Re: [OSM-talk] handling street names in speech

2019-07-16 Thread Andrew Errington
I think this is a rendering issue (i.e. rendering speech instead of graphics) and as such does not belong in OSM. The work to convert an arbitrary string into speech belongs in the TTS engine. If we start putting IPA strings in OSM then we will start getting arguments about the "correct"

Re: [OSM-talk] Is it technically and legally possible to add the Open Location Code to the OSM search?

2018-08-11 Thread Andrew Errington
storing that as it can be easily and trivially calculated on the fly. Andrew On Sat, Aug 11, 2018, 22:23 Andrew Hain wrote: > Do you know whether the latitude and longitude on the plaque are in the > WGS84 that we use? > -- > *From:* Andrew Errington > *S

Re: [OSM-talk] Is it technically and legally possible to add the Open Location Code to the OSM search?

2018-08-11 Thread Andrew Errington
I tag survey points with latitude and longitude (taken from the plaque on the survey marker). Then it is possible to see if they have been moved accidentally, and for users to check that they are actually in the surveyed location. Andrew On Sat, Aug 11, 2018, 21:24 mmd wrote: > Am 10.08.2018

Re: [Talk-ko] NTIC source

2018-07-06 Thread Andrew Errington
Hello Martijn, This was probably uploaded by user 'cyana' in 2009. He (or she) announced it in the following message to my OSM message system (and may have announced it in other ways: talk-ko didn't exist then). --- Start of message massive upload road data cyana

Re: [OSM-ja] [Talk-ko] Romanisation: a solution

2017-10-25 Thread Andrew Errington
Hello Maarten, I agree with your reasoning that the tag was probably chosen because the ko-Latn tag was either unknown at the time, or maybe didn't exist. I searched for the "correct" tag a few times myself in the past because I suspected ko_rm was not a recognised language code, but I didn't

Re: [Talk-ko] Broken (multi)polygons in Korea

2017-03-19 Thread Andrew Errington
, "Andrew Errington" <erringt...@gmail.com> wrote: As far as I know there has been no import of forest area data. There is a prolific mapper who has made rough outlines of forested areas. Some of these areas overlap with others. Some areas intersect with themselves. I don't

Re: [Talk-ko] Broken (multi)polygons in Korea

2017-03-15 Thread Andrew Errington
As far as I know there has been no import of forest area data. There is a prolific mapper who has made rough outlines of forested areas. Some of these areas overlap with others. Some areas intersect with themselves. I don't think each area represents anything "on the ground", just a convenient

Re: [Talk-ko] Fixing laguage-mixed name tag in Korean region

2017-03-05 Thread Andrew Errington
I think we should remember that we are not mapping Korea for Koreans, we are mapping it for everybody. I have an idea how it should work, which would require some software support, but remember, we have plenty of time, and the data we are putting in now might not be usable for some time, until

Re: [Talk-ko] Fixing laguage-mixed name tag in Korean region

2017-03-04 Thread Andrew Errington
Hello, I agree that name tagging should be fixed, but I don't agree that we have a solution yet. Firstly, name=* might not be in Korean language. I can give several examples where the name of something in Korea (for example, a shop, or a restaurant) is in Chinese, English, or French. So, I

Re: [Talk-ko] Questionable imagery

2017-02-20 Thread Andrew Errington
Here's another one from user 'Bucketz', using imagery Custom ( http://xdworld.vworld.kr:8080/2d/Satellite/201612/{z}/{x}/{y}.jpeg) Not only is he/she using a source they shouldn't, but they are also screwing up good mapping. They have only done 20 edits, 6 days and 4 days ago. The first 5 used

Re: [OSM-talk] Multilingual feedback wanted for OpenStreetMap Carto

2016-09-19 Thread Andrew Errington
I really like the Korean text, and I'd love to see it go live. Regarding the incorrect splitting of names at a hyphen, can this be dealt with by using the Unicode non-breaking hyphen? http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2011/index.htm Mappers would have to type the non-breaking hyphen

[Talk-ko] South Korea rendering problems

2016-08-10 Thread Andrew Errington
I am travelling and I don't have access to the admin interface at the moment, so I am re-posting this message. Probably it should be discussed on the github issue page because the original poster is not subscribed to this list. Thanks, Andrew -- Forwarded message -- From:

