[Talk-us] Santa Clara Gis data?

2009-09-29 Thread Apollinaris Schoell
I know this info was sent earlier to these lists. Did anyone already buy these disks for use in OSM projects already? since data itself is in public domain a single set of disks will be enough. http://geodatapolicy.wordpress.com/2009/09/18/santa-clara-county-releases-data/ -- apollinaris

[Talk-us] Systematic errors in the Maui, Hawaii Data

2009-09-29 Thread Scott Atwood
I recently returned from a trip to Maui and Big Island in Hawaii in which I collected a large quantity of GPS tracklogs. I was hoping to use this data to tune up the existing maps for Hawaii. However, as nearly as I can tell, very little work seems to have been done on Maui beyond the initial

Re: [Talk-us] Restriction tagging

2009-09-29 Thread Stellan Lagerstrom
It seems like a reasonable way to tag it. The only possible alternative I can see would be for the restriction to be a no_right_turn since it is the turning right onto the offramp that is restricted. /Stellan ___ Talk-us mailing list

Re: [Talk-us] Restriction tagging

2009-09-29 Thread David ``Smith''
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 3:17 AM, Stellan Lagerstrom lagerst...@blindsight.com wrote: It seems like a reasonable way to tag it. The only possible alternative I can see would be for the restriction to be a no_right_turn since it is the turning right onto the offramp that is restricted. That's

Re: [Talk-us] Talk-us Digest, Vol 22, Issue 38

2009-09-29 Thread Hillsman, Edward
On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 11:21:08 -0400, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: As for the incorporation itself, if you want to incorporate in Florida I can handle this no problem. However, among other things (I can give the details later), I'd need a physical address (not PO Box) of the principal place of

Re: [Talk-us] Restriction tagging

2009-09-29 Thread Shaun McDonald
Photos would be really, really useful for examples. On 29 Sep 2009, at 13:33, Anthony wrote: I have to admit I'm curious. What are the signs for that, and where are they? On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 11:10 PM, Nakor nakor...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I am wondering how you can map that when you

Re: [Talk-us] Systematic errors in the Maui, Hawaii Data

2009-09-29 Thread Dave Hansen
On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 23:23 -0700, Scott Atwood wrote: However, as nearly as I can tell, very little work seems to have been done on Maui beyond the initial Tiger upload. The problem is, this Tiger data seems to have some large systematic errors, a translation to the north-northwest. I

Re: [Talk-us] Systematic errors in the Maui, Hawaii Data

2009-09-29 Thread Scott Atwood
Here's a good example from the Hana Highway: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=20.86962lon=-156.17746zoom=17layers=B000FTF There is a distinctive set of W-shaped hairpin turns at this location. You can see that the OSM ways are displaced approximately 500 meters to the north-northwest of both

Re: [Talk-us] Systematic errors in the Maui, Hawaii Data

2009-09-29 Thread Dave Hansen
On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 10:40 -0700, Scott Atwood wrote: The GPS tracklog I uploaded includes data from Wailuku in central Maui, all along the Hana Highway as far as Waianapana State Park near Hana. In all the locations I spot checked (including the ones mentioned above), there appears to be a

Re: [Talk-us] Systematic errors in the Maui, Hawaii Data

2009-09-29 Thread Scott Atwood
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Dave Hansen d...@sr71.net wrote: On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 10:40 -0700, Scott Atwood wrote: The GPS tracklog I uploaded includes data from Wailuku in central Maui, all along the Hana Highway as far as Waianapana State Park near Hana. In all the locations I

Re: [Talk-us] Systematic errors in the Maui, Hawaii Data

2009-09-29 Thread Dave Hansen
On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 11:20 -0700, Scott Atwood wrote: I spot checked a number of locations all around Maui, and in all the locations I checked, they seem to be affected by the same or highly similar offset to the NNW. Here is another example from the Lahaina area:

Re: [Talk-us] Systematic errors in the Maui, Hawaii Data

2009-09-29 Thread Scott Atwood
Hawaii (Big Island) seems to be affected by the same or similar displacement: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=19.09422lon=-155.78022zoom=15layers=B000FTF -Scott On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Dave Hansen d...@sr71.net wrote: On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 11:20 -0700, Scott Atwood wrote: I spot

[Talk-us] International grocery labeling

2009-09-29 Thread Cameron Adamez
Hi, I can't tell if there is a standard procedure in marking ethnic foods. I assumed you could mark the store normally and perhaps add cuisine=* , except some of them specialize in multiple cuisines. I would like to work on a project that involves locating ingredients within a certain

Re: [Talk-us] International grocery labeling

2009-09-29 Thread Joseph Booker
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:57:20 -0700 Cameron Adamez came...@soycow.org wrote: Hi, I can't tell if there is a standard procedure in marking ethnic foods. I assumed you could mark the store normally and perhaps add cuisine=* , except some of them specialize in multiple cuisines.

Re: [Talk-us] Restriction tagging

2009-09-29 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 23:10 -0400, Nakor wrote: Hello, I am wondering how you can map that when you enter a highway from a specific ramp you cannot exit at the next one. Please see http://osm.org/go/ZXCt9WHU-- where it is forbidden driving from I-94 east to M-10 to exit M-10 at exit 4C.

Re: [Talk-us] U.S. Local Chapters

2009-09-29 Thread Bill Ricker
If your are going to incorporate at a national level, please look at examples of good and bad examples in the FOSS community. GrokLaw linked to this discussion, which has relevance outside its own niche. http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20090914102959510 Bill