[Talk-us] TIGER corrections

I've been doing some work in my local area (San Bernardino County, CA), but the amount of work necessary to correct the positioning of roads generated from TIGER that are badly aligned is starting to become a drag in the more dense areas. So, I started looking at the TIGER 2008 dataset and

Re: [Talk-us] JOSM - WMS plugin broken in latest release?

the same source, is better at higher zooms. I found the info about using the Terraserver source instead, but this only works in a limited area (though the imagery is much better than Yahoo). -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing

Re: [Talk-us] Proposed automated motorway_link mass edit

-evaluate what is left. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER corrections: tagging for source of corrected data?

changeset. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Mapping HOAs

. I love how easy it is to change things en-masse in OSM! -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Mapping HOAs

think). -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Deletion of unnecessary TIGER node tags will commence this week-end

don't want to lose these source tags. I wanted to mention it quickly before reading the discussion, which I will do now, and post back if there is any change. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-us] Deletion of unnecessary TIGER node tags will commence this week-end

At 2009-08-06 12:59, Alan Mintz wrote: I wanted to mention it quickly before reading the discussion, which I will do now, and post back if there is any change. I guess I expected it to take longer than it did :) At 2009-08-06 12:34, Frederik Ramm wrote: ... The process will drop source

Re: [Talk-us] Deletion of unnecessary TIGER node tags will commence this week-end

nodes. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Deletion of unnecessary TIGER node tags will commence this week-end

At 2009-08-06 15:53, Alan Mintz wrote: At 2009-08-06 15:34, Frederik Ramm wrote: Responding to Alan: I actually would prefer that the tiger:* tags were removed from those nodes, since they are indeed not useful, though I suppose I could just do this myself fairly simply. 910 nodes

Re: [Talk-us] Deletion of unnecessary TIGER node tags will commence this week-end

of interest)? -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

[Talk-us] Is there a solution to Yahoo WMS poor image quality?

where USGS urban imagery is not available)? Is anyone working on one? -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Is there a solution to Yahoo WMS poor image quality?

that corrupt a significant part of the retrieved imagery. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

[Talk-us] Mailboxes, etc.

How are people tagging mailbox shops, which typically have PO Boxes for rent, and offer various packaging and shipping services (UPS, USPS, etc.)? -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [Talk-us] Lot boundaries

this with them? I also don't think it's necessarily useful to bring in individual residential housing parcel boundaries, though it's nice to be able to mark the addresses of all the corners (usually with a node at their driveways). -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net

Re: [Talk-us] Lot boundaries

is from someone that may not be qualified or allowed to give the answer. Is there a more formal form-letter that is used by OSM as a whole? Should there be? -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org

[Talk-us] Tagging next exit services

off the freeway? A good example is electric vehicle recharging or fuel stations that supply CNG or other unusual fuels - it is not possible to see, only from satellite imagery, which specific building was being referred to by the sign on the freeway. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net

[Talk-us] No right turn on red

How should one tag a no-right-turn-on-red-light restriction? Like other turn restrictions, with restriction=no_right_turn_on_red? -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [Talk-us] Super Wal-Mart Tag

it for that reason, under the rare occasion that I've needed it. TIGER does seem to be overuse these alternate names, often containing things like State Highway 30 (which should be removed and replaced with ref=xx 30 according to the wiki), long-obsolete names, or incorrect spellings. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz

Re: [Talk-us] [Tagging] shared driveways

, single-family home lots. If I do, they are highway=service + service=driveway, with access=private if gated or posted no-trespassing. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http

[Talk-us] Poor JOSM Yahoo imagery solution?

to go through all the time. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Import of EPA data

in that case. Same goes for gas/service stations - a few but not all. Is it really useful info anyway? Don't we all assume that such places deal with toxic substances (hopefully correctly)? Or am I missing the point of the data? -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net

Re: [Talk-us] Import of EPA data

import these again? -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

[Talk-us] Does only_straight_on imply no_u_turn?

