Alexander wrote:
Another thing: does adding the color tag to a route relation actually do
anything right now? I think that it definitely should.
-Alexander
OSMTransport, at http://3liz.fr/public/osmtransport/, displays the route
colors. So if a system has a Red Line or Blue Route that is
Since no one has mentioned this yet on the OSM lists that I follow, I thought
I'd pass it along:
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/design/2012/03/online-map-youll-actually-want-look/1579/,
which refers to the originator at
http://maps.stamen.com/#terrain/12/37.7706/-122.3782, which has code for
On 3/14/2012 21:18:57 -0400 Nathan Edgars II wrote:
Depending on the state or local government, you may be able to verify
names against an official dataset. Otherwise subdivision plats work for
the endless suburban superblocks that nobody wants to survey.
In the interest of figuring out how to
I'm in favor of either of these. While we are discussing this, we should also
agree on how to tag bicycle lanes that are unmarked. We have a surprising
number of these in my area of the world. They have no signs (I know, they are
no longer required to) and no markings within the lanes, but they
Two requests to help us prioritize our work:
When I receive e-mail via the OSM e-mail system, I also receive a message from
my real e-mail account (my ISP) that a message has arrived at my OSM account.
When the effort was made to contact all users who had not (as of that time)
agreed to the
Let me get this straight. In the past, FormerMapper created a node or a way
under the license as it stood. NewMapper, who has agreed to the new license
terms, has modified the node or way by changing the alignment or location, or
adding detail based on observation in the field-correcting what
This will sound like I'm ranting, and if it does, that's not my intent. I'm
really wanting to help creating additional problems. So . . .
It won't help improving and reconciling the non-CT data. But it will keep
anyone else from adding (and then losing) data to features slated for deletion.
It would seem that there is serious demand for this kind of data, and that
there is either a potential or a missed opportunity here.
I sent the following request to Richard Weait offline, and he replied, with a
request that I post this to one of the OSM listservs for broader discussion.
Hi Richard,
As I recall, you've offered advice and encouragement for mapping parties, so
I'm seeking advice on running one. This is being
Not Canadian, but we have the same question here in Florida. I have been
tagging stretches of road that have sharrows as
highway=*
cycleway=sharrows
We have one short stretch approaching a busy street where the sharrows are just
for the southbound cyclist, and I have tagged that as
I've thought for some time that it would be very good idea to get an article
about OSM into the AARP magazine (the magazine runs a number of articles about
volunteering and getting involved in one's community, and the target market is
likely to have time for this), but it didn't seem to be very
is grant-funded, so although we will continue
to follow progress in our spare time, significant follow-up work will depend on
our ability to get proposals funded.
Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions about the project or
report.
Ed Hillsman
Edward L. Hillsman, Ph.D
is grant-funded, so although we will continue
to follow progress in our spare time, significant follow-up work will depend on
our ability to get proposals funded.
Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions about the project or
report.
Ed Hillsman
Edward L. Hillsman, Ph.D
If you set up a group on meetup.com you'd be surprised how many people
join and start to get interested once you have a group meeting monthly.
There is a fee to set up a group on Meetup. Someone had such a group in Tampa,
and held a mapping party that introduced me to OSM. That was the only
On Sun, 01 May 2011, Mike N wrote:
This is a very interesting project. I recently began mapping and
entering the local bus routes (which even Google doesn't have, courtesy
of our local closed data policies). I realized that my work is still
useless to the general community because the OSM
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 10:18:24 -0800 (PST)
From: Mikel Maron mikel_ma...@yahoo.com
To: Mike N nice...@att.net, talk@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping 'risky areas'
Message-ID: 238196.90955...@web161608.mail.bf1.yahoo.com
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On 2/21/2011
On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 15:47:29, Daniel Sabo wrote:
As a former novice I completely disagree with you here. If the TIGER import
hadn't happened I would have had zero interest in OSM, a vast empty map is
not very inspiring.
