Re: [talk-au] Talk-au Digest, Vol 178, Issue 55

I suspect that no-one is taking the piss - depending on the mail client "reply all" will very often go to the sender cc the list. Perhaps a bit more discussion about what problems have been created might have helped (and "source=knowledge") isn't a great description of why something was changed,

Re: [Talk-es] Ediciones del usuario Verdy_p, sin consenso con la comunidad española de OSM

On 18/01/2020 11:48, Andy Townsend wrote: Just for info, Verdy_p started editing near Zaragosa again so I've blocked them again ... and this block was removed after the message to the list last night Solo para información, Verdy_p comenzó a editar cerca de Zaragosa nuevamente, así que

Re: [Talk-GB] Amazon Logistics edits

On 29/07/2019 11:21, ael wrote: In the case that I mentioned, it was certainly not from their own GPS logs. A few examples I came across while looking at these with a DWG hat on were also not from GPS logs.  In one case Amazon would have had to have been delivering by tractor; in another the

Re: [Talk-GB] Amazon Logistics edits

On 29/07/2019 09:35, Andy Robinson wrote: I've just looked at a number of Amazon Logistics in my local area Just to give everyone a bit of a heads-up about the DWG's involvement here - we got a number of messages about Amazon's mapping.  The biggest immediate problem was their use of

Re: [OSM-talk] Questionnaire

On 23/03/2019 10:16, Vincent Bergeot wrote: Le 23/03/2019 à 10:56, Daniela Šedlárová a écrit : Good day, My name ist Daniela and I´m a student of geography. Please fill out the questionnaire for my thesis. The It takes you about 10 minutes.

Re: [OSM-talk] Relation #2632934 is "killing" differential update

On 11/02/2019 10:59, Roland Olbricht wrote: There must have happened something ugly at versions 99 and 106: https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/FYm Thanks for that - yet again something useful in overpass-turbo ("make stat") that I had no idea existed.  Is there any documentation about it anywhere? 

Re: [Talk-GB] Climbing new heights in “interesting” tagging

On 14/11/2018 21:25, Andrew Hain wrote: Road signs tagged natural=peak: https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/5890628170 https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/5890628171 I'd be gentle with them - it is their first and so far only edit :) Best regards, Andy

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping Roads for the Renderer

On 14/11/2018 21:03, Paul Berry wrote: I've dropped DWG a note because the mapper in question has just responded and I need to hold my tongue rather than reply. Thanks (email received, BTW). One other thing - if anyone sees issues with "highway" changes in Leeds, Manchester or MK that

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping Roads for the Renderer

On 14/11/2018 19:48, Paul Berry wrote: Hi, Not for the first time I'm having a run-in with a user regarding arbitrary mapping of road classifications in Leeds. Latest changeset comments: http://osm.org/changeset/64361310 In this particular case I'd drop a mail to the DWG at

Re: [Talk-GB] Changing wikipedia links

On 01/10/2018 23:39, Dan S wrote: Op ma 1 okt. 2018 om 23:15 schreef Neil Matthews : Looks like an automated edit - albeit a human curated one - without discussion, certainly on Talk-GB. The "imports" mailing list would be the right place to discuss it, if it's a bulk edit (is it?). It doesn't

Re: [Talk-GB] Access restrictions for lorries above a certain GVM

On 26/09/2018 12:53, SK53 wrote: I can only answer for my self. I generally tag these I usually see with a plain hgv=destination, possibly with maxweight=7.5t. The sign is very rare without an additional plate allowing for deliveries. I do this largely because I want to capture the

[Talk-GB] Wickham Market, Suffolk

Is anyone familiar with this area?  Someone's mentioned on IRC that Wickham Market has been changed from town to village and back a couple of times: http://osm.mapki.com/history/node.php?id=114148812 Obviously it's been "town" more than village (and the person who added it as such was/is

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

On 23/04/2018 03:40, Jack Armstrong dan...@sprynet.com wrote: I fully support the efforts of Nakaner. There are 6-8 users creating a mess in the Denver, Colorado area. What'd really help matters would be if local mappers could comment on changesets by new mappers (both "good" and "bad").  I

