Re: [OSM-talk] Affordable 1 CM high precision GPS.

On 5/9/2024 5:33 AM, Florian Lohoff wrote: At least in Germany we have a grid of Basestations which offer their RTCM 3.1/3.2 Data via NTRIP which is called SAPOS. As there are huge differences between different states at least in some of them its for Free. When I last looked 5 years ago, the

Re: [OSM-talk] AT Email

Hi,     AT has removed the block and email service to OSM has resumed.   Thanks for your help!   Regards,   Mike On 1/30/2023 9:24 AM, Grant Slater wrote: Hi Mike, We have now reached out to ATT asking them to unblock the OpenStreetMap.org mail relay server or provide us with more detail.

[OSM-talk] AT Email

Not sure where to report this but it seems that AT Email has placed OpenStreetMap Emails on the block list in the past week.    Example: Changeset feed Emails, OpenStreetMap US Email list sent to @att.net destination emails.   They do not show up in a spam box, so I'm guessing it's a full

Re: [Talk-us] Recent Trunk road edits

Based on some likely Wiki-Fiddling, I'd like to see the Trunk road comments about the US tagging cleaned up to match reality. (I realize that is harder than just reverting to a previous point in time). ___ Talk-us mailing list

Re: [Talk-us] Recent Trunk road edits

On 9/27/2020 11:22 PM, Jack Burke wrote: I'm on Slack, and I originally posted a comment about this editor on some roads in Florida (that I'm familiar with), but the responses I saw seemed to be somewhat "meh" so I didn't pursue it. There are so many small arguments "this is a trunk" "no, a

Re: [Talk-us] Recent Trunk road edits

On 9/27/2020 11:22 PM, Jack Burke wrote: and he has a diary entry about what he's doing (in addition to what he has on his profile page about it). He changed*every single* trunk road in Georgia to primary, and from what I can tell, in Florida, too. I haven't yet expanded my examination into

Re: [Talk-us] place=neighborhood on subdivisions?

On 9/22/2020 9:26 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:    The extra hamlet nodes are import remainders that haven't yet been converted to landuse areas.   The general landuse zones for that area have been identified, but do not exactly correspond to the named subdivisions.   As I get a

Re: [Talk-us] place=neighborhood on subdivisions?

On 9/22/2020 8:56 PM, Karson Sommer wrote: Looking around the area of the edit, there is a lot of stuff from my perspective that seems fishy. There are a bunch of place=hamlet nodes? I certainly don't see anything that should be tagged as a hamlet, they all look like place=neighborhood to

[Talk-us] place=neighborhood on subdivisions?

Thoughts on use of place=neighborhood for subdivisions? https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/91255294 Note that there are many thousands already tagged this way (5000 plus in a section of the southeast alone). ___ Talk-us mailing list

Re: [Talk-us] Mapping for emergency services

On 2/5/2020 9:49 AM, Eric Christensen via Talk-us wrote: For the record, my team(s) has many cartographic resources at our fingertips that we can use for search and rescue including, but not limited to: USGS 7.5' maps, National Park Service maps, OSM, Google maps, state and local GIS data, and

Re: [Talk-us] Mapping for emergency services

On 2/4/2020 9:57 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: .  Oddly enough, for the rural firefighters?  Osmand with Microsoft Earth imagery as the background is their most popular pick because it works brilliantly offline and we have better map data than the state itself does. It is useful to learn what

Re: [Talk-us] Mapping for emergency services

That's a good point, but only if the surrounding areas are well mapped in OSM. In my district of focus, I still encounter TIGER tangles as soon as I cross the county border. I try to go a bit further knowing that they answer partner district calls, and it's hard to stop when there's so much

Re: [Talk-us] Mapping for emergency services

Mike, It is a rather unique set of circumstances that make this project a good fit: - The county does not map most driveways - The degree of rural-ness, hills, and trees - Most trees are deciduous, making the off-leaf imagery good for locating hidden driveways. - The region is

[Talk-us] Mapping for emergency services

Not an emergency, but still interesting when someone can use OSM data: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/MikeN/diary/392080 ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] When is your doctor a clinic?

