[Talk-us] Province / State borders

2009-03-30 Thread Richard Weait
I've adjusted the boundary=admin rendering on my tile server to make more sense for North America. Rendering the state / provincial borders at zoom 1 2 might be overdoing it, but at zoom 3 looks reasonable. It does point out a potential shortcoming in the boundary data though. Borders for

Re: [Talk-us] Province / State borders

2009-03-30 Thread Bill Ricker
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 6:59 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: Borders for Vermont and New York appear bolder than for Minnesota and Illinois.  Have they been tagged differently, or duplicated? an additional possibility is eastern borders are more wiggly following terrain as opposed to

Re: [Talk-us] Province / State borders

2009-03-30 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 6:59 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: I've adjusted the boundary=admin rendering on my tile server to make more sense for North America.  Rendering the state / provincial borders at zoom 1 2 might be overdoing it, but at zoom 3 looks reasonable.  It does

Re: [Talk-us] Province / State borders

2009-03-30 Thread Ian Dees
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Adam Schreiber sa...@clemson.edu wrote: They weren't duplicated. Ian (I believe?) imported the borders for the New England and Mid-Atlantic states and I imported the rest. It might be the county border imports. I imported those without doing any

[Talk-us] silly borders

2009-03-30 Thread Richard Weait
Dear Can-Americans, This is silly. Four different lines for one border. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=48.99906lon=-95.15362zoom=16layers=B000FTF We're good neighbo(u)rs. We should fix our fence. Shouldn't each border be a single way, with a relation for each adjacent region? We

Re: [Talk-us] silly borders

2009-03-30 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: Dear Can-Americans, This is silly.  Four different lines for one border. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=48.99906lon=-95.15362zoom=16layers=B000FTF We're good neighbo(u)rs.  We should fix our fence.  Shouldn't each

Re: [Talk-us] silly borders

2009-03-30 Thread Matthew Schneider
Adam Schreiber wrote: On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: Dear Can-Americans, This is silly. Four different lines for one border. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=48.99906lon=-95.15362zoom=16layers=B000FTF We're good neighbo(u)rs. We should fix

Re: [Talk-us] silly borders

2009-03-30 Thread James Fee
Someone get the text to the Treaty of 1818 and figure that one out... I don't seem to have my copy ready by my computer. -- James Fee http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/ On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 7:07 PM, Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com wrote: We should fix our fence. Ayuh. Good fences make

Re: [Talk-us] silly borders

2009-03-30 Thread Bill Ricker
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Matthew Schneider mlschnei...@bucketofbolts.net wrote: Great.  Which one's correct? looks to me like they were traced with subtly different projections that supposedly were squared up but didn't quite fit. E.g., Interesting factoid i just picked up - Warsaw

Re: [Talk-us] silly borders]

2009-03-30 Thread Richard Weait
Forwarded Message From: Richard Weait rich...@weait.com To: Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Talk-us] silly borders Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 22:30:47 -0400 On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 22:07 -0400, Bill Ricker wrote: We should fix our fence. Ayuh. Good fences

Re: [Talk-us] silly borders

2009-03-30 Thread Ian Dees
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Matthew Schneider mlschnei...@bucketofbolts.net wrote: I know some of my friends in Northern Minnesota are wacky, but roads in the middle of a lake? I didn't know we'd started mapping seasonal ice roads. Looks like a TIGER mix-up.