Re: [Talk-us] OSM inspector routing layer now also available in the US

2011-10-03 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 10/3/2011 9:06 PM, Kai Krueger wrote: Hi everyone, I have just seen on the blog of Geofabrik ( http://blog.geofabrik.de/?p=96 ) that the awesome OSM-Inspector routing debug layer is now available for the US as well. It can be found at

Re: [Talk-us] East Coast Greenway

2011-10-02 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 10/1/2011 7:53 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: On 10/1/2011 6:22 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: Isn't this NCN 1? No. They're pretty close in NH-Maine, but differ in several places (the ECG uses unpaved trails while USBR 1 sticks with paved roads). The bike rendering has (mostly) updated, so you

Re: [Talk-us] East Coast Greenway

2011-10-01 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 10/1/2011 6:22 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: Isn't this NCN 1? No. They're pretty close in NH-Maine, but differ in several places (the ECG uses unpaved trails while USBR 1 sticks with paved roads). The routings are very different in Virginia and North Carolina (compare the cycle map rendering

Re: [Talk-us] East Coast Greenway

2011-09-30 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 9/30/2011 7:51 AM, Metcalf, Calvin (DOT) wrote: I'm actually in the process of doing this for MA and was trying to figure out the correct tagging, I take it in the US we don't use the local regional national bike route scheme? We do, but I don't know if I'd say that the ECG fits into it.

Re: [Talk-us] What does the community want from a US local chapter?

2011-09-30 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 9/30/2011 7:37 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: What if anything can we learn from Wikipedia? That consensus is very hard to reach :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:State_route_naming_conventions_poll/Account ___ Talk-us mailing list

Re: [Talk-us] East Coast Greenway

2011-09-29 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 9/29/2011 11:20 PM, Peter Dobratz wrote: Has anyone attempted to start mapping the East Coast Greenway as a cycle route? http://www.greenway.org/ This is a project to create a bicycle route along the east coast from Florida to Maine. I think the goal is to get everything off-road, but

Re: [Talk-us] OpenMetaMap

2011-09-22 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 9/22/2011 4:11 PM, Dale Puch wrote: land use admin boundaries These two will generally share nodes (if mapped properly, e.g. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=28.6015lon=-81.419zoom=16layers=M rather than TIGER's horrible approximations) and so should be combined. Most of the others you

Re: [Talk-us] Disney (was Re: access=destination vs access=private)

2011-09-17 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 9/16/2011 9:07 PM, Greg Troxel wrote: The disney employee discussion points out that while access_permission=customer is a relatively straightforward concept, access_permission=private conveys only If you don't have some special agreement, you can't go here. but doesn't encode the set of

Re: [Talk-us] Disney (was Re: access=destination vs access=private)

2011-09-16 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 9/15/2011 10:19 PM, Anthony wrote: Also, I couldn't find any such sign going in the other direction. Even if this were access=destination, it would be a unidirectional access=destination. If you go the other direction you have to either pass through the main gate on World Drive or pass one

Re: [Talk-us] Disney (was Re: access=destination vs access=private)

2011-09-15 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 9/14/2011 10:50 PM, Bill Ricker wrote: And the sweep of Victory makes it not a useful shortcut to anywhere. I assume you mean Vista? Anyway, it could be used as a shortcut, but not much shorter than CR 535: http://g.co/maps/6uzx9 ___ Talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Disney (was Re: access=destination vs access=private)

2011-09-15 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 9/15/2011 8:25 AM, Bill Ricker wrote: Right, from almost everywhere to almost everywhere, 535 would be better than Vista. As long as the marked cast-member-only section of World Blvd is access=private, routing should avoid it. Is this still marked cast only? I haven't been on World Drive

Re: [Talk-us] Disney (was Re: access=destination vs access=private)

2011-09-15 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 9/15/2011 9:50 AM, Anthony wrote: The sign does not say you may use the road so long as you need it to get to your destination (access=destination). That would preclude cast members as using it as a cut-through alternative to World Drive. And it would permit its use by solicitors,

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

2011-09-13 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 9/12/2011 10:04 PM, Metcalf, Calvin (DOT) wrote: - more road colors just because its a state highway tthat could mean something unpaved or divided limited acces If it's divided limited access it should be trunk or motorway. If it's unpaved it should probably be tertiary unless unpaved is

