Re: [OSM-talk] AI detecting of buildings Idle thoughts

2018-08-16 Thread Christoph Hormann
e most likely explanation seems to be that the quality of building detection and especially of building geometry generation (if that is being done at all) is probably quite bad and by not using the building data directly you can kind of disguise such deficits. -- Christop

Re: [OSM-talk] AI detecting of buildings Idle thoughts

2018-08-16 Thread Christoph Hormann
really help the original question from John. My answer to that would be: Yes, automated methods can help to find unmapped settlements in OSM - less though in actually mapping them. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk maili

Re: [OSM-talk] AI detecting of buildings Idle thoughts

2018-08-16 Thread Christoph Hormann
important but with organized efforts like this i can't help but get the impression there is a certain amount of malice to sabotage or at least an excessive amount of carelessness. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing

Re: [OSM-talk] AI detecting of buildings Idle thoughts

2018-08-16 Thread Christoph Hormann
nstreetmap.org/way/614459980 From a purely technical point of view if it wasn't littering OSM this would just be droll. Verifiability my ass... -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists

Re: [Talk-de] Wege des WSV an den Kanälen / tagging

2018-08-13 Thread Christoph Hormann
e bezieht? Gewässer-parallele Fahrwege sind ja insgesamt insbesondere auf und am Fuße von Hochwasser-Deichen auch bei kleineren Flüssen recht weit verbreitet. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ Talk-de mailing list Talk-de@openstreetmap.

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: 2 Great Lakes missing

2018-08-13 Thread Christoph Hormann
f the big lakes that is a few dozen MB of download via overpass API and then a few seconds with osmium to assemble the multipolygon. You can easily set this up to run on a daily basis to check a few lakes you want to keep an eye on. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.i

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: 2 Great Lakes missing

2018-08-13 Thread Christoph Hormann
) or magenta (ring not closed). -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Is it technically and legally possible to add the Open Location Code to the OSM search?

2018-08-11 Thread Christoph Hormann
ck of quality control for imports in OSM they are not even remotely as damaging as would be the deliberate large scale addition of encoded coordinates as tags to millions of features. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list t

Re: [OSM-talk] Is it technically and legally possible to add the Open Location Code to the OSM search?

2018-08-11 Thread Christoph Hormann
up against these arguments except the continued expression of the political desire to push this into the OSM database despite all the arguments against it. Everyone is entitled to their political views but i don't think the OSM database is a place where these can

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=* + area=yes vs area:highway=*

2018-08-11 Thread Christoph Hormann
of the transit from expansion (where edits were predominantly writing new documentation) to maintainance (with predominantly changes of existing documentation). -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.or

Re: [OSM-talk] Is it technically and legally possible to add the Open Location Code to the OSM search?

2018-08-10 Thread Christoph Hormann
am afraid that even after reading it several times i have no idea what you want to say with that. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Is it technically and legally possible to add the Open Location Code to the OSM search?

2018-08-10 Thread Christoph Hormann
mming, data processing and data maintainance that even after ignoring all the arguments in substance that have been voiced this should be universally rejected if for no other reason then because it would make OSM the laughing stock of the whole geodata world. -- Christoph Hormann

Re: [OSM-talk] Learning to Use Machine Learning - A learn along for folks who want to be using ML in their work.

2018-08-09 Thread Christoph Hormann
Side note: It would be a responsible thing to include a reminder like what i wrote above with a message like the one i reply to here or in the welcome messages/FAQs etc. of dedicated communication channels. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ __

Re: [Talk-de] Wege des WSV an den Kanälen / tagging

2018-08-09 Thread Christoph Hormann
nd Fußgänger sind > nur geduldet. Deshalb auch mein Vorschlag zu dem permissive. Das kannst Du genauso an highway=track taggen. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ Talk-de mailing list Talk-de@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-de

Re: [Talk-de] Wege des WSV an den Kanälen / tagging

2018-08-09 Thread Christoph Hormann
ie eine Ufer-parallele Zufahrt zu einem konkreten Objekt wie einem Wehr oder so. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ Talk-de mailing list Talk-de@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-de

Re: [Talk-us] Hostility towards US mappers

2018-07-25 Thread Christoph Hormann
st sidewalks are fine and most Germans > are sensible people. Thanks, that is much appreciated. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Senseless Germans, again.

