Re: [Talk-us] NY: I-87 Junction with I-84 in Newburgh

2009-11-02 Thread Bill Ricker
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote: The interchange between I-87 (the Thruway) and I-84 in Newburgh is being extensively redone, with new ramps in new locations and significant changes in traffic pattern Hallelujah. Will we be able to transit from one

Re: [Talk-us] US Chapter Call?

2009-10-21 Thread Bill Ricker
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 11:41 PM, Kate Chapman k...@maploser.com wrote: unless there is a major push that we should do things outside of working hours that rubs my fur the wrong way. holding meetings during working hours will bias attendance in favor of those sponsored by an interested

Re: [Talk-us] US Chapter Call?

2009-10-21 Thread Bill Ricker
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Sarah Manley sarah.m.man...@gmail.com wrote: Agreed that call a call during business hours will be difficult for a lot of people to attend. To be fair then, should we try for a saturday? Thanks Sara, Kate -- that should help people *feel* included, even if they

Re: [Talk-us] CDPs and admin_level

2009-10-12 Thread Bill Ricker
I sympathize with Greg, and if the surveyors and computational mappers ruled the world, the real world we seek to model will be simpler. On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 12:44 PM, David Lynch djly...@gmail.com wrote: where city limits cross county lines, WTF? Where does that happen? down where a county

Re: [Talk-us-bayarea] [Talk-us] U.S. Local Chapters

2009-10-05 Thread Bill Ricker
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: I'd recommend setting up the draft bylaws prior to making the decision of where to incorporate.  How we want to run the organization will help determine where (and whether) to incorporate. Right, as otherwise the locality dictates

Re: [Talk-us] U.S. Local Chapters

2009-10-01 Thread Bill Ricker
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: I'd recommend setting up the draft bylaws prior to making the decision of where to incorporate.  How we want to run the organization will help determine where (and whether) to incorporate. Right, as otherwise the locality dictates

Re: [Talk-us] U.S. Local Chapters

2009-09-29 Thread Bill Ricker
If your are going to incorporate at a national level, please look at examples of good and bad examples in the FOSS community. GrokLaw linked to this discussion, which has relevance outside its own niche. http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20090914102959510 Bill

Re: [Talk-us] U.S. Local Chapters

2009-09-15 Thread Bill Ricker
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:32 PM, Kate Chapman k...@maploser.com wrote: I've heard various talk going on about local chapters in various places. I did a quick archive search but didn't find that much information regarding U.S. chapters.  There seems to be people interested, but perhaps working

Re: [Talk-us] Another shot at a whole-US Garmin map

2009-09-09 Thread Bill Ricker
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 11:58 PM, Apollinaris Schoell ascho...@gmail.com wrote: the tiles from this site are not routable. It is stated on the website. thanks to Tiger and MassGIS issues, until we stitch the stacked nodes along borders as well as certain onramps. the US just isn't routable. other

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-newbies] Multiple gmapsupp.img files on Garmin

2009-09-09 Thread Bill Ricker
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 7:14 AM, Greg Troxel g...@ir.bbn.com wrote: I will have to try this with my 76csx I tried with a Vista HCx and didn't get it to work. Doesn't work with my 76csx either, which is fairly recent firmware i think. -- Bill n1...@arrl.net bill.n1...@gmail.com

Re: [Talk-us] Unpaved streets

2009-09-07 Thread Bill Ricker
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 3:20 AM, Paul Johnsonba...@ursamundi.org wrote: There are streets in my town (Stow, MA) that are definitely not paved that I have driven on with a Saturn SC2 and not had a problem. OK, but can you drive them in a PT Cruiser Touring Edition, a Porche 911, or some other

Re: [Talk-transit] Monorails

2009-09-03 Thread Bill Ricker
However DisneyLand monorail http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/22942763 does have oneway = yes , but again is a closed loop single way. -- Bill n1...@arrl.net bill.n1...@gmail.com ___ Talk-transit mailing list Talk-transit@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-us] TopOSM Colorado

