Re: [OSM-talk] Tracing coastline by hand unnecessarily

2008-01-15 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Jan 15, 2008 10:03 AM, Andy Allan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Out of interest, how many automated imports are running at the moment, and where? I've been watching your checker and hoping that the Eastern Seaboard of the US would appear, so that we can use the improved shapefiles asap, but it

Re: [OSM-talk] Tracing coastline by hand unnecessarily

2008-01-15 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Jan 15, 2008 3:09 PM, Andy Allan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone who knows what they are doing with this stuff quickly run up and down each side of the US for me please? That way, when the states turn white on Martijn's coastline checker we can switch over - at that point, 95%+ of the

Re: [OSM-talk] pint symbol

2008-02-15 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 3:30 PM, J.D. Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frederik Ramm skrev: Could we introduce a beer can in paper bag symbol for off-licenses in the US? Frederik, I am shocked, almost downright appalled.. You really want to buy beer in the US ?? EVERYBODY knows that

Re: [OSM-talk] state and province boundaries: VMAP0 or CIA

2008-03-06 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Vladimir Elistratov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What source are there for state boundaries? It depends on what you mean by state if you mean countries or US States. What source are there for province boundaries? I suppose here you mean province in the sense of

Re: [OSM-talk] RFC: golf course

2008-03-10 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 5:11 PM, Andy Robinson (blackadder) So basically, if its information about a physical object, or something that references that physical object - though I note that golf course holes have a habit of moving around the green ;-) - then its worth having it in OSM. I

Re: [OSM-talk] re contours

2008-03-21 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 6:05 AM, Steve Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: with altitude anyway - if you're cycling (for example) at an altitude of 600m, a 100m high hill is just as significant to you as it would be if you were cycling at sea level, but in the former case it wouldn't show up on

Re: [OSM-talk] house numbers revisited

2008-04-18 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 3:58 AM, Martijn van Oosterhout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Jonathan Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frederik Ramm wrote: A completely different (and quite OSM-like!) option is dropping all this complex logic, left-right-blah

Re: [OSM-talk] tagging and rendering highways in the USA and elsewhere

2008-04-18 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Tom Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is that we do not have the technology to render different countries in different ways. I don't believe we even know of an efficient way to do it, so we don't even know what the technology would look like

Re: [OSM-talk] tagging and rendering highways in the USA and elsewhere

2008-04-18 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Frederik Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Shouldn't this be as easy as adding a tag indicating country and altering the stylesheet to say highway=motorway country=us = color=yellow, highway=motorway country=uk = color=blue? Complete with the ability

Re: [OSM-talk] JOSM cut and paste between layers results in position change

2008-06-10 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 10:56 PM, Simon Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Q). Is there some what to duplicate a way/node on another layer without this displacement? I've run into this bug during the US state borders import. My solution was to select what I wanted to cp, zoom to selection, copy

Re: [OSM-talk] How do I....?

2008-09-02 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 3:56 AM, Rob Reid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - In Josm is there a way to re-centre to the the area you have just downloaded? For example I edit, fix and upload one problem bit of coastline, I then identify the next problem in the coast line error checker and download that

Re: [OSM-talk] amenity=vending_machine AND amenity=post_box: what about?

2008-09-02 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Pierre-André Jacquod [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Currently, I have never seen a stamp vending machine without its post box. That is why I intended to mark these with something like: amenity=post_box vending_machine=yes Is there a (strange:-) country where both

Re: [OSM-talk] How to contribute new tag and symbol?

2009-05-21 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Ingo Lantschner listen2...@lantschner.name wrote: Hi all, I created a symbol and some rules for the key/value tourism/ apartment. How can I contribute this symbol (svg) and the rules to the official  osm-map-features-z17.xml? I think you need to find a

Re: [OSM-talk] How to contribute new tag and symbol?

2009-05-21 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 5:33 PM, Ingo Lantschner listen2...@lantschner.name wrote: Am 21.05.2009 um 18:42 schrieb Adam Schreiber: I created a symbol and some rules for the key/value tourism/ apartment. I think you need to find a different key than apartment.  It seems you want to tag

Re: [OSM-talk] How to contribute new tag and symbol?

