49 changesets created by bdiscoe have been discussed with 36 replies of this contributor
Changeset # Tmstmp UTC Contributor Comment
102434221
by bdiscoe
@ 2021-04-06 22:02
12021-04-08 17:03Horza
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https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/924644155

I thought the waterway:riverbank tag was getting retired?
22021-04-08 18:57MapSpot
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https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/15UJ

@Horza It pretty much already has been retired, in the US at least. Judging by the overpass query, this seems to be the only use of the waterway=riverbank tag present in the country.

This changeset definitely did more good than harm, but it might be worth chan...
94290543
by bdiscoe
@ 2020-11-17 16:07
12020-11-17 17:18Robach
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IMHO I would delete a PGS riverbank like https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/873110390 and completely redo it.

Best wishes!
22020-11-17 19:57bdiscoe I generally agree, and sometimes i will delete a bad PGS feature to re-make it, but sometimes it's just as convenient to align it with JOSM's "improve way accuracy" tool.
61700324
by bdiscoe
@ 2018-08-16 00:41
12020-11-11 06:15Haris IRM-ED
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Hi bdiscoe, I modified this road (Way 617286259), change to highway=residential and smoothing the geometry based on maxar premium imagery.
Thank you.
https://pewu.github.io/osm-history/#/way/617286259
22020-11-11 22:55bdiscoe Hi Haris. While I appreciate your desire to "beautify" these roads, you are using far too many nodes. A road should have enough nodes to clearly define its location, no more. A good rule of thumb is to try reducing the line to a 20cm threshold; if nodes are removed, then they were exces...
32020-11-12 01:43Adiatma IRM-RV
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Hello bdiscoe. Thank you for your appreciation & suggestion.
I'm sorry if you must delete so many nodes (https://s.id/uDZFH).
We don't want to bloat the planet OSM file or make it difficult to maintain.
Do you mind telling me the best way to avoid excessive nodes?
Thank you in adva...
42020-11-13 07:01bdiscoe Hi, I am unsure how you can avoid excessive nodes, because I don't know the process you are using to import. If the source you are importing from has this incredibly high node count, then you should run a "simplify" on the data before you upload it to OSM. If the source data is imag...
52020-11-13 07:15Adiatma IRM-RV
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Thank you sir for your clear explanation about precision & accuracy.
I'm using RapiD and plugin MapWithAI in JOSM.
I tried Shift+Y and input 0.2 meters as your suggestion, looks better.
Now I & and some workmates are cleaning up (i.e https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/94039443)...
62020-11-13 20:37bdiscoe Thank you very much! This greatly reduces the amount of work I have to in cleaning up OSM. I have done ~50 million nodes of import cleanup over 7 years, mostly NHD/Canvec in USA/Canada. It Vietnam could avoid excess in the first place, it will be very good.
93955565
by bdiscoe
@ 2020-11-11 23:12
12020-11-12 02:14Riyadi IRM-ED
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hi @bdiscoe.
after come across this area. thank you for your concern to build and maintain roads in Vietnam.
but there is data changed,
do you mind to explain the reason, why did you delete "source data"
we input and digit roads with attribute tag "source = maxar" or "...
22020-11-12 07:44bdiscoe Hi Riyadi. Concerning the "source" tag on features, it is on the way to being deprecated; at the very least, it does not belong on new features. The source description belongs on the changeset, not every single feature that the changeset touches. In an environment such as OSM, there are ...
85320944
by bdiscoe
@ 2020-05-17 01:16
12020-07-02 18:15TheConductor
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Good morning,