On 1/23/2020 6:51 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: I'm not trying to apply my understanding of medical establishments to the US - just asking what the general understanding is on your side of the pond. Does Jmapb's distinction sound more or less ok for others too? Jmapb's description matches my

Re: [OSM-talk] Teaching cyclists how to contribute to OSM

On 1/20/2020 5:42 AM, James wrote: I've yet to see an officer stop a cyclist going too fast, general rule is don't be a dick and slow down when you see pedestrians and signal with a bell(bylaw) when passing them Here, the officer on patrol may choose to do speed limit enforcement when it

Re: [Talk-us] User in Florida changing several motorways to trunk

On 1/8/2020 9:20 AM, James Mast wrote: Honest mistakes on his end? Perhaps.� But I'm just seeing way too many downgrades to be conformable with his 'highway type' changes to be honest.� There's probably quite a few roads that he retagged as primary that need to be re-upgraded to trunk and

Re: [Talk-us] Trunk VS primary,

On 12/17/2019 10:19 PM, Evin Fairchild wrote: some US routes are more important than others and lumping them all as primary doesn???t make any sense; The arguments here about relative importance of parallel routes makes sense. Some massive changes such as in

[Talk-us] Trunk VS primary,

I think many of the trunk VS motorway VS primary conflicts come from 2 points of view: on the one hand, people like to zoom out and see a coherent network of interconnected roads. On the other side, there is the group that prefers the road be classed according to its regional

[Talk-us] State Of The Map US 2019 videos

FYI, The State of the map videos are up at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqjPa29lMiE3IqlKQlEwGlodMfJJHz-YV ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Request for review of plan for scripted edit

On 8/8/2019 5:25 PM, Paul Norman via Talk-us wrote: Given the low numbers of 7-digit numbers I recommend correcting them manually rather than writing code to do it. On this one I'm not sure how introducing an error-prone keyboarding exercise into the mix is an improvement over a

Re: [Talk-us] What is the meaning of hgv:national_network=yes/terminal_access?

On 8/5/2019 9:42 AM, Bill Ricker wrote: So is this the tag the lack of which should keep trucks off my street with tight turn radii? I'm not an expert, but I'd guess it only keeps the street from seeing continuous truck traffic even if it is the best route or turnaround (but only in

Re: [Talk-us] What is the meaning of hgv:national_network=yes/terminal_access?

> "a road which can carry cargo trucks and has an adequate turn-around facility at the end" Great, that's helpful. So it sounds like this tag is a synonym for hgv=destination or hgv=yes? Joseph On 8/5/19, Mike N wrote: Hi, "Terminal Access" appears to be unique to Ca

Re: [Talk-us] What is the meaning of hgv:national_network=yes/terminal_access?

This was part of the iterative road improvement after TIGER as we began with major highways.I believe it came from the public domain information for the National Network https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/freight/infrastructure/national_network.htm . On 8/4/2019 10:56 AM, Joseph Eisenberg wrote:

Re: [OSM-talk] Facebook mapping highways using AI in collaboration with OpenStreetMap

On 7/26/2019 4:34 AM, Christoph Hormann wrote: The corporate appropriation of OpenStreetMap I'm not a corporate wonk, but I'll note that in my region, "Amazon Logistics" is effectively solving the Last Mile Mapping problem: how to include driveways into routing.Based on ground truth,

Re: [OSM-talk] Ways divided by paint?

On 7/4/2019 10:33 AM, Jack Armstrong dan...@sprynet.com wrote: In the given example, turns were already permitted prior to the additional superfluous lanes being added. This creates confusion and unnecessary clutter and should not be encouraged. The intersection was fine before the addition of

Re: [OSM-talk] Ways divided by paint?

On 7/4/2019 7:50 AM, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: I strongly disagree with this idea, and multiple times changed such splits back to one way. What if strictly following the rule of "no split ways unless physical divider" results in wildly incorrect turn-by-turn instructions? For example -

Re: [OSM-talk] iD forces mistagging again

On 6/29/2019 8:08 AM, Tomas Straupis wrote: Here I would note that 2nd point is enough to keep original water scheme and depreciate the new one. Because of data consumers. I don't remember why but I arrived at the new scheme several years ago and have been using it ever since. So

Re: [OSM-talk] Which global OSM mailing list for the "community index"?

On 6/20/2019 7:39 AM, Andy Townsend wrote: I'd suggest "talk" as a more sensible introductory mailing list to "tagging" as the latter is higher volume and more in depth in a particular area of OSM. It is almost an automatic reaction to redirect questions like "is this a real shale

Re: [OSM-talk] Which global OSM mailing list for the "community index"?

