[Talk-vi] Thay thế danh sách thư talk-vi bằng diễn đàn chính thức

Chào các bạn, Tôi rất mừng nhận được các thư gần đây về cách đặt địa chỉ tại Huế. Lâu lắm không thấy danh sách thư talk-vi nói năng gì hết. Chắc các bạn quá bận lập bản đồ suốt ngày suốt đêm. :-) Hiện tại cộng đồng Việt Nam/tiếng Việt của OSM không có một nơi thảo luận "chính" như các cộng

Re: [Talk-vi] Addresses in Hue

Vào lúc 00:07 2023-10-27, Vũ Phạm Minh Tuấn đã viết: Kiệt 66 = Alley no. 66 > you can refer to this as the *street name*, since it's the closest street available. What's interesting is that the 'number' of the alley is the house number of the Alley on the main street as well. In this case,

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposed bulk removal of service=driveway2

Vào lúc 05:42 2023-06-27, Yves via talk đã viết: That would be again discussing with the proponent, as Brian started. Taginfo chronology already show one mass edit and revert, best to make sure there's not another waste of energy beforehand. The mass edit and revert were performed by the same

Re: [OSM-talk] Intercultural differences / cultural diversity / OSM communication behaviors

Vào lúc 19:03 2023-05-03, Imre Samu đã viết: In addition to this, new OSM community members should be prepared for the potential culture shock they may encounter, especially those who come from a top-down corporate environment. It's important to remember that OpenStreetMap is characterized by

Re: [OSM-talk] Extending the 'geo:' uri scheme: Adding parameter 'osmid'

Vào lúc 00:59 2023-01-03, Simon Poole đã viết: Not quite unexpected this discussion has already gone off on a tangent about stable ids. My question on the other hand would be: what do you actually want to achieve and what would you expect an application to do with the parameter? Furthermore,

Re: [OSM-talk] StateOTMap 2015 video is "private"

orry again for the inconvenience! [1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqjPa29lMiE2IlsRsfhi1aFGZfQLQDCrS [2] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqjPa29lMiE17qqIDxgONEMVkHzYjtLtW -- Minh Nguyen President, OpenStreetMap U.S. Board of Directors ___ ta

Re: [OSM-talk] razed railways and other things that don't exist today

Vào lúc 09:55 2022-12-05, Zeke Farwell đã viết: That is a good summary, though "Once the OSM available satellite imagery does not show the feature" is perhaps a bit too strict.  Some things aren't always visible or clear from aerial imagery and need to be surveyed in person.  I'm sure the

Re: [OSM-talk] StateOTMap 2015 video is "private"

Vào lúc 14:21 2022-12-01, Michał Brzozowski đã viết: > but apparently changing them en masse would spam the channel's followers with notifications. ( Are you sure? If you upload a video (which in many contexts works like making it public) you can choose not to notify the subscribers. I found

Re: [OSM-talk] FYI: Board now requires imports list (in)compatibility with OSM CT (& will work on a template)

Vào lúc 06:49 2022-11-29, Simon Poole đã viết: Am 29.11.2022 um 15:30 schrieb Greg Troxel:    It seems obvious that asking a US entity to enter into a contract under foreign law (and the same is almost certainly true for any government entity in any other jurisdiction) is just not going to

Re: [OSM-talk] FYI: Board now requires imports list (in)compatibility with OSM CT (& will work on a template)

Vào lúc 15:48 2022-11-28, Tobias Knerr đã viết: On 28.11.22 at Simon Poole wrote: What is "OSM Contributor Terms compatibility" supposed to be? Ok, this is clearly imprecise wording.¹ The context is that we would like to offer data donors a standard legal text that they can use to make

Re: [OSM-talk] StateOTMap 2015 video is "private"

as we hear about them, but apparently changing them en masse would spam the channel's followers with notifications. (These videos are all wonderful, but not all of them are evergreen!) I'll follow up with our staff and hope to get your video sorted out shortly. Sorry for the inconvenience!

