[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
://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features I hope this helps. Dave From: Sachin Dole [mailto:sd...@genvega.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2014 9:03 AM To: dev Openstreetmap; newbies@openstreetmap.org Subject: [OSM-newbies] how to map new subdivision in suburban united states? I just made an edit

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,

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] 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

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 -