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM AGM and notification

(just to add a bit to what Jerry said...) Hi Tony, First of all, welcome! You've probably already found the "Contact channels" page on the wiki https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contact_channels .  OSM globally uses lots of different mailing lists, forums, social network sites etc.  It

Re: [Talk-GB] Edits in Wales

On 25/03/2018 21:49, Miguel Sevilla-Callejo wrote: ... Sorry to insist but you will undermine, especially, Welsh names, for a generic rendering that uses "name" tags. Think about that. Can you give a specific example of that?  Are you saying that "it's important to pretend that Welsh names

Re: [Talk-GB] Edits in Wales

On 25/03/2018 16:18, Ben Proctor wrote: (snip) * But what about the city of Henffordd or the town of Amwythig? They have Welsh names and English names so the logic would be to use both in the name tag. Except Hereford - Henffordd and Shrewsbury - Amwythig are in England and, I

Re: [OSM-talk] Unify Mapping and wiki accounts? -- WAS: Vote cheating?

On 18/03/2018 19:45, Richard wrote: fundamental decission - maybe osm and osm-wiki accounts should be the same? Interestingly, there's recently been a suggestion on OSMF-talk about an "OSMF-owned engine for social surveys":

Re: [Talk-us] Rural US: Correcting Original TIGER Imported Ways

On 22/02/2018 16:57, Greg Troxel wrote: For the US, however, you'd want to do something other than just "downgrading to track".  There are a couple of options I suspect: In the US, treating an unpaved road as "track" does not seem right. Besides the surface issue, there is a very strong notion

Re: [OSM-talk] AI With Satellite Images for OpenStreetMap

On 10/02/2018 20:52, john whelan wrote: My personal reaction is this is frightening. Already we have buildings mapped twice and unless the import is done very very carefully I can see problems ahead. This sort of thing has been tried before, with varying degrees of success.  Facebook

Re: [Talk-us] rayman 765

On 10/02/2018 03:43, Albert Pundt wrote: A user by the name of rayman 765 has been making some... interesting edits. ... What's the proper thing to do here? Obviously I can't just mass-undo every single one of his edits, but obviously this "Route 80" is complete BS. Hi all, Following up

[Talk-GB] Rendering of old phoneboxes (was: Mistagging of old telephone boxes)

On 24/12/2017 01:12, Craig Wallace wrote: It would be good to have some better tags for phoneboxes (which may or may not actually contain a working phone). The phonebox is often a distinctive landmark, especially the classic red ones, and many are now listed buildings. ... Why not a

Re: [Talk-GB] Hull road renamed after rugby league star - BBC News

On 27/01/2018 13:32, Steve Doerr wrote: On 27/01/2018 13:21, Andy Mabbett wrote: On 27 January 2018 at 09:51, Colin Spiller wrote: I see malcolmh has already renamed it. Cool, but my question was "Does anyone have the coordinates, or the ID of the way, please?"

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM maps that are accessible for the visually impaired

On 12/12/2017 14:28, john whelan wrote: Are you asking specifically for ones that run on Apple systems or would another operating system be acceptable? It's not actually me that's asking, so I can't add too much, but I suspect that the explicit mention of

[OSM-talk] OSM maps that are accessible for the visually impaired

Someone's just asked a question over on the forum asking about "OSM maps that are accessible for the visually impaired" https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?pid=676783#p676783 .  I said I'd ask here as this list probably has a wider readership. Question from forum follows: "we are

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

On 30/11/2017 13:46, Daniel Koć wrote: 1. Currently leisure=nature_reserve (old scheme) and boundary=* (new scheme) are frequently tagged in parallel, and it looks like the old scheme is used as a hack just to make it visible on default map. Just to chuck one example in - I've tagged lots of

Re: [OSM-talk] Spam/Report user

On 26/11/2017 22:11, Max wrote: There is only info on how to delete content by spammers. No way to bring users to the attention of admins other then comments of changesets. Hi, I've updated the three last sections with what I believe are currently the most effective ways of dealing with spam

Re: [OSM-talk] New tool/API to find local OSM mailing lists by location

On 25/11/2017 19:18, joost schouppe wrote: That's really cool. What would it take to merge more sources in there? For example the main community e-mail address, their activities calendar, their riot/telegram/slack group? Maybe a structured wiki page could be the source? Firstly, it's a

Re: [OSM-talk] What would make MapRoulette better?