Re: [OSM-talk] Use of "Proprietary" imagery to edit OSM

Vào lúc 07:11 2022-10-30, Greg Troxel đã viết: But then the company doing the editing should document which company's imagery and which revision year they are using. Things should be as transparent as possible, and this doesn't feel that way. There was a recent subthread on this issue on the

Re: [OSM-talk] razed railways and other things that don't exist today

Vào lúc 16:41 2022-10-26, Zeke Farwell đã viết: On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 1:11 PM Greg Troxel > wrote: I think people should keep in mind that a culture of deltionism is demoralizing to contributors and harms OSM more than a few  marginal items in the

Re: [OSM-talk] razed railways and other things that don't exist today

Vào lúc 06:40 2022-10-25, Marc_marc đã viết: when to migrate the data to ohm, I am convinced. however, having tested it this month, it's horribly non-ergonomic and I don't believe for a moment that it's within the reach of an iD contributor nor of an average contributor with josm, unless a

Re: [OSM-talk] remove link to Wikidata from infoboxes is a valid arg to remove it from wiki page and data items ?

Vào lúc 08:46 2022-09-30, Andrew Hain đã viết: The Wikidata links haven’t gone away; they’re in the OSM data items where they are easily machine readable and can be curated against accidental divergences between languages. The other description arguments could just as easily follow (there’s no

[Talk-cr] Etiquetas ambiguas en las relaciones de ruta

-americana/#7/9.818/-84.219 [2] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap_Americana [3] https://github.com/ZeLonewolf/openstreetmap-americana/pull/458#discussion_r906877834 -- Minh Nguyen ___ Talk-cr mailing list Talk-cr@openstreetmap.org https

Re: [Talk-vi] Chất lượng dịch kém của JOSM

trên bản đồ. [1] https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/21720#comment:31 [2] https://translations.launchpad.net/josm/trunk/+pots/josm/vi/+details Vào lúc 14:09 2021-12-30, Minh Nguyen đã viết: Chào các bạn, Tôi thường đóng góp vào OpenStreetMap dùng trang Web nên cũng đóng góp vào bản dịch

[Talk-vi] Chất lượng dịch kém của JOSM

Chào các bạn, Tôi thường đóng góp vào OpenStreetMap dùng trang Web nên cũng đóng góp vào bản dịch tiếng Việt của openstreetmap.org và iD. Tuy không nói tiếng Việt như ngôn ngữ mẹ đẻ, nhưng tôi cố gắng giữ gìn chất lượng dịch cao và chú trọng sử dụng thuật ngữ chính xác của dự án OSM. Gần

Re: [Talk-us] Washington DC place node cleanup

Vào lúc 03:01 2020-12-04, Frederik Ramm đã viết: Hi, when reverting an edit this morning I noticed that the node for Washington (https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/158368533) has myriad name:xx tags, many of which seem to be some variant of "Washington D.C." (with or without commas or dots),

Re: [Talk-us] While we're fixing things in iterations

Vào lúc 15:56 2020-09-23, Andy Townsend đã viết: I'm actually surprised that someone associated with the OSM US community hasn't created a proof-of-concept "good US road route rendering" variant of the OSM Carto style on a live server that people can use for reference (I'm guessing ongoing

Re: [Talk-us] place=neighborhood on subdivisions?

Vào lúc 11:02 2020-09-23, stevea đã viết: On Sep 23, 2020, at 10:51 AM, Brian Stromberg wrote: A short question of a lengthy response: What is the history behind that definition of 'suburb'? Is it a result of the term being used that way in UK/Europe/elsewhere? Seems like an odd usage, since

Re: [Talk-us] While we're fixing things in iterations

Vào lúc 10:45 2020-09-23, Paul Johnson đã viết: Can we finally fix two other longstanding problems, then? 1. The wiki being incorrect about not counting bicycle lanes.  That's not reflective of how validators deal with lanes, how data consumers like Osmand or Magic Earth deal with lanes, or

Re: [Talk-us] place=neighborhood on subdivisions?

Vào lúc 21:47 2020-09-22, Paul Johnson đã viết: On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 8:56 PM stevea > wrote: If you MUST tag place=neighbourhood (note the u) see if you agree with me that this tag makes most sense in a hierarchy where place=suburb (and perhaps

Re: [Talk-us] place=neighborhood on subdivisions?

