Re: [Talk-us] reporting Pokemon Go related vandalism

Andy, Yesterday I responded to a months worth of new editors in a single day. Most of the edits were not vandalism although a few were. Some were exceptional with the amount of detail added. What I've noticed mostly is footpaths not connected to streets, buildings not being square and poorly

Re: [Talk-us] U.S.-Mexico border fence update

Michael, Sharing your new work on GitHub would be a good start. The community could look at the work and see how to best incorporate it into OSM. (We could tag the existing fence as before_trump and if anything actually gets built as by_trump. ) Clifford On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 2:13 PM, Michael

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Beware Pokemon users

On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 11:19 AM, Bill Ricker wrote: > > ​Traditional map copyright violation proof would be adding a Trap Close​ > ... do the have a map that shows name of feature that spawns critters? > Adding a nonsense footpath to no-where (shaped like a P ? ) in a >

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Beware Pokemon users

I've been seeing a number of new users adding paths and parks. I deleted three "parks" in Tacoma Washington just this morning. One was covering a residential area, another was a group of trees behind some houses and the third was a vacant lot. The area with the trees might have been an attempt to

Re: [OSM-talk] Beware Pokemon users

I've been seeing a number of new users adding paths and parks. I deleted three "parks" in Tacoma Washington just this morning. One was covering a residential area, another was a group of trees behind some houses and the third was a vacant lot. The area with the trees might have been an attempt to

Re: [Talk-us] An actual mini roundabout!

On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 6:38 PM, Bill Ricker wrote: > > Does it do harm to treat a mini as a regular roundabout in the land that > isn't even doing big roundabouts right yet? > Probably no harm but if you were a trucking company looking to deliver goods to an address was

Re: [Talk-us] An actual mini roundabout!

, Paul Johnson <ba...@ursamundi.org> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 1:04 AM, Clifford Snow <cliff...@snowandsnow.us> > wrote: > >> >> On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 10:21 PM, Paul Johnson <ba...@ursamundi.org> >> wrote: >> >>> That's got a curbed

Re: [Talk-us] An actual mini roundabout!

On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 10:21 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: > That's got a curbed truck apron in the middle, I wouldn't call that a > mini. When I added the roundabout, I agreed with you, but the more I drive through it, I've come to realize that it's really a mini. It's low

Re: [Talk-us] An actual mini roundabout!

Elliott, Here is a mini-roundabout [1] in my town along with an article [2] that talks about how much less it costs to install a mini-roundabout. [1] https://www.dropbox.com/s/1k2usg6abxi8kal/mini-roundabout.png?dl=0 [2] http://www.djc.com/news/co/12069069.html On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 4:52 PM,

Re: [OSM-talk] fixme -- by a specific date

Martijn, Following your lead, SR20 in Washington State is now closed from milepost 134 to 171 with a fixme to check in spring. I've signed up for an email to notify me when the road is reopened. FWIW, RS20 is in my backyard. I take it often. What would be nice is a tag or note that had a follow

[OSM-talk] South Korea Will Not Allow Google to Use Map Data

Just read on Yahoo [1] that South Korea will not give Google permission to use map data. Guess Google could always use OSM data, with attribution of course. [1] http://finance.yahoo.com/news/south-korea-rejects-google-request-mapping-data-034923060--finance.html -- @osm_seattle

Re: [Talk-us] Bulk import for large healthcare system in central PA

Justin, I'm guessing you have looked at the import guidelines [1], but if you haven't, you can find them on the wiki. The import guidelines talk about community involvement, licensing, documentation and the actual import. For community involvement, you might want to join us on the US Slack import

Re: [Talk-us] Whole-US Garmin Map update - 2016-09-11

On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 12:29 PM, OSM Volunteer stevea < stevea...@softworkers.com> wrote: > How about it, Dave? Might we see a truly complete North (+ Central) > American version fitting into 8 GB in the future? Please? Dave, I agree with Steve - if you could find time to include those in

[Talk-us] SoTM - Local Chapters Congress

I'm forwarding a message from Joost Schouppe inviting local organizers to attend and be a part of the Local Chapters Congress at SoTM Brussels. -- Forwarded message -- From: joost schouppe Date: 2016-09-06 9:48 GMT+02:00 Subject: State of the Local Map

