Re: [Talk-us] Washington DC place node cleanup

hington has a name:de=Washington then you positively know that this is the name used in Germany, whereas if it doesn't have a name:de tag it might just be "not yet mapped". Fat chance with name:de ;) Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'

[Talk-us] Washington DC place node cleanup

a look and do this right. It is a bit of a conundrum in OSM - we usually say that local knowledge tops everything, but then again for many of the languages there might not even *be* a local Washington mapper in OSM ;) Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09

Re: [Talk-us] Opinions on Devil's Slide Bunker (San Mateo, CA)

le can live with. You're welcome to continue this discussion and if the community should come to a general agreement about how to tag tourist attractions with no access then I'm happy to see this changed. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail f

Re: [Talk-us] Cooper Country State Forest in Keweenaw County, MI [parcel ownership]

Thanks all, I've made the change on OSM and informed the complainant. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https:

Re: [Talk-us] Cooper Country State Forest in Keweenaw County, MI

> ___ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org <mailto:Talk-us@openstreetmap.org> > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > > > ___ > Ta

[Talk-us] Cooper Country State Forest in Keweenaw County, MI

show this". I have been unable to find an online resource to corroborate this claim. Googling for "plat books" turned up some very pretty scans of 1800's surveyor records ;) Perhaps someone more knowledgeable in the US public records landscape can help? Bye Frederik -- Frederik

Re: [Talk-us] Trouble with getting Superior National Forest

citly) being mapped; mapping the > property line is the way that it is achieved.  I am wary of this line of reasoning because it will in many cases lead to doing exactly what I write above, making a low-quality copy of authoritative data that is kept elsewhere. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ra

Re: [Talk-us] Opinions on Devil's Slide Bunker (San Mateo, CA)

e fact that there is an old bunker at that location. This knowledge, too, can be useful for navigation or maybe even in an emergency. But tourism=*, I'd shy away from. And @Mateusz, I am not convinced that "there are great views from here" is sufficient for tourism=viewpoint because

Re: [Talk-us] Opinions on Devil's Slide Bunker (San Mateo, CA)

tion" or perhaps even "attraction" status, is not what I would call a viewpoint. And even a tourist attraction, I think, should not be something that is illegal to visit. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ##

[Talk-us] Opinions on Devil's Slide Bunker (San Mateo, CA)

M. While it is undeniably a de-facto tourist attraction, and undeniably offers great views, I think it should probably be changed to historic=ruins, access=no, and the tracks leading up to it should also be changed to access=no. Opinions? Best Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail f

Re: [Talk-us] Mapcarta with wrong info in Utah - whom to contact?

an for pointing me to the contact, don't know why I missed that. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

[Talk-us] Mapcarta with wrong info in Utah - whom to contact?

different camp site in Utah, Monte Cristo Campground, and I've removed it from there. Doesn't solve the Eagles Campground riddle though.) Mapcarta doesn't have any point of contact on the site and the whois doesn't return anything useful either. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm

[Talk-us] Someone from Craigslist here?

current OSM left, and craigslist right; https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/66467286 is the deletion changeset). It would certainly be beneficial to both us and Craigslist if they could update. Maybe there's someone here who has contacts and could prod them. Bye Frederik -- Frederik

Re: [Talk-us] admin_level and COGs, MPOs, SPDs, Home Rule

gal purposes. I didn't even want to weigh in on the discussion, mine was more a comment on process. You shouldn't delete something that has been there for 10 years and then say "btw let's discuss" ;) Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@

Re: [Talk-us] admin_level and COGs, MPOs, SPDs, Home Rule

hould actually be removed. It is clear that there is a need for discussion, and I feel that such a discussion should take place *before* a change is made and not *after*. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09&q

[Talk-us] Moderation?

Hi, has someone switched on moderation for this list, and if so, why? I sent a message 6 hours ago and re-sent it one hour ago and neither seem to have gone through. Have I overlooked an announcement? Or is it just broken? Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49

[Talk-us] Someone near Big Bend, TX?

