Re: [OSM-talk] Extending the 'geo:' uri scheme: Adding parameter 'osmid'

think it would. The only reason it even comes close to making sense for OSM is because the users see those IDs much more often, and even then I still don't see the value in it, with the potential of it causing more problems than it solves. -- Shawn K. Quinn http://www.rantroulette.com http

Re: [Talk-transit] Historic railways and route=train - is this good practice?

s to say this doesn't belong in OSM at all, but rather OpenHistoricalMap or a similar project. -- Shawn K. Quinn http://www.rantroulette.com http://www.skqrecordquest.com ___ Talk-transit mailing list Talk-transit@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-transit

Re: [OSM-talk] id Editor auto-converts split polygons into MP relation

a closed way into two separate closed ways. It's entirely possible the user wants to have two separate buildings (happens frequently when MapWithAI/RapID mistakenly decides that two or three (or more) closely packed buildings are one big building). -- Shawn K. Quinn http://www.rantroulette

Re: [Talk-us] Recent Trunk road edits

her wide-scale vandalism from the looks of it. -- Shawn K. Quinn http://www.rantroulette.com http://www.skqrecordquest.com ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [OSM-talk] Presenting MapComplete - a new easy-to-use editor

On 8/26/20 13:52, Pieter Vander Vennet wrote: > Hey everyone, > > I would like to present to you my newly built editor *MapComplete. There is already an editor called StreetComplete, and the potential for confusion concerns me. -- Shawn K. Quinn http://www.rantroulette

Re: [Talk-us] Hands Off !, respect my (our) space

visited the entire US in the timeframe it took to upload that data? You do realize that we have a lot of people from Amazon Logistics editing the US as well? (Granted, mostly adding driveways and other service roads, but it is still a contribution to the map.) -- Shawn K. Quinn http://www.

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

parate dump. > > If we had such a system I believe the map data quality could increase > considerably by making it dead simple to hide hide old unverified data > from e.g. openstreetmap.org. A high-quality map we can be proud of could > also give an impetus to local mappers to revisit t

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

e quality control department but a lot of things added to OSM will be added there first before any third parties pick them up. That makes references a bit problematic, IMO. -- Shawn K. Quinn http://www.rantroulette.com http://www.skqrecordquest.com ___ tal

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

espucci or another app right then and there. Yes, I do close a lot of my own notes, and I suspect I'm not the only one. -- Shawn K. Quinn http://www.rantroulette.com http://www.skqrecordquest.com ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://l

Re: [OSM-talk] Separating all metadata from coordinates in OSM into a wikibase instance (Was: Re: Roadmap for deprecation of name tags in OSM)

'd also vote no and if this somehow came to pass anyway, I feel so strongly about it that I'd consider starting a new project and forking the current data model (a la FOSM around the time of the license change). -- Shawn K. Quinn http://www.rantroulette.com http://www.skqrec

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal for Software Dispute Resolution Panel

first 2-3 years or so I contributed to OSM and still use iD from time to time (mainly to make quick edits and map turn restrictions). -- Shawn K. Quinn http://www.rantroulette.com http://www.skqrecordquest.com ___ talk mailing list talk

Re: [Talk-us] Marking structure as damaged or condemned

the building is demolished, you can change the tag to not:building=house (or whatever it was). This is what I've seen other mappers do when the imagery still shows buildings that a survey has revealed are no longer standing. I think demolished:building=house is also a valid tag as well. -- Sh

Re: [Talk-us] Google earth, Google maps

or telemarketing list) for > use in a service that is a substitute for, or a substantially similar > service to, Google Maps/Google Earth; This is one reason why you're not allowed to use it as a source. If you need to measure distance, use the measuring tool in JOSM. -

Re: [Talk-us] Taking a break and a call for help

know off-list of any "gotchas" for mapping Oklahoma. -- Shawn K. Quinn http://www.rantroulette.com http://www.skqrecordquest.com ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Updating opening_hours for COVID-19.

are known, with the understanding that people should know locations will be changing their hours because of the situation and OSM's data will by necessity be out of date for this item. -- Shawn K. Quinn http://www.rantroulette.com http://www.skqrecordquest.com ___

Re: [Talk-us] When is your doctor a clinic?

or I'm not on that list; why is healthcare=* no longer being rendered? -- Shawn K. Quinn http://www.rantroulette.com http://www.skqrecordquest.com ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER-completeness visualizer?

etimes outdated) satellite/aerial photos and we would probably still be way behind where we are with the TIGER import. If it had been on me to trace my neighborhood from a blank slate when I first started mapping, I might well have given up on OSM at that point. -- Shawn K. Quinn http://www

