Re: [Talk-us] First vs 1st

2012-11-28 Thread Minh Nguyen
On 2012-11-27 8:55 AM, Richard Welty wrote: there's a neighborhood in Rotterdam, NY where the signs for the side streets along the main drag (Hamburg Street) are spelled out (e.g., Fourth Street) but the signs interior to the neighborhood are abbreviated (e.g., 4th Street.) Along these lines,

Re: [Talk-us] First vs 1st

2012-11-28 Thread Peter Dobratz
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.netwrote: the rule we frequently follow is to use the format of the name on the sign as the guideline for what to put in the name tag for a way. there's a neighborhood in Rotterdam, NY where the signs for the side streets

Re: [Talk-us] Operation Cowboy - Preaparing Thank you gift

2012-11-28 Thread Matthias Meißer
Hi, one last personal note on the mapathon and a big thank you (literally) http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/!i!/diary/18132 bye, Matthias Am 25.11.2012 15:37, schrieb Matthias Meißer: Hi, if we look at the current stats, 150 users joined the OPC2012 which results in 300 active mappers in the

Re: [Talk-us] Operation Cowboy - Preaparing Thank you gift

2012-11-28 Thread Richard Fairhurst
!i! wrote: Hi, one last personal note on the mapathon and a big thank you (literally): http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/!i!/diary/18132 And thank you, too. I've always been sceptical about this sort of event - my vision for OSM is that we need more contributors with local knowledge, not more

Re: [Talk-us] Operation Cowboy - Preaparing Thank you gift

2012-11-28 Thread Alex Barth
I'd like to ride on the coat tails of Richard's comments: Thank you Matthias and anyone else who helped set this up. Super excited about such efforts as they further deliniate great tasks for archair mapping and connecting local with global communities. On Nov 28, 2012, at 6:04 PM, Richard

[Talk-us] US Addressing

2012-11-28 Thread Ian Dees
Hi folks, So SteveC's blog post sparked a bit of conversation today: http://stevecoast.com/2012/11/28/openstreetmap-addressable/ I'd love to see OSM US lead the way on collecting high quality addressing data from as many places as possible and throw it in to OSM. To that end I started with this

Re: [Talk-us] US Addressing

2012-11-28 Thread Richard Welty
On 11/28/12 6:35 PM, Ian Dees wrote: Is anyone else interested in this? I could use some help gathering volunteers to the cause. i am working on leveraging things so that i can import enhanced 911 address data from NYS into OSM. this will probably happen as part of my emergency response GPS

Re: [Talk-us] US Addressing

2012-11-28 Thread Greg Troxel
MassGIS has parcel data available in a license-ok manner, and I have been thinking about it, but not getting to it. An idea is to have a common schema or schemas for non-imported parcel data in osm format. Then people can write converters for their state/whatever and publish the data, and

Re: [Talk-us] Operation Cowboy - Preaparing Thank you gift

2012-11-28 Thread the Old Topo Depot
On the MapRoulette subject, the connectivity challenge error count dropped below 10,000 today, down from around 60,000 a mere four weeks ago. This is really outstanding progress. On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com wrote: I'd like to ride on the coat tails of Richard's

Re: [Talk-us] US Addressing

2012-11-28 Thread the Old Topo Depot
If it is feasible to have a (mostly) unified parcel schema, a MapRoulette challenge can be created to task the conversion work to the community. On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Greg Troxel g...@ir.bbn.com wrote: MassGIS has parcel data available in a license-ok manner, and I have been

Re: [Talk-us] US Addressing

2012-11-28 Thread Greg Troxel
the Old Topo Depot oldto...@novacell.com writes: If it is feasible to have a (mostly) unified parcel schema, a MapRoulette challenge can be created to task the conversion work to the community. I was thinking about just having a node with an address which is the centroid of the parcel, and

Re: [Talk-us] US Addressing

2012-11-28 Thread Brian May
On 11/28/2012 6:35 PM, Ian Dees wrote: Hi folks, So SteveC's blog post sparked a bit of conversation today: http://stevecoast.com/2012/11/28/openstreetmap-addressable/ I'd love to see OSM US lead the way on collecting high quality addressing data from as many places as possible and throw it

Re: [Talk-us] Operation Cowboy - Preaparing Thank you gift

2012-11-28 Thread Mike N
A big thanks to Matthias and anyone else involved in setting things up - this was a big result for the US. I chose that weekend to pay attention to the 'Red headed stepchild' of the next county, and imported newly constructed roads from TIGER, and got to some long-needed routing fixes.

Re: [Talk-us] US Addressing

2012-11-28 Thread Brian May
On 11/28/2012 8:10 PM, Jeff Meyer wrote: Does anyone have any success stories of asking localities to open up previously copyrighted data? I'm going down the just ask nicely for *really* open data path here in Seattle, but have yet to hear back from the authorities. It seems that having a list

Re: [Talk-us] US Addressing

2012-11-28 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 6:52 PM, Brian May b...@mapwise.com wrote: In the spreadsheet, would it make more sense to have the records by county, and split out into cities where necessary? In Florida, its the county govmts and county property appraisers that create / maintain parcels and

Re: [Talk-us] US Addressing

2012-11-28 Thread Martijn van Exel
No Salt Lake City? Meh. I have good contacts at the State GIS and they are releasing state wide addresses Spring 2013. We're already on the move here in the boondocks. Martijn On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 7:15 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 6:52 PM, Brian May

Re: [Talk-us] US Addressing

2012-11-28 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 8:22 PM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: No Salt Lake City? Meh. I have good contacts at the State GIS and they are releasing state wide addresses Spring 2013. We're already on the move here in the boondocks. I only used these cities as a start: if you (or

Re: [Talk-us] US Addressing

2012-11-28 Thread Ian Dees
Sorry, I should have made this clearer: I made the document read-only because I didn't want griefers hopping in there. If you're interested in helping at all please give me your e-mail address and I'll add you as an editor. On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: Hi