Hi, DWG has received a report from a hiker about a mistake on OSM regarding the "South Rim Trail" / "Boot Spring Trail" at Big Bend in Texas. Is anyone familiar with the area and willing to attempt a fix if I forward details? Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail

[Talk-us] Changes for USA data on Geofabrik Download Server

merica) which means that those bits of the USA that lie outside North America will not be included. This mainly affects Puerto Rico. I'll be making a standalone Puerto Rico file available in the Central America section. -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09"

Re: [Talk-us] When is your doctor a clinic?

k-in patients > * often have extended hours, including 24/7 Is this "usually named ..." really a thing - I have a feeling that especially with dentists, even (what seems to me like) one-doctor practices will often be called some thing like "Bay Area Smiles Family Dentist" or

[Talk-us] When is your doctor a clinic?

? Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

[Talk-us] Opinions on micro parks

is "open to the public" and "has amenities" sounds very far-fetched to me. Also, mapping micro-protected areas on a rocky shore seems to be of limited value to me and puts a big burden on anyone who wants to verify that. But I'd like

Re: [Talk-us] Need someone in the south to review an edit

terRemedy. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Need someone in the south to review an edit

e same way the import or automated edit rules have, but I hope that awareness about this is growing, and everyday hobbyist mappers will start pointing out these rules to organiesed editors they encounter. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008

Re: [Talk-us] Need someone in the south to review an edit

ound that many of the objects are bang in the middle of roads. Which means at the very least that their location has not been visually inspected by the uploader. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___

[Talk-us] Anyone near Angeles National Forest (Mt Wilson Loop)?

than he did following the trail. The message has some details. I wonder if there's anyone near the area, or with knowledge of it, or contacts with knowledge, who would be willing and able to look into this? Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09&q

[Talk-us] Anyone near Rockford, IL?

Hi, DWG have received a rather detailed report about some potential mis-naming (or missing names) of streets in Rockford IL but I think this would be best handled by a local. Any volunteers I could forward the issue to? Thanks Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49

[Talk-us] Gated communities

ed to report, and (b) resident-only gates? Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Proposed mechanical edit - remove is_in:continent in USA

(which I would recommend not to do), then you need to provide a mechanism for individual mappers to ask the bot to keep its hands off something ("matkoniecz:bot=no" or so). Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33"

[Talk-us] Anyone interested in fixing Pine Mountain Trail, FDR state park, GA?

lephone numbers and names. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

[Talk-us] Forest Routes

if at all? I've looked around a bit and found some roads marked "ref=FS" but these were few and far between. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ Ta

Re: [Talk-us] California is too big ;)

Thank you all for the helpful discussion. I have now split California in a northern and southern part along the recommended counties. Let's see how long it takes until the parts grow too big again! Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09&q

Re: [Talk-us] California is too big ;)

13:58, Tod Fitch wrote: > In any case, I assume a good description of the extract boundaries will > be provided Heh, I had hoped that by asking here, I'll be able to find a self-explaining split where everyone knows immediately from the name what's in it. Apparently not so easy ;) B

Re: [Talk-us] California is too big ;)

While I don't *like* overlapping areas, it would be *possible* to have them if it matches what people expect to find. I could do SoCal+NorCal+Bay Area, or the 6 Californias plus Bay Area, or whatever. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E00

[Talk-us] California is too big ;)

s? 2. is there a demand for this? 3. what would be a sensible way to split California - in 58 counties, or maybe just go with SoCal and NorCal for now? Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" __

Re: [Talk-us] What is people's experience with OSM import software?

s quite efficient at filtering, the risk of running into performance issues should be limited. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] NYC Name Vandalism

build something that prioritizes things for review. But trying to build some kind of "protection" into the data ingestion at OSM would * impact performance negatively * disenfranchise mappers * bind resources for the constant maintenance

Re: [Talk-us] NYC Name Vandalism

Hi, On 30.08.2018 22:43, Frederik Ramm wrote: > We can only speculate about the motives here Ah, just a security researcher, I guess this makes it ok then? https://reddit.com/r/openstreetmap/comments/9brqx4/this_is_medwedianpresident1_talking_what_i_did/ > frankly my money is on > &

Re: [Talk-us] NYC Name Vandalism

mething that can be discussed, but it's not something we should do on a whim, and certainly not to please unspecified and scared "Powers That Be". Perhaps educating our users about the strengths and weaknesses of crowd-sourcing is another option. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm

Re: [Talk-us] Vandalism

u have a persistent vandal that needs to be blocked from making further edits. The edits you highlighted have been reverted by user Carnildo a couple hours ago. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _

Re: [Talk-us] buggy buildings in Maryland

still there, only 29,513 have tags other than building=*. In most cases, these other tags are addr:street and addr:housenumber. I'll let this rest for a bit to give others a chance to chime in. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ##

[Talk-us] buggy buildings in Maryland

port, fair enough (perhaps agree here on the list who's doing it though, so that we don't have 10 people spamming him...) I have prepared a file that contains all the buildings in question: http://www.remote.org/frederik/tmp/annapolis.osm.gz Bye Frederik -- Freder

Re: [Talk-us] Hostility towards US mappers

are somehow magically going to make it right. This is a deeply disrespectful attitude towards all those who are already spending lots of time building OSM. And if the occasional threat of reverting the whole lot is required to nudge the people managing such projects towards more diligence then th

Re: [Talk-us] Senseless Germans, again.

Hi, On 25.07.2018 12:33, Bryan Housel wrote: > Do you live in Austin, TX? > If not, why do you care whether the students want to map sidewalks there? What does this have to do with my nationality? Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09&

[Talk-us] Senseless Sidewalks, again.

ct=OpenSidewalks" which makes it easier to delete them once the project has run out... Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

[Talk-us] admin_level=8 boundaries in Parker County, TX

rway missing in OSM? Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Slack: Do we need an Alternative (was Planning an import in Price George...)

ussion or just one guy with a big mouth and two of his pals applauding ;) Bye Frederik [*] minus things like the EU data protection regulations forcing us to remove someone who wants to be forgotten - but they will live on in my personal email folder, har har. -- Frederik Ram

Re: [Talk-us] Edit war after MapRoulette motorway downgrading task

nt. Not assigning blame to anyone here; just trying to help humans understand other humans. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Help fight advertising

oth of which is rarely the case for advertising. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Help fight advertising

ms is their core business, that's what they do with Google & Co.; and even if we found some way to keep more advertising from entering OSM, there's several thousand advertising POIs in OSM in the US alone and they won't magically go away. So let's roll up our sleev

Re: [Talk-us] Help fight advertising

ed answering serivice". The list I posted does contain a number of businesses that sound a bit shady - if not outright scams, then at least preying on those in difficult situations. Loan sharks, lawyers with dubious offers, people who claim to buy homes for cash and the like. Sometimes it's h

Re: [Talk-us] Help fight advertising

help. There's certainly things that can be done policy-wise, establishing rules that can then be communicated to those willing to play by them; the upcoming directed editing policy will be helpful in outlining acceptable behaviour for groups who wish to contribute business information. But that&#

[Talk-us] Help fight advertising

h the columns: date_last_edited,object,created_by,last_edited_by,name,description If you're in the mood, grab a few and kick out the most outrageous abuses of OSM. And maybe we can establish ways to make this a habit in the project. Ideas welcome! I wanted to include the list here but that woul

Re: [Talk-us] RetroFitness - file verification

s here, would it be too much to ask to specify the correct addresses for each instead of relying on community members to repair the data post-import? Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" __

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER 2017 Pennsylvania county line import?

to do, the JOSM "utilsplugin2" function "replace geometry" might be useful; it would try to keep the existing objects in OSM and just refine their geometry, rather than deleting and re-creating stuff. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00

Re: [Talk-us] New to lists and would like to suggest some imports

mapping yourself before embarking on a grand import project; that way you'll get a better idea of working with the data as a mapper, of what makes sense and what doesn't. Of just how precise you'd like a building footprint to be when you edit it by hand later, and so on. Bye Frede

Re: [Talk-us] Multipolygonizing

nd applying it to contibutions made by others. This sort of "cleanup" benefits few but your personal sense of orderliness, and your time is better spent actually improving data instead of just fiddling with how the same data is represented in the database. Bye Frederik -- Fr

Re: [Talk-us] Multipolygonizing

f the three areas have more in common than being farmland; for example if the three areas together share a local name or so.) Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Integrating our open source data into OSM

abase from repeated extraction even if the individual extracted bits are not copyrighted. This concept doesn't exist in the US to my knowledge, but someone using such a database in, for example, the EU, could be sued by the database owner. That's why OSM must avoid adding location data that

Re: [Talk-us] Low-quality NHD imports

ssion about it over on the talk list, here: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2017-October/079116.html Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

