Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] plea for bot quality control

2010-05-02 Thread Chris Hunter
Perhaps a bot to auto-ban accounts that are running unauthorized bots ;) Seriously though, I've all-but stopped contributing to the map until after the SOTMs because of issues like this. One of the other things that OSM desperately needs is a way to coordinate tagging across editors and

Re: [Talk-us] plea for bot quality control

2010-05-02 Thread Chris Hunter
Perhaps a bot to auto-ban accounts that are running unauthorized bots ;) Seriously though, I've all-but stopped contributing to the map until after the SOTMs because of issues like this. One of the other things that OSM desperately needs is a way to coordinate tagging across editors and

Re: [Talk-us] Time to retire ref= on ways?

2010-03-08 Thread Chris Hunter
Definitely a good idea! My only concern would be to make sure the way is correctly included in the route relationship(s) before deleting the ref=* tags. Maybe a bot could do this? Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -Original Message- From: Zeke Farwell ezeki...@gmail.com Date: Mon, 8

[OSM-talk] Fwd: [Talk-us] [Warning: Potential Flamewar] Clarifying InterstateRelations

2010-02-08 Thread Chris Hunter
Interstates are still missing supers. I'm happy to use either method, but one of the reasons why I prefer the 1-relation-per-direction method is that it lets me quickly find areas that need to be split into dual carriageways. Chris Hunter DiverCTH

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: [Talk-us] [Warning: Potential Flamewar] Clarifying InterstateRelations

2010-02-08 Thread Chris Hunter
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 8:21 PM, Apollinaris Schoell ascho...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 5:07 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.comwrote: Why does there need to be 2 relations for this? besides editing convenience a relation is directed and sorted since API 0.6 You can see

[Talk-us] Fwd: [Warning: Potential Flamewar] Clarifying InterstateRelations

2010-02-08 Thread Chris Hunter
Interstates are still missing supers. I'm happy to use either method, but one of the reasons why I prefer the 1-relation-per-direction method is that it lets me quickly find areas that need to be split into dual carriageways. Chris Hunter DiverCTH

Re: [Talk-us] [Warning: Potential Flamewar] Clarifying InterstateRelations

2010-02-08 Thread Chris Hunter
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 8:21 PM, Apollinaris Schoell ascho...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 5:07 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.comwrote: Why does there need to be 2 relations for this? besides editing convenience a relation is directed and sorted since API 0.6 You can see

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Rollback request - 381206

2010-02-07 Thread Chris Hunter
been re-reading the mailing list archives to confirm that the old way still correct. I'm also in the process of emailing NE2, but I haven't hit send yet. On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Hi, Chris Hunter wrote: User NE2 erroniously merged most

[OSM-talk] [Warning: Potential Flamewar] Clarifying Interstate Relations

2010-02-07 Thread Chris Hunter
roles. I've already requested a roll-back on the area I was working on, but I wanted to check if we still have a consensus on splitting each interstate into separate directions at the state line. Chris Hunter DiverCTH ___ talk mailing list talk

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] [Warning: Potential Flamewar] Clarifying Interstate Relations

2010-02-07 Thread Chris Hunter
I don't think NE2 is on any of these mailing lists. Can someone put a temporary ban on their account? They've been editing all day. On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.netwrote: On 2/7/10 9:23 PM, Jeffrey Ollie wrote: What's more annoying is that he is

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] [Warning: Potential Flamewar] Clarifying Interstate Relations

2010-02-07 Thread Chris Hunter
Oh, and yes I did contact them via both the OSM Messaging system and the WIKI's messaging system. On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 12:19 AM, Chris Hunter chunter...@gmail.com wrote: I don't think NE2 is on any of these mailing lists. Can someone put a temporary ban on their account? They've been

[Talk-us] Rollback request - 381206

2010-02-07 Thread Chris Hunter
User NE2 erroniously merged most of the US Interstate relations back into single relations. About 12 hours of my work was destroyed. Please roll back changeset 381206 if possible. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-us] Rollback request - 381206

2010-02-07 Thread Chris Hunter
been re-reading the mailing list archives to confirm that the old way still correct. I'm also in the process of emailing NE2, but I haven't hit send yet. On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Hi, Chris Hunter wrote: User NE2 erroniously merged most

[Talk-us] [Warning: Potential Flamewar] Clarifying Interstate Relations

2010-02-07 Thread Chris Hunter
roles. I've already requested a roll-back on the area I was working on, but I wanted to check if we still have a consensus on splitting each interstate into separate directions at the state line. Chris Hunter DiverCTH ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] [Warning: Potential Flamewar] Clarifying Interstate Relations

