Re: [talk-au] Help - Node relocation

2022-02-17 Thread stevea
On Feb 17, 2022, at 8:16 PM, Lisa wrote: > Thank you for such a quick response :) OSM: We aim to please! > When I go into Edit mode the old node that needs to be removed isn't > displaying, but when I am not in edit mode I can see it? > Am I using the wrong method of editing it? > Or do I

Re: [talk-au] Help - Node relocation

2022-02-17 Thread stevea
On Feb 17, 2022, at 7:51 PM, Lisa wrote: (a question) Hi Lisa: I'm assuming you are using the iD editor. It seems you know the difference between the new node being correct and the old node "needing to go," you can click on a node and delete it like this: Select the node with a single

Re: [talk-au] OpenStreetMap Wiki page Australian Tagging Guidelines has been changed by Aaronsta

2022-02-11 Thread stevea
On OSM's USA Bicycle Networks wiki [1], the introductory section posits a nice section on "What to map." (In the realm of bicycle routes / networks in the USA). We distinguish between "infrastructure tagging" and "route tagging." We talk about mapping SIGNED routes (and planned routes that

Re: [talk-au] Betty's Burgers - fast food or restaurant?

2022-02-10 Thread stevea
Not to mention, burgers come with “Betty’s secret lube” (sauce) and can be “dressed any way you like.” OK, I’ll stop there. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Betty's Burgers - fast food or restaurant?

2022-02-10 Thread stevea
On Feb 9, 2022, at 4:12 AM, Peter Hardy wrote: > Betty's Burgers & Concrete Co? I've eaten at the one on Clarence St and the > one in Darling Harbour in Sydney (admittedly before *waves arms around* all > of this, so a couple years ago). They're fast food with dine-in tables - > order at the

Re: [talk-au] "Bad" directions on Outback roads

2022-02-08 Thread stevea
On Feb 8, 2022, at 8:08 PM, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: > Do routers "read" such things as flood-prone, intermittent & seasonal? My "quick, off-the-cuff" answer would be: "better routers SHOULD." The real answer is very much "check your particular router."

Re: [talk-au] Tagging a house name

2022-02-04 Thread stevea
On Feb 4, 2022, at 12:48 AM, Dian Ågesson wrote: > Genuine question: > > If I go to Officeworks and get a sign printed with the name "Bob" and put it > on my letterbox, does that become the name of my house? I would think this is an EXCEEDINGLY "locally variable" question (and answer). To

Re: [talk-au] Tagging a house name

2022-02-03 Thread stevea
Dang auto-correct, of course that's addr:housename. And when there is "both," as it appears here, "that's a good question!" (Maybe enter both?) ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Tagging a house name

2022-02-03 Thread stevea
On Feb 3, 2022, at 10:12 PM, Mat Attlee wrote: > Whilst I was out surveying today I stumbled upon a building that had a street > number but also a house name, as just above the entrance and door number it > said Rivenhall. Now the question is should this be tagged as the name or >

Re: [talk-au] Information source question - sorry kind of lengthy.

2022-02-02 Thread stevea
On Feb 2, 2022, at 2:23 PM, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: > So you're standing in the pub having a cold beer & the two blokes beside you > are talking. > ... > Does that count as Local Knowledge? Graeme, I'm not an attorney / solicitor, but what you describe is called "hearsay" and is not usually

Re: [talk-au] Information source question - sorry kind of lengthy.

2022-02-02 Thread stevea
On Feb 2, 2022, at 1:50 AM, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > The 'facts cannot be copyright' may be a USA thing that does not work > elsewhere. Don't know but I would not rely on it alone. While I am reasonably certain this is true in the USA, I don't believe that makes it necessarily

Re: [talk-au] Information source question - sorry kind of lengthy.