Re: [Talk-us] Disney (was Re: access=destination vs access=private)

2011-09-13 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 9/13/2011 8:34 AM, Anthony wrote: On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 4:29 AM, Nathan Edgars IInerou...@gmail.com wrote: On 9/12/2011 7:17 PM, Anthony wrote: The fact that the land is owned by Walt Disney Parks does not preclude the fact that they have granted a right of way through it. According to

Re: [Talk-us] Disney (was Re: access=destination vs access=private)

2011-09-13 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 9/13/2011 8:58 AM, Bill Ricker wrote: The thru-roads across WDW property might or might not be registered as Public Right of Way against the deeds, but have been open to the public for up to 40 years. Not this one. There was a guard booth on Vista Boulevard near the present location of the

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

2011-09-13 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 9/13/2011 12:47 PM, Toby Murray wrote: Hmm I think that page on the wiki has changed since I last looked at it. The county seat bit is probably a good idea. But even then, there have been a couple of previous discussions about place name renderings in the US so I think we can still leave it

Re: [Talk-us] access=destination vs access=private

2011-09-12 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 9/11/2011 6:12 PM, Anthony wrote: On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Nathan Edgars IInerou...@gmail.com wrote: (As opposed to

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

2011-09-12 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 9/12/2011 5:57 PM, Richard Weait wrote: A few of us were just asking on irc what a US-style tile theme would look like? Many printed US maps emphasize divided highways (often including undivided multilane highways). Perhaps a thicker line style at low zooms where lanes=4 or oneway=yes

Re: [Talk-us] access=destination vs access=private

2011-09-11 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 9/11/2011 3:26 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: On Sun, 2011-09-11 at 02:12 -0500, Toby Murray wrote: Re: Kansas Every person riding a bicycle upon a roadway shall be granted all of the rights and shall be subject to all of the duties applicable to the driver of a vehicle ... Interesting...where

Re: [Talk-us] access=destination vs access=private

2011-09-11 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 9/11/2011 4:25 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: Beaverton, Oregon, in all their wisdom, likes to post roads as DEAD END or NO OUTLET when it clearly does have an outlet, just not for motor vehicles. I'm not sure what this has to do with access tags, since these are advisory (yellow) signs. Only a

Re: [Talk-us] access=destination vs access=private

2011-09-11 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 9/11/2011 7:53 AM, Anthony wrote: The no thru traffic sign is nonstandard and very jurisdiction specific. In general there is no letter of the law, as the law generally does not mention such signs. You seem to be right (at least in Florida):

Re: [Talk-us] access=destination vs access=private

2011-09-09 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 9/9/2011 7:36 PM, PJ Houser wrote: In OpenTripPlanner's case (http://opentripplanner.com/), if it is given a starting destination within an apartment complex tagged with access=private, the router will try to snap that location to the nearest permitted road, which in some cases, may be an

Re: [Talk-us] [Tagging] RFC: place=neighbourhood

2011-09-08 Thread Nathan Edgars II
(crossposted to talk-us) On 9/2/2011 3:30 AM, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: On 09/01/2011 12:01 AM, Stephen Hope wrote: On 1 September 2011 11:41, Nathan Edgars IInerou...@gmail.com wrote: In the US, the problem is that address place names depend on which post office serves the area, and there is no

Re: [Talk-us] [Tagging] RFC: place=neighbourhood

2011-09-08 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 9/8/2011 8:34 AM, Carl Anderson wrote: In the US if you get records through a FOIA they are public records of the US Govt. I don't think so: http://www.justice.gov/oip/foia_updates/Vol_IV_4/page3.htm http://www.cdc.gov/od/foia/policies/copyr-f.htm

Re: [Talk-us] access=no with exceptions

2011-09-08 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 9/8/2011 6:19 PM, PJ Houser wrote: In Portland, Oregon, we have been tagging certain ways with access restrictions as access=no and then explicit exceptions, like psv=yes, foot=yes, bicycle=yes. In the wiki, for the access key, it states Use the *access*=* key to describe a general access

