Re: [Talk-us] Should driveways be on OSM?

2015-09-30 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 10:34 AM, Greg Morgan wrote: > Who are these data consumers that you speak of? If they are > freeloaders, I could careless about them. One of shifts that I have > noticed over the years is that we appear to no longer care about what > mappers do

Re: [Talk-us] Should driveways be on OSM?

2015-09-30 Thread Bryce Nesbitt
On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 10:33 PM, Tom Bloom wrote: > I've been deleting them if wildly wrong, and would like to delete all I > encounter. Any ideas? > When an area of tiger data has dozens of such driveways, which bear basically random correspondence with air photos,

Re: [Talk-us] what happened to Sacramento?

2015-09-30 Thread Richard Welty
On 9/30/15 12:47 PM, Ray Kiddy wrote: > Wow. I have not gotten to the point, in my mapping adventures, where I > have had to look at changesets like this. A new thing to learn. > > Thanks for the reverts. I will get to fixing the rest of that soon. > > you may want to look to newer TIGER boundary

Re: [Talk-us] Should driveways be on OSM?

2015-09-30 Thread stevea
On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 8:38 AM, Shawn K. Quinn <skqu...@rushpost.com> wrote: In urban areas, it makes no sense to try to map residential driveways It sounds cliché, but you ought to believe it: I go to parties like that. When I check my GPS, I like to see

Re: [Talk-us] Find missing roads

2015-09-30 Thread Mike N
On 9/30/2015 2:40 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: I do find two things remarkable about this plugin's output: 1. It seems to have picked out an incomplete set based on the paths relative to imagery. 2. I have no way of being able to survey the exact location of the GPS output from the plugin

Re: [Talk-us] Find missing roads

2015-09-30 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 2:37 PM, Mike N wrote: > On 9/30/2015 2:40 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: > >> I do find two things remarkable about this plugin's >> output: >> >> 1. It seems to have picked out an incomplete set based on the paths >> relative to imagery. >> 2. I have no

Re: [Talk-us] Cycle_greenway

2015-09-30 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 2:34 PM, Harald Kliems wrote: > I would map greenways/bike boulevards as lcn=yes or, if they have a name, > maybe as a lcn route relation. Other than that, I think it's more important > to map physical characteristics such as stop signs, bike-specific >

Re: [Talk-us] Self Storage Places

2015-09-30 Thread Jack Burke
I use commercial. To me, retail implies that you can take home a product (even if it's food in your stomach). Commercial means you are buying a service. -jack On October 1, 2015 1:35:14 AM EDT, Clifford Snow wrote: >On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 9:53 PM, Hans De Kryger

Re: [Talk-us] Self Storage Places

2015-09-30 Thread Clifford Snow
On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 9:53 PM, Hans De Kryger wrote: > What landuse should i use for Self Storage places? I'd most likely use retail but commercial depending on the location,might also be appropriate. -- @osm_seattle osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us OpenStreetMap:

Re: [Talk-us] Find missing roads

2015-09-30 Thread Jack Burke
Clearly, your sample contained nuts. On September 30, 2015 2:40:37 PM EDT, Paul Johnson wrote: >On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 10:11 AM, Martijn van Exel wrote: >> >> Our OSM team cooked up something new. A missing roads plugin for >JOSM. I >> think it's pretty

[Talk-us] Find missing roads

2015-09-30 Thread Martijn van Exel
Hi all, Our OSM team cooked up something new. A missing roads plugin for JOSM. I think it's pretty nice but I would really like to hear what you think. You can read some more about it on my diary (http://bit.ly/missingroads) but it's basically what it says on the tin. The plugin will show where

Re: [Talk-us] Should driveways be on OSM?

2015-09-30 Thread Greg Morgan
On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 8:48 AM, Toby Murray wrote: > I run into this as well. If I don't see anything close to the way on > imagery I definitely have very little problem deleting them. > > I also question the access=private tagging although not because of the > rendering.

Re: [Talk-us] what happened to Sacramento?

2015-09-30 Thread Ray Kiddy
On Tue, 29 Sep 2015 22:12:52 + (UTC) Minh Nguyen wrote: > Jack Burke writes: > > > > > You're not crazy. Just using the regular OSM website interface, I > > can find > the city node, and the county boundary, but not a city boundary. > AFAICT, it