[Talk-us] Low-quality NHD imports

e any systematic (or even sporadic) effort of cleaning up these old imports? Is there reason to believe that the neglect extends to more than just the tags - do geometry and topology usually work well on these, or are the funny tags a huge "this whole area hasn't had any love in a long time&q

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Redacting 75, 000 street names contributed by user chdr

the name has meanwhile been changed again, or where the object has been deleted; these redactions will be of little consequence. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

[Talk-us] Code for America

ogram", none of which I remember doing. It's totally possible that I simply forgot though. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@open

Re: [Talk-us] Requesting to remove stoplines in San Jose

t; http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/stop_line The proposal certainly needs fleshing out. Personally I think the use of the "highway" tag is questionable since there will be many applications out there that treat any linear feature with highway=* as s

Re: [Talk-us] "System Continuity" in the Functional Classification network

Hi, On 07.09.2017 16:51, Max Erickson wrote: > Broadly speaking, yes, such continuity should apply. Maybe not using > exactly the same rule as the US DOT. I know this is talk-us and I won't attempt to say anything USA specific but such continuity definitely does not apply world-wide in OSM (there

Re: [Talk-us] Tampa/Clearwater Building Import to aid in Irma Recovery Efforts

rts you run also have? The wiki page for Corpus Christy says "QA: Validation: Use of validation tools in the Tasking Manager process", but I assume that just refers to usual automatic checks done by JOSM, not a second person inspecting the result? Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail

Re: [Talk-us] Proposed import of building footprints for Hartford, CT

blic import documentation. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Redacting 75, 000 street names contributed by user chdr

and a few more weeks won't kill us. We can sort this out calmly and then do the right thing. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Redacting 75, 000 street names contributed by user chdr

in about MapRoulette? Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Redacting 75, 000 street names contributed by user chdr

that would end up not having a name will probably show up in enough QA tools already, no? I'll do a count of how many names would revert and how many would be removed altogether. Maybe it is indeed best to simply ditch them all. Bye Frederik

[Talk-us] Redacting 75,000 street names contributed by user chdr

s is not nice but I don't see how it could be avoided. Here's a list of way IDs affected, with country and state: http://www.remote.org/frederik/tmp/chdr.details I am trying to keep the damage to OSM to a minimum while at the same time respecting copyrig

Re: [Talk-us] Talk-us Digest, Vol 116, Issue 20

* a gap between neihgbouring admin_level 4 areas!) would be assumed to be governed by that admin_level 3 body. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Differences with USA admin_level tagging

l) but other kinds of "hole" > tagging without multipolygons. If you mean not only "without multipolygons" but "without boundary relations" too then I think you should stop right here and leave it to people who can work with relations. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Tiger Zip Data Removal Project (Update)

http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/49381249 ? Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

[Talk-us] Finding one-trick ponies

->%s"', $1, $2, $t->{$1}; } else { print ",$_"; } } print "\n"; } --- cut --- And you'll end up with something like my "one trick ponies" CSV posted in the other thread. This is all super hacky of course, suffers from lack of proper escaping and XML parsing, and could all be done properly in a more modern language. But if this encourages one or two people to play a bit then maybe it was already useful. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] SEO Damage to OSM

treats us like another advertising dumping ground. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] SEO Damage to OSM

Hi, On 05.07.2017 23:05, Frederik Ramm wrote: > I've done some numbers, maybe it helps. The CSVs I uploaded were a bit difficult to process because of lack of escaping. I've made a new one here http://www.remote.org/frederik/tmp/one-trick-ponies.csv To recap, this file contains a

Re: [Talk-us] SEO Damage to OSM

e URL) - do you think we should revert them all automatically? (Keep in mind many may have been reverted already - we'd only work on those where the spam version is still current.) and http://www.remote.org/frederik/tmp/other.csv for those where the username is not (fully) in the URL. Bye F

Re: [Talk-us] SEO Damage to OSM

seriously doubt that the freedom to sign up and import data without consultation is what the community wants us to uphold. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] SEO Damage to OSM

wnloading a changeset planet and feeding all changeset comments to some sort of Bayes filter could help identify more problems. Bye Frederik (*) Where I live this term would be considered really offensive towards those who do this kind of work but it seems to be the normal term in the US? --

Re: [Talk-us] SEO Damage to OSM

these accounts also contribute good data? Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Help needed, Babcock Ranch near Fort Myers, FL

t mapped in 2 weeks so maybe they're on holiday. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

