Re: [Talk-us] Extremely long Amtrak route relations

2020-11-21 Thread Brian M. Sperlongano
It seems that OSM has a an architectural problem with over-large relations? > +1 The Tongass National Forest [1] was recently mapped with great detail. It comprises most of the Alaska panhandle and all of its islands and inlets. The relation has 28,000 members and contains over 2 million nodes.

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] changeset: 89516909

2020-08-18 Thread Brian M. Sperlongano
I see. Considering that, I've reverted my changes. On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 9:41 PM 80hnhtv4agou--- via Talk-us < talk-us@openstreetmap.org> wrote: > i was told i could not use do to licence GIS to. > > > > Tuesday, August 18, 2020 8:38 PM -05:00 from Brian M. Sp

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] changeset: 89516909

2020-08-18 Thread Brian M. Sperlongano
All, I fixed this boundary relation and also one neighboring town (Wheeling, IL) using the Cook County, Illinois GIS as the data source, and re-used all of the original boundary relations. Unfortunately it appears that all of Cook County needs to be updated to reflect the county GIS data (found

Re: [Talk-us] National Forest boundaries

2020-06-24 Thread Brian M Hamlin
seconded stevea -- very interesting and cogent, definitely reading these National Forest expositions best regards from Berkeley, California   --Brian M Hamlin MAPLABS ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https

Re: [Talk-us] California is too big :)

2018-11-06 Thread Brian M Hamlin
of the state has so few people, that very large areas are just one group each - Central Coast, Sierras, Northern California (vast).      This might be a guide for some future OSM extracts.. County details on request.   [0] http://blog.light42.com/wordpress/?p=1439 -- Brian M Hamlin blog.light42.com

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER place confusion

2018-09-28 Thread Brian M Hamlin
findable on the open net.     best regards from Berkeley -- Brian M Hamlin OSGeo California blog.light42.com ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

[Talk-us] Some questions about an area that’s been giving me difficulties and JOSM

2018-02-04 Thread Chris J. M.
Hello, I’ve encountered a bunch of small questions all at once while trying to add detail to the parking lots between the McCoy Center, and the Polaris Towne Center (at https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/40.1424/-82.9873).  They are in two categories: specific to this location and more

Re: [Talk-us] Tiger Zip Data Removal Project (Update)

2017-07-12 Thread m
Hi Hans, I sincerely hope you’ll reconsider because I know that you have a lot of positive energy to bring to the US community. I think what you might take away from this is that a single thread on the mailing list is not always enough to gauge the temperature of the community. There are many

Re: [Talk-us] [Talk-ca] Ferry durations

2017-07-12 Thread m
l.com> wrote: > > Are there any ferry routes without duration left? That overpass query shows > all the common ferry routes I know offhand in the province. > > Alan > > On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 11:57 AM, <m...@rtijn.org <mailto:m...@rtijn.org>> > wrote: > Hi

Re: [Talk-us] Ferry durations

2017-07-12 Thread m
> On Jul 12, 2017, at 1:52 PM, m...@rtijn.org wrote: > > I used to depend on a ferry for my commute[1] so the topic connects with me > as well. > > Looking at how this is currently mapped, I see some shortcomings we might > want to address: > * The duration is mostly m

Re: [Talk-us] Ferry durations

2017-07-12 Thread m
fully support adding this job > to MapRoulette. Thanks! > > Nick > > On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 11:57 AM, <m...@rtijn.org <mailto:m...@rtijn.org>> > wrote: > Hi all, > > Just to let you know, my map team colleagues have been adding a few > `duration` tags to ferr

[Talk-us] Ferry durations

2017-07-12 Thread m
Hi all, Just to let you know, my map team colleagues have been adding a few `duration` tags to ferry routes in BC yesterday. Since this was already established practice, I am only mentioning it now. I am crossposting to talk-us because I wanted to see if folks there have given any thought to

Re: [Talk-us] Best practice in Lane Editing 2

2017-06-19 Thread m
For the ‘dashed line’ center turn lanes: what you do makes sense to me too. I have used center_turn_lane=yes in the past, but that is not documented and I wouldn’t encourage it. This way it fits nicely into the lanes schema. The turn lanes plugin seems to support this nicely:

[Talk-us] Features for OpenStreetCam JOSM plugin?

