Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread Richard Fairhurst
ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen wrote: Regards, Ing. Gert Gremmen, BSc Hey, cool. This is fun. Can we all join in? cheers Richard Fairhurst, MA (Cantab) -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/License-CT-issues-Let-s-not-punish-the-world-s

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Nic Roets wrote: But I also don't know why you three compare the license change to ordinary democratic processes. It's much closer to what's been happening in the Arab States this year. ticks off 'Godwin' on the Hyperbole Bingo card cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread Richard Fairhurst
John Smith wrote: Unlikely, maps were the first thing to be protected under copyright Um, no. The first thing to be protected by copyright was an Old Irish psalter. Is and gabais Fergus dóib daur mór ro-boí for lár ind liss assa frénaib, etc. cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-24 Thread Richard Fairhurst
80n wrote: The one exception is currently Potlatch which is embedded and obviously displays map content. Because Potlatch is embedded, you are encouraged to put any copyright notices you wish in the embedding page. :) cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-talk] Multiple versions of same node in changeset

2011-06-26 Thread Richard Fairhurst
M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: Yes, but is there a point of doing this within the same changeset? Yes, of course there is. If you're using an online editor you should save early and save often. When the user chooses to start/finish a changeset has no bearing on that. cheers Richard -- View this

Re: [OSM-talk] Hitting reset on talk-au

2011-07-11 Thread Richard Fairhurst
SimonPoole wrote: there is a fair chance that either the data could be relicensed under CC-by (which might be compatible with the ODbL) Absolutely. The Australian government data is CC-BY already (I'm not sure where this idea it's CC-BY-SA comes from). Negotiating compatibility with ODbL need

Re: [OSM-talk] Hitting reset on talk-au

2011-07-11 Thread Richard Fairhurst
John Smith wrote: Unless you plan to enforce attribution as a minimum for produced works I'm not quite sure what I've done to deserve this Groundhog Day treatment and be condemned to relive the same mailing list postings again and again. 4.3 You must include a notice associated with the

Re: [OSM-talk] Hitting reset on talk-au

2011-07-13 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: I must congratulate David on his decision. [...] If any of you, at any time, feel that they seriously wish someone else in the project to burn in hell; if you can't sleep because someone was wrong on the mailing list; if you're thinking of ways to take revenge on the

Re: [OSM-talk] Orphaned Relations

2011-07-18 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Richard Mann wrote: Now there was me thinking it was just a Potlatch problem. I'll delete my 5 as soon as P2 has the facility (and I can find it). You can delete a relation in P2 by selecting it in the Advanced view (which means you'll have to have selected a member of that relation, of

Re: [OSM-talk] Orphaned Relations

2011-07-18 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Sarah Hoffmann wrote: I don't know about forbitting orphaned relations but it would certainly be helpful if the editors would show a big red warning sign if somebody tries to upload an empty relation. No. That would be entirely disproportionate. Empty relations don't do anyone any harm.

Re: [OSM-talk] Orphaned Relations

2011-07-18 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Sarah Hoffmann wrote: Wouldn't it be much easier to silently delete all empty relations when uploading the data? From a user point of view the result should be the same and you don't have to mess around with undo. It would certainly be easier, but I don't believe it's the Right Way To Do It.

[OSM-talk] Whitelisting (Re: Data reconciliation. Removing CT/ODbL declined users.)

2011-07-21 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Toby Murray wrote: User balrog-kun has explicitly declined the license. He ran a bot that expanded abbreviations in TIGER street names in the western US which means that virtually every named street west of the Mississippi shows up as tainted in P2. *BUT* He has explicitly stated

Re: [OSM-talk] shortened names

2011-07-26 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: I think it is actually written St Albans as stated above. Indeed. In British English orthography, Saint in place and streetnames is always written as St. (It's not such an anomaly: Mrs as an honorific is never expanded, either.) Mind you, British English orthography

