Re: [Talk-us] Extra wide shoulders / travel lanes in NJ

On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 11:11 AM, Jim McAndrew wrote: > Sorry for the google maps links on this, but I've found NJ's use of > shoulders (or "curb lanes") as bike lanes kind of strange. I would tag this > as cycleway=lane but nothing for shoulder. Those aren't shoulders, those are

Re: [Talk-us] Extra wide shoulders / travel lanes in NJ

My experience elsewhere is that shoulders are not considered legal driving lanes for motor vehicles, except under special circumstances, such as a construction zone where a normal driving lane has been shut down. People who try to use the shoulder as a driving lane receive traffic citations.

[Talk-us] Whole-US Garmin Map update - 2015-10-14

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] Extra wide shoulders / travel lanes in NJ

On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 12:24 AM, Mike Dupont < jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com> wrote: > These are used as an extra turning lane for cars, so going around > corners can be dangerous for cyclists or joggers or walkers who all > share them. Is that common practice or is there legal precident? I

[Talk-us] Missing Roads data dumps

Hi all, After two weeks almost 10% of missing road tiles have been resolved. Pretty nice! Thanks for checking out the tool. Continue to send me your ideas for improvement, or go to http://bit.ly/missing-roads-feedback to post it there. We decided also to release the data behind the tool - as of

Re: [Talk-us] Increasing the number of US Mappers

A quick reality check: forget scraping stuff from FB or any other commercial operator of similar services (for legal/ToS reasons). And second: there is already the OSM forums which, depending on region, are quite popular. Further: none-of the above are really a replacement for a integrated

[Talk-us] How to Vote?

​I cannot find information on "how to vote" at the website openstreetmap.us. Can someone help me? Alan ​Bedford MA​ ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] How to Vote?

Hi Alan, You should have just received an e-mail with instructions for how to vote. Let me know if you haven't. -Ian On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 8:01 AM, Alan Bragg wrote: > ​I cannot find information on "how to vote" at the website > openstreetmap.us. Can someone help me?

Re: [Talk-us] Increasing the number of US Mappers

On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 9:33 AM, Greg Troxel wrote: > Except that osm is part of the Free Sofware / Open Data world, and it > isn't reasonable to expect contributors to have a relationship with an > advertising company. second that. So, it woudl be nice to be able to invite

[Talk-us] Legislative districts, Land-use zoning, etc.

Looking thorough the OSM Wiki Map Features entry there didn't really seem to be features defined for such things as legislative districts, polling place districts, and land-use zoning. I don't think such features are peculiar to the USA. Am I missing something? Thanks, Charles P. Lamb New

Re: [Talk-us] Legislative districts, Land-use zoning, etc.

OSM is not the ideal tool to be a dumping ground for all GIS data. It excels at holding information that users can see, verify and update. Boundaries like this cannot be seen or verified by anyone except the government agency that originally made them. So the data gains no benefit from being in

Re: [Talk-us] How to Vote?

Ian, Thank you, I received the instructions 10 minutes after I posted to the list. I'm assuming that my problem was because I only joined yesterday after watching the video at https://openstreetmap.us/2015/10/candidates-townhall/ It amazes me how much there is to learn about OSM. I learn the most

Re: [Talk-us] Extra wide shoulders / travel lanes in NJ

Normally yes. But just north of Atlanta we have a freeway called Georgia 400, and several miles of it are signed that the shoulder lanes are allowed for all motor vehicle traffic between certain hours, albeit with a lower spec limit than the regular lanes. -jack On October 16, 2015 4:29:32

Re: [Talk-us] Increasing the number of US Mappers

Simon Poole writes: forget scraping stuff from FB or any other commercial operator of similar services (for legal/ToS reasons). Fine, no scraping. Even as the online communication world remains a Babel Tower of proprietary data islands, OSM can still create and continually improve what

Re: [Talk-us] Increasing the number of US Mappers

On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 9:11 PM, stevea wrote: > OSM needs the same kind of medium. Today, or soon. It really WILL > increase our number of mappers. How about single sign on, we dont need multiple accounts for all these web resources. -- James Michael DuPont

Re: [Talk-us] Extra wide shoulders / travel lanes in NJ

Here in NJ they pass you on the right on these lanes, it is totally insane. On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 4:29 PM, John Eldredge wrote: > My experience elsewhere is that shoulders are not considered legal driving > lanes for motor vehicles, except under special circumstances, such

Re: [Talk-us] Increasing the number of US Mappers

Mike Dupont writes: How about single sign on, we dont need multiple accounts for all these web resources. I thought of this, but didn't mention it, as we have something similar going on with both OSM wiki accounts and OSM edit accounts. The reason is that the rights/attributions are