Mike Thompsonmiketho16 at gmail.com
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It seems that some things in OSM have been
On 08/25/2011 06:04 PM, Ian Dees wrote:
OI change one to the other all the time, usually taking a GNIS point
and making it a building outline. But it is a pain to preserve the keys.
In JOSM:
Select the way/node.
Control+C to copy
Select the new way/node
Control+Shift+V to paste the tags on
I would like to run a fresh import of NEXRAD radar stations. A prior
import is documented at:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Potential_Datasources#Next_Generation_Radar_.28NEXRAD.29_Locations
These are primarily in the USA.
I'm using a merge-edit tool which produces a diff compared to the
On 08/25/2011 08:06 PM, Mike Thompson wrote:
I have been able to convert a point to a way in Potlatch 2. I can
then select the way (polygon) representing the feature and use the R
command to copy over the tags. I then delete the way that was
originally a point.
Oooh, tricky and cool.
So you
On 26 August 2011 13:05, Bryce Nesbittbry...@obviously.com wrote:
I would like to run a fresh import of NEXRAD radar stations. A prior import
is documented at:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Potential_Datasources#Next_Generation_Radar_.28NEXRAD.29_Locations
These are primarily in the USA.
On 08/25/2011 11:24 PM, John Smith wrote:
On 26 August 2011 16:06, Bryce Nesbittbry...@obviously.com wrote:
As part of the re-import, I can re-tag. The original importer used a
one-off key:
tag k='radar_transponder' v='NEXRAD'/
I have communicated with that person, and he approves of the
ogr2osm converts the FDOT file just fine. It also loads up without
trouble into qgis.
But the road IDs are not very useful. Alligator Alley is 03175000,
which is not a FIHS number, or a Tiger:tlid You have to get the
localname.shp file to get more interesting names like:
NAME
Good old usgs topographic maps are copyright free:
http://nationalmap.gov/ustopo/faq.html
And often a very useful reference when mapping, particularly in remote
areas.
I am aware of:
http://toposm.com/us/
But is there a way to get USGS topographic slippymaps as a background in
JSOM?
I've been using
http://mapper.acme.com/
which seems to source from:
http://mytopo.com/
This least lets me flip between mapnik and usgs. It is not as good as
having a true background layer during JOSM or Potlatch editing.
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On 10/04/2011 12:18 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
Currently the only way to fix a dupe node in JOSM is to delete one and
then re-extend all ways back to the other. If the node is in the
middle of one of these ways, you also have to split. This is way too
much work to fix a common issue.
To
On 10/04/2011 12:18 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
Currently the only way to fix a dupe node in JOSM is to delete one and
then re-extend all ways back to the other. If the node is in the
middle of one of these ways, you also have to split. This is way too
much work to fix a common issue.
To
On 11/03/2011 06:09 PM, Steven Johnson wrote:
Up to now, we've been talking largely about addresses as point
features. However, one thing I think would be good to have is block
ranges on streets. What I mean is a tag that indicates this is the
1000 block, the 1100 block, the 1200 block, etc.
On 11/10/2011 04:22 AM, Anthony wrote:
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Steven Johnsonsejohns...@gmail.com wrote:
The Census Bureau, through their partnerships and liaisons with state
local govt, are acutely aware of the need and importance of address data.
They are in fact open to finding
On 11/16/2011 09:18 AM, Skye Book wrote:
I'm doing a ton of work with the data made available from the city as of late
and a gripe from some people employed by the local government about OSM is that
it isn't making full use of the data that the city is putting out there for
consumption.
There's something OSM could do well, that Google Maps can't, due to
licensing restrictions: create good printable maps. Google and Mapquest
both are pretty bad.
The high volume use cases:
* Printing a map for take along navigation, on a standard printer.
* Exporting a map for embedding in
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 4:50 AM, Phil! Gold phi...@pobox.com wrote:
* Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com [2012-07-19 00:42 -0500]:
Any other common problems that people have seen?
The most common problem I see is a missing way. But all the nodes are
there sitting in space.
I've also tried:
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 9:06 AM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.netwrote:
Depends whether you visit LA I guess ;) , but assuming you do, let's roll
up
our sleeves and fix it. I don't think that one self-proclaimed viking
deciding not to agree to the new licence completely damns OSM!
An
Is there evidence of Google using streetview plus OCR for addressing data
yet?
I could imagine the crowdsource version of this that recognizes street
signs and codes the address blocks frequently found on them.
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Not so long ago the maps used on AOL's patch properties were
OpenStreetMap based.
