Re: [OSM-talk] Cyprous - postal codes

Jo winfixit at gmail.com writes: I don't think postcodes should go on roads. Either you add them addresses or buildings as addr:postcode=.. Or you create a boundary (relation):http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/3379414/history#map=13/50.8208/4.3755 boundary=postal_code There

Re: [OSM-talk] Not attaching polygons to roads

Jean-Marc Liotier jm at liotier.org writes: On 26/02/2014 15:35, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: I am going even further by saying ideally a landuse=residential/industrial/ commercial/retail polygon should not incorporate any public road at all. But then how do you tag named

Re: [OSM-talk] Hate captchas!!!!

Richard Z. ricoz.osm at gmail.com writes: I need on average 4 captcha-reloads before I get a captcha picture which I can recognise with good enough confidence to even try it. You only have to type the right number for the distorted figures. You can type whatever you like for the photograph.

[OSM-talk] Image of the week

As has happened repeatedly recently, there is no image of the week well after it should have gone lave and any suggestion at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Featured_image_proposals is bombarded with criticism. I would like a discussion on where we go from here. Do we want to keep the featured

Re: [OSM-talk] City templates - Links OFF

Erick de Oliveira Leal erickdeoliveiraleal at gmail.com writes: In the city template, links like below are off, how to edit this template to not show this links? http://tah.openstreetmap.org/MapOf/?lat=-15.7896long=-47.8221z=9w=1280h=1024format=jpeg

[OSM-talk] Peculiar mapping in Caracas

Zoom into http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/10.46900/-66.84900 and Bing has nothing like it. -- Andrew ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Come back Osmarender, all is forgiven!

SomeoneElse lists at mail.atownsend.org.uk writes: There have however been some unintended consequences of the changes. A number of abandoned railways near me were edited from abandoned to disused; I'm guessing that it might be because of the recent changes. Changeset comments along the

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding Wikidata tags to 70k items automatically

Rob Nickerson rob.j.nickerson at gmail.com writes: Hi All, Lets just step back and reflect on this for a minute. I have reviewed the replies on this mailing list and there are a mixture of supportive comments, a few negatives and the remainder may suggest something but are neither negative or

Re: [OSM-talk] 112k Wikidata tags to add to OSM

Edward Betts edward at 4angle.com writes: Don't be alarmed, this is a work in progress. I'm not going to add any wikidata tags until we have reached a consensus. Is there an advantage deriving wikidata tags from existing wikipedia tags? -- Andrew

Re: [OSM-talk] 112k Wikidata tags to add to OSM

Edward Betts edward at 4angle.com writes: I adjusted my criteria for islands, villages, towns and cities. There are now 102,691 matches and 230 mismatches. http://edwardbetts.com/osm-wikidata/ http://edwardbetts.com/osm-wikidata/mismatches.html How old are the datasets you are

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposed mechanical edit to convert alt_name tags

Roland Olbricht roland.olbricht at gmx.de writes: This underpins the two theses: 1. The solution with ; is far more established than the solution with prefix alt_name_. 2. It is altogether a sometimes but not often used feature. The TIGER import used name_n istead of alt_name_n.

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposed mechanical edit to convert alt_name tags

Andrew Buck andrew.r.buck at gmail.com writes: However, since the conversion scripts have changed over time and since some work was done manually by others, we ended up using two slightly different forms for the alt_name field in the case where there are more than one alt_name for a given

Re: [OSM-talk] keys with multiple values

Paul Norman penorman at mac.com writes: I believe with TIGER these were not alternate names, but different names, none of which were clearly main or alternates in the data. It's one of those things that makes raw TIGER data a pain to work with. That situation is distinct from when you

[OSM-talk] New wiki page: Awards for OpenStreetMap

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Awards_for_OpenStreetMap Could anyone who knows more about any of the awards or one that I’ve left out fill in the gaps. -- Andrew ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Change: How mature is OpenStreetMap?

