Re: [Talk-us] Schizophrenic highway

2012-09-15 Per discussione Alan Mintz
exactly which sections are motorway. This might be a DOT requirement. SR-1 south of Oxnard is similar. Here's the location of such a sign going northbound: 34.112471°, -119.081681° -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list

Re: [Talk-us] Kern County Import Cleanup

2012-07-29 Per discussione Alan Mintz
(http://www.opentopography.org) appears on at least 4000 objects instead of something more reasonable like EarthScope;ISIS;OpenTopo. Defining source values in the wiki would also give one a chance to document details, like the date of the data, research on copyright status, etc. -- Alan Mintz

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Kern County Import Cleanup

2012-07-29 Per discussione Alan Mintz
suggest the imagery is accurate. So, it's not clear why some of the landuses are shifted by so much, while others are not. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-us] Discardable TIGER tags

2012-07-29 Per discussione Alan Mintz
), values for tiger:* tags are combined with : (colon) as a delimiter, instead of ; (semi-colon). Why, and should this be changed? -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org

[OSM-talk] Tools to help find areas corrupted by redaction

2012-07-27 Per discussione Alan Mintz
is that these sawtooth ways tend to cross other ways without intersection, so this is a good indicator, too. Lastly, I'm noticing orphan nodes in areas that need work. These would make good layer(s) in the Geofabrik OSM Inspector. Other ideas? -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net

Re: [Talk-us] Highway ref again.

2012-07-27 Per discussione Alan Mintz
Bernardino -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Highway ref again.

2012-07-27 Per discussione Alan Mintz
At 2012-07-27 06:08, Paul Johnson wrote: On Jul 26, 2012 11:30 PM, Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net wrote: ref=FH nn - USFS Forest Highway ref=FR nXn[n][.n] - USFS Forest Route/Road ref=FT nXn[n][.n] - USFS Forest Trail IIRC, all three of these are a single NFD network, for National

Re: [Talk-us] Highway ref again.

2012-07-27 Per discussione Alan Mintz
At 2012-07-27 08:22, Paul Johnson wrote: On Jul 27, 2012 8:07 AM, Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net wrote: At least in Region 5 (CA), the roads have N or S in the X position, while trails have E or W. However, I wasn't sure that everyone would necessarily know that, so I went with a more

Re: [Talk-us] Highway ref again.

2012-07-27 Per discussione Alan Mintz
Smalley wrote: What if they're equally important and recognized (like Interstate 80/90 through Ohio and Indiana, or US 1/9 in New Jersey)? The consumers should not assume anything from the order. Personally, I enter them in alphanumeric order (I think - its been a while). -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz

Re: [Talk-us] Highway ref again.

2012-07-27 Per discussione Alan Mintz
Canyon Road - SR-39), FH-61 (Angeles Crest Highway - SR-2). -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Highway ref again.

2012-07-27 Per discussione Alan Mintz
are you looking for? -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

[Talk-us] Fwd: Re: Highway ref again.

2012-07-27 Per discussione Alan Mintz
/county.html -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [Tagging] tagging awards and ratings

2012-07-26 Per discussione Alan Mintz
that if it's data created by a US Federal agency, it's public domain, but what about US state and local governments (does the same law -- use of public funds = public domain -- apply)? -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ legal-talk mailing

[Talk-us] Bulk fix of comma delimiters in source tag in parts of CA, NV, AZ, UT

2012-07-26 Per discussione Alan Mintz
for the issue globally. Also, there are probably other tags that legitimately and non-controversially may contain multiple values. I was trying to work out a process, which turns out to be somewhat manual, even with the help of a couple scripts. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net

Re: [OSM-talk] Naming disputes in Ukraine

2012-07-25 Per discussione Alan Mintz
- only name:xx tags. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [Talk-us] Good work with remapping!