Re: [OSM-talk] shortened names

2011-07-26 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: Oh, that's relatively benign. There are people with that name who would try to grab attention with ℳ∡ℝℸⅈℿ or something. Oh, we really should produce a map which renders the name High Street as H16H 5tr33t, etc. It could be called Open1337Map. cheers Richard -- View

Re: [OSM-talk] shortened names

2011-07-27 Thread Richard Fairhurst
andrzej zaborowski wrote: I'd say the opposite is true. If it's pronounced Saint Albans then that is the name. Pronunciation in English only ever serves to mislead. :) Increasingly you can treat St as a valid spelling of the word saint, rather than merely an abbreviation. No (educated)

Re: [OSM-talk] shortened names

2011-07-27 Thread Richard Fairhurst
John Smith wrote: The person that started this thread is in New Zealand... ...and started it with the comment does anyone here know what st albans in uk is actually called then?. Robin has also mapped parts of Britain - such as Repton, not far from where I'm sitting now. Richard

Re: [OSM-talk] shortened names

2011-07-27 Thread Richard Fairhurst
John Smith wrote: The period after St. is the correct way in English to abbreviate Saint, where as the abbreviation of street doesn't have a period. Not in British English, it isn't. _Saint._ St or S. is better than St. for the abbreviation (see PERIOD IN ABBR.); Pl. Sts or SS. That's from

Re: [OSM-talk] shortened names

2011-07-28 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Steve Doerr wrote: I once heard of a radio presenter who read out a request from someone living in 'Bewry Street Edmunds'! Eeeek. /me goes off to add not_name=Loogabarooga cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-talk] Id stability

2011-08-02 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: Which brings me back to something I mentioned earlier - I would like to have some kind of link server where you can go and say I want a permanent link to this OSM object, then the server says ok, I have investigated the object you mentioned and I'd say I make the

Re: [OSM-talk] Id stability

2011-08-02 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Gregor Horvath wrote: OSM provides uri's to ID's which are linked to names of physical objects. Example: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/1381574156 No. It doesn't. OSM does not provide URIs to anyone. OSM has an _editing_ API. It's here to facilitate edits to the end product, which

Re: [OSM-talk] Combined bicycle footway

2011-08-21 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Tomas Straupis wrote: I would like such combined ways to indicate that they are created for BOTH cyclists and walkers (especially then this would include segregated ones). They do indicate that. That's what the blue dots mean. A better suggestion would be show a different rendering for those

Re: [OSM-talk] Combined bicycle footway

2011-08-23 Thread Richard Fairhurst
[cc:ed to tagging@, suggest follow-ups go there] Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: +1, in Germany or Italy you will hardly find any place where a pedestrian can't pass but a cyclist can. There will be either a combined or segregated foot/cycleway instead of a bicycles only cycleway. On the contrary

Re: [OSM-talk] [osmf-talk] Membership applications from Skobbler employees

2011-08-24 Thread Richard Fairhurst
[apologies for posting to talk rather than osmf-talk - very bizarrely, I appear to have been *un*subscribed from osmf-talk upon renewing my membership. Go figure. :) For those not following, the issue is the application of a large number of Skobbler employees to join OSMF, shortly before the OSMF

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Refusing CT but declaring contributions as PD

2011-08-24 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Richard Weait wrote: OSMF have permission to publish data as CC-By-SA, and in future from most contributors as ODbL. OSMF have no permission to publish data as PD at this time. TIGER PD data came from PD TIGER data sources. If the usernames in question have a PD source for the data

Re: [OSM-talk] How to start to remove non-CT compliant data..

2011-08-31 Thread Richard Fairhurst
[follow-ups should be to legal-talk yadda yadda] Russ Nelson wrote: What about the people who didn't agree to the CT, but whose data is in the public domain? See http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/legal-talk/2011-August/006608.html et seq. Given that LWG doesn't appear to be changing

Re: [OSM-talk] How to start to remove non-CT compliant data..