As I was reviewing edits in my home county, I came across this change. First, thank you for your contributions to the area. I, like you, take great pride in my home and want to make sure that it is modeled as accurately as possible. I took the opportunity to read your bio and you me...
22020-07-03 07:59bdiscoe Thanks, TheConductor. I defer to your local knowledge, although I did notice that the streambed in many places appears exceedingly narrow, so that even when water flows, it would not meet OSM's definition of a river, for those sections. In any case, I am just very happy that this river featur...
73006670
by bdiscoe
@ 2019-08-05 06:31
12019-08-05 06:32bdiscoe Actually the source was mostly Maxar, as it seems to be more recent than Bing here
60482869
by bdiscoe
@ 2018-07-07 06:46
12019-04-14 17:45tomalaou
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Hello, the path of purgatory trail is not a path but a ground road between 16°26′19.53″N 120°51′04.33″E and 16°27′18.39″N 120°53′25.35″E.
Indeed I hiked on this part and I meet many motorbikes and 2 little trucks of vegetables. The &qu...
22019-04-15 06:40bdiscoe Looking at the aerial, I agree. I have changed that section of the "purgatory trail" to be highway=unclassified, surface=unpaved
47454163
by bdiscoe
@ 2017-04-04 19:48
12019-02-09 17:28Martin Borsje
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Please do not change boundaries in NL. They are officially imported!
30315697
by bdiscoe
@ 2015-04-18 20:24
12018-12-29 16:07Arun Balaji
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Hi, I think there are no wetlands to the north of Kalligudi. Maybe they were....but now there are no wetlands in that region I guess. Shall I remove/alter it?
57098186
by bdiscoe
@ 2018-03-12 04:02
12018-03-12 07:05bdiscoe Actually, this is NHD in Minnesota, just across the border (and sharing an edge with) the Canvec in Ontario, hence the mixup.
56884508
by bdiscoe
@ 2018-03-04 23:11
12018-03-05 00:01ikiya
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The range you are editing is wide in Japan. The OSM community in Japan is paying attention to your editing.
Please give a message to the Japanese community about the edits.(talk-ja)

We can not understand the meaning of your editing comments.

>Japan, Shikoku, tidy coastline to 60cm
>sou...
22018-03-05 05:04bdiscoe Hi Ikiya. I'm glad to hear that local mappers are paying attention! That is very good.

I can further explain the edits here in English, and you can forward them to the talk-ja mailing list? I do this kind of standard OSM cleanup for dozens of countries around the world and there is nothin...
32018-03-05 12:01nyampire
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Thanks! I made a rough translation and posted to talk-ja.
42018-03-05 15:09ikiya
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Hi bdiscoe, thanks for the reply. nyampire posted a description to talk-ja. https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ja/2018-March/010009.html
55814162
by bdiscoe
@ 2018-01-27 20:44
12018-01-27 21:14bdiscoe Partly used DigitalGlobe standard.
55812230
by bdiscoe
@ 2018-01-27 19:08
12018-01-27 19:54bdiscoe I actually used mostly 'DigitalGlobe Standard' for this changeset, because it was much more recent than Bing imagery, which doesn't even show MEX 24 built here.
54744966
by bdiscoe
@ 2017-12-18 23:20
12018-01-13 17:46PlaneMad
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Hello!
I reviewed your changeset on OSMCha and it looks great!
Thank you very much for your contributions to OpenStreetMap!
#REVIEWED_GOOD #OSMCHA
Published using OSMCha: https://osmcha.mapbox.com/changesets/54744966
54949478
by bdiscoe
@ 2017-12-27 08:49
12018-01-13 17:46PlaneMad
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Hello!
I reviewed your changeset on OSMCha and it looks great!
Thank you very much for your contributions to OpenStreetMap!
#REVIEWED_GOOD #OSMCHA
Published using OSMCha: https://osmcha.mapbox.com/changesets/54949478
54799681
by bdiscoe
@ 2017-12-20 22:42
12017-12-21 06:15Vladimír Domes
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I think there is access=private missing on added swimming pool.
22017-12-21 06:30bdiscoe Thanks. It can be hard to tell sometimes, but please feel welcome to add access=private to any pools you like.
48630877
by bdiscoe
@ 2017-05-12 18:05
12017-11-22 05:01HubMiner
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Hi, please take a look at this note: http://www.openstreetmap.org/note/675095
53516268
by bdiscoe
@ 2017-11-04 23:45
12017-11-05 11:17Nakaner
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Hi bdiscoe,

I am currently investigating your deletion of more than 14,000 of nodes without giving a proper reason and therefore ask you to pause your edits for at least 24 hours. Thank you.

Best regards

Michael
22017-11-05 15:58Nakaner
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Hi bdiscoe,

could you please explain why you deleted more than 10,000 nodes in this changeset? Your changeset comment lacks any explanation why you did this and without any explanation it looks like vandalism.

