Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Addressing Question

2009-11-12 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 10:28 -0600, Ian Dees wrote: Give everyone a chance to work in a constructive way and don't expect others to clean the mess bad import left behind. No wonder there are only few motivated mappers in US. In Canada they do a much

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Addressing Question

2009-11-12 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 11:40 -0800, Apollinaris Schoell wrote: On 12 Nov 2009, at 11:29 , Anthony wrote: On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com wrote: It's a fairly well established convention that in OSM it's the houses/plots, not the road centrelines, that

Re: [Talk-us] Possible destructive bug in JOSM build 2417 - need someone to duplicate

2009-11-11 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 21:01 -0500, Chris Hunter wrote: My apologies if this has already been reported to the dev mailing list, but I've been running up against a critical/showstopper bug in JOSM 2417 for the past few days. I just tried with 2439 and can't seem to reproduce this. -- Dave

Re: [Talk-us] Possible destructive bug in JOSM build 2417 - need someone to duplicate

2009-11-11 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 23:01 -0500, Chris Hunter wrote: Thanks. Is 2439 available on the server yet, or is it still in alpha? I re-downloaded the latest beta a couple hours ago and the josm-latest.jar link was still pointing at 2417. I checked it out of SVN and built it myself. I can send

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] proposal for deletion: talk-us-ga and

2009-10-21 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 19:40 -0400, Richard Weait wrote: On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Sarah Manley sarah.m.man...@gmail.com wrote: What is the status of the forum: http://forum.openstreetmap.org? Would building this out more maybe solve some of our problems? Preference for email vs

Re: [Talk-us] proposal for deletion: talk-us-ga and

2009-10-21 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 19:40 -0400, Richard Weait wrote: On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Sarah Manley sarah.m.man...@gmail.com wrote: What is the status of the forum: http://forum.openstreetmap.org? Would building this out more maybe solve some of our problems? Preference for email vs

Re: [Talk-us] US-based Server

2009-10-21 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 01:34 +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote: Adam Schreiber wrote: I would hope that and in the future a mapping mirror. The database ought to move to being on more than one server. I am interested to hear your proposals on conflict resolution, or failing that, segmentation

[OSM-talk] Changing the account that uploaded the TIGER data

2009-10-14 Per discussione Dave Hansen
So, I just noticed that this map: http://matt.sandbox.cloudmade.com/?lat=45.528599lng=-122.885771zoom=15layer=2 has my own street listed as unedited TIGER data. I think someone is just using user==DaveHansen as a test for edited vs. uneditied TIGER data. So, I changed the display name. It is

[Talk-us] Changing the account that uploaded the TIGER data

2009-10-14 Per discussione Dave Hansen
So, I just noticed that this map: http://matt.sandbox.cloudmade.com/?lat=45.528599lng=-122.885771zoom=15layer=2 has my own street listed as unedited TIGER data. I think someone is just using user==DaveHansen as a test for edited vs. uneditied TIGER data. So, I changed the display name. It is

[OSM-talk] TIGER Addressing Import

2009-10-03 Per discussione Dave Hansen
Is this the most up to date way of keeping addresses? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/House_numbers/Karlsruhe_Schema Well, I have some perl code that will parse the 2007/2008 TIGER data files. My goal is to get the addresses imported into OSM this time around.

Re: [OSM-talk] TIGER Addressing Import

2009-10-03 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Sun, 2009-10-04 at 02:24 +1000, John Smith wrote: 2009/10/4 Dave Hansen d...@sr71.net: Is this the most up to date way of keeping addresses? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/House_numbers/Karlsruhe_Schema Well, I have some perl code that will parse

[Talk-us] TIGER Addressing Import

2009-10-03 Per discussione Dave Hansen
Is this the most up to date way of keeping addresses? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/House_numbers/Karlsruhe_Schema Well, I have some perl code that will parse the 2007/2008 TIGER data files. My goal is to get the addresses imported into OSM this time around.