On 6/20/2019 5:58 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: Clearly one of the global mailing lists is missing here; Forum.openstreetmap.org ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [Talk-transit] Old Railways

Tim, This is a good point, but what if OpenRailwayMap were able to pull from OpenHistoricalMap to generate a complete picture of the network? I say 'picture' because it wouldn't be connected for routing purposes, but it should appear connected on a map tile. I have no idea how much

Re: [Talk-transit] Old railways

On 5/12/2019 1:45 PM, Tijmen Stam wrote: Btw, do you know of a way to copy data from one layer in JOSM to another, while keeping it at the exact same position? Edit / Paste at Source Position (CTRL+ALT+V). I still wish it was easier to migrate objects to Open Historical Map. While I also

Re: [Talk-us] Proposed mechanical edit - remove objects that are not existing according to source of GNIS import that added them

On 3/21/2019 3:04 AM, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: What is the benefit, during survey, of mapped places that are not existing anymore? I encounter many during surveys (usually result of data getting outdated) and for me it was always time sink (as I needed to check is it actually gone) and never

Re: [OSM-talk] DJI Fly SafeGEO ZONE MAP uses OSM data... without attribution

On 3/18/2019 6:51 PM, Nuno Caldeira wrote: Was curious where DJI managed to get a worldwide DB of polygons of military facilities and points of prisons, triple checked with a couple of other users of OSM at Telegram and with polygons i added seven years ago. Without a doubt its from OSM, the

Re: [Talk-us] Road name update challenges

On 3/1/2019 12:49 PM, Clifford Snow wrote: One caution - when doing a building/address import a few years ago, we discovered errors in the counties address database. They had different street names from address street names. The street names matched the street signs but the addresses had a

Re: [Talk-us] Road name update challenges

On 3/1/2019 10:09 AM, Aaron Forsythe wrote: >> 1. Original TIGER had Ruppe Dr at a nearby but incorrect location. This seems a common enough occurrence that a TIGER data should not be used as permanent source.  It's only there to get the map started and adjustments from TIGER are required.

[Talk-us] Road name update challenges

There have been some road name challenge projects which do excellent work - updating the road network for current changes. In some cases, there are now dueling sources, for example a recent change - https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/666170175/history (I don't fault any editor involved;

Re: [OSM-talk] HTTPS all the Things (Automated Edit)

On 2/26/2019 8:45 AM, Joseph Reeves wrote: I can't see the security risk you're trying to protect against. We are looking at applications that use OSM data and will refer users to third party websites; what is the risk of a malicious user MiTM'ing a http request to a restaurant website (for

Re: [OSM-talk] HTTPS all the Things (Automated Edit)

On 2/22/2019 3:36 PM, Jmapb wrote: IMO the value of an automated edit when there's already a redirect in place is minimal enough that I don't think it justifies bumping the version and modification date. Just my opinion. The value of the automated edit is that there is a small improvement

[Talk-us] Spartanburg County SC Microsoft Building and Address import

This is a proposed import of Microsoft building footprints and address points for Spartanburg County SC, based on county GIS data and the Microsoft Buildings data. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Spartanburg_County_Address_And_Building_Import

Re: [Talk-us] Mapathon Results - Spartanburg SC

On 2/12/2019 11:01 AM, Ian Dees wrote: This is great, Mike! Thanks for sharing. Did you happen to take any photos? It'd be fun to have you write up something about how you found this data, set up the Tasking Manager project, and did the work at the Mapathon for the OSM US blog.

[Talk-us] Mapathon Results - Spartanburg SC

Hi, We had a mapathon coordinated by https://tasks.openstreetmap.us/project/76 to visually inspect all roads and update them from GIS data as appropriate. Much of the GIS data was newer and there were many road name corrections (names or Road -> Avenue, Drive -> Street, etc). In

Re: [OSM-talk] What use is OpenStreetMap?

