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

2015-03-22 Thread stevea
Clifford and Serge write: Seattle has very defined neighborhoods and even sub-neighborhoods. As you imply, Seattle may be an exception (more detailed explanation below). Serge, this isn't an implication, it is stated and actual fact. ...But if we have access to administrative

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

2015-03-22 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 5:12 PM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us wrote: Looking at King County, especially Seattle, it appears that a number of the place=hamlet are actually neighborhoods. We have been reluctant to add neighborhood borders because of prior discussions on the mailing list

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

2015-03-22 Thread stevea
In Santa Cruz county (California), each place=* tag has been carefully compared to local knowledge and a wonderful reference (book) I have called Santa Cruz County Place Names: A Geographical Dictionary by author Donald Thomas Clark, published by the Santa Cruz Historical Trust. At over 500

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

2015-03-22 Thread Minh Nguyen
tl;dr: I'm against a blanket rule when it comes to administrative boundaries. They're really nuanced, and so should we. On 2015-03-22 04:32, Serge Wroclawski wrote: Imagine if Bob and Alice conflict on where a neighborhood boundary is inside OSM. The issue escalates to an edit war and the DWG

[Talk-us] Mappy Hour tomorrow (monday) night

2015-03-22 Thread Richard Welty
in the traditional 8:30pm ET slot - Martijn is traveling so i get to pick the time. i'll post a link here when i have it. richard -- rwe...@averillpark.net Averill Park Networking - GIS IT Consulting OpenStreetMap - PostgreSQL - Linux Java - Web Applications - Search signature.asc

Re: [Talk-us] USA Rail: Calling all OSM railfans! (especially in California)

2015-03-22 Thread Peter Dobratz
On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 10:31 AM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: Portland also needs help. Seems whenever the map gets fixed, someone goes through and stomps the name back to something incorrect like Metropolitan Area Express or Portland Streetcar instead of the subdivision name, and