Re: [Talk-us] State ref tags on ways: Use of unique ISO/ANSI/USPS 2-letter state codes in RELATIONS as well as WAYS?

2014-03-13 Thread David ``Smith''
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 6:34 AM, Minh Nguyen m...@nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us wrote: On 16:04 2014-03-11, Peter Davies wrote: I thought I would make my proposal stand out a bit more by adding words to the title. :-O There are some weird things, like Nebraska's state law that requires NDOR to

Re: [Talk-us] NHD Imports

2012-10-27 Thread David ``Smith''
Past NHD imports have made vast multipolygons which can be difficult to interpret without a view of the whole thing. This made particular problems for tiles@home/osmarender, which tried to render the multipolygons without loading their out-of-area members, leading to water-land inversion in a lot

Re: [Talk-us] What is the status of the Toolbox?

2012-10-18 Thread David ``Smith''
The toolbox isn't entirely necessary if you know the keyboard shortcuts for its buttons, and I found those easily enough by clicking help. Use enhanced stylesheet to see which direction a way flows. The banner at the bottom has some issues. Helpful for new and maybe intermediate users, but i'd

Re: [Talk-us] Consensus on SR for state route versus state abbreviation?

2012-09-13 Thread David ``Smith''
Concerning ref tags on ways, I don't think there's a need to impose nationwide consistency. I also don't think it's worth even adhering to a strict machine-parseable syntax (particularly dealing with overlaps) since that kind of information is much better organized in relations. That said, here

Re: [Talk-us] Consensus on SR for state route versus state abbreviation?

2012-09-13 Thread David ``Smith''
On Sep 13, 2012 11:51 AM, Charlotte Wolter techl...@techlady.com wrote: David, I agree with much of what you said. However, I'm not sure why the size of a state should make a difference in what abbreviation is used. Large or small, shouldn't the state abbreviation be

Re: [Talk-us] Remap-a-tron observation

2012-09-12 Thread David ``Smith''
One thing that would have made RemapATron's existence difficult before the redaction I think is predicting which ways would be deleted entirely. As I recall, there were various remapping tools which flagged dirty objects with slightly different criteria. I think it was even said a few times we'll

Re: [Talk-us] US-Canadian border

2012-08-22 Thread David ``Smith''
On Aug 22, 2012 10:23 AM, Metcalf, Calvin (DOT) calvin.metc...@state.ma.us wrote: Ah that makes more sense, but not sure how it explains http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=44.81868lon=-66.91419zoom=15layers=M What happened to the data overlay on the slippy map? That might make analysis of

Re: [Talk-us] non-round roundabouts

2012-08-07 Thread David ``Smith''
Seems to me the simplest solution would be to map the two roundabouts as one peanut-shaped roundabout: narrow, but not self-intersecting, in the middle. On Aug 7, 2012 12:39 AM, Dion Dock dion_d...@comcast.net wrote: Maybe you've seen this before, but I haven't. Here are some roundabouts that

Re: [Talk-us] Discardable TIGER tags

2012-07-30 Thread David ``Smith''
Wasn't someone working on importing address data from TIGER? I was under the impression that may have depended on tiger:tlid tags on objects already in OSM, but wasn't sure… On Jul 30, 2012 1:50 AM, Alan grunthos...@yahoo.com wrote: On Sun, 2012-07-29 at 16:21 -0500, Toby Murray wrote:

Re: [Talk-us] Discardable TIGER tags

2012-07-29 Thread David ``Smith''
Personally, I think there should be a tag to differentiate between a one-way road and half of a divided road; yes, a human can look at the map and make that determination instantly, but a computer requires some advanced analysis. (I can imagine some extra-nice rendering could benefit from this

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: Re: Post bot cleanup

2012-07-20 Thread David ``Smith''
I've been having a bit of fun remapping unclean areas based on cleanmap and remapping after the bot. It's a bit like the initial TIGER cleanup, but this time I feel extra pride at achieving even higher quality than in that effort years ago. (More experience, better tools, more familiarity with

Re: [Talk-us] Highway Shield Rendering

2012-04-06 Thread David ``Smith''
I think I would prefer horizontally arranged shields regardless of way direction. I think a variety of tagging schemes should be condensed into a unified scheme by data preprocessing, rather than handled by an overly-complex rendering stylesheet. ___

Re: [Talk-us] FYI - user going around changing highway refs just to put in the - and /

2011-06-09 Thread David ``Smith''
, this applies to road signs and not maps, but I still count this as precedence. Renderers should ideally tolerate ref tags of the form I-50. -- David Smith a.k.a. Vid the Kid a.k.a. Bír'd'in Does this font make me look fat? ___ Talk-us mailing list

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: Feature Proposal - RFC - Directional Prefix Suffix Indication

2010-08-23 Thread David ``Smith''
with Potlatch and ArcExplorer's Identify tool to manually add address interpolation ways with help from Yahoo! imagery and my familiarity with the Franklin County address grid. I can also conduct in-person surveys and verification along key roads. -- David Smith a.k.a. Vid the Kid a.k.a. Bír'd'in Does

