Re: [Talk-us] access restriction, water only: How to tag?

2013-07-26 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2013/7/26 Mike Thompson miketh...@gmail.com If we want to make the map explicit as to the difficulty of foot travel, then we should have a tag that can be applied to an area indicating this. Perhaps it isn't sac_scale, but we should have something. the only established tags for areas I am

Re: [Talk-us] Best way to tag mile and interpretive markers?

2013-07-23 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
On 23/lug/2013, at 03:04, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: Thomas, I'd caution against placing nodes every mile and tagging them highway=milestone unless there's something more notable about them. Mile markers could be computed from the length of the way and all the extra data might

Re: [Talk-us] Trunk vs motorway for rural Interstates with grade crossings

2013-07-22 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
On 21/lug/2013, at 22:26, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: If it has more than an exceptionally rare at-grade junction, it should be a trunk. If it's not divided, it should be a trunk even if it doesn't have at-grade junctions. for what it's worth, in Germany and Italy we use

Re: [Talk-us] Bridge naming

2013-07-01 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2013/7/2 Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org There are actually several approaches suggested on the Bridge wiki on how to tag bridge names[1]. The above cases represent the first approach: using the name tag. This may not be appropriate everywhere, however: if the road running across the bridge

Re: [Talk-us] Onboarding new mappers | Keeping track of changes

2013-06-26 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
, and you can easily adopt it to your area: https://ifttt.com/recipes/44673 Every time a new user edits in your defined bounding box you'll get an email. cheers, Martin -- Martin Koppenhoefer (Dipl-Ing. Arch.) Via del Santuario Regina degli Apostoli, 18 00145 Roma |I|I|I

Re: [Talk-us] Hamlets!

2013-06-22 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
On 22/giu/2013, at 17:42, Kevin Kenny kken...@nycap.rr.com wrote: and we can use that to inform our local decisions. But let the locals make the decisions! Don't just go deleting hamlets based on the fact that they are unincorporated. A great many hamlets in New York State have a strong

Re: [Talk-us] Neighborhoods / Zillow

2013-06-18 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2013/6/17 Anthony o...@inbox.org It's not about mapping the sign, it's about mapping the neighborhood based on the sign. We don't map speed limit signs, we map the speed limits on the roads based on the signs. where do you get this from? We are indeed mapping speed limits signs

Re: [Talk-us] Neighborhoods / Zillow

2013-06-16 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
On 15/giu/2013, at 21:16, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: What are you using to verify your neighborhood boundaries? Is there literally a line on the pavement showing the boundaries? the boundaries of settlements and parts of them often follow natural and or man made limits

Re: [Talk-us] Cleaning up California FMMP residential

2013-06-15 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
On 15/giu/2013, at 00:28, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: To this end, I propose removing v1 imported ways/multipolygons from FMMP with FMMP_modified=no, FMMP_reviewed=no, landuse=residential, and either description=other land or description=urban land, starting with ways about 500

Re: [Talk-us] Cleaning up California FMMP residential

2013-06-15 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
On 15/giu/2013, at 11:13, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: Some of the multipolygons I've been cleaning up have been particularly hard to edit as they cover multiple separate areas. I'd hate to handle them in P2 or iD, fetching a small area from the API returns these giant ways and

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging camp sites within campground

2013-06-14 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
or addr:full for addresses that don't fit into our standard addressing scheme. See the wiki for more info. cheers, Martin -- Martin Koppenhoefer (Dipl-Ing. Arch.) Via del Santuario Regina degli Apostoli, 18 00145 Roma |I|I|I|I|I|I|I|I

Re: [Talk-us] Neighborhoods / Zillow

2013-06-14 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
like osm, where you always have missing information bits). Cheers, Martin -- Martin Koppenhoefer (Dipl-Ing. Arch.) Via del Santuario Regina degli Apostoli, 18 00145 Roma |I|I|I|I|I|I|I|I| Italia N41.851, E12.4824 tel1: +39

Re: [Talk-us] Parking rendering

2013-06-14 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2013/6/14 Steven Johnson sejohns...@gmail.com To amplify what Serge said about Washington, no distinction was made for the behind-the-house, 1-2 vehicle private space versus large public lots. So if you were to look at the WashDC map, you'd be misled into thinking there is parking everywhere!