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER Addressing Import

2009-10-03 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Sun, 2009-10-04 at 02:24 +1000, John Smith wrote: 2009/10/4 Dave Hansen d...@sr71.net: Is this the most up to date way of keeping addresses? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/House_numbers/Karlsruhe_Schema Well, I have some perl code that will parse

Re: [Talk-us] Systematic errors in the Maui, Hawaii Data

2009-09-29 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 23:23 -0700, Scott Atwood wrote: However, as nearly as I can tell, very little work seems to have been done on Maui beyond the initial Tiger upload. The problem is, this Tiger data seems to have some large systematic errors, a translation to the north-northwest. I

Re: [Talk-us] Systematic errors in the Maui, Hawaii Data

2009-09-29 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 10:40 -0700, Scott Atwood wrote: The GPS tracklog I uploaded includes data from Wailuku in central Maui, all along the Hana Highway as far as Waianapana State Park near Hana. In all the locations I spot checked (including the ones mentioned above), there appears to be a

Re: [Talk-us] Systematic errors in the Maui, Hawaii Data

2009-09-29 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 11:20 -0700, Scott Atwood wrote: I spot checked a number of locations all around Maui, and in all the locations I checked, they seem to be affected by the same or highly similar offset to the NNW. Here is another example from the Lahaina area:

[Talk-us] Another shot at a whole-US Garmin map

2009-09-07 Per discussione Dave Hansen
I decided to try another approach. I used the tile picker from here: http://ulrichkuester.de/OSM/CoordinateToOSMTile.html and got the tiles from here: http://osm.ammit.de/osm/latest/img/ with a little wget and a bash script. I then used the mkgmap commands what Lambertus

[Talk-us] Garmin OSM map for whole US

2009-09-05 Per discussione Dave Hansen
For those of you that don't know, Cloudmade has some really cool ready-made maps available for download. I know they work on Garmin devices, but there are probably some others. http://downloads.cloudmade.com/north_america/united_states The problem is that they're made one state at a

Re: [Talk-us] Removing duplicates nodes in Iowa/US

2009-08-21 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 08:54 -0500, Travis Rayhons wrote: 3. Does anyone know where I can find the source code to the validator plugin for JOSM? I was thinking I could take that code and replicate the procedure into my script. The code is in SVN:

Re: [Talk-us] Deletion of unnecessary TIGER node tags will commence this week-end

2009-08-06 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 21:34 +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote: Allan has made a convincing case about superfluous node tags in this posting on dev: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2009-June/016009.html Huh, I never actually saw that message. I'm OK with this, but mostly because the

Re: [Talk-us] Data Upload

2009-07-18 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Sat, 2009-07-18 at 20:07 -0700, Andrew Ayre wrote: I tried bulk_upload.py and it gave me a 404 error. I've used this in the past: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bulk_upload.pl Evidently it hasn't been updated to 0.6 yet. But, honestly, that shouldn't be *that* hard to do. -- Dave

Re: [Talk-us] Data Upload

2009-07-18 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Sat, 2009-07-18 at 22:16 -0700, Andrew Ayre wrote: Thanks. How would I test it without risking putting dummy data or partial data on the public server? I've tried to use another upload script with api06.dev.openstreetmap.org and mysql.dev.openstreetmap.org but they don't appear to be

Re: [Talk-us] Proposed automated motorway_link mass edit

2009-07-17 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Fri, 2009-07-17 at 15:46 +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote: This brings down the number of proposed changes from 28k to 26k. The new list is at the same place: http://www.remote.org/frederik/tmp/us-motorway-link-downgrade/ Some of these at least are from a botched TIGER county that I screwed up

Re: [Talk-us] Proposed automated motorway_link mass edit

2009-07-17 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Fri, 2009-07-17 at 08:10 -0700, Russ Nelson wrote: On Jul 17, 2009, at 2:24 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: I'd also like to look into some gluing back together of the TIGER counties and I wonder how suitable this would be. My gut feeling is that this calls for a semi-automated process