Re: [Talk-us] Kansas extract

2010-07-03 Thread David ``Smith''
. -- David Smith a.k.a. Vid the Kid a.k.a. Bír'd'in Does this font make me look fat? ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Trailheads

2010-07-03 Thread David ``Smith''
, when adding the informational sign (or some other mappable feature) at the trailhead to the trail's route relation, you could give it a role of trailhead. That semantically describes the situation, though it has the disadvantage that simple POI search algorithms won't be able to catch it. -- David

Re: [Talk-us] Route Relation Nitpicking

2010-06-15 Thread David ``Smith''
. And to say that route relations aren't used anywhere so it doesn't matter is highly inaccurate for the part of the planet with which I'm familiar. -- David Smith a.k.a. Vid the Kid a.k.a. Bír'd'in Does this font make me look fat? ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk

Re: [Talk-us] Census designated place boundaries: should we care about them?

2010-06-10 Thread David ``Smith''
been irked at how the Lake Darby CDP so poorly matches the actual extent of residential development... -- David Smith a.k.a. Vid the Kid a.k.a. Bír'd'in Does this font make me look fat? ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [Talk-us] Uploading all Post Office Drop Box locations in the US

2010-06-10 Thread David ``Smith''
(such as TIGER). Wouldn't use of a commercial geocoding service to import POIs taint the OSM data? Maybe not if the original address were not present in the tagging but still... -- David Smith a.k.a. Vid the Kid a.k.a. Bír'd'in Does this font make me look fat

[Talk-us] Reply-to field in list messages

2010-06-10 Thread David ``Smith''
...@... line in the header. It would save nearly everybody from occasional frustration and frequent minor annoyance. -- David Smith a.k.a. Vid the Kid a.k.a. Bír'd'in Does this font make me look fat? ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging of county roads

2010-05-27 Thread David ``Smith''
back to the top of the thread... -- David Smith a.k.a. Vid the Kid a.k.a. Bír'd'in Does this font make me look fat? ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging of county roads

2010-05-27 Thread David ``Smith''
to a number in a circle. (Read: that practice is possibly misleading and probably a bad idea.) So anyway, it's been a good decade since I've been through NJ. How are county route numbers signed there? -- David Smith a.k.a. Vid the Kid a.k.a. Bír'd'in Does this font make me look fat

Re: [Talk-us] Changeset to revert (or defend?)

2010-05-25 Thread David ``Smith''
and how Osmarender uses it has been willing to fix the problem. -- David Smith a.k.a. Vid the Kid a.k.a. Bír'd'in Does this font make me look fat? ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

[Talk-us] Changeset to revert (or defend?)

2010-05-24 Thread David ``Smith''
would just be easier. Unfortunately, I'm a Windows user with no easy way to do that. -- David Smith a.k.a. Vid the Kid a.k.a. Bír'd'in Does this font make me look fat? ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-us] Changeset to revert (or defend?)

2010-05-24 Thread David ``Smith''
. -- David Smith a.k.a. Vid the Kid a.k.a. Bír'd'in Does this font make me look fat? ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

[Talk-us] Proper Consistent Spelling (was: Fast food vs. restaurant vs. cafe)

2010-05-24 Thread David ``Smith''
I can't understand how people get these things wrong in the first place... -- David Smith a.k.a. Vid the Kid a.k.a. Bír'd'in Does this font make me look fat? ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo

Re: [Talk-us] Address Lookup

2010-05-21 Thread David ``Smith''
, this is style is best for rows of houses and other small buildings that aren't already individually mapped. Large, important features should probably have their own, complete address information tagged directly. -- David Smith a.k.a. Vid the Kid a.k.a. Bír'd'in Does this font make me look fat

Re: [Talk-us] Street Naming Conventions

2010-05-18 Thread David ``Smith''
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Phil! Gold phi...@pobox.com wrote: * David ``Smith'' vidthe...@gmail.com [2010-05-14 23:58 -0400]: 5) The value of addr:street=* should contain the abbreviated form of the street name according to USPS standards, regardless of the way the street name is signed

Re: [Talk-us] Another how would you...?

2010-05-16 Thread David ``Smith''
network=lwn name=... I'm not sure if hiking routes are covered in the wiki, but I've seen a few relations tagged like this. I assume lwn means local walking network as a parallel to lcn meaning local cycle network. -- David Smith a.k.a. Vid the Kid a.k.a. Bír'd'in Does this font make me look fat

Re: [Talk-us] proposed first principles for United States road tagging

2010-03-05 Thread David ``Smith''
that slightly. -- David Smith a.k.a. Vid the Kid a.k.a. Bír'd'in Does this font make me look fat? ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] proposed first principles for United States road tagging

2010-03-04 Thread David ``Smith''
.) -- David Smith a.k.a. Vid the Kid a.k.a. Bír'd'in Does this font make me look fat? ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