2009-05-21 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Claudius claudiu...@gmx.de wrote: Am 21.05.2009 23:37, Adam Schreiber: On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 5:33 PM, Ingo Lantschner listen2...@lantschner.name  wrote: Am 21.05.2009 um 18:42 schrieb Adam Schreiber: I created a symbol and some rules for the key/value

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] tagging stones in the wild (erratic, balancing, boundary, stone age, artifact)

2009-05-23 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 7:37 AM, Stanislav Brabec u...@penguin.cz wrote: Generic stone = Just a stone in the wild without any known story. natural=stone (German wiki already documents this tag) optional: size=large (several tons), medium (can be moved by few people), small (can

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Mapping of State/county/national parks

2009-06-25 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Tylertyler.ritc...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, I've a question about mapping the different types of park. I've been using boundary=national_park for national parks and forests and then tagging national parks as landuse=nature_reserve and forests as

Re: [OSM-talk] The future of bugs in OSM

2009-07-01 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Nic Roetsnro...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 4:22 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: You go to http://bugs.openstreetmap.org/ There's a big map of bugs which looks similar to OSB. It doesn't know who you are and drops you in to beginner mode which

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal 'man_made:tower' and 'communications_transpoder'

2009-07-13 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Simon Woodsi...@mungewell.org wrote: On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 23:17:37 -0600 Simon Wood si...@mungewell.org wrote: I have had a go at tidying the proposed tags for communication towers and would welcome any comments.

Re: [OSM-talk] Select Osmarender from URL?

2009-07-14 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Mike N.nice...@att.net wrote: I'd like to be able to send a link by email to someone which starts out rendering with Osmarender by default.   (The reason is the nice rendering of cycle lanes with the green fringe).  Is there a URL argument that can select

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Residential home

2009-08-06 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Mike Harrismik...@googlemail.com wrote: Thanks for useful input - agree that US 'assisted living' = UK 'sheltered accommodation'. Medical care (or at least nursing care) is indeed the key difference. Although a Brit I have lived twice in the USA (as well as

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM-Postal an idea to extend Walking-Papers to not connected people

2009-08-16 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Shaun McDonaldsh...@shaunmcdonald.me.uk wrote: An easier way to print off several adjacent maps for a mapping party would be useful. +1 Or even for personal use. Cheers, Adam ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] Awards

2009-08-23 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 6:39 AM, Lized...@billiau.net wrote: http://odtmaps.com/ will show you a few different projections quickly, to expand your horizons. I prefer the Peter's projection. Cheers, Adam ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] TIGER Addressing Import

2009-10-03 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Dave Hansen d...@sr71.net wrote: Is this the most up to date way of keeping addresses?         http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/House_numbers/Karlsruhe_Schema That's the scheme I use when adding addresses. There are presets for it in

Re: [OSM-talk] Science Fair! - First, CERN; next, VLA!

2008-09-17 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 9:18 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which other large research projects can we add to the map? Arecibo is in. It's just waiting for manmade=telescope to be added to a renderer. Cheers, Adam ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] Parking aisle as boundary of car park not showing

2008-09-24 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 1:07 PM, 80n [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Steve Chilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mapnik doesn't recognise dual tags. In this case the area tag takes precedence. Separate polygon is the way to get it to show. Isn't that tagging for the

Re: [OSM-talk] Campus map - Who's got a good one?

2008-09-30 Thread Adam Schreiber
here in a little under two weeks to finish the campus and get a good bit of the town up to date. Cheers, Adam Schreiber [1] http://informationfreeway.org/?lat=34.674310488382794lon=-82.83710751204114zoom=15layers=BF000F ___ talk mailing list talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Maps - OSM comparison

2008-11-28 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 7:25 AM, David Earl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: London - missing (found an other London) Washington, D.C. - not found The comma is a bit of syntax for namefinder. Also state abbreviations (OK, DC's it's not a state exactly, but it has the same role here) are not stored

Re: [OSM-talk] Collecting public transportation time tables

2008-12-17 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 8:11 AM, Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com wrote: On 17 Dec 2008, at 15:25, Sascha Silbe wrote: On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 03:02:17PM +, Peter Miller wrote: There is not however a problem as far as I know in people collecting their own timetable information

Re: [OSM-talk] Rendering of Place Names in Mapnik

2008-12-18 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 6:39 AM, Karl Newman siliconfi...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 6:37 AM, Adam Killian vi...@bonius.com wrote: Karl Newman wrote: That wouldn't work in this case, because as the OP mentioned, San Jose and San Francisco have equal admin_level rankings (county

Re: [OSM-talk] Errors or not errors?

