[Talk-us] Better Than OSM was Your opinion about SOTM US

2015-04-05 Thread Greg Morgan
Alex, I really like this Better Than OSM map. The very accidental name has that Missouri state Show me impact. Show me where the newer TIGER is better than OSM and I'll show you where OSM is still better than TIGER. The accidental genus of the map comes in the last example. With these ideas in

Re: [Talk-us] CloudMade's ambassadors

2015-04-05 Thread Kate Chapman
Thanks for posting this. The first OSM person I ever met was Russ Nelson when he was a CloudMade ambassador. It was at a mapping party in Baltimore, that really is what sparked further involvement in OSM for me. Prior to that I did a bit of mapping in my neighborhood. Thanks Russ! -Kate On Sun,

Re: [Talk-us] North Carolina Outer Banks

2015-04-05 Thread Eric Christensen
On Saturday, April 04, 2015 09:08:50 PM Richard Welty wrote: On 4/4/15 7:48 PM, Clifford Snow wrote: On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 1:49 PM, Jeff Klein jeff.klein...@gmail.com mailto:jeff.klein...@gmail.com wrote: If I am correct, probably confused, the map sets only go as far east as

Re: [Talk-us] perceptions of OHM and other similar projects

2015-04-05 Thread Russ Nelson
Mike Dupont writes: On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 11:08 PM, Russ Nelson nel...@crynwr.com wrote: If the two were layers in the same database, or if they have been tagged using railway=dismantled and railway=abandoned, then it's no problem to look at them, render them, edit them, analyze

Re: [Talk-us] Facts about the world

2015-04-05 Thread Russ Nelson
Minh Nguyen writes: On 2015-04-03 22:25, Russ Nelson wrote: Greg Morgan writes: * In my case, TIGER isn't all the that bad. In some NY counties, TIGER is very good. In other places it is like Stevie Wonder was in charge of quality control. What I've heard is that the maps

Re: [Talk-us] perceptions of OHM and other similar projects

2015-04-05 Thread Mike Dupont
There would be only one database. the layer would just be a filter that would not display the railways. if a railway is glued to a node which is moved in another layer, we would have to duplicate it, so no data can be accidentally changed if not visible. On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 1:05 PM, Russ

Re: [Talk-us] North Carolina Outer Banks

2015-04-05 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 4:49 PM, Jeff Klein jeff.klein...@gmail.com wrote: If I am correct, probably confused, the map sets only go as far east as -76 West, which excludes the Outer Banks of North Carolina. How do I get maps that go further east? Dear Jeff, Are you asking about the garmin

Re: [Talk-us] Moving historic railroad ways from OSM to OpenHistoricalMap

2015-04-05 Thread Russ Nelson
Serge Wroclawski writes: Propertly boundaries is something that people have wanted, and we've resisted putting in OSM, despite it being useful for a variety of people. For much more practical reasons, mostly that they would blow up the database and introduce a huge number of ways that every