Re: [Talk-GB] drawing internal parts of buildings

Did you try any of the 2 maps listed on https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Indoor_Mapping ? I tried openlevelup : https://openlevelup.net/?l=0#18/52.54051/-0.26289 but I'm not sure whether I should be able to see the rooms on that one m. On Fri, Jan 4, 2019 at 12:30 AM BD wrote: > > Hi all

Re: [Talk-GB] Android Auto and OSM

I contacted MagicEarth (which uses OSM as well) a couple of days ago about this topic. They confirmed that there is no API and gave me a workaround to use MagicEarth on the smartphone screen and Android Auto on the screen of the car. They are looking forward to supper Android Auto when it becomes

Re: [Talk-GB] Wildly inaccurate postcode

I would try https://github.com/openstreetmap/Nominatim Or contact lonvia directly Recently she wrote a diary entry on upcoming changes in the handling of postal codes: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/lonvia/diary/43143 regards m. On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 3:17 PM, SK53

Re: [Talk-GB] Reception desks

There was a proposal for this: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_Features/amenity%3Dreception_desk but since people could not agree on amenity vs. tourism vs. office during the voting process, it got rejected. There is probably a lengthy discussion on the tagging mailing list archive

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project: Addresses and Postcodes

ds. m. On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 1:56 PM, Lester Caine <les...@lsces.co.uk> wrote: > On 19/10/17 12:37, Marc Gemis wrote: >> Then at least people know that they should not check with Nominatim. >> >> AFAIK, Nominatim does not try to generate an address you can put an

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project: Addresses and Postcodes

> > > > On 2017-10-19 13:23, Marc Gemis wrote: > > Maybe it is interesting to repeat how Nominatim resolves addresses, > just in case someone wants to do a search after adding an address. > > - Nominatim starts from an address point (or building way with > address). It

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project: Addresses and Postcodes

Maybe it is interesting to repeat how Nominatim resolves addresses, just in case someone wants to do a search after adding an address. - Nominatim starts from an address point (or building way with address). It takes the house number from it and the street name. - It tries to match the street

Re: [Talk-GB] OpenStreetCam or Mapillary?

/mapillary/mapillary_tools m. On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 1:22 PM, ael <law_ence@ntlworld.com> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 09:26:53AM +0200, Marc Gemis wrote: >> >> I use a DSLR to take pictures, then georeference them, and then upload >> them via a Jython script

Re: [Talk-GB] OpenStreetCam or Mapillary?

Then I would go with Wikipedia, you can more or less chose any open license you want for the pictures. Those pictures will show up next to Mapillary and OSC photo's on http://projets.pavie.info/pic4carto/index.html As to what is interesting: we map: * landuse * POIs (shops, hotels, ...) *

Re: [Talk-GB] OpenStreetCam or Mapillary?

pictures that I have taken, I prefer the digital reflex approach. But for destination signs on motorways and other main roads, OSC/Mapillary might be the only way to catch those images. m. On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 10:50 AM, David Woolley <for...@david-woolley.me.uk> wrote: > On 22/09/17 08

Re: [Talk-GB] OpenStreetCam or Mapillary?

(Second try, the first one went only to Neil) Slightly off-topic, but answering Neil's questions: I use a DSLR to take pictures, then georeference them, and then upload them via a Jython script to OpenStreetCam. I use the Mapilary website to upload them there as well. They have scripts to upload

Re: [Talk-GB] Use of Drones

Oleksiy Muzalyev seems to be pretty knowledgable on drones. He has posted about it a couple of times on the talk mailing list. e.g. https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2016-September/076758.html But he's not living in the UK. regards m. On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 12:03 PM, Brian

Re: [Talk-GB] Fwd: Re: Edits in Wales

On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 4:23 PM, Andy Townsend <ajt1...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 14/08/2017 15:04, Marc Gemis wrote: >> >> So how can you determine the preferred name from looking at that sign ? > > > From looking at the sign, you can't - but if you visit a place and o

Re: [Talk-GB] Fwd: Re: Edits in Wales

017 14:53, Marc Gemis wrote: >> >> Can I translate this to the Belgian situation to see if I understand >> you correctly ? > > > Marc, > > Everywhere is not like Belgium. Could you try answering the question? > Where there is a locally preferred name, how would I k

Re: [Talk-GB] Fwd: Re: Edits in Wales

I don't understand this question. Who defines what the preferred name is ? The people living in that street, neighborhood, village, Wales ? Or the subset of mappers in any of those items ? Can I translate this to the Belgian situation to see if I understand you correctly ? We came up with a

Re: [Talk-GB] Edits in Wales

hallo, sorry to say, but so far this thread reads as follows for me * please do not map what is on the ground * do not follow the wiki, it's wrong * join us at a pub meeting and we tell you how to map * o yes, we do not have pub meetings in remote areas * you will have to contact half of the

Re: [Talk-GB] Uploading pictures to OSM

On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 7:57 PM, SK53 wrote: > A single tag of the form flickr:id= would work to provide a single > reference photo. People have at various times tried to identify with tags > the photos which they used as part of surveys to edit a particular element. >

Re: [Talk-GB] Whether to tag/best tag for an unofficial name?

