Re: [Talk-us] NYC Name Vandalism

2018-09-05 Thread Alan Brown
Hi, Perhaps I didn't express it clearly, but my interest was in the idea that certain. rather limited changelists could be flagged for moderation before they are put into main dataset.  There will always be things that seem like they should be blocked, but are actually appropriate.   In the

Re: [Talk-us] Evacuation Routes

2018-09-05 Thread Eric H. Christensen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On September 5, 2018 7:24 PM, Kevin Kenny wrote: > Are you tagging the routes consistently with role=forward or > role=reverse? An evacuation route is essentially a one-way item > (presumably, return after the

Re: [Talk-us] Evacuation Routes

2018-09-05 Thread Kevin Kenny
Are you tagging the routes consistently with role=forward or role=reverse? An evacuation route is essentially a one-way item (presumably, return after the crisis can be by any open road), and it would be good to render them with arrows. On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 7:20 PM Eric H. Christensen wrote: >

[Talk-us] Evacuation Routes

2018-09-05 Thread Eric H. Christensen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I recently finished an update to the evacuation routes feature[0], turning it into a relation (route). I'll be working on adding hurricane evacuation routes to areas I'm familiar with (Maryland, Hampton Roads area of Virginia, and Northeast

Re: [Talk-us] NYC Name Vandalism

2018-09-05 Thread Simon Poole
osmcha (osmcha.mapbox.com) already does most of this. While detecting vandalism in general is difficult, edits like those in question are easy to detect and small in number. IMHO it really isn't an issue with openstreetmap in this case, as even with the delay (somebody reported the user in

Re: [Talk-us] NYC Name Vandalism

2018-09-05 Thread Greg Troxel
I tend to agree that automated systems are going to be not that useful. I tend to notice some things in my area, but it's hard to keep track. This makes me wonder about a tool that - lets people sign up to watch edits, in some area, or in general, sort of like maproulette. Use some

Re: [Talk-us] NYC Name Vandalism

2018-09-05 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 05.09.2018 03:36, Alan Brown wrote: > Granted, it would be nearly impossible to make this criteria perfect: I think it would already be nearly impossible to make these criteria even *good*. It is easy to come up with a knee-jerk "nobody should be allowed to change the name tag of New