2012-07-24 Per discussione Alan Mintz
orphan turning-circles, which I deleted. It's a good idea to turn off background imagery for a moment after wiping an area to catch these leftovers that might otherwise be hard to see. Maybe even do a select-all to make sure they are highlighted for you. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz

Re: [OSM-talk] OT - Unusual Bing imagery

2012-07-23 Per discussione Alan Mintz
described as flyover, as though coming from airplane/helicopter, apparently on a contract basis. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] Slippy map with Bing background

2012-07-19 Per discussione Alan Mintz
, no-login/no-edit solution. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [Talk-us] LA part of the map essentially is unusable

2012-07-19 Per discussione Alan Mintz
that put in literally blood, sweat, tears, and hard cold cash, who are not happy with the actions of those whose job it was to safeguard our work. That is all I will say. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] LA and other license changeover challenged areas.

2012-07-19 Per discussione Alan Mintz
attempted to build a bridge between he and the OSMF, but ultimately, it failed. Even if he accepted now (which is extremely unlikely), it's too late once the redaction happens, right? -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list

Re: [Talk-us] LA and other license changeover challenged areas.

2012-07-19 Per discussione Alan Mintz
Uh, ignore this. I didn't mean it to go to the list, and, of course, didn't realize it was 5 months old. At 2012-07-19 12:58, Alan Mintz wrote: [off-list] At 2012-01-30 08:48, Martijn van Exel wrote: On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Nick Hocking nick.hock...@gmail.com wrote: I have just

Re: [Talk-us] Post bot cleanup

2012-07-19 Per discussione Alan Mintz
, etc.) at many points - enough to satisfy me that the imagery can be used. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [Rebuild] Progress update

2012-06-21 Per discussione Alan Mintz
the real mapping community knows what's going to happen to their data and hope they'll speak up about it.) -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal

Re: [OSM-talk] [Rebuild] Progress update

2012-06-21 Per discussione Alan Mintz
the real mapping community knows what's going to happen to their data and hope they'll speak up about it.) -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [Talk-us] Work on Arizona rail lines deleted

2012-06-19 Per discussione Alan Mintz
way to surround the yard. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [OSM-talk] Unauthorized mechanical edit - changeset 11913785 - amenity=airport-aeroway=aerodrome

2012-06-18 Per discussione Alan Mintz
to use, and this problem is only getting bigger. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Custom Imagery

2012-06-18 Per discussione Alan Mintz
in the JOSM viewport. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] new bing hires updates not visible in JOSM?

2012-06-15 Per discussione Alan Mintz
/;. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Specific Cases of Governments Using OSM

2012-06-15 Per discussione Alan Mintz
At 2012-06-15 02:04, Kate Chapman wrote: I'm looking for examples of governments using OSM data Not huge, but nice: http://www.whitehouse.gov/change/ -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [OSM-talk] Copy-and-paste remapping

2012-05-28 Per discussione Alan Mintz
samples of the next two, it seems they are all in Europe. Is that correct? The last three are not linked. Is there a reason for that, or should I fix it? It might be useful to give at least overall bbox info - I'll work on that. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM : It's a shame !!!

2012-05-28 Per discussione Alan Mintz
the responses so far haven't mentioned the most glaring reason for this. The license-compliance redaction has not yet begun! Even your data that haven't been touched still remain because they have not yet begun the process of removing the non-compliant data (thankfully). -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz

Re: [OSM-talk] Copy-and-paste remapping

2012-05-28 Per discussione Alan Mintz
._imports_in_Czech_Republic The rest are easily done now that I have scripts for it, but I get that the page might get overwhelmingly large. How about sub-pages for each section with my tables, and just the plain-text lists, a link to the sub-page, and the summary line on the main page? -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz

Re: [OSM-talk] Import of buildings in Chicago

2012-05-28 Per discussione Alan Mintz
to be manually merged into OSM. Except you won't see possible errors introduced after the first import by OSM editors. I think it's useful to see the diff between the current state of both databases. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM data density - top regions

2012-05-27 Per discussione Alan Mintz
XML would be 31KB (1.9% of current). * 0.5 mi x 0.5 mi (800 m x 800 m) at minlat='35.3979622' minlon='-119.1277814' maxlat='35.4052032' maxlon='-119.1188657' -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Worst of OSM

2012-05-15 Per discussione Alan Mintz
to map with JOSM because of the ability to filter the download process. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Worst of OSM

