Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Status and progress: NYS DEC Lands reimport

On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 8:25 AM, Greg Troxel wrote: > Martin Koppenhoefer writes: >> On this particular issue I believe you should use different tagging. >> Currently there is almost no use of access=permit >>

[Talk-us] Status and progress: NYS DEC Lands reimport

The reimport of NYS DEC Lands that I proposed this spring is now complete, except as noted below. Now would be a good time to check that I got it right. I am aware of the following issues that need to be resolved before I call the import 'complete.' (1) I have not imported a fair number of

[Talk-us] NYS DEC Lands

Sorry about bothering people one more time. It occurs to me that folks might be interested in how bad the topological problems with the original import were. In the next day or so, before the low-zoom-level tiles are re-rendered, you might want to check out:

Re: [Talk-us] NYC DEC Lands reimport

a consensus that landuse=forest would not be tagging for the renderer. On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 8:15 PM, Kevin Kenny <kevin.b.kenny+...@gmail.com> wrote: > I believe that I have resolutions to all of the issues that I've > discussed here over the last few weeks. I've done several dry runs o

[Talk-us] NYC DEC Lands reimport

I believe that I have resolutions to all of the issues that I've discussed here over the last few weeks. I've done several dry runs of selected parcels, and I'm confident that the workflow will not tread on the work of human mappers, particularly since I'm inspecting everything in JOSM before

Re: [Talk-us] Proposed import cleanup: NYSDEClands

ordinarily do not move. Since I'm displacing property lines a couple of meters inward to reduce GPS noise, the separation should be clean. On Jun 21, 2016 10:10 AM, "Eric Ladner" <eric.lad...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 8:08 PM Kevin Kenny <kevin.b.kenny+

Re: [Talk-us] Proposed import cleanup: NYSDEClands

Yes, indeed, I was referring to Russ Nelson. On Jun 21, 2016 9:27 AM, "Russell Deffner" wrote: > Just making sure, as I know people have confused Russ's before: > > "Russ has expressed concern ... > Russ says that he did it ... > Russ intended..." > > I believe you're

Re: [Talk-us] Proposed import cleanup: NYSDEClands

intended, but I know that there is lots of nonsense tagging that still renders prettily. Kevin On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 4:02 PM, Kevin Kenny <kevin.b.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm looking at that relation, and I really don't understand what > you're trying to accomplish - although when I ru

Re: [Talk-us] Proposed import cleanup: NYSDEClands

Retrying because a previous attempt bounced: On 06/18/2016 12:26 AM, Russ Nelson wrote: > > Kevin Kenny writes: > > The rule for coalescing would be to group by facility number, so all > > the parcels of Burnt-Rossman Hills State Forest would be one relation, > > wh

Re: [Talk-us] Proposed import cleanup: NYSDEClands

On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 8:24 PM, Kevin Kenny <kevin.b.kenny+...@gmail.com> wrote: > Now that I'm done with the NYC DEP Watershed Recreation Areas import, > I've got some bandwidth to spend on this cleanup again. I've added a sketch of the plan on the existing impor

Re: [Talk-us] Proposed import cleanup: NYSDEClands

again and allow a few days comment before I start editing in earnest, again, just in case there are screams of protest. On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 2:04 PM, Kevin Kenny <kevin.b.kenny+...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've been continuing to investigate the NYS DEC Lands file, because, > as

[Talk-us] New York City Watershed Recreation Areas

The import of the New York City Watershed Recreation Areas is now complete. Thanks to all who assisted in the effort! ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Best practices for dealing with old TIGER tags?

On 06/04/2016 09:12 PM, Harald Kliems wrote: All these discussions are the reason why I almost never touch the highway=* tag and rather add surface=* or other descriptive tags to TIGER roads. There just isn't any consensus and many good reasons for many positions about residential, unclassified,

Re: [Talk-us] Import in progress: NYC DEP Watershed Recreation Areas

, and correct it manually in the 25 places it appears in this changeset. I'm going to defer the correction in the upload until I'm resuming uploading. so as to avoid complicating a revert should one prove necessary. On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 11:00 PM, Kevin Kenny <kevin.b.kenny+...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Talk-us] Import in progress: NYC DEP Watershed Recreation Areas

I've now begun the import for the NYC DEP Watershed Recreation Areas. According to the plan, I've imported the units that lie in a single township out of the forty townships that contain these areas. (Town of Andes - the first of the list in alphabetical order). The changeset for this activity is