Vào lúc 18:40 2020-09-22, Paul Johnson đã viết: On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 8:36 PM Mike N > wrote: On 9/22/2020 9:26 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: >         The extra hamlet nodes are import remainders that haven't yet been >     converted to landuse areas. 

[Talk-us] OpenStreetMap U.S.: Connect 2020 -- registration and call for proposals

Please join the rest of the OpenStreetMap U.S. community for Connect 2020 -- a free*, virtual event sharing cool ideas and celebrating our community from October 29 to 31. Registration is open: https://www.openstreetmap.us/connect2020/ This isn't quite a State of the Map U.S. We're trying

Re: [Talk-us] Potential Mechanical Edit to remove access=private from Amazon Logistics driveways in NH

Vào lúc 06:17 2020-09-01, Matthew Woehlke đã viết: On a related note: I use service=driveway (for lack of anything better) for access ways to parking lots that don't have parking spaces (hence, not service=parking_aisle). These are likely *not* public right-of-ways (the lots themselves are

Re: [Talk-us] Potential Mechanical Edit to remove access=private from Amazon Logistics driveways in NH

Vào lúc 07:00 2020-08-30, Greg Troxel đã viết: What is the actual problem with other people's driveways being marked access=private on the map? yes, driving on is usually technically not illegal, but unless you are going there because you were invited for have a reason they'd approve of, it's

Re: [Talk-us] Potential Mechanical Edit to remove access=private from Amazon Logistics driveways in NH

Vào lúc 11:55 2020-08-22, Volker Schmidt đã viết: On Sat, 22 Aug 2020 at 19:31, > wrote: I've even encountered signs that threaten people who attempt to use their driveway as a U-turn. This seems to be the rule in England, UK. When I

Re: [Talk-us] Potential Mechanical Edit to remove access=private from Amazon Logistics driveways in NH

Vào lúc 12:01 2020-08-16, Alex Weech đã viết: Hello all, I'm planning a mechanical edit to remove the access=private tag that Amazon Logistics mappers added in New Hampshire. They originally added the tag without using street-level imagery to look for no trespassing signs, and they made so,

Re: [Talk-us] Underground railways, indoor mapping, and overlapping features

Vào lúc 10:28 2020-05-05, Michael Reichert đã viết: Using the same nodes (like mapping to adjacent landuse polygons) breaks routing because routing engines would allow trains to switch between the levels. Using duplicated nodes at the same location is likely to trigger quality assurance services

Re: [Talk-us] Geocoding for Individual States.

On 2019-09-15 09:50, David Ankin wrote: Hello all, I was hoping to hear what worked for other folks who were trying to get a local nominatim instance installed for house number level geocoding in the US (or, in my case, a particular state). I setup 3.3 nominatim by checking out from the

Re: [Talk-us] Mapping rail trails

On 2019-07-11 17:27, Greg Troxel wrote: Thanks for the nice summary. I have one minor issue to raise a question about: stevea writes: As for rail trails, very nice work, Richard! Rail trails are usually classified as local (lcn) if they are for cyclists, although some are sponsored at a

Re: [OSM-talk] Bot edits on the OSM wiki

On 2019-02-24 11:18, Christoph Hormann wrote: Yesterday was the first time (that i am ware of at least) a bot has edited an OSM wiki page on my watchlist - with today and yesterday combined 17 edits of tag and key pages spamming my watchlist feed. I'm not sure if it's on by default, but

Re: [Talk-us] The San Jose / Santa Clara border

On 2019-01-28 12:40, OSM Volunteer stevea wrote: (Lengthy reply alert) Hi Minh: Thanks for your (always thorough and well-researched) pointers and history — though I don't recall "impressing LAFCO" upon you, I did mention it in the context of admin_level, so, OK, whatever! Good for Santa

Re: [Talk-us] The San Jose / Santa Clara border

On 2019-01-26 17:13, OSM Volunteer stevea wrote: While I don't know quite who to call, exactly, if somebody wants to "release to me" ODbL-compatible data which need to be harmonized with what are now in OSM, I'll volunteer to be the "nexus of citizen entry" to assure they find their way into

