Re: [Talk-us] Utah voronoi mapcraft

2012-11-20 Thread Clay Smalley
I'm not Martijn, but I'm going to guess he may have pulled GIS data of a few selected cities in Utah and used a GIS application to create the Thiessen polygons. I did just that for the Operation Cowboy - Texas map (with a few liberties taken). On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 10:00 PM, Brian DeRocher

Re: [Talk-us] Utah voronoi mapcraft

2012-11-20 Thread Jim McAndrew
Brian, Quantum GIS does Voronoi polygons pretty well. (under Vector - Geometry Tools - Voronoi Polygons) I would suggest trying that first. Otherwise, there is always ArcMap, but I think it's a spatial analyst tool, so if you don't have those tools already, it's not worth investing in for

Re: [Talk-us] Utah voronoi mapcraft

2012-11-20 Thread Martijn van Exel
Don't quite remember, I think it was based on county centroids. I used ArcMap. On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 9:00 PM, Brian DeRocher br...@derocher.org wrote: Martijn, How did you create the voronoi partitions for this mapcraft map? http://mapcraft.nanodesu.ru/pie/168 Brian -- Brian DeRocher

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

2012-11-20 Thread Carl Anderson
All, This proposal is a good thing, provided that it does not deprecate current tagging uses. From my experiences in emergency services (911), emergency management (FEMA and State/County EMA), and location finding I find that it is often very important to know what the colloquial core phrase of

Re: [Talk-us] Proposal: expanded address tags for US

2012-11-20 Thread Steven Johnson
Thanks for all the constructive, if skeptical responses. I can't respond to each of them individually, but I'll try to respond to the most pointed comments here. Bill R Washburn (dygituljunky) asked: Would you be opposed to just splitting off the directional prefixes and suffixes, thereby