[Talk-us] Help needed, Babcock Ranch near Fort Myers, FL

ll also ask the property developer if they have better information but of course nothing beats a field survey. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ Talk-us mailing l

Re: [Talk-us] Response from TIGER about "driveways

ail/dev/2006-November/002561.html for details. (I chuckled when I read that message which begins with a complaint about the mailing lists.) Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" __

Re: [Talk-us] Available Building Footprints Date: March 28, 2017 at 2:06:33 AM PDT

by people who are not at all local to the area just to "colour it green". This is undesirable in my opinion. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ Talk-us mailing

Re: [Talk-us] Available Building Footprints

at data stands up to today's quality expectations, and whether it is worth keeping at all. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] How to apply changesets

ation-interval" then you will only deal with one diff file that has all the changes. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Key:man_made... Outdated language?

don't speak English. But working on presets and tag translations and maybe even styling tools that abstract from tags will help to include not only English-speaking technically-interested women, but also everyone who doesn't speak English and everyone who doesn't deal with databases a

Re: [Talk-us] MO Stare Road Classifications.

ot;). Then we and/or local mappers could investigate the differences and make adjustments where deemed sensible. And while our ODbL licensed data is probably not suitable for direct back-import into the state highway department's database, they might actually find such a comparison useful as well -

[Talk-us] NY/Connecticut state boundary near Glen Cove/Port Chester

follow the coastline, and in the course of that, a bit of the state boundary was lost. Lack of local knowledge kept me from dabbling in city and county boundaries in that corner so some of those might still be incomplete. Perhaps someone can have a look. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail

Re: [Talk-us] Blue Ridge Parkway

Hi, I added the takeaway from this discussion to the wiki: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Tag%3Aboundary%3Dnational_park&type=revision&diff=1424102&oldid=1373291 Feel free to amend as necessary. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org #

[Talk-us] Blue Ridge Parkway

since 1946..." but we have boundary=national_park delivery=no hgv=no leisure=park Is our definition of national park different than Wikipedia's, or should one of the two be changed? Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N

Re: [Talk-us] U.S.-Mexico border fence update

Hi, On 01/23/2017 11:13 PM, Michael Corey wrote: > Does anyone have thoughts on how to do this most efficiently and without > causing major headaches? I wouldn't bother, it's going to be replaced by a wall soon anyway! SCNR Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@rem

Re: [Talk-us] Am I wrong to be bothered by this?

Hi, On 01/05/2017 11:28 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > We have rules > about automatic/mechanical edits that say that any edit where the person > making the edit doesn't actually look at the concrete object they're > editing needs to be discussed and approved in advance. O

Re: [Talk-us] Am I wrong to be bothered by this?

know that so the best thing is to make contact via a changeset discussion and find out what happened and what the user was doing/thinking. If necessary, the edit can then be reverted. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _

Re: [Talk-us] Bulk import for large healthcare system in central PA

ki/Key:healthcare) but somethink like "fast, friendly, convenient" or "small enough for X yet large enough for Y" is not something that can be put in OSM. Best Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___

Re: [Talk-us] Municipal Tree Survey

ata ("what, only registered and trained members of the Springfield City Tree Board can be trusted with assessing the tree cover, keep out you unwashed public" etc). Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _

Re: [Talk-us] Deleting / Closing / Renaming all places in a chain

ultimately slow things down even further instead of helping. But this has absolutely nothing to do with the topic at hand; as I said, I've made the very same recommendation for the very same reasons in other countrie s. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°

Re: [Talk-us] Deleting / Closing / Renaming all places in a chain

cally fixing that is like a car salesperson fixing a leak with bubble gum because it looks better and they can't be bothered to fix it properly. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" __

Re: [Talk-us] Deleting / Closing / Renaming all places in a chain

a bit aged. When a local mapper touches up the area they will likely also update other things than just the closed-down shop, and then the map will be current again. Automatically editing away something country-wide hides the fact that the map lacks attention in an area. Bye Frederik -- Frederik R

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Proposing import of sidewalk data Seattle, WA, USA

bout? I linked some in my post to the tagging list. Some of the failed/single-minded projects in the past didn't even bother documenting their tags on the wiki, insofar this project is superior - and it's totally ok for them to start a discussion. Just not an import one week after ment

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