It really worked out well since so much of the content was locally
generated, wiki content
matched the wiki maps.
That changed... anyone know when or why?
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On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 3:58 AM, Mike N nice...@att.net wrote:
I now see Google used for the Yard sales in the area map. Just a
guess: the Patch staff doesn't have resources for a map developer to create
that set of interactive features using MapQuest Open. It was easier for
them to just
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 12:23 PM, Mike Thompson miketh...@gmail.com wrote:
Frederic,
How about more mappers?
Mike
I think the key is more users of the maps.
Not one in ten people I mention OSM to have ever heard of it: and I tend to
run with geeks, outdoor enthusiasts, graduate students,
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com wrote:
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 12:23 PM, Mike Thompson miketh...@gmail.comwrote:
Frederic,
How about more mappers?
Mike
I think the key is more users of the maps.
By that I mean more eyeballs on the output: more passive
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Frederic Julien fjulie...@yahoo.comwrote:
Dear all,
I'm working on a presentation and interested to hear your thoughts. What
are the top 2-3 changes that could improve OSM data quality? That could be
processes, tools, methods, training, peer review,
I'm interested in finding a robust, not necessarily free, set of tools for
single feature mapping.
For example: to openly map public health clinics I'd want:
1. A hosted web map (showing the clinics as a clickable icons). The map
should be a module integrable into a larger subject matter
Possible drivers of quality:
1. Peer reviewing, as a social gateway to community engagement with new
mappers.
2. Hiring a physiologist on retainer to understand obsessed trolls like
NE2, and respond appropriately.
3. Supporting single feature mappers. There's a vibrant community
For today's San Francisco SOTM Sprint, I'm writing to propose a design
effort to bring together legends.
The goal is to inspect each major map and build a legend, then combine
those legends into a big
cheat sheet. Then, inspect each editor and list the features it has
presets for.
The design
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote:
As for Bryce's observation - Zillow does not have overlapping polygons as
far as I know, so it is by its nature sort of rigid - but then again this
is probably what they require for their use case, as there would be no way
What's relevant to map (and often hard to find in real life) are
those number posts for each campground.
Calling them parking is clearly pandering to the rendering, especially for
walk-in sites.
But using the address: that has a certain logic. What are those numbers
other than
the address of the
The reasons *not* to use the Zillow dataset are clear: nobody but zillow
can edit it, and it is based on low quality TIGER data.
The flickr dataset is similarly suspect, if this is any indication:
http://boundaries.tomtaylor.co.uk/#23512042
It shows San Francisco's *SoMA* (South of Market)
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 2:22 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com
wrote:
2013/6/14 Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com
The OSM node could even link to a wiki page where the neighborhood can be
described in all its richness and complexity.
you could do this with wikipedia links
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote:
I've been doing some California landuse and have come across a lot of
landuse=residential imported from FMMP which is clearly wrong. The
landuse=residential covers entire cities, including commercial, industrial,
retail,
On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 7:27 AM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.uswrote:
I wonder if it time to accept that we are unable to reach a consensus. Can
we agree to let the local community decide which way to proceed? They are
in the best position to know the issues surrounding neighborhood
On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 4:20 PM, Thomas Colson thomas_col...@nps.govwrote:
Is it preferable to keep the original GNIS tags if updating a GNIS object
in
OSM?
I preserve the GNIS id number, even if I convert the feature from node to
way (or vice versa).
I do this not so much for later
On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 7:22 PM, Nathan Mills nat...@nwacg.net wrote:
The sort of signs in the link below are precisely the sort of thing we put
in OSM, or at least have historically.
https://www.cityoftulsa.org/**community-programs/**
On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Thomas Colson thomas_col...@nps.govwrote:
Is there a tag equivalent for a road restriction that would imply no
Recreational Vehicles/Motor Homes/Buses?
Are you talking RV's as not advised or prohibited?
And how about trucks with a given
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 7:56 AM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.uswrote:
At last years SOTM-US conference, USGS showed a pilot program using a
modified version of Potlatch2 to update GNIS database with volunteers. If
they use this plan, the id tag could be used to compare OSM with the new
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 6:47 PM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.netwrote:
Surveying postal addresses by opening mailboxes (illegal) or knocking on
doors doesn't seem feasible.
but the enhanced 911 addresses are basically the same as the postal
addresses and have the potential to become
On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 9:09 AM, Mark Newnham m...@newnhams.com wrote:
I work in the Uitilities/Billing industry and do a reasonable amount of
work in addressing quality (in order to get lower USPS rates with things
like the Intelligent Mail Barcoder and suchlike). I'd just like to throw a
On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 9:21 AM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote:
The data that Bryce is talking to us about is post office locations.
