Re: [OSM-talk] Things People Say

2012-01-01 Thread Stefan Keller
Hi Perhaps http://redesign.apis.dev.openstreetmap.org/ could also added there? -S. 2011/12/31 Russ Nelson nel...@crynwr.com:        http://mike.teczno.com/img/osm-homepage-sketch.jpg How many of these have we seen? Maybe we need to just make these pages live, and change the default page to

Re: [OSM-talk] Wrong weblink/page on wiki home page: Gemeinschafts-Portal (DE:Mapping_projects?)

2012-01-02 Thread Stefan Keller
Johansson e...@kth.se: On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 12:55, Stefan Keller sfkel...@gmail.com wrote: Who is caring for the german translation of the current OSM wiki? In the german GUI translation of the wiki homepage (Mediawiki) there seems to be a void weblink: In the navigation panel, the weblink

Re: [OSM-talk] Wrong weblink/page on wiki home page: Gemeinschafts-Portal (DE:Mapping_projects?)

2012-01-02 Thread Stefan Keller
... Spenden Yours, Stefan 2012/1/2 Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu: On 02/01/12 12:32, Stefan Keller wrote: Thanks for the hint. I also thought about that. But I am very reluctant to use redirects to compensate mistakes. In this case it's obvious that the original URL (and name!) should be corrected

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM software

2012-03-09 Thread Stefan Keller
If you don't want to install things, take a look at following free web map making and sharig tools which I recently compiled: * GeoCommons (KML, Shapefile, CSV, JSON, Spatialite): http://geocommons.com * IndieMapper (Flash-based; KML, Shapefile, GPX): http://indiemapper.com/ * Crowdmap:

Re: [OSM-talk] Geofabrik downloads post-licence-change

2012-04-12 Thread Stefan Keller
Thank you for the answers. And many thanks too for all the unique webservices and the exceptional work you all are doing in the machinery halls. Yours, S. 2012/4/12 Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net: Stefan Keller wrote: Am I right that there are currently no updates available since

Re: [OSM-talk] Geofabrik downloads post-licence-change

2012-04-13 Thread Stefan Keller
Hi, 2012/4/12 Stefan Keller sfkel...@gmail.com: Thank you for the answers. And many thanks too for all the unique webservices and the exceptional work you all are doing in the machinery halls. Yours, S. One question related to this I've always wanted to ask you, is: When I download

Re: [OSM-talk] Geofabrik downloads post-licence-change

2012-04-13 Thread Stefan Keller
2012/4/13 Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org: Hi, On 04/13/12 10:45, Stefan Keller wrote: One question related to this I've always wanted to ask you, is: When I download the newest daily extract, like e.g. switzerland.osm.pbf (timestamp usually around 4:00 AM), and I look inside the db

Re: [OSM-talk] Geofabrik downloads post-licence-change

2012-04-13 Thread Stefan Keller
I wrote: You wrote there that the machinery at your office starts on 10:30 PM. But the latest feature added into the extract dates usually 9 PM. Sorry, I meant usually 7 PM not usually 9 PM: S. 2012/4/13 Stefan Keller sfkel...@gmail.com: 2012/4/13 Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org: Hi

Re: [OSM-talk] Any OSM social activities in Europe in the next 2 weeks?

2012-09-26 Thread Stefan Keller
Hi Tom You're welcome at the meeting of users around Zurich! [1] Yours, Stefan (alias Geonick) [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/DE:Switzerland:Z%C3%BCrich/OSM-Treffen#35._OSM-Stammtisch_11._Oktober_2012 2012/9/21 Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com: I'm about to leave for a 2 week trip

Re: [OSM-talk] mapbook v0.02

2012-11-06 Thread Stefan Keller
Hi Graham I'm curious: Is it ready now? 2012/3/10 Graham Jones grahamjones...@gmail.com: Excellent - thanks Paul. I have nearly finished a web service that will allow users to select an area and generate a book using your programWill be a week or two before it is ready though

Re: [OSM-talk] Packaged OSM Tile Sets by US County or State?

2012-11-28 Thread Stefan Keller
Hi Jeff 2012/11/5 Jeff Meyer j...@gwhat.org wrote: OpenStreetMap-in-a-Box appears to be effectively deprecated / eol'd / retired / etc... does anyone know anything to the contrary? I'm the leader of this project - and Yes, it's unfortunately not maintained anymore. The project evolved over

[OSM-talk] Kort Game: Translators seeked!

2013-01-17 Thread Stefan Keller
Dear all, I'm referring to the small Kort game [1] which has been recently mentioned in Weekly OSM Summary #59, January 1, 2013 [2]. It is a cross-platform, crowdsourcing app aimed to improve OpenStreetMap using the concept of gamification (see [3]). Already about 800 users are registered at

Re: [OSM-talk] Kort Game: Translators seeked!

