[OSM-talk] Level0 OpenStreetMap Editor

Hi! I'm quite proud to announce a new OSM editor, Level0: http://level0.osmz.ru It is a web-based, text-only editor, a bit like RawEdit, but with more features and without scary XML. Basically, you are editing easy to understand lines like way 123123 with tags written like highway=primary.

Re: [OSM-talk] Level0 OpenStreetMap Editor

Hi! I'm quite proud to announce a new OSM editor, Level0: http://level0.osmz.ru Looks interesting, but I haven't looked very far because I can't find how to change the language. I'm really lost with Russian. My browser asks for English or French or German. Oops, sorry, it had three

[OSM-talk] Imagery Offset Database turns 1

Hi! On this day a year ago I announced the Imagery Offset Database. Since then mappers have uploaded around 6 thousand offsets, and the number of editors supporting the database has doubled. I hope we are still teaching beginner mappers to properly align imagery layers, and I've prepared some

Re: [OSM-talk] Crimea/Russia/Ukraine Borders

Hi! Russian and Ukrainian community, including DWG member Eugene Sandulenko, have come to an agreement to not touch administrative borders and name tags of Crimea until 1st of June, 0:01 MSK. The situation there is quite unstable and will change significantly in coming months. Ukrainian

Re: [OSM-talk] Details about wooded belt in Saratov Oblast?

osm@0sg.net: today, using the OSM slippy map, I came across a regular structure in the Saratov Oblast, Russia. Map data and aerial images suggest it be wood or stripes of wood. It looks like a barrier. Against what or whom? Or when was it grown? Hi! Sadly there is no English version of

[OSM-talk] MapBBCode library and MapBBCode Share website

Hi! Today I am releasing the first version of MapBBCode JavaScript library. It allows for easy integration of maps into forums, blogs and other web engines. All you have to do is write a simple plugin employing the library :) There are examples and extensive documentation. Sadly, FluxBB

[Talk-ee] A pub meet-up in Tallinn on 13th of June

Hi! I'm coming to Tallinn next week, and I've noticed you rarely meet in person :) So let's come together next Thursday at 19:00 somewhere in the Old City, most likely in a pub. Suggestions for a pub welcome! There is a topic on that in the Russian OSM forum:

Re: [Talk-ee] SOTM Baltics ürituse varajase registreerija soodus

Hi! For those having problems paying with PayPal for SotM Baltics 2013 conference pass, we have just announced other ways of payment, including bank transfer specially for attendees from Estonia and other Baltic countries. Account details and the alternative registration form are here:

[OSM-talk] State of the Map Baltics 2013: Registration is open

Hi! As you probably don't know, we (OSM EE and russian mappers) are organizing a european OpenStreetMap conference just between SotM US and SotM. It is called SotM Baltics 2013 and will be held in Tartu, Estonia on 3-4 of August. The website is at http://sotm-baltics.org We hope to bring

Re: [OSM-talk] State of the Map Baltics 2013: Registration is open

Martin Koppenhoefer писал 2013-05-22 17:31: 2013/5/22 Ilya Zverev zve...@textual.ru Hi! As you probably don't know, we (OSM EE and russian mappers) are organizing a european OpenStreetMap conference just between SotM US and SotM. It is called SotM Baltics 2013 and will be held in Tartu

[OSM-talk] OSM Authentication Proxy

Hi! When Frederik asked about using OAuth for the GeoChat plugin, I remembered the same problem I had with the imagery offset database. And since I was in a programming mode, this lead to an idea on how to skip OAuth for client applications, while reliably identifying users. So the whole

[OSM-talk] GeoChat plugin for JOSM

Frederik Ramm wrote: Zverik, On 10.05.2013 10:29, Ilya Zverev wrote: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Plugins/GeoChat That sounds great. I always wanted to have something like that! I have some thoughts about it - not meant to criticize, I'm really looking forward to seeing

[OSM-talk] GeoChat plugin for JOSM

Hi! Sorry to bother you, but I've written something again, and I'd like for everyone to use it :) http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Plugins/GeoChat It is a plugin for JOSM that allows users mapping in a same area to talk to each other. At the least it should render a chat window in

Re: [OSM-talk] Still need for spam protection and if yes, what about OSM-based CATPCHA?

