Richard Fairhurst wrote:
Robert Whittaker (OSM) wrote:
I'd appreciated it if you could check with the other OSMF
board members, so you then can make an official statement
about Michael's post.
I'm sure you're doing this for the right reasons, but there's something
faintly amusing about
Richard Fairhurst wrote:
Peter Miller wrote:
There is also the difficulty of identifying which country you are in
Nominatim seems to manage. :)
I am sure you have seen the resources that nominatim requires to do this
identifying. If I am not mistaken it takes nominatim several weeks
Richard Fairhurst wrote:
Why are we doing this?
In OSM we optimise for the mapper, not the data consumer. That means we
tag exceptions, not majorities.
+1 / -1 (Yes and no)
It has to be a compromise with which both sides can live with, mappers and
application developers.
If a tagging
Steve Doerr-2 wrote:
On 09/04/2011 08:15, Peter Miller wrote:
maxspeed:type=GB:dual_carriageway (or GB:motorway, GB:rural, GB:urban)
according to taginfo.openstreetmap.de there are 72 000 source:maxspeed and
only 552 maxspeed:type. So at least according to the data source:maxspeed is
Matt Amos wrote:
as andy pointed out, i think we're addressing the wrong problem and
trying to fix it technically. maybe the best way forward is to address
the social problem: what can we do to grow the community?
I wouldn't say it is addressing the wrong problem but an orthogonal
Ed Avis wrote:
I think automatically importing the OS data for areas where OSM currently
has
little to no coverage - or coverage merely traced from Yahoo imagery - is
a great idea. Many people don't want bots to trample on their 'patch'
which they
have carefully surveyed, which is fine.
80n wrote:
Once acid test here would be to determine whether CloudMade have
already
signed the contributor terms. If they haven't then it is hard not to
draw
some conclusions about their intentions with our data.
...
Does CloudMade as a corporate body have an existing OSM account? I
On 01/-10/-28163 08:59 PM, Peter Miller wrote:
...
As well as respecting the not:name field you might like to also consider
being sensitive to the FIXME field which I use to identify ways that
need a ground survey to resolve the issue - possibly actually we need a
tag which means 'ground survey
Hello everyone,
I would like to suggest as a sort of Project of the week for the UK
for people to pick a random town or village somewhere in the UK that so
far has poor coverage and trace it's roads from OS OpenData StreetView.
Despite the various claims over the years that the UK road will be
Hi,
I think the bugs page is quite nicely done and has made some good
improvements over the first version. :-)
Some of my thoughts about it.
One of the problems I think with some of the bug reports are, that they
aren't necessarily reported at the place where they actually occur. To
some
Hi,
I found this paper[1] on orthorectifying low cost aerial imagery by a
couple of people from GeorgiaTech and Microsoft Research. Although I
haven't fully read it yet, it does sound like it gives a very
interesting read and some good incites into how best to rectify photos
taken from a
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