[OSM-talk-be] Lost property: one forest, messages, Bing

[Jan-willem De Bleser]

On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 2:55 PM, A.Pirard.Papou
<A.Pirard.Papou at gmail.com> wrote:
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> While dealing with borders, I discovered this unidentified multipolygon fortuitously.
> Then I loaded the members and I found landuse = forest on one, that makes it correct on the map.
> Isn't landuse = forest supposed to be tagged on the relation instead?

I believe so, and it definitely makes more sense. It's interesting
that Mapnik still seems to do the right thing with it.

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> I've never been able to contact Renaud Michel on various subjects.
>
> To send an e-mail to someone, I must fill a web form asking her?/him to reply so that I know his e-mail address to which I send my e-mail (not only OSM).
> Does anybody know when someone will invent a Web button next to the form to do that automatically, or do I miss something?

OSM has an internal messaging system, which I've used to discuss with
other mappers without ever knowing their email address. It gives you
some privacy at a cost of having to use that form interface. If you
want their email address you have to ask.

> One of my messages is to beware of Bing.
> At higher (closer) zooms, it may have in some places an erroneous offset.
> I think that the lower zooms are always the correct ones.
> JOSM allows to set an offset to compensate.

Indeed, beware. Even the lower zooms can be off, although they're
pretty good. Even if they're not off, however, it's also too easy to
make a similar mistake of mapping the top of a building rather than
its base, as not all photos are taken from directly overhead.

Cheers,
Jw