Jo Walsh metazool at fastmail.net writes:   Attack is the best form of defence? Sorry, I don't have much sense of the OSM community as it currently exists, and I just re-joined the list, where it seems like others leap in with confrontational tone. It has been some years since I was

Re: [OSM-talk] MEP - pipelines

Lists lists at gimnechiske.org writes: This should be the general rule for mechanical edits when migrating tagging schemes. Fair enough when there is a clear use that this fosters but it is unclear whether that is true here. As a community we have to make sure that trolls and others without our

Re: [OSM-talk] MEP - pipelines

Rainer Fügenstein rfu at oudeis.org writes: are you referring to me and the pipeline proposal? if yes, I'll withdraw the MEP proposal, since I don't want to be a troll. Sorry not to make myself clear. The comment was not aimed at you and I would like to make clear that I support the mass edit

Re: [OSM-talk] Can wikidata links help fight name inflation?

Dave Corley davecorley at gmail.com writes: Lastly, and I think this is important point. To quote the wiki header . the project that creates and distributes free geographic data for the world. Either this is a database of worldwide geodata or its not. There's no half-way in that statement.

Re: [OSM-talk] Craigslist OpenStreetMap Rendering Issue

Warin 61sundowner at gmail.com writes: Or oneway=1, -1 reverse, true, reversible The tag oneway=true is extinct in the database. -- Andrew ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Craigslist OpenStreetMap Rendering Issue

Mike Thompson miketho16 at gmail.com writes: The issue is that some streets that are not one way in OSM data, are rendered as one way by Craigslist. If you go to this ad and zoom in on the map you will see the arrows designating one way streets, for example on Cliffrose Way

Re: [OSM-talk] New road style for Default Map style - pull requested is opened

Mateusz Konieczny matkoniecz at gmail.com writes: https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/pull/1736 - review of the code and comments are welcome. We have a great opportunity for a spot of promotion. Publish a post on our blog announcing the new style and explaining the

[OSM-talk] List of OSM-based services

As part of an article on the diversity of OSM-based mapping I’m looking to check if the list at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/List_of_OSM-based_services is up to date, including sites and especially map styles that may not have been noted. -- Andrew

[OSM-talk] Map key

I am having a look at the map key for the standard layer and I am finding a number of loose ends. One obvious issue is that the key is sometimes out of date: for instance it distinguishes between forest and wood but the style sheet no longer does so. The key talks about trunk, primary and

Re: [OSM-talk] What's the point of the Wiki 'k=v' icon?

Dave F. davefox at madasafish.com writes: Hi Bearing in mind the wiki is used more often by new OSM contributors therefore should be a clear concise as possible, I'm curious why this icon is so prevalent: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/images/thumb/5/5f/Osm_element_tag.sv

[OSM-talk] Map Features usefulness, usability and maintainability

The Map Features page is a long standing page on the wiki linked from its left sidebar and it has been translated into a large number of languages. Unfortunately there are clear signs of difficulties of maintenance. Tags are regularly added with the wrong wiki variable copied and pasted that

Re: [OSM-talk] How to handle Maps.Me garbage?

Andy Townsend gmail.com> writes: > Because of the language difference I suspect that the chance of a reply > from this MAPS.ME user will be less than from others (unless you try an > address them in Korean - but that really isn't difficult these days with > machine translation). > > I've

Re: [OSM-talk] Destructive new 'contributor'

You could put a note on the map in New Orleans saying what you think needs checking locally. -- Andrew From: Dave F Sent: 22 January 2017 10:50:19 To: OSM Talk Subject: [OSM-talk] Destructive new 'contributor' Hi Some one from

[OSM-talk] International mapping getting together day

Any interest in organising a distributed mapping party where we get together round the world, attracting armchair mappers who haven't experienced field mapping or just people with a casual interest? It could be a chance to promote ourselves as the full extent of our project or we could have a

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

Presumably it means something like the https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:odbl%3Dclean tag. It may not be as much use hete though. -- Andrew From: Nicolás Alvarez Sent: 27 August 2017 20:01:16 To: Frederik Ramm Cc: Talk

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

There was a script during the licence change that assessed whether or not changes to names were copyrightable. -- Andrew From: Mikel Maron Sent: 27 August 2017 19:51:05 To: Greg Morgan; Martijn van Exel Cc: Talk Openstreetmap; Steve

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

How much use are you making of tools developed for identifying contributions to be redacted in the licence change? -- Andrew From: Frederik Ramm Sent: 28 August 2017 13:43:44 Cc: Talk Openstreetmap; talk...@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re:

Re: [OSM-talk] Highway=trunk : harmonization between countries ?