2017-05-09 Thread m
Hi all, We’ve been steadily improving the JOSM plugin for OpenStreetCam. Recently we added the option to go to a nearby photo regardless of the trip that it’s part of. At lower zooms you can now see a line to see which ways have coverage. Also we added caching features that can be controlled

Re: [Talk-us] [Talk-ca] Telenav mapping turn restrictions

2017-04-05 Thread m
eetView drove by was indeed temporary. They were using > it as a temporary staging area for construction vehicles for the bridge they > were replacing on Pine Creek Road (well since completed) that was on the > other side of the intersection. > > -James > From: Martijn van Exel <

Re: [Talk-us] [Tagging] destination:street

2017-04-04 Thread m
.org/way/37192513> > [4] http://openstreetcam.org/details/8230/181 > <http://openstreetcam.org/details/8230/181> > [5] http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/32028378 > <http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/32028378> > [6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwglqOV6I9M > <

[Talk-us] Building Footprints in CA

2017-03-28 Thread Brian M Hamlin
ta process. Not much more to say at this moment, but I am reading this and want to contribute in some way, when thats possible.     cheers -- Brian M Hamlin OSGeo California Chapter blog.light42.com ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap

[Talk-us] MapRoulette news

2017-03-09 Thread m
Hi all, There has been quite a bit of activity in MapRoulette lately. Both small fixes to MapRoulette itself and also new challenges and folks working hard to fix stuff in OSM through MapRoulette. So I decided to capture that in a newsletter and add some links to interesting / new challenges.

Re: [Talk-us] MapRoulette questionnaire

2017-03-02 Thread m
28, 2017, at 11:34 AM, m...@rtijn.org wrote: > > Hi all, > > I put together a small questionnaire about MapRoulette. Your opinions and > ideas are really important for future development of the project, so if you > have used MapRoulette, I would appreciate a few minutes

[Talk-us] MapRoulette questionnaire

2017-02-28 Thread m
Hi all, I put together a small questionnaire about MapRoulette. Your opinions and ideas are really important for future development of the project, so if you have used MapRoulette, I would appreciate a few minutes of your time to fill it out. Anyone who leaves their email is automatically

[Talk-us] Fresno Parcels Deletion proposal

2016-11-28 Thread Brian M Hamlin
Hi All - people are invited to see a blog post on the topic of Fresno County landuse=residential legal records, aka PARCEL. You can find the blog address in my signature. thanks very much --- Brian M Hamlin OSGeo California Chapter blog.light42.com

Re: [Talk-us] ​Mapping Southern Maryland: A new local group

2015-07-03 Thread T M
Traci Bishop is her name tjbis...@umes.edu Tom  GIS 4 LIFE ! On Monday, June 29, 2015 8:20 PM, Eric Christensen e...@christensenplace.us wrote: On Saturday, June 27, 2015 04:28:26 PM T M wrote: Did you contact Univ of MD Eastern Shore? If not I can put you in contact

Re: [Talk-us] ​Mapping Southern Maryland: A new local group

2015-06-27 Thread T M
EricDid you contact Univ of MD Eastern Shore? If not I can put you in contact with their GIS professor? Tom MuellerSent from Yahoo Mail for iPad

Re: [Talk-us] Ghost suburbs

2012-11-17 Thread Kristian M Zoerhoff
My preference has been highway=proposed proposed=residential for ghost subdivisions around Chicago. Charlotte Wolter techl...@techlady.com wrote: Hello, While doing the Maproulette, I came upon a large area east of El Paso

Re: [Talk-us] Ghost suburbs

2012-11-17 Thread Kristian M Zoerhoff
highway=track is fine if the road is open to the public, but quite often incomplete subdivisions are not. Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote: On 11/17/12 6:56 AM, Charlotte Wolter wrote: Hello, While doing the Maproulette, I came upon a large area east of El Paso

Re: [Talk-us] Chicago L updates

2012-11-15 Thread Kristian M Zoerhoff
the Milwaukee District West and Electric District lines a while back, but I haven't touched any other relations since). - -- Kristian M Zoerhoff -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net

Re: [Talk-us] 'creative' mapping

2012-11-13 Thread Kristian M Zoerhoff
On 2012-11-13 09:11, Martijn van Exel wrote: I got this from a MapRoulette user: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=39.414586lon=-84.815333zoom=18layers=M Anyone know what this is about? From open.mapquest.com satellite view, it appears to be a corn maze. There should probably be a business

Re: [Talk-us] Schizophrenic highway

2012-09-14 Thread Kristian M Zoerhoff
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2012-09-14 18:02, Charlotte Wolter wrote: Hello, I'm working on US 50 near Trenton, Ill. Here's the location: http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?lat=38.61248lon=-89.68529zoom=16 It looks like, at one point there were plans to turn this into

Re: [Talk-us] Consensus on SR for state route versus state abbreviation?

