Re: [Talk-us] Opinions on Devil's Slide Bunker (San Mateo, CA)

2020-08-31 Thread Russell Nelson
On 8/31/20 4:12 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: And in my view, tagging something as "desirable to go there" via a tourism=* tag, no matter how many access=no/private/only_under_cover_of_darkness we add to that, that would be disingenious. Not so much "disingenuous" as misleading. Tourism implies

[Talk-us] New Hampshire Perambulations

2020-09-01 Thread Russell Nelson
New Hampshire has a law requiring the town council of every town to hike the perimeter of the town once every seven years. They can appoint an agent to do it. I did one of these hikes, between Henniker and Weare. There are markers along the way, which we re-painted, or otherwise renewed.

Re: [Talk-us] Opinions on Devil's Slide Bunker (San Mateo, CA)

2020-09-01 Thread Russell Nelson
On 9/1/20 3:08 PM, Bill Ricker wrote: Tourist Safety is dubiously best as most of the handrails and safety lines are gone s/dubiously best/dubious at best/ ? ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-us] [Talk-us-newyork] Interested in importing address points in New York State

2020-07-18 Thread Russell Nelson
Well there you go! You should make a page on the Wiki under Imports, and save this email there. So it doesn't get lost. Like my NYSDEC email did. :( On 7/18/20 12:34 PM, Skyler Hawthorne wrote: Well, it turned it to be a lot easier than I was thinking it would be! I reached out to the contact

Re: [Talk-us] Import of addresses for San Francisco, CA

2020-06-18 Thread Russell Nelson
I have done this in the area around Potsdam, NY. Assigning the address to the centroid of all the points that describe the parcel works quite well. It's not perfect, though. Look at May Road. I've entered addresses there in three different ways:   o On the building as an area, traced by hand

Re: [Talk-us] Import of addresses for San Francisco, CA

2020-06-18 Thread Russell Nelson
It was an experiment, to see how accurate the three methods could be. That road, and many around it, are not completely built-out. When a new building is built on an empty parcel, it will have an address immediately.  When a new address is assigned to a new (split out) parcel, the

Re: [Talk-us] Rail tagging in US (and North America): operator=* and reporting_marks=*

2020-06-15 Thread Russell Nelson
On 6/14/20 6:34 PM, Chuck Sanders wrote: after watching the re-discussion of the abandoned railroad line "where do we draw the line" topic, from a somewhat-outside perspective, I've given up arguing. I treat deletion of abandoned railways as vandalism and just fix it. Not seeing something is

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Edit Attacks

2020-06-11 Thread Russell Nelson
On 6/10/20 7:21 PM, Mateusz Konieczny via Talk-us wrote: I am not a native speaker, but as far as I know "freak" is pejorative and quite strong slur. It's not necessarily negative. It's a description of someone who is enthralled by something. In context, it could be negative or positive. I

Re: [Talk-us] Rail tagging in US (and North America): operator=* and reporting_marks=*

2020-06-13 Thread Russell Nelson
On 6/13/20 12:30 AM, Natfoot wrote: And I don't trust the FRA database to be accurate. No database is perfect. Not even OSM. Some databases can be useful. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-us] Rail tagging in US (and North America): operator=* and reporting_marks=*

2020-06-13 Thread Russell Nelson
On 6/13/20 12:25 AM, stevea wrote: It is absolutely fascinating (to me, anyway) to watch this conversation! I thanked Russ Nelson on wiki for his comments at New York/Railroads. (And we still have a ways to go there). Yeah, for me the map is much more important than the wiki. Except for

Re: [Talk-us] Interested in importing address points in New York State

2020-07-16 Thread Russell Nelson
On 7/16/20 5:26 AM, Mateusz Konieczny via Talk-us wrote: On the other hand, it may be unoriginal database... Still, the preferred version is to have an explicit license. I tried getting some acknowledgement from New York State GIS that their data was not copyrighted or not copyrightable back

Re: [Talk-us] sweat of the brow & sui generis database rights | Re: Interested in importing address points in New York State

2020-07-16 Thread Russell Nelson
On 7/16/20 10:33 AM, Rory McCann wrote: On 16/07/2020 13:35, Russell Nelson wrote: As you say, it's just a listing of facts about the world. At most the presentation of them is copyrightable, but as Skyler noted, he's changing the presentation. No license needed for facts. Remember