Re: [Talk-us] Extremely long Amtrak route relations / coastline v. water

2020-11-22 Thread Richard Fairhurst
[cross-posted to talk-us@ and tagging@, please choose your follow-ups wisely] Brian M. Sperlongano wrote: > It seems that we are increasingly doing things to simplify the > model because certain tooling can't handle the real level of > complexity that exists in the real world.  I'm in favor of

Re: [Talk-us] United States Bicycle Route System ballot(s) pending AASHTO approval

2020-09-24 Thread Richard Fairhurst
SteveA wrote: > With both of us in agreement about tag "proposed:route=bicycle" > (especially as it co-exists with "state=proposed") can we gain > some more consensus (here, soon?) allowing us to move closer towards > recommending in our wiki that we tag proposed USBRs with >

Re: [Talk-us] Trunk VS primary,

2019-12-20 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Eric H. Christensen wrote: > The routing engine should be able to take into account > the road surface It can and often does. Your problem there is that only 2% of highway= ways in the US are explicitly tagged with surface; probably only 30% are implicitly tagged; and sometimes the implicit

Re: [Talk-us] Mapping rail trails

2019-07-12 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Minh Nguyen wrote: > As with the network tag on bus routes, what's important for both > network and cycle_network is that the route is intended to form > part of a coherent *network* (almost like a brand, but not quite). It's also useful for those of us writing routers, as it means we can avoid

Re: [Talk-us] Mapping rail trails

2019-07-11 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Kevin Kenny wrote: > And route relations are important for sites like Waymarked Trails - > it totally ignores walking and cycling routes that are not indicated > with relations, which is why I wind up doing routes for even > relatively trivial stuff like >

[Talk-us] Mapping rail trails

2019-06-24 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Hi all, You might remember that back in March I wondered whether we could get access to the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy's data, which they've given to Google: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2019-March/019266.html Helpful people on this list followed that up with RTC

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

2019-03-22 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Mateusz Konieczny wrote: > Please comment no matter what you think about this idea! I will > not make the edit without a clear support so please comment if > you think that it is a good idea and if you think that it should > not be done. I think it's an excellent idea. I've deleted these

[Talk-us] Rails-to-Trails data

2019-03-06 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Hi all, I see that Rails-to-Trails Conservancy donated their GIS data to Google: https://www.railstotrails.org/our-work/trail-mapping-and-gis/ Anyone in the US fancy asking if they might do the same for OSM? Our coverage is good on the major trails (Katy Trail, Coeur d'Alenes, etc.), but

Re: [Talk-us] Population during mandatory evacuations

2018-11-13 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Minh Nguyen wrote: > Following some discussion about this changeset in OSMUS > Slack [2], I started a discussion on the wiki about preferring > more stable population figures over supposition about > temporary circumstances. [3] It's roughly analogous to a situation we had a few months ago

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

2018-10-22 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Mike N. wrote: > As one who grew up in a rural area, a country road lined with 4 > houses in a mile would feel "residential" and I would tend to set > it as residential in OSM. That describes most of the rural parts > of this county also, except for roads that don't happen to have > a house.

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

2018-10-22 Thread Richard Fairhurst
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 and qualify to remove tiger:reviewed tags. Looks good! Browsing through the code and the wiki page, you have:

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

2018-05-12 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Clifford Snow wrote: > I did learn from Toby Murray this morning that you can add > tiger:reviewed to the list of discarded tags in JOSM by going > to preferences->Advanced Preferences and adding > tiger:reviewed to tags.discardable. Then just reload > JOSM for the changed to be active. Just

Re: [Talk-us] Gravel roads and surface tags in the US

2018-04-19 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Jack Burke wrote: > Keep in mind that OSM apparently uses "compacted" to refer to > macadamized roads, which is a specific process for building roads. surface=compacted in OSM, following British English usage, is traditionally as described on pages 18-20 of this document:

Re: [Talk-us] Edit war after MapRoulette motorway downgrading task

2018-04-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: > * you have developed a certain way to map certain objects, that might > be a little out of touch with what is considered the "right" approach > elsewhere in the project, but you don't notice or care Adding to which... I think half the problem is that the wiki

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

2018-02-19 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Great to see so much attention being paid to rural TIGER fixup. The majority of my editing these days is that, and it's a massive but rewarding job. I put together a view a while back which superimposes unreviewed rural residentials onto the Strava heatmap. The idea is that you look for

Re: [Talk-us] Old Bing/ESRI satellite imagery?