Re: [Talk-us] Forest Routes

On 2018-11-28 06:49, Martijn van Exel wrote: On Wed, 28 Nov 2018 02:07:45 -0800 Minh Nguyen wrote: On 2018-11-28 01:57, Minh Nguyen wrote: On 2018-11-20 08:57, Martijn van Exel wrote: When I map these roads I include the FS number (just the number) as a ref, since that is how

Re: [Talk-us] Forest Routes

On 2018-11-28 01:57, Minh Nguyen wrote: On 2018-11-20 08:57, Martijn van Exel wrote: When I map these roads I include the FS number (just the number) as a ref, since that is how they are signposted in the field. I think the ref tag on the ways should have a prefix and not just consist

[Talk-us] Population during mandatory evacuations

(Crossposted to the talk-us and tagging lists.) Due to the ongoing Camp Fire in Northern California [1], the place POI for the town of Paradise got tagged with population=0 before the change was reverted. Following some discussion about this changeset in OSMUS Slack [2], I started a

Re: [Talk-us] Possible roundabouts?

On 2018-09-06 23:27, Marian Poara wrote: 40.5234202, -111.8762446 Despite its size, the standard roundabout rules normally apply on these decorative or traffic calming circles -- there simply isn't enough room for a driver inside the circle to yield to a driver entering the circle. So

Re: [Talk-us] Proposition for changing the common name tag

On 2018-08-16 09:51, Daniel Koć wrote: Hi, I wanted to let you know about proposed change in tagging the name of USA and I seek for the feedback about it - see the proposition here: https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=63384 There are arguments to be made for either name, but

Re: [Talk-us] Cardinal directions on highways & foreign languages

On 2018-02-27 19:22, Angela Morley wrote: I've come across an issue with the current implementation of cardinal directions in roles of relations. In certain areas of the world, roles are being used to determine the cardinal direction of a way in accordance with the AASHTO requirements, however

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

On 15/10/2017 05:39, Michael Reichert wrote: And even if detecting disambiguation pages in Wikipedia would miss too much of them, you could use Wikidata to check if the Wikipedia page the Wikidata item points to is a disambiguation page according to Wikidata? While wroting the paragraph above,

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

Great questions. I've attempted to answer a few of them below: On 03/10/2017 09:56, Christoph Hormann wrote: * To what extent has there been information transferred systematically from Wikidata and Wikipedia to OSM based on wikidata ID references (like adding names in different languages). As

Re: [Talk-us] I 85 Express Lane (Atlanta, Georgia)

On 22/09/2017 09:46, Jack Burke wrote: My questions are: * Should this lane be drawn as a separate way? Legally, you cannot enter or exit the lane except at the designated sections, so drawing it separately makes things simpler for routers. If it's drawn separately, a pair of motorway_link

Re: [Talk-us] Uploading sidewalks in San Jose, California, US

On 19/09/2017 23:44, OSM Volunteer stevea wrote: Vivek Bansal <3viv...@gmail.com> writes: We are using the San Jose data which has an ODbL compliant license (and any government data in California has the same). I'm following the San José discussion and don't wish to get too technically

[Talk-us] talk-us-sfbay

There's a new talk-us-sfbay mailing list for discussing issues specific to the San Francisco Bay Area and Northern California in general: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us-sfbay/ You're welcome to join regardless of where you live or map, but be forewarned that you may have to

[Talk-us] South Bay community meetup, Sept. 23 in San Jose

We're (re)starting an OpenStreetMap community in the South Bay, starting with a meetup in San Jose next month. Code for San Jose is sponsoring the event as part of the National Day of Civic Hacking. Please RSVP and invite anyone you know who might be interested in OSM. Here are the details:

Re: [Talk-us] Pittsburgh neighborhood boundaries mapped with admin_level 9?

s, schools, COGs or MPOs don't get tagged with admin_level). I very much like the way Minh Nguyen describes "Municipal Subdivisions" (below Municipalities or cities/towns) in WikiProject_United States/Boundaries: "Where these subdivisions serve as a system of general-purpose unit

