Re: [Talk-us] Hey, look! State / Prov borders!

2009-08-26 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Richard Weaitrich...@weait.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 8:39 AM, Lennardl...@xs4all.nl wrote: Richard Weait wrote: I think the provincial / state borders will continue to be yucky on the main map until mapnik supports rendering different style sheets

Re: [Talk-us] Hey, look! State / Prov borders!

2009-08-26 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Adam Schreibersa...@clemson.edu wrote: To make things clear, should the place=state tag be placed on, near the node for the capital city of the state? Near the geometric center of the state, I'd think. Looks like: place=state name=South Carolina # for

Re: [Talk-us] [Talk-ca] Hey, look! State / Prov borders!

2009-08-26 Thread Lennard
James Ewen wrote: On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 8:23 AM, Richard Weaitrich...@weait.com wrote: So we USA-ians have a few nodes to move for place=state; Ooh, yuck... the state name labels end up in the wrong spots... missed that. Washington looks like it has two labels. I just cleaned up all

Re: [Talk-us] Hey, look! State / Prov borders!

2009-08-26 Thread mike.oni...@juno.com
Eww, a bit of a mess right now. Maybe I'm just seeing a wierd snapshot, but several states are labeled twice, and most are labeled at the lower right corner of the state (with the state name crossing into its neighbors.) With only 50 states to worry about, is this something 1 person should take

Re: [Talk-us] Hey, look! State / Prov borders!

2009-08-26 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 08:47 -0600, James Ewen wrote: On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 8:23 AM, Richard Weaitrichard-gnthur35lhcavxtiumw...@public.gmane.org wrote: So we USA-ians have a few nodes to move for place=state; Ooh, yuck... the state name labels end up in the wrong spots... missed that.

Re: [Talk-us] Hey, look! State / Prov borders!

2009-08-26 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 10:56 -0400, Adam Schreiber wrote: To make things clear, should the place=state tag be placed on, near the node for the capital city of the state? Why not closer to the geographic center like expected? signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[Talk-us] Need help with SHP2OSM Rules file

2009-08-26 Thread Chris Hunter
I'm doing some preliminary work on making the state park data from the Minnesota DNR available to the map. I've sliced up the state park boundaries and trails into small enough chunks for JOSM to handle, but I'm having difficulties with my rules.txt file. It may be a silly question, but does the

Re: [Talk-us] Need help with SHP2OSM Rules file

2009-08-26 Thread Sam Vekemans
Hi, its line,TRAIL_USE,B,bicycle,yes line,TRAIL_USE,C,cars,yes line,TRAIL_USE,H,horse,yes it takes a little trial error at 1st. Btw, also add attribution,* and make sure the source allows for copying :) hope that helps, Sam On 8/26/09, Chris Hunter chunter...@gmail.com wrote: I'm doing some

Re: [Talk-us] Need help with SHP2OSM Rules file

2009-08-26 Thread Ian Dees
I was working on those exact same files and accidentally released a version of shp-to-osm that uses contains instead of equals for string comparison. Download the 2nd-newest version of shp-to-osm and when your rules.txt line looks for a certain key, it will pick it up if the shapefile contains

Re: [Talk-us] Need help with SHP2OSM Rules file

2009-08-26 Thread chunter952
Thanks, I'm pretty tired at the moment, but I knew there had to be a reason why SHP2OSM kept erroring out when I tried to translate the fields instead of copy them. I'll try and locate the correct version tomorrow. Chris Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -Original Message- From: Ian