2013-01-17 Thread Stefan Keller
Hi Miloš 2013/1/17 Miloš Komarčević kmi...@gmail.com: (...) Stefan: I noticed some weird stuff like broken down sentences that are probably to be concatenated dynamically. This is _very bad_ i18n design. Just because it it might work for German or English, it won't work for most other

Re: [OSM-talk] Kort Game: Translators seeked!

2013-01-19 Thread Stefan Keller
Hi, Many thanks for the unbelievable effort to translate Kort. The localization list at Transifex [1] shows 14 languages(1) which have been fully or almost completed - within only two days! I've never worked with Transifex before but now I can say that's easy. So if your favorite language is

Re: [OSM-talk] Kort Game: Translators seeked!

2013-01-20 Thread Stefan Keller
first.. On which continent are you living i.e. trying to play Kort? Yours, Stefan [1] http://keepright.ipax.at/index.php?lang=en On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 4:07 AM, Stefan Keller sfkel...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Many thanks for the unbelievable effort to translate Kort. The localization list

Re: [OSM-talk] Kort Game: Translators seeked!

2013-01-20 Thread Stefan Keller
Hi, 2013/1/20 Adam Schreiber adam.schreiber+...@gmail.com: On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Stefan Keller sfkel...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/1/20 Adam Schreiber adam.schreiber+...@gmail.com: Is Kort currently only downloading KeepRight bugs for a certain region? AFAIK it's downloading

Re: [OSM-talk] Kort Game: Translators seeked!

2013-01-20 Thread Stefan Keller
go on... But it's important that the errors are typified/classified as it's the case with KeepRight. Do you think Osmose API can offer that? Yours, Stefan 2013/1/20 Stefan Keller sfkel...@gmail.com Hi Adam 2013/1/20 Adam Schreiber adam.schreiber+...@gmail.com: Is Kort currently only

Re: [OSM-talk] Kort Game: Translators seeked!

2013-01-20 Thread Stefan Keller
20, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Stefan Keller sfkel...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Stefan Keller sfkel...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/1/20 Adam Schreiber adam.schreiber+...@gmail.com: Is Kort currently only downloading KeepRight bugs for a certain region? AFAIK it's

[OSM-talk] Extracting railways online: Overpass or locally e.g. Spatialite?

2013-01-21 Thread Stefan Keller
Hi, I'd like to extract all railways (i.e. railway=rail ) within a bounding box as polylines - meaning ways including nodes with coordinates. The resulting format can either be GeoJSON or any XML. Can I do that with Overpass? Or do I need to do it locally e.g. with Spatialite? BBox is

Re: [OSM-talk] Kort Game: Translators seeked!

2013-01-23 Thread Stefan Keller
Pereira On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Stefan Keller sfkel...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, I'm referring to the small Kort game [1] which has been recently mentioned in Weekly OSM Summary #59, January 1, 2013 [2]. It is a cross-platform, crowdsourcing app aimed to improve OpenStreetMap using

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

2013-02-02 Thread Stefan Keller
I support the boards's decisions not only because of being consequent (having elected them democratically) but because of good reasons. Although I worked next to Einstein's office (90 years later after he was at Swiss patent office :-) I'm not a lawyer. But I learned to be cautious when there's a

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

2013-02-02 Thread Stefan Keller
geocode.com domain... Yours, S. 2013/2/3 Stefan Keller sfkel...@gmail.com: I support the boards's decisions not only because of being consequent (having elected them democratically) but because of good reasons. Although I worked next to Einstein's office (90 years later after he was at Swiss

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

2013-02-03 Thread Stefan Keller
and what the OSMF then communicates. -S. 2013/2/4 Russ Nelson nel...@crynwr.com: Stefan Keller writes: Just for the curious of this ridiculous U.S. trademark thing: I found another company claiming GEOCODE as trademark: http://www.markhound.com/trademark/search/WbEfGtOgm And I'm

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

2013-02-03 Thread Stefan Keller
Hi John I think some EU countries (and Switzerland) also have this 5 years rule. But I'm not a professional lawyer. If anybody is, then I suggest that he could offer his services to the OSMF as a volunteer (e.g. for a 2nd opinion). Yours, Stefan 2013/2/4 John F. Eldredge j...@jfeldredge.com:

Re: [OSM-talk] Why do we have so many registered users with zero edits ?

2013-04-15 Thread Stefan Keller
One of my hypotheses is that there are users which are shy or intimidated when trying to capture and edit OSM data. Among others, this was a reason to me to invent Kort [1] - the OSM game implemented as a rewarding data capturing app, released beginning of this year (next big release will be mid

Re: [OSM-talk] Re : Why do we have so many registered users with zero edits ?