Re: [Talk-us] Redacting 75, 000 street names contributed by user chdr

On 27/08/2017 06:49, Frederik Ramm wrote: Here's a list of way IDs affected, with country and state: http://www.remote.org/frederik/tmp/chdr.details In case it helps, I dumped this CSV into a spreadsheet and sorted it by country and region:

Re: [Talk-us] Differences with USA admin_level tagging

On 11/07/2017 11:46, Kerry Irons wrote: If all of you want to have some fun with jurisdictional boundaries, take a look at College Corner, OH/IN. It is a village purposefully straddling the OH/IN state lines with the main street being the state line. It has two zip codes, is in three

Re: [Talk-us] Best practice in Singpost Editing

On 17/07/2017 02:13, Horea Meleg wrote: Hello all, Me and my Telenav colleagues are editing Signposts in Detroit area. We were wondering which would be the complete information in this case, when a secondary(primary) road and a motorway_link intersect - should a motorway_junction tag be

Re: [Talk-us] Differences with USA admin_level tagging

if the Census Bureau does so if we note that minor difference and tag in a way we discuss and document). Whether those results (that wiki and its necessarily complex table and Notes) are fortunate or unfortunate, this prompted another OSM mapper (Minh Nguyen, he has kindly given me implicit permission

Re: [Talk-us] Need advice on a project i've taken on

On 11/06/2017 16:19, Hans De Kryger wrote: On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 1:38 PM, Shawn K. Quinn > wrote: What exactly is the rationale behind removing the zip code data? ​The usefulness is nonexistent ​ In the past, I've used these tags

Re: [Talk-us] .... finding areas that are underserved

On 2016-11-12 14:44, Markus Fischer wrote: Hi, I am new to this and the area where I live is very well mapped (probably due to high density of tech workers). Where do I go to start mapping areas that are less well mapped (me aimlessly poking at this does not sound like a good approach)? The

Re: [Talk-us] Rail rendering support in our wiki?

On 2016-10-24 17:31, OSM Volunteer stevea wrote: As I also make USA rail contributions, is there any way that our wiki might allow similar "layer=rail" syntax to display OpenRailwayMap (.org), for example to display an appropriate rendering at the top of our California/Railroads wiki page?

Re: [Talk-us] Another state route shield renderer and tutorial

Texas' > infamous multitude of state highway networks, or the two state highway > systems in Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri? > >> On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 2:12 AM, Minh Nguyen <m...@nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us> >> wrote: >> A couple days ago, I posted a diary entry about

[Talk-us] Another state route shield renderer and tutorial

A couple days ago, I posted a diary entry about rendering state-specific highway shields using Mapbox tools. It's a topic of special interest to the U.S. community, so I figured I'd give the talk-us list a heads-up since not everyone reads the diaries regularly:

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

Kevin Morgan writes: > > > Here is an idea. An additional tag is added called signage. The tag use the following format  name;ref;text. Each item is added to the tag if the information is in clued on road signs. The tag has the following sub tags color, icon, description,

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

Paul Johnson writes: > > On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 9:32 PM, Kevin Morgan wrote:It is confusing to use open street maps in my area(Central Ohio) for > driving directions since the "common names" of high ways do not match > road

Re: [Talk-us] shop=chemist as "Drugstore" for Walgreens, CVS, Rite Aid, etc.

On 2016-07-05 10:08, Peter Dobratz wrote: After arriving at a local drugstore chain with a prescription in hand, walking past the shampoo aisle, only to find that the pharmacy counter is closed for the day, I've been updating tagging of drugstores and pharmacies as described here. For example,

Re: [Talk-us] shop=chemist as "Drugstore" for Walgreens, CVS, Rite Aid, etc.

On 2016-07-05 08:45, Minh Nguyen wrote: This change to iD came about due to a discussion in the Name Suggestion Index project, which is the component in iD that suggests tags when you fill in a commonly used name. [2] I happened to notice the change because it caused Transifex to prompt me

[Talk-us] shop=chemist as "Drugstore" for Walgreens, CVS, Rite Aid, etc.

