Re: [Talk-us] New I.D Feature

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 1:10 PM, Sarah Hoffmann lon...@denofr.de wrote: If I understand you right then the 'secondary cities' are the actual cities/towns/villages already mapped as either place nodes or administrative boundaries. Those are already used by Nominatim. So it seems the primary

Re: [Talk-us] for my next race track mapping project...

On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 8:04 AM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote: back in July, i mapped the new/old road course at Thompson Speedway in Connecticut. this weekend, i should have the opportunity to get some good GPS tracks at the new track at Palmer, Massachusetts, as there is an

Re: [Talk-us] Rand McNally is using OSM

On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 6:46 PM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote: On 11/22/14 9:29 PM, Hans De Kryger wrote: Rand McNally is using OSM in TripMaker. Say what? No way. 1.) http://tripmaker.randmcnally.com/ 2.) https://www.mapbox.com/blog/rand-mcnally-uses-mapbox/ perhaps

Re: [Talk-us] Rand McNally is using OSM

. Regards, Hans On Nov 22, 2014 8:22 PM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us wrote: On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 6:46 PM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote: On 11/22/14 9:29 PM, Hans De Kryger wrote: Rand McNally is using OSM in TripMaker. Say what? No way. 1.) http

Re: [Talk-us] Rand McNally is using OSM

A school I just added is also there. I'm impressed that they are using up to the minutes data. On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 7:48 PM, Dave Mansfield mansfie...@chartermi.net wrote: It’s OSM. Looking at edits I made I found an error on the map. I then went to OSM and the error was there so I fixed

Re: [Talk-us] Rand McNally is using OSM

On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 6:51 PM, Tod Fitch t...@fitchdesign.com wrote: Nice to see they are using OSM but it would be nicer to see it clearly labeled as using data from OSM. Rand McNally fixed their attribution, but it seem weak. The response Ryan Walker from Rand McNally gave to my inquiry

Re: [Talk-us] Directional suffixes on roads: yes or no?

On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 8:39 PM, Jack Burke burke...@gmail.com wrote: I have a question about how much effort should be put into adding directional suffixes to road names. Many counties around Atlanta have adopted directional suffixes for roads, both in incorporated areas as well as outside

Re: [Talk-us] User randomly adding speed limits across the US

On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 8:05 AM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: Entering most counties you get a sign that's printed in FlySpeck 3 font that reads: Unless otherwise posted speed limit 35 MPH on all roads in Lincoln County I wonder if adding default maxspeed to the city admin

Re: [Talk-us] User randomly adding speed limits across the US

On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 10:17 AM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: No, I don't think so. The individual ways seem to be the way to go, especially for editors, since (at least in Oklahoma), posted speed limits, as compared to miles available (as opposed to miles with traffic volume) are

Re: [Talk-us] Misspelled names

On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 2:13 PM, Mike Henson mikehen...@hotmail.com wrote: I am also having an issue with Walmart, should it be a Marketplace, Supermarket, Department store??? All 3 are used in OSM in Oklahoma. The big Walmart stores should probably be department store. When it is just a

Re: [Talk-us] Retail Example using OSM

On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 7:36 AM, Peter Dobratz pe...@dobratz.us wrote: The company providing the service is Where 2 Get It ( http://www.where2getit.com/ ). They provide maps for store locator functions for a number of companies. For example: Moe's Southwest Grill, Safeway, Trader Joe's,

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports-us] Rail westerly

On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 11:24 AM, stevea stevea...@softworkers.com wrote: I examine these in JOSM right now. First they need to be unzipped, and it looks like the (provided on that web page) PRJ file to change from WGS 84 (default) to either NAD 27 or 83 projection is required. I haven't done

[Talk-us] Routing on Ferries

A Scout note, http://www.openstreetmap.org/note/294192 complains of routing problems when a ferry is required. A user of the OSM-based Scout app reported the following possible map error: will not use ferry route. avoid ferry not checked. Is that a problem limited to Scout, or is there something

