Re: [talk-au] Deletion of informal paths by NSW NPWS

every such publication to get them to stop. To your question Adam, those that are publishing incorrect (by long-standing consensus) interpretations of the database are the ones responsible for any damage being caused. Regards, Ben On Fri, 1 Mar 2024 at 12:57, Tom Brennan wrote: > I can agree with the last

Re: [talk-au] OSM - NSW NPWS liaison

tagging guidelines). I think it's clear that there are a number of views on this though. Then at least if something happens that differs from the preferred approach, it makes it clearer whether a revert is justified. - Ben. On Thu, 2 Nov 2023 at 14:57, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: > DWG h

Re: [talk-au] Deletion of informal paths by NSW NPWS

), or in the long term for the reasons above. Cheers, Ben On Sun, 8 Oct 2023, 4:11 pm Ian Sergeant, wrote: > I understand what you would like the mission statement to be. > > But right now, it's clear that we value ground truth. > > If our mission is to change that should be a w

Re: [talk-au] Deletion of informal paths by NSW NPWS

ike this, including private property, etc. Finally, it would be somewhat helpful to mention in the description=* tag that use of the track is discouraged/banned for rehabilitation. Justification for reinstating the OSM features could also be documented in the notes=* tag to minim

Re: [talk-au] Possible mechanical edit of address names

sks insulated from each other with the CSV. It's a perfect example of a *modular* design. Cheers, Ben On Mon, 21 Aug 2023 at 16:56, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > HI > > I have jumped thegun here. > > Now looking at the data in JOSM. > > Total 3,814 individual addresse

Re: [talk-au] Routing problem near Albany, WA

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation:restriction>. I would expect some "no_u_turn" restrictions where slip roads join the two-way hwy way. For example, https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1077469012. Some routing engines will infer this from the angle of the ways, but not all of them.

Re: [talk-au] Routing problem near Albany, WA

I don't know what causes it, but you can see the same problem with OSMR: https://www.openstreetmap.org/directions?engine=fossgis_osrm_car=-34.9226%2C117.7915%3B-34.9670%2C117.8239#map=17/-34.96524/117.82097 - Ben. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Dual naming in NSW

I agree that in places where a joint name is in use, that should be documented as `name=Booraghee / Bradleys Head`as. From a data perspective, I think it is also useful to know that the english called it (in english spelling) `name:en=Bradleys Head` and the locals called it (in local romanised

Re: [talk-au] Publishing data as vector tiles/something else

your data to .mbtiles, then generating a "TMS folder" from that (which I imagine is possible). https://github.com/felt/tippecanoe https://github.com/mapbox/awesome-vector-tiles I hope those leads help you out. I'd be interested to hear what solution you settle on! Cheers, Ben On Wed, 10 May

Re: [talk-au] Tagging Culverts on Roads

/a-b-street/osm2streets/discussions>. Or hear of any good solutions that people out there are using! Cheers, Ben On Sat, 11 Feb 2023 at 08:03, Andrew Davidson wrote: > On Thu, Feb 9, 2023 at 5:21 PM Andrew Hughes wrote: > > For the structure number, I like the look of... > >

Re: [talk-au] What are the best practices for mass updating cycle paths?

is "on the ground" from their data sets.  - Ben. On 7/2/2023 10:40 am, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: Hi Looking further City of Sydney Data Hub is licenced CC By 4.0 but OSM has been waiting on the waiver since 2020 "CC BY 4.0 - waiver sent 01/12/2020, "considering your re

Re: [talk-au] Tagging Trucks (hgv) "Use low gears"

Just one thought on this: The "use low gears" it not itself the hazard. It is the steep hill that is the hazard (where the mitigation strategy for HGVs is to use low gears. Same for rollover/sharp bend. - Ben On Wed, 18 Jan 2023 at 10:38, Andrew Hughes wrote: > Tha