2008-12-18 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Tomas Straupis tomasstrau...@gmail.com wrote: Hello While fixing some validation errors I've found an interesting case and would like to get your opinion on how to deal with it. There is a school stadium mapped. Stadium has a usual oval and two starting

Re: [OSM-talk] tags for businesses

2009-01-09 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 4:46 PM, LeedsTracker leedstrac...@gmail.com wrote: landuse=commercial building=commercial name=[name of business, or of building if known, e.g. Mammon House] You can also use the shop=type_of_shop tagging scheme. Cheers, Adam

Re: [OSM-talk] fitness center/gym?

2009-01-22 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Someoneelse li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk wrote: leisure=sports_centre perhaps? It's not exact but it's not a million miles away. leisure=fitness_center would probably fit a lot better because sports aren't usually played at something akin to a Gold's Gym unless

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping Party Template

2009-01-22 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Thomas Wood grand.edgemas...@gmail.com wrote: Please subst: in any page-sized templates, it helps keep the wiki a little speedier... I have no idea what that means. Could you please clarify what you meant? Cheers, Adam 2009/1/21 Adam Schreiber sa

Re: [OSM-talk] Donate today for OSM's £10,000 serv er fundraiser

2009-02-05 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 12:29 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: Today we're kicking off a funding drive to raise £10,000 to buy new API database servers for the upcoming new API and server software which we call 0.6″ as it's the 6th version. Specifically we're after a 3U Rackmount server, 2x

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM on The Reg

2009-02-11 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 7:43 AM, David Earl da...@frankieandshadow.com wrote: On 11/02/2009 12:05, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On Wednesday 11 February 2009 17:07:18 Gert Gremmen wrote: An Add Road option, maybe? Oooh no, nothing like that. does *any* mapping app have an option like 'add

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM on The Reg

2009-02-11 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 8:19 AM, Kærast kaer...@qvox.org wrote: On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:08:05 -0500 Adam Schreiber sa...@clemson.edu wrote: I agree, there should be some slight barrier to entry in which the mapper learns about communitty standards for adding data, especially dervied data

Re: [OSM-talk] Parcel Data in OSM?

2009-02-17 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 7:00 PM, Christopher Schmidt crschm...@metacarta.com wrote: Hi, Many city governments in Massachusetts publish their parcel (lot) data for free reuse, either individually or through MassGIS. This data is appropriately licensed for re-use in OSM, and is informative --

Re: [OSM-talk] Last Chance for GSoC 2009 Ideas

2009-03-12 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, I just submitted the application for GSoC 2009. If you have a chance, please check out the GSoC 2009 application ideas page [1]. Feel free to make comments on existing ideas, add your own, or add text to an

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - (man_made=dyke)

2009-03-26 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 8:25 PM, Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, It looks like this tag also could be set to a vote, i think there is agreement that it gets spelled this way, as the OSM standard is for british english, ... and not a waterway because it is man_made  and

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetView

2009-05-01 Thread Adam Schreiber
suggestions, I'd love to hear them. Here's what I've found so far (with some help from Adam Schreiber): - http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=enq=webcamcid=5197139896207141132sa=title#ps-sellers - Also, my XBox 360 webcam (when plugged in to my Ubuntu box) can scale up to 1280x...@5fps

Re: [OSM-talk] Wikipedia POI import?

2009-05-05 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Russ Nelson r...@cloudmade.com wrote: Any reason not to go through Wikipedia and import everything with a coordinate as a POI, with a url=http://wikipedia.org/NAME link, and name=NAME where NAME is the name of the Wikipedia entry? We don't know where the

Re: [OSM-talk] Wikipedia POI import?

2009-05-05 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Thomas Wood wrote: Unverified and somewhat copyrightable sources. While I'm not the greatest fan of Wikipedia myself, I think that we should stop perpetuating such unjustified and unfair criticism. Like us, Wikipedia

Re: [OSM-talk] Wikipedia POI import?