While you can do that, it diminishes one of our most important offers, that we have a map of the whole world. -- Andrew From: ajt1...@gmail.com Sent: 20 August 2017 11:46:28 To: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Highway=trunk :

Re: [OSM-talk] Wiki Proposals: An OSM Echo Chamber?

I would suggest that this is part of a wider malaise that the mission of the wiki has become unclear. -- Andrew From: Roland Olbricht Sent: 04 December 2017 08:42:46 To: osm-talk Subject: [OSM-talk] Wiki Proposals: An OSM Echo Chamber?

Re: [OSM-talk] weeklyOSM #379 2017-10-17-2017-10-23

M #379 2017-10-17-2017-10-23 On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 12:13:14AM +0100, Tobias Knerr wrote: > On 28.10.2017 12:06, Andrew Hain wrote: > > His behaviour over the past years makes him a contributor of net > > negative value. > > I have to disagree here. He's probably the single mos

[OSM-talk] Tool to change dual carriageway to sinjle preserving route relations?

Is there a tool that preserves bus route relations properly whlle correcting a road currently mapped as dual carriageway to predominantly single carriageway? -- Andrew ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] [HOT] Why the HOT obsession with low quality buildings in Africa ?

Generally, of course, yes, but there was a talk by someone who had estimated the population of a seasonally inhabited village by mapping buildings that are demolished each year. -- Andrew From: Jean-Marc Liotier Sent: 02 July 2018 15:25:38 To: Vao Matua Cc:

Re: [OSM-talk] proposed mechanical edit - moving FIXME=* to fixme=*

Should we ask for validation steps in editors to flag FIXME as a likely tagging mistake going forwards? -- Andrew From: Mateusz Konieczny Sent: 02 July 2018 18:42 To: Talk Subject: [OSM-talk] proposed mechanical edit - moving FIXME=* to fixme=* fixme tag is a

Re: [OSM-talk] WMF: "Interactive maps, now in your language"

One of OSM’s strengths is, or should be, that we are a truly worldwide map. Multilingual names are part of this. Excluding actual names from the map database as “ought not” is no different from omitting casinos in a stand against gambling or leaving the road number of the high street in your

Re: [OSM-talk] weeklyOSM #379 2017-10-17-2017-10-23

It is now time to talk about banning Verdy p from the wiki permanently. His behaviour over the past years makes him a contributor of net negative value. It is exceptionally difficult to correct any mistake that he makes and as a result people have cut down their contributions to the wiki or

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM data, how can we contribute to keep it to a reasonable size?

Or a mass change from Name=Untitled Polygon (wasteful but not wrong) to name=Untitled Polygon. -- Andrew From: Mark Wagner Sent: 18 January 2018 19:07:20 To: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] OSM data, how can we contribute to

Re: [OSM-talk] diversity-talk: No such list

According to the Wayback Machine the last message was posted early in 2015. -- Andrew From: Sérgio V. Sent: 17 February 2018 19:56:57 To: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: [OSM-talk] diversity-talk: No such list Hi, I've just realized

Re: [OSM-talk] diversity-talk: No such list

Hopefully anyone who revives the topic will find a way to avoid the circumstances of the original list’s demise. -- Andrew From: Rory McCann Sent: 19 February 2018 09:47 To: Sérgio V.; talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk]

[OSM-talk] Fw: Nominatim on the main page

From: Andrew Hain <andrewhain...@hotmail.co.uk> Sent: 19 February 2018 21:50 To: Sarah Hoffmann Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Nominatim on the main page It’s unfortunate that a new user mapping mistake has such unfortunate consequences. --

Re: [OSM-talk] Lua modules are here: Improving OSM wiki templates

It would be interesting to know how much of the problem is because of the large number of languages tested, many with no pages on the wiki written in that language. -- Andrew From: mmd Sent: 29 July 2018 19:37:04 To: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re:

