Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Redacting 75, 000 street names contributed by user chdr

2017-10-12 Thread Kevin Kenny
On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 3:17 PM, Kevin Kenny wrote: > With that in hand, I can probably finish up New Jersey this week. Noo Joisey is done. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-us] Texas - redacted roads.

2017-10-12 Thread Paul Norman
On 10/12/2017 6:54 PM, Nick Hocking wrote: Should we (in OSM) put what the user will probably search for, the correect (hypothetically) Redwil or should we put the "ground truth" (REED WILL) which is what the user will see if he acually ever makes it to that location. Although this has

Re: [Talk-us] Texas - redacted roads.

2017-10-12 Thread Nick Hocking
AAAH - all my questions are answered. The City of Austin's use of google base map has "fooled" me into thinking that the map data was theirs rather than googles. If I click on the "blue line" then I see the actual City of Austin data and indeed it is "REED WILL DRIVE". Damm - So I have actually

Re: [Talk-us] Texas - redacted roads.

2017-10-12 Thread Nick Hocking
Clifford wrote "Looking at the data from Austin, the road should be name Reed Will Drive." Hi Clifford. Which site did you find the authoritive data for Austin from? (Tiger has nothing and is not authorative anyway, as far as I can tell) The Cit of Austin site

Re: [Talk-us] Texas - redacted roads.

2017-10-12 Thread Clifford Snow
On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 3:15 PM, Nick Hocking wrote: > Nathan wrote > > > has the road listed as REED WILL and with a type of DR. I've been told > that this is an acceptable source or road names, > > > Maybe somebody could drive past this road and report back what the

Re: [Talk-us] Texas - redacted roads.

2017-10-12 Thread Rihards
On 2017.10.13. 01:15, Nick Hocking wrote: > Nathan wrote > "Best to stay well on the correct side of the line "**//___^ > **//___^ > Ok - point taken. yes, google so far has not flat out denied permission, but their terms of service would make data not usable in some countries. it's safer to do a

Re: [Talk-us] Texas - redacted roads.

2017-10-12 Thread Nick Hocking
Nathan wrote "Best to stay well on the correct side of the line " Ok - point taken. Did I mention that at the location I posted (using OSM) the CAPCOG website (roads dataset) http://regional-open-data-capcog.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/roads-2015 has the road listed as REED WILL and with a

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Redacting 75, 000 street names contributed by user chdr

2017-10-12 Thread Kevin Kenny
On Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 7:47 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > http://www.remote.org/frederik/tmp/chdr.details > > A new list (CSV file) with way id, coordinates, and country/state/county > information. I've eliminated all objects that have been reported to be > ok, and plan to

Re: [Talk-us] Comparing Tiger 2017 dataset with OSM in a automatedway.

2017-10-12 Thread Mike N
On 10/12/2017 9:52 AM, Ian Dees wrote: The vast majority of roads seem to be correctly missing from OSM. Along that line of thought - for cases where local government data is not open, I'd find it useful to detect where a name changed in TIGER from previous year, or a road was added.

Re: [Talk-us] Davis Senior High School, California

2017-10-12 Thread David Kewley
I've just now sent an email through the school's portal to Mr. Birdsall, asking whether he can help. I live in California, and have met folks from Davis, but don't have enough of a personal connection to go a more direct route. David On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 2:40 AM, Andy Townsend

Re: [Talk-us] Comparing Tiger 2017 dataset with OSM in a automatedway.

2017-10-12 Thread Badita Florin
I started processing, State by State, the Tiger 2017 dataset, because i get less errors from overpass this way then if i process in bulk of 10 states. The first state is Alabama.It took around 5 hours to complete,and it shows over 20.000 possible ways that are not added in OSM. The total length

Re: [Talk-us] Texas - redacted roads.

2017-10-12 Thread Nathan Mills
The problem as I understand it is less copyright violation (in the US, so long as what you see in Google isn't ever put into the OSM database), and more database licensing difficulty in the rest of the world where the law is less permissive and even using Google to identify possible errors in

Re: [Talk-us] Texas - redacted roads.

2017-10-12 Thread Nick Hocking
richlv wrote "just a quick reminder that we should try not to use google maps or streetview, the legal status of "just looking" is also fuzzy :)" Ok, so I if want to find out what a road is called, I'm not allowed to use a street directory to do this? This would be extremely weird. If I am

[Talk-us] Davis Senior High School, California

2017-10-12 Thread Andy Townsend
Among rather more serious problems (smoke from the Napa wildfires) Davis Senior High School is home to some Pokemon fans who don't like doing their homework. http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/23646951/history has been changed a number of times to a park labelled "Please let us drop tests Mr.

Re: [Talk-us] Texas - redacted roads.

2017-10-12 Thread Rihards
On 2017.10.11. 13:37, Nick Hocking wrote: > Andrew wrote "I would check out the City of Austin's OpenData portal: > https://data.austintexas.gov/Locations-and-Maps/Street-Segment/t4fe-kr8c > > The license is the same (PD) as when the initial building import was > completed, so you are good to