On 1/3/2019 5:13 PM, Simon Poole wrote: The slightly longer version is that there are likely economic benefits of many different kinds (traffic control, real estate, marketing and so on) that are difficult to quantify but are likely there. Re: real estate use case - I have seen local agents

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: Trunk versus motorway

On 11/28/2018 10:36 PM, Nathan Mills wrote: Adding the intersection did not change the character of the road south of the Gilcrease extension or the rights of adjacent landowners, so I don't see any particular reason to reclassify that segment. If we're looking for a generalized rule,

Re: [Talk-us] Add street names from TIGER

On 11/9/2018 5:36 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: As an experiment my colleagues from the Telenav map team churned out some local MapRoulette challenges for adding missing street names from TIGER. The tasks were created by comparing TIGER (2017) to existing OSM data using our conflation tool

Re: [Talk-transit] Public Transport Timetables

On 11/8/2018 5:12 PM, john whelan wrote: The GTFS bus stop data is of varying quality.  Locally we have an automated system that calls out the bus stop names and generally the position in the GTFS file is accurate to within a meter. Some other transit systems are not as accurate, and the

Re: [Talk-transit] Public Transport Timetables

On 11/8/2018 12:06 PM, Leif Rasmussen wrote: I think that creating a new GTFS server would be better than using transit land or transitfeeds.com , because OSM would have full control over what happened to the servers and which licencing was used. Does anyone with

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] [Imports-us] Spartanburg County SC road centerlines import

On 10/22/2018 2:56 PM, Rory McCann wrote: Hi Mike. Thanks for the answers, that clears things up. Bt On 10/22/2018 5:00 AM, Rory McCann wrote: >> I'm a little unclear about one big question: What are you doing with the existing data in OSM? Existing OSM data seems to have nearly

Re: [Talk-us] Spartanburg County SC road centerlines import

On 10/22/2018 8:46 AM, Richard Fairhurst wrote: Could I suggest that you act cautiously wrt the tiger:reviewed tag in these two cases? If it's an "unknown highway type" it should probably remain as tiger:reviewed=no. Likewise, if the surface isn't clear, then either tiger:reviewed should

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports-us] Spartanburg County SC road centerlines import

Thank you for your comments. Answers inline. On 10/22/2018 5:00 AM, Rory McCann wrote: On 22/10/2018 05:20, Mike N wrote: This is a proposed import of road centerlines for Spartanburg County SC, based on county GIS data.   This will include a systematic review of all roads in the county

[Talk-us] Spartanburg County SC road centerlines import

This is a proposed import of road centerlines for Spartanburg County SC, based on county GIS data. This will include a systematic review of all roads in the county and qualify to remove tiger:reviewed tags. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Spartanburg_county_road_center_line_import

Re: [OSM-talk] Is it time to redevelop JOSM?

On 10/7/2018 5:07 PM, john whelan wrote: C# apparently is open source.  Visual Studio 2017 is a professional development environment.  Yes it is Windows and I recognise that many prefer one flavour of UNIX or another but I think it is time to think strategically and start work on a replacement

Re: [Talk-us] Possible roundabouts?

On 9/7/2018 2:27 AM, Marian Poara wrote: In many residential areas (but not only), there isn’t any one way sign inside the small “roundabouts” and it seems that both directions are used. In places without much law enforcement presence and no mandatory driver training, original residents may

Re: [Talk-us] Food delivery services: Move-fast-and-break-trust

On 8/21/2018 11:39 AM, Jmapb wrote: Don't know how common these sort of predatory tactics are outside NYC, but fair warning, there may be businesses out there who are no longer delighted at the thought of someone "from the internet" taking notice of their publicly-posted information.

Re: [OSM-talk] Is it technically and legally possible to add the Open Location Code to the OSM search?

On 8/11/2018 1:35 AM, Oleksiy Muzalyev wrote: And they will not start putting up signs of the Plus-Codes outside their house unless the OpenStreetMap community accept this technology. What would actually happen in these locations? Do they bring up the web site

Re: [OSM-talk] Is it technically and legally possible to add the Open Location Code to the OSM search?

On 8/10/2018 9:01 AM, oleksiy.muzal...@bluewin.ch wrote: Probably it is done so that plus-codes are known to local actors? Perhaps, local conditions differ from European ones to the degree that it is difficult to comprehend without being part of local community? That is a perfect use case for

Re: [Talk-us] Drop the tiger:reviewed tag from roads

On 5/11/2018 12:25 PM, Clifford Snow wrote: I'm proposing to open a ticket for JOSM to add this tag to the list of discarded tags. I'd like to hear if there are any objects or think this is a good idea. I did learn from Toby Murray this morning that you can add tiger:reviewed to the list of

Re: [Talk-us] Maximum number of tasks on US tasker

On 5/8/2018 11:55 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: Then with residential streets where there are no lanes, often lanes=2 would get tagged anyway despite nothing on the ground suggesting that was actually the case. I hadn't considered that unstriped roads shouldn't have lane tagging, but at least

