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Simplifying Route Mapping

OK, so like OSM Relatify?

Simplifying Route Mapping

You may want to read: osm.wiki/Proposal:Simpler_public_transport_route_relations and the various push backs on the tagging list https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2020-March/051442.html. Which I would mischievously sum up as “it’s too hard for the data consumer and may not be 100% correct, therefore the mapper should be forced to do all the work”.

Using Josm's validator to check boundary relations

Another tip is that Osmose has a broken boundary check, so you can set up a RSS feed to find out when they break. It’s a lot easier if there hasn’t been too much editing in the mean time.

I have tried to fix some of the Irish ones in the past, but they require a lot of obscure local knowledge that I don’t have.

Do we actually need 860 keys to learn about pubs?

OK, we have a winner in Berlin (where else could it have been?). Mostly due the hot mess that is the payment:* family.

Apparently this pub is payment:cash = yes, payment:coins = yes and payment:notes= no. Shouldn’t that be payment:cash = it depends ?

The problems with "highway=path" in England and Wales

Don’t forget Richard’s plea for sanity from 2013.

Started mapping

Welcome.

Drop by at the Oceania community on the OSM Community forum or in the #oceania thread on the OpenStreetMap World Discord if you need any help…or just want to say hi.

Pathology 101 – A primer into a new science

Don’t forget to read Richard’s classic on the subject of paths. Nothing has improved since 2013.

Initier à OSM via la cartographie de terrain / Introduction to OSM through field mapping / Introdução ao OSM através de cartografia no campo

If you are going to do multilingual diary posts, would you please split them into separate posts under the appropriate language categories. For example, a French speaker is not going to see this post because it does not appear under osm.org/diary/fr.

Thanks.

Tagging methods when the entire area is a crosswalk(영역 전체가 건널목인 경우)

area:highway=pedestrian is already in use as the outline of a highway=pedestrian, which is not what you have here.

Wait, someone did what? Exploring Reverted Map Edits in OSM

Does having something you mapped get deleted count as “reverted”? Or is it just things that have their state returned to their former state?

new tag man_made=urine_deflector

Meanwhile in Sydney…. picture of P&O sculpture Sydney

Finding steep paths which may need review

TIL hectad…doubt I’ll be using it too often.

Searching Diaries

If you want to filter out the stuff that’s not a diary then you can use: site:www.openstreetmap.org/user/ inurl:diary -inurl:comments "every door"

Finding OSM users who comment on changeset, but don't edit OSM

Nice. I always like me some Bash magic…

I’ll have to have a look at anglosaxon. I have some Python code I use to parse the changeset dump and I’ll be interested to see how much faster your program goes.

FOSS4G SotM Oceania 2021 — Perth Hub 12–13 November

I’d love to come … but you know how it goes :-). Hopefully some other year we’ll make it.

OSMF survey on board priorities - a quick analysis using the Borda count.

The seven priorities coded into 1…7 for using as input is here.

OSMF survey on board priorities - a quick analysis using the Borda count.

Order based on Condorcet Ranked-Pairs:

Rank Choice (wins, losses, unresolved)
1 Stability of the core infrastructure (hardware, software, human capital) (6, 0, 0)
2 Takeover protection (5, 1, 0)
3 Fund-raising (4, 2, 0)
4 Outreach to Local Chapters and Communities (3, 3, 0)
5 Recruitment for Working Groups (2, 4, 0)
6 Attribution guidelines (1, 5, 0)
7 Brexit (0, 6, 0)

Code used.

How to check for bbox USER map changes with overpass?

Try: http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/WlR

Fixing Ellis Island's borders in the face of incorrect government data

I did a quick check using the pyproj library and you’re not out by more than 200 mm so I wouldn’t worry about it.

There is an article that explains how they scaled the boundary off an 1857 map, so that’s going to be super accurate…

I also enjoyed the explanation about why NJ and NY spent so much time fighting this: “It’s a fight over gift shop sales tax revenue”.

How to highlight high-precision GPX traces?

@jidanni I didn’t say it was pretty, just that it get the job done. Strangely I was just discussing this on the tagging list: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2019-August/047582.html