2018-07-25 Thread Christoph Hormann
at saddens me is that those with constructive and reflective commentary (Rihards and Kevin) get caught in the rage against the "Senseless Germans". Side note: I also have my doubts if Bryan's German colleagues at work appreciate this kind of remark. -- Christoph Hormann h

Re: [Talk-de] Abstimmung über die OSM-Awards 2018

2018-07-15 Thread Christoph Hormann
ngsläufig ein Popularitäts-Wettbewerb daraus. Also letztendlich entscheidet *Ihr* durch Euer Abstimmungs-Verhalten und die Kriterien, die ihr dabei anlegt, was für eine Bedeutung diese Preise haben. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ Talk-d

Re: [Talk-de] OSM + Wikidata: Wikidata property proposal fuer eine OSM node ID

2018-07-11 Thread Christoph Hormann
er geometrischen Anordnung der Daten-Objekte und nicht aus deren Identitäten) reibt. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ Talk-de mailing list Talk-de@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-de

Re: [OSM-talk] Scientific paper on "Information Seeding"

2018-07-09 Thread Christoph Hormann
this maybe talk to the Russians... -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Carto design

2018-06-30 Thread Christoph Hormann
t this will not necessarily be the case in all eternity and the idea is floated to maybe even render more than one style this becomes a relevant question. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [OSM-talk] WMF: "Interactive maps, now in your language"

2018-06-29 Thread Christoph Hormann
ns i would have for that behaviour is particularly flattering is an understatement. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Carto design

2018-06-29 Thread Christoph Hormann
mething like that in an actual renderer is of course not a trivial task. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Carto design

2018-06-29 Thread Christoph Hormann
the right development model for an open map design project. This is about the almost complete lack of competitive pressure to make sure whatever development model is used it is challenged to deliver the best results (or be abandoned because it is unable to do so) - which i

Re: [Talk-de] Wochennotiz Nr. 411 29.05.2018–04.06.2018

2018-06-14 Thread Christoph Hormann
tionen mit anderen Datenquellen, sondern auch jegliche nicht trivialen inhaltlichen Modifikationen und Korrekturen, die sie intern durchführen. Ist aber natürlich eine Menge Arbeit, sich da hinterher zu klemmen und sich dann ggf. durch das zu wühlen, was man als Antwort bekommt. -- Chri

Re: [OSM-talk] proposed mechanical edit - moving building=building to building=yes

2018-06-09 Thread Christoph Hormann
waterway etc. are things that could be hinted cautiously to the user to be possible errors. From JOSM i only know the message that a value is not in presets - which would catch these errors as well but which is not that meaningful. -- Christoph Hormann http://ww

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License clarification

2018-06-07 Thread Christoph Hormann
e context of 'big data', and how this relates to the ODbL. It seems to me opinions on this are too much based on wishful thinking and too little aim to form a consistent framework that supports desirable and harmless use cases but does not create loopholes against the spirit of the license. --

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License clarification

2018-06-07 Thread Christoph Hormann
Substantial_-_Guideline -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License clarification

2018-06-06 Thread Christoph Hormann
if you mask the data early in a more elaborate process and do further processing afterwards based on a data set that is an inseparable combination of both data sources the situation is not that clear. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ le

Re: [OSM-talk] Using Wikipedia to add names in other languages

2018-05-05 Thread Christoph Hormann
the legal issues. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM and new Wikipedia map features

2018-05-03 Thread Christoph Hormann
ames. Otherwise people will inevitably add tons of non-verifiable transliterated names in a misguided attempt improve the map. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Name:* tags in the local language

2018-04-25 Thread Christoph Hormann
in the OSM wiki. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Name:* tags in the local language

2018-04-24 Thread Christoph Hormann
default name to use is the name:en name. I think that someone was me. :-) Details on: http://blog.imagico.de/you-name-it-on-representing-geographic-diversity-in-names/ -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailin

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

2018-04-20 Thread Christoph Hormann
in cases where mappers do not react to attempts at communication at all this is a general problem not specific to organized/directed editing activities. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

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

2018-04-20 Thread Christoph Hormann
in cases where mappers do not react to attempts at communication at all this is a general problem not specific to organized/directed editing activities. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

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

2018-04-20 Thread Christoph Hormann
rum on that - after all we do not even have a German language channel with global scope which might have been a better place for that. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

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

2018-04-20 Thread Christoph Hormann
rum on that - after all we do not even have a German language channel with global scope which might have been a better place for that. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstr

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

2018-04-20 Thread Christoph Hormann
not want this to continue in their domain and how to best accompish that would be a good subject of discussion. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

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

2018-04-20 Thread Christoph Hormann
not want this to continue in their domain and how to best accompish that would be a good subject of discussion. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] GDPR introduction

2018-04-17 Thread Christoph Hormann
side the EU can still publish their regional > extracts with metadata publicly. Well - that is obviously a question you need to get qualified local legal advise on. Same as if you can publicly distribute a copy of . -- Christoph Hormann htt

Re: [OSM-talk] GDPR introduction

2018-04-17 Thread Christoph Hormann
gal obligations that seems something that can be reasonably dealt with. The terminology used in the position paper however seems to point into a somewhat different direction (i.e. that providing bulk metadata would be subject to a specific contractual agreement). -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/

Re: [OSM-talk] GDPR introduction

2018-04-17 Thread Christoph Hormann
reement. In addition it might be a good idea (i think i suggested this already in the past) to provide an anonymous OAuth service - where the application using it gets confirmation that the user is logged in as an registered OSM user but which does not provide any information on this user's id

Re: [Talk-de] Navads-Tankstellenimport

2018-03-28 Thread Christoph Hormann
ichert aka Nakaner > > nach Diskussion und im Namen der deutschen OpenStreetMap-Community > > im deutschen OSM-Forum und auf der Mailingliste Talk-de Auch da solltest Du denke ich ein bisschen vorsichtig sein - Du gibst hier maximal die Me

Re: [Talk-de] FOSSGIS-Mitgliederversammlung am vergangenen Donnerstag

2018-03-26 Thread Christoph Hormann
e Möglichkeiten konstruktiv zu nutzen liegt aber vor allem auch an Euch. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ Talk-de mailing list Talk-de@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-de

Re: [OSM-talk] Nominatim - censorship at github pages

2018-03-26 Thread Christoph Hormann
ols and development goals) is generally superior for innovation and progress in general compared to trying to be universally inclusive w.r.t. feature and design ideas or communication and cooperation styles within projects. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___

Re: [Talk-de] Dt. Kartenstil: Rendern von historic=fort

2018-03-03 Thread Christoph Hormann
On Friday 23 February 2018, Christoph Hormann wrote: > > Wenn jetzt dort historic=fort (knapp 3000 Verwendungen) gerendert > wird, historic=castle mit >37k Verwendungen und einem etablierten, > recht gut nach kulturellen und architektonischen Kriterien > definierten und auch verb

Re: [Talk-de] Dt. Kartenstil: Rendern von historic=fort

2018-03-01 Thread Christoph Hormann
es selbst - oft mit recht bescheidenen Ergebnissen (Beipiele: tourism=artwork, amenity=ferry_terminal) Symbol-Design ist letztendlich halt eine enorm schwierige Aufgabe. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ Talk-de mailing list Talk-de@open

Re: [Talk-de] Dt. Kartenstil: Rendern von historic=fort

2018-03-01 Thread Christoph Hormann
strakten Symbolen für von Menschen gemachte Dinge immer im Auge behalten, dass das was in einem Teil der Welt ein anschauliches repräsentatives Beispiel darstellt anderswo auf der Welt recht wenig intuitiv oder gar irreführend sein kann. -- Christoph Hormann

Re: [Talk-de] Dt. Kartenstil: Rendern von historic=fort

2018-02-24 Thread Christoph Hormann
nicht wirklich ein. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ Talk-de mailing list Talk-de@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-de

Re: [Talk-de] Dt. Kartenstil: Rendern von historic=fort

2018-02-23 Thread Christoph Hormann
so ein Klischee-Burg-Symbol irreführend und wie schon angedeutet hinsichtlich Mapper-Feedback ziemlich kontraproduktiv (und daneben gerade für einen internationalen Stil im Grunde auch etwas peinlich). -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ T

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping rivers that flow into/through lakes?