Stefan Keller wrote: Actually, I'd like to hear the opinions of those website admins who really are affected by spam registrations (see subject). For those who hate CAPTCHAs please provide alternative solutions. Whitelists or bayesian filter are not among them. Hi. In some cases captchas are

[OSM-talk] GPX Planet Dump Visualization

Hi! I have updated GPX Planet Tools https://github.com/Zverik/gpxplanet-tools for new GPX dump format and have made tiles up to zoom 11, as the last time: http://zverik.osm.rambler.ru/gps/ . Country extracts are being made right now, I expect them to be ready in a week (the processing is very

[OSM-talk] Imagery Offset Database

Hi! I'm proud to announce the Imagery Offset Database: a centralized offset bookmarks and calibration geometries storage. At the moment it consists of: - API: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Imagery_Offset_Database/API - JOSM plugin:

Re: [OSM-talk] Recent edits in the wiki / Trademark issue

Hi. Regardless of that trademark business, I've checked Simon's edits and they mostly consist of removing links to google maps, which contain empty geocode parameter and them (and many other redundant parameters that editors didn't bother to omit). Some of the edits are quite funny, for

Re: [OSM-talk] Recent edits in the wiki / Trademark issue

Hi. Since no one has explained, I'd quote a part from OSMF Board Meeting Minutes: OSMF received C+D letter from someone who trademarked the word “Geocode(TM)” and asks us to remove all references to this from our web site where it is connected in some way with Google services. Simon is in

Re: [OSM-talk] talk Digest, Vol 101, Issue 80

Tobias Knerr: However, the approach with the very large and prominent markers on openstreetmap.ru can only really be used together with the feature catalogue. If every single POI in the map were to be represented like that, the screen would be flooded with markers. A feature catalogue requires

[OSM-talk] POI display on osm.org

Hi. I'd like to put the discussion of Roland's POI feature in perspective. Last month the team of openstreetmap.ru released their version of POI search and display engine. Check out the screenshot: http://shtosm.ru/pictures/osmrupoi.gif and another one:

[OSM-talk] Who's That? OSM User Names Database

Hi. 2300 users have changed their username at least once. 126 of those did that twice or more. One of the problems with OSM API is that it heavily relies on user names, not even allowing to query users by their identifier. As a result, when a user changes his display name, he virtually

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik at zoom=19

Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: +1, the more you zoom in, the more you wish there were highway areas. No you don't. http://not.textual.ru/zverik/2/3/mapsurfer-areahighway-spb.png Highway areas look ugly, even at zoom 18. Openstreetmap.by also renders those areas:

Re: [OSM-talk] Multilingual maps demo

I have been working on a multilingual OSM map, ie. a map where you, the user can decide in which language the labels should be. A demo of the system is now available at http://mlm.jochentopf.com/ . The tiles for this demo are rendered on tile.openstreetmap.de, the software used is the MapQuest

[OSM-talk] Open GIS 2012 conference

Hi! On 17-18 of November the first Russian conference on open GIS and open geodata took place. It was organized in three tracks: one for GIS, one for workshops, and OpenStreetMap got a whole two-day track too. To say it was fun is understatement. This was the best conference I've attended! :)

[OSM-talk] State of the Map US 2012

Hi! It's been a month since SotM US, and there are still a lot of gaps in a slides and presentations collection at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_Of_The_Map_U.S._2012/Schedule . But we have a bigger question. There were online translations of the conference. It should mean that every

[OSM-talk] Conferences

Hi! First of all, I'd like to ask those who gave talks at SotM US 2012 to publish their slides and notes and link them from the wiki page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_Of_The_Map_U.S._2012/Schedule Also, a small announcement. In mid-November we are organizing the first Russian

Re: [OSM-talk] Who Did It?