2012-05-15 Per discussione Alan Mintz
with place=locality which is correct for unpopulated places (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Locality). Maybe. Is it possible that those are not real villages, but names of historical villages or settlements (and shouldn't be tagged as current placenames)? Can someone in Spain comment? -- Alan

Re: [OSM-talk] Worst of OSM

2012-05-15 Per discussione Alan Mintz
. visualization). -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [Talk-us] Blocking of user WorstFixer for removing ele=0 etc

2012-05-15 Per discussione Alan Mintz
that fall from their orbits and other space junk never seem to hit anything, even if they survive re-entry :) -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Blocking of user WorstFixer for removing ele=0 etc

2012-05-15 Per discussione Alan Mintz
At 2012-05-15 15:21, Toby Murray wrote: On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net wrote: Yes. Having said all that, OSMTI says there are 23 million nodes (33% of the total) with created_by tags! This seemed surprisingly high to me. Err last time I checked we

Re: [OSM-talk] near by

2012-05-11 Per discussione Alan Mintz
. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

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

2012-05-11 Per discussione Alan Mintz
refuse letters addressed to Avenue in some instances? Unless this quote is out of context, that seems ridiculous (in the US). -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org

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

2012-05-11 Per discussione Alan Mintz
the on-the-ground rule in order to map for the renderer. Exactly :) Why that is ok, I don't know :( -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

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

2012-05-11 Per discussione Alan Mintz
Open turns Lane Avenue into Ln Ave, where only the last word should be abbreviated. To eliminate guesswork, renderers can use the abbr_name tag, if present. Wouldn't happen with street:name=Lane, street:type=Ave (since it would not speak street:name verbatim) -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz

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

2012-05-11 Per discussione Alan Mintz
At 2012-05-10 09:33, Nathan Edgars II wrote: Is this a good idea? It looks really odd to me: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/9061339 I don't like it. There are some more in that changeset, and another previous one for that user too. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net

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

2012-05-11 Per discussione Alan Mintz
There are 52 of these United States Ship ways. OAPI query: http://www.overpass-api.de/api/interpreter?data=(way[%22name%22~%22%5EUnited%20States%20Ship%20%22];node(w));out%20meta; -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list

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

2012-05-11 Per discussione Alan Mintz
At 2012-05-11 14:11, Mike N wrote: On 5/11/2012 1:36 PM, Alan Mintz wrote: Okay, so basically we're ignoring the on-the-ground rule in order to map for the renderer. Exactly :) Why that is ok, I don't know :( Mapping for the renderer has never been wrong or discouraged. Tagging

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-04 Per discussione Alan Mintz
plugin, as long as someone doesn't start joining those landuses to other objects (e.g. highways), again. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-04 Per discussione Alan Mintz
the data - No one has proposed an easier option ? Both SteveA and Nathan Mixter (the original contributor) have responded in this thread, co-operatively. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org

[Talk-us] Are US freeway relation licensing issues being worked on?

2012-05-04 Per discussione Alan Mintz
Is someone attending to license cleanup for US freeway relations nationally, or is it up to mappers in each area to deal with? I'm still seeing warnings in southern California, but have been ignoring them thinking someone is already working on them. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-04 Per discussione Alan Mintz
blindly throwing many times the existing data size at them. In Bakersfield, the building outlines and some landuse and other objects inflated the data size by ~1000%. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] What happened to the license-change highlighting in Potlatch 2?

2012-05-02 Per discussione Alan Mintz
At 2012-05-01 13:24, Clifford Snow wrote: josm ... It would be nice to be able to hit a key to add a turning circle to the end of a way. Indeed. http://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/3484 -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Overpass API questions

2012-04-27 Per discussione Alan Mintz
At 2012-04-27 09:37, Roland Olbricht wrote: Alan Mintz wrote: Another problem appears to be that [key!=value] filters out any way that does not have a key tag at all, in addition to those that have key=value, which is not what I need. Yes, this has been the behaviour expected by design

Re: [OSM-talk] [Rebuild] update 25 April

2012-04-27 Per discussione Alan Mintz
be to the rest of the project. Also, while some originally objected to the huge amount of license-related discussion going on on the talk list, it seems like important things like progress updates need a wider audience than just the rebuild list. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-04-26 Per discussione Alan Mintz
calls include the full extent of ways, even outside the bbox, if they have any nodes inside the bbox, and any relations that refer to anything in the result set. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Excellent progress, u.s.

