Re: [talk-au] 1. Proposing a bulk locality edit for new admin_level definitions (Dian ?gesson)

I fully support this bulk edit From: talk-au-requ...@openstreetmap.org Sent: Monday, May 9, 2022 8:32:00 PM To: talk-au@openstreetmap.org Subject: Talk-au Digest, Vol 179, Issue 35 Send Talk-au mailing list submissions to talk-au@openstreetmap.org To

Re: [talk-au] Talk-au Digest, Vol 179, Issue 32

Issue 30 (Luke Stewart) -- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 3 May 2022 14:35:55 +1000 From: Luke Stewart To: Anthony Panozzo Cc: "talk-au@openstreetmap.org" Subject: Re: [talk-au] Talk-au Digest, Vol 179, Issue 30 Message-ID:

Re: [talk-au] Talk-au Digest, Vol 179, Issue 30

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Re: [talk-au] Talk-au Digest, Vol 179, Issue 28

Issue 13 (Luke Stewart) -- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 3 May 2022 10:40:53 +1000 From: Luke Stewart To: Anthony Panozzo Cc: Dian ?gesson , "talk-au@openstreetmap.org" Subject: Re: [talk-au] Talk-au Digest, Vol 179, Issue 13 Message-ID: Content-Type: text/

Re: [talk-au] Talk-au Digest, Vol 179, Issue 13

That picture is about an intersection not a T-intersection lmao From: Dian Ågesson<mailto:m...@diacritic.xyz> Sent: Tuesday, 3 May 2022 9:59 AM To: Anthony Panozzo<mailto:pan...@outlook.com> Cc: Luke Stewart<mailto:suburbansilvervl...@gmail.com>; talk-au@openstreetmap.

Re: [talk-au] Talk-au Digest, Vol 179, Issue 13

No it is not because the road in front of the POV car in a one way road which is not allowed, it would even need you to drive for a little bit going the wrong way lmao. From: Luke Stewart<mailto:suburbansilvervl...@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, 3 May 2022 9:52 AM To: Anthony Panozzo<m

Re: [talk-au] Talk-au Digest, Vol 179, Issue 21

of Talk-au digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Talk-au Digest, Vol 179, Issue 13 (Luke Stewart) -- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 3 May 2022 09:58:28 +1000 From: Luke Stewart To: Anthony Panozzo Cc: Dian ?gesson , &quo

Re: [talk-au] Talk-au Digest, Vol 179, Issue 13

Yes at the median is fine, but not from where the point of view of that picture is. TheSwavu has allowed u-turns starting from exactly the point of view of that picture and back From: Luke Stewart<mailto:suburbansilvervl...@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, 3 May 2022 9:28 AM To: Anthony P

Re: [talk-au] Talk-au Digest, Vol 179, Issue 13

You are wrong, you can not do u-turns at t-intersections on a one way road From: Dian Ågesson<mailto:m...@diacritic.xyz> Sent: Tuesday, 3 May 2022 8:39 AM To: Anthony Panozzo<mailto:pan...@outlook.com> Cc: talk-au@openstreetmap.org<mailto:talk-au@openstreetmap.org> Subject:

[talk-au] TheSwavu

map.org You can reach the person managing the list at talk-au-ow...@openstreetmap.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Talk-au digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Talk-au Digest, Vol 179, Iss

Re: [talk-au] Talk-au Digest, Vol 179, Issue 13

o it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Talk-au digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Talk-au Digest, Vol 179, Issue 12 (Anthony Panozzo) -- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 2 May 2022 22:44:40 + From: Anthony

Re: [talk-au] Talk-au Digest, Vol 179, Issue 12

quot;Re: Contents of Talk-au digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: U-turn rules in South Australia (Was Re: Talk-au Digest, Vol 179, Issue 6) (Andrew Davidson) 2. TheSwavu (Anthony Panozzo) -- Message: 1 Date: Tu

[talk-au] TheSwavu

Vol 179, Issue 6) (Anthony Panozzo) 4. Re: U-turn rules in South Australia (Was Re: Talk-au Digest, Vol 179, Issue 6) (Anthony Panozzo) -- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 2 May 2022 22:50:24 +0100 From: Andy Townsend To: tal