2009-05-05 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Russ Nelson r...@cloudmade.com wrote: On May 5, 2009, at 2:06 PM, Adam Schreiber wrote: We don't know where the wikipedia users sourced their cooridinates from. We don't care either.  That's wikipedia's problem.  They're licensing the data under CC-By-SA

Re: [OSM-talk] dispensing pharmacy considered confusing

2009-05-08 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: Greg Troxel wrote: I just mapped a CVS, which is a store that sells lots of personal hygiene stuff and has a real pharmacy (with a licensed pharmacist, who can fill prescriptions signed by doctors).  I used

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenPisteMap - Request support for Head up Display

2011-11-15 Thread Adam Schreiber
Matthias, If you have a contact now, you might be able to request the release of the SDK promised in several of their pre-launch press releases. Cheers, Adam 2011/11/15 Matthias Meißer dig...@arcor.de: Thanks to the 13 mappers that voted on the platform, I got this reply: Hi Matthias,

Re: [OSM-talk] GNIS quality improvement, was: USGS Topo maps

2011-11-28 Thread Adam Schreiber
I know that I've made changes to GNIS nodes in areas that I map in. Will nodes that have been modified since import be excluded from the microtasker? Cheers, Adam On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Josh Doe j...@joshdoe.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Greg Troxel g...@ir.bbn.com

Re: [OSM-talk] Kort Game: Translators seeked!

2013-01-20 Thread Adam Schreiber
Is Kort currently only downloading KeepRight bugs for a certain region? Thanks, Adam On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 4:07 AM, Stefan Keller sfkel...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Many thanks for the unbelievable effort to translate Kort. The localization list at Transifex [1] shows 14 languages(1) which

Re: [OSM-talk] Kort Game: Translators seeked!

2013-01-20 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Stefan Keller sfkel...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/1/20 Adam Schreiber adam.schreiber+...@gmail.com: Is Kort currently only downloading KeepRight bugs for a certain region? AFAIK it's downloading KeepRight bugs for all continents except Australia, Africa and Asia

Re: [OSM-talk] Kort Game: Translators seeked!

2013-01-20 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Stefan Keller sfkel...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Stefan Keller sfkel...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/1/20 Adam Schreiber adam.schreiber+...@gmail.com: Is Kort currently only downloading KeepRight bugs for a certain region? AFAIK

Re: [OSM-talk] Video for conferences (loosely related to SotM-EU)

2011-07-21 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: Dear All, A recurring question for FLOSS conferences in general is; What's the best way to stream our presentations to those who can't be here, and to store them for the historical record. I don't know the answer.  

Re: [Talk-ca] [Talk-us] Province / State borders

2009-03-31 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 6:59 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: I've adjusted the boundary=admin rendering on my tile server to make more sense for North America.  Rendering the state / provincial borders at zoom 1 2 might be overdoing it, but at zoom 3 looks reasonable.  It does

Re: [Talk-ca] [Talk-us] Interstate Highways Relations List

2009-04-14 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 8:28 AM, Greg Troxel g...@ir.bbn.com wrote: The US highways in California are really (I think) regular US highways, but CA uses a different kind of sign.  So tagging then us_us_ca seems again like tagging for the renderer.  This is sort of OK, perhaps, but it bothers me

Re: [Talk-ca] [Talk-us] Interstate Highways Relations List

2009-04-14 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Apollinaris Schoell ascho...@gmail.com wrote: On 13 Apr 2009, at 5:36 , Adam Schreiber wrote: What about: addr:country=us addr:state=ca network=us or addr:country=us addr:state=ca network=i network should be US, I, all signs use uppercase

Re: [Talk-ca] [Talk-us] Interstate Highways Relations List

2009-04-14 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Greg Troxel g...@ir.bbn.com wrote:  network=us_i_2 # Interstate (2 digit) us_i_3 for 3 digit  network=us_us_2 # US Route us_us_3 for 3 digit  network=us_ny # NY State Route  network=us_ny_county # That looks great to me, except that us_i_2 vs us_i_3 seems

Re: [Talk-ca] [Talk-us] Interstate Highways Relations List

2009-04-14 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Apollinaris Schoell ascho...@gmail.com wrote: this is great work, signs could be a bit smaller tough. why not stick with the symbol tag? see http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States_roads_tagging the symbols tagging should be transparent to the

