[Talk-us] Fast food vs. restaurant vs. cafe

2010-05-03 Thread Katie Filbert
I'm interested in feedback on how to tag particular chain restaurants/places. I have a copy of the OSM planet database and see inconsistencies in how these places are tagged. * Baskin Robbins (fast food?) * Chipotle Mexican Grill (fast food or restaurant?) * COSI (restaurant or cafe?) * Five

Re: [Talk-us] [Tagging] Fast food vs. restaurant vs. cafe

2010-05-03 Thread Katie Filbert
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 6:41 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.comwrote: On 3 May 2010 20:30, Katie Filbert filbe...@gmail.com wrote: True... I think use of disposable plates, cups, utensils is more common in the US. Whether or not the place has table service might be a better

Re: [Talk-us] [Tagging] Fast food vs. restaurant vs. cafe

2010-05-03 Thread Greg Troxel
Katie Filbert filbe...@gmail.com writes: * Baskin Robbins (fast food?) This is the missing ice cream shop I think. But if they serve other food, it's made to order, and they have table service - restaurant. * Fuddruckers (restaurant or fast food?) tough call * Panera Bread (restaurant or

Re: [Talk-us] [Tagging] Fast food vs. restaurant vs. cafe

2010-05-03 Thread Apollinaris Schoell
On 3 May 2010, at 5:18 , Greg Troxel wrote: Katie Filbert filbe...@gmail.com writes: * Baskin Robbins (fast food?) This is the missing ice cream shop I think. But if they serve other food, it's made to order, and they have table service - restaurant. * Fuddruckers (restaurant or

Re: [Talk-us] [Tagging] Fast food vs. restaurant vs. cafe

2010-05-03 Thread Jeffrey Ollie
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Apollinaris Schoell ascho...@gmail.com wrote: good summary. and because of the rule fast food to be avoided I rarely map these. and interestingly I see more real restaurants and cafe in osm. are most mappers foodies? I tend to map whatever is on the ground,

[Talk-us] Civil Defense Sirens?

2010-05-03 Thread Jeffrey Ollie
With the start of Tornado season in the Midwest upon us, I thought it would be interesting to map civil defense sirens: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_defense_siren However, I can't find any existing examples and either I'm tired or coming down with something but I can't really think of a

Re: [Talk-us] Civil Defense Sirens?

2010-05-03 Thread Ian Dees
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Jeffrey Ollie j...@ocjtech.us wrote: On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Jeffrey Ollie j...@ocjtech.us wrote: With the start of Tornado season in the Midwest upon us, I thought it would be

Re: [Talk-us] Civil Defense Sirens?

2010-05-03 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Jeffrey Ollie j...@ocjtech.us wrote: On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Jeffrey Ollie j...@ocjtech.us wrote: With the start of Tornado season in the Midwest upon us, I thought it would be

Re: [Talk-us] Civil Defense Sirens?

2010-05-03 Thread Jeffrey Ollie
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Jeffrey Ollie j...@ocjtech.us wrote: Only if you have very very good imagery and know what you are looking at.  In Google's higher resolution imagery you can see them if you know what to

Re: [Talk-us] Civil Defense Sirens?

2010-05-03 Thread Toby Murray
Kansas just tested them this morning. There is one on the roof of the building I work in. But even looking at the high res (1m) photos available from the county GIS website, all I can see is there is something there but I can't pick out a distinctive siren shape. This would definitely take boots

Re: [Talk-us] Civil Defense Sirens?

2010-05-03 Thread Jeffrey Ollie
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Lord-Castillo, Brett blord-casti...@stlouisco.com wrote: Just wondering what would be the purpose of mapping civil defense sirens? Because they are there isn't a good enough reason? You have to make some significant decisions of what kind of information to

Re: [Talk-us] Civil Defense Sirens?

2010-05-03 Thread Jeffrey Ollie
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote: Kansas just tested them this morning. There is one on the roof of the building I work in. But even looking at the high res (1m) photos available from the county GIS website, all I can see is there is something there but

[Talk-us] One-way Wrong-way

2010-05-03 Thread Val Kartchner
I was using the OSM maps on my Garmin just to test the routing. With the OSM data, it sometimes picks strange routes. However, last Saturday it picked a really strange route suggesting a dirt road next to the freeway instead of the freeway itself. Today I looked at the route, and Cloudmade made

Re: [Talk-us] One-way Wrong-way

2010-05-03 Thread Nakor
And as for finding and fixing wrong-way segemetns and other motorway problems have a look at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Waychains_TIGER_fixup Also mkgmap generates warning for oneways going nowhere or oneways coming from nowhere. Whne I generate maps I try to fix them. Thanks, N.

Re: [Talk-us] One-way Wrong-way

2010-05-03 Thread Richard Welty
On 5/3/10 9:28 PM, Alan Mintz wrote: At 2010-05-03 12:49, Val Kartchner wrote: It would be cool if it also checked that the all the ways making up a motorway are in their correct relations. BTW, I see that there are usually Some Freeway North and Some Freeway South relations for each