2011-08-31 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ed Avis wrote: Why not do what Wikipedia did and work together with the licence authors (in this case Creative Commons and Open Data Commons) to provide an automatic upgrade clause? Then nothing need be deleted. I expressly asked this a couple of years ago:

Re: [OSM-talk] satellite Imagery missing

2011-09-21 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: 90% of my mapping is in such areas - gps, josm and repeated visits to the area are needed. Camera and laser range finder are a plus. JOSM is absolutely not needed for GPS surveying - you can use it if you like, but I do pretty much all my mapping in Potlatch with GPS

Re: [OSM-talk] Helping mappers feel comfortable about their contributions / quality control

2011-09-27 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Tim Waters (chippy) wrote: I also think that a voluntary opt-in review system would work - and only really needs someone to write one, and a JOSM plugin, and a Potlatch 2 patch. I'll very happily patch P2, assuming the please review functionality can be built into the core Rails site. (OSM

Re: [OSM-talk] Helping mappers feel comfortable about their contributions / quality control

2011-09-27 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Gregory wrote: How would the reviewer be selected? Why do you need to select a reviewer? The OWL-powered changeset listing could highlight those changesets where review has been requested. Experienced mappers browsing the recent changes (as experienced mappers do) would see these, and contact

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch2 missing?

2011-10-01 Thread Richard Fairhurst
John Sturdy wrote: Could the site put up a message if the wrong version of flash is running? Yep, Grant is working on upgrading us to swfobject 2.x (the Flash embedding code) which gives auto-upgrade and all sorts of wondrous stuff. cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixme: A proposal

2011-10-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Kev js1982 wrote: Whats the best way of finding these, the only one i have seen is the ito analysis but they dont offer zooming in :-( OSM Inspector is very good. And hopefully Frederik will be along in a minute to tell you how to use it from within Potlatch. :) Until then -

Re: [OSM-talk] Naming dispute over Jerusalem - OSM failure

2011-10-05 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Serge Wroclawski wrote: I'm writing this response for two reasons. First, because I want you, Dimka, and the rest of the Israeli community to read it. You're not representing your side very well based on the forums. For reference, the thread cited is here:

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixme: A proposal

2011-10-05 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Pieren wrote: More in general, I don't like mappers adding manually tons of 'FIXME' tags because they don't know or remember or are too lazy to check again. This a way to say 'pff, I'm tired now. So please, the next person checking this area, finish my work in priority. If you don't know,

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixme: A proposal

2011-10-05 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Pieren wrote: d) Add a short stub tagged highway=path You can't tell without a fixme whether something is a stub because it's incomplete, or because it really is like that. Example: http://osm.org/go/eutFfSar-- . That looks very much like a stub because bridleways don't peter out in the middle

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenMaps App Blocked By OpenStreetMap

2011-10-08 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Zsombor Szabó wrote: This way browsing and bulk downloading users can clearly be identified on the server side and throttled or banned if necessary. It's good that you're making changes, but there's two misapprehensions that need clearing up. Firstly, our sysadmins are unpaid volunteers who

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMF to provide commercial tile service? [WAS: something else]

2011-10-12 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Serge Wroclawski wrote: I go back to my central point: We're spending a lot of time blocking people and explaining to people why they're blocked. Let's find a way to turn this adversarial relationship into a cooperative one. Do you have a suggestion on how to do this? I do. If I read you

Re: [OSM-talk] Yahoo Imagery

2011-10-19 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ilya Zverev wrote: 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. As Tom says, the situation with permission has not changed either way. Yahoo have slightly extended the switch-off period

[OSM-talk] cycle.travel bike routing for Western Europe

2014-07-17 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Hi all, I'm really pleased to announce that http://cycle.travel/ now has OSM-based cycle routing for Western Europe: France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Denmark, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Austria, Italy, Spain, Portugal, the UK and Ireland. You can try it here:

Re: [OSM-talk] cycle.travel bike routing for Western Europe

2014-07-17 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Maarten Deen wrote: It's nice and fast! But it is not really apt in finding shortest or quickest routes. I entered my daily commute (from 51.3207,5.9888 to 51.5428,5.9827, permalink does not work properly) and it comes with a (for me new) route of 18.3 miles (=29.45 km) in 2:02. If I move

