[Talk-us] [Talk-us-nps] North Carolina National Park

2018-08-16 Thread Jim McAndrew
I'm hoping someone from the general talk-us group can provide more input on this. Best of luck! -- Jim McAndrew On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 9:39 AM Nicolas Duclos wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I’m new in OSM Community and after a short trip on East Coast of North > Carolina, I decided to h

[Talk-us] NJ Mapping Party Sunday 4/16 for National Park Week

2016-04-11 Thread Jim McAndrew
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Re: [Talk-us] Extra wide shoulders / travel lanes in NJ

2015-10-13 Thread Jim McAndrew
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. For example: (note the trash can in the "lane")

Re: [Talk-us] hgv=designated in US National Park

2015-06-30 Thread Jim McAndrew
Trail Ridge Road is a bit of an exception to normal NPS rules because it does connect two population centers that are otherwise very far from each other. I don't have any more specific knowledge on the exceptions other than the stories from Russell. In any case, you do need to check in at the gate

[Talk-us] Proper tagging for crosswalks

2015-06-23 Thread Jim McAndrew
I am looking into tagging some crosswalks, and I've just been putting a node at the intersection. Some crosswalks are really long though, and I think that information is important to the person crossing the road. Is there an acceptable way that we can tag a way as a crosswalk without interfering

Re: [Talk-us] Proper tagging for crosswalks

2015-06-23 Thread Jim McAndrew
discussion on HOT list. Thanks, Bryan On Jun 23, 2015, at 3:46 PM, Jim McAndrew j...@loc8.us wrote: I am looking into tagging some crosswalks, and I've just been putting a node at the intersection. Some crosswalks are really long though, and I think that information is important to the person

Re: [Talk-us] Data sources for National Monument boundaries?

2015-06-14 Thread Jim McAndrew
We (NPMap at the National Park Service) use the IRMA boundaries for most of our maps, but we have updated a few of the park boundaries in our own database. You can find our data here: https://nationalparkservice.cartodb.com/u/nps/tables/parks On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 12:52 PM, Clifford Snow

Re: [Talk-us] request to revert changeset

2015-05-15 Thread Jim McAndrew
If it's your own changeset, it's pretty easy to do in JOSM: https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/731/how-can-i-revert-a-changeset You can also go back and manually make the edits, but I find that sometimes its a lot easier just to revert an entire changeset than to go in and try to make it

Re: [Talk-us] New York, Ellis Island Boundary

2015-05-11 Thread Jim McAndrew
This is correct, the island is part of NY, but the water is part of NJ, when they made the island bigger, the new land was in NJ. Similar to how Delaware has the entire Delaware Bay in its boundaries. They added some fill to the NJ side, and now there's a piece of Delaware connected to New

Re: [Talk-us] Great Lakes Boundaries

2015-04-27 Thread Jim McAndrew
Mike, Thanks for doing this! It sounds like a much bigger ordeal than I had originally thought. -- Jim On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 8:47 AM, Mike Thompson miketh...@gmail.com wrote: All, Since no objection to removing natural=water from the Lake Superior relation has been expressed, I have

Re: [Talk-us] No Parallel/Resize or Copy/Paste in iD editor?

2015-04-21 Thread Jim McAndrew
This is great, we're using a recent build of iD and we love the cmd/ctrl-C/V commands, it has really made our editing a lot quicker! On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 4:19 PM, Bryan Housel br...@7thposition.com wrote: iD will use the modifier key Cmd on Mac and Ctrl on Windows/Linux. It adjusts the

Re: [Talk-us] Great Lakes Boundaries

2015-04-17 Thread Jim McAndrew
it to look as correct as possible. -- Jim On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 1:13 PM, Mike Thompson miketh...@gmail.com wrote: Jim, Are you referring to how Isle Royale spills into Lake Superior? Might it be a broken relation rather than a tagging issue? Mike On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 12:57 PM, Jim McAndrew

Re: [Talk-us] CloudMade's ambassadors

2015-04-06 Thread Jim McAndrew
I'd like to thank Russ as well! I was a long time lurker in OSM, but never did any edits myself. I saw a PR piece for the Boston mapping party, and thought.. Maps and Parties? Why am I not attending that? Then I saw that there would be a meetup in New York the next week. I borrowed my

