Re: [Tagging] the nature of large-scale paid edits (was Re: Service road)

2019-11-08 Thread Philip Barnes
On Friday, 8 November 2019, Warin wrote: > > There is simply too much other stuff to do that be worried by every > driveway. So I only map them where they are of some interest to other > than the resident. > This has been mine, and many other OSM mappers view up until recently. However home

Re: [Tagging] the nature of large-scale paid edits (was Re: Service road)

2019-11-08 Thread Dave F via Tagging
On 08/11/2019 03:32, Warin wrote: There is simply too much other stuff to do that be worried by every driveway. So I only map them where they are of some interest to other than the resident. Apologies Warin, but this has just made me genuinely lol. You have an opinion on almost every minutiae

Re: [Tagging] the nature of large-scale paid edits (was Re: Service road)

2019-11-08 Thread Mateusz Konieczny
8 Nov 2019, 01:45 by cliff...@snowandsnow.us: > Maybe one day our emergency services will consider using OSM. > Aready used in Poland (or maybe were used) due to problems with official data (refusal to provide official road data to firefighters, datasets were disjoint on edges of internal bou

Re: [Tagging] the nature of large-scale paid edits (was Re: Service road)

2019-11-07 Thread Warin
On 08/11/19 08:58, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: On Fri, 8 Nov 2019 at 07:34, Clifford Snow > wrote: Every time I've contacted one of the Amazon's team, they have responded and taken responsibility to update their edits. We should first try to contact t

Re: [Tagging] the nature of large-scale paid edits (was Re: Service road)

2019-11-07 Thread Clifford Snow
On Thu, Nov 7, 2019 at 1:59 PM Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: > On the subject of mapping driveways - do people only map up to the front > fence (especially in suburban areas), or all the way to the garage / house > ie everything visible on aerial imagery? > > I map to the garage to or in the case of

Re: [Tagging] the nature of large-scale paid edits (was Re: Service road)

2019-11-07 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone > On 7. Nov 2019, at 23:00, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: > > On the subject of mapping driveways - do people only map up to the front > fence (especially in suburban areas), or all the way to the garage / house ie > everything visible on aerial imagery? I’m doing it occasion

Re: [Tagging] the nature of large-scale paid edits (was Re: Service road)

2019-11-07 Thread Graeme Fitzpatrick
On Fri, 8 Nov 2019 at 07:34, Clifford Snow wrote: > Every time I've contacted one of the Amazon's team, they have responded > and taken responsibility to update their edits. We should first try to > contact them before going through DWG. > I certainly didn't mean to come on heavy, just a friendl

Re: [Tagging] the nature of large-scale paid edits (was Re: Service road)

2019-11-07 Thread Clifford Snow
Every time I've contacted one of the Amazon's team, they have responded and taken responsibility to update their edits. We should first try to contact them before going through DWG. This thread shows the number of opinions on how to map service roads. BTW my driveway is a shared driveway. I've map

Re: [Tagging] the nature of large-scale paid edits (was Re: Service road)

2019-11-07 Thread Graeme Fitzpatrick
On Fri, 8 Nov 2019 at 03:21, Greg Troxel wrote: > I am not aware of them publishing their guidelines; perhaps someone in > Amazon management will > speak up in this thread and point to where that is published. > Or possibly someone from the DWG (?) could contact them? Thanks Graeme ___

Re: [Tagging] the nature of large-scale paid edits (was Re: Service road)

2019-11-07 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 11/7/19 18:19, Greg Troxel wrote: > My point is that we have a lot of mappers and a set of norms (which are > pretty fuzzy and/or a bit contradictory). We have rules about > mechanical edits (including imports), since they change things in a > large-scale systematic way. Yes. If you are a

[Tagging] the nature of large-scale paid edits (was Re: Service road)

2019-11-07 Thread Greg Troxel
Dave F via Tagging writes: > On 06/11/2019 18:04, Greg Troxel wrote: >> >> I think a shared driveway is still a driveway. > > This is the crux. The only distinguishing attribute from what we'd all > tag as a driveway is that's it's shared. > A driveway is designated as privately owned rather than