2012-04-17 Per discussione Alan Mintz
At 2012-04-16 20:41, Toby Murray wrote: On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: On 4/16/2012 9:18 PM, Alan Mintz wrote: At 2012-04-16 14:06, Nathan Edgars II wrote: Or you can simply add odbl=clean if there's nothing ungood about the object (e.g

Re: [Talk-us] Excellent progress, u.s.

2012-04-16 Per discussione Alan Mintz
efforts. So, can someone from the redaction squad comment on the logic being used and the questions above? -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Excellent progress, u.s.

2012-04-16 Per discussione Alan Mintz
? Can someone involved comment? -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Excellent progress, u.s.

2012-04-16 Per discussione Alan Mintz
help to be able to just add odbl=clean to such ways that are complained about by the plugin instead of having to delete and re-add them, fix the intersections, and fix the relations. I'm also more likely to get it done, since it multiplies my productivity many times. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz

Re: [OSM-talk] Truth about media hype in Microsoft lending big support and big dollars to OSM ?

2012-04-04 Per discussione Alan Mintz
that they want to take. I don't know about _that_, but I'll agree the Bing imagery _has_ been great and thank them for it. Nice to have (mostly) high-res, (mostly) well-aligned, well-served imagery as compared with previous MSRMaps, USGS, etc. solutions. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net

Re: [Talk-us] Remapping is good

2012-04-02 Per discussione Alan Mintz
to incorrectly armchair-edit an object that someone else spent some time researching. Ways with tiger:reviewed tags (highlighted in various editors) are a good start, as they have usually not been edited. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Remapping is good

2012-04-02 Per discussione Alan Mintz
to identify the obvious ones. Of course, you have to re-abbreviate the OSM street types, and do various other manual things, but it's better than a visual compare. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us

Re: [OSM-talk] Way with only one single node

2012-03-20 Per discussione Alan Mintz
to exist, I expect that it is up to editors (client software) to enforce that a way has more than one node, not the database itself. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-us] suburban superblocks that nobody wants to survey

2012-03-15 Per discussione Alan Mintz
, describing OSM and your need to use them as a reference. That's worked for me. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno has no primary roads

2012-02-21 Per discussione Alan Mintz
previous post? I provided a link to the planning data that describe the official planning categories and how I would map them to OSM. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [Talk-us] What is a dual carriageway?

2012-02-20 Per discussione Alan Mintz
At 2012-01-15 09:45, Martijn van Exel wrote: I only map two separate ways when there's a median you can't cross, so the two directions are physically separate. By that rationale, it should be one way feature. I am curious if other mappers use the same convention. I do. -- Alan Mintz

[Talk-us] Rendering not happening at lower zooms

2012-02-20 Per discussione Alan Mintz
I've been doing some work here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=35.7216lon=-117.3273zoom=12layers=M , which is being rendered in zooms 13 and higher, but not at 12 or below. Most of the water feature shown by this link was removed a few days ago. When should it be rendered? -- Alan Mintz

Re: [Talk-us] Rendering not happening at lower zooms

2012-02-20 Per discussione Alan Mintz
At 2012-02-20 01:40, Nathan Edgars II wrote: On 2/20/2012 4:11 AM, Alan Mintz wrote: I've been doing some work here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=35.7216lon=-117.3273zoom=12layers=M , which is being rendered in zooms 13 and higher, but not at 12 or below. Most of the water feature shown

Re: [Talk-us] Tracking Deleted Streets and Comparison Tools

2012-02-19 Per discussione Alan Mintz
the intersection coordinates. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] name expansion bot (Re: Imports information on the wiki)

2012-02-17 Per discussione Alan Mintz
or suffix is not consistent among them. Some of these were even correct in the original TIGER05 import, and were corrupted since by a TIGER editor! -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [Talk-us] Remapping tips

