[Talk-us] a reminder for armchair mappers

2013-12-06 Thread Richard Welty
if you see a discrepancy between aerial imagery and OSM, before you go adding/changing stuff, check on the history of the stuff that's there and see if another mapper has worked on things recently (for some value of recently.) i have done a bunch of work in the past month adding in a new traffic

Re: [Talk-us] a reminder for armchair mappers

2013-12-06 Thread Natfoot
I also agree that putting notes in the tags are helpful to some of us that are armchair mappers. I will see the tags sooner than the history data. I tend to map around railroads using the imagery and Tiger data and tags. -Nathan On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 9:29 AM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org

Re: [Talk-us] Separate relations for each direction of US State highways.

2013-12-06 Thread Kam, Kristen -(p)
Thanks for the reply Martijn. There is a lot of talk about capture unsigned/signed information in the relation. And I've read some proposals of adding to the role field--delimiting values by a pipe or semi-colon. I think that if there is interest to capture information about a way/node's

[Talk-us] Whole-US Garmin Map update - 2013-12-04

2013-12-06 Thread Dave Hansen
These are based off of Lambertus's work here: http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl If you have questions or comments about these maps, please feel free to ask. However, please do not send me private mail. The odds are, someone else will have the same questions, and by asking on the talk-us@

Re: [Talk-us] a reminder for armchair mappers

2013-12-06 Thread Evin Fairchild
Putting notes in the tags may be helpful, but in the simple tagging mode in P2 (does anyone still use that? I do, b/c I don't like iD), you can't see them and some mapper might not get the message in the note. Personally, pretty much all my edits are armchair mapping, but it's generally in my

Re: [Talk-us] a reminder for armchair mappers

2013-12-06 Thread Richard Welty
i'm thinking maybe we need an agreed upon way of marking these areas so that the usual editors (id, potlatch2, josm) can flag them as places where aerial imagery is out of date. also, Mike N had suggested highway:disused. instead, maybe something like highway:removed=yes would work. i'd

Re: [Talk-us] a reminder for armchair mappers

2013-12-06 Thread Chris Lawrence
I believe at some point there was, or at least there was discussion of implementing, a way to mark areas where the aerial imagery is out-of-date. Unfortunately I'm drawing a blank on any further development from there, but that would seem to be the best solution all-around (having cleaned up a

Re: [Talk-us] a reminder for armchair mappers

2013-12-06 Thread Martijn van Exel
Imagery is only out of date if something was (de)constructed since the imagery was collected that would affect how that area is accurately mapped. Therefore to me it makes more sense to tag the newer objects rather than entire areas with a specific tag that editors would pick up and act upon

Re: [Talk-us] a reminder for armchair mappers

2013-12-06 Thread Frederik Ramm
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On 06.12.2013 22:51, Richard Welty wrote: i'm thinking maybe we need an agreed upon way of marking these areas so that the usual editors (id, potlatch2, josm) can flag them as places where aerial imagery is out of date. I have lost track of

Re: [Talk-us] Separate relations for each direction of US State highways.

2013-12-06 Thread James Mast
Well, to add a second role to an item in a relation would require an entire overhaul of relations, the editors, and even the OSM database I would think to do it. That's why I suggested doing the ; or | because data consumers already know how to deal with the ; at least in the ref tags on

Re: [Talk-us] Currently available good GPS for use with OSM mapping in the USA?

2013-12-06 Thread Joseph R. Justice
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 11:29 AM, Joseph R. Justice jayare...@gmail.comwrote: I see the eTrex 30 currently for $219 (down from $299) as a Black Friday special direct from Garmin, and for $199 from GPSCity. (And the 199 price is the same as Garmin retail for the eTrex 20, tho I'm sure GPSCity's