An by “other two” I meant level0 and merkaartor of course :p

@Richard P2 works fine and it’s great to have, it’s just that I don’t see much advantage to it compared with the other two.

This is more a “tell my why P2 is great, what am I missing” question than a “you should use FooEdit instead” advice.

@SomeoneElse

Answered one of you JOSM question on h.o.o :)

Never thought about displaying misc GPX attributes, but now that you mention it, it would be usefull and I didn’t find a way to do it (outside of preprocessing the file. Same behavior in iD (actually even less details displayed), and the only way I managed to open a gpx file in P2 is using the task button but it’s arguably even less usefull ?

To each his own for viewing object tags and relations, I very much dislike iD’s UI for this, and feel that P2’s advanced (aka usable :p) view is pretty much the same as JOSM’s.

I cetainly don’t want to press people into using this or that editor, I was just curious about P2 because I thought that JOSM and iD and Vespucci already catered nicely to most usecases.

Out of curiosity: why Potlatch nowadays ? Just because you’re used to it ?

The best way to fix this is editing the map yourself. Go to the location, draw the buildings (at least your one, but go ahead and draw the whole street :) ), add and address (housenumber and street), and final add the business type and name.

If you gave it a try and still feel it’s too daunting, add a Note at your busines’s location and wait for somebody to do the edit.

There’s probably a correlation between what makes newbies start with JOSM instead of osm.org’s default and what increases contributor retention time. The newbie being more technology-savvy and the mentor being more enthusiastic with JOSM spring to mind, but these are just guesses.

Maybe we should assign first-time editors at random during some mapathons, and ensure that fans of each editor are available for mentoring ?

I was surprised to not find any overnodeing checks in the main QA tools (OSMI, Osmose, Keepright…) Maybe you could try to integrate your code in one of these, to reach a wider audience ?

The waiver is great, but it can be a daunting procedure, elegible people might think they aren’t, or be too proud to think they are, etc.

Maybe a subcription fee indexed on the country’s GDP per capita (or some similar metric) would make sense ? Take the UK as the reference fixed in £, and adjust other countries’s fees during yearly AGMs ?

Scanaerial is usually for lakes, not rivers. It really depends on how suitable the imagery is.

In the case above, the imagery’s contrast made it realy hard for scanaerial. One can tweak the settings and rerun scanaerial, but I knew from experience that (for this case) it’d be faster to draw from scratch.

Whether you rerun the auto-tracing tool or not, good candidates for improvements (as opposed to replacement) are ways that have too few nodes rather than too many.

Salut, jette un oeuil à https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/42509/how-do-i-tag-invasive-alien-species-ias

Si l’anglais n’est pas ton fort, essentiellement ça dit que 1) OSM peut tout à fait servir de fond de carte pour afficher ce genre de données, mais ne devrais pas être utilisé pour stoquer ces données. 2) Il existe des sites dédiés comme par exemple http://observado.org/ pour répertorier les observations animales et végétales de manière participative.

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Welcome to OSM, I hope you’ll find that it’s a better home for your activities both as a contributor and as a user.

OSM’s software development, server administration, and other admin tasks is fairly well spread out. There are some requests that take far too long to get treated, but you shouldn’t see any systemic problem (or if an OSM project does die, it’s usually because it got replaced by something better, or wasn’t that usefull anymore).

Giving full mapping access to everyone immediately after registering is a leap of faith that neither Wikimapia nor Google dared do. While it allows for vandalism and gross newbie mistakes, we actually manage to handle this without spending too much time on it, and it is a great boon for getting and retaining new contributors.

As for the long term viability of OSM… yeah, the data is very safe there :)

You can try breathing some life into https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/1500

Other than that, from a “how many people can use the path” point of vew, dangerous paths are arguably more mapworthy than private roads (especially in a place like Tenerife that attracts lots of mountain walkers). And yes, sometimes I see contributors (probably landowners) deleting private roads, when the proper thing to do is, like for dangerous paths, to improve the tagging (in that case access=private).

Of course you should contact the mapper, but I suggest also glancing through his/her other changesets in case the same mistake was made in other places.

Well, maybe. The artwork is effectively both there and not there. You can’t be sure until you survey it, and different surveyors might reach different conclusions.

Also keep in mind that we are all editing each other’s work. Most of us have prefered mapping regions, but it doesn’t mean that data belongs to its original contributor in an exclusive, dont-edit-without-notifying sense.

It’s good practice to notify a contributor when you think (s)he’s done a poor job that can be avoided in the furture, but it isn’t a requirement. Contacting contributors when a given changeset looks odd (like you just did) is also a normal and good thing to do.

Le but de cette entrée de journal m’intrigue. La page web dont c’est tiré n’est pas assez lisible ? Pas assez facile à trouver ?

Hum, thinking more about it, ST_Simplify probably doesn’t pay attention to connected and tagged node, so it’s not that straightforward to use.

In case you hadn’t found it already: http://postgis.net/docs/ST_Simplify.html uses douglas-peucker and you should be able to do the conversion using a simple sql update. Remember to vacuum full before and after if you want to know exactly what space savings this gets you.

I can’t imagine an osmosis bug that requires root to solve. Can you psql to the db ? Fix you pg_hba.conf if not. Can you write to temp files that osmisis creates ? Use chmod/chown if not.

16GB of ram is at the lower end of usable nowadays. And if you aren’t running this on an SSD, you should probably forget about importing the whole world, it’ll take months.

Always start with a smaller extract, not the whole world. Try Africa first, for example. You say you want to run stats, could you run stats on individual continent databases ?

The biggest speed improvement you can get is by osmfilter-ing out data you don’t need before the import. Do you really need building outlines for example ?

And communicate with these lesser mappers, my King (via changeset comments or private messages). This’d be better use of people’s time than ranting in a diary, and you might even find out that they do know what they are doing, it just wasn’t clear to you.