Re: [Talk-us] [Tagging] Large fire perimeter tagging?

2020-09-25 Thread James Umbanhowar
Something else to consider is that even though there is a perimeter for a fire, there can be highly variable impacts on the landcover within the perimeter. Some areas may have not burned, other areas only burned the understory, some with limited burning of trees and other with full tree killing

Re: [Talk-us] changeset: 89516909

2020-08-18 Thread James Umbanhowar
> > usa city bounders. > > > > https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/geography/contact.html > > > > and did you read what the other guy said, this is the census data > > not true map data. > > > > https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/895

Re: [Talk-us] changeset: 89516909

2020-08-18 Thread James Umbanhowar
: > i am looking at the TIRGER web, show’s the real map online and > nothing you did matches. > > i live here and a block away from the edens spur just saying. > > > Tuesday, August 18, 2020 10:38 AM -05:00 from James Umbanhowar < > > jumba...@gmail.com>: &g

Re: [Talk-us] changeset: 89516909

2020-08-18 Thread James Umbanhowar
It would probably be best if these suggestions were added in the changeset comments, as they don't need to be discussed on the mailing list. On Tue, 2020-08-18 at 11:36 -0400, James Umbanhowar wrote: > I'm the person who made the changes and am happy to adjust the map to > better authori

Re: [Talk-us] changeset: 89516909

2020-08-18 Thread James Umbanhowar
I'm the person who made the changes and am happy to adjust the map to better authoritative data or information. My motivation for this was to fix a mangled boundary relation that didn't have consistent outer and inner members. The changes came in two changesets,

Re: [Talk-us] Cycleway Crossings

2020-08-07 Thread James Umbanhowar
I think that iD doesn't have a preset for cycleway=crossing so that editors may think that is not a valid tag for a crossing. On Fri, 2020-08-07 at 14:04 -0400, Doug Peterson wrote: > That wiki page was helpful. In one set of cases the change was from > highway=cycleway on the way to

Re: [Talk-us] Parks in the USA, leisure=park, park:type

2019-04-28 Thread James Umbanhowar
Just to throw another curveball in here, there is also leisure=nature_reserve which is frequently (occasionally?) used for the city/county parks that are less structured and used for hiking and nature appreciation. On Sun, 2019-04-28 at 08:48 -0500, Aaron Forsythe wrote: > On 4/26/2019 9:49 PM,

Re: [Talk-us] Evacuation Routes

2018-09-06 Thread James Umbanhowar
Would this fit the route relation model better if we used the following tagging scheme route:road network:MD:hurricane or something similar? On Wed, 2018-09-05 at 23:06 +, Eric H. Christensen wrote: > I recently finished an update to the evacuation routes feature[0], > turning it into a

Re: [Talk-us] Durham and Chatham County Address Imports (North Carolina, USA)

2018-07-21 Thread James Umbanhowar
t; create one new task for both Durham and Chatham Counties, or one for > each? Also, how many addresses should each section have? > Thanks again, > Leif > > On Sat, Jul 21, 2018, 2:39 PM James Umbanhowar > wrote: > > Sorry, I just saw this. Please do not upload this, yet

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Durham and Chatham County Address Imports (North Carolina, USA)

2018-07-21 Thread James Umbanhowar
omething meaningful, like the front door of the building. Some have > in the past gone so far to say that nodes are preferable since it > allows routers for the differently abled to provide door-to-door > guidance. > > -Nathan > > > On July 21, 2018 2:39:36 PM EDT, James Umbanho

Re: [Talk-us] Durham and Chatham County Address Imports (North Carolina, USA)

2018-07-21 Thread James Umbanhowar
Sorry, I just saw this. Please do not upload this, yet. You have not responded to any of the feedback that I have given. Instead you have chosen to just upload all the points into the database and then correct the database afterwards. Please, instead, break this into smaller areas and then

Re: [Talk-us] Gravel roads and surface tags in the US

2018-04-19 Thread James Umbanhowar
I grew up in an area with these kinds of roads and I don't think they're technically compacted. The gravel, which is crushed limerstone, is laid down and due to its chemical properties creates a smooth surface after several months of traffic. I've used surface=gravel; gravel=crushed_limestone in

Re: [Talk-us] Choptank River

2017-01-16 Thread James Umbanhowar
As a quick note, that is a PGS coastline converted to riverbank, so don't blame the import happy Yanks for this one. James On Sun, 2017-01-15 at 23:55 +0100, Simon Poole wrote: > While investigating a complaint to legal today in the vicinity of > Denton > Maryland, I couldn't help noticing that

[Talk-us] Building footprint project Nighthawk team?

