Re: [Talk-us] Anyone ever talked about adding more Land Ownership data to OSM?

2013-01-08 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Toby Murray wrote: I think it would be great to make more tools support more external data sets as opposed to dumping *everything* into OSM. Yep. Absolutely. To my mind this is one of the really nice things about TileMill. I'm currently playing with it to render (UK) maps that combine OSM and

Re: [Talk-us] Anyone ever talked about adding more Land Ownership data to OSM?

2013-01-08 Thread Serge Wroclawski
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 12:40 AM, Jeff Meyer j...@gwhat.org wrote: For example, requiring that any data imported into OSM have a lifetime maintenance plan seems like something that we don't require of *any* OSM data entry. I don't think that we've discussed a lifetime mainteince plan anywhere,

Re: [Talk-us] Anyone ever talked about adding more Land Ownership data to OSM?

2013-01-08 Thread Serge Wroclawski
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 1:43 AM, Michael Patrick geodes...@gmail.com wrote: So there too, is a potential win for OSM. We could rely on current, highly accurate public domain boundry data and use that for rendering, geolocation and other places, while keeping it out of the OSM dataset. Please

Re: [Talk-us] Anyone ever talked about adding more Land Ownership data to OSM?

2013-01-08 Thread derrick nehrenberg
Hi All, Thanks for everyones thoughts. It seems like the majority consensus is that the US Land Ownership (or management data) doesn't belong in the OSM database. So, I guess I won't be adding it. I will say that US Forest Service Managed Land is already widely included in OSM data, but people

[Talk-us] Bus Route Mapping in Baltimore

2013-01-08 Thread Elliott Plack
Just an FYI/general info announcement. I'm working with fellow mapper MDroads http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/mdroads (and any other OSM editors of course) to map bus routes of Maryland Transit Administration bus lines throughout the Baltimore region of Maryland. I'm doing my best to adhere

Re: [Talk-us] Anyone ever talked about adding more Land Ownership data to OSM?

2013-01-08 Thread Apollinaris Schöll
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 11:08 PM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote: I think it would be great to make more tools support more external data sets as opposed to dumping *everything* into OSM. You want county borders on your garmin? Check a box while creating the file and mkgmap

Re: [Talk-us] Anyone ever talked about adding more Land Ownership data to OSM?

2013-01-08 Thread Greg Troxel
Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com writes: I think it would be great to make more tools support more external data sets as opposed to dumping *everything* into OSM. You want county borders on your garmin? Check a box while creating the file and mkgmap downloads the most recent county borders

Re: [Talk-us] Anyone ever talked about adding more Land Ownership data to OSM?

2013-01-08 Thread Kevin Kenny
On 01/08/2013 12:17 PM, derrick nehrenberg wrote: It seems like the majority consensus is that the US Land Ownership (or management data) doesn't belong in the OSM database. So, I guess I won't be adding it. [... argument for why the USFS Managed Land cadastre belongs ...] If anyone has any

[Talk-us] Map Roulette

2013-01-08 Thread Clifford Snow
There are less than 200 connectivity issues to go. Who will get the final one? Clifford ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

[Talk-us] Import Committee Mailing List

2013-01-08 Thread Serge Wroclawski
Hi folks, We finally have the new mailing list set up for the import committee as discussed in December. Initially I'd like to ask for folks to join who are interested in participating as committee members. Committee members will be the folks working with potential importers and will be

Re: [Talk-us] Bus Route Mapping in Baltimore

2013-01-08 Thread Mike N
On 1/8/2013 4:18 PM, Elliott Plack wrote: Just an FYI/general info announcement. I'm working with fellow mapper MDroadshttp://www.openstreetmap.org/user/mdroads(and any other OSM editors of course) to map bus routes of Maryland Transit Administration bus lines throughout the Baltimore region

[Talk-us] Fwd: Anyone ever talked about adding more Land Ownership data to OSM?

2013-01-08 Thread Anthony
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 11:19 PM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: That doesn't mean it can't be used alongside it. This land ownership data (assuming it's licensed properly) can be rendered on the same map as OSM data (there are many examples of using TileMill to mix data sources in