Re: [Talk-us] Best practices for dealing with old TIGER tags?

ked so that a traveler can pass, so they might be gated and still public. On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 12:23 PM, Greg Troxel <g...@ir.bbn.com> wrote: > > Eric Ladner <eric.lad...@gmail.com> writes: > >> On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 5:58 AM Greg Troxel <g...@ir.bbn.com> wr

Re: [Talk-us] Best practices for dealing with old TIGER tags?

be a weak indication to a router to avoid the route, but the consequences of getting it wrong don't appear to be terribly severe. Which is a relief. On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 6:56 PM, Richard Welty <rwe...@averillpark.net> wrote: > On 6/3/16 5:13 PM, Kevin Kenny wrote: >> Can someon

Re: [Talk-us] Best practices for dealing with old TIGER tags?

Can someone review for me the 'rural residential' problem? I haven't done a lot of editing away of TIGER tags, although I've wanted to - a lot of the areas where I've been mapping have had virtually no TIGER review whatsoever and the garish overlays in JOSM are annoying. Some of the areas I work

Re: [Talk-us] How are US county boundaries legally defined?

I hope for your sake that county lines in Missouri are better defined than they are in upstate New York. There are some county lines in the Adirondacks that are still shown as 'indefinite' on the state maps because they've never been formally surveyed and monumented. In the places where the land

[Talk-us] Tile cache issue?

On the main server with the default layer, I notice that http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/42.6437/-74.0033 has paths that abruptly disappear at a tile boundary. When I zoom in to level 17, or out to level 14, the paths appear again, but levels 15 and 16 don't show them. I've tried

[Talk-us] PROPOSED IMPORT: NYC DEP Watershed Recreation Areas

As I mentioned informally on-list a few days ago, I am contemplating an import of the boundaries of the recreation areas belonging to the New York City Department of Environmental Protection, Bureau of Water Supply. Since I heard no cries of protest, I assembled a formal project plan at

Re: [Talk-us] What is appropriate procedure for putting an import proposal on the Wiki?

It finally started working, for no apparent reason. Maybe someone fixed something. On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 10:43 PM, Kevin Kenny <kevin.b.kenny+...@gmail.com> wrote: > Still no success... I tried what you suggested: searching for "NYCDEP > Watershed Recreation Areas import&quo

Re: [Talk-us] What is appropriate procedure for putting an import proposal on the Wiki?

asking me to solve captchas in order to edit as well - but not presenting them to me. On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 8:39 PM, Clifford Snow <cliff...@snowandsnow.us> wrote: > > On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 5:34 PM, Kevin Kenny <kevin.b.kenny+...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> NYCDEP

[Talk-us] What is appropriate procedure for putting an import proposal on the Wiki?

I appear to be locked out of editing wiki.openstreetmap.org - this may be actually the first time that I've tried, I'm not sure. I have an account on the Wiki, I know my password, and I can successfully bring up the interface that edits a page. I'm trying to create a page Import/Catalogue/NYC

Re: [Talk-us] New MapRoulette now in early public beta

Logging out, flushing cookies, and logging in again brought me to 'Saint Charles Smartt Airfield' and 'False Positive' worked this time. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] New MapRoulette now in early public beta

Should I expect it to be operating? I tried logging in, and the first purported aerodrome I got was the actual 'Branson West Airport'. It was well-mapped, so I clicked 'False Positive' and 'Next' - and got "KO: Invalid task status supplied". On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 3:01 PM, Martijn van Exel

Re: [Talk-us] Proposed import cleanup: NYSDEClands

Oh, another question. Some of the New York state land parcels have rather complicated topology, and the previous import didn't get them entirely right: duplicated nodes, crossing ways, nodes close to other ways, and so on. Moreover, the upstream data are fairly arbitrarily divided. An example is

Re: [Talk-us] Proposed import cleanup: NYSDEClands

I've been continuing to investigate the NYS DEC Lands file, because, as Paul Norman identified, the original import is not up to current OSM standards. I'm not going to apologize for reimporting - a reimport will surely leave less of a mess than what is there! It's become clear to me that for

Re: [Talk-us] Odd road / odd structure

One more try - I'm still getting used to this 'gmail alias' stuff. My apologies if people are getting multiple copies - I'm getting bouncemail. On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 9:55 AM, Steve Friedl wrote: > I have some of that cursory knowledge, plus I actually hiked up there and >

