And a timely (no pun intended) reminder that state lines can be fluid too:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/altered-state-border-redraw-leaves-16-in-different-carolina/2016/05/29/9b2d1908-25ae-11e6-8329-6104954928d2_story.html
On Mon, May 30, 2016, 9:57 AM John F. Eldredge
Note that "usually state lines" isn't the same thing as "always state
lines". The Central Time Zone/Eastern Time Zone boundary runs through
the middle of both Tennessee and Kentucky, and the lines aren't
straight. They zig-zag according to which time zone the local
politicians wanted.
On
Frederik Ramm writes:
> I have deleted a couple of such time zone polygons account of not being
> verifiable on the ground.
>
> I don't know how time zones are defined "at the source" but it is very
> unlikely that someone puts up signs. I guess there'll be some kind of
>
On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 3:39 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 05/26/2016 10:30 PM, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
> > In the US, they do put up signs, at least along major roads.
>
> In that case it might be a good idea to map the signs themselves, and
> leave the interpretation
> I would think the decision on whether time zone boundaries should be
> in OSM should center on what the costs and benefits of having them
> in OSM are. The costs seem likely related to how they will be
> maintained and whether they will be kept up-to-date, and the
> benefits are tied to those
On 5/26/16 3:54 PM, Bill Ricker wrote:
>
>
> I see the attraction to including TZ data in the OSM, but the
> timezone definitions are in flux more than most political boundaries.
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> Whether core OSM is the right place to store and serve this is one
> question;
> what team/project commits
On Thursday 2016-05-26 22:17 +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> On 05/26/2016 09:22 PM, L. David Baron wrote:
> > Perhaps it would make more sense for the timezones to be their own
> > areas on the map, rather than being represented by tags added to
> > existing areas? (Most or all of the nodes for
Hi,
On 05/26/2016 10:30 PM, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
> In the US, they do put up signs, at least along major roads.
In that case it might be a good idea to map the signs themselves, and
leave the interpretation (if there's a sign here and a sign there what
might this mean for the land in between) to
On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 3:17 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote:
>
> I don't know how time zones are defined "at the source" but it is very
> unlikely that someone puts up signs.
>
In the US, they do put up signs, at least along major roads.
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Jeff Ollie
On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 2:17 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote:
>
>
> I don't know how time zones are defined "at the source" but it is very
> unlikely that someone puts up signs.
Along major highways in the US the transitions between time zones are
signed, e.g. [1] Of course there
Hi,
On 05/26/2016 09:22 PM, L. David Baron wrote:
> Perhaps it would make more sense for the timezones to be their own
> areas on the map, rather than being represented by tags added to
> existing areas? (Most or all of the nodes for such areas should
> already exist.)
I have deleted a couple
I see the attraction to including TZ data in the OSM, but the timezone
definitions are in flux more than most political boundaries.
Importing a snapshot of such without a committed project to keep it correct
with the latest boundary changes as announced regularly on the
tzdata/zoneinfo list (
On Tuesday 2016-05-24 22:37 +, evan.sir...@yahoo.com wrote:
> I found and read through this OSM mailing-list discussion about timezones
> from a few years ago:
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2013-October/068334.html It
> seems there are mixed feelings for how to include
Are there any people / groups / organizations working on adding the "timezone"
tag to various boundaries in the USA?
I did some research on this subject and found the following:
The timezone boundaries in the USA are established by the US DOT. They publish
a document specifying the exact
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