2012-09-12 Thread Kristian M Zoerhoff
of the state name (CA or NY). I remember that there was discussion, but I don't remember if there was consensus. The postal abbreviation for the state name is the preferred method for state route refs on ways, Michigan is a notable exception to these rules. State highways are all of the form M

Re: [Talk-us] Scenic/Historic byways

2012-07-09 Thread Kristian M Zoerhoff
for them yet, but I don't believe it exists. -- Kristian M Zoerhoff pgpk7dI0XAhLl.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Fixing TIGER street name abbreviations

2012-05-11 Thread Kristian M Zoerhoff
a prefix and a suffix in the name, and they're the same as the suffix. You might want to check Minneapolis/St Paul. They have some really bizarre directional combinations that could give you heartburn. -- Kristian M Zoerhoff pgpZwZcR4bgpU.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [Talk-us] Smooth shoulder intended for cycling

2012-04-17 Thread Kristian M Zoerhoff
. Alternatively, maybe cycleway needs an unmarked lane setting for these situations, though that would imply the local authorities are intending for cyclists to use the shoulder, rather than just tolerating their presence (the usual situation). -- Kristian M Zoerhoff pgpzAtbN0C49i.pgp Description: PGP

Re: [Talk-us] Highway Shield Rendering

2012-04-12 Thread Kristian M Zoerhoff
Plant at Bridgman, so it's not just snow MDOT is worried about :-) -- Kristian M Zoerhoff ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Highway Shield Rendering

2012-04-06 Thread Kristian M Zoerhoff
On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 08:56:17PM -0700, Minh Nguyen wrote: Ng?y 2012-04-05 5:46 AM, Phil! Gold vi?t: * Phil! Gold phi...@pobox.com [2012-04-05 08:14 -0400]: * Minh Nguyen m...@1ec5.org [2012-04-04 11:54 -0700]: Looks like the Indiana Toll Road has no relation yet. That's fine. We don't

Re: [Talk-us] Highway Shield Rendering

2012-04-03 Thread Kristian M Zoerhoff
? That's all I can think of, and I'm in the metro area. Unless he's thinking of Chicago's portions of Cook County Highways, but those are spottily signed, even outside the city limits. -- Kristian M Zoerhoff pgpII63tvYSfq.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [Talk-us] Using TIGER to find missing road segments in OSM after license change

2012-03-29 Thread Kristian M Zoerhoff
with the older TIGER data. Since Ian is already in Cook County, IL, he can move next door to McHenry County, which I spent ages fixing up over the last year or so. Cook County itself still has a lot of unfixed TIGER roads, especially in its southern half. -- Kristian M Zoerhoff

Re: [Talk-us] Contacting high-impact undecided users in the US

2012-02-07 Thread Kristian M Zoerhoff
to be several when I searched). -- Kristian M Zoerhoff pgpaNdtBBp49X.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Contacting high-impact undecided users in the US

2012-02-07 Thread Kristian M Zoerhoff
On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 08:26:56AM -0600, Kristian M Zoerhoff wrote: On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 07:25:27AM -0500, Josh Doe wrote: For starters I tried to find one of the users, David Speakman, and after a bit of searching have found his LinkedIn page, two domains registered to him, from

Re: [Talk-us] Finding new roads

2012-02-04 Thread Kristian M Zoerhoff
. This is where TIGER 2011 can come in handy. Kane County, IL actually has subdivision plats all the way back to the 1850s online, which can be pretty cool to look at in their own right. -- Kristian M Zoerhoff pgptOOXiNtcmN.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [Talk-us] LA and other license changeover challenged areas.

2012-01-30 Thread Kristian M Zoerhoff
around, and a lot of little cleanup in general. A remap-a-thon is called for, perhaps? Probably. I'd propose everyone on list drop all their other projects and remap like mad badgers for the next 8 weeks. -- Kristian M Zoerhoff pgp37YaQNQ7gH.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [Talk-us] LA and other license changeover challenged areas.