Re: [Talk-ko] Korean Font used in Carto

2016-06-28 Thread Andrew Errington
Is there a better, free, font? How about Droid Sans? Or Noto CJK KR? http://www.google.com/get/noto/#sans-kore There are other fonts listed here, together with their license (but not many samples): https://www.google.com/fonts/earlyaccess Best wishes, Andrew On 29 June 2016 at 02:36, Max

Re: [OSM-talk] Unrepentant Vandal

2015-11-08 Thread Andrew Errington
=steps because of a reported routing error. Presumably the price of free maps is eternal vigilance? Oh well, best crack on. Andrew On 07/11/2015, Andy Townsend <ajt1...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 07/11/2015 10:36, Andrew Errington wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Here is a link to a r

[OSM-talk] Unrepentant Vandal

2015-11-07 Thread Andrew Errington
Hi all, Here is a link to a random point on a light rail system: http://osm.org/go/546Jvddtd--?m= Soon after it opened I travelled on it from end to end, collecting gps data and photos of all the station signs. There are two railway lines, one in each direction, and I mapped them both

Re: [OSM-ja] Yahoo data cleanup

2015-10-14 Thread Andrew Errington
I lived in Japan for a while and did some mapping there. I also visit there occasionally and use the map (and add to the map). The Yahoo! import means that the Japanese mapping is extensive, but it also means there is a lack of quality. I think it would be too difficult to revert the Yahoo!

Re: [OSM-talk] Bus Routes

2015-10-07 Thread Andrew Errington
I am keen to know the right answer. Last time I tried it I ended up creating two routes. One for outbound, and one for inbound. Having both together in the same relation was a bit claustrophobic. I think I found a discussion somewhere which resulted in the same conclusion, but I can't remember

Re: [OSM-talk] Deletions in Korea

2015-06-29 Thread Andrew Errington
I agree. Certainly 32029119 should be reverted. I contacted the user, but I didn't get a response. Also, I see that someone else has queried the NIS building edit, but didn't get a response. Andrew On 30 June 2015 at 01:16, Max abonneme...@revolwear.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM and CartoDB in use for MERS mapping

2015-06-16 Thread Andrew Errington
Sorry, slight correction. It's a map of medical facilities, not cases. Apologies for any alarm caused. Andrew On 17 June 2015 at 12:18, Andrew Errington erringt...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, You may have heard of the MERS situation in Korea. A map of cases and their location has been

[OSM-talk] OSM and CartoDB in use for MERS mapping

2015-06-16 Thread Andrew Errington
Hello, You may have heard of the MERS situation in Korea. A map of cases and their location has been published here: http://issue.visualdive.co.kr/mers/ I am pleased to see that OSM is the background layer (I recognised some of my work). It's notable because Korea does have very good map

[OSM-talk] Geofabrik routing validator.

2015-03-17 Thread Andrew Errington
Hello everyone, The wiki does not explain 'islands', although a tooltip on the geofabrik webpage explains that it indicates groups of ways not reachable. In this tiny area there are some hiking trails and sections of track that clearly *are* reachable, but are marked in purple as an error.

Re: [Talk-ko] Naming conventions in Korea

2014-10-13 Thread Andrew Errington
I have no real objection to the change, but I must point out that having Korean and English in the name=* tag has been extremely useful to me as a visitor to Korea. Other maps show only Korean. What I would like to see is an international version of the map which shows Korean and English for

[OSM-ja] Introduction

2014-05-11 Thread Andrew Errington
Hello everyone, はじめまして。 My name is Andrew, and I have been recently moved to Japan from Korea. I have been mapping on OSM for a long time now, mostly in Korea, but also in other places on vacation. I have started adding detail to my local town. I live in a remote area in Nagano prefecture.

[OSM-talk] API URL cannot be resolved (was Re: Welcome box on the new map page)

2013-11-30 Thread Andrew Errington
Why can't I upload with JOSM today? Is it related to the new UI changes? I get this error: Failed to open a connection to the remote server 'http://api.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/'. Host name 'api.openstreetmap.org' could not be resolved. Please check the API URL in your preferences and your

Re: [OSM-ja] Busan入れてます

2013-11-10 Thread Andrew Errington
Welcome to Korea! My name is Andrew and I have been mapping a lot in Korea. Unfortunately there are very few mappers working in Korea. Our progress is slow but steady. If you have any suggestions to improve the map, or how to encourage more people to become mappers, please tell me. よろしくお願いします.

