[Talk-us] Census designated place boundaries: should we care about them?

2010-06-10 Thread Nathan Edgars II
Usually a CDP is simply an arbitrary area drawn by the Census Bureau for statistical purposes. Does it sound reasonable that these should at least not be treated as ordinary boundaries, if not (carefully) deleted altogether where not based on actual administrative boundaries?

Re: [Talk-us] Census designated place boundaries: should we care about them?

2010-06-10 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Brad Neuhauser brad.neuhau...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: Usually a CDP is simply an arbitrary area drawn by the Census Bureau for statistical purposes. Does it sound reasonable that these should

[Talk-us] Uploading all Post Office Drop Box locations in the US

2010-06-10 Thread Kirk Ireson
I was adding a couple local USPS Post Office drop box locations using Potlatch when I wondered if there was a public list of locations I could upload. I did find that there was a release of 2005 locations that was released under the Freedom of Information Act. There are 20 Excel files ranging

Re: [Talk-us] Uploading all Post Office Drop Box locations in the US

2010-06-10 Thread Ian Dees
I would say that at least 1/3 of the post office drop boxes nationwide have been removed or pulled out of service since this data has been released, making an import of the data both inaccurate (due to geocoding) and old. On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Kirk Ireson palmerstat...@gmail.comwrote:

Re: [Talk-us] Uploading all Post Office Drop Box locations in the US

2010-06-10 Thread Ian Dees
These sites might also be interesting: http://www.payphone-project.com/mailboxes/ and http://www.mailboxmap.com/ On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: I would say that at least 1/3 of the post office drop boxes nationwide have been removed or pulled out of service

Re: [Talk-us] Uploading all Post Office Drop Box locations in the US

2010-06-10 Thread Kirk Ireson
Ian, That payphone-project website is actually where I got the initial information about the downloadable files. Cheers, ~Kirk -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/Uploading-all-Post-Office-Drop-Box-locations-in-the-US-tp5164668p5164762.html Sent from the USA

Re: [Talk-us] Uploading all Post Office Drop Box locations in the US

2010-06-10 Thread Serge Wroclawski
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Kirk Ireson palmerstat...@gmail.com wrote: I was adding a couple local USPS Post Office drop box locations using Potlatch when I wondered if there was a public list of locations I could upload.  I did find that there was a release of 2005 locations that was

Re: [Talk-us] Uploading all Post Office Drop Box locations in the US

2010-06-10 Thread Katie Filbert
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Katie Filbert filbe...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Kirk Ireson palmerstat...@gmail.comwrote: -Is this compatible licensing? -What kind of attribution is required? The USPS is not a government agency, and it puts full copyrights on

Re: [Talk-us] OSM to POI file format?

2010-06-10 Thread Mike N.
Who created this .POI format? Is the specification available somewhere? How many devices support this particular format? I now see that it is basically just a .GPX format - http://www.poi-factory.com/node/6202 . I don't yet know where to find the list of acceptable choices for 'Category',

Re: [Talk-us] Uploading all Post Office Drop Box locations in

2010-06-10 Thread Hillsman, Edward
The age of the data is definitely an issue. The two websites that Ian Dees suggested do not agree for the area where I live--they are not even close to agreeing. Also, there can be serious artifacts of the geocoding process. This shows in the two websites. It appears that both use data geocoded

[Talk-us] OSM to POI file format?

2010-06-10 Thread Mike N.
There are tons of websites whose niche is to get people to map something as thoroughly as possible so others can download the files and stick them on their satnav units (e.g. http://www.poi-factory.com/). Is there already a converter from .OSM to .POI? I'd like to offer free current POI

Re: [Talk-us] Uploading all Post Office Drop Box locations in the US

2010-06-10 Thread Mike N.
geocoder.us does use TIGER lines [1], which should also clarify the limits of the service (as they do in their FAQ) [1] http://geocoder.us/help/faq.shtml That also means that it is located within an accuracy of only the nearest block. ___

Re: [Talk-us] Reply-to field in list messages

2010-06-10 Thread Jeffrey Ollie
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 3:59 PM, David ``Smith'' vidthe...@gmail.com wrote: Why doesn't the talk-us list use the reply-to field so that simple replies go to the list, not just the original poster?  The newbies list does that.  Every other e-mail list I've ever been on does that. So why not

Re: [Talk-us] Census designated place boundaries: should we care about them?

2010-06-10 Thread David ``Smith''
Oops, forgot to fix the to field... On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: Usually a CDP is simply an arbitrary area drawn by the Census Bureau for statistical purposes. Does it sound reasonable that these should at least not be treated as ordinary

Re: [Talk-us] Uploading all Post Office Drop Box locations in the US

2010-06-10 Thread David ``Smith''
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Kirk Ireson palmerstat...@gmail.com wrote: released under the Freedom of Information Act.  There are 20 Excel files ranging from 14,000 to 65,000 lines in length each and it looks like they do have all the locations.  I thought it would be a good project for me

Re: [Talk-us] Uploading all Post Office Drop Box locations in the US

2010-06-10 Thread Joshua Finnie
As for the software used with http://geocoder.us, I found this was the license for the PERL module: COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE Copyright (C) 2004 by Schuyler Erle and Jo Walsh This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either

Re: [Talk-us] Reply-to field in list messages

2010-06-10 Thread Dave Hansen
On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 16:59 -0400, David ``Smith'' wrote: Why doesn't the talk-us list use the reply-to field so that simple replies go to the list, not just the original poster? The newbies list does that. Every other e-mail list I've ever been on does that. So why not this one? It's a

[Talk-us] Reply-to field in list messages

2010-06-10 Thread David ``Smith''
Why doesn't the talk-us list use the reply-to field so that simple replies go to the list, not just the original poster? The newbies list does that. Every other e-mail list I've ever been on does that. So why not this one? I know I can hit reply-all instead of reply but that still requires me

Re: [Talk-us] Uploading all Post Office Drop Box locations in the US

2010-06-10 Thread Dale Puch
http://www.usps.com/foia/ Under the owned/leased properties data: *The information contained in the report is provided by the United States Postal Service under the Freedom of information Act and should not be redistributed or resold.* Not sure if they can hold people to that or they just want to