[Talk-us] Adopt-a-highway representation in OSM

2013-01-12 Thread dies38061
(this is a follow-up post to my original at http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2013-January/010086.html and the responses thereto) Thanks for the input on this topic earlier this month. I'm in agreement with those who feel that the information is too volatile and potentially out

Re: [Talk-us] Adopt-a-highway representation in OSM

2013-01-12 Thread Richard Welty
this should also go to the tagging list. On 1/12/13 9:08 AM, dies38...@mypacks.net wrote: (this is a follow-up post to my original at http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2013-January/010086.html and the responses thereto) Thanks for the input on this topic earlier this month.

[Talk-us] matching external data to OSM

2013-01-12 Thread Jason Remillard
Hi, I'm not sure if this has been discussed or not, if yes, a pointer to the old thread would be much appreciated! People working on imports, QA tools, and others come across the problem of comparing data in OSM to external data sources. So far, I have seen proposals that look like git and use

[Talk-us] Mappy Hour next Monday

2013-01-12 Thread Martijn van Exel
Hi all, We're continuing the great tradition of Mappy hours into 2013 starting this Monday at 6PM pacific / 9 eastern. Here's the Google+ link where we'll post the hangout info shortly before we start. Hope to see some of you there! https://plus.google.com/events/c5b0qntr3bt54461ev1g1tabee0

Re: [Talk-us] matching external data to OSM

2013-01-12 Thread Josh Doe
On Saturday, January 12, 2013, Jason Remillard wrote: There is another approach. We instead should focus on using weighted matching algorithms. [...] Has this been tried by anybody? Is there any code available? This is exactly what I was doing with the conflation plugin for JOSM.