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Richard Weait | 9 Feb 15:13
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Fwd: OSM tracker beta

New OSM data-collection software for Android:

Collects GPX track tiles
Collects voice notes
Collects text notes
Collects photos

Have a look.

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From: Ian Darwin

My osm tracker for Android is (finally!) ready for people to play with
before I put it into the Market, at

http://darwinsys.com/jpstrack/.

If you can test it, or have friends that can, or mention it at the
next Mappy Hour if I dont make it, I'd be grateful.

Thanks
Ian
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Václav Řehák | 9 Feb 13:32
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Re: Contact And Remap Campaign

> Therefore I can't see any reason that all OSM contributors are not
> madly remapping right now, whether from an armchair of foot/bike/car.

I don't remap because I lack official and final rules for what needs
to be remapped. In my neighborhood there are many tainted roads that
will cause the network to break and I tried to remap one street. I
found that I don't know
a) whether to replace node without tags created by decliner it the
node was moved from the original position
b) whether moving all nodes and checking all tags make way clean or I
need to delete it and recreate
c) how to remap a way and don't break the relations
etc.
And most importantly, I need a tool that tells me if the state of the
map after applying my changeset is clean or not.

For this reasons I'm not remapping and waiting for more informed
mappers to do it or for OSMF to delete the data they don't like so I
can than fix it being 100% sure what needs to be done.
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Borbus | 8 Feb 12:44
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Problem with edit tab on OSM.org

This has been annoying me for a while now.  My default edit is set to be
remote control (for JOSM).  Some time ago a change happened on osm.org
and the behaviour of the edit tab was changed.

The old behaviour when I clicked on edit was that it would activate some
javascript which would do its magic to get JOSM to download the current
section.  Now upon clicking the web browser is sent to
osm.org/edit?<editing parameters> and then the javascript makes JOSM edit.

The annoying thing about this is that now whenever that page is
refreshed, or the back button is used to go back to it, JOSM will be
remote controlled again.  Often I will be editing somewhere else in
JOSM, browse osm.org for something then all of a sudden JOSM will have
downloaded the area I was working on earlier because I somehow ended up
back on that /edit page again.  It can be quite annoying.

It would be nice to have the old behaviour back if possible.

Thanks,

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Clifford Snow | 8 Feb 01:04
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Remapping

I have attempted to contact user Sunny using the OSM messaging system.  Sunny was an active user about 4 years ago.  Since I haven't heard back, how do I know if their email address is still valid?  Does OSM give a reject message if the message bounces?


One other question.  Sunny added streets using TIGER data. (Imported?)  If I replace the data, all the TIGER data goes away.  Is that something I should worry about?  

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Helge Fahrnberger | 8 Feb 00:20
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EU looking for cartography tender for Mali

Hi,

the European Union is looking for tenders for a cartographic project for Mali. Budget up to € 5 Mio:
http://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:39516-2012:TEXT:EN:HTML&tabId=0

IMHO this would best be met by setting up an OSM infrastructure, partly crowdsourced, alongside with topographic data and a decent Open Government Data infrastructure. The bid invitation is not within our scope but maybe somebody else here is interested?

Best from Vienna,
Helge


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Matthew Deabreu | 7 Feb 21:50
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Are OSM tags case sensitive?

Hello All,


Just a quick question, are OSM tags case sensitive?

I have seen quite a bit of discussion about the topic however I have not seen a definitive answer. I am wondering because I work at Safe Software Inc. and the product we are working on currently treats them as case sensitive. Should we make our product (FME) treat OSM tags as case insensitive and convert attributes to all lower case?

Thank you for any help!

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ciprian niculescu | 6 Feb 13:13
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info on understanding the Deep Diff page

Hello,

I thought i understand the Deep Diff Page and the OSM Inspector License Map, but not really.

I took a way that's in red on the map, it was created by someone that didn't agreed to the license, but the way was edited by others that did agree.

What is the significance of the colors in the Deep Diff?

Do the way is gooing to be deleted or it will stay but only the tags not edited by a subsequent agreeing user will be deleted?