2022-02-02 Thread stevea
On Feb 2, 2022, at 12:41 AM, Bob Cameron wrote: > MR358 or Coulsons Creek Road between Willow Tree and Merriwa NSW is closed > for repair of major slippage as it crosses the Liverpool Ranges. > "Livetraffic" (Traffic for NSW govt site) says not reopening until late 2023. > A reference on that

Re: [talk-au] sac_scale [Was: Deletion of walking

2022-01-30 Thread stevea
an be an exception. Again, it must be understood that it is a "rating," rather than explicit values that mean specific things unto themselves. > On Jan 30, 2022, at 9:15 PM, Andrew Harvey wrote: > On Mon, 31 Jan 2022 at 15:27, stevea wrote: > But to conflate two wholly different seman

Re: [talk-au] sac_scale [Was: Deletion of walking

2022-01-30 Thread stevea
> On Jan 30, 2022, at 8:16 PM, Phil Wyatt wrote: > I think Class 1 specifically mentions disability access so I would hate to > see that combined in any way with other classes. +1: I agree that "disability access explicit" and "how much experience you have as a bush-trail walker" are

Re: [talk-au] US Trails Working Group

2022-01-10 Thread stevea
I will "go here," too. Years and years before this talk (I participated in the OSM-US sponsored Mappy Hour where this talk of "fragile trails" in the USA's southwestern deserts where "even a human footstep crunches to death slowly crystallizing soil" was presented) my local area had similar

Re: [talk-au] Help needed with OSM Inspector error

2022-01-04 Thread stevea
On Jan 4, 2022, at 3:51 PM, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: > On Mon, 3 Jan 2022 at 16:51, stevea wrote: > But it is a bit better than it was five minutes ago. > > & has now disappeared from Inspector, so you obviously did something right :-) > > I'll also leave the bus rout

Re: [talk-au] Tagging "boundary" roads with addr:*

2022-01-03 Thread stevea
On Jan 3, 2022, at 7:47 PM, Andrew Davidson wrote: > On Tue, Jan 4, 2022 at 1:42 PM Andrew Hughes wrote: >> In the interest of stirring up a hornets nest (jokes). I'd like to know what >> could be said for tagging ways (streets/roads) with add:suburb (or >> addr:county...) where the suburb (or

Re: [talk-au] US Trails Working Group

2022-01-03 Thread stevea
Mmm, mostly, I’d say, Warin. But let’s be careful not to encourage “only what my use cases are” too much. When you say “if it cannot be seen from a public, customer or permissive place then I don't really care to map it,” I ask for caution with this sort of attitude. This is too parochial

Re: [talk-au] Help needed with OSM Inspector error

2022-01-02 Thread stevea
-drive Yank and don’t know the route or local area, I defer to others to tidy this up to perfection. But it is a bit better than it was five minutes ago. SteveA > On Jan 2, 2022, at 10:37 PM, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: > > Been looking at OSM Inspector & it is showing an er

Re: [talk-au] US Trails Working Group

2022-01-02 Thread stevea
This is an identification of something I have noticed has been going on for some time (as Phil mentions, since the early '90s, before OSM's time): other mappers (governments, especially) "use" OSM as a reference, and OSM's data influence other GISs. In my case, I've been watching as certain

Re: [talk-au] First Nations flags?

2021-12-17 Thread stevea
On Dec 17, 2021, at 3:25 PM, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: > Thanks again everybody for your thoughts, & apologies if the subject is > boring to you! You are welcome / it is my distinct pleasure. No apology necessary, I don't find this boring in the least, it's quite interesting.

Re: [talk-au] First Nations flags?

2021-12-17 Thread stevea
On Dec 16, 2021, at 1:49 AM, Phil Wyatt wrote: > My feeling is these two flags should be changed to flag:type=indigenous on > the wiki rather than national given what has been found during this > discussion. > > I am also not confident in changing the wiki but I think there is consensus >

Re: [talk-au] First Nations flags?

2021-12-17 Thread stevea
On Dec 17, 2021, at 2:46 PM, Phil Wyatt wrote: > I have found one example where the Australian aboriginal flag looks to have > been mapped as flag:type=cultural Yes, see, I don't wholly disagree with flag:type=cultural, as that is "also" true. What seems to happen (quite often with First

Re: [talk-au] First Nations flags?

2021-12-17 Thread stevea
Whoops, I made a mistake: I meant to say that Navajo "Chapter Houses" are over a hundred years old, not that there are over a hundred of them. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] First Nations flags?

2021-12-17 Thread stevea
On Dec 17, 2021, at 1:52 PM, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: > On Sat, 18 Dec 2021 at 06:27, stevea wrote: > My goodness, there are hundreds of them! > Thought there would have been! > > Do you know if many have been mapped, & if so, as what? > > I can see that most of t

Re: [talk-au] First Nations flags?