[Talk-us] update: Florida maxspeed import

2011-09-07 Thread Nathan Edgars II
I've completed the import outside the Tampa area. I noticed when working on it that it seems to not include recent changes. So it's as if someone surveyed the roads for OSM several years ago. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org

[Talk-us] update: Florida maxspeed import

2011-09-05 Thread Nathan Edgars II
I've finished with the mainline U.S. Highways and Interstates and the major grid of state roads (1-2 digit and multiples of 100). You can see progress (lagged by a bit over a day) here: http://www.itoworld.com/product/data/ito_map/main?view=5lat=29lon=-83zoom=8 The one area I'm skipping is

Re: [Talk-us] [KS] anyone familiar with this area?

2011-09-03 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 9/3/2011 3:39 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: Hi all, I just stumbled upon this rail yard (?) near Eudora, KS. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=38.9233lon=-95.0096zoom=14layers=M Does anyone know what this is? Bing imagery shows most of the tracks (long) gone. I'd delete them if I knew more

Re: [Talk-us] OpenTripPlanner Final Report

2011-09-03 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 9/3/2011 11:23 PM, Josh Doe wrote: 58: have you considered putting an RFC out on cycleway=shared_lane to get some discussion going around the tag? Every main lane where bikes are allowed is a shared lane. Presumably the intent is the indicate where there's a shared lane *marking*, i.e. a

Re: [Talk-us] Planning to import speed limit data for Florida

2011-09-01 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 9/1/2011 2:16 AM, Toby Murray wrote: http://ni.kwsn.net/~toby/OSM/FL_maxspeed.osm.gz If you have trouble dealing with the extra spaces I can clean it up tomorrow. Bed time now. But it looks like it is just putting in the same number of spaces in front of the numbers for some reason.

Re: [Talk-us] Planning to import speed limit data for Florida

2011-09-01 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 9/1/2011 2:23 AM, Toby Murray wrote: Hmm I just noticed that it was a little eager about creating relations so some ways don't have any tags but are only members of a relation which is tagged. Not sure if this will work with the routes plugin or not. It actually works fine. There are ways

[Talk-us] Planning to import speed limit data for Florida

2011-08-31 Thread Nathan Edgars II
http://www.dot.state.fl.us/planning/statistics/gis/roaddata.shtm This is public domain per Microdecisions, Inc. v. Skinner (though I'm waiting on a reply from FDOT confirming that they agree). After checking all current maxspeed tags against the data to ensure accuracy, I plan to use this as

Re: [Talk-us] Planning to import speed limit data for Florida

2011-08-31 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 8/31/2011 9:57 PM, Dale Puch wrote: Anyways that is why I am interested in how you plan to attack it. I haven't started, but I plan to convert to .osm using gpsbabel and then use the JOSM 'routes' plugin to color the maxspeed values of the background.

Re: [Talk-us] Planning to import speed limit data for Florida

2011-08-31 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 8/31/2011 9:57 PM, Dale Puch wrote: For me it was partly an issue of the data covering a large land area, then only able to download small chunks from OSM to edit. For this, a xapi query of relation[network=US:FL] gets all the state road relations.

Re: [Talk-us] Planning to import speed limit data for Florida

2011-08-31 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 9/1/2011 1:02 AM, Dale Puch wrote: If a way with [network=US:FL] is NOT in a relation, will it be returned by this? I don't think any ways have this tag. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-us] Planning to import speed limit data for Florida

2011-08-31 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 9/1/2011 1:19 AM, Toby Murray wrote: On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 8:58 PM, Nathan Edgars IInerou...@gmail.com wrote: On 8/31/2011 9:57 PM, Dale Puch wrote: Anyways that is why I am interested in how you plan to attack it. I haven't started, but I plan to convert to .osm using gpsbabel and

Re: [Talk-us] Use of ref-tag on state highways

2011-08-24 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 8/24/2011 6:25 PM, Craig Hinners wrote: FWIW, I agree with all of Jason's suggestions, below, for the relation-level network tag values. It mirrors my thinking on the matter exactly. I disagree with putting alternate and business in the network. These modifiers are part of the designation,

