Re: [Talk-us] Typical maxweight signs in USA? (editor developmnent question)

Thanks for trying to standardize on this. I've seen a few of these maximum weight signs and was unsure of how to tag. >From what I've seen in the United States, I've seen maximum weights listed as both lbs (pounds) and tons (where 1 ton = 2000 pounds). In Portland, Oregon, I've recently come

[Talk-us] motel vs. hotel

How do you distinguish between the tourism=hotel and tourism=motel tags? The criteria that I was imagining is that a motel is a single story building where you have the ability to park you car directly outside of your room. A hotel would be other types of buildings such as multi-story where most

Re: [Talk-us] USPS Post Boxes

It would be good to standardize on operator tags for the 4 major carriers as you mentioned. The logos for DHL, FedEx, and UPS have those exact letters in them, so if people map what they see, then they will end up with those exact values. However, as mentioned, the USPS logo actually contains

Re: [Talk-us] USPS Post Boxes

Leif, What's the next step in your process on this? I prefer the "operator"="United States Postal Service". Not only does it match the sticker on the side of many blue mail boxes ( https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Post_office_drivethrough_lane.jpg ), it follows the general OSM guideline

Re: [Talk-us] Naming numbered roads as "State Route X", "Interstate X", etc.

On Sat, Sep 1, 2018 at 5:28 AM Greg Troxel wrote: > > From: Albert Pundt > Subject: [Talk-us] Naming numbered roads as "State Route X", "Interstate > X", etc. > To: "talk-us@openstreetmap.org Openstreetmap" > > Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2018 22:06:50 -0400 (10 hours, 17 minutes, 15 seconds >

Re: [Talk-us] STOP - All vehicles must register

The first thing that comes to mind is a barrier=toll_booth: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:barrier%3Dtoll_booth Perhaps also with a fee=no to indicate that you don't have to pay any money. Peter On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 11:10 AM Kevin Kenny wrote: > The

Re: [Talk-us] Walmart Import

, when seeing "24/7; Dec 25 off" on a Walmart, I clicked on > that line, so it doesn't get overwritten on import. The line becomes > highlighted, which means that's what will be in OSM after the import. See > for an example this object: > > http://audit.osmz.ru/browse/walmart

Re: [Talk-us] Walmart Import

like this don't get overwritten?" > > There's no need to make the claim that the import gets to have more weight > (no one said it did) and there's no need to direct the message at Ilya. As > has been discussed before, he's helping Brandify with tools. > > Happy holidays,

Re: [Talk-us] Walmart Import

ng > you add to the map is important. With this import, I believe it does not > make the data worse. More attributes is not bad, even if some of these are > redundant. The main thing is, until now there were zero mappers who care > about keeping all the Walmart stores in OSM up-to-date, and

Re: [Talk-us] Walmart Import

On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 3:23 PM, Toby Murray <toby.mur...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 4:22 PM, Peter Dobratz <pe...@dobratz.us> wrote: > > Ilya, > > > > Here's a Walmart that's been built in the last few years I recently > added to > >

Re: [Talk-us] Walmart Import

Ilya, Here's a Walmart that's been built in the last few years I recently added to OSM: http://audit.osmz.ru/browse/walmart/5935 What's currently in OSM represents my own mapping style, but I think it's worth discussing the differences before you change them across the whole country. If I

[Talk-us] Pokémon Go no officially using OpenStreetMap

I'm not sure how many active OSM contributors also play Pokémon Go, but the game is now officially using OSM for the basemap that players see in the game (previously was using Google Maps data for the base map). The in-game about screen has text in the bottom of the License section correctly

[Talk-us] anyone know what software is generating these Q/A Notes?

I'm seeing a pattern of OSM Notes being added where a specific question is being asked about missing information in OSM and I was wondering if anyone knows what software is being used to generate these notes. See for example: http://www.openstreetmap.org/note/1054474 Thanks, Peter

Re: [Talk-us] Pittsburgh neighborhood boundaries mapped with admin level 9?

County wards and districts. I'm not sure how the cities wards relate to the neighborhood boundaries. Peter On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 10:15 AM, Peter Dobratz <pe...@dobratz.us> wrote: > Boundaries below admin_level=8 are still being discussed. There was some > discussion on this

Re: [Talk-us] Pittsburgh neighborhood boundaries mapped with admin level 9?