Recently, iD was changed so that shop=chemist is labeled as "Drugstore" for American English users (and continues to be labeled "Chemist" for British English users). [1] An American mapping a Walgreens, CVS, or Rite Aid who searches for "drugs" will see the following choices, in order: *

Re: [OSM-talk] iD news: v1.9.6 released

(Sorry, I sent from the wrong address, so this message got stuck in moderation.) Martin Koppenhoefer gmail.com> writes: > > > > Sorry that it took me a while to reply, I was out of office and just came back now. > > > Il giorno 10 giu 2016, all

Re: [OSM-talk] iD news: v1.9.6 released

Martin Koppenhoefer gmail.com> writes: > > > sent from a phone > > > Il giorno 10 giu 2016, alle ore 01:58, Minh Nguyen nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us> ha scritto: > > > > > > * “Administrative territorial entity” is the superset of “human > > set

Re: [OSM-talk] iD news: v1.9.6 released

Martin Koppenhoefer gmail.com> writes: > > > sent from a phone > > > Il giorno 09 giu 2016, alle ore 02:23, Minh Nguyen nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us> ha scritto: > > > > If I understand correctly, you’re referring to a situation where, for > > instanc

Re: [OSM-talk] iD news: v1.9.6 released

instead of a larger, recurring task. [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mechanical_Edits/wikidata and previous threads on this list -- Minh Nguyen <m...@nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us> ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [Talk-us] Proposal: Sunset ref=* on ways in, favor of relations

On 2015-11-13 02:42, Paul Johnson wrote: On Sun, Nov 8, 2015 at 8:04 PM, Paul Norman > wrote: On 11/7/2015 10:18 AM, Kevin Kenny wrote: I find lately that it needs a patched Mapnik, because Mapnik (sensibly) went to a

Re: [OSM-talk] open question about boundaries sharing nodes with ways or nodes

Mike Thompson gmail.com> writes: > > Sometimes, such as in the case of the boundary between the US states of Ohio and Kentucky, it is the low water mark on one bank[1] (in this case the court held that it was the low water mark of the north bank of the Ohio River in 1792, not the present low

Re: [Talk-us] Self Storage Places

On 2015-10-04 00:59, Paul Johnson wrote: One could argue for industrial since we're talking about rental warehouse space. Is there a shop or (ugh) amenity for this? I've never been quite sure how to tag self storage facilities. Taginfo [1] shows significant usage of the following tags, each

Re: [Talk-us] Should driveways be on OSM?

On 2015-10-03 07:45, Mike Thompson wrote: By removing access=private you would be removing a valuable piece of information. Maybe the community can come up with a better tag, but we should not just delete the "private" tag. How do people here feel about using access=destination on driveways

Re: [Talk-us] Should driveways be on OSM?

On 2015-10-03 16:58, Greg Troxel wrote: What's wrong with the private tag? Is the only objection that it shows up pink on the map? That's a clue that the rendering is wrong, not the tag. I was asking more out of curiosity. Personally, I'm fine with the way access=private driveways are

Re: [Talk-us] Should driveways be on OSM?

On 2015-09-30 08:34, Greg Morgan wrote: On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 8:48 AM, Toby Murray wrote: I run into this as well. If I don't see anything close to the way on imagery I definitely have very little problem deleting them. I also question the access=private tagging

Re: [Talk-us] what happened to Sacramento?

Jack Burke writes: > > You're not crazy. Just using the regular OSM website interface, I can find the city node, and the county boundary, but not a city boundary. AFAICT, it isn't a consolidated city-County, so it should exist. Looks like the original TIGER boundary way got

Re: [Talk-us] Should driveways be on OSM?

Nate Wessel writes: > > > I delete plenty of TIGER driveways myself (mostly in the midwest, > *highfive*!), but I wouldn't say that the accurate ones should be > removed. If they can be identified as private driveways, they could > more easily just not be rendered

Re: [Talk-us] Should driveways be on OSM?

