In that case, for line placement, I suggest using - in between the
names in different languages, e.g. Rue des Bouchers - Beenhouwersstraat.
That's what's done in the name=* tag in many bilingual places like Brussels.
On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 7:48 PM, Stephan Knauss o...@stephans-server.dewrote:
On Jan 9, 2013 5:03 PM, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote:
For example, if I draw the layer 0 way, then draw the layer 1 way on top,
using the same nodes as a guide, BUT THEN unglue all the nodes by
pressing G in JOSM, does this still count as a shared node?
That is perfectly valid as
This seems silly and useless. The imagery is subject to change and the way
will become obsolete. I don't see a point in mapping this, and I'm okay
with deleting these ways. But I'd rather hear from someone with more
experience before anything happens.
On Mar 31, 2013 10:39 AM, ingalls
Could this be related to the current OS upgrade on the OSM US server? Can
we get some input from Ian?
On Apr 11, 2013 2:43 AM, Vincent Pottier vpott...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
I've made few changes near [1]
I have made changes with JOSM yesterday. I was unable to upload them. So I
have
I've noticed the same issue. I liked having an easy way to center the map.
Is anyone averse to having this changed back?
On Jul 21, 2013 8:02 PM, Andrew Errington erringt...@gmail.com wrote:
It used to be that if you double-clicked on the map it would re-centre
on the clicked point and zoom in
, Jul 21, 2013 at 11:26 PM, Clay Smalley claysmal...@gmail.comwrote:
I've noticed the same issue. I liked having an easy way to center the
map. Is anyone averse to having this changed back?
On Jul 21, 2013 8:02 PM, Andrew Errington erringt...@gmail.com
wrote:
It used to be that if you double
Interesting. How much of a connection is there between the Russian OSM
community and the English-speaking OSM community (that essentially runs the
project)?
On Mar 18, 2014 11:45 AM, Marc Gemis marc.ge...@gmail.com wrote:
You might be interested in this blog post:
I want to make a map of San Francisco bus routes using the route relations
in SF. Is there a good way for me to get data consisting of a line (or
lines) for each bus route? My problem with downloading OSM data directly is
that a single way could be part of many different routes. Essentially what
I
Weg is German, approximately means way. It's right as it is, no
abbreviation.
Funny though that it's outside of the German Sprachraum. Is Leavenworth a
town with a lot of German heritage?
On May 29, 2014 4:37 PM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us wrote:
I need help with a street name. In
Do you have a more authoritative source for municipal boundaries than the
US Census Bureau?
If you don't, it'll be hard for you to convince everyone here that the US
Census data is wrong.
On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 5:03 PM 80hnhtv4agou--- via Talk-us <
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> FYI;
>
>
For those who aren't following, the DWG recently decided on a two-day ban
for the person who posted this, for the exact behavior they're exhibiting
right now: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks/3850
jdd 3, please take a break. You have better things to do.
I look forward to when you
Everyone knows who you're talking about at this point, and nobody cares.
Use the remaining day or so of your temporary ban to work on some hobbies
outside of OpenStreetMap.
And be careful about who you say isn't local. I'm moving to Northern
Indiana next week and I'll certainly get the chance to
On Wed, Dec 9, 2020, 4:08 PM john whelan wrote:
> In the diverse collection of people we have in OSM you will be hard
> pressed not to offend someone.
>
Really? That hasn't been a problem for me.
I hadn't realised the name Kathleen was one that either gender could use
> and I apologise for
I'm noticing a pattern here in the replies to this email:
Only men have replied. This is, unfortunately, par for the course on the
OSM mailing lists. The lack of discussion by non-men is an undeniable fact.
The simplest explanation for this is the systematic institutional hostility
towards women
On Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 5:52 PM Florimond Berthoux <
florimond.berth...@gmail.com> wrote:
> La loi française contre les propos haineux s'applique à tous en France.
>
Va téléphone à la police.
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On Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 5:36 AM Tomas Straupis
wrote:
> Maps.me (or crap.me as it is known in some places) is a known bad actor:
> * It disguises as made in Holland, when it is actually made in Moscow
> by a company having close ties with the Kremlin.