Boundaries below admin_level=8 are still being discussed. There was some discussion on this list as well as the OSM wiki https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:United_States_admin_level#Nine_state_improvement Having lived in Pittsburgh, I remember that the neighborhood boundaries are well

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

I've found that even active OSM contributors don't necessarily check the email address associated with their OSM account. If that is the case, they may have not yet seen any changeset comments you have made on their changesets. It's good to follow up with an OSM private message as these pop-up

[Talk-us] greenways tagging

I wanted to give a wider audience to this changeset discussion: http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/46967476 Some Mapzen folks have been changing highway=residential to highway=living_street for routes that are designated as "Greenways." There's a related blog post too:

Re: [Talk-us] Relation roles for two-way way segments carrying routes in a single direction

There's a bit of confusion around this and it took me quite a while playing around with the relation editor in JOSM ("Select Next Gap") to understand how the "forward" and "backward" roles work. https://i.imgur.com/RGV2XOX.png First, consider how you would create a road route relation for your

Re: [Talk-us] Mapping bus stops

For mapping bus stops, I put a Node at the location of the bus stop sign (next to, but not touching the road). The following three tags are used to specify that this is a bus stop: highway=bus_stop public_transport=platform bus=yes For the "bus stop number", use the "ref" tag: ref=1234 If

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

JOSM does automatically discard some TIGER:* tags. There's a list of keys in the tags.discardable JOSM preference item. Among the list of tags that JOSM automatically deletes are: tiger:source tiger:separated tiger:tlid tiger:upload_uuid These tags are hidden from the editor so you don't

[Talk-us] IKEA vs Ikea?

When putting locations of the Swedish furniture store in OSM, do you use name=IKEA or name=Ikea ? Although we expand abbreviations on things like street names in OSM, company names are typically left as abbreviations (for example, "St. Mary's Bank" or "Einstein Bros. Bagels"). Often, store

Re: [Talk-us] 'Honorary' street name conflicts with posted name - how to decide

I like to confirm street names by checking for POIs along the street. There's a Great Clips hair salon near there with the following address (see http://www.greatclips.com/ ): 906 E 900 S Salt Lake City, UT 84105 I would put the following addr:* tags on that business: addr:housenumber=906

Re: [Talk-us] Restoring bus routes in Portland

and there. I can fix these fairly easily though. Thanks, Peter On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 9:43 PM, Greg Morgan <dr.kludge...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 9:24 AM, Peter Dobratz <pe...@dobratz.us> wrote: > > Luckily, I saved a link to all of these bus routes o

Re: [Talk-us] OSM attribution on website store locator pages

ify's response: > Hi Peter, > Thanks for reaching out and thanks for the work you do! We love our maps. > Re: your message below, I wanted to let you know that we have an > enterprise subscription to mapbox that allows us to whitelabel the maps. > > Have a great weekend, > Melissa

Re: [Talk-us] OSM attribution on website store locator pages

> Regards, >>> Greg >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> To my mind it’s on Mapbox to enforce attribution, I assume having this >>>> present on the map is in the terms they present to their customers? >&g

[Talk-us] OSM attribution on website store locator pages

I'm seeing OSM data used more and more for generating the basemap onto which things like store location data is displayed on store websites. However, it's not always easy to find links to OSM attribution on such maps. Has anyone seen this? http://locations.pieology.com/ There's a link to

Re: [Talk-us] Relations and boundaries

On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 11:02 AM, Steve Friedl wrote: > Hi all, > > I’ve been updating all the cities in Orange County California to have fully > segmented relationalized boundaries, such that cities sharing a common > border share a single way in each of their relations; this

Re: [Talk-us] How to tag Edible Arrangements?

In the past, I've used shop=florist for the Edible Arrangements shops that I have mapped. I guess I was drawn to the word "Arrangements" in their business name. They sell fruit cut and put on sticks to look like bouquets of flowers. I just got a yellow pages the other day, and there is an

Re: [Talk-us] Best iOS app for GPS wander, GPX to laptop into OSM?

Steve, For most of my data collection, I find that the built in photos app is actually all I use. Each photo is geotagged, which comes in handy if I forget exactly where I was when I took the photo. I end up picking up details when looking at the pictures later that I didn't originally see

Re: [Talk-us] Android Phone App that Uses Garmin Format -- Was Whole-US Garmin Map update - 2015-09-30

No, but if you just want offline GPS navigation based on OSM data, get Maps.me Peter On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 2:44 PM, Greg Morgan wrote: > On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 1:03 PM, Dave Hansen wrote: > > These are based off of Lambertus's work here: > > > >

Re: [Talk-us] Should driveways be on OSM?