Re: [OSM-talk] cycle.travel bike routing for Western Europe

2014-07-17 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Maarten Deen wrote: So, can't I just ask shortest or quickest road? As you say, the router has no idea about traffic levels. I mean, if a router can't give me either shortest or quickest, then I always think I get some random route that is not optimal in any aspect. Nope, it doesn't and

Re: [OSM-talk] cycle.travel bike routing for Western Europe

2014-07-17 Thread Richard Fairhurst
colliar wrote: 1. How are separate drawn cycleways next to roads handled ? It prefers cycleways to roads, so it'll usually route via the cycleways (assuming they're properly connected). 2. Neither traffic_light/crossing nor shape turns are evaluated. There's a routing penalty for traffic

Re: [OSM-talk] cycle.travel bike routing for Western Europe

2014-07-17 Thread Richard Fairhurst
sabas88 wrote: it looks really nice! Thanks! :) One quick note, it's possible to have routes (also) in metric units? Yep, definitely. I'm working on making it the default for Europe but, for now, you can log in and set your user profile to prefer kilometres. cheers Richard -- View this

Re: [OSM-talk] cycle.travel bike routing for Western Europe

2014-07-18 Thread Richard Fairhurst
I'm pleased to report that http://cycle.travel/map now defaults to kilometres for European routes. :) cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/cycle-travel-bike-routing-for-Western-Europe-tp5811759p5811927.html Sent from the General Discussion mailing

[OSM-talk] osmf-talk list

2014-09-28 Thread Richard Fairhurst
For those who (like me) are not members of OSMF there are a couple of interesting discussions on the osmf-talk list that you may like to observe. Only OSMF members can post to osmf-talk, but anyone can read. https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/osmf-talk/2014-September/date.html Richard

Re: [OSM-talk] [Osmf-talk] Modus operandi of the board

2014-10-21 Thread Richard Fairhurst
[this was originally posted to osmf-talk; I'm not a member of OSMF so can't reply to it there. I'm also breaking my self-imposed discipline of not posting to the talk@ list for this, but I figure it's important] Sarah Hoffman wrote: while checking the candidate list for the upcoming board

[OSM-talk] [Osmf-talk] Modus operandi of the board

2014-10-23 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Simon Poole wrote: Kathleen Danielson wrote: That said, I would like to voice my support for Richard's suggestion that the full board step down. It simply is a very unrealistic option given that it would require a mechanism that doesn't exist to force all board members to resign. Absolutely

[OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap ten years on, and why it's time for a fresh slate

2014-10-24 Thread Richard Fairhurst
This one's going to be long, but it might be worth it, I hope. I've been involved in OSM for almost ten years now. 22nd November is my OSM birthday: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2004-November/000111.html Message 000111. Right now talk@ is up to 71235, never mind the

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Fix a Forest - experimental tiles from US Forest Service data

2014-11-11 Thread Richard Fairhurst
On 11/11/2014 20:57, Clifford Snow wrote: Suggestion - set the tile background to transparent so we can see underlying image in JOSM. I can certainly have a look at doing that. Do you/anyone know whether transparent tiles would still be usable in iD? cheers Richard

[OSM-talk] Unelected OSMF advisers

2014-11-17 Thread Richard Fairhurst
I am a little concerned that the (already overwhelming) task of fixing OSMF, which has been entrusted to a board of seven good people, is being made still harder by people in mysterious unelected roles offering their advice. I know of at least two: Mike Collinson is chair of the (AIUI

Re: [OSM-talk] Unelected OSMF advisers

2014-11-17 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Michael Collinson wrote: For transparency, I have attended about one year of board meetings now I think (it is minuted). I took the approach that I should simply listen and pick up items that the MT could handle. I was however encouraged to take a more participatory role provided that I do not

Re: [OSM-talk] [Osmf-talk] Balance of power (was: Re: How to vote to match your view)

2014-12-06 Thread Richard Fairhurst
[Apologies to talk@ readers for this follow-up to a post on osmf-talk@. I'm not an OSMF member and therefore can't post to osmf-talk@, but as I'm being spoken about over there, I'd appreciate the opportunity to respond.] Steve Coast wrote: See, there was no group that mobbed Richard out the

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch 2 - Is it still being developed? Tasks?