>
I don't think this is accurate or even
On Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 9:25 AM Tomas Straupis
wrote:
> > Besides, Mapbox is known to work with United States government
> > agencies as well as military weapons manufacturers (so-called
> > "defense contractors"). Does this bother you at all?
>
> I have no information about the United States
On Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 9:51 AM Tomas Straupis
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> 2020-11-12, kt, 16:41 Clay Smalley rašė:
> > Anyway, this is clearly off topic and has veered into your personal
> > bugaboos about governments you don't like.
>
> I see you do not manage to differentiate historical e
As a gay man, I was considering attending SOTM 2024, but I'm having
reservations after reading what Aimee and Amanda have brought up.
The bid for SOTM 2024 put forward by OSM Kenya [1] has the following
paragraph:
> Nairobi has a more progressive outlook compared to other regions in the
>
I vaguely remember tracing a large chunk of the Robert Campbell Highway
(Yukon Highway 4) sometime after the license redaction removed it. I just
noticed now that it's gone missing a second time (the stretch between
Watson Lake and Ross River).
I also noticed that a large chunk of the Klondike
I like this idea. That would encourage more people to TIGER-review streets,
as highway=road shows up pretty ugly on Mapnik, and people like getting rid
of ugly. What would be the drawbacks of doing this? It seems like there
would be some but I can't think of any.
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 8:29 AM,
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 9:26 PM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote:
I know there is some disagreement about road classification,
especially when it comes to trunk but I'm pretty sure most people
would agree that this is incorrect. Thoughts?
I've been told you should use highway=trunk,
It was mainly NE2 that went around changing everything to SR and SH. I'm
pretty sure the consensus has always been the postal abbreviation.
On Sep 12, 2012 8:31 PM, Kristian M Zoerhoff k...@lavabit.com wrote:
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On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Greg Troxel g...@ir.bbn.com wrote:
I would not tag something as
motorway when it's only sometimes motorway unless it's ~10 miles long.
Going off this: I remember a discussion earlier about this sort of
thing. Someone (I forgot who) said that the Is this a
large amounts of data has
shown that a few number of people can have a large impact.
Sam Iacullo
San Antonio, TX
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I'm not Martijn, but I'm going to guess he may have pulled GIS data of a
few selected cities in Utah and used a GIS application to create the
Thiessen polygons. I did just that for the Operation Cowboy - Texas map
(with a few liberties taken).
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 10:00 PM, Brian DeRocher
In Texas, every business route has a unique letter attached to it. In this
image from TxDOT, there are a few examples:
http://onlinemanuals.txdot.gov/txdotmanuals/fsh/images/Figure%204-2.gif
These are what show on the vast majority of highway signs. They are useful
for navigation, and and
On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote:
On Friday, December 21, 2012, Clay Smalley wrote:
What sayest thou, community? I'm honestly tired of edit wars and
pointless bickering, and would rather just get this question out of the way.
Sounds like yet another
On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote:
Just so I'm on the same page...are we adding modifiers to ref=* or
seperately in modifier=* in the relations?
The ref=* tags of the ways were originally e.g. US 377 Business and I'm
changing them to US 377-A Business.
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 5:38 PM, stevea stevea...@softworkers.com wrote:
**
For example, a particular residential house in Carmel might be assigned as
an address node tag:
addr:housename=Casanova Street, East side, third house south of 9th
I think that's better fit for the key addr:full=*.
You. You have the ground truth. He has no right deleting useful data from
OSM.
I think it's a general rule that when NE2 fights with other OSM
contributors, he loses.
On Feb 8, 2013 2:59 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote:
NE2 is going on the World according to NE2 bender again, need a
I think it's a little ridiculous that this dispute is going so far that
anyone even consulted an expert. Obviously NE2 is wrong; we get it. This
dead horse hasn't just been beaten; it's been liquefied. Let's just let the
OSM gods deal with it, and go on with our lives.