Re: [Talk-ca] Mysterious GPS traces

On Sun, Sep 4, 2016 at 7:47 PM, Loïc Haméon wrote: > > > I've been trying to familiarize myself with various features of OSM > editors. While puttering about in the ID editor, I've stumbled upon a mess > of very short and apparently unusable GPS traces in a small area of a >

[Talk-us] Task #62 - Livingston, LA Louisiana Flooding Building Footprints

There is a new task [1] on the US Tasking Manager to add buildings in one of the hardest hit areas of Livingston, Louisiana from the recent floodings. This is task is suitable for people with all skill levels. If you would like to contribute, join us on the link below. [1]

Re: [Talk-us] Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument

ne, please review it. Clifford [1] https://www.dropbox.com/s/j4qmu9h9uelr711/KatahdinWoods% 26Waters.osm?dl=0 [2] http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/46.0060/-68.7125 On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 6:23 AM, Kevin Kenny <kevin.b.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 08/26/2016 01:57 AM, Clifford Snow

Re: [Talk-us] Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument

I asked the question on the talk-us-nps mailing list. A number of NPS folks follow that list. NPS data center, IRMA[1], doesn't have boundaries for the park yet. [1] https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/ On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 9:56 PM, Kevin Kenny wrote: > Perhaps you

[Talk-us] Teton County Idaho - New Task in US Tasking Manager

There is a new task in the US Tasking Manager to fix roads in Teton County, Idaho. If you have free time, please head over to http://tasks.openstreetmap.us/project/58 to help improve the roads. Thanks, Clifford -- @osm_seattle osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch

Re: [OSM-talk] combining nodes with ways

On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 4:42 AM, john whelan wrote: > Not quite what I'm looking for. The building is defined as an area but > often has no address information, within the building are a number of nodes > one or more of which has address information which is valid for the

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Building a free/open reviews community w/ OSM support

On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 9:42 PM, Pine W wrote: > Speaking as an OSM novice but an experienced Wikimedian, having Wikidata > ID tags makes sense to me. This sounds like something that could benefit > Wikidata, Wikipedia, and other projects that recognize Wikidata IDs. There >

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Proposing import of sidewalk data Seattle, WA, USA

On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 6:01 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: >sidewalk tagging in OSM is a complex issue. The fact that sidewalks > are not tagged as individual geometries is not purely a shortcoming, it > is a compromise that keeps OSM data editable. Having individual >

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Kansas City addresses from maps.kcmo.org

On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 4:51 PM, Kevin Kenny wrote: > Property lines also define the bounds of public areas like parks, > schoolyards, cemeteries, and airfields, which surely do belong in OSM. They > aren't infallible, but they are often more precise than guessing from >

[Talk-us] OSM Mapping Party in the News

Steve, My hat off to you on getting your mapping party published. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/mapping-a-city-and-telling-its-story/2016/07/24/905dd6d0-4c40-11e6-aa14-e0c1087f7583_story.html -- @osm_seattle osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human

[Talk-us] What Bloggers do you follow

The US Chapter has a press release mailing list. I'd like to update it with bloggers that you follow. Let me know which blogger do you think should be on our PR mailing list. Thanks, Clifford -- @osm_seattle osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch

Re: [Talk-us] SOTM US schedule

Katie, We should have the workshop schedule up shortly. We have 11 different workshop planned for Monday as well as code sprints. Additionally Maptime is planning workshops for Monday as well. Clifford On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 1:11 PM, Katie Filbert wrote: > I'm thinking

Re: [Talk-ca] iD editor

I heard a talk from David Bitner on customizing id for adding information to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA.) His github repository with a code template is https://github.com/missinglinkmaps/custom_id As I recall, BWCA publishes features for various campsites. Using just a small subset of

Re: [Talk-us] highway=service + landuse=residential

Interesting - mapping curb to curb. I doubt it could be used for routing but it sure renders [1] nice. [1] http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/38868796#map=18/34.15966/-117.41187 On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 2:21 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: > I don't think this is a great

