[Talk-us] Blue Ridge Parkway

2017-01-30 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, I stumbled across the Blue Ridge Parkway in OSM (you learn something new every day, that's one of the things I like so much about OSM). I noticed that Wikipedia has: "The parkway, while not a National Park, has been the most visited unit of the National Park System every year since

Re: [Talk-us] reporting Pokemon Go related vandalism

2017-01-30 Thread Andy Townsend
On 27/01/2017 22:49, ajt1...@gmail.com wrote: On 27/01/2017 06:20, Will Senechal wrote: I'll try to keep an eye on activity around here, and will try to continue updating my area. They've just "edited" again, and I've blocked in http://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks/1169 , so I'd be

Re: [Talk-us] reporting Pokemon Go related vandalism

2017-01-30 Thread Rihards
On 2017.01.30. 21:16, Andy Townsend wrote: > On 27/01/2017 22:49, ajt1...@gmail.com wrote: >> On 27/01/2017 06:20, Will Senechal wrote: >>> I'll try to keep an eye on activity around here, and will try to >>> continue updating my area. >> >> They've just "edited" again, and I've blocked in >>

Re: [Talk-us] Blue Ridge Parkway

2017-01-30 Thread Clifford Snow
According to NPS it is a park. [1] https://www.nps.gov/maps/full.html?mapId=e212fcb5-4ff9-4787-bbe4-3d40cc0d0daa#9/36.8412/-80.6506 You just can't trust Wikipedia. maybe they should start citing OSM instead of those old pesky books. On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 1:56 PM, Frederik Ramm

Re: [Talk-us] Blue Ridge Parkway

2017-01-30 Thread Brad Neuhauser
Also see "But is the Blue Ridge Parkway a National Park?" on the Blue Ridge FAQ: https://www.nps.gov/blri/planyourvisit/np-versus-nf.htm According to that it is a "National Park Service area" but not a park. The NPS makes this distinction on their nomenclature page (

Re: [Talk-us] Blue Ridge Parkway

2017-01-30 Thread Mike Thompson
> > > > Is our definition of national park different than Wikipedia's, or should > one of the two be changed? > It is a "National Heritage Area"[1]which is under the jurisdiction of the US National Park Service. While it is not a "National Park" in the formal U.S. sense it is a "national park" in

Re: [Talk-us] Blue Ridge Parkway

2017-01-30 Thread Kevin Kenny
On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 7:07 PM, OSM Volunteer stevea wrote: > The boundary=national_park tag has seen much use and abuse over many years. > Perhaps because it renders as green dashes, it was inappropriately used (and > is today?) for state parks and other

Re: [Talk-us] Blue Ridge Parkway

2017-01-30 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
Long post alert, apologies in advance. You might jump to the last paragraph, beginning "stated succinctly." I applaud efforts and discussion I see here regarding subtle distinctions between Blue Ridge Parkway being not a National Park per se, but rather a "park area" administered by the same

Re: [Talk-us] reporting Pokemon Go related vandalism

2017-01-30 Thread Will Senechal
I do in fact know one of the areas that he edited quite well. He added "Mission Koi Pond" at a location that contained a large building (shown on the Bing imagery) that I can confirm was still there yesterday. It is the site of Mission Neurology, at 890 Hendersonville Rd #200, Asheville, NC

Re: [Talk-us] Blue Ridge Parkway

2017-01-30 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
Hello again, Kevin: On Jan 30, 2017, at 5:00 PM, Kevin Kenny wrote: > The use of UK English as the OSM standard gets in the way (of boundary=national_park) > here, since > the UK has nothing that's a direct parallel to a state park. States of > the US at least

Re: [Talk-us] Blue Ridge Parkway

2017-01-30 Thread Ian Dees
Hi folks, Remember to keep our messages on topic, please. We probably don't need to have back-and-forths about state sovereignty on a thread about the Blue Ridge Parkway. Thanks, Your friendly mailing list moderator ___ Talk-us mailing list

Re: [Talk-us] Blue Ridge Parkway

2017-01-30 Thread Kevin Kenny
Sorry for the digression. I was attempting to present the theory by which I chose tags for various closely related objects. In particular, the Blue Ridge Parkway might get 'boundary=protected_area protect_class=21 protection_object=recreation', if I understand the object of its existence. Since

Re: [Talk-us] reporting Pokemon Go related vandalism

2017-01-30 Thread Brian May
Been following the thread - my two cents on what I'm seeing around Florida. 1) Seems like a major increase in new mappers and edits in just the past two weeks, and before that an increase overall since the pokemon / osm connection was publicized. 2) Many /most of the influx of new mappers are

Re: [Talk-us] Blue Ridge Parkway

2017-01-30 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
Apologies, Ian. I did mention that my VERY brief digression into state sovereignty was recognizably "not on a political forum" and intentionally brought the topic back to "OSM and tagging standards." The intent was to clarify that states (New York, California...) do designate wilderness

Re: [Talk-us] Blue Ridge Parkway

2017-01-30 Thread Jack Burke
I, for one, loved the points you made about sovereignty. -jack -- Typos courtesy of fancy auto spell technology On January 30, 2017 11:23:25 PM EST, OSM Volunteer stevea wrote: >Apologies, Ian. I did mention that my VERY brief digression into state >sovereignty

Re: [Talk-us] Blue Ridge Parkway

2017-01-30 Thread Ian Dees
No apologies needed, folks. I appreciate the time you put into these replies and I know we're all passionate about this stuff (otherwise we wouldn't be here). Keep up the good work! ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org