Re: [Talk-us] Proposed mechanical edit - remove objects that are not existing according to source of GNIS import that added them

Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2019 08:04:13 +0100 (CET) From: Mateusz Konieczny Cc: Talk Us Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Proposed mechanical edit - remove objects that are not existing according to source of GNIS import that added them Mar 21, 2019, 4:46 AM by m...@rtijn.org: On Mar 20, 2019, at

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

Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 08:03:04 +0100 (CET) From: Mateusz Konieczny To: Talk Us Subject: [Talk-us] Proposed mechanical edit - remove is_in:continent in USA is_in:continent=* is subjective as both division Earth landmass into continents[1] and boundaries between continents[2] are

Re: [Talk-us] Rails-To-Trails data

Thanks Steve. Mark Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2019 10:00:20 -0800 From: OSM Volunteer stevea To: talk-us Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Rails-to-Trails data While I'm not sure the email address from their website I used is exactly correct, I did make this request to RTC (and cc'd Richard). I'll let people

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Carto release v4.17.0

Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2018 10:57:47 +0100 From: Johannes Singler To: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Carto release v4.17.0 Hi Daniel, many thanks for maintaining Carto. It's great to see such constant progress there. Johannes Am 23.11.2018 um 01:55 schrieb Daniel

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

Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2018 14:46:48 +0100 From: wambac...@posteo.de To: "talk-us@openstreetmap.org Openstreetmap" Subject: [Talk-us] Strange city boundary: Lee, Illinois Hi, are there cities (admin level 8) in the USA which  part of two counties? see:

Re: [Talk-us] Planning an Import in Prince George's County, Maryland

Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2018 10:28:10 -0700 From: OSM Volunteer stevea To: talk-us Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Planning an Import in Prince George's County, Maryland Clifford Snow wrote: If you haven't already joined our US Slack community, please sign up at

Re: [Talk-us] Undiscussed mass-revert by user Nakaner-repair

As a member of the US community, I'm in favor of reverting the bad edits, even if it removes some good contributions. Mark - Message: 1 Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2018 13:27:14 + (UTC) From: Mikel Maron To:

Re: [Talk-us] Old Bing/ESRI satellite imagery?

Message: 1 Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2018 03:30:14 -0600 (CST) From: Richard Fairhurst To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Old Bing/ESRI satellite imagery? The previous ESRI imagery has just been restored to the imagery list (by ESRI, so 100% legit) under the

[OSM-talk] Problem with JOSM imagery

Recently I started having a problem getting imagery to display in JOSM. Bing and the standard OpenStreetMap layer display fine, but none of the other layers in the default list will display. They produce the following error: Error downloading tiles: Java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Connect timed

Re: [Talk-us] CrossCountryRoads.com

> Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2015 06:40:38 -0600 > From: Paul Johnson > To: Martijn van Exel > Cc: OSM US Talk > Subject: Re: [Talk-us] CrossCountryRoads.com > On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 10:55 AM, Martijn van Exel

[OSM-talk] THIS is the kind of enthusiasm some would reject

Russ is a railfan. I am a railfan. We are a group of people for whom railroads hold a lot of interest and nostalgia. Being able to see locations of abandoned railways in OSM is very desirable for us. (Not to mention that some of them will eventually be converted to rail trails, and so their

[OSM-talk] Tagging POI's - nodes vs. areas

Thanks to everyone who contributed on this subject. I think I've got a better understanding now of tagging buildings vs. tagging amenities. And sorry if I should've posted to the tagging list instead. There are so many lists. I think I'm subscribed to four of them already. How many more...?

[OSM-talk] Tagging POI's - Nodes vs. areas

I want to know how to tag buildings which are also amenities or shops. I have consulted the wiki and I cannot find a clear explanation of this. Say you have a building which is a hospital. One way to tag the polygon would be building = hospital. Another way would be amenity = hospital. Another

[Talk-us] Moving historic railroad ways from OSM to OpenHistoricalMap

It's apparent to me that consensus will never be reached on whether or not abandoned railroads belong in OSM (at least the way it is currently configured), given the strong feelings on both sides of the issue. That's why I think moving them to OHM is a good compromise. I don't like it, but I