Re: [Talk-us] Neighborhoods / Zillow

2013-06-12 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2013/6/12 stevea stevea...@softworkers.com Is Jane Street (NYC) in Chelsea or Greenwich Village? Well, kind of both. This is where nodes work better. well, they could also overlap (so you could see from the polygons that there is a certain area which somehow belongs to both neighbourhoods

Re: [Talk-us] Neighborhoods / Zillow

2013-06-11 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
On 11/giu/2013, at 21:07, Mike N nice...@att.net wrote: Often, I can't determine the subdivision boundary from either Bing or a survey; I'd need to see an organization map which would be of questionable license. or ask the people that live there, would that be feasible? cheers, Martin

Re: [Talk-us] Removing US Bicycle Route tags

2013-06-05 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2013/6/5 KerryIrons irons54vor...@sbcglobal.net 3 months ago we discussed the existence of US Bicycle Route number tags in the Midwest. The OSM consensus was clear: only approved US Bicycle Routes should be tagged in OSM. Since those routes (21, 25, 50, 80, 84 and 35 in Indiana) have not

Re: [Talk-us] User Cam4rd98 gun-jumping new highways + adding fictional alignments

2013-06-01 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2013/6/1 Clay Smalley claysmal...@gmail.com I've had to clean up his edits before. What bothers me is that he's unresponsive and never leaves any comments on his edits. I've brought him up before to DWG but nothing's been done. Retry, being unresponsive while performing disputed edits is a

Re: [Talk-us] Mass deletion in shawnee county, ks

2013-05-28 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2013/5/28 Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com If you want to be part of this community, meaning the OpenStreetMap community in the United States, I and others would welcome you, but you should be participatory and follow the guidelines that this community (the DWG and then the US Community)

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Google Maps being praised for removing I-5 colasped bridge quickly

2013-05-26 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
On 26/mag/2013, at 13:03, Paweł Paprota ppa...@fastmail.fm wrote: Well of course when you put osm in the search query you will get results from OSM.org... but it kind of defeats the purpose - the point is to promote OSM to people who don't know about it, isn't it? you only get these

Re: [Talk-us] A new openstreetmap.us

2013-05-20 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2013/5/20 Alex Barth a...@openstreetmap.us OpenStreetMap.us relaunched today. Head over to http://openstreetmap.usand check it out. I think it really looks great! Some issues I think could be addressed: 1. There seems to be no link to openstreetmap.org on the front page. I'd suggest to

Re: [Talk-us] misuse of the landuse=forest tag for national forests

2013-05-12 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2013/5/12 stevea stevea...@softworkers.com Yes, it seems confusing, but only if you think landuse=forest implies all trees. It doesn't: it implies all managed forest, whether with or without trees. Yes, basically the actual use of landuse=forest is: there are trees (judging from how

Re: [Talk-us] misuse of the landuse=forest tag for national forests

2013-05-12 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
On 12/mag/2013, at 14:04, Greg Troxel g...@ir.bbn.com wrote: So, I'd like to see a landcover= tag, here it is http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/landcover ;-) cheers, Martin___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-us] misuse of the landuse=forest tag for national forests

2013-05-12 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
, but not as forests but as kind of protected area. cheers, Martin -- Martin Koppenhoefer (Dipl-Ing. Arch.) Via del Santuario Regina degli Apostoli, 18 00145 Roma |I|I|I|I|I|I|I|I| Italia N41.851, E12.4824 tel1: +39 06.916508070

Re: [Talk-us] RC Airfields

2013-05-10 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2013/5/10 Jason Remillard remillard.ja...@gmail.com Hi, I have an RC field in my town. http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/154081216 I just marked it has a private park, included its name, and the web site for the club that runs the field. there is also sport

Re: [Talk-us] Airport Tagging

2013-04-23 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2013/4/23 Phil! Gold phi...@pobox.com * Rick Marshall rick.marsh...@verticalgeo.com [2013-04-23 12:37 -0500]: 1. How do you mark Precision Approach Path Indicator (PAPI), Visual Approach Slope Indicator (VASI), VOR, and other Navigational Aids at airports. As far as I know, there isn't

Re: [Talk-us] Proposed small import of UTA bus stops

2013-04-22 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
On 22/apr/2013, at 02:55, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: Paragraph 5 states: 'UTA grants You a limited, revocable license to use, reproduce, and redistribute UTA’s Web Services API (“Data”) in accordance with the terms of this section if the permission to distribute is

Re: [Talk-us] NYC neighborhood data

2013-04-05 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2013/4/5 Kushal Khan kus...@foodinhood.com I know neighborhood distinctions can be a very subjective issue, but the current info on openstreetmaps is materially inaccurate. I love the concept of your site and want to contribute. get yourself an account and correct the data, its a wiki map

Re: [Talk-us] key source:maxspeed

2013-03-23 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2013/3/23 Paul Norman penor...@mac.com: It’s worth noting that source:maxspeed=sign is the most common value. I looked at the last-touched authors for a couple of the country:region values and for sign and survey and it was my impression that sign and survey had a wider distribution of users

[Talk-us] key source:maxspeed

2013-03-21 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
Hi folk, I'm a mapper from Italy since 2008 but registered to this list only now, mainly to post this. Some mappers, apparently from the US, are using the key source:maxspeed to add metadata (the way the data was collected and/or the source of the data) to the database. Unfortunately this tag is

Re: [Talk-us] key source:maxspeed

2013-03-21 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2013/3/21 Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com: On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: The general usage is according to the wiki: distinguish between implicit and explicit speed limits (i.e. the default maxspeed in the context (urban, rural, motorway

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