2014-12-23 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Dave F. wrote: I still use P2, I've tried the others a few times, but keep returning. Is it still being developed? I've noticed a 'tasks' button has been added. Yes, it is, albeit sporadically. Now it's free of the pressure of being the default editor, it's able to gain a few more unusual

Re: [OSM-talk] [Imports] amenity=bicycle_repair_station :::: only 18 so far

2015-02-08 Thread Richard Fairhurst
brycenesbitt wrote: Are there any additional comments on the issue of importing (actually synchronizing) 500 bicycle repair stations? With this import OSM would become the most comprehensive database of repair station locations. Where the location is good, it would be great to have these in

Re: [OSM-talk] Routing across parks

2015-03-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Dave F. wrote: On Richard F. cycle.travel routing. How do reset start again? There's a Close route button at the top of the turn-by-turn directions - click that and it'll clear the route. cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-talk] Please ban Xxzme in wiki

2015-05-11 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Andy Mabbett wrote: In the absence of blatant vandalism or base abuse, I would have expected, first, a recent, clear and unequivocal warning on the user's talk page No. Please remember that the primary means of discussion and consensus in OSM is mailing lists, even when the subject is the

Re: [OSM-talk] Please ban Xxzme in wiki

2015-05-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ilya Zverev wrote: Who banned Xxzme in wiki a while ago? Please do it again. Seconded. Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Please-ban-Xxzme-in-wiki-tp5843984p5843986.html Sent from the General Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

[OSM-talk] What's your OSM story?

2015-05-28 Thread Richard Fairhurst
In just over a week's time it's State of the Map US (yay). I'm giving a talk which will touch on why people contribute to OSM - and how we can get more! I'd love to hear your story as to what got you started. I know there's some good Serious Research on the topic, but for now I'm more

Re: [OSM-talk] Mappers and apps should focus on relations at the very start

2015-06-28 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Jo wrote: even more sorry you stopped being the lead developer of iD For the record: the mantle of lead developer of iD passed to Tom and John immediately after SOTM-US Portland because it was wonderfully clear that their JavaScript skills are pretty much on a different planet to mine, and I

Re: [OSM-talk] stop deleting abandoned railroads

2015-08-16 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: What everybody can see is a clearing or change in the surface of something. That's fine to map. Inferring from that that there must have been a railway there is a step too far. We are mappers, not trappers. Ok, let's try an experiment. Go to

Re: [OSM-talk] Abandoned Rails

2015-08-24 Thread Richard Fairhurst
moltonel 3x Combo wrote: Remember that interpreting osm data is actually a lot of work. Very few people have the manpower to verify what railroad= dismantled actually mean to decide wheter they want to use or filter out that data. Most of them will just match railway=*, plus perhaps some

Re: [OSM-talk] License files

2015-10-26 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Malcolm Herring wrote: > The copyright page on the Wiki seems to only refer to tiles The canonical copyright pages for OSM are http://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright http://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License not whatever Xxzme might have mauled on wiki.osm.org. Richard -- View this

Re: [OSM-talk] Release openstreetmap-carto v2.36.0

2015-10-30 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Matthijs Melissen wrote: > Today, v2.36.0 of the openstreetmap-carto stylesheet has > been released and rolled out to the openstreetmap.org > servers. It might still take a couple of days before all tiles > show the new rendering. Congratulations to all involved - real dedication to the cause

Re: [OSM-talk] stop deleting abandoned railroads

2015-08-29 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Mateusz Konieczny wrote: Therefore I will delete any object that no longer exists or never existed (after communication with mapper or other method to verify whatever I am mistaken, with exception of highway= proposed). OSM would be a better, and nicer, place if people went out and did