Re: [Talk-us] Proposed automated motorway_link mass edit

2009-07-17 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Fri, 2009-07-17 at 10:27 -0500, David Lynch wrote: On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 10:10, Russ Nelsonr...@cloudmade.com wrote: An even more aggressive fix would be to disconnect everything that isn't a motorway_link. That's probably correct, but more aggressive than I would choose to

Re: [Talk-us] Proposed automated motorway_link mass edit

2009-07-17 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Fri, 2009-07-17 at 09:19 -0700, Apollinaris Schoell wrote: Yep. I've even got a JOSM validator plugin test to check motorway intersections. It doesn't do the angles, but just ensures motorways only touch other way types at their endpoints. very useful, can you share? Here are my

Re: [Talk-us] Proposed automated motorway_link mass edit

2009-07-17 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Fri, 2009-07-17 at 10:35 -0700, Russ Nelson wrote: On Jul 17, 2009, at 9:29 AM, David Lynch wrote: Because I and numerous other mappers have put a hell of a lot of time and effort into getting things right, and I don't want anyone breaking it because an algorithm assumes it isn't right.

Re: [Talk-us] Proposed automated motorway_link mass edit

2009-07-16 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Fri, 2009-07-17 at 03:41 +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote: Preliminary analysis shows that there would be roughly 28k changes across the whole US. I have prepared a full list of all proposed changes, arranged by state and county, here:

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER corrections

2009-07-09 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 17:55 -0700, Dave Hansen wrote: On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 17:08 -0700, Alan Mintz wrote: 1. Short road N Laurel Ave (way 7497408) ending at a T-intersection into W 18th St (way 7516644). TLID is 144674357. The node at the T has TLIDs 144674357:144674376:144986081, which

Re: [Talk-us] Fixing TIGER

2009-07-07 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 10:23 -0700, Apollinaris Schoell wrote: it's bad if you don't have a 4WD but your navi thinks it's perfect to use :( but even tomtom, google, ... have the same errors in these areas. if we want osm to be better there is no easy way to get it right without checking

Re: [Talk-us] Fixing Alignments in JOSM

2009-06-23 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 11:57 -0700, Andrew Ayre wrote: So I need to split the North-South way into two pieces and it intersects the East-West way in two places. I cannot figure out how to do this in JOSM. I've tried everything - splitting a way at nodes, ungluing, etc. The way always

[OSM-talk] Strange synthentic GPS tracks spelling out words

2009-06-21 Per discussione Dave Hansen
We had a super-cool mapping party in Portland, OR this weekend. But I noticed some really werid GPS traces. Somebody has spelled out things like ATM and SUSHILAND in the GPS tracks, and they weren't walking around spelling things. ;) Take a look around 45.524613, -122.694281. I'm just curious

[Talk-us] Strange synthentic GPS tracks spelling out words

2009-06-21 Per discussione Dave Hansen
We had a super-cool mapping party in Portland, OR this weekend. But I noticed some really werid GPS traces. Somebody has spelled out things like ATM and SUSHILAND in the GPS tracks, and they weren't walking around spelling things. ;) Take a look around 45.524613, -122.694281. I'm just curious

Re: [Talk-us] Tidying up TIGER data

2009-06-04 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 00:36 -0600, Ted Percival wrote: Its functions are: - Strip St suffix from grid-named streets (eg. South 500 West) - Collapse multiple spaces into a single space (lots of TIGER) - Expand abbreviated directions (eg. S 500 E to South 500 East) - Expand abbreviated suffixes

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER Data in Wrong Place

2009-05-06 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 19:08 +0100, Andrew Ayre wrote: Hi! When I load OSM data into my GPS unit using mkgmap for a place in the UK then it is accurate. When I load OSM data for Tucson, Arizona then it is off by perhaps 100ft. I would like to make the maps for Tucson usable, so my questions