But really, no one here has hard data, whenever we say it destroys the
I have mapped in one of the affected areas. Some of my work there pre-dates
Anthony's. He modified it, and I am guessing that this is why some of my work
was also deleted. As an example, on September 5, 2009, I added Carrollwood
Bicycle Emporium (48467), a bicycle shop, to a shopping
this example into the discussion,
because I don't think the technical details of removing data, or their
implications, were well-thought-out.
Ed Hillsman
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From: dipie...@gmail.com [mailto:dipie...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Anthony
Sent: February 10, 2011 8:20
To: Hillsman, Edward
On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 14:28:41 +, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote:
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Fwd: Re: collateral damage (was: What the
licensechangeis going to do to the map)
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I know of no database
OpenTripPlanner, an open-source project sponsored by a number of public
transportation agencies, can link agency GTFS data with downloaded OSM (or
other) data to provide multimodal routing including schedule information pulled
from the GTFS. It is based on GraphServer. It is still in
On Aug 23, 2010, at 11:05 PM, Antony Pegg
anttheli...@gmail.commailto:anttheli...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Everyone,
First time mailing, probably overdue, but I've been reading for a while.
Got a question I'm hoping will spark some discussion:
What would you like to see done (or NOT
During the past month or so, the members of this listserv have had some
discussion of importing bus stops in GTFS format into OSM and the use of
relations to group such data. Several members have expressed reluctance to get
involved in creating a full set of route relations (i.e., bus stops
On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:52:47 +1000 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote:
I also question this value you talk about. I don't think I've ever
looked at another member's changeset. If the user interfaces made that
a more common occurrence, I'd probably put more effort into changeset
comments, but
Our university's bicycle club is developing a map of bikeable routes from
campus into nearby areas (we are located in a very car-centric setting). It
would be very useful to have something like this for each of the major streets
that has bike lanes, to make it easier for people to figure out
I also agree that this would be an excellent idea (I just introduced a class of
about 25 students to OSM last night, and I really would like something clean
and organized to point future classes to). If someone can put together an
outline of such a Beginner's Guide, I'm willing to work on a
As I mentioned in an earlier post, we have two public transit systems operating
in the area of our university. They both serve a transit center/bus_station
just off campus, but they share some stops on campus (and pass by some of the
others' stops on campus). They have multiple routes at some
I agree, this is great. A couple of quick observations. First, for some reason,
it won't work in Internet Explorer 8 on my machine. Clicking on the link opens
the webpage and OSM top and left sidebars, but displays no map or options.
Opening the link in Firefox works fine.
Second, I asked for
problems, any actual uploading we do
as part of the project will be limited to the area of our campus, where we know
what is actually on the ground and can clean up anything we do. We'd definitely
enjoy sharing work and ideas.
Ed Hillsman
Edward L. Hillsman, Ph.D.
Senior Research Associate
Center
Has the update frequency changed for OpenCycleMap? Some bike lanes added in
late May and early June still haven't appeared yet.
Ed Hillsman
Senior Research Associate
Center for Urban Transportation Research
University of South Florida
4202 Fowler Ave., CUT100
Tampa, FL 33620-5375
813-974-2977
The age of the data is definitely an issue. The two websites that Ian Dees
suggested do not agree for the area where I live--they are not even close to
agreeing. Also, there can be serious artifacts of the geocoding process. This
shows in the two websites. It appears that both use data geocoded
I have a related question, which I've let sit for several months hoping to find
an answer for. There is a park here
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=27.8394lon=-82.5924zoom=14layers=B000FTF
that includes wetland islands, wetland mainland, and dry mainland. Initially I
could not get any of it
I'm coming to this thread late and apologize for not knowing, but has a date
for SOTM-US been set yet? I think one criterion for an area might be the
ability to hold the SOTM-US meeting immediately before or after a meeting of
another organization that might have interest. For example, the
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:54:32 +
From: Robert rop...@online.de
Subject: [OSM-talk] [tagging] alley - for tree-lined roads?