On Feb 11, 2013 10:35 AM,
The SR and SH designations were mostly put in by NE2, IIRC. Go figure.
I'm personally okay with this mass edit, but expect a lot of hate mail from
NE2.
On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 11:36 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote:
Someone with local knowledge might want to look over the ref=* tags in
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Chris Lawrence lordsu...@gmail.com wrote:
He does reiterate the point it would lead to long ref tags that would
conflict with Mapnik's limitations. He also argues that it would make
the Mapnik rendering erroneous
Tagging for the renderer.
As far as the blade
If I weren't confined to my phone right now, I'd check it myself, but are
there any GPS tracks along the new interchange?
On Feb 20, 2013 9:58 PM, James Mast rickmastfa...@hotmail.com wrote:
I just happened to spot a place where there is a possible coping from
Google Maps.
Working fine on ATT.
On Mar 29, 2013 2:57 PM, Roland Olbricht roland.olbri...@gmx.de wrote:
Dear all,
a user of the OSM readonly mirror Overpass API has complained about getting
always the HTTP error code 504 instead of a valid response with HTTP 200.
After we have excluded all potential
In the entry for the United States in this wiki article:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dadministrative
Admin levels are listed like this:
Cities: 8
Counties: 6
New York City: 5
In the OSM database as I write this, this is not the case, as New York City
is on level 8 with
On May 19, 2013 4:31 PM, Phil! Gold phi...@pobox.com wrote:
(which, I suspect, is why
NYC is currently mapped as admin_level=5).
Well, that's what's in the specification in the wiki. But NYC is currently
mapped as level 8 in OSM.
Although now that I think about it, NYC does seem more
I've had to clean up his edits before. What bothers me is that he's
unresponsive and never leaves any comments on his edits. I've brought him
up before to DWG but nothing's been done.
On May 31, 2013 9:59 PM, James Mast rickmastfa...@hotmail.com wrote:
This user has been brought to my attention
I support this. Go to Google Maps and search for SoMa, South Beach, and
Rincon Hill. The office I am sitting in right now is in all of those
polygons.
Some cities formally define their neighborhoods, and OSM could use that
data. Some neighborhoods are more informal, and those may make sense as
Fortunately most of Texas has been done, but unfortunately the FM/RM roads
haven't been completed and there are quite a lot of them. I made a Mapcraft
to help add relations to them all: http://mapcraft.nanodesu.ru/pie/269
I've made a little progress in the Texas Panhandle but we definitely need
, 2013 12:52 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote:
Curious if the network for RM and FM is consistently US:TX:FM for both,
since they're both part of the same network.
On Jun 19, 2013 10:52 AM, Clay Smalley claysmal...@gmail.com wrote:
Fortunately most of Texas has been done
confusing
aspects of the Texas highway system, sort of like the nebulous distinction
between Park Roads and Rec Roads.
On Jun 19, 2013 5:22 PM, Clay Smalley claysmal...@gmail.com wrote:
It's US:TX:FM for FM roads, and US:TX:RM for RM roads. There may be
little to no overlap between RM and FM
wrote:
Check the Farm-to-market page on Wikipedia.
On Jun 19, 2013 11:00 PM, Clay Smalley claysmal...@gmail.com wrote:
Does the Wikipedia bit have a cited source? I can understand that being
true; I just want to verify. The Texas Highway Designation Files list them
as two separate types.
On Jun
Also, even if it were the case that they were the same network, it makes
sense to keep them separate because that is how the shield renderer
determines which shield to put on the road.
Tagging for the renderer, grumble grumble.
On Jun 20, 2013 9:23 AM, Clay Smalley claysmal...@gmail.com wrote
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/16078863
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/16080822
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/16495595
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/16497029
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/16540719
I've tried to be civil
, Clay Smalley claysmal...@gmail.comwrote:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/16078863
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/16080822
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/16495595
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/16497029
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse
I agree that OSM needs to be more noob-proof than Wikipedia. Erroneously
changing one thing on Wikipedia won't make much of a difference, whereas
erroneously changing one thing on OSM could throw off a lot of software
that depends on the data being correct. There's only so far OpenStreetMap
can go
I make an effort to welcome new mappers when I see them, but it's
unrealistic to ensure every new mapper is onboarded this way. There needs
to be a more formal process, and I like a lot of the ideas that have been
presented.
