Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: [OSM-dev] Licence redaction ready to begin

2012-07-11 Thread Mike N
On 7/10/2012 5:43 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: Oh, and South Carolina. Not going to touch that. Don't Tread on Us - LOL. The state capital region of Columbia, South Carolina will be a prime test of the Do empty areas attract contributors? theory for some time to come.

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: [OSM-dev] Licence redaction ready to begin

2012-07-11 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 07/11/12 13:59, Mike N wrote: The state capital region of Columbia, South Carolina will be a prime test of the Do empty areas attract contributors? theory for some time to come. Why, is someone planning to remove the TIGER import in that area? Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ##

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: [OSM-dev] Licence redaction ready to begin

2012-07-11 Thread Mike N
On 7/11/2012 8:38 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, On 07/11/12 13:59, Mike N wrote: The state capital region of Columbia, South Carolina will be a prime test of the Do empty areas attract contributors? theory for some time to come. Why, is someone planning to remove the TIGER import in that

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: [OSM-dev] Licence redaction ready to begin

2012-07-11 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 7/11/2012 8:38 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, On 07/11/12 13:59, Mike N wrote: The state capital region of Columbia, South Carolina will be a prime test of the Do empty areas attract contributors? theory for some time to come. Why, is someone planning to remove the TIGER import in that

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: [OSM-dev] Licence redaction ready to begin

2012-07-11 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 07/11/12 15:20, Nathan Edgars II wrote: The state capital region of Columbia, South Carolina will be a prime test of the Do empty areas attract contributors? theory for some time to come. Why, is someone planning to remove the TIGER import in that area? Yes, wherever those TIGER

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: [OSM-dev] Licence redaction ready to begin

2012-07-11 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 7/11/2012 9:31 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, On 07/11/12 15:20, Nathan Edgars II wrote: The state capital region of Columbia, South Carolina will be a prime test of the Do empty areas attract contributors? theory for some time to come. Why, is someone planning to remove the TIGER import

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: [OSM-dev] Licence redaction ready to begin

2012-07-11 Thread Kevin Kenny
On 07/11/2012 09:31 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: Obviously my comment was a bit tongue-in-cheek; I am personally convinced that the unedited TIGER landscape - i.e. a map of which virtually nothing is correct and once you start to work somewhere you have to touch almost every single object if you

[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] Fwd: [OSM-dev] Licence redaction ready to begin

2012-07-11 Thread Frederik Ramm
Kevin, On 07/11/12 16:20, Kevin Kenny wrote: The data checks in JOSM and Potlatch2 are fine in that they all indeed highlight potential problems. As RichardF has pointed out, Potlatch2 sorely lacks any kind of data check. With the exception of unconnected road ends flashing aggressively.

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: [OSM-dev] Licence redaction ready to begin

2012-07-11 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Kevin Kenny kken...@nycap.rr.com wrote: The culture of OSM seems to be veering from bad data happens, and when it does, other mappers fix it, to we have to protect the map from the mappers. Not from mappers, from disruptive bots.

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: [OSM-dev] Licence redaction ready to begin

2012-07-11 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 11.07.2012 17:44, Frederik Ramm wrote: As RichardF has pointed out, Potlatch2 sorely lacks any kind of data check. With the exception of unconnected road ends flashing aggressively. I have been informed that I have no clue, and P2 never did that. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ##

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: [OSM-dev] Licence redaction ready to begin

2012-07-11 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: I have been informed that I have no clue Actually the phrase I used was that Frederik clearly knows as much about Potlatch as I do about JOSM. (But I suspect more.) cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: [OSM-dev] Licence redaction ready to begin

2012-07-11 Thread Evin Fairchild
The newer TIGER 2011 data is a BIG improvement over the original TIGER data that was put in the US. When the roads for Columbia, SC are deleted by the license bot, someone could go in and upload the TIGER 2011 data for Columbia. Of course, things like footways and parks may be deleted as well,

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

2012-07-11 Thread Evin Fairchild
If people don't want to do the TIGER fixup all over again, they could import the TIGER 2011 data which is of MUCH better quality than the TIGER data that was originally imported into OSM (though not quite perfect). In fact, I sometimes use the TIGER data overlay to get the names of roads that