Re: [OSM-talk] Your experience in reaching out to Maps.me users ?

2020-11-12 Thread Brian M. Sperlongano
020, 17:56 użytkownik Brian M. Sperlongano < > zelonew...@gmail.com> napisał: > >> I downloaded and made a test edit (adding an address to a local POI) with >> maps.me just now to understand how it works. It does at least make you >> log in to OSM. I entered in a com

Re: [OSM-talk] Your experience in reaching out to Maps.me users ?

2020-11-12 Thread Brian M. Sperlongano
I downloaded and made a test edit (adding an address to a local POI) with maps.me just now to understand how it works. It does at least make you log in to OSM. I entered in a comment on the change, however, I note that maps.me overwrote my user-entered comment with a generic comment in the

[OSM-talk] Use of area/relation icons on boundaries

2020-10-29 Thread Brian M. Sperlongano
Hello, I've been working to improve various pages on the Wiki. I've encountered inconsistencies in how the "area" and "relation" icons are used in the wiki documentation of boundary relations. It's not clear which of the two icons should be used when describing tags that may be applied to

Re: [OSM-talk] software requirements for OSM Editor: Firefox

2023-10-06 Thread Brian M. Sperlongano
This is not OSM's problem to solve. Ancient web browser slowly becomes unusable = expected behavior. On Fri, Oct 6, 2023, 7:26 AM Martin Trautmann wrote: > On 23-10-06 12:55, Tom Hughes via talk wrote: > > No it was released in June 2020. October 2021 was the last > > security patches. > > > >

Re: [OSM-talk] razed railways and other things that don't exist today

2022-10-25 Thread Brian M. Sperlongano
On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 1:45 PM Colin Smale wrote: > Are underground pipelines and electricity transmission cables just as > controversial? They are covered over, built on, and completely unobservable > from the surface. They may also have been taken out of service many decades > ago. > In the

Re: [OSM-talk] razed railways and other things that don't exist today

2022-10-25 Thread Brian M. Sperlongano
On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 4:37 AM Frederik Ramm wrote: > in the spirit of friendly collaboration I would say that a limited amount > of > stuff-that-should-not-be-in-OSM can be *tolerated*. If someone does a > lot of good work for OSM otherwise and would really like to record an > ancient former

Re: [OSM-talk] Use of "Proprietary" imagery to edit OSM

2022-10-30 Thread Brian M. Sperlongano
On Sun, Oct 30, 2022 at 9:00 PM Minh Nguyen wrote: > Vào lúc 07:11 2022-10-30, Greg Troxel đã viết: > > But then the company doing the editing should document which company's > > imagery and which revision year they are using. Things should be as > > transparent as possible, and this doesn't

Re: [OSM-talk] Should we be mapping transformers and powerlines?

2023-01-18 Thread Brian M. Sperlongano
Navigational landmarks while hiking. On Wed, Jan 18, 2023, 10:17 PM john whelan wrote: > Perhaps you could expand on the benefits of mapping them? > > Thanks John > > On Wed, Jan 18, 2023, 10:09 PM stevea, wrote: > >> I'd like to say "oh, please..." because this seems a bit harsh. But I >>

Re: [OSM-talk] Survey about OSM communication behaviors

2023-04-30 Thread Brian M. Sperlongano
On Sun, Apr 30, 2023 at 1:06 PM Courtney wrote: > This conversation has opened up important new questions. Why is the main > "Talk" channel the only one that is producing pushback? Why is it the only > one that is producing such a negative tone? > > I don't understand the degree of ire and

Re: [OSM-talk] replace some obviously mistaken surface values by their clear intended meaning

2023-02-11 Thread Brian M. Sperlongano
I agree with the proposed edits. On Sat, Feb 11, 2023 at 12:58 PM Mateusz Konieczny via talk < talk@openstreetmap.org> wrote: > Errata: paragraph 4 from the bottom should be > > "There is no point in manual drudgery here, with values clearly > replaceable by better matches." > > sorry, I copied

Re: [OSM-talk] Dubious websites added to tourist attractions?