[Talk-us] Please revert my epic fail changeset

2010-02-11 Thread David ``Smith''
now. (And that will be easier when the duplicate nodes in tonight's epic fail changeset are gone.) -- David Smith a.k.a. Vid the Kid a.k.a. Bír'd'in Does this font make me look fat? ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [Talk-us] script for adding layer=1 to bridges

2010-01-27 Thread David ``Smith''
it look decent in the renderer. I am not of that opinion. -- David Smith a.k.a. Vid the Kid a.k.a. Bír'd'in Does this font make me look fat? ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

[Talk-us] Ohio Statewide Imagery Program

2010-01-19 Thread David ``Smith''
Mapquest has newer imagery, apparently from i-cubed. -- David Smith a.k.a. Vid the Kid a.k.a. Bír'd'in Does this font make me look fat? ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] HI: Hawaii GIS Data

2009-12-05 Thread David ``Smith''
texture that is meant to look better than actual photographic data. So if it's small and not very close to the mainland, don't count on it showing up in the Yahoo imagery. -- David Smith a.k.a. Vid the Kid a.k.a. Bír'd'in Does this font make me look fat

Re: [Talk-us] Marking closed bridges

2009-12-05 Thread David ``Smith''
.) -- David Smith a.k.a. Vid the Kid a.k.a. Bír'd'in Does this font make me look fat? ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Admin Level for Neighborhoods?

2009-12-03 Thread David ``Smith''
of administrating body, I'd use admin_level=10. -- David Smith a.k.a. Vid the Kid a.k.a. Bír'd'in Does this font make me look fat? ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Admin Level for Neighborhoods?

2009-12-03 Thread David ``Smith''
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Randy rwtnospam-new...@yahoo.com wrote: David ``Smith'' wrote: On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone decided on a admin_level to tag for neighborhoods in a city? I'd like to import some neighborhood boundary data that my

Re: [Talk-us] What's causing rendering artifacts in the Southeast?

2009-11-26 Thread David ``Smith''
of a multipolygon relation also represents a different feature (such as a road) sometimes the tags of that feature are treated as if they apply to the whole relation in Osmarender. I've been meaning to file a trac ticket about that one... -- David Smith a.k.a. Vid the Kid a.k.a. Bír'd'in Does

Re: [Talk-us] Karlruhe Scheme addressing ways from 2009 TIGER data

2009-11-24 Thread David ``Smith''
, close is certainly better than nothing; the customer will find his way as long as the start point is at least in the customer's neighborhood. -- David Smith a.k.a. Vid the Kid a.k.a. Bír'd'in Does this font make me look fat? ___ Talk-us mailing list

Re: [Talk-us] 2009 TIGER Shapefiles now available

2009-10-24 Thread David ``Smith''
in there which weren't imported to OSM before. Some of them, I've drawn from Yahoo! imagery. Now I have names for those. Of course, I could have done my own field observation, but I have other priorities. -- David Smith a.k.a. Vid the Kid a.k.a. Bír'd'in Does this font make me look fat

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: Lake Winnepesaki rendering issue

2009-10-13 Thread David ``Smith''
guess: what if those tiles are ordered re-rendered as ocean tiles? That might work, or it might require the outer ways of the lake to be tagged natural=coastline. I have a knack for guessing how things work, but I'm still just guessing. -- David Smith a.k.a. Vid the Kid a.k.a. Bír'd'in Does

Re: [Talk-us] Salt Fork Lake rendering issue

2009-10-13 Thread David ``Smith''
, as multipolygons and as single ways, and this is the only one causing problems. -- David Smith a.k.a. Vid the Kid a.k.a. Bír'd'in Does this font make me look fat? ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo

[Talk-us] Reply-to?

2009-10-13 Thread David ``Smith''
that appear to relate to this. -- David Smith a.k.a. Vid the Kid a.k.a. Bír'd'in Does this font make me look fat? ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

[Talk-us] CDPs and admin_level

2009-10-12 Thread David ``Smith''
to make a minor clarification to an existing map feature, do you?) [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Census-designated_place [2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dadministrative#admin_level -- David Smith a.k.a. Vid the Kid a.k.a. Bír'd'in Does this font make me look fat

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: Lake Winnepesaki rendering issue

2009-10-12 Thread David ``Smith''
, we'll head to the trac to complain. -- David Smith a.k.a. Vid the Kid a.k.a. Bír'd'in Does this font make me look fat? ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: Lake Winnepesaki rendering issue

2009-10-12 Thread David ``Smith''
...@h guys need to fix, because I've seen issues like this in Illinois too. -- David Smith a.k.a. Vid the Kid a.k.a. Bír'd'in Does this font make me look fat? ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [Talk-us] Restriction tagging

2009-09-29 Thread David ``Smith''
programs don't support restrictions, and those that do generally only support the case where via is a node. It is a concept that's difficult to incorporate into an algorithm like A*. -- David Smith a.k.a. Vid the Kid a.k.a. Bír'd'in Does this font make me look fat