And even this, as we've begun to dig into it, is of limited value to
the project, since we have to do the geocoding for this data.
It's still worth
What's your more specific concern, and what wording have you tried?
Is your concern the future shopping centers as a concept, or the way they
are tagged?
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 11:44 PM, Clay Smalley claysmal...@gmail.comwrote:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/16078863
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 12:29 AM, James Mast rickmastfa...@hotmail.comwrote:
I'll let his comments here[1] on a note page speak
Again, all I see is a well meaning user who very clearly is not yet
absorbed OSM culture.
There is no belligerence, just a bit of confusion.
The tools could
Moved from another thread:
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 2:51 AM, stevea stevea...@softworkers.com wrote:
OSM has a peer review process in place right now. It is called watch the
map, help it evolve, grow it as you can, if somebody does something
odd/wrong/different, dialog with them. And then,
At first it looked like great photo mapping... fitting a pattern of a long
distance team driving
trucker doing 4-5 truck stops a day...
But given buildings plopped onto roads:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/16662943
And the comment:
16598240 June 18, 2013 03:59
Loves' # 458 -
The instructions currently read:
*1. Create an account on OpenStreetMap.org*
*2. Click on “edit” and pick one of the editors to edit the map*
Which seems a bit sparse and perhaps intimidating. Could that have a 3?
Editing the map is not every new person's goal. Maybe give 'em good
examples
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Kai Krueger kakrue...@gmail.com wrote:
We need publicity!
Yes! Publicity is in my opinion one of the biggest things we need and
should
try and work on as a group.
I wish this
On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 5:28 PM, James Mast rickmastfa...@hotmail.comwrote:
Still, I think detour routes might be a good idea, but only if somebody is
willing to keep track of the projects and fix everything once the
construction is finished.
If the rendering is really really orange and
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Thomas Colson thomas_col...@nps.govwrote:
The intent is to convey what mode of travel is appropriate or “authorized”
for each of 100+ campsites. Many are hiker-only, easily solved by
“horse=no”, some are horse and hiker, a very few are hiker, horse, and
Did the OSM board approve a bulk survey activity, directed to OSM user's
inboxes? The discussion on this survey was fairly negative a month ago,
and today it showed up in my inbox:
*padeshahekhoban*
*26 July 2013 at 21:10*
*Hello,*
*I am researching on the motivations and behaviors of OSM
On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 4:37 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote:
I don't know which OSM board but the OSMF board certainly didn't. The
contrary is the case:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/**user_blocks/369http://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks/369
I think it is time to follow this
On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer
dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote:
2013/7/27 Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com
I think it is *also* time to create a supportable sustainable strategy
for future researchers or grad students.
IMHO our data including all history is public
On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 8:51 AM, stevea stevea...@softworkers.com wrote:
**
I might be the nicest person you have ever met, I hope I am a good OSM
mapper, and I am kind to children and animals. However, I vehemently
oppose OSM collecting any additional personally-identifiable data. My
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Jeffrey Ollie j...@ocjtech.us wrote:
Are there Smartphone apps that can do this with the help of their
accelerometer? Some other type of hardware?
I could point you to the professional equipment that can do this.
On the cheap though, consider using a laser
Dear US OSM enthusiasts:
Out Whitehouse is using OpenStreetMap:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/change
Uses CloudMade tiles and OpenLayers to display a... broken map... with
broken images.
I've emailed the whitehouse webmaster without effect. Is anyone aware of
how this
map came to be placed here,
Would three kind souls take the time to vote at:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Tag:amenity%3Dtoilets
To bring the total to 15 voters?
Thanks!
(I welcome anyone interested in counting the seated capacity of toilets to
then make a subsequent proposal)
I found when accepting water fountain data from non-mappers that... most
of it was good... but I really had to flip through each node to find the
newbie mistakes.
I think onosm would produce a lot of good data that would be better hand
curated
as it enters osm proper.
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 4:37 AM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.netwrote:
On 9/4/13 7:16 AM, dies38...@mypacks.net wrote:
From the page which Bryce referred to in http://lists.openstreetmap.**
, perhaps:
--
From: Jason Y. Kim jason.kim++gps.gov
Thanks for the suggestion. We'll add that link when we update the page.
Jason Y. Kim
Webmaster, www.gps.gov
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 7:40 PM, Bryce Nesbitt
Well, maybe with a little encouragement with Jason Y. Kim is in order. If
someone
edited the page and sent him text, for example...