On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 12:21 PM, Adam Snape wrote: > So that map users aren't confused by directions using non-existant names, > I've changed the Walton Summit example from name to alt_name and added a > note to explain. I have also changed the section of the M6 labelled

Re: [Talk-GB] Realtions advice needed

AFAIK, there are no tools that support this relation. So moving an attribute (e.g. name) from the way to the relation will break all data consumers (renderer, Nominatim, etc.) that read names on ways. m. On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 4:05 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote: > No, not

Re: [Talk-GB] Relation: Street

On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 9:55 PM, Simon Poole wrote: > Brian was referring to "street" relations, not "associatedStreet" which > is something very different. So I failed to make my point. I was hoping to explain that while there is some support for associatedStreets and there is

Re: [Talk-GB] Relation: Street

An associatedStreet has no impact at all on the renderer. Nominated uses it to a certain degree to match houses with streets (in case the addr:street does not match the name of a street in the proximity). There are some tools from the French community that uses this relation as well. The French

Re: [Talk-GB] Sat-nav maps update aims to prevent stuck lorries

There is this max height map http://maxheight.bplaced.net/ (wiki: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Maxheight_Map) But it seems to be inaccessible at the moment. Perhaps a mail to the author (mmd) will revive it ? regards , On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 2:29 PM, bivand paul

[Talk-GB] Mapper of the Month

Hallo, This month we interviewed SomeoneElse [1] in our Mapper of the Month series [2] Enjoy ! regards m [1] http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/escada/diary/39470 [2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Belgium/Belgian_Mapper_of_the_Month

Re: [Talk-GB] Complicated opening hours

My thoughts: > Is there a way to specify only bank holidays between April and October > (rather than every bank holiday at once)? Apr-Oct PH 14:00-17:00 > Is there a way to specify only Summer school holidays (rather than all > school holidays at once)? Jul-Aug SH 14:00-17:00 (Perhaps you

Re: [Talk-GB] Fwd: Re: Open data (Was: Parliamentary debate mentions OSM)

Isn't one of the main benefits to have the data for the whole world in 1 format ? Compare that to having to download open data files from government sites from all over the world from sites in different languages in different formats and having to combine those ... m On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at

Re: [Talk-GB] New users and P2

But a gate is some kind of important nagivational point. I'm pretty sure that when someone removes a bench in my hometown, it will take me a pretty long time to notice. m On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 1:42 PM, Andy Townsend <ajt1...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 26/02/2016 07:59, Marc Gemis wrote:

Re: [Talk-GB] New users and P2

How do you detect that stuff is gone ? I'm thinking of benches, waste-bins, telephones, etc. All those little things that are not or hardly visible on aerial imagery ? Do you constantly look at the screen of your smartphone or GPS to see whether there is such a "small" thing mapped ? regards m

Re: [Talk-GB] [OSM-dev] New Map Style feedback

On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 12:57 PM, Lester Caine wrote: > Now that I've got an easy toggle between the new style and the French > tile server a few more backwards steps become apparent. The other WTF > Don't you have a problem with all names appearing in French ? The French

Re: [Talk-GB] New map style

On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 10:59 PM, Colin Smale wrote: > The change could have been managed better, like proper announcements a > couple of months ahead of time, with a date - "On 30th October OSM will > switch to a new stylesheet for the standard map. For information about

Re: [Talk-GB] Restoring a usable map service!

On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 11:18 AM, tony wroblewski wrote: > or isn't a motorway and I think it's almost universally accepted (In > Europe at least), that motorways are shown in blue. > In Belgium international motorways (E-roads, e.g. E19) are indicated with white on

Re: [Talk-GB] New map style

On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Dave F. wrote: > . I fully understand about not being able to set a deadline, but the > actual amendments being implemented in this major update could have been > listed a bit clearer. The static image here: >

Re: [Talk-GB] Restoring a usable map service!