Re: [talk-au] U-turn rules in South Australia (Was Re: Talk-au Digest, Vol 179, Issue 6)

uesday, May 3, 2022 7:30:50 AM To: Anthony Panozzo Cc: OpenStreetMap Subject: U-turn rules in South Australia (Was Re: [talk-au] Talk-au Digest, Vol 179, Issue 6) On Tue, 3 May 2022, 03:02 Anthony Panozzo, mailto:pan...@outlook.com>> wrote: I would like to report theswavu for this e

Re: [talk-au] U-turn rules in South Australia (Was Re: Talk-au Digest, Vol 179, Issue 6)

Andrew Davidson<mailto:thesw...@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, 3 May 2022 7:31 AM To: Anthony Panozzo<mailto:pan...@outlook.com> Cc: OpenStreetMap<mailto:talk-au@openstreetmap.org> Subject: U-turn rules in South Australia (Was Re: [talk-au] Talk-au Digest, Vol 179, Issue 6) On Tue, 3

[talk-au] user TheSwavu

est..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Talk-au Digest, Vol 179, Issue 7 (Anthony Panozzo) -- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 2 May 2022 17:04:51 + From: Anthony Panozzo To: "talk-au@openstreetmap.org" Subject: Re: [talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Talk-au Digest, Vol 179, Issue 7

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Re: [talk-au] Talk-au Digest, Vol 179, Issue 6

e edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Talk-au digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Talk-au Digest, Vol 179, Issue 3 (Anthony Panozzo) 2. Re: Talk-au Digest, Vol 179, Issue 3

Re: [talk-au] Talk-au Digest, Vol 179, Issue 3

. From: Dean Scott Sent: Monday, May 2, 2022 11:03:51 PM To: Anthony Panozzo ; talk-au@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: Talk-au Digest, Vol 179, Issue 3 Hi, what section of road has TheSwavu allowed u-turns? If you are referring to the intersection with traffic

Re: [talk-au] Talk-au Digest, Vol 179, Issue 3

ott...@outlook.com> Sent: Monday, 2 May 2022 11:03 PM To: Anthony Panozzo<mailto:pan...@outlook.com>; talk-au@openstreetmap.org<mailto:talk-au@openstreetmap.org> Subject: Re: Talk-au Digest, Vol 179, Issue 3 Hi, what section of road has TheSwavu allowed u-turns? If you are referring to

Re: [talk-au] Talk-au Digest, Vol 179, Issue 4

1. Re: New OSM Discourse site: community.osm.org (Simon Poole) 2. Re: Talk-au Digest, Vol 179, Issue 3 (Anthony Panozzo) 3. Re: Talk-au Digest, Vol 179, Issue 3 (Luke Stewart) -- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 2 May 2022 14:36:03

Re: [talk-au] Talk-au Digest, Vol 179, Issue 3

Reporting user TheSwavu | OpenStreetMap 2 hours ago he made this changeset Changeset: 120456255 | OpenStreetMap he has allowed u-turns

Re: [talk-au] Talk-au Digest, Vol 178, Issue 57

tal like "from" or "to" sometimes it's obvious what needs to be re-added, and sometimes actually deleting it is just fine because other tags (such as oneway) are doing the same job. Where you think a turn restriction has been deleted in error, perhaps it would help to comment why

Re: [talk-au] Talk-au Digest, Vol 178, Issue 55

o it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Talk-au digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Talk-au Digest, Vol 178, Issue 48 (Luke Stewart) -- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2022 22:07:00 +1000 From: Luke Stewart To: An

Re: [talk-au] Talk-au Digest, Vol 178, Issue 48

I didn’t realise you emailed me directly I am going to have to block you from doing so in the future, it’s against OSM au-talk policy From: Luke Stewart<mailto:suburbansilvervl...@gmail.com> Sent: Saturday, 30 April 2022 9:21 PM To: Anthony Panozzo<mailto:pan...@outlook.com>; OS

