Re: [Talk-us] Whole-US Garmin Map update - 09-06-2011

2011-06-21 Thread Josh Kraayenbrink
Were is the .torrent file at? I will happily seed it. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

[Talk-us] Categorizing Stores/Restaurants

2011-06-14 Thread Josh Kraayenbrink
Is there any page on the wiki that has a methodology or straight up categories of stores and restaurants? I was thinking about creating a page to help those that don't know what to enter for tags, mostly the amenity tag. Either alphabetical by amenity or alphabetical by store. This would be

Re: [Talk-us] Categorizing Stores/Restaurants

2011-06-14 Thread Josh Kraayenbrink
It is, but what is the convention in the states for tagging, say, Sears? Department store? Hardware store? other store? The only way you know these things is if you do A LOT of mapping and start to figure out what needs to go where. What if a newbie comes across this and they don't know what to

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Bike / Pedestrian directions on the MQ Open sites

2011-03-06 Thread Josh Kraayenbrink
I believe the law implies that if there isn't an easy alternative route within a reasonable distance from the interstate, you CAN ride on that interstate. Some are explicatively stated no bikes allowed, but I believe that there are plenty of examples east of the Mississippi that do allow you to.

Re: [Talk-us] Meetups around the US

2010-08-25 Thread Josh Kraayenbrink
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote: I'm a 2 hour drive from any semblance of an urban area (Kansas City). I suppose if there were regular meetups I would probably make an effort to make it to at least some of them. I also, live a couple of hours

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

2010-07-30 Thread Josh Kraayenbrink
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.comwrote: The way I see it is that if I were mapping an area from scratch, nobody would go adding the TIGER tags. So if I completely redo an area, whether I use existing ways or draw new ways, there's no reason to keep the TIGER

[Talk-us] Changing Data Attribution

2010-06-12 Thread Josh Kraayenbrink
This is in relation to Lars' question with attribution on nodes and ways. I have been thinking, possibly incorrectly, about attribution on data. The Tiger import was great, but as you all know, not perfectly accurate. I have been reviewing and almost all roads, ways, etc that have been imported