2010-02-07 Thread Chris Hunter
Oh, and yes I did contact them via both the OSM Messaging system and the WIKI's messaging system. On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 12:19 AM, Chris Hunter chunter...@gmail.com wrote: I don't think NE2 is on any of these mailing lists. Can someone put a temporary ban on their account? They've been

[Talk-us] Fw: script for adding layer=1 to bridges

2010-01-27 Thread Chris Hunter
Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -Original Message- From: Chris Hunter chunter...@gmail.com Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:49:46 To: Frederik Rammfrede...@remote.org Subject: Re: [Talk-us] script for adding layer=1 to bridges I agree with Fredrick that this comes perilously close

Re: [OSM-talk] Defective GPS trac

2010-01-01 Thread Chris Hunter
Sorry about the formatting on the quoted part. I'm writing from my BlackBerry. IIRC all of the correction stations (WAAS / EGNOS / etc...) are listed at or above satellite number 45 on your satellite / accuracy screen. An easy test is to go to an area with a clear view of the sky and take a

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Zipcode Import

2009-12-20 Thread Chris Hunter
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: No, the code doesn't represent a geographic area. You can force it into a geographic area, by defining the area in some particular way (e.g. a multipolygon of all buildings which receive mail addressed to that zip code). Of

Re: [Talk-us] Import of EPA data

2009-12-20 Thread Chris Hunter
Mike, Take a look at Dave Hansen's work with the US Census Bureau's TIGER data. I'm pretty sure he's on vacation at the moment, but some of his codebase might be useful for your project. http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2009-November/002064.html

[Talk-us] State of the license discussion.

2009-12-19 Thread Chris Hunter
Can anyone who's been following the licensing thread over on the talk@ list summarize the current state of the discussion? I tried to follow it for a while, but my mailbox was filling too fast. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-us] Import of EPA data

2009-12-17 Thread Chris Hunter
be useful to re-import once a review and a set of tags are agreed on. Sincerely, Chris (DiverCTH) On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:42 AM, Chris Hunter chunter...@gmail.com wrote: I ran across 2 misplaced / not immediately locatable points while mapping a local airport. Since I agree with David's take, I

Re: [Talk-us] Import of EPA data

2009-12-16 Thread Chris Hunter
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 10:00 AM, David Fawcett david.fawc...@gmail.comwrote: I don't support the import at this time either. I think that this type of data is far better queried from the source at the time it is needed and mashed on top of OSM. States are continually improving this data

Re: [Talk-us] US Chapter Mission Statement

2009-11-27 Thread Chris Hunter
to promote the issues and concerns of OSM users in the United States. Anyone else have ideas? DiverCTH (a.k.a. Chris Hunter) On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.comwrote: As many of you know, we're working on forming a US chapter of OSM. To that end, we've been

Re: [Talk-us] US Chapter Mission Statement

2009-11-27 Thread Chris Hunter
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 1:45 AM, Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.comwrote: Just curious, What is a protectorite? And why is it needed? Thanks, Sam It's a pretty archaic idea - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protectorate#United_States IIRC, only the Marshall Islands are still a

Re: [Talk-us] US Chapter Mission Statement

2009-11-27 Thread Chris Hunter
Oh, and Puerto Rico is a territory - although at least some of us mainlanders wish they'd make up their mind and either declare independence or ratify as a state. On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 2:04 AM, Chris Hunter chunter...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 1:45 AM, Sam Vekemans

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Karlruhe Scheme addressing ways from 2009 TIGER data

2009-11-19 Thread Chris Hunter
Oh, and $5/disk to burn it to DVD On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 1:07 AM, Chris Hunter chunter...@gmail.com wrote: Sensible government policy? When did that happen? My local county wants $10,680.00 for the political GIS data, and it's got a non-redistributable, non-commercial license on top

Re: [Talk-us] Super Wal-Mart Tag

2009-11-12 Thread Chris Hunter
That's what database normalization addresses. BTW, this is the first time I've heard of the semicolon approach. On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 7:49 PM, Russ Nelson nel...@crynwr.com wrote: Unfortunately, that doesn't work. The tags must be unique on the name side. That's why you see name, name_1,

[OSM-talk] URGENT - Critical bug in JOSM 2417 [Fwd: [Talk-us] Possible destructive bug in JOSM build 2417 - need someone to duplicate]