2013-04-15 Thread Stefan Keller
I personally would'nt do a survey - I just would offer hint's to newbies what choices they have to start editing. Yours, Stefan 2013/4/15 Jean-Marc Liotier j...@liotier.org On 04/15/2013 12:29 PM, yve...@gmail.com wrote: Then we'll maybe have to understand a massive account close-down :)

Re: [OSM-talk] Re : Why do we have so many registered users with zero edits ?

2013-04-16 Thread Stefan Keller
s:mikelmaron -- *From:* Stefan Keller sfkel...@gmail.com *To:* Jean-Marc Liotier j...@liotier.org *Cc:* talk@openstreetmap.org *Sent:* Monday, April 15, 2013 7:58 AM *Subject:* Re: [OSM-talk] Re : Why do we have so many registered users with zero edits ? I personally

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

2013-05-05 Thread Stefan Keller
Hi, I think, there is still a need to protect e.g. comments and account registrations against spam and it seems that CAPTCHAs are still the best technology to do this. AFAIK OSM Wiki uses the original reCAPTCHA (which helps Google to translate books or decode house numbers!). OSM help, the forum

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

2013-05-05 Thread Stefan Keller
2013/5/5 Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu: On 05/05/13 15:56, Stefan Keller wrote: I think, there is still a need to protect e.g. comments and account registrations against spam and it seems that CAPTCHAs are still the best technology to do this. Why do you think this? There are many things that I

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM relation ID property in Wikidata

2013-05-06 Thread Stefan Keller
Hi, I also think that linking from an OSM object to a growing no. of external databases (incl. Wikipedia/Wikidata) is not a good idea. And I respect the wish of the OSM maintainers to change the OSM id in the future. But the overpass-permanent-osm-id is no solution neither, primo because a set of

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM relation ID property in Wikidata

2013-05-07 Thread Stefan Keller
be achieved, or why you really think that the osm id is really better than overpass with respect to stability and maintainability. regards Peter Am 07.05.2013 00:31, schrieb Stefan Keller: Hi, I also think that linking from an OSM object to a growing no. of external databases (incl. Wikipedia

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

2013-05-07 Thread Stefan Keller
Hi Philip My question was exactly to ask for further need of spam protection within the OSM tool landscape. Have you ever managed a Wiki or any CMS with accounts? Unfortunately it's common place to get higher page rank registering fake accounts and putting Weblinks into the users page - like in

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM relation ID property in Wikidata

2013-05-07 Thread Stefan Keller
Wendorff wendo...@uni-paderborn.de: Am 07.05.2013 09:43, schrieb Stefan Keller: Hi, All use cases you describe are valid. It's up to the users of OSM permanent id to keep track of changing OSM ids - it's an offer of OSM. The only constraint I would propose is to avoid to delete and recreate

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM relation ID property in Wikidata

2013-05-07 Thread Stefan Keller
2013/5/7 Christian Quest cqu...@openstreetmap.fr: Linking to OSM objet ID looks like a bad idea because they are not stable. Agreed. I've proposed something that can be summarized like some generic geoURL that could be used to describe something/somewhere in the form something@somewhere Am

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM relation ID property in Wikidata

2013-05-07 Thread Stefan Keller
- except when a tool or the user is fooling the concept. At least the tools you can debug. Yours, Stefan 2013/5/7 Peter Wendorff wendo...@uni-paderborn.de: Am 07.05.2013 09:58, schrieb Stefan Keller: Hi, You wrote: - it's roughly in that bounding box (e.g. the city or a given part of A soon

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

2013-05-07 Thread Stefan Keller
related ones , to be even less annoying. On May 5, 2013 4:02 PM, Stefan Keller sfkel...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I think, there is still a need to protect e.g. comments and account registrations against spam and it seems that CAPTCHAs are still the best technology to do this. AFAIK OSM Wiki uses

Re: [OSM-talk] iD Editor live on OpenStreetMap

2013-05-25 Thread Stefan Keller
Hi, I would like to thank the programmers for the professional piece of software and for the founders of the iD project. And I would like to apologize for the oversceptic and rude style of some of the participants in this mailing list. Yours, Stefan 2013/5/25 Russ Nelson nel...@crynwr.com: RB

[OSM-talk] Kort Game Reloaded!

2013-05-28 Thread Stefan Keller
Hi, Last few months we worked hard to make the Kort game an even better experience. Kort is a location-based web app for mobiles (free and open source) where OpenStreetMap errors are solved in missions and validated. Today we proudly release some brand new features and hope you like them as much

Re: [OSM-talk] Who interprets semicolon in tag values?

