Re: [Talk-us] Boston speed limit too Re: Michigan speed limit changes coming soon

On 01/07/2017 06:49 PM, Bill Ricker wrote: On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 6:31 PM, Greg Troxel wrote: Also, we do have the implicit 30 mph tagged on many roads. While there are usually not signs, it is entirely verifable. One only has to read the law and measure the distance

Re: [Talk-us] Railway crossing challenge for MapRoulette

On 07/06/2015 10:46 AM, Martijn van Exel wrote: (In particular I am never sure whether to use crossing or level_crossing.) My understanding is that railway=level_crossing is where cars cross a railway, and railway=crossing is where pedestrians cross. I'm not sure what to use where bikes

Re: [Talk-us] Best practices for high-density residential areas

On 03/31/2015 01:07 PM, Steve Friedl wrote: 2) Are rectangular house outlines good enough? So in my area I've been making the outlines look actually like the house, as best as I can, but there's no way I'm going to do this to every house in America. For other areas, assuming house outlines are

Re: [Talk-us] Edits needing investigation in Tennessee

On 10/10/2014 11:54 AM, Andrew Guertin wrote: While investigating changes in my area, I noticed that http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Rondale has quite a large number of changes recently where they changed highway=* to highway=residential (* including at least service[1], unclassified[1

Re: [Talk-us] Prima Facie Speed Limits

On 09/08/2014 05:27 PM, Tod Fitch wrote: [...] instead there is a state wide prima facie limit: source:maxspeed=US:CA:residential [...] My state doesn't have such a limit, but my city does. Supposing I started tagging things with source:maxspeed=US:VT:Burlington, would anyone be upset that

Re: [Talk-us] Beach routing

On 07/09/2014 12:50 PM, Elliott Plack wrote: OSM US: I've been using some routing engines to map fitness routes (e.g. Strava) that use OSM data. Along our US coasts, there are beaches. The beaches I'm familiar with are popular with walkers and joggers to go up and down the shore, since access

Re: [Talk-us] Beach routing

On 07/09/2014 12:50 PM, Elliott Plack wrote: OSM US: I've been using some routing engines to map fitness routes (e.g. Strava) that use OSM data. Along our US coasts, there are beaches. The beaches I'm familiar with are popular with walkers and joggers to go up and down the shore, since access

Re: [Talk-us] Sidewalks as footpaths

On 04/30/2014 11:38 AM, William Morris wrote: Is there a general OSM policy on marking sidewalks as highway=footway? User dolphinling appears to have gone crazy in downtown Burlington,VT tracing the sidewalks and calling them footways. Which wouldn't be a problem if footways weren't so

Re: [Talk-us] Aerial Imagery for Chittenden County, VT

On 02/12/2014 11:15 PM, Andrew Guertin wrote: I'm working on the rest of the county now, and I'll put it in the same place when it's available. I expect it to take a week or two of cpu time. --Andrew Quick update on this: conversion from jp2 to tiff and merging into one large (107GiB) file

[Talk-us] Aerial Imagery for Chittenden County, VT

The Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission (http://www.ccrpcvt.org) recently acquired 15cm per pixel orthophotos for all of Chittenden County, Vermont, and has made them available online[1]. They seem very high quality, in both alignment and visibility of detail. They are also more

Re: [Talk-us] Bing imagery update

Unfortunately, in my area (Burlington VT), it seems like the 2008-era high resolution images (zoom 20?) are no longer available, and only the 2010? era zoom 19 are there. On the Bing website I can still see the higher resolution images, but neither JOSM nor the Bing Imagery Analyzer is

Re: [Talk-us] [OT] Anyone ever talked about adding more Land Ownership data to OSM?

On 01/07/2013 10:45 PM, Richard Welty wrote: On 1/7/13 10:37 PM, the Old Topo Depot wrote: We do have an issue with US state and county borders, as some are missing, incorrect, incomplete or incorrectly tagged. Perhaps we can organize a cleanse the state and county borders project to

Re: [Talk-us] Importing highway surface tags

On 12/20/2012 05:03 PM, Adam Franco wrote: * Has anyone located a good source for state or national road surface data? The TIGER data doesn't seem to include surface information as far as I can tell. The VCGI EmergencyE911_RDS file has a field for this. Unfortunately, 58773 out of 64302 values

Re: [Talk-us] Burlington, Vermont road classification

On 10/19/2012 07:55 AM, Greg Troxel wrote: Primary highways generally lack stop signs; however, stop signs may control major intersections in rural areas with low traffic volumes and occur rarely elsewhere. The most notable example of this is North Willard Street[2]. It is part of US

Re: [Talk-us] Talk-us Digest, Vol 59, Issue 20

On 10/18/2012 07:58 PM, William Morris wrote: Third local mapper chimes in: As weird as the cartography will look (and I've seen it appear as such on OSM in other U.S. cities), Route 7 through Burlington has no business being listed as primary. I can hit a maximum of 25mph on the sections

[Talk-us] Burlington, Vermont road classification

Hi, There are two active mappers in the Burlington, Vermont area, and we disagree about how the roads should be classified, so we're looking for more opinions. The crux of the problem is the answer to the question: Which is more important, outside/official classifications, or physical

Re: [Talk-us] Burlington, Vermont road classification

On 10/18/2012 05:07 PM, Richard Weait wrote: On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Andrew Guertin andrew.guer...@uvm.edu wrote: Hi, There are two active mappers in the Burlington, Vermont area, and we disagree about how the roads should be classified, so we're looking for more opinions