Re: [Talk-us] A new tracing layer for TIGER 2013

2013-12-10 Thread Eric Fischer
Thanks for the feedback about colors in JOSM. I can clearly see now that what made for good contrast in iD is hard to use in JOSM. I'll try some new styles today and make sure they stand out in both editors. I think maybe the answer is to put a casing around the line so that it has a different

Re: [Talk-us] South Carolina State Highways - primary overload

2013-12-10 Thread Tim Huemmer
I found this to be very annoying. I did a lot of work on the SC Highways some time back. I noticed that in a few counties most of the state highways were marked as primary. I reverted most of them back to secondary except for the ones that were truly trunk routes. Its frustrating to see work

Re: [Talk-us] a reminder for armchair mappers

2013-12-10 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote: if you see a discrepancy between aerial imagery and OSM, before you go adding/changing stuff, check on the history of the stuff that's there and see if another mapper has worked on things recently (for some value of

Re: [Talk-us] South Carolina State Highways - primary overload

2013-12-10 Thread James Mast
Tim, I sent the user a message inside of OSM that did all of this changing of the state highways in SC to primary/trunk and haven't gotten a response back yet in over 24h. I'll be contacting the DWG later tonight (giving the guy another ~5 hours to respond before I e-mail the DWG) about this

Re: [Talk-us] South Carolina State Highways - primary overload

2013-12-10 Thread Martijn van Exel
James, I think discussion can only be useful if and when we have a common understanding of what 'trunk', 'primary', 'secondary' etc. mean to us. I don't think we're anywhere close to that, looking at the various and partly mutually contradictory wiki pages on the topic:

Re: [Talk-us] Separate relations for each direction of US State highways.

2013-12-10 Thread Martijn van Exel
Hmm yes, on second thought, a second key on role members may not be so straightforward ;) How silly of me to suggest such a thing. Let's keep things pragmatic then and let me suggest we go with role=north:unsigned for unsigned sections. I don't particularly like the ; because it suggests a list

Re: [Talk-us] South Carolina State Highways - primary overload

2013-12-10 Thread Evin Fairchild
I think the reason why things like this happen is because the highway tagging scheme in OSM was modeled off of UK's road-classification system and really isn't compatible with the road-classification system in the US. When I was new here three years ago, I found it kind of odd that there wasn't a