Please add better changeset comments to further changesets like this and split them ...
32017-11-05 16:54bdiscoe Hi Michael, this is import cleanup. These type of changes have been discussed more than once on the mailing lists, and there are diary posts like https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/bdiscoe/diary/37473 and https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/bdiscoe/diary/37421 which clarify the matter. I am happy to...
42017-11-05 16:56bdiscoe For what it's worth, there are several more million bad nodes here. It is going to take a lot of 10,000 edit changesets to clean up the mess. Alternately, we could convince users (like 'huaraz' who did this part of the Canvec import) to clean up the data before importing it.
52017-11-05 17:05Nakaner
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Hi bdiscoe,

appending "simplified way geometries, threshold 80 cm" to changeset comment would reduce the need to ask you.

If the piece of the Canvec import was uploaded only a few months ago, I would ask the original uploader to fix his mess on his own. Someone who uploads data as pa...
62017-11-05 17:17bdiscoe Michael, I completely agree. Unfortunately, it's a big planet, and by the time my code discovers an issue, the importer is generally no longer paying close attention. In this case, this data was uploaded by 'huaraz' more than a year ago, in changesets such as https://www.openstreetm...
72017-11-05 17:29bdiscoe For what it's worth, the reason I write "clean up" instead of "simplify" in the changeset comments is because I'm doing more than just running simplify; I also use the JOSM validator to find and fix other issues, including broken topology, overlapping ways, places where...
82017-11-05 17:34Nakaner
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Hi bdiscoe,

as I wrote above, if the import is more than a few months ago, I would not ask the user who uploaded it if the import itself is well-accepted. Because asking someone to fix his errors is only effective it the user is still active and can remember that he imported the data.

However,...
92017-11-13 10:18Nakaner
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Hi bdiscoe,

I just commented on a changeset by ScottNelson who is importing overnoded waterways, overlapping/duplicated water areas, overlapping landuse and broken multipolygons using Potlatch 2. You can follow the discussion on https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/53705786

My request to ad...
52813481
by bdiscoe
@ 2017-10-11 07:05
12017-10-11 19:49stevea
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bdiscoe: Please redact this farmland removal polygon, or at least redact your changeset and update the polygon so it is landuse=residential.

If you read https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Santa_Cruz_County,_California#Landuse (paragraph six) you'll see that the County does zone every singl...
22017-10-12 04:27bdiscoe Hi Steve, since you expressed concern, I took another look at this area in detail. It is a total mess. The so-labeled "farmland" was not just wood and residential, but also some meadow (redundant overlap), and adjacent to existing natural=wood which is, in turn, actually residential in pa...
32017-10-12 04:29bdiscoe As for "removing it without replacing it with anything better", if you have a large area marked "D" which is actually A, B, C, then removing the wrong "D" IS actually better, because it is actually less wrong.
42017-10-12 04:49stevea
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I don't think there is anything terribly wrong with meadow overlapping with other landuse, and nobody has said so in Santa Cruz County, where we have been doing this for at least 8 years. Look at Wilder Ranch State Park, what many have called "visually pleasing" (meadow overlapping w...
52017-10-12 04:52bdiscoe I have now spend some time in the Happy Valley area to expand the natural=wood relation down from the hills to fill in where there is actually wood, which is most of the area left blank by the "farmland" removal. I also validated the relations to solve overlaps and degeneracies.
62017-10-12 04:56stevea
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Well, thanks for that; I'm watching. It's possible we posted Comments so temporally close together that we crossed each other, but I do await answers to my questions. Thank you in advance. SteveA
72017-10-12 05:02stevea
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However, if you "expand the wood" (e.g. as it appears you have from the east side of Happy Valley Road to its west side), you truly break many landuse semantics as published by our County GIS: landuse=forest really is timberland, natural=wood originated from "special_use" polygo...
82017-10-12 05:34bdiscoe "you can use Bing (and a guess and a prayer) to better define landuse than does our County GIS department?"