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=* + area=yes vs area:highway=*

The wiki has definitely had problems recently and we should have a good discussion about what we want from it. -- Andrew From: Paul Johnson Sent: 10 August 2018 18:13:36 To: Tomasz Wójcik Cc: Talk Openstreetmap Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] highway=* + area=yes vs

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

This looks to be very comfortably within the computational ability of mobile phone apps (“You could calculate it with AI” is a much less attractive deletionist argument) so everyone who has implemented it by conerting coordinates on the fly would seem to be doing the right thing. -- Andrew

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

If they did sue, could Nomination, Osmand or OSM be liable if we implement it? -- Andrew From: Simon Poole Sent: 11 August 2018 09:43 To: Blake Girardot Cc: OpenStreetMap Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Is it technically and legally possible to add the Open Location

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

Do you know whether the latitude and longitude on the plaque are in the WGS84 that we use? From: Andrew Errington Sent: 11 August 2018 10:56 To: mmd Cc: Talk Openstreetmap Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Is it technically and legally possible to add the Open Location

Re: [OSM-talk] anonymous notes spam?

Can we find out what software is being used to send these notes? -- Andrew From: Doug Hembry Sent: 20 July 2018 14:26:13 To: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] anonymous notes spam? Yes. In the San Francisco Bay Area. Single letters "f", "k", and

Re: [OSM-talk] API a lot slower?

Will there be a local team or does whatever can’t be done remotely need a visit? -- Andrew From: Grant Slater Sent: 17 July 2018 13:55:05 To: Daniel Koć Cc: Talk Openstreetmap Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] API a lot slower? On 17 July 2018 at 13:42, Daniel Koć wrote:

Re: [OSM-talk] External contact channels and GDPR

The issue would be that we are asking someone to trust an external provider. At worst we could be responsible for propagating their noncompliance with the GDPR. -- Andrewm From: Kathleen Lu <kathleen...@mapbox.com> Sent: 16 April 2018 23:11:11 To: Andrew H

[OSM-talk] External contact channels and GDPR

When we ask mappers to discuss controversial edits or imports is it ever acceptable under GDPR to direct people to a contact channel that is not directly run by the OSMF? -- Andrew ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Unify Mapping and wiki accounts? -- WAS: Vote cheating?

Interesting idea. The wiki dates from before OAuth of course, even before the fiddle we implemented for trac and the forum. It must be just about the only internal communication space not using the main accounts. -- Andrew From: Richard

Re: [OSM-talk] Unify Mapping and wiki accounts? -- WAS: Vote cheating?

You could say that every existing edit is by an “old” account and new ones going forwards are by main site accounts which occasionally have the same name. Perhaps you could link some of the old wiki accounts to the OSM user names where they are known to be the same person. -- Andrew

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Wikibase is now live

Could you give some examples so that the wider OSM community can do something about it? -- Andrew From: Christoph Hormann We already have quite a few people on the wiki who try to forbid mappers accurately documenting widely used tags because these tags are

Re: [OSM-talk] [Osmf-talk] Board decision on Crimea complaint

Will the board be following up with additional information as promised? -- Andrew From: Martijn van Exel Sent: 10 December 2018 16:55:42 To: OSM Talk; OSMF Talk Cc: OSMF Board Subject: [Osmf-talk] Board decision on Crimea complaint Hi all, On November 17, the

Re: [OSM-talk] [Osmf-talk] Board decision on Crimea complaint

A question both to the current board and the candidates: Do you support normal levels of Board transparency on this issue? -- Andrew From: Martijn van Exel Sent: 10 December 2018 16:55:42 To: OSM Talk; OSMF Talk Cc: OSMF Board Subject: [Osmf-talk] Board decision

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposed mechanical edit - elimination of osmarender:nameDirection - blatant tagging for the renderer

Is it worth mechanically removing any of the existing discardable tags from the database as well? -- Andrew From: Dave F via talk Sent: 17 March 2019 21:09 To: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Proposed mechanical edit - elimination of

Re: [OSM-talk] [Osmf-talk] Anyone who likes to organize an ID discussion panel at SotM?