Re: [Talk-us] Blame me for JOSM yellowness

2009-05-02 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 09:50 -0700, Apollinaris Schoell wrote: tiger data is that the quality is from excellent to really bad in accuracy tiger data is old and contains abandoned roads tiger has no level info, no direction for oneways, no turn restrictions, or any other fancy info which we

Re: [Talk-us] Tool to fix Tiger data

2009-05-01 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Fri, 2009-05-01 at 08:32 -0700, Apollinaris Schoell wrote: this one is way more useful than maplint. but it's europe only at the moment Anyone with plans to provide a US version? Tiger doesn't have directions on (some?) motorways, motorway_link and may of them are wrong. this

Re: [Talk-us] Blame me for JOSM yellowness

2009-04-24 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 09:40 -0700, Alan Millar wrote: If you don't like the tag, you don't have to use it. But I have been waiting for this highlighting feature for a long time, but never got around to figuring out enough in JOSM, so I am happy to see it. To each his own; there is room for

Re: [Talk-us] Blame me for JOSM yellowness

2009-04-24 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 10:26 -0700, Apollinaris Schoell wrote: forcing every josm user to accept it is somewhere between ignorance and dictatorship Hi Apollinaris, I'd be happy to code up a custom version of JOSM for you that doesn't have the yellowness. I'd also be happy to looking into

Re: [Talk-us] Duplicate TIGER imports

2009-04-14 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 15:41 -0700, Minh Nguyen wrote: A few weeks after DaveHansen imported the TIGER data for Ohio [1], RSatterf reimported the data for Greene County, Ohio [2]. As a result, every single way in the county is duplicated. On top of that, RSatterf's import also added a loose

Re: [Talk-us] Duplicate TIGER imports

2009-04-14 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 19:22 -0500, Chris Lawrence wrote: On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Minh Nguyen m...@1ec5.org wrote: A few weeks after DaveHansen imported the TIGER data for Ohio [1], RSatterf reimported the data for Greene County, Ohio [2]. As a result, every single way in the county

Re: [OSM-talk] Statistics and TIGER import question: What happened in August 2007?

2009-03-16 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 20:05 -0500, Ian Dees wrote: I'm sure DaveH will be able to chime in on this with more clarity, but I think that the original TIGER import had some data consistency problems and so all of its data removed before the second import happened. Oddly enough, I never

Re: [Talk-us] Tags for US Forest Service GIS Trail Data

2009-03-05 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 10:48 -0500, Russ Nelson wrote: Also, are there tags to keep information about metadata like the data source (i.e. gps, digitized, etc)? Chris and Dave have set a standard for imports that says that existing metadata should be preserved. As long as you do that,

Re: [Talk-us] Tags for US Forest Service GIS Trail Data

2009-03-05 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 08:11 -0800, Matt Maxon wrote: Here in SoCal parking most anywhere with in a National Forest requires paying a fee $5 daily or $30 annual ($80 Public Lands pass too) Same basic system in Oregon and Washington. Some trailheads are special, usually when they're really

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER 2008 Data is Out

2008-12-25 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Thu, 2008-12-25 at 23:22 +1100, Justin Adler wrote: Hi folks, quick question about this Tiger lines and OSM. 1) Are there any import scripts out there which are not rails or php? something in .NET maybe? No. 2) Do the tiger lines have the following data (which could then be imported

Re: [Talk-ca] Tiger data as a slippy map option

2008-12-19 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 03:15 -0800, Sam Vekemans wrote: Where one option is to use an OpenLayers slippy map, where users could use a rendered version of all the Tiger data, and trace with it, just as they would with the Yahoo imagery layer? I'd really rather just import the data rather than be

Re: [Talk-ca] GeoBase and OpenStreetMap

2008-12-17 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 00:26 -0800, Dan Putler wrote: One way has the TIGER TLID attribute, the other way does not (the person doing the editing of the way missing the TLID probably didn't understand the relevance of it, and didn't think it mattered). There are several concerns here. First, as

