Here's something that might be a diversion while you wait for the database
to allow editing again.
Richard Weait and I have been working on a rendering that uses route
relations to make individual shields that reflect what each state uses.
I've got a working prototype, and I'd like to get some
On 4/2/2012 8:25 AM, Phil! Gold wrote:
Business and
similar variants are expected to be in the network tag, since that's the
closest thing I've seen to a consensus on the topic. If there's no route
relation or the tagging was not understood, we fall back to rendering the
ref= tag on the way
On 4/2/2012 8:25 AM, Phil! Gold wrote:
I'm not an expert on every state, so I'm particularly interested in
whether things look good to the natives of each state and, if not, what
could make them look better.
Florida has special toll shields. These are not represented by relations
since, for
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/2/2012 8:25 AM, Phil! Gold wrote:
Business and
similar variants are expected to be in the network tag, since that's the
closest thing I've seen to a consensus on the topic. If there's no route
relation or the
On 4/2/2012 8:25 AM, Phil! Gold wrote:
Richard Weait and I have been working on a rendering that uses route
relations to make individual shields that reflect what each state uses.
Superb! This will greatly assist OSM to make inroads in the US - for
those who glance at the map, see the
Indianapolis has some crazy multiplexes. Look here to see properly
tagged 5-, 6- and 7-plexes rendered correctly and beautifully.
http://elrond.aperiodic.net/shields/?zoom=12lat=39.7007lon=-86.09646layers=B0
Phil, you were absolutely right about using the cutout style shields
on the US route
On 4/2/2012 8:25 AM, Phil! Gold wrote:
please let me know what you think!
Looks great - does the US OSMF have server(s) that can host this
style yet?
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On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Mike N nice...@att.net wrote:
On 4/2/2012 8:25 AM, Phil! Gold wrote:
please let me know what you think!
Looks great - does the US OSMF have server(s) that can host this style yet?
As far as I know:
Does the US Local Chapter have a server?
- Yes.
Can it
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 9:26 AM, Mike N nice...@att.net wrote:
On 4/2/2012 8:25 AM, Phil! Gold wrote:
please let me know what you think!
Looks great - does the US OSMF have server(s) that can host this style
yet?
OSM US has a server and I told Phil and Richard that I'd work on getting
* Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com [2012-04-02 09:18 -0400]:
On 4/2/2012 8:25 AM, Phil! Gold wrote:
Business and similar variants are expected to be in the network tag,
since that's the closest thing I've seen to a consensus on the topic.
You know that MapQuest's rendering expects the ref
* Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com [2012-04-02 09:23 -0400]:
On 4/2/2012 8:25 AM, Phil! Gold wrote:
I'm not an expert on every state, so I'm particularly interested in
whether things look good to the natives of each state and, if not, what
could make them look better.
Florida has special
On 4/2/2012 11:17 AM, Phil! Gold wrote:
* Nathan Edgars IInerou...@gmail.com [2012-04-02 09:18 -0400]:
On 4/2/2012 8:25 AM, Phil! Gold wrote:
Business and similar variants are expected to be in the network tag,
since that's the closest thing I've seen to a consensus on the topic.
You know
On 4/2/2012 11:40 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
On 4/2/2012 11:17 AM, Phil! Gold wrote:
* Nathan Edgars IInerou...@gmail.com [2012-04-02 09:18 -0400]:
On 4/2/2012 8:25 AM, Phil! Gold wrote:
Business and similar variants are expected to be in the network tag,
since that's the closest thing I've
So here's something to mull over while we all wait for the license upgrade:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/23616645/Geosprocket_Share/umd_subset.osm
That's an extract of the UVM-SAL building footprints I'd like to
import for swathes of MD and PA. My workflow for killing existing
feature conflicts
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 11:46 AM, William Morris
wboyk...@geosprocket.com wrote:
So here's something to mull over while we all wait for the license upgrade:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/23616645/Geosprocket_Share/umd_subset.osm
That's an extract of the UVM-SAL building footprints I'd like to
On 4/2/2012 12:18 PM, Richard Weait wrote:
I think imports (taking a large number of objects from an external
source and placing them in OSM all at once) is bad for the community.