2021-12-17 Thread stevea
On Dec 16, 2021, at 2:19 PM, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: > Stevea, what do you have up there? Are there Apache & Navajo or any other > First Peoples flags? My goodness, there are hundreds of them! https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Flags_of_Native_Americans_in_the_United_States (there

Re: [talk-au] First Nations flags?

2021-12-12 Thread stevea
Such stunningly beautiful flags you have in your corner of our globe! ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] boundary=aboriginal_lands ( Was Re: admin_level, suburbs and rendering; should the order be updated?)

2021-11-30 Thread stevea
Looks like the issues are well-at-hand and being discussed. Cheers, ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] admin_level, suburbs and rendering; should the order be updated?

2021-11-29 Thread stevea
_level scheme are great, and so far, not completely "solved." On the other hand, if these are indeed "sovereign," then you're in better luck than we are! Really, this can be a challenging problem to solve (where there are "overlapping" or &qu

Re: [talk-au] admin_level, suburbs and rendering; should the order be updated?

2021-11-29 Thread stevea
to make them do so). The other proposed changes to Australia's table? I step aside, good Australian OSM Contributors. SteveA [1] https://wiki.osm.org/wiki/United_States_admin_level [2] https://wiki.osm.org/wiki/United_States/Boundaries ___ Talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Unconnected ways

2021-11-25 Thread stevea
I've seen the solution Warin notes here in USA, too. "Walk along the beach" (somewhat lengthily) yet the tide removes all the sandy footprints of any implicit or explicit "trail." It's a route, though one that is invisible upon the ground. But not among people who say "yep, mate, I'm walking

Re: [talk-au] Lots of identical changesets for toll roads (possibly incorrect).

2021-11-25 Thread stevea
I'm mixed in this reply and not quite able to invest the time right now on the necessary research to revert. On the one hand, the changeset is 3 months old and that's plenty of time for a snarl to result from revert, because of temporal drift. On the other hand, the geographical area is

Re: [talk-au] Use of pedestrian streets to imply route hierarchy

2021-11-20 Thread stevea
I repeat something I have said a number of times, say for example, about bicycle infrastructure / routes. Although it can be said about "pedestrian infrastructure / routes" pretty much one-for-one (as bicycle infrastructure / routes). It is this: There is "infrastructure" tagging, like

Re: [talk-au] : Re: "Removing closed or illegal trails."

2021-10-30 Thread stevea
something to be said for people taking responsibility for using technology (like maps), not expecting it to be "closed shut." Let's fix how people (and software, like routers) read our map, if there is something broken or deficient about that. Let's not censor our map. SteveA __

[talk-au] Fwd: : Re: "Removing closed or illegal trails."

2021-10-30 Thread stevea
I've said this in other contexts and places and times: > Displaying a closed trail on a map (like OSM) does NOT cause people to > navigate that trail. Such behavior is completely up to the individual who > "concludes" from reading said map "hey, I'm going to hike that closed trail > anyway."

Re: [talk-au] Vic State Forest Boundary Files

2021-10-23 Thread stevea
epartments of transportation...) things DO slowly "watch each other" and blend into a harmony. It can take a decade, or forever. It unfolds as it unfolds, including here and now. Good on ya; keep up the great work. That Yank SteveA ___ Talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Source material.

2021-10-17 Thread stevea
Wow, thank you, Ian, that makes these particular circumstances absolutely crystal-clear. Well-stated and paints a bright light forward. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Source material.

2021-10-17 Thread stevea
That's what I'd say about starting up using JOSM again, Andrew: "start small." If you've already got it up and running (proper Java runtime environment installed, a good command-line to start it, if that's how you do it...), yes, it can be intimidating: like piloting a jet plane or an

Re: [talk-au] Cycling on Victorian paths

2021-10-13 Thread stevea
On Oct 12, 2021, at 11:08 PM, Adam Horan wrote: > Is this something that could be pushed to maproulette? Not as reversions, but > tasks to validate or update OSM entries that match a pattern - eg edited by > this user and now has bicycle=no, highway=footway etc? I don’t want to say “absolute