If the County is marking forest as non-forest, and non-forest as forest - which they clearly are here - then absolutely. Detail based on aerial is based on detail that is just wr...
92017-10-12 05:35bdiscoe (...is better than...)
102017-10-12 05:38bdiscoe Also, somebody foolishly imported fields like "Shape_area" which will be wrong the moment that somebody comes along to fix the polygons. What on earth is the point of that? Surely nobody expects general OSM users to update the useless "Shape_area" when the move the nodes into a...
112017-10-12 05:49bdiscoe Yes, I have read the "County Page". As for "nobody has said so in Santa Cruz County, where we have been doing this for at least 8 years", if nobody has pointed out that this data is mostly wrong, then it's only because nobody has looked, which is highly believable since the...
122017-10-12 05:51bdiscoe My recommendation:
1. Either remove all the bad landuse, or use a JOSM filter to hide it for step 2.
2. Align the roads and fix the road topology!
3. Only then, you can gradually start to add landuse, carefully, bit by bit, checking and correctly each batch before upload.
132017-10-12 18:49stevea
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bdiscoe: Your hostile and hyperbolic comments that "there appear to be no actual data here, ONLY IMPORTS" and "largely fictional" are unwelcome, untrue and show you to be a histrionic exaggerator. I have been mapping this county (lovingly, carefully, with my GPS, notebook and t...
142017-10-12 18:57stevea
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Regarding "fix the road topology," you will see (if you look, try http://product.itoworld.com/map/162?lon=-121.91947&lat=37.02996&zoom=12&fullscreen=true) that NOBODY has fixed more TIGER misalignments in this county besides me. By that Ito map, it is one of the most "blu...
152017-10-12 19:00stevea
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The answer to who "foolishly" imported the SHAPE... attributes is nmixter. He has been hugely admonished for a very sloppy import here, and I have literally spent YEARS cleaning it up. EVERY SINGLE ONE of the >3000 polygons he imported was visually and personally redacted in JOSM by m...
162017-10-13 01:48stevea
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I wait no longer to do what I have known to be the right thing to do since this dispute began: I'm redacting bdiscoe's polygon removal edits.

Sadly, and I have never done this with any other OSM member with whom I have "friended," I also remove him as my friend in this projec...
172017-10-16 21:04stevea
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In the spirit of "pour calming oil over troubled waters," I offer that this dispute largely resulted from tangles among the complex issues of landuse and landcover. They are misunderstood, confusing and fraught with ambiguities. There are a plurality of tagging strategies and histories, ...
182017-10-22 06:12bdiscoe So, just to wrap this changeset discussion; it spun out of control to attempt discussion of a lot of things besides its subject, the changes herein. In cases where the local preference is for some unusual interpretation of OSM's tags, it's advisable to just leave it as-is. There is enoug...
192017-10-22 16:59stevea
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In this controlled discussion (on my part), the changes herein WERE indeed the subject: it appears not listening to them nor parsing their consequences is one of the blithely scattered activities of bdiscoe as he attempts to keep his scores high on the leaderboard while he preys on other under-mapp...
52811016
by bdiscoe
@ 2017-10-11 04:00
12017-10-11 06:38velmyshanovnyi
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Hi, your OVER-cleaning - in some places strongly broke the accuracy (((

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=13/60.8407/-164.9465
22017-10-11 06:56bdiscoe Hi, I ran simplify with a 90cm threshold. That is very conservative for a remote, wild area of mud and tundra. As for accuracy, I ran the JOSM validator and fixed many of the issues you left, with multipolygon ways intersecting each other, overlapping ways, and many other problems. It is fixed now...
32017-10-14 22:40velmyshanovnyi
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thnx )

"That is very conservative for a remote, wild area of mud and tundra" (c)
+100 carma )))
48578492
by bdiscoe
@ 2017-05-11 02:57
12017-09-25 17:55HubMiner
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Hi, I wanted to link this route 37 to something official, but didn't see anything online except this https://www.adventurecycling.org/default/assets/File/USBRS/USBR37IllinoisMap.pdf

Do you have any other references?
22017-09-25 20:55bdiscoe Sorry i have no information on that highway. My own changes here are only on boundaries and waterways.
32017-09-27 20:24HubMiner
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Thanks!
49549101
by bdiscoe
@ 2017-06-15 06:41
12017-06-18 18:04marek kleciak
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Stop destroying detailed map using generalization tools. In developing countries like Nepal eactly map can save human life. Please first ask, then act.