Re: [Talk-us] Use of ref-tag on state highways

2011-08-24 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 8/24/2011 7:25 PM, Craig Hinners wrote: I see what you're saying about Arkansas, in that their treatment of US business routes on signage feels more like a different designation. On the other hand, Maryland uses a totatally different shield design for business US routes (basically a

Re: [Talk-us] Use of ref-tag on state highways

2011-08-22 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 8/22/2011 12:05 PM, Richard Fairhurst wrote: Nathan Edgars II wrote: Exactly my point. Great Britain is fine with ref=M1 despite there being an M1 in many other countries - and even in Northern Ireland, part of the same country. There are some little-known fields in OSM data called

Re: [Talk-us] Use of ref-tag on state highways

2011-08-22 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 8/21/2011 4:34 PM, Ian Dees wrote: I really don't understand this logic. I have never run into a case where JOSM has broken a relation in a way that wasn't obvious to me. Obviously I don't get around as much as you, Nathan, but can you remind me of a specific case where a relation breaks over

Re: [Talk-us] Use of ref-tag on state highways

2011-08-22 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 8/22/2011 5:47 PM, Richard Weait wrote: If there is no overlap, a single network / ref pair will work just fine. Why wouldn't it? What breaks is multi-values in network / ref tags. Don't do that. We have better ways to do this; relations. Relations break. Hence ref tags are there as a

Re: [Talk-us] Use of ref-tag on state highways

2011-08-22 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 8/22/2011 5:53 PM, Ian Dees wrote: Ways break too, it's just that editors sometimes remember to fix them during their edit session (e.g. by copying the tags when they dual-carriage a way). If we get people to fix the relations too, then they won't break. So how will we do this? I've

[Talk-us] A proposal to improve relation handling

2011-08-22 Thread Nathan Edgars II
I and some other mappers have noticed that relations are more prone to breaking than equivalent tags on ways. (For a simple example, imagine two people simultaneously editing different parts of a route and each splitting a way, e.g. to add a maxspeed to a portion. If the route is stored as a

Re: [Talk-us] Use of ref-tag on state highways

2011-08-21 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 8/21/2011 1:57 PM, Henk Hoff wrote: Putting every single route-label in the ref-tag is not a good idea. Putting every single route-label in the ref-tag is the way we do things. If you don't like it, you can always find a different country to armchair-map (most countries don't have route

Re: [Talk-us] Use of ref-tag on state highways

2011-08-21 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 8/21/2011 2:22 PM, Alan Mintz wrote: As someone pointed out, once you put them in a relation, the tags on the ways become duplicative. While this is generally bad database design, it's also true that many consumers don't deal with relations, and so we need the duplication and the problems

Re: [Talk-us] Use of ref-tag on state highways

2011-08-21 Thread Nathan Edgars II
Sent again; sorry to people who receive multiple copies due to moderation. On 8/21/2011 4:34 PM, Ian Dees wrote: I really don't understand this logic. I have never run into a case where JOSM has broken a relation in a way that wasn't obvious to me. Obviously I don't get around as much as you,

Re: [Talk-us] Use of ref-tag on state highways

2011-08-20 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 8/20/2011 12:01 PM, Val Kartchner wrote: What about another field for the network. For instance US:UT:SR for Utah State Routes then the ref tag will be just the number. I'd like to put it all into the ref field, but the renderers just don't parse this field and render the whole string.

Re: [Talk-us] Use of ref-tag on state highways

2011-08-20 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 8/20/2011 6:04 AM, Henk Hoff wrote: User Nathan Edgars is now changing all State Highway ref-tags in Arkansas from AR ## to Hwy ## False. I'm using Hwy x on ways that lacked ref tags. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-us] Use of ref-tag on state highways

2011-08-20 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 8/20/2011 12:42 PM, Metcalf, Calvin (DOT) wrote: It doesn't matter if a state like MA uses SR internally we just use that because we deal with only one states routes. Postal code prefixes for all routes makes the most sense. So how do you distinguish California from Canada? Or Delaware

Re: [Talk-us] Use of ref-tag on state highways

2011-08-20 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 8/20/2011 1:29 PM, Metcalf, Calvin (DOT) wrote: From: Nathan Edgars IInerou...@gmail.com On 8/20/2011 12:42 PM, Metcalf, Calvin (DOT) wrote: It doesn't matter if a state like MA uses SR internally we just use that because we deal with only one states routes. Postal code prefixes for all