Marc Gemis writes: > > > They can be mapped, especially the long ones and tagged as highway=service, service=driveway, and typically access=private.I don't care for the appearance of the map, it's more important to connect houses that are further away from the main road via the

Re: [Talk-us] Another road classification disagreement (this time with HFCS in Kansas)

On 2015-09-17 15:56, Toby Murray wrote: I went through and upgraded all roads marked as "Minor collectors" and "Major collectors" from residential to tertiary. The result can best be seen at zoom level 12: http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1070359#map=12/39.4386/-96.7724 This area looks

Re: [Talk-us] Another road classification disagreement (this time with HFCS in Kansas)

On 2015-09-06 01:24, Toby Murray wrote: This user has also upgraded a lot of unpaved county roads in eastern Kansas to secondary because of HFCS which also strikes me as wrong. You can clearly see where he has done this at zoom level 9 [6]. When I started mapping in San Jose, CA, after years

Re: [Talk-us] Another road classification disagreement (this time with HFCS in Kansas)

On 2015-09-06 09:49, richiekenned...@gmail.com wrote: As to Mr. Fairhurst’s comment regarding routing, I’ll remind you it is frowned upon to tag for a routing engine. There is often confusion about the "don't tag for the x" rule. We must not tag *misleadingly* for a *specific* x. We

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER tracing layer updated to 2015 release

On 2015-08-25 20:48, Greg Morgan wrote: I clicked on the link you provided and received: {message:Not Found} Hi Greg, this URL template isn't meant to be opened directly. You can paste it into an editor's custom layer URL field; the editor will fill in the {x}, {y}, and {z} variables for

Re: [Talk-us] Rendering of tracks

On 2015-08-25 19:07, Mark Bradley wrote: I noticed that tracks (leisure - track) are still being rendered as polygons instead of linear features, despite this having been reported as a bug on Github. Hi Mark, I'm not sure if the openstreetmap-carto developers read this mailing list. I believe

Re: [OSM-talk] The Proposed Great Colour Shift

On 2015-08-21 03:13, Colin Smale wrote: While we are at it, what about specific symbols for train/metro stations per operator? That is also a great landmark for map users. I'd love to see that in the Transportation map. The difference with highway shields is that the Standard style is already

Re: [OSM-talk] The Proposed Great Colour Shift

Paul Johnson baloo at ursamundi.org writes: Along these lines, the standard style as it isn't too far off from what Americans expect out of a motorist-oriented roadmap (though mapgeeks might see it as a bit German by comparison to our maps).  Surface streets tend to be all the same color

Re: [OSM-talk] The Proposed Great Colour Shift

Lester Caine lester at lsces.co.uk writes: Just what is the convention in the US, Russia or China? Regarding the U.S., Paul and I describe the conventions here in detail: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2015-August/073892.html But the short version is: real highway shields.

Re: [Talk-us] Survey Township Sections

On 2015-08-02 06:43, Jerry Clough - OSM wrote: A quick question: Are there any guidelines for tagging of public land survey township sections? I found a clear description of mapping civil townships for Ohio on the wiki: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ohio/Boundaries/Townships, but have

Re: [Talk-us] Naming Ramps

On 2015-07-30 13:51, Paul Norman wrote: On 7/30/2015 7:15 AM, Brett Lord-Castillo wrote: Related to this, I also wanted to look for some ideas on how to generate names for the unnamed ramps in an OSM extract. Most ramps in parts of the US I've traveled don't have name. What they do have is

Re: [Talk-us] Pequot Terrace

Clifford Snow clifford@... writes: I'm vacationing near Nisswa, MN. In the city of Nisswa, there is a hamlet node for Pequot Terrace just a short distance from the City of Nisswa node. As far as I can discover, there is no Pequot Terrace here. http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/151467331 Since

Re: [Talk-us] cycle.travel US bike routing, and unreviewed rural TIGER

On 2015-06-13 17:08, Harald Kliems wrote: Very nice, Richard! One quick comment: I might not be the only who doesn't always change the tiger:reviewed tag when fixing TIGER-imported roads. I don't know if that's technically feasible, but maybe it would be better to check if a way has been

Re: [Talk-us] a plea to armchair mappers

On 2015-06-11 06:42, Richard Welty wrote: please, please when doing the armchair mapping thing, be aware that aerial imagery may be several years out of date. yesterday i discovered that a highway reconfiguration i'd mapped in Rensselaer, NY had been realigned with the out-of-date bing aerial

Re: [OSM-talk] Can wikidata links help fight name inflation?