22017-06-18 18:34SomeoneElse
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Hi Marek,
Can you please explain what were the actual problems caused by this changeset and the others on which you have similarly commented?
Also, you may find that that using emotive language such as "stop destroying" is less effective at communicating what you want to get across than ...
32017-06-22 13:04imagico
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I would like to add that what bdiscoe did here was not in any way destroying a detailed map. He removed nodes which had a very little influence on the overall geometry because they were almost exactly in the middle between the next and the previous node. See http://nrenner.github.io/achavi/?change...
42017-06-22 16:25SomeoneElse
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For info, see also https://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks/1385 .
52017-06-23 05:46bdiscoe For what it's worth, I wrote OSM messages to marek kleciak explaining these edits, and even described the detailed steps he can do in JOSM to do the cleanup himself.
62017-06-23 07:16marek kleciak
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We are in touch with bdiscoe now. I wrote him about reasons for this mapping. We have opportunity to make an very exactly example for nepali authorities and show the results during SOTM Asia 2017. All old, too less forest areas should be removed/modified. I hope for help of you all: The goal would b...
72017-06-23 07:41imagico
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Who is 'we' here?

Keep in mind that planning and organizing of mapping activities and development of mapping conventions should be public.

Although there is not yet a formal policy on organized mapping activities it is good practice to document such activities and reference this in c...
82017-06-23 07:50marek kleciak
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We, is Kathmandu Living Maps. As you probably know from german forum I do a lot for Nepal and try to inform communities in Germany and Poland about recent situation there.
What you wrote about mapping activities is a part of old OSM communication problem, but you´re absolutely right, I should...
92017-06-26 05:49marek kleciak
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Hi everybody, KLL wil post information about this Project in the Wiki Project Nepal. Meanwhile I analyzed approach described by bdiscoe. Using generalization factor of 1.0 m we change the areas of smaller Farmlands in forests by up to 5%. I suggest the generalization factor of. 0.3m which make chan...
102017-06-26 15:32SomeoneElse
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@marek - having nodes closer together doesn't make for a map that matches reality better; it just makes it more difficult to edit. If you've got some specific examples perhaps write it up as a diary entry?
112017-06-26 16:14marek kleciak
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Absolutely. This matter needs an proposal and discusion of the community.
122017-06-28 03:50bdiscoe Marek the starting point of your analysis is incorrect. It assumes that the existing, hyper-noded wood areas are precisely correct with no uncertainty or error bars. Consider the factors involved - imprecise criteria, human variability, seasonality, poor resolution, loose rectification, etc. it is...
132017-06-28 04:39marek kleciak
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Ben wrote: imprecise criteria, human variability, seasonality, poor resolution, loose rectification.

We have Premium Digital Globe images from last year for whole Nepal. Factors like human variability or seasonality are general for all OSM maps. Only activation of the community AND in this case l...
49828585
by bdiscoe
@ 2017-06-26 06:47
12017-06-26 07:34marek kleciak
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Thank you Ben! I made some experiments with generalization of areas. Surface of small areas generalized with 1.0 m is up to 5% less. The areas may be used for calculation of productivity of farmers and possibly targeted training for them. I tried 0.3 m, this is great. The problem I sometimes had is ...
49788059
by bdiscoe
@ 2017-06-24 07:31
12017-06-24 16:44marek kleciak
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Great Ben, thank you!
49761857
by bdiscoe
@ 2017-06-23 05:43
12017-06-23 08:22marek kleciak
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Thanks Ben!
49549696
by bdiscoe
@ 2017-06-15 07:08
12017-06-18 19:48marek kleciak
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Stop destroying detailed map using generalization tools. In developing countries like Nepal eactly map can save human life. Please first ask, then act.
49548516
by bdiscoe
@ 2017-06-15 06:09
12017-06-18 19:47marek kleciak
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Stop destroying detailed map using generalization tools. In developing countries like Nepal eactly map can save human life. Please first ask, then act.
49550054
by bdiscoe
@ 2017-06-15 07:22
12017-06-18 19:42marek kleciak
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Stop destroying detailed map using generalization tools. In developing countries like Nepal eactly map can save human life. Please first ask, then act.
49550181
by bdiscoe
@ 2017-06-15 07:27
12017-06-18 19:39marek kleciak
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Stop destroying detailed map using generalization tools. In developing countries like Nepal eactly map can save human life. Please first ask, then act.
49550642
by bdiscoe
@ 2017-06-15 07:41
12017-06-18 19:38marek kleciak
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Stop destroying detailed map using generalization tools. In developing countries like Nepal eactly map can save human life. Please first ask, then act.
49549577
by bdiscoe
@ 2017-06-15 07:02
12017-06-18 18:04marek kleciak
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Stop destroying detailed map using generalization tools. In developing countries like Nepal eactly map can save human life. Please first ask, then act.