Re: [talk-au] 'Named' EV chargers

My thoughts: I wouldn't remove the names. It's a big call to say that this thing definitely does not have a name, when someone else says it does, especially if 50% have a name. - Ben. On Thu, 15 Dec 2022 at 14:24, Phil Wyatt wrote: > Hi Folks, > > > > Thoughts on 'named' EV c

Re: [talk-au] Changing building levels elevator to description elevator shell

rare tags, but they are both clear and fit in with their respective schemes, so either is a welcome contribution. Cheers, Ben ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Cycle permissions by a user

This very much differs by state. In NSW by default it is not allowed (unless signpost as a shared path). I assume Victoria is the same. - Ben. -- Ben Kelley This message was sent from my Olivetti typewriter On Sat, 8 Oct 2022, 09:21 Graeme Fitzpatrick, wrote: > > So, it would

Re: [talk-au] Oz tagging of speed cameras

enforces the speed limit https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation:enforcement - Ben. On Sat, 13 Aug 2022 at 14:51, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: > Just had a message come through OSM (think it may have been sent to > multiple people?) concerning mapping speed cameras. > > I've ad

Re: [talk-au] Adopting "AU" Prefix on Network tags

Hi. This is a national route, rather than a state route, so we don't have that problem. - Ben. On Fri, 12 Aug 2022 at 14:15, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: > > > > On Fri, 12 Aug 2022 at 13:37, Ben Kelley wrote: > >> >> I'm guessing more than one state has an A40.

Re: [talk-au] Adopting "AU" Prefix on Network tags

I think we'll need a state component in the network (for state roads). I'm guessing more than one state has an A40. ref=A40, network=AU won't be enough for that. - Ben. On Fri, 12 Aug 2022 at 12:55, Dian Ågesson wrote: > Hi, > > I've cobbled together a draft model of how we co

Re: [talk-au] Surf Clubs & Lifesavers (Prv: Head or point on non-coastal land)

ould tag them as 2 nodes. I think you could have the same issue for rowing clubs. There are a bunch of people that do rowing, and have a boat shed, but there's also a restaurant upstairs that you might want to visit even if you don't care for rowing. - Ben. On Mon, 1 Aug 2022 at 13:08, G

Re: [talk-au] Is addr:housenumber=2/20 likely to be valid?

Agreed. In Australia "32A" refers to the street number. (In the US, it is common that 32A means apartment A at street number 32, but not in Australia)  - Ben. On 13/7/2022 11:55 am, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: On Wed, 13 Jul 2022 at 11:43, Benjamin Ceravolo wrote:

Re: [talk-au] Is addr:housenumber=2/20 likely to be valid?

In answer to your question though, yes "1/50 Example St" notation is quite common. It is probably well understood, although not universally used. "Unit 1, 50 Example St" is also used, as is "U 1 50 Example St". These would all be tagged as: addr:unit=1 addr:house

Re: [talk-au] definition of PSV (Public Service Vehicles) in Australia

that a taxi is a PSV. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:psv I think you should probably put taxi=no for a "bus only lane" but not for a "bus lane". IANAL but I'd guess that ride share services are not taxis in this context.  - Ben. On 27/6/2022 11:10 am, stevea wrote: On

Re: [talk-au] Bicycle access tags in Victoria and other edits edits

nces the 2 are equivalent. - Ben Kelley. On Wed, 18 May 2022 at 09:06, Andrew Harvey wrote: > OSM never really had a good tag for truly shared foot/cycle paths, so it's > been long standing practice to use highway=cycleway + foot=designated + > bicycle=designated + segregated=no for shared

Re: [talk-au] New OSM Discourse site: community.osm.org

I am a mailing list admin. - Ben. On Tue, 3 May 2022 at 12:39, Sam Wilson wrote: > We need to specify who will be category moderators, in the new-category > proposal. > > Who would like to be? Come to think of it, who are the mailing list admins? > > > On 3/5/22 07:49,

Re: [talk-au] Licence mention for static mapon NiceLocal.com.au

It needs attribution for the static map as well I think.  - Ben Kelley. On 18/2/22 15:55, Stéphane Guillou via Talk-au wrote: Hi all I just sent a message to NiceLocal.com.au about the copyright requirements of OSM, because my understanding is that the static map on their shop profiles

Re: [talk-au] Strange e-mail address?