Re: [OSM-talk] Admin boundaries - data consumers

2013-11-09 Thread Andrew Errington
On Sun, 10 Nov 2013 02:59:19 Craig Wallace wrote: Note MySociety do not use boundaries from OSM for the UK for their projects. Instead they just use boundaries from OS OpenData. I think this is an example of where a separate database makes sense. ie with the complete, up to date OS OpenData

Re: [OSM-talk] Geotag OsmAnd picture notes

2013-11-03 Thread Andrew Errington
On Fri, 01 Nov 2013 22:13:30 Lambert Carsten wrote: It turns out the pictures ARE geotagged. Some are fine but some are way off. The info recorded in the OsmAnd gpx file is correct and is what I want to use. Maybe I need to strip the existing geotags before Josm or some other program will look

Re: [OSM-talk] Developing Countries Address Problem

2013-09-04 Thread Andrew Errington
Korea recently (about 5 years ago) moved from a block-based address system (like Japan has), to a street-name based system, such as the UK and US have. Streets and roads across the entire country were named (most didn't have a name), new street signs were installed and new house number plaques

Re: [OSM-talk] Double-clicking on OSM map does not centre the map

2013-07-22 Thread Andrew Errington
On Tue, 23 Jul 2013 00:26:37 Shaun McDonald wrote: The double click to centre currently works in leaflet at the maximum zoom. Shaun I'm afraid it doesn't. It depends where you double-click, and it seems to move the clicked point half-way towards the centre, which is inconsistent with other

[OSM-talk] Double-clicking on OSM map does not centre the map

2013-07-21 Thread Andrew Errington
It used to be that if you double-clicked on the map it would re-centre on the clicked point and zoom in by one level. Now it doesn't. It zooms in, but doesn't re-centre the map. When did this behaviour change? Is it desirable? I don't like it because now I can't centre the map (by

Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls

2013-07-20 Thread Andrew Errington
On Sat, 20 Jul 2013 15:16:10 James Mast wrote: I'm personally not liking that they now have hidden the long/short links to the map location behind buttons. Instead of just one click to get the map location, now it's two clicks and is really annoying and slowing down work for me. :( -James

Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls

2013-07-20 Thread Andrew Errington
On Sat, 20 Jul 2013 17:39:18 Richard Fairhurst wrote: Andrew Errington wrote: Also, my proposal for including a markerlink has not been taken up. Yet. Rome wasn't built in a day. I also didn't see any consultation on this topic. Just another fait accompli. Hey Andrew, I noticed you

Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls

2013-07-20 Thread Andrew Errington
On Sat, 20 Jul 2013 17:25:27 Richard Fairhurst wrote: James Mast wrote: I'm personally not liking that they now have hidden the long/short links to the map location behind buttons. Instead of just one click to get the map location, now it's two clicks and is really annoying and slowing

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik style bug in railway=subway

2013-07-16 Thread Andrew Errington
Probably you should make an entry in TRAC: https://trac.openstreetmap.org/ Best wishes, Andrew On 16 July 2013 16:43, Maarten Deen md...@xs4all.nl wrote: I'm not sure where to report this, I hope someone here can point me in the correct direction. Have a look at the subwaylines here [1]

Re: [OSM-talk] Using OpenStreetMap on a daily basis

2013-07-10 Thread Andrew Errington
On 11 July 2013 00:27, RainerU ra...@sfr.fr wrote: Am 10.07.2013 15:50, schrieb Serge Wroclawski: Let's take a two examples: 1) Routing on the main site. 2) Addressing missing from OSM We should not start with the most difficult tasks. Lets take something easy, which exists, but is not

[OSM-talk] OSM attributed by Korean firm Naver.

2013-07-04 Thread Andrew Errington
Hello everyone, I noticed recently that an OSM attribution has appeared at the bottom right on Korea's Naver mapping service. Naver is a Korean internet portal which is very popular here (er, in Korea). I don't know exactly what Naver is using OSM for, since I always assumed they acquired and

Re: [OSM-talk] Permalink with marker

2013-06-11 Thread Andrew Errington
2013 15:01, Andrew Errington erringt...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, On the main map at osm.org there is a 'permalink' hyperlink, which generates a URL encoding the current view of the map. It is easy to change this into a marker link by editing the URL and changing lat and lon to mlat and mlon

