dcp, not likely. From a previous post Bryce seems to have written this in Cocoa/Objective-C, so very Apple specific.

Can’t wait to try this on my wife’s iPad!

Great work, and glad to see someone has found my conflation plugin useful. I’ve been too busy with other things to work on this for quite some time, but consider filing a ticket for any annoyances you have, like the one about having to click apply thousands of times:

http://josm.openstreetmap.de/query?status=!closed&component=Plugin+conflation

Hopefully I’ll get a chance to work on this more, but it might not be a for a while.

Would you or others in the Brazillian community be willing to beta test the conflation plugin I’m working on for JOSM? I’ve only had one other user providing feedback, and would like to have more. I’m looking for both bug reports and ideas of how to make the plugin more useful for conflating data such as addresses.

It’s available just like any other JOSM plugin, and you can leave feedback on the wiki talk page or make bug reports and feature requests on the JOSM site.

I recently added hundreds of park boundaries in Fairfax County, Virginia. If you can find the data from the county or state (e.g. Shapefiles) we can help you to add them.

I sent the following email to the company:

I recently received a mailer for SmartHomePrice.com, and noticed the map you use comes from OpenStreetMap. I’m glad to see you using it! I happen to be the one that edited the details for that map, and thus am a copyright holder for the map. That map is licensed to you (and anyone else) under the Creative Common CC-BY-SA license, which requires users to show attribution when the map is used. Read more about the OpenStreetMap copyright details here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright

I wrote about this on my blog here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/JoshD/diary/16538

Again, I’m glad to see you using the OpenStreetMap data, I just want to make sure that it is credited properly. Thanks!

The responded today and said they’ve contacted the company they use to print the maps, and they have already started adding attribution to OSM!

Could you share the script you used to do this? Others might find it useful.

I'm also interested in videomapping, and might get to working on the plugin someday. Could you share your opinions on what you'd like to see?

Thanks! I've put a link to this diary entry on the wiki:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Manual_conflation

Awesome site, great job!

Hey, too bad I missed this one (due to the RSS feed being messed up). I'm interested in this, as I've been mapping my HOA (rather large, around 6000 units), have created the HOA article on the wiki, and am interesting in tagging specific to HOAs. I'd love to preview your site.

As for the conversion, there's sadly no OGR driver for OSM yet, so your best bet is to go from OSM->Shapefile->WKT (refer to http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Shapefiles and ogr2ogr), or maybe try this which I just found but have never tried: http://www.tm.kit.edu/~mayer/osm2wkt/

I would strongly encourage you to read the following page and discuss this on the imports@ mailing list before importing any further parcels:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines

Welcome! Sorry no one did this sooner. Glad to have you!

Very interesting, and all good points. Thankfully I've found the Bing imagery to be very accurate in my area.

Thanks for your post, I've found this to be one of the most useful plugins. This reminds me that I've been meaning to create a list/review of the most useful plugins.

I couldn't find a ticket with your patch on TRAC, have you created one? I would be interested and willing to merge this change since the original author is too busy, and it is functionality that I've been wanting for a while.

From http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Remapping#Imaging_Background, you can view the license layer in JOSM with:
tms:http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/tiles/wtfe/{zoom}/{x}/{y}.png

And Potlatch2 with:
http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/tiles/wtfe/$z/$x/$y.png

Great work!

Welcome! Glad to have you, and hope you enjoy OSM.

Pink Duck, Chaos99: If you wish to discuss/debate abbreviations more thoroughly, consider reading and responding to the recent thread on the talk@ list with the subject "shortened names", which you can read here on Nabble, all 94 messages (!).

I hope any further comments will consider the design of a general tag transformer, rather than focusing on one specific transformation (such as un-abbreviation).

Chaos99: Yes, this would basically be a find-and-replace function for JOSM, with preview. It would be a little more than that, because it would allow you to remove a tag and add a new one (e.g. changing a key name).

I did just discover that the CommandLine plugin for JOSM does provide a regular expression search and replace, however I think it's worth having a dedicated dialog to make the functionality available to an average user.

I wasn't planning on getting into the politics or technical details of un-abbreviating, as there is quite a bit to it, especially if you keep up with the mailing lists. Conventions and exact implementation will vary by country, which is why in my example I made it clear that each region (country, state, city, etc.) will need their own un-abbreviating script/dictionary.

For the US, I would likely use the logic from balrog-kun's script, using the USPS abbreviation list. For ambiguous cases I can mark them such that they can't be changed en masse, but rather must be individually reviewed (selected).

And keep in mind that the design of this tool is such that changes are reviewed before being made. Also this is meant for the average user to run over a small region that they're working on, not a bot that requires technical expertise and is run over entire countries or the world.

Glad to see another Virginia mapper, thanks for your contributions!