Dave F. wrote: I'm not sure edits done in Potlatch should automatically be considered suspicious, and classifying an edit 'red' because six nodes one way were removed when 134/3 were added seems a bit harsh. Since today, after a discussion on #osm, only these potlatch edits that modify or

[OSM-talk] Who Did It?

Dave F. wrote: I'm sorry, the database was turned off for an hour, because there was a major problem with utf8 encoding, and I had to reupload the sql dump. Now it's back online, updating normally. Thanks. What's the significance of the [!] that is displayed in some of the RSS feed

Re: [OSM-talk] Who Did It?

Willi wrote: Is it possible to deselect a userid? When surveying an area I would prefer to see just the changes others made. I know mine. You can write into user filter '!Willi' (without quotes). There is no such button in the UI at the moment. IZ

[OSM-talk] Community Edit Monitoring vs Worldwide BOT Coverage in Changesets

Pierre Béland wrote: The changesets listed were reduced by half when providing the url http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changesets?bbox=-73.6318%2C45.409%2C-73.444%2C45.4946 with http://positron96.appspot.com/osmfilter.html. This solution would effectively eliminate an important amount of

[OSM-talk] Who Did It?

Hi! For a long time now, there has been no tool to properly monitor an area. Essentially the only way of doing it is to filter changeset history by bbox (thanks to Pavel for his RSS filter btw). OWL has been turned off, ITO-like visualizations are pretty but unuseful. The simple question who

Re: [OSM-talk] Who Did It?

Dave F.: Is the RSS feed working? When I paste the feed url into the location bar (Firefox 15) it just reverts back to the previous page. I'm sorry, the database was turned off for an hour, because there was a major problem with utf8 encoding, and I had to reupload the sql dump. Now it's

Re: [OSM-talk] How to add, edit, remove tag for an object without Potlatch, Merkaartor or JOSM ?

LIVINE Christin: How to add, edit, remove tag for an object without Potlatch, Merkaartor or JOSM ? For example. For France, I'd like to add tag name:ty. You could do this with rawedit http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Rawedit but it is broken now. As for JOSM, there is a better way.

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap GPS Points Map

Mike Dupont писал 2012-09-12 00:56: I have been wondering what the license is on the gps points? is it affected by the change? For a long time I though that all GPX traces are in public domain. There was no user agreement signed, no clauses in CT concerning GPX traces, and with

[OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap GPS Points Map

Hi! As you know, almost half a year ago a GPX Planet was released (http://blog.osmfoundation.org/2012/04/01/bulk-gps-point-data/). At the time I expressed a hope that someone would process that file, making tile layer and regional extracts. Alas, in those months the file has only been

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap GPS Points Map

Stephan Knauss: I had developed a JOSM plugin and a server backend to download very fast blocks of GPS data. I assumed it be a good companion to the overpass mirror of OSM data. And fetching GPS points from the API is sometimes slow as hell. But how do you deal with private and otherwise

[Talk-ru] Встреча Совета 29 февраля

Всем привет! Напоминаю, что Совет собирается послезавтра на канале #osm-ru-sovet в 22:00 MSK. Программа встречи выложена, как обычно, в вики: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/RU:Совет_Российского_OSM/Встреча_29_февраля_2012 Четыре из шести вопросов предполагают домашнюю работу: прочитать

Re: [Talk-ru] Совет, направление развития

On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 19:32:37 +0400, Павел wrote: При этом я: а)хочу НКО б)думаю что имеющийся опыт можно использовать в процессе создания НКО Вопрос зачем уже не стоит? Или это, как и раньше, желание сделать что-нибудь мощное, чтобы тролли на форуме не ругали за бездействие? IZ

