Re: [Talk-us] Remapping is good

2012-04-02 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2012-01-31 13:52, Nick Hocking wrote: This morning I decided to remap another street off Cypress Avenue L.A. I randomly choose Ariva Street and lo and behold the TIGER2011 overlay said that it was Arvia Street. TIGER is usually spot on with names and since a Bing search and Google

Re: [Talk-us] Remapping is good

2012-04-02 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2012-02-01 06:08, Nick Hocking wrote: Ok I've found a few more close typos Gassen not Glassen Correct. source=LACDPW;LACA + source_ref=PWFB1521-265;TR0044-020;ABK5456-016 Tropico not Tropica Correct. Tropico Way in LA 90065: source=LACDPW;LACA + source_ref=TR0726-039;ABK5464-006

Re: [Talk-us] Remapping is good

2012-02-01 Thread Nick Hocking
Ok I've found a few more close typos Gassen not Glassen Tropico not Tropica Parrish not Parish Lavell not lavel Pleasant View not Pleasent View Seymour not Seymore Arroyo Seco not Aroyo Seco Shilburn not Shelburn I've have not fixed the Parrish/Lavell ones since there is something really wrong

Re: [Talk-us] Remapping is good

2012-02-01 Thread David Fawcett
I have seen more frequent reference to confirming street names using Google Maps or Google Streetview lately. Is this practice compatible with producing clean ODBL and TOC data? Is is compatible with Google TOS? People seem to scream very loudly whenever Google has allegedly used OSM data for

[Talk-us] Remapping is good

2012-01-31 Thread Nick Hocking
This morning I decided to remap another street off Cypress Avenue L.A. I randomly choose Ariva Street and lo and behold the TIGER2011 overlay said that it was Arvia Street. TIGER is usually spot on with names and since a Bing search and Google maps/street view also agree about Arvia this street

Re: [Talk-us] Remapping is good

2012-01-31 Thread Nick Hocking
Blimey - two streets up from Arvia, Asbury Street was incorrectly named in OSM as Ashbury. Just how many typos are there in L.A. Hey - now there's a good idead for a competition!!! ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-us] Remapping is good

2012-01-31 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 1/31/2012 4:07 PM, Nick Hocking wrote: Blimey - two streets up from Arvia, Asbury Street was incorrectly named in OSM as Ashbury. Just how many typos are there in L.A. Hey - now there's a good idead for a competition!!! What you mean is that imports are better than surveying (since mappers

Re: [Talk-us] Remapping is good

2012-01-31 Thread John F. Eldredge
Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/31/2012 4:07 PM, Nick Hocking wrote: Blimey - two streets up from Arvia, Asbury Street was incorrectly named in OSM as Ashbury. Just how many typos are there in L.A. Hey - now there's a good idead for a competition!!! What you mean is

Re: [Talk-us] Remapping is good

2012-01-31 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 1:41 PM, John F. Eldredge j...@jfeldredge.comwrote: Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: All mappers make some errors, whether you are talking about the mappers who originally created the data found in TIGER, OSM mappers, or even Google Maps. I found a case in

Re: [Talk-us] Remapping is good

2012-01-31 Thread Richard Welty
On 1/31/12 4:41 PM, John F. Eldredge wrote: Nathan Edgars IInerou...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/31/2012 4:07 PM, Nick Hocking wrote: Blimey - two streets up from Arvia, Asbury Street was incorrectly named in OSM as Ashbury. Just how many typos are there in L.A. Hey - now there's a good idead for

Re: [Talk-us] Remapping is good

2012-01-31 Thread Nick Hocking
Nathan wrote On 1/31/2012 4:07 PM, Nick Hocking wrote: * Blimey - two streets up from Arvia, Asbury Street was incorrectly ** named in OSM as Ashbury. ** Just how many typos are there in L.A. ** Hey - now there's a good idead for a competition!!! * What you mean is that imports are better than