Re: [Talk-us] buggy buildings in Maryland

+1 to Elliot Plack's proposal to use Simplify to remove the redundant nodes from the poor quality imported buildings. In fact, I did this myself for another massive import: User "jumbanho" imported buildings for the large city of Raleigh, NC back in January 2010. There were lots of degenerate

Re: [OSM-talk] Everything is a tertiary road

Stephan, I can see you are correct that user "4719341" created thousands of roads which are incorrectly tagged tertiary. Looking at the aerial, almost all of them should be correctly tagged "unclassified" or "track"; very few are actual tertiaries. They did this across almost the entire Magway

Re: [Talk-us] hydrology Alaska

+1 to what AlaskaDave said. As far as I can tell in this case, the jaggies are a result of running ScanAerial on imagery of a low resolution (i.e. zoomed out). At that level (LandSat resolution), a smooth lake edge looks like a jagged set of individual pixels, where each pixel is 28 meters

Re: [Talk-us] Low-quality NHD imports

I've probably done the most NHD cleanup so far (at least some degree of fixing on the entire state of NC, most of IL, northern MI, parts of OK/TX/UT/CO, and a lot of CA), many hundreds of hours of manual work. Just to chime in with agreement on what everyone has said, yes to: 1. NHD has lots of

[Talk-us] Something very bad happening in Maryland?

If you look across a large area of the Maryland, for example around here: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/39.11882/-76.62031 You may notice a few very odd things. 1. Back in 2015, user 'gdoyle' created a large number of buildings, using small, incorrect geometry. 2. This week, user

[OSM-talk] Nominatim and waterway relations, broken?

Nominatim has been able to find waterway relations for at least a couple years, now. For example, if you search "Klamath River", Nominatim's top result is: https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/3624126 Which is great. But two days ago, I created another river:

[OSM-talk] Is Overpass falling far behind the database?

Usually, using "overpass turbo" returns results which are very recent, usually less than an hour. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Platform_Status gives an Overpass status of "OK". However, for the past 2 days, results seem to be very out of date. As an example, this query:

[OSM-talk] OSM Stats page broken since Nov. 4?

As far as I can tell, the stats page (http://www.openstreetmap.org/stats/data_stats.html) which usually updates every day, hasn't updated since November 4. Are people aware of this and is there any ETA for a fix? Thanks, Ben ___ talk mailing list

[OSM-talk] Local guidance for finding places (Insarro, Ethiopia..)

There is a popular local restaurant which says on its website, "Many ingredients and spices are brought directly from the town of Enssaro in Ethiopia" Curious, I looked for this town in OpenStreetMap. Nothing exists with that spelling, but a similar spelling "Insarro" gives a single node

[OSM-talk] Is tile rendering having a crisis?

The tile renderer, "renderd", has been heavily overloaded for quite a while, like 90% of the time it is dropping, and the dirty queue is entirely ignored. However, in the past day, something has happened so that it is even more overloaded, even the standard request queue is not getting handled,

Re: [OSM-talk] ford=no for highways which are known to have no fords?

On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 2:08 PM, Richard wrote: >> FWIW, I simply set the following key mapping in JOSM: >> >> Shift-D: add bridge=yes, layer=1 >> Shift-C: add tunnel=culvert, layer=-1 > > nice.. but still need to select or add two nodes, split the > ways, and select the

Re: [OSM-talk] ford=no for highways which are known to have no fords?

FWIW, I simply set the following key mapping in JOSM: Shift-D: add bridge=yes, layer=1 Shift-C: add tunnel=culvert, layer=-1 Making bridges/culverts is then very quick and easy. On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 10:01 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > 2016-05-31 15:03 GMT+02:00

Re: [OSM-talk] Upload slowness - what's going on?

; It appears from that list that the database servers are now a few >> hundreds of miles from where the web servers are, causing the increase >> in latency. I do not know if this is a permanent change, the thread on >> osm-dev does seem to indicate that things are still in flux. >

[OSM-talk] Upload slowness - what's going on?

Several of us have noticed radically slowly upload speed for changesets, roughly since the server move on May 9. Like, as painfully slow as it used to be, it's now several times slower. It's been discussed with @OSM_Tech on twitter, in this thread:

Re: [OSM-talk] Gamification in Volunteered Geographic Information in regard with Contributors' Motivations

I thought it was odd that the survey listed two osm "gamifications" I'd never heard of, and didn't mention a few I do know of, like the missingmaps leaderboard ( http://www.missingmaps.org/leaderboards/#/missingmaps ), the telenav challenges (2014-2015, with leaderboard and cash prizes) or

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Slack

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 1:02 PM, Michael Reichert wrote: >> I find this a really worthwhile conversation to have. IRC is still great for >> some but it’s hardly inclusive. > > Is http://irc.openstreetmap.org/ no web interface? I have tried (every year for the past ~20 years) to

[OSM-talk] Status page down?

I haven't been able to reach http://www.openstreetmap.org/stats/data_stats.html for the past 17 hours. Does the link work for others, or is there an ETA for it to come back? Thanks, Ben ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Status page down?

FWIW, it's now 2:15 AM UTC (past the time it usually updates) and there's still no status page at http://www.openstreetmap.org/stats/data_stats.html Perhaps the bug is still there? On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 10:00 AM, Tom Hughes <t...@compton.nu> wrote: > On 08/12/15 17:45, Ben Discoe wrot

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging National Forests

Just to chime in.. As someone who has worked on protected areas in OSM globally, it has always been obvious that the landuse tags and the boundary tags serve clear and different purposes. US National Forests are boundaries around land which contain many uses(*), and landuse=forest is only one of