Re: [Talk-us] Use of ref-tag on state highways

2011-08-20 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 8/20/2011 1:50 PM, Val Kartchner wrote: On Sat, 2011-08-20 at 13:39 -0400, Nathan Edgars II wrote: Meaning? How would you add more detail? US:MA:2? US:FL:ORA:535? UK:GB:M1? And once we set our standard here in the US, how do we get it adopted world-wide? Exactly my point. Great Britain

Re: [Talk-us] Use of ref-tag on state highways

2011-08-20 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 8/20/2011 2:13 PM, Henk Hoff wrote: The difference with the UK example is that there is a consistency: M1 = M1. In the case of Arkansas we're talking about AR 26, Hwy 26 and possibly in the future also 26. All being a ref for the same State Highway. That is the problem. I agree with this,

Re: [Talk-us] Use of ref-tag on state highways

2011-08-20 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 8/20/2011 2:41 PM, Toby Murray wrote: I still see a lot of messages coming through about a network tag. This tag is already used on route relations so I'm not sure why it is still being discussed. The ref=* tag on ways is primarily just duplicating data from the relation and tagging for the

Re: [Talk-us] Use of ref-tag on state highways

2011-08-20 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 8/20/2011 2:56 PM, Phil! Gold wrote: * Nathan Edgars IInerou...@gmail.com [2011-08-20 14:24 -0400]: I agree with this, and will abide by any reasonable consistent convention. The wiki has long recommended using the two-letter state abbreviation, a space, and the number. Is there any

Re: [Talk-us] Use of ref-tag on state highways

2011-08-20 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 8/20/2011 3:29 PM, Val Kartchner wrote: Because some states officially designate the road as SR-26, for instance. Not to mention states like Texas, which have, for example: State Highway (SH) 121 Loop 12 Spur 408 Beltway 8 Farm to Market Road (FM) 1960 Park Road (PR) 27 and probably a few

Re: [Talk-us] Use of ref-tag on state highways

2011-08-20 Thread Nathan Edgars II
I created a table of most of the different state-level route markers (not counting West Virginia's county routes, which are actually state-maintained): http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:NE2/routes This can be used as a basis for a table of abbreviations.

Re: [Talk-us] Oknoname reservoirs

2011-08-13 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 8/13/2011 6:58 PM, Carl Anderson wrote: They appear to be descriptive names in general use within Oklohoma. Oknoname reservoirs are referenced in these, so the names are at least in use. [snip] Interesting. Yes, the names do appear to have become used. I wonder if the bureaucrat

Re: [Talk-us] Safe Routes to School Mapping Toolkit concept

2011-08-13 Thread Nathan Edgars II
This will require objective criteria for grading a route. Does SRTS ignore complications, such as badly-designed bike lanes and especially sidepaths decreasing safety, and kids choosing the sidewalk over even well-designed bike lanes? How is safety of crossing a street determined? How about

[Talk-us] Another case of JOSM ignoring US tagging standards

2011-08-08 Thread Nathan Edgars II
https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/6601 https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/6667 ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Another case of JOSM ignoring US tagging standards

2011-08-08 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 8/8/2011 2:17 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, Nathan Edgars II wrote: https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/6601 https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/6667 Now that this one has been cleared up, No it hasn't. It's possible for an individual mapper to set additional values (assuming they find

Re: [Talk-us] Boundary Relation and Tagging

2011-08-04 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 8/4/2011 7:06 PM, Mike Thompson wrote: Here is another, somewhat related, question. Fort Collins CO is represented by two separate relations: 112524 and 253754, neither of which matches the 2008 TIGER data that they claim to be derived from, although 253754 is a much closer match. What is

[Talk-us] Best way of tagging split between electronic toll and cash lanes?