2018-02-23 Thread Christoph Hormann
ter area. This is hampered by the problem that we mostly have no consistent distinction between river and lake areas in OSM (i.e. standing and flowing water areas). -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping rivers that flow into/through lakes?

2018-02-22 Thread Christoph Hormann
stion probably is if this is something editors should provide support to produce automatically or if it is something that data users should generate automatically as needed. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstre

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap 2008

2018-02-19 Thread Christoph Hormann
s ago: > > http://osmz.ru/osm2008.html Have you tried running OSMCoastline on that planet? Might be tricky but would significantly improve the realism of the historic image. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@op

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Interesting use case of combining OSM with proprietary data

2018-01-13 Thread Christoph Hormann
ermediate data you might get separate raster maps for the OSM roads and the Google roads. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Interesting use case of combining OSM with proprietary data

2018-01-13 Thread Christoph Hormann
escribed in explicit form (like linestring or polygon) or implicit form (like distance function)? -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Interesting use case of combining OSM with proprietary data

2018-01-12 Thread Christoph Hormann
enging - but that is just a minor hurdle. Note from a business perspective as a data user i would not really mind if the above scenario was acceptable but as said it would practically mean the end of share-alike for map rendering applications - and that is likely not what the mappers who voted

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Interesting use case of combining OSM with proprietary data

2018-01-12 Thread Christoph Hormann
. But on the other hand you could argue (as you already did in your mail) that once you use a produced work in a database-like fashion it becomes a derivative database again - the same way as if you trace features from a rendered OSM map. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Interesting use case of combining OSM with proprietary data

2018-01-11 Thread Christoph Hormann
is the perfect trial balloon to test how far you can go. And if Oxford University gets screwed over this that is not their problem. If not and this kind of data combination becomes widely accepted this would OTOH open the door for a lot of applications that would depend on circumventing share-alike. --

[OSM-legal-talk] Interesting use case of combining OSM with proprietary data

2018-01-11 Thread Christoph Hormann
. But you could probably also look at it differently. I would like to hear opinions on this. In particular if you think that is legally possible without share alike how this interpretation looks like. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ legal

Re: [Talk-de] Grenzen und Wege

2018-01-05 Thread Christoph Hormann
das durch die Straßenverläufe offensichtlich. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ Talk-de mailing list Talk-de@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-de

Re: [Talk-de] Grenzen und Wege

2018-01-05 Thread Christoph Hormann
eetmap.org/#map=15/32.0846/35.5327 Für die Mapping-Praxis würd ich sagen: Wenn da Grenzsteine sind und der Grenzverlauf in OSM entspricht diesen weitgehend dann kann und sollte man das separat mappen. Ansonsten kann man das getrost mit einer Geometrie erfassen. -- Christoph Hormann htt

Re: [OSM-talk] Standard map style contributions

2017-12-29 Thread Christoph Hormann
s/2270 While i agree with you that from my perspective a style direction or design paradigm is needed for successful development i try to be open to the possibility that it is not. How to attract contributors in such a framework is not something i can provide a competent o

Re: [OSM-talk] Support OSM communities and disaster response this holiday season (by 31 Dec)

2017-12-16 Thread Christoph Hormann
ks for the links. I stand by my critique of how the OSM community is engrossed in how this is presented by HOT and also by my assessment of the decision making processes being intransparent (the validity of which has no bearing on the main point of critique though). -- Christoph Hormann http:

Re: [OSM-talk] Support OSM communities and disaster response this holiday season (by 31 Dec)

