Re: [Talk-us] Question about incorrect data for an administrative area

2013-10-14 Thread Phil! Gold
* Jay Boyer bo...@snhdmail.org [2013-10-10 13:34 -0700]: Enterprise is an unincorporated town. But Enterprise is actually part of Las Vegas and all of the addresses within Enterprise are Las Vegas addresses. Enterprise is this area: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/170132

Re: [Talk-us] Question about incorrect data for an administrative area

2013-10-14 Thread Richard Welty
On 10/14/13 9:57 AM, Phil! Gold wrote: * Jay Boyer bo...@snhdmail.org [2013-10-10 13:34 -0700]: Enterprise is an unincorporated town. But Enterprise is actually part of Las Vegas and all of the addresses within Enterprise are Las Vegas addresses. Enterprise is this area:

Re: [Talk-us] Question about incorrect data for an administrative area

2013-10-14 Thread Toby Murray
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 9:07 AM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.netwrote: also, i would be remiss if i didn't point out that post office delivery addressing is only vaguely related to the actual administrative boundaries; the addressing situation for Enterprise is hardly unique, in fact

[Talk-us] OSM US Chapter election status

2013-10-14 Thread Richard Welty
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Re: [Talk-us] Question about incorrect data for an administrative area

2013-10-14 Thread Jay Boyer
I have been looking at the OSM data for Las Vegas and there are some serious problems for it. The OSM boundary for Las Vegas encompasses about half of the city. Certain areas of Las Vegas, including Paradise, Enterprise, Spring Valley and probably others are not within the city boundaries

[Talk-us] Complex intersection mapping

2013-10-14 Thread Martijn van Exel
Hi all, Here at Telenav we have been looking at complex intersections and we have set about editing some of these intersections in a way we feel represents the situation on the ground better than their original state, and because of that, works better for us. We have received some feedback on our

Re: [Talk-us] Complex intersection mapping

2013-10-14 Thread Ian Dees
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Martijn van Exel marti...@telenav.comwrote: Hi all, Here at Telenav we have been looking at complex intersections and we have set about editing some of these intersections in a way we feel represents the situation on the ground better than their original

Re: [Talk-us] Question about incorrect data for an administrative area

2013-10-14 Thread Brad Neuhauser
Jay, I don't think the data is incorrect. If you look at the City of Las Vegas webmap ( http://clvplaces.appspot.com/apps/interactive/clvpi.htm#ctrLat=36.27433191227921ctrLng=-115.18729447119142zoom=11layers=|10435|10010userMarkers=0mapType=roadmap) and turn on the Cities and City Limits layers,

Re: [Talk-us] Complex intersection mapping

2013-10-14 Thread Richard Welty
On 10/14/13 1:52 PM, Ian Dees wrote: On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Martijn van Exel marti...@telenav.com mailto:marti...@telenav.com wrote: Hi all, Here at Telenav we have been looking at complex intersections and we have set about editing some of these intersections in a

Re: [Talk-us] Question about incorrect data for an administrative area

2013-10-14 Thread Richard Welty
On 10/14/13 1:13 PM, Jay Boyer wrote: I have been looking at the OSM data for Las Vegas and there are some serious problems for it. The OSM boundary for Las Vegas encompasses about half of the city. Certain areas of Las Vegas, including Paradise, Enterprise, Spring Valley and probably

Re: [Talk-us] Complex intersection mapping

2013-10-14 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2013/10/14 Martijn van Exel marti...@telenav.com So what are we talking about? Intersections like this one, where one or more dual carriageways come together at an at-grade intersection:

Re: [Talk-us] Complex intersection mapping

2013-10-14 Thread stevea
So what are we talking about? Intersections like this one, where one or more dual carriageways come together at an at-grade intersection: https://www.evernote.com/shard/s9/sh/6438c196-bb92-4f66-81dc-9b75186286ba/0e8f07ff527c6a85c0dec426b9b79f1e One of my colleagues at Telenav has remapped this

Re: [Talk-us] Complex intersection mapping

2013-10-14 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2013/10/14 stevea stevea...@softworkers.com Hi Martijn: one thing wrong I do see at this particular intersection are extraneous nodes with highway=crossing tags: two extra ones on the (northerly) east-west ped-path and one extra one each of the (westerly and easterly) north-south ped-paths.

Re: [Talk-us] Complex intersection mapping

2013-10-14 Thread Saikrishna Arcot
To expand on the point of having both methods used, starting with the multiple intersection points method, what if all four intersection points were under a relation of a group of intersections, and the number of lanes on each way was marked? That way, routing algorithms could convert from the

Re: [Talk-us] Complex intersection mapping

2013-10-14 Thread Tod Fitch
The latter (after) version matches the traffic signal wiki http://wiki.openstreetmaps.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dtraffic_signals#Tag_all_incoming_ways It makes sense to me and is the way I prefer. Tod -- Sent from my mobile device. Please excuse my brevity. Martijn van Exel marti...@telenav.com

Re: [Talk-us] Complex intersection mapping

2013-10-14 Thread Stellan Lagerström
I prefer, and always use, the after pattern. /Stellan On 2013-10-14 7:42 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: Hi all, Here at Telenav we have been looking at complex intersections and we have set about editing some of these intersections in a way we feel represents the situation on the ground better

Re: [Talk-us] Complex intersection mapping

2013-10-14 Thread Evin Fairchild
I too prefer the after pattern since it is easier to do, especially when you are making a road be dual-carriageway by using the parallel way feature in Potlatch 2. Also, it matches the way it is on the ground better. Since there seems to be unanimous agreement to map intersections this way, then

Re: [Talk-us] Complex intersection mapping

2013-10-14 Thread John F. Eldredge
Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote: On 10/14/13 1:52 PM, Ian Dees wrote: On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Martijn van Exel marti...@telenav.com mailto:marti...@telenav.com wrote: Hi all, Here at Telenav we have been looking at complex intersections and we