[Talk-us] Updating opening_hours for COVID-19.

2020-03-13 Thread Eric Christensen via Talk-us
I've been updating the opening_hours for businesses and services as I hear about them closing or changing their hours of operation for COVID-19. I'm also adding a note in the description with any information the source is providing. Seems like a good idea to keep people updated to what's open

Re: [Talk-us] Mapping for emergency services

2020-02-05 Thread Eric Christensen via Talk-us
On 2/3/20 9:57 AM, Mike Thompson wrote: > The > exception was a search and rescue group that used OSM to help locate > missing people in the back country because OSM contains trails that no > other source has. I was just sitting down to discuss how I use OSM in wilderness search and rescue

[Talk-us] Modifying storm-damaged roadways

2016-10-13 Thread Eric Christensen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Looking at the DOT map of damaged roadways around Greenville, NC in the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew I would find it incredibly difficult to create a route from one place to another. I wonder if these roads should be updated to show where they

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging National Forests

2016-05-11 Thread Eric Christensen
On 05/10/2016 01:28 PM, OSM Volunteer stevea wrote: What muddied the waters is whether or not this should apply to a US National Forest. I believe it is NOW widely accepted that we should not do that on a USFS administrative boundary (instead using boundary=protected_area, protect_class=6). I

[Talk-us] Anyone in Fairbanks, AK?

2015-12-20 Thread Eric Christensen
Doing a little mapping in the Fairbanks, AK area and hoping there is someone in the area that can help me identify a few things. Thanks, Eric ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] BurningMan 2015

2015-07-29 Thread Eric Christensen
On Wednesday, July 29, 2015 10:07:16 AM David Chiles wrote: Burning Man starts August 30 and OpenStreetMap[1] will be out of date. It appears that the roads have already been removed as I don't see anything there other than the point marking Black Rock City and Black Rock City Airport. Using

Re: [Talk-us] Railway crossing challenge for MapRoulette

2015-07-08 Thread Eric Christensen
On Wednesday, July 08, 2015 11:43:50 AM Greg Morgan wrote: On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 8:02 PM, Charlotte Wolter techl...@techlady.com wrote: Matijn, By the way, what is the difference between crossing and level_crossing? I treat highway=crossing the same as

Re: [Talk-us] ​Mapping Southern Maryland: A new local group

2015-06-29 Thread Eric Christensen
On Saturday, June 27, 2015 04:28:26 PM T M wrote: Did you contact Univ of MD Eastern Shore? If not I can put you in contact with their GIS professor? I haven't, mostly because it's outside of our intended geographic area of interest*, but I certainly wouldn't be against it. One of the people

Re: [Talk-us] GPSVisualizer doesn't attribute OSM

2015-05-13 Thread Eric Christensen
On Wednesday, May 13, 2015 06:41:54 PM Eric Christensen wrote: In my search for mapping-creating programs I ran across GPSVirtualizer.com. It advertises Google Maps but also includes OSM in various forms. Problem is, when it displays OSM data there is no attribution; in fact it still uses

[Talk-us] GPSVisualizer doesn't attribute OSM

2015-05-13 Thread Eric Christensen
In my search for mapping-creating programs I ran across GPSVirtualizer.com. It advertises Google Maps but also includes OSM in various forms. Problem is, when it displays OSM data there is no attribution; in fact it still uses the Google logo. Not sure who would be the one to take care of

Re: [Talk-us] North Carolina Outer Banks

2015-04-05 Thread Eric Christensen
On Saturday, April 04, 2015 09:08:50 PM Richard Welty wrote: On 4/4/15 7:48 PM, Clifford Snow wrote: On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 1:49 PM, Jeff Klein jeff.klein...@gmail.com mailto:jeff.klein...@gmail.com wrote: If I am correct, probably confused, the map sets only go as far east as

Re: [Talk-us] Moving historic railroad ways from OSM to OpenHistoricalMap

2015-04-02 Thread Eric Christensen
On , EthnicFood IsGreat wrote: It's apparent to me that consensus will never be reached on whether or not abandoned railroads belong in OSM (at least the way it is currently configured), given the strong feelings on both sides of the issue.  That's why I think moving them to OHM is a good

Re: [Talk-us] Retagging hamlets in the US

2015-03-19 Thread Eric Christensen
On Thursday, March 19, 2015 04:12:45 PM Clifford Snow wrote: I apologize for coming in so late on this thread. Looking at my small county, we have 55 place=hamlet according to an overpass query. (2007 for Washington State) I certainly recognize a number of these hamlets. I would hate to see

[Talk-us] OSM on Science Friday

2015-02-24 Thread Eric Christensen
I meant to pass this along last week but... There was a discussion about maps on mobile devices on last week's Science Friday (on NPR). While they started discussing Google Maps the aim quickly turned to OSM. http://sciencefriday.com/segment/02/20/2015/forecasting-the-future-of-maps.html

[Talk-us] The to way does not start or end at a via node.

2015-01-30 Thread Eric Christensen
I'm having a problem that I can't seem to figure out. At Node 2899149410 (http://osm.org/go/ZZeAdq4EI--?m=) I get an error in JOSM that says The to way does not start or end at a via node.. This is breaking routing. I'm not sure how to fix this. I see the same problem at the same

Re: [Talk-us] Misspelled names

2014-12-17 Thread Eric Christensen
On , Mike Henson wrote: I have been trying to catch misspelled names of restaurants and fast food places. Is there a way to do mass fixes? There is a common error where Chick-fil-A misspelled Chic-fil-A that messes me up when I do searches. --Eric

[Talk-us] Abandoned Railroads

2010-05-23 Thread Eric Christensen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just a quick question. I'm working on updating the maps around my office. Development has really changed the landscape around there and a lot of the roads are incorrect. The existing maps show abandoned railroad tracks in the area. That must have

Re: [Talk-us] Abandoned Railroads

2010-05-23 Thread Eric Christensen
: On 5/23/10 5:26 PM, Eric Christensen wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just a quick question. I'm working on updating the maps around my office. Development has really changed the landscape around there and a lot of the roads

Re: [Talk-us] Street Naming Conventions

2010-04-07 Thread Eric Christensen
On 04/07/2010 03:20 AM, Gregory Arenius wrote: I would also like to note though that the USPS abbreviations list is copyright the USPS. We'd probably have to recreate a similar list if we really wanted to make it our own just so that our standard is something we can put in our own