Re: [OSM-talk] Key Proposal wheelchair:toilet

2013-06-07 Thread Andrew Errington
On Fri, 07 Jun 2013 21:26:26 Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: the suggestion for a toilet attribute on a POI according to http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dtoilets is toilets, that's why I suggest you change the wording in your proposal to plural. IMHO the most logical way would be

[OSM-talk] Permalink with marker

2013-05-23 Thread Andrew Errington
Hello, On the main map at osm.org there is a 'permalink' hyperlink, which generates a URL encoding the current view of the map. It is easy to change this into a marker link by editing the URL and changing lat and lon to mlat and mlon. Would it be beneficial to add another hyperlink which will

Re: [OSM-talk] Permalink with marker

2013-05-23 Thread Andrew Errington
to the search results. greetings Christian 2013/5/23 sabas88 saba...@gmail.com 2013/5/23 Andrew Errington erringt...@gmail.com Hello, On the main map at osm.org there is a 'permalink' hyperlink, which generates a URL encoding the current view of the map. It is easy to change

Re: [OSM-talk] Permalink with marker

2013-05-23 Thread Andrew Errington
be to include the marker by default, and let people edit it out if they don't want it. Richard On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 8:16 AM, Andrew Errington erringt...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, I think that's slightly different to what I had in mind. My suggestion was to make a very simple way to make a map marker

Re: [OSM-talk] RFC updated: OSM Attribution Mark (was: contributor mark)

2013-05-02 Thread Andrew Errington
How about et al.? On Thu, 02 May 2013 06:58:35 Alex Barth wrote: Paul - sorry, yeah. Not talking to ODC but I'll make sure to run by LWG. On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: From: Alex Barth [mailto:a...@mapbox.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2013 12:57 PM

Re: [OSM-talk] Crossroad names

2013-03-26 Thread Andrew Errington
On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 02:11:28 Hans Schmidt wrote: Am 25.03.2013 17:48, schrieb Christian Quest: Here is a quick and dirty rendering on the junction=yes + name=* tags that will make visible the 1800+ nodes overpass found mostly in Korea:

Re: [OSM-talk] Crossroad names

2013-03-26 Thread Andrew Errington
On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 01:48:31 Christian Quest wrote: I wanted to try rendering those crossroad names so I've had a quick look in Korea, near Seoul and found many nodes with names around intersecting highways. Example: http://osm.org/browse/node/414684650 What is the current tagging scheme

Re: [OSM-talk] Crossroad names

2013-03-26 Thread Andrew Errington
On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 19:30:58 Vladimir Vyskocil wrote: That's how it is I'm afraid, and that is a good example. I'd suggest that node needs an additional tag - junction=yes - as described in the wiki to make it very clear. It should also be merged with the node at the intersection of the

Re: [OSM-talk] Crossroad names

2013-03-26 Thread Andrew Errington
On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 19:23:40 Janko Mihelić wrote: 2013/3/26 Andrew Errington erringt...@gmail.com Yup, it looks fine. With or without a rectangle is ok. What about traffic lights? Is it necessary to see them behind the label? Here you can see Google doesn't hide traffic lights: http

Re: [OSM-talk] Crossroad names

2013-03-25 Thread Andrew Errington
On Sun, 24 Mar 2013 22:45:28 Frederik Ramm wrote: Are you in touch with mappers in Japan or Korea, and if so, what is their opinion regarding intersection names? Are they waiting for someone to tell them what to do, or have they invented some kind of hack to add this (according to you) very

Re: [OSM-talk] Crossroad names

2013-03-25 Thread Andrew Errington
On Mon, 25 Mar 2013 03:28:04 malenki wrote: Am Sun, 24 Mar 2013 18:15:19 +0100 schrieb Hans Schmidt z0idb...@gmx.de: Am 24.03.2013 16:15, schrieb malenki: Since you didn't go into details in you OP, where from should I know this? Well, I mentioned it some weeks before. I didn’t want

Re: [OSM-talk] Crossroad names

2013-03-25 Thread Andrew Errington
On Mon, 25 Mar 2013 19:29:47 Richard Fairhurst wrote: Andrew Errington wrote: That's exactly what he did. So what else is he supposed to do? Perhaps the wiki should be edited to state don't bother making graphical suggestions because the system is too unwieldy now and we dare not change

[OSM-talk] Attribution required?