Re: [Talk-us] Microsoft Building Import for Greenville, SC

83537551=photo=ozDDkY97ETw_S7WwI9xZqQ>) If you compare further buildings, you will see that this is applicable for all others. I hope you still can fix it, because the managers of the Florida import didn't. Thanks, Leon 2018-03-25 20:36 GMT+02:00 Mike N <nice...@att.net <

Re: [Talk-us] Microsoft Building Import for Greenville, SC

In accordance with Step 6 / item 4 of the imports checklist, the import and QA is now completed. Thanks to Microsoft for making building and height data available and multiplying the efforts of a few local mappers! On 3/14/2018 10:21 PM, Mike N wrote: FYI, this is proceeding with 2 people

Re: [Talk-us] Microsoft Building Import for Greenville, SC

FYI, this is proceeding with 2 people, on dedicated accounts Greenville_SC_City_MSImport_1 and Greenville_SC_City_MSImport_2 On 1/24/2018 8:28 PM, Mike N wrote: The OSM Upstate SC group is planning an import of Microsoft building shapes for the city of Greenville, SC.   The candidate wiki

Re: [Talk-us] iD news - v2.7.0, new imagery, upgraded turn restriction editor

On 3/5/2018 3:52 PM, Bryan Housel wrote: *•  We've added support for more background imagery from WMS servers. * Thanks Martin Raifer and Guillaume Rischard for your work on this.. /Press B to open the Background pane and see if new imagery is available in your area./ Fantastic! Is there

Re: [Talk-us] Help fight advertising

On 3/2/2018 4:11 PM, Dale Puch wrote: It seems like encouraging SEO firms to operate within OSM guidelines by providing an easy way to add the OSM appropriate information in bulk (with data validation) in one step would be a good thing.  Easier to contact, manage and block or revert as needed.

Re: [Talk-us] Help fight advertising

On 3/1/2018 7:36 PM, OSM Volunteer stevea wrote: Sent to Bright Valley Marketing via their website Contact text box: Since there are several SEOs out there doing this, it would also be interesting to talk to one of them to find out where they got this idea. If there is some SEO blog that

Re: [Talk-us] Help fight advertising

This is a good time to bring up the subject because the recent 'locksmith' advertising was most bothersome: partly because the locksmith industry as a whole in the US is as shady as you can get while being barely legal, and partly because I'm sure the physical locations had no relevance;

Re: [Talk-us] Rural US: Correcting Original TIGER Imported Ways

On 2/25/2018 9:14 PM, Nick Hocking wrote: Paul wrote  "Or maybe the unedited original TIGER that's still around dropped to highway=road.  " Given that the *vast* majority of these (with no name) are completely fictional, and even those that aren't, are so out of position and so wrongly

Re: [OSM-talk] "The Future of Free and Open-Source Maps" Slashdot.org , Saturday February 17, 2018

On 2/17/2018 11:01 AM, James wrote: except it wouldnt be multiplatform and only run on windows 濫冷. Java is a better alternative as it's a popular language and is multiplatform. C/c++ is a bit more complicated and not everyone can contribute. That's no longer true - .Net is open source and

Re: [Talk-us] Rural US: Correcting Original TIGER Imported Ways

On 2/12/2018 4:25 PM, OSM Volunteer stevea wrote: As I am not familiar with the "things you've read," while also wondering myself whether additional TIGER tags (tiger:cfcc, tiger:zip, etc.) should remain or be deleted, I also pose this question to the greater talk-us community. What DO we do

[Talk-us] Microsoft Building Import for Greenville, SC

The OSM Upstate SC group is planning an import of Microsoft building shapes for the city of Greenville, SC. The candidate wiki page is at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Greenville_SC_Building_Import The actual import won't take place for 1-2 months yet to allow time to review the

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER 2017 Pennsylvania county line import?