Re: [Talk-us] Potential data source: New York City watershed recreation lands

On 05/24/2016 08:28 AM, Elliott Plack wrote: Kevin, Nice work on the proposal. Scraping geo-data from PDF is a feat. Kudos! I've read through your proposal and having worked on a statewide protected area import, I support this one. protect_object=water is a novel one. Are there other uses of

Re: [Talk-us] Potential data source: New York City watershed recreation lands

On 05/23/2016 03:20 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: On 05/23/2016 05:35 AM, Kevin Kenny wrote: One-line summary: I want to import the boundaries of New York City watershed recreation areas. I've read through your proposal and I would like to know if the boundaries you speak of are observable

[Talk-us] Potential data source: New York City watershed recreation lands

One-line summary: I want to import the boundaries of New York City watershed recreation areas. Side note: This project ties in closely with Paul Norman's identification of a need to clean up the NYS DEC Lands import. Many of the NYC DEP watershed lands share borders with the DEC lands, and

Re: [Talk-us] TopOSM

On 05/22/2016 02:39 PM, Lars Ahlzen wrote: On 05/21/2016 01:54 PM, Clifford Snow wrote: TopOSM looks like a good candidate for a hack session at SOTM-US. Let me know if you are interested so I can find a room for people to meet on July 25th. That's not a bad idea. Sounds like there's some

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Proposed import cleanup: NYSDEClands

On 05/19/2016 05:27 AM, Paul Norman wrote: I was debugging some MP issues and came across the NYSDEClands import[1], done in 2010, consisting of natural areas. They have a number of unwanted tags[2], and a couple of other problems with their tags Because there's a relatively small number of

Re: [Talk-us] Per-State relations for the Appalachian Trail

On 05/03/2016 03:09 PM, OSM Volunteer stevea wrote: In the USA, partly because we are such a geographically large part of the North American continent and partly because each of our fifty states is sovereign, I find that breaking apart very large relations so they are across a single state at

Re: [Talk-us] mapRe: (Second attempt) Potential data source: Adirondack Park Freshwater Wetlands

On 03/26/2016 02:06 AM, Russ Nelson wrote: Frederik Ramm writes: > I have zero knowledge about the Adirondack[s] I live here. Imagine a park half the size of Austria, with about 130K people living in it, and 200K people visiting it. Give about 30K of those people Internet access. Oh, and

Re: [Talk-us] mapRe: (Second attempt) Potential data source: Adirondack Park Freshwater Wetlands

On 03/16/2016 06:50 PM, Mike Thompson wrote: On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 4:12 PM, Andy Townsend > wrote: Another question - if not OSM, what maps do hikers in the area use now? Something from the US Forest Service, or something else?

Re: [Talk-us] mapRe: (Second attempt) Potential data source: Adirondack Park Freshwater Wetlands

On 03/15/2016 12:28 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: I have zero knowledge about the Adirondack; I just echoed your own words: You said that there are "difficulties inherent in getting changes made by local mappers working independently", and I said if that's the case then the import is not likely to be

Re: [Talk-us] mapRe: (Second attempt) Potential data source: Adirondack Park Freshwater Wetlands

On 03/16/2016 06:12 PM, Andy Townsend wrote: What I am a bit surprised about is that in the Adirondacks there's relatively little track data in OSM. Sure, New York State is big, but it's not _that_ big. It's roughly twice the size of Scotland and (excluding New York City) about twice the

[Talk-us] mapRe: (Second attempt) Potential data source: Adirondack Park Freshwater Wetlands

or network - to support that map as a public resource out of a solo project. I'm really at a loss where to go from here. Kevin Kenny On 02/28/2016 11:42 PM, Kevin Kenny wrote: Oops: Just realized I originally sent this reply privately: meant to send to the list. On 02/27/2016 05:18 PM, Frederik

Re: [Talk-us] (Second attempt) Potential data source: Adirondack Park Freshwater Wetlands

Oops: Just realized I originally sent this reply privately: meant to send to the list. On 02/27/2016 05:18 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: An import is great if it enables a community to go further, or forms the basis of solid work in the future. An import is great if it is one ingredient that makes

[Talk-us] (Second attempt) Potential data source: Adirondack Park Freshwater Wetlands

