Re: [Talk-ca] Annexation/amalgamation of towns/villages in Canada

2016-09-02 Thread Stewart C. Russell
On 2016-09-02 12:02 PM, yegbin wrote: > > As Beverly no longer exists, is it best practice to delete this node or is > there a better way to tag it? It shouldn't be in the map if it can't be verified on the ground. As to tagging, please delete the gns:* tags and especially the is_in tag. That

Re: [Talk-ca] Forests/Land Use, was: Canvec reverts

2016-09-02 Thread Pierre Béland
Hi Frederik, I prefer to discuss with the community and find solutions. And we have to understand what is the reality of certain countries, try to help the contributors and avoid ultimatums, more or less intimidation ("I dont bother what you did, I will press the button and erase everything").

Re: [Talk-ca] Forests/Land Use, was: Canvec reverts

2016-09-02 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 11:27 AM, Adam Martin wrote: > That is the key here. Deleting information without replacing it with > something more accurate is inherently destructive. There must be > some thought as to what will be put back or one is essentially > ripping the map up simply because

Re: [Talk-ca] Annexation/amalgamation of towns/villages in Canada

2016-09-02 Thread James
You can use the disused tag http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:disused: If you really dont want to delete it On Sep 2, 2016 12:03 PM, "yegbin" wrote: > Hi all. > > First post from a new contributor so initially want to say I am enjoying > being a part of this OSM

[Talk-ca] Annexation/amalgamation of towns/villages in Canada

2016-09-02 Thread yegbin
Hi all. First post from a new contributor so initially want to say I am enjoying being a part of this OSM Canadian community. I would like some local opinions on Beverly. https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/51970574 The former town of Beverly was amalgamated into Edmonton in 1961

Re: [Talk-ca] unnamed roads

2016-09-02 Thread Stewart C. Russell
On 2016-09-01 06:43 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: > A correct example link is http://maproulette.org/map/342/362184 rather > than the one in my previous message. Due to a bug in either MapRoulette > or Leaflet you would need to zoom out 1 level to see the map context. Yeah, I'm getting no

[Talk-ca] weeklyOSM #319 08/23/2016-08/29/2016

2016-09-02 Thread weeklyteam
The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue # 319, is now available online in English, giving as always a summary of all things happening in the openstreetmap world: http://www.weeklyosm.eu/en/archives/8042/ Enjoy! weeklyOSM is brought to you by ...