The unsusbscribe happens automatically after a few bounces. On 31/1/22 11:44, Michael Collinson wrote: Thanks Alex, Ben.  Looks specific to talk-au so talk-au admin (CC'd) needs to login and unsubscribe gmane. Not sure who that is. Tom says: Nothing to do with me - there's no global link

Re: [talk-au] Strange e-mail address?

s://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au -- Ben Kelley ben.kel...@gmail.com Sent from my Psion___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Tagging "boundary" roads with addr:*

Interesting. Normally I don't tag addresses on streets, as it is not useful. I have used it on ways for street number interpolation, but I make a way that goes across the addresses, rather than attach it to the street. - Ben. On Tue, 4 Jan 2022 at 13:42, Andrew Hughes wrote: > Hi

Re: [talk-au] Lifeguards & "Swim Between the Flags"

that this beach never has a lifeguard.  - Ben Kelley. On 20/10/21 09:54, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: A little while back, I put the emergency=lifeguard proposal through, together with lifeguard=yes to describe those times when there is a lifeguard/s on the beach, but they may not be in a fixed

Re: [talk-au] Source material.

copyright owner won't see it that way. There is more detail on the wiki at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Copyright Some government agencies give explicit permission for OSM to use their data. Without explicit permission, this data cannot be used in OSM. - Ben Kelley. On Mon, 18 Oct 2021 at 08

Re: [talk-au] Searching for tags?

Thanks all. Perfect! I just found one that we could see from the water (i.e. it seems like there's a boat ramp over there somewhere) but we couldn't find on land. - Ben. On Tue, 5 Oct 2021 at 10:14, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: > Oops, it didn't show automatically, so click on the "Run

[talk-au] Searching for tags?

ipway" you only find things with "slipway" in the name. You can't search for "leisure=slipway" on the main map either. Is there some other way to search for particular features? - Ben. -- Ben Kelley ben.kel...@gmail.com https://mrebenezer.blogspot.com/ This me

Re: [talk-au] Tagging yellow buoys

can't tell from the photo which ones are hazard markers (and which direction) and which ones are just poles in the water. - Ben. PS 2019 Sea Doo GTR 230 On Wed, 29 Sept 2021 at 11:29, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: > Yes, they're actually a "Special Mark", which can be used to mark a

Re: [talk-au] Tagging yellow buoys

I have recently moved close to Brisbane Water (NSW Central Coast). Aerial photos are quite good if you know what you're looking at. I think buoy_special_purpose is probably the closest. - Ben. On Tue, 28 Sept 2021 at 13:29, Andrew Harvey wrote: > I can't help much with tagging, but wan

[talk-au] Tagging yellow buoys

s here, so there are yellow buoys between the channel and the moorings. Is anyone else into Open Sea Map? (We bought a boat last week :) ) - Ben. -- Ben Kelley ben.kel...@gmail.com https://mrebenezer.blogspot.com/ This message was sent on my Atari 400 _

Re: [Talk-GB] Multi-lingual tagging in Wales

synthesises the discussion so far. I'd welcome more comments on this. On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 4:40 PM Christopher Jones wrote: > Hi Ben, > > Personally, I don’t see the point of > > name: Swansea > name:en Swansea > name:cy Abertawe > > It's stating the obvious that

Re: [Talk-GB] Multi-lingual tagging in Wales

e think? On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 5:08 PM Andy Townsend wrote: > Hi Gruff, hi Ben, > > On 16/10/2020 14:08, Gruff Owen wrote: > > > The ability to include an :en or :cy tag name field is really helpful for > this but it's unfortunate that ultimately we have to choose a si

[Talk-GB] Multi-lingual tagging in Wales

t have missed or misconstrued. Cheers Ben -- Mapio Cymru <https://mapio.cymru/> OpenStreetMap.Cymru ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [talk-au] Re-tag rural residential roads to unclassified?