2013-03-07 Thread Andrew Errington
Hello, I noticed this site is using OSM via MapBox: http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff-nation/assignments/8352035/Map-of-NZs-best-swimming-holes Should 'stuff.co.nz' add attribution to the map as described here? http://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright i.e. add “© OpenStreetMap contributors” on the

Re: [OSM-talk] Revival: Multilingual Country-List

2013-02-23 Thread Andrew Errington
On Fri, 22 Feb 2013 22:22:52 moltonel 3x Combo wrote: On 22 February 2013 09:51, Peter Wendorff wendo...@uni-paderborn.de wrote: Am 21.02.2013 17:47, schrieb moltonel 3x Combo: [...] Besides, I actually think that adding the redundant name:XX tag is actually simpler than modifying the

Re: [OSM-talk] Display names of crossroads

2013-02-22 Thread Andrew Errington
On Sat, 23 Feb 2013 05:54:16 Hans Schmidt wrote: Hello, I just wondered if there is something productive in the making concerning the crossroad names, or did it somehow end without anything? How can I participate? Thanks. ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] Display names of crossroads

2013-02-14 Thread Andrew Errington
On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 17:46:45 Floris Looijesteijn wrote: On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Andrew Errington erringt...@gmail.comwrote: I don't think that's an appropriate way to name it. It's not a locality, nor is it really a place. It's a junction, with a name. I think junction=yes

Re: [OSM-talk] Display names of crossroads

2013-02-14 Thread Andrew Errington
On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 20:08:11 Maarten Deen wrote: On 2013-02-14 11:59, Andrew Errington wrote: In Korea we also have named junctions at overpasses, so the junction name is where the two roads cross (or meet) but they physically don't join because one road is on a bridge over the other

Re: [OSM-talk] Display names of crossroads

2013-02-14 Thread Andrew Errington
On Fri, 15 Feb 2013 02:23:08 Jean-Marc Liotier wrote: On 02/14/2013 05:12 PM, Toby Murray wrote: On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/2/14 Jean-Marc Liotier j...@liotier.org: though I consider the everything=yes trend as namespace

Re: [OSM-talk] Display names of crossroads

2013-02-13 Thread Andrew Errington
On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 21:57:56 Hans Schmidt wrote: Hello, Is there some way to display the names of crossroads on the OSM map? This adress scheme is more important than street names in Japan, but currently, OSM does not display it. In consequence, it is very hard to locate something on the OSM

Re: [OSM-talk] Display names of crossroads

2013-02-13 Thread Andrew Errington
/Japanese_addressing_system On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 22:34:00 Clifford Snow wrote: Can help me better understand the naming of junctions. Do junction names have a direction attribute? How are they used to give directions with no street names? On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 5:22 AM, Andrew Errington erringt

Re: [OSM-talk] Display names of crossroads

2013-02-13 Thread Andrew Errington
On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 22:56:40 Kevin Peat wrote: On 13 Feb 2013 12:59, Hans Schmidt z0idb...@gmx.de wrote: Hello, Is there some way to display the names of crossroads on the OSM map? place=locality Kevin I don't think that's an appropriate way to name it. It's not a locality, nor is it

Re: [OSM-talk] Display names of crossroads

2013-02-13 Thread Andrew Errington
On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 22:44:07 Hans Schmidt wrote: Am 13.02.2013 14:22, schrieb Andrew Errington: I would also like this, for Korea. Obviously it's a rendering issue, but it would be nice if the map on osm.org would have this. I tried adding a junction=yes tag to a named junction

Re: [OSM-talk] what to do cues

2012-12-30 Thread Andrew Errington
You could as On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Michal Migurski m...@teczno.com wrote: On Dec 30, 2012, at 9:54 PM, Jeff Meyer wrote: Are there any tools that can tip users to what they could do in a particular map area? For example, for a given bb(zoomsome min) in a browser window, is there

Re: [OSM-talk] Bug fixes multilingual map

2012-12-02 Thread Andrew Errington
This is fantastic! I hope that this, or something like it, can become the default way of rendering. In Korea (and Japan) we have adopted the convention of putting two languages into the name=* tag, which is tedious, and I think shouldn't be done. Anyway, could you please look at street names?

Re: [OSM-talk] Problem with an Etrex 20

2012-11-17 Thread Andrew Errington
On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 19:04:22 Sébastien Pierrel wrote: Greetings from Burundi, we have an issue with one of the Etrex20 of the Eurosha Burundi team. It's not recognized by any computer. When connected to the USB port, the device is powered through USB but doesn't enter mass storage mode. In

Re: [Talk-ko] Dok-do edits ...