2018-01-31 Thread Richard Fairhurst
The previous ESRI imagery has just been restored to the imagery list (by ESRI, so 100% legit) under the name “Clarity”. Richard -- Sent from: http://gis.19327.n8.nabble.com/USA-f5284732.html ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-us] Integrating our open source data into OSM

2017-11-13 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Sean Lindsey wrote: > I do want to produce something that is useful for > open source and OSM/its community Let me join in the thanks for making this available. Even though it might not be suitable for direct import into OSM (for legal and/or community reasons), I wonder whether it might be

Re: [Talk-us] Trunk

2017-10-15 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Bradley White wrote: > The UK/Canada system and the central Europe system both adopt > the tag in a way that makes sense for the road network they > have. We are trying to shoehorn the central European tagging > system into our country when, to me, it makes more sense to > use the UK/Canada

Re: [Talk-us] Bicycle infrastructure

2017-10-04 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Martijn van Exel wrote: > Do you see any improvements I should make to this query / am I missing > important features? Shoulder information is good, especially on rural roads. A simple shoulder=yes/no suffices. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:shoulder Surface information is good on rural

Re: [Talk-us] Tiger Zip Data Removal Project (Update)

2017-07-17 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Marc Gemis wrote: I wonder whether it is interesting to know the difference between concrete, asphalt and pervious concrete. All three have different characteristics whether it be comfort for the cyclist or being dangerous under icy conditions or durability under heavy loaded trucks. What do you

Re: [Talk-us] Tiger Zip Data Removal Project (Update)

2017-07-16 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Kevin Kenny wrote: > Fair enough. I will confess that I'm a little lackadaisical about > tagging the surface on hard-surfaced roads. It appears that > some sort of hard surface is more or less assumed by default. > I do tag 'gravel', 'compacted', 'shale', 'sand', 'ground' > assiduously, and

Re: [Talk-us] Tiger Zip Data Removal Project (Update)

2017-07-16 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Bryan Housel wrote: > We haven’t discussed automatic removal of any other tiger tags. > (I don’t have a strong opinion for either keeping or removing them.) I have a really strong opinion _against_ removing tiger:reviewed tags where the road type and surface have not been manually reviewed!

Re: [Talk-us] NJ mass road demotions?

2017-06-12 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Kevin Kenny wrote: > Is there *anyone* that actually can speak to what *is* common > practice in the US? When I've asked, I've always drawn a lot of > replies and come away more confused than before. I've been doing vast amounts of rural TIGER fixup over the past couple of years and this is

Re: [Talk-us] NJ mass road demotions?

2017-06-12 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Albert Pundt wrote: > This seems like a way overboard change. I've just received a changeset message back from someone else who had made a few unusual reclassifications, in this case highway=secondary for dirt roads in Nebraska. The user explained that they had been working from this wiki page:

Re: [Talk-us] NJ mass road demotions?

2017-06-11 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Bryan Housel wrote: > What’s an acceptable amount of time to wait for a response before I > just start reverting? I commented on another of granpueblo's changesets on 21st May and have also not had a response yet. Given that, you probably only need to wait just a couple of days before embarking

Re: [Talk-us] Unreviewed TIGER in Jacksonville (was Re: Talk-us Digest, Vol 114, Issue 22)

2017-06-02 Thread Richard Fairhurst
maning sambale wrote: > While our team is working on Jacksonville, we found unreviewed > TIGER (v1, tiger:reviewed:=no) in some areas. I don't want to dismay you too much, but 90%+ of the US is like that... (...though don't take v1 as an important signifier: it's possible for a way to be at v3

