I like the fact that they took some artistic license and used "stylized", or "iconified" shields, rather than trying to do a perfect pixel-per-pixel resize of the prototype shields. The latter method does not necessarily produce good on-screen results.(Which is to be expected, given that the
Hi Paul
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote:
A couple of initial comments:
** **
Has some kind of simplify been run on the data? Although most of the
buildings are quite good some of the curved ones are overnoded (e.g.
From: Toby Murray [mailto:toby.mur...@gmail.com]
Subject: Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] MassGIS Building Import Start
I'm not sure if this page is actually linked to from anywhere but all
account blocks and the reasons they were put in place are viewable by
everybody on this page:
Hi,
On second thought, we will ask everybody that wants to help to use their
own import account. Besides the simplifications, and the re-projection
verification does anybody have any other issues?
Thanks
Jason.
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Jason Remillard remillard.ja...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 9:24 PM, Eric H. Christensen
e...@christensenplace.us wrote:
I just moved to the Deale, Maryland area and am working on cleaning up the
Tiger data and mapping as many POI as I can. I found that the shoreline
here, though, is very rough. Along the Chesapeake Bay the
Hello All,
Anyone on the US list happen to know how often the shoreline shapefile used
to render openstreemap tiles is updated ?
Thanks in advance
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585-OLD-TOPOS (585-653-8676)
OSM ID:oldtopos
OSM Heat Map: http://yosmhm.neis-one.org/?oldtopos
OSM Edit
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Phil! Gold phi...@pobox.com wrote:
I use tilestache to go between
JOSM's tile underlays and the ArcGIS REST interface).
Do you have a pointer to any docs of how to do this?
--
Jeff Meyer
Global World History Atlas
www.gwhat.org
j...@gwhat.org
206-676-2347
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Jeff Meyer j...@gwhat.org wrote:
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Phil! Gold phi...@pobox.com wrote:
I use tilestache to go between
JOSM's tile underlays and the ArcGIS REST interface).
Do you have a pointer to any docs of how to do this?
If you spot
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 12:05 PM, the Old Topo Depot
oldto...@novacell.com wrote:
Hello All,
Anyone on the US list happen to know how often the shoreline shapefile used
to render openstreemap tiles is updated ?
Whenever one of the admins gets around to updating it. You can see how
old the
Hi,
I would like to continue the discussion on the simplification of the
MassGIS buildings in a new thread.
In my town, there are 5427 buildings. 43,628 nodes, or 8 nodes per
structure. I did a 0.25 meter simplify on the entire town, and the node
count went down to 41,809. We are looking at an
Does anyone have a good definition of overnoding for the purposes of OSM?
Is it just whatever the algorithms for simplify line simplify way say is
good with default parameters say?
Thanks, Jeff
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 5:12 PM, Jason Remillard
remillard.ja...@gmail.comwrote:
Hi,
I would
Hi,
I would like to start a new thread to talk about merging building data.
My town Groton has mostly hand drawn buildings from bing. Like was
suggested previously, dumping them all and replacing them with the MassGIS
buildings would be a definite improvement of the map quality. My suggestion
is
I have few meta comments and then actual comments.
Meta:
In this case, the discussion has been entirely reasonable. But, in
general, I feel there's an unwarranted hostility to imports. I think
this comes from fear (often justified) that people who don't care about
following community norms
Hi,
I would like start a new thread, to talk about the user account situation
for the import, but no policy discussion please!
Given that this is a distributed/community import, we will simply ask each
user to make their own import account and use it. For example, I will make
an new account
Jason Remillard remillard.ja...@gmail.com writes:
Hi,
I would like to start a new thread to talk about merging building data.
My town Groton has mostly hand drawn buildings from bing. Like was
suggested previously, dumping them all and replacing them with the MassGIS
buildings would be a
Jason Remillard remillard.ja...@gmail.com writes:
I would like start a new thread, to talk about the user account situation
for the import, but no policy discussion please!
Given that this is a distributed/community import, we will simply ask each
user to make their own import account and
Hi,
On 14 December 2012 02:12, Jason Remillard remillard.ja...@gmail.com wrote:
In my town, there are 5427 buildings. 43,628 nodes, or 8 nodes per
structure. I did a 0.25 meter simplify on the entire town, and the node
count went down to 41,809. We are looking at an excess of 5%. 0.25 meter
I've added a link to this list from the Data Working Group's wiki page:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Data_working_group#User_Blocks
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote:
From: Toby Murray [mailto:toby.mur...@gmail.com]
Subject: Re: [Talk-us] [Imports]
Hi,
The ST_SimplifyPreserveTopology worked great! I will upload new data
tomorrow.
Thanks
Jason.
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 9:18 PM, andrzej zaborowski balr...@gmail.comwrote:
Hi,
On 14 December 2012 02:12, Jason Remillard remillard.ja...@gmail.com
wrote:
In my town, there are 5427
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 02:23:52PM -0500, Phil! Gold wrote:
* Eric H. Christensen e...@christensenplace.us [2012-12-11 21:24 -0500]:
Is there a good way to make the PGS-sourced data match the Tiger data in
certain areas to improve the accuracy?
If you use JOSM, the ContourMerge plugin is
Hi,
I update the wiki
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/MassGIS_Buildings_Import
It includes all of the emails from tonight.
- The import account will be restricted to directly uploading the data. Any
post fixes should be done with the normal account.
- There will be a new upload tomorrow
I noticed recently that all of the facebook tags that I had been adding to
local businesses, have been changed to link:facebook by user
Shmiashttp://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Shmias.
The facebook tag is something that I was using often in addition to, but
sometimes in place of, the website tag.
Hi all,
The (for now informal) Welcome Working Group met earlier today /
yesterday on #osm-strategic. It was fun and useful. The purpose of
this group is to retain more mappers after they sign up by providing a
better welcome experience. We are not looking at the user experience
of the editors,
This has a foul smell and should be reported to the Data Working Group
if you ask me.
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 9:54 PM, Peter Dobratz pe...@dobratz.us wrote:
I noticed recently that all of the facebook tags that I had been adding to
local businesses, have been changed to link:facebook by user
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