On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 7:23 AM, Tom Bloom wrote: > > -Living Streets. This is a distinct entity and not something decided by OSM. > They are decided by local administration, and OSM should tag them only after > that. Paul suggests that there could be townhouses at the

Re: [Talk-us] North Carolina Outer Banks

The OpenStreetMap database covers the whole world. It's often too resource intensive to do processing on the whole world's dataset at once, so often third party applications will use extracts of data. It sounds like you are using an extract of data which doesn't fully cover the area you are

Re: [Talk-us] Facts about the world

On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 12:11 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Darrell, On 04/03/2015 08:39 PM, Darrell Fuhriman wrote: Ignore the haters, we’re doing fine. I don't know if that thing about haters is just a generic figure of speech but if you should indeed believe that I have

Re: [Talk-us] USA Rail: Calling all OSM railfans! (especially in California)

Hi SteveA, I see that you have summarized the a lot of the same information from your email on the United States Railways wiki page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_United_States_railways Looking through Paul's comments and yours, I don't see any specific information about

Re: [Talk-us] USA Rail: Calling all OSM railfans! (especially in California)

, and pull things like putting the line of the service running on the tracks as ref=*. God help you if you actually try to point it out, Grant Humphries or Peter Dobratz will get bitchy about it... For those following along from home, please see the following note in Portland, Oregon: http

Re: [Talk-us] Best practices for outdoor mapping party

I've given up the dedicated GPS and/or pen and paper for data collection and I do everything using the camera and notes application on my smartphone. All the pictures I take are geotagged. I transfer the photos to a computer via the USB port and then load them into JOSM with a marker showing

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging addresses on area's

On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 10:29 AM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us wrote: On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 9:35 AM, Peter Dobratz pe...@dobratz.us wrote: I agree with the sentiment in this wiki page that I quoted here. I think that if there is only 1 POI that occupies the building

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging addresses on area's

On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 6:04 PM, Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com wrote: This seems to be tagging for the renderer which is not a good idea. If the only thing occupying the building is a single POI, then put the POI tags on the closed Way for the building outline. By adding a new object

Re: [Talk-us] For comment: import of amenity=bicycle_repair_stations

On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 2:55 PM, Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com wrote: I'd like to start with California and Arizona (70 nodes), and add notes where on-site survey is needed to exactly align to the OSM base layer. What's different about this import is that armchair mappers can get only

Re: [Talk-us] For comment: import of amenity=bicycle_repair_stations

On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 7:58 PM, Greg Morgan dr.kludge...@gmail.com wrote: ... In a note tag I added a reference to your import page. That would be useful for other mappers to know why and how. Seems like this note would be better suited for the changeset comment instead of the OSM

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging addresses on area's

On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 7:58 PM, Greg Morgan dr.kludge...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 4:23 AM, Mike N nice...@att.net wrote: ... The addr:housenumber doesn't render anyway if the building has also been tagged as another POI that renders. I've solved this problem by putting

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging outdoor US shopping centers

On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 7:17 PM, Tod Fitch t...@fitchdesign.com wrote: I am more likely to use your option 1: Each shopping center a separate landuse=retail, name=* covering the entire area including parking but not the land associated with the roadway right of way. As an example there are

Re: [Talk-us] Retail Example using OSM

The company providing the service is Where 2 Get It ( http://www.where2getit.com/ ). They provide maps for store locator functions for a number of companies. For example: Moe's Southwest Grill, Safeway, Trader Joe's, Jo-Ann Fabric, Michael's. OSM is used for the base map with the store location

Re: [Talk-us] Misspelled names

On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 2:13 PM, Mike Henson mikehen...@hotmail.com wrote: I am also having an issue with Walmart, should it be a Marketplace, Supermarket, Department store??? All 3 are used in OSM in Oklahoma. Generally, Walmart is tagged as shop=department_store. However, there are a few

Re: [Talk-us] Coastal Maine needs love

On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 9:33 AM, Eric Kidd emk.li...@randomhacks.net wrote: Thank you for your response! I've made two test edits: - I imported TIGER County Subdivision files for four town boundaries. - I modified an existing TIGER Place outline to be admin_level=9, because it's a

[Talk-us] changeset 25081346 spanning contiguous United States

Hi, I noticed the following changeset which touches UPS Store objects across the whole contiguous United States: http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/25081346 I have contacted user andrewpmk inquiring about communications prior to making this change and I have not received a response. After

Re: [Talk-us] changeset 25081346 spanning contiguous United States

On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 9:43 AM, Eric H. Christensen e...@christensenplace.us wrote: On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 09:33:08AM -0700, Peter Dobratz wrote: After checking a few of the objects, it looks like this change removed shop=copyshop and added amenity=post_office. I don't necessarily

Re: [Talk-ca] [Talk-us] Tag for Tim Horton's

I've never been to a Tim Hortons, but it looks like it's very similar to the Dunkin' Donuts we have around here. I tag this as amenity=cafe as they are primarily a place that sells coffee-like beverages. name=Dunkin' Donuts amenity=cafe cuisine=doughnut drive_through=yes On Wed, May 29, 2013

Re: [Talk-us] Tag for Tim Horton's

I've never been to a Tim Hortons, but it looks like it's very similar to the Dunkin' Donuts we have around here. I tag this as amenity=cafe as they are primarily a place that sells coffee-like beverages. name=Dunkin' Donuts amenity=cafe cuisine=doughnut drive_through=yes On Wed, May 29, 2013

Re: [Talk-us] highway=primary, area=yes, leisure=recreation_ground?