Re: [Talk-us] Routing on Ferries

On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 10:23 AM, Natfoot natf...@gmail.com wrote: The inherent problem with ferry routes is that they have a schedule. Routers can't then tell their users how long it is going to take without that data. As far as I know we don't have schedule capability within OSM and it is

Re: [Talk-us] Routing on Ferries

On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 11:18 PM, Natfoot natf...@gmail.com wrote: When talking to the Scout team this summer it was mentioned as an issue. Also Scout wont route across access roads and if there is an access road leading up to the dock/portal then no route. you will notice that it is listed

Re: [Talk-us] Routing on Ferries

On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 11:23 AM, Darrell Fuhriman darr...@garnix.org wrote: GTFS works fine for ferries already. Many do publish the data. I just checked, Washington State Ferries does use GTFS [1]. I originally posted this message because of a Scout note in OSM. My sense is the problem is

Re: [talk-latam] [Imports] Is there any bulk feature delete tool or bulk tag updater?

On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 10:11 AM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: Also, is there a bulk tag updater? No. There are some methods for changing tags, but typically the work involved in figuring out what objects to change the tags on is more than the code to output the changes in a form

Re: [Talk-us] Get your early bird ticket to State of the Map US!

Alex, If the early bird special is $90.00 what is the sleepyhead price? Is there going to be a cut off number for the number of people attending? Clifford -- @osm_seattle osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch ___ Talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging addresses on area's

On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 7:53 AM, Brad Neuhauser brad.neuhau...@gmail.com wrote: Including a unit number in the house number is incorrect and potentially confusing. There are house numbers that have a prefix or suffix as part of the house number, that's a different thing. It just depends on how

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging addresses on area's

On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 12:37 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: Wonder if we could get this added to the address presets, as this (at least for the US) is a pretty big deal between office towers, apartment buildings, trailer parks, and almost every other situation where you have

Re: [Talk-us] Please review: new proposed bylaws for OSM US, open for comments until Jan 20th

Alex, In the by-laws document, paragraph 5.2, it specifies that the Chapter should have members mailing addresses, not just email addresses. I don't recall ever giving my address when I first joined. Most likely I've since forgotten but is the Chapter collecting that information? Thanks, Clifford

Re: [Talk-us] ARNOLD highway data

Alex, Thanks for sharing. I pulled the data for Washington State. Looking at the data suggests we need to get better definition of the fields. There are a number of fields that appear interesting but I have no clue as to what they mean. Some interesting examples, Toll_Type, HOV Type, Truck_VN, and

Re: [Talk-us] ARNOLD highway data

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 12:57 PM, thomas.r...@dot.gov wrote: Things must seem very confusing on what stuff means. HPMS was developed from an engineering perspective and speaks in a language that only Civil Engineers understand. I will be happy to help you through video chats, webinar or other

Re: [Talk-us] Mappy Hour

On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 3:11 PM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: Last time we had Johan from Mapillary as a special guest to talk about the latest at Mapillary and do a QA. This was great! If you have ideas for a guest, let me know and I can see what I can do! Thanks for arranging for

Re: [Talk-us] Why does the USA currently lag in OSM map quality?

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 11:15 AM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: It's easy and fun to hypothesize about why OSM is crummy in the US, but it's vastly more useful to think of ways to improve it. Increasing awareness through mapping parties/events seems to help a lot in urbanized areas, but

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging addresses on area's

On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 9:35 AM, Peter Dobratz pe...@dobratz.us wrote: I agree with the sentiment in this wiki page that I quoted here. I think that if there is only 1 POI that occupies the building, then that is best indicated by putting the tags for the POI on the building polygon. If you

Re: [Talk-us] Bike route relation issues

I did! I need more coffee.. It should read: Oregon Department of Transportation publishes a bike map. I5 is not included in any of their approved routes. On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 8:23 AM, Kerry Irons irons54vor...@gmail.com wrote: Did you leave our the word “not” from the last sentence?