Re: [talk-au] Cycling on Victorian paths

2021-10-12 Thread stevea
answer any more email ping-pongs. I had all primed my next email how to install a reverter, but didn't send that because it seems he remained in a low gear, and running a JOSM reverter is for those who are, um, "in a higher gear." Good luck getting your data in shape, there, m

Re: [talk-au] Cycling on Victorian paths

2021-10-12 Thread stevea
Sebastian, I'd be willing to help you off-list get your (alas, Intel-based only) macOS running JOSM. It starts with downloading a JRE (Java Runtime Environment) from here: https://java.com/en/download/apple.jsp After success with that, please send me an email and we can go from there

Re: [talk-au] FYI Public Records VIC - Map Warper

2021-09-08 Thread stevea
Apologies to any / all who got my missive twice.  (Mailserver glitch on my end). ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] FYI Public Records VIC - Map Warper

2021-09-08 Thread stevea
Apologies to any / all who got my missive twice. (Mailserver glitch on my end). ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] FYI Public Records VIC - Map Warper

2021-09-07 Thread stevea
"Orthorectification" is the cartographic process here.  This means "stretching" an image to remove distortion so it will match (or closely match given mathematical constraints) the spatial accuracy of a given map (like OSM's data) so that a close-enough match between the image and the existing map

Re: [talk-au] Import vs filtering query

2021-09-05 Thread stevea
To be clear, Ian, I'm not saying this use of data is an import, as you have said and as it appears to me and others, it is / would be using the data as a "filtering process" in a workflow. As such, I'm good with that. The points I was making are that 1) data drift over time and 2) there are

Re: [talk-au] Import vs filtering query

2021-09-04 Thread stevea
onkers." I wish you the best in your efforts to enter high-quality, "fresh" data! SteveA [1] https://maproulette.org ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Strange friend request?

2021-08-29 Thread stevea
ot;loose places" where we might compromise security) by cute people with tasty-looking pectoral muscles or polka-dot bikinis. Or both. Glad to see the DWG "raises an eyebrow of suspicion" when we mortals on the ground "raise an eyebrow of suspicion." It's good. Carefu

Re: [talk-au] Problems setting up MapRoulette Challenge

2021-07-28 Thread stevea
A challenge (with MapRoulette) is in correctly writing the query to return the "proper" dataset. Once you do, it's great! ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Problems setting up MapRoulette Challenge

2021-07-28 Thread stevea
Getting a MapRoulette dataset (.json, perhaps) just right can be challenging, at least it was for me after I got the knack of these. For a while, I struggled with some "around" syntax in OT to garden my data more nicely. Even before that, the "rough cut" I started with bore a lot of fruit (it

Re: [talk-au] Question - farm road access tag.

2021-07-05 Thread stevea
Very nice work, Mike King. Thank you. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] The Paradox of Postcodes (Was Re: Victorian Vicmap Address Import Proposal - Suburb and Postcode discussion)

2021-06-18 Thread stevea
On Jun 17, 2021, at 2:14 AM, Andrew Harvey via Talk-au wrote: >> It's a fair point that Vicmap's own postcode field shouldn't be taken as >> 100% correct, it looks like it might have been assigned based on postcode >> boundaries so might still suffer issues because of this, but where >>

Re: [talk-au] The Paradox of Postcodes (Was Re: Victorian Vicmap Address Import Proposal - Suburb and Postcode discussion)

2021-06-17 Thread stevea
On Jun 17, 2021, at 2:14 AM, Andrew Harvey via Talk-au wrote: > It's a fair point that Vicmap's own postcode field shouldn't be taken as 100% > correct, it looks like it might have been assigned based on postcode > boundaries so might still suffer issues because of this, but where >

Re: [talk-au] The Paradox of Postcodes (Was Re: Victorian Vicmap Address Import Proposal - Suburb and Postcode discussion)

2021-06-17 Thread stevea
I know (I know), I’m talking to the Australia list and I’m in the USA (California). I have friends from Oz, but I’ve never been (I’d love to visit as a tourist, it’s on my bucket list). In the USA, the USPS (postal service) uses five-digit “ZIP” codes (Zone, digit 1; Improvement, digits 2 and

Re: [talk-au] Oz Data Catalogue

2021-02-20 Thread stevea
Looks like a fantastic resource, Graeme. Great work! SteveA ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Converting railway= abandoned to highway=track