49547570
by bdiscoe
@ 2017-06-15 05:16
12017-06-18 18:03marek kleciak
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Stop destroying detailed map using generalization tools. In developing countries like Nepal eactly map can save human life. Please first ask, then act.

49547953
by bdiscoe
@ 2017-06-15 05:41
12017-06-18 18:03marek kleciak
♦41
Stop destroying detailed map using generalization tools. In developing countries like Nepal eactly map can save human life. Please first ask, then act.

49548176
by bdiscoe
@ 2017-06-15 05:52
12017-06-18 18:03marek kleciak
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Stop destroying detailed map using generalization tools. In developing countries like Nepal eactly map can save human life. Please first ask, then act.

49548292
by bdiscoe
@ 2017-06-15 05:58
12017-06-18 18:02marek kleciak
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Stop destroying detailed map using generalization tools. In developing countries like Nepal eactly map can save human life. Please first ask, then act.

49548597
by bdiscoe
@ 2017-06-15 06:13
12017-06-18 18:02marek kleciak
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Stop destroying detailed map using generalization tools. In developing countries like Nepal eactly map can save human life. Please first ask, then act.

49550437
by bdiscoe
@ 2017-06-15 07:34
12017-06-18 17:54marek kleciak
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Stop destroying detailed map using generalization tools. In developing countries like Nepal eactly map can save human life. Please first ask, then act.
47241744
by bdiscoe
@ 2017-03-28 20:29
12017-03-30 11:09de vries
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Hi bdiscoe,
I need to ask you to be more careful with edits like these. In this changeset you seem to have targeted BAG buildings for mass simplification. The methods and software used for importing and actualization of the BAG data has been discussed in great length. So doing mechanical edits to t...
22017-04-20 15:27bdiscoe Hi, if you take a close look, you will see that no "details" were removed. As part of other cleanup (maproullette farm->farmland), I've been run the JOSM validator on some of the nearby buildings and landuse, and tidying up the results. The BAG buildings have numerous issues (incl...
32017-04-20 15:45bdiscoe For what it's worth, I recognize unlike other mass imports I'd had to clean up (Canvec, NHD, Tiger...) this data is much better in precision as well as accuracy. That's why i use thresholds not of 70-110 cm as with NHD, but as little as 6 cm for BAG, guaranteeing that cleanup stays w...
42017-04-27 21:36bdiscoe For an example of BAG problems, see buildings like http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/277899879 which has a "sliver" which is 18cm wide and 3m long; it is clearly a mechanical error. I have manually fixed hundreds of these problems.
52017-04-28 20:32Commodoortje
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Hi bdiscoe,

Thank you for fixing the JOSM validation errors on BAG import here.
The person who did the BAG import is responsable for fixing duplicated nodes/crossing buildings/building inside building self-intersecting ways etc...
62017-05-01 15:23de vries
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You had me at "I am an expert at what I'm doing". But if you want an example: compare this two images:
http://pix.toile-libre.org/?img=1493650984.png
http://pix.toile-libre.org/?img=1493651063.png
The imagery resolution is 7,5 cm so your simplification is nowhere within the accurac...
72017-05-01 15:51Commodoortje
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Het lijkt erop dat bdiscoe in JOSM de functie "Simplify Way" gebruikt.
Wat deze tool doet: de contouren ontdoen van onnodige nodes.
https://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Help/Action/SimplifyWay
.
Ik ben het met de vries eens dat dit niet structureel op gebouwen mag plaatsvinden. Dan wordt...
25782573
by bdiscoe
@ 2014-10-01 05:36
12017-01-18 17:27SomeoneElse
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Hi,
http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/305813112/history used to extend from http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3104967991 but was deleted in http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/44453803 . Does that make sense to you? An attempt to communicate with the author of that changeset didn't get an...
35344538
by bdiscoe
@ 2015-11-16 08:47
12016-07-12 16:29maxerickson
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There was some kind of selection error in this changeset that moved quite a few nodes that were connected to powerlines. For example, a node that I've just fixed:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/169943625

And a shot of the spot:

http://imgur.com/y8tx6AA

I noticed the same effect ...
36188521
by bdiscoe
@ 2015-12-27 05:14
12016-05-25 21:54Sunfishtommy
♦16
A lot of these relations seem to be piled up on top of one another. I just found two natural=wood relations that were duplicated on top of one another
36809695
by bdiscoe
@ 2016-01-26 05:37
12016-02-13 22:04maraf24
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Do you know the difference between source and source:building?
The former is ambiguous. This is the tag you should remove, not source:building.
35543670
by bdiscoe
@ 2015-11-24 05:18
12015-11-24 22:02gileri
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Thank you, this looks like a good thing to do !