Re: [Talk-us] Bike route relation issues

On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 9:43 PM, John F. Eldredge j...@jfeldredge.com wrote: By contrast, I am not aware of any Interstate highways in the southeast USA that allow bicycles. From my experience, every entrance ramp has signs forbidding non-motorized traffic and mopeds. John, I think highway

Re: [Talk-us] Abandoned Buildings in Baltimore

On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 1:49 PM, Elliott Plack elliott.pl...@gmail.com wrote: If I were to classify abandoned buildings myself, I'd go by the wiki definition which would include buildings that have fallen into serious disrepair and which could only be put back into operation with expensive

Re: [Talk-us] Abandoned Buildings in Baltimore

I discovered that shop=vacant has over 6,000 tags. That actually makes sense. The building is vacant with a for lease sign. Many are former shops for example Blockbuster. Clifford On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 2:18 PM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 1:49 PM

Re: [Talk-us] GNIS POI populations

On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 5:34 AM, Minh Nguyen m...@nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us wrote: I think we should consider a mechanical edit to update these tags to the 2010 Census figures en masse. I've been updating individual places as I edit them for other reasons, but this tag is most useful when its

[Talk-us] Communication Working Group Proposal

The US Chapter of OSM does not have a Communication Working Group. It like to see if there is interest in starting up a group to service the interests of the US Chapter with the goal of increasing the visibility of OSM within the US. I'd particularly like to hear from people with communication

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Your opinion about SOTM US

On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 7:56 PM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com wrote: Here's a map showing where TIGER is better than OSM: https://api.tiles.mapbox.com/v4/lxbarth.647bc246/page.html?access_token=pk.eyJ1IjoibHhiYXJ0aCIsImEiOiJFVXdYcUlvIn0.bbaHTEWlnAwGgyVwJngMdQ#5/39.724/-99.360 I think the

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

I apologize for coming in so late on this thread. Looking at my small county, we have 55 place=hamlet according to an overpass query. (2007 for Washington State) I certainly recognize a number of these hamlets. I would hate to see them removed. I would like to see if any need to be updated to

Re: [Talk-us] Best practices for outdoor mapping party

On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 12:19 PM, Simon Poole si...@poole.ch wrote: (obviously for nearly every thing except large scale geometry changes vespucci is the only reasonable solution :-)). Simon, Your are going to have to come to Seattle and teach us how to use Vespucci. We really struggle trying

Re: [Talk-us] Best practices for outdoor mapping party

On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 9:09 AM, Harald Kliems kli...@gmail.com wrote: With help from the wonderful folks at Maptime Madison, we're planning on hosting the first Madison (Wisc.) mapping party on the Spring Mapathon weekend. Nobody involved has ever organized or even attended a mapping party,

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Your opinion about SOTM US

Alex, Our friends on the other side of the pond like to point out that we have many poorly and unmapped areas. I'm sure we all agree that their assessment is correct. Solving this problem should be one of our highest priorities. Two solutions come to mind, increase the number of imports and

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

On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 7:46 AM, Kevin Kenny kken...@nycap.rr.com wrote: Or follow the obvious rule: Let the local mappers decide. Use point features for indeterminate things. In areas where neighborhoods have borders that are identifiable on the ground, map the borders. Some neighborhoods

Re: [Talk-us] Tesla Supercharger import

On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Charles Samuels o...@charles.derkarl.org wrote: I'll ask them for their permission. While you ask them for permission, you might want to suggest that they switch to OSM instead of using google [1] maps. I think they use google maps in their navigation system

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Travel Channel + OSM

On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 2:59 PM, alyssa wright alyssapwri...@gmail.com wrote: Someone from the Travel Channel contacted me about using OpenStreetMap tiles in an upcoming show but wanted to see if they could attribute OSM in the ending credits rather than on the map. I was wondering if there

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

On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 7:33 PM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com wrote: Note we're only talking about `place=hamlet` in urban areas. I wasn't 100 % clear whether your post referred to `place=hamlet` nodes in urban areas or in general. Sorry - I missed the Urban part. The 55 are definitely not

Re: [Talk-us] Santa Clara County (California) address import?