Re: [talk-au] Talk-au Digest, Vol 178, Issue 48

te: Sat, 30 Apr 2022 15:04:05 +1000 From: Dian ?gesson To: OSM Australian Talk List Subject: Re: [talk-au] Talk-au Digest, Vol 178, Issue 46 Message-ID: <06b0964db149a5343954af20fe2e3...@diacritic.xyz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed"

Re: [talk-au] Talk-au Digest, Vol 178, Issue 46

ictions (Was:Re: Talk-au Digest, Vol 178, Issue 44) Message-ID: <9d7c85e4-257e-f7b0-bd48-bf425c9c3...@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed On 30/4/22 00:45, Anthony Panozzo wrote: > This account is either a bot account or someone that thinks they kn

Re: [talk-au] Talk-au Digest, Vol 178, Issue 44

User TheSwavu This account is either a bot account or someone that thinks they know more than they actually do, every single time anybody does a routing correction this account comes along and “fixes” it based on “knowledge” from the notes, let me just say I looked over some of the edit this

Re: [talk-au] Talk-au Digest, Vol 175, Issue 22

Creating new Bus Stop nodes Is the consensus to remove the plaform tags from new nodes? From: talk-au-requ...@openstreetmap.org Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2022 10:30:11 PM To: talk-au@openstreetmap.org Subject: Talk-au Digest, Vol 175, Issue 22 Send Talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Talk-au Digest, Vol 175, Issue 15

My User name is Slice0 and I was the one who made the mass edit to Upgrade the Bus Stop nodes to current standards. I did not bring it up for discussion here because it has already been discussed and approved validator could consider a `public_transport=platform` way as routable · Issue #8760

Re: [Talk-us] admin_level and COGs, MPOs, SPDs, Home Rule

the towns are more important. On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 10:36 AM Greg Troxel wrote: > > Anthony Costanzo writes: > > > county. CT's counties have no associated government (anymore) but they > > are still commonly used for statistical purposes and they still have > > cultu

Re: [Talk-us] admin_level and COGs, MPOs, SPDs, Home Rule

Going to chime in here as someone who has lived the majority of his life in CT. I am quite familiar with CT's 8 counties and their geographic forms. But I only have a vague idea what a COG is and couldn't have told you offhand anything about where the boundaries between them are. I support the

Re: [Talk-us] Alaska Highway AK-2 tagging

On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 7:45 PM Paul Johnson wrote: > On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 6:35 PM Anthony Costanzo wrote: >> >> All of AK 2 between Fairbanks and the Canadian border is paved. I can >> vouch for this personally. > > OK, so that's kinda putting more weight on t

Re: [Talk-us] Talk-us Digest, Vol 145, Issue 6

> Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2019 18:21:59 -0600 > From: Paul Johnson > To: Joseph Eisenberg > Cc: "Eric H. Christensen" , "talk-us@openstreetmap.org" > > Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Alaska Highway AK-2 tagging > Message-ID: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > On Mon, Dec 16,

Re: [Talk-us] Talk-us Digest, Vol 141, Issue 22

> Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2019 07:09:25 -0500 > From: Paul Johnson > > On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 6:40 AM Joseph Eisenberg > wrote: > > > That's probably not relevant for anywhere in the USA (even in Alaska > > the main highways between cities are paved... right?) but it's a > > reminder that we can

[OSM-talk-fr] Relai de poste

retour. [1]: http://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/liste-des-points-de-contact-du-reseau-postal-francais-horaires-equipements-et-services-associes/ -- Anthony ___ Talk-fr mailing list Talk-fr@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk-fr] Présentation

Bonjour, Comme il est recommandé de le faire, je me présente. Je m'appelle Anthony, je contribue sur OSM sous le pseudonyme apapilon depuis 2010 de manière épisodique principalement sur les département du 35 et du 53. Voila j'ai rencontré quelques autres contributeurs dans la vrai vie et je

Re: [talk-au] Position magazine: looking for perspectives on G-NAF

ralian OSM community who would be appropriate. The result will be an article or articles about the subject for both Position magazine and Spatial Source. Cheers, Anthony Wallace Editor Position magazine + SpatialSource.com.au<http://www.spatialsource.com.au/> ---