2013-06-03 Thread Stefan Keller
Hi Jochen Thank you for your initiative! AFAIK the osm2pgsql (config) has problems with ; in tags. Yours, Stefan 2013/6/1 o...@aighes.de: Hi Jochen, mkgmap (the program, which generates Garmin-maps) is able to handle these ;-separated values in it's style-file. There is a function

[OSM-talk] Treasure Map Style for OSM?

2013-07-16 Thread Stefan Keller
Hi, Does anybody know if there exists a web map which looks like a treasure map? I'm also looking for hints to a map style which renders OSM data like a treasure map (preferrably for TileMill based on PostgreSQL/osm2pgsql). Yours, Stefan P.S. I know the Water Color map (from Stamen) and

Re: [OSM-talk] Treasure Map Style for OSM?

2013-07-16 Thread Stefan Keller
the Slippy map. Yours, Stefan 2013/7/16 Maurizio Napolitano napoo...@gmail.com: mmm .. some like this? http://kartograph.org/showcase/italia/ On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Stefan Keller sfkel...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Does anybody know if there exists a web map which looks like a treasure map

Re: [OSM-talk] Treasure Map Style for OSM?

2013-07-16 Thread Stefan Keller
like the Slippy map. Yours, Stefan 2013/7/16 Yohan Boniface yohanbonif...@free.fr: I know this one from the Great ajashton: https://github.com/ajashton/pirate-map Yohan On 07/16/2013 02:02 PM, Stefan Keller wrote: Hi, Does anybody know if there exists a web map which looks like

Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls

2013-07-28 Thread Stefan Keller
Hi Michal To come back this thread I'm interested in what you refer to by Gamification. What was Saman referring to in his talk regarding gamification of the OSM UI? I found the video of the presentation but can't find any hint in this direction:

Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls

2013-07-28 Thread Stefan Keller
Hi Bryce and Janko It seems that I have triggered many ideas about Gamification of data capturing in OSM. I have some visions too from the existing Kort Game. But for discussing this, I think, we should fork this thread. I think such highscores don't belong (yet) to the main website os OSM. So

[OSM-talk] Gamification and OSM (Was: Upgraded map controls)

2013-07-28 Thread Stefan Keller
Hi Bryce and Janko I'd like to fork the above mentioned thread and talk about gamification and OSM. There is a paper about Gamification of Geographic Data Collection from Odobašic et al. [1] and at the same time I presented about the same topic in german. And there will be two othre talks

[OSM-talk] Foursquare superusers encouraged to directly edit OSM

2013-08-01 Thread Stefan Keller
Hi Interesting news from yesterday's Foursquare blog [1]: Today, we’re expanding upon that by encouraging our community to directly edit map data. (...). See also [2]. Yours, Stefan P.S. I'm collecting everything I find around location based systems and gamification while preparing my lightning

Re: [OSM-talk] Foursquare superusers encouraged to directly edit OSM

2013-08-02 Thread Stefan Keller
Hi I really doubt that foursquare will release their data for free. See eg. this blog [1]. But you'll never find out until somebody asks directly... Yours, S. [1] http://apb.directionsmag.com/entry/foursquare-news-user-can-edit-osm-maps-and-get-more-ads/342939 2013/8/2 Martin Koppenhoefer

Re: [OSM-talk] Foursquare superusers encouraged to directly edit OSM

2013-08-02 Thread Stefan Keller
Hi Stephan You wrote: * User puts a marker on a Google map? Then it's not usable. Do you use foursquare? They switched to osm. * User puts a marker on OSM base map? Then the user can do the same in iD to create the POI The majority of foursquare users wont switch to OSM - the superusers

Re: [OSM-talk] Foursquare superusers encouraged to directly edit OSM

2013-08-02 Thread Stefan Keller
Hi Lester I think, an initial approach would be, that foursquare would offer a subset of their data to OSM with the purpose that mappers can integrate this data into OSM. So the primary POI will be clean OSM data by definition. Obviously there could be duplicates which would be an interesting

Re: [OSM-talk] Google: pay for map and API

2011-10-30 Thread Stefan Keller
Hi I was alerted by a large national search company telling me that they are using G* Maps but now they are glad to know that there exists OSM as an alternative (to what has tbd.). And there are also blogs saying that smaller developers will be hit too, especially when their innovative website

Re: [OSM-talk] Annoucement: Poup layer beta reworked

2013-08-28 Thread Stefan Keller
Hi Roland Nice work! You solved a tricky issue by introducing page [1] [2] One tiny enhancement: When clicking in the upper region of the map window, the popup is being clipped, which is an issue for good User Interaction. I see following solutions: 1. adapt height of the popup to the