My apologies if this message turns out to be a duplicate. I mistakenly sent it from a mailbox that isn't subscribed to the lists. Potential data source: Adirondack Park Freshwater Wetlands This message is a 'trial balloon' for a potential import of (a subset of) the data in the series of data

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: State Park Boundary shp file

On 01/23/2016 01:48 PM, Russ Nelson wrote: New York courts are free to rule any way they want, but copyright doesn't allow you to own facts. This is well-adjudicated in higher courts. If you could claim a copyright on facts, you could control people's speech, and the First Amendment does not

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: State Park Boundary shp file

On 01/21/2016 04:32 PM, Clifford Snow wrote: On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 8:55 AM, Paul Johnson > wrote: Would it be possible to get some advice on how to best submit this form for the outlines Oklahoma's state parks? I'm not quite sure

Re: [Talk-us] Proposal: Sunset ref=* on ways in, favor of relations

On 11/19/2015 07:13 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: Obviously there needs to be a sunrise for consumers to catch up, but eventually the dinosaur needs to be killed. There's some places where the way has a ref unique to the route, as noted on the ground, that currently isn't easy to map thanks to the

[Talk-us] Data sources (Was: Proposal: Sunset ref=* on ways in, favor of relations)

On 11/11/2015 06:53 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: I have Phil's code adapted to my own use, and going at https://kbk.is-a-geek.net/catskills/test3.html?la=41.3476=-74.6686=11 (that particular spot shows Interstate, US Highway, NY, NJ, PA and county shields.) Wow, that's a

Re: [Talk-us] Proposal: Sunset ref=* on ways in, favor of relations

On 11/08/2015 09:04 PM, Paul Norman wrote: Phil's demo was an excellent proof of concept of pictorial shields from route relations, but isn't something that can be reasonably incorporated into a stylesheet as-is. https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/596 is the

Re: [Talk-us] Proposal: Sunset ref=* on ways in, favor of relations

On 11/06/2015 05:48 PM, Richard Welty wrote: Stop rendering this key and instead render the relations >> > >> >Is there*any* map style that does this at the moment? >> > >I believe Toby had a working mapnik-based renderer doing this on osm.us at >one point, though i'm not sure what became of

Re: [Talk-us] Best iOS app for GPS wander, GPX to laptop into OSM?

On 10/06/2015 11:47 AM, Adam Franco wrote: For trail surveys and other GPS recording on Android I've been very happy with Google's "My Tracks" app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.maps.mytracks=en The original question was about iOS, about which I know

Re: [Talk-us] Android Phone App that Uses Garmin Format -- Was Whole-US Garmin Map update - 2015-09-30

On 10/06/2015 05:57 PM, Peter Dobratz wrote: No, but if you just want offline GPS navigation based on OSM data, get Maps.me Or (as I just stated in the iOS thread, where it really was off topic), BackCountry Navigator. I've never tried handling Garmin formats with it, but it works just fine

Re: [Talk-us] Should driveways be on OSM?

On 09/28/2015 01:33 AM, Tom Bloom wrote: TIGER drew thousands of driveways that are often simply wrong. They are tagged private and in my opinion spoil the map appearance with little red squiggles all over the place. No other map I've found includes them. Looking around the country, I notice

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging National Forests

On 08/19/2015 05:29 AM, Nathan Mixter wrote: In any discussions about land use and land cover, we should look at what organizations have done and how they have mapped ares. For instance, in USGS imagery in JOSM you can see how they render borders with just a dashed line and let the land cover

Re: [Talk-us] Moving historic railroad ways from OSM to OpenHistoricalMap

On 04/01/2015 10:42 PM, Russ Nelson wrote: Oh, I'd be HAPPY to argue with him. I can point to all sorts of ways to tell that a railroad used to go through, that most people don't know about. Certain types of fenceposts, property lines that line up with nothing but the railbed, back yards that

Re: [Talk-us] Boundaries and verifiability (was Re: Retagging hamlets in the US)

On 03/23/2015 12:29 PM, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: The nice thing about mapping a neighborhood name as a point feature is: a) It helps people locate the neighborhood b) it completely sidesteps the question of the exact, possibly fuzzy, boundaries. For 10% of the hassle you map 90% of the benefit.