Re: [Talk-us] U turn restrictions in areas

On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 1:03 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: That'd have to be some super-script, aware of sightlines What would you need besides elevation information in order to be able to more or less do that? ___ Talk-us mailing list

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Wiki Mapia Mass Upload

many parks, commercial areas, and graveyards seem to have 100% identical geometries to OSM Pre-fork or post-fork? That's one key question. On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 8:44 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Hi, On 15.09.2013 13:25, Simon Poole wrote: a) some proof of this actually

Re: [Talk-us] Neighborhoods / Zillow

On 2013-06-15 6:51 PM, Serge Wroclawski wrote: There is a growing number of OSM folks in the United States (myself included) who believe that government provided boundry data should be used for data products such as rendered maps and geocoders, but do not belong in OSM's core dataset (which

Re: [Talk-us] Neighborhoods / Zillow

It's not about mapping the sign, it's about mapping the neighborhood based on the sign. We don't map speed limit signs, we map the speed limits on the roads based on the signs. We don't map interstate signs, we map the name of the interstate. We don't map individual trees, we map forests. We

Re: [Talk-us] Neighborhoods / Zillow

On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: Could we use either Geonames or Zillow to drive improvement to neighborhood name coverage in OSM? Using Zillow wouldn't be an improvement. Where I live, Zillow has the same incorrect information as the TIGER CDP (which I

Re: [Talk-us] parcel data next steps

On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Greg Troxel g...@ir.bbn.com wrote: Brian May b...@mapwise.com writes: I also think we need a little bit more sophisticated Data Catalog than a google spreadsheet. Email and a wiki page sounds good to me for coordination. Maybe we can bring it up in a Mappy

Re: [Talk-us] Turn restriction dispute

I would suggest inviting him back on the mailing lists, with the knowledge that being banned from the mailing lists means being banned from OSM. This situation where he is allowed to edit, but he isn't allowed to join the mailing lists to discuss his edits, is an utter failure. On Sun, Feb 10,

Re: [Talk-us] Addresses with no house number

This and many other annoying addressing schemes used to be common, but I thought the enhanced 911 system did away with this sort of thing. I did a quick google search and I can't find any address for that school though. On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: A

[Talk-us] Fwd: Anyone ever talked about adding more Land Ownership data to OSM?

On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 11:19 PM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: That doesn't mean it can't be used alongside it. This land ownership data (assuming it's licensed properly) can be rendered on the same map as OSM data (there are many examples of using TileMill to mix data sources in

Re: [Talk-us] Difficult USA mapper(s)

On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Dave Hansen d...@sr71.net wrote: On 11/02/2012 09:09 AM, Anthony wrote: Might this not be part of the problem? Why do we allow someone to edit but not to contribute to the mailing list? Doesn't that promote exactly the type of behavior that some people

Re: [Talk-us] Difficult USA mapper(s)

On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Dave Hansen d...@sr71.net wrote: On 11/02/2012 01:11 PM, Anthony wrote: I don't get it. If the problem is that you don't like the way he edits, how is blocking him from the mailing list, but allowing him to edit, the proper solution? The times that I have

Re: [Talk-us] Difficult USA mapper(s)

On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: DWG has the administrative tools to block an account. What we don't have is a clear rule stating that we can block an account for being difficult. Questions for the US mapping community: 1) Do you want DWG to act on

Re: [Talk-us] Difficult USA mapper(s)

On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 7:52 PM, Russ Nelson nel...@crynwr.com wrote: So, as a generalized example of a specific instance that I have in mind, I added some tags to some ways which reflected data that anybody could verify from multiple sources with a little bit of research. I didn't put a

Re: [Talk-us] Difficult USA mapper(s)

I'm not sure there is anyone *banned* from the lists. On moderation, maybe, but so long as the emails are eventually going through that seems okay. On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 9:16 PM, James Mast rickmastfa...@hotmail.com wrote: If I think I know who this is all about, maybe he should be un-banned

Re: [Talk-us] Difficult USA mapper(s)

On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 8:23 PM, Russ Nelson nel...@crynwr.com wrote: Anthony writes: The key question is, which key was right? No. Without getting too specific, my key was one of the most commonly-used keys, while e's key was one e invented. Without getting specific, how can we figure