2023-02-02 Thread Brian M. Sperlongano
Looks like most of these have been cleaned up but there's a couple left: https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1qU8 On Thu, Feb 2, 2023 at 11:13 AM Dave F via talk wrote: > Hi > > You may wish to take a look at these changesets by a single contributor to > decide if you think these are dubious

Re: [OSM-talk] Intercultural differences / cultural diversity / OSM communication behaviors

2023-05-03 Thread Brian M. Sperlongano
I would caution against hyper-simplifying the combativeness of the mailing lists as "cultural differences". I can think of several German participants on Slack and Discord that dispel this stereotype. Similarly, I can think of several American commenters who are notoriously abrasive on the

Re: [OSM-talk] Intercultural differences / cultural diversity / OSM communication behaviors

2023-05-03 Thread Brian M. Sperlongano
On Wed, May 3, 2023 at 3:38 PM Mike Thompson wrote: > On Wed, May 3, 2023, 1:00 PM Brian M. Sperlongano > wrote: > >> I would caution against hyper-simplifying the combativeness of >> the mailing lists >> > I am not sure using a term such as "combative"

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposed bulk removal of service=driveway2

2023-06-24 Thread Brian M. Sperlongano
On Mon, Sep 5, 2022 at 12:00 PM Tobias Knerr wrote: > On 03.09.22 at 12:52, Simon Poole wrote: > > Anyway IMHO this would seem to make more sense as a maproulette > > challenge or osmose warning than a bulk edit given the number is quite > > manageable and at least some of the objects can

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposed bulk removal of service=driveway2

2023-06-27 Thread Brian M. Sperlongano
Since there seems to be community consensus for the removal, I have notified the main proponent at: https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/130249355 And also opened a matching thread on the community forum. On Tue, Jun 27, 2023 at 6:07 AM Andy Townsend wrote: > On 25/06/2023 00:02, Bria

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] changeset: 89516909

2020-08-18 Thread Brian M. Sperlongano
All, I fixed this boundary relation and also one neighboring town (Wheeling, IL) using the Cook County, Illinois GIS as the data source, and re-used all of the original boundary relations. Unfortunately it appears that all of Cook County needs to be updated to reflect the county GIS data (found

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] changeset: 89516909

2020-08-18 Thread Brian M. Sperlongano
I see. Considering that, I've reverted my changes. On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 9:41 PM 80hnhtv4agou--- via Talk-us < talk-us@openstreetmap.org> wrote: > i was told i could not use do to licence GIS to. > > > > Tuesday, August 18, 2020 8:38 PM -05:00 from Brian M. Sp

Re: [Talk-ca] How is protect_class used in Canada?

2020-11-16 Thread Brian M. Sperlongano
pted to contact the original mappers? > > We have a few mappers in Canada who have been mapping for more than ten > years. > > John > > On Sun, Nov 15, 2020, 23:28 Brian M. Sperlongano > wrote: > >> Hello neighbors to the north, >> >> I have b

Re: [Talk-us] Extremely long Amtrak route relations

2020-11-21 Thread Brian M. Sperlongano
It seems that OSM has a an architectural problem with over-large relations? > +1 The Tongass National Forest [1] was recently mapped with great detail. It comprises most of the Alaska panhandle and all of its islands and inlets. The relation has 28,000 members and contains over 2 million nodes.

Re: [Talk-se] highway=trunk in Sweden

2021-01-23 Thread Brian M. Sperlongano
Given this, can you comment specifically on an example? OSM way and photo below: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/199230893 https://www.mapillary.com/app/?focus=photo=WgHheFQe7tkY-5yEbWchbA=57.6457275332997=11.96102332764884=17 Should that way get tagged with any of the following: 1) foot =