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by sp8962 5d ago
It's actually OK compared to your typical GIS desktop app, but naturally not the thing to recommend a beginner.
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by sp8962 5d ago
Oh dear. Using JOSM for your 1st edit is definitely not recommended. Doing the same with iD (the editor embedded in the OSM website) is faster and there's even a tutorial that will explain a bit about how things work.
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by sp8962 1y ago
Thanks for the blatantly marketing Overture on a Thread about downloading OSM data.
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by sp8962 1y ago
"developer" is a slightly weird way of putting it. osm.org is the contributor portal and demo site for OpenStreetMap, and yes it is not and never has been intended as an end user replacement for Google Maps and similar offerings.
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by sp8962 1y ago
To answer the question: somebody needs to do the initial work and it's a further moving part that needs to be kept running (as the other responses point out such a distribution would likely use PMTiles as a container format). Given the
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by sp8962 2y ago
If you want to add more details (don't overdo it) https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Simple_3D_Buildings
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by sp8962 2y ago
See https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/foursquare-releases-10...
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by sp8962 2y ago
As Doctor_Fegg has pointed out further down, the OSMF provided raster tile service on openstreetmap.org is primarily intended to provide fast feedback to contributors and not for general purpose use, in particular not as a competitor to goo
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by sp8962 2y ago
The article wasn't authored by anybody actually involved with the service or setting it up, just in case that wasn't clear. Paul has written a blog post or two on the subject https://www.openstreetmap.org/user&#x2F
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by sp8962 2y ago
No it doesn't.
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by sp8962 2y ago
Sure you could .... but to find something you would need to have the tile in question so you would need to calculate the tile to retrieve, and then find the object at the location (which is roughly equivalent to rendering the tile). Doesn&#
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by sp8962 2y ago
> It contains the OSM data (obviously) ... Not really. You need to build geometries from raw OSM data (aka the stuff that you edit) then transform those geometries into MVT format adding appropriate attributes from the original data. In
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by sp8962 2y ago
Different use case. Tippecanoe takes geojson and splits it up into tiles, we are talking about doing that with OSM data here. Typically you will want to apply some normalisation of the input data, then you need instantiate the geometry of t
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by sp8962 2y ago
Well nobody claimed things are going to get simpler. It is difficult to beat raster tiles in that respect. vector tiles split up responsibility for what you get visually over multiple moving pieces with different provenance and operators.
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by sp8962 2y ago
The whole point of vector tiles is that the rendering is local and controlled by a style configuration (except for the tile schema) that can be changed. So the brokenness you are seeing is either in the style or the library that is renderin
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by sp8962 2y ago
Just to nip this in the bud, OpenStreetMap in general doesn't contain "translations" it contains the exonyms that are commonly in use for geographic objects. Most of the time things only have a name in the local language so t
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by sp8962 2y ago
... it doesn't? One of the downsides of MVTs and the typical max zoom level of 14 is that that they do require more local resources than simply rendering a 256x256 bitmap. For OSM the question is naturally would a complete migration (a
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by sp8962 2y ago
Both apps mainly use downloaded/"offline" preprocessed map data in their own formats. MVT format vector tiles are not remotely suitable for navigation or search (not ruling out that something could be hobbled together, but it
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by sp8962 2y ago
No, because you've been able to self host (or have somebody host them for you) vector tiles for a long time with very little effort, and yes that will somewhat offload processing to clients, and, more importantly allow many styling dec
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by sp8962 2y ago
> You don't have to do this yourself, just understand that simple apps are a good way to bring new users in, ... Except that the numbers show the opposite.
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by sp8962 2y ago
The easiest thing people can do these days is to take georeferenced photographs with their phones, best with a photo app that will record the direction the phone was pointing, for example OpenCamera on Android. Then take their time and then
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by sp8962 2y ago
First OSM existed and was already quite good many years before we got access to Bing imagery (2010). Undoubtedly there was a big boost in some types of mapping due to a reasonable quality global imagery source being available, mainly buildi
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by sp8962 2y ago
I need to quote myself on this thread https://twitter.com/sp8962/status/1534079141640904705 Steve hasn't been a relevant force in OSM for more than a decade and if you want to do OSM a favour, point people to
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by sp8962 3y ago
That was an issue because of the validation pipeline Mapbox was using at the time, the vandalism had long been fixed in OpenStreetMap proper when the story hit the news. So, yes, you are going to need to make a trade off between potentially
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by sp8962 4y ago
Impersonation is explicitly banned https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use If it applies to the situation at hand is naturally questionable.
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by sp8962 4y ago
Not really even that. What is currently on the table is simply a way to cleanly differentiate between closed ways that are polygons and actual closed ways. Example roundabout enclosing a park. The problem is that right now this relies on de
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by sp8962 5y ago
Likely because it is tedious (think watching paint dry) and expensive. And except if you take a shotgun approach to the service/goods classes you register in, you are still going to have exposure (in the US you need to provide proof of
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by sp8962 5y ago
> ... or didn't respond in time to inquiries from Spain officials, it looks to me like the system (at least in Spain?) does not work. As a rule you will not be contacted by the relevant trademark registering office. What happens is
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by sp8962 5y ago
No it isn't. Contrary to doing the right thing in such a situation as Ben is doing with OpenMapChest, the operator of garmin.openstreetmap.nl went incommunicado years back, but refused to hand over it to anybody else or at least shut i
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by sp8962 6y ago
You should be aware that it rather biased (doesn't show tools that are in competition to those that the author was involved in), and out of date.

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