This would be a good idea and it shouldn’t be confined to iD. This is just a particularly acute example of something that sometimes happens in OSM. Ideally there would be several developers there including iD. -- Andrew From: Christine Karch Sent: 29 May 2019

Re: [OSM-talk] Remove validation rule asking to add highway=footway to railway/public_transport=platform

Also: Have a new team of developers code from the codebase of iD. Write a new online editor from scratch. Abandon online editing and tell everyone to use an offline editor. -- Andrew From: Simon Poole Sent: 27 May 2019 11:07 To: talk@openstreetmap.org;

Re: [OSM-talk] mass iD validation arrives in NYC

Just out of idle curiosity, do we know of any data consumers that understand crossing=marked? -- Andrew From: Martin Koppenhoefer Sent: 28 May 2019 19:00 To: Dave F Cc: osm Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] mass iD validation arrives in NYC Am Di., 28. Mai 2019 um

Re: [OSM-talk] Wikibase items instead of usual templates for wiki pages?

Every tag documentation page has a grey pencil icon next to the description to edit the data message. Maybe it could be made clearer. -- Andrew From: Joseph Eisenberg Sent: 09 June 2019 12:59 To: osm Subject: [OSM-talk] Wikibase items instead of usual templates

Re: [OSM-talk] Wikibase items instead of usual templates for wiki pages?

Some more advantages: Data item descriptions can be added for tag values that have no need for long-form documentation separate from the key. Descriptions can be added in extra languages before anyone has the time to write full documentation in that language; with support from Taginfo this

Re: [OSM-talk] Mali

Is there any sign of mappers being part of an organised activity or of someone having encouraged them to contribute? -- Andrew From: John Whelan Sent: 29 June 2019 23:49 To: talk@openstreetmap.org Cc: Pierre Béland via HOT Subject: [OSM-talk] Mali I've been

Re: [OSM-talk] Maintaining privacy as a casual mapper

Have you talked to the Data Working Group about this? -- Andrew From: 80hnhtv4agou--- via talk Sent: 03 November 2019 16:47 To: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Maintaining privacy as a casual mapper I find myself being stalked by one mapper,

Re: [OSM-talk] Creation of "Data Items" by bot for undocumented tags

I strongly disagree. It is perfectly useful to document the existence of tags in the database with data items. For example one was created for the key sub_sea:type [https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Item:Q4506] and it has been possible to add this it is a discardable tag that the main OSM

Re: [OSM-talk] Remove Wikidata parameter from Infobox on wiki (ValueDescription, KeyDescription boxes)

Getting rid of the search link is definitely a good idea, there are also links to artificial Wikidata items such as Q57977870 highway key in OpenStreetMap to consider. -- Andrew From: Joseph Eisenberg Sent: 03 May 2020 17:10 To: osm Subject: [OSM-talk] Remove

Re: [OSM-talk] Remove Wikidata parameter from Infobox on wiki (ValueDescription, KeyDescription boxes)

See https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_deletions/Archive/2018/10/16#Q29637965 for another artificial item. -- Andrew From: Andrew Hain Sent: 03 May 2020 18:22 To: Joseph Eisenberg ; osm Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Remove Wikidata parameter from

Re: [OSM-talk] Taking a break and a call for help

When you aren’t sure of the exact nature of a service road it makes perfect sense to leave out the service= tag. If that makes it more prominent it’s the fault of the renderer. -- Andrew From: Greg Troxel Sent: 22 March 2020 16:46 To: Dave F Cc: Dave F via

Re: [OSM-talk] our Q site help.openstreetmap.org is dying

We could also look at the software Codidact and Topanswers have been writing. -- Andrew From: Mateusz Konieczny via talk Sent: 20 May 2020 14:48 To: Tobias Wrede Cc: Talk Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] our Q site help.openstreetmap.org is dying May 20, 2020, 09:28

Re: [OSM-talk] Call to Take Action and Confront Systemic Offensive Behavior in the OSM Community

The big problem I have with this manifesto is that it brings divisive North American attitudes to a worldwide project. As a worldwide project, building a community of mappers from the whole world is our most important single diversity objective. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t encourage other

Re: [OSM-talk] When two bots go to war

Is there a bot that does this or is someone prepared to write one? -- Andrew From: Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) Sent: 14 September 2023 10:39 To: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] When two bots go to war Maybe there should be a general

Re: [OSM-talk] Announcing State of the Map 2024: Join us in Nairobi and online on 6-8 September 2024!