Re: [Talk-ca] GeoBase and OpenStreetMap

2008-12-15 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 15:02 -0500, Mepham, Michael wrote: My first question has to be “Why are you doing this?”. I have spent some time looking through the OSM web site and I understand the rational for building street maps where none exist or at least are not generally available but that is

Re: [Talk-ca] Scripts to import GeoBase/GeoGratis into OSM

2008-12-10 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 13:35 -0500, Richard Degelder wrote: By the way do you know what they did with the AND import? Did they also just load up the map and leave it to the local mappers to correct and discrepancies and fix any errors as well? I realize that within places like China and India

Re: [Talk-us] Tiger Data 2007

2008-10-28 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 15:46 -0700, Alan Brown wrote: If those 10% are located where someone has poured their heart into making a carefully constructed map - you could disillusion some of your most active contributors. Yup, I completely agree. But, one of the nice things is that the active

Re: [Talk-us] Tiger 2007 data

2008-10-27 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 10:37 +1100, Nick Hocking wrote: I'm firmly convinced that automatic uploads should only go into areas where there are NO user edited nodes or ways. Other updates need to be done manully to avoid data corruption. You have absolutely shown a number of cases where there was

Re: [Talk-us] Tiger 2007 Data

2008-10-24 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 22:09 +1100, Nick Hocking wrote: Can you confirm that any bulk upload of Tiger 2007 date will not erase or be overlaid over/under/alongside any existing user edits. On my last US trip I've got about 6000 miles of gps tracks. I've only edited in a few hundred miles of

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] TIGER 2007, first OSM data

2008-10-21 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 22:58 -0500, Chris Lawrence wrote: On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Dave Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can run it like this: perl tiger-shp-to-osm.pl data/ftp2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2007FE/41_OREGON/41055_Sherman/fe_2007_41055_edges.zip out-dave.osm

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER 2007, first OSM data

2008-10-21 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 22:58 -0500, Chris Lawrence wrote: On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Dave Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can run it like this: perl tiger-shp-to-osm.pl data/ftp2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2007FE/41_OREGON/41055_Sherman/fe_2007_41055_edges.zip out-dave.osm

Re: [OSM-talk] Tiger 2007 Data

2008-10-20 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 09:21 +0200, Lambertus wrote: Any idea about the differences between the Tiger data in the OSM db and this new set? By that I mean: is it just road network updates or is the data also better defined? The current tiger data in the db may look alright on a map, but

Re: [OSM-talk] Tiger 2007 Data

2008-10-20 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 09:43 +0200, vegard wrote: On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 10:54:55AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote: Has anyone looked at importing the TIGER 2007 data yet? I was going to start coding up the conversion utilities to get started. It appears that this shapefile format may have

[OSM-talk] TIGER 2007, first OSM data

2008-10-20 Per discussione Dave Hansen
I'm trying to share early and often. :) Here's the first output from my new TIGER 2007 script. I used shp2osm.pl from SVN and added a perl port of a chunk of the ruby code from the original TIGER import. http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~daveh/tiger/2007/OR-Sherman.osm.bz2 This doesn't have any of

[Talk-us] TIGER 2007, first OSM data

2008-10-20 Per discussione Dave Hansen
I'm trying to share early and often. :) Here's the first output from my new TIGER 2007 script. I used shp2osm.pl from SVN and added a perl port of a chunk of the ruby code from the original TIGER import. http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~daveh/tiger/2007/OR-Sherman.osm.bz2 This doesn't have any of

[OSM-talk] Tiger 2007 Data

2008-10-19 Per discussione Dave Hansen
Has anyone looked at importing the TIGER 2007 data yet? I was going to start coding up the conversion utilities to get started. It appears that this shapefile format may have existing OSM converters out there. Anyone want to admit to having one? ;) -- Dave

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Tiger 2007 Data

2008-10-19 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 11:10 -0700, Karl Newman wrote: On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Dave Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone looked at importing the TIGER 2007 data yet? I was going to start coding up the conversion utilities to get started

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Tiger 2007 Data

2008-10-19 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 11:25 -0700, Karl Newman wrote: Ah. Quite a trick... I seem to recall that somebody had wanted to do that earlier, but I think they got discouraged by the difficulty. Well, time may have made me forget what a pain the original import was. We'll see how far I get this time.

