Re: [Talk-us] Importing parks and schools for Anne Arundel County MD

2014-05-30 Thread Gregory Arenius
Hi Eric, It looks like a good start to me. There were a couple of things that stuck out to me: many of the parks and schools are already in OSM, even if just as a GNIS point. Also, many of the curves in the import are over digitized. We don't need curves of that size to have that many

Re: [Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

2012-05-04 Thread Gregory Arenius
I think that this import was poorly done but overall I don't see the problem with having this type of data in OSM. In fact, I think it is really useful and don't entirely understand the backlash against it. I would really enjoy having that kind of base to work with. So, Thoughts on Plot and

Re: [Talk-us] Parks, etc. Points or outlines

2012-04-24 Thread Gregory Arenius
If there is a point and an area I keep the area and delete the point. If the point has data I'd like to keep, as is often the case when I trace a park on the map and want to use the name and other info from a GNIS point I simply copy the attributes over. To easily copy the attributes over in

Re: [Talk-us] tiff, dwg and nad83

2012-04-16 Thread Gregory Arenius
Hi, Imported data turns down potential new mappers. I really disagree with this statement. I think the mappers would be turned off if we didn't import it when available. So you have all 250,000 address points for the city but instead of using them you'd rather us go collect all of them a

Re: [Talk-us] importing bus stops

2012-04-10 Thread Gregory Arenius
Anyone here with experience importing bus stops? Any particular considerations? I haven't imported any but I've tagged a bazillion of them. To make it more concrete, I have permission to import all UTA stops. They come in a shapefile similar to the one available for download here:

Re: [Talk-us] NHD import

2012-04-09 Thread Gregory Arenius
Yes, I see a lot of water features that are just not corroborated by the aerial imagery, which could mean one of at least three things: 1) The aerial imagery is out of date 2) The NHD data is out of date 3) The NHD data represents something I don't understand (the future, a temporary

Re: [Talk-us] OSM US Chapter elections and

2011-09-15 Thread Gregory Arenius
Another barrage of questions The wiki says that the 2011-2012 election is coming up soon. How is this being organized and when is it actually going to be? The system that was set up last year worked pretty well. I think it was surveymonkey run by some independent (Apache?) observers. Is

Re: [Talk-us] Announcing the DC Sidewalks Project

2011-05-08 Thread Gregory Arenius
Thats really awesome work Serge. Not just a good idea but well implemented. Really slick. Thanks for your hard work. Greg ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Address Node Import for San Francisco

2010-12-13 Thread Gregory Arenius
in the stack. Thanks, Gregory Arenius ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

[Talk-us] Address Node Import for San Francisco

2010-12-09 Thread Gregory Arenius
uploading but I'll take care to make sure its easily reversible if anything goes wrong and doesn't hammer any servers. I've also made a wiki page for the import.http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Address_Import Feedback welcome here or on the wiki page. Cheers, Gregory Arenius

Re: [Talk-us] Address Node Import for San Francisco

2010-12-09 Thread Gregory Arenius
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Gregory Arenius greg...@arenius.com wrote: I've been working on an import of San Francisco address node data. I have several thoughts and questions and would appreciate any feedback

Re: [Talk-us] Address Node Import for San Francisco

2010-12-09 Thread Gregory Arenius
chunk? Cheers, Gregory Arenius ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

[Talk-us] San Francisco Mappy Hour

2010-10-10 Thread Gregory Arenius
Hi Folks, We're having a Mappy Hour social meetup in San Francisco on Wednesday October 20th at 6:00 PM. We'll be at Jillian's which is a restaurant and bar at 101 4th Street in the Metreon. Its on the OSM Bay Area

[Talk-us] San Francisco Mappy Hour

2010-10-05 Thread Gregory Arenius
Hi Folks, We're having a Mappy Hour social meetup in San Francisco on Wednesday October 20th at 6:00 PM. We'll be at Jillian's which is a restaurant and bar at 101 4th Street in the Metreon. Its on the OSM Bay Area

[Talk-us] San Francisco Geodata

2010-08-26 Thread Gregory Arenius
San Francisco has a website at datasf.org that has a lot of good geodata on it. The current licence isn't acceptable for using any of the data but they might be willing to give us permission to use it. Some of the datasets that I thought were interesting were city

Re: [Talk-us] Over-digitized imports?

2010-08-24 Thread Gregory Arenius
Computer storage and processing time are relatively cheap and only getting cheaper at an exponential rate. OSM volunteer time is very limited. Given those facts I wouldn't worry about unsmoothing except in particularly egregious cases. I just don't see the benefit in decreased storage and

[Talk-us] SOTM-US Synopsis

2010-08-18 Thread Gregory Arenius
Since I would like to hear more about what goes on at some of the conferences I can't make I thought I would post some of what stuck out the most for me at this one. This is just what stuck out to me. If I miss something or am wrong about something I apologize in advance. I actually mailed this

[Talk-us] SOTM-US

2010-08-15 Thread Gregory Arenius
Since I would like to hear more about what goes on at some of the conferences I can't make I thought I would post some of what stuck out the most for me at this one. This is just what stuck out to me. If I miss something or am wrong about something I apologize in advance. Nama Budhathoki gave a

[Talk-us] Pre-SOTM-US Gathering

2010-08-13 Thread Gregory Arenius
Are there any plans for a get together at a bar or restaurant tonight in Atlanta before we kick things off tommorow? If there aren't yet does anyone want to make some? Cheers, Greg ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org