Re: [Talk-us] Retagging hamlets in the US

On 03/17/2015 05:25 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 7:44 PM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com mailto:a...@mapbox.com wrote: What do people think about how to properly retag place=hamlet in US urban areas? My colleague Eliane rendered out a map of all hamlets in urban

Re: [Talk-us] [Talk-us-newyork] fun with tagging: it's a raceway and an airstrip

On 01/15/2015 08:33 AM, Richard Welty wrote: not sure how to tag this one. Inde Motorsports Ranch is near Willcox, AZ, a multi configuration road course complex, plus the straight away on the south edge of the complex doubles as a private airstrip:

[Talk-us] Beaver dam? Wrecked bridge? Hallucinatory roads in TIGER?

I have what may be a seriously weird question. I've been trying to clean up my GPS tracks and enter data for the Northville-Placid Trail in the Adirondacks. In the rare places that the trail does appear in TIGER, the data are wildly wrong, so I'm rerouting and retagging as I go. I'm also

Re: [Talk-us] Beaver dam? Wrecked bridge? Hallucinatory roads in TIGER?

On 12/20/2014 11:36 AM, Harald Kliems wrote: highway=service;service=beaver;pedestrian=permissive (assuming that it's nice beavers) I didn't meet the beavers. They were busy. You know beavers. One dam project after another. :) More seriously: Does it really matter that the way leads over a

Re: [Talk-us] Currently available good GPS for use with OSM mapping in the USA?

On 11/26/2013 12:07 PM, Richard Welty wrote: there are USB battery supplement thingies out there, probably best to have one or more if you're going to do this away from a car with a lighter socket or USB power port. I find that as long as I keep it in airplane mode and don't overuse the screen

Re: [Talk-us] Separate relations for each direction of US State highways.

On 11/26/2013 01:58 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: There is some discussion going on over on the wiki page I created on this topic: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Highway_Directions_In_The_United_States Mostly dealing with how to prevent redundant relations where the numbered route is a

Re: [Talk-us] Freeway directions

On 10/17/2013 03:21 PM, Richard Welty wrote: On 10/17/13 3:14 PM, Ian Dees wrote: The direction of a US Interstate isn't necessarily the compass direction of the road. For example, this chunk of I-94 is facing south, but it's still eastbound I-94.

Re: [Talk-us] Shields are up!

On 07/29/2013 08:17 AM, Richard Welty wrote: On 7/29/13 1:02 AM, Russ Nelson wrote: Toby Murray writes: We finally managed to get Phil's highway shield rendering up on the OSM-US server today! You can see the tiles here: http://tile.openstreetmap.us/osmus_shields/preview.html Looks

Re: [Talk-us] Future Interstate Relations

On 07/11/2013 01:57 PM, James Mast wrote: Is there picture proof of how they are signing it? Would http://www.upstatenyroads.com/submit/region-8/Reg8-2.JPG do? That's in Monroe, New York (and not my picture). If my word is no good, will my camera be any better? I plan to be down that way in

Re: [Talk-us] Future Interstate Relations

On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 7:40 AM, Phil! Gold phi...@pobox.com wrote: Given that previous list consensus was for tagging of the form: network=US:I:Future ref=number modifier=Future and that only one person offered a variant opinion this time around, I'd

Re: [Talk-us] Hamlets!

On 06/21/2013 08:07 PM, Serge Wroclawski wrote: The map should reflect ground reality, so unless there are hamlets in these places, we should strive to fix them. By sharing our experiences, we can have a better sense of how others are doing that, and we can use that to inform our local

Re: [Talk-us] deleting misleading CDPs

On 05/30/2013 11:21 PM, Richard Welty wrote: i'm planning to delete a misleading CDP in the near future, i'm pondering the fact that from time to time we talk about deleting all the CDPs, an idea which i sometimes think is the right idea. in this case, the CDP is for Niskayuna NY

Re: [Talk-us] Park Boundary tagging

There are some anomalous cases that are of particular concern to me. Consider the Adirondack and Catskill Parks in New York. These are enormous tracts of land with intensive conservation restrictions placed on them - but many lands within the parks remain in private hands; in fact, there are

Re: [Talk-us] Anyone ever talked about adding more Land Ownership data to OSM?

On 01/09/2013 03:24 AM, Minh Nguyen wrote: While filling in townships in the Greater Cincinnati area, I've also been working on TIGER's rather artful interpretation of the area's municipal boundaries, motivated by the Mapnik style's prominent rendering of them. The boundaries are full of things

Re: [Talk-us] Anyone ever talked about adding more Land Ownership data to OSM?