2012-10-31 Thread Andrew Errington
Are we still able to do 'legitimate' edits? Should we change name:ko according to this news article? http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2012/10/28/91/030100AEN20121028000700320F.HTML The peaks are now 우산봉 and 대한봉. Andrew On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Wesley Woo-Duk Hwang-Chung

Re: [Talk-ko] Bad data ..

2012-09-15 Thread Andrew Errington
On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 17:12:32 Robert Helvie wrote: Through private message, I have already let him know that I asked other mappers to help delete that bad data. So I think it won't be a surprise to him. Also, I have already deleted some of the data as I was crawling the map the other day. I

[OSM-talk] Another reversion request (sorry)

2012-09-14 Thread Andrew Errington
Hello everyone, The following changesets in Korea have been added by a user without realising the consequences. Firstly, the data may have been imported from somewhere else without permission, and secondly, it's very poor quality data which obscures and does not join with existing data. The

Re: [OSM-talk] Another reversion request (sorry)

2012-09-14 Thread Andrew Errington
on the very large changesets, I'll get around to it tomorrow (heading to bed now). Also, if there's legal problems it needs to be redacted, not just deleted. -Original Message- From: Andrew Errington [mailto:erringt...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 14, 2012 1:52 AM To: talk

Re: [Talk-ko] Bad data ..

2012-09-13 Thread Andrew Errington
Hello, I had previously noted this mapper's work and queried it. Since then, I notice that most of his edits (from 2 years ago) have been deleted as part of a de-duplication process (not sure how that works). This time he has introduced 4 more changesets which are generally poor quality. If

Re: [Talk-ko] New user deletes Dokdo area in its entirety

2012-09-07 Thread Andrew Errington
I have only asked for reversions a couple of times in the past. I did this via the global talk list. I will re-post your request there. Andrew On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Wesley Woo-Duk Hwang-Chung wesle...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to give people heads up on another vandalism. A

[OSM-talk] Reversion request

2012-09-07 Thread Andrew Errington
I never did find out if there is an official place to request a reversion. We are having some trouble with vandalism in Korea in a disputed area. Mostly it can be fixed up, but I don't know if things will escalate in the future. Could someone please revert this recent changeset, which has

[Talk-ko] The mailing list

2012-09-06 Thread Andrew Errington
Hello everyone, It's nice to see some activity on the mailing list. I am the list administrator, but I'm not in charge. I don't have any power- just the power to delete the occasional spam message. :) There are currently 35 members on the mailing list. I'd like to encourage more people to

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenCycleMap tiles not updated anymore?

2012-08-30 Thread Andrew Errington
As far as I know OpenCycleMap is a semi-private initiative with limited server resources and limited human resources. It is updated periodically, but there is usually a backlog. More info here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenCycleMap On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 12:26 AM, Lucas Nussbaum

Re: [OSM-talk] Naming disputes in Ukraine

2012-07-25 Thread Andrew Errington
On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 01:35:21 Lester Caine wrote: Aun Yngve Johnsen wrote: I understand that it might be a long and complicated task cleaning this up, as 'the entire world' is tagged with name= and only a few regions and places have aditional name:xx It would not take that long to clean

Re: [OSM-talk] new bing hires updates not visible in JOSM?

2012-06-13 Thread Andrew Errington
On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 16:01:04 Kate Chapman wrote: Hi Maning, JOSM caches the old imagery if you clear the cache it will fix the issue. Right, right-click on the editing area and select 'Flush tile cache'. Best wishes, Andrew ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] handheld gps unit

2012-04-23 Thread Andrew Errington
On Mon, April 23, 2012 14:09, kenneth gonsalves wrote: On Fri, 2012-04-20 at 16:52 +1000, Steve Bennett wrote: What do you want to use it for? What's your budget? What features do you need? Any special requirements? an NGO is constructing toilets over an area. They need to map the locations

Re: [OSM-talk] handheld gps unit

2012-04-19 Thread Andrew Errington
On Thu, 19 Apr 2012 21:20:10 kenneth gonsalves wrote: hi, what are recommendations for a handheld reasonably priced gps unit? Bit old these days, although maybe that makes it cheaper, but I love my Garmin Geko 201. Waterproof, takes two AAA cells. Reasonably accurate. Robust.