2011-07-20 Thread Nathan Edgars II
Many toll plazas now have high-speed electronic toll lanes. Tagging seems haphazard. As I see it, the choices are: *What gets tagged as motorway vs. motorway_link? *What gets the name, ref, and relation membership? Note that some plazas have the cash lanes marked like an exit:

Re: [Talk-us] SR-96 partially gone

2011-07-16 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 7/16/2011 4:04 PM, Val Kartchner wrote: Hello, I've been mapping Scofield Reservoir in Utah. I've also been aligning roads with satellite images. SR-96 has partially disappeared after my edit. It was there before. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=39.78855lon=-111.12483zoom=17layers=M

[Talk-us] MassGIS import: condition tag

2011-07-15 Thread Nathan Edgars II
The MassGIS import included a condition tag: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/9602415 Presumably this is something in their data, but what use is it to us? There's no definition of what 'intolerable' means, and no way to know what value to use if the road is repaved.

Re: [Talk-us] MassGIS import: condition tag

2011-07-15 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 7/15/2011 8:15 PM, Greg Troxel wrote: Nathan Edgars IInerou...@gmail.com writes: The MassGIS import included a condition tag: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/9602415 Presumably this is something in their data, but what use is it to us? There's no definition of what 'intolerable'

Re: [Talk-us] MassGIS import: condition tag

2011-07-15 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 7/15/2011 9:13 PM, Greg Troxel wrote: I would say that if you know a road has been repaved, you might set it to 'good' or whatever the appropriate value is. This has pointers to the mass spec, I think: http://www.mass.gov/mgis/eotroads.htm According to the linked PDF, the field measures

Re: [Talk-us] NOAA Composite Shoreline

2011-07-13 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 7/13/2011 2:47 PM, Josh Doe wrote: Has anyone looked at the NOAA Composite Shoreline? It seems to have much better accuracy (as in orders of magnitude better) than the PGS shoreline that was imported, at least for the small portion I checked in Virginia. Unless there are better sources, I'll

Re: [Talk-us] New orthoimagery for NC

2011-07-02 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 6/10/2011 5:31 PM, James Umbanhowar wrote: The state of North Carolina has released 6 inch resolution orthoimagery for the entire state that was taken during leaf off time in 2010. These are great quality for all types of mapping. The information about the service is at:

[Talk-us] Relation roles

2011-06-29 Thread Nathan Edgars II
I've started using forward/backward roles rather than north/south/east/west on relations for state highways, due to JOSM's relation editor supporting sorting by them and Nakor's tool (which was already less convenient, given that you had to upload to OSM and get the relation number) being

Re: [Talk-us] Relation roles

2011-06-29 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 6/29/2011 2:49 PM, Nathan Mills wrote: My personal preference is to use directional roles so that they match what is written on signage. It also avoids the inevitable which way is forward and which is backward question. How would you suggest ensuring that relations are and remain complete?

Re: [Talk-us] Relation roles

2011-06-29 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 6/29/2011 2:49 PM, Nathan Mills wrote: It also avoids the inevitable which way is forward and which is backward question. Forward is the direction of the way. If a way carries both directions of the route, it gets no role (as with directional roles).

Re: [Talk-us] Relation roles

2011-06-29 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 6/29/2011 3:28 PM, Josh Doe wrote: On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com mailto:nerou...@gmail.com wrote: On 6/29/2011 2:49 PM, Nathan Mills wrote: It also avoids the inevitable which way is forward and which is backward question

Re: [Talk-us] Relation roles

2011-06-29 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 6/29/2011 3:47 PM, Toby Murray wrote: For bike/bus routes that makes sense since they may go against the directionality of the way. For highway routes this doesn't seem to make sense and as Josh pointed out is just duplicating oneway information whereas the signed direction of the highway

Re: [Talk-us] Relation roles

2011-06-29 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 6/29/2011 4:50 PM, Richard Weait wrote: On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Nathan Edgars IInerou...@gmail.com wrote: I've started using forward/backward roles rather than north/south/east/west on relations for state highways, due to JOSM's relation editor supporting sorting by them and

Re: [Talk-us] Relation roles

2011-06-29 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 6/29/2011 5:03 PM, Richard Fairhurst wrote: FWIW, and you should absolutely not listen to me because I'm a long way away and it's up to you guys to sort yourselves out... but I'd create a separate relation for each direction (i.e. one northbound relation, one southbound relation) and not

Re: [Talk-us] US highway classification (trunk)