2021-02-14 Thread stevea
No reason to get harsh. OSM has historically, does now and will into the future map abandoned rail. OHM is an interesting project, but it isn't OSM. It is neither harmful nor incorrect to "continue to include" a tag of railway=abandoned on a railway which is abandoned. It is a simple

Re: [OSM-talk] I’m running for OSMF board and I’ve set up office hours for questions

2020-12-03 Thread stevea
recently replying and (at first, generally) sticking to topics, the one-line "zinger" he ends with that I quote above rather rudely wipes all the nice pieces off the board, subtracting far, far more than his one, single point. So, really,

Re: [OSM-talk] I’m running for OSMF board and I’ve set up office hours for questions

2020-12-03 Thread stevea
for what it is) find this behavior of yours highly suspect. I apologize to the list for going into the deeper and darker aspects of human behavior here. Sometimes, it is required to do so. SteveA On Dec 3, 2020, at 3:32 AM, Mikel Maron wrote: > Thanks Mateusz, I agree. Points can easily be m

Re: [OSM-talk] I’m running for OSMF board and I’ve set up office hours for questions

2020-12-02 Thread stevea
as objective as possible. These are difficult times. Let us retain good senses of our humanity, lest we devolve from even being human. OSM has what it takes to make good decisions. Every day, today included, we put that to the test. SteveA > On Dec 2, 2020, at 5:14 PM, Clifford Snow wrote: > >

Re: [Talk-us] Railway Wiki

2020-11-18 Thread stevea
(Answered off-list). SteveA ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] finding city boundary info?

2020-11-08 Thread stevea
Please tag boundary=census on census tracts. These are distinct from boundary=administrative + admin_level=8 (for city or town boundaries, at least in California). See United States/admin_level for what works out to be all fifty states and six "other things" like Territories and

Re: [talk-au] Mapping "off track" hiking routes

2020-10-24 Thread stevea
On Oct 23, 2020, at 6:14 PM, Greg Lauer wrote: > I have not seen any apps that, for example, display any attribute (or > graphic) to show a track is closed. Try Carto (Standard) on a web page, how most users see OSM’s data as a map. When tagged access=no, for example, a highway=path does not

Re: [talk-au] Mapping "off track" hiking routes

2020-10-23 Thread stevea
Note: we do have important tags like access=no / access=private that I consider a super-important tag to include on things like closed trails. “A trail IS here, but this trail is CLOSED to you.” That’s good mapping, in my opinion. SteveA ___ Talk

Re: [talk-au] Mapping "off track" hiking routes

2020-10-23 Thread stevea
Whoops, 11.5 years. SteveA ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Mapping "off track" hiking routes

2020-10-23 Thread stevea
hanks for reading. SteveA California, USA ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] How is the word "park" meant in Australian English?

2020-10-22 Thread stevea
e educational, thank you again for your valuable “down under” perspective! SteveA ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] How is the word "park" meant in Australian English?

2020-10-22 Thread stevea
Not muddy at all, your clarifications are excellent. Much obliged, mate! SteveA On Oct 22, 2020, at 6:25 PM, Greg Lauer wrote: > Good question > > To be clear I am a Kiwi (New Zealand) who lives in Australia (and has spent > many years in the US) so my interpretation may be slig

[talk-au] How is the word "park" meant in Australian English?

2020-10-22 Thread stevea
Hi, it's stevea from California. Some of us in the USA are crafting a proposal (https://wiki.osm.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Park_boundary), may be two or three staged proposals, intended to better express the wide inclusive semantic "we" (OSM-wide, but including US English-spea

Re: [Talk-us] Reference numbers to use for hiking trail route relations

2020-10-15 Thread stevea
many labels on many maps, especially when they are older or specify an "older" aspect of a map label such as "Pack Trail." This has an old-fashioned sense about it, as while pack animals on trails are certainly still used, it's safe to say far, far less than the

Re: [Talk-us] Reference numbers to use for hiking trail route relations

2020-10-15 Thread stevea
ad motorcycle, all-terrain-vehicle / four-runner or other high-clearance, two-axle vehicle. It is a common phrase seen on maps of the 19th and 20th centuries, but has fallen somewhat out of favor, though is still seen and used. SteveA ___ Tal

Re: [Talk-us] Recent Trunk road edits

2020-09-30 Thread stevea
le I'm no fan of edit wars, let's keep up the vigilance and good work to remain as civil as we can with these folks. Sometimes, with patience and a sort of mentoring-while-not-appearing-to-be-mentoring, they can be shaped into great contributors, other times, they are stubborn and don't reall

Re: [Talk-us] [Tagging] Large fire perimeter tagging?