[Talk-us] Appalachian Trail

2008-09-09 Thread Adam Schreiber
The Appalachian Trail Conservancy makes track and shelter data available for download [1] under a fairly simple agreement [2]. Furthermore, someone has already converted the data to gpx [3]. Is there any reason to not upload this data? Has anyone been working on the AT already? Cheers, Adam

Re: [Talk-us] Appalachian Trail

2008-09-09 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Adam Killian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adam Schreiber wrote: The Appalachian Trail Conservancy makes track and shelter data available for download [1] under a fairly simple agreement [2]. Furthermore, someone has already converted the data to gpx [3

Re: [Talk-us] Appalachian Trail

2008-09-10 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 4:17 AM, Alex S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adam Schreiber wrote: Is there any reason to not upload this data? This provision could be a sticking point: that you use proper citation (see metadata for details) on any materials (digital or printed) in which

Re: [Talk-us] US GPS Set for Mapping Parties

2008-09-25 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Ian Dees [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Adam Schreiber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Ian Dees [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Adam Schreiber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: [Talk-us] MSP mapping party Oct 4-5

2008-09-25 Thread Adam Schreiber
Richard, I'm curious, who is this mysterious 'we' in your announcements and listings in the wiki? Cheers, Adam On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 12:00 PM, Richard Weait [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, We're building a mapping party for the MSP area for next weekend, Oct 4-5. I'd love to have help

Re: [Talk-us] County Line Corrections

2009-01-28 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Minh Nguyen m...@1ec5.org wrote: Kentucky's border along the Ohio River is one example: the border is defined to be the low water mark of the Ohio-Indiana-Illinois bank as of the 18th century [1], so it's not the centerline and not quite the northern riverbank.

Re: [Talk-us] NHD Dataset

2009-02-16 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Theodore Book tb...@libero.it wrote: * In some places, a lot of work has been done manually entering water features. While I expect the NHD data is generally better, we have the tough issue of respecting other people's work (and not duplicating things in the

Re: [Talk-us] National Forest Boundaries

2009-02-19 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:34 AM, James Fee james@gmail.com wrote: I totally agree. National Forests are administered by the Agriculture Department (not the park service) and are managed lands for different uses (timber, livestock, wildlife) as well as recreation. They are probably

Re: [Talk-us] National Forest Boundaries

2009-02-19 Thread Adam Schreiber
/bureau? Yes. Are they operated by the same entity/bureau? No. Thus, make the distinction in a meaningful way. Cheers, Adam -- James Fee http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/ On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Adam Schreiber sa...@clemson.edu wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:34 AM, James Fee

[Talk-us] The Greening of Georgia

2009-02-24 Thread Adam Schreiber
Has anyone else noticed some kind of import of park/forest data for Georgia going on? Does anyone know that source of the data? http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=34.043lon=-84.233zoom=9layers=B000FTF Cheers, Adam ___ Talk-us mailing list

Re: [Talk-us] GNIS Import Done

2009-03-12 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Adam Schreiber sa...@clemson.edu wrote: On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: 3. If there are already OSM features in your area for a certain node that I

Re: [Talk-us] Province / State borders

2009-03-30 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 6:59 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: I've adjusted the boundary=admin rendering on my tile server to make more sense for North America.  Rendering the state / provincial borders at zoom 1 2 might be overdoing it, but at zoom 3 looks reasonable.  It does

Re: [Talk-us] silly borders

2009-03-30 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: Dear Can-Americans, This is silly.  Four different lines for one border. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=48.99906lon=-95.15362zoom=16layers=B000FTF We're good neighbo(u)rs.  We should fix our fence.  Shouldn't each

Re: [Talk-us] silly borders

2009-03-31 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Ted Mielczarek ted.mielcza...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: Dear Can-Americans, This is silly.  Four different lines for one border.