On 24/11/2017 21:18, Dave F wrote: On 24/11/2017 07:59, joost schouppe wrote: For example, "Skipped" to me means "meh, didn't feel like doing this task". No! it's an option to ignore the task if the user doesn't think there's anything wrong. Maproulette is based on guesswork. A task

Re: [OSM-talk] What would make MapRoulette better?

On 19/11/2017 20:59, Martijn van Exel wrote: For those who have used MapRoulette or at least have a good understanding of what it does: what would be the *one top thing* for you that would make it better? Most importantly, I'd try and make it a bit more obvious what it is.  When you go to

Re: [talk-au] Pokemon / doodles in Noranda, Perth? (Andy Townsend)

On 24/11/2017 16:42, angus wrote: These two parks appear genuine I was wondering about the spelling to be honest.  With https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/260221961 the surrounding road is "Kirkpatrick Crescent" but the park is "Kilpatrick Reserve".  I'm guessing that one or the other is

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

On 09/11/2017 20:48, Yuri Astrakhan wrote: JB, the "layer=0 removal" is one of the JOSM validations - it automatically gets suggested to anyone editing an area with that object, with the "fix" button autofixing it. JOSM doesn't have a "mark this autofix as invalid" button, which means that

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

On 28/10/2017 14:53, Blake Girardot wrote: ... Please read his personal page on the wiki to understand his overall goal and why to achieve it he has made a lot (like thousands) of edits: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Verdy_p I've read many, many screeds written by him over the last

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

On 15/10/2017 13:04, Yuri Astrakhan wrote: Andu, with all due respect, you are misrepresenting things.  I have received praises on OSM-RU channel, and that's where I got my first bug reports and suggestions that were quickly fixed.  The current mailing thread also received a praise from Steve.

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

On 15/10/2017 11:04, Christoph Hormann wrote: On Sunday 15 October 2017, Yuri Astrakhan wrote: [...] I was following up on the Christoph Hormann's idea of the "bot=no" tag, to "allow mappers to opt out of bot edits on a case-by-case basis." No, you were not, likely because you misunderstood my

Re: [OSM-talk] Highway=trunk : harmonization between countries ?

On 20/08/2017 11:36, djakk djakk wrote: Why I want to do that ? To improve openstreetmap, this is a worldwide map and the renderer can't be adapted by countries. Sure it can - it's perfectly possible for a render to use a location-sensitive rendering (I've just done it myself). Best

Re: [Talk-us] NJ mass road demotions?

On 11/06/2017 19:52, Peter Dobratz wrote: I've found that even active OSM contributors don't necessarily check the email address associated with their OSM account. If that is the case, they may have not yet seen any changeset comments you have made on their changesets. Indeed - and if they

Re: [Talk-GB] Birmingham Tree Import

On 13/04/2017 20:26, ael wrote: And none of the 3 suggested causes applies in my case. What was the problem in your case? Best Regards, Andy ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-it] utente sempre lui

] http://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks/ 1296 Il 08/Apr/2017 00:24, "Andy Townsend" <ajt1...@gmail.com <mailto:ajt1...@gmail.com>> ha scritto: On 07/04/2017 18:49, Daniele Gitto wrote: Solo per segnalare che l'utente bloccato si è iscritto ieri c

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Import Progress

On 19/03/2017 12:52, Andy Mabbett wrote: On 18 March 2017 at 18:52, Brian Prangle wrote: I'm off for a break and I'm leaving a couple of key imports partially complete so I thought it best to give you an update of where I'm at: I'm told that Brian has been blocked for

Re: [Talk-GB] [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Import Progress