I would like to congratulate the organising team in Nairobi and the SotM Working Group for doing this. Giving the worldwide community a broader understanding of the challenges of mapping Africa and using maps there is positive step for OSM’s inclusiveness as a truly worldwide map. -- Andrew

Re: [OSM-talk] remove link to Wikidata from infoboxes is a valid arg to remove it from wiki page and data items ?

The Wikidata links haven’t gone away; they’re in the OSM data items where they are easily machine readable and can be curated against accidental divergences between languages. The other description arguments could just as easily follow (there’s no problem with them being listed in the wiki

Re: [OSM-talk] Jhulto Pul/ Morbi bridge

And you can put a comment on the changeset that deleted it. -- Andrew From: Marc_marc Sent: 07 November 2022 13:48 To: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Jhulto Pul/ Morbi bridge Le 06.11.22 à 20:25, Andy Mabbett a écrit : > Someone has deleted the

Re: [OSM-talk] mapilio? (street-level imagery)

Is there an imagery host that offers an OSM-friendly way to support mapping and is suitable for contributions using a smartphone or tablet? -- Andrew From: Greg Troxel Sent: 24 May 2023 13:31 To: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: [OSM-talk] mapilio? (street-level

Re: [Talk-GB] Editor backbground layers in iD

SomeoneElse lists@... writes: I logged a bug with iD regarding the non-visibility of some items in the background layer menu:https://github.com/systemed/iD/issues/1929#issuecomment-27236976 The issue that I actually logged is actually being addressed as part of a different

Re: [Talk-GB] Upcoming changes to OpenStreetMap.org website

Richard Fairhurst richard@... writes: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/announce/ :) (it's a bit unloved though... needs more people volunteering for CWG to help) Could that go into the community blogs for people who follow OSM bu web pages? -- Andrew

Re: [Talk-GB] FW: OpenStreetBugs PhaseOut: help needed, Mapping party

Andy Allan gravitystorm@... writes: Great to see lots of other people diving in over the last hour or so! Be bold! Cheers, Andy Northern Ireland is now free of OpenStreetBugs. -- Andrew ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-GB] Key: PMSA_ref

Andy Mabbett andy@... writes: I've tidied up and updated the documentation for Public Monuments Sculpture Association PMSA references: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:PMSA_ref ... For example, WMbiBIxx288 is now: http://pmsa.cch.kcl.ac.uk/pmsa-database/6690/

Re: [Talk-GB] UK postcodes on each side of the road

Lester Caine lester@... writes: and in this case, the street and other location data can be provided by tags on a street rather than duplicating that data unnecessarily on every building ... Surely that’s what associatedStreet relations are for. -- Andrew

Re: [Talk-GB] City names translation

Ed Loach edloach@... writes: There is a bit in the wiki which recommends avoiding transliterations: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Names#Avoid_transliteration It was only put in recently and I personally find it unhelpful. Would anyone object to removing it? -- Andrew

Re: [Talk-GB] C roads again

Philip Barnes phil@... writes: I am going to use the horrible word, mechanical edit, but I feel it needs sorting out. I propose that nothing is removed, but the ref tag for tertiary and unclassified is moved to official_ref. This will retain the data and allow OSM to be used by those who

Re: [Talk-GB] C roads again

Philip Barnes phil@... writes: I have carried out a first changeset, can anyone spot anything wrong before I continue? https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/24727341#map=8/52.507/-3.796 Thanks Phil (trigpoint) References beginning with three or more letters or containing a

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping turn lanes on major roads

SomeoneElse lists@... writes: I'd always assumed that the correct way to map turn lanes is via: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:turn:lanes . However, some mappers in the UK* have started mapping each individual lane as a separate parallel road. Here's an example:

[Talk-GB] Canadian postcodes at State of the Map

Ervin Ruci of Geolytica gave an interesting presentation at SotM, now available on video[1], about his efforts to build a crowdsourced postcode database. Apart from technical matters he also talked about legal issues with Canada Post.