Re: [Talk-us] People For Bikes Connectivity Tool

2017-04-07 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Spencer Gardner wrote: > The tool uses OSM for routing and uses information such as speed > limits, number of vehicle lanes, the presence and type of bicycle > facilities, and the types of treatments at intersections/crossings > for determining whether a particular way is acceptable for

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

2017-03-11 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Joshua Houston wrote: > It occurred to me that "man_made" is an outdated term that should be > phased out from OpenStreetMap language. FWIW, the lingua franca of OSM tagging is British English: so, colour rather than color, and so on. British English does of course have different cultural

Re: [Talk-us] Blue Ridge Parkway

2017-01-31 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Greg Troxel wrote: > Around me (amusingly as we discuss British influence on tagging) > is "Minuteman National Historic Park". This is not a "National Park", > but it has the same kind rangers in the same uniforms, the same > kinds of rules, and is managed to preserve the historic landscape

Re: [Talk-us] highway=trunk for NHS routes?

2016-12-31 Thread Richard Fairhurst
voschix wrote: > The answer is definitely NO. > You can find detailed PDF maps of all NHS Routes, state-by-state at a > web page of the Federal Highway Administration [1]. On these maps > you will find plenty of NHS roads that are definitively not trunk roads. > Just two examples in Arizona: [2]

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

2016-11-19 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Minh Nguyen wrote: > The entire state of West Virginia -- no exaggeration. The original data > imported from TIGER is badly misaligned throughout this state > and rarely resembles the road network at all. *shudders* Yes. Genuinely the worst geometry I've encountered anywhere in the US, and

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

2016-11-16 Thread Richard Fairhurst
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)? Possibly the biggest

Re: [Talk-us] Common names of highways do not match road signs.

2016-07-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Greg Troxel wrote: > When converting to garmin format with mkgmap, and I think with osmand, > I will tend to hear both the name and the ref. That's a big lengthy, but > there's no real pattern on which to leave out. For cycle.travel's directions in the US, I've started post-processing the name

Re: [Talk-us] Best practices for dealing with old TIGER tags?

2016-06-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Madeline Steele wrote: > What do you all think about this? The sine qua non for me is that the absence of a tiger:reviewed= tag (or one set to =yes) means that you can trust the value of the highway= tag. This is especially true of rural areas where unreviewed highway=residential covers a

Re: [Talk-us] Colorado mappers: Check your notes carefully

2016-05-02 Thread Richard Fairhurst
SteveA wrote: > [Great Divide Mountain Bike Route] > where MountainAddict keeps setting this to network=ncn > when clearly it is network=icn (as it crosses the Canadian > border in Alberta). A partial compromise/consensus > solution has emerged: keep a duplicate relation synced as >

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Slack

2016-03-30 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Martijn van Exel wrote: > The web site has always been about the map primarily, > not the people. I am curious if there are any ideas out > there to change that. Groups! cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Slack-tp5870718p5870933.html Sent from

Re: [Talk-us] Proposal: Sunset ref=* on ways in, favor of relations

2015-11-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Richard Welty wrote: > the key thing, i think, is that mappers have little motivation to > work on route relations if they don't actually get used by > anything. Don't forget that the issue is not an endemic issue with route relations, it's just an osm2pgsql issue. osm2pgsql is the most

Re: [Talk-us] Increasing the number of US Mappers

2015-10-15 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Paul Norman wrote: > The problem is that if you make a discussion group too small, it > doesn't have enough activity to sustain interest in it. > > Larger regions might work, but even a statewide group abandons > the might meet for a geobeer idea where it takes 6 hours to drive > across the

Re: [Talk-us] Increasing the number of US Mappers

2015-10-15 Thread Richard Fairhurst
On 15/10/2015 14:28, Bryan Housel wrote: Agree with everything you said about *why* groups are important, except that: now that it's 2015, Facebook groups is really a better place for this. Yeah... but no. Every time this comes up, someone suggests "use my favoured platform". Which might be