-turning arrow with a line through it, instead of the current straight+right arrow? -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

[Talk-us] TagWatch issues/questions

America. Looking at the links, they don't mention anything about NA in them. Is this intentional? Can I extract just NA (or by bounding box)? -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [Talk-us] script for adding layer=1 to bridges

, implying a change in elevation. I realize that layers are supposed to be relative, but I've found that if I make them absolute when possible, I don't accidentally break things when adding new features. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk

Re: [Talk-us] script for adding layer=1 to bridges

that are at street level. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] script for adding layer=1 to bridges

At 2010-01-28 19:13, Alan Mintz wrote: ... It appears to me that I-95 is below the level of the surrounding surface streets from about Market St down to Catharine St, and should be layer=-1. I suggest: - Market Street overpass: bridge=yes, layer=1 - I-95 segment from Market St. overpass, south

Re: [Talk-us] script for adding layer=1 to bridges

space have created more of a dual-layer structure, but these are more the exception than the rule I think. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] FCC Antenna Structure Import

://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=34.094622lon=-117.614315zoom=18layers=B000FTF -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] FCC Antenna Structure Import

spec for how accurate they needed to be (or it was something like 1 minute). The AS database is likely similar, though in the ones I worked on, they were accurate to 1 second (and some even to 0.1 second - still only ~0.28 degrees). -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net

Re: [Talk-us] Motorway vs trunk

intersections vs. traffic-signal-controlled perpendicular intersections. I'm guessing that speed limits would give further justification. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org

[Talk-us] National Forest signs

=* was generally for areas? -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Motorway vs trunk

this way. I'm mapping the whole area trunk, turning to motorway only where there is a significant stretch (i.e. miles) of no intersections. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [Talk-us] National Forest signs

At 2010-03-03 15:35, Paul Johnson wrote: Alan Mintz wrote: How should one tag the name signs at the entrance to a national forest (e.g. http://sites.google.com/site/am909geo/osm-1/DSCS5938_small.jpg?attredirects=0d=1 )? boundary=national_park is an error according to JOSM

Re: [Talk-us] proposed first principles for United States road tagging

= OSM primary - secondary arterial = OSM secondary - minor arterial and/or collector = OSM tertiary - local = OSM residential or unclassified -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http

[Talk-us] Terraserver Urban errors

by Microsoft. Anyone have any suggestions? Yahoo imagery is of such poor resolution that loss of this important service would greatly inhibit mapping. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [Talk-us] Street Naming Conventions

one to make the distinction between the special cases noted above and the ones that are inappropriate. -- \Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Admin boundaries tied to roads

group of people without input from the majority of active mappers whose work has been damaged. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Admin boundaries tied to roads

(or perhaps dyslexic) mappers to correct all those additional mistakes? -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Street Naming Conventions (was Admin boundaries tied to roads)

At 2010-04-21 19:24, Alan Mintz wrote: I just had a machine crash as I was trying to find stats, but I'll bet that at least 90% of the cases are St... For further reference, in this area of LA: minlat=33.75 minlon=-119.00 maxlat=34.00 maxlon=-114.50, on 2010-02-11, I count: 35988 unique name

Re: [Talk-us] Admin boundaries tied to roads

instead. If there's anyone nearby that would like to have a look, It'd be useful to know how it's signed at the intersection with Outer Traffic Circle here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/122696036 . -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net

Re: [Talk-us] Admin boundaries tied to roads

data. I remember manually fixing a little bit of the OC/LA border in La Habra from some sort of change description - maybe something out the BAS project. What a pain that was. Is anyone working on borders currently? Is the BAS a reasonable source? -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net

Re: [Talk-us] Admin boundaries tied to roads

confirm it with them. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Admin boundaries tied to roads

At 2010-04-22 13:09, andrzej zaborowski wrote: On 22 April 2010 04:24, Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net wrote: At 2010-04-21 17:12, andrzej zaborowski wrote: On 22 April 2010 01:18, Apollinaris Schoell ascho...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 3:36 PM, andrzej zaborowski balr

[Talk-us] Is someone here hammering the MSRMaps/Terraservice servers?

. I don't want to ask MSFT about it if it's one of us abusing it (but please stop it if so). I found that limiting myself to 4 simultaneous threads made little difference in the interactive response time of the service. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging of county roads

At 2010-05-25 22:55, Apollinaris Schoell wrote: On 26 May 2010, at 24:25 , Alan Mintz wrote: It seems that the county road number should go in the ref tag, and this is what I've seen in some cases, but where should the county and state go? I've used is_in:county and is_in:state_code

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging of county roads

, and productivity has to be an important goal in user satisfaction and retention, too. Also, given that network:state:county is already documented somewhere for the relation, I'd like to just expand its use to the ways themselves because I don't believe the ref tagging is complete without it. -- Alan Mintz

Re: [Talk-us] Gluing boundaries to roads (was Talk-us Digest, Vol 31, Issue 1)

if the boundary does not belong on the road. The same benefits would apply for a boundary that follows a river or other exiting feature. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org

[Talk-us] Untagged and unconnected nodes

streets, etc. These tags are documented in the wiki, and are important, widely-used tools for producing an accurate map. If the validator continues to consider these as untagged, people will likely accidentally remove them. Should the validator be fixed? -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net