[Talk-ru] Встреча Совета сегодня

Напоминаю, что сегодня в 22:00 MSK на канале #osm-sovet-ru пройдёт встреча Совета. Прошу всех постараться быть. Программа встречи опубликована в вики: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Совет_Российского_OSM/Встреча_22_февраля_2012 Прочитайте её, составьте мнение по обозначенным вопросам, чтобы

Re: [Talk-ru] Совет

On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 03:16:17 +0400, Кирилл Zkir Бондаренко wrote: Попробуем обсуждать  здесь. J Мы не будем обсуждать совет здесь. Именно для этого мы собираемся в чатике на этой неделе. ВНИМАНИЕ: следующая встреча совета пройдёт завтра, 22 февраля, в 22:00 по московскому времени. Сбор на

Re: [OSM-talk] OrbView-3 is public domain

hbogner wrote: Anyone tried processing those images? I've translated a page from the Russian GIS community wiki: http://wiki.gis-lab.info/w/Orbview3_Orthorectification What is not said there, you can easily use the result of those transformationg in JOSM by processing the resulting GeoTIFF

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap in schools

Recently there were three mapping lessons in small towns of Perm region, Russia. It went very well, from collecting data to drawing maps in Potlatch. At the last meeting they even tried to send a weather baloon with a camera (but photos were no good because of strong wind). Here is project

[OSM-talk] Yahoo Imagery

Hi! A month ago we said bye to Yahoo imagery due to the shutting down of some of their services. But it is still available in both Potlatch versions. Did the permission to trace mention the services that can be used for tracing (and how is it available in Potlatch then), or it is possible to

Re: [OSM-talk] featured image

Does anybody recall a heat map that shows a very local user? Perhaps some account that has been contributing within one town? I've found one recently, as he accepted CT last week: http://yosmhm.neis-one.org/?haword http://wdye.osm-tools.org/?haword IZ

Re: [OSM-talk] High Road - pre-cooked Postgres views for rendering OSM roads

Hi! A few Stamen colleagues and myself put this together recently: https://github.com/migurski/HighRoad It's pretty sketchy so far, but it's a solid and we-think-pretty-good attempt to create a one true road query for OSM data in a way that's painlessly usable in Mapnik, Cascadenik and

Re: [OSM-talk] Pitiful proceedings - as usual

TimSC, Your definition of ad hominem is slightly wrong. An ad hominem is always against the author of the argument being criticised. An attack on a third party (e.g. my mother) would be merely an insult and can never be ad hominem. You do realize that there are thousands of people

Re: [OSM-talk] New Logo in the Wiki

Since this mailing list is about the new logo now, I'd like to point out some things concerning it that got broken. First of all, wiki logo was a bit different from osm.org: it had a little W in the corner. The new logo's contrast is too low, so the favicon is not recognizable at a glance. And

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM is dying (was Re: We Need to Stop Google's Exploitation of Open Communities)

Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: well I was very active, but there is nothing left to do except when I go to a new area, and most of my travel is to the same old places where some other guy has already done the work. I find even new places are no longer a challenge - I am not the first, and I HATE

[OSM-talk] What is this i don't even

Hi. http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/SzPaula/edits This user has broken Russian border and who knows what else. The list of edits looks crazy. (I've sent him/her a message, but don't expect to receive an answer) IZ ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] Spain needs OSM love

Wow, what a lot of work. What made you decide to go down the subjective assessment path, rather than just counting the number of OSM entities within a given bounding box? Was this done entirely by hand, or did you have some automated process to help with this? Id really like to look at

[OSM-legal-talk] What will be removed after license cha nge?

Hi! For ordinary mappers like me, who does not care about license wording (as long as it's free and open), the single most terrifying issue of coming ODbL is that some data will be deleted. Not only data that was on the map and we didn't feel the need to survey it while driving. But also

Re: [OSM-talk] Rendering street names across several ways

Hi again! I hope someone with programming skills is reading this discussion :) The problem is that if you go to a rule one road, name displayed once, you will have to search for the name of the road if the road is very long. The actual rule is: treat it as a single OSM way and then decide

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