Re: [Talk-us] Extra wide shoulders / travel lanes in NJ

2015-10-13 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Elliott Plack wrote: > I am now leaning towards the shoulder tag, and perhaps > recommending that the routing tools consider that. I'd be genuinely delighted to add shoulder support to cycle.travel when there's more than a trace number of shoulder tags present in the OSM database - missing

Re: [Talk-us] Another road classification disagreement (this time with HFCS in Kansas)

2015-09-21 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Greg Troxel wrote: > It's perfectly reasonable to have an unpaved highway=secondary in > rural areas, if that's one of the major roads around. ...with the proviso that it _must_ be tagged as surface=unpaved (or a more detailed tag, such as surface=gravel or surface=dirt). Standard tagging in

Re: [Talk-us] Another road classification disagreement (this time with HFCS in Kansas)

2015-09-06 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Richard Welty wrote: > i could see having an HFCS tag which carries that value for > informational purposes, but it shouldn't control our own classification. In the UK we use the designation= tag to record official classifications which might not be reflected in the highway type - I'd commend

Re: [Talk-us] Another road classification disagreement (this time with HFCS in Kansas)

2015-09-06 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Richie Kennedy wrote: > As to Mr. Fairhurst’s comment regarding routing, I’ll remind you > it is frowned upon to tag for a routing engine. Given that Mr Fairhurst has been involved in OSM since month 4 in 2004, he is quite aware of what is frowned upon and what isn't, but he thanks you for your

Re: [Talk-us] Does anybody know if these PA maps are legal to use to get info from for OSM?

2015-08-02 Thread Richard Fairhurst
James Mast wrote: I mean, would he have to at least verify that the license for those maps is compatible with OSM first Yes, and it isn't. The licence has lots of clauses that aren't compatible with ODbL, the Contributor Terms or indeed any open licence:

Re: [Talk-us] cycle.travel US bike routing, and unreviewed rural TIGER

2015-06-19 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Harald Kliems wrote: Until then you could consider a user setting to avoid/not avoid unpaved roads. Unfortunately contraction hierarchies - the routing algorithm used by OSRM - don't really allow user settings. For each distinct routing profile, you need to regenerate the routing graph, which

Re: [Talk-us] cycle.travel US bike routing, and unreviewed rural TIGER

2015-06-19 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Just as a postscript to this discussion I thought I'd cite an example area. If you look here, in Georgia: http://cycle.travel/map?lat=31.9023lon=-84.0398zoom=14 you'll see that most of the roads are unreviewed TIGER residentials. Of those, these are adjacent to each other:

Re: [Talk-us] cycle.travel US bike routing, and unreviewed rural TIGER

2015-06-15 Thread Richard Fairhurst
SteveA wrote: Richard (Fairhurst), if cycle.travel/map's router logic is not paying attention to surface= tags, perhaps it should, as doing so truly can improve selected routes It very much does - it'll look at surface=, and failing that tracktype= or smoothness=, as one of the principal

Re: [Talk-us] cycle.travel US bike routing, and unreviewed rural TIGER

2015-06-14 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Harald Kliems wrote: Very nice, Richard! One quick comment: I might not be the only who doesn't always change the tiger:reviewed tag when fixing TIGER-imported roads. I don't know if that's technically feasible, but maybe it would be better to check if a way has been modified since

[Talk-us] cycle.travel US bike routing, and unreviewed rural TIGER

2015-06-13 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Hi all, At State of the Map US last weekend I was really pleased to unveil bicycle routing for the US (and Canada) at my site, cycle.travel. The planner, at http://cycle.travel/map , will plan a bike route for you between any two points - whether in the same city or on opposite sides of the

Re: [Talk-us] Moving historic railroad ways from OSM to OpenHistoricalMap

2015-04-02 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: The problem of OSM editors being confused by a strange line that cuts through houses in the editor perhaps. Which is perhaps 0.1% of the (largely rural) abandoned railroads mapped in OSM, so largely immaterial to the discussion. And if you're confused by that 0.1%, heaven

