[Talk-us] Update for Great Smoky Mountains National Park

2013-04-25 Thread Thomas Colson
Great Smoky Mountains National Park is planning to update its core base data. We have identified many inconsistencies in online location-based data which often results in hazardous navigation scenarios for park visitors (e.g. travel on a closed trail, wrong way on road, etc.) and plan to slowly

Re: [Talk-us] Update for Great Smoky Mountains National Park

2013-04-25 Thread Jeffrey Ollie
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Thomas Colson thomas_col...@nps.gov wrote: Great Smoky Mountains National Park is planning to update its core base data. We have identified many inconsistencies in online location-based data which often results in hazardous navigation scenarios for park visitors

Re: [Talk-us] Update for Great Smoky Mountains National Park

2013-04-25 Thread Thomas Colson
A Linux conference in east TN?!! I am going create a FAQ section in the Project WIKI for all listserv comments on this project, in keeping with Public Domain/FOIA status. -Original Message- From: Jeffrey Ollie [mailto:j...@ocjtech.us] Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2013 11:59 AM To:

Re: [Talk-us] Update for Great Smoky Mountains National Park

2013-04-25 Thread Clifford Snow
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 8:58 AM, Jeffrey Ollie j...@ocjtech.us wrote: One question about what I saw on the wiki page. I can understand not wanting the public to drive on administrative roads, but are those roads closed to hikers as well as vehicular traffic? I can understand keeping hikers

Re: [Talk-us] Update for Great Smoky Mountains National Park

2013-04-25 Thread Jeffrey Ollie
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Thomas Colson thomas_col...@nps.gov wrote: A Linux conference in east TN?!! Nah, in Charleston, SC actually, but since I'd probably be driving from Iowa the park wouldn't be far out of the way. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Flock If I do it, I'd like to make

[Talk-us] TIGER Expansion Bot Complete

2013-04-25 Thread Serge Wroclawski
Hi all, The TIGER expansion bot is complete. There was a lot to do (more object than the Redaction bot), and with this process, there was a lot to learn about efficiently making so many changes. But it's done, and we're now in a much better position for any future bots we'd like to run. I do

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER Expansion Bot Complete

2013-04-25 Thread Martijn van Exel
On 04/25/2013 02:31 PM, Serge Wroclawski wrote: Hi all, The TIGER expansion bot is complete. Great, that is excellent news! Congratulations. Finally no more Ct, Rd, Pl, Ave, St, etc. I am looking forward to ensuing import-related discussions about lessons learned from this. -- Martijn van

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER Expansion Bot Complete

2013-04-25 Thread Alex Barth
That's amazing, Serge. Should we blog about this on OSM.us? On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 6:48 PM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: On 04/25/2013 02:31 PM, Serge Wroclawski wrote: Hi all, The TIGER expansion bot is complete. Great, that is excellent news! Congratulations. Finally no

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER Expansion Bot Complete

2013-04-25 Thread Toby Murray
Great news and thank you for all the work you put in on it. Note that there may still be a few abbreviated street names around. The bot was not a general purpose name expander. It looked at specific TIGER tags and only changed ways where those tags matched what was in the name tag. But it did