Re: [Talk-us] Maxweight in the USA

I feel that all measurements recorded in OSM should include units. And that measurements should be in local units. A while back the Carter administration tried to force the metric system on the USA, which resulted in signs like: elevation 4000 feet 1219.20 meters Teaching people of course

[Talk-us] Fwd: [okgis] 2015 NAIP now available for download

Signal boost, since this is a public dataset. Someone more apt to dealing with the wiki may want to add this to the list of available datasets. -- Forwarded message -- From: David Wheelock Date: Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 7:51 AM Subject: [okgis] 2015 NAIP now

Re: [Talk-us] Maxweight in the USA

On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 4:12 PM, Steve Friedl wrote: > This issue has come up as well with the height of mountain peaks; those of > us who hike in the mountains in the US know peak heights *only* in feet, > but OSM seems to reflect this in meters; this is entirely unhelpful to

Re: [Talk-us] Maxweight in the USA

On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 4:28 PM, Toby Murray wrote: > My view is that this isn't much different than speed limits. We don't > tag maxspeed=96.5606, we tag maxspeed=60 mph. Tag what's on the sign. > The complicating factor on this is of course that "ton" has at least 3 >

Re: [Talk-us] Maxweight in the USA

On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 3:59 PM, Andy Townsend wrote: > The relevant wiki page http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:maxweight > does say "as of September 2014 only metric units of weight (metric tonnes > or kilograms) are supported for this tag". I'm unaware of any

Re: [Talk-us] Maxweight in the USA

On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 2:10 AM, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: > All that faded, including the signs, and its really clear in the USA it's > feet for elevation and mph for speed limits. Well, on DOT signage, only if the numerals are not circled.

Re: [Talk-us] Maxweight in the USA

On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 4:50 PM, Mike Thompson wrote: > The number of places to the right of the decimal separator has meaning, it > indicates the precision of the value. Thus > 80,000 lbs <> 36.28739 metric tons, even though that is what the > mathematical conversion

[Talk-us] San Diego county addresses

While adding a business that I stopped at in Pine Valley yesterday, off of I-8 in San Diego county at https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/32.8190/-116.5272 I noticed a lot of address points that give the city as San Diego which can not

Re: [Talk-us] CrossCountryRoads.com

Well said, Steve. I hated to give up on the Lincoln Highway (a 1920s project partly funded by automobile manufacturers to promote driving by creating a cross-country scenic route), However, the creators of the Lincoln Highway web site just didn't want to part with their data. I think they fund

Re: [Talk-us] San Diego county addresses

Tod Fitch writes: > I am not local to that area so am not best to work on correcting > this. And, in fact, I am not sure I know the best way to fix them. The > house numbers and streets seem reasonable (at least the addresses > adjacent to the business I added seem

Re: [Talk-us] Current Texas State Highway ref is incorrect

At least with regard to the ref tag on a way, there has seemed to be be a lack of consensus as to whether the state DOT should be followed or whether to use the postal abbreviation to prefix state routes. Different states are tagged differently. I personally prefer the state code in the ref

Re: [Talk-us] Current Texas State Highway ref is incorrect

On Thu, 2015-11-05 at 18:47 -0600, Sam Iacullo wrote: > The current setup for Texas State Highway ref tagging > (See:http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States_roads_tagging#Texas) > There has already been some discussion as to what exists on the map >

[Talk-us] Current Texas State Highway ref is incorrect

The current setup for Texas State Highway ref tagging (See: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States_roads_tagging#Texas) There has already been some discussion as to what exists on the map ( https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2014-September/013604.html), but this was based

Re: [Talk-us] CrossCountryRoads.com

And I would be that "James Mast" that Alex mentioned. ;) -James (rickmastfan67) > Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 10:27:06 -0500 > From: ethnicfoodisgr...@gmail.com > To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org > Subject: Re: [Talk-us] CrossCountryRoads.com > > > Message: 1 > > Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2015 06:40:38 -0600 > >

Re: [Talk-us] CrossCountryRoads.com

> Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2015 06:40:38 -0600 > From: Paul Johnson > To: Martijn van Exel > Cc: OSM US Talk > Subject: Re: [Talk-us] CrossCountryRoads.com > On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 10:55 AM, Martijn van Exel