2016-10-19 Thread James Umbanhowar
I've noticed a bunch of editors (at least 5) adding single building footprints in all over the country. Most of the edits have been good albeit with minimal changeset comments (something I'm guilty of too). One had the changeset titles "Added building footprint for Nighthawk team". Does

Re: [Talk-us] Best practices for dealing with old TIGER tags?

2016-06-03 Thread James Umbanhowar
Funny, I just looked at the MapRoulette beta and noticed that you were already doing this. On Fri, 2016-06-03 at 10:00 -0400, James Umbanhowar wrote: > Minor suggestion for this MapRoulette challenge:  Could you structure > it by state (or other geographic region, county?) and do each

Re: [Talk-us] Best practices for dealing with old TIGER tags?

2016-06-03 Thread James Umbanhowar
Minor suggestion for this MapRoulette challenge:  Could you structure it by state (or other geographic region, county?) and do each region sequentially.  I, personally, think it would be neat to see areas get "done" as far as Tiger clean up.   Either way, thanks for these. James On Fri,

Re: [Talk-us] Caliparks re-tagging paths?

2016-03-24 Thread James Umbanhowar
Regardless of the community's eventual solution, I think the most important part of this event was the lack of engagement of Caliparks and Stamen with the community.  Is there a similar process for institutional (business, government, non-profit) editing of data as there is for imports?  There

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging National Forests

2015-08-17 Thread James Umbanhowar
I've used natural=woods for areas formerly in agriculture that were not naturally growing in with trees. This seemed more appropriate than forest as they are not really being managed for harvest. I could go either way on the National Forest tagging issue. While technically they are managed as

Re: [Talk-us] Bike route relation issues

2015-01-10 Thread James Umbanhowar
The GDMBR issue seems to be a conflict between tagging for the renderer and tagging for the router ;). To play a little bit of devil's advocate, gravel roads are eminently bikeable to many non-mountain bikes. Bike manufacturers have come out with gravel grinder style bikes which are really just

Re: [Talk-us] Sidewalks as footpaths

2014-05-08 Thread James Umbanhowar
On Thu, 2014-05-08 at 05:58 -0400, Serge Wroclawski wrote: The problem (aside from the issue of data clutter) is that the sidewalk data can't be used for pedestrian routing because the information about the street is not captured. You can't tell someone to follow Main Street, because the path

Re: [Talk-us] NAIP Imagery Servers -- Need Assistance Setting Up in JOSM

2014-03-24 Thread James Umbanhowar
Hi Kristen, I was able to get it to work. I used North Carolina and use the WMS link from the NC page: http://gis.apfo.usda.gov/arcgis/services/NAIP/North_Carolina_2012_1m_NC/ImageServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilitiesservice=WMS In the WMS/TMS part of JOSM preferences I added a new WMS

Re: [Talk-us] Bing imagery update

2013-12-05 Thread James Umbanhowar
According to http://www.ncgicc.com/Default.aspx?tabid=135 and links therein, they are doing 1/4 of the state per year on a rolling basis. This year they photographed the eastern Piedmont and are currently getting it ready for release, probably in early 2014. In 2014 they are photographing

Re: [Talk-us] Railroads and Railroads (Historic)

2013-11-10 Thread James Umbanhowar
On Sun, 2013-11-10 at 18:26 -0600, John F. Eldredge wrote: We probably need a value such as railway=inactive for routes that are not in use, but still have the rails in place. The only problem is that, if someone erroneously tags an active but little-used route as inactive, this could lead

[Talk-us] Bike route network levels: East Coast Greenway

2013-05-07 Thread James Umbanhowar
A discussion has arisen regarding the proper tagging of this bicycle route. I thought it would be interesting to get some input from the community. The East Coast Greenway is a bike route that has been developed by the private nonprofit East Coast Greenway Alliance. The Greenway is a

Re: [Talk-us] A P2 deployment with a NHD layer

2012-11-26 Thread James Umbanhowar
This is really cool. I have a few comments and questions about how this will work, but I think this will be a great way to import the NHD. 1. Can you edit points and locations before you approve a feature? This would be nice for both inaccurately located points, but also for integrating with

Re: [Talk-us] What to do with unnamed NHD streams

2012-11-04 Thread James Umbanhowar
On Sun, 2012-10-28 at 20:51 -0700, Paul Norman wrote: Background: I'm working on converting NHD to .osm format NHD is an extremely large data set. It's about 25G of zipfiles and all of this converted to .osm would total about 3 TB. This is about 10x-15x times the size of planet.osm.

Re: [Talk-us] MapRoulette new challenge: connectivity

2012-10-30 Thread James Umbanhowar
On Mon, 2012-10-29 at 15:25 -0600, Martijn van Exel wrote: On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Ivan Komarov jkoma...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: If one road ends near another road, that might actually be for a reason, and what

Re: [Talk-us] Remap-a-tron level 2 complete! Suggestions for level 3?