Hi. I would normally tag such roads (minor roads in rural areas) as unclassified rather than residential. I suspect there is not a lot of difference between residential and unclassified though.  - Ben. On 2/10/20 14:43, Little Maps wrote: Hi everyone, I was reviewing highway tags

Re: [talk-au] Unattributed use of map

. - Ben. On Sun, 20 Sep 2020 at 09:59, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: > Just looking at the map for the next stage of the GC Light Rail > construction & spotted that it's using OSM, with no attribution :-( > > https://gclr3.com.au/map > > https://www.openstreetmap.org/#ma

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: maps/navigation data source

If maps compiled this way work well what's wrong with it? Mit freundlichen Grüßen Ben Kimdi Am 03-Sep-2020 01:31:44 +0200 schrieb mnidqb9jz...@mail.ru: > > OSM, is a fake map that is made by people 1000 of miles away from what they > are mapping based on > > satellite images.

Re: [OSM-talk] maps/navigation data source

of navigation OSM is equal good? Mit freundlichen Grüßen Ben Kimdi Am 02-Sep-2020 23:56:31 +0200 schrieb miketh...@gmail.com: > > Ben, > > What type of navigation, car, public transport, bicycle, walking...? > > What part of the world will you be navigating in?  Some parts of the wo

[OSM-talk] maps/navigation data source

Hi, Navigation app for my iOS device (Navigator by MapFactor) offers two choices regarding maps/navigation data source. These are (i) OpenStreetMaps and (ii) TomTom. One can load maps from both sources to app. One seems to can use both however not at the same time. For decision if it is worth

Re: [talk-au] OSM Way & Govt Street (centerline) Correlation, how?

At some level you will need to deal with the fact that people edit ways, generally based on orthorectified photos, but also based on GPS traces. Even if the correlation started out good, it could change over time as people edit the map. I guess it depends how much correlation you need. - Ben

Re: [talk-au] Postal addresses

Hi. I sometimes tag house names if they are known. I don't think the wiki implies that you should not add house name if you add house number, but I agree it's not generally useful in terms of delivering mail in Australia. - Ben. On Thu, 19 Mar 2020 at 17:08, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com>

Re: [talk-au] highway=motorway_junction

Hi. It seems pretty clear (to me at least) on the highway=motorway_junction page that the junction node should not indicate the destination, but rather on the way branching off. The examples show this situation.  - Ben. On 24/2/20 13:09, Ian Steer wrote: What do people think about

Re: [talk-au] TfNSW Cycleways use in OSM

Some councils put up signs (often blue and white) indicating a cycle route. It generally shows the destination, maybe how far to the destination, and generally a picture of a bicycle. The sign might point to a road or a path. This is the best link I could find (sorry - big PDF, but it gives

Re: [talk-au] TfNSW Cycleways use in OSM

Don't forget the blue and white signs! Practically I'd map a lcn=yes tag (or relation) for blue & white signs.  - Ben. On 24/2/20 02:59, Mateusz Konieczny via Talk-au wrote: Is it possible that they are listing roads with minor traffic, connecting parts of real bicycle infrastruc

Re: [talk-au] Magento + Leaflet = no attribution

I guess it makes it a bit hard when the underlying product disables the attribution. Not that this excuses them though. FWIW this is the bug report I created for Smile Map: https://github.com/Smile-SA/magento2-module-map/issues/30 On 4/2/20 16:49, Phil Wyatt wrote: Good on you – I have

