Re: [Talk-us] Cemeteries in OSM?

2013-07-29 Thread Jeffrey Ollie
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Thomas Colson thomas_col...@nps.gov wrote: Are there any examples of detailed cemetery mapping in OSM? E.g. individual head-stones are mapped with interred information. Is this even an appropriate use of OSM? I have a cemetery mapping project with LOTS of good

Re: [Talk-us] Shields are up!

2013-07-29 Thread Phil! Gold
* Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com [2013-07-28 22:38 -0500]: http://tile.openstreetmap.us/osmus_shields/preview.html Awesome! Thanks for all your work in making this happen! ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-us] Shields are up!

2013-07-29 Thread Phil! Gold
* Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net [2013-07-29 08:17 -0400]: one thing to consider in NY, though - not all counties use the yellow-on-blue pentagonal County Route signs. right now it's automagically using that style shield for all county routes. should we deal with this or let it go? I'd

Re: [Talk-us] Shields are up!

2013-07-29 Thread Phil! Gold
* Michal Migurski m...@teczno.com [2013-07-29 00:40 -0700]: I wonder if this would be helpful: I've been generating weekly generalized datasets of route relations. http://openstreetmap.us/~migurski/streets-and-routes/ The tiles take a little while to render, so I wonder whether

[Talk-us] Ninth OpenStreetMap birthday: Toronto

2013-07-29 Thread Richard Weait
Dear all, A group of Toronto mappers have just finalized and announced the details for the Toronto celebration of the ninth birthday party for OpenStreetMap. And you are all invited. Yes, talk-us-ers, I am totally looking at you, too. Michigan, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire,

Re: [Talk-us] Ninth OpenStreetMap birthday: Toronto

2013-07-29 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 1:49 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: Dear all, A group of Toronto mappers have just finalized and announced the details for the Toronto celebration of the ninth birthday party for OpenStreetMap. And you are all invited. I should have included the date.

Re: [Talk-us] Cemeteries in OSM?

2013-07-29 Thread John F. Eldredge
When you start getting to the level of information not actually on the grave marker, not to mention information about people known to be buried in the cemetery, but whose grave markers are missing or no longer legible, it makes sense to have this information in a separate database rather than

[Talk-us] test -- trying to solve email problem

2013-07-29 Thread Charlotte Wolter
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Re: [Talk-us] Cemeteries in OSM?

2013-07-29 Thread Jason Remillard
Hi Thomas, It would be 100% fine putting in individual gravestones into OSM. It is an physical object that can be surveyed, does not move, and people care about it. Personally, I would enjoy mapping the locations of gravestones of loved ones, important people, kind of like a little Internet

Re: [Talk-us] Cemeteries in OSM?

2013-07-29 Thread Bryce Nesbitt
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Jeffrey Ollie j...@ocjtech.us wrote: Are there Smartphone apps that can do this with the help of their accelerometer? Some other type of hardware? I could point you to the professional equipment that can do this. On the cheap though, consider using a laser

Re: [Talk-us] Cemeteries in OSM?

2013-07-29 Thread Greg Morgan
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 7:18 PM, Jason Remillard remillard.ja...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Thomas, It would be 100% fine putting in individual gravestones into OSM. It is an physical object that can be surveyed, does not move, and people care about it. Personally, I would enjoy mapping the