I noticed on your maps you have multiple ldpnwn labels along the routes, like the Cumbria Way, and Coast to Coast. I've been unable to get more than one or two labels. I've been searching but it's usually the other way around - you have

Re: [Talk-GB] Legally permitted vs inadvisable

On 09/03/2017 12:40, Dave F wrote: On in Firefox & IE 10 the 'Control' button on your site displays the controls repeatedly one under the other. The 'Off' button removes only the last added. Wouldn't it be better if the 'Control' was an on/off toggle? It would - it's just waiting for the

Re: [Talk-GB] Legally permitted vs inadvisable

On 09/03/2017 06:05, Dudley Ibbett wrote: ... I’m not aware of any online map that displays sidewalks. It would certainly be useful if there was one. Well, https://map.atownsend.org.uk/maps/map/map.html#zoom=15=53.02012=-1.73005 does on unclassified, tertiary and secondary. It doesn't on

Re: [Talk-GB] Rendering Stiles

On 05/04/2017 10:09, Ian Caldwell wrote: One of the reasons I think he was adding name="stile". is that stiles are not rendered on the standard map. Is there are web based map that does render stiles? I cannot find one. Sure:

Re: [Talk-GB] Edits in Wales

On 15/08/2017 19:22, Brian Prangle wrote: But even local authorities and the OS get into hot water over names !(but to be fair this is a placename rather than a street name with a verifiable sign) As a

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