Re: [OSM-talk] Burger King use of OSM without Attribution

OK - Sent message to Burger King's legal department. Let's see what happens. On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 1:16 PM, Clifford Snow <cliff...@snowandsnow.us> wrote: > Mikel, > I wonder if they just crop the image for the website, cutting off > attribution? They haven't replied to me

Re: [OSM-talk] Burger King use of OSM without Attribution

asked why attribution is not visible in the > static image api. > > 2016-05-28 7:22 GMT+02:00 Clifford Snow <cliff...@snowandsnow.us>: > > I notices a new user added a fast food node [1] in Spokane, WA. The name > was entered as BK. Assuming it was probably a Burger King, I

Re: [Talk-us] Any reason why this multipolygon can't be removed?

On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 2:06 PM, Tod Fitch wrote: > While adding some information I noticed a line running through the area > and became curious about it. It was a single way that was marked as part of > a polygon. That polygon only has one member (the way I noticed) and

[OSM-talk] Burger King use of OSM without Attribution

I notices a new user added a fast food node [1] in Spokane, WA. The name was entered as BK. Assuming it was probably a Burger King, I did a search and found that it was actually a Burger King restaurant. What I noticed was their map [2] was identical to OSM. I sent a message via their contact me

Re: [Talk-us] What is appropriate procedure for putting an import proposal on the Wiki?

I was able to update an old entry without being prompted for proof that I'm not a robot. It shouldn't matter to the catalogue but have you created your import project page? That is the most important part. Clifford On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 4:27 PM, Kevin Kenny wrote:

Re: [Talk-us] TopOSM

TopOSM looks like a good candidate for a hack session at SOTM-US. Let me know if you are interested so I can find a room for people to meet on July 25th. On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 9:37 AM, Bill Ricker wrote: > > > On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 10:06 AM, Lars Ahlzen

[Talk-us] TopOSM

I was just on TopOSM [1] which appears to be very outdated. Does anyone know who maintains this site? [1] http://toposm.ahlzen.com/ -- @osm_seattle osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch ___ Talk-us mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] Slipways connected to highways

I just wanted to make sure that I haven't been tagging slipways wrong. You are correct, I've had success with both JOSM and iD in getting bugs fixed. The developers are awesome. On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 9:36 AM, Andy Townsend <ajt1...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 16/05/2016 17:30, Clifford S

[OSM-talk] Slipways connected to highways

I've always added slipways to the last node of a service road. Now JOSM is complaining of leisure=slipway connected to a highway. It seem logical to me that the if you wanted to get routing to a boat launch that the node would be on the highway. How do others tag slipways? Clifford --

Re: [Talk-us] Missouri: Bulk-importing addresses by county

This is the correct list. Ideally you could include building outlines as well as addresses in your project. This might be a good project to involve other mappers. Doing the work in small chunks should help improve data quality. We've found that the street names can differ from not only what OSM

Re: [Talk-us] Dakota County, MN Street Data Available

On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 4:00 PM, Joe Sapletal wrote: > The repository also notes the URL for the 2015 Air Photo for use in JOSM. > I’ve used it, lines up nicely despite the warnings. Joe, Could you confirm that we have the right to trace the 2015 Air Photo imagery for

Re: [OSM-talk] Steve Coast named 1 of 5 most influential people in Geo Industry!

Dtto Congrats Steve. On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 4:03 PM, Mike Thompson wrote: > > http://geoawesomeness.com/top-5-most-influential-living-people-shaping-the-geo-industry-of-the-21-century/ > > Congrats Steve! > > Mike > > > ___ > talk

Re: [Talk-us] Colorado mappers: Check your notes carefully

Should there be a request to DWG to put a hold on MountainAddict until we have a satisfactory explanation? On Sun, May 1, 2016 at 8:37 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: > I've reopened the notes since I don't see evidence that they were actually > resolved yet. Was around ~30 on the

Re: [Talk-us] Editing US National Parks

On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 8:05 AM, Mike Thompson wrote: > From the above page: "Park Tiles is currently pulling many feature types > from OpenStreetMap, although we are in the process of replacing this data > with data from our Places