2017-12-14 Thread Christoph Hormann
that are unclear and subjective but you should not present this as if this financing is somehow integrated into and supervised by the OSM community. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.o

Re: [Talk-de] OSMF-Vorstandswahlen 2017

2017-12-06 Thread Christoph Hormann
r natürlich ein politisches Statement. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ Talk-de mailing list Talk-de@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-de

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

2017-12-03 Thread Christoph Hormann
said before: *do not mix rendering and tagging discussions*. [1]https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/blob/master/CARTOGRAPHY.md -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.opens

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

2017-11-30 Thread Christoph Hormann
then drop arguing for certain tagging ideas based on your perceived needs for rendering. Tagging decisions should be based on how mappers can best document their knowledge about the geography. Not on what some developers find convenient for rendering. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _

Re: [OSM-talk] How to show school icons ?

2017-11-24 Thread Christoph Hormann
grounds. * the school consists of a number of rooms in a building but not the whole building. * there are multiple schools using the same infrastructure together. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.

Re: [OSM-talk] weeklyOSM #382 2017-11-07-2017-11-13

2017-11-22 Thread Christoph Hormann
also be translated as unregenerate. My attempt at a translation of the German text would be: "Yuri is perceived by many in this discussion, in a similar way as in previous discussions, as unreasonable/unregenerate and questions the relevancy of the unwritten rules of OSM." -- Christoph H

Re: [OSM-talk] Directed Editing Policy

2017-11-22 Thread Christoph Hormann
just my personal interpretation of the policy of course - others might see this differently. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Effecting change in OpenStreetMap

2017-11-21 Thread Christoph Hormann
urnover in people is much faster in OSM than in science (see https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Active_contributors_year.png). -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Effecting change in OpenStreetMap

2017-11-18 Thread Christoph Hormann
pt at something created the impulse for a better and successful solution. (Changed the subject because this of course does not have much to do with the original subject of this thread - still i think this is an important topic to discuss) -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___

Re: [OSM-talk] weeklyOSM #382 2017-11-07-2017-11-13

2017-11-17 Thread Christoph Hormann
the way they perceive it, including the intensity and extent of the displeasure felt by those in the discussion, you are going to do more damage to the OSM community than either Yuri or anyone maybe going on occasion a bit overboard with their choice of words in the discussion. -- Christoph Hormann

Re: [OSM-talk] weeklyOSM #382 2017-11-07-2017-11-13

2017-11-17 Thread Christoph Hormann
the message... I sincerely hope the weeklyOSM team ignores such advise. No one really wants a shallow, politically whitewashed verbal ornamentation of the links carefully vetted not to hurt anyone that could be generated by a bot (yes, there is some irony in that). -- Christ

Re: [OSM-talk] weeklyOSM #382 2017-11-07-2017-11-13

2017-11-17 Thread Christoph Hormann
a does not work with any of these other, more fitting terms - sorry. ;-) -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [Talk-de] Announcement and RFC: German Local Chapter application

2017-11-13 Thread Christoph Hormann
y already summarized the main points of this discussion (in which the reaction was generally positive) to the OSMF board. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ Talk-de mailing list Talk-de@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-de

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

2017-11-13 Thread Christoph Hormann
you have developed based on that assumption. https://xkcd.com/386/ is something something most of us have stopped doing relatively soon after we discovered the internet... -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list t

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

2017-11-13 Thread Christoph Hormann
d developing an intuitive understanding of the unwritten rules. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

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

2017-11-13 Thread Christoph Hormann
its because they are only applied to features that are (manually) edited otherwise. Applying the same 'fixes' mechanically to all features with a certain tag however is a mechanical edit and needs to be discussed on a per-case basis - always, no matter how trivial, useful or obvious they mi

Re: [OSM-talk] Misrepresentation of OSM by HOT?

2017-10-30 Thread Christoph Hormann
//tasks-stage.hotosm.org/ Looks like a big step in the right direction, thanks. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

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

2017-10-28 Thread Christoph Hormann
s for OSM as a whole. I am not claiming this is easy to determine but it should be the benchmark to apply - which is what i am suggesting everyone to do here. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.