Re: [OSM-talk] SOTM 2013 - Poster and Accommodation deadline

2013-09-04 Thread Stefan Keller
Hi Rob As the deadline for poster printing has gone, is there a possibility to get a print during the conference e.g. from a USB stick (like we did at FOSSGIS)? Yours, Stefan 2013/8/25 Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com Hi All, Two deadlines for State of the Map to be aware of: ==

Re: [OSM-talk] osm2pgsql multipolygon parsing

2013-09-24 Thread Stefan Keller
2013/9/23 Kai Krueger kakrue...@gmail.com wrote: Indirectly it is a question of tagging schemas. To me this is actually indirectly a question of a proper area type! See e.g. Towards an Area Datatype for OSM from Jochen at SOTM http://lanyrd.com/2013/sotm/scpkrr/ --Stefan 2013/9/23 Kai Krueger

[OSM-talk] KeepRight seeks volunteers to help maintaining the website

2013-10-13 Thread Stefan Keller
Hi, The founder of KeepRight [1] seeks volunteers who are willing to take over maintaining the website! KeepRight is a well-known and important quality assurance tool for OSM [2]. Many projects rely on it, like the Quality Assurance Tools script for JOSM [3] or the Kort Game [4]. Please contact

Re: [OSM-talk] KeepRight seeks volunteers to help maintaining the website

2013-10-13 Thread Stefan Keller
Addendum: Just in case Harald is not reachable: I'm available to answer questions and coordinate communicatins around KeepRight for a while until the new project leaders have been found. Yours, S. 2013/10/13 Stefan Keller sfkel...@gmail.com Hi, The founder of KeepRight [1] seeks volunteers

Re: [OSM-talk] KeepRight seeks volunteers to help maintaining the website

2013-10-14 Thread Stefan Keller
Another addendum: There is a SVN mirror on github: https://github.com/CloCkWeRX/keepright-mirror We found one person who is willing to take over. Now we need at least another one... -S. 2013/10/13 Stefan Keller sfkel...@gmail.com Addendum: Just in case Harald is not reachable: I'm available

[OSM-talk] Largest PR campaign from G* in Germany with map mashup

2013-12-02 Thread Stefan Keller
Hi, Theses days a 90 seconds clip about Lars and Isa: Two against the flood is being broadcasted. It's a story about two helpers who mashed up a map of flood hotspots that coordinated volunteers. It's the first story out of five (selected from 1'100) during the largest PR campaign from G* in

[OSM-talk] Free OSM tile services?

2014-03-06 Thread Stefan Keller
Hi, After cloudmade is closing their free OSM tile service, does anybody have an overview about alternatives (especially of 'nice' map styles and high-res tiles)? -- Stefan P.S. Here's my initial list: https://geodienste.lyrk.de http://www.thunderforest.com/ https://www.mapbox.com/

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-14 Thread Stefan Keller
With current ODbL I'm mainly concerned about 1. small and medium corporations as well as 2. government entities. I'm not so concerned about big companies, especially G* exploiting OSM (although I dislike some behaviours of G*). So I'm in favor of CC-BY (e.g.

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-15 Thread Stefan Keller
2014-03-15 11:22 GMT+01:00 Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: ... Do you know of any case where OSMF did more than write a letter? Just being curious: Do you - or anybody else - know of any specific case where G* wrote more than a letter? --S. 2014-03-15 11:22 GMT+01:00 Martin

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-16 Thread Stefan Keller
Hi, 2014-03-16 10:38 GMT+01:00 Florian Lohoff f...@zz.de: For technical reasons Google cant use OUR data and THEIR community. Can't follow this argument: Data fusion is technically feasible beyond filling the holes. Even if argued in favour of CC-BY before, the current status quo of the

[OSM-talk] Making Maps from OpenStreetMap data: Free styles+icons sought

2014-03-19 Thread Stefan Keller
Hi! I'm preparing a documentation about how to make own maps from OpenStreetMap data [1]. The goal is to make nice maps (with TileMill), eventually within own region, and without programming skills (scripts only). 1. If there's a docu. already around, pls. tell me. 2. If somebody has styles and

Re: [OSM-talk] Hate captchas!!!!

2014-03-21 Thread Stefan Keller
Hi Richard, hi Simon At 2014-03-14 16:19 GMT+01:00 Simon Poole wrote At 14.03.2014 16:06, schrieb Richard Z.: is there really no way to avoid those horrible captchas whenever I add a link to a JOSM bug ticket or another friendly website to the wiki?? ... What I saw on Tuesday seem to

[OSM-talk] ReMAPTCHA Demo BETA 0.2 online! (Was: Hate captchas!!!!)