2012-10-01 Thread James Umbanhowar
I was just traveling and was reminded of a Tiger problem that still hasn't been solved throughout the US-- the county line connectivity issue. It seems like a good problem for remapatron-- it is relatively discrete, but it also gives mappers the opportunity to do some additional improvement of

Re: [Talk-us] Large area of deleted streets in Riverside, Calif.

2012-09-14 Thread James Umbanhowar
If you are using JOSM and have the Tiger 2011 or 2012 data, for a neighborhood this small it is easier to do it manually. I just did it in about 3-4 minutes. james On Fri, 2012-09-14 at 16:51 -0700, Alan Millar wrote: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=32.29183lon=-95.4831zoom=17

Re: [Talk-us] US-Canadian border

2012-08-22 Thread James Umbanhowar
I apologize to Richard if he assumed that we all knew about this, but I assume the multiple borders refere to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machias_Seal_Island On Wednesday, August 22, 2012 09:59:25 AM Metcalf, Calvin (DOT) wrote: I was thinking something more along the lines of a

Re: [Talk-us] NHD import: what data quality is acceptable?

2012-07-22 Thread James Umbanhowar
On Sun, 2012-07-22 at 18:33 -0700, Paul Norman wrote: The main weakness with NHD data that I find is that there is no way to distinguish between an OSM waterway=stream and waterway=river Why not use the name? ___ Talk-us mailing list

Re: [Talk-us] LA part of the map essentially is unusable

2012-07-19 Thread James Umbanhowar
On Thursday, July 19, 2012 12:02:29 PM Toby Murray wrote: On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Charlotte Wolter techl...@techlady.com wrote: Everyone, Having looked over the damage and deletions for the last hour, I feel the redaction has left the LA map essentially unusable.

Re: [Talk-us] More things that are no longer there: schools.

2012-07-13 Thread James Umbanhowar
Check out the historic tag (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Historic). You could add historic=school and maybe historic:name=School Name. On Fri, 2012-07-13 at 14:40 -0400, Kevin Kenny wrote: As I've mentioned in the past, I have some personal mapping projects that use OSM data. One

[Talk-us] Shorelines of highly variable lakes

2012-06-29 Thread James Umbanhowar
I have just had a correspondence with another mapper who was remapping Lake Mead shorelines to match new imagery. Due to a multi-year drought, Lake Mead and other reservoirs in the west have had significantly declining water levels. However, the lake levels could increase dramatically if there

Re: [Talk-us] NHD data changes

2012-05-08 Thread James Umbanhowar
On Saturday, May 05, 2012 10:19:36 PM Paul Norman wrote: I've been looking at the NHD data from the USGS site and have noticed a few recent changes from how they were described on the wiki. 1. The viewer has changed. http://viewer.nationalmap.gov/viewer/nhd.html will bring up a map you can

Re: [Talk-us] tagging cul-de-sacs

2012-04-10 Thread James Umbanhowar
On Tuesday, April 10, 2012 09:46:00 AM Peter Dobratz wrote: I'm experimenting with the Java code from Traveling Salesman http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Traveling_salesman I'm making library calls to the routing code and it seems that the router does not understand cul-de-sacs mapped as

Re: [Talk-us] Highway Shield Rendering

2012-04-03 Thread James Umbanhowar
On Tuesday, April 03, 2012 08:17:16 AM Phil! Gold wrote: * Minh Nguyen m...@1ec5.org [2012-04-03 02:19 -0700]: I'd prefer to see the shields strung out along the concurrency, with no spacing between each shield. That would be especially helpful where the concurrency's shields happen to

Re: [Talk-us] East Coast Greenway

2011-09-30 Thread James Umbanhowar
On Friday, September 30, 2011 07:51:39 AM Metcalf, Calvin (DOT) wrote: I'm actually in the process of doing this for MA and was trying to figure out the correct tagging, I take it in the US we don't use the local regional national bike route scheme? As far as I can tell, there seems to be a

Re: [Talk-us] East Coast Greenway

2011-09-30 Thread James Umbanhowar
://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_United_States_Long_Distance_Trails -Original Message- From: James Umbanhowar [mailto:jumba...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 8:44 AM To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-us] East Coast Greenway On Friday, September 30, 2011 07:51:39 AM

Re: [Talk-us] NHD data conversion

2011-08-27 Thread James Umbanhowar
Hi Ben (and others), Sorry I haven't commented on the conversion until now. Life intervened. In general the conversion looks good. One slightly important thing I noticed is that there are no names on any of the objects. James On Friday, August 26, 2011 12:14:44 AM Ben Supnik wrote: Hi Ben,

Re: [Talk-us] Relation roles

2011-06-29 Thread James Umbanhowar
On Wednesday, June 29, 2011 03:05:26 PM Nathan Edgars II wrote: On 6/29/2011 2:49 PM, Nathan Mills wrote: My personal preference is to use directional roles so that they match what is written on signage. It also avoids the inevitable which way is forward and which is backward question.