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

2015-03-23 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Greg Morgan wrote: 2. To quote Richard Fairhurst, Seriously, OSM in the [England] s still way beyond broken. You can open it at any random location and the map is just __fictional__. Here are two random examples bing;OS StreetView [2] shape is approximate. Needs proper survey as mostly

Re: [Talk-us] GNIS POI populations

2015-01-13 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Minh Nguyen wrote: I think we should consider a mechanical edit to update these tags While you're thinking about GNIS mechanical edits, could I suggest one for GNIS-sourced POIs with (historical) in the name? There are several gazillion amenity=post_office, name=Fred Creek Post Office

[Talk-us] Bike route relation issues

2015-01-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Hi all, I've encountered two problematic bike route relations in the US and would appreciate thoughts as to the best way to deal with them. One is the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route: http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/3161159 The other is I-5 in Oregon:

[Talk-us] Fix a Forest - experimental tiles from US Forest Service data

2014-11-11 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Hi all, I've created a set of tiles from US Forest Service road data for the 155 US National Forests. This is to help with TIGER fixup in these rural areas, where tracks, trails and entirely non-existent paths are often tagged with a bare highway=residential. The US Forest Service data is

Re: [Talk-us] Fix a Forest - experimental tiles from US Forest Service data

2014-11-11 Thread Richard Fairhurst
On 11/11/2014 20:57, Clifford Snow wrote: Suggestion - set the tile background to transparent so we can see underlying image in JOSM. I can certainly have a look at doing that. Do you/anyone know whether transparent tiles would still be usable in iD? cheers Richard

Re: [Talk-us] Statistics of board candidate edits

2014-10-07 Thread Richard Fairhurst
A friendly thought from across the pond; just something to provoke thoughts, feel free to disregard. OSM in the US is without doubt the #1 country at organising conferences. I was privileged enough to go to Portland and SF and they were both superb events. (This year's SOTM-EU in Karlsruhe was,

Re: [Talk-us] Dirt Roads (formerly: Abandoned railway)

2014-09-06 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Greg Morgan wrote: It feels like the discussion is about fixing a routing problem when in reality you would exclude people that want to make it to Cleator Arizona or other recreational destinations. The people at the Cleator Bar and Yacht Club[4] would question your judgement that this a

Re: [Talk-us] Dirt Roads (formerly: Abandoned railway)

2014-09-01 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Richard Welty wrote: agreed. i have spent quite a lot of time in Iowa farming territory where the road grid consists mostly of high quality, well maintained gravel roads that are in regular, heavy use by farm equipment. i generally give these highway=unclassified, surface=gravel. Great

Re: [Talk-us] Abandoned railway

2014-08-30 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Russ Nelson wrote: I fear that the deletionism infection has jumped from Wikipedia to OpenStreetMap. ...is exactly what I was going to say. Seriously, OSM in the US, outside a few cities, is still way beyond broken. You can open it at any random location and the map is just fictional. (I did,

Re: [Talk-us] Abandoned railway

2014-08-30 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Mike N. wrote: Landing on the high plains desert in the west does not make a good case that OSM in the US is broken. Desert imagery cues do not match those of conventional climates. I really wish I could agree with you, Mike, but my experience is that ~75% of the US landmass is like that.

Re: [Talk-us] USBRS WikiProject seeks volunteer mappers

2014-06-01 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Martijn van Exel wrote: I would love to see these routes in OSM, and I think it's a shame that there is such an ongoing fuss about it. May I gently offer some experience from n years of both mapping and developing National Cycle Network routes in the UK. (As well as being an OSMer I'm a

Re: [Talk-us] Completing the Appalachian Trail relation

2013-11-27 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Richard Welty wrote: Josh Doe wrote: I believe I saw SURFACE and CLUB which might be useful. i'm not keeping any of it, the source tag points back to the original data set and that should be sufficient. [...] i don't know that i see a mapping from the AT surface attributes to our surface