Re: [Talk-us] Need someone in the south to review an edit

his changeset are to remove duplicates added by mistake previously. -- Shawn K. Quinn http://www.rantroulette.com http://www.skqrecordquest.com ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Proposed mechanical edit - remove is_in:continent in USA

tag should be removed to avoid confusing newbies and > discourage adding new instances of this undesirable tag. > > I propose to run an automated edit restricted to USA that will remove > all instances of this tag. [...] I'm in favor; good riddance. (Cue "Ding Don

Re: [Talk-us] motel vs. hotel

parking or charges for parking, whereas motels as I know them never charge for parking, and are often farther away from the business districts and airports. -- Shawn K. Quinn http://www.rantroulette.com http://www.skqrecordquest.com ___ Talk-us ma

Re: [Talk-us] Short 'connector' roads -- _link or not?

crossing (the third example in the original, and the one I was commenting about earlier), I will make it a *_link instead of service if it connects two service roads, so routing works as expected. -- Shawn K. Quinn http://www.rantroulette.com http://www.skqrecordquest.com

Re: [Talk-us] Short 'connector' roads -- _link or not?

ential, which do not have a related *_link. -- Shawn K. Quinn http://www.rantroulette.com http://www.skqrecordquest.com ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Strange city boundary: Lee, Illinois

On 11/14/18 07:46, wambac...@posteo.de wrote: > are there cities (admin level 8) in the USA which  part of two counties? I'm pretty sure parts of Houston, TX, extend past the Harris County boundaries. -- Shawn K. Quinn http://www.rantroulette.com http://www.skqrecordquest.

Re: [Talk-us] Possible roundabouts?

an error if a junction=roundabout has two or fewer connections. I am in favor of tagging this as a turning loop (though there needs to be a better way of tagging ways as turning loops, as the current method conflicts with the real highway type). -- Shawn K. Quinn http://www.rantroulette

[Talk-us] Discriminatory remarks was Re: Senseless [nationality], again

on a forum like this. -- Shawn K. Quinn http://www.rantroulette.com http://www.skqrecordquest.com ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

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

cles are still required to register) and there's no toll being collected. Adding fee=no is just going to confuse people even more. To me, it makes as much sense as highway=footway and foot=no. -- Shawn K. Quinn <skqu...@rushpost.com> http://www.rantroulette.com http://www.skqrecordquest.com

Re: [Talk-us] Help fight advertising

uot; when ready to move on). My Java programming skills are nearly non-existent, but it is tempting to (re-)learn enough to write a plugin to automate the process from within JOSM, perhaps naming it something like "AdTerminator". -- Shawn K. Quinn

Re: [Talk-us] Redacting 75, 000 street names contributed by user chdr

oughts? Change the "name" key to "fixme" if there is no fixme tag already on those roads. -- Shawn K. Quinn <skqu...@rushpost.com> http://www.rantroulette.com http://www.skqrecordquest.com ___ Talk-us mai

Re: [Talk-us] Trunk

d access but not up to full freeway specifications. West of Detering the speed limit drops and it goes through Memorial Park, but there's still a relatively limited number of intersections.) -- Shawn K. Quinn <skqu...@rushpost.com> http://www.rantroulette.

Re: [Talk-us] Requesting to remove stoplines in San Jose

nvey this information. In the case of a nearby highway=traffic_signals I could maybe see road_marking=stopline, but not under highway=*. -- Shawn K. Quinn <skqu...@rushpost.com> http://www.rantroulette.com http://www.skqrecordquest.com ___ T

Re: [Talk-us] Open survey on participation biases in OSM

ject which everyone feels welcome to be a part of, and which does not have a noticeable bias towards either gender or any given race. Also, please realize just because women are welcome to participate in OSM, does not necessarily mean that some women will *feel* they are welcome. -- Shawn K.

