Re: [Talk-us] Anyone ever talked about adding more Land Ownership data to OSM?

2013-01-09 Thread Kate Chapman
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 8:27 PM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 1:43 AM, Michael Patrick geodes...@gmail.com wrote: There are already communities around Disaster Relief, etc., and good etiquette would dictate that I wouldn't go in and edit their data. You

Re: [Talk-us] Anyone ever talked about adding more Land Ownership data to OSM?

2013-01-09 Thread Minh Nguyen
On 2013-01-08 3:13 AM, Serge Wroclawski wrote: On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 12:40 AM, Jeff Meyer j...@gwhat.org wrote: All of the rules about observability and verifiability apply to country and state borders, as well, as Mike states, but we include them and somehow improve them. We do include

Re: [Talk-us] Import Committee Mailing List

2013-01-09 Thread dies38061
I have updated the mailing lists page in the wiki (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mailing_lists), adding this new list. --ceyockey ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Anyone ever talked about adding more Land Ownership data to OSM?

2013-01-09 Thread Kevin Kenny
On 01/09/2013 03:24 AM, Minh Nguyen wrote: While filling in townships in the Greater Cincinnati area, I've also been working on TIGER's rather artful interpretation of the area's municipal boundaries, motivated by the Mapnik style's prominent rendering of them. The boundaries are full of things

Re: [Talk-us] Anyone ever talked about adding more Land Ownership data to OSM?

2013-01-09 Thread Greg Troxel
Kevin Kenny kken...@nycap.rr.com writes: On 01/09/2013 03:24 AM, Minh Nguyen wrote: While filling in townships in the Greater Cincinnati area, I've also been working on TIGER's rather artful interpretation of the area's municipal boundaries, motivated by the Mapnik style's prominent

Re: [Talk-us] Anyone ever talked about adding more Land Ownership data to OSM?

2013-01-09 Thread Richard Welty
On 1/9/13 8:30 AM, Kevin Kenny wrote: Around here, for municipal boundaries to cut diagonally through residential lots isn't uncommon. I once lived in a house where the front yard was in one township and the back yard in another. Two separate tax bills (although the second one was cheap because

Re: [Talk-us] [OT] Anyone ever talked about adding more Land Ownership data to OSM?

2013-01-09 Thread Andrew Guertin
On 01/07/2013 10:45 PM, Richard Welty wrote: On 1/7/13 10:37 PM, the Old Topo Depot wrote: We do have an issue with US state and county borders, as some are missing, incorrect, incomplete or incorrectly tagged. Perhaps we can organize a cleanse the state and county borders project to

Re: [Talk-us] [OT] Anyone ever talked about adding more Land Ownership data to OSM?

2013-01-09 Thread Clifford Snow
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 8:27 AM, Andrew Guertin andrew.guer...@uvm.eduwrote: I plan to import VT town boundaries from that file at some point, but was not planning on touching any of the state boundaries (except to connect town boundaries to them). I'd be interested to know how well that data

Re: [Talk-us] BC/Washington border

2013-01-09 Thread Paul Norman
On 2013-01-09, at 12:58 PM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us wrote: On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 8:27 AM, Andrew Guertin andrew.guer...@uvm.edu wrote: I plan to import VT town boundaries from that file at some point, but was not planning on touching any of the state boundaries (except to

Re: [Talk-us] BC/Washington border

2013-01-09 Thread Clifford Snow
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 10:14 AM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: On the west coast the Canada/US border is defined as the line formed from a bunch of survey points. These points can be surveyed or seen on imagery. I used the IBC positions for the points which are far more accurate than

Re: [Talk-us] [OT] Anyone ever talked about adding more Land Ownership data to OSM?

2013-01-09 Thread Richard Welty
On 1/9/13 11:27 AM, Andrew Guertin wrote: On 01/07/2013 10:45 PM, Richard Welty wrote: On 1/7/13 10:37 PM, the Old Topo Depot wrote: We do have an issue with US state and county borders, as some are missing, incorrect, incomplete or incorrectly tagged. Perhaps we can organize a cleanse the

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] NOAA Imports

2013-01-09 Thread Paul Norman
On 2013-01-09, at 7:38 PM, Sailor Jerry sailorje...@scmarinetech.com wrote: Looks I like barged straight to the committee boat and now I need to do my 720 turns :-) Here is what I've done so far: 1) Reverted all my previous submissions ( see

[Talk-us] Welcome 2013 from the Welcome Working Group

2013-01-09 Thread Martijn van Exel
Hi all, We will be picking up regular meetings for the emerging Welcome Working Group tomorrow at 1900 UTC on #osm-strategic. More info on what we're up to as well as how to join the IRC channel is at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Mvexel/Welcome_Working_Group We don't really have a set

[Talk-us] Happy New Year from MapRoulette!

2013-01-09 Thread Martijn van Exel
Hi all, We've seen some great progress from MapRoulette users fixing the almost 70,000 connectivity errors in the US. Returning from my Christmas break, they were all but eliminated! Great, but we did not really have the next challenge ready yet. So for now, we expanded the scope of the

Re: [Talk-us] Happy New Year from MapRoulette!

2013-01-09 Thread SteveCoast
This is awesome. Steve On Jan 9, 2013, at 9:36 PM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: Hi all, We've seen some great progress from MapRoulette users fixing the almost 70,000 connectivity errors in the US. Returning from my Christmas break, they were all but eliminated! Great, but we