On 19/03/2017 12:52, Andy Mabbett wrote: On 18 March 2017 at 18:52, Brian Prangle wrote: I'm off for a break and I'm leaving a couple of key imports partially complete so I thought it best to give you an update of where I'm at: I'm told that Brian has been blocked for

Re: [Talk-us] reporting Pokemon Go related vandalism

On 27/01/2017 06:20, Will Senechal wrote: I'll try to keep an eye on activity around here, and will try to continue updating my area. They've just "edited" again, and I've blocked in http://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks/1169 , so I'd be grateful if people could keep an eye out for

Re: [Talk-GB] Peak & Northern Footpath Signs

On 14/09/2016 15:15, SK53 wrote: Over the weekend I noticed a number of Peak & Northern footpath signs . A friend who is a member of the society told me that there are over 500, and that some people try to visit them in

Re: [Talk-it] Edit war Sardegna

On 03/09/2016 16:01, Fayor Uno wrote: C'è un minimo di consenso? Si proceda. If you think there's consensus in this thread currently then I have a bridge I'd like to sell you ... Seriously, it is clear that there are things still to be worked out - for example, what's the spread of

Re: [Talk-GB] Vandalism by https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/JoeanPlanck

On 21/08/2016 20:39, Ed Catmur wrote: Does anyone feel like sending a welcome message and/or keeping an eye on them for any subsequent vandalism this week or next weekend? I've applied a 0-hour block http://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks/1005 (essentially a "message that has to be read

Re: [Talk-GB] Admin boundaries for unparished areas - how to handle?

On 20/08/2016 13:33, Colin Smale wrote: In the East Midlands Alex Kemp has been adding relations for these unparished areas, only distinguishable from Civil Parish relations by means of the value of the "designation" tag. This is contrary to our normal practice and feels counter-intuitive -

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Proposing import of sidewalk data Seattle, WA, USA

On 06/08/2016 23:40, Greg Morgan wrote: Again relevance: I am still waiting for a stop sign to be rendered a year after it was requested. If we wait until a stop sign gets all artsie and fartsie, then it will never be rendered and it will never be mapped or shall I say mappers will become

Re: [talk-au] Errors in rendering names of administrative boundaries

On 25/07/2016 08:14, cleary wrote: I have noticed errors in rendering names of administrative boundaries on the OSM website map. It is not just Australian boundaries. For example http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/48.99957/-110.00728shows Canada and United States on the reverse sides of

Re: [Talk-us] How to get open street maps

On 28/05/2016 11:51, David Niklas wrote: Hello, I downloaded the maps, but they changed over night, so the md5 sums don't match up. I tried using rsync -cav to ftp.spline.de, but the connection times out "[Receiver] io timeout after 181 seconds -- exiting" (return code 30) I know that the port

Re: [OSM-talk] RfD notification: Purge tag "priority" from tracks

On 08/04/2016 20:30, Paul Norman wrote: On 4/8/2016 7:14 AM, Roland Olbricht wrote: This constitutes a mechanical edit. Therefore, I would like to notify you that I have put a request for discussion on talk-transit@ . If you would like to discuss, please do so there. The talk-transit@ list

Re: [Talk-us] Caliparks re-tagging paths?

On 26/03/2016 15:26, Kevin Kenny wrote: In these areas, a trail is a fairly tenuous thing. The marking may be just a splash of paint or an axe cut on a tree, and even that may be limited to once every few hundred metres. "A splash of paint every few hundred metres? You were lucky"*

Re: [OSM-talk] What3words

On 22/11/2015 12:51, Colin Smale wrote: ...and once again, as seems to be the norm in OSM, any minority interest which is not supported by the oligarchy gets mercilessly shot down. ... except it's not _just_ the "oligarchy", is it? No-one on this list seems to have a good word for

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project: Nature Reserves

On 25/10/2015 14:42, Brian Prangle wrote (in a slightly different order): > Do we need to tag Natura 2000 SACs and SPAs? I've looked at the protected_area wiki page and quite > frankly lost the will to live. :) I'm guessing that, a bit like rights of way, the tagging will sort itself out.

