[Talk-us] Ghost suburbs

2012-11-17 Thread Charlotte Wolter
Hello, While doing the Maproulette, I came upon a large area east of El Paso (http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=31.7234lon=-106.1106zoom=13) with hundreds of neatly laid-out roads tagged residential that are only weathered tracks. Apparently, there were plans to build extensive

Re: [Talk-us] Ghost suburbs

2012-11-17 Thread Kristian M Zoerhoff
My preference has been highway=proposed proposed=residential for ghost subdivisions around Chicago. Charlotte Wolter techl...@techlady.com wrote: Hello, While doing the Maproulette, I came upon a large area east of El Paso

Re: [Talk-us] Ghost suburbs

2012-11-17 Thread Richard Welty
On 11/17/12 6:56 AM, Charlotte Wolter wrote: Hello, While doing the Maproulette, I came upon a large area east of El Paso (http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=31.7234lon=-106.1106zoom=13) with hundreds of neatly laid-out roads tagged residential that are only weathered tracks.

Re: [Talk-us] Ghost suburbs

2012-11-17 Thread Kristian M Zoerhoff
highway=track is fine if the road is open to the public, but quite often incomplete subdivisions are not. Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote: On 11/17/12 6:56 AM, Charlotte Wolter wrote: Hello, While doing the Maproulette, I came upon a large area east of El Paso

Re: [Talk-us] Ghost suburbs

2012-11-17 Thread Richard Welty
On 11/17/12 9:34 AM, Kristian M Zoerhoff wrote: highway=track is fine if the road is open to the public, but quite often incomplete subdivisions are not. and that's why we have access=private or access=no ___ Talk-us mailing list

[Talk-us] Whole-US Garmin Map update - 2012-11-15

2012-11-17 Thread Dave Hansen
These are based off of Lambertus's work here: http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl If you have questions or comments about these maps, please feel free to ask. However, please do not send me private mail. The odds are, someone else will have the same questions, and by asking on the talk-us@

[Talk-us] Fwd: Re: Ghost suburbs

2012-11-17 Thread Charlotte Wolter
Richard, All good advice, some of which I can't do because I'm nowhere near El Paso. It looks like there's no impediment to driving on the roads, if anyone would want to. Where they empty onto a paved road, there are some smears of dirt, so someone is using them. And there don't

[Talk-us] Feature proposal: proposed expanded address tagging scheme for US

2012-11-17 Thread Steven Johnson
Hi all, Following up on an action from SotM-PDX, I've posted a proposal for expanded tagging for addresses, primarily in the US (though it may have application in other countries). The intent of the tags is to 1) improve the description of US addresses, and 2) provide greater flexibility for local