Re: [Talk-us] Rural US: Correcting Original TIGER Imported Ways

[Ben Miller]

On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 10:48 AM Clifford Snow 
wrote:

> Does your state have a problem? Run the following overpass query to find
> out:
> https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/w74 - just replace "Washington"  Need help
> creating a Maproulette Challenge - just ask.
>

I've done a fair amount of TIGER touch-up in Michigan, but there's still a
lot of work left to be done, and this looks like a great way to get a
handle on it. One issue: Due to the automated name expansion that was done
on untouched TIGER ways a few years ago (which I think only affected roads
in the eastern US?) a lot of these ways have bot-mode as their most recent
user, rather than DaveHansenTiger. (1)

The catch is that sometimes the name expansion changed the name after a
human mapper had edited the way, so it wouldn't always be valid right to
include ways where bot-mode is the most recent editor. (2) I think if
bot-mode is the most recent editor and the way has only two versions, then
it should be in effect an untouched TIGER way, but I'm not sure how to get
Overpass-turbo to pull that info out.

Any suggestions?

1. Like this one: https://pewu.github.io/osm-history/#/way/17859200
2. For example: https://pewu.github.io/osm-history/#/way/17862968
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Re: [Talk-us] Gosh ... something about mapping ...

[Ben Miller]

I'm not familiar with the MUTCD, and a little Googling didn't get me any
clarification, but I'm guessing that "motor-driven cycles" refers to mopeds
and such, not to motorcycles.

On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 8:21 AM Simon Poole  wrote:

> To give us all a break from the usual political machinations at this
> time of year I've drawn up the following table
>
>
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/US_MUTCD_exclusionary_signs_to_OSM_access
>
> The context is the work I've been doing on
> https://github.com/simonpoole/beautified-JOSM-preset which is the
> default preset for Vespucci http://vespucci.io/ (obviously on mobile
> devices being able to touch an icon is preferable to typing).
>
> Any opinions on the mappings, and what would you consider signs that you
> frequently map?
>
> Feedback and patches welcome!
>
> Simon
>
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Re: [Talk-us] Best iOS app for GPS wander, GPX to laptop into OSM?

[Ben Miller]

I like MotionX-GPS for recording tracks. You can easily export and share
them in GPX format via email. It's not free, but for a regular mapper it
would be $2 well spent.

You can also use OSM map tiles in the app, although I'm pretty sure that
it's MotionX's own rendering, and it's not usually very up to date.

On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 7:55 PM stevea  wrote:

> You know what I mean.  This would be a Mapping Party method.  Why
> loan out GPS hardware?
>
> OK, Android, too.  Best GPS-phone-enabled app to absorb a decent
> Mapping Party wander and upload to a laptop.  (Something like
> GPSBabel, but streamlined for GPS-phone-to-laptop, could be a USB
> cable, could be Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, there are lots of possibilities).
> Upload to OSM directly (also) from the phone app is OK, too.  The
> idea here is to do an iD walkthrough (on a laptop, at a Mapping
> Party) as a teaching moment.  Uploading a GPX track is one thing.
> Editing the map with iD and good tags and smart data entry is much
> more.  We have the time and patience to share what we know with
> others (we also have newer tools, like smartphones running newer OS
> versions).  We want these new OSM volunteers to soar and fly.  So
> let's conversation-streamline some smartphone-to-OSM_Editor
> solutions.  Anybody?
>
> I figure I'll just start talking about this here.  You never know who
> is reading and might think "good idea, I might listen in on that
> thread."  Or even throw in two cents.
>
> Thanks,
> SteveA
> California
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Re: [Talk-us] USGS topo maps not working?

[Ben Miller]

Thanks Ian. I guess that'll have to do!


On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote:

 Fixed the crossdomain.xml problem as best I can tell, but now seeing that
 there's just not any data there. Looks like the USGS is returning white
 tiles for zooms 13 in that area.


 http://tile.openstreetmap.us/usgs_scanned_topos/preview.html#13/45.1929/-85.5724


 On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote:

 It would appear that the crossdomain.xml file Flash is expecting to be
 there isn't.

 I'm trying to get it to show up now...


  On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Ben Miller bborkmil...@gmail.comwrote:

  The USGS topographic map layer isn't appearing for me as a background
 in Potlatch. I'm looking at it in this general area:
 http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=45.18018lon=-85.57084zoom=15layers=M

 Is this layer turned off / on the fritz / just very slow?