On Jun 26, 2013 12:54 PM, stevea stevea...@softworkers.com wrote:
**
I think it makes perfect sense to separate it into name=* and bridge:name=*
tags. The bridge:name=* currently isn't rendered, but theoretically, it
could be rendered differently and in a more appropriate/eye-catching way
than name=*. This leaves the case though, what if a bridge doesn't carry a
I remember this specific issue being brought up multiple times before. It's
been my understanding that this is the consensus: the pieces of I-10 and
I-40 in West Texas should be trunk wherever they have at-grade
intersections, because they have multiple at-grade intersections and not a
single rare
Most shields that have black backgrounds have them removed. It seems like a
stylistic thing, and I think it looks good.
On Jul 28, 2013 8:59 PM, Shawn K. Quinn skqu...@rushpost.com wrote:
On Sun, Jul 28, 2013, at 10:38 PM, Toby Murray wrote:
We finally managed to get Phil's highway shield
So Black Rock City is mapped on OpenStreetMap... twice. And both are old
versions (the city as it was in 2008 and 2009). Anyone know why this is?
Should the two old cities be deleted and replaced with the 2013 city?
I have a feeling that this could be a fun publicity opportunity for OSM, if
we're
Cam4rd98 is an interesting character, I'll say that. He's new and
enthusiastic about mapping, but doesn't quite understand the conventions of
OSM. I haven't had to talk to him recently, but previously he's been
unresponsive to messages.
In this case, I'd say send him a message and delete the
it's
relatively pertinent to the discussion, but lets not make it any more
personal here on the mailing list.
Thanks,
Your friendly talk-us moderator
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 8:15 PM, Clay Smalley claysmal...@gmail.comwrote:
Cam4rd98 is an interesting character, I'll say that. He's new
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Shawn K. Quinn skqu...@rushpost.comwrote:
Weird is a matter of opinion, but I only know of Farm Road (FM), Ranch
Road (RM or RR), Park Road (PR), the one-off NASA Road 1 (which I can
concede is a bit unusual), the semi-standard Spur and Loop, and normal
state
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Saikrishna Arcot saiarcot...@gmail.comwrote:
I vote for keeping this check in place (i.e. an exact match of the street
name), because there are some places (in California, I think) where the
prefix/suffix changes from North to West as you are driving down the
I'm doing an internship at Square this summer. In fact, I'm in the office
right now - do you want me to go bring this up to anyone?
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 9:05 AM, Steve Coast st...@asklater.com wrote:
It looks like Square is using OSM from MapBox in receipt emails without
attribution on the
Hi all,
Last winter, I drove around a bunch of neighborhoods with my GPS and
manually added them into OSM. I wanted to add a few more neighborhoods
today, so I opened up OSM and went to that area, and a significant chunk of
my additions were mysteriously deleted.
I investigated a little, and it
On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 1:11 AM Shawn K. Quinn skqu...@rushpost.com wrote:
If we were able to look at his
changeset comments and see withdraw additions tainted by Google data
or similar, we probably wouldn't be having this discussion right now.
I disagree. In this group of changesets, he has
That is in fact on the list, and it's actually the changeset that I
reverted.
On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 3:20 PM Shawn K. Quinn skqu...@rushpost.com wrote:
On Mon, 2015-05-18 at 22:51 +, Clay Smalley wrote:
[1] http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Cam4rd98
[2] http://www.cs.utexas.edu
There is a MapRoulette task out for downgrading short sections of highways
that had been mistakenly upgraded to motorways. I had been contributing to
this task, and then today I got a foul message from a local contributor.
They subsequently went through my recent edits and undid them, calling them
y not have a platform, trains may only stop on request."
>> The presence of points/switches is only significant in Germany.