[talk-au] suburb boundaries

Hello all, I would like to ask what the status of the suburb boundaries is? https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalogue/ABS_Data user pnorman (on IRC) has offered to import this data if nobody knows how to do it___ Talk-au mailing list

Re: [Talk-us] Tags for Emergency Interstate

On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Brad Neuhauser brad.neuhau...@gmail.com wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_route#Emergency_detour_routes Also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detour#Permanent_detours ___ Talk-us mailing list

Re: [Talk-us] Discardable TIGER tags

On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 1:21 PM, william skora skorasau...@gmail.com wrote: Tiger:tlid - Could be removed. I've had newbies ask me at mapping parties what it means, I haven't been able to answer them. I haven't seen any use for its inclusion at this point. FWIW, I strongly support removing

Re: [Talk-us] Discardable TIGER tags

I'm all for upload_uuid being removed automatically. As for tiger:separated, is it possible to remove the tag only if it's set to no? The 1.4% that are set to something else should probably be reviewed manually. On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 3:33 AM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote: Some

Re: [Talk-us] Discardable TIGER tags

On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: I'm all for upload_uuid being removed automatically. As for tiger:separated, is it possible to remove the tag only if it's set to no? The 1.4% that are set

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: [OSM-dev] Licence redaction ready to begin

On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Kevin Kenny kken...@nycap.rr.com wrote: The culture of OSM seems to be veering from bad data happens, and when it does, other mappers fix it, to we have to protect the map from the mappers. Not from mappers, from disruptive bots.

Re: [Talk-us] Rails with trails

On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: On 7/3/2012 4:11 PM, Anthony wrote: What if it's an abandoned railway which is adjacent to a not-abandoned railway? Then it's already tagged as a rail trail. Which tag should be used, though

[Talk-us] Duplicate GNIS points

/?lat=35.081997lon=-106.61987zoom=18layers=M University Art Museum (gnis:feature_id=929517) Jonson Gallery of the University Art Museum (gnis:feature_id=929518) Jonson Gallery (gnis:feature_id=933296) -- Anthony J. Bentley ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER road expansion code

On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 11:20 PM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: W and W Industrial Rd expands to West and W Industrial Road, since W is the direction_prefix, but the second W is unaccounted for, the script doesn't know if that is supposed to be W or West (and neither do I). The old

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER road expansion code

On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 7:05 AM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: What percentage of roads, where the old script would have punted, are now being expanded correctly? The new script is up now. I used Maryland as a test

Re: [Talk-us] Fixing TIGER street name abbreviations

On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 4:21 PM, andrzej zaborowski balr...@gmail.com wrote: It checks suffixes starting from the end, so if you have St something St E or St something St East, it'll only check E or East and then St and then stop because something is not a known suffix. So Calle Ave Maria

Re: [Talk-us] Fixing TIGER street name abbreviations

On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 4:21 PM, andrzej zaborowski balr...@gmail.com wrote: It checks suffixes starting from the end, so if you have St something St E or St something St East, it'll only check E or East and then St and then stop

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER road expansion code

On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: It's worth noting that any errors are already there as errors in the TIGER tags. So, had the TIGER import been done properly in the first place, these errors would be in the name tags as well. This seems to be the

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER road expansion code

On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 6:01 PM, Mike N nice...@att.net wrote: On 5/12/2012 5:54 PM, Anthony wrote: If so, this is good, but it does mean that road names are going to get out of sync, if, for instance, tiger:name_base was removed from some of the ways and not removed from others

Re: [Talk-us] Fixing TIGER street name abbreviations

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 11:45 PM, Dale Puch dale.p...@gmail.com wrote: Clarity!  The abbreviations are just that, they mean the full word, and are spoken that way, but written and displayed as the abbreviation.  I also disagree I have never know anyone that said whatever A V E  they do not

Re: [Talk-us] Fixing TIGER street name abbreviations

On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: The only way to capture the full information is to have additional tags telling you what the base is.  And if you do that, abbreviating or not abbreviating doesn't matter. And if you want to avoid tremendous redundancy, the way