2014-03-28 Thread Stefan Keller
at 07:17:26AM +0100, Stefan Keller wrote: Hi Richard, hi Simon At 2014-03-14 16:19 GMT+01:00 Simon Poole wrote At 14.03.2014 16:06, schrieb Richard Z.: is there really no way to avoid those horrible captchas whenever I add a link to a JOSM bug ticket or another friendly

Re: [OSM-talk] ReMAPTCHA Demo BETA 0.2 online! (Was: Hate captchas!!!!)

2014-03-29 Thread Stefan Keller
-03-29 14:21 GMT+01:00 moltonel 3x Combo molto...@gmail.com: On 28/03/2014, Stefan Keller sfkel...@gmail.com wrote: The ReMAPTCHA Demo BETA 0.2 finally is ready to be tested: http://remaptcha.herokuapp.com/ Great, looks promising :) Please note that perfomance is slow (so hover over

Re: [OSM-talk] ReMAPTCHA Demo BETA 0.2 online! (Was: Hate captchas!!!!)

2014-03-31 Thread Stefan Keller
to understand challenge by humans. --S. 2014-03-31 13:21 GMT+02:00 moltonel 3x Combo molto...@gmail.com: On 29/03/2014, Stefan Keller sfkel...@gmail.com wrote: Hi moltonel You wrote: I'm worried about bots still having a very high chance of sucess. With two fairly-legible words

Re: [OSM-talk] ReMAPTCHA Demo BETA 0.2 online! (Was: Hate captchas!!!!)

2014-04-07 Thread Stefan Keller
). LG, Stefan 2014-04-05 12:18 GMT+02:00 Stefan Keller sfkel...@gmail.com: Hi, We've slightly updated ReMAPTCHA plugin. -S. [1] http://remaptcha.herokuapp.com/ 2014-03-31 18:47 GMT+02:00 moltonel 3x Combo molto...@gmail.com: On 31/03/2014, Stefan Keller sfkel...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [OSM-talk] ReMAPTCHA Demo BETA 0.2 online! (Was: Hate captchas!!!!)

2014-04-27 Thread Stefan Keller
2014-04-27 21:08 GMT+02:00 Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: I think a bigger situation is that I don't see how this could possibly be ADA compliant: How does a blind person pass? We could add audio challenges - but that's not needed since the context and target sites where ReMAPTCHA is

Re: [OSM-talk] ReMAPTCHA Demo BETA 0.2 online! (Was: Hate captchas!!!!)

2014-04-28 Thread Stefan Keller
technology and our project wanted to focus on visual clues. Yours, Stefan 2014-04-28 7:40 GMT+02:00 Kate Chapman k...@maploser.com: Hi Stefan, On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 5:42 PM, Stefan Keller sfkel...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-04-27 21:08 GMT+02:00 Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: I

Re: [OSM-talk] Taginfo Updates

2014-05-18 Thread Stefan Keller
Hi Jochen I also would like send a hat tip to you and your work. Taginfo is an invaluable tool for OSM. Do you have an idea why experimental full text search for example for Schloss returns amenity=baby_hatch in first position, and ranks the expected historic=castle at place 11 (having Deutsch

Re: [OSM-talk] Taginfo Updates

2014-05-18 Thread Stefan Keller
Any ideas on how to enhance it? Stefan 2014-05-18 17:17 GMT+02:00 Jochen Topf joc...@remote.org: There is a reason the full text search is marked experimental. :-) Jochen On So, Mai 18, 2014 at 04:12:20 +0200, Stefan Keller wrote: Date: Sun, 18 May 2014 16:12:20 +0200 From: Stefan

[OSM-talk] Mapping a map - the uneven geographies of OpenStreetMap...

2014-05-28 Thread Stefan Keller
Just found an online publication by Prof. Mark Graham and Stefano De Sabbata from the Oxford Internet Institute, UK, about the quantity and quality of OSM. The article shows three commented maps, one showing the content density, one counting the no. of edits, and one visualizing the content age.

Re: [OSM-talk] UK is turning blue?