2011-06-26 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 6/2/2011 3:17 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: To this end, I've been systematically going through trunks in the US and adding lanes=* tags. This is of course useful even if nothing is done rendering-wise. Thanks to PeterIto, we can see the fruits of this: http://www.itoworld.com/product/data

Re: [Talk-us] New orthoimagery for NC

2011-06-10 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 6/10/2011 5:31 PM, James Umbanhowar wrote: The state of North Carolina has released 6 inch resolution orthoimagery for the entire state that was taken during leaf off time in 2010. These are great quality for all types of mapping. The information about the service is at:

Re: [Talk-us] FYI - user going around changing highway refs just to put in the - and /

2011-06-09 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 6/9/2011 3:54 PM, David ``Smith'' wrote: On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 4:08 AM, James Mast rickmastfa...@hotmail.com mailto:rickmastfa...@hotmail.com wrote: I just happened to notice this guy tonight was going around and editing the ref tags on highways in the US just to replace the

[Talk-us] East end of I-44 (Re: shields and overlaps)

2011-06-08 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 6/8/2011 2:29 PM, Lord-Castillo, Brett wrote: This shot shows the road as all 4 interstates and US-40 at once. http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8ll=38.617642,-90.181049spn=0.00824,0.013078z=17layer=ccbll=38.617746,-90.181461panoid=etjY4kn9oqoecsdYSjoXqwcbp=12,285.92,,0,5.98 (This shot is

Re: [Talk-us] FYI - user going around changing highway refs just to put in the - and /

2011-06-08 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 5/29/2011 4:08 AM, James Mast wrote: I just happened to notice this guy tonight was going around and editing the ref tags on highways in the US just to replace the space and put in the hyphen. (I noticed this when going to load the I-77 NC relation to add in speed limits I saw and wrote down

Re: [Talk-us] Huge erroneous military landuse

2011-06-07 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 6/7/2011 12:55 AM, Dion Dock wrote: On 6/3/2011 9:43 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: Oh wow. http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/SimonSquare/edits contains the following: landuse=military on the US border religion=christian denomination=anglican landuse=cemetery on the UK leisure=park on France

Re: [Talk-us] shields and overlaps

2011-06-07 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 6/7/2011 9:30 AM, Lord-Castillo, Brett wrote: I-64, I-70, I-55, I-44, US-40 AKA, the Poplar St Bridge in St Louis, MO. It is the only quad Interstate route in existence. I-70 will reroute in 2015 and it will go down to a tri route. It also carries the designation Historic Route 66 and has

[Talk-us] Unsigned routes (Re: shields and overlaps)

2011-06-04 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 6/4/2011 7:06 PM, Chris Lawrence wrote: Reminds me, we need to add some notation for unsigned routes in relations (the only approaches I can think of are either to tag it as roles on each member, with things like unsigned;west sometimes - which is icky but would work - or having separate

Re: [Talk-us] shields and overlaps

2011-06-04 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 6/4/2011 9:46 PM, James Mast wrote: Also, are you going to try to add proper Future Interstate shields? Currently in Google, they just show a normal Interstate shield. It might give people a proper reason to tag these posted Future Interstate correctly instead of without the Future tag. I've

Re: [Talk-us] Unsigned routes (Re: shields and overlaps)

2011-06-04 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 6/5/2011 12:15 AM, nat...@nwacg.net wrote: In Arkansas, routes are not unsigned or (except in very rare cases) cosigned. The route ends where it meets a route of higher priority and begins again as a new segment elsewhere. There are a lot of states that do this internally. But most sign

Re: [Talk-us] Unsigned routes (Re: shields and overlaps)

2011-06-04 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 6/5/2011 12:22 AM, Richard Welty wrote: however, there are unsigned routes in NY; state maintained routes which have designations but which do not have signage, and some county routes. Three states - Florida, Alabama, and Tennessee - have an unsigned state designation for every segment of

Re: [Talk-us] FYI - user going around changing highway refs just to put in the - and /

2011-06-03 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 5/29/2011 4:08 AM, James Mast wrote: I just happened to notice this guy tonight was going around and editing the ref tags on highways in the US just to replace the space and put in the hyphen. (I noticed this when going to load the I-77 NC relation to add in speed limits I saw and wrote down