The way in question is http://osm.mapki.com/history/way.php?id=41220492

Thank's for info

Ciprian

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Michael Collinson | 4 Feb 19:45

Contact And Remap Campaign

Hi everyone,

We ask OSM mappers to check their local mapping areas, try and contact 
anyone who has not decided about re-licensing and then do as much 
remapping as you can. Please do this in good faith and not just copy 
things created by contributors who have declined or undecided! You can 
use information contributed by continuing mappers, resources like Bing 
imagery and your own knowledge. If you are mapping in Poland or the 
Czech Republic, please also note that we are aware of special issues 
that makes this difficult for you right now.

We would like to switch over licenses in two months time. In order to do 
that, un-relicensable data has to be removed from the active database, 
though it will remain in publicly available archives. The latest 
indications [1] are that 1.9% of ways will likely not survive the 
license change and a further 0.6% may have to be reverted back to an 
earlier state.

We would like to decrease that still further.

Your mapping area may be much worse or much better. You can use 
http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/?view=wtfe and zoom into your area. 
Information on this tool can be found at [2]. You can then click on 
Potlatch or JOSM icons to find out more and to do remapping. More info:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Remapping

We ask that you look at your areas and contact undecided mappers via the 
OpenStreetMap messaging system or directly if you know them. So that 
they do not get bothered too many times, please log who you contacted on 
this wiki page

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Asking_users_to_accept_the_ODbL

This page also has example messages in different languages. Ask 
undecided mappers to please log into their account and accept even if 
they no longer wish to continue mapping as their previous contribution 
is important to you. Contact from someone mapping in the same area is 
very useful.

Mike
License Working Group

PS The text of this posting can also be found at 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Remapping/Contact_And_Remap_Campaign 
. Please feel to simplify it to help non-native English speakers and to 
translate it into other languages.

[1] http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/munin.html
[2] 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Remapping/License_Change_View_on_OSM_Inspector
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Michal Migurski | 4 Feb 00:46

Russ Nelson

Here you go:
	http://osm-changepipe.s3.amazonaws.com/rn-potsdam.xml

I got a rejection of my spamarrest blabbedy-blah from you I think. Can't actually tell what happened;
trying again to get you your feed URL.

-mike.

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Final-Recipient: rfc822; nelson <at> crynwr.com
Action: failed
Status: 5.0.0
Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; host ns1.crynwr.com[192.203.178.14] said: 553 Not
   interested in spamarrest confirmations. (in reply to RCPT TO command)

From: Michal Migurski <mike <at> stamen.com>
Date: February 3, 2012 3:21:09 PM PST
To: Russ Nelson <nelson <at> crynwr.com>
Subject: Changepipe

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Michael Collinson | 2 Feb 18:53

Re. Critical Mass for license change-over

So, to tie up the discussion. As in everything OSM, we should be 
transparent and crowd-sourced. A community rebuild group is beginning 
work on use the WTFE algorithm as a basis for the final rebuild. Its 
deliberations are public [1]. WTFE is indicating that roughly 2.6% of 
the database is affected if we rebuilt today.

 From the feedback received, it is important to check that is actually 
true or not before doing anything permanent.  I am therefore strongly 
encouraging the group to not only develop the necessary re-build scripts 
but also test them in a manner that we can see, ideally in the form of a 
test map, on a *copy* of part or all of the OSM database. The OSM 
Foundation board is firmly committed to supporting and providing the 
resources the group may require.

Meanwhile,  the LWG will focus on further reducing the 2.6% by 
contacting undecided users, encouraging constructive remapping and 
resolving country issues. Our next step is to launch a global personal 
contact-and-remap campaign, (well, almost global, there remain some 
special cases). This has been piloted in a few countries and been very 
successful.  Given the straight-line trends [2] I am confident that we 
will get a lot closer to a residual 1% of data that we will have to 
remove no matter what.

Mike
LWG

[1] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/rebuild/

[2] http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/munin.html
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Michal Migurski | 2 Feb 08:15

Subscribe to feeds of changes in your area with Changepipe

Hi,

I'm experimenting with minutely diffs and I made this:
	http://migurski.github.com/Changepipe/

Want me to bake you a feed of fresh OSM changesets for your area? Draw a polygon and mail to me following the
directions on the page!

-mike.

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