On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 8:03 PM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/29696644 What gives? Looks like an undesired / undesirable side effect of a MassGIS import. Requires further investigation? Doesn't look like it's rendered, but it looks like it

[Talk-us] new mapper tutorial explaining overlapping Ways?

I'm trying to help along a newer local mapper, and I'm looking for any good tutorials or references to help show how to create Ways without overlapping/self-intersecting. http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/206875817 These are the kind of things that MapRoulette picks up and other users fix,

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging Live indoor music venues

On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 11:37 AM, william skora skorasau...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, I was curious us to hear what others have been using to tag music venues. There's numerous places in my city that hold upwards of 1,000 people for music concerts (also called 'shows'). In the US, they're

Re: [Talk-us] Changeset 14828923 review

On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 12:20 AM, stevea stevea...@softworkers.com wrote: ** ... Marsland Street (way 12700863) has many extraneous tags which are nonsense and can/should be removed: access, area, bridge, cutting, embankment, junction, oneway and tunnel, if not more. ... I believe the

Re: [Talk-us] Reaching out to Local User Groups

On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: I wish there was a way to see locations of mappers beyond the first N closest and perhaps a way to filter by date of last activity. Have you seen this map?

[Talk-us] how to handle far away user making global changes

I noticed recently that all of the facebook tags that I had been adding to local businesses, have been changed to link:facebook by user Shmiashttp://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Shmias. The facebook tag is something that I was using often in addition to, but sometimes in place of, the website tag.

Re: [Talk-us] First vs 1st

On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.netwrote: the rule we frequently follow is to use the format of the name on the sign as the guideline for what to put in the name tag for a way. there's a neighborhood in Rotterdam, NY where the signs for the side streets

Re: [Talk-us] Abbreviating names in tools

Please consider also using abbreviated names that already exist in the data, perhaps in a tag like abbr_name, when such data is present. I prefer to use the key short_name instead of the key abbr_name. short_name is documented on the wiki, abbr_name is not.

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

A relatively new user has created a bunch of duplicate Ways around here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=42.732lon=-71.49769zoom=17layers=M So far I've had good email exchanges with this new user, and I was about to send him a message about this area, but I'm not sure where to begin.

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

On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 10:45 PM, Dale Puch dale.p...@gmail.com wrote: Sidetracking a bit, but is there a way to select overlaping items in JOSM? Yes, in JOSM, you can use the middle mouse button to choose between selecting multiple things that are either close to or even on top of each other.

[Talk-us] wetlands in potlatch 2?

I contacted a new mapper in my area and asked if he had any questions about editing the map. He asked about adding swamps to the map using the in-browser editor. I was about to respond that he could use natural=wetland for such things, but I wanted to make sure that I gave him instructions that

Re: [Talk-us] MA county boundaries

Personally, I think it's easier to work from smallest to largest. I've been trying to keep track of the boundaries relations that have been created here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Massachusetts/Boundary_Relations It seems to be easiest to go town by town and then once you have all the

[Talk-us] trying to figure out the former path of a trolley line in Derry/Londonderry, NH

I'm updating parts of the map in my local area (Derry and Londonderry, NH) and it looks like there was definitely a railroad of some kind here before. There's a dirt path here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/89361695 This connects to a road called Trolley Car Lane:

Re: [Talk-us] OSM Meetup in Metro Atlanta (Late Notice)

On 7/23/12, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: Increasingly, I also explain the use of apps (OSMTracker, Vespucci) as most people bring a smartphone. iPhones are not so useful as there are not too many OSM specific data collection apps available (I remember iLOE but don't know if that's

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

On 7/19/12, Charlotte Wolter techl...@techlady.com wrote: So, now, what can be done to fix it? Are there tools? As previously mentioned, the best way is to actually visit these places, take notes, and then use your favorite map editor to update the map. If you can't do that, or don't