Re: [Talk-us] Steady increase in the number of mappers in the US

2013-07-19 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Clifford Snow wrote: We need publicity! Harry Wood is trying to recruit more volunteers for the Communication Working Group. You can e-mail him on o...@harrywood.co.uk . cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [Talk-us] Removing US Bicycle Route tags

2013-06-05 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Kerry Irons wrote: Nathan, [...] Please advise when you will remove these tags. Nathan (NE2) has been given an indefinite ban from OpenStreetMap on account of his inability to work with others on what is a crowd-sourcing project: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks/347 It'll therefore

Re: [Talk-us] Google maps source

2013-06-04 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Rick Marshall wrote: If we use bing imagery for tracing the road geometry, but Google Maps to discover the name of the road is it incorrect to use source=google? You are not tracing a road geometry from Google Maps, but you might be using it for other attribute data.

Re: [Talk-us] User Cam4rd98 gun-jumping new highways + adding fictional alignments

2013-06-01 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ian Dees wrote: This is what an account block is and it already happens. For those unaware of account blocks, you can read all those that have been imposed at http://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks . cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [Talk-us] OSM Data Quality

2013-05-31 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Martijn van Exel wrote: I think I just wrote half of one of my SOTM US talk. I think you just wrote half of mine too. ;) cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/OSM-Data-Quality-tp5763578p5763648.html Sent from the USA mailing list archive at

Re: [Talk-us] US Bicycle Routes in KY, TN, AL, MS, and GA

2013-03-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Kerry Irons wrote: I would like to get in contact with the mapper(s) who put these routes into OpenStreetMap/OpenCycleMap and clarify this. We are always looking for enthusiastic folks who want to work on the USBR system but in this case putting detailed routes on maps is a source of

Re: [Talk-us] Anyone ever talked about adding more Land Ownership data to OSM?

2013-01-08 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Toby Murray wrote: I think it would be great to make more tools support more external data sets as opposed to dumping *everything* into OSM. Yep. Absolutely. To my mind this is one of the really nice things about TileMill. I'm currently playing with it to render (UK) maps that combine OSM and

Re: [Talk-us] US Addressing

2012-11-30 Thread Richard Fairhurst
brycenesbitt wrote: Is there evidence of Google using streetview plus OCR for addressing data yet? They've integrated it into ReCaptcha: http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/29/google-now-using-recaptcha-to-decode-street-view-addresses/ cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [Talk-us] Address push part deux: tracking licenses, notifications, etc.

2012-11-30 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Jeff Meyer wrote: Ok... this is sort of an import question, but how do we / should we credit each imported item with a link or tie to the appropriate use statement / contributor? source= is just for showing your working. It is not a means of providing attribution. That should be done on the

Re: [Talk-us] US Addressing

2012-11-29 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Jeffrey Ollie wrote: It looks pretty good from what I saw, with the obvious exception that newer homes aren't tagged. I'm going to clean up my code a bit and stick it up on github somewhere. If you chaps are all dead set on doing another massive TIGER import - hey, it's your funeral - could

Re: [Talk-us] US Addressing

2012-11-29 Thread Richard Fairhurst
On 29/11/2012 22:46, Jeffrey Ollie wrote: None of the Iowa data that I am processing originates with the US Census or TIGER. Sure, I should have said big massive ---k-off import rather than TIGER. They both look the same from several thousand miles away I'm afraid. :) As Richard Welty

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

2012-11-28 Thread Richard Fairhurst
!i! wrote: Hi, one last personal note on the mapathon and a big thank you (literally): http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/!i!/diary/18132 And thank you, too. I've always been sceptical about this sort of event - my vision for OSM is that we need more contributors with local knowledge, not more

Re: [Talk-us] What is the status of the Toolbox?