[Talk-us] Huge erroneous military landuse

2011-06-03 Thread Nathan Edgars II
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=41.722lon=-75.094zoom=10layers=M I'm currently looking for the source; please report here if you find and fix it first. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-us] Huge erroneous military landuse

2011-06-03 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 6/3/2011 9:43 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=41.722lon=-75.094zoom=10layers=M I'm currently looking for the source; please report here if you find and fix it first. Oh wow. http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/SimonSquare/edits contains the following: landuse

Re: [Talk-us] US highway classification (trunk)

2011-06-02 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 5/29/2011 3:32 AM, Nathan Mills wrote: On Sun, 29 May 2011 03:00:03 -0400, Nathan Edgars II wrote: Perhaps the best way to handle it would be to render a wider line if oneway=yes and not lanes=1 or if oneway=no/unset and lanes=4 or more. Thus divided highways would not need a lane count

Re: [Talk-us] is it just me

2011-05-30 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 5/30/2011 4:06 PM, Steve Coast wrote: ... or does this map look like an older Texas osmarender layer screenshot plus a tilt-shift blur added? http://www.wm.com/contact-us.jsp The use of name=Interstate Highway 45;Gulf Freeway is a dead giveaway:

Re: [Talk-us] US highway classification

2011-05-29 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 5/29/2011 1:50 AM, Nathan Mills wrote: On Sun, 29 May 2011 01:00:25 -0400, Nathan Edgars II wrote: On 5/29/2011 12:37 AM, Nathan Mills wrote: US-441 between St. Cloud and Yeehaw Junction could easily be trunk by NE2's definition Nope, since any through traffic will be on the Turnpike. US

Re: [Talk-us] US highway classification

2011-05-29 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 5/29/2011 2:30 AM, Nathan Mills wrote: I think that trunk is more useful if it's prescriptive, more along the lines of a motorway than primary and below. If we aren't going to do that, we need to come up with another value for highway and get it rendered by default. It's something that map

Re: [Talk-us] US highway classification

2011-05-29 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 5/29/2011 5:16 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: subtle mass vandalism This is why I ignore Paul. Though I really wonder about this edit: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/14751094/history ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-us] US highway classification

2011-05-29 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 5/29/2011 8:09 PM, Nathan Mills wrote: FSM knows the aerial imagery around here is outdated, to put it mildly. Try the NAIP imagery: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/National_Agriculture_Imagery_Program ___ Talk-us mailing list

Re: [Talk-us] US highway classification

2011-05-28 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 5/28/2011 3:39 PM, Nathan Mills wrote: On Sat, 28 May 2011 15:19:03 -0400, Anthony wrote: In my experience the difference between primary and trunk is generally very minor, to the point where I'm not sure there'd be any advantage at all in a router using it as a hint. But maybe that's just

Re: [Talk-us] US highway classification

2011-05-28 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 5/28/2011 9:13 PM, Nathan Mills wrote: So you continue to assert that trunk is most useful if it essentially a duplicate of primary? Maybe a duplicate of your version of primary, but not mine. Take, as an example, US 84 in western Alabama. Why on earth did you change it to trunk when it's

Re: [Talk-us] US highway classification

2011-05-28 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 5/28/2011 9:47 PM, Nathan Mills wrote: Another example is US-71 between Fort Smith and Texarkana. It is in fact the fastest route between Fort Smith and Texarkana, but it is terribly slow going. The fact that it is the fastest route between those two regionally important cities is adequately

Re: [Talk-us] US highway classification

2011-05-28 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 5/28/2011 10:52 PM, Nathan Mills wrote: Only if trunk has a meaning that implies that a road tagged trunk is somehow better than a road tagged primary, which it apparently does not, at least in some people's minds. If you're going to waste trunk on curvy two lane roads, a router may as well

Re: [Talk-us] US highway classification

2011-05-27 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 5/27/2011 12:32 AM, Nathan Mills wrote: Would I be correct in stating that tagging an undivided 2 lane (one lane in each direction) highways would be improper, even if a state calls the highway a trunk for planning purposes? Especially if it's in the middle of a town with a low speed limit. I

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