[Talk-us] Townships (was Re: Talk-us Digest, Vol 116, Issue 44)

iously had been running under the auspices of some other agency). -- Shawn K. Quinn <skqu...@rushpost.com> http://www.rantroulette.com http://www.skqrecordquest.com ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Best practice in Lane Editing 3

riving if attempted with any non-trivial amount of other traffic on the road and observed. I would add a turn restriction just for the sake of routing software that would route hapless motorists on such a turn. -- Shawn K. Quinn <skqu...@rushpost.com> http://www.rantroule

Re: [Talk-us] SEO Damage to OSM

think calling it "SEO damage" is charitable. This is hit-and-run vandalism done by people who happen to be engaged in SEO as a business, and it needs to be handled similarly to how we would normally handle vandalism. -- Shawn K. Quinn <skqu...@rushpost.com> http://www.rantroule

Re: [Talk-us] Best practice in Lane Editing 2

On 06/20/2017 06:43 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: > Depends on the region. Oregon, Oklahoma, and California often includes > the arrows anyway. Texas often includes the arrows as well. -- Shawn K. Quinn <skqu...@rushpost.com> http://www.rantroulette.com http://www.skqrec

Re: [Talk-us] Need advice on a project i've taken on

ntly on hold due to concern from other mappers. I'm aware that mass > edits on tiger data is not helpful due to it being hard to tell if it > was touched since the tiger import. What exactly is the rationale behind removing the zip code data? -- Shawn K. Quinn <skqu...@rushpost.com> http

Re: [Talk-us] Edits by user jbarker2001 in Georgia

rs that need cleaning up as well. Doesn't seem > malicious at least, so hopefully comments on his(?) changesets will have > an educational effect. If he/she wants to do fantasy/fiction, there's always OpenGeoFiction. -- Shawn K. Quinn <skqu...@rushpost.com> http://w

Re: [Talk-us] Response from TIGER about "driveways

rf" in my changeset comments. It's the first thing that came to my mind, as cats (usually) cover their excrement in the wild. Though, I can agree that sometimes, cleaning these up on the map can be about as odious and tedious as "cleaning the cat box" in real life..

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

efore it wipes out too much additional work to do so. Also leave the user who did this a polite but direct comment on the changeset that This Is Not Cool. -- Shawn K. Quinn <skqu...@rushpost.com> http://www.rantroulette.com http://www.skqrecordquest.com ___

Re: [Talk-us] [Talk-ca] Telenav mapping turn restrictions

t the intersection itself in those cases, though. -- Shawn K. Quinn <skqu...@rushpost.com> http://www.rantroulette.com http://www.skqrecordquest.com ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] "toll" related tags appropriate for park entrances?

n the other hand, I can see it being quite possible this is going to throw some routing programs for a loop when "avoid tolls" is selected. -- Shawn K. Quinn <skqu...@rushpost.com> http://www.rantroulette.com http://www.skqrecordquest.com _

Re: [Talk-us] weeklyOSM #334 06/12/2016-12/12/2016

just retrieved it, there was no English version, I got what appears to be Spanish. -- Shawn K. Quinn <skqu...@rushpost.com> http://www.rantroulette.com http://www.skqrecordquest.com ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Deleting / Closing / Renaming all places in a chain

TX, US) James Coney Island rebranding to JCI Grill. The former, I am pretty sure is a done deal by now. On the latter, I'm not sure if they are done rebranding chain-wide yet. We also need to confirm any remaining Cookie Bouquet locations, as these were supposed to have rebranded to Cookies By Design by no

Re: [Talk-us] Mappers in Idaho!

On Mon, 2016-08-08 at 11:15 -0600, Martijn van Exel wrote: > Ahem. Teton County is in Wyoming not Idaho. This is emberrassing! Actually, there is a Teton County, Idaho: http://tetoncountyidaho.gov/ -- Shawn K. Quinn <skqu...@rushpo

Re: [Talk-us] Common names of highways do not match road signs.

d by a person rather map generation software. Direction > is north,south, east,west. I would prefer signed:name, signed:ref, signed:icon, signed:destination, signed:text. This is much more flexible than a tag that has three components that must be supplied in order. -- Shawn K.

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Slack

sing google maps. because they are > more shiny, you know. and probably work better on iphones. Last I checked, Wikipedia is usually linking coordinates to Geohack which in turn allows the user to select the mapping service of his/her choice. One of which, not surprisingly, happens to be OS

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Slack

prefer to stick with IRC or its successor. I feel it is contrary to the mission of OSM to directly support proprietary licensed software. (Why do you think I'm mapping on OSM and not fixing problems on Google Maps?) -- Shawn K. Quinn <skqu...@rus

Re: [Talk-us] Caliparks re-tagging paths?

eatures as an experiment to feed into the discussion that > we're all having now. I oppose the use of highway=social_path. There are better ways to accomplish the same thing without breaking existing applications. -- Shawn K. Quinn <skqu...@rushpost.com> ___

Re: [Talk-us] users cam98 and cameronk1998 causing issues around austin

r causing trouble in the past as well. -- Shawn K. Quinn <skqu...@rushpost.com> ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Papa John's Delivery Boundary in OSM