On 1/23/2018 8:29 PM, Albert Pundt wrote: I certainly don't intend to delete and recreate any relations for no reason. Links with other boundary types will of course also be kept. The state boundary itself will likely be redone as well to match the more accurate newer TIGER data, though along

Re: [OSM-talk] place=hamlet in cities

On 1/17/2018 6:53 PM, Dave F wrote: Have you been in contact with the two contributors to see if they can revoke/reupload? I presume it came from a database. If it's still available it can be amended as required. At this point it would be much better to just manually fix anything that

Re: [OSM-talk] place=hamlet in cities

On 1/17/2018 5:55 PM, Kevin Broderick wrote: Does anyone see a problem with armchair-mapping these to place:neighbourhood? I am not planning to do this in an automated fashion, but instead to pick away at it while reviewing areas of interest to some of my coworkers, who have noted that an

Re: [OSM-talk] Automatically generated changeset discussion comments by OSMCha

On 1/13/2018 5:02 AM, joost schouppe wrote: If we agree it's a problem that users get a message everytime someone reviews one of their changesets, then maybe we need a separate database for reviewing status. OSMcha has that, but we might integrate the reviewing status into OSM.org There

Re: [OSM-talk] Automatically generated changeset discussion comments by OSMCha

On 1/12/2018 9:13 AM, Bryan Housel wrote: I love this feature, and I hope Wille keeps it in. The message is very well written, and it’s not spam if the user asks for their changeset to be reviewed and then somebody actually does it. I haven't used this yet because I wanted to add my own

Re: [Talk-us] Leonia, NJ doesn't want you to navigate through

On 1/9/2018 8:47 PM, Jack Burke wrote: Someone on the osmus Slack channel pointed out that this would affect routing for people who are in the town and want to go somewhere else in town, where that route wouldn't normally involve travelling on the major through roads. I haven't thought

Re: [Talk-us] Leonia, NJ doesn't want you to navigate through

On 1/8/2018 2:17 PM, OSM Volunteer stevea wrote: I might suggest a solution OSM might consider can be to tag access=destination and/or residential=living_street. From the video, they're definitely not living_street, so most likely access=destination. But the streets should not "be

Re: [OSM-talk] no osmf-talk link at listinfo

On 12/18/2017 2:49 PM, Sérgio V. wrote: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo? I've read in http://www.weeklyosm.eu about some interesting discussions there, but I can't find the link to osmf-talk in the listinfo. I'm not sure why it wasn't listed on that

Re: [OSM-talk] What would make MapRoulette better?

On 11/24/2017 6:45 AM, James wrote: Yeah I'd like the skipped tasks to comeback eventually, sometimes I look at objects and its either too complicated to fix for my current state of mind or the imagery makes it hard but I'd like to get back to it eventually From what I have seen, the skipped

Re: [Talk-us] Multipolygonizing

On 11/20/2017 2:36 PM, Gleb Smirnoff wrote: In the simple way you need to follow all nodes your predessor had drawn, clicking all the nodes, be it 25 nodes or 100. In the advanced way, you don't. You instantly reuse his line for your new polygon. This was a most typical example of benefits that

Re: [Talk-us] Multipolygonizing

On 11/19/2017 5:48 PM, Douglas Hembry wrote: I told glebius that I wanted to find out what the community thought. Is this just one more valid optional way of mapping? To be recommended for adoption if possible? Or to be avoided? Thoughts? I have this situation locally where much of the

[Talk-us] NAIP for 2017

The updated NAIP for some states scheduled to update in 2017 is beginning to roll out (Delaware, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas etc). This is the same as the "USGS Large Scale Imagery", but at times is newer right after an update.

Re: [Talk-us] Comparing Tiger 2017 dataset with OSM in a automatedway.

On 10/12/2017 9:52 AM, Ian Dees wrote: The vast majority of roads seem to be correctly missing from OSM. Along that line of thought - for cases where local government data is not open, I'd find it useful to detect where a name changed in TIGER from previous year, or a road was added.

Re: [Talk-us] Bicycle infrastructure

I'm not sure about the syntax, but there's cycleway=shared_lane (for sharrows) ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER fixup for Hurricane Harvey potential impact areas

On 9/6/2017 12:42 AM, Nick Hocking wrote: A couple of years ago there was a "Tiger missing and misaligned 2015" layer that I found really usefull for bringing many US cities and towns up-to-date. Do you know if there is (or plans for) a more recent version of this, maybe Tiger 2017??? This

[Talk-us] US Maproulette Railway crossing challenge complete

The series of US railway crossing challenges on MapRoulette is now complete! Thanks to the many people who helped with this project! The topology of the US rail-road intersection areas is now much more accurate, since many of the crossings also required a geometric alignment of roads and

Re: [Talk-us] SEO Damage to OSM

On 7/6/2017 5:42 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: Reverting all these edits would probably create a lot of collateral damage. We could manually go through them and revert all that contain marketing speak, but even that would probably throw out a few babies with the bathwater here and there. In the

