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Route Manager and History Viewer

I have reset the queue now. I don’t know how to avoid this, but one minute is way too short as a timeout (the relation blame function takes a long time even for small relations). Maybe I will create separate queues for the different functions.

OpenLinkMap layer in FacilMap

Added a feature request for OpenSeaMap layer on http://bugs.cdauth.eu/index.php?do=details&task_id=59

OpenLinkMap layer in FacilMap

This is something that you have to suggest to the author of OpenLinkMap, as I am only using its data.

Route Manager and History Viewer

What position in the queue does it display for your changeset? As there is one queue for all functions of Route Manager and History Viewer, it is not unlikely that the queue takes a long time to process, as especially the Relation Blame function of History Viewer can take very long.

Route Manager and History Viewer

I read about that bookmarklet some time ago and created two Greasemonkey scripts that create a link on the changeset and relation pages: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/92779 and http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/92776

OpenOrienteeringMap now for the whole world

Am I seeing this right that the new Street-O tiles don’t have a transparent background anymore? That would be a pity, the old tiles made it possible to display a real Google-Hybrid lookalike with OpenStreetMap data.
Nevertheless, great work!

Nominatim search result icons

Very nice, thanks for the tip!

New OpenStreetBugs client, translators needed

At the moment, Translatewiki seems to be too complicated, as translators have to register and request permission to translate. It doesn’t seem to be possible to create a new project. On the other hand the number of languages that my tools could be translated to would probably be much higher on Translatewiki because non-OpenStreetMap users could help with the translation as well.

At the moment, I prefer the OpenStreetMap wiki, as it is more newcomer-friendly.

Live Permalinks

Yep, that’s something I’ve wanted to implement for some time, done now.

Google MapMaker: What now?

In Google MapMaker, people can map without going out with a GPS device, because of the good satellite images (I haven’t ever used it, but I suppose they use the normal Google Satellite imagery). Furthemore I don’t think that they care much about copyright when they insert street names and other information.
This is not possible in OSM.

Country roads around Lismore

Your changeset is finally viewable in OSM History Viewer. It was so big that I had to increase the memory limit in Java. ;-)

OSM History Viewer

Now you can also enter changeset IDs with a #.

OSM History Viewer

I almost suspected it to work incorrectly, thanks for the tip and for saving me the time to find it out myself.

US/Canada border

Here in Germany, we have a similar problem. At least in Landkreis Miesbach, there are two borders to Austria: one from the Landkreis border import, which is really detailed, and one with the source CIA World Databank II. Unfortunately, the CIA border only consists of nodes, and those are not connected by a way. Fortunately though, they all have a source tag, so it would be rather easy to delete them.

OpenLayers Map

I didn’t really know Google MapMaker, I’ve added it to the map now. I know about the bug with the pop-up dialogues, but I haven’t found any fix for it yet.

The difference of OSM to other projects

That would be a really cool innovation. It would searching the mailing-list a lot easier if there were links to related discussions on the Wiki pages.

Software

Merkaartor hat – soweit ich das bis jetzt entdecken konnte – diese Templates von JOSM nicht. In JOSM sind einige Map Features schon eingebaut, zum Beispiel zum Anlegen einer Adresse. Es öffnet sich dann ein Fenster, in dem du alle möglichen Angaben machen kannst. So braucht man nicht immer die Tags nachschlagen.
Außerdem scheint in Merkaartor das Bearbeiten von langen Routen, die als Relations gespeichert sind, noch etwas umständlich zu sein. In JOSM hat man da wenigstens die Routen aufgelistet, die durch den heruntergeladenen Bereich verlaufen, und kann sie so bearbeiten.
In JOSM scheinen allgemein ein paar Sachen im Moment noch schneller machbar zu sein, zumindest, wenn man ungeachtet lässt, dass JOSM im Gegensatz zu Merkaartor (als schlanke und schnelle QT-Applikation) teilweise mehrere Gigabyte Hauptspeicher zieht, und selbst wenn dieser vorhanden ist immernoch stark verzögert auf Eingaben reagiert. Der große Vorteil von Merkaartor ist auch, dass durch QT die Oberfläche so funktioniert, wie man sie gewohnt ist, JOSM hingegen verwendet irgendwelche Java-Sachen, und da kann es schonmal sein, dass die mittlere Maustaste, die Tabulatortaste oder das Auswählen von Text nicht so funktionieren, wie man es von seinem System gewohnt ist.

Ich empfehle daher Merkaartor zu verwenden, und für kompliziertere Sachen wie Relations eben ab und zu JOSM zu starten.

The difference of OSM to other projects

I forgot to mention, what currently also happens very often is that new tagging practices are considered the best on the mailing-list, but pages describing these things aren’t updated on the Wiki and still describe the old practice. People don’t seem do see the Wiki as the standard reference for tagging.

The difference of OSM to other projects

RussNelson, I would not remove any of of the methods of communication (although I think a mailing-list and a forum could well be combined, but this is more a general issue than OSM-specific). I only think it would be great if people would discuss their proposals only on the Wiki (and not propose it on the Wiki and discuss it on the mailing-list, the forum and the Wiki simultaneously). If a discussion about any tagging practice is happening on the mailing-list, people should at least write about the results and collect the arguments on the Wiki. One problem that prevents users from doing this at the moment is in my opinion that the Wiki is not structured enough (especially with the mixup of different languages).

Datteln Hötting

In JOSM kannst du einen Node setzen, ohne, dass dieser mit einer existierenden Straße verbunden wird, indem du Strg gedrückt hältst. In jedem Fall kannst du die Straße aber neben der anderen malen und dann unter die andere verschieben, sodass keine Kreuzung entsteht. Nicht vergessen, das layer-Tag zu setzen, damit klar ist, welche Straße oben und welche unten ist.