Re: [Talk-us] Safe Routes to School Mapping Toolkit concept

2011-08-13 Thread Nathan Edgars II
This will require objective criteria for grading a route. Does SRTS ignore complications, such as badly-designed bike lanes and especially sidepaths decreasing safety, and kids choosing the sidewalk over even well-designed bike lanes? How is safety of crossing a street determined? How about saf

[Talk-us] Safe Routes to School Mapping Toolkit concept

2011-08-13 Thread Josh Doe
Hello all, I've mentioned Safe Routes to School (SRTS) before, but I've now got an idea for a mapping toolkit. I'll just paste what I wrote on the wiki below. "Safe Routes to School Mapping Toolkit is the concept for a tool to be used by schools or communities to generate maps for applications to

Re: [Talk-us] "Oknoname" reservoirs

2011-08-13 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 8/13/2011 6:58 PM, Carl Anderson wrote: They appear to be descriptive names in general use within Oklohoma. Oknoname reservoirs are referenced in these, so the names are at least in use. [snip] Interesting. Yes, the names do appear to have become used. I wonder if the bureaucrat responsib

Re: [Talk-us] "Oknoname" reservoirs

2011-08-13 Thread Carl Anderson
They appear to be descriptive names in general use within Oklohoma. Oknoname reservoirs are referenced in these, so the names are at least in use. http://richseeley.blogspot.com/2011/04/oknoname-reservoir-tulsa-ok.html http://www.apartmentfinder.com/Oklahoma/Oklahoma-City/Summit-Parke-Neighborho

[Talk-us] "Oknoname" reservoirs

2011-08-13 Thread Nathan Edgars II
The GNIS import included a number of lakes, reservoirs, and dams in Oklahoma with name=Oknoname [number] [Reservoir|Dam], e.g. http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/357440089/history . The source cited by the GNIS is "U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Dams and Reservoirs List, Washington, DC.".