Re: [Talk-GB] Discussion of Mechanical Edits

Andy Allan gravitystorm@... writes: This mailing list appears to be having some sort of immune-response over-reaction. We don't like mechanical edits in general. Fine. Therefore every mechanical edit must be fought against, to the bitter end. That's an over-reaction. No, that can't work

[Talk-GB] Totesport

Betfred took over Totesport a few years ago but there are still tags name=Totesport, name=totesport or operator=Totesport in Ashford, Birmingham(2), London (2), Manchester (2), Northampton, Oxford, Rotherham and Wakefield. -- Andrew ___ Talk-GB

Re: [Talk-us] Relation member order/structure; best effort worth it?

Peter Davies peter.davies@... writes:  Does anyone know if the Europeans (of which I'm one, oops) have any plans to create route relations?  I have found none while in UK, NL, D, A, CH, I and F this past two weeks, but perhaps I didn't look hard enough. Route relations for roads have

Re: [Talk-GB] route relations type=road

But surely I can see no obvious harm in the presence of the relations. Also searching the database by reference doesn’t always work, for instance not all road segments tagged A1 in the UK are part of the road from London to Edinburgh. -- Andrew From:

[Talk-GB] London meetup on Thursday

The next London pub meetup will be on Thursday 16th June at 7pm in the Monkey Puzzle near Paddington station (http://themonkeypuzzlepub.co.UK). Sorry for the short notice. -- Andrew ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM with Wikidata: now covers UK and Ireland

I still get internal errors in a few places, for instance Richmond upon Thames. -- Andrew ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM with Wikidata: now covers UK and Ireland

I’m getting internal server errors when I try to look at the previews. -- Andrew From: Edward Betts Sent: 11 March 2016 15:46 To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] OSM with Wikidata: now covers UK and Ireland I've added

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM with Wikidata: now covers UK and Ireland

Well done and congratulations. Building or land tags can go on multipolygons, in fact it manages cases more complicated than this one better. It does seem silly to have just one tag in a different place though. -- Andrew From: Edward Betts

Re: [Talk-GB] Open data (Was: Parliamentary debate mentions OSM)

John Aldridge writes: > By ensuring that OSM data is of higher quality, or contains useful > information still absent from those other sources. If we can't or don't > do that, OSM (in the UK) will cease to have a purpose, and can be left > to wither un-mourned. Plus, usefully be

Re: [Talk-GB] Open data (Was: Parliamentary debate mentions OSM)

SK53 writes: > many contributors do it not purely to add stuff to OSM, but for a multitude of other reasons: > to learn more about the places around where one lives; > to get out; > to meet-up with like minded people; > to get some exercise; > to go to the less obvious places; > to

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM UK site

Christian Ledermann writes: > > I'd also like to see an aggregator like http://planetpython.org/ or > http://planet.plone.org/ > to have a central place where all UK OSM related blogs are consolidated > which could be integrated in the main website (see

Re: [Talk-GB] ref:hectares on admin boundary, and non-responsive mapper

Just out of interest, are unincorporated areas in Australia tagged with boundary relations? -- Andrew From: Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> Sent: 15 August 2016 12:00 To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] ref:hectares on admin boundary, and

Re: [Talk-GB] ref:hectares on admin boundary, and non-responsive mapper

Every account that has ever been blocked has a link from the profile called “Active blocks”. -- Andrew From: Paul Sladen Sent: 17 August 2016 11:04:20 To: Will Phillips Cc: Talk GB Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] ref:hectares on admin boundary, and

Re: [Talk-GB] Large swaths of "heath" in Wales?

According to http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/osm-discussion-comments?uid=2762871 edits in Brazil, Russia, the United Arab Emirates and Senegal have also attracted criticism from locally knowledgeable mappers, looking like someone who is at best out of their depth. -- Andrew

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