[Talk-us] Removing tiger:* tags

haven't (yet) agreed that these tags should be removed, right? -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Removing tiger:* tags

of these pics, given interest, and some post-processing to remove faces and license plates. Right now, they allow me to look back at partial surveys of attributes (like speed limits) and combine them with newer surveying to form a complete picture, and are an important part of my workflow. -- Alan Mintz

Re: [Talk-us] Removing tiger:* tags

an analysis be done to understand just how much space that is, what the server load will be, how much it expands the history, etc., as was done with the justified removal of tags from the nodes? -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Directional Prefix/Postfix Proposal

, signed West Vermont Ave and East Vermont Ave. name = West Vermont Avenue name_root = West Vermont name_type = Ave -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo

Re: [Talk-us] Remember the On the Ground addendum

. These are difficult to resolve (certainly for me with no official capacity), and are always just a subjective call as far as tagging. Basically, my goal is that the name on the signage should be in the map in either the alt_name or name tags, since that's how most people will know it. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz

Re: [Talk-us] Proposal to change ref format for county roads in Florida from (x) to CR x

of changes, which should again match step 2) with a meaningful changeset comment. Save the file and close. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] A Friendly Guide to 'Bots and Imports

, this situation would have to be taken into account. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Rendering of semicolon delimited values (WAS: Would Like To Clean Salt Lake City Street Names)

an accepted and necessary practice for a long time, but yet have almost no support in rendering (that includes JOSM and Potlatch, BTW). -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [Talk-us] A Friendly Guide to 'Bots and Imports

-ordinate those efforts. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Removing tiger:* tags

in the process of creating closed ways for those features, instead of those tags being copied to the new closed ways. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo

Re: [Talk-us] Abbreviation Police

a large percentage of the cases. It is particularly useful and unambiguous if we separate them out into their own tag (which is why this came up again). Lastly, it matches the overwhelming majority of print usage and signage. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net

Re: [Talk-us] Free emergency calls from payphones (was [Tagging] emergency=*)

, etc. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Directional Prefix/Postfix Proposal

At 2010-08-03 00:24, Kevin Atkinson wrote: One more specific question below: On Mon, 2 Aug 2010, Alan Mintz wrote: 2. Some, however, do use the prefix on the signs and in verbal. The direction appears in front of the name in the same font: name = West 17th Street name_prefix = W

Re: [Talk-us] Changeset 5393406

in the server ignoring any attempt to upload it. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] USGS imagery (was: Changeset 5393406)

of making straight lines look wobbly that may be related. It would be nice to be able to talk to someone about exactly what's happening here. It sure would be nice if these individual image sets were available through a common interface, instead of having to find/add all the separate links. -- Alan

Re: [Talk-us] USGS imagery (was: Changeset 5393406)

getting it direct from USGS, since availability and performance has been spotty, but I couldn't find it anywhere else. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-us] Address Standard

settles down, I will be moving these prefixes out of the name tag and into an agreed upon direction tag in places where I know it to be correct to do so, based on local knowledge and the above-cited sources. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net

Re: [Talk-us] Address Standard

/zip4/welcome.jsp). However, no prefixes are used for addresses on 26th St, despite the presence on the sign. My guess is that this is a place where the prefixes should be moved out of the name tag, but this should be left up to a local. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net

[Talk-us] Over-digitized imports?

the day comes when we can feed that to the renderer instead of approximating curves with lines). Of course, it might make more sense to get the original curve data in this case instead of reverse-engineering it. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net

Re: [Talk-us] Over-digitized imports?

At 2010-08-19 20:24, Alan Mintz wrote: I'm mapping in this area: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=34.08242lon=-118.639zoom=17 Along the north side of the tertiary road (whose name is not rendered, but is Saddle Peak Road) is a state park polygon (Topanga State Park) imported from CASIL

Re: [Talk-us] What would you want done with TIGER 2010?

a prohibition against publishing the address of an elected official, which influences what local county/city GIS systems allow in display and search of addresses because of the availability of name/APN relations that could then be linked back to addresses. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz

Re: [Talk-us] What would you want done with TIGER 2010?

imagery. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Towns as Areas or Points

) in the GNIS data. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Address Node Import for San Francisco

tool collection. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Address Node Import for San Francisco

of the post office that serves the address). Hopefully, that won't be a problem for your single-city import, though. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Mountain Letters

render as a simple rectangular sign, with adjacent name label. If big signs are drawn as ways/closed ways, they should render as lines/filled areas. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER 2010 Imports

reviewed/edited/aligned, but is still highway=residential, and TIGER2010 has promoted it to a higher class, we should consider doing that. I suspect this applies to a lot of the map - particularly the lack of tertiary roads. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net