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Tiger 2007 Data

2008-10-19 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 14:29 -0400, Russ Nelson wrote: Dave Hansen writes: Then, decide how if/when it is appropriate to write over the old TIGER stuff with new. Or, to merge it somehow. I've updated it in some cases. Perhaps only update if the data is unchecked? Sure, that would

[Talk-us] Tiger 2007 Data

2008-10-19 Per discussione Dave Hansen
Has anyone looked at importing the TIGER 2007 data yet? I was going to start coding up the conversion utilities to get started. It appears that this shapefile format may have existing OSM converters out there. Anyone want to admit to having one? ;) -- Dave

Re: [Talk-us] Tiger 2007 Data

2008-10-19 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 11:33 -0700, Alan Brown wrote: Then, decide how if/when it is appropriate to write over the old TIGER stuff with new. Or, to merge it somehow. Be very, very careful here. Conflation is a difficult thing. I used to work at Tele Atlas, and there was a major

Re: [Talk-us] using city data?

2008-08-22 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 17:36 -0700, Alan Brown wrote: I think this is a case of where, if I get clarification from them further, it *might* be okay, but the wording is too fraught with ambiguity to be safe. Here's the part I'm worried about - I explained in an e-mail what OpenStreetMap is

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER 2007 files

2008-07-20 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 21:10 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is the Census Bureau going to continue to make regular (ie. annual or semi-annual) data releases of street centerline data, or does the 2007 TIGER/Line Shapefile release represent the end of the project? I can't imagine this will be

Re: [Talk-us] Portland data

2008-07-16 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 07:57 +0100, SteveC wrote: Can anyone (especially anyone local to Portand but it's not crucial) take some time to look and see? Adam says: I called Metro today, and they say their data is not public domain, so I think that makes it unusable on OSM. Oh well. Adam

Re: [Talk-us] Adding Public Domain GIS data from Allegheny County (Pittsburgh) Pa

2008-07-07 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 16:10 -0400, Morgan Ress wrote: * High School Students that are working here for the summer, in a program designed to teach them about GIS and community planning. Currently, they are working on detailed maps of our neighborhood using QGIS - I'd like to make our work

Re: [Talk-us] bulk upload of data to OSM: roads, water, and orthos

2008-06-25 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 12:42 -0400, John Callahan wrote: Spatially it's no contest. I've attached just a few simple images to show what I mean. These show our new dataset in red vs TIGER 2007 in purple. Remember that the red lines match the hi-res photography. Wow. Hard to argue with that!

Re: [OSM-talk] Please restore deleted suburb

2008-05-22 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 11:34 -0400, Christopher Schmidt wrote: More seriously, I can try and find some time to fix up the code so that it parses braintree correctly. I guess we could also just cut the appropriate TIGER area out and upload that as well. Let me know if this interests anyone. --

Re: [OSM-talk] TIGER mapping party

2008-05-09 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 07:05 +0900, Jeffrey Martin wrote: Why are there so many problems with the TIGER data? Because we're not using it for its intended purpose. It really is great data. Where do the extra roads come from? Are they planned roads? Ask your local government. They gave the

Re: [Talk-us] US Hydrographic Data

2008-05-07 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 10:51 -0500, Ian Dees wrote: I was going to modify Matthew's script here: http://perrygeo.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/gis-bin/nhd_to_osm.py to try and fix the issues that he described in the header: - support holes in water bodies (islands) - tag OSM data with all

Re: [Talk-us] US Hydrographic Data

2008-05-01 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 10:17 -0700, Karl Newman wrote: That would be awesome. Maybe we could rip out the TIGER hydrographic features and replace them with the NHD stuff. Maybe coastlines, too? I guess we'd have to be careful about duplicating/overwriting people's work, though. Uh. There are