2009-11-11 Thread Chris Hunter
to blacklist any edits that come from 2417 as well. Thanks, Chris Hunter DiverCTH -- Forwarded message -- From: Nakor nakor...@gmail.com Date: Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 11:34 PM Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Possible destructive bug in JOSM build 2417 - need someone to duplicate To: Chris Hunter

Re: [Talk-us] Possible destructive bug in JOSM build 2417 - need someone to duplicate

2009-11-11 Thread Chris Hunter
Thanks. Is 2439 available on the server yet, or is it still in alpha? I re-downloaded the latest beta a couple hours ago and the josm-latest.jar link was still pointing at 2417. On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 10:30 PM, Dave Hansen d...@sr71.net wrote: On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 21:01 -0500, Chris Hunter

Re: [Talk-us] Possible destructive bug in JOSM build 2417 - need someone to duplicate

2009-11-11 Thread Chris Hunter
: On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 21:01 -0500, Chris Hunter wrote: My apologies if this has already been reported to the dev mailing list, but I've been running up against a critical/showstopper bug in JOSM 2417 for the past few days. I just tried with 2439 and can't seem to reproduce this. -- Dave

Re: [Talk-us] Mailboxes, etc.

2009-10-05 Thread Chris Hunter
I'm afraid I'm going to have to disagree here. Different countries *do*blur the line between shops and post offices. For example, I've visited Canada quite a few times, and quite a few drugstores sell stamps and accept mail for delivery under the Canada Post (canadian equivalent to USPS) sign.

Re: [Talk-us] Unpaved streets

2009-09-10 Thread Chris Hunter
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Alex Mauer ha...@hawkesnest.net wrote: On 09/09/2009 12:05 PM, Chris Hunter wrote: yes, yes, yes - this is the most sane summary of the road/track debate I've seen in quite a while. Of course, it also reopens the track/path argument, but I'll leave

Re: [Talk-us] Unpaved streets

2009-09-09 Thread Chris Hunter
yes, yes, yes - this is the most sane summary of the road/track debate I've seen in quite a while. Of course, it also reopens the track/path argument, but I'll leave that to others to battle out. On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Dale Puch dale.p...@gmail.com wrote: I have been reading thru

Re: [Talk-us] Unpaved streets

2009-09-09 Thread Chris Hunter
Paul, Thanks for the reminder about the US Tagging page, I forgot to add it to my watchlist in the wiki and it's definitely grown since my last read-through. Regarding the whole road vs. track vs. path debate, I think the only way of resolving the whole track/tracktype (

[Talk-us] Need help with SHP2OSM Rules file

2009-08-26 Thread Chris Hunter
separate line for each of the attribute abbreviations, or does SHP2OSM require a line for each attribute in each possible permutation? Thanks in advance, Chris Hunter ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Undo request button for changesets

2009-07-14 Thread Chris Hunter
For those of us who live in areas that are pretty sparse on mappers, I don't see this being a problem. Speaking from personal experience, just seeing an undo button on your user history would prevent a lot of conflicts from people trying to fix their mistakes. Take a look at the history for this

Re: [Talk-us] US Online Mapping Parties

2009-07-12 Thread Chris Hunter
Amen, I just spent the last 3 hours cleaning up the butchery TIGER made of the one-ways and ramp connections along I-75 from Exit 4 in TN to exit 350 in GA. I haven't even *started* to feed in the speed limit changes along the side-roads, which was the whole reason I started working on OSM (one

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-newbies] Decluttering LULC import - LANDUSE tag

2009-07-12 Thread Chris Hunter
, Claudius claudiu...@gmx.de wrote: Am 10.07.2009 03:48, Chris Hunter: I'm working on reviewing and updating the TIGER imports along the TN/GA border, and I noticed that GA is extremely cluttered in both mapnic and osmrender. I pulled up an area near my home in JOSM and it seems

Re: [OSM-talk] talk Digest, Vol 59, Issue 39

2009-07-10 Thread Chris Hunter
this, but the way the editors handle the tiger:reviewed=no tag would probably be a good framework to build off of. Chris Hunter chunter...@gmail.com From: Kevin Peat ke...@kevinpeat.com To: John Smith delta_foxt...@yahoo.com Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:00:26 +0100 Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] OSM

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM TrustPoints

2009-07-10 Thread Chris Hunter
this, but the way the editors handle the tiger:reviewed=no tag would probably be a good framework to build off of. Chris Hunter chunter...@gmail.com From: Kevin Peat ke...@kevinpeat.com To: John Smith delta_foxt...@yahoo.com Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:00:26 +0100 Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] OSM