Re: [Talk-us] Battle Grid new & improved

2013-11-07 Thread Martijn van Exel
I am actually sitting down with Census geo folks tomorrow to talk about this very topic! I will let you all know what comes of that. I am eager to start working together with them more closely. Stay tuned. On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 4:36 PM, Darrell Fuhriman wrote: >> Unfortunately the Census is ofte

Re: [Talk-us] Battle Grid new & improved

2013-11-07 Thread Martijn van Exel
Interesting you should ask :) It should come as no surprise that we have tons of GPS traces. The new battle grid coloring is based on them. For all kinds of reasons, both legal and strategic, we have been reluctant in sharing the actual traces, and I don't think it will come to that solely based on

Re: [Talk-us] Battle Grid new & improved

2013-11-07 Thread Paul Johnson
Would be cool to get this as a JOSM plugin so we can see what's up at a glance, particularly when we have a GPX overlaid. On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 4:52 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: > See my diary entry, http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/mvexel/diary/20338 > The Battle Grid is now colored based on

Re: [Talk-us] Battle Grid new & improved

2013-11-07 Thread Darrell Fuhriman
> Unfortunately the Census is often wrong. I hope they are paying attention to > the work we are doing. Too bad they're forbidden from incorporating it directly from OSM. :-| d. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ Talk-us maili

Re: [Talk-us] Battle Grid new & improved

2013-11-07 Thread Clifford Snow
On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: > See my diary entry, http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/mvexel/diary/20338 > The Battle Grid is now colored based on where many people drive, > instead of simply urban / rural according to census CDP boundaries. > Thanks for the update. It

[Talk-us] Battle Grid new & improved

2013-11-07 Thread Martijn van Exel
See my diary entry, http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/mvexel/diary/20338 The Battle Grid is now colored based on where many people drive, instead of simply urban / rural according to census CDP boundaries. Happy mapping! -- Martijn van Exel http://oegeo.wordpress.com/ http://openstreetmap.us/ __