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On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 8:54 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote:
I would like to suggest that the editors remove the following tags
entirely:
gnis:ST_num
gnis:ST_alpha
gnis:feature_type...
Unless there are serious objections I plan to open a pull request adding
listed tags to
Here's a patch to JOSM to warn the human editor about tags that are about
to disappear. What do you think?
--- src/org/openstreetmap/josm/gui/dialogs/properties/PropertiesDialog.java
(revision
6232)
+++ src/org/openstreetmap/josm/gui/dialogs/properties/PropertiesDialog.java
(working
copy)
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I am looking for opinions on how to map these complex interchanges.
Could a few of you have a look at what I did and comment? Thanks.
Thinking out loud: A SPUI is conceptually simple from a routing
perspective: from all input roads you can turn left, right or go straight.
The complexity
On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 10:19 PM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.uswrote:
On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 6:27 PM, Jason Remillard remillard.ja...@gmail.com
wrote:
If you
find a problematic GNIS node (especially natural feature), you should
consider sending an email to gnis_mana...@usgs.gov as
I ran into something similar: a note tag entered a week ago by user Noram
(near a new node with name= Noram Auto Repair) which simply listed Repair
and service of Japanese, and American made automobiles and trucks.
Let's do better than that at http://www.noramautorepairservices.com/
But
And I encourage you to ask is this a one time import or an ongoing
import?
For your speed data a one time import might be OK.
For something like store locations, which change all the time, the data
might just get stale in OSM.
The proper term for matching up data like this is 'conflation', and
Thanks for that Randy.
Echoing your themes: the global home page, and especially the US home page,
do seem to assume people will jump right into general purpose mapping. The
underlying assumption seems to be 'if *they* only had known OSM exists,
they'd become dedicated mappers'.
I think there
I generally copy the tags to the boundary (in JOSM copy the node, then
paste tags into the way).
The tiger and gnis tags do not overlap. The GNISID is a particularly
useful tag to preserve.
Town vs. City is a matter of opinion. You can visit the municipal website
and use whatever term they use
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net
wrote:
terms like town and city generally have specific legal meanings in
the US, and those meanings vary from state to state. this is one where
in all likelyhood you should leave it to a local mapper, or consult with
a
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net
wrote:
terms like town and city generally have specific legal meanings in
the US, and those meanings vary from state to state. this is one where
in all likelyhood you should leave it to a local mapper, or consult with
a
On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 12:59 PM, Sebastian Arcus s.ar...@open-t.co.uk wrote:
All of that doesn't really exist in the US, if my knowledge serves me right.
Even the smallest of settlements (bigger than a farm) seemed to have started
in the US around a group of facilities, such as shops,
On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 11:17 AM, o...@charles.derkarl.org wrote:
I'm going to just point out the elephant in the room here. I don't think
any
normal user cares about the license at all. I think the actual reason its
hard
to get new mappers, especially those that are not nerdy and obsessive
Keep in mind when collecting fleet speed limits:
in many places HGV's have a different limit than other traffic.
For example the Interstates in California USA are generally 65 mph
general/55 mph trucks.
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I see rural roads breaking down fairly neatly:
- Paved
- Unpaved improved
- Track
- ATV/Narrow vehicle only (the United States Forest Service defines
this as 50 body width or less)
- Single track (e.g. Motorcycle)
- Trail
- Closed to some combination of
On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 1:12 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com
wrote:
Il giorno 06/set/2014, alle ore 07:24, Bryce Nesbitt
bry...@obviously.com ha scritto:
BUT ANY OF THESE can be primary, secondary, tertiary or residential.
No, the ones that are too narrow (motorcycle
I did a partial revert of:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/25206929#map=18/39.75833/-105.03600layers=D
Using JOSM.
Would someone take a peek at this: it's my first revert, and a second set
of eyes would be nice.
The original edit dragged a road, disconnecting at multiple points.
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 12:57 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer
dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote:
usually disconnections shouldn't happen by a simple drag. At least in JOSM
(but I believe also in the other editors), you'd have to actively
disconnect the nodes.
What I found was a road that remained
Paper maps handle this with Closed in winter. access=seasonal seems
the tagging equivalent.
Then, perhaps, if actual dates are announced they could be coded:
access:announced_opening=20140501
A router may key off access=seasonal to warn people that a closure
date needs to be checked for.
I've frequently wanted to map the trails that peter out for exactly the
reason you state.
The choices as a mapper seem wrong:
1) Map the trail : thus encouraging use of a flawed route.