2020-09-25 Thread stevea
he extent it aids better landcover mapping), it is a lightweight data structure, tagged with only three tags (fire=perimeter, start_date and end_date), it remains invisible to all renderers (that I know of) and is intended to aid mappers determining "should re-mapping of landcover happ

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

2020-09-24 Thread stevea
Thanks, Richard. That's valuable input and I've updated the USBRS wiki, which effectively puts the (informal) proposal for proposed:route=bicycle into a sort of stalemate. SteveA ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https

Re: [Talk-us] [Tagging] Large fire perimeter tagging?

2020-09-24 Thread stevea
s areas just clearcut. This thread likely shouldn't have been cross-posted by me to talk-us and is now (substantially) continued at the tagging list. SteveA ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Large fire perimeter tagging?

2020-09-24 Thread stevea
e other hand, if it isn't appropriate that we map any of this, please say so. Thank you, especially any guidance offered from HOT contributors who have worked on post-fire humanitarian disasters, SteveA California (who has returned home after evacuation, relatively safe now that this fire is 100% co

Re: [Talk-us] place=neighborhood on subdivisions?

2020-09-24 Thread stevea
ording to local convention). Clear! May this clarify similar strategies for better place=* tagging in the USA. It is complicated when US English diverges from the more British (or Australian) English that strongly influences wiki definitions of tags, but with some discussion, we can both better understand these potentially confusing (but ultimately understandable) differences, and tag well, even in the USA. SteveA ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] While we're fixing things in iterations

2020-09-23 Thread stevea
Of course, I'm not pointing fingers or placing blame on any person / human in particular. We agree: a bit of cleaning some rust off of the toolchain. Change management. Does that happen on this channel? That's OK: no need to answer that. SteveA

Re: [Talk-us] While we're fixing things in iterations

2020-09-23 Thread stevea
hile I still find murky and mysterious exactly "how" to effect change in renderers (who you gonna call?), my two best efforts along these lines are to "tag well" and "wiki well." (And that can include a great deal of discussion and consensus building on its ow

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

2020-09-23 Thread stevea
tend towards the ephemeral, transitory-natured "I think this a good bike ride" GPX data, rather than "these are official or quasi-official (signed on the ground)" bicycle route data contained in OSM. Happily. the Internet has room for both. Is OSM "unparalleled" when

Re: [Talk-us] place=neighborhood on subdivisions?

2020-09-23 Thread stevea
in the United States." The "definition" of "neighborhood" in the USA is even less clear, though it is possible to draw the beginnings of a rough box around it. We could spend some time trying to refine this, but I believe it would be difficult and possibly contentious,

Re: [Talk-us] place=neighborhood on subdivisions?

2020-09-23 Thread stevea
tly wrong, but not absolutely), then these data are refined into adherence to specification. Sure, we'd love the high-granularity, absolutely correct data to enter the map "first, always and we're done," but that doesn't always happen. > Exactly. My rule of thumb is if you're

Re: [Talk-us] place=neighborhood on subdivisions?

2020-09-22 Thread stevea
he sub-city level. Larger cities DO have these, admin_level=10 is correct on them. Smaller cities and rural areas that are "a cluster of homes/houses/dwellings?" I think a (multi)polygon tagged landuse=residential works well there. SteveA ___

Re: [Talk-us] place=neighborhood on subdivisions?

2020-09-22 Thread stevea
Whoops, "but NOT if it isn't something like a council" SteveA ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] place=neighborhood on subdivisions?

2020-09-22 Thread stevea
f wards at admin_level=9 that are purely voting / electoral districts to being better tagged administrative=political. SteveA ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] place=neighborhood on subdivisions?

2020-09-22 Thread stevea
=suburb, but it makes me wrinkle my brow a bit at it not fitting as well as a landuse=residential (multi)polygon might rather generically and innocently (without any hierarchy required) fit in. SteveA ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-us] place=neighborhood on subdivisions?