On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 9:38 PM, Tod Fitch t...@fitchdesign.com wrote: Copyright - Maybe it would be best to ask the county or even city for address (and building outlines) information with a public domain license. Cities and counties I've dealt with in Washington State have been very open about

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

On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 10:29 AM, Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com 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

Re: [Talk-us] Help with OSM Presentation

Thanks for the responses to my request for help. I received a number of answers that replied to the mailing list and others that replied to me privately. For those public answers, I've summarized them on my blog. http://osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us/articles/LinuxfestNW/ It not to late to answer

Re: [Talk-us] OSM TED Style Talk - Fort Collins Colorado

On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 11:20 AM, Mike Thompson miketh...@gmail.com wrote: I have been accepted to deliver a TED style talk at the FoCOFuture Forum (Fort Collins Colorado) on Wednesday May 27th. The title of my presentation is Shaping our Communities Through Maps, and of course it is about

[Talk-us] NPF is Using OSM

The National Park Foundation is using OSM in the site http://findyourpark.com/ with attribution! -- @osm_seattle osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-us] Am I doing this right? Houses w/ addresses

On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 7:47 AM, Steve Friedl st...@unixwiz.net wrote: I’ve been adding individualized house numbers to many houses in my neighborhood, and I’m just not sure this is how I’m supposed to do it because it just looks funky on the map. One area with 1 or 2-digit house numbers:

[Talk-us] Help with OSM Presentation

I'm doing a presentation at Linuxfest Northwest in Bellingham, WA in hopes to gain new mappers. To help me with the presentation, I'd like to hear from you. Below are some questions - answer all or just a few. What do you enjoy most about OpenStreetMap? What about OSM surprised you most?

Re: [Talk-us] CloudMade's ambassadors

On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 8:26 AM, Russell Deffner russell.deff...@hotosm.org wrote: I’ll second a thanks to all those great ambassadors – Hurricane introduced me to OpenStreetMap via OSM-Colorado, first mapathon I attended was mapping Idaho Springs, CO – one Saturday spent field mapping then the

Re: [Talk-us] North Carolina Outer Banks

On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 1:49 PM, Jeff Klein jeff.klein...@gmail.com wrote: If I am correct, probably confused, the map sets only go as far east as -76 West, which excludes the Outer Banks of North Carolina. How do I get maps that go further east? Have you search for the Outer Banks in OSM? It

Re: [Talk-us] Removing a CDP

That is what I thought as well. It is now gone. If I didn't screw up the boundary multipolygons everything should be correct. (I hate boundaries!!!) Thanks for the help, Clifford On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 6:43 PM, Steven Johnson sejohns...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, U.S. Census Bureau treats them as

[Talk-us] Removing a CDP

I would like to remove Machias, Washington admin_level 8 since it does not exist as a city in Washington. It has been there for a number of years apparently added by a bot. I plan to leave it as a CDP locality node. There doesn't seem to be any chance that it will become a city and will most

Re: [Talk-us] National Forest nature_reserve?

According to wikipedia National Forest is a classification of federal lands in the United States. National Forests are largely forest and woodland areas owned collectively by the American people through the federal government and managed by the United States Forest Service, part of the United

Re: [Talk-us] Data sources for National Monument boundaries?

Check in the NPS IRMA Portal. They have most of their geospatial data on the site. If you don't find it, we have a mailing list for national parks, talk-us-nps that has some NPS employees on that might be able to help you. Clifford On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 7:46 PM, Ian McEwen

Re: [Talk-us] Data sources for National Monument boundaries?