2012-01-30 Thread Kristian M Zoerhoff
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 03:59:15PM -0800, Bryce2 Nesbitt wrote: pubic records searches)? Unless you work for the TSA, I sincerely hope you meant public records searches :-) If you do work for the TSA, carry on. -- Kristian M Zoerhoff pgp5da2YaurkQ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER 2011 Road Tiles

2012-01-18 Thread Kristian M Zoerhoff
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 06:40:27PM -0600, Ian Dees wrote: On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Kristian M Zoerhoff zoerh...@sdf.orgwrote: I got it working in Potlatch 2 [*], but as someone else mentioned, the white layer is invisible on Potlatch's default manilla background. The black

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER 2011 Road Tiles

2012-01-16 Thread Kristian M Zoerhoff
/tiger2011_roads/$z/$x/$y.png in the Background menu. -- Kristian M Zoerhoff pgpWozzQHoHhW.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] GPS overreliance anecdotes (WAS: Women trust GPS, drive SUV into Lake)

2011-06-17 Thread Kristian M Zoerhoff
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 05:28:29AM -0700, Craig Hinners wrote: No matter, he insisted on obeying his GPS and ignoring me. I bit my tongue, what with being the new guy and all. Three wrong turns, two missed expressway exits, and one illegal u-turn later, we arrived at the restaurant. Fifteen

Re: [Talk-us] Women trust GPS, drive SUV into Lake

2011-06-17 Thread Kristian M Zoerhoff
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 06:15:01AM -0400, Mike N wrote: http://www.documentingreality.com/forum/f225/women-trust-gps-drive-suv-into-lake-81264/ I did check the OSM map to be sure there were no non-existing roads shown crossing the lake. The *claim* the GPS directed them into the lake,

Re: [Talk-us] Women trust GPS, drive SUV into Lake

2011-06-17 Thread Kristian M Zoerhoff
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 06:15:01AM -0400, Mike N wrote: http://www.documentingreality.com/forum/f225/women-trust-gps-drive-suv-into-lake-81264/ I did check the OSM map to be sure there were no non-existing roads shown crossing the lake. I did see a post mentioning that there appears to

Re: [Talk-us] Categorizing Stores/Restaurants

2011-06-16 Thread Kristian M Zoerhoff
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 07:52:15PM +, dion_d...@comcast.net wrote: Businesses don't make it easy when they go by multiple names. Is it IBM or International Business Machines? I'm sure you'll find similar issues with punctuation. IBM or I.B.M.? Only the New York Times insists on

Re: [Talk-us] County road network relations

2011-04-13 Thread Kristian M Zoerhoff
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 10:56:51AM -0400, Richard Welty wrote: On 4/13/11 10:54 AM, Mike N wrote: On 4/13/2011 10:44 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: network=US:CA:Orange + ref=CR S18 I'd drop the CR prefix since that's more of a network identifier than a reference number. Most

Re: [Talk-us] REF tags for State Highways on ways

2011-04-08 Thread Kristian M Zoerhoff
be used. This makes them easily distinguished from US or But this is not always correct. In Michigan, for example, all state highways are named M-nn, with M- being part of the road's actual name in many places. It is never, ever, written MI-nn. States like Wisconsin get tricky, too. Wis nn is common

Re: [Talk-us] default to potlatch 1?

2011-04-04 Thread Kristian M Zoerhoff
On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 08:07:30AM -0700, jeremy jozwik wrote: might ask why would you want to do that, well this morning i was adding addr:??? to the map. everytime i completed a address collection i would click a new point and reload the previous point information. then add the new

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER edited map updated with Toby's suggestion

2011-01-24 Thread Kristian M Zoerhoff
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 01:55:57AM +0100, andrzej zaborowski wrote: On 25 January 2011 00:57, Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net wrote: In summary, I propose to add the following requirements to the existing filter for turning a feature red: - Must have tiger:name_base tag I'd

Re: [Talk-us] Creating relations for abandoned railway lines

2011-01-11 Thread Kristian M Zoerhoff
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 11:06:44PM +0100, andrzej zaborowski wrote: On 10 January 2011 17:23, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Kristian M Zoerhoff kristian.zoerh...@gmail.com wrote: type = route route = train operator = Elgin Belvidere

[Talk-us] Creating relations for abandoned railway lines

2011-01-10 Thread Kristian M Zoerhoff
Hi, all. I've been working on adding some abandoned railway lines in my area, and I've been wondering how to group them together. The line I'm working on right now (the former Elgin Belvidere Electric Co. line) has been re-used in some areas as public streets, bike paths, service roads, and

Re: [Talk-us] Creating relations for abandoned railway lines

2011-01-10 Thread Kristian M Zoerhoff
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 11:24:27AM -0500, Richard Weait wrote: On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Kristian M Zoerhoff kristian.zoerh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, all. I've been working on adding some abandoned railway lines in my area, and I've been wondering how to group them together