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

2017-10-28 Thread Christoph Hormann
r benefit for OSM and the OSM community beyond the wiki itself. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [Talk-de] Deutsche Namens-Tags in Polen

2017-10-25 Thread Christoph Hormann
nstreetmap.org/relation/3374767? http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1882099475? -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ Talk-de mailing list Talk-de@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-de

Re: [Talk-de] Deutsche Namens-Tags in Polen

2017-10-25 Thread Christoph Hormann
eute, jedoch meist nicht mehr außerhalb historischer Betrachtungen verwendet werden, gehen in old_name:de. "Hitlerplatz", "Göringallee" und so was dürften im Allgemeinen wohl in die zweite Kategorie fallen. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___

Re: [OSM-talk] Misrepresentation of OSM by HOT?

2017-10-24 Thread Christoph Hormann
Note this is a completely subjective impression of me and in no way meant to imply being representative for any group of people. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Misrepresentation of OSM by HOT?

2017-10-23 Thread Christoph Hormann
dding at least brief verbal credits to OSM - for example like Frederik cited from Missing Maps - to the starting page somewhere. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Misrepresentation of OSM by HOT?

2017-10-23 Thread Christoph Hormann
way - although this is of course a question i did contemplate. It would be nice to see you doing me the same courtesy by arguing the topic at hand without insinuating "an argumentative pose", "distrust", "Combative questions" or a lack of respect. -- C

Re: [OSM-talk] Misrepresentation of OSM by HOT?

2017-10-23 Thread Christoph Hormann
reetMap and HOT and how they relate to the visitor. learnosm.org (which i think is also mainly built by HOT) shows this is possible to do. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] Misrepresentation of OSM by HOT?

2017-10-23 Thread Christoph Hormann
; always happens via HOT tasks. In my eyes this is a fairly clear misrepresentation of OpenStreetMap not covered by the trademark policy we now have. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lis

Re: [Talk-us] hydrology Alaska

2017-10-18 Thread Christoph Hormann
s were achieved with scanaerial seem to be using relatively low resolution images processed at a much higher resolution - like here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=12/68.8084/160.9188 -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ Talk-us maili

Re: [Talk-us] hydrology Alaska

2017-10-17 Thread Christoph Hormann
d is just wasteful). -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

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

2017-10-16 Thread Christoph Hormann
t a fully scripted solution and not something interactive. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

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

2017-10-16 Thread Christoph Hormann
different in that regard. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

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

2017-10-15 Thread Christoph Hormann
edits and want to explore the possibilities of these but who feel the attitude and approach of Yuri Astrakhan is inconsiderate, non-constructive and damaging. I would wish more of them would speak up here but i also understand if they do not want to "pour oil into the fire" so

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

2017-10-15 Thread Christoph Hormann
d to participate in it, > rather than being productive and beneficial to everyone involved. I rest my case. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

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

2017-10-15 Thread Christoph Hormann
which is likely because you don't get how OpenStreetMap is working overall. I would strongly advise you to reconsider your whole approach to OpenStreetMap and to interacting with the OpenStreetMap community. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _

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

2017-10-14 Thread Christoph Hormann
accounts being blocked. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [Talk-us] Low-quality NHD imports

2017-10-13 Thread Christoph Hormann
waterways in imports where this was not properly set based on the feature codes. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Low-quality NHD imports

2017-10-13 Thread Christoph Hormann
t with the dense network of NHD geometries with a lot of cryptic tags and all flatly tagged as waterway=stream it is quite hard for mappers to identify the larger rivers and improve mapping there. Like here (NHD import on the left, newer manual mapping on the right): https://www.openstreetmap.o

Re: [OSM-talk] Could we just pause any wikidata edits for a month or two?

2017-10-12 Thread Christoph Hormann
. > > To my knowledge nothing automatic of this kind exists so far, so > there should be only a few manual edits of this kind. Yesterday i showed examples of systematic node and name tag additions to OSM clearly sourced from Wikidata. It is clear that this is happeni

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