Phil phil at trigpoint.me.uk writes: Transliteration is something that can be done at application level, and a traveller would have learned the basics. You still need to be able to check the street names against.what is on the sign. Then why not have a single transliteration? A single cryllic

Re: [OSM-talk] Can wikidata links help fight name inflation?

On 2015-05-31 14:19, moltonel 3x Combo wrote: On 30/05/2015, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: It seems that for names nobody cares to say whether they are signposted or not (or maybe only when the sign is different from the actual name), while for ref it seems common

Re: [Talk-us] Facts about the world

On 2015-04-03 22:25, Russ Nelson wrote: Greg Morgan writes: * In my case, TIGER isn't all the that bad. In some NY counties, TIGER is very good. In other places it is like Stevie Wonder was in charge of quality control. What I've heard is that the maps they were digitizing off were of MUCH

Re: [Talk-us] Moving historic railroad ways from OSM to OpenHistoricalMap

On 2015-04-04 05:23, Serge Wroclawski wrote: On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 12:31 AM, Russ Nelson nel...@crynwr.com wrote: Brad Neuhauser writes: If you want to know how serious abandonfans are, I've see people go looking in farmer's fields with a metal detector looking for spikes, and dig down 12 to

Re: [Talk-us] Facts about the world

On 2015-04-02 17:41, stevea wrote: Simon Poole writes: Up to now OSM has drawn the line in such a way that stuff that is signposted and is observable on the ground is fair game (with some exceptions, I believe the GR issue is still unsolved). Yes, all of that is fair game. Though I don't

Re: [Talk-us] Moving historic railroad ways from OSM to OpenHistoricalMap

On 2015-03-31 23:12, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: For background, in the USA there is an intermediate step to abandonment. A corridor can be railbanked, meaning the easements don't expire. It's not an active railway, but it can be returned to rail service via an administrative procedure. And in fact,

Re: [Talk-us] Moving historic railroad ways from OSM to OpenHistoricalMap

On 2015-03-31 00:36, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, On 03/31/2015 08:04 AM, Natfoot wrote: There is so many situations where to his naked eye on the ground he may not be able to see it. To a person like myself I can still find the signs on the earth of where the railroad once was. Then map the

Re: [Talk-us] Moving historic railroad ways from OSM to OpenHistoricalMap

On 2015-03-29 05:00, Mark Bradley wrote: Hello list. I have been communicating with a mapper who says he has been deleting abandoned railroads (the ones where the infrastructure is totally removed). As the premise of OSM is to only map ground-verifiable features (other than certain

Re: [OSM-talk] New features in iD - looking for feedback and beta testers..

On 2015-03-27 14:55, Dave F. wrote: Until there's a logical, common sense way to select, split, continue unstitch ways that meet at intersections, I'm sticking with P2. As a power user, I found these operations a lot less frustrating after discovering that selecting a way, holding down

[Talk-us] Re: Boundaries and verifiability (was Re: Retagging hamlets in the US)

On 2015-03-25 09:54, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: There are many defacto boundaries created by roads, hedges, powerlines, ridges or bodies of water. I argue the most appropriate boundary in OSM is indeed the defacto boundary. If people are using, paving, weeding and farming the boundary, that's the

[Talk-us] Re: Boundaries and verifiability (was Re: Retagging hamlets in the US)

On 2015-03-25 08:12, Martijn van Exel wrote: On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 3:00 AM, Minh Nguyen wrote: On 2015-03-24 13:57, Martijn van Exel wrote: More importantly though, there is an authoritative source for official administrative boundaries that can be easily accessed

Re: [Talk-us] user damages administrative boundaries around Rapid City

arch_arch@... arch_arch@... writes: I've detected a user who damages administrative boundaries around Rapid City. I've tried to contact the user but I got no reaction. I've told the mapper that iD editor is inappropriate, as it has no built in validator but he didn't stop the edits. I want

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