Re: [OSM-talk] osm maps on wikipedia - discussion

On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 5:46 AM, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > I've just created a quick, friendly wiki page to explain that and other > differences: > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Welcome_to_Wikipedia_users > Richard, Nice job on the Welcome page. Thanks --

Re: [OSM-talk] osm maps on wikipedia - discussion

Simone, I'm not a Wikimedia user but maybe you could clarify a question for me. Under the con's is the statement "in many cases OpenStreetMap's territorial borders are bad or outdated" Where does this opinion come from? Please understand that I'm not necessarily disagreeing, but it seems to be a

[Talk-us] SOTM US Early Bird Special

Just in case you didn't realize that US State of the Map Early Bird conference discount ends this Sunday, April 10th. Be sure to register to take advantage of the early bird special. Just point your browser to http://stateofthemap.us and click on Early Bird half way down the page. Looking forward

[Talk-ca] US SOTM Early Bird Special

Just in case you didn't realize that US State of the Map Early Bird conference discount ends this Sunday, April 10th. Be sure to register to take advantage of the early bird special. Just point your browser to http://stateofthemap.us and click on Early Bird half way down the page. Looking forward

[OSM-talk] Just Hours Left

Just in case you didn't realize that US State of the Map Early Bird conference discount ends this Sunday, April 10th. Be sure to register to take advantage of the early bird special. Just point your browser to http://stateofthemap.us and click on Early Bird half way down the page. Looking forward

[Talk-us] SOTM-US Scholarships

OpenStreetMap US Blog post on Apr 02 2016 by Alex Barth and Arielle Simmons-Steffen Our annual State of the Map US [1] conference is about many things, but one of the most important things it is about is building community. In fact, that's why it is our theme for this year's conference! Increasing

[Talk-ca] SOTM-US Scholarship Program

OpenStreetMap US Blog post on Apr 02 2016 by Alex Barth and Arielle Simmons-Steffen Our annual State of the Map US [1] conference is about many things, but one of the most important things it is about is building community. In fact, that's why it is our theme for this year's conference! Increasing

[OSM-talk] (no subject)

OpenStreetMap US Blog post on Apr 02 2016 by Alex Barth and Arielle Simmons-Steffen Our annual State of the Map US [1] conference is about many things, but one of the most important things it is about is building community. In fact, that's why it is our theme for this year's conference! Increasing

[Talk-us] Local Community Work Group

Martijn van Exel and I are working to find ways to support local OpenStreetMap groups. If you organize a group or would like to, please complete our survey . If you are interesting in help with our project,

Re: [Talk-us] City of Norfolk Import

Looking at your sample import, building at 746 29th Street is adjacent to East 29th Street. Norfolk interactive map has the same street name. Is it possible that the pre_direction has been omitted in your script? I didn't check any other. Across the street from 2900 (E) 29th Street is apartments.

[Talk-ca] Propose a session for SOTM-US in Seattle

Propose a session for State of the Map US in Seattle We are calling on mappers, academics, policy makers, developers, geo-hackers, business leaders and open geodata supporters to propose a talk or a workshop at State of the Map US. This Call

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Boston, MA, USA addr:housenumber Import

On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 11:52 AM, Roman Yepishev wrote: > * Some of the addresses from MassGIS point to parks, monuments, or > buildings are located a few feet away. While it may possible to assign > the marker to the building nearby, I'd prefer not to do the guess work >

[OSM-talk] Early Bird Registration to State of the Map US

Registration to State of the Map US in Seattle, WA is now open. Tickets are available for $90 until April 10th, then they will go up to the regular rate of $150. Head over to http://StateOfTheMap.us and get your early bird ticket. Interested in speaking at the

[Talk-ca] Early Bird Registration to State of the Map US

Registration to State of the Map US is now open. Tickets are available for $90 until April 10th, then they will go up to the regular rate of $150. Head over to http://StateOfTheMap.us and get your early bird ticket. Interested in speaking at the conference, organizing workshops or a scholarship

[Talk-us] Early Bird Registration SOTM-US

Registration to State of the Map US is now open. Tickets are available for $90 until April 10th, then they will go up to the regular rate of $150. Head over to http://StateOfTheMap.us and get your early bird ticket. Interested in speaking at the conference, organizing workshops or a scholarship