Re: [OSM-talk] Transcription and 'internationalization' in place names

2012-04-16 Thread Andrew Errington
On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 21:40:40 Joseph Reeves wrote: We should really not follow the approach of making the map at www.openstreetmap.org perfect but instead the data behind it because that's where we're better than Google and Co. Agreed, but if we improve the rendering at osm.org, we should be

Re: [OSM-talk] Transcription and 'internationalization' in place names

2012-04-16 Thread Andrew Errington
On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 22:32:14 Maarten Deen wrote: On 2012-04-16 14:15, Joseph Reeves wrote: As for Korea: Should we add name:ko=서울특별시? Otherwise, how do we know the Korean name for this city? It seems to me that adding name:ko is duplicating data. We should be using the local names

Re: [OSM-talk] Transcription and 'internationalization' in place names

2012-04-16 Thread Andrew Errington
On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 22:15:38 you wrote: Should I simply open a ticket on Mapnik's issue tracker, to request that in Korea, labels be rendered as name:ko (name:en)? I think we should request for a international solution rather than Korea specifically, but yes, I like the idea. Well, the

Re: [OSM-talk] Transcription and 'internationalization' in place names

2012-04-16 Thread Andrew Errington
On Tue, April 17, 2012 10:31, Stephan Knauss wrote: Andrew Errington writes: In fact, I think that if name:ko=* is present, then it doesn't actually matter what is in name=*. The definition of name=* then becomes subtly altered to mean The label we use if no language is specified. Then we

Re: [OSM-talk] POI for Hotel

2012-04-12 Thread Andrew Errington
On Fri, April 13, 2012 11:58, Frans Thamura wrote: hi all we just develop team to collect all the hotel information in Indonesia choice 1. create a hotel database outside openstreetmap 2. save in openstreet as POI what do u think? and we will create rating also for the hotel...

Re: [OSM-talk] POI for Hotel

2012-04-12 Thread Andrew Errington
On Fri, April 13, 2012 12:33, Frans Thamura wrote: I just thinking Create a web, fill there and save in poi of osm. But, what happen if someone has put there. Still dunno how to communcate if we have data also in my server that 'must' share poi Well, it's a classic problem. If you

Re: [OSM-talk] Coastline Update

2012-03-31 Thread Andrew Errington
On Sun, 01 Apr 2012 09:31:53 Clifford Snow wrote: On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 8:26 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: I have completed another coastline generation and it has uploaded. This version respects odbl=clean. The shapefiles are in their normal place at

Re: [OSM-talk] Inaccurate GPS location

2012-03-09 Thread Andrew Errington
On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 10:38:17 John F. Eldredge wrote: After reading a news article about the effect the current solar storm is expected to have on GPS accuracy, I decided to see where my cell phone's GPS thought I currently was. Usually it is fairly accurate, but tonight it thought I was about

Re: [OSM-talk] Nominatim and language tags

2012-02-17 Thread Andrew Errington
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 22:16:45 Brian Quinion wrote: Hi, We are doing some work to improve the linking of name and name:xx tags in nominatim (basically adding better language fall backs) but in order to do that we need to have a list of which OFFICIAL languages are used in which countries. snip

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing imagery and the remap campaign

2012-02-10 Thread Andrew Errington
On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 04:03:01 Douglas Musaazi wrote: snip We shall also use this opportunity for the participants to re-map their previous edits and correct those that could have been mapped wrongly, and also agree to the new osm odbl licence. Don't forget- sometimes Bing imagery is not

Re: [OSM-talk] working with GPX

2011-12-26 Thread Andrew Errington
On Tue, December 27, 2011 06:05, Frans Thamura wrote: hi all i am working with GPX now.. using OSMTracker.. this is the pics of the screenshot after put in JOSM see this track from my home to my meruvian camp https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1015052494085set=a.101505444

[OSM-talk] Is the Mapnik server happy?

2011-12-20 Thread Andrew Errington
I have noticed some recent changes have not been rendered. Usually they're pretty quick. Thanks to the openness of the project I can see that something happened around midnight (I am assuming UTC): http://munin.openstreetmap.org/openstreetmap/yevaud.openstreetmap/index.html#renderd I am sure

Re: [OSM-talk] License Change View on OSM

2011-12-13 Thread Andrew Errington
On Tue, December 13, 2011 23:17, Jo wrote: I'm also taking the opportunity to align all the other features on bing. Have you checked the local alignment of Bing aerials? Where I am they can be offset by as much as 20 metres! I have to realign the aerial photo layer before tracing anything from

Re: [OSM-talk] Moderating / Quality checking OSM contributions -- was: Re: OSmosa.net run now.., contribution model

2011-12-07 Thread Andrew Errington
On Wed, December 7, 2011 22:03, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: 2011/12/7 Kate Chapman k...@maploser.com: I wonder if custom presets could help with the road classification. We've had the same problem in parts of Indonesia, but that is because the road classifications are simply translated.  