Re: [OSM-talk] Three-months ban is over

2015-09-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ilya Zverev wrote (re: Xxzme): > For me, it's clear that the ban did not work, and nothing has changed. Quoting Xxzme on the wiki: "What is clear to me is that you make ~0 improments to Main namespace "And constantly repeating yourself with magical "purpose" of Beginners' guide which was clearly

Re: [OSM-talk] Railways yet again (was "THIS is the kind of enthusiasm some would reject")

2015-09-08 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: > But what if I have said the same thing five times already and the > others STILL don't see that I'm RIGHT Please try not to bring OSMF board meeting conventions onto the talk list. cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-talk] Abandoned Rails

2015-09-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Mateusz Konieczny wrote: > Now it is done with railways and may be stopped. But if > completely dismantled railways are not deleted from OSM > what would stop somebody interested in mapping completely > destroyed buildings, canals etc? You're absolutely right. We should also stop mapping bus

Re: [OSM-talk] Abandoned Rails

2015-09-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
moltonel 3x Combo wrote: > The line is going through multiple buildings and a wide low > wall. That's as unambiguous as it gets. The lack of any > other sign on the grass and highway areas are an additional > good hint. If you're mapping a railroad here, you're mapping > the past. Haha. I

Re: [OSM-talk] Involving Cyclists in OSM

2015-12-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Clifford Snow wrote: > I want to make sure I cover the salient points that would interest > cyclists. If you know of any websites that use bike routes or > otherwise make use of OSM data that would really be great. Where do I start...? :) Cycling and OSM have long been bedfellows. In Europe

Re: [OSM-talk] Community Conference

2015-12-02 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ian Dees wrote: > As someone currently planning a more community-focused SOTM US, I'd > be interested in hearing what sort of changes you would propose to > the existing SOTM structure. It's a great question to ask; and I realise this may sound a little contrarian, but I actually find myself

Re: [OSM-talk] Nominatim weakness

2015-12-14 Thread Richard Fairhurst
John Goodman wrote: > And if its searching facility is braindead Please avoid being gratuitously offensive by describing something that lots of volunteers have put countless hours into as "braindead". Thank you. Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-talk] Project OSM2VectorTiles.org launched

2015-12-17 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Stefan Keller wrote: > OSM2VectorTiles is a project simplifying installation of free > world maps maintained by OpenStreetMap community. Looks interesting - nice work! If I may just pick you up on one statement in the thesis: "There also exists a method[17] that circumvents using a database

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch down?

2015-12-16 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote: > Is it just me or is the OSM's built-in potlatch editor not currently > working? Should be fixed now. TomH identified that a Passenger upgrade caused requests to break, though exactly why isn't yet clear... Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-talk] switch2osm documentation upgrade (was: Re: Tile Server manual build 15.10 troubleshooting)

2016-01-04 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Daniel Koć wrote: > BTW: who is the maintainer of switch2osm site? I was not able to > find any contact informations there. I am, though a few other people also have admin/editing rights. Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-talk] switch2osm documentation upgrade

2016-01-04 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Daniel Koć wrote: > Oh, "Find Out More" page has some contact informations, but I > guess "Contact" or "About us" would be easier to find. The page recommends that you use IRC in the first instance, and also suggests help.osm.org for asking questions. I really do not want to get into providing

Re: [OSM-talk] Best way to amalgamate two relations?

2015-12-23 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Dave F. wrote: > Is there an easy way to transfer the newer data into the > original relation? In P2: - Select a way belonging to both relations, adding them if needs be - In the \/ menu next to the new relation (Advanced panel), choose 'Select all members' - In the \/ menu next to the original

Re: [OSM-talk] A message to our friends at HOT, Peace Corps etc. about Changeset Comments

2015-11-19 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Christoph Hormann wrote: > And if on http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/1300 i read: > > "Please draw one large area outline around groups of buildings > and tag them landuse=residential" > > that is in violation of one of the core principles of OSM, namely > to map reality, what's on the ground.