2014-06-17 Thread Stefan Keller
Aside from broken data I'm also wondering why highway=motorway and highway=trunk are being rendered blue and green since I definitely prefer orange and pink as default map styles to both (that's my ceterum censeo since years...)! Yours, Stefan 2014-06-18 1:10 GMT+02:00 Michael Kugelmann

[OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Availability (Coverage) 2014

2014-07-15 Thread Stefan Keller
Interesting visualization about OpenStreetMap availability/coverage: Visualizing nodes per inhabitant worldwide. https://twitter.com/CiaranStaunton/status/488761438065156096 (Source: S. De Sabbatta, Oxford Internet Institute, 2014, http://geography.oii.ox.ac.uk ) Note: IMHO Diagram/color scheme

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Availability (Coverage) 2014

2014-07-15 Thread Stefan Keller
-15 18:32 GMT+02:00 Christoph Hormann chris_horm...@gmx.de: On Tuesday 15 July 2014, Stefan Keller wrote: Note: IMHO Diagram/color scheme has some potential to be enhanced. That seems kind of an understatement - the white areas are quite puzzeling for example - they are definitely not areas

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Availability (Coverage) 2014

2014-07-16 Thread Stefan Keller
Update from Stefano (many thanks!): https://twitter.com/maps4thought/status/489388472063774720 Now it looks better! -S. 2014-07-15 21:54 GMT+02:00 Christoph Hormann chris_horm...@gmx.de: On Tuesday 15 July 2014, Stefan Keller wrote: Which node density map by Martin Raifer do you mean

[OSM-talk] Overpass API / Overpass QL: center (and centroid) function?

2014-07-24 Thread Stefan Keller
Hi, I'm trying to get a list of point features only (as GeoJSON or XML). This could serve as input e.g. to uMap. The problem is that the query returns points but also areas. This is actually correct - but I want these areas converted to point geometries too (centered, like ST_Centroid). I then

Re: [OSM-talk] Overpass API / Overpass QL: center (and centroid) function?

2014-07-24 Thread Stefan Keller
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Re: [OSM-talk] Overpass API / Overpass QL: center (and centroid) function?

2014-07-24 Thread Stefan Keller
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Re: [OSM-talk] Overpass API / Overpass QL: center (and centroid) function?

2014-07-24 Thread Stefan Keller
Dear all Thanks for the help - especially from the french colleagues. I'm still struggling even with the XML output. My actual goal is to display the result set of the Dairy/Cheese Makers query in uMap. When I apply the query below to http://overpass-turbo.osm.ch/ the result is OK (displayed

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM and Captcha

2014-08-16 Thread Stefan Keller
. And the result, if I am not wrong, just feeds Google address database. Yes. And that's why Stefan Keller (or one of his students I think) created ReMAPTCHA to have a captcha system helping OSM. The dicussion was on this list in March 14 (can be found in the archives: https://lists.openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM and Captcha

2014-08-16 Thread Stefan Keller
...perhaps we're getting a step further at State of the Map nov. 2014 in Buenos Aires? --Stefan 2014-08-16 20:30 GMT+02:00 Stefan Keller sfkel...@gmail.com: Hi Severin, hello all Yes, ReMAPTCHA is still running as prototypes in two versions here: http://remaptcha.herokuapp.com/ and here

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

2014-10-21 Thread Stefan Keller
Hi, I wonder why we're discussing here everything else but what Frederik mentioned in his manifesto and in this reply above. Richard voted that the board should stand down. I can't oversea the situation but I tend to give our colleages a second chance to fix things. I do that also knowing that

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

2014-10-23 Thread Stefan Keller
Hi Kate 2014-10-23 16:37 GMT+02:00 Kate Chapman k...@maploser.com wrote: Perhaps the issues in the board is a lack of respect for each other. I don't see any disrespect from Simon when he referred to you speaking about you (and others) wishing to see more OSMF members. On the other hand I

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

2014-10-27 Thread Stefan Keller
2014-10-24 9:20 GMT+02:00 Paul Norman penor...@mac.com: On Oct 23, 2014, at 03:00 PM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us wrote: I think it is reasonable postpone elections for three months considering current turmoil. Leaving aside any question about the merits of this, I don't believe it

Re: [OSM-talk] Is there some loop trip founder?

2014-12-03 Thread Stefan Keller
Hi Mateusz Have a look at http://poitour.ch ... It's work in progress of a semester thesis project of a student here at Geometa Lab (sorry for the german front end language). Source code will be available soon on github. Yours, Stefan P.S. Regarding our conversation/thread about

[OSM-talk] TagFinder - a full text search engine for OSM tags (prototype)

2015-01-18 Thread Stefan Keller
It's a pleasure to release a new webapp called TagFinder. TagFinder is a full text search engine for OpenStreetMap tags. It uses the unequaled Taginfo, translation services (german to english), thesaurs and an adapted domain-specific semantic net. There's a demo prototype (in english and german)

Re: [OSM-talk] Is there some loop trip founder?

2015-01-04 Thread Stefan Keller
Hi all Have a look at POITour: http://poitour.ch ... It's a semester thesis project prototype (open source) of a student here at Geometa Lab. Yours, Stefan 2014-11-27 8:50 GMT+01:00 Volker Schmidt vosc...@gmail.com: For bicyles: I know of four outdoors GPS devices that do this, using

[OSM-talk] Mapping dangerous bicycle locations?