2) Don't map the trail. The casual map reader thinks OSM is missing
something.
Possible solutions include a
Note that for shops with a website,
KeepRight loads the website and matches the name.
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To summarize: a proposed import of of bicycle repair stations. The
database is maintained by a vendor of bicycle repair stations, the data
quality is spot on in many cases, and geocoding level in other cases with
the pins generally in the right area. The stations are too small to find
on an air
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 5:04 PM, Greg Morgan dr.kludge...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks for sharing your mapping project.
Regards,
Greg
Greg;
There are five locations shown on the Arizona State University Tempe campus.
Could you ground truth those?
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Even the street cameras are not generally enough: this really takes in
person spotting.
Any more comment / objection?
On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 11:40 PM, Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com wrote:
To summarize: a proposed import
This seems to be tagging for the renderer which is not a good idea. If
the only thing occupying the building is a single POI, then put the POI
tags on the closed Way for the building outline. By adding a new object
(Node) for the POI, you are also going against the One feature, one OSM
A modicum of guerrilla mapping can have a huge effect. A few athletic
fields and building outlines can quickly snowball into almost every
building and driveway in town. [2]
Try this:
In the course of your everyday life, when you describe a meeting place to
someone via email, send them a
On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 3:36 PM, Greg Morgan dr.kludge...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com wrote:
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 5:04 PM, Greg Morgan dr.kludge...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks for sharing your mapping project.
Regards,
Greg
How about this: particularly in the case of two businesses within one
building polygon,
create non-building area's for the business tags. Then you get the sense
of scale of the business,
and preserve the free tagging of the building polygon.
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On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 11:43 AM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote:
Indeed, Mapillary is great. I wonder if there's room to get
GoPro+Mapillary to donate a few units to put together a rig that we could
ship around to people in the US that could collect data for the US
community...
Head over to imports-us for the discussion.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Dero_Bike_Repair
is the proposal page.
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I would tag *access=destination* here, and hope routers don't use that route
unless the way is within the bounding box (or at least near) to my
destination.
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.
Regards,
Greg
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javascript:; wrote:
On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 12:40 AM, Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com
javascript:; wrote:
To summarize: a proposed import of of bicycle repair stations. The
database
is maintained
Would you put bender's corner on a map today?
If the barrier to cleaning is too great, not enough cleaning will happen.
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Also present near the USA mexican border are immigration check stations,
where
border patrol agents profile passengers and drivers based on race, and may
ask for identification.
In some places these are mobile stations, others have mappable fixed
infrastructure.
Typically all vehicles must stop.
On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 10:39 AM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote:
Problem is, as we've observed on what's starting to feel like a weekly
basis here, there are no rational national assumptions, when in doubt, tag
it anyway.
I think we've also observed that more people map than fix:
While one could get into access tags for weigh stations, it seems like it
would create as many problems as it solves.
--
A weigh station in the USA is a mandatory stop for heavy goods vehicles,
and prohibited entry for everyone else.
Heavy goods vehicles with special equipment can bypass the
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 12:50 AM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote:
I don't see a problem with access=private as this could be handy for
micromapping a property. access=public should probably be access=yes.
The tagging proposal to date imagined only the shared dump stations of
the
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 1:20 AM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote:
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 3:13 AM, Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com
wrote:
A caravan site might have 200 private hookups. We don't want the hookups
to be rendered at the same level as the central dump station.
Backyard
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 2:04 AM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote:
As a tagged property of a mapped place (e.g. campground, store, fuel
station), without a specific position.
Probably not as this is almost certainly too vague.
There are already hundreds of those, mostly in New
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 7:48 PM, Bryan Housel br...@7thposition.com wrote:
Brand new anonymous users come to the map every day and are confused by
what these hamlets are.
proof: https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/163246
I kind of doubt this person is going to stick around and improve the map.
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote:
My initial reaction to any automated edit is to break out in a rash.
Can we use that image to promote mapping best practices? :-)
Goal: A new local mapper in each BadHamlet
Here's what I did with bike repair stations:
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 2:07 PM, John F. Eldredge j...@jfeldredge.com
wrote:
Are there any rendering packages that can be set to render private
objects for only a preset list of operator tag values? So, if an
association of recreational vehicle owners has waste disposal stations only
for
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 2:25 AM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote:
I'm in favor of a bulk edit for US hamlets within city boundaries to be
retagged as place=neighbourhood
I generally agree with this, as a first step.
Especially if there's a followup challenge of some sort to improve the
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