Steve, That Ten Steps plan sounds interesting. I would appreciate a copy as well. Clifford On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 8:41 AM, stevea stevea...@softworkers.com wrote: Ian McEwen writes: Does anyone know where this data is available/usable for OSM purposes? You might try

Re: [Talk-ca] Low quality unresolvable notes

On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 7:32 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: I've been catching up on local notes, and have come across a few I'm not sure how to resolve. There are a number which are equivalent to There is a some name of shop somewhere in this block. While probably correct, they're

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: Re: a plea to armchair mappers

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 8:31 AM, Charlotte Wolter techl...@techlady.com wrote: Making imagery more up-to-date won't solve the problem. The real problem is that OSM never communicates with its members, expecially not with those armchair mappers who do it recreationally. They are

Re: [Talk-us] README tag with editor support

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 10:27 AM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote: 1) formalize the README tag as a way to caution future mappers 2) request editor support, when someone goes to change a README tagged entity, it would be nice if editors would popup a dialog saying something along

Re: [Talk-us] Whole-US Garmin Map update - 2015-05-06

Can you explain what you are hoping to accomplish? That may help people to respond to your questions. About talk-us. Talk-us is the OSM mailing list [1] for OpenStreetMap US. When you send a message to talk-us@openstreetmap.org, it is rebroadcast to everyone signed up for the list. I believe it

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging National Forests

On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 1:57 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: No. Unfortunately, all that a data consumer can gather from landuse=forest or natural=wood is that there are trees there. Data consumers should be able to determine how much land is set aside for harvest with landuse=forest.

Re: [Talk-us] Question?

Is there any feature on the ground that can be surveyed? From the image it doesn't appear that the site has any historical markers that can be mapped. If so, I would say it doesn't belong in OSM. You'l' have to ask OHM if they think it belongs there. You should also contact the editor. I'm sure

Re: [Talk-us] Question?

On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 2:14 PM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:historic%3Darchaeological_site Thanks for pointing out the wiki page on archaeological sites. I wasn't aware it was documented. -- @osm_seattle osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us

Re: [Talk-us] Question?

On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 1:58 PM, Brad Neuhauser brad.neuhau...@gmail.com wrote: I think there's also this? http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/303225395 That was the feature I pick up on and did look any further. -- @osm_seattle osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human

Re: [Talk-us] New MapRoulette challenge - fix railway crossings

Never mind, Maproulette took me to different task that was completed. On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 1:55 PM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us wrote: Martijn, I just checked and it appears the challenge is complete. Is that true? Less than 22 hours after you announced it? It is amazing what

Re: [Talk-us] New MapRoulette challenge - fix railway crossings

Martijn, I just checked and it appears the challenge is complete. Is that true? Less than 22 hours after you announced it? It is amazing what the community can accomplish is a very short time. Clifford On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 3:42 PM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: Hi all, Partly

Re: [Talk-us] New MapRoulette challenge - fix railway crossings

Anyone want to help on http://maproulette.org/#t=fix-railway-crossings/057936J The rail line run right down the middle of the street. There doesn't appear to be an official crossing. An onsite visit might be in order. Too bad, I was staying just across the river a week ago. -- @osm_seattle

Re: [Talk-us] New MapRoulette challenge - fix railway crossings

On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 2:52 PM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: It certainly helped speed things up the last time! What I remember is prizes get a little messy to organize if you allow non-US participants to enter. Other than that all you need is commitment from a company. Perhaps an

Re: [Talk-us] New MapRoulette challenge - fix railway crossings

On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 2:21 PM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: I didn't want to make the instructions too convoluted. We can always go back in and manually check for these 'unjoined crossings'. I am just mentioning it here because there's a lot of more experienced mappers here. The

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Legal requirements of permissions to import into OSM

I wonder if pointing the local governments to http://opendatacommons.org/ might be a good start. I've been considering providing some cities I've contact with a link to Open Data Commons to help them make the right decision. Clifford On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 11:11 AM, Svavar Kjarrval

Re: [Talk-us] Whole-US Garmin Map update - 2015-07-15

Dave, I'm getting a file not found for your download link. Can't even find htttp://daveh.dev.openstreetmap.org. Clifford On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 1:57 PM, Dave Hansen d...@sr71.net wrote: These are based off of Lambertus's work here: http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl If you have

Re: [Talk-us] rebooting: tagging footways and sidewalks discussion

On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 4:19 AM, maning sambale wrote: > We are working on improving tags for sidewalk in the US. Details in > this issue [0]. > The sidewalk detection algorithm runs OK in most cases but fails in > some [1]. Mostly the contention was whether a