Re: [Talk-us] Fixing TIGER street name abbreviations

On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Minh Nguyen m...@1ec5.org wrote: On 2012-05-11 6:45 AM, Anthony wrote: The only way to capture the full information is to have additional tags telling you what the base is.  And if you do that, abbreviating or not abbreviating doesn't matter. That's similar

Re: [Talk-us] Fixing TIGER street name abbreviations

On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 1:35 PM, Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net wrote: At 2012-05-10 19:40, Anthony wrote: On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Mike N nice...@att.net wrote:  The only question is what to do about those cases where it's only referred to locally as 'Ave

Re: [Talk-us] Fixing TIGER street name abbreviations

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 3:28 PM, Dale Puch dale.p...@gmail.com wrote: As a quick and dirty test I took Florida and Illinois road data from cloudmade.  A simple replace of the top 7 or so suffixes at the end of the name an with a space in front of it resulted in over 700,000 name changes for

Re: [Talk-us] Fixing TIGER street name abbreviations

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Mike N nice...@att.net wrote: On 5/10/2012 10:19 PM, Anthony wrote: What I'm questioning is why it doesn't apply.  If the people call it Whatever Ave, shouldn't the data read Whatever Ave?  Most of the US wouldn't call it 'Whatever Ave'; when spoken

Re: [Talk-us] Fixing TIGER street name abbreviations

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 7:28 AM, Mike N nice...@att.net wrote: On 5/1/2012 11:49 PM, Anthony wrote:  That assumes that the TIGER tags will always be present to assist with  proper automatic expansion. I'm not sure what you mean, because I am not making that assumption at all.  You

Re: [Talk-us] Fixing TIGER street name abbreviations

. Anthony ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Fixing TIGER street name abbreviations

On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 11:31 PM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: Doctor Martin Luther King Bolevard is one thing.  Drive Martin Luther King Boulevard is another. And if we're going to make so many mistakes (1/1000 means thousands of mistakes), I'd rather it just be left as Dr Martin Luther King

Re: [Talk-us] Fixing TIGER street name abbreviations

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 11:28 PM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: There have been some limited automated expansions, though they can be problematic, because abbreviations can mean many possible things.  Expanding

Re: [Talk-us] Fixing TIGER street name abbreviations

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: The other point that's being missed is that we as a community already accept an error rate in our data that's far larger than any potential mistake rate on a well written script. If the script makes one error in 1000

Re: [Talk-us] Fixing TIGER street name abbreviations

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: On 5/1/2012 12:59 PM, Anthony wrote: Automatically expanding abbreviations is a terrible idea.  If an abbreviation is unambiguous, then it can be expanded during the preprocessing step.  If, on the other hand

Re: [Talk-us] Fixing TIGER street name abbreviations

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: On 5/1/2012 1:23 PM, Anthony wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Nathan Edgars IInerou...@gmail.com  wrote: On 5/1/2012 12:59 PM, Anthony wrote: Automatically expanding abbreviations is a terrible idea

Re: [Talk-us] Fixing TIGER street name abbreviations

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: And actually, if the bot is going to be smart enough to look at the history, to find deleted TIGER tags, then maybe there is some advantage to doing this during the preprocessing step (which would often not have access to history

Re: [Talk-us] Fixing TIGER street name abbreviations

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Mike N nice...@att.net wrote: On 5/1/2012 1:21 PM, Anthony wrote: The preprocessing step between downloading the data from OSM and doing something with it.  That assumes that the TIGER tags will always be present to assist with proper automatic expansion

Re: [Talk-us] Fixing TIGER street name abbreviations

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: The TIGER tags are not exactly standard OSM tags that belong in the database. Better that we get rid of them at the same time as we expand

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Check my junctions - looking for someone to review my plates of spaghetti -- responding to feedback

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 7:31 AM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know about Pennsylvania, but here in Florida a single white line does not legally prevent crossing. But even if it did, we don't map a double yellow as a median. *You* don't map a double yellow (I assume you

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Check my junctions - looking for someone to review my plates of spaghetti