Re: [Talk-us] Anybody had any contact with this user?

On 04/09/2015 04:55, James Mast wrote: ... but I've sent him two messages in the last 2 months without any response back from him, asking him if he could please add a 'comment' to his changesets after he was mass adding some data in my local area a few times (mostly just buildings from Bing

Re: [OSM-talk] What's the point of the Wiki 'k=v' icon?

On 30/08/2015 10:34, Dave F. wrote: I'm looking for either a valid reason to keep it if there is none, remove it. Poor/lazy wiki page design doesn't seem a valid one. Neither is giving irrelevant, baffling info to newbies. We're meant to be encouraging people to join in, not turn them

Re: [OSM-talk] List of OSM-based services

On 23/08/2015 12:31, Andrew Hain wrote: As part of an article on the diversity of OSM-based mapping I’m looking to check if the list at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/List_of_OSM-based_services is up to date, including sites and especially map styles that may not have been noted. A

Re: [OSM-talk] landcover=trees

On 15/08/2015 21:42, Lester Caine wrote: My quick fix for any new rendering is simply to switch off 'farmland' so that the tree blocks it masks actually display. http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/245442613 is an example of the problem, as are the adjacent areas to the right, while to the left

Re: [OSM-talk] landcover=trees

On 15/08/2015 20:59, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: ... And then there are areas where actually trees grow, sometimes in a forest and sometimes elsewhere. That's where landcover trees seems appropriate for me. Maybe a diary entry explaining your point of view on this in detail would help

Re: [OSM-talk] Best base to build on ...

On 16/08/2015 01:46, Paul Norman wrote: ... The problem with Tilemill is that is is abandoned, and includes in-program text editing, which adds significant complexity to the codebase, and this text editing does not function with large complex styles. FWIW I've always used TileMill with an

Re: [OSM-talk] landcover=trees

On 16/08/2015 21:27, Lester Caine wrote: The tree areas that are within the farmland area are NOT now farmland and probably never were Can you point to a tree area within farmland? I couldn't see one when I had a quick look. It's slightly confusing because the multipolygon is pulling the

Re: [Talk-GB] Paths and Footways

On 16/08/2015 22:04, Matthijs Melissen wrote: On 16 August 2015 at 22:57, ajt1...@gmail.com ajt1...@gmail.com wrote: Until I provided a counter-example there, the only example on https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/pull/747 was of a well-mapped central European city

Re: [Talk-GB] Paths and Footways

On 16/08/2015 18:26, Rob Nickerson wrote: Hi all, Given that paths and footways are now rendered the same way in the default OSM style I wonder whether it is time to look at how the map can provide better information. For rural mappers tagging a path/footway as unpaved surface results in

Re: [Talk-GB] Paths and Footways

On 16/08/2015 21:20, Matthijs Melissen wrote: On 16 August 2015 at 21:06, ajt1...@gmail.com ajt1...@gmail.com That makes some sense, but OSM-Carto's biggest problem is that a number of the changes over the last year have been dedicated to making well-mapped central European urban areas look

Re: [OSM-talk] History of specific areas

On 13/08/2015 07:22, Maarten Deen wrote: Is there a tool available to search for the history of items in a specific area? OSM History Viewer only works if you have the id of an object. I don't have the id for the node, I just know something was there and has been deleted at some point. If

Re: [Talk-GB] Retain existing style sheets for UK server

On 08/08/2015 23:24, Matthijs Melissen wrote: On 8 August 2015 at 22:55, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: What is the best way of cloning the existing style setup for a UK tile server? Some useful resources: https://switch2osm.org/serving-tiles/manually-building-a-tile-server-14-04/

Re: [Talk-GB] Thrapston viaduct

On 13/07/2015 17:46, Paul Sladen wrote: Any UK-specific rendering is not going to solve the core issue: that large numbers of perfectly extent bridges and tunnels are not rendered; Most of these old tunnels in Nottingham are not rendered: Relation: Tunnels of Nottingham