Re: [Talk-us] DOT construction updates

I tried to keep track of WSDOT construction on a state hwy in Seattle. The website did not have an update feed that I could find. I have used the state and counties sites in the past to help resolve notes. A proactive approach would be useful. Clifford On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 11:20 AM, Martijn

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Boston, MA, USA addr:housenumber Import

Glad to see someone adding more addresses to OSM. I have some questions/comments for you. 1.) Automatically updating the street name to match the address records is not advisable. My experience doing address imports, the address information may not match the street signs. There may be two

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging Piers vs Docks

I submitted issue https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/3030 Clifford On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 11:03 AM, Clifford Snow <cliff...@snowandsnow.us> wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 8:24 AM, Greg Troxel <g...@ir.bbn.com> wrote: > >> >> Arguably searching for d

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging Piers vs Docks

On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 8:24 AM, Greg Troxel wrote: > > Arguably searching for dock leading to only man_made=pier is best, > because the people who know about the strict usage of pier vs dock are > not the ones who need help; it's the other 99.9%. +1 -- @osm_seattle

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging Piers vs Docks

On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 6:01 AM, Greg Troxel wrote: > Actually in en_US, precise usage by those trained in nautical matters > matches the international usage. I'd call it incorrect usage to use > dock for the pier, although overwhelmingly common. > Unfortunately those trained

[OSM-talk] Tagging Piers vs Docks

Yesterday at our International Women's Day Mapathon in Bellingham, WA, one of the participants wanted to add a pier on Bellingham's waterfront. (Bellingham is located on Puget Sound) She created a polygon to define the pier and tagged it man_man=dock in iD. Perfectly reasonable to a US english

Re: [Talk-us] Where to find airport information?

ocean floors. It was part of a NASA (I think) program to get kids interested in science. Clifford On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 9:01 AM, Wolfgang Zenker <wolfg...@lyxys.ka.sub.org> wrote: > * Clifford Snow <cliff...@snowandsnow.us> [160306 16:14]: > > The first example yo

Re: [Talk-us] Where to find airport information?

The first example you provided is located in Stillwater County, Montana. Stillwater has gis data available, but unfortunately for me requires Microsoft Silverlight browser plugin which I am not able to run. I would check the county gis database for more information. The website is

Re: [Talk-us] New OSM Meetup - "OSM Wyoming"

Mike, Thanks for getting the meetup going. Next time I'm headed through Wyoming I'll check to see if you have a meetup scheduled. Can you add your group to https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_United_States Thanks, Clifford On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 10:52 AM, Mike Thompson

Re: [Talk-us] Legal Research

On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 5:57 PM, Ian Dees wrote: > > We took that to heart and pushed the minutes to our wiki page soon after > you asked about it, but I forgot to let you and the community know that we > did it. > > Our minutes are here: >

Re: [Talk-us] Legal Research

Alyssa, I will be out of the country with iffy internet service on Wed but would otherwise like to join the call. Would you mind if we solicit questions ahead of time that we could have discuss? I have two question or maybe they are really concerns. One of my concern is that the legal opinions I

[Talk-us] International Women's Day Mapathon in Bellingham WA

I excited to announce a International Women's Day Mapathon event on March 8th, in Bellingham WA. The meeting will be lead by Kate von Krusenstiern, Western Washington University graduate in Physical Geography, Geology, and GIS. You can learn more at the meetup page [1]. This is also our inaugural

Re: [Talk-us] County Road Tiles

On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 11:30 AM, Ian Dees wrote: > Hopefully that last paragraph was a typo, because there are tons of > counties providing open data. :) > Big typo! Should have read, Washington State isn't the only state with... > > If someone wants to work with me to get

Re: [OSM-talk] weeklyOSM 290

change the es to en in the url to get the english edition On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 12:43 PM, Michał Brzozowski wrote: > Can you tell me what's up with this "This entry is available only in > Spanish"? I think people won't care if it got delayed a day later or > so. Also