Re: [Talk-us] rebooting: tagging footways and sidewalks discussion

Maning, People should checkout https://www.mapbox.com/osm-sidewalker/ to error checking their locality. This is a nice sidewalk checker. One comment. I have a named footway, Kulshan Trail, that run east-west through the middle of my city. While it occasionally is adjacent or near a name highway,

Re: [Talk-us] San Diego Address Import Update

On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 7:48 AM, Tod Fitch wrote: > So what is a good definition for what should go in the addr:city tag? If > it is based on being within a formal administrative boundary then we may > not need the tag at all as it should be easy for a data consumer to

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Importing Buildings and Addresses for Austin, Texas

On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 6:40 PM, Andy Wilson wrote: > 3. Efficiency. There are enough buildings in OSM already and as Martin > pointed out, comparing them individually and properly merging tags, etc > would be time consuming. JOSM has a "Replace Geometry" tool found

Re: [Talk-us] Missing Roads - The missing manual

Martijn, Can you run a count by state of "missing roads?" I can't believe that Washington State has none, but nothing shows up. Thanks, Clifford On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 2:18 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: > Hi all, > > Thanks first of all for giving the Missing Roads plugin / tool

Re: [Talk-us] Missing Roads - The missing manual

On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 4:24 PM, Clifford Snow <cliff...@snowandsnow.us> wrote: > Can you run a count by state of "missing roads?" I can't believe that > Washington State has none, but nothing shows up. My mistake. Set filter to show solved. Now I see the erro

[Talk-us] Pequot Terrace

I'm vacationing near Nisswa, MN. In the city of Nisswa, there is a hamlet node for Pequot Terrace just a short distance from the City of Nisswa node. As far as I can discover, there is no Pequot Terrace here. http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/151467331 Since I don't live in Minnesota, I'd like to

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER tracing layer updated to 2015 release

Eric, Thanks again for the great service. Clifford On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 7:55 PM, Eric Fischer e...@pobox.com wrote: Last week the US Census Bureau released the 2015 version of TIGER. This afternoon I updated the data in the set of tracing tiles that Mapbox hosts. As before, at zoom level

Re: [Talk-us] Viewing Zoom Levels

On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 5:47 AM, Alan Bragg alan.d.br...@gmail.com wrote: How can I view the current zoom level​ in the JOSM editor or at the basic OSM website openstreetmap.org Zoom levels are defined as numbers (1-19) at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Zoom_levels I read a lot of

Re: [Talk-us] USDA Innovation Challenge, Food Security, OSM!

Mikel, I've been wanting to contact local FFA and 4H to partner in solving the problem of our poor rural map data. Here in Washington State, we also have the problem with wildfires. They seem like a natural partner. I was inspired by a demo the from a local FFA group of their robotic submersibles.

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

On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 10:33 PM, 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.

Re: [Talk-us] Self Storage Places

On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 9:53 PM, Hans De Kryger wrote: > What landuse should i use for Self Storage places? I'd most likely use retail but commercial depending on the location,might also be appropriate. -- @osm_seattle osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us OpenStreetMap:

Re: [Talk-us] ok to create a new relation?

On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 3:26 PM, Ray Kiddy wrote: > Together they seem to delineate the city of Chino Hills, CA, which is a > small city and not the same as Chino, CA. And I am seeing no relation > for Chino Hills. > > Am I right in thinking that it would be correct to create

Re: [Talk-us] SunCertPathBuilderException

I had the problem and created a bug report. https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/12192 JOSM is running the latest 9117 version. Version 9102 on another machine did not have a problem. Clifford On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 3:27 PM, Steve Friedl wrote: > Me too! Me too! > > > >

[Talk-us] OpenStreetMap at William & Mary

http://www.wm.edu/news/stories/2016/rob-rose-spreads-geoscience-gospel-from-his-pulpit-at-the-cga.php -- @osm_seattle osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org