>>
>> I would recommend reverting to railway=station for any which have
>> platforms and are regularly scheduled places for the train to stop.
&
Hi all,
Over the last few months, I've been doing some systematic improvements to
the passenger railway network across North America. Much of this has been
filling out public_transport=stop_area relations for every railway station,
including stop positions and platforms, as well as verifying the
Hi all,
Lately I've been tasking myself with mapping underground railway tracks
across the US, adding features like parallel tracks, crossovers, and
platforms wherever I can. My work includes the Market Street Subway in
downtown San Francisco and various lines in Philadelphia. I recently began
Do you have a more authoritative source for municipal boundaries than the
US Census Bureau?
If you don't, it'll be hard for you to convince everyone here that the US
Census data is wrong.
On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 5:03 PM 80hnhtv4agou--- via Talk-us <
talk-us@openstreetmap.org> wrote:
> FYI;
>
>
For those who aren't following, the DWG recently decided on a two-day ban
for the person who posted this, for the exact behavior they're exhibiting
right now: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks/3850
jdd 3, please take a break. You have better things to do.
I look forward to when you
Everyone knows who you're talking about at this point, and nobody cares.
Use the remaining day or so of your temporary ban to work on some hobbies
outside of OpenStreetMap.
And be careful about who you say isn't local. I'm moving to Northern
Indiana next week and I'll certainly get the chance to
Everyone knows who you're talking about at this point, and nobody cares.
Use the remaining day or so of your temporary ban to work on some hobbies
outside of OpenStreetMap.
And be careful about who you say isn't local. I'm moving to Northern
Indiana next week and I'll certainly get the chance to
Not sure what it is you're trying to point out here. Have you started a
conversation with the person who made that edit?
On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 9:11 AM 80hnhtv4agou--- via Talk-us <
talk-us@openstreetmap.org> wrote:
> Added a service road.
>
> Edited about hours ago by
>
> Version #1 ·
To be clear, you mean that everyone is mapping incorrectly if they are not
local? That's an absurd premise—lots of mappers do valuable remote work
without having to be on the ground and see what they're mapping in person.
Of course, disputes arise between local mappers and remote mappers, and
it's
I think it's helpful. Looks like these would go in the railway:ref=* tag of
railway=yard nodes.
On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 4:28 PM Natfoot wrote:
> Hello to the list,
> Quick question
> Would location codes be helpful? Would they be helpful to list on the NA
> railway wiki?
>
>
On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 9:24 AM <80hnhtv4a...@bk.ru> wrote:
> as you say stop talking about my troubles so i sent this to you alone, but
> in a revenge mode he when’t after
> that days edits.
> he sent me a change-set discussion telling me he was right and to stop
> editing.
>
Yes, I've looked
Have you tried talking to this mapper about his criticisms and finding some
common ground? I'm certain you can find an agreeable way to map the things
you want to map.
The mailing list is not the place to air your interpersonal disputes. If
you don't want to draw scrutiny and criticism to your
If I'm not mistaken, the examples you've given are instances of
railway:track_ref=*, not ref=*.
Throwing my two cents in here—that coincides with the way I personally use
railway:track_ref=*. My understanding is that this uniquely identifies
tracks within a line, station or yard, and is not
On Fri, Jul 17, 2020, 9:10 AM 80hnhtv4agou--- via Talk-transit <
talk-transit@openstreetmap.org> wrote:
> i think it is the same tag format that only will show on the standard map
> the street name because no one puts the
>
> the route no on the name line and that is the only thing the non editor
I posted this on the Slack but I figured I should put this on the mailing
list to make sure it reaches everybody:
Many long-distance Amtrak trains have route relations with 1000+ members.
If I split one way that happens to be a member of one of these routes, I
end up with a changeset with a
On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 11:12 AM Dave F via Tagging <
tagg...@openstreetmap.org> wrote:
> On 22/11/2020 11:24, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
>
>
> I sincerely hope "I'm in favor of fixing" translates as "I'm planning to
> fix", though I fear I may be disappointed.
>
> More broadly, we need to nip this
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