Re: [Talk-us] National Park Boundaries

2009-03-12 Thread Ted Mielczarek
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Zeke Farwell ezeki...@gmail.com wrote: The thing about the several renderers we currently have is that they can't be expected to take every possible mapped feature into account. The map would just get too cluttered. I think for a general street map (the

[Talk-us] GNIS Import Done

2009-03-12 Thread Ian Dees
Hi everyone, I completed the GNIS node import yesterday. Please see the wiki page [1] for more details. As several of you have messaged me and posted on this list, there are some problems with this data. Let me try to explain my thought process: 1. Since the resolution of the information is

Re: [Talk-us] GNIS Import Done

2009-03-12 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Adam Schreiber sa...@clemson.edu wrote: On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: 3. If there are already OSM features in your area for a certain node that I

Re: [Talk-us] GNIS Import Done

2009-03-12 Thread Ian Dees
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Ted Mielczarek ted.mielcza...@gmail.comwrote: Yeah, I deleted quite a few POIs for things that no longer exist. Sorry if I sounded mad in my message. :) I still question the value of this data given my (brief, informal) survey of what it brought to my local

Re: [Talk-us] GNIS Import Done

2009-03-12 Thread Matt Maxon
Ian Dees wrote: that we can send back to the GNIS board, who has the option of putting it back into their data set. 3. If there are already OSM features in your area for a certain node that I imported, feel free to delete my node, but please merge at least the gnis:feature_id tag from the

Re: [Talk-us] GNIS Import Done

2009-03-12 Thread Matt Maxon
Ian Dees wrote: that we can send back to the GNIS board, who has the option of putting it back into their data set. 3. If there are already OSM features in your area for a certain node that I imported, feel free to delete my node, but please merge at least the gnis:feature_id tag from the

Re: [Talk-us] GNIS Import Done

2009-03-12 Thread Ian Dees
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Matt Maxon o...@mattmaxon.com wrote: Ian Dees wrote: that we can send back to the GNIS board, who has the option of putting it back into their data set. 3. If there are already OSM features in your area for a certain node that I imported, feel free to

Re: [Talk-us] GNIS Import Done

2009-03-12 Thread Ian Dees
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:43 AM, David Lynch djly...@gmail.com wrote: Another thing I'm seeing as I look around is duplicates and near-duplicates (Zavala School vs. Zavala Elementary School, for instance.) For now, I'm putting both feature IDs into one point, separated by a semicolon. Does

Re: [Talk-us] GNIS Import Done

2009-03-12 Thread Matthew Schneider
If you know that Zavala School and Zavala Elementary School are the same thing, then you should delete the less correct node (along with its gnis:feature_id). That would eventually push a delete the less correct data point change into GNIS, which is a good thing I think. I hope soon to

[Talk-us] Mapping Party in LA this weekend!

2009-03-12 Thread Hurricane McEwen
Hey fellow mappers! Wanted to let you know that there's a great gathering of OpenStreetMappers and newbies getting together this weekend in Santa Monica! We have a mapping party at Ye Olde Kings Head near the beach from 12-4 both Saturday and Sunday! Come join the fun, meet other folks who like

[Talk-us] Portland Car-free happy hour tonight-- potential networking for mappers interested in transit maps

2009-03-12 Thread Sarah Manley
Dear All, I was asked to pass this along to OSM folks. Sounds like an interesting event that holds potential for networking around OSM Portland car-free happy hour is tonight at Roots in SE (http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-carfree/browse_frm/thread/f01529f84095f162 ). I hope you can

Re: [Talk-us] U.S. Bike Route 76

2009-03-12 Thread Dylan Semler
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 6:10 AM, Adam Killian vi...@bonius.com wrote: Minh Nguyen wrote: Ngày 3/11/09 8:48 PM, Paul Johnson vie^'t: Spencer Riddile wrote: Chris, What would the advantage/disadvantage be of using a different network name (usbrs vs. ncn) for U.S. bike routes. The