I remember that problem now indeed. Didn't notice the reaction on your initial comment was 2 years apart bxl4ever :)

I've written a program to analyse that, but I stopped using it since the accents on capitals at the time I didn't acount for and an official street name from Brussels was impossible to get, they still don't put accents in Urbis database afaik on capitals, but it can probably be adapted quickly to just check embassies instead of streetnames like I did at the time. We can discuss this in matrix channel and coordinate the effort.

Hi, the OSM-BE consensus has always been for bilingual "FR - NL" for streetnames and other names. With space dash space in between them. We don't use the alt_names afaik, it's been a consensus between our both communities and has no political influence. I'm not sure I understand what is meant with colloquial names, I understand the word but I fail to imagine a real life example here.

Signup works again

The signup appears to be broken though, I'm looking into it. But please do join us on riot.

GRB heeft ook de exacte afmetingen van deze brug in de database. Deze zijn zeer accuraat. Je mag echt niet kijken naar de kaart om anders te gaan mappen. Dit is maar 1 van de vele visualisaties van de data.

Deze brug was reeds uit GRB gemerged.

source:geometry:date 2003/07/10
source:geometry:entity Knw
source:geometry:oidn 1765
source:geometry:uidn 1765

Stick around, you'll love the tool when it's done, are you from Vilvoorde ? I live in Weerde, so not too far away.

And come to riot channel if you get a chance. We are a positive group.

I did Mechelen like that , the whole inner city, then I started developing an application. we have special channels for this, don't worry bout it. It's a sort of timewaster anyway , but it sure is rewarding.

Hey Joe,

It's not a problem though, it's not bad work you do, it's just that there are upcoming tools that will help alot with building designations, addresses etc. It's looking pretty good the work you do, you would be an excellent consumer of the tools we are about to release. We sure like the details you put into place. Didn't expect this kind of reaction ... I'm a bit surprised. The underlying problem/issues we had to deal with is that this sort of data is an import and it's been though over with a whole bunch of people, the tracing (copying over from GRB background) is in fact fairly legal, but it only goes so far. If you would be importing the shape files provided by GRB, that is a different matter. We have several wiki pages explaining the procedures , caveats and pitfalls we have to take into account with GRB. My remark was more meant as: it's quite some work what you do, and there is an easier, more detailed way to do it. How can we assist you to still consider this a hobby. We appreciate your efforts a lot. Concerning riot, you probably need to register first here https://riot.im/app/#/register

It's a hobby for the rest of us too, so join when you have the chance.

Thanks.

We have toolsets ready to assist in this process btw.

Hi,

Are you tracing buildings from GRB background ? You are probably not aware but we have a community project setup to merge GRB buildings to OSM in a bit more complicated setup.

There is a working group to discuss the way we are doing this properly. I like to invite you to our riot chat channel as you seem to be interested in getting buildings into OSM. Would appreciate you joining our OSM.BE online group here https://riot.im/app/#/room/#osmbe:matrix.org

Although you seem to do a fairly decent job, it's very work intensive and you also are not backreferencing the buildings in the way we will do this in the future (for updates, statistics etc).

Thanks.

Toevoegen gebouwen is altijd meerwaarde. Kom lekker naar ons riot chatkanaal om mee te praten over de voordelen : ) https://riot.im/app/#/room/#osmbe:matrix.org

Beste manier om addressen van crab toe te voegen is via onze community tool :

http://crab-import.osm.be/

Hallo,

Het is beter de ganse way te verwijderen dan enkel de tags erop. ways zonder additionele tags zijn niet geldig in OSM

Hallo,

Welcome bij OSM. Ik heb even een verbetering gemaakt aan uw edit. het name veld is voorbehouden aan officiele namen. Het is prima dat je de historiek wil aantonen van dit object, daarom heb ik uw edit gemigreerd naar een 'note'. Vraagje alsnog: is het sportcentrum er nog steeds ? Want er zijn nog referenties naar K.F.C. Nederename sport centrum . Zie way : way/246783493

Hallo Willy,

Welcome by OSM be.

Ik heb de bollard gecorrigeerd, deze moet namelijk verbonden zijn met de weg.

Hallo Rover,

Ik zie dat je de beta tool gebruikt die ik gemaakt heb om gebouwen toe te voegen. Op zich leuk dat je deze alsnog gevonden hebt. Ik heb te weinig moeite gedaan om deze te verstoppen, we hadden in de community afgesproken om even te stoppen met het importeren van gebouwen `en masse` en je heb momenteel al meer dan 10K gebouwen toegevoegd. Het probleem zit hem ook in het feit dat de adressgegevens bij de bron al problematisch zijn, waardoor er veel fouten in kunnen komen. Als je hier en daar een paar gebouwen gebruikt om iets te verbeteren gaan we niet direct probleem van maken, doe ik zelf ook nog wel. Maar de hoeveelheid die je nu erin aan het zetten bent gaat wel degelijk opvallen (zo kom ik hier terrecht). Ik zie ook dat je de overbodige processing tags eruit haalt, dus ik veronderstel dat je wel lijkt te weten wat je moet doen. Is er een kans om ons te vervoegen op het riot chat kanaal van OSM.be, of zit je er al in ? momenteel is jouw werk een beetje het onderwerp van de dag aan het worden. https://riot.im/app/#/room/#osmbe:matrix.org

Why did you delete the relation ?

Why are you deleting so much valuable information with not explanation ? This is unacceptable. Please explain why you delete for example this way/42004059?

Also, you seem to bulk edit sub_stations without respecting what the wiki clearly states : This tag is a refinement of power=station and power=sub_station and has replaced these tags. Do not try to automatically change these tags.

Take a good look at that last line.

Hi, It seems you are mapping for the renderer based upon bing data as mention by your source. The changeset is rather huge and have sparse comments. I took a few changes you made on the ArcelorMittal site and you've introduced errors, creating a landfill where it's not one. We like to ask you to consult with the belgian community first before making such changes. This site has been mapped in great detail based upon plans that we received from AM themselves. It makes no sense to use a less accurate source to change those values into the wrong ones. Please do not map for the renderer.