Re: [Talk-us] User testing OSM.org

2013-12-08 Thread stevea
There was a similarly themed training course almost two years ago run by Andy Allan, author of the OpenCycleMap layer. Please see the notes he wrote up about it in his blog entry:

[Talk-us] A new tracing layer for TIGER 2013

2013-12-08 Thread Eric Fischer
As was just announced on the MapBox blog ( https://www.mapbox.com/blog/openstreetmap-tiger/) there is a new OpenStreetMap tracing layer for 2013 Census Bureau TIGER map data in the US. The main reason for it, aside from incorporating this year's TIGER changes, is to provide different features at

Re: [Talk-us] A new tracing layer for TIGER 2013

2013-12-08 Thread Clifford Snow
Eric, One other issue. Here is a link, https://www.dropbox.com/s/v1je9m490c0yns4/Why%20Flagged.png, to an area, http://osm.org/go/WJIDU~lZs-- near me. You can ignore the crazy tiger data on the right! However, notice the streets, 114th St SW, 115th St SW, 8th Pl W and 8 Ave W. There all all

Re: [Talk-us] A new tracing layer for TIGER 2013

2013-12-08 Thread Eric Fischer
Thanks for the feedback! There are only a few colors involved: streets are yellow and railroads are blue, and both are a little brighter if they have changed since the 2006 data. Service roads are drawn a little thinner than the rest, following the example of the 2012 TIGER layer. I actually

Re: [Talk-us] User testing OSM.org

2013-12-08 Thread Martijn van Exel
Let me second that. Those were some really insightful blog posts. Some of the issues have since been addressed or are now otherwise less relevant than they used to be (p2 specific ones come to mind.) nevertheless, worth another look in this context. Don't forget to check the comments section. On

[Talk-us] South Carolina State Highways - primary overload

2013-12-08 Thread James Mast
Is it just me, or are there way too many primary state highways when some of them should really be secondary instead? The US Highways should normally be the primary/trunk highways and only a few select State Highways should be primary or trunk. To be honest, it seems that 98% of all the State

Re: [Talk-us] South Carolina State Highways - primary overload

2013-12-08 Thread Paul Johnson
Oregon's suffering from this as well, I've just got too much on my plate to fix the Oregon situation. On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 11:42 PM, James Mast rickmastfa...@hotmail.comwrote: Is it just me, or are there way too many primary state highways when some of them should really be secondary

Re: [Talk-us] A new tracing layer for TIGER 2013

2013-12-08 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sunday, December 8, 2013, Eric Fischer wrote: There are only a few colors involved: streets are yellow and railroads are blue, and both are a little brighter if they have changed since the 2006 data. Service roads are drawn a little thinner than the rest, following the example of the 2012

Re: [Talk-us] Marion and Lane County, Oregon county roads

2013-12-08 Thread Paul Johnson
I'm aware that some counties do, in fact, signpost roads, but at least at the time I was a regular in the Marion/Lane/Benton county area (2006-2009), those counties did not signpost county route numbers. Only Marion County even signposted that you were entering a Marion County highway. Welcome

Re: [Talk-us] Bing imagery update

2013-12-08 Thread Paul Johnson
This seems to have some serious gaps in detail. For example, most of Portland and most of Tulsa is considered as having the same level of detail imagery available. Not so; I can barely make out centerlines and lane lines on the highest level of detail for the Tulsa area, whereas in Portland,