Re: [Talk-us] Mountain Letters

2010-12-14 Thread Samat K Jain
On Monday, December 13, 2010 05:10:04 pm Val Kartchner wrote: This had been done as a footway. This is the wrong way to do it, but what is the right way? Have you been up there? It may not be technically wrong—there may be paths alongside each of the letter's segments used for maintaining the

Re: [Talk-us] NE2: Changeset 6612910: What is?

2010-12-14 Thread Paul Johnson
On 12/14/2010 12:38 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 1:16 AM, Paul Johnson baloo-PVOPTusIyP/sroww+9z...@public.gmane.org wrote: On 12/13/2010 11:07 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: And US 169: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/83581697 was missing a ref tag. None of the

Re: [Talk-us] NE2: Changeset 6612910: What is?

2010-12-14 Thread Paul Johnson
On 12/14/2010 08:21 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: On 12/14/2010 12:38 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 1:16 AM, Paul Johnson baloo-PVOPTusIyP/sroww+9z...@public.gmane.org wrote: On 12/13/2010 11:07 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: And US 169:

Re: [Talk-us] NE2: Changeset 6612910: What is?

2010-12-14 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: Besides that, when do you plan on citing a source that isn't copyrighted when you're mapping?  If that's your only source, you can't use it: That's plagerism. I thought plagiarism is when you *don't* cite your sources.

Re: [Talk-us] NE2: Changeset 6612910: What is?

2010-12-14 Thread Paul Johnson
On 12/14/2010 08:47 AM, Anthony wrote: On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Paul Johnson baloo-PVOPTusIyP/sroww+9z...@public.gmane.org wrote: Besides that, when do you plan on citing a source that isn't copyrighted when you're mapping? If that's your only source, you can't use it: That's

Re: [Talk-us] NE2: Changeset 6612910: What is?

2010-12-14 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: On 12/14/2010 12:38 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 1:16 AM, Paul Johnson baloo-PVOPTusIyP/sroww+9z...@public.gmane.org wrote: On 12/13/2010 11:07 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: And US 169:

Re: [Talk-us] NE2: Changeset 6612910: What is?

2010-12-14 Thread Jeff Harris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 All, It seems to me that there is at least one person here who had decided that his sole purpose is to stir shit up. Reference the recent Tagging bicycle anti-routes discussion and this thread. Let's all just pick some random area, find a website

Re: [Talk-us] NE2: Changeset 6612910: What is?

2010-12-14 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: On 12/14/2010 08:47 AM, Anthony wrote: On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Paul Johnson baloo-PVOPTusIyP/sroww+9z...@public.gmane.org wrote: Besides that, when do you plan on citing a source that isn't copyrighted when

Re: [Talk-us] US-Mexico border precision

2010-12-14 Thread Nathan Edgars II
Since nobody's suggested anything better, I'm going to import the Texas-Mexico border from TIGER. It's not necessarily perfect (judging by other TIGER boundaries, though I couldn't find any obvious issues here), but at least it doesn't put part of Matamoros in the US. On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 2:44

Re: [Talk-us] US-Mexico border precision

2010-12-14 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 8:39 PM, Adam Schreiber adam.schrei...@gmail.com wrote: If I'm in the history of the border, I originally uploaded the border from TIGER. I can't tell definitely who originally uploaded it due to merging of ways, but it appears to have been created here:

Re: [Talk-us] US-Mexico border precision

2010-12-14 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 8:53 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: Can you please follow the import guidelines? Which TIGER data are you planning on using? http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/geo/shapefiles2010/main How will you deal with cases where people have used aerial imagery to follow the

Re: [Talk-us] NE2: Changeset 6612910: What is?

2010-12-14 Thread Paul Johnson
On 12/14/2010 05:38 PM, Jeff Harris wrote: As far as Creek Turnpike and US 169, pics or it doesn't exist. Certainly, but given that stopping is prohibited and there is a minimum speed limit, how do you propose these be taken? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [Talk-us] NE2: Changeset 6612910: What is?

2010-12-14 Thread Bill Ricker
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 11:46 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: As far as Creek Turnpike and US 169, pics or it doesn't exist. Certainly, but given that stopping is prohibited and there is a minimum speed limit, how do you propose these be taken? Dash mounted hands free video

Re: [Talk-us] NE2: Changeset 6612910: What is?

2010-12-14 Thread Paul Johnson
On 12/14/2010 05:44 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: Thanks for joining in without any knowledge of the area or situation. Same could be said of you; when was the last time you were in Tulsa? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___

Re: [Talk-us] NE2: Changeset 6612910: What is?

2010-12-14 Thread Paul Johnson
On 12/14/2010 10:53 PM, Bill Ricker wrote: On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 11:46 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org mailto:ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: As far as Creek Turnpike and US 169, pics or it doesn't exist. Certainly, but given that stopping is prohibited and there is a

Re: [Talk-us] NE2: Changeset 6612910: What is?

2010-12-14 Thread Paul Johnson
On 12/14/2010 10:59 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: On 12/14/2010 10:53 PM, Bill Ricker wrote: On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 11:46 PM, Paul Johnson baloo-PVOPTusIyP/sroww+9z...@public.gmane.org mailto:ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: As far as Creek Turnpike and US 169, pics or it doesn't exist.

Re: [Talk-us] NE2: Changeset 6612910: What is?

2010-12-14 Thread Paul Johnson
Another thing I should mention, proof of surveying for the sign can be found at http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Paul%20Johnson/traces/884510. As soon as I find a suitable dash cam or volunteer to ride shotgun, I'll get video. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [Talk-us] NE2: Changeset 6612910: What is?

2010-12-14 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 12:45 AM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: I just drove it (since there's no traffic right now and it's in my neighborhood). The END 169 sign is approximately 790m east of Memorial Drive, so it's after the interchange, but before you reach Memorial Drive,

Re: [Talk-us] NE2: Changeset 6612910: What is?

2010-12-14 Thread Nathan Edgars II
By the way you should probably remove the toll=yes and fee=$3.50 tags from this portion of road (in both directions). I'd do it but... ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] NE2: Changeset 6612910: What is?

2010-12-14 Thread Paul Johnson
On 12/14/2010 11:56 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: Based on your addition of the sign (thanks for adding it) it's only 500 feet (150 m) from the exit ramp, which is where OSM currently has US 169 ending (and where the relation has had it ending since well before this little brouhaha). This is

Re: [Talk-us] NE2: Changeset 6612910: What is?

2010-12-14 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 1:31 AM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: Thanks for citing government data on this one, though. A couple suggestions I would make would be to use much smaller changesets and more relevant changeset comments, so people who are mapping on the ground can follow

[Talk-us] Fwd: SF Gov GIS data clickthrough license - compatible with OpenStreetMap?

2010-12-14 Thread SteveC
Steve Begin forwarded message: From: Michal Migurski m...@stamen.com Date: December 14, 2010 11:14:19 PM PST To: SteveC st...@asklater.com Subject: Re: SF Gov GIS data clickthrough license - compatible with OpenStreetMap? I told him I'd pass the word along, there's nothing in there