Re: [Talk-us] Historical locations

2009-04-03 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Theodore Book tb...@libero.it wrote: I have noticed with the new GeoNames import that a lot of places have appeared with a name like: Ivy Street School (historical) - many of these seem to be institutions that haven't existed for 50 years or more.  Do we want to

[Talk-us] GNIS Import

2009-04-10 Thread Adam Schreiber
Is there an easy way to merge the tags from the nodes to areas that have already been mapped? I just noticed a lot of nodes show up for buildings at my university. Cheers, Adam ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-us] GNIS Import

2009-04-10 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Adam Schreiber sa...@clemson.edu wrote: On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Adam Schreiber sa...@clemson.edu wrote: Is there an easy way to merge the tags from the nodes to areas that have

Re: [Talk-us] Interstate Highways Relations List

2009-04-12 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 2:38 AM, Nicholas Vetrovec nickvet...@yahoo.com wrote: Posted on the US Page to help coordinate US Interstate relations. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Interstate_Highways_Relations Instead of state_id=xx, I would suggest we glom onto addr:state=xx as the recent

Re: [Talk-us] Interstate Highways Relations List

2009-04-12 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 04:39 -0500, Joseph Jon Booker wrote: On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 01:54:12 -0500 Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 1:38 AM, Nicholas Vetrovec nickvet...@yahoo.comwrote:

Re: [Talk-us] Interstate Highways Relations List

2009-04-12 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Greg Troxel g...@ir.bbn.com wrote:  network=us_i_2 # Interstate (2 digit) us_i_3 for 3 digit  network=us_us_2 # US Route us_us_3 for 3 digit  network=us_ny # NY State Route  network=us_ny_county # That looks great to me, except that us_i_2 vs us_i_3 seems

Re: [Talk-us] Interstate Highways Relations List

2009-04-12 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Apollinaris Schoell ascho...@gmail.com wrote: this is great work, signs could be a bit smaller tough. why not stick with the symbol tag? see http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States_roads_tagging the symbols tagging should be transparent to the

Re: [Talk-us] Interstate Highways Relations List

2009-04-13 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 8:28 AM, Greg Troxel g...@ir.bbn.com wrote: The US highways in California are really (I think) regular US highways, but CA uses a different kind of sign.  So tagging then us_us_ca seems again like tagging for the renderer.  This is sort of OK, perhaps, but it bothers me

[Talk-us] Southeastern Linux Festival

2009-04-15 Thread Adam Schreiber
The Southeast Linux Fest [1] is going to be in Clemson, SC the weekend of June 13. It would be awesome to have an OSM presence there. The area is already well mapped [2] but more effort could be put in to really make it a showcase by June. Let me know if there is anyone interested in coming

Re: [Talk-us] NHD Scripts

2009-04-16 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Theodore Book tb...@libero.it wrote: I have had some interest in my NHD conversion scripts, both from people interested in the NHD, and from those interested in their ability to specify a maximum length for an imported way.  Therefore I have placed them in

Re: [Talk-us] dirt road classification?

2009-04-29 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Paul Fox p...@foxharp.boston.ma.us wrote: is there a way to distinguish pavement type separately from road classification?  is there a standard tag for doing so? surface=foo http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:surface in new england (and i assume in other

Re: [Talk-us] dirt road classification?

2009-04-29 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 7:53 PM, Paul Fox p...@foxharp.boston.ma.us wrote: adam wrote:   On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Paul Fox p...@foxharp.boston.ma.us wrote:   ... in my mind there's a big difference between unpaved and track.     Could you provide a photo of one of these roads? i

Re: [Talk-us] Addresses and Tiger

2009-05-25 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Theodore Book tb...@libero.it wrote: I have been playing around with the TIGER 2008 data, which, for some of the counties around Atlanta seems to be much better than the old data. If I import it for some of the counties, though, I would like to import the

Re: [Talk-us] Tidying up TIGER data

2009-06-04 Thread Adam Schreiber
Also in Atlanta, there's N St. I got directions from google and thought I was looking for North St. Man was that a big mistake. Cheers, Adam On 6/4/09, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: Ian Dees wrote: Its functions are: - Strip St suffix from grid-named streets (eg. South

Re: [Talk-us] US Interstate ways alignment

2009-06-17 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Stephen Johnsonsjohn...@monsters.org wrote: Some of the TIGER ways and nodes for Interstates in my area are way out of alignment. They are all over the map if you'll forgive the pun. I have several GPS tracks for most of the Interstate lanes. My question is

Re: [Talk-us] Mapping of State/county/national parks

2009-06-25 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Tylertyler.ritc...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, I've a question about mapping the different types of park. I've been using boundary=national_park for national parks and forests and then tagging national parks as landuse=nature_reserve and forests as

Re: [Talk-us] Tag convention for bulk imports?

