Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-04 Thread Paul Norman
See http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2012-April/008032.html for the full discussion around the removal In summary: - The Fresno import has a number of issues - No one is opposed to removal if there are no easier options for cleaning up the data - No one has proposed an easier

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-04 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 1:37 AM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: See http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2012-April/008032.html for the full discussion around the removal In summary: - The Fresno import has a number of issues - No one is opposed to removal if there are no

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-04 Thread Paul Norman
From: Paul Johnson [mailto:ba...@ursamundi.org] Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 1:37 AM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: See http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2012-April/008032.htm l for the full discussion around the removal

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-04 Thread Ian Dees
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: From: Paul Johnson [mailto:ba...@ursamundi.org] Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 1:37 AM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: See

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-04 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: From: Paul Johnson [mailto:ba...@ursamundi.org] Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 1:37 AM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: See

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-04 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: Do those individual polygons have any useful information on them (addresses, for example)? If so, we should generate addr points from their centroids. Why?

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-04 Thread Toby Murray
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: Do those individual polygons have any useful information on them (addresses, for example)? If so, we should generate addr points from their centroids. Either way, we could save useful OSM information by creating a new polygon

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-04 Thread Ian Dees
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: Do those individual polygons have any useful information on them (addresses, for

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-04 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: Do those

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-04 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 5/4/2012 2:42 PM, Apollinaris Schöll wrote: any import should be treated like this. if it's not edited and the data isn't used then it should be removed after some time. That's a silly statement. If something isolated gets imported, e.g. a water political boundary, it probably won't be

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-04 Thread Ian Dees
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: On

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-04 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: Because that information is useless in OSM. It was out of date the second someone ran the upload script and unless the city of Fresno decides to switch to OSM for their official tax plat information (which I'm pretty sure

Re: [Talk-us] Address placement (was: Fresno castradal imports)

2012-05-04 Thread Toby Murray
Moving this to a new thread because there is no address data in the Fresno import so this discussion is completely irrelevant. I believe NE2 started a thread about this a while ago and there wasn't too much response but since it came up again... On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Paul Johnson

Re: [Talk-us] Address placement (was: Fresno castradal imports)

2012-05-04 Thread Martijn van Exel
Hiya, On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote: [..] Though the address belongs to an area, so it would make sense to keep the corresponding boundary. Does it? Certainly for official records such as taxes it does. But this is outside of OSM's domain.

Re: [Talk-us] Address placement (was: Fresno castradal imports)

2012-05-04 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote: In OSM, the use case for address data is geocoding and I would argue that general use geocoding users would rather get a building outline or even a node at the main entrance of a location, not the centroid of the

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-04 Thread Brett Lord-Casitllo
Because that information is useless in OSM. It was out of date the second someone ran the upload script and unless the city of Fresno decides to switch to OSM for their official tax plat information (which I'm pretty sure would be illegal in most jurisdictions), no one in the community can improve

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-04 Thread Ian Dees
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Brett Lord-Casitllo marigol...@yahoo.comwrote: Because that information is useless in OSM. It was out of date the second someone ran the upload script and unless the city of Fresno decides to switch to OSM for their official tax plat information (which I'm

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-04 Thread Toby Murray
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Brett Lord-Casitllo marigol...@yahoo.com wrote: That keys you into everythingelse you might want: address, land value, building value, FIRM map, etc. But in this case that's kind of the point... the parcel ID would only be useful for you to go into the already

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-04 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: If parcel data is important to disaster response, I would expect the responder to go get the most up to date data from the source, not use stale data that was imported into OSM (potentially) some years ago Doesn't Haiti and

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-04 Thread Nathan Mills
On 5/4/2012 4:21 PM, Ian Dees wrote: To the contrary, this whole conversation started because we received multiple complaints about this area from mappers who wanted to create data in this area but couldn't because of too much data. In that sense, this data is already handicapping the

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-04 Thread Toby Murray
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: If parcel data is important to disaster response, I would expect the responder to go get the most up to date data from the source, not use stale data that

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-04 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2012-05-04 11:47, Paul Johnson wrote: On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: From: Paul Johnson [mailto:ba...@ursamundi.org] Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 1:37 AM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: More information

