Re: [Talk-us] US meetups?

2010-04-29 Thread Christopher Covington
On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 13:59 -0400, Richard Weait wrote: Any US OSM meetups other than these three? Any other fixed addresses for local US OSM meetings? http://www.meetup.com/Atlanta-OpenStreetMap/ http://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Columbus/

Re: [Talk-us] Import of EPA data

2009-12-13 Thread Christopher Covington
On Sun, 2009-12-13 at 11:08 +0100, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: Dear Team, I am willing to put some work into this but I need a clear directive : Do you want to just revert my EPA import or should I put the work into fixing it? Whichever is the easiest path to getting the data into

[Talk-us] Undeletion

2009-12-04 Thread Christopher Covington
Hi all, I noticed a service road near my house (that I'm pretty sure was in OSM) got deleted. It used to connect Stadium Rd and the footpath coming off of Warren St: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=37.22219lon=-80.41622zoom=17layers=B000FTF Perhaps its just poor memory and I drew the footpath

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER considered harmful

2009-11-16 Thread Christopher Covington
On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 10:59 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: Dave Hansen wrote: 2) The TIGER import violates one of the most basic principals of OSM: Abbreviations: DO NOT DO IT. I really don't understand this. If the United States Postal Service and the Census Bureau have been abbreviating names

[Talk-us] Parking on the Street, Variable Availability Parking

2009-10-23 Thread Christopher Covington
From the wiki, Parking spaces along streets are currently not tagged. Only parking lots of reasonable size are mapped, not every place where a car could be parked. Is there any solution to this? At, for example, the student apartment complexes in Blacksburg, VA, there are very few parking spaces

[Talk-us] State- or Countywide Road Centerline Import

2009-09-30 Thread Christopher Covington
Hi All, How can one import large datasets of information mostly already on the map to Open Street Map? I believe that my state (Commonwealth of Virginia) has more recent and more accurate data than TIGER. Anyone have experience working with state geodata? Initially we may only be able to use the