2012-02-17 Per discussione Alan Mintz
that way, since we aim to map what we see now, not duplicate a zoning map of what could be. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER 2011 Road Tiles

2012-02-17 Per discussione Alan Mintz
, like those available from many counties. Note that the Census's BAS maps seem to be from the same source database as TIGER, though maybe extracted at different times. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Shootout in Vegas

2012-02-17 Per discussione Alan Mintz
___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER 2011 Road Tiles

2012-02-17 Per discussione Alan Mintz
At 2012-02-17 06:35, Toby Murray wrote: On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 7:14 AM, Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net wrote: Better quality will result if we verify from additional sources, like those available from many counties. The best quality will result if we grab a GPS unit and a camera

Re: [Talk-us] Shootout in Vegas

2012-02-17 Per discussione Alan Mintz
. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] name expansion bot (Re: Imports information on the wiki)

2012-02-17 Per discussione Alan Mintz
At 2012-02-17 12:50, Mike N wrote: On 2/17/2012 3:02 AM, Alan Mintz wrote: if the name has been edited by a human, it should not be updated by a bot, or even another human unless they are willing to prove their edit. I've edited thousands of names based on photo surveys and official record

Re: [Talk-us] name expansion bot (Re: Imports information on the wiki)

2012-02-17 Per discussione Alan Mintz
-abbreviating where necessary, but that seems to have gotten lost in the design of some/most of them. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno has no primary roads

2012-02-15 Per discussione Alan Mintz
84103 801-550-5815 http://oegeo.wordpress.com ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing

Re: [Talk-us] Medians and reverts

2011-12-26 Per discussione Alan Mintz
of annoying when trying to accurately map bike lanes (because they don't exactly follow the car lanes physically or schematically). -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-us] Announcement: Address Improvement project

2011-10-05 Per discussione Alan Mintz
. Not sure what to do about that. I don't think it's rocket science. There are days when I think we should expect more. Then again, on days when I can't read 3 professional 300-word news stories without finding 10 mistakes... -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net

Re: [Talk-us] Use of ref-tag on state highways

2011-08-21 Per discussione Alan Mintz
of it in this way. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Use of ref-tag on state highways

2011-08-21 Per discussione Alan Mintz
parse out the route class. Standard abbreviations for the route classes should be listed in the wiki page for the particular state highway tagging. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [Talk-us] Use of ref-tag on state highways

2011-08-21 Per discussione Alan Mintz
with the second rule above (and the third, but that's entirely coincidental), but I'm sure I can find counter-examples. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Use of ref-tag on state highways

2011-08-21 Per discussione Alan Mintz
At 2011-08-21 10:29, Nathan Edgars II wrote: On 8/21/2011 9:21 AM, Alan Mintz wrote: My understanding was that there are two options for California SR-60: 1) network=US:CA + ref=60 2) ref=CA 60 SR 60 is a good example, since it overlaps I-215 in Riverside. The network tag won't work here

Re: [Talk-us] Use of ref-tag on state highways

2011-08-21 Per discussione Alan Mintz
out, once you put them in a relation, the tags on the ways become duplicative. While this is generally bad database design, it's also true that many consumers don't deal with relations, and so we need the duplication and the problems that go with it. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net

Re: [OSM-talk] Data reconciliation. Removing CT/ODbL declined users.

2011-07-20 Per discussione Alan Mintz
necessary in order to know how to reconcile. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [Talk-us] Which county next?

2011-06-08 Per discussione Alan Mintz
of a building inside a large parcel may well leave a driver lost and quite a distance from where he needs to be. On 6/7/2011 3:28 PM, Alan Mintz wrote: The site allows you to drag a pin from where we think an address currently is to the front door of the property Is that really where we want the pin

Re: [Talk-us] Which county next?