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

I'm trying to get a better understanding of the railway=abandoned tag and see what the community thinks about it. It seems that there are a handful of railroad enthusiast users that are systematically adding current and former railways into OSM, and in some cases re-adding railways that I have

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

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.comwrote: I am of course one mapper who's been mapping former railways. (Russ Nelson is another.) There is certainly value in seeing how the current disconnected bits of railway infrastructure used to connect. I've also mapped

[Talk-us] tagging cul-de-sacs

I'm experimenting with the Java code from Traveling Salesman http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Traveling_salesman I'm making library calls to the routing code and it seems that the router does not understand cul-de-sacs mapped as a single self-intersecting way. This got me thinking about

Re: [Talk-us] tagging cul-de-sacs

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Martijn van Exel mve...@gmail.com wrote: On 4/10/2012 7:46 AM, Peter Dobratz wrote: I'm experimenting with the Java code from Traveling Salesman http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Traveling_salesman http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/158307363

Re: [Talk-us] City boundaries on the Canada/US border

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 5:17 AM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: There are a significant number of cities in BC and Washington which have borders that in practice[1] coincide with the Canada/US border. Currently in OSM these are represented with many nearly-overlapping ways. ... I am

Re: [Talk-us] Getting ready for the license change

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Mike N nice...@att.net wrote: On 1/13/2012 10:49 AM, Martijn van Exel wrote: * Remap data that remains at risk of being removed, following the guidelines on the wiki (see links below). Assuming that the April 1 delete is a smart delete, is it better to

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] boundary import Update

So you've got a git repository with OSM data that you eventually plan on uploading to replace data that is already in the official OSM database? But you've already demonstrated that your method of uploading results in lots of duplicate Ways, so I'm not sure this is a good plan at all. Is there

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] MA towns

Thanks for uploading these borders. Building on my recently added relations for Tyngsborough and Dunstable, I decided to create a relation for Chelmsford. On the Chelmsford/Westford border you created 7 overlapping Ways, so I deleted 6 of them and then added the remaining one to the relation.

Re: [Talk-us] Mass towns

if anything already there corresponds to the border (river etc) Would that be helpful or am I missing the source of duplicate ways/need for splitting? -Original Message- From: peter.dobr...@gmail.com [mailto:peter.dobr...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Peter Dobratz Sent: Wednesday, October 19

Re: [Talk-us] Combining State/County Borders Physical Features?

I too agree that the same Way should be used for waterway=river and boundary=administrative whenever the boundary is defined by the river. That Way should also be added to a relation for the boundary. If the river has changed course, but the boundary remains in the prior location, then the map

Re: [Talk-us] Interstate Crossovers

I had been tagging them highway=service, but with access=private. It sounds like access=official is used in places like Germany to denote access to a bicycle path where bicycles and only bicycles can travel on it. Typically in this situation, there is a parallel path that pedestrians and only

Re: [Talk-us] Announcement: Address Improvement project

For secondary house numbers, I use addr:flats as this appears to be at least semi-documented on the wiki. I also use addr:full in this case to write the whole address so it's clear what's going on. We have a number of buildings around here that use Sutie/Apartment/Lot/Unit numbers along with the

Re: [Talk-us] What does the community want from a US local chapter?

On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: 1) What would you like to see the US local chapter do? Come up with a consistent way to tag roads for the country. Somehow get a consensus from current mappers about how tag US/state/county/whatever highways. Update this

Re: [Talk-us] What does the community want from a US local chapter?

. That would have the Chapter claim a mandate that it was never given and would only serve to divide the community rather than strengthening it. Martijn On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Peter Dobratz pe...@dobratz.us wrote: On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: 1

Re: [Talk-us] access=destination vs access=private

Do you think it makes more sense to tag the apartment complexes as access=destination or access=private? The complexes are not usually private. I'd even consider not putting access restrictions on them at all, unless there is some rule that you shouldn't be using them as a through street. What

Re: [Talk-us] appropriate tags

On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Metcalf, Calvin (DOT) calvin.metc...@state.ma.us wrote: Trying to figure out how to tag certain things in Massachusetts and was looking for some clarification on appropriate tagging. 1. The things on the Mass Pike that people tend to call rest areas should be

Re: [Talk-us] Use of ref-tag on state highways

On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 6:04 AM, Henk Hoff toffeh...@gmail.com wrote: To my understanding our tagging-standard for State Highways is [STATE] [NUMBER] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States_roads_tagging#State_Highways I agree that we should use the standard 2-letter state

Re: [Talk-us] amenity:fuel and fuel types for the US

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 5:54 AM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote: On 8/18/11 6:30 AM, Peter Dobratz wrote: Does anyone know how to translate the US octane measurements to the European ones used