[talk-au] Magento + Leaflet = no attribution

Leaflet, but disables the attribution. (As far as I can tell.) That is, if you use this on your Magento site, you get a nice map, but with the attribution disabled. I'll submit a bug report on the Smile Map project. - Ben. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au

Re: [talk-au] OT: DB has correct attribution

I think our top speed was about 235km/h. - Ben. On Sun., 5 Jan. 2020, 22:15 Graeme Fitzpatrick, wrote: > Very nice. > > What was it doing on the flat? > > ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetm

[talk-au] OT: DB has correct attribution

I'm currently on a train in Germany. Slowed down to 130km/h for some bends. The train wifi has a page showing you the train's location and speed, which uses OSM. Nice. https://photos.app.goo.gl/iXbF3C7mNQKioeGq9 - Ben. -- Ben Kelley This message was sent from my Olivetti typewriter

Re: [talk-au] Adding polygons of the aerodromes

Hi. That seems like a good idea. How will you know the bounds of the airport? Just from aerial photos? - Ben. On Wed, 25 Dec 2019 at 22:28, Nemanja Bracko (E-Search) via Talk-au < talk-au@openstreetmap.org> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > > > We would like to manually add pol

[talk-au] Kathmandu + OSM

how it goes. - Ben. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] tagging of "demolished" roads

This seems like a good case where the road is being actively dismantled. I think the only reason to keep it at all is where you can see the ex-road in imagery, so you want people who are editing to know that this thing doesn't actually exist.  - Ben. On 27/11/19 09:32, Warin wrote: I would

Re: [talk-au] Whereis copyright?

At first I thought yes, but wheres.com (Sensis/Telstra) uses OSM, so I guess it depends on what data they used.  - Ben. On 20/11/19 15:11, Warin wrote: I have found a contributor who is using 'whereis' as a source. I believe that is a copyright breach? Anyone know .. I don't want to go

Re: [talk-au] Mapping 'private roads' conclusion

Looks good I think.  - Ben. On 9/10/19 11:55, Warin wrote: Ok.. I think the following can be done on the Australian Tagging Guidelines; Remove the words "not map the interior private roads in detail" from service roads https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Australian_Tagging_

Re: [talk-au] Discussion J: regionalisation of editor presets

Hi. A question of clarification: Are you asking how to change the defaults when you yourself are editing? Or are you wanting to raise a problem you see with the current defaults? (This would seem to be a problem you perceive rather than a question.) - Ben. On Mon., 7 Oct. 2019, 10:05

Re: [talk-au] Discussion C: mapping on the street :: fixmes

Yeah agreed. If you added a FIXME, who would fix it? If I see something like that, I generally make a note to myself to go back and fix it later. - Ben. On Fri, 27 Sep 2019 at 09:57, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > There are lots of fixmes on the map. They don't get

Re: [talk-au] Discussion A: Is this forum fit for purpose?

, but there are other options that implement some of the features you suggest in a better way. The more modern platforms already exist. - Ben. On Wed, 25 Sep 2019 at 09:02, Herbert.Remi via Talk-au < talk-au@openstreetmap.org> wrote: > # Discussion A: Is this forum fit for purpose? >

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging a St John's Ambulance base

ps://go.onelink.me/107872968?pid=InProduct=Global_Internal_YGrowth_AndroidEmailSig__AndroidUsers_wl=ym_sub1=Internal_sub2=Global_YGrowth_sub3=EmailSignature> > > On Wed, 10 Jul 2019 at 20:30, Mark Goodge > wrote: > > > On 10/07/2019 19:08, Ben Proctor wrote: > > Hello mappi

[Talk-GB] Tagging a St John's Ambulance base

Hello mapping people There is a building and yard in Hereford used by St John's Ambulance. The building functions as a meeting venue (like a scout hut but for St John's) and some vehicles are stored in the yard. https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/52.06051/-2.71419 How would you tag this?

