c2r's Comments
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We need Y O U for for OSMs wiki! or Is our wiki healthy? | The problem with updating wiki content, is that those who see themselves as owners of particular pages can very quickly revert changes as being not agreed/voted upon, which then I suspect would put off useers who haven't got a high number of wiki edits from doing any more. |
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Worldwide edits | Personally, I think that would be a good idea, as well as steps=yes rather than highway=steps |
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Perils of GPS | ....and another one: |
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Mapping in Portugal | I certainly did last year, and very enjoyable it was too...! There are also aerial photographs around the Lisbon area at least.....! |
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fustrated with Potlatch | try also a different time of day - sometimes the servers seem a little slow.... |
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Postbox Orienteering Turf Wars | I'm grateful for SG12 123 being found at last - the cunning point for other viewers being that the site hasn't been a crossroads since 1979......! |
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Postboxes - what else | SG12 123 and SG11 27 are my nemeses (0: |
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Unusual fields in post boxes | Thinking about the initial question about postboxes that are abandoned... There's a similar issue with telephone boxes.... A lot around the area area abandoned in that the phones have been removed, but the kiosks remain - particularly in rural areas where they are often used for information points. I've seen abandoned=yes, operator=none used on these before, but never anything written down about how to tag, etc. |
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Unusual fields in post boxes | hello... Apologies, I read your email but have been too busy to reply. I was entering the name of the box as it aids all sorts of other mapping in the area, as well as being data that exists, against a post box. I was under the impression from the dracos site that the information was public domain so all those which I have entered have this, mostly in the upper SG range. That said, as per our other discussions, for the purpose of uniquely referencing a box, it's useless anyway. I think it a bad idea to move the name to a separate field just to allow the renderers to display - generally, if a ref should be displayed for postboxes on the renderer, the renderer should be changed to give the ref higher promenance. The same discussions have been made around housenames/numbers and motorway junction names and exit destinations, and the general consensus is that renderers should fit the data, not the other way round. Regards
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Two years to find a phone box | Well, you've gotta love that in SG11, there are two called Church End... Just what?! |
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Fisrt timer, LOTS OF MISTAKE T.T | I think that's something which we cannot decide for you. Living in the UK, if I decide to map China from aerial photographs and others' GPS traces, there is very little the Chinese authorities could do. The risk is I suppose, that if you are a Chinese citizen, in the country and are actively caught mapping from uploaded traces which you have made the situation is very different. )o: |
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using relations in JOSM | I think they do apply to riverbanks as well, to mark them as part of the same river - but that use is a bit beyond me, sorry... |
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using relations in JOSM | relations are for tagging multiple ways with the same "thing" For example, Euroroute E15; this will encompass a number of different roads, junctions, bridges. Or National Cycle Routes in the UK. Or Long Distance Paths.... |
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Post Offices open on Sunday | highway=steps gets rendered.
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Didcot | The other strategy is the one the French used on the A16 junction numbering, after it was extended from Bolougne to Paris... i.e. just spend a decade with the same numbers used twice.... |
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Public Byways | Also lots of footpaths in farming areas have metalled roads which farms have built themselves for access to farmhouses, barns, and fields themselves. There may be a right of way for people over them, but perhaps not for other traffic... |
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With friends like these... | Of course, using free OS maps as layers to derive OSM from is completely different (o; |
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Bored | Interestingly, if you wear a high vis jacket and hang around doing surveying with GPS and notepad, you blend in with the environment much better than if you're wearing plain clothes, as people just assume you're working on something outdoorsy |
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From Alty to a uncharted territory - hooray! | I've moved on to the public footpaths and bridleways... And mapping abroad.... |
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Who monitors OpenStreetBugs? | After a few years of mapping, I only discovered the existence of openstreetbugs the other day - have fixed a couple of questions in my area, though unfortunaltey, as has already sort of been commented on, some of the 'bugs' are just crap..... |