Re: [Talk-us] Need advice on a project i've taken on

On 6/10/2017 10:51 PM, Jason Remillard wrote: It is my opinion that removing imported non standard tags is almost always ok. It has been 10 years since tiger was imported, any effort to maintain it should be welcomed. We own it now, no script is comming to automatically update it. You might

Re: [Talk-us] Response from TIGER about "driveways

On 4/5/2017 3:10 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2006-November/002561.html for details. (I chuckled when I read that message which begins with a complaint about the mailing lists.) I chuckled when I read that the first problems involved developing

Re: [Talk-us] greenways tagging

I have tagged 2 local living_streets that don't quite meet the strict European definition, but they are blocked by bollards, which are rarely dropped to allow service vehicles to enter. On 3/23/2017 9:27 PM, Nathaniel V. Kelso wrote: The existing OSM wiki documented tags for bicycle needs to

Re: [Talk-us] Is this a bad import or an experiment?

On 3/22/2017 2:02 PM, Kevin Kenny wrote: Are small driveways offensive, or is it just the polygonal ones that don't connect to anything? To me, it's just the disconnected polygons. Small driveways don't hurt anything, and can only provide information such as telling self-driving cars which

Re: [OSM-talk] Responding to vandalism

On 3/16/2017 2:04 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: And in vandalism, I would also distinguish between teenage doodles ("penis! ha ha ha!"), and serious concerted efforts to harm OSM. Then there's the serious and real ha ha ha http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/41.84196/-89.48580

Re: [Talk-us] Key:man_made... Outdated language?

On 3/10/2017 4:27 PM, Joshua Houston wrote: It occurred to me that "man_made" is an outdated term that should be phased out from OpenStreetMap language. Changing any long-established tag will have long lasting ripple effects in the many data consumers. Any such tag migration would need

Re: [Talk-us] MO Stare Road Classifications.

Hi, Typically, regional classifications do not map into OSM classification, and often conflict. If a freeway / expressway is constructed as an OSM motorway, it should be motorway. If a 'local' road serves an industrial area it should be unclassified because it doesn't serve

Re: [Talk-us] First new 2016 NAIP imagery is now online (Massachusetts & Tennessee)

On 1/4/2017 10:46 PM, James Mast wrote: I tested out the new 2016 TN link in JOSM before I sent the original email and it worked perfectly fine for me. I looked again and all is working now! It had been unusable for several weeks around the USGS transition, and I thought the whole NAIP

Re: [Talk-us] First new 2016 NAIP imagery is now online (Massachusetts & Tennessee)

On 1/4/2017 9:58 PM, James Mast wrote: So, hopefully some more new imagery that we can use to update highway projects will be showing up soon I haven't been able to use NAIP WMS links since the USGS scaled back on their online services. Do they work for you? Mike

Re: [Talk-us] An actual mini roundabout!

On 12/9/2016 9:49 PM, Rihards wrote: definitely. please only tag as miniroundabouts places that you would pass straight in a normal car :) similarly, if there is an island, it is better to map a circle way, not just a node with turning_circle - the latter should be used only for "full" circles

Re: [OSM-talk] addr:interpolation and data consumers

On 11/21/2016 2:41 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: Consumers will often try to simply dissolve the interpolation line into points which of course has its downsides in schemes like this where 100 interpolated house numbers are assigned but only 10 houses might exist. (I wonder if we need an

Re: [OSM-talk] addr:interpolation and data consumers

On 11/20/2016 11:47 AM, nebulon42 wrote: In my opinion addr:interpolation is of little value for data consumers. Personally, I prefer addresses on nodes or buildings where the location of the address is clear. addr:interpolation rather leaves this open. I know that addr:interpolation is an

Re: [Talk-us] .... finding areas that are underserved

On 11/12/2016 5:44 PM, Markus Fischer wrote: I am new to this and the area where I live is very well mapped (probably due to high density of tech workers). Where do I go to start mapping areas that are less well mapped (me aimlessly poking at this does not sound like a good approach)?

[Talk-us] MapRoulette Rail Crossings challenge

I've brought back the MapRoulette US Railway crossings challenge with a slight difference - the remaining tasks are derived from a topological look at the OSM data. https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/MikeN/diary/39782 [Crossing Ways: Highway-Railway, US] http://maproulette.org/map/980

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