Re: [Talk-us] Meetup sponsorship

2014-08-26 Thread Jim McAndrew
Steve, Our meetup group OSM-Colorado is up for renewal in September, what can I do to have Telenav help us sponsor the group? -- Jim On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 6:56 PM, Steve Coast st...@asklater.com wrote: Hi I had a number of threads with people on Telenav sponsoring meetup groups. The

Re: [Talk-us] Beach routing

2014-07-10 Thread Jim McAndrew
I think this would be a great addition for routing. I would make sure that you add tags like bicycle=no, even though bicycles are probably not forbidden, bicycles and sand generally do not mix. ( http://www.njbikemap.com/ omits dirt roads in southern jersey for this reason) Another consideration

Re: [Talk-us] NJ Orthoimagery

2014-07-09 Thread Jim McAndrew
Ian, I can put you in contact with the people in charge of the map servers at the USGS. There has been some turnover in the position recently, so things have been a bit mixed up. In the meantime, The National Map uses the following link:

Re: [Talk-us] Locations for State of the Map US 2014

2013-11-15 Thread Jim McAndrew
It would be nice to have the SOTM-US within driving distance from Denver, but I enjoy the travel too. I'd suggest Philly if I wanted to get a bid together, but I don't think I'll be doing that this year. I would love to see some good bids this year, and hopefully if those bids aren't selected,

Re: [Talk-us] OSM US election status

2013-10-06 Thread Jim McAndrew
to all the candidates! -- Jim McAndrew (Soon to be former Vice President of OSM US) On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 9:23 PM, Mike N nice...@att.net wrote: On 10/5/2013 1:51 PM, Michal Migurski wrote: Can I just point out that the breadth of candidates this year is a very pleasant surprise? Agreed

Re: [Talk-us] Hamlets!

2013-06-21 Thread Jim McAndrew
It sounds like we want CDPs and not hamlets, although there is some overlap. What would be ideal would be to remove all the hamlets and import the CDPs, but we could also just remove all hamlets that aren't also a CDP. On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 8:20 AM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Talk-us] Hamlets!

2013-06-21 Thread Jim McAndrew
So, while I like the GNIS dataset, and I actually am working on a crowdsourcing project to improve the GNIS dataset ( http://navigator.er.usgs.gov), I think the Census data is much more useful for our purposes. -- Jim McAndrew On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 9:21 AM, Richard Welty rwe

[Talk-us] OpenStreetMap Virtual Mapping Party Hangout

2013-03-25 Thread Jim McAndrew
The OSM US Virtual Mapping party is going on now: https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/065ef2b3439320b01dca2d62de6a0e81a1fb7fdd?gpsrc=selm0utm_medium=embdenfplmutm_campaign=lrnmreutm_source=lmnavbrrtsl=1 ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-us] Dual Carriageway?

2012-11-29 Thread Jim McAndrew
It looks like there were a few points where there were garden dividers, but that changed after a repaving. From looking around on OSM, it doesn't seem like people are marking roads with a garden in the middle of the road as a dual carriageway, maybe they should be? Bing Maps:

Re: [Talk-us] US Addressing

2012-11-29 Thread Jim McAndrew
The city/county of Denver, CO does have a parcels database (in a bunch of formats) (http://data.denvergov.org/dataset/city-and-county-of-denver-parcels) But it is licensed under a CC BY 3.0 License (http://data.denvergov.org/dataset/city-and-county-of-denver-parcels) Is this something that

Re: [Talk-us] US Addressing

2012-11-29 Thread Jim McAndrew
by the govmt agency to help with digitizing, data conversion, etc. there should be no copyright issues with them. I didn't see a reference to Sanborn in the parcel metadata. Brian On 11/29/2012 2:36 PM, Jim McAndrew wrote: The city/county of Denver, CO does have a parcels database (in a bunch

Re: [Talk-us] US Addressing

2012-11-29 Thread Jim McAndrew
this is really only a special case from a routing point of view: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishers_Island,_New_York#Culture -- Jim McAndrew On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Jeffrey Ollie j...@ocjtech.us wrote: On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: Jeffrey

Re: [Talk-us] Operation Cowboy - Progress/Todo

2012-11-21 Thread Jim McAndrew
Paul, Martijn had suggested contacting the local library and seeing if you can reserve a study room or something like that. If you can't pull something together this weekend (it's not really a good weekend for get togethers in the US), I would love to attend a mapping party in OK in the future.

Re: [Talk-us] Utah voronoi mapcraft

2012-11-20 Thread Jim McAndrew
Brian, Quantum GIS does Voronoi polygons pretty well. (under Vector - Geometry Tools - Voronoi Polygons) I would suggest trying that first. Otherwise, there is always ArcMap, but I think it's a spatial analyst tool, so if you don't have those tools already, it's not worth investing in for

Re: [Talk-us] Geography Awareness Week

2012-11-02 Thread Jim McAndrew
hangout format for our meetings and semi-scrums, and it seems to be working well for us. Good luck! --- Jim McAndrew On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com wrote: I think this is an awesome idea. Are you just going to use Google Hangout and stream to youtube? If you need help

Re: [Talk-us] REST Services

2011-10-24 Thread Jim McAndrew
Awesome work on this Ian! Randy, looks like you're going to have to find something else to complain about. Bats? On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Randal Hale rjh...@northrivergeographic.com wrote: Wiki page updated... Imagery displayed in JOSM ...and I can no longer complain If I only

Re: [Talk-us] US local chapter board election results

2011-10-12 Thread Jim McAndrew
I agree about the idea of the handoff agenda, but with or without, I will also be in the meeting tomorrow. We should at least go in with some goals on what we plan to accomplish this year, and discuss if those goals are practical and how we can work together to help each other with our goals, and

Re: [Talk-us] US local chapter board election results

2011-10-12 Thread Jim McAndrew
The Drop-U? call in that we used to use still appears to work. We have used it recently for GeoBus calls: Call-In: 218-486-3891 x663610833 You can't call in from google voice though. On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.netwrote: the number works, i'm enjoying

Re: [Talk-us] Mapping party best practices

2011-10-03 Thread Jim McAndrew
start. -- Jim McAndrew On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 7:01 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 7:51 PM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: Hi, As I am preparing my first mapping party here in Salt Lake, I am wondering what works and what doesn't. I'm used to organizing

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

2011-09-15 Thread Jim McAndrew
talking on this subject. I don't know if my answers are 100% right, but it should be enough to get the ball rolling on these issues. -- Jim McAndrew @JimmyRocks On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Josh Doe j...@joshdoe.com

Re: [Talk-us] What should a US map of OSM data look like

2011-09-12 Thread Jim McAndrew
interesting too, but usually they're just clutter -- Jim McAndrew On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Metcalf, Calvin (DOT) calvin.metc...@state.ma.us wrote: Shields def, also using the interstate, (urbal/rural) arterial, collectorand local nomenclature instead of trunk, primary, secondary. Fix

Re: [Talk-us] Road Trip to SotM

2011-06-20 Thread Jim McAndrew
Kate, Richard, Although Denver isn't much of a roadtrip for me anymore, I'd still love to do at least some of this trip, either as part of the GeoBus project or something separate. I like the idea of multiple carpools coming from different parts of the country as well. Maybe find out some

Re: [Talk-us] Who is mapping on the ground in US?

2011-06-02 Thread Jim McAndrew
I've been to a successful mapping party in NYC, which was run by CloudMade. The meetup.com group still exists, and someone is funding it. I don't know anyone specific who is still working with it though. I believe Lancaster, PA is still trying to have monthly meetups as well. -- Jim McAndrew

Re: [Talk-us] Ideas for OSMF US Swag

2011-05-27 Thread Jim McAndrew
I'm in the same boat as Ian with limited space in my apartment, but I'd love to help out with the mailing. -- Jim McAndrew On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: I'd be happy to do some mailing. I don't have a whole lot of room to store boxes of pamphlets in my

[Talk-us] GeoBus call tonight

2010-10-21 Thread Jim McAndrew
to make it easy for anyone to run a mapping party - How this new group will affect the GeoBus project - Magnets / Stickers / Marketing ideas If you're interested in joining: Tonight's Call is at 8:00pm Eastern Time The Call In Number is: 218-486-3891 x663610833 -- Jim McAndrew

Re: [Talk-us] [Tagging] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread Jim McAndrew
, but in PA and NJ, they are just county subdivisions, and are not points to put on a map. -- Jim McAndrew ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

[Talk-us] GeoBus call Sept 30, 2010

2010-09-29 Thread Jim McAndrew
are mapping in this as a case study for what the GeoBus needs to do to promote mapping to these groups. Please reply to this with your ideas for the discussion, and if you are available Thursday night, please sit in the meeting and discuss where you believe the GeoBus should be going. -- Jim McAndrew

[Talk-us] GeoBus call tonight

2010-09-23 Thread Jim McAndrew
In Number is: 218-486-3891 x663610833 -- Jim McAndrew ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

[Talk-us] Geobus call tonight

2010-09-16 Thread Jim McAndrew
Hey, There will be a brief GeoBus call tonight. I want to go over the action items quickly and discuss where we are going from there. The call will take place at 8PM Eastern Time The Call In Number is: 218-486-3891 x663610833 Thanks, Jim McAndrew

Re: [Talk-us] Reminder: Geobus call tomorrow

2010-09-03 Thread Jim McAndrew
Did anybody make the call last night? On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Lars Ahlzen l...@ahlzen.com wrote: On 9/2/2010 10:50 AM, Jim McAndrew wrote: Hey, I am out of the country today and will not be able to attend the call this week either. Sorry, I can't make it either. Being Friday

Re: [Talk-us] Reminder: Geobus call tomorrow

2010-09-02 Thread Jim McAndrew
before the meeting, please email me back and I will make sure to find a way to check my email before the meeting tonight. Tonight's Call-In information is: Call in number: 218-486-3891 x663610833 -- Jim McAndrew On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 10:57 PM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: Hey all

Re: [Talk-us] GeoBus Discussion

2010-08-26 Thread Jim McAndrew
do a short stint on the bus. I'll keep these in mind for the discussion tonight, and I hope to talk to some of you there! I'll be back with the meeting minutes before tomorrow. -- Jim McAndrew On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Eric Wolf ebw...@gmail.com wrote: Just to jump in here

Re: [Talk-us] GeoBus Discussion

2010-08-22 Thread Jim McAndrew
from last week's meeting. -- Jim McAndrew On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Blars Blarson openstreetmap-talk...@scd.debian.net wrote: In article aanlktinhg331nozjxjhkwceg2va+gnbcerhtzxm7p...@mail.gmail.comaanlktinhg331nozjxjhkwceg2va%2bgnbcerhtzxm7p...@mail.gmail.com j...@loc8.us writes

Re: [Talk-us] Removing tiger:* tags

2010-07-29 Thread Jim McAndrew
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Alan Millar amillar...@gmail.com wrote: Furthermore, don't store redundant data in the OSM database. There's absolutely no excuse for having 200 ways which all say name=Cain Rd, name_base=Cain,

Re: [Talk-us] US meetups?

2010-04-30 Thread Jim McAndrew
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Jim McAndrew j...@loc8.us wrote: What are the goals for the openstreetmap.us web page? That's a good question that we should probably all discuss. My opinion is that it should be a one

Re: [Talk-us] US meetups?

2010-04-29 Thread Jim McAndrew
for the groups. There's also Yahoo!'s upcoming.comwhich is just free in general. -- Jim McAndrew On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Christopher Covington c...@vt.edu wrote: On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 13:59 -0400, Richard Weait wrote: Any US OSM meetups other than these three? Any other fixed addresses

Re: [Talk-us] OpenStreetMap U.S. Inc

2010-04-19 Thread Jim McAndrew
Excellent news Kate! I know this has taken a lot of work from you and a few others. It's great to see it all coming together! On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Kate Chapman k...@maploser.com wrote: Hey All, Just wanted to