[Talk-us] Operation Cowboy - Preaparing Thank you gift

Hi, if we look at the current stats, 150 users joined the OPC2012 which results in 300 active mappers in the US (as the usual 200 ones). Personally I like to send out an Thank you all! message, but maybe we all can build something more personal? Just a few ideas: 1. Collecting photo

Re: [Talk-us] street name expansion thoughts

On 11/25/2012 8:20 PM, Richard Welty wrote: however, should we perhaps also run expansion over the addr:street tags at the same time? No objection here - we can expand the addr:street tag based on its proximity to the actual street, and therefore the root TIGER tags that ensure a quality

Re: [Talk-us] street name expansion thoughts

I've been cleaning up are area of Jackson County, NC and found roads where the name expansion algorithm failed to expand all of the abbreviations . For example Yellow Bird Br Road. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=35.36564lon=-83.24253zoom=17layers=M(not fixed yet) I didn't write down the

Re: [Talk-us] street name expansion thoughts

On 11/25/12 8:31 PM, Mike N wrote: One complication is hand-entered street data, which may result in an abbreviation in addr:street with no TIGER ancestor to trace back for finding the base name and type for a safe machine expansion. my normal reaction would be that an expansion run

[Talk-us] Alaska CPD boundaries

I've been cleaning up and converting the Alaska admin boundaries and relations and I've come across two questions where I could use some more local feedback. I'm not finished yet, I still have to go back and fix some mistakes (ugh) and de-duplicate more ways. As no one had touched most of the

Re: [Talk-us] street name expansion thoughts

The problem in Jackson County NC is that the name field in the TIGER featnames table contains abbreviations. For example, Mountain is shown as Mtn. There are 227 individual names with the Mtn abbreviation. My guess is there are other counties with similar problems. I'm not sure how to run a query

Re: [Talk-us] Alaska CPD boundaries

From: Paul Norman [mailto:penor...@mac.com] Subject: [Talk-us] Alaska CPD boundaries (2) The 3 nautical mile limit (state submerged land limit, traditional territorial sea claims limit) I'm sort of answering my own question, but the latest TIGER data has it at this limit. I'll go ahead and

[Talk-us] Proposed import: Alaska Boroughs/CPDs

In Alaska the Boroughs and CPDs are the equivalent of counties. I recently cleaned up much of the Canada/Alaska border and in the process looked at the counties data. I have come to the conclusion that it is better and easier to remove the existing counties data and reimport from TIGER 2012.