[Talk-us] OSM Mapper for the USA (and everywhere else)

2008-11-07 Thread Peter Miller
Just to confirm that OSM Mapper is indeed available worldwide with a daily update at about 10:00 UTC each day and that it is the product page on our website that is out of date. Thanks for pointing this out to us. We will sort it soon. Here are various blog posts about OSM Mapper with examples

Re: [Talk-us] Railway spur

2008-11-07 Thread Alex Mauer
Russ Nelson wrote: > Joseph Scanlan writes: > > enough, I found "railway=rail" and "service=spur" but no "railway=spur". > > Perhaps we should do an automated conversion of railway=spur into > railway=rail+service=spur? It would mean no editing in the case of an > actual spur, and for anything

Re: [Talk-us] Railway spur

2008-11-07 Thread Russ Nelson
Joseph Scanlan writes: > enough, I found "railway=rail" and "service=spur" but no "railway=spur". Perhaps we should do an automated conversion of railway=spur into railway=rail+service=spur? It would mean no editing in the case of an actual spur, and for anything else, it would mean changing on

Re: [Talk-us] Railway spur

2008-11-07 Thread Russ Nelson
Alex Mauer writes: > Of course, it doesn't help that most (all?) rail lines are posted no > trespassing... M, no, more than that. Often a state will have a law that says "posted or not, no trespassing on railroads." The problem is that it's simply NOT possible to physically keep people off

Re: [Talk-us] Railway spur

2008-11-07 Thread Russ Nelson
Ian Dees writes: > In my experience, TIGER ways that show up as railway are almost always not > actually there (the right of way has been purchased by or leased to another > entity and developed), so be extra careful when retagging TIGER railway. I am working on fixing the railways in New York

Re: [Talk-us] Railway spur

2008-11-07 Thread Alex Mauer
Ian Dees wrote: > In my experience, TIGER ways that show up as railway are almost always not > actually there (the right of way has been purchased by or leased to another > entity and developed), so be extra careful when retagging TIGER railway. Yep, that's common too, though I'm sure it varies a

Re: [Talk-us] Railway spur

2008-11-07 Thread Ian Dees
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Alex Mauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But be cautious, TIGER's classification of railway is very > inaccurate. There are many routes which are marked as spur which > shouldn't be, and many which are marked as abandoned which shouldn't be. In my experience, TIG

Re: [Talk-us] Railway spur

2008-11-07 Thread Alex Mauer
Joseph Scanlan wrote: > The airport runways, taxiways, and aprons now show on the slippy map but > the railways are missing. I admit I fall firmly in the "don't tag for > the renderer" camp but I did get curious and checked the wiki. Sure > enough, I found "railway=rail" and "service=spur" but

Re: [Talk-us] OSM mapper from ITO World

2008-11-07 Thread Russ Nelson
Ian Dees writes: > On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 11:39 AM, Russ Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Except that it's for the UK only right now. Worldwide comes later. > > They recently ( > http://itoworld.blogspot.com/2008/10/osm-mapper-now-available-for-usa.html) > added the USA, which was

[Talk-us] Railway spur

2008-11-07 Thread Joseph Scanlan
Greetings, Last week I was tracing around the Cedar City Regional Airport and added a short piece of railway while I was there. The railways I added connect to existing ways tagged railway=spur so I tagged "mine" the same. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=37.69715&lon=-113.09925&zoo

Re: [Talk-us] OSM mapper from ITO World

2008-11-07 Thread Ian Dees
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 11:39 AM, Russ Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Except that it's for the UK only right now. Worldwide comes later. > They recently ( http://itoworld.blogspot.com/2008/10/osm-mapper-now-available-for-usa.html) added the USA, which was the last bit of coverage they were

Re: [Talk-us] OSM mapper from ITO World

2008-11-07 Thread Russ Nelson
Sarah Manley writes: > Dear All, > > I thought this would interest most of you > > http://www.itoworld.com/static/osmmapper Except that it's for the UK only right now. Worldwide comes later. -- --my blog is athttp://blog.russnelson.com | Delegislation is a slippery Crynwr sells sup

[Talk-us] OSM mapper from ITO World

2008-11-07 Thread Sarah Manley
Dear All, I thought this would interest most of you http://www.itoworld.com/static/osmmapper Cheers, Sarah PS>> If you are in the Bay Area, stop by the Oakland mapping party this weekend! ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://