Re: [Talk-us] Whole-US Garmin Map update - 09-06-2011
Were is the .torrent file at? I will happily seed it. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
[Talk-us] Categorizing Stores/Restaurants
Is there any page on the wiki that has a methodology or straight up categories of stores and restaurants? I was thinking about creating a page to help those that don't know what to enter for tags, mostly the amenity tag. Either alphabetical by amenity or alphabetical by store. This would be helpful to get a on consensus on some of the more questionable ones. I was tagging local poi's and was confused as to what to tag a few of them. Good/bad idea? ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] Categorizing Stores/Restaurants
It is, but what is the convention in the states for tagging, say, Sears? Department store? Hardware store? other store? The only way you know these things is if you do A LOT of mapping and start to figure out what needs to go where. What if a newbie comes across this and they don't know what to do. Where do you turn them to? Or do you just help them with every request? Sorry for the response in questions, I am just trying to rationalize this out loud. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Bike / Pedestrian directions on the MQ Open sites
I believe the law implies that if there isn't an easy alternative route within a reasonable distance from the interstate, you CAN ride on that interstate. Some are explicatively stated no bikes allowed, but I believe that there are plenty of examples east of the Mississippi that do allow you to. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] Meetups around the US
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote: I'm a 2 hour drive from any semblance of an urban area (Kansas City). I suppose if there were regular meetups I would probably make an effort to make it to at least some of them. I also, live a couple of hours from a large metropolitan area and rarely get to a mapping party. This got me thinking, how about a live mapping party over the internet. We could pick out an area to map, talk on IRC or some other form of communication, and get one specific area mapped well. Obviously, there would have to be one or more people in the area to mark up the buildings and POIs, but any area with relatively high resolution should be mappable. I know, I know, why don't we spend our time mapping our own area, but I spend many hours mapping my own area a week and after a while of getting into it I take a step back and realize I am just acting like a digitizer with a glazed stare at the screen. :) It would be good to communicate with other mappers, and get ideas for things we as individuals are missing while mapping, seeing other people's workflow process, etc. I think it would be very interesting. Good/bad/horrible idea? ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] Removing tiger:* tags
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.comwrote: The way I see it is that if I were mapping an area from scratch, nobody would go adding the TIGER tags. So if I completely redo an area, whether I use existing ways or draw new ways, there's no reason to keep the TIGER tags. If anyone objects, I can change my workflow to delete the old ways and create new ways rather than redrawing the old ways :) I concur with this. My workflow involves removing TIGER data when I move a node/way using gps traces or satellite imagery. I saw no value in keeping this data. I believe I brought this topic up a while ago and no one ever really gave me a good reason not to do this. If anyone does object, I will delete the old way and draw a new one as Nathan stated as well, I just find more value in moving the ways because a history on the way will show that it originated from a TIGER Import, but no longer references to it because it is in fact, not that way anymore. I really see no need to reference it anymore. I do not however, go deleting TIGER tags off ways I do not touch. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
[Talk-us] Changing Data Attribution
This is in relation to Lars' question with attribution on nodes and ways. I have been thinking, possibly incorrectly, about attribution on data. The Tiger import was great, but as you all know, not perfectly accurate. I have been reviewing and almost all roads, ways, etc that have been imported in my area are now corrected. The problem comes in the ways we review this imported data. If I go around and get .gpx traces and use that to move the imported roads and mark the road as reviewed, is it really still to be attributed to the Tiger import, or does the source/attribution actually change to my trace? And what about a trace of aerial photography, make a difference? I do believe attributing the data to Tiger is no longer accurate, but not one hundred percent On top of that, do I delete the current data and create a new, more accurate piece of data in its place, or simply move the Tiger data and change the attribution. While this makes absolutely no difference to the current state of the map, it does make a difference for the history of the data. Is my data actually a newer improved version of the Tiger data, or is it a new piece of data? This does not just apply to Tiger data either. If you map something, but I edit or move it, where does the attribution lie in this? Just something I have been scratching my head on as I have picked up my mapping and actually getting in the field as of late. Curious on the trains of thought or consensus on this. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