Re: [OSM-talk] TIGER unbraid tool now available

2008-04-25 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 14:46 -0700, Alan Millar wrote: Unfortunately, it is in perl because that's what I know; I've never done anything in Java yet. I've been wondering if this may be just the time to learn it. I'm not sure if a JOSM plugin is a good place to start learning Java or if that

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] TIGER unbraid tool now available

2008-04-25 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 14:46 -0700, Alan Millar wrote: Unfortunately, it is in perl because that's what I know; I've never done anything in Java yet. I've been wondering if this may be just the time to learn it. I'm not sure if a JOSM plugin is a good place to start learning Java or if that

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM TIGER-based map quality

2008-04-04 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 13:51 -0400, Christopher Schmidt wrote: On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 10:31:11AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote: On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 09:12 -0400, Christopher Schmidt wrote: That is exactly what I am suggesting, based on an examination of the objects in the area you're looking

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM TIGER-based map quality

2008-04-04 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 11:04 -0700, Dan Putler wrote: Not all counties have been improved through the MAF/TIGER Accuracy Improvement Project (MTAIP). Here is a link to the counties that have not been improved in the 2007 TIGER data:

Re: [OSM-talk] [josm-dev] Coastline checker / fixer

2008-04-02 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 00:18 +0100, Mark Williams wrote: Can anyone tell me why Validator (the normal one) chokes on this http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.49219lon=0.27476zoom=17 please? I can reverse the way all I like, it's not duplicated, it's clockwise whichever way the arrows go

Re: [Talk-us] highway tags in the US

2008-03-04 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 19:36 -0600, Alex Mauer wrote: Dave Hansen wrote: I'm pretty sure I know one when I see one these days. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Map_Features A restricted access major divided highway, normally with 2 or more running lanes plus emergency hard

Re: [Talk-us] highway tags in the US

2008-03-04 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 23:23 -0500, Bone Killian wrote: certainly a highway that meets the standards without being designated should be tagged as motorway, but as IMHO the only thing that qualifies a road as a motorway (in the US) is the big red and blue signage identifying it as part of

Re: [Talk-us] highway tags in the US

2008-03-03 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 11:02 -0600, Alex Mauer wrote: Dave Hansen wrote: For instance, OR217 and US26 west of Portland are both divided, multi-lane, limited access highways. Despite not being interstates, they *ARE* motorways. Hmm, are you sure? maybe they just look like motorways

Re: [Talk-us] highway tags in the US

2008-02-29 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 20:18 -0600, Ian Dees wrote: I have a hard time deciding which value to use based on the UK-centric descriptions on the wiki. They're not hard and fast rules, honestly. You also can't completely say all (US/State/County) highways are primary/secondary/tertiary, etc...

Re: [Talk-us] How accurate is Tiger data vs Yahoo Aerial?

2008-02-23 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 12:23 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi- I've just joined up and I'd like to help out cleaning up the map for my area in Beaverton/Portland Oregon. It looks like it is completely covered already by the Tiger data. But I've noticed many displacement problems where the

Re: [OSM-talk] Error while uploading with JOSM

2008-01-30 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 09:00 -0800, Cristiano Giovando wrote: I confirm what Rob said, it actually resumed from where it left. But it's also true it took many tries before I was able to upload the entire dataset. I suspect this problem is more likely with large datasets, and it may just be

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] TIGER Map Updates

2007-12-31 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 04:01 -0800, Alex S. wrote: John Wolter wrote: TIGER depicts motorways as a single way It depicts almost all dual-carriageway roads as a single way. And sometimes it doesn't even say when it does. These are widespread enough that I do think we probably need to teach

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] TIGER Map Updates

2007-12-31 Per discussione Dave Hansen
On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 00:30 -0500, Paul Fox wrote: dave wrote: Yeah, that's the trouble with the TIGER data. Its coverage is excellent, but the quality can be worse than what's there. So, do you wow. i'm beginning to realize that we in new england must be very lucky. sure, tiger

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