If it really is a pizza restaurant's delivery boundary, then it should just be deleted. Is there anything to indicate it might actually be something else? Original message From: Elliott Plack Date: 2015/12/24 20:20 (GMT-06:00) To:

Re: [Talk-us] Current Texas State Highway ref is incorrect

..) Changing back to "SH xxx" is a huge step backwards and I don't see any good reason for it. -- Shawn K. Quinn <skqu...@rushpost.com> ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Find missing roads

parking *or* roads *or mixed. That said, I see the potential for this to be very useful. I added a couple of roads with it in the Houston, TX, area already. -- Shawn K. Quinn <skqu...@rushpost.com> ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] README tag with editor support

are known to post-date the aerial photography by a significant amount of time. Also, I don't see anything in the terms of use for Bing's imagery that prohibit us from marking specific tiles as out-of-date based on our data. Did I miss something? -- Shawn K. Quinn skqu...@rushpost.com

Re: [Talk-us] Deletion rampage by a certain user

. (with help from someone on IRC) -- Shawn K. Quinn skqu...@rushpost.com ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Deletion rampage by a certain user

On Wed, 2015-05-20 at 20:27 +, Clay Smalley wrote: That is in fact on the list, and it's actually the changeset that I reverted. Indeed it is, I'm going cross-eyed from looking at changeset numbers. My apologies. -- Shawn K. Quinn skqu...@rushpost.com

Re: [Talk-us] Deletion rampage by a certain user

and see withdraw additions tainted by Google data or similar, we probably wouldn't be having this discussion right now. -- Shawn K. Quinn skqu...@rushpost.com ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [Talk-us] Deletion rampage by a certain user

we need to investigate more on that. Good idea, and we definitely do. -- Shawn K. Quinn skqu...@rushpost.com ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Misspelled names

as Target with a grocery store, unless it's a Walmart Neighborhood Market which is clearly just shop=supermarket. The last Walmart I tagged was shop=department_store but it probably should be shop=department_store;supermarket instead. -- Shawn K. Quinn skqu...@rushpost.com

[Talk-us] Edits near Lexington, KY?

of the garbage edits that come with it offset the good edits. And to put it bluntly, the higher the grade level this is coming from, the more disappointed I will be regarding our public education system in 2014. http://www.openstreetmap.org/history#map=13/38.0462/-84.4885 -- Shawn K. Quinn skqu

Re: [Talk-us] State highway refs (was Re: New I.D Feature)

highway multiplexes for a stretch, but at least one might be able to figure out which highway one's supposed to stay on when it's ref'd the same across the board. When it's not, it becomes much trickier. -- Shawn K. Quinn skqu...@rushpost.com ___ Talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Directional suffixes on roads: yes or no?

not be an issue there depending on how they decide to assign addresses along it. -- Shawn K. Quinn skqu...@rushpost.com ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] User randomly adding speed limits across the US

on the speed limit signs. -- Shawn K. Quinn skqu...@rushpost.com ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

[Talk-us] State highway refs (was Re: New I.D Feature)

abbreviation reference? 2. Which states spell out the name in the ref? I know Kansas uses K-123, and Michigan uses M-123. Are there any others to be careful of? -- Shawn K. Quinn skqu...@rushpost.com ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-us] New I.D Feature

to the don't abbreviate rule but it does make some sense at least to me. -- Shawn K. Quinn skqu...@rushpost.com ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] New I.D Feature

not be there. That, and it can be cumbersome. -- Shawn K. Quinn skqu...@rushpost.com ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Vandalism

, as the user changed a street to advertise their business. It may be unintentional but the change had what amounted to a vandalistic effect. -- Shawn K. Quinn skqu...@rushpost.com ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https

Re: [Talk-us] Vandalism

object, there appeared to be ad-copy-like text in this edit. Do we not already have a rule against that specifically? -- Shawn K. Quinn skqu...@rushpost.com ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [Talk-us] Vandalism

a reasonable doubt of being a good faith newbie attempt gone wrong. Did anybody try reaching out to the user and offering to help? I reverted the edit (to minimize the damage), but I'm not nearly as comfortable doing the reaching out part at the moment. -- Shawn K. Quinn skqu...@rushpost.com

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Highly suspicious edit

not just block it permanently with a note inviting the user to contact you under his/her *real* login? I see no good reason to have a username Delete Mine And I Delete Yours. I think it goes against the spirit of OSM as being overly confrontational on its face. -- Shawn K. Quinn skqu...@rushpost.com

Re: [Talk-us] Oklahoma State Highway 18A

which at one time *used* to be OK 18. -- Shawn K. Quinn skqu...@rushpost.com ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Why we really don't get new users

;ice_cream shop=chocolate That's the best I can think of. Yes, it's a bit ugly. 4. The wiki is a terrible platform for documenting the ontology because it's not machine readable and it's just a slow way to get information. What do you propose we replace it with? -- Shawn K. Quinn skqu

Re: [Talk-us] State ref tags on ways: Use of unique ISO/ANSI/USPS 2-letter state codes in RELATIONS as well as WAYS?