Re: [OSM-talk] Moderating / Quality checking OSM contributions -- was: Re: OSmosa.net run now.., contribution model

2011-12-07 Thread Andrew Errington
On Thu, December 8, 2011 09:20, Richard Fairhurst wrote: Andrew Errington wrote: I don't know for sure, but I expect that the initial list of road classifications were derived from UK Ordnance Survey classifications: Yes. Motorway - motorway B road - secondary 'yellow' road - tertiary

Re: [OSM-talk] Moderating / Quality checking OSM contributions -- was: Re: OSmosa.net run now.., contribution model

2011-12-07 Thread Andrew Errington
On Thu, December 8, 2011 09:27, Tobias Knerr wrote: snip With the German road numbering scheme, the administrative classification is also already defined by the ref=* tag. So choosing the highway value based on the administrative classification would duplicate that information. Hmm.

[OSM-talk] What's wrong with this picture?

2011-12-07 Thread Andrew Errington
This macro tile seems to be infected by the sea: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=36.0742lon=126.8671zoom=13layers=C All tiles below it are rendered with a blue tinge. The rendering artifact is not present on the new 'Transport' layer (which is very nice, by the way). I had a quick look at

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Moderating / Quality checking OSM contributions -- was: Re: OSmosa.net run now.., contribution model

2011-12-06 Thread Andrew Errington
How about every changeset triggers a message to the last n people to edit any of the nodes or ways in the changeset, together with the comment for that changeset? Every mapper will get a message like this: Some of your contributions have been edited in changeset XX. The comment was X...

Re: [OSM-talk] Vector maps for Android

2011-11-27 Thread Andrew Errington
This weekend I took a bus trip to Seoul. I installed Navit and gpsd on my netbook, plugged in a USB gps receiver, and downloaded OSM data for all Korea using Navit's download tool. It worked well. It planned a route to the bus terminal in Seoul, which generally matched the route the bus

Re: [OSM-talk] Restore deleted node please

2011-11-26 Thread Andrew Errington
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 21:54:27 Andrew wrote: Grant Slater openstreetmap at firefishy.com writes: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/368736042 Done. / Grant A little point: shouldn’t we be adding name:ko=서울남부터미널 for Korean language maps? Well, since you didn't have time to do

[OSM-talk] Restore deleted node please

2011-11-20 Thread Andrew Errington
Hello, Could someone please restore this deleted node? It's a bus terminal in Seoul. http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/368736042 I don't recall deleting it, but it seems I did. I think I would have re-drawn the bus terminal as an area and copied the tags from the node to the area,

[OSM-talk] Aerial photo offsets

2011-11-06 Thread Andrew Errington
Hi everyone, Forgive me if this has been covered elsewhere, but I am wondering what can be done about the need for aerial photo offsets. There's very little in the wiki[1] In Korea (as elsewhere, I assume) the aerial photos are not always accurately aligned with reality. Across the country

Re: [OSM-talk] Aerial photo offsets

2011-11-06 Thread Andrew Errington
On Mon, November 7, 2011 11:09, mick wrote: On Sun, 6 Nov 2011 19:38:06 +0900 Andrew Errington a.erring...@lancaster.ac.uk wrote: Hi everyone, Forgive me if this has been covered elsewhere, but I am wondering what can be done about the need for aerial photo offsets. There's very little

[OSM-talk] Here's what they do in Korea

2011-11-03 Thread Andrew Errington
Hello everyone, In case you are interested, here's what's happening in Korea (non-OSM): http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/biz/2011/11/123_97850.html It's pretty cool, and I would love for OSM to be the back-end of some of these apps, but it's going to be a while. Anyone outside Korea can

[OSM-talk] Big mess- fight or flee?

2011-09-01 Thread Andrew Errington
Hi everyone, I have been mapping in Korea a lot. In July I discovered a problem because I took a trip to an area I had mapped before. When I went to use my new data to check against the map I thought I was going mad. I was sure I had mapped certain roads, and they were there on the map, but my

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