Re: [Talk-us] TIGER fixup and mapping more

2012-07-12 Thread Robert Kaiser
Richard Weait schrieb: Larger cleanups can be imposing at first glance. Other mappers will understand that a single mapper can't do everything at once, so you shouldn't be criticized if you fix a few things but not others. After having spent another vacation in the US (in Northern California

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER fixup and mapping more

2012-07-12 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 6:29 AM, Robert Kaiser ka...@kairo.at wrote: Richard Weait schrieb: Larger cleanups can be imposing at first glance. Other mappers will understand that a single mapper can't do everything at once, so you shouldn't be criticized if you fix a few things but not

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER fixup and mapping more

2012-07-12 Thread Clay Smalley
I like this idea. That would encourage more people to TIGER-review streets, as highway=road shows up pretty ugly on Mapnik, and people like getting rid of ugly. What would be the drawbacks of doing this? It seems like there would be some but I can't think of any. On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 8:29 AM,

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER fixup and mapping more

2012-07-12 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Mike N nice...@att.net wrote: On 7/12/2012 11:26 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: I like that idea, especially given the high number of obviously not urban roads that would be better off tagged as track or unclassified getting counted as residential (a more urban

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER fixup and mapping more

2012-07-12 Thread Mike N
On 7/12/2012 11:43 AM, Richard Fairhurst wrote: I was wondering if something likehttp://frontdoor.cloudapp.net/ might be a fun solution. Present some aerial imagery, the OSM data, and say is this a track or a road?. Kind of like HotOrNot for the OSM generation. (For extra efficiency, have a

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER fixup and mapping more

2012-07-12 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 7/12/2012 11:27 AM, Clay Smalley wrote: I like this idea. That would encourage more people to TIGER-review streets, as highway=road shows up pretty ugly on Mapnik, and people like getting rid of ugly. What would be the drawbacks of doing this? It seems like there would be some but I can't

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER fixup and mapping more

2012-07-12 Thread Martijn van Exel
Hi, On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Mike N nice...@att.net wrote: On 7/12/2012 11:26 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: I like that idea, especially given the high number of obviously not urban roads that would be better off

[Talk-us] TIGER fixup and mapping more

2012-07-11 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Kevin Kenny kken...@nycap.rr.com wrote: I'd be fine with trying to clean up unedited TIGER - or even a horrible mess of half-deleted TIGER - if the expectations of the results weren't quite so daunting. [ ... ] Larger cleanups can be imposing at first glance.

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER fixup and mapping more

2012-07-11 Thread Evin Fairchild
...@weait.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 8:19 AM To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org Subject: [Talk-us] TIGER fixup and mapping more On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Kevin Kenny kken...@nycap.rr.com wrote: I'd be fine with trying to clean up unedited TIGER - or even a horrible mess of half-deleted