Re: [OSM-talk] A message to our friends at HOT, Peace Corps etc. about Changeset Comments

2015-11-19 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Blake Girardot wrote: > As to the original issue Ramm raised: Frederik's first name is Frederik. It's not that uncommon. :) Please can we avoid this becoming _really_ unnecessarily confrontational by calling people by their surnames in a sort of English public school style ("go it, molesworth,

Re: [OSM-talk] MAPS.ME edits - partly sub-standard

2016-06-21 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Andreas Vilén wrote: > Post codes are also a little dubious, since those aren't open > data in Sweden and can normally only be figured out through > local knowledge Perish the thought that people might add their local knowledge to OSM. I thought it was all imports, armchairing and tagwanking

Re: [OSM-talk] Announcement: Direct Access to MapQuest map tiles without a key will end on 11 July 2016. Details on getting keys and SDKs

2016-06-15 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Jeff Medaugh wrote: > MapQuest is moving to a 100% cloud solution - the new > infrastructure dictates that all tile access will require a key. > Details on how to get keys, SDKs and general migration > information is below: Thanks for posting this. Will there still be specific 'MapQuest Open'

[OSM-talk] Proposal to close newbies@ list

2016-01-11 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Hi all, Usage of the newb...@openstreetmap.org mailing list, set up in 2007 to provide help to new users, has dwindled to almost nothing. There were no posts in September, October, November, or December. Generally we now have better places to provide help to new users - principally

Re: [OSM-talk] Applicability of wiki tagging and votes: may, should or must

2016-01-28 Thread Richard Fairhurst
David Marchal wrote: > What is the applicability of the Wiki content? Three long-standing principles of OSM: 1. consensus is important 2. precedent is important 3. patches beat "should" The first means that you can't order the community to do things based on ten people voting on the

Re: [OSM-talk] Applicability of wiki tagging and votes: may, should or must

2016-01-30 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Mateusz Konieczny wrote: > I am not claiming that there are quick & easy ways to reduce > complexity - but complexity has some real negative consequences. The cycleway tagging mess has come about because a bunch of wikifiddlers keep inventing ever more spurious and unnecessary tags -

Re: [OSM-talk] osm maps on wikipedia - discussion

2016-04-29 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: > We'd have to explain to Wikipedia users that what they see on our > maps might not be what they expect, and that we do *not* want > them to fix it... I've just created a quick, friendly wiki page to explain that and other differences:

Re: [OSM-talk] Automated edits code of conduct

2016-07-14 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Éric Gillet wrote: > However I'd believe that there is (in Europe for the example's sake) a > very low number of restaurant really named McDonalds and not part > of the franchise. So if the changeset correct 300 restaurants but 2 > are "damaged" by the automated edit, would the edit be bad

Re: [OSM-talk] Automated edits code of conduct

2016-07-14 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Éric Gillet wrote: > That would be slightly faster to execute than the first approach I was > suggesting, but then how would you prove that you checked every > and all features ? Well, the best way to prove that you checked everything is not to fuck things up, which of course you won't, because

Re: [OSM-talk] Automated edits code of conduct

2016-07-20 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Victor Grousset wrote: > On 14/07/2016 17:35, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > > The person proposing the automated edit isn't the best placed > > person to weigh that up: they're already convinced of the desirability > > of the edit (which is why they're proposing it). > >

Re: [OSM-talk] Automated edits code of conduct

2016-07-11 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Éric Gillet wrote: > In contrary to the Contributor Terms, these rules : > - Doesn't seem to have been voted on before their "establishment" The Code of Conduct is a document enforced and revised by DWG, with the intention of codifying long-standing principles in OSM (principally, "respect the

Re: [OSM-talk] SOTM EU

2017-01-31 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Martijn van Exel wrote: > Here I thought I was asking a simple question. On an OSM mailing list? You must be new round here. (More seriously, there were rumours of an event in Italy, but I've not heard anything concrete.) cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-talk] Spam reporting

2017-02-23 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Joost Schouppe wrote: > Well the annoyance with spam does pop up often enough. The usual > answer to things like this in the OSM ecosystem is "why don't you > do it yourself". I've not seen this answer for spam. Is there no easy > way for people to become spam-police if they like to do so?