Re: [Talk-us] New orthoimagery for NC

2011-06-20 Thread James Umbanhowar
AM Nathan Edgars II wrote: On 6/10/2011 10:46 PM, James Umbanhowar wrote: The website says all data is free for use (http://www.nconemap.com/Default.aspx?tabid=286) and any queries will not be answered. A close reading leaves some slight ambiguity Geospatial content provided directly from

[Talk-us] New orthoimagery for NC

2011-06-10 Thread James Umbanhowar
The state of North Carolina has released 6 inch resolution orthoimagery for the entire state that was taken during leaf off time in 2010. These are great quality for all types of mapping. The information about the service is at:

Re: [Talk-us] New orthoimagery for NC

2011-06-10 Thread James Umbanhowar
On Friday, June 10, 2011 10:16:22 PM Nathan Edgars II wrote: On 6/10/2011 5:31 PM, James Umbanhowar wrote: The state of North Carolina has released 6 inch resolution orthoimagery for the entire state that was taken during leaf off time in 2010. These are great quality for all types

Re: [Talk-us] NHD import and conversion - sample data

2011-05-02 Thread James Umbanhowar
Hi James, I did some more corrections on the rules files and I think that it covers all the left over points I saw (including adding waterway:stream to one of FCODE for Connectors that wasn't working). Just to confirm, these changes are the ones I see on the wiki, right? Yes In

Re: [Talk-us] NHD data import question

2011-04-28 Thread James Umbanhowar
On Thursday 28 April 2011 08:53:56 Ben Supnik wrote: Hi Ian, I should be able to convert the NHD data sometime in the next week or so. Also, if/when you want the original data, let me know. For the conversion, do we want medium or high resolution? Re: the import status map, I don't

Re: [Talk-us] NHD data extract

2011-04-26 Thread James Umbanhowar
On Tuesday 26 April 2011 12:50:41 Ben Supnik wrote: Hi Y'all, From what I can tell: - Every water body does get a reach ID. I've seen nulls in this file but haven't yet figured out what they are...in local sample areas, all water bodies have reach IDs. - If there is linkeage between

Re: [Talk-us] Dirt Bike Area

2011-04-03 Thread James Umbanhowar
On Sunday, April 03, 2011 08:53:50 am Richard Weait wrote: On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 7:57 AM, James U jumba...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday, April 03, 2011 07:45:50 am Mike N wrote: On 4/2/2011 11:37 PM, Val Kartchner wrote: Within the past few days I discovered an area built up for public use

Re: [Talk-us] place=city name=Tri-Cities

2011-02-24 Thread James Umbanhowar
Officially, there are the Census Metropolitan Statistical Areas, which are roughly equivalent to many of the colloquially used metro areas. These are not administrative regions, although some may coincide with some administrative regions. I do think it would be valuable to somehow tag these

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Imports, trails, POIs for National Parks

2011-02-15 Thread James Umbanhowar
You can find a lot of data at the nps web site: http://nrinfo.nps.gov/Home.mvc I did a quick check and saw trail map data sets for 3 out of 3 parks: Acadia, Great Smoky and Grand Canyon. I didn't check what format or quality or anything else about them. James On Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Re: [Talk-us] upcoming Triangle NC mapping party

2010-10-04 Thread James Umbanhowar
On Thursday 23 September 2010 15:07:51 Steven Johnson wrote: Hello list, Just want to make everyone aware of an upcoming two-day mapping party in Raleigh/Cary/Research Triangle (NC) next weekend (2 - 3 October). If you're in the area, please bring your GPS (or Walking Papers) and come out!

[Talk-us] Issues in New Mexico

2009-12-14 Thread James Umbanhowar
Does anyone know why the area around around Raton, NM looks like it is melting? I don't think it even renders in Osmarender. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=36.93134lon=-104.46384zoom=16layers=B000FTF ___ Talk-us mailing list

Re: [Talk-us] Issues in New Mexico

2009-12-14 Thread James Umbanhowar
Thanks, I reverted them back to their last known address-- much closer to Santa Fe than Santa Claus. James (resending to list) On Monday 14 December 2009 12:21:07 pm you wrote: On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 09:18 -0800, Dave Hansen wrote: On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 12:07 -0500, James Umbanhowar wrote