Re: [Talk-us] Removing tiger:* tags

2010-07-30 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 12:24 AM, Alan Millar amillar...@gmail.com wrote: I haven't seen a conclusion on what people want to see in the naming convention (see for example the thread at http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2010-April/003138.html). Just because the conversation is

Re: [Talk-us] Removing tiger:* tags

2010-07-30 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2010-07-30 07:28, Anthony wrote: On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 12:24 AM, Alan Millar amillar...@gmail.com wrote: I haven't seen a conclusion on what people want to see in the naming convention (see for example the thread at

Re: [Talk-us] Removing tiger:* tags

2010-07-30 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net wrote: There's another, very important use for the tiger:reviewed tag. As I've said above, that's the one tiger tag I don't remove (until I've reviewed the way, of course). You don't seem to have read that message. In it

Re: [Talk-us] Removing tiger:* tags

2010-07-30 Thread Apollinaris Schoell
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Dave Hansen d...@sr71.net wrote: So, the guys that actually went out and were nice enough to collect this TIGER data and share it with us have names for all these things: TLIDs. That's a pretty concrete, real-world meaning to some people. Not in osm context.

Re: [Talk-us] Removing tiger:* tags

2010-07-30 Thread Apollinaris Schoell
Just for that short little bridge? This info should be right (which means *one* tlid) or it shouldn't be there at all. We shouldn't keep this crap around just for the hell of it. By deleting it you're not making it more correct. Never said I was. But deleting incorrect

Re: [Talk-us] Removing tiger:* tags

2010-07-30 Thread Apollinaris Schoell
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.netalan_mintz%2b...@earthlink.net wrote: I really don't understand your argument. It's the nature of OSM that many people will contribute many types of data, much of which will not be cared about or understood by the

Re: [Talk-us] Removing tiger:* tags

2010-07-30 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2010-07-30 12:56, Apollinaris Schoell wrote: How would I even go about checking? Is this really something we should be doing every time we make a bridge? what a waste of time, let's go mapping instead. this is a wast of time I think we should enhance Josm/Potlatch to remove these tags in

Re: [Talk-us] Removing tiger:* tags

2010-07-30 Thread Apollinaris Schoell
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.netalan_mintz%2b...@earthlink.net wrote: At 2010-07-30 12:56, Apollinaris Schoell wrote: How would I even go about checking? Is this really something we should be doing every time we make a bridge? what a waste of

Re: [Talk-us] Removing tiger:* tags

2010-07-30 Thread andrzej zaborowski
On 30 July 2010 21:00, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net wrote: There's another, very important use for the tiger:reviewed tag. As I've said above, that's the one tiger tag I don't remove (until I've reviewed the way, of

Re: [Talk-us] Removing tiger:* tags

2010-07-30 Thread andrzej zaborowski
On 30 July 2010 22:12, Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net wrote: Do we really need the database space that badly? I've heard arguments on the talk list that this clutters the database and similarly wikipedia= tags should be massively removed and if at all, links should be maintained then

Re: [Talk-us] Removing tiger:* tags

2010-07-30 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 6:36 PM, andrzej zaborowski balr...@gmail.com wrote: Also note that once there's a photo on flickr that is tagged with an osm object id and a foursquare.com venue id at the same time, you have a link between OSM and foursquare.com, no need to duplicate this information

Re: [Talk-us] Removing tiger:* tags

2010-07-30 Thread Josh Kraayenbrink
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.comwrote: The way I see it is that if I were mapping an area from scratch, nobody would go adding the TIGER tags. So if I completely redo an area, whether I use existing ways or draw new ways, there's no reason to keep the TIGER

Re: [Talk-us] Removing tiger:* tags

2010-07-30 Thread andrzej zaborowski
On 31 July 2010 00:50, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 6:36 PM, andrzej zaborowski balr...@gmail.com wrote: Also note that once there's a photo on flickr that is tagged with an osm object id and a foursquare.com venue id at the same time, you have a link

Re: [Talk-us] Removing tiger:* tags

2010-07-30 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 8:11 PM, andrzej zaborowski balr...@gmail.com wrote: On 31 July 2010 00:50, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 6:36 PM, andrzej zaborowski balr...@gmail.com wrote: Also note that once there's a photo on flickr that is tagged with an osm

Re: [Talk-us] Removing tiger:* tags

2010-07-30 Thread andrzej zaborowski
On 31 July 2010 02:24, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 8:11 PM, andrzej zaborowski balr...@gmail.com wrote: On 31 July 2010 00:50, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 6:36 PM, andrzej zaborowski balr...@gmail.com wrote: Also

Re: [Talk-us] Removing tiger:* tags

2010-07-30 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 8:28 PM, andrzej zaborowski balr...@gmail.com wrote: On 31 July 2010 02:24, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 8:11 PM, andrzej zaborowski balr...@gmail.com wrote: On 31 July 2010 00:50, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: On

Re: [Talk-us] Removing tiger:* tags

2010-07-30 Thread andrzej zaborowski
On 31 July 2010 02:33, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 8:28 PM, andrzej zaborowski balr...@gmail.com wrote: I don't see how it changes anything.  If a piece of interstate I-405 is described by one relation or two ways one for each carriage in osm, and 10

Re: [Talk-us] Removing tiger:* tags

2010-07-30 Thread andrzej zaborowski
On 31 July 2010 03:02, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 8:44 PM, andrzej zaborowski balr...@gmail.com wrote: On 31 July 2010 02:33, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 8:28 PM, andrzej zaborowski balr...@gmail.com wrote: I

Re: [Talk-us] Removing tiger:* tags

2010-07-30 Thread andrzej zaborowski
So are you saying you or someone else will be checking all TLIDs against the TIGER data and correcting errors and adding missing ones? I can imagine someone making some clever scripts and then manually verifying it where there are doubts as a kind of personal project of the week or something.

Re: [Talk-us] Removing tiger:* tags

2010-07-30 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 9:40 PM, andrzej zaborowski balr...@gmail.com wrote: So are you saying you or someone else will be checking all TLIDs against the TIGER data and correcting errors and adding missing ones? I can imagine someone making some clever scripts and then manually verifying it

Re: [Talk-us] Removing tiger:* tags

2010-07-30 Thread andrzej zaborowski
On 31 July 2010 04:06, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 9:40 PM, andrzej zaborowski balr...@gmail.com wrote: So are you saying you or someone else will be checking all TLIDs against the TIGER data and correcting errors and adding missing ones? I can imagine

Re: [Talk-us] Removing tiger:* tags

2010-07-30 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:15 PM, andrzej zaborowski balr...@gmail.com wrote: On 31 July 2010 04:06, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 9:40 PM, andrzej zaborowski balr...@gmail.com wrote: I can imagine someone making some clever scripts and then manually