[Talk-us] Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe

I'm looking to update the boundaries for reservation located in Port Angeles on the Washington Peninsula. The official boundary has two types of areas, Reservation and Off-Reservation Land Trust. For the purpose of OSM, I plan to merge the two areas and change the tags to boundary=aboriginal_lands

Re: [Talk-us] Hampton, Virginia imports

Jonah, Other than a question about one tag, GEOID, the .osm file looks very good. If the GEOID is a persistent id from the city, I would recommend using something like addr:id=GEOID (assuming the GEOID was derived from the address id.) When you import, it is helpful to use the address tags

Re: [Talk-us] Local OSM groups in the US

On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 1:19 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: > Missouri Exotic Species Arts Association Paul, Thanks for the update. I've added you as the contact. I'm using wildnights.org as the website. Clifford -- @osm_seattle osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us OpenStreetMap: Maps

Re: [Talk-ca] iD editor

I heard a talk from David Bitner on customizing id for adding information to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA.) His github repository with a code template is https://github.com/missinglinkmaps/custom_id As I recall, BWCA publishes features for various campsites. Using just a small subset of

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

I was able to update an old entry without being prompted for proof that I'm not a robot. It shouldn't matter to the catalogue but have you created your import project page? That is the most important part. Clifford On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 4:27 PM, Kevin Kenny wrote:

Re: [Talk-us] Any reason why this multipolygon can't be removed?

On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 2:06 PM, Tod Fitch wrote: > While adding some information I noticed a line running through the area > and became curious about it. It was a single way that was marked as part of > a polygon. That polygon only has one member (the way I noticed) and

Re: [Talk-us] highway=service + landuse=residential

Interesting - mapping curb to curb. I doubt it could be used for routing but it sure renders [1] nice. [1] http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/38868796#map=18/34.15966/-117.41187 On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 2:21 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: > I don't think this is a great

Re: [Talk-us] SOTM US schedule

Katie, We should have the workshop schedule up shortly. We have 11 different workshop planned for Monday as well as code sprints. Additionally Maptime is planning workshops for Monday as well. Clifford On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 1:11 PM, Katie Filbert wrote: > I'm thinking

Re: [Talk-us] County Road Tiles

On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 11:30 AM, Ian Dees wrote: > Hopefully that last paragraph was a typo, because there are tons of > counties providing open data. :) > Big typo! Should have read, Washington State isn't the only state with... > > If someone wants to work with me to get

Re: [Talk-us] evacuation_center=yes

On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 7:41 AM, Blake Girardot wrote: > What tags are we using in the US for disaster evacuation centers for like > hurricanes and things? > > http://taginfo.osm.org/keys/evacuation_center#map > > Shows none in the US but I know we have a lot. > > I am

[Talk-us] International Women's Day Mapathon in Bellingham WA

I excited to announce a International Women's Day Mapathon event on March 8th, in Bellingham WA. The meeting will be lead by Kate von Krusenstiern, Western Washington University graduate in Physical Geography, Geology, and GIS. You can learn more at the meetup page [1]. This is also our inaugural

Re: [Talk-us] New OSM Meetup - "OSM Wyoming"

Mike, Thanks for getting the meetup going. Next time I'm headed through Wyoming I'll check to see if you have a meetup scheduled. Can you add your group to https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_United_States Thanks, Clifford On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 10:52 AM, Mike Thompson

Re: [Talk-ca] Help adding WMS to Potlatch2

On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 12:20 PM, Bernie Connors wrote: > > I am trying to add a WMS server to Potlatch2 to display some 2014 > orthophotos as a background. I am using Background > Edit > Add. here are > the details of the WMS server and layer I want to use. It

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

On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 9:39 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: > Excellent! I'm able to read this. It's not *quite* in alignment, but > it's close enough that I can conflate it easily on a case by case basis. > But, looking at >

Re: [Talk-us] Legal Research

Alyssa, I will be out of the country with iffy internet service on Wed but would otherwise like to join the call. Would you mind if we solicit questions ahead of time that we could have discuss? I have two question or maybe they are really concerns. One of my concern is that the legal opinions I

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