2009-09-03 Thread Bill Ricker
TopOSM-CO has a few important differences from TopOSM-MA: What, MASSGIS doesn't cover Aspen? * Color-by-elevation in base layer. interesting * Contour lines and hillshading generated from NED [1]. does that mean you're interpolating lines from a grid? * Hydrography (lakes, rivers,

Re: [Talk-us] Boston transit info available

2009-08-21 Thread Bill Ricker
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: Boston is releasing their transit information for the Boston and surrounding areas. the stops, stations and basic track info is already imported from MASS GIS. opening the schedule data is wonderful but would be for a

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-newbies] Multiple gmapsupp.img files on Garmin

2009-08-21 Thread Bill Ricker
I will have to try this with my 76csx Does it have to be loaded as gmapsupp.img and used once before each renaming? I have been placing extra *.img in named subdirs and copying to Garmin/ to select, but being able to switch without a usb connect would be much better, since states in New England

Re: [Talk-us] talk-us-ma: Duplicate nodes in mass

2009-08-19 Thread Bill Ricker
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: But I think we need some sort of find duplicate nodes, and if they match that was I believe the intention. properties, or just have different massgis import dates, merge them bot. or even same date but

[Talk-us] Open Plaques project analogues for Rest of World ?

2009-08-15 Thread Bill Ricker
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Frankie Robertofran...@frankieroberto.com wrote in talk-tran...@osm: Heh. Sounds a bit like the geo information which is captured in the Open Plaques project (http://www.openplaques.org/) which I run... I like it. Value add without overfilling the basemap

[Talk-us] CANCELED - Boston and Marlboro MA August Mapping Parties

2009-07-30 Thread Bill Ricker
The Boston/Marlboro MA events scheduled for August 1st and 2nd are ** CANCELED**, for lack of an Ambassador and we can't pull together enough of the local cadre to do it on our own on short notice on the only dry weekend of summer. The local cadre intend to spread the word at the MIT Flea in Sept

[Talk-us] bike rail trail as built vs as proposed and imported

2009-07-20 Thread Bill Ricker
The Upper Charles Trail was included in the MASSgis import. It has a note=under construction. As imported and proposed, it slavishly followed a passenger and freight line straight to the center of town, but Milford sensibly added scenic curves and grades, connecting a picnic area and municipal

Re: [Talk-us] bike rail trail as built vs as proposed and imported

2009-07-20 Thread Bill Ricker
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Greg Troxelg...@ir.bbn.com wrote:  So abandonment is a serious legal step, and can revert ownership of the ROW, etc.   The tracks can still be present. but preferably transferred to a railtrail org or the state -- Bill n1...@arrl.net bill.n1...@gmail.com

Re: [Talk-us] Proposed automated motorway_link mass edit

2009-07-19 Thread Bill Ricker
Would it be possible to FLAG the 2k orphan / singleend motorway_links with an unreview tag? regarding exceptions that prove the rule On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Dave Hansend...@sr71.net wrote: Yeah, you definitely have to be careful.  It's OK for a motorway to touch: 1. another motorway

[Talk-us] Fwd: [OSM-newbies] Roundabout direction

2009-07-17 Thread Bill Ricker
should have cc'd talk-us before i hit send ... On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 2:49 AM, Jens Müllerb...@tessarakt.de wrote: On 02.07.2009 16:09, Peter Childs wrote: You don't need a oneway tag : http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:junction%3Droundabout This is implied by the tag

Re: [Talk-us] no streets in gloucester, ma??

2009-07-11 Thread Bill Ricker
Hi Chris ! 3 cities in MA wre never imported due to problems at the time of the import. IIRC, they were Braintree, Gloucester, and something else that I can't remember. Looks like Freetown is still blank too? http://osm.org/go/Zec_zlG--?layers=0B00FTF Braintree was one you fixed and loaded.

[Talk-us] GPS Babel format file to generate Open Layers Text Marker file ?

