Every time I try to do a bit more mapping I have loads of questions, but this little forum seems so quiet that there are not enough people to get much chance of an answer.
Where are all the other mappers?
Do they only use the email groups? I cant seem to get on with those because they just make all my other email unusabe because of the floods of mail.
My current question is about the maplint information. It looks usefull but the the writing is too small on the screen to see what it is saying & if I scale the screen up it is just fuzzy.
One of the roads I built from scratch (a section of the A325 near Bordon Hants) is now marked with Maplint errors although it was fine for ages before. I expect it has something to do with a tag that has grown on it that says:
Did it go a yellowy turquoise colour? I think that means ānot in map featuresā. Take a look at the Maplint test key. āNot in Map Featuresā is just a notice. it doesnāt necessarily mean thereās a problem, and yes itās probably caused by that history=Retrieved from v12 tag. Not sure why somebody (user called āNick Austinā has added that. You could send him a message and ask him, but itās not like heās done something wrong particularly.
Yeah Iāve gave up reading the mailing list a long time ago. Unfortunately it is the busiest contact channel. I sometimes miss out on the big news flashes. Must remember to start hanging around on this forum more. See if we can make it more popular
I havenāt really contributed to the forum for a couple of monthsā¦I seemed to have got to the stage in mapping where the new problems have mostly stopped coming and are just reoccurring. The ones that remain are likely to never be resolved and temporary solutions work. Hence I stopped reading stuff and just map. Iāll make a point of checking here more though to help out others if I have a clue about what there asking, so go ahead and list your questions. If you list questions that canāt be found easily on the wiki beginners pages then itās helpful for everyone else, and tells them what needs to be added.
For maplint red is the only one that you really need to listen toā¦itās bad. If something doesnāt appear or do what you want then orange and yellow matter. Orange means it lacks tags, and yellow just means youāve tagged it beyond the capability of tiles@home. Yellow really doesnāt matter at all basically. Iām not sure how recently that was updated but a lot of what glows yellow is in the suggested tagging scheme I have noticed in the past. Also maplint is based around tiles@home which is based on the proposed tagging scheme. Not keeping to this isnāt a crime, itās just there to help you, if you canāt work out why things arnāt rendering on tiles@home as you want.
Sorry, but I canāt see your problem regarding the forum being not responsive to your questions. Iāve checked your previous questions and theyāve all been answered to your satisfaction afaik. Only one did not, which was quite a difficult one regarding configuration problems of your Windows XP machine and youāve solved it yourself in about 4 hours.
But you are right about the amount of active users on this forum. I would love to see more of the experienced mappers here helping newbies but itās a chicken and egg problem Iām affraid.
Regarding to where āthe other mappers areā, well they are mostly on the mailing lists or on the IRC channel.
Maybe the reason itās quiet here is that Safari users like me donāt appear to be able to log in.
āhistory=retrieved from v12ā means that someone has reverted to a previous version using Potlatch, maybe because they or someone else made a mistake when editing.
Hey everyone, I just did something terribly bad, and my map now shows multiple things with this tag in redā¦ āhistory Retrieved from v2ā
Are there any ideas on how to get rid of the things that were created on the map with this tag?
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