Vclaw's Comments
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HVDC Overhead Powerlines in Europe | It is not a question of whether the coordinates are an error or not. It is a matter of copyright. See this page: osm.wiki/Copyright
It is not clear whether those coordinates from Wikipedia are from copyrighted maps (eg Google Maps) or not. So please don't add them to OpenStreetMap. |
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HVDC Overhead Powerlines in Europe | Many of the coordinates in Wikipedia are actually copied from other sources, which may be copyright. A lot has been copied from Google Maps, or from various national mapping agencies (eg the Ordnance Survey in Great Britain).
See this page: osm.wiki/Collaboration_with_Wikipedia#Importing_geodata_from_Wikipedia |
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United Kingdom Long Distance Paths | I agree that the Tracks/Mapped/Labelled columns are not really very useful. Though I think a single column for completeness is a bit simplistic. Some people are setting it to 100% just because the length of ways in the route relation is equal to the 'official' distance. Without actually walking the route to check whether it is actually correct. Also, even if the route is correct, is it all tagged correctly? ie I've noticed quite a few parts of routes tagged as highway=track, when they actually paths or minor roads etc. And then there's tags for access, surface, tracktype etc.
So I don't think a route is really "complete" unless most of this has been done. |
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Garmin | For Garmin maps, I recommend this website: http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl/
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About Openstreetmap in Tanzania | Maybe the GPStogo scheme could help, by loaning some GPS devices? http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/GPStogo |
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Moving bus stops | See this page for a recommended procedure for Naptan bus stops: osm.wiki/NaPTAN/Surveying_and_Merging_NaPTAN_and_OSM_data Also, there is a JOSM style which can highlight Naptan bus stops, and whether they have been verified (similar to that Novam tool). See http://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Styles |
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Changes gone? | You could be looking at a cached version of the tiles. Try a Shift+Refresh in your browser. Also, the Mapnik tile server was down for maintenance at the weekend. So it may a bit lagged behind, and serving old version of the tiles. You could try looking at another OSM map, eg Osmarender (click on the blue + in the top right on openstreetmap.org) or Open Mapquest (go to http://open.mapquest.com/ ). |
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Unmapped villages in a well mapped neighbourhood | Is Mainhausen actually a village? Or is it an administrative/municipal area?
See the Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainhausen
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To any, who knows: how often OSM Inspector does a pass for re-check? | OSM Inspector is updated daily. It says underneath the map when the data is from. It currently says "Data from 2011-08-15 19:59 (UTC)". For Keep right, I think it is usually every week or two. Though it someimes seems to be less often. It has the date of last update in the bottom left of the page. Currently it says "Site updated at 2011-08-06". |
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nonames | You could try using Yet another validation tool: http://beta.letuffe.org/
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Copying from OS Locator | "20 years to complete the map" is nonsense. If there aren't many contributors in a particular area, maybe you could spread the word about OSM, and encourage others to contribute. Or you could go and visit those places yourself. And then you will get much more detail than you can by tracing. If you want a "relatively complete" (low quality) data set, you can just use OS Opendata. There's not much point in dumping all of that into OSM (introducing more errors in the process).
Hawkeye: I don't think adding not:name tags without surveying/checking them is useful. You don't know whether its a mistake in the original survey, or if its a valid alternative name for that street. I think its best to have these highlighted by comparison tools, as places that need checked. |
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Hmm.. Just a quick update on a quirk in mapedit. | Assuming you are referring to Potlatch (what you get when you click on "Edit"), I don't think saving again will overwrite previous saved changes. Your previous edits should still be there. Note that the main map (what you get when you click on "View") can take a while to update. Usually it updates within a few minutes or hours, but sometimes longer. So your edits may not show up on the map straight away. Its also possible you are looking at a cached copy of the map, you can try a Shift+Refresh in your browser. |
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Just add Halal food shop | For tagging, maybe you could use the tag for diet: osm.wiki/Key:diet
Plus the usual tag for the shop type, eg shop=convenience, shop=deli, shop=supermarket etc. |
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add relation to relations | See osm.wiki/Relations/Relations_are_not_Categories
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Creating nodes from EXIF data in JPEG images | Just start JOSM then do File->Open and pick your JPEG files. Or you can drag and drop the photos onto the JOSM window.
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Is it ok to add a 'highway = track' tag to pistes? | Yes, +1 to what Andy says.
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Why so many airports in NZ? | There was recently an import of loads of airports/airstrips in New Zealand. I don't know how accurate this import is, and whether all of those airports actually exist? Them only rendering at zoom 10 is a bug. One of the Mapnik maintainers has said he's aware of it, though it should probably be reported on Trac: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2011-June/059140.html |
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Help with R, G, B color values for OSM roads | Assuming you are referring to the default 'Mapnik' map on openstreetmap.org, then this is specifed in the osm.xml file. You can get this file here: http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/rendering/mapnik/osm.xml
Alternatively, an easier option (if you are running Windows): get Pixie from http://www.nattyware.com/pixie.php and run it.
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What constitutes a track ? | In UK terms:
If its just for access to a single house or business / car park etc, (so you may be allowed to drive along there if visiting that house/shop, but not have a right to), then highway=service (plus service=driveway for driveways). If it is for access to fields/forests, so usually unpaved, and the public are not allowed to drive there, then its probably highway=track. If it is too narrow to drive a car etc along, then its probably highway=path (or highway=footway/cycleway/bridleway). For rights of way in England and Wales (public footpaths, bridleways, byways etc), they can be tagged with designation (as well as a highway tag): osm.wiki/Key:designation The tag highway=byway is deprecated. Byways should be tagged as highway=track / highway=path as appropriate, plus designation=byway_open_to_all_traffic or designation=restricted_byway. |
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art renderer | If you want a change to Mapnik (or Osmarender or OpenCycleMap), you can add a ticket on Trac: http://trac.openstreetmap.org/
If you want to make your own map of artwork, you could use overlays. Ie use OpenLayers to show POI on top of a standard OSM map. This would probably be easier than rendering your own map. Plus it means you can click the icons for more info.
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