2009-06-06 Thread Bill Ricker
Has anyone already made a GPSbabel control format file to specify the lat-lan-title-desc-icon-icon-icon format for OpenLayers marker layer file? I suspect it's quite doable, but happy to reuse if it's there. (google didn't find one) (I already have perl and php scripts to do it from certain

Re: [Talk-us] Massachusetts topo map

2009-04-29 Thread Bill Ricker
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 11:30 PM, Lars Ahlzen l...@ahlzen.com wrote: These areas are classified as FLATS (i.e. tidal flats) in the MassGIS hydrography dataset ah, well, they're clam flats with added sand for decor. -- Bill n1...@arrl.net bill.n1...@gmail.com

Re: [Talk-us] Massachusetts topo map

2009-04-28 Thread Bill Ricker
I've been working on a topographic map based on OSM data, It's (currently) limited to the state of Massachusetts - fun! Very pretty. will need permalinks, I know a page that should link your render of Fourth Cliff. Day Blvd Beach in South Boston is rendering as a Swamp, as is Malibu Beach?

Re: [Talk-us] Blame me for JOSM yellowness

2009-04-25 Thread Bill Ricker
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Russ Nelson r...@cloudmade.com wrote: Okay, it's pretty clear that most people don't want this change implemented. but it's still the right thing to do. -- Bill n1...@arrl.net bill.n1...@gmail.com ___ Talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Blame me for JOSM yellowness

2009-04-24 Thread Bill Ricker
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Apollinaris Schoell ascho...@gmail.com wrote: 2. http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=121u8tcs=5 this is a residential road imported from tiger. have fun to drive here that does need surface condition and access tags. Maybe a bollard/chicane too. but if it's a

Re: [Talk-us] Historical locations

2009-04-04 Thread Bill Ricker
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Russ Nelson r...@cloudmade.com wrote: I'd prefer to see them left in, but with a :historic appended to the name of the tags.  In some cases, there remains evidence of the historical use, e.g. what was a schoolhouse is now a home. Certainly moving or cloning the

Re: [Talk-ca] [Talk-us] silly borders

2009-03-31 Thread Bill Ricker
 We should fix our fence. Ayuh. Good fences make good naaybahs. [1]  Shouldn't each border be a single way, with a relation for each adjacent region? around whom does it go clockwise? Shouldn't the entirety of a country's (state/province/county) be a (multi)polygon for area? Can that be

Re: [Talk-ca] [Talk-us] silly borders

2009-03-31 Thread Bill Ricker
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Matthew Schneider mlschnei...@bucketofbolts.net wrote: Great.  Which one's correct? looks to me like they were traced with subtly different projections that supposedly were squared up but didn't quite fit. E.g., Interesting factoid i just picked up - Warsaw

Re: [Talk-us] Province / State borders

2009-03-30 Thread Bill Ricker
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 6:59 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: Borders for Vermont and New York appear bolder than for Minnesota and Illinois.  Have they been tagged differently, or duplicated? an additional possibility is eastern borders are more wiggly following terrain as opposed to

Re: [Talk-us] silly borders

2009-03-30 Thread Bill Ricker
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Matthew Schneider mlschnei...@bucketofbolts.net wrote: Great.  Which one's correct? looks to me like they were traced with subtly different projections that supposedly were squared up but didn't quite fit. E.g., Interesting factoid i just picked up - Warsaw

[Talk-us] Boston Coastline leak? Re: Where next?

2009-01-30 Thread Bill Ricker
On http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Boston and the main map, it looks like we have a coastline lean in Boston. Bill On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Russ Nelson nel...@crynwr.com wrote: I have mapping parties booked for the following cities: 1/31: Potsdam, NY (a practice party in my

Re: [Talk-us] Boston Coastline leak? Re: Where next?

2009-01-30 Thread Bill Ricker
I don't think so. The Boston tile seems to switch between being all-water and being filled in based on who rendered it last, despite no significant change in data that I've observed. I'm pretty convinced that this is a rendering problem somewhere, not a coastline problem. Hmm. the Coastline

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