Hello,
We are discussing in talk-de (German board) just streets and other ways
with many trees nearby.
I found here:
Hi Shaun,
That makes sense. Thanks for the explanation. We do have areas here with
huge numbers of bicycle spaces, but the ones I had used for testing
aren't among them.
I agree, the heat map would be more useful. Can you point me to
resources for making such a map from OSM data?
Ed
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 18:20, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote:
Dave - super awesome.
As I said on IRC the other week, but I'll repeat here for all - I
think dumping the addressing for all 3,000 counties and then letting
people import them one by one will be the best way to do it.
Another
a faculty member's office as the principal place of business.
I would be willing to look into that, if there is interest, and if it doesn't
involve more than minimal expenses (for postage etc.) once established. Just
let me know.
Ed Hillsman
Edward L. Hillsman, Ph.D.
Senior Research Associate
imagery to map the area around USF.
Anyway, I would like to learn more about your interest in OSM and what ways we
may be able to cooperate. Please feel free to contact me.
Ed Hillsman
Edward L. Hillsman, Ph.D.
Senior Research Associate
Center for Urban Transportation Research
University of South
Hi Anthony,
One other possibility would be to calculate and upload parcel centroids
(points) instead of whole parcels. Someone has done something like this
for the City of Albuquerque, New Mexico (as far as I can tell, it's
almost the only work that has been done with the data in that are). I
Any idea of when this might start happening?
As someone who has been manually cleaning up some of the TIGER data in
my area (Tampa), I'm interested in anything I can do to help with this
transition, so that what I've done can benefit from the addressing
information. Aside from correcting gross
I'd noticed the increased speed as well. Thank you to all involved in making it
happen.
Ed
Edward L. Hillsman, Ph.D.
Senior Research Associate
Center for Urban Transportation Research
University of South Florida
4202 Fowler Ave., CUT100
Tampa, FL 33620-5375
813-974-2977 (tel)
813-974-5168
On 20/08/2009 04:53, David Earl wrote:
On 20/08/2009 04:03, Andrew Ayre wrote:
Roy Wallace wrote:
If I draw the outline of a strip mall (a connected string of shops)
this
represents several businesses together. If I then put nodes on them
and
give the nodes names Mapnik won't render the names
to do it. My best guess is that we will
have confirmation of the project by the end of the month, and authorization to
begin work by the end of September, although these steps can always take longer
than expected. Certainly I can participate on my own time before then.
Best regards,
Ed Hillsman
Some of the areas where I am mapping show untagged green nodes in
Potlatch, and I delete these, but where do they come from? In one case,
I think a series of them may have been generated when my computer lost
the connection to the OSM server while I was tracing a way, and then
could not restore
about what these points are and
where they come from.
Ed
-Original Message-
From: Martin Koppenhoefer [mailto:dieterdre...@gmail.com]
Sent: July 31, 2009 10:11
To: Hillsman, Edward
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] question about untagged green points
did you give JOSM a try? It doesn't suffer
Similar issue for the Capitol Campus in Olympia Washington. Collection of
public buildings in a campus setting. I think some other state capitals have
similar planned complexes around their legislative buildings. Some have
buildings sited nearby that really wouldn't qualify as a campus. And
of support team for uploading
files, and I don't remember seeing what came of that.
Ed Hillsman
Edward L. Hillsman, Ph.D.
Senior Research Associate
Center for Urban Transportation Research
University of South Florida
4202 Fowler Ave., CUT100
Tampa, FL 33620-5375
813-974-2977 (tel)
813-974
Hi,
I'm hoping someone on the list can help me track down an example I saw
sometime in the past 5-6 weeks, probably not in a post to this list, but
possibly something I found on the web while exploring from someone's
post to the list. The example involved a group, probably in central
Europe,
I'm one of the people mapping paths (since March) who scans this list,
and I have to say that I'm confused. Although part of that may be
because I'm new to OSM and not just to the matter of how to deal with
tagging and rendering things. And part of that may because a lot of the
tagging conventions
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