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 11:20 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/23/2012 9:52 PM, dies38...@mypacks.net wrote: Yuck. A separate way should not be used for a turn lane (unless that lane is separated by barriers or maybe a wide striped-off area). Corollary: a separated

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Check my junctions - looking for someone to review my plates of spaghetti -- responding to feedback

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/24/2012 8:33 AM, Anthony wrote: On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 7:31 AM, Nathan Edgars IInerou...@gmail.com  wrote: I don't know about Pennsylvania, but here in Florida a single white line does not legally prevent

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Check my junctions - looking for someone to review my plates of spaghetti -- responding to feedback

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/24/2012 10:24 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: Florida's driver's manual says that crossing any double-white line is prohibited.  You're confusing double white with single white. No, I'm not. And I agree with Mikel

Re: [Talk-us] Address improvement through imports?

involves requesting it from towns Sent with Verizon Mobile Email ---Original Message--- From: Anthony o...@inbox.org Sent: 11/14/2011 9:36 pm To: Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com Cc: talk-us@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Address improvement through imports? On Sun, Nov 13

Re: [Talk-us] Address improvement through imports?

On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 10:45 PM, Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com wrote: The parcel data is a superset of address data... Not when there's more than one address to a parcel, which around here unfortunately is a common occurrence in exactly the places where address information is most useful

Re: [Talk-us] Address improvement through imports?

On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Steven Johnson sejohns...@gmail.com wrote: The Census Bureau, through their partnerships and liaisons with state local govt, are acutely aware of the need and importance of address data. They are in fact open to finding ways to make the data available and still

Re: [Talk-us] Address improvement through imports?

On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Steven Johnson sejohns...@gmail.com wrote: Doubt very seriously a FOIA request would work. Since the data are subject to Title XIII restrictions, it will likely take an act of Congress to make them available. What exactly are the restrictions? I don't see how

Re: [Talk-us] Address improvement through imports?

On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 8:19 PM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Steven Johnson sejohns...@gmail.com wrote: Doubt very seriously a FOIA request would work. Since the data are subject to Title XIII restrictions, it will likely take an act of Congress to make them

Re: [Talk-us] Address improvement through imports?

Hmm... Baldridge v Shapiro, a Supreme Court ruling: The unambiguous language of the confidentiality provisions of the Census Act -- focusing on the information or data that constitutes the statistical computation -- as well as the Act's legislative history, indicates that Congress contemplated

Re: [Talk-us] Address improvement through imports?

On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 9:52 PM, Mike Thompson miketh...@gmail.com wrote: Any idea where I would send the request? http://www.census.gov/po/www/foia/foiaweb.htm Good luck.  Census will fight the request. Earlier comments about Title XIII apply. Based on that Supreme Court ruling, and the

Re: [Talk-us] Address improvement through imports?

On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 1:04 AM, Val Kartchner val...@gmail.com wrote: As long as we have all of the addresses, we could use satellite data to align them with houses.  Is this the type of data we have in TIGER? It isn't, but I wonder whether or not a FOIA request for a list of all addresses

Re: [talk-ph] Easy way to test routing on OSM data

Cool! exactly what I'm looking for. My brother-in-law came here in the metro as part of his advance training. He needs to drive around frequently so I installed GarminXT+OSM on his phone. The tool is doing a great job and it's bringing him from place to place. But like all gps do, he's having

Re: [Talk-us] Address improvement through imports?

On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 11:36 PM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: Anthony, my recollection is you're banned from editing our map, so don't worry about how we split or don't split the roads. I still edit the map. I am not banned. ___ Talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Address improvement through imports?

On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 11:40 PM, Michal Migurski m...@stamen.com wrote: I'm not a fan of splitting ways Maybe we should remove the ability from the editors, then. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-us] Address improvement through imports?

On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 12:02 AM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote: On 11/1/11 11:50 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: Is there a way for mapnik to only render features of a certain class if there's not more than a certain density of them? i don't know about that, but i certainly think

Re: [Talk-us] Address improvement through imports?

On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Steven Johnson sejohns...@gmail.com wrote: Up to now, we've been talking largely about addresses as point features. However, one thing I think would be good to have is block ranges on streets. What I mean is a tag that indicates this is the 1000 block, the 1100

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