Re: [Talk-us] Neighborhoods / Zillow

2013-06-18 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2013/6/17 Anthony o...@inbox.org It's not about mapping the sign, it's about mapping the neighborhood based on the sign. We don't map speed limit signs, we map the speed limits on the roads based on the signs. where do you get this from? We are indeed mapping speed limits signs

Re: [Talk-us] ref tags

2013-06-18 Thread Richard Weait
Why is the US local chapter not running a tile server that renders shields and concurrencies? The tagging has been stable forever. The code has been working for years. Even a hacked demo ( now offline) was running for years before that. Stop waiting for the London tile server to give a

Re: [Talk-us] ref tags

2013-06-18 Thread Ian Dees
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 5:41 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: Why is the US local chapter not running a tile server that renders shields and concurrencies? The tagging has been stable forever. The code has been working for years. Even a hacked demo ( now offline) was running for

Re: [Talk-us] ref tags

2013-06-18 Thread Martijn van Exel
Richard - we were discussing this topic during the mappy hour yesterday and came to the same conclusion! We should have a shields style. What needs to be done? I am willing to put in time but can't connect all the dots myself. I will loop in Ian and see if we can get this running. On Tue, Jun

Re: [Talk-us] ref tags

2013-06-18 Thread Martijn van Exel
Oh there you are Ian :) Well I guess I am stepping up but I will need help! On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 7:09 AM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: Richard - we were discussing this topic during the mappy hour yesterday and came to the same conclusion! We should have a shields style. What

Re: [Talk-us] ref tags

2013-06-18 Thread Phil! Gold
* Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com [2013-06-18 08:07 -0500]: Because no one's stepped up to do it! Okay, I should probably put my toes in here. I can spend this weekend cleaning up my code (for http://elrond.aperiodic.net/shields/ ) and maybe try to get it running on the US server, if there's

Re: [Talk-us] ref tags

2013-06-18 Thread Phil! Gold
* Jason Remillard remillard.ja...@gmail.com [2013-06-17 22:19 -0400]: If the way is part of relation that has a ref, and the way itself does not have a ref, then the relation ref should propagate to the way. Note that the conventions for ref tags are different for relations and ways. A way

Re: [Talk-us] ref tags

2013-06-18 Thread Toby Murray
I did spend some time trying to set up Phil's code myself for eventual deployment to the osm-us server. I got a good chunk of the way there but ran into some problems. I'll see if I can put some more time into it now that I'm home again. Toby On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 5:41 AM, Richard Weait

Re: [Talk-us] ref tags

2013-06-18 Thread Martijn van Exel
Perhaps we can get together on IRC sometime soon and see what would need to be done. I can't make tonight but tomorrow early evening (like, 6PM MDT) would work. Ian, Phil, Toby, are you around then? On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 9:45 AM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote: I did spend some

Re: [Talk-us] ref tags

2013-06-18 Thread Phil! Gold
* Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org [2013-06-18 10:40 -0600]: Perhaps we can get together on IRC sometime soon and see what would need to be done. I can't make tonight but tomorrow early evening (like, 6PM MDT) would work. Ian, Phil, Toby, are you around then? That's 8pm for me, which might

Re: [Talk-us] ref tags

2013-06-18 Thread Martijn van Exel
Great. I am just catching up on SOTM US talks and watching yours. Enjoying it a lot! On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Phil! Gold phi...@pobox.com wrote: * Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org [2013-06-18 10:40 -0600]: Perhaps we can get together on IRC sometime soon and see what would need to

Re: [Talk-us] ref tags

2013-06-18 Thread Martijn van Exel
A related question - do we have a clear idea of route relation completeness in the US? Looking at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States_Numbered_Highway_Relations http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Interstate_Highways_Relations This look pretty well organized, but I know how wikis can

Re: [Talk-us] ref tags

2013-06-18 Thread Mike N
On 6/18/2013 1:21 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: This look pretty well organized, but I know how wikis can be deceiving like that. Also, how is the situation on the state level? I notice that for some states, there are no State Route relation pages.

[Talk-us] SOTM-US compared

2013-06-18 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, this year I was at SOTM-US for the first time, and immediately thereafter travelled to the German-language version of FOSS4G, the FOSSGIS conference. There were lots of similarities - but also big contrasts. Below is a personal comparison that might or might not be useful or

Re: [Talk-us] SOTM-US compared

2013-06-18 Thread Serge Wroclawski
Frederik, Thank you for this valuable feedback, in particular regarding the sprints. I feel very badly about how the sprints went, and I want to go into detail why, and what I'm going to try to do next year about them. First, I want to say that for those people who were calling this a hack day,

[Talk-us] USGS topo maps not working?

2013-06-18 Thread Ben Miller
The USGS topographic map layer isn't appearing for me as a background in Potlatch. I'm looking at it in this general area: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=45.18018lon=-85.57084zoom=15layers=M Is this layer turned off / on the fritz / just very slow? - Ben Miller

Re: [Talk-us] USGS topo maps not working?

2013-06-18 Thread Ian Dees
It would appear that the crossdomain.xml file Flash is expecting to be there isn't. I'm trying to get it to show up now... On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Ben Miller bborkmil...@gmail.com wrote: The USGS topographic map layer isn't appearing for me as a background in Potlatch. I'm looking

Re: [Talk-us] USGS topo maps not working?

2013-06-18 Thread Ian Dees
Fixed the crossdomain.xml problem as best I can tell, but now seeing that there's just not any data there. Looks like the USGS is returning white tiles for zooms 13 in that area. http://tile.openstreetmap.us/usgs_scanned_topos/preview.html#13/45.1929/-85.5724 On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Ian

Re: [Talk-us] SOTM-US compared

2013-06-18 Thread Martijn van Exel
Hi, Frederik, Thanks for the compare contrast and I am happy you have enjoyed SOTM US. I am very happy you could make it and that you got a chance to (re-)connect with members of the US and international community. I have attended a FOSSGIS or two and can relate to your experience. They are