), the one-off NASA Road 1 (which I can concede is a bit unusual), the semi-standard Spur and Loop, and normal state highway. Am I missing any? -- Shawn K. Quinn skqu...@rushpost.com ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https

Re: [Talk-us] OSM Data Consumer

doesn't come up) Nice. I might have to swing by one of these if I'm in the DFW area anytime soon. Unfortunately they appear to have zippo in Houston. -- Shawn K. Quinn skqu...@rushpost.com ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https

Re: [Talk-us] Proposal to Remove Two Duplicate Route Relations in Texas

are absolutely, positively sure they are duplicates, I say go ahead and prune. -- Shawn K. Quinn skqu...@rushpost.com ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Prioritizing multi-banded route designators (multiple overlaps) on ways: the Principal route designator concept

want to hear *just* US 202 in that announcement, though, and think oh, I'm not taking that route I'm taking ME 17 -- oh, that's right, there's this one block of overlap, so maybe I am taking US 202. -- Shawn K. Quinn skqu...@rushpost.com ___ Talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Ferries

. It certainly isn't a service road except in a broad sense. There was agreement to tag the service=ferry to solve the problem. That wasn't my first choice but it works. How about highway=ferry_link then? -- Shawn K. Quinn skqu...@rushpost.com ___ Talk

Re: [Talk-us] Freeway directions

to south/north to west/east as you go around. (Same for Beltway 8/Sam Houston Tollway, for that matter.) -- Shawn K. Quinn skqu...@rushpost.com ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Interstate 64 and its spur interstates (I-64, I-264, I-464) changed to primary status in Virginia Beach, VA

you go ahead and do this for the more flagrantly vandalizing changes? If not, is there someone who can? Also, shouldn't the mapper in question have been at least temporarily blocked pending investigation by now? -- Shawn K. Quinn skqu...@rushpost.com

Re: [Talk-us] Shields are up!

the tiles set up in a pretty leaflet UI or something. Toby Most of them look pretty good. The Texas FM/RM road shields need work though (missing the black backgrounds), and I'm assuming Louisiana shields aren't done yet? -- Shawn K. Quinn skqu...@rushpost.com

[Talk-us] Trunk vs motorway for rural Interstates with grade crossings

be trunk? I'm slightly in favor of keeping the change back to motorway, but am willing to go along with a clear consensus either way. -- Shawn K. Quinn skqu...@rushpost.com ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-us] Turn restriction dispute

most of the users would either. Remember, garbage in, garbage out (GIGO). -- Shawn K. Quinn skqu...@rushpost.com ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] flyers / brochures

. -- Shawn K. Quinn - skqu...@rushpost.com - +1.832.533.0606 http://www.spectacularshawn.com ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Post bot cleanup

be a big help to find problems, especially if one can compare with an expected route between two points. -- Shawn K. Quinn skqu...@rushpost.com ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Whole-US Garmin Map update - 2012-07-07

trackers. Any modern BitTorrent client will also support DHT, PEX, and magnet links making a missing tracker an annoyance rather than a show-stopper; though it is possible to download public torrents given only the info hash, having a tracker can (and usually does) speed things up. -- Shawn K

Re: [Talk-us] An amusing story of a GNIS entry

://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/153418203/history I don't see the harm in leaving it in, especially after reading the story about it. -- Shawn K. Quinn skqu...@rushpost.com ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org

[Talk-us] Huffmeister Road near Cypress, TX

Anyone know why a huge chunk of Huffmeister Road near Cypress, Texas (US) is now missing? I have had no luck looking through the past changesets to see what happened and neither has anyone on IRC when I've asked. -- Shawn K. Quinn skqu...@rushpost.com

Re: [Talk-us] Abbreviation expansion - USS to United States Ship?

On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 12:33 -0400, Nathan Edgars II wrote: Is this a good idea? It looks really odd to me: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/9061339 I agree that it looks odd. Expand Drive perhaps, but expanding all of it looks rather awkward. -- Shawn K. Quinn skqu...@rushpost.com