2012-10-19 Thread Richard Fairhurst
David ``Smith'' wrote: The banner at the bottom has some issues. Helpful for new and maybe intermediate users, but i'd like the option to turn it off. You can do that from the options dialogue (and it remembers your preference). I tried to put a little 'x' close box in there but, well, Flex

Re: [Talk-us] What is the status of the Toolbox?

2012-10-18 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Charlotte Wolter wrote: What is the status of the Toolbox? When will it be fixed? It is difficult to do any editing without those tools. And, whose idea was that banner? Did they ask anyone before they implemented it? Did they test to make sure it didn't break anything? Goodness me,

Re: [Talk-us] how to select overlapping objects in Potlatch 2?

2012-09-07 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Peter Dobratz wrote: Looking at the area in Potlatch 2, I can't figure out a way to select just one of the overlapping objects Select the shared node, press / . It'll select the other way. (If there are several sharing the node, keep pressing / until you get to the one you want.) cheers

Re: [Talk-us] Announcing Remap-a-tron

2012-09-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Martijn van Exel wrote: Let me know if it's useful / how it can be improved. Very very nice indeed. If someone could figure out a JavaScripty way to tell a currently-open Potlatch instance to jump to this location, rather than firing up a new instance each time, that'd be great. I'll happily do

Re: [Talk-us] Another random road reclassification

2012-08-15 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Richard Weait wrote: http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/expressway expressway=yes, seems to be a fringe tag at best. I believe our German friends use motorroad=yes for this. cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [Talk-us] Another random road reclassification

2012-08-15 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Paul Johnson wrote: Not quite. American expressways sometimes, but not always, have driveways, tracks and service roads connecting, German motorroads don't. Oh, sure. But you don't need me to tell you that slight national variations in the exact meaning of OSM highway tagging are nothing

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: Re: Post bot cleanup

2012-07-29 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Bryce Nesbitt wrote: I rather think the non-responders could have been a separate category, and their data could have been kept. Doesn't fly legally, sadly. You can't say I'm ignoring any rights on this item just because the rights-holder hasn't responded to my e-mails. That said, I did

Re: [Talk-us] LA part of the map essentially is unusable

2012-07-20 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Charlotte Wolter wrote: Got it. Thanks for the explanation. So, how do I load shapefiles into a separate layer? I need someone to walk me through it. How would I do that, if I wanted to get things like street names (and the other TIGER data)? I'll post a how-to at the start

[Talk-us] Redaction progress

2012-07-19 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Current state of affairs: - North America is mostly complete. The bot is still working in Los Angeles and Victoria (Canada). There are one or two failed or incomplete areas which are marked in red on the progress map; these are being retried individually. Haiti/Dominican Republic has been

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: Re: Post bot cleanup

2012-07-19 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Toby Murray wrote: The good news is that TIGER data is still available to help in remapping. The TIGER 2011 tiles were recently discussed on this mailing list: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/TIGER_2011 Indeed: and Ian, Andy and I have this afternoon briefly discussed making this

Re: [Talk-us] Post bot cleanup

2012-07-19 Thread Richard Fairhurst
jerjozwik wrote:  is anyone else noticing some ways have a name, a one way direction, some other info, but no highway tag. so they dont actually render in potlatch 2. the only reason i noticed them way due to the oneway arrows being drawn on top of the satellite image. Everything's

Re: [Talk-us] LA part of the map essentially is unusable

2012-07-19 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Charlotte Wolter wrote: So, are you volunteering? Anyone else? I spent a couple of hours this morning reworking the P2 source code so that it can load the entire TIGER 2011 road files for LA County in one go without crashing. So yeah, that counts as volunteering to fix it in a way, I think. :)

Re: [Talk-us] LA part of the map essentially is unusable

2012-07-19 Thread Richard Fairhurst
On 19/07/2012 23:58, Charlotte Wolter wrote: Richard, I spent a couple of hours this morning reworking the P2 source code so that it can load the entire TIGER 2011 road files for LA County in one go without crashing. That's great, but will it overwrite work that we've already done? Also, is

Re: [Talk-us] railway=abandoned and mapping things that are not there any more?