2020-09-22 Thread stevea
you tag appropriately. Tag "appropriately" and help it out: it will help you out with a pretty "blossom" of your tagging. (Unless it doesn't, but then we're out at the hairy edge of OSM and Carto...another, bigger, topic). SteveA __

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

2020-09-22 Thread stevea
s. Thanks, again, Elliott, for a great suggestion. SteveA ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

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

2020-09-22 Thread stevea
ce. Your suggestion to consider Lifecycle_prefix in addition is both welcome and excellent, imo. Thank you. If anybody wishes to contribute a suggested strategy to include Lifecycle_prefix tagging in our USBRS wiki, I welcome that and also consider doing so myself. What a great proje

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

2020-09-18 Thread stevea
Minor correction to my previous post: USBR 1 in Washington DC is a new route, not a realignment. SteveA ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

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

2020-09-18 Thread stevea
ASHTO to enter these data from these ballots. Thank you for helping to build Earth's largest official cycling route network: check out our wiki, follow the links to the turn-by-turn and map data and have fun making bicycle route data in OSM more complete and better! SteveA California One of many USBRS-in

Re: [OSM-talk] Examples of good paid mapping?

2020-09-11 Thread stevea
y blunders, so avoid these! Finally, when in doubt, seek consensus: plenty of community wants to help make a better map, but only with agreement does that happen. SteveA > On Fri., Sep. 11, 2020, 3:56 p.m. Michał Brzozowski, > wrote: > Hi all, > Do we have any examples of compani

[Talk-us] Unintentional improvements in OSM data influencing / improving other databases

2020-09-02 Thread stevea
areful and accurate mapping might influence "official" or "authoritative" GIS data. It can, it has, it does and it will continue to do so. SteveA ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Trouble with getting Superior National Forest boundary to render on standard map

2020-09-01 Thread stevea
r "adjustment or correction." Nicely, I believe we are both correct! SteveA ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Trouble with getting Superior National Forest boundary to render on standard map

2020-09-01 Thread stevea
ender according to our hammered-out-here agreements on how this should and will best take place. We really are getting closer to doing this, thanks to excellent discussion here. SteveA ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Trouble with getting Superior National Forest boundary to render on standard map

2020-08-31 Thread stevea
evin and Joseph talking, this feels like it can get solved! Thanks for putting on thinking caps and typing words carefully, SteveA ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Opinions on Devil's Slide Bunker (San Mateo, CA)

2020-08-31 Thread stevea
tion with strict criteria (like it must be signed, benched or on another map). OSM tends to "self-heal" if it runs away with itself like this. (Strong local volunteers who mentor and grow novice users and establish wide consensus greatly helps, too). Too long, stopping here, SteveA ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Opinions on Devil's Slide Bunker (San Mateo, CA)

2020-08-30 Thread stevea
at the sign says (which Frederik posted and I have seen personally). Speculating, I'd guess this sign was placed there by local search and rescue personnel (might be fire / paramedics) who don't wish to be burdened with rescues (or worse) at the s

[Talk-us] Opinions on Devil's Slide Bunker (San Mateo, CA)

2020-08-30 Thread stevea
erers do their magic. (As usual, but it's a good question, thank you for that familiar sign and I'm glad there is such lively participation in suggestions). SteveA ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

[Talk-us] Large fire perimeter tagging?

2020-08-29 Thread stevea
belongs in OSM for many reasons and want it tagged "correctly." Yes, there are other maps that show this, I believe OSM should have these data, too, as this perimeter will affect much (in the real world) and much newer, updated mapping in OSM going forward. Thank you for your suggestions,

Re: [OSM-talk] Call for verification (Was: Re: VANDALISM !)

2020-08-23 Thread stevea
y the OSMF's OWG. While the latter seems unrelated, the former still remains quite vague to me and I suspect most readers of this list. If you are going to write about this more here, can you please present a clear technical specification (tech spec) of what you wish to see b

Re: [OSM-talk] New API suggestion: Allowing contributors to easily track their OSM-objects over time

2020-08-22 Thread stevea
s database model, he simply sent us a link to it (which we can find ourselves, but thanks for the effort). pangoSE: please stop ignoring me in these threads. I'm extending effort to listen, your lack of reply seems disingenuous. SteveA ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

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