[Talk-us] County Road Tiles

Sixty percent of Washington State counties have open data portals with GIS data. Washington State laws (Open Records Act) requires that this data be open to the public. Road data from most of the counties seem to be much more current than TIGER data. I've been creating background tiles for nearby

Re: [OSM-talk] Need some help

Looks like only the first page at the bottom. The roads in my area are not current. Have you emailed the contact, coin...@satoshilabs.com? On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 4:31 PM, Hans De Kryger wrote: > Found a website i'm quite sure uses osm, but they don't show anywhere

Re: [Talk-us] evacuation_center=yes

On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 7:41 AM, Blake Girardot wrote: > What tags are we using in the US for disaster evacuation centers for like > hurricanes and things? > > http://taginfo.osm.org/keys/evacuation_center#map > > Shows none in the US but I know we have a lot. > > I am

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: State Park Boundary shp file

On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 9:39 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: > Excellent! I'm able to read this. It's not *quite* in alignment, but > it's close enough that I can conflate it easily on a case by case basis. > But, looking at >

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixing Starbucks Wikipedia Tags (Was Nominatim Weakness)

On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 6:51 AM, Philip Barnes wrote: > Still having problems, now a search on Starbucks is returning ones in > Thailand. Can these tags be removed too? I have a message into two of the mappers that added most of the Starbucks in Thailand asking for

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixing Starbucks Wikipedia Tags (Was Nominatim Weakness)

On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 9:27 AM, JB wrote: > Just saying that I'm impressed how much people can write about that > specific private company. Are there some lobbyists hidden somewhere out > there? Will next month be the same with McDonald's or Burger King? I took on the

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixing Starbucks Wikipedia Tags (Was Nominatim Weakness)

On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 4:17 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote: > I've linked that Wikidata item to the parent company (which has a > series of Wikipedia links) - orphan items with no Wikipedia links are > liable to be deleted from Wikidata. > Andy, Can you explain more about

Re: [Talk-ca] Help adding WMS to Potlatch2

On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 12:20 PM, Bernie Connors wrote: > > I am trying to add a WMS server to Potlatch2 to display some 2014 > orthophotos as a background. I am using Background > Edit > Add. here are > the details of the WMS server and layer I want to use. It

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixing Starbucks Wikipedia Tags (Was Nominatim Weakness)

rea. > > Thanks! > > > > 2015-12-16 8:32 GMT+09:00 Andy Mabbett <a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk>: > >> On 15 December 2015 at 21:37, Clifford Snow <cliff...@snowandsnow.us> >> wrote: >> > On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 10:05 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar <sea...@

Re: [Talk-us] Local OSM groups in the US

On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 1:19 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: > Missouri Exotic Species Arts Association Paul, Thanks for the update. I've added you as the contact. I'm using wildnights.org as the website. Clifford -- @osm_seattle osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us OpenStreetMap: Maps

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal to close newbies@ list

It's probably a reasonable suggestion to close the newbies@osm down for lack of use. What concerns me is where the the newbies going? Is there any data to suggest that they are being served on the forum? A quick look at the section "Questions and Answers" would indicate that people are using the

[Talk-us] OpenStreetMap at William & Mary

http://www.wm.edu/news/stories/2016/rob-rose-spreads-geoscience-gospel-from-his-pulpit-at-the-cga.php -- @osm_seattle osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] south Portugal and South Spain GPS

Sounds like a fun trip. On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 9:59 AM, birdlady108 wrote: > My husband and I (Both older) want to buy a GPS so we don't get too lost > when walking and driving on our trip in February. I have been looking on > Amazon.ca but all the GPS have N. Amer.