2012-07-12 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Peter Dobratz wrote: I'm trying to get a better understanding of the railway=abandoned tag and see what the community thinks about it. FWIW there's been a similar discussion on talk-gb recently. The consensus seems to be railway=abandoned for railways where there's still some physical trace

Re: [Talk-us] railway=abandoned and mapping things that are not there any more?

2012-07-12 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Mike N. wrote: So they are present, and don't hurt anything. None of the 'standard maps' will bother to render them. A railway map could use them if it needed to. I delete them if they go through current buildings or parking lots also. Yes, that's a sensible attitude. I think it's also

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: [OSM-dev] Licence redaction ready to begin

2012-07-11 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: I have been informed that I have no clue Actually the phrase I used was that Frederik clearly knows as much about Potlatch as I do about JOSM. (But I suspect more.) cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER 2011 Data

2012-07-05 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Evin Fairchild wrote: I click the down-arrow next to where it says background, and then click Vector file. The http://a.tile.openstreetmap.us/tiger2011_roads/$z/$x/$y.png isn't a vector background, it's a standard tiled imagery background. You add these just by clicking 'Add' at the bottom of

Re: [Talk-us] Special issues in LA remap

2012-06-15 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Steve All wrote: Now, when and how will this bot run? Over the entire planet.osm? In something like one-degree of latitude at a time swaths? (That's just a guess). Can you sense my frustration when I feel like I should be able to just go and find these things out (maybe in a big,

Re: [Talk-us] U.S. inland waterways

2012-05-16 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Nathan Edgars II wrote: I'm trying to do something like the European tagging: http://www.itoworld.com/map/24 But there they have some sort of international treaty that defines configurations. (puts day-job hat on) For users of a waterway, the European (CEMT) waterway classes describe,

Re: [Talk-us] Mapnik slower than usual?

2012-03-07 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Nathan Edgars II wrote: Is it just me, or are there more timeout magnifying glasses than usual? Is this due to the Osmarender server going down? AIUI there's some work going on to get local tile mirrors to serve requests. The London tile mirror (which currently serves the US) has had some

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: Re: Mapnik slower than usual?

2012-03-07 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Charlotte Wolter wrote: I'm having that problem and still having several others in Potlatch 2. I can't add points. If I try to add a point, I can no longer highlight any ways. I have to save my work, go back to View and then return to Edit, which reloads Potlatch 2. Charlotte, we are

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: Re: Mapnik slower than usual?

2012-03-07 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Have you not checked back at the tickets to see followup comments? On 7 Mar 2012, at 16:58, Charlotte Wolter techl...@techlady.com wrote: Richard, I have posted tickets twice to TRAC in the last two days, and have no communication about my issues. What requests are you referring

Re: [Talk-us] Adding Tiger 2011 Data

2012-02-29 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Nathan Edgars II wrote: What do you mean by red circles with no tag? I think that's probably dupe nodes in P2. cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Adding-Tiger-2011-Data-tp5526409p5526452.html Sent from the USA mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: [Talk-us] Remapping tips

2012-02-07 Thread Richard Fairhurst
andrzej zaborowski wrote: And there are real people using OSM in many other fields. What I mean I think we all know what you _mean_, whether or not we agree with it. What puzzles me is what you're trying to _achieve_. cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [Talk-us] name expansion bot (Re: Imports information on the wiki)

2012-01-15 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Mike N. wrote: Everyone will certainly enter name=Xyz Rd for their first edit. The JOSM validator will pick this up, but I don't remember if Potlatch 2 would notice that. No, it won't. P2 will get inbuilt QA one day, but only when someone has the time to do it _properly_. :) cheers

Re: [Talk-us] Now you can see how much vandalism the OSMF will carry out on April Fools

2011-12-14 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Grant Humphries wrote: Can anyone expand on that or point me in the direction to find more information about this? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Quick_History_Service#Changeset_Overrides should be right. I'm sure Andrzej can supply more details if required. cheers Richard -- View this

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