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OSM and Gender - Invitation to Online Discussion

Please stop insulting us with your Gender-Religion. OSM definitelly doesn’t need it!

„Opportunities and challenges to be more inclusive“: With OSM everyone already has the same opportunity. Just start mapping!

„Program ideas to support diversity in OSM“: Everyone in OSM already maps whatever he (all genders included) wants and likes to. No need to develop any “programs”.

Does anyone even check what HOTOSM contributors leave behind?

“ways with a node for every half a metre length”

There is nothing wrong with it, the more detail in OSM the better!

Iraq village cleanup

Nakaner: You cannot reliably transscript names in many languages - e.g. in Arabic where the wovels are (usually) missing in the writing.

What shall we have for diner tonight?

Hi!

“fast_food” stand for a “fast-food-restaurant” and is therefore obviously a type of an amenity. It’s just abbreviated.

Connectivity of a routing graph

Please, note that your road categories are USA specific and may not have the same meaning/importance in other parts of the world. Thanks!

Idea of issue tracker for tagging scheme

I think that it’s a very good idea to use issue-tracking for this purpose.

And I don’t think that it is necessarily a bad think if a discussion will be tracked in such a system AND parallel to it discussed in the mailing list - as you can post a link to a mail-list archive to an issue-tracker (“for the record”) and vice versa.

Units in OpenStreetMap

It’s disturbing that in 2015 anyone uses anything other than SI… :-(

Postigs question - find out the unnecessary points that exist on the map

Hi!

I’m not sure this is such a good idea. I leave sometimes such points as a preparation for future mapping.

Maybe you can add a condition that the point to be deleted is older than (at least) two weeks?

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„Džibutsko“ zní dost hrozně.

About problems with [surface=unpaved; access=destination] roads

It is anyway rather problematic in many cases how it is mapped.

In general, in many places it is simply not mapped. I am not aware about incorrect and hard to fix misuse of landuse=residential that is so widespread that stopping rendering it would be a good idea.

In many places it is just not clear what should be mapped as landuse=residential because it is not obvious on the ground. Therefore I don’t see much sense in displaying it - at least at such zoomlevels.

On the other hand the residential streets clearly exist on the ground an therefore should be rendered even at z12!

About problems with [surface=unpaved; access=destination] roads

Hi!

I would definitely render higway=residential @ z12. On the other hand one could consider not rendering area=residential at this zoom-level at all. It is anyway rather problematic in many cases how it is mapped.

New road style for the Default map style - the first version

Sorry to say but your colours seem really horrible. The original is much much better.

Natural Atlas + OpenStreetMap

What a pity you don’t offer a possibility to edit the data in JOSM!

BTW, will you cover Europe soon as well?

3D Modelle von Gebäuden erstellen

Ich staune darüber, ob die noexit tags wirklich notwendig sind. Ich finde es ein wenig dumm etwas zu taggen, was es nicht gibt, bzw. was sich von selbst erschließt.

Proposed talk at both SOTUM and HOTOSM conferences!!

Wouldn’t landuse=minefield be a more consistent way than hazard=minefield?

My Shopping Diary

spam, spam, spam, spam, bacon and spam… :-)

"Autobahn"-Abfahrten ohne name oder ref

Haben eigentlich auch kleinere Ausfahrten (wie Raststätten oder sogar kleine Parkplätze) refs und Namen?

Openstreetmap? More like Openwoodmap on low zoom levels

Well, actually, I like Openstreetmaps. If you look at some comercial maps, the roads look unrealistic thick - in reality they would be a couple of hunderts meter thick. So I think that openstreetmap is much superior to those unrealistic maps.

Format der Hausnummern mit Zusatz (z.B. Musterstraße 1b)

Schlimm, schlimm, schlimm, dass DIN gegen die typographischen Gewohnheiten verstößt.

osm live tracker

Nice!

A pitty that you cannot zoom to a particular area, though…