May I ask how did you do it with JOSM ?
22015-11-25 07:15bdiscoe In the preferences, under "advanced", there is a setting called "simplify-way.max-error". It is important to set this to a low number appropriate for the specific geometry; in the case of a very clear lake like this, sub-meter precision can be maintained, hence a value of 0.4
32015-11-25 16:22gileri
♦1,003
Thank you !
34831985
by bdiscoe
@ 2015-10-23 23:19
12015-10-24 15:52bdiscoe Testing ability to put emojis in chageset comments: 👍🏻👍🏼👍🏽👍🏾👍🏿😊😄😊
22015-10-24 15:54bdiscoe 👍
30528688
by bdiscoe
@ 2015-04-27 07:25
12015-04-27 18:50trigpoint
♦2,373
Hi
I have spotted that you have edited the River Severn in Shropshire.
The river forms parts of Montford/Ford parish boundaries and in moving the river flow you have moved the boundaries so that they no longer follow the official lines.
I am not sure what source you used to determine the main flo...
22015-05-01 16:48bdiscoe Hi tngpoint, mostly this changeset was fixing the riverbanks and adding the islands. The centerline moved only very slightly; it had a few places where it did not appear to correspond to the river flow. I did the best I could using the aerial, but if you have better local knowledge, please feel fre...
32015-05-01 16:52bdiscoe Also, I notice that it isn't quite consistent; in some places the parish boundaries share a way with the river, in other places they use two separate ways; perhaps someone determined that on that stretch the "official" boundary differed significantly enough from the river. Some bound...
42015-05-01 19:30SomeoneElse
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I've always wondered (where boundaries follow rivers) exactly how those boundaries are defined, given that rivers move? In this case is there a text description that says something like "follows the centreline of the river from blah to blah", or is it defined in terms of exact coordi...
52015-05-25 02:01bdiscoe @SomeoneElse, it depends :) In some places the legal boundary is defined as the river, in other places the river was surveyed and that description of the course defined as legal boundary. It takes local knowledge to know the difference in different parts of the world.
62015-05-25 11:40trigpoint
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The boundaries are taken from the latest OS Boundaryline, so can be assumed to indicate the official boundaries.
I part way through a project to add the Shropshire parish boundaries, some sections of the Severn have yet to be joined to the parish boundaries.
I am not sure how "the main flow&q...
30944854
by bdiscoe
@ 2015-05-09 18:26
12015-05-09 20:42maraf24
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Is this tag removal and transformation discussed with polish community?
22015-05-25 02:04bdiscoe Hi maraf24, I believe I only removed a few tags, which were uncontroversially incorrect or extraneous. If there is a page that describes the Wroclaw building import, please direct me to it.
31027498
by bdiscoe
@ 2015-05-12 05:13
12015-05-12 11:26maraf24
♦5,260
With over 30000 deleted nodes this is certainly a mechanical edit.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Automated_Edits_code_of_conduct
22015-05-22 06:44bdiscoe I reviewed it personally. There is decimation to remove noise and redundancy, but I also go over what remains manually to compare it to the aerial; many of these wetlands are no longer here and are adjusted accordingly.
30029458
by bdiscoe
@ 2015-04-07 00:40
12015-04-07 05:595m4u9
♦1,573
Thanks for contributing in Bolivia. We don't have many local contributors and what you did helps a lot :)

You say "desert", no is "altiplano" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altiplano ;-)
25632324
by bdiscoe
@ 2014-09-23 19:30
12014-11-29 02:48bdhurkett
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Hi, although you presumably fixed several other errors, you did a bit of damage to a local bus route relation (V2 of http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/4053781/history) with this changeset. It's nothing that can't be fixed, but you might want to keep an eye on that kind of thing in futu...