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-04 Thread Martijn van Exel
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: If parcel data is important to disaster response, I would expect the responder to go get the most up to date data from the source, not use stale data

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-04 Thread Ian Dees
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: If

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-04 Thread Brett Lord-Casitllo
OSM is not a giant collection bowl for data (oh look I've found a scrap of data on my city's web site, let's upload that to OSM so that it don't get lost!!!).  OSM is a giant *editor*. OSM is for *editing* data. I strongly disagree. OSM is for the user, not for the editor. OSM -is- a giant

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-04 Thread Brett Lord-Casitllo
Because the nature of cadastral data is that there is a data owner and it is very rarely OSM. That data owner has created the data out of thin air. There's absolutely no correlation between something on the ground and the information in the dataset. OSM is built upon the fact that anyone can

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-04 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2012-05-04 01:37, Paul Norman wrote: See http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2012-April/008032.html for the full discussion around the removal In summary: - The Fresno import has a number of issues - No one is opposed to removal if there are no easier options for cleaning up the

[Talk-us] Are US freeway relation licensing issues being worked on?

2012-05-04 Thread Alan Mintz
Is someone attending to license cleanup for US freeway relations nationally, or is it up to mappers in each area to deal with? I'm still seeing warnings in southern California, but have been ignoring them thinking someone is already working on them. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net

Re: [Talk-us] Are US freeway relation licensing issues being worked on?

2012-05-04 Thread Martijn van Exel
I have taken care to repair the relations when remapping freeways. We can run an analysis after all is said and done and create a wiki to resolve the remaining issues together. Martijn On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.netwrote: Is someone attending to license

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-04 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2012-05-04 15:52, Martijn van Exel wrote: ... I do agree that there's an opportunity for crowdsourcing in cadastral surveying, but we should be approaching that very carefully and in the right order. First examine the legal implications of letting the world at large have r/w access to

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-04 Thread Paul Johnson
On May 4, 2012 5:41 PM, Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net wrote: ...and we need to examine what our existing user tools and server processing and storage resources are and how they can handle the amount of data desired before just blindly throwing many times the existing data size at them.

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-04 Thread Paul Norman
From: Nathan Mills [mailto:nat...@nwacg.net] Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports On 5/4/2012 4:21 PM, Ian Dees wrote: To the contrary, this whole conversation started because we received multiple complaints about this area from mappers who wanted to create data in this area

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-04 Thread Paul Norman
From: Paul Johnson [mailto:ba...@ursamundi.org] Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports On May 4, 2012 5:41 PM, Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net wrote: ...and we need to examine what our existing user tools and server processing and storage resources are and how they can

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-04 Thread Paul Norman
From: Alan Mintz [mailto:alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net] Sent: Friday, May 04, 2012 3:06 PM To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org; impo...@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports At 2012-05-04 01:37, Paul Norman wrote: See

Re: [Talk-us] 25or6to4 NHD imports

2012-05-04 Thread Paul Norman
Minutely diffs are currently running from http://planet.osm.org/redaction-period/ You should read the caution first before consuming. From what I saw the imports were fairly clean. Some large objects, but that's to be expected with the large lakes in the region you were working in. If you're

Re: [Talk-us] 25or6to4 NHD imports

2012-05-04 Thread Toby Murray
From: Jason Straub [mailto:strau...@yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2012 1:44 AM To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-us] 25or6to4 NHD imports Howdy,  After discussion with Toby, I am updating the list with my import efforts.  First, hopefully this message goes through, as

Re: [Talk-us] Are US freeway relation licensing issues being worked on?

2012-05-04 Thread Toby Murray
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 7:30 PM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: I have taken care to repair the relations when remapping freeways. We can run an analysis after all is said and done and create a wiki to resolve the remaining issues together. Martijn On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 6:16 PM,

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-04 Thread Gregory Arenius
I think that this import was poorly done but overall I don't see the problem with having this type of data in OSM. In fact, I think it is really useful and don't entirely understand the backlash against it. I would really enjoy having that kind of base to work with. So, Thoughts on Plot and