[Talk-us] Merging NYC buildings

2014-09-19 Thread Reilly, Colin
I've also see buildings merged that may appear to be one building from above but are in fact two. A single building cannot straddle two tax parcels. In general, visual information in NYC is sometimes not enough to warrant a change. Example below of a building with two separate address points

Re: [Talk-us] Merging NYC buildings

2014-09-19 Thread Katie Filbert
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Reilly, Colin crei...@doitt.nyc.gov wrote: I’ve also see buildings merged that may appear to be one building from above but are in fact two. Do you have better imagery that we would be able to use? I think that would help in this case. Cheers, Katie A

Re: [Talk-us] Merging NYC buildings

2014-09-19 Thread Paul Norman
On 9/19/2014 7:00 AM, Bryan Housel wrote: We really should come up with a good way to make authoritative data harder to edit in the various editors. All that a particular data source can be authoritative for is what that data source says something is. What is authoritative for OSM is the

Re: [Talk-us] Merging NYC buildings

2014-09-19 Thread Paul Norman
On 9/19/2014 6:19 AM, Reilly, Colin wrote: A single building cannot straddle two tax parcels. This seems incorrect. If I build a structure on two tax parcels, it can exist as a single building. It may not be legal, or may require planning tricks that make it two buildings in the eyes of the

Re: [Talk-us] Talk-us Digest, Vol 82, Issue 31

2014-09-19 Thread Reilly, Colin
://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/attachments/20140919/b0025bdb/attachment-0001.html -- Message: 2 Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 09:06:31 -0700 From: Paul Norman penor...@mac.com To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Merging NYC buildings Message-ID: 541c5487.7000

Re: [Talk-us] Merging NYC buildings

2014-09-19 Thread Brad Neuhauser
The thing is, once it's in OSM, it's not NYC's data anymore--it's everyone's data. So it's no longer authoritative. Sometimes the crowd will improve it or add to it, sometimes the crowd will screw it up, sometimes the crowd will do it differently than you think is best. The theory (borne out in

Re: [Talk-us] Merging NYC buildings

2014-09-19 Thread Jason Remillard
Hi, the building to the east. In this case it was the tax parcel and multiple address that indicate two buildings not one. We have a the MA state tax parcel data as a translucent imaging layer hosted on the US OSM. It can be used in JOSM, and it useful for all kinds of things. Perhaps, the

[Talk-us] Speed limit sign tagging

2014-09-19 Thread Hans De Kryger
How does the mapping community feel about tagging the location of speed limit signs? I remember another mapper brought up this topic somewhere outside the mailing list. The mapper explained that he mapped the location of speed limit signs for future reference to verify the speed limits of roads. I

Re: [Talk-us] Speed limit sign tagging

2014-09-19 Thread Nate Wessel
Hans, I think sign locations would be great! I just entered a ton of speed limits a couple months back and wish I'd had thought to add them somehow... The only concern I would have is that the direction they're facing be indicated. On long roads with few intersections, placing them by one side

Re: [Talk-us] Speed limit sign tagging

2014-09-19 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 8:13 PM, Nate Wessel bike...@gmail.com wrote: I would not want to see signs placed as a point on the line except maybe on one-ways. How do other types of road signs indicate directionality? Has this already been effectively resolved? I don't actually think I've ever