Re: [Talk-us] tiger county boundaries

2009-10-03 Thread Kevin
i've imported the 2009 tiger county boundaries for Hawaii. (http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/166563) i was incorrect when i said there are no tiger state boundaries, but they correspond exactly to the county boundaries. i agree with apollinaris, some state data that may have been

Re: [Talk-us] Tiger Fixup - name_1, name_2, etc

2009-10-03 Thread Mike N.
ref tags are rendered in the naming of things like highway=motorway and highway=motorway_junction. For example, highway=motorway_junction, ref=283, name=Wilsonville: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=45.30571lon=-122.76832zoom=16layers=0B00FTF Note how the ref gets rendered at some levels

Re: [Talk-us] tiger county boundaries

2009-10-03 Thread Kevin
just an fyi for everyone to check out... in addition to the tiger county boundaries for Hawaii, i added the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone (http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/279001), the U.S. Contiguous Zone (http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/279045), and the U.S.

[Talk-us] TIGER Addressing Import

2009-10-03 Thread Dave Hansen
Is this the most up to date way of keeping addresses? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/House_numbers/Karlsruhe_Schema Well, I have some perl code that will parse the 2007/2008 TIGER data files. My goal is to get the addresses imported into OSM this time around.

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER Addressing Import

2009-10-03 Thread Dave Hansen
On Sun, 2009-10-04 at 02:24 +1000, John Smith wrote: 2009/10/4 Dave Hansen d...@sr71.net: Is this the most up to date way of keeping addresses? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/House_numbers/Karlsruhe_Schema Well, I have some perl code that will parse the

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER Addressing Import

2009-10-03 Thread Mike N.
Is this the most up to date way of keeping addresses? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/House_numbers/Karlsruhe_Schema There is also this alpha-level Python code to generate Karlsruhe style ways:

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] TIGER Addressing Import

2009-10-03 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 3 Oct 2009, at 17:42, Mike N. wrote: It needs to follow the road way to some extent, but it might be possible to simplify by reducing node count so that it doesn't exactly follow the road. In the samples I have seen, house placement is much different than the road path when

[Talk-us] Mailboxes, etc.

2009-10-03 Thread Alan Mintz
How are people tagging mailbox shops, which typically have PO Boxes for rent, and offer various packaging and shipping services (UPS, USPS, etc.)? -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-us] Mailboxes, etc.

2009-10-03 Thread Dan Homerick
I would use amenity=post_office + operator=* I might toss in a name tag as well, if it doesn't look like the renderers are picking up on the operator tag (haven't tried it). see: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dpost_office Cheers, - Dan On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 10:34 PM, Alan