Re: [OSM-talk] Involving Cyclists in OSM

I want to thank everyone for there input. Our meeting with one of the directors of Cascade Bicycle Club this week certainly exceeded our expectations. From our discussions we hope to be able to present at their annual meeting at the State Capitol in Olympia, WA this spring. By then the Cascade

Re: [Talk-us] Hampton, Virginia imports

Jonah, Other than a question about one tag, GEOID, the .osm file looks very good. If the GEOID is a persistent id from the city, I would recommend using something like addr:id=GEOID (assuming the GEOID was derived from the address id.) When you import, it is helpful to use the address tags

[Talk-us] Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe

I'm looking to update the boundaries for reservation located in Port Angeles on the Washington Peninsula. The official boundary has two types of areas, Reservation and Off-Reservation Land Trust. For the purpose of OSM, I plan to merge the two areas and change the tags to boundary=aboriginal_lands

Re: [Talk-us] SunCertPathBuilderException

I had the problem and created a bug report. https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/12192 JOSM is running the latest 9117 version. Version 9102 on another machine did not have a problem. Clifford On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 3:27 PM, Steve Friedl wrote: > Me too! Me too! > > > >

[OSM-talk] Involving Cyclists in OSM

I am meeting with one of the key players in Seattle's cycling clubs to pitch doing a presentation to their membership. I'm interested in hearing from cyclists on why and how OSM is useful to them. I have no problem talking about the open data concept and incorporating slippy maps, but I want to

Re: [OSM-talk] Involving Cyclists in OSM

On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 6:56 PM, Paul Norman wrote: > For what points to pitch, I'd suggest > > - Crowd-sourced, so they can edit themselves, meaning they can get fixed > data in minutes to days, not quarters to years > This is my goal. More mappers. They can use other sources,

Re: [OSM-talk] Why newbies' comment/message response rate is so low?

On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 10:59 AM, Marc Zoutendijk wrote: > A few months ago the Dutch community started sending out a welcome message > to every new mapper with some general info and pointers to useful websites > and wikis. > This helps a lot in making the new mappers

Re: [Talk-us] San Diego Address Import Update

On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 7:48 AM, Tod Fitch wrote: > So what is a good definition for what should go in the addr:city tag? If > it is based on being within a formal administrative boundary then we may > not need the tag at all as it should be easy for a data consumer to

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Importing Buildings and Addresses for Austin, Texas

On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 6:40 PM, Andy Wilson wrote: > 3. Efficiency. There are enough buildings in OSM already and as Martin > pointed out, comparing them individually and properly merging tags, etc > would be time consuming. JOSM has a "Replace Geometry" tool found

Re: [OSM-talk] Rendering idiosyncrasies

On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 11:31 AM, Marc Gemis wrote: > I was once told by one of the style developers that the layer tag is not > used in the standard rendering on osm.org. Only the size of the area's > matter. > I can confirm that using a layer tag does impact rendering of

Re: [OSM-talk] Traffic Flow Direction

On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 7:27 PM, Clifford Snow <cliff...@snowandsnow.us> wrote: > I am finding some false positives, typically short segments of road. Twice > I've see it between to side roads and once when the highway changed from a > bridge to a secondary with a side road just a

Re: [OSM-talk] Traffic Flow Direction

On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 3:41 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: > I saw this and I was really hoping it would be for how to tag hints for > data consumers about two way roads that were formerly one-way but still > have the lights set as a one-way green-wave. In cities with declining

[OSM-talk] Traffic Flow Direction

Martijn, I like your new challenge, Traffic Flow Direction [1] I am finding some false positives, typically short segments of road. Twice I've see it between to side roads and once when the highway changed from a bridge to a secondary with a side road just a short distance from the bridge. Makes

Re: [Talk-us] rebooting: tagging footways and sidewalks discussion

Maning, People should checkout https://www.mapbox.com/osm-sidewalker/ to error checking their locality. This is a nice sidewalk checker. One comment. I have a named footway, Kulshan Trail, that run east-west through the middle of my city. While it occasionally is adjacent or near a name highway,

Re: [Talk-us] rebooting: tagging footways and sidewalks discussion

On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 4:19 AM, maning sambale wrote: > We are working on improving tags for sidewalk in the US. Details in > this issue [0]. > The sidewalk detection algorithm runs OK in most cases but fails in > some [1]. Mostly the contention was whether a

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Missing Roads - The missing manual

On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 4:24 PM, Clifford Snow <cliff...@snowandsnow.us> wrote: > Can you run a count by state of "missing roads?" I can't believe that > Washington State has none, but nothing shows up. My mistake. Set filter to show solved. Now I see the erro

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