Mohd
Hmmmmm... interesting question regarding the use of YouTube videos to assist map editing. Personally I think YouTube is indeed one of the many Alphabet's tentacles. I would simply ask the original uploader for an original copy instead*, rather than, you know, traversing the grey area of copyright. *Not really feasible yet in my country (big file size!), unless the video owner would be willing to do their part, reuploading as an email attachment
Mohd
Paid remote mappers, at their best, undoing local mappers' on the ground verification part quatre-vingt-dix-neuf
Mohd
Why my uploaded GPS tracks is fully neglected over there? Eh, of course, I definitely need to waste fuel to record at least a billion tracks over there, just because I enjoy editing OSM without receiving any kind of monetary reimbursement
Mohd
"CC BY 4.0 license: Data exported from EO Browser can be used under CC BY 4.0 license. Please mention Sentinel Hub EO Browser along with the relevant data collection in the credits." Oooofffffffffffff
Mohd
Okay... there's a lorry that could be seen on Bing StreetSide (from August 2017). Fast forward to July 2021, said lorry appeared on KartaView. Bing imagery from May 2022 somewhat has its outline. Not spooky, but, yeah. Really helpful when you're stuck indoors because the temps outside was steadily increasing bit by bit (yesterday was 36 degrees max).
Mohd
Brands... there's Name Suggestion Index for that. No more unconventional spelling for these kind of special brands. It's (sort of) already built in for those who use iD editor (JOSM will need a plugin), but other editing programmes could still exploit its goodness (copy paste tags in JOSM)
Mohd
Transliteration: Is it River X or X River? That's the many strong case of map what's on the ground (See nothing? Oh yes, then just don't put anything) and why OpenStreetMap is not the place to deal with translations (if there's hardly any official record of any sort - some suggest to pull things from Wikidata instead).
Mohd
I signed up for Planet Labs like 6 years ago... guess what? I have to contact their support to reset my password. Clicking the link doing so, takes you to the login page. Arghhhh! Catch 22s!
Mohd
Wow Planet Labs now is really tough to get signed up for - I just want to ask them something: is it okay to use extracts from their Sentinel Hub (now theirs) to improve OpenStreetMap...
InsertUser
@AkuAnakTimur Sentinel Hub used to always be prohibited for OSM use as IIRC their TOS said noncommercial only. Not too hard to download a Sentinel image from the original agency and get #QGIS to spit out an .mbtile of e.g. just z15 tiles that JOSM will happily treat as a tile layer (with plugin). If you name it sensibly you don't have to modify the source tag too much either.
Mohd
I... missed the news that Planet Labs acquired Sinergise (of Sentinel Playground) last August!
Mohd
I just realised (in my country) that Bing maps is using a copy of OSM's road (probably sourced from TomTom). Other map elements e.g. boundaries (TomTom's?) and place labels (Grab's?) are proprietary. There are also places data that correlate with OSM data, if not all. Well... their maps are now vector based too, which is sort of nice.
Mohd
*Bing StreetSide stopped working properly* Someone: the Rapid editor :osm_rapid: people got it working Me: Yay! *euphoria for a few days* *15 February* Firefox: welp, their cert kinda expires. NO MEANS NO Me: 馃槺
Mohd
<garbled> $business_type *logs in Meta to check for business* *a Facebook post with photo* <now legible> $business_type "oh dear" *leave its name blank*
Mohd
Yeah, Bing StreetSide issues on the iD editor. I'm not the only one...
Mohd
Hmmmm.... I think I should try opening the iD editor, enabling Bing StreetSide overlay, with my gigabit workplace internet and see it for myself... I thought switching providers for a while did the trick (it did once or twice today) but the problem persisted...
Mohd
Yeah, that CARTO map (based on OpenStreetMap) has zero credit... Google Fonts got at least a mention though... 
Eugene Alvin Villar
@AkuAnakTimur I used their feedback form to report the missing attribution as an issue.
Mohd
Gahhhhh seriously Bing StreetSide probably has issues with Firefox on Linux distros. I mean, it took a while to load their donated resources even in the iD editor... 
瓯办湀
@AkuAnakTimur Has it gotten better for you since this post? The fastest platform for me is @panoramax , but I need to provide my own photos. 馃ぃ
Mohd
*made some changes in terms of the name of THE USA* *large bounding box* GASP! *wrote some changeset discussion - sorry for a huge bounding box*
Mohd
Hiya... happy new year's eve! Going to ask a very Manila-centric question - here we go. Why in OSM, the EDSA is mapped as it is (name=EDSA), but not the actual full name? Is it because the signs say so, or people just got too used with EDSA?
瓯办湀
Happy new year! 馃帀 Well, we have quite a number of streets like that -- a mouthful to pronounce, so our convention is to use `name` for the common name (what most people use to refer to it), and add the official name to, well, `official_name`. I don't think it makes any sense to use the official/"proper" when people don't use it.
Mohd
I just used the Query feature on the website (osm.org). Wonder why some places in Singapore, has Nearby Features using the Malay language - name:ms (instead of English, because the name tag has values in English) - is this intended? See attached screencap.
Eugene Alvin Villar
@AkuAnakTimur what is the Accept-Language HTTP header that your browser is sending?
Mohd
Wow, thanks Grab Map Data Team for this effort though...! |
Gregory's Server
There's this one case where a mapper simply did it when the uploader themself said their videos are copyright controlled...