2011-06-07 Per discussione Alan Mintz
of address data from a SanGIS import. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] updated critical address file for US - 25 April 2011

2011-04-25 Per discussione Alan Mintz
area is wrong: 13095 Jamboree Road,US,CA,Tustin,92782,33747885,-117767370 is actually about 1.6 *miles* southwest of that point. Is it possible that there is something wrong with MapQuest's process that causes users to misplace things so much? -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap License Change Phase 3 Pre-Announcement

2011-04-15 Per discussione Alan Mintz
acceptance of the original creator/intermediate editors/last editor is key to deciding whether I should accept or decline. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [Talk-us] School bus routes?

2011-04-10 Per discussione Alan Mintz
by schools is a great use of both their and our resources. The only note I'd be sending the user is to encourage them to import more of their bus routes and show others how to do so. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] School bus routes?

2011-04-10 Per discussione Alan Mintz
At 2011-04-10 12:43, Richard Welty wrote: On 4/10/11 1:39 PM, Alan Mintz wrote: At 2011-04-10 09:42, Nathan Edgars II wrote: I came across a relation for a school bus: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/239393 Isn't this a little too much detail for OSM? A single relation? Really

Re: [Talk-us] note to folks doing mapping based on aerial imagery

2011-04-10 Per discussione Alan Mintz
At 2011-04-10 15:39, Richard Welty wrote: On 4/10/11 1:50 PM, Alan Mintz wrote: At 2011-04-10 08:16, Richard Welty wrote: please don't go overboard mapping areas from imagery where you can't do ground surveys, particularly where there are clearly local mappers working. ...and please try

Re: [Talk-us] County road network relations (was: REF tags for State Highways on ways)

2011-04-10 Per discussione Alan Mintz
At 2011-04-10 14:00, Kristian M Zoerhoff wrote: What's the consensus for county roads in the US? I don't know what the consensus is. County roads in California are of the form [A-Z][0-9][0-9]. I tag Orange County route S18 as: network=US:CA:Orange + ref=CR S18 -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz

Re: [Talk-us] US Interstate exit junction exit_to tag

2011-04-09 Per discussione Alan Mintz
At 2011-04-09 11:02, Paul Johnson wrote: On 04/08/2011 11:47 AM, Alan Mintz wrote: I would omit the hyphen as CA 247 for consistency sake. I'm not sure which post this referred to. My understanding of the discussion on this subject was that people agree that the hyphen is necessary to join

Re: [Talk-us] US Interstate exit junction exit_to tag

2011-04-08 Per discussione Alan Mintz
At 2011-04-07 13:47, Mike N wrote: On 4/7/2011 4:09 PM, Alan Mintz wrote: Case 2. Very occasionally, there will be more than one street name shown, usually when the ramp ends at or near a point where a street changes name. Use semicolons to place multiple values in the exit_to and exit_to_dir

Re: [Talk-us] US Interstate exit junction exit_to tag

2011-04-08 Per discussione Alan Mintz
At 2011-04-08 09:55, Nathan Edgars II wrote: On 4/8/2011 12:47 PM, Alan Mintz wrote: At 2011-04-07 13:31, Nathan Edgars II wrote: On 4/7/2011 4:09 PM, Alan Mintz wrote: Exit 183 / SR-247 South / Barstow Road is tagged ref=183 + exit_to=CA-247;Barstow Road + exit_dir=South; Does anyone have

Re: [Talk-us] US Interstate exit junction exit_to tag

2011-04-08 Per discussione Alan Mintz
motorway right up to the motorway_junction. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] US Interstate exit junction exit_to tag

2011-04-08 Per discussione Alan Mintz
and coming up with text on our own? Because Likelike Hwy. is the name of HI-63, I would like to tag: ref=20A exit_to_root=Likelike Highway (HI-63) exit_to_dir=North -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] US Interstate exit junction exit_to tag

2011-04-08 Per discussione Alan Mintz
At 2011-04-08 14:06, Mike N wrote: On 4/8/2011 1:16 PM, Alan Mintz wrote: I would not be averse to something like: exit_to=CA-247 South OR exit_to_root=CA-247 exit_to_dir=South Consumers that have evolved can use the second form if it is found, or the first if it is not. Older consumers

Re: [Talk-us] update to MQ critical address file for US, CA and GB (4Apr2011)

2011-04-08 Per discussione Alan Mintz
of abbreviation. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

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