2009-07-13 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 1:47 AM, Tylertyler.ritc...@gmail.com wrote:   If it is necessary to further classify parks in the US, one logical tag scheme might be  park=city  park=county  park=state  park=national I think better would be leisure=outdoor_recreation (or something similar)

Re: [Talk-us] Tag convention for bulk imports?

2009-07-13 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Tylertyler.ritc...@gmail.com wrote: So then if we're going to use admin levels there should be a boundary type since administrative clearly doesn't work. But then we're back to the previous discussion about creating a new tagging scheme for parks and reserves.

Re: [Talk-us] Deletion of unnecessary TIGER node tags will commence this week-end

2009-08-06 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Frederik Rammfrede...@remote.org wrote: If I don't hear strong objection then I will let the automated process commence this weekend. It will work in small chunks, so can always be paused, and I will post instructions that allow you to monitor progress (and see

Re: [Talk-us] Hey, look! State / Prov borders!

2009-08-26 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Richard Weaitrich...@weait.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 8:39 AM, Lennardl...@xs4all.nl wrote: Richard Weait wrote: I think the provincial / state borders will continue to be yucky on the main map until mapnik supports rendering different style sheets

Re: [Talk-us] US-based Server

2009-10-21 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com wrote: Do you mean a server for viewing the tile cache right? (that holds a planet file gets a second diff) Where osm.com /osm.us could be used and a us-custom-render of the map would be available as a default for

Re: [Talk-us] US-based Server

2009-10-21 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Hi, Adam Schreiber wrote: I would hope that and in the future a mapping mirror.  The database ought to move to being on more than one server. I am interested to hear your proposals on conflict resolution, or failing

Re: [Talk-us] Conflicts of Interest

2010-02-12 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:29 AM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: I think that for your own good so it's not a surprise to people, all those running for the board of OSMF-US should be upfront about it. I don't think there's any shame in it, but I can tell you from experience that people get

Re: [Talk-us] the meaning of trunk in the US

2010-03-22 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 10:25 PM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.netwrote: this discussion is triggered by a difference of opinion between myself and NE2 about the classification of US 301 FL A1A between Ocala, Florida and Jackonsville, Florida. I'm bringing it up in the hopes of

Re: [Talk-us] PA State Parks

2010-03-24 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 8:46 PM, Sven Lafebre s.lafe...@psu.edu wrote: Most of these parks are tagged as physical areas. For example, state game lands are natural=wood and leisure=nature_reserve. Unfortunately, these tags don't always correspond to the actual land use. Moreover, they are

Re: [Talk-us] stop signs

2010-10-26 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 8:19 AM, Greg Troxel g...@ir.bbn.com wrote:  Therefor I propose stop signs go on the intersection and save a lot of  hassle with the tag          highway=stop I think your proposal can work, but you need to show how e.g. to mark 2 out of 5 roads at an intersection.

Re: [Talk-us] stop signs

2010-10-26 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: What's wrong with something like highway:forward=stop or highway:backward=stop for the node where one must stop? How does that capture intersections where one of the roads entering and exiting the junction node doesn't

Re: [Talk-us] Any interest in Google Code-In?

2010-10-29 Thread Adam Schreiber
with some more. Cheers, Adam On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 7:56 AM, Adam Schreiber sa...@clemson.edu wrote: Perhaps creation of additional JOSM presets/validation tests and fixes? Cheers, Adam On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 10:07 PM

Re: [Talk-us] Relation roles

2011-06-30 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 6:54 PM, Phil! Gold phi...@pobox.com wrote: * Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org [2011-06-29 14:52 -0700]: On 06/29/2011 11:49 AM, Nathan Mills wrote: My personal preference is to use directional roles so that they match what is written on signage. It also avoids the

Re: [Talk-us] NOAA Composite Shoreline

2011-07-13 Thread Adam Schreiber
Josh, As the person that imported the NHD shoreline for most of the southern east coast, I can tell you that I mainly tried to fix directional errors and obvious missing features. Correcting to imagery was beyond the scope of the effort as that was back when we were just trying to get something

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