You could try to contact Christian Quest cqu...@openstreetmap.fr He understands English. regards m On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 3:47 AM, Lester Caine wrote: > On 31/10/15 02:21, Steve Doerr wrote: > > Lester, > > > > In the short term, would substituting

Re: [Talk-GB] Birmingham New Street station re-opens

Would a tool like http://github.pavie.info/openlevelup/ be of any help to visualize the shops ? regards m On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 7:11 PM, SK53 wrote: > One strategy is to try & map shops at one level as areas; and map shops in > remaining areas as nodes; the nodes can be

Re: [Talk-GB] Named junctions that aren’t on motorways

According to [1] it is usually tagged as junction=yes; name=* on a node. Taginfo [2] seems to confirm this. regards m [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Tagging_for_complex_junctions_or_traffic_signals_that_are_named [2]

Re: [Talk-GB] UK style rendering port ...

The French style: http://tile.openstreetmap.fr/ (mainly icons as far as I know) The German style: http://openstreetmap.de/karte.html (different rendering technology, different road styles, though they want to convert the renderer (style specification) to the same as osm.org) As far as I

Re: [Talk-GB] Ways to get a big image of the world?

Did you look at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_on_Paper ? There is also http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bigmap, which is also mentioned on https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/22/how-do-i-export-map-images-of-larger-areas I hope you find a tool suitable for you. regards m On

Re: [Talk-GB] Fwd: OSM logo

Mike, maybe you are a very smart guy, but iMHO you do not understand how you should communicate with people in an open source and community project. All your aggressive and insulting mails are not appreciated by other people that are devoted to this project. In case you really want to change

Re: [Talk-GB] Disclaimer

Do you think Google will be held responsible for this : http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2276503/Were-wealthy-married-couple-murdered-Google-maps-led-hitman-wrong-address-Their-son-DENIES-murdering-cold-blood-languishes-jail.html ? Or would TomTom pay the expenses of this lady :

Re: [Talk-GB] Suburbs in London/Brum - big edits

On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 8:52 AM, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: Linking to local help is what is missing From the wiki ? That's easy to solve I think. Even if it is just a text Do change the place-tags in the UK, leave all the tagging as it is now without documenting what the

Re: [Talk-GB] Suburbs in London/Brum - big edits

I just had a discussion with a new mapper in Belgium. He has local knowledge. How does he know which rules he has to follow ? Is there a pop-up in the iD editor telling him that he has to contact the Belgian mappers to get learn about which rules he has to follow ? No. He just starts using the

Re: [Talk-GB] RFC Mechanical edit: shop=betting to shop=bookmaker for selected names

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Matthijs Melissen i...@matthijsmelissen.nl wrote: I heard from many mappers that they are confused by the different tagging options for shops, so having a page with all shop types of chain stores hopefully also enables more mappers to start mapping shops. I

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging of British canals.

On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 7:15 PM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: Don't be fooled by the siren voices of the wiki. What's in the database is valid because it's formed by consensus. What's on the wiki too often isn't. Any fool can invent their own scheme, write this is how you do

Re: [Talk-GB] City names translation

Can I apply this reasoning to English names for Belgian towns as well ? Where can I verify that the English name for Antwerpen is Antwerp ? What is the source of this data? Under which license was that made available ? How can someone who's local to Antwerp actually verify that the name that

Re: [Talk-GB] City names translation

On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 2:28 PM, Pavlo Dudka pavlo.du...@gmail.com wrote: name/name:en can't be the key for place names, since different cities with the same names in english may have different names in another language. (I can't find an example, but I am sure there are some) Paris (France)

Re: [Talk-GB] NaPTAN (stop) import

In Belgium Jo Simoens has done similar things for the public transport import of De Lijn (Flanders) and Tec (Wallonia). He has python scripts to compare OSM data via an external reference of De Lijn to updates in a Postgis DB. He also has scripts to compute the most likely route between bus

Re: [Talk-GB] UK postcodes on each side of the road

Does Nominatim already supports associatedStreet relations to pick up the postcode ? When I tried it 8 months ago, it just used it to find a street segment (the first one in the relation). It then took the name of that street segment as the street name for the address. regards m. On Mon, May

Re: [Talk-GB] UK postcodes on each side of the road

, May 19, 2014 at 9:35 AM, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: On 19/05/14 08:06, Marc Gemis wrote: and in this case, the street and other location data can be provided by tags on a street rather than duplicating that data unnecessarily on every building ... Surely

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM Analysis updated with May 2014 OS Locator data

Let me first introduce myself, I'm a Belgian mapper that has been lurking for a few months on this mailing list. The reason is that I want to learn how other communities work and which problems they have and how they solve them. Now back to the topic: in Belgium it's quite common to have streets

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM Analysis updated with May 2014 OS Locator data

to see how they have been tagged, doesn't sound like there is a definitive answer. Regards, Steven On 15 May 2014 08:01, Marc Gemis marc.ge...@gmail.com wrote: Let me first introduce myself, I'm a Belgian mapper that has been lurking for a few months on this mailing list. The reason is that I