On 01/08/2013 12:17 PM, derrick nehrenberg wrote: It seems like the majority consensus is that the US Land Ownership (or management data) doesn't belong in the OSM database. So, I guess I won't be adding it. [... argument for why the USFS Managed Land cadastre belongs ...] If anyone has any

Re: [Talk-us] Imports - an attempt to explain

On 12/20/2012 10:50 PM, Russ Nelson wrote: Now, the flip side of your idea of collaboration is that I knew about OSM, knew that my county was largely empty, and knew that TIGER would be a great starting point. So I DID NOT do any editing until TIGER got uploaded. Your theory is great, but I'm a

Re: [Talk-us] Consensus on SR for state route versus state abbreviation?

Just a random observation: containment in a state does not necessarily mean that a 'state highway' is a state highway of that state. There are a few spots in the Alleganies where NY-17 veers into Pennsylvania to avoid a mountain or river. It's still maintained by NYSDOT and signed with a New

Re: [Talk-us] NHD import: what data quality is acceptable?

On 07/22/2012 09:33 PM, Paul Norman wrote: The mappings on the wiki are not only incomplete and inconsistent, they're for an older NHD version and sometimes clearly wrong. I posted a better one (http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2012-July/008502.html) earlier this month but it

Re: [Talk-us] NHD import: what data quality is acceptable?

On 07/23/2012 10:49 AM, Paul Norman wrote: This unfortunately falls short. I find that you need to check the FCode across at least 3 different parts of the country to be sure. I've found there are regional variations in how FCodes are used. But I'm not *doing* 3 different parts of the country.

Re: [Talk-us] National Park boundaries

On 07/23/2012 12:50 PM, Steven Johnson wrote: Martijn all, I rather like the samples you gave: boundary=national_historic_site boundary=national_historic_park etc. They are simple, straightforward, and unambiguous. (The pattern could also be extended to other boundary types.) In the Forest

Re: [Talk-us] Starting OSM Trail Map Initiative In US

On 07/20/2012 09:27 PM, Richard Weait wrote: I can't think of a good substitute for a motivated local mapper. Daniel Begin said this recently on talk-ca: You'll find that there is nothing better than an active community to find odd features in authoritative data! Daniel knows of what he

Re: [Talk-us] Starting OSM Trail Map Initiative In US

On 07/20/2012 11:22 PM, Mike Thompson wrote: - Focused effort to gather public domain trail data and use it to update existing trail data in OSM through hybrid editing \ bulk upload methodology. Just and idea for the community's consideration: as an avid trail user and mapper, the one type of

Re: [Talk-us] Starting OSM Trail Map Initiative In US

On 07/22/2012 10:19 AM, Fred Gifford wrote: It seems like the biggest concern people have expressed is the idea of doing some bulk loading of trails. I am with you on those concerns and think that the primary rule for bulk loading should be first do no harm. Lots of people have made great edits

[Talk-us] NHD import: what data quality is acceptable?

A few months ago, I tried to get started on trying to resume the NHD import in my area - and some of the places where I hike. I'm trying to check results with both P2 and JOSM, and tripping over a lot of things, which made me put the project back on hold for a while. (I had some other things to

Re: [Talk-us] More things that are no longer there: schools.

On 07/13/2012 03:00 PM, James Umbanhowar wrote: Check out the historic tag (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Historic). You could add historic=school and maybe historic:name=School Name. Is that accepted practice? I had rather presumed that tags not enumerated in

Re: [Talk-us] railway=abandoned and mapping things that are not there any more?

On 07/12/2012 12:37 PM, Peter Dobratz wrote: What makes railroads a special case? Do we really want a bunch of railway=abandoned Ways running directly through newly constructed runways, buildings, roads, parking lots, etc? I'm of two minds. A lot of my map projects relate to the back

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: [OSM-dev] Licence redaction ready to begin

On 07/11/2012 09:31 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: Obviously my comment was a bit tongue-in-cheek; I am personally convinced that the unedited TIGER landscape - i.e. a map of which virtually nothing is correct and once you start to work somewhere you have to touch almost every single object if you

Re: [Talk-us] Scenic/Historic byways

On 07/08/2012 03:20 PM, Toby Murray wrote: Just came across this while processing pictures from my bike across Kansas: http://i.imgur.com/bmiV2.jpg This is a sign for the Western Vistas historic byway. It even has a website: http://www.westernvistashistoricbyway.com/ Closer to home I have also

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