Re: [Talk-us] parcel data next steps

2013-02-22 Thread Greg Troxel
Brian May b...@mapwise.com writes: I also think we need a little bit more sophisticated Data Catalog than a google spreadsheet. Email and a wiki page sounds good to me for coordination. Maybe we can bring it up in a Mappy Hour as well. And if there's enough of a need, we could do a

Re: [Talk-us] parcel data next steps

2013-02-22 Thread Alex Barth
Interesting. How does parcel data work? What does it cover and what's the data interesting for OSM in it? Is this about sourcing address data? On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 7:27 PM, Brian Cavagnolo bcavagn...@gmail.comwrote: Hey guys, In a previous thread on parcel data, some people expressed

Re: [Talk-us] Civil War Mapping

2013-02-22 Thread Richard Welty
[the following includes a message that Adam cc'd to the list that probably got into the moderator queue] On 2/22/13 9:03 AM, Adam Schreiber wrote: On 2/21/13, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote: i look forward to it. is there any particular mapping task i should look for at

Re: [Talk-us] parcel data next steps

2013-02-22 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Greg Troxel g...@ir.bbn.com wrote: Brian May b...@mapwise.com writes: I also think we need a little bit more sophisticated Data Catalog than a google spreadsheet. Email and a wiki page sounds good to me for coordination. Maybe we can bring it up in a Mappy

Re: [Talk-us] parcel data next steps

2013-02-22 Thread Ian Dees
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 8:01 AM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com wrote: Interesting. How does parcel data work? What does it cover and what's the data interesting for OSM in it? Is this about sourcing address data? Parcel data is interesting to OSM because it usually has addressing information.

Re: [Talk-us] parcel data next steps

2013-02-22 Thread Ian Dees
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 6:27 PM, Brian Cavagnolo bcavagn...@gmail.comwrote: Hey guys, In a previous thread on parcel data, some people expressed interest in participating in creating some sort of open repository for parcel data. I was imagining a conference call or something to discuss next

Re: [Talk-us] parcel data next steps

2013-02-22 Thread Jeffrey Ollie
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 7:55 AM, Greg Troxel g...@ir.bbn.com wrote: I always find it boggling that open data projects are willing to use google docs and google hangouts. It would be really nice to at least have the data in a free software/free culture compatible place like an OSM foundation

Re: [Talk-us] parcel data next steps

2013-02-22 Thread Richard Welty
On 2/22/13 12:35 PM, Jeffrey Ollie wrote: On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 7:55 AM, Greg Troxel g...@ir.bbn.com wrote: I always find it boggling that open data projects are willing to use google docs and google hangouts. It would be really nice to at least have the data in a free software/free culture

Re: [Talk-us] Civil War Mapping

2013-02-22 Thread Charlotte Wolter
Richard, I have been doing that in Southwestern parks that I have visited recently (Mesa Verde, Malpais Notional Monument). Usually I do the foot trails in the conventional manner, usually with a name, such as Far View House Trail. For each point of interest, I tag it as

Re: [Talk-us] parcel data next steps

2013-02-22 Thread Rick Marshall
Hello all, I mentioned a few months back that there are several places, particularly fere in the midwest, that don't own their own parcel data. Here in the St Louis area many of the counties have actually leased their parcel data from a private company for decades. The yearly lease includes an

Re: [Talk-us] parcel data next steps

2013-02-22 Thread Jeffrey Ollie
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 6:27 PM, Brian Cavagnolo bcavagn...@gmail.com wrote: Regarding the data gathering, the main objective is to gather recent raw data, licensing terms, and meta data from jurisdictions in whatever form they make it available, organize it in a dumb directory structure. I

Re: [Talk-us] parcel data next steps

2013-02-22 Thread Toby Murray
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 7:55 AM, Greg Troxel g...@ir.bbn.com wrote: I always find it boggling that open data projects are willing to use google docs and google hangouts. It would be really nice to at least have the data in a free software/free culture compatible place like an OSM foundation

Re: [Talk-us] Civil War Mapping

2013-02-22 Thread Richard Welty
On 2/22/13 1:19 PM, Charlotte Wolter wrote: As for using ref, that changes the nature of that tag. Now we use ref to give the same identification to multiple pieces of a way, not to give different identities to pieces of a way. I think it might be better to include the number of each

Re: [Talk-us] Possible coping from Google Maps

2013-02-22 Thread Michael Patrick
Other than Google Mapmaker is there any other ways that Google's data gets updated? ... Does Google import any data from OSM? I know they import data from Wikipedia. See page 2 of https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Eq73uboh5gOiIRf0xmOCCNS9GqQT9o38jA2e1Isog88/edit?usp=sharing After seeing

Re: [Talk-us] Possible coping from Google Maps

2013-02-22 Thread Paul Norman
Nothing in that presentation says that Google sourced the data from Wikipedia, just that Wikipedia and Google had the same coordinates, which in this case would be from some official source. The current data on Google also differs from Wikipedia. From: Michael Patrick

Re: [Talk-us] Possible coping from Google Maps

2013-02-22 Thread Michael Patrick
Nothing in that presentation says that Google sourced the data from Wikipedia, just that Wikipedia and Google had the same coordinates, which in this case would be from some “official” source. That's why I backtracked exhaustively from every official source - Washington State Pilot's Manual,

Re: [Talk-us] Wilderness Data

2013-02-22 Thread stevea
Done. Including all Los Padres National Forest wilderness boundaries (of which there are ten). I've also sent the suggester my ten steps for using the data source he pointed me to. We've never met, but now OSM community is that much stronger. Now I'm finding additional correct wiki pages