Most of you have heard me say this before. I still have no hard
evidence to prove it. There is also no hard
Phil! this looks pretty good for what I think you are saying is an
early version of these renderings.
I was a bit surprised to see shields beginning to render only at zoom
level 11, and spottily at that. Shields at zoom levels 10, 9 and
even 8 and 7 (maybe Interstates only?) would be
* stevea stevea...@softworkers.com [2012-04-02 10:55 -0700]:
I was a bit surprised to see shields beginning to render only at
zoom level 11, and spottily at that. Shields at zoom levels 10, 9
and even 8 and 7 (maybe Interstates only?) would be helpful, if
crowded in spots.
Shields are
On 4/2/2012 2:27 PM, Phil! Gold wrote:
I'm deliberately leaving county routes for a second phase and focusing on
state routes for the moment. (New Jersey is an exception, but it was an
experiment and I don't actually believe we're using the proper shields for
all of its counties.)
As far as I
I think imports (taking a large number of objects
from an external
source and placing them in OSM all at once) is bad
for the community.
Most of you have heard me say this before. I still have no hard
evidence to prove it. There is also no hard counter-evidence. At
best, imported data
There was initial enthusiasm from some folks I've talked to at the NYPD
Office of Emergency Management.
They're unfortunately hindered more by NYC's ill-suited data policy but the
fact remains that they have far better data than sets like Tiger and get
discouraged seeing folks manually redoing
On 4/2/2012 12:06 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
I offer TIGER as counterevidence. It's imperfect but a great starting
point for local mappers, especially those without a GPS setup.
This is definitely true for those of us in areas with few mappers. OSM
would be largely useless here without the
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Nathan Mills nat...@nwacg.net wrote:
On 4/2/2012 12:06 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
I offer TIGER as counterevidence. It's imperfect but a great starting
point for local mappers, especially those without a GPS setup.
This is definitely true for those of us in
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote:
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Nathan Mills nat...@nwacg.net wrote:
On 4/2/2012 12:06 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
I offer TIGER as counterevidence. It's imperfect but a great starting
point for local mappers,
Hi Bill,
This location (
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=41.29693lon=-75.87369zoom=17layers=M)
has a number of hand editing building outlines. If the data you're looking
at is reasonably close in quality to this area then I think we should
discuss going ahead with the addition of your
At 2012-01-31 13:52, Nick Hocking wrote:
This morning I decided to remap another street off Cypress Avenue L.A.
I randomly choose Ariva Street and lo and behold the TIGER2011
overlay said that it was Arvia Street.
TIGER is usually spot on with names and since a Bing search and Google
For areas in New Jersey, when I look at this rendering, I get county shields
for all 500-series roads, but no shields are shown for 600-series roads
anywhere.
http://elrond.aperiodic.net/shields/?zoom=15lat=39.36147lon=-74.55092layers=B0
This is an example of this problem.
The formatting for
We did an imperfect import of building footprints in Washington D.C. a
while ago. I personally find it makes the map far more usable for
adding other information. With the buildings in I am able to add
stores and other details easily without using a GPS, simply by
printing Walking Papers.
At 2012-02-01 06:08, Nick Hocking wrote:
Ok I've found a few more close typos
Gassen not Glassen
Correct. source=LACDPW;LACA + source_ref=PWFB1521-265;TR0044-020;ABK5456-016
Tropico not Tropica
Correct. Tropico Way in LA 90065: source=LACDPW;LACA +
source_ref=TR0726-039;ABK5464-006
Kate,
What was the source for the building footprint import ?
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Kate Chapman k...@maploser.com wrote:
We did an imperfect import of building footprints in Washington D.C. a
while ago. I personally find it makes the map far more usable for
adding other
DC GIS
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalogue
-Kate
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 5:56 PM, the Old Topo Depot
oldto...@novacell.com wrote:
Kate,
What was the source for the building footprint import ?
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Kate Chapman k...@maploser.com wrote:
We did an
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