2015-03-07 Thread Stefan Keller
Hi, What about crowdsourcing dangerous bicycle locations using key/tag hazard? See http://wiki.osm.org/wiki/DE:Key:hazard And see also https://twitter.com/sfkeller/status/574213951644368896 Yours, S. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping dangerous bicycle locations?

2015-03-08 Thread Stefan Keller
Hi, Thanks for the discussion so long. I agree mostly that 1. its potentially subjective and 2. not always visible as real world object. I've added a notice to the german page: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/DE:Key:hazard I actually wonder, if this is a case for WikiProject Cleanup? Yours,

[OSM-talk] Problem with usage of other values than yes for key building

2015-03-10 Thread Stefan Keller
Hi, I have a problem with the usage values other yes in key building. It seems to me that this any other usage of building=yes (for area type) is almost purely redundant. When looking at taginfo [1], building has following three top most key usages: yes 119260798 85% house 11592812 8%

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping dangerous bicycle locations?

2015-03-10 Thread Stefan Keller
To me it's almost undisputed that traffic signs - including warning signs for cyclists - can be and are mapped. -S. 2015-03-10 21:33 GMT+01:00 Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com: On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 2:30 PM, Warin 61sundow...@gmail.com wrote: Sharp curves .. would they not be obvious from

Re: [OSM-talk] Your opinion about SOTM US

2015-03-12 Thread Stefan Keller
Hi, 2015-03-10 3:52 GMT+01:00 Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com: What do you think are the big topics and challenges for OpenStreetMap as we're about to go into the second decade? What does this mean for State of the Map? Though every SoTM is an open space I think big topics and challenges better

[OSM-talk] What is OS OpenMap (UK)?

2015-02-22 Thread Stefan Keller
From the news: OKFN wrote Ordnance Survey announced that their OS OpenData Licence is to be replaced by the Open Government Licence v3.0. https://twitter.com/OKFN/status/569094359204929536 Commented by a blog post of the Open Data Institute: http://theodi.org/blog/ordnance-survey-govco-open-data

Re: [OSM-talk] What is OS OpenMap (UK)?

2015-02-22 Thread Stefan Keller
+01:00 Jonathan Bennett jonobenn...@gmail.com: On 22/02/2015 12:11, Stefan Keller wrote: 1. Is this OS OpenMap worldwide or UK bound? Neither. It's GB only -- none of the island of Ireland is included. 2. How does this world-leading digital map look like (map style)? It doesn't -- it's data

Re: [OSM-talk] SotM EU plans?

2015-04-03 Thread Stefan Keller
People say there's mainly State of the Map Scotland 2015 Unconference (SOTMS), Fri. 2nd and Sat. 3rd October 2015, held at Edinburgh University in Europe this year. Yours, Stefan 2015-04-03 23:27 GMT+02:00 Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org: Hi all, Anyone aware of plans for a SotM EU for this

[OSM-talk] State of the Map 2016 Brussels: When? (Was: Help us make a logo! and win tickets to State of the Map 2016!)

2015-10-11 Thread Stefan Keller
Dear organizing team of State of the Map 2016 Brussels, I took the liberty an added the official hompage [1] to the main wiki page of State of the Map 2016 in Brussels [2]. To me a nice logo is very important; but so is the date! The event is now less than about 9(!) months away. And I'm

Re: [OSM-talk] State of the Map 2016 Brussels: When? (Was: Help us make a logo! and win tickets to State of the Map 2016!)

2015-10-12 Thread Stefan Keller
Hi Rob Thanks for your reply. September 2016 you say? I hope it's at the beginning of this month since at least the european academic year generally starts mid September. I'm looking forward to this promising event! Yours, Stefan 2015-10-12 19:11 GMT+02:00 Rob Nickerson

[OSM-talk] FOSDEM 2016, 30th and 31st January 2016, Brussels

2015-10-13 Thread Stefan Keller
The sixteenth edition of FOSDEM will take place on Saturday 30th and Sunday 31st January 2016 at the usual location, the ULB Campus Solbosch in Brussels. There's a upcoming deadline for first batch of main track proposals: 16 October 2015. And there's a Proposal for a Geospatial devroomː

Re: [OSM-talk] Innovative uses of OSM data in cities?

2015-08-31 Thread Stefan Keller
Hi Jo I'm not sure about what your audience are sceptic and if they have GIS background One could categorize examples into open topographic data (ev. optimized for thematic overlays; not only prerendered styling) and open data for spatial analyses, management, planning, and decision support. To

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