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetView name change

2016-11-08 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Andy Mabbett wrote: > This is hardly surprising, and not unreasonable (there's no > "Ford Beetle" or "Volkswagen Mini", nor a "BurgerKing > Happy Meal". for example). Though there is Ordnance Survey Street View, which pre-dates Google Street View by several years. (It's soon to be replaced by

Re: [OSM-talk] Lot's of locality names in an otherwise empty area

2016-11-21 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Sebastian Arcus wrote: > Well, looking at the map, it looks like each and every parcel of > land and section of field has a locality tag associated with it. It's very common in the UK, too, for uninhabited sections of woodland and hillside to have placenames. > it still seems a bit odd - and

Re: [OSM-talk] Which type of highways are used by routing software?

2016-11-02 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Michał Brzozowski wrote: > The rules for routing appear to be mostly global for popular > routers. There is very little magical sauce, if any. I wouldn't say that. Obviously the demo instances for OSRM and GraphHopper use their own vanilla profiles, but other routers very often have customised

Re: [OSM-talk] Wikipedia/Wikidata admins cleanup

2017-01-04 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Mikel Maron wrote: > Reverts should be held to the same standard as imports (outside > of obviously urgent problems). Where a revert of an import (or other automated edit) is done by DWG because an import did not follow the rules, reverting that import just goes back to the status quo ante.

Re: [OSM-talk] Disputed border between Greece and Turkey near Imia/Kardak in the Aegean Sea (was: Re: [Geocoding] Boundries of Kardak Islands)

2017-03-31 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Florian Schäfer wrote: > I'm not an expert on borders and how disputed borders are handled > in OSM, so I forward this to the talk-list, because this probably > needs more discussion. https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/w/images/d/d8/DisputedTerritoriesInformation.pdf Richard -- View this

Re: [OSM-talk] Draft Trademark Policy

2017-08-05 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Roland Olbricht wrote: > This makes clear that neither the file name extension "osm" is > jeoparday. Or you do not want to discourage people from using > "osmium", "osmosis" or a range of other software. I see your point there, but conversely I am really uncomfortable with the OsmAnd situation.

Re: [OSM-talk] HDYC, login requirement and "privacy"

2017-05-08 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: > saying "your privacy goes down the drain if you do anything > online anyway, so why should we at OSM take steps to protect > it more". > > Perhaps: because we can, and because it's a good thing? ...or perhaps it isn't quite that black and white. OSM, at its best, is a

[OSM-talk] Cycle network nodes and mountain passes

2017-10-04 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Hi all, I've just added support for a couple more tags to cycle.travel's directions and thought it worth mentioning here - everyone likes seeing their mapping being used. :) First up, cycle.travel now includes 'knooppunten' (cycle node networks) in turn-by-turn directions. These are found

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

2017-10-16 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Yuri Astrakhan wrote: > For example, RU community wants to convert amenity=sanatorium > -> leisure=resort + resort=sanatorium. Clicking on a dot shows a > popup with the suggested edit. If you think the edit is correct, simply > click Save. I've been a bit loth to get involved with this one

Re: [OSM-talk] Licence compatibility (was Adding wikidata tags to the remaining objects with only wikipedia tag)

2017-10-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Yuri Astrakhan wrote: > Also, what about the location where data is combined? E.g. if wikidata > is in public domain, and US courts agree with that statement, anyone > in the US can combine it with OSM data? What about UK? In any > case, i suspect nothing we decide has any merit until the

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

2017-09-25 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: > I'd invest the available brainpower in steps needed to achieve > this goal, even if it's a year or two in the future. Which means vector tiles... which we should be looking at anyway. But that needs to be a separate project really, rather than a facet of

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