[OSM-newbies] how to map new subdivision in suburban united states?

2014-10-15 Thread Sachin Dole
I just made an edit here: https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/26094493 I dont know if I tagged it correctly! I intend to update this feature as time goes by, so wanted to find out how to do it correctly at the outset. please help here or point me to a doc I can read about how to pick correct

Re: [OSM-newbies] how to map new subdivision in suburban united states?

2014-10-15 Thread Dave Mansfield
Hello, I’m also new to OSM so no expert. The only thing I see is that full spelling is preferred by OSM. For example West Linda Lane instead of W Linda Ln. I think it has something to do with speech in some GPS units. The best place I’ve found for tagging info is

Re: [OSM-newbies] how to map new subdivision in suburban united states?

2014-10-15 Thread sabas88
2014-10-15 15:03 GMT+02:00 Sachin Dole sd...@genvega.com: I just made an edit here: https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/26094493 I dont know if I tagged it correctly! I intend to update this feature as time goes by, so wanted to find out how to do it correctly at the outset. please help

Re: [OSM-newbies] how to map new subdivision in suburban united states?

2014-10-15 Thread Sachin Dole
by the way, its a new construction by a builder, so satellite imagery has not caught up yet. i know it is a sub division because i purchased a home there. On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 9:17 AM, Sachin Dole sd...@genvega.com wrote: thanks, i added the landuse tag, but did not see any abbreviated

Re: [OSM-newbies] how to map new subdivision in suburban united states?

2014-10-15 Thread Clifford Snow
One other issue, the cemetery tag that is inside of your residential area. It doesn't look like it is in the correct place. You might want to move it to the correct location, otherwise you'll end up with a cemetery inside of a residential area. You asked about where to get info on picking the

Re: [OSM-newbies] how to map new subdivision in suburban united states?

2014-10-15 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Sachin Dole sd...@genvega.com wrote: by the way, its a new construction by a builder, so satellite imagery has not caught up yet. i know it is a sub division because i purchased a home there. Welcome to OpenStreetMap! You are getting involved, from the start,

Re: [OSM-newbies] how to map new subdivision in suburban united states?

2014-10-15 Thread Sachin Dole
Thank you Richard and Clifford. Yes, I will try to get the boundary correct wrt the cemetery using my android device GPS. You recommend the android app vespucci for this or is there another better app? My intro: I am working on a startup that leans heavily on OSM, so I am familiar with the data,

[OSM-newbies] archived article on surveys.

2014-10-15 Thread Richard Weait
This article was first published in 2011 and discusses data quality, data sources and The Best Mapping You Can Do. I hope that this list finds it interesting and helpful. ___ newbies mailing list newbies@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-newbies] archived article on surveys.

2014-10-15 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: This article was first published in 2011 and discusses data quality, data sources and The Best Mapping You Can Do. I hope that this list finds it interesting and helpful. You know, I could have added the link. :-)

Re: [OSM-newbies] how to map new subdivision in suburban united states?

2014-10-15 Thread Clifford Snow
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 8:15 AM, Sachin Dole sd...@genvega.com wrote: Thank you Richard and Clifford. Yes, I will try to get the boundary correct wrt the cemetery using my android device GPS. You recommend the android app vespucci for this or is there another better app? I recommend GoMap!!

Re: [OSM-newbies] [OSM-dev] how to map new subdivision in suburban united states?

2014-10-15 Thread Sachin Dole
Mark, I saw your changeset https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/26100789. That edit seems to be on the adjoining, older subdivision - maybe you made that to show me how to do this. Thank you for paying your attention. :-) Best, Sachin Dole On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Mark Newnham

Re: [OSM-newbies] how to map new subdivision in suburban united states?

2014-10-15 Thread Sachin Dole
Clifford, I have organized a www.meetup.com group on another topic previously and can happily handle the operation of an osm meetup group here. Let me think about this for a couple days and form the group. I will let this email list know. I will take a look at Osmtracker. Thanks for the tip.

Re: [OSM-newbies] how to map new subdivision in suburban united states?

2014-10-15 Thread Clifford Snow
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Sachin Dole sd...@genvega.com wrote: I have organized a www.meetup.com group on another topic previously and can happily handle the operation of an osm meetup group here. Let me think about this for a couple days and form the group. I will let this email list

Re: [OSM-newbies] how to map new subdivision in suburban united states?

2014-10-15 Thread Sachin Dole
Funding is not an issue. Its just that I am only starting to be an individual contributor and don't know too many others who may be really interested. So, I am unsure at the moment how I can drive this and to what result - thats the part I would like to put some imagination into over a couple

[OSM-newbies] Land use overlays way

2014-10-15 Thread Bill Leddy
I have an issue where I want to add a tag to an existing way using JOSM. Trouble is that when I click on the way the land use area that abuts it is selected instead. My guess is that the land use is sharing nodes with way. I'm thinking I could / should modify the land use area to have its own

Re: [OSM-newbies] Land use overlays way

2014-10-15 Thread Dave Mansfield
I don't thank a road and land use should share nodes. I had what I think is the same problem. We have a lot of roads that are on county lines. I had problems selecting the road. Are you using JOSM? If so I got an answer today to hold down the center mouse button. It will scroll through the

Re: [OSM-newbies] Land use overlays way

2014-10-15 Thread Mike Thompson
Also, in JOSM if you hold down the alt key as you continue to left click JOSM will cycle through selecting the various elements at that location. On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 6:39 PM, Dave Mansfield mansfie...@chartermi.net wrote: I don't thank a road and land use should share nodes. I had what I

Re: [OSM-newbies] Land use overlays way

2014-10-15 Thread Bill Leddy
Thanks Dave and Mike! I'll they that. Regards, Bill Leddy On Oct 15, 2014, at 6:29 PM, Mike Thompson miketh...@gmail.com wrote: Also, in JOSM if you hold down the alt key as you continue to left click JOSM will cycle through selecting the various elements at that location. On Wed,

Re: [OSM-newbies] how to map new subdivision in suburban united states?

2014-10-15 Thread Clifford Snow
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Sachin Dole sd...@genvega.com wrote: Funding is not an issue. Its just that I am only starting to be an individual contributor and don't know too many others who may be really interested. So, I am unsure at the moment how I can drive this and to what result -