[talk-au] Ways to map boundaries that won't go into OSM

e that map outside of Google Maps. - Ben. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Tagging frontage roads

Hi. I would say yes. Include the name.  - Ben Kelley. On 13/6/19 12:36, David Wales wrote: Dear Talk-AU, Should frontage roads be tagged with names? I have read the wiki page: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Frontage_road Consider this changeset: https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Collaboration with shire transport authorities

Hi I'm based in Hereford and happy to be a contact here. Cheers Ben On Tue, 23 Apr 2019 at 12:39, Philip Barnes wrote: > On Tue, 2019-04-23 at 11:45 +0100, Brian Prangle wrote: > > Hi everyone > > Mainly for west mids mappers but cross-posted to talkgb for a wider > audi

Re: [talk-au] Sydney mapathon

Practically it will probably need to be a weekday evening, as we are not open on the weekend. Also it will need to be a time I can make it. :)  - Ben Kelley On 18/3/19 13:03, Dion Moult wrote: Hey Ben! Thanks for the option! I'm going to tentatively suggest meeting this Saturday, 23rd

Re: [talk-au] Sydney mapathon

gate further. - Ben Kelley. On Fri, 15 Mar 2019 at 16:58, Andrew Harvey wrote: > I'm interested in a local OSM I meetup, I wanted to organise one last > year, but finding a venue provide too hard, so count me in if anyone want's > to organise one. Could just be an informal meet pub meetu

Re: [OSM-talk] Your thoughts on osm.org

On 2019-03-12 19:12:16, Simon Poole wrote: what is the purpose of the website that you can reach on openstreetmap.org? I think it's great. You are putting the map front and centre, which to me says "look at what we've achieved, look at what you can be a part of". signature.asc Description:

Re: [talk-au] more SEO spam?

I agree. - Ben. On Wed, 30 Jan 2019 at 19:24, nwastra wrote: > We seem to be getting a lot of business edits in this form lately with > only a name and description tag, often with address details or just spam in > the description tag. > As is usual with spam like business edi

Re: [talk-au] Blank map in remote country areas

than the current popular renderers. I think going from some roads to all roads over 2 zooms (13->15) is not a bad compromise.  - Ben. On 22/1/19 13:50, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: A while back, there was mention on the list of OSM only showing vast amounts of blank whiteness when look

Re: [talk-au] Our work in last two weeks

Personally I think that's a handy warning. - Ben On Tue., 22 Jan. 2019, 07:25 Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com wrote: > On 22/01/19 02:45, Nemanja Bračko wrote: > > I agree on that, but that's the way how this tool works. > > > So you will have to accept that the tool is

[OSM-talk-be] Fwd: Open Belgium 2019: Call for Speakers + Early Bird Tickets!

Hi everyone! In a few months we have Open Belgium again (yay!) and as usual we will have talks about OSM (Belgium). We invite everyone to submit a talk, **anything** related to open-(something) is fine, that means openstreetmap too! ;-) We will also organize a community day during the weekend

Re: [talk-au] Mapping opportunities along the Great North Walk

Hi. It should be possible to make a single relation for it.   - Ben. On 27/12/18 15:45, Dion Moult wrote: G'day all! I've started walking the Great North Walk and was miffed that I couldn't immediately find a good online map showing the full route from Sydney to Newcastle. Instead I found

Re: [OSM-talk-be] Update Slow Roads conventions Belgium

ed to have "Sentier n° 117" as well for example. Ben ___ Talk-be mailing list Talk-be@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be

Re: [OSM-talk-be] Update Slow Roads conventions Belgium

One question I have: why are the words "chemin", "sentier", "voetweg" etc. part of the vicinal_ref tag? Better just leave the number in there, the type of road is in the vicinal_type tag. Ben On Sat, 15 Dec 2018, 12:33 Steven Clays Hello, > > I made a sligh

Re: [talk-au] National Cycle Networks..

Hi. With regard to proliferation of dodgy routes, I am of the opinion that a bike route should be verifiable. I agree that the NCN doesn't really exist. Generally I don't remove the tags, but I think I agree with you that in cases like this it could be dangerous if you believed OSM. - Ben

Re: [OSM-talk] weird "excessive bounces" warnings from the list

On 18-10-01 20:54:13, Richard wrote: Hi, from time to time I am getting messages like <> Any idea.. what could be the cause? Unfortunately I don't see any way to figure out which message did cause this. I notice the first message I did not receive was

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping Shropshire's rights of way

; rights of way that the council does not know about, as there is a >> deadline looming after which only those known to the council will be >> valid rights of way. >> > >> >> ___ >> Talk-GB mailing list >> Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetm

Re: [Talk-us] buggy buildings in Maryland

degenerate nodes, which I cleaned up in batches using JOSM's simplify. I did most of the cleanup in 2015. -Ben On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 5:30 AM Elliott Plack wrote: > > Here's a potential fix: use the SimplifyArea JOSM Plugin. > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Plugins/Simplify

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] Ma petite présentation

Salut, bienvenue! Tu viens donc des Alpes ? :) Le 23 juillet 2018 à 22:21, james a écrit : > Bonjour à tous, > > Je viens de m’inscrire à la liste de diffusion, et il me semble à avoir > compris qu’une petite présentation serait bienvenue ;-) > Depuis quelques mois je me plonge dans OSM avec

Re: [OSM-talk-be] Mappen van spoorweginfrastructuur

zoveel mogelijk het gebruik in rekening gehouden om de access tags (waar het dan hoofdzakelijk om te doen was) zo eenvoudig mogelijk te hebben, maar dat bleef uiteraard allemaal mijn voorstel. Ik heb veel van die pagina's geschreven in de poging , maar ik ben ook maar ik dus niemand moet zic

Re: [OSM-talk-be] Mappen van spoorweginfrastructuur

ering in te passen. Een regime kennen ze daar niet, van grote en kleine beweging ook niet, en dat zijn al de basisbegrippen in België. Dat gezegd zijnde, zelfs al hebben we ooit een taggingschema uitgewerkt, het is erg veel werk om die dingen te mappen, en ik ben er niet echt van overtuigd of het

Re: [Talk-GB] Edits in Wales

Hi Adam That makes sense to me. So for example..? name - Caernarfon name:cy - Caernarfon old_name:en Carnarvon Cheers Ben On 24 March 2018 at 21:17, Adam Snape <adam.c.sn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I think Ben's suggestion is sensible where there is a consistent and cle

Re: [Talk-GB] Edits in Wales

now which one is used when communicating in English, choose that - of I don't know, choose the Welsh name But I'd be interested to understand more about the practice used in other bilingual/multilingual nations on OSM. Cheers Ben On 23 March 2018 at 23:49, Miguel Sevilla-Callejo <msevi

Re: [Talk-GB] Edits in Wales

appreciate any comment and thoughts. Cheers Ben *Wales is a bilingual country and many place names have both English and Welsh versions. When communicating in English some places are known by their Welsh name and some by their English name. When communicating in Welsh all places are know

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

correct the tagging to track (perhaps 30% of their work) and actual tertiary (perhaps 2%). That way, only a minority of the roads would have to be manually changed, because unclassified is correct for the majority. Naturally, we should wait to hear from the user first. -Ben

Re: [OSM-talk] Donation from the Pineapple Fund

On 18-03-05 12:21:22, Dave F wrote: I've very little knowledge or even interest in Bitcoin, but was it converted into hard currency? If not, is it worth much now? DaveF I'm curious too. Quite a few projects got a big chunk of change just as the price of BTC went down.

Re: [OSM-talk] Danger zone for pedestrians

On 18-03-05 13:00:10, Richard wrote: On Mon, Mar 05, 2018 at 11:10:40AM +0100, Tom Pfeifer wrote: Besides the verifiability problem, such tagging would discriminate one demographic group against another, and increase the cultural bias in OSM. where does such political correctness end?

Re: [Talk-il] Hebrew maps for Garmin

Did you try http://openmtbmap.org? On 6 Feb 2018, 00:51 +0200, Dov Ber Ackerman , wrote: > Hello I am trying to find an updated map of Israel for a Garmin device for a > friend, but they are all in English so the hebrew search does not work.!! Are > there any recently (last

Re: [Talk-us] Rural US: Correcting Original TIGER Imported Ways

On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 10:48 AM Clifford Snow wrote: > Does your state have a problem? Run the following overpass query to find > out: > https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/w74 - just replace "Washington" Need help > creating a Maproulette Challenge - just ask. > I've done a

Re: [talk-au] How to map CBD boundaries?

r the city of Sydney to be. Is an address in the suburb next door in "Sydney"? Officially no, although colloquially maybe yes. - Ben. On 5 February 2018 at 14:15, Joel H. <95.5.ra...@gmail.com> wrote: > I just downloaded an export of NSW boundary data from OSM. Now in this > datase

Re: [OSM-talk-be] temporary cycle routes

=18/51.54524/-0.01871=C So, not sure if we should be mapping this if they don't exist yet... but if it's an 'official' detour why not? Some of these routes are only virtual anyway and not signed at all. Cheers, Ben On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 2:55 PM, joost schouppe <joost.schou...@gmail.com>

Re: [talk-au] Routing through a park that doesn't have actual paths

I noticed in ridethecity.com (which uses OSM data) that where there is an area that says bicycle=yes, it will route you around the edges of the area (as if it was a circular way). - Ben. On 1 February 2018 at 07:47, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > A 'well known' routin

Re: [OSM-talk-be] railways and stations

lway definition a station would need a switch and allow a train to depart from. That would make Brussels-Central not a station... But in the end it's just better to tag them all railway=station. Ben ___ Talk-be mailing list Talk-be@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be

Re: [OSM-talk-be] Open Belgium

: https://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Belgium/events/246652801/ Cheers, Ben On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 8:40 AM, Nicolas Pettiaux <nico...@pettiaux.be> wrote: > Hi Joost and the other members of the list, > > I would like to talk about a project I am resuming to work on : mapping > th

Re: [OSM-talk-be] OSM and SIAMU

something where we meet face-to-face. I suggest emailing community -at- osm.be and we can work from there. We'll invite whoever is interested from the OSM community to come along. @glenn: When I have a little more time I'll try to explain on Riot what I mean ;-) Cheers, Ben 2017-11-27 23:29

Re: [OSM-talk-be] OSM and SIAMU

, Ben Abelshausen On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 2:50 PM, Jo <winfi...@gmail.com> wrote: > If I understood correctly every single street name of the Netherlands is > already in Wikidata. > > 2017-11-23 14:31 GMT+01:00 joost schouppe <joost.schou...@gmail.com>: > >> Jo, >

Re: [Talk-GB] Welsh language map

On 15 November 2017 at 14:38, SK53 <sk53@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Ben, > > Good to hear. > > I actually have a version of Carto-CSS which displays welsh names when > present. It merely replaces all instances of name in the Carto-CSS queries > with a more complicated

[Talk-GB] Welsh language map

we haven't had the chance to contact. We really hope to work with the whole community on this. Any suggestions, insights, ideas, "definitely don't do this..." experiences etc would be very gratefully received. Cheers -- Ben Proctor ODI-Cardiff / The

Re: [OSM-talk-be] road completion project

right and then click 'view challenge', then you get all the little task on one big map. This way you can select tasks in your area. Met vriendelijke groeten, Best regards, Ben Abelshausen On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 11:10 AM, Marc Gemis <marc.ge...@gmail.com> wrote: > It would be nice if I c

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