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[Talk-us] USGS topo maps not working?

[Ben Miller]

The USGS topographic map layer isn't appearing for me as a background in
Potlatch. I'm looking at it in this general area:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=45.18018lon=-85.57084zoom=15layers=M

Is this layer turned off / on the fritz / just very slow?

- Ben Miller
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Re: [Talk-us] Take another look at notes!

[Ben Miller]

It's probably worth pointing out that the tiles Craigslist is using are
pretty out of date. For example, they don't show the buildings in Chicago
that were imported a couple of months ago. Hopefully Craigslist users won't
get too frustrated when the problems they point out don't appear to be
fixed immediately.


On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 9:25 PM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.uswrote:


 On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.netwrote:

 ok, i found report a problem on the map view for housing units
 in an area. i'll have to go find a map problem and report it via the
 GUI so i can see the full cycle.


 I only found two notes for the Greater Seattle area. (Lucky me?)
 One anonymous reported a business name. The other looked like a mapper that
 was just saying that the tiger road data was sucky. (it was.) It would be
 nice to have the note say the source, i.e. craigslist, osm, routing
 program. That might give more clues to the problem. Plus it would give us
 data if we decided that the reports are useless and needed to modify the
 API.


 Well as I said all craigslist notes will start with the words bounds and
 a coordinate pair. But yes the thought had occurred to me that a created_by
 tag like we have on changesets might actually be useful for notes,
 especially when being created by 3rd party sites like craigslist. I brought
 the idea up in #osm-dev and it didn't seem to get a good reception but I
 may try again now that someone is actually using the feature externally.

 Toby

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Re: [Talk-us] Newly tweaked TIGER road names tiles

[Ben Miller]

Looks good to me! Would it be possible to get this added to the list of
default imagery layers in Potlatch? Or, ideally, to replace the TIGER 2011
layer? It's a pain to have to add it in manually every time I start up
Potlatch...

Ben
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Re: [Talk-us] Chicago L updates

[Ben Miller]

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Kristian M Zoerhoff k...@lavabit.comwrote:

 Should this be extended to Metra? The Metra lines still need work in
 general (I fixed up the Milwaukee District West and Electric District
 lines a while back, but I haven't touched any other relations since).


It probably should be, eventually, when someone has the time and ambition
to take it on.
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[Talk-us] Chicago L updates

[Ben Miller]

I've been putting in some time on the Brown Line in Chicago, adding detail
to the stations and plugging in the Public Transport[1] tags. I'm pretty
much done with it, and I thought I'd throw it out there to see if anyone
has any comments. The Overpass diagram generator seems to like it [2] [3]
but the PT tag system is kind of complicated and I may have missed
something.

One specific question: Since the Brown line is a loop at one end, it
doesn't have two defined terminals, although it definitely has two
directions (towards Kimball and towards the Loop). Does anyone have any
guidance as to where the two route relations should begin/end? As it is I
set Merchandise Mart as the final station for the Loop-bound train, since
the operators usually change the train's destination sign to Kimball
after leaving the Mart. Likewise the first station for the Kimball-bound
relation is Washington/Wells. Maybe I'm overthinking this, but if there's a
standard way of treating routes that loop back on themselves, I'm unaware
of it.

Lastly, I doubt I have the patience to update the whole CTA system, so if
anyone else has an interest in pitching in, go ahead. I know there are at
least a couple more Chicago-area mappers who ride the L. The USGS
Large-Scale imagery in Chicago is very detailed and more recent than the
highest zoom available through Bing.

Ben

[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Public_Transport
[2]
http://www.overpass-api.de/api/sketch-line?network=CTAref=Brownoperator=correspondences=50width=800height=500font-size=12force-rows=max-cors-per-line=max-cors-below=style=
[3]
http://www.overpass-api.de/api/draw-line?network=CTAref=Brownscale=10.0pivot-lon=-86font-size=12.0
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[Talk-us] NHD data conversion

[Ben Miller]

I was watching with anticipation the conversation about pre-converting NHD
data for the whole US, but it seems to have died down since June. I think
I'm the target audience for this effort (I'm willing to put in time merging
the data in carefully, but I'm not conversant in the command-line tools to
prepare it) so I'm curious what the status is.

-- Ben
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