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New quality checks in the Osmose QA tool for links from OpenStreetMap to Wikidata

Thanks! I will look at it!

I wonder would it be feasible for you to detect problem of “wikipedia/wikidata linked multiple times and it is not waterway/pipeline/railway/roads/etc[1] feature where linking multiple times may be correct” (or maybe you detect this kind of issue already?)

[1] I have list of such features and Ruby script trying to detect features invalidly linked multiple times.

BTW, I tried editing using Osmose and run into https://github.com/osm-fr/osmose-frontend/issues/437

New quality checks in the Osmose QA tool for links from OpenStreetMap to Wikidata

osm.wiki/OpenStreetMap_Wikidata_Quality_Checker

Project Repository: (tba.)

Can you publish it?

Newspaper article about crannog discoveries

Congratulations!

When OpenStreetMap Meets Mastodon

Below, my proposals :

Thanks for this logos ( osm.wiki/Special:ListFiles/LySioS ) !

But note as they are based on already existing logo which is CC-BY licensed - you must credit its authors (sadly it is a bit tricky, see osm.wiki/File:Public-images-osm_logo.svg and its talk page)

Dismistifying Wikidata and standards compliant semantic approach on tags on OpenStreetMap to make tooling smarter on medium to long term

Some people advocated migrating preset definitions to Data items - but as someone developing one of editors I just do not see it as a viable solution.

See how some OSM Wiki articles are contradicting each other or end in confusing weird states as result of compromise. Or have temporarily absurd claims before it gets fixed.

That is survivable in documentation treated with some scepticism. That is not viable for editor presets.

Dismistifying Wikidata and standards compliant semantic approach on tags on OpenStreetMap to make tooling smarter on medium to long term

Sorry for silly list formatting above. Also, I am not claiming that data items cannot be useful, just explaining why they were completely pointless for me, and this reasons may be shared by some other people.

Dismistifying Wikidata and standards compliant semantic approach on tags on OpenStreetMap to make tooling smarter on medium to long term

I’m genuinely interested in knowing why the Data Items was not used to its full potential.

You probably have seen my comments already but for me there are following reasons:

As watchlisting interface is atrocious damage will be easily missed. I bet I could find silently redefined/broken data item descriptions that were left without reaction if I would cobble together more complex interface (unusable by others due to reliance on scripting).

  • data items do not contain anything so structured. In vast majority of uses you would take image and description, which may be as well as taken from infoboxes. Wikibase is complex and allowing storing structured data (sources, qualifiers and many other) which is not used at all in data items as far as I can see.

  • In many cases all this data is useful as giving hints and needs to be looked on manually anyway, at which point any benefits of easier automation are completely disappearing and you are left with only disadvantages

For example I use OSM Wiki heavily while developing StreetComplete. Images from OSM Wiki are sometimes useful, but often different are needed. And cropping them is always necessary.

So OSM Wiki illustration are only the first candidate at most.

I could look at data items instead but what is the benefit here? How I would benefit from automation?

The same for goes for descriptions, due to different context StreetComplete needs a bit different descriptions than OSM Wiki (or data items) are using.

I basically gain nothing by interacting with data items (or even lose due to janky interface and some items randomly displaying images at the bottom because Wikibase cannot even display properties in consistent order)

  • wikibase API is complex, annoying and troublesome. In comparison using https://github.com/earwig/mwparserfromhell allowed to get me parsed infobox parameters in time that I used in failed attempt to get “required tags” field out of wikibase API. Going by name mwparserfromhell is dealing with a lot of complexity underneath, but as user of this it was really pleasant.

  • data stored for example in osm.wiki/Property:P12 is often really dubious and poorly defined to the point that relying on it is a mistake

Dismistifying Wikidata and standards compliant semantic approach on tags on OpenStreetMap to make tooling smarter on medium to long term

that are notable to be on OpenStreetMap

I would rather phrase it that OSM has no notability requirements whatsoever

Proveedora Industrial Garle, S. de R.L. de C.V.

If you are trying to add it to the map, the you need to edit map at osm.org/

A Mappy Week at SOTM and FOSS4G

talks at SoTM

Thanks, it is nice to hear that you liked it!

Warszawa - [J.Chłopickiego-Makowska-Szaserów]

Ładne mapowanie!

A jak była to wizyta na miejscu: co chcesz przekazać przez osm.org/way/606688734 motor_vehicle=official ?

Nie jest tam czasem wjazd samochodami tylko dla mieszkańców, może jakieś szlabany są? Czy na pewno każdy może tam samochodem wjechać?


Gdyby była ochota na jeszcze więcej szczegółów…

Czy osm.org/node/5750185622 to nie jest czasem wjazd do parkingu podziemnego?

StreetComplete (aplikacja na Androida) też by trochę szczegółów wykryła do uzupełnienia (np. pojemność parkingów rowerowych osm.org/node/9974830338 )

Lights

are we mapping for the renderer?

mapping for renderer is fine, lying to renderer is wrong

mapping correct data in standard format is fine, mapping fake data to force specific display is wrong

Krynica-Zdrój - Ogrody Żywiołów

Dzięki za dodanie tego!

Innym pomysłem jest też Vespucci, wtedy można mapować z pominięciem uwag. Ale nie wszyscy ten edytor trawią.

Edit tags directly from openstreetmap.org

Oh, development is definitely slow, new features are rare or just tiny tweaks hard to describe as feature.

But I have no idea why people often make claims about dead project and that nothing at all is being done. It just derails discussion as is trivial to disprove.

And list like yours is actually more impactful (especially as “separate preferences and profile forms” made things worse)

Edit tags directly from openstreetmap.org

However, we still have an inconvenient registration form. Try to take the place of a beginner and register on the site, for example, from your phone. I’m sure you won’t like something

Oh here I agree. See say https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/2287 that got WONTFIXed and https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/3259 that actually got fixed

I am not claiming that OSM website is brimming with new features and that development is going wonderfully. It could be much worse and right now it goes slowly

But things like

we haven’t seen any new feature for years. :-(

are clearly incorrect and easily demonstrable to be false. Even if one limits themself to core website and ignores dependencies like iD and OSM Carto and routers and so on.

There is plenty to criticize and to help (though sadly, sometimes help is rejected) or to work on various projects. There is no need at all to claim untrue things.

Edit tags directly from openstreetmap.org

For example “Allow users to delete their own accounts” https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/3398

See https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/commits/master https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pulls

Edit tags directly from openstreetmap.org

we haven’t seen any new feature for years. :-(

That is untrue. It is possible that nothing that was added is considered as important or major by you.

the idea given by the openstreetmap.org website is that of an abandoned project …

That idea is wrong.

Edit tags directly from openstreetmap.org

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/openstreetmap-tags-editor/ - English link for FF

Mapillary No Longer Allows Photos to Show on Foreign Sites

I guess that it is time to link https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/ which lists cases of services breaking promises and turning on users.

In general I would put limited trust into such services, especially ones with inability to download full datasets ( unlike say https://planet.openstreetmap.org/ ) and which are not truly open source.

Mapillary No Longer Allows Photos to Show on Foreign Sites

Questions were previously asked of Mapillary “can I show my photo on a different site” & the answer was to point at the button to download and suggest to use the url for that on the foreign site.

If that was official answer, then it changes things significantly and invalidates also “Unless the URL and its usage terms are documented, you’re not promised anything.”