Re: [Talk-us] Tagging National Forests

2015-08-20 Per discussione John Firebaugh
On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 10:22 PM, stevea stevea...@softworkers.com wrote: John Firebaugh writes: The political boundaries of US National Forests should not be tagged landuse=forest unless the entirety of their area is land primarily managed for timber production. I venture to assert

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging National Forests

2015-08-20 Per discussione John Firebaugh
The political boundaries of US National Forests should not be tagged landuse=forest unless the entirety of their area is land primarily managed for timber production. I venture to assert that this is not true for *any* of the National Forests. Here are some examples of areas within National

Re: [OSM-talk] iD name suggestion index - asking non-English-speaking mappers to review

2015-05-19 Per discussione John Firebaugh
Over the weekend I merged all outstanding pull requests. These changes will get picked up automatically in the next release of iD. Thanks for the contributions, please keep them coming. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSRM-talk] Using OSRM linked into other code?

2014-11-07 Per discussione John Firebaugh
Hi Steve, Recent versions of osrm-backend build a library which you can link against. See https://github.com/Project-OSRM/node-osrm/ for an example. cheers, John On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 7:13 AM, Stephen Woodbridge wood...@swoodbridge.com wrote: Hi, I seem to remember a while back that there

Re: [OSM-talk] iD usability test results

2014-10-06 Per discussione John Firebaugh
Hi Jan, Thank you for your work; rigorous usability testing of this sort is quite valuable. I've skimmed parts of your thesis and will read it more thoroughly this week. I think there are many improvements we can make to iD based on your findings, and we are starting to open tickets on them in

Re: [OSRM-talk] vector::_M_range_check error

2014-06-19 Per discussione John Firebaugh
Hi Matthias, One thing to check is that the data files being used were generated with the same version of OSRM. I have seen this error when a 0.4.1 server used data files generated with 0.3.9. John On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 5:33 AM, Matthias Schwamborn schwamb...@informatik.uos.de wrote: Hi

Re: [Talk-us] Why we really don't get new users

2014-03-17 Per discussione John Firebaugh
Hi Charles, Have you looked at iD's preset-based feature editing UI? It's very close to what you describe: - Machine readable ontologyhttps://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/blob/master/data/presets/README.md - Search-based UI - No detailed knowledge of tagging schemes necessary - Customized UI for

[OSM-talk] The new OpenStreetMap.org design

2013-12-03 Per discussione John Firebaugh
This past weekend, the OpenStreetMap.org front page launched with a new design. This was a big step for a site whose design hasn't changed much in 7 years [1]. The goal of the redesign was to make the site more inviting for newcomers, easier and more efficient for veterans, to clean it up and

Re: [OSM-talk] Upcoming website features

2013-10-21 Per discussione John Firebaugh
Thanks everyone for the feedback on the redesign effort. Development work on the redesign is in a lull right now due to competing priorities, but we hope to get back to it and continue refining the design in the near future, and we'll be taking your comments here and on the pull request into

Re: [OSM-talk] Making iD the default editor on osm.org - some numbers

2013-08-21 Per discussione John Firebaugh
Hi Andy, Thanks, this is great. I love having real numbers to discuss. On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 4:36 AM, SomeoneElse li...@mail.atownsend.org.ukwrote: Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, it has been proposed to make the newly released iD v1.1 the default editor on openstreetmap.org, meaning that

Re: [OSM-talk] Making iD the default editor on osm.org

2013-08-19 Per discussione John Firebaugh
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 6:01 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: with that approach (letting the users incidentally damage turn restrictions or other relations without warning by deleting members or combining them in a harmful way ) new users will get even more anxious as

Re: [OSM-talk] Making iD the default editor on osm.org

2013-08-19 Per discussione John Firebaugh
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 12:07 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: It has been claimed often that iD damages relations. Can we somehow substantiate that claim? Could anyone provide a detailed description of a non-esoteric use case that involves * a kind (and structure) of relation

Re: [OSM-talk] New welcome page

2013-08-18 Per discussione John Firebaugh
Hi Martin, On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 6:18 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: Could we extend the basic terms on the new welcome page? The new users I talk to tell me that the number one reason they were hesitant to start contributing to OSM was that it presented itself as

Re: [OSM-talk] Making iD the default editor on osm.org

2013-08-18 Per discussione John Firebaugh
On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com wrote: But perhaps most critically of all, before iD becomes the default, are the issues of damaging relations and oneway=yes tagged ways: https://github.com/systemed/iD/issues/1461 https://github.com/systemed/iD/issues/299

Re: [OSM-talk] Making iD the default editor on osm.org

2013-08-16 Per discussione John Firebaugh
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 7:02 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: P2 will be available by simply clicking the down arrow next to Edit. Given that Potlatch 1 is still available three years after the introduction of Potlatch 2, I should assume that Potlatch 2 will remain with us for some

Re: [OSM-talk] Using iD

2013-08-16 Per discussione John Firebaugh
Hi Arnie, If all you want to do is display your own tiles as a background layer in iD, you can use one of the existing deployments (openstreetmap.org, openstreetmap.us/iD/release/) and use the Custom background option, or a custom background parameter as described

Re: [OSM-talk] In the works: iD 1.1

2013-08-07 Per discussione John Firebaugh
31, 2013 at 10:45 AM, John Firebaugh john.fireba...@gmail.comwrote: Hi folks, Continuing the experiment that Paul Norman kicked off with announcing proposed and in progress development, I'd like to announce that iD 1.1 is nearing release. I've just tagged 1.1.0rc1, and you can give it a spin

[OSM-talk] In the works: iD 1.1

2013-07-31 Per discussione John Firebaugh
Hi folks, Continuing the experiment that Paul Norman kicked off with announcing proposed and in progress development, I'd like to announce that iD 1.1 is nearing release. I've just tagged 1.1.0rc1, and you can give it a spin here: http://openstreetmap.us/iD/release/ This release focuses on

Re: [OSM-talk] comments on new map widget on main page

2013-07-29 Per discussione John Firebaugh
On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Greg Troxel g...@ir.bbn.com wrote: I'd like to see two things different; both of these are regressions from the old way and I think easy to address I believe that persisting the location and zoom in the URL hash will address both of these concerns. Please try

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

2013-07-21 Per discussione John Firebaugh
The rationale for making the change in Leaflet is to make it so that you can zoom in several levels on a given point without needing to reposition your cursor at each zoom level. For that reason, I prefer the new behavior. Included in the next set of changes to the map UI is the ability to add a

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

2013-07-11 Per discussione John Firebaugh
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 12:25 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Have you seen the new map UI proposed by the Mapbox team ( http://mapui.apis.dev.**openstreetmap.org/http://mapui.apis.dev.openstreetmap.org/)? If something along those lines were used, then there would be more than

Re: [Talk-us] OpenLegend (SOTM Sprint Proposal)

2013-06-11 Per discussione John Firebaugh
Hi Bryce, I can help you with iD presets -- they live here: https://github.com/systemed/iD/tree/master/data/presets I encourage you to use a JSON format rather than XML. It'll be easier for web-based services to consume. John On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 8:58 AM, Bryce Nesbitt

Re: [OSM-talk] Who interprets semicolon in tag values?

2013-05-31 Per discussione John Firebaugh
iD interprets semicolon-delimited tag values specially for purposes of merging tags, for example when joining two adjacent streets. It splits on semicolon and optional whitespace, and then takes the union of the resulting sets of values:

Re: [OSM-talk] iD, relevant tag suggestions

2013-05-18 Per discussione John Firebaugh
On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 8:50 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: There are some minor issues with what appears as tag suggestions on objects. E.g. I edited a (already quite detailed) hotel and the suggested tags were elevation, wikipedia, note and wheelchair. I think very

Re: [OSM-talk] iD Editor live on OpenStreetMap

2013-05-12 Per discussione John Firebaugh
On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 8:53 AM, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote: On 08/05/2013 14:37, Douglas Musaazi wrote: Great work!! let's go ahead and use it. I'd love to but it's very sluggish while dragging in latest FF, the walk-through help keeps hanging the pop-ups appear over the

Re: [Talk-us] Examples Gov using OSM

2013-03-26 Per discussione John Firebaugh
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 10:01 AM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote: i was under the impression that the Code For America folks had done a bunch of work with local governments on stuff that used OSM as a basemap. Nick Doiron and Jessica Lord were Code for America fellows last year and

Re: [Talk-us] US-Canada Border between BC and Washington State

2012-09-17 Per discussione John Firebaugh
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.uswrote: I've been doing some work in the North Cascades National Park. It appears that the border between the US and Canada is wrong. Look at http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=48.9841lon=-121.743zoom=13layers=M It appears