Re: [Talk-us] US-Mexico border precision

of the underlying GAUL data does not seem currently compatible. I'd expect that the TIGER data should be authoritative for our own border at least :) -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [Talk-us] refs describing routes instead of ways

, is_in:state_code with apprehensions above). -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] [Tagging] refs describing routes instead of ways

to render other than the route numbers in ref. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Why addr:state rather than is_in:state?

other feature with the state in which it lies, that is. In that absurd case, is_in:state would be more appropriate, IMO. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org

[Talk-us] US highway tagging (was Re: highway shields: get your kicks, where?)

to remove those existing tags from the ways (and ensure they are on the relation)? I'm not talking about a large-scale bot update, but as long as I'm editing them for some other reason anyway. Eh, OK-66 and Old US-66 and USBR-66 are all in my neighborhood. What is USBR-66? -- Alan Mintz

Re: [Talk-us] US highway tagging (was Re: highway shields: get your kicks, where?)

At 2011-01-04 00:16, Paul Johnson wrote: On 01/03/2011 09:52 AM, Alan Mintz wrote: network=US:US ref=66 modifier=HISTORIC Technically, probably shouldn't exist, since US-66 hasn't existed since sometime in the late 1980s and it's using the recreational brown signs today. Given the number

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER 2010 Imports

in these cases. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] US highway tagging (was Re: highway shields: get your kicks, where?)

'round here have the black rectangular background. I think CA still uses the die-cut shield. Do others? I don't believe I've seen anything other than the die-cut style in CA. Any background would look wrong. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER edited map updated with Toby's suggestion

for this would solve the problem as well. In summary, I propose to add the following requirements to the existing filter for turning a feature red: - Must have tiger:name_base tag - UID must be balrog_kun or DaveHansenTiger -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER edited map updated with Toby's suggestion

At 2011-01-24 16:55, andrzej zaborowski wrote: On 25 January 2011 00:57, Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net wrote: At 2011-01-24 15:37, Toby Murray wrote: On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Andrew Ayre a...@britishideas.com wrote: Sorry, the village of Summerhaven, which I totally

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER edited map updated with Toby's suggestion

proposed. The resulting map should be a very useful tool in finding things that need review. I'm using it already. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Watch out if mapping in Florida, Georgia...

-- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] USPS Address Database

, there is hope. I haven't audited any other county's parcel addresses. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] USGS National Hydrography Dataset

with no real benefit. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] TriMet will begin OSM improvements in the Portland area

it available for use by other OSM users? Have you looked at any image-analyzers that can produce road centerlines from imagery, like http://3667a17de9b94ccf8fd278f9de62dae4.cloudapp.net/ ? -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Systematic problem with GNIS import and elevation tags

get decent site info. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] TriMet will begin OSM improvements in the Portland area

layer. In some cases, OSM is more accurate than RLIS. The aerials help us send feedback to RLIS and determine where a change in OSM is justified. On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net wrote: At 2011-02-10 18:28, PJ Houser wrote: 6 inch aerial imagery flown Fall

Re: [Talk-us] TriMet will begin OSM improvements in the Portland area

the imagery? and forgot: ... and do you have specific permission to derive from the imagery and make the result ODBL/CCBYSA/PD? -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http

[Talk-us] Turnouts (US-style passing places)

by traffic in the forward direction of the way] turnout=backward [turnout used by traffic opposing the direction of the way] or turnout:forward=yes turnout:backward=yes ? -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Cool ITO World US and Canada coverage

At 2011-03-25 14:54, Coast, Hurricane wrote: Thought that the US and Canada might be interested in this: http://itoworld.blogspot.com/2011/03/ito-map-extended-to-cover-usa-canada.html Great tool for visualizing speed limits, FIXMEs, layers, etc.! -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net

Re: [Talk-us] Cool ITO World US and Canada coverage

as lanes=5. Capacity of such a road is roughly equivalent to what happens when they build a concrete island through parts of it (because there are few, or to limit turns from/to, driveways) and it becomes 2x2. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: Re: Long-distance scenic roads

://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Scenic_Highway_System_(California)) and has shields for it periodically. How about just scenic=yes? The existing historic key could be used as historic=route for the historic routes. -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net

Re: [Talk-us] US Interstate exit junction exit_to tag

was apparently designed to agree with the current schema, and I'm just asking if everyone wants their exit names to stop being rendered until someone decides to fix the renderers? -- Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net ___ Talk-us mailing list

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