On Tue, 2 Nov 2010 01:02:37 +0800, Eugene Alvin Villar
wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 12:25 AM, Peter Budny wrote:
>> As far as I'm concerned, the difference in what's required to tag
things
>> is minimal between these concerns. Therefore, wouldn't it make the
most
>> sense to choose whichever
andrzej zaborowski writes:
> On 9 April 2010 15:30, Matthias Julius wrote:
>> Val Kartchner writes:
>>
>>> 3) Prefix, body, suffix is available from the TIGER data, but what about
>>> streets that have already been added (or corrected) by users? As we'v
andrzej zaborowski writes:
> On 9 April 2010 15:06, Matthias Julius wrote:
>> Val Kartchner writes:
>>
>>> On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 12:23 -0400, Richard Welty wrote:
>>>> i don't think anyone would argue with this. it's why having a bot
>>>&g
Val Kartchner writes:
> 3) Prefix, body, suffix is available from the TIGER data, but what about
> streets that have already been added (or corrected) by users? As we've
> seen, a bot won't always be able to correctly make these separations (as
> in the example of "Southbay" vs. "South Bay" give
Val Kartchner writes:
> On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 12:23 -0400, Richard Welty wrote:
>> i don't think anyone would argue with this. it's why having a bot
>> rampage through
>> "fixing" things is probably a Real Bad Idea unless it's extremely well
>> thought out
>> and comprehensively tested beforeha
andrzej zaborowski writes:
> Hi,
>
> On 7 April 2010 07:36, Val Kartchner wrote:
>> The "Editing Standards and
>> Conventions"
>> ("http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Editing_Standards_and_Conventions";)
>> page says: "In the name tag, enter the full name as it appears on the street
>> name s
Jeffrey Ollie writes:
> On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Matthias Julius wrote:
>> Jeffrey Ollie writes:
>>
>>> What's more annoying is that he is changing the names/refs. From
>>> what I understand the ref is supposed to be only the
>>> inters
"Mike N." writes:
>> Second, separating out the highway system requires the data consuming
>> application to know how to piece things back together. Otherwise, a
>> shield on a map for example with just a "25" in it is pretty limited in
>> use.
>
> After / if a generalized shield solution is i
Jeffrey Ollie writes:
> What's more annoying is that he is changing the names/refs. From
> what I understand the ref is supposed to be only the
> interstate/highway number (e.g. "90" or "80") and not "I 90 (MN)".
And I don't like this at all. First, this seems to be different than
how this is
Jeff Barlow writes:
> Shows how? This is not obvious to me. Are there examples
> somewhere? If they are not connected then are we supposed to move
> them around till they are? If so how does one guess where they
> are supposed to go?
There is a sort button in the relation editor (the fifth from
Greg Troxel writes:
> Stellan Lagerstrom writes:
>
>> We have a user (mk408) who seems intent on turning 3/4 of all
>> residential streets in the bay area into tertiary.
>> This seems excessive to me. Most of these are just residential streets,
>> not thoroughfares, etc.
>> Views?
>> Here's one
Paul Johnson writes:
> Nobody uses the ZIP codes except the post office. Truckers
> certainly don't use 'em, it's easier to look up the state, city, and
> street in that order.
Many businesses offer to search for local branches by ZIP code.
Businesses calculate shipping costs based on your ZIP
Richard Welty writes:
> On 12/3/09 11:27 PM, Richard Welty wrote:
>> On 12/3/09 11:00 PM, David Fawcett wrote:
>>
>>> I agree that it would be good to have a standard answer. I am
>>> thinking that the tag should be used for both symbology and
>>> connectivity.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> i'm going
"David ``Smith''" writes:
> On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 2:18 AM, Dale Puch wrote:
>> It sounds like t...@home needs to trim data at the tile border, and then
>> close open ways along the border of the tile...
>> Just my uneducated opinion.
>
> Let's say you have a tile with two ways crossing it, and
Dale Puch writes:
> Oops I spoke too soon. There is a relation.
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/304245
> I still think this is the probable source of the problem though. Perhaps
> someone with more experience with relations could take a look?
I don't know all the details in how
Dave Hansen writes:
> On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 16:24 -0500, Matthias Julius wrote:
>> IMHO it is unfortunate this was not
>> done during the TIGER import. It would have been easy enough.
>
> Sure. But, there were 50 other things that were "easy enough" to do.
> J
Greg Williamson writes:
> Just out of curiosity, how do our European companeros deal with things
> like "2-Bis" ? Most of the addresses I have seen in the US with
> letters tend to be campuses and business parks as opposed to street
> addresses.
>
> A legit address in France -- #2 rear would be m
David Lynch writes:
> Agreed. I can understand not wanting to abbreviate words that don't
> have a standard abbreviation, but the USPS is the de-facto arbiter of
> how addresses (and therefore street names) are written in the United
> States, and they have a well-defined list of which words are
>
"Randy" writes:
> Matthias Julius wrote:
>
>>"Randy" writes:
>>
>>>Dale Puch wrote:
>>>
>>>Would it be improper to tag the true Wal-Mart services to the building
>>>way, (either using semicolons or "shop_n" and
"Randy" writes:
> Dale Puch wrote:
>
>>For the same reason as doing nodes at a mall or similar. To know the
>>stores/services available, not just the type of stuff that is usually
>>there.
>>
>>If your tagging fast food, why would you not tag the McDonalds in the super
>>walmart as well? Or th
Karl Newman writes:
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Theodore Book wrote:
>
>> I have put the various proposals on the wiki at:
>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/US_Forest_Service_Data
>>
>> It seems like the landuse=forest tag has a fair amount of consensus, but
>> that we are not yet sur
Russ Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Ian Dees writes:
> > I don't agree. If the "reviewed" flag was changed to yes without any change
> > to the imported data, then that means the new TIGER data will be better
> than
> > the old ("reviewed") data.
>
> Or worse. Different != improved.
Th
Dave Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 11:33 -0700, Alan Brown wrote:
>> > Then, decide how if/when it is appropriate to write over the old
>> TIGER
>> > stuff with new. Or, to merge it somehow.
>>
>> Be very, very careful here.
>>
>> Conflation is a difficult thing. I
Etienne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I think you need to spell out what's in it for Garmin. Something like:
> "A significant number of new users at mapping parties will go on to be
> regular OpenStreetMap contributors. They will want to purchase their own
> GPS receiver and if they have learned
Jason Reid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> SteveC wrote:
>> The great lakes are missing off the map!
>